Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 5, 1918, Page 6

I'HE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE = r Boys’ and Girla' Depanmen! 0 Rules or, Young Writes {sent me. I found it very interesting. g Helen R. Klingon, of Colchester— Write plainy on one side of the | Accept my thanks for che Drize book, -w" oni namber the pages. |'“Our Younger Aeroplane Scouts . in 2 Use pen and ink, not pencil. which you sent me. 3. &hort and pointed grticles willl Gabriel Bujak, of Mansfleld Cen- e given preference. Do, not use over thank you very much for the 263 orde. lovely prize book entitled, “The Boy 4. Original stories or letters only | Spies at the Defense of Fort Henry." name, age and ad- at the boitom of the ser One time I went out in the country With Mamma, to visit Aunt Sue; lives away off in the mountains, § And to me it as all strange and new. in was bedtime almost when we got| thank you for it. there, Guile, of Norwich—Received And 1 asked Mamma, “How will we|the prize book you sent me entitled H tell “Boy Spies With Lafayotte” I have hen it's time to get up in the morn- | read some of it and find 1t very inter- ing— esting. I don't see a clock or a bell” ?lmt Sue, she said, “You meedn't STORIES WRITTEN. BY. WIDE; o, iy AWAKES. § We've got an alarm clock, a prize, ¥ , That comes round the house every Bird Soldiers, T fmorntng the back yard could be heard the fastened to the little pigeon house that And calls till you open your eyes.” |tinkle, tinkle of the bells that were wondered what could be her mean- [belonged to Robert and Elizabeth. { ing, His Lordship and Her Ladyship But no one would tell me a word; |lived here with their six young ones. 1 woke up half frightened at day- | These pigeons were homers that were break given to Robert and Elizabeth by their By the awfulest noise that I heard.|grandfather. Robert and Elizabeth's father had jumped up and ran to the window sent the parent pigeons with messages ! And took a peep out through the|to some city not far away. They had H pane, 4 waited for a long time when they And there was a big old red rooster |jeard the bells tinkling. They ran at I A crowing and crowing again. once to the pigeon house! The pigeons : —_— were fluttering and looked excited as 3 Gentle Jane. ‘v{\'yl,emni the:r children about the trip. en the pigeons saw Robert and R T s ik Blizaboth they flew to them. One went But I have been a naughty girl to Robert and one to Elizabeth and | ABd splashed 1t all with Ink. perched on their shouldecs. 1 peybat little darlings” said Bhiza- Indeed, T could not help it, e BER T am et to vlamer After they had played with their I fust climbed up upon the chair pets for a time, Robert Lecame very % 637 to wilts my neme. thoughtful. At last he said: - “Elizabeth, let’s enlist our pets in the f got as far as J-A-N— army. You know, Captain Reeves said % And then could write no more, he wanted young homers to train.” Pecause the chair, the ink and I “What! Send our litle darlings o! How couid wo? If we did ould fly right home again, any- Went sprawling on the floor. nuree says T am in disgrace, And calls me wilful Jane: “We could send the 'm quite sure I shall never try they wouldn't come homc § To write my name again. At last they decided to do'as Robert — had said. They broke the news very QNcLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- | tenderly to His Lordship dnd Her : AWAKES. | Ladyship. The iittle mother and fa- : ther fook the news like little patri- { When we can't look down and see ol;h it \ 3 5, & e children took a large basket and A ::’l'::' kol o couin thie vouns pigeons in and they put in plenty of food. We can see our star, the sun, which | “we r}nuRl give them Canada peas,” rnishes us all life and light: and we | said Elizabeth. og n see thousands of other stars far-| . ‘And corn. for variety,” said Rob- ert. e away than we can comprelrend. Robert and Elizabeth took the bas- And this star of ours, the sun, @ symbol of God. because it Is all|a oung ones; %o o m('nmp“ where they went (o i e see an officer whom they knew. Soon all ‘to us o whet, for It 18 i gix young homers were enlisted in j@ source of all our abumdance as|the army jell as the sustainer of life. This \«: That night Robert's and FElizabeth's hy the Parsces worship it as their|father noticed how quiet they were. 4 After they were put in bed their ‘mn'hrr led Robert's ker into the is away?