The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-03-04

conducted In the seven rooms of the
graded school during this week show
commendable Improvement. The gen.
eral idea of instruction throughout the
school Ia that pupils shall know thor
oughly the subjects taught aud be able
accurately to express their knowledge.
Apparently these objects have been
measurably approached, and by "a
much the value of the instruction to
the pupils is evident.
This evening the high school schol-
mrs propose TO add few entertaining
features TO those Of the ordinary school
sociable. There will be no admission
fee, butice cream, lemonade, candy and
bouquets will be for sale. Several tab
leaux will be shown and all art gallery
willibe on exhibition. Whatever pro-
cceds may be realized will be devoted
to the purchase of needful books of ref
erence for the use of the school. A
cordial invitation is extended to all.
The town failed to make any pro.
visions for improvement in the pay
] ment of the highway tax during the
coming year. We must expect that the
usual rs per cent. on the grand list will
be levied, and that the town will receive
about rs per cent. of this as actual i'm
provement, as has been the case hereto
fore. Some action should be taken by
which rs per cent. shall mean what It
signifies, and not few indefinite hours
of misdirected and inefficient labor. It
appears as il the town was taking a
step backward, contrary to what we
would naturally have expected from the
public spirit manifested during the past
two or three years.
MARCH MEETING. -Followi are the
proceedings and elections at the meeting
Of the legal voters of the town of Mid
dlebury, held at the town house on
March 1
Moderator, George Hammond.
Clerk, l. L Knapp.
The auditors report was accepted
and adopted.
Selectmen, F. X Severance, ID E
Boyce, G S Wainwright.
Treasurer, Charles L Pinney.
Overseer of the poor, o F Comstock.
let constable and collector of taxes,
NJ A Munroe. Voted to give the first
constable the jurisdiction of the state.
I'd constable, NJ L Day.
Board of listers, George Hammond,
II B Wright, Philo S Severance, Au-
gustus II Matthews, Rufus VAIN
wright.
Auditors, b S Beckwith, j NJ Slade,
T M Chapman.
Trustee of public money, Calvin
Hill.
Fence viewers, G " " lids, T W
Fletcher, Fred Footc.
Town grand jurors, J E Stapleton, i
II Stowe, A r Foote.
Inspector of leather, John Pc Sers.
Pound keeper, + " Halsey.
Highway surveyors, j e Ainsworth,
G M Remele, B Douglas, Isaac See.
ley, Lathrop Boardman, George II Ell
dredge, j P Fem, N w Boardman, E Y
Boyce, Frank Phelps, Clarence Phil.
lips, A II Farnsworth, George Ham,
mond, E J Matthews, John " Halla-
day, Robert johnson, Freeman A
Foote, Isaac Rogers, Ed. l. Stowe.
Agent to prosecute suits, L d FL
dredge.
Superintendent of common schools,
Ezra Brainerd.
Petit jurors, Isaac Seeloy, Ii D May
nard, S S Severance, l. c Barrows. b
S Beckwith, d w Wilhercll, G CT
Cady, o P Lee, d Boyce, s w Rem.
ele, w r Phelps, Peter + Goodrich.
County Grand jurors, George Ham
mond, Frank Phelps, II G Langwor-
thy:
Voted, That the town accept the pro-
vision for a subscription to Miss Hem
eHway's Gazetteer, at two dollars per
volume, and the town clerk is autho- |
piv 10 oil ha fan IN
cure it and keep the same in the town |
Voted That the polls of the firemen
highway taxes.
to pay the members of the fire
would have been exempted from pay
Ing last year if the usual exemption of
polls had been given.
Voted, That the selectmen be in
structed to take charge Of and manage
the town farm the ensuing year.
Voted, To lay tax sufficient to raise
an amount about, but not to ex-
coed the sum of $4,000, the tax to be |
levied upon the polls and ratable pro-
perty of the list Of 1881, the rate to be
nxeo Dy the selectmen.
Voted, That five per cent. deduc- |
ton be made upon all taxes paid in to
the collector within sixty days from the |
time the tax bill is put into the collec-
tors hands, the collector to give notice
by publication in newspaper printed
In this town.
Voted, That the compensation of the
overseer OF the poor for the year ensu-
ing be one dollar per week.
Voted, That the exemption now CIV
en- by law to manufacturing establish
ments according to the provisions of
No. 12s, laws Of 1880, be extended to
ten years, 80 far as they apply to the
establishment about to be erected by
Smith d Allen OH the old paper mill
site, and also to the new machinery to
be put into the new wooden mill by II
J Chapman,
The following resolution was offered
by J Battell, to wit: That the high
way tax shall be twenty cents on dol
lar. and be paid in money, and that
George Hammond, John W Halliday
and A J Marshall be appointed as
commissioners to expend the tax upon
the highway outside Of the village.
The resolution was laid upon the table.
A motion that the highway tax be
paid in money was lost.
At three O'Clock P. NJ, the votes for
county commissioner were sorted and
counted and the result was found to be
as follows:
CIV Wicker had 1856 votes, j E Sta
pleton had one, Joseph Battell, one.