Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-17
WESTERLY TAXES COMING IN
Collector James B. Pendeton Has Already Received
Davis C. Anderson's VIII Offered for Probate
Watch Hill Property Left Wife-Lorenzo Sisson
Committed to State Worlhouse-The New Building of
the industrial Trust Company.

Collector OF Take Eugene B. Pend1e-
ton announced yes ~-day that thus far
about $4,000 of the annual tax assess
ment had been collected. The collec-
will continue throughout the remand
er OF the month. The poll taxes are
being collected by Walter Wheeler.
recital in the Methodist church audi
toriun last evening. assisted by Vir-
ginia Grilley, harpist. Both proved to
be ENJOYABLE entertainers. It was the
second in q series Of entertainments
given under the direction of the Meth
odist Church choir. There was good
attendance.
Judge Edward M. Burke presided at
the regular session of the probate
court yesterday afternoon when the
will of the late Davis G. Anderson, a
summer resident of Watch Hill. was
drawn up in Cincinnati. Ohio. in 1890
s snd was lSsTa s ss nank and %
Drawson Wilson. Judge Burke APP
pointed Ralph H. mott of Cincinnati to
take dispositions of Mr.. SURE and Mr..
Schwartz The property at Watch
| Hill owned by the deceased was left
| to his wife. The petition that the
| will be admitted to probate was con-
tinued to the next session of the court,
February s.
l. Upon a petition presented Joseph
Murphy was appointed guardian in the
estates of Jessie Williams, Mary Will
| Jams, Nora Williams King and Mary
| Williams Rathbun. children of Nora B.
Williams. Bonds were fixed at $500
Arthur l.. Perry was appointed ap-
| praiser. Inventories were ordered rec
orded in the estates of Nora. B. Will
| Jams, Francis H. Hobson. Simon J.
| Reuter- and Thomas Boardman,
The first payment of the bonus to
Adams Express company employees
| who have been with the company one
year and whose salaries are under 81
/ 900 has been made.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Beebe sailed
yesterday from New York for Jack
| sonville, Fla, where they will spend
| the remainder of the winter.
! Lorenzo Sisson was sent to the state
| Workhouse yesterday BIZ Judge Oliver
| Fl. Williams of the Third District court
| for being an idle and dissolute person
| without visible means of support. Sis
| son made application on Wednesday
| night for lodging at the lookup, and his
request was granted.
AS a benefit for the Exchange for
| Woman's work song recital is to be
given at the home of Mrs. John
Champ1in on Granite street. Miss
Hazel Treat of Providence is to be the
so1oist for the evening.
There was good attendance Tues
day evening in the high school hall at
the production of tom Thumbs We'd
ding in which local children partici-
pated, the entertainment being given
under the auspices of the Phebe Greene
Ward chapter, Daughters of the Amer
fcan Revolution.
The magnificent granite structure,
the new home of the Industrial
ITust company's Westerly branch,
was opened for business on Monday
morning, the shift from the temper
airy quarters in the Dixon House block
on Broad street being made after
banking hours Saturday.
The building is constructed of Yves
terly red granite and cut finer than
usual in public buildings. 1t will
stand for long time as monument
of Westerly material and labor.
Inside, the building is thoroughly
equipped to meet the requirements.
not only of today, but for many years
to come. The public lobby has a
floor of marble and is provided with
mahogany settees, with desks of
| bronze and glass. The counter is
constructed of marble and of bronze.
All the clerical force is arranged in
separate cages with working space
at the rear where there is a book
| vault with suitable furniture of steel
and massive fire proof door. In the
VeStibule at the entrance of the build
ing, the name of the institution is
shown in bronze letters sunk into the
marble DOR. At the right of the YES
| tibule is the managers consulting
| room; at the left of the vestibule are
separate rooms with accompanying
| lavatories for the use of both men
| and women customers.
At the south side of the building in
| a wing by itself are the safe deposit
vaults and individual booths for those
using the safe deposit boxes. These
are all screened and protected from
the public space by a heavy bronze
grill. Each door to the booths auto
| matically remains open the moment
| a customer leaves them, so that a
| glance will show to the attendant that
/ they are empty.
The vault itself is the latest design
in burglar proof protection, the out
side door being of man ganese steel,
weighing over IL tons, IL inches thick,
in addition to the bolt work and nom