A WEEKLY JOURNAL DE 
Vol. V. No. 10 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAR. 9, 1907. 
24 Pages. ‘Three Cents. 
TOWN MEETING AT MANCHESTER. 
Annual Event Arouses Considerable Interest. A Little over $125,000 Ap= 
propriated thus far. 
change in other officers. 
Old Board of Selectmen Returned. 
Practically no 
Salaries and wage rate given quite a Boost. 
Meeting Adjourned to next Monday Evening. 
The annual Town Meeting, held in 
Manchester, Monday, all day, and on 
Tuesday evening, though lacking much 
of the old time enthusiasm, was alive 
with little flurries of excitement here and 
there asthe various matters were intro- 
duced, and taken all in all the 
meeting thus far has been quite interest- 
ing. 
Though only a little over $125,000 
has been appropriated thus far there yet 
remains almost that amount more to be 
voted upon at the meetings to follow. 
Tuesday evening in less than ten minutes 
over $74,000 was appropriated for var- 
ious purposes. 
The most amazing thing, perhaps, is 
the manner in which salaries and wages 
were increased. ‘This started with the 
firemen who got an increase of 100 per 
cent, and last but not least came the 
superintendent of streets who gets a raise 
of $300. The chief of the fire depart- 
ment’s salary is raised from $50 to 
$150, the two assistants from $50 to 
$100 each, and all the members of the 
companies from $25 to $50. 
The salary of the Town Auditor was 
doubled, from $250 to $500. ‘Two 
members of the board of selectmen re- 
ceived a raise of $100 each while the 
chairman gets $1000 as before. The 
rate of paying town labor is increased to 
30 cents an hour, or $2.40 a day of 
eight hours, and the price for teamsters 
will be $6 instead of $5. 
Among other important action was 
the vote to discontinue the privilege of 
allowing persons to take sand from Sing- 
ing beach, and in the future only persons 
having a written permit from the park 
commissioners can take away sand. 
GEORGE KIMBALL. 
Re-appointed Supt. of Streets of Manchester 
this week for 12th consecutive year. 
Three votes were taken on the matter 
Continued on next page. 
FRED K. SWETT. 
Re-elected to the Board of Selectmen. 
. 
EDWARD S. KNIGHT. 
Re-elected to the Board of Selectmen. 
WALTER R. BELL. 
Re-elected to the Boaid of Selectmen, 
