Official reports of the town of Wayland 1919-1920, Part 9

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 522


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INDEX


Annual Town Meeting 17


Annual Town Warrant 11


Assessor's Report 50


Auditor's Report


159


Board of Health


69


Cemetery Commissioners 155


Fire Engineers 52


Finance Committee 47


Highway Surveyor


134


Library


Trustees 163


Treasurer 165


Librarian


169


Accessions


172


Moth Superintendent 128


Overseers of Poor 58


Officers 2


· Police


57


Selectmen 45


Sinking Fund Commissioners 132


2


160


Sealer of Weights and Measures


Schools


Committee's Report 97


Superintendent's Report 107


Financial Report 107


High School Principal 118


School Physician 121


Town Clerk's Report


Births 29


Deaths 33


Dog License 34


Marriages 31


Tree Warden 159


Treasurer's Report


71


Vote of Town Election


35


Water Department


Commissioners 59


1 Clerk 61


Superintendent 63


OFFICIAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OF WAYLAND


FOR ITS


One Hundred and Forty-First Municipal Year


FROM JANUARY 1, 1920 TO JANUARY 1, 1921 WITH VALUATION LIST FOR 1920


OF


TED


EAST


1638.


FOUNDED


SUDBURY


178


183


NATICK, MASS. PRESS OF THE NATICK BULLETIN 1920


OFFICIAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OF WAYLAND


FOR ITS


One Hundred and Forty-First Municipal Year


FROM JANUARY 1, 1920 TO JANUARY 1, 1921 WITH VALUATION LIST FOR 1920


ATED


D.


1635.


FOUNDED


EAST SUDBURY 178


1835


NATICK, MASS. PRESS OF THE NATICK BULLETIN 1921


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TOWN CLERKS REPORT


OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND 1920-1921


Term Expires


Moderator


EDMUND H. SEARS 1921


Town Clerk . .


