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PRSRT STD POSTAL U.S. POSTAGE PAID CUSTOMER PERMIT #231 ECR WSS SOUTHBRIDGE, MA 01550 Mailed to every home in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. II, No. 14 Complimentary (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] ‘The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.’ Friday, March 14, 2008 Well issue at forefront of PBC meeting Charter SOAP STREET AND ROUTE 12 INTERSECTION PROGRESSING NEAR SCHOOL SITE BY JOSH SAYLES in charge of digging the wells that although Killingly is still waiting on to a public water source. VILLAGER STAFF WRITER revision will supply the school with water. water quality and quantity test “Offsite utilities are not reim- DANIELSON — The Killingly The hot topic for the evening was results, early evidence suggests that bursable from the state,” said tempo- Permanent Building Commission the well situation. well will be a successful one. rary PBC member Doug Butterfield, (PBC) met Wednesday, March 5, and Upon its hiring, Northeast Water The state of Connecticut requires who is on the commission to help received new high school updates Solutions conducted studies on site two working wells at a school facility with the high school project. “If we issue from Gilbane, the construction man- to determine the best locations to dig if the building is not hooked up to a spend $1 million on offsite utilities, agement company; Fletcher- wells. The company narrowed down city waterline. Since it would cost Thompson, the architectural firm; its options to four possibilities and Killingly well over $1 million to run a and Northeast Water Solutions, a ranked those one through four. Well waterline up to the site, it is likely Turn To PBC, page A13 company based out of Warwick, R.I., number one has been dug, and that the school will not be connected tabled BY JOSH SAYLES VILLAGER STAFF WRITER DANIELSON — A short agenda Brooklyn selectmen quash library proposal at the Killingly Town Council meet- ing on Tuesday, March 11, still OTERS HAVE OPTION OF PETITIONING FOR TOWN MEETING required a long evening. The V majority of the council appeared BY JOSH SAYLES George Meehan and First Brooklyn taxpayers would have Meehan have said they are not more concerned over politicking VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Selectman Roger Engle have been to shoulder $4.2 of the $5.4 million against a new library,just against a and face time on Channel 20 than the issues at hand. BROOKLYN — A motion made dead set against the $5.4 million total cost of the project. The state new library this year. There has been much discussion by Brooklyn Selectman Austin project, stating that the economy is has pledged a $1 million grant, “It’s what they voted to do, so in recent months over a charter Tanner to bring the new library not strong enough to support a tax which can be extended one year if that’s what it is,” Tanner said. revision commission that would proposal to the Board of Finance increase. Tanner believes that the the town does not approve funding To overturn the Board of address three major issues: town- was not seconded at a March 6 spe- current library is an embarrass- at this time. In addition, the Selectmen’s decision, citizens must wide elected officials, shrinking cial Board of Selectmen meeting, ment to the town. Friends of the Brooklyn Library petition the town and obtain 20 sig- the Town Council and having an meaning that residents will have to The current library, which has Association have offered to raise natures. That will take the matter appointed mayor. After much petition for the project to move for- been in the same building since $200,000. directly to a town meeting. debate, the council narrowly voted ward. 1913, is 2,000 square feet and has By not seconding the motion, the Approval at a town meeting can Tanner’s advocacy for a library one computer. Connecticut has Board of Selectmen has done all it has been in the minority on the deemed Brooklyn the fifth neediest can to quash the building of a new Turn To LIBRARY, page A14 Turn To CHARTER, A9 board from day one; Selectman library district in the state. library in town. Both Engle and page URGENT MESSAGE ! to our Readers.... Dear Reader, We hope you are enjoying FREE mail delivery of the Killingly Villager each week. 