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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1915
Page
3
At the gar today the 17th episode of The Broken Coin series titled The Castaways will screen along with The Queen of Jungle Lands a three part Bison Wild Animal picture. Comedy Double crossing Marmaduke is also featured. Saturday programs include Blazing the Trail an Indian two act feature Nell Craig in The Crucible and In the Heart of the Hills with Adele Lane.
A concise reflection notes that people often overestimate others happiness while undervaluing their own. It explores a common bias in judging well being and suggests awareness of this tendency.
A public appeal asks Bristol residents to join the YMCA or send in their subscription immediately. The message emphasizes personal responsibility and declares that action should be taken at once by all readers who are not members or subscribers.
Advertised letters include Brister R. L. on Dec 25 1915 with recipients Fred Beauchaine Capt J M Baker yee tay John Pos Lesboa Filippo Motta John Powers and women Rozalina Cabral Amelia Marchetti Mrs Wm Sadusky Mrs Geo Simmaons D G Coggeshall P H and others.
This evening at 7 30 prayer and covenant meeting on Words of Cheer for the Coming Year. Sunday morning service at 10 30 with New Year sermon followed by 11 45 Sunday School. Evening service at 7 features a sermon The Importance of Beginnings and a Young people's meeting at 6.
January events include a Thursday evening dance at G A R Hall with cabaret singing by Thomas Lyiance and music by the New Royal Orchestra. The King Philip Steam Fire Engine Co fair runs February through March at Artillery Hall on State Street with a Grand Calendar Carnival February 1–5 in G A R Hall.
High officials among guests praise the National factory visit for its pleasant and profitable arrangements. The office front was decorated with red, white and blue streamers and a 90 foot Welcome sign. A sugar house stored as a storehouse served as the arrival point near Franklin Street railroad station.
About 65 members of the Rhode Island Department Women’s Relief Corps and Grand Army of the Republic visited the State Soldiers Home amid bad weather. They hosted a chowder supper, songs, readings, and a tree event where every veteran received a corn cob pipe tobacco and handkerchief before departing at night.
The First Bristol Troop of Rhode Island Boy Scouts launches a Travelling Stave to visit every state troop. The ash stave, five feet long with silver tips and center plate dated 1916, will be marked at each stop and become property of the First Bristol Troop after its circuit. It departs for Providence Troop Monday evening by 6.20 train, with a reception planned for the first arrival. The event aims to foster closer bonds among scouts statewide.
Tickets have been distributed to Bristol Mothers Club members for three free performances of Alice in Wonderland at Pas time Theatre tomorrow at 1 3 and 5 pm. Adults can pick up tickets by visiting Mrs J H Wall Hope street Mrs Samuel McCaw Constitution and High street Miss Scanlon Union street or Mrs F B Wilson Franklin street. Kinder Trio will play at 1 pm Mrs B M MacDougall will preside at 3 pm and the Lafayette Orchestra will perform at 5 pm all volunteers.
Mrs Eliza Sherman aged about 75 76 born in Westport Massachusetts died at 41 Cottage Street Bristol after a week long pneumonia illness. She widow of Thomas Sherman 1875. Survived by stepson Clinton T Sherman Bristol Industrial Trust. Active in temperance movement former treasurer Bristol Woman's Temperance Union member State Street M E Church. Funeral at her home tomorrow at 1 30 PM.
George G. Taylor of Holton Massachusetts died at the Soldiers Home on Tuesday after a long illness. He was 73 years old and had been admitted from Woonsocket on October 29 1892. He served as a private in Company F Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers and also in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War.
Henry M. Fitts died Dec 20 at the National Soldiers Home in Togus Maine. A Civil War veteran of Company E Third Rhode Island Cavalry he was 69 and the youngest of three brothers who served. Funeral with military honors was at the Home Chapel and burial followed in the Home Cemetery. He leaves a brother Lucian E. Fitts of Providence and four sisters Mrs Myra R Eaton Riverside RI Mrs Mélissa Bowler Mrs James ODonnell of this town and Mrs Joseph King of St Paul Minnesota.
Reports of last evenings bowling actions show the Honk Honks winning three strings from Narragansetts by default and two from the Hayseeds in a separate program. R Newman led with 301 and C Hill hit 113 high single as scores led to Hayseeds securing advantage over Y M C A Tanx. Engagement announced Miss Marie Nelson Bogert and Charles Deas Gadsden of Charleston South Carolina are to marry.
At the Burnside Lodge No. 34 a regular meeting conferred Esquire on three Pages. Officers elected: Chancellor Commander William Gablinski, Vice Chancellor Thomas Sutcliffe, Prelate Charles Weaver, Keeper James A. Clarkson, Master of Finance George Clark, Master of Exchequer Harry Munro, Master at Arms Stephen Hopkins, Master of Work James Holmes, Inside Guard William Gayton, Outside Guard Charles Card. Installation set for next Wednesday evening.
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