Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27

1 Miss Harriet Ware Sti1lman, the last l member of the ancient StiAman Tan 1 ner family, of Westerly, died Monday in Attleboro, Mass, at the home Of C. Clifford Bradford, where she had re- I sided for the past 14 years Miss Stlll- man was born in Ashaway Jan- [, lSSS I the only daughter and eldest child ol l the family of Ephraim StiMman and Hannah Tanner Stillman. She sur vived her five brothers, Charles Ed l ward, Albert, Horatio Berry, Elias An son and Orsemus Horatio StiNman She possessed unusual natural talent 1! and was among the first to own 8 !: piano in Westerly, which was first in
 troduced in the town in ,1S3O- Miss , St1llman'S talents were d1verSlned, as sEe mastered several languages. taught school and music, wrote poetry and !: prose for publication, was the author ] of text books for schools and was painter of considerable merit. She re- taihed all her faculties to the last She to th9Eeninutc on crrent events, and a}tho 4RE in her e5th year, operated a typewriter.
 Miss Stiiinlan was admitted to mem
 bership ir the Pawcatuck Seventh
 Day Baptist church Nov. 2S, 1S46, over
 70 years ago.
 She had a half-sister, Mary Adelaide
 Stillman, wife of William Burlington,
 who died in North Stonington in 1855, and half-brother, Horace Stillman, who died in Westerly m 1S27- Her father married Mary Tanner, and after her death her sister, Hannah Tanner. the mother of Miss Harriet Ware Still man and her five brothers
 An adjourned session of the superior court for Washington county will con- vene in Westerly today, when Judge John w. Sweeney will preside at a session of the court for the first time
 in his old home town When the V faxv years ago he sat on the bench with Judge Brown during the interesting ceremony.
 These cases are on the trial docket:
 John c. Tucker, Martha S. Cross Frank H. Kenyon, Louis G. Tucker, John T. Barber, Alfred J. Richards, Charlotte J. Andrews Ezra B. Rogers and George H. Clarke, all separate Haven and Hartford Railroad com pany, damage cases caused by forest fires, alleged to have been caused by locomotive sparks; S. M. Sosner against Abram Leibowitz: Bessie NJ. Fancher against Frank c. Nichols; Edgar w. Sisson against Walter s. Mills, action to recover for death of son killed by an automobile; David Syme against Archibald McNei1 of Bridgeport, for amount alleged to be due in the construction of a, cottage al Musicolony; Sebastian Manero against Angelo Gulino; Frank w. Coy Real Estate company against James M. Pendleton, treasurer of the town of Westerly. in regard to breach of agree ment on the part of the town in re- placing embankment wall in connec- ton with the improvement of the Shore road highway; George J. Booka- taub against Dr. Henry l.. Johnson, action for damage by reason of being run down by automobile: Laura Gal lucio against Louis Gentle; Hattie E. Sheffield against Washington Trust company, administrator: Emma J. Davis against her divorced husband, J. Frank Davis, relative to repairs on dwelling house: Louis Deutsch against Char-es Goldberg, in connection with an assault committed fQ the Jewish synagogue; Jacob Catto against Mi chael Panciera; Josiah F. Broadfoot against Albert E. Wilkinson; Authur Drubelle against Alvin Rodnan claim for alleged damage to automobile taken without leave; Charles Goldberg against Louis DeutSch, counter claim for assault; R. A. Sherman Sons com pany against Enilias De Pietro; Gardner T. Kenyon against Louis L. Hart ct al; Charles D. Chapman estate against New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, to recover to have origin in spark from a To- comotive.
 It is evident that the jurors drawn for the session at Kingston are not all qualified for the Westerly session, as the town clerk was called upon to sup ply six. more jurors from Westerly These were selected and summoned to appear in court this morning by Town Sergeant Herbert P. Clark: James ReaIe William H. Briggs, John Smith. Abraham L. Olmstead, James Cato and Frederick L. Champion.