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::&kwt '&".",.‘f“m.. T 4 Prevails in seetions of Last sister was called back to Putnam by feason of the serious condition of her Brothér who was then under hospital Mr, Bughbée became Interested in alll that pertained to the advancement.of Westerly -and made many acquaint- ances who will be shocked to learn of | his death. 3 Mr. Bugbee was born in Woodstock, g:nn.,, Jetober 31, 1861, the son of dwin ér and Frances A, Thurber Bugbee and was educated at Weodstock Academy. He was travel- pany, of New York five years and was ing salésman for the Harley Silk com- part owner of the Menwormet hotel at Boothbay Harbor, Me, for ten years. ‘When the hotel burned, he engaged in | the real estate and insurance business and finally located in Westerly. Heis survived by two sisters, Mrs, Ernest 1§ B. Kent and Mrs. Ebenezer Bishop of tnam and a brother, Charles E. Bugbee of Woodst Burial will be in the family plot il Woodstock. The Woman's Aid Seciety of Paw- ‘catuck. Seventh Day Baptist church, in annual meeting, elected these offi- cers: Mrs, William H. Browning, president; Mrs, J. A. Saunders, Mrs Howarg M, Barber, Mrs. John Tan- ner, Mrs. Myron Kenyon, vice presi- dents; Mrs, William Hedley, secre- ry; Mrs. B. Frank Lake, treasurer; rs. Wlisha Burdick, collector; Mrs. lliam Martin, Mrs. BEverett E. pple, Mrs, George Lanphear, Mrs. Charles Palmer, Mrs. Gurdon Hiscex, Mrs. Edwin Whitford, directors; Mr. and Mrs. Albert N. Crandall, audi- tors, While Eiliott Thorpe was in his cellar for a few minutes Thursday morning, 'someone entered his living roeom and abstracted $7 from an en- velope in a desk drawer. The visitor left a note expressing thanks for the “cagh on hand” and wrete that he needed the money. Miss Jennie May Palmer, daughter of John D. Palmer, of Norwich, and Arthur P. Champlin, of Westerly, wete married Wednesday afternoon fat the home of the bride on Chestnut street, by Rev. Clayton A. Burdick, D,D., pastor of Pawcatuck Seventh Day Baptist church. ' The ceremony was witnessed by relatives from Norwieh, ILafayette and Ashaway. Among the guests was Mrs. Mary Wills, age 83, of West street, Mr. and l(u.LChunpuu will reside in School stres! 3 fi%;ii} e Ehs} L i i Lecal Laconies. Westerly Lodge of Elks conducted 10| the funera] services of Frank Richard Mackenzie, Wednesday, at his home on the Boston Neck road, Narragan- sett Pl Burial will be in Spring- .field, Mass, A Mr. and Mrs. Denison C. Hinckley have returned from their winter stay 'king | in the Isle of Pines. ‘}. Mrs. Edward Wiendrich, of New Lenden is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Cavanaugh, in Hamilton, North Kingstown, % 0 Another effort to discharge the spe- cigl legislation committee from fur. ther consideration of the qualifica tion clause, way defeated on Wednes: day by a vete of 42 to 47. - The legislature has passed in con- currence the reselution appropriating $35,000 additional, to the Rhode Isi- anq State College, at Kingston, George S. Palmer, of New York, formerly of Norwich and New Lon- on, has leased a large cottage at ‘ateh Hill for the season, B‘wmr Cdommui‘?urld'l‘r‘lumm v]‘), Cream of Tartar and Herb Ex- beeck, democrat, an bert W. Crandall and Lewis Stanion, repub- tracts in Tablet Called licans, will soon meet and elect a president of the board. The presi- »jdency eof the board, since its organ- izatipn, had been held by the late Louis W. Arneld. (Friday) is Thirg district court in Westerly. Main street is now closed between Union and School streets to permit sewer construction. The addition to the bank building of the Washington Trust company is nearing completion. It will be utilized as the president’s room, and will give considerable more space in the bank proper. Frank W. Coy and Clifferd W. Campbell are the real live wires of the Westerly Board of Trade selected to cooperate with the Norwich Cham- ber of Commerce, to try andq save for public ise, the Norwich-Westerly electric road. Now small groups assemble daily to see the strong arm of the mail car Tedch out and grab the pouch as the 8.14 p. m, train passes west at a high & a 3 -3 | : Preves Meay Serieus Ailments Due to Peisens in Cym.. —— Says Nething Better Than Suiphur, > TRY A TON OF OUR BOULETS THE BEST WE HAVE HAD YET NO DUST OR BREAKAGE $10.75 PER TON SHETUCKET COAL & W0OD CO. * MACPHERSON'S “FOR QUALITY? 