Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-27

i day noon for New York from which
 city she will sail on Saturday for Ger many where she is to make her home. l Miss Borhauer will enter that country 1 by the way of Holland. Since the war
 she has been anxious to return to Ger
 many where she has relatives. They now write that conditions there are such 1 that she can take the trip, and hlve no l trouble after reaching the other side. l All of the children of windham county | temporary home were entertained Thurs day afternoon at Roseland park, Wood stock. by members of the Putnam lodge of Elks. The youngsters were taken 10 the park in the automobiles of mem bers, and there everything possible was done to give them good time. pie nic lunch was served under the direction of E. E. Robbins,
 Carl Anderson of Putnam left Thurs day for trip to Sweden. He has been in this country for nine years and this is his first visit to his old home.
 States Attorney Charles E. searIs of Putnam and Thompson will some day this week reach the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the bar of the state of Connecticut. It is possible that We'd nesday was the anniversary day, al- though it may have been Thursday, or even today. lFriday) That Mir. Searls has been practicing law in Putnam for a half century this week. there is no question. and the only thing that can't be established is the exact day of the week on which he was admitted to the profession. On Wednesday, for the first time he learned that there is no record as far as can be established here that he was ever admitted to practice It would seem that court officials were not as apinstaking and particular about their entries fifty years back as they are in this twentieth century and were not always careful to put down in black and white for the benefit of posterity such routine matters as the admission of young attorney to practice. Hence it is that a search of the records avail able at the office of the clerk of the Windham county superior court fails to show the day of the year on which the present states attorney was made a member of the bar of which he is now the acknowledged dean.
 On Thursday MT. Searls recalled his examination and admission to practice TT went down to Brooklyn in August. 1S70." he said, and it was there that I was admitted. The term Of the court opened on the fourth Tuesday of the month, which would correspond to fifty years ago last Tuesday I did not go down that day, but I did make the trip on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of that same week Which of the three days it was l can't remember exactly"
 According to Mir SearIs Judge Lafay- ette Foster was holding the court. and Uriel Fuller was acting as clerk. T can recall but two members of the commit tee that examined me- said Mir. Searls. One of the lawyers was John J. Pen rose and the other was Judson M. Lyon. During the noon recess 1 was questioned for about a half an hour They asked me if l knew what law was, and if was q college graduate. and then broad ened out little. That was about all there was to it in those days. At the afternoon session of the court I was sworn in" MT. Searls recalled to mind the difference in the procedure of admit tance to the bar then and now The present student must go to New Haven Or Hartford and there submit to a long