The Republican journal., 1914-03-12
NORTHPORT NEWS.

Mr.. G. L. Woodwork of Fairfield, who
successfully conducted the hotel at Tenn
pie Heights last summer, has rented the
house for another season and will open it
early in the season. Mr. Woodwork is
a we'll know hotel man and the season
at Temple Heights is likely to be good
one. The auditorium there has been
rented to Orrin J. Dickey, who will open
it during the summer for parties and
dancing, with good orchestra. The
town of Northport has appropriated SIS
for expenditure on the streets and the
outlook for the summer. season looks
pretty good. The annual campmeeting
of the Temple Heights Spiritual Associ-
alton will take place the second week in
the month of August and the speakers
include Wellman c. Whitney of SPRING
field, Mass, Fred Nickerson and Mrs.
Katie Han, of Boston, Mass, and
special musical program will be prepared
A brief report of the town meeting
was printed last week, and full report
follows: B. R. Mcintyre was made the
moderator and the following officers were
elected for the coming year: Town clerk,
Franklin A. Rhoades; selectmen, over
seers of the poor and assessors, Charles
E. Drinkwater, B. R. Mcintyre. Irwin O.
Hills; town agent, Charles E. Drinkwa-
ter; town treasurer, Henry G. Hills;
school committee for three years, Man
ASA B. Whiting; collector of taxes at
2 12 percent, Charles o. Dickey; con-
stable, Charles 0. Dickey; truant off
Ger, Elmer Drinkwater; fire warden,
Harvard w. Elwell, with a salary of So
per day and $40 for supplies. The sur
veyors of lumber, wood and bark were
Messrs. E. 3. Elwell, j. R. Hurd, F. A.
Rhoades, Isaac S. Hills and A. S. Crock
EFT; fence viewers, Charles Flanders,
Bert Bird; sexton, Elmer Drinkwater.
1t was voted to raise $1,000 for defray
ing town charges and town debts; 5000
for support of the schools $50 for High
school tuition; $3.50 for, repairs on school
houses; 500 for text books; $500 for
repairs on highways and bridges; $500
for State aid; $1,000 for repairs on the
bridge at Little River. the dividing line
between Belfast and Northport, which
will be changed in location this year by
direction of the county commissioners.
New abutments must be built and it is
proposed to unite with Belfast in build
ing new iron bridge. The sum of $3.50
was raised for the removal of the brown
tail moths; the selectmen were given
power to borrow the sum of $1,000 in
case of a necessity, and the compensa-
ton of the road commissioner was placed
at $2.25 per day for actual days en-
ployed. The selectmen were authorized
to sell such town property as they might
deem proper and $500 was raised for ex-
penditure on the streets of the Wesleyan
Grove Campground and $500 on the
streets of Temple Heights. An abate-
ment of the taxes on the Northport Ho-
tel for term of two years was made
and the matter of new hydrants was
dropped, or passed in the meeting. While
the amount OF money raised for expen-
diture on the highways was not very
large there will be large expenditure
in the town this year for the State will
build at least seven miles of road around
the shore between the two campgrounds
! during the summer months, 80 that
Northport will have very large amount
of road building during the coming year.