Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-06

drinking men, but purchased the
 Whlskey for medicinal purposes at the 1 Almy drug store formerly located in
 the Martin house and now out of
 existence. The arrest of the proprietor ] Of the drug store resulted, and the
 case is still pending in court. NIT.
 Stliman leaves a widow and two sis
 terss Mrs. J. A. Brown of New York l and Mrs. Samuel Bingham of San l Francisco.
 MT. Stillman was a member of Frank 1 lin lodge, No. 30, Free and Accepted l Masons; Palmer cha pter. No. 2S Royal Arch MaSons, and Narragansett com mandery, No. s7. Knights TempIar. i MichaePs Roman Catholic church. in ! Liberty street. will spend his vacation 1 in Europe, leaving Westerly Jan. 2S. l He will be accompanied by Very Rev. Dr. Fletcher. rector of the cathedral in 1 Baltimore, a college classmate of Dr. l Neale, who spent part of last sum mer in Westerly. They plan to spend
 most of their time in Egypt, the Holy l the Eucharist conference which is to l be held at Malta in April. Rev. Ed l ward J. Plunkett. a native of Norwich, l will be assigned to St. MichaePs parish
 during the absence of Dr. Neale and l with the assistant pastor, Rev. William Krause, will attend to the work of the parish Father Piunkett owing to del- icate health has no regular parish. He
 was in charge of St: Josepf1's parish, New London while the pastor was in Europe. and has served as assistant in that church for the past two summer seasons. Military arrangements re completed
 for the reception to Governor Pothier
 in the state aI1nory in Providence next
 Monday evening by the First Artillery
 district. The formation for the review
 will be made in line of masses, for the
 nf al md da ha
 organizations will be in line. A new
 departure will be made at this review l
 in the division of the district into 1
 three battalions, the First battalion to i
 be under the command of Major Ar ! thur N. Nash of Westerly, with Cap
 tain Congdon as adjutant, and to con- | sist of the First, Seventh and Eighth l companies. The Second battalion is ! to be under command of Major Bour- 1 don A. Babcock of Westerly, with 1 Lieut. Hill as adjutant. to consist of | the Second, Third and Fifth CWester ly) companies. The Third battalion is to be under the command of Captain | Washburne, with Lieut.. Stowel1 as ad- jutant, and composed of the Fourth, Sixth and Seventeenth companies.
 Captain Herbert o. Dunn, U. S. N., of Westerly, in d discussion of the proposed naval personnel bill advocat- ed competition for the personnel as it has been had in gunnery The discus sion was at the United States Naval Intitute, and Captain Dunn warned the service to take up the subject serious ly and impartially, for the 1et-well- enough alone attitude of some officers he considers entirely out of place in this period of the navy's development. A careful study of the data appearing in the departments bill disc1oses to him the economy of the proposed measure, Since economy seems to be the chief cry Of the new dominant party in congress. this bill should ap- peal to the powers that be.
 Captain Dunn says # is needless to point to the hump in the junior grade heutenants' list under, the present law. It Will not be many years before they s.in be forty years old and waiting for promotion The question whether the new bill will increase the efficiency of the navy should be answered by each officer honestly and fairly without any thought of how will 1t affect me ?'' The department has sent to every of fcer concerned 9. copy Of the bill, to- gether with the record of the hearings and all the literature on the subject, so that the basis of an opinion is in the hands of the service. It is there fore up to the service to give an fr- telligent answer, and not snap judg- ment-
 Captain Dunn believes that the ob- lection that ofFicars ae present have too many subjects te master, and to add construction and pay duties would overvxh elm them, is entirely unfounded and based on insufficient Knowledge of the plan opposed,
 Juss 6ve nnenths to day after, the Bannon drug store Was Visited by bur- glars, g second visitation was made | during Friday night and SIS in cash taken, about $s0 less than on the first visit, This deficiency was almost made up in cigarettes and tobacco As dur ing the visit of five months ago. the l money was taken from the cash regis ter, and no attempt was made to tam per with the safe. Entrance was ef- fected by the back door route. and it is evident that the burglar who worked | on the outside had knowledge of the 1 door fastenings on the inside. Four holes three inches in diameter were | bored in the door. Through the first hole the wooden bar was removed. The second was near where the lock is To- cated, but this work was not neceS- sary, as the lock was not in working order. The other two holes were bored | through the door about a foot from the floor, where there is an ordinary iron bolt. This was showed back, and l then there was clear entry to the store. 1
 The several drawers in the cash reg ister were opened in the regular way and without damage to the register, which would indicate familiarity with | the working of that kind of a register, as the indication shows that the draw CTS were opened in rotation. Two $5 | bills, $4.50 in change and a Canadian half dollar were taken. So far as known nothing else was stolen except about BIO worth of cigarettes and to- ba5Lo. The bit used in boring through the door is such as is used by plumb CTS in boring through floors for pip ing, and the hole is sufficiently large | to admit a medium sized hand. In