Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-04
RICHMOND.

The annual town meeting was held,
| Monday in the Town hall with very
small number of voters present on ac-
count of the business on the ice. H. r.
Drew was chosen moderator and pre-
sided over the meeting. w r. Fair
clough was chosen clerk for the ensu-
ing year. 1t was voted to accept the
reports as submitted by the several
town officers. The following officers
We're elected: First selectman, Noble
Maxwell; second selectman, Henry F.
Smith; third selectman, Silas f: Skill
Inns. The selectmen were chosen asses
Sors for the ensuing year. and also
chosen overseers of the poor; town
agent, Noble Maxwell: Robert p
Stewart, whose term expired on the
school committee, this year, was re-
appointed for three years; auditor
Charles W. Jack: truant officer, NJ. B.
Smith. The salary of this office was
raised from s. to $40 Fire wardens
Joseph w Randlette, c. c. Gardiner
George n. Beane; town treasurer
William r. Fairclough: surveyors of
lumber. f. r. Duren. Daniel Brown, f.
CT Rankins and Ray Farley; fence
viewers are the selectmen; measurers
of wood in Bath, w f. Wilson, j. w
Randlette Daniel Brown, James b. Me-
serve and Roscoe Reed: eonstables, +
4. Duran, Ralph Call. William r.
Fairclough, NJ. b. Smith, Samuel Hon
aker. Sidney vi. Gray. Edwin Totman,
Daniel. j. McGillicuddy, Fred Peacock;
public weighers, w L. Wilson, George
Lowell and Il. II. White, Edward Bull
lock, Charles Whitney, Thomas Pierce
The appropriations: Repair of high
way and bridges $4,000; for concrete
walks, S140O: purchase of lumber, $3.50:
interest on schoolhouse, loan $3.50: pay
meme of nydrant rental, S2050; electric
lights, 1885,: night watch. $500; fire de-
partment, $525: maintenance and sup
port of poor $500; salary of town Off
GERS. $780,: contingent fund, $500; eX-
pense of Memorial day. S15: snow ac-
count. $500; Farmers and Mechanics
Club (eut Of contingent fund, $500
cutting bushes on highway, S2oo;
hrown-tail moths removal. $3.50; sup
port of Free High school. $500; text
books and supplies, $780, repairs OF
schoolhouses and supplies, $3.50.
The town voted to fix July as date
when all taxes for the ensuing year shall
become due and payable Voted to charge
interest on all taxes at the rate of 9 per
cent. remaining unpaid. Dec. /, 1913, Voted
that the collector of taxes shall settle in
full for all taxes on or before Feb. l, 1914.
Voted to pay per cent. for the collection
of taxes. Edwin C. Totman was chosen
collector of taxes.
The town made no appropriation for
having ANYTHING on the schoolhouse debt
last year, but the selectmen We're able to
nav s24O4. 81. This amount was saved on
the appropriations of other departments.
Voted to authorize the selectmen to en-
ter into negotiations with the Central
Maine Power Co. relative to having two
electric lights in each of the fire COM
pany's houses
Voted TO accept as town way way
laid out by the selectmen over land for
merly of James NJ Hagar and land of H.
F. Smith A sum of 500 was raised for
the purpose of paying damages to owners
of land over which the way mentioned
passes. Voted to name the new street
Wilson, in honor of the new President.
Three hundred dollars was raised for
the purpose of constructing a drain from
Pleasant and Fuller streets to some point
in the Sturtevant brook.
Voted to authorize the Selectmen 10
make temporary loans, said loans TO oe
! paid on or before Feb. !, 1914.
! Five hundred dollars was raised for
constructing a drain from the new shoe
/ factory over land owned by Herbert Man.
| sir, Mrs +. C. T. Sturtevant, George Il.
Moody and others.
Meeting adjourned at 12.l5 p. NJ.
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