Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1921, Page 24

ASmmry%ftheMxndngwmgBmmmofWflnmCmfw&eYul kShownig&eAppmxmtqueToul, mdtheVlheflftbePkoMTwud Cotton mills 1k, silk thros oolen mills ... Iron, metal work. Other industries ... Wages 3,210,875 Putnam. Value .«'pncm ‘Wages Value of P 18,004,000 Ollnr'l'wur e —_— a.-q’ma. s vna' l at the New ally ot mm.nnw IX EARTERN . CONNECTICUT IN (Continged from Page Three) held in readiness in case the other breaks down. All work on the lighting system_has been installed. When com- ‘pleted the building will afford allh the ‘"0 conveniences of a new bank, everything 2 Totals . ... $31,176000 B| rodern in banking facilities having peen Total wages . - § 9,447,018 installed. The stcond larges: expense for altera- tions amounts 15 about k will be completed about February Total value of manufactured product. . ¢ $52,020,044 7 _— EASTERN CONNECTICUT residence of J:Ilm ronm on mn; INDUSTRY AT LESS FIGURE | Iount street, alone as the forerunner w V4 “of this ion as a (Continued from Page One) the development sectis residential part of the city. about 831 men and women | On Apzil 2, 1856, Sidney Risley bought a:’,m;:},pmd",fl h'mfi;:',’,, o year ago | the pottery and the land on which it was showing $918,000 in wuges and $2,564,300 | situated from Elijah A Bill and fi;.nm- n product in 1920 where these were $1,- | 4es v operate it until his death at the 097,200 and $2,650,000 in 1919, age of 61 on April 26, 1875. His son, ¢ : Seorge L. Risley, -continued the business |- until his death, Dec. 24, 1381 o About & sear laler the polLery was opened is the Norwich Pottery. wmu.\n. C.: ~hace proprietor. Mr. Chace was suc- ceeded in 1885 by George B. Chamberlain and affer he had run it for about two’ years the business was continued by Otto N. Suderberg until 1895, ‘'when it was dis- continued. , i Distributed w-ru by ‘Horse and Wagon. Stoneware crocks, pitchers, jugs and bottles were the product of the old Risley poclery, wWiuch £ot us eciay in. schooner loads from New Jersey and Long Jsland and converted the raw clay into the re- quired shape on turning lathes run. by fodt treadles. When enough had been manufactured and dried . out -ready for baking, the'kiln was' loaded up and ‘the fires were started. All the West. Side| P ey house in 1811, Be was enwbled to ¢t y- by a resolution passed at a i”:cm :;,, v, 1811, i v evese = 3‘.’.‘:‘&“'-3%13'.‘."'3."? r:;em Be xud' S s M has oot \tincs somamts the same s fiereby grantel to the suid }n: 50 x 100 _feet, double the floor rpace Richard Adams ‘to purchase and hold | in the store at pressent. A twenty foor real esfate in. this state in the same | archway will connect the stores, and dlic | manner s if he had we:n a Dative citi- | 036t department. will be devoted entire- zen tnereof.” Mr. Adams also owned the| 1y to men’s clothing, the west Store Dbe- | S.rand. building on Main street at.tite|ing used as a furnishings depnritment. N corner of Rose i and at one fine All interior work will be of uartered ? was §n business partnership '_;L oak. The front seiting will be murd:y Bréwer, StandtiiNie of U JL D of “copper.. er. L A Bullding Permita Tssued. Cushioz Bells and Mijah A Bill, who BuiMing permits issued each montls _the iand where the poitery siood, weze both prominent Norwich business men’in their day. Mr. Eells lived in-the | la; fiouse, 50 Main etreet, where Dumn's| St ‘Company on Mou'bn pharmacy now is.and had for hi§ next omut resid¥nce, two-story wood con- neighbor on the east United States Sena- | struction, applied for by John Lewis, ko tt;r '::mu Lanmon, Wh;'l; x:lllo a judge | be built on Pleasant street property. of suUPreme- court. - Mr. “conducted a grocery store for many years on Water r»rury—ngddznu. two-story wood -treet in the Rockwell building, where | COnStruction, applied for by Willimantic James M. Young & Sm mow have .a | PDevelcping Company, bulit on Moulton Erocery aloke. 