New Britain herald., 1925-07-09
PhinuiMe News
STATE FUND GONE WITHOUT A TRACE
Inefficient Bookkeeping Blamed
 for Disappearance Of Money
AUTO COLLISIONS CONTINUE

Bristol Man Tined - Rcmodrlling Clarendon, Building-Phillips Mic corney Marriage July 2i--Plain- vile Briefs.
 The town deposit fund distributed by the state to PlainVille IS years | ago is missing, but where 1t went | and how it is to be recovered or | made good is a problem which | Treasurer William Il. Wilson will | have to wrestle with. In lS4I | $764,9S5,96 was passed out by the Il state to various towns, the principal II to be kept intact and the interest to Il be used for educational purposes
 and for those only. The last lcgis- II lature required reports from all II towns to the state board or finance, III and it vas found that $l4O,000 had l disa ppearcd without trace, as only $G25,094,21 remained. PlainNilie Is one of the 50 towns where the | money has totally dropped from sight.
 Tax Commissioner W. II. Blodgett, in his quadrennial report of munl- cipal debt and expenditure, disrloses these facts and attributes the loss of the money to inaCcuracy rather than dishonesty. No taint of Nilful dis honesty attaches necessarily to the loss of the money, as it is probable that the fund was gradually lost sight of in the threc-quart of { I century and gradually diverted, un knowingly, but also improperly, tt q others than its original purpose. No taint of even carclcssncss fall upon present Treasurer Wilson, a the fund was in all probability de H plctpd long ago. When Commissions q Blodgett ordered the report tn - present treasurer found no trace O = the fund and probably moi evci
 knowing of its existence, omitted i 70 from his report
 ,b It is thought that the town will b.
 called upon to make good t)i ,o money, and if the fund cannot be To cated an appropriation may b
 necessary of an eqaul amount to th or original sum given to it by the state ot Closer contact between state am ot municipal financial authorities vii
 he sought in the state, while SlmpIl iy fled and systematic methods Of 2c |, counting are being urged by Com ,o missioner Blodgett to prevent re e currence of this loss
 'r, Fined After Collision " William Brown of Bristol va ,,. fined S5 and costs by Justice l.. e Mills last night in the Plainvil ~, town court for violating the rules ( ''. the road His automobile and or a driven by Burdette Hitchcock of Ne 'I' ' Britain collided on West Main strc ~. '' Tuesday night, and Deputy Sheri .,v F. w, Furrcy, who investigated q ;.. accident. placed the blanc on Brow ' Prosecutor William ], Foran pr '' scented the case of the town.
 RCmOdclling Clarendon ~, The Clarendon huildinS on Col ',, tral Square is being remodcllcd, ar ,, stucco front will replace tho o one of clapboards Work has hcC
 , begun and inc face of the Structu ,, has been largely stripped of it's fo
 mer covering With a moiernizir .i of this and the building of Il ''' plainvile Engineering ,S Supply ( o,' at the same time, the center of q
 town will take on a decidedly mo
 up-to-date appearance.
 Reports Car Was Struck
 An automobile driven by Ro --'' stephen Grohol pastor of the : 0P Saints church of New Britain. "
 struck and badly damaged in Plai
 vile last night by another machi
 headed for New Britain at hi
 rate of speed, tho priest reported dy the Hardware city rolicc He W en. unable 10 catch the number of [ ing car which ran him down. hip Phillips Mccorncy the Haynes Lord Phillips of Morid re- and Miss Sophia Mccorney Of Me uet iden. will be married in that city by Tuesday. July 21. Miss Mrcorn ion was a teacher in the Tlainri of schools, handing in her rosgnati and tc take effect at the close of tho pi
 year.
 Eas Baptist Picnic
 CTS The annual picnic of the Rapt 'cs- church Sunday school will he held car Rockwell park Tuesday aftcrno ant The start will he made from in" cc was ter of Plainville at o'clock in
 afternoon, and supper will hc sor'
 al o'clock. If tho weather ? 0O vcnts tho picnic on Tuesday, it ' om- he held on the next day. -ss- Condition Improved icr The condition of Mrs. Fred Shsr suIt who is seriously i'll at her ho lley near Sharpe's station, is reported cor be somewhat improved. A trai' eets nurse is in attendance. Mrs. SharI able daughter. Mrs. Howard Hinman the Wsltham, Mass, is at her moth
 bedside.