Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-14
DANlEISOE AND PUTNAM NEWS
DANIEISDN.

A meeting of the stockholders of the Quinebaug company voted to sconhrm a previous vote of the directors to termin- ate the corporate existence of the com pany Ut was stated that more than three quarters of the stock of the com spany was voted in the affirmative on the proposition presented.
 The Quinebaug company, as provided in steps already taken, will be reorgan- ized under the joint stock laws of Con- necticut. Its original charter. was granted more than 50 years ago by spe- cial act of the legislature. This char ter has become anticipated and oper- ating under it has subjected the company to various delays and difficulties in car rying on certain of it's affairs.
 The new company will have as officers J. Arthur Atwood as president: J. r. Gardner, Jr, vice president; Clifford H. Starkweather secretary-treasurer and Henry M. Thompson assistant secretary treasurer, The board of directors as at present constituted is made up. in the new company of the men here mentioned in the, list of officers.
 So far as outward. appearance goes there will be no charge in the function ing of this big industrial concern, which means so much to the welfare of hun- dreds of Danielsons people and the pros-
 
 could be no worse than thatof the state closed within a few months. dissolution probably being completed in about six months The new company will begin to function within a few weeks
 The plants of the big concern on the West Side are very busy, running to ca- pacity.
 Tonight Pickett's. Jazz, Casino. Jewett City-adv
 HI. H, Davenport, of Pomfret. supervis- or for the state highway department ir Windham county was in Danielson Tues day and during his stay here issued an invitation to the Norwich Bulletin or it's correspondent here to take the contract for building the much talked of stretches of highway between this place and the Rhode Island line at Little Rest and from Brooklyn to Hampton.
 Now, as Mfr. Davenport very wei knows, neither this paper nor its cor respondent is in the road building bus mess. which may or may not be unfort unate for the communities that are inter. ested in the roads discussed; it may bs stated definitely and distinctly, however that if they were, their record as to pro viding the links of highway mentioned could be no worse than tha' If the state highway department in this particular re Spect. It IS not much or an accom- plishment to do nothing.
 Just why MT Davenport should injec himself into discussion that in no wa! affects him personally is difficult for To cal people to understand, for he has no been mentioned in any phase of the. discus sioh. His statement Tuesday 10 the writer of this article that, if he had hi say. after the publicity recently given tn. subject under consideration, he "wouldn' build the road in the next ten years" il the very spirit in the state highway de pertinent that the people here are com plaining against. Killingly people hav not vet arrived at the stage of regard ing the state highway department. or an, of it sagents, as sacred personages wh are above being criticised.
 What has been said about the stat {, highway departments failure to build tn roads in uuestion-said through the col umns of this paper. has baen publishe, not as personal views of the correspond ent of the paper, but in the name of tn manufacturing, commercial and touris 1 interests of the community. as we'll as i l the name of more than 800 motor vehicl | owners and farmers who would be bene 1 fitted by the building of the stretches o l road referred to.
 | Years of passive waiting for result | have availed nothing. There is no wa | now open but to bring pressure to bea 1 upon the state highway department The fact that no bids were receive when asked for the building of thes stretches of highway this year. does nc explain why they were not built year ago. as originally intended by an earlie consideration of the State highway de | partment.
 Killinglv people will not applaud NJ | Davenport's statement that he wouldn 1 build the road in the next ten year;
 Neither will it be kindly received Brooklyn or Hampton.
 Danielson. cut off east and west b | breaks in the state highway systen l breaks that take one over little bette ! than cartpaths, will smile at the insinl
 ation that it is as well provided witt state highway outlets as in Putnam
 from which city trunk lines that al
 completed radiate north, east. south an
 west.
 Excepting as an incident the peop
 of Killingly. Brooklyn. and Hampton al
 not interested in Mir Davenport's view
 or interviews on this particular road sul I ject The highway commissioners O
 flee at Hartford is where results wi
 come from when they do come. nc
 from Pomfret.
 If there is any doubt that this papt
 does not speak for the communities mel
 toned in regard to the proposed highwa
 improvement, let the state. highway con missioner say publicly that he will tr
 again for bids for this highway f it ea
 be shown, by petition or otherwise, tt,
 the towns mentioned want 1t and h