3 ————————— 'SPRING TOP COATS that has been doing duty all Winter. Beautiful hand-tailored to turn the morning mist and evening chil. 5 SINGLE AND DOUBLE-BREASTED LIGHT, GRACEFUL DRAPERY made of durable Gabardines. Also belted models made of fabrics in heather mixtures. THEY ARE DISPLAYED IN OUR WINDOWS we save you. J. C. MACPHERSON QUALITY CORNER' ° OPPOSITE CHELSEA SAVINGS BANK rate of speed. The Cottrells, the Crandalls, Maxsons and the Burdicks are not only the predominating names of the Seventh Day Baptist denomination in ‘Westerly, but'all over the country as well. In one obituarv notice in a de- nominational journal these four names appear. The Westerly group of the denomination has 963 mem- bers. _ If agreement is not Treached the hod carriers and laborers strike is due one week from next Monday. The union stone cutters in Wests erly are still idle, Indications are that the Rhode Isl- ang legislators will work overtime without additional pay. The Westerly. Rod and Gun club has voteq to recommend George A. Dolan as a member of the state fish. eries commission to succeed Dr. Ed- win R. Lewis of Westerly, resigned. Miss Susan Amanda Browning, the daughter . of Mr. and Mrs. John Browning of Westerly, and George Verdere Sage of Kansas City, Mo, were married Wednesday, by Rev. W. S. Abernathy. STONINGTON The Stonington High School min- strels gave a highly satisfactory per- formance before a large audience in Borough hall, Thursday evening, the boys and girls members of the troupe playing well their parts. The pro- gramme follows 3 % Yankee Scout March, High School orchestra; interlucutor, Howard E. Koelb; bones, John P. Cushman, Carl E. Hammond, Andrew H. Mc- Gowan; tambos, Elmer L. Cushman, Carl J. Rosen, George R. Ryon; Miss Martha E. Burdick, pianist. Overture, full chorus “Katydid is the Candy Kid,” Andrew H. McGow- an; “I Used to Call Her Baby,” Carl J. Rosen; “Oh, By Jingo,” John P. Cushman; “Nobedy Knows,” George R. Ryon; “At Dawning,” Miss Eliza- beth Austin; ‘“When My Baby Smiles E. Hammond; “Oh, I'm Wi Elmer L. Cush- man; “America. “Taxi, High School orchestra; male quartet, Messrs. Lee, Avery, KXoelb and Krizanek; “The Rich Man and| the l-or’s Hornpipe, Mjsses M Christine Reid, Fannie Sutcliffe, Adelaide Bucklin, Mary Helen McGrawth; School chestra.’ Fishers Island has been ton, Saturday. Misses Etta and Edyth returned from Newark. fly are at their summer borough. were married Rev. Henry M. Thompso! a Colchester schaol, is Easter week with her and Mrs. Himelstein. er Sunday, and were al their uncle and aunt, Mr. Henry . Kneeland, of Pin lumbia. & L. Cumming® house. has entered theemploy mings. in East Hampto: in a chair. Sunday afternoon mantic. 2 Calls Me Honey,” Miss ' Eleanor R.|ter, Monday. Burrows; song and dance, Miss Fan- nie Sutcliffe and John P. Cushman; stump speech, Miss Ethel E, Sheldon; trio, “Sandman Am Softly Coming,” Misses Elizabeth Austin, Eleanor mantic Sunday. Lawn farm, has a pleasing coffee= economical than coffee and has the added value of absolute freedom fram caffeine or other harms- “Zhere’s a Reason” ; Made mmmfiw They are here ready for you to don the moment you deff the ulster TWO AND THREE BUTTON MODELS Made of soft, rich herring-bone weaves, in Oxfords and Tans. Others Ready-for-Service Spring Top Coats, so perfect in' every