Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-01-14

About 1000 Shares Of Stock Repre-
sentou Out o. fe5o

- ahnual nesting Ia the
io~n haii Tuesday, Jan. s. Although
ne DAY was very stormy, a goodly num-
oaf we're IN attendance, while many who
o.tne represented large number Of their
constituents BY proxy. One man /. -
ported to have brought ia nro~is. =.
was an unusually harmonious mertfno
couaidering that some 81 tia sees ss,,.'s
brought before the voters Al this ti,,,e
were highly important.
The meeting was called to order NJ II
O'Clock and Q. B. Fisk Of BrookfIeld was
elected chairman and this proved 4 verv
gratifying choice, as Mr.. Fisk conducted
the meeting throughout IN pleasing ana
satisfactory manner to alt.
President Z. =. Kennedy made his re-
port, which was accepted and adouted
unanimously. Mr. Kennedy said in part
- have taken particular pains to have
at construction and line repair bills In
az this settlement time and 20 far a. 1 am
able 70 md this Is the case aud there are
no outstanding bills against the company
Of any amount.
I'VE have been running the business Of
The company under dificulties All tha
year and At the same time have had 10
keep from making expense We were not
Obliged to, and consequently the service
has been poor. Our aim has been 10 have
the company as nearly out Of debt a. pos-
siole at this time. Great expense il made
for the company every year by people NOT
keeping their lightning arresters clean
ana IN consequence q Iineman has to be
sent over the line to and where Il 4
grounded, which In nine cases out Of ten
puts the line In good order. This matter
Of cleaning the arrester should be looked
after frequently BY the subscribers. An
other trouble with some OF the badly
working lines Is the brush needs trim
ming.
Another thing to be Iamented Is the
idea several OF our switchers have Of clos
ing every holiday in the year. I think
this should BE- discontinued except for
some Of the principal ones.
Another thing OF great importance ia
tolls. feel safe in saying that We do
not Get pay for one-half Of the messages
going over our lines and taking the time
Of our switchers BY non-memhers. This
deprives those who are members and
paying the bills from use Of lines and
sw itehers while such free message is in
progress.
"We have finished q trunk line from
Chelsea to South Royalton. beginning at
Iunbridge where We left Il last fall and
running into south Royalton Central.
Mr.. Daniels has finished the trunk line
from Plainneid TO Montpelier, thus inn
proving the service there. This / believe
IL all the trunk line work done the past
year and this has been constructed entire
~ by selling cash shares in the locality
where the work was done.
1--WE have moved six switches the past
year, which il an unusual number to be
changed in one year. These were-ver-
shire, Brookfield, Williamstown. Plain
field, East Calais and Mortified. We
now own the entire equipment at all the
above new switches, including switch
board at North6eld, desk operating set
at vershire, Brookheld, and East Calais,
which were new this year. The company
now own entire trunk lines from Chelsea
10 South Royalton, Chelsea to Corinth,
Chelsea to Plaindeld, Montpelier to
Plainheid, Montpelier to NorthfieId,
Northfield to Randolph and Northfield to
Williamstown.
"rhere is need OF trunk line from
Chelsea to Williamstown to open mp the
service that way, as the only way to reach
there from Chelsea is through Bradshaw's
switch and then over one OF the two
heavily loaded lines to WilliRmstown.
Very little work has been done in build
ing lines on the half-mile plan the past
year--a few sections in Randolph and
Brookfield and one line in Mortified.
We have two automatic pay stations, one
each In Montpelier and Northield. We
have an interest in one with the Eastern
Vermont Telephone Co. at East Barre and
one with the Molly's Falls Co. at Plain
field. The wires Of our company which
were on the electric poles Of Oscar
StouRhton at South Royalton have been
removed and the two phones furnished
him free Of charge by this company viii
now need to be taken out By giving him
30 days notice.
ftIn regard to the financial standing Of
the company, our estimate OF the necessi-
~ OF a special assessment Of % per share
has turned out TO be a close guess. /
have drawn orders the past year to pay
bills that were not reported at the last
annual meeting to the amount Of
sf114.s9. The item OF s960.7s due
switch tenders is for Jan. /, 1909, settle
ment, ana has never been paid before our
annual meeting. l think the bills
against the company were never 20 COM
pleteiy in before our meeting as this
year"
"-lAANNA
r. II. Williams, was also accepted and
adopted.
The special committee on division Of
the company appointed last year to report
at this annual meeting made their report
through their chairman, Judge q. L.
Stow. This report was accepted and
adopted and the committee discharged.
The matter OF connection with the New
England Telephone Co. was passed over.
A resolution was passed authorizing a
committee OF five members in Orange
county to formulate arrangements for d.
viding the company and present same TO
a special meeting Of the stockholders to
be- called for that purpose Such com
mittee Il ~ follows:--C L. Speare, West
Corinth; L. N. Seaver, Wiliiamstown; NJ.
w. Chamberlain, Washington; J. B.
Adams, Randolph; II. T. Walker Chel-
sea. II was voted to have nine directors
instead Of live a. last year. These were
mostly elected BY stock vote, which re-
quired some time for each election and i
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