Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-23

Striped bass are very sc.-rce in this
section, only few hejae caught at
intervals off the shores OF Ftshers Is
land and at lesser intervals off the
shore of Block Island. During the
PAST week. however. William Barber
and Otis Chapman seined off Fishers
Island in a single haul, a school of 16
striped bass, the record catch for
number of years in this section vary
ing in weight from ten to fifty pounds,
the market price being thirteen cents
a pound for the larger and thirty-dve
cents for the smaller fish.
Captain James Barber, brother of
William, and a medal of honor man
of the Civil war and a lifelong fish
erman, said this catch was a remark
ably good one for these times, but
that he had often taken in five tons
of striped bass in single trip. Fifty
or sixty years ago, he said, striped
bass were caught in the Pawcatuck
river in large numbers. These fish
used to winter in the river, and he and
other fishermen used to catch them
from under the ice, but now a striped
bass in the Pawcatuck river is as
scarce as eels' feet Captain Barber
says there seems to be a scarcity of
Block Island there is almost famine
of edible fish and hardly enough are
landed to supply the hotel tables. The
veteran soldier and fisherman added
in the fishing Of fifty or sixty years
ago and that for the past ten or fifteen
years the fishing is = hardly worth
while.
At a special meeting of the Wes-
terIy town council Saturday evening,
a committee was appointed, composed
of President William CuI1ey and Town
Solicitor Harry B. Agard, to draft an
ordinance to regulate the 5itney bus
mess under authority Of a state law,
to be in effect September 8. Every
driver of a jitney viii be required to
take out a drivers license at a fee
of 81, and in addition a fee Of 81 will
be charged annually for each seat in
the jitney- No person under Il will
be granted a license. no car viii be
allowed to carry above its seating ca
pacity, no jitney viii be allowed to
stand in one place for more than five
Dinutes at a time in the compact
part Of the town. and all must be
equipped with noE-skid chains when
there is snow or ice on the ground.
No driver will be permitted to solicit
passengers, nor smoke tobacco in any
form or use intoxicating liquor. The
penalty for violation OF the ordinance
will be $50.
Milk licenses were granted to Peters
Brothers, tavern license for Weeka-
paug Inn to Frederick c. Buffum. and
an auctioneer's license to Edward E.
Carpenter.
An automobile, bound to Westerly,
owned and driven by William L.
Hughes, Jr, of Providence, with Mrs.
Hughes and their child as paSsen-
gers, was in collision with Fred Riff
fenburg of AshaWay. The latter was
riding a bicycle. at what is termed
Dear Mans Curve on the Potter Hill
road, near the residence of James
MnTnhV THE collision 1f aDPh
force that Riffenburg pitched head
foremost through the windshield and
landed in the small automobile with
great force, sufficient to break the
steering gear and to break some of
Mrs Hughes teeth and cut and bruise
her face. Mr.. Hughes and the child
were not injured Mr.. Hughes con-
tinued to Westerly, where Mrs. Hughes
was attended by DR.. Cranda1l.
Shortly after the collision DR.. Web
ster happened along and assisted Riff
renburg, bringing him to Westerly,
and sunlmoning the assistance Of DIR.
May. Riffenburg is 1S years of age.
He received deep decorations about
the head and his side and arms were
cut and bruised. Mr.. Hughes claims
that he sounded his horn before round
ing the dangerous curve.
The team to represent the Rhode
Island National Guard that will rep
resent the state at the New England
competitions at Wakefield. Mass, the
first three days in September, has been
selected from the forty who competed
to places on the team at the state
range, last week. The makeup of the
team, tas selected, Is as follows: Ser
,geant Major Mark p, Bancourt. Troop
b; Musician David A. Mathewson,
Seventh company, Corporal c. C.
Preston, Srroop b. Sergeant John G.
RancourtN B; Sergeant Major F. G
Lind. c. A. c.: Corporal Oscar Strom.
Seventh company; Mechanic Richard
Heap, First company Lieutenant J. |
r, Littleneld. c. A. c.: Captain ]. w.
X McIntire, Sixteenth company; Can
tain Henry F. Connors. Fifteenth COM
pany: Sergeant H. w. Green, Troop |
&C; and Sergeant Karl Rittman, Eighth |
company, principals: lieutenant IT. r. |
.Reynolds, Fifteenth company, Corporal
&C, s. HARDWOOD, Seventh company, and
Lieutenant T. H. Hammond, Fourth |
The officers of the team are: Major