The Press., 1920-01-15

The annual meeting of the corpora
 tors of the Johnson Memorial hospital
 will te held at the hospital next
 Monday at 8 D. m.
 At the meeting next Wednesday, of
 the w. R. C., there will be Installa- ton, followed by a supper. Eighteen
 members visited Burpee Corps last | Wednesday evening.
 A social and dance will be given on
 January 23, in the Odd Fellows hall
 by Myriad Rebekah Lodge It will be
 for the tenefit of the Odd Fellows infirmary. Admission will be 40 cents. There was good attendance at the forough meeting last evening. Prob ably no other meeting of the voters of this borough has been called when | there were so many important matters to te acted upon since the borough was organized. The first article in the
 warning was to see if the borough would vote to reconstruct the ma cadam on Furnace avenue. Warden Sheppard stated that the borough was short of money and it was the desire of the court of burgesses to see if the voters were in favor of either re- surfacing the present macadam on Main street at an estimated cost of three or four thousand dollars or the putting in of a cement road at an estimated cost of nine to fourteen thousand dollars. The matter was discussed and it was stated ly c. B. Pinney that Highway commissioner Bennett had told him within a few days that all arrangements had been made to resurface the macadam road on East street, from East Main street north with a tar IOund surface sim liar to the West Main street section and that there would be no new road constructor in Stafford the coming year except on this section. MT. Pin ney asked Commissioned Bennett if he would continue this resurfacing through East Main street and Main streets to West Main street. Commis- siOner Bennett would not promise to do this, neither did he refuse to. In view Of this fact it was decided not to take any action at this meeting. Ar tiele was to see if the borough would vote to proceed with the con- struction of the Furnace avenue sew ough on August 11th 1916. It was drought out that this section was not constructed as there was no suitable outlet for the sewer to enter into. It was voted to authorize the court of burgeSSeS to investigate and re- port at some future meeting an esti- mated cost of a suitable outlet for all the borough sewerage, to include the estimated cost of filter beds. Article 3 was to see if the tOrOugh will vote to pay a portion of the cost of an automobile fire engine. Warden Shep- pard spoke of the present inadequate fire fighting apparatus and the urgent need of a modern Automobile fire engine. He also stated that his com pany the Rhode Island Worsted O., stood ready to contribute 5000 towards the same. It was estimated that the cost would he about SIX or seven thousand dollars. It was voted that the torough luy an automobile fire engine and to pay a portion of the cost, and that the court of burgesses and chief of the fire department H. F. Wise, be instructed to investigate the cost and report at a future meeting. The 4th article was to see if the tOr- ough would vote to install a fire alarm system. Warden Sheppard stated that it was not thought necessary at this time to put in a modern fire alarm system but thought that some plan could be carried out to make arrangements for fire alarms to be given by the mill whistles when a fire was discovered in their section of the borough, so the firemen could tell in what section of the borough the fire was. It was voted to leave this to be and chief of the fire department. On article 5 in regard to the sprinkling of the streets it was voted to take no action. Article 9th was to see what action the voters would take regarding the issuance of bonds for the purpose of financing needed improvements. It was voted that Warden Sheppard appoint a committee of three to in vestigate and report plan for finan- cing the proposed Improvements and report at the next meeting. Warden | Sheppard during the meeting spoke again in favor of abolishing the bOr- Ough charter and have the town and | borough affairs conducted under one head