07 Aug 1931
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1931
Page
1
Taxpayers will meet Monday at 8 30 p m in the John Post Reynolds School auditorium to revisit a $266 000 sewage disposal plan now forecast near $240 000 and to consider a resolution providing public relief funds for the needy for the rest of the fiscal year.
Arrangements completed for Newport and Bristol Lions Club joint outing at the Trotting Park on Bristol Neck. The event, set for Thursday August 13, features a chowder meal at 1 PM and bake at 5 PM with a varied sports program including the second in a baseball series between the Newport and Bristol clubs led by President-Manager Lanzire.
The Boy Scouts at Camp Takarest and New York tenement district children vacationing there will be treated to a theatre party Tuesday. Sponsored by the Fresh Air Fund and Ladies Auxiliary of Kearney Post No. 6 American Legion, with gifts from Mr Lon Vail of the Pastime Theatre. Newman Brothers donate marshmallows and Leon McCaw supplies watermelons. ice cream will be provided by Buffington's Pharmacy proprietor.
Selections from Stephen Vincent Benet’s epic will be read by Rev Anthony R Parshley at 8 o clock Sunday in the Parish House. Baritone pieces by Roswell S Bosworth with Mrs Frank A Rounds. silver offering for the poor.
Council meeting Tuesday discusses exhausting town hospital funds and asks physicians to limit transfers to Providence Hospital. Officials consider lowering or removing the 50 cent meter charge with the electric company and PU C. Public Aid reports outline aid to 135 Bristol families and vegetable donations. Police, highway, and treasury updates follow with a $10,000 borrowing authorization and a tax list canvass for August 10.
The regular C A Girls Club meeting was held Monday night in the club room. Plans are in place for an event at Crescent Park on Sunday Aug 9 with prizes for sports arranged by a committee led by Miss Madeline Cortellessa. A social hour followed. next month’s social committee includes Ida Ferrara Ethel Alesio and Virginia Riccio.
Funeral services for the late Sarah Dee Brown wife of George Brown were held Wednesday at 2 oclock from the Mortuary Chapel in the North Cemetery. The Rev O T Gilmore student counselor at Brown University officiated at the chapel and conducted the committal at the grave.
One hundred boats from sixteen clubs enter the Bristol Yacht Club regatta with eighteen classes, all arrangements set and breezes hoped for tomorrow after two in the afternoon. The event features Coast Guard supervision and an entry list with sail marks to aid land observers, as the Ida Lewis Yacht Club and Narragansett Bay Regatta Association joint races follow.
The N I R baseball nine led by manager Kid Hope with pitcher from Cape Cod League and players Ernie Agnew Joe Darcy and stars Butsy Brown Notte Lefty Greenwood and Sheriff Brown meet LaFazia Drug Store tonight at 615 pm. Mgr Joe Gomes or Jack Young to start. Biancuzzo catches.
At the morning service in the church auditorium the Rev Frederick T Persons DD of Boston will preach the sermon He is librarian at the American Congregational Association of Boston No evening service during August
A Christian Endeavor Society meeting is set for 8 o'clock this evening at Miss Olive Luther's home on Griswold Avenue. Sunday morning T H VonKomicke Jr will lead the service, followed by Sunday school.
Defiance Hose Company will stage a clam bake at Fales Orchard on Sunday afternoon August 16 prepared by F H Miller Co of East Providence. Ever Ready Engine and Hose Co schedules its clam bake for Sunday September 6 with a committee led by Joseph Paul.
At Camp Takarest on Mt Hope Bay the water carnival featured a water battle between St Michael's Boys' Club and Tent No 1 and 2 of the Boy Scouts. Tent No 1 beat Tent No 2 in the prelims, then St Michael's eliminated all but two of Tent No 1 to win the final. Winners included Jack Hoar Robert McGann Peter Sprague and Chester Warner with top awards in underwater swim 50 yard dash and obstacle race. Officials listed include Scout master Lawrence Ashton and judges James Connors William Poore and Louis Almeida with Rev. George H Toadvin Jr as scorer.
Mrs. William Leonard Manchester, Vice President General of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, attended morning ceremonies at 10 o'clock honoring the U. S. Frigate Constitution at the Municipal Pier Providence. A luncheon for Old Ironsides officers followed at the Narragansett Hotel at noon.
Chief Ousa Mekin of the Wampanoag and Penobscot tribes spoke at the Hotel Belvedere Rotary Club urging equal educational opportunities for Native Americans. He cited 362000 Indians on 161 western reservations and recounted his own life from mill work to Navy service and study to become a preacher. Applause followed his call for parity with immigrant assistance and recognition of Native contributions to history.
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