Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-03-28
CITY MEETINGS.
Vacancies on School Board and Board
OF Assessors Filled.

OF Assessors Filled.
The city government held two meetings
last Friday forenoon aud evening. Press
ent Mt both meetings, Mayor Greedy, Aid.
Stuart, Jellison, Higgins and Brady.
At the forenoon session communica-
tion from Eagle hook and ladder company
was presented, stating that at meeting
OF the company 1t was voted to disband,
ard resign from the department.
1t appears that the company has been
in disorgan.zed aud disinterested con-
diticp for some time, due, it is under
stood, to dissatisfied Iun Of members with
the apparatus they hsd, and also with the
pay. Chief Engineer Brown said il the
resignation OF tue company was accepted,
he would organize another company.
The board accepted the resignation,
and authorized Chief Engineer Brown to
organize another company as suggested.
The chief engineer made another sug-
eestion to the board which was promptly
adopted, I. e., that it was Unnecessary to
pay man sf0 year for ringing the fire
bell, when 1t could be done just as well by
the day or night policeman.
John ID. Murch was appointed q special
policeman at the Bayside district, to serve
without pay.
Permission for the maintenance OF the
stationary engine and boiler at the Hig-
gins Il Curtis paint shop on Water
street was granted, subject to the con-
dition that exhaust steam shall not be
al 1, ;,xk . 10 L..
to alarm horses.
The resignation OF John b. Redman as
member OF the school board was pre-
scented. This, together with the election
OF an assessor to fill vacancy caused by
resignation OF Charles W. Mason, was left
over until evening meeting, to which
time the board took recess.
At the evening meeting the board was
still at loss for q candidate for assessor.
Several names were suggested, but there
was some objection to each. Levi b.
Wymsn was finally elected by . unsni-
nous vote.
The resignation Of John B. Redman
from the school board was then accepted.
The board seemed as much at loss to name
his successor rs in finding an assessor.
Bernard 8. Jellison, the alderman from
ward 3. was finally induced to accept, and
was elected.
Aid. Stuart, as member OF the school
board, laid before the board the matter OF
q school In district No. II. A school has
been maintained there with an average Of
ten pupils, but the removal of one family
from the district brought the average
down to seven, which 10 below the mini
mum established by law to require the
maintenance OF a school. To transport
the pupils to the nearest district as re-
quired by law, would cost more than to
maintain school, but vote OF the board
was necessary to authorize the main
tenance of the school. The board SO
voted, and instructed the superintendent
OF schools to maintain the school In dis
trict II,
Aid. Stuart, OF the committee on fire
/ drpsr, ment, to which was referred the
matter Of additional lights at the engine
house, reported that he had tried to ma Ike
terms with the electric light company,
but the best offer he could get from Supt.
Cuslman was to wire the building for
the NIX !ightr desired at a cost Of s15, and
put IN the lights on a meter, and charge
regular meter rates. The board did not
entertain the proposition.
The dnance committee was empowered
to negotiate temporary loans from time
TO time During the year as necessary.
A recess WAS taken to Saturday evening,
March 81.