Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-04
w ES TIE RLY

dncted the store of the Smith Granite |
Company. and after a short period openeft |
a grocery business Of his own, building
the Chairman. block the corner of Main
and Broad street and later he was en-
gsd hiNthe coal business ON Main street.
After .seyerat years Because. Of Ill h9alt'l
he Save up business and returned to ne
employ Of Orlando r. Smith HIS VIE
and one son. william R. Chapman and
.yo grandchildren survive him MY
Mr. Chapman did much good in the com
ra{lnItv. His loss will be keenly. felt BY
ait ThA funeral was held Monday aft
ernoon at his horne on Summer stree1.
RAv Mr. Macdonald. pastor of the Paw
cat1,ck CONGREGATIONAL church officiated-
Burial vas III River Bend cemetery.
charE s Esten of Wyoming was call
er n westerly Monday.
The local hoa carriers have refused 80
cents an hour The controversy started
here about three weeks ago when the
Highway department was looking into Ihe
g-s oe= n4id in the places for men reduced
the WAGES Of the town 1aborers from 81
cents IN hour to 10 cents an hour and 50
the local h6d carriers and common labor
ers deeidsd to strike. About 800 men are
out Of Work because Of this action
Tho granite workers are out on strike
~
E{re unable to come to an agreement on the
ace scale, SO all operations are suspend
ed in the stone and granite yards ~
| westerly. eco granite workers are out.
lths new agreement which wo1ld nave been
| for s640 a day for an eight-hour day
was refused. The granite workers o.
! this Town would not accept d 20 per cent.
| cut in wages, so the open shop is to go IN
lie effect here at once. There IS little
! BUSINESS in this line here westerly used
| to have one Of the largest industries OF
| the kind ard several thousand men USED
| to be employed there, but of late years.
| there have been only a few hundred at
tho works and for the past three months
work on the hill has been practically at
a stand still.
| The death OF walter Dusda1e occurred
at his home Saturday at 5 Williams street
from pneumonia. He was born IN Shrop-
shire, England on Aug. 1sI 1882. He cams
TO west sr1y about two years ago and was
| er1p1oyed at the c. g. CottreiI & Sons
plant in the foundry. He was member
Of Pawcatu5k lodge, No. 80, f, and a. NJ
Of Granite City Camp, No. 1853, Modern
| Woodmen Of America and of Westerly
lodge, No. 1912. Loyal Order of Moose.
He is survived by his wife, s.: Alice. How
artl, Dugdale and his mother, Mrs Esther
1 OuSa1tC dIO d SlSLS4s MI L+IS44ietfo 4SSoe
&C westerly.
Pasduale saI'neno Of westerly was be-
fore United States Commissioner Arch
lbaid C. Matteson in Providence Friday
/ charged with possession Of distilled spirits
The defendant entered a plea Of not. gull
ty, and upon waving examination was
bound yer to the grand jury under bail CT
$4,000.
I The WOman's Aid society of the Seventh
Day Baptist church will hold meeting
today (Tuesdayl at 2 o'clock.
Pardon and Mary. crandall Of West
street have purchased tiIe house at q
Stanton street from H A. Stable and
wife and will reside there.
The Harvard club of Rhode Island HIS
offered a $3.50 scholarship prize for q stUd-
snt Of the state who desires to enter Har-
Tard next fall Competitive examinations
will be. given from June 1924 at the
westerly High school and the student at
tanning the highest average win be awrd
| cd The scholarship.
Miss Catherine Waters has returned
home after spending some time in Nor
WITCH.
! The next meeting Of westerly Histor
t zeal society is to be address by Miss Sail!
) Moss Frankenstein, who has just return
}
I the Y. M c. A. in the American army il
Germany and France. Miss Frankenstei,
!, is a speaker of ability. sud IS her 5rav
els on this trip alone have taken her t
England, France, Germany, Norway
a Sweden. Denmark, Belgium, Italy. Aus
: tri4 and Czecho-S lovakia, all anticfpat
. an evening Of compelling interest. tn
;, meeting is public and the date has bee
: change Is the first (not the second
4 Thursday in the month, making this dat
: fan on April 9Th.
At 1880 p. m. two trucks came tc
i gether on the Mystic. road and highwa
# at Industrial place Monday. A .head-o
collision was the outcome. One true
was owned by c. C. Fanshaw, a contra,
!, tor OF Westerly and the other one g
= ing toward New London from Provident
= owned by the Narragansett people. III
s. latter. truck was loaded with iron, b.
Mr.. Fanshaw's truck was light The fen,
Is ers and head lights of both trucks we
s. damaged badly. but the drivers ESCAPE
< injury. The trucks were towed to
garage at Mystic for. repafrs,
- It is understood that the new rnanag
Of the Rhode Island hotel will be Mart
Clemrs7ir1s Of the Grand View Park. Sto
ington He takes the place Of Mr.. w
let who recently went TO California
reside.
DR.. John Saunders Of Wyoming was
] town Monday.
Harry R. Miner of East avenue VI
) has been spending the winter in the sou
4 has returned home
Mrs John Parker and son Edwin Par
er Of School street have been callers
r Boston at the Deaconess hospital whe
: Mrs. Parker's sofl-3r-law, Rev. r,
: 1Ioyie, Of Passport, Me-. is a patient r.
Mr.. Moyfe win spend the summer ter'
y The Ladies Aid society Of Grace
70 f. church viii NEST this week with NJ
p P. H, Opie.
to A house for Byron N. stfTlnnan, is to
Il erected on CORTLAND street.
It Mr. and Mrs. Otto Siedner of Mys
4 will occupy the upper tenement on w
70 Broad street owned by James Robins
I" Connecticut Highway Commission
= Charles J. Bennett will speak this (Tu
e daY) noon at the luncheon hour at
10 Colonial club.
ve Mrs James Donolue Of L5bert str
he is the elated possessor Of piece of w
it. ding cake sent to her by Princess NJ
H. Of England Mrs Donofrue is einplo.
,ry at Bannon's for the season. taking II
~ place Of Samuel Simmons who died
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