Norwood annual report 1923-1927, Part 66

Author: Norwood (Mass.)
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 1656

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Voted: That this meeting be dissolved.

Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.

ADJOURNED SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Adjourned to Tuesday, April 20, 1926

In accordance with the requirements of the By-Laws of the Town of Norwood, notice is hereby given that the Special Town Meeting for March 24, 1926, which by vote of that meeting was adjourned to Friday, April 2, 1926, was by vote of said last named meeting adjourned to Tuesday, April 20, 1926, at thirty minutes after seven o'clock in the afternoon at Everett Hall, at which time and place the following Articles of the Warrant of said Special Town Meeting may be acted upon:

Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 14.

Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.

Notices were posted in accordance with the requirements of the By-Laws. Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.

ADJOURNED SPECIAL TOWN MEETING April 20, 1926

Statement of Town Clerk and Accountant.

Town Clerk and Accountant made the following statement: namely, that the requirements of the By-Laws with respect to adjourned Town Meetings, so far as the warning of said adjournment by posting notices in publie places had been complied with; that the published notice, re- quired by the By-Laws, to be advertised in a newspaper published in Norwood had not been complied with, that copy had been prepared and furnished for the printer for the issue of Norwood Messenger of Friday, April 16, 1926, and that no advertisement had appeared in the Norwood Messenger.

Moderator James A. Halloran stated that the situation having been brought to his attention as set forth by Town Clerk and Accountant, that

in his opinion as Town Counsel this meeting by reason of failure of legal notice as required by the By-Laws has no legal standing and that the meeting of March 24th as adjourned to the respective dates of Friday, April 2, 1926, and Tuesday, April 20, 1926, now stand dissolved and that any of the Articles contained in the original Warrant and not acted upon prior to this date can only be acted upon as the subject matter of a Warrant for a new Town Meeting, which new Town Meeting, he was informed, would be called at an early date.

Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING May 7, 1926

On a Warrant duly issued by the Selectmen and dated April 21, 1926, and signed by Thomas B. Mulvehill, Edmund G. Dalton, Arthur J. Forrest, Eugene Endicott and Harold W. Baker, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which Warrant was duly attested by Nicholas P. Curran, Con- stable of Norwood.

All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-Laws relating of Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, James A. Halloran, the Articles contained in this Warrant and the action taken thereunder being as follows:

Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way, under the provisions of the law authorizing the assessment of better- ments, a new way to be known as Cleveland Street as laid out by the Se- lectmen and raise and appropriate a sum sufficient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To so accept and allow under the provisions of Law authorizing the assessment of betterments (appropriation $2,500.00, to be available from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of highways).

Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way, under the provisions of the law authorizing the assessment of better- ments, a new way to be known as Cypress Street as laid out by the Select- men and appropriate a sum sufficient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.

(Sce action under Article 5.)

Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way, under the provisions of the law authorizing the assessment of better- ments, a new way to be known as Sycamore Street as laid out by the Selectmen and appropriate a sum sufficient to meet the estimated expense

of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.

(See action under Article 5.)

Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way, under the provisions of the law authorizing the assessment of better- ments, a new way to be known as Brookfield Road as laid out by the Selectmen and appropriate a sum sufficient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To so accept and allow under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments (appropriation $2,491.00 be available from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of highways).

Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way, under the provisions of the law authorizing the assessment of better- ments, a new way to be known as Lincoln Street as laid out by the Select- men and appropriate a sum sufficient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: That Articles 2, 3, and 5 be taken up and considered together.

Voted: To so accept and allow under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments (appropriation $6,305.00 be available from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of highways).

Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a public way, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of better- ments, a new way to be known as Elm Street as laid out by the Selectmen and appropriate a sum sufficient to meet the estimated expense of laying out and constructing said new way, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To so accept and allow under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments (appropriation $426.00 to be available from the amount raised and appropriated under the construction of highways).

Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widen- ing of a portion of Cottage Street as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and appropriate money to meet the expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To accept said alteration (appropriation $50.00 to be available from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of highways).

Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widen- ing of a portion of Pleasant Street and Dean Street at the southwesterly corner therecf be made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and ap- propriate money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To accept said alteration (appropriation $350.00 to be available from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of highways).

Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widen- ing of a portion of Winter Street and of a portion of Bright Street as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and appropriate money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To accept said alteration (appropriation $350.00 to be avail- able from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of high- ways).

Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to accept certain main drains and each of them as laid out and reported by the Selectmen, and to au- thorize the taking of easements or rights of way therefor, and appropriate money to meet the estimated expenses of laying out and constructing said drains and each of them, or take any other action in said matters, as follows: viz .:

1. Main drain leading from Chapel Street northeasterly through lands of William P. Nickerson and John Q. Peterson.

2. Main drain leading through Vernon Street, being a proposed ex- tension of Vernon Street through lands of Iva P. Gove and further through land of the Norwood Housing Association, Inc., to an existing main drain.

