Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-20
WESTERLY AND VICINITY
Bogus Telephone Man Collects S35 at Stan Carriage Companvs Of6ce-Stormless Winter Cuts Off Drift wood and Seaweed Perquisites of Pleasant View Famers-Boucker Camp Elects Of6cers-Judae Will jams Lenient with Down-and-Out Prisoner:

The chief immeu7ately took a hand in the game and ordered the Italian to return the box and it's contents to the
 store. Just then the chief happened to glance at the side window of the store and saw the roguish smiles of the Snyder brothers, and that settled it. The chief cheerfully bought the Italian a package of Virginia cheroots. Thus far the present winter has been remarkably mild, end the farmers in the Plea sant View section have had no opportunity to haul driftwood or wreckage to use as firewoOd. and there fore wood direct from the forests is
 burned instead of the more favored and greater heating blue famed wood
 that is usually washed up on the beach after a heavy blow. the remains of
 barges that were too weak to weather
 the severe wfntry storms.
 Nor has there been a seaweed storm, so- called, during the winter. which
 lands tons of seaweed on t<e beach to
 be valuable as fertilizer. Strong southeasters tear the seaweed from its muddy bed and it is usually washed on Pleasan View beach when the wind
 comes around to the north after one of those windstorms. At times seaweed
 has been piled along the beach ten feet high and in such a way that wagons
 could be hauled alongside the heaps and loaded in 8 few minutes by simply pushing the top of the piles of seaweed over. This product of the sea mas been profitable to all the farmers who en- joyed the seaweed privileges along the shore at Pleasant View.
 A farmer who has lived in the eec- ton twenty years says the present winter is the first in that period when
 the sea has not been forced over the
 bank in the low places and lodged in
 the low grounds back of the cottages. and when more or less damage has not
 been done to land directly in front of the cottages.
 The annual meeting of Brueker
 camp, No. 6, United Spanish War
 Veterans, was held in Red Mems hall
 Thursday evening with a full attend ance of members. Officers for the en- suing year were elected as follows and
 installed by Past Commander Isaac F.
 Herbert F. Taylor, commander;
 Bourdon A. Babcock, senior vice com-
 mander: Daniel s. Harrington. junior vice commander; John D. McGrath, adjutant; Arthur N. Nash, quarter
 day: John Curry, officer of the guard;
 Russell B. Smith, surgeon: Joseph
 Herbst, chaplain; Walter D. Slyne,
 trustee 3 years: Edward J. Burdick,
 sergeant major; Isaac F. Gavitt, quar-
 termaster sergeant: Merry W. Sut- | CltilS, niSlOTidu, Mi chael F. O'Connell. color sergeants. After installation there was a social
 session and collation..
 Mrs. Betsey Slocum, who fell nearly
 year ago and broke her hip, while visiting her daughter, Mrs. John w. Holman, at Potter Hill, returned to her home in Moss street Wednesday after noon, making the trip in an automo- bile, accompanied by her son, Peleg I. Slocun. Mrs. Slocum Is in her seth year.
 John McDermott, aged 25, arrived in Westerly on freight train "Wednesday night and was thoroughly benumbed with cold. Some sympathetic friend loaded him with whiskey and he was soon after arrested for drunkenness and taken to the police station. When arraigned before Judge Williams in the Third district court Thursday morning he complained of pains in his feet and it was ascertained that his toes were frozen. Judge Williams took pity on the young fellow and suspended sen tence after plea of guilty was en- tered. The judge then gave him money to buy his breakfast and some good advice. and saw to it that his feet received medical treatment. He was furnished transportation to New Lon don. claiming he had relatives near that city.