Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-01

iesln1llnS at $50. The prlnc:s
speakers will be Rev. Dir. cb.,|
Conklin of Brookline. Mass. and
George NJ. Twitchell of Auburn -
gathering will come at the end Of i,
retreat Monday and Tuesday ar Rive
ton and all of the ministers who
in attendance at that gathering u
be present at the banquet.
Opposition to Bar Harbor's C,r
mission Board of Selectmcn deveo,,
at a meeting in the courtroom j,
plan to seek the election of thrAa 9,
lectment who shall give most of ts.,
time or their entire time to the DIR.
of the office, with proportio,,.
salary. The members of the bs,
have announced they would stand 4,
re election. The makeup of the bcq,
is Julien Emery, chairman Henry
Lawford. Charles S. Green, WI
Franklin, Joseph A. Stevens. Erne,
G. Fabbri and George b. Dorr. II
last two named are summer residerg
The PASSPORT city council all
School Board are looking for lo;
ton for the new 49,, 900 schoolhoys
to be known as the Shead Memoir
High school. This amount was doDs |
ed last fall by Jesse G.. Shead a, |
work will commence in the ca.
g ~ he fo,
Battery field, where there is plenty |
room for sports and enough land /
several other schools. II is stss
that $4,000 for the land will be donar
this week by a well-knoWn rcslden.
With market in Eastport n
about 1900 bushels Of newly dug clan
every day, and two local canna.
plants now engaged in putting up II
meat" from the shell fish. there |
considerable activity among many "a
madam fishermen and families resi..i
at the Dominion islands about the bd|
and every barrel of CLANS is wor|
$1.15 landed at the PASSPORT wharva|
The average digger can gather up ~
to three barrels of CLANS when ID
weather conditions are as favorable 4
has been the case for the past k1
days. 1t is not expected that the PAD
this season will be as much as yel
ago when CLAIMS were more plenttl
&c a
progression is very evident from "a
report of the board of assessors WIND
was completed Wednesday and submit
ted to the public. The total valuaa91
of the real and personal estate for 4
year 1915, according to the report
SIS, 604, $50, showing an increase OF VII
$50 over that of the year 1914. VIM
was IS, 464,075. The rate of taXah'1
for the year 1915 was % mills on u
dollar. and the amount of taxes recsI1
ed $136. 1868 the greatest amount
taxes which was ever submitted TO y
city collector for collection in the ar
the year was $2S.00l 80. and after Y
balance of s9.33S.55 was paid to y
state. the city received a remittance
S1S,662.95. The county tax Tor u
year 1915 was S7.257S4. Another pon1
which argues for Westhrooks pr
gression is the population as enuh'
ated by the assessors, with Is now NJ
107, little above the 10000 MAJ
Thnf no &c. "a CT clIppUTDDing Y
the automobile. was an interests
point brought out by the report, VIE
shows that 40S horses were taxed V'-1
ia automobiles were also taxed tV'1
hold the supremacy in number o. al
mails, as there are 439 taxable IN Il
city, while sheep were the loves
the column, at IA. The musical iiie
the city is seemingly not lacking Gu
err. for there are $50 pianos in the e~
under taxation. Westbrooks gN'l
manufacturing valuation also co.1
into prominence through the report y
the combined value of the plants 81
S39,410, with a total tax of S6oa'',,
The gross debt of the city as compa'.
by the assessors is s233, 0i4.3o, VIII
net debt of $1S5,O5437.
The ACCESSIBILITY of spruce Na'D'
for small lumber carrying schou,.
is being debated among ship puh'r,
and workers quite extensively hS,,
metack and other hard woods are q.
orally used in the frames OF sam,
vessels, but the suitable materla' =. :,
this work is growing scarcer eacn ~
and with the great demand TOT w..
building at present. the matter
curing this material is becoihins
serious problem. Spruce IS -.
more plenty and available IN h's =,
localities than the hard WOOD anu -,
der the circumstances may We
in future building.
The Hartland Academy Asso.''
held it's annual meeting last fr"a
s. Page was elected president . ,.,d
Burton, vice-president; d. A. f",a
secretary and treasurer: executive
are Carl Randlett, A. X. Burton o." a
A., Packard. New trustees TO 'ah. r.
place of A. w. Miller. deceased any 40
L. II. Blanchard who has mo'eu NJ
town, are Albert Ward and l.. T. -,
rick. Eleven of the trustees were y
ent at the meeting.