Word: selectmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When about $500 in arrears, I took stock of my position, confiding in one of the selectmen and proffering him my note in lieu of immediate cash. His attitude was, unfortunately, one of sympathy and tolerance. People are sometimes kind when strict reality is more in order...
...town will authorize the selectmen to borrow money if needed to pay the current expenses of the town." (The town decided to do this...
...list of town officers has been reduced considerably since the days when the people elected a tithingham, herdsman, drummer, and horgreeve. Yet, the voter is still faced with far from a short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...
...finally voted to allot $1.40 of each $100 valuation to the selectmen to carry out their administrative duties during the year; $2 for schools; $1.20 for the roads; 40 cents for the poor; and 50 cents for the town debt--a total of $5.50. Even though this still represents a substantial increase over the more usual $4 tax rate, the citizens of Calais took another look at their new snow plow and willingly agreed...
...Rockport, Me., the late Captain Hanson Gregory, who may or may not have deserved the honor, was about to receive thundering recognition from his community. This week selectmen-prodded by the Doughnut Corp. of America-would unveil a plaque: "This is the birthplace of Capt. Hanson Gregory, who first invented the hole in the doughnut...