Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-16
WEST TERLY

with paper. and covered with a news paper dated March. s. This would in dicate that the box was packed dur ing the past week, and possibly after arrests were made and stolen goods recovered. The other box was in re- ality beer case with the co1npart- ment for bottles removed. Some of the other goods were slowed into a three -bushel potato sack
 In the latest find were two rolls of Suiting of a pattern that was among the merchandise stolen, but no part of it had been previously located, and is but small proportion of the amount stolen. SUitings of another pattern have been made into suits, by local tailors for parties who furnished the 1 materials, and these, and other clues, are being worked out by the police. Charles Henry Merriam, 87, who l died Sunday afternoon at his home Tn Providence, married Miss Esther H. | Thurston at Westerly in 1862 and is l survived by four sons, Charles H.,
 Harold F. T., E. Bruce and Isaac B. l Merriam. He was among the first to respond in the First Regiment, Rhode 1 Island Detached Militia. He was
 commissioned adjutant, and was sub- l sequently Q major Of the Tenth Rhode i Island Infantry. He served on Gen. eral Burnside's staff after the war. He was one of the leading textile 1 manufacturers of Rhode Island, en- l gazing in that business in 1860, when
 he was elected treasurer of the Smith 1 field Manufacturing company. Three years later he was chosen treasurer Of 1 the Silver Springs Bleaching and Dyeing company, and of the Sociel l Manufacturing company which was
 merged with the Manville company tr 1901. In 1886 he was elected treas trer of the Lippitt Woolen company
 and served until a few years ago. He was president of the old Bank o1 North America, the Providence Board I of Trade, and was president of the Butler Hospital corporaion~ from 1908 until the time of his death. He wal secretary and director of the Lippit | Woolen company and director of thu
 Blackstone and Merchants Mutual
 Hope Mutual Manufacturers Mutua and the What Cheer Mutual Fire In surance companies.
 MT. Merriam was born October 1
 in Augusta, Ga. and received his ed
 ucation in the public schools Of Prov
 idence, graduating from the Provi
 dence High School in 1850, and re
 ceived the honorary degree of Maste
 of Arts from. Brown university in 1894
 President John F. Murphy, a pro
 duct of Westerly, presided at tn
 semi annual convention of Rhode Isl land branch, American Federation c
 Labor, held Sunday in NPawtucket
 Pres dent Murphy, in his report ad vised against entering the politica field with an Independent organiza
 tion and his recommendation wa sustained by an overwhelming vote.
 The labor party had many advo l 1,,I ', could get nothing from either of tn two old parties and that the onl, hope now to form 8 dist net party 0 i it's own. Many eases were cited o 1 pre- election promises to labor tha 1 had been broken, and it was declared l that all old party candidates were 1 selected by a chosen few and that m | others had a chance for nominations | Opponents of the labor party ides l were positive that labor had no show l as a political party, some going SC l far as to claim that 9 separate party | would mean the destruction of the la l-bor movement and be welcomed by 1 the other parties as removing from l their ranks a faction that now must be feckoned with, while alone, as 6 l party, the labor men would not have 1 the strength to win anything. Sev- l eral of the leaders came out strongly | for the union members to begin theil political action in the caucuses of the 1 old parties.
 l President Murphy's recommends 1 ton is that the state branch keep ou of a labor party, that it refuse tc l send funds to help run q politica l campaign from. Washington. and tha it create a fund to be used in Rhode 1 Island under the direction of the exc.
 cutive council To this was added ] that the executive couhcil act as { l campaign committee with power t add to it's membership, choosing tn
 additional members from lists 0
 names subm;tted by the locals of tn, state. There were 168 delegates rep
 resenting 81 unions at the conven
 tion.
 Based on the number of womei
 graduated from Mount Holyoke col lege, Rhode Islands minimum quot
 of the s3,O00,000 endowment fun
 campaign is S30.0O0 There are sev
 era1 graduates in Westerly.
 I Mrs. Maria Louise Arnold Clark 0
 Ossining, N. Y, formerly Of Wester ly, has brought suit for separation
 from her husband, Dr. Orlo B. Clark on the charge of desedtfon. The ] were married in Westerly. April 2!