New Britain herald., 1921-08-18
l PLAMVXLE NEWS NEW SIGNAL SYSTEM
 IS BEING IMPROVED Motor Vehicle Commissioner Aids Local Men
 RULES TO BE ISSUED SOON

Other Boards Nearing End for E;s-
 cal Year Balances-To Present
 Player With Baseball Bat-Items.
 When the Safety First Week." will
 be tried next month to attempt to stem the advancing tide of automobile
 accidents, Plainville will play a big
 part in this matter The motor vehicle commissioners planning to
 hold the safety first week starting
 with Monday, September 19. when all automobilists will be warned to adhere to the rules governing the
 driving of cars with care and strive
 to keep the rate of accidents down.
 The new automobile signals being
 completed by President Charles H. Newton and Senator John Trumbull of the Plainville Chamber of Con-
 merce, will then be put into affect and given a trial
 Motor Com missioner Robbins R Stoeckel and the two local men held meeung in the commissioners office the new system were gone over with Tn Hart1ord and the proposed plans of care. Ihe signals made by the local men were loked upon with favor bv the commissioner and after an inter- estlng session decided to have them
 competed with additional suggestions Whlch may come up between now and the hrst of next month. It is planned then to compile a little booklet with
 these rules contained therein and be issued to every driver.
 Ihey will be advised to adhere to these new instructions and hopes are conndent in the minds of the orig lnators that they will meet with suc cess. The signals will be completely revised with additions to the present
 ones. There will be no confusion in detecting whether or not a driver is to
 take corner or come to an abrupt stop.. Later on, signals for night op-
 eraung Will be devised and will be put
 ihto use after experiments are made. Selectman's Report Made. oelectman William J. Johnson has completed his report for the ex- oenses of the town during the past lscal year. The year ended Tues day of this week. The Nst will bo
 looked over by the town auditor, frank Osborne and F. L. Benzon. ihe reports of the treasurer. town
 collector and school board are stI, lorthcoming and will be completed Ind ready for the auditors possibly
 before the last of this month. After ne work on the part of the audi ors, the usual book of the annual seport of the town will be compiled
 and printed It will be off the press aboU the last of September.
 Selectman Johnson states that his | 'eport for ehs year tis about s3.O0O l ess Tn expenses for the town than hat of last year There was a
 otal amount of s6s,eos.12 used for l expenditures last season. That will
 make it about s66,90s.12 for the
 past years expenses which is con- l 'idered excellent taking into con- | slderatlon the vast amount of road work which has been done durirg 2 l he summer. There has been more
 road repairing done his year than any previous to this 1t is possiblt | that other appropriations have not
 oeen as much which makes the ex- l penses lower this year.
 To Present Bat.
 A baseball bat will be presented
 10 the player averaging the best per- centage of hits during the three ! games of series to be played be-
 tween the Plainville Athletic club and the Aces of this town William DoWnham, manager of the Plainville l Engineering and Supply company, will allow any one player making ! this average, come to his store and select the bat which he most de- sires and be used as his favorite slugger for the remaining games he plays.
 This announcement comes a. bit late as one game has already been played. However the managements l of both teams can go over the score cards of last Sundays game and keep a correct average of the hitting | of each man. With this score started, | the other two remaining games can
 be kept track of and the winner be
 awarded his prize at the close of the series.
 Fountain Broken.
 | The fountain at Central Square is
 not working and has been idle for l some time now. Many of the resi-
 dents are commenting on this matter | and feel that it should be given the
 attention of the authorities. It pro- vides a place for travellers to uuench
 their thirst while waiting for cars. Sometimes the fountain is given at tention and gets too ambitious with l the result that it keeps running
 continually and there is fear for the safety of the railroad tracks on West ! Main street. Some day when the
 fountain is running over it's high wa
 ter mark, the tracks will float gent
 ly down the highway with the stream.
 At present, however. there is no fear
 of this catastrophe. The fountain is like desert. Or better still presents
 the appearance of ''Ke1ley's'' after
 prohibition was put into effect. Peach Cake Social Held l The Epworth league members were rewarded with their efforts at mak- ing the peach cake social success
 as there was a large attendance at
 the Methodist church parlors last
 night The supper started at o'clock.
 A fair sum was realized which will 1 h0 ~o{o 1c