detail that they make the custom-tailor superfluous except to emphasize the money We match their clothes; they cam’t match our prices. Burrows and Margaret Gavitt; Sail- Catherine Winifred Galvin, selection, Stonington Pointers. Rev. Henry M. Thompson, D. D., has returned from Hartford where he at- tended a religious meeting. Captain ‘William Broadmeadow, the Fishers Island Coast Guard sta- tion has been transferred to Watch Hill. James Fletcher, No. 3 man at be captain_and is_in charge of the station at Fishers Island. Mr. and Mrs. George D. .Bradley arrived in New York, Thursday from Bermuda, and will return to Stoning- Dr. Charles M. Williams and fam- James Harvey and Agnes Latham esday ttl;)m]o;n by LEONARD BRIDGE Miss Zelda Himelsteln, a pupil in Mr. and Mrs. David Walsh attend- ed church services in Columbia, East- Mrs. John Mahoney and son, Her- bert Granger, have moved to Kenneth Mrs. David Walsh spent Saturday with he raunt, M. Mary J. Watrous, of Mr. Cum- |at it —Boston Transtript. polar floe— M t: A field with its back up. 2 Isiand. Piece of land out tfor 2|l Come up, O sun and drive them back, and let the south - Miss Watrous, who | S7.m-—Boy's Life. winds blow ! had a fall, breaking her hip five weeks ago, but is fast improving and expects soon to be able to sit up Miss Marjorie M, Collins returned T after three days with her mother in Willi- Mrs. Rexford E. Cummings Lazarus,” Albro G. Hall; “Everybody|Miss Emelie Istenes were in Colches- Charles C. Carpenter was in 'Wini- Burnette 'W. Cummings of South Manchester, spént Sunday at Shady \ Ladies’ and Misses’ Suits «+ $39.50 - A lucky purchase of new Spring.Suits for Ladies and Misses which makes it possible for us to sell them at these very low prices. They are Suits which a week ago would have sold at §50.00 and $55.00. Materials are all Wool Serges, Tricotines, Silvertones andHomespuns. = = = = = ¢ Sizes are: Misses 16, 18, 20—Ladies 36, 38,40 Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats At $25.00 garments P4 f knitted Tricolette Blouses . At$595 A variety of shades in both plain and drop stitched Tricolette. MILLINERY We are offering some very special values in Trimmed and Ready-to-Wear Hats Ready-to-Wear Hats g $3.98 to $8.95 argaret Fish, Powers, Lewis and High Trimmed Hats S iy $5.98 to $14.95 Children’s Hats —AT— $2.98 to $6.95 B. GOTTHELF & CO. “The Store of Good Values” 94-100 MAIN STREET of promoted to Durgin have home in the HUMOR OF THE DAY “Gracious, Tommie, can't you play without making all that noise?” “No mamma, I can't. You. gee, We're playing picnic, and a storm has come up and I'm the thunder!"—Yonkers Statesman. | In a written examination on astron- omy one of the questions ran: “What happens when there is an eclipse of the moon?” One student who was expert at get- ting out of difficulties . wrote: great many people comge out to look spending the parents, Mr, ‘RIDE SWIFT, O SUN! so callers. on and Mrs. W. e street, Co- Ride swift and high, O southern sun, to keep your north- ern tryst ! y We weary of these fields of snow, this driving, icy mist; M. Gianger We weary of these keen north winds, straight from the “What was the result of your ad- vertising a lost dog?” e “Tramps have infested my place ever since.”—Kansas City Journal. “No ma'am.” “Is it the stopping that does it?” “No ma’am.” “Then what is it?" “Answering” questions, Everybody’s. ‘We are conducting a sandwich con- test. Send us a sandwich and you made it. ‘Write only on one side of the sana- wich.—Louisville Courier-Journal. “Somebody says a baby in the house is a wellspring of joy.” “Don’t you believe it. From the amusement standpoint a baby in t»e house is a screaming farce.’—Ball- more American. “That young fellow looks furtive” remarked the customer. “Isn’t he apt to try to pinch something?” “No,” replied the experienced jew- eler. “He wants to buy an engage- ment rising."