The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-13
Vermont Association Chose
George A. Tracy Of Chel-
sea as It's President
CONVENTION IN BARRE
WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL
About so Members from All
Parts of the State
Were Present

A highly successful, although some
what lightly attended, convention of the
Vermont Sheriffs' association was held
in Barre yesterday and to-day, the ses
sions being full of interest to the mem
bers and many obscure points in the du-
ties OF the sherifTs being brought out in
the discussions. About so members were
present from all parts of the state, near
ly all the high sherifTs being in attend
ance and liberal sprinkling of the dep
uty sheriffs.
The sessions were held in the HowIaud
hall, the first gathering, which was last
night, being presided over by Sheriff
Richard Beattie of Maidstone who was
president Of the association during the
past year The session was more or less
informal and persons other than mem
bers were called in to give addresses.
The speakers last night included State
Auditor Benjamin Gates of Montpelier
Harvey Goodell, secretary Of civil and
military affairs under Governor Clement,
and States Attorney Earl R. Davis Of
Barre. All Of them confined their re-
marks to observations as to the best re-
lationship between their respective de-
partments and the sheriffs of the state,
and in addition, Secretary Goodell eluci-
dated to some extent what the present
executive administration has in mind
and what has been accomplished thus far.
Messrs Gates and Davis bespoke greater
cooperation between their offices and
the sheriffs' department and told of the
relationship between them, and the lat
ter stated that greater efficiency could
be reached through a blending of the ef,
forts of the Office of states attorney and
of the sheriffs' department
When the convention was resumed this
morning, Secretary Treasurer H. c. Law
son of montpelier presented his annual
report. He reported a total OF 300 mem
bers during the year 1918, and the fnan,
cial side of the report stated that the
amount due for fees from those members
was 1922, Of which Sl65 had been paid.
leaving Sl57 still payable. Caledonia
county has the largest membership, 81,
with Washington county second, AZ, and
/ Bennington and Grand Isle counties tied
for the smallest membership, The only
three counties which had clear slate in
the payment Of dues were Addison, Es-
sex and Orange. The membership is di-
vided as follows: Addison Is, Benning
1 ton H., Caledonia 81, Chittenden Is, Es-
sex l3, Franklin 20, Grand Isle II La
moille 10, Orange 10, Orleans 2l, Rutland
Tea, Washington AZ, Windham IL, Wind
I sor 22
The report of the secretary treasurer
was accepted and placed on record, after
which the association proceeded to the
election of officers, which resulted as
| follows:
President-George A. Tracy. Chelsea
! president-George Catlin, st. Al
/ bans.
| Secretary .treasurer-Henry c. lawson,
Montpelier.
Auditors-F. W. Fitzgerald, Norwich;
w. L. Fairbanks, Springfeld NJ. c. Gar
! field, St Johnsbury.
The remainder of the time of the con
veution was taken up with a discussion
of the matter of process, each member
being privileged to bring up any point
that was not entirely clear to him, after
which there was a discussion to bring
out the facts.