| back yard and showed him the pigeon inutes. And what is|house. Robert had placed a rudely. painted hoard over the door which read Liberty Loft." Elizabeth had place $How far do you think i 1# is nine | a:light min Ten and a half mil- lion miles! Why, be ten and a half milli use light travels | d a flag with six n miles, or one ! blue stars in the little window. hundred and seventy-five thousand| i HILDA HOLMBERG. miles & second, every minute, and our| OrVich Bei sfar is ninety-five million miles A n L giving. The nearest Hanpy Thanksgiving . outside the Phia day itoes ‘ving was firee lig] sre away, o= mol hu children i tiicle seemed fo ho The house- and the far f A | puddines, pumpkin. pie, v years awa make &) avarvthing T # string of fizures no man in Connecti- | ed to be so b cpt-ean re A group of children ‘ve~2 playing un- There are stars shin'gs in the day- i | n & holes time 2 5 there are \ er 2 wh stars beg sometimes | seen in me %0 nearl ¥ Men down in deep welle always see When = th had | the stars of the day shn they look up Napoleon a hundred vears ago acked | these who did not believe in God,| “Who made the stars”™ and he ha never been answ It is belleved there are in space two when opninz it ket Vits task on briy million stars! It is the zreat number| \When the of stars which make the reat white | “tartled band of the heavens—the Milky Way A you ean't lock down and rec flowers, look up and see the stars A THE WINNERS OF PRIZES. 1 Helen Brauman ¢ Marjory Deun —Edith H. Stowe cf Norw d'a New Duvzht 3—Harry J. Merse of Norwi jumped up T think ths zo0d Ume S0P Scouts Down in Dixle. R 4—Evelyn Caron of Norw am;j e SRR et ok, Nory ; O]'J,"’T v;,.r is Qver. B e of il f. Y clad the war is over el ‘°mb:" e 1. am ! the war is over becaurs | of Norwich Town— | ¢ : Trail in Belgium. | thy have 7-—Edith Mathaway of Coshen, se the en 1 st | A Thrift Stamp. v on gua and other $—H'lda Holmberg of Norwich—Boy s Scouts in the Buue Ridge | The winnes of prize kooks m-y call Al The Bulletin business office for the at any ufter 10 a. m. on Thurs-| day. | LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT| 1f we erd thels ioving sons for are an Ametican, stand not fight T brave and frue we wi Mary Pealecha Wiy antic— | nev v prie Look, “Th N CAROX, Aze 10. Across the Contenent.” | owe, of Norwich—Many | o nice Battle of Tho Ants. hook you | pile_or rather my mle of stumps, served two large ans, one red. iv half an iy contend- , ani black, fie ene another. I 3 v mever let g3, but strug- overed with was _not a iween fwo itted a ntly two red or leeion overed all t wood vard, Iy MEwn W red and black. It was the onl; nd the black im- » engazed i vet without any race, i A Rugaian, Bolehgviki, by Vera G. ®rizps of L:iunon row it noonday prepa: It's a very interesting story about white men and Indians. Thanks very much. 1-hops (o win another of this Stella Gaska, of Jeweit City—Thanks for the prize’ book I have recel b g tise mme of it ia “The Srighton Boys " Flying Corps.” I think it is TS AN Sapholc, interesting for I have resd it Hathaway, of Goshen, 1 rl'\‘v"\'cd the prize book you b?ll\ me, ani liked it very much. I a ket hetween them and carried them to |} 25+ (9 St On the-Dien and Wateh #he | ry the branches of these. tress, thiere om.a of ,h,m\hnd\ would go near the dos and his they went Lome. But|Tree Frogs Are Ex wag bound fo fill up al ree where its neat was| was complet- | * | have sharp eve tolup the poreh putty, plaste | ke locks more like a re: t forth to| et all, nov: | we > nd ery will not help them | fellow, but not esn more. | now how peonle feel who | some luck to fight | i mps and Liver- | frogs and often |1 ditferent stoges of digestion. & fros | when 1 went out to my | tled and roiled on the im. hut o hellum. a war be| #s of an‘s the red al: ist the black, and fre- tc nne black. myrmidons & 1 was