Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-01-08
The Village Buys a Stone
Crusher

TOT harmony, SInootnneSs aiio
celebrity in the dispatch of business
the village meeting Monday evening
nearly broke all records.
The voters loosened up when il
came to appropriations. and there
was no opposition to anything. The
village fathers might have had a
six-cylinder automobile for the ask
ing.
| Col. F. S. Billings presided, this
being his fourth successive election
to the chair.
The old board of officers was re-
elected as, follows, E. B. Howes
declining to serve as collector:
=, Clerk, William S. Eaton.
Trustees, John S. Eaton, G. j,
Paul, o. A. Whitcomb, @. E. Wood
ruff, A. H. Townsend.
Treasurer-Harold S. Dana.
Auditors,-C. F. Chapman, FL. c.
Gushing.
Collector,-J. S. Brownell.
Fire-wardens, George w. Lib
erty, William E. View, e. +. Ward
we'll, E. G.. Freeman, John P. Gil
man, Frank w. Bradley, Geo. R.
Wins)ow and Charles May.
@. L. Woodruff and A H. Town
send, elected trustees one year at the
last meeting, were reelected for
three years and two years respec-
lively.
The official reports were adopted
without discussion.
The matter of water and lights
was left to the discretion of the
trustees.
The trustees were authorized on
motion of G. B. Chase, to install a
hydrant on Prospect, { Church hill. }
The trustees were authorized at
their discretion to install a general
fire alarm street box, connected with
the New England telephone ex-
change, at cost not to exceed 500
A tax of 50 cents was voted.
The meeting recommended the
construction of concrete sidewalk
from the foot of Elm Terrace { South
street } to F j. Perkins house at
the southerly limit of the village.
The most important action of the
meeting was the votes authorizing the
purchase of stone crusher, engine,
elevator, screen and bin with auto
matte chute, at cost not exceeding
$25OO.
j. S. Eaton presented plenty of
facts and figures in introducing the
measure, referring to the lack of
good material for road, making
in this vicinity, the scarcity
and cost of good river gravel, and
the demonstrated fact that bank
gravel wouldn't stand the test of
heavy traffic here. The trustees
last season, as an experiment, built a
short section of road on Central
street, along Tribou park, of crushed
trap rock brought from Massachu-
sets. This section was 1877 feet
long, 20 feet wide, and was thorough
" rolled with liberal use of water
and was made substantial, smooth
and firm. The cost was 67a cents
per square yard, or $5940 per mile
of street 20 feet wide.
On the opposite side of Tribou
park piece of road was repaired
with river gravel at 25 cents load,
which with the expense of hauling,
brought the cost to nearly that of
imported stone. Mr.. Eaton gave
figures from the report Of the Massa-
chusetts state road commissioner
showing cost per mile Of stone roads
in 81 Bay State towns. Samples of
the rock which it is proposed to use
here we're sent to the Massachuse it's
state road commissioner and his
engineers, who reported it to be
bastard granite with mixture OF
hornblend, and pronounced it good
material IND quite near in quality
to the vy1stknown trap rock of their
state. b,oJ report of the Vermont
State GrsSlogist was in substance