Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-29
VOTED TO BUY LOTS
SchooIhouse Site Selected on
Oak Grove Extension
District Appropriated $1,000 In Special
Meetlng-committees on New Building,
Playground and Gymnasium.

District Appropriated $4,000 In Special
Meetlng-committees on New Building,
Playground and Gymnasium.
Substantial progress was made in the
special school meeting in district No. 2
Tuesday evening toward the solution or
questions of Importance that confront
the voters-the problem of more school
accommodations and the problem of
Fairgrounds wherein the children may
have opportunity for healthful recreation
and the development of their bodies.
With one exception the steps taken were
essentially preliminary, involving no
than a merely nominal expenditure of
money, but they were steps necessary to
the accomplishment of the desired ends.
The exception referred to was a vote to
buy a tract of Ian on Oak Grove Exten-
sion, south of Canal street, at a price
not to exceed $4,000, upon which to con-
struct a schoolhouse. The other bust
ness consisted in the election of commit
tees, one to make the purchase, one to
make plans for a school building to be
erected on the lane in question and one
to consider, in connection with a COM
mittee from the Boys club, further
school accommodations and the providing
of a gymnasium and Fairgrounds for the
schools of the district. While the articles
in the warrant did not call for any report
as to what had been done in the way of
securing options on land outside the spe-
cifc parcel on Oak Grove Extension, it
may be stated that options nave been
secured on several pieces of property in
the interest of the district, including the
north watercure building on Elliot street,
although this did not appear in the
meeting. These options are made the
subject of another article in this paper.
When DR.. H. d. Holton, moderator,
called the meeting to order in the high
school room at 8 o'clock from so to rs
voters We're present. Clerk Will b.
Smith read the warrant and when article
/ was called, to see If the village would
direct the purchase of real estate on Oak
Grove Extension, Chairman E. Q. 5. Os-
good of the prudential committee took
the floor and introduced a resolution
with predatory remarks. He called at
tention to the need of additional accom-
modations in the southern part of the
district, which practically is identical
with the village. Last year the school
house on Washington street which has
accommodations for AZ primary grade
children, was crowded and it was neces-
sary to send some of the pupils to the
Canal street and ESteyVille schools, in
neither of which was there much room
to spare. Much building is going on, he
Salu, near the FOrt hummer Mills anu
on the Clark property near the hospital
and in other places within reach of the
proposed building on Oak Grove Extern
sion. New families are coming in and
by another fall another school building
will be a necessity. Owing to the fact
that one member of the committee,
Judge j. l.. Martin, was interested to a
certain extent in some of the land avail
able he took no active part in the selec-
ton of a site and asked the board of
trade to appoint a committee to act in
conjunction with the school board, which
was done, that committee consisting of
h. l.. Hildreth, Principal L. b.. Smith
and Martin Austin, jr.
The two committees, Mr.. Osgood said,
selected a plot comprising five distinct
lots between Moreland avenue and Park
side avenue, south of Clark avenue. 1t is
not rectangular in shape, but the side on
Parkside avenue measures 252 feet, the
side running at right angles measures
284 feet, the distance on Moreland
avenue is 60 feet and the side running
d~iagonally between the two avenues is
$50 feet long. This tract comprises
about so, 900 square feet or around 5000
square feet more than an acre. The
land not needed for building purposes
would be available for a playground. 1t
is comparatively cheap now, the speaker
said, but increasing rapidly in price. and
all the members of the enlarged commit
tee were in favor of buying it, having
secured an option upon it. other lots
we're examined, Mr.. Osgood said, but
they were mostly of higher price. Mr.. Os-
good introduced this resolution:
Resolved. that a committee to be
hereafter elected are hereby authorized
and directed to purchase lots numbered
-. IS, sc, 81 and 3S lying between More
land avenue and Parksid avenue on Oak
Grove Extension at a price not to exceed
$4,000 and procure a conveyance thereof
20 the incorporated school district No. 2
of Brattleboro. and be 1t further resolved
that the prudential committee of said
Incorporated school district he hereby
authorized and directed to procure a
temporary loan on the order of said
district to obtain the funds with which
TO make pa yment for said purchase"
Scion a. Richmond asked If the COM
mittee could give an estimate as to what
the entire expense of the lane and a
building would be, to which Judge Mar
tin replied that the committee had made
no estimate, the theory being that If the
district voted to buy 1t would be adj
Sisable to appoint another committee to
employ an architect and get at some
thing definite in the matter of estimated
expense, the committee to report at an
other meeting. Mr.. Richmond seconded
Mr.. Osgood's motion to adopt the reso-
- luton and the vote was unanimous in
the affirmative.
The rest of article l was to elect a
committee to make the purchase. r. l..
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