Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-01-22
MiDDLrbURy.

lho annual village report has been
printed ana was distributed Friday morn
ing ana shows the following figures for
the past year and estimates for the COM
ing wear: one hundred AMI twenty-cight
orders werc drawn by the village trlls-
tees amounting to s5s7ios divided as fol-
lows; For roads. SL70.Si; walks. slO2lij;
parks $76,25; sewers. Sl92iG: fire depart
ment, $3Sl57, lights, sl,5ilS0: sprinkling
f93.lj; police. 1884. 40: miscellaneous sSa5 ab
The auditors estimate that s6.GSl. - will he
required to run the village next year
There is S2,26iG2 in the hands of the vii
ldEe treasurer and $500 uncollectod taxes
called good which leaves "a balance of
S3,@l7 II to be raised by tax. Thirty-fivc
per cent VIII raise the necessary amount
and pay about N,uo outstanding orders
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Morino Sheep Breeders association Will
be held in the parlors of the Addison
House on Wednesday. January ~, at II
O'Clock. The date previously mentioned
was an error.
Erwin G. Piper will sell his farm on
Neybridgc street at auction Tuesday
January y, and the stock and tools Will
be disposed of at the same time.
The annual village meet was called to
order in the town hall at O'Clock ycster-
day by Moderator +. a. Bond and Clerk j.
M Burke read the warning. The report $
of the various officers were read and ac-
ceptcd and Il tax of 81 cents was voted
To defray the expenses for the coming
year. Then came the election of officers
as follows, Water commissioners, +.
a. Bond and Thomas T.. Boyce; trustees.
Father j. j.. shannon, j. T.. Weeks, l.. T..
Mellcn, Isaac Lavonchc, g. Moffatt. {. H.
Balm and f.. M. Foote, who were promptly
sworn in by Notary Public q. y.
Moore; chief engineer, George Kidder. by
large majority; treasurer G. T.. Pnney.
unanimously reelected; auditors, q. T..
Marshall and A. *. Carr. A motion was
made and carried that the committee who
had charge of the new part Of the water
system during its construction he dis
charged and that they be turned over to
the old water committee. Judge Weeks
made n few remarks on the committee
and moved that the village give the com
mttcc vote Of thanks for their faithful
work. which they have SO kindly done
without charge to the village, which was
done with unanimous vote with great
pleasure. after which John H. Fletcher
read the following resolution. which was
unanimousl accepted and reads as fol-
lows Resolved, That it be tho sense OF
the meeting that the trustees of the VIII
lagc build each year piece of maCadam-
ized road keeping the highways in as good
repair as possible until the whole village
has macadamizcd road and that the vii
lage having a valuable and well equipped
road machine plant the trustees should
employ competent road maker to build
these macadamzod roads, it being pos
sihle to accomplish this easily and keep
within the appropriation Mr. Weeks
spoke of the large number of tools owned
by the village and how they were kept
and said he would like to know what the
village thought about building store
house for them and it was voted to leave
1t to the trustees to do as they thought
best. The meeting then adjourned with.
out date.