Bristol Boy Scout Corps crowned National Champions in drum competition
The Bristol Boy Scout Bugle and Drum Corps won the National Open Drum Corps Championship at the New York World's Fair. They scored 92.3, with top marks for drum and bugle sections, beating over 110 junior corps. The town hails their summer ascent from state to national titles and a rainy World’s Fair victory.
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Bristol Boy Scout
Bristol
Warren Corps
Southbridge
Mass
Ange
Fall River
Providence
Springfield
Frank Sousa
Bugler
New York
All-American Association
Robert M Cotter
Association
Walter A Fuller
C R Murphy
Bristol Corps
Norman Rene
Rene
Warren Boy Scout Corps
American Legion
Boston
George R Fish
Church To Observe World Wide Communion
The First Congregational Church will hold Holy Communion at 11 a m Sunday service. The event is part of World Wide Communion sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in New York and the World Council of Churches in Geneva Switzerland.
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First Congregational Church
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
New York City
World Council of Churches
Geneva
Switzerland
Chief Outlines Fire Prevention Week Plan
Fire Chief Fred J Guevremont from 31 Cottage Street announces Fire Prevention Week for the week of October 6. Volunteer fire companies will parade the streets daily from 4:30 to 5:30 PM with the Hydraulion truck on Monday and the Dreadnaught Defiance and Ever Ready trucks on the next three days, each bearing fire prevention posters.
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Fred J Guevremont
Cottage Street
Little World Series Final As Bristol and Warren Clash
In the annual Little World Series decider Bristol and Warren meet Sunday at 2 p.m. at Guiteras Field for game three. Manager Cragan plans the same lineup as the first two games with Chief Benevides Foxy Marshall and Dick Harding possibly in attendance. Manager Correcira of Warren also uses the lineup that won 4-3 in eleven innings last Sunday.
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Bristol
Warren
Guiteras Field
Cincinnati
Detroit
Cragan
Benevides
Evening School Opens With Large Enrollment
Two hundred one students enrolled Wednesday evening for 14 courses at the Bristol Evening High School in the Andrews Memorial Building. About 60 people joined WPA and Americanization classes. Enrollment exceeded expectations with several popular courses filled and new machine shop and sheet metal offerings under the National Defense Program.
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Andrews Memorial
Bristol Evening High School
Colt Memorial
WPA
Stannard
Sylvia
Ian Walker
E. S Mapes
Newport
National Defense Program
George H Baldwin
Hope Street
State Vocational Guidance Department
State National Defense Board
John C Studebaker
ULS
Washington, DC
Building Boom Reported by Bristol Inspector
Building Inspector Otis M Bailes says Bristol has a real building boom with September the biggest month in two years for residential construction. His report shows four new residence permits totaling 15000, eight garage permits at 6615, seven alteration permits totaling 3340, and nineteen permits overall valued at 24950.
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Bristol
Otis M Bailes
Twenty Five Residents Sign Communist Petition
Twenty five Bristol residents signed a petition filed at the Town Clerk to put the Communist Party candidates on the ballot. The slate includes governor lieutenant governor secretary of state and attorney general. Two Bristol names were not on the latest voting lists. The petition goes to the Secretary of State while copies stay in local files.
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Bristol
Communist Party
Rev Hubbard Speaks To Trinity Men's Forum
Rev Russell S Hubbard rector of St Martins Providence spoke on The Church History to the Trinity Church men's forum Wednesday evening. Rev John Beauchamp rector of Trinity Church presided. refreshments were served. Next monthly meeting will be held in November and speaker yet to be announced. Vestry meeting scheduled Monday evening in the parish room on State street.
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Russell S Hubbard
St Martin's Church
Providence
Trinity Church
John Beauchamp
State Street
High School Boy Wins Trip To World Series
Alfred H Ferreira a Colt High School senior won first prize in a national baseball contest and is in Detroit to attend games three four and five of the 1940 World Series at Briggs Stadium He will meet players and clown prince Al Schacht and hopes to become a sports writer someday.
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Alfred H Ferreira
Colt High School
Detroit
Cincinnati Reds
Detroit Tigers
Briggs Stadium
Alfred
al Schacht
Bristol
Julio Ferreira
Bay View Avenue
Colt Memorial High School
D of I Halloween Committee Plans October Event
The Daughters of Isabella Halloween Party committee meets Monday at 7 PM in the Knights of Columbus Hall on State Street. The chapter holds its regular meeting at 8 PM. Co chairs for the October 21 event are Lena McKenna and Margaret Connery with a long list of committee members.
