Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 8, 1920, Page 7

Representative Samuel H. Davis of Westerly, counsel of the League !: Law Bnforcement, and Nathan s Littlefield, president of the Rhbode Tuiand Antl-Saloon league, are back | of the act in uced | tive Everett P, tr1 to ent the ) taing the that the cause 3'- survive the death g such the person and shall be a claim agalnst the egtats, The Near which has been {n progress of Rhode Island, will be extended th! week to Westerly, Wt port, Cranston and towns county, Bpeak: will tell portance of quick rellef for the of Armenia and Syria and workers to Rt. Rev. bishop of the Frovidence = approved a cellgction in the churches of the state for Mareh 21, te be devoted o the fund. Senator Mawrice W, F of Wast- erly Dfn:'uun the annual bill which act two seaions of vear would be held in Weaterly. The eogrt coul from ene Dpisce to the other for rurpose of trving eases. At present ;(11 n-dr.\nl'gl the nenn ars inrston, where all grand jury are heard 1:nl a’mz m‘h dered, ::l then, at the option b’l. ourgment may be taken te Westerly i tria. of cases. Willard D. Bacen, superintendent of sehicols in Westerly, attended the com- fere.ce of schoo! superintenremts of Tiode Teland In the affice of Commie- #'cner of Pducation Ranger in Prowl. drnct Friday. It was veted to refer 1y tleir recrective school committess 1he matter of getting syl one from punils for the fund to The Gift to Trance, Col. H. Anthony Dver. state chairmen of the campates, 4 he be'leced tha entire state of $2,000 could be raised in ymaf East relief l:-umlvnu bgcriptions from the school children. 7 l'l:'l’l?l tthu :honuhnl of nilek- dimes and quarters might serve the purpose. Emerson L. Adams, deputy commis- sloner of education, was chosen treas- ‘to recelve contributiong to the ga from: schoels. Upder suspension of rules, 3 resolu- > m';:-aa in the senate provid- Fh the use of the state armory at 1«1’!’, by N:n'-.unnngt ceuncil, s:fi Anamendatory act was fillmmfle’m mtsr eage area in thg to:m :; , Wi may e jeas ¥ “uwg;?;‘mm, the former t eo held by one person m%% to ten acres. Bill was g"‘ changing annual date of Hop- ton betore town meeting from Thursday last Tuesday in May to corre- =ponding day In April. Payment of the claim of Rhode Isl- for expenses incurred in connec- with raising the volunteer army state quring the Spanish-Amer- war is proposed to be referred to ‘Btates court of claims for ad- fustment in a3 bill presented by Rep- repentative Burdick of Newport. The ciglm has Ddeen disallowed by the treagury department. y The Westerly Cycle club held its 25th annual. meeting Friday night In the rooms in the Briggs bullding and olaetod offieers as follows: George E. , president: John Payne, vice t: Elmer I(E:}“l‘iabcock treas- grer; Bernard J. sty, seeretar: Hanry C. Crandall, Alan A. Palmiter, dipecters; Frank L, Friend. chairman Pl eommittee. David § Myers, who a8 been president of the club for 20 yeary, declined re-election. He was onenimously elected honerary presi- dent, an office created !n his honor. z‘l‘.d‘b is in a very prosperous con- n. While the near-blizzard was at its worst, at § e'clock Saturday merning, James E, Kennedy, jan'tor of the Me- morial and Library bullding, wagered & bax of cigers with a library louncer that the gun would shine by noon. Mr. Kennedy paid the wager at high noon. Twenty minutes later and he would have heen the winner. In the early iy thers was a heavy rzinfall which gt 645 turned to enow. The wind incrensed almost to gale veloclty ond the emow came {n great volume untf] 1130 & m. Then the smow eeaged, but the high wind increased, and the thermometer showed a down- Ward tendemey, At 12.20 the sun dine shine, indlcating the end of the storm. n'vmm to bet on the weather with . Xennedy again the librarv lounger will dAemand extraordinary odde. There was exemplification of the thira l:(gm on a large class of cand!- ‘dates 8t. Francis counci), K. of C,, in Moese hall, Wakefleld. Sunday af- ternoon. Distriet Deputles Reardon | Mirror says: ceremonies. knights from all parts of the state were present, including & from Narragansett couneil of Wester- A large number of | wher tion | estate 1y._The third degree will'be worked |. in ‘Westerly April11. In order to ac- comy te the-large number of visit- ors “expected, the'.ceremonies will be held in the state armory. : s Annie F., 75, widow of Isaac ¥. Bur« diek, died = Saturday merning at:-. 