New Britain herald., 1925-07-10
PhinuiM Mews
POISONING CAUSES
 DEATH 0F WOMAN Miss Mary Murphy Dies While
 Visiting in Norwich 5S AT FAMILY REUNION

to HI fAMlll hGUNlVN
 Plainville Received Some of ne.
 posit Fund - Local Ball Teams
 Away This Week End--Plainville
 Briefs.
 Miss Mary Murphy, well known resident Of Plaincille, died yesterday
 at the home Of her sister in Nor
 Wich, where she had been visiting
 for few weeks, About a week ago
 her eye became infected. and the poison spread throughout her body,
 causing her death, She is survived ! by four brothers and four sisters,
 with one of whom, Mrs Michael
 Nolan of this town, she made her home,
 Funeral services will be held to-
 morrow morning in Norwich. In terment will be made in that town. Family Reunion
 A reunion of the Whitney and
 Bunney families was held yesterday
 at the home of D, k. Radcliffe of
 4S Forestville avenue, 53 members
 of those families being present.
 Those who attended the reunion
 came from Conklin, IN. Y; Cortland,
 N. Y; Groton- on the e-Hudson, N. Y;
 Elmira Heights, N. Y; South Nor
 walk, New Haven. Avon and Plain
 vile, A shore dinner was served to
 the large assemblase. and games
 were enjoyed. The affair was
 success in every way, and the guests returned home today with
 avowal that they had had most pleasant time,
 Plainyille Assumed Share
 The fact that the town deposit fund. Plainville's share of which Is
 missing, was distributed by the state In 1847,, while Flainville was not separated from Farmington until
 1869, has caused residents of this town to assert that Plainvile could not have received any of this money and that it's non-appearance on pres ent day record books is due to that cause, Tn other words since Plain vile did not exist as q separate en- tity at the time the fund vas given out, they claim that 1t could not
 h aJ crtt ta
 Examination of records in the of flee of Town Clerk May Morgan. however, reveals that this is not the fact In the articles drawn up when Plainville parted company with Pennington, the terms of their dis
 union are set forth In particular. Section , of these articles reads as follows.
 Sec. !, And the town deposit fund and all other funds of said town of
 Pennington shall belong 10 and he | divided between said new town as
 hereby incorporated and said town
 of Pennington In proportion to the number of inhahitants.'
 The superior court of Hartford county was authorized 10 appoint free -holders" as referees 10 have power to divide "paupers. funds. de- posit funds and other property" be- tween the two towns. This leaves no doubt as 10 Plainville's sharing in !, the benefits of this educational fund, the only possible loop-holes being that these free holder" referees were not appointed or did not func- tion
 With the transfer of funds, rau- pers and other property from one town to the other, if is likely that the bookkeeping of that day lost track of something, and it is moro than possible that the disappearance of the town deposit fund occurred at about that time. Yet that does not relieve the present town from its burden of making good what was lost through carelessness.
 Incidentally, the old town records reveal many queer quirks, One req son for the separation of the two sections wa sthat there was no travel between them. One look at Farm ington avenue on 2 Sunday after moon in 1925 would make a state po- iliceman long for those sone-hy days. | II Is also stated that the population of Pennington was decreasing, while
 Plainville was growing and would shortly become one of the leading manufacturing centers of the state. lI-PlainVllle Game The Plainvilles will journey 10 New Britain Sunday afternoon to stack up against the Rangers of that | city. The Rangers are snappv outfit and are at present deadlocked for second place in the City league | in New Britain, so that the local boys must step 10 overcome them. The game will be played at the old Pioneer diamond on Ellis street and will start at o'clock. The team will leave here at 1:S0 o'clock.
 The Painville boys will practice at TrumbuIl field tomorrow afternoon and Sunday morning, and all players are urged 10 be present The field ing was ragged last Sunday and 1t Is