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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1930
Page
3
Bristol post office observes Thanksgiving with no city carrier deliveries and no rural carrier service. Stamp and general delivery windows open 7 to 9 am, lobby 7 to 5 pm, money order and registry divisions closed. Mails received 6:35 and 7:37 am, dispatched 7:30 am. Patrons must leave notice by 7:39 pm Nov 26, 1930. Postmaster WKM Connery.
A large gathering at Lincoln Hall honored Miss Grace Di Lello of 11 Usher Street with a miscellaneous shower. Gifts, dancing, and refreshments followed by a committee of Misses Betty Ascola Lena Guistiani and Anna Correira. Guests hailed from Providence Pawtucket Warren and Barrington. Miss Di Lello will wed Charles Ruggiero at Our Lady of Mount Carmel on December 27.
Ferrycliffe Farm owned by Dr and Mrs Halsey DeWolf won the Rhode Island Poultry Association exhibit medal for best turkey at the Cranston Street Armory show in Providence. Glen E Smith is listed as farm manager. Oakland Farm of Middletown took second in several categories including old pen and young pen.
Fancy and other articles made by members of the Sisters of St. Dorothy classes at St. Elizabeth's parish will be shown at the convent on Lincoln Avenue starting Sunday, Nov 30. The display features numerous fine works created by young women and girls and the public is invited to view the exhibit.
At the John Post Reynolds School weekly program pupils of Grade 54 led by Miss Eileen D Moore performed a salute to the Flag sang Star Spangled Banner and presented an Acrostic. Readers included Joseph Viera Alice Carmone Louis Romano and several others with plays readings songs and harmonica pieces throughout the program.
Funeral services for James Davidson a long time spar maker and ship carpenter at Herreshoff were held at George M Wilbur funeral parlors Warren attended by relatives, friends, and shopmates. Rev Herbert Graetz officiated, with committal at North Cemetery. Davidson died Sunday after a brief illness at his home 4 Constitution Street Bristol. He was 63 and leaves a daughter Mary LeClair of Bristol and sons David James and John in New York and George in Boston. He was a skilled sonar maker and helped craft spars for Cup defenders at Herreshoff and enjoyed bowling in YMCA leagues. He was born in St Johns New Brunswick and came to Bristol after work in New London Connecticut.
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