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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
2
Index lists shoe repairing ads and administration notices. Names include Chas B. Rockwell, Chas. A. Waldron, R. Newbold and Mary Brinley with estate notices. Proposals on Hope Street referenced.
The article urges Bristol residents to combat elm tree beetles now to save trees. It notes cocoons and worms around elm bases and recommends hot water, kerosene, and burning insects, plus brushing trunks and collecting pests.
Town Hall repair committee voted to advertise sealed bids for additions and alterations including roof shingling, stage roof, dressing rooms, interior and exterior painting, new emergency exits, stairway enlargement, new wiring, brick walling, steam heat and lavatories. Bids close July 24. Also contains a patient testimonial for Kodol for Dyspepsia attributed to Hon Jake Moore of Georgia.
Bristol Post Office notices outline mail arrival and closing times for regular and Sunday mail plus stamp sale hours. Geneva delivery window lists stamp sale from 4:80 to 5 p m with office hours Sunday 9:80 to 10:80 a m and carriers’ racks south door distribution.
Schedule lists outward departures at 7 35, 11 05, 3 05 and 5 05 a m and 7 45, 11 45 a m onward with arrivals at 2 45 and 6 45 p m.
A list of local notices from Bristol items includes Fine Stationery from Phoenix office, ice cream flavors at Church Street House Bristol, and a note on Herreshoff Manufacturing Co shops closing for a month. Various residents attend visits, sales, and rent deeds, with community events, church outings, and social gatherings across Bristol and nearby towns.
The comic opera Mikado will be staged at Own Hall Warren on August 11 and 12 by St. Michael’s church choir for the organ fund. A 50 voice chorus and 12 piece orchestra will perform with a cast including Dr. W F Williams as Mikado Walter E Rogers as Nanki Pooh Ko Ko by Charles H Sparkes Foot Bah George W Warren Pish Tush Charles McKenna Yum Yum Miss Lillian Wilson Pitt Sing Miss H Jen EF Warren Peep Ro Miss Ema P McCarty Katisha Miss Emily M Moffit.
In this town on July 17 a son was born to Mr and Mrs William H Remieres.
The annual Hunts Mills outing of the First Congregational Sunday School attracted about 150 excursionists. Two special cars were used but only one arrived on time at 1 45 pm. They traveled to Warren, met another car at the bridge, and spent the afternoon in games and a baseball match captained by Charles F Dimond and Robert Munro.
A Phoenix editor backs a floating bath house as a needed public amenity noting only about ten percent of homes have baths and summer offers the only chance for a proper dip. The writer, signing as One of the Unwashed, argues a floating facility could draw hundreds daily.
Coming events note a Wednesday July 29 evening dance at the G A R Hall under the auspices of waiters from the Hotel Belvedere. The item lists the date and venue with organizer affiliation.
Since Wednesday July 1 Halsey Chase operates a city ferry to Prudence Island departing the public dock at 10 a m 3 p m and 6 p m on weekdays with return trips at 7 30 a m 1 20 p m and 6 p m A Sandars run offers two daily trips from Bristol at 10 p m and 6 p m returning at 9 a m and 5 p m The fare round trip is 40 cents single 24 cents A stop at the R L Yacht Club is available.
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