Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-30

the list of prominent people who have joined the league by Professor Fisher of Yale. who announced the representative features of the new association at a meeting Friday in New York. She is the first woman from this state to seek membership in the league.
 Directly after reading Miss Hazards name, the speaker read that of Miss Mary E. Wooley. of Rawcatuck, presi- dent of Mount Holyoke college.
 The Independent Order of Foresters of Rhode Island and Connecticut will hold a field day at Dubey's grove, September 12. Two teams representing both states will play at baseball, before responding to the call for clambake. A feature will be the initiation into the mysteries of the order of 500 candidates. the ceremony taking place in the woods.
 The Rhode Island Republican club will have an outing and clambake next Thursday at Rocky Point. Congressman Foss of Ohio, brother of Governor Foss of Massachusetts, now campaigning in the east for the national ticket, will give an address on national affairs Other speakers of prominence will discuss state issues.
 A syndicate of summer residents has purchased the entire stretch of property on the east side of Beach street and bordering on the beach at Narragansett Pier The present structures will be razed except the Burnside hotel, which will be remodeled and made into an up- to-date bachelors quarters and the plant will be converted into a park. The sale involves $500 GOO. The property includes all the buildings and land from the Ca sino theatre to the bowling alleys next to Sherry's bathing pavilion.
 The death of Mrs. soronthia Cham | pin. widow of Charles Champlin. oc- cured Thursday night at her home on | Pearl street. following a long illness. 1 She was in her filth year. Mrs. Champ 1 lin is survived by two sisters, Mrs. w. E. Manning and Mrs. Elizabeth F. Cham plin, both of this town. and two brothers, Peter J. Webster of Westerly and Wil- I liam E. Boyd ofProvidence. She was a member of the Pleasant Street Advent church. Funeral services were held ] Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from i her late home and burial was at the First | Hopkinton cemetery.
 The summer cottage of Mir. and Mrs. Edgar Sweet, located next to the Log 1 Cobin at Pleasant View, was sold at public auction Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock The auction was attended by 90 or 40 persons interested in the purchase of beach property and there were several l who bid on the land and cottage. The property was struck of to Albert F. Kinney for $3925 who purchased it for J. Frost of Hartford, Conn.,, a retired policeman of that city.
 Local Laconics
 Thomas Cowley has returned to Vest erly after spending two months with relatives in his former home at Pitts 1 field
 The death of William J. McSparren, who served many years ago as a mem-
 Der of the Westerly police force occur red in Providence Friday after an illness of four months. Death was due to com
 plications developing out of an injury
 sustained in the Canal Zone, Panama
 more than 20 years ago. Funeral ser vices will be held at the shelter at River Bend cemetery at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon.
 The deceased, who was in his 53d year,
 came to Westerly when boy and resid-
 ed here until a quarter of a century ago when he went to Panama to work on the canal project. Returning to this country he engaged in work at the New Iport torpedo station. where he was em-
 ployed until his final illness
 He is survived by his, widow, a
 daughter Miss Ida McSparren of this
 town, one son. George. of Pennsylvania two brothers. Thomas McSparren of this
 town and James McSparren of Van
 couver, B. G., and three sisters Mrs
 Ellen Francis, Mrs. Katherine Francis
 and Mrs. Eliza West all of Westerly A
 son was killed in the battle of the Ar
 gonne.