2 court; residence, iwo-story wood con- S siruction, ‘applied for by Olevine Hand- field, to.be built on Montecello street. March—Gulf Refining Company ap- plied fcr permit to construct foundation! for two gasoline tanks on their propenty. Garage built by Chas. H. Snow, on his property ; application from.Hillhouse and Taylor to build over scales at flleh‘l yards. April—Permit issued to. Windham Na- tional Bank for extensive alterations on building on Main street; gammge buikt -by Z. Coutu adjoining his property ; per- mit issued Ames Motor Company for wnlhl’r:‘:hn of gasoline sales building meals for the family and home nursing | % QLIS : it Dbl to MRk were chossn by the’committee in Salem a8 fi:l:(m sutarge. s house - on'" Muih projects which would interest most. of § * C the women. May—Willimantic Savings Institute, | The committee, Mrs. Wm Darling, Mrs, | T build covering' for fire eswoges on H. 8. Houston, Mr. Carl Rogers and Mrs, | Dullding on Main street. John Fraser, also decided to have in| June—Garage built by David mnd Am-| co-operation with’ ‘the men a one-dav| pie Ahearn with cagacity for five n.ulu-' 1 Washington Trust Company WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND EEPT WILLIMANTIC INDUSTRIES AT FIGURES SHOWING GAIN Steady work in a few important lines of Willimantic's industries with Tesult- ant larger payrolls than last year have enabled this city to shew a gain in pay- roll distribution over the previous year, although its mills and manufactories have generally experienced a lessened volume of busihess. Approximately 4,000 wage earners in the city received wages of $4,199,018 in 1920 where the figure was $3,752,823 in 1919, while, value of pro- duct was $14.544,044, Cotton mills just about repeated the figures of the preceding year, showing $402,807 In wages and $1,256,313 in pro- duct in 1920 to $399.076 in wages and $1,533,316 in product in 1919, Manufacturers in the silk and velvet line fell off somewhat from a year ago, with a wage account of $£385.000 in 1920 as against £450,000 in 1919 and product value of $2,640,000 to $3,114,000. Machinery and foundry lines did & © slightly smaller business, having wage totals of $200,336 and product value of $538.731 which compared with $237,067 and -$630,743 in 1919. In a numher of industries whose firures are assembled under a feneral classification there were of substantia]l eains to show a "lgfl distrbution of $3.210,875 in 1920 where it was $2.666 680 in 1919 and a production of $10,109,000 against $9, 733,000, garage puilt Hy Capital - - - - $300,000 ‘Surplus and Profits $500,000 HOME ECONOMICS TAUGHT b TO WOMEN OF COUNTY knew when the pot.tflg,ry ‘was firing, for the black smoke from the wood fire of three- Contin: x foot chestnut sticks swirled out from the | . (O°niaied from Fage Five) top of the kiln in dense volumes. while jat which time they will learn, to renovate the fires were kept going for 36 or 48 or ‘ mater on hand, cover a frame and line 50 hours, according to the time required. | and m.n a ||.L The stoneware was distributed 0 the country stores by wagon all through east- ern Connecticut and westward beyond the Connecticut river. One of the old drivers was the late Alvin T. Davis, whose pot- tery wagon with a pair of fine Newfound- land dogs hitched on ahead of .the horses is etill remembered by some of the older idends. In later years gome glazed and Uecorated ware was added to the line Which the pottery made. : Tottery Yard Was Boys’ Playground. Norwich men who grew up as boys on the West Side retain vivid memories of the old pottery yard as' their playground. ‘When they played soldier, the crates that ‘!tood around were used for guard- houses for their prisoners, and in winter when wiey weve shuimg down the High strect hill their favorite fun was to end their slide with a dash through the potery doorway to knock' down as many pots as possible. The elder ‘Risley would build barricades of snow against his doorway | to keep them out, but sled after sled would be sent against the barricade: untik it would finally be overcome and some urchin work navoc among the accumulat- Offers you favorable terms for active or inactive checking accounts. Preston Mrs. E. L Barnes of Preston bas made ATTANZEMEN(S lui o sulics 0L iuec NgS ON clothing to. be held with A “group in Preston. Salem The school lunch project, balanced 49, interest allowed on savings accounts FOUNDED IN 1Boe. PFTX:\'M MTLLS SHOWING RESULTS T SHORT TIME Putnam’s manufacturing industries ex- perienced the let-down in their lines