Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 2, 1913, Page 8

SSORS BE ASSE GAN RECEIVING LISTS Had Something Over 75 the First Day—Yantic Woman the First to Arrive—New Uniform Tax Blank in Use—Close to 4000 Lists Expected to be Returned. From 9 o'clock Wednesday morning until 5 in the afternoon and from 7 to 9 in the evening the assessors were in session in their office in the town hall, ready to rdceive from the people of the town the lists of taxable property which they are required to hand in during the present month. This was the first day on which the asessors have been in session, but from now on through the month of October they will have office hours on week days from 9 2. m. t® § p. m, and on Wednesday and Saturday they will have evening hours. In all something over 75 lists were received on Wednesday, the first to be put in being by Emma J. Conant of Yantic, who arrived bright and early, five minutes before the appointed time for the assessors to receive lists. Last vear there were 3,942 in the list of tax- ablie property, so that this year the probable number will be over 4,000 All three of the assessors—John P, v, Michael J. Curran and Jere Donovan—were on duty Wed- The lists this year are handed GET BARTLETT MILLIONS. Twe Granddaughters Thus Become Wealthiest Women in Massachu- setts. & Bagton @lspatch has the following concerning the will of the late Fran- s Bartlett, whose wife was_“Mellie” Slater, only daughter of John F. Slater of Norwich and sister of Wil- liam A, Slater, now of Washington, D. C. The will of Francis Bartlett, law- yer, art lover, and philanthropist, makes his favorite granddaughters, Miss Phyllis Sears and Mrs. Bayard Warren, (formerly Lily Sears) the wealthiest women in Massachusetts, He had favored them through life, giv- ing Miss Phyllis last Christmas a pearl necklace worth $100,000, and _giving her sister as a wedding gift a $100,000 bome at Prides Crossing. Dying, he bequeathed each half a million, and in addition gave Miss Phyllis $126,000. Except for a few private bequests and $100,000 for Boston charities, the rest of the vast fortune is left to the two sisters in trust. Yet the trustees are given full power to turn the property over to the granddaughters at any time they consider it wise to do so, Mrs. Herbert Sears, mother of the Sears girls, committed suicide because of mervous prostration five years ago, by jumping from a window of the Hotel St. Regis in New York. The will provides that if the sisters shall die without issue and shall not dispose of the prop by wiil, and the thust shall not have been termin- ted, these bequests shall vecome ef- e: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, $200,000; Ma chusetts Institute of Technology, $100,000; Harvard College, $100, Harvard Medical school, $5 000 ssachusetts General Hospital two sisters are among the most and popular members of ilack Bay and North Shore society. i"'rom the estate of their mother they re to share $6,000,000. This, with the srtune left them by their grandfather, will make them the wealthiest women in Massachusetts. OLD DR, HARRIS’ REMEDY FOR PILES P' LE s is now manufactured and sold by N. D, Sevin & Son, 118 Main Street, or can be procured direct from the owner of the original pre- scription, MRS. MARY A. HARRIS, Price One R. F. D. 6, Norwich, Conn. LADIES:— It is time to give serious and prompt FURS for the coming season. We are daily taking orders for ztention to your Made-to-measure Coats and for Alterations to Coats, Scarfs and Muffs. Annoying and persistent de- lays can be avoided now that must occur later in the season, and nothing should be allowed to obscure the immense advan- tage of selecting your new Furs and your Fur Coat be- fore the season is at its heighi. Attend To Your Furs NOW And Get Better Service 3L WACPHERD 291 Main Street, Opposite Chelsea Savings Bank, City NORWICH AND WERSTERLY TRACTFION COMPANY. Beginming Wednesday, Oet, 1, fisst ear will lsave Nerwieh (Byesten Bridgey at 5.15 8, m. Gars will lsave Prankiin Geuase at 6.45 a. m, and beurs i1y te 0.45 b, m, fex Westerly, and ai 1846 p =, for Halivitls, mepifd in on a different form from any used legislature. The the needed supply of these blanks pre- pared, and for the