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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1920
Page
1
The DELCO bottling plant in Fall River emphasizes top hygiene and modern equipment. It features a room of pure air, syrup blending from roots and oils, and water thrice filtered and carbonated. The plant prints the guarantee of purity and invites tours to showcase its sanitary process and automation.
Bristol baseball star Bottomley signs a contract with the Boston club of the American Association. He has starred for Centredale in the Providence Amateur League this season, batting .418 and playing catcher with an errorless game last Saturday. Bottomley, also active in basketball and football, is adjutant of Kearney Post and served in France with the 12th Machine Gun Battalion. He recently married Miss Catherine White.
Bristol men slated for a practice game against the Old Timers on the common Thursday at 4 p.m. The Colonials defeated the Mohawks 9 to 3 on the common yesterday with Eddie Murphy and Bottomley handling Bristol’s battery. The Bristol Warren series starts next Saturday at 3 p.m. on the Asylum Grounds at Bristol Neck.
Bristol observed Labor Day with the first public appearance of the newly formed Rubber Workers Union Local No. 17419. About 400 members gathered at Italian Hall, 7 am, with a 1200 member organization, marching in fours to Providence on seven special cars, banners reading Bristol Rubber Workers Local No. 17419 Bristol R I.
George Frederick Elliott of Philadelphia and Miss Ethel Irene McCaw of this town married yesterday at 4 30 in the Memorial Chapel of the First Congregational Church. Rev. James J. Goodacre officiated. Bridesmaid Miss Harriet Mott. best man Kerwin Elliott. They planned a reception and wedding journey through Berkshire Hills New York and Canada. They will live in Philadelphia where Elliott works as boss dyer for Franklin Process Company. Elliott served in the U S Navy in World War I aboard the USS Magnet. He is a member of St Albans Lodge No 6 F and A M and Burnside Lodge No 34 Knights of Pythias.
Joseph Marshall and Miss Mary Vera united in marriage at St Elizabeths Church yesterday at 8 AM. Rev Francisco Vieira performed the ceremony. Attendants were Mr and Mrs Manuel Vera. Bride wore white satin gown with orange blossom veil and carried bride roses. Reception at the bride’s Coggeshall avenue home followed. Groom works in Cutting department at National India Rubber Company factory and the couple will reside on Coggeshall avenue.
Miss Germaine Chabot of Fall River and Arthur Belmore of this town were married Monday morning at Notre Dame de Laude Church. The bride wore a pink georgette dress and hat. Medrick Belmore was best man and two bridesmaids wore pink georgette. Breakfast followed at the bride’s home before the couple departed for Vermont and will reside here after returning.
Field Executive T. P. Greene and scouts from troops 1 and 27 Providence joined Beaver Patrol Troop 2 Bristol for a weekend bicycle trip ending at Camp Takarest on the east shore. They returned to Providence yesterday afternoon. Troop 2 Bristol sets a Thursday 7 30 meeting with urgent business and the Court of Honors resumes next Monday evening at the Providence County Court House after two months' recess.
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