The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-02-29
Bennington's Seleetmen.

Bennington's seleetmen.
On Tuesday next 1t will devolve up
on the legal voters OF the town OF Ben.
nington to make choice of three of
their number to serve rs selectmen OF
the town of Bennington for the year
ensuing.
Nominations for this most impor-
tant Office have been duly made aud
filed as required by law by the Repub
lican, the Democratic and Independent
parties; the ballots have been prepsr-
cd by the town clerk for the use OF the
voters on Tuesday, ballot clerks and
deputy clerks have been appointed,
aud, 10 word, the whole machinery
OF the law governing the requirements
Of and safeguarding the annual town
meeting Is now In motion.
The annual town meeting Is an i'm.
portant occasion In the history Of any
town. II is equally as important In
Bennington as elsewhere. 1t means
much to Q towns welfare and prosper
ity whether the choice then to be made
at the polls shall be that of men who
are capable, prudent and economic,
interested solely for the best interests
of the town, its moral and financial
welfare; or whether the choice shall
De that OF men who are sought to be
elected to this Office not solely for the
towns best Interest, but ia tho public
exercise and exhibition OF a personal
antipathy to certain OF the men now
made candidates for the office of select.
man by one or the other of the politi-
cal parties Who have now filed their
certificates OF nomination. The "Bsn-
ner" recognizes the good alwsys to b<
gained by an open and.fair contest 70,
this or any other office within tee, gift
of the people; It deprecates any evil
dence OF spirit that seeks, either for
personal gaiu, for the display of pri
vate luminosity, or for any other res
son whatever that is foreign to the
towns bes. interest, destroy conditions
that now and foryexrs past have op.
Grated for the good OF Bennington as ,
municipality.
Bennington's present board OF sci.
ectmen, renominated by the Republi
can party, Messrs. Frank Cromack,
Frank M. Crawford and Charles Fl
lIoughtou, Was first elected in 1904
they we're re- elected in 1905, In 100,
and again in 1907. Mr. Crawford wal
member of the 1903 board of select
men being then associated with Messr,
j. T. Remington and Eli j. Tiffany a
such. Mr. Crawford was first elected
selectm an OF the town OF Bsnningt 4
in 1891, being then associated as sucl
with Messrs Emory 8. Harris ant
Samuel c. Lyons. Again In 1892 h
was elected, being then associates
with Messrs Samuel C. Lyons ant
William r. Morgan. Again in lS9
he was elected, being then associates
with Messrs Richard NJ. H)igh ii
Mr.. Crawford was elected, being thei
associated with Messrs Joseph T. Wat
son and Moses Wilson. Thus of tn,
present nominees of the Republican
party for the Office of selectman Mr.
Crawford has served as such for nin'
years and Messrs Cromack and Hough
ton each for four years, assuredly {
record of faithful service in each in
stance calculated to insure to tn,
town the benefit of the years of intel
lligent, efficient and thorough appren
ticeship each has rendered 1t in thu
capacity of selectman In the years
past.
The net debt of the town of Ben
nington on the 31st day of January o
each of the several years from 1903 Il
date has been as follows: