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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1949
Page
2
The article calls on young men to volunteer for the National Guard. Battery C has 21 vacancies toward a 126 man strength. Enlistments up to 35, veterans up to 60. The Guard aims for a 341000 member ceiling funded through June 30 1949. Congress allows enlistment before 18 years six months to balance training and education.
A brief fragment from a Bristol page shows a friendly message requesting courtesy and cooperation from readers. The text references activities and a long deal of interest, urging helpfulness and mutual use of information.
Call 44 The Couples Club of the First Baptist Church will meet in the vestry Thursday evening. The Sewer Survey Committee will meet with the Budget Committee tomorrow evening to discuss appropriation procedure. Trinity Women's Guild will meet tomorrow evening at 8 in the Parish Room. Mrs. Chester Burgess and Mrs. Daniel Chase are in charge of refreshments. There will be a meeting of the Democratic Town Committee tomorrow evening in the Court house to plan for the coming primary. Frederick Souza born Saturday at Truesdale Hospital to Mrs. Souza formerly Sue Proto. Dorothy Foster left Jane Brown Hospital after a short illness and recuperating at Miss Elizabeth Hoyle's home. Ralph M. De Leo attended a luncheon conference of Post Commanders at the Narragansett Hotel. Three members of the Kearney post were among scouts at Quonset Naval Base. S. Wesley Gladding will open a cleansing establishment on State Street after returning to Bristol. The First Congregational Church Board of Trustees meets Thursday at 7:30 in Guiteras House. Pro Christo meets at 8 in Guiteras House. St Albans Lodge will meet at the Masonic Temple before visiting the home of departed member Frank Rounds. Colt basketball lost to Lockwood 52 to 47 at Warwick with Lou Margo and team struggling in final moments. Lockwood tied for first behind the Devils Joe Lemieux and Joe Taylor. Rotary Club members will meet tomorrow at 42:15 but program omitted to honor late member Frank A. Rounds with funeral at 2 p.m. Rhode Island Business Education Directors Club met at Crown Hotel Providence with Dr Michael Walsh speaker. Miss Doris Bullock Bristol, Miss Mary Kelley Warren, Miss Ella Quilty Barrington represented Bristol County.
In a last period attack that lacked the fury of past Colt charges, Green closed the gap but could not shake loose enough to beat a determined Lockwood five.
Frank A. Rounds died suddenly at home in Bristol. He was 1880 born, married to Emma McCarty Rounds, with son Earl P. Rounds and siblings George, Eugene, and Mrs Nelson Terry. He served as a sailmaker with Herreshoff, ran an upholstering business at 23 Church St for 25 years, and belonged to St Michael's Church Vestry Rotary Club United Brothers Lodge and St Albans Lodge. Burial at North Cemetery.
The family extends sincere thanks to relatives and friends for acts of kindness sympathy spiritual bouquets and floral offerings after the death of Mrs. Maria Antonia Brunelli.
United States Senator from Massachusetts Leverett Saltonstall will be guest speaker at the Lincoln Day Dinner at the Sheraton Biltmore Hotel on February 14 1949 at 6 30 p m. Co chairs Bayard Ewing Providence and Mrs Antoinette Sciarretta North Providence. Dinner tickets cost 4 00 distributed through the State Central Committee. Senator Saltonstall, former three term Massachusetts governor, was reelected to the Senate on November 2 and serves on the Appropriations Committee.
An Industrial League All Star quintet will face Newport on Wednesday Feb 16 at Andrews Gym in a benefit game for the Industrial League Fund. Newport will feature Rhode Island stars Dino Martin Jack Allen and Dick Hole along with other RI State alumni. Louise Castriotta chairs the Industrial League with board members Sal Maisano and George Boutilier.
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