New Britain herald., 1930-09-17
LESS WATER USED
 HERE DURING AUG.
Lourie Says Closing Of Factories
 Causes Falling Of
MRS. MONTGOMERY BURIED
Former High School Athletic Star Goes to Syracuse University Curtiss Gets Grading Ccntract- Bennett Case Continued Again.

bennett taSe continued Again.
 Registering the smallest consump- ton of water in Bristol since Mo- vember, 1924 the water-users of this city consumed only 1,9S5,000 gallons during the month of Aug ust, S36,000 gallons less than dur ing the same month last year. Superintendent Earle c. Lourie of the local water department report ed at a meeting of the water con- missioners held at the department al office on Riverside avenue last evening. This steep decline in water usage is attributed by the depart ment authorities to the fact that the factories of Bristol are not operating as many hours as last year when business conditions were good
 Bills amounting to S12.S6S.6S were approved and ordered paid by the commission at it's meeting. Of that figure, s5,000 was for bond payment and S1,5oO for interest. The total amount of bills rendered for water during the month was S7,309.O1, or STS242 less than dur ing August of last year. Five new stalled during August.
 On September 16, it was report ed, reservoir No. 1 was down five and one-half inches; No. ? was three inches above high water; No. was down eight feet; No. 5 was down four feet, two inches. The amount of water in storage was 337, ,000, 900 gallons, which was 72,- 000,000 more than year ago. Un- der date of September II, state chemists reported on the local supply as follows: "The numbers of bacteria are low at this time, and no objectionable types were found in ten cubic centimeter volumes of the water tested. In our opinion, the supply appears to be entirely satis- factory from meteorological stand point at the present time"
 License Issued
 City Clerk Thomas B. Steele this morning issued a marriage license to Edward Rock, machinist, and Charlotte L. Schilling, both of 12 Beech street.
 Enters Syracuse |. | Chester Roberts, Bristol High school athlete for several years, a graduate of Pennington, N. J., pre- paratory school which he attended last year. has matriculated in Syra- cuse, where Stanley Richtmoyer, an other local youth, made good on the gridiron two years ago. Roberts was graduated from the local high school in 1929.
 | Curtiss Gets Contract l Earl B. Curtiss of this city has 1 been awarded a contract for the grading of properties surrounding the newly constructed Barnes Me morial chapel at the entrance to West cemetery. Work on the pro- l ject was started yesterday. The grading from the front wall to the | intersection of Pound street and | Cemetery avenue will be of the con- cave type, in conformance with the contour of the land.
 The grading and installation of sidewalks on Pound street, which is in charge of Contractor E. L. Dunn, | is practically finished. The soil re- moved in the grading operations was utilized as fill for the hollow section of the cemetery facing Pound street.
 Funeral of Mrs. Montgomery Funeral services for Mrs. Silas K. Montgomery were held at her home at 15 Spring street at 2:30 this afternoon under the direction of Rev. Francis T. Cooke, pastor of the First Congressional church. Inter ment was in the family plot in West cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Augusta l Johnson of SIT Burlington avenue will he held from the late home at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Serv- ! ices will be celebrated afterward it the Swedish Lutheran church. Stearns street, at 2:3O o'clock, Rev. Henning Johnson, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Fairview ceme- tery New Britain.
 Bennett Case Continued
 The case of William E. Bennett of New Haven. who is alleged to have embedded a large sum of money from a local man, was continued at police headquarters this morning for three months to allow the defendant sufficient time to make restitution Five hundred dollars of the aggre- gate sum, which is in the neighbor- hood of S2,00O, has been restored to it's owner, Attorney Howard Mather Bennett's counsel, said this morning
 Will Leave City
 James J. Kennedy of King street