arsea rgg|!iTO|£p||||P^ 1SW.7-;; ?&¥'& .. •V.M.'^ ;'r^T-1^';;.^:i»:^V^t?i'^ -• ' • ' ' • .V ;' ; THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE TOWN OF ENFIELD, CONN. :,-:-.,:'v;M FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR—NO. 51. THOMPSONVILLE, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, APRIL 12.7928 PRICE $2.00 A YEAR—SINGLE COPY 5c. Instructed To Vote D. A. R. CHAPTER 90 PER CENT OF Back Again! Raising Money to Buy For Smith Delegates JUDGES ARE New Fire Equipment WHAT IS MEANT HEAR REPORT OF Local Democratic Delegates to State PROPERTY TAX INTER, after amusing it­ ^Convention at Hartford May 2 and self at the- discomforting SELECTED FOR Three Nights' Bazaar and Entertain­ BY A SCIENTIFIC 3 Chosen At Caucus Monday—En­ W expense of the people of ment of North Thompsonville Fire STATE MEETING dorse Candidacy of Gov. Smith. WAS COLLECTED this vicinity for several months Department Will Be Held in Waw­ The local Democratic party went and rather reluctantly making SAFETY CONTEST ei Hall Starting Next Thursday. RE-VALUATION? on record at its caucus Monday eve­ its departure a few weeks' ago, More because of the purpose to Monthly Session of Loc- ning in Emmett hall, as being favor­ Returns Show Payment! has apparently suffered a which the fund is to be devoted than able to the presidential candidacy of change of heart, and arrived Carpet Co. Officials An­ anything else, there is particular in­ Method Being Pursued al Patriotic Society Is Governor Alfred E. Smith of New of Tax Was About On here again last evening to play nounce Names of Men terest being taken in the big three Featured by Story of York. Following the naming of six a return engagement. It did not nights' bazaar and entertainment In the General Re-val- delegates to the state convention at Par With Last Year—! come unheralded, however, as Who Are to Pass on which the North Thompsonville Fire uation of Property Ex­ 35th Annual State Con­ Hartford, May 2nd and 3rd, at which the blustery weather of the Tfc j it* • DepartmentJL/eparunent is 10to holdnom inm Wawelwawei hallnail delegates to the national convention Personal Tax Collec-j past few days was an unmis­ Fosters and Essays in;the last three nights of next week. plained at Request of ference at Derby. at Houston, Texas, will be elected, tions Unusually Large. takable indication that the ar­ The money that the district commit­ the caucus on a motion of Jeremiah rival of spring was going to be Safety Competition. tee which is in charge of this affair Many Taxpayers. H. Callahan voted unanimously to in­ temporarily interrupted. Then expects to make on it will be entire- The meeting of Penelope Terry Ab­ Approximately ninety per cent of i came the lowering clouds of to pay 01 bey Chapter, D. A. R., held at the struct the delegates to vote for men Early this week announcement was ! ,. ^ " the \ At the request of several property who would_be favorable to the can- the town property tax was paid up yesterday, and the heavy down­ i«,„i v. 4.u ai • i j. ,. , piece ot motor lire apparatus which owners who, ,,lave ,become . , . home of Mrs. Guy F. Bushr.ell, on fall of rain last evening which ' made by the officials of the Bigelow- t has been ordered and is expected to interested Enfield ' street Tuesday afternoon, didacy of Governor Smith. The cau- to April 1st, according to the returns S nan was followed by snow, hail and j Hartford Safety Poster and Essay be delivered most any day now. The in the question "of general' property was featured by reports of the 35th !^? ii ^ Town Chairman P. T. of Tax Collector Frank A. Simmons ! annual state conference held in Der- ^a"e7' Selectman James T Murray, finally sleet. A fast lowering Competition that they had been able committee, however, is not depend- valuation for taxable purposes which to the town treasury. Treasurer J. temperature aided in giving the must be done here before 1930, the by, March 20 and 21, and papers on Fianeis Browne, Michael J. Con- full winter effect, and the pic­ to secure the following ge„tle„,e„ .s "Z'Z £- <<The Current History of E^eld a*d » ^ °rney Phiht, J Sulhvan Jr Hamilton Potter's records show that 6 an( judges of the contest: Edward Brom-! tract*a'Targe' attendance Tii'ey^have ! flowing data regarding what is con- onmpro » Mr<? Mirk w RnsVinpll I * Martin E. Brodrick as delegates i when the collector's remittance was ture was complete this morning vomers. MIS. iviaiK W . tsusnneil, to, the convention following their re­ mademnHp tot.n him onrm AprilAnvil 5th,RtVi whichwWA ;is = with the ground thoroughly age, "Mayor" of Enfield, Philip