Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 1, 1922, Page 14

* Norwich, Saturday, July 1, 19; THE WEATAER. Conditions. High pressure is reported off the At- tantie coget. The ‘offtiook s for considerable cloudi- ness and_continued waem weather and local showers and thunder storms Satur- day and Sunday in the Atiantic states. Winds. North of Bandy Hook: Moderate south and southwest winds, weather unsettled, with showers Saturday afterncon or night. 2 Sandy Hook ‘to Hatteras: Moderate southeriy winds, weather unsettled, prob- ably showers Saturday afternoon or night. Foreeast. For New Eliand: Increasing cloudi- ness with showers Saturday afternoon or night: Sunday showers. Observations in Norwich. The Bulietin's observation® show the following changes in temperature and barometric changes Friday: Ther. Bar. Tam. 68 12 m 5§ € p m, § 70 29.60 Highest 68 Comparisons. Predictions for For Friday's weather: F SUN, MOON axD TIDES. [ r £ and warmer. Rises. | Sets Sets, (Standa _Six houm afier hizh water it water. which is fo 1 by flood tide. ! GREENEVILLE g Andrew's who par ted in the a short time ago. in the Tuesday evening. A =t down to a ared mem feast of vers of th was singine of s and games e of arrangements Misses Funine Tafk Mabsr McKinley. ledze started on Michigan, where about two months way s with teen members viven by the at Yantie. » supper was stead of Low The evenin the Third Mo- which rdom of fth. Reau- hnslova- will be s 0f Norwich avenue ek st Combectiout-cols Philin F. inderson Arlin Py ‘AT NIGHT AND ' and not-on the. streets in dAnger of be- ing struck by fast ovins vebicles 1t seemed to be the general opinfon of the meeting that as it was {00 late’ this year to carry, the playground program fo all sections of the Gity, the Lake street grounds she Playgrounds .association, _made_up of | Citisens Intecosted in giving the Fouth of |y the city opportunity to piay, could”carry out their plans as best they could this The city is” asked “to ‘appoint & com- mission whose diity it shail “be to -look over prospecti’ John iJ.; O/Rourke, Norwich. chitfaber. of o e that the ‘playgrounds committee of the chamber of commerce asks - for three things ‘from the council; ‘1st,’ the ap- propriation of $1,000° for * pliiygrounds ; 2nd, the drs gmw an ordi- nance, prohibiting ‘the ‘uise 9f Lake street playgrotnd. - for: - - ‘purposes ; city meeeting a sum’of miofey will be 3rd, . appointing. of ' & éomniissjon | and proyide for supervisors o look after whos % w’u»bef“- ave chargo | the children while' at the“playgrounds. of all s ‘wg‘yn» B 1 mending | Bveryoné expressed an -opinion that that on this’commission 2 /0f the.wo- |opposition {6 the city handling the play- ground ‘would ‘e little -and that public opinion’ throughout the city ‘would .send the movément through and give Norwich Superintendent ‘of Sehools” E. J. Gra- | children playgrounds where they can en- ham in anewer to the question by Mayor | joy themselves and play games ~without Waters as to complaints about the play- | danger. > grounds said that there had been fewd It is known that in Some éctions of the complaints, one from Hobart avenue and | city childven playing in Tots have beem the other from residents near the Pearl|chased off by the owners and.in many street school. He felt, however, that!cases the frightened children have left the children of the city needed play- | pieces of their clothing behind, never grounds and should have them. Norwich | finding them asaim 'If people who have must keep up with other citlas that have |lots .that children can play on,.are not playgrounds, hé said, and steps should be | willing to aflow the children . to enjoy taken to buy up tracts of land in vari- | themselves on the lots, the eity. . should ous parts of the city before the growth |provide suitable places for fl\e_ children. of the city closes up. obtainable grounds | At the close of the hearing = Mayor in residential districts. Water stated that it was too late for the Several others at the meéting gave |city to take action on the matter but their views on the subject, the questions |it would be advisable for the Playgrounds of interest being brought ‘out being as | Association-to go ahead with their plans folloys: The street is no place for | for Lake street this summer, and if tha Lthe child for play. The children should | commission is appointed, ~it can _search ge given playgrounds where their play |out suitable locations ln_ all seetion of the can be surpervised. ~The plavgrounds |city and then if the city