Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-11-12
COMMERCIAL
CLUB FAVORS
EXEMPTIONS

,recia! town and village meeting to
cvempt from taxation the Dyoposcd
Lint f,c+or,. and tho ,,,,.,,on,l
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10 ara" up Il pe'llloh to the town ana
VILLAGE authorities and prepare Il rcs-
olutiol to be introduced into these
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'e meeting was iici' III '"e u" II
.iA'i' -"i:ip To bclhH' present. lFeSi-
cent AHi"iih called the meeting 10
"fdcr 40 nc secretary presented the
'olo"iis nc" members, al OF whom
were unanimously elected: Harry W.
v lttc"i' DAVID ;. to"tnt, /. +.
.tIn&, -. }. .. l'roN'A, Edward e..
smith, DR.. X. Il. Burke, Charles l..
N&rF, george A. Bul bank, -. Slnlp-
on.
The secretary read communica-
non a@l:'A% that representative be
cho@' \ rom ms "I&Ai'i2atlon to rep
.e5eh' lilr Comncfclal Club IN the
Community Nouhcll which would be
formed CA Nov 70. }. IL. Brooks wa
chosen as lhi representative.
president A"Stlln "ald that the new
ihdussI' 'H'' nae been mentioned in
nc l"p'ii that m'"ht come here was
= Hh!f' ,"r,"'N. !se sand Taubcr, LIP
ION ana 60. o' sew YORK had ="
lac.oiic" IN the United states and
Iiad @';" ~ Me-! OF Barre here
about 4 week a%o to look 'or a site.
IN company w'th the president aaI
Mci'rN. Leach, Smythc and Bcaurc-
gard, Nr. Nell was taken around
town and finally found one OF the VA
cant building OF the Hooker plant
th%t pleased him very much.
KIT. NeI'l tod the committee that
h" val not authorized to buy the
ilooke" property, but thai another
representative OF the concern would
corlo here later for THAI purpose. 1lr.
A. Gun SAID Inc New York concern
h@o q factories, live OF them bcln",
IN Vermont, and that Mr. Nclil .ald
j t:icI located h"ro they planned to
MIKE TINS the largest OF their Yer
hloAt plants a:iu start WIN l0o "il'lS.
Mt -<rlli SAID III" wage schedule YVES
irom - TO 50 week, the %irl be-
IA& lA!d by the piece.
M. Leach sa" he wa very T"v-
or2h!t impressed with 1T. Neil end
honei the factory would come here
aAt a'Fo get exemption.
.ll. Shytho, representing the
HOOKER concern, said that his corpo-
Faton l,ad made very low price for
INC building, hoping that a rev III
st. Johnsbury. lie reminded the
du. Try Wou'd DC nduccd TO come 20
members OF what Lebanon had
"'s.led ny the overall factory "!d
'''.d a shirt factory was bette" KIM!
o. "A industry Tic hoped very
A"ca that 1t would core and that the
rl''Ac ~ "oa'd exempt the property.
NC Sald that the present YAK OF the
/ property thaI would DC used by inc
New YORK concern was trifle over
~" year.
ifeH'deht ASSEM- Sald mat ne had
recently mad an lhtefvlc" with Mr.
!"lVie@, the owner OF the Plymouth
iaamcry, ana that while MI. Davies
d!1 not ask Tor exemption he felt
mat MS industry should be treated
IKE inc rest. }: II. BROOKS Hald nc
it'1 lhat inc plymouth creamery
should DC exempted, ana one or two
o. the Others "pokc along the same
ll2c. Inc announcement by the
president that AR. Dawes could not
%''c ID the meeting tonight because
:" had gone back to massachusetts
10 vote brought out round of APP
l'i'tu"e.
larry W. W ltterS sad ne thought
II would be great mistake not to
c%cmpt from taxation the new shirt
factory ana the plymouth Creamery.
He said town that had diversified
iEiu'ti5eS mad the advantage over a
own with one industry.
}. ii. BrookS Saii he would like to
low the sentiment OF the meeting
ufon eXemptlng both properties from
u'Allol ana introduced motion
That the commercial Club approve OF
tf'S exemption. rms was seconded
Wy frank II. Harms and UNANIMOUSLY
atopted. me result OF the vote was
received with cheers.
David >. Conant then introduced