The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-12
ANNUAL CITY MEETING.

The articles in the warning were
not taken up at the annual city meet
ing on Tuesday until about three
O'Clock in the afternoon after the re-
suit of the balloting had been declar-
ed. The heaviest ballot at this meet
ing was cast for city clerk Merrill
The ballot in ward six was the only
one in which there was any contest
and the result of this was declared
first. Right prevailed against the
boilers. Total number of votes cast,
151, Necessary for a choice, rs. Mr..
Waterman received 80 and Mr.. Dou-
cette g. There were seven defective
votes, which could not be counted.
Walter F. Waterman the new alder
man from ward six, was born in Orange,
February -, 1910. He was educated in
the common schools there and at Mont
pelier Seminary. He enlisted as a pri-
vate in Company f, Sixth Vermont Vol
unteers in the fall of 1861 and served for
three years during the Civil war He
came to Berlin in 1866 and followed the
vocation of farmer. Most of the time
since then he has been the manager of
the farm of Miss Lucy Bradshaw. He
has been life long Republican.
For alderman in ward four James 5.
|
ing. For alderman in ward five, John
j. Bergen, received 10S votes.
The votes for school commissioner
in wards one, two, and three was as
follows: Ward one, A. j. Sibley, III
votes, one scattering ward two, H.
j. M. Jones, 105 votes ward three,
p. L. Templeton, 106 votes.
The vote on the general ticket fol-
: lows: Mayor, j. NJ. Boutwell,, 643
city clerk, r, h. Merrill, no; city
treasurer, Z. r. Merrill, 107; city
sheriff, G. Def. Bancroft, 641 first
constable, f. r. Dawley, G6S; second
constable, r. j. Keegan, 639; lister
for three years, +. h. Dawley, 6j9;
lister for two years, W. G. Lamphere,
| G47; auditors, NJ. E. Smile, ego, a.
l w. Ferrin, 657, and L. H. Bixby6, 654
city grand Juror, f. A. Bailey, 663;
commissioner Green Mount Cemetery,
A. j. Sibley, 65S park commissioner,
II. j. M. Jones, GAG.
John Mooney moved that 81, 800 be
: appropriated for the Heaton hospital
{ under the prevailing contract for so
o many free beds, but upon the sugges-
tion of ]. II. Senter amended his mo-
ton by cutting down the sum to 49, 600
r and it was passed. 1t was voted to
e appropriate $50 for Memorial day.
! Articles five and six, to see If the
u city will vote a tax for the payment
> of debts and current expenses of the
r city and the maintenance of schools,
f were taken up together. After some
discussion tax of 81. 30 was voted
, but with the understanding that
IL special tax might be voted at a later
G meeting to defray the eXtraordl nary
d expenses of bridges and those caused
Il by the recent flood
The article pertaining to making a
lie compromise with the city OF Pierre,
re South Dakota, in the matter of bonds
" held by this city and also its claims
p, against the Vermont Investment Com
pany of Orwell, and to reimburse the
lu cemetery trust funds from any shrink
n age caused by the same was discussed
to at length.
| f. L. Laird opposed making any
= compromise with Pierre, as 1t only
~ offered new bonds at fifty cents on the
as dollar for the old ones, payable II
ne twenty years, and no guarantee whe1
no the city would receive any interes
NC on the new bonds. Mr.. Laird said thu
OF CITY had established the validity o
in the present bonds in the courts
South Dakota and that the new one
be had not been. His motion for dis
-. missal was lost.
Hon. II. y. must ldNOlOu lNhN III
Id this matter with the city council t.
in act upon according TO its best ludg
NV meth, either to compromise, sell, o
10y sue as seemed best. He said Plerr
TO had put rather more buzzard tina
lat turkey on Montpelier's plate. j. II
Senter made Mr.. Huse's suggestion a
;s a motion, which was seconded by u
:: w. Wing and carried.
ID 1t was voted to exempt the follow
me ing granite plants from taxation fo
me a period of five years each: Josep
in. Conf, Lynch Brothers, P. I. Kan
- Co., Robert NJ. Fraser, Columbia
'op Granite Co., Dillon & Haley an
iu- Glynn q Hill.
,pe On motion of F. A. Bailey, it wa
10 voted to recommend to the city cour
90 Gil the adoption of a nine hour da
ieh for the city employees, The poll take
ca of the State militia were abated
his 1t was also voted to furnish tran,
hat portation for pupils Of other than pull
;aI lie schools. A. j. Sibley offered
lal resolution to the effect that the sui
jhe plus derived from the water depart
re, ment after its bonds were paid shoul
ned be carried as a sinking fund froI
. which to pay other bonded indebted
ness of the city, and the resolution wa
d adopted.
is The following grand and petit juror
,au for the county nominated by the cit
a- council were elected: Petit jurors
nel Henry A. Babbitt, Henry A. Ballard
yer Frank W. Bemis, Dwight Dwinel
ian Peter G.. Dewey, George H. Elmort
ve Nichola Glass, Harry Hutchinson
= Henry S. Town, L. p. Lawrence
= Frank E. Grout, NJ. L. Bailey,
an W, Corse, E. A. Sweeney, Fred Vii
zen ton.
cd. Grand jurors; a. d. Peck, H, ,
Voldholm, L. b. Brooks, John Mooney
"s Charles f, Collins.
cad At the close of the meeting, Git
ted clerk Merrill administered the oath {
no office to Mayor Boutwell,, Alderme
Haley and Burgen, and city sheri
as Bancroft. Alderman Waterman Ina
us gone home so did not take the oath &
lon this time.
A11 Mavor Routwplll Amounted Charlie