WARREN L. BISHOP


1921


Selectmen


CHARLES A. BENSON


1921


NAPOLEON PERODEAU


1921


WILLIAM J. SCOTLAND


1921


Treasurer


FRANK E. YEAGER 1921


Collector of Taxes


LESTER R. GERALD


1921


Auditor


JAMES H. CARROLL


1921


Treasurer of Library Funds


FRANCIS SHAW


1921


Overseers of the Poor


WALTER S. BIGWOOD


1921


HOWARD C. HAYNES


1922


THOMAS W. FROST


1923


G


School Committee


RICHARD AMES ERNEST E. SPARKS LLEWELLYN MILLS


1921


1922


1923


Assessors


ALFRED A. CARTER 1921


DANIEL A. BRACKETT


1922


NATHANIEL R. GERALD


1923


Water Commissioners


JAMES C. MCKAY 1921


CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS


1922


HENRY G. DUDLEY


1923


Trustees of Public Library


JOHN CONNELLY


1921


AMOS I. HADLEY


1921


LESTER R. GERALD


1922


RICHARD AMES


1922


ALFRED W. CUTTING


1923


FRANCIS SHAW 1923


Sinking Fund Commissioners


JOHN CONNOLLY


1921


WALTER B. HENDERSON


1921


CHESTER B. WILLIAMS


1921


Cemetery Commissioners


COLON C. WARD


1921


WILLIAM REED, 2nd


1922


WALLACE S. DRAPER


1923


Tree Warden


FRANK F. AMES 1921


Surveyor of Highways


CHARLES W. FAIRBANK 1921


Board of Health


THOMAS J. DOWEY JOHN L. CORCORAN WALDO L. LAWRENCE


1921


1922


1923


Constables


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1921


CHARLES F. DUSSEAULT 1921


CARL F. LINBOHM


1921


JOHN E. LINNEHAN


1921


HARRY W. CRAIG


1921


WILLIAM MORRISSEY


1921


THOMAS F. MAYNARD


1921


Trustees of Allen Fund


ISAAC DAMON 1921


JOHN CONNELLY


1921


WALTER B. HENDERSON


1921


Fence Viewers


SELECTMEN 1921


Field Drivers


CONSTABLES 1921


Surveyors of Lumber


FRANK HAYNES


1921


ISRAEL A. LUPIEN 1921


Measurers of Wood and Bark


ISRAEL A. LUPIEN


1921


ARTHUR F. MARSTON


1921


WLLIAM S. LOVELL


1921


Memorial Day Committee


IRVING SCHLEICHER 1921


MARCUS M. FISKE 1921


WILLIAM NOLAN 1921


&


1921


AMEDIE PERODEAU JAMES I. BRYDEN 191 THOMAS W. FROST 10:1


ROBERT S. STEARNS FRANK BURKE


1921


1921


Inspector of Animals


FRANK BIGWOOD 192 L


Burial Agent


MARCUS M. FISKE 1921


Fire Warden


HOWARD C. HAYNES 1921


Superintendent Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth


DANIEL J. GRAHAM 1921


Sealer of Weights and Measures


ALBERT B. MARCHARD 1921


Janitor of Town Hall


J. CHARLES VINCENT 1921


Chief of Police


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1921


Public Weighers


JAMES McKAY 1921


ARTHUR W. ATWOOD


1921


Finance Committee


WILLIAM S. LOVELL 1921


FRANK I. COOPER 1921


FRANK E. DAVIS 1921


ERNEST F. LAWRENCE


1921


GEORGE W. BISHOP 1921


REGISTRARS OF VOTERS


EDWARD F. LEE, Republican 1923


WARREN L. BISHOP, Republican 1921


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MEDDIE H. RASICOT, Democratic


1921


JOSEPH W. ZINNERMAN, Democratic


1922


Engineers of the Fire Department


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1921


CHARLES H. McGUIRE 1921


WILLIAM STEARNS 1921


HOWARD C. HAYNES 1921


ALFRED A. LAMARINE


1921


Election Officers


Precinct 1


JAMES I. BRYDEN, Warden


August 1921


WILLIAM STEARNS, clerk


PHILIP S. IDE


JAMES LINNEHAN


JOHN E. DOLAN


$6


JOHN F. CUMMINGS


66


AMY F. HASKINS


MABEL T. S. SMALL


Substitutes


JOSEPH DECATUR


August 1921


HARRY O'BRIEN


JAMES BOLTON JAMES J. BOLTON


Precinct 2 ALBERT MARCHARD, Warden


August 1921


ALVIN NEAL, Clerk JOHN F. FOLEY 66


BENJAMIN W. DAMON


WILLIAM MORRISEY


WILLIAM CORCORAN


"


MARGARET F. CARROLL


INA A. SMITH


10


Substitutes JOHN O'ROURKE LEON GLADU


August 1921


Pound Keeper


ALEXANDER SAUER 1921


Dog Officer


EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1921


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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


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 7th, 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 Sinking Fund Commissioner, 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


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polls will be open at 6.15 o'clock in the forenoon and will remain continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed unless the voters 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 :


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.


Atticle 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 7. 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 installing electric lights in the Wayland School house, or do or act.


Article 8. To see if the Town will appropriate and


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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 Is- land Road and Culverts.


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


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 17. To see if the Town will accept the gift of the whole or any part of the real estate described in deed of Jonathan M. Parmenter to Edwin Farnham Greene and Ed- mund H. Sears, dated December 28, 1910 and recorded with


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Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 3811, page 216 and shown on plan 50, Book of Plans ?15 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 Selectinen 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 hydrant near the residence of Charles S. Wright and appro- priate 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 easterly side of Pemberton Road near the residence of Isa- belle 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 t, five members and instruct the Selectmen to take any action to change its By-Laws, if necessary, to carry out the above purpose.


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 scraper, and to appropriate and assess a sum not to exceed $300.00 for said purpose, or do or act.


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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.


