Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-06
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Hope School Ball Team Wins Two Games-Firemen's Annual Dinner Old Curiosity Shop Changes Own ers.

Games-Firemens Annual Dinner
 Old Curiosity Shop Changes Own
 ers.
 Warden CrandalPs worl1men found skull and bones. supposed to be that of a horse or a COW, while digging for the Gold street sewer Friday. It was about three feet below the surface. Indian arrowheads and a stone toma- hawk have also been found since the digging was begun.
 Two Victims for S. H. S.
 Friday afternoon. Stonington gram mar school baseball nine defeated the Mystic high school team at Stanton mark, 23 to ,. Coughlin and Miller be- ing the battery for Stonington.
 Saturday afternoon Stonington high school alumni team defeated the Rhode Island State college team at Stanton park, 9 to 1.
 Bremen as Hosts.
 The fremen's first annual dance was held Friday evening in Borough hall, and proved to be a decided success The hall was handsomely decorated, equipment of the department being at- tractively displayed. Music was fur nished by an orchestra of six pieces. Light refreshments were served.
 Borough Business Transacted.
 The monthly meeting of the warden and burgesses was held Friday eve ning Warden Crandall presided. D. B. Spalding appeared before the board as agent for property in Water street which he said was damaged by the overflow of water from the street The matter was referred to the street de- partment. A petition of Samuel H. CheSebro and others to attach their property for sewer privileges to the Grand street section near the corner of Gold street, was granted. Henry A. Muller, borough health officer, report ed having done away with several un- sanitary nuisances during the last l month, and that health conditions | here were excellent.
 Receipts include the amount of $127 from property owners for sewer priv 1 ileges and $l05 for rental of Borough nall during April. This is the largest | amount ever turned in, in one month ] It was voted to hold a special meeting l of the freemen of the borough on the | evening of May IA, for the purpose of 1 leVyiEg the annual borough tax.
 1 interesting CurIos.
 James D. Stivers has purchased the l Old Curiosity shop of Erastus Chese- l bro Mir. Stivers has now one of , the largest and oldest collections that 1 has been gotten together by any one person in the borough, among them an old whaler's harpoon with the notched record of 16 whales, which 1t was the means of catching; a big slab of whalebone with the fuzz on it; a solid l2-pound shot dropped here by the British in the war of 1872, and all 1 sorts of oldfashiOned fireplace irons, 1 such as hook and trammel, a revolv ing grate, broilers. and irons; sabers and cutlasses with genuine war rec 1 oFds, an Indian tomahaWk and sling stone. An old leathern fire bucket IS of local interest; it was made in | 1926, time when the borough law | provided that every resident was com pelled to have hanging conveniently one of these buckets, which he was ex- | pected to take off it's hook and re- l spond to the alarm for fire and join the bucket brigade. One-half a pair Of snowshoes of genuine Indian make | and over 200 years old is also in this | collection of curios. There is a sword used in the civil war at Fort Beaure- gard, Hilton Head. S. C. A relic o1 | much interest is an iron mould used in colonial times for casting pewter | spoons, together with one of the spoons A firemans leather helmet was used by a member of the first volun- 1 teer fire company of Stonington, anC the original minute and hour hands of the borough's first town clock, re. membered by Old-time residents here as the winged angel which floated fol a number of years over the old ThirC Baptist church and told incidental, which way the wind blew. Of more recent history is a battleaxe from tn, l Wequetequock war of 'S4, which cam, out of an agreement as to whether | the word of God should or should no
 be taught of Sundays in the distric
 schoolhouse, an incident with whicl
 the name of Mary Carey is remem
 bered. A coffin plate is exhibfte, among the collection, and is inscribe, ! (though never used) ,as follows: Jan
 A. Brashner, drowned at Metis dis
 aster August 30, 1872. aged A years The body before interment, failed t
 be identified as that of the perso
 named An old Spanish machete i another interesting exhibit.
 Funeral of M. H. Cassedy. II The funeral of Mortimer Herbe, Cassedy was held Saturday afternoo
 from his residence on Water stree
 Rev. C. j. Mason, rector of Calvar
 Episcopal church. officiated. Buri:
 was in Sto1ingtcn cemetery. The beai
 CTS were Frank O. Grandy, Henry ] Moves, Frank D. Stanton and Jame
 H. StiVers.
 A To Play Westerly.
 The Stonington high school baseba
 nine has arranged to play 8 retu1 = game with the Westerly high seho
 team on May 22 at Westerly.
 Bishop Brewster Confirms Class.
 Sunday morning the annual visit .h Ri. Rev. ChaunceN R RreNNsfer hi shc