Prepared Bristol Parade Aims For Providence Tomorrow
Bristol enrollment nears fifty thousand for Rhode Island Preparedness Parade in Providence. Col. L H Callan sets 3 15 pm for Bristol division on Sabin street near Exchange street with a 2 pm train from Franklin street. Organizers plan careful formation twelve per platoon and 15 feet spacing, women at rear, Bristol band to lead, and units marching to depot in orderly sequence.
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Rhode Island
Providence
L. H. Callan
Bristol
Sabin Street
Exchange Street
Franklin Street
Tive
Boy Scouts
F.F. Suzman
Old Town
Cranston Worsted Mills
Namqutt Worsted Company
Bristol Train of Artillery
Bristol Naval Reserve Aviation Corps
Col. Cheesman
Armory
National India Rubber Company
Narragansett Rubber Company
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Phoenix Office
Col. Callan
Wendell R. Davis
Patrick McGovern
C. A. Ostby
Charles A. Beals
Bertha Wyatt
Alice Bourn
Phyllis R. Farrally
Hotel Belvedere
Benjamin F
Memorial Day Honors by G A R in Town Observances
Memorial Day services by Babbitt Post No 15 G A R and affiliated groups occurred across town under cloudy skies with showers. The procession moved from Head Quarters to North Cemetery and Juniper Hill then to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument for speeches readings, a Logan order, and a rousing address by Comrade John Holton.
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Babbitt Post
John Holton
Rev
C. E. McCoy
No 15
North Cemetery
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Burnside Memorial Building
Charles F. Latham
King Philip Fife
Bristol Train of Artillery
First
Bristol
H. F. Bennett
W. Babbitt
Woman's Relief Corps
Disabled Veterans
Town Council
Sons of Veterans and
Boy Scouts
Juniper Hill
St. Mary’s
Hope Street
Colt Boulevard
Soldiers’ Lot
Logan
Angus
Lincoln
Clowes
Mrs Williams
C E. McCoy
Trinnity Church
McCoy
G A. R
G. A. R. Taps
Williams
I. R. Company
Relief Corps
Preparedness Coins to Enter Circulation After July
Secretary McAdoo announced the United States will issue Preparedness coins soon after July 1. The 25-cent piece joins newly designed 10-cent and half-dollar pieces. Changes follow a law allowing alterations every twenty five years, twenty five years after the last update.
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United States
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Y. M. C. A. Boys Hike and Beach Cookout Contest
A group of Y M C A boys will hike to the beach Saturday morning meeting at 8 30 at the Y M C A. Each boy should bring lunch items for cooking breakfast bacon eggs potatoes and frankfurters as a fire building and cooking contest unfolds with the best meal using the fewest utensils.
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Iarnwell
WL Lumber CO
Lumi OU
Bristol, R. I
B. V. D. Porosknit
Varsity Hatch
W. M. Connery
Bell
Providence Telephone Co
Warren
Hope and
Bradford Streets
A. D. Lollo
Metro Wonder
Mabel Taliaferro and
Edwin Carewe
THE
New Royal Orchestra
Francis X- Bushman
Miss August
Miss Clowes
Sinclaire & Hawkes
Gorham
Edward D. Kunz
Pucan
F. T. Remieres
Cor
Bradford Sts
Henry H. Polytan
State Street
Star Theatre
Wm. Fox Sensation
Nance O’neil In
the Man O’warsman
Thomas Shea
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