Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-29
RHODE lSLANOW. 6 |. U.AT WESTERLY Y
Forty6rs Annual State Convention Opens, One Hundred Delegates Attending Camp Fire Girls Demonstration Evenng-SiIent Sentinel Maimed- Episcopal Clergy on Retreat


 work of the organization. The camp fire, or meeting, opened in the usual way ,the girls entering in single file and greeting the guardian with the Hand Sign of Fire The candles were then lighted with woheio ceremony. after which the girls sang Lay We to Sleep in Sheltering Flame. This beautiful arrangement of Fiona Mac leod's we'll known poem was set to music by W. H. Neidlinger, who sum mers at Mystic, Conn. The count. or the style of an old English ballad, was read by one of the girls.
 Explaining the work, step by step, the girls were conducted through each rank by the guardian. One girl, after repeating the desire of every Camp Fire girl, was received into the group as a member. Then the necessary re- .quirements for the rank of wood gath erer were explained and a maiden illustrated the ceremony: likewise the two higher ranks were explained and illustrated, those of fire maker and torch bearer. These ceremonies by the songs necessary for the demonstra- tion.
 Then to illustrate various honors that had been won, girl tied five square knots in ucceion, and two girl ap- piled bandage to a selected member of the group, explaining the names of the bandages and proper use of them. quired for rank. Under the heading of entertainment, a division of home craft a folk song was rendered by two of the maidens. As illustrative of camp craft, a girl tied ten different knots, explaining the name and func- tion of each.
 Under nature lore came the study of trees and to show that knowledge was not for naught, a girl told the names of Is different trees as the guardian held up leaves taken from same.
 As an illustration of patriotism, one of the girls, having won Q bead for speaking last Lincoln's birthday in an entertainment, gave her recitation, a selection from the Perfect Tribute. The meeting closed in the usual way, the girls filing out and singing Amer ica-
 At. the close of the delightful enter ! tainn1ent homemade candy was on sale.
 The silent sentinel on continuous duty in Dixon square, as assistant to the officer charged with enforcing the traffic ordinance, and who rendered efficient service during the season of lcongestionse was struck and knocked down by a. marketman's team, in I charge of William Senior Tuesday. One, of the sentineTs legs was broken. Policeman Mitchell took the name of the team driver, then reduced the frac-
 ture and the sentinel resumed duty During the recent severe wind storm
 the sentinel was actually blown down
 but was not materially injured. l The sentinel is built of wood, with four legs, and bears a warning sign lon the four sides that reads: "Keep I n Ricr1rf VThaT, rCf ;v, 1z;
 tion is was kept in place by iron
 points penetrating the pavement from
 each leg, the iron points being held in
 place with lead and birthstone.
 An osprey. believed to be the iden tieai bird that took black bass from Wilcox park lake on Monday was how ering over the lake Tuesday, but, SC far as known did not dive into the
 deep hole for another bass. Captain
 James A. Barber, a veteran fisherman
 as we'll as Civil war veteran, and a
 Tuesday afternoon what he thought of
 an osprey coming inland to the park | lake for fish, made this reply: 1 When you say osprey, I suppose
 you mean a fish hawk. That's noth- ing, for they are protected by law now
 and can do about as they please. Why they'd take a fish out of a basket you
 carried, provided the fish was alive but they have no use for a dead fish They must see the fish flop before l they want him. I've seen them tackle
 a fish that they couldn't handle, ana
 when they dove down for Mir. Fisl they were drowned. It's a curiou:
 fact that they never bother fish in z bound I've seen focks of fish hawks lover a pound. but I never saw any
 one of them dive into pound.
 "Before the protection law was on Ewhen I was keeper of the Watch Hill Life Saving station, many years ago shot one of the hawks and he kep fright on as if nothing had happened
 and went right through pane O Iglass. into the station, scattering th& glass all over the food on the tablt where the men were at dinner It cos me dollar to replace that glass, anC I've went without our dinner. but w. had an early supper
 NO; fish hawks are not good to eat flor when cooked they are not onl, Idead fish smells
 1 William Coon, 21, employed by Ar
 thur Champlin of North Stoninqtor while riding twin motorcycle t, Westerly Tuesday night with Ernes Champlin on the rear seat was SC Iriously injured. When near the pump
 ing station he drove his motorcycl against a horse owned and driven b,
 Amos Burdick and was pitched for
 ward to the roadway with great force
 pr. M.~ H. Scanlon was called an, dressed the wounds, which consiste,
 or a very severe cut over the righ eye, cut on the chin and his nos is broken and split open its entir
 length; his right leg is also injured