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John Connelly, Isaac Damon and Thomas F. Mahon- ey 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, William Fullick, William S. Lovell, Arthur F. Marston and Melville Loker were elected Sur- veyors of Lumber.
Israel A. Lupien, Arthur F. Marston, William S. Lov- ell, Arthur W. Atwood and Frank L. Young were elected measurers of wood and bark.
The following were elected members of the Mem- orial Day Committee:
Civil War Veterans
Marcus M. Fiske, Thomas F. Frost, Llewellyn Flan- ders, Frederick Fuller, George B. Howe, and James I.
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Bryden.
Spanish War Veterans Frank C. Moore and Arthur P. Brouillette. World War Veterans Cornelius Maguire, George G. Bogren, Edward Gor- gette, Ernest H. Damon, William M. Nolan, and Ronald S. Campbell.
Sons of Veterans
Erwin W. Schleicher.
Article 3. To grant money for necessary town purposes.
Voted to appropriate and assess the sums of money enumerated in the Finance Committee's Report and to adopt the recommendations therein contained. The fol- lowing is the Finance Committee's Report :
Fin. Com. Rec.
Abatement of Taxes
$500.00
General Administration
Salaries of
3,860.00
Incidentals of
995.00
Moderator
$10.00
Selectmen
500.00
Auditor
150.00
Town Clerk
100.00
Treasurer
500.00
Collector of Taxes 1%
1,000.00
Assessors
900.00
Overseers of Poor
150.00
Election Officers
350.00
Registrars
100.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures 50.00
Game Warden
50.00
Town Hall
500.00
Town Clocks
100.00
Printing and Delivering Town Reports
425.00
Protection of Life and Property Police
2,000.00
Fire Department
1,800.00
** 31.71
Health and Sanitation
Board of Health
500.00
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Inspection of Animals Highways and Bridges
150.00
5000.00)
Oiling Highways
6,000.00
Railings
500.00
Sidewalks
500.00
Snow Removals
3,000.00
Street Lighting
4,000.00
Tree Warden
300.00
Park Commissioners
250.00
Moth Extermination
1,800.00
** 209.93
Charities
Support of Poor
1,400.00
Aid to Agriculture and Home Economics
300.00
Memorial Day Observance
400.00
Soldiers Benefits
500.00
State Aid
1,000.00
Cemeteries
Lake View
400.00
North and Center
400.00
Survey of Lake View
100.00
Education
38,000.00
Covering Salaries of
Superintendent
School Committee
Teachers
Janitors
and for Supplies
Transportation
Incidentals
Light, Power and Fuel
Vocational Tuition
500.00
District and School Nurse
1,500.00
School Physician
75.00
Library and Reading Room
3,300.00
Interest
5,500.00
Town Insurance
1,400.00
Legal Claims
500.00
Surety Bonds
275.00
Reserve Fund
1,000.00
Cochituate School House Bond
1,000.00
Fire Dept. Equipment Note Total
1,000.00
$91,511.86
*540.22
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No unexpended balances can be carried forward this year on account of the change in bookkeeping required by State Laws.
Hereafter unexpended balances will be returned to Surplus Account.
A transfer may be voted by the Town from the Sur- plus Account to the Revenue Account under which it is credited against the Tax Levy.
We recommend that the money received from Dog Licenses be appropriated one half to the schools (Edu- cation) and one half to the Library.
We recommend that the town reimburse Mr. George E. French the sum of ($540.22) the same being one third of the total amount expended by Mr. French on Draper Road under the supervision of the Highway Department with the approval of the Selectmen, the same to be taken from the Highway appropriation.
We recommend that the overdraft in Fire Depart- ment account, $31.71, and Moth Department account, $209.93, be appropriated and assessed the same are ill- cluded in the total recommendations. We wish to cail your attention to the new statute requiring all Real Es- state taxes to be paid within one year. There are nowout- standing in 1922 taxes $26,905.09; against this amount there are two outstanding notes of the Town overdue, one amount of $10,000.00 due Oct 16, 1923; one for$10,000.00 due Nov. 6, 1923.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the cur- rent financial year.
