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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1909
Page
2
An editorial notes Bristol's streets appear clean after the Highway Department cleaned gutters and road beds in the compact town area. It argues visitors judge civic pride by street cleanliness and urges residents to maintain the standard with minimal effort to keep untidy highways in the past.
The Star Theatre offers top notch fare with Thalley’s Heart as feature drama and The Message plus Biograph rural life drama. Vitagraph’s Making of Rubber Pens draws interest for its look at rubber and pen making. Mr Moscow’s songs Strawberries and If You’ve Won the Only One in All the World You Want to Win delight audiences. Wednesday matinee at 2.80 p.m. Watch next issue for specials.
A viewer reacts to a painting, praising realism and noting the sunset makes their mouth water. The comment spirals into a playful misinterpretation of a gouset versus fried egg.
Bristol post office announces arrival and closure times for weekday and Sunday mail. Express service times are listed for outward and inward shipments, with specific morning and evening cutoff hours and Sunday rack distribution details.
Mrs Daniel Kenney of Detroit visits Bristol relatives. Charles Henning drawn as grand juror for Superior Court session Dec 6. Thanksgiving travels include Everett Massachusetts and Providence. Calendar sales and 1910 samples at Phoenix office. Service change to Thursday 7 80 at St Michaels Chapel. Minstrel rehearsal tonight for Bristol Base Ball benefit. Di Palma Gillispie marriage at St Michaels Sunday. Seabury Gablinski and Agnes Cornell wed at St Michaels rectory. Church services and Advent sermon at St Michaels and Trinity Church. Paull vs Paull equity case heard in Providence Supreme Court. Poll tax collection by special officers with 5 days to pay. A L Johnston visiting Digitton Mage. Brownell ill at Franklin street. Viola Brown returns from Kingston. St Andrews Club rummage sale tomorrow. Suzmans advertise winter wear. Waldron visiting from Providence. Good Time Club event and Crown Orchestra at G A R Hall. Benjamin Solomon visits family in Warwick. Pevin Summons marriage filing. Col Samuel Colt visiting with Roswell Colt. Star Theatre gets new illuminated marquee by Herbert Ahearn. Namquit Worsted Company closes mill for Thanksgiving break. resumes next day. Weather:寒 mild morning, sun, brief snow, then clearing, cold night. Fire near Long Swamp Barrington injures 14 people. cause unknown. loss $1500 insured. Suzman’s offers blankets. Wink family moving to Passaic. Frederick Wink joins Gregory Woolen Mills management.
Miss Marion Eason of Manchester sails from Massachusetts Training School for Nurses to Bristol to care for the needy free of charge. A fund from stamp sales and subscriptions backs a full year of expenses, with headquarters in a Cranson Worsted Mills area house loaned by O B Rockwell. Local ladies seek a cooking stove and furniture for the nurse, while 50 000 stamps are to be sold before Christmas, with Bristol receiving two thirds of last year’s state aid and stamp proceeds.
A thirty three year marriage woman and grandmother of four recalls a happy home. A visiting colorful cook comments on the flowers and declares the husband is holding out well with pride and humor.
George Pearlle Fish 72 year old resident of the town was found dead in his chair at home Sunday afternoon. He lived alone and had reported ill for a week. Neighbor Joseph Milone found him and notified authorities. Medical Examiner Dr W Fred Williams attributed the death to heart disease and estimated death occurred six to seven hours earlier. Funeral at First Baptist Church tomorrow at 1 30 pm conducted by Rev Alfred S Stowell. He is survived by a brother and a sister.
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