Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-09
Local Laconics.

hIS. Albert h.. LOnSWOIlny SHIoI tained party of ladies at her Week apaug cottage Wednesday.
 The Rhode Island republican state and congressional conventions will be held in Providence Oct. g.
 The foundation for the new railway station is completed and the course of granite for the water table is being laid.
 Before it falls in. the delapidated building in Main street, recently va cated and long used as fish mar ket, is to be razed.
 A group of Ashaway boy scouts is pictured in the Sabbath Recorder, the official publication of the Seventh Day Baptist denomination.
 Equipment is arriving for the Ca l sino at Atlantic Beach and though not | fully completed. will be open to the | public before the month ends. The orchestraphone of a brass band of 40 pieces is at the Atlantic Beach l casino ready for installation. A large soda water fountain apparatus arrived | Wednesday.
 pr. John L. May has been appoint l ed mounted aide de camp to the grand | marshal for the parade of the Ancient
 
 Bridgeport, August 20.
 Soon that section of Canal street which has been built under the rail- road tracks will be opened to vehicu- 1 lar traffic The dangerous Canal ! street grade crossing has been entirely | elimanted.
 Robert w. Perkins of Norwich, the l working head of the trolley roads in 1 1N a tour of inspection. He visited Allan tic beach to note the progress of the new casino.
 Nearly all the members of the West erly Medical society enjoyed the an- nual outing at Stanton's inn on the | Post road, Thursday. The special guests were delegation of Norwich | physicians.
 All the labor organizations of West erly will not be represented in the Labor day parade under the auspices of the Westerly Central Labor union It is many years since the members o1 the Granite Cutters union appeared 1T parade.
 Elliott Thorp, riding an old-fashion. ed high wheel bicycle, tireless anC with but one handle bar, attracted at tention in Dixon square Wednesda. afternoon. It is the identical bicycl ridden by Dr. William A. Hillard il the early days of bicycledom.
 Mrs. F. Jeannette, wife of George H Maxson, died Tuesday at her home i Lester street. aged 57. She was
 daughter of MT, and Mrs. Gardner Ec clestone of North Stonington, and be sides her husband, leaves her mother two sisters and three brothers.
 That labor trouble st the Westerl shirt company has betn satisfactoril settled, and the mill work Is progress
 ing without interruption. The organ 1zer for the Laborers' Internations
 union has gone, and the members (
 the new branch of the union have pal
 their initiation fee.
 In excavating for the foundation
 the post office building, well was UT covered six feet below the surfac which contained six feet of water. A l English copper half penny of the reig of King William was also foun
 Many years ago a dwelling stood 0
 the site of the post office. l A large delegation from Westerl attended the annual field day of tt | Rhode Island state grange, at tt i Rhode Island college, Kingston, Thurs day. All departments of the colleg | were open for inspection. After dir ner there was speeches and music 0
 the lawn north of Davis hall \ George w. Moore, of the George V | Moore company of Worcester, the ne owner of the mill building formerl
 occupied by the now defunct Westerl ! Narrow Fabric company, was in West
 erly Thursday. He stated that tE
 work of installing machinery for tf
 manufacture of fabrics would begi
 at an early date.
 The burglars who entered the res dence of Michael Higgins in Wes
 Broad street, took precautions for es
 cape in case any member of the fan 5 fly happened to return from the Pleas
 ant View cottage. The windows wel
 all locked when the family went ava
 but the burglars unlocked the catcht
 of every window in the house. There are five sections to each
 the four massive granite columns ]
 the front of the new town hall. Thes
 are now all in position with the e1 7A ception of one section of one coIum I This was spoiled in the cutting. an
 necessitates the quarrying of a speci lE block of granite, which will be dresse 9T and delivered to the building as quicl | ly as possible.
 H A cutter with a crew of sixteen me N from the battleship Delaware. bour ,S to Quonocontaug beach for san
 struck rock about a quarter of
 mile off the beach and three hol ,I were punched in the cutter. The bo \ began to fill and the crew swan X the shore. The crew of the Quon,
 contaug life saving station rendert 1l assistance. In response to signals. a launch came from the battleship Aft ! a while the cutter was taken to u
 beach and patched with canvas. al
 the crew roWed back to the Delawar
 with the launch as consort AMXTCrYHn