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Advocate Archives
Moose Ball, Shortest Town Meeting, Holy Rescue
February 12, 1931
MOOSE ANNUAL CHARITY BALL, TWO DANCES IN ONE
The Local Order of Moose are getting ready for their annual big party in the Town Hall next Tuesday. Last year it turned out “the” event of the winter season with almost 1,000 attending. This year the hall has been highly decorated and upstairs in the main hall eight snappy musicians, Pat and His Pals orchestra, will afford special new numbers for the modern dances while another orchestra will play in the lower hall for old fashioned dances. The proceeds are to be given to the Mooseheart Home for Little Children. Last year over $100 was realized for this cause. This will be the last dance before Lent.
There will be a Grand March at nine followed by the regular Moose Ceremony. Dancing will be in order until twelve and ice cream and cake will be served throughout the evening in the basement.
February 11, 1943
SHORTEST PROVINCETOWN TOWN MEETING IN YEARS
In the shortest session of recent years, the citizens of Provincetown voted appropriations amounting to $215,082.07 at their annual Town Meeting held here on Monday. The morning session, at which no funds can be appropriated, delayed 40 minutes for a quorum, lasted only 20 minutes, and the evening session, starting at 7:30 p.m., was over in a little more than two hours later. Both sessions were completely devoid of the controversies and fireworks that have marked the Town Meetings of previous years.
When the meeting Monday morning was finally called to order, Judge Robert A. Welsh was quickly elected moderator.
The controversy expected when the question of repassing the 9 p.m. curfew regulation for all children 16 years and under, did not materialize. Selectman Barnett read the new by-law, which, he said, had been approved by the Attorney General and had been successfully enforced in other towns. The Rev. Roy Q. Whiting again brought up the question as to the difficulty in interpreting “proper adult” chaperonage for children after nine o’clock and Mr. Barnett said the police would have to use their judgment in deciding that issues. The curfew was passed with 19 votes then without further opposition.
The evening session convened promptly at 7:30 p.m.
One of the innovations introduced this year by the Finance Department on copies of the warrant handed each voter was the listing of the amounts appropriated for each department of the town in 1942, the amounts expended, the balance remaining, as well as the amounts that had been recommended for that year. Alongside these figures were the amounts recommended in each case by the Finance Committee.
This information, giving the condition of each official and department at a glance, possibly accounted in no small measure for the clocklike precision with which the voters went through, item by item, the entire general budget in remarkably short time. In practically every case the recommendations of the Finance Committee were followed, and there was but little discussion of any of the items.
February 9, 1961
OPERATORS CALL HELP FROM CHURCH
Quick thinking and prompt action on the part of the telephone operators at the Provincetown exchange kept the damage by fire Sunday at 10 a.m. at the home of Salvador Vasques at 6 Washington Avenue down to approximately $700.
When the alarm was turned in at the telephone office nothing happened. The siren atop Town Hall, clogged with snow, was frozen. Immediately supervisor Mr. Frances Raymond put in a call to the Church of St. Peter the Apostle and the message was announced in church that firemen attending the 10 o’clock Mass were needed. Meanwhile other operators were calling Patrick’s Newsstand, the Patrician Shop in the East End and several other places in town to round up members of the fire department. Calls were made to the homes of all the fire engineers. Fire Chief Wilbur Cook was notified at the Cape End Manor, where he was checking on the auxiliary generator that had been used there during the storm. Other firemen were alerted at their homes when the apparatus started to roll through Bradford Street.
The fire at the Vasques home was caused by an overheated fireplace when a spark got into the partitions behind the fireplace and started to burn between the walls.
At about the same time some members of the department were called to Dyer Street a short distance away at the home of Mrs. Mary Salvador where an alarm had been called for a flooded oil burner. There was no damage.
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Feb 9th, 2006