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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1930
Page
6
Ford proposes a 100 million educational push to teach youth to fit into life at eighteen, urge tractors and aviation progress, while railings on battleships and power disputes reveal global tensions. The piece contrasts Ford's social program with naval armament debates and water rights, highlighting how nations handle wealth and technology.
Washington Birthday observances held at Colt High School and John Rost Reynolds School featured Grade 6A2 pupils presenting a period play dramatizing events of 1775 1777. Students performed recitations songs and two act plays about Washington Betsy Ross and the making of the first flag with multiple student roles and scenes.
In Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday Senator Daniel W Coggeshall introduced a bill to abolish the Bristol based assistant clerk for the Superior Court serving Providence and Bristol Counties. The measure targets Section 2 of Chapter 326 and was referred to the judiciary committee. The late Henry Manton Thompson long held both clerk and assistant clerk posts with ties to Bristol County.
A dense listing of community happenings in Bristol includes dances at ABR hall and St Michaels Church March the Turkey Supper at Mood Church the Rotary Club space event a masquerade ball at the Academy and annual balls by the fire department and train of artillery musical operettas The Toy Maker and The Mikado staged by local pupils and groups across February to May.
Sunday services on February 23, 1930 include morning worship at 10 45 with the theme Crowned with Life Church School at noon Epworth League 645 and a Community Patriotic Service at 8 00 P M at the High School Auditorium The Churchs annual meeting and Fourth Quarterly Conference convene at 730 P M with reports and officer elections presided by Dr E E Wells Providence District Superintendent
A large audience gathered for Battery D smoker boxing in the Artillery Armory on State Street. Main bout saw Martin Mansi defeat Young Lefty in the third round. Furtado won on points over Malafronte. Prelims featured Don Deviece over Delaney and Borges over Burns with Gazell and Alves drawing.
Funeral services for Mrs Silvia, wife of Frank Perry Silvia, were held at St Elizabeths church after dying Tuesday at home on the Charlies F Herreshoff Jr estate. Survived by four sons and four daughters and 25 grandchildren. Interment in Pocasset cemetery. Mrs Turner died Sunday in Somers New York after a brief pneumonia illness.
The funeral of Mrs Margaret Bradford Peck Turner wife of Rev Robert N Turner and daughter of Mr and Mrs George F Peck of Warren was held Wednesday afternoon from St Mark's Episcopal Church in Warren, with relatives and friends in attendance.
Due to public demand the 7 PM gladtime service will be held at First Congregational Church this Sunday. The time is moved to 7 to allow attendance at the patriotic Colt Memorial High School service at eight. Roswell S Bosworth leads the family sing and Rev Herbert D Graetz delivers the Washington life themed talk Life Lessons from a Great Life.
Miss Annie D. Sisson, principal, lists students achieving high marks on the honor roll for the period ending February 12. Names span three categories: ninety percent or higher in three subjects and in two subjects, and eighty percent in three or two subjects, with many students from Helen Barbato to Agnes Silvia and Charles Bowron among those recognized.
A report states lithium is the lightest metal with a specific gravity around 0.50, compared to aluminum at 2.6. The piece notes lithium would thus be about one tenth as heavy as aluminum.
The Grand Canyon is more than 200 miles long and is divided into four sections the Kaibab Kanab Uinkaret and Sheavwitz.
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