Official reports of the town of Wayland 1893-1901, Part 10

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 710


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March 15. Corporation tax .


$2 61


30. License Bond's pool room 2 00


W. B. Ward interest on taxes 166 90


Carried forward, $171 51


75


Brought forward,


$171 51


April 27. License Scott's pool room 2 00


T. W. Frost rent of hall 2 50


29. P. S. Zimmerman “ 3 00


May


2. T. W. Frost .


2 50


June


29. C. H. Thing 66 5 00


July


1. South Middlesex Dist. Court 87 43


W. B. Ward interest on taxes 366 00


66 300 00


T. W. Frost rent of hall 5 00


August 9.


66


2 50


Oct." 2. South Middlesex Dist. Court


92 12


24. C. H. Thing rent of hall


7 50


Nov. 11. T. W. Frost “ 66


2 50


Dec.


11. Corporation tax


1,680 70


National Bank tax 765 53


State aid 971 00


27. Interest on tax title 2 00


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28. T. W. Frost rent of hall 3 00


1 00


Feb.


28. C. H. Thing rent of hall


125 00


29. W. B. Ward interest on taxes 150 00


Clark & Corimer license


2 00


W. B. Ward interest on taxes


104 64


102 01


230 65


Overlayings on taxes of 1895 . 1 32


marshland 1 51


Additional assessments


26 00


$5,225 92


L. A. Loker sale of lumber From Selectmen


10 00


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HENRY F. LEE IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF WAYLAND.


1895.


DR.


March 1. To cash as per audit . $2,188 24


15. Corporation tax 2 61


T. W. Frost, rent of hall .


186 90


C. H. Thing, rent of hall


137 50


Scott


2 00


Zimmerman


3 00


Dist. Court fines


87 43


W. B. Ward, interest


666 00


District Court .


92 12


Corporation tax


1,680 70


Bank tax 765 53


Loker


1 00


W. B. Ward


666 50


Clark & Comier


2 00


State aid .


971 00


Donation fund .


12 00


State School fund


269 20


Dog License


137 94


Town of Lexington 52 00


North Brookfield . 315 20


" Southboro 52 50


" Natick .


130 39


Overseers of Poor


607 93


Borrowed in anticipation of


taxes .


8,000 00


Taxes


. 21,248 42


Cemeteries .


60 00


Water Commissioners


2,218 74


State aid .


971 00


Interest on tax title


2 00


Selectmen


10 00


-


$41,539 85


77


CR.


By Selectmen's orders . $21,374 17


State tax . 945 00


Marsh land


330 50


County tax


1,491 95


Interest


4,836 30


Notes paid


9,000 00


Water Commissioners orders 1,206 24


State and Military Aid


1,164 00 ·


$40,348 16


Cash


1,161 69


$41,539 85


HENRY F. LEE,


Treasurer.


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AUDITOR'S REPORT.


I have examined the books of the town officers. Those requir- ing bonds have given them. The bonds have been approved by the proper officers and are on file.


The School Committee's report is bound in a separate book, which is a desirable change, and may lead to other improvements.


The books of the Water Commissioners and Treasurer of Sinking Fund are neatly and correctly kept, and agree in all par- ticulars with the Savings Bank books.


Most of the books kept by town officers show much care and painstaking. The town Treasurer's books are open to some im- provements. Business to the amount of over forty thousand dol- lars has been done by the Treasurer. Every calendar month the books should be balanced by the Treasurer, examined and approved by the Auditor.


I find in the ledger no cash account between the Treasurer and the town, or between the Treasurer and his bank of deposit, except what may be on the stubs of his check book. Mercantile houses doing a business of forty thousand annually require monthly balance sheets and a careful cash account between the house and bank of deposit.


If these or other improved business methods could be adopted, much of the time spent in looking for errors would be saved.


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TRIAL BALANCE.


Unexpended balance


$ 6,739 81


Temporary loans


13,000 00


$19,739 81


Overdrawn .


$ 1,331 71


Uncollected Taxes


17,118 47


Tax title


97 94


Cash called for


1,191 69


$19,739 81


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CORRECTED.