meefing votes give opporfunity for the child to learn |the appropriation, .by 1923 the children to play and piay fair; give them’ a|will be provided with playgrounds chance to learn many things that will | throughout the city. make them better men and women in fu-| Mayor Waters and members of the fin- ture years. ance -committee were thanked for their Another point brought up was that par- | interest in the matter and all present men who_have been . instrumental in starting the-playground. .movement in orwich be given membership. and know that the. children are safe, 'grounds were run by private individuals. JEveEsE BROCK HERE BAR ASSOCIATION PAYS HONORS ~ |ey AFTER MANY YEARS IN WEST TO FOUR DEPARTED MEMBERS | °0 Eugene Brock, a former Fésident of this city, who B been.in the west for wbout (Coutiogel:drem -Tage, Fivo). twenty-five: vears, {5 visiting his mOther | 1o presentation speech’ This teacher, and sisters here. P 3 ‘ i . X by the way. who, as a prize, started the Mr. Brock was engaged in railroad it R the. construction” work in the west, but dur- | PuPI'S first bank account by the r of a dollar deposited for him in the Savings Bank, this good woman, had such far reaching influence the careers of her classes. was Miss Carrie Lucas, now Mrs. Kingsley of Norwlich, Not 50 long before his deathy one who disagreed with him~in politics 'remark in 2 joking way, “Fanning, to the wrong side. If you wi our party, there would be a se ing the war worked in_ 2 T. N. T. fac- tory. He suffered several severe burns in ‘the course of accidents in his work and at one time was injured by having a piece of stecl driven into his nose. He d one piece of good luck when he had arranged 1o £o.to work in an explosives factory, but, changed -his mind at the last minute and did not go. The day that he would have started yorking the plant was blown up and s the com- pany records showed that he was to|on the superior ccurt bench. work there it was supposed he had per- |men. I fhink you can all p ished in the explosion. About a vear!mcanmng sm! vith which the |later. when his. family heres# received a | quickly came, “Then T'm afraid that| letter from him,"was the first Information | bench will yawn for me for some years| George ing' before the district -court in West- erly. . He wgs charged. with reckless driving ‘on June 17, when his autcmobile llided with the cdr driven® by Miss ry G. Ward, assistant town clerk of orwich, who was on her way to Pleas- ant View, injuring several members of the Norwich party. As' the members of this honorable. bar reflect “npon® his sound ,seholarshin, . his amazing: grasp of law. his wonderful va tienee in seeing to it that work which he did was done so as tn Jeave no loose ends. no possible flaw, no icop-| holes in titles, .or doubtful rec s o even ordinary transactions Davidson was. found . guilty ( of the|realize that here was a lawyer of the and fined $300. and costs. He/|caliber of such leadiny members of the mediately appeated - the case to the| Profession as Norwich and th: count | superier court, fur Of those injured s Mary. G.-Ward and her Mrs. William P. Ward, h: c Miss Ward's mother, Mrs. William . Ward, still suffers'from her injuries,| Sion which was his choiee. i rvecovering rapidly. AN are at| Life to him, sent at the Ward cottaze at Pleasant| ricus—a lime for earnest lador, w._ where they were taken following|Tecall several ‘occasions on w have kpnown . in _Jeremiah Judge - James A. Hovey, in | Brandegee—men great ng bonds. e in the Norwich Hals Augnstus his_senior-—but! their records for success in the profes-| nd 1 ch he had | together, f a3 partnere: Fis was ShRges just to me. We have stood 4 shoulder on many a hard fought ficla, and in our associations in the trial of cases. I could always confidently depsnd upon his high intellcptual attainments, It was my most_implicit confidence, and .