The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-07-23
SCHOOL MEETING A
PEACEFUL AFFAIR
Purchase of Additional Property
Left to Committee
ADAMS REELECTED A MEMBER.
Tax OF 90 Cents Voted in Accordance
With Recommendation of School
Board-W. B. Smith Chosen Clerk of
District in Place of w. A. Gilbert.

The annual meeting of incorporated
school district No. was held in the higI
school room Tuesday evening, and the at
tendance showed live interest upon the
part OF the citizens of the district. MANY
women were. present also. While com
paratively a handful of men voted to ap
proprlate $4,000 last year the appropria.
tions this year were voted by a represent.
alive lot of citizens numbering over 900.
DR.. H. ID. Holton was reelected modera-
tor for the coming year. w. A. Gilbert
announced that his business would be
such for the coming year that he could
not attend to the duties of clerk of the
district and w. b: Smith was chosen as
H. f.. Adams to succeed himself as mem
Der of the prudential committee for three
years. G. 1. Durham paid Mr.. Adams A
warm compliment as a citizen and as one
of the workers in educational matters in
Brattleboro. Mr.. Adams was chosen to
reelected treasurer of the district and
w A. Shumway made collector of taxes.
Charles A. Harris was elected auditor
Article of the warrant-"To see if the
district Will continue to receive tuition
scholars, and if so, on what terms
provoked the only real interest that was
displayed during the evening. When the
article IN question was open for discus
sion, J.. f. Holden offered resolution
demanding very material increase in the
price OF buttons in the future Mr. Hol-
den averred that the cost of maintaining
pupil in one of the grades was about
$50 per year and that it cost approximate
~ 800 per year to maintain pupils in the
high school He said that out-of-town
pupils We're paying S24 for what our
home pupils had to pay three and four
times as much.
p. Q. s. Osgood of the prudential COM
mittee while inclined to favor an increase
In the amount of tuition was of the
Mr.. Holden might work an injustice upon
pupils in some of the outlying towns
Mr. Osgood said that about 30 high school
and about 40 grade pupils enter our
schools each year. He explained that
the addition to the grades by reason of
the town pupils did not add to the
work of the teachers nor inconvenience
or crowd any of the pupils of tie district
as the number of incoming pu-
pills from surrounding towns was so small
that only three or four went to any one J
room in the grades Mr. Osgood said that !
the district receives approximately 1920 {
4 year in buttons. In referring to the adj
school Mr. OsgOod said that the per cap {
tia cost of educating a tuition scholar :
wa, from $50 to $40 per school year which |
showed that the present tuition to the |
high school is not enough, Mr. Osgood q
that the citizens of the district q
night well afford to display little alta1 !
SIN toward the boys and girls Of the 9
is plant and that no additional teacher I
will be required in the grades on account
II the admission OF tuition pupils. In =
'esponse to interrogations Mr.. Osgood y
tated that aside from the amount applied
N the funded debt the cost of instruction
Der capita in our schools was S2943. Mr..
Holden stated that the increased cost Of
in the high school was doubt
less because of the creation of a CONNER /
eial department. He thought that at
least one-half of the pupils in that de c
Dartment were tuition scholars. Mr.. Os- t
good stated that the cost of operating {
The commercial department was about |
$4,000 the past year. {
Clarke c. Fits spoke upon the resolu- 4
ion offered by Mr. Holden and suggested !,
IN amended form. Mr.. Fits thought that G
he district ought to be generous but not /
over generous in view of the fact that q
The state has imposed some rather heavy
5hat the burden is much heavier upon the /
arger towns than upon the small /
owns He did not believe that Brattle-
Doro should be obligated to take tuition T
pupils at So per term simply because the t
tate permits small towns to send its o
nigh school pupils to larger towns and +"
oay for their instruction the maximum d
uition of So.
Judge j. L. Martin said he was not pre- t
Jared to support the resolution offered by
Mr. Holden in just the form it was of "
cred, though he said that we ought to h
ret twice as much as S24 for the annual Il
uition of high school pupil from outside =
&c ba St,.;o To ol,i 70 +bn |
Ter term tuition and said that the price
made by the state ought not to be !
he districts guide. Kittredge Haskins j,
bought that the district was not pre- Il
Jared to adopt a specific scale of buttons i,
t this time and suggested that he would
esolution. Mr. Holden withdrew his
riginal resolution and offered a substitute
n the form stated by Mr. Fits which /
vas as follows:
Resolved, that the prudential com y
mittee are authorized to admit tuition o
pupils only to such a number as can h
reasonably be accommodated in our !
schools without increase in teaching \
force: and at such tuition as the com a
mttee shall deem reasonable
The resolution was adopted. Upon mo- h
ion of Mr.. FIT, the fifth article of the q
variant relative to the employment of a !
upervisor of the grades was disposed of al
ial committee TO Use its discretion in the n
latter. q
Upon motion of H. p Welman a tax sl
f 6S cents was voted upon the grand list 81
{ the district a. recommended by the 81
committee. Such a tax will
aise Approximately $50 900 to which will m
e added public school money. the amount I
eceived from tuition, and other small i
ems which will bring the total amount OF
variable for school purposes up to about
20. 900 m
The seventh article of the warrant rela-
i've to the acquisition of the Wilder prop m
rty developed the fact that real estate u
alues have experienced a tendency up
ard during the past few weeks. which d
believed to be unwarranted during hot ca
Gather. Judge j. L. Martin thought it ca
light be wise to study the needs of the cv
istrict little more fully as relating to m
ne need of real estate for school purposes CIV
nd to provide that such action be taken
v the prudential committee. introduced al
ne following resolution which was adopt OF
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Resolved. that additional real es- m
tate is necessary for school purposes; OF
that the prudential committee are a.
hereby requested and instructed to th
ascertain what real estate can he "a
secured and at what price; and if
they can secure the same on terms
that may meet their approval. they
are hereby requested to call a special
school meeting to act upon their w
reports.
Nudge Martin said that it would be NJ
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