instruction of own- blank that is now in use. In a number of respects it is much more complicated than the old form of have had instruction from the state used, and are making it just as easy as possible for the taxpayers to follow requiretmnets and keep within the law The assessors still find that pecple who buy new property are lax about recording deeds, as one citizen who turned in a list Tuesday had not yet had his deed recorded, although the purchase was made some time ago and he is already living in his new house. He had left it to a lawyer to record the deed, and apparently it had not becn done yet. BISHOP NILAN’'S DIOCESE; Now Numbers 430,934—What Has Been Accomplished Since His Consecra- tion in 1910—Eastern Connecticut Catholic Statistic: In a summary of the great work ac- complished by Rt. Rev. John Joseph Nilan since his consecration as bishop of the Roman Catholic dio- cese, April 28, 1910, the Hartford Cour- ant refers to the wonderful growth of the diocese under his administra- tion. From May, 1910 to the present has seen the creation of twelve new parishes and twenty-three churches, including St. Mary’s Baltic, and St. John’s, Plainfield. In educational institutions _there have been St. Augustine’s Normal School for Novices, West Hartford, and { the Scholasticate of the Fathers of the Holy Ghost, Darien, for the education of priests for missions in Africa. Thirteen parochial schools have been started or completed within the three vears. Three convents have been dedicated and the cornerstone for a fourth has been laid. Charitable Institutions. In the list of charitable institutions comes St. Agnes’ Home for Foundlings, an addition to St. Francis’' Hospital, | Hartford, enlarging of St. Vincent hos- pital, Bridgeport, the establishment of Sacred Heart kindergarten for Italian chaldren, New Haven, day nursery for Italian children in the same city, and St, Joseph’s Home for Working Girls, also in New Haven. Noticeable in the list of new church- es are those for the Polish, Lithu- anian and Slavonian Catholics. Im- portant work is being done among the 50,000 Ttalians in New Haven. Among organizations dear to Bishop an’s heart is the Holy Name so- ciety, which has grown to a member- ship of 27,129, Temperance Pledge for Children. Thousands of children, after con- firmation, have been given the total abstinence pledge. binding until they reach the age of twenty-five. Diocesan Statistics. The large interests of the See over which the bishop presides so admir- ably, winning the confidence, loyvalty and generous support of his péople, indicated by the following statlstic Number of baptized persons in dio- cese. January, 1910, 370,000; number on i, 1913, 430,934. The fol- ant rv lowing statistics are also as of Jan- uary 1, 1913: Clergymen, 361; parish- missions, 50; religious women, parochial schools, 81; teachers, pupils, 37,743; ecclesiastical pu- 225; orphans in two asylums, nmates of reformatory for wo- inmates of industrial school, inmates of homes for aged, 300; y average of patients in five hos- pitals, 900. Diocesan Officials. In the discharge of his diocesan du- ties Bishop Nilan has the aid of the following able priests, each noted in his parochial sphere for fitness, sacer- dotal worthiness, scholarship and exec- utive qualifications Vicar-General—Very Duggan. Chancellor and Secretary—Rev. Rev. Thomas 1. G. stant Chancellor and Secretary W, H. Flynn. Board of Consultors—Very Rev. T. Duggan. Rt, Rev. Mgr. J. Svnnott, of Hartford: Rev. M. McKeon, Rev. Hugh Treanor, Wa- terbury: Rev. J. T, Winters, New Bri- tain: Rev. J. B. Nihill, Bridgeport. Defender of the Marriage Tie—Rev. Dr. J. P. Donovan, Middletown. Examiners of Clergy—Rt, Rev. Mgr. John Synnott, Hartford; Rev. J. Cooney, Meriden: Rev. Luke Fitzsims mons. Waterbury: Rev. J. T. Winters, New Britain: Rev. J. B. Nihiil, Bridge- port; Rev. Dr. J. P. Donovan, Middle- town; Rev. Dr. R. F. Fitzgerald, Der by. = both New Haven: “Par Priest Consultors —Rev. Jo- seph Synnott. Ansonia; Rev. W. J. Mc.- Gurk, Manch er. Diocesan Board for the Protectio of Dependent Children—V; U S. Duggan, Hartfor Hartford: Rev. Rev. John T. Lynch, Meriden; v Richard E. Shortell, Rideefiel: mow: John Neale. Westerly, R. I.: Rev. Pat- rick J. McGivney. Middlefown; Rev. J. 1. MeGuiness, Litehfield Supervisor of S W. I Fitzgerald, H Summer Post Offices Closed. