Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-30

meetings were held in one of the school
rooms, but since Billiards. hall was built
they have been held there. The entire
second floor has been converted into n
town hall, which Is completed except for
the decoration. The general office of the
town clerk is the first floor front and Is
entered from the vestibule leading to the
town hall Big plate glass windows af-
ford plenty of light for the roomy quar-
tors. There Is n hardwood floor, the vain
scoting Is in hard pine finished natural
and the walls and ceiling are panoled with
beaver board tinted light green. A rail
separates the waiting room from the desk
room. Adjoining Is a big nreproof vault
that will take care OF the town records
for many years to come Then there is
u private room and big meeting room
for general town purposes. These have
hardwood floors, hard pine wanscoting
with walls and ceilings tinted In pleasing
tones. in the rear are store rooms and
section intended for laboratory PURPOSES
In connection with the new high school
building A room Is also set apart as the
home or Post Jewott, G.. A. II. There is
n modern lookup on this floor with q
street entrance on the east side of the
building The steam heating plant and
lnVatories are in the basement Swanton's
frst town clerk was Thomas Butterhcld,
VINO came here as agent for Ira Allen,
who at that time owned most of this
town. Up to about 1880 the town records
were kept In the residence of whoever
happened to be town clerk. w S. Thayer
| was clerk from 1914 to 1871 and the office
| was at his home on the west side of the
river. Then Henry a. Lawrence as clerk
| Kept the records in his store. When Y.
| D. Marvin was clerk Fletcher Tarble fit
ted mp the first town clerks office and
! built n flreproof vault This Is in the
back part of the present postofficc and IS
used for the safe keeping of stamps and
office supplies. When the town outgrew
these quarters a vault was built in the
Tobn block in 1894, the office being used
for town purposes until the new office
was ready for occupancy the first Of this
month.
Charles Il. Pencil, who ran barber
shop here for several years has located
IN Sheldon and will move there as soon as
he can get "A house.-Claronce Pierce, son
of the Rev. G. y. Pierce OF Craftsbury, a
former student of the Swanton high
school and assistant librarian of the
Kings Daughters library, graduated from
the Craftsbury Academy in June He ha 8
n position for the summer in a hotel at
Sugar Hill. n. H.. and will enter the Uni
Tersty of Vermont this fall.-Fred Dris-
coll who has been visiting Swanton
friends after an absence of q years. has
returned to Tdaho-Davis Rich of Pitts
field. Mass. formerly of this place. is in
town.-Mr. and Mrs. D. G.. Furman and
daughter have returned from an automo-
bile trip to Sugar Hill y. H.-HoraCe
Allen and two college friends are taking
a motor camping trip. the objective point
being Malletts Bay.-Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
1T. Lane and two sons Of Ottawa are
guests of Mr. and Mrs Homer Brown for
a few days. Mr.. Lane IS the son of Henry
Lane of Cornwall. for a number of years
a member of the state board OF agrcul-
ture.-Several automobile parties have
met with tire troubles of late between
Swanton and St Adams. carpet tacks be-
ing the cause. There seems to he an I'M
usual crop Of carpet lacks in the high
way, according to all accounts