The Republican journal., 1898-03-24

| minds the Importance of selecting suitable
persons to fill the subordinate offices, as the
success of our administration depends very
| much upon the wisdom OF your choice in
fidelity should be your criterion in this mat
ter, and may it bo your supreme desire in
the discharge of all your official duties to
| perform them in manner that shall best
promote the public welfare.
The Common Council organized by choice
of Charles W. Frederick, President and John
S. Fernald, Clerk.
In joint convention the City Council elect
ed the following officers:
City Clerk, Lucius Il. Murch.
City Treasurer, James Pattee.
City Solicitor, Geo. E. johnson.
City Physician, John Stevens, M. D.
Chief Engineer of Fire Department, Will
liam R. Ford.
City Sexton James F Fernald.
Assessor for three years, James F. Shell
don.
Overseers of the Poor, Lendal T. Shales,
Augustine P. Mansfield, Charles F. Swift.
City Marshal VIM. 81. Sanborn.
Harbor Master, Newton S. Lord
Truant Officer, Robert Waterman
For Road Commissioner four candidates
were voted for, William A. Mason Howard
F. Mason, Joseph c. Townsend and William
II. Walker. On the first ballot there was no
choice. On the second William A. Mason
| received 10 votes and was declared elected.
Sections, West Belfast, F. A Griffin ;
Southwest Belfast, P. G. Hunt; South Bel
fast, John Wade; Ward a. Albert Laue
Ward 5, Emery o. Pendleton.
| Pound Keeper. Ben D. Field.
| Cullers of Hoops and Slaves. Walter G.
Hatch, Frank M. Lancaster.
Measurers of Grain and Salt, Edward Sib
ley, Chas. S. Bickford, II. c. Pitcher, L. T.
Shales, Augustus Clark.
| Fence Viewers D. H. Strout, Horace Park
W. A. Monroe.
Measurers of Wood and Bark, F. G. White,
| N. E. Keen.
| Surveyors of Lumber, E. S. Carter, Walter
| Cooper, Sanford Howard, A. T. Stevens, j.
| G. Durham, Augustus Clark, W. X. Keen,
| Q. &. Hussey, Elmer 1. Rankin.
| Weighers of Coal and Hay, Edward Sib-
F. G. White A. NJ Carter, G. S. Bickford,
| Roscoe Black, E. W. Ellis.
| Voted to defer the election of Assistant
Engineers until the regular meeting in April.
| The following resolution was unanimously
| passed.
| Whereas our city has just met with great
| loss in the decease of Lewis A. knowlton
who has been one of our most prominent
business men, and was for several years
prominent member of this City Council, it
fitting that action he taken at
| this time. Therefore
| Resolved, That we tender to the members
of the family of the deceased our sincere
| sympathy in their great bereavement.
| The following trustees of the Belfast Free
| Library were elected: Joseph Williamson,
j. NJ. Fletcher, Calvin Hervey, VIM. C.
Marshall. n. F. Houston.
| The usual routine orders to start the city
business for the year We're passed
| Alderman Poor and Councilmen Ford and
Carrow were appointed joint special COM
mittee on advertising.
| The petition of Calvin Hervey and others
for a street light on Primrose Hill, which
was referred from the last City Council, to-
gether with the committees report thereon,
was referred to the committee on lights.
| The reports of the City Marshal, Chief
| Engineer Board of Health, Committee on
Finance, City Solicitor City Physician, ,Trus-
trees and Librarian of the Free Library, and
the financial report of the School Committee
were read and placed on file.
The Mayor and President of the Common
Council appointed the following
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES:
On Finance, Accounts and Claims, Aid.
Poor, Coun. Keen and Frederick.
On Public Schools, Aid. Russ, Coun. Bur-
CESS and Carrow.
On Highways and Bridges, Aid. Shales,
Coun. Woodbury. and Tibbetts.
On Fire Department and City Property,
Aid. Rankin, Coun. Ford and Mayhew.
On Sidewalks, Aid Shales, Coun. Wood
bury and Tibbetts.
On Cemeteries, Aid. Guptill, Coun. Bur-
CESS and Smalley.
On Bylaws and Police Regulations. Aid.
Rankin, Coun. Knowlton and Mayhem.
On Enrolled Ordinances, Aid. Russ, Coun.
Tibbetts and Woodbury..
On Lights, Aid. Guptill, Coun. Keen and
Woodbury..
On Sewers, Aid. Poor, Coun. Knowlton
and Smalley.
The municipal officers elected the follow
ing officers:
Members of the Board of Heath-for
years, DR.. John Stevens; for 3 years, DR.. S.
W. johnson.
Superintendent of Grove Cemetery, James
F. Fernald.
Committee on State Pensions, Aldermen
Poor, Shales and Guptill.
The salary of the truant officer was fixed
at $50 per year.
The City Council adjourned to the regular
meeting in April.
Bliss Memorial Exercises.
Appropriate exercises were held last week
in the Supreme Court at Rockland in respect
to the memory of one of the best known
and most respected members of the Knox
County Bar, the late Hon. Hiram Bliss, Jr,
who has deceased since the last term