St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-02-16
For Town Officials.
Two Tickets Named at Saturdays
CaucuSeS.-Will be Lively Fight
over Lister and Road COmmiS-
Si0ner Town Meeting Day.

Two caucuses to nominate town
officials to be voted for at the town
meeting on the first Tuesday in March
were held in the village Saturday after
noon. The caucus called by the republi-
can town committee was held in the
Town Hall and the citizens caucus was
held at The Colonial. The number of
votes cast in the balloting showed that
222 voters attended the republican and
1O4 the citizens caucus While the two
tickets are much alike there is enough
difference to insure very lively fight on
town meeting day over at least two
Offices.
For lister the republicans renominated
Oelos M. Bacon and the citizens named
George Caldbeck without opposition. In
the republican caucus the names of
Bacon and Caldbeck were each present
ed and Bacon received 16O votes while
Caldbeck received SO.
For road commissioner the names of
Horace Jackson and Charles Owen were
presented in both caucuses. In the
citizens caucus Mr.. Jackson received 35
votes and Mr.. Owen 90. In the republi-
can caucus Jackson received 127 votes
and Owen "a. Taking the combined
vote of the two caucuses Mr. Jackson
got 162 votes and Mr. Owen 1913. So
the fight evidently is not ended.
In the republican caucus there was a
ballot for selectman in which L. B.
Hartshorn received 80 votes and William
We1ch 100. In all the other places the
nominations were unanimous.
w. II. Fl. Robie, who for six years has
been overseer of the poor was renominat-
ed by each caucus without a dissenting
vote. In presenting his name to the
citizen's caucus F. 6. Bundy made some
statements that will be of general inter-
est. He said there had been some
criticism on account of the increase in
expenses of the poor department during
the past year but he did not hold Mr..
Robie responsible for this. First there is
always an increase in poor expenses for
a year or two after depression such as
we had in 1907 and 1908. There has
been large increase in the cost of pro-
visions and if any man would compare
his family expense with those of a few
years ago he would see large difference.
Multiply this individual difference by
100 as you must in the care OF the poor
and it will make still larger increase in
expenses. Another large increase is in
the sick expenses. In 1901 the town
paid 5000 for the care of the sick. Last
year it paid $2.437.4S. This is partly
explained by the fact that the doctors
have increased the price of their visits
from 81 to $3.50 each.
The two tickets as completed are:
REPUBLICAN
Moderator, d. E. Porter.
Clerk, treasurer and trustee of public
money, C. 6. Braley.
Se1ectman, William Welch.
Overseer of the poor, w. H. H. Robie.
First constable and collector, Wilbur
H. Worthen.
Lister, D. M. Bacon.
Auditors, H. H. Carr, J. F. Puffer, P
E. May
Grand jurors, J. R. Searles and L. P.
Slack.
School director, A. J. Higgins.
Town agent. L. P. Slack.
Road commissioner, Horace Jackson.
CITIZENS
Moderator, Robert w. Simonds
Clerk, treasurer and trustee of public
money, c. 6. Braley.
Selectman, William Welch.
Overseer of the poor, w. H. H. Robie.
First constable and collector, Wilbur
H. Worthen.
Lister, George Ca1dbeck.
Auditors, ]. F. Pufer, Preston E. May.
Frank Philburt
Grand jurors, David Frechette, Sr., c.
Il. Clark.
School director, A. J. Higgins.
Road commissioner, Charles Owen.
Town agent. Rolf Searles.
In the republican caucus Charles w.
Steele was chairman, and r. W. Simonds
secretary, and in the citizens, E. II. Hal
let, chairman, and D. P. Healey, secre-
tary The citizens caucus elected E. H.
Hallett chairman of the town committee
with power to select six associates.
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