St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-01-08
Annual Village Meeting. = The an,

Annual Village meeting. The an
nual meeting was held on Wednesday
and there was no contest over the officers
except Tor tax collector, the total vote
was not large and the voting through
The day was quite light. Captain P. D.
Blodgett presided and the business of the
day was taken up at two O'Clock.
The article relating to raising money
to paw current expenses and interest and
instalment on the funded debt, was dis
posed OF by voting to act upon this at
an adjourned meeting on June 80, at one
O'Clock in the afternoon.
1t was voted unanimously to use the
Australian ballot at the next annual
meeting.
The article in relation to specific APP
propriations was next taken up. Elmore
T. Ide moved to have this laid over un-
til the adjourned meeting, that the new
board might have time to decide what
they wanted. P. F. Hazen opposed the
motion and E. D. Blodeett supported it.
The house was divided and the motion
lost The voters then appropriated the
following amounts for the various de-
partments: Fire, $4,000; highway,
$4,000; street lighting, $3.S00; water,
$2,5OO; sidewalks, $2,500; general,
$1,5O0; police, 81 100; sewers, $1,000;
parks, $500; arrears, $1,000. These
were the amounts recommended by the
outgoing board of trustees.
Article 5, in relation to the permanent
Improvement of Eastern avenue, was
laid on the table until the adjourned
meeting.
Article 6, in relation to funding the
floating debt of $4,000, was disposed
OF by the adoption of the following reso-
lutions introduced by w. S. Boynton:
Resolved, That the provisions of the act of
the Legislature recited in arti lie 6, of the
warning tor this meeting be and they hereby
are accepted and that the trustees are di-
rected TO issue and market said bonds as
soon as conveniently may be; the same to be
forty in number of $500 each, payable
follows; $4,000 Dec. l. 907; $1,000 Dec. 1,
1908; $1,000 Dec 1, 1909; $1,000 Dec. 1,
1910; $4,000 Dec. 1, 1911; with interest at
annually. on the first day of June and the
first day of December in each year. And such
bonds and interest aIall he made payable
at such place as may be arranged by the
trustees.
Mr. Boyuton said that the village was
now paying six per cent interest on its
40 1aht hof Ia
ton none OF the bonds would fall due
until after the present funded debt of the
village had all been paid.
Article 7, was disposed OF by appro-
priating $3.50 for outdoor band con-
certs.
While the business was being trans
acted the ballots were being counted,
and at three O'Clock the following officers
were declared elected:
President, N. P, Bowman.
Clerk, Arthur F. Stone.
Treasurer, E. d. Bodgett.
Collector. George r. Crosby.
Trustees, w. S. Boynton, Henry M.
Cheney, Edward F. Griswold,
Auditors, John c. Clark, c. w. Ruiter,
William T. Horton.
Fire wal dens, Cyrus Sargent, Henry E.
Byron, John N. Gale, George r. Crosby,
Guy p. Metcali, P. A. Roach, Henry
M. Aver
L. d. Blodgett led the ticket, receiving
800 votes. For collector, George X.
Crosby led Avery d. Pike by 81 votes.
The vote for trustees stood, w. S. Boyn-
ton, 800, Henry NJ Cheney ,377, Edward
F, Griswold, 3S5. c. A. Calderwood
received 20 votes, Cyrus Sargent, g. c.
A. Sylvester, 3, and George p, Moore, 8.
After the announcement of the ballot.
ing the meeting adjourned.