Official reports of the town of Wayland 1915-1916, Part 1

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 432


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OFFICIAL REPORTS


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Town Clerk's Report


OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND 1915-1916


Moderator


EDMUND H. SEARS


Term Expires 1916


Town Clerk


WARREN L. BISHOP


1916


Selectmen


CHARLES A. BENSON FRANK HAYNES GEORGE W. BISHOP


1916


1916


1916


Treasurer


FRANK E. YEAGER


1916


Collector of Taxes


LESTER R. GERALD 1916


Auditor


JAMES H. CARROLL 1916


Treasurer of Library Funds


FRANCIS SHAW 1916


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Overseers of Poor


HOWARD C. HAYNES THOMAS W. FROST WALTER S. BIGWOOD


1916


1917


1918


School Committee


*FRANK C. REMICK


¡ERNEST E. SPARKS


1916


PHILIP S. IDE


1917


GEORGE FRANCIS POUTASSE


1918


Assessors


DANIEL BRACKETT 1916


NATHANIEL R. GERALD


1917


ALFRED A. CARTER 1918


Water Commissioners


CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS 1916


HENRY G. DUDLEY 1917


JAMES C. McKAY 1918


Trustees of Public Library


LESTER R. GERALD


1916


WALTER E. WILSON


1916


FRANCIS SHAW


1917


ALFRED W. CUTTING


1917


JOHN CONNELLY 1918


AMOS I. HADLEY


1918


*Deceased


+Appointed to fill Vacancy


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Sinking Fund Commissioners


WALTER B. HENDERSON


1916


CHESTER B. WILLIAMS JOHN CONNELLY


1917


1918


Cemetery Commissioners


ANDREW S. MORSE 1916


WALLACE S. DRAPER


1917


COLON C. WARD


1918


Tree Warden


NEIL L. FOLEY 1916


Surveyor of Highways


CHARLES W. FAIRBANK


1916


Board of Health


JOHN L. CORCORAN 1916


WALDO L. LAWRENCE 1917


1918


Constables


OSCAR L. AMES


1916


LESLIE C. BUCK 1916


NEIL L. FOLEY


1916


EDWARD GROVER


1916


JOHN E. LINEHAN


1916


ARTHUR S. RUSSELL


1916


J. CHARLES VINCENT


1916


HOWARD E. SHERMAN


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Trustees of Allen Fund


JOHN CONNELLY ISAAC DAMON WALTER B. HENDERSON


1916


1916


1916


Fence Viewers


SELECTMEN


1916


Field Drivers


CONSTABLES


1916


Inspector of Animals


FRANK BIGWOOD, V. S.


