Bristol Tax Assessors Report Net Valuation At 16 Million
The Bristol tax report shows a net assessment of 349 998.56 with a 2.46 per hundred levy on real estate and tangible personal property and 40 cents per hundred on intangible property. Exempt property totals over 4 million including federal state and town holdings, with veterans exemptions rising to 170 477. The town adds 14 840 in unpaid taxes not counted in land and building valuations.
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Bristol
Francis P. McGovern
Board of Tax Assessors
U. S. Rubber Company
Carr Manufacturing Corporation
Bristol Manufacturing Corporation
McGovern
Manuel P Goulart Elected Leader of Bristol County Voiture
Manuel P. Goulart was elected chef de gare of the Bristol County Voiture No 1188 during the annual promenade at the Kearney Post Home. Also chosen were Antonio Primiano as chef de train Harold B Woodward as commissaire intendant A Elmer McNamara William Langlois and Percy H Smith. The group plans an entertainment for the boys at Lockanosset School on Sunday September 22 and a boiler bake preceded the next promenade on September 17.
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Kearney
Franklin Street
Manuel P. Goulart
American Legion
Bristol County
Antonio Primiano
Barrington
Harold B. Woodward
A. Elmer McNamara
William Langlois
Warren
Percy H
Water Company Clambake Held at Barrington Home
Bristol County Water Company hosts an afternoon clambake for employees and families at manager William H Streit’s Barrington home. Chief Engineer Ernest Swenson and retired operator Henry Dubois prepare the meal with retired Chief Engineer Adolph La Fleur among the guests.
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Bristol County Water Company
William H Streit
Barrington
Ernest Swenson
Henry Dubois
Adolph LaFleur
Contract Awarded For World War I Honor Roll
The World War I Honor Roll committee chose Conley’s Jewelry Store to craft a bronze plaque for a granite pillar seven feet high in front of the Legion Home on Franklin Street. The $1950 bid, prepared with Town Solicitor Lucien Capone present, covers a shaft 5 by 2 feet tapering to 3.42 feet, honoring 456 names.
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B. W Wall
Hope Street
Conley’s
Lucien Capone
Legion Home
Franklin Street
Funds for Veterans Housing Blocked by Congress Return
Town officials learned from Representative Aime J. Forand that no further federal funds are available for 60 temporary veteran housing units. The council had allocated 40000 for the project in May 1946, but Congress adjourned without approving the money.
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Aime J. Forand
John W . Church
Kearney
Congress
Paul A. Herzig
Soldiers Home
Huestis
John T Brown
Providence
Eliphalet M. Horton
Henry Thiele
Council Delays Fire Company Petition for Survey
Mt Hope Community Club seeks charter as an auxiliary fire unit and a donated old truck for practice. The Town Council favors a National Board of Fire Underwriters survey to assess the need before action. Chief Moore cites safety issues with old trucks and notes the town’s Class C insurance rating.
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Mt. Hope Community Club
Moses Moore
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Mt Hope Community Club
Board of Fire Engineers
Joseph G . Riccio
Huestis
Moore
Newport
East Providence
Henry F. Serbst
Marshall
Bristol Narrows
Frank J. Sylvia
Second Band Concert Set For August Fourteenth At Colt High
Butterfield's Band presents the second of two concerts on Tuesday evening August 14 at 8 at the Colt High School facade. Dr George H Baldwin leads for the Rhode Island Department of Education with James J Velleca as local chair. Program includes Overtures and selections by Strauss Romberg Verdi Sousa including Stars and Stripes and William Tell. Donations for food relief continue with $13 from Mrs Frederick L Maryon and $541 from Summer School pupils acknowledged by Rev Arthur W Burdon.
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Butterfield
Colt High School
George H Baldwin
Rhode Island Department of Education
James J Velleca
Johann Straus
Prince
Sigmund Romberg
Arthur W Burdon
Frederick L Maryon
Woonsocket Mayor Dupre to Speak at Bristol County Republican Outing
Mayor Ernest E Dupre of Woonsocket will address the Bristol County Republican outing set for September 8 at the Minturn Farm on Metacom Avenue. He has been endorsed for Governor by both the Bristol and Warren Republican Town Committees. John P Marshall chairs the organizing committee.
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Orlando J. Brisbane
Bristol County
Ernest E Dupre
Woonsocket
Bristol
Minturn Farm
Metacom Avenue
John P Marshall
Bristol Sewage Plant Records Record Rainfall Surge
A Bristol storm caused 3.95 million gallons per day flow at the Sewage Disposal Plant, up from 1.5 million. Roof runoff and high tides backed sewers, while Constitu tion Street pumping station backed up requiring an auxiliary pump. Low spots at Washington High and Hope streets hindered driving during the day.
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Bristol
George R. Fish
Constitution Street
Washington and
High Streets
Hope Street
Community Theatre to Present Junior Miss
Bristol Community Theatre will stage Junior Miss in September with younger members in roles. Mrs Theresa Donovan directs with leads including John Price Ann St Germaine Earl Rounds Anna Kebrek David Mathewson Janice Megathlin Ann Mary Church and Anthony Cabral. Cast has practiced for weeks and some members attend the Newport Casino performance.
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Bristol Community Theatre
Theresa Donovan
John Price
Ann St. Germaine
Earl Rounds
Anna Kebrek
David Mathewson
Janice Megathlin
Ann Mary Church
Anthony Cabral
Donovan
Newport Casino
Ivy Guild Lawn Party at St Michael's Holmes Grounds
Weekend church events include an Ivy Guild Lawn Party at the Holmes House grounds on Saturday August 10 followed by the St Elizabeth's Church annual picnic at Rego's Farm on August 11. A Battery C National Guard reunion is scheduled for August 14 at the Colonial Hotel.
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Holmes House
Ivy Guild
St. Michael’s Church
St. Elizabeth's Church
Rego
Reunion Colonial Hotel
Battery C. National Guard
Otto McFeely Aims To Spark Anger With Pure Outrage
In Book Week a Sun day supplement profiles Otto McFeely a queer editor famed for insulting people. Lloyd Lewis recalls McFeelys Sunday crusade driving through Illinois towns to provoke quarrels among farmers and couples by delivering gratuitous insults that spark hidden tensions and temporary relief through anger.
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Otto McFeely
Book Week
The
Chicago Sun
Lloyd Lewis
Simon
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