HENRY F. LEE, TREASURER, IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF WAYLAND. RECEIPTS FROM ALL SOURCES.


Cash as per audit


. $2,188 24


Corporation tax


2 61


T. W. Frost


17 50


Selectmen .


10 00


W. B. Ward, interest


832 90


Scott, license


2 00


Zimmerman


3 00


C. Thing .


130 00


District Court fines


87 43


District Court fines


92 12


C. Thing .


7 50


T. W. Frost


2 50


Corporation tax


1,680 70


Bank tax .


765 53


State aid .


971 00


Interest on tax title


2 00


Loker


1 00


W. B. Ward, interest


666 50


Clark & Comier


2 00


Donation fund


12 00


State School fund


269 20


Dog License


137 94


Town of Lexington


52 00


66 North Brookfield


315 20


Southboro


52 50


" Natick


130 39


Overseers of Poor


610 93


Borrowed in anticipation of taxes


8,060 00


Taxes collected .


. 21,248 40


Cemeteries


60 00


Tax title .


78 39


Water Commissioners


2,218 74


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- $40,650 22


OFFICIAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OF WAYLAND,


FOR ITS


One Hundred and Seventeenth Municipal Year,


FROM


MARCH 1, 1896, TO MARCH 1, 1897.


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Lakeview Dress : TRIBUNE OFFICE, SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASS. 1897.


OFFICIAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OF WAYLAND,


FOR ITS


One Hundred and Seventeenth Municipal Year,


FROM


MARCH 1, 1896, TO MARCH 1, 1897.


Lakeview Press : TRIBUNE OFFICE, SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASS.


IS97.



List of Town Officers 1896-97.


The following is a list of the officers of the Town of Wayland and when their terms expire.


TOWN CLERK.


Term expires


RICHARD T. LOMBARI)


1897


TREASURER. .


HENRY F. LEE


1897


AUDITOR.


ALFRED H. BRYANT


1897


COLLECTOR.


WILLARD B. WARD


1897


TREASURER OF LIBRARY FUNDS.


HENRY D. PARMENTER 1897


SELECTMEN.


DAVID P. W. LOKER


1897


ISAAC DAMON


1897


THOMAS W. FROST


1897


OVERSEERS OF POOR.


GEORGE B. HOWE


1897


DAVID P. W. LOKER


1897


WILLARD B. WARD


1897


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SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


CHESTER B. WILLIAMS


1897


L. ANNA DUDLEY .


1898


ANNA B. BENT


1899


ASSESSORS.


RICHARD T. LOMBARD


. 1897


EDWARD CARTER .


1898


HORATIO G. HAMMOND


. 1899


WATER COMMISSIONERS.


(VACANCY)


1897


CHARLES H. BOODEY


1898


HENRY G. DUDLEY


1899


TRUSTEES PUBLIC LIBRARY.


THEODORE W. BENNETT


1897


LIZZIE E. MITCHELL


-1897


RICHARD T. LOMBARD


1898


ELLEN M. BRAMAN


1898


JAMES A. DRAPER


1899


CYRUS W. HEIZER


1899


CONSTABLES.


JEAN B. CHABENNIEU


1897


HENRY G. DUDLEY


1897


JOHN E. LINNEHAN


1897


LAWRENCE H. McMANUS


1897


WILLIAM C. NEAL


1897


GEORGE E. SHERMAN (VACANCY')


1897


1897


TRUSTEES ALLEN FUND.


ISAAC DAMON


1897


DANIEL D. GRIFFIN


1897


WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL


1897


FENCE VIEWERS.


ALBION F. PARMENTER


1897


ISAAC DAMON


1897


EDWARD CARTER


1897


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FIELD DRIVER.


IRA S. DICKEY


1897


SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.


(VACANCY) 1897


MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK.


GEORGE B. HOWE 1897


EDWARD CARTER


1897


WILLIAM S. LOVELL


1897


SURVEYOR OF LUMBER.


FRANK HAYNES


1897


SUPERINTENDENT OF NORTH AND CENTRE CEMETERIES.