| carry to ‘the last moment of my con- sciousness, and honor for his name In all the veats of our gether, professionally not even the slightest misunderstanimg {occurred to mar-our mutual frieadship. I can never forget his gentlan 1Ly, e, Tk he<was one of the gentlest of ‘mes nould be DUt into - shape B:"}mwr knew him to manifest anger. If boundaries ‘established In order that the | he had cause to feel disturbed or irritat- ed, he possessed the disposition to hide Resolutions upan the Brown, of this city, fof‘many years cor: | onor of, this county. who dled Aus. 26, ¢ sites for playgrounds in| 1920. wer =2ny v ions of Norwich and at some later eir preparation ha el ] lof a committee tonsisBiiz= ot ' asked of the voters (o eqiiip playgrounds | Brown, Major H. A. Hull, ovid Higgins, Judge min H. Hewitt. his: brother attornéys “spoke: of Brown's birth in Colchester in 1551, his education at Bacon Academy @nd collezé life at Brown. where he graduated In 1875. athlétics and _rowed on was admitted to the bar in 1877 and ‘was a bdracticing attornev for 43 years and coroner of the county from 1895 to the time of his death. Major Hull saying that mo men are so well to pess final judzment on each other s are lawyers on account of the close, way they are associated in their profession. He told of knowin, when he was ‘inji of the Brown filled the office of coroner for The tender wayv he treated peo- | Dle under suspicion in capital showed the disposition of the man. He was a good fa neizhbor and friend, member of the bar. vears.’ wWho was a Yale graduate, 16, 1920, Judge Alfred Colt of New London, a wa The formal reolutions upon Erastus | Day of Colchester were read Hon. hester, in New London eounty, died at his home there ‘on August 2 the advanced “age of 85 ing. an iliness of only a few da ation. jon Juty 7 . we can fullyjand Mr died many year: early education in the public schools of his native town which was s by hi ham 2 had fate so willed, he must have matched | Stury of Ralph Gilbert, Esq yer at Hebron an legal studies' at Hartford for twd years In the law offices of Welles & Strons od fortune to possess his shall a deep feeling of respect eheracter. | isoriation to- and in pastime. tor. Franklin H. Brown. ! Franklin H. re read by Judze Lucius Brown. een in the hands Judze Bawin W. N. T Apling and’Benja- The tribute, prepared by Mr. At college he was prominent in the, crew. He spoke briefly in eulogy, able Pranklin H. Brow.n 18ed gnd. just and com ¥ tent . wa. S Me. cases. ver and ever a Kind and ‘an honored William" B. . Golt. The resolutions tvon Judgé William B. Coit of New:Léndon were read by At- torney Coit, Sent. Charles B Whittlesey. -Judge died ents of children, espetially the mothers, | went on record as favoring the city's tak- | cousin of William B. Coit, spoke in | who cannot take their children to the |ing charge of the playsrounds, thus giv-|eulogy. The-departed attorney, he said, seashore or mountains, can ° let the|ing the playgrounds committee power 10 (had a delightful disposition. He was hildren go to supervised playgrounds, |do things not possible when the' play-{loved by all ‘his_friends. and he loved 2!l he knew. All his life, and especially while in Yale, he was ever. Bi'ly Coit, He was not discouraged by defective sight, and never complaihed and ask- friends always to speak to him on the streets as he could not see them, but he wanted to hear their voices. His er read-law to Him and thus was able to pass the bar an1 succeeded in his profession. The outsfanding qualiti actor of Judge Colt were great pa- tience and never faltering couraze. His | chier then| the p vears the people ness instead of punishment and he tried to make all men- better. -In -the. young people he was- much sinterested and al- s tried them in-chambers. examiations of the cha: ork in' life was his conduct of ice court in Newl London for His effort was to -make - better who came to him by kind- Erastas S. Day. ¢ Judze Lucius Brown, having been prepared by | @ committee consis ing, of Thomas M . ! Waller, Lucius Brown. John M. Thayer, that had that he was Still TVing. o joom!\; Bha;reply ek charact Carainie Rt o AL B Tannte. fag e of the man. - ED DAVIDSON $200 His associates, the public, his clients. Tribute by Judge Shields. FOR RECKLESS DRIVING| Mourn him now as freshly as they did fter the passage of the résolution The case against George Davidson of 341 4l stood shocked by the news that| fudze Shields delivared the following Westerly, R. I, came up. Friday -morn-| ¢ had gone from us forever. eulogy Erastus Sheldon Day, of Col- 1921 ears, M. Day was born in Colchester 1836, and was the Son of Mr. Elthu Marvin Day, who both ago. He received . his pplement- later attendance -at \Vyilbra- demy. Upon the comgletion of his academic course hé pursued the the law for one year with a practicing law- later took up his o spole | BN s ‘and with the firm of 0 Ni T dtscmors, e uny Yamittel to the bar at the breaking out las, th .i’.' war of the Squthern Rebellion at Hart- ford,-on ' Mar thereupon took up the active practice of his pro- tession in his native town in: the: vil 1age of Colchester and became a bu: and prominent lawyer in.that .section of 18, 