New Britain herald., 1919-12-18
TEACHERS GRANTED
 SALARY INCREASE Raise Of $2O0 a Year Given to
 All Instructors NO DEBATE ON ISSUE

Expected Stormy Session" Failed to
 Develop Because Need for More
 Money Kcalized-Town Meeting
 The school committee held a meet ing last evening and voted to recom- mend an increase of $2OO per annum for each teacher at the grammar school. The recommendation will be the basis for action at a special town meeting which will be held soon to consider the adisability of making an appropriation to cover the amount of the increase ..~< -
 The meeting was expected by the townspeople to be stormy one,. feat ured by arguments There was little debate, however, the school board members feeling obliged to make the reco1nm enda ton in order to hold the teachers, and to continue the school sessions. The teachers were repre- sented at the meeting by 8 committee of three, consisting of Misses Traver, Mabel Styring and Inez Gladwin. ., <.
 Salectman William J. Johnson stat ed that a special town meeting prob ably would be called for Monday, De cember 29. No official notice of this meeting. has yet been posted. The amount of the increase will total about $4,00o as there are 20 teachers at the school and each one demands an increase of s200. In case the de- mands of the instructors are granted it will necessitate 8 change in the grand list of the tax budget and will mean that the assessors will have to change their estimate of the tax rate.
 Chimney Fire.
 The fire depa rtment was called out at o'clock last evening to answer an alarm on Pennington avenue It was g. chimney fire and was extinguished with chemicals. The men were loud in their complaints about fires in such weather. This was the first alarm turned in for several months
 Knight Addresses Brotherhood.
 Harry c. Knight of Boston address ed meeting of the Brotherhood of the Congregational church last eve- ming. A large audience of men was present at the meeting and many of them were n6n- m em bers of the Broth erhood
 MT. Knight is vice president and general manager of the Southern New England Telephone company and his talk was on The Personal Relation ship in the Telephone Business and It's Importance to the Public''
 The object of the address was 10 demonstrate the methods used by the Telephone company in eliminating unrest and discord from it's business organization and to show how the same methods may be applied to other lines of business
 A discussion of the points empha- sized by MT. Knight was held after he had concluded his talk. A social hour followed and refreshments were served. It was the first meeting of the Brotherhood held in several months.
 May Be Asked to Contribute
 Local members of the 26th (Yan- kee) Division who served in Con- panies ], K and D of the old National Guard are expecting a communica- tion from I'D headquarters in Hart ford or, New Haven relative to contri- buttons for the building fund which has been inaugurated in Boston, the general headquarters of the division. Plans have been made by leaders of
 
 $200,000 among the members of the division and their friends It is planned to purchase a building in Boston and remodel it for use as headquarters for I'D club house. Ex-m embers of the unit in all cities are being notified of the plan.
 Morton After Rasutus.
 An advertisement stating that a wild Rasutus had escaped from the Am erican Legion carnival sideshov, appeared in the columns of The Herald few days ago and caused much mystification among the towns people. Fred Morton read the adver- tisement and thereupon planned to catch the an imal and return it to the carnival committee and, incidentally to collect the reward offered for it's capture. Fred took day off for that purpose yesterday and was seen 1t various times throughout the day searching in out of-the- way places for a strange animal which might be in hiding. He was greatly disap- pointed last evening when Dr. Frost informed him that the object of his search was again safe in a cage at the carnival headquarters.
 Low Temperatures Noted.
 The mercury took a drop last night which was lower than any yet noted here this year. At midnight the ther- 
 Pm ometer registered five degrees below zero in the center of the town. This morning 1t lowered about the Zero mark Many stories were heard this morning from farmers living in outly- ing sections of the town, and some of them outrival Dr. Cook. Ananias, Baron Munchausen and other mem- bers of that fraternity.