THEODORE S. SHERMAN


1897


SUPERINTENDENT OF LAKEVIEW CEMETERY.


HENRY B. PHALEN 1897


FINANCE COMMITTEE.


DAVID P. W. LOKER


1897


RICHARD T. LOMBARD


1897


CHESTER B. WILLIAMS


1897


GEORGE B. HOWE .


1897


CHARLES H. BOODEY


1897


HENRY F. LEE


1897


ISAAC DAMON


1897


COMMITTEE ON DECORATION DAY.


CHARLES H. MAY .


1897


DANIEL W. RICKER


1897


DAVID P. W. LOKER


1897


EDWARD CARTER


1897


PETER S. ZIMMERMAN


1897


ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.


RALPH BENT, Chief


1897


EDWIN W. MARSTON


1897


HENRY B. PHALEN


1897


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SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.


ISAAC DAMON


1897


REGISTRARS OF VOTERS.


THEODORE L. SAWIN, Chairman


1897


DELOSS W. MITCHELL


1898


LUTHER L. SHERMAN .


1899


RICHARD T. LOMBARD, Town Clerk ex-officio


1897


Annual Town Meeting, March 22, 1897.


WARRANT.


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


MIDDLESEX SS :


To Fohn E. Linnehan or either of the Constables of the Town of Wayland, in said County,


Greeting :


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the qualified voters of said Town of Wayland to meet at the Town Hall, Wayland, on Monday, March 22, 1897, at 8 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles :


ARTICLE I. To choose by ballot a Moderator to preside in said meeting.


ART. 2. To choose a Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Auditor, three Selectmen, three Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer of the Library funds, and seven Constables, all for one year ; one School Committee, one Assessor, one Water Commissioner, two Trustees of the Public Library, all for three years. Also to answer the following question : "Shall licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors be granted in the town of Wayland for the year ensuing ?"


All names and the said question must appear upon the of- ficial ballot and be voted for in accordance with Chapter 386 of the Acts of the year 1890.


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For the purpose specified in this article, the polls will be opened immediately after the election of a Moderator, and will remain open continuously till one o'clock P. M., when it may be closed, unless the meeting shall otherwise deter- mine, but must remain open not less than four hours.


ART. 3. To choose all other necessary Town Officers, Agents, and Committees, and hear reports of Town Officers, Trustees, Agents, and Committees, and act thereon.


ART. 4. To see how much money the town will grant for paying interest and existing debts ; for roads and bridges ; for support of poor ; for support of schools, school supplies and repairs on school buildings, and transportation of scholars ; for the fire department ; for abatement of taxes, and for all other necessary town purposes, and order the same to be as- sessed, or do or act.


ART. 5. To appropriate the license money on dogs, re- funded by the County Treasurer, or do or act.


ART. 6. To authorize the Selectmen to consult counsel on important town cases.


ART. 7. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in an- ticipation of taxes for the year 1897, and if so, how much, or do or act.


ART. 8. To see if the town will accept the list of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen.


ART. 9. To see if the town will appropriate the money received for sale of lots in the cemeteries for improving the cemeteries, or do or act.


ART. IO. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to cut down and grade the hill on road leading from the Plain road to house of Dennis Mc- Donnell, or do or act.


ART. II. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of seventy-five dollars to repair the road leading from the house of J. M. Curtin to Fiske's corner, or do or act.


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ART. 12. To see if the town will appropriate fifty dollars to re-lay and widen the culvert on Harrison Avenue, or do or act.


ART. 13. To see if the town will vote to purchase a suit- able clock to be placed in the new tower of the Methodist Episcopal church in Cochituate, and to appropriate for said purchase the sum of five hundred dollars, also to provide for the proper care of said clock.


ART. 14. To see if the town will refund to Robert N. Jennison the sum of fifteen dollars and sixty-one cents for taxes paid from 1886 to 1896 on meadow land.


ART. 15. To see if the town will appropriate eighty-five dollars to purchase a snow-plough, or do or act.