Voted that the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is, authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1,1924; to issue a notes or notes therefor payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under the following to be paid from the revenue of the said financial year.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to au- thorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $8,000.00 in anticipation of re-imbursement from the State and
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County on account of oiling and repairing State controll- ed roads.
Voted that the Town authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $8,000.00 in anticipation of re-imburse- ment from the State and County on account of oiling and repairing State controlled roads.
Article 6. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing gift: $100.00 received from Michael Keith to be known as the "Keith Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Mary A. Beach Lot No. 45 in the Lake View Cemetery.
Voted to accept the foregoing gift.
Article 7. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing bequest: $500 received from Bertha M. Clif- ford, executrix of the will of Granville L. Loker, to be known as the "Granville L. Loker Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the James A. Loker Lot, the Granville L. Loker Lot and the Melville A. Loker Lot all in the Lake View Cemetery.
Voted to accept the foregoing gift.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following gift: $100.00 received from the estate of William Stearns to be known as the "William Stearns Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the William Stearns Lot No. 77 in the North Cemetery.
Voted to accept the foregoing gift.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following gift: $100.00 received from William Whit- temore to be known as the "William Whittemore Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the family lot in the South Cemetery.
Voted to accept the foregoing gift.
Article 10. To see if the town will accept the fol- lowing gift: $100.00 to establish the "Elisha Wheeler and Sarah E. Haynes Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of Lot No. 187 in the North Cem- etery.
Voted to accept the foregoing gift.
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Article 11. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing gift: $500.00 received from Herbert H. Dyer, ad- ministrator of the estate of Joseph O. Bullard to estab- lish the "Joseph O. Bullard Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of Willard A. Bullard Lot, Joseph Bullard, Sr. Lot, Herbert C. Wells Lot, Edward Perry Lot, George and Anna Arnold Lot, all in the North Cemetery.
Voted to accept the foregoing gift.
Article 12. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing bequest: $100.00 under the will of Mary Jane Hix- son, late of Wayland, to be known as the "Mary Jane Hixson Fund" income from which to be used for the per- petual care of the Mary Jane Hixson Lot in Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland.
Voted to accept the foregoing gift.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money for the rent of a "Home" for the Charles H. Alward Post No. 133 American Legion Incorporated, or do or act.
Voted to appropriate and assess the sum of $500.00 for the rent of a "Home" for the Charles H. Alward Post No. 133 American Legion Incorporated.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a sum of money to erect a memorial in honor of those men who served in the World War and other wars; or two memorials for the World War only -- one to be placed in Cochituate and another in Wayland.
Voted that the sum of $1,250.00 is hereby appropri- ated and assessed for the purpose and direction of a suit- able memorial to the men of Wayland who served their country in its Wars, said sum to be expended under the direction of a special committee appointed for the pur- pose.
Voted that a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to contract on behalf of the Town, for the pur- pose and erection of a suitable memorial to the men of Wayland who served their country in its Wars, and char- acter, location and inscription upon said memorial to be as nearly as may be in accordance with the report of the committee presented at this meeting, subject to such modifications as to minor details as shall be determined
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by the committee hereby authorized. The following is a report of the aforesaid committee:
Wayland, March 5, 1924.
Mr. Moderator and Townsmen:
Your Committee have concluded that it is best to have a single memorial, consisting of a bronze tablet in- scribed as follows:
WAYLAND REMEMBERS Colonial Wars Revolutionary War Civil War Spanish War World War"
This tablet to be impressed on a natural stone.
Your committee further recommends that the me- morial be placed on the lawn facing the square in front of the Wayland Inn, which it is understood is the pro- posed site of the future Town Hall.
Appreciating that there may be a difference of opin- ion as to the site, we add by way of explanation that we have recommended the location described because we be- lieve it is the logical center, where the main roads cross and where the townsmen meet.
Your committee have purposely refrained from recommending that the dates of the wars be inscribed on the tablet because they are so well known, and it is be- lieved that a better effect will be attained by omitting them.
(Signed) C. MIFFLIN FROTHINGHAM
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 42A to 42F, inclusive, of Chapter 40 of the Gen- eral Laws providing that water rates and charges for water may be made a lien upon land or take other action in regard thereto.
