New Britain herald., 1923-10-09
HainnM News
TILT ON CRIMINALS
 ENLIVENS MEETING
Towns Business Transacted by 46 Electors, Most Of Them Silent
TOWN PLAN COMMISSION


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 Co. starts wesk on ooraer-iesioa to Have isadie-Briefs.
 The years business for the lawn ol PlainVille was transacted last evening
 at a meeting which was enllsened
 only by a tilt between r, l., Henzon
 and Edward Aspinall on the pfapri-
 ety Of allowing earniysls to be staged
 on the town lot al the corner of
 Whiting and Maple streets, Although
 the meeting is considered the most important Of the year, only i6 electors
 were present 10 listen to the discus.
 sion on the various items and Of this
 number. four were women.
 A. II, Dresser acted as moderator
 and N. o. Ryder was clerk in the
 place of Miss Mae Morgan who is in-
 disposed with a had cold. The list of
 officers of the town elected last Mon- day. October I. was read and the
 other items contained in the call for the town meeting were then acted on separately.
 The reports Of the selectmen. town
 treasurer. school committee and
 director of public library were all accepted as printed in the town re-
 port without dissenting voice. Al re solution introduced calling for the meeting to authorize the sciectmcn to borrow sum not to exceed s70.000I 10 pay the current expenses of the town was passed.
 The estimate of expenses Of the school committee for the coming fiscal year was then taken up. The esti- mated net cost of the schools for the Year 1923-1s24 amounts to s57.923.f3.l First selectman William J. Johnson then explained that new law passed by the state legislature provided that III grants from the state and money rom outside sources would go direct | to the school committee and these were not in the budget.
 When explained little further. the
 stimate was accepted and approved. Followed then the action on the esti- nate of the selectmen for the ex- .'enses of the coming fiscal year amounting to $111,15l.13. A motion made to accept the estimate and ap- ,rove it was carried.
 The matter of policing of the pub- ic streets was then left, on motion of Selectman Johnson, to committee of the board of%seIectmen and Grand Jurors s. s. Gwillim and [ William J. Foran.
 This completed the business of the meeting as published in the call for the annual town meeting. However. Il petition was then introduced asking the selectmen to place three new lights on Shuttle Meadow road. The names of the petitioners were then read and it showed fully half of them resided in the town of Southington. Selectman Edward Prior explained that the lights at the present time cost the town s19 each for year and he stated that this cost was contained in ten year con .ract which expires within another , year. The cost of the lights would hen be raised to between s27 and f ,30 He said that if the petitioners , sought lights on the road, those who 2 ived In Southington. should petition [ heir town for them and his motion to r ay the matter on the table was f quickly passed. t
 Tilt on Ca1niyals
 F. l.. Benzon then asked the chair r mans permission to bring up mat | CT which he stated was of great in- c icinty of the town lot at the corner h f Maple and Whiting streets. He c tated that he wanted to speak on F he propriety of holding carnivals p trough the summer at this spot. W
 He said that the carnivals were a y 1urcc of annoyance to the neighbors, ecause the shows brought an unde- F rable class to the town. He offered u le argument that storekeepers could o ,ll that the people of the town paid H leir bills less promptly after the car l. ivals than before. He said that he al i'd not want to have the members of H ,e organizations which conducted the R ,rniyals to misunderstood his mo- yt ve. m He said that the organizations rep M senting the American Legion. the el .emen and the drum corps were civic stitutions in way and that the wanted to help them, but l., e others were simply fratcrnai or- ,a .nizations. He stated that only the @ M st carnival had shut down at req ," nable hour and the others had kept ~ ming until or o'clock in the ~ orning. He said that after they had e'' parted, there had been a litter of V, ", fuse which had been collected in a. e. Then wind had come up and 'h altered it all over the neighbors III operty He said that the lot was w t in a disgraceful condition and said pr at the town was forced to spend ca ,ney to clean the lot up. He stated va 1t the lot was not the proper place mn hold the carnivals. tn' MT. Benzon had no sooner taken his tn! It than Edward Aspinall was on his un t. He stated that he, as chairman Me one of the committees of the fra Oh nal organization responsible for of