The Press., 1902-12-11
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 Regular meeting of Winter w. R 0. next Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A full attendance is desired.
 The following officers were elected by Winter w. R. c. at their last meeting : President, Mrs. Martha A. Nichols; sen- for vice president, Mrs. Mary A. Sy- monds; junior vice. president, Mrs. Jen- nie s. Walker; treasurer, Mrs. Evelyn L. Eaton; chaplain, Mrs. Esther A. Lewis conductor, Mrs. Mary E. Milner; guard, Miss Mary A. Kellogg. Mrs. Harriet J. Bodge, past national president, of Hart fard will install the officers on Wednes- day evening, January '.
 There were two tickets before the voters at the borough election on Mon- day. The ticket nominated at the citi- zens' caucus was elected, with the excep 1 tion of two turgesses, who were on an independent ticket placed in the field Monday morning, headed with C.. B. Gary for warden. and containing the names of Allen J. Mix and F. E. Fitz patrick for burgesses. Anthony Adams was on both tickets. There were 202 votes cast. The vote stood for warden, Lyman Cushman 104, c. 0. Gary S7 three burgesses for two years, Allen J. Mix 107, F. E. Fitzpatrick 106, Anthony Adams 197, o. M. Brown 100, c. 0. Parkess 92. The rest of the officers as follows were on both tickets: Clerk and treasurer, William H. Heald; collector, A. N. Nichols; bailiff, Arthur Stebbins assees ors, A. E. Converse, M. P. J. Wal. ker, H. o. Butterfield; board of relief, E. c. Dennis, W. E. Hanley, H. s. Abel haywards, A. N. Nichols, c. B. Gary, 0. w. Comins; registrars, David Bissett, H. 8 Abel; wood inspectors, w. A. Comins, H. Alden. A. Whiton, E. L. Burr, 0. B. Gary, H. Q Butterfield, w. H. Webster, E. E. Butterfield, 0. M Brown, F. J. Chandler. B. T. Eaton, A. N. Nichols; tything men, 0. E. Butter, field, F. N. Crane, A. N. Nichols, 0. C. Ellis, Joshua Wood, J. 0. Cleaveland John Brosnan,, J. T. Melbourne, $. w Page, 0. w. Comins.
 At the business meeting held at three o'clock the usual tax of T mills was laid A motion to increase the rate to 10 mills in order to pay some of the borougf indebtedness, was defeated. It wal voted to instruct the warden and bur gesses to renew the contract with thu Aqueduct company for water for hy drants, for ten or fifteen years, at tht rate of $93O per year. The article in ref erence to taking steps towards the re moval of the railroad grade crossing o Holland avenue was acted upon by voting to instruct the warden and burgesses te ascertain the cost, and have surxeys ane plans made for the building of bridge over the railroad and stream, and report at meeting to be called as soon as plane and estimates were completed. The war den and borough treasurer were instruct ed to investigate in regard to bonding thu borough indebtedness. The article in re lation to renewing the contract for stree lights brought out quite discussion Il 1regard to the present service receives from the electric light company, whic was far from complimentary to the com pany. A motion was carried instructin the burgesses to make a contract with tn company for one year, with the privileg of five years, at price not to exceed tn old contract per light. Superintendent Stebbins was present and stated that tn company would not make new contrae at the old price. As probably chang will be made in the company next spring 1t twas thought by many present 1t woul be better not to try to make any contrat at present. It Is said that plans are bt ing made for the building of a steal plant, east of Smith & Cooley's mills, fe furnishing power for the electric road an electric lights. It was voted to take | action in regard to compensation of tn borough officers. The borough indebted ness has been increased $5, ,950 during th A past year. The James Wood case for il jury by a fall, and the damage to propert cas5s of Samuel Rockwell, John Kar and the Misses Norris, with the extra @, penses of the health department, ha, amounted to nearly seven thousand do
 lars, and are responsible for the increas
 insthe debt.
 The expenditures of the borough ft |. the past year, as compared with year pr