Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
Local laconics.

Attorney Abel P. Tanner of New London was in Westerly Saturday.
 Mrs Elizabeth Hueling of Cam bridge, Mass, is visiting relatives in Westerly.
 Mrs. F. H. Niebecker of Glen Mills, Pa, is the guest of her sister Mrs. Charles p. CottreII, in Elm street.
 Frank Celia has gone to South Birmingham Mass, as mOtorman on the Boston and Worcester trolley road.
 The new tug Westerly arrived from New York Friday night and footed her way up to her berth in the Pawcatuck river.
 The ordinance of baptism was ad-. ministered to three candidates by Rev. J. W. Ford of the First Baptist church Sunday.
 It is said that there are secret ser vice men in Westerly trying to trace persons who are issuing the counter felt $1 bills of the ''V'' series.
 Royal Ellis and Everett Watrous, as well as five other boys mentioned, sub mitted to operation for skin grating in aid of their schoolmate, Herbert Watrous.
 Congressman George H. Utter of Westerly spoke on Christian Citizen ship before the Young Mems Christian association of 23d street, New York, Sunday afternoon.
 The flag on the Westerly public i- brary was at half mast Saturday in respect to the dead of the battleship Maine, whose remains were buried in the National cemetery at Arlington on that day.
 Representative Joseph T. Murphy ! has presented a resolution in the Rhode Island general assembly to the bill of the Westerly Savings and Loan association, balance due for rental of office Go deputy sheriff Referred to committee on claims.
 Mrs. Abble J. Kenyon. widow of l Lowell Kenyon, died Friday at the | home of her sister, Mrs. David Web ] ster, in Chepachet She was daughter l of Albert and Savally Hawkins Bowers and was born in Thompson, Conn, Feb. A. 1845. She leaves a son, two sisters and two brothers. There will be no Fourth of July pa { rade in Westerly, that feature of the l celebration being abandoned by the 1 committee when it was learned that | the request of Congressman Utter that 1 the naval apprentices at Newport be l ordered to participate in such a parade | was denied by the secretary of the navy.
 The canal barge Edward Hawley l with cargo of coal for s. J. Reutel l 6 Son, Westerly, broke from the cana ] steamer William F. Cr9ry Friday night 1 and drifted on to Bartletts reef. The
 coal is very much needed in the con- l duet of the business of the consigneC
 ana there is a general scarcity in the local yards.
 1 Rev. Samuel NJ. Cathcart offlciated a l the committal service of the funeral O. Joseph D. Newell, who died in Law renee, at the River Bend cemetery or | Saturday. The bearers were James ] and Douglass Newell of Lawrence 1 Mass, James McKerven of Plainville Conn. George McKernan of Boston
 Archie Murray of Milford, Mass. ant
 Andrew Raleigh of Manchester, N. H. nephews of deceased
 James T, Stott, over 15 years of az, and former mill operative was takef
 suddenly ill when near the railway sta.
 tiOR Sunday afternoon, Dr. ScanIor
 was summoned and, after giving tenn p0raFy aid. placed the injured man il his automobile and conveyed him tt his home at 129 Canal street MT. Stot
 was unconscious when the doctor ar rived, but revived soon after reachin, home, His condition is considered SC ri9us.
 At tRs annual meeting of the Mini gEet Tennis club of Westerly officer were elected as follows; Julian w
 Maxson, president; Prank F. Dodge secretary and treasurer; Thomas Per ry, captain; Julian w. Maxson, FTanl E. Dodge, Miss Helen Segar, Harry B
 Agard and Robert c. Thackeray, ex ecutiEe committee. The club enter the fourth season free of debt and witt cash in the treasury It is planned tt have more courts and te build a smal Slubheuss ia the near future