Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 5, 1918, Page 6

Waists—elegant models of it. Actual $5.00, $6.00, $8.00 and $10.50 Values The assortment comprises a wonderful collection of fine Waists, Handsome Beaded Waists, Smart Tailored Copen., Coral, Navy, Plum and Suit Shades. Sale is for two-days only—Tuesday and Wednesday. This is a rare Waist opportumity and one you positively ‘would regret if you let pass without taking advantagel in the finest of materials, See Window Display Nat a Waist worth less than $6.00 and many actual $3.00 and $1050 values—all on sale at $3.29. | emm—— 121-125 MAIN STREET WESTERLY DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF Donald Ferguson Advanced to Sergeant by Town Council— Fire District Committee Examination Today—James Royal, Leaving White Rock | Mill for Plainfield, Conn. 2n executive session following the ting of the Westerly town vouncil iay, Policeman Donald Terguson appointed sergeant of police and ty chief with full power to act as the absence of the chief from or for inability to perform Policeman Frederick T. as No. 1 on the force and in at the action taken was up- n recommend of Thomas E who gave as t0 being. addit Mitcheil was a d not he avail- a po Vle_in emergency act as chief. Applications- for appointment to miembership on the police foree to fill the vancancy 1 the death of = were receiy- Shcidon. ion on liceman to the April The ¥ POstpo! tment of a r mecting Ac the were present at the urice W. Flynn, These member. mecting, President M an ensign ia and Councilman Thorp is spend- winter in t} flau;% The cu hills for Februa; Were appro’ ed paid. awing our water nipes by electricity. The bills fror the rs and undertakers the fe re statistic the r to $11 The doctor and a waichman, o %1630 for. the ease ot s soldier in. the se station or a week, were held up. e tows solicitor and chief of i were of ninion that the federal government would pay the amount from the sol- Town Selicitor Agard called atten. tion to the financial town meeting ac- on, to the matter providing for het fire protegtion in the town, by tha ition of a general town fire dis- ' He suggested that President Ilynn appoint a commuittes o investi- =dte the matter and report to the ouncil, at a special meeting if seces- sary, to get the matter before tho pres nt session of the general assembliv He was in doubt whether the matter ould be shaped im time for presenta- tén at the general assembly, and, perhaps, there was no desire to rush this very important matter. H= sug- zested that the committee to he ap- pointed be not confined to members of the town council and"that the Watch Hill Fire district, mus: be given the 10, Y0U WORK INDOORS you need a winter tonic to keep up your and nervedforce. For nearly fifty years motion. hut the councilmenyweil and Frederick E. Fowler: ' James {of fowl, one each: defacing fence,| |t theft, three; in‘oxicat ter The council voted $200 to the town | '|farm and salaries. cest the town ! Beauty- _|banished from the Named—Draftees Called For , Presented Gift. | most careful consideration. This dis- trict has a new fire house, and a triple the' most modern tpye, and also owns valuable property at Watch Hill. This district is not wholly confined to thc fire protection of the section. Presi- dent Flynn announced as the com- mitiee: Councilmen Francis' . Ha: M. Pendleton. town treasurer, and originator of the proposed rown system jfire department: Horacc E. Burdick, of the Watch Hili district: and Town So- | licitor Harry B. Agard. | Thomas E. Brewn, chief of police, {reported nineteen arrests during Feb- | |roary, as follows: Idle persons, theft clerk to pay bonus on foxes and wood- | chucks. Fifty-two millc licenses were | granted. George Montaito was grant-| ed license for three pool tables. The bills of the averseer of the poor for| February amounted to $184.71, and this | sum inciusied the overseer's salery, the | pur 2 horse, repa! at town and v food and fuel for the fam rv little for shing poor. 1 Dr, Samuel C. Webster, supsrintend- | ent