Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-25

The maxim. Honesty is the best policy" is attributed to Peter Davis, a tailor, who was born in England in 1880 and was a minister of the Society of Friends in Westerly in 1710, where he was a religious leader. He died in 1776. in his ninety sixth year and is buried in the Friends Burying Ground on the Post road. Peter Davis was succeeded in the ministry by his son, Peter Davis, who lived to be 101 years old and is buried in Friends Burying Ground in Hopkinton. The Westerly Friends meeting declined during the period of the revolution, and after several years the meeting established in Westerly in 1854. and was held at the home of Charles Perry, in the house occupied by the present Charles Perry. The meeting continued to be held there until the meeting house in Elm street was built in 1879. where meetings are now held on the first and fourth days of the week. South Kingston monthly meet ing, Providence quarterly meeting and New England yearly meeting are held in this place. These pointers are taken from a paper read by Mrs. E. B. Foster on Rise and Progress of Friends in Westerly and Vicinity, read before the Westerly Historical society.
 This paper and three others have been puhlisScd in pamphlet form by the society. The other papers are Old Time Lotteryville by Louise Austin Babcock, The Providence and New London Turnpike by N. Henry Lan- phear and The Watch Hill Road~by Albert P. Pendleton. In the latter paper in referring to the competition of the trolley line opened 22 years ago, and the steamboat line, in carrying passengers between Westerly and Watch Hill, MT Pendleton writes: When the trolley first started, the fare on the river boats was twenty five cents for the round trip, as against twenty cents on the trolley. In order to compete, the boat people advertised at twenty cents and TO dust A few days later on coming up the river, the boat ran aground and detained the passengers quite a while. The next day the trolley officials advertised the fare twenty cents with no detention and no mud"
 Captain Edward A. Roche, Twenty sixth regiment, United States lnfan- try, and for the past three years on duty along the Rio Grande. is on leave of absence and is visiting his sister and brothers in Westerly. The captain is a son of the late John Roche. who was stOne-cutter and served in the Civil war with the F'ourteenth Brook
 
 resident of Westerly, was appointed to the Military Academy at West Point in 1892, and graduated in 1897 He was made first lieutenant in 1899 and captain in 1902, and is very near his maJOrship. The only other living West Point graduates of Westerly are Colonel Edwin P. PendletOn and his son, Lieutenant Henry McEldree Pen dleton.
 Admiral Herbert o. Dunn, graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, is native and resident of Westerly Westerly's representation now in the naval academy is Howard Mcclellan.
 Colonel Joseph H. Pendleton, son of Joseph Pendleton, a native of Wes- terly who died recently in Chicago is slated for appointment to fill one of the four vacancies in the grade of brigadier general in the United States | Marine Corps. He is cousin of the | late Mrs. Edward NJ. Dodge and Mar | garet Dickenson and Anna s. Pendle- ton of Westerly.
 The Westerly Fish corporation, or qanlzed under the laws of Rhode Is- 1 land, through its attorney, John J. 1 stockholders. Charles H. Cowan, George E. Allison and Joseph F. Jo- 1 seph, was before Judge John ". Swee- | ney, in the superior court at Provi- 1 dence. Tuesday, petitioning for the l appointment of a temporary receiver. The petition was granted and the | court Appointed Judge Herbert w. | Rathbun, of Westerly, the receiver. | The company is engaged in the fish 1 cries trade and owns two steamers, the John M. Clifford and the Nomad, | both now lying at the steamboat | wharf in Stonington borough The business was unproftable last year !