Voted to accept same.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate a certain sum of money for the purpose of redecor-
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ating and painting the interior of the Town Hall or do or act.
Voted to appropriate and assess the sum of $1,500.00 for said purpose, and that the Selectmen be a committee to carry out the purpose of this article.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to appropri .. ate and assess a certain sum of money for the purpose of printing the valuation list of the Town for the year 1924. or do or act.
Voted to pass over the article.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropri- ate and assess the sum of $270 to purchase a traffic beacon or do or act.
Voted as article reads.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to discon- tinue that part of the Concord Road so called, between Hazelbrook Lane and the Concord Road as now located near what was formerly the North School House which has not been used for public travel since the relocation of the Concord Road by the County Commissioners.
Voted to discontinue said road.
Article 20. To see if the Town will indemnify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out, construction or reconstruction of any State highway in the town dur- ing the present year, and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign an indemnity agreement in behalf of the Town, or take any action with respect thereto.
Voted that the Town indemnify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out, construction or reconstruction of the State highway west of Cochituate Road, in con- nection with the construction of a new bridge over Sud- bury River in the Town during the present year, and authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign an idemnity agreement in Behalf of the Town.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Section 3, Chapter 143, of the General Laws, concerning the regulation of buildings or take other action in regard thereto.
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No vote enacted .
Article 22. To see if the Town will adopt by-laws to further regulate and restrict billboards, signs and other advertising devices within its limits.
Voted that the By-Laws of the Town of Wayland are hereby amended by adding thereto the following article:
"Article X. Billboards and advertising signs.
Section 1. No billboard, sign or other advertising devise, if within public view of any highway, public park, or reservation, shall be erected or maintained within three hundred feet of any cemetery, public playground, public building, hospital or church.
Section 2. No billboard, sign, or other advertising devise within public view of any highway, public park or reservation, shall be erected or maintained within three hundred feet of any railroad or railway crossing, or of any bridge.
Section 3. No billboard, sign or other advertising device within public view of any highway, public park or reservation shall be erected or maintained within three hundred feet of any part of a curve on any highway.
Section 4. No billboard, sign, or other advertising device within public view of any highway, public park, reservation, cemetery, public playground, public building hospital or church, except those which are fastened to a building shall be so located that the lowest part of the same shall be less than one foot or more than three feet above the highest ground directly over which any part of such billboard, sign, or other advertising device is erect- ed.
Section 5. No billboard, sign or other advertising device within public view of any highway, public park or reservation shall be erected or maintained in a residential district without the written consent of two thirds of the land owners within three hundred feet in any direction of the location of the proposed billboard, sign or other ad- vertising device; and no such billboard, sign or other ad- vertising device shall be erected or maintained within three hundred feet of any residence without the written consent of the owner, and the tenant or lessee thereof."
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to install an electric light on pole in front of residence of George H.
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Newton, Pemberton Road, and appropriate money for same, or do or act.
Voted to authorize the Selectmen to so install an electric light.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money to purchase land and erect suitable buildings thereon for the housing of the Highway Department equipment, appoint a com- mittee therefor, or do or act.
Voted that the Town appropriate and assess the sum of $6000.00 to purchase a parcel of land and erect suitable buildings thereon for the use of the Highway Department and that the Selectmen and the Surveyor of Highways shall be the committee therefor, with full power to pur- chase the land and to contract for the buildings.
Article 25. To see if the Town will instruct the Water Commissioners to extend the water pipe on Old Connecticut Path from Sygamore Road to the Nolan Es- tate and to borrow money for the same or do or act.
Voted that the Town authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow for the Water Board $3,000.00, $1,000.00 pay- able in one year, $1,000.00 payable in two years, and $1,000.00 payable in three years, for the purpose of pur- chasing water pipe to be laid on Old Connecticut Path, and that any money so borrowed, together with interest, shall be paid by the Water Commisssioners from water funds.
Article 26. To see if the Town will instruct Water Commissioners to borrow the sum of $3,000.00 for ex- tending water main on Old Connecticut Path and Syga- more Road.
Voted to pass over the article.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of improving the playground at Cochituate or do or act.
