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Show I THE BLNGYILLE BDGLE Th Leading Paper of tb County Bright, Breezy, BellicoM, Bustling vw sta k mr Brtto Sw lMPToiv atatatn r I gaUnTlM omt all UM From rmrt lining In. Tiw ekMpnt 4rOTuatac imii la ts Omv. It bllT la IM utMa. r rortkM HHnn aaU m c ium Ow dint. The regular merting1 of the Selectmen Se-lectmen was held in the Town Hall last Wednesday ev'g, and a a result re-sult a black cloud of callumny and disgrace and contumely hangs oyer Hank Dewberry, our Town Clerk, who, when eleckted to office, swore to perform the duties of his office to the best of his several ability. After the selectmen had set around in meeting assembled and chewed tobacker and talked about crops and horse racing an about tvervthin? thev could think of ex- There has been a awful lot of talk going - around town about what really become of them $1 and 74 cts. A good many people say that Hank Dewberry is a grafter and that Eph and Hen and Amaziah, our selectmen, ft in with him on it. Some has been so bold as to say they believe that the four divided up the $1.74 of the town's funds among themselves, and fixed up for Hank to say that he had went and lost the money outen his pocket. We don't know whether this is true or' not, but if it is, we insist on the matter being investigated. LATER AVe have just learned that the town selectmen are very indignant because they have been accused of graft and will hold a secret private session in the Town Hall next week to investigate, '..heir-selves '..heir-selves and prove their innocents to their own satisfacksion. The selectmen se-lectmen state that the reason they have been trying to shield Hank is because if they done anything to him they was afeerd that Seth Dewberry, Dew-berry, Hank's brother, who is Town Constable, would arrest them and put them in the lockup.' Let this matter be sifted down to the bitter dregs. cept something pertaining to the best interests of the town, Eph Hig-gins, Hig-gins, our P. M., who is also First Selectman and had charge of the meeting, called on Hank to make his report and to state plainly before be-fore the meeting what amount of funds, if any, had accumulated in the town treasury. Hank ariz kind of vhite around the gills and said he regretted to state that the amount of $1.74 which he had received from his predecessor he had went and lost outen a hole in his pocket, and hadn't been able to find same, and that therefore there was nothing in the treasury. This was a tumble shock to them present to learn that all the town funds has been swep away at one fell swipe, as you might say. Hank he sat down and leaned back and took another chew of tobailer kind of deefiant like. Chairman Higgins .said he calkilated that something ought to be did about losing the money and asked Amaziah Ama-ziah Gookins and Hen Weathersby, the two other selectmen, what they was in favor of doing. 'Amaziah and Hen said they was in hearty sympathy with anything which the chair saw fit to do about it. Eph asked Hank if he was willing to make up those $1 and 74 cents back to the town. Hank said he was willing to make' It up .as far as he was concerned, but that there was one pbjeckshkjn to doing this. Asked what this objecksion was. Hank stated that he didn't have a red cent to make it up . with, and didn't expect ex-pect to have, being as times was tumble hard and money very skeerce with him. After the selectmen had talked a while the meeting was adjourned without nothing, being did, and that's the way the matter now tandj . - .' J |