The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-25
MONTPELIER
City Council Warned to Make Out Requi-
sition for Funds.

1
The regular meeting Of Montpelier city
council occurred Wednesday evening
with Aldermen Farrar and Yeti absent.
Mayor Shurtleif urged the council mem
bers that the heads Of departments must
use acquisitions, or the finance commit
tee would have little knowledge Of where
| it stands. He then read some big bills
i in which the departments had not used
acquisitions and of which the finance
committee had no knowledge. +. B..
| Thomas and A. G. Theriault, represent
ing the American Legion, asked that an
arrangement be made whereby their or
ganization could use the memorial hall.
The matter was left to the property com
/ mite to report, after acertainlng Wheth-
err the. agreement with the g. A, r.
had been nullified. The Salvation Army
was given authority to hang an electric
! sign at the corner of Main and State
streets. The matter of resurvey of Cum
mings street was referred TO the street
committee. 1t was supposed to have
been a tw0-rod street, but appears to
be three rods wide, which takes away
all the dooryards on that street. Alder
man Bowers brought up his East State
| street sidewalk scheme again, but no ac-
ton was taken, Mayor Shurtleff and
members Of the council urging lack of
funds. The Paragraph and the Poultry
/ association were given authority to use
the city hall subject to arrangements of
other organizations that have been
granted the use OF the hail. Hill street
Is under the process of repairs after
three years delay. The Past Grand as
sociation's request to conduct a street
dancing party was referred to the street
committee. Wire InspectoA Ladd was
| given a vacation to 20 to the fremen's
convention in Springfield, Mass. The wa
ter committee was given authority to
cut hemlock timber on city property,
the intent being to use it next summer
for plank sidewalks.
The thunder storm Of last evening
did quite little damage to the tele-
| phone lines running out Of Montpelier.
A meeting of the Montpelier Concrete
Products company was held last even
ing in the city court room.
A meeting of the Montpelier post Of
the American Legion win take place this
evening in the armory. Although the
officers have 100 members and are above
the city's quota in membership, they
want TO make bigger showing
The will of A. f. Denney was proven
in probate court this morning He re-
Gently died in Mortified.
Mrs. Thomas Sherman Of the educa-
| tional office in the new state building
who has been i'll with grip, is recovering
Harry A. Black, W. f. Scott and Ben
| iamin Gates, as state officials, to-day
signed the 81 900 bonds which have ar.
rived at the state treasurer's office, the
bids upon which will be opened Friday
afternoon in the state treasurer's office
The reports OF accidents this morning
included f. +. Campbell of Waterbury
reporting a son OF Frank McGrath Of
Waterbury running into Mr.. Campbel's
automobile, 1t appears that the boy ran
into the street, not seeing Mr., Campbell,
but Mr. Campbell was able to turn
| enuogh so that the child was not hit ,
but the child ran into the side Of the car,
His mother saw the accident and did not
blame Mr.. Campbell in any way.
The report .af the accident in which the
automobile of A. H. Temple OF Montpel-
! Ter and f. RI Bailey Of Graniteville were
involved was received this morning The
accident occurred in Barre. There were
some 20 accident reports this morning.
the most of which were adjacent to Rut-
land and that portion Of the state
/ Gapnrat VI r TnhuSon aud CoIon al
Walter Harvey went to St Adams last
evening OF visit the Office Of the machine
gun company and to-day are visiting
in Burlington relative to the organiza-
tion Of company in that city,
Willard Cotton, who has been suffer
ing for five weeks with an abscess back
Of one ear, is improving. An operation
has been performed, which is relieving
the pressure.