Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-04
STATE HOUSE.
Work of the Board of State
Assessors.
EIe c,ion Ordered for the Captaincy OIL
Company K. Brunswick.
lterls Of Interest to the National Guard
New Corporations.

The board of State assessors, ZION.
Otis Hayford of Canton, Hon. George
Pottle of Lewiston and Hon. i. MAJ ion
Simpson of Bangor, have finished
trip to Oxford and Franklin counties,
whcre they met the local assessors
who assisted them in the determine
ton of values. The meetings were
held as follows: Fryeburg, Oxford
house, June %; South Paris, Court
house, June "a; Rumford Falls, AS
SCISSORS office, June 26; Phillips, AS
SCISSORS office, June 80; Pennington,
Court house, July l.
This month the assessors will
visit the counties of Somerset, Piscata-
quis and Aroostook, holding meetings
as follows: Skowhegan, Court house,
July IA; Bingham, Stage house, July
Il; Dover, Court house, July ID; Houf-
ton, Court house, July is; Caribou,
Court house, July 20; Van Buren,, AS
SCISSORS office, July q; Fort Kent,
Dickey hotel, July 3d.
At the regular monthly meeting of
the board next Tuesday the annual ex-
else tax on express, telephone and tele-
gra phi companies will be assessed. The
last Legislature made no change in
the law assessing these companies so
they are taxed according to the stat
ute passed in 1901
The amount of the tax on telephone
ard telegraph companies is determined
as follows: when the gross receipts
from business done wholly within this
10
is assessed on such corporation, as
location or person in the operation of
81 IN business exceed one thousand dol
lars and do not exceed five thousand
dollars the tax shall be one and one
fourth per cent of such gross receipts;
when such gross receipts exceed five
thousand dollars and do not exceed ten
thousand dollars the tax shall be one
and one-half per cent of such gross re-
ccipls; and when such gross receipts
exceed ten thousand dollars and do not
exceed twenty-five THOUSAND dollars
the tax shall be one and th"ec-four;hS
per cent; when such gross receipts ex-
coed twenty-five thousand dollars and
do ont exceed fifty thousand dollars the
! tax shall be two per cent. OF such gross
receipts, and so III Increasing The rate
of the tax one quarter of one per cent.
FOR e,.ch additional Twenty-Five thou
.''r.i { tors. or fractional part thereof,
of such gross receipts provided that
thu rate shall in no event exceed four
per cent. of such gross receipts
Express companies shall pay two per
cent. of the gross receipts on all bust
ness done in the State, including pro
rata part on all express business com
ing from other states or countries into
this State, and all going from this
State to other states and countries,
providing that nothing applies to goods
or merchandise in transit through the
State.
Major Augustus B. Farnham, adiu-
tant general. has received a letter
from Lieut.. Col. j. Parker of the 18th
cav airy, acting assistant adjutant gen.
eral. enclosing a copy of letter sent
to the adjutant general of M2ssa-
chlisetts regarding the adoption by the
ORGANIZED militia of the coat of arms o.
tho United States as the device for the
dress cap for commissioned officers. Ir
the letters Col. Parker points out that
he action of Massachusetts seems to be
in unison with a resolution adopted
at the recent convention of the Inter
state national guard association al
! Columbus, Ohio, but that several states
have adopted bills of dress since that
convention prescribing state coats OF
arms or other devices.
He says that while the regular army
is pleased to have the uniform of the
militia take pa tern after it, it has beer
suggested that the uniform might be
more distinctive if the several states
used an individual insignia.
Col. Parker asks if the governor OF
the state would favor the appointment
of a board of officers composed of re-
personalities of the army and of the
organized militia to formulate plan
to meet this question.
The state coat of arms has recently
been adopted as the color insignia for
commissioned officers in Maine, and it
is believed that its adoption as the in
sigma for the cap would be generally
pleasing to the officers of the guard.
1t is expected that Gen. A. r. Farm
ham, adjutant general, Col. Frederic Ii
rarkhurst of Bangor, commissary gen
eral Col. Eugene Il. Sanger of Bangor
surgeon general. Col. Elliott c. Dill OF
Augusta, inspector general of rifle
practice. Lieut.. Col. Francis Keefe OF
Eliot and Maj. Holman F. Day, mill
tary secretary. will go to Bar Harbor
as representatives of the state, to greet
the officers of the British squadron
next Monday.
An election has been ordered for cap
tain in Company X. LIST. Regiment, al
Brunswick, July 10. There is no OPP
position to the reelection of Capt
William c. Goodwin.
General f. C. Harrington. secretary
OF the Maine Sportsman's Fish and
Game Association. has received a let