Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-03
FROM SKOWHEGAN.
Postmaster Gould Will Make
No Change in Office Force.
No Truth in Report Of Consolidation
Of the Electric Roads.
First Maine Cavalry Reunion Dissatisfaction
Over Taxes.

| new postmaster, Hon. 5. w. Gould j.
in possession of the post Office He in
forms the Journal that he VIII MAKE M
changes in the personnel OF the offic.
| force. except the addition of Master
Harry Graves. who will be made spc-
cial delivery clerk.
| Much has been said of late and ru
mos have been published IN the pa
pers of the alleged proposition on the
| part Of the Somerset Traction 60. [.
purchase the Electric Railway system
! of the Skowhegan x Norridgewock Co
| The Journal called upon Hon. w. H.
| Wildes of the latter company today.
and from him gathered the following
| facts:
Il have never beard Of any such pro-
| position, except lumorS on the street
and what has been published in the pa =
| prTs. The SkoWh. gan a. Norridgewncis
CO. has no desI=a to sell. never has re
| ceived any proposition from the Som .
"rset Traction co. ana should not sell
If such proposition vas made Tie
tracks Of our company have beer!
closed in by the last great storm and
ice, and the bridge which was damaged
by h" flood has not been in condition
for travel. until today.
oar company ut crew ol m,.n on
the bridge and the work was com e
| pieted. yesterday To-day. !; Grey Of
men are al woc< digsin,; out the rails.
and in Il few dnys now we win be nm
ing again all right"
| The lst Maine Cavalry took pom
nent part in the jate war and the reei-
mant was pres M al the surrender Of
Lee. the Somerset branch Of tn" ist
| .dainc Cavalry Association holds an.
nual meetings ana banGuets on th4 9th
| day 81 APRIL. in con.memorati"n Of
Lees surrender, ana these occasions
| ar always looked forward 20 by the
| veterans in this ~icirits With consider
able pleasant anticipation.
This year, on the SIN of thu, present
month. the members OF the ASSOCIATION
together with invited guests Will hold
the annual meeting for the election of
officers and banquet at the Skowhegar
house. The present officers Of the asso-
citation are: Joan Wyran. president:
y. F.. Bickford, vice president: II.
Narney. secretary. Among the speakers
vii be the venerable DIR. S A. Patten OF
Russell Post, and G.. b. Stafford The
association is composed of SkcWh he
gan's beSt-known men.
In connection with the corporation
| meeting Of next Saturday. it NAV be
Well to state that there is considerable
dissatisfaction among the heavy tax
payers over the manner in which the
meetings of the corporation are con-
frnllpi hy-
special matters to bring before the
meetings. Section 10 of the act of the
Legislature of 1852. entitled: An act
to incorporate the SkoWhegan and
Bloomfield Village Corporation" reads
as follows:
Sec. 10.-All persons liable to be
taxed for polls. residing in the limits OF
said corporation shall be legal voters
at any meeting of said corporation"
Now arises the property holders who
say this should not be. Residents
who are not even naturalized citizens
of the United States. but who are liable
to poll tax have the same rights
privileges and power as the naturalized
citizens who pay the tax on the Coburr
Wooden Mills. This is a good argument
for the taxpayers who don't want to
push some scheme through a corpora
ton meeting. If a large corporation
wants to push pet scheme of its OWL
the management can control big vote
from those who pay only a poll tax.
The pinch comes on the man who
pays a big tax on real estate upon n,
great number of people are employed
This man who may own stores and
hnlISpS Of tho "a in, ha
the largest corporation in town. but ]
don't control any considerable number
of votes. OF course there are more in
dividual estates than there are corpora
tons hence the kick The writer who
for p years resided in this town does
not remember of an instance where
large corporation attempted to control
a corporation by bringing in thei,
help. but on the contrary does remem-
Der where some less than the averag,
taxpayers has tried to win out som,
scheme by appealing to the poll-tay
payer and arousing a little boom of his
own.
But the fact remains that the evi'
exists and more than likely. SO the
temperance people believe an effort will
be made to get control of the meeting
of Saturday, by inducing many POP
taxpayers to go into the meeting anO
hight out their issue for them The
same thing it was claimed was done
at Brunswick in 1894. when the towr
voted 70 put in u system of sewerage
IT next Saturdays meeting resolves |
itself into a case of the temperance
element against that of intemperance
the church people Will be the losers foI |
the most conversative citizen is free to
that he believes the pro-
law is as Well, if not better
enforced in Skowhegan, than any ether |
town in the State