8 oclock at the home of her daughter, Mrs, William S. Martin, 21 Park ave- nue. Mrs. Burdick had been ill sinece |’ last October, when she suffered 8 shock at the home ‘of her daughier, Mrs. Willard E. Davis, in Lakewood, Jhere she was visiting. Mrs. Burdick as the daughetr of Arneld Hiscex and Mariha B. Macomber Hisgox, born in Charlestown Nev. 26, 1844. She married Isaac F. Burdick of this town | Myste. and practically all of her life was spent in Westerly. She was 2 member of the Pawcatuck Seventh Day Baps tist church of Westerly and for _a number of years was an earnest work- er in the LaMes' Aid society.: 'She be- longed to Budlong Woman’s Rellef corps, No. 2, Department of Rhode Island, and at one time was a worker in the Pawcatuck W. C. T. U. Mrs. Burdick is survied by three daughter: Mrs. William S. Martin and Miss Jes- #le B, Burdiek of Westerly and Mrs, ‘Wiilard E. Davis of Lakewood, and a son, Arnold H. Burdick of Westerly, 8he leaves also o sister, Mrs. Charles H. Morse of Pawtucket, and a grand- son, W, Elliot Martin of Westerly, While the blizzard raged Saturday morning there was considerable ex- ritement in the William Serar store in the Rhode Jsland hotel building. An oil stove in the accounting department either unset or exploded, and in an instant the office was a mass of flame. The store force did quick and effeetive work and the flame was extinwuished with chemicals. Bueiness memoranda was burned, but no bank notes. al- thoush a $20 bill was partially bprned. Ne fire alarm was sent In. Locad Lasonics. The eampaign In Westerly for the Y. W. C. A. fund will end Sunday next and there remains more than $100 te be raised. ‘The members of the S. D. B. soclety met Sunday evening at the home of Miss Sylvia Lanphear on Moss street, Paweatrek river oprosite the plant of the C. B. Cottrell Sons Co. was put out of commission Saturday afternoon when the iee bre the bridge in twe, making it imna ‘e STONINGTON Executor Charles E. Davig has set- tled the estate of Helen Breed and all legacles have been paid in full. The Waldron fund, which was given $300, has been ingcreased by the addition of $1,121.26, the balance after the pay- ment of legacies and expenses, making a total of $1512.26. Other bequests were: $300 to the Congregational church of Stonington; $300 to each of two churches in Coventry, ad $300 to aid In furnishing Steuington’s new town hall. In -this comnection, the “The spirit. shown by and McGroaty were in charge of the | Miss Breed in the gifts to the town, Stoningten Painters. ; of the u ‘%3-:’:3:. bumm seems to be in waln. During . seven of influense éach“'%?‘dipht.h.ru. scarlet fever and measles were reported in tmv . ~ JEWETT CITY story relative to the High Banks Bur- Place: m‘on land adjoining the Quinebaug river, a Litle more than-a mile above tha High nks, the Johnzons, the ‘Blunts ard probably other neighbor- ing furmeis in this secton, two hun- dred yeaye ago buried their dead, and oit -City and Plainfield by & !lane Dorthea Ihioff, better known a8 the Deacon Johnson peint epposite the road leading to the | Ihloff house. Some twenty years n{: mrsfium graves were counted this bur.al place, Since that time remains of the Jobnsops buried here, { have been rem on their grave stones gopied ‘bronze tablet, get in a granite monu- ment, are placed over them, The | proximity of this burial place to the river and 2 spirit of vandglism for- merly existing ameng the boys of this wvicinity, account for ‘the disap- | pearance of many of its monuments, which have been threwn over . the bank into the water for the sgke of the splash: and only three stones bearing inscription now remain. This cemetery has received no care for many years. Here closes Mr. Fhil- lips' story. It is a coinc'dence that twenty-two years ago, Johr E. Phillips, G. A. Haskell and the late R. M. Brown were appointed a committee to look up and consider an advisable site for a new cemetery for Jewett City. The two siteg under eongjdentsen at 'that time was the Deacén Johnson plain at the High Banks, and a ‘tract of land on the Archie McNlicol farm op- on & OPENING DAYS Tuesday — Wednesday — Thursday March Ninth to Eleventh SPRING DISPLAYS OF = Millinery and Apparel Jewett City, at a place now galied |- farm, which leayes the highway at a the to the Jewstt City | Lower cemetery, and the inscriptions The pontoen bridze which spans the | ‘ebruary, “The two of pneumonia and one BT f TR . e stone” r9 Mr, Phillips’ book contains - this thm“)la i “My“fiesh shall reat in i For my Redeemer {‘Nfi-w acr‘lyflo a" :hb:’mu\b n = ‘in ye year 1800 another, Mrs. Joanna, consort/of coentinued to do so for more than 2| hrose Blunt, who de this centtry. This eemetery is reached 17, 1800, 1 year: 4 fEam fhe slate highway betwesn Jow= | vobe ia nearets T bet mmyes et L verse is scarcely to be made out: ‘Dear Jesus, Thou hast pawer to save, s In Thet 1 trust while in the grave, Although my bedy turas to dust, I hope to rise among the just.” On the eapta’n's tombstone, is this verse, hardly legible: And here its prisoner must abide, T ,C:_-rxat the awful bands shall