Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-31
AT THE CAPITOL.
Annual Meeting Of State Board Of
Health Held, Monday.
Assessors Will Be Busy on Wild Land valu'
ations-Capitol Gossip.

| House, the members all being present.
DR.. C. d. Smith was unanimously re-
elected president, ard the following
commit aes were chosen fer the ensn-
ing year:
F'inance-E c. Jordan, F. c. Robin
son, NJ. c. Wedgewood and Secretary
| Young.
| Circulars and other publications
A. r. c. Smith G. NJ. Woodcock and
Secretary Young.
Sewerage and drainage and the dis
posal of excreta-E. c. Jordan, =. G.
Robinson. A. r. c. Smith, G. NJ Wood
cock
Ventilation-M C. Wedgewood and
f. c.. Jordan.
Summer resorts-E. c. Jordan, II. c.
Wedgewood and President Smith
Water and water supplies-F. G.
| Robinson. NJ. C. Wedgewood and Sec
rotary Young.
Schoolhouses and school hygiene
| f. C. Robinson, NJ. c. WedGeWood ard
Secretary Young.
| On the production and use of vaccine
| lymph, anti-toXin and other inocula-
ton materal-C. d. Smith.
uarantine-President Smith, n. c
| Wedgewood, G.. NJ. Woodcock and Sec
rotary Young.
Legislation-Secretary Young, Fresi
dent Smith and NJ. c. Wedgewood.
| Experimental work with loW-cost
steam NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Young
| and f. c. Robinson.
Secretary Young reported on a visit
| during the winter to Pittstield to add
| wise the local board of health in con-
nection with proper places for cutting
! ice supplies for local consumption. The
secretary also reported the results Of
| a visit to Bar Harbor in connection
| with a malignant outbreak of fever
| which terminated in the latter part Of
| December.
Professor Robinson reported that
| favorable progress had been made in
his work for the board OF determining
the dsinfecting value of formc aide
| hyde and lin devising a lamp for the
generation of formic aldehyde gas
The secretary was instructed to col
lect information as soon as practicable
in relation to the disposal of wastes
from tanneries, and to present at the
next meeting of the board a review of
the laws which exist jim other states
for the control of the sale Of illumi-
| mating oils.
A resolution was passed urging cities
and towns to make Careful census. at
least once in two years, and forward
the same to the registrar of vital stat
istics
| Clerk Plummer of the board of asses
sors, is one of the busiest men in a
State office. At the present time he IS
engaged in arranging the prelimina-
ries for performing the summer work
which will be done by the assessors.
Beginning the first of May, the mem
! berS of the board will visit the wild
lands of the State for the purpose of
obtaining their valuations. The fol-
lowing counties contain wild lands:
Aroostook, Franklin Hancock, Oxford,
Penobscot Piscataquis, Somerset and
| Washington. Aroostook heads the list,
| having 2,S10S78 acres of Wild lands,
according to the last valuation.
| The wild lands are visited only once
in two years, and meetings with the
| local assessors relating to the taxation
| Of tal.
| two years. All the valuations obtained
are placed in the annual report, which
gives in a simple form the work OF the
assessors during the year.
Representatives w. l.. Littlcfield Of
| Belfast, and w. II. Wildes of Show
hogan, were visitors to the Capitol,
Monday
Major G. J. House is in receipt of a
letter from an old comrade, whom he
name is Newton S. Grout, formerly of
Monroe Me. and he is now located at
Sedalia, Douglass county, Colorado
He was the drummer boy in Company
| f of the list Maine Heavy Artillery
The major had always supposed thai
Comrade Grout had died years ago, but
the other day, by pure accident, his
| whereabouts were aScertained Majo,
House has sent Il record of his Old
company. giving business and posi-
office address of those living, and date
of death of those who have died since
the war, which will undoubtedly u.
interesting reading to the comrade il
that far distant state.
Assessor George Pottle of Lewiston
will be at the State House, today.
The following new corporation filet
its certificate at the secretary o
States office, Monday:
The New England Weighing Ma
chine Company, organized at Portland
for the purpose of acquiring patents
and inventions relating to weighn;
machines, and manufacturing, sellin.
and dealing in weighing machines
with 100000 capital stock, of which s.