Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-17
CITY OFFICIALS.
Republican Nominees to Be
Elected at Mondays Meeting.
Assessor and Street Commissioner
Only Contested Positions.
The Caucus Was Unusually Harmon
ious in Every Respect.

The Republican caucus to nominate
candidates for the various city offices
TO be supported at the organization of
the city government, this morning,
was held, Saturday afternoon. There
was full attendance of members from
nearly all the wards of the city. Alder
man Charles S. Hichborn was made
chairman, and Lewis A. Burleigh,
clerk.
| The caucus was unusually harmOni-
ous throughout. There were but two
contests to be voted upon, all the other
nominations being made unanimously.
The first was for assessor for three
Years to succeed Charles w. Jones. Mr..
Jones was a candidate for re-nomina
| lion and was opposed by Roscoe T..
Penney. The name Of the former was
| presented to the caucus by Council
| man George C. Sheldon and that of the
latter by Alderman George F. Dudley.
| The ballot resulted in the nomination
uf MIR. Jones by the following ballot:
| Whole number of votes cast, %
| Necessary for n choice, II
| Charles w. Jones had 13
| I-oscoc T. Penney had
| When The other officers had been
nominated the members from the East
side and from the West side separated
Ito select candidates for street commits
l. inro-. In the caucus of West side
mcr.s y; the name of Columbus Cottie
was presented by Councilman Roland
4. Scribner. Alderman-elect C. A.
Messer withdrew the name of l.. L.
| Wellman. who had been a candidate,
and Mr.. Cottle was nominated without
| opposition.
In the caucus of East side members
il was necessary to take a ballot. Three
| candidates We're presented, Charles
Sylvester, l.. G. Haskell and d. 3.
| Gavage. The ballot was as follows:
Whole number Of votes cast, 9
Necessary for n choice, 5
Charles Sylvester had
L. G. Haskell had
ID. 3. Savage had
Mr.. Sylvester having received ma
| jority Of the votes cast, his name was
presented at the general caucus when
| both Mr.. Sylvester and Mr.. Cottle were
| nominated without opposition.
The following were nominated unani-
| nlously for the other offices:
City clerk, Lewis a. Burleigh.
City treasurer, James r. Townsend.
City marshal, Henry NJ. Breen.
City solicitor, Edwin NJ. Thompson.
City physician George f. Washburn,
M. D.
Street engineer. William B. Getchell.
City auditor, Elmer E. Parkman.
Chief engineer of fire department,
Charles w. Kicker.
First assistant engineer of fire de-
partment, Elbridge Pedder.
Second assistant engineer of fire de-
partment. Edwin H. Gay.
Member of experimenting school
committee for three years, Hon. Len
| dali Titcomb.
Pound keeper, Charles c. Griffith.
Keeper of Kennebec bridge, Charles
Sylvester.
Lady visitors to aims house, Miss
Helen Hinkley. Mrs. Fred Hamlen,
Miss Annie p. Clark. Mrs. M. J. Hall.
| Mrs. George B. Keene, Mrs. Sarah
Cloutier.
Janitor of City building, Isaac Clark.
Bell ringer, Baker Weston.
Driver of city team, Alexander Nc
| Causland.
| INCcpCl VI Sity CloChS, ouS ~. flSh-
cry.
| Keeper of steamer Cushnoc, Frank T.
| Clark.
Fence viewers, Jesse Ballard, Will
| liam f. Barrows, G. w. Carlton, +. H.
| Chadwick, Wellman Curtis, F. w. Ellis,
Roscoe Penney, G. A. Robertson, l. M.
Sherman and w. F. Walker.
| Surveyors of lumber, ]. w. Bangs,
| Sumner Barton. w. II. Bruce, Hiram
Clark. John E. Church, Jos. E. Clark.
Geo. A. Colburn, Abner Coombs, Abram
| Coombs. o. f. Cummings, Lester J.
Delano. F. w. Ellis. d. E. Foster, F. O.
Getchell, Harry T. Gilman, ]. w. Glid
den, G.. w. Hanks, William w. Jack
| son. ]. A. Jones, C. A. Knowles, Charles
S. Leighton, Arthur r. Lishness, A. II.
| Lyon, Henry Lyon, c. +. Morrill,. w.
| II. Pierce. Charles T.. Purinton, f. b.
Purinton, Ira Fl. Randall. Smith S.
! Randall. Il. A. Shaw, Joseph A. Shaw,
J. Il. Shaw. ]. c. Webber. Joseph T..
Nicholas. George E. Bangs, Charles Il.
| Phiibrick.
Surveyors of wood, stone and bark.
Cyrenus Ballard, r. f. Bartlett Sum
ner Barton. Geo. NJ. Bean. A. NJ. Brann,
|
Church, Henry T. Clark. Hiram Clark,
Joseph f. Clark. II. B. Cony, S. p.
Cross. w. G. Ffield, Joseph A. Folsom.
Daniel E. Foster. A. r. Fuller. 3. Gar
diner. Chas. A. Gay. r. o. Getchell, G.
r. Hail. G. w. Hanks. w. A. Hanks.
w. w. Jackson, C. A. Knowles, Charles
S. Leighton. Henry Lyon. Josiah A.
Norton. r. T.. Packard. w. F. Percival,
G. i. Perry, G. E. Purinton. F. 3. Pur-
inton. 1. II. Randall, y. p. Saben, Jo-
seph A Shaw. J. +. Shaw, +. B. Smith,
C. w. Stone. f. n. Trask, Charles A.
Wadsworth. Holm II. Ward. p. H. Wes-
ton, A. Woodman. S. r. Worthley, d.
s. Young. F. w. Chadwick, Albert j.
Burns, George Fl. Bangs, Joseph E.
Nicholas.
Sealers of leather, Henry S. Haskell,
Geo. f. Hawes, Fred l.. Hersey, Sum-
ner Pullen.
Weighers of coal, hay and ice, Albert
lC Brown, A. NJ. Brown, Ernest H.
4 Burns. NJ. S. Campbell, H. b. Cony,
William George. G. II. Haskell. Fred =.
Hill. James S, McKenney, Charles =.
Philbrick, Charles e. Purinton, F. B.
Purinton, Herbert C. Rideout, O. o.
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