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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1925
Page
5
Services this week at St Michael's Church will be held in the chapel. Sunday next before Advent includes Holy Communion at 8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer at 10:30 a.m. Church School at 12:00 p.m. Evening Prayer and address at 7:30 p.m. Corporate Communion for men on November 29 at 8:00 p.m.
A blacksmith explains the anvil wears out the hammers not the other way around. The speaker reflects that generations of skeptics strike the Word, yet the anvil remains intact and enduring through time.
At 7 30 a m Holy Communion then 9 30 Matins 10 00 Church School 10 45 Sung Mass and sermon 7 30 pm Evensong and address.
Friday night service is omitted this week. Sunday worship at 10 30 with Rev Frederick K Pearson at both services. Church School assembles at noon. Praise and preaching at 7 30 Sunday night.
The State Street M. E. Church announces services and activities at 129 State Street. Friday prayer meeting and choir practice at 8:30. Sunday events include preaching at 10:30 a.m. 12:00, Sunday School at 6:30 p.m. and Epworth League at 7:30 p.m.
A cablegram from Shanghai announces the death of Mrs Mary Emily Barton wife of Henry Barton Jr of Bristol. She had undergone surgery for intestinal trouble last summer and was previously Miss Mary Emily Aplin of Washington DC.
Troop 5 of Bristol marks its first anniversary with an anniversary dinner in Trinity Parish House served by the Mothers Council. The event honors the troop's beginnings and community support.
Mid week meeting Friday evening at 7 30. Sunday services include morning sermon by the pastor Lest We Forget Church School at 11 45 and praise and preaching at 7 30. Theme of the ninth sermon Home Coming.
The Church of the Nazarene on Court Street near Hope lists a preaching service at 10 45 am Sunday School at 12 00 noon Young People and Missionary meetings at 6 00 pm and 7 00 pm Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 pm Minister John Caldwell invites all parishioners and neighbors to attend.
The troop hosts guests from the Troop Committee and Scoutmasters of town troops for a dinner and inspection by the Deputy Commissioner. The Armistice Day cup and the Traveling Shield will be presented, with the shield traveling among troops since 1920. A social hour and games follow, then Troop 4 meets at 7 30 pm.
Burnside Lodge No 34 Knights of Pythias holds weekly meeting at Grand Army Hall. George W Coggeshall reports plans for West Bridgewater Lodge visitation tomorrow with about 100 visitors arriving around 4 pm. Supper at 5 pm on Grand Army Hall, followed by entertainment and dancing Edgehill Temple No 3 Pythian Sisters and guests from West Bridgewater.
The funeral of Sylvia Amelia Russel Bullock Ostrander was held yesterday in Bristol with services at her home and at Juniper Hill Cemetery. She hailed from linked Bristol families including the deWolf, Andrews, and Herreshoff lines and was connected to New York society through the Ostrander and Dimock marriages. Survivors include a sister Mrs Elizabeth Colt and extended relations from prominent Bristol and New York circles.
The Altar Society of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel hosted a Thanksgiving social in Columbia Hall Wood Street with about 90 guests. The event featured dancing games prizes piano solos by Miss Rose Fasano and chocolate turkeys as favors. Committee chairwoman Felicia Della Morte led arrangements with Delia La Rocca Vechient Carmone Emily Formisano and Fannie Proto.
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