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(4 »{‘ (%S - < DANIELSON Court of Inquiry Investigating Alleged Liquor Sales in Plainfield—Two Re- publican Candidates for Judge of Probate—Tribute to the Lats George W. Danielson. \ Deputy Judge James N. Tucker pre- sided at a sesslon of the town court Tuesday morning. John May, charged with intoxication, was sentenced to serve 30 days in-Brooklyn, from where he had just been released. . B. Keach of the West Side is doing jury duty in the superior court at Putnam this week. John F. Beryl of New Britain was & visitor with friends in Danielson Tuesday. Seriously 11I, Misses Nellie and Louise Fournier remain seriously ill at their home on the West Side, Deputy Sheriff John M. Bassette | was on duty in the superior court at Putnam Tuesday. Rev. E. A Legz is at Willimantic at- tending conference. Mr. and Mrs, Henry Getty, who have been spending several days in Daniel- son, have returned to Worcester. Members of the Pentecostal church held a prayer meeting at the home of George Miner on Academy street Tues- day evening. Rookville Rector to Preach. Rev, J. F. George of St. John's church, Rockville, is to preach the Lenten sermon at St. Alban’s church Thursday evening. There is to be a children’s service at St. Alban's church this (Wednesday) evening. A number of Danieison members of Putnam lodge of Elks will go to Wil- limantic next Monday evening for the institution of the lodge in Williman- tie. Men closely identified with banking interests in Danielson and vici say they know nothing of a plan for the | opening of a bank in the Bradley build- ing, as has beem rumored for some time. Court of Inquiry in Plainfield. A court of inquiry was busy in the town of Plainfleld, a no-licenss town this year, investigating Tuesday, as to the illegal sale of liguor in that town, Great interest continued to De man- ifested this week in the mission being conducted by Lasalette missionary fathers for the French-speaking mem- vers of St James parish. The members of the Ladies’ Benevo- lent society of the Congregational church are to have a meeting in the vestry this (Wednesday) afternoon. Movie Girl at the Bradley. At the Orpheum theater Tuesday evening Manager J. F. Lewis offered the Movie Girl, a musical show of some pretension, as the attraction and it was an eatertaining production for the audience. Many were present from the surrounding towns. | Interest in Troliey Express Extension. | Danielson business mea are in many | instances very much interested in the | plan of the Norwich business men to get an extension of the troiley express service from that city through to Put- nam. Such a service would be sure to increase the business of local houses with Norwich firms and would be a great accommodation to many indivi- duals hera. TWO CANDIDATES For Repiblican Nomination for Judge of Probate to Succeed Judge Getty. Attorney W. Fenner Woodward and Attorney Sabin 8. Russell have an- nounced that they are candidates for the republican nomination for judge of probate to succeed the late Judge Oliver Getty. Both are lawyers practicing in Daunielson and both are very well and favorably known and have many friends. No other repub- licans 'have so far announced that they ars candidates for the office.. No dem- ocratic candidate is yet in the field, though that party will make & 1 tion. The date for the pariy bas not been announced. GEORGE W. DANIELSON’S WORK. Former Native of Killingly Made a Great Paper of Previdence Journal. In a series of special articles, Yes- days in Journalism, Edwin M, Ba- con reviews for g Beston paper the eers of some of the men who made r mark in the newspaper world in New Engiand in the second haif of the Jast century. Among this number was "-George W. Danislson, a nalive of Kii- | Sprains, Bruises Stiff Muscles are quickly relieved by Sloan’s Linimest. Lay it on—no rub- biog. Try it Aankle Sprain and Dislocated Hip. **Isprained my ankle and dislocated my hip by falling out of & third siory window. Went on crutches for four monf Then I started to use your Liniment, according to directions. must say it is helping me wondertully. We will never be without Kills Pain Spleadid for Spratns. **Ifell and i * Sloan's Bt done rod‘ an 1 e ever h‘lu lor stiff joints, 1 gok my band hurt n badly that § bhad ta stop work it the busiest time of the year. bt atfet that T would to my hand taken off, but 1 (3 o of 'S my % T T As all Dealers. 