Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-11
WESTERNS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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 The Westerly Historical Society,,s
 Bulletin of Information announces
 that the next meeting of the society
 r. m. when Miss Julia E. Smith will
 speak on The Old Joshua Babcock
 The following publications of the society can be obtained: Constitution,
 hy- laws, officers. committees and
 u.embefs.. Records, and papers, 1913- 1915, which, beside other matter, has
 a paper on iCooky Hill. by Ethan Mtf- cox and two by Elisha c. Stilfmar
 On Prudence Crandall and Her Work,
 Old Houses and Their Occupants son |the Old Hopkinton Road Three -quar-
 terss of a Century Ago. sSs-s, papers on Old-TiIne Lotteryyi,1e, by
 Mrs. Louise Austin Babcock; S The Providence and New London. Turnpike, !, by N. Henry Lamphear: The Watch Hill, Road, Past and, Present Buildings end Tenants, by, Albert P. Pendleton. and Rise and Progress of Friends in
 Westerly and Vicinity. by Mrs! P. B.
 Foster. g> sss. Park Family. Some Account of the Park Family and Especially of the Rev Joseph Park. M. A.. 1907 -l771, | ana DSnJdullu .fdElAs 1J.14. .EO.. lovI-looS. Interesting things in print are a
 chapter entitled In the Old South County, by Walter Pritctard Eaton in i his book Barn Doors and Byways. an | illustrated booklet on Westerly by the | Industrial ImproyementsCo Company with l 16. pages of descriptive. matter, and
 the wall calendar of the Norwich Bul-- fietin Company, on which are recorded
 the important happenings in Wester- | fiy for 1917. and which has for it's enl- t thellishment a fine view of West Broad street ,at the time of the big flood, February 14, 1886. = I A letter has been received from. H. Is. Gensler of the official reporters Of fee. U. $. senate, as follows: ~ ."l am making a collection of DOT traits of all the United States sena : ltorss from 17s9 to the present time, of whom there have been 1,0S0, and I
 have succeeded. after hard work, ill l gathering pictures of all but 50 odd. TlIis collection is intended for. preser-
 vation in the archives of the senate for future generations. Among tile missing pictures are those of Joseph Stanton, Jr.,s 17s0-17s3;; William Brad T ford, 179S- 1797; Samuel sI;@ Potter, 1S04- 1905; Benjamin, {, Rowland, 1894 t1S9g"s
 1900.
 Henry Robinson Palmer will, speal,
 at the March 14til meeting on The EI-ure of the Past. '. ss' J. Henry Seattersood, a New. York ] tnnanufacturer; who served as a com.
 missioner from the United States tc visit Trance, under the auspices o1 i the Red. Cross to determine how t1e
 ' t ate with English and French ,societie! i, ill relief work, gave; a descriptive tall [ ito an audience fair in size in the Me : morlal building, Saturday evening Hi l subject was What the Society O Friends is Doing in France. Witt numerous lantern slides, Mir Scatter; I good showed how France and Belgium , had been devastated and how essentia
 it is that aid, be given refugees re
 turning to sites Of former homes H, : instances the burning of the Svillag of Sermaize by. the Germans -becaus 2 the French mayor did not wait to vel : come them. . He described the construction b, !, Friends of portable houses, in whicl |, natives are domieiled until the Frencl 3 government can restore their home D las 1t has pledged itself to do. H Il told of the care the society has give ' to children. who could not he kept b
 their mothers near the battle lines be
 l cause. they could not make them lsee
 on the gas masks:s the work accom- : iplished among refugees, tuberculat 1: stricken soldiers and sthe rnaintenafic . of hospitals for wounded. He em l phasized the. benefits of the project = undertaken by the Young Mem
 lChristian Association, the Knights C e Columbus, the Hebrews and tn ? Friends, iii cooperation with the Re n Cross. < :-- : Harry B. Aoard, of Westerly, eoun sel for the William Tinkham con1pan
 Iof Harriswille. has entered suit fo c s25 900 in the superior court agains l. the Saltwater Worsted company an : Austin T. Levy; alleging that the de = fendants became possessed of a, tlt a of mill machinery and engines ,owne e by the plaintiff and refused to give U s. the property. The action, is ono: 5. troyer and conversion. In : each < T flour courts in the declaration I. = g alleged that the machinery named i l, the list was converted to the use 5. the defendants.' It is alleged that cor |; I versions were made Jall.s1. 1915, 191 s, l1917 and 1918. the fifth count name :: each of the four dates as that c T, which the conversion was made
 s,l Westerly is seeking new sidewalI l. through the general assembly where, ss!lliII iS 4 nAnHino eviviNr ha ;oh