al- ) the.dex’ und dying, | which'] ever s rmz. »lml throux ‘all {ambiings on that Aeld never for instant Ceased fo gnaw at one 5,08 One day last summer my sister,, two brothers, cousin and I decided to go out and plck -huckleberries. So wef ate our kfast early, and got our| ' Dallssand ere all ready to’ g0 at § o'clock. We each carried a lunch.. Tirst we went in the south pasture: but as the berries slowiy disappeared |. by our picking, we made our ‘way 1o the east pasture down hy the brook. As we were jumping over the wall, 1 happened to look up it the sky and noticed dark clouds overhead, but I thought we had time to 6l our pails before the shower ‘reallv cafne up. We found a nice climp of berry bushes in the east pasturs and filled our pails and then my sister suggest: ed we eat our lunch. But just then 1 felt some drops of rain, and sure enough, we could hear the, distant rumble of thunder, and. every once in a while flashes of lightning would dart across the sky We didn't i.ave time t» o home, so 1 said, “Let’s £o up to the cave on the Zill tll the storm is over)' This we did just getting in under the frindly shelter of the rocks when the rain came down in torrents. We ate our lunch and then waited till the shower was over. After it was all over we started for heme and we all congratulated our- | - telves on our timely escape from the i . rain, Foas EDITH HELEN STOWE, Age 14. & B3y orwich. 5 : Never to be Forgotten Words of Mothers, Seventh Prize, $0.25. - The historical words of the harojo| Y Austin Smith'of Yuucic, Conn. Spartan mother to her beloved warrior of old were: ‘Come with your shield «c1_on your shield.” | the scene is most interesting. ' Here a |- What words arc more beautiful, | Foliceman has charge and his task is raore impressing in thought than these | Very strenuous. He stands in the mid everlasting lines in the ing? people o go one way for 2 time; then They picture to the mind a mother | he stops them by holding his hand up parting from her son; she is smiling |in front of him. -Instantly the crowd | happily and her son just as joyful. She | is held back end the road is cleared is willingly giviag her oniy love to|for those from the other direction. her country, for its libe17y: #rsi, She|After the policeman has checked and prays th e gods for his safety, that|freed the crowd for several fours, the they protect him from danger in bat- | fear that he may give the wrong signal tle that he may not spare his cne-|and thus cause an accident has worked nies, and {hat she may live to see|him.up to a most nervous stats so |bim come back.to his home s=o that|ihat then he raises his arm as if he she may be proud of him ferever. were lifting .a most heavy weight. But what are the words of the| There.are not many flower gardens American mother? . Have they the | throughout Fairmount park.. Howeve:, sime heroic, self-sacrificing meaninz? | the state has provided flowers. for the Yes. They are similar. She is the|people by erecting Agricultural 'hall, in pertrayal of the Spartan mother— | which there is everything ‘to gratify brave, fearless of cons:quences, ready | the wishes of the, flower.laver.* to give the last Grop of her blood for| As a' stranger enters this butlding |e her country, the birthplace of her be- | he cannot help but-think of, going into loved ones. She prays for {he down- | heaven. There are flowers éverywhere fall of autocracy and the uprising of | in profusion which no language could democracy; she prays for the loving |fully describe. sons of Uncle Sam, for their safe co- | In the center of the building, where eration and the ‘safe return of the | the glass roof is the highest, there are ctory Boys.” a number of cocoanut trees such as BLANCHE GREENWOOD, | grow in the tropics. These with their e o wonderful pslm leaves ¢ould . never The Rescue. have lived had it not been for the fact Last year Willie Gray, Who lived in | that the bullding has been hested at the upper part ot New York, took his | & Very high temperaturs for ~years, tor, Spot, and went down to the | Making it‘like tlie-climaia of the trop- #<r {0 sit, on the-pier and waich the | 1% at