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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1940
Page
3
Over a fourteen year span the New England Transportation Company operated buses between Providence and nearby cities. Recent upgrades added higher backs more knee room and easier access improving passenger comfort on the route.
New six 37 passenger 1940 model buses will replace older equipment on the Providence Bristol route starting April 1. Regular riders will notice the contrast with earlier buses once common on one of the region’s oldest eastern routes as the fleet expands to ten new 1940 buses planned for operation before summer.
Local auto dealers may submit sealed bids to the Town Clerk of Bristol Rhode Island by 4 PM on Tuesday April 2 1940 for a One Half Ton Pickup Truck. Bids must be marked Bid-Highway Department Truck and delivered to the undersigned. Only local dealer bids considered. The Town Council may reject all bids or accept the most advantageous bid. Richard Connery surveyor of highways available for information. JOHN W. CHURCH Town Clerk.
Cornelius Bourne on to Cornelius Bourne etux land with buildings at Bristol Narrows. Charles B Rockwell Jr to Henry A Street property at High and Hope streets corner. Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church quit claim lot with buildings on State Street. A Street parcel with improvements at High and Hope streets corner.
The March 31 issue of the Boston Sunday Advertiser premieres a sensational sports feature on ex heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. It promises a revealing, dramatic account of Tunney and his post boxing life.
Proposed by Capt Isaac Bouffard Warren district safety officer for the Legion the safety patrol would take youths off the streets provide supervised activities and highway protection for children. The plan mirrors Warren Safety Patrol started by a Catholic priest and Police Chief George W Lewis and now serves the community with patrols a bogie and drum corps. Bristol Post may act at its April 5 meeting in renovated quarters on Franklin Street.
The Pastime ads promote Broadway Melody of 1940 starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell with George Murphy and others in a lively musical program. Also featured is Boris Karloff in British Intelligence, followed by Cafe Hostess with Preston Foster and Ann Dvorak.
A series of dramatized programs on housing will be broadcast across the Columbia network of over 100 stations. Sponsored by the U S Office of Education and Federal Housing agencies, the programs air Sundays at 2 p m on WPRO until June 16.
Hope Circle of Daughters of Isabella sponsors another card party in K of C Hall on State Street Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Charles M Connery as hostess. Winners this week include Viola Leclerc, Mrs Arthur J Duffy, Dorothy Warren, Mrs Hugh Holmes, Mrs Bridget Lewis, Mrs Gertrude Brown, Mrs Marnie Guevremont, Mrs Minnie Mott, Mrs Laura Martells, and Mrs Edward LeClerc. Mrs Qus ME Bailes Jr served as hostess.
Catherine McCarthy Brown widow of James F Brown died Wednesday in Providence after a long illness. She was 75 and had lived in Bristol and Providence with her daughter Veroniea. Funeral at the Church of the Hel treet Providence with burial in Mars Cemetery. Nelson Wells 61 died suddenly and funeral at St Marys Church Bristol with burial in St Marys Cemetery. Survived by Lena Wells, Barbara and Helena Wells, Nelson Wells Jr., John Wells, and sisters Mrs LaFrance Mrs Sullivan and Mrs Fee.
The Bristol Probate Court on March 8 1940 hears a petition by Elmer S Chace guardian for Annie DeWolf Doar seeking permission to sell her undivided one half interest in the Hayfield farm in Bristol Rhode Island The property includes about thirty acres on Gooding Avenue Broad Common Road and Metacom Avenue with two parcels of ten and twenty acres and traces of ownership back to Anna E Middleton deceased 1908 The hearing is set for April 1 1940 at 10 a m in the Bristol Probate Court Room.
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