250th Anniversary Parade Draws Rhode Island Crowds
Tomorrow marks Governor Case's 250th anniversary celebration with a major parade in Bristol Rhode Island. U S Navy destroyers Hale and Crowninshield arrived, hundreds of thousands expected, and a fireworks display at Guiteras Memorial Athletic Field. The parade includes Sea Scouts Rhode Island Boy Scouts American Legion units and multiple division marshals guiding formations and reviewing stands. An after parade event on the common features a provisional regiment and a horseshoe pitching contest winner Oliver Desilets.
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Guiteras Memorial Athletic Field
Hale
Crowninshield
Church Street
Bristol Yacht Club
State Street
Coast Artillery and Engineers
108rd_ Field Artillery
Wood Street
Oliver Desilets
Leon Lemaire
Oliver Street
Henry Cardoza
Joseph Nama
Richmond Street
Charles L. Davis
Charles R Beals
Samuel J. Smith, Jr
Parade Assembly General Orders Listing Marshals Staff
The Parade will assemble at 2 30 p m with march order at 3 00 p m The formation includes Police car Chief R J Kavanaugh Chief Marshal Brig Gen L L H Callan Chief of Staff Lt Col John J Collins Mounted Military Staff Major General Morris B Payne Brig Gen Arthur C Cole Brig Gen James Haggerty Brig Gen Herbert R Dean Colonel Harry Bissell Major C Gordon MacLeod Lieut John S Blair Dismounted Military Staff Mounted Civilian Staff 13th U S Infantry Band 250th Anniversary Committee Honorary Civilian Staff FIRST DIVISION Col Merton A Cheesman Newport Naval Training Station Band Men of Newport Naval Training Station Hale and Crowninshield
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John J Collins
Morris B. Payne
Arthur C. Cole
James Haggerty
Herbert R. Dean
Harry Bissell
Gordon MacLeod
John S. Blair
13Th
U .S. Infantry
Third Division Guards Readiness Officers and Captains Named
Col Alfred M Merriman Bristol Train of Artillery Band is listed with Lt. Col Edwin S Godfrey commanding. Company assignments show Capt E R Bullock leading Co A, Capt William McKechnie Co B, Capt Arthur W Barrett Co C, Capt Daniel E Dwyer Co D.
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Bristol
Fire department division chiefs and foremen listed
Fourth Division Chief John Grabert aids board of fire engineers Raymond A Card Moses Moore Fred Guevremont Arthur A Manchester 108th Field Artillery Band Dreadnaught Hook and Ladder Co Oliver J Lemaitre foreman Defiance Hose Company Harry Gray foreman Sver Ready Engine and Hose Co Frank Lewis foreman Motorized apparatus to remain with its respective company Fifth Division.
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Aides Board of Fire Engineers
Raymond A. Card
Moses Moore
Fred Guevremont
Arthur
Manchester
Dreadnaught Hook & Ladder
Oliver J Lemaitre
Defiance Hose Company
Harry Gray
Sver
Frank Lewis
Ita
Sermon Series at First Congregational Church Sunday
Rex Herbert Graetz delivers Sunday evening sermon titled If Christ Came to Bristol in DeWolf Memorial Chapel at 730. Morning worship at 1045 continues a series on fundamental Christian doctrines with focus on the nature and value of belief in cooperation with the University of Chicago Institute of Sacred Literature.
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Bristol
Jerusalem
Rex Herbert ID Graetz
DeWolf Memorial
Institute of Sacred Literature
University of Chicago
Anti Aircraft Searchlight Show Planned for Bristol Night
Battery I of Rhode Island’s 243rd Coast Artillery will stage an anti aircraft searchlight demonstration in Bristol tonight at 8 45 starting from Buren Field near Bristol Harbor. Three powerful light units will illuminate a flying target from 8 45 to 9 45 with observers able to see the beams from surrounding areas.
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Bristol
243Rd Coast Artillery
Buren Field
Rhode Island
National Guard
East Greenwich
Frank B. Rhodes, Jr
Leonard K. Ellsworth
Church Street
Buttonwoods
al. Krapish
Bristol Harbor
Krapish
243D Coast Artillery
Albert A Moren
James J. Garvin
Bliven Field
Shoes for the Journey Sermon at State Street M E Church
Morning service at State Street M E Church features the sermon by the pastor titled Shoes for the Journey. Sunday includes 12 noon Sunday School and 7 pm Evening service.
