St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-03
SMOKING BARRED
Town By Formal Vote Prohibits 1t
No Aid For Farmers-State-
ment by Rev. E. Fairbanks.

By formal vote by check list the
voters of st. Johnsbury in town meet
ing by a vote of 1873 to 1876 declared
against smoking in the Town Hall
during and for an hour before any
public meeting to be held therein.
The only other matter that brought
out real discussion was the PROPOSE
ton that the sum of $4S8.4O be ap-
propriated for the support of the
! Caledonia County Farmers Associa-
ton the coming year This was IA
vored by w. A. Kicker and E. H. Hal
let who urged the benefit the agent
could be to the whole county and the
high position Caledonia county now
held in this work. G.. w. Caldbeck
and James Cosgrove opposed it as
an unfair burden to place on the tax
payers. Both expressed themselves
as firm believers in the benefit of the
association and willing to contri-
butte personally to its support but
not in favor of compelling the poor
er classes of tax payers to do so. The
motion was voted down by a strong
vote.
Another feature of the meeting
and one that showed the broad and
unselhsh nature of the man was the
speech of the Rev. Edward T. Fair
banks when the matter of appropria-
ting a sum of money to him in COM
pensation for his valuable work in
writing a history of St. Johnsbury
was before the meeting. Charles S.
Hastings said that he had put the ar
ticle in the warning without the
knowledge of Mr.. Fairbanks and had
done so because he appreciated the
work Mr.. Fairbanks had done, real
lied that he was likely to receive no
financial compensation for his work
and thought the town should show
it's appreciation in that way.
Mr.. Fairbanks then took the floor
and said he was in an embarrassing
position. He had not known until
that moment who was the author of
the article in the warning. Some
one had called him by telephone the
night before the warning was issued
and asked if he wished to have such
an article inserted in the warning
and he replied no. He did not ap
prove of it's appearance because he
not done the work expecting a finan
cial reward but because he felt the
town should be honored with a his
tory and because he had wanted to
do that much for his native town.
For that reason he moved that the
article be dismissed. This was vo-
ted and then by a most hearty and
unanimous vote the audience extend
ed him vote of thanks for his nbe-
raj, valuable and honorable service
to the town.
A vote of thanks was then extend
ed to the members of st. John De
Crevecoeur Chapter, D. A. R., for fl
nancing the publication of the his
tory.
The other business of the meeting
was the appropriation of $3.50 for
the observance of Decoration Day,
voting a tax of 20 cents on dollar
of the grand list for highways and
voting the expenditure of $1,000 for
permanent highway work and re-
ceiving state aid for an equal sum,
voting $3.50 towards the COM
pensation of district nurse, appro-
priating $3.50 for the lighting of
the highway from Fairbanks Village
to Coreyville, postponing the fixing
of the town and school tax until an
adjourned meeting to be held July
2 at 8 P M. when the grand list
would be completed, authorizing the
selectmen to borrow money to pay
the expenses of the town. 1t was
also voted that the selectmen be in
structed to secure an engineer and
the proposition of chang
ing the highway bridge at the cen
ter so to eliminate the Bacon and
Bowker grade crossings, confer with
the railroad officials concerning the
same and report at a special town
he taken
B. A. Farnham, A. M. Stone and
Freeman A. Pierce was appointed a
committee to investigate the neces-
sity of the town voting aid to the
flood sufferers at st. Johnsbury Cen
ter and report at the same special
meeting what appropriation is neces-
sary.
The vote on license was total vote
961. on license yes 294, no 629; on
5th class licenses, yes 119, no 512.
The town officers elected are:
Moderator and town agent, j. Rolf
Searles; town clerk and treasurer, c.
G.. Braley; selectman, B. A. Farm |
ham; overseer of the poor, w. H. HI. |
ROBBIE; first constable and collector
of delinquent taxes, P. E. May; lis
ter, Lyle B. Spaulding; auditors, H.
H. Carr, J. F. Puffer and Morton
Reed; school director, E. H. Cowles;
town grand jurors, J. B. Campbell
and H. W. Writer'S; road commits |
sioner, A. L. Douglass; second con-
stable, M. c. Garfield.
Grand jurors for county court, |
Charles Ross and Charles Weeks.
Petit jurors, E. A. Gray, Allen I'm
derwood, w. A. Dow, AFRO Peck, w.
E. Cheney, w. D. Wilcomb, Guy G.
Wright, D. M. Bacon, D. G. Horner,
George Morrill,, Joseph Drouin, Da-
vid Frechette, Thomas J. Tierney, G.
A. Stanley and E. P. Moulton.