Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20
CITY COUNCIL
Transacts Monthly Budget of
Business-New Dump Move
ment Started-Several Clus-
tiers of Lights Are to
Be Installed

The city council held its regular
| monthly meeting Monday evening
and transacted business as follows.
In board of aldermen the bill of A.
B. Mason for SIS for damage to a
calf through being bitten by a dog
was taken from the table and ordered
paid.
petition of the New England Tel
& Tel. Co. for an extension of its line
on the North Belfast road, the Weeks
Mills road and the Bolton Hill road
in an easterly direction was granted.
Orville Coleman was granted q per-
init to operate a steam heating plant.
Concurrent business was transact
&c as follows:
Roll Of Accounts No. 10, amounting
in the aggregate to s10,170.5i, was APP
proved and ordered paid.
Drew street, from Western avenue to
Green street was accepted il accord
ance with plans drawn by City Engi-
neer Hill, no land damages to be as
sessed or allowed.
S. T. Stilkey was given permission
to erect a hitching post in front of
his residence on Sewall street.
Orders were passed for series light
on the east side of Grove street on the
pole opposite the residence of Peter
Breen: for a series light on South Bel
fast avenue and Quimby street, the
exact location to be determined by
the mayor and chairman on street
lights; for an are light on the south
side of School street near the resi-
dence of Horace Pierce, the exact 10
cation TO be determined by the mayor
and chairman of the COMMITTEES on
street lights.
An order directing the mayor, the
committee on highways and sewers
and finance to investigate the prop
osition to purchase from James A.
Savage the land situated on the east
erly side of the South Belfast road
containing about five acres and which
is now being used by the city as
stone quarry and stone crushing plant,
and report at the next regular meeting
of the city council, was referred to the
committee on highways and sewers
and finance
The MAYOR was authorized and d.
rected to arrange for the removal OF
the brown-tail moths within the city
limits of the city on the same basis
as last year.
The city treasurer was authorized
and directed to convey lot No. ia in
Mount Hope cemetery to the trustees
of Seth williams Relief Corps of Au-
eusta to be used for the burial of pen
niless widows and daughters of vet
Grams of the Civil War.
A communication from E. A. Hussey
asking for an extension of the sewer
on Patterson street north of Gannett
street was referred to the proper COM
mittee.
The mayor and aldermen of the COM
mittee on street lights were author
lied to execute on behalf of the city
a contract with the Lewiston, Augusta
& WatervilIe Street Railway, provid-
ing for the use by said railway of GER
tain ornamental iron light poles, sit
uate on State street at or near the
junction of State and Winthrop streets
upon such consideration and terms as
the mayor and said chairman may
deem best.
The mayor was authorized and di
rected to execute in behalf of the city
to Everett Stone and Llewellyn L.
Cooper a lease of the building situated
on Commercial street between the
Granite National Bank and the Maine
Central Railroad.
A claim from James E. McGuinness
for damages of $50 for damages to his
field on the Belgrade road by lowering
the grade of the road was referred to
the proper committee.
In response to petition for the dis
of the dump on Powhatan
street the mayor appointed a commit
tee of five to consider location for
city dump. The committee is composed
of the following: Aldermen Motherwell
and Soule; Councilmen Wadleigh,
Brown and Anderson.
Orders were passed for q cluster light
at the corner of Winthrop and Pleas
ant streets, series light at the corner
of Pleasant and Bridge streets and
three cluster lights on Winthrop street
between Winthrop court and the tracks
of the Maine Central Railroad, it be-
ing understood that the wooden poles
are to be removed when the lights are
installed.
Mayor Newbert appointed Freedom
B. Smith a member of the Board of
Registration for three years.