The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-06-15
THORNTON.

latest purchase OF Harry Paulson.
The all night schedule at the Victoria
Mills has been concluded.
Druggist Scott has completed the re.
moval OF his household goods TO this
place.
Samuel II. Ridings has accepted posi-
tion as salesman with Burke Bros, liquor
dealers OF Providence.
a whist tournament was begun at T.
Burrows place this week which will con-
tinue FOR two weeks.
Mrs w. a. Shaw and daughter Frances
of North Carolina, VINO has been upon an
extended visit to the home OF X. II. Shaw
Of this place, lett Wednesday for Ho,
Springs.
The removal of the Town Clerks Office
and the council chambers TO the new
Luther building will occur during the
coming week. 1t is thought that the
local court room will later be also re.
moved to the Luther building.
Miss Minnie Randall visited friends In
Rumford during the week
Superintendent Grantage has pur.
chased a new driving horse whose speed
cannot be despised.
Mrs. James Pegg is visiting a brother
in Chicago,
Charles Campbell has left the employ
of the Thornton Pharmacy.
George Suydam, formerly Of this place
and later a resident OF Bristol, II. l., has
lately removed to Brooklyn, y. Y.
The Victoria Paper Mills Company has
begun suit against Root X Moore to re.
cover $1,000. The action is one of as
sumpsit for broken promises.
The Surprise" is today, the best
spring bed made. We sell it at wholesale
price, Thornton Furniture Co.
A party of young men belonging here
are firmly convinced that fish market
at Rocky Point would pay and the reason
for this conclusion is that after an unsuc-
cessful attempt at fishing several day, ago,
they rowed to the Point with the eXpecta-
ton of making money secure what hook
and line had failed to accomplish, but
they were doomed to disappointment and
the party returned home empty handed as
far as a fish was concerned.
The meeting OF the Johnston town
council which was held at the council
chamber here last Friday af ernoon was
very largely attended and much interest
was manifested In the distribution Of
Offices which comprised the principal
business Of the session. The officers
appointed 10 the several positions were as
follows: Probate Judge, William A.
Phillips; treasurer, collector and auditor,
Herbert c. Calef; auditors, Walter |.
Barnes, Jacob b. W. Wilder, Forrest II
Carey; overseer of the poor and commits.
sioner of the town farm, John Walch;
pound keeper, James g. Nichols auction.
GERS, William a. Phillips, Herbert G.
Calef; inspector Of buildings, Samuel IL
Ridings; commissioner Of lights, George
Naylor; water commissioner, Harry Guy;
fire marshall, William II. King; sealer Of
weights and measures, James NJ. Dole
corders and measures of wood, Robert +.
Brown, Il. J. BERN, John ]. Hughes, Job
Belknap, Ephraim Ellis fence viewer,
Paris w. Mathewson; coroner, William
A. Phillips; town sergeant and chief Of
police. Hiram Kimballi police constables,
Jonathan V. Barnes, George a. Bates, Il.
NJ. NORM, John +. Davis, Olney II. Viii.
liams, James q. Nichols, Thomas +.
Pierson, Isaac w. Angel. John Woo,her,
Charles S. Potter, Don ID. Dame, Hiram
Kimball; keeper Of brijewel, Hiram
Kimbsll. at Thornton; George a. Bates
az Manton; truant officer, Hiram A..
John walch; town physician, Ralph IL.
Shaw; public weighers Fred w. Belknap
lanes G.. Nichols. Job b Belknap, Theodore
Hughes, Forrest II. Carey, Ephriam Ellis
field drivers, Jonathan V. Barnes, Abner
A. Peekham, James 6. Nichols commit
tee on burial of old soldiers, Henry G.
Luther; committee on police, J.. 4. Wood,
l.. w Peckham, a. T. Rem ingtoni COM
mittee on highways, L. w. Peekham, II
Almy, J. Z. Wood, town property, II.
Almy, {. NJ. Adams, =. Dalton; lights,
&. NJ. Adams, B. Dalton, n. Almy; health
b Dalton, a. T. Remington, {. NJ
Adams; water, a. T. Remington, i. w.
Peckham, J. +. Wood.
The council instructed committee n
notify the owners OF the building al
present occupied by the town officers
that the same would be shortly vacated
and that the council chamber together
with the Town Clerks Office would re-
move to the new Luther building which
has now been completed.