New Britain herald., 1922-08-09
Plainville News

l op0oIai Idiniln6lUn M00llu6
 GET NO BENEFITS IS CLAIM Thus Far Pennington Officials Are
 Reported as Ignoring Plea of Dis.
 trict Wanted Meeting TomorrOw-Items of Interest. Twenty-eight residents and voters of the town of Pennington. living in the Scott swamp district, have drafted petition calling upon the Farming ten selectmen to call a special town meeting not later than August 10, for the. purpose of making an appropria. ton to defray the expenses of improv. ing the eight acre road" running through Scott Swamp from the Bris. tol town line to connect with the road between Plaia-ille and Pennington Although tomorrow is-+ August 10 nothing has been done as vet toward calling such a meeting or providing for the Improvements that the resi-. dents Of this district want and fee they are entitled to. Residents of thi. district claim that for the money the, pay as taxes they are receiving but negligible improvements, one persor even claiming that a perusal of towr records vii lshow that for many year, the district residents have paid in ap. proximateIy thousand dollars more in cash than the value of improve ments received. So anxious are they to have thi. roadway improved and put into frs, class shape that they have even offer ed to give free to the town and to the state highway department stone gravel and sand for the work Since the state department already has 7s per cent of the cost of the new road the residents of that locality are now bending every effort to have Farming ton officials get busy and come through with the remaining 25 pc, l cent so that work can be started However, it is claimed, despite pleas both personal, political and legal , nothing has been done
 Ask Town Meeting
 The latest move in the Scox Swamr peoples fight for improvement wa. the formal petition demanding a spe cal town meeting. The petition witt
 ts signers, follows
 To the Board of Selectmen,
 Town of Plainvile,
 State of Connecticut:
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 the town of Pennington. do hereb, petition your honorable board to cal special meeting of the voters in the irst voting district of the said town not later than August 10 1922, foi he purpose of taking the necessary lction on an appropriation of, ant he method of raising sum of none, | 'qual to 25G of the cost of improv I ng the Eight Acres road running
 through Scott's swamp, from the Bris
 ol town line to connect with the roat ,etween Plainvile and Pennington The said appropriation not to exceed 'hirty thousand dollars.
 The said appropriation to be used
 or the purpose of converting the said
 oad into state aid highway for which purpose the State Highway de-
 artment is holding the states DOT ion (s9o,000) or 75 per cent Of the rost of construction of said state aid highway. and the property owners in | Scott's Swamp have agreed to supply ufhcient amount of stone, gravel and l and free of charge.
 Signed:
 Joseph A. Pagan. w. w. Benstead, | Iu'ius Clark, Esther C. Benstead, Mrs. Jennie Benstead, Albert Neuhausser, l T. A. Balzy, Henry S. Jordan, Sophia .angton, Reinhard Neuhauser. Frank l \. Neuhauser. Frank Chrilssey John | ]. Curtain. Charles H. Neuhauser, F, | R. Flint. P. Morea. w. w. Pratt. C. | \. Watson Mary Pagan, Albin l Lindquist Mrs. Albin J. Lindquist Alfred Carlson. Mrs Alfred Carlson, Albert N. Peck, B. A. Anderson, AL red Anderson, Gustaf Laurenson, W. Iaurenson and F.. r Smith.
 Offer of Materials
 The offer to provide free materials, and those responsible, reads:
 We, the undersigned, residents of Scotts swamp. under fair restrictions I blltT to tlt lo"il Ol rdlllllfStol ana the state of Connecticut, the neces- sary amount of stone, gravel and 1 building sand free of charge to our l said town and state. to construct the read, culvert and bridges over the old | eight-acre road between Bristol and | Pennington which runs through out beautiful district of Scott's Swamp: Joseph A. Pagan. w. w. Benstead w. Laurenson. R. A. Anderson, A. P. Anderson. Ali Carlson, A. J. Lind quist, Brick Anderson, Frank He'd wall. E. R. Flint, Albert N. Peck, T. c. Beazey, R. Neuhouser, F. Neu- hauser, r. Neuhauser, Henry S. Jor- dan, Charles Fl. Neuhauser. H. A. Bryant, Edward T. Smith.
 Oldest In New England The section in Scott's Swamp. be tween Pennington and Bristol, is the oldest in New Eng and. It passes through the village home of the Tunxis Indians, and rlose to the old cemetery in Scott's swamp. where peacefully sleep the ancestors of some of the foremost citizens to to- duty and still is used by those who wish their last resting place to be near their ancestors, It also passes the title red schoolhouse where Senator R. Hawley attended school and later taught Here on July 4. 1917, Ad- miral w S Cowles presided over the flag raising which was attended by