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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1928
Page
3
The Artillery Armory launch at 6 30 a m will decorate graves at Juniper Hill St Marys and North Cemeteries. Escort by the Bristol Train of Artillery. William E Young Junior Vice Commander William Bradford Secretary.
A 7:30 p m concert features the Trinity Church choir with Grace Regester Grace Church Providence violinist and assistant organist, Harriet Kinder cello obligatos, and soloists including Miss Marjorie Burgess Miss Charlotte Young Vernon Gray and others. The program lists works by Stainer Handel Marks Bach Mendelssohn Johnston and Ralph Kinder with instrumental interludes and mass Regester violin and other solo and quartet pieces.
The Parish Aid Society of Trinity Church held its annual meeting in the parish house marking the cessation of activities until September. Officers read and accepted reports. Mrs Charles W Young gave an historical sketch of 55 years since the guild's founding. Tea and refreshments followed hosted by several named members.
Hundreds filled the Guiteras Memorial School auditorium for the Bristol County Festival Chorus concert directed by John D. Archer. Soloists Mrs. Lucy Arnold and Mrs. Elsie Lovell Hawkins from Providence drew repeated encores as Archer received the ovation. Members may join Providence and East Greenwich choruses for a Roger Williams Park program next month. High school students managed seating.
Seven seaplanes, six new type and two older models, circled over Bristol yesterday forenoon. They then touched the water in the harbor to moor at positions identified by a naval tender. The aircraft, part of a squadron to spend the summer in Narragansett bay, normally base at James town but seek sheltered quarters in Bristol harbor during heavy northerly winds.
The funeral for Percy Ray Beals of 386 High Street was held Wednesday at 2:30 PM from his home. The Rev Anson B Howard officiated, with many present including St Albans Lodge members and Cranston Worsted Mills officials. Interment followed at North Cemetery.
Jeremiah Iles Pearse, a Wakefield native and Kansas cattleman, died May 14 in Gentry Arkansas at age 75. Services were held May 15 at the Church of the Ascension in Wakefield with burial in Riverside Cemetery. Survived by sister Mrs Eduard D Depew and brother Joseph C Pearse of New York and niece Mrs Farr P Mathewson of this town. honorary bearers included Samuel R Robinson and others.
Grand Patriarch William B. Babbitt of Providence led a visitation to Wampanoag Encampment No 9 I O F at Odd Fellows Hall High Street last evening. The group conferred Golden Rule and Royal Purple degrees on a new class after a brief business session. A 7 p.m supper honored the visiting officers, with arrangements led by a committee head.
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