New Britain herald., 1928-04-21
ALLEN WILL BUILD
 REMINGTON SCHOOL.
Bid of S7S,s74 AcceptM-Mlls
 to Install Heat Plant

Newington, April 21-The general contract for the work on the new school building at the Center was last night awarded to the William il. Allen Co. of New Britain by the building committee Of the school board at a meeting held at 5 o'clock at the offices of Perry X Bishop, architects, Of New Britain.
 A meeting of the, school boarl was held at the Center school at e:30 o'clock and the members ap- proved the plans and specifications with certain changes as prepared hy the Junior High school building committee and Perry & Bishop. The building committee received the re- port of the approval of the plans by the school board at it's meeting ill New Britain and proceeded with the awarding Of the contracts. The Allen Co. bid for the general contract was S73,974. The commit tee awarded the contract to this company provided charges for changes were not in excess of $250. The heating contract was awarded to A. A. Mills ot New Britain at ;l cost of $5,oSS. This contract also was awarded with the stipulation that changes should not be made in excess of $50. The contractors and their bids for the general con- tract follow: William II. Allen Co.,, 1 s7S,974: Bartlett -Brainard Co.,, H7.190; Carlson & Torrell O., sS1,- $40: Hayes Construction Co, sSt.- 9Ss; Industrial Construction Co, $76,200: \, r. Leavitt. $sS,1oo; Dennis O'Brien X Sons. sSS,l9S: C. $. Poriss Co, SS6,G75; heating, John ! F. Green, s5.S00; R. r. HaIleran, 1 s5.44o; Libby X Blinn s5,S7S; 4 A. Mills, s5.2SS: Daniel J. Kerr. &c., oS7: C. J. Leroux. s5,6S9; Parker '& O'Connor, $5.777; Erickson X Johnson, s6.009. and r. A. Shaffer Co.,, S6,196. Since there were neccs- sary changes in regard 10 the plumbing, the comimttee voted 10 ! ask the two lowest bidders 10 rc- figure their bids The awarding ot the contract will be made at later date.
 1 The school building. which will cost about sl00,o0o, will be erected on the site on Cedar street pur- chased by the school board from F. Welles Eddy. The building will be two stories high with large base ment which will contain the gym science and manual training classes. The first floor will contain two class rooms, a large auditorium. which may be used for class pur- poses. and offices for teachers and the principal. On the second floor, there will be four class rooms, q study hall and small offices. 1 A meeting of the Newington Girls club was held last evening at the home Of Miss Priscilla Osborne at which Mrs. E. P. Schmidt was pre- scented with q beautiful bouquet of tulips by the members of the club in appreciation of her work in con- nection with the recent presenta- tion of q play. "A Southern Cindcr- ella" at the parish house. Mrs. Schmidt was tSe director of the play.
 Mrs. Charles l.. Boyingtou entcr- taincd the Preside Whist club at her home Thursday afternoon on ! Main street. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. c. L. Royington and Mrs. Leslie N. Hale.
 The Ladies Aid Society will give q play Under Suspicion at the chapel of the Newington Congrega- tional church Friday evening, May
 {. Mrs Fred Hagen will have charge of the affair.
 The regular Monday evening whist
 will be held in the Grange hall on
 April "A. This is the last whist in the series in charge of Harry X.
 Webster.