Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-13
HEARD AND SEEN IN WESTERLY
$4000 Suis Over Trap Rock ContracMore Trouble For
 Smanski Famiy-Accident to Workman-Thomas s. Wightman Dead-Fox Killing to Prove Less Profitable.

Lowell are guests of Miss Alice Flynn in Summer street.
 While playing baseball Saturday af- ternoon Andrew R. Fallon, Jr., fell and broke his right ankle.
 Jack Frill of the pitching staff of the St Louis Americans, spent Sunday at his home in Westerly
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry R. Segar re- turned Saturday from California, where they have been spending the winter.
 Rev. A. B. Cristy spoke in the Seventh-day Baptist church Saturday in the interests of the Rhode Island Anti-Saloon league
 Miss Sadie Sweeney, who has charge of the childrens ward at Bellevue hos pital, and Eugene Sweeney of Ford ham hospital spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. John J. Dunn.
 A force of over two hundred work men came to Westerly Sunday and did a large amount of work before the day ended in general changes in trackage and preparing for the removal of the freighthouse.
 Charles Ewen, formerly engaged in the granite business in Westerly, died Friday at the Massachusetts state
 
 years of age and was a member of Granite City council, Royal Arcanum. The large boom derricks being used in connection with the construction of the new town hall and courthouse were raised Sunday from their ground foundations to the second floor of the building. They were raised by the use of breast derricks under the super vision of Capt Cyril Wells
 Rev Dr. John NeaIe celebrated the requiem high mass Saturday at the largely attended funeral of Miss Della Driscoll Burial was in St Michael S new cemetery The bearers were Pat rick Day. Timothy Sullivan, Patrick Mccarthy, Thomas Brady, Michael Murphy and Eugene Driscoll
 Major Bourbon A. Babcock of West erly has been appointed a member of the examining board for the examina- ton of enlisted specialists in the artll- iery district of the Rhode Island Ma tional guard. The other members of the board are Major Clarence A. Greene and Capt. John J. Long.
 A feature of Arbor day in Johnston was the planting of a maple tree in memory of Rev. William H. Starr, for many years superintendent of schools in that town. MT. Starr was born in Groton, son of the late William Holt Starr, of New London. and brother of Charles F. Starr, now employed at the state hospital near Norwich
 At the financial town meeting there will be the usual recommendation for bounucstfor foxes and the like, but it Will have rider 10 the effect that but one bounty will be paid for any one fox Heretofore the town has paid a bounty of S5 in addition to the $5 bounty paid by the state and the fel- low who caught the fox collected double bounty and sold the pelt for $5, this realizing S15 for one dead fox
 lp the consideration of the budget of appropriations at the recent meeting of the town council it was demonstrated that the officers who conducted the town government were the poorest paid in the state especially the councilmen. who receive only $50 a year It was suggested that the councilmen should l at least receive extra pay for sitting as board of license commissioners, for If such a board was appointed the members would receive liberal nay for | service rendered.