Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY 1T WESTERLY
Line to Form 1.3o-The Days Arrangements Miller and Shapiro Given Three Months Each in County Jail : Sons of s. George Elect Officers Injured Woman Taken to Baclus Hospital

At noon today. the church bells will 1 toll and continue for five minutes, and for that period all flags are to De low 1 cred to half mast and all men are sup posed to lift their hats in respect to the memory of those who risked thelr5 lives for their country's sake.
 The graves of soldier and sailor who served in the Civil war, and in the Spanish war, have been marked with the flag and a potted plant placed on by a joint committee of the Grand Army of the Republic and United Spanish War Veterans.
 The procession will form in Broad street at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon in the following order:
 Platoon of Police, Chief Thomas D.
 Brown.
 Colonel Charles H. Ledward, marshal. Colonel Everett P Whipple and Major Westerly Band. Charles O.. Gavitt, Fifth Company, Coast Artillery CorPs,
 Rhode Island Natlonal Guard. Cap
 tain Robert G, Thaekeray,
 Budlong Post, No. IS, G. A, R.. Depart
 ment Rhode Island. Christopher
 Simmons, commander.
 Hancock Post, No. S1. G, 4. H., De- partment of Connecticut, Abel Bab-
 cock, commander.
 Robefe Bruckef sCafhP, NO ., oniee4
 Spanish War Veterans. John l.
 Bentley, commander Westerly Troop. Rhode Island Boy
 Scouts Silas T. Nye. scout master. Automobiles with Rev. Edward Hoi-
 yoke of Providence, orator of the
 exercises, infirIn veterans, local
 clergymen and special guests.
 The procession will countermarch in/ Broad street and proceed to the bridge, where exercises will be held by the Woman's Relief corps com memorative of the sailors who lost their lives at sea while in the service of their country The march will then continue through West Bread street to Liberty and to St. Michaels ceme- tery. The marchers will return ey the same route to Dixon square. where trolley cars will be taken for River Bend The exercises at the cemetery will consist of the rendition of Nearer, My God, to Thee, by the Westerly band. the G. A. R. memorial service by Bud1ong post, the singing or Amerlca' benediction and taps.
 Commander Simmons of Budlong post will preside at the memorial ser vices in the town hall in the evening and the following program will De given: Assembly. by Master Reginald Horn, Boy Scout bugler; chorus sing ing: scripture reading. by Rev. Clay ton A. Burdiciz: music; prayer. by Rev. John G. Dutton; music, chorus; reel tation, Lincoln's Address at Gettys- burg, by Howard P. Knight; music, recessional. choir; oration. Rev. Ed ica; Taps, by Reginald Horne; bene- diction, by Rev. F. c. A. Jones. The past saehems of Misquamicut tribe, Westerly, Improved Order Red Men, participated in the council fire of the grand council of Rhode Island, Thursday, in Woonsocket, and the Misquamicuts took part in the street parade in the evening and in the in itiations that followed. The officers elected for the ensuing year: William J. Carr. of Newport, great sachem; Walter Wyman, of Provi- dence, great senior sagamole; Harry amore; Denis F. Mcclure, of Pawtuck ct, great prophet: Louis L. Stevens of Valley Falls, great keeper of rec ords: E. Fred Goolschalk of East Providence, great keeper ofewampum; Benjamin Lawton, of Newport, great sannap; Frank E.. Hazelton, of 4Attle- boro, great mischeniwa; Thomas J. Thurber, of Providence great, guard of wigwam: Edmund Theroux, Paw tucket, great guard of forest. It was fire at Nhe Newport wigwami on the fourth Tuesday of May, 1915.
 
 Louis Miller and David Shapiro, the New York boys who were arrested in Bradford, and indicted last Tuesday by the grand jury of the United States district court at Providence, were ar raigned Thursday afternoon They pleaded nolo to the charge of break ing a seal on a freight car standing 1 on a siding at Westerly and oS steal ing eight silver mounted tolet sets from the car. which was engaged in interstate commerce. After hearing from each of the boys the story of their adventures from the time that Miller stole the proceeds of a check in New York city to the time of their arrest in Bradford. Judge Brown sen tenced the hoys >to three months in the Providence county jail, where they have been held since February ?.
 At the annual meeting of Nelson lodge, of Westerly. Order Sons of St. George, officers were elected as fol- lows: Percy Riley, president Henry Fish, vice president; James R. Johns. secretary: James II. Bishop, treasurer: John w Robinson, assistant secre- tary; James H. Bishop. trustee; James H. Bishop. Frederic G. Walton. Alfred J. Martin representative to grand lodges John Taylor, James Winter bottom. T Edward Robinson, alter