New Priest Rev John Rohrman to Open St Marys Mass
Past Regents of Hope Circle and Daughters of Isabella plan a reception for Rev John M Rohrman M S missionary of Our Lady of La Sallette ordained in Albany New York He will celebrate his first solemn high mass at St Marys Church next Sunday at 1030 am The reception 4 to 6 pm is hosted by Hope Circle with clergy and relatives in attendance
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Hope Circle
Daughters of Isabella
Miss Horton
John M. Rohrman
M .S
Our Lady of
Margaret Connery
Nora E. Dwyer
Mary Callan
Winifred Walsh
Sarah Sweeney
Mary Condon
K. of C Hall
State Street
Julia Wallington
Agnes Comley
Mary Munigle
Warren Circle
Michael L. Ryan
Vincent J Griffin
St Mary's Church
Bristol
Frances Horton
Katherine Francis
Ethel Burke
Catherine Gibson
Katherine M Burns
Marguerite Cirillo
Fthel Connery
Catherine Bottomley
Martha Gallagher
Elmira Estrella
Nora Toolin
Dorothy Warren
Helen Callahan
Edna Brooks
Jessie St Angelo
Mary Malafronte
Margaret Jordan
Mary Baker
Margaret Garvin
Genevieve Dunbar
Margaret Morris
Catherine Hammill
Trene Sylvia
Annie Jamie
Warren Nets Lead In Interscholastic Class C Baseball Race
Warren high leads the Eastern Division with five games left as Colt Memorial Burrillville contest for top spot. Cumberland crushed Warren 13 3 in first meeting and Colt seeks another shot to narrow the margin. Crown Zipper beat Greenville Townies 7 6 in 13 innings at Burrs Hill Park with Tommie McKale winning on a late run driven by Primiano and a long eighth inning hit.
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Warren
Colt Memorial
Burrillville
Warrenites
Cumberland
Colt
Ben Ferrazano
Charlie Burdge
Crown Zipper
Greenville Townies
Burr's Hill Park
Zipper
Warren High
Colt High
Rhode Island
Tommie McKale
Primiano
McKale
Budds Congdon
Chet Massa
Bristol
Ge the Zipper
Buddy
Short
Chet
Quotations on Faith and God's Will from Historic Voices
A compact collage of sentiments from Fyvers Lincoln Binney Cowper and others. The lines reflect trust in God, moral truth, and the belief that virtue and goodness align with divine will, urging steadfast faith amid doubt.
St Elizabeth Children Entertain Mothers With Minstrel Show
St Elizabeth Church parish hall hosted the Children of Mary sodality as they entertained mothers with The Old Maids Minstrel Show directed by Miss Phoebe Garcia. Participants included Mary Ferreira Furtado Goulart Terra Garcia and others with Miss Anna Peters on piano. Refreshments followed and each mother received a medal of the Blessed Virgin.
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Children of Mary Sodality
St Elizabeth's Church
Wood Street
Old Maids
Phoebe Garcia
Mary Iou Ferreira
Jinis Furtado
Mary Goulart
Angelna Terra
Mary Almeida
Emily Borges
Margaret Xayir
Ruth
August Phoebe Goulart
Mars
Almeida
Anna Peters
Rose Marshall
Memorial Tablet Dedicated At St Michael's Church
The Rt. Rev. James DeWolf Perry presided at St Michael's Church as 10 candidates were confirmed. A bronze tablet honoring Clara Robinson Harmon was unveiled, with her family and classmates in attendance on what would have been her 17th birthday. The service featured soloist Mrs Nathanael G Herreshoff Jr and the Hinckley and Duncan clergy assisting.
