Bristol Republicans eye patronage amid job distribution hopes
About 300 Bristol Republicans await share of roughly 500 state jobs expected to be allocated statewide within two weeks. Local favorites already placed include John A. Victoria and Everett LeB. Church, with several Bristol residents holding or seeking state posts and town offices up for action at the next Bristol Town Council session.
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Bristol
John A. Victoria
Republican Town Committee
Frederick E. Waterman
State Department of Public Works
Samuel A. Hall
John A. Mellone
Rhode Island Soldiers’ Home
Everett Leb. Church
Joseph Sylvia
Prescott Hoar
Court House
Victoria
Church
John Romano
Margaret B. Andrade
Bureau of Old Age Pensions
Anthony J. Nunes
State Division of Forests, Parks and Parkways
Thomas H Byrnes
Alsa
State Board of Public Roads
Joseph J Dennis
Philip Sansone
Augustine Berone
Bristol County
Robert J Anderson
Highway Department
Repubhtaiic Teadare
Richard Connery
Joseph A Hammill
Amos
Gorham
Portuguese Feast of Ecce Homo in Bristol Plans Outlined
Bristol's Portuguese community advances plans for a two day Ecce Homo observance sponsored by Santo Christo Society. The program includes street processions church services band concerts and private family gatherings attracting thousands from Southern New England. John C Mello chairs the arrangements with Daniel M Vargas as secretary and other committee members named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Santo Christo Society
New England
John C Mello
Daniel M Vargas
Mironio’r. Birges
kManuel I Sousa
Francisco Sousa
Manuel Soares
Joseph Sousa
Joseph Tavares
Manuel Pacheco
Ernest Prenda
73rd Railroad Artillery Veterans Hold Reunion
The 73rd Railroad Artillery Battery E veterans recalled training at Fort Rodman and service in France at a Sunday reunion in the Dreadnaught Hook Ladder and Hose Co station High Street. Twenty eight members attended with talks by Lt Fasset and a chowder dinner by A Elmer McNamara. A surprise call from Sgt O Brien of the Washington DC police added to the day. Plans for a Fort Rodman reunion in August were made. Bristol members present included Oliver J Lemaire Alec Guevremont Manuel Marshall Henry Nerone and Edward Kavanaugh Paul Sherman. New Bedford had 18 attendees followed by delegations from Bristol Fairhaven Fall River Pawtucket Berkeley and Boston.
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Fort Rodman
France
E. 73Rd Railroad Artillery
High Street
Fasset
Fairhaven
Mass
A. Elmer McNamara
O’brien
Washington, D. C
Lieut
Bristol
Mr. McNamara
Oliver J. Lemaire
Dreadnaught’s
Alec Guevremont
Manuel Marshall
Henry Nerone
Edward Kavanaugh
Samuel Sherman
New Bedford
Fall River
Pawtucket
Berkely
Boston
Two Bristol Girls to Receive D A R Medals
Virginia Brightman a Bristol high senior and Judith Aultman a Barrington high student will be awarded the Good Citizenship Medals by Bristol Chapter D A R at the April 10 meeting. They earned the honors by popular vote of the senior classes and faculty for dependability leadership service and patriotism. Mrs Charles O Thompson regent will present the medals. East Providence speaker Mondy? is listed as a guest and hostesses are Mrs Earl P Mathewson Mrs Samuel C Wardwell Mrs Beebe H Smith Mrs Robert Lanphear and Mrs William W Perry.
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Virginia Brightman
Bristol High School
Judith Aultman
Barrington High School
Dangsters
Bristol
D A. R
Charles O . Thompson
Thompson
Wiobate Sade Ketsell
East Providence
Earl P. Mathewson
Samuel C Wardwell
Beebe H Smith
Robert Lanphear
William W Perry
Championship Playoff Looms In Bristol Basketball League
Bristol Manufacturers and Carr Manufacturing end regular play tied after a 48 39 overtime thriller. Bristol's Pip Securo led all scorers with 22 points as fouls and injuries shaped a dramatic push to a decisive playoff for the league title.
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Bristol Mfg. Corp
Carr Mfg
Bristol Manufacturers Basketball League
Bristol Manufacturing Company
Carr Manufacturing Company
Carr
Bristol Manufacturing Co
Gomes
Jiggs Butler
Iag
Butler
Bristol Manufacturing
Sonana Teras Rem Oening
Ina
Jim Duffy
Bill Simmons
Carr Outfit
McCarthy
Simmons
LeClerc
Joseph
Pip’ Securo
Bristol
Passover Feast Opens in Bristol Jewish Homes
Bristol residents of the Jewish faith began an eight day Passover with a sundown service at the synagogue and a family Seder at home. The observance centers on unleavened bread and the Exodus story with readings from Hagadah and festive songs.
