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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1918
Page
2
The town plans strong police protection to safeguard workers returning to work at the National India Rubber Company amid a strike. Authorities say workers may quit but must not block others from working, stressing production during wartime and urging that grievances be proven before halting necessary output.
A historical remark attributes Samuel Taylor Coleridge with envisioning a vast United States nation. The excerpt contrasts the nation’s growth to a grand moral mission spanning from coast to coast and beyond, praising justice, courage, and freedom as global influence.
Regular monthly meeting of the Town Council set for this evening and four fire company meetings scheduled for tomorrow evening. Local editor Burgess of the Moosup Journal and his wife were in town Saturday.
Ogontz resident Miss Annie Doody visits aunt Mrs. Dunbar in Rhode Island. Loraine man Lester Corthell visits parents. jeweler Edward Kunz returns from Grand Rapids funeral. George Warren ill at home. United Brothers Lodge to confer third degree. Navy Reserve ray Machinist's Mate Seymour called to active duty. Walter Collins reports overseas trips. RI Suburban Company spur track to connect depot site. new freight depot planned. Rev A C Larned, chaplain, reports meeting Coggeshall in France. RI Base Hospital Unit members receive overseas arrival cards. Will of Mrs Ida Colwell leaves $10,000 to J W Keefe Surgery. Birven reported missing in action. Helena Case hosts Third Liberty Loan workers. Miss Case thanks volunteers. Tremieres donates four swings to Gibson Road Children’s Grove. National Wholesale Grocery truck wreck damages wall, traffic resumes. Col Samuel P Colt attends Hanan luncheon with Marines. large Newport gathering. Miss Sarah Wood fractures hip. hospitalized after fall.
A patriotic gathering honoring Mrs Mary Colas and crew members of the USS America was held on a three day furlough. The interior featured Red White and Blue decor and patriotic tunes by Ruth and William Francis. Leonie Mott played piano as John Pardey, also of the USS America, attended. Both men depart tonight for their eighth overseas voyage.
Taylor Holmes stars this evening at the Star theatre in Un easy Money a six act show. Additional attractions include up-to-date films free chocolates Wednesday Tom Moore Haz el Daly Brown of Harvard five act comedy drama Thursday His Wife's Good Name a Vitagraph Blue Ribbon production Lucile Lee Stewart leads.
J. and P. Coats beat the Bristols 6 to 0 on Lonsdale avenue grounds in Pawtucket. After six scoreless innings the Coats broke through in the seventh with one run and added five in the eighth. Nelson struck out 11 for Coats, Baker 8 for Bristols, and Bristols left 4 on base while Coats left 12.
Mrs. Samuel C. Dimond of 123 High Street received a War Department letter in Washington stating her son Harry K. James, listed as missing in action on May 27, has been located and severely wounded. She has not learned whether he is in a French or German hospital. James serves with the American Field Ambulance Corps and recently earned a French War Cross for bravery under fire.
Beets spinach and Swiss chard in Rhode Island gardens suffer heavy infestation from the Spinach or Beet Leaf Miner. The gray fly lays white eggs on leaf undersides. larvae mine the tissue, creating tan blotches that ruin greens. Spraying fails. control relies on collecting and burning infested leaves, with postharvest burning to reduce next season’s numbers.
This week offers Fancy Creamery Butter at 49 cents per pound and Pork and Beans 15 cents per can. Best Formosa Ceylon and Black and Green Teas 40 cents per pound, 20-Mule Team Borax 12 cents, Deviled Meat three cans 25 cents. Table Buttering three pounds for 1 dollar, Evaporated Milk tall cans two for 25 cents. Sheed Beef 35 cent jars, Sweet Pickles 12 cents per bottle, Lunch Tongue No 1 can 49 cents, Ox Tongue No 2 size listed.
Henry P. Davison chair of the American Red Cross War Council thanks editors and publishers for cooperative support in the Second War Fund Campaign. He notes over seventy percent over-subscription and reports total subscriptions reaching 170,038,394 dollars as of July 1.
At a special Bristol Town Council meeting on August 4 1918 it was voted that for the rest of August all dogs must be muzzled unless on the owner premises or chained. Unmuzzled dogs at large will be taken to the Town Pound and, if unclaimed within forty eight hours, killed. Unlicensed dogs will be killed at once. The ordinance takes effect on August 7 1918 by order of the Town Council. John M Coggeshall, Council Clerk. 8-6-9
Classified notices seek a young man for afternoon and Saturday work at the Maveloer Store. Also offers furnished rooms to refined women and various domestic help positions including laundress and child care, with Phoenix Office contact. Some entries include property and farm sale notices with farm and livestock listings.
Clerk John I. Lonergan presided as Judge H Hammill was absent. The Quadropolo versus PantipS case was continued for one week. In Pozzo versus Ling Leone the plaintiff won possession and costs by agreement. Aosenstadt versus William was defaulted.
Three men were sent by the local selective board to camps. Frank Henry Snell of Tiverton is bound for amie Forest Lytle Georgia. George L. Kinnicutt of Bristol heads to Syracuse. John Louis HeamCERONE NS is en route to Fort Slocum this morning.
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