Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-20
DAVKEISON AND PUTNAM NEVIS
PUTNAM


 The building at fire Headquarters isl practically in readiness for the coming of the new notor-driven hook and lad der truck which is expected within al week or so With the arrival of this piece of apparatus the department win have the best equipment in it's history With the installation of the water works, back in the sos. the old hand pump was relegated to the retired list and hand reel hose carts were substituted When the horse-drawn hose wagon and hook and ladder truck were installed it was thought the acme Of perfection had been reached. Livery stables in time gave place to garages and soon it was im- possible for the city to hire horses to haul fire apparatus to g fire. Then came the first notor-dfiven hose truck This was followed by q second Horses were still available to draw the hook aud ladder truck and this was retained. the city that horses would not be long. CT furnished to draw the ladder truck Then city officials attempted to have the voters appropriate a sufficient sum to buy motor-driven hook and ladder truck. On account Of conditions inside and outside of the department at that time the appropriation was twice voted down. Since the new administration came in. matters have been adjusted and harmony brought about and at the third special city meeting the appropriation went through. A Packard hook and lad der truck of the latest type has been ordered for some months and Is due to arrive in a short time. Since the city received notice that horses would not be furnished. the department has been without available ladders at fires. Due to this there has been at least one loss occasioned large enough to pay for a truck and it has only been by good for | tune that more serious losses have not occurred, firenen being unable to reach roofs or second or third stories until l from somewhere ladders were borrowed. When the new truck arrives the de- partnlentS apparatus will consist ol complete motor equipment, including Truck No. 1. at fire Headquarters on Union square; Truck No, 2, at the Smith street fire station, and the hook and ladder truck at fire headquarters. The whole apparatus is so located as to be able to reach any point in the city in a very short time. Whether or not the bringing of the department to this high standard will have any effect on insur- ance rates in the city remains to be seen but 1t has been intimated that ii will have such effect
 Judge George E. Hinman, oR the su. perior court, has handed down a decis- ion setting aside the will of Thomas Mofitt of Putnam, on the ground that at the time the will was executed testa. tor was not of sufficient mind to have testamentary capacity. By the setting aside of the win the two daughters oi the testator will realize from his es. tate.
 The will was executed in 1901. After making two small bequests to sisters of the testator, the residue of the estate amounting to about $7.o0o was left with instructions that the whole amount bs used to erect monument to testator ir Abingdon cemetery
 The daughters, Mrs. Mary A. Carpen ter and Mrs. Flora H. Durfee, appealat from the probate court and the case wal tried at Putnam last Friday. Wit nesses testified to knowing MT. Mofat for from 30 to 50 years and all express ed the opinion that he was not of Euffi cient intelligence to understand the ef feet of making will or to have in mine the nature and extent of his property.
 Luther M. Keith who has a raonu nent works, testified that the Mofitt To was about sx20 feet and that a 1nonu | NSoeAAA8 lars would be out of all proportions. H. said that a thousand dollars would cree a suitable monument
 Lewis F. Battey, executor of the will was represented by Attorney Charles L Torrey and the appellants by Attorney J. F. Carpenter and A. S. Macdonald.
 Miss Ruth Child, daughter Of Mrs Annie Child, returned Monday to M, Holyoke college, where she is to be al instructor in the department of Eng fish.
 For the first time in tive seasons,
 road attraction played at the Bradle, theater Monday night. Irene, the popu lar musical success. pleased an audi ence that completely fi1led the thsatel The company was good, played wit
 considerable viEor, and seemed to Gn3o
 the evening fully as much as did tn
 audience. The production was weI
 staged, and the costumes were fresh an
 attractive. Dale Winter, who playe
 the title role. received immense appiaus for her singing and dancing number:
 The company carried it's own orchestr
 which added to the success of the eve
 ming.
 Miss Hazsl Comvexss, danRhtcr a
 Henry L. Converse, left Putnam Tue. day for New London where she is en b . a student at Connecticut College. Max Cohen. who for a number C 1 years has conducted a Main street sho
 store. died at his home Tuesday morn ing, following a surgical operation. Tn body was taken Tuesday afternoon { the Hebrew synagogue where a servic , was held, after which 1t wss conveye to Norwich for burial in the Hehre'
 cemetery at Brewsters Neck. MT. G hen leaves his wife and six small chi
 dren,. including twins born about yea ago.
 According to Captain of Polics DeIas standing on the sidewalk by young me
 after the Bradley theatre performant I is out has got to stop. Numerous con l plaints have come to the police relatiy ] to this line of cigarette smokers wr
 make passage difficult and disagreuabl ! Many of the young men light cigarette ] as soon as they reach the sidewalk an : when finished are careless how the
 throw the butts away. The police loo , upon the situation as more or less of : fire hazard and say that they are golIl 8 to stop the custom.
 Frank B. Young, minor, and Georl