President Signs Draft Bill Appoints Sept 12 Registration Day
President Wilson signed the Man Power bill at 2 30 pm and issued a proclamation naming Thursday Sept 12 as the registration day for men aged 18 to 45. Registration runs 7 am to 9 pm with draws to fix order. expected 2 300 000 men for service, two thirds aged 18 to 20. Bristol totals show about 1700 registrants.
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Wilson
War Department
Bristol
High Street
Byfield School
Colt Memorial High School
Registration Board
Enjoyable Red Cross Canteen Night by Cowards
Edward Fales Coward and his daughter Miss Fleanor entertained Red Cross workers at the Yacht Club canteen with the sketch The Plight of Pierrot and Pierrette and impersonations. About 12 to 15 sailors on leave attended, and at Miss Norris’s home the event drew gifts totaling 62 dollars for Red Cross work.
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Edward Fales Coward
Miss Fleanor Coward
Red Cross
Yacht Club
Miss Coward
Miss Norris
Pierrot
Pierrette
Mr. Coward
Teachers Accept Positions in Albany High School
Miss Emma Marguerite Flowers and Miss Helen Newell Bell left yesterday for Albany New York where they have accepted roles at Albany High School Flowers daughter of Mr and Mrs Sanford W Flowers has taught commercial subjects at Colt Memorial High School for five years and will earn 1300 per year Bell daughter of Mr and Mrs William H Bell will lead the French department after Brown and Colt Memorial training and a Master of Arts degree
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Emma Marguerite Flowers
Helen Newell Bell
Albany
N. Y
Miss Flowers
Sanford W. Flowers
Colt Memorial High School
Miss Bell
Willam H Bell
Brown
Albany High School
Constabulary Shoot Scores Lead to Cups at Bristol Range
Twenty four Bristol Constabulary members used Col. J. H. Bailey’s farm range for 44 calibre practice at fifty yards. Capt. Williams won the rapid fire bullseye with four 4s, tying high at 64 alongside Lieut. Col. Hathaway Oscar Gablinski and EF Gladue. A second class cup for new shooters went to J. F. Farrally with 39.
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Bristol Constabulary
J. H. Bailey
C. B. Rockwell, Jr
W. Fred Williams
Capt. Williams
A. W Hathaway
Oscar Gablinski
EF Gladue
J. F. Farrally
W. F. Williams
A. W. Hathaway
F. Gladue
Albert Gale
Ween
Albert Mott
R Dunbar
Frank Slade
C B. Rockwell, Jr
Samuel C Wardwell
J R. Dunbar
A. Debuc
George Bush, Jr
J. Winthrop D’wolf
I Dwyer
Paulin Maris
Cncccadeaetistics
Graye
C-Pendleton
E. Mathewson
R. H Peterson
F. Geisler
Appointed Lieutenants from Local Soldiers
Henry Barton Jr. has been commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery and will report to Camp Meade Md for active duty. John J Condon Jr also receives a Second Lieutenant commission at Camp Taylor Ky after training at Camp Devens and Plattsburgh prior to transfer. Both graduates of Colt Memorial High School and Rhode Island State College are aged in their early twenties and ordered to active service this week.
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Henry Barton, Jr
Artillery Officers
Louisville
Henry Barton
Camp Meade
Barton
Colt Memorial High School
Rhode Island State College
Camp Grant
Ill
Camp Taylor
John J. Condon, Jr
John J. Condon
Field Artillery
Central Officers’ Training
Camp Devens
Mass
Plattsburgh
Bristol
Condon
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Tex
Adaptation to War Needs at Beth University Voted
The advisory and executive board at Beth University approves a vigorous war funds campaign to adapt academic work to national military needs. A three member war fund committee will be appointed to secure subscriptions for increased wartime expenditure and coordinate admission and course alignment with government military programs.
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Comemittre Th Beth Univessity
Campaignfes
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