Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-17
CURRENT TOPICS IN WESTERLY
Recent Enistments in Naval Reserves-Raymond Moore Formerly Attendant at Norwich State Hospital Joins Fifth Company Memorial Sunday Plans-Suit for Trespass-Red Cross Mass Meeting Tonight.

Tuesday rope was stretched across the part of the highway that entered upon the Coy-Welch property and a warning fosted which read: This road is private property. No tres passing under penalty of the law" Many observed the warning and went by way of the old road. MT. Hall is a summer resident of Avonda1e, and when his automobile operated by Morris Nye reached the rope obstruc- tion, MT. Wye removed the rope and proceeded in what was supposed to be the state highway and in so do- ing, it is alleged, became a trespasser. A writ was served on MT. Hall and the writ is returnable May 25. This is a test case and will probably de- eide whether the state or town is re- sponsib1e to the property owners.
 Local Laeonies.
 George H. Sherman is representing Westerly at the national convention of musicians in New Haven.
 Up to 4 o'clock, Monday afternoon, 1569 aliens registered in Westerly. Of this number only four are Germans.
 The lid will be on tight in West erly in regard to fireworks and the discharge of firearms on July Fourth.
 The house to be built at Watch Hill for William K. Lanman of Columbus, Ohio, will not be erected this sea- son.
 Seymour Stanton and Victor Stan ton of Charlestown, visited MT. and Mrs. Arthur Mcclellan Weeden, We'd nesday-
 Joseph Gengevello of the Fifth com pany has been declared a deserted and is being sought by the federal au- thorities.
 Clerk Herbert A. Caswen of the su- perior court for Washington county, will be in Westerly Friday for the purpose of naturalization.
 At the Red Cross mass meeting this evening the speakers will be Rath- bone Gardner of Providence, c. c. Ely of Boston and Samuel H. Davis of Westerly.
 Charles Mehan, son-in-1aw of MT and Mrs. Oliver Marcey, of Westerly, was killed in France May 2. He leaves his wife and two children in Milltown, N. B.
 Plans are completed for the first concert of the Westerly Choral club of fifty voices assisted by Willard w kellogg. of Mystic, tenor and Mrs Laura $. Strout of Boston, contralto.
 Rev. and Mrs. Milton S. Rees closed their five weeks religious campaign in Westerly Tuesday night and left Wednesday for Franklin. N. H., where in the evening they started a revival.
 The wife of Judge Gilbert Collins died Tuesday at her home in Jersey City. With her husband she had been iong a summer resident of Stoning- ton. at Brook Dale, the Collins sum mer home.
 James MaxswelI, R. J. Rooney and Samuel Simons, are the committee of Bowen Lodge, Knights of Pythias, arranging for a complimentary con cert and dance, to be given in Cas- tie hall in the Welch block.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Arthur Denison Smith, 88. widow of Captain F'reder- Smith nf of Stonington, died at her home late Tuesday afternoon. Her nearest rel atiye is John NJ. Denison, with whom she made her home.
 Miss Fanny D. Holmes attended the state board meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Prov idence Thursday. MT. and Mrs. Sam uel H. Davis and Miss Bertha A. Brown also made the trip to Provi- dence by automobile.
 Major Bourbon A Babcock of Paw a representative from the town of Stonington in the Connecti- cut legislature, will attend the clos ing session today, and will be then ready to serve in the military ser vice of Rhode Island where he holds 2 commission.
 Josiah F. Broadfoot, who has been engaged in a line of out-of-town ad- vertising for the past ten months, re- turned home Wednesday. He has en-
 
 Ambulance corps, for duty in France. He will report back in Washington next Monday.
 The three horse hitch of large draft horses drawing big loads to and from the William Clark mill of the Ameri- can Thread company an attracti 1n the streets of Westerly, has been supplanted by a large auto truck. The handsome horses are engaged in yard work at the mill.
 Mrs. Thomas Perry has been ap- pointed captain in charge of the mil itary census of the town of Westerly, by the Rhode Island Branch of the League for Women's Ser vice. She has selected as her lieu tenants Mrs. Harry B. Agard, Miss Laura Mcintyre, Edmund T. York, Miss Catherine Cottrell and Mrs F7arqualler Smith. Each lieutenant will appoint ten enumerators and be for the completeness of their work.