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William F. Maintien, 69.
Herbert E. Thompson, 61.
Walter E. Barden, 35.
Charles N. Moore, 21. Rufus King, 7. George F. Cheever, I.
William H. Nash was declared elected for the longest term, Joseph F. Breen for the next longest term and Wil- liam F. Maintien was declared elected for the shortest term, to serve, respectively, till the annual meetings of 1912, 191I and 1910.
Adjourned.
JAMES H. SHANNON,
Town Clerk.
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Chapter 404, Acts of 1908
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
Section I. The town of Plainville may supply itself and its inhabitants with water for the extinguishment of fires and for domestic, manufacturing and other purposes ; may establish fountains and hydrants and relocate or dis- continue the same; and may regulate the use of such water and fix and collect rates to be paid therefor.
Section 2. Said town, for the purposes aforesaid, may take, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold the waters of any pond or stream or of any ground sources of supply by means of driven, artesian or other wells within the limits of the town, and the water rights connected with any such water sources, and may also take, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold all lands, rights of way and easements necessary for collecting, storing, holding, purify- ing and preserving the purity of the water and for convey- ing the same to any part of said town: provided, however, that no source of water supply and no lands necessary for preserving the quality of such, water shall be taken without first obtaining the advice and approval of the state board of health, and that the location of all dams, reservoirs and wells to be used as sources of water supply under this act shall be subject to the approval of said board. Said town may construct on the lands taken or acquired and held under the provisions of this act proper dams, reservoirs, stand- pipes, tanks, buildings, fixtures and other structures, and may make excavations, procure and operate machinery and provide such other means and appliances and do such other
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things as may be necessary for the establishment and main- tenance of complete and effective water works; and for that purpose may construct wells and reservoirs and estab- lish pumping works and may construct, lay and maintain aqueducts, conduits, pipes and other works under and over any land, water courses, railroads, railways and public or other ways, and along such ways in the town of Plainville, in such manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same ; and for the purpose of constructing, laying, maintaining, operating and repairing such conduits, pipes and other works, and for all proper purposes of this act, said town may dig up or raise and embank any such lands, highways or other ways in such manner as to cause the least hindrance to public travel on such ways. Said town shall not enter upon, construct or lay any conduits, pipes or other works within the location of any railroad corporation, except at such time and in such manner as it may agree upon with such corporation, or, in case of failure so to agree, as may be approved by the board of railroad commissioners.
Section 3. Said town shall, within ninety days after the taking of any lands, rights of way, water rights, water sources or easements as aforesaid, otherwise than by pur- chase, file and cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county and district within which such land or other property is situated, a description thereof sufficiently accu- rate for identification, with a statement of the purpose for which the same were taken, signed by the water commission- ers hereinafter provided for. The title to all land taken, purchased or acquired in any way under the provisions of this act shall vest in said town of Plainville, and the land so taken may be managed, improved and controlled by the board of water commissioners hereinafter provided for, in such manner as they shall deem for the best interest of said town.
Section 4. Said town shall pay all damages to property sustained by any person or corporation by the taking of any land, right of way, water, water source, water right or ease-
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ment, or by anything done by said town under authority of this act. Any person or corporation sustaining damages as aforesaid, who fails to agree with said town as to the amount thereof, may have the same determined in the man- ner provided by law in the case of land taken for the laying out of highways, on application at any time within the period of two years after the taking of such land or other property or the doing of other injury under authority of this act ; but no such application shall be made after the expiration of said two years, and no application for assessment of damages shall be made for the taking of any water, water right, or for any injury thereto, until the water is actually withdrawn or diverted by said town under authority of this act. Said town may by vote, from time to time, determine what amount or quantity of water it proposes to take and appro- priate under this act; in which case any damages caused by such taking shall be based upon such amount or quantity until the same shall be increased by vote or otherwise, and in such event said town shall be further liable only for the additional damages caused by such additional taking.
Section 5. Said town, for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses and liabilities incurred under the provi- sions of this act, may issue from time to time bonds, notes or scrip to an amount not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars. Such bonds, notes or scrip shall bear on their face the words, Town of Plainville Water Loan ; shall be pay- able at the expiration of periods not exceeding thirty years from the dates of issue; shall bear interest, payable semi- annually, at a rate not exceeding five per cent. per annum ; and shall be signed by the treasurer of the town and coun- tersigned by the water commissioners hereinafter provided for. Said town may sell such securities at public or private sale, or pledge the same for money borrowed for the pur- poses of this act, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper ; provided, that such securities shall not be sold for less than the par value thereof.
