Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-21
CURRENT TOPICS IN WESTERLY
Death of Michael Welch-Palmer Chapter Dispenses Hospitality Visiting Masons Hopkinton Interest," ed in Mooted Project of Prudence Crandall-Ston- ington Judgeship Decided Today.

When the Fifth company, Westerly, coast artillery corps, in common with the other troops of the Rhode Island national guard, go to the forts in the Narragansett defense district, during next July. their only heavy gun tar- get practice will be theoretical, ac- cording to recent order, which per- mits the renewal of target practice at Forts Adams and Wetherill, only aft CT the last day of September in each year. With the exception of target practice during the last state en- campment at Fort Greble, in the west passage of Narragansett bay the guns in the forts of both the Newport and Narragansett sections have not been used for nearly two years.
 Practice with the big guns was dis continued in deference to the wishes of Newport citizens and summer resi- dents. who claimed that not only was the summer quiet disturbed, but that both the commercial shipping and the pleasure craft were in endang gered by the discharge of the great shells
 By reason of Fort Mansfield, at watch Hill, having become a sub station to Fort Wright, Fishers is land, and sarrisoned by a small de- tail as caretakers, it is probable that the two Connecticut companies that have performed the annual tour of duty at that fort will be assigned to
 
 Michael Wefon, father of John, James A., Edward and Thomas Welch, fell Monday morning at his home in Lib erty street and dislocated his right hip Mir. Wetch has been in feeble condition for some time, and fell in his room just after he had left his of age and served in the civil war in Company G, Twenty first Connecti- cut infantry, enlisting from the town of North Stonington. The condition of his son, James A. Welch, who has been seriously sick for two months, was unchanged Monday.
 The snow fell just as steadily in Westerly, Monday, as in. any other place in this section. but the trolley service was about on schedule time In the winter season but one car is run on the Pawcatuck Valley Street railway, making hourly trips bAween the railway station and Watch Hill, but with one of the large cars in use the tracks were kept open to traffic. The Ashaway and Westerly road is another yone-car line. and the hourly trips were. made with regularity. The cars of the Norwich Westerly and the Groton- Stonington roads arrived and departed on schedule time.
 Grand High Priest Eugene Hall of New Haven and other grand officers of the grand chapter of Connecticut made an official visitation to Palmer chapter, in Masonic hall, Westerly, on Monday night. Many royal arch ma sons from Norwich. New London, Stonington and Mystic attended. the visiting brethren being royalty enter tained by Palmer chapter. of the Con- necticut juris Dinner was served prior to the opening of the chapter, and after the official inspec- tion there was a social session. at which there were speeches and aia interchange of fraternal greetings.
 Prudence CrandaII, who was born
 in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Septem- Der 3, 1908. and died in Elks Falls, Kansas. January 2S, 1889. and in the latter state there are memorials on behalf of her work for the colored people. Efforts have been made to do her honor in Connecticut and there is a resolution before the present ses- sion of the Connecticut legislature pro- viding an appropriation of s1.500 for a monument at Packervillc. to which place the young woman went after being driven out of Canterbury This action in Connecticut has aroused in terest in Rhode Island and it has been