Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-25
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

 Attorney Harry E. Back of Daniel l son. for the defence in the case Of Arthur B. La psley vs. William Dunn, suddenly fell to the. floor as he was leaving the counsel table following the granting of a non-suit by Judge | Haines of the superior court. shortly
 after the noon receSS, Wednesday. |
 Judge Back was taken to the judge |
 room and placed on a couch pr D. 1
 J. Russell was summoned and treat 1
 ed Judge Back and he was able to ! leave the court room. An attack of acute indigestion was the cause Of a fit of dizziness The case was be- gun to jury soon as court NH3s opened in the morning. The plain | tiff asked for s1o.000 damages for in jury to his apple orchard in Pomfret from fire on the afternoon of March l 18th, 1919, alleging that the fire was negligently set the adjoining land of the defendant by himself or agent. l MT. Laps1ey testified that he did not come to his farm until May That the farm consisted of 200 acres and John Lawson was caretaker. He noticed damage in the orchard upon his arriv Lawson testified that he saw a fire 1 on the Dunn place, which adjoins the La psley place about 1.30 o'clock in the afternoon The wind blowing hard and the fire rapidly swept to- wards the Lapsley farm, although hard fight was made. it shept through
 the orchard and was not extinsuished until 430 o'clock He said that 659 apple trees were destroyed. Fayette Wright of Pomfret said he viewed the orchard and found tha 25o Wealthy apple trees had been de stroyed: also 300 larger apple trees, i
 and 100 Ben Davis trees. He esti- mated the damage at s5.223, and this he said was the minimum. and did not l take into considera tion trees tha
 were only slightly damaged.
 Court adjourned at one o'clock and resumed at two o'clock. A motion was entered for a non
 suit on the ground that far the l evidence disclosed there was nothing l
 to connect the defendant with the fire
 as no agency had been established. ! The motion was granted.
 Fabric Shop. formerly Chadwick's
 store. opens today. all day. We save you money on fabrics. See display adv this page.-adv. A trolley car ran from Wilkinson street down Grove and onto South Main street Wednesday morning. When the car rounded the corner of Grove street the trolley pole came off and the car came to a stop south of the railroad staation. On account of the roadway being torn up on Grove street a transfer is made by passeng CTS. The car that goes north waits at the foot of Wilkinson street on Grove street, which is at the top of hill. The car was left standing alone and started down the hill The men in charge chased after the car which gained in speed but made the corner. After the trolley left the wire the lost momentum and the crew overlook it.
 There was much interest among the | clerks of this city in the announce ment from Webster that the mer- chants of thaat town had voted to give 1 their clerks Wednesday afternoons a i half holiday all the year round This f0lIn ring +In 1 chants of that town had voted to give l Chamber of Commerce to grant the l clerks petition for the continuance of 1 Thursday afternoon closing all the | year round has caused some discus l sion as to how the matter is regard 1 ed by employers in other places about 1 the size of Putnam.
 1 The executive committee of the i Parent-Teachers' association is to hold i a meeting at the israel Pu+sarn school Monday afternoon to discuss i plans for the school year. The com i mittee will give consideration to the ! various matters that the association l has in charge. Last year special at 1 tention was devoted to child welfare and this will not be neglected this ] year.
 MT. and Mrs. W F. Smalling and l son, Clayton. expect to move to Nor folk. Va about the fifth of October. Misses Sylvia and Elizabeth ] Wheelock. daughters of MT and Mrs l D. M. WheelOck, of Church street. left Wednesday morning, the former to enter Putnam Hall school, Poughkeap- 1 sic, N. Y. and the latter to enter the Mary Lyon school. Swathmore Pa MT. and Mrs A. D. Lown Mrs Lewis | T. Champlin, Mrs William Fs Penny l Mrs. Andrew Frost and Mrs B " Andrews went to Norwich WednaS- ! day to attend a meeting at Trinity 1 Episcopal church, to discuss the, work of the parish and the naatinn-wide campaign.
 I John Jamin, an Armenian of North Grosvenordale, is at the Day-KinlbaI i hospital Putnam, with four bullet i wounds in his body and is in a critical | condition. Officers of the town of Thompson are securing the country surrounding North GrosvenordaIe try- 1 ing to locate Qamale Stickey. also an Armenian. alleged to have fired the Snots into Iamin's back, about 6:3eI 1 ednesday evening, soon after la
 min stepped from a trolley car. Ca male IS said to have come from Wat 1 erbury and it is believed that he is a gambler who goes from one milk village to another, wherever there are
 Armenians
 Last Sunday Stickey and Jamin sot into heated argument at baseball game and apparently Sti6key rf11rsed pad feeling for when Jamin sfeDned rom the car at North CsrosyenordaIe Wednesday evening Stickey was there |