The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-03
By Baue'S Two Secretaries of
Board Of Health.
ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN PAID
DR.. M. D. Lamb, City's Appointee, Or
dered Paid and DR.. Joe w. Jackson,
States Appointee, Presents His
Bill for September.

The question of the city's two health
! officers came up quite forcibly last even.
1 ing before the city council when DIR. j.
w jackson, the health officer appoint
ed by the state board of health, pre-
sented bill for $45 which he desig-
mated as his fees and money paid out
/ from August Is to October /. just be-
fore this bill was read warrant on
the city treasurer for $40 was read and
ordered paid to DR. NJ. D. Lamb, the
health officer appointed BY the city com-
Gil
Alderman Ward said he could not
sec the need Of paying two health Off
GERS and thought that the matter ought
to be settled definitely some way Al
derman Thurston said that according to
\ the advice the city attorney had given
4 the council heretofore this new bill
ought not to be approved Alderman
4 Ward then moved that the bill be re-
ferred to the health committee and tile
city attorney to investigate and report,
and the motion was carried. Alderman
Ward said that there must be some
way out of the difficulty and euggest-
ed that the committee try to solve it.
James Grogan appeared before the
/ council and stated that he had put in
a foundation for a dwelling on Brook
street and after ii was n it was found
that one side Of the wall was four inches
low. He said that he had taken steps
to have the difficulty remedied but the
building inspector, in his report, recon-
mendel that the building permit be not
granted until the wall was fixed. Mr..
Z Grogan said he could not get il done
for a day or two and wanted the car
penters to be at work in the meantime.
The permit was granted under the con-
ditions that Mr.. Grogan fix the wall
The street committee and the city
attorney reported on the request of Adie
& Milne TO extend an addition TO their
shed over the street line on Howland
street, that the request be not granted,
the city attorney holding that the city
\ had no right to grant such a permit
ION motion 4 Alderman Rossi the re-
port was accepted
Building permits were granted TO the
/ W. A. Boyee estate to rebuild a piazza
at 10 North Main street; w. c. Good
win to huiid a henhouse at IS Prospect
+ street; Joseph Valz to erect wagon
shed at 10 Oswald street; G. Maulti to
repair building on Blackwell street
and to d. NJ. Miles Coal company to
raise up their Office on Blackwell Street
providing they move the building hack
out Of the street A permit was also
\ granted to NJ. y. Good to remodel d
I barn on Brook street into dwelling.
4 A communication was read from Mrs.
lip. d. Molla. requesting that the CITY
set the curbing which she had cut three
( years ago for a sidewalk on her prop
I erty on Berlin street Alderman Rossi
stated that the reason that the curb
/ ing had not been set during the last
7 three wears was because the stones had
not been trimmed until about three
weeks ago. Referred to the street COM
mittee.
\ An invitation was read from the Coz
lumbus day parade committee for the
\ city council TO take part in the parade,
and on motion of Alderman Wiley the
/ invitation was accepted. On motion of
Alderman Brown restaurant license
was granted to Dumphy and Douglass
to operate a lunch room in the G. Tom
asi block.
lC. w. Writers. attorney for the Cen
4 trail Vermont, stating that the railroad
insists that the property owned by them
I in this city and assessed as taxable by
4 the city is not taxable. even though
the state commissioner of taxes holds
that it is taxable: and that the road
! is trying to make arrangements to have
a test case brought into court and if
the court decides that it is taxable the
tax will be paid The city clerk stated
that the road has like eases in several
other places in the state and the only
trouble is that they make the same
statement every year that they are try
/ ing TO have the matter settled by tho
court but it has never got into court
yet. The property in question in this
city is the old Bolster store house which
the road purchased some years ago and
has been assessed every year by the
city, hut the taxes have not been paid.
On motion of Alderman Thurston the
| city clerk was instructed to take the
matter mp with the state commissioner
of taxes and start proceedings for
definite settlement Of the case.
Deeds to the city from Ida J. Mar
tnson and G.. W. Perrin of the strip of
land occupied by Perrin street were
read and approved These deeds are
made so that the street can be ae-
cepted by the city. Deeds to the city
from Bernaldo Ferrari and Michael Dom
nelly of short strip of land on Far
we'll street in order that the street may
be Strengthened were read and referred
back TO the city attorney for clerical
corrections.
A resolution was read and passed to
second reading appropriating the sum
Of S3,2ll74 to the special school tax
account for the evening drawing school
authorized by the city by six cent
levy on the grand list Of 1911 The
council then went into executive ses-
sion.