Connecticut western news., 1915-07-01
WILL BUILD SCHOOL ADDITION
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that it be a rising vote.

that it be rising vote.
 MT. Bronson proposed that a check list be used, as on former occasions a number of non-toters voted.
 The Roraback amendment was car ried.
 MT. Bronson persisted that the vote on the resolution be according to the check list, and Mr. Roraback suggested that MT. Bronson be gwen u checklist and authorized to challenge the vote of any person not entitled to vote. A list was given him, but he remarked. II don't know half the people ill the town''
 Rev. MT. Gillette stated that he would like to reply to former ques- tion of MT. Bronson concerning guar antee of out of town pupils. When the high school course was established, he was a membf of the board. and inter viewed the parents of pupils from out of town, especially Falls Village and Cornwall, and was assured that there was not the remOtest possibility that a high school would be established ill either of those towns.
 MT. Bronson said he had not asked the question very seriously. He too had talked with people of those other towns and found that they were laugh. ing at us for making it unnecessary for them to build school houses. We are spending the money and they are get ting the benefit, and there's no danger of their discontinuing. :.
 "Then it's good joke all around, " said Mr. Roraback, flor we ought to be satisfied with the arrangement.
 Dewey Garfield suggested that there were other schools in town that needed more facilities and more money. The East Canaan school is crowded. IL looks as if all the money is to be spent here, and East Canaan gets nothing.
 MT. Reed asked if there was no limit set by law, to the amount to which a town may increase its debt. MT. Rora- back replied that there was no legal limit and no restriction except as to the nature of the indebtedness.
 MT. Reed said the interest. bearing debt of the town, at the time of the last regular town meeting was $48, ,455, something below per cent, of the grand list, which is about $l, 125, 900. He called attention to the fact that there was nothing in the call of the meeting authorizing an appropriation {; it simply said, ''to see what action the town will take, etc.
 MT. Bronson followed up the cue and said he had been told that the appro- priation should have been specifically mentioned in the warning.
 MT. Roraback assured the gentlemen that the vote would not be invalidated if the appropriation was authorized by the meeting MT. Reed said it proba bly, would be all right if MT. Roraback wodld endorse for the amount. II will advise the bank to accept the towns note," said MT. Roraback.
 By this time somebody occupying seat No. l, Row D, Sec. R. Incline, was evidently getting tired of the re- partee, and called for "Question ? whereupon the chair appointed Harry 1 Holt and Dewey Garfield tellers, and called for a rising vote on the resolu- tion. A careful count of noses showed 73 in favor, including IT ladies, and [ 1 opposed, including two ladies. There were actually a considerable number opposed who did not vote, as they could plainly see they were hOpelessly in the minority, and preferred not to be counted.