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Daughters of Isabella Hallowe’en
Knights of Columbus
State Street
Hallowe'en
K of C Hall
Lena McKenna
Margaret Connery
Nora Toplin
Elizabeth Goulart
Johanna McClure
Elizabeth White
Helen Callan
Elizabeth Dwyer
Lena Ingram
Marie Vermette
Mary Kerr
Eloise Dunbar
Ethel Marz
Edna Dubuc
Genevieve Dunbar
Laura Sousa
Bernard McHugh
Donalda Saucier
Genevieve Saucier
Frances Horton
Offocio
Bridge Series Planned By Women's Republican Club
The Women's Republican Club met at Mrs Albert H Flint Jrs Ferry Road home to plan a bridge party series ending by the 25th. A committee of 18 members was formed and tea was served. The October 14 meeting was cancelled due to other political activities.
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Women’s Republican Club
Women's Republican Club
Albert H Flint, Jr
Ferry Road
Charles T Heilborn
William P Gladding
Robert Newbold
Alton Pierce
John R. Bernardo
Walter Kerr
William Coggeshall
Lucien Capone
Samuel C. Wardwell
John Sylvia
Countryside Garden Club Schedules Fall Meeting At Beachmont Manor
The Countryside Garden Club met at Mrs James Sylvester’s home at 941 Hope Street. Honors for best marigold arrangements went to Mrs Sebastian Bernard Jr and Mrs Madeline Almeida, with honorable mentions for Mrs Martin Dodd and Mrs Katherine Bertrand. The next meeting at Miss Dorothy Foster’s Peck Avenue home on October 17 will focus on collecting five seed pods from each member.
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the Countryside Garden Club
James Sylvester
Hope Street
Sebastian Bernard, Jr
Madeline Almeida
Wiliam Burke
Martin Dodd
Katherine Bertrand
Bernard
Dorothy Foster
Peck Avenue
Beachmont Manor
Ladies Night Planned By Warren Bristol Rotary
The Bristol and Warren Rotary Clubs plan a joint Ladies Night at the Hotel Warren on Wednesday October 16. A committee from both clubs includes Andrew Gagnon, James C Milne, Fritz J Gemop, John G DesLauriers, Ambrose Flaherty, and Roswell S Bosworth.
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Bristol
Warren
Hotel Warren
Andrew Gagnon
James C Milne
Fritz J. Gemop
Warren Club
John G DesLauriers
Ambrose Flaherty
Roswell S. Bosworth
Bristol Club
London War Shelter Realities Told by American Observer
An American reader contrasts London shelter life with New England ease. He describes private cellars and hotel bunkers, subways crowded with 120,000 nightly sleepers, and dire conditions in tunnels. He notes 2,300,000 Anderson shelters issued and urges perspective on wartime hardship.
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Greater London
Anderson
London
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BOY Scout Corps
Bing
Bing Crosby
Mary Martin
Basil Rathbone
Oscar Levant
Lillian Cornell
Oscar Shaw
Charley Grapewin
Carole Landis
Henry Wilcoxon
Onslow Stevens
Joe Penner
Linda Hayes
Russ Brown
Fritz Feld
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Gloria Dickson
Frank Fay
Edith Fellows
Fense
Bessie B Tobin
Helen A Condon
Helen A
Condon Commercial Law
Edward J. Rinaldi
Inter
Edward J Rinaldi
Ian M
Walker Foods
Aleta F
Bezanson Clothing
Bezanson Machine Shop
E Doris Bullock
Rose McGovern
Margaret Murphy
Mary McHugh
Odd Fellows Organization
Reba Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
High Street
Elizabeth Pettune
Virginia Tobey
Rebekah Assembly
Pawtucket
The
Odd Fellows of
Rhode Island
Earl R Phinney
Arthur Roberts
Alice
Flora Horton
Barrington
Helen Hambrick
Ivy Stewart
Luella Ryone
R. S Bosworth
Bosworth
Rev. Hubbard
Trinity Men’s Forum
D. of I. Hallowe’en
Countryside Garden Club
Warren-Bristol Rotary
New England
New York Times
Savoy
Liverpool Street
Piccadilly Circus
England
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