Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-11
IN AND ABOUT WESTERLY
Nevsbov mprisons Carpenter Unintentionaly of Poultry Association-Death of James Tyfe, Towns Pioneer Piunaber-Ladies Night at Colonial Club.

One of the young men who delivers The Norwich Bulletin in Westerly in
 the early morning unconsciousiy in- prisoned one of his customers We'd nesday. The customer Is a carpenter, with small shop in the rear end or a second-story building in Mechanic street, and directly over a store. The only entrance is by way of rear stairway. The shop is entered first by a door at the head of the stairway into a small entry, and then by ooor directly into the shop. The first door and it is the custom of The Bulletin carrier to lift this hook and drop the newspaper in the entry when ne nnos this door fastened. When not hooked up, he enters the shop through the second door and delivers the paper to the customer direct
 On the morning in question the car rier found the outer door unhookeo and the inner door locked. lie con cluded that the customer had not ar rived, so he left the paper in the en- try. and, as he departed. fastened the outer door.
 was in the shop and had neglected to release the catch of the lock. In the course of an hour the carpenter d1s- covered that he was imprisoned in his own shop. He hammered on the floor to attract the attention of those in the store below, in the hope or being released The pounding was heard,
 but no special attention was paid to it, as there was nothing unusual to near such noise in a carpenter shop.
 The windows were too high to jump from and too far removed from the street to enable the prisoner to at- tract the attention of pedestrians. As last resort, the carpenter re- moved the hinges from the door and gained his freedom. When the car
 penter and The Bulletin carrier next
 met there were explanations on both
 sides and they mutually agreed upon
 a basis of 5o-50 settlement.
 At the annual meeting of the South County Poultry and Pet Stock associa-
 tion these officers were elected: Lev
 Kennedy, Albert E. Spargo, Charles
 Oppy, vice presidents; Edword Cong don, treasurer; William C. Nudge,
 secretary; Reginald Oppy, assistant;
 Frank Lynch, Ernest J. Willis, H. A. Geary, Andrew Pascoe. John Wheweli,
 Harold Doney, Roger Durham, execu- tive committee; John J. Kennedy, su-
 perintendent of hall; Frank Lynch, as- sistant.
 James Fyffe, 76, the first to open a
 plumbing establishment in Westerly, died Wednesday morning at the home
 of his daughter, Mrs. David McG. 7
 Newall, in High street. MT. FyfIS
 came to Westerly in 1866 as foreman
 for a Providence firm that had con
 tract for the plumbing in the Dixon
 house. then in course of construction
 He was an expert workman and per
 sonally supervised the plumbing
 work, which, at the time, was consid-
 cred to be the equal of any in New
 England, and involved an expense Of
 about ST5, GOO. The plumbing is all of lead, and at that time the price was ten cents a pound, war prices still prevailing. After completing the Dixon house contract, MT. Fyfe decided to engage in the plumbing business in
 Westerly on his own account and had
 a monopoly of that line of business.
 He opened a shop in the little
 building in Main street, now the
 Backus Tire shop. and later moved
 into the Price building. He continued
 in the plumbing business here until
 1890, when he went to Fort Worth,
 Tex, but returned in a short while
 He then engaged in plumbing in New
 plumbing, and returned to Westerly.
 About eight years ago, with William
 Holland, he opened a fish market at
 Broad and Union streets. but remain
 ed in that business but a few months.
 He has been in declining health for
 many years
 Mr. F'yffe was a member of Frank
 lin lodge, F. and A. M., and Palmer
 chapter, R. A. M. He is survived by
 two daughters, Mrs. NewaI and Miss
 Annie Fyffe, of New York city, and
 sister, Annie, also of New York, and
 brother, Alexander Fyffe, of Railway,
 N J. He was born in Dundee, Scot land.