urst And raise to life this sleeping dust.” The only other inscripiion- are on small rough stones rising not over and are comprised in the following: Martha C. Whitman, who died Sept. 15, 1828, and two brothers of the late | Deacon Henry Johnson, William and ‘Duflal who -died, respectively, in the years 1816 and 1308. The remaiping fifty odd graves have no marks, or a very small stone, Here there rest four of Deacon Johnson’s ancestors who were over 60 years of age when thé Revolution broke out. In thig Johpson site there are nearly 100 acres as level as any similar tract of land within many a mile of this place. It is seventy-five feet above the Aspinook pond, and on the north and west is a fine vein for miles over some of the finest farms in the towns of Lisbon and Canter- | bury. eYars ago when all the stones { were intact, many old dates appeared fa~d also many rhymes which in | themselves were a sort of reminder of 'yearg gone béfere. One cause of destruetion fop this landmark is the | fact of its Being situated on the river bank, gnd that teo, some seventy-five | feet above it. "And why so? Because | almost every boy or man who passes | that way findg himself possessed of tan almost jrreg’st'hle desire to roll l-down a stene. That many yielded to ! this eraving the searred trees and tlittered river botiem could testify be‘ore the trees were eut and the i river raised by the Aspinook dam. It hag alwaye been 2 source of wonder to peopls’ whe appreeiate anticuity of thig kird. why anvbedy ghould wish to mar itg seclusion, ¢=i| In addit’on to th's ground there are PO POV jmany o'd Indian burying nplaces in | thig’ vie‘nity of mere or less note, In | f2ct there are few more noted n'aces | among relic hunters for arrow heads, Side by side with the-above ig the ' 'D“"’,.,d‘:‘“ through time iz triumph | e'ght to twelve inehes above the sod, | T M)KOLASYH TAILOR SHOP 33 Market Telephone 587 e rr———pr—— tomahawks, etc., {han the towns of Lisbon and Griswold. Anyone look- ing at the collection: in the Slater Memorial building in Norwich w.ll not.ce that many of the finest Indian relics come from this vieinity, At B a. m. Saturday, after a night with the mercury above freeszing, water was rupningiin the sueets__nnd guttérs hewn out of solid ice. $ 8 m. the mercury *stogd at ‘38, th a proper blizzard.'demandink undivided attention from all corners. Milkmen and delivery clerks found it the roughest storm of the season. It was all out and over by noon, except that half a gale continued well into the night. The evening southbound mail train due at ?.Nhnhov;;ed l‘:p :t tu.go. followed closely by the boal rain. Passengers for New York and p;fil& south occupied bench bunks in the station. Many remarked how short a time was taken to stop the streams of water that were running everywhere when the mercury fell from 36 te 26 in less than one hour Saturday mornine. Dorcas circle of .the King's Daugh- ters is te meet Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Robert Robertson. Byron' €. Willcox of Hasbrouck Heights, N, J., spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. E. €. Willcox, of Lisbon. Mrs. H. N. Wheelock spent the week end in Bridreport' with her daughter, Mijss Mary Wheelock. Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Quinn were held at St. Mary’s chureh Saturday morning. Rev, J. H. Siefer- man officiated at the requiem mass. The bearers were four nephews, John, James, Jr., apnd William Brenfian and IRE trouble is often A tube trouble. If your - !iIlllfi:lf‘tlll)ffii ii]:f3 1]‘;1;.i;()‘)‘1" % you will not get proper ser- vice from your Tires. . - like Goodrich Tires, are .- “bestin the long run” .= 0 Makers of the Suvexrows Cord Tire GLASS = PUTTY = PAINT - Hardwire — Togls = Cutlery Examine .6br fine of Aluminum Ware THE HOUSEHOLD Bultetin Building, 74 Franklin Street st \springs ;n_fl- well . atthe PROVIDENCE BAKERY ‘e. 8. ELDRED’ 42 Brosdway Tel U3 . Burial was cemetery, Sylvandale, é‘ charge of ‘Hou B Bros. A : Stapjey Huisios. old son g e R R ?:rr!ladv Saturday in!St, Mary's ceme- WOODSTOCK VALLEY - News has been received of the death of Asa Tbayer, Sunday, Feb. z;,' uocmm. Mase. Mr. Thayer has a summer h here, 4 Mrs: M:;finnn‘a littla” bay.’ Kim!| ! y, suffering from blood polsenng in his hand, eaused from falling en g stecl fork-— and piercing his bhand. ' Musgdom Conyerse of Pomfrst is 'imt! o Tam- of »Pomtre't "al 0 . ) ealiing en Joca] friends Sunday. What He Reslly Huu-vm 3 n 50 yesrs wil .t Ze tuu{du.” yun :’,‘szd;tuw?'e b;zggou;m. Or does he mean that we ghall be 80~ old?—~Kansas: City- Star. - 5z Naugatugk—The .life saving: ms. chine Tecently -ordered -for the loea] - fire department arrived.at the Maple street house this.afternoen.. The net’ is heavily ructed of eanvas with