1916


Burial Agent


JOSEPH M. MOORE


1916


Fire Warden


HOWARD C. HAYNES


1916


Supt. of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths


DANIEL F. GRAHAM 1916


Sealer of Weights and Measures


JOSEPH M. MOORE 1916


Janitor of Town Hall


J. CHARLES VINCENT 1916


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Chief of Police


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER


1916


Special Police


MICHAEL W. HYNES


1916


SIMEON P. RINGER 1916


FRED B. COLLINS 1916


FRANK C. MOORE 1916


ROLAND S. CAMPBELL


1916


Special Police for Private Property


LESLIE C. BUCK


1916


J. W. COOLIDGE 1916


A. M. DRAKE 1916


JOHN RALSTON


1916


JAMES BOLTON


1916


THOMAS ANDERSON


1916


SIMEON P. KENNEDY


1916


FRANK O'MARRA 1916


LESTER D. FRAVEL


1916


Special Police for July 4th, 1915


FRANK HANNAN


HENRY TYRRELL


CHARLES McGUIRE


GEORGE CELORIER


ADOLPHUS W. SCOTT


Public Weighers


ARTHUR W. ATWOOD 1916


ERNEST I. CLARK 1916


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Finance Committee


WILLIAM S. LOVELL 1916


FRANK I. COOPER 1916


JAMES FERGUSON 1916


FRANK E. DAVIS


1916


ERNEST F. LAWRENCE


1916


Registrars of Voters


CLEMENT BOND 1916


EDWARD F. LEE


1917


BENJAMIN W. DAMON


1918


WARREN L. BISHOP


Engineers of Fire Department


CHARLES J. POTVIN, Chief 1916


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1916


GEORGE I. CELORIER


1916


WILLIAM STEARNS 1916


HOWARD C. HAYNES


1916


Surveyor of Lumber


FRANK HAYNES 1916


Measurers of Wood and Bark


FRANK HAYNES


1916


WILLIAM S. LOVELL


1916


ARTHUR F. MARSTON


1916


Memorial Day Committee


CHARLES B. BUTTERFIELD


1916


JOSEPH M. MOORE 1916


JAMES I. BRYDEN 1916


THOMAS W. FROST


1916


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Election Officers


Pre. 1-


JAMES I. BRYDEN, Warden WILLIAM STEARNS, Clerk WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL WILLIAM SANDERSON THOMAS L. HYNES THOMAS F. MAYNARD


August, 1916 66


Substitutes :-


CHARLES W. ELLMS THOMAS W. FROST JAMES LINNEHAN HENRY B. SHERMAN


66


Pre. 2-


GEORGE S. SCOTT, Warden ALVIN B. NEALE, Clerk WALDO L. LAWRENCE WILLIAM MORRISSEY WILLIAM CORCORAN ALBERT CHELTRA


66


66


66


66


Substitutes :-


66


JOHN O'ROURKE ALBERT MARCHAND 66 JOHN FOLEY FRANK LATOUR 66


ARTHUR F. MARSTON


RICHARD H. GOEHRING


HENRY C. SCOTT 66


Pound Keeper


ALEXANDER SAUER 1916


Deputy Game Warden


CHARLES M. MAGORTY 1916


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Town Warrant


1916.


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 you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in town elections to meet at their respective polling places on Monday, February 7th, 1916, at six o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring in their ballots for a Moderator, a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, a Treasurer of Library Funds, a Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden, and seven Constables, all for one year.


One member of School Committee, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, one mem- ber of the Board of Health, one Water Commissioner, all for three years.


Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon 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 will re- main continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed unless the voters otherwise order.


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And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday, February 9th, 1916, at 7.45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :


Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers, agents, and committees and act thereon.


Article 2. To choose all necessary officers, agents and committees not elected by official ballot.


Article 3. To grant money for all necessary town pur- poses.


Artice 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.


Article 5. To appropriate the money received from dog licenses.


Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.


Article 7. To see if the Town will accept from Frank W. Wyman a quitclaim deed of all his right title and interest in a parcel of land at Wayland center containing about 1863 square feet, adjoining land in the possession of Mrs. Abby M. Far- well in which the Town has an interest under the will of Abbie M. Heard; said conveyance being made subject to all taxes assessed on said land and unpaid, which the Town is to assume and pay.


Article 8. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a certain sum of money to continue the sidewalk on the south- erly side of West Plain Street in Cochituate from property of Dana Elkins going westerly or do or act.


Article 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer to turn over to the Treasurer of Library Funds the fol- lowing funds, viz :- James Draper Fund $500.00; E. E. Draper Fund. $500.00; and G. C. Draper Fund $1000.00 and cancel outstanding notes for same; or otherwise act thereon.


Article 10. To see if the Town will accept the following


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bequest, viz : $100.00 given by Mrs. Caroline E. Miller, to be known as the Bryant and Miller Fund, income from which to be used for perpetual care of the Alfred Bryant and Curtis Dudley Lots in Lake View Cemetery.


Article 11. To see if the Town will establish and main- tain one additional street light in Main Street, Cochituate, be- tween Plain Street and King Street and appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose.


Article 12. To see what action the Town will take in re -. gard to appropriating a sum not exceeding two hundred sev- enty six dollars ($276.00) to pay for extra work done by the Framingham Construction & Supply Company in connection with the building of the Bridge over the Sudbury River on the Pelham Road, which work was not included in the contract of said Construction Company with the Town.


