Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-02
STATE HOUSE-AUGUSTA
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Of the State Board of Assessors, with
| that body, Mr.. McIntire's six years Of
service concluding with Saturday.
Since Tuesday Mr.. McIntire had been
in conference during considerable
portion of the time each day with Hon
Clement S. Stetson of Greene, who has
been appointed by Governor Milliken
as Mr.. McIntires successor, and has
given Mr.. Stetson many valuable
points in regard to the duties of the
new office. which Mr.. Stetson will en-
ter upon after. his confirmation next
| Tuesday.
| The two gentlemen were visited by
newspaper reporter while in conference
| Saturday forenoon and asked their i'm
| pressions as one came to the end of his
term Of office and the other stood ready
to assume his new duties.
Said Chairman McIntire: Il wish to
express my appreciation of the splendid
! treatment that l have received from
the members of this department and
the other departments at the State
House and from the people of the State
at large: my relations with them all
have been uniformly pleasant during
the term of Office just expiring"
| Said Mr.. Stetson: II wish to speak
especially of Mr.. McIntire's kindness to
me in putting me in touch with the
duties of the office. He wired me from
Springfield the first of the week that
he would be glad to assist me in any
way possible in going over the duties
of that office and he has passed the
greater part of the week in giving me
much valuable information. I shall
| give my entire time after my confirm
alton to the duties of the Office and if
l am able to carry them out success
fully shall feel that it is due in great
measure to the valuable assistance that
Mr.. McIntire has given me at the
! start"
Chairman Mc1ntire will be greatly
missed by the State assessors office ana
by his many friends about the State
House and those with whom he has
come in contact throughout the State
during his term of office, to whom he
has made himself particularly agreeable
through his uniform courtesy and the
attention which he has bestowed upon
the details of the work connected with
his department.. 1t will be learned with
pleasure that he will retain his residence
in the State while attending to his
new duties as director of the New Eng
land Farm Loan bank which is located in
Springfield. remaining at his home at East
Waterford while not actually engaged in
the work connected with his new office.
His connection with the New England
bank has already caused many people
in Maine who have the utmost confidence
in his business integrity to become inter
ested in the Farm Loan bank proposition
who would not otherwise do so, both from
the loan and the investment end.
Mr.. Stetson, the new member of the
State board Of assessors. Is widely known
throughout the State on account of his
connection with the State Grange. hav-
Ing served as master Of that organization
for several years and while he is thor
oughly familiar with rural situations an /
the rural tax problem to a certain extent
his new position will give him an oppor-
tunity for considering the question of
taxation as applied to the cities and
larger towns and the wild lands as we'll
as the distinctively rural communities
He will reside in Greene for the present
but may possibly decide next winter to
take up his residence at Augusta during
his. term Of office.