2Sew 80c. and $1.00 lingly whose widow Is now re: at Putnam Heights. Mr. Danielson’s paper was the Prov- idence Journal. Of Mr. Danielson and his work Mr, Bacon.says: The Provi dence Journal dominated Rhode Island. In 1883 its chief editor was Professor James B. Angell of Brown university; its executive head was George W. Dan- {ielson. But the practical editor, the real director of details under whose | guiding hand the whole paper was pro- duced was Georse W. Danielson He had come to the Journal after a training up from the printer's case to the editorial top and had brought with him practical ideas, particularly with respect to stemaltic news gathering and presenting These ideas he proceeded upon entrance into” it to impress upon the Journal office and so effec- tively that before the close of the first 2 cting the at- - men outside of | the little state tbrough the vigor and thoroughness of the news depariments, | Mr. Danielson was born in Killing ly in 1829, and learned the trade in Danielson printing office—the vill | printing office. At 16, however, he v ]a journeyman printer in Providence {and a little later he was ‘s type” on a New York mornin ing at once s tention a ge ews paper. He determined to return to | Providence, however, and become a real newspaper ms becoming ) editor of a daily at once. The pa was the Daily Sentinel, and short liv It lasted year. At s deat young editor, still in his teens to his native town of Dan took up a local paper there, under the name of The New Arena, and moribund. He ma keep it alive a year or so lon then it expired. Again he retur Providence, this time to heco; led with the paper in Later 1f, 1859. for him bring dence Evening P a 1dent local hand became and enterpr frequentiy, contempor ih th out se of an interest in that | h he the Journal put news than any other England at the t pered wonde: Such nerve-rz marked his however, finally robust const: even he died at nd age of 55, 1834—suddenly apoples Many es of Mr. Danielson are sident PUTNAM Mrs. James P. Lawson of Woodstock, | Again Arrested—Released Under $2,000 Bonds—Pleads Not Guilty to | Charge of Causing The Death of | Her Husband, Aug. 14, 1913. AmandalU. Lawson alias Larson | Wwas again arrested Tuesda by Deputy Sheriff Leonard H. of Woodstock on a bench signed by Judge M. A. Shumw a charge of manslaughte: by State Attorney Charles Mrs. Lawson, in highly state and in charge of Deputy She Healey. and accompanied by Miss Marion Avery of Woodstock, immediately brought to Putnam presented before Judge st before the superior court, ju ginning of Clerk E. plaint, the ablio M. Warner during which allowed to s lengthy d the com- Mr Te sceeding be progressed treme nervous: times she quivered and then shrinking into he with eyes closed. She to her feet b counsel, durin relative in conne husband night of found de stock, jury did not f | Lawson was immediat | from custody, returning to | in Woodstocis. The murder of Lawson, who was a | | thrifty farmer of Weodstock way been surrounded with my On the night that his body wa in the barn he wa | son hem with h son and a dau time. Mrs. Law she retired to her heard no sound of stairs. During the a horse n the barn t , & ing out to investigate, found the hor loose and the body of her ing on the floor. Neighbors we moned by Mrs. Lawson. Cor G. Bl investigated the case finding set forth that | been murdered. Mrs. o | suffered a collapse after the trugedy, | was not arrested and charged with the crime until more than a month after her husband's death. She alw maintained her innocence. Coroner Bill through his investi tion of the death of Lawson decid that the murdered man’s body had been dragged from the of the house to the barn. The man’s head | was crushed in on the left as if by blows from a club or an a and in | the complaint read to Mrs. Lawson in court Tuesday the claim is again made that the murderous assault on Lawson ‘Wwas made with a club, an axe or some | other instrument the nature of which | is not known. ° | | | | cella side The state police have been working on the case and following clues for many weeks past, so the re-arrest did not cause surprise in some quarters, though it did in others. OBITUARY. l | Robert Sutton. Robert Sutton, died Tuesday at the town farm, Superintendent George | Shippee sald he knew very little about | Sutton, He had been at the farm for about two years he said, but never said anything abeut relatives, his home or his oceupation when at work, He was in peer health all through his stay the institution and had been very s for mere than twe weeks, The bedy was giyven in charge of Undertaker L, E. Smith, 55, WEDDING. Wood-Breed, Miss IT.ueretia Perter Breed and James Oryille Weed, principal of a schoel at Woed's Rele were married at Mapleville, R, I, Tuesday afternoon I save you money VERY housewife in this town will jump at this chance to reduce the cost of living without reducing the quality of what you eat. All kinds of purefoodsare packed under the Serv-us Brand. 