ART. 16. To see if the town will instruct its Selectmen, if they deem it advisable, to petition the County Commission- ers to relocate, widen, and straighten the road leading from Wayland Centre to Cochituate, from " Johnson's Lane " to the Central Massachusetts Railroad location at Wayland Centre, or do or act.


ART. 17. To see if the town will increase the number of its School Committee to six members, or do or act.


ART. 18. To see if the town will elect a Tree Warden, or do or act.


ART. 19. To see if the town will appropriate fifty dollars for the celebration of the Fourth of July, or do or act.


ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to abate the per- sonal tax of Charles W. Dean for the year 1895, $72.50, and the year 1896, $78.00, or do or act.


ART. 21. To see if the town will appoint a committee to investigate the matter of better school facilities at Cochitu- ate, or do or act.


ART. 22. To see if the town will reduce the water rates in Cochituate, or do. or act.


ART. 23. To see if the town will vote to buy the K. of L. building for school or other purposes, or do or act.


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ART. 24. To see if the town will vote "That no citizen shall be eligible to but one elective office in any one year, " or do or act.


ART. 25. That any citizen holding an elective office shall be ineligible to hold an appointive office under the board of which he is a member, or do or act.


ART. 26. That no member of any board shall be given any contract by the board of which he is a member, or do or act.


And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at the Town House and each of the post-offices in the town, seven days at least, before the day for holding said meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk of said town on or before the time appointed for holding said meeting.


Given under our hands this third day of March in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.


DAVID P. W. LOKER, ISAAC DAMON, THOMAS W. FROST, Selectmen of Wayland.


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Jury List.


List of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen for the year 1897.


Russell E. Frye.


Albion F. Parmenter.


Theodore L. Sawin.


Peter S. Zimmerman.


John E. Linnehan.


Ernest E. Butler.


Isaac C. Damon.


Andrew S. Norris.


Frank Lupien.


Adoniren J. Puffer.


Colin C. Ward.


Harry H. Rutter.


Edward B. Smith.


Allan B. Sherman.


Geo. E. Sherman.


Elijah H. Atwood.


Edgar B. Loker.


Theodore S. Sherman


Andrew S. Morse.


Alfred H. Bryant.


James A. Bent. . Edward M. Partridge.


DAVID P. W. LOKER, ISAAC DAMON, THOMAS W. FROST, Selectmen of Wayland.


March 3, 1897.


John J. McCann. Sidney Loker.


Isaac S. Whittemore.


Roscoe C. Dean.


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Report of the Selectmen.


WAYLAND, March 1, 1897.


The Selectmen hereby submit their annual report as re- quired by the By-laws of the town.


We have appointed the following officers as required by Statute.


Engineers of the Fire Department : Ralph Bent, Edwin W. Marston, Henry B. Phalen.


Undertakers : Andrew S. Morse, David P. W. Loker. Inspectors of Cattle and Provisions : Thomas W. Frost, Thomas Bryant.


Registrar of Voters : Luther H. Sherman.


Superintendent of Streets : Isaac Damon.


Election Officers, Precinct I : Warden, Albion F. Par- menter ; Clerk, James A. Draper; Inspectors, M. W. Hynes, Edward Carter, William Stearns, William H. Camp- bell. Precinct II : Warden, H. B. Phalen; Clerk, Thomas Bryant ; Inspectors, E. B. Smith, R. E. Frye, Ralph Bent, Ed. A. Partridge.


Special Police : M. W. Hynes.


According to the vote of the town, the culvert near the house of C. B. Williams has been enlarged, and the money appropriated by the town, used ; also the road near the Simp-


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son estate has been widened, and the money appropriated for said purpose, used.


According to the directions as laid out by the county com- missioners in regard to Sand Hill road, an appropriation of one thousand dollars will be required for grading said road.


An appropriation is necessary for the purchase of gravel, near Cochituate village.


We have purchased of Michael Ronen a small gravel bank.


The Boston & Maine Railroad Co. has removed all piles from the river bed, not required to support the railroad bridge, as ordered by the Selectmen.


We recommend that a sufficient sum of money be appro- priated for a special night police in Cochituate village, as it has been necessary since July I, for our regular officer to serve two nights in a week.