least a thousand people on the |&r® the sweetest songsters. making it fearby plers, in the water, swimming, | 366 like the wild forest. ~This show el e i of wonderful flowers and. the bird Willie and his chums threw sticks [ SOR8S iS tho treat of.a litetime. into the water and Spot brought them | -\ . TR A, back until he was trembling with fa-| . Nerwich:Town. tigue. ) ¥ Finally seeing how . tired Spot was The Crabs. Willie chained him so that he could not jump any more and forbade any- |, Y CHIld) e near kg By o tan UL st k{""ju‘fi“; Sonwopld not him. When Willie had his head turn. | FRIC 50" STRRArely. YO Spreac your o6 somebody threw & stick: right b | feet in-all directions Then you are il A e e Ll me-sided. Why not walk " straight 2oz leaped in after d? Do not go sidewise.” i should like to walk as I ought,” When Willie saw the dog jump, loaded with the chain, he hurriedl: | removed his coat and went into the | waler to save nim. Spot had reached | ne stick in spits of his handicap, but chain was pulling him Gewn'when Willle got {o him, grabbed him abour | the neck and tried {o swim back with show e how."” “Why, walk this way,” ‘said the old nd oft she started to’ the right. . ‘mo: mot ‘quife that way, but way! and off she ttarfed’to the “Hadn't voir beiter practice ' the bl straightforward walking -that = you! vreach®” laughed the sauey littie erab, 7~ WA asampeved to tell his brother Ugaling master. Then James Gradt, Crabs how the oldcrab had. trisd to The crowd cheeres , but at first no |nn ‘engineer on a tughoat, saw the | voetulum towalk. 1 | boy In AML'lm saved ‘them both and jumped in to haip him and | EDNA. HOI«“BERG | Norwich. HELEN BRATMAN. | STy Norwich G The First Thanksgiving Day. lent Hunters of |12nded thev had a Thanksgiving:' At Thessh: Pacte first the Pilgrims had many hardshipe. There are tree fross and (reé {oads, | Some friendly Tndians told them how o e cars a1l fro"; nd good hunt- 10 ‘plant Indian corn or maize. The Mayflower ‘had returned to Americt | with food and tools. The -Pilgrims lad 2 good crop that vear and_set s common tree outinually in the but seldom | ers of insect pests. ioad who sings evenin carly summe iseen, is a froz and his last name is Spast W dar Callel Thenianriiar Dav, This thev did {o show their thankful- ness. They invited' an Indian chiet : wih wh snd ninety braves. The men: went f tree limb he happens to be. al|)unting' and shot wild turkess, geese {housh he sings right a% You YOU MUSt | 41d- deer, Thes' caukht' alomg " the to discover hm. > T He is most entaercaining little acro- f‘xfl?::*d;f";".{,’}:‘:‘s,‘: m{hf‘;“';‘:: ’::‘o"‘ atic imp of the woods, or the gar- | (FTe¢ Geve. This B th HmofallE | Whedir OTIS E. FELLOWS, Age 0. o vines which clamber | oo OTI may see vhat pens to be a yvellowish whit o tha whi Versicolor. So well does color and blend in with whatever are admiring | The Good Luck Club. asieep after his | our canning club. I am. one whe join: The handscre green tree frog is a | girls and one.boy who joined. I was cousin of the common irec irog and |the one who canned the most. I can- frog. IMe is | ned fifty-eight quarte. ger than tie tree froz and his color | When they ‘had”the.canning exhibis pen green; versiig upan i |tion we all tobk up five quafts each: pale one quart of peare; one can of ‘heans pale and one can’of green tomatoes anl oné vincl. His can of greens, The groen 1 got ‘the first prize. ‘Fhey gave me captivit ather. no 1y activ litde | two " doil: is a lighining darf, and the £y has!to get. vanished. T am going. to-get ‘all-the. war say- The snakes are very fonc of these | ings stamps 1 car. 1 and eat them, EDITH HATHAWAY, Aze 12 is after a merry chase, for the | Goshen. ¢ frog isc re footed and has 19] Xuales are sometimes found with | three or four frogs inside of ‘them | westerly Saturday. e the throat even be F he entire, | gay: Tt woft and glutonous ancther frog | "N ana Mrs, giving. imiddle of the snake will Lomy the flesh havi imilated by the snaj show only Leen wholly Fmrmouni Parl’ from the busy sireets of Phila- | Stonington last week. people, Falrmount, park extends its | rheumatism. larid. All