Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-16
domestic Mems.
Town Elections.


Town officers were elected in Mt. Vernon,
as follows: Moderator, Ezra kempton; Clerk,
A. 2. Cram; Selectmen, James X. Marston,
Gilbert Taggart James c. Rowland; Super.
Sch. Com, +. kempton, Sias Burbank,
James +. Blunt; Treasurer. Francis Lyford;
Collector and Constable, F. J. Cogswell.
CIISToN.-At the town election l4th inst,
the following officers were elected: ID. ii.
Bigelow, Moderator; Alpheus Rowell, Clerk;
Sargent Jewell, Geo. W. Farnham, Benz +.
Chase. Seectmen. All the above are Repub
licans, and were elected on an average major
itv of so. Geo. W. Parkman and ID. c. Per-
kins, S. S. Com. A. l.. Brown, Collie ctor and
Treasurer, were elected without regard to
politics. Town voted to raise for support of
Poor and pay other town claims, $1,000. For
support of schools $1,000. To liquidate town
debt $1,000 For roads and bridges $500.
Town voted to exempt from taxation for ten
years any property invested in manufacturing
in sum of $4,000 and upward also voted to
loan its credit (slO 1000 for ten years to any
person or corporation who should invest
$50, 900 and improvements in said town.
WINTHROP Town Ofticcrs.-W. II. Parlin,
Moderator; L. 2. Moody, Town Clerk ]. Il.
Nelson, X. f. Fuller, +. S. Briggs, Select
men and Assessors; ]. NJ Benjamin, Treas
urer; L. p. Baker, A. Bryant, Sup. School
Committee. Town grants--Schools 50 1861,
Poor, &c. 81 600, Highways, in cash, $500,
Inla nd
fences, S3l5. Officers all Republicans.
The vote in Belfast Monday was as follows:
Hayford, citizens candidate, 45S; Kaler,
straight democrat, 1885, scattering, Is; Hay
fords majority, III. The vote was small,
large number of the most prominent republic
cans refusing to go to the polls under the cit-
zen democratic coalition. Only a little over
half the vote of the city was polled.
In Naples, the 7th inst; Moderator, John
G. Cannell Town Clerk, Robert Edes; Sc
lectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor,
Washington Bray, Robert Edes and Enoch
Cannon; Agent, Washington Bray; Treas
urer, Enoch Cannon: S. S. Committee, Jas.
Doughty and John S. Clark; Collector, Dam
iel Richardson.
In Jay; Moderator, O. H. johnson; Clerk,
John ii. Merrill; Selectmen, r. p. Thomp-
son, John Hanson, Warren Leland; Treasur-
er, A. b. Macombcr,
In Albany; Clerk, H. d. Haskell; Select
men, Gilbert Wadwell, j. ii. Lovejoy, John
Hesselton Treasurer, j. II. Lovejoy; Agent,
II
mings; Constable and Collector, Amos G.
Beane. .@H
In Bethel; Moderator, A. l.. Burbank;
Clerk, l.. T. Barker; Selectmen, G. A. Hast
ings, T.. G. H. Wheeler, W. ii. Goddard;
Treasurer, II. A. Chapman; S. S. Committee,
Henry Goddard, d. Garland vt. True.
In Byron; Moderator, John Houghton;
Clerk, A. G. Reed; Selectmen, j. 4. Shaw,
J. G. Reed, John Houghton; Treasurer, NJ
w. Beedy. .
In Durham; Clerk, r. II. Haskell; Select
men, J. C. Merrill, j. II. Davis, William c.
Haskell; Treasurer, Jonathan Libbey, s. S.
Committee, Geo j. Williams.
In Dixfield: Selectmen, Luther II. Ludden,
Gustavus Hiscock, Scwell Dunn; Clerk, Geo
S. Holman; Treasurer, Hiram Nj. Cox; 5. 5.
John +. Holman. ~ e -ss efv
In Greenwood; Moderator, j. b. Currier;
Clerk, d. II. Crockett; Selectmen, Willard
Herrick, A. S. Herrick, N. X. Russell;
Treasurer, A. Hobbs; Tax Collector, p.
Wentworth; Agent, J. B. Currier.
In Gilead; Moderator, ID. L. Austin; Clerk,
]. w. Kimball; Selectmen, G. Burnham, j.
G. Larry, S. A. Coffin; Treasurer, William X.
Peabody; Agent, j. M. Beam S. S. Commit
tee, l.. ID. Bean.
In New Sharon; Moderator, II. Z. Dyer;
Clerk, H. f. Dyer; Selectmen, Assessors and
Oyerseers of the Poor. W. Smith, ID. L.
Swan, r. II. McLain; S. S. Commute, j.. G.