The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-17
Boston Firm Of Bond and
Goodwin Offer $37,5OO
AT 3.ll PER CENT; TAKEN
There Were Six Bidders for the city's
Notes, the Successful One Making
the Lowest Bid Ever Offered
the City.

The lowest loan rate ever offered to
the city of Barre-S.ll per cent,-was
accepted by the city council last night,
and the city treasurer was instructed TO
complete the deal with the house Of
Bond & Goodwin Of Boston, which made
the offer. This rate covers loan OF
s37 800 in anticipation of taxes and is
to be furnished at such times and in
such amounts at the city requires. The
note Is payable on August 10, next. The
most advantageous rate heretofore made
70 the city was 3.S8 per cent, by,roVing,
Tolman & Tupper Of Boston.
Six bids for the city's business we're
received from fourteen notifications, the
sly being as follows:
National Bank of Barre ......... A72
Barre Sav. Bank and Trust company All
Bond a Goodwin, Boston .. 3.1l
Lamoille County bank lone loan).. AIS
(several loansl ............... 900
Ioring, Tolman & Tupper, Boston. 400
Blake Bros. & Co., Boston, ........ 347
Alderman Hoyt moved that the offer
Of Bond d Goodwin be accepted, and the
motion was carried.
Considerable routine business was also
transacted by the council in the hour and
a half session. Warrants for weekly pay
ments were ordered paid as followss
street department, sl360l; water Dc,
partment, S43.23; fire department $73s6,
police department, S62.3l; also school
department. on seven cent tax, $4,000,
Alex Dowers, labor on surface sewers,
Sl00; Alderman Hoyt, services, $3.50
Three resolutions which had been pre-.
viously ordered to second reading were
adopted, one providing for department.
appropriations for the year (including
$4,000 for payment of bond issue), an.
other for purchase Of sewer tile and a
third for purchasing street sprinkler.
Wants Druggist License.
Ernest A. Drown, druggist, applied
for a fifth class liquor license, his appli-
cation being accompanied by a bond, by
a petition of over hundred tax payers,
and by another petition signed by six
teen physicians. The signers of the bond
to the amount Of 81 900 were w. G. Rev
nolds, G. B. Milne and William Holden.
The petitions were accepted, and the
city clerk was authorized to take the
steps necessary to call a hearing for
expression Of opinion by citizens Mr.
Drown held license last year, as did
G. H. Kendrick. The formers hearing
will be held on April 5.
Several bonds of city officials were re-
ceiyed and accepted, being as follows:
George X. Garlic, patrolman, $500, signed
by John E. Smith and E. w. Garlic; o, ID.
Shurtleff, overseer Of the poor, $1,000,
signed by IT. O. Worthen and j. B. San
g1inetti; John Robins, mayor, $1,000,
signed by the American Fidelity com
pany Of Montpelier; Charles T. South
gate, second constable, $4,000, signed BY
the American Fidelity company.
Miscellaneous Business.
Other acts of the council were, to ac-
cept the amended monthly report OF
Water Supt. Russell, to accept report Of
the committee refusing permit to q.
Tomasi to move wooden building at 34f
No. Main street back forty feet or more
because the building accompanied by
to Mr.. Tomad that he had
the right Of appeall, to grant permit
to Thomas J. Brown to move a building
on No. Main street, to grant pool room
License to John III. Griffin at 4S7 No. Main
street, to refer request to license dog
OF William Stuart to the license com.
mittee to Investigate, protest having been
made by a woman who declared she had
been bitten by the beast, to instruct the
street COMMITTEES to notify the state high
way commissioner that Barre is eligible
for share of the state road money,
having that evening appropriated $4,000
for streets.
Finally, the new fire committee was
authorized to take steps to see that the
Blanchard building is properly supplied
with fire escapes.