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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
3
A Bristol reader appeals to the Phoenix for space to urge gas and ice price reductions and questions Fourth of July celebrations. He asks for weekly letters to pressure the gas company, argues ice pricing should drop like Providence, and praises the town fathers while urging civic effort to restore Bristol’s former character.
Tomorrow afternoon the Bristols of the Inter-State League travel to face St George of Central Falls on the Common. The St Georges lineup includes Wilkinson Finley LaPerch Aspinwall Dufresne Nightgate Manmey Briden Potter Bass. The Bristols lineup remains as usual. Various other games include Bristol Independents versus Columbia AC in Providence and Bristol Baptists versus St Mary's on the Common. The Hustlers play the Wire Room Stars on the Common at 2 30. Battery details: Hustlers Bottomley Garvin Wire Room Sylvia Bowler Hughes. The Red Hooks challenge teams statewide for ages 17 19. address manager Wm Simmons, 8 State Street. The Georgiaville game features the original Hustlers journeying to Centredale Memorial Day.
On Memorial Day the Bristols of the Inter-State League face the Crescents in Providence. In the afternoon the Hebronvilles will cross the Common with the Bristols. The Independents of the Inter-Urban League meet the Thorn ton's in Thornton in the afternoon. Y M C A s are not scheduled. The Bristol Baptists arrange a morning game likely against Riversides or St. Mary's. Warren Shoe Co. team plays on the Common in the afternoon. The battery is Porter and Silva. Lineup includes William Middleton Manuel Silva Samuel Porter John Dennis Joseph Marshall Guy Reed captain Joseph Sousa William Maxmean Manuel Marshall as sub.
Special Order No 1 and 2 outline Memorial Day activities in Bristol Rhode Island by Babbitt Post No 15 G A R veterans and associates. The processions begin at G A R Hall on May 30 and May 31 1909 with uniformed members and badges. The events include church services at State Street M E Church a parade to Middle District Schoolhouse a wreath laying at North Burial Ground and a shore ceremony for fallen sailors with formal addresses and songs. Citizens are urged to display the American flag at half mast.
A fragment notes that many men face hunger or poverty while claiming skill as marksmen. It hints at domestic counsel from a wife guiding a husband through troubles and work toward improvement.
May 81 Monday announces Memorial Day Lawn Fete under Bristol Train of Artillery at Artillery Armory. June dates list events at G A R Hall including a June Festival for St Marys Church, a pianoforte recital by Miss Salisbury and pupils, and an illustrated lecture on Rome by Col O H French for the Teachers' Retirement Fund.
A letter to the editor argues for a floating bath house along the Bristol waterfront. For a few hundred dollars a salt water bath facility could serve boys and girls, men and women at low cost. A matron or supervisor would be needed on specific days, with the rest of the time a janitor or superintendent in charge. The writer notes safety is improved and suggests Steamboat Wharf as a central anchorage, urging subscription funding or a public event to launch a organizers’ board and begin concrete action.
Katharine Eggleston argues in Woman's Home Companion that girls are trained to admire male work and hew to traditional domestic roles from kindergarten onward. She notes curricular and vocational gaps, the neglect of female achievements, and calls for coeducation to balance responsibilities and opportunities between boys and girls.
The Flying Ellet Family leads a famed roster known as the Human Swallows with the Potters and Lukens in aerial acts. The Frank A. Robbins Shows will exhibit at the Gammon in town for one week starting Friday June 4.
Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Show to perform in Providence on Wednesday June 16 and Fall River on Thursday June 17 with a new Madison Square Garden honed program. The act lineup includes Schumann horses elephants using telephones Roblidello and the Lorch family plus 100 new acts. A three mile parade featuring camels zebras llamas and a highly enlarged menagerie tops the bill. Darwin the missing link headlines the menagerie with a miniature house electric lights hot water and dining theatrics.
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