Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-02


 s25 Alexander Mitchell, opening town hall. s3; Charles A, Aorgare iasnr9nce. sS33.4S; The P. Fl. opie company. vindc " shades, 34.25f;' Guy B. Page. operating | truck. ;5 :: Earl L. Palmer. optratinr | truck s2o F. |, Payne. M. D., medical attendance, SIS i; Eugene B. Pendieton. au- dftor. s2; Rhode Island Garage com pany, tires. gasoline. etc tso1s25; Rhoda Island Ones, s35e; Rogers .Brnthsrs carriage. s1.si.. William Segzr and com pany, supplies. ,f.S4 Samuel NJ. Sharpe Jani.or. sf50; R. A. sherman's Sons com pany, repairs. S75.7s 1-.
 Russell |. Slocurn. posting notices, g: Thomas s. Totten. operating truck. s2D The Utter company, printing and adver- | tising 113.s3: Washington Trust com pany. rotes paid. 5000; Washington Trust company. interest on notes s5o.tl: Westerl! Auto Supply company. gasc- line. sfO.S0; Westerly Automatic Teie- phoen company, rental and tolls. S1ss: Westerly Light and Power company. lights, $132.e2; town Of Westerly. hy- drant rentals and service. s2.02l.15: Everett E. whippie. salary and making tax book. Szi0 WhitaH Electric com- pany, work on batteries. 315.ei Westerly Times. advertisines s1z.7s; Frank N. Wilcox. coal. s5se.1s; c. W. Willard company. STOW shoveis. s2.T5. Cash In band and office ssSs.15. Total $1le42.- g.
 The district is,now freeifrom debt
 ,None but ta1pay.rs of tse district are permitted to participate in the proceed ings of the meeting, and that means women as well sas men The Attendance was larger than usual, yet not woman attended the meeting. These officers were elected: Eugene B Pcndietoh, moderator; i; Everett A. Kingsiey. clerk, Everett E. whipple, treasurer and collector Eugene B. Pendieton, auditor Everett IA, Kings ley. Walter c. Htscox and Oliver P. Crandail. assessors.l After the election, the report of the treasurer and. collector was accepted. it being fully audited and approved. The report of the board of engineers was also accepted. Attorney lciareEes E. Rseke nominated Harry S.. Coyle as chief Of The fire de- , pertinent and tr Id of his long ard e-Ilcient service. Attorney John J. Dunn, nominat- ed the present incumbent George F. Eg- ger. He told ,of the excellent service that had been rendered and that the present : was no time for experimenting Ar. l Roche moved for ballot out Mr. Coyle aaid riSing vote would be satisfactory to him. such a vote was taken and Mfr. : Coyle received 15 votes and Mir. Egger r. Mir. Egger expressed satisfaction with the Jesuit.
 Harry s. Ceyie pas elected first assist ait; John Lynch second assistant. and Robert Bonner. aairdy assistant. engil.ser
 The bond Of the treasnrer and collector was fixed at ss,o0o.
 The bozrft.oe engineers were sppol.ltei chimney and -sIno.estacS committee
 Treasurer whiprIe stated that unless there were to be extraordnlfx expense . there could be T reduction in the tax rate, which is now IS cents on the doiiar
 Chief Esser stateA the cyclon, st.xr, fire engine. iSeOut of commission IS being unfit for use. - He did not think repaIrs to the machine would be expedient. as i, would entail an expense of s2,5to and then the district would have an aat.que
 He added that the fire district needed a bumper, a; triple combination apparatus
 The prices Of stssnaa-d machines are about the same, Sl2,coo. He considered the Ahreps-Fox machine the best scI ! Westerly. ~-.- ,-e..a
 MT. WhippIe was opposed to spendinc
 any money tors'tAe osd steam ire engIne and suggested the appointment of :. com ! inittee to report to . future met ti-g. He | made motion that the committee be ap. pointed by the moderator. at his leisure the chief engineer to be a member. and the committee to consist of three mem.
 bers- The moderator appointed as th, committee Charles r. Ccttreii George E jlgger and: Everett E. Whipple
 It was voted to retain the present ia, rate of Is cents on the dollar.
 The Rhode IsIand state Dspartraent i. Veterans of Foreign Wars was organize,
 at a convention held in Providence Tues
 day night, under the chairmanship O Robert C.. Woodside, national conrnarj er-in-chief and .Iotn J McCrane wa. elected state commander. He was. a pri X yate in the Seventy-nfnth division which captured Montfaucon in the Ar gonne and he recently was admitted t the bar. He defeated Captain Arthur (; Cole. a winner of the distinguished ser vice cross and Croi1 do Guerre in tn. world war, and Lieutenant C. Cohen, former aviator. The other officers elect ed are:
 E wiIfred c. Taylor, senior v4ee com inander;. John J. Lenihan, junior vic commander: Rev James J..- -oReilIy
 chaplain; Christopher J. :Rrennan, judge advocate |. Robert H Breslin surgeon s. general. The council of administratIol is composed of Joseph oidridge. Donal, hl E. Carlton, James R. Kane. Frederick " smith. John J. Boyle and Francis J. Nc s. Renna. st . M The namensof headquarters, finarctni planS and SnooSlnB oIS kllfess and ptac [ fer the next meeting of the state depart ment was left with the council of ad
 tninistratiop. fd.sa RI In the superior es1rt for washinxtol
 county. at Westerly, Wednesday. Judg [ Arthur P Sumner. presiding. three .loca
 criminal cases were. disposed of after ex
 planstion by Assistant Attorney Genera
 sisson and Attorney Dunn. counsel fo \ defendants. Jaseph Savopa. who wa
 fined s10o and costs in1the Third adistric
 court, for maintaining asiiquor nuisanc
 and who took an appeal and was In
 dicted by the grand jury changed hi \ plea of not guilty 10 hoio. Mfr. Sisso,
 told the court that Savora's place c
 business In Canal street. Westerly he \ been entirely closed and that Savon ' would engage in other businsss- He sne ' gested that sentence De deferred u3o
 the payment of costs and that should T
 be guilty of intraction of the law ths II ;11R