Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-04
CLIN TON.

The annual townmeeting of the town of
Clinton was held Monday, and in spite of
the unfavorable weather conditions fully
800 persons assembled, over 2vV of whom
We're voters. Promptly at 10 o'clock,
Town Clerk C. c. Hayes called the meet
ing to order and proceeded with the read
ing of the warrant. George p. Billings
was unanimously elected moderator.
The reelection of C. c. Hayes as town
clerk was unanimous. Arthur Holt and
James a. Dickey were candidates for first
selectman. one hundred and ninety-ive
ballots were cast and Mr. Dickey was
elected with III. Lee Stewart defeated
Irving Whitten for second member and
NJ c. Brown defeated Ralph Gerald as
third by the narrow margin of one vote
In the contest for the school board the
present incumbent, Marcellus Cain, was
defeated by George Higgins who has
served previously on the board. b. F.
Bean was elected town treasurer and w
M. Keene tax collector. A new Office was
created, that of fire warden, and George
Pratt was elected at salary of s25, with
an additional wage of 20 cents per hour
for actual service. The selectmen were
elected TO serve as overseers of the poor
and assessors.
The warrant was the longest that has
appeared in a number of years with IS
articles, most of which called for appro-
priations of money. On nearly every oc-
cas!on where appropriations were called
for, the finance committee made recon-
mendations and these were generally
adopted The finance committee. consist
ing of s. p. Felker, Bert Badger and H.
X Brown, were unanimously reelected
for one year.
The following appropriations We're o.
dered, most of which were unopposed
For support of common schools, $3.50
free high school. $1,000; fuel and janitor
for High school, $50: books for common
schools. s240; books for free High school,
s35; repairs on school property, SEQ. ap-
paratus, insurance. supplies, etc, for
schools, sl50; superintendent Of schools,
tour part). sl65; street lighting. $50; sup
port of poor and ordinary town charges
s2oc0 highways $2ioa; sidewalks for ciin-
ton village. see, clearing roads of snow.
$500: State aid highways. 1888: interest on
Brown Memorial Library Fund, $3.50; in
terest on Pratt cemetery fund, $50; in
debtedness Of town, 3s62. Memorial
day, SIS: brown-tail moths, sos; repairing
town farm buildings, $3.50, fire escape on
High school. $50; moving picture booth
for town hall, s75.
S. p. Felker was reelected 4 trustee Of
Brown Memorial Library and DR.. c. II.
Newcomb as member of the board of
health. 1t was voted to open and main
tain common school at Town House
Hill during the spring term. During the
winter this school has been transported
10 the village schools The town accept
ed a gift of $50 from Mrs. Maria Winn,
to be known as the Maria Winn Gene
tery Fund" the interest to be used for
the purpose of caring for the Potter GEM
etery. North Clinton. a discount of 29c
will be allowed all who pay taxes on or
before July 1. and charge of 6Gc will be
made on all taxes uncollected Nov. l.
The school committee were authorized
to look into the adVisability of moving
the Pishon Ferry school building to a
more desirable lot and report at the next
townmeeting.
The following articles We're passed over;
Art. Il asking for $50 to provide suitable
tops for the conveyance teams; Art. II,
to see if the town would vote to raise $500
for the purpose of repairing road between
Bremner's Mills and the Mutton Lane
road: Art. %, to see if the town would
vote to discontinue road on George
Kicker farm; Art. 80, to see If the town
would vote to place an electric light on
Morrison avenue. this matter being left
with the selectmen; Art. 81, to see If the
town would vote to raise money for the
purchase of light road machine, for
the purpose of smoothing roads; Art. sc.
to see If the town would vote to instruct
the selectmen 10 lay out a street two and
one-half rods wide, beginning at Hall
street, running to Main street, and raise
the sum OF $50 for the same; Art. 81, to
see If the town would vote to choose three
selectmen, assessors and overseers of the
poor, one for three years, one for two
years and one for one year. and hereaf
ter, one member OF each of the said
boards for three years, as provided in
Chapter 4, Section 12 of the Laws of the
State.