Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-30
WESTERLY

Firemen's association, Wakefield, with Aberdeen The tournament committee of the Rhode Island State Firemen's league has announced the appointment of the following board of judges for the muster: Chief William Maxwell of Warren, Levi s. Winchester of Riverside, ex-Fire Com missioner George Hunt of Providence, Thomas H. Rhodes of Pawtuxet, Capt. John J. Muller of East Providence, Will liam G. Snyder of Westerly, Peter s. Byrnes of Wickford and Daniel Mathew son of East Greenwich.
 At the annual meeting of the Provi- dence College corporation Monday night Rt. Rev. William A. Hickey, coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Providence, was elected president; Rev. Albert Casey, o. P. treasurer, and Frank P. Curran, sec retary. A vote of thanks was given all who made the recent drive for the college a success and were instrumental in ob- taining a noversubscription of $S0,000 on the S250, 900 quota.
 The funds remaining, following the re- cent payment of the debt on the college will be used to equip the laboratories of the science department and to make the college among the leaders in the United States.
 John F. Murphy, a native of Westerly, is secretary treasurer of Typographical union No. B of Providence secretary | treasurer of the New England Typograph- | ical union, also president of the Central l Labor union of Providence. MT Murphy {, with Delegates James V. McCann, Mi chael J. Rafferty: Michael Graney and l Harry Norfolk, representing the New l England Allier Printing Trades council, are attending the convention of the New l England Typographical union in Burling- | irtp in the office of the Westerly Sun. l Five local automobile owners have se- l lected the section in front of the post office as regular parking place for their machines. These automobiles are left
 there while the owners attend to business from about in the morning until noon
 and from 1 to in the afternoon. This l they can do without violation of the traf- 1 fc ordinance, therefore the owners exer- else their full privileges in that respect 1 Other machines are parked for almost as | long time in the vicinity, that is, along
 that side of High street. On the opposite side of High street and in adjacent streets
 the 30 minutes parking regulation pre- vails.
 In consequence, there is always conges
 tion in front of the postoffice and a
 times automobiles are there thHee side b7
 side, the second and third rows bein,
 there for short periods, while tue occu
 pants are doing business in the postoffice
 Already there is talk of revision of tn,
 ordinances concerning the parking of au
 tomobiles, which has been in force only 1 month.
 , The striking electric workers have bee]
 granted conference with their employ
 CTS. It is said there is no serious objec
 ton to the wage scale of ST 1-2 cents al hour, provided the employees would or
 ganize their own local and not hold mem
 bership in the Norwich local or any othe outside of Westerly. The electrical work
 CTS contend that there are not stuff
 cient number in Westerly to secure a un ion charter and tha tat times, when sev , eral are working on out of town con tracts, there would not be enough left t
 hold regular meetings of the local; tha interest in local of Westerly men onl would be liable to wane, and they woul , be without organization and union pro lection.
 f Local Laconics. Registry voters who do not register be . fore today Wednesday, ends cannot vot in the presidential election in Westerl. I or any other place in Rhode Island. l In bygone days local democrat sougt