The Republican journal., 1915-03-18
TOWN ELECTIONS.

TOWN ELECTIONS.
PROSPECT. Seectmen. Ames, C Gray
and A Hartman; town clerk, L c Dow;
town agent, L F Ames; treasurer, L Dow; ak
collector, Eugene Harnes; school committee, P
N Clark. Money appropriated, $2sO1; schools,
5000; highways, $500; support of poor, $780,;
other purposes, $601.
| NORTH HAVEN. Selectmen, Stone. N
Beverage, Herman Crockett; town clerk, ] o
Brown; town agent, Stone; treasurer, H
| M Leadbetter; tax collector, H M Leadbetter
school committee, H M Crockett. Money ap-
propriated: Total, $7243; schools, $3.50; high
ways, $160S; other purposes. $47S5.
JACKSON, H Mckinley. moderator; E
Tasker, selectmen, assessors and overseers;
E Page, treasurer; VIM Y Tasker, school COM
mittee; o C Roberts. collector. Money appro-
priated: Schools, $500; roads and bridges. $500;
for State roads, $500: special for. roads, $3.50;
other appropriations, $7S3 Total, $3.50.
FRANKFORT. Charles F Drake, moderator;
Frank McCambridge, clerk; Frank L Tyler,
George Ward H M Black, selectmen, asses
sors and overseers; Frank McCambrdge, treas
urer; Geo. H Staples. school committee; F E
Stevens, collector. Money appropriated:
Schools, 5000; roads and bridges, $500; sup
port of poor, Sl400; for State roads, 1858; in
terest, $500; fire wards, s1O Total, $6773.
BUcKsPoRT. VIC. Conary. moderator; Harry
Carey, clerk; A. A. Lowell, A. H. Eldridge, S
W. Davis, seectmen, assessors and overseers;
A. F. Page. treasurer; W. C. Conary. A. L.
White. Fred Page, school committee; Harry
Carey, collector. Money appropriated: Schools
$500; roads and bridges, $500; support of
poor, $500; Mem oral day, $780, for State roads,
$500; public library, SIS. Total, $1O,525.
ISLE AU HAUT. Selectmen, w Coombs, C
Bowen, c l. Dodge; town clerk, J K Collins;
town agent, selectmen; treasurer, A F Barton,
tax collector. A L Small; school committee, ]
K Collins, E Rich, w Rich. Money a,pro-
priated: Schools, $3.50; highways, $500; town
debt, 1925; insurance, $3.50; town hall, $500;
text books d supplies, 500; repairs on school
buildings, $50; State road repair, $25; town
debt, $226.
8 officers were elected as follows: Selectmen,
A. L. Estes, Arthur Cunningham, George
Woods; town clerk. Clarence Whitney; treas
urer, Wilmot L. Grey; tax collector, Harold
Gowen; school committee, B. L. Myrick; money
appropriately; Roads and bridges, $500; town
charges, $1,000; State road, 1888; support of
schools, $1,000; school books, 500; free High
school s20O. school huiIdinps SEQ
APPLETON. At the annual town meeting
March LIST the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: Moderator, w. A. Water
man; town clerk, B. J. Ness; selectmen, asses
and overseers of the poor, G. W. Gushee,
A. H. M cody and Fred Waterman; collector of
taxes, V. o. Keller; school committee for three
years, Andrew Bean; town agent, Seth B.
Conant; auditor, V. o. Keller; treasurer, B. J.
Ness Appropriations: For school $3.50; roads
and bridges, $3.50; poor. S40O; school utensils,
repairs on school buildings and insurance, $3.50;
tuition. 500; town officers, $3.50; snow bills,
$500; Memorial Day, $40. All officers were
elected on citizens ticket and the attempt
made by two or three old Democratic war
horses to arouse party feeling was failure.
served two years and they have done so well
for the town there was no opposition to their
reelection. The town is out of debt and has
more than $1,000 in the treasury. Arthur D.
Fish is superintendent of schools.
MoNTv1LLE The officers elected at the
town meeting March 1st, and the appropria-
lions made, were published in The journal in the
issue following the election, but the following
additional particulars are of interest. The town
officers were all elected unanimously, some-
thing never heard of before. The proposition
to unite the three northern school districts and
! build one central school house was voted down
and $3.50 was voted to repair the Vose school
house, and $500 to repair the Kingdom school
house. 1t was voted to raise $500 in addition
| to the $500 raised last year to repair the Cen
ter bridge. On the whole the appropriations
were about $500 less than last year. The audi
tors report shows the town to be in pros
porous condition, with over 81. 900 surplus cash
| in the treasury. The valuation of the town
| April l, 1914, was 1929 sol. with 260 legal
voters. The tax rate .0245 last year. There
were 319 horses and 40 colts in town. Probably
Montvie leads the county in number of cows,
having 495 four years old and over There were
Ia yoke of oxen and SIS young cattle, valued
at $ll, TAB, which would be exempted from taxa
| ton under the proposed law now pending in
| the legislature There 13 autos, which
number was considerably increased last sum-
| mer.
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