Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-03
Municipal Officers
Remain Same at
Brunswick Election
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Brunswick, March 2-The voters
of this town by large majority eA-
dressed their approval of the same
hoard of municipal officers who have
been in charge of affairs for the past
year. The officers elected We're as
follows: Moderator, Edward w.
Wheeler; selectmen, assessors and
overseers of the poor, Samuel b.
Kurdish, Emile A. Tondreau and
William G.. Booker; town clerk, John
w. Riley; collector of taxes, John X.
Stanwood; treasurer, Samuel i.
Forsaith: member of experimenting
school committee for three years,
Dr. Gilbert NJ. Elliott: highway COM
missioner, Thomas f. Dolan; audi
tors Harry +. Thompson and Frank
lin c. Webb.
The only contests were for select
men and highway commissioner Tor
which the vote was as follows: sell
ectmen. William G. Booker, 1906.
Samuel 3. Furnish 1852, Herrick T.
Mason 657, Emile A. Tondreau 1927,
highway commissioner, Thomas Z.
pclan 954, Edward J. Cairnes 554.
The meeting was a decidedly pro-
gressive one. voting for extensive
highway improvements and for a
new almshouse The principal high
way improvements will be the paw
ing Of Mill Hill which is that section
of Main street between Cabot street
anc the bridge across the Andres
coecin river for which $4,000 vas ap-
priated.
The principal appropriations In
cIu6ed the following: Salaries ana
expenses of town officers. printing
and elections $4,000, maintenance of
r
ment s4l5G, fire department $500.
maintenance of armory 5000. salaries
and expenses of health officers. milk
inspectors and for reporting of vital
statistics $1,000. repair Of highways
st6. 900. State aid road 1888, street
lights $3.50. water bills for munich
pal purposes $4,000, support of poor
$4,000. aid of needy soldiers ard their
families 5000, Mothers pensions $500.
superintendent of schools and COM
mittee $500. common schools $26,-
GEO. high schools $4,000. manual
training in public schools $500. DOM
este science in public schools 5000,
repairs and insurance of school
horses $4,000. free text books and
supplies $4,000. public library $500,
leans. etc, $4,000. payment of town
debt $4,000, band concerts $225. Mem
crial day $3.50, abatement of taxes
81, 500, patrol work on highways
$1,000. village improvements associa-
ton $500, surveying and marking
boundary lines of town common 500.
evening school $500, reduction of the
unfunded debt S4,500 construction
and maintenance of skating Kinks
nd slides $500, repairs and work on
dams and reservoirs $500, construc-
ton of Maine street from Cabot
street to bridge $4,000. surfacing
Maine street from Maine Central
railroad track southerly toward Mere
Brook $1,000. construction of con-
crete side walks. AUDITORS to pay one
half the cost $4,000.
Automobile street sprinkler, 500:
special work on Pleasant Hill road,
two sections, $500; Maquoit road
500; River road. two sections. S.
200; Storer road 5000: special appro
rriations for dirt sidewalks 5000
The appropriations total $15n,S13.
which is $500 more than the total
amount appropriated last year. A
committee consisting of Norman G.
Smith, Perley n. Watson, Dean Paul
Nixon, DR.. Eugene II. Andrews and
Mrs. Mary J.. Baxter Is to have
charge of the work of rebuilding the
| almshouse. Joseph Carlin, DIR. A. l..
Aric w. Haskell and Hon. Harry f.
Tompson will have charge of he
construction of concrete sidewalks;
William w. Nearing, Wilbur F. Sem
ter, Norman G. Smith, John w. Ril-
ey, Charles A. Randall, Prof. Will
liam A. Moody. and Mrs. Eugene d.
NORM are to investigate the school
building needs of Brunswick and re-
port at special town meeting to be
held within six weeks. Ellery c.
Day, Judge Joseph II. Rousseau,
Isaiah r. Morrell, Samuel L. For
saith, John l.. Baxter, Algeron G..
Chandler, Nathan Fl. Pierce. Harry
Peterson. Miss Lillian Odieorne,
Miss Claire Parent. Omer ID. Tond-
reau and G. Allen Howe are to pre-
pare a bill for presentation before
the Legislature permitting the town
to impose a special tax on out of
town merchants who come here to
sell goods. Robert A. Toothaker,
Charles a. Randall and Philip II.
kimball are to report at the next
annual town meeting on the need of
a recreation park. Prof. William A.