186L and affairs. ntly approached by others for his d | . - ~ advice and judgment in political | & Hd eat He had friends in every part of the TR w2k L, X the state at the New London County |State and in the highest offices of the Bar. from 1861 to 1897, thirty-six years. In the, same year that he was ad- mitted. to the Bar. 1861, Mr. Day mar- ried Catherine Gardner Olmstead; daugh- ter of Jonathan and Hiizabéth = Olm- te, many of whom wers under obli- gations to him for couitesies extended al help freely, cheerfully and en in important matters to thm Day any aspirations stead of Westchester, Conn. Mrs. Day | for public office, he <ould have had died at Clifton Springs, New August 15, 1910. ¢ In 1897 Mr. Day was’ aj President McKinley. United States ‘con- sul at Bradford. England, which office/ he held for twelve years from=1837 to 1909. In 1909 he resigned the consul- #hip and returned from England to the United States to his home in ‘the vil- lage of Colchester and retired whally from the activities of the law and pol- ftics. BEarly in his caréer Mr. Day at- tached himself to politics #nd became ny active and ardent member of the re- lAlh:an party and advecating In the years 1882. 1874, Mr. Day was chosen and sent from Colchester as a representative of that town in the general assembly of Con- In the year 1863 Mr, Day was | a b warty. tegrit trial long: bly pat jury. one ‘most M. that offics select and nedticut. chosen secretary, formed the dutie¥ of that office through- out the term of the sessions of body. Later for five vears. 1836 to. 1391, Lawyer Day he'd the place of chair- man. of the republican committee of Connecticut and “as such had charze and direction of the state and national campaigns of the Tepubli- can party In Connecticut in those years. Those political offices held by Mr. Day brought: him a state-wide acquaintance with thé prominent, infiuential and lead- ing men in political and legislative lite and public affairs of the those prominent men of various activi- | &3 ties in turn came to know and respect Mr. Day as a leader for his ability, in- fairness, unselfishness and to the subject matters in which they avere interested or concerned. His. fildelity y friends, and fellow men were firm and true and he emjoyed the’ renutation of being reliable and dependable in every case” or exigency. was never known or heard to be broken. A generation and more ago and for many years about that time there was an extensive before the general assembly of the state which the services of the ablest lawyers were enzaged at the capitol. islative cases renerally involved farge in- terests and expenditures and in some in- stances causes were variously. he | roads, insurance comnanies. and iridus- and_other corporations sionally directly cases were and con on the law and the facts and hearings were held before desig- nated committees of the .general assem- important of those contested lez- islative cases and trials. Through that Day was further brought into close relation’ and . acquaintance most pro; Connecticut Connecticut of ‘a sound. skiliful and able lawyer in important branch: of law Often were sought by didates regardin: venzions, concerning made” by them of persons to hizh state In many opinions and fective and led to nominations and an- pointments of the very best men to pub- lic off censes of thase and events. Mr cation good records and achievements. in office of_those prominent state officials whose times ment. himself any tion and those approachinz him for his ad- |nothing and alw: York, on S by staunchly adhering to| 214 aid. ng | carriage,. 1864 and | N IR the senate and per- that clability. state . central state, and sound judgment and in his relations to them and lovalty to -clients, His plighted word legislative legal practice Fhiose eg- 1 S IACE Survi results. The parties to those towns, citles, rail- and occa- the state itself. Those exhaustively- prepared pro the foremost lawyers in the vice. lezislative law practice with the ent lawyers and citizens of and gained the reputtation and gained the reputtatio eristicself practice. his counsel and advice party leaders and can- impending party eon- ions and by, governors intments about to be nor ars instances Mr. Day's recommendations wera ef- In late vears In his remin stirring political . times Day took much gratifi- recountinz and discussing the S. Day the gift of been could came about through his quiet rtial influence and sound juds- time, if, Mr. Day had no desire to attain for | parently he office in the state. Tt