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Three Mil Over Flfly Th.lnand Accounts. Uiberal, courteous and efficient in its management. Established 1961 Hareld L. Wells, O. D., Optometris. Defetive vision corrected by the prop- er adjustment of lenses. Room 9, Fos- ter Langworthy Block, Westerly. R L &> [IMONDS It will pay you well to get our prices on diamonds, loose oF mounted, before purchasing. CASTRITIUS, Leading Westerly Jewelr, BEAVY AND LIGHT HARNESS MADE BY HAND. Tons Made Work ia Ous Spectaren hips and all Ha Supplies o T e o Ia stock at $13.00 and up. N. H. SAUNDERS. Remeved te 44 West Broad Stree ivied = Imported Dizner Ware We are opening new patterns In China Dinner Sets, our own importa- tlon. We are showing over forty Open Stock Patterns, decorations and shapes not to ba found elsewhere. We deliver frea to all our customers STANTON’S BAZAAR. Westerly, R. BABIES! Seon they will be big boys ana end their bub' faces will Le on! memory. the bables and I wi prre g mnlr rafies. STILES, The Photographer, Brewn Building, Westerly, R. I Telephene 847. Iy2za Fay Your Shoes and Hosiery And get & coupon on the Plano to be siven away at PURTILL'S, “ON THE BRIDGE.” iv2sd a2 LAWTON'S SANITARY FISH MARKET en the river: no dust: no odor: every- thing wholesome and clean. All kinds ¢! Fresh Fish and Sea Foeds in their scason. Market 171 Main Street, West eriy. fest of Cross street. Tel . 343 Give ws a eall. eugi4d oolas. Dermatolcgy, Sham; e eat- weing Illl"‘.. Chiropodist, al ment, Halr Dre: MRS. M. I EEl.l.S (iussionsl Massorsa, [edy znd Facial Massags nur Goode a specialty. Fine Violet 54 lun St., Weaterly, R. L irisa Telephone 420. WESTERLY'S LEADING CLOT. STORE— R. G. Bliven & Co,, On the Bridge. REGAL SHOE AGENCY. Wa give S&H Green Trading Si with all purchases. = s Monamental Works I will guarantee to- make a monn- ment at the lowest possible cost con- sistent with good work. My experi- ence of vears Ir a* your service. ALEXAZ2DER HOBERTSON, Oak St. near High, Westerly, R. 1. GEO. L. STILLMAN, Froprisior of the by CEEBwe) W ‘s rgest 3 of a I&Onfl’h d carriages one, Also s full m‘.? of harnoes of harness. ;.‘ nd painting snd -no-:fif:;‘x'-t. For Electrical Supplies and Construction, see ROBERT M. HISCOX & CO., el. 497. 62 Main St., Westerly. We are moving to the Potter-Lang- worthy Block. 68 High street. on or abont Jan. 1st 1910. Great removal #ale now going on. Mechanics Clothing Co. a Westerly, R. I 5d treatment of ths hair 2nd falling hair, baldness, e and other lrritath Py S T Brampoocs, ary tments manicure er- A NNOUNCEMENT. street. we ure ready 1o prove ot Esopie of Westerly and vicialty our ebillty to do the very best work. A | bsautiul 16320 water coiored portralt | ef yourself given fres with every doa- 3 3409 calinets. F. Rouleau & Co. City Pharmacy TRY OUR I"E CREAM, SODA and COLLEGE ICES While Waiting for Your Car. 36 Canal St. Westerly. B. | g The Washington Trust Co., - $200,000 $200,000 Executes Trusis. Pass Intsrest on Deposits. Good service—Considerate attention are guarantéed the patrons of this in- stitution. mples of F: BEi0m Srade safi J. F. PELLEGRINY, e 4 W St Wenterly. Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. ivega Three Million Dollars { Next to the Public Library and Me- morial building, the Barber Memorial building, which was damaged by fire Wednesday night. is the largest, hand- somest and most substantial building in Westerl: This building was com- pleted in 1892, and was erected on the site of the American hall building, which was destroved by fire. was ~built by the late P(kg S. Barber, . who bequeathed it in trust during’ her lifetime to his niece, Miss Matde P. Babcock. The building prop that is. the brick walls, are not in thio Tohat:Gumased, but the oot Is en tire] burned as is also the entire third floor which was occupied by thg Westerly Mason organizations, and by Pawcatuck lodge of the Connecticut jurisdiction. The fire burned through parts of the ceiling on the second floor but the -is no damage fire in the four stores on the ground floor. It s necessary to pour an immense Volume of water Ints the b the second and first floors doing great damage to stock and hx‘hnre The Westerly firemen, leg Barber hose company of Pa tuck, did good service in preventing the fire from reaching adjoining build- ings, and from destruction of the en- tire interior of the Barber building. 