Hallowe'en Social Promises Fun for Bristol Scouts
The First Second and Third Bristol Troops of Boy Scouts of America plan a joint Hallowe'en Social at 7 30 this evening in the Scout Building replacing this week’s regular meetings. Activities include games inter troop contests a feed and notes on efficiency. The Navy Day educational trip by Deputy Commissioner Fish’s party and plans for coming basketball season also feature community scouting events.
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BOY Scout
Bristol
Boy Scouts of America
Hallowe’en Social
Scout Echo
George R. Fish
Newport
Naval Training Station
U. S
War College
U. S. Navy
Bystol Scout Athletic Association
Bazaar Committee
Probate Court Hears Estate Matters Yesterday
In a Probate Court session Judge Edward L. Leahy heard petitions from the widow for allowance and six months support for the estate of James W. Franklin, continued to Nov 5. Guardianship for Anna Church ward seeks excusal from rendering account, granted. Inventory for estate of George W. Scott approved for allowance. Petition for James F. Keating as administrator of John W. Keating estate granted with $300 bond, and Robert J. McKay named appraiser. Mildred Keating noted.
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Edward L. Leahy
James W. Franklin
Anna Church
Ward
George W Scott
John W Keating
James F Keating
Robert J Mckay
Mildred Keating
Sewing Machine Store at 168 Thames Street Bristol
J. B. Keeler manager advertises sewing machines and embroidery equipment at 168 Thames Street opposite O Wolf Inn with Singers and electric machines, free lessons, twenty years guarantee, repairs, parts and supplies, rent or pay time and cash, phone 121 M. Location also in Warren Rhode Island with office at 67 Child Street.
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Thames St
O’wolf Inn
J. B. Keeler
Bristol
Child Street
Warren
R. I
Kenney Hunt Wedding At Swansea Home
Margaret Greenwood Kenney and Wilfard Pentelow Hunt wed at 3 pm Saturday at 22 Noyes Avenue with Rev. Anson B. Howard officiating. A sister acted as bridesmaid, Bernard Hunt as best man, and Elsie Hunt led the wedding marches. The couple plan to reside in Swansea after a New York Niagara Falls and Canada trip, hosting after December 1.
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Dorothy Kenney
Bernard Hunt
Elsie M. Hunt
Pardon R Kenney
New York
Niagara Falls
Canada
Hunt
Swansea
Soldiers Home Visitors Honor Rhode Island Veterans
Members of the Soldiers' Home Committee and the Woman's Relief Corps visited the Rhode Island Soldiers' Home. They distributed cake and birthday cards to two veterans, Orville D. Streeter and Nelson Barber, and staged an entertainment in Recreation Hall with piano and vocal solos, addresses, and a closing song. The committee, chaired by Mrs Laura I Smith, plans an annual husking bee tomorrow with a 10 am arrival and a basket luncheon followed by a Halloween party.
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Soldiers’ Home Committee
Woman's Relief Corps
Department of Rhode Island
Orville D. Streeter
Nelson Barber
Recreation Hall
Marion Smith
Minnie Vaughn
Arthur T Newman
Susan M Sheple
Ivis Ballou
Viola Atkins
Frederick L. Hainer
Providence
Myrtle Giblan
America
Laura I Smith
Hallowe'en Masquerade By Hope Circle No 70
A large Grand Army Hall gathering hosted Hope Circle No 70 Daughters of Isabella annual Hallowe'en masquerade. A grand march began at 9 o clock and games included a peanut hunt and locating a red ear of corn. Refreshments followed.
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Grand Army
Hope Circle
Daughters of Isabella
William T. Dwyer
William Crowley
Loretta T. Walsh
Halloween Party at King Home Salutes Neighbors and Guests
Mr and Mrs George P King entertained twenty guests at a Hallowe en party Saturday night at 104 Constitution street Decorations were yellow and black Friends attended from Fall River Providence and local area William Dean of Scotland and workers from the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad were among the guests A salad supper followed Games and an informal program of vocal and instrumental music preceded dancing to end the evening.
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George P. King
Constitution Street
Fall River
Providence
William Dean
Scotland
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
King
Halloween Party Honors Miss Alice Tattrie at Bacon Home
A Halloween gathering at Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bacon on Wood Street honored Mrs. Bacon’s niece Miss Alice Tattrie. She recently left the Government Service Balistic Section at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland and now teaches science at Brummer School Boston.
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George A. Bacon
Wood Street
Fifth District Court Hears Cimino Gas Theft Plea
Beneditto Cimino admitted taking gas from Bristol County Gas and Electric pipes at his Wood Street home for three days before he moved. Judge Hammill fined him 20 dollars and costs, warning future offenders will receive harsher punishment.
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Beneditto Cimino
Bristol County Gas and Electric Company
Wood Street
Noto
Joseph A Hammill
Fifth District
Frank H. Hammill
Hammill
James F Lavander
Cimino
Ciil
D de Cristofaro
Mary Malone
Beachmount Land Co. Inc
Naum Spiro
Constitution = street
Colt Farm
Maetozo
Silver Creek Bridge
Fairbanks to Become Official Scoutmaster for Boy Scouts
Chief Scout Executive James West announced in California that Douglas Fairbanks will lead a Boy Scout troop and help film its activities. West praised the program as a key way to reach more of the seven million boys in America while Fairbanks expressed enthusiasm for serving as scoutmaster.
