Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-07
Thursday Morning.

Bennie Benson a. familiar character
 in Westerly and well known to the
 police of this and surrounding towns,
 had the police of New London guess
 ing when he suddenly disappeared as
 he was about to be arrested and for
 several. minutes had the two officers
 who were in hot pursuit groping
 around in the dark in the vicinity. of
 the railroad station. So quickly did
 he get out of sight of Patrolman
 Michael O'Neil and Special Officer
 George Vincent that they were com
 pIetely bafled-
 to the station at the time and instead
 of~trying to sidetrack the train he
 suddenly thought that he would side
 ;raci7 Of his pursuers- He carelessly itcok one of the fine chairs with an air Jf one who didn't care if anything Japcned or not One of the officers happened to look into the car and saw ances in perfect content with all the world.
 After the two scouts had overcome thesr surprise they entered the train Gnd placed Bennie under arrest for having made a disturbance in the bag gage room of the station Once last summer Patrolman O'Neill had occa- sion to take Benson from the train, and he did it with such force that he offered no resistance when he recognized who had hold of him, and acquiesced when told that there was 2. little hard plank upon which he the police station. which wasn't as comfortable as a stuffed chair in one of the New Haven roads fine cars but would have to do under the circum- stances
 The School Arts Magazine for Feb ruary has been received at the public library. The following pupils of the Westerly schools are among those who have been named as having received Second prize to Minnie Chicardino and to Fred Dotolo, and third prize to Michael Ferando, all of the Pleas ant Street school A fourth prize was orable mention was given Nellie Dower and Harold Rowan Special prizes went to Josephine Al1bama- monde. Hiram Barber. Walter Brown, Theresa Ferare, Alexander Passetti, and Antonio Ruissi
 The EvaneeI, religious paper pub Iishsd weekly at Pttsfield, Mass, has the following reference conmendable to the foreign element in the town and of foreign birth are pushing many of the indifferent American born people l out of the way and are winning high | positions and public offices
 "A the juvenile department of the library l at Westerly R. I, carefully searching | among the books. When asked what | book he was looking for, he replied in | a hushed. tinid voice, 'Beowulf-" It | was a book mentioned by his teacher | which would illustrate something in | the school lesson in English. The li- | brary assdsfant came to the help of the l little fellow and he went off with his l book.
 The assistant told us that the Ital- l ian children were notably incloned to | ask for helpful and serious books, and were quick to respond to suggestions I, of teachers in the choice of helpful were more disposed to seek and be l satisfied only by more entertaining | and less instructive works of fiction"
 Westerly has been havina one of the | coldest spelis experienced this winter, l the mercury dropping to IA degrees above zero Thursday morning accord | ing to the registering thermometer | owned by Dr. E. R. Lewis The doctor says that the night before Christmas | following the snow storm of the day, the mercury fell to 8 degrees above zero, making Wednesday night and Thursday morning the coldest for the ]! past six weeks.
 On the night of December 9th, Jan uary 9th, 18th. and 14th. the thermom eter registered IS degrees above, and on January 9th it remained at that l mark throughout the day The cold est night in November was on the 4th when the mercury dropped to IS de- yrees above.
 Henry D. Walton, owner of the old Seventh Day mill building on tho West Side, which was among the build ngs in that vicinity damaged by the recent fire. has been having men lay ing a floor over a part of the build r~ preparatory to demolishing the tracked walls and then rebuilding. A temporary roof, to act a. sort of protection for the front and of the building, which is only one story in height and is occupied by the Campus par. has been raised.
 The eighth annual exhibition of poultry under the auspices of the Lambert Poultry club of the Rhode LsIand State cnlIege at King stnr, 1sriII