Bristol Town Council Restores Midnight Alcohol Closing
The Bristol Town Council approved a new licensing ordinance effective December 1 restoring midnight closing for all liquor establishments including D clubs. Class B may stay open to 1 a m only by special application. Class C must close at midnight. No free food is allowed. Sunday sales end at midnight. fees due by certified check or cash with $1000 bond.
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Bristol
Lucien Capone
soRace Rad Tst
Cate
Soma Tis
Capone
J Floyd Huestis
Anthony J Ferrara
Nquor
Huestis
Bristol Men organize GOP club with new officers
G O P club president elected at Bristol reorganization in Bristol County Courthouse. Officers include Orlando Bisbario as First Vice President and John P Marshall as Second Vice President. Board members list Church Bisbane Marshall Kerr Victoria Velleca with others.
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Wwe
Ralph T. Church
Everett Leb. Church
Men’s Republican Club of
Bristol
Bristol County
Orlando J. Bisbario
John P. Marshall
Walter Kerr
John A. Victoria
James J. Velleca
Fred J Guevremont
Lucien Capone
Benjamin F. Hindemuth
Joseph C Kinder
Albert Johnson
Michael W. Pasquarli
Girl Scout Troop 3 Prepares Christmas Play and Badges
Girl Scout Troop 3 met Tuesday at Scout House. They work on the Dramatics Badge led by Mrs Frederick Sutcliffe and plan a play at the Home for Aged Women near Christmas. A carol and poem are being prepared. Other scouts focus on the Child Nurse Badge.
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Columbine Troop
Scout House
Frederick Sutcliffe
Wesley Armstrong
Union Street
Girl Mariners Pass Requirements
At the weekly meeting of Mariner Ship Vigilant plans were made for a Thanksgiving basket. Tests were passed including yacht etiquette by Peggy Connors bell time and watches by Claire Richards and Nancy Bosworth water craft by Virginia Bowden and Jane Holmes. Second Mate Jessie Sanford led the meeting. Next week they will meet at Mrs Peckham’s home on Hope Street.
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Mariner
Peggy Connors
Bell
Claire Richards
Nancy Bosworth
Virginia Bowden
Jane Holmes
Jessie Sanford
Bristol Observes President Roosevelt Thanksgiving Day
Bristol marked President Roosevelts Thanksgiving Day with little enthusiasm. No social events occurred while factories and stores stayed open. About 2350 students marked the holiday and returned to classes today. Town offices relief bureau post office and library also granted the day off. Prescott B Paull of Seth Paull Company was among rare independents to close.
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Bristol
Roosevelt
Relief Bureau
Bristol Post Office
Industrial Trust Company
Rogers Free Library
Prescott B Paull
Seth Paull
Rev Lindsey to Speak Tonight at DeWolf Chapel
Rev Samuel M Lindsey D D famed speaker from Scotland visits Bristol to address the European Crisis at DeWolf Memorial Chapel under the Congregational Club. Funds from the small lecture fee go to buy vestments for the Junior Choir led by Mrs F Reginald Dimond with Mrs R S Bosworth as accompanist.
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Samuel M. Lindsey
Bristol
DeWolf Memorial Chapel
Congregational Club
Scotland
Dr Lindsey
First Congregational Church
Brookline
WITS
F Reginald Dimond
R. S. Bosworth
Relief pooling plan to be considered Monday
The Work Relief Bureau will meet Monday evening to review Orlando J. Bisbane’s proposal for pooling information from public and private relief agencies. Officials praise efficiency and duplication prevention while private agencies oppose, arguing lists include many not on relief and fear reduced pensions and government responsibility shifting to charities.
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Work Relief Bureau
Argu
Orlando J. Bisbane
Pastor from Old South to preach at Union Service Sunday
Rev Russell H Stafford of the Old South Church Boston will preach at the fourth Community Service at St Michael's Church Sunday evening at 7 30. A concert follows with Ruth Moulton violinist Harriet Iacoletti cellist and Walter M Angel organist. Canon Parshley and local pastors assist. Frank A Rounds in charge lists several local figures involved.
