Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-26
WESTERLY

for the betterment of man, The banks, | the stores and the factories. suspended | business long enough to give all who desired an opportunity to see and | hear this really wonderful man. He | spoke at the Bliven Opera house, i which was comfortably filled st 1915, | the time set for KIT. Sunday to deliver | ms famed discourse against booze, en- tltied Get on the Water Wagon. Rev, | Samuel H. Davis presided at the ses- sion and presented the speaker.
 Just as Mir. Davis finished. the gen. tleman known years ago as 'sthe con | verted baseball player" made a dive | for the front of the stage as if he was about to pick up a grass cutter, then strengthened up and took his position l back of the reading desk, and com menced his anti-booze sermon. He scored the rum business unmercifuily with official figures and other indis- Tutahle facts in regard to the damage done by the liquor traffic, but there vas lack of that dryness that pre- vails during the ordinary discussion against the business by the average total abstinence prohibition orator. What MT. Sunday lacks in volume of voice he more than balances by his emphatic gesticuiation, an earnestness that is impressive and creates the closest attention so that every word could be heard in all parts of the big opera house. He struck at the saloon and all that pertains thereto right from the shoulder and referred to the sa- | loon men in terms of deepest con- tempt. using slang terms in his pie turizations that could only have origin | in such dens of iniquity as he de- 1 scribed. He handled the subject in | Westerly in the same style, and per | haps as the same words. that he has many times elsewhere, and, at times. rattled off words with a spaces that would have batf1ed the concentrated effort of a dozen expert stenograpners He probably crammed more words into 1 his talk of an hour than the ordinary
 public speaker could utter in two
 hours. and not word was missed by
 his auditors. so clear was the enuncia l ton.
 Mir. Sunday formally opened the mo- 1 license campaign in Westerly, under 1 the auspices of the no-lieense commit tee, and is the beginning in a series Of meetings to be held preceding cleo tion day. Mir. Sundays only local
 eference, was his assertion that he would vote for a candidate for the leg islature who favored prohibition and for no other. and it would make no difference to him whether the candi- date was republican or a democrat
 Prohibition was made the issue at the recent caucus of the repu blicans of Westerly, though neither candida5e for the state senate was a prohihi- tionist The pros wanted the renoini
 nation of Albert H. Langworthy and
 the antis favored Maurice Flynn. IL
 vas the largest caucus ever held in
 the town. fairly conducted, an1 MT,
 Flynn won the nomination. The nom ination was hardly cold when repub- leans who took active part in the caucus bolted the party nomination and commenced the advocacy of the
 election of Tristan D. Babcock, the democratic nominee.
 One prominent in prohibition work
 sad Friday afternoon: Yes. you're right: Billy Sunday was called here
 to defeat liquor license, and defeat
 Maurice w Flynn. the regularly nom mated candidate of the republican party for state senator from Wester ly!"
 Clerk Clarence E. Roche, in the ah-
 sence of Judge Oliver H. Williams presided at Fridays session of the , Third district court in Westerly. There
 was but one case on the docke,, a book account and that was continued : for proof of claim A new writ was , entered and it was rushed through tc completion in less than d minute
 Judgment was rendered and execution 5 issued forthwith. It was the case of Frederick J. Mackowitz hrough: by
 Judge Herbert ". Rathbun. against 7 the New York, New Haven and Hart . ford Railroad company. claim of
 damages for injuries received. and tie ? court action made the settlement com
 plete. The plaintiff claimed $3z5 anA fl.ef
 amount
 Last July at the railroad crossing S ir Wood River Junction a vehicle i,' h uhieh the defendant was e1 occupant . Was struck by the fourth car of g
 freight train. and he was injured ant
 taken to the Rhode Island hospital. Il
 appears that the crossing tender wa: A absent from his station and there wa' Y TO warning of the approaching train
 Mrs. Bertha ParmeIee entertained |, the members of Evergreen camp, Roy Il al Neighbors of America, at her homt 5 in Prairie avenue. Providence, in hon r or of Mrs. Eva aviDs, past oracle Q ! .lle organization. Mrs. Davis mar
 riage with Alfred H. Pollock. of NuV n London, a supervisor of the Brainert s K Armstrong silk mill, will soon talk = place. In behalf of the camp Mrs s Howard Danphnee presented Mrs. Da
 wis Madiera luncheon set. J George Clark Wells, 75. who wa 0 born near Ashaway, died at his hom = in Farnia, H., Oct. ,, 1913. He wa e educated in local schools and in Al
 fred university. In July. 1882. he en q listed and served for three years il : Company A, Seventh Rhode Islaut : Volunteer Infantry, and was wound Q ed in the right hip at Fredericksburg
 Alter honorable discharge and muste
 cut he was engaged as a mechanic i:
 i the Cottrell press works, Westerly N Subsequently he went to Farnia an, S engaged in farming on a large scale H He leaves his widow and three dlugh ters.
 He was a member of the Farni; Seventh Day Baptist church, and 0 Lucien Greenhouse Post, No. 226, c A. R.
 At the annual meeting of the South ern Rhode Island Farm Bureau, hell in Westerly, it was decided to defe the election of president. The officer
 pI esident; T. De Coppet. secretary \ D. Rowland. treasurer; W H. God frey. 0. c. Straight, G. E. B. James
 Mrs. H. Perry, Asa T. Hoysie, l. G Waite, $. Nj Young, executive com rnittee
 si Local laeonics
 \ Mary, wife of John Joseph Corey died Thursday in Bradford, from in \ Huenza.
 \ Colonel and Mrs. Attmore A Tuck
 CT, of Providence, are weekend visi
 tors in Mystic. guests of Mrs. Tucker
 parents, Mir. and Mrs. Benjamin 1 a Hewitt.
 Fl Carl J. Nordell, of Boston, forrneri \ Of Westerly. will hold an exhibitio
 of his paintings at the Boston Ar \ club, November s to 23.