The Somerset reporter., 1906-03-15
TOWN MEETING.
FAVORABLE WEATHER AND A LARGE ATTENDANCE


officers not elected by ballot Mrs.
Sarah l.. Eaton was reelected Park
Commissioner for three years.
Business did not proceed In the regu-
lar order of the articles as mum bered in
the warrant or In the exact sequence In
which the various incidents are shown
in this report. While the votes were
being coun ed on the contests for first
and second selectman and for road com
missioner the meeting improved the
time by acting on articles five to nine in
elusive raising the sums recommended
by the seleotmen for highw state
road, bridges and culverts, snow roads
and poor and town expenses, the
amounts of each being shown by the
table at the end of this report.
This cleaned up all business to article
ten and exactly at noon the meeting ad
journed until 80
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Upon assembling for the afternoon
session motion was carried to pass
over, for the time being, articles ten to
fourteen inclusive in order to proceed at
once to the consideration of article
fifteen with regard to abolshing the
okowhegan Village Corporation. A
motion to pass over this article was lost.
This was followed by a motion to table,
but this failed of support. W, II. Full.
Ter then offered a motion in writing
which was in substance that the town
vote to abolish the Skowhegan Village
Coz poTation and to assume the liabilities
of SAID corporation and accept the
ownership of its property as provided
for the special act of the last legislature
relating thereto. This motion was dis
cussed at length, E. f. Fairbrother, J.
y. Merrill, +. Z. Pencil, l.. w. Weston,
w. II. Fuller, l.. l.. Morrison and others
favorlng the measure, and d. b Strick-
land G, H. Gardner, I. II. Lord and
others opposing / he vote was finally
taken by written ballot and the motion
to abolish the corporation prevailed by a
vote of 246 to 1856
The meeting then returned to thefeon-
sideration of sewers under articles 10,
II, II and 10 Eighteen hundred dol
lars was raised to complete the sewer
system for Milburn street, which the
town entered upon last year, with very
little discussion. There was discussion
as to the sewer on Spring street, not
arising from differing opinions as to its
advisability but for a comparison of
plish and it was finally voted to raise
$3.50 for a sewer from the head of the
street easterly to Written brook, this
sum according to the estimate of Geo
Il. Webb, road commissioner being suf-
ficlent to lay the sewer and make a fill
which would naturally be done at the
same time There was some discussion
concerning the sewer on Dyer street and
IS Hna hni hof
about half the length of the street TO
connect with the Madison avenue sewer,
| 1925 being raised for the purpose. The
question of extending the North street
sewer from its present terminus at
Jewett street to point near Cemetery
street. was subject to sharp controversy
From what was said on the subject it
| appeared that . sewer was badly needed,
but it developed that the sewer main
now laid down North street was not
! large enough to take care of the section
! it already attempts To drain and that it
would be decidedly unwise to connect a
large section of North avenue plains
with it as proposed in the article <.
e Greenwood read carefully prepared
report on the question in which he rec
commended draining the Plains from a
natural "sag'' in the street level near
Cemetery street through said street to
the head Of Cold Brook gulley. In the
language of Mr.. Greenwood's report.
This would be a trunk line sewer for a
large tract Of plains, likely to be wanted in
the future, and at the same time supply the
present needs OF that section from Jewett
street to Cemetery street and the whole
length Of Cemetery street,
Mr.. Greenwood's estimate of the cost
of the system recommended was from
$2400 to $500 AS MIR. Greenwood's
plan could not be entered upon under
article thirteen 1t was deemed wise by
tho majority to defer action until a sub
sequent meeting and the article was
passed over