The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-02
KENT'S FATE
UNDER DEBATE
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complicated questions have been taken
iup.
The town line fight between Dandy
and Mount Tabor, that promised early
in the session to occupy considerable
time, seems to have dropped out OF sight,
and teh row over the removal OF the
county seat of Essex county from Guild
hall to Island Pond is taking its place.
In this fight the town of Brighton offers
to build new courthouse without eX-
pense to the county if the change is
made. Mr.. Amey OF Brighton took the
committee on town lines to Island Pond
yesterday at his own expense to look
over the ground 1t was intended to
keep the going of the committee a secret,
but in some way Mr.. Pendrigh OF Guild
hall got wind of what was going on and
was on hand yesterday morning to take
the trip with the committee, This fight
has been carried on now for Ia years,
and legislature after legislature has re-
fused to make the change, The county
is pretty evenly divided on the matter,
.
In the discussion of the bill permitting
railroads to exchange mileage books for
advertising in the House yesterday Mr..
Hunt of New Haven had fun with the
newspaper men and in a really witty
speech handed the men OF the press
some good ones that they keenly appre-
ciated The bill, which was amended 50
as to have the mileage books so used
treated as cash by the railroads in re-
turns made to the public service COM
mission, was ordered to a third reading.
.
Mr.. Stafford, chairman, and other MEM
bers of the House committee on high
ways and bridges did a stroke Of good
work for better roads, when they secured
the passage of the bills placing the care
of the approaches to bridges in the
hands of the road commissioners. This
matter has been left to the selectmen
and in great many instances so neglect
ed that the worst bits of road in a
town have been at the approach to the
bridges. This has resulted in an unnec
essary wear and tear on the bridges
themselves, besides being in many cases
danger to vehicles.
A ten-minute session was held by the
Senate yesterday afternoon, during
which five bills of minor Importance were
ordered TO a third reading.
.
The bill allowing the use Of spear
and jack light in fishing in Lake Cham
plain from April to May Is was killed
in the House yesterday afternoon.
Brattleboro sent up team of p men
to push through the bill granting the
Southern Vermont railroad, controlled by
tho Boston & Maine, to build from Brat
tlehoro to South Vernon and to the Gem
tsal Vermont to build from Brattlehoro
to Windsor. w. B. G. stickney, attor-
ney for the Boston & Maine, said the
Southern Vermont line would surely be
built as soon as the legislature gave
the right, and H. H. Powers, attorney
for the Central Vermont, asked for post
ponement Of action, not necessarily be-
cause his road opposed the Boston &
Names plan but because his company
wished to look into the matter further
and see that its interests were safe
guarded. Speaking for the people Of
his town, G. G. Fits said that Brattle-
boro is practically unanimous for both
the proposed extensions as the town is
in need of better shipping facilities and
will need them more later on.