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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1947
Page
2
An editorial urges collective effort to form good future citizens of Bristol. It stresses schools plus homes churches and all youth influences must provide proper attitudes and understanding of American democracy. Parents peers and communities share the obligation to guide youth toward lawful respectful citizenship through education and example.
Social notes record Miss Genevieve Rice visiting Miss Jeanette Lemaire in Bristol Millbury ties and Hillside Road residents at training camps in New Hampshire and Maine. A birth announced for Elizabeth Lee to Mr and Mrs Kerry Mulligan. Lawn party honors three year old Janet Marsh a Valerio with gifts. E Raymond Hawkes visits then heads to Memphis to live with son Dr C Douglas Hawkes. Mrs Homer Miller visits family, Frank Bettencourt hosts 19th anniversary party with guests from Bristol Cranston Warren. Elizabeth King and Dennis Tuffuri attend Donald J Martins wedding in Richmond. Film Topper Returns shown to Bristol Yacht Club. Rev Herbert Graetz and Carol depart to Lake Worth Florida. Kathleen Brito hosts Marshall Levins after Cedar Crest. Brayton Fisher speaks at Providence Rotary. electricity film shown at Masonic Temple.
Battery C 243rd Anti Aircraft Artillery Rhode Island National Guard topped all units at sun valley encampment by qualifying the most men with the M 1 rifle. They also won the camp softball championship and the horseshoe tournament and will receive four streamer devices for the battery guidon. Funeral services for Henry deWolf Allen were held at the Allen home in Bristol. Allen, 61, long time Colt Farm superintendent, died suddenly Saturday. He is survived by his daughter Nancy. Burial followed in DeWolf Cemetery Woodlawn Avenue.
The funeral for Miss Bertha Evelyn Slade of 254 Hope Street was held Sunday at 2 PM in the DeWolf Memorial Chapel with Rev Herbert D. Graetz officiating. Bearers were John D. Moore, Henry L. Sanford, George Dixon, M Stuart Barr, Leonard D Sanford and Robert A. McCaughey, all of this town. Burial followed at North Cemetery.
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