1 e move on the part of Chief Cottrell to order a general alarm as quickly as possible and summon the two steam fire engines and the firemen from Pawcatuck. Their prompt ar val and efficient work had much to With conquering a stubsorn fire. the building is four stories in the rear, streams of water could not reach the top floor from that point until after the steam fire engines were In opera- tion, a® the ladders of the department were not long enough to-reach above the third story in the rear, which was the second in the. front of the build- ing and the one below where the fire originated and was i j After the fire com dis- missed, a. detail o remained with. two lines of safeguard inst " ge fresh out- the burning 2t ghout the building o'clock Thursday details were dismies came to pick up the hos 3 'the work of the firemen ended. This is the third time that the Ma- sonic lodge rooms have been destroyed by fire. Soon after the ending of the civil war the building occupied by the Masons. which stood on the Broad strect hx‘nlg‘ 1 burned s aboi ago, and the Ma in the Samuel Chamn in the hall now occupied by the local lodge of Biks. In 1892 the Masons moved to the Barber Memorial 1 ehocolated rooms were nnong and furnished in New Engl the exception of‘a few framed ancient Masonic aprons and pictures the en- tire including uni- furnishings, forms and equipment are tota lodge of the Knights ragans tendered Masons was held of there Fanned by the breeze Thursday aft- ernoon, the fire broke out afresh the third floor of the Barber Me building, ani at three o'clock alarm was sent in from box Y three companies of the department re- sponded in short order. It was a need- Hoods Sarsaparilla atarrh and Cures all humors, ¢ | rheumatism, relieves that tired feeling, restores the appetite, builds up the whole system. Get it today in usual liquid form or tablets called Sarsatabs. |Where to Buy i Westeriy RORERT DRYSDALE & CO.. flumber, Steam Fitter and Dealer in S plle : £4 Main Street, and Nauminpet Ave. Watch HiL B F auzildd Ilarl Scha(tner & Marx Cloihes ARE SOLD BY . B. CRANDALL €O., nov2od Westerly, 30 plete repair upplies Te. AGENCY FOR THE New - Hom: Sewing WMachines onstruct all nning ed and the a demorstration THE NEW YORK 54 High Street, novsa L STCRE, Westerly. owning Wm. H. E MISS ROSE -AHERN 1_adies’ 42 ngh Sr.. Westerly Two sev difrerent Westerly, street lanad .. each alid both that _can be D modern plumbing ¢ Frank W. Coy Real Esta Co., feblid Westerly, R. MAL re purchasing it's to your nd with me. B W. FLYNN, Manufacturer and Builder, 03 WM Streat, Westerly, R. I interest to corre- Iriea _lazs Rrealn Out Again in Enrber Elock on -hursday Afternoon— ason’s Hard Luck—I-convenient Loca- | 4 tion of Hydrants Llocks 1raffic—North Stonington Mas Found Cead—Death of Mrs. in cures paleness, nervousness, | AR and | Hatter‘ electrio nspection | Clayton - .. urdick | less alarm, as the sending of a single | hose wagon and the firemen’ available |in the vicimity would have been am- Cyclones stretched a line of hose vear of the building but the stream could not reach the blaze, and the company was dismissed. The Rhode Island Ones took a line of hose up the front stairway and the small bl was quickly extinguished. As there was no need of ladders or hooks the Alerts were immediately excused from duty. The inconvenience of suspending trolley and other traffic in High st by reason of lines of hose stretched across the street, as was the case at the alarm of fire Thursday afternoon, and during the morning while the firemen were simply on watch duty, is not necessary in case of fires on the west side of High street. This could not be avoided at the Barber Memorial building fire, as there to the is not a sing rant -located on at side of the s although there ire four on the opposite side between Broad streets. The shift- one hydrant to the west street between these with public in- detrimental to “anal and ing of even side of High points would do away conveience and not be the work of the firemen. The estimated losses to tenants of the Barber Memorial building anklin lodgze of sons $8,000. par- tially IneureA NS Reatees lodge $2.000, partially insured; Narragansett com- mande $8.000, small insurance: | Palmer chapter $3,000, partially insur- ed: Deborah chapter, FEastern Star. $600, small insurance Howard Clark, a leased piano, ; Christian Science society $20: Third district court $5000: Dr. Irving Colby $200; Hobart !