Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-11
WESTERLY DEFENDANT WINS CASE
In Suit of Sherman Company Baggs-Three Mills Busy $7,OO0 Fire State Fish Hatchery-Doctors to Charge More-Horace F. Dodge Suffers Shock.

Sherman Sons company vs. Joseph E.
 Baggs, suit to recover about $2,oOO
 on book account and including an un-
 paid note of $1.000, was completed in
 county, at the court house on Union
 street, Wednesday afternoon. Judge
 Chester W. Barrows rendering a yer
 dict in favor of the defendant. The
 court found that in the transfer of cer-
 tain property belonging to Joseph E.
 Baggs and his wife, Annie Baggs,
 there was no fraudulent act commit
 ted by the parties, as charged in the
 bill of complaint
 Mrs. Baggs was the most important
 witness for the defense to testify on
 Wednesday. She stated that she had
 leased lot at Pleasant View of Cap
 tain William F Saunders and his wife, Alzada Saunders. in 1905, and that three years later she purchased the
 property with her own money. She
 need was made out to her. She denied knowing anything about her husband working for Captain Saunders and talk ing out a part of the payment on the lot in labor. According to evidence introduced in the case this property had been transferred to John Joyce, Jr., and he in turn deeded it to the son of the defendant, Joseph H. Baggs. Jr. It was through the transfer of the property that the plaintiff claim ed that fraud had been committed on the grounds that the defendant had tried to avoid paying the bill. John Joyce. Jr.. stated on the stand that he had loaned Baggs money from time to time and that he took the property as surety. In cross examination he stated that he did not take any notes for the money loaned Bags nor did he make any account of 1t, but was satisfied when he took the deed of the property that it covered the amount he had loaned the defendant. Abel P, Randall testified in rebutta1 that he talked with Bags at the railroad sta ton some time ago and that he told him that he had fixed it so that the R. A. Sherman Sons company would not get satisfaction and that they were trying ao put him out of business.
 Judge Edward M. Burke and Attor- | the defendant and Swan and Thatcher
 of Providence for the plaintiff
 Wednesday afternoon the case of James Bogal vs. The Westerly Light 1 & Power company, a suit to recover | damages under the workingmen's s tried without a jury and is the last l one assigned for this term of the court which has been in session since the 17th of February.
 Tn spite of the fact that many of the factories in Westerly are running on short time, three of the mills in | town have received large orders which will require them to run nearly on | full time for several weeks at least
 The William Clark thread mill, which 1 has been running but 32 hours a week has increased its schedule of hours
 to 45 a week, running eight hours daily | and five hours on Saturday. The Wes- l terly Narrow Fabric mill is running ! with 8 day and night gang and has l enough work ahead to keep its helr busy for the next six months. The 1 mill of the Lorraine Manufacturing g 1 company is also running on full time l now.
 The house, barn and garage of Fred Hoxsie, superintendent of the Rhode Island fish hatchery at Carolina burn l ed to the ground Wednesday morning I The garage contained two automobiles which were destroyed. Only few
 articles were saved from the house
 The loss is estimated at about s7,o00 | The fire is said to have originated in | the barn from spontaneous combus- 1 tion.
 The physicians of Westerly are planning to make raise in prices the l first of May. It is understood that
 prices within the two mile limit al $1.50 each. while in the past the house
 calls have been $L25 for the first mile with a reduction of ten per cent. ii
 the bill was paid within a certain time
 and 50 cents additional for every mile
 over the one mile limit. The physi- l clans claim that the new schedule was
 in many ways a failure and that prac-
 tfcally since 1870 they have worked
 under the same schedule of prices, $1 within the mile limit and 50 cents ex-
 tra for all calls over that mileage. The
 schedule to be adopted by the doctors will virtually mean that all calls with | in the two mile limit will be $150 an6 I office calls will be $1.o0 The doctors took action on the new schedule o1 prices at the last meeting.
 In a tuq-of-war contest held Wed
 nesday evening at the rooms of the p. S. Barber Hose company on Lib. erty street, the Norwich & Westerly Traction company five outpulled the
 f1remen In two straight pulls, winning
 each contest by inches. The Nor
 wich 6 Westerly team was made up o1
 F. Perkins, A. Grey, E. Rogue, A. J DRUNKENNESS
 is a curable disease, which require. NT