Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-21

to the educational needs of the Mechan- icSville section of the town of Thompson it's representative on the town school committee has pointed out that the pres ent building is inadequate to the needs of that community, that it is antiquated, and that something should be done to meet the requirements of the village just to the north of Putnam.
 It so happens that the town of Thomp- son not only is out of debt but has a surplus of approximately $12000 in it's treasury. It so happens, also, that the little two-room brick schooGhouse at Me chanicsville was built a great many years ago by the mill company in that village at present known as the French River Textile company-and that the town of Thompson has been getting by rather easy as to it's obligations in providing suitable school facilities for the children of a progressive manufacturing village. Up to the very recent past, the Mechan- icsville school has been worrying along without janitor service.' other than such as was furnished for a very small sum per week paid to those willing to volun- teer for very poorly paid work.
 It is understood that the French Rive CT i Textile company has interested itself, af- :! ter solicitation, in the new school build ing project and that it-may go 90 far as i to donate suitable site for the proposed new schoolfrouse if the town school com mittee is favwably inclined toward doing something in the educational interest of
 the village. There is an outside possi- bility; it appeared Monday, that the com-
 pany even may go beyond that point if | the town of Thompson will give Mechan- icsville a modern four-room schoolhouse 1 is fo 1e i needs of that community. l Among the matters claiming the atten. l ton of the police on Monday was a break at the Motor Tire Service companys store
 on South Main street during the early hours of Sunday morning This particu.
 lar raid seems to have been exclusively with the view of getting money. Abou $12.50 was taken from the store. but
 there is nothing to indicate that any at
 tempt was made to carry off any tires | tubes, automobile accessories or othel
 things from lines in which the firm deals It appears that no great difficulty wa.
 experienced by the burglars in gainins
 access to the store. Whatever valuable
 were made available for them after get 1 ting in seem, to have been far over
 shadowed by the interest in the cash il the till, which was cleaned out and othe
 prospects for cleanup left undisturbed
 State Bank Commissioner John E
 Byrne, whose home is in this city, wa
 reported late Monday afternoon as favor
 ably past the crisis in his illness wit
 pneumonia at St. Francis hospital ii
 Hartford. His sister, Miss Isabelle Byrne superintendent of the Sloane Maternit
 hospital in New York. is with him a
 Hartford.
 Commissioner Byrne became seriousl
 i'll last Friday and was removed from tn Hotel Heublein, where he makes his hom while in Hartford, to St. Francis hosp tai. Pressure of work added to tn changes in the organization of the stat banking department during the past min months, these changes due to unusual cil
 cumstances. have placed an especiall , heavy burden of responsibility upon NJ 7 Byrne, and it is felt have contribute 5 something toward making him more su.