The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-02
MONTPELIER
Drafted Man, G. L. Blanchard, Elected
Mayor Under New System.

The annual March meeting in Mont
pelier passed off in quiet manner. ~
resembed, according to the older resi-
dents, the style of meetings that used
| to take place back in the township
DAYS only that the nominating speeches
were not heard, the nominations hav-
ing been made by certificate. The city
council is reduced from six to tour
members, and an entirely new board
was elected George l.. Blanchard, who
was drafted into being a candidate by
his friends who circulated his nomina-
| tion papers and did his campaigning,
was elected by about go votes over j.
| p. Galleher. who served five years on
the board of aldermen. The standing OF
the four candidates for mayor was:
Blanchard 500; Galleher, Al; T. {.
Bowers, Dol; w H. Farrar, g. The
scrap between the different candidates
! for aldermen was interesting and 1t
was not known, excepting as to ID. ~.
Lille, until the last vote was counted
as to who was elected. BY the change
| in the charter two men were elected Tor
one wear and two for two years. The
result of the vote for one year was:
Lille. us; L. b. Brooks, All; +. II.
Deavitt. 400 +. T. Steele, 1886; Harry
Biapchi 2l3. In the vote for two men
| for two wears the vote was: X. NJ.
Fraser, 4S4; G. +. Carpenter, 476; j.
II. Gowdey, 473; l.. H. Atherton, 432;
IJ. f. Maroni, 237. Mr.. Blanchard is
president of the Capital Savings Bank
and Trust Co. and affiliated with sew
eral public utilise of the city. OF the
! aldermen Mr.. Lille and Mr.. Fraser are
successful granite manufacturers. Mr..
Carpenter is state purchasing agent
and Mr.. Brooks merchant.
The other officers elected were: Clerk
and treasurer, T. r. Merrill; lister, l..
| II. Pollard; auditors, l.. II. Bixby, +.
/ r. Pitkin, G. X. Lyons; cemetery com
missioner, w. S. Smith; park commits
sioner, A. ID. Farwell, all reflections.
The other business of the meeting
was handled as follows: Upon motion
Eof John Adams, $1,000 was approprlat-
ed for the support OF Heaton hospital;
and on motion of j. G, Brown 500 for
Decoration day exercises. Upon motion
! az w. n. Theriault three per cent OF
the grand list was voted for the sup
port OF the band and district nurse, ST.
/ BOO Of which shall be for the band, the
number of concerts having been re-
duced from Is to u, which will give a
larger appropriation for the district
nurse. Ii developed in the remarks OF
Mr.. Theriault that GOV. Hartness gave
the Woman's club who has charge OF
the district nurse work, $500, and that
] l.. f~,- ! he, httx- NJ
| OF an automobile for the nurse to use.
The motion of +. H. Deavitt provid
ed for tax OF So 05 of which there IS
1871 school tax, SOP for current ex-
penses, three cents for county tax. OF
! the current expenses 20 cents shall he
direct state tax and 10 cents on dol
! lar 20 into the sinking fund. The re-
/ funding Of outstanding bonds was lett
with the council. This carried with IT
S7s 900. asked by the school commits
sioner for schools.
The last named matter furnished
some opportunity for word explosion in
which the anger that is said TO have
4 prevailed in the board of school com
! missioners was let out Ira II. Richard
son. who retired from the board and
who recently published minority re-
port. started the conversation by back
! ing up his report in which he criticised
the school work, stating that $1,000 OF
an increase in salaries is divided among
four teachers, while teachers Of more
ability and in the grades were not
raised as they deserve. II j. NJ. Jones
responded stating that Mr., Richardson
had been given every chance to make
good on the board and claimed that the
criticism was uncalled for and unjust,
that out OF 90 children who have gone
to colleges only three have failed and
those were children who had not been
certified. f. a Rowland also replied,
stating that what Mr. Richardson had
said about the school was unwarranted.
| He had claimed Mr.. Richardson was
| looking after his own interest in
rival school. Mr. Richardson waxed
warm and replied All speakers received
rounds Of applause, showing the voters
enioyed the airing OF the school al
fairs. F. NJ Cory endeavored TO place
oil on troubled waters by stating that
if the 81 tax was not enough then he
wanted TO give the school board more.
Henry Holt also spoke upon the schools
Of the city as seen by outsiders with
whom he had talked. His remarks were
| favorable to the schools.
Upon motion of Mr.. Deavitt the city
appropriated 81 900 for permanent road
work The council, upon motion OF II.
w. Kemp, is authorized 10 bond not
to exceed $4,000 for permanent street
between State street and School street.
Nav F. Wheeler will be paid S225
for a morse which was mired in the
mud and died last spring. The council
did not have authority to pay for the
horse, the laws not permitting this.
There was some opposition TO forming
this precedent, Harry Hawkins having
1 lost a horse last summer while EN-
ploSed by the city. while ]. NJ. Bout
wells valuable stallion was injured by
failing into a hole in the road this
winter.
The vote on the $4,000 bond issue
for the county tuberculosis hospital
was in favor Of it 937 and against il
276. The American Legion can have
free use of the armory for another
wear. The transportation of parochial
school children viii again be paid by
the city and $1,000 was appropriated
for indexing Of records in the city
lclerk's Office The school commissioners