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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1919
Page
2
The piece argues that coal operators must absorb higher miners wages without boosting coal prices or face public scrutiny of their taxes and profits. It defends McAdoo's call for examining 1917 1918 1919 taxes and excess profits to judge affordability of wage increases and cautions operators against profiteering.
Thanksgiving visits in Boston and Providence. Wilfred Hamill starts as telegraph operator at Franklin Street depot. United Brothers Lodge nominates officers for next year. Anna May Haggerty returns from vacation via New Orleans Pasadena and Grand Canyon. Census enumerators sought for Bristol. duties include communication with J F Barry. Church services at State Street M E and St Michael's feature Mendelssohn motet and soloist Aida Connery. Knights of Columbus Hall hosts a well attended whist with prizes. Funeral in Salem for Philip Sylvian. he leaves a wife and three children. Bristol Aerie Eagles elect Joseph Connell as Vice President. new member applications and a pool committee named. successful recent dance noted.
William H. Bell is seriously ill at his Hope Street home. Mrs. F. M. Straight underwent a successful operation at Rhode Island Hospital. Miss Alice W. DeWolf returned home from Deerfield Massachusetts. Clifford Dubuc, after an appendicitis operation at LaLonde Hospital Pawtucket, came home yesterday. Loretta Walsh’s friends hosted a surprise visit at Bourn Street. Dr. R. S. Church reported a diphtheria case, Hazel St. Germain, six, Thames Street. George and Wallis Howe families spent Thanksgiving with relatives. Newton Beers gave a fine Damon and Pythias recital at G A R Hall for Knights of Pythias. Ethel Bovay and Grace Hazelton visited from Eastern Nazarene College. An extra Rhode Island suburban line car starts Monday as an experiment, needs patronage. The Dreadnaught Hook Ladder Hose Company gave a dance for the women who aided at the bazaar. Crown Orchestra supplied music. The arrangement committee included Holmes, Cooke, Gablinski, Simmons, Collins, Nelle, Walsh, Crowley.
Private Harold G. Guerard of Charleston and Co K 23d Infantry earned a World War I Medal for Valor citation by Major General Lejeune for remaining with his platoon to aid wounded despite multiple wounds at Blanc Mont from October 1 to 6, 1918. He is at Camp Merritt awaiting muster out at Camp Gordon before returning home to resume his Charleston business.
Upcoming events include a Bristol Troops bazaar at G A R Hall on four Saturdays in November, a Dec 5 dance at Colt Memorial High School, the Bristol County Poultry Association exhibition December 9 to 11 at G R Hall, and multiple December gatherings such as a John Post Reynolds School program, a Doric Club Mason ic dance at Naval Armory, and a Turkey Supper at Memorial Chapel First Congregational Church.
Federal deputies raided a Tiverton area farmhouse on Stafford road uncovering two operating distilleries and a near-ready still. Manuel R Costa and Jose Barbosa are held for grand jury action on illegal distilling charges after pleading not guilty in a Wednesday hearing before United States Commissioner Archibald C Matteson. Bail set at 500 dollars each. Found were twenty barrels of molasses yeast and barley sprouts.
Col. CGP Colt of Bristol Rhode Island donates 5000 dollars to the Actors’ Fund of America and forwards a telegram to Daniel Frohman President in New York. The message notes the Rhode Island Thanksgiving offering and the Actors’ Fund Home on Staten Island.
Automobile starting crank reported on Bay View Avenue on a Wednesday evening. Telephone Bristol 1911.
State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County Frank J Cheney senior sermon of F J Cheney Co sworn that firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Testimony details and notary A W Gleason record December 6. Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally and acts through blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists.
Countess Primo Magic known as Mrs Tom Thumb died at her Middleboro home after a long illness. The famed dwarf stood 32 inches tall and weighed 29 pounds having traveled the world with P. T. Barnum. Born October 31, 1841 she outlived many peers and leaves Count Magri as her survivor.
Wanted second hand furniture also Kitchen range stoves and dishes carpenter's tools apply Tel 20297 217 Wood St.
A woman seeks work taking in small family washing and ironing at the PHCSNIX office. She requests applicants to apply in person and specifies home duties involve domestic laundry tasks.
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