St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-02-20
The Town Caucus.
Few Contests for OfficeS.-SOme Figures
from the Reports.

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from the Reports.
The caucus to nominate officers for the
March meeting was held in the Town
Hall Saturday afternoon and attended
by about 225 voters. Owing to the
three-cornered fight for road commission
er there was a large attendance from
outside the village and this office furnish
ed the most interesting contest of the
afternoon. After the call was read by O.
H. Henderson, chairman of the republi-
can town committee. the meeting organic
ed by choosing Harry H. Carr chairman
and Harry M. Nelson clerk.
These candidates were placed in nomi-
nation:
Moderator, Arthur F. Stone.
Clerk, H. W. Blodgett.
Selectmen, Wesley Sargent, Fred D. Gil
man. Luman A. Ladd
Treasurer, H. w. Blodgett.
Overseer, W. H. H. Robie
First Constable, George R. Crosby
Second Constable, W H. Worthen.
Collector of Taxes, George X. Crosby
Listers, D. NJ Bacon, 0. S. Abbott,
Charles Ross.
Auditors, Harry H. Carr, Preston E.
May, ]. F. Puffer,
Trustee of Public Money, H. W. Blod-
gett.
Grand Jurors, Guy W. Hill, R. W.
Simonds.
School Director, A. Francis Walch.
Town Agent, l.. P. Slack.
Tree Warden, John T. Borland.
Road Commissioner, Olin- G. Sargent
All the above officers were nominated
by acclamation EXCEPT the second and
third lister and the road commissioner
For second lister F. A. Hovey and o. S.
Abbott were placed in nomination. Of
the 222 votes cast Mr.. Abbott received
127 and Mr.. Hovey 95 For third lister
B. Frank Weeks and Charles Ross were
placed in nomination. Mr.. Ross declined
| in favor of Mr.. Weeks and the latter's
| brother withdrew Frank Weeks name,
but the chairman decided that ballot
| was in order and of the 167 votes cast
Mr.. Ross received 105 and Mr.. Weeks 81.
| The check list was used to decide the
road commissioner contest and the can
didates were Horace Jackson, Olin G..
Sargent and Charles D. Owens, the latter
being placed in the field in a vigorous
speech by Rev. E. E. Grant. Only one
ballot was necessary and the result was
| as follows:
Whole number, 1877
Necessary for choice, 81
| Horace Jackson, 20
Charles D. Owens, 80
o. G. Sargent. s,,ae .iW 75
According to the treasurer's books it
cost SIP, ,040.97 to run the town last
year. The orders drawn by the select
men amounted to $40, 9,63O.29 and the
school directors drew orders amounting
to $32, ,O86.03. The treasurer borrowed
during the year SAL 900 and paid back
$4,000. He also paid up $1,000 due on
the town bonds. The town has now
| $21 900 refunding 4 percent bonds out
standing and $4,000 in school bonds.
The net cost of the highways was
So, ,131.4S and Mr. Jackson calls atten-
tion to the permanent highway from the
upper bridge at the Centre to the rail-
road crossing on the Lyndon road and
the new road from John Cassidy's house
in Goss Hollow to the Peter Clement
farm.
The cost of maintaining the poor in
| 1906 has been $616. Ia less than in 1905,
the net cost, including the salary of the
matron at the town farm, and the over
seer, being $6614.35, as against $7230.-
40 the previous year.
The highways and bridges cost the town
$SS93. .26 and the expenses of the health
officer were $326.30. The town paid
$26s for damage done by dogs, mostly
killing sheep, to Is different parties.