Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-03
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in quiet celebration of an event which very few attain.
 Mr. and Mrs. Barber motorei to Westerly and back to Ashaway in their own automobile. Mr. Barber driving and unaccompanied by a chauffeur. Probably the incident could not be duplicated anywhere of a husband and wife of their age, taking an automobile ride, unaccompanied, on the fifty seventh anniversary of their marriage. pressed pleasure with the trip and the entertainment given them by their son and his family.
 Mr. Barber was among the first to respond to President Lincoln's call for volunteers in the Civil war, and en- listed in Company l. Westerly, First Rhode Island. Voluteer regiment.
 Mrs. Peleq Matteson, who is the old est resident of Hope Valley, ninety one years of age, enjoyed an automo-
 bile ride of over eighty miles and visited several of the Rhode Island beaches. It was the old lady's first ride in the modern horseless vehicle. Among the beaches which she had not visited in sixty years were Charles town and Weekapaug and at tht time there were no summer residences there. She enjoyed the trip exceeding ly and now intends making a visit by automobile to Watch Hill and Pleasant View.
 Frank Leonetti and Miss FiIemeno
 Grispino were married Sunday morn
 ing in the Church of the Immaculate Conception by Rev. Henry Bruno, in atives and friends. After the mar riage ceremony the bride and groom were photographed at a local studio. There was reception from 2 o'clock in the afternoon until 10 o'clock at night in the Young Mems Italian Club hall Over two hundred people had received invitations to attend. Re- treatments were served and there was no scarcity of vocal and instrument music. The bride received a large number of gifts.
 Two motorcycle officers of the Con- neetieut state police have been busted for the past two weeks in enforcing the automobile laws in the town of Stonington. Naturally drivers of Rhode Island machines did not all es- cape the vigilant officers and were re- quired to settle for violation of law when arraigned before the town court. Now comes evidence of retaliation on the part of Rhode Island officials who select residents of the village of Paw eatuck and demand is made that these owners of automobiles must take out Rhode Island as well as Connecticut registrations. as required by law of all whose machines are within the state for a period of ten days. The law is locally interpreted as meaning those who come from beyond the bor- l der line, who cross thes bridge into Westerly from Pawcatuck for ten con- | secutive days, even if the automobiles 1 do not remain in Westerly over night. Usually the enforcement of laws of 1 this nature do not prevail among bor- der towns where both are in accord and practically mutual interest pre- vails in both places and where both ! are within the same post office juris diction, and where the highways of both towns are in common use by the residents of both places
 | Naturally. if the registration law is enforced in Westerly, it will also be enforced in Pawcatuck and owners of automobiles on both sides of the river will be mulcted. although the belief exists that the law never intended that l 1t should be applied where conditions