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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1922
Page
6
In Manhattan pawnshops, tales run from a heavyweight belt once hocked for 1800 dollars in 1901 and redeemed in 1904 to a ring pawned for a hurried perm wave. Anecdotes include three hundred dollar bills by a widow, a government issued note kept for sentiment, and a $1,000,000 pearl necklace offered through loan offices.
The workers in the annual parish canvass will meet at the Holmes House tonight at 6 o'clock, when supper will be served, and plans will be perfected. The canvass will take place Sunday, Nov. 2. The services Sunday will be as usual, at 8 1030, and 730. Church school at 12.
On the Sunday before Advent there is Holy Communion at 7.30 a.m. Matins at 10.00, Church School at 10.15, Sung Mass and Sermon at 10.45, and Evensong at 7.30 p.m. No sermon Sunday night. A Nation-Wide Campaign meeting follows the service. Choir practice Thursday at 7.45 p.m.
Friday night service at 7 30. Sunday morning worship with a sermon titled What Shall I Render Unto the Lord An offering will be received for Smyrna. Church school session follows the morning service. Sunday night praise and preaching at 7 30 with the sermon The Bank rupt.
Morning service at 10 30 with Thanksgiving message by the pastor. Church school at 1145. Praise and preaching service at 7 30 with sermon titled A Little Cloud.
Morning service at 10 45 led by Rev E G Johnson who preaches. Sunday School at noon. Evening service and sermon to follow.
Bristol Red Cross urges churchgoers to join and support Home Service work. Volunteers will visit churches next Sunday to enroll members and show conditions in less fortunate homes, stressing the value of generosity and “the Roll Call” ongoing.
The Brotherhood meeting in November will be held Monday evening November 27. The Rev Charles A Meader, Dean of the Narragansett Convocation, will speak on The Farm and the Mall.
On Thanksgiving evening November 30 the Boosters Club hosts a dance in GA R Hall. December 12 and 13, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Trinity Parish House hosts the comedy Clarence by the Trinity Men's Club.
The magazine notes that more than 50 European fairs this year emphasize commerce over art and local treasures. It cites Prague’s 2,500 exhibitors as a sample and reports exhibition trains boosting fair advertising across Europe and Canada.
London Daily Express notes bees swam to a bed of French marigolds in a Herne Bay garden and became shockingly intoxicated. The gardener woman keeps the adjoining hollyhocks as an inn for the bees as they nap on the flower beds, while hive bees and butterflies remain less affected. Narcotic nectar from sodum and helenium staggers bees, with intoxication lasting all night until sunrise.
A Jersey suburb reports a home using a bright flashlight on a screen to attract mosquitoes. The single light moves across the screen to coax insects to land, then swatted, a tactic copied by neighbors on the same street.
William Cole author of the Art of Simpling in 1666 argued that plants held healing virtues based on external growth marks seen as signs from guardian angels. Lungwort’s spotted leaves were linked to lung cures and walnuts to head ailments, with plant virtue tied to sun moon and planetary positions at harvest.
Funeral services for William Henry Mitchell were held at 2 o clock yesterday in the mortuary chapel at North Cemetery. Rev Anson B Howard officiated with pallbearers Leon E McCaw William J McShane Arthur M McCaw and Bertram W Wall members of St Alban s Lodge F A A burial followed in the North Cemetery family lot.
Miss Alexina Pevin aged 30 daughter of Paul Pevin of 14 Washington Street died Wednesday at the Wallum Lake sanitarium where she had been for a year. She leaves her father and step mother three sisters and two brothers. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning from her father’s residence.
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