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NORDTHs SHORE BREEZE 
March 9, 1917. 
~Manchester’s Annual Town Meeting 
Vote to Spend $227,457.72 Thus Far 
Little Change in the Town Officials 
Police Get Raise in Pay — Town Labor 40 Cents an Hour 
GEORGE R. DEAN 
EDWARD S. KNIGHT, Chairman 
SAMUEL L. WHEATON 
Manchester’s Board of Selectmen for 1917 
Peace and quiet reigned supreme at 
Manchester’s annual town meeting, 
Monday. Practically everything ask- 
ed for went through without a mur- 
mur; there was very little discussion 
on anything, and. only slight touches 
of old-time excitement. 
The closing scene revealed why all 
had been so quiet; the town laborers 
wanted an increase in pay. They 
have been getting 35 cents an hour. 
They asked for 40 cents, and they got 
it. There was no particular line of 
discussion on it. One of the Finance 
Committee wanted the question put 
before a committee to report at an ad- 
journed meeting, but the laborers 
thought the best committee to act on 
it was the crowded hall, and then and 
there it was voted upon. As far as 
we known Manchester pays its town 
laborers better than any other town 
or city in the Commonwealth. 
A total of $227,457.72 was appro- 
priated, $191,032.37 of it at the morn- 
ig session. Of course this is not all. 
More will be voted upon at the ad- 
journed meeting. 
It was the stormiest day of the 
winter; a veritable blizzard raged all 
day. Despite this 486 voters were 
out during the afternoon for the elec- 
tion, and the hall was filled with vot- 
ers during the evening. There were 
about 200 voters in the hall during 
the morning. 
The election of officers did not 
bring any great changes. Edward S. 
Knight and Samuel L. Wheaton were 
returned to the board of selectmen, 
RAYMOND C, ALLEN, Moderator 
Reelected to the School Board for 
three years 
and former Selectman George R. 
Dean was elected a new member of 
the board to take the place of Frank 
G. Cheever, who was not a candidate. 
FE. P. Stanley was returned as treas- 
urer and collector and in the contest 
for town town clerk Lyman W. Floyd 
defeated Walter R. Bell by a comfort- 
able margin. Alfred S. Jewett, whe 
had served in that office the past 29 
years, has retired from office. The 
closest vote of all was for the unex- 
pired term of one year in the office of 
the board of assessors. F. C. Rand 
and J. S. Reed were the candidates. 
Mr. Reed received 213 votes and Mr. 
Rand 212. There will be a recount. 
William Till was reelected to the park 
board—the only other contest. The 
town went no-license by a comfort- 
able majority. The full vote will be 
found in another column. 
The complete list of appropriations, 
most of which were made at the 
morning session, will be found on an- 
other page. These were made for 
the most part without discussion. It 
is understood that, in making the ap- 
propriation in the Tree Warden’s de- 
partment $800, fully $300 will be 
‘spend for planting new trees. 
It was also brought out at the morn- 
ing session that the old unused chemi- 
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