of health reported four cases of diphtheria and one of scarlet fever in {January, and one of scarlet faver, one | meagles, one ‘mupms, two diphtheria jand one chicken ‘'pox in February. Al- bert N. Crandali was re-e'ectrd water {commissioner for a term of three vears, Sheffield Greene was re-elect forest fire warden, with power 1o ap- jpoint his assistants. The council *hen adjourned. The town council of Westerly has auite a number of appointments un- der ite control, including ths water commissioners. As a matter of conrse the present incumbents expeet reap- pointment and therefore rarely make pplication for reappointnient. Some day, some office holder, that carries with it a salary, may get left. should the councilmen reach the.opinion that the office is worth at least the asking. At the council meeting Mondav, the clerk announced that the appointment of a water commissioner to succeed Colonel AMert N. Crandall, suggested at'the February meeting, oughi to be aoted upon. One of the councilmen, WWio it s conceded would be a valua- ble acquisition to the water board, ask- ed: “Does Colomel Crandall want the position again? After a silen an- other councilman remarked: juess the old colonel would be disappointed If he did not get the pilace!” The mo- tion to reappoint Colonel Crandal! pre- vailed without opposition. _Captain Gideon Spencer, for twenty- hine years a member-of the state board for soldiers’ refief, and for much of the time secretary, died Sunday after- noon at his home in Cowese:it, age 74 He first enlisted in Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery. Fo served in the Civil war three vears and ten months and when mustered out was captain of Battery F. He was depurtment commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1885 and ap- combination moter fire apparatus of ! [NTrank Cozzolino, Westerly: pointed the committee which wopeared before the general assembdly in De- half of the Soidiers’ home. The accommodation train due to leave New London at/seven o'clock, Monday. morning, arrived in Westerly a distance of twenty miles, just one hour and a quarter iate. As the train reached Midway, the sourse of supply for the division, the loccniotive be- came disabled and was disconnected from the train. And there the train stood in the Midway .yard for more than an hour before another locomo- | tive could be supplied. Rev. George B. Shaw, of Ashaway, being desirous to engage in general denominational work, of some special phase, has received a cali to become pastor of the First Seventh Day Bap- tist church, New York city, with the understanding that he may he free to devote three months of each year tc special work. In this conmection. th~ board of directors of the A Sabbath " Tract society ask Re Shaw to enter into denominct work under the board for three monthg of each year at a sslary of TV a month, and traveling ‘expenses, one of montks to. be July. No time spent tending thie general conference or Fas ation t obe taken from ths three months, but one-half of his in attending them to be paid Tract soc The Stats Division. No. 1, examinina board wili meet ir the town hall, at* We 'y, this (Tue morning. and the lowing name: g men have for exumina- arly: Ernest H. Heury i Hyman Beizer, Westeriy Berry, Westerly: John v: Carroll . Brown, Claude H turdick, Carolina: Samuel J. Coombs Westerly: William E. Coon, Ashaway: Rovert J PBranford: James R. Edward, Fain, Westerly: Samuel Joseph Ferraro, Wes Ferraro. esterly one, Westerly; Nunciato Worcester, Mass.; Westerly: Kincarello Atlanasio (‘rasso. William R. Greene. Hope Valley; John J. Heaiey, Waterbury, Conn.: Fred D. Hill, Philadelphia; Erastus N. Hopkins, Carolina: John 'C. Jordan, Westerl: John Clinton Jordan, Hope Valley: v B. eKnyon, Bradford: William A. Westerly: John F. Kugler, Hope Vall A lLa Fountaine. Wyoming: Langworthy, Ashawav: Lawless, Westerly: Natale Liouore. Westerly: Francis Lynch. Westerly: Dante C Marzoli, Westerly: John Monti, Westeriy: Charles Morenzoni, Westerly; Walter J. Murray, Machan- icsville, Conn.: Peter