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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1933
Page
3
A poem recited by Mr. Spears to Warwick Lions Club at the Showboat frames the Lions as a force against poverty and disease. A boy asks what Lions do, learns of community action beyond songs, roars, and meals, and expresses desire to join and fight the wolves of hunger and cold.
Members of the Colt Memorial high school graduating class were given a reception Friday evening in the school auditorium. The hall featured brown and gold colors and Oxeye daisies with an estimated crowd over 300. The grand march followed led by Emil Francis Klein and Miss Alice Frances Brightman, class president and secretary. Music for dancing was by a Providence orchestra. Junior class members served as ushers. Class officers forming the arrangements committee included President Earl Frances Klein and others.
This column invites readers to submit comments on welfare and interests of the town. It outlines that residents may share opinions on local affairs and timely topics.
A Cleveland reader asks the editor to locate a long ago song titled Uncle Jaster Preaches that the sun do move once sung near Hope and Franklin streets when the hydraulic Fire Station stood there. The note mentions Charlie Paull who had a Franklin street store.
More than forty former Battery C 243rd Coast Artillery members return to parade duty led by Capt Henry Walsh and Lieut J Everett Clark. Ex Guardsmen wear white flannel trousers red jackets and white hats carrying canes. Twenty fire companies have entered the wet and dry hose contest staged by the RI Firemen's League drawing 2000 visitors.
The Bristol Colt High Alumni Association stages its fifth annual ball Friday night in the Colt Auditorium to raise funds for school educational and athletic activities. The Melodians orchestra of Providence provides music for dancing and Jan Moo Walker chairs the general arrangements committee.
Ever Ready Fire Company wins its third Twilight League game with 17 hits and 9 runs against Defiance Hose. Frankie Sousa hits his second homer of the 1933 campaign while leading hitters include Sousa Doran LeMatre Gladue and Mansi as the team overcomes D'Ambrosio and Thompson on the mound.
The Olympians won 16 to 4 over Kid Hope's BTA before 3000 fans. Gorham and Bernie Quartaro hit homers, Leclerc starred at short, Herzig struggled yet the defense backed him. D'Angelo, Mello and Quartaro led BTA with timely hits as Moore Marsden and Mello yielded runs.
The Primary Department of the State Street M E Church hosts an evening in the church vestry featuring three short children's plays, vocal numbers by Mrs. Earl Sturdevant and others, a sketch titled Dapper Dan, and Harmonica Boys Band pieces. Miss Ethel Blaisdell chairs the committee with assistants Mrs. Anna Saunders and Mrs. Gladys Brelsford.
Miss Jeannette Blanche Desrosiers daughter of Alexander Desrosiers of 180 High Street married Henry Edward Brown son of Mr and Mrs Edward A Brown of 7 Collins Street in a June ceremony at St Mary's Church. Rev Thomas J Gillan officiated with Mass Victorine Brown and Oscar Desrosiers as attendants. The couple honeymooned in New York state and will reside at 180 High Street.
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