Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-08
GARDINER.
City Government Meeting Diphtheria
Once Officers OF Ladies' Aux
iliary OF A. o. U. VA Lively Run
away and Other Items.

GARDINER. May :.
Mr.. Chas Buzzell and wife left for short
trip to Boston today.
Mr. Chas. F. Trask recently sold a fine
pair of drivers to /. c. Atkinson of Portland.
The price paid was in the vicinity of $500.
The entertainment in the Y. NJ C. A.
rooms Friday evening, promises to be most
excellent one. In addition to vocal and in
strumental selections, recitstions, etc, Mrs
Henry Richards has consented to read sever
81 pieces. This fact cannot fail to attract q
large and select audience.
Mr., VIII B. Stevens formerly of Randolph
aud now discount clerk in the North Bank
in Boston arrived i ] the city this afternoon
on short visit to friends. He was accom-
panied BY his sister Miss Nellie Stevens
At the regular monthly meeting of the city
government held last night the following
business was transacted:
4. II Potter was given permission To pu,
in hay and coal scales IN front of his pro-
posed office on the south side of Maine ave-
nue..
Roll of bills No. to the amount OF
sl7l6.al was approved and ordered paid
Petition of f H. Pottle and other. wa.
received and referred to the joint standing
committee on laying ,ut new streets. Said
petition pleads for the city fathers to take
into consideration the improving and laying
out Of Railroad street, so called. at South
Gardiner, commencing at the county road
near the depot in South Gardiner and run
ming due west to as great distance as the
city government shall deem advisable.
The board of aldermen then took up the
appropriation bill. They voted to non-con-
cur in the items of $500 for the public
| library and s2500 for water rent. substitut
ing 500 for the public library and Sl55C
for water rent. The bill was then cent dosr
to tie lower branch for concurrence, bu
that body voted to insist on its previous &C
ton relating to the public library, concur
| ing with the board in their amendment to the
water rent, and asked for a committee OF
| conference on the library matter. The fol
| lowing were appointed: Councilmen f. W
Morrell, Chas. H. GRAY and Smith r. Nor
rell and Aldermen Perry and Fuller Tha
committee reported 500 and the report vas
rejected The common council voted td
insist on the report of the conference com
mittee and sent it up to the aldermen, but
that body adjourned without further action
on the matter.
In common council it vas
Ordered. the board of aldermen concur
ring, that the joint standing committee or
street lights be and are hereby instructed to
contract with some responsible party for
forty-ive arc light dynamo of 1900 candle
power. together with 35 lamps, wires, poles
and fixtures set ready for the application o.
power to run the same. And that said com
mittee contract with some responsible partJ
to furnish power TO run, or power and run ths
same, for period of five years at an amount
not to exceed the offer already made by tn.
Oakland Manufacturing Co. and it is furthel
ordered. the board of aldermen concurring
I that the necessary expenses for establishin,
said plant to be provided for by a temporar,
( loan to be paid in 1890.
1 The above order was tabled in the bosrd o
aldermen
In executive session the board of alderme
voted that the sprinkling of the city atreets b.