J. ; arranged about as ambitious a pro- sidered the latest and most scientific the regent, gave an account of the covered with nearly an inch of Sullivan, editor of The Press, and ' gram of entertainment for the thi-ee' m.ethod of accomplishing this task commendation by a committee con­ the date for this performance each w ] proceedings at the Tuesday afternoon month,- the total amount collected snow and sleet. The engage­ John A. Sweetser, president of the'nights as has ever been offered at an • . th outside assistance has been com- session, Mrs. George S. Phelps of the sisting of M. J. Connor, J. H. Calla­ 1 6 For the han and Arthur McMahon. Attorney since March 1st was $367,625.32. The ment appears destined to be Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company. ' affair of this kind here. There will P ' "- . purpose of getting evening, and Mrs. William A. Bridge brief, however, as a rising tem­ The officials are highly gratified and be a genuine professional vaudeville i what is termed a 100 per cent grand Philip J. Sullivan, Jr., was chairman total amount of the property tax ,s of the Wednesday meetings. warrant for this year was $408,325, perature this morning, and an consider it fortunate that they have,show each evening, dancing with thejj. t> the initial step is to get a per- These were all exceptionally fine and M. A. Mitchell secretary of the e ma caucus. About fifty were in attend­ which leaves the amount of uncollect- occasional peep of the sun from been able to persuade these gentle- music to be furnished by Kennedy's j ^,. P of .the town. and graphically reviewed all that was ance. |ed taxes $40,699.68. This amount is behind the still cloudy sky men to spare enough time from their ,orchestra, and about every form of This is being done by the aerial especially outstanding and of local seems certain to end the un­ varied activities to consider the mer- | amusement that could be devised for Photography method, a process that i considerably greater than last year was appeal. The visit of five state and I I but in view of the larger levy due to welcome visit of the sterner at­ its of the manuscripts. :an affair of this kind. The commit- l developed in plotting gun dis- national officials to the Enfield chap- CJTTTTYV VU1? jthe additional two-mill ratc<{ it is pro­ mospheric condition. Coincident with the announcement; tee is now distributing season tickets ! Placements during the war. The pic- ter at its birthday meeting, when the 'IIJ^||J|I1 I nEi of the judges comes word that rc- for the affair, and are meeting with!tures are taken from a height of 9,- portionately about the same. 1e play, "The Hillstown Chapter," writ- Town officials are very well pleas­ sponse in the form of posters and the success which the purpose and t , ?t and are shot straight down ten by Miss Leon R. Abbe, was pro­ ed with the manner in which the essays is quite gratifying. Though character of this affair deserves. j Eacha "shot"t:" takentot°" gives a map of duced, was pleasantly alluded to by QUESTION OF taxes have been paid, particularly as ENFIELD HIGH the competition has been underway ! ! 30 by 40 inches. The scale is 100 Miss Katharine A. Nettleton, the I the tax collector's office was only op­ for little more than a week, it has TYII 7irkI?\TT\ 'feet per inch, so that each map rep- state regent, in her address to the already attracted considerable notice ; V • I I p.N f B I i resents a territory 3,000 by 4,000 erating for the second time under T V 1 I 8 V 811 \ conference. It was reported that RE-VALUATION the shorter payment period. The tax TO PRESENT PLAY judging by the number of papers re- | ' IVlJlWJ j square feet or about three-fourths of nearly 3,500 flag codes and 32,479 collections for the Thompsonville Fire ceived, particularly in the poster I a square mile. The town of Enfield immigrants' manuals have been dis­ and Sewer District, and the North classes. The merits of the drawings I has approximately 22 square miles tributed in the state the past year, Board of Trade Appoint Thompsonville District, which were TOMORROW NIGHT now in the hands of the committee OF 6 PER CENT TO : of surface so that about thirty such the latter a gain of 8,391 over last also made by Town Collector Sim­ exceed by far anything they antici­ . pictures would be taken to cover its year. The entire state ticket, with Committee to Consider mons, were equally satisfactory. Out pated, and indicate the interest creat­ entire area. The different photos ov- the exception of three new directors, of something over $13,000 of a tax Annual Dramatic Pro­ ed by the contest.