The Portland daily press., 1898-10-04
WESTBROOK.
Regular Monthly Meeting Of Board
If Allie men.
VERY LITTLE BUSINESS OF I'M
PORTAGE TRANSACTED.

Young Boy Sent to Reform Schooi-The'
windham Electrics VIII Be Completed
TO Little Falls by End of Week.
The monthly meeting of the Westbrook
aldermen last evening was not very
busy session, although adjournment was
not taken until after $50 O'Clock.
Time seemed to drag heavily on tn 9
hand of the city's solons, and it was the
slowest meeting of the year.
Mayor Raymond was unable to be
present
A petition for the commitment OF
young lady to the insane asylum was
granted.
The council resolved into o committee
of the whole with Alderman McAubrey
in the chair to give the hearing adyertiseo
on the petition of the Westbrook Electric
Light and Power company for pole rights.
Superintendent Newcomb OF the company
announced that copies of the petitions
had been posted and advertised according
to the requirements and City, Engineer
Dickinson produced the plans showing
the monuments which mark the distances
between the poles
An order granting the petition was
given its first reading.
Three statements were announced from
the residents of Valentine street that they
were desirious of having the sewer ex-
tended on that street.
Order appropriating slo4.S5 for furni-
vf q final
passage.
Petition of the mem bers of Valentine
Hose company that repairs be made on
their rooms referred to the COMMITTEES on
public buildings.
Petition of Mr.. Small for petition to
Law a water pipe on East Bridge street
granted.
An amendment to the ordinance re-
latinc to the changed location OF the
tracks to the Portland Railway company
was referred to the next meeting. City
Engineer Instructed to prepare plans OF
the street with the track laid down TO see
If the street Is wide enough.
Bill of F. 3. Leighton for sprinkling
5 during 1898 to the amount of $50 referred
TO the committee on claims.
Petition of Frank A. Pennell an eight
others for the acceptance of Pennell street
through the land of John W. Small ire
ferred.
ment of the sewer tax on forty feet front
of his and on Saco street as that portion
of the lot is unfit for building purposes.
A twenty-four inch water main extends
across the lot. Referred.
Committee on sewers instructed to in
vestigats the petitions for the Valentine
street sewer. ~
Alderman McAubrey presented resolu
tion requesting the mayor TO better en-
force the prohibitory law in this city.
Resolution passed unanimously.
Communication from Mayor Raymond
recommending that an additional appro-
prIation be made for the overdrawn &C.
count for the poor. An order appropriat-
ing S1l00 for the same was given its first
reading.
Adjourned to Monday, evening, October
10.
o In re football game Saturday at Bath
the Bath boys defeated the Westbrook
Bigh school eleven, score 80 to 0.
. Mr.. W. T. Grant was drawn at the city
clerks office yesterday to serve as a
traverse juror for the Supreme Judicial
court.
The grading of the road on the Vest
brook, Windham and Harrison railroad
will be completed as far as Little Falls,
five miles by the last of his week. The
latter part of the next week the entire ten
miles of roadbed, which will be as far as
North Gorham will have been graded.
Before Judge Tolman yesterday, John
Lewis Lamb, a young lad of thirteen
years was arraigned on charge OF steal
Ing bicycle, which he sold in Deering
tor $l2. The young man has stolen three
bicycles before this summer each of which
have been recovered. Lamb was sentenced
to the Reform school during Is minority.
A person on case of intoxication was
fined So and COSTS Paid and discharged.