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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1931
Page
2
Taxpayers will be asked to consider the ongoing issues surrounding the Poor Department at Monday's meeting. The debate focuses on legality and whether a single director can manage the workload, with no intent to fault the Director of Public Aid. The goal is a definite, satisfactory solution without excessive public notice.
Comend President Wo Pred Ware hams Jr said a New York call reports the HH A Brassett Company plant converting 85 percent of solids using its screening system. Bristol officials call the results favorable and plan talks with the State Board of Part... on Sept 2K to present all data on the new system.
Local society items include Epworth League supper plans at State Street ME Church Vestry on Oct 23. Ballou Family Association reunion set for Sept 19 at Baptist Church, Chepachet. Birth announcements for Douglas Hooker Watson Sept 12 at Lying-In Hospital and William Thomas Walker Sept 11 at Homeopathic Hospital Providence. Other items mention engagements, college enrollments, elections, and local club activities.
Miss Cora M. Hill Regent and Bristol Chapter members will attend the Conanicut Battery dedication in Jamestown Rhode Island at 2 o clock on Saturday September 26. The Rhode Island Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution conducts the event with a basket lunch served at 12 30.
Miss Dilys M Wall daughter of Mr and Mrs John H Wall of 41 Constitution Street will marry Mr Leslie Gill son of Mrs Robert Willard of Linwood Avenue Cranston tomorrow at the Church of the Transfiguration known as the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City. Both are graduates and have worked as commercial artists. they will reside in New York City after the ceremony.
Mr and Mrs Wallace Mossop sail Sunday on the S S Transylvania for a Bermuda vacation. Attorney and Mrs William T O'Donnell return after four weeks at Port Washington. Miss Betty Lane Kinder of Beacon Hill Boston recuperates at her mother's Hope street home from a slight illness.
Tonight at St Marys Church auditorium a progressive whist and bridge event will raise funds for charity. Tables are selling fast with more expected at the door. candy will be sold during the evening. The committee includes Miss Regina Morris chairperson and Misses Scanlon Connors Knowlton Nerone Fileen Moore Newhald and Mrs Theresa Donovan.
Dr Frank E Butler associate pastor of Central Congregational Church Providence will preach at 7 30 oclock service in DeWoh Memorial Chapel Sunday evening He is Dean of the Rhodes Island Conference on Christian Education An educator and preacher he brings an interesting message Rev Herbert D Graetz speaks at 10 30 oclock morning devotional on Conspiring With Christ Church School at 12 noon Alpha Society of Christian Endeavor meets 6 30 in church parlors Junior Christian Endeavor meets Wednesday at 3 45 pm
Upper south Colt apartment in Colt Apartment building. Apply Colt Farm H DeW Allen Supt.
A column cites economic shifts on the East Side and Broadway, detailing discharged wealth and altered fortunes. It notes a hotel night clerk commute, a former society superintendent reduced to basement living, and a waiter now serving in a lower role, illustrating resilience amid change. The piece mentions the Waldorf, private railroad cars, and various cultural references as signs of evolving city life.
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