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, Oct. 1.—The post office department has ordered the closing of the summer post offices at ‘escent Beach, New London county, and at Twin Lakes, Litchfield county. The office at Twin Lakes closes today and the office at Crescent Beach on the 1ith. Mail addressed to Crescent Beach will be sent to Niantic after that dafe. — e The Family Cough Medicine. In every home there should be a ottle of Dr. King's New Discovery, ready for immediate use when any member of the family contracts a cold or a cough. spread of sickness. S. A. Stid of Ma gon, Mich., writes: “My whole family depends upon Dr. King’s New Discov- ery as the best cough and cold medi- cine in the world. Two 50c bottle: cured me of pneumonia.” Thousands of other families have been equally benefited and depend entirely upon Dr. King's New Discovery to cure their coughs, colds throat and lung troubles. Eyery dose helps. Price 50c and $1. All druggists, I1. L. Bucklen & Co., Phila- delphia or St. Louls, Eczema and Itching Cured. The soothing, healing medication in Dr, Hobson's Hcezema Olntment pene- trates every Uny bore of the skin, clears it of all impurities—stops ftch- ing instantly. Dr. Hobson's Hczema Ointment ix guaranteed to speedily heal eczema. rushes, ringworm, tetter and other unsightly eruptions. Eezema Oirtment is u doetar's preseription, net An sxperiment, All druggisis er by malil, afe, fier Chemleal Co,, Phila. deiphia and St, Louls, here ‘previously, as a new uniform tax blank is required to be used, according to a new statute passed by the last assessors have had ers of taxable property The Bulletin publishes herewith a fac simile of the tax blank, but the Norwich assessors tax commissioner on how it is to be Prompt use will stop the | Sec- Num- tion. ber. _ NORWICH BULLETIN, List of Taxable Property of FORM OF TAX LIST PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EQUKL!ZA*ION, SEPTEMBER th, 1913, 7 ; : | LisT No. » ‘Write name of Record Owner on ubuv: line. S et Town of Norwich, Conn. No. : e Street, for 1913 3 OWNER'’S Al SS s - TAXABLE PROPERTY VALUATION viflfi?fi&n BOA\Z&%‘A&}%&E“ 1 Dwelling houses and tenement bloc] Lecation: Street and street No. If any: $ . e ks, not including barns, sheds, etc. i Location: Street and street No. (Valustion of land occupied therefor not to_be included.) Location: Street and street No. if any: I $ Lota: Unimproved, «+....other bulldings not listed elsewhere on this sheet: $ ..Acres, ave. acre val § _ Acres, ave. acre val. § Occupied by. houses, stores, manufactor! Vacant lots appropriate for building purposes, § i Buildings used for stores, theatres, banks, halls, hotels, offices, public garages, and livery stables, and all other mercantile purposes, except manufactories and mills: Location: Street, and street No. if any: Location: Other tillable or improved, . Street and street No. if any: ...silos, Total, § private garages, (Valuation of land occupied therefor mot to be included.) Wood, and timber. ({ive boundries of e parcel on hack of ihis sheet.) _ Total, $ ies, and other b (Describe each lot on __Back of this sheet.) :Acrgs, avg.acreval. § i Acres, avg. acre val. § uildings listed on this sheet, LT . (Valuation of land occupied therefor mot to be included.) Location: Street and street No. if uny: SIS e SIS 1 i Buildings used for mills @ manufactories, i v i 7 Segic: $ B $ 2 o B LR R A i - e p . $ including machinery and water power: Shell-fish lands and beds _Quarries, mines, and ore beds, whether owned in fee or leased: _exceeding §2 .Carriages, § . . Automobiles, .... Motor Cycles, Make H.P. Mfrs. No. Datemade Mfrs.list price Conn.reg. No. Amount (Give locatlon and boundarles of each lot on back of this sheet.) wagons, etc., $ Vessels and farm, Cables Bonds § _Eixcess of credits over debits of merchants, Average amount of goods on hand of manufacturers fo cluding raw stock and finished and unfinished product. .bicycles, § boats: . .8team, . Sailing, Average amount of goods on hand for whole or part of ye _Watches, dlamonds, and other jewelry, exceeding $25 in value, Household Turniture, exceeding $500 in value of any one family, restaurants, saloons, halls, theatres, shops, manufactories, etc., other boats, not including enrolled or registered sailing vessels, and barges in interstate trade and registered vessels in foreign commerce: Description: Net earnings for year ending first day of preceding July from enrolled or registered sailing vessels and barges _engaged In Interstate trade and registered vessels in foreign commercei _ e 3 ar, preceding date of listing, of merchants and traders, r whole or part of year preceding date of listing, in- Farming tools. exceeding $200 in value, actually and exclusively used in the business of farming upon any one and :’;;l furniture of stores, offices, hotels, " Private libraries and books, exceeding $200 in value, ____ Mechanics’ tools, exceeding $200 in value, actually used by the owner in his trade, , mortgage and other notes § — , credits § . Fisheries and fishing apparatus, exceeding $200 in value, actually used by any one person or company, Tobacco, and other farm produce, grown by the owner prior to the season next preceding the date of listing, ~aud uraduce At SROWA AL od Joed By Gl e E e = i les, underground mains, conduits, pipes, etc, of water, gas, electric, and heating companies, _ , and other choses in action § not including those issued by the United States, or Connecticut railroad companies, or under any statute of this Btate which specially exempts the same, but including those of all mercantile, municipal, foreign railroad, water, lighting, heating, power, manufacturing, and other corporations and persons not exempted ion 2825 of the General Statutes, or by specialact, _ (Give compiete description of these items on back of | 3 by se, of $100, Amount as Net Taxable Amount, as corrected by Board of Relief, Determined by Assessors, . ‘ . If exemption is claimed by reason of service in the United States army or navy in time of war, state service, Money at interest in this State and elsewhere, except deposits in Connecticut Savings Banks, Money in National or State Banks and Trust Companles In this State or elsewhere and on hand, in excess goods, chattels, and effects, or other property not previously mentioned, and any interest Ten per cent. additional for neglecting to make, swear to, and give in list perfected by proper descriptions, he 1 DO HEREBY declare under oath that the foregoing list, according to the best of my knowledge, remembrance, and belief, Is a true statement of all my property llabls to taxation, and that I have Included in said ax list all bonds, not are indorsed or certified by the state treasurer as not which T am required by law to put into my said tax Ii tion, the stock of which is taxable, which I have trans rarily disposed of any estate for the purpose of evading the laws relating to the as; Dated at Norwich, Subscribed and swern on the and a rred a Conn,, this......... to befers me this..... vo.day PUTNAM | Cut i Telephone Cut Over Oct. 10. Oct. 10 has been fixed as the day | when subscribers in the Putnam di- | vision of the S. N. E. Telephone com- pany are to be given the up-to-date | common battery service for which the company has been preparing for more than a year, and In connection with { which improvement a new telephone | building, equivped with the most mod- ern devices used in telephone service, has been ercoted on Grove street, near its junction with South Main. | It" was hoped to have the cutover { on Saturday of this week, but the date | has been advanced one week, to the following Saturday, when, between the noon hour and 1 p. m. what is known in the telephone world as the cutover will be made. an operation that in the pace of a few seconds will allow of all the wires off from the ~utting” switchboard in the present teiephone building on Nouth Main street and “cutting” them in on the new bLoard in; the nmew building. E The change will be made in Putnam, jas it has been done elsewhere | throughout the state, with barely a minute's interruption of the service, !and then Putnam will have as fine a telephone service as any city in New | England. The old hand-ringing to call ! “Central” will be done away with, the | mere removing of the receiver from the | hook of the telephone