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Old South Church
Boston
Russell H Stafford
St. Michael's Church
Sunnday
Ruth Moulton
Harriet Iacoletti
Walter MW. Ange’l
Canon Parshley
Herbert Dordett
First Congregational Church
Arthur W. Burdon
First Baptist Church
Asbery
Frank A. Rounds
H Marshall Williams
James St Angelo
Riley Lamson
Fred W Coggeshall
Wesley Armstrong
Leonard P Sanford
James R. Wood
Wallace L. Mossop
Railroad Asks For Fairer Competition At Rotary Club
Maurice K Dugan representing the New Haven Road urged equality in railroad competition and criticized subsidies as taxes on the public. He warned that without fair access for all users of highways and waterways the industry risks socialized control, urging the public be convinced railroads are human and productive.
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Maurice K Dugan
New Haven Road
Rotary’ Club
Dugan
Antony
Cleopatra
Miss Margaret M Roderick Bride Elect Hosted at Silver Dollar Shower
More than 200 guests attended a silver dollar shower in Bristol in honor of Miss Margaret M Roderick who tomorrow becomes the bride of Clif ford Belmon. Attendees traveled from Warren Little Compton Newport Cranston Providence East Greenwich and Bristol. Hostesses were Misses Irene Belmore Laura Sai and Lucy Botelho. The evening featured dancing and pleasant entertainment.
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Bristol Rake
Margaret M Roderick
Clifford Belmon
Warren
Little Compton
Newport
Cranston
Providence
East Greenwich
Bristol
Irene Belmore
Laura Sai
Lucy Botelho
Alumni Plans Reunion At Ball
Bristol-Colt Alumni Association looks forward to a Thanksgiving ball for all Colt Memorial high school graduates next Thursday at the Bristol Yacht Club. It will be the first time in years the event is at a venue other than Colt auditorium and expects a capacity crowd with Bob White and his Country Club orchestra providing music. Bertha Roderick chairs the arrangements with subcommittees led by Frank Rounds and a publicity group including Antonette Campanella and John W Church Jr.
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Colt Memorial High School
Bristol-Colt Alumni Association
Bristol Yacht Club
Colt Auditorium
Bob White
Country Club
Bertha Roderick
Frank Rounds
Genevieve Pagnano
Anthony Iasiello
Mary Rego
Laura Balzano
James Rodrigues
Lucy Cusano
Loretta Byrnes
Antonette Campanella
John W W. Church
Wilhelmina Victoria
Bristol Student Wins Place On Dean's List
Norman L. Hibbert son of Mr and Mrs George Hibbert 240 Hope Street is named among the Brown University Class of 1941 Dean's list honorees This achievement marks him as a Colt Memorial High School graduate earning academic distinction and greater research opportunities at Brown University
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Norman L. Hibbert
George Hibbert
Hope Street
Brown University
Hibbert
Colt Memorial High School
Colt
Boy Scouts Troop 5 Observes Parents Night
Bristol Boy Scouts Troop 5 held Parents Night at St. Michael's Parish House with remarks by Newport Field Commissioner Daniel Earle. Scoutmaster Irving M Porter presided as Rev. Herbert D Graetz gave blessing. Anthony Antonelli joined as tenderfoot. doughnuts and cider were served.
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Bristol
Paul Thompson
Anthony Antonelli
Earle Durig
Old Time Firefighting Illustrated Book Review
A memoirish note introduces a color illustrated book on firefighting up to 1865, published by Harold Vincent Smith for The Home Insurance Company. Kenneth Holcomb Dunshee writes, praising Currier & Ives lithographs and scenes of hand-pumpers, hose carriages, and volunteer firemen set against New York City fire history.
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Phil Brady
Hydraulion Fire Company
City of
New York
Dan
Wally Coggeshall
Harold Vincent Smith
The
Home Insurance Company
Kenneth Holcomb Dunshee
Boston
Firefighting in Early London and Fire Marks of 1682
The passage sketches early firefighting in London with a mocked street scene of laddies hauling a fire engine and a stern lady, notes pride and reckless roads. It recalls London’s first fire brigades funded by insurers with unique marks, the 1682 Phoenix badge, and how uninsurable fires led to abandonment of scenes.
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London
America
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