New Britain herald., 1928-03-23
SENATE DISTRICT | REPUBLICANS MEET
 Governor Made Delegate and Retained on Committee
 PARTY CHIEFS GATHER
Women Prominent Among Those Electcd-'Taxpayer" Wants Town to Buy Water Company - Rate Book ou Time-Br1efs,

Governor John H. Trumbull ot l Plalnrillc and Mrs. John C. Buckley
 Of West Hartford were elected 1 delegates-at-large from the fifth
 senatorial district to the state con-
 vention in Hartford at a gathering
 of the republican leaders of this l district yesterday afternoon in the
 Town hall here. They were also re- elected to succeed themselves as I members of the republican state cen tral committee for the next two years.
 ! The meeting was attended by the { various convention delegates elected at the Monday night caucuses and
 was for the purpose of naming dele gates-at-larse and for making vari- ous committee appointments for the coming presidential campaign. Four l women were numbered among the 22 delegates. and two of them re-
 ceived appointments.
 Herbert r. Mecch of West Hart ford was elected a member of the organization committee, Lester C. Stgourney of Bristol of the creden- tials committee. and Mrs Joseph w.
 Alsop of Avon and Ltnneus r. Tur- her of Burlington members o. the
 committee on rules. Former Gov ernor Marcus II. Colcomb of South ington was named vice-president oi
 the committee.
 The delegates present were the following; Avon. Mrs. J. w. Alsop
 and sherman Eddy: Berlin, Mrs. Henry Hooker and +. Q. Clark; Bristol. Lester G. Sigourney. Epa- phroditus Peck. Mrs. Hattie R. Vance. and 4. $. Barnes: Burlington,
 Linneus r. Turner and George w, Hull: Farmington, A. K. Wadswocth and Herbert Knox Smith: Plainville, Governor Trumbull. Charles II,
 Newton. and Howard s. smith; Southington. Marcus II. Hocomb II. M. Rogers, and Mrs. Grace Merrill:
 West Hartford. William H. Buckley,
 George Jones. Oscar Hjerpe. and II,
 P. Meech. Mrs. Smith attended as alternate for Ralph l.. Seymour. Wants Public Ownership. The purchase of the Plalnville Water Co. hy tho town of Planville is advocated in q communication re- ceived by the Herald today from "A 1 Taxpayer" The writer finds no
 fault with the water company or it's
 officials but believed that municipal , ownership would result in economies for both company and users The letter is as follows:
 Dear Editor:
 T hereby express my opinion to the legal voters and taxpayers of the Town of Plainville in regard 10 the water company's situation trying to raise water rental that was brought The taxpayers and legal voters should sit up and take notice of this and should try to get better water service and lower rates. The water system in my opinion should be owned by the town. even though the water company at present IS not making any money, due 10 the fact tIIdt It IS paying d ntdNy tdA C1l Us property. To my knowledge there arc several pieces Of land which have been developed by different land companies and the water sys- tem has been installed by them for which they have paid themselves. The water mains have been installed at the land companies expense. All that the water company did was 10 put in water meters and charge the minimum rate of $l per month and e5 cents for every 100 cubic feet of water used which Is much higher than in many other cities, The prop erty owners Of New Britain. to my knowledge are paying only ten cents for the same amount of water used. which Is nearly one-third of the rate we pay. and recently the water com pany made attempts 10 raise the rate.
 I don't believe the company is making any money in its enterprise. which I believe it should be making