Zoning Board Grants Petition For Metacom Avenue Store
The Zoning Board granted Louis Cavallaro a variance to build a grocery variety store at 25 Metacom Avenue after an executive session and a public hearing with no remonstrants. Four conditions were set: setback over 35 feet, angled placement, adequate parking off the highway, proper landscaping, and completion by December 31, 1950. The board also noted an appeal must be filed on a hens as case and advertised a zoning change petition from residential C to industrial H for 53 Metacom Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoning Board of Review
Ouis Cavallaro
Richmond
Metacom Avene
Metacom Vaenue
Edward Trainor
Collins Street
Bruno Vollaro
Otis M. Bailey
Manuel Marshall
Coles Street
Eugene F. Cochran
Trainor
Vollaros
Christmas Program To Aid Scout Fund
The Bristol Boy Scout Bugle Drum Corps and its auxiliaries unite for a Christmas sale of trees wreaths baskets and treats to fund new equipment. Proceeds go to the corps fund with sales on the vacant lot by Scout Hall at Hopel and Franklin streets starting next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scout Hall
Hopel
Franklin Streets
Drum Corps
Manuel Silvia
Raymond J. Sartini
Scoiut Hall
William H Buffum
Scout
Olive Sartim
Delia 2Erry
Millie Mancieri
Mary Toste
Agnes Fojo
Catherine Motta
Mercury Vapor Lights Brighten Hope Street Block
A 90 day trial lights a one block stretch on Hope Street between Court and State with three mercury vapor lamps. An electric eye auto operates dusk to dawn facing north, with 16 000 lumen output. Brackets raised to 25 feet and the Bristol Business Civic Association urged the project to enhance Christmas displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Street
Court
State Streets
Narragansett Electric Company
John D Moore
Moore
Bristol Business Civic Association
Citzens
Hope
Wood Street
Bristol Manufacturing Corp honors service employees
About seventy Bristol Manufacturing Corp workers at Buttonwood Street plant received service emblems for ten or more years of continuous service in morning ceremonies. Maurice C. Smith Jr. presented the awards with plant manager Anthony J. Nunes acting as master of ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brisol Manufacturing Corp
Buttonwood Street
Maurice C. Smith, Jr
Concern
Anthony J Nunes
Maurice C Smith, Jr
Antonio Arruda
Antonio Sousa
D.lloyd Smith
John Vasconce
Dorothy L
Samang Carmella C. Silvia
Kefetona O Carreiro
Rose Sousa
Gloria Medeiros
Mimes
Mary Cardozalerie Cirillo
Eisenhower Cup To Be Presented December 28
Bristol's Battery C will receive the Gen Dwight D Eisenhower Trophy as Rhode Island National Guard unit of the year on December 28 in Andrew's School Auditorium. Capt Raymond J Makowsky will accept the trophy from Maj Gen Frank A Keating. The program includes awards to outstanding enlisted men, basic training honors, rifle marksman, and the 88th Army Ground Forces Band in Providence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rhode Island
Andrew's School
Raymond J Makowsky
Batery
Frank A. Keating
First Service Command
James A. Murphy
Keating
88Th Army Ground Forces Band of
Providence
Pool of clues grows as Mt Hope Bridge search continues
State police at the Portsmouth Barracks and other agencies persist in the hunt for a man believed to have leaped from the Mt Hope Bridge on Wednesday. Fall River and Portsmouth responders found a car, a hat identified as the missing man’s, and footprints on the bridge as authorities broaden their shoreline and bay searches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth Barracks
Mt. Hope Bridge
Fall River
Philip Berube
Baker Street
Ludger Bergeron
Edward Watson
Herman Smith
Doris Smith
Bristol Ferry Road
Portsmouth
Mt. Hope Bay
Bristol Fire Department
Quonset Naval Air Base
Berube
Bergeron
State Civil Air Patrol
Division of Fish and Game Patrol
Cornell named new C A resident manager in Rhode Island division