bringing the | Guick inquiry of “Number?” from Cen- | tral. | There have been many delays in | getting realy for the big change that is to come on the 10th, but when it comes it wi'l be found to have been worth walting for. FINE NEW ORGAN To Be Dedicated Sunday at the Methodist Church, A beautiful new organ has been in- | stalled In the Methodlst church on | Grove street and 18 to he dedicated on Sunday, when the exercises will be | as_ follows: 10.30 a, m. dedlcatory service—Or, gan preluds, Melody in F.. Ruben- siein, Miss Mildred Wightman; hymn 248; 'Apesiiaw’ Creed: praver by pas. Ctor: anthem I Wil Give Thanke, cholr; Old Testament ‘lesson, Fs, 103; stament lesson, offering; selo, M sermon, Rev, G. *t superintendent; Mry , Mr. Gloria_ Patrl: New Rev. J. R. Miller; Bennett; hymn 177 G. Scrivener, distr aquartette, Whisperings of Jesus, Emma Heatk, Miss Edith Foste Babbitt, Frank Heath, Evening service, 7 o'clock—Organ prelude, Fvenlng Hour, Ryder. Miss Wightman; hymn 17; scripture lesson; prayer; anthem, The Lord Relgneth, choir; offering; solo, The Choir Invisi- ble, Jones, Percy Midgeley; hymn 66; sermon by Rev. L. M. Flocken of Pawtucket; jadies’ quartette, Hear Us, O Father, Miss Edith Foster, Marian Andem, Mrs. C. L. Adams, Miss Mer- win Cutler; benediction: postlude, Re- cesstonal March, Frysinger. The 200th anniversary of the town of Pomfrét is to be celebrated In Sep- tember, 1944. John' A. Saunders of Attleboro was a visitor with friends in Putnam Wed- nesday. Henr Lizotte has been appointed overseer of the windimg rooms at the Dady silk mill. A plan is being evolved for the or- ganization of a uniformed guard of the Holy Name societies of St. Mary’s parish and a committee as been named to make the necessary arrange- ments. NEW EXCHANGE MANAGER. Mrs. Medbury Succeeded by William L. Moran—She Takes Benefit of Pension Plan of Telephone Com- pany, Mrs. M. H. Medbury, who has been with the S. N. E. Telephone comparn in Putham for more than 22 vears, re- signed her position as manager of the local exchange on Wednesday and Is to be succeaded hy Manager Wiliiam Moran who has been manager of the Danfelson and Moosup exchanges since March last, Mr, Moran Is to have charge of all three exchanges, Mras, Medbury’s resignation does not bacome fully effective until January 1 next, ps she is to remain at the Put- nam exchange In ndvisory capacity un. til that time, Mrs, Medbury is one of the best known ielaphone women in New FEngiand and has made o wen- Aerful guecess of the Putnam divigion, devaloping it almost from the state of infancy, Mrs, Medbury first entered ++..day of October, es, and other evidence: October of this year, or oth to any corporation first day of 1so all bonds, notes, s coliateral securit 1913, of October, 1913, of the company on May 1, stant to the then Manager the office being located on . Fuller, Union strees : . After 11 years of faith- ful service the company having bullt a combinatlon office and dwelling on South Main sireet, Mrs. Medbury was appointed manager, At that time there were only 167 stations in the entire Putnam division, whereas at this time there are 1450, nearly all of this growth being due to the untiring ef- forts of Mrs. Medbury. At that time there was only one line to Thompson and only one line to Woodstock. At | this time 80 lines are re quired to | take care of the Thompson subscribers lone. The development of the single line and special line vice in the | Putnam division has been very marked | under Mrs. Medbury's management, in | fact more so than in any other | change of its size in the state, ne. on‘(-»lhvn! of the lines in the division being of those classes. At retirlng Mrs. Medbury I reached the time when she is to récelve a pension and in- surance benefit from the company as a compliment for the years of service. Under the company's system these pensions are not operative as long as one remains in the employ of the company, but at retirement is a daily benefit pension. Hence Mrs. Medbury is the recipient of the compliment, and will be allowed a very liberal pension. Manager Moran and other officials of the telephone company were in Put- nam Wednesday to make arrangements for the transfer of the telephone head- uarters in the new