through it in every|away callers Sunday. are paths and the best of A Ve 5 a network for » > miles and miles. MOHEGAN the eve can see; two lines of automo- | ily for several days, ' and 6n either side is a path for pedes- | friends hers Thurséday. ¥ four lines of mo | ¢ single person realize | first “of the week. @ the chips, 4 te fight till there last week. cross each other and at these points|ily Catehing Up! WESTERLY There was an unusually large at- bare mean- | dle of the crossroads and alows. the | tendance Wednesday evening at the annual meeting of the Westerly Ffire district, held in the town holl, Eugere B. Pendleton and. Bverett A. Kingsley clerk. Only {ax payers within the district are priv- ileged to participate in the business | of the meeting, but that did not pre clude the presence of many non-ta: payers in the fire department frc present; and all were interest in-the election of a successor to S : uel G. Cottrell, engineer of the fire department afi long and faithful service. trell is in failing health and was no. & candidate for reelection. For weel friends of Harry Coyle and George Egger, both members of the board of engineers, have been campaigning for ome ‘of these experienced men to suc- ceed Chief Cottrell, and that election was a feature of the meeting. The board of engineers submitted with recomménda- “The department has responded to the following alarms of fire during_ the past thirteen months: . 7—3till alarm for a fire in the home of Warren Dec. 13—Still Dec. 25—Box 35, 6.10 p. m., chimney fire ‘on Spring street. Dec. 31—Box 28, home of Mrs. Hogg on Summer street. Loss $348.50. Jan. 1—Box 56, 130 2. m., State Line Tunch room, out of fire di Jan. 4—Box 71, 133 Canal street. Jan. 5—Box 66, 8.1 ed by George E. Knit for the people at home. You cany qo without feeling that you are depriving those who's Jlid it more. Christmas gifts of this nature are appropriate Cascarets, candy cathartic, cost onl; 10 conts and mothers will find directions | for children’s dosage at all ages on each box. Gasoarets work Like & charm when the child’s little stomach, bowels need cleansing and regulating, who rtired as VICUNA NOVELTY SWEATER YARN: ART WOOL—more attractive than ribbonsmade: paid, $585.60: Harry Coyle, salary and Cyclone comp priation, $300: ‘H. I. Doilman brushes $13.90; tomobile hire, §: repairinz -chimnev ning, supplies, $6.50 ANy, appro- William Duguid, au- George A. Dunham, the ‘annual repor SoorEe (TR tions, as follows: operating truck, $20; Postmaster Far- , cards and stamp: 5 E. Fitts company, liam H. Greene, salary, $10 Walter S, Hiscox assessor, $1. typewriting, 2 labor and material: Seventh-day Kenyon compan; George Ladd, operating Wityam Do Lamphere, labor at fire, $ o operating truck, and labor, $54. . Lawton, engineer, uel V. Maggs, care of lawn, A. Manchester, plumbing, m Motor company, 10.3)0 p. m., 7.30 a. m., fire at No. 25; Maxwell and Brown ating’ truck, $90: firemen and McFarland, operating trus ander Mitchell, “My ¢hild,” «aid an old crab to a) occupied by Railroad avenue. 0 2. m, chimney on Newton avenue. March 23—Box 68, 12.10 p. m., brush Annie Casey .8 opening town nswered the little érab meekly. “Pray, , Theyteflusthnthmmflbewstuwtm knitted sweaters, socks, helmets and mufflers this ‘Winter as there was before the armistice was agreed upon... We will have a great army upon German soil all winter, end Germany isn’t the ‘warmest place upon the map in the winter time. Knit for the boys, they will’ q&;lrecmte it. that for war time and they are very acceptable. i We Carry Yarns of Every Description’ +-60c a Ball sweaters, and more practical........ 40c a Ball KNITTING YARNS in all shades....... Sjylpfiifimk SHETLAND FLOSS in all shades, for the new cob- web sweaters .................. .. 1306 @%Ball ATHLETIC MIXTURE YARN for those sporty, . 