Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-26
WESTERLY

Last year the association realized S1,- 100. and it is expected to increase the contributions to s1,500 this year. The Girl Scouts, new organization form ed by Miss Elizabeth Champlin, will take an active part in the canvassing of the town for funds and the West erly band has volunteered it's services for a concert this evening. The Girl Scouts, working in connection with the Boy Scouts, will take up collections during the concert
 The committee has established five stations about the town where the collections will be made, as follows: Corner of High street and Railroad avenue, Grove avenue and Granite street, FSarklin street and East av- enue, Beach and Elm streets and West Broad and Mechanic streets.
 That this years exhibition at the Washington County Fair will eclipse past events now seems an assured fact The usual competitive exhibits of fruit and vegetables will take place and there will be a number of educa- tional exhibits dealing with food con- servation and agricultural problems. Special plans have been made for a series of excellent vaudeville entertain ment and will be under the supervi- sion of Samuel Balindo. The race track is in excellent condition and, ac- cording to Georfe L. Salisbury. super intendent of the races, strong card | is being booked.
 The Second Company, Rhode Island State Guard, of South Kingston, will | leave Wakefield today and go into camp for four days with the regu- 1 lars at Fort Kearney. The company will hike as far as the Nixon of the | Boston Neck road and there camp for over night, continuing to the fort the | following morning. The company will | drill with the regulars. The newly or ganized company drum and trumpet corps and the medical corps will ac- l company the command.
 | For the third time in 14o years the | able bodied men of military age in | Rhode Island have been subjected to | draft and inducted into active service. | The first of the drafts was conducted | to provide a quota of men to fight ! Great Britains invading forces. This was ordered to be made in the spring ] of TIT. The second draft was made 1 in July, 1863, to augment the federal army that was contending for the up | holding of the Union: and the third and last was made June ,. 1917, to l provide for an overseas force to act l in conjunction with the troops of the othed allied nations.
 Not far from the point on Middle ground reef, where the Clyde steamer l Onandago was wrecked off Watch Hill 1 three months ago, is the fish laden steamer George Hudson, which during a dense fog early on Sunday, ran on to the reef and sank beyond in forty feet of water. Captain William D. Murray and the crew of II men landed at Watch Hill in one of the steamers seine boats. The Hudson was from off the Jersey coast with a catch of 1000 barrels of menhaden, and was bound to the fish works at Mys- l tic.
 The Hudson was owned by the At lantic Coast Fisheries company, of 149 tons burden and valued at $50, 000. The Onandago still lies just where she struck, with funnel and both masts showing well above the surface
 The steamer seemed to be resting easily Sunday night. and it was said that the T. A. Scott WrecSing Co.,, would make an examination within a
 few days.
 Shortly after the Hudson went down
 the crew of the Coast Guard Station
 at Watch Hill, put out in a boat to
 render aid to the shipwrecking fisher men, but they were unable to be of any assistance. Capt. William B.
 Murray and his crew set out for Mys-
 tic in their boat, where they arrived shortly before daylight and reported the sinking of the vessel to Samuel
 Chesebr |, manager of the Atlantic
 Coast Ffshing company, who is a
 summer resident of Mystic.
 The Hudson was built in Kennebec,
 Me, in 1888. She was 130 feet long,
 IS feet wide and 10 feet deep. The
 vessel was rebuilt at Greenport, N. Y 7.
 about 15 years ago. The names of
 the captain and members of the crew
 follow:
 William B. Murray, Captain; Hol-
 liston, Mass; Leonard Black, chief
 mate, Booth Bay, Me; Manson Mo-
 Innis, steward, Newport; Justin Eos
 ter, engineer, Bristol, Me; Clarence
 Tibbs, assistant engineer, Fall River
 Mass; Amos Boudreau, Benjamin
 Boudr9au, Daniel Forgier, Everett
 Hoffras, T. R. Macomber M. L. te
 Blanch, Alfred Frank, Michael Forg-
 fer, Alcid Boudreau, Simon Bonner
 George Bonner and two firemen, names unknown.
 Rev. Michael F. Sullivan, S. M, o1 Waterbury, who was ordained in June
 at the Catholic University of America ! Washington, D. C., has received notice
 Of his appointment as Curate at the Church of the Immaculate Conception
 Westerly. Father Sullivan is promi-
 nently known in Waterbury. He at
 tended the parochial schools there and
 completed his course of training fol the priesthood at the Marist college which is a part of the Catholic uni ; versity. While at this institution he studied under several of the mos l Cf United States. He celebrated at hi. first high mass at the Immaculate .. Conception church of Waterbury sev. ' ' eral weeks ago.
 f A society wedding took place a Nsrragansett Pier, Saturday afternool f when Mrs. Maude Gwynne Shepherd
 daughter of MT. and Mrs. William Ed
 ward Gwynne of New York and tht , Pier, was married to Charles H. liar rah, IT, son of Mir. and Mrs Charles
 H. Harrah of Philadelphia. MT. liar
 rah, Sr. was at one time Presiden of the Midvale Steel Company. Tn, : bride is niece of Mrs. CorneIiu D Vanderbilt and a cousin of Maj.-Gen
 Cornelius Vanderbilt and Reginalt I c. Vanderbilt.
 |. The ceremony was performed b. Rev Philip NJ. Prescott at the hom
 of the brides parents. Snnnymeat cottage, on Central street. She wa D given away by her fa6her Miss Mar 9 guerite Prescott was bridesmaid an l Dwight Harrick of Philadelphia bes r man. Only the immediate family at V tended the wedding.
 The bride wore a gown of whit
 chiffon, embroidered in pearls an
 carried a bouquet of lilies of the val
 ley. The bridesmaids gown was c II mauve chiffon with hat to match an