New Britain herald., 1917-07-18
Tax Collector Has Liens on En-
tire New Britain Plaza Tract
MAKE WAR ON PLANT PEST


Through Negligence in Settling Tax
Bills-Auction Sales Planned bv
Collector-Baseball Players in Ser
vice-BIiefs,
Owners of building lots in New
Britain Plaza are liable to have their
properties sold at auction because Of
their negligence in the matter of nav
ing taxes, according to information
cleaned in an investigation made nv
Town Clerk r. c. Usher and Tax COL
lector w. J. Hemingway. Not a per-
son owning property in this section
has clear title to his land records
| in the town clerks Office show. and
| on every lot tax liens have been
! placed.
Tax Collector Hemingway is prepar-
| ing to advertise the sale of consid-
| cradle land in Plainville to get money
| to cover the taxes While liens have
been placed on property every wear
for long time when taxes have not
been paid, the collector has been len
lent with the owners and has given
them long periods in which to make
! a settlement. Those who have failed
to take advantage of his offer as a
result will be compelled to settle in
full Immediately or their holdings will
be sold under the hammer.
In many instances the land in ques-
ton is described on the records as a
h1,s1 ia
never been able to locate the owners,
letters sent to the addresses given
on the town clerks books being re-
turned by the postal authorities. The
lots were bought at auction sales held
here a number of years ago when
| land developers operated in Plainville
and seemingly the owners have de-
! cided to let them go by default.
| Collector Hemingway and Town
Clerk Usher have spent several days
| examining the records to get the cor
| rect boundaries for advertising the
sales. In connection with their ex-
animation they discovered that there
are liens on every lot in the section
known as New Britain Plaza.
Apparently the owners believe they
| have clear title, as many of them pay
| their tax bills each year. They have
| not settled, however, for the pediod
between the time they bought the
property and the date of the transfer
| Of the deed AS a result it was neces-
sary to put liens on the land for at
least one years taxes.
| In cases where it appears that the
tax was not paid through ignorance
of tho status of the property, the col
lector is preparing to send out let
| 1oi rino and OllOtln e
the law necessitating the sale Of the
land when payment is not made.
Within a week Mr.. Hemingway has
made plans to post notice of the
sale of nearly fifty building lots. He
has placed liens on them annually for
tax bills, but as the owners show no
! disposition to make a settlement, ne
is compelled to sell them to raise the
money due the town.
Baseball Players in U. S. n.
Reorganization of the Foresters'
baseball team is planned in the near
! future the changing of the winning
! combination being necessitated by the
resignation of the players who have
| responded to the call to the colors
! and are now, or soon Will pc, IN the
| service of their country.
Two of the teams most reliable
! men were called this week to the
| naval training station at Newport
| Francis Sicily of the outfield left yes
| terday and this morning Catcher Judd
| Wadsworth started for the Rhode
! Island station. The men have been
of great assistance in the victorious
games recently played and their de-
| parture will weaken the team.
! Cassidy is to be shifted to left field
| while Donahue will play In the right
| garden. For Wadsworths place the
team has secured 81 Macdonald, for
mer captain of the Hartford base
| ball nine and one of the best men
| in the state Mcdonald made his
| debut with the team last Sunday.
| The club is expecting to play the
! independents of Waterbury next Sum-
| dav afternoon at Aliens field. Only
| one game has been lost during the
| season, and the new combination will
make a valiant effort to keep the rec
| ord clean.
War on Plant Pest.
| Owners of gardens in various parts
| of the state have started an organized
effort to resist the invasion of the new
plant pest which for several days has
been threatening to destroy the potato
crop. Amateur tillers of the soil were
out in large numbers last night and
! today to Danish the insects that their
weeks of work in their gardens might
not go for naught because Of the &C
tivites of the pest.
| The insects are strangers to local
! farmers and in many gardens they had
done considerable damage. Ordinary
| spraying has been useless in the fight
against them as they clink under the
leaves where they have been safe from
| the poison.
A solution of nicotine and soap,
diluted with water, which was recon =
mended by Connecticut agricultural
| oxportS io heipp used nv the local