St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-02-26
WARNING
FOR
Annual Town Meeting
TUESDAY, MARCH 4th, 1918.

The citizens of St. Johnsbury who are legal
voters in Town Meeting. are hereby notified
and warned to meet at the Town H all, in
Tuesday the +th day of March, 1913, at
nine O'Clock in the forenoon, to transact the
ARTICLE /. To elect all Town Officers
required by law.
ARTICLE 2 To see what action the
Town will take with reference to the United
States deposit money, now held by the
Town.
to pay a certain sum of money from the
treasury not otherwise appropriated to de-
fray in part or in whole the expenses OF an
appropriate observance of Decoration Day,
so called, as authorized by law, and if any
sum, how much.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote
to appropriate money for the maintenance
of its public schools and to defray all expen-
ses incurred by the School Directors in con-
nection Herewith. and if so, how much.
ARTICLE 5. To see how much money
way purposes under Act No. 1925 of the Acts
of 1910.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote
to raise money in excess of the amount re-
quired by law to be. raised for highways to
| take advantage of the provisions of the So
called Estate Aid Law" and if SO, how
much.
ARTICLE z. To see if the Town will vote
to raise money to defray the expenses and
| liabilities of said Town, and if so, how
ARTICLE &. To see if the Town will
vote to authorize and instruct its Selectmen
and Treasurer to borrow money, if neees-
Il
sary, for its current expenses prior to the
collection of it's taxes.
| ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will
authorize the School Directors to purchase a
/ lot of land, in the vicinity of the Union
Schools on Summer street, located just east
erly of the girls common there situate, upon
which to erect a school building, and to
| il the Town will auth orize the School Direc-
tors to erect and equip school building on
the land so purchased, land and building not
to exceed forty three thousand dollars and
| to see if the Town will appropriate a sum of
" no n fOrfv fl1TRe hon and
dollars to be used to purchase suchland and
erect said school house. and to determine
what, if any, amount of bonds, not exceed
ing in the aggregate the sum of forty-three
| thousand dollars, shall be issued by the
own to raise money to purchase said land
and build said school house; and if so. at
what time and place the bonds shall be
made payable, and the rate of interest which
the same shall bear. all agreeably to the
provisions of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Verm ont last in session,
entitled IAN Act to enable the Town of ST.
Johnsbury to issue it's bonds for the purpose
build a new school house thereon in said
Town" and known as House Bill No. 594.
! ARTICLE 10. To see what action the
Town will take upon the following ques-
tions:
Shall license be granted for the sale of in
toxicating liquor?
Shall licenses of the fifth class be granted
ARTICLE IL To see if the freemen will
vote to accept or reject the proposed articles
of amendment to the Constitution of Yer
| m ont.
ARTICLE IL. To see if The Town will
vote to appropriate a of money TO help
pay the expenses of a district nurse, and il
| so, how much.
! ARTICLE 13, To see if the Town will
vote to instruct the Selectmen to install cleo
trio lights from point near the house OF
| Elisha May in Paddock Village where the
present system ends to the junction of the
roads leading to St. Johnsbury Center and
to the farm of Frank N. Carr, provided the
people interested therein will furnish the
poles.
ARTICLE II. To see whether or not the
| Se1ectmen shall be empowered or authorized
to appoint one or two Road Commissioners.
and if so. which number. (Act No. 23S OF
the Acts of 1912 requires the insertion of
this article in the warning of all annual
| Town Meetings.)
ARTICLE Is. To see if the Town will
authorize the Selectmen to remodel an I'M
use as Hospital for the treatment of conta-
gious diseases, and if so, what sum the Town
will appropriate for this purpose.
! ARTICLE 16. To transact any other
business that may legally come before said
Meeting.
| Dated at st. Johnsbury, Vermont, this
18th day of February, A. d. 1913.
VIM. F. WEIGH,
CHARLES WEEKS.
CONRAD F. BECK,
Selectmen for the Town of st, Johnsbury.
St, Johnsbury. VT. Town Clerks Office,
Feb Is, 1919. Received for record at s
O'Clock. p. M. and recorded in Records of
Town Meetings.
Attest: CHAs. G. BRALEY, Town Clerk,