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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1894
Page
2
Mrs Dr Solomon visits town as Holy Week begins. Lectures, concerts, and sermons fill March calendar with entertainment at Town Hall and St Marys. Lyric Quartette to perform March 29. Easter ball invitations issued. notable visits by Mr C A Snow and Rev Father Owen.
The Town Council met in the Council Chamber on Monday with full attendance. They set the highway superintendent’s pay at 200 per day for time employed and examined and allowed several town bills. They allocated funds for district road work and main road projects, directed stone crushing to finish a 1893 contract, and referred the Bristol Artillery Veteran Association centennial celebration to a future meeting. The session adjourned to next Monday at 2 PM.
Sunday morning Easter sermon by the pastor. Choir music for the service. At 2 30 the Sunday school quarterly roll call. At 7 30 a concert by the Sunday school titled The Life of Jesus. The program will feature a stereoptican showing copies of the old masters made for the exercise.
At a regular Bristol Chapter D A R meeting on March 12 members heard extended reports from delegates Mrs Ostrande and Mrs Wardwell on the February 22 National Congress in Washington D C The session covered business sessions musical attractions and social events Also a Sons of the Revolution request sought burial details of Revolutionary Soldiers for grave marking Copies of Life of Mary Washington and Miss Washington of Virginia were presented for the chapter library
A Union prayer meeting will be held in the Y M C A rooms Sunday at 9 o’clock for men only at 45 p.m. An invitation goes to strangers to attend. A Union prayer meeting is planned for Saturday at 8 o’clock. The Y M C A monthly meeting Monday discussed new by laws and voted to require lessees to close stores on Sundays. Ten new members were voted in.
A large Republican gathering at the Town Hall Tuesday evening nominated delegates for state and local offices. O L Bosworth was elected chairman, Frank B Wilson secretary, and several local figures chosen to fill vacancies. Henry W Hayes supported Coggeshall for senator. George W Simmons was backed for representative.
George H Farrington born April 9 1831 in Attleboro MA died January 15 1894 in Bristol RI in his 63rd year. He served as trustee and steward of State Street M E Church Bristol and helped found Rogers Free Library board of trustees. A businessman of 36 years he was regarded as highly honorable. He faced declining health after retiring in July and passed peacefully with family by his side after a final spiritual moment describing the gate to enter.
The March New Peterson begins with In Tae Azores by William Walsh with illustrations by George B. Luks. The pair were sent out by Tae New Peterson for material on the islands making this initial paper delightful with Luks drawings full of character.
The item surveys strange rules and customs from various times and places. It notes Germany banning beer with fruit meals, Britain’s 18th century salt crimes, a 8 foot tall woman in Cuthbert Georgia, Francia’s hat law in Paraguay, and Scotland’s ritual chair inversion after a death to deter ghosts.
Across Philadelphia New York Boston Baltimore and other papers readers mourn the loss of the Kearsarge. Editors lament the ship's sentimental value and its role guarding American interests from Port au Prince to Bluefields Nicaragua.
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