Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-05
WESTERLY

The summer residents Of Wdtch | Hill Pleasant View and Weeka paug are gradually returning home and in Ia few weeks these places will prac- tically close for the season. Due to ! the trolley strike. most of these peo- pie were seriously inconvenienced. d. cars were not in operation. and in addition there were comparatively ! few day visitors and the shops at the l shores in several instances were kept | open at a loss and none did a real l profita bIe business, in comparison with former seasons. When the troll | ley cars resumed running it was too | late to retrieve the ordinary summer 1 business. The trolley strike is re- | sponsible for the condition, and with | the resultant loss to the company | there is doubt whether there will be any winter service on the Watch Hill line.
 i The only beneficiaries of the strike are the owners of motor buses. all 1 though the service rendered was un- satisfactory. These buses were not | operated on schedule time. in many 1 instances they would not start from either end of the line without a full complement of passengers. Still there were some people who persisted in paying a higher fare on the buses than prevailed on the trolley cars. and ! have by this action lessened the chances of trolley service during the winter months.
 Mrs. Martha Moore Avery, presi- dent of the Catholic Truth Guild of Boston, and David Goldstein, secretary of the guild. will deliver addresses throughout Rhode Island, beginning Thursday and ending next Thursday. MT. Goldstein will deliver a general
 message. and Mrs. Avery will speak
 on The Origin of Democracy. The meetings will be held as follows Thursday, Sept. 4. at Valley Falls; today (F'riday). Arctic; Saturday. 1 Randall square, Providence; Sunday, Westerly: Monday. St. Mary's parish. Providence; Tuesday. Woonsocket; Wednesday, Pawtucket; Thursday, Central Falls.
 The largest insurance payment on the life Of a Rhode Islander in the past year was in the case of Row land Gibson Hazard of Peace Dale. The amount was s494400. the second largest in the United States. The largest payment. $57500 was on the death of Robert A Rowen. of Los Angeles. Distributions in Rhode Isl- and were as follows;
 Providence, S1,645.000: Peace Dale, $502. 900: Pawtucket. $292, ,000; Woon- socket. $130.00O: Newport, s145.15O; East Providence. $115.50o Westerly, Falls. $4s.O0O: Saylesvine s32.75D; Narragansett Pier $30. .750; Bristol, $2S.750 Edgewood Phenix. Riverside and Warwick, each $19.2J0; Arctic, Ashaway, Harrington. BridgetOn. East Greenwich MarvilIe and Riverpoint each S14 800.
 Edward A. Thompson, 7s, a resident of East Greenwich, who died W ednes-
 day in the Rhode Island hospital en- listed June , 1861. in Company H
 Second regiment. Rhode Island EoIun-
 teers. and was discharged June r,
 1881 Tn March of the same year he
 reenlisted in the Hancock corps, in CO.
 B. Second regiment, United States
 Volunteers and took part in all bat
 ties in which these organiza tions par
 ticipated His most prized possession
 was the blouse he wore in the first
 Battle of Bull Run. A bullet cut a
 hole through the side of the blouse. A
 second bullet cut the edge of his car
 fridge box strap and, defecting. tore
 through the folds of the blouse with
 out wounding MT Thompson.
 Governor Beeckman and Harry P.
 Cross represented Rhode Island the
 meeting in Boston Thursday 10 plan
 for a national monument to Theodore
 Roosevelt at Washington and q park al Oyster Bay.
 The death of Edward S. Hoyt, caused by electrocution while at
 work as lineman last May. has result ed in a lawsuit, brought by Catherine and Edward z. Hoyt. ST. against the
 Westerly Automatic Telephone com pany. through Attorney John J. Dunn. The action is to recover under the WOrkmeG'S compensation act for loss of service of their son. The petition CTS claim they are entitled to three hundred weeks benefit d the rate of SIC a week, as dependents of their son.
 Young Hoyt was electrocuted while at work on a wire near Red Brook. Watch Hin road. and that he in no wise contributed to the alleged negli- gence that resulted in his death.
 The Italians of Westerly will be permitted to parade Sunday. Oct. F, in celebration of Columbus Day. The for a dance in the open. far removed from the business centre, and to sell ice cream, candy, fruit and soft drinks. This led one of the petitioners to ask the council the unanswered question: Whats the difference. from a legal standpoint, of selling soda water. ice cream and fruit in Riverside park and in selling the same articles in stores on the business streets of the town on Sundays?"
 Miss Elizabeth Lyon champIin, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Cham plin, and Francis Cunning Lathrop of Wayne, Pa. were married Thursday evening at o'clock in Christ Episco Hams, rector of the parish. The maid of honor was Miss Frances C1app and the bridesmaids were Miss Minnie Depew, Miss Eliza beth Stewart and Miss Katherine Brown, with Mrs. Rob ert Edmond, all classmates of the bride when she attended Miss Porter's school in Pennington, Conn. The best man was William Lathrop. brother of the groom.
 One thousand invitations were sent out for the church ceremony and 400 for the reception at the home of the brides parents in Granite street.
 The bride has been active in Red Cross work, was a- member of the mo- 1 tor corps. organizer of the Westerly ] Girl Scouts. She took an active part in all charitable and patriotic move ments during the war.
 MT. Lathrop is in the general con tracting business with his father in Wayne and during the war served as