Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-01
STATE HOUSE.
Governor and Council Ad-
journ Thursday Evening.
Entire State House Now in
Readiness for Session.
Railroad Commits sioners Name Date
For Hearing At PownaI.

The Governor and Council having
h.en in session since Tuesday adjourn
cd after an evening session Thursday
and viii meet again at P. NJ. Monday,
ana will continue in session from that
time until the new Council is chosen
and qualified. The principal part of the
business at the session Of the Council
this week has been the receiving of re-
norts and passing upon routine matters
Incidental to the closing up of the bus
mess of the year
Col. Francis Keefe of Eliot, superin-
tendcnt of public buildings, has the en-
tire state House in readiness for the
session Of the Legislature which is
now only d few days away. Already
the keys have been placed in the en-
velopcs FOR the drawing of seats in the
House of Representatives and the keys
for the use of the senators are proper
". label He'd The desks in both Houses
and the furniture generally have been
thoroughly polished and cleaned and
are now looking quite spick and span.
Telephones are being installed in the
rooms of the President of the Senate
and Speaker Of the House. The New
England Telephone Co. is running
new cable into the building to facilitate
the large amount of business which
will be given the company by the va
rious departments at the State House
during the coming session. The label
ling of the rooms in which the various
committees arc to meet is another task
winch has been looked after carefully
Nv Col Ecefe and now the doors of
tic committee rooms are all tagged
with the designation of the proper
committee or committees.
The Board of Railroad Commission
crr has ordered a hearing for Jan. ID,
1903, ut 10 \. NJ. at the passenger sta
ton of the Grand Trunk Railway i'll
West PoWnal upon the petition Of
Harlan B. True, William A. Brown. and
Frank Lobdel. selectmen of Pownal,
representing that public necessity and
convenience" require an alteration OF
location and grade in the highway from
Durham to Gray, at the point in sad
PownpI, at West Pownal. so-called,
where said highway intersccts the
Grand Trunk Railway location. This
petition was heard by the county COM
mesioncrs of Cumberland county. who
adjudgcd that public convenience and
necessity required the alteration of the
location and grade prayed for by the
selnctmtn of PcWnal, and it appearing
that the proposed way when laid out
would be through and across certain
land and right of way of the Grand
Trunk Railway used for station pur
poses. the county commissioners of
Cumberland county filed the petition
with the railroad commissioners for
adjudication. and a hearing has been
ordered for the date already mentioned
Hoa I;eccher Putnam of HOuiton. the
newly appointed insurance commits
sioner entered upon the duties of his
Office Thursday. He was visited during
the day by number of his friends.
who called to congratulate him upon
his new position.
The following corporations have filed
their certificates of organization at the
Office of the secretary of State:
The Anderson Coal Co. organized at
Portland. for the purpose of purcna5-
ing and developing coal lands In Wy
oming ana elsewhere, with 10000 cap
ital stock. of which nothing IS paid in.
Officers President A. f. Durham OF
Portland: Treasurer, NJ S Wells Of
Portland, Certificate filed Dec. 80, 1908.
Manufacturers Auditing & Mcrcan-
tile Agency organized at Portland for
the purpose of maintaining and con-