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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
2
Editorial notes a winter kerosene shortage and urges exact fuel conserving steps. It calls for clean lamps and chimneys, clean burners and wicks, and to avoid unnecessary burning. It advises using hot water for cleaning instead of coal oil and to light only what is needed to maximize light and heat.
Bristol baseball team will travel to Pawtucket tomorrow afternoon to play the strong JP Coats Co on the Lonsdale grounds. The team and friends depart on the 115 Consolidated train for a 3 o'clock start with a large crowd expected. Bristol’s lineup includes Murphy at first, Langello at second, Rische third, Wright short, Ruggerio left, Gardiner center, Velecea right, Diamond catcher, Baker utility. The Rotary AC team meets Warren Cadets in Warren Sunday afternoon with players boarding the 220 train.
August events and civic notes from Bristol include Rev Robert N Turner Jr officiating at Trinity Church, Red Cross rooms open 2 to 5 pm Mondays and Thursdays, and local police monitoring playground tampering. Also listed are war savings totals, naval family news, burglary attempts, transit workers, church sermons, and a Bristol police meeting at the Naval Armory with August drills announced.
Miss Margaret Oberg of Providence visits her parents Mr and Mrs William Oberg on High street. August sale advertises bargains in summer footwear. Giuseppe Esposito, arrested as an undesirable alien and brought to Boston, has sold his photographic studio to A V Puya who will run the business.
The YM C A presents The Blue Bird in six parts tomorrow afternoon and evening. Margaret Sangster of the Christian Herald endorses the film praising its idealism and beauty. The program also includes The Burton Holmes Travelogue and the Paramount Magazine.
A list of new titles available at Rogers Free Library includes works by Rinehart Flammarion Orr Dickson and several youth volumes. Notable items cover history psychology religion governance and fiction with international and classical themes.
The Bristol Red Cross Auxiliary lists donations for Jung month from many supporters including Miss M I Easterbrooks fifty cents Mrs Ho Barton one dollar and fifty cents Mrs DeWolf forty cents Mrs Hackney five dollars Mrs Lanphear five dollars and more. It notes proceeds from dances and bazaars and mentions names such as Mrs Gertrude Child Barrows and Allan In White River Junction with notices of local couples and a man Thomas Allan in his sixty ninth year.
Heart-appealing play at the Pastime theatre tomorrow features Viola Dana as a tomboy heroine Mar Willard in a sparking comedy with romance. Dressed in boys clothes she attends a prize fight at a prominent athletic club. Metros star Dana, joined by Hale Hamilton Edward Abeles, with Triangle Weekly cartoons rounding out the program.
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene on High Street schedules preaching at 10 30 by Rev William J Myers and Sunday School at 12 all welcome. Sunday evening service is omitted due to a Camp Meeting at Portsmouth.
A Taunton resident Mrs C Howell of 99 School Street reports relief from menstruation after using Hazeloch and recommends it. The informal notice lists several pharmacies selling the product including Warren-Standard Pharmacy Main & Miller Streets Roberts Pharmacy 46 No Main St Hope Pharmacy Main St Family Drug Co 27 Child St Bristol J H Young Co 479 Hope St and Hope Drug Co 297 Hope St.
George Walsh stars in the Fox Star presentation of Jack Spurlock Prodigal based on a story by George Horace Lorimer. Harvard student Jack, after an encounter with a bear, loses standing with his father and ends up in a series of odd jobs before continuing his adventures.
The Mauritius island, under a third of Delaware in area, hosts 235 native fern species. Java, slightly larger than New York, has 460. Brazil 887. Europe total equals 67 species. Arctic 26. North America north of Mexico about 175 native species.
Col Jackson sells patent medicines but confides to Jack his cure-all lacks ingredients. When asked, he says the ingredients are onions, leading to Spurlock’s rising fortune and Jack’s restored favor. Pearl White stars in House of Hate serial with usual comedies in the program. Saturday features The Narrow Trail with William S. Hart, A Fight for Millions, Framing the Framers, Pathe News, Keystone and cartoons. Monday showcases Clara Kimball Young in Magda.
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