‘lmna.x $500; the Me- 1k 3200, insured; the Haxon $350; West- nsured; Mr. Perr: ; Albert L. partially insured: ingured; William Ayers and 1 estimated 50. The damage is estimated at $20,000, total estimated loss $66,- | the The body of James L. Palmer was found late Wednesday afternoon near a stone wall about a mile_from his home in North Stonington. Mr. Palm- er left iast Monday to fish for trout in a brook about two miles distant, and as he did not return home at night there was much anxiety as to his safety. Searching ,parties were inst- tuted that resulted in the finding of his body Dr. George D. Stanton. medical ex- aminer, after inquiry and examination decided that death was due to matur- al cau The opinion is that while zetting over the stone wall Mr. Palm- was suddenly affected with heart trouble and fell, striking his head on a rock, as the skull was fractured over the forehead and there was a severe bruise on the left temple. Palmer was fifty-seven years of is_survived by Mrs. Paimer, Charles and Clarence, and Mrs. Amos_Chapman. Un- Gavitt _of Westerly took ¢ the body. | Rev. Samuel M. Cathcart of Wester- | 1y,at the Wednesday afternoon se Rhode Isiand Conference of delivered & which he uuxupl!on in public of- s and Christian lay- have ignored i for the litical con- ¢ this indifference, he ncomvetent and not infre- have taken up of government, men of the com- esons, refused to theart was ap- bership on the indus- mer committee long sickness with tuber- Hattie Eloise Burdick evening at her home She was the wife of After a culosis, Mrs. inesday Baptist church, and is survived by ve vears ago, when zeneral conference of the Buotist_church in Shiloh, ted a cold that de- disease that caused she ¢ \'-m‘,,,l the death into rdick was borm in Wal- February 2. 1862, daugh- “harles W was with and Frances Cran- married October 1, her husband removed 1899, and moved Rev. Mr. Burdick the Seventh-day of nastor re Lacenics. der and Frederick ariford for a visit of Local Walter H | Leamon are ‘in i | three days | | St - will be conferred s of Knights of Co- | b | The t | Tim sr.aidales in Westerly Sunday | after by Di | A. €arroll of Prov Warden Thomas P. Brennan and hi ’dr‘gr-» team. Dr. M. H. Scanlon, dis- { trict deputy will assist In the exem- plification of the degree. legal holiday in Rhode wnx:el will be held g ivy planting. d Dr. T the burne: Room ¥ who had office in 1ild s located Barber { he same | Weanesdays | Municipal Housekeepe. 1 Y r ‘half of what 1 i anrd u] ne Bartlett ( Crane has aily on_ her made them omie tow tell in orderly | i Y < l—«nmg up the Kala- | maz . then t i The meiters of concern. Soor began to hear de 'n’!nd her servic v she spends most of her time spread- ing the feminine gospel of order and cleanlinees from town to town. Her latest -contract is with the state of Minnesota. This expert ipal housekeeper | travels under official auspices, cornmis- sioned by a state's board of heaith s's authorities. She in- paving and street cleam- pplies, schools, hospitals, almshouses and other oulside and to markets, the like. “to D health and in. some cases matters.—Chicago first savings bank in was establiched in 1790, reat the shoulders of Burdick, pastor of n Britain—A conservative esti- ” of Burritt day lloe- the num- Der ‘of visttors at 2o Rockville—Burpee post, No. 71, G. A. R, will entertain the department gommander avd his staff Friday even- i in Grand Army hall. - Stratford.—Harold CA Holm W ploughing recently, found a gold watch which he lost some two years ago. It -Bridgeport Standard. rfield.—Theodore, a Vassar college | student, daughter of I Wheeler, | bas taken the highest prize in athlet- ics for running high jump and a 100 vard dash. Fair Haven.—The big elms which have been the glory of Fair Haven streets are rapidly disappearing. Dur- ! ing the past two weeks four large elms | in @rand avenue have been removed. Wethersfield.—While Edward O. Buck was fishing for alewives with a net at the Wethersfield cove Tuesday after- noon, he drew in with the fish the body of a male infant, a few days old. Bridgeport—Twenty-five to thirty people have called at the office of Su- | perintendent Jones of the Bridgeport census burezu and . informed him tha they were omitted in the enum- eration. Thompsonville~William J.. Mulli- gan, the newly clected state deputy of | the Knights of Columbus, got a rous- ing reception upon his return to Thompsonville from New Haven Tues- | day evening. Meriden.