Good morning, Bristol!
It’s Friday, folks, with temps in the low 80s. Enjoy.
Monitoring the mayor’s Facebook page and it’s hard not to observe that between all his self-news reporting and personal appearances, how does he have time to be mayor?
Relax, it’s a small, tiny joke. We can still do that, can’t we?
Hey, Democrats, don’t get jovial because you went 0-7 in the last election. As TBE friend and wise sage Screwy Louie opined recently, “How did they even manage to win as many as zero?”
Ouch!
Are we all still friends? Good!
Speaking of actual jokes, though, the Red Sox have the sixth highest payroll in MLB at $207,790,36, and they are in last place in the AL East at 63-68. They are 16 games out of first place and the Yankees, while five games behind the fourth place Baltimore Orioles, who have the league’s lowest payroll at $43,703,102. Yes, The Baltimore Orioles. What a joke!
Answer to Thursday’s Trivia Question:
James J. Cray was Bristol’s second mayor.
Born in 1873 in High Ridge, N.H., the family moved to Illinois and Bristol in 1893.
Mr. Cray was a bookkeeper, newspaper reporter, real estate dealer, and secretary of Bristol’s Chamber of Commerce during World War I.
He became mayor in 1913 but lost his reelection campaign two years later to Joseph F. Dutton.
At the time of his death in April of 1923, at the age of 42, Mr. Wade was the Secretary for the Connecticut Lumber Association and commuted every workday from Bristol to New Haven. His mother survived him.
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