Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-09
WESTERLY

Thomas Hope, agent of the Pawca- tuck Woolen mill and a member of the Westerly school board while op erating his automobile on the Watch Hill road. Sunday evening, in pass 1 ing an automobile just ahead crashed | into the public service car of Hugh c. PendletOn, who was driving in the opposite direction The Pendleton car was wrecked and MT. Pendleton re- ceived internal injuries, and these four passengers were injured John Web i Der of. Providence, a cut back of the right ear. hand Wrenched and inter ! nally injured; George Delcourt. 106 MacDougal street, New York. cuts and bruises in head and body. Albert Young, 924 Prospect avenue. New York, left knee sDrained: and Charles Lewis, HAS Hancock street Brooklyn, bruises and cuts in left, knee. The last three. named planned to attend the Kingston fair the present week, interest of New York firms. The i'm pact was so forcible that MT. Delcourt went through the windshield into the Hope car. The injured strangers were l taken to the Martin house. MT Pen dleton was conveyed to his home on John street.
 Mrs. Hope was in the car with her husband and neither was injured.
 The but slightly damaged.
 Another automobile mishap, of
 like nature occurred earlier on the Watch Hill road at the top of the hill
 near the residence of Tristan D. Bab-
 cock Harry W. Lester. Of Pawca-
 tuck with his mother and another
 lady were riding towards Watch Hill,
 and to the extreme right of the cen
 tre of the highway. At this point
 Pennsylvania Gar from Watch Hill in
 attempting to pass car going in the
 same direction, struck the left for
 ward wheel of the Lester car. disabled
 a
 to crash into stone wall. The Les
 ter car was wrecked and Mrs. Lester
 severely and perhaps seriously m
 iured The other occupants escaped with minor injuries.
 Frank w. Holmes, 66. died Sunday afternoon at his home in Wood street Providence. For the past thirty nine years he has been cashier of the Wey- hosset mills. Mir. Holmes was born Tn
 Stonington, son of the late Hazard and Sally Reynolds Holmes when quite young he came to Westerly with his parents and resided here until 1880 and then went to Providence. In 1882 he married Miss Emma A Taft who with a daughter, Mrs. Myron A COOK, survive him. He also leaves three slS- ters Mrs Edward Doty of Ston1ng- ton. and Mrs. Frank W. Coy and Miss
 Fannie D. Holmes of V esterly.
 MT. Holmes was intensely interested in Masonry He was member Of
 Fra nklin Lodge. F. & A. NJ. West
 erIy; Providence Royal Arch Chap
 ter; Providence Council, Royal and
 Select Masters; standard bearer of
 Calvary Commandery, Knights Tenn
 plar: Palestine Temple. Mobiles of the
 Mystic Shrine: Rhode Island Consist
 orv Scottish Rite, and the Masonic
 Veterans association
 It was ten minutes before midnight,
 Saturday. when Deputy Sheriff Nit
 chen arrested Arthur Connell fnstruc-
 tor of motormen in the Shore Llne
 Electric Railway, in d civil acton
 brought by George Durfee through his attorney, Clarence F. Roche. This is
 an outcome of miXup that occurred shortly after Saturday noon hour Durfee claims he was assaulted by Conneu without ,provocation. Connell claims that when the car in Which he was riding reached the Pawcatuck
 river bridge and stopped to discharge
 passengers that Durfee, one Of the
 group of strikers on the bridge.
 marked in sarcasm: Lets get on ana
 take a ride with the scab! ConneIl
 asked: Do you mean me " and was told he was the individual addressed Then ConneH struck Durfee in the chin. There was no more fight. no
 more scab talk. at that time. Later in the afternoon Connell when off duty met Durfee in High street. and told him that if he wanted satisfaction he might be accommodated. There was no response.
 ConneIl was arrested in civil action when returning from the car barn af- ter the days work was done- lie eh ga ged Judge Herbert w. Rathbun as counsel. and the judge furnished bond of 5000 for the appearance oi Connell in the superior court | Kingston, Sept 27-
 The little town of Richmond in | Rhode Isfand has. according to Bos- mo paper decided to be Q ''copless | town The ever present danger that the local police force might unionize ] has seemingly decided the town ofh- cials to dispense with the entire pro tective force and take a chance with l the Bolshevists
 The ex-police force who, by the way was the smallest force in the New England states. not numeric. but physically ChTef Charles A Fuller height and weighing but 115 pounds, states that the real motive for the de- was not becaus Of pro hibition fear of uniOniZation or any thing of the nature but because a set of wagon tires in the town of Rich mond were too narrow.
 Receiving compIai ints that the dirt roads of Richmond were being un- necessarily cut up by vehicles. the wheels of which carried too narrow tires. Chief Fuller was officially no tified to measure all the wagon tires in the town, and surrounding villages.
 Procuring an automobile, the chief went to every part of the town and immediate villages and measured the width of every wagon tire, skipping none
 Chief Fuller then made report to the effect that there were no tires be- ing used in the town that were not up to legal requirements. and that these particular tires had been within the law His assertion to the wa eon tires was not accepted. He of fered to prove that he was right. and asked that a man be sent to verify his fnding-which was done.
 Then came the smash-when the town officers with the exception of the chief of police. But Chief Fuller, re- no notice to the effect that he had been eliminated, continued on the iob At the meeting of the town coun- ell he rendered his monthly bill-$10, but not only was the bill thrown out,