New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1922-06-01
BRISTOL HIGH TO
ACCEPT GRADUATES
Can Accommodate % Local
Pupils.-Remainder to New Britain
new SCHOOL NEEDED HERE
Whiting Street Proposition to Be
Further Acted Upon by Town Plan
Commission Tonight = Catholic

Church Confirmation Glass Sunday.
Superintendent Reiker OF the Bris-
toll public schools has notified l.. S.
Mills acting school visitor, and finan-
cial agent and secretary for the
Plainville schools. that the Bristol
school will be capable OF accepting %
pupils of those who will be graduated
from the local school in June. The
rest OF the graduates will go to New
Britain, where they will enter the
Junior High school, II is expected
that there will be a class OF about so
or more pupils to be graduated from
the eighth grades here.
The Bristol High school is capable
of accommodating pupils at a much
less rate OF tuition than New Britain.
The cost OF tuition for one child there
is $3.50 a year without transportation.
The Senior and Junior High schools
in New Britain charges IS a week per
pupil. without transportation. There
are 40 school weeks to a term, which
makes 1t 5000 a year for each pupil.
The charges in the Junior High
school in the seventh and eighth
grades are SO week, while the ele-
mentary grades from the kindergar-
ten to the sixth grades are 81 week
Plainville now sends about so pu-
pills to the New Britain schools which
averages close to $4,000 a year for
tuition and transportation. There
are IS pupils in the Plainville eighth
grades at present who will be gradu-
ated.
Need OF High School
The need of another school In
| Painvile has been seen for several
years, and the problem is becoming
serious one as years pass. A High
school has been talked of for some
time among the school and town Of
fcials. Practically half of the Plain
Vile school budget is used In trans
portation and tuition for pupils in
New Britain and Bristol and a great
deal is also used for those who have
to use the cars daily from far parts
of the town.
Cost OF High School.
Estimates have been made on the
erection of High school here as COM
pared to those being built in other
towns, and it is believed that about
one. A school at that amount would
have eight rooms and could easily
take care of the rapidly increasing
number of High school students of
Plainville. it is said. The only draw
back would be that the town could not
probably support the various domestic
courses which the out-of-town High
schools now provide. 1t would take
close to $40 a year to support a
High school as planned, which
| amount would include the teachers
and principals salaries. The school Of
| fcias are hoping for the erection Of
already tho question of central To-
cation is looked forward to.
Teachers Sign Contracts.
Practically all the teachers have
signed their contracts this year and
with the exception of one change in
the fourth grade, the force will be
the same for the 1922-1923 term as
at present. Miss Ann Berry has re-
signed her position in the fourth
grade, which has been filed by Miss
Anna Torrant Of Norwalk
Teachers to Return.
The following is list of the teach
ers who have returned their contracts;
Orrin l.. Judd, principal; Mildred
Nelson, sA; Bernice Towne 3d. Alice
NJ. Lane IA; Edith Forsythe, 7B,
! Mary E. Mills, 6A; Bertha Steward,
6B: Esther Tappert, A; Julia Hur-
tado, 5B; Hannah W. Bassett, IA
Anna Torrant, Alb; Lenora ]. Ray
mond, 3A; Nettie Olcott BIB; Har-
rlet Jennison. SC; Catherine McCar-
thy, pa; Dorothy Shannahan, 2B;
Mildred Terry, &C; Esther f. Nelson,
! Ia Esther P Clapp, 1B; Anna Sab
assistant.
| The difficulty of securing teachers
this year was not met with as had
been the case last term. The prob
lem of securing competent teachers
| in 1921 was one much discussed by
the school committee. The teaching
force last year was lessened by the
! resignation OF several who had been
married or resigned for other posi-
| tons.
Whiting Street Again
| The Town plan commission will
meet again tonight. following its ses-
sion last evening at the Town hall. on
the matter of widening Whiting street
at Central Square The commission
voted last night to go ahead with the
work. The meeting tonight will be
for the purpose of estimating the
awards and damages.
Several amounts have been ru-
mored about town as to the actual
cost of widening the street. Although
the owners of the building at the
corner have not set any price on the
place, it is said that the sum of $27,-
500 may be asked.
The selectmen will take up the mat
ter of the purchase price, as the Town
plan commission has no authority to
act on that. When the owners are
consulted by the selectmen and a price
is set, there will be a town meeting to
vote on the matter.
William Macee Marries
William Magee of Bantam. Conn,
son of Mrs, NJ. A. Magee of Broad
street, Plainvile, and Miss Minnie
Bachman, we're married Tuesday at
Bantam. The couple are now visiting
at the home of Mr.. Magee's mother
and will return later to make their
residence at Bantam.
SeQuaSscn Lodge Meeting.
The regular meeting of Sequassen
lodge l. o. O. r, will he held tonight
at the Odd Fellows hall. Eureka
lodpa of plantsyille will he tho cuestc