Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 6, 1920, Page 9

For Over —==| Thirty Years : YORK. . fi_—”’—"—a‘—-/ = THE GENTAUR COMPANY, KW YOAK GITY. for meriforfons work Nov. 13th, when he stopped or flagged the Colonial ex- press, thus preventing dn accident, when an aufomobile broke thfough the gates ai the ferry crossing and landed on the main track, stalleg. Hartford.—Local residents who were 2 to enjoy the 1,000 foot tobog- de contemplated for Goodwin be obliged to content them- 2 slide of home construe- one provided by nature, ac- to an announcement made to the park board will be t the tobogean slide at 1,000 in the park this sea- BRIEF STATE NEWS ng season has ton Country abeth Churchc old Ca il the town of Winchester, es that he contaminated the brook running throuzh one me which empties into Crys- he source of Winsted town alleges caused by the defend- to have access to by maintaining a pig stream sup;ply pollution Helland As An Asylum. war Germany was ruled by a mad- man. So now Ilolland knows just what kind of an asylum it is—Cleve- land Plain Deafer. THE RESPONSE To Our Announcement of “The Sale of the Season” Has Been Most Generous and By Far Exeeded Our Fondest Ex- pectations. We Regret, However, That Regardless of the Added Force of Efficient Sales Girls, Many Could Not Be Waited On During Saturday, the First Day of This Sale and Extend Our Apology to Them. “The Sale of the Season” Is Now Going On and Will Continue Untii SATURDAY, JANUARY 17th Inclusive—It Is a Real MONEY ‘SAVING OPPORTUNITY Which You Should Not Miss. e — i) ROLDNG ACTATES Building in Norwich and vicinity is pfactically at a standstill. No appli- cations for building _permits were made to thé fire marshal the past week. However, there are a number of contracts, started some time ago, which are being finished up by the local conttactors, Cold ~weather 1is probably _the largest factor in the de- cline of local building operations, The changes and alterations at The Plaut-Cadden store on Main street are well along to compietion and the new. department created by the changes will probably be ready for occupancy by the last of the week. The Plaut- Cadden company have acquired an eri- tire floor in one of the buildings ad Joining their large stora and this new foor space is connected with the store proper b ya bridge. A fireproof door has been placed in the connecting bridge between the two buildings. Bxtensive alterations are soon to started at the White Star Clothing store on_Main street. Contractor Pat- rick F. Sweeney, who has the contract, will probably besin work at that store the first of next week. Both first and second floors are to be remodeled, the stairs leading to .the second floor aré to be changed about and & new office is to be built. The front will remain as it is. Mr. Sweeney also has the contract for the changes at the Holmes block in Willimantic. The ground floor is being dropped two and a half feet and two modern stores are to be buiit, one of which s to be occupied by Alling Rubber company as.a branch store, Modern fronts are to be built for the new stores and an-addition is also being constructed on the building, The stone columns are being replaced by iron beams., The awelling house which is being constructed on Perkins aventue by Contractor Sweeney is now nearly completed. The interior work is now being done. Two weeks moré will see the house réady for OCCUDAMCY. TLocal contractors are now figurine a garage to be put up on the West Side for Benjamin Yooclovaly. The garage is to be 40x80 feet and will be two stories in heig! New London. The Thames River Lumber Co., aré building 2 frame shed on Bastern which they will use for storage p poses. Tt Wwill be one story high; 24x90, ang will cost about §1.500. Bujiding Permih.c Thames River Lumber Co., shed, Eastern av, Cost $1.500. J. J. Gagnon, greenhouse, st. Cost $500. : Jessie Geer, frame garage, Frank- lin st. Cost $200. 3 Total number of permits for the week, $2,400. D frame Sander Mysfic The contract for installing the boil- ers in the Packer Tar Soap Co.s fac- tor Mystic has heen awarded, as foot sta The building will be 50x50, of brick construction, two stories high, with a beiler house 30x20. Westerly. Plang have been made for an addi- tion to the plant of the Lorraige Mfg. Co., Pawcatuck. The additional bufld- ing of the present plant. Rockville. A New York architect will draw the plans for the new schoolhouse here. It is planned to erect brick. building, containing 10 class rooms. t6 co about $100000. . X. Midlleton chairman of the eppropriation ha Middletown. Architects ‘are completing the plans for the provosed alterations to the store-of James H. Bunee Co. on Main st. and estimates will be invited shortly. 