—Answers. Reginald had brought back the ring. “Can you take back the engage- ment ring I bought the other day?" he asked. “Didn’t it suit? inquired the sales- man. “I don't know, I difn't"—Houston Post. - “Jabwind tells me he saw service abroad during the war.” “So he did.” *Where?” “In the restaurants of Paris and London."—Birmingham Age-Herald. “What's this platonic affection?” in- quired Tricotine. § “That the kind,” explained Geor- gette, “which soon disappears when a girl gets two or three beaux.—Louis- ville Courier-Journal, “Are you wearing ‘your last “¥ear's clothes™ “Yes, and probably my next yeat’s clothes, too”—Washington Star, Brown—See here, you made a ter- vible botch with this coat. I told vou to mend the hole mo you couldn't see it Tailor—Vell, you can't see the hale can you?—Boston Transcript. Set f]ree the long imprisoned streams and bid the waters . leap, Bid the blue sky smile out where now the snow clouds roll and sweep; We vl/’cgry of the long, cold nights, the days no comfort gl e T Ride high and swift, O lagging sun, and bring us back the spring ! spending and ma'am.'— tell us how [EFT BT I ~—Ninette M. Lowater, in N. Y. Sun. Th longest average life is enjoyed by the Norwegians. Vaudeville performers are equip- ping automobiles with sleeping and eating facilities in order to beat the high cost of hotel life. Hunger has driven the prairies wolves of Western Canada into small. towns where they men: persons going about after dark. The spring rush to the northern gold gold fields has commenced. Pacific coastal steamers leaving for Arcticj carrying capacity crowds. The mosquitoes which infest Green- land during the summer are larger and more ferocious than the mosqui- toes of the tempernte zones. An issue of Universal announces that the last spike has been driven on the new railroad line from La Ca- pilla to Chapala in the state of Ja- lisco. Al Shartel, who for B4 years has shined shoes in Dayton, O. at the rate of 10,000 rs a year, boasts th:i he has blacked the boots of three presidents—Hayes, Clevdland and McKinley. The distinction of being fH§ highest inhabited place on earth is claimed for the village of Karzok, in mir, which is 14,946 feet above the sea level. The village contains a few wretched stone houses and a small Bud it monastery, It was George IV, of England whe imposed a tax on bricks. At a later period in the same reign were divided, for the purposes of taxation, inte common and drsses bricks, and the tax on each bfick was regulated according to its size. terchange of passenger cars will also be affected in the near future, Henry Sampson of Whitman, in his 80th year, works with an axe and saw in the woods, and supplies many of his neighbors with firewood. Vice Consul Levis reports from La Rochelle, France, that the munici- pal council of La Rochelle has passed a measure’ providing for the expendi- ture of 2,000000 francs for the im- provement and enlargements of the harbor at the port of La Rochelle~ Pallice. The Puritans 3f the seventeent century used no ring at the weddin, ceremony as they considered it “a pagan symbol and superstitious com~ trivance.” All that they required was that the man and weman should join hands when( stating their purpose to live together in wedlock. —_—— Modern Gold, Great reservoirs in the mountains to store the winter rain and smow would be veritable pots of gold at the end of the California rainbow.—San Francisco Chronicle. Why ish Him On Us? There are indications that the time has arrived for D’Annunzio to take t trip to America for which he is yearning.—Indianapelis he A Storm Center. ‘Whenever anything happens in Ger. many, Maximilian Harden is arrested as an evidence of geod faith or some- thing.—Ch! News, ¥ A married man’s idea of a good time 4 0ld be has a toy-bank full of money; 3 il ¥