Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1920-05-17

As has been the custom for years,
Honcack Post, Grand Army of the Re
public Department of Connecticut. will
unite with Budlong Post, Department
of Rhode Island, in the observance of
! Memorial Day. George e. Leonard,
Spanish War Veterans who has acted
! for the civil war veterans several
! Day will be in charge this year. He
will be the marshal of the parade and
will soon name his aide.
This year there will be a departure
from the old custom of having the pa
rade in the afternoon and the exercises
and Grafton in the evening. The pro-
| cession will form at 1890 in the morn
| ing. Luncheon will be served by the
Women's Relief corps in Mechanics
hall at noon, and two o'clock exercises
will be held in the town hall, with Rev.
Edmund J. Cleveland, rector of Christ
Episcopal church as orator of the day.
The Westerly band will head the pro-
cession and the line of march will be
the same as in the past, a halt being
made at the Pawcatuck river bridge,
where the memoril service to the memory
of the heroic dead buried at sea will be
conducted by the Womans Relief corps.
The Fourth company, Rhode Island
State Guard, will be the military es-
cort and in the line besides Civil War
! men, will be Srucker Camp, Spanish
War Veterans, Merrill Post of American
: Legion of Honor, the Westerly Sanitary
corps and Boys Scouts.
The Grand Army men will ride in in
automobiles loaned by their owners and
it is expected the members of the town
council mad other town officers will ap-
pear in the procession in automobiles
; furnished by themselves.
Westerly Lodge of Elks has voted to
donate from the treasury 500 to the
Salvation Army fund and also his asked
the members to cooperate in the drive
and id in it's success in Westerly. The
:, local committee in charge of the drive
which begins Monday, met Fridy night
and adopted the plan of campaign.
Too many emergency prescriptions fol
whiskey are being written by Rhode
Island physicians according to Prohibk
ton Director Archambault. He declare.
that doctors must not write emergency
prescriptions unless a real emergenc!
exists. In case of accident, a physician
may write prescription on any papel
but is must be marked emergency. Al
emergency prescription written in Feb
ruary was filed last week, according t.
the director.
"A cdeaIup IS DeInS maue OF tine rae
tory inspection laws with regard to EN-
ploying persons under sixteen years o
age, by Chief Factory Inspector J. Eller.
Hudson, and it is expected that within
the week there will be many prosecu
tons of manufacturers and othere EN-
ployers, AS a result of the campaig
more than 200 warrants have bee
sworn by Mr.. Hudson
The factory inspection department ha
been at work since the first of the yea
making Investigations into the emplay
ment of minors, with much time spen
for the largest statewide prosecution
initiated by that department.
AIter-proof automobile plates will b
issued to Rhode Islanders next yea.
Samples of the new designs have been re
ceived by the state board of publ
roads and will he approved with fe
minor changes to make them conforl
to teh specifications
The new plates will contain embosse
letters and figures so that the alteriI
of figures will he impossible 1t hs
been found that the planted character
such as are now in use. have bee
changed whose who wished to d
fraul the state by advancing the plat,
by painting out the old date and pain
ing in the current year Contract f.
new plates calls for 126690 separa
plates which is $4,000 sets, with the r
naming 500 for motor cycles, only Oh
for each being required.
The Lorraine Manufacturing oompan
with plants in Pawtucket and Pawcatuc
have announced an increase of fiftei
per cent. in wages to all employees
take effect May 81. This will bene
$500 employees. This increase is
common with new wage increa
which is to be given to practically 81
600 operatives employed in the text
industries of Rhode Island. 1t is e
tpected th7t tho other tcvtiln mills