New Britain herald., 1915-04-22

be elected for the ensuing year and reports of the several committees will be heard and acted upon. It Is expected that the respective reports will show that the year has been very successful.
 Every Member Canvass.
 At joint meeting of the. church and the finance committees of the Ecclesiastical society of thte Kensing- ton Congregational church to be held this evening in the church chapel ten- tative plans for the Every member Canvass will be discussed. The pur- pose of the canvass is to raise funds for the various church disbursements The campaign held last year was very successful and 1t is the desire or tie members to duplicate it this year
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox to Play.
 The annual luncheon of the Ruben stein club of New York will be held at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria in New York Saturday, May 1 and feature of the affair will be the appearance of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who will per form on the harp music of her own composition, while little wood nymphs will dance around the maypole in the center of the room.
 Berlin people, particularly the older residents, are intere rested in tho doings of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, inasmuch as she is the wife of Robert M. Wilcox, a former Berlinite, who was brought upon the place now occupied by Miss Julia Hovey. William BulSeley is also related to her.
 Mrs. Wilcox will be one of the guests of honor at the White BSeak- fast, which is to be given at the Hotel Taft in New Haven on Thursday, May
 Change Yard Tracks. Men employed by the Richard E.. Murray Brick company have been en- gagged during the past few days in altering the course Of the miniature railway over which the crude clay is hauled to the kilns. The cars will now be loaded 8 few hundred feet west of the spot where they were filled formerly.
 Obstryes Birthday. Yesterday was the forty ninth birth day of Elmer Enos Austin. the tax collector. MT. Austin was born April 21. 1S66, at the Austin Homestead on
 
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 Tax Collector Austin was reared on the farm and received only limited education. principally in the old fifth district school prior to it's fourteenth year. also attending night school in New Britain, for time. Be- ginning life for himself at the early age of fourteen, on rented land, as a market gardener, he fol- | lowed the business until nineteen, at which age he went to Florida, where he passed a year in farming and l teaming. He returned to Berlin two years later and started out in the re- | tail meat business, which he is still l engaged in. Later he was elected tax collector, and he has held this office 1 for many years. His present term eH- pires next month. when he will be succeeded by Charles F. Lewis of Ken sington.
 Death of Infant.
 Following an operation performed yesterday, the infant son of MT. and Mrs. Eugene McSweeney of Kensing- ton. died early last evening at St. Francis hospital M. J. Kenney x Co. of New Britain took charge of the body and the funeral was held this