The independent-reporter., 1910-03-10
BINGII IN.

John Noble. who has been WoI X
ing in George Bakers harusss shop
has now gone To Dexter
Mrs. Maurice Burgess was In Sa
Anson Thursday ana Friday OF lasl
week.
Mrs. Harry Savage Of No Anson
has been visiting her parents heA
and Mrs Thomas HIATT
Morris Cahlll Is nov At home slek
with the mumps
Mrs Sarah Hartman has sold her
house in the village 70 Thomas Miller
and is making preparations 70 go 10
Houlton TO i've With her grandson
Glen smith
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest COLBY are IN
Boston this week
About forty-fKe young people from
Bingham attended the dramatic EN-
tertanment given al SoiaH last FRIDAY
evening.
Mrs. simeon whitney who has
been so dangerously M with puea-
monia had very hard da8 last
Sunday. but Was again slightly better
on Monday and Tuesday She IS
cared for by t&o trained nurses
Clinton Lowell OF Heniekef. y II.
Of the Tncker=LoYell Co. MS IN
town last week.
Mrs. Joseph Lapoint Vas IN town
Tuesday last
Mrs. Robert Moods. who has been
sick the past four weeks, is now able
TO be out Her sister Mrs. Emma
Brown. returned to her home in Lin
colnyille Me. last week.
Thales spaulding. Jrs OF Moscow.
has two nurses 10 care for him
through a hard run of pneumonia.
No new cases of measles have been
reported and those who have been
i'll are improving.
The house just completed by Elbie
Curtis will soon be occupied by Mr..
Boynton and family
Daniel Holt is laying hardwood
floor in W. b. Goodrich's house
Walter Piper is home from his
school work in Pittstield.
Orin Taylor of Stratton is the
guest OF his sons, Walter and Earl
Taylor
Mrs. George Dorr visited her moth
er in Solon last Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Hunnewell was very i'll
last Sunday from an overdose OF
headache pills which she took for
nervous headache. A doctor was
summoned with all haste and she is
now improving.
c. f. Ball is in Athens for a few
days this week.
Mrs. V. A. Harding of Orono, is
the guest of her son, George Harding
and family
Plenty of choice pressed hay for
sale at my storehouse in Bingham
village A S. Burke.
There was a handkerchief sale at
Kennebec hall last Wednesday after
noon and in the evening the play,
"Willowdale," was presented for the
second time, it having been given in
November. About fifty dollars were
realized which goes to help the Con
gregational church.
Bingham village schools will com
mence March 81, the rural schools
later In the Webster and Coburn
districts there will be thirty-six weeks
of school during the year. Schools
in Moscow are to commence the sec
ond week in April and Moscow
schools will have thirty weeks or
more.
BINGHAM TOWN MEETING.
DESPITE the storm Monday there
was a good attendance at the town
meeting. f. II. Colby was chosen
Moderator; w. B. Goodrich was re-
elected Town Clerk and the former
board of selectmen S. A. Smith, Hen
ry Cooley and Orison Gordon were
reelected; also E. w. Moore, who
has served the town so many years
as treasurer, was again chosen. Earl
Taylor replaced F. H. Colby as road
commissioner and Alton b. Carl, tax
collector, in place of r. H. Sands.
Mr.. Carl is to receive 212 per cent
and gives bonds to collect the whole
amount of the tax assessed and set
tie with the town in February of next
year. Walter E. Robinson was re-
elected on the board of superintend-
ing school committee.
Voted and raised for schools, $1,000;
voted and raised for highways
bridges and sidewalks, $4,000; for
police protection, $3.50; for snow
roads, 500, common schools, $1,000;
text books, $500; repairs of school
houses, $400; support of poor, $500;
town charges $4,000; Memorial Day,
$50; State roads $400; electric lights,
$500, provided the lights come on at
four a. M, running tlll sunrise, anu
from one hour before sunset until
midnight
Voted to build new High school
building $4,000 to be raised by loan
and 81 900 by taxation; $500 for pur-
chase of lot and erection of build
ing.
The total amount raised by taxation
was $11,SS0. an increase of $3735 ov-
er the amount raised last year.
A lengthy discussion was held on
the subject of fire protection and
committee was chosen to further in
yestigate the matter. A final ad-
journment was reached at 5.15 p. m,
the longest session ever held in the
town of Bingham. There were thirty
seven articles in the warrant. The
shortest session for town meeting
was in 1905 when the business was
all done in one hour and 20 minutes.
HARTLAND
Mrs. Sears of Augusta has been the
guest of her brother, l.. II. Whitney,
the past few days