Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-11
Town Elections.


and that the Collectorship should beput up at
auction. 1t was put up, and bid eff by David
Wadsworth, who gave $50 for the pfiuilege.
The town voted to raise 81, 800 opay town
charges, and support the poor, 80, 900 for tho
support of common schools,-$6OO for sup
port of high school, $4,000 to repair roads
and bridges, appropriated the same as last
year.
There was quite sharp contest for Town
Officers, between the Democrats and Wings,
which resulted in the success of the latter, by
pluralities varying from Is to 30. The Free
Sellers, about 80 in number, made no nomin-
alton, and not one of them voted for either
selectmen or assessors
The Town Officers are as follows:
Tocn C1erk-Lyman Sibley. Selectmen and
Ogerseers of the Poor-David Rice, John Be-
mis-, Jason W. Halves, John A. Allen, Al
pheus Harding. Assessors-Jason Gorham,
Silas Bemis, Jr., Loring F. Woods. Treas
awer-Grover Spooner. School Committee
Rev. C. NJ. Nichols, Rev. H. P Andrews, Or.
Geo. Brown.
AsHBuRNHAM.-At the Annual Meeting in
this town, it was voted to raise $4,000 for
town charges, $500 for schools, and $500
for highways, the current year.
The following Town Officers were elected.
Moderator-Col. Enoch Whitmore Se1ectnen,
assessors, and Ooerseers eff the Poor-John
A. Conn, Ohio Whitney, Jr., Jerome w.
Foster School Comm,ittee-John A. Conn,
DR.. Alfred Wilder, Elliott Moore; Treasur-
edward Sawyer; Consta5les-Marshall
Wetherbee; Addison A. Walker, 1. W.
knight; Collector = Marshall Wetherbee;
Togn Clerk-Charles Stearns.
OAKHAM.-Seleetn,en Sullivan Dean, Adm
Bullard, Russell Ripley, David S. Ross,
Loren Haskell assessors, Sullivan Dean,
David S. Ross Lewis N. Haskell. Treasw-
er, Sullivan Dean. Clerk, Mark Haskell.
School Committee, Rev. James Kimball, DR..
S. P. Martin, William Lincoln. Collector,
| Sullivan Dean.
| WINcHENDoN.-At the Annual Meeting in
this town, series of spirited and patriotic
resolutions was passed in opposition to TIE
| Nebraska fraud.
The following Town Officers were elected.
Se1ectmen, Orersecrs Of the Poor, and asses
sors-Oliver Adams, NJ. Partridge, Daniel
Caswell To,on Clerk-W. Whitney; Treas
wer-R. R. Day; School Committee-A. P.
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PRINcEToN.-The following are the NUM-
cipal officers of this town, for the current
year. To'on Clerk-D. H. Gregory; Select
mea-Geo o. Skinner, Benz. Holden, Paul
NJ. Mirick Assessors-Joseph Whitcomb, S.
G. Mirick, S. Richardson; Ooerseers of the
Poor--Silas Keyes, A. G. Howe, Chas.
Chandler; Constables-Jno. B. Fay, Solo
mon J. Burpee; Treasurer and Collector
Phineas E. Gregory.
TowN OFFICERS IN LEICESTER, 1884,
Henry A. Denny, Moderator; Joseph A. Dem
ny, Tosom Clerk; Josephus Woodcock, Otis
Whittemore, Joshua Murdoch, Jr., Elijah
Kimball; Samuel L. Hodges, SeIectmen; Hor-
ace Howard, Christopher C. Denny, Jonas L.
Warren, assessors; Charles S. Knight, A. G..
Denison, ]. P. C. Cummings, School Commit
tee; Charles S. Knight, Treasurer and Co11ec-
tor; Joseph A. Denny, To,On agent.
NORTH BRooKF1ELD. Hiram knight,
Clerk; David w. Lane, Daniel Whiting, Dan
iel r. Knight, VIM. Duncan, Jr., Pliny X.
Howe, Selectnen; Homer R. Prouty, Lewis
Whiting, Elijah Bates, assessors; VIM. Dun
can, Jr., Collector; Timothy P. Clark, Treas
urer; Timothy P. Clark, John Gilman, Con-
stables; Rev. G. Cushing, DR.. w. Tyler, JAS
H. Hill, Esq, School Committee.
WEST BRooKFIELD, March 0, 1S54.-Se-
1ectmen, Chandler Giddings, Joseph Dane, jr.
Joseph w. Wood, Braman Sibley, John R.
Snow; Toon Clerk, Jacob Dupee Town
Treasurer Oliver s. Cooke: assessors, VIM.
R. Thomas, Bowman Stone, D. L. Morril,
Esq. Constables, Chas. Butler, Chas. Kim
ball.
Resolutions, strongly condemnatory of the
Nebraska bill, were unanimously passed, and
ordered to be sent to our representative in
Congress.
New BRAINTREE.-At the town meeting in
New Braintree, last Monday, the following
town officers were chosen:
H. A. Delano, Tovn Clerk; Charles VIII
cox, Moses Pollard, Josiah P. Gleason, Joseph
NJ Green, VIM. A. Mixter, Selectmen; Amory