Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-12
.DANfELSOA

! Providence and was a daughter oi l Mr. and Ms L. A. Cooper. She leaves her husband and sister Mrs.
 Edgar Bowen of Prondence. night in his home at Central Village. He was born in Kiilingly and lived here for many years. He leaves his wife, two adopted sons, Herbert Bat tey of Danielsop,. and William Bat tey of Providence. and two brothers, l Adler Battey and Edward Battey, both of Danieison.
 Funeral services fer Mrs. Elizabeth 1 Tiilinghast were held Wednesday morning at the undertaking rooms of A P Wood. The service was con tducted by Rev. J. T. Edwards and 1 the singing was by Miss Emma Bur
 bank. The bearers were Frank T. Preston, ". J.. Craig. E. H. Hammett and Frank Stinson. ] v cent sale Saturday at The Key stone ore--adv.
 1 There is a letter on file at the office of the borough clerk that contains an announcement, that will be of more than passing interest to all the prop erey owners Of Danietson.
 The letter q Is from the Crystal Water company, a public service cor poration, and contains the inforrna ton, addressed to the warden and court of burgess<e. that water rates
 are to be very materially advanced in DanielSon.
 Both the flat rental rate and the meter rate is to be. advanced B Is per cent. There is. also an advance to the borough of $f0 a year for it's hy-
 drant service, bringing the cost of the
 hydrant- service to $40 for each hss-
 drant per year. M
 AS the users of water here under | tI- <
 their service in advance, to June -S6
 the new rate for this class of service
 will not become effective until July 1.
 The new rates will apply on metered 1 service beginning April l. or after
 the March readings are taken.
 The reasons given by the company
 for the startling percentage of in
 crease in rates is due to the increase
 in taxes and to the increased cost of labor and materials entering into
 the maintenance of the water com
 pany's systen1. < s
 sl Attention is being called to the fact 7 on Wednesday that the water com pany has not increa sed its rates in years.
 f Some taxpayers who heard Of the . advance were not ayerss to express f ing themselves, however, to the effect n | that the proposed increase is very ,. 1 much too heavy ito be required to e meet the added costs of doing busi- k ness that the company. is, now facing y and that the advance in, taxes assess e ad against the company Is not stiffi- q iently large to .warrant< taxing on r in increase of third over the ] | present cost for the service rendered e Q it's patrons.
 r There were indications on Wednes- :; day that steps will be taken to have n the increase in rates brought to the l intention of the public utilities com . mission, with request for a hearing n md investigation that, it is hoped. 5. will bring to light figures pertaining 2 Q the income of the Crystal Water d NompaEy and the cost that it must
 meet in transact.ng business.
 It was also pointed out on STednes- lay that the company now has many
 7ore services in use. as the result of y he growth of Danieison and the do- 'lg awa- with outside closets than
 vas the case ten years ago. and tho : 1come of the compa ny is vF-'v n1ue el7
 rcer than it was at that time. It's
 7keep force g not materially larger. :. hough undoubtedly more expensive .e Such exter sons Of mains and service
 pipes as have been made within the
 past few years were mostly to reach
 new, business producing additional
 revenue.
 ,. For years past the Crystal Water II compar1y.s properties in Killingly II have been assessed for $f20,000. The S fast list filed with inc assessors. ir u the fall of 1919. by the company cut "A the valuation 10 $1O0 00e. Tn the re- Y, valuation of the towns property just -s completed the assessors put the prop iT erty in at $17o.o00. Under the pres = ant rate of taxation. the water com 70 9any will be called upon to pay s s9meth;ng over s1 .000 more this veal g than was the case last year. It vii st not be argued by those who know ir Iy q general way about the water com if pany's income that the proposed in. "a will not at least take care of this ,f increase in tax cost and leave pos IF Sibly a few dollars for meeting the y high prices of labor and material. l. School Supervisor Horace Turne,
 was longing on Wednesday for a pail
 of snowShoes on which to attempt
 tr ps to rural schools in EEillinsiy st that he has not been able to visit gI since the big storm of last week Fl closed the highways and cut off easy e. communication with. the. main center. d of the town. MT: Turner did much 1t.l snow -Ehoeing in years that he spen,
 in Maine, so has had the requisite y experience to make the shoes more # of an aid than handicap to him, as r. they would be for most people here
 abouts 3t ofl MT. Turner said that attendance al j. schools is getting back to normal Id Sickness and the storms has been. re. r. sponsible for many absences during
 the past ten days.
 le Plans are nearly ready for, carrying re out the big construction program st planned for Goodyear during tn,
 present year During the winter worl 1t has continued on the erection of 4s
 number of new dFellings5 but tn, of spring and summer building program le calls for the erection, of a mill ant :. | nearly 1f6 dwellings. The start ol pr the big undertaking will be made il
 March if weather permits. and will b ? rushed along as fast as possible. Tn,
 fact that the company is getting to pr gether big force of carpenters, wht
 are being assured of steady employ n ment for a year may be taken as al
 indication of the amount of work. tha