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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1927
Page
2
Town meeting tax exemption for new industries is unlikely to attract firms without direct benefits. The Bristol Chamber of Commerce found out buyers want transport, power, housing, and guaranteed local purchase, and many firms seek self-benefit rather than town-wide gains.
The Mount Hope Bridge Company seeks legislative authorization to build maintain and operate a bridge between Bristol and Portsmouth Rhode Island. The petition requests power of eminent domain in Bristol and Portsmouth and to establish the corporation in Bristol. Petitioners are William H. Vanderbilt William P. Sheffield and Herbert W. Smith, dated March 15 1918.
A Chamber of Commerce committee urged Bristol to support existing local industries and cautious expansion rather than courting uncertain outsiders who might risk capital. The group argued steady, prudent growth benefits the town more than risky ventures.
Mrs Josephine Gogha and family plan a four month trip to Italo Reba Lodge and a rummage sale runs today from 10 am to 6 pm in a vacant Thames Street store. Community events include a First Baptist prayer meeting and Men’s Bible Class election, civic notices, and engagements and visitors around Bristol County.
United Brothers Lodge No 433 I O O F will confer the initiatory degree next Tuesday evening. A Lenten service was held this morning at the Church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel. Charlotte Manchester visits from Concord NH. A Bristol County Jail case involves Burt charged with drunkenness and bail set at 100 dollars.
More than 1100 school children and nearly 100 pre schoolers in Bristol have received the Schick test to gauge diphtheria susceptibility. Dr Paul F Thompson of the State Board of Health, aided by Miss Zillah Underhill, administered the final tests by Wednesday. The State Board will supply toxin free of charge. Of 1127 tested, 660 were susceptible and 467 immune. six months hence a follow up clinic will assess immunization effects.
A service of intercession was held at 3 30 yesterday afternoon in the Holmes House to safeguard the Bristol branch of the Industrial Trust Company. Iron gratings are being installed on the Rogers Free Library lower floor windows where the bank is housed. Hope Circle No 70 Daughters of Isabella served more than 200 chowder and clam cake dinners from 11 pm to 1 pm today in the Knights of Columbus Home on State Street with Mrs Mary J Condon as committee chair.
Rhode Island Supreme Court advances the desultory case over Col Samuel P Colt s will by ordering a piece by piece interpretation while keeping the matter on the docket. A related question concerns the sale of the testator s residential properties and a possible New York suit to terminate a trust. The Industrial Trust Company acts as executor and trustee. Licenses for dog control are payable at the Town Clerk s office with hours and an April 30 deadline. A friendly bowling match between Kearney Post 6 and East Greenwich Post 15 is planned for April 7. The Done Club holds a card party in Rockwell Hall with 50 tables and prizes. Babbitt Woman s Relief Corps serves a chicken salad supper to benefit the corps and its flag fund.
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