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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1935
Page
5
Christmas programs were held today at Colt Memorial High School and Reynolds and Byfield schools. Colt programs featured carols and readings with student performers and a 2:30 p m party. Coach Ian Walker announced football letters for many players and the magician Cardo performed at 4 p.m.
Students from Guiteras Junior High perform a March entrance with a school orchestra and sing The Star Spangled Banner. The program includes original sketches by Jane McKenna and student acts Oh Come All Ye Faithful All on a Winters Day Jingle Bells and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town with cast lists for 9A 9B and staff.
A fragment lists performers and stage staff for a school Christmas program. Names include Grace Higind Irene Cabral Emily Car mone Alice Castro Mary DeCosta Mary Ferreira Flora Fusco Catherine Hammill Ann Leahy Theresa Nappi Marie Pacheco Dorothy Paiva Leonora Paiva Palmeida Pinhero Mary Rego Alice Teixeira Bridget Turillo Margaret Vaccaro Gladys Weaver. Special dances by Dorothy and Leonora Paiva with Christ mas carol Hark The Herald Angels Sing. Stage managers Frank Correira Samuel Leviten 9A Curtains Daniel Vargas 9A Announcer Angelo Massa 9A Exit march, school orchestra.
Funeral services were held today at 1 30 pm in Goudy Funeral Parlors Everett Massachusetts for Elizabeth Dimond Bishop widow of Nathan Allen Bishop who died Tuesday in Malden Massachusetts after months of illness She was in her 78th year Born in Bristol she was a daughter of Charles E and Mary Church Dimond She attended public schools but had not resided here since her marriage to Nathan Bishop on June 1 1888 She is survived by her son and daughter in law Stewart Bishop of Everett Massachusetts sister Katherine Hiltz of Cambridge and brothers Charles and Frank Dimond of this town
Mrs Eleanor Baker Sherman wife of Howard E Sherman died at her Washington DC home after a two week illness. A Brewster Mass burial is planned with funeral services held today. Mrs Sherman was a native of the town and her husband is retired from the Government Printing Office.
John L Sullivan and police officers from Boston visited Bristol on a brief tour. They arrived from Boston at 1 50 pm after leaving at 10 30 am and met residents at the Bristol Hotel, toured the National Rubber Co and Herreshoff works, then viewed Pappasquash residence before departing at 4 30 pm amid a grand sendoff.
A poem styled plea to Sergeant Hoard urging action against male loiterers on sidewalks. The verse mocks police hesitation and asks the City Council to empower authorities to drive off bold loafers seen near Hopestree elm.
Article extols Trinity Parish choirs powerful Sunday liturgy. It notes 2 boys and 13 men form 19 trebles altos tenors and bases with long service. Emphasizes training, discipline, and lifelong influence of choir life on boys and men.
The new hose carriage from New York for the Hydraulic Fire Engine No 1 arrived Saturday morning via Fall River steamer and was inspected by many at the engine house. Built by New York Fire Apparatus Works under Superintendent James F Smith, it features a four Archibalds crane five wheels hose reel gear two tool boxes and is driven by one or two horses or by hand.
The Manufacturers League games rolled at the High Street alleys last night with teams competing for top standings on the lanes. Players delivered solid marks as observers noted improving team play and shot accuracy throughout the evening.
Mullins defeated the Gumps and Nebbs beat the Winvers over the D of J League at High Street alleys on Wednesday.
The Recordacoes da Patria club in Bristol, a pioneer Portuguese benevolent organization, has seated its newly elected officers led by president Anthony Cabral. The slate includes vice president Joseph Vera, treasurer John Cordiero, secretary Joseph Lagardi, sergeant at arms Seraphine Rego, and Anthony Fonseca as attendant. An investigat ing committee was named: John Vera, Manuel Valenga and Frank Myers.
Albert Gale writes to the Bristol Phoenix recalling historic Bristol sites such as Kimball House and Sallie Muttons Cottage. He requests data on the Whipping Post, old jail, and Trinity rectory visit by British soldiers, noting unrecorded events and war-era depredations.
Battery C Bristol defeated Battery D Providence 68 to 12 at the local armory to claim its first victory in the R I N G Basketball League. The game highlighted Battery C’s strong defense and balanced scoring from key players.
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