Nardon erly Louis J. Palmer, Hope crlv:” Louis J. Palmer, Tope V: Battista Peduzzi. Westerly; Pellegrini, Westerly tou, Hope Yalley: erly: Giacomo Puci zo Pucci, Wester!v: . Alexander Ridde!l, Bradfordf John B South Boston, Mass.: William Sannd Canonchet: . Saivado Vona, Wester William S lewiston, Me.; Wilfred T. Segar. cester. Mass.: Elmer C. Smith. Wyom- ing: Robert Smith, West Xingston: John Solimeno. Westerl. Edmund < Stedman, New York: Nikelas N. Ter- Ney; Joseph Fred H. Pendle- Westerly: X ranova, New Have Paul W. Thorp, Ashaway: Roger E. Trainer, Potier Hil Antonio Turo, Westerly; ePter Zeakas, Westerly. Local Laconics. The Pawcatuck river channel s mow open-from. Westerly to Osbrook Point. George B. Utter represented Wester- ly at a meeting of the republican state central committee held Monday in Providence. Rev. John M. Colling bhas bairs are soon skin with the aid of a delatone paste, made by mixing some water with a Iittle plain powdered delatone. This is spread upon the hairy surface for 2 or 3 minutes, then rubbed off and the' skin washed to the | This. trace a ‘without lemish. Caution should be used to be certdin that it is detatone you buy. resigned the superintendency of the White Rack Sunday school, and has taken up res- idence at Potter Hill. James Royal. for the past year =& boss spipmer at the Waite Rock mill, left Sungay for Plainfield, Conn., Wwhere he has secured employment. He was presented a shaving set by the workmen of the department. At the annual meeting of the S. D. B. gociety, auxiliary to the Pawcatuck Seventh Day Baptist church, Mrs, Her- P. Clark was elocte: president; Miss Bessie- Champlin, vice president, and Miss Bessie Gavitr, secretary and treasurer. | Mr. and Mrs. C. Y, C. H. G, and the Boy asked to assist in m i a big success. Music Will be ed by the Imperial band. - Stonington Pointers. Richard . Pickering, representing 'the government, has succeeded Jobhn: W. Lenox as manager of the plant of ship Construction and Tradi Company. There is a report that there is to be a general increase in Wwages. 5 g Rev. George Burton Marston, who resigned the pastorate of First Bap- tist church, Stonington, recently. to become pastor of the Fifth Street Bap- tist church, Lowell, Mass., was given a big reception by the members of his parish in Lowell, last Thursday even- ing. 3 Miss Elizabeth Ussher is the guest of Rev, and Mrs. Dwight C. Stone. . Rev. Frederick-'W. Sanford of Phe. nix, R. 1. will deliver the Lenten lec- ture Calvary Episcopal church on Wednesday evening. 3 NOANK . Fitch Leaving For Visit in Florida—Nearly Sixty Boats to Be Overhauled at West View. Mr. and Mrs. C. I Fitch are nimg for their annual winter’ their son, Herbert Fitch and family in Jacksonville. They expect to zo som time during the week. Miss Rie Fitch. will accompany them. Washington council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics will moet this (Tuesday) evening. The membersy afe very appreciative of the new pool Toom fitted in the lower part of the hall. B + Boats Ready For Overhauling. While very little wark is done vet along the shores, the boats kcpt at West. View are all ready for over- bauling and some of - the coverings have been removed. DProkably 20, of | all sizes, have been there durine the winter. Many of them are owned by Captain Everett Davis and will ‘be used by the summer guests at Fishers Tsland during the season. Mrs, Esther Main has been onter- taining her daughter, ~Mrs. Lucier Sheffield and infant, from .Saybrook Point. Charles Hadley has returned to Newport after spending ' several days at his home here. Clerk in Waiting Room. Miss Esther Rathbun is clerk in the waiting room of the Grotor and Ston ington line. Horace White has recovered from a recent illness and returned to his du- ties at Midway yard. Captain Benjamin Gillis has return- sl to Perth Amboy after a visit to his mother, Mrs. Mary Gillis, Mrs. Annie Graham is entertaining relatives from Hartford. Roswell P. Sawyer is ill with- grip A car 1oad of coal has arrived at the freight vard of the New Haven