Official reports of the town of Wayland 1921-1922, Part 1

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 468


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OFFICIAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OF WAYLAND


FOR ITS


One Hundred and Forty-Second Municipal Year


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OFFICIAL REPORTS


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TOWN OF WAYLAND


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One Hundred and Forty-Second Municipal Year


FROM JANUARY 1, 1921 TO JANUARY 1, 1922


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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT


OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND 1921-1922


TERM EXPIRES


Moderator


EDMUND H LARS 1922


Town Clerk


WARREN L. BISHOP 1922


Selectmen


CHARLES A. BENSON


1922


NAPOLEON PERODEAU


1922


WILLIAM J. SCOTLAND


1922


Treasurer


FRANK G. MCKENNA 1922


Collector of Taxes


LESTER R. GERALD


1922


Auditor


JAMES H. CARROLL 1922


Overseers of the Poor


HOWARD C. HAYNES


1922


THOMAS W. FROST


1923


WALTER S. BIGWOOD


1924


School Committee


ERNEST E. SPARKS 1922


LLEWELLYN MILLS


1923


RICHARD AMES


1924


Assessors


DANIEL A. BRACKETT 1922


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NATHANIEL R. GERALD 1923 EDMUND H. SEARS 1924


Water Commissioners


CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS


1922


HENRY G. DUDLEY 1923


JAMES C. MCKAY 1924


Trustees of Public Library


LESTER R. GERALD


1922


RICHARD AMES


1922


ALFRED W. CUTTING


1923


FRANCIS SHAW


1923


JOHN CONNELLY


1924


AMOS I. HADLEY


1924


Cemetery Commissioners


WILLIAM REED, 2nd


1922


WALLACE S. DRAPER


1923


FRANK F. AMES 1924


Tree Warden


FRANK F. AMES 1922


Surveyor of Highways


CHARLES W. FAIRBANK 1922


Board of Health


JOHN L. CORCORAN


1922


WALDO L. LAWRENCE


1923


THOMAS J. DOWEY 1924


Board of Park Commissioners


ROBERT S. STEARNS


1922


WARREN D. VALENTINE


1923


JOHN B. WIGHT 1924


Constables


WILFRED L. CELORIER


1922


HARRY W. CRAIG


1922


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER


1922


CHARLES F. DUSSEAULT


1922


JOHN E. LINNEHAN


1922


THOMAS F. MAYNARD


1922


FRANK C. MOORE


1922


Trustees of the Allen Fund


ISAAC DAMON JOHN CONNELLY WALTER B. HENDERSON


1922


1922


Fence Viewers


SELECTMEN 1922


Field Drivers


CONSTABLES


1922


Surveyors of Lumber


ISRAEL A. LUPIEN


1922


FRANK HAYNES


1922


WILLIAM FULLICK


1922


Measurers of Wood and Bark


ISRAEL A. LUPIEN


1922


ARTHUR F. MARSTON


1922


WILLIAM S. LOVELL


1922


ARTHUR W. ATWOOD


1922


Memorial Day Committee


JAMES J. BOLTON


1922


JAMES I. BRYDEN


1922


THOMAS W. FROST


1922


ROBERT S. STEARNS


1922


IRVIN SCHLEICHER


1922


MARCUS M. FISKE


1922


THOMAS MAGORTY


1922


HARRY CRAIG


1922


AMEDEE PERODEAU.


1922


FRANK BURKE


1922


Pound Keeper


ALEXANDER SAUER


1922


Dog Officer


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER


1922


Inspector of Animals


FRANK BIGWOOD


1922


Burial Agent


MARCUS M. FISKE


1922


Fire Warden


1922


HOWARD C. HAYNES 1922


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Superintendent Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth DANIEL J. GRAHAM 192?


Sealer of Weights and Measures


ALBERT B. MARCHARD 1922


Chief of Police


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1922


Public Weighers


JAMES McKAY 1922


ARTHUR W. ATWOOD 1922


Finance Committee


WILLIAM S. LOVELL 1922


FRANK I. COOPER 1922


FRANK E. DAVIS 1922


ERNEST F. LAWRENCE


1922


GEORGE W. BISHOP


1922


Registrars of Voters


EDWARD F. LEE, Republican 1923


WARREN L. BISHOP, Republican


1922


MEDDIE H. RASICOT, Democratic


1924


JOSEPH ZIMMERMAN, Democratic


1922


Engineers of the Fire Department


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1922


CHARLES H. McGUIRE 1922


WILLIAM STEARNS 1922


HOWARD C. HAYNES


1922


ALFRED A. LAMARINE


1922


Election Officers


Precinct 1


JAMES I. BRYDEN, Warden


August 1922


WILLIAM STEARNS, clerk


PHILIP S. IDE


JAMES LINNEHAN


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JOHN E. DOLAN


JOHN F. CUMMINGS


AMY F. HASKINS


MABEL T. S. SMALL


Substitutes


JOSEPH DECATUR August 1922


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HARRY O'BRIEN JAMES BOLTON JAMES J. BOLTON


Precinct 2


ALBERT MARCHARD, Warden


August 1922


ALVIN NEAL, Clerk JOHN F. FOLEY BENJAMIN W. DAMON


WILLIAM MORRISEY


WILLIAM CORCORAN


MARGARET F. CARROLL


INA A. SMITH


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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


MIDDLESEX, SS.