Article 13. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to the question of appropriating a sum not exceeding two hundred ninety five and 10-100 dollars ($295.10) to pay for extra concrete work claimed by the Framingham Construction and Supply Company to have been done by it under its con- tract with the Town for the construction of the bridge over the Sudbury River on the Pelham Road.


Article 14. To see if the Town will establish and main- tain nine additional street lights on Old Connecticut Path be- tween farm of Francis Shaw and property formerly owned by George Fish, and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose.


Article 15. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to follow out the State Board of Health's recommendation in looking for an independent water supply, or do or act.


Article 16. To see if the Town will establish and main- tain three additional street lights on Draper Road between the property of J. J. Rowan and the estate of S. D. Bryden and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose.


Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and raise a sum of money to establish a supervised play-


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ground in Cochituate, and maintain the one already started in Wayland.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a com- mittee to revise the Town By-Laws, or do or act.


Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to install seven lights on Old Connecticut Path East between the State Road and Pine Brook Road, and ap- propriate and assess ninety dollars for that purpose, or other- wise act.


Article 20. To see if the Town will instruct the Water Commissioners to discontinue the charge of Two Dollars ($2.00) per year for water used in bath tubs, commencing January 1, 1917.


Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to change the date of the Annual Town Meeting or do or act.


Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to pay Napoleon Perodeau for damage done to his dwelling house by a member of the Board of Health and appropriate and assess a sum of money not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) for that purpose or do or act.


Article 23. To see if the Town will place three electric lights on School Street from the residence of Walter E. Wil- son to the Wayland Road.


Article 24. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $350.00, the same to be taken from the Highway appropria- tion, to build a sidewalk on the South side of Harrison Street leading from Main Street to German Hill Street or do or act.


Article 25. To see if the Town will instruct the Select- men to install street electric lights on Main Street from Five Paths to Fiske's Corner or do or act.


Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to confer with the Metropolitan Water and Sewer- age Board in regard to the transfer of Dudley Pond to the Town by said Board or do or act.


Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to pay all Town laborers on Town work two dollars and fifty cents per day, or otherwise act.


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Article 28. To see if the Town will appropriate and as- sess the sum of $300.00 for the purpose of repairing Rice Road from Old Connecticut Path to C. W. Bemis' house or otherwise act.


Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and raise a sum of money for the purpose of installing ade- quate fire protection in the Wayland School.


Article 30. To see if the Town will instruct the Select- men to add three electric lights on East Pond Street between Oak Street and the Town line and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose.


Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to petition the County Commissioners for a relocation and specific repairs on Main Street from Fiske's Corner to the Natick line or other- wise act.


Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of repairing Main Street from Fiske's Corner to the Natick line, or otherwise act.


Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to borrow a sum of money in anticipation of a re-imbursement from the State and County on account of repairs on Main Street, or other- wise act.


Article 34. To appropriate and raise the sum of $150.00 to cover the expense of educating children in State Aided Vocational Schools.


Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess the sum of $600.00 to repair the highway leading from the Concord Road to the Lincoln Line.


Article 36. To see if the Town will appropriate and as- sess a sum not exceeding $300.00 to continue the gravel side- walk on the northerly side of East Pond Street going east, or otherwise act.


Article 37. To see if the Town will instruct the Select- men to install four electric lights on Rice Road from Old Con- necticut Path to Mr. Sauer's house, or otherwise act.


Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to pay the High- way Surveyor the same pay as town laborers, or otherwise act.


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Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to install a street light at the corner of Pond and Oak Streets, Cochituate, or otherwise act.


Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to install new Town Scales and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose, or otherwise act.


Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and raise thirty one hundred and fifty dollars ($3150.00) for the purpose of buying a steam road roller, or otherwise act.


And you are required to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in town, and on the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said election.


Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the 3rd day of February, 1916.


