Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 20, 1914, Page 9

Twenty-Year 0id Case ai Wefierlny Tmlmsmmdflhwhm&mflam__ . Odd!-'elbwscomghhwdeneenemon-hlhan—fi;- " ures Which the Tax Book Show—Death of William F. Wallace. P Judge Chester W, Barrows held a music by & bapd and a male quar- sesslon of the superior court in West-1 tette. erly Thursday in the equity case of ilsasc C. Ellls sgainst the Swan Gran- ite company. This case has traveled through the courts in.various stages without reaching settlement, Nearly 20 years sgo Major Horaco Swan of Westerly secured a 99 years lease from Isase G, Ellls, now of Westorly, but t!len of the town'of Richmond of a por- tion of his farm that contains a large ledge of granite. The lease stipulated that Mr. Swan was to pay a rental of $1 a_year, provided the ledge was not Worked and granite quarried. but if quarry was opened and operated he was to pay one cent for each cublc foot of granite quarried for monumen- tal work, but at no time was the ren- e} to exceed 325 In any one year. Prior to the execution of this lease the ledso was examined and a deposit of fairly good granite was found. The Jease specified that there should be no forfeiture until release was made in writing by Mr. Swan, his heirs, ex- eoutors or assignees. 1t was claimed by counsel for Mr Wilis, Attorneys Harry P. Cross and Samuel H. Davis, that Major Swan hever took possession of the leased property, mever worked the ‘ledsge, never removed any granite, erected any derrick, or dld anything towards op- erating a quarry, and did not pay rent or royslty. June 251805, nearly three vears after excavation was made to ascertain ascertain the quality of gren. ite, Major Swan arranged to have the lease transferred to The Swan Granite company, a corporation incorpsrated in the state of Maine, and of which he was the treasurer and members of his family stockholders. The Swan Granite company did not do anythting towards the conduct of a granite com- pany. In 1551, upon petition of Major Swan, ‘the company was placed on the list of inactive corporations of the state of Maine, Mr. Ellis claims that the Swan company has no rights on the premises by virtue of the lease, which 1s inoperative. The existence of the lease constitutes a cloud on the titfe of the property and should be removed and the owner givem clear possession. He asked that the Swan company be enjoined from any inters est, or make any transfer of the prop- erty leased on the lesses. He asked the court for a decree acquiring his clear title and that the lease be de- |free-| clared null and void, that the lease be cancelled by the court and that trans- action be expunged from the racords. Mr. Cross said that the lease clouded the title and that the defendant by inactivity or neglect to _carry out the real meaning of the lease, had really abandoned the'lease and the court was asked to remove the cloud upon the itle, Harry B. Agard, counsel for the Swan Granite company, tated that the lease was executed in good faith, that the defendant had entered upon the premises and worked the property now at stake and had taken out samples of the granite, Eefore the granite prop- erty could be placed on a working basis. the quarry was floaded and the defendant was unable to work it. There Was never any intention of abandon- fng the property which is held by de- fendant under the lease. The com- pany was placed on the list of inac- tive corporations in the state of Maine simply to save expense, and can be placed back in the active list at the option of the compy The court adjourped-at 4:40 until 9:30 Friday morning, In honor of the official visitation of Robert T. Daniel of Georgia, grand sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, theré will be a dig street pa- rade of 0Odd Fellows In Providence to- night, in which Narragansett lodge of ‘Westerly will participate, being assign- ed to a place in the fourth division with lodges from Woonsocket, War- ren, Fall River, Bristol, Pascoag, Peace Dale, Wakefield, Pawtucket and East Providence. The procession will be composed of five divisions, and Briga- dler General Herbert S, Tanner will be chief marshal, After the parade there will be a monster meéting in Infantry hall. when addresses will be made by Governor Pothier, Mayor Gaitner, Grand Patrfilarch Poole, Grand Master Pierce, Grand Sire Daniel and Past Grand Sire Alfred T. Pinkerton of Worcester. There will » also be NOTHING BETTEH FOR WEAK WOMEN “ Never $rfent Any Money That Did Me So Much Good as That | Spent for Vinol.”” Ballefouhlne,ohio. ‘T wish every weak, nervous woman could have Vinol for 1 never spent any mon i.n life that did me so much M lnmn for Vinol. My nerves wen ina vary lition, makingme very weak, tire I had tried eud oil, doctor’s medicines, and other without benefit. 