Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-01
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
DANIELSON


 The last day of the year brought the announcement of one of the most important real estate transactions, outside of transfers of mill property, conSummated here in many years the sale by William S. Brown of the Orpheum theater to John F, Lewis, who has directed the house for, the past six years.
 Mir. Lewis, in purchasing, acted for the Lewis Brown Theater circuit, of which he is the head. This circuit op- crates the Princess theater at Bristol, Conn.,, and the Palace at Rockville in addition to the Orpheum theater here and negotiations are now underway for still another theater in New En- gland city.
 Since leasing the orpheum theater six years ago Mir. Lewis has made his headquarters in Danielson and has met with deserved success, win- ming the good will of the public through his courtesy and his willing ness to cooperate with the public in many ways, especially during the war when the house always was available for benefits and other entertainments and meetings intended to further the national programme at that time.
 MT. Lewis said Wednesday after noon that he will make no changes ill the theater at present, but later will do some redecoratjnG of the building, as well as making other desired i'm provements.
 William s. Brown, who disposed of the theater to the Lewis Brown cir cult, is one of a very small group of Danielson business men who, in the past decade, have had sufficient vision and courage to invest in Danielson's future, and MT. Brown has with the close of 1919 reaped some of the f. | nanciaI rewards that always accrue to those who combine ,and abiding faith. combined with good business judgment, in the future of their own 1 home towns.
 While no figures were given out as 1 to the price at which the theater sold | there is every reason to believe that the transaction tops all others thai have occurred in the Danielson req estate market. aside from sales of mil /. property in the past dozen years ol longer.
 {! It was only eight years ago that MT
 Brown, believing in Danielson's fu- l ture and fully alive to the opportu- | mites that were then really opening 1 for motion picture exhibitors, backed his judgment that a theater in Dan ielson would be a paying investment l by taking what had for years been the ] big Attawaugan hotel stables, moving 1 the structure from one site on the hotel property, which he then owned 1 to another site, on Center street an( converting it into a theater. MT Brown tells his friends today that ht had to strain his financial credit ant risk lifetime of savings on the ven. 1 ture, but he felt that he was righ' and. with his characteristic ahund ance of energy and executive ability he went ahead with the work, no l bothered by a solitary misgiYing, anC
 carried it to completion.
 The years have proved that hi judgment was correct, and DanielSon
 which today would feel lost witheu 1 it's theater. thanks him generously fo his initiative and acknowledges it's in l debtedness to him for many pleasan l evenings at the theater, and for all O
 those that are to come.
 'T am going to close out all of rny 1 real estate holdings" Mir Brown sait Wednesday afternoon in discussin, | will soon be rid of my flno stock farm with it's herd of thoroughbred IIol
 steins, at Central Village, and the six dwellings that I own on Water street. When have disposed of thes, will give my attention to a bushes. l program that will put into opera 1 tion here"
 Mir. Brown is one of the most sue. 1 cessful and daring of the Danielsor l business men of the past quarter cen. tury. Starting out only with hi' l health and strength and an extraordi.
 nary good business head, he has. de, | spite all handicaps, accumulated 2 comfortable fortune, and is still in tht i full flower of manhood.
 His recipe for success ia. WORK 1 Gall capital letters) and use you 1 head" He applies 1t. No man work. harder than MT. Brown, and he reg ularly indulges in the most ardueu; and menial labers attendant upel running a big stock farm.
 1 Though he has been living at th, Shepherd hll farm at Central Vii.
 lage for several years, he is alway, regarded as Danielson man, for h, spent the greater part of his life her, and has made his real success here.
 At the opening of this year. he vii receive an opep-hearted and genera
 expression of the seasons wish-l
 Happy and Prosperous New Year! l Miss Mary Dexter, one of Daniel
 sons oldest residents and a woman o
 8 great many virtues, died Wednes
 day morning at her home on Proa,
 street. She had been an invalid fa years and for the past two years he
 condition, at various times, has ap parently so critical as to practical,
 preclude hope of her recovery. Yet
 notwithstanding her advanced year
 and her fast ebbing strength, she ral
 lied from various dangerous period
 of her illness and wa spared to liv
 practically through to the close of tn year.
 Miss Dexter was born at Elmvine the daughter of Jonathan and Sophi
 Foote Dexter, Sept. g, 1928. her fam fly having been identified with Xii