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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1896
Page
2
A Bristol Sunday sermon by Rev H A Stevens urged a public voluntary memorial for Civil War soldiers to be funded on Memorial Day. The idea aims to preserve memory and seems feasibile if acted upon, amid political fervor cited in a closing remark.
Memorial Day Eve exercises in Grand Army Hall drew a crowded audience hosted by Babbitt Woman's Relief Corps. The program featured recitations songs tableaux and an address by Rev A Kingsley with strong solo and chorus performances by local women and Miss Spooner and Miss Ethel Carr.
The St Andrew's Guild held a social at G A R Hall presenting field day prizes won on Memorial Day. The event featured fireworks on parade, dancing with piano music, and speeches not delivered. Prizes included silver badges and treats while members and guests enjoyed cake and ice cream. Ladies' and gentlemen's bicycles advertised.
Bristol notices report ship and yacht movements, church services, and Memorial Day parades. Captain Benjamin B. Morris dies aged 81, with notes on his whaling and Civil War service. Local firms advertise sales, markets, and fittings as Bristol residents gather for events and meetings.
Trinity church held a full 10 30 morning service for the ordination to the Diaconate of Mr R N Turner Jr a parish member with Bishop Clark delivering a strong ordination sermon The rector Rev W R Trotter served as celebrant at the Communion and presented the candidate Afterwards Mr Turner Sr hosted clergy church wardens and visiting friends at a rectory collation The Bishop was a guest of Rev G L Locke during his Bristol visit
F Rawson launched a new shore dinner resort on Thames Street on Memorial Day. The steam pipe clam bake began at 1 30 and impressed patrons with first class preparation. The menu featured clam chowder clams potatoes sausages fish stuffed loaf and more with meals kept hot for extended periods.
An advertisement asserts deafness is caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills, offering a $100 reward for an uncured catarrh case and urging readers to send for free circulators from Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio.
The Bristol Train of Artillery held its inaugural company shoot Saturday at the new range on Bristol Neck Fales place. Col. Stevens kept the State scores. The day favored shooting and good scores were posted. Following is the score.
Rev. B H A Stevens of the Congregational church preached a memorial sermon urging duty to soldiers. He called for a monuments fund on Memorial Day to place a public tablet on the common square and to honor gallant Bristol sons. The service included the choir singing No Shadow There with Miss Dora Bosworth.
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