Art. 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 demonstration work in agriculture and home economics, the money to be expended by, and the di- rector to serve in co-operation with the County Trustees for Aid to Agriculture of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agri- culture and Home Economics, under the provisions of Chap- ter 273, General 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 22. 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 esat side of Pemberton Road between Pond Street and Harrison Street, or do or act.


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


Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the appropval 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 Cochituate.


Article 31. To see if the Town will accept the follow- ing 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 Jonas Bennett Lots No. 103-104, in the North Cemetery.


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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 attend high schools in neighboring towns, to do or act.


Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to pay the tuition and transportation of pupils whose parents desire shall attend high schools in neighboring towns, to 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 Waylan;


February . .1921


A true copy, attest :


Constable of Wayland.


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ANNUAL TOWN WARRANT


FEBRUARY 2, 1920


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


Middlese 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 2nd, 1920


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 the School Committee, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of the Poor, one Assessor, one member of the Board of Health, and one Water Commissioner, all for three years.


Also to vote "Yes or "No" upon the question "Shall Sec- tions one to 14, inclusive, of Chap. 28 of the Revised Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay out Public Parks within their limits be accepted.


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 determine.


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 4th, 1920, at 7.45 P. M. then and there to act on the following articles :


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 ex- penses.


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 7. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the adoption of new By Laws or do or act.


Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to have the valuation of estates made by the Assessors printed in full in


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the Annual Town Report every third year, or at such other time as may be determined upon.


Article 9. 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 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and raise a sum not exceeding $5,300.00 for the purpose of procuring a motor equipment for the town fire departments, or do or act.


Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to hold the Annual Town Meeting on the first Monday of March, or otherwise act.


Article 12. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 or some other amount, and elect a director for demonstration work in agriculture and home economics, the money to be expended by, and the di rector to serve in co-operation with the County Trustees for Aid to Agriculture of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agri- culture and Home Economics, under the provisions of Chap. 273, General Acts of 1918; it being understood that one- fourth of this amount shall be used to provide local paid super- vision of boys' and girls' club work.


Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money not exceeding $2,500.00 for the purpose of continuing improvements on Main Street, Cochituate.


Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borro .v the sum of $5,000.00 in anticipation of a re-imbursement from the State and County on account of improvements on Main Street, Cochituate.


Article 15. To see if the town will vote to change the name of School Street (running from East Plain Street to


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what is known as Fiske Corner at Main Street) to Roosevelt Road, or act or do.


Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue the Wayland High School at Wayland Center and send pupils elsewhere.


Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to appropri- ate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing a piece of land in Cochituate adjoining the Cochituate Play- ground on the east, the same to be an addition to the Play- ground, or otherwise act.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropri- ate and assess the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of building granolithic walks, flagpole base and regrading the lawn of the Cochituate Grammar School.


Article 19. To see if the Town will release any inter- est it may have acquired in real estate formerly of Cornelia J. Bent, as conveyed to it by Willard B. Ward, Collector of Taxes, by a deed dated Oct. 26, 1895 and recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 2418, page 570, and authorize and direct the Treasurer to execute and deliver a release thereof in behalf of the Town or do anything relating thereto.


Aritcle 20. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess the sum of $1,000.00 for the purpose of repairs on Tower Hill Road ordered by the County Commissioners, or otherwise act act.


Article 21. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess the sum of $800.00 for the purpose of repairing Sher- man Road Bridge or otherwise act.


Article 22. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess the sum of $500.00, for the purpose of erecting a fence


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on the northwestern side of the North Cemetery, or do or act.


Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to pay all town laborers four dollars per day or otherwise act.


Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to pay four dollars per day for a double team or otherwise act.


Article 25. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $1,000.00 for re-shaping and graveling the Old Connecticut Path starting at Cochituate Road to work east, or do or act.


Article 26. To consider and take such action as may seem necessary and proper to endeavor to protect the citizens of this town from accident at the corner of the State Road and Main Street, sometimes called Cochituate Road.


Article 27. To see if the Town will appropriate and raise a sum not exceeding $2,000.00 for the purpose of taking or purschasing the land of James H. Lee at the Southwester- ly corneo of the State Road and Main Street, sometimes called Cochituate Road, for park, playground or other municipal purpose. or othewise act.


Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Park Commissioners, the School Committee, or the Play- ground Commission to exercise the powers and rights of the town as to public playgrounds under the statutes relating thereto, or otherwise act.


Article 29. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of repairing Glezen Road from Hazelbrook Lane to the Weston line, or do or act.


Article 30. To see if the town will vote to pay the election officers six dollars per day or otherwise act.


Article 31. To see if the Town will appropriate and


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assess a sum not exceeding $500.00 to install a water supply in the Library building, or do or act.


Article 32. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Trustees of the Public Library to choose annually from its own number a Treasurer.


Article 33. To see if the Town will appropriate and raise a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing a steam road roller, or otherwise act.


Article 34. To see if the Town will accept the following bequests :


$100.00 Received from Imogene A. Carter, to be known as the "Edward Carter Fund," income from which to be used for. he perpetual care of the Edward Carter Lot, No. 168, in the North Cemetery.


$100.00 Received from Colon C. Ward, to be known as the "Ward Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Colon C. Ward, Lot No. 35, and the Bleman Ward Lot No. 26, both in Section E, Lake View Cem- etery.


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 at the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said election.


Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doing thereon to the Town Clerk on or before January 30th, 1920.


CHARLES A. BENSON FRANK HAYNES NAPOLEON PEREODEAU


Selectmen of Wayand


January-1920.


A true copy attest :


Constable of the Town of Wayland


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TOWN CLER'S OFFICE


4th February 1920


And pursuant to said warrant the inhabitants of Way- land qualified to vote in town affairs met and did the follow- ing business :


Article 1 Charles A. Benson, Chairman of committee appointed to invesitgate purchase of motor apparatus for fire department made a report. No action on the report.


Voted : to accept the report of the Finance Committee as printed in the town report. The report is as follows :


Salaries


$3,500.00


Moderator


Town Clerk


Selectmen


Treasurer


Collector


Auditor


Assessors


Overseers of Foor


Election Officers


Registrars


Sealer of Weights and Measures


Incidentals 1,400.00


Protection of Life and Property


Police


2,000.00


Fire Department


1,500.00


3,500.00


Tree Warden Department


100.00


Health and Sanitation Board of Health


250.00


Inspector of Animals, salary


75.00


325.00


Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks


4,000.00


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Oiling Highways


5,000.00


Railing for highways


1,000.00


Street Lighting


3,000.00


Moth Extermination


1,046.88


Charities


Support of Poor


1,800.00


Education


21,000.00


Covering School Committees salaries


Teachers


Superintendent


Janitors


Supplies


Transportation


Manual Training


Incidentals


School Physician


75.00


Library and Reading Room


2,000.00


Memorial Day Celebration


200.00


Soldiers Benefits


800.00


Cemeteries


Lake View


250.00


North and Center 250.00


500.00


Wayland Schoolhouse Equipment Bond


1,400.00


Cochituate Schoolhouse Bond


1,500.00


Playground Note


1,000.00


Interest


3,000.00


Total


$56,146.88


The above appropriations are recommended for the fis- cal year ending December 31, 1920 in addition to such bal- ances as appear on the Treasurer's books unexpended from last year's appropriations. We recommend that the money for removing snow, town insurance and surety bonds and requirements for legal claims be drawn from the revenue ac- count.


Also the overdrafts of the various accounts amounting


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to $3,845.68 be charged to the Revenue Account.


We recommend that the Selectmen employ an official clerk.


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


Voted that the Selectmen act as Fence Viewers


Voted that the Constables act as Field Drivers.


Frank Haynes and Israel A. Lupien were elected Sur- veyors of Lumber.


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


Irwin Schleicher, James I. Bryden, Marcus M. Fiske, Thomas W. Frost, Robert Stearns, Frank Burke, Amedie Perodeau and William Nolan were elected Memorial Day Committee.


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


Article 4. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to consult counsel on important town cases and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.




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