Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-16

In Westerly conditions are opposite
 to those in the adjoining village of Pawcatuck, on the Connecticut side of the river, on the liquor license question. Before it was definitely de- clded by the courts in the interpreta-
 ton of law that there must be an
 annual vote on the liquor license ques-
 tlon, petition or no petition. it was
 up to the liquor interests to circulate the petition for signatures calling for
 vote on the question.
 The temperance people were unal- terably opposed to the petition and did not want the liquor question to become an issue on election day. Westerly is no-license town and they are op-
 posed to a popular vote fearing that
 the town might possibly be placed in
 the license column.
 In Pawcatuck. and in fact in every other place in Connecticut it is the temperance people who circulate and sign petitions for vote on the liquor license question, or directly opposite to what is done in Westerly.
 This annual vote to decide whether there is to be license or no-license has caused the temperance people to re- new their activity as the annual state election approaches.
 The Westerly Ministerial association takes the lead in favor of no-license and the plan of campaign, is arranged by a committee of that association, Rev. Joseph L. Peacock. Charles Per ", Charles J. Dutton and Rev., s. M. Cathcart.
 Never, since the matter of license or no-license has been made optional with the towns, has Westerly voted in favor of license. The present li- quor restrictions are satisfactory to the majority of the people.
 Ira A. Snyder of Westerly, employ ed by Arthur N. Nash, newsletter, re- ceived certificate and notification on Friday from New York realty con- pany that he was the, owner Of a building lot in the town of North ampton, near Riverhead Long Is- land, that upon return of the coupon attached to the certificate. properly
 filled in. he would receive warranty deed of the building lot.
 Mir. Snyder attended one of the Gage stock company's performances in Nor wich. recently, and received a coupon giving him a chance to win in the award of the building lots made by the theatrical company, as a special advertising feature. He happened to hold one of the winning coupons.
 Martin cole, bass finisher in a Woonsocket mill. a former resident of Westerly is here spending a part of his vacation. MT. O'Toole was we'll known as a base all catcher for the local team when games were. played in Westerly in which stars of the big leagues participated. MT. O'Toole has been in Detroit and fPittsburg and witnessed the five games played in the series for the worlds championship During Mir O'Toole's absence his place is being supplied by Thomas F. Bid- dies, a, former member of the West erly town council.
 Mir. and Mrs. George Barber, Robert Hall, Miss Marion Hall and Miss Bes- sic Champlin of Westerly attended the wedding in New London. Thursday evening. when Miss Jennie Crandall Nash, former resident of the Avon dale section of Westerly, and Capt. Morris Benham Payne, First com pany, coast artillery. c. N. G., were married by Rev. Charles R. McNally, of the First Baptist church. The cer- emonial was performed at the home of the brides parents, Capt. and Mrs. Albert D. Nash.
 The bridegroom is employed as an inspector for the United States en- gineers, with offices in New London.
 Edward Church, who fell from the Groton- Stonington trolley bridge, near Clarksville. four weeks ago, and was found several hours afterwards. help less beside the railroad tracks below, died Thursday in the Memorial hos pital. New London. Mir. Church was near the tracks bv train men and conveyed to the Westerly station, where he was attend ed by Dr. Payne. who recognized the seriousness of the case and had the injured man sent to New London on the first available train to receive hos pital treatment,
 Mir Church was a fisherman and lived alone on his small fishing smack Pearl. which always moored in the Pawcatuck river when not off or a fishing cruise. He received the in- juries that proved fatal at the same place and in the same manner that Frank Howe of Mystic was killed a few weeks before.
 Phebe Greene Ward hapter,y Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, has offered the usual prizes for essay con tests by pupils of the Westerly high school. The subjects submitted by the