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James DeWolf Perry
Rhode Island
St. Michael’s Church
Perry
Clara Robinson Harmon
Colt Memorial High School
William Pinch
North Farm
Harmon
Ruth Harmon
Waukegan
Illinois
Hugh Abernathy
Bryn Mawr
Miss Harmon
Canon Parshley
Bishop Perry
Mary Pinch
Nancy Bosworth
Nathanael G Herreshoff, Jr
Arthur M Dunstan
Robert W. Turner
Nancy Dimond Bosworth
Robert Ernest Bullock
Elsie Ruth Bush
Florence Louise Bush
Rosamund Jean Crowley
Caroline D'Amico
Jean Stuart Howell
Dana William Jaquith
Marie Elizabeth Perrys
Shirley Anne Seaman
Obituary of John Henry Colfer sexton and gardener
John Henry Colfer longtime Bristol sexton of St Marys Church and gardener died after a long illness at Benjamin Church Home Hope Street in his 67th year born July 24 1873 to Michael and Filen Slasind Colfer admitted to the Home nine years ago burial will be in St Mars Cemetery Warren He had no immediate relatives listed and funeral plans are incomplete
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John Henrys Colfer
St Mary’s Church
Benjamin Church
Hope Street
Bristol
Colfer
Michael and
Filen
Slasind Colfer
St. Mars's Church
Colter
St Mars's Cemetery
Warren
Joseph R. Silvia
Mt Hope Avenue
St Elizabeth
St Marys
Faval
Anzores
Silvana
Waite Louie (Solomon) Silvia
Joseph
Frank
Thomas
Pittsburgh
Joseph Alfred
Rose Silvia
Calfornia
Mary Corte
East Providence
California
William F Gray dies in Marion Mass
William F Gray of Allston former resident of this town died early Sunday at his son's home in Marion He worked in the Bristol Phoenix Providence Journal Boston Globe Boston Journal and for 25 years at the Boston Herald He is survived by his son Frank L Gray a grandson and great grandson a brother and five sisters Funeral services set for Wednesday May 22 at 2 pm at the Wilbur Memorial Chapel Interment at North Cemetery in this town
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William F Gray
Allston
Mass
Marion
William B
Martha Hale (White) Gray
Gray
Bristol Phoenix
Providence Journal
Boston Globe
Boston Journal
Boston Herald
Phoenix
Frank L
Robert
Mary Peckham
Florence Potter
Joseph Butfum
Flwin T Hill
Serffers
International Typographical Union
Wilbur Memorial Chapel
Warren
North Cemetery
Lions Club Dance Supports Sight Program in Bristol
The Bristol County Lions Club hosts its annual charity dance Friday at the Bristol Casino to raise funds for sight conservation. Special music will accompany a large turnout from Warren Barrington and Bristol, with early winter provisions distributing 25 eye glasses and 30 white canes to needy residents under school nurse direction.
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Bristol County Lions Club
Bristol Casino
Community Service Organization
Sebastian Bernard, Jr
Warren, Barrington
Bristol
C. George Stefano
Barrington
Angus C Anderson
Warren
W. Vincent Sumpter
Allen Grimwood
Leo Jacobson
Orring Thurston
Henry W Hopkins
Maurice A. Denby
Oliver Thompson, Jr
Edward J Fitzgerald
Ebert Rathbone
Archibald Alsop
Romeo Asselin
John J August
Charles J Besaw
Raymond S Brightman
Raymond Makowsky
Alfred H Ratier
Carl H. Porter-Shirley
Raymond L Philips
Michael P. daRosa
Henry M. Sessions
Adelino M Soares
Society Names New Holy Rosary Society Officers
Mrs Matteo Principe begins her third consecutive year as president of the Holy Rosary Society at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church. She was re elected along with vice president Mrs Leonard Digati secretary Mass Ann Santulli and treasurer Mrs Angelina Mans. The group will receive Holy Communion in a body at 7 o clock mass.
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Matteo Principe
Holy Rosary Society
Our Lady of Mt Carmel
Leonard Digati
Ann Santulli
Angelina Mans
Rotary Bowling Banquet Honors Old Timers Team
Members of G. R. Perroni’s Old Timers bowling team were honored at the Rotary Club banquet at the New Bristol Casino. The team claimed both halves of the league. high single string was 169 by F R Dimond and high three string total 369 tied Dimond and R S Bosworth. A later bowl-off invitation from the Raiders to the Eels was declined.
