Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-03
DANIELSoN AND PUTNAM NEWS
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Tens of thousands of dollars in.holiday savings clubs will be released to mem bers Dec. Is. This money will give the Chrstmas shopping period a big boost in Danielson, for the great bulk of the money is saved by several hundred peo- pie each year for the express purpose of meeting holiday shopping expenses
 Treasurer Clifford H. Starkweather of the Danielson Trust company said Fri day morning that bank E.iIl release ap- proximately $30, 900 OH Dec Is, just at the height of the holiday buying period. To this tidy sum will be added thousands of dollars more also saved during the past year by other club members.
 MT. Starkweather stated that the great majority of the members of the Thrift club at the Danielson Trust company are residents of Danielson or villages in tho immediate vicinity although there are 8 goodly number of mepbers in the club who represent other communities in this section of the county. >. If upwards, of $50,00 in holiday saw ings club money is released here week after next, business men will find a stir ring boost in trade, and that appears to be the prospect at the present time. Knowing that theirs is the first oppor- tunity to get this money in trade, though outside competition will be strong local
 business men lave prepared tempting lines of holiday goods and will tell the public about them through the usual me- diums of publicity within the next two weeks
 The savings club habit has become well fixed in Danielson and each year finds the number of members larger. Seeing ] one person with a holiday check resolves others to go and do likewise in the com ing year. it seems.
 It was discovered Friday that William 1 V. Ballard of Brooklyn has two fractures
 of the skull and serious injury affect
 ing bone behind his ear. MT Ballard
 was the companion of Sidney R. Bard of 1 Brooklyn when the car the latter was | driving on the Broo1lyn-Killingiy state road about four weeks ago crashed into I a tree and so dangerously injured MT ] Bard. who is still at the Day Kimbaa | hospital in Putnam.
 Mir Ballard remained seated in tht | wrecked car after the accident, blood
 streaming down his face from a wound
 near his eye. With some assistance ht 1 was able to walk from the wrecked cal l to another machine standing near by anC
 was conveyed to his home in Brooklyn.
 1t was not believed at the time that ht | was seriously injured although it wa realized that the shock of the acciden | was a hard one for a man upwards of 6t years of age to bear
 Since the accident Mir. Ballard has sui | fered dizzy spells and it had been deter ] mined to have X-ray views of his heaC 1 made in the hope that the cause of tn,
 dizziness might be discovered Discover,
 of the fractures, one of which is over hi
 eye. however, seems to reveal the cause
 Mr. Ballard will submit to an operatio,
 later, but at the present time his strengtI
 is not such as to make it advisable.
 Mrs. Ada M. Cornell Leavens, 74, die,
 suddenly during the early hours of Fri
 day morning at the home of John Prio
 in the town of Plainfeld, where she hal
 been living. Mrs. Leavens was very wel ' known in Danieison, where she lived fo many years, also at Wauregan. wher other years of her life were spent Mri Leavens was the widow of Charle Leavens. She was born in Coventry F ! L, daughter of Mir. and Mrs Hoxi 1 Cornell. She leaves son. Frederic Leavens, of Wauregan
 i Another evidence that the climate ( j New England is capable of producin U conditions and effects as improbable a Il the plot of a musical comedy was brougf Il forth Friday when Mrs. w. H. Judson j Academy street displayed three dandt Il lion blooms, picked on the lawn at he U home on Thursday. Dec. 1, and as cheer II ful and colorful as their predecessors
 last spring. Picking dandelion blossom \ within 4S hours after a storm of slet II and snow may not be a unique happer |, ing: but 1t certainly IS far from ordinar Il at this time of year.
 Attorney E. L. Darbie counsel for tf II town of Killingly. received notice on Fr II day that the supreme court of the sta 1 has denied the motion tc erase, entere l by him in behalf of the town. in the ca! of Miss Gertrude A. Wardeil vs. Il l tow nof Killingly. Tn edenial of the m tion by no means finally disposes of u case, for counsel will now appear befo ] the supreme court and argue the issu i est tribunal of the state.
 l The case has been followed for a lol time with the closest attention by hu ] dreds of Killingly residents. Miss Wa 5I dell is suing the town for y5 DOC clair al ing this amount as damages and for To 1t of salary as the result of being, she s leges. summarily dismissed as teacher - music in the schools of Killingly. = Various legal technicalities have fl
 ured in the procedure of the case throu \ the superior and to the supreme court and the end is not yet The case E been a very expensive one. fo rthe tow E as well as for the plaintiff, and whetf II 4t-@ Es-a