To cither 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, MARCH 6TH, 1922


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 Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden, and seven Constables, all for one year.


One member of the School Committee, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of the Public Library, one Over- seer of Poor, one Assessor, one member of the Board of Health, one Water Commissioner and one Park Commission- er, all for three years.


Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating bev- erages 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 forencon and will re- main continuously open for at least four hours, when they mav 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, MARCH 8TH, 1922


at 7.45 P. M. then and there to act on the following articles.


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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 appropriate the money received from Dog Licenses.


Article 5. 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 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow a sum of money for the purpose of constructing a sidewalk on the State Road between Bennett Road and the Catholic Church.


Article ?. To see if the town will instruct the Tax Collector to take the necessary steps to enforce the payment of all taxes within six months from November of each year beginning with November 1921 or do or act.


Article 8. To see if the town will appropriate and assess the sum of ($500.00) Five Hundred Dollars to repair road near Mr. Coffey's to the Lincoln line, or do or act.


Article 9. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to discontinuing the practice of employing married women as teachers in our public schools, with the exceptions of Drawing and Music teachers.


Article 10. To see if the town will appoint a Com- mittee of four to act in conjunction with the Board of Health to investigate and report at a future town meeting in regard to the condition and elimination of Pigeries in the north end of the town, or do or act.


Article 11. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $500.00 for the purpose of repairing Pleasant Street and regraveling the sidewalk on the northerly side of said street or do or act.


Article 12. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $50.00 to makę


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necessary repairs to town clock and its dials on M. E. Church tower, Cochituate, or do or act.


Article 13. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $50.00 to install an electric light on the Main Street dial of the Town Clock on the M. E. Church tower, Cochituate.


Article 14. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Fire Engineers to install two additional Fire Alarm Boxes in Cochituate, one in the vicinity of the residence of Arthur E. Peck on Main Street and one in the vicinity of the residence of Sidney G. Hahn on Pond Street.


Article 15. To see if the town will vote to purchase a steam road roller and to appropriate and raise a sum of money for said purpose, or do or act.


Article 16. To see if the town will vote to purchase a suitable truck for road work, and to appropriate and raise a sum of money for said purpose, or do or act.


Article 17. To see if the town will vote to purchase a watering cart for road work, and to appropriate and raise a sum of money for said purpose, or do or act.


Article 18. To see if the town will vote to execute a release to the Sandy Burr Country Club, Inc. of a strip of land on the Southerly side of Cochituate Road, containing a quarter of an acre, more or less, formerly a part of the "Dwight Farm," or do or act.


Article 19. To see if the town will accept a gift of Rev. J. D. Binnette, pastor of the St. Zepherin Church, of a certain lot of land in the St. Zepherin Cemetery, for Soldiers and Sailors.


Article 20. To see if the town will vote to install a hydrant near the residence of Charles S. Wright and appro- priate money for the same.


Article 21. To see if the town will give authority to any person or persons to manage in behalf of the town the fund of ten thousand dollars given by the will of Jonathan M. Parmenter to the town of Wayland upon trust, and mentioned in the fourteenth item of said will, until such authority shall be revoked by later action of the town or otherwise.


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Article 22. To see if the town will give authority to any person or persons to manage in behalf of the town the fund of Five Thousand Dollars given by the will of Johnathan M. Parmenter to the town of Wayland in trust, and mentioned in the fifteenth item of said will, until such authority shall be revoked by later action of the town or otherwise.


Article 23. To see if the town will instruct the Select- men to appoint a committee to represent the town and act in conjunction with the trustee or trustees of the estate of Jona- than M. Parmenter in reference to the Hospital and Water be- quests, respectively.


Article 24. To see if the town will authorize the town treasurer to borrow a sum of money in anticipation of a re- imbursement from the County and State on account of oiling of roads.


Article 25. To see if the town will under the provisions. of Section 45 of Chapter 41 of General Laws create on the first Monday of March in the year 1923, a board of commis- sioners of trust funds, consisting of three persons who shall have the management of all trust funds given or bequeathed for the benefit of the town or the inhabitants thereof, except each one of said trust funds the management of which by said commissioners of trust funds would be contrary to the provis- ions made by the donor thereof, by the election, under the pro- visions of said Section 45, of one member of said board for one year. of one member thereof for two years, and of one mem- ber thereof for three years, at the annual town election on the first Monday of March in the year 1923.