3 George Flartman has taken out a permit for a one-family house to he erected at 51 Catherine st. Tt will ho n frame house, 20x24 feet. There will he no heating. is haool committee. No been made as vet. Commercial Building of Business. The clearings of the Hartford, New Haven and Springfield banks for the past week show very substantial in- creases over the same week of the previaus_year, the gains being 24.1, 8.3 and #.1 per cent. in the respective cities, * The slowing down in the volume of real estate transactions, which is us- ual_af this season of the year, is in evidehce in the record of realty tran- sactions for the past week. In the Connecticut towns reported in The Commercial Record for the past week there were 390 sales by warranty deed, with . morigages loans of $15436%0, against 205 sales in tke same towns during the like week of 1915, when the mortgage loans amounted to $838,- 373, The last week of 1919 firoved to be an unhealthy one as regards busi- ness mortality. While the number of petitions in bankruptey flled in this State dyring the week is not unusu- ally larke as compared with former years, the seven petitions comparing with five years ago, 11 in 1917 and six Have YoEB_ad Back? If You Have, the Statement of this Norwich Resident Will Interast You. Does your back ache, night and day; Hinder work! destroy your rest? Does it stab you through and through When you stoop- or lift or bend? Then your kidneys may be weak, Often backache is the clue. Just to give you further proof, The kidney action may be wrong. 1f attention is not paid . More gdistress will soon appear. Headaches, dizzy spells and nerves, Uric acid and its s g Make the burden worse and worse. Lintmenits and plasters can’t Reach the inward cause at all; Help the kidneys—use the pills Norwich folks have tried and proved. ‘What they 82y you can believe. Read this Norwich woman's aceouht; See her, ask her, if you doubt. Mrs. E. Mulkin, 613 North Main Street, says: ‘I had dull pains across the small of my back. I noticed the trodble most when I over-did. When 1 was on my feet a great deal, my back felt weak and tired. Doan’s Kidney Pills gave me good relief and I am glad to recommend them.” d:;ic.&é:c.l at a)l“l‘fl:mm Don’t ly for o ey remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills — the same that Mrs. Mulkin had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. M. A. BARBER the | 5 estimated cost of buildings, | has the contract for erecting the 100 0 1816, yet the percentage of liabll- itieg of assets is much greater, $254,677 of liabilities for the week be- ing offset by only $43,462 of asséts. Last year for the same week there Were $66,354 Mabilities and $37,73% 4s- sets, and in 1917, $80,688 liabilities and $47,850 assets. Ninetéen new companies is record of new incorporations in state for the last week of 191 authorized capital stock of §2,: approximately the same amount as. for the like week of the year 1918, When eight new companies Were reported. _ The record of _building permits grantéd in New Haven, , Bridgeport, eruorr% Waterbury, New Britain, Stamford, New London, West Haven, Hamden, Stratford and Springfield, Mass.,, during the past week shows & total of 96 permits for huildings cost- ing $433,655. These figureg compare with 40 permits for buildings costing $46,676 in the last week of 1918, and 29 permits for building costing $1,388,- 687 in the like week of 1917. REAL ESTATE SALES AND MORTGAGE LOANS There weré nine sales of real es- tate in Norwich during the past week to few for the same week last year. The loans for the respective weeks were $28,1150 and $8,600. In New London there were several sales of realty last week to_four for the same week last year, Mortgage loans for the respective weeks totall- ed $51,200 and $12,740. t BUILDING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND Statistics of building and engi- neering operations in New England as comptleg by the F. W. Dodge Com- pany follows: Contracts to Jan. 1920, $247,330.000 Contracts to Jan. 1, 1919, 148,528,000 Contracts to Jan. 1, 1917, 198,874,000 Contracts to Jan. 1, 1916, 209,100,000 Contracts to Jan. 1, 1915, 181,885,000 Contracts to 62,946,000 Gontracts to 000 Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contraets Contracts Contracts Contracts mtracts Contracts Contract: to to to 000 67,000 07,000 Contracts Contract, Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts Contracts ‘ontracts Contracts Contracts Irene Svivester, mes M. d . John Ayer led to Chice- pee. Falls - Satury by the sudden death of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Kendall. Mrs. Kendall was Clarissa