Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-15
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
CRY GOVERNMENT MEETING.
Last Evenings Session Was an Unusuall,
Busy One.


The regular city government meeting
was held, last evening, and quite a vol
ume of business was transacted by
both branches.
An application was made to the
officers by the Boyd & Corey
Shoe CO., for permission to erect :.
stationary steam engine with boiler,
furnace and accessories in the shoe
factory now in process of construction.
\ hearing was ordered for, Monday,
Nov. 1, at 7.30 p. NJ.
1t was ordered by the municipal Off
GERS that, on payment to the city OF
S25 by Christopher Gommella, he he
licensed to run night lunch cart.
The following petition was presented
to the board of aldermen:
To the Mayor and Aldermen of An
gusta:
The Dirigo Telephone Co. of Maine,
especially represents that under
chapter 2O9 of the Private and Special
Laws of Maine for the year 1888, it was
and now is authorized to locate. con-
struct, maintain and operate electric
telephone lines and appurtenances up
on, along and over any and all publlc
highways, bridges and places in the
STATE of Maine in such manner as not
10 endanger the appropriate public use
thereof, and that it has lawfully con-
structed and is now operating line
from the town of Pennington to the
boundary lines between Augusta AMI
Sidney. 1t further represents that
under it's said charter it is authorized
TO so locate. construct, maintain and
operate as many lines and branches.
and terminating at such points AMI
places as it may deem necessary.
It further represents that to fulfill
its duty to the public along it's said line
from it's present terminus at the boun-
dairy line between Sidney and Augusta,
and thence along the Belgrade road, 80
called, to it's junction with the road
marked in Caldwell and Halfpenny's
atlas of Kennebec county as Coomb'. T.;
mill road north; thence by said last
named road to Mount Vernon avenue:
thence by said avenue to State street:
thence by State street to Laurel street;
thence down Laurel street to Crosby
street; thence through Crosby street
~ Bridge street; thence down Bridge
street to Commercial street; and thence
through Commercial street to Market
square.
H. therefore prays that your honorable
board will issue a written permit specify
ing where the posts on said public roads
shall be located, the kind of posts and
the height at which and the places where
the wires may be run; and that before
granting such permit public notice there
of shall be given, and such personal no.
lice, if any. as your honorable board may
deem necessary.
Dated this 18th day of October, A. d.,
1897.
Dirigo Telephone Company of Maine,
by Heath a. Andrews, its attorneys.
A hearing was ordered on the above
petition for Monday evening, November /,
at 7.3O clock. The following orders,
bills. etc, were acted upon in concur
A petition asking that Scott street be
definately established, properly built and
graveled. and that gravel sidewalks be
built was referred to the committee on
Ordered, That Parker NJ Savage be
Granted the privilege of erecting hitch
ing post in front of his residence on
Patterson street for the better protection
of the sidewalk.
Ordered. That the committee on city
buildings be directed to place telephone
in the aims house.
ordered, That the overseer of the poor
with the special committee on city farm
expenditures be and they are hereby
authorized to expend such portion of the
unexpended balance of the appropria-
lions for city farm buildings as they
deem advisable. in the purchase of fur
niture and furnishings for the city farm
ordered. That the committee on drains
and sewers be directed to place catch
basin at the southwest corner of Sewall
and Court streets.
ordered. That the committee on fire
department be directed to place a hydrant
lection of the new shoe factory.
A petition for new sidewalk on Win
throp hill was presented and it was
ordered that the street commits
md he is hereby ordered to
suitably and thoroughly repair and con-
crete the sidewalk on Winthrop street
from the railroad track to Winthrop
court.
Ordered. That the matter of taxes as
,'essed against Noah Cooper be referred
Ia the city treasurer and collector with
full authority to settle said taxes ac-
which may hereafter be made by A. T.
i'uller. if in the judgment of the said
collector it is expedient 50 to do.
ordered That the mayor and city
treasurer are hereby and legally author
lied and Empowered to reconvey to J.
Claude Grover or Mary A. Grover the
real estate situated in the town of Bel
mont. Waldo county.
ordered That the committee on fire
department be and are hereby authorized
to change the location of the MIGRANTS,
one at the top of Rines hill. and one near
Moody's stable. on Water street, as they
freeze winters.
ordered That Mandred Savage be
granted permission to erect hitching
post in front of his barber shop on Cony
street for the better protection of the
sidewalk.
ordered That the mayor be authorized
20 draw his warrant in favor of E. r.
Bean for the sum of so for services for
board of health.
ordered. That. in consideration of the
payment into the city treasury of $50. the
mayor be authorized in behalf of the city
10 assign to ]. r. Townsend all interest
in the unpaid taxes of the city. assessed
for the year 1895 and amounting. in the
aggregate. to $271.27. and discharge the
official bond of ]. r. Townsend. collector
and treasurer for the year 1895. and that