Namauit Mill Engineer Harry Peterson Retires After 63 Years
Henry W. Peterson 81 retires as Namauit Mill engineer after 63 years with four owners. He began in 1878 at age 19 in the carding room, later led the steam engine, helped systems shift to electricity, and served Bristol in town government and community groups. Farewell dinner at Hotel Warren honors him with Collins and Aikman executives in attendance.
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Henry W. Peterson
Namauit Mill
Peterson
Harry
Warren
Collins and Aikman Corporation
Namquit Mall
Namquit
Richmond Manufacturing Company
Charles B. Rockwell
Rubenstein and Company of
New York
Rockwell
Bristol
Bruce W McCullough
Morrow Promoted to Peoria Water Works Manager
G Gus Morrow, after less than a year as Citizens Water Co manager, is transferred to lead Peoria Water Works in Illinois, assuming duties April 15. Thomas G Braman will become successor here. Morrow, a Bowdoin graduate and former World War II field artillery officer, has been active in the community and will move with his wife to Peoria.
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Citizens Water Company
G Gus Morrow
Bristol County Water Company
Bristol
Peoria
Thomas G. Braman
American Water Works and Electric Company
New York City
Bowdoin College
David C Morrow
Washington
Morrow
Middle West
Chamber of Commerce
Washington County
Boy Scouts
American Legion
Field Artillery
Wade Avenue
GOP Candidates Seek Aid to Dependent Children Director
Several Republican candidates seek the appointment of the director of Aid to Dependent Children as the Town Council plans to fill the post at Tuesday night’s meeting. The current Democrat appointee is Mrs. Mary J Dennis, wife of former Councilman Joseph J Dennis, with her term ending March 24. Also slated are renewals for town solicitor Joseph A. Hammill and other posts including town sergeant health officer and milk inspector.
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GOP
Mary J Dennis
Joseph J Dennis
St. Joseph's Hospital
Joseph A. Hammill
Hammill
William T Cashin
Bristol Woman Dies After Wrong Medicine Given
Miss Catherine Callan 42 of 380 High Street Bristol died after oil of wintergreen was given internally instead of externally. Nurse Bertha Arronan suspended and hospital investigating. Attendant Jenet Mikus reportedly misunderstood directions. Funeral set for St Marys Church with burial in St Marys Cemetery.
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Catherine Callan
Nurses Directions
Hope Circle
D. of
High Street
Callan
Howard
Bertha
Charles White
Bristol
Isabella
St Mary's Church
Miss Callan
Mary Rice Callan
Michael Callan
Cot Memorial High School
Mary A
Ladies Callan
Kaf C Hall
State Street
St Mary's Cemetery
Reverend J H Helms to preach at St Michael's Sunday
Missionary Rev James R Helms of Fort Defiance Arizona will preach at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at St Michael's Church and speak at the 9 45 Children's Eucharist and the Ladies Benevolent Society gathering Monday afternoon Born 1898 in Nashville he has served as editor of the Arizona Church Record and as chaplain of CCC camps in Arizona with a long history in Protestant missions among Navajo Indians in Mesa Chandler and Tempe
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James R Helms
Fort Defiance
Arizona
St. Michael's Church
Ladies Benevolent Society
Helms
Emiscopal Church
Nashville
Tennessee
University of the South
Helm
Winchester
Tenn
St Paul's
Thankful Memorial
Chattanooga
Mesa
Chadler
Tempe
CCC
Arizona Church Record
Masonic Fraternity
Rotary
Colt Alumni Leap Year Dance Planned at Colt High
A Colt Alumni meeting is set in Colt High auditorium at 8 o'clock with social planning led by Miss Rhoda Levy. After the meeting, the Leap Year Dance is scheduled for April 12 with Miss Kathleen Flynn chairing the dance committee.
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Colt
Colt High
Rhoda Levy
Colt Auditorium
Kathleen Flynn
Fire Truck Group Holds First Meeting
The committee appointed at the financial town meeting to acquire new firefighting equipment met at the Dreadnaught Hook and Ladder Station. Fred Guevremont was named chairman with Frank J. Rinaldi as clerk, A A Edmunds as vice chairman and adviser. The group plans to visit other towns to study latest apparatus and seeks bids for a new hook and ladder truck with an $8000 budget.
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Financial Town
Hook
Tadder and Hose Company
Church Street
Fred Guevremont
Frank J .Rinaldi
Board of Fire Engineers
A A. Edmonds
Dreadnaught Company
Hobson Discusses Problems of Youth at Rotary Meeting
Secretary Earl H. Hobson told the Rotary Club at the YMCA that unemployed youth face loss of self reliance and disillusionment. He cited cases from night shifts disrupting social life and schooling, praising the National Youth Administration as a plan to keep youths in school longer and urging community support for welfare efforts.
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YMCA
Earl H. Hobson
Rotary Club
Hobson
R. I School of Design
National Youth Administration
R. S. Bosworth
F. Reginald Dimond
Cot
Samuel A. Hall
Howard W Church
A. A. Edmonds
Anthony R. Parshley
Geronimo remembered as gentle captive and puzzling hero
In a letter to the Christian Science Monitor a man recalls meeting Geronimo in Oklahoma during 1904. The Apache chief appears friendly, even sharing watermelon with a white man, while legend paints him as dangerous and unyielding.
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Geronimo
New Mexico
Arizona
Christian Science Monitor
Stan
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Albert Hartley
C. & A. Company
Charles B. Rockwell, Jr
Norton Minderstein
Mr Hartley
Harry W Munro
Mae Horner
Edmund Cunningham
P D. Frazer
Caesar Brito
Fred Atkinson
John P Marshall
John F. St Angelo
August Marshall
Edgar Yergeau
George Ethier
G. Guy Morrow
Illinois
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Fred Astaire
Eleanor Powell
George Murphy
Frank Morgan
Ian Hunter
Florence Rice
Boris Karloff
Margaret Lindsay
Tadies
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Ann Dvorak
Lowell Thomas News
George Raft
Jane Bryan
Humphrey Bogart
W Hany Oss
Flora Robson
John King
Joan Barclay
J. Farrell MacDonald
Craig Reynolds
Ruth Reece McNamee
Children’s Aid
the Agency
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Clinor
Enna Seltichs
America
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Makowsky’s
Hope Street
Bristol, R. I
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St. Michael’s
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Wardwell Lumber Co
Oklahoma
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Surrey
England
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Quebec
Vermont
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Cape Cod
Agricultural College
University of Vermont
Civil Aeronautics Authority
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