Armistice Day Celebration Plans Outlined by Committee
Armistice Day activities were scheduled at a Wednesday town meeting led by Bertram W Wall as chairman and Robert E Lanphear as vice chairman. The program includes a parade band concerts a ten mile marathon football game motion pictures and closing for local businesses. Sub committees were formed for bands sports memorial exercises and other duties with plans to invite legion posts and other organizations to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertram W. Wall
Robert E. Lanphear
Noval
Kearnes Post
American Legion
Belvedere
Jack Farrington
Pawtucket
Legion
Samuel Joe Smith
Bertram W Wall
Harold Wafford
James J Velleca
James T Pierce
Charles R Beals
William H Remieres
Robert E Lanphear
Charles E Callers
William A McKenna
John W . Fiynn
Joseph Enos
Charles F
Albert Johnson
B W Wall
Robert FE Lanphear
Battery C Notes Prepare for upcoming Town Council cup match
The Batters Cornifle team plans early practice ahead of the Town Council cup clash with BotA. They will visit Providence on Oct 7 for the First Battalion parade at Cranston Street Armory with transportation provided. Further events include a return visit to Bristol, a battalion drill at Church Street Armory, an Oct 22 ordnance property inspection, and a Nov 5 annual inventory by Col Cyril Wells. The unit aims to decorate with the gold streamer for three consecutive years.
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Cornifle
Providence
Cranston
Street Armory
Bristol
Wall
Church Street Armory
Cyril EL
Gindon
Bristols Announces 1920 Tax Book Ready for Distribution
The Town of Bristols tax book for 1920 is ready for distribution at the Town Clerk’s office. Printed by J W Murphy & Sons of Woonsocket, the contract holder this year, the cover features a Mt Hope bridge photo reproduction. Taxes for 1929 are due by Tuesday October 1 with collector A S Gorham reporting $100,500.89 received of $341,719.54 total net tax, under one third collected.
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Bristols
J W Murphy & Sons
Woonsocket
Mt Hopebridge
Gorham
Evening Schools Open Next Monday Evening
Evening schools resume next Monday at Colt Memorial High School with sessions from 7 to 9 pm on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Courses include English arithmetic shorthand typing bookkeeping drawing and homemaking with Americanization classes and a three year diploma program. Registration begins Sept 3 with Principal Miss Annie De Sisson and a faculty including Miss Bessie Tobin Miss Doris Bullock Miss Helen Condon and others.
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Colt Memoral High School
Annie de Sisson
Bessie Bo Tobin
F Doris Bullock
Helen A
Condon
Sadie
Callan
Aleta
Flanders
Martha Anne Cote
Alice
Murphy
Real estate transfers on Hope Street
Manuel S Correa and wife sell land and buildings on the west side of Hope Street to Giuseppe Mario and wife. The deed transfers ownership of the described parcel and improvements to the new owners per the recorded conveyance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manuel S Correa
Mt Hope Bridge announces revised toll schedule
Officials of the Mt Hope Bridge Company release a new toll table with increases for several categories. Pedestrians and passengers in buses are 10 cents, motorcycles and bicycles 25 cents, automobiles 60 cents, light trucks 60 cents, ambulances and larger trucks vary, and special bulk-rate plans offer discounts for higher monthly trip counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt Hope Bridge Company
On to the Conventions for American Legion Ladies Auxiliary
Bristol residents head to Louisville Kentucky for national conventions of the American Legion and Ladies Auxiliaries with Miss Helen A Condon representing the State Department and Mrs Ella Paull attending as an alternate. Bertam W Wall, retiring national executive, will be a delegate to the convention. They left here Thursday for Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
American Legion
Ladies’ Auxiliars
Louisville
Helen A Condon
State Department
Ella Paull
Bertram W Wall
40 & & Society Ther
Kentucky
Wampanoag Encampment Elects Officers
Officers were elected at a regular meeting of Wampanoag Encampment No 9% I OF last evening. Chief Patriarch John T Ashton High Priest Merton A Cheesman Senior Warden Murdock J McAskill Junior Warden Gardner West Scribe John G Stewart Treasurer Isaac Bo Munro Trustees Albert E Benard Dr W Frad Williams John W Card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wampanoag
John T Ashton
Merton A. Cheesman
Murdock J McAskill
Gardiner West
John G Stewart
Isaac Bo Munro
Albert E. Benard
W Frad Williams
John W Card
Inquest Resumes Into Fall River Auto Death
Coroner Albert A Edmonds resumes the inquest into the death of James B. Jackson killed in an automobile collision on Metacom avenue. Fifteen witnesses testified last Friday and Saturday. the session continues this afternoon at Edmonds office in the Easterbrooks Block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert A Edmonds
James B. Jackson
Fall River
Metacom Avenue
Edmonds
Easterbrooks
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