Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-05

| dall be at least partially compensated i for the work rendered. On motion of Everett Barns it was unanimously vot- ] ed to authorize the treasurer to give ! Colonel CranGall a check for $100 in recognition Of service rendered. The i colonel expressed thanks, but said he i did the work without expectation of { financial recompensc.
 i Walter II. Wheeler, Albert N. Gran
 dali and Everett A. Kingsley were : elected assessors of taxes for the fire district
 i After the meeting adjourned there ] was a free-fo all discussion. It was ! claimed if a tractor were used that the ] several pieces Of fire apparatus would i have to be changed to conform to the ! tractor. and therefore could not be l drawn by horses in case of emergency. i 1t was suggested that if the tractor was to be used as a towing machine i it would be better to have a full hedged automobile for the work.
 One of the disputants advocated the i purchase of some old style high power [ ed car. the placing of hose wagon body in place of the tonneau, large ! enough to carry 1000 feet of hose, place the chemical outfit now in the Cyclone wagon therein, and the result would be a good fre-ighting machine, and one that could rush to a ire as fast as the best of them.
 Tajs led another citizen to remark that provision would have to be made for q Ci1au{@aur.
 Ire reply was that Westerly was a tow c. C.i&ufTeurs. with two garages , -th,C a scOneS S throw of the firehouSe. Have arranged that the garage men respnni to alarms during the day, to . be paid say s5. or even $13 a run. Then
 have d driver sleep in the frehouse, where he would have free room rent, Td n fsl, iJn~ tTUn a Y1fr and then the district would be ahead of the game, and the efficiency of the fire department materially increased By that arrangement the members of the department would hurry to the fire instead of to the frehOuSe where they wouIc find the water hose ready for use, and in the event of a light
 blaze be controlled by chemicals han dled by the driver
 Rhode Island, G. A. R., held it's annual meeting Thursday evening in the head quarters in Memorial building. and elected officers for the ensuing year as
 follows Christopher Simmons, com mander; Lorenzo D. Richmond senior
 vice commander; Charles A Clark,
 junior vice commander: John B. Brown quarternaSter: George BeIlamey.
 chaplain; Amos P. Chapman, officer of
 the day; James A. Barber, officer of
 the guard; William Champlin, patri-
 otic instructor The appointive officers
 will be announced at the installation of
 officers 9 month hence.
 The trophy winners in the rifle com.
 petitions of the Rhode Island National
 guard, in the competitions at the Rum ford range, the past season were an
 nounced in general orders issued on
 Thursday and are as follows: Cover nor'S trophy, Third company; Ieuten- ant governors trophy, Troop B; ad-
 jutant generals trophy. Sergeant Earl
 H. Beagle, Third company; district
 match, Second team; revolver match, Private Harold D. Lee; company team match Third company; military rifle
 championship Sergeant Oscar Strom;
 first Dupont trophy, Third company;
 second Dupont trophy. Troop C.
 The Westerly Memorial and Library
 association has just received in ex-
 change from the American Antiquarian
 society copy of the minutes of the Stonington Baptist association held in New London Oct IF and Is, 1797, to add to the collection of minutes of this association, which is believed to be the most complete in existence Ethan Wilcox, as librarian and librarian en~ eritus has collected the minutes of 1793, 1794, 1797. and from 1901 to 184S inclusive. except 1877, also the minutes Of 1SeS- 1869, 1870. 1871, 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1912. Tn 1917 this association united with the Groton conference and took the name of Stonington Union as- sociation, and subsequently, changed to Stonington Union Baptist associa- tiOn-
 In 1797 the membership was as fol- lows: First Stonington 142, Second Stonington 209, Third Stonington 43, Groton PIP. saybrook s7. Exeter PA, South Kingston 67. West Greenwich 49, First Colchester 62, Second Col chester S4, Richmond 3S. Hampton 62, MOntvil1e 109 First Chatham 58, Sec ond Chatham 66. Second Woodstock 67. New London 274, Second Ashford 56, Third Ashford 31. East Haddam 49. Plainfield 73. Ki!1ingiy 65.
 There is a footnGte ln the printed minutes which reads: "The Second church in North Stonjugton were re- quested to omit taking a part in the meeting. in hopes that before another annual association their difnculties will be settled"
 This church is now popuIarIy known as the *5;saer meeting house, of which Rev, John T. Collins, ornerly of IF.4 rI r~t,