Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-11


 Rhode Island National guard met in Providence Thursday evening upon in- vitation of Charles w. Abbott, Jr., the adjutant general, to consider matters of interest to the citizen soldfery of the state. General Abbott was the princi- pal speaker and referred to matters pertaining to tho service, telling of the plans of the war department in rela- ton to the national guard and touch ing upon matters of special interest to company commanders. He made sew eral suggestions regarding the coming inspections whereby the guard might make 2 better showing than in former years and the necessity of thorough knowledge of guard duty and of nonF commissioned officers being posted in all branches of their duties.
 General Abbott announced that the national guard was soon to be equipped with new uniforms to consist of cotton khaki for summer and woolen khaki for winter, together with new dress uni forms. He announced that the date of the annual encampment of the Coast Artillery corps companies had been fixed for the week of July at the Narragansett bay forts while the squadron of caval1y, field artillery and signal corps would go into camp July 23 at Quonsett Point
 All commissioned officers will be re- quested to report at Fort Creole July 5 for four days additional instruction, for which pay will ba allowed. Gen. eral Abbott declared that the addition al time would give the officers valuable instruction in handling the big guns. Daniel Watson, a carpenter employed on tho James A. WsIch building, was seriously injured by falling from a ladder Friday morning. He was going up the ladder and when about five feet from the floor slipped and fell, striking on his right arm, the elbow going through hole about a foot square in the floor near the foot of the ladder. His arm was broken just above tha elbow. Foreman Baggs was near MT. Watson when he fell and assisted him into the nearby office used by MT. Baggs, to await the arrival of a cab to take him to his home in Mechanic street.
 He was attended by Drs. Smith and Barber, and the break was of such a severe nature that they advised his removal to the Rhode Island hospital. MT. Watson desired to impress on Foreman Baggs that no one was to blame for the accident but himself, and had he been more careful he would not have been injured.
 Mrs.. George N. Burdck of Phebe Greene Ward chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Westerly, was nominated for Rhode Island state re- gent at the seventeenth annual confer eIice held Thursday in Providence. The election will be held at the national conference. The state regent, Mrs.
 Daniel Mann Edwards, presided at the meeting, and prayer was offered by Rev. Charles A. Denfeld of Woonsook- ct, which was followed by singing of
 the Star Spangled Banner, accompa-
 nied by Bowen R. Church, cornet, Sig
 nor Ventura. trumpet, and Frank Hop kins, trombone. The remainder of the programme was confined principally to the reports of state and chapter officers and committees.
 Milo M. Clarke of Westerly writes Interestingly on the question of clean poultry in a New York paper as fol- lows: Under the heading Marketing of Poultry in the Tribune of Jan. 31 8 letter Is published, Expert Opinion in Favor of Prevailing Methods, signed Paul J. A1drich of The National Pro- visioner. As a marketman of more than forty years experience, I must side with the view of the Southern Woman to whom he refers. MT. Ald- rich states fOrcfbly the reason for pre- vailing methods of dressing poultry, but in this day of agitation for pure food and better sanitary conditions something can be said in favor of adopting methods which thu National | ETOFlSlOIGT dufllltS 7ODLdluS III small country places
 "dr. A1dricf gives what he terms
 the government verdict on the subject by quoting Dr. Pennington of the de-
 partnent of agriculture saying: 'Un- drawn poultry decomposes more slowly
 than does poultry which has been either
 partly or wholly eviscerated. This
 verdict should not be taken as final
 Much can be said in favor of better
 methods. Why insist that poultry
 should dscompose more slowly, or de-
 compose at all? Rather than excuse
 prevailing methods on any terms, let
 poultry users insist on fresh dressed
 poultry, drawn at the time of killing,
 and so handled as to pfotect it from
 the action of the air, dirt. the attack
 of varieties of harmful bacteria and
 flies. The present method of refriger-
 atioE, cold storage, etc, will permit
 shipping and marketing drawn poultry
 and conserve health and decency.
 There is no thought of insisting that
 other meats shall be treated to de-
 compose more slowly A pig would be
 uneatable from snout to tail if handled
 as MT. Aldrich insists is necessary in
 the marketing of poultry. Public taste
 can easily be educated to better con-
 ditions. The writer is a townsrnan of
 Horace Vose, the turkey king and let
 me say that the justly famous Rhode
 Island turkey owes its popularity
 largely 10 the 1act that the turkeys are
 drawn at the time of killing"
 Henry Jones, a virainian by birth,
 whose apparent age is 70 or moro, was
 before Judge Williams in the Third
 district court Friday, charged with
 stealing four fowl of the value of four
 dollars, the property of Luizi Lalle,
 from his coop in Pearl street on the
 night of Jan. 28. Jones told the court
 plainly that he swiped the chickens and
 declared that if the court would make it easy for him this time he would steal
 chickens no noah. Judge Williams
 declared that the statutes fixed the penalty and he had no alternative but to sentence him to three months in the Providence county jail and to pay a fine of $20 and costs.
 Jones said that he first came to
 Westerly about sixteen years ago and had spent a part of that time in Nor wich, where he hadtbeen arrested sew eral times for trivial offenses" but that he had nevah befoah bsen arrested in Westerly.
 Ceastinq down hill and over the troi- : ley tracks is dangerous sport, even in
 Westerly, where the electric cars make
 only hourly trips to and from Watch Hill GoOrria Siy year old sou of Will