The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-08
MONTPELIER TOWN MEETING.

At nine o'clock the moderator, Mr.. Huse,
called to order the assembled voters of
Montpelier, represented at that hour by less
than a bakers dozen lowering round the
stove and over the register of the stately
assembly hall of the town. The heating
apparatus had been "run for all it was
worth " for twenty-four hours, but the tenn
perature was still suggestive of pneumonia,
and the prudent officials not only kept on
their fur robes or ulsters but moved the
ballot box and the tables for the clerks into
close proximity to super-heated stove.
Why should the sovereigns OF the capital
town of the state continue in existence so
mean and dingy and disgraceful place
for their public assemblages as this cheer
less barn yclept Capital Hall? Death turks
in its frigid atmosphere, and its ill-condi-
toned and meanly ventilated precincts.
The moderator read the warning, de-
clared the meeting open for business and
asked General j. H. Lucia to swear the
ballot clerks, John P. Adams, Peter G.
Dewey and Charles F. Jones. The ballot
ing then began, and, on motion of General
Lucia, the consideration of the business of
the meeting, except balloting for officers
was set for half-past two o'clock.
OFFICERS REPORT.
The selectmen have drawn orders to the
amount of S20,S35.S4, classified as follows:
Law expenses, $74.13; salaries of town
officers, SSl6.95; salaries and expenses Of
listers, S3Il.S7; printing, 1882 SO; rebate of
taxes, Sl55.14 expense of checklists, SOL 3d.
account of liquors, S2,536.3S; school fund,
S3,9l3 80; gospel fund.- Sl0S.36; library ap-
preparation, $500; Memorial day $50; high
way tax on lease land, S63 46; state school
tax g per cent?, S1,74S AT; labor on high
ways S27545; state tax, S3, lat "a: county
tax, S124S0; taxes and insurance, S43.15;
expense Elm street cemetery, S92 40; rent
OF Capital hall, $50; collecting taxes, S2l4,70;
discount to collector upon uncollected taxes,
$3.50; account of state school tax, S5,072.S1;
sundry expenses, S56l SO.
The following statement shows the towns
Indebtedness; Funded debt of 1891, due
January l. 1911, redeemable after January
/, 1896, a per cent interest), 1000 90;
funded debt OF 1891, due $4,000 in October
/, of each year TO 1885, and 81 800 October 1,
1896, a per cent interest), S37 800; United
States deposit, SS37310; trust funds, ac-
count Green Mountain cemetery, IS, ,S05 90;
less investments, $500 0O-S305 %; tenn
porary loan, SIC ,000.00-SS7, ,97S10; deduct
balance in hands of treasurer, S9344 net
Indebtedness Qncluding United States de-
posit), SS7, ,8S4.66
The estimates for 1893 and 1894 call for
S4, ,l24 50, OF which sum $1,000 is TO pay
temporary loan and $4,000 to pay bonds
due on October l, 1893 The grand list is
| S35, ,642, %.
OFFICERS ELECTED.
The vote was exceptionally light, the total
counted being only $50. The following,
the candidates of the citizens party, were
chosen by votes ranging from 176 to 22S:
Moderator, Hiram A. Huse; town clerk,
L. r. Merrill; selectmen, James w, Brock
Morton Marvin, Willard c. Walker; treas
urer, Fred l.. Eaton; overseer, e. NJ. Irish; I;
constable and collector, E. M. Irish; second
constable, I. j. Keegan; listers, w. A.
Lord, Willis Blanchard Fred l.. Laird (;
auditors, II. n. Tapln, NJ. e. Smile, A, w.
Ferrin; fence viewers, Justus Batchelders
Charles A. Smith, David l.. Fuller; town
grand jurors, Joel II. Lucia, T. j. Boynton,
w. A. Lord; town agent, Stephen c. Shurt-
leff road commissioner, Clark b. Roberts;
trustees OF public money, Albert Johonnott,
Fred +. Smith, Thomas Marvin pound
keeper, Thomas l.. Wood; surveyor of
wood and inspector of lumber and shingles,
Denison Taft commissioner of Green
Mount cemetery, James w. Brock; inspec-
tor of leather, w. N. Peck; grand jurors
Thomas Marvin, l.. b. Brooks, ID. d. Nell
son, A. ID. Farwell, George e. Taplin,
Henry 5. Town; petit jurors, George III.
Guernsey, James M. Rowland, G.. w.
Guernsey, Il. ID. Hyde, A. p. Johonnott,
Fred Blanchard, j. w. f. Washburn, John
.. Adams, @. II. Heaton, G. 8. Whittier,
II. q. Holmes, E. N. Wright, George f.
CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAsH.