New Britain herald., 1915-02-23

can. Taper GOOQS company IS SeCOIu with bid for a decrease of $7,OOO.
 Probably the most interesting. com plainant at yesterdays session was
 Carrie Bennett Pollard C'Berin Beauty'D, who <pretended to be the owner of only twenty five acres of land in this town. Her chief purpose in calling, she said, was to appeal for a reduction on the assessment of what she called her Goose House."
 Carrie did not hand in a list to the assessors at the proper time in November and one of the board mem bers remarked to her jol1ingly that she should consider herself lucky in escaping a ten per cent. addition. The shrewd Carrie was prepared with ready answer. "Oh, you cant fool
 me- she said. I'm a nonresident and don't have to fill out a list.' She added that she was going to sell her Berlin interests and move to her farm in Granby where you don't have to send in lists and there are no such things as ten per cent. additions
 Being of a very obliging nature, Carrie hastened to explain to the board that she had not intended to register complaint, but that, as she happened to De Tn the N1ClnltS ally way, she decided to drop in. 1 Thomas Phillips of kensington called to voice his objection to a raise of $1,10O which the assessors made on his assessment. He averred that much of his land is of poor quail
 ity and did not warrant an increase The. increase was made on his or chard.
 J. C. Bauer, who appeared at the i first meeting of the board, called
 again, thinking that the board was 1 to mako decision yesterday He is a veteran and is, therefore, entitled l to reduction of $1,OOO, but, in ad- | Gition to this, he wants $2,000 more { taken from the assessment checked against his name in the grand list. He
 claimed that three houses on his place were all built before the time of the Revolutionary war and were decreas- l ing in value each year.
 By a diagram, Judge John Walsh of New Britain proved to the board | that twelve acres of the land for l which he was assessed in Berlin are | located in the town of Southington. 1 His drawing showed the plot of land | in question to lie between the Plain i vile reservoir and Lake Shuttle Mea- | dow.
 Algot Larson thought that his as-
 sessment of $4,37S was far too much. l He wanted reduction on his house
 which was in the list for S1,300, but, 1 judging from his statement of the
 price it cost him, it is improbable that
 his complaint will be sustained. 1 William Ross, representing his
 mother, Mrs Mary Ross asked for a
 reductiin on the house and barn on 1 their place. As the house is listed i for only S400 and the barn for $20O, | the board may have to look twice be- l fore decreasing the assessment The Misses Emily and Florence i Brandegee, whose property is listed at 1 S7,S6O asked for a reduction on their 1 quality They are assessed for forty three acres
 George Baldwin, the eXpressman l has nine and half acres of low
 land in kensington. He appeared to
 ask for a decrease of $142.
 Yesterdays session was the last l public meeting of the year. The board l of relief will meet again tomorrow af- 1 ternoon in the town court room and 1 make decisions on all the appeals l made to them. It must be ready to
 report a the adjourned town meeting
 next Monday evening.
 Washington Meeting Success. About seventy-five people enjoyed
 the splendid lecture given at the