School Committee Endorses Teacher Pay Hikes and New Evening Classes
The School Committee approved higher salaries for grade teachers with new ranges and an added two nights per week for mechanical drawing classes at Colt Memorial High School. Dr. Merriman was re elected Medical Inspector. a special meeting will select a site for the Elizabeth Wardwell Guiteras School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Francis Herreshoff
Alfred M. Merriman
Henry W. Boynton
Connery
Gaminettes
Colt Memorial High School
William C. Hobbs
Philip Brady
Frank C. Child
Crawford J Easterbrooks
Prescott A. Hoar
John Post Reynolds
Byfield
Byfield School
Taft School
Albert A. Thornton
Elizabeth Wardwell Guiteras School
Train Service Curtailed Over Coal Shortage in New England
Railroads across the East implement a broad curtailment. Rhode Island loses 55 regular trains, with the New York New Haven and Hartford system axing 182 services, Boston and Maine cutting 77, Maine Central 17, and Boston and Albany five. The Knickerbocker limited on the New Haven line is among those withdrawn. Between Providence and Boston, 16 trains are eliminated, eight in each direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Boston and Maine
Maine Central
Boston and Albany
New Haven
Knickerbocker
New York
Boston
Providence
High School Honor Roll At Colt Memorial High
Pupils at Colt Memorial High School earning 85 percent or higher in every subject for the eight days ending December 5 are Julia DeFelice Marguerite Murphy Virginia August Luciano Capone Kathleen Hodgdon Israel Makowsky William Rinaldi Mary Ennis Norma Mathewson Louise Murphy Evelyn Bullock Harriet Kinder Post-Graduate Oliver Coggeshall Joseph Kelley George Matheson George Stuart George Yarlasavetsky Anna Brelsford Ruth Weaver Anna Brown Maybel Cote Doris Dunbar Annie McGovern Ruth Suzman Dane Eisenberg Doris Orgleman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colt Memorial High School
Julia DeFelice
Marguerite Murphy
Virginia August
Luciano Capone
Kathleen Hodgdon
Israel Makowsky
William Rinaldi
Mary Ennis
Norma Mathewson
Louise Murphy
Evelyn Bullock
Harriet Kinder
Oliver Coggeshall
Joseph Kelley
George Matheson
George Stuart
George Yarlasavetsky
Anna Brelsford
Ruth Weaver
Anna Brown
Maybel Cote
Doris Dunbar
Annie McGovern
Ruth Suzman
Dane Eisenberg
Doris Orgleman
Eleventh Annual Bristol County Poultry Show Opens
The Bristol County Poultry Association begins its eleventh annual exhibition tonight at 6 at G A R Hall and runs tomorrow and Thursday from 9 am to 10 pm. Judges include C A Ballou, F J Cook, and W H Manchester. Officials are President Howard W Church and others named, with James A Clarkson as secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol County Poultry Association
G. A. R. Hall
C. A. Ballou
Worcester
Mass
F. J. Cook
Waltham
W. H. R. Manchester
Howard W. Church
Richard R. Cornell
James A Clarkson
John G. Stewart
William Manchester
Walter T. Remieres
Nathaniel W. Sparks
Amos E. Wilcox
William B. Pearse
John Usher, Jr
Richard Stuart
Carl C. Witherell
George L. Cornell
Gardner West
Minstrel Show Plans Highlight Kearney Post Meeting
Kearney Post American Legion members set tentative plans for a minstrel show with Bertram W Wall Fred M Straight Edward E Bunn Joseph M Bottomley Daniel W Coggeshall named to arrange. Monthly meetings to begin first Friday next month with Ladies Night in January as Babbitt Woman's Relief Corps presents a flag. Tickets for world war film series Dec 15 and 22 available from members or W M Connery store for seating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearney Post
American Legion
Post
Bertram W. Wall
Fred M. Straight
Edward E. Bunn
Joseph M. Bottomley
Daniel W. Coggeshall
Babbitt Woman's Relief Corps
W. M. Connery
Thieves Break Into Wardwell Store and Nearby Homes
Three break ins in Bristol area with Wardwell Lumber Company on Bradford street the store robbed of knives plyers and ten dollars in postage stamps. Homes of Mrs E C Larned and Walter S Davis were ransacked with a lunch taken and no detailed inventory available. Chief Dwyer suspects local youths as responsible after investigating footprints and window damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wardwell Lumber Company
Bradford Street
E. C. Larned
Poppasquash
Walter S. Davis
Bristol Highlands
Wardwell
Thomas Dwyer
Dwyer
New Express Packing Rules Take Effect Tomorrow
Agent C H Leffingwell in charge of the local express office says shipments over 25 pounds must be sent in wooden containers or cartons with the boxmakers certificate. Packages under 25 pounds remain wrapped in paper. Shippers should send holiday parcels early and ensure proper packing and accurate addressing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Leffingwell
Express
Leffingwell
N. I. R. Co. Defeats Nyanza Mills in Woonsocket
The N. I. R. Co. beat Nyanza Mills 1 to 0 in Woonsocket on Saturday afternoon. The match was hard fought with N. I. R. holding the edge throughout. A game against a Fall River team is planned for Bristol next Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nyanza Mills
Woonsocket
Bristol Common
Fall River
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Qur Government
Bristol
Hope Street
Fox
Wn. Farnum
Zane Grey
THE
Lone Star
Ranger
Fox Weekly
William “Farnum
William Fox
Paramount Picture
Charles Ray
Paramount
Mack Sennett
Mitchell Lewis
Great Northwest
Thomas Dixon
Fox News
Beaver Board
Bristol, R. I
Edward BD. Kunz
Pastime Theatre
Kearney
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