Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-07
Trustees Of School For
The Feeble Minded.
The Automobile Registration Is
Rapidly on The Increase.
Scouting For Gypsy Moths Resumed
at National Home.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Tuesday, May 26, at 10 A. M.

tNSoA~/t way &OS a. ~ ~ Ivss
A matter which it is thought may
come up before the next meeting of the
Governor and Council is the appoint
ment, in accordance with the provi-
sions of Chapter A of the Public Laws
of 1907, which is entitled "An Act to
pr0yide for the care and education of
the Feeble Minded" of a board Of
trustees which shall have the general
management and supervision of the
institution, and which as soon as ap-
pointed and organized, when the site
for the institution has been purchas ed,
shall proceed as soon as practicable TO
erect thereon and properly furnish and
equip suitable buildings and structures
10 accomplish the objects for which the
institution is established. Section of
The act, which provides for the APP
pointment of the board of trustees and
its duties. reads as follows:
"SeCtion 2. The governor shall, with
the advice Of the council, appoint five
persons, AL Of whom shall be inhab BIZ
tants of this state and one of that
number shall be a female, to be
trustees of such school.
.i' u A't'to 9iidi Dt tppOlIlCd
follows: The first three to serve for
two years; the other two for four
years, and thereafter said trustees shall
be appointed to serve for four years.
"The said trustees shall have the
general management and supervision
of said school and one or more of said
trustees shall visit said school as Of
ten as once each month, ana said
board of trustees shall annually on or
before the first day of October OF each
year furnish report to the governor
and council containing a history Of the
school for the year and complete
statement of all accounts, with all the
funds, general and special, appropriate
ted or belonging to said school with q
detailed statement of Disbursements
Section ., which also deals with the
board. says that "said trustees shall
have power to make all necessary rules
and regulations as to admission to said
institution and for the government and
control Of said institution and it's IN
mates, and to do everything necessary
10 properly care for and educate the
feeble minded of the State" and the
law also provides that the trustees
SlidlI ItctINt % per udy NItH SHl-
ployed, and actual expenses.
That membership on the board of
trustees is to be desired is shown by
the fact that a number of applica
tionS have already been received from
persons who would be willing to have
the honor conferred upon them, some
of the applications having been on file
for a long time. The law provides
that one of the members of the board
shall be a female, and for that posi-
ton there are two candidates, they be-
ing Mrs. Margaret a. Barker of Ban
gor and Mrs. Fannie A. Hanson of
Camden. The other candidates for
membership on the board are J. Put
nam Stevens of Portland. DR.. Edwin A.
Porter of Pittsfeld, Arsel Briggs Of
Auburn. l.. c. Morse of Liberty, G. A.
Richards OF Wiscasset. Linwood +.
Crockett of Portland and John c.
Stewart of York Village. The APP
pointmcnt of this board is one that is
awaited with interest
The automobile registration business
at the office of the secretary Of State
is increasing as the season advances
and there is every indication at the
present time that the business of the
year will be large. The total number
of automobiles which have been regis
tered at the Office since the law went
into effect in 1906 is 3443 and the num-
Der registered since the beginning of
the current year is 2O5. The number
Der which were registered during the
month of April was 1919. which was ten
Il. ~.
in 1907. The number which were regis
tered during the first six days of the
present month was 26. and as the BUSH
ness seems to be on the increase the
total for the month should be one of
The largest on record. The total rum
her of OPERATORS licenses issued since
the law went into effect is 2S4.. and the
number during the current year ia.
The total number of motor cycles reg
stered in the State since the law went
into effect is go, and since the first Of
The year 81.
In speaking of the smallpox situa-
ton in the Maritime Provinces DR.. A.
&. Young, secretary of the State Board |
of Health. said yesterday that it was
not as bad as it was awhile ago, but |
that he had just received notification
of two new outbreaks of the disease in |
New Brunswick, one of them being on |
the Tobiuue river and the other at a |
point between Moncton, an important |
Railway center of the province, and the
city of st. John.
Prof T.. f. Hitchings of Waterville, |
the state entomologist, was at the de-
partment of agriculture yesterday on !
business connected with the duties of
MS office. and there was also present
NJ. G. Soule, a member of the field
orce which is engaged in the work of
the gypsy moth in the