New Britain herald., 1915-02-22
Pla1nVille News RELIEF BOARD GETS
 BUT 40 COMPLAINTS
Reductions Asked for by Taxpayers
 Do hot Total Cv5r S20,OO0.
NEARLY 300 LISTS WERE RAISED
Mcriden Boys Deserted By "F'riend" in Hartford Found Here--Icc Harvest ing Resumed - Sunday School Workers Have Convention Here.

NOFkcrS Have Convention Here.
 Applications for changes in the re- port of the assessors, the time for receiving which expired Saturday, would if favorably acted on by the board of relief reduce the grand list total by approximately $2O,OO0, leav- Ing an increase of over $220,000 over last year. This is one of the surpris- ing facts which developed during the public sessions of the relief board, proving that while the assessors in- creased the valuatios of nearly three hundred property owners and gave the grand list the biggest boost in years, their report was generally re- Sarded as satisfactory.
 A. H. Condell, w J. Simpson and r. G. Osborne, comprising the board of relief. held their final public meet ing Saturday, They had expected a busy session and were surprised when only few property owners put in ap- pearance. Complaints were received Saturday from only eight taxpayers, bringing the total number of protests alp to but forty.
 Subsequent to the filing of the as sessors' report members of the relief board received several informal com plaints concerning raises in the val uat1on of their property, but in most cases the authors evidently did not consider their argument sufficiently meritorious to warrant their appear ing at one of the meetings. Only protests presented under oath at q regularly called meeting of the board can be considered and the sidewalk complaints as a result will have no weight with the members.
 Chairman Condell has not as yet called d meeting of the board to go over the grand list and consider the appeals, but it is likely that the mem bers will get together before the end of the week.
 The fate of the appeals will not be determined until after the board com pletes it's deliberations, but it IS not expected that the reductions will amount to a great deal In some cases the members admit there was merit to the protests and some reductions will, of course, be given.
 Members of the board of assessors have cause for qualification in the showing made at the relief board ses- siOns. Should the appeals of all who appeared at the meetings be granted, the assessors WILL even lnCn lGel that there work was satisfactorily done. They raised the grand list this year to s22569S2, an increase of $241,527 over last year. Not a great deal of building was done here during 1914 and in. many cases the increases were made because the board thought the valuation was too low the preceding year. The assessors responsible for the changes are E. A. Freeman, F. T. Wheeler and l.. B. Tucker.
 Meridcn Boys Found Here.
 Lawrence Cooper, Henry schonn and Jacob Bresch, trio of Meridcn boys, who went sightseeing in Hart ford yesterday, were picked up here last night by Deputy Sheriff w. C. Hart who found them wandering about the center. The boys ages range from II to 14. They had left their home yesterday in the company of an Italian, who had invited them to go to Hartford for a good time,' he agreeing to pay the expenses of the trip. He bought their tickets and went as far as the Capital City with them.
 Towards night he deserted the trio and the youngsters, out of funds, started to walk to Meriden. They fololwed the wrong tracks, however, and arrived in Plainville about nine O clock. They told their story to the officer and he gave them permis- sion to sleep in the basement of the town building.
 He notified the Meriden police and this morning one of the youngsters relatives came here and took them home.
 Ice Harvesting Resumed.
 While there is a touch of spring in the weather and signs of the de- l parture of winter are most apparent, I there remains d fair thickness of ice on the ponds in this section. The l White Oak Ice company is taking ad- l