The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-11
VOTERS WILL TAKE
UP Ne VI ISSUES At
VILLAGE MEETING
Problems of Vital Interest Will
Be Discussed
WATER SYSTEM EXTENSION
Construction of Concrete Road
on West Main Street Will
Also Be Discussed

The annual village meeting will be
held at Free Library hall Tuesday,
March q. The meeting will be called
to order at the usual hour, o'clock
in the forenoon. but the business ses.
tion will probably be adjourned to
o'clock in the afternoon, as has
been customary for number o.
years.
In add tiou to routine business the
voters wi be called upon to act up
on some special problems, One is
the proposed construction OF an ad-
dit onal pipe rom the reservoir to
the source of supply for the village
water system Another Is the con
struction OF concrete paving on West
Main street connecting the perman.
ent street in this village WITH similar
construction by the village OF old
Remington last year thereby Great
ing permanent highway from
Branch street IN this village to Troy.
The different articles In the warning
follow:
Article /. To elect a President.
a clerk. treasurer. collector, a
corporation attorney, three auditors,
two trustees and two water commits.
sioners.
Article 2. To consider the re.
ports OF the officers Of said village
.or the years past,
Article 8. To see what sum. il
any, the village will appropriate to
pay the Bennington Fire Department
Article A. To see If the village
will vote to pay the Chef OF its Fire
Department the sum Of 5000 and 800
each to two assistant engineers Of
said Fire Department.
! Article s. To see II the village
will vote to exempt the members OF
the Fire Department from payment
Of poll tax in the ensuing year.
Article 6. To see II the village
will authorize It's trustees to install
a telephone in each OF the hose
houses of said village
Article T. TO see what sum, II
any, the village will vote TO apprepri.
ate to the Bennington Imp yement
Society for the care OF the cemetery
| grounds within said village and for
other village Improvements.
Article s. To see what sum, 4
any the village will appropriate TO
Ipay for the expenses OF free musical
entertainments or band concerts to
| be held within the village limits, and
! e. any sum is appropriated, to direct
by vote the tines and places for hold
ing each musical enterta 'nment or
band concert
Article g. To see what sum- #
any the village viii vote to appropri
ate for the construction of curbs. gut
/ ters and sidewalks in and upon the
streets OF said village during the en-
suing year
Article 10. To see what sum, Ii
any the village will vote to appro
pirate to the Public Welfare Associa
tion for the playground and recrea
t on purposes.
Article H. To see what sum, II
any. the village will vote to appropr
ate to and toward the extenton OF
the Village sewer system
Article r. TO see what sum, Il
any the village will vote to appropri
ate to and toward the extension OF
the village surface sewer.
Article l3. To see what sum. il
any, the village viii vote to appro
pirate for the purpose Of extension ot
the mains Of the waterworks system
Artic IA. To see what sum, il
any, the village will vote to pay it.
president and trustees for the ensu
ing year.
Article 10. To see what sum, il
Iany. the village will vote to pay It,
clerk in addition to the sum present.
ed by its bylaws Tor his services a.
such clerk for the ensuing year
Article l6. To see if the Village
wi vote to exempt from taxation
for a period not exceeding FIVE years
buildings erected hereafter, used anC
OCCUPIED exclusively as a home, eX
elusive Of land. and such exemption
to be limited in the aggregate as /,
valuation OF any one building to tn,
sum of $4,000
Article II. To see if the villag,
will vote to authorize its water com
lmlssioners to lay larger watei
main from the mountain springs t,
lthe village reservoir, in order to in
crease the supply OF water necessar!
to meet the demand,
Article 49, To see what sum, {
any, the village will appropriate fo
the extention of the permanent high
way Of the village on West Mali
street from the tracks of the Rutlan,
railroad company westerly to the eas
line of the village of Old Bennng
ton
Article 10. To see what tax tn
village will raise upon the Gran,
List to defray the expenses of tn
village for the year ensuing and t.
pay its indebtedness and to fix tn
time Tor the collection of such tax.
Article 90. To see If the villag
will vote to have the provisions O
chapters - and 13 of the Genera
Laws of Vermont and amendment
thereto apply to the next annua
meeting Of the village and to an
special intervening meeting thereo
Article q To transact any othe
business found necessary when me