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James BE. West
New York
Boy Scout World
Douglas Fairbanks
West
Wm. G. McAdoo
Boy Scouts of America
Fairbanks
California
Thomas Patton
Los Angeles
Will Hays
McAdoo
Boy Scouts
Middle West
Northwest
America
Vice President Marshall Supports Scouting Honor
The long standing friendship between former Vice President Marshall and the Boy Scouts is noted as he helped sign the 1910 bill incorporating the organization. At a Court of Honor in Indianapolis he awarded the Eagle badge to three boys and urged lasting country loyalty and aid to less fortunate scouts.
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Marshall
Senate
Boy Scouts of America
Indianapolis
Scout Aides Stricken Men Rescue With Air Revive
Edward Hartzell of Buffalo New York used police help and artificial respiration to revive two men who collapsed in a garage from gasoline fumes, showing strong scout training in a real rescue.
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Edward Hartzell
Buffalo
N. Y
Boy Scouts Help Find Lost Three Year Old
Kenilworth Utah boy scouts aided by their motto Be Prepared locate a three year old who wandered from home. An organized search by many scouts lasts several hours before the child is found cold and weak and returned home in a boy’s sweater.
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Boy Scouts
Kenilworth
Utah
Bristol Women Plan Community Quotation Calendar Project
A Bristol editor is urged to publish a forthcoming quotation calendar by the Ladies' Committee of the Bristol YMCA. The calendar will feature town residents’ quotes for each day, edited and decorated, reflecting Bristol’s atmosphere and civic pride with hope for wider sharing beyond Bristol.
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the Phoenix
Bristol Y.M.C.A
Bristol
Pleasantly Entertained Choir Guests at Holmes House
Members of the St. Michael's Church choir and friends gathered at the Holmes House hosted by Mr and Mrs Wallis E Howe on Friday evening for a scallop dinner followed by a musical program. Quartet by Aida A Connery, Mrs James F O'Donnell, Allen F Potter, and Pardon R Kenney. vocal selections by Charles Morgan, Charles F Easterbrooks, Florrimon Hathaway, Wallis E Howe, and Pardon R Kenney. Dancing followed the program.
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St. Michael's Church
Holmes House
Wallis E. Howe
Aida A. Connery
James F. O'Donnell
Allen F. Potter
Pardon R. Kenney
Charles Morgan
Charles F. Easterbrooks
Florrimon Hathaway
Quirgua Guatemala An Ancient Maya Site Of Splendor
Archeologists highlight Quirgua in Guatemala as a premier Maya site with intricate carvings and giant monoliths. Founded circa 450 A D likely as a Copan colony in British Honduras, it showcases peak Maya culture with monoliths nearly forty feet long and over fifty tons.
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Quirgua
Guatemala
Copan
British Honduras
Taking Her Choice at Spiritualist Meeting
A new attendant at a Spiritualist meeting, formerly from a large department store, reveals himself when a client asks to speak with Mr Green. The attendant asks for the Christian name, adds the deceased recently died, and requests the medium to display the latest shades of Green.
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Mr. Green
Grand Rounds Observed by Local Veterans Groups
The Babbitt Post No 5 G A R held a Friday meeting in Grand Army Hall with Department Commander Skinner and staff as guests. Addressing the group were Commander Saunders and others from the Grand Army and auxiliary bodies, along with local officials and Scouts.
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Babbitt Post
No. 5
Grand Army Hall
Skinner
Saunders
Ford
Oatley
Pollard
Hit
Grand Army of the Republic
Babbitt Woman's Relief Corps
Town Council
Bristol Girl Scouts
Bristol Boy Scouts
Kearney
No. 6
American Legion
Robert H. Bullock
Sst
Ida Newman
Babbitt Woman’s Relief Corps
L. H. Callan
James J. Walsh
Whelden and Dixon
Frank P. Ballou
Rhode Island
Sons of Veterans
George R. Fish
Susan M. Sheple
Community events list for late fall in Bristol area
Activities include Whist and social events at Trinity Parish House on Oct 31 and Nov 7, a Hallowe en social at Defiance Hall on Nov 3, an opera at Trinity Men’s Club on Nov 7 8, a 15th annual poultry exhibition at G A R Hall Nov 21 23, a Christmas Card Sale at Holmes House Nov 24, a Food Sale and Whist at the Hotel Belvedere on Nov 2 7, and Christmas sales at Easics and 1st Congregational Church in December chaired by local civic groups.
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Trinity Parish House
Parish Aid Society
Defiance Hall
Hallowe'en
Defiance Hose Company
Trinity Parish
Plymouth Echoes in Rupert Brooke Poem Line
A Brooke fragment celebrates Plymouth and surrounding Devon places with literary allusions to Drake Drake's Plymouth Dartmouth Torquay Paignton Dawlish Widicombe Uncle Tom Cobley and John Keats Galsworthy and other figures, recalling sea moor and historic lanes.
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Plymouth
Drake
Dartmouth
Torquay
Verrall
Paignton
Islington
John Ford
Appledore
Dawlish
John Keats
Widdicombe
Tom Cobley
John Galsworthy
Manaton
Rupert Brooke
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Tel
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A. A. Edmonds CO
Hope St
Bristat
Probate
Burgess Street
Fred Suzman
Hope Street
Fifth District Court
Gdoys
G. A. R. Hall
Easics
Aid Society of
State Street E
1St Congregational Church
Bell Brand
Gorton
Finnan*Haddie
Maine
Rose Brand
Lily Brand
State Armory
Florida
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