Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-21
Local Laconics.

/ The Westerly Veteran Firemen's as
sociation held a business and social
| session Wednesday evening.
| Daniel Ashworth, for seventeen years
employed in the White Rock store.
| has secured work in Pontiac.
| Owing to the unusually heavy rush
! of mail matter delivery will be made
at the postof1ce Sunday.
The senior class of the Westerly high
school is rehearsing for the produc-
ton of Tanning of the Shrew.
Young women representing the local
branch of the Antt-Tuberculosis as
sociation are selling Red Cross seals
in the postoff1ce lobby.
The time of the citizens committee
is now about equally divided between
the railroad and town building jobs.
ing jobs.
The uniforms for members of
BrucI1er camp. United Spanish War
Veterans, have arrived and will be
distributed this Thursday evening.
For the first time this winter the
windows of railroad cars entering
Westerly Wednesday bore the deco
rative work of Mr.. John Frost.
According to the monthly report of
Samuel H. Davis of Westerly. treasur-
er of the SeVenth-day Baptist Mission
airy society, there was a balance of
S4O6.05 in the treasury December 1.
Michael T. keIeher will leave for
st. Augustine in a few weeks to be-
gin his duties as head porter at the
Ponce de Leon hotel, which place he
has filled for tWenty-sfx consecutive
seasons.
The quick response of the P. s.
Barber hose company prevented d
chimney fire spreading to the wood
work of the house occupied BY John
Levanti and family at 105 Liberty
street.
Rev. DR.. John Neale said the mass
Of TT1n al If
Catherine IYers. in st. MichaeFs
church Wednesday,. Burial was in ST
MichaePs cemetery. James Fitzgerald,
Michael Donohue, Joseph Kane and
Joseph Fitzgerald Were the bearers.
Herbert L. Clark and Edward n.
Burdick of Westerly, with Professor
Lambert of the state agricultural col
lege, are at the Madison Square Gar
den poultry show, getting pointers for
the show to be given in Westerly by
the South County Poultry association.
Miss Martha Clark, a Milford. Conn,
teacher in the Central school, has ten
dered her resignation to the board Of
education. Her duties will end with
Clark is to teach in Westerly and be-
gin her duties at the opening of the
winter term.
The town councilmen will decide at
the meeting Friday who is to receive
the only remaining liquor license. The
y
fee is $500, and the town and state
combined are $50 out by the delay in
issuance of the license, which is far
Their increased by the expense of ad-
Vertising.
John Richard Purtill. son of Mrs
Thomas Purtin of Hillside avenue, viii
be ordained priest in St. Marys sem
mary. near Baltimore. Saturday, and
the young priest will celebrate his
first mass in st. Michael's church at
10 o'clock Sunday. Thomas and Ed
ward PurtilI and John Craddock viii
attend the ordination ceremony.
Frederick Schwaner, who resided in
Westerly several months and was en-
ployed in the Schwaner City Market
prior to bankruptcy, is to engage in
business in New London with his
brother. Stanley Schwaner. under the
corporate name of Schwaner Bros
Stanley SchWaner is "A recent graduate
of Yale, and has postponed a profess
sional career in the hope OF immediate
~ aiding his father, who is bankrupt.