The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-07
MONTPELIER
city Council Held Special Meeting
Last Evening.

ing lnst HlgNt 70 near ptVpVNfhvh il"ht
George Lane az Boston IN the interest
Of the Lane Manufacturing company
The president Of the company and their
attorney. William Therianlt, were pres
ent. The council remained in secret ses-
sion for over an hour when the repre-.
sentatives Of the Lane company were
allowed is minutes for consultation. af-
ter which the meeting was resumed for
another hour. After the special business
was taken care Of, the routine business
was taken up and il was voted to pay
the October interest on the city bonds
70 the following holders National Lite
Insurance company $500, Capital Say
ings Bank and Trust company S20, Mont.
pelier Savings bank $l20. After several
minor matters were attended to, the
proposition made by State Road Com
missioner Charles w Gates was dis
cussed Mr.. Gates looked over the strip
Of land near the cemetery recently and
said that If the city would pay S40G to
build a gravel road there the state would
pay half This proposition was accept
ed by the council and Supt Roberts was
given orders 10 start the work right
away. The meeting was adjourned a lit
tie after eleven.
The city hall committee met Tuesday
Hevening to open the bids for tho plumb
ing on the new city hal. but owing to
the fact that tho mayor was unable 60
be present, the matter was postponed
One more applicant applied for first
naturalization papers yesterday after
noon Of Clerk r s. Platt of the United
States Federal court His name was Sa-
hino Yaeopucci, an Italian resident Of
this city
Another close match was played in
the Y. NJ G A tennis tournament yes
terday Gross defeated Theriault in the
first set by a score OF 8 to 4, while
the next set was called off on account
Of darkness. with Gross one game in the
lead, to 2.
Copies IF the plans Of the NEW high
school building have been placed on ex.
hibition III the assembly hall at the
present high school building. This
means Is adopted TO give the students
an opportunity 70 see what the new
schoohouse viii look like.
0scar Smith sprained an axle quite
severely Yesterday morning while on the
way TO Green Mount cemetery with his
dump cart. He felt cold and decided to
walk beside the team little way. A
he got off the horse started suddenly
and the cart ran over his foot He was
able to get on his wagon and drive 10 the
next house, whore he was attended and
thend driven home.
A decision was handed down Yesterday
afternoon by Justice J. q Wing IN the
case OF Benjamin Coburn vs.. Mr. and
Mrs. W.. q Sulham, which was heard
Monday afternoon. Coburn claimed that
he had received no wages for work done
on Sulham's farm The court allowed
the plaintiff to recover costs from the
plaintiff Attorney T K. Gordon ap.
peared for the plaintiff.
Dan P. Dickinson Of Chelsea. a recent
graduate Of Montpelier seminary IN the
music department. has Just passed an ex-
animation which gives him a free schol.
arship at Columbia university in New
York City. There were thirty one appli-
cants for five scholarships, and Mr. Dick
enson received the first 81 the two sehol
arships awarded lie has also accepted
position a. organist and choir master
in a large Episcopal church at Staten
Island at salary q $500 per year.
W. f. Atwell OF Brandon took rather
sudden bath last night in North Branch
and sustained several bruises. He was
in town to visit his cousin Henry Thorn
ton. who lives IN the Cross block. and
was not able to raisc anyone. % be start.
ed for the back door and before he real
lied II, he was wading in about three
feet Of water ia the North Branch. after
a l5foot fall He was NOT hurt except
for minor bruises and was assisted out
by some passarsby Mr. Atwell has not
been in this city for II years.
The quarterly meeting Of the directors
OF thq Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
company was held yesterday afternoon
at which only routine business was dis
cGssed The directors present were G. O.
Stratton. ] r sabin. I. D. Taft, George
Briggs Of Washington county, and the
following directors from other counties:
j. f. Weeks. ]. r. Iudson. Gilmore I.
Ide. e. w Horny, G. s. Robinson, 4. r.
Hunt. Fl. w Marvin, Thomas G. Cheney
Jim H. Dubois. ]. N. Webster. RI. I'll.
Clark and William W. stickney. The
annual meeting Of the stockholders viii
be held Oct. 20.