Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-31
WHAT IS INTERESTING WESTERLY
Freak Calf With Double Head Excites Wonder- W. w. Causing Trouble and Loss at Peace Dale-Brush Fire Margin Street-Camp Fire Girls Will Trek to North Stoningtons

drSmen, who, as usual, made proEnp response to the alarm but to the slow ness in the arrival of the horse, though 1 the stable is not one hundred feet from | the fire house. It was simply case 1 of horses not being available. Ths l Westerly fire district pays $450 for the use of horses annually to draw the apparatus to and from fires, and this service will not average over Q dozen calls 8 year. There are three com panies in the department and when all five respond horses are required, two for each of the hose companies and one for the nook and ladder truck. The Cyclone and the trucks respond to all alarms, while the Rhode Island Ones respond only to calls in the buS1- ness center, which leSSenS the use Of horses very materially and increases the profit to the owner of the horses. Once at the fire. the Westerly ffremen do as efficient work as any body Of fremen anywhere, but they are ser1- ously handicapped in not getting a Quicker start in response to fire alarms. That is a reason why some fires get such a start before the fremen arrive and the frenen are handicapped.
 There are citizens in Westerly who are advocating the purchase of an up- to-date motor driven fire apparatus, with chemical hose combination. Such a machine, completely equipped, can be purchased for $500. The decrease in the amount now paid for horses CAA the cost of the motor-driven machine. and the efficiency of the department would be more than doubled
 The five groups of the Campfire Girls of Westerly will take their first hike " ednesday, provided the weather is favorable. It is expected that about fifty girls will participate and will leave by trolley for White Rock and hike from there to the Daisy farm in nr4I1 r-crf<a1 o xrc been invited by the owner, Mrs. Fred erIc Merrill. The girls will cook and eat their dinner in the open and the day will be spent in accordance with the rules and regulations of the organ fzation. The several groups will be in charge of these guardians: Mrs. Her bert Smith. Miss Sally Coy, Miss Nat allie Hazard, Miss Alice Kennedy and Miss Mary Starr Utter.
 The engineer of the Federal express train that left Westerly on Saturday morning about o'clock, being some what late. discovered a broken rail at White Dog curve. about two miles from the Westerly station. The T of the rail was broken off for a distance of about three feet. The train came to a standstill and then went over the broken rail cautiously. The break order section gang was substituting 3 new rail for the broken one. The LAO accommodation train from New London for Providence was delayed for half an houF but there was no other inconvenience to public traffic.
 At the annual meeting of the Brown Teachers association, William H. Holmes. superintendent of schools of Westerly, was among the speakers. His subject was The Needs of the High Schools and he cited what he to be the four principal needs.
 .-The aim of democratic education,'' and girls to make a life and a, living and to prepare them to serve the we'll being of a democratic society.
 To accomplish this aim the second ary schools need teachers who can recognize this aim toward a higher social efficiency. The problems of the modern man and woman are not civic 'niy, but social and economic in great 'art. And to give the boys and girls ound principles on which to evolve hese problems is the duty of the sec ndary school.
 We need teachers who can. see his need and supply these principles n the schools in way that will hold 1 he boys and girls in the schools.
 We need men and women to com 1 at the idea that our industrial future 1 epends on giving industrial education 1 n the secondary schools. We do need | | ng in the schools, but it is secondary | Q the making of men and women and | T the first place the subjects taught | T the school should be those that l uild up the lives of the pupils"
 The final need of the schools, Dr. Iolmes affirmed, was professionally | ralned teachers. He said, When the o1leges send us men and women pre- ared to teach we will send them boys | nd girls prepared for college"
 
 Local Laoonics
 Mir. and Mrs. Frederick Edgerton New London are guests of MT. and lrs. Matthias Wiclllund in Westerly. l Two children of Thomas Nardone l re sick with dfphtheria at their onle in Pierce street. Lewis Stan on, health officer. has quarantined le premises.
 James McCrea. formerly president the Pennsylvania railroad, who died riday night at his home in Haver- 'rd, Pa. was among summer resi- ents at Watch Hill.
 Members of Narragansett Com andery, Knights Templar, attended race Methodist church Sunday eve