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OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF THE
Town of Wayland
FOR ITS
One Hundred and Thirty-second Municipal Year
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OFFICIAL REPORTS
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Town of Wayland
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TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
Selectmen
Term expires
JAMES H. LEE
1912
EDMUND H. SEARS (resigned) .
1912
GRANVILLE L. LOKER
1912
Moderator
RUFUS E. CORLEW (resigned) .
1912
Clerk
DANIEL BRACKETT
1912
Treasurer
FRANK E. YEAGER 1912
Collector
IRVING A. PRIEST 1912
Auditor
JAMES H. CARROLL 1912
Treasurer Library Funds
FRANCIS SHAW 1912
Overseers of Poor
T. WELD FROST 1912
CHARLES A. BENSON 1913
JOHN M. WOODWORTH
1912
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School Committee
PHILIP S. IDE
1914
FRANK I. COOPER .
1912
HARRY E. CARSON
1913
Assessors
NATHANIEL R. GERALD
1914
ALFRED A. CARTER
1912
DANIEL BRACKETT
1913
Water Commissioners
HENRY G. DUDLEY
1914
CHARLES S. WRIGHT
1912
CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS
1913
Trustees of Public Library
FRANCIS SHAW 1914
ALFRED W. CUTTING
1914
JOHN CONNELLY
1912
AMOS I. HADLEY
1912
ANDREW A. NORRIS
1913
LESTER R. GERALD
1913
Trustees of Allen Fund
ISAAC DAMON
1912
JOHN CONNELLY
1912
WALTER B. HENDERSON
1912
Tree Warden
EDWARD F. LEMOINE
1912
Surveyor of Highways
MICHAEL W. HYNES · 1912
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TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
Sinking Fund Commissioners
CHESTER B. WILLIAMS 1914
JOHN CONNELLY
1912
WALTER B. HENDERSON
1913
Board of Health
ALBERT E. STEVENS (resigned) 1914
THOMAS BRYANT (resigned)
1912
WILLARD C. HUNTING (resigned)
1913
Cemetery Commissioners
WALLACE S. DRAPER
1914
COLIN C. WARD (appointed)
1912
ANDREW S. MORSE
1913
Constables
WALTER F. EVANS
1912
WM. MORRISSEY
1912
FRANK C. MOORE
1912
FRANK CAYO
1912
CHESTER F. DUSSEAULT
1912
Fence Viewers
SELECTMEN
Field Drivers CONSTABLES
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School Building Committee
SELECTMEN
SCHOOL COMMITTEE TOWN TREASURER
Public Weighers
ERNEST I. CLARK JAMES H. LEE EDWARD. F. LEE A. W. ATWOOD
Measurers of Wood and Bark
WILLIAM S. LOVELL
Surveyors of Lumber
Memorial Day Committee DAVID F. FISKE IRVING W. SCHLEICHER
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TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
OFFICERS APPOINTED
Registrars of Voters
FRANK HAYNES 1914
DANIEL BRACKETT (ex-officio)
1912
FRANK J. BIGWOOD
1912
CLEMENT BOND
1913
Fire Engineers.
WM. M. FULLICK
HENRY BURKE
SAMUEL MCKENNA WILLIAM S. LOVELL
Finance Committee
BENJ. W. DAMON
PAUL T. DRAPER
WM. SUPPLE
CHARLES F. WHITTIER
FRANK S. JONES
Special Police Officers
WALTER F. EVANS
CHAS. M. MAGORTY
J. C. VINCENT
CHAS. W. ELLMS
MICHAEL W. HYNES
THOMAS WARD
HOWARD R. GEORGE THOMAS MAYNARD
DAVID F. FISKE
WILLIAM S. LOVELL
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Inspector of Animals THOMAS BRYANT
Burial Agent JOSEPH M. MOORE
Janitor of Town Hall DOLOR CORMIER
Forest Fire Warden CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS
Sealer of Weights and Measures EDWARD F. LEMOINE
Superintendent Gypsy and Brown-tail Moth Work DANIEL J. GRAHAM
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TOWN WARRANT
Annual Town Warrant
MARCH 25, 1912
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX SS.
To Either of the Constables of the Town of Wayland in said town.