3. Main drain leading from Pleasant Street to Willow Street at the junction of Lenox Street and thence to the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford Railroad, Midland Division location.

Voted: To accept and to so authorize and to appropriate by transfer the total sum of $1,155.00.

Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widening of a portion of Walpole Street and Winter Street at the north- west corner thereof as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and appropriate money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To accept said alteration (appropriation $1,100.00 to be available from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of highways).

Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a Public Park a certain parcel of land considered desirable therefor and located and allowed and taken in fee for the purpose and reported by the Selectmen and appropriate money sufficient for the estimated expense thereof, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: That the parcel of land located as a Public Park by the Selectmen acting as Park Commissioners and situated near the intersection of Wash- ington Street and Walnut Avenue and laid out and reported by the Select- men for said purpose be and hereby is allowed as a public park, and that the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to take said land in fee for said purpose either by purchase or by right of Eminent Domain, by transfer the sum of $100.00.

Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to accept an alteration by widening of a portion of Washington Street and Walnut Avenue at the

northeast corner thereof as made, laid out and reported by the Selectmen and appropriate money to meet the estimated expense of the same, or take any other action in the matter.

Voted: To accept and allow said alteration (appropriation $750.00 to be available from the amount raised and appropriated under construction of highways).

Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 42 of the five following sections of Chapter 40, General Laws, as amended in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 391 of the Acts of 1923 and amendments being "An Act relative to the collection of Water Rates."

Voted: To accept.

RESOLUTION OFFERED BY REV. CHARLES H. BROWN In Town Meeting Assembled, May 7, 1926.

Resolved: That this meeting extend to Mr. Charles J. Prescott, Chairman of the Finance Commission, whose clear-minded grasp of the Town's needs has simplified and furthered the business of many Town Meetings, its sympathy in his painful illness and the hope of a speedy recovery.

Voted: That this meeting be dissolved.

Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING May 24, 1926

On a Warrant duly issued by the Selectmen and dated May 11, 1926, and signed by Thomas B. Mulvehill, Edmund G. Dalton, Arthur J. Forrest and Harold W. Baker, Selectmen cf Norwood, the proper service of which Warrant was duly attested by J. Irving Reid, Constable of Norwood.

All of the requirement of the Statutes and By-Laws relating to Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, James A. Halloran, the Articles contained in this Warrant and the action taken thereunder being as follows:

Article 1. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee on Mu- nicipal Memorial Building, so-called.

A pamphlet entitled, "Report and Recommendations of the Memorial Municipal Building Proposition," which pamphlet contained the report of the Committee on Municipal Memorial Building and report of the Finance Commission and a report of the Selectmen together with an endorsement and recommendation to the citizens signed by the various town officials. The respective reports and recommendations were read.

Voted: To accept the report of the Committee on the Municipal Memorial Building.

Article 2. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise by taxation and borrow and appropriate under any general authority that the Town may have with reference thereto, for the erection of a Municipal Memorial Building and to direct by whom such sum, so appropriated, shall be ex- pended, or take any other action in the matter.

The recommendation of the Finance Commission was read by Finance Commissioner Fred R. Ellis and took the following form which was offered as a motion by Finance Commissioner Ellis and was duly seconded:

Voted: That the sum of $265,100.00 be appropriated for the construction of a building for Municipal Office Purposes and as a Memorial to Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, substantially in accordance with the plans presented by the Municipal Memorial Building Committee appointed at a Town Meeting held on March 20, 1924, and to be erected on land owned by the Town and situated on the northerly side of Nahatan Street and bounded by Washington Street and Market Street, of which sum so appropriated the sum of $6,100.00 be raised by taxation and as to the balance so ap- propriated that the Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes as Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized and directed to borrow with the approval of the Selectmen the sum of $259,000.00 on notes of the Town in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws of which the sum of $140,000.00 shall be borrowed for Municipal Office Purposes under authority of Section 7 of said Chapter 44 of the General Laws and the sum of $119,000.00 shall be borrowed for the purpose of the Memorial to Soldiers, Sailors and Marines under the authority of Section 8 of said Chapter 44 of the General Laws, the expenditures of said sum of $265,100.00 to be placed in the hands of said committee which is hereby continued for said purpose.

Rev. Charles Hastings Brown, William T. Whedon and Daniel F. Slattery were appointed by the Moderator and sworn by him as tellers to count the votes at this meeting.

Chairman Foley, at this time, addressed the citizens and informed them as to the manner in which the committce had approached question of Municipal Memorial Building; spoke of the outstanding reasons why the particular type of building recommended was selected by the committee, citing the possibility of the erection by the State of an armory in Norwood, possibility of the erection of an auditorium in connection with the new high school and the fact that plans are under way for the erection of a large new theatre, all of which buildings would be available for large public gatherings.

