The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-12
MONUMENT PROJECT
GETS GOOD START
Largely Attended Meeting Of the Com
mittees Was Held Last Night, and
Committee Was Chosen to Plan
for Raising Funds.

The first general meeting of the sol
diers' monument committees, elected by
different organizations ia the city pur-
suant to communications sent out By
Mayor James Mntch, requesting that
such committees be elected, was held IN
the opera house last evening. with be.
tween 30 and go delegates present. The
meeting was called to order by the may
or, who was then elected chairman and
John III Bishop was elected secretary.
The mayor first stated that when he
took the matter up he sent out 50 com
munications to different organizations,
and III most every case be received sat
isfaetory reply Most Of the bodies had
also voted TO contribute certain sums to
the monument fund
Those who have already voted con
tributions. he said. were: Retail clerks
union, 800; tool sharpeners union, 500;
CrandalI post q. A. r.. 5000; Ladies of
the g. a. r., 500, and the Civic Fed
GRAFTON, $50, making total Of $500 now
pledged. Later in the meeting Dir. ]. w.
Jackson stated that the Spanish Amer
lean war veterans would pledge s25 now
and possibly later they would be able
to double that amount.
The meeting then got down to a dis.
cussion of how to get to work on the
matter Of raising the funds. j j, Sad
lier made motion that the meeting APP
prove Of the project as promulgated by
the mayor and endeavor to carry il
through The motion was unanimously
carried After some discussion, Mr.. Sad
lier suggested that II might be best 10
place the question oil how the funds
should be raised and other matters eon-
ineeted with the work into the hands Of
committee, which shall have the power
to appoint the real working committees
10 carry the work through
G. S. Andrews then made motion
that the chair appoint committee Of
five, to be known as the committee on
committees. and the motion was carried.
For this committee, the chair appointed
.C s. Andrews, Dir. j W. Jackson, Homer
Fits, WI w Russell and Donald Mo
Leod III order that the committee
should get right to work ard keep the
project under headway, Mr.. sadlier made
the motion, which was carried, that this
committee make report ut another
9ehefAi HteetlNA VI the G9Htih4tbHfNs Hpb
laterthan two weeks,
DR. jackson stated that il might be
of interest to some to know something
Of the past history Of the soldiers mon
ument movement in Barre, He said
that he found noted I'll diary, which
had been the property Of his father. the
late Dr. j Henry Jackson, that on May
30, 1901, the latter had spoken on the
subject Of d soldiers monumsnt In Barre
before the G. A. r. veterans and that
on June Is OF that year a public meet
ing was held IN the opera house to con-
slider the project Of erecting a monu
memt and thar at this time 1925 had
been pledged in subscriptions. The
speaker said that be did not know why
the matter was dropped and asked II
anyone iii the audience knew anything
further about ii
William Wishart stated that he was
present at that meeting and had III his
possession now 10 on 100 subscription
books. which were procured for taking
subscriptions, but for some reason which
he could not remember now the books
were never started The mayor sug
gested that this be looked into by the
committee and possibly some OF the
pledges that were made then could be
redeemed now If the names could be
secured