Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-08
WESTERLY

owner of the ear is president of the Westing ghouse company and was re-
 turning to New York from Watch | Hill. as
 | Dr. John Cham pin,s as chairman of the board of trade committee on man ufaetures, at the meeting of the . 1 Westerly town council. Monday, sta ted T that he appeared in the interest of I Frederick Woods. who esta ablished the l Westerly Brass company here a new industry, and asked for the usual re- i lief from taxation for period of ten ' years which is allowed: to new indus tries. This concern is a copart1ler- I ship and the business is located in
 what was known as the Granite store
 building of the New England Grartte 1 company. Mr. Woods tol1 the cour.- 1 cil that he had purchased the prop 1 erty, completely remodeled the intnr- 1 for of the building. and was enga ged l in the manufacturing business. He l asked for the customary tax exemp- ! ton. He had no formal application ready and the matter was continued
 to the next meeting of the council. l A batch of bills in regard to the 1 soldiers and sailors welcome home for
 which the town appropriated $2,oa0 were presented by James M- Pendie- ] ton, chairman of the committee. They were approved and ordered paid Tht
 expenses will be kept within the ap-
 prcriation, in the opinion of Mir Pen dleton.
 I A bill amounting to s66 so in favor 1 of Nathan Saunders for dama ge done l by dogs to turkeys and one of S6.Go for Margaret Lien for. damage done to l Councilman Robinson said: '.Poer ] dogs are blamed for doings they do not do, while the guilty foxes are never mentioned in damage cases. 1 thorized to borrow on notes q tota. ] sum of s1o5,ooe on short time. pend l ing the collection of taxes:
 vitualing- licenses were granted toI Charles H. Cowan. aJr., and Caroline Calto Seven milk license applica- l tions were granted.
 1 pr. Samuel C. Webster reported five cases of whooping cough and one of membranous croup during June. The letter from Admiral Herbert O. Dunn expressing thanks for the low ing cup presented him during Old The report of Chief of Police Brown showed nine arrests during the month. three each for assault and peddling without license, and one each for fugitive from justice and in toxica ton. There was one liquor search and seizure.
 The initial move was taken towards acquiring strip of land owned by Judge John w. Sweeney, near Margin street, for use in connection with the construction of the sewerage system.
 While sII was serene in Westerly | Sunday there was combined rain. |
  ual severity in East Greenwich. There ! was not a drop of rain in Westerly l until late in the evening and then just 1 enough to lay the du5t. Just before | noon lightning struck the tower of the | Kent county courthouse in East | Greenwich and set fire to the building but without damage of consequence The lightning struck the northwest 1 corner of the tower. going down sev- eral feet and caused blaze in the in terior of the building. The railing which surrounds the tower was knocked out of position on the north side. The storm came suddenly and passed off quickly. Soon thereafter all was sunshine. ;.
 The Volunteer Fire company was summoned to the court house and hand fire extinguishers were used ef- fectively before the = e had gained ! much headway. Clerk William M Murray were in the building when the lightning came. Neither man was injured but they were not slow to ap- preciate that something out of the or dinary had happened.
 Frank G. Ahern, who reported the theft of his Henry from his garage at Pleasant View late Saturday night. has recovered the car. and as good as when taken save punctured tire and depletion of gasolene supply. MT. Ahern was bewailing his loss to a group of friends Monday at the beach, describing the car in detail, when one of the group declared there was just such a car farther down the beach and had been there since Sunday morning. MT. Ahern did not believe it could be his car, but he changed his mind when he investigated. One of the tires was flat and there was no gaso- lene in the tank. After a supply of fuel MT. Ahern drove the car to his cottage, got out and got under and the car was ready for use. It is be- lieved some friends took the car for a joy ride and instead of returning to the garage left it the beach. just to have a little fun with Mir. Ahern. But the latter cannot see anything funny line on the chaps who drove away with the car without the owners permis sion.
 Mrs. Jessie Maxwell GourIay, the widow of James Gourlay, died Mon day morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs Grace -Gourlay Nye. in Narra agansett avenue. after a brief ill ness. With her husband she came from Dalbeattie, Scotland. to Wester ly fifty years ago. She is survived by two sons. Thomas and John Gourlay, and five daughters Mrs. David Me I.aren, Mrs. F'reemont Nye, Mrs. Linus E. Peck, Mrs. Ed J. Burdick and Mrs. l Jean BrySon.
 Grover Cleveland Spencer, ss. sec ven and Hartford railroad, was struck when near the Shannock station. on Monday morning. by the Colonial ex- press train and instantly killed. The body was terribly mutilated He was born in Canonchet and has resided in widow and four young children.
 Local Laeonies.
 A new town ordinance prohibits "a nf l