road for the Noank branch of the Groton| Iron work. 1 N. D). Scott, night superintendent at the plant of the Groton Iron -Works spent the week end at his former homs in Granville, N. Y. Albert Patterson has returned.to hir duties on a government submarine chaser at the Brooklyn Navy yard. Cards . from Mrs, Georgc. Spicer .in Daytona, Florida. say her health is much improved by her stay south. MANSFIELD DEPOT By 0 F Haolatvon Furiough, Fran Camp Upton—Plans For Easter Con- cert—Church Notes. Tidwin Botham returned Satarday from a six weeks' visit with his daugh- ter in Putnam. Home From Camp. | Dr. I. °F. Hackett. of Camp T'ptor, | Yaphank. 1. 1. was in town Satur- day and Sunday. h P. L. Garv s able to do his work again at the state power house. Mrs. Rollin Birdsall spent day in Willimantic on business. Rev. F. W. Klein attended a confer- snce of Jaymen and ministers in the Willimantic Baptist church Sarurday. The box of cigars tacked on tothe| notices last week was iherebyun ac- cident in The Bulletin's print shop. Rev. . W. Klein conducted a ser- vice at the State Hospital Sunday aft- ernoor. Mrs. G. W. Deane of the State Hos- pital substituted: for Mes. Garvey leader of the C. E. meeting last Sun day ning. The mid-week hour of devotion will be neld this week at the parsonage, on Thursday’ evening. 7-8 o'clock. Satur- Missionary Day. Next Sunday will be Mission Day at| Dunham Memorial church. Ail th offerings of the day will go fo Mis- sionary societies. The Sunday school and the € so- ciety will co-operate in observing | Easter with a _concert in the evening and service of Easter Sunday Some of the roads are in bad shape . | from washouts. Automobiles and.teams have had some hard experisnces BROOKLYN Bed Found Afire, Probably From Pipe Spark—Supper Followed by Patrio- tic Addresses. People here were surprised when told Monday morning that the mew| teacher in the Grammar room of the! Center school had been married. since | the schoo] closed on Thursday after- | | noon. i Probable Pipe Fire. | William R. Thurber had a very «lose i call of losing his household goods on | Monday morning, about § e'clock. When | the fire was discovered fhe bed was| well enveloped jn flames but the smoke | was very thick: An alarm was sound- | ed and many responded and soon had| the fire subdued. The bed and bedding were so badly damaged as to be use-' less. It is thought that Mr. Thurbe: | must have dropped fire from his pipe. Home From Hartiord, ' Russell Ide has returnéd to his home, after working in Hartford for a few months, owing to his mother being in feeble health and his father being active in his shop, he is much needed. Patriotic Address. Wednesday evening in the Unitarian hall a patriotic community corn sup- per was given under the co-operation of Brooklyn County Farmers’ asso- ciation. After the supper addresses were made by Professor B. G. South- wick of Storrs college and Hon. Robert swvgled Hartford, state food admin- istrator. SOUTH COVENTRY Mrs William Chandler from Staf- fordville spent a few days in iown. Mrs. Chandler and her sister, Mrs, Dana Jacquith spent a few days in New Britain recently. S ! Mrs. Fred Whipple returned to bar ~and silk stituted for it. marked you will find it a good, fancy ‘satins are their latest. BEAUTY AND UTILITY COMBINED WITH MODERATE : = Wew-htophcespeullemp‘lfil mlflltl'%’fl'fl»'*‘ the plainer silks will lead in popularity. There will, of course, be some fancy stripes, plaids and figured silks for va- rious purposes, but.the spirit of the times runs to plainness day, and we have a charming selection ready for your in- -§ PLAIN TAFFETAS, $1. in black, 50, $1.75 AND $2.00 A YARD \ These are all 35 inches wide and we have them in alli the desirable colors - CREPE-DE-CHINE, $1.59 AND $1.79 A YARD universal. This satin a yard wide. SATIN STRIPE ARMURE, $2.50 A YARD This is a rich heavy silk with soft finish and a decided air of elegance. The color combinations are extremely effective comprising black with navy, black with purple, black with green, black with Copenhagen, and’black