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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1934
Page
2
The Bristol Garden Club launches a fundraising drive to plant over 100 new trees and honor donors with a public tablet listing names only. Funds rely on Federal Emergency Relief money possibly ending May 1, with a $500 goal and two dollars a tree, mailed to Mrs Fred M Dixon Jr, committee chair.
The Bristol Boy Scout Bugle and Drum Corps won two trophies at the Sylvester S. Payne V F W Drum Corps contest in Providence. They placed second in junior corps and earned the J A Foster Co trophy, with Drum Major Virgil Arruda receiving the Hortense Bailey gold medal. Over 25 corps competed in Cranston Armory. The group will train for the Narragansett Council Jamboree on April 27 28, with rehearsals at the Scout Building and a Reynolds school auditorium event.
Robert D Weston Esq of Cambridge will speak to the St Michael's Brotherhood on Monday April 23 on Some Economic Aspects of the New Deal. Weston is a Boston Bar master in chancery and helped disbar Joseph Pelletier and Daniel Coakley. He also worked to repeal the 18th Amendment with Julian Codman.
The PTA sponsors a movie program for children featuring Mickey Mouse Felix the Cat and Our Gang performing on screen.
Funeral services were conducted at St Marys Church for Mrs Mars Philomena Brogan at 73. widow of Cornelius Brogan who died Saturday at Truesdale Hospital Fall River after several weeks illness. Rex T J Gillan presided. Burial followed in St Marys Cemetery. Bearers included School Committee member Harry Wo Mane Representative Thomas Ho Burness Swent James Po Meiggs and Walriam TE Lassen. Mrs Brogan born in Delfast Ireland June 1861 had lived here 33 years and was active in St Marys Church Holy Rosary Society. Survivors include three daughters Miss Viarguer ite Brogan Edward Connick and Vass Brogan of Providence.
Local Bristol items report a birth at Truesdale Hospital, social and charity gatherings, fire responses, and upcoming community events. Notable names include Mrs Bertram Bullock, Miss Jessie Molasky, Mrs Theresa Donovan, and Battery B Bristol Train of Artillery. Also mentioned are plans for sales, dances, church activities, and a dogged fire truck committee visit to Mid dleboro.
A fifteen year old Providence humorist will officiate as master of ceremonies at the performance by "Buddy and His Gang" Friday evening in the Guiteras School Auditorium.
The town records list marriage intentions for Joseph Paradiso of 5 Coggeshall Avenue and Sepontina Castigliego of 6 Chilton Street, plus Giuseppe Andrioli of Prospect Street and Carmello Camello at the same address. Mrs Samuel C Wardwell and Mrs Clinton T Sherman of Bristol Chapter DAR attend as delegates to the 43rd Continental Congress in Washington DC.
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