News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-04

him as paid Treasurer; then add to this the
| amount of his salary during the time | stated
| and see how it figures, as the salary was
| paid out of cash received for liquors. Now
| Mr.. Eaton says the reason why the profits
were so much larger on the last two months
sales, than on previous sales, was because he
was selling invoiced liquors that had been
measured out, consequently there was no
shrinkage. Now the Chairman wants to know
if Mr.. Eaton did not begin with an invoiced
stock of S290.23 February Is, 1887 invoiced
to him by Mr.. MaXtield, and did not Mr.. Eaton
sell out this invoiced stock before February
20, 1888? If so, why did not these goods pay
as good a margin as the last stock invoiced
to him? 1t must be that Mr. MaXfield did not
give him q square invoice, or else he must
have had bad faucet. Now about this faucet
business. Mr.. Eaton came to me for a faucet !;
told him | did not think anyone in town
kept copper faucets, and | had nothing but
wooden ones, and that these would do good
service. He bought one of me, the said faucet
was put in a ten gallon key of cider brandy
May %, 1887 This brandy cost So per gal
Ion, making $50 for the ten gallons, and when
the Selectmen invoiced Mr.. EatOn's stock
May IL, 1883, there was 512 gallons of this
very cider brandy left; only AZ gallons gone.
These are facts, and it is a fact that Mr.. Ben
nett used this very faucet until he sold out the
balance of this brandy, and no leakage either.
Now if Mr.. Eaton had found some morning
that the town had met with q $50 loss by the
Chairman of the Board compelling him to use
a 10-cent faucet to save 40 cents, why did
he not notify the Chairman of these facts at
once, not go and tell one man, and nobody
knows who he is. This was not business, and
if this faucet business had been true Mr.. Eaton
would have been too glad to have told 1T to
his friends, as he don't like the Chairman any
too well Why didn't he when the Selectmen
reported in the Town Report of 1888 that the
liquor agency made very poor showing, get
up in Town Meeting and state to the public
these facts, not keep the thing between him
self and one man? Why did Mr.. Eaton knife
his book and turn over to the town few
blank leaves and the covers of the book?
These are facts. He did this; and did he tell
one man of it? Take Mr.. Eaton back to
May 1, 1885: Then he got an invoiced stock
from Mr.. Grout of S335.O2 and sold from
May 1, 1885, to Feb. 20, 1886, and took in
cash during this time S609.11 and made for
the town out of these receipts S5739 Now
these are facts and from an invOlced stock
too. | think Mr. Eaton very unwise in attack
ing Mr.. Benefits accounts, as there are not
ten men in town who do not think Mr., Ben
nett gave the town a square deal. AS far as
Mr.. EatOn's accounts are concerned, let every
man judge for himself. The Chairman thinks
if Mr.. Eaton let $50 worth of the towns
liquor run out and waste, that he should step
up and pay this amount to the town and say
no more about the matter, as some one In
town might feel like crying over $50 worth of
split milk these times, if Mr.. Eaton did not.
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD.