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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1934
Page
2
The community welcomes Bristol s first new theatre the Pastime as Lon Vail replaces the old venue. Merchants report a drop in sales during absence of moving pictures and praise the new establishment for its furnishings and management.
Bristol district nurses report November totals across care types and clinics. General care 10 Metropolitan care 15 John Hancock care 2. visits General 160 Metropolitan 49 John Hancock 9. prenatal 3. tuberculosis 52. ex san 9. Clinics: Child Welfare 4. babies examined 92. chest clinic eight patients. X-Ray clinic 10 patients with four Bristol patients X-Rayed at Wallum Lake. Ten social and office calls numbered 37.
Dec 8 Saturday events include a Christmas cards sale and afternoon tea by the Girls' Friendly Society at St Michael's Church, plus Chamarita and Dance in Columbia Hall Wood Street to benefit the Portuguese Independent Club Band. Dec 13–14 Theatre of The Cricket On The Hearth by St Michael's Players Virginia S Martin coach. Dec 15 Christmas tea and musicale at DOO LK lass at Congregational Sunday School. Dec 24 Eve Dance in Columbia Hall Wood Street.
Jose Camara and wife transfer a house and lot on Prospect street to Old Colony Co-Operative Bank. George Dion Jr. is identified as son of George and Mrs Dion. Hope Street CCC member R L, stationed Charlestown, recuperating after an appendectomy at Newport Naval Hospital. Grace Battcher named chair of Christmas party committee for Beta Sigma Bradford Society at Trinity Church parish house on Dec 20 with Herbert Gray and Arline Fiske assisting. Bristol Portuguese-American Woman's Civic League plans a public bingo in Lincoln Hall to fund a Christmas party for needy children on Dec 23, led by Marion Coste with Gilda DaCosta, Helen Dennis, Rose Grange, Mary Grange, Wilhelmina Silvia assisting.
A mass meeting of Portuguese American residents is set for Sunday afternoon at Santo Spirito Hall, Franklin Street, to form an athletic association. Also notes on liquor permits, local meetings, a sidewalk accident involving Frank Francis, Rotary talk, newlywed Bruno visit, and various club activities.
Mother's and brother's memorial note recalls William Hirst Kearney lost on the destroyer Jacob Jones December 6, 1917. They express enduring love and a lamp of affection that stays bright despite the years.
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