Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-11
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS AT WESTERLY Y
Delegates to State Convention Ministerial Assoca-
 ton Hears Paper by Noank Pastor-Death of Miss Mary Grace Stilman-Eks Installation Wednesday Evening.

An unfortunate, decrepid and crip- pied man of eighty, once one Of the best dressed and popular men of Wes- terly, but who for the past quarter path, and whose strong appetite for that which intoxicates placed him be- yond redemption, was given shelter at the police station Sunday night. His near relatives in Westerly have time and again offered to give him home, but he spurned their good offices, and preferred a life on the road. He has perigrinated between New London and Westerly, when not confined in the jail at New London or the Rhode Isl- and state farm, sent there either for intoxication, or charged with wan dering from place to place, sleeping in the police stations or outbuildings and without visible means of support. It would have been an almost inhu- man act to turn the old man loose, to wander about, homeless and friend less, so he was held on the charge or vagrancy. When arraigned in the Third District court, Monday, he was sentenced to six months on the state , farm, where he will receive an abun- dance of food, a comfortable sleeping place and all necessary medical at tendance.
 This man has so changed that he is not recognizable by his former ac- quaintances, and he has reached that degree of personal hatred that on his occasional visits to his old home town, as no one speaks to him, he remains silent, only when in contact with of fcers of the law. He is without a home in his own country, and he alone 1 is responsible for his condition.
 The Value of Strength of compara- tive Religion was the subject of a pa | per read by Rev. H. s. Foster, pastor of the Noank Baptist church, at the ! regular meeting of the Westerly Min | isterial association, held Monday in | the Memorial and Library building. | The paper was well received and mer- ited the vote of thanks rendered by | the fifteen ministers present. Rev. | Edward J. Curry, the new pastor of | Grace Methodist church, Westerly, and Rev. MT. Wheeler, pastor of the Con- gregational church, Kingston, were | introduced and their names presented for membership. Under the rules, their election to membership was de- ferred until next meeting. Rev. F. C. A. Jones of Calvary Baptist church, | Westerly, was appointed a committee
 to arrange with Captain William H. l Burdick for the annual complimentary sail Rev. George B. Marston of the
 Stonington Baptist church and Rev.
 Frederick A. Mcdonald of the Pawca- ] tuck Congregational church were ap-
 pointed the committee to arrange for
 the annual banquet.
 Miss Mary Grace StiIImsn, 91, died
 Monday morning at the Stillnnan
 homestead, on Chaca hill, after a long
 illness. She was graduated from Al
 fred university and from German
 university and taught school in Rye N. Y, for twenty years. She leaves
 three sisters, Misses Frances and Jen-
 nie Stillman and Eunice, the wife of John c. Conger, and d brother, Dr
 Herbert L. Stillman, of Westerly.
 John R. Nicholson, grand exalted l ruler of Benevolent and Protective
 Order of EIks, will install the officers 7 of Westerly Lodge, CTS, on Wednesday
 evening at the 322d regular meeting
 The local lodge has been organized fiji
 teen years and this will be the frs
 time it has been honored by visi
 from the grand exalted ruler. After
 the meeting an installation banquet l will be held at the Rhode Island. Be sides the grand exalted ruler there will be several other guests who are . prominent in ElkdOm.
 At the annual meeting of the Paw
 catuck Seventh Day Baptist church
 officers were elected as follows: Ire
 B. Crandall. president; Edgar P. Max son, treasurer: Allen c. Whitford
 Utter, trustees; c. Clarence Maxson
 auditor: John H. Austin, collector;
 John H. Tanner chorister; William sFealey, Charles B. Barker. Jared Lut-
 ton. c. Starr Barker. Charles Church Charles Andrews, Edward Peabody
 Stanton Burdick. ushers. Preceding
 the business meeting supper was serv.