St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-02-23
WARNING
FOR
Annual Town Meeting
Tuesday, March 7
1916

The Citizens of st. Johnsbury who
are legal voters in Town Meeting, are
hereby notified and warned to meet at
the Town Hall, in the Village of St.
JOhnSDury, in said town, on Tuesday the
TIN day or March, 1916, at nine O'Clock
in the forenoon to transact the follow
ing business:
ARTICLE /. To elect all town Of
hcers required by law:
ARTICLE 2. TO vote upon the follow
Shall License be granted for the sale
OF Intoxicating liquors in this town?
Shall Licenses of the Fifth Class be
granted in this town?
ARTICLE 3. Shall an Act of the Gen
eraI Assembly of 1915 entitled, AN Act
to Prohibit the Sale of Intoxicating
Liquors" become a law May 1, A. d.
ARTICLE 4. Shall an Act of the
General Assembly of 1915 entitled, "An
become law on March 20, 1916?
ARTICLE 5. To see whether or not
the. Selectmen shall be empowered and
Commissioners, and if so, which num-
Der. (Act No. 118 of the Laws of 1912
requires the insertion of this article in
the warning of all annual town meet
ARTICLE 6. To see if the town will
from the Treasury not otherwise ap-
propr1ated to defray in whole or in
part, the expenses of an appropriate
observance of Decoration Day, social
ed, as authorized by law, and if any
sum how much
ARTICLE 4. 10 see II the town VIII
vote to appropriate a sum of money to
help pay the expenses of a District
Nurse, and if so, how much.
ARTICLE 8. To see If the town will
vote to appropriate a sum of money to
install and maintain three electric
lights at either approach, and on the
dry bridge, which crosses the tracks of
the st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlafn
Railroad, above the Fairbanks, Horse
ARTICLE g. To see if the town will
vote to instruct its Selectmen to renew
the contract with the Twin State Gas
& Electric Company for the lighting of
the highway between the Village of st.
Johnsbury and the Village of st. Johns
bury Center, and if so, for how long
ARTICLE 10. To see if the town will
vote to instruct its Selectmen to install
and maintain electric lighting service
on the highway fro mthe village or st.
Johnsbury to the Village Of East st,
term.
ARTICLE IL. To see if the town will
vote to instruct its Selectmen to install
and MAINTAIN electric lighting service
on the highway leading from the VIII
1age of st JShnsbury to the Dapvi NE
called, and if so, for how long a term.
ARTICLE IL. To see If the town will
vote to instruct it's Selectmen to in
stall and maintain electric lighting ser
vice on the highway leading from the
Village of st. Johnsbury, south to the
Grounds known as the Fair Ground
Road. and il SO. for how long term.
A g.. i
vote to install uniform system of pub
lie accounting, as recommended by the
officials as appointed by the Governor
ARTICLE IA. To see if the town will
instruct its Selectmen to reimburse the
st. Johnsbury Village Fire Department
for services which said department may
render in responding to fires in the
town, but outside the Village Corpora
ARTICLE is. To see if the town will
vote to raise money to defray the ex-
penses and liabilities of the town for
the current year, and if so, how much.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the town will
vote to authorize and instruct its Sc
1ectmen and Treasurer to oorroW mon
expenses prior to the collection or l.
taxes.
vote to appropriate money for the
maintenance of it's public schools and
to defray all expenses incurred by the
school directors in connection there
with, and If so, how much. -
ARTICLE IS. To see If the town will
vote to appropriate money for the main
tenance of highways, and IL So now
ARTICLE 10. To see if the town will
raise money in excess OF the amount
required by law, to be expended on
highways. to take advantage of the
State Aid Law, and if so, how much
Article 20: TO transact hIC any h ofnea
SAID m WMi F. WEIGH.
A r. LAWRENCE,
BERT A. FARNHAM,
selectmen of town st. Johns
Dated at st. Johnsbury, VT, this
twenty first day of February, A. D.,
1916.
Received for record at o'clock p. m.
and duly recorded in Records Of Town
= mss Attest. c. C. BRALEY
Town Clerk.