Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-06
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 An act creating an additional as
 sociate. justice-sof the superior court l whose dlitys wall be- the sceasi3erat4on l
 exclusiy eIy 5sof &cSSpS sappealeQ from :
 district courts; has been Introduced E
 in the house and referred 10 the 5liF
 dietary committees The object pf in-
 ereasing the surerior@ court jueges from six to seven, is to prevent the '
 court calendar from eiegglng and !
 provide relief from the customary 4 l congestlon.
 When the Boy Scouts of the West erlY community troops gathered for l their + ebruaryt meeting Tuesdag ev-st ening in Scout hall and then went to the armory there were le4 5b9ys !
 present besides eight .scoutmastefs
 and. assistant scoutmasters. George 1 | w. Woodward gave. an interesting 1 talk on Cantef1ments and Camps. He I
 is member of the advisory board I 1 and told of his experiences. while ha
 was a Y. M. c. A. seeretary. More l than forty tenderfoot badges were. .l | awarded boys who have recently l taken up scout work. This was fol-s lowed bys drill and games. An act aboIishng night. work for l women, and boys under sixteen, i'll
 factories, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile estabHshments in the
 state, has been introduced in the \ house and referred to the judiciary
 committee The penalty for violation
 would be $20 for each offence. The 1 act would prohibit women. and boys under sixteen from working in de
 partment stores after six o'clock in 4 the evening.
 l The act establishes 4S-hour 1 working week. foEA women and el3il- | dren under sixteen. I prohibits them E II 6 a. m. of the following. day ana i provides that they. shall not work \ more than nine hours in any consec- I utive twenty -four hours. Six work N ing days a. week is to be used as q
 basis for computing hours enl-
 played.
 William Augustus Philips, 51, died Tuesday night at his home in Paw cathGze For twenty-one years he
 has been in the employ of the New If York, New Haven and Hartford rail
 years a conductor on the Shore Line II and Providence division. He was
 born in PawtucIlet, December 22, | 1868, son of the late William +. and
 F1ama Briggs Phillips4 His first wifeX was. Della zBo&Enen, of Fall nie Crumb of PaWcatuek. Besides his wife MT. Phillips is survived by a son, William. A Phil lips, Jr., a daughter, Mrs Samuel Culley, and a. brother. Frederick i'll with heart trouble since Septem-
 Der last and unable to work. Oscar c. Eccleston, son of MT and Mrs Charles e. Eccleston, Of Nor
 daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles .E.
 Emmett of Wequetequock were married Tuesday afternoon at the home of the bride,s parents. Rev. Clayton A. Burqick. pastor of Paw Il catuck Seventh Day. Baptist church
 performed. the 1ila@i'fiage ceremony. kaconics.
 Fire alarm sent in just before noon of Wednesday from box 75, corner. of I Pierce and Dayton streets, called out ] the department to 8 chimney fire. No damage.
 Mrs. Jean G. Bryson has clo ed her 5 home in Stonington until warm Wea- 2 ther and is residing in Westerly. l W. IA Snow of Worcester, Mass,
 and B. c. Greene of Keene, N. H. have been guests of Fl. R. Mitchell of Wcqaetequock.
 The Westerly Cycle club is plan } ming to hold its 25th annual. banqtet during March.
 < - Arrests in the city of Providence during the first month Of prohibition
 in 1920 shrank 52 sper cent. in com 5 parison with January f919 Drunk enness, which was the charge on { which Al per cent. of the arrests s were made ina January. 1918. was only s .15 per cent of the causes in arrests q in January, 1S20. s%s The circulation in. the adults de- l D9rtment of fT1e sTVpSferIV 79Ifhlfo I5- 5 brary during JanUary was a- total of 6204 books, of which. 5295 were fc- 3 ton. The non fiction literature z ranked highest with history second. Lewis Solomon. proprietor of g store en High street, has purchased 2 the stock of the EteIman shoe store 5 on Main street iron" John Ferguson, attorney for the proprietor of the store.