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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
GEORGE R. DEAN 
WHOSE ELECTION WAS BIG SURPRISE 
NATHAN P. MELDRUM 
SINCE ELECTED CHAIRMAN 
FRANK.G. CHEEVER | 
ONLY ONE RE-ELECTED 
Manchester’s Annual Town Meeting. 
Two New Members on Board of Selectmen. Town Votes Nocbicenced 
Manchester’s annual Town Meeting 
was held Monday, and aside from 
the election, passed off quietly ,and 
without the excitement usually incident 
to town meetings. 
The election certainly contained 
some surprises, as forecasted in last 
week’s Breeze. In the first place the 
old board of selectmen was turned 
down and a new board consisting of 
Nathan P. Meldrum, George R. Dean 
and Frank G. Cheever were elected. 
This is the Meldrum-Dean-Cheever 
combination which the Breeze had 
been consistently preaching for the 
last six weeks. Meldrum’s vote of 
304 was the biggest of the lot. Cheev- 
er was second man and Dean, the new 
man in town affairs, was low man of 
the three elected, but his vote was 
big compared with the two members 
of last year’s board that did not win. 
He received 264 votes. The two fail- 
ing of election—E. S. Knight and 
Horace Standley, received 164 and 
231, respectively. 
Dean’s election is all the more of a 
surprise even to his closest friends,. 
from the fact that he is a new figure 
in town politics, this being his first at- 
tempt at running for office. His vote 
was highly complimentary. 
Over $200,000 Appropriated. 
The election of George E. Hildreth 
as water commissioner for three years, 
and of Walter B. Calderwood as park 
commissioner for a similar period, out 
of a bunch of six candidates, were the 
other two points of interest on the bal- 
lot. Hildreth succeeded himself, but 
Calderwood is a new man. He is the 
superintendent of the David Fenton 
Co., boat builders. 
The town went no-license by a bare 
margin of 17 votes. Nine more “yes” 
votes would have swung the town into 
the “wet” column. It was the closest 
vote in I5 years. 
For the first time on record the en- 
tire business of the meeting was dis- 
posed of in one day. Every article of 
the warrant was acted upon, and dis- 
posed of, except the two articles per- 
taining to dredging, which must wait 
until the Harbor and Land Commis- 
sioners of the state make their report. 
Appropriations totalling $206,000 
were made, almost all for ‘fixed 
charges.” Very little of the really 
new business was transacted. The 
town voted to appoint a committee to 
look into the matter of a new town hall 
with instructions to report at a future 
meeing. It was also voted to make 
the hours of labor for town employees 
44 hours a week, at 35 cents an hour. 
When the meeting adjourned it was 
to the first Monday evening in April. 
Wuat Was Sap AND DONE AT THE 
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING - 
MONDAY MORNING SESSION 
Town Clerk A. S. Jewett called the 
meeting to order at nine  o’clock. 
After reading the warrant, Article I 
was taken up,—the election of mod- 
erator. Raymond C. Allen received 
27 of the 29 votes cast. There were 
76 voters present at that time. 
Moderator Allen thanked the voters 
for their continued expression of con- 
fidence. He took occasion to say 
that with the increasing business of the 
town there was the danger of. acting 
on things without sufficient considera- 
tion. He said the special committee 
of the town on By-Laws were con- 
sidering having one by-law. call’ for 
the closing of the fiscal year on Dec. 
31st, thus giving ample time to ‘get 
out the reports and for the citizens‘ to 
study the reports of the officers and 
committees of the town. It was also 
suggested that the meeting for election 
and acceptance of reports be held one 
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