Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-23

I be brought immediately to secure pos
 session of the property.
 | The physical position of the property
 was pointed out and it was shown that
 the alleged Celia property was claimed 1 to be within the railroad property lines.
 If the line as pointed out is adhered to | 1t means the taking of more land in i that vicinity upon which houses are now constructed.
 1 Deputy Sheriff William H. Casey was called and the workmen were elected | from the premises by force and the entrance to the cellar locked and bar red This is considered as a skirmish | to the battle to decide whether the property is owned by Louis Celia or l the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad company.
 The roon1 occupied by the Mechan- ] ics' Savings bank in the Barber Memo- rial building was besieged by deposit l DTS Wednesday eager to secure the 10 per cent. dividend made possible by the good management of Alexander c. 1 Thompson as treasurer and trustee, aided by a conscientious board of di- rectors. The bank went into liquida- I tion in 1900 and soon thereafter from the sale of the cream of the invest ments dividend of 25 per cent was promptly paid. In 1902 Mir. Thompson ! took entire charge of the affairs of the | bank and since then there has been payment of three other dividends of l 20, 10 and 10 per cent, making a total l of 70 per cent. It is the ambition of ] the officers of the bank to pay all the
 depositors in full> and with interest.
 and it is believed that this end can | finally be achieved.
 Illustration of the work being done can perhaps be best shown by what is | being accomplished by one of the di- | rectors, Charles ". Willard, who has | direct charge of orange grove and hotel property in the south. MT. Willard has greatly improved the orange groves that were not worth a dollar an acre when the bank went into liquidation The first year the crop did not yield a profit of $100, but by improvements | made by MT. Willard the groves have been richly productive and a consid- erable amount of money is earned for | the depositors of the bank. When Mir. | Willard took charge of the hotel prop
 erty the buildings were dilapidated and l the grounds neglected. He made grad ual improvements and made the non productive, property productive. Now | in the near vicinity of this hotel prop l erty wealthy people from the north and west are building handsome sum- | mer homes, and there is bright pros
 poets of increased value in the hotel pIOpeIly WHen lile tune IS ripe 10 sell. | The bank has 1929 depositors; of | this number 128 have deposits between | $500 and s1,000. 67 have deposits of 1 $1,000 and upwards and the largest in i dividual amount of deposit is $5,613.S5. The bank building of the Washington Trust company, one of the oldest and 1 most substantial if not the largest and
 most imposing is to be enlarged and | improved. The general exterior archi- | tectural appearance of the building will not be changed. The trust com pany has acquired from William Segar l land in the rear of the bank building and approximately large extension will be added to the structure as soon
 as there is actual transfer of the ad- ditional property. The growth of busi- | ness of the trust company and the at tendant increase in working force has
 made this proposed enlargement neces- sary.