Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-09
domestic Nems.


Town Elections.
At the annual town meeting in Chelsea,
Monday, the following officers were elected:
Moderator, n. r. Winslow; Selectmen, As
SCISSORS and Overseers of the Poor, N. r.
Winslow, A. n. Douglass and S. W. Barker;
Town Clerk, S.. w. Barker; Treasurer and
Collector, S. w. Barker Experimenting
School Committee S. w. Barker, j. II. Hunt
and Stephen Cobb. The actual town debt is
S2lS550 Appropriation for schools, $1,000;
for support of the poor, $500; for highways
in money and labor, sl7O0; town charges,
$500; town debt and interest, sl050.
Town officers elected in Belgrade, March
eth Moderator, Thos. Eldred, DEM; Town
Clerk. John C. Taylor, dem; Selectmen,
Gilmore j. Page, dem., Geo. H. Ward, dem,
Henry W. Colder, rep; Treasurer, Rufus
X Stuart, Hichborn experimenting School
Committee, II. F. d. Wyman, dem. The re-
suit Of this election was Qccasioned by the
combination of the democrats and the HIGH
bornites, and by their taking for Sd Selectman
worthy young man, who is an active repub-
lican. A more hungry swarm than the democ-
racy never gathered around the polls, eager
for the spols, on the day of q municipal
election.
At the annual town election in Fairfield, on
Monday, the following officers were elected:
Moderator, James Plummer; Selectmen, <.
G. Pratt, A. N. Greenwood and James Plum
mer Town Clerk, Andrew Archer; Super
intending School Committee, S. S. Chapman.
Voted not to instruct the Selectmen to ap-
point or license an agent to sell intoxicating
liquors. The town, the past year, cleared
Sl262. SO through its sales of liquors.
The town election in Gorham, Monday, re-
suited in the choice of the following officers,
all republicans, by more than so majority !:
Moderator, Col. H. ID. Mcclellan; Town
Clerk, Capt. John Summersides; Selectmen,
Solomon P. Cloudman, Samuel F. Bacon,
Lewis Libby; Town Auditor, ii. ID. Mcclellan;
Collector, Elisha Douglass; School Committee
Rev. c. C. Parker, d. d.
In Norway the following officers were
chosen, all republicans except NJ. ?. Smith;
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the
Poor, Amos F. Noyes, NJ. P. Smith and G. F.
Lord; Town Clerk, E. H. Brown; Treasurer,
E. C. Shackley Town Agent, Sumner Burn
ham; School Committee, p. T. Merry, L. A.
Tabor and A. E. Dennison.
In Standish the republican ticket was elect
ed by about 80 majority. The officers are as
follows: ID. L. Lane, Moderator; Joseph S.
Thompson, Clerk and Treasurer; William H.
Dresser, Eliakim Wescott and Wilson Dow,
Selectmen; ]. s. Chase, School Committee !;
Merritt /. Paine, Constable and Collector;
Samuel o. Paine, Auditor.
West Bath chose J. w. Winter, Moderator
Henry Donnell Clerk; 1. Perry, S. Trufant
and VIM. Work, Selectmen; II. w. Adams,
School Committee and John Rich, Treasurer
and Collector.
d, We learn from the Herald that at the an
nual meeting of the Camden Village Corpora
ton held on the LIST inst, the following officers
were chosen Z. NJ. Wood, Moderator; John
son Knight, Clerk; n. c. Fletcher, E. M.
Wood and J. F. Stetson, Assessors; C w.
Follansbee, Treasurer; E.W. Gould, Collec-6
tor; H. f. Alden, Joseph Perry and A. d.
Merck, Fire Wardens. ~ ID
At the election in Readfeld on Monday
last the vote for town officers, was as
follows: Moderator, b. A. Robinson, 1914,
4. o. Bean 1O5, Scattering 8; LIST Selectman,
II. o. White, 1858, 4. S. Case l02, Scatter
8; End Selectman, Charles Kent, 1862, d. r.
Sampson 6s, Scattering /; Sd Selectman, M.
N. Cottle, 1872, A. w. Brainard, 60, Scatter.
ing 8. The other officers elected are, Town