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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING IN MANCHESTER | 
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Vote to Spend $53,000 on Streets and to Install Electric 
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System of Street Lighting. 
Edward 8S. Knight 
After being in-session two even- 
ings and part of one day, Manches- 
ter’s annual Town Meeting may be 
said to have only got a fair start 
when it adjourned Tuesday evening 
to next Monday evening at 7.30 
o'clock. That is, it had only start- 
ed when the number of articles dis- 
posed of is the thing considered. Of 
the 66 articles in the warrant only 
fifteen or sixteen had been acted 
upon. The greater part of the time 
Monday evening was taken up in a 
discussion of highway matters. 
Not so much as to how much should 
be spent, but as to how to spend it, 
—whether by town labor or by con- 
tract. It was finally voted that the 
special appropriation of $30,000 for 
new construction should be spent 
by having the work done by con- 
tract, but not until Supt. of Streets 
Crombie admitted to the voters that 
ke would have to go out of town to 
get help, and even then it would 
take until next fall to complete the 
work. The regular appropriation 
of $23,000 will be spend in repair- 
ing the streets. 
Tuesday night’s session was 
taken up with the discussion, for 
Lyman W. Floyd 
Manchester’s Board of Selectmen for 1915. 
most part, of whether or not to ¢on- 
tinue with the ‘present system of 
lighting the streets with the Wels- 
bach gasoline lights, or have the 
Manchester Electric Co. install elee- 
tric lights. It was finally voted by 
a decided majority to have electric 
lights. 
The total appropriations so far 
amount to $99,600. Last year $101,- 
384 had been appropriated at the 
Monday morning session. The year 
before the figures were $196,488 at 
the morning session. 
One reason why things are so 
much different this year is because 
there is a change in moderators. 
Raymond C. Allen had been honor- 
ed with the office for some years 
and had put through the buisness 
with despatch. Charles C. Dodge 
was elected this year. Usually the 
moderator is elected by a mere 
handful of voters when the meeting 
convenes at nine o’clock. This year, 
the hall was well filled, and a ree- 
ord vote ‘of 162 was cast. Of this 
number Mr. Dodge received 119 
and Mr. Allen 52. 
The surprise of the election was 
the defeat of Geo. R: Dean for 
Frank G. Cheever 
selectmen. Nearly everyone ac- 
cepted it as granted that Mr. Dean 
would be returned; he lost by only 
20 votes. The successful candidates 
were Edward S. Knight, Frank G. 
Cheever and Lyman W. Floyd. The 
only other contests were in the Park 
Board, between J. S. Reed and Al- 
fred E. Parsons, Mr. Reed being re- 
turned by a splendid majority; and 
in the water board, where Senter 
Stanley was re-elected by a large 
vote over Alexander Robertson. The 
town remains in the no license eol- 
umn, though the majority was not 
so marked as last year. 
The meeting was called to order 
at nine o’clock Monday morning by 
Town Clerk A. S. Jewett, who read 
the Warrant. The fireworks ‘start- 
ed promptly with the election of a 
moderator, as stated above. Mr. 
Dodge thanked the voters for the 
great honor conferred upon him, 
saying that this was the one occa- 
sion in the year when all the citi- 
zens met on one common level, when 
all had an equal say. He expressed 
the desire for a good old time demo- 
cratic town meeting. ‘‘Let us @is- 