that came in the latter part of the last year and the results ars shown in smaller fiz- ures of wage distribytion for 1920. than in 1919. Total wages reported for 1920 were $1,090,000 as against $1,735,000 the year -before while total product value was $6.300,000 as against $13,025,000. In the cotton mills wages in the past school. At this time the making and| mobiles. use of a fireless cooker will be demon- strated, as well as attractive lunches to [ October—Residence, one -and ome-rmi{ siory frame elructure, applied for by be carried by children to sehool. * : Alfrel Bernard, to be built on Bune ~ Through thy ’le.ue":w groups were ; g 4 1: de. . F S groumh November—Residence, bungalow ot ki emx}.".. ha\::'el':ld:l:.l:idd‘yml:ou‘:: T o TR s YT B "“"‘_i bloomers and other pieces of wearing ap- | . ”r:\fm‘ 5, TR &merflsxreet : parel. The group of women meets in the % the afternoon and is drafting patterns to | oo oy, Borage bullt by Biward J. Bgan meaenrement. © on Tingley street; residence, bunid.bLw year were shown at $390,000 where they | ed pottery.| Close by on the banks 6f the | Millinery will also be given in January. :‘“ e n&fy.fl wol:: u‘mnn-cuvn. to be Were $410,000 the year before and Foods |cove was Sheepskin Hollow, so named 4 y W. coln an Sowir Park turned out were valued at $1.890.000 in |because of the sheepskins that were tan- Baltfe street; application by Church-Reed Com- 1920, but at $3,110,000 in 1313. Woolen | ned there for the tannery at the end of | . Mrs. J. &. Burr as leader organized a | 0¥, emlargement and . alteration of mills showed wrzes of $200,000 and pro- duct valua of $800,000 in 1920 where these fieures were respactively $650.000 and $3.815:000 the year before. Silk mills also showed a slightly smaller business with waees of $125.000 in 1920 and pro- duct of $1008,000 as comparad to $171.- 000 and $2.200,000 {n 1919. Other general manufacturi lines had ware distribu- tion of $375.00 and nroduet of $2700.000. in 1920 as 2gainst $504,000 and $3,900- 000 in 1919. Cove street. Mummychug chowder, cook- grnuv of women who have met six times ed at the pottery fire, and made from fish | working on clothing. Before the group caught in. the nearby cove, a delight (o | completes the course dress forms will &l- the vigorgus boyish imaginations and ap- |so be made. Mi linery has Béen arranged petites, is another boyhood memory still | for and will be given in January. fresh in the minds of a number of Nor- Sk § wWich men, once West Side boys. In later years the original kiln was in. | Clothing and wmillinery projects will be creased by the addition of another and|¥orked out by the women in Ledvard : The series of ten lessons have already re in Turner block, Main street; resi- ence, two-siory frame strudure to be built by W. E. Clark'on Mountain street. Garage built by Treffle Beauleau on Jackson street; application for remodel- ing building oocupied by Wilkam A. Hadcad on Jackson street. ' GIASGO December—Permit issued Joseph De- lude to add another- siory Lo - frame Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Thorp returned building on Valley street; permit issued|to their home in Westerly, Sunday, af- Willimentic Development Company to Bution' were visitors in Norwich Tues- day. Elmer O. Burdick and Miss Lottie V. with relatives in North Stonington. Stephen Clark was a visitor Sunday wih Gilbert Billings, at Ludiow farm. used for storage and manufacturing. 2 de. BULLETIN'S CALENDAR SHOWS OLD NORWICH POTTERY Located on such low jund and near to the river, the pottery was frequently threatened by high water and once in the second year of the management of Mr. Oakdale Two meetings have been held with bul]d dwelling_on his property’; H. G. Dart, leader of the girls s2w- add one story to frame building on Wel- ter spending the Week-end Wwith W. G. s0n street ; permit issued Philip Moore to | Burdick. permik Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pendleton of " | Culver were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Thorpe in Westerly Sunday. Mrs. W. W. Billings was a Christmas Alba B. Johnson, president of #he Pennsylvania thamber of cmmeres, an address before the Boston chamber extensions were made to the hulldmyl\}bm given