—Lightning struck Mrs. B. E. Spencer's home on Reservoir ave- | nue at midnight Tuesday, tearing off | art of the roo! hree persons asleep | in the second story were greatly fright- ened but suffered no inju | . | .—The Rev. Joseph M. | i is in Washington, D. ( attending the exercises pertaining to the unveiling of the statues of Koz- clusko and Count Polaski, the eminent Polish heroes of the war of the Amer- | ican revolution. New Haven.—Yale's orchestra, en- larged to fifty pieces, will give weekly concerts on the <campus for the rest of the term, beginning next Monday evening. It will be a revival of the old “fence concerts” of the orchestra, ! quality. ural color of flour by bleaching agents | he, | point the last of wma{ was given four years | s | WMury.—'rhe women of the Mul- cahp schhool district held a meeting Wednesday night and decided to have a committee of 100" mothers file their petition for the reinstatement of Mr. | Keefe as ja Mundny night. Faith, Hope and Charity. Take three strong points in your re- ligion to heart—the doctrinal rules do not matter so much if you hold fast to these—namely, faith, hope and char- | ity. Whatever your failings and back- slidings, if you have faith and hope that right will win and charity toward | other sinners, you will see your way clear to a better future. Color of Bread No Test. The public would be well advised to abandon the fallacious notion that ihe whiteness of bread is a mark of its “The destruction of the nat- synchronizes with the destruction of its attractive flavor. Such tampering with the | illegal.—London Lancet. Weather Changed. It had been raining steadily, and the four-year-old had resigned himself to looking out the window. Suddenly out eame the sun. “Well,” exclaimed “there’s the sun! Isn't God a —The Delineator. Do Not Split It with an Ax. To split an infinitive is not a mortal offense, but the Columbia State split one in a two column headline in 18- type. o one is justified in torpedoing an Infinitive.—Charleston News and Courier. aution Songbirds Used for Food. A single dealer in Madrid sells an- nually 30,000 larks, finches and other small birds for food, and the total number thus consumed is estimated at a million in that city alone. itor of the Mulcahy school | with the department of education on | taff of life” should be made | = 7 Garbage in Lendon Post Office. Not always is the parcels post fu | Englznd a thing of delisht. Hunters ‘vho shoot woodcock and quail and fishermen who have a sucoessful day \lend the trophies of their syort to friends at romote points on the litttle island called Great Britain by parcels post. In the holiday season, I'Iu-n) there is the vast mass before it cam ! | be delivered, and there i1s a rush of garbage men and garbage wagons to clean it out.—New York Press. Boy’s Essay on 'Possum. “There’s this to say of the 'pos- sum,” writes a Georgia youngster. | “He ain't no bear, 'cause he's always grinnin’ like he was in a good humor with ever'body. It's just as if, when you tol' him vou was goin’ to kill | | him, an’ cook him, an’ eat him for | dinner he looked on it as a good | Joke—just toolk it for a laughin' mat- ter. 1 don't know whether he is just | good-natured, or was born grinnin’!” —Atlanta Constitution. ‘ The Angelus. This picture was painted by Malay. | 1t contains a man end a church stee- ple. The man and the woman are | very poor, they have been digging po- tatoes because they need them to live on. The pota look very _small. | Just at sunset t hear a bell ring, it | 18 the Angeius, it means they must | pray. So they bow their heads and pray for bigger potatoes.