Humorist Dr J Whitcomb Brougher to Lecture Here
Dr J Whitcomb Brougher pastor of Tremont Temple Baptist Boston and famed as The Will Rogers of the American Pulpit visits Bristol for a humorous lecture Tuesday at 745 as the third event in the Men's Union speakers series at First Congregational Church. He is a noted Mason and Shriner with a long record in Royal Arch chapters and has drawn praise from Theodore Roosevelt and major newspapers for his blend of humor and earnest preaching.
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America
First Congregational Church
Men’s Union
J. Whitcomb Brougher
Tremont Temple Baptist Church
Boston
Mass
Will Rogers
Bristol
Brougher
California
Royal Arch Masons
St. Paul’s
Royal Arch
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
George
F. F. Whiting
New England
Middlesex Republican Club
Tremont Temple
Scouts Appeal for Help for Christmas Good Turn
Bristol Scout Troops urge residents to donate used toys for a Christmas toy shop on State Street. Repairs, paint demos, and light costs are needed to provide toys for needy children before Christmas. Cash gifts and subscriptions to Mr John YT Ashton are welcomed at the Toy Shop or Phoenix Office.
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Bristol
State Street
John YT Ashton
Phoenix Office
Half Fare Bus Service Between Bristol and Warren
Arrangements with the NJ Transportation Co on Warren Day December 16 provide half fare for passengers traveling Bristol to Warren between 9 and 11 pm. Fares will be collected by conductors on the buses.
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NJ Transportation Co
Warren
Bristol
Fire damages 55 State Street store. flames confined to upper structure
Fire gutted the Michael Jamiel building at 55 State Street with $6000 estimated loss, mostly uninsured. Fire Chief Robert J. Anderson credited prompt department response saving nearby wooden buildings as residents evacuated children and infants to safety.
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Michael Jamiel
State Street
Robert J. Anderson
Anderson
Jeannette
Tucy
George
Cavallaro
Jamiel
Alfred
Providence
Merce
Jamal
Jame
Thames
Help the Basket Fund Christmas Appeal
The American Legion Christmas Basket Fund organizers ask for gifts to provide a substantial Christmas dinner for many needy families. Donations slow but needed. send money or checks to B W Wall at 539 Hope Street or 37 Cook Street for acknowledgment in this column.
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American Legion
Wall
Hope Street
Cook Street
Former local youth wins high honors at Boston
Harold Payson Jr a former resident of this town was named a Rhodes scholar by the Boston committee joining four others from New England He is now an ensign in the US Navy and serves aboard the US S S Louisville Payson graduated with honors from the Naval Academy class of 1931 and earlier attended St Pauls School Concord N H Morse Private School in town He earned a presidential appointment to the Naval Academy in 1926 and excelled in baseball crew water polo sailing and athletics while a midshipman.
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Boston
Castrinet
Harold Payson Jr
Rhodes
New England
Payson
US Naval Academy
St Paul's School
Concord
N Hy
Swathely
Morse
Naval Academy
New Industries Committee Sets Policy Debate on Town Growth
The New Industries Committee met Tuesday evening in Council Chambers to decide if the town should pursue residential, industrial, or both development. Members voiced disapproval of a Whitten plan favoring high value residents and deferred action on a state loan for unemployment relief until the next regular meeting.
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Whitten
W. Fred Whiliams, Jr
James F. Wylie
New Industries Committee
John R Magee
George H Baldwin
CC Getchell
Chamber of Commerce
Joint Committee
Robert Whitten
New York
Magee
Taewa Council
Baldwin
Getchell
Council
Wallliams
Paul Millemage
Frank J Sylvia
Williams
Keds
National India Rubber Company
Edward L. Leahy
US Rubber Company
Lavinia Guevremont To Head New Girl Scout Troop
Lavinia Guevremont was chosen patrol leader and Mary Walsh assistant patrol leader of the newly organized Girl Scout troop Birch No 1 meeting at John Post Reynolds School auditorium. The unit elected leaders Barbara Higbee Westher Hazen Evangeline Malafronte Azelle de Rocha Dorothea Davin Virginia McLaughlin Viola Le Clerc Leonora de Rocha Jennie Carriggio Josephine de Rosa. Plans for a Christmas party were made with a tentative date of December 23 and dues will be donated to the Santa Claus fund.
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Lavinia Guevremont
Mary Walsh
Newl
Goldenrod
John Post Reynolds
Birch
Barbara Higbee
Wsther Hazen
Evangeline Malafronte
Community Revue Committee Plans December Entertainment
The Community Revue Committee met at the Holmes House to review a 20 act pre show for the Pastime Theatre performance on Tuesday evening December 22. Andrew Iverson donated poster painting services while committees report rapid progress and the next meeting is set for December 16.
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Holmes House
Fred M. Straight
Frederick S. Bartlett
Andrew Iverson
Gladys M. Brightman
Girl Scouts Sell Christmas Seals in Local Outlets
Christmas seals will be sold by Girl Scouts under Mrs Frederick S Bartlett and Miss Frances Horton not in Bristol public schools this year. Seals also available at Miss Talhan T Wilson millinery gift shop in the YMCA Building on Hope Street to fight tuberculosis.
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Bristol
Frederick S Bartlett
Frances Horton
Talhan T Wilson
Hope Street
YMCA
Quick Wit of Former Fire Chief Saves Cottage
Former Fire Chief John Grabert with Arthur Dunbar and Manuel Rego, all of this town, extinguished a grass fire near an unoccupied cottage owned by former Senator Ezra Dixon at Poppasquash. They battled flames with water relays and coats after noticing the blaze started by youths about 250 feet away and spread toward the shelter.
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John Grabert
Arthur Dunbar
Manuel Rego
Narragansett Bay
Ezra Dixon
Wall Elected to Veterans' Preference Committee
Bertram W Wall former commander of Kearney Post No. 6 American Legion has been appointed for one year to the Veterans' Preference Committee confirmed by National Adjutant James F Barton. The appointment was arranged by his close ally National Commander Henry L Stevens Jr.
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Bertram W Wall
Kearney
American Legion
National
James F.barton
Veterans’ Preference Committee
Wall
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
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Old
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Ewe
Richard Arlen
Peggy Shannon
Jack Oakle
Regis Toomey
Africa
Mitzi Green
Jackie Sears
Louise Fazanda
Edna Majiver
Me— Thomas Meighan
Dorothy Jordan
Edmund Lowe
Lois Moran
John Halliday
Jean Aersholt
Greta Wissen
Merna Loy
MR. Allen Corelli & Company
Muscial
Help the Basket Fund
Flizabeth Graham
Grabert
Poppasquash
Mello’s Market
J. C. Mello
Edward C. Kunz
Optometrist
Bristol,r.i
Medeiros
Bernard
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