Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-03
$500 FIRE LOSS IN WESTERLY
Gasoline Causes Explosion in Ship in Potter Building
Seventh Day Missionary Board Meets Henry P.
Collins Sues Owner Of Defective Walk For $4,000
Damages Kenyon Mill Running to Use Up Stock
Lightning Burns North Stonington Barn.


There was fire in the Potter build
ing on the bridge, ewneh by H. D.
Barrows of New London. Wednesday
morning, but which resulted in COM
paratively slight damage. just after 3
o'clock a sheet of flame burst through
z window on the second floor Of me ne
building from q room occupied by
Jacob A. Shsup, a tailor indicating
that there might be quite a fire in
proNress. The Potter building IS To-
Gated IN Pawcatucx, just over the state
line, and therefore in sConnecticut and
within the jurisdiction of the Pawca-
tuck FIRE department. Herbert P.
CLARK sent in alarm to the Westerly
Department from box "a, while Ira
Snider did like service for the Pawca-
tuck department. from box 46. So,
perhaps. for the first time.s4the bell
alarm in westerly and the whistle
alarm in Pawcatuck were sounding
simultaneously. 1t was about an even
distance race for both departments and
the p S. Barber Hose company was
the first to arrive
While all this commotion was in
progress, a we'll directed spraying
stream from garden hose connected
At the Joslin store and handled oy
Frank Bloeser and John Reardon kept
the blaze under control, and when the
fire apparatus arrived the fire was
specifically extinguished. so that only
chemicals were used.
The cause of the fire was the use OF
gasoline in a kerosene stove in the
tanor shop. Hardly had the lamp
been lighted when an explosion oc-
CURED and in an instant the shon was
h blazing mass. although the fire got
no hold except in a clothes press IN q
ceEner of the room. Here the door ana
casing We're burned and the blaze
nearly got between the partition when
IT was extfnguished.
nF Ia
false attic. as well as the dental par
Tor. the barber shop, pool room ana
dance hall on the second floor. but did
not reach the clothing, grocery and
shoe stores or restaurant on the ground
floor.
The loss by fire is confined to the
tailor shop and the total will not reach
$500. upon which there is insurance.
President William L. Clarke presided
at the rneetinq Of the board of mana
gers OF the Seventh day Baptist Mis-
rionary society held in Westerly. Rev.
Herbert c. Van Horn was elected a
menpher of the board to succeed Rev.
Horace Stillman, deceased. The reports
of Treasurer Samuel Fl. Davis, and Cor
responding Secretary E. 3. Saunders
were approved.
~Nffss Anna NJ West of Milton Junction,
W.. a0ropeinE the call, to the China
ffeld. It Yves voted to request Miss
West to attend the general conference
to be held in westerly the last week
in August at the expense of the board
for conservation service as mission
ary to China.
It was voted to appropriate an adj
ditiena1 $1e0 to Brother Saverese TO
meet the needs of the italian mission
IN New York The corresponding Sec
rotary presented a budget of appro-
priations~for the coming year amount
ing to s15.00e which was accepted as
the official estimate. An appropria-
ton Of 800 was made for use of the
mission committee OF the western as
ISOLATION. 1t was voted that $50 be
appropriated to NJ. 2. Ntionga. an
English speaking and reading native
African Seventh day BAPTIST. of Cape
Town, South Africa. The tract society
has made like appropriation. Ntlonga
will go to Nyassaland and. he says,
visit every church and send true re-
port, however long it can take me-"
II has been arranged that Ebenezer
Anluokoo. an African student in this
country and charge of the society,
shall spend vacation with Rev. ]. II.
Hurley, where he may study and learn
Some mechanical work.
Correspondence was received and
considered from West Africa Holland.
Los Angeles. Oklahoma and other mis-
sionary fields.