Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-10
WESTERLY

less there is {, change in orders, it will proba bly be several months before they return home, honorably discharged after heroic active service. With the 314th Infantry of the Seventy Ninth Division, were Harley P. Chase, Mario Cali. and Harry ". Moore. killed in action. and Frank w. Foley, wounded, also William Quinlan, George Pendle- ton and Thomas Harvey, or Wester ly and Oryilse Murphy. os Ashaway; all selectiVe service men. This divi- sion will be retained.
 Arthur H. Coy, 10th Infantry and Harold Barber, motor transport ser vice are in the Twenty Eighth Divi- sion, which has also been selected for occupational service.
 Many who left Westerly with the Fifth Company, Coast Artillery corps, and who subsequently volunteered. fcs' foreign service, and were transferred to Boxford, and thence overseas are with tile Twenty Sixth Division, which is also a part of the army of occupation.
 There are twelve gold stars in West erly's Roll efH4onor, and one-third of them are opposite the names of se- lective service men who left West erly, May Fist, 1918.
 OrviIIe Stillman, 7a, long in busi- ness in Westerly and who has had a. branch store in Norwich TWO years, died suddenly Monday morning of heart failure at his home. No. 65 Summer street. His mother died when he was very young and he was reared by his uncle David R. Stfllman in Afford Center. N. Y Alter graduating from Alfred university, fifty-two yealE ago he came 10 Westerly and assisted his f,lther in business He was the son of Orro Stillman. and upon the death of his father succeeded him in the general stationery and music business, the firm Lame of o. Stillman being retained. 1t is said to be the oldest business name in town
 The elder Stillman was a music notion store in Faweatuck, later erecting a wooden building in High street, Westerly, and going into the | business on a large scale. This build ing. was destroyed by fire and on it's site the present three story brick Still | man building was erected, and it was 1 here that Orville Stillnlan began his | business career in Westerly While the i store was taken over about three years i ago by the Vars brothers. MT. Still man continued the musical part of the | business on the second floor with en- i trance through the store
 Mr. Stillman was intensely interest ed in all that i1erta:ned to the advance
 nent of Westerly, but never took any
 active part in politics and therefore many years warden of Christ Episco- pal church. He leaves his widow and a son, Edwin Stillrnan, who was engag ed in business with his father.
 Rev. D. Burdette, Coon, pastor of the
 First HopNinton Seventh Day Bap- tist church. .Ashaway, with Mrs. Coon
 and his mother in jaw, Mrs Bigelow
 escaped serious injury when the auto
 mobile in whicl they were riding skid
 ded and turned completely over MT 1 Coon crawled through the windshield frame. and secured hel0 tc extricate ] his wife and Mrs. Bigelow, who were under the ca,'. Rev. Mr Coon was or
 his way. to Quonoeontaug where ht was to supply the pulpit of the Bap- 1 tist. church.
 Mrs. Joseph w. Smith, daughter oi | Charles Henry CrandaH, is substitut-
 ing for her husband, who is i'll in the
 transfer of mail between ;he post of flee and the railway station. Her hus- band uses an automobile i'll this work but Mrs. Smith uses a horse and wag-
 on, as she has handled horses since
 childhood. Mrs. Smith had ! close cal
 from serious accident Monday
 morning. Ahen she was driving to-
 wagds her home In making the tur1 I from the bridge into West Broae
 street. the horse stumbled and fell anC
 Mrs. Smith was thrown forward
 struck the hAse glancing blow ant
 fell face downward with great fore, upon the paved street.
 , The horse was controlled before re gaining his feet and Mrs Smith wa
 assisted to rise. Her first inquiry wa
 whether the horse was hurt. As fo
 herself she said she was uniniured an she assisted in strengthening out mat ters before she proceeded with tn drive to her home.
 : George w. Brayn1an, 66, qardnener b !, occupation, with residence on tn
 Watch Hill road, was found dead earl s Sunday morning in the lot near tn
 driveway to his home net far fror ' the Red Brook switch of the trolle D road. Mir. Brayman left at about fiv
 o'clock in the afternoon to come t = the village of Westerly and as he di
 not arrive or the last car, his sol 0 Walter, went out thinking perhar
 that he might have left the car at 0 stop beyond the one nearest his hom
 The wall along the roadside near .th |, Brayman residence had teen file
 in almost to the street level leaving : descent of about four feet on the or
 posite side. He noticed an overcos = on the wall and. upon investigatio
 found his father lying dead in u d lot close to the wall. He had ev
 dently mistaken the location of Il r driveway and slipped off the sort (
 retaining wall and struck on a, lars s rock with fatal results
 Dr. M. H. Scanlon, medical exam - lner, mace ar examination, and gay
 the opinion tha death was due to 2 : accident. Mir. Brayma1l's skull wa
 fractured, his neck broken and h 3 face severely cut. He leaves his wido
 and two sons. Walter and Geors " Brayman.
 4 Westerly High school pupils we,
 required to write F'our-Minut # speeches on Red Cross work Monda. " Ii was suggested to one of the your
 ladies that she write concerning il
 welcome home of the soldier boys, ar
 sailors, too, who have seen servir n abroad, or who were in readiness
 go whenever ordered What has in; = to do with the Red Cross ?'' was tf l. responsive query. She was told tn; y no patriotic endeavor succeeds i
 Westerly without the aid of the loc 'V chapter of Red Cross. and that it W; Io essential for success to have the Rt 'o Cross assistance and leadership ,o whatever is done toward giving u 'o hoys rousing welcome home, as u lo Red Cross workers would see to Z, that all previous patriotic demol )O strations In Westerly would be )V nothing in comparison with tn 70 crowning event. The young Iat