The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-02-17
NOMINATIONS FOR
COMING MARCH
ELECTION
Three Caucuses Held on Satur-
day Evening
TWO FULL TICKETS
Democrats for First Time in Years
Make All Nominations from
Party.

Three of the town caucuses to nom
mate officers to be voted for at the
coming March elections were hello
Saturday evening. The attendance
was larger at all of the meetings than
was expected IN. view of the tact that
there has SO far been no particular
strife In evidence over any individual
office. The republicans met at For
esters' hall, the democrats at Apollo
hall and the socialists at their quar-
ters on South street.
The particular feature OF the eau
cuses was the fact that the democrats
for the first time in a number of
years nominated complete ticket
from the ranks of the party. 1t has
been customary for some years to eli
dorse the nominations of L. A Booth
for town clerk and Charles H. Dewey
for treasurer. This custom was not
observed Saturday evening, and for
the first time in several years there
will be a test OF strength over these
two offices.
The republican caucus was called
TO order by Edward c. Bennett, who
read the call and an organization was
perfected by the election of Edward
II. Holden as chairman and Harry
Chase as clerk. The caucus at once
proceeded TO the work of nominating
a ticket with the following result:
Moderator, Edward Ii. Holden;
town clerk, E. A. Booth; selectman,
Frank Cromack; treasurer, Charles
II. Dewey; overseer of the poor,
George K. Mathers; first constable,
Frederick Godfrey; second constable,
James H. Kelley; collector of taxes,
Perry B. Gardner; lister for three
years, Joseph NJ. Ayres; lister for one
year in case town votes to elect
fourth lister, w. j. Hicks; auditors,
e. d. yelling, Arthur Z. HOLSTER,
Henry d. Fillmore; trustee of public
money, George f. Graves; trustee of
cemetery fund, Charles H. Dewey;
town law agent, Robert e. Healy;
tree warden, L. S. Buss; jurors, j.
Oliver Burt, Marden r. Nichols, Clar-
ence W. White, Edward LaFranchise.
The voters in the town district held
their caucus after the main gathering
had adjourned and elected the follow
ing: Road commissioner in district
No. l, H. NJ. Durham; district No. 2,
John Rooney; school director, II. Nj.
Durham. There were two nomina-
tons in district No. for road com.
missioner, John Rooney defeating
Aaron Hill by one vote.
The democratic caucus was called
to order by Homer A. Lyons and the
caucus organized with the election of
John P. Mulligan as chairman and ].
George Hudgins as clerk. The nomi-
nations were as follows:
Moderator, DR.. L. B. Daley;
town clerk, James H. Grennan;
selectman, William II. Lunder-
gan; treasurer, Eli J. Tiffany: over
seer Of the poor, Frank A Thompson;
first constable, A. j. Griffin: second
constable, John Scary; collector, J.
George Hudgins; lister Ralph II.
White; auditors, Henry D. Fillmore,
Charles A. Maurer. John P. Mulligan:
trustee OF public money, John Robin.
son; grand jurors, Truman Mattison.
Dwight II. Rudd, Myron Knapp. John
II. Kelly; trustee of cemetery fund.
At,hNF AOMu law dke0I.
Charles A. Maurer; tree warden, Ed
ward Shanahan.
The voters in the town district
made the following nominations:
Road commissioner in district No. /
James Leonard; district No 2, James
Scully; school director. Houghton
Rice.
The committee on nominations was
given the power to fill all vacancies
and today announced that James II.
Grennan had withdrawn his nomina-
ton as town clerk. The vacancy
has been filled with the name of
Ralph II. White. The vacancy caus-
ed by Withdrawing the name of Mr..
White as lister has been filed with
the name of Mr.. Grennan.