Legion Installs DeLeo As Commander Tomorrow Night
Legion holds joint public installation at the American Legion Hall at 8 p m with Lt Gov James F Michiernan as principal after tomorrow evening. New commander Ralph M DeLeo and officers including Muriel Ashton Gilbert Oliver George Fish Daniel Evis are installed. Chaplain Daniel K Dav s offers prayer and constitution read. Buffet supper and dancing close the formal exercises.
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Legion
DeLeo
James F. Michiernan
Earney Post
American Legion Hall
Ralph M. de Leo
Iss
Muriel G. Ashton
Gilbert Oliver
Ergeant At Arms
George Fish
Daniel E Vis
Norman Gravin
Domenic J. Mascola
Thanksgiving Observed In Traditional Style
Bristolians gathered for Thanksgiving as churches prayed for peace and a better world. The Senior High School football team defeated Barrington at Guiteras Field while girl scouts raised donations for Christmas. Families enjoyed meals, rest, and youth activities at the Y and local homes.
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Barrington
R. I. Soldiers Home
Rounds Family with Organ and Piano to Back Rotary Show
The Rotary Club production Are You Listening at iGuiteras auditorium December 13 and 14 features Mrs Rounds at the piano and Earl Rounds on organ guiding songs like Strike Up The Band and There's No Business Like Show Business. Vernon A. Gray and R S. Bosworth lead solo parts with a club quartet. production and house committees list several local organizers.
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Rounds
iGuiteras Auditorium
Frank A. Rounds
Rotary Club
William D. Hall
M. Donovan
Stout
Bristol PTA honors teachers with large reception
About 225 parents teachers and friends attended a Tuesday evening reception at Colt Memorial High School honoring Bristol’s teachers. Dr Michael Walsh spoke as the PTA approved by laws to promote welfare of youngsters and home school ties. The group announced 16 new members bringing total to 226. Future programs include a talk on audio visual aids December 16 and medical panel on child health. Association president Sidney F Kullberg led the event with hospitality chair Mrs Frederick S Bartlett.
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Bristol
Lstatt
Colt Memorial High School
Michael Walsh
Association
Ralph Lawson Jr
PTA
Russel Meinhold
Lawson
Theresa Donovling
Big Greenlan
Colt
Barrington
Townies Face Mohawks In Decision Sunday
The annual Bristol County District Boy Scouts dinner meeting will be held Tuesday evening at 6 30 in St Michael s parish house. Scout Executive J Harold Williams will be the principal speaker with greetings from President Elmer S Horton. Frederic A Cornell will serve as toastmaster and a pageant The Trail of Scouting will be presented by local scouts andScouters. The event is open to Scouters and wives committee men counsellors and commissioners staff.
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Bristol County District
Boy Scouts For America
St. Michael’s
J Harold Williams
Narragansett Council
Elmer S. Horton
Barrington
Frederic A. Cornell
Howard A. Munroe
George Bouttul
Bristol
Gardiner West Fares Well At New England Bantam Show
Gardiner West fared well at the New England Bantam Club all bantam show in Whitman Massachusetts. He earned first prize for a White Japanese pullet and multiple special awards including best display and top entries across cock birds hens pullets and trio. The event drew 45 Japanese bantams from Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Manton Mohawks basketball team has won nine straight, compiling 183 points to 28 against and only threatened once, in a 12-6 opening win over Townies.
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Gardiner
New England
Cockybirds
Manton
Guiteras Fields
Bristol
Manton Mohawks
Townes
Mantons
Townies
Hawks
Bob McHugh
Fran Velleca
Art Jordan
Jimmy Sousa
Ralph McCaw
Dick McGinn
Hec Massa
Pete Quintal
Gut Topazio
Pud Vollaro
Dutch Hirsch
Lou Cirillo
Jacks Silva
Freitas
Arto Topazio
Skip Ferrara
Bull Rodericks
M. Malafronte
Mike Balzano
Coke
Ciociola
Pete Varela
Catal Fano
Jeep Balzano
Walt Dias
Rhode Island
Bishop Delivers 14th Thanksgiving Talk at Bristol Rotary
The Rt. Rev. Granville G. Bennett delivers his 14th annual Thanksgiving address at the Bristol Rotary Club. He extols enduring freedoms, friendship, and faith while noting democratic gains from the recent presidential election and praising the club for its support of community events and future sports coverage.
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Granville G. Bennett
Episcopal
Bristol
Clothing Drive Records Stolen and Rescued from Occupation
A report recounts a daring theft and recovery of hospital records during Japanese occupation. Coolies stole eight months of documents. rescuers moved shelves and built a false partition to conceal them until dawn. After V J Day the records were found safe at a cottage.
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Hig Son
Price
V-J
Ove J
Arias
Éiné
Auto Thieves Steal Two Cars
Police report two cars stolen Tuesday evening. Anthony Pereira of 47 Franklin Street says a 1937 sedan in his wife’s name was taken from in front of his home. Antone Sousa Jr. of 16 Bay View Avenue reports his car missing and later police recover Sousa’s vehicle near Hope Street Fort Hill. Octave LeClair of 18 Church Street reports a 1936 car ransacked with a forced door and stolen accessories.
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Anthony Pereira
Franklin Street
Antone Sousa Jr
Bay View Avenue
Mr. Sousa
Hope Street
Fort Hill
Octave LeClair
Church St
Opera Record Treasure Passes to Chinese Clergyman
Albert Faurot recounts in Opera News how a vast operatic recording collection in Foochow survived war a transfer by the late Anglican Bishop who in his will left the entire set to Faurot after a 1940 reunion, wartime separations, and the bishop's subsequent pneumonia death.
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China
Albert Faurot
Opera News
Faurot
Foochow
Fukien
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Colt Memorial Hall
Bristol Community Concert Association
State Department
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Louis L. Silvia
Daniel K. Davs
Ralph M Deep
Republic
Vernon A. Gray
R. S. Bosworth
Gray
Bosworth
Lucien Capone
William H. Sisson
Oscar I. Bergstrom
Wm O’rourke
R .S. Bosworth
Samuel D. Clark
Edward J Fitzgerald
Stephen W.hopkins
Norman J. Vermette
Howard R. Newman
Mr. Hall
Salvador Nunes
Paul A. Herzig
Orlando J. Bisbane
J. Harry Tuplin
A A. Edmonds
Arthur M McCaw
Frank J. Sylvia
Arthur H Eastman
Raymond J. Makowsky
Joseph Pine
James St. Angelo
Henry H. Lawson
John McIntosh
Charles H. Liscomb
Charles Cole
Carl H. Witherill
Emma Bonvicin
Phillip Bodell
Joseph du Pont
Ralph de Felice
Sidney Kullburg
Kenneth Olson
Bertram Wall
James Sullivan
Alfred Newton
Thomas Adams
Maxwell Phenes
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Anthony du Pont
Frederick S. Bartlett
Sidney F. Kullberg
J. Harold Williams
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Guiteras Field
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Alan Ladd
Donna Reed
George Macready
George Coulouris
Tex Granger
Paul Langton
Jean Rogers
Gary Gray
Joe Sawyer
Tues
Pat O'Brien
Father Dunne
Myrna Dell
Charles Kemper
Darryl Hickman
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