The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
Special Meeting Authorized
Expenditure for Two
More Rooms
ARTICLE ABOUT NEW
SITE WAS DISMISSED
Committee Asked to Continue Inves-
tigation and Make Recommendation
at Annual Meeting-smal Attend
ance, but Full Discussion.

day evening for about so voters at
tending the special village school meet
ing to vote to have the two rooms on the
second floor of the Oak Grove school
| building finished off and equipped and
to buy a plot of land owned by Mr..
Akeley to add to the present school
grounds in that section. This addition
al plot, l40 by so feet, will give SYM
metry to the school grounds, it was
explained. 1t required nearly an hour
longer to decide to dismiss the article
regarding the purchase of a site for
another school building and to instruct
the committee, which had made gen
eral report on sites without recommen-
dations, to continue its work and report
with recommendations at the annual
meeting Of the district, which will BE
held in July.
The meeting was called to order by
/ DR.. Henry d. Holton, Clerk Win b.
/ Smith reading the call. Chairman L. Q.
/ S. Osgood of the committee, speaking
on the first article, to see whether the
district would direct the finishing, ready
for use, of the second story of the Oak
! Grove school building, said that when
/ the building was constructed only two
rooms, all that were needed at the time,
were finished off, but it was understood,
he reminded the voters, that when need
ed the two additional rooms should be
finished off and furnished. That time
had now arrived for there was no room
in the Canal street building or in the
high school building for some so or 40
pupils who will be ready for the fourth
grade next fall and who are now in
the third grade at the Oak Grove build
ing. He said that it might be that
only one more room and one teacher
would be needed this fall, but it would
be wise to finish both rooms now. He
said that the approximate expense of
finishing them, installing heat and fur
nishing them with equipment would be
$500. He offered a resolution authoriz-
ing the prudential committee to have
the work done and to advertise for
bids. The resolution was unanimously
adopted without debate.
The second article to see whether the
district would vote to buy an additional
lot to enlarge the present Oak Grove
school grounds, again brought the chair
man of the committee to his feet and
this time to the blackboard, where he
had drawn an outline map of the school
grounds. He explained that when the
Oak Grove property was bought there
We're no plans of that section and it
was supposed the committee had pur-
chased lot symmetrical, bordered on
two sides by Parkside avenue and
Clark avenue, but it later developed
that lot in one corner, 140 oy so feet
owned by Charles 7. Akeley, was not
In An II
: this property for three weeks by George
NJ Clay for the committee at the price
of $500. He understood that since the
option had been obtained the ownel
had been offered $3.50 for the lot. NJ
j. Moran moved the adoption of the
resolution calling for the purchase o
the lot at price not to exceed $500
and it was unanimously voted
Article 3, to provide the necessary
funds, was taken up and it was voted
to borrow the money needed at thu
lowest obtainable rate of interest.
Then came the report of the spe
q cial committee, consisting of the pru
Dental committee and six others. az
pointed at a meeting in December. t
: investigate sites for another sehoc
building. The report was lengthy an
was an amplification of the report pub
lished in The Reformer Tuesday, Ma
p.
The report took up first the Hig
street property which embraces tn
present school grounds there and tn
: territory adjoining, making the westeI
. ly boundary on Cedar street. This tn
special committee did not consider a,
visable for various reasons, princip;
among them the hill location and tn
fact that it IS not central enough.
The second property mentioned Wa
that on Frost street with a frontae
on that street of about $50 feet and
. depth of about 500 feet Upon tn
= could be built a suitable schoolhous
- and an athletic field constructed. tt
objections the committee considere
were its proximity to the Canal sire,
school building, the low level, the nea
by factories and the price placed upc
it of $4,000.
The third property was the so-calIe
Hines property on Green street, ownt
. by Annie L. Kirwan, with a frontae
of about 100 feet on Green street an
extending to near Elliot street. The
are four dwellings on this, all rent,
and there is ample room. If a bull
ing were to be erected on that proper
the High street property could be sol
}. The objections are the billy land al
the price of $4,000 If two of Il
buildings on the property were hot
. cluded the price would be $4,000. t
. committee closed the report with t
2 statement that it had been deemed a
: visable not to make a recommendatiC
S but to leave the whole subject for &c
eral discussion and decision.
v Martin Austin, jr.,a who was sappoii
ed a member of the special commit,
but declined to serve, said that he |
lieved the district should divorce t