Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-06

ry harrington, city treasurer; Norman
H. Trafton, purchasing agent; Edward
Smith, superintendent of streets; Henry |
W. Dunton, chief of police; Samuel d.
Soule, chief of fire department; Charles
G. Neal second engineer of fire depart
ment; w. F. Eastman. third engineer of
fire department; W. C. Atkins, city So
licitor; Dr. A. w. Strout, city physician;
E. l.. Russell, trustee of Water District
for three years; L. L. Bussell, trustee
of the Gardiner Public library for three
years; Langdon G. Paul, Board of
Health for three years; Mrs. Charles H.
Gray, member of the experimenting
school committee for three years; civil
engineer, L. NJ Barnard; special police,
precinct l, John r. Williams; precinct 2.
j. W. Jones; precinct 3, H w. Dodge;
precinct 4, Fred L. Merrill; precinct S.
Warren L. Tozier; precinct 6, Chester :.
Phillips; precinct Z, Wilbur l.. Libby;
night watch, Michael Cusick and Frank
| Andrews; constables. Chester A. Phil
lips, Wilbur L. Libby; harbor masters,
H. ]. Stone, w. D. Harrington, Fred E.
Potter, Wallace Tarbox. Chas E. Wake
field; surveyors of lumber, o. G. An
drews, Fred T. Bradstreet, Wellington
Blair S. S. Davis, Geo. Gray, Frank
Gray, Chas. II. Gray, H. A. Gray, Chas.
F.. johnson, John w. p. Johnson, Chas.
c. Lawrence, Harry z. Lawrence Fred
E. McCausland, Blanche Stevens, James
E. Sherman, Fred E. Weymouth, N. H.
Trafton; measurers of wood and bark,
H. A. Gray, John w. P. johnson, Chas.
F. Johnson, James w. Jones, Daniel
Longfellow, Fred E. McCausland, j. Wal
ter Robinson, Wallace Tarbox, Fred e.
Weymouth, N. H. Trafton fence viewers
and field drivers, Jerome B. Grover and
George r. Danforth; trustee of Quimby
field, Alderman Noyes; inspector of
buildings, Chas. H. Berry; measurers of
stone, Hiram w. Potter and NJ. w. F.
Pray; measurers of logs, Chas A. Annis,
E. r Bosworth, Geo. Gray, Chas. H.
Gray, H. A. Gray, w. S Lawrence, II.
B. Lawrence; inspector of leather, John
r. Kelley; care of city clocks, Geo. l..
McKenney; weigher of beef, Herbert H.
Ring; weighers of hay, coal and grain,
F. T. Bradstreet, S. G. Decker, Geo. w.
Eastman, Max Goldberg, F. w. Harring-
ton, w. D. Harrington, A. R. Hayes S.
D. Martin, ]. Walter Robinson, Wallace
Tarbox; weigher of ice, S. w. Talbot;
II.
ringer, Hillard D. Cook superintendent
of burying grounds, Martin Peacock at
Libby hill, E. C. III. Smith at Highland
avenue, Chester A. Phillips at South
Gardiner; city crier. Robert W. Hill;
precinct engineers. 1. M. W. F. Pray; 2.
James w. Jones; 3, John H. Wight; 4,
Fred L. Merrill; 5, L. E. Libby; 6, A. B.
McKenney; Z, D. U. Dill.
The election of an auditor was laid
over until the next meeting as 1t was
not certain that the present incumbent,
F. A. Danforth, would accept the office
although it was thought that he would
at an advanced salary.
The election of a tax collector was laid
on the table until some future meeting
and a communication read from Z. C.
Jones, the present collector, in which he
stated that he did not care for reelection
unless the salary should be increased to
$500 and an Office furnished at the City
building.
Adjourned until Monday evening at 730
o'clock
The Evening Session.
The regular weekly meeting of the
city council opened Monday evening
with Mayor Lamb in the chair and
Aldermen Berry and Noyes present,
Deputy City Clerk Millixen acting as
clerk. The records of the last meeting
were read and approved, after which
the matter of allowing the billiard
rooms to remain open until II o'clock
was discussed and 1t was agreed to
allow them to do SO without the pas
sage of an order to that effect. The
matter of the purchase of brown tailed
moth traps for use in the spring was
discussed and then tabled until a fu-
ture meeting.
The following order was introduced
by Alderman Noyes and received a
passage, Aldermen Berry and Noyes
voting yes and Mayor Lamb not vot-
ing: Moved that the overseers of the
poor hold weekly meetings in the as
SCISSORS rooms every Wednesday, from
to O'Clock P. M, during the year
1914"
Mayor Lamb produced an order for
two 2-horse carts which he had with
held and stated that he desired that
he be authorized by the council before
he signed the order for their payment.
Major Berry said that there was an
other coming and that he had disposed
or one of the old carts for $25 and at
the request of the mayor, Alderman
Berry presented the following order:
ordered, That the mayor be in
structed to countersign the order on
the city treasurer for $3.50 in full pay
ment of three 2-horse carts, purchased
from the Ames Plow Co. and charge
the same to the appropriation fer high
ways for the year 1913"
The order received a passage, Alder,
men Berry and Noyes voting yes" an(i
Mayor Lamb voting mo
Adjourned.
| EuneraI of 6 Aunnsfi,s ALL.