The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-10
POWNAL WILL HAVE
ANOTHER TOWN
NEE TING
Town Clerkship Fight Is Not Yet
Finished
QUESTION NOW ON BUILDING
Town Needs Fire Proof Vault to
manent Location To Be Decided.

The Pownal town election Tuesday
was, as predicted, an interesting one
Besides the important question of Ii
cense, there were two contests to be
voted upon, namely, the Offices OF
town clerk and selectman. Further
than this the candidates nominated al
the Citizens caucus, February 21
met with no opposition.
Elliott l.. Niles was elected town
clerk, having majority of 80 votes
over the number cast for b. Oscar
Barber Solomon II. Towslee defeat
ed Arthur j. Merchant by majority
OF So for the office of third selectman
The other offices were filled as fol
lows:
Town treasurer, Mary F. Lampman:
1st constable, Arthur Burke; End
constable, Edgar Rathbun; tax col
lector, Frank Wilson; road commits
sioner. William Russell; overseer OF
the poor, Frank Wilson: lister for
three years. George n. Myers; audi,
tor for three years, f. C. Brown
auditor for two years, Arthur G. Par.
ker: auditor for one year, Daniel T.
Bates; tree warden, Fred Wells /;
trustee of public money. j. Winnie
Gardner; town agent, j. Winnie Gard
ner; school director for three years,
Daniel Gardner; grand jurors, Z. +.
Potter. George n. Myers, b. o. Bar.
Der.
License was put down by vote of
14S no 10 11S yes, This greatly pleas
ed the ladies of the Pownal W. c. T.
L., who served free lunch of dough
nuts and coffee to the voters as an in
ducement for them to cast their bal
lot in favor OF dry town for the
ensuing year
AS the results of the election were
announced in turn, Frank Reynolds
of North Pownal displayed his skill
on the cornet by rendering fitting
musical selections thus adding much
to the interest of the occasion.
At the business meeting called at
one o'clock 1t was voted not to have
medical inspection in the schools A
resolution was passed authorizing
school directors 10 call a special
school district meeting to see II the
district will vote sufficient money for
the purpose of finishing the Pownal
school building and to pay Clinton
Kately $50 for strip OF land for max
ing a driveway to the school.
4 sum of $25 was appropriated for
Memorial Day observance the COM
mittee later appointed for this being
Mrs. Jessie Gollidge, George Houghtal
ing and Thomas McComber. A tax of
$40 was voted
The sum of $500 was voted to be
used on the state roads 1t was also
voted to have special town meeting
to see If the town would vote to build
fire proof building for the town
clerks office and for the storage of
the towns records. 4, at this meet
ing, the project is favorably met with
the place of the same will be deter
mined
This is important as II will settle
once and for all the permanent loca-
tion of the Pownal town clerks office,
whether it be in Pownal lower village
or in Pownal Center The residents
of the former place have not receded
from their manifest desire for the of
fee in their midst and are prepared
to flguratively take up cudgels to en-
force their wants. A notice will
soon be posted by the selectmen an
nouncing the exact date of this meet
ine.