Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-13

I
 office in Kinster, notifging prop
 e1tg owners to clear their trees of the
 winter nests of the 5rowntail moths,
 which are more ii6zsaei'oas this year
 than ever. Ghis action is taken un-
 Gess the amendment ezz {he law for
 the suppression of the gypsy and
 broWntail moths, wl4ie.A permits the
 state entomeiegist s9 enter private
 property and eseaE It ef the moths
 and then ce1eet the h&A for the work
 from the ewnezS suins, if necessary.
 Owners whe fail to have the work
 started within a asenaaie time, men
 from the state board of agriculture
 will be Nharged fer at the rate of thir-
 tg--tive cents an hour fer each man eagagrd. Upon request of property
 ti}a man to do the work at the Fegu-
 lar rate
 It is necessary to clear the nests away at once, because the work must
 be accomplished before the caterpil- lars begin to crawl This will take place in about six weeks, according ts the weather. If it gets very warm, the caterpillars will emerge from the
 nests much sooner than otherwise. Un- der seasonable conditions, 1t Is be- lieVed the work may be done success sally between new and the second week i'll April.
 Judge Oliver Fl. Williams will hold 2 session of tho Third district court ] in Westerly today FTiday) and the much continued case of Chief of Po- lice Thomas E. Brown against John Galuslley is assigned far trial and will probably be disposed of. Galuskey was arrested over 8 month ago for being ! drunk and quarreling on car of the ] Norwich Westerly Traction company, l have been three continuances of the ] case and at the last session of the 1 court ii was decided to have the case ! tried at Fridays session of the court. A hearing is also assigned for the l same session of the cases against Pas- quale Salameno. charged with assault with intent to kill, by shooting, Charles l Brown. alias Sandy Brown, and with carrying concealed weapon. Sala- memo was arrested Tuesday night and ! is held for the hearing in bonds Of ] $5,200. The superior court comes fn at Kingston next Monday, but 1t Is | not thought that the case will be ready 1 for the grand jury at that time The l penalty for assault with intent to kill l Is imprisonment for not less than one nor more than twenty years.
 There is an occasional report Of rob- | beries in the bigscities, where trucks 1 are backed up 10 warehouses and the l goods therefrom illegally distracted { and carted away without creating sus | l beTs make clean getaway and the ! stolen goods never recovered. There was evidence of what could be done 1 along that line in Westerly, Wednes- 1 day, except that in this instance the nroperty taken away unIawfully was { returned.
 A piece of granite coping about ! eight feet in length has been lying on l the sidewalk in front of the new post ] office building for several weeks, and Q certain resident wanted 1t. He saw ! 1t there day after day and concluded 1 that 1t was discarded by the contract l ing company of the post office. F1na iE l the aforesaid resident asked for the 1 granite. and was told by some unau- 1 tf.oriz45 person that he could have it ! for the carting away. Wednesday, l this resident, aided by a couple Of fel- | low counti-sr12sn, loaded the coping upon low gear and did cart it away l Within ar hour thereafter the coping | was missed by 8 representative ot the ] contractor and a report was made to 1 Policemen Mitchell. The officer re- l called seeing the missing coping De ! ing loaded upon the low gear and Io- ! ca1@d the same in short order. There I were explanations that s&flshed tI2e officer that no theft had been com 1 rnltted. but rather that the possessor ! of the granite was the victim of q ] practical joke The coping was re | s-ned Thursday to the spot from which it had been taken.
 In behalf of Roy 5. Sheppard, of 2 Shamrock, bill has been introduced | nent of $292.t0 which is the difference 1 between the pay of hospital &ppren- l tice and hospital apprentice, first class, l in the navy for over a year. Sheppard l claims the pay of the higher grade be- ! cause he did the work during the pc ! oI+ warrant | hospital apprentice, first class. was de l laved through the inadvertance of the navy department. Under the praebce i of the department the pay of a person in any rank or position dates from the signing of the commission or warrant Charles F. D. Fayerweather, a prom l inent colored resident of Newport, Wltn relatives in Westerly, died Wednesday in that city, aged TO. He moved tc Newport from Kingston forty years ago and worked as a blacksmith, as
 did his father. his grandfather. ane
 l o7eat-gran7faSher in Washington
 county MT. Fayerweather was g
 charter rnenf3er of the Washington
 County Agricultural society, charter
 member of Canonchet lodge. Grane
 United Order of Odd Fellows, f1nancia I seerafarv of the Master Horseshoers
 National union and president of the
 State Blacksniths and Horseshoers
 l union He leaves his widow. son ant
 two daughters
 Bearing what appeared to De 9enu inc and satisfactory credentials, ant
 I representing himself as an agent ot
 cut rate circulation concern, q strang
 CT was permitted to lease spacS at tn annual show of the South Count, Pou<tr:- and Pet Stock association, hell in the State arTnory at Westerly, near } Ivy tIro months ago. and busied him
 self in taking subscriptions for d com bination of poultry and Kindred publi
 cations. He did quite q business an !. collected many subscriptions. Per
 haps he conducted a strictly leg1timat business, but subscribers are com l nfa fring that they have not receive ] tssz-.s--s@..sss---..--------