Daughters of 1812 Hold Bristol Anniversary Banquet
The Rhode Island Society of the Daughters of 1812 marked an anniversary luncheon at the Hotel Belvedere as part of Bristol's anniversary celebration. Mrs. Harriet M. Fales Dixon presided with remarks by national president Mrs. Samuel Z. Shope urging strong stand against communism. Roswell S. Bosworth spoke on Bristol's role in the War of 1812, with music by Mrs. John B. Batchelor and Miss Grace McAuslan.
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R. I Society of the Daughters of 1812
Harriet M. Fales Dixon
Hotel Belvedere
Dixon
Hezekiah Asher Monro
George L. Locke
Roswell S. Bosworth
Bristol
John B. Batchelor
Grace McAuslan
Memorial Service for Miss Eleanor R. Trotter
The 8:45 service at St Michael's Church next Sunday will honor Miss Eleanor R. Trotter. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. A tablet dedicating her memory was unveiled last Sunday September 21 and given by Mrs Mary Edith Bance, her first cousin.
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E. R. Trotter
St. Michael’s Church
Eleanor R. Trotter
Miss Trotter
St .Michael’s Church
Mary Edith Bance
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Thomas H. Hammond
F. M. Straight
Alde
248Rd Coast Artillery
Earl C. Webster
Thomas B. Gall
Walter F. Parker
Joseph F Frappier
Albert A. Moren
Raymond Fletcher
Ernest W. Moore
Wm. N. Fritsch
Frank “Bt Rhodes, Jr
Robert E. Thornton
R. A. Brocklehurst
Charles Phillips
Chauncey Willis
Clark W. Borden
H. W. Holley
118Th Engineers
Frank O. Lind
Auburn Post
American Legion Bugle & Drum Corps
Kearney Post
American Legion
Harold I. June
Clarence Edwards
Comdr
Gardner C. Sims
Ralph Church
Providence
Pawtucket
Rainbow Girls
Polish Women’s Circle of Freedom
Teofilé Godek
Marshal George R. Fish
Joiited LaBonte
George P. Nickerson
George W Huntley
Henry Walsh
Alfred A. Clark
108Rd Field Artillery
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Boy Scouts
Stark-Parker Post
Hugh 8S. McLeod
Roy McDonald
Wm. McCormick
John R. Hess
Drum Corps
Bristol Girl Scouts
Henry Wood
A. B. Moniz
Aldes
Joint Conference of Portuguese Organizations of
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Anthony Bruno
Bristol Boys’ Community Band
Henry Dew Allen
Norman
Case
Clark Burdick
Rowcliff
Newport Naval Training Station
Col Chamberlain
18Th Infantry
Col Skinner
241St
Massachusetts
CAC
Daniel G Coggeshall
Thomas H Byrnes
Alexander G Fales
Miss Coral Hill
Knights of Columbus
Hope Street
K of C
Posi
Tion
State St M E Church
High Street
Bradford
Bradford Street
Ninth Division
Highth Division
Tenth Division
High Streets
State
Hope
Church
High
Union
Franklin
Norman 8. Case
13Th Infantry
Newport
R. J Kavanaugh
Chief Marshal
Brig Gen
Ll. H. Callan
Marshal Col. Merton A
Cheesman
Destroyers
Hale and
Col Alfred M. Merriman
Marshal
John Grabert
Pastime Theatre
Aileen Pringle
China
Matinee
Lightning Express
Oclock
the Four Feathers
Richard Arlen
Fay Wray
Wm. Powell
Clive Brook
FOX Movietone Follies
EL Brendel
William Collier, JR
Marjorie White
Miriam Seegar
FOX News
Norma Shearer
Chester Morris
Conrad Nagel
Robert Montgomery
First Congregational Church
C. A
M. E. Church
Society of Daughters
S. Z. Shope
Roderick J. Cant
National
R. S. Bosworth
Foot
Fred E. Suzman
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