Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-19

Atcut 75 men and women attend cd the special town meeting wbi,h was hc;G in the town halI Friday night. The meeting was held for the purpose of acting upon the following clauses in the warning in relation to the new school building at Nindharn Center. First: To hear the report Of the lLi ding committed; second. to see if the town will vote to change inc site O. the present school: third. to see if the town will vote an additional ap- rropria tion to provide for the cost nf the school building. There was no ac- tion taken on the last clause and | won't be until afte: another meeting is held to decide on new site for the new school building. The meeting i was called to order promptly at O. i clock by Clerk Frank F. Fenton i There was some difficulty in getting | meeting, John Peckham, Eugene Gran ~daH, James Smith. w. F.. Maine. and ! Dr. Guild. all being nominated in the l order named and asking to be ex- cused, Finally at the request of Clerk ] Fenton Valentine Murphy consented to act as moderator of the meeting and he was unanimously elected.
 w A. King then introduced to the meeting Mir. Yeomans of Andover, who represented MT. Lockman at the meeting as MT. Lockman owns prop erty in Windham Center upon a DOT tion of which is very desirable site for the new schoolhouse Mir. King asked that the privilege of the floor be extended to MT. Yeomans and it was so voted. It was then moved and vot- ed that the report of the building com mittee be heard and George F. Fay Tor. one of the committee. gave a very interesting report saying at the start l that the building committee were un- animous in the opinion that the pres ent site of the school building was not 1 at all suitable for new schoolhouse and by all means for the town to ob- i tain a new site. That there were four l or five available sites in Windham 1 Center as follows: The Loclzeman lot, l the Weir lot, the Maine lot and the 1 Larrabee lot. The first two mention l ed were desirable and the committee favored the Lockman lot. Mir Taylor 1 in the report gave much detailed in formation in regard to the plans and costs of the proposed new schoolhouse l as to the various forms of construc- l tion of fireproof features. He finish l ed the report by saying that the com mittee had found after carefully con- sidering the matter of a new site and l plans for a school building such as in their opinion should be built that at least an additional sum of S12000, plus the original $2,000 already appropriat- 1 ed would be required to cover the cost i of the project and that the committee recommends naming the increase ap- propriation be the sum of s15,0 ,00o The report avs accepted and so voted by l the meeting. MT. Yeomans, speaking l in behalf of MT. Lockman, at this point arose to say that the latter did | not want the schoolhouse on his prop erty; it had been in the family name | for over 200 years; that he had in view other uses for the land which would be of more value to the resi- dents of Windham Center than if used l for schoolbuilding site and he would oppose it's being placed there by ev- cry means in his power. On the l strength of this information W. A | King offered a motion that the pres ent site of the schoolhouse be changed and it was so voted by risin gvote | of 26 for and against
 At this point in the meeting num- | Der of those present discussed this all | important question of sites and be- cause of the objection of owners of the ! several proposed sites, John Larrabee arose and said if there was going to be so much trouble over securing a site as it seemed, he would gladly of fer the site on his property and John Abbee immediately made motion that the offer be accepted and it was seconded, but before being voted upon there was much talk as to the feasi-
 bility of it's location for the new
 school building. The meeting finally voted not to accept the offer of MT
 Larrabee.
 Then W. A. King made a motion that the building committee on the
 Windham Center school is requested ! to investigate and consider further tho
 matter of location of a site for the
 new school house and report at th'
 next meeting. The motion was voted
 The moderator then called for ac
 tion on the third and last clause il
 the warning which pertained t whether the town will vote an addi tional appropriation to provide for tn cost of the school building Thi IQuestion immediately provoked a To of discussion as to whether actioi
 should be taken on it or not at thi meeting but to wait until the neX
 meeting and at that time the matte of increasing the original appropria , ton of S20,000 to S35.000 would b taken tip. Action was then deferre :, ly q unanimous vote on the las clause in the warning and the meet ling was adjourned at this point afte
 lasting one hour and 15 minutes.
 The only matters to come before tn
 police court Friday morning were tn
 cases of the two young sailors fror New London, who made trouble fo
 Officer Paulhus while he was takin
 them to the police station Thursda
 night. They were before Judge Eos
 on charges of intoxication. breach c the peace and in the case of one, in t reference with an officer during tn
 performance of his duty. They plead t,1 T
 each. As they were unable to Settl,
 they were taken to Brooklyn jai
 where they will have ample time {
 think it over. The fines amounted t
 S13.60 in each case. The young me
 are Hector McNeil and William Hick
 It was reported Friday. that Nc
 Provost is getting along well and hi
 recovery is assured. Provost is tn
 chauffeur so badly injured week az
 today (Saturday) that he had to hay
 his right leg amputated just above tn
 knee, at St. Joseph's hospital.
 At the finish of the pool tournamer
 recently held at the Y. M. c. A, anon
 it's members F. Battey and l.. Lamou : reaux were tied for first place, eac
 having won 15, losing ? games. IT
 game to decide who is the bette of player will be played next Wednesda oa for 100 points.
 horse hitched to buggy belong m ing to Alfred Brown ran away Frida h. noon but no damage resulted IT .d horse got away near the blacksmit
 shop of Frank F1agg on Jacksc as street and ran down that street at
 merry clip and for time things lool f. ed serious. Near Prospect street u
 animal slowed up bit and came to ,e stop near Jackson place