Article 26. To see if the town will authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow a sum of money in anticipation of a re- imbursement from the County and State on account of re- pairs on Main Street, Cochituate.


Article 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250 or some other amount, and elect a director for demonstration work in agriculture and home economics, the money to be expended by, and the director to serve in cooperation with the County Trustees for Aid to Agriculture of the Middlesex Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics, under the provisions of Chapter 273, Gen- eral Acts of 1918; it being understood that $100 shall be ex- pended for local supervision of boys' and girls' club work.


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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 March 4th, 1922.


Given under our hands this 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.


CHARLES A. BENSON NAPOLEON PERODEAU WILLIAM J. SCOTLAND Selectmen of the Town of Wayland 1922.


February


A true copy, attest :


Constable of the Town of Wayland.


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TOWN WARRANT


MARCH 7th, 1921


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, MARCH 4th, 1921


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 Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden, and seven Constables, all for one year.


One member of the School Committee, one Cemetery Commissioner, two trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, one member of 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 certain non-intoxicating beverages 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, MARCH 9th, 1921 AT 7.45 P. M.


then and there to act on the following articles :


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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 coun- sel 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 ^. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $1500.00 for painting the school houses in Wayland and in Cochituate, and for wiring and in- stalling electric lights in the Wayland School house, or do or act.


Article S. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $15.00 for installing electric lights at Shore Acres, so called, or do or act.


Article 9. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of installing electric lights on Rice Road between the residence of Alexander Sauer and Old Connecticut Path, or do or act.


Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to pay all town laborers $4.00 per day or otherwise act.


Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to pay $4.00 per day for a two horse team or otherwise act.


Article 12. To see what action the Town will take in regard to appropriating $600.00 for repairs on Pelham Island Road and Culverts.


Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a piece of land of Mrs. I .. S. Hanna for gravel purposes. the land alone for $400.00 o- with the wood for $500.00 or do or act.


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Article 14. To consider and vote by ballot upon the question, shall Sections One to Nine, inclusive, of Chapter For- ty-five of the General Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay out public parks within their limits be accepted.


Article 15. To see if the Town will elect a Board of three Park Commissioners and prescribe their terms of office or otherwise do or act.


Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to give to the Board of Park Commissioners the authority to exercise the powers and rights of the Town as to public playgrounds.


Article 12. To see if the Town will accept the gift of the whole or any part of the real estate described in deed of Jona- than M. Parmenter to Edwin Farnham Greene and Edmund H. Sears, dated December 28, 1910 and recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 3811, page 216 and shown on plan 50, Book of Plans 215 in said Deeds upon certain trusts set forth in Declaration of Trust, dated July 12, 1911 and recorded with said deeds, Book 3645, page 206, and will authorize the Selectmen to accept a deed or deeds of said real estate or any part or parts thereof with such restrictions and upon such trusts as to the Selectmen seem proper or do or act.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess the sum of $500.00 to repair sidewalk on Westerly side of Cochituate Road from B. & M. R. R. to beyond School Buildings.


Article 19. To see if the town will vote to install a hy- drant near the residence of Charles S. Wright and appropriate money for the same.


Article 20. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $500.00 for the purchase of new hose for the Fire Department.


Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess the sum of $700.00 to build a retaining wall on the casterly side of Pemberton Road near the residence of Isabelle C. Pettigrew, or do or act.


Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to increase the School Committee two members from three as at present to five members and instruct the Selectmen to take any action to


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change its By-Laws, if necessary, to carry out the above pur- rose.


Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and raise a certain sum of money for the purpose of purchas- ing a steam road roller, or do or act.


Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a two horse road scrapper, and to appropriate and assess a sum not to exceed $300.00 for said purpose or do or ac ..


Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money to build a sidewalk on State Road West between the residence of J. W. Egan and the residence of Harry Moyse, or do or act.


Article 26. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $300.00 or some other amount, and elect a director for démonstration work in agriculture and home eco- nomics, the money to be expended by, and the director to serve in co-operation with the County Trustees for Aid to Agricul- ture of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics, under the provisions of Chapter 213. Gen- eral Acts of 1918; it being understood that $150.00 of this amount shall be used to provide local paid supervision of boys' and girls' club work.


Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $200.00 to regrade and repair the sidewalk on the east side of Pemberton Road be- teween Pond Street and Harrison Street, or ) or act.


Article 28. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess the sum of $1000.00 to repair Glezen Road from Hazel- brook Road to the Weston Line or do or act.


Article 30: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow the sum of $5000.00 in anticipation of a reimbursement from the County and State on account of repairs on Main Street, Co- chituate.


Article 31. To see if the Town will accept the following bequest.


