New Britain herald., 1930-10-16
PainuiM Mews
CASTING CD. SCENE l OF EVENING BLAZE Fire Is Extinguished Before
 Gaining Much Roadway
 DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO $50

Garden Club Holds Annual Meeting
 Town Officers Receive Oath of
 Office Autoist Fined in Court
 Following Accidcnt-Items.
 An alarm from Box at 11:5o
 o'clock last evening sent 25 mem bers of the fire department to the Plainville Casting Go. on South Canal
 street where they found lively
 blaze. The fire had destroyed three windows and worked its way through
 two partitions when the fremen ar rived but the blaze was quickly ex-
 tinguished and serious damage averted.
 The fire started near two furnaces in the factory but the cause of the
 blaze in unknown. Fire Chief Ed ward P. Prior estimated the damage
 at $50. Only the prompt work of
 the tlremen in answering the alarm prevented a more serious connagra-
 ton. it is said.
 To Pay s4,421 to State Plainville's assessment in the
 combined state and military taxes l for the year 1880 Is $4,421, accord
 ing to the bill mailed yesterday by
 State Tax Commissioner William H. | Blodgett. Both taxes are due and | payable on or before November 10. This Is an increase of $219.77 over
 the taxes of 1929. The total amount
 of the state tax is $l,25o,000, which
 is apportioned among the 1ss towns | on the basis of actual receipts from
 taxes for three years as averaged. l The same method of apportion-
 ment is applied for the military. The
 total amount to be raised is S49l.S73
 of which the state pays IS per cent
 and the remaining S5 per cent is
 paid by town treasuries. Hartford ! will pay the highest assessment of any city or town.
 To Celebrate Anniversary : Mir. and Mrs. Myron E. Rogers, well known residents, will observe
 their 30th wedding anniversary to- } morrow. Mir. Rogers is the pro- 5 prietor of the Rogers bakery shop l on Whiting street and a similar store . on West Main street in New Britain. 8 He has been an active worker in the
 Methodist church for number of years and played an important part p in the installation of the new organ
 last year.
 z The union was blessed by six chill , dren, namely, Mrs. R. o. Mcleod. [ Fr AJ.l, ID
 gers. Howard W. Rogers. Lucy Ro-
 gers and Beatrice Rogers, all oi Plainville. Tomorrow will also mark . Mrs. Rogers birthday anniversary s Before her marriage she was Mis-. y Ella Manchester.
 Il October seems to be favored e month with the Rogers family as two f of the children were also married t during that month.
 e To Speak in Southington = The first fall meeting of the Gen.
 tral Connecticut Red Mems associa- e ton will be held in the Red Mems : hall in Southington this evening al t o'clock. Edward Aspinwall oi
 Plainville will be the principal
 speaker of the evening.
 It is expected that a large num-
 Der of Red Men from the central dis. trct will be present. An interesting G program of entertainment has beer 7. arranged. Mir. Aspinwall is in grea' f demand as a speaker at activities g Of the Red Men.
 n Walter J. Lobdell s Walter J. Lobdell. aged "A, ot # River street, Southington, died sud
 denly last evening of heart at- tack. Although he had been suffer.
 ing from q bad heart for some time |. his death came unexpectedly and :, was shock to his many friends ir VI Southington and Plainville. e He was born in New York but re. q sided in Southington for many years