72¢ '3 Ball looking sweaters which wear well. ... FOUR-FOLD GERMANTOWN in all shndu 39¢c a Ball KNITTING YARN in good shades. .........60c a Ball | See Our Display of Knitted Novelties = i g W special labor at fl':‘ $16. I(l 29—Box 62, brush fire on Oak 29— Still Blarm, East avenue. March 30—Box owned by Michael Rhode Island ¢ brush fire on Rogers Brathers, 5—Still alarm, forest fire off | the Shore foad out of the district. ] 28_Brush fire on Vose street. April 28— Brush ington Trust May 29—Box Barber's garage. Automatic_Tele; One vear after the Pilgrims had rentals and tolls, $97. gwned by Mrs, Horace Vose, y' F. N, Tuckerman. and house $15,000. Loss on barn Tuckerman’s hydrantel rental Walter E. Wheeler, assessor, American Expres company loss erett E. Whipple, Sepi. 9-Chimney fire out of the dis- | lard Hardware compa: cash on hand and in band, $19 tal $16,872.39. Debt statement: 500, less cash on hand $1 November 30, The State Returning board, of which | of the attractions will be an exem- hbuse occupled €. Clarence Maxson of Westerly, is the | plification of the: fourth gdegree by a Vincent Jane. %A, Sherman h\ J. I‘rexl Bz\rber in | ing the year (;Eil_n.. The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock and after the reading of the the first business was the pres- éntation and acceptance of the reports of the treasurer and board i ith recommendartis Eugene B. Pendleton was re- 13--Still alarm, smail fire on Chester_avenue. It is cur Jit-| The Good Luck club is the narmie of barn on Narragan- such sums of money as‘may-be re- |43 for Didesky and Gates was chosen * quired. The bond_of the treasurer and lfctor e el Wells was clected ‘senator in Rich . Butler offered the follow-4 3 T in Rich- mgh:cr:sm;'m.? Resolved, The West-|mond, with 130 to 93 for Gardiner erly fire district, for the best interest | Woodmansee was elected.to the house of all concerned, request that the h 174 to 97 for Meserve. Bliss was Votere at the annual financial_ town|elected senator for Narragansett by a meeting to be held on the first Tues-|Yote of 130 to l“3 WflhflWhlte as op- day in February, 1919, take such action | bonent. Connell was elected repre- as may be necessary to establish a|Sentative by a voigof 193 to 98 over town system of fire protection. Tho motion was seconded by John J.| Cosimo Feraco, of; Westetts: a mem- Dunn. R. J. Rooney objected on ihe | ber of the 306th regiment, with great grounds of increased expense to the |war record, was recently mentioned fown. Everett A. Whipple stated there |among the wounded''amd; crédited to Would be a less espense 1o the West- | Providence. He has a sister in that representative with 140 to 49 for-Bar- er. at $3,000. Champlin. fire district. Mr. Rooney said the | ity and evidently gave her as his increased territory meant an increase |rearest kin in this country, which ac- e pbaratus, as present depart-|counts for the puglished., g{atement ment could not cover the same. It|that he was of Providence.'iHe left means the purchase of modern appa- | Westerly under the selective service ratus, with pump attachment. law with the contingent that included Mr. Butler said the object of the res- | Benjamin Spargo and:ofher Westerly olution was simply to bring the batter [boys. The name of Cosimo Feraco is to the financizl town meeting. The |cntitled to place on Westerly's Roll of esolution w: adopted and the clerk Honor. ucted to present the shme to the| The Rhode Island State Grdnge will chich will be held next Feb- | nold its thirty-second jagaral session in Providence Def.’1); 12 dnd 13. One member in point of service, is | Leam from the Central:Grybge, Wed. wed in recounting the vote |nesday afternoch,’;Wedndsiay night there will be a programme of speak- the.r work 1s annotinced as |ing by men prominent in the work Duckworth W elect- | of the organization.' Officers will be elected Thursday. andl i SPifled Friday. ed the canning club. There were six elected moderator Everett E. Whipplo was re-elected treasurer cnd collecto: Eugene B. Pendleton audiror, v 26—i30x 35, 9.49 a. m., henhouse chimney fire on F‘On(l s'reet. Cisterns—The fire £00d condition. Hiése—We have 1 good condition and cisterns are took, one quact of elderberries. and Judg, et e We Rathblassmine | a surprise on the meeting when in a telling speech he placed in nomination for chief engineer Samuel . Courell. the present incumbent, and who had served as chief for a quarter century. It