Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-05-04
Village Meeting.

The annual village meeting Tuesday
evening was a very tame affair. Harmony
was lying around in big chunks and 10
even a single ballot could be started up
There was a good attendance.
The reports OF the various officers were
read and adopted without comment
They show a very satisfactory condition
of affairs. An abstract is given below.
The following officers were chosen by
reclamation: j. D.. Denison, moderator
j. b. Eldredge, clerk; @. l.. Martin, r. A,
Shattuck. Irwin Chase, A. b. Cushman and
A. A. Sanford, trustees; w. III. Dubois,
treasurer; G. W. Barnes, collector; r. r,
Fish, chief engineer; b. ID. Chadwick, LIST
assistant; n. &. Buck, I'd assistant; James
Hutchinson, A. H. Beedle and j. p. Cleve-
land, fire wardens; b.. T. Lombard and j.
F.. Mead, auditors; W. II. Dubois, water
commissioner to III the place made va
cant by the death OF G. NJ. Howard, whose
term expires next year; Lemuel Rich
mond, water commissioner for five years
to succeed himself.
Appropriated 500 for the public library.
Passed over articles relating to extern
sion of street lighting system, eoncreting,
and a fire alarm system.
Appropriated $500 from the highway
fund for lighting the streets.
Voted village tax OF 15c., same as last
year.
W. B. Wall introduced the following
resolution, which was adopted:
"REsoLvED: That a sum of money, not
to exceed 200 of the highway funds, be,
and the same Is hereby appropriated, to
be used for %sprinkling the streets, buying
necessary hose and cart and a hydrant
valve reducer for such ~sprinkling, and
that this work be put into the n OF
some suitable person, who, in connection
with the trustees and the water com
missioners, shall have charge of the anne,
without pay"
Mr.. Wall explained his plan, which is
certainly novel. He would purchase a
specially constructed hose about $50 feet
long, with a cart for Keeling and carrying
IL. This he would have a nan draw from
hydTant to hydrant, all over the village,
Inc as the hydrants are about 800 feet
apart it would be possible to wet down
the streets direct from the hydrants at an
less than half OF what a street
sprinkler would cost, and Mr.. Wall thinks
better. The voters felt inclined to make
the experiment and after adopting the
resolution, named Mr.. Wall as the one to
have the matter in charge "without pay"
He thanked them and remarked that sit
was just the job he wanted"
: The trustees orders amounted to $780,
50, classified as follows:
lighting, q, 265.00
department, 1905
Fire department, 146.7
Miscellaneous, 1909
The highway surveyor expended 81 ,l6s.-
as follows:
Road machine work, sl3 80
road work, BAL. 40
work, 1910
Crawling, 274.l7
Street drainage, 297.l7
Winter work, 1864
Miscellaneous, 1884
Services of surveyor, included, 125.40
In the water department, there were no
unusual expenses during the year. The
whole expense for extensions and main
,enRnce, including the su~perintendent's
was s5O6.57. The total receipts
VeIe:
rents collected, s2,6O641
Material sold, AZ 10
vibrant rentals, $500
Total s3,27s57
There are $4,000 water bonds outstand-
with cash on hand to pay 5000 of
hem. The remainder have been trans
erred to the National Life Insurance Co.
I reduced rate OF interest.
The village cleared last year from its
water system f2,772, to apply toward the
debt and interest. The income
ron hydrants alone was more than SUI
icient to meet expenses. At the same
water rents are lower than in scarce
v any other town and service is better.
randolph may well be proud ofthis show
ng.
Two $1,000 water bonds were paid last
ear from the income, besides interest.
From the treasurer's account, the fol-
owing items OF interest are taken:
proportion OF state highway tax
received, 1924
Highway tax collected, 2,209.49
tax collected, 1870
Balance due treasurer, Maya, 80, 44.12
Among disbursements:
library appropriation, 10000
randolph town, 1-6 highway tax, 10000
Collector Barnes settled his tax bills In
ull.
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