was |eramentally ell known that had no personal am- | public office. whatever in that line to seefve Dossessed an ing figure: and in fellow lawyers. Mr. Day was tall in stature, erect in the uringifies Of/that e in build, had an open and ntenance and altogether he impressive and command- the ordinary gather- ngs of men about him he anpeared to overlook and tower above his ates. He was aways familiar, cordial and pleasant to_his fellow men brethren. of the Bar. His general man- ner -was one of human interest -and so. He entertained no prejudices r disiikes-against persons because of racial, religious, political or other dif- ferences from him. or low of ones life did not move him |gq from the equipose of a well bred man. There. was nothing querulous or ‘minded in his attitude. or- dealings, he was at all {imes broad minded and. ever equable in the most trying circumstanc- dnd was what we may well call an all round, good natured man. At_the Bar In the trial of causes to | lifi the judge and to the jury. he had an easy and complacent bearing sure of himself and his cause and by his demeanor. proyoiced no hostility but rath- er_enlisted: the full attention, consider- atlon and fayor of the ‘trier and his In his advocacy and arfuments he was sensible, zealous, rea- sonable, falr and convincing and was suscentibl and respectful to the force of an argument against him. absolute self-control and poise and in the heat of all contentions never allow- ed anger. recrimination or personalities to emter the discussions on his part or Dbimself to be provoked thereto by irls ving_Mr. Day were two ters, Miss Elizabeth Day and Susan I Day; both of whom lived in the home with their father: and two sons, Edwin M. Day of Hartford and David 8. Day of Bridgesort, well vers at the Bar of this state. Evulogy by Apel P. Tanner Judge Shields was_ followed by At torney Abel P. Tanner- with the follow: with witnesses and counsel partici- {ing cloquent eulogy on Mr. Day: g -where arguments of counsél at | lensth were had as before a court and For a long time Mr. Day was Colonel Rapier, in the Peninsula Cam- paign, censuring an custom, once said of the English soldier, that he was never officially - in that. campaign, for distinguisied ser- I fancy the same could have been sald sometimes with equal Erastus S. Da: uccess, effacement, this state. didn't care. indifferent In political he was of that number who ys get . He chose the The station high known, archaic He controlled the des- | tiny of his party in this state for years, with phenomenal into prominence. while he, with charaec- toiled in backeround and carried on unseer. In the exceptionally fine triubute to drafted by Judge Shields of his political activitie: filled, the offices he held and the various honors conferred upon him. It a_lengthy statement, after all, were not many, and the homors conferred were not always distl ‘We are constrained to turn from the re- cord and think of the have had for the asking, to appraise his political carser. could have had lifting others 5 & summary the positions he for the positivns, vlaces he - esuld 1y He couid have its governor without doubt: he ve sat on Its highest bench:. he could have been a national 4gurd ard been classed with the stat: forsooth, he had cared. He was temp- to the nominations and appointments to such places as he might have chosen. It may be truly said of Mr. Day that had he shown ang expressed the aspiration and ambition he could have easily attained the highest judiclal office in the state; !’ judge of the superior court, or state's atiorney of his county or even the gov- ernorship of his state. . nlain and simply life and was contented to make his home and law office in the small dnd isolated village of Colchester, where persons havinz occasion him: ottt fof his wise counsel, Like tge Cliy of 2 toyrwitare, He s SIRSH -:t nt and resourceful lawyer who |Lincoln, . e ser¥ed his clients well. He was congen- | with callefs, s in ‘his contact with p .~ He never drew d line of mm ; = race, |called to advise ahout He te- |as it fs, and the Union 1lieved that in that country “beyond Lhe |came to tell him how te fmake Loth peaes stars” there will be no caste; and no |and war. - He: was:bored bo fisath wit) prestige of manufactured greatness; that | callers, not ulg his ihimitable humes his sought advice mo Jartificial barriers will separate n | saved him the:clime where.earthy.