The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-29
WILL BUY LAND
FOR SCHOOL HOUSE
Prudential Committee Authorized
to Make Purchase.
OAK GROVE SITE is FAVORED
Special Committee Named to Consider
Building Plans and Report Later
Playground Question Also Turned
Over to Committee for Investigation

IL took the voters of the incorporated
school district less than 80 minutes Tues
day evening to authorize the purchase OF
a site for school house in the Oak Grove
section and to elect a committee to present
plans for such a building. The matter OF
securing playground was left to the lnves-
tigation OF committee which was ap,
pointed and which will report at special
meeting of the district. This committee
is also directed to make investigations OF
the further needs OF the district as regarus
school facilities.
Moderator Henry d. Holton called the
meeting to order in the high school room
at s O'Clock p. m, and the warrant was
read by Clerk w. b. Smith. Rev. +: q. ).
, Osgood, a member of the prudential com
mittee. explained briefly the need OF addl,
tional school accommodations and referred
to the crowded condition of the Washing
ton street and Canal street schools With
accommodations already provided for about
40 families in the southern part OF the vii
lage and the outlook for extensive develop
ment of the Belmont avenue as well as the
Oak Grove section another year, Mr.. Os-
good showed the need of immediate atten,
ton being given the matter OF increased
school accommodations and SAID that the
prudential committee with the board OF
trade committee, consisting OF Il. l.. Hill
dreth, i. B. Smith and Martin Austin, had
made careful survey of the southern
part of the town with a view to the loca-
tion of a school house there and had taken
options upon five lots lying between More
land avenue and Parkside avenue. The
property is a short distance south of Clark
avenue, which is the first avenue south of
Oak Grove avenue He said that the prop
erty measured 2S4 feet on one side, % on
the other and that one end was ~ feet
across while the other was 252 feet. The
property is sufficiently large to permit the
erection of a schoolhouse and leave room
enough for a playground for the pupils
of that section In closing his remarks Mr..
Osgood offered the following resolution;
Resolved, that committee, to be
hereafter elected, are hereby auth
orzed and directed to purchase lots
numbered "a, 80, SO, 81 and So, lying
between Morefand avenue and Parksde
avenue on Oak Grove extension, at a
price not to exceed $4,000, and procure
conveyance thereof to the incorporat
ed school district No 2 of Bratteboro
And be it further resolved that the
prudential committee of said moor
porated school district be hereby au
thorized and directed to procure tenn
porary loan on the order of said district
to obtain the funds with which to
make the payment of said purchase.
Scion A. Richmond said that he pre-
sumed the prudential committee had an es..
innate of the cost of the proposed school
house and if so he would like to know what
the total cost of lot and building would
probably amount to. Judge j. J.. Martin
80 @Io al onmn,ittaa said that the
committee was not in position to make any
estimate of the cost of such building. He
said if the voters should vote to buy the
land a committee could be chosen to pro-
cure plans and submit them at special
meeting of the district to be held later
This explanation being satisfactory to Mr.
Richmond, he seconded the motion for the
adoption of Mr.. Osgoods resolution and
it was so voted.
E. i. Knowlton moved that the commit
tee called for in the resolution be appointed
and Judge Martin said the statutes make
it obligatory upon the voters of the dis
trict to choose a committee whenever it is
necessary to take title to real estate. He
moved to amend the motion of Mr.. Knowl-
ton and leave the appointment to the mod
Holton named the prudential committee,
Rev. E. @. S. Osgood, j. L. Martin and
Dr. A. l. Miller.
Clarke c. Fits then offered the following
resolution
Resolved, that E. Q. S. Osgood, J.
L. Martin, A. I. Miller, E. L. Hildreth,
L. B. Smith and Martin Austin be and
are hereby elected a special committee
to make plans for a school house to be
erected on the land provided for in the
preceding resolution, just adopted by