Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-11

will be decided by a committee com posed of the state officers and grand knights of the twenty-three councils in the state
 The reports of officers showed that the order was never in better nu- merical, financial and social condition. There has been net gain of 236 members during the year. Death claims $30,0oe; the amount paid in the state to date amolnt to $252,t The death rate per one thousand was H. The average age of membership is So.-The total state membership is 5.075.
 Lieut.-coI. Edward Palmer PerdIe- ton, Twenty ninth infantry, U. s. A., a native and legal resident of West erly now at Fort Porter, Buffalo, has been transferred to the Twenty-t third infantry and ordered to Fl Paso. After graduating from West Point he was assigned as q lieutenant to the Twen- ty-third and remained with that com mand for 24 years, and until his pro- motion to major about eight years ago when he was assigned to the Twenty ninth. So he now returns to the reg iment in which he was first co1nmis stoned about S2 years ago. Lieut. Colonel Pendieton was with the Twen- ty-thrd during the Spanish-Ameri- can war, end has been to the Philip pines in three different periods with the Twenty ninth.
 He is brother of Miss Helen F. Pen dleton, dean and acting president of Wellesley college. and has three brothers in Westerly. Eugene E., Charles H.. and James NJ. Pendleton.
 John Joyce, employed at the Smith Granite works, was injured while at [ his work, Wednesday morning. His left forearm was crushed between two blocks of granite and he sustained a simple fracture just below the elhaT. He was taken to his home in Granite street and attended by Dr. John l.. May.
 In advocating the use Of Westerly granite for tse extsrIor of tho few courthouse, u reas 1n given by one of the sI ealxers in town meeting, was that the granite industry was the leading industry of Westerly, and that it was about time the town made prop CT recognition of the fact by having specimen building of native granite. This especially in view of the effort to be made to have the new postoff1ce Building and the railroad passenger station of Westerly granite.
 The granite business is the leading industry of Westerly, for aside from the general contracting md building there IS no other industry in the com pact par: of the town. for the extcn- sive plants of the c. B. Cottrell 6 Sons company and the William l.. in Pawcatnok on the Conre ,ticut side of the Pawcatuck river. although with in the territorial jurisdiction of the Westerly postoff1ce.
 Westerly, however, is large town, and in addition to Watch Hill, in- cludes several thriving manufacturing villages, notably White Rock, Potter Fill and Mantle, where the Bradford Dyeing plant is in course of construc- ton.
 There was a railroad mishap We'd nesday noon at Patterson switch, about mile east of the Westerly station, but which caused little delay to traffic. An east bound local train was taking on more cars when the To- eomotive and one car left the rails near the switch and blocked the east bound track. The passenger train due in Westerly at 10s crossed over on the west bound track and back on to the east bound at Mantle, with a delay of only a~few minutes, and the train due at 1.51 adopted the same course.
 wrecking train from Midway ar rived in quick time and the track was cleared without farther delay
 As an outcome of the assault case of Elisha Hall, who was fined $10 and costs last week for an attack upon Frank T. Saunders. and who took appeal from the Third district to the superior court, Charles Hall son Of defendant, was arrested on war rant by Officer Mitchell Wednesday. IL was shown by the testimony in the tr;Al of the father that the son also snuck Saunders, and the arrest is the result. Charles Hall was arraigned before Judge Oliver Fl. Williams and pleaded not guilty. He furnished bond of s1o0 for appearance for trial at the regular session of the Third district court, Friday morning.
 Lewis laverne Stiliman, son of the iate E. Anson and Mrs. Florence Irene Stillinan. died early Wednesday morn Ing after eight weeks illness with pleurisy at his home in, Main street He was P years of age and was q member of the class of 1909. Westerly nigh school He left school to take up electrical work and entered the orn- pioy of the Westerly Light and Pow CT company, subsequently, entering the employ of the Brown 6, Sharp com GanN in Providence. He returned to Westerly upon the death of his father and was employed at the Cottrell plant