- glory fades, and | the he Aot i |regith. no longer dictates its own terrs. |and, B, ‘or a_virtue to be poor, but he knew | said, “Mr Day, come up {o my ithat in this life “money talks.” that it {1 want you to meet Mrs. Lincoln is sometimes deaf, but never dumb. but | children” Wk 'he bélieved that in the other it will be With that strange insight of ‘mule’ where character has the fleor maleu-ued the character of his the! gold of the Indies will not buy as!knew that he stood in the > | much as the widow's mite. oneé-of the yeomanry of New Today we, construct & kind of rwntal | Mr. Day was llmd' the Teay ot them. When 1 came to Norwich in and & i} of him 1s we knew nim. and others | }awyers of tl knéw him, and place it in the sasrd "“glflnm t where other figures stand, to meect | Without some the gaze of future genera: detail—it may be imcomple*. overdrawn, but it corresponds in some nty ; and ot degree to the man we knew as he crossed | Judge Day was one &t the a5 of solemn stage. ty-eight, but on the »t Mr. Day wai born July “th, 13835, the | Which brought me here, there was 1ast year of Andrew Jacksox's adminie- | YOUUEE Awyer. the prestdent of the tration. He died, as the minutzs show, | AbICh Bad charter boat, on'the second of August alter u lite of | [er UUITSRR’ o was % eighty-five years. He came to this height—ot world and departed from it in the ch ful. summer time when fields and moun- tain ‘sides are green; he came and left amid the scent of summer flowers but | {00 Wagnetic on the p he left with the snows of winter on his |V o the street. . heyd He had taken lif . To use another’s phrase, folir. season’s were complete and spring cotild never come again. But when the sun had set and the shades of evening weFé merging into_night, almost it seem- | BN Bar 0y dnaniis o ed the end of a “Werfect Day."” 1) Py sixt: ears have AL Many years ago 1 conversed with one ,m'"im That euam:"szi."m who had lived in Colchester when Judge | vanished and with it the fhres Iadred, Day: was young, and who knew him well. Aot FoglaieYopy + - | Our talk was maicty of him, and oneThey have crossed the strange fromifer: curious remark of my acquaintance has |and momewhere, I some intet. of th seb: blzdged the gap of time. He sald, “When the ribs of the Ulysses dissolve in the clients come Day always tells them to set- 2nd flow of the tide. Today, of 118 and keep out of law.” Strange ad- [thoss fitry Ao Sraciiest Tailh Bh vige' for a lawyer yet not without scrip- | war time, he who was the vungest mem. jtural authority. “Settle with thine ad-|por 4o that is left, and he iy old versary quickiy” was'the’ counsel of the |and whita-aired now. ‘In & Mtile while wisest of manKind. you will be constrained to szy in malan- Efastus S. Day was by nature con-|choly accents: “The last of all the Rom- ciliatory and pacific. He delighted in |ans—fare you well” compromise as the culmination of the | T comrhend these resolukions to the diplomatic art. But he wanted honorable | memory of Judge Day. with every fesl- compromise. He was no money-changer |ing of respect. He has resched M in % et where principles are | journes's end.."'the aine of life is drawn, bought' and: #nd’ he despised the | hisisands are run; and turns, the cheap barter of the market place. His |hour-glass no more. His career is finfeh motto was: “To your God, your countr¥, (ed: his life is ended, his work s done; and your friend be true. He was cssen- | “the rest Is silence.” tially a peacemaker: and the peacemak- = bl er ranks high in New Testament litera- ture: Christ said on the Mount of | Judge Webb ciosed the memorial mes. Olive, “Blossed are the pure in heart for | slon with a few remirks and wpon mo- tion of Judze Shieids the resslutions and they shall see God™; but he sald of the peacemakers, “They shail be called the | eulogies are to be incorporated in the court records. children of God." L i i itical R i nd was 2 i1 b 4] ihasf 3 z E He had I 1| yer was T. M. Waller at twenty-four, then the youngest member of the New Lomdes County Bar. hoe dhugh- able military mimendad, truth, ot the hifm. is ot ulshed. any attempt Frastus cffice in Special Shoe Bargains FOR TODAY AND MONDAY men_ of Fis Ap- ture - ef classificatien ask - for He sat’ at the accident, Teserned. e {colled “time wasting” =pifoles’ of col-| S i v lege vears. Yet I cannot think thess were any” more serious faults than those' ON TRIP TO EUROTE! o which the average col boy has! h some regret 1o what hej chapter, | Daniel Lucius Prown of 16 Warren|t) accuse himself—maybe dus. *n pars| e ool which | street, this city, and of Boston, saiied last | to the reaction following ta: Strict dis.