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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1918
Page
2
A garbled item refers to Leelee H and R Newman Clarke Manchester tied to a legal or business matter involving an electrical shop and a Drury company. Readable fragments indicate a dispute or loss linked to a local firm and individuals named in the damaged text.
The piece laments widespread future closures and limited activity as most amusements close for ten Mondays. It notes trains running Sunday schedules, stores shutting, saloons closed, and even gardening hindered while coal shortages leave only ashes to sift for amusement.
Miss Helen Fraser, English War Savings Committee member, to speak at Memorial Hall Providence on Wednesday evening January 23 at 8 o'clock. The lecture, under the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, promotes women's role in the war effort. President MacCracken of Vassar helped arrange for her visit to America.
Calendar items include the Sagamore steamer tied up by ice, public schools closed for 10 Mondays, community meetings at G A R Hall and St Michael's Church, and notes on local officials and events. Also reported are a Knights of Pythias rank ceremony, Y M C A junior basketball, a fort Riley soldier’s return, and a church war fund drive plan. The recollection ends with a Bristol WWI letter thanking local welfare committees for chocolate parcels.
Ezra W. Mason elected auditor of the Rhode Island Poultry Association at Providence meeting. Mrs. Gardiner West shows a full sized lemon grown at Locust Farm in the Phoenix Office window. Col John H Bailey’s goat Nannie killed by a cow. Frank Malafronte fractures his right leg after a fall on ice. treated by Dr A M Merriman and moved to Rhode Island Hospital. Bristol Train of Artillery inspection scheduled with Adjt. Gen. Charles Abbot and Col. Calvin A Barker. Barge Rockland freed from ice. 900 tons of anthracite coal discharged. Church topics at State Street M E Church. morning sermon on A Love Song of the Soul vs the Joy of Surrender. evening service on Kingly Qualities vs the Tragedy of a Broken Life. Special Saturday sales at New York Store Dimond.
In France on December 22, 1917 a soldier thanks the Bristol War Welfare Committee for a care package and card. He mentions a Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, hopes to reunite with Bristol friends within a year, and notes censorship limits on letters.
Roderick Dick Donald, 29, cousin to Harriet Parney, died after military service in the U S Navy. He had lived with his cousin in Providence two years, later joined the Naval Reserve, served on the U S S Salem, and underwent adenoid surgery followed by an abscess and complications. He worked in the National India Rubber Company wire shop before enlistment. Funeral planned in Providence, details incomplete.
New Times praises a forthcoming Metromie rev of Cleopatra with Theda Bara as star calling it a superb film fare and a triumph for the director. It notes the Actium naval battle and chariot sequences as thrilling. Prices are 28 cents, doors open Saturday with Francis Bushman and Beverly Bayne in Red White and Blue Bloods and the week’s other features Pathe Weekly and Metro comedy.
Sarah E. Kelly of Kall River won eight thousand dollars in a $25,000 negligence suit against the Rhode Island Company. Judge Sweeney presided in Superior Court. The jury awarded five thousand after a lengthy deliberation. Mrs Kelly filed for herself as widow of John Kelly and for her three children Margaret E John and Ellen E Kelly. The suit said her husband died from injuries when run over by a trolley on Thames Street in June 1917.
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