Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-03-27
AT STATE HOUSE.
News and Notes Gathered Under the
State Capito|'s Dome.
Assessors Will Be Busy. This Ycar-ln the
School Department.

Beginning the first of May. when the
snow has all disappeared and when the
travelling is excellent, the State asses
sors will have hard row to hoe, usin2
common expression, until the autumn
comes again. The members of the
board, Hon. Otis Hayford of Canton
Hon. w C. Marshall of Belfast, ac
companied by Clerk Plummer. Will
visit every county in the State for the
purpose Of holding meetings with the
various local assessors regarding the
taxation of property.
This is year that the valuation Of
the State viii be made up by the A.
SCISSORS. They will also make a report
Dec. /. to the Governor and Council
which in turn will refer it to the Leg
islature. The latter body will accept
or reject the report as it sees fit. This
report will be one of the most valuable
ever made by the department
The next meeting of the board will
be held the first Tuesday in April. A
large amount of routine business will
be transacted but at the present time
nothing of great import is expected TO
matarialize. Clerk Plummer has sew
eral cuts printed on first class paper
of the late Hon. Hall c. Burleigh. who
was formerly chairman of the board.
Mr.. Burleigh's picture was contained
in the annual report for 1885
state Superintendent of Schools w.
W. Stetson, will leave, Friday night,
fer Aroostook county. where he viii
spend two weeks in visiting the
schools in the northeastern part of the
county. The schools of Aroostook are
very excellent" said Mr. Stetson to a
ktnnebec Journal reporter, Thursday
N response to a query. And" con-
tiluod Mr. Stetson, the finest institu-
ton of learning in the State, when the
money invested is taken into consider
alton, is at Presque Isle
The educational department is send
ing out blanks to the school superin-
tendents over the State to be filled out
and returned to the department by the
first of May. The returns will be COM
piled and placed in Superintendent
Stetson's annual report.$ The queries
which the department wishes to have
answered relate to tht number of
scholars, number of srhoolhouses, anu
other matters pertaining to the schools
of the State.
4 The next meeting of sGov. Cleaves
and his executive council will be held
Thursday, April ., at p. NJ Impor-
tant nominations are expected to be
made which will come up for confirma-
ton at thisameeting. a grist of rou-
tine business will also be disposed of.
The council win probably be in session
stwo.days
MISS Laura Dinslow, stenographer
at the executive department. who has
been confined to her home for a week
by Illness, is steadily gaining, and will
resume her duties in few days
Rev. A. r. Chase of Hebron, and
1'tpf Sargent, principal of Hebron
academy, were visitors to the State
House, yesterday
AS the warm weather comes nearer
and nearer so the visitors to the
capitol increase. Every day from now
until the fall Of the year. there will be
many strangers within the limits of
Augusta, a large per cent. of whom
visit the State House before their re-
turn to their homes in other parts of
the State or nation. The officials are
always courteous and oblging, a fact
that is frequently commented upon
The secretary of States office has
been notified that Letter L, plantation
in Franklin county is a thing of the
past, the inhabitants having all sold
out and moved away during the fall Of