Scout Troops Plan May Rally and Social
The meeting closes with a social hour and refreshments. Troop 3 and 4 plan gatherings this week at 7 30 at the Scout Building. Open meetings mark the season with a May walk, lunch, and practice for Rally events. District Rally set for May 4 at 6 45 with teams to represent the district in Providence on May 26.
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Bristol
Aed
Jill Bex
Arscout
Trobe
Takarest
Troo
Providence
Funeral for Mrs Lydia N West Held at Home
The funeral for Mrs Lydia N West wife of Capt J Nelson West was held Saturday at 2 PM from her home 25 Summer Street. Rev George D Wilcox of Providence conducted the services attended by relatives and friends with bearers Charles Jeffers Howard Greene Harold Greene and Gardiner West. Interment was in the family lot at North Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia N. West
J. Nelson West
Summer Street
George D. Wilcox
Providence
Charles Jeffers
Howard Greene
Harold Greene
Gardiner West
North Cemetery
Portrait of a Townsman’s Outcry Against Rent Cruelty
James Allyn speaks from High Street about eviction by landlords he calls heartless. He rails against poverty amid a cold winter, hunger, and threatened homes, branding the schoolhouse as an inanimate idol and vowing to defend families from being driven to the streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
High Street
eBonvtrienthae
James Allyn
Griffith Gray wedding at First Congregational Church
Miss Gertrude Gray and Robert Fessenden Griffith united in marriage at 3 pm Saturday with double ring ceremony. The bride wore white satin with orange blossom veil. attendants included Marion Brownell Gray and Earle Sargent of Providence. Reception at 28 Diman Avenue followed. couple to reside in Barrington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Congregational Church
Gertrude Gray
Robert S. Gray
Robert Fessenden Griffith
Barring
James J Goodacre
Cora Anderson
Marion Frances Brownell
Earle Sargent
Providence
Howard Brownell Gray
East Providence
Harry Robert Gray
Fessenden
Diman Avenue
Griffith
Barrington
Bristol Base Ball Names New Manager For Season
Claude B. Davidson, president of the Massachusetts Twilight Base Ball League, is appointed manager of the Bristol team for the coming season by the Bristol Base Ball Association directors. They expect a high profile, with prior big league and semi pro success, and have signed prominent players. The schedule includes several major league games and matches with Ware, Salem, Haverhill, North Cambridge, Lynn and Lawrence. Opening game set for Sunday May 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude B. Davidson
Bristol
Ware
Salem
Haverhill
North Cambridge
Lynn
Lawrence
Severe gale devastates harbor and sinks barges off Wardwell
A weekend Atlantic gale driven by a 60 mile per hour wind battered the town harbor. Several boats anchored offshore were blown ashore while a fish boat broke moorings and drifted to the harbor head. Three coal barges from Staples Coal Co sank or were wrecked, and tug Watuppa aided in rescue operations. Capt. George Gardner of Fall River drowned. his body remains missing. Coast guard efforts continued as wrecks and flooding disrupted town streets and rail lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wardwell
Charles Wall
East Greenwich
Allen Andrews
Fall River
Peter Castriotta
Oliver Street
United Railways Company
Town Bridge
Walker's Cove
Staples Coal Company
Atlantic Coast
George Gardner
Coast Guard
Point Judith
Watuppa
Staples Company
Theodore Almy
Randolph
Canton
Taunton
Braddock
South Amboy
W G Braley
Pleasing Recital At Miss Helen Wing Church Home
A musical evening at Miss Helen W Church's Hope Street home featured Miss Church as contralto with Miss Rebekah Church on piano and Henry W Boynton on viola. The program included works by Brahms Reger Lotti Meyer Reinecke Rasbach Ward Stephens and Ross among others with solo and viola obbligato passages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Wing Church
Hope Street
Helen W.church
Rebekah Church
Henry W. Boynton
Viola
Samuel Kinder
Haro
Senza
Ruridice
Brahms
Maria
Ward-Stephens
Johns
Ross
Miss Church
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A. A. Edmo
Metacom Ave
NDS CO
Hope St
Tel
James F. Duffy
Duffy
Morris Plan
The
Morris Plan Company OF
Rhode Island
State of
Oan
Morris
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
Arctic
Ili Nig Ey A
Ian Hww
Mercantile Division
Bristol Chamber OF Commerce
Samuel Kinder—Florist
Levy's
Farrally Bros.—Printers
Fred E. Susman
A. Ea Eratare — Dev. Goods
Jodinl & Guisti—Bakers
Griffith—Gray
Ona
South Sea Island
Automobile
E. A. Skinner Insurance
Buffington’s Pharmacy
Providence Plantations
John W. Church
Elizabeth Wardwell Gulteras School
Elizabeth Wardwell Guneral
Thomas BE. Johnson
Beachmount Manor
Narragansett Bay
Beachmount Land Go, Inc
D. DeCristofaro Co
Star Theatre
the Waldron CO
Bradford Street
Princess Bonnie
American Legion Auxiliary
Kearney
California
House of Prat-Low
Boston
la Touraine
Autocrat
C. S. Seal
Whitmeyer
Swift
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