2 "OnndA nfnmdlskedmhtxy formerly wukndnervw‘, wbocwo!heir;oodheflthmvlml. Ttis the m mdfi% aided bym onng contabaod 15 Yine: e makes'it so efficient in all such cases, Broedway Pnarmicy; G. G. Eingler, Norwich, Conn. Auto Repairing and We repair Autas of all kinds in the proper _manner. Latest Improved Facilities make Grand Stre Daniel arrived in Provi- dence early Thursday morning aad ‘with Mrs. Daniel went to the Crown hotel, which was selected as headquar- ters. After breakfast, Grl.nd Sire Daniel, Past Grand Sire Pinkerton and lAwi-l. m mpani prominent Odd Fellows were taken in automobiles on o sight-seeing tour of Providence and to Warren and Bristol and back to the Odd Fellows' home in followed by & banauet Chis 2 to §a reception to Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll will be given, by the Rebekahs at the Elotse, This story of the Mnm of ¢ b!‘ Cottrell pl-nt must be true, for it is told in The Classmate: His name is Cottrell; and he lives in Westerly, R. 1. He L' a manufacturer of printing in the great lnd l’letoflfil he is constantly Mx\lmu- the year and plles of barrels and boxes, “which he neither sells ér splits up for kindling wood. This man was a boy onee him- self (some men were, you know). and he remembers ;what all right-minded boys want to do on the Fourth July—bulld a bonfire! is the primary and intended use of barrels and boxes, no matter what in- cidental uses they may have served beforehand. So as they come in—on drays, in big moving vans, in carloads —they are unpacked and tumbled out into a big back yard or vacent lot and in the face and eves of all patriotie, boye in the community. The pile grows, the owners’ pleasure grows with it, and about a week be- fore the Fourth, he assigns a large sized man to stand guard over this! property. The bovs will want to steal those ba: ey always do. Trust Cottrell for knowing what they want! “But they will like it a great deal bet- ter,” says this man who knows poys, “if’ it isn’t given to them. So you stand guard, and run after them if they touch enything. But dom’t you catch one of them—mind that! Just male them think you're going to. Give. every boy a run for his barrel.” This is the substance of what he says, whether these are his exact words or not. He lsn't enconragine booting, of course. Every happy youngster understands and chuckles over the situation, but he just puts to it. Their want and will is plain enough. It takes no great discernment to discover that. But the rare and de- lightful thing about it is the way of meeting them, and giving them your kind of pleasure. Year after year the game goes on—what fun he must be getting out of it! Town Clerk Everett E. Whipple has completed the tax baok, which has been duly signed by Assessors Bver- ett A. Kingsley, Albert N. Crandall and Samuel M. Sharpe. and the book is now on file in the office of the town clerk. The following summery of the work of the assessors is of general interest: Value of land .. Buildings and improvments Tangible personal eptate .. Intangible personal estate . 2,863,000 4,926,100 1,076,500 1,592,100 $10,457,700 $ 32,600 900 434,000 432,000 $948,900 -$7,816.700 592,100 Total exemptions Ratable value of tangible property Rotable value intangible per- SOnal property -....-. Total ... $9.508,800 Tax on real estate $108,846.50 Tax on tangible estate Tax on intangible estate Total tax collectable .. Poll tax $1,495.25. 8,904.00 6,368.40 $126,614.15 There is an increase in the total real and personal estate valuation -over 1918 of $667,800. There has been am increase in exemptions of $499,800 and an increase is net ratable valuation of $178,000. An increase in tax on real estate of $2,112, on tansible property of $443.50, and an intangible estate of $57.20. The increase In the total tax to be collected, exclusive of poll tax, is $2,512.70. Local Laconics, Mrs. Charles H. Gavitt will return home today from the Parade Street hospital in Providence, where she has been under trea.tan Department Commander 'Walcott and starc will make oficial visit to Robe ert Brucker camp, United Spanish War Veterans, this evening. William F, Wallace, 74 for many years a jeweler in Wuterly, and who Tetired several years ago, died Wed- nesday at his home in Granite street. Mr. Wallace never married. He leaves two sisters. At the annual meeting of Christ church cbsp(er, Brotherhood of St. Andrew, these Were eloctegl: William' E. Weeden, director: Wiliot Thorp, vice director; Francis Ghent, President Faunce has announced the honor scholarships to members of the upper classes at Brown university. The William Gaston lcholmln the high- est award, goes to Ismer 1 New Bulkel 'on‘.hy of very high academic dis- |4 HEAVY TOURING CAR struck a S e o s able to cut. its throat.” - In the darkness the Foags oty oemv.mdlth. our ghop unexcsiied in New England, | the’ We bake the paint on, which makes ¥t wear better, keep its gloss lenger, apd wall ot orack, Why not have yours right? it m”m an edge on the pleasure—gives 2 tang |3 sale are: Lower INAUGURATING this sale, The Autopiano Co. realized that, to =<1l pianos while the public was absorbed