Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-07-20
BRATTLEB0RO LOCAL NEWS
NO OFFICERS ELECTED
Adjournment of Two Weeks at
the School District Meeting
Action Taken on Account Of the Contest
for Collector Of Taxes-Vote to Intro
duce Manual Training.


for Collector Of Taxes-Vote to Intro
duce Manual Training
The issue at the annual meeting of the
incorporated school district No. 2 Tuesday
evening was not as to who should be
elected tax collector but rather as to
whether the election of officers should be
postponed two weeks in order to carry
the election of a collector past the special
town meeting called for next Thursday
Those who favored postponing the cleo
ton won, leaving it for the special town
meeting to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Robert Il. Gordon.
1t was the largest school meeting within
the memory of the present generation. 1t
was held in the high school room, and
all the seats, recitation settees and avail
able chairs were filed and there was a
fringe of voters standing against the
walls Probably 400 voters were present.
DR.. Henry d. Holton, moderator, called
the meeting to order promptly at
O'Clock and expressed his pleasure at such
a manifestation of interest in the cause
of education" 1t was just $40 when the
meeting was adjourned.
Clerk Walter A. Gilbert read the war
rant and DR.. Holton was reelected mod
orator. H. B. Chamberlain moved that
the report of the prudential committee as
printed be accepted and adopted and
motion to the same effect was made by ].
j. Eckes regarding the treasurer's re-
port, printed with that of the prudential
committee. Both motions were carried
with no opposition.
This brought the business of the meet
ing down to the election of officers. j. L.
Martin moved that the article be passed
over until the last article, for the trans
action of "oJher business" was reached.
He said that all knew that the reason
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the interest taken in the matter of elect
ing a collector of taxes, and that mas
much as a special town meeting had been
called for the express purpose of filling
the vacancy in that Office the fair way
would be to allow a meeting of the whole
town to decide the matter. c. c. Fits
said he did not wish to bring discOrd
into the meeting, but he thought 1t would
be well to consider some phases of the
question He said there was no doubt
but that the voters were there to elect a
tax collector, and that the school dis
trict and village, which were coterminus,
contained four-fifths of the population
of the town and that the district paid
twice as much of, the taxes as the town
paid. He said that on the day of the
town meeting the shops would be running,
farmers would be busy and that in all
probability the attendance would not be
nearly as large as at the present time.
He thought there was no reason why tn.
choice of a collector should be left for
the town with the expectation that the
district and village as there represented
would ratify the action of the town.
George W. Pierce seconded Mr.. Martins
motion. He said it was the custom of
the town, at its annual meeting, to elect
a collector before either the village or
district had done so, the village following
and the school district being third to
elect M. ]. Moran said Mr.. Fits made
some good arguments but was mistaken
in his belief that the voters had come out
to elect a collector. Mr.. Moran said the
voters were there to vote against an
election and he saw no injustice to any
candidate in postponing the election.
When the question was put only small
number voted against postponement.
Article 4, to see If the district would
continue to receive tuition pupils, and,
if so, on what terms, was left to the pru-
Dental committee on motion Of G. w.
Pierce, seconded by ]. ]. Eckels. On mo-
ton of j. ]. Eckels the committee was
instructed to employ supervisor of
grades the coming year.
The next article was as follows ITO
see if the district will accept from Mrs.
l.. K. Fuller a strip of land southwesterly
of Canal street school. grounds, 20 feet
wide on Canal street, 10 feet wide on the
opposite end, and running back $50 feet;
and maintain suitable fence on the
southwesterly side thereof" ]. L. Martin
moved that the land be accepted with the
hearty thanks of the district and that the
fence be constructed as contempla ted.
The motion was seconded by E. Q. S.
Osgood and was carried without dissent.
The next article was in regard to CO.
operating with the Woman's club In in
PRODUCING a school for manual training
for children over 10 years of age during
a part of the summer of 1907, using such
rooms of the high school building as
might be needed and appropriating not
to exceed $780, to be taken from the APP
said that in many schools attention was
paid to manual training. 1t had been the
wish of the Woman's club, he said, also
of many in the district, that the expert
ment be made here, that we may
learn in a tentative way what it is to
have such training" He said there were
persons willing TO take charge of the
work and that making the experiment
did not mean necessarily that manual
training would be introduced at once into
the schools. He moved that the dis
trict cooperate with the club DR.. Henry
Tucker seconded the motion and 1t was
carried without opposition.
The question of levying a tax for the
expenses of the coming year then was
taken up. ]. l.. Martin moved that a tax
of 70 per cent. of the grand list be as
sessed, to be collected on the same terms
and at the same time as heretofore. DR..
Fremont Hamilton asked II the pruden-
tial committees recommendation of a
20 per cent tax was based on the quad
rennial appraisal of real estate made this
year, which, he said, he understood
showed AN increase of 10 per cent. over
the last grand list. H. b. Chamberlain,
one of the listers, said the appraisal had
but just been filed and that all taxes were
based on last years grand list Mr.,
Martins motion was carried.
Under the last article, ito transact
any other business" ]. l.. Martin moved
that the meeting be adjourned two weeks
to meet in the same place for the election
of officers, II. p. Wellman and C. H.
Thompson thought 1t would be the proper
thing to elect a member Of the pruden-
tial committee to succeed L. F. Adams,
whose term expires this year. Mr.. Martin
explained that all the officers would hold
office until their successors were elected,
1t was then voted to adjourn to Tuesday
evening, July 81, at o'clock, in the high
school room.