Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-10
WINTHROP
Annual Town Meeting Held

The annual town meeting OF VIM
throp voters was held yesterday with
large attendance.
The following town officers were
elected: Moderator, II. E. Foster:
town clerk. NJ. Carrie French; Sc
lectmen, assessors and overseers of
the poor. G. N. Towle. N. L. Cobb,
George Foster: town treasurer, NJ.
W. Wiswell: collector. j. NJ. Towle;
chief engineer, E. E. York; member
school committee for three years. r.
c. Riley; trustees of Bailey Public
library, E. 7. Clifford, Eleanora
Woodman, NJ. W. Wiswell; fire war;
dens, E. E. York. E. w. Wentworth,
A. A. Walton. C. I. Bailey, E. r..
Jones, H. E. 'Wadsworth, E. P. Hew-
EFT; fire inspectors, +. j. Bishop, H.
S. Woodman; road commissioner, Z.
A. Hayden.
The only contest was for the Of
fce Of third selectman, when 1856
votes were cast, George Foster re-
ceiving 226 mad Francis H. Bate 40.
The total appropriation of money
by the town was S44.942.50. to be
expended as follows: For poor and
VtANk nCSCoocIS tONi SudI scS, $lOOVs
$26H.5O was raised for hydrant rent
al. which will be paid back to the
town by Baileys, Wadsworth and
Woodman and the Winthrop Mills
Co. and added to the amount raised
for town charges; for common
schools. $4,000; free High school,
1900; repairs on schoolhouse. $500:
Insurance and supplies, $500; text
books. 5000; school physician, 500;
for salary of superintendent, $775;
for State aid road, 5000; for mainte-
nance and repairs of State and State
aid roads, $1,000; for repairs on side
walks. $500; for supplies for the fire
department, $1,000: $50 for drain
ct Glenside cemetery; $500 addition
Il to be taken from the Glenside
Cemetery fund. with the provision
that pipe, not less than 70 inches
tn diameter, shall be laid. Further
appropriations are $3.50 for a piano
for the Town hall, 500 to repair
the entrance to the Town hall; sou
to build hose house at East Win
thr0p: $1,000 for night Waterman;
$450O to build a permanent road to
the Wayne line: $1,000 for manual
trimming; $500 for maintenance of
cemeteries; $1,000 for Bailey Public
library; $3.50 for Memorial day: S:D.'
for Payson Tucker Hose Co.; x1SGd
for lighting streets: $500 for repairs
on outside of hose house; S4OOO for
the purchase of the Maxim field and
$lO0 for advertising natural re-
sources of the town. The town
voted to accept the sum of sou
NR perpetual fund, the interest OF
which is to be used for the care and
maintenance OF the George f. Gray
lot In Maple Cemetery, and also vot-
ed to accept the sura of $lOO from
Earilla 3. Hopkins, the interest to
be used in the care and maintenance
Of the Arthur Hopkins lot In East
Winthrop cemetery. 1t was voted TO
allow the accounts against the town.
=. 8. Towle, II. +. Wadsworth, +. ID.
! Badger. +. H. Taylor, Mrs. Lillian
Foster. Mrs. Mabel Black, w. j.
bonney and E. r. Jones were re-
elected as budget committee.
At the forenoon session consider
able discussion developed upon Arti-
Gle ~, which reads: ITO see If the
Town will vote to raise sum OF
money to purchase the Maxim neld
west OF the grammar school build
ing for a play ground for the school
children or act anything thereon"
Inc experimenting school commit
tee recommended the purchase OF
inc Held, which has for many years
Deen leased by the town, also OF the
Benson lot adjoining, both of which
are owned by the D. S. Maxim estate.
speaking of the Benson lot, Com
nander r. Fl. Bate of the American
legion claimed a priority for TIE
legion who desire the lot for a site
ror their new Legion home. The
need of new school buildings in