St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-01-07
A VILLAGE MEETING.
Five Trustees Elected on the First
Ballot.

Ballot.
About 300 citizens voted at the
annual village meeting Wednesday
| afternoon, but there was hardly a
pie in the hall President Nichols
was detained by sickness and Daniel
| Carpenter was chosen moderator
The voting commenced at 1 O'Clock
and the balloting lasted until 4
o'clock
Albro F. Nichols received 2S2 votes
for president; John c. Clark 292 for
clerk; E. D. Blodgett 2S3 for treas
urer and A D. Pike led the ticket, re-
ceiving 3O1 votes for collector of
taxes. For trustees E. H. Blossom
had 231 votes, F. 6. Buudy 296, O..
S. Abbott 263, Frank N. Carr 257
and E. M. Harris 219 votes. These
FIVE were declared elected Of the
other two candidate for trustee Sias
Randall and Asa S. Livingston re-
ceived 21O votes and 141 votes re-
spectively. The ticket elected includ-
ed all those nominated at the caucus
and E. NJ. Harris, who was on the
second ticket.
The old board of fire wardens was
elected, consisting of Edward F.
Brown, James Mcdonald, Patrick A.
Roach, Alfred Adams, BENZ. F. Rol-
Inns, Enoch NJ. Harris and William
Daniels.
The auditors elected were George
w Cree, A. B. Moves and c. NJ.
Spencer.
funds for the support of the village
was referred to an adjourned meet
ing on the second Tuesday of June
at 80 p. m.
The article to see what action the
village would take about our water
works was next taken up. H. c.
Bates urged the Importance of TAX
ing some action on the matter and
presented a resolution to have a
committee of three appointed to in
vestigate the whole matter and
report at the adjourned meeting on
June 49, Mr. Bates said the trustees
were instructed last year to put a
filter into the system, but took no
steps during the year to do this.
| Our village water was now perfectly
indecent and absolutely unfit for
domestic use. Within a short time
| the income from water rents has
fallen off $1,000 and something ought
to be done to improve the system.
Col. T. c. Fletcher seconded Mr..
Bates resolution and it was unan-
imously adopted. The committee
chosen consisted of Elijah D. Blod-
gett, T. c. Fletcher and E. l.. Hovey.
The meeting then adjourned.
Notes of the Meeting.
Town Clerk E. c. Blanchard OF
Peacham was here yesterday to
studfthe workings of the Australian
ballot
The third trial of the Australian
ballot was an unqualified success
and was a practical demonstra ton
of the great value of the new law.
1t was hardly expected that five
trustees would be elected on the first
ballot as proved to be the case. An
other surprise was the election of E..
NJ Harris over Sias Randall, who ran
only nine votes behind Mr.. Harris.
E. H. Blossom deserves to be con-
graduated on his election, as there
was much work put in to defeat
him. He is the right man in the
right place.
The question of our water supply
was very properly referred to a spe-
cial committee who, we have no
doubt, will give the matter careful
attention and present their report
at the time called for in Mr.. Bates
resolution. The time has come when
this village has got to do something
to protect the prosperity of its citi-
zens and be able to supply customers
with pure drinking water. In addi-
ton we want a permanent superin-
tendent of water works who can
give his entire time and attention to
that matter.