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...went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted to know the correct time, was Skowhegan's first selectman ("He had the most fascinating voice...
...genuine unclaimed strays. And the school will continue to get as many as it needs, from wardens elsewhere in the state. The question as to who could now get elected dogcatcher in the towns around New Haven is academic. In Connecticut, nobody is elected; each town's first selectman (equivalent to mayor) fills the office by appointment...
Mascoma Mill. This mill, also in Lebanon, is presumably another Goldfine property. In 1955, Textron Inc., then Mascoma's owner, served notice that it planned either to dismantle or sell Mascoma. Into the picture stepped Lebanon's First Selectman Joseph Perley, another Goldfine friend; Perley was a prime civic mover in reducing local taxes on Goldfine local properties, with the result that Lebandale Mills, listing assets of nearly $1,000,000, paid only $2,528 in town taxes last year. Perley said he knew of an Ohio textile firm that would buy Mascoma-although he declined to reveal...
...original "Our Town"--from Thornton Wilder's famous play--was painted as the ideal site for a relocated university by Paul Cummings, Jr., editor of the weekly Peterborough Transcript, Mrs. Florence Connell, the town bookkeeper, and selectman Forrest Mercer...
Matthew ignores her advances, but in their absence the marmot drive has begun to go badly. At roundup's end, only 37 animals have been corralled instead of the hundreds the selectman promised. Besides, someone has spied him and Hester together, and he is accused of attempted rape...