Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-20

Puritan Life Insurance company at | the annual meeting held "Wednesday 1 in Providence. MT. Perry has serv- 1 ed as a director since the ofganiza- l tion and for number of years as treas surer. The other officers are: Clinton c. White, treasurer and
 secretary; Henry $. Redstone, act uary: Edmund D. Cfesebro, medical l director; Robert P. Brown, Walter ] Calender, Edmund D. Chesebro, Dd- tee W. Flint Lyman B. Golf, Arthur l Hevinse Webster Knight, Henry F. Lippitt, Edgar J. Iownes, Stephen Q. Metcalf, Charles Perry, Aram J. 1 Pothier, Edward H.. Rathbun, Henry l D. Sharpe, Henry c. Thresher, Clin-
 ton c. White. directors.
 1 The report of the board of directors
 on the year ending Dec. 51, 1919, i showed that in all the fundamentals 1 Of the business the company had made marked improvement.
 Phebe Greene Ward chapter, D. A.. l R., of Westerly, will be represented at the annual state convention of
 Rhode Island Daughters of the Amer l ican Revolution, to be held Tuesday, i March 2. in the Central Baptist | church, Providence. Mrs. George l Thatcher Guernsey, president general l of the national organization, will be the honored guest of the day, and l reception will be rendered to her at
 the close of the aftefnocn session. Charles C. Craig, died suddenly of ! heart trouble Thursday afternoon at 1 his home in Chester avenue. He was | prominent in town affairs and was l a member of the Westerly town coun- I cil for several years. He had been | confined to his home for three days . I-.s I4s. IA 1 unexpected. Mir. Craig was an ex- | pert granite worker, a carver, scu1p II ter and statue cutter. He was born I in Westerly and is survived by Mrs. II Craig and a daughter, Evelyn also by | two brothers, James and William, and l sister, Mrs. Thomas Holden.
 l A son, Wallace G. Craig, entered H the navy in the earlier days of the 1 world war, and died of pneumonia in
 the first Westerly boy to die in the | service in that war.
 Governor Beeckman has asked the II justices of the supreme court Of Rhode Island for an opinion as to whether or not women, who. if reg istered, and qualified to vote for cleo tors of the president and vice presi-
 dent of the United States, are liable
 to an assessment for poll tax under
 the present state laws. He also asks
 opinion whether such women are la-
 ble for assessment for poll taxes an- \ nually thereafter.
 This action is taken to determine if
 the present law of the state is suffi-
 cient to cover the cases wh.ch arise
 with the advent of women voters If
 not, it is expected that laws will be enacted to cover the points in ques-
 tfon, at the present session of the
 general assembly. The many women
 who registered in Westerly will be
 interested in~the court opinion.
 James c. Walsh, of Newport, has
 been appointed deputy grand chan
 cellor of the grand domain of Rhode E Island Knights of Pythias, by James
 W. Clarkson, grand chancellor. MT.
 Walsh is a past chancellor of Red
 wood lodge, a member for eighteen
 years, and. member of the grand lodge.
 Grand Exalted Ruler Frank L. Rain
 of the Benevolent and Protective Or
 der of Tlks accompanied by his suite
 of grand lodge officers will visit
 Providence today (Friday). In the
 morning the official party will call upon the governor and the mayor. In
 the afternoon the grand exalted ruled will address the wives. sisters.
 mothers and daughters of Elks, at the
 Home club, under the auspices of ] the Emblem club
 In the evening. at six, at the Mar
 ragansett banquet will be rendered the visitors by the officers of Provi-
 dence lodge and the reception com
 mittee. The officers of Westerly, Pawtucket ,Woonsocket and Newport
 lodges will be present, and also in- vited guests from among the profni- npnt citizens of tho a ular lodge meeting will be held at 8 o'clock, when all the grand lodge of f1cers will address the members pres
 ent.
 With the money made available by the passage of an act in the general assembly, making an appropriation of S50,00O the state board of public
 roads has commenced the work of
 opening some of the ice bound Nigh
 ways which \have been closed for two weeks. Chief Engineer Irving ". Patterson of the state board says there is positively no method by which the roads can be properly cleared at the present time. He says the problem now is not snow remov- al but solid ice, and the main object is to assist nature as much as pos
 sible.
 Men with scrapers, pick axes. shoyels and other implements are at
 work at places where there are car
 lines making turnouts at certain in
 tervals. In this way MT. Patterson
 said, the vehicles can get through on the car tracks and still be able to
 turn out and not delay the trolley cars.
 On highways where there are nc
 tracks, but where a way has been worn down, similar turnouts are be-
 ing made to facilitate traffic. Fifty powerful motor trucks are being equipped as speedily as possible witt nose blows which will soon be put in
 to service. In places where there arc
 big snow drifts the roads will be
 shovelled out. MT. Patterson said the work will proceed as fast as the con ditions will permit.
 Mrs. Margaret Bedford, "A. widow of Joseph Bedford. died after a few
 hours ileness, Thursday afternoon
 presumably from heart trouble. Mrs Bedford was the daughter of the Iatt MT. and Mrs. Michael Kelly, of New 5 ondon, and Lspent her early life ir l that city She is survived by . daughter, Mrs. M Inez Harden, O 5 Nashua. N. H., and sister, Mrs De, 5 Iia- Lusk. and three nephews. Steph, 5 en, Edward and William McMullen all of New London.
 Local Laeonies.