Chairman Foley then had stereopticon views exhibited showing types of architecture and showing the location and pictures of the proposed structure as recommended by the committee. He stated the estimated cost of the Memorial Tower and Hall as about $123,000.00 of which amount the esti- mated cost of the tower would be about $53,000.00 and called to the at- tention of the meeting that up to the present time the Town has not ex-

pended any money for a memorial of any kind and stated that the com- mittee have given consideration to the listing so that the same may be available for inscription on the tablets which it is proposed to be erected on the walls of the lobby entering the Memorial Hall, of the names of those who have gone forth from Norwood or South Dedham to the call of the various wars, citing that the records showed that residents of Norwood participated in 1740 in the Expedition against the Spanish West Indies, in the French and Indian War of 1751, in the Revolutionary War, in the Civil War, the Spanish War and the World War, reciting how Norwood alone raised $3,766,000.00 during the Liberty Loan Drive and that the Town wishes now to honor all of the heroes of the past and that the Me- morial Building as planned will tell for all time the story of love, devotion and sacrifice of those who went forth to the call of the Country. Chairman Foley referred to the financial question and asked the voters to examine the printed list submitted in the report of the committee and called to the attention of the voters that since 1915 when the new form of town govern- ment went into effect large sums of money have been spent for various purposes, schools, paving of Washington Street, sewers, water works and naturally giving rise to the question of what effect the new form of govern- ment and the judicious expenditure of large sums of money had on the valuation of the Town, submitting as an answer to the question the increase in land values and stating that it is safe to say that within very few years the improving of the Norwood Square will pay back to the Town in in- creased taxes all the money expended on it.

Chairman Foley showed tax rate of the surrounding towns to be higher than that of Norwood and none of these towns enjoy a considerable number of the privileges which the citizens of Norwood participate in, asserting that the one word which has made possible successes in Norwood is the word "co-operation."

Chairman Foley closed with the following expression from the Com- mittee:

"We trust that when a little later in the evening we come to the vote on this question, that everyone here will be glad to stand up and be counted for it, and in this way show to our town, our state, and our country, that the Town of Norwood does not forget the brave and valiant heroes who almost from the beginning of the settlement of this country have gone forth in vast numbers, and suffered untold hardships and death itself in order that the honor, the integrity and the independence of this land of ours might be preserved and made the greatest and the noblest on the face of the earth for all time."

Mr. Luther Smith asked just what increase this building, if accepted, would make in the tax rate. Chairman Foley replied that if the new build- ing was erected it would only mean at the most an increase of $1.00 per thousand on the tax rate for the first year.

Rising vote was then taken.

Voting in the affirmative, 281 (two hundred eighty-one). Voting in the negative, none.

Moderator declared the vote to be unanimous.

Rev. George W. Nead spoke very enthusiastically of the proposed Me- morial Building.

Motion was offered by William P. Nickerson that the thanks of the citizens assembled be conferred upon the committee for the very efficient work and the excellent way in which it had been handled and the time spent in preparing the report and statistics submitted.

On motion of Selectman Eugene Endicott, duly seconded, it was Voted: This meeting stand dissolved.

Dissolved at 9.27 p. m.

Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.

WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARIES Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Norfolk, ss.

To either of the Constables in the Town of Norwood, in said County,

Greeting:

In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Pri- maries to meet in Everett Hall, Tuesday, the fourteenth day of September, 1926, at 7 o'clock A. M. for the following purposes:

To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomination of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices:

Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Treasurer and Receiver-General, Auditor, Attorney-General, Senator in Congress to fill vacancy), Representative in Congress, Representative in Congress (to fill vacancy), Councillor, Senator, One Representative in General Court for 8th Norfolk Representative District, County Com- missioner, Two Associate Commissioners, District Attorney and Sheriff.

And for the Election of the following officers:

District member of State Committee for each political party, members of Republican Town Committee, Members of Democratic Town Com- mittee, Delegates to State Conventions of the Republican Party, Delegates to State Conventions of the Democratic Party.

All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot. The polls will be open from 7 A. M. to 4.30 P. M.

And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the town.

Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.

Given under our hands this 31st day of August, 1926.

THOMAS B. MULVEHILL, EDMUND G. DALTON, ARTHUR J. FORREST, Selectmen of Norwood.

Norfolk, ss.

By virtue of this Warrant I have served the same on the inhabitants of the Town of Norwood by posting attested copies thereof in ten public places in said Town seven days before the time of said meeting.

NICHOLAS P. CURRAN, Constable of Norwood.

Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant.

STATE PRIMARIES September 14, 1926

The Warrant calling the meeting was read by Town Clerk and Ae- countant, James E. Pendergast. The election officers who were notified to be present were sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant. The pre- siding Election Officer, Thomas B. Mulvehill, declared the polls open for the reception of ballots at 7 A. M.

