New Britain herald., 1928-07-23
PdinuiM News
REPAIRS USE ALL 1 OF APPROPRIATION
Money for Roads Exhausted,
 But Year Is Near End
URGES CAUTION ON PARK

URGES CAUTION ON PARK Prominent Citizen Says Acceptance
 Will Entail Responsibilities
 Warden Miller Engagement-Le-
 zion Meeting Tonight-Game
 Called Off-Briefs.
 The $loono appropriation for ] highway repairs has been exhaust ed, the seleCtmen stated today, but the end of the fiscal year is lxs than a month away and then it IS | expected that new funds will be avalla hle. Road repairs have been unusually costly this year. mainly due to the open winter. Ordinarily there are about two months of the year when the roads are partly ed for the effectlng of repairs. but last winter the roads were open and were used throughout the entire sea son and it was both possible and necessary to make repairs. This sit uatlon has been encountered in most Connecticut towns, the selectmen | stated.
 August 15 is the last day of the present fiscal year for which the above Slo,ooo was appropriated. Untll then repair work must be abandoned.
 Work was begun today on Forest street preparatory to surfacing this town-line street with stone. This work will mark the end of a. long controversy with Bristol-a misun- derstanding which the state lesls- lature failed 10 iron out but which was finally settled amlcably by the towns involved. As this work will be 1 paid for by assessing the property owners on the street, the lack of further highway funds does not af 1 feet it.
 | Urges Caution On Park | Caution and careful thought in dealing with Charles H. Norton s gift of 60 acres for public park is being urged by one of the prominent residents of the town, who states that the acceptance Of such a gift would entail responsibilities which l must be considered
 Mir. Norton has given S2soo to fix up the old canal" he said and the town could not do less than match this amount We can't ac- cept the land and then do nothing with it We must play fair with Mir. Norton and make real park out of | the land if We accept it The land contained in the pro- posed park IS low and has q ten- 1 dency to be swampy. he said, while the lack of proper sewage system in town would handicap the draining of the property. He urged that the townspeople again take up the ques- t!on of sewage disposal which would settle many other problems besides that connected with the park
 While not opposed to the aceep- tance of Mir Norton's generous offer. this resident believes that the re- responsibilities which would result from it must be looked sauarely in the face. People think they are getting something for nothing" he asserted. but added that this was not fair to Mir. Norton, as the town would have to keep faith with the donor and turn the land into a real park He urged that voters famil- iarize themselves not only with the maps now on exhibition in store windows but also with the property itself, making visits to it in order that they might vote intelligently at the special town meeting Thursday night.
 Game Called on
 The management of the AL South ingtons telephoned the local man. agenent about 1. o'clock yesterday afternoon and stated that the team from the neigh boring town would iVI oHpSdi HeIe IOT us SCneQulCQ baseball game. As the weather was suitable for baseball, the only deduc- ton that the Plainvile players can make is that the southington team had an attack Of cold feet" Plain- vile was consequently without a baseball game yesterday
 Marden- Miller Betrotllal
 Announcement of the engage ment of Miss Ruby Z Miller. daugh- ter of Mir. and Mrs Albert J. Miller of Plainville, to Frank G Warden was made Saturday by Miss Miller's parents at a gathering at the sum- mer home of Mir. Marden's parents. | Mir. and Mrs. Henry c. Warden. at Whitman. Mass Miss Miller Is en- ployed as a stenographer at the of- five of the John Cook Real Estate Go. Mir. Warden is connected with | the sales department of the Trum- bull Electric Co. The marriage will take place in the autumn.
 Legion Meeting Tonight
 Brock-Barnes post will hold q