Voted as article reads.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money to build a side- walk on North Main Street on the westerly side, extend- ing from Edward P. Loker's to Fiske's Corner or do or act.
Voted to appropriate and assess the sum of $1,000.00
ยท
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for said purpose; said sidewalk to be constructed by the Highway Surveyor beginning at Edward P. Loker's ex- tending in the direction of Fiske's Corner going as far as possible under the appropriation.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to pay all Town laborers $5.00 per day and $5.00 per day for a double team or do or act.
Voted as article reads.
Article 30. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $150.00 to provide money for making a survey in Lake View Cemetery and a plan.
Voted to pass over the article.
Article 31. To see if the Town will amend its By- Laws by adding to Article IV, Section 1, the following paragraph :
"It shall be the duty of this committee to consider all the articles of any warrant for a town meeting here- after issued under which an appropriation of money may be made and it shall be the duty of the Selectmen after drawing a town warrant to transmit immediately a copy of the same to each member of the Finance Committee. A hearing shall be given upon all such articles to the per- son or persons whose names appear attached to the same and they shall be notified of the time and place of hear- ing thereon. The committee shall after due considera- tion of the subject matter in said articles, report thereon, in print or otherwise, such information and recommenda- tions as it shall deem best. All recommendations of the committee made'to the town shall be recommendations of a majority of the entire committee, but this shall not be construed to prevent recommendations by a minority as such.
Voted to pass over the article.
Article 32. To see what sum if any the Town will vote to transfer from available funds to meet any of the appropriations made under the foregoing articles.
Voted that thereby transferred from surplus account the sum of $11,000.00 to meet the appropriations made under the articles of this warrant, and that the assessors be, and hereby are, directed to use said sum in making the assessments for the current year.
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Meeting adjourned at 12 o'clock midnight.
A true copy ; attest :
EDNA F. BISHOP
Clerk of the Town of Wayland
Amendment to By-Laws
Voted. That the By-Laws of the Town of Wayland are hereby amended by adding thereto the following articles :
"Article X. Billboards and advertising signs.
Section 1. No billboard, sign or other advertising device, if within public view of any highway, public park, or reservation, shall be erected or maintained withiil three hundred feet of any cemetery, public playground. public building, hospital or church.
Section 2. No billboard, sign, or other advertising device within public view of any highway, public park or reservation shall be erected or maintained within three hundred feet of any railroad or railway crossing, or of any bridge.
Section 3. No billboard, sign or other advertising device within public view of any highway, public park or reservation shall be erected or maintained within three hundred feet of any part of a curve on any higli- way.
Section 4. No billboard sign, or other advertising device within public view of any highway, public park, reservation, cemetery, public playground, public building, hospital or church, except those which are fastened to a building, shall be so located that the lowest part of the same shall be less than one foot or more than three feet above the highest ground directly over which any part of such billboard, sign, or otherwise advertising device is erected.
Section 5. No billboard, sign, or other advertising device within public view of any highway, public park or reservation shall be erected or maintained in a residential district without the written consent of two-thirds of the land owners within three hundred feet in any direction of the location of the proposed billboard, sign or other advertising device; and no such billboard, sign or other
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advertising device shall be erected or maintained within three hundred feet of any residence without the written consent of the owner, and the tenant or lessee thereof."
A true copy, attest : EDNA F. BISHOP, Town Clerk of Wayland.
Boston, Mass., Sept. 4, 1924.
The foregoing by-laws are hereby approved with the exception of Section 5, which is disapproved.
Lewis Goldberg, Acting Attorney General
Wayland, Mass., July 9, 1924
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the town of Wavland, qualified to vote in town affairs, met this day and did the following business:
Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers agents and committee and act thereon.
Amendment to By-Laws
No action taken.
Article. 2. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate and assess the sum of $4.000. $3.000 of this sum to be used in rebuilding Tower Hill Road, and $1,000 for general repairs on highways, or do or act.
Voted as Article reads.
Article 3. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Selectmen from time to time to enter into con- tracts in the name of the town necessary or proper in connection with the providing of a water system under the terms of the Parmenter Bequest, calling for the ex- penditure of amounts not in excess of the funds in the hands of the Harvard Trust Co., as trustees of said be- quest, or do or act.
