Town Budget Completed For March 15 Town Meeting
The Town Council completed the annual budget totaling 307,339.98 dollars and added 26,800 dollars in resolutions for seal coating gravel roads oiling streets milk analysis boiler truck fire access and water pipe work. The budget will go to taxpayers at the financial town meeting Monday evening March 15.
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Financial Town Meeting
Wood Street
Bay View Avenue
Burton Street
High Street
Hope Street
Thames Street
Constitution Street
Franklin and
Bradford Streets
Wood
Thames Streets
Sherry Avenue
Union Street
High and
Wood Streets
Noyes
Pierce
Thompson
Gooding
Lincoln
Chestnut
Cottage
Congregational
Richmond
Catherine
Prospect
Bourn
Collins
Central Street
First Street
Second Street
Cook Street
Guileras Memorial School
Bristol Town Seeks Police Commissioner by Governor Appointment
Representative Earle H McKenzie pushes a bill to create a Bristol police commissioner role appointed by the Governor for four years The measure mirrors Woonsocket’s Bouvier bill and references a 1915 law not repealed but not in current General Laws A historical inaction noted at the Capitol may draw legislative attention before adjournment
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Earle H McKenzie
Bristol
Woonsocket
William H Thayer
McKenzie
Frank H Hammill
Mount Hope Bridge Company Proposed to Link Bristol and Rhode Island
A bill in the Rhode Island House seeks to incorporate the Mount Hope Bridge Company to build a privately funded bridge between Bristol and Rhode Island. The plan requires 18 months to start, $10,000 capital, War Department and Public Roads approval, and tax exemptions with state purchase options after 10 or 20 years.
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Bristol
Rhode Island
Mount Hope Bridge Company
Herbert Bliss
Newport
Corporations Committee
Herbert W Smith
Mount Hope
William P Sheffield
Secretary of War
State Board of Public Roads
Lenten Services Across City Churches This Week
A series of Lenten services is scheduled in Trinity Church St Michael's Chapel Holmes House and St Mary's St Elizabeths and Our Lady of Mt Carmel with Rev Ralph Bray Rev Francisco Vieira and other clergy delivering sermons and leading devotions. times range from 7:30 to 8:00 PM plus morning Holy Communion at 9:00 AM and midday stations of the Cross on Friday.
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Trinity Church
Ralph Bray
St Mark’s Church
Riverside
St Michael's Church
Holmes House
St = Mary's Church
Francisco Gs Vieira
St Elizabeths Church
Oerlock
Church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel
Kearney Post notes on benefit show and 40 and 8 meeting
The Bristol benefit at the Pastime Theatre drew the season’s largest patronage. The article notes future high quality entertainments and Pictures. Voiture 252 of Providence plans an open meeting at Seekonk Inn East Providence Thursday evening with dinner at 6:30 and a business session on forming other ventures. Kearney Post members in 40 and 8 are urged to attend and transportation from Hotel Belvedere at 6 o'clock.
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Kearney
Bristol
Voiture
Providence
Seekonk Inn
Taunton Pike
East Providence
Kearney Post
Belvedere
Houses Broken Into at Ferry Hill Summer Estates
Police learned eight summer estates at Ferry Hill owned by Philadelphia and Providence residents were broken into last week. Homes occupied by families including Mrs HM Howe and Mrs Frederick Jordan, Dr Frank J Jones, Paul C Nicholson, Raymond Eastby, B T Potter, Albert H Flint Jr., and Donald S Babcock. In some houses a bed was used, coffee boiled over, and a phonograph played. nothing of value was stolen.
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Ferry Hill
Philadelphia
Providence
HM Howe
Frederick Jordan
Frank J Jones
Paul C Nicholson
Raymond Eastby
T Potter
Albert H Flint Jr
Donald S Babcock
New Ferry Slip Opens Soon for Newport and Providence Line
The Newport and Providence Railroad reports the new ferry slip at Ferry road is nearly finished and ferry use is expected within days. Buses on the Newport Providence short line may start Thursday but float adjustments could delay opening a day. Current ferry service runs two round trips hourly, expanding in summer. rerouted bus traffic will travel north along Ferry road Wood street Franklin Hope and then to Warren.
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Newport and Providence Railroad Company
Ferry Road
Newport
Providence
Wood Street
Franklin Street
Hope Street
Warren
Automobile Stolen. Thief Uncaught in Town
Daniel Mahoney reports his car stolen from High and Burton streets at 7 p m Friday. Patrolmen Crowley and McMahon found the vehicle 20 minutes later on Burnside street with a strong thief description. Several autos have vanished in recent weeks. thieves yet to be caught.
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Daniel Mahoney
High
Burton Streets
James W Goff
Crowley and McMahon
Burnside Street
Warren
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Bristol, R. I
M. M. Conley
A. A. Edmonds CO
St. Bristol
Pastime Theatre
Hotbe Peters
Patsy Ruth Miller
Larry Lemon
Douglas Maclean
Gay Paree
Swiss Alps
Jimmie
Zona Gale
Seena Owen
William Powell
Mary Alden
Jack Hoxie
Maurice B
Lefty) Flynn
Earle H. McKenzie
MT. Hope Bridge
Island
Edward D. Kunz
Optome
Connery » Men’s Outfitter
William H. Remieres
F. T. Remieres
Vendome
Waterman Avenue
East
R. I
Brown
Rosher
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