Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-29

After several weeks interval, tw, more burglaries were committed a Watch Hill, Monday night, the intrud one place and in solid and plated ware in another. and. so far as known, tool nothing else. In both cases entrance
 was made by cutting out wire They took from the cottage of Mrs Samuel G. Bettle of Philadelphia, To- cated near the site of the old Larkir
 house, a box containing solid silver rear of the cottage. The loss at this
 cottage is estimated at s1.0o0. and in- cluded these articles, most of them
 bearing monogram H. B. B.
 H One dozen table spoons, one dozen dessert spoons. one dozen oyster forks
 one dozen bread and butter knives
 one dozen dinner forks. two dozen
 dessert forks. twenty-two teaspoons,
 one tea strainer. one sugar spoon, one cigarette tray. one butter knife and I two gravy ladies; also six rat tail | spoons. antique. very valuable, in all | 130 pieces of solid silver were taken considerable more silver available,
 but the thieves were not disposed to
 take valuables that were bulky.
 | At the cottage of Mrs A. R. Adams
 not far from the golf grounds, these solid silver articles were taken: Six
 teaspoons, Sen sugar spoons, an ice cream knife, sauce ladle, an olive
 spoon, and a gravy ladle valued by 1 its associations. Also, this plated ware: Twenty-Five forks, six table | spoons, four fish forks. six coffee | spoons, one fish set. one salad set four oyster forks, six knives, eighteen tea spoons. eleven marked A, and Il butter knives.
 The robberies were reported to Po- liceman Chase when he went on duty a 1iT1Cr and hn
 made report to Police Chief Brown.
 The large metal sicnboard, sur
 mounted with American flag, cleo
 trically lighted. is not to be utilized as a roll of honor if the names of the
 Westerly men now in the present war, as has been intimated. This board is near the post office entrance to Wilcox park and was erected in connection with the Red Cross campaign, to indi-
 cate by a painted thermometer the progress of the. whirlwind campaign.
 Westerly's allotment was s10.0o0, but the SIIm of s29.5 .576SS was subscribed. and the red paint, was spattered above the mercury bulb, indicating the overtaxing of the thermometer. Many of the contributions were given on the talment plan and the first payment was due Aug. 1. Now this same sign board that the people gazed upon with pride, is being used to remind the de- Dnquent subscribers that they have not done as agreed. and urging them to make good their subscriptions.
 A Vision Realized, a life story of Rev. J. A. Oertel. D. D., former res ident of Westerly, and while here painted the original Rock of Ages and other religious pictures, has been add ed to the Westerly Public Library. It was compiled by his son. J. F. Oertel of Vienna. Fairfax county. Va, who loaned to the art room of the library i ltgious subjects painted by his father Dr. Oertel was not only painter, l preacher and scholar, but a wood carver of note, specializing in interior these illustrations of OertePs art | work: !
 Portrait of Rev. J. A. Oertel. D. D.; portrait of Mrs. Julia Adelaide Oertel: i Battle of the Past of Thermopylae; i sations of Promise and the Law; The l The Dispensation of the 1 Holy Spirit; The Consummation of | Redemption; Steel Engravings Made | for Bank Notes; Cattle at Rest; The l Rock of Ages; A Rough Sea: The l Walk to Gethsemane; Figure of | Christ: Revedos and Altar; The Sands | If Dee; Ezckiel's Vision; Charle- nagne; Successors to Royalty; In the i -ation; The Death of Saul; Credence | able; Resedos in the Cathedral, Qulncy, III.
 pr. Joseph A. Higgins of South who com pleted brief iacation at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary Higgins in West Broad street, Monday morning, and motored 'ack to his home. offered his services o his country several months ago When he arrived home telegraphic or iers awaited summoning him irame- ifately to the Army and Navy medi- al training school at Washington, D. C., and he reported there Tuesday. He will ask for two weeks leave to ar ange for closing up his practice. Dr. Higgins is a graduate of the Westerly 1igh school and the Baltimore Medi- al College. For the past eight years le has been successful practitioner Il South Manchester. A brother, Ed win Carlton Higgins. who has not cached the draft age. has enlisted in he naval reserve force and expects a all to service daily.
 The police departments in the cit es and towns of Rhode Island will cooperate with the federal department justice in rounding up all young 1en who failed to respond to the or | CTS to appear for examination before he local boards in compliance with he selective service law. The belief revails that in most cases official mo- Ice to appear has not reached the i rehend the full meaning of the notice lany of the delinquents being of for ign birth Arrests will be made 'here it is found the men deliberately ,nored the orders il
 Local Laconics. The public schools of Westerly will 7sume next Tuesday. Joseph T. Grills of Bridgeport. ormerly of Westerly, is here on isit to his parents. There will be no special observance Labor Day in Westerly, in marked e ontrast with 8 year ago, when there as big parade followed with ex- 'ciseS in Vose field. The Rhode Island Coast Artillery de- chment was merged Sunday into the ne Hundred and Third Field Ar