Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-21
WESTERLY

Lua Kenyon, Marguerite Lenihan, Ca therine Dooly. Helen Hines, Marion Smith, Agnes Mckellar, Katherine Sauer. Alice Ledwidge.
 Chorus of Goblins-FranlS .Furissi, Walter Krebs, John Schilbille. Leo Grilis, Byron Daily, Louis Guiliano, Ferris Bookataub, Harry Knight, Donald Whit
 ford. Kenneth Whitfcrd, Jerry Dotolo, Stanton Saunders. Robert Sawyer, Joseph DeGauge. Fred Griffin, James Falcone, Julio Tuscano. Harold Ribner. Republican senators and representa- tives-eleet in caucus Monday afternoon at the state house, nominated presiding officers and clerks of their respective branches of the general assembly for the next two years. Their nomination is equivalent to election, which will take place Jan. 4, the day of inauguration. The caucus nominations returned all of the present officials unanimously, as fol lows: President of the senate, Arthur L. Smith of Harrington: reading clerk of the senate, James E. Dooley Of John ston; speaker of the house of Tepresen- tatives, William R. Fortin of i'awtuck-
 ct; reading clerk of tho house, Raymond G. Mowry of Providence recording clerk of the house, Charles H. Rowland Of Providence.
 l | George H. Webb, Rhode Island labor commissioner, building materials now cost on an average 112 per cent. more l than they did in 1914, and building | trades workers have received Q 9S per cent. increase in wages during the pc 1 riod. While labor costs have increased during the past year, prices of a num-
 Der of materials used in construction have decreased. The price declines re-
 corded have ranged from to 50 per cent.
 | Of twenty-three materials considered | len showed reductions during tho year, five remained unchanged and eight show ed increases of from 25 to 1e5 per cent. | The price average of all materials is
 three per cent. above a year ago.
 Of the materials cement, with an in- cerase of s4, or 300 per cent. led all oth- CTS in net increase from 1914 to 1920. Other largo increases are common brick, 143 per cent; lime. 24S per cent: white and yellow rough pine board 1o4 and 129 per cent, respectively; spruce framing timber, 114 Der cent northern pine flooring 136 per cent; putty 100 per
 cent; mineral door knobs, 250 per cent.
 common rim locks, TIT per cent. com mon mortise locks, IF per cent
 Steel wire ten-penny nails show the
 smallest increase, being 40 per cent
 above the pre-war cost Window sash
 up to 42 per cent, and stock size of l'doors. up to 50 per cent. come next if
 smallness of price advance.
 Of eleven building trades considered
 nine are receiving s1 an hour or more al present, the highest price being s125 fol
 masons and plasterers. In 1914 the
 highest pay was 62 cents for plasterers
 and structural iron workers.
 Skilled laborers, who are being paiG
 65 cents an hour now, as against 2 cents in 1914, lead in the percentage ot
 wage increase in the six-year period their advance being Al per cent. Flee tricians are getting 130 per cent nor, than in 1914. masons 121, plasterers 102 plumbers 1es and steamfitters 100. Pa, , per hangers and carpenters, whose in ereases in the state have amounted l. 72 per cent, have received the smalies l advances.
 The Rhode Island League of womel Voters at it's annual meeting elected of . hcers as follows: Miss Mabel Orgelmar . chairman; Mrs. Della A. Johnson, frs 2 vice chairman; Miss Mary E. Spoonei l, second vice chairman Mrs. Maragare Mullaney, third vice chairman MT: William H. Poole, corresponding secre !. ., tary Miss Claudia Wood. recording sec retary Miss Elizabeth T. Doyle, treas
 urer; Mrs. Edward Farrell, Mrs w Macomber. Miss Joseph Brown MT Mary Meade Mrs. Charles Eaton, MT. Frederick Weymouth, Mrs. Robert I ! Bailey, Mrs. Louis o. Windsor, Mrs. Her ' ry Burselon5 delegates -at-large. n Local Laconics.
 Y MT. and Mrs. Otis L. Burdicl1 ar . nounce the engagement of their daugl
 ter, Genevieve to Tracy c. Brownen II Glen Falls, N. Y.
 : Irvine o. Chester has been elected i. member of the executive committee t the Rhode Island Association of Insu, l. ance Agents.
 f Miss Rose Bannon is drilling Italia l. children of the Church of the Imma4