St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-02-21
TOWN AFFAIRS.
saturdays Caucus Facts and Figures
from lhe RepOrts-The Official Bal
IOt-The Warning.


IOt-The Warning. l
The caucus for the March meeting was
held in the Town hall last Saturday
af ernoon and was attended by about
100 voters. The call was read by Free
man A. Pierce of the republican town
committee and the meeting organized by
electing Alexander Dunnett moderator
and Harry H. Carr clerk.
These officers were nominated:
Moderator, Alexander Dunnett.
Town Clerk, E. D.. Blodgett.
Selectmen, L. B. Hartshorn, Ellery P.
Pottet, c. c. Follansby.
Treasurer, E. D. Blodgett.
Overseer of the Poor, L. Sulloway.
First Constable, George R. Crosby.
Collector of taxes. George r. Crosby.
Listers, Delos M. Bacon, Orriu S. Alb
bott, Dennis E. May.
Auditors, William T. Horton, Philip
H. Stone, Gilbert E. Woods.
Trustee ofpublic money, E. D. Blodgett.
Road commissioner. Horace Jackson.
Town agent. L. P. Slack.
Inspector OF leather, H. F. Griswold.
Town grand jurors, Cyrus Sargent,
c. A. Sylvester, l.. W. Fisher
Fence viewers, the selectmen.
Pound keepers, the selectmen.
Surveyors OF wood and lumber, l.. ID.
Stiles, 7. w. Webster, William Wetherbee,
Sias Randall, A. L. Bragg, W. P. Stat
| ford. Daniel Streeter, Alexander Dunnett,
Nd. ]. Caldbeck.
| Toe 4hrao MrC
Eunice May.
Before the meeting had progressed very
far ]. R. Stevens secured hearing and
read from the town report, criticlzlng
the salary and expenses of the overseer
| of the poor, the charge Of one Of the
listers and the salary of the tax collector.
He said none OF these salaries had been
fixed by any vote of the town.
The first contest arose over overseer oi
the poor. Mr.. Sulloway and w. A
Graham were the two candidates named
and out of III votes cast Mr.. Sulloway
received 62 votes and Mr.. Graham 55.
The other contest was for school direc
tor. W. P. Stafford presented the name
OF Mrs. Eunice May and Lieut.-Gov
Bates nominated Harvlin Paddock to
succeed himself Out of 126 votes cast
Mrs. May received II votes and Mr.
Paddock 40.
The town and school reports were dis
tributed at the caucus and the voter;
have had chance to carefully perus'
them since. The net expense of the over
seer OF the poor was $5193, of which
1851 was for the. support otpoor ant
expenses OF the town farm and $3464
maintenance of the poor away from the
farm. The selectmen spent $2334 or
highways and bridges. They extenc
, thanks to Lambert Packard for giving
land to straighten highway and speal
of other improvements on the hill roads
The liquor agency was conducted with
profit of $942 and IL towns besides resi-
dents of St. Johnsbury swelled the re
ceipts of the agency to $9S61. The las
of the Az per cent. bonds have been re
: tired and the net indebtedness of tn
? town is $4,000, to which must be adGet
$4,000 of school bonds soon to b
issued. The general orders amounted t.
$5267 and the salaries and expenses O
the town officers amounted to 1874.
The seVenh h annual school report
, illustrated with pictures OF the building
at Perce's Mills and the schoolhouse d
= Summerville, now nearing completion
4 The cost of the schools was $23, liz
I divided as follows: salaries of teachers
$11 ,865; paid for janitors, $1055; cos
, of transporting scholars, $3.50; repairs
S329.4O; tuition at the Academy, $460S
q fuel, $937; supplies. $1535; schoolhous
at Pierce's Mills, $500; general expenses
y $1,000.
+ The superintendent report is full c
n interesting facts and figures. The schoe
). enrolment is 1882. divided as follows
In the Academy ISL. parochial schools
+ $50, public schools, s72. The total nun
e Der of school age in St. Johnsbury
174O. There are 81 more scholars in tt
public schools than there were yea
= ago.
lie The full text of the warning appears
O another column. Besides the usual arr
=, cles there is one to see if the town w
vote to retain the site of the old Sur
u mervile scboolhouse, and another to S
1t it the town will vote to compensate
al w. Farr for the loss of spring at t
p time the foundation of the new schot
house was built. The people at East
Johnsbury want fire protection and t
m town is asked to help form one.
m The official ballot contains only o
= addition from the caucus and that is
ie nomination of w. A. Graham for ov,
ct seer OF the poor.
st. Johnsbury Center.
- Mrs. lane Huntley has been spending