was generally suppose on of serious sickness C was not a candidate, and it i he was renominated to avci ed contest between Coyle and 3 Whipplegseconded the nom- ination and, 5 was unanimously re-elected. Harry Coyle and Georse E. re-elected assistant S William H. Greene, who had served for years, gave notice that, while grateful for past honors, he must decline re- “ Steamers—Both steamers have been tried during the past.12 months and fourd in good condition. *Motor Apparatus—The motor appar- Atus are in good condition. ‘Membership—Board of engineers. fuen: Rhode Tsland Ones. 27 men; C clone Engine company. : Heok and Ladder compa: < Recommendations—We would ommiend that the salaries and appro- pridtions for the vear ensuing be as Chief engineer $600, assist- ant engineers 5100 each, two engineers two assistant engineers for steamer $25, janitor $200, treasurer and collector $200, Rhods Is- land Ones $300, Cvclone Engine com- pany $300, Alert Hook and Ladder Co. in - thrift stamps fors the unless | prize—eight thrift stamps. T have ‘got ngs by when thers | four more besides and have !our more ul ‘legs- capable of malking a F i3 nz_jumps from limb fo limb | LAUREL GLEN - George Hill and’ son' Ray “were. in Mr. and Mrs, Osmas Barnes of/Gro- | for steamer, ton' Long Poin{ were guests of Mr. and ches lower | yrg: William Maine on Th-nksrlvsns The contest of the meetins developed in the election of a assistant engineer to fill the vacancy occupied by M Robert Bonner and Harry Kingsley were nominated and a ballot N k list was ordered. Judge Rath- bun and Irvine O, Chester were ap- The result of the bal- Nathan Main - enter- ar down the X ontend. | ake's body will be',two-thirds ab-'| pged o R R submitted: S. G. Cot- | sorbed, while the last frog near tbe {rell, Harry Coyle, W. H. Greene, Geo. | Respectfully The young -people” are planning to| give an entertainment in’ the .chapel soon. the proceeds: o ‘be used for re- Treasurer Everett E. Whipple pre- sented the report, ful Yeceipts and expenditures of the dxe-| trict for the year ending Nov. Receipts, balanc from use of ap- paratus at forest fires, $30; from notes ‘at bank, $7,000 from taxes, from interest on taxes, interest on bank balances, $12. al receipts $19,872.39. Expenditures—Alert company, pointed tellers. lot was as follows: ‘Whole number of votes cast Necessary for choice. audited, of the Mr. Powell and Miss Taylor attend- |, ed the rabbit pie supper‘ at North| | pajrs. GABRIELLE B '3 | Mr, McCullock was: i Westerly on Mansfleld Cenes | Monday. | hack from the red-bricked,| Thomas Wheeler had 'a severs fall flat-topped houses of tre- City of |from his wagon Sunday. A doctor was jes in my | Brotherly Love, and yet near cnough | called to attend him. for the comfort and pleasure of thei Mrs.Nathan Main is suffering from Mr. Bonner declared elected third assistant engineer. The preset stove pipe committee of of engineers A tax was voted of $1.50 per $1,000 of all taxable property. The treasurer was authorized to hire members of was re-elected. o “aeren e ooded. - voling and| Mri'and Mre. John’ Geer were Ash- 5 Alling Rubber company, 11 American Surety compan trér's bond, $1 Andrews & Co., coal, $156.69; Bentlev-Clark company, gaso- line, $229.31; William P. Bindloss, coal S 66. C, B. Bliven, posting notices, Michael Brown, operating {\'u&‘k 3’15 Amos _S. Burdick, wood, Charles J. Butler, coal, $86. E. Champlin, -automobile hire, $1.5 Elwood Clark, i Here on all holidays nundreds of | - Miss Mellen of Elliott has been visit- 5 on the other, On every | people come for an outing. As far as!ing at the home of the Matthews fam-: Qeadly com- ise that 1 oldinfs never Children’s Coughs may be checked and more serious conditions of the throat will be often avoided by promptly giving the child a dose of safe PISO’S biles can be seen coming and going, | Miss Dupres of Norwich called on g human- | E. C. Fowler wds -in Norwlch tha small importance. Mr. Foot of Trading Cove his bought Coleman. electrical work. $4. In some places of the pirk the roads | the Wyman piace and moved bis fam- | G. Cottrell, operating tr uck $43; g uel “G, Cottrell,