Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-03

ThIs association is composed of twen ty-nlne churches, including the First and Union churches of Westerly, and a year ago the total membership was 3,l94. As each church will be repre- sented there will be a large number of delegates at this annual session
 Al the meeting of the First Bap- tlst church members arrangements were made, in part, for tIc coming session, and these committees ap- pointed:
 Reception. MT. and Mrs. Thomas H. Peabody, Louis McNeiI, Mrs. Howard S. Crandall, MT. and Mrs. Ward AL ger, Mrs. Albert Kenyon, Lloyd Ken meth, Miss Daisy Kenyon and Miss Daisy Peabody.
 Entertainment, Mrs. Ward Alger, Mrs. William s. Eaton and Mrs Al
 Refreshments, Mrs. Albert T. Ken meth, MT, and Mrs. Arthur R. Riley and Leo c. Wye.
 The Narragansett association met in Westerly several years ago. when the First Baptist church.
 It was fully as hot in Westerly, Thursday, as on any day during the present heated term. the thermome- ter lowering in the region of 100. wise for that matter. the conditions in westerly were just about the same as in the three days gone before Everybody that could get to the beaches at Watch Hill and Pleasant View was there, and nearly all of them patronfzed the trolley line This again demonstrates the ancient tru- ism that tells of the wind that is i'll that brings no good. There was again a general suspension of business in the afternoon, and in addition to the shut down of manufactures, several Of the stores were closed. These same C% be closed every Thursday afternoon during the present month.
 George S. Retts is the latest auto mobile operator to be arrested for drove past trolley car that was at a standstill on the Watch Hill road dlschargIng passengers, and was talk en into custody by Policeman Fred er1ck T. Mitchell Betts was before Judge Oliver H. Williams in the Third district court, Thursday. and was ad- Judged guilty. He paid a fine of S5 and costs of S2.S0. Although arrests and prosecutions for automobile vio- violations seem to continue and with out apparent restraint
 The Westerly band gave a concert in Wilcox park Thursday evening, VII mhen the following program was
 
 Charles O. Gavitt: March, D. 4 R., Lempe; overture, Victoria, Round; waltz, Mia Cara; gems from My Home Town Grl Hirsch; popular medley, Remick's 1917 Hits, Lempe; march. College Memories, Robinson; patri- otic medley, Our Nation, Mackie Bey- CT; excerpts from The Balkan Prin- cess, Douglass; Welsh airs, Gems of Cambria, Round: March of the Bers- aglari. Ruisi; finale, The Star Span gled Banner.
 The Westerly Industrial company. just organized, is intended to advance the commercial and business interests of Westerly. For several months Charles P. Ecclestone and Represent tative Councilman Francis c. Haswell. have been at work on plans for the improvement and development of sec tions of the town that have been ap- parently ignored for business pur- poses. The result is the formati tion of this corporation which proposes at once to engage in the improving and putting in shape, for commercial and building purposes, all that tract of land lying between street and the New Haven railroad tracks and extending in sev- eral places to Canal street. This pro- perty takes in all the old canal which