Putnam patriot., 1913-10-10

He agreed that the taxpayers ought to have the report. Mir. German said that he had had no official notice to compile such report although he adj mitted that Mir. Johnson had spokeu about the matter to him.
 It was voted that when the town clerks office Is located in the town building that the office be kept open from 3 q. m, to noon and from to P. m.
 The matter of compensation for the town clerk was laid on the table. It raised the question as to whether this could be legally done. An at tempt was made to have a committee appointed to investigate the matter and report but when motion was made 10 lay il on the table it was car ried,
 The matter of feassessing the proper ty for the purpose of taxation was dis cussed at length. IL was stated that something was necessary to bring up the credit of the town so that it's bor- rowing capacity will he enhanced, so that IL could issue bonds, and so that concerns looking for place to locate would be favorabiy impressed. E. D. Bugbee was not in favor of the plan as he thought that an increast d borrow ing capacity would mean an increased Hnt la I h..a of generally depended upon their efforts to pay their bills and he thought that if something was done to show dis position 10 reduce the present debt 1t would have the desired effect. j c. Johnson made a statement that con tained note of warning to the tax payers and should cause sefious thought He said, "lf something k not done to bring families to Putnam some of the present industries may have to leaye,n This coming from the superintendent of n large industry caused those present some feeling of alarm. Others who spoke in favor of the reassessment were Dr. omef La- Rue, Charles l.. Torrey, W S. John son. There seemed little opposition to the plan among those in the hall. lt was voted that a reassessment of the taxable property be made at an ex- pense not exceeding S2;l00. MT. Snow, president of the Il. S. Appraisal Com- pany, was present and said the work could be done for this amount. The work could be finished in six weeks. The following committee was appoint. ed to see 10 carrying out the work: w. ;, Johnson, Chester F. Child, Edward Mulan, Silas NJ. Wheelock and Dr. Omer LaRue.
 The states offer for expenditures on highways was taken advantage of and s20, ,00o was appropriated. This means an expenditure of S5,u00 by the town in two years as the state pays three quarters of the amount appropriated.
 As the grand list is to be changed 1t was voted to lay the matter of asses sing tax on the table until the ad- iourned meeting. IL was voted to ad- journ to the second Monday in Decem- Der.
 The result of the vote for town of- ficers was as follows:
 Whole number of votes cast BIO, of which i42 were straight republican and Ill straight democratic, 30 were split and 22 rejected
 For assessor-Hector Duvert i59: Regis Bouthillette q 123.
 Board of reief--J oseph Plessis ISL, William s. Johnson I5i, Ernest l.. Davis q l25.
 Seleclmen -~Clarenee E. Pierce l57, Luther M Keith l59, 0mer LaRue q l3s.
 Town clerk David Flagg l63, Eric II, Johnson q 120.
 Town reasuFer-David Flagg l63, Erie H. Johnson q lls.
 Agent town deposit fund--Davit Flagg l62.
 Auditors -Gilman II. Brown I54, Harry Mann d l2e.
 Collector of taxes--J. Richard Car penter l5i, Warren l.. Bradway l2z.
 Constables--John E. Daigle l53, Herman c. Carver i5i, Peter A. Gardner l58, George Warren 153. John Mcclure i25, Theodore Boulay l30, John II. Harrington li9.
 Registrars Of voters--Herman c Carver l5l, George Polvin l30.
 Town school eommittee-Charles l. rorrey l6s, Archibald Macdonald ls2, Richard German q i23.
 Library directors-Silas NJ. Vince lock 1858, George W. Holt l56, Fred enck J. Daniels i6i, omer LnRue l33, Mrs. Rosa F. Danielson l.
 There was no vote on the license question, as has been the case fof three years past.
 The vote on the constitutional to raise the compensation for members of the general assembly from $500 to $500 was: No, a55; Yes, Ii6.
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