New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-03-27
BILL WOULD Bring
$4,000 TO town
Many Attend Hearing on School
Equalization Measure
JR. H. S. GRADUATION
Exercises to Be Held For First
lime - seIuassen Corp. Annual
Tmisht-PupiIs to Present Play
Plan Union Sunrise Service.

PlainVille would profit to the eX-
tent of about $4,000 or $4,000 if
the school child equalization bill
now before the general assembly is
passed, and a large delegation of
| local citizens went to Hartford this
afternoon to attend d committee
| nearing on the measure. The bill Is
| designed to give greater state aid IN
| educational matters in Connectic'lt
Towns Figuring on the basis that
| $40 should be spent on each child,
the measure provides for taking into
account such factors as the number
| OF children IN town, the amount Of
the town grand list, and the extent
OF state aid already given. From
sl'ch factors the amount of further
| aid tequalization) which the state
should reasonably give can be figured
out.
! If the bill is erected it is expected
to prove Of great help to the school
1 departments in the towns of the
state. A hearing on it Was held IN
| the local high school some months
ago by the state board of education,
and all sentiment expressed at that
! Tune was in favor of the plan.
Superintendent of Schools LeoHC.
staples headed the Plainville dele
CATION at today's hearing First Sc
lectman James Simpson, several
members of the school committee,
and a considerable number of other
PlainNille citizens planned to ac-
company him.
Junior II. S. Graduation
| Formal graduation exercises for
the junior high school will be held
on Monday afternoon, June II, it
was announced by Vice Principal
Douglas s. Macdonald. while the
senior high school graduation viii
take place on Tuesday night, June
is
The junior high school is new
feature of the Plainvillc school sys-
tenn, and the coming graduation VII
be the first of its kind here. The
| high school grad uation last year
also was the initial commencement.
and the type of program carried out
at that time Will be adhered to this
coming June.
new sort of program is planned
for the junior high sch DOL exercises
| -Four of the honor pupils will speak
on various phases Of a single sub
| Joct. the life and works Of Sir
| Walter Scott. Ono will deal with he
| roet-novelist himself. second with
his contemporaries a third with his
Lady of the Lake and the fourth
with his other works Each essay
viii be of about 500 words. Some
local speaker will he secured, there
will be musical numbers, and Su-
| perintendent Leon G. STAPLES will
give out the certificates of gradual
ton.
>cquassen Corp. Annual
The adjourned annual meeting Of
the Sequassen corporation viii be
held at o'clock tonight i'll the di-
fcctors' room at 90 West Main
street. Reports for the past year
VIII be read and officers for the COM
| ing one elected. After the stock
holders meeting the directors viii
S&ther and elect officers.
! Advent Prayer Meeting
Inc regular prayer meeting VIII
| be held at 7:45 o'clock tomorrow
evening at the Advent Christian
church. Their. viii be an hour of
praise in song, prayer. and testi-
monies.
Alter the prayer meeting there
Will be a rehearsal of the Easter
music. and all those taking part in
the Easter exercises are requested
to be present, as it will be the last
opportunity for rchearsiug
Cast of "kcmp,"
The cast of 'Kempy,' the next
production of the High School
Masque and Gown club. was an
nounccd today as follows.
Dad Bchcc ........ Harlowe Smith