Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-04
WESTERLY

by one customer before serving to all other. The fact was not taken into consideration, as at all soda fountains the opportunity for sterilization does not prevail: therefore all fountains were put under the ban. It was the drinking glasses and not the soda fountains that the town. officials in+ tended to prohibit, but to make the order effective it was decided to put | all places whereinj soda water was dispensed upon the same be sis. There IS at least one place in town where | the fountain proprietor has a supply | of individual sanitary paper cups. He | asked if there was objection to the | use of these cups, and was informed l that there was not, but as others in 1 the soda water line did not have such | cups, it would be well for him to sus- pend his fountain business for the | present. There is not the slightest 1 doubt but glasses at soda fountains are kept fully as clean as the glasses in use in a bar room, or the average restaurant
 It is understood the town council is considering a remodifcation of the order, by stipulating certain sanitary regulations that must be applicable to all soda water fountains, in regard to service rendered the public, which will be effective in the preservation of health. and not detrimental to busi- ] ness and the public convenience. The Westerly Sanitation Corps, un- | der command of Dr. Frank I. Payne, I is doing praiseworthy work in con- nection with the fight against the pre- vailing epidemic of influenza. Mem 1 bers are in many humble homes nurs- l ing the sick under the direction of 1 the physicians in charge of the cases and doing all they can for the better ment of the public health. The Beach street school house which was given over to the sanitation corps, several months ago, and fitted up for tae re- ception of patients as a war measure, 1 is now to be utilized as an eT1tergen- cy hospital for inf111eaza cases. The l corps has placed sixty cots in the l building, and all the accessories nee essary for the proper care of patients.
 Arrangements have been made to transfer patients to this temporary emergency hospital, where the change I would be preferable to home Condi- tions during their sickness. Members of the sanitation corps, and other vol
 unteers, will serve as nurses, and oth- erwise work for the comfort of the afflicted.
 The existing conditions has served to show, more than ever, the need for 8 hospital in Westerly. and the gen eral improvement of the sanitary re- quirements. The town has made ap- propriation for a sewerage system, and
 there is already substantial nucleus
 of fund for the construction and maintenance of hospital The con-
 just as soon as there is opportunity to secure labor and material, and the present is tho opportune time to in crease the hospital fund
 Miss Clara Elizabeth Rabcock, who
 was born in Ashaway, daughter Of
 the late John Jacob and Mary Duval
 Babcock, is going to France as 6 '.
 M. c. A. canteen worker Represent
 ing the federal government, Miss Bab-
 cock served as an investigator of the living and social conditions of women
 intuition workers and visited all cities
 where munition plants employ wo-
 men. She is student, musician
 and an actress.
 She received her bachelors and
 masters degree at the Teachers col
 leGe, Columbia university, and had . almost finished her course for a Ph. , D., when war work called her. She tablished the Women's Clubs of Teachers college, of which she was elected executive secretary, organized the Teachers Club of the State of IT, linois. and was it's first president.
 Her executive offices in various
 clubs at Columbia college have been
 numerous. She is also a member of
 the National Council of Primery Edu-
 cation, of the National Educational
 Association, and was representative of
 the graduate women of Columbia uni
 versity on the Hill committee of the
 great student campaign planned by
 John R. Mott
 Miss Babcock's school days were
 her athletic days. She was captain : of the basketball and hockey teams and leader of the Glee club of the Rhode Island Normal school At one time she held the tennis champion ship at the Moses Brown school. She
 is a graduate supervisor of music oi . the New England Conservatory of
 Music, Boston, Mass.
 : At the forty ninth annual concIave : of Narraga nsett Commandery, No. 2 o Knights Templar, officers were elect ! ed as follows: George H. Harper, eni k nent commander; Carl F. Burdick u generalissimo; Fred N. Robinson, cap
 tain general; John Smith, senior war
 den; George O. Murphey, junior war
 den: Thomas Mckenzie, prelate: liar
 " l.. Bowles, treasurer; Archie C Y Thompson, recorder; Thomas McKen- } zie, trustee of permanent fund fol
 three years.
 h The eminent commander made these : appointments: Walter H. Davis, stand s ard bearer: Otis L. Burdick, sworC $ bearer; John A. Pawson, warder: Wm o H. Chapman, captain of the guard
 Clarence E. Roche. third guard Pau q Jennings, second guard; Robert Haz A- ard. first guard William Mitchell. ad Il jutant; William H. Goodgeon, organ
 ist; Robert J. H. Bethel. assistant or : ganist: Harry l.. Bowles, master O l, ceremonies; Eugene B. Pendleton h sentinel.
 The escort to serve during the i "a If was appointed as follows: Willia N II
 Goodgeon, William C. Smith, T g 1T
 F. L. Barr. Andrew Fisher, J. Hc or iSegar, Alexander Ferguson, Alexs kde
 Thompson, James H. Blackler Will n liam Davidson and Frank L. Furness
 In behalf of the commandery Pas $ Eminent Sir Archie C. Thompson pre-
 sented past commanders jewel t, n the retiring eminent commander, Will c, ham St Onge. The officers were in r. stalled by Past Eminent Sir Harry
 Bowles. with Charles F. Berry grant = marshal. Archie C. Thompson, gran,
 recorder. George O. Murphy gran, q warder and Eugene B. ,Pendleton a S, grand sentinel
 The total subscriptions of Rhod 's Island to the fourth Liberty loan u e to Thursday morning amounted t Il S4712350, or a daily average of $500,
 000 The first town in the state to g :,
 n h | Even bread and