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ZFIPTY-THIRD YEAIU-No. 33. THOMPSONYILLE, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932 Subscription $2.00 Per Year—Single Copy 5c. ''\£ AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP CHURCH BAZAAR TODAY K! Towii Treasury Facing Howard M. Bromage Receives Major Controversy Is Annual Event Being Held at Enfield •i 1 Honor at Brown University. Congregational Church. Welfare Work Will Need Announcement that Howard M. The bazaar conducted by Bromage, son of former Selectman the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Shortage In Ready Cash and Mrs. Edward Bromage of Pearl Impending Over Enfield Congregational Church opens At Least $40,000 More ' ' '"i-: ' this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the t x? t - street, has received the John S. Bray- chapel, and at 6:15 a supper will be ton Scholarship at Brown University served in the chapel dining room. Will Very Probably Have Exhausted Borrowed will be interesting news to his many Mrs. Milo J. Horton is general chair­ Present Appropriation For Town Welfare De­ friends in town. This is one of the man of arrangements, with Mrs. Wil­ Funds In Anticipation of Taxes Long Before major scholarships given by the uni­ fred W. Hopkins in charge of booths partment Proving Wholly Inadequate to Meet versity, at which Mr. Bromage is Attempt to Reduce Haz- and Mrs. Allen H. Chillson, chairman Any New Tax Money Is Available—Deficit Is completing his senior year. He is a of the supper committee. Those pre­ Demands For Help As Winter Approaches— graduate of the Enfield High School, ardville Rate May Re­ siding at the various sales booths are .Due to Large Amount of Unpaid Taxes—Gen­ class of 1928, and for a year after as follows: Fancy work, Mrs. Edward Work Relief Is About to End For the Season, graduation he was in the employ of sult in Transferring Hopkins; aprons, Mrs. Lillian Tuck­ eral Financial Status Not Impaired. Harold G. Moore, rug and carpet er; candy, Mrs. Raymond A. Waser; With the Sum Set Aside For It Almost Spent. -* dealer, as a salesman. While a stud­ Cost of Water For Fire grab bag, Mrs. Kenneth J. Ridley. ent at Enfield High he was promi­ Other members of the supper com­ According to a frank statement of nent in dramatics, in which he was Protection to Districts. mittee are Mrs. Charles C. Chapin, Although the fiscal year is scarcely, POLISH HEROES Town Treasurer Timothy J. Sullivan cast for leading roles, and he is also Mrs. Terry Chapin, Mrs. A. Storrs three months old, the town officialsNUFFIELD MAN made this week, the town is facing a an accomplished musician, playing Campbell, Mrs. Perley Emerson, Miss are already much concerned about the serious deficit in its treasury, which both the clarionet and saxophone. He That the outcome of the issue rais­ Fannie Hunt and Mrs. Paul Connor. financial outlook for the present fis­ MEMORIALIZED was a member of the school orches­ SUPPOSED TO BE ¥ a rim nTTUTT\ i it become acute long before the fis- ed at the annual town meeting over The dining room service will be di­ cal period. This concern relates par­ I A \ I \|||\l|| \ \ ical year ends. The situation as sum- tra and is now a member of the Brown the cost of water for fire protection rected by Mrs. Edward Talbot and University band. Mrs. Oliver Stoughton. ticularly to the financial status of the LillO 1 kJUi"IlJl\ 1 marized by Mr. Sullivan, is the result in the Hazardville district, and the municipality next spring, and the GOOD PICKING ______I of a condition which had its beginning action of the town in arbitrarily reg­ prospects of being able to finance the -w-,, , . t-» „'last year, and which commenced with town welfare department for the fis­ Ol the unusual amount of unpaid taxes. ulating the hydrant charge will devel­ Hilaborate Irrogram CHRISTMAS SEAL op into a controversy which will in­ STATE BEGINS cal period on the present appropria­ But He Told the Police l?vfti./.{0n0 A,u! The fact that this amount was ap- UUtj proximately $4B,000 more than it volve the town and all the districts, tion. Hixercises L/arried. is now apparent from the present At the annual town meeting an ap­ On the "Pickers" And Tn WV110V1 Triliiitn Wnn'would have been under normal condi- SALE IS NOW IN status of the question. INSPECTION OF propriation of $60,000 was made with ill VVIUCII inuuie W tions at the end of the fiscal year, left As a Result Four of Chairman P. T. Malley of the board the recommendation that $15,000 be the town treasury short of a corres­ used in providing employment for Also Paid to George ponding sum in actual cash. This of selectmen has invited the members Them Are in Hartford PROGRESS HERE of the four district committees, and AUTOMOBILES those in need, or what is termed work Washington. meant that the money was not avail­ relief. The remaining $45,000 was Jail Awaiting Trial. able to pay the bills as the fiscal year the representatives of the two cor- i porations furnishing water for fire specifically ordered to be used in wel­ came to a close, and it was found nec­ Every Effort Is Being fare relief work. According to the Two noted figures in Poland's his- essary to take it out of the sum pro­ _ j protection in the town, to a meeting Intensive Check-up Will Because Anthony Zukowski, a farm­ - tory, Count Pulaski and Thaddeus M"ade to Tti1TITP«S«5 ffip which will be held in the town build- town officials, a considerable portion vided by the annual town meeting aft­ dUe 10 im Get Underway to De­ of the work relief appropriation has er of Suffield, was supposed to be Koskiuszko, and the Polish heroes of er the borrowing power had been re­ prebb me ing. next Tuesday evening. Mr. Mal­ the World War were memorialized in ley proposes to lay the facts of the been expended in providing work for "well fixed" and would therefore be stored. By the action of the town People With the Im­ termine Cars That Are the unemployed this fall, and with the "good picking," a rather crude and exercises that took place here last meeting the selectmen and town present status of the water for fire Sunday, and at the same time cogniz­ portance of the Move­ protection service in the town before beginning of the winter season at wholly unsuccessful attempt to mulct treasurer were authorized to borrow In Condition to Be Op­ hand, there will be little opportunity ance was taken of the Washington the sum of $225,000 in anticipation of these groups of officials and get their him out of $5,000 