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs to meet: The voters of precinct one at the Town Hall; the voters of precinct two at the Engine House in Cochituate Village on Monday, March 25, 1912, at six o'clock in the forenoon, to give in their votes for a Moderator, three Selectmen, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Auditor, Treasurer of Library Funds, Surveyor of Highways, Tree Warden, and scven Constables, all for one year.
One member of the School Committee, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Assessor, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Member of Board of Health, and Water Commissioner, all for three years.
One Overseer of Poor for two years (to fill vacancy), one member of Board of Health for two years (to fill vacancy), one member of Board of Health for one year (to fill vacancy).
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" on the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot.
The polls will be open at 6.15 o'clock in the forenoon, and
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will remain continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed, unless the voters present otherwise order.
And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday, March 27, current, at 7.45 o'clock in the afternoon, there and then to act on the following articles, viz .:
ARTICLE 1. To hear the report of town officers, agents, trustees, and committees, and act thereon.
ART. 2. To choose all necessar ytown officers, agents, trus- tees, and committees not elected by official ballot.
ART. 3. To grant money for necessary town purposes.
ART. 4. To authorize the Selectmen to consult counsel on important town cases, and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.
ART. 5. To appropriate the money received from dog licenses.
ART. 6. To see what action the town will take in regard to borrowing money in anticipation of the taxes of the current municipal year.
ART. 7. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to draw from the revenue account such sums af money as may be necessary to carry on the work of exterminating the gypsy and brown-tail moths for the months of December, 1912, and Janu- ary and February of 1913, but not to exceed the town's liability for 1913.
ART. 8. Shall Sections 1 to 14, inclusive, of Chapter 28
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of the Revised Laws, authorizing cities and town to lay out public parks within their limits, be accepted?
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to elect and deter- mine the manner of election of a Board of three Park Com- missioners, and fix their terms of office, in case the Town shall vote to accept Sections 1 to 14, inclusive of Chapter 28 of the Revised Laws.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to buy for a public playground a piece of land situated in the village of Cochituate, generally described as follows: bounded on the north by West Plain street, about three hundred and sixty (360) feet; on the west by German Hill street, about five hundred and sixty (560) feet; on the south by Bradford street, about three hundred and sixty (360) feet; and on the east by a line connecting Bradford street and West Plain street, about four hundred (400) feet in length, and containing approximately four (4) acres, commonly known as the "Ball Field"; and to see what action the Town will take as to carrying out such vote and as to the exercise of the powers enumerated in Section 19, Chapter 28, of the Re- vised Laws, as amended by Chapter 508 of the Acts of 1910.
ART. 11. To see if the town will vote to pay for the land mentioned in the article next preceding, under authority of Revised Laws, Chapter 28, as amended by the Acts of 1910, Chapter 508, by issuing its notes, outside the debt limit, for the principal sum of $4,000; said notes to be dated April 1, 1912, to bear interest semi-annually, April 1 and October 1, at the rate of 4 per cent per annum; to mature $500 each year, from and including April 1, 1913, to and including April 1, 1920; the denomination of each note to be $500; the amount necessary to pay the interest and principal as it severally matures to be raised out of the taxes; and the Town Treasurer, with the con- sent and approval of the Selectmen, to have authority to sell said notes: or to pay for said land in such way as the Town may determine.
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ART. 12. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $600 to secure a $1,600 spraying outfit, $1,000 of its cost to be donated to the town by the state.
ART. 13. To see if the town will vote to change the com- pensation of the tax collector to 1 (one) per cent of the amount collected by him, and to pay for bonding of said official, or act anything relative thereto.
ART. 14. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to install one street light on French avenue, near the residence of Jospeh Gladu.
ART. 15. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to install electric street lights on Tower Hill Road.
ART. 16. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars to build a sidewalk on south side of Plain street from Lyon's corner to German Hill street, or do or act.
ART. 17. To see if the town will increase the salary of the Town Auditor from fifty to one hundred dollars.
ART. 18. To see if the town will vote to pay laborers for the town $2.25 per day, or do or act.
ART. 19. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to build a sidewalk in front of the Town Hall.
