The Press., 1912-04-10
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l Up to the point where Ed Hynes threw his hat in the ring we were having one of the most ladylike town meetings we ever pulled off. Ru-
 dolph Becker was far away in that
 old Brooklyn, MT Edson, the Silver
 Street songbird, had not arrived and
 Luke Closson had only made one stab.
 Ed. started in by taking hack at
 electric lights, but he did not shine
 with his full effulgence until some
 body said "bridge'' ; At this point leverbyody let go of the ropes and the
 old dirigible went up for fair. Ed
 has a brother Tim, and the latter
 halls from Wales. Over in Wales the
 sun shines brighter, the birds sing
 more sweetly, the butterflies are more
 buttery and all Nature is more peace full and lovely than any other place on earth. Amid these surroundings
 Tim ran meat market until every
 thing shut down, including the Will
 Hams Bros. soap factory, the Dell and the Hogan. With the beef trust on
 one side and the Wales boys mostly Iseeing him later on the other end of it, the meat business was what Bella Is. Baker would call "a leetle quiet. ; Tim went into contracting on the Iside, built few bridges and was one
 of the bidders on the local bridge.
 Michael F. Moore also had bid in on the local structure, and when the smoke cleared away the granite com lpany had high, low, Jack and 46 for lgame. Ed. says that they did every
 thing to Tim. except give him show,
 and blames Selectmen Herlihy and Sutcliffe. In his remarks Monday,
 Mr. Hynes was very severe on these two members and insisted on having them brought in to hear what he had to say He even went so far as to re- fleet on their honesty, and called them grafters. Later in the day MT. Herlihy explained the position of the selectmen on the matter. MT. Herli- hy said that the selectmen had adver- tised to reject any or all bids. The town meeting had made it plain that granite would be preferred for con- struction at the time the bridge was being discussed. John expressed the opinion that granite made by God was preferable to cement mixed by man from Wales He said granite was a home product, and granite bridge meant employment for home people. He concluded by stating that he had no excuses to make for the action of Ia majority of the board on the bridge in question, and should make no further explanations. MT. Hynes called on Selectman Stebbins to tell what he knew about the bridge, but the latter declined to make a state ment.
 The article relative to a fire truck brought lively discussion. Chief Needham presented the case for the fremen. Dr. G. B. Fuller spoke in favor of it, saying the firemen had done excellent work in the past and deserved recognition. Ralph Tucker
 
 tive was handled by E. D. Cushman, o. o. Keep, Hubert Waffle, H. A. Edson, B. P. Hynes and others. It was necessary to take standing vote, and it was found that the noes had 79 and the ayes "A. MT. Needham then presented a new proposition, to ap- pprupriate $2OOO and take the balance from the license money. This was also lost.
 It was thought that article five in the town warrant, relative to the dis position of the No. schoolhouse and lot, as well as the land lying westerly of High street, deeded to the town in 1920, would call out discussion, but committee elected at the last annual meeting, consisting of o. M. Gage, R. H. Cushman and A. E. Shaw, had done their work remarkably we'll be- fore the opening of the meeting and had made arrangements with the people interested, which were very satisfactory to the voters, and ac- cepted The arrangements made were that the people holding the |reversionary interest in the No. |schoolhouse lot would relinquish their claims on the same for 8 quit claim deed by the town of the land lying on the westerly side of High street abutting their property. The com mittee's proposition also included an offer from the trustees of the Monson academy of 5000 for the No. school house lot, and the same committee was appointed and empowered to dis pose of the lot and the building there on and do anything else in compliance with the votes taken Monday and heretofore.
 Following are the appropriations made for the year: $500 for the discount on taxes; $500 to suppress the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors; $500 for the Monson free library; $1OO for Memorial day exercises $500 for lighting the streets; for the schools and their maintenance, $17, ITO, divided as follows: Gen. eral expenses, including salaries of school committees and superintendent, $97O; expense of instruction, includ- ing teachers salaries, text books, supplies, etc., $s9OO; operating ex- penses, including janitors' salaries, fuel, etc., $22OO; light, supplies and incidentals, $2OO; repairs, $12OO; school physicians, $50; transporta- tion, $500; tuition, $4OoO, and other incidentals, $50, making a gross total of $l7,77O; outside poor, $500; mis- cellaneous expenses, $2OOO; high ways and bridges, $2OOO; permanent roads, 5000; a gravel sidewalk on Thompson street, $4OO; similar [ xuolk on North Main stroat @000. ax-