The case, Commonwealth vs. Wayland, has been tried in court, and the decision was in favor of Wayland.


Sheedy vs. Wayland has been settled.


The damage claimed by Henry B. Phalen, caused by water, has been satisfactorily settled.


We have been compelled to overdraw the appropriation for incidentals to the amount of $462.89, being caused in part by defending and settling cases against the town of Wayland.


The town scales at Cochituate have been repaired at the expense of about one hundred dollars ($ 100.)


The Towns of Framingham and of Weston having peti- tioned for the State Highway, this town being between the two said towns, we deemed it advisable to petition for the same, which has been done, and a survey is being made.


We deem it unneccessary to make any estimates for the various needs of the town for the ensuing year as the Fi- nance Committee is to consider all matters relating to the appropriation of money.


It gives us pleasure to announce that one of Wayland's public-spirited citizens, Dr. Frank W. Draper, has placed a


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bronze Tablet in the North cemetery, marking the site of the First Meeting House erected in the town. The inscription is as follows :


ON THIS SITE IN 1643 The Sudbury colonists built their first meeting house


REV. EDMOND BROWN, MINISTER.


Ay, call it holy ground,


The soil where first they trod;


They left unstained


What there they found, -


Freedom to worship God.


Respectfully submitted,


DAVID P. W. LOKER, ISAAC DAMON, THOMAS W. FROST, Selectmen of Wayland.


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Assessors' Report. FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 28, 1897.


Value of real estate May 1, 1896 .


$1,226,580 00


Value of personal estate May 1, 1896


265,375 00


Total valuation May 1, 1896


. $1,491,955 00


Total valuation May 1, 1895


1,514,725 00


Decrease


$22,770 00 .


Taxes assessed for town purposes


$21,459 75


Overlayings


225 75


Additional assessments


312 00


State tax


1,102 50


County tax .


1,581 48


Total amount assessed


$24,681 48


Number of polls assessed May 1, 1896 . 548


Number additional polls assessed


18


Total polls assessed


. 566


Number polls assessed May 1, 1895 . 557


Increase


9


Number persons assessed . 847


Number residents assessed on property . 423


Number non-residents assessed on property . 144


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Total value of land


$486,479 00


buildings


740,110 00


66


church property


30,240 00


town property


99,271 00


Number of horses


369


cows .


776


sheep


41


swine


262


fowl .


1,615


60


neat cattle other than cows


94


66


dwelling houses


415


acres of land


9,210,62


Rate of taxation for 1896, $15.60 per thousand.


66


66 " 1895, $14.50


Abatements granted for 1893


$122 36


66 1894


34 55


66


66 1896


22 62


66


of special tax for years 1895 & 1896


3 08


Total abatements


$182 61


Amount of special assessment under Chapter 426 of the Acts of 1894


330 51


Overlaying


88


Total assessment under said act


$331 39


.


Respectfully submitted, RICHARD T. LOMBARD, EDWARD CARTER, HORATIO G. HAMMOND. Assessors of Wayland.


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Collector's Report.


TAXES OF 1891.


Balance due March 1, 1896 .


$459 20


Abatement


$17 05


Cash


75 .35


$92 40


$366 60


TAXES OF 1892.


Balance due March 1, 1896 .


$530 60


TAXES OF 1893.


Balance due March 1, 1896 $930 89


Paid Treasurer


575 77


$ 355 12


TAXES OF 1894.


Balance due March 1, 1896 . . $5,635 44


Paid Treasurer 4,306 58


$1,328 86


Interest paid on tax of 1894, $250.00.


TAXES OF 1895.


Balance due March 1, 1896 . $9,508 96


Paid Treasurer . 3,717 72


$5,791 24


Interest paid on tax of 1895, $150.00.


Taxes of 1896


$25,048 87


Paid Treasurer


15,332 69


$9,716 18


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WILLARD B. WARD, Collector.


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Report of Town Clerk and Registrar.


WAYLAND, JANUARY 1, 1897.


I hereby transmit the Annual Report of the Clerk and Registrar for the year ending December 31, 1896.


BIRTHS.