ART. 20. To see if the town will appropriate fifteen hundred dollars to repair Cochituate road near the school- house in Wayland Village, provided the state will allot an equal amount under the small towns act.
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ART 21. To see if the town will make the salary of the Superintendent of Fire Alarm fifty dollars, or do or act.
ART. 22. To see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen to make a contract at any time prior to January 1, 1913, with The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston to light the streets and ways of the town for a period not exceeding ten years, in case said company shall have pur- chased the property and business of the Weston Electric Light Company, and to take any other action in regard thereto.
And you are required to serve this warrant by posting copies hereof, attested by you at the Town House, at each of the post offices in said town, and at the Engine House, Cochituate, seven days at least before the time for holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant to the Town Clerk on or before March 25, current.
Given under our hands this ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.
JAMES H. LEE, GRANVILLE L. LOKER,
Selectmen.
A true copy: Attest
Constable.
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Annual Town Meeting
MARCH 27, 1911
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Either of the Constables of the Town of Wayland, in said County.
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs to meet: The voters of precinct one at the Town Hall, the voters of precinct two at the engine house, on Monday, March 27 current, at 6 o'clock in the fore- noon, to give in their votes for a Moderator, three Selectmen, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Auditor, Treasurer of Library Funds, Surveyor of Highways, Tree Warden, and seven Constables, all for one year.
One member of School Committee, one Sinking Fund Com- missioner, one Assessor, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Member of Board of Health, one Water Commissioner, all for three years.
One Overseer of Poor for one year (to fill vacancy), one Water Commissioner for one year (to fill vacancy).
Also, to vote "Yes" or "No" on the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot.
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The polls will be open at 6.15 o'clock in the forenoon, and will remain continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed, unless the voters present otherwise order.
And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday, March 29, current, at 7.45 o'clock in the afternoon, there and then to act on the following articles, viz .:
ARTICLE 1. To hear the report of town officers, agents, trustees and committees, and act thereon.
ART. 2. To choose all necessary town officers, agents, trustees, and committees not elected by official ballot.
ART. 3. To grant money for necessary town purposes.
ART. 4. To authorize the Selectmen to consult counsel on important town cases, and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.
ART. 5. To appropriate the money received from dog licenses.
ART. 6. To see what action the town will take in regard to borrowing money in anticipation of the taxes of the current municipal year.
ART. 7. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars to defray the cost of extending the sidewalk on the north side of Pond Street, from the estate of Walter Evans to the easterly boundary of the estate of Nelson Mathews.
ART. 8. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to
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draw from the revenue account such sums of money as may be necessary to carry on the work of exterminating the gypsy and brown-tail moths for the months of December, 1911, and Janu- ary and February of 1912, but not to exceed the town's liability for 1912.
ART. 9. To see if the town will accept the following be- quests: One hundred dollars from E. Russell Frost, to be known as the E. Russell Frost Fund, the income from which to be used for care of lots 9 and 10 in North Cemetery; and one hundred dollars ($100) from Mrs. Lurinda B. Thomas, to be known as the Lurinda B. Thomas Fund, income from which to be used for care of lot 112, in North Cemetery.
ART. 10. To see if the town will vote to petition the Legis- lature to abolish the office of Overseers of Poor in this town, and transfer the duties thereof to the Selectmen.
ART. 11. To see if the town will vote to charge interest on overdue taxes and fix the rate of interest.
ART. 12. To see if the town will grant a sum of money to build a concrete sidewalk from the southerly side of Plain street, northerly across Plain street, and along the easterly side of the Knights of Labor Association Building.
ART. 13. To see if the town will vote to extend the water mains northerly from West Plain street, along the Old Connec- ticut Path.
ART. 14. To see if the town will appropriate five hundred dollars to purchase a hose cart for fire department at Cochituate.
ART. 15. To see what disposition the town will make of the old school buildings in Cochituate.
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ART. 16. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money not exceeding $600 to cover the complete installation of an adequate water supply for Wayland School.
ART 17. To see if the town will accept eight (8) hours for a day's labor on the highway.
ART 18. To see if the town will appropriate $300 to cut down and widen Clay Pit Hill road.
ART. 19. To see what action the town will take in regard to the new set of by-laws submitted at the last annual town meeting recommended by the committee after suggestions from the Attorney-General's office.
ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to pay the members of the Wayland Fire Department fifty cents an hour, for time spent in fighting fires.
ART. 21. To see if the town will vote that all future issue of bonds shall be serial.
ART. 22. To see if the town will vote to change the name of that part of Main street lying between the Boston & Maine Railroad and Fiske's corner, so-called, to Cochituate Road.
ART. 23. To see what action the town will take regarding a further appropriation for the new school building in Cochituate.
ART. 24. To see if the town will grant additional com- pensation to Daniel D. Griffin, temporary tax collector for the years 1906, 1907, and 1908.
ART. 25. To see if the town will vote to change the com- pensation of the tax collector to one per cent of the amount col- lected by him.
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ART. 26. To see if the town will further amend the vote by which all uninvested funds were to be reimbursed by the money received from interest on taxes, as follows:
The sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated from the unexpended balance of the revenue account for the past year, to reimburse the Loker Fund. The amendment passed at the Annual Meeting of March 30, 1910, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "As an amendment to the vote, authorizing the application of interest received on taxes to the reimbursement of town funds passed March 26, 1906, it is voted that in the case of the James Draper Fund, Grace Campbell Draper Fund, Ella E. Draper Fund, the trustees of the library shall continue to hold the notes of the town in perpetuity, bear- ing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum in the case of the James Sumner Draper Fund and the Ella E. Draper Fund; and five per cent per annum in the case of the Grace Campbell Dra- per Fund; and that the amount of these funds be invested by the Sinking Fund Commissioners, and held by them as a per- petual fund, or by such other Board of Trustees as the town may elect.
ART. 27. To vote "Yes" or "No" in answer to the ques- tion, "Shall Sections 1 to 14 inclusive, of Chapter 28 of the Revised Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay out public parks within their limits, be accepted?"
And you are required to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof, attested by you at the Town House, at each of the post- offices in said town, and at the engine house, Cochituate, seven days at least before the time for holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this warrant to the Town Clerk on or before March 23, current.
Given under our hands this tenth day of March, in the year
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of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.
THOMAS F. MAHONY, RUFUS E. CORLEW, EDMUND H. SEARS, Selectmen of Wayland.
A true copy. Attest :
ORLANDO C. EWING, Constable of Wayland.
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Town Clerk's Office
WAYLAND, MASS., March 31, 1911.
At the Town Meeting held on March 29, 1911, the follow- ing votes were passed, viz .:
ART. 2. Trustees of the Allen Fund, Isaac Damon, John Connelly, Walter B. Henderson.
Fence Viewers: The Selectmen.
Field Drivers: The Constables.
Measurers of Wood and Bark: Wm. S. Lovell, Howard R. George.
Surveyors of Lumber, Everett W. Small, Wm. M. Fullick.
Memorial Day Committee: David F. Fiske, Eugene M. Bull, resigned, John C. Wright, resigned.
ART. 3. Voted, That the Finance Committee's report be accepted, and that the amounts recommended by them be and they hereby are appropriated, first striking out the item of $1,500, for the retirement of the serial bonds of the schoolhouse loan, and inserting in place thereof $870.58, and striking out the item (education), $13,000, and inserting in place thereof $16,000.
The $629.42 received as premium on bonds sold is appro- priated toward the retirement of said bonds.
Voted, That the sum of $1,500 be appropriated and as- sessed for the improvement of Main street, between Fiske's corner and the Boston & Maine R. R. tracks at Wayland, or at the discretion of the Highway Commission between Baldwin's bridge and Sudbury town line, to be used in connection with the allotment of a like amount by the Highway Commission under the so-called Small Town Act.
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ART. 4. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to consult counsel on important town cases, and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.
ART. 5. Voted to appropriate the money received from dog licenses; one-half to schools, one-half to library.
ART. 6. Voted, That the town treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of taxes of the present munic- ipal year to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $25,000, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable in one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the taxes of the present municipal year.
ART. 7. Voted to appropriate a sum of money not ex- ceeding $150 to defray the cost of extending the sidewalk on the north side of Pond street, from the estate of Walter Evans, to the easterly boundary of the estate of Nelson Mathews
ART. 8. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to draw from the revenue account such sums of money as may be necessary to carry on the work of exterminating the gypsy and brown- tail moths for the months of December, 1911, and January and February of 1912, but not to exceed the town's liability for 1912.
