Information Regarding the R.F. Simmons Co. - Attleboro

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R.F. Simmons Company - Attleboro, Mass. - 1904

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Mayor Harold E. Sweet was operated upon for bursitis of the hip at the Sturdy hospital last Wednesday. The operation is not serious, but it will keep the mayor from his office for several weeks.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th March 1917

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Joseph L. Sweet, of the R. F. Simmons Co., again displayed his public spirit last week by paying off the debt on the public library building. He gave the site and he and his wife and son, Harold E. Sweet, of the same company, gave considerably over $10,000 toward the structure. An organization of women, including the wives of several jewelry manufacturers, was formed to raise the balance due, but its work is now needless.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th May 1908

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Saturday night Harold E. Sweet, son of J. Lyman Sweet, of R. F. Simmons & Co., started west to visit the trade as far out as Detroit with the firm’s samples. Mr. Sweet is making his start in the business, having just left college. Louis Jones, for several years one of the house’s traveling men, resigns the first of January to enter business with the house of C. A. Marsh & Co., and then Mr. Sweet will assume full responsibility.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th December 1898

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R. F. Simmons, of R. F. Simmons & Co., who has been in southern California during the past year for the benefit of his health, returned home last Tuesday.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 17th June 1891

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Frank J. Bride, for a number of years in the employ of the R. F. Simmons Co., of Attleboro, died at his home here Saturday morning, after a 10 days’ illness. He was stricken by a shock early last week. His widow and one daughter survive him.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th July 1927

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CHICAGO

Ed Moore, of the R. F. Simmons Co., 10 S. Wabash Ave., returned to Chicago on Saturday of last week, after spending two weeks at his Summer home at Fox Lake.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th July 1927

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Jewelry was sent by air express on Thursday by the R. F. Simmons Co. to a Los Angeles, Cal., customer, on the opening day of the new service.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th September 1927

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SECOND ANNUAL JEWELERY SHOW - CHICAGO - 1927


R. F. Simmons Co.

The R. F. Simmons Co., of Attleboro, New York and Chicago, showed a large line of their waldemars, Bond St. chains, and stone set flexible bracelets. A display that created a great deal of interest was the raw materials used in the manufacture of chain. This exhibit showed the shell and base metal united and ready to be reduced to wire. Ed. A. Moore, who has charge of their Chicago office at 10 S. Wabash Ave., and who travels through the west as far as the Pacific Coast, had charge of the display.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 10th August 1927

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The annual outing of the R. F. Simmons Co. was held today at Rocky Point and was enjoyed by the upwards of 200 who participated. The trip was complimentary to the employes by the firm and the tickets entitled the holders to about everything worth while, including transportation, clambake and cash prizes for the winners of various sporting events. Four large motor busses and some 25 or 30 automobiles formed the procession that left the company’s plant on N. Main St. about 9:30 o’clock. Arriving at the resort, the committee consisting of Luke Farrell, Miss Annie Maher and Edward Kenworthy assumed charge and conducted a series of sporting events that eclipsed all previous outing programs of the concern. Featuring the program were the aquatic sports which proved considerable of an innovation. The natatorium was used and there were diving contests, tub races, swimming races, underwater swimming, and water baseball. At the conclusion of the aquatic sports dinner was served in a specially reserved section of the big dining hall and full justice was done the appetizing viands. After dinner the party proceeded to the ball grounds where the field sports were run off, consisting of running races, obstacle, sack, three-legged, potato, pipe and other novelty races and a baseball game and tugs-of-war between the various departments.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th August 1926

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Friends, relatives and employes of Joseph L. Sweet reminded him last Monday that it was his 75th birthday anniversary and a family party was one of the features of the celebration. Mr. Sweet, a former selectman of Attleboro, has been one of the leading manufacturing jewelers of this city for more than half a century, having been connected with the R. F. Simmons Co. for 52 years. He was born in West Mansfield, Feb. 7, 1852; and last September observed the golden anniversary of his wedding to Florence (Hayward) Sweet. He is father of Attleboro’s first mayor, Harold E. Sweet.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 16th February 1927

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The R. F. Simmons Co. and the L. G. Balfour Co. will be represented by strong teams in the Manufacturers’ Baseball League this season, the league practically effecting its organization the past week.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th April 1927

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Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Sweet returned home Saturday from a week’s stay at their Summer home at North Falmouth.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th April 1927

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Sweet, who have been in Bermuda for several months, returned Saturday to their home here, after stopping over in New York for a few days.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th April 1927

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Mr. and Mrs. Leonard I. Lamb entertained last Saturday evening in honor of the 15th anniversary of their wedding, when they were the recipients of gifts and felicitations from their hosts of friends. Mr. Lamb is associated with the R. F. Simmons Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th April 1927

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Edward Moore, Chicago manager for the R. F. Simmons Co., with headquarters in the Silversmith building, returned last week from a two weeks’ trip through the south and after calling on the Chicago trade for a few days left on a short trip through the northwest. He expects to leave on his usual Pacific Coast trip: upon his return from the northwest.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th April 1927

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Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Sweet spent the last week-end at their Summer home in North Falmouth.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th May 1927

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Ed Moore, representing the R. F. Simmons Co., and with Chicago headquarters on the fourth floor of the Silversmith building, left last week for the Pacific Coast, where he will spend six weeks in calling on the wholesale jewelry trade.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th May 1927

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Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Sweet, with their son and daughter, returned last Thursday from a fortnight’s trip to Bermuda.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th April 1927

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E. A. Moore, Chicago representative of R. F. Simmons, was in Memphis on the same day as was Wm. Penfield of F. H. Sadler; Mr. Richard, of Smith & Crosby, Attleboro, Mass., and George Semple, of Bates & Bacon, Attleboro.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926

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