Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-03-04
Town Meeting.

The annual March meeting was called
to order and presided over by j. w. Row
ell, moderator. The reports OF the town
officers as printed were adopted. petit
ton was presented, signed by 20 voters
asking for the use OF the so called long
ballot. Objection was made to the election
of all the officers in this manner and the
chair ruled that only those mentioned in
I he statute should be thus ballOted for
The printed ballot that had been prepared
was made to correspond with this ruling
ana the balance of the officers we've chos-
en- by the old method. There was only one
contest, in which n. L. Boyden was elect
ed third lister over NJ. Z. Rowell by vote
of 81 To ~.
The officers elected for the ensuing year
were:-
Moderator, J. w. Rowell; town clerk, j.
b. Eldredge; first constable, S. c. Clark
second constable. +. w. Kent; first select
man, NJ. ID. Church; second, A. G. Osgood /;
third, +. A. Shattuck; road commissioner,
j. b. Wells; treasurer, W. III. Dubois /;
listers, J. p. Cleveland, Jr., c. $. Hall. n.
l.. Boydcn; overseer of poor, ID. n. Morse +;
trustee OF public money, b. Il. LON bare (;
collector, Z. Il. Granger, town agent, NJ.
ID. Church; auditors, j. f. Mead, L. K.
Granger, G.. w. Blodgett; town grand in =
rors, Z. l.. Hodges, JAS. Hutchinson Edison
Emery; pound keepers, VIM. X. Baird, w.
5. Wood, A.W. Emery; surveyors of wood
and inspectors OF lumber, Lemuel Rich
mond, n. 5. Clark, John A. Boswell; fence
viewers, j. II. Bass, Julius C. Hebard, j G.
Greene; sections, l. 4. Lamson, Ii. II.
Chandler, w. E. Adams, S. X. Waldo: in
spector Of leather, +. Z. Cone; library
commissioner for five years, j. f. Mead (;
cemetery trustee, A. G.. Osgood school
director for three years, w. l.. Hebard I;
grand jurors, Walter c. Howard, Chas. L..
Hodges, Lyman Hutchinson, NJ. ID. Church,
Clark S. Hall, james Hutchinson; petit
jurors, Albert E Edison, N. w. McCollom,
T.. T. Huntington, II. Il. Wight, George n.
Osgood, Clayton II. Mann, w. l.. Hebard,
Julius c. Greene, Dana n. Morse, j. b.
Adams, A. A. Priest, A. n. Alexander.
Voted to appropriate $50 Tor Memorial
day.
The library commissioners were in
strncted to carry out instructions of last
year relative to establishing branches at
the Center aud East villages. There was
little discussion over this, the commits
siOners thinking the project impractical
Voted TO appropriate Sl50 for support of
library.
Voted tax of 45 cents.
Voted that the town pay collector one
per cent for collecting and that he paw TO
treasurer 90 per cent of the whole tax by
Oct. LIST and 80 per cent of the whole tax
by Jan. LIST next and take up his receipts
entirely on or before Feb. l. 1899, and that
the collector deduct four per cent to the
taxpayer on all taxes paid before Oct. LIST
next.
G. w. Morrow introduced the following
resolution, which, after a little discus.
sion, was unanimously adopted
solved, that it is the sense OF the citizens
OF Randolph in town meeting assembled,
that we look with disfavor on the prepa-
ration and use of the so-called long ballot
in our town meeting.
The meeting passed oil after the usual
manner, with one exception. This was
the objection made to the use of the long
ballot. For some years this ballot has
been used to the disgust OF voters general \
~ and to the practical death Of the town
meeting. This is seen by the small atten-