Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-27

Lat the Ninigret mill. in Stillmanviile,
 Tuesday morning. being caught in the elevator He was employed as loom
 fSer and had left the room where he worked and gone into the entry where the elevator is located.
 He was presumably at the trap doors of the elevator holding on to 1.-the supports, when the doors opened tfto allow the elevator to proceed up- ward, and his head was caught be- tween the doors and the descending He was held bv the weights on the back of his head and the edge of the doors urtder the chin when his dead
 body was released.
 There were no witnesses of the fa- tality. The elevator was being oper- l.ated by John Conlson and was stopped
 almost instantly. A hurry call was sent for Dr. Michael H.. Scanlon but
 cal examiner Dr. Scanlon released the body, made investigat ton and gave a
 permit for the removal of the body to Itthe Murphy morgue where examina- lion was made. One ear was torn off, lsthe skull fractured and there were un-
 mistakahle evidence of strangulation.
 The elevator is not of modern type and is worked with nine weights. elevator is ascending these weights are descending, and the trap doors on
 each floor open and close automati- cally as the elevator platform passes through. The unfortunate young man was caught by this great weight be- fore the doors were fully opened. He is survived by his parents. two
 brothers. Thomas and George. the for mer having served in an engineer reg iment overseas. and four sisters, Rose,
 Mary, Agnes and Ellen. He was among the most popular young men of Westerly. a member of
 the old Fifth company. Coast Artillery corps, and after being mustered into the federal service was among the first in that command to volunteer to go to France for active service. With comrades of the Fifth company he was sent to Boxford and then to Camp Devens and assigned to Battery A. l03d Field Artillery. Twenty second. or Yankee Division. He was made sergeant and assigned to a machine gun company. participating in some was noted for his distinguished ser
 vice. With Sergeant McGowan all
 through his military career. were
 these Westerly boys:
 Sawyers, Michael Mccarthy. Albert Brown, Frederick Kennedy and John Crouch
 Easter Week, Friends of Irish Free
 dom, is the latest organization to be formed in Westerly and-starts with membership of 1S0, Organization was completed at a meeting held in the rooms of the Catholic club. by the election of these officers: John J.. Dunn. president; John H. Murphy, secretary: Rev. Walter J. Lyddy. as- sistant pastor of St. Michaels church. Pawcatuck, treasurer. It was voted to secure a speaker of national reputa tion to address an open meeting in the near future.
 Short speeches were made by Rev.
 Walter J. Lyddy. George R. Mckenna,
 John J. Dunn and James Collins.
 A substantial sum was contributed at the meeting in aid of the cause for
 which the Easter Week branch was formed. Solicitors were appointed for Westerly, Pawcatuck. Watch Hill, Pleasant View and Potter Hill. Louis Travanette, IA, son of MT and Mrs John. Travanette. was seriously injured Monday evening when in West Broad, near Moss street, being struck
 by an automobile operated by Ernest
 Dolbaum of Stonington. It was the custom for the boys and girls of the .vicinity to use the cement highway as ia sort of roller skating course coast ing down the incline. This sport be- scame so dangerous that it was pro- hibited by order of the selectmen. Of late this street has become a speedway for boy bicycle riders. and at times they attempt perilous stunts. that quite unnerve even the most careful operators of automobiles
 II is said that MT. Dolbaum was driving his automobile slowly up West Broad street. when the Travanette boy lcy while astride his bicycle. In attempt ing the feat a second the accident oc- cured. He appeared In front of the automobile so suddenly, that the auto mobile could not be stopped the course changed and the bicycle rider was struck and thrown to the road bed with much force.
 The boy was taken to his home in Moss street by MT. Dolbaum and $
 his condition was considered to be very serious, Drs Hillard. Payne and May were quickly summoned. Besides some minor cuts and bruises, the boy
 sustained severe fracture of the left thigh. extending. to the knee joint. The Daughters of Isabella, original ly organized in 1897 as an auxiliary to the Knights of Columbus. now a sep arate organization, will hold their fourth biennial session in Providence Sept. 6-10 The convention will open with high mass in the cathedral and there will be morning and afternoon sessions each day. Pleasure side
 trips are being arranged for the dele gates.
 Mrs Mary M Brown, born in West erlY in 1S4G wife of Warren Brown and daughter of the late Judge Bradford Bliven and Anna James Barber Bliven, died Saturday at her home, Heartside, Mansfield Mass. She spent the great CT part of her life in Providence. MT. Browns services for three years in the
 Army of the Potomac led Mrs. Brown into active work with the Womans Relief corps and other charitable or
 ganizati tions. She was sister of B. Frank
 She was a former president of the
 Womans Relief corps, department of
 Bliven and Cort B. Bliven of Westerly
 Rhode Island. and she also served as national aid and chaplain of that or gan.zation.
 Old time Westerly vamps remember the hand engine Gulf Stream, which was the pride of the Fall River veteran firemen years ago and a former prize
 winner at the annual musters. For a number of years the Gulf Stream and
 the Defiance another relic of the old fire fighting days. have been housed in a barn at the city farm The Gulf Stream has just been sold to the Vet eran Firemen,s association of Bath, Me.
 Local Uocanics.