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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1938
Page
2
Forty three taxpayers at a special meeting approve borrowing $60,000 for road rebuilding, with $10,000 for the Poor Department. Fifteen oppose. Passing resolutions urge moving the new post office site and hope for industrial improvement, while no concrete unemployment solution is undertaken.
Mrs Carl Haffenreffer will entertain Bristol Garden Club members tomorrow afternoon at her Ferry Road home. Japanese style flower arrangements set the scene and Col Allen Edwards retired U S Army will speak on Chinese and Japanese Gardens, recently returning from China.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the First Congregational Church for Miss Pili J Rith 79 who died Thursday at St Giles Hospital Brooklyn. Rev John Kettelle officiated with two hymns Sun of Myosous and The Kone of Tare. Burial was in North Cemetery. Attendees included Edward Bunn Edward Rich Ralph Kinder Edward Po Church and Howard and William Dunbar.
The American Legion tour for the New England Seriminaires to the National Convention in Los Angeles leaves Boston September 9 and returns October 2. The 23 day trip covers ten thousand miles by water and rail with meals, Pullman, club car, sightseeing, and all expenses included. Complete itinerary available from John S. English at Boston Tourist Co.
August 1 to 6 features the annual carnival on K of C grounds with K of C No 379 and Hope Circle No 70. August 12 hosts a Friday dance by Collins and Aikman Girls Club at the Bristol Yacht Club. August 25 presents a Flower Show by the Countryside Garden Club at Burton School Girl Scout rooms.
Readers are invited to submit items for the column. Doris Martelly visits relatives in New Haven. A son, Richard Francis, was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Riley in Providence on July 21. Cup Defenders plan an August 14 outing at Fales Field. Catherine Rinaldi and Theresa return from Sands Point with guests. Mr and Mrs Ernest A Merggs celebrate fifteenth wedding anniversary at their Charles street home with guests from nearby towns. A carnival, August 1 to 6, is organized by Bristol Knights of Columbus and Hope Circle D of I with a planning meeting in K of C Hall. Bristol 4-H Wide Awake Club held a beach picnic at Beachmount and plans for the Costa home beach event were announced.
Miss Helen Arthur executive director of the Newport Casino Theatre will speak tomorrow at the Rotary Club meeting at the Hotel Belvedere. Leonard Scott of Cos Cob Conn visits RS Bosworth Jr while visitors Leonard Lemaire Oliver Deseliis and Maxwell Phones tour Maine. Joseph and Philip Riccio of Watertown Mass stay two weeks with James Riccio and wife on DeWolf Avenue. Anthony LaFazia and son Bobbie vacation in Hartford Conn. Regular United Brothers Lodge I O O F meeting tonight at headquarters on High Street.
The town meeting opened at eight with Moderator Edward L. Leahy presiding. Seventy five residents attended, including 14 women, and Carmine J Martiano debuted as executive secretary to Congressman Aimee Forand.
National Chairman asserts that Americans, not politicians, built the nation and that “We the people” achieved independence, wrote the Constitution, tamed the land, built farms and industry, and sustain the nation’s progress and living standards. He warns against political credit seeking.
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