The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-10

Next tuesday evening the CLERKS /
VIII play the -Rah, Rah's at the Ar
lington Alley.
Hiss Florence Doolin has resigned /
her position in the office at Whites |
shop and accepted a position at the
Orleans Trust Co.
The teachers of Newport City,
Derby and Derby Line are holding q
teachers conference each night this
week at the teachers room in the
West school building.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. r. Cook of Bar
ton were callers in town Thursday.
The Tuekabatchee class will hold
social tonight at the home of E. L.
Richards, Highland Ave. All mem
bers and friends of the class are in
vited.
Orders were received at the FEEDER
al building Monday to place the flag
at half mast until Utter the funeral
of Col. Roosevelt. On Thursday or
ders came to continue the flag at half
mast for 80. days.
Chamber of Commerce in Newport
At the special meeting of the board
of trade held Wednesday evening at
the City Council rooms, the report of
the committee on bylaws was receiv-
ed and ordered printed and sent to
the members, to be acted upon at the
regular meeting in March. By an in
formal vote taken it was the sense of
the meeting that the name Board of
Trade should be changed to Chamb-r
of Commerce, also voted. to raise a
fund Of $4,000 per year by dues
otherwise for the use of the Board.
The following resolutions were pre-
scented and adopted and ordered tele-
phoned to Burlington to be read at
a meeting of the Patrol committee
held at that place last evening:
At a meeting of the Newport
Board of Trade held at Newport, VT,
Jan. 8, 1919, the following statement
of its views regarding the Road Log
islation of Vermont was adopted and
the Secretary instructed to send a
copy to the Secretary of the Patrol
Committee and request that it be
read at its meeting in Burlington,
thursday evening, Jan. 8, 1919.
! We believe that Vermont needs and
should have in the immediate future
greatly improved roads.
+; We believe that all around inn
provement is more important to Ver-
monters as a whole than so called
trunk lines.
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improved and unfinished sections in
our main highways should be complet-
ed during the coming summer with
first class gravel construction.
/ We believe that all our main high
ways should be put in such a condi-
ton by widening narrow places,
changing the approach to bridges,
banking curves and removing every
thing which hides a proper view so
as to make it safe to travel continu-
ously on these roads at good rate
/ OF speed.
+! We believe that all improved roads
should be thoroughly and constantly
patrolled in such a way as to keep
them at all times in first class condi-
| ton.
We believe that while it is no doubt
T true that Y ermont must soon adopt
some form of hard surface roads for
Localities where the travel is excess
lsive that for a long time to come
the first class gravel road thorough
Fly patrolled will ordinarily be most
tpractical conditions.
We believe that the system of high
way administration we have had in
the. past has been most satisfactory
and resulted in a most remarkable
improvement in our highways and at
very reasonable expense.
F We believe that on that account
this system should be continued al
though some changes in details may
be desirable.
We believe that the policy of con-
structing selected roads under the di-
rectlon OF the state and in coopera-
ton with the town is a most favor
able feature of our highway system
and such faults as may be found with
this system are greatly outweighed by
the good effect it has in stimulating
the interest of all the people in good
roads.
We believe that every effort should
! be. made to encourage cooperation be-
|: tween the towns and the state as well
as between the state and the Federal
government, looking toward greatly
improved highways in our state. <