The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-03-13
MAINE TOWNS.
Richmond.

One of the longest sessions of town meet
ing ever held in Richmond was that of Mon
day, the hall being crowded for six hours
and half before the warrant was finished
Inc following officers were chosen
Moderator-W. S. Hagar.
Town Clerk. X. Cunningham
Selectmen, Overseers and Assessors-Frank j.
Bnker, Geo Newell Daniel Brown.
reaN urer-Wm. Ii. Stuart,
SuDervisor-D. S. Richards
Iown Agent-Frank j Buker.
Auditorium. s. Hagar
Collector of Taxes-H O. Reed who bid off the
conecuon az 125S mills on the dollar
Ifuant Omcer-J. +. Call.
The appropriations amounted to $15,937,
being $10,363 less than last year; $500 were
voted for highways; $4,000 for schools, in
Guiding free high school; S377 for free text
books, $500 for poor $1,000 for reduction of
town debt, and S2050 for hydrant rental;
also $50 for Memorial Day, and $500 for pur-
chase of fire hose and payment of hose COM
panies.
The proposition to hire night watch was
voted down, and the question of lighting the
streets by electricity or kerosene failed to Sc
three new stee as was accepted e dg e V vote OF
the municipal year was changed from Feb.
20 to Feb. 1. 1t was voted to charge per
cent interest on taxes remaining unpaid at
the end OF the municipal year; to tax dogs;
and twenty cents per hour for yoke of oxen
for work on the roads; to raise $25 to per-
feet the list of biIths and deaths in the town,
and to erect suitable building in which
tramps shall be required to saw certain
amount of wood in payment for their EN-
tertainment" by the town, the wood to be
used at the different school houses; 307
ttramps were cared for by the town during
the past year.
The ice moved away away at rapid rate
Qnrinp the nd i'm
causing the companies to suspend running
into their houses, but the cold of the past
three nights has hardened it up, so that sew
eral companies have resumed operations.
Fairfield.
Lumbermen on the Kennebec are uneasy.
The recen heavy rains have nearly put an
end to their hauling to the landings and al
so carried off large per cent of the snow.
Unless we get another big rain to swell the
streams, after the ice goes out, there will be
difficulty in getting the logs into the main
river Dependent as sc many are upon lum-
Dering interests for employment the feeling
OF uneasiness is very natural
The Standard Oil Company has invaded
Somerset county and is already delivering
oil in bulk to our tradesmen, driving here
three times week from Waterville.
The ladies' of the Universalist Society will
and evening: A grand sale of fancy articles
Is advertised, c supper for the town, a
| stage entertainment and social dance all
| for 80 cents. Ii one fails to get his mon
| ey's worth, provisions will be made for him
| in the future.
| But little interest has been manifested in
| the doings at Augusta. save as they relate to
| the sawdust BILL and that has finally been
liked to the satisfaction of everybody. The
| craze Ior Young away money is severely con-
| 0Gmna0 nv Of tha
who go in for small appropriations in every
| case and fight all public bequests
The hotel question Is still on the boards
but Will probably be settled one way or the
| other this coming week with the indications
pointing to a change in ownership. The
marked success scored by the would-be pur-
| chaser In the Lancy House, Pittsfeld, has
provoked considerable interest in the matter
| here, and there is a strong desire to get Mr.
| Blackden as landlord. If he comes we shall
have new house and that is very much
| needed in Fairfield
| The building outlook is not very promising
| though number of small houses will prob.
ably be erected, and it is by no means impos
| sible that new church will be seen here be.
| fore the season closes.
The great industry, outside of lumber, is
horses, and we doubt if any town in the
| State can show better lot of horses than
can be seen in Fairfield. The interest in
breeding seems on the increase, and fine
class OF drivers are TO be seen on the streets
while fast trotters multiply all about us.
The Kennebec Framing Company's mill
has not yet started, but will very soon, and
that too with full crew. Already orders
are coming in and contracts closed for ready
made houses and barns, and the indications
are good seasons work. The mathemati-
cal precision with which work is carried for
ward removes all possibility of accidents, and
insures character of work impossible by
hand labor alone. Eighty men are here en-
ployed making ready-made buildings.
| The horse railroad will continue to run by
horse power, as the amendments tackled on
| to the bill by the Senator from Waterville
| virtually killed it. The cars were on run
ners few days at Christmas time, and have
| just got back on wheels after running two
| weeks on the snow. The winter has truly
been remarkable, and the business of the
road equally so. Doubtless before two year:
the general public will become familiar with
electricity and join in the request for add
| tional powers.