by the blackmail Bicentennial period. The exercises ment Succeeding. opinions regarding the possible course erated On Highway. to provide any relief with the remain­ taxes, which is the usual procedure, route was made last Tuesday. The opened with solemn high mass which and" this was done* to be taken in the matter. der of it until the spring. •was celebrated by Rev. Stanislaus As the matter stands at the pres­ With the regular welfare appro­ principal reason for the failure of the I The heavy demands on the treasury The bright Christmas Seal posters, Because there has been a decided priation the situation is even worse. Federkiewicz, pastor of St. Adelbert's by all the departments of the town ent time, Mr. Malley, in obedience to scheme was that the intended victim Church, with Rev. John Sobeleski as conspicuously placed about the town the action of the annual town meet­ let-down in the degree of care which Over half of this sum of $45,000 was government for the first two months with the aid of Girl Scouts of Moun­ expended even before it was appro­ refused to be intimidated and prompt­ deacon, and Rev. Franklin J. Corri- of the present fiscal year indicated to ing, has refused to pay the bill of the owners and operators are giving their gan of St. Patrick's Church, subdea- tain Laurel troop, the Christmas seal Hazardville Water Company, which cars, the Connecticut Department of priated. This was due to the fact that ly notified the authorities, after read­ Treasurer Sullivan that the borrowing the department was unable to meet ing the threatening letter which he con. During the services, Rev. Fr. power of the town will be exhausted talkie trailer shown at the Franklin has been reduced from $60 to $54 per Motor Vehicles plans an extensive Federkiewicz gave an appropriate hydrant, whereas the town meeting its obligations, both local and to other took out of his mail box, and which long before the revenue from taxes theatre over the Thanksgiving week­ and continued inspection of safety municipalities for several weeks be­ gave_ instructions regarding the dis­ sermon to the large congregation of comes in after March 1. This will cre­ set the sum to be paid for this serv- his own parishioners, and which also end, the display of the double-barred' Ice" ar$25*"whic'h irthe" amount'now mechanisms and appliances to begin fore the end of the fiscal year. This position of the money. ate a situation about March 1 which e nfie d s was clearly stated at the public hear­ Acting on the advice of the police, included members of the Patrick F. will be the first stage of the antici­ °l-^ / i 5 " charged by the Northern Connecticut immediately, a department bulletin Triggs Post, Veterans of Foreign iting Nurse Association for advertis­ Power Company for hydrant service ing of the town finance board and at the insti'uctions were followed, with pated financial troubles. This will be ing the drive, in the Fleming Tailor­ today says. the annual town meeting. No provis­ the single and all important excep­ Wars, and Horace J. Tanguay Post, especially so if there should be any in the other districts. American Legion. ing Company window, and the news­ Incidentally, it has developed in the Approximately 80 per cent of the ion, however, was made in the budget tion that there was only one dollar appreciable accumulation of unpaid paper notices, all proclaim that the cars checked recently had defective to meet the outstanding obligations in the package which he left in his The church service was followed by bills due to a shortage of cash. controversy that there can be found a parade which covered the northern campaign is on. no authority by which the town offi­ equipment, an investigation by the and the officials were left with no al­ mail box for the convenience of the Due to the enormous sum which the The result is now in the hands of department showed. Nearly one- ternative but to pay the bills out of picker Tuesday evening. During the section of the Thompsonville district town is compelled to borrow each cials can legally pay for water furn­ and was led by the V. F. W. Drum those who have received the seals, ished districts that are organized for third of those examined had foot the appropriation for the present fis­ night they attempted to annex the year in anticipation of taxes there about 120,000 of which have been sent brakes which were useless, or in such cal year. "roll" and were permitted to do so to Corps. The procession ended at Wa- j jj^ ry likely be comparatively fire_ protection purposes. The legal w ve out by the association, and of any condition, at least, that the inspectors The result has been that, together show their "good" intentions, and \rel Hall, where a memorial program jittl money available for paying the advisor of the town is of the opinion W£ re e others who might welcome this op­ found it ' with the—_ increasing demandsUW11„UU1) onVll theW1C ; then promptly annexed them- of^ public exercises was held. This!regular obligations for the first few portunity to help a worthy cause. If that whereas each of the four dis- ate renairs ThP ™medi- eIves program was 0opened byy an overture tncts is organized for the purpose of brlw H * u °r a"xihary department for the past two months, • ® by Deputy Sheriffs George L. , i/ i. j overture weeks 0f the new tax-paying period. all the seals are sold it will mean an be ou the greater portion of the appropria-1 • eeV a?d Cai\ Tucker, who follow- by Bayek's Orchestra and included Th{j notes in the Thompsonville Trust affording fire protection to the prop- ^ t order g short patriotic plays and musical se­ income only sufficient to carry on the erty owners of these districts, and were almost twice the number of de­ tion has already been expended. The'I" instructions of County Detec- Company for this large amount of association's program of school and fective foot brakes. All of the safe­ officials are fiank to admit that the i? Edward J. Hickey, who had been lections by the orchestra and drum the property owners are paying taxes alIed ln money must receive first considera­ home nutrition that is of such vital ty devices tested were on cars which money will not be sufficient to finance $ , on the matter, were waiting •corps, together with singing by the tion from any early receipts from for that purpose, the districts must ver woul v s importance to our community. When supply not only the apparatus but the ™rti, ur had been in actual use this department very far into the new,