Frederic A Cornel of Bristol has been chosen as resident manager of Collins and Aikman Rhode Island Division replacing Joseph H Farrell who takes a medical leave. The announcement by A R Jube notes Farrell’s 28 years with the firm and Bristol residency since 1941. Bodell will assume Cornell’s former duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic A Cornell
Mmanager
Rhode Island
Collins & Aikman Corporation
Joseph H. Farrell
A R Jube
C&a Corp
Farrell
C&a
Bristol
Aratex, Inc
Philadelphia
Cornell
Colt Memorial High School
Rhode Island School of Design
Jube
Philip T Bodell
Bristol Names For Town Streets Proposed From History
Alice B Almy of the Bristol Historical Society releases a list of suggested street names based on local historical figures. Names include Capt Simeon Potter Revolutionary War hero, John Gorham first Bristol settler, Rogers John early settler, Nathan Hayman proprietor, Smith Richard first Town Clerk, Smith Nathaniel early recorder, Joseph and Jonathan Russell town treasurer and clerk, Major Jacob Babbitt Civil War hero, and many other influential early residents. The proposal notes the Herreshoff family and other notable names to honor Bristol heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice B. Almy
Bristol Historical Society
Town Planning Board
Simeon
Bristol
Gorham
John
Rogers
General Court of
Massachusetts
Hayman
Nathan
Teha
Smith
Richard
Nathaniel
Russell
Joseph
Jonathan
Babbitt
Jacob
Grand Army I
King Philip Fire Engine Co
Waldron
Isaac
George
Reynolds
Bosworth
Benjamin
Edward
Ingraham
William
Paine
Jabez
Adams
Eliashib
Gladding
Walker
Thomas
Daggett
Hoar
Throop
Howland
Thurston
Munro
Augustus Miller
Albert Bennett
James Lawless
John Lawless
Parker Borden
Benjamin Pitman
Isaac Liscomb
George Dev
Tree Warden Initiates Over 100 New Replacements Townwide
Joseph Kinder, tree warden, starts the first major town tree replacement since 1940. About 110 to 115 alms and maples are planted along with 25 elms on the town common and 10 maples in the town park. The project will replace trees lost in the 1944 hurricane or since then, with 700 to 800 more needed in new sections. Councilman Edward H. Holmes guides placement and benches may be added. Funds come from the town appropriation. 1940 work was funded by public subscriptions. Trees 12 to 15 feet tall may offer shade by next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Kinder
Church Street
Kinder
Edward H. Holmes
Dr William S Holland of Watchman Industrial School
The Rhode Island minister Dr William S Holland heads the Watchman Industrial School in Providence and Scituate aiding underprivileged children regardless of race or creed. Despite threats and a fire at a Scituate home a rebuilt program kept going with funds from small donations and state tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S Holland
Rhode Island
Watchman Industrial School
Providence
Scituate
Bristol Seals Drive Reports $729 in Ten Days
Mrs Nathaniel G Herreshoff chairs Bristol Christmas Seals Committee and says the first ten days of the 1949 drive have $729 reported. About 2500 seals were mailed to residents clubs and businesses to surpass the final goal of $1800 to aid tuberculosis fight efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel G. Herreshoff
Bristol
U.S
Also Mentioned on This Page
Zoning Board
Scout Fund
Bristol Bugle and Drum Corps
Bristol Boy Scout Bugle Fund
Corps Men’s
Women’s Auxiliary
Mercury
Hope St
Edwin L. Nunes
State Street Wharf
Rexford L. North
Izzy” Lane
Harry
Bill Wingate
M. C
Buzzy” Bisband’s Orchestra
Fred Macmurray, Maureen Ohara In
Congo
Rod Cameron
Bonita Granville
Don Castle
Jyse Knox
Edward NO
Tulsa
Susan Hayward
Robert Preston
Pedro
Ndariz
Don Barry
Sheila Ryan
Tom Brown
Tern
Bristol Mfg. Corp
Andrews
All Rands
Makowsky
Anthony del Toro
Joseph A . Cuiroucaor
T Bullock
Signal Corps
Boston
4. F. Marcelynas
Coast Artillery Corps
1122Nd Army Service Unit
Frederic A. Cornell
New C&a
J. H. Farrell
Planning Board
St. Names
STARK
Hes
Joe Petty
East Greenwich
Dr. Holland
Teave
Watchman ‘Industrial School
Befere
Holand
Ars
Gna
Holland
Bristol Garden
St. Michael’s Parish House
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