Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-07

inS signs to nutomobiliRt5 be placed
near tho schooihouseE. Referred TO the
highway committee with power.
Tree Warden Gavitt informed the
council that he had received petitions
for the removal Of tree in front
of the Means property in High street
and the Blake property in Spruce
! street, and he asked the councils back
ing in tho matter. He was informed
that he had all power, after comply
ing with the requirement of posting
notice on the trees and in the town
hall, announcing a public hearing. This
he said he had donc and had hXed
the time at II o'clock. Monday morn
ing. for the hearing. but as no inter
csted party appeared at that time
there was no hearing. Soon after II,
several ladies interested in the tree
| in High street arrived to oppose the
! removal Of the tree. but were inform
| ed that the hour of hearing had pass
| ed. Mr. Gavitt was reminded that II
| o'clock in legal lore. meant until noon,
and he may announce another pub
| lie hearing.
Thomas :. Brown, chief of police,
| reported seven arrests during NoVem-
| Der, four for intoXication and one each
| for breaking and attempt to enter,
| common drunkard and assault with
| dangerous weapon, revolver, with
| intent to kill. Lewis Stanton report
ed no contagious diseases during the
month. Official notification was re-
| ceived from the secretary of state
stating that the population of Yves
| terly, according to the recent state
census, was 10,175. The board of can
| Vassers removed the name of Patrick
| H. Morrison from the list of real es-
| tate voters, as he sold his real estate
recently. P. H. Opie was returned to
| the real estate list.
| Including the salary of the overseer
| of the poor and also the salary of the
| keeper of the town farm, total of
| SIS the expense to the town of West
| erly for the care of the poor for the
month of November which included
| Thanksgiving, was S219.64 gross or
| S144.64 net or less than So a day for
the support of the poor and all in
cidental expenses, except salaries.
There is no positive identity of the
skeleton found in the Cedar swamp
wood last Friday, by a party of fox
| hunters, as all wearing apparel. ex-
cept shoes. all rotted, had disappear
| ed. 1t is believed, however, that the
find rs the frame of Fran Pindora, a
| stone cutter, who disappeared about
| fifteen years ago. He was employed
in the Crumb quarry. became sudden
| ly insane, released himself from the
| hold of friends and dashed, it is now
| believed. into the Cedar swamp. He
was a member of the Westerly Gran
lite Cutters Union and every effort
was made to locate the man for
l weeks, that heightened into months
and years, but without avail.
NicoIo Capable, employed in the
Crumb quarry, located in Bradford,
was seriously injured while at work
Monday assisting in handling a block
of granite weighing several tons. The
| massive rock struck and crushed Ca
palbo's right foot. DR.. Mari was
| summoned and cared for the injured
man, giving first aid, until the real
| injury was ascertained. DR.. Mari
brought Capable to the Office of DR.
Scanlon in Westerly and an X-ray
view was taken of the crushed foot
DR.. MARI will probably send Capal-
DO to the Rhode Island hospital, but
at this time it is not believed ampu-
tation will be necessary.
! Supervisor of Schools Brown and
Principal Sheldon of the Westerly
High School have made it plain to
| the boy pupils, without regard to
| their age, hat they will not be per-
| mitted to smoke cigar, cigarettes or
| pipe on their way to and from school
and certainly not during school hours
| on the school premises. Friday aft
| ernoon two young men, pupils at the
| high school, were smoking near the
| post office, when Supervisor Bacon
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| smoking they were suspended from
| the school and if the suspension is
| for any material period, it means one
year more of school life before grad
| uation. Severe penalty for a light Of
| fence, which it would seem is beyond
| the jurisdiction of the supervisor, al
| though claim is made that school au-
| thorities are responsible for the con-
duct of pupils to and from schools as
| well as in school. Suppose on the
i waV home from school hov ShoIrId
| hurl a stone through window, would
| the school or the parent be responsible
| for the damage?
| The suspension of the two young
men resulted in a special session of
| the boys in the school hall Monday
| afternoon, when the rules of the
| school in regard to smoking were eX-
| planned by Principal Sheldon. One
young man stated that he was per-
mitted to smoke at home and that if
| he did not see fit to return home i'm
mediately after school closed, that he
| had the right to smoke when in the
| street, especially as his parent did not
| object. The boys who ate dinner in
| the school building were informed
that they must not leave the building
| during the noon hour.
The annual report of the chief of
army engineers was made public on
| Monday and contained this matter of
| special interest in this section:
| The project of a channel 10 feet deep
| from Stonington to Westerly, with a
| width of 200 feet, from Stonington to
| Avondale, and of 100 feet from Avon
dale to the lower wharves at Westerly
and the removal of distractions at
Watch Hill, is IA per cent. completed,
providing the depths described except
| through the bay and at Pawcatuck
where there are rocks in the river.
The result, the report states, affords
| Westerly the benfit of water trans
portation impossible in the river in its
| natural state. There has been, too,
a resulting reduction of freight rates
on bulk commodities. Present funds
will, it is thought, be exhausted by
July next and after that, If Congress
makes a further appropriation, dredg-
| ing of the channel at the entrance to
little Narragansett bay will be pur-
| sued.
At Stonington lr~--~~ work has been
| completed at total expenditure to
| $751;, 24S.18, with - -eSu.l that the
| breakwaters serve a most useful end
| in providing a harbor of refuge for
| barges and other craft passing
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