The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-17
Says Some Persons Cannot
Tell Truth and Some
Will Not
QUOTES RECORDS AS
TO ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Statement as to Why Last Record
Books of Town Clerk Are Not in
Safe-Article to See About Building
Vault for Keeping of Papers.

Editor of The Reformer:
Some people can't tell the truth and
others won't In regard to the special
town meeting held last Saturday in tins
town it looks as though The Reformers
came from the small minority
of that meeting. 1t certainly seems as
though some people can't get it out of their
bean that Some time ago the town voted
to put in - electric lights, etc The
fact is that at a special town meeting held
October "a, 1914. the voters, after discus
sing the question in regard to electric
lights, quizzed Mr.. Royce of the electric
lighting company, and in his remarks he
said that he had made surveys and that
he thought % lights would do us very
nicely He also stated that the price of 40
watt lamps would be SO each per year
and that our rates We're the same as for
Bellows Falls. The town then voted, upon
motion of II. G. Everleth, which was sec
onded by several voters, to sustain the
vote taken at the March meeting of 1910
in regard to electric lights. The votes of
that year were as follows: Voted upon
motion of w. f. Pierce that the town hall
be lighted with electricity, said lighting to
be left in charge of the selectmen. Voted
upon motion of G. 5. Foster that the town
light the streets of the village with cleo
tricity, and voted that the said lighting be
left with the selectmen. After the meet
| ing held October "A, 1914, the selectmen
made a contract with the electric company
agreeing to take % lights, but as it was
| then late and the ground likely to become
| frozen before the poles could be gotten out
and set it was stated in the contract that
after the ground did become frozen the
electric company should cease setting
poles until spring, when the balance would
be set and the lights put on. 1t has been
remarked that the town was paying fol
- lights and that we were only getting Il
Such Is not the case, for at present there
are three lights, including the large ar,
light, that we are not paying for at all
| The electric company is using us fairly anC
lsquarely and the selectmen have done
their best to fulfil the sense of the voter,
lat the meeting Of October "a
Now in regard to criticism i'll regard Il
Ielerk records, etc" There is not room
for all the record books in the present
town safe. 1t Is already full and the las
trecord books have been kept in the stor,
lof the clerk, where he sleeps every nigh
iwithin four feet of them, mrecorded pa
lpers being kept in his own safe, whicl
seems much safer than leaving them in tn
. town hall outside the safe, as they coul,
mot be put inside,
Although J. /. Towards resolution wa
) lost upon a division of the house last Sat
urday, it certainly did remind one of tn
Charge of the Light Brigade, for voters a
the right of him and voters at the left c
, him and voters in front Of him left fo
the opposite side of the hall when the vot
was taken. The seIectmen have, howeve
Inserted an article in the town warrant j
: regard to building vault for the sal
:. keeping of the towns papers
A. NJ. CORSER.
Putney, Vt, Feb. II, 1915.