The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-11-17
Council Voted Permit to Sew
eral Churches to Hold a
Meeting + r.'a House
AS
~ lDING LIGHTS
= BE PAID TO LESSEES
Health Officer Reported 10
Births and 21 Deaths
in October

There was paucity Of vitality impor-
tant matters before the city council at
its regular fortnightly session last night
and to the little budget Of business that
was on the slate, the city fathers adj
dressed themselves with such commend
able dispatch that the clerk was able to
write an early finis to the minutes OF one
OF the shortest meetings OF the years A
request on the part of several of the city
pastors for the use of the opera house on
the evening of Sunday. Dec. II, was pro-
ductive of practically the only discussion
and at that the debating was short lived
and never spirited.
Ii was Alderman Shurtleff who voiced
the request for the clergy, who said they
would like to close their churches on the
evening mentioned for a union meeting.
There was a ripple of dissenting rs to
whether the house is to be used for the
benefit of all churches in the city. Someone
wondered il the Mormons, for instance,
would get as much encouragement from
the council should they request the use of
the hall. This sort of speculation led to
query as to whether the council should
discriminate between evangelical churches
and other religious societies. The issue
was lost for the time being, at least,
when it was recalled that no one outside
of the evangelical churches had asked the
council for the use of the house.
Most of the members were a unit in
believing that the clergy shonld pay the
lessees for the electric lighting used on
the evening of the meeting and to the end
that justice be done, Alderman Keast,
who moved that the permit be granted
in his motion the reserva-
ton that the clerical committee adjust
the matter of lighting the house with
the lessees
There We're 10 girl babies in total of
10 infants born in October, according to
the report of Health Officer DR.. J. w.
Stewart, which was read and accepted
)f contagious diseases there were 81, ty-
ohoid fever leading with 25 and measles
and scarlet fever trailing along in the
'ear with one each. Sixteen burial per-
nits and six transit permits were issued
md 2l deaths were due to the following
auses Accident, anemia. cancer. dia-
'etes, peritonitis and suicide. | each, con
umption 2. disease of the liver 2 disease
{ the kidneys ?, typhoid fever 5, disease
I the bowels ?. pneumonia 2.
Reporting on the suggestion that
hanges be made TO the curbing along the
idewalk in front OF the Brook street
lission, the street committee recommend
d that the curbing, standing as il does
I the regulation level OF six inches above
he street. be left as il is The report
as accepted. The same committee. in
ritten report, referred 10 having ordered
cleanup in the culvert under the Cen
al Vermont railroad near the North
ARE Granite Co.'S plant on Railroad
rect. On the ground that lights are
ore essential in other unlighted sections
the city, the lighting committee recon-
ended that the request for a street lamp
the corner OF Onward and East streets
! not granted. The street committee
that 70.foot sewer ex.
nsion and water extension requested on
'ebstcr street be granted and appended
its report statement from the city
gineer 90 the effect that the estimated
4 would be SIS. All three reports were
cepted and the recommendation in the
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a ont. A petition for a sewer cNten-
IN on Elmwood avenue. signed hy James
ogan. was referred 70 the street com.
ttee
Through the building inspector. Mrs.
grtle =. johnson asked permission o.
model dwelling house az s. Hiil
Get and 10 build a second story piazza
r request was granted. W. p How.
u asked permission 60 move a hon
use on the River street waterfront.
inning that the structure extended
p the stream and vas IN danger 1t
ne undermined Alderman keast
,unlt the birds On River street should
protected and moved that The reuucst
granted. His motion prevailed end
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