in war news, prices wounld have to be made lower than ever before and payments would have to be made -easier then ever before. And this they did. Today in sixteen different sections of the country; “through sixteen repre- sentative houses in those sections, 5000 families have the unprecedented opportunity o procure as dependable a piano as ever was made for 266 dollars—an.actual SAVING of 84 dollars each. Those 5000 families can come into these 16 different stores, of which this is one, and for only a round, silver dollar or a single one dollar bill, hive the piano of their choice delivered, immediately, to their homes. ,E____ ‘Copyright, 1984, The Astepiase Co -—-—-—-* WWhat is-more, ‘they areithen given 3 yearsand 8'months‘thme in which topay the balance of 265 dollars—their‘first ;year's;payments‘being ‘but e dolliraweek. ¥Your entire paymen*s the first year, including your first ‘or initial'cash. pay- ment, amounts to but 53 dollars. When first discussing ‘the plan ifor ‘this remar'-able sa'e, Nr. 'Latvre-ce, President of The Autopiano ‘Co. isaid: "Liet ‘us ¢@t give any ‘one ‘an excuse for not buying, that ‘they ‘cannot afford ‘it -on ‘aceount of ‘mot be\xg able to msét the payments. Let us‘make so many inducemerits and-make them'sio big, that the people ‘will simply ‘be standing in théir-own light mot to‘buy.” ; That spirit so combletely dominates this big-eriterpfice, ‘tha t-you will incred be negligeiit in your-own interests, if you'do not take instant advantage of its wauy cash x $E= a week Below you will find a table which shows how the payments are ‘to be made. Thepzanoyoubuylsa350va.\ue. sight there, 84 dollars. You pay only one dollar when you make your purchase. It costs you but 266 dollars. You save ‘The balance, 265 dollars, may be paid in weekly payments running ‘over a period of 3 years and 8 months, if you want that length of time, without having to pay one cent of interest or extras under any other name. Your payments are only one do].h.r a week for the first year. After that, your payments are increased to one dollar and 25 cents a week “during the second year, and one dollar and 50 cents 2 week during the third year. mlmwm&dufingtheim&ymr. * Your payments are then -only ome doller and 75 cents a week. Do you realize how little these payments are and what they ‘mean ‘to you? Bven during the last 40 weeks, when your payments are at their highest, they emount vo but one dollar and 75 cents a week. These payments have been purposely “‘strung out™ this way, so that they-will ‘become en imducement for you to buy NOW, rather than put it off until later, when mifedmggmd.andthemu!hmpmflhnvemb-ckwm ‘they were. The man who has even only a most remote idea of giving his family a piane, | is blind to his interest who does not come in immediately and select one of these splandid instruments. #~ Schedule of payn_lénb on pianos Four lst year's payments will be $1.00 a week for 52 zmm year's payments will be 1.25 a week for 52 'our 3d year’s payments will be 1.50 a week for 52 dgh year’s paymaats be 176 a week for 40 weeks..... 78.00 D. S. MARSH Corner Main and Water Sts., N 230 State Street, New London, Conn; The real feature of the sale is the preptmhon on player-pianos The player-pianos in this sale are the biggest ‘values-ever-offered. They areofa grade 'whichsells for at least'850-dollars, everywhere. places, -they bring -as high :as 600 dollars. Two thousand ‘of them—of which mumber we ‘fve 150—will 'be ‘distributed into the ‘best homes.in the United ‘States, ‘at 413-dollars each. "The :purchaser ‘of -one ‘of ‘these splendid ‘instruments saves 137 donan ‘The combined purchasers of these 2800 :player-pianos will 'save .the enormous ‘total of 274 ‘thousand ‘dollars. The 150 purchasers in-our-own these ‘beautiful players, will save 20 thousand 530 figures imean? ~ But "this big saving is not all. : > These ‘player-pianos will 'be ‘delivered ‘into ‘these homes, upon the payment o Moreover, we ‘are instructed by The ‘Autopiano Co. ‘that, if after a 30:days’ trial, ‘these player-pianos are not satisfactory to ‘tire ;purchaser, to refund that dol- lar, togethermthallothérmhtmyh&be-puddunng the 30 ‘days’ penod Inmany , 'whowre fortunate enouglr to'get yougrasp what these ‘After a player-piano has been delivered, you may take 3 years and 8 months time in which to'make your paynsesits, if you warit ‘thiit Jength of time—just the same as you may take on ‘the piano. “This'brings your first year'ss ‘down ‘toonly one dollar and 75 centsa week; the second year's payments o 2 {ollarsa ‘week, ‘and so on. Tt ‘is'no ‘wonder ‘that Mr. Lawrence of The AutopianoCo. saill of the merchants npup-flmrtnvmg ‘his office: “They werea lotof the most optimistic ‘business ‘mea 1 ever saw.” Such enormous nav‘ngs;u&m:hmafim‘&flm ; conditions ‘of sale, inspire ‘optisdism, ; #And those who have hfiagfiu”fifli%hflafctm ' ‘playerspiano, should ‘take dwdfln—dm ‘immedistély gm:dxnr‘: pnymeu:n’fl ‘our ‘year's paymen Your 3d y-"mu i