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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1948
Page
2
The General Assembly backed a 500 percent pay increase from 300 to 1500 for members amid last minute tactics and chicanery. Critics warn the move serves party leaders, while supporters claim it could attract reform minded candidates. a referendum is promised to voters.
Fragmented notice urges organizational cooperation and court support. It hints at shared use and mutual aid among groups to aid in civic matters.
The Ninth annual gym exhibition of the local schools opens at Andrews Gym tonight at 8. The Bristol Business Civic Association meets Monday at 7 30 in the Hotel Belvedere parlors. A High Mass for Giro lamo Squatti is sung at Our Lady Mount Carmel on Saturday at 7 AM. The St Michaels Couple Club shows Pot of Gold with Jimmy Stewart Saturday at 2 PM. Children's matinee May 8 features The Maid and the Golden Shipper. Cinderella performances May 13 14 15. The Bristol County Council of Church Women hosts spring luncheon May 7 at Methodist Church Warren with reservations to Mrs Henry Peterson by May 4. Dr Dale Dutton will speak after lunch. The First Baptist Church hosts its annual May Breakfast tomorrow 6 AM to ? The menu includes fruit juice muffins cereal bacon eggs doughnuts coffee. The Ivy Gulia ons St Michael's Church attends in corporate communion Sunday at 8 AM. A Bristol Business Civic Association meeting is set for Monday 7 30 at Hotel Belvedere. The Church School Teachers of St Michael's meet at Holmes House 7 30 tonight. John Borges of Bristol Manufacturing Co will join Twilight League Board of Governors as treasurer. A Ladies Benevolent Society meeting is at Holmes House May 3 at 2 30. A Newport Sisterhood speaker visits. Dom Arancio 6-year-old from Boston wins Pontiac car at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Plymouth car goes to H R Warne of Melrose.
The 10th annual bowling league banquet at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church honors high performers John Sicignano Anthony Ci cianni and Joseph Santulli for top marks while Domenic Vitiello Carl Russo Frank Miserandine Joseph Sarzano Nicholas Pirr and Joseph Massa receive team honors. Also noted are church officials and banquet organizers plus a Rockwell Hall series starting May 6 and a growing boys beginners class meeting Saturdays at 9 30.
The Bristol Boy Scout Bugle and Crim Corps announce a beauty contest from May 1 to July 5 1948 to pick Bristol’s Most Popular Boy. Eligible are Bristol boys under 15, with penny votes counted weekly and declared at Reynolds School. Proceeds fund the drum corps equipment. winners receive a bicycle.
Christine Maud Pendleton daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles L Pendleton of 38 Franklin Street married Anthony Francis King son of Francis E King of 176 Bay View Avenue in St Marys Church rectory. Rev Charles C Curran officiated with Edward King attending. The bride wore a brown ensemble with an orchid corsage. They will reside at Mount Hope Farms after a trip to Washington DC. The bride is a Colt Memorial High graduate and worked for United States Rubber Co. The groom, formerly chauffeur for the late Mrs Aram J Pothier, is now employed at Mount Hope Farms.
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