Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-04

the treasurer and corresponding sec retary were received, approved and ordered recorded. Letters and ques tionnaires were sent to sixty-seven churches with a view to increasing interest in evangelistic work.
 It was announced that Rev. T. J. Van Horn proposed to engage in pas toral work after May l next, and re- tire for the work of missionary evan gelst in the Southwestern field. The appropriation at present rate to the Gentry (Arkansas) field was extended to May 1, 1919.
 Appropriations were made as fol- lows. Boulder (Colorado) church, $45O; F'oulke (Arkansas) church, $500: West Edmonston (N T.) church, $100. An appropriation was also made to cover the expense for December of Rev James H. Hurley who is now in the Michigan field.
 Captain William Dodge known as ''Tal," the Block Island pilot, has been relieved of the command Of the steam CT Jnliette. Government inspectors visited the steamer Saturday and
 found Capta,n Dodge unfit, in their 1 opinion, to make the trip, and his H-
 cense was suspended for a period Of | six months. He has been succeeded by Captain George F. Ollweller. 1 pr. Edwin R. Lewis Of Westerly, 1 was elected a vice president. and WI | liam R. Cha oman, also of Westerly,
 a member of the executive committee, | at the annual meeting of the Rhode 1 Island Fish and Game Protective As | soc ation More than six hundred i members were present at the meeting which was held in Providence 1 IL was voted to ask the leeisla lure 1 for closed season on partridge dur 1 ing 1919 and to limit the season on Woodcocll, quail partridge and pheas ant to an open season frOrG Novemhar l l to November 30 the following years | For the proDogat:on Of game fl -b i another bill to ha sl;ba7ittel b the Iag- 1 isiat'1re was approved which provide, 1 for thn iionns no e anglers for r9r7-e i fish. Under the bill there is q liceree 1 fee of fit cents obtainah1e Of city
 or towd clork. Women and boys are l exempt, and can fish without license The Westerly Catholic club, at the l annual meeting elected officers as fol- lows; Joseph T.. Lonihan. president: 1 Richard I. Butler IT.. first vice presf- 1 dent; Fd~-7rd J. Fenelon Jr.. secor ' 1 vice president: Rev. Father Sullivan. 1 treasurer: JawN5 Mccormick, record ng sec~etarv. The board of managers
 was reelected
 MT. and Mrs. Jesse Pickering will l leave Westerly today (Tuesday) for l Wichita, Kansas where they will vi~'t
 at the home of MT. Pickering's par
 erts, before proceeding to California. | MT. Pickering finished eight years service in the navy. as water tender, Jan. 13. He re-enl;sted and was or
 dered to Mare Island Navy Yard. 1 Corporal Frank J. Foley, of West erly, who was wounded and gassed
 in action, in Argonne forest. Sept 26. l has arrived in New York on the trans port Magnolia. With other soldiers he will pass through Westerly this
 morning en route to El1np Devens
 where he will be discharged. He went into the army under the seIective
 service law May %. was assigned to
 Company D, 314th regiment of infan- try, 18th q vision, and within a month
 was in France. Soon thereafter he went into active service. Two of his
 comrades are dead, Harley P Chase, killed in action and Mario Cali. dy- ing from pneumonia. Corporal Foley
 is a well known baseball player. as
 catcher of the champion Westerly
 High school team and with clubs of
 the Eastern league. and his college club.
 Masons and military men were
 among the many fir ends who attended
 the memorial service in the First Bap-
 tist church, to Lieutenant Harold Mer-