Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-20
PLAN APPROVED.
Village District Voters Favor
Buying SchooIhouse Lot.
Directors Report on Subject Over
wheImingiy Adopted, Yesterday.
District Authorized Purchase of the
Lincoln Street Land.

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| OF the Village District, held Yesterday
afternoon, at the Wm r. Smith Gram
mar school building. it was overwheInl-
! lngly voted to adopt the report of the
directors regarding the selection of a
lot of land on which to erect a new
schoolhouse in place of the one Oh
Grove street, near State. 1t was also
voted to authorize the purchase of the
lot selected by the directors and the
latter We're instructed to secure plans
and specifications for the erection of
a school building to be finished before
September, 1903.
The meeting was largely attended.
there being more voters present than
usually attend the district meetings.
AT $50 o'clock Treby Johnson. clerl,
of the district. called the meeting to
order After the warrant was read.
on motion of F. w. Plaisted. S. S.
Lancaster was elected moderator.
W. G. Boothby for the board of d.
rectors, submitted the following re-
port:
To the Village School District. Au-
gusta, Maine.
The undersigned, Directors of said
School District, having been instructed
at the annual meeting held on the 25th
day of April, 1902, to select a lot or
parcel of land suitable for the erection
thereon of n schoolhouse, have at
tended to the duty assigned them. and
respectfully report
After diligent inquiry for a lot suit
able for the needs of the District both
at the present time as well as in the
near future, the Directors believe they
have been successful in finding a fiat
or extent OF ground which is both ELI
gibly situated and sufficiently COM
modious for the purpose desired 1t
is tract of land containing about 1O3,-
600 square feet lying between Lincoln
and Green streets. and bounded west-
erly and easterly respectively by two
proposed streets named johnson and
Bedford streets. The Directors have
caused plan of said tract to be made
by the City Engineer and it is here
with submitted as a part of this report.
The ownership of the tract is shared
by several persons. who have divided
the lanG into ten separate lots, which
they will sell to the Village School Dis
trIct for the purpose of a school build
ing, at the prices assessed on the same
by the assessors of the city of Augusta
for the purposes of taxation the pres
ent year,-the assessed valua ton |
amounting to the sum of s2.410.
These ten lots, lying contiguous, if
merged into one lot, would make in the |
opinion CT the Directors. an excellent !
location for the proposed schOolhouse |
needed to take the place of the Grove
street school, The prices asked by the |
owners for the same appear reasonable
and advantageous, and in the opinion |
of the Directors, it would be eXpedient |
for the District to purchase the afore- !
said tract of land and locate the pro- |
posed Schoolhouse on the same.
The Directors recommend that the !
sum of S2.410 be paid by the District |
for the said parcel of land, for the pur
pose of the proposed schoolhouse. |
They also recommend that the District |
authorize a loan of S2,410, at the cur
rent rate of interest, to pay for said |
lot of land the present year in order
that preparations for building may be
begun at an early day.
CHARLES E. NASH,
FREDERICK w. PLAISTED,
VIM O. ROOTHRY