—Lippin- cott’s The Rascal’'s Paedeker. There was once a man arrested on cion of a generally fraudulent On him was found a map of Eng- land; and certain of the towns were | marked with the initials T. W. K. The | detectives who traced his career of de- | ception from town to town took quite , & long time to discover that those let- | ters were a personzl warning, and | stood for “Too Well Known.” | R | Sait works employes are said to be fmmune from cholera and scarlet | tever. There are 3 Features in IPanses which make them superior to any others The Single Damper The Oven heated by cup-joint flues The Two Hods in the base Either of these features is worth the price of the range. Damper is the greatest help in cooking ever invented. One motion Lard Has Been in Existence a Long Time--So Has Indigestion People who are most particular about‘ Human nature is hard w is made from Cottolene is made. and conducive to health. Never Sold in Bulk from ca Made oanly by THE N. COTTOLENE is Guaranteed not pleased, having given Cottolene a fair tesi. —push the or “check”—#ke range does the rest. The Oven is heated by the cup- joint flues @// over alike; no “cold corners,” Quickest and surest baker. The Two Hods in the base (pat- ented) is a wonderful trouble-saving The ashes fall through a chute into a /od which is easy to The Coal Hod is beside it. feature. empty. Gas Ovens and above range if desired. Ask the Crawiord agent to show you and write us for circul Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co., 31 Union St., Boston FOR SALE BY M. HOURIGAN, AGENT KORWICH AND JEWETT CITY, CT. The Single knob to “kindle,” “bake” no “scorching spots”. Broilers for end or T to solve. adapting the wcwht of their wearing apparel to the se vho never think of going out in a storm without an umbrella and rubbers, who would not sit in a draft. will day after day cat lard-soaked food and not realize for an instant that it.is cloggmg their whole inner machinery. roduced from hog fat, sometimes pure, always indigestible. Jottelene is the best frying and shoertening medium in the world. refined cottonseed oil. Citchen—human hands never touch the oi Everything in Cottolene is digestible Your grocer is hereby refund your money Cottelene is packed in pails with o keep it clean, fresh and wholesome, it anid absorbing disagreeable odors, such as fish, i, ctc K. FAII_\BA’NK COMP/ From _Cottonfield to rom which air-tight and | son and its conditions, | Lard It is authorized to case you are w0p to prevent it | surnishea promptly. | method. and PLUMEBING AND GASFITTING. JOHNSON & BENSON 20 Central Avenue. SLATIE ROOFING, Metal Cornices and Bkylights, Gutters and Conductors, and all kinds of Job- bing promptly attended to, Tel. 719, The Vaughn Foundry Co. IRON CASTINGS Large stock of 11 o 28 Ferry Btrest. patterns. lanzzo T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, 92 Franklin Street. marsa No, S. F. GIBSON Tin and Sheel Metal Worker. Agent for Richaréson and Doyntea Furnaces. €5 Wost mimin Street, Norwich, Conm dec7e Have that old-fashioned, un plumbing replaced by new and mo era open plumbing. It will repay you in the increase of health and of doctor’s bills. fitting thoroughly done. Let me give you @ figure for replacing all the old Plumbing with the modern kind ihat will keep out the sewer gas. The worl: will be first-class and the price reasonable. J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 Wast Main Strest. aving Overhauling and re- auglsd MISS M. C. ADLES, Hair, Scalp and Face Specialis’ TROUBLE, ANXIETY, DELAY will be saved the woman for wh Miss Adles prepares the New Summer H Every woman who tra ives, will want that whiel her alwaye looking stylish and groomed. This Miss Adles alone can provide. Make an early appoint ment with her for week of May 16th Wauregan House—NORWICH, 210 West 111th StL—NEW YORK, Telephone 704 may9d UNDREDS of young and woemen have obtained men the foundation - the basie principles of success by o courss of Instruction in our scheol. We 1t you will let help you us can to Write today Information. All Commercial successful career. full a more — now — for Rubber Co. can save you money on Fishing Boots CARRIAGE LANSNE BABY CAB } "H[S {‘HJ. Baseball Goods Ao c000MEN Have You Noticed ths Increased Travel? It's & aure sign of £0od westher and fine roads. People like to gat out imto the open air. We furnish the best ii you'll take one .of ous teams you'll say the san MAHONEY BROS., Falls marlid AHERN BROS,, General Contractors 63 BROADWAY Avenus, 'Phanl 11 Rose Bowling Alleys, LUCAS HALL, 49 Shetucket Stresh, ect138 3. 3. C. OTONB. Fres A Fine Assortment MILLINERY AT LITTLE PRICES, MRS. G. P. STANTON octidaw FRESH FISH. All kinds Cles;) their xeunon Prices Right. E. T, LADD, Agent. 31 Water St @ood ana Manicwring, Ordsre taken for sombhings.