$100.00 Received from Mrs. Ellen Adelaide Ellis to be known as the "Jonas and Celinea Gardner Bennett Fund" in- come from which to be used for the perpetual care of the


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Jonas Bennett Lots No. 103-104, in the North Cemetery.


Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to abolish the Wayland High School and authorize the School Committee to pay for the tuition and transportation of pupils wishing to at- tend high schools in neighboring towns, or do or act.


Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to pay the tuition and transportation of pu- pils whose parents desire shall attend high schools in neighbor- ing towns. or do or 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 March 4th, 1921.


Given under our hands this 15th day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty one.


CHARLES A. BENSON. NAPOLEON PERODEAU, WILLIAM J. SCOTLAND, Selectmen of the Town of Wayland.


TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE


March 9th, 1921.


And pursuant to said Warrant the inhabitants of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs met and did the following busi- ness :


Article 1. Voted to accept the report of the Finance Committee printel in the town report. The report is as fol- lows :


The Commit'te recommends the following appropriations: Abatement of tas $500.00 General Adminis ation Salaries Moderator Selectmen Auditor


$3800.00


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Town Clerk


Treasurer


Collector


Assessors


Overseers of Poor


Election Officers


Registrars


Sealers of Weights and Measurers


Incidentals 1200.00


Printing Town Reports


600.00


Protection of Life and Property


Police 2000.00


Fire Department


1500.00


Health Sanitation


325.00


Board of Health


$250.00


Inspector of Animals, Salary


25.00


Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks Oiling Highways


5000.00


Railing for Highways


500.00


Street Lighting


3000.00


Moth Extermination


1201.28


Charities


Support of Poor


1600.00


Education


25300.00


Covering Salaries


School Committee


Superintendent


Teachers and Janitors


Supplies, Transportation


Manual Training


Incidentals


School Physicians


25.00


Library and Reading Room


2500.00


Memorial Day Observance


300.00


Soldiers' Benefits


800.00


Cemeteries


Lakeview, North and Center


800.00


Wayland Schoolhouse Equipment Bond 1 1400.00


2000.00


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Cochituate School House Bond Playground notes


1500.00


2000.00


Fire Department Truck note


1000.00


Interest


3000.00


Total including overdrafts $69,825.49


The above appropriations are recommended for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1921 in addition to such balances as ap- pear on the treasurer's books unexpended from last year's ap- propriation. We recommend; that the money for removing snow, town insurance and surety bonds and requirements for legal claims be drawn from the Revenue Account.


We recommend that the amount of the overdrafts of the various accounts be appropriated and assessed as follows :


Abatement of taxes $343.22


Highways and Bridges


1,291.80


Education


Incidentals


1,078.37 4.82 $2,718.21


We recommend that the balance for the North Cemetery Fence account be used for the extension of fences in same cemetery.


We recommend that the Salary of the Selectmen be $150.00 each year and Fifty Dollars extra for Clerk of Board of Selectmen.


Motion made that report be amended to appropriate and assess $300.00 for improvement of corner of State Road and Cochituate Road and other work on playgrounds. Voted to refer this matter covered by this motion to the Finance Com- mittee for investigation instructing said committee to report on the matter at a future town meeting.


Article 2. John Connelly, Isaac Damon and Walter B. Henderson were elected Trustees of the Allen Fung !.


Voted that the Selectmen act as Fence Viewers. t


Voted that the Constables act as Field Drivers.


Israel A. Lupien, Frank Haynes and William Fullick were elected Surveyors of Lumber.


Israel A. Lupien, Arthur F. Marston, William S. Lovell and Arthur W. Atwood were elected Measurers of Wood and Bark.


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James J. Bolton, James I. Bryden, Thomas W. Frost, Robert S. Stearns, Irvin Schleicher, Marcus M. Fiske, Thom- as Magorty, Harry Craig, Amedee Perodeau and Frank Burke were elected members of the Memorial Day Commit- tee.


Article 3. Voted that the various amounts specified in the Finance Committee's Report be appropriated and assessed and recommendations adopted. (See Art. 1.)


Article 4. Passed Over.


Article 5. Voted to appropriate the money received from Dog Licenses one half to the schools and one half to the library.


Article 6. Voted that the Town Treasurer with the ap- proval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1st, 1921, to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the said financial year.


Article 7. Referred to Finance Committee.


Article 8. Referred to Finance Committee.


Article 9. Referred to Finance Committee.


Article 10. Voted to pay all town laborers $4.00 per day.


Article 11. Voted to pay $4.00 per day for a two horse team.


Article 12. Voted to appropriate and assess $600.00 for repairs on Pelham Island Road and Culverts.


Article 13. Referred to Finance Committee.


Article 14. Votd that ballot be taken on following ques- tion :


"Shall Sections one to nine, inclusive, of Chapter Forty- five of the General Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay out public parks within their limits be accepted?"




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