Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-16
WESTERLY

The prevailing age in the division is 34 by slight margin. Only two towns. Westerly and Charlestown. have the same prevailing age, 34. There are no men in the division of the ages of 23. "A. 27. 2S, 29 or 30, as West Greenwich the prevailing age is IS, in South Kingstown 45. Exeter 36 and 45. Hopkinton 19 to S7, North | Kingston Al to 43. East Greenwich 40, Narragansett Pier 20, and Richmond l 3S Of the total of 3347 registered in | the division 24SS are native born. 273 | naturalized citizens, and 7S are citi- 1 zens by reason of their fathers natu- | 'ralization prior to their majority 1 are 273 0eclarant aliens and 2S5 non- | declarant aliens. a total of 56S. Of 1 the total there are 32S9 white persons, | S6 negroes. eight Orientals. 13 Indian citizens. and one Indian not citizen. The registration by ages shows in Westerly: Is, 57; 19. 69i 20, 52; 21, 2; 31. l; 32. 51; 33, 70; 3+.' s7;. 35, 70; 96, ] 60; S7. 70: SS. 72: S9. P; 40, 53; Al. 67; Az. 70; 4S. 66; A. 56; 45. 62 total 1107.
 The annual conference of the Mar ragansett Baptist Association, with which the First Baptist church of | Westerly is connected, will be held in l East Greenwich Thursday and Friday, and Rev. W. A. Tatty will preside. The programme follows:
 Thursday morning, 9.30, devotions l led by Rev. T. c. Gleason; greeting by pastor; response by moderator; adoption of programme; appointment of committee on nominations; period of prayer; annual sermon, Rev. s. B. | Chapman; report of nominating com mittee; reading of the rules; appoint ment of committee on place and preacher for next year and all other committees that report this year; reading of letters from the churches; reports; discussions: 12, dinner Thursday afternoon, 2-Devotions, 1 led by Rev. A. H. Adams, Jr.; ad- dresses, The Work of the State Con- vention, Rev. B. F. Livingstone, su- perintendent State Missions, and his the Education of Ministers, Rev Rob- ert L. Webb, secretary Newton Theo- logical Institutions address, In His Name; or the Believers Social Mis- sion, Rev. F. L. Wilkins, D. D.. ad- dress, The War and Missions. Rev. w. 4. Hill. secretary American Baptist
 Home and Foreign Nilsson and Pub lieation Societies; 5.30. supper.
 Thursday evening, 715-Service of
 
 Bone; address. The Church at Work
 in the Training Camp; Matters Deal ing With the Y. N. c, A. and the Church Relation Thereto, Rev. George
 F. Harvey.
 Friday morning, 9.30-Devotions by
 Rev. F. Stewart Kinley, of Westerly;
 report of treasurer of the association:
 reports of committees; appointing of
 standing committees; election of trus- 411-
 of roll and list of delegates; 12.30, din- ner.
 Friday afternoon, 2-The Woman's
 Foreign Mission Society; Mrs. NJ. E. w. Peck presiding; address, Mrs Frank Briggs of Japan; the Woman's s Home Mission Society, Mrs. E. E.
 Jones presiding; address. Miss May Huston, general secretary, W. H. NJ
 Society, Boston; final adjournment The September term Of the super ] for court for Washington county vi open today at West Kingston, Judge , Elmer E. Rathbun presiding. and a { large criminal docket. The grand jury will sit on the opening day and will 3 rass upon the largest number of cases 2 iu several years. This will be the first
 session of court where the jurors nave
 been selected by the jury commis-
 sioner under the new law.
 :, There are Is new actions at law t. u be assigned g new divorce cases l. seven new complaints and one appea = other than criminal. This is consid. cred a very heavy docket and the ses. ' sion will probably last five weeks, C1 more. As the majority Of the case: are from the town of Westerly, II i! Il expected that the court will come Il here, as soon as the criminal caien
 dar is arranged.
 !, Ninetsen of the twenty seven linn H ited service men who went to Caml b Devens from Rhode Island a week agt
 for induction as typists and steno - g1aphers have returned and reportet
 to state draft headquarters and as
 signed to draft boards as clerks. Vii
 liam l.. Carberry, of Providence is a.
 signed to State Division No. 1. Tn
 remaining eight men are still at camr
 One was rejected entirely, while tn a others were taken for general militar,
 service, when camp physicians pro , nOunced them physically qualified. . As medical advisory boards hal
 classed these men as fitted only fo l. limited service. and as they had beer o carefully examined, Captain George H
 Webb, director of the draft, will com a plain to the provost marshal genera l. The camp doctors action not onl,
 deprives the state of some exper n draft assistants. says Captain Webb is but it is unfair to several of the mer
 who had repeatedly tried to enlist an l. were rejected as being physically un k, fit for active service.
 Russell Diquid, who is charged joint
 ly with Harold Miner, as being a fugi U tive from justice in connection wit = the theft of an automobile in Rich
  '0 dered himself to Police Chief Thoma
 E. Brown. He pleaded not guilty i III the Third district court, and furnish r. ed a bond of 5000 for appearance i | court September 27. This is the sam st date set for hearing in the Miner cast of who is under like bond.
 n The accused parties have settle
 with the automobile insurance com ss pany and supposed that would end tn l. case, the injured party being satisfied is The Richmond police department ho7 Id ever insisted upon their arrest, and le is expected that an officer from tn
 southern city will be here, prepared t ~ take the accused into custody arme 2 with the required extradltion paper le The name of John Turano, of West V erly is in General Pershing's list ( Id seventeen officers and men aWarde E. the Distinguished Honor Cross. Fiji IFS teen of the awards. including Privat
 Turano, were made posthumously, an in of these every man was killed in aC ill ton or died of wounds. while thre
 were killed in attempting to reset I'd their commanding officer.
 'e, Thomas Turano was only 21 year i- of age, and before entering the mil
 tary service was engaged as a ca oo penter. He enlisted in Company nd Iwentv-th thlrd lnIahtry' last Septen TX per- ana went 10 rance sooI tnerea