New Britain herald., 1917-06-23
Building Lots and Other Lands to
 Go Under the Hammer
BOY SCOUTS AS ESCORT
Local Troop Marches at Auto Vic- tam's Funeral-O Collection for Red Cross It dennoFial service-Head 
 Food Conservatioa Taaks-other Matters.

{. Matters.
 Over thirty parcels of land. Q num-
 Der of which are building lots, the
 whereabouts of the owners of which
 h unknown to local oficials. are to
 be sold to satisfy liens placed on them
 for taxes within the next few weeks
 if plans of Tax Collector w. J. Hem
 mingway do not miscarry. Town
 Clorlx R. c. Usher is making copies
 of the boundary lines of the proper
 ties in question that the legal formal
 ities incidental to the sale of the land
 at public auction may be compiled
 with.
 The proposed sale will be the first
 auction of land for taxes held in
 Plainville in number of years, the collector in the past simply having
 placed liens on prooerties when taxes
 have not been paid to cover the law.
 On the land in question taxes have
 not been paid for a number of years
 and in some cases the owners have
 not been located, bills sent to them
 annually at the place of residence
 given on the books in the town clerks oflce having been returned ky the postomces. the carriers having been unable to find the~ people to whom they were addressed.
 A number of years ago land de- velopers sold building lots at public auction and tho record of the sales made at the town clerks office were incomplete. at least as far as the ad- dresses of the new owners were con- lot svat to but a few dollars. The collector as the owners have made no tax payments since the ownership was changed.
 Collector Hemingway is preparing | to formally advertise the auction
 in compliance with the law and the l properties will be diposed of under | the hammer sometime next month. Auto Victims Funeral. The funeral of Thomas Malonet. the twelve year old son of MT. and street, who, while playing peggy
 on the highway. was run down and killed by an auto owned and driven by Jacob Wrinkle of New Britain Thursday night, was held this morn ing at o'clock from the Church of Our Lady of Mercy. The boys un- l timely end saddened the community 1 and the grief of fais relatives and 1 friends was poignant as they wended ! their way to the church where the last rites were performed this morn ing. A high mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev. James T. Mac Donald.
 The Plainville troop of the Boy Scouts of which young Maloney was | a member turned out to act as escort 1 at the funeral. Principal O. l.. Judd l and some of the teachers in the Grammar school, where tho un- fortunate little fellow was a pop ular pupil were also in attendance. Schoolmates were chosen to serve as pallbearers. There were a num- Der of floral contributions testifying l of the family.
 Burial took place in St. Joseph's cemetery.
 Collect for Red Gross. In connection with the memorial
 service for the deceased members of l Sequassen and Rebekah lodges to be held tomorrow evening in the
 Church of Our Saviour it was an- nounced today collection will be taken up for the benefit of the Red
 Cross, the money received to be added to Plainville's contributions in 1 the campaign now in progress. The : services will be in charge of Rev. R. 1 H. Burton. the rector. who is also I chaplain of Sequassen lodge. Mir. Burton will give tho memorial ser- l mon.
 In the afternoon committees repre- l senting both organisations will visit ! tho cemeteries to strew flowers on tho
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