Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-12
HOUSE NEAR WESTERLY ENTERED
Early Morning Visit To Hope Valley Place. Where Loss !. $20olPotter Hill Post Office Robbed of Stamps Nurse Sues Chef Alleging slander-FuneraI of Alpheus E. Eldred

The house committee of the judic- iary will soon make a report in the Rhode Island legislature, recommend ing the adoption of the act to create charitable institutions commission, which if adopted, will sQ0ercede the present board of control and supply, of which Senator Louis W. Arnold. of Westerly. is a salaried member. and also the state board of charities. The bill provides for commission Of nine members, to be appointed by the gov ernor with the advice and consent of the senate, who are to serve without the commission will have authority to appoint an executive or admins tration officer at salary or S4,OO0 a year, and a purchasing agent and a secretary at about the same salaries. These three paid officials will consti- ute a board of purchase for the va rious institutions that come within the scope of the bill. This act is framed on the principles advocated by Gov ernor Beeckman. and will please the political leaders who are desirous of having the disposition of some fat salaried positions.
 Rev. Joseph L. Peacock, librarian of the Westerly Public library, and pres ident of the Rhode Island Library as sociation, has completed arrangements for the mid winter meeting of the as sociation, that is to be held next Mon day at the assembly hall of the Rhode Island Medical association hall, in Providence. The afternoon session will open with an address of welcome. fol- lowed with a business meeting. Then Miss Jessie B. Rittenhouse, secretary of the Poetry Society of America. will deliver an address, and reception and social hour will conclude the af- ternoon exercises.
 L. Earle Rowe. A. M.. director of the Rhode Island School of Design. will speak. on Art Libraries and Art a Members of the Massachusetts Iii brary club. as we'll as members of prominent literary societies Of the state have been invited to attend this meeting.
 The eighth annual course for farm CTS, at the Rhode Island State col- iege, consisting of series of lectures ticular importance in up-to-date farming, will be given on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The course will be held in session. thus affording opportunity for those attending to inspect the work of the students in class and la boratoTy. Following each lecture there questions. The evenings will be de- voted to informal discussions and il- frustrated talks upon subjects of gen eral interest to those in attendance. lows:
 Monday. Feb 1e-Lime in Agricul- ture, c. D. Adams; Field Experiments for 1916. B. L. Hartwell: Grass and Forage Crops in Rhode Island, s. c. Damon; Twenty Years of Rotation Work in Rhode Island, B. L. Hartwel.
 Tuesday, Feb. 20-Inheritance in Poultry. P. B, Hadley: My Favorite Breed of Poultry and Why, Leghorns, w. W. Grindrod. Pawtucket; >Wyan- sdottes, Waldo Richardson, Apponaug; Orpingtons, c. D. Snow, Providence; Rhode Island Reds, F. w.. Amy, Lit tie Compton; Egg-laying Contests and Their Relation to the Practice of Poultry Keeping, Harry R. Lewis, husbandman of the New Jersey Agri- cultural Experiment Station.
 Wednesday. Feb. 21-Prunfng Dem