ART. 9. Voted to accept the following bequests: One hundred dollars from E. Russel Frost, to be known as the E. Russel Frost Fund, the income from which to be used for care of lots 9 and 10 in North Cemetery; and one hundred dollars ($100) from Mrs. Lurinda B. Thomas, to be known as the Lurinda B. Thomas Fund, income from which to be used for care of lot 112, in North Cemetery.
ART. 10. Passed over.
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ART. 11. Voted, That on all taxes remaining unpaid October 1, 1911, interest shall be charged at rate of 6 per cent per annum.
ART. 12. Voted to grant a sum of money not exceeding $250 to build a concrete sidewalk from the southerly side of Plain street, northerly across Plain street, and along the easterly side of the Knights of Labor Association Building.
ART 13. Voted, That the Water Commissioners be in- structed to lay a two (2) inch water pipe from the Lee Hammon place to the Fish place on the old Connecticut Path, cost not to exceed $500, and to pay for same; said Water Commissioners and Town Treasurer to give a water works note payable in one (1) year to be paid from water rates.
ART. 14. Voted No.
ART. 15. Passed over.
ART. 16. Voted to appropriate a sum of money not ex- ceeding $600 to cover the complete installation of an adequate water supply for Wayland School. The school committee shall expend the appropriation.
ART. 17. Voted to accept eight hours for a day's labor on highways.
ART. 18. Passed over.
ART. 19. Passed over.
ART. 20. Voted, That all firemen receive fifty cents per hour fighting woods fire and Wayland firemen fifty cents per hour for all fires.
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ART. 21. Voted, That all future issue of bonds shall be serial.
ART. 22. Voted to change the name of that part of Main street lying between the Boston & Maine Railroad and Fiske's corner, so-called, to Cochituate road.
ART. 23. Moved, that the sum of $1,629.42 be appro- priated and assessed for the completion, furnishing, and grading of the Cochituate School building.
ART. 24. Voted to appropriate and assess $195 and pay the same to D. D. Griffin as additional compensation as tem- porary collector of taxes.
ART. 25. Passed over.
ART. 26. Voted to further amend the vote by which all uninvested funds were to be reimbursed by the money received from interest on taxes, as follows:
The sum of $2,000 is hereby appropriated from the unex- pended balance of the revenue account for the past year, to reimburse the Loker Fund. The amendment passed at the Annual Meeting of March 30, 1910, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "As an amendment to the vote, authorizing the application of interest received on taxes to the reimburse- ment of town funds passed March 26, 1906, it is voted that in the case of the James Draper Fund, Grace Campbell Draper Fund, Ella E. Draper Fund, the trustees of the library shall continue to hold the notes of the town in perpetuity, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum in the case of the James Sumner Draper Fund and the Ella E. Draper Fund; and five per cent per annum in the case of the Grace Campbell Draper Fund; and that the amount of these funds be invested by the Sinking
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Fund Commissioners, and held by them as a perpetual fund, or by such other Board of Trustees as the town may elect.
ART. 27. Passed over.
A true copy of record:
[ATTEST]
DANIEL BRACKETT, Town Clerk.
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT
Selectmen's Report
The regular appointments have been made as required by law. They appear in the list of town officials.
Lighting. Additional street lights have been placed as follows:
Plain street, 1.
Cochituate road, 5.
Sidewalks. The gravel sidewalk on East Pond street was built under the supervision of the highway surveyor.
The concrete sidewalk across Plain street by Knights of Labor hall was contracted to L. F. Gould, of South Framingham. Both of these walks were completed without using the entire appropriation.
Cochituate Road. The work of rebuilding this road through the center of the town was started in the early fall.
It was first thought that this work should be contracted, but after careful consideration it was decided that it would be better to have the work done by town people under the super- vision of the Massachusetts highway engineer. We think that this proved very satisfactory, as we now have an excellent road, which will last for years. A petition has been sent to the Highway Commission for another allotment under the Small Town Act, which we hope to receive the coming year.
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