Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-11

sxtsgt Of i2 i-2 per cent. This makes the fourth of the companies of the l city who have raised the pay of their semployes. following the decision made siil Fall River recently.
 Beginning tonight, (Thursday) there twill be classes in English and Amer ioanizatisn for adults of foreign birth in Willimaatie. These classes will meet in the old Windham street school, eerner of Valley and Windham streets. and will be particularly for the residents of the upper end of the town, ineludin% the residents west of High street. Tor the present the sss- sinIs of the new class will be held two nights d week, Monday and Thursday at 7,so o'clock. Glasses viii last ene hour.
 E The December meeting of the school board was held at the seleet- fnens rooms in the town buiidint os, Wednesday night. Chaitnaf Dr. F. B. Guild called the meeting to order at s.lO and called upon Secretary c. c. Case to read the report of the Novef,. Der meeting which was accepted as fHad. There were no eofnfpitteH rs. ports to come before the committee and therefore Chairman Guild called upon MT. Knight, a representative of the Willimhntie Manufacturers Asso- eiatierls who with Mir. LArfabee and Mr. Curtis of the American Thread Company. had come to the n1ssting te present the f1anufaeturers' side of the questien about appointing aii Afnefi- hcanizatien worker for the town of Wiildhahi. Mr.. Knight read the cor respondence the fnanufacturers had received in regard to the amount the state would appropriate for the eth pleEnlent of a man for this work and stated that the manufacturers would gladly do their share in supporting the town in the hiring of man to fiji the position of .Araericahizatieh agent. Following a discussion about the laNs ! regarding this appropriation the ifief1l- l 6efs ', ths school board voted that J. D. Ei. endorf; general secretary Of the I local Y. M, c. A. and Standardization agent of the Manufacturers Assoeia : i tien, be given the position of Ameri-
 canization director in accefaanee with 1 the state law and that he he paid wholly by the state and by the Mauu- lecturers Association of Willimalitie. ! According to the state grant the state ! will pay fifty per cent. of the salary er 1 in the ease of the Windham agent
 si,250.
 1 Secretary Case then told of the I need at the high school for a curtain 1 to be used at the assembly hall at the l school, and stated that an appropria- : l ton Of not over $500 would do the l work, as the students of the school | had already raised S290 by appropria- : l tions, Secretary Case also read peti- tiens from the teachers of the city schools and the high school asking for 1 raises in salary of $20o per year for the public school teachers and a raise 1 of 20 per cent. for the teachers of the high schools. In the case the eib- lie school teachers all teachers had signed the petition while in the hieh 1 school petition few names were missing and the men teachers of the school had left their case tip to tho school committee. At present the salaries paid out for the teachers to- tai S45,090 q year and if the wishes for increased salaries are met with if 1 will mean that an additional amount 1 of si3, ,soo will be added to the first named amount This matter will be brought before the voters of the town
 in a future meeting. The report of Dr W. P. s. .Keating, telling of t11e work in the school was read and accepted
 The reading of bills followed and aftej a few other matters of business the
 meeting was declared adjourned. 
 The first of series of dances to be
 run at the Y. NJ. c. A. was held Wed
 nesday night and many nismbers oi the I with their lady friends were ir 1 attendance. The committee in eharg,
 of the dances Is Kenneth Hillhouse chairman. MT. and Mrs. Raymond ,, Harris. Shortly after noon "Wednesday thu
 men of Engine cemnany, No. 1, re-
 sPonded to telephone cal1 for aid anS
 going to the home of family by the
 name of Johnson they discovered { chimney fire. Half an hour of hard
 work during which some 1P gallons O
 chemical were used extinguished tn,
 blaze which had gained considerabl l headway.
 W. R. Woodward. for the past ter
 years clerk at the Willimantic post office, left this city "Wednesday fol
 Three Rivers. Canada, where he vii
 enter business with an uncle. MT
 Woodward was born in that city ant
 had spent much of his. time there wis [ iting with relatives.
 l j. Honry Clark, e3, of Liberty Hill : fell from now of hay. striking or 1 his face in wagon on the barn floor [ He was taken to the private hospita
 in Willimantic where he died at 11.s ' Monday, Dec. 8.
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