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Bristol
Egypt
Moses
Israel
Mrs Gladding Honored By Mount Hope Chapter
A surprise birthday party honored Worthy Matron Elizabeth Gladding of Mount Hope Chapter OES. About seventy five members and guests attended at Masonic Hall. Entertainment included a kitchen orchestra, vocal solos, and a large birthday cake.
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Elizabeth Gladding
Mount Hope
Order of Eastern Star
William P Gladding
Cpladdy Igad Mise
Wesley
Ange
Marguerite Kebrek
Gladding
Eens Sullivan
John Sewart
J. Floyd Huestis
Gray
Helen Hambrick
Frances Antonelli
Frank A Rounds
Rhode Island
Elizabeth Haskell
East Providence
Holy Week Observances At St Michael and Partner Churches
The Rev Harold L Wilson of Providence preached today at St Michael's noon service. Tomorrow and Thursday another Providence preacher leads the noon service. Evening sermons feature Rev Augustine McCormick and Rev Linden H White. Good Friday devotions are led by Rev Richard Mortimer-Maddox with Bishop Bennett presiding at Maundy Thursday Holy Communion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold L Wilson
Providence
St. Michael's Church
Donald J Campbell
Augustine McCormick
St James’ Church
Woonsocket
Linden H. White
St Martin's Church
New Bedford
Richard Mortimer-Maddox
St John’s Church
Barrington
Bennett
Webb Rockwell Engagement Reported In New York
Mr and Mrs Vanderbilt Webb of New York announce the engagement of their daughter Barbara Webb to Henry Benson Rockwell, son of Mr and Mrs Charles B Rockwell. Miss Webb is a Bennington College graduate studying architecture in Cambridge Massachusetts, granddaughter of the late Dr and Mrs William Seward Webb and Mr and Mrs William Church Osborn. Mr Rockwell teaches at Pomfret School after Princeton University graduation in 1937. Wedding planned for late June at the sherburites home in Garrison New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanderbilt Webb
East Seventy-first Street
New York
Barbara Webb
Henry Benson Rockwell
Charles B. Rockwell
Miss Webb
Bennington College
Chapin School
Brownmoor School
Santa Fe
Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Cambridge
Mass
William Seward Webb
William Church Osborn
Rockwell
Pomfret School
Princeton University
Princeton
Imme
Sherburtie
Garrison
N. Y
Letters Link Civil War Nurse to Dying Soldier
Mrs. Walls Howe unearthed a 1864 letter from Macon Depot to Albert Judson’s widow thanking her for nursing John E. Twitty at Carver Hospital. A North Carolina family later confirms Twitty’s death in May 1864 and Arlington resting place, sharing further details and gratitude for the grandmother’s care.
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Washington City” Hospital
Walls Howe
Locke
Macon Depot
Warren Co
N. C
Albert Judson
Wingerd
Washington City
John E. Twitty
Co. C
Carver Hospital
Dr. Judson
Salle D. Twitty
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Bristol Democrats
Orlando J. Bisbane
Vincent DeFelice
Joseph J. Marshall
Otis M. Bailey
Domenic P. Perroni
Bristol Fire Department
Department For Dependent Children
John Grabert
Moses Moore
Fred Guevremont
Board of Fire Engineers
Oliver Lemaire
Dreadnaugh Hook, Ladder and Hose Company
Hope ST
Bristol Cleansers & Dyers
Frieda Inescort
Henry Wilcoxon
Clair Dodd
Sybil Jason
Prestom Foster
Tony Martin
Phyllis Brooks
Slim Summerville
Macnamee Newspaper
News Ebeel
Sylvia Sidney
George Brent
Lynn Bari
June Gale
Guvnn Williams
Metrotone
Joan Crawford
James Stewart
Lew Ayres
Lewis Stone
KREWS
Gapond Marine Finishes
Dulux
Bristol Housing Guild
Wardwell Lumber Company
Bristol, R
73rd_ Railroad Artillery Veterans
Mr. Hope
Mrs. Gladding
St. Michael’s
Rockwell-Webb
Shere
Macon
N. Cc
J. E. Twitty
Sallie Fitts Drake
William Caswell Drake
Mr. Twitty
Twitty
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