Year: 1872

TNs NeW Ioson HaN.-Well, here we arc. Next Monday is the day appointed for the citizens of Salisbury to meet at the "t0on haH /" to act upon thS various ques- tions proper to be acted upon at such meeting, and among them that moment ous question, ITO see what the town will do concerning the building of New Town Hall" It hardly seems necessary that we should say more in relation to this impor- tant matter, although in the past we have said but little, merely calling the attention of our people to their needs in regard to better accommodations in place for the transaction of the towns business, three or four times in the NRws, and it would not seem necessary to say much, as the fact that the town is among the most poorly provided for in that respect, in the State, and we think we can safely say in the United States, is patent in the minds of all it's citizens. Do the people need to be re- minded that the old shell which bears the euphoncous appellation of Ihe 7opn HaU | cf Salisbury is rotten from garret to eel lar? You dare not assemble on the upper stoop as many ss 8 dozen or twenty of you at time, for fear you will break it down, and although some may say that the larger part of the building is not quite so rotten as that varanda it must be, and is evident to all that it is not a fit place for the assem-

 bling of the large crowds which convene there on election days. The town records, as we'll as the almost invaluable records of land titles &c. have been preserved thus far, for which We ought all to be thankful, but how much credit is due the town that they are preservedr Fortunately no acci

 dent has happened to them; but is il because they have been properly preservedt by the town By no means A fire in the little isolated coop in which they are kept

 would most certainly have destroyed them

 as the building is SO small it would have

 been almost entirely consumed before it

 would have made 8 fire large enough to at tract attention. What excuse has the town

 for procrsstinating this matter? If it is best to wait another year or another centu- ry, let's by all means wait; but why is it OSSsSA HI 0hy ASoPSSs " "oH A4oo Ao1 thS

 town already waited until the present hall

 is about to refuse to serve them-ls in fact

 in tumble down condition Will the

 people be better able by and bye to build q new building? Never! The town of

 Salisbury is rich enough to transact its

 business in g palace. Is there man in town sufficiently blind to tke best interests

 of the town Ut large. as well as his own in- ! dividual concerns, to arise in that meeting } and make a motion that the article in rela 3 ton to the new hall be tabled, s'indefi nitely postponed" CT anything of the sort

 having in view a purpose to kill the arti

 cle? We think not. Let the people com, f together next Monday fully determined tt z vote for new town hall to be erected a soon as it can be done, consistently with it TT being properly and well done; for a build . ing that will be an honor to the town, hay 4 ing tire proof vault, suitable rooms fo :. the selectmen, town clerk &c. &c., as we o as large hall for the town meetings :, building every way suitable for the transat

 ton of the towns business.