Voted that the Board of Selectmen are herby auth- orized to enter into contracts in the name of the Town for the purpose of providing a water system for Wayland Center so called, the expenditures thereunder not to ex- ceed the funds in the hands of the Harvard Trust Co.
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under the Parmenter Water Bequest.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to request the Harvard Trust Co. to use all possible speed in pro- viding the water supply under the Parmenter Bequest, using the source of supply at Baldwin's Pond, or do or act.
Voted to pass over Article.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to rescind the appropriation made at the last town meeting to erect a memorial to the men of Wayland who served their country in its wars and appropriate for that purpose the sum of $1,197.04 to be reimbursed the town by the State from the payments made by cities and towns to pay the State War Bonus as provided by Statute.
Voted to pass over Article.
Article 6. To see if the town will authorize the appointment of a Committee to consider matter of an addition to the Cochituate School building to provide one or more additional rooms, obtain plans and estimates and report at the next annual town meeting or otherwise act on the same.
Voted as Article reads. Said Committee to consist of School Committee, Selectmen and Supt. of Schools.
Voted to dissolve meeting.
Meeting dissolved at 10 P. M.
A true copy, attest :
EDNA F. BISHOP
Town Clerk of Wayland
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BIRTHS
Registered in the Town of Wayland for the Year 1924
Date Name of Child
Name of Parents
January
29 Walter Augustus Catarius
Augustine C., Gertrude E.
Februray
2 Whitney Blair
10 Robert Doran
14 Kenneth Campbell
Pierpont, Emily
Francis E., Mary E.
Charles Malcolm,
Elizabeth
22 Bertha Pauline Adams
24 Henry Thomas Freeman
Eben L., Hilma Percy W., Catharine A.
March
3 Edwin Russell Baker
8 Marguerite Mary Burk'
13 Doris Priscilla Goodwin
21 Hartford
22 John Joseph Smith
Charles L., Helen
April
7 Marjorie Isabelle McDonald Frank H., Isabelle
20 Beatrice Virginia
Rodak William, Nellie
28 Aleda Mae Hersey Ralph A., Reba
May
1 Gerald Glenwood Furbish
Cecial G., Florence J.
17 Marjorie Elizabeth Alward
John W., Sophie
27 Maybelle Ames Oliver E., Gladys V. 30 Beatrice Decatur Joseph H., Agnes C.
Harold W., Frances
Walter F., Elizabeth B.
George A., Marie J. H.
William C., Sadie
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June
7 Phillip Edward
Harrington Charles R., Alice J.
15 Thelma Louise Twohid John, Mary
18 Barbara Marion Noyse Stephen D., Edna F 18 Wallace Harold Newton Ernest H., Ada G.
July
11 Robert Maxim Place
17 Rita Therrien
John A., Blanche M. Samuel, Ida
August
4 Frank T. Adams. Jr.
12 McManus
14 Burton Raymond
Stadig Raymond L., Honora
24 Harold William
Mackelvey, Jr. Harold W., Myrtle O.
September
26 Ainslie Earl, Marion
26 Ainslie
Earl, Marion
David J., Clara S.
Joseph E., Beatrice
October
1 Virginia Hammond Loker Harold H., Mary E.
5 George Robert Blaisdell
Thomas H., Ulma F.
7 Renee Emilie Bowman Paul F., Renee P.
8 Irene Martha Perry
14 Louis Sherman Brown
18 Mary Winifred Webster
18 Marie Gertrude Egan
21 Louisa Valira LaMotte
23 Glover
November
2 Arthur David Dooley
2 Germanprez
Arthur D., Alice Paul, Dolena M.
8 Sciavoni Christy S., Madeline William J., Alice
27 Stephen Bergen
December
14 Henry Hazelton Holmes Henry H., Sara F.
30 Phyllis Lee Harry D., Mary C.
Birth in 1923 omitted due to lateness of return :
Frederick H., Inez M.
Leslie L., Beulah
Edwin, Eva
William H., Marie K
Aiken K., Georgianna Harold J., Nellie
23 Robert Justin Allen
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