Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-24
WESTERLY

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 The hand engine City of Lowell, re- gently purchased by the Westerly Vet-l eral Firemen's association is the largest end-Stroke machine ever built, and has been~a participant in more than 1O0 musters. Its list of streams with mark of. POO feet or n1orei is one of the long est of any hand engine in existence its best play being 1SS feet 1-2 inches, | made September S, 1906, at Nashua N. H. The machine stands fifth in the list Of muster machines, with best plays ever rnade..s
 The tub is 1-2 inch, Hunneman, | and. was originally the, Fountain. No. ,. of Lynn, and always bore the name of Fountain until purchased by the Butler | Veteran Firemen'a association of LOW l eT,, in 1898. It was received by the city of Lynn from it's builders, October 15, 1859, and cost $2200, which at that time
 was an exceptionally large amount to 1 pay for a fire engine. It is the largest l and one of the most powerful hand en- zines ever built, made so for line, and
 tub and tub playing. It had smaller | set of cylinders for horizontal playing
 and duty.
 The machine was retired from service
 at Lynn in 1863 and sold to Brattle-
 boro in 1885 for SS60, which sold it to
 an independent muster organization in
 Milford, N H., April 25 1896. for $500. l It was purchased by the General Butler association of Lowell in March; 1898,
 and has been used as muster partici-
 pant by that association until it came in l to the possession of the Westerly Vet
 eran Firemen's association. which also owns the side stroke tub, Star.
 The City of Lowefi has long string
 of winnings that aggregate upwards of l $15o0. While at Brattleboro it won sev- ri Af at Uofn n,o prize of $50; at Milford. two prizes of $35o;. and the rest of the prize money
 has been won since becoming the prop
 erty of the General Butler veterans. In
 the hand of the Westerly Vets. the City
 of Lowell will be the only Hunneman
 tub in the regular musters.
 The Ocean No. ', at Valley Falls. for.
 merly in active service in Providence
 during the days of the volunteer depart.
 ment is also a Hunneman, but it is the
 property of the Lonsdale company, anc
 is a muster contestant only occasionally
 when the Valley Falls association take: an active part in state muster.
 Basil Bores Wood. librarian of tn.
 Westerly Public Library, is not onl.
 gradually improving the system and gen
 eral use of that excellent institution, bu
 is engaged in spreading the benefits O the library to all sections of the bit town. He has established a branch il
 the village of Bradford, six miles iron :. Westerly and placed 1t in charge of
 committee in no way connected with tn
 village factions, and, barring the pos , office, the branch library is the onl. 3 place that is patronized by practicall 1 all the people. The library is located ii the store, or basement of the Baptis parsonage. is open four evenings a wee l and in each of these evenings the read ing room is filled. indicating that the ef fort to furnish the villagers with goo F reading is appreciated.
 This store was not in the best of con
 dition when it was given over for Ii
 brary purposes. but was painted and pu 2 in first-class' shape by MT. Wood an some volunteer assistants, Mir. Woo 5 leading in the actual painting and cal penter work Mr Wood is putting > considerable overtime at the branch l . brary making it attractive and interest :: ins7fo the people of Bradford. He Is i | worker from Workville, and only a fe' ,, days ago, with bag on his back COT Il taining carpenter tools, and carrying '- large number of books. strapped toeetf er9 in each hand. he trudged to the raj e way station and went by train to BraC = ford and busied himself until late { 0 night in improving conditions at tf
 ] l,-l been marked improvements in the Yves q erly library service he became libraria
 and the general usefulness of the inst # tuition has increased materially.
 Locally, there are not a sufficient nun U Der of active Civil war veterans to carr e on the customary arrangements for NJ -s norial Day. In consequence this woI IT has devolved upon the veterans of lat IS wars, with George Leonard in charg IS The grave of every soldier and sail > who served in the Civil and Spani. ,e wars will be marked with a flag of u n United States and on Memorial D;
 flowers will be placed on the graves E The World war men will this year D; q like tribute to their comrades who ha, r. responded to the final roll call. Merr lr Post, American Legion, will have tn g neE feature of Memorial Day in chare at Special Agent Thomas J. CaIlaxha T. of the bureau of investigation of the d e. partment of justice in compliance wi or instructions, made an investigation in d. the amount of sugar held in Rhode I, ty and by. candy manufacturers. bottles 1t soft drinks and others using sugar f