Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-17
WESTERLY

| speaker for the Board of Iraue Dan quet to be held next. Monday evening at Watch Hill. Re making America in France" will probably be his topic. Chaplain Hoagland spent seven months in France and had number | of interesting experiences in the war zone. Ira B. Crandall. president of the Board of Trade, will act as toast master at the banquet and special car is to be run to accommodate the many guests. At the commencement exercises held at Wheeler school North Stonington Monday, it was announced that Roy al A. Moore, present principal. is soon to leave North Stonington for St. Uaul, Minn., where he is to be business manager and associate prin- cipal of the Backu school, private school for girls. He will be succeed l ed by William B. Appleton, graduate of Harvard. Mr. Appleton has had five years experience in teaching.
 Before he became principal of the Wheeler school MT. Moore was mas ! ter in the Adams Academy. of Gilman Country School, in Baltimre, Md and | was later principal of Bacon Acade- my in Colchester. Conn.
 The commencement programme was l as follows:
 Music. MT. Helmold and Miss Swain; | \ sic, Prayer, Beethoven, school chorus; 1 Salutatory, Sonia Poliack: music, 1 Rainbows, Fenton. school orchestra; remarks, members of the board of di- rectors of the Wheeler School and Li- brary: award of prizes; music. O Columbia, We Hail Thee. Donizetti, school chorus; presentation of diplo- mas; music, Love and Roses Weidt; To Wild Rose. Mcdowell, school orchestra; Valedictory, Evelyn Isabel Main; music, The Frost King, Ken meth, school orchestra; benediction,
 Rev. Oren D. Fisher.
 Summer residents are beginning to
 arrive at Watch Hill and a number of
 the cottages have been opened for the
 season. The hotels are preparinf for a
 big influx from the nearby cities and
 towns. Only hourly trolley service Is
 being provided from Westerly to the
 Hill now, but half hourly service will
 be run after the first of the coming
 month. A heavy fog enveloped the
 beach Monday. There was a fair sig
 ed crowd in the water Sunday.
 In his inspection of the backyard
 gardens on the West Side several
 days ago the authorized inspector
 found that one of the best looking
 patches of potatoes was that owned
 by Merton Chapman.
 Fifteen events, divided into two
 classes, for boys and girls under six
 teen years and four contestants over
 Is years of age, are slated for the
 athletic programme at Wilcox park on
 Friday morning, June 27, in connection
 with the Old Home Anniversary Week.
 The events for the boys and girls will
 be held first and will be immediately
 followed by the other events. A tug
 of war and relay race are includ-
 ed in the programme.
 Christ church welcomed heme the
 service men when a reception in their
 honor was held Friday evening in the
 Sunday School room
 = The Welcome Home committee and
 the committee arranging for Soldiers
 and Sailors day during Old Home es Week have announced that all West ne erly soldiers and sailors who regis or ter will be presented a handsome re preciation of their services during the
 world war. Rear Admiral Dunn is to IL make the presentation.
 Id Monday evening Palmer chapter, No. ca tl 2S, R.. A. M. was visited by R. E.. ee EHenry R. Tisdale. deputy grand priest, & of New London, Conn. The purpose n r1 of the visit was the installation of N Arthur c. Nash in the grand chapter, 1s Royal Arch Masons of Connecticut le Mir, Nash was on May 13 elected grand I scribe at the annual convocation in IS Hartford but had not been installed aatt because of illness.
 l. Local Laconics.
 MT. and Mrs. Paul P. Wilcox of Dur
 ham, Conn.,, are spending a few days no in Westerly.
 MT. and Mrs. Aubrey L. Maddock of
 Hartford, were week end visitors in - Westerly. Mir. Maddock is a we'll
 known newspaper man and during the
 war was actively engaged as publicity
 agent for the Connecticut State Coun-
 cil of Defense.
 The Kenyon cottage at Pleasant
 View is occupied this season by MT
 and Mrs. Herbert Miles,
 Seventh Day Baptists of this section attended sessions of the Eastern As
 sociation in Rockville, Saturday. The morning sermon at the Pawca- {. tuck Seventh Day Baptist church on I Sunday was preached by Rev. George l E. Shaw of New York
 II During the past month Clarence II Robinson has been inspecting light
 houses on the Alaskan coast according T to a letter received here by his parents 4 Capt. and Mrs. Frank Robinson ot n Westerly.
 n Lieut.. P. M Randall of Westerly i. Il on the way home from France Lieu.
 
 II the steamship Imperator.
 II Private Arthur O'Neil is at his hom, II here. having been discharged from tn, \ service. He served with the A. F.. r 4 The First battalion, F.. I. State guard II has been asked to act as escort for thu II soldiers and sailors who will take par | in the big parade Thursday. June 26 II The First battalion includes tn | Fourth company of Westerly, the Sec 1 ond company of Wakefield and tn II Eleventh company of East Greenwich II Cards have been sent. out announn"' H. the engagement of Florence Ar : | daughter of Mir. and Mrs. James 1 Ellis of this place. to George Arthu It Anderson of Norwich, Conn., II Thirty-siX patients were cared fo II during May, according to the monthl II report Of the Westerly District Nurse | association. Seventeen of these wer II new cases A summary of the repoI II follows: Cases discharged s, deaths l nursing visits 374. social visits 1 school visits 13, home visits fo II schools s. office calls 14S. men attende II ?, women 2S. children s. medical 2 II surgical II. il William F. Cushman. student g M Colby college, Waterville, Me, has ar III l rived home for the summer vacation. III Richard Holgate of the R. L pharma II cy visited relatives in Providence owe II Sunday.
 | Mrs. Mary Higgins of 14s We: | Broad street entertained about II l ouec+c Sunday in honor nf her sol