Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-06

1 this year. will result in more extensive observance in the churches. The com- mercial life of the state will observe the holiday on Monday. the day fol- lowing, under the laws of the state The banks will close on Monday and 1t Is probable that business generally will be suspended
 The governor appeals for true Amer ican spirit and patriotism on the oc- casiOn of the observance in order that Bolshevism and anarchZ- may be up rooted and find abiding place in Rhode Island.
 The war savings stamps special campaign opens in Rhode Island with Westerly and the rest of the state will have special exercises. The pupils will initiate the week by having a thrift roll call. singing thrift songs and responding to the call, Thrift Stamp for Every School Child in Rhode Island. Governor Beeckman has made appeal urging the people of the state to invest to the limit of their resources in war savings stamps. He points out that. although the war is over, the government has many if nanciol obligations that must be met and also that these stamps should continue to be most atrac ctive in vestment.
 Memory Day is to be inaugurated by the Rhode Island Citizens Histori- cal society, with appropriate public exercises in Columbus Day, October 12, at the ancient Ailing cemetery in West Warwick. The filling cemetery is one of the oldest in the state. Sew eral distinguished revolutionary sol diers are buried there. The object of Memory Day and the attendant eSer- cises is to care for and decorate the graves in several burial places throughout the state.
 Mrs. Bertha H. Smith has taken an appeal from the action of the highway commission of Westerly in accepting the report of the committee appointSd to lay out and straighten and widen the Post road, and has filed her req sons for appeal in the superior court. Eitation was served on the members of the highway commission Saturday citing them to appear before the su- Terior court at South Kingstown on Nov. IT. 1919. to show cause why the appeal should not be sustained. Mrs. Smith claims that the highway com missioners have no power to take the land at her place and that the taking will work irreparable injury to her property John J. Dunn is attorney for Mrs. Smith.
 drive is on to collect Rhode ls- lands proportion of the 15,000,000 of the Harvard Endowment Fund. The state has been divided into nine dis tricts and "a little from everybody" is the slogan of the six hundred Rhode Islanders who have been connected
 
 been appointed committeeman for Westerly and vicinity.
 The representative of a housing cor poration is in Westerly and is arrang- ing for the purchase of big tract of land upon which it is proposed to erect a number of bungalows, and offer them for sale at a price fully $1,000 less than they could be built by local contractors. This is due to the sys- tenn of construction. It has been learn ed that there is need for more houses in Westerly and it is planned to sup ply this need The gentleman invest igating conditions in Westerly has caused to be built and has sold one hundred bungalows in Pawtuc1et.
 A lawsuit has resulted from the au- tomobile accident which occurred on the Watch Hill road about a month ago when the automobile owned and operated by Thomas Hope was in col lision with a public service automobile with four passengers, operated and