| vy Friday from New York on the S. S. | cipline of the M v home, whn g g ontin cruise o Ieeland: North Cape,| the ‘coumtry boy fi | sus service b alification 3 st_found his freadom Sweden and Denmark, and then and. busy city. RS Mhebw ave 1 women elig ns to leave the steamer | ‘anning, who always took an ae-| ible in Conn hese 98 have proceed from there to | terest in and was a keen observer | Been enrolled that the and from there to Vienna and |of civic and municipal affairs, H @rst commerci: telephone | from there to Constantinople, going a por- | number - of - important public. sempany {p the we oreruaner | tio of the journey by airship to ‘enable | positions of trust. He served asa mem- of ¢ outhern him to r at Camp . A~1s to the for tw beginning his | ber. counsel for the city of. Norwich. and| B Lo oL this wedk Afver from his long experience and study in| Wis strenuous two weeks at the boys' this cdnmhciny Was -.probably . better 'mi samp, Mr. Davis will accompany Mrs. L formed than many “other persons upon Davis to Maine. where they will spend | Wife Of Famous Inventor [the charter of the city, and the laws wo weeks in the wcods. ® secretary of act large n as Camp get back to Boston Aug. 23. ber of the town school board for a pum rs. For a time he was acting| school visitor. = For several terms he | acted 2s counsel for the town of M wich. - He also was at times town coun- sel for Preston and _for . Sprague. For nearly- fifteen years he was corporation In Charge of Athletics Prentice W. Chase of Jewett City has been appointed o takes charge of the athletic events on .the Jast day of this year's fair at the fairgrounds in Septem- bearing upon the same.- Since its organi- zation Mr. Fanniag vas a most usefal FAIRBANKS BROS. Ready Every Day Battery Works 143 Water Street- member ‘of the board of park commis- sionérs of the cit yof Norwich, and ati the time of his death was its president. Mr. Fanning Wwas & devout member of St. Patrick'’s Roman Catholic church of Norwich and ‘was active in geveral. Cath-] olic socleties. He served several terms| as president of the Norwich Free Azad- emy Alumni ‘Association, * Apri 12, 1898, he was united in mar- riage With Miss Annie Mullen of Nor/ wich, who survives ‘him, “together with! Paul, who assisted his father office up to his death; Josevh T.| n a student “at -the Worcestar| Polytechnle Institute; Richard and Ea- mund, students ‘at the Norwich Free| Academy? and John, six years of sge.! A sister, Miss Ella A. Fanning of Nor-| wich, and two stepsisters, Miss Emma| F. and Miss Eya I Fanning, of i-ovi- dence, R. L. also survive him. Mr. Fanning pérhaps shiowed at his best in his home life. He was'a loving! and deyoted husband and father and a heloful. loyal and eympathetic' neigkbor and. friend.* In his private, as in s public and professional, life he exem- plified the highest ideals of citizership and patriotism. - He has not alone left us a preclous memory of his worthy deeds, but a lesacy of carefully reared dy ll 'flq o?"t‘:ic fimom Itallan inventive genius, snapped aboard the §. & O n her ...;'?v’.': in New Yo F":- comes here for a. short: visit and will probably return home in. sesii INCORPORATED 1824 A PURELY MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK 'Statemen"t May 31st, 1922 Loans. .. e Bonds: United States .. Foreign Government State and Mumici Public Utility .. Stocks: Bank apd other Banking House . Cash in Banks and Safe Deposits . . . Undivided Profits ASSETS seven $3,964,202.39 1,988,167.38 1,397,575.80 3,733,034.65 360,550.00 170,542.59 550,308.40 - LIABILITIES saavenis bodth o $19/609,638.05 699,381.32 The Par or Maturity Value ‘of Bonds Fxceeds Book Values as above by $1,398,452.56. 8,622,172.94 'THE NORWICH SAVINGS SOCIETY $20,909,017.37 $20,909,017.37 July first we pay our IDéth consecutive semi-annual ,dl" idend. / b i ; ; business day of the month are entitled to in- |}/ y— $5.50 Women’s Tan and Black Sport Oxfords—Special Price. .. 53'95 $6.00 Women’s Russian Calf One-strap Pumps, Cuban or low- heels — “'95 Special>Price o5 < vvein : $6.50. Women’s Patent Leather One-strap Pumps, Cuban or low heels — Special “Price . “'95 $3.50 Women’s Kid Two-strap Sandals, e 5275 || $1.95 $1.95 $1.95 A big assortment of Women’s White Can- med Oxfords—Also a lot of Patent and Gun Metal Pumps. $1.95 $1.95 $1.95 $1.25 Women’s Comfy Slippers — Special Price: ¢ sevess s sws dossnsves m $3.00 Misses’ Fancy Barefoot Sandals, EIK sole — sizes 9 to 2 — fi ‘5 Special Price : 5 i -* |\ §} ~ Broken sizes on Women’s White cos ||