The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
NO D|SSENSION IN !
SCHOOL MEETING
Company of About so Does
the Business in Is
Minutes
DIR. MILLER REMAINS
MEMBER OF BOARD
Tuition Rates Advanced on Account
of Constantly Mounting Expenses
69-Cent Tax Rate Voted-Old Board
of officers Reelected.

Every motion made at the annual
meeting of the incorporated school dis
trict in the high school room last eve
ming was carried without opposition,
and on no question was there discus
sion adverse to the recommendation of
the school board.
The seven articles in the warrant
were disposed of in IS minutes by a
company of a little less than 80 per-
sons, nearly half of whom were women,
although the maintenance of the
schools in the district calls for an ex-
penditure of upwards of $4,000,
At little past 8 O'Clock Clerk
Clarence F. Merrill called the meeting
to order and read the warrant, and
Frank +. Barber was elected modera-
tor under article l. Article 2 was to
hear the report of the prudential com
mittee and treasurer. Chairman f @.
| Osgood stated that both were includ-
| ed in the printed reports in the hands
| of the voters NJ j. Moran asked if
the item of $3.50 on page 5S, the salary
| paid to Coach Diedrich Stolte, was all
the compensation the district paid Mr.
| Stolte and chairman Osgood replied
that it was for the past year. but that
| for the coming year the salary was to
be 5000 The reports were accepted
and adopted without further discussion.
/ The officers elected under article 3
were as follows: Clerk, Clarence f.
1 Marrtl. s1f& 10 4 -
mittee for three years, DIR. A. /. Miller,
to succeed himself; treasurer. Cherries
G.. Staples; tax collector, William A.
Shumway; auditor, Fletcher X Bar
rows.
/ "To see if the district will continue
to receive tuition scholars, and, if SO,
on what TERMS, was the way
article read Chairman Osgood
stated that prices were steadily mount
ing and salaries gradually advanc-
ing and that the committee had
carefully figured out the average cost
to the district for each pupil, which in
the high school is nearly $75 a wear.
The committee had therefore revised
the schedule of tuition rates, recon-
mending 500 a year for each year of
the high school course, $36 a year for
| grades s and Z, $27 a year fer grades
6, 5 and 4, and $1S a year for grades
3, 2 and l. He moved that these rates
be charged until further action and it
! was so voted.
The question of what action the dis
, triet would take under Act - of the
! Public Acts of 1915, relative to medi-
J cal inspection in the schools, came uT
l under article 5. Judge J. NJ Tyler
( said that the past showed that this
matter safely could be left with the
prudential committee, and on his mo-
tion it was voted to leave the question
? with the committee the coming year
5 Article 6 related to raising money
4 for defraying expenses. The commit
g tees report had stated that either 9
e 69-eent rate or 71-cent rate would bt
: | agreeable to the committee, depending
e upon how much of the temporary debt
g it was desired to pay off the coming
year. l.. +. Holden said that time.
were hard for many business men ant
he thought it would be better not tt
try to pay off all the temporary deb
: this year. He moved 69-cent rate
the same as last year, and there wa
no dissent.
i This brought matters down to tn,
/ last article, to transact any other busi
n ness that might legally come up. On
f motion of H. p. Wellman it was vote,
r to make the salaries of the school off
: cials the same as in the past year, an,
on motion of w. A. Shumway it wa
Ie voted to make the taxes payable forth
N with, which is as has been voted here
|. tofore. Adjournment was then takel
4 at $50 clock