Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-12
WEST

made immediately, the experiment | l station will be starved out of exist | ence before the close of this year.
 Salaries of the teaching staff are considered greatly inadequate and to effect an average increase, amounting to l6,4 per cent, an additional $12,000 ! Is needed. It is also required to add 1 three new instructors at total an- nual cost for salaries of $4,50o.
 The college contracted deficit of | $9.436.s6 in 1919, according to the re- port. Receipts for the. year are given at slS2,sS2.6S and expenses as $142,- The attendance for the year 1s1s- 1920 is the largest in the history of the college, numbering 342 students The entering class has an enrolment | or 145, an increase over the previous i year of IA per cent. The enrolment was limited to $40 and some appli-
 cants had to be refused admission to be taxed to its limit.
 Captain Darius B. Dodge, state pi
 lot commissioner for Rhode Island, | now in his seventy fifth year, sailed
 Thursday for the seuth,. in his thirty | thlrd annual trip, alone, to St. Pet
 ersburg, Florida. He will remain a l month, or more.
 Westerly Lodge, No. 678, Beneyo- 1 lent and Protective Order of Elks. at
 the annual meeting held Wednesday
 evening elected officers as follows:
 Aloysius J. Twomey, exalted ruler;
 Andrew J. Martin, esteemed leading
 knight; Edward E. Hall, esteemed
 loyal knight; John J. Walsh. esteem-
 ca lecturlng knight: Richard J. But7i Ter, Jr treasurer; William H. Led
 ward, tyler; John V. Moorie, trustee
 three years; Joseph L. LLenihan, past
 exalted ruler. Past Exalted Ruler
 1enlhan was elected delegate and
 Past Exalted Ruler Frank R. McKen-
 zle' alternate. to the Elks convention.
 The house Thursday afternoon pass
 ed In concurrence the bill increasing
 the capital of the Westerly Automatic
 Ielephone Company from s20o,000 to
 S400,000. Representative John FergI
 son, Jr., of Westerly, attacked the
 act as permissiVe of stock jobbing, and, With the help of the democrats and group of republicans tried l1n- successfully to have it recommitted 10 the corporations committee. Fred
 l.. Owen of Providence. a member of
 the corpora tions committee, which re-
 commented the bill and Samuel H. paws Of Westerly, defended the act. MT. DAVIS stated. that although he ', NN4A OAAANCf anu dlIlGneV TOT the i company he dfd not intTodl1ce inc bill and would not vote upon if. Mr
 ferguson charged that the company
 haa last year charged up S5S,95S.12
 to gross operation expenses, although ihciuded Tn that sum was S10.S37 6a : transferred to the reserve for dsnreci- atlon and s7000 paid in dividends in April Consequently, he said, the true gross gross operating expenses had been $4I'1Z0.43 Re said that the company
 already had authority to issue an ad- ditional $25,oo0 stock and had a sI,r- plus of s7S,O00. If, as stated. re de-
 clared, from S50,0o0 to ssO,000 was
 needed for improvements. the com pany did not require increased capi- tai. 0'- If this bill passes" he said. "wbat IS to prevent this company to cut si0'oo0 melon among it's stockholders ?
 II only S50,oo0 was needed, why was
 hot that the amount of the increa se
 asked for? The purpose of the com
 pany has never been adequately ex- plained."
 Mir Ferguson moved to recommit
 oiil to the corpira tions committee but on on voice vote the motion was lost.
 The act was then passed.
 A branch has taken root in Wes+er. ". ot the Leonard Wood Republican
 League or Rhode Island, under the di- recllon or Representative John F. Fer
 suson, Jr., and includes in the com mute the following named: Repre- sentative Samuel H. Davis Willia m ClarK. Councilman Abraham P. Dat son, William Clark, Colonel Charles II: LedWard, Harry R. Miller, William in!tchen, Arthur L. Perry, of Wester- 5 y; heVerett A. Briggs, A. ], CrandaI1 E Everett P. Mathewson. of Ashaway.' E J. Donald Pryor of Narragansetf Pier Miss Mildred Lanphear, of Watch 1Hl' ana Burrows Perry of Stoning- Coil' were married at five o'clock We'd nesday afternoon at the home of Ike brides parents, MT and Mrs Fred 'i-e n Lanphear, Rev. Peter s. Saler nas- tor of Broad Street Christian church B etaclatlng. Mrs. Paul Conant. sister W UL the prlde was matron of honor. and cne pest man was Paul Conant of Stonington. The bride wore yov,n el Whlte satin an dcarried a shower bouquet of bride roses and sweet nea 6 dne gown or the matron of honor was p raspnerfy satin MT. and Mrs. Ferry will reside in Stoninpton or their return from their wedding trin Ihese officers were installed by Pas, Regent Hannah Kenyon. of Women of
 the Mooseheart Legion at the home ot
 Mfs. Catherine Mccormick, Wednes-
 cay evening: Hannah Kenyon, past regent; Catherine Mccormick. senio,
 regent; Elizabesh Moorey, junior re-
 gent; Martha A. Johnson, chaplain.
 Mary J. Platt, recorder; Mary Sylvia
 treasurer; Alice M. Johns guide; Ma
 iron Beandoin, argus.
 William Cullen, who was found ir < an exhausted condition in barn or
 lne Bliss place. near the Sweeney
 quarry. week ago, and was taken fe
 the Lawrence and Memorial hosnitaI
 New London, and died in that institu-
 tlon within few hours after arrival
 was burned Wednesday, in Potter, held, Jordan cemetery. No relative.
 could be. located and the body wa,
 unclaimed. The town of Westerly vii
 ne called upon to pay expenses. a:
 the man was sent to New London by
 aetnorlty 13 of the overseer of the pool Fl Miss Harriet B. Frazier, of Pawca
 tuck. and Frank l.. Houser, of New H LOndan. were raarpiad EPb,,re5o,r e