The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-09
1.-THE NEWS OF THE STATE:
BRISTOL.
Town Council Offers Reward For
Conviction Of CoWard|y Incsn-
dIaTy..B. Y.R ". Excursion.

The town council has offered reward
OF $500 TO be paid for the apprehension.
arrest and conviction OF the person or
| persons who set FIRE or caused the same
! 10 be set in the stable OF Josiah r Peck
ham on Court street on the morning OF
July 2d. 1908.
The Rhode Island Baptist Young Peo-
| pies union will make its annual excursion
| from Providence here Saturday. July IS.
The party will arrive here about o'clock
in the afternoon and will hold a sunset
meeting on the common. Addresses will
be made and there will be singing by a
| chorus of 400 voices
Marco Lavere met with a serious acct
! dent yesterday while at work cutting
down a tree upon the grounds OF the
Church place on Metacome avenue. The
axe glanced, cutting his leg. so he was
obliged 10 have three stitches taken TO
close the wound.
The following named persons have
been drawn as Jurors for the ensuing
| year: Grand jurors-Cornelius Brogan.
Charles West William j. Duffy Herbert
r. Burnham, Robert J. Anderson. William
j. O'Brien, j. II. Manchester Frank ".
Burlington. William r. Pearse. Bernard
| Farley. Samuel r. Mott. Edward p. Glad
| ding. John Wood. John n Potter Edward
| Anthony. Frank l.. Brown. Horace l. Mil
Ter. Augustus p. Nerone. Peter Ryley.
Leroy B. Coggeshall Luke n. Callan.
James r. Con-, Ellsworth Conklin John
j. Doran, Charles A. Macdonald. Jere-
miah Kirby. owen Frsyner. Moses Wood.
Petit jurors-Emer r. Reynolds VILLA m
j. Darling Edward Birmingham. j. Ever
EFT Coggeshall Malcolm L. Pitts Thomas
H Mowry. Alvin NJ. Bullock Robert Jo-
seph Mckay. James Peters, Samuel w.
Church. William n Cooke. Alexander G.
Fales. Charles PAUL. Orin K. Thurston
Herbert Lord John NJ. Coggshsll. Thomas
II Warren. Edward G. PAUL Pardon r.
Kenney, Benjamin Church. Joseph y
Simmons, Thomas W. Easterbrooks. VIII
liam Bradford. Samuel McCaw. Angie w.
Pierce, Charles j. Manchester. John Do
herty. Euclid c. Nichols. Thomas NJ.
Morris. Augustus A. Gravel. Henry F.
Munro. Thomas Tobin Edward Il. Pearsc.
Peter Gilroy John Duffy Henry NJ Glib
son, Lafayette Gorham. Richard Cav
anaugh. John p. Newman. Frank c.
Childs. Owen Morris. Michael J. O'Con-
nor. Frederick n Fales. Edward r. Will
kinson, Amos Wright. Thomas Doyle
George r. Warren. William Hodgkinson.
The grammar school graduation exer-
cises were held yesterday afternoon in
Grand Army hall on Hope street. The
exercises commenced at 2 o'clock an
were attended by a large gathering OF
parents and friends
The program was we'll arranged and
proved both interesting and entertaining.
The graduating class numbered q and IN
cluded the following: Mary Eleanor
Morris. president Viola Tillinghast
Brown, Harriet Ward Edison. clara
Louise Dmond Bertha Marie Crowley.
Laura Elwyna Fish. Anna May Hag-
gerty, Reba Gould Goddard. jeanette
Bell Nofhtt Edith May Smith Beatrice
Roxanna Thompson, Bessie Bowen Tobin,
Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff Jr.. A.
Sidney DeWon Herreshoff. Frederick
John Ferguson, Howard Norcott Man
chester Charles Webber Hermann. Rob
ert Vincent Mott. Harold Caldwell Peck
ham. Arthur Thomas Newman. Calbraith
Bourne Perry, Charles Bristed Rock
well. Jr.
Ivwss voted at the last council meeting
To arrange with the state board OF public
roads for a road 2s feet wide in the town
OF Bristol and extending northerly dis
tance OF l7S9 feet on Hope street the ad-
ditlonal 12 feet TO be paid for by the town
out of the highway appropriation fund
The first menhaden OF the season was
taken this morning at o'clock by a
gang OF fishermen from Tiverton, in Bris-
tol harbor
Tresdwell Collins has been appointed a
special constable by the council
Mrs C. II Fay Of New York city a
teacher of music. Is the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. MARI on Thames street
The delay on the work Al Linden place
in putting in the foundation for the iron
fence was caused by a carload OF brown
stone having been shipped TO Bristol
Conn. which has been reshlpped.
Not for many years has there been such
FISH as are In local fish markets There
are round mackerel Weighing nearly four
pounds each.
The Cranston Wooden MIN operatives
hold their annual clambake next Satur-
day afternoon.
Mr. Shepard has had good catches Of
large shad some weighing six and seven
pounds being taken from his traps I'm the
harbor