Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-12
co. COMMISSIONERS TO MEET.
Will Hold Session In the County Court
House Today and Thursday.

The annual convention of the Coun-
ty Commissioners of Maine will open
In the court house in this city at 1O
A. M. today. and will continue until
tomorrow. A number of the commits
sioners and their wives arrived last
evening, and went at once to the Au-
gusta House, which is to be the head
quarters of the commissioners during
the convention.
The convention is for the purpose
OF giving the commissioners an OPP
portunity of discussing the difficulties
which they meet with in discharging
their duties, and to seek ways and
means to get clear of these troubles,
and at the same time to study the
most approved methods of carrying
forward the tasks which are assigned
them.
The first topic to be discussed this
morning, when the meeting opens and
after the routine necessary to the
opening of the session is dispensed
with, will be, Should the Expense of
Coroners Inquests Be Paid by the
State, Instead of by the Several
Countless" The discussion will be
opened by Hon. Charles E. Dunn of
ArOostoOk and Hon. A. B. Nealley of
Androscoggin. The next topic will be,
How Can the Prisoners in Our Jails
Be Employed to the Best Advantage
and Greatest Profit?" Hon E. P
Mayo Of Fairfield, chairman of the
Board of Inspectors Of Prison and
Jails, will open the discussion and he
will be followed by Hon. F. S. Adams
of Sagadahoc.
The papers will be followed by a
business session.
The commissioners and their wives
will take dinner at the Augusta
House, after which they will enjoy d
trolley ride to the National Home for
disabled veterans at TOgus, where an
opportunity will be given to all to in
spect the Home. The members of the
convention will remain at TOgus until
the close of the band concert which
begins at A p. M. At 5 o'clock the
special car, bearing the commissioners,
will leave Togus for CobbOsseecontee,
and at p NJ. they will partake of a
shore dinner at the Island Park hotel.
The performance at the Island park
theater will receive the attention of
the visitors in the evening, and at 10
o'clock they will board their special
car for the return to the Augusta
House.
On Thursday morning at o'clock
final meeting will be held at the court
house. for the discussion of topics
which members may suggest. for the
election of officers, and for other bust
ness At the adjournment of this
meeting the session will close, and
the commissioners and their wives
will return to their homes.
Among those who had arrived last
evening We're the following: Hon
Charles r. Hall Of Wilton, Franklin
county, and Mrs Hall; Hon. F. r.
Page of Bucksport, Hon. Orlando w.
Foss, Hancock, Hancock county, and
Mrs Foss; Hon. B. +. Beal of PHI
lips, Franklin county; Herman H.
Adams of Belgrade, Irving r. Bradley
of Vienna, and Levi T. Williams of
Augusta, Kennebec county. Hon. Paul
d. Sargent, State highway commits
sioner, is present at the session, and
will be one Of the speakers.
A large number of the commission
ers are expected on the morning trains
today, and it was thought from the
feeling expressed by the early ar
rivals last night. that the session
would be a very profitable one.