News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-03-08
Town Meeting

Town Meeting
There was nothing out of the or
binary at town meeting in Hyde Park
Yesterday. 1t was we'll attended and
good nature prevailed.
Moderator Waite called the meet
ing to order at 10 30 and after the
warning was read was elected to sue
ceed himself Town Clerk N. g. Wood
was treated likewise and then the
business of the day began. There
was ballOting for the First Selectman.
b. A. Wedge received II votes and
K. 2. Putnam AS For I'd Selectman
r. p. Putnam WAS chosen and for Sd
Geo: o Jewett, both by acclamatiOn.
f. II. Strong was again elected
Treasurer.
For Oversepr of Poor A. G. Davis
and G. NJ. Gray were placed in nomi-
nation. The result was that Davis
had 70 votes aud Gray 40 1t was
very good vote for Gray, when it is
remembered that he was not an as
pirant for the place.
o N. Campbell was made 1st Con-
stable and Collector, the position as
I'd Constable went to G. B. Allen after
contest with w. G. Maxfield; the
vote was Allen 48; Maxdeld 40.
For Listers W. W. Thorp was pit
tnd against S. B. Waite Waite got
101 votes and ThoFp A Thorp
was put in nomination against his
wish. Albert Whitcomb and Frank
Chaffee, both on the old board, we're
reelected.
R S. Page, F. S. Hezlrd and j. FL.
Gray were made Auditors.
For Trustee OF Public Money, G. S.
Page was named but declined and at
his suggestion his son Russell was
elected.
Things moved along quite rapidly
with the next few offices.
j d. Button, Moses GoOdhue and
Vernon Whitcomb were elected Fence
Viewers; H A. Noyes, Geo, Randall
and Perer Parin were made Town
Grand Jurors; Moses Goodhue In
s1actor OF Leather ard NJ. 2, Cheney
Inspector of Lumber and Shi6Pl6S.
For Pound Keeper the old custom
of Every man a pound keeper and
his barnyard pound" was ignored
and Almon Crowell, the sage of Bat
tl9 Row, who has for the past fifty
years made that motion, was elected
Pound Keeper for the town. AlmOn
will undoubtedly faithfully and eff
ficently perform all the duties that
devolve upon him in that office. A
recess was taken at noon for dinner.
At l 30 the meeting re-assembled
and the question of having two Road
Commissioners was discussed. 1t
was finally voted to have two instead
of one Ns heretofore. A ballot show
ed Geo. II. Campbell to have 1913
votes aud Z. N. Jones 2S. Mr.. Camp
bell declined to serve and was ex-
cused. Another ballot gave Hallet
Hurlburt 160 votes and C,N.JOnes 5.
For the 2dCommissioner 3 ballots
were taken. On the first E. V. Lilley
had SO votes, Homer Kneeland 81,
JOS. Foss 81, SiIas Nhtcomb II,
Jonas t. Stevens 8, Edgar Pratt 5.
The second ballot was LilIey 90,
Kueeland "a, Foss 10, Stevens 49,
The third ballot resulted ia the choice
of Lilley, he having los, Kneeland
SO, Stevens II and Foss 4.
r. ". Hulburd was elected Agent
Noyes Wood School Director, Chass
H. Bliss, Cemetery Commissioners and
Y. A. Gilmore, Tree Warden.
The tax voted was 176 cts. divided
as follows: Schools rs, highway 40,
schoolhouse debt IA, poor IA, bridges
4, State school s, State highway 5,
county 3, miscellaneous Is.
RW Hulburd, Mrs ENERGY Page,
Mrs Emma Wiswell, Mrs Geo Allen
and Frank Hazard were re elected
Library Trustees and the sum of $25
was voted for the same.
1t was voted to have in all the pri-
mary schools in town thirty.six weeks
of school instead of twenty-eight as
heretofore.
The vote on the license question
was Yes 116, No 122.
Here is how the vote on the liquor
question has been in Hyde Park the
past two years: l903-Yes 160, No
LOG; 19O4-Yes lit, No 98,
The lust of jurors is as follows
Grand-Lester Boomhower, Geo p
Randall, 0 S Spaulding, f S Hazards
Petit-B W Mudgett, e e Smith, o
N Campbell, E L Horner, f H Strong,
L L Noyes, G 0 Jewett, R P Putnam,
E V Lilley, E A Wedge, Chauncey
Crocker, and W W Thorp.
CARD OF THANKS: s:-To the friends and neighs
bors who SO kindly helped us during the sick-
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