Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-01

There is much interest in Westerly as to the official census return of the | population of the town. The state census taken five years ago gave the | town a population of 10,500, and there l is a general belief that the 12,000 | mark will be reached. If not there | will be disappointment, as in the past l five years several prosperous indus | l tries have located here. It is not l I believed that the people who came ! with these industries are outnumber- ed by those who secured employment | l elsewhere.
 I Representative Samuel H. Davis, of | Westerly, presented two resolutions | in the house, Tuesday. and both were | referred to the finance committee. One Il provides for an appropriation of S6,- 900 in recognition of patriotic services of nonresident Rhode Island soldiers who served in the world war, to be ] paid in the form of a bonus of $100 to each of these men. The passage of the resolution would mean, for in stance, that all members of the Fifth Company, Westerly, Rhode Island Ma tional Guard. would be placed on the same bonus basis. Fifty per cent. of the membership of this company when mustered into the federal ser vice were residents of Pawcatuck, |l Conn.,, but have no military standing
 
 had been in the Rhode Island military service for years before as well as during the war. Under the state bonus law they are barred from benefits as they are not residents of Rhode Is- land.
 The other resolution would appro- priate $30,000 for yeowomen's bonus of $f00 each, as under the present law only soldiers sailors and nurses are l recognized
 The searching squad, seeking mer- chandise stolen from freight cars at Bradford and Westerly, is finding ! goods outside as well as inside of the houses searched under warrant. Goods have been found in dwellings a and in the woods and the latest find ! was in barn in Central park, owned < by Luigi Marcheson. Sunday Luigi I was at work cleaning up the barn and there was nothing therein that did z not belong to him. He visited the : barn again Tuesday night and found three bushel bag filled with mer- ! chandise in the center of the cement 5 floor. He notified the police and the |7 big bag was taken to the police sta . q tion, where it was ascertained that z the contents were parts of the ship.
 ments missed from the cars. The bag ; contained army cloth suitings, dress
 goods and mems and boys clothing
 identical with other goods that have # been recovered and identified as
 stolen property. While large S quantity of the stolen merchandise T has been recovered, fully as much
 more is yet to be located.
 Fl Representative John Ferguson, Jr. E of Westerly. has presented an ac
 amending Chapter S63, general laws
 in relation to salaries. This section ct e.. l.. K creases in salaries of sheriffs, ant k clerks of courts, principally, and witt
 special reference to these officials O
 Washington county. Referred to fl nance committee.
 Hl Senator Flynn submitted a resolu % tion, which was referred to the mili
 tia committee, providing for the us of the state armory at Westerly b. Rhode Island Ones, of Westerly fir . department.
 Salvatore PaIadino, the eighth
 Westerly man to be held in connectio ll,S; with robbery from freight cars, plead Ill ed not guilty before United State m omn Commissioner Matteson. in Provi ce dence, Tuesday afternoon. He waiv .l. ed preliminary hearing and wa LII held in bail of $5,000 for the action ( Il" the grand jury.
 be The latest real estate transfer ng recorded in the office of Town Cler he Whipple are: Gertrude S. Fowler [
 Frank A. Sullivan, lot at Pleasar es View; Joseph Recchia, ct ux., to Ma ss tale Cornolli, ct ux. house and lt CT in Granite street; Mary S. Damar al. to Ada E. Sherman, house and lot 0 ve Shore road; Woodland Realty Con r. pany to George B. Langworthy, tw
 tracts at Watch Hill Salvatore A sp, bamonte to Frank Vitelino, ct ux., tW
 lots in Central Park; Francis G. Ha, IT. we'll to Westerly Industrial and In we provement company, land in Pleasal D. street; Demenicco Brogno, ,et ux.
 Vincenzo Turco, ct ux., house and |
 in Dayton street.
 In the same period there were re-
 orded five mortgages aggregatin ,or s13.50O. with only one loan of $1 ''os from bank, four releases of nor NA gages, one lease and one attachmer ;ey Senator Maurice w. Flynn,
 Westerly, presented an act increasi ry, the appropriation for the janitor
 the Westerly court house from $2 ew to s450 a year. Referred to finan at committee. The present janitor
 the court house is also janitor of t lil- rest of ~ the building. the town ha ng and receives from the town the sar H. amount paid policeman, plus g 4
 opening the town hall in the eve ast ing. The present ianitor, with t at proposed increase would recei ta about $500 a year, or only s5 d !. for each working day. None { i'd much for the service rendered. ing William A. Countryman, of Hal md ford, clerk of the Connecticut hot
 of representatives, who is in char ,h- of taking the census of manufactu the CTS in Connecticut and Rhode Islal ing has appointed George Ambrose Do
 nelly of Apponaug, and Alfred Sht om of Newport, census agents. MT. Do
 nelly will enumerate all manufactI !nd ing and textile plants in Westerly a lon the rest of Washington county, also ln- Kent county. MT. Short will do Ii
 duty in Newport county.
 Thomas Hope of Potter Hill h ma been appointed director for Washir Ine ton county, in the financial campai lss of the Inter- church World Moyemt r. to raise $336, ,777,572 from April 25
 May 2. The Rhode Island quota, . respective of sums to be obtained the various denominations, is S41
 900. A county conference will be h.
 in Westerly April 1S.
 Local Laeonies.
 Miss Ellen F. Pendleton, aft
 spending a few days at the home
 her brother, James M. Pendleton,
 turned Wednesday to her duties
 president of Wellesley college.
 Miss Elizabeth M. Needham W given a shower Tuesday night at