THE PRESS An Institution Which Works , M/:? For Community Ad- :::V- . -y*. :J'« - vancement. ^ >• THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE TOWN OP ENFIELD, CONN. '.• •:?.-'•••*•• •• - - - r -.', '{ "• ,.'"' i" . A • '•• •.•VfrzrjZ. v ,; . •. THe "Press" Covers More Than Twenty-Two Suburban Districts, Combining a Population of Over Thirty Thousand Between Hartford & Springfield :-w; J~:m ; F|0ETY-FOURTH YEAR—NO. 3(5. THOMPSONVILLE, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924 PRICE $2.00 A YEAR—SINGLE COPY 5e S'iS®: - "1 SCHOOL BOARD VOTES - 2 OF HIGH SCHOOL TO ASK SELECTMEN FOR 81 Pupils Have Attained Victo* Rogalski Fails to Special Distinction In Regakt Consciousness, TOWN MEETING .' Scholarship During the and Dies in Springfield Definite Announcement Is Made by the Pastor, Months of November Hospital A Few Hours To Act On An Appropriation For the Building of a New High School- Rev. D. J. O'Connor, This Week to the. I^em- and December. ^ ^ Later. 1 v Definite Action Is Finally Taken by the School Committee on the High -v..;: Jfry bers«f the School Fund Bazaar Committee— According to the scholarship rating Victor Rogalglg, who was found ly­ School Project—School To Cost $300,000 According to the Tentative issued today by Principal Parkman ing beside the Thompsonville road J/Will Consist of 12 Rooms—Present School of the high school, 81 pupils are list­ near Dunn's Corner Monday night •at -Plans of the Committee—Finance Board Will Be Requested To Ap-. ^ Building Not To Be Destroyed—Parish Will ed on the honor roll for their work 8:35 by ia partjr- of young people prove of the Appropriation Immediately. ^ during the past two months: The returning to Siiffifeld from a New a School Room Capacity of 18 Rooms Freshmen, being the largest class Year's party in Thompsonville, died a few hours lifer in the Springfield The members of the Town School •ii numerically, have the greater num­ When New Building Is Completed. ber on'the list. The following is the Hospital without regaining conscious­ Committee are in conference with the complete list as issued this morning ness. Medical Examiner Dr. Frederick Over A Million Increase Board of Selectmen today, relative SsfeM District - Deputy John A. Ryan of divided into the four classes: Freshmen: Rita Burns, Doris Bram- Jones of Springfield performed an to the immediate caiiing of a spec- • iKOie Knights .of Columbus 'will be well, David Brainard, Francis Carey, autopsy on the body at the hospital ial town meeting, for the purpose of gJgSTax Rate Will and pronounced4 death due to a frac­ taking action on the question of llp^lfpchairman of the committee for the Clarke Carle, Doris Caskie, Margar­ he Board of Assessors will complete its work this week. the building of a new high schook UK3 iSl^ijbazaar to he hfeld in the Spring for . WpS? Decrease et Connor, Peter Costa, Martha Ebel, tured skull, producd by the use of a Ethel Fiedler, Louise Galimberti, blunt instrument of some sort. The T While the new figures of the Grand List are not avail­ This action is the result of a reso­ p^p^the benefit of the New St. Joseph's autopsy showed that Rogalski had lution adopted at the regular month­ sfei- - mm Jackson Green, Clara Hamilton, Mar­ able it is understood that it will amount to something over ly meeting of the committee held last |||!||iSchooHund, and Miss Josephine Long garet Hannon, Ruth Hughes, Mat­ been hit on the right side of the head, probably writh a blackjack or $16,000,000. This will mean an increase over last year of evening. The vote on the resolution K^y^will be secretary. These selections HE Board of Finance will thew Sypeks, Deane Ingraham, Ma- $1,000,000. This amount represents the normal increase was unanimous. The text of it was, fyl^^-vrere made at the meeting of the meet next month for the falda Lamagna, Ruth Leggett, Ros­ a club. Dr. Jones and Suffield doc­ T purpose of making the tax alie Mazzini, Hugh McCann, Mary tors, who attended the injured man, caused by industrial and home construction, as it is under­ "That the School Board request the |l§^i4^®neral committee, composed, of rate for the year. It will re­ Morrison, John Novak, Ruth Noll, said that he had. been drinking but stood that, with the exception of an occasional case where Board of Selectmn to call a special representatives of all" the orgdniza- not enough to make him intoxicated. town meeting for the purpose of quired to raise the sum of John O'Brien, Janet Parkman, Helene re-adjustment required it, there has been no general in­ making an appropriation for the ; II®Ifftions connected -with St. Patrick's $319,625*00, exclusive of any­ Percival,'Evelyn