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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
2
Governor Hughes, at the Brooklyn dedication of the Prison Ship Martyrs monument, honors the plain man not great leaders but ordinary citizens who, in misery, showed unselfish loyalty to liberty. Humanity keeps its highest honors for those who reveal pure loyalty to principle in affliction.
Tuesday morning Governor James Henry Higgins married Miss Ellen Frances Maguire at St Joseph’s Church Pawtucket in a discreet ceremony led by Rt Rev Matthew Harkins. The governor wore no insignia and guests were few. a nuptial mass followed and a breakfast was hosted by the bride’s parents at 118 Spring Street. The couple then departed for a wedding trip.
Mails arrive at Bristol post office at 7 00, 10 00, 12 00, 4 00, 6 45, and 7 16 p m. Mails close at 8 00, 8 45, 11 30 a m, 1 45, 5 45, and 7 16 p m. Sunday arrivals 8 30 a m, close 5 00 p m. General delivery for stamps 4 80 to 5 p m. Office hours Sunday 9 30 to 10 00 p m. Sunday mail from carriers racks at south door 9 30 to 10 00 p m. Express matter due outward 7 50 and 11 20 a m, 3 20 and 5 20 p m. Inward 8 00 and 12 00 a m, 3 00 and 7 00 p m.
Advertising in the Phoenix notes Trinity parish re shingling and a heau supper at G A R Hall on Dec 3. Local visits, weddings, dances, and church events are listed with names like Miss Sara Molasky and Joseph Silver. Harboring social items include fundraisers at St Marys and Edgehill Temple, plus lodge meetings and cemetery attendances.
An 1908 local notice lists a Reba Lodge event at the former Mrs J J Christie store corner Wood and State streets Tuesday November 24 08 with collection Monday afternoon. Also details property founds and calls for items at 652 Hope Street and Phoenix Office. A Silnet Watch Pin offered and a six room tenement with bath over Waldron Brownell Co store is advertised.
Sunday morning the Rev John McVay will preach the anonymous Thanksgiving sermon. The body of Miss Sarah A Douglass of Richmond, died in Tennissett, will be brought here for burial. funeral at the mortuary chapel North cemetery at 2:30 pm tomorrow. She was 83, daughter of the late Robert and Sarah Douglass, sister of the late John E Douglass, last of her family. Also note a street water main break near Hove and Byfield. Bristol Opera House will show moving pictures tomorrow with tickets 21 5 for children, plus a good program of pictures and illustrated songs.
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