building on Sat- urday of next week. STONINGTON. No One Identifies Body Found Tuesday ~—Coast Artillery Getting Infantry Training—Road to Westerly to Be Improved. The body found by Captain John Ostman Tuesday was landed at Pen- dleton’s whart by the fishing smack. Medical Examiner Dr. George D. Stan- ton was notifled and gave permission for the removal of the body to Muller's undertaking rooms. e notifiad Cor- oner Frankiin H. Brown, Many per- sonx went (o the undertaking rooms, but no one could Identify the man. It is supposed that he was a passenger 1 aiso dec sessment and collection of taxes. Connecticut, and which are re under of indebtedness, except such as are by statute exempted from taxation or now owned by me, or fences of indebtedness, and all shares of tne capital stock of any corpora- oath that 1 have not conveyed or tempo- Assessor, on some beat and that he was e killed and thrown overboard body wili be kept three days, and if no | one identifies it.will be buried by the town. INFANTRY TRAINING, To Be Given Members of Coast Artil lery for Two Weeks. Wednesday morning the 12 compan ies of Coast Artillery in the New Lon- don district—six from Fort Wright anc six from Fort Terry—left on the gov- ernment transports for Fort Mansfleld near Watch Hill, to Napatree Point. begin the annual field training as in- fantry. s training is to prepare the Coast for infantry service if ssary I'he Coast Artillery would | be used as infantry except in the event of a hostile naval force attack- ing the island forts , be defeated, | when the artiliery would be used asin- faniry to repel an invasion. Annually the artiller; ing, but the plan this er scale than formerly. three days were devoted to it. year two weeks will be consumed. Colonel John V. White, commanding the North Atlantic Artillery district, will be with the troops. Captain C. B Humphrey, 29th infantry, is to be um- pire-instructor. Bases of supplies will be established at Fort Mansfield, Ston ington and M ic to supply the troops which engage in these exercises. Wag- ons accompany the troops, carrying food, wood and forage for the horses and mules. s this train- ear is on a larg- Last year but This From the time of landing until Sun.*, day the 12 companies constituting a regiment will work tield problems in he territory between Fort Manstield | aimi Westerly. e week openiug the 6th instant the o regiment will work fleld pi -ms near Stoninglon, Mystic, Stony Brook, Long Pond and Lantern Hill. On convenient camp sites one night bivouacs will be established. Congress did not malke any provision for hiring camp sites, and the use has been proffered by residents of this sec- tlon. Among the places that will be used are those of B. R. Palmer, P. A, Brown and the grounds of the Stoning- ton Manor Ion. The longest day's march will be 21 miles. Saturday, Oct. 11, the regiment will march back to orl main the until embarking then for . Mansfield ang re- Tuesday, the 14th, the island forts $5,000 to Improve Road to Westerly. The road from Stonington to W. - erly is to be made a first-clags high- \\l;n lnw;ja\ evening the voters of the town o Stonington in a special meeling voted an appropriation of 35, 000 for that purpose. The s v give £15,000 to add to the agg;:p:i;“ n of the town. The road is fo be straightened and macadamized A petition of W. O. Stanton and oth. ers for a road to Lord's P - feated, The vote was 98 S es aan 951 no. The estimated cost no. " The e st of the road Money available by donation and from other sources left the expense to be borne by the town $4,625. A petition of A. A. Hales to change the time of the tam ey ngs., from evening to afternoon was lost. The vote was 201 no, 115 yee Ur James H. Weeks and F. J. Burdiek were the tellers. Selectman Elas F. Wilcox called the meeting to order and former County Commissioner B. F. Williams was elected permanent chair- man. Town Clerk Hlias B. Hinckley was clerk. More than 500 citizens wers present, Attending Alumni Reunlen, Dr. C. O. Maine an4 nlece, - riel Latham, left Wed‘ne.day».;::rmg for Hanover, N. H, to attend a re- union of Dartmouth alumni. T return Saturday. 0 Pickling Onions Red Cabbage Green Tomatoes Pears, Etc. People’s Market 6 Franklin St. JUSTIN HOLDEN. Pres