Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-24
WESTERLY

The Rhode Island senate has passed | an act which provides that $33,000 ! year will be appropriated to be paid to towns for the maintenance and repairs l of highways, within the towns, which | have been accepted by the state as part of it's highway system but not | l built. Westerly will be one of the towns | benefited. Under the terms of the act 1 which goes to the house for action, l each town will receive annually an 1 amount equivalent to s100 for each ] mile of such highway. but no town will ! receive more than $1.000 in one year.
 Soldiers who served in foreign wars, | as well as Civil war soldiers. who shall l be by reason of wounds, disease old l ! age or other infirmities, unable 70 earn l | their living and shall have no adequate |
 means of support will be admitted to i
 the Rhode Island Soldiers Home at | Bristol if an act presented in the | l house becomes law. At present only 1 veterans of the Civil war are admitted
 to the institution.
 An act passed in the Rhode Island
 general assembly appropriates $500 l for "the reducing of loss of life and property by teaching of fire prevention l in the public schools Already the
 Westerly Board of Trade expends one- i jniIu Ol ltlLI dlIOuul III ltdCHlllS III C 1 prevention.
 The board of public roads opened six i bids for the construction of 1.15 miles of road in the town of Narragansett,
 but the contract will not be closed un
 til Wednesday, it being a part of fed i eral aid work and the government
 must be informed as to date when con-
 tract will be awarded. The bidders
 and bids are: Hyland- -Jencks, New A., .N.l
 Mass, $23,902; John Bristow, Nara gansett Pier, $26,17O.SO: Charles s. Towle Wakefield, S25,6O2; Amod D. | Bridges Sons, Inc. Hazardville, s27,-
 522; Lane Construction Corporation
 AIeriden, $2S602.
 Oliver Perry Johnson, colored, of TuckerstoWD, Washington county con-
 ducted and won his own case in the Sixth district court. He is over sixty
 and was charged with non-support of
 wife and family, from whom he had lived apart for nine years. He cross examined witnesses with the skill of an experienced lawyer. His objection was sustained when Police Captain Mona han attempted to testify as to what Sheriff Wilcox of Kingston had told him about the conditions. He pro- duced two witnesses in his own behalf { and questioned them at length
 Johnson showed by witnesses that his wife had left him in South Kings ] town and said she did not want to see s him again. and was capable Of look ing after herself He also proved that he was not in good health. but had contributed in a small measure to his family in the past five months. Two daughters and a son testified for the i prosecution that the accused had con- \ trihuted little or nothing for the sup Y pf i hair n1Nthplr themselves E since the separation.
 4 petition has been circulated calling E for special meeting of the Westerly B Fire District Monday evening" March K 31, for the purpose of transacting such E business as may properly come before E the meetiug." Everett A. Kingsley E clerk of the fire district, ruled that the E petition must be more specific and the B purpose of the meeting stated in the petition. A substitute petition vii X probably ho circulated.
 E l. is hinted that the meeting was de E sired to cleet a chief engineer to fiji ' the vacancy caused by the death O. EI Samuel C. COttrell. ever since the an E nual meeting, and before, by reason O X i the sickness of MT Cottrell, First As P sistart Engineer Harry D. Coyle ha; \ been acting chief. MT. Coyle was can e ddate for chief at the annual meeting [ under the suDpOsitiOn that Chief Cot \ trcII was not candidate for reelection | An opposing candidate was George E E lIgger another member of the board 0 E engineers. Both of these men are as B pirants for regular election to be chic s of the fire department. The salary l s 5000 a year.
 H The Narraaansett Pier Railroad com | : pany has brought suit in the superiO zs court for Sl00,0C0 against the Rhod
 Island company, the writ bearing dat . of January 27, 1919, three days prior
 the date when the Rhode Island com
 l Dany went into the hands of tempor U a1.y receiver. The claim of the Narra he gansett Pier Railroad company is base CT upon alleged deterioration Of the proI ,s, erty of plaintiff while in possession { ce the Rhode Island company under ms lease for rent overdue and taxes ur of paid The lease was executed dune s 1911. went into effect June H. 191 9w covered a period of ninety-nine year ce and was signed by Rowland c. Haz he ard president of the Narragansett Pic Inc Railroad company, and by Charles by MeLen, president of the Rhode Islar
 a company.
 b It is alleged that the plaintiffs prol .o- erty suffered loss from deterioration n the roadbed to the extent of $30,00 1a in the rolling stock $24, Q00 and ,o7 bridges, sidings and stations 5000 Go making total of $64,OOO. Tax,
 amounting to $5352 assessed by Il mi town of South kingstown in 1918, ar n $75O in the district of Narraganse bo were unpaid, although bearing intere ,a+ of the rate of ten per cent. per annui w Locla Laconcs.
 all Lieutenant Charles A Farrell, med he cal corps, now in France, has been prt ted noted to be captain.
 ies made demand for a wage of $4 d. i'd UnsklIied labor in Westerly h; st. for eight hours, to be in effect April ly- This is no April Fool joke!
 on The Westerly members of the Sixt, re- sixth, Coast Artillery corps, are grat
 ually returning home from Camp Me -a- ritt. where the regiment is being q nd mobiized.
 Ice Governor Beeckman has accepted ; ion invitation to attend the concert al 1c- ball of the Fourth company, Rhode
 land State Guard, in the armory
 Westerly, on Easter Monday night.
 The highway commission will so' ,,, begin the expenditure of the $4,000 a fo propriation fer new and permane By sidewalks in Westerly. The first wal to will be laid in Grove avenue and Ora TVS ite streets. The town is authorized al expend $4,000 q year for new sid )p- walks.
 ted It now develops that the motor ho
 wagons are not adapted to standar to size tires. In consequence the vince ,d IsaTG to be cut down to standard \ a