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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
4
The Sparks Circus brings one of America’s premier tents to Bristol on Friday July 8. The show features elephants lions bears horses and dozens of acrobats with a grand parade and a two hour main program in a specially erected tent.
Town residents along the harbor and west shore suffer strong odors from many dead herrings left on the beaches. The exact cause is disputed with theories ranging from water pollution with oil to a worm attacking the fish. Separately, land transfers surface with Henry L. Jenks selling shore land to Charles H. Cooper on William Henry Church plat at Kirkemuit and other deeds: Charles A. Childs to F. E. Suzman and wife at Bristol Narrows and G. H. Babbitt to Alexander G. Fales at Bristol Highlands.
Frank C. Child transfers a house and lot on the east side of Wood Street to Frank Paull. Evaristo Augusto Ferreira and wife transfer property to Antonio M. Soldano and wife.
July 1 Friday evening a Lawn Festival and Supper at State Street M E Church by the Epworth League. July 2 Saturday evening a dance at Bristol Yacht Club under the Bristol Yacht Club. July 4 Monday morning a dance at the club from 12 01 to 4 am.
An old advertisement touts Nature's Remedy Tablets as a safe plan to strengthen the whole digestive and eliminative system. It claims immediate relief and lasting benefit by cleaning the stomach liver bowels and kidneys, preventing daily medicine use, with a 25 cent box recommended by druggists.
A factory faces possible closing as orders dip and the wire division remains shut. About 4 000 workers fear unemployment while salaried staff brace for partial orders or layoffs. Local business already feels the impact as talks hinge on state actions and order status.
At a Wednesday meeting in John Post Reynolds School auditorium Bristol Capt Perry of Providence invested new members Misses Betty Kinder Virginia LeClair and Esther Ryone into the Tenderfoot Class. There will be 32 scouts in the Independence Day parade. a brief business session was led by Capt Alice Deolf.
The Bristol Whist Club held its final weekly whist of the season at G A R Hall on Tuesday evening titled Grocery Night. Prizes went to Ladies: 1 Mrs P J Lannon 2 Mrs Minnie Garvin 3 Mrs W H Conklin 4 Mrs William T Dwyer. Gentlemen: 1 W R Williston 2 Frank Silvia 3 Arthur Des Laurigges 4 Roe Lalpot.
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