The Press., 1913-04-23
MoNsoN.

Miss Marjorie Clifford of Boston is
 to be the soprano soloist of the Forbes
 6 Wallace recital next week Friday
 afternoon, April 25.
 Myron E. Wright has resigned as
 clerk in the savings bank, to take
 effect May He will take position
 in bank in Springfield.
 The general distribution of seeds in
 the home and school garden clubs is
 about to be made. There are several
 hundred school children interested in
 this work and several boys and girls
 outside of the public schools are about
 to join. ...-. l..
 The Rhoderick moving picture
 theater on Main street was sold at
 public auction Thursday afternoon to
 M. P. 'Shaugnessy of Southbridge.
 As MT. O'Shaughnessy is in the real
 estate business, it is understood that
 he has purchased for parties who in-
 tend to continue 1t as moving pic.
 ture theater.
 A special meeting of the school committee was held recently. A. E.
 Shaw was elected chairman of the
 board. The care of the various schools were apportioned to the me Il
 bers of the school committee as fol.
 lows: Rev. Abram Conklin, the Sill yer street, Colton Hollow and Peaae district schools; pr. k. w. CNpen, Green street and State line; 0. E. Bradway, East hill, Mum district, Moulton hill and Childs district schools; N. P. Dempsey, No. 8 and State street; H. E. Kendall, Mechanic street and Nortk Monson; A. E. Shaw, Quarry. Dr. B. W. Capen and A. E. Shaw were elected com mitte on supplies. Truant officers elected were James Burdick, Herbert Aldrich and William Corish. The superintendent was instructed to ar- range for the joint meeting with the school committee of Brimfield, and it was voted to hold the regular meet ings on the Wednesdays preceding the first Monday of each month. All bills should be in the hands of the committee before this meeting.
 The annual appropriation meeting, was held in Memorial hall Monday, the 14th, at 3 o'clock. The attend ance was larger than at any similar meeting ever held in Monson, there being over 600 voters in the hall. The meeting, contrary to many pre- dictions and general expectations, was very harmonious. The amount of money raised and appropriated for various town work was $29,277, as compared with last year $29, 785. Under the head of article 3, to choose a tree warden and all other necessary town officers, the following men were elected: Tree warden, F. H. John son; measurers of wood and bark, O. O. McCray and Merrill Carew; field driver, Charles H. Stacy; surveyors of lumber, J. s. Stewart and M. N. Post. Article 4, to hear the reports of town officers and committees and act thereon, brought out considerable discussion. Cady Blanchard, Edward Hynes and others were heard from, and were answered by MT. Herlihy and MT. Sutcliffe of last years select mems board. The reports were finally accepted as submitted. Article 21 called out the most discussion of any during the afternoon. Under this article MT. Shaw, chairman of the school committee, asked for an appro- priation of $2O,OOO for a four-room brick schoolhouse on South Main street to take the place of the old No. 8 schoolhouse. Besides this proposi- tion he submitted another one for a wooden building on the present site of the No. 8 school, but stated that the recommended the brick other member of the school board, spoke at much length in favor of the brick school. After arguments against a new building by several voters who that new school building would have to be erected before many years, but thought that this was not the year to go into the expense, the proposition was voted down by more than 2 to 1 vote. The article asking for combination fire truck met with the same fate as the schoolhouse proposi- tion. A motion to pass over. the article was made as soon as the article was brought up and was carried. Later a motion to reconsider the ar- ticle was voted down. No money was raised for highways and bridges. The only money appropriated for this work was the street railway tax and the street railway excise tax. Fifteen hundred dollars was appropriated for permanent roads. The largest appro- priation of the day, as usual, was for schools, the entire amount appropri- ated for schools being $17, ,727, which is $43 less than the amount last year. This amount was divided as follows Teachers salaries, $75OO; tuition, $4OOO; maintenance, 5000; school superintendent, $785; supervisor $ salary and expenses, $957; janitors' wages, 5000; fuel, $9OO; text books, 665O; supplies, $35O; transportation, $500; school committee expenses, $50; health, $50; miscellaneous, S185. Besides this and the $15OOI appropriated for permanent roads, the following amounts were raised and To suppress the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, $500; for discount on taxes, $500; for the Monson free library and reading rooms association, $500; Marcus Keep post for Memorial day exercises,