New Britain herald., 1926-10-15

of the plan to Berlin voters when
 plenty of residents understood the
 motion enough to present it to the assembly. Rev. Vernon L. Phillips spoke on the merits of the plan and
 was followed by Miss Mary E. Gris-
 wold who pleaded for the cause. Miss Murray demanded the floor and gave instances of her appeals to ths New Britain Visiting Nurse Associa- ton which she said were refused by that organization Which was too busy to take cases out Of the city.
 Claude w. Stevens, republican
 candidate for legislature, gave a
 resume of$lnethods employed by
 other towna The, call of Question; question:" ~T tiiled' the hall and the fight over the ballot vote versus the vote by exclamation started. Dur ing the haggling it was stated by the opposition that while a mem-
 Der of it's faction was refused the floor on a previous occasion, Miss Murray had been given the floor time and again. Words flew from side to side and it was necessary to pound for order before the bal loting began.
 Following the announcement Of the results the League, with Miss Murray as speaker, rushed through two bills for the appropriation to be borrowed by the selectmen and included in next years budget not to exceed S3,000 and roll of the committee to have charge of the workings of the purse. On the committee were prominent citizens such as Mrs. Henry Hooker, George B. Carter, R. o. Clark, James Mary E. Griswold and others.
 The meeting also voted to do away with Sunday movies in the township, Rev. May B. Lord giving d speech denouncing the introduc- tion of Sunday movies in this place. The vote was by exclamation.
 It was voted to appropriate $500 for the care of the towns monu- ments and the committee headed by Major F. L. Wilcox was given full jurisdiction over the depart mentsas had been the system sev- eral years ago. The duties of the committee had been removed by the board of selectmen and the i- nance , board and were reinstated in the committee by an acclama- ton vote.
 Streets were accepted in Treas ure Fields and the old Fair grounds property after much dis cussion. The vote was opposed by several voters who objected to the Idea of accepting one way streets. | A two foot strip of land held up the Treasure Fields question for iome time and discussion regarding the accepting of the streets before | the disposal of the strip held the floor for several debates. Conrad | Fisk, a resident of the Kensington | gave a speech pleading Tor the acceptance of the move and 1 assuring tho town that the real estate concern owning the strip l would give it 10 the town on ac- septance of the roads, Miss Murray | spoke in favor of the acceptance ,or the Kensington league.
 Claude w. Stevens introduced a pill authorizing the selectmen to borrow sums up to s95,000 to pay | expenses when not sufficient sums | were in the town treasury to meet expenses. The bill was passed. stevens also introduced bill put ing tho tax rate at blank mills to oe fixed by the finance board upon heir investigation. This was pass d.
 During the reading of the reports # the town officials and boards, a dispute arose. between First Select nan George E. Carter and Miss Higgins as to the location of sign boards at the schools of East Der in. The first selectman announced hat they would be put up im- and Miss Higgins came ,ack with the answer that just one ear ago she had received the anne reply. Much laughter followed he discussion 'between the two vho good naturedly argued their ides of the question.
 Another brief skirnish occurred 'etween Carter and Judge Willard !. filling when the latter inquired bout wages paid to workers on ]