Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-01
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The Rhode Island general assembly in i the final hour of the session passed an | act ezempting the Narragansett Pier railroad from taxation up to four per cent of it's earnings. Another act passed authorizes the towns of South Kingstown and Narragansett to contribute to the cost of service of the road It also au-sI thorizes the public utilities to permit the railroad company to reduce or discon- tinue service The act also allows the towns to make up any deficit in cost of operating the railroad.
 The act to allow Frank E. Shaw, of Providence to sue the state to recover an amount afleged to be due for the con struction Of the state pier. was passed in the senate and killed in the house. This matter has been before the assembly at each session for the past ten years. The resolutions specified damages of $60.000. Representative Kilduff said the claim started at $25 900 and had now reached S77,000. and not s60.000. He said that this was one of the biggest steals Rhode Island has ever known. Representative Owen said that several lawyers employ .d by Mir. Shaw had died trying to digest H. The vote to indefinitely postpone prevailed by vote of 4S to 21.
 Among the important acts which failed of passage fin the assembly were the pro- posed daylight saving law, the property qualification abolition bill, the milk act, the two measures designed to prevent rent profteering, an act to investigate and adopt a plan to encourage home building, and the Sunday moving picture law Among the important measures rushed through during the last night of the session was the act to abolish the firy comrnissionership and providing for state bonus for yeowomen who served during the war. The bills for relief of trolley roads were indefinitely postponed Mir Davis voted against postponement, and Ferguson did not vote
 At the final session increases were made in salaries of the commissioner of schools the attorney general and three assistants assistant clerk superior court for Washington county, judges of the supreme and superior courts, clerk of she'll fish commissioner. pages in the as- sembiy. doorkeepers and assistants, sher- lff and deputies, clerks of district courts, and others.
 The, Rhode Island total in the Inter- church World Movement United Cam paign was S555 520 Friday All of the returns were from Baptist churches with the exception that the Congresationalists added S14.000 for total of s3S,632 An other s14.0O0 will fill the Congregational uuota. The quota for the Baptists is s1,. 320.0OO. The Baptist churches in Plain. field. Cumberland and Greenville have oversubscribed their quotas more than seventy per cent. The Westerly Baptis churches have made no report to the state united campaign director. Rev. T Clifton Harris
 Rev. Walter S. Swisher, of New Lon. don made the opening prayer at the conference of Unitarian churches o Southern Massachusetts Rhode Islan, and Eastern Connecticut, which was helt Thursday in Newport Officers wer, elected as follows: Judge Chester W Barrows, of Providence, president; Mil ton Reed, of Fall River, vice president Rev. Manley B. Townsend, of Attleboro secretary Augustus R. Pierce, of Prov ldence. treasurer. The conference vote, to appropriate s25 toward the fund O i5o.0O0 being raised for the relief of SO 800 Unitarians in Pennsylvania.
 Narrnsansett Lodge of Westerly ob erved the 101st anniversary of Odd Eel owshiD in America, Thursday night with a banquet and entertainment Charles Beacon Pettis of Boston enter iaiEed with dancing and female imper sonations. Mir. and Mrs. Albert R. Baj ley gave selections with piano apt drums. and there was singing by duar let composed of Harry Coleman, Irvin Rowe, William Hair and Wilfred Black lurn. T,
 Local Laconics.
 The Westerly Cycle Club 1ninstrels with new jokes and added features, gav another performance before a large an iatisfied audience in the Blfven Oper: house. Friday evening. this being th fifth public presentation.
 Councilman George L.. May. ST. a South Kingston. died Wednesday night i the Rhode Island hospital following iurgical operation E
 The superior court has adjourned sin die. the cases on tho docket to be trie ey the court, without jury having bee settled No criminal cases were tried at Fri days session of the Third District cour Several book account cases were dis posed of and others were continued t the next regular session of the court.
 Coppuccu. who shot Name, is still 8 hrge. .g,
 Miss Rosalie Higgins is home froi Greenwich. Conn. on a brief vacation
 Spanish War veterans and America Legion men. will aid the Grand Arm men in arranging for the observance Memorial day in Westerly
 The Westerly Fire department joine with the Pawcatucx department in a DE fade Friday night. marking the openin of the flair of the Peleg S. Barber Hos company.
 After spending the season at the winter home in Florida, Mir and MT George A. Champlin returned Thursds to their home in Elm street
 NIT. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sagar ha,