Tax Rate Increase Prompts Auto Owners to Attend Meeting
A new tax rate raises the flat car tax from $100 to $150. Car owners are urged to attend the financial town meeting to discuss the higher valuation and its impact.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1946
Page
2
A new tax rate raises the flat car tax from $100 to $150. Car owners are urged to attend the financial town meeting to discuss the higher valuation and its impact.
Local column lists confirmations of visits by residents and families. Activity includes Girl Scout outings, class reunion planning, church services, nursing school graduates earning RN, Navy enlistment, 4-H camp attendees, and church or civic group meetings.
Mixed small ads list rooms to let and services with contact, plus film photos and gear for sale. Includes pet birds and farming equipment, a hot dog stand, carpentry tools, a skiff, and employment notices for painters and a shirt press operator. Also features a music ad section with multiple popular songs and entertainers.
WANTED Pin bows High Street Alley Piano tuning and repairing service by S F Vinecombe. Call Mrs. Cora Anderson Bristol 113 W.
A large power tools and shop equipment collection formerly used to build America Cup defenders at Herrenshoff ship yard Bristol Rhode Island has been given to the Dartmouth College Student Workshop by Carl W Haffenreffer and Rudolf F Haffenreffer III, both Dartmouth graduates. The tools include eighteen electric saws planers drills sanders and shapers and will aid student projects from ski repairs to boat building under Prof Virgil Poling.
Pfc Peter Checko, 22, died while on a 24 hour pass early Saturday. His funeral was held from C. M. Connery Funeral Home then a high Mass at St. Mary's Church. A Marine firing squad gave a three volley salute over the grave at St. Mary's Cemetery as Father Griffin led the committal prayer.
Stephen A Mack former Bristol resident died June 21 at his Brighton Massachusetts home after six months illness. He was born in Bristol in 1878 and lived there until 40 years ago. He worked at National India Rubber and American Rubber in Cambridge. Survivors include wife Annie J Mack a son William Mack and daughter Helen Mack two brothers John Mack and James Mack. Funeral held Tuesday morning at 8 15 from home with a requiem Mass at St Columbkille's and burial in Holywood Cemetery Cambridge.
Miss Concetta Ann Millemaggi 19 daughter of Councilman Paul C Millemaggi leaves Bristol for Morristown New Jersey to enter the St Fillipini Convent. A Bristol Senior High School graduate class of 1944 and Rhode Island Honor Society member she recently finished her second year at Rhode Island College of Education. Her sister Rose Marie is in her third year at Bristol Senior High School.
Two rival baseball captains, Joe George with the George ttes and Andrew Bozzario with the Bozoes, lead their teams in a senior softball championship race. A 35 game schedule will determine the championship as they clash daily starting Monday.
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