Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-09
Rumford Falls Leads In
State Road Work.
Town viii Build Over Two
Miles This Season.
Generations Must Pay Franchise
Tax Sept. I, 1908.
erATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
N.xt Meeting Of Governor and Council
Thursday, July 80, at 10 A. M.

,.,udino is now receiving the attention
IS many of the cities and towns of
,,o,n. some Of them having the work
III underway while others are at
rrcsent making preparations for car
wing out the work in accordance with
~ yote, of the town meeting, held
earlier in the season.
One Of the longest pieces of State
road which is being constructed in
uoine this season, said State High
wav commissioner Sargent yesterday
in sneaking of the State road work in
pcnera Is in the town of Rumford
Falls where about "a miles Of road is
underway, from point where the
State road is already completed just
ontsde the village to Rumford Center,
the work being carried out according
10 nlars approved by Commissioner
Sargent.
The road in question is being con-
st,uctcd Of macadam, with width of
Il feet and special feature in con-
nection with the work is the construc-
ton of about 5000 feet of side sub
drain, as the road lies mostly on the
side of a hill from which large
amount VI "otCI ido III liz
rest found its way into the raod. The
work also includes the construction of
q culverts, and is as a whole a con-
tinuation Of the State road work
which has been done by the town
during the past two years.
The town has been in the habit Of
approDrlating $4,000 yearly and eX-
pending it in the construction OF state
road, but when the article in refer
ence to the work came up in the last
town meeting there WAS some oppo-
:ition to the passage of the usual APP
preparation. The Select!nen We're in
structed however to complete thu
road to Rumiord Center and to Dor
row money on the towns note To com
plcte the work. Although the join
fund for state read work in the town
of Rumford amounts to $l;l1.5O for The
present year and technically the State
highway department could only fur
nish the supervision for the Worl
covered by that amount it il super
visng the whole job by request Of tho
municipal officers of tt" town.
Announcements was made by che
commissioner that there are l. elite:
and towns in the state in which state
road work has been advertised and
contracts are pending, they being rs
follows: Brunswick, South Berwick
Houlton, Ellsworth, caribou. Eden
Gardiner. Madison. For; Fairfield
Westhruok. Presque lie. York and
Rumford. while in the town of Ken
nebunk and sanford the contracts
have been let In the city of West
brook where the state road work L
be done includes the main street. it
has been decide Il to use block paving.
Preparations are in progress at tne
office Of the secretary of state foi
sending ont annual notices to the cor
porations organized in Maine, notify
ing them that in accordance with Sec
ton Is of Chapter Of The Revised
Statutes, as amended by Chapter Is;
of the Public Laws Of 1897 the frau
chise tax for 1908 is que and payabl>
to Hon. Pascal p. Gilmore. state
treasurer. on Sept. 1. 1908 Tie .aM
provides that every corporation ncor-
porated under the laws of the State
except such as are excepted by Sec
ton 2G of Chapter n. shall pay an an
nual tax as follows Corporations witt
an authorized capital not exceeding
$4,000 tax $500; exceeding $4,000, but
not exceeding 100000, tax $1,000; ex-
ceeding 100000 but not exceeding
100000. tax $500 exceeding 100000
but not exceeding 81 .00O. 900, tax $1,000
and for each S1,000.000. or any par
thereof, in excess of $1000.000. $4,000.
Prof. f.. f. Hitchings, the state en-
tomologst, will so to Naples TO-DAY
where at the hall of Naples Grange il
the afternoon he will address a union
meeting of the Cumberland and OK
ford Pomona. and will probably speal
upon the subject of the gypsy moth
Before returning home he will prob
ably visit Kittery. York. Eliot am,
other places i'm the infested section o
the State to inspect the work whicl
Is being done against the gypsy moth.
Notice has been filed at The office o
the secretary of state which certi1!e
mat at special meeting of the stock
holders of the Bennett Bros. Co, hell
al the office of the company in Au
burn June %. it was voted to increaS
The capital stock of the company t.
$4,000.
MISS Iva p pjprra ono of the clerk