Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-07
WESTERLY

Narragansett Lodge of Odd Fellows,
at the annual meeting Saturday elect
cd these officers and they were duly
installed William Hair, noble grand
w. Sinclair Barker, vice grand; Ar
chic c. Thompson, recording secre-
tary; Lafayette J.. Foster, treasurer;
s. Frank Greenman, financial secre-
tary; Charles W, Austin, R. S. \. G.:
Frederick Culley, l.. S. Y. G.; William
J. Black. right scene supporter;
Charles +. Chappel, Jr., left scene
supporter; Herbert II. Steadman, in
side guardian, F. Earl James; outside
guardian; Arthur Z. Thompson, war
den; Wilfred Blackburn, conductor;
Henry D. Smith, sitting past grand:
Frederick Boulter, chaplain; Samuel
Eailey, Frederick w. Luecke, 3. Frank
Greenman hall committee; Frederick
Boulter, William b. Austin, Lewis A.
Joslin, trustees.
At the annual meeting Of the West
erly band, William A. Burk was re-
elected treasurer for the thirty sixth
consecutive year. The other officers
elected are: Harry Geary, president;
John McCaffrey, vice president:
Charles 0. Gavitt, musical director;
Charles A. Latham, assistant: Edward
T, Card. secretary: Charles \. La
than, librarian; Harry Geary, Hobart
Livingstone, and Charles \. Latham,
trustees; Charles o. Gavitt Charles
A. Latham, William Burk executive
committee; Edward Card, Harry
Geary, auditing committee. At the
close of the meeting there was an oys-
s;er and turkey supper, with speeches,
instrumental music and songs,
Alert Hook and Ladder company in
annual session elected officers as fol-
lows: George B. Capron, foreman
Edward S. Wilcox. first assistant: Gle
ment Sharon, second assistant: J.
Henry Potter, secretary; Herbert
Hoadley, treasurer; Edward Farrell,
steward: Albert T. Kenneth, delegate,
and George w. Burdick alternate, to
the State Firemen's convention: J.
Henry Potter John Healey, Harry Nc
Carroll, auditing committee: William
Wilcox, Arthur Saunders financial
committee; Guy Page flag bearer AL
bert 7. Kenneth, George Clark Will
liam Hill, social committee. There
was an elaborate banquet at the close
OF the business session
Maurice Walter Flynn, Jr.. son Of
the president of the Westerly Town
admitted to the Rhode Island bar or
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of the board of bar examiners, in the
superior court at Providence, Friday
After having been graduated from \
law school, Mr.. Flynn resumed his
| studies with Town Solicitor Harry B
| Agard, and then with a prominent
Providence law firm. lie took his ex-
animation for admission TO the bar
| several months ago, and then went
| Tito an officers training camp for Z
commission in the army. While there
| he received notice that he had passed
the examination for admission to the
J bar. He was recently honorably dis
charged from the military service
Local Laconics.
The supreme court of Rhode Isian(
has decided that Thomas ]. King
| democrat, elected to the Providence
| council. was not legally elected. there
fore not entitled to his seat, because
he failed to pay his personal tax with
| in the period required by law.
| Services were omitted Saturday anC
Sunday in Westerly because Of tn,
! influenza.
Among the American soldiers. re-
! leased from German prisons and whit
| have arrived in France, is c. E. Cor
Eell, of Shamrock, r. T.
Theodore Francis Greeie. war saw,
ings director for Rhode Island, de
clares that stores who cash war say
ings stamps for their customers, o.
that accept them in payment for goods
are doing so illegally. and at the sam,
time are guilty of misdirected patriot
| ism. He says that war savings stamps
are not legally transferable.
There were 231 deaths in Westerl,
in 1918. more than in any one yea,
since 1910. the average for ten year
being 1870.