Phelps, Frank Pior- A $1 bill and a; bankbook, showing ^l^-parish, held in St. Joseph's Hall, that he had deposited $330 in a bank crease in values made by the Assessors. It is expected building of a new high school." The .'Thursday evening. An executive thing additional that might be ek, Harold Rapoport, Teresa Ring- selectmen will undoubtedly act on required for interest charges, wald, May Rochette, Amelia Zawada. Monday, were fbund in his pockets that the books of the Assessors will be open for inspection Ijpl^committee of 20 was also appointed which evidently ; had been rifled. this suggestion conditional with the g j®*~to have charge of the bazaar. This should the High School project Sophomores: Mable Beman, Stan­ at the Town Building, beginning next Monday morning, approval by the Finance Board of the be undertaken. This amount ley Bigos, Marie Collins, Rachel Deputy Sheriff Greer and County De­ -/* - -committee will effect the organiza- tective Hickey expressed the belief and will be available for this purpose until they are turn­ appropriation that is to be request­ f^rj^-tion of "the various sub-committees quoted is the net sum of the Cormier, Linda Debarbieri, Priscilla ed over to the Board of Relief, which holds its first session, ed. This part of the building pro­ budget adopted at the town Galbraith, Phyllis Gannuscio, Gene that the thief had probably overlook­ I^StfSft^nd will .meet every Friday evening ed the single bill in his hurry to Friday, February 1st. gram is being taken care of by a llps^pan St. Joseph's Hall. At the meet- meeting last fall. The Board vieve Gorman, Eugenia Mulak, Mar committee of five members of the has no alternative under "the ion Rich, Florence Rochette, Teresa make a getaway. ing next Friday evening the dates The police are endeavoring to trace School committee, who will confer at ior the bazaar will be selected, and law but to provide a rate that Sheehan, Barbara Smith, Harriet once with the Finance Board regard­ will raise this amount. It is Smith, Frances Stolpinski, Rosie Tes- the slain man's movements up to the general plan of the manner in time of his death,;-hoping that in this ing the appropriation that is to be •which it will be conducted adopted. evident that they will be able toni. embodied in the resolution that will to do this and still make a low­ Juniors: James Billings, Mary way some light may be thrown upon FIREMEN HAVE NEW QUARTERS "^V^ " 'The bazaar is the annual event which Browne, Celia Campbell Irene Chill- events immediately preceding his be presented to the town meeting. "will be held each, spring, immediately er rate than last year. The as­ It is understood that the Finance sumed increase in the grand son Mae Desso, Mary Ferraro, Hom­ death. '* • lifter Easter for the benefit of the er Fowler, Josephine Galimberti, Matthew Malinowski of New Brit­ A FINE TIME FOR POST OFFICE Board will hold its first meeting of -t list of over a million dollars -.'Vr£> r\ a»ew St. Joseph's Schbol Fund. Ruth Greer, Herbert Goldstein, Ruth ain, investigator from State's Attor­ the year within a few days for or- ' At the meeting of the committee will make this possible. Even ganization purposes, and it is quite should a sum be required for Harris, Vera Hietala, Marie Javor- ney Alcorn's offi^p,, Deputy Sheriff W^felast week, Rev. Daniel J. O'Connor, ski, Freda Kessner, Frances Leggett, Greer and County Detective Hickey Annual New Year's Ball Must Be Larger Than likely that the financing of the new 'the pastor, stated that work on the the interest charge referred to, High School project will be taken up it' .can still be kept within' the Francis Olschakskie, Celia Parsons, are all working on the case and an iJKfcfflSsS* Jiew school" " "building will-begin" at'• the- arrest is promised in the near fut­ Revived With A Splen­ the Present According at this meeting. The amount that present rate, or lower. Our Carolyn Woodbury. will be required, according to the; -close of the present school year. Seniors: Doris Bridge, Leon Bor- ure. It is now believed by Sheriff immediately at the beginning of the guess is that the tax rate for dor and Gaiety That to Representative of tentative plans adopted by the School • the present year will be 19 dua, Frank Connor, Rose Cusick, Greer that the man was brought in ^summer vacation in June the present an automobile to the place where his Surpasses Former Board for the construction and equip­ mills. "This is a decrease . of Catherine Hawkes, Charles Libby, the Post Office Depart­ ping of the New High School wilhbeSl^ t,f. St. Joseph's School will be moved to D„orothy Malley, Patrick, ^Needham, body was found.