The whole number registered during the year is twenty- eight, being two less than in 1895 : of the number, 15 were males, and 13 were females.


Born of native parents 8


¥ foreign parents . 5 ·


native and foreign parents 15


MARRIAGES.


Whole number registered during the year is twenty-three, being four more than in 1895.


Native birth of both parties 17


Native and foreign birth 3


Foreign birth of both parties . 3


First marriage of both parties


21


Second marriage of both parties


1


First of one and second of the other


1


DEATHS.


Whole number registered during the year is twenty-nine, being one less than in 1895.


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CONDITION :


Married .


4


Widowed


8


Single


17


Native born


23


Foreign born


6


Males


16


Females


13


Names of persons deceased during the year who were over seventy years of age :


Years.


Months.


Days.


Elizabeth Sherman


82


10


George F. Bond


73


James Sumner Draper


84


10


Eunice H. Bemis


70


3


Hannah J. Loker


84


1


12


Eliza Whitney


70


2


17


Jeremiah Mullen


75


NOSOLOGICAL TABLE.


Diphtheria


2


Fractured leg


1


Old age .


3


Still-born


2


Suicide .


1


Paralysis


3


Disease of brain


1


Blood poison .


2


Phthisis .


4


Heart disease


1


Malaria .


1


Cholera infantum


1


Meningitis


2


Pneumonia


1


Cancer .


1


Accident


2


Marasmus


1


20


DOGS.


Whole number of persons licensed to keep dogs to Novem- ber 30, 1896, one hundred and fifty-eight.


145 male dogs, at $2 00 $290 00


13 female dogs, at $5.00 65 00


$355 00


158 licenses, at 20c


31 60


Paid over to County Treasurer $323 40


Number of registered voters, November, 1896


. 445


164


Number precinct 1 66 2


. 281


Ballots cast precinct 1


143


2


256 .


Number of women registered


56


66 voted


· 30


Republican electors


257


Democratic electors .


96


VOTE FOR GOVERNOR.


Thomas C. Brophy


7


Allen Coffin


3


Frederick O. Prince


11


Geo. Fred Williams


93


Roger Wolcott


243


FOR SENATOR, 5TH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.


Henry Parsons


246


Chas. H. Boodey


2


Peter S. Zimmerman


1


FOR REPRESENTATIVES, 2IST MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.


Geo. Balcom . 94


Wm. H. Laughlin


. 114


Wm. L. Morse


. 195


Atherton W. Rogers


. 218


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TOTAL VOTE FOR REPRESENTATIVES, 2IST MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.


Balcom


Laughlin


Morse


Rogers


Blanks


Marlborough


1274


1156


1318


1023


815


Sudbury,


31


32


119


169


71


Wayland


94


114


195


218


177


1399


1302


1632


1410


1063


Respectfully submitted,


RICHARD T. LOMBARD,


Town Clerk.


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Report of the Committee


APPOINTED TO IDENTIFY AND MARK THE GRAVES OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS IN THIS TOWN.


The committee submit the following table, giving the names, and such other data as they have been able to obtain, of the men whose graves they have marked. It was found that the graves of Revolutionary soldiers are all in the old North burying ground, this being the original burying ground of the town of Sudbury, of which Wayland was a part until 1780.


Of fifty-three grave-stones examined there, bearing dates covering the proper period, forty-six are in memory of men whose names appear on the town records as having served as soldiers in the Revolution.


Names marked with an asterisk (*) denote men who were at Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, as per attested reports of commanding officers on file.


Names marked with a dagger (+) denote men who were at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.


The allotments as given are shown on the town records under date of October 26, 1778.


The usual markers of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution were used, at a cost of $1.00 each.


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Appropriation


$50 00


Forty-six markers @ $1.00


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46 00


Unexpended balance


$4 00


RICHARD T. LOMBARD, JAMES A. DRAPER, ALFRED W. CUTTING.


Committee.


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NAME.


Title.


Date of Birth and Death.


Age in 1775.


Allotment in 1778.


