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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
3
The Pastime theatre presents a new skit titled Peck's Bad Boy with a comedian resembling and acting like Charlie Chaplin. The audience is invited to decide if the star is Chaplin or an impersonator. Tickets are advised to be bought in advance due to expected crowds.
The First Bristol Troop of Rhode Island Boy Scouts staged their third annual minstrel show at the Pastime theatre on Wednesday evening. The program mixed chorus numbers, comic acts, a vaudeville sequence, a torch drill, mandolin solos, and a recruiting-station sketch, drawing cheers and encores before concluding with a successful performance and a promising sum.
A leading member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, employed at a Providence jewelry plant, rode home in an auto after a Bristol friend offered a lift. Three tire blowouts thwarted the trip, ending with the Eagle arriving home around 10 o'clock and abandoning plans for a fast car.
Mrs. Mary W F Howe purchases two lots on the Ferry Farm plat from Eugenia T Herreshoff widow of John B Herreshoff. William J Fish sells a strip of land on the Peck plat to Antone S Pontos. Sarah B Bain sells a building lot on the Hope Highlands tract to Manuel Morris. Providence Real Estate and Improvement Co sells four Beach Terrace lots to James A Norton and wife.
Thomas G Cooke died Wednesday at his brother Robert J Cooke’s home on Mt Hope avenue from pulmonary trouble. Born in Ireland he came to the United States as a young man and worked as a gardener on local farms including Daniel R Case and deWolf at Pappoosesquaw and at Hopeworth. He later moved to Providence and worked for Narragansett Electric Lighting Company before illness led him back to Bristol. He leaves a wife two brothers and a sister in Ireland. Funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from Mt Hope avenue residence.
Enrollment in the Y M C A gymnasium classes is rising daily as past basketball stars train again. The association invites local stores and factories to form a basketball league, with coaches and a prep program for boys 9 to 12. As enrollments grow, a fixed class period will be set for the prep group.
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