Given under our hands this 22nd day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.


CHARLES A. BENSON, FRANK HAYNES, GEORGE W. BISHOP,


Selectmen of Wayland.


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Annual Town Meeting


FEBRUARY 1, 1915.


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 you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in town elections to meet at their respective polling places on Monday, February 1st, 1915 at six o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring in their ballots for a Moderator, a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, a Treasurer of Library Funds, a Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden and seven Constables, all for one year.


One member of School Committee, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, one mem- ber of the Board of Health, one Water Commissioner, all for three years. Also one member of the Board of Health for one year to fill a vacancy, and one member of the Board of Health for two years to fill a vacancy.


Also to vote "Yes" or "No," upon the acceptance of Chap- ter 807, Acts of 1913, entitled, "An Act to provide for com- pensating certain public employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment."


Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall


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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 will re- main continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed unless the voters otherwise order.


And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday, February 3rd, 1915 at 7.45 o'clock in the afternoon, there and then to act on the following arti- cles, viz :


Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers, agents and committees and act thereon.


Article 2. To choose all necessary officers, agents and committees not elected by official ballot.


Article 3. To grant money for all necessary town pur- poses.


Article 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.


Article 5. To appropriate the money received from dog licenses.


Article 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.


Article 7. To see if the town will vote to change the terms of office of the Selectmen in the following manner, viz : The Selectmen elected at the next annual town election shall hold office, one for three years, one for two years and one for one year, and thereafter one Selectman shall annually be elected to hold office for three years.


Article 8. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to install ten electric street lights on Old Connec- ticut Path between Simpson's Mansion and the Five Paths.


Article 9. To see if the town will appropriate and assess


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a sum not exceeding $200 to continue the concrete walk along the west side of North Main Street going North or do or act.


Article 10. To see what action the town will take in regard to building a culvert on Old Sudbury Road near Bald- wins Pond.


Article 11. To see if thte town will appropriate and as- sess the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) to maintain, for the benefit of the citizens of the town of Way- land, a free bed in the Waltham Hospital for the space of one year or do or act.


Article 12. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to the purchase of land for a supply of gravel for town purposes.


Article 13. To see what action the town will take in regard to the purchase of a steam roller.


Article 14. To see if the town will appropriate and assess the sum of two hundred dollars for the purpose of building a gravel sidewalk on the southerly side of East Pond Street, beginning at French Avenue and running in an easterly di- rection or otherwise act.


Article 15. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars to build a side- walk on the north side of East Plain Street, beginning at the corner of Main and East Plain Streets or otherwise act.


Article 16. To see if the town will instruct the Select- men to install four additional street electric lights on East Pond Street and appropriate and assess $50.00 for that pur- pose or otherwise act.


Article 17. To see if the town will petition the Directors of the Bureau of Statistics for an audit of its accounts in ac- cordance with the provisions of Chapter 598, Acts of 1910 and amendments thereof or otherwise act.


Article 18. To see if the town will appropriate and assess $267.69 to pay for boiler installed in the Wayland School House or do or act.


Article 19. To see if the town will vote to increase the


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salaries of the Selectmen fifty dollars each and appropriate and assess $150.00 therefor.


Article 20. To see if the town will vote to discontinue the meeting which the Selectmen were by a vote of the town instructed to call on the Wednesday evening prior to the An- nual Town Meeting or otherwise act.


Article 21. To see what action the town will take in regard to building a new bridge over the river on Pelham Island Road.


Article 22. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess the sum of $31.45 for the purpose of settling claim of Israel A. Lupien or otherwise act.


Article 23. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to install six additional lights on Concord Road, and appropriate and assess $75.00 for that purpose or other- wise act.


Article 24. To see if the town will accept the following bequests :


$100 Given by the heirs of Adaline H. Wellington, to be known as the "Adaline H. Wellington Fund," income from which to be used for perpetual care of the Joseph Wellington Lot in North Cemetery.