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Serv-us Coupens are printed on the labels or are enclosed in the packages and you can get the catalog by writing.tq depanmept c Universal Advertiser’s Sharing Syndicate, 332 S. Michigan Ave.. Chicago. Your grocer has Serv-us Brand-products or can get them from The L. A. Gallup Co. CHARGE OF NEGLIGENCE. Father of sh G. B Suit Against Woodstoc Society—Tue: Bri Agricutural imeny. Miiton al of the - was swept off h Y Some of i alef When ypes of the ba Witness for Defense. I witness for_the defenda summoned Boy's Mother Testifies. bt g Sl bkl e B Pt clen Mrs. J G. Bernier, mother of | “balloon and heard one of | m serving account i saiiad, ot >on men order them away. He|= life tio George w m he was going to s the balloon went up | told I whe 1 members of weight n s between 70 and en drop off. He > was an ordered Be t. Attorney afterw: defendant society’ questions of Mr the man came st . camination keep away he victim he went er twisted swept ak alr 1 and left leg ropes thon Bocident ot W ' Ropes Had Been Put Under Balloon. | body a few mi afterwards and | Ellemer McLellan, Woodstock, said | {again when it was stripped at under- he saw the balloon man go around the | rooms in this the nexl |big envelope before the ascent and morning. He the body ' throw the ends of the ropes under the er. Elm- ! appeared and pe marks | balloon so that they would be o Walter | diagonally aro leg and be- the way. After they had been low the knee : c away, boys ¢ n completed ' hands. There out. He sa nway excused for the re- |the wr 1 balloon. Asked mainder of this term of court the |something he were an members of special panel of jur- | After Be witness said no, ors called for ioe: Ghrenshis tha taken, Judge Sh several and had made some until 1 Ri drawing of last Florence Darling and Frid 5 : Putnam girls, testified Allegations in the Complaint. Snapshot of Balloon as Evidence. |y PoiU BH.S B5 ek from the roves. | In the complaint read in court at the | Olin C. Fuller, Put an amateu! | They also saw the ends of the ropes | opening of the case Attorney Morse photographer, was witness to | taken out of the way and tucked under set up that the Woodstock Agricultural ! testify after the He told of the balloon. Harold Pike, society did not provide a suitable place for spectators to view the balloon as- cension that resulted in the death of Young Bernier and that the sogiety was negligent in not having provided the balloon as and upward with ngled in the ropes. are was lald in as the boy caughi stock, sald he had told young Ber- | inier to let go of the ropes and that | George had laughed at hi Frank Ramsdell, Thomuson, the last | witness of the day, said that the bal- | getting a sna it swept northwar young Bernier er {A copy of the p ian exhibit. It 13, Wood- | | ] { barriers to keep the public at a safo |by the leg and, ap trying to | loon men had ordered the people back. | | dlstance from ‘the balloon; that the grasp a rope with s. Fuller | Court adjourned until this (Wednes ]pohc)ns of the erounds about the bal- ' said that he tho !)JJ(‘,uln DS | Sa3) erioE | loon was not sufficient to properly safe- | about 300 feet in e air when he go ; { guard the publlc, and that spectators | the Bletara.. He. was not subjected to Brist Local Netes, . . . were allowed to t the neronaut in | cross examination. _Attorney Robert G. Per of New proparing tho balloon for the ascen- | Was With Bernier Boy. ‘\;:’rlia is visiting with relatives in Put- slon, t was als & i > at | - ne - b s i arimel phat thel Jonn Jandreau, Oxford, Mass., stated | ""Giorge o1, Fine was in Boston on a had accldents previous and was in that he was with young Bernier, 1"“’ business trip Tuesday, | the habit of requesting spect supposed to be in charge of him, When |~ mhg eity is’ inyestigating as to the aid him in pre ne for s {the acoldent pecur Clner bo}_; Ly S opiaid s R e iy Pemfret Witness Called, | not Te said | chines, with a view te purchasing one the halloen men had call= | gop 1 Reval G, Boswerth of Pemfret Cen- | ome, boys, held the repes.”” Also y, section, | ter was the first witness called by the |that he said "Den’t nd tHe TOPES| Miss Maude Simpsen, pianist at the plaintiff, Mr. Beswerth said he saw around yeur hanc Jandreau said | Bradley theatre, has won such receg- she balloen ascension at the fair and |that he weuld swear that George let B0 | nition by her piaying and interpreting % was close areund the balloon during |of the ropes and stepped bac¥ when all of the time that it was being filled, | the signal to de se was given, He said He described in detail the arrangement | George was caught by the left leg by of peles ai each side of the balleen, ene of the writhing ropes on the jof music for acis that ceme to |house that she has recently receive loffers of fine pesitions as a musician and with them tributes from many pro= the e i | | | i | e on the new pavements in (hez | The Serv-us Coupons Are a Profit to You Wholesale Distributors Norwich, Conn. 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