Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-23

spent last week in town.-Luna Nozo
has closed school in Dis. No. 2. Nine
of her pupils had no mark agains
their name.-Charlie Stevens is home
from st. Johnsbury until after Thanks
giving. Blanche Morey has finished
her school in Wolcott, and returned
home.-Albert Farman closed his
school in the village Friday. Thurs
day eve he invited the school to his
home, where they had a pleasant
time.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
LyndOnville.
The bill allowing the village charter
to be amended so that $4,000 in
electric light bonds can be issued has
passed both houses. and all that re-
mains now is for it to be ratified at a
special village meeting. For several
weeks this has been the chief topic
of conversation in the village
and considerable feeling has been
worked up in regard to the matter. 1t
is believed that a large majority of
the village people are in favor of the
amendment. A Montpelier paper
says the bill amending the charter of
the village of Lyndonville caused
considerable discussion. The princi-
pal question was in regard to the
electric light plant which the village
had constructed without any authori-
ty in its charter. The amended
charter legalizes that action, and an
amendment proposed by the com :
mittee required majority vote of all
the voters of the village to accept
the amended charter. Mr.. Baldwin
of Barton moved to amend by re-
quiring only majority of the voters
present at a village meeting to ac-
cept the measure. 1t appeared from
the statements of the committee that
the village had authorized the con-
struction of the plant; that ~ voters
representing grand list of S2,3O2
favored the bill, while 81 voters with
a grand list of S1.341 opposed. The
village has grand list of about 3d.
600, while the bill would impose
debt of $4,000 upon the village. It
was claimed that the plant was pay
ing a revenue, but Mr.. Silsby of Lyn-
don claimed that the expenses were
not reported, and that the plant was
not paying. The prevailing opinion
seemed to be that the people of Lyn-.
donville should be treated like those
of other villages, and the amendment
proposed by Mr.. Baldwin was adopt
ed. The bill was then read the third
time and passed, a motion ordering
it to!lie being voted down. AS to the
income from the plant, M. L. Stearns
in the LyndonUilLe Journal has the fol-
lowing: "Cost of plant, $4,000 to
$40, 900; yearly income Oct. I, outside
of streets and village hall, So, 531.7O.
Houses that are now wired and that
will be wired and be paying on or be-.
fore Jan. 1, $500. If the village were
charged $40 for each arc light, which
is S15 less than other villages pay, 20
arc lights would cost 81, 100, 100 lights
in village hall, 500. This would make
the income, Jan. 1, $5,291.70." Inter-
est on the bonds will amount to about
81, $40, and the expense of running
the plant will not be over $4,000,
which makes a yearly expenditure of
So, S4S. If the income from the plant
is. 50, 291, 20, there will be balance
left of 81, 451.7O. What better invest
ment does village want?
WheelOck.
Mrs. Geo. Barber: is quite poorly
this fall.
Mr.. Sanborn has moved into the
Dana house.
Mrs. Chas. Smelling is stopping at
Horace Bradley's.
Mr.. Pell from Providence, R. I. is
visiting his mother, Mrs. James
Wood
R. E. Kelley and his two daughters,
also Madge Perrige, who is visiting
them, went to Danville to attend a
wedding last Thursday.
s. G. Cree has built a machine for
saud-papering and polishing lumber,
which makes it all ready for varnish
or paint The machine weighs about
2OO0 lbs.
East Hardwick.
Mr. Currier has rented D. E. Good
Eich's farm.
Arthur Montgomery is expected
home soon.
A. G. Alison is to open store in the