Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-08
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
DANIELSoN

 through the state the name of Milton s. Shumway, former associate justice of the supreme, court of Connecticut is being mentioned every time that prospective nominees for the repub- ican choice for governor are discuss ed. While it is too early yet to ver- ture a prediction whom the repub- licans of Connecticut will select. it is known that Judge Shdmway's name is frequently mentioned, and by many republican leaders he is regarded as the logical candidate of his party.
 Years greatest picture, Male. and Female, Majestic theater, Friday and Saturday.-adv.
 Through the efforts of Luther Pil- ing of the General Supply company and the General Eclipse company, two concerns doing business in Danielson, and selling goods all over the Unit ed States the sale of what for many years has been known as the White stone mill property at East Killing iy has been brought about, and the the. transaction means that Ki1lingly. eastern Connecticut's most rapidly growing town, sis going to have an- other new and vaiuabye textile indus try.
 This is the industrial deal that has been hinted at in press items sent out from Danielson during the past week. Through the agreements that have been entered into the Ewing Textile company of New York and Philadel- phia has purchased the Whitestone property from the Winterbottom Bookcloth company, of England, which has owned the plant for sev eral years past. The concern that has taken over the plant is a going 4rrss q ~& T 1 for its products at the present time ufacturing industry different from any doing business here.
 Mir. Filling said Wednesday morn | ing that the company proposes to begin immediately it's plans for put 1 ting the property into such a condi- Iltion as will be necessary for carrying on the business to be done. 1 The reconstruction plans include overhauling the idle mill and renova- tion of the tenement houses and other buildings that are involved in the deal,
 l The fabric to be manufactured is an l improvement over what is popularly I known as Palm Beach cloth. The de- l mand for this fabric always has ex- ceeded the supply, and there is not the slightest indication of any let uI l in this demand. which comes no' I only from the United States, but from all countries where white men live 1T tropic clirnes.
 The new plant will give employ. ment to from 7s to 100 employees, ani it is already indicated that the wag, scale will be sufficiently generous tt attract employees even in competition with the remarkable wage scales nov hainO vao id in y1yyr,hor af tAxfi1a f1f1i, in this vicinity.
 Alfred Pate, who has been the su perintendent of the mill of the Dan, ielson Cotton company up to recent ly, is to be the active and maagins
 head of the Ewing Textile company enterprise here, and this is assur
 ance that the business will be in ca pablo and experienced hands an argues well for it's success. | The property involved in the dea
 includes four story stone mil
 erected about 1858 by Westcott an
 Pray. one of the most successful tex
 tile manufacturing concerns that ha ever done business in Killingly, abou
 dozen dwellings, some of which ar
 blocks, built of stone, and other mi
 dwellings. For several years past thi , property, which has water privileg . developing from 125 to 15o horse 2 power, has been idle. The main pai | of the mill is 160 feet in length b l 50 feet in width, with an addition, tw 5 stories, about 50 feet in length. 3 was originally built as an 156 lool
 plant. considered very much of : Imill in those days before the Civ l war.
 ;. Henry T. westcott and Thoms 1 Pray, members of the firm of West | vsri1 nd 6 y B fortune during the years just prie ,. to the extending through the Civ
 war. Following that great confiis -si the mill was sold, on the advice. g has been since stated, of MT. Wes'
 colt, who was an exceedingly shrew
 manufacturer, and it passed, abo,
 1885, into the hands of Jedediah Lea,
 ems of Norwich, a member of cor s cern that kept in running for abol q 25 years. or until about 1890. d While this concern never made
 great deal of net profit out of il 2 venture, it kept alive an industry th, s meat much to East Killingly, paid ol
 many scores of thousands of dollars
 payrolls and left it's mark upon u 4 industrial history of the town { Killingly.
 ' The company in which MT. Leave, fl was interested was known as u | W n1tCStOAO OOiAlpdIiy, dIlu that nan < has since clung to the property. no 's withstanding that the America
 Woolen company now has a mill 2 Elmville, in this town, on what ,
 known as the Whitestone Ca corru,
 tion of Whitestone) brook register,
 as the Whitestone Woolen company
 With the passing of the Whitestol
 companly in which MT. Leavefis W.
 interested the property reverted
 Miss Elizabeth Westcott of Daniel
 son, an heir of Henry T. Westco
 There was not much activity at tl
 plant for several years, but finally.
 1904. it was sold by Frank T. Prest,
 an sxecutor of the will of Miss We
 colt, to F. O. Davis, a real esta
 agent of Pomfret, and on the sar
 day transferred to M. H. Marcus al
 Brother of New York, who success
 fully engaged in the manufacture Il sta;rpads, comfortables and other pr
 ducts. This concern operated ~ t
 plant until 1909.
 Following the departure of t
 Marcus company, which removed
 business elsewhere, there came to t
 plant the Whitestone Bleaching a = Dyeing company, the concern I Fl (centinued on Page ii, Column 5)