P. Aver and was a great favorite among & wide circle of friends who erc shocked and grieved at the sud- "nd of such & young life. Her sis. ter. Miss Mary Ayer, of Norwich | Town, went to' Chicopee Falls Monday d the funecral. fts of 250 each and were given to all the the Liberty Woplen cam- here by the Kaplan of the plant, who gave * cent. raise to every employe in L. Tn the weave room asso- 0L Overseer Alfred Buckley pre- im a Masonic ring and scarf- wiik the Masonic emblem. be ccld weather has brouPht won- derful skating and the canal was crowded with boys Sunday, and sev- eral hockey games were enjoved. Wareham W. Bentley is making the most of the cold weather, filling his cehouses with fine clear ice ten inches thick, and several others are’ getting Icehouses ready for an early harvest. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arnold and children_Ella and Ruth, have returned to Pomiret after a brief. stay with Mrs. Arnold’s mother, Mrs. H. H, Howe. Miss Blizabéth Gibbs has returned to New York after two weeks' stay with Mr. and Mrs. Hermon J. Gibbs. Miss Irene Murphy has returned ‘to her home in Winchester affer a few days' stay with local friends, Miss Mary Rose O'Hearn, R. N, has réturned to Bridgeport affer spending several days in town with her mother, Mrs. Stephen O'Hearn. F. Mulzer has returned from a week end stay with relatives in Webster. Mrs. Robert O’Brien of Newark N. I. was a recent guest of Mrs. Adam Baer. Mrs. Baer has been confined to the house for several weeks because of illness. Mrs. Joseph Conolly and son Josenh of Newark, N. J, Were recent guests at Pine Tree cottage. Miss Venie Bogue has returned to Lebanon after spending the holidays with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith have re- turned to Meriden after a stay with Mrs. Smith’s mother, Mrs. M. J. Bogue. Miss Frances Leitner has returned after two weeks' stay with New York relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ludkle were recent visitors with relatives in Rock- ville. Miss Neffle Driscoll left Friday for a few days' stay in Mansfleld before refurning fo Moosup, where she teaches. Miss Ruth Shipman has returned atter spending the holidays -at her home in Waterford. Miss Sarah Becker has _returned after a ten days’ stay with relatives in New York. Miss Helen Gardner has refurned to her studies at Willimantic Normal school after spending the holiday re- ¢ess with her father, Ofiver Gardner, at the Claremont. . MYSTIC A week of prayér is to bé held at the Union Baplist church, beginning tonight (Tdésddy). The speaker for the eveming will be Rev. E. L. Ham- ilton of New London, ° Mr. and Mrs. Enos Gray of Ledyard haye returned home after a visit with Mrs. Gray's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Clarke. R, I. Machett is harvesting 10-inch ice from his pond on Mistuxet averue. He has his houses over one-half full, There wag no session Monday morn- ing at the Brehdway school. The jan- itor being unable to heat the building. Migs Violet Adamson has resumed her du as teacher at Wheeler dis- trict, No. 9, aftér two weeks’ vaca- | tion. $ Miss Jessie Gardnér has retutned | from a visit in Willimantic, Dr. F._ ¢ was in Hartford' TS e e | bt Y, Tt 15 really “Very wonderful, - whenyou stop to think abdut it,’ the way people think and speak about the Cadillac.: It is ndver necessary for us to protest the! superior virtues of the Cadillac. Everybody concedes them. Our duty is the pleasant task of gen- erating and strengthening these thoughts.. THE A. C. SWAN COMPANY 3 Norwich—New Londen New York after a visit with her par-|of the Epworth League of the M. E.|has been held up on the néw addition | v ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Davis, Hurch ig to be held at the home of |to the Packer factory. Harry Trimbleau has returned from |Samuel Higbce. A social hour Miss Laura Lamb is ill at her home a business trip to New York. follow. * & on New London- road. ‘Thig (Tuesday) evening the meeting| Owing to the cold weather, work Wi ng his parents, Dr. and Mrs, C. . Congdon of East Main street. Irving Thomas has returned fo his work after being ill with grip for liam Congdon of New York.is|several days. will NN On jozzr Office Desk or at Home the Children.can easily get at them) MENTHOLATED HOARHOUND COUGH DROPS A Quick and Satisfactory Relief for Coughs, Colds, ‘Hoarseness and Throat Irritations The time to cure a cold is when it starts=, and you will find Briggs’ Cough Drops very effective. 2 You realize you are being benefited almast’ as so0n as you put/one in yonr mouth. Get the Briggs® habit — I heeps away a cold Buy them anywhere in the Red and Blue Package C..A. BRIGGS CO. Cambridge, Mass.