Committees Named for Atanas Bridge Alumni Event
Miss Eileen D Moore is named chairman of the arrangements committee for the Bristol Cook High School Alumni Association annual bridge. A meeting next Wednesday in the Colt auditorium will set the date.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1935
Page
5
Miss Eileen D Moore is named chairman of the arrangements committee for the Bristol Cook High School Alumni Association annual bridge. A meeting next Wednesday in the Colt auditorium will set the date.
On motion of Charles F. Monahan the Central Federation of Labor endorsed holding the proposed constitutional convention at Electrics Hall Providence at a largely attended meeting. Direct primaries also were urged.
Total votes 2483 with 1471 in District 1 and 1012 in District 2. District 1 has unopposed candidates John W. Church and Prescott B. Paull. Town offices include council seats for 2 years and 4 years with winners named, plus probate judge and town treasurer. Final tallies list several candidates and plurality margins, including Cantwell and Vasta Ruggiero for school committee and Hamill Gasper for school committee as top vote getters.
Town Treasurer William Ange Vine and Bristol Sewer Commission Secretary William Dwyer announced a $30000 grant from the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston to aid financing the new sewage disposal plant. The total funds turned over to the town reach $130000 from sewer bond proceeds, with only $130000 needed. Boston officials praised Bristol for using less money than authorized and expect about $31000 more in additional federal grants.
Miss Lena Guistiany served as guest of honor at a Tuesday night shower hosted by Mr and Mrs Alert Prvin at 725 Hope Street. Guests from New York Providence Warren and Bristol attended as she received a mahogany table and other gifts. A buffet supper and a decorated bridal cake highlighted the event. Mrs Anna Joseph selected the most winners in indoor horse racing. Miss Guistiany will wed Mr Raymond Daly of Providence on May 5.
Milburn a former Bristol resident died suddenly Monday at his home in his 60s. He served in the Navy as chief carpenter's mate and later worked as a bridge builder for the New York New Haven Hartford railroad. Survived by sons William and Thomas J Jr and a brother William B Milburn of Bristol.
An advertisement promotes a weekly 32 page color comic section of 50 popular fimmes, published in tabloid form with the Boston Sunday Advertiser. The pitch highlights all color pages and urges readers to obtain their copy each week.
In Popwar Mechanics Magazine a cigar smoke method is described to test draft and pressure in boilers furnaces chimneys and air ducts. Smoke is blown into a glass tube gauge and readings are obtained from the dividing line between the inflowing air and the smoke, enabling calibrated draft measures without calculations.
Committal services were conducted at the North Burial Ground by Rev. Geo H Watt for Thomas J Milburn of 158 Hamilton Street East Providence. The funeral services were held from James H Williams Funeral Home on Taunton Avenue East Providence.
The article discusses Stone Age domestication with dogs as the first animals living with humans and questions how goats joined early human society. A famed Scottish naturalist suggests that young wolves might have been tamed to please children, highlighting speculative origins of pet keeping.
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