Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-28
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Tuesday morning dignided gentle I man was seen to walk 7solemnly up the stairs of the First National, Bank build l ing, now in the process of reconstruc- tion, turn. about and walk solen1nly l down again. Within 3 few minutes af- ter the gentleman, who was the last l man to walk down, had reached the bottom step workmen engaged in tear l ing out the interior of the building had wrecked that flight of stairs and they were no more. The gentleman was Judge Lucius H, ] Fuller, for over half a century resi- l dent of Putnam, but those who saw him go up the old flight of stairs and walk ] down again did not realize that 1t was solemn ceremony of farewell.
 The judge came to Putnam back in l 1868 and within a few months after his arrival in town, where he established an insurance business, he leased the whole of the second story of the bank
 building. the National and Savings 1 banks being comh:aed on the ground l floor. The late G. W. Phillips also had
 a law office with Judge Fuller but soon built an office adjoining his residence on l Church street.
 Judge Fuller leased a part of his hold | ings to the late County Sheriff Charles | H. Osgood. Another occupant of the floor at the time was Attorney Charles E. Searls, now State Attorney and dean of the Windham County bar. For six years the top floor of the bank build ] ing was so occupied. When the depos- l it's of the Putnam Savings bank reach l ed the half million mark it. was re- 1 quired by law to have quarters of .ts own so the tenants above had to vacate to make way for the savings bank.
 When Judge Fuller saw that the old 1 stairway was soon to be removed he told the contractor in charge that he would like very much to be the last per- 1 son to walk down the old stairs. H. ! thought little more about it but the con- tractor did not foret the request and when the time came, Tuesday morning,
 to rip out the stairway, he called Judge 1 Fuller to carry out his the judge's) wish and 1t was carried out according 1 ly. i Judge Fuller retired from the city court bench when he reached the age ] limit. During his half century in Put
 nam he has had. a hand in moulding the ] city and town. He was instrumental in getting waterworks, electric lights, was l the first republican mayor of! Putnam when it became a city, is a past noble i grand of the Grand Lodge of Odd 5F'.1-
 lows and has been district deputy of the
 district of the Masonic order. He" hal
 represented the town in the lower house of the general assembly and. the district
 in the senate Every public movement l since he came to Putnam has had hi: hearty support and cooperation and h. | has been instrumental in getting new
 industries to locate here. His name i! l closely interwoven with the history oi
 the town and city for the past hall century and he is known to every ,citi zen of Putnam and widely knowY
 throughout the state. >, z1
 The condition of George McDOnald the lumber-iack who had his s:fact crushed by falling tree in a -yoodlo
 at North Woodstock, Tuesday morning ] remains about the same. '5
 Malcolm Wiley, student at Colcmbis
 University, who is spending the holida!
 with his grandmother. Mrs. A. W. Mac
 donald. Oak Hill, was in Hartford l Wednesday, to do some research worl
 at the state library. .
 | Mrs N. W. Kennedy of Eastford. wht
 has been abroad where she visited rel atives in England. has returned home Miss Marion Shea of Worcester |
 the guest of Mrs. A. S. Macdona:d.- Oal Hill
 J. Harry Mann returned Tuesday eve
 ming from spending Christmas with. hi
 daughter, Mrs. Howard Knight, Bridge