with pea- cock. The width is 35 inches. SATIN STRIPE TAFFETA, $2.50 A YARD Taffeta pnuanci an individuality positively unique. There is no other silk weave which can be sub- Therefore this bedutiful Striped Taffeta is a truly exclusive novelty. combinations are in our assortment. MESSALINE, $1.00, $1.50 AND $1.65 A YARD" * * A favorite last season, a favorite the season before that, and a favorite this, a truly enviable popularity, There are three widths—26, 30 and 36-inch, and the colorings are of almost endless variety. At the prices sound investment. FANCY LINING SATINS FROM THE MILLS OF BELDING AND OF SKINNER Some of the prettiest, as well as the best lining satins are prs‘duccd by these makers, and these new A Yard Wide—The Prices $1.75 and $2.25 VISIT OUR 9 CENT BARGAIN TABLES Wonderful Values in Notions and Toilet Goods home in Grofon, Friday, after spend- ing a few days’ visit with her tmother Mrs, Tda Smith. . A dinner served in the Methodist church Wednesday netted a littie over ten dellars. " HEBRON Choir Rehearsal—Special Deputy Look- ing After Unlicensed Dogs. Tne members of the Congr cheir met at H. C. Poiters day evening, for practice. L. A. S. Mests. The L. A met with Mrs, Tord ‘Thursday afterroon. number was present. Miss Clara Pendleton is in C for a few weeks. - Mrs. R. F. Porter and Mrs Raymond . were in Middletown. Among the Willimantic visitors on & E A good ster B A Saturday were Mrs. Bessie Curunings {Miss Bertha Porter, and A. R Gil- lette. ’ Misses E. G. Lord and Robert Por ter were in Hartford on business on | Thursday. Looking - After Dogs. Howard A. Elliott, sp , denuty commissioner on domestic animalz was in town Wednesda with Dos Warden ' Fidyard Jones, looking for unlicensed ‘dogs. Poultry Demonstration. A poultry demonstration was given at the Royal farms, Amsron,. Mondas by a professor from Storrs colleze. BRIEF: STATE NEWS \ North Kent.—All of the farmers have heen filling owt farm census papers the past week. Milten.—The sleighing is gone, only ice and the remains of some snow- banks being left. Torrington.—One hundred and nine- ty-six building permits were issued in the borough during the past year. Meriden.—Tweive of the schools of Meriden ‘have thus far been 100 per cent. enrolled in the Junior auxiliary of the Red' Cross. * Portland.—The board of relief has finished its' work on the grand list and reports a grand levy of $2,220,720, a slight increase over the figures of the assessors. The list as made up by the ldatter body tetaled $2,208,225. Meriden.—John - Dunham Roberts, 71, died after a four days' iliness with pneumonia at the home of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Guy Hilkert, of 159 Mans- field strest, New Haven. Mr. Roberts Bri avenge the death of two brothers, William and Albert Kii- Lancashire Fusiliers in Darda- nelles _in 1918, John Kiiroy, 19, son of Mrs. n Kiroy, presented himseif for er t in the Canadian expe- {son, and he is now in Montreal. Mrs. IKilx'oy is the proud mother of 13, three {of whom have now offered up their lives for the cause of the allies. Naugatuzk.—The new grand list of the borough has been filed in the office of Borough Clerk Frank A. Sears by the board of relief, which has made some changes in the figures as left by the board of assessors which adds to the grand list a2 sum of $35,115, mak- ing the tofal amount this year for tax- 118 y an increase of $335,- Middletown.—At the meeting of the executive committee of the Middletown war bureau the chairman of the com- mittee, Major T. M. Russell, appointed the chairmen. of the supplies and agri- cultural committees to act with com- mittees from the Chamber of Com- merce and the Middlesex county farm bureau to con r the advisability of arranging for a public market piace for Middletown where farmers and growers could drive in with their pro- Wallingford.