Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-15
soRWIcH BULLETIN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER l5, 1918
WESTERLY

Peter Rose. a Westerly barber. real | estate dealer. notary public and an | all around adviser of his Italian coun- | trymen, is receiving the special atten- l tion of the federal pure food admin l lstration, for. alleged violation or the ,, law in selling four without license therefore, with selling -four without | the required substitutes and with sell ing more than one barrel of flour to a family that would not consume same within sixty days. Some time ago Rose closed his barber shop in Ca nal street. and on Monday there were perhaps forty barrel$ of flour stored therein, the windows being screened by newspapers
 William Loyeday. of New London, salesman for a, large flour concern, and a member of the federal pure food board, received information that kose was doing an illegitimate busi- ness and he proceeded to investigate. He saw the flour stored in the Rose shop and ascertained that sales had been made. minus the substitutes and that four barrels of flour had been sold to one family. He also learned that the flour was purchased from a New Jersey firm and shipped to Brad ford. Rose had the four carted by automobile from Bradford to West erly.
 MT. Loveland made a report to At torney John Ferguson, local repre- sentative of the Rhode Island pure food commission, and Chief of Police Thomas E.. Brown was called into the | case. The attorney and the chief con- tinued the investigation and they soon became satisfied that the four now being sold contrary to law. MT Fer Suson- took the matter up with the state food administrator, and a rep resentative of the office came to Wes- 1 terly Monday afternoon. All the flour in the possession oi Rose was seized and he was ordered to appear before the state food administrator at 10 O. clock Tuesday morning.
 Miss Agnes Murphy, 25. daughter i of Mrs. Mary Murphy, died Monday morning of influenza at her home in Garden street. Besides her mother she is survived by two sisters, and three brothers, two of the brothers with the American army iii France. Miss Murphy was forelady at the Pe- quot Shirt factory, and since the sus- pension of that industry, she has 1 been in the employ of the George C. 1 Moore Elastic Fabric company. She | was of lovable disposition and a general fayorite.
 Joseph Wilcox. of Bradford, en- ployed in a Westerly garage. has been saving all Buffalo five-cent pieces that came into his possession since the l first issue of that coin. He counted them up Sunday and put them into rolls of B each. making an even 75 rolls, just $50. He took the nickels to the Washington Trust company on Monday and invested the full amount in Fourth Liberty bonds He saved l j77 eli sonal inconvenience and claimed no credit for aiding his country 10 the amount of the liberty loan. He re- marked It's like finding the bonds it's all velvet to me"
 John H. Gavitt died Sunday morn irg at Fort Rodman hospital TOT bron- tchial pneumonia. He was born in ] Westerly January .25. 1891, and was | k'2own locally in the game of base 1 ball as Scout" Gavitr He was in the employ of the New Bedford Light and Power company since leaving ] Westerly. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Charles Moves of Tower street, his wife and son, and a sis ter. Mrs. Thomas A. Ornerfig of West erly Burial will be at River Bend.
 Local Laeonies. None of the thirty four Brown uni
 versity men, bound to southern off
 cers' training camps, were injured
 when the Federal express, on which
 they were passengers, ran into the
 Wreckage- of two work trains that had Colnded near Oakinton, Maryland 1 Colonel Randall A Harrington, 64, for thirty years manager and proprie-
 tor of Rocky Point. and widely known in amusement and political circles
 died of Bright's disease. in Hope hos
 pital, Providence. Sunday night He was born in Warwick and always made that place his home. He is sur viVed by his wife. Amelia Victoria Whiteside Harrington. daughter, Mrs. Thomas J. Fournier of Boston, and son. Randall A. Harrington. Jr., age six years.
 Westerly is slow in the preparation
 of it's honor roll board
 1 Walter Snyder has recovered from q severe illness and Monday returned
 Q his work as manager of the Nash store.
 Major Arthur N. Nash, who has
 been seriously i'll with influenza at his
 home in West Broad se~1et, is recov- eTing steadily. He expects soon to re-
 port for duty at Fort Adams as com
 rlander of the. motor transportation
 corps now mobilizing at the fort. pre-
 '
 There will be but two political bal T lots in use in Westerly on election
 day, the republican and 7etnocrat tic.
 There will be no nomination paper
 candidates. The town will vote on the liquor license qu9S. or
 The bar rooms of Westerly and the
 soda water fountains also continue to
 remain closed to business. as a pre- ventive of the spread of influenza
 The schools and the reading room and juvenile department of the Wes- terly Public Library are still closed The ban has not been raised from
 the playhouses of Westerly and Paw
 catuck
 There is considera ply more coal in
 Westerly today than a year ago at this date. 4 In the opinion of nr. Samuel C.
 Webster, superintendent of health { there is material decrease in the
 number of new influenza eases in
 Westerly.
 Herman Keith, an eccentric char \ acter known as. "Rowdy Dow" whe , came from Brockton to Westerly
 about year ago. left Monday after
 noon for New Haven, where he has
 secured a job in the culinary depart ment of hotel. The republicans of Providence have
 endorsed the renomination of Mayor Joseph H. Gainer, demorcat. Thomas J. Welch, of Westerly is
 in active service in the United States navy in foreign waters.
 Eighteen Pleasant View cottages | " -I