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G. R. Perroni
F R Dimond
R S. Bosworth
F. R. Dimond
High Street
Raiders
Eels
Surreal 1940s Hollywood and Local School Notes
A burst of scattered items from a 1940s newspaper covers a prankish truant note to a daughter aged 19 claiming too many zombies, theater gossip about Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford, and various showbiz snippets. It mentions Diane Lewis in 40 Little Mothers, George M Cohan and Bert Lytell, and other nightlife spots while noting political quips and wartime slogans.
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Laura Baker
Board of Education
Varda
Banker
Franchot Tone
Joan Crawford
Valentine
Diane Lewis
William Powell
George M Cohan
Bert Lytell
Central Park
Crits
Decoration Day Parade and Civil War Tribute Planned
Daughters of the American Revolution Battery C 243rd Coast Artillery Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Sea Scouts and other local groups plan a Decoration Day parade on May 30. Tributes to Civil War veterans will be paid at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Hope Street and at North Burial Ground with a reception in Grand Army Hall to follow.
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daughters_of the American Revolution
Battery C
243Rd Coast Artillery
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Sea Scouts
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Hope Street
North Burial Ground
Grand Army Hall
Community events calendar for Bristol May to June
May 23 24 Thursday Friday Oh Baby musical comedy Doric Club. May 24 Rummage sale Pozzi Store 135 Bradford Bristol Girl Scout Council Annual Charity Ball Bristol Lions Club New Bristol Casino. May 30 Eighth Annual Charity Cotton Ball Portuguese American Civic League Bristol New Bristol Casino. June 3 Annual Charity Dined Dance Bristol Casino Italian Socialites Women’s Club Benefit tonsil clinic. June 8 Boy Scouts Circus Championship Drum and Bugle Contest Bristol County District at Guiteras Field. June 6 Colt Andrew Alumni Bridge Colt High Auditorium. June 7 8 Sound Your Horn Fellowship St Michael’s Church Parish House. June 14 Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick First Baptist Church St Michael’s Parish House. June 28 Annual Ball Bristol Colt Alumni Association New Bristol Casino.
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Pozzi’s
Bradford Street
Bristol Girl Scout Council, Inc
Bristol County Lions Club
Bristol
Civic League of
New Bristol Casino
Bristol Casino
Italian Socialites Women’s Club
Boy Scouts Circus
Bristol County District
Boy Scouts of America
Guiteras Field
Aaron Slick
Punkin Crick
First Baptist Church
St Michael’s Parish House
Bristol Colt Alumni Association
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Bristol County Sports Roundup
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John Henry Colfer
Pr. Knickers
Whitney
Makowsky’s
Bristol, R. I
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Lions Club
Erbert C.eales
Pleasant ST
Fale River
Mal
J. J. Nascimento
By HY Gardner
Anita Louise
Buddy Adler
Alex Korda
England
Merle Oberon
Dalton Trumbo
Johnny
Berlin
Acrostic of Dist
Att’y O'Dwyer
Murder, Inc
Casa Manana
Virginia Penne
Georgie Raft
Norma Shearer
Mark Hanna
Joe Louis
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Mimi
Tharpe
Cotton Club Review
Ben Hur
Bimerich
Yalioe
Ruby Keeler
Jesse
Flying Dahls
Ineny Durante
Virginia O’brien
Hollywood Studios
Broadway
Stepin Fechit
Soriya Heme
Bob Cummings
Zanuck
John Roosevelt
Sally Clarke
M.lanahan
RKO
Sally
Verheard
Barbary Coast
Leon & Eddies
Rockefeller Roller Rink
Stork Club
45Th Street Automat
America
Travelers Safety Service
Doric Club
Colt Andrew Alumni
Colt High Auditorium
Fellowship of St. Michael's Church
Burnside Memorial Building
Robert J. McKay
G. W. Simmons
William Street
Tel. Conn
E. W. Weaver & Son
Dorchester Mutual
Boston
E L. Watson Co., Inc
Weybosset Street
Providence
Henry R. Bullock Warren
R. I
G. M. Wilbur
Constitution St
Bris
Bristol District Nursing Association
Martha Graham
Hope St
Thyra Carlson
High St
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