Word: snowes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateur from St. Paul, Minn. The record of her gay blades includes two summers of appearances in St. Paul's ice shows and dizzying twirls in more benefits and revues than she can name off-hand. Last winter she took a brief fling at monarchy as Queen of the snow and ice carnival at Carleton College, in, Northfield, Minn...
...important issue of property taxes was next to be considered. Last year, when it came time to have town meeting, the 92 miles of town roads were so badly drifted with snow that it was decided to raise the tax and buy a new $12,000 snow plow. There was much agitation this year to reduce the tax from its all-time high of $6 per $100 of assessed valuation...
...year; $2 for schools; $1.20 for the roads; 40 cents for the poor; and 50 cents for the town debt--a total of $5.50. Even though this still represents a substantial increase over the more usual $4 tax rate, the citizens of Calais took another look at their new snow plow and willingly agreed...
...clock, it had begun to snow again and the end of the warning had been reached, so the moderator adjourned town meeting for another year. The citizens of Calais, proud of New England's peculiar institution and generally pleased with the outcome of the elections, filed out of the Gospel Hollow meeting house and went home to do the chores before it got dark...
...already on the schedule and dickering now going on for dates with two New York clubs and the Bermuda team, the booters will continue to practice on Monday and Wednesday with ball-passing in the Blockhouse exercise room, conditioning on the track, and blackboard instruction in plays until the snow is off the turf...