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A 12 — SPORTS HOCKEY CLASSROOMS Who sang "Things Go Better B1 — HOT SPOT With Coke" in 1969 before GET SMARTER switching to Pepsi in the 1980s? B4-5 — OBITUARIES CHAMPS B6 — CALENDAR PAGE A12 PAGE A6 Answer on page 2. INSIDE A2 • Friday, March 14, 2008 KILLINGLY VILLAGER Women were hard at work VILLAGER ALMANAC QUOTATION OF THE WEEK during the 19th century “I think the incumbents have heavy shoes. They’re dragging their feet. They’ve got arch is Women’s History Mrs. C. C. Crandall was the enough people for the commission.” Month, so it seems only agent for sewing machines manu- M appropriate to write factured by Greenman & Isaac of — Town Council member Harold Reeves, on the council’s vote to about some of the occupations KILLINGLY Norwich (WCT, March 14, 1861). table formation of a charter revision commission and activities of the women of Obviously that invention did Killingly during the 19th century. AT 300 much to lessen the number of Many of you will remember hours that women had to spend last March I wrote of South on sewing clothes for family Killingly resident Mary Dixon MARGARET members. Kies, wife of John Kies, who WEAVER One Killingly woman, Emeline FRONT-PAGE QUOTE received the first patent granted Roberts Jones, obtained fame as to a woman in the United States the first female dentist in the in her own right in 1809 for her competition in the nearby United States when she began “This week’s page one quote is attributed invention of a loom for weaving Rothwell Hall, where Lizzie E. helping her husband dentist, Dr. to...” straw with silk. Straw hats were Brown was teaching a Select Daniel A. Jones, in 1859. much in vogue at the time, but Primary School that also includ- According to the Connecticut apparently went out of fashion, ed instruction in plain and fancy Women’s Hall of Fame, she per- — Henry S. Haskins and her family lost money on needlework (WCT, March 5 and formed numerous extractions their small cottage industry. It is 19, 1863). and fillings on her own, and then TRIVIA the Tercentennial Committee’s Advertisements also appear for became her husband’s partner. plan to have storyteller Chris female music teachers. Mrs. They constructed a house on Rothe portray Kies later in the Albert Clapp was giving piano Reynolds Street across from spring at a date to be announced. and melodeon lessons in addition Davis Park. Her husband passed Answer: Ray Charles. It was common for young to providing instruction in mak- away in June 1864 after a brief women who wished to work out- ing wax flowers (WCT, April 12, illness, and she married Horace side the home to be teachers in 1860). Several years later, Miss A. S. Young in 1866 (www.cwhf.org; the early and mid-19th century. A. Congdon was providing vocal Killingly Vital Records, 2, p. 352; AUDUBON Although many remain and instrumental lessons in Grey’s 1869 Danielsonville map). unknown, some show up in news- Traveling women had more Danielsonville (WCT, April 24, WEEK OF MARCH 3: papers and other literature. 1862). exotic occupations. Madame C. Killingly’s future U.S. A business card in an April 28, Amy, independent clairvoyant, Bird sightings this week at Connecticut Audubon and Commission of Education 1853, Windham County Telegraph and Botanic Doctress made a Wyndham Land Trust properties in the northeast corner of William Torrey Harris had his indicated two related occupa- short stop at Hutchins’ Railroad Connecticut: bald eagle, red-winged blackbirds, Northern aunt Catherine D. Torrey (later to tions at which women worked — House in Danielsonville (WCT, shrike, long-eared owl, screech owl, barred owl, saw-whet owl, become the wife of Killingly’s Dr. millinery and dressmaking: Sept.1, 1853). black ducks and American tree sparrows. Fenner Harris Peckham) as his “Miss Bennett informs the citi- Numerous young unmarried first teacher when he attended a zens of Danielsonville that she women of the early 19th century small school in the northern sec- has opened a shop in also worked in the area factories. tion of town, now part of Putnam Danielsonville in the building Mary Jane Smith of Rhode Island (Leidecker, Kurt F., Yankee known as ‘Dr. Hutchins Office,’ was one of many who supple- Teacher, p.