The votes were canvassed and the following results announced in open meeting at 7 o'clock.

REPUBLICAN PARTY

Governor Alvan T. Fuller, four hundred nine (409).

Blanks, forty-one (41).

Lieutenant-Governor

Frank G. Allen, four hundred twenty-seven (427).

Blanks, twenty-three (23).

Secretary Frederie W. Cook, three hundred ninety-seven (397). Blanks, fifty-three (53).

Treasurer William S. Youngman, three hundred eighty-four (384). Blanks, sixty-six (66).

Auditor Alonzo B. Cook, three hundred thirty-five (335).

Blanks, one hundred fifteen (115).

Attorney-General

Elijah Adlow, one hundred sixty-one (161). Alexander Lincoln, one hundred two (102).

Arthur K. Reading, one hundred fifty-one (151). Blanks, thirty-six (36).

Senator in Congress

William M. Butler, three hundred ninety-three (393). Blanks, fifty-seven (57).

Congressman

Louis A. Frothingham, three hundred ninety-eight (398). J. Wilfred Richard, twenty-six (26). Blanks, twenty-six (26).

Councillor

Chester I. Campbell, forty-eight (48).

Washington Cook, thirty-six (36). William W. Ollendorff, three hundred forty-five (345). Peter L. Rowell, ten (10). Blanks, eleven (11).

Senator

Samuel H. Wragg, three hundred seventy-four (374). Blanks, seventy-six (76).

Representative in General Court .

George F. James, three hundred ninety-four (394). Blanks, fifty-six (56).

County Commissioner Frederick A. Leavitt, three hundred sixty-nine (369). Blanks, eighty-one (81).

Associate Commissioners Walter E. Piper, three hundred twenty-five (325). Blanks, five hundred seventy-five (575).

District Attorney

Winfield M. Wilbar, three hundred sixty-three (363). Blanks, eighty-seven (87).

Sheriff Samuel H. Capen, three hundred eighty-seven (387). Blanks, sixty-three (63).

State Committee Anna C. Bird, three hundred twenty-seven (327). Blanks, one hundred thirty-three (133).

Delegates to State Convention Frank G. Allen, three hundred ninety-nine (399). Walter F. Tilton, three hundred eighty-three (383). George E. James, four hundred (400).

John J. Morris, three hundred eighty-five (385). Florence H. LeFevre, three hundred eighty-one (381). Alma H. Bagley, three hundred eighty-five (385). James H. Butler, three hundred eighty-three (383). James A. Hartshorn, three hundred ninety-one (391). Scattering, one (1).

Blanks, five hundred eighty (580).

Town Committee

James A. Hartshorn, three hundred eighty-three (383). Frank G. Allen, three hundred eighty-six (386). Florence N. LeFevre, three hundred sixty-six (366). Charle 3 V. Britton, three hundred sixty-two (362). James H. Butler, three hundred sixty-five (365). John Victor Carlson, three hundred sixty-eight (368). Mary Cushing, three hundred fifty-one (351). Albert Fales, three hundred sixty-six (366). Edna L. Gay, three hundred forty-seven (347). Frank A. Fales, three hundred seventy (370). Stephen R. Googins, three hundred fifty-seven (357). George T. Hartshorn, three hundred sixty-eight (368). Harry G. Kirk, three hundred fifty-nine (359). Carl Koch, three hundred fifty-seven (357). John J. Morris, three hundred sixty-nine (369). Carroll P. Nead, three hundred sixty-four (364). Roy C. Webber, three hundred fifty-eight (358) Elisha F. Winslow, three hundred seventy-three (373). Spencer B. Montgomery, three hundred sixty-seven (367). Alma H. Bagley, three hundred sixty-seven (367). Frederic H. Bagley, three hundred sixty-seven (367). Scattering, ninety-four (94).

Blanks, thirty-four hundred eighty-six (3,486).

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Governor William A. Gaston, forty-nine (49). Blanks, five (5).

Lieutenant-Governor Harry J. Dooley, fourteen (14). Joseph B. Ely, thirty-one (31). Blanks, nine (9).

Secretary Frank W. Cavanaugh, fifty-three (53). Blank, one (1).

Treasurer

Daniel England, forty-two (42). Blanks, twelve (12).

Auditor Strabo V. Claggett, forty-two (42). Blanks, twelve (12).

Attorney-General John E. Swift, twenty-seven (27). Harold Williams, Jr., twenty-one (21). Blanks, six (6).

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Norwood annual report 1923-1927, Part 66

Author: Norwood (Mass.) Publication date: 1923 Publisher: The Town Number of Pages: 1656

Author: Norwood (Mass.)
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 1656