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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1930
Page
3
The Mansfield High School football team heads to Massachusetts to meet the locally named Colt team after a week of sharp practice. The Mansfield squad prepares for the holiday trip and aims to improve after recent sessions.
Plans for a month long recruiting drive begin on October 12 under district and troop leaders. Awashonks Herd P O W S holds its first fall meeting October 11 in the Scout Building. Kearney Troop Sea Scouts votes to skip meetings for two weeks to study for tests. Troop 5 outlines fall and winter programs and re organizes patrols. Troop 1 fall social features games and a meal as Troop Council members attend.
Taft School held Fathers Night with the Taft School Club entertaining fathers and other men. Rev A R Parsh levy spoke, Emmanuel Yacolett of Providence played piano, Moss Harriet Kinder performed cello, and chorus singing followed a hospitality collation by Mrs D B Sullivan and Mrs Harry R Gray.
A Wednesday whist event at Mrs. LeRoy Bush 87 Burton Street supported the Babbitt Women’s Relief Corps. Four tables were used. Men’s prizes went to Charles Luther Daniel Bowron and George W Coggeshall. Ladies’ prizes went to Etta Luther LeRoy Bush and S R Young. Refreshments were served.
Warren Gazette publishes tributes to Miss Mary P Davoren who died suddenly at 83 State Street on September 24. She taught in Warren Public Schools for about 28 years. Tributes from the Gazette, Superintendent Leroy G Staples, and Principal George N Hazard honor her kindness and service.
Superintendent L G Staples recalls Mary Davoren as a skilled teacher who treated each student as an individual with calm discipline and rare personality. He notes her healthy optimism and cheerful spirit despite illness, and laments that no one can fill her place.
The Warren Grammar School community grieves Miss Mary P Davoren whose superior teaching and sympathetic approach benefited many students and young teachers. Her quiet unassuming nature and strict yet fair discipline earned respect and loyalty from scholars, teachers, and the wider community alike.
Wilfred J LeMaire starts interior painting of three fire stations Hydraulion Dreadnaught and Ever Ready after winning the contract from the Board of Fire Engineers. His bid 285 dollars was the lowest among five bids, others 295 425 575 and 580 dollars.
Five child welfare clinics served 189 babies at Rockwell House in September. Nurses conducted three tonsil and adenoid clinics and one operation. Total care visits reached 524 with 226 general care visits and 70 Metropolitan care visits. Pre natal visits were 8 and tuberculosis visits 32. Three maternity cases were attended by the nurses.
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