—Miss l.eila Wallingford director of the New Ha- ven county farm bureau. received a summons 1o a meeting held the other day in- New Haven at which the sale of pigs to school children was one of the topics considered. Already- many applications have been received from Wallingford school children. Those who are not able to pay the money now will be financed by the bank at interest of 6 per cent. Last year 200 were sold to school children through the farm bureau and a girl received i the prize. Wallingford.—The matter of- consol- | idating two of the International Silver | company factories in town. which has been under consideration for several 3 !l come to a head immediate- ectors having decided to do away with Factory M on South Cherry street. known as the Nickel shop, and join forces with the branch on Center streef. known as Sinmson’s, or Factory L. The change will only tranefer the work to another part of the town. The flat work, which was done at the Cher- |y street shop. will be in charge of Roland F. Andrews. as it is now, and the same officials will continue . in charge of the separate departments as heretofore.. The machinery will be moved by degrees, and the employes will go with it. What will be done with the large factory to be vacated ie a matter of conjecture: there are { rumors that one of the large concerns in town is to take it over for govern- ment work. PRCGRESS OF BRITISH TROOPS IN PALESTINE. They Are Encountering Slight Opposi- tion East and North of Jericho. London, March 4.—The text of to- day’s statement relative to oberations in Palestine follows: “From Friday to Sunday several en- counters between, mounted patrols oc- curred east and north of Jericho. Be- tween Saturday and Sunday our. troops advanted northward to a maximum depth of 3,000 yards on a fron of duce and sell directly to the consumer. | curtail its output. Pitman, | This weave is a_hardy perennial, each year proving its claim to-being the A large and interesting display of all street shades is;made. The width is 40 inches. SATIN-DE-CHINE, $1.85 A YARD - An extraordinary satin, rich in finigh, with superb draping.qualities. and fres from all the adulterants which weaken ordihary satins. Twenty shades are included in our showing, the newer ones mouse, cornstalk, hunter, Persian, swallow, Hague, banana. ane evening being butter, salmon, - lobster, raspherry, amethyst and All of the new color ) | Jerusalem-Nablus road. encountering little opposition. “An enemy airpiane. was brought jdown in our lines east: of Jaffa. - The pilot and observer were® wounded and captured.” $15,000,000 IN CONTRACTS TO WOODWORKING FIRMS Are-to Be Allotted This Wesk Manufacture of War Materials. ‘Washington, March % —Contracts calling for an expenditure of more than $15,000.000 il be aliptted .this week to woodworking firms as part of the government's policy of utilizing existing factories for the’ manufacture of war materials, Spare parts of wag- ons and other vehicles used. by the army will be turned out instead of the ordinary peace-time products. Officials of the council of nationa! defense said today that patriotic en-: operation had been éncouniered in ev- ery industry which had been foreed to Still further re- striction in ordinary output-is expeet- ed as the war -includes, inasmuch asx many factories are only just nowrget- ting into full swing on their war con- tracts. \ In this conneciion George N. Peck: industrial representative of the coun- cil, said that American manufactnrers had discovered they were able to’ do any things for which their plants were not puilt One automobile factory is making recoil mechanisms for big guns insteali of pleasure cars. Curtailment of automobile. production "has ‘been most severe In factories, making high price. cars. " for Lenten Striotures. Washington has overlooked ' the .opportunity. to- advise Iaenten obsery-- ers to cut their sackcioth ciose and sift their, ashes.—New York Sun. - ool e Mrs. Ralph Smith who has been elected to represent Vancouver in the Provheial Legislative Assembly, is the first woman to become a member. of this body. SANFORDS The Dose In Time - Taken hoton the spot quickty relieves cramps, pains, colds, Good for i inal” indivess’ ness and fatigue. Always healthful and -A«‘- ful. ;