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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1916
Page
4
West Danby New York report highlights Mia Dewrrt Sinncaugh praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for nerves and female troubles. The town treasurer notes poor department costs, seven burials, hospitalizations, and a proposed $700 appropriation for the coming year with full payment of bills.
Fifth annual report by DeWitt E. Bolster to Bristol Town Council covers Feb 1 1915 to Jan 31 1916. Demand for aid less for shoes and clothing but higher for hospital medical burial fuel and groceries. Cases include ptomaine poisoning scarlet fever and diphtheria. one family cost nearly 75 dollars. Also notes out of state parents, war sons, and funds raised at the factory aiding Christmas relief for widows orphans and needy families.
A brief notice from the Atchison Globe notes heavy travel along the fine of least resistance. The comment highlights ongoing congestion and the need for smoother passage.
Town treasurer records payments including license fees and miscellaneous items. It lists balances and deposits such as a special account from Sean S. P. Colt sale and a trust company, with totals noted for the Industrial Trust. Treasurer W. G. Thurston signs the report.
A memorial tribute memorializing Nora Martin who died February 2 1916. The piece presents Charles Baxton Going's poem At the Top of the Road and a reflective meditation on life death and an afterlife where she remains present in memory and in a new land where the lord of life is called Death.
A judge quotes the constitution about rights as a constable halts a hot pursuit at 90 mph. The exchange underscores tensions between liberty and public safety in a rural setting.
A reflection argues that moral people should help neighbors become happy, not just good, with a personal duty to improve a neighbor's happiness while allowing that the speaker may be mistaken. The note presents a quotable musing on neighborly virtue.
Artificial flowers were crafted by Italian nuns in convents past the eighteenth century. Altars and shrines were decorated with handmade paper parchment and wire arrangements, formed with patient ingenuity.
A short historical note recalls a child Flora who endured a painful tooth extraction and, while praying, uttered a humorous misquote about forgiving dentists, reflecting on family faith and humor in hardship.
To clean a darkened ceiling above a gas jet apply a layer of starch and water with a piece of flannel. Allow to dry and brush off lightly. No mark will remain.
In Princetown Cape Cod wind and sun shape old houses as landscapes. A group of painters formed a bohemian collective, low in color and gayly improvident, echoing Quaker decentralization and informal creative living.
Marguerite Dew Mudge guardian presents eighth account for Estelle Mudge and estate. Hearing set for March 20 1916 at 10 30 AM in Bristol Probate Court. Notice ordered to be published for fourteen days in the Bristol Phoenix. Tonee Coggshall Probate Clerk.
ABBID M. TURNER appointed administratrix of Nora F. Martin estate by Bristol Probate Court. Bond filed. All creditors must file claims with the clerk within six months from first advertisement. Date February 23, 1916.
Rhode Island Bristol County warning issued for a special town meeting to vote on taxes and town spending. Items include street work, school facilities, public baths, fire protection, cemetery repairs, and various improvements and appropriations. Town Sergeant Thomas E. Johnson signs.
In Bristol on February 16 1916 Administrator Russell S Church files first and final account asking for distribution of remaining estate to heirs. Probate court orders fourteen day notice for hearing February 28 1916 at 10 30 in the Probate Court Room Briston.
On February 11 1916 John T Drury announces appointment by the Probate Court of Bristol Town as administrator de bonis non of the estate of Samuel S Drury late of Bristol. He has filed bond as required and creditors are notified to file claims with the clerk at once per first advertisement dated February 18.
February 11 1916 notice to file claims in the Bristol Court within six months. Mary R Drury administratrix of Hannah W Drury estate asks claims filed in clerk's office. Guardian Sophie J D Wolf presents tenth account for Henry Dreyer D Wolf ward at probate court Bristol.
February 16 1916 the court of the town Bristol estate of James Francis D Wolf Sophie J D Wolf as heir to the estate is referred to a hearing on April 6 1916 at 10 30 o'clock in the Probate Court Room Bristol for consideration and notice is ordered to be published for four successive weeks in the Bristol Phenix newspaper
Bristol town officers election on March 8 1916. Canvassers meet March 2 3 at 8 P M and March 7 at 8 P M in the Memorial Building to review electors and property voters for the Financial Town Meeting on March 13 1916. Personal property tax must be paid to qualify to vote. John M Coggshall Town Clerk.
Public auction set for March 6, 1916 at 2 PM on Mount Hope Farm land in Bristol Rhode Island. Property includes multiple parcels described in the 1911 mortgage assigned in 1914 and tied to Mount Hope plat lands with rights of way and surrounding lot boundaries. Assignee loans officer announces bid rights and sale conditions to be disclosed at sale or upon request.
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