$100 Given by Caroline F. Loker, income from which to be used for perpetual care of the Charles Loker Lot in Lake View Cemetery, No. 7, Section D.


Article 25. To see if the town will appropriate and assess $1,000.00 for the purpose of repairing the Old Connecticut Path between Five Paths and Simpson's Corner or otherwise act.


Article 26. To see if the town will vote to reimburse Napoleon Perodeau for damage caused by explosion when Board of Health was fumigating and appropriate and assess $150.00 for that purpose or otherwise act.


Article 27. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to installing Town Scales.


Article 28. To see if the town will vote to appropriate


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and assess the sum of $1,500.00 for the purpose of repairing Main Street beginning at Dwight's Hill or otherwise act.


And you are required to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town House, at each Post Office in town, and on the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said election.


Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the 25th day of January, 1915.


Given under our hands this 16th day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.


CHARLES A. BENSON, FRANK HAYNES, NAPOLEON PERODEAU, Selectmen of Wayland.


TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE


February 10th, 1915.


And pursuant to said warrant, the inhabitants of Wayland qualified to vote in Town affairs met and did the following business :-


VOTED :- to adjourn the meeting to Wednesday eve- ning, February 10, 1915, because of the storm and consequent inability of the people of Cochituate to attend the meeting.


And in accordance with said vote, the said inhabitants of Wayland met on February 10th, 1915, and did the following business :-


ARTICLE I. Mr. Paul T. Draper, Chairman of the Com- mittee, appointed to investigate the advisability of installing a stone crusher, made a report for the committee that the Town should first secure a good supply of gravel before installing a crusher. Voted to accept the report as a report of progress.


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VOTED :- to take up the report of the Finance Commit- tee.


VOTED :- that the report of the Finance Committee, as given in the Town report be accepted, and the recommenda- tions made therein be adopted with the exception that the sum of $200.00 be added to the appropriation for education, and that the amount be expended for the purpose of uniting with other Towns and schools in Middlesex County in an Agricul- tural District, and also that the sum recommended for memor- ial day celebration be increased from $100.00 to $175.00, and also that the sum recommended for highway and bridges be increased from $3500.00 to $5000.00, and also that the Commit- tee's report be amended with regard to payment of highway note as follows :-


All money received as re-imbursement from the State or County for money spent on roads be appropriated towards the payment of highway notes and that any further sums needed to pay said notes be drawn from the Revenue account, thus the report as amended and correct, reads as follows :-


Abatement of Taxes


$500.00


General Administration :


Salaries :


Moderator


$ 10.00


Selectmen


175.00


Auditor


100.00


Treasurer


500.00


Collector


500.00


Assessors


600.00


Town Clerk


100.00


Election officers


200.00


Registrars


100.00


Incidentals


1,400.00


3,685.00


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Protection of life and property :


Police 700.00


Fire Dept .. Cochituate, including overdraft, $5.31 900.00


Fire Dept., Wayland


350.00


Sealer of weights and measures


50.00


Tree Warden Dept.


200.00


2,200.00


Health and sanitation :


Board of Health


$300.00


Inspector of animals-salary


150.00


$450.00


Highways and bridges


5000.00


Street lighting


2200.00


Moth extermination


1205.84


Charities :


Overseers of poor-salaries


150.00


Support of the poor .


1500.00


$1650.00


Education :


17,200.00


Covering School Committee-salaries


Teachers and janitors


Supplies


Transportation


Superintendent


Manual training


Agricultural District Incidentals


Library and reading-room


1600.00


Memorial day celebration


175.00


Soldiers' benefits


450.00


Cemeteries :


Lake View Cemetery


200.00


North and Center Cemeteries


200.00


$2,225.00


$400.00


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Sinking fund


$1,408.80


Cochituate schoolhouse bonds


1,500.00


Interest on Town debt


3,700.00


Total


$43,324.64


The above appropriations are recommended for fiscal year ending December 31, 1915, in addition to such balance as ap- pear on the Treasurer's books unexpended from last year's appropriations.




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