New Britain herald., 1924-04-04
PhinMMe News
SEYMOUR IS AGAIN HEAD OF CHAMBER Thomas P. Prior Succeeds Wil-
 liam Calferty as Secretary TO CHANCE BANQUET DATE

Tax Notices Being sent Out to Prop crty Owners-Lentcu Service. To-
 night-Empioyes Insured-BowIins
 Notes-Plain, file Briefs.
 Ralph Seymour. president Of the
 PlainNille Chamber of Commerce for
 the past year, was reelected 10 that
 office at the annual meeting Of the
 members in the rooms on Fierce
 street last evening. His choice is a ! popular one and an eventfu year is | looked forward to by the members
 and q large number of activities are
 being planned which will include municipal Improvements and social ! affairs.
 1 H. Garfield Jones. manage of the
 Hutton X Jones. Inc. stores, was
 elected vice-president. He has been ] one of the most active members of the local chamber and has acted on
 most of the important committees np-
 pointed to carry on it's work. Mir.
 Seymour will be assured ot an excel | lent assistant in the many details of his office.
 Thomas P. Prior. assistant sccrc- tary of the Flainvlle Trust Co. vas elected successor to William rafferty as secretary and treasurer. Mir. Caf- ferty. who has held the office for some time, explained that he would not be able 10 serve in that capacity any longer.
 The following were elected dircc- tors: A. II. eCon1eil. Edwin Hills. C, II. Newton. John H. Trumbull. and James E. Isher. There were a'l re- elected With the exception of Mir. sher who takes the place Of John Minor, who declined to be candidate and asked to he excused because of the press of other duties.
 Change Banquet Date
 s1t was brought out Gt the meeting last evening that the day and date of the annual banquet this year would be an inConvcnient one and would probably serve to lessen the chances f tho affair being a success. The fact
 hat il was scheduled to be held on Friday brought out the fact that the merchants and storeatcpcrs would not he able to attend because of tho fact that Friday evening the stores arc kept open, The matter after lengthy discussion wa. referred back to the banquet committee with in- structions 10 have them change the date to some other right which will be more favorable to all the mcm- bers,
 Repairing of streets
 The question of repairing several of the streets in town was taken up and discussed at length. Many of the members present described the con- dtior of inc streets in town. especial ly the semi-main highways which arc in very bad shape for want Of repair Tho committee on streets was in. i structed 10 take up the matter with :. the seiectmen in an effort 10 see if ! the appropriations for the repair of . the highways could not be increased : so that more extensive repairs might he made. An effort will be made to have some sort of semi. permanent ] pavement placed in Pine street be- { cause of inc poor condition of the roadbed there. other streets were discussed among them being Canal, Broad and West Main streets.
 The committee in charge Of sccur- ing subscriptions from tho members with which 10 furnish the now club rooms. reported that the contributions are coming in in good shape. To date about si50 has been collected with large number of the members still to be heard from.
 Sending Tax Notices. H
 TaN Collector Willis ]. Hemingway has sent out the notices of taxes be- ng due to property owners num- per of those who arc liable to pay axes have complained that inc mo- ices were not received until after April I, the date on which the taxes Ire due. but Mr. Hemingway stated hat it was impossible in have the { notices sent out sooner because Of he fact that tiIe tax book was not cccivcd from the office of the town ' Jerk until Wednesday. Miss May forgan. tho town clerk. N1s so nshed with work that If was impos- ible to complete the list and have ready until that time. The prop rty owners haze the entire month C f April in uhi,l fo pay inc taxrE v nd interest will not start until the Y lonih is over. Then the interest " il date back to inc first day of .pril. :
 Lcntcn Services Tonight.
 Lenten scrliccs pill l,c held in thc hurch of our Lady of Mercy this q vening st 7:sa o'clcck. They win ' ,nsist uf tine Way of the cross and q enediction Of the Bcssed Sarra- 2 ient. First i+ridsy dtFotions were fld this morning in the church pith s ass at 5:5O o'clock and communion gain at o'clock. Sunday evening l.
 7:aO o'clock I.nnten dryotions uili A , held and Rev. William Cavanaugh Hartford will continue his series . Icnten sermons. Tonight at o'clock in the Epis- . pal church of Our Saviour there = Ill be a Tentcn service and address. "
 Insurcs Empio,es
 \ total Of Ih4 smpioyes Of the ain,iHe Casting Co. have received r insurance protection Of sI .00e and f .aith and actjIeni insurance protiJ- 2 for payment Of si0 a week over d riod of 1s weeks. under policy arr nged with the Metropolitan Life In- N rance Co. The employees are con- Ibutine part Of ilIe premiums and Q company is paying the rest. In dition 10 this protection the insured 2