New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
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Seldom it is that the common coun-
Gil authorizes a bond issue for a
greater amount than is absolutely
needed, yet that is just what hap
pened by the issuance of $1S5,OOO
worth of school bonds when only
$4,000 worth is needed. And this is
how the unusual action came about
In July the committee on school &C.
com odatiOns secured action which led
to letting q SIS, 900 contract for ad-
ditions to the OsgoOd Hill school, the
money to be taken from the New
School Building Fund. A short time
after this action, need Of repairs to
the Pre-vocational Grammar school
came to light and the committee on
school Accommodations entered into d
contract to have the work done then
At the meeting of the School Com
mittee in September a report on plans
for the new Burritt school was pre-
sented and the next month the con-
about $4,000. Then it was that the
school committee further reported re-
pairs at the Pre-vocational school as
estimated at about $4,000. vote
was passed authorizing the committee
on the school Accommodations and the
finance board to ask the finance and
taxation board for S17O, 000for the new
Burr1tt school and to call their at
tent1on to the cost and need Of money
to repair the Grammar school. The
$4,000 appropriation was voted and,
as 1T did not seem to be clear to the
minds of the board of finance and
taxation members that in July $4,000
had already been appropriated from
the Building Fund specifically for the
payment of the addition to the Os-
good Hill school; the error crept into
the resolution Of this board and it's
recommendation to the council con-
tanned the error Of 5000.
Thus, at the next council meeting,
when it was made clear that bond
issues cannot be used for repair work,
it was decided to adopt the recon-
mendation Of the board of finance
and taxation and the same error was
made again. The result Of all these
proceedings will be that after City
Treasurer F. S. Chamberlain sells the
$185,OO0 worth of bonds during the
next few days according to the
authorization of the board Of finance
and taxation the council and the city
meeting, there will be in the New
Building Fund treasury, unusuable at
the present time, the sum Of Sis, 200.
Thanksgiving will be observed &C
cording to the time honOred custom
of our forefathers, next Thursday,
the last Thursday in November. But
while the day and date axe the same
as observed in the days of old, the
observance will be far from the same
from a culinary point of view. In the
olden days, when the host either
shouldered his trusty gun and h1ed
himself into the woods to shoot a
turkey, or took a few steps into his
back yard where he picked the pride
Of the roOst and used the AK to adj
vantage the turkey gohhIeg was the
most important item on the Thanks
giving menu. Today all is different.
Turkeys no longer run wild in this
section and the farmers who are
lucky enough o have a big flock are
indeed fortunate for they will be very
valuabl To q ma jOritY of the peO-
pie the Thanksgiving dinner this year
will not include turkey, as that meat
at the rate of fifty cents per hound,
or whereabouts, as predicted by the
grocers will make it almost prohibit
tive. Even the common chicken, in
the days of yore used commonly as a
Sunday dinner, will command excess
sive prices. Indications are that next
dinner in many homes will
be the old fashioned corned beef and
cabbage, and that with prices as they
are, will cost fully as much as turkey
did at one time.
By his letter congratulating Presi-
dent Wilson on Wednesday night,
Charles Evans Hughes caused con-
siderable satisfaction to a large num-
Der Of local men, namely those who
had bet on Wilson and had been I'M
able to collect as the Hughes backups
had been unwilling to acknowledge
defeat until their choice did likewise.
But now bets are all paid and IN
many instances the money won has
been wagercd on the 4ale-Harvard
game today. The sporting fraternity
does like to keep money in circula-
ton.
The reported sale and probable
razlng of the old Lee property on
Main street, opposite ST. Mafys
church, is matter that should not
be passed unnotiCed for it means the
loss of one of the city's oldest land
marks, a structure erected years be-
fore the Revolutionary war; This
house, and it's several generations of
occupants, saw every move of i'm
pOrtance in the history of the United
States. 1t saw the passing Of the
original Indian. 1t witnessed the stir
ring days preceding the Revolution
airy war and saw the little village Of
New Britain send her soldiers to the
war of ITS even as it did almost 100
years later when New Britain sent