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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1931
Page
3
Bristol Rhode Island town invites sealed proposals for fuel for the coming year. About 70 tons plus 24 tons of Free Burning White Ash Stove and Egg Coal to supply fire stations and Burnside Memorial building. Proposals due May 11 1931. envelopes labeled Proposals for Fuel and mailed to Town Clerk John W Church.
Pups of Grade 9A at Guiteras School performed The Perry Boys Friday afternoon under Miss Mary M Connors. The program included Rhode Island Independence Day observances and featured Lloyd Smith Frank Campagna Harold McGuigan Enric Bense George Springer Eugene Heibecker Antonio Agatiello Vincent Campagna Charles Fay Anthony Thomas.
Fifty-two books enter circulation with The World Book encyclopedia in ten volumes and Pershing's My Experiences in the World War in two. Autobiographies, novels, poetry by Mellay, Hue, Rohmer, and Van Druten appear amid fiction and children's titles. five boys books, five girls books, and two for little children accompany four Italian titles.
The Narragansett Electric Light ing Company transfers the northerly portion of lot 29 on the Parker Borden plat located on the west side of Wood Street to Giacomo Marasco.
In Bristol County Court hearings, Joseph Alesi and Tindaro Sangiorgio pleaded not guilty to arson charges tied to a residence fire at 223 Wood Street that killed Beatrice Vieira and disrupted court with a large crowd. Separate motor vehicle cases included George St Angelo charged with violations linked to Beatrice Vieira's death, and Robert L. Smith charged in the Francis Garvin Jr. death after a Gulf Refining tank truck collision. Additional cases involved suspicions of revelling and drunk driving, with varied bail and continuances, as police pursued justice in multiple Bristol County matters.
Barrington police chief noted another man was driving when the machine was stopped. The civil case National Wholesale Confectioners versus Herman J Kemph was continued for one week.
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