Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-05

passing the holiday with their families at Pleasant View, R. I.
 Sidney Hayward has gone to Juniper Point, Me, to nass the remainder of the season at the summer home of MT. and Mrs. G. Harold Gilpatric.
 Funeral services for George A. sharpe, 77, native of Abingdon, and for many
 .ars resident there. were held Sunday iT Providence. with burial in Upton cem- etery. MT. Sharpe died Thursday in Providence, R. l.
 Miss Nellie G. Stone. teacher in New buryport, Mass. is at the home of her mother, Mrs. w. 5. Stone, Sunnyside, for the summer vacation.
 The little station at Elicit, in the town of Pomfret, was packed to over flowing Saturday morning by interested residents of that section of Windham county who gathered to give testimony before Charles C. Elwell of the public utilities commission, which was conduct ing a hearing as the result of a notice given by the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad that this station is to be made flag stop only. and the agent removed. The residents of Elliott WerS represented by Attorney Charles L. Torrey of Putnam. At the opening of | the hearing a deed. dated SsS. was in- i troduced by Attorney Torrey by which ! it was shown that the land uDeI which | the station stands was sold to the rail- road by. Ira Elliott with the understand | ing that the company should erect a | freight and passenger depot there While the decd said nothing concerning the dis continuance of the station, Mir. Torrey maintained that the spirit of the docu. ment was that it should always be main, tsined. and that the railroad was Endes a moral contract to do So.
 Miss Ernestine Hoguet. a summer resi- dent, told Commissioner Efwen that witl the station closed freight. baggage ant parcel post has to be left at Abingdon two and a half miles away, which was ! great detriment 10 her as wen as to tn, other residents of the neighborhood.
 Walter Bryden. a member of the leg islature from Pomfret and town officer told the commissioner that land values il Elliott would shrink 50 per cent if ade quate service were not given by the rail road. He said that he has a standini offer to sell his farm. but when the new 1 spread that the station was to be mad a non-agent stop the parties concerne, notified him that the offer was off H l further testified that 10 families hav bought summer residences in Elliott re gently, and that there are seriously in convenienced by the fact that they woul not be able to get baggage or freigh adequately. He also stated that whil the railroad claimed that they rer closing the station because of econo-ni reasons, he knew that they had taken tn Elliott agent and transferred him to An
 ington. station where formerly on agent had done all the work He coul not understand why two men were need ed at Abingdon, and suggested that on man be kept at each station, with sery ic
 10 both parts of the town. He also tes
 tifed that the agent at Elliott had acte
 as guard at the grade crossing near ti
 station. and with the agent remove
 great danger would result from the. UT guarded crossing.
 Mrs. Kate Goffe testified that she ha
 seen one accident averted through tf
 work of the agent. and thought that tf crossing should be guarded. Mrs. When