The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
AUTO TRUCKS FOR
FIRE DiP'T ARE
PROPOSED
Question Is to Come Before the
Village Meeting
VILLAGE ELECTION MARCH 20
Surface Water Sewers and Extension
of Water Mains and Sidewalks Also
To Be Considered.

The warning for the coming village
meeting is as follows:
The legal voters of the Village of
Bennington are hereby notified and
warned TO meet at Free Library Hall
in the Village of Bennington, on Tues
day, March goth, 1917, at nine o'clock
in the forenoon to transact the fol
lowing business:
Article !. To elect a president of
the village. a clerk, a treasurer, a col
lector of taxes, corporation attor-
ney, auditors, three CD trustees, and
two (2) water commissioners.
Article =. To consider the reports
of the officers for the year past.
Article 3. To see what sum, if any,
the village viii appropriate for the
construction of curb, gutter and side
walks upon the streets for the ensuing
yea;
Article 4 To see what sum, If any
the village viii appropriate towards
assisting the Board of Trade in carry
ing on its work as planned for the
coming year
Article 5. To see what sum the viii
lage win appropriate to the Public
Welfare Asso., for playground and
recreation purposes.
Article 6. TO see what sum, if any,
the village will appropriate to pay the
bennington Fire Department.
Article I. To see il the village will
vote 10 pay $4,000 to the Chief, and
S25.Q0 each, to twa assistant engi-
neers Of the Fire Department. 4.
Article s. To see Ii the village will
vote S350000 to equip the Stark. Put
nam and Eagle Hose Houses with mo-
for driven combination chemical
and Hose wagons and the trustees to
be authorized to provide for the op-
Grafton and maintenance OF same.
Article 9. To see if the village will
vote to appropriate the sum of $4,000
90 for the purchase OF three ton mo-
tor truck to be used in the hauling of
crushed stone and gravel for the
streetbuilding. and for any other
necessary village purposes; and will
instruct the Trustees to purchase
same.
Article 10. To see what sum, if any,
the village will appropriate for Band
concerts
Article II. TO see what sum, if any,
the Village viii appropriate to the
Bennington Improvement society. to
be used by it for the care of the Gem
etery grounds in the Village and for
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Article 12. To see what sum. if
any, the Village will appropriate for
extension of the Village sewer sys-
tenn
Article IS. To see what sum, if
any, the village will vote to pay its
president and trustees for their SER
vices for the ensuing year
Article IA. To see what sum, ii
any, the village will vote to pay its
clerk in addition to the amount pre-
scribed by the bylaws for services as
clerk for the ensuing year.
Article Is. (A) To see if the Viii
lage will take steps to care for the
surface water drainage of the village
and If so what?
OBJ To see If the village will ap-
point a Committee to report to a spe-
cial meeting hereafter to be called on
the comparative cost of surface wa
ter sewer in addition TO our present
sewerage system and an enlargement
of our present system of sewers sufii-
cient to care for the surface water,
and also to report as nearly as may
I, Of ~,
sewer system for the purpose of car
ing for the surface water alone.
Article 16. To see If the village
will instruct its Trustees and Water
Commissioners that when new dwell
ings are constructed within the village
limits they shall in so far as is prac-
ticable furnish them with water and
sewer mains in the streets adjacent
and extend the lighting system of the
village as rapidly as the growth of
the locality warrants it.
Article II. To see what tax the vii
age will raise upon it's grand list to
defray the expenses of the village for
the year ensuing and to pay its in
debtedness and to fix the time for the
collection of such tax.
Article Is. To see if the village
will vote to have the provisions of
Chapters IL and II of the Public sta
tutes and amendments thereof apply
to the next annual meeting Of the viii
lage and to any special meetings in.
tervening.
Article 10. To transact any other
business found necessary when met.
Adelbert W. Braisted
Village President.
William p. Hogan
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