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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1928
Page
2
Editorial laments an alarm during a Tuesday blaze when the town’s motorized pumper could not respond due to a dry gasoline tank. Officials investigate possible willful gasoline theft from the Hydraplion Engine and Hose Company station, with prosecution urged if suspects are identified.
Dr Alfred M Merriman returns from Bowdoin College reunion in Brunswick Maine. Matthew De Martino returns home from Perkins Institute for the Blind to spend summer with his parents. Mrs Harry Hiron undergoes appendectomy at Truesdale Hospital Fall River. Elsie Stillwell arrives Bristol to spend summer with her mother Lenora Stillwell. Sea planes of the United States Navy draw attention near the harbor during northeast winds. Rhode Island Regent Withiam Manchester attends Washington meetings of the National Board and Daughters of American Colonists. Sadie Barboza, missing earlier, is found asleep in a State street yard rear seat of a car. no exposure noted.
The Department of Rhode Island Woman's Relief Corps will visit the home on Sunday to entertain the veterans. Cranston Worsted Mills nine has received baseball suits, and local agents for Wright & Ditson Co offer all kinds of athletic uniforms. F. E. Suzman ads.
Bristol Tigers beat Cranston Worsted Mills by 8 to 5 in the elimination series at Bristol common. Rippel, Greenwood and Higbee paced the Tigers with key hits while Mortenson and Emmett provided Cranston scoring. Final tally reflects Tigers advancing toward the Fourth of July exhibition game.
Real estate transfers include Domenico Palumbo to Francesco Arlo for a house and lot on High street. Giuseppe Morino and wife to Antonio Garcia and wife for land and buildings on Rock Street. Ellen Flynan to Giuseppe Morino and wife for an interest in land and buildings on Rock Street.
Tuesday afternoon at Guiteras Memorial School the summer vacation closing program featured a Grade 9B fashion show Grade 9A baby carriage parade Grade 8A circus Grade 8C mock wedding Grade 8B old fashioned school setting Grade 7A minstrel show with tin orchestra Grade 7B blindfold mystery Grade 7C specialty dances and piano duets Grade 7D acrobatics Grade 7E upsetting exercises reflecting a lively class stunt day ending the term.
William Henry Saunders and Miss Anna Augusta Brelsford of this town. John Francis Reed Jr. and Crinilda Reais Cabral of this town. Miguel Sariava and Felicia Nunes, also of this town.
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