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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1929
Page
6
Arthur T. Newman directs a 7:30 PM program with organ pieces by Correlli and Scriabin, including Prelude in G flat and Romance Sans Paroles. A church school Easter pageant by the young people will follow.
Pastor Mark Strickland leads Easter sunrise service at 6 am with music and pantomime. At 10:30 am a second Easter program and sermon titled Who Was the Victor appears. Evening 7:30 pm features song service with orchestra and children's choir. Ambassadors meet in vestry for a brief devotional.
Masses at 7 30 and 10 o clock feature a special choir performing Today He’s Risen and Allelma along with processional and recessional hymns. The choir lists Misses Voettra bam Mello Isabel Sylvia Florence Reposa Theresa Reposa Mary Peters Mary Sousa Mary Mello Laura Furtado Alexandrina Fernandes Mrs Cora Pires Adrian Costa Christy Mello Anthony Nunes Francisco Canario Joseph Sousa Joseph Cordeiro Louis Silvia and John Victoria with Manuel Canario as director and Anna Peters as organist.
Easter Sunday services at Our Lady of Mt Carmel include 8 and 10 o clock masses with a high Mass at 10, a procession, blessing of the congregation, and choir performances of Leonard's Mass in B and Regina Coeli Webbe. The senior choir and a listed roster of choir members participate in the ceremonies.
Faster Sunday morning service at 10 45 with Church School at 12 15 and an Easter service at 7 The subject is The Stone Rolled Away Special singing and a midweek prayer meeting at 7 45 Everyone is welcome and cordially invited to attend any service.
Exercises marked the closing of the Colt High Evening School with 57 certificates granted. Copies of the Evening School Owl were given out and a social hour followed. Principal Miss Anme D Sisson announced the honor list with names and percentages for first and second honors and the yearbook staff was listed.
The event opened with a flag salute and the song America, followed by a sequence of recitations, piano pieces, and solos performed by pupils of Grade 6A2 under Mrs Marion E D Newman and Grade 6A3 under Miss Doris M Palmer. Performers include Mary Vocci Pris cilla Calderiso Alice Silvia Margaret Pacheco and many others with multiple readers and choir items.
The funeral of Mrs Annie Sansone Proto wife of Raffael Proto was held Wednesday morning from 329 High Street A requiem mass at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church followed a large attendance Floral tributes lined the service The bearers were from Podge Santa Maria Maddelema Sp er ty Co of which the deceased was an austrary member Interment was at St Marys Cemetery She died Sunday morning at St Josephs hospital Providence after an operation She was 40 born in Scafati Italy came to this country 20 years ago She leaves her husband two daughters Mrs Arthur Gaordano and Mrs Josephine Bamberry three sons Michael Cosmo and Raffaele Jr one brother two in Italy and two sisters Mrs Leonilda Sansone of New York City and Mrs Albert Martin of Port Chester
The funeral of Currier, a Bristol resident long known there, was held after his burial service at Holy Rosary Church in Providence. He died at his brother in law’s home on Wickenden Street. He leaves a brother Joseph F. Currier and a sister Mrs. John V Geyer. He was 56 or 57 and unmarried.
Miss Pauline Natali Doringh died Wednesday after a month illness. Funeral services were held this afternoon from her Hope Street home with Rev Fr Nelson Kellogg officiating. Interment followed at Juni per Hill Cemetery. She was a native of the town, daughter of the late Dr Charles H K and Seraphina South Doringh, member of St Michael's Church and Ive Guild. She leaves two sisters Mrs T AX Johnstone and Miss Faith Barclay.
Colt Memorial High School announces Settor Class members to Rhode Island Honor Society at Thursday assembly. Russell Bliss Aiken 90.85 percent, Henry Stevens Mason 86 percent, Michael William Pasquerell 85.68 percent meet scholarship and character criteria for membership.
The First Congregational Church and Staves Street M E Church hosted a social with reordered vocal and instrumental music including piano by Misses Gwendolyn and Mutiel Hodgdon. Games were played and refreshments served by church society ladies led by Mrs. J Henry Buffum and others.
Do Hector a comedy presented by the Junior Hasty Gelatine Club at Colt High School yesterday. Cast includes Hector Milton Bassing Fanny Raymond Makowsky Babe Carl Witherell Snip Paul Campanella Chassy Albert LeClerc Benny Stanley Bennett Mike Michael Secur0 Sheik Manuel Vargas Paul Paul Clark Ramona Charles Young Bob Robert Munro Coach Benton Charles Dowd. Stage manager Louis Sylvia. Music by the Colt High School Venetian Ensemble Joseph DeLuca leader.
Died March 26 in Providence Robert F Currier aged 56 formerly of this town. Died March 27 in this town Pauline Nataly Doringh daughter of the late Dr Charles H R and Seraphina Smyth Doringh aged 72 or 73.
March 21 1929 probate records show Mary L Trainor seeking guardianship of Elizabeth F Trainor Magdalene Trainor and Edward F Trainor minors. Notice of fourteen days to publish in Bristol Phenix and hearing set April 15 1929 at 10 o'clock AM in Bristol Probate Court.
March 27 1939 the Bristol County Court of Probate orders that the last will of Stephen Wharton be admitted to probate and letters testamentary be granted. Clerk John W Church files the matter with a notice to heirs and witnesses.
Probate court in Bristol on March 27 1928 received an instrument scene purporting to be Angelo Russo last will and testament for probate. It is set for consideration on April 15 1929 at 10 o clock A M in Bristol Probate Court Room with fourteen days notice to be published weekly in the Bristol Phenix.
March 26 1929 Bristol court docket asks for writings from Manuel Carlos husband of Annie Carlos for appointment of administrator of the deceased. Order sets hearing on April 15 and requires notice once a week in the Bristol Phoenix.
Probate court in Bristol admits the Last Will of Sarah B Manchester and names Industrial Trust Co Providence RI as executor. Creditors must file claims with the Bristol Probate Court clerk from March 29, 1929 onward.
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