Abbott, Ephraim


1745


1815


30


£ 30


*Adams, Benjamin


1751


1843


24


23


* Allen, Josiah


1743


1795


32


50


Baldwin, William


1727


· 1794


48


50


Curtis, Joseph


Major


1722


1791


53


5


Cutting, Isaac


Captain


1721


1795


54


32


*Cutting, Robert


Captain


1743


1820


32


55


*Cutting, John


1750


1828


25


50


* Damon, Isaac


1739


1829


36


12


Damon, Thomas


Captain


1704


1796


71


20


Damon, Thomas, Jr.


1731


1813


44


57


+*Damon, David


Corporal


1753


1786


22


·


·


Colonel


1751


1819


24


21


Heard, Thomas


1750


1819


25


53


*Heard, Zachariah


1752


1823


23


. .


+*Heard, Richard


Captain


1720


1792


55


132


*Heard, Richard, Jr.


1754


1840


21


20


*Johnson, Ebenezer


1741


1823


34


50


*Loker, Isaac


Captain


1738


1824


37


76


*Maynard, Daniel


1741


1783


34


50


Maynard, Moses


Captain


1697


1782


78


25


*Maynard, Micah


Captain


1735


1778


40


50


* Maynard, Nathaniel Moulton, Caleb


Captain


1744


1779


31


68


1709


1800


66


·


Captain


1745


1821


30


34


Moore, Luther


1754


1826


21


29


*Noyes, John


Lieut.


1714


1785


61


73


Reeves, Jacob


1719


1794


56


46


*Reeves, Nathaniel B.


Sergeant


1749


1821


26


20


*Rice, Edmund


1755


1841


20


42


Rice, Nathaniel


1749


1836


26


50


Roby, Ebenezer


1732


1786


43


50


+*Russell, Thaddeus


Captain


1739


1813


36


20


*Rutter, Joseph


1703


1781


72


·


.


1748


1815


27


20


Staples, Ebenezer


1734


1806


41


18


+ Sherman, Ephraim


1757


1837


18


*Sherman Timothy


1748


1819


27


12


+ Smith, David


Fifer


1759


1817


16


*Smith, Ephraim


Lieut.


1727


1809


48


22


*Smith, Joseph


Captain


1716


1803


59


95


*Wyman, William


1755


1829


20


30


·


*Rutter, Joseph, Jr.


1753


1821


22


50


+*Rutter, Thomas


Sergeant


1749


1791


26


52


1746


1814


29


50


Damon, William


1734


1818


41


25


Eames, Aaron


*Moulton, Caleb


*Noyes, James


Noyes, John


25


Report of the Overseers of the Poor for year ending February 27th, 1897.


Mr. M. Temple, the superintendent of the almshouse for the past year, has given very satisfactory service, and has been engaged for the ensuing year.


OUT DOOR POOR, PARTIAL SUPPORT.


Families aided


4


Persons aided


15


19


IN DOOR POOR, FULL SUPPORT.


Almshouse


5


State Lunatic Hospital


3


8


Total number persons aided 27


FINANCIAL STATEMENT SHOWING ACTUAL RECEIPTS AND EXPEN- DITURES FOR THE YEAR.


March 1, 1896. Unexpended balance $186 32


Appropriation


. 2,200 00


$2,386 32


26


REIMBURSEMENTS.


From Town of Lexington


$52 00


Town of Southboro


168 60


Town of Natick


207 40


Aid refunded from John Chinette


23 00


$451 00


ALMSHOUSE RECEIPTS.


Sale of Milk


$695 09


Eggs


26 20


Poultry


9 75


Produce


164 02


Wood


6 00


Hay


30 00


Cows and calves


126 25


Board of horse


64 00


Sale of hogs


21 83


Labor


48 65


Pasturing


6 00


Balance in exchange of horse


22 00


$1,219 79


Total receipts


.


$4,057 11


Overdrawn


199 11


1 $4,256 22


OUT DOOR POOR EXPENDITURES.


Having a settlement in Wayland, residing elsewhere.


Artemas Bond


$170 00


N. Normandin and family


121 36


$291 36


Having a settlement in Wayland, and residing there.


John Chinette




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