Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-17

There is a persistent effort on the part of the Washington Trust corn- pany, one of the strongest financial institutions in the state to acquire the Otis Chapman building at the corner of Broad street. Including the banking house, the trust company now owns all the poperty fronting on Broad street from the Rhode Island house around Main street to the FenloD building, except the Chapman prop erty. The owners have fixed price and the trust company has made an offer and the difference is said to be $500O. MT. Chapman says the proper ty has been offered to the trust com pany at a lower price than had been offered by an outsider. The own CT is not anxious to sell but would prefer to transfer to the trust com pany than to any individual, believ- ing it to be for the best interests of the town. The Chapman building. as we'll as the two adjoining buildings in Main street are frame structures, three stories high ana all fully rent ed, the ground floors being occupied by the stores of Arthur N. Nash, La Clede Woodmansee, Charles J. Butler George F. Broughton and Milo Clark. Should the Washington Trust com pany acquire the Chapman property, 1t is quite probable that the entire space would >be covered by a large and modern building.
 Attorney John J. Fitzgerald, of Paw tueket, who became quite popular in Westerly, during the five weeks he was here as counsel for Engineer Charles H. Mansfield, who was freed from the charge of manslaughter in connection with the Bradford rail- road wreck. is now defendent in a case. He is sued by Ellen A. Me- Caughey, who alleges that she was struck by MT. Fftzgerald's automo- Bile while she was Tn North Main street, Pawtucl1et, last April. As compensation for alleged injuries re- ceived. she seeks to recover s5,oo0 in defendant is conceded to be the ab1est criminal lawyer in the state. He will be defended by his law partner, Former Governor James H. Higgins.
 There is report to the effect that Chapman farm, so-ca1led, recently purchased by Dr. John Champlain, and located on the Shore road, between the Captain William F. Saunders farm and the Brightman place, or broadly between Watch Hill and new structufe will be built on mod ern plans so that 1t can be occupied at all times, the idea being to utilize it as hotel in the summer, and a boarding or preparatory school for boys the rest of the year. The site should the plan materialize much benefit to Westerly would result.
 Deputy Bird Comm ssfoner Harry M. Kingsley, of Westerly, devotes
 much time in performing the duties of his office and the result is a gen. eral observance of the game laws ir 1o% mafe Tuesday. when he took George E. Cottrell a fellow townsman into custody, and charged him with hunting on posted grounds. MT. Cot trell was haled into the Third Dis trict court, and Clerk Clarence D Judge Oliver H. Williams. Upon ar- raignment MT. Cottrell pleaded gull ty and Acting Judge Roche imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
 Richard B. Mellon, of Pittsburgh
 who recently purchased the William Proctor estate, one of the largest and have many Improvements made to the property during the winter MT Mellon has spent summers on this es- tate for ten seasons before he ac- qHfred ownership. An addition is tc be built to the mansion, and the place
 
 present there is no road worthy the name leading to the mansion, and ii is reached by circuitous route. Mir Mellon is planning to construct 8 concrete driveway from the Watch Hill road to his summer home, which will mean the bridging of York av- enue and considerable abutment work over parts of the rolling land of the estate. This driveway will be sub- | stantially built and will alike or amental and useful The estimated cost is s100,000.
 There was a very large number o1
 Masons in Masonic hall Thursday ev.
 ening at the extraordinary commni-
 cation of Franklin lodge of Westerly | and Pawcatuck lodge of Pawcatuck when the master Mason degree was
 exemplif1ed by the officers of eact Eodge. Special effort was made tc have as many members of each lodge present as was possible and with sue cessful result. After the work a buff fet lunch was served. The specia | guests of the event were Most Wor- Scott, of Rhode Island and Most Wor. | shipful Grand Master Thomas Nc | Kenzie of Connecticut, and the grand officers of the two state jurisdictions The real Rhode Island turkey ha. l been rare bird for many years, bu 1 the several good substitutes are SC near like the real article that ths 1 difference is not appreciabie. Quite l a number of the native turkeys of the | Rhode Island brand sent to president: l by the late Horace Vose were born | bred and killed in old Connecticut | but it was always claimed that there 1 were just as good turkeys in o1t | Kentucky. Not only are the Rhode 1 Island turkeys rare, but so are al 1 others of high degree, and that il perhaps a reason why the price ha.
 scared so high, higher than ever be | fore, and people who can afford tt | have one of these birds for Thanks I giving have cause to grve thanks. One turkey raiser declared or l Thursday: "I have sold my flock a l sixty centc pound dressed, tt a local marketman ana he can't af | ford to sell at less than seventy cent ] i