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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1926
Page
2
Editorial notes a looming tax rise to the legal limit and a near total revaluation of Bristol real estate to raise about 322000 for last Monday's town appropriations. It recalls past efforts to reform finances via a financial commission and a ten-member electors panel that failed to act.
Wanpaneag Tribe plans a 9 30 opening at the Leong House with reorganized units and semi class instruction in test work and a period of game. Several new junior officers will be appointed.
Obituaries report Jubal Blount aged 60 at the Soldiers Home on March 17 and Benjamin Nichols aged 95 at the same home on March 18. Funeral from George McWailbur residence 013 Maine Street Saturday March 20 at 2 pm. Relatives and friends invited.
Bristol notices report spring sale events at Suzman’s and Chic Shoppe with outfits and hats for ladies and children. A sedan crash on Counts Road injures Walter Watson. fire crews extinguished a chimney fire at Charles H McCanna’s home. Legislative actions include a veterans relief fund bill and admission changes for Rhode Island Soldiers Home residents.
Lt. Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the President, died at 10:41 p.m. at his Plymouth home after a year of heart trouble and a spinal paralysis linked to heart disease. The President sped by special train to be near his dying father as the news reached him.
Pass Book No 11221 issued by Industrial Trust Co Bristol Participation Department. Please return to bank. Payment has been stopped and application made for issue of duplicate book in manner provided by law.
An auditorium event at Colt Memorial High School drew 40 tables of bridge players for a benefit for the school paper. Prizes were awarded at each table as the event highlighted community involvement and school activities.
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