The Republican journal., 1909-03-11
Town Elections.

| VERONA. At the town meeting held March
| LIST the following citizens ticket was elected
Selectmen, Stephen D. Bridges, Murray Clay
and Walter Delano; town clerk, Warren Abbott
treasurer, Ralph L. Hopkins; tax collector
Zebbe Heath.
SToNINGToN. Summer P. Mills, moderator
Elmer E. Crockett, clerk; F. S. Small, r. B.
! Judkins, j. T. Snow, selectmen, assessors anC
overseers; F. E. Webb, treasurer; Summer P
Mills, school committee; Daniel M. Fifeld, col
lector. Money appropriated: Schools, $3.50
roads and bridges $4,000; support of poor, $500
for State roads, $267; other purposes, $67S1.34.
| FRANKFORT. At the annual town meeting
March l, the following officers were elected fol
the ensuing year: F. L. Tyler, Andrew P
Moore, Josiah Kingsbury. selectmen; Albert
PIERCE Frank w. Reed, R. D. Walton, road
commission: Peter Flarty, member school COM
mittee; D. X. Drake, town clerk; D. X. Drake
tax collector; James F. Hurley, auditor of &C.
| counts.
BROWNSVILLE o. L. Tapley, moderator;
kins, A. W. Howard, selectmen, assessors and
overseers; VIM. H. Slower, treasurer: Jerome
7. Tapley, school committee; VIM. IL. Slower,
collector; Miss Laura H. Jones, school supern-
tendent. Money appropriated: schools amount
required by law; roads and bridges, $1,000; sup
VI pool ploou. lol 'eeleS ioeauS, YAoo' oeiSi
purposes $1,000.
PENoBsCoT. N. L. Heath moderator; A. E..
Varnum, clerk W. S. Bridges, N. L. Grindle, F..
W. Leach selectmen, assessors and overseers;
M. A. Wardwell, treasurer; A. +. Narnum, A
P. Leach, ]. H. Littlefed school committee; j.
H. Littefeld, collector Jennie Bridges, super
intendent of schools. Money appropriated:
For school flag, SIS; schools, SIPS; roads and
bridges, $685. support of poor, $500; current
nd roads 1920.
schoolhouse and supplies, $3.50; town debt and
interest, 1886; repairs on Town hall, $500; tut
ton, 5000.
TROY. At the annual town meeting March
Sth the following officers were elected Moder-
ator r. E. Stone: Clerk, Clarence Whitney;
Selectmen, Alfred L. Estes, George A. Woods,
George B. Cook; treasurer, Frank Rollins;
school committee, D. Morrill,; truant officer, w.
L. Gray. Money was appropriated as follows:
Roads and bridges $4,000; town charges $1,000;
permanent Improvement of State roads. SAG;
common schools, $1,000; schoolbooks, Sl25
free High school, $500 repairs on school
buildings, $500.
CAMDEN A Republican town board was
elected by overwhelming maiorities. The test
vote came in the choice of moderator, Jesse
H. Ogier defeating Representative Job H.
Montgomery by vote of 329 to l43. The Off
GERS elected, all Republican. were Ernest /.
Wooster, John W. Rankin, Willis a. Harville,
selectmen; DR.. w. H. Young, DR.. George Shork-
ley, school committee; Fred B. Annis, road
commissioner; j. Hale Hodgman. treasurer;
John J. Paul. tax collector; Charles c. Wood,
auditor; Harry Sylvester, night Waterman. The
appropriations amounted to $3s,663.
MONROE The following were elected at our
town meeting March 1st: Moderator, Edwin
jenkins; Clerk F L. Palzer; Selectmen, etc,
F. A. Tasker, M. F. Moody and F. W. Wingate;
Treasurer, G. A. Palmer; Constable F. A. Lit
tlefield; School Committee, E. G. Dickey. Money
appropriated Highways and bridges, $4,000;
schools, 81 000 Free High school, 5000; incl
dentas, $500; poor, $500; new road, 500; school
house repairs, books and State road, S275. The
report has been circulated that this town is in
debt. We are entirely free from debt and
nearly thousand dollars above board.
UNITY. Town meeting passed off very
quietly Monday, March Sth. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
Roy Knight, moderator; E. D. Chase, clerk; E.
T. Reynolds, Ed, Hunt and James Libby,
selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor;
E. E. McCausin, collector and treasurer; Al
Bacon, school committee; Ruel Wiley, Arville
Harding and Frank Crosby, road commission
ers; 7. O. Knight, auditor. Money appropriat-
ed: for schools, 81 200; High school, $500; school
text books 800; highways and bridges, $4,000;
support of poor, $500; State road, S175; abate-
mGnL OF taxes, 1EOU, miscellaneous EXPENSES,
5000; Memorial fund.- $25.
PALERMO. At the annual town meeting
March 8th the following officers were elected;
Moderator, W. S. JONES' clerk, Geo. M. Crom-
nett; selectmen, assessors and overseers of
poor, S. E. Bowler, NJ. J. Nelson and H. L.
Pinkham; road commissioner, A. C. Jones;
collector treasurer and constable 5. B. Jones':
member of school committee, j. w. Northrup;
truant officer, W. A. Nelson. Amount raised
for snow bill, 1908 and 1909, 800; roads and
bridges, $3.50: common schools 81 per capita;
support of poor 500; town charges, $500; re-
pairs on school buildings, $3.50. Also voted to
accept State aid in building State road. Voted
to maintain a free High school,
! NoRTHPoRT. A partial list of the officers
elected March lst was published last week.
Since then we have received a further report
from Mr.. F. A. Dickey, who for many years
has reported the town meeting for The Journal
His report follows. Surveyors of lumber, wood
and bark, Isaac Hills, E. B. Elwell, L. E. Pitch
er, J. R. Hurd and Charles E. Drinkwater;
Fence viewers, E. B. Ramsey, c. F. Knight, F.
T. Crockett; Road commissioner Dell O. Whit
more Voted to raise to defray town charges,
$1,000; for support of schools, $1,000; for roads
and bridges, 1,55650; for High school tuition
500; to repair schoolhouses, 500; to buy text
books, $50; to be expended on streets of w. G.
C. G., $500, and on streets of Temple Heights,
| $75 Voted to maintain three schools in town
instead of seven, maintained last year.
MoNTvILLE. The list of officers elected was
published last week. Appropriations: Schools
$5s5.10 poor, $500; town officers bills, $500; in
sane, 5000; highways and bridges, 81, 849; snow
bills, 1868, $780, incidental, $3.50; schoolhouses
and school supplies, $3.50; tuition at secondary
schools, $500; repairs on town house, 5000; te
build schoolhouse on Goosepecker ridge, $3.50
Total, $5,4S4.1O. Rate of collection, cents or
dollar. Resources more than liabilities, ST.,
10. This is the way the auditor of accounts
for the town of Montville winds up his report
at is with feelings of pleasure and broac
smile that present this report to the citizens
of Montville, as there are two features elimi
mated in this report which have existed, per
haps, beyond the memory of the oldest inhabi
tant viz, no Understanding debt and no un
settled taxes. l would suggest that the towr
in some manner dispose of what tax deeds they
possess, and take particular pains that no more
are unloaded upon Them There are 81 1874
in the treasury. When the article ''To see
what method the town will take to collect the
taxes for the ensuing year" was reached in
stead of the usual motion to sell the collection
of same to the lowest bidder it was voted that
F. A. Cushman collect on the same terms as
last year, per cent, thus showing the towns
opinion of Mr.. Cushman as an efficient anG
popular collector.
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