on clothing and d S H. Clark. issued Frank P. Fenon to alter barn bn | Bristol, R. L, were week-end guests of A. [Suest of her father, Edgar lnx clubs in Oakdale, to talk over plans| Bellevue street to make five room cot-|P. Culver. Miss Mabel Blanchard returned home for the girls’ work. Her two sewinz |tage of frame construction. A. R. Button and Eliza and Lewis|Tuesday after spending the week-end/| commerce. expressed the belief that busi- iness readjustment and deflation “is more than half completed.” Suderberg lost a complets baking ‘Wwhen ! the freshet put the fires out 15 hours after they had been started, leaving a half- baked lot of pottery that was a total Joss. & Tragic Death of Proprietor. . e . The tragedy that brought to an' end s ? the connection of the Risley family with the business came on a Saturday morn- $ ing, the day before Christmas, 1881, [ George L. Risley had gone to the pottery to light the fire under an upright boiler Listed In First Norwich Directory. at the rear. of the building. Tha boiler dnev Risley, stonewars pottery, Cove | bIeW up, went out through the roof of the street, W, C." was listed in tha first |PWIIINS ard fended pnout 3 jet away, Norwich directory. nublished in 1846, and ; Sinking a foot into the mud of the cove. in the mext city directory, 1857, he was |50 grest was the force of the exniosion an adverliner, a5 foliowits that the’ 1,500 pound boiler passed com- 2 pletely over a 50 foot elm tree at the rear Sidney Risley, of the nottery in its flisht. Mr.- Risley No. & Cove St. W. §. Norwich, Conn, | Was so badly injured that he:died: that Manufacturer of Stone Ware evening, = i The gicture of ‘the pottery used ‘for the | . ; in every variety. The tradé supplied - ; with all kinds of stoneware at the lowest | Calerdar is reproduced from an old print el e |7 o pometon o8 Aorsey Wil e elds, who for yéars has mu £ promntly croers dhankfully recetved | i\, osted in the accumulation of valuable historical data of the early history of Norwich. In this ponnection it 18 a yoincidence that the fine residence of Attorney Shields at 170 Washington streét was (Continued from Page One) i in the deed to Elljah A. Bill from Cushing TFelix. Sept. 4, 1845, which speaks of ‘a building now improved as a notterv.” Bill #nd Eells bought the land from Richard AAsps Sent 4 1835, this deed contain- ing no mention of a pottery bun de=mcrih- ine “a trimmer's or ‘nainter’s shop” and a “chaise mal.er's shop” on the iand con-! \'eyed‘ which bordered on the cove. But it’s a bad master. So while you MUST work for money, you'd s S R better also have MONEY WORKING FOR YOU. Put some into a Bemaasias L SAVINGS "ACCOUNT liere, where it will work every day in the year; ' Al earning COMPOUND INTEREST for you. And when you can NO : J : : LONGER work for money, you'll have a plenty still v\{o,rking' for' you, We Extend Happy New Year's o reetings ~ THE NORWICH SAVINGS SOCIETY to all of our present and prospective depositors, Our & ? (A PURELY'MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK) : organization is not only able, but cheerfully, courfeously, Sidney Risfer lived in High sfreet, at first in A house ~onth nf W | Vnin street, but he later mioved nemrer the’ pottery into a br,.: house. W is pnt the easterly side of what is now Nortn High street and is No. 13 North High street. In the early days of the pot- tery, the West Side was all undeveloped territory as far as buildings went, with just a few rlustering down along the river. Beyond this all was open coua- try with Capt. W. W. Coit's big rione Iouse, for many years since then the and established /himseif here. Being u foreigner he could not by faw buy and 2 hold real esfate here so tiat when he : tame to buy the Washington street and continually renders that particular service for which this bank has become so well and favofably known. All loans and investments for this institution conform to the requirements of the United States Comptroller’s: Office which exercises rigid supervision. There can be no safer place for your deposit. - We cordially soli¢it your financial business, THE WINDHAM COUNTY NATIONAL BANK DARIELSON, CONNECTICUT P PrIrE- ~ ! P8 Noar 4hs iy, A $10,000 and ’ : The Church-Reed Comvany eof "