Section 6. Said town shall, at the time of authorizing
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said loan, provide for the payment thereof in such annual proportionate payments, beginning not more than five years after the first issue of such bonds, notes or scrip, as will ex- tinguish the same within the time prescribed by this act ; and when a vote to that effect has been passed a sum which, with the income derived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual expense of operating its water works and the interest as it accrues on the bonds, notes or scrip issued as aforesaid by said town, and to make such payments on the principal as may be required under the provisions of this act, shall without further vote be assessed by the assessors of said town in each year thereafter, in the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, until the debt incurred by said loan is extinguished.
Section 7. The town of Plainville may contract with the town of North Attleborough for the purchase of water for the supply of the town of Plainville and its inhabitants, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by said towns ; provided, that the town of Plainville shall first obtain from the state board of health an opinion in writing to the effect that the sources of supply of the town of North Attleborough used or to be used for the supply of the town of Plainville under this act are natural and proper sources for the supply of the town of Plainville. The water from the works of the town of North Attleborough shall be delivered into pipes of the town of Plainville at any point in the town of Plain- ville on the existing pipe line of the town of North Attle- borough or at any point or points along the boundary be- tween said towns. In case the town of North Attleborough shall supply water to the town of Plainville under this act it shall measure, as accurately as practicable, the quantity of water drawn from its various sources of supply and the quantity delivered into the pipes of the town of Plainville, and a certified copy of the records of such measurements taken monthly shall be supplied by the board of water com- missioners of the town of North Attleborough to the board
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of water commissioners of the town of Plainville herein pro- vided for, as often as once in three months.
Section 8. Whoever wilfully or wantonly corrupts, pollutes or diverts any water taken or held under this act, or injures any structure, work or other property owned, held or used by said town under authority of this act, shall forfeit and pay to the said town three times the amount of damages assessed therefor, to be recovered in an action of tort ; and upon being convicted of any of the above wilful or wanton acts, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail for a term not exceeding one year.
Section 9. Said town shall, after its acceptance of this act, at a legal meeting called for the purpose, elect by ballot three persons to hold office, one until the expiration of three years, one until the expiration of two years and one until the expiration of one year from the next succeeding annual town meeting, to constitute a board of water commissioners ; and at each annual town meeting thereafter one such com- missioner shall be elected by ballot for the term of three years. All the authority granted to the said town by this act and not otherwise specifically provided for shall be vested in said water commissioners, who shall be subject however to such instructions, rules and regulations as said town may impose by its vote. A majority of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Any vacancy occurring in said board for any cause may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by said town at any legal town meeting called for the purpose. Any such vacancy may be filled temporarily by a majority vote of the select- men, and the person so appointed shall hold office until the town fills the vacancy in the manner provided herein.
Section 10. Said commissioners shall fix just and equitable prices and rates for the use of water, and shall prescribe the time and manner of payment. The income of the water works shall be applied to defraying all operat- ing expenses, interest charges and payments on the principal
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as they accrue upon any bonds, notes or scrip issued under authority of this act. If there should be a net surplus re- maining after providing for the aforesaid charges, it shall be used for such new construction as the water commis- sioners may determine upon, and in case a surplus should remain after payment for such new construction the water rates shall be reduced proportionately. No money shall be expended in new construction by the water commissioners except from the net surplus aforesaid, unless the town ap- propriates and provides money therefor. Said commis- sioners shall annually, and as often as the town may require, render a report upon the condition of the works under their charge and an account of their doings, including an account of receipts and expenditures.
Section II. Nothing in this act shall be construed as conflicting with or restricting the right which the town of North Attleborough has under authority of chapter two hun- dred and four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in any water of any pond, stream or spring, in the town of Plainville.
Section 12. This act shall take effect upon its accept- ance by a majority of the legal voters of the town of Plain- ville present and voting thereon at a legal meeting called for the purpose within three years after its passage; but the number of meetings so called in any one year shall not exceed three ; and for the purpose of being submitted to the voters as aforesaid this act shall take effect upon its pas- sage. [Approved April 17, 1908.]
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Annual State Election
The annual State election was held at the Town Hall Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1908. Meeting was called to order at 6 o'clock a. m. by the reading of the warrant. Ballot Clerks and Tellers were duly sworn by the Town Clerk and receipts were taken for the election apparatus and ballots and, check lists. The apparatus was in proper order and the ballot box was duly sealed, and the polls declared open.
At 2 o'clock p. m. the ballot box was opened by unani- mous consent, and counting began. The ballot box at that time registered 238 ballots. By vote taken at 4 o'clock the polls were declared closed. The ballot box registered a total of 253, and the number of names checked on the lists showed that 253 persons had voted. The counting and recording of the ballots was completed and result declared and by vote the meeting adjourned at 7:30 o'clock p. m.
The result of the votes cast was declared as follows :
Electors of President and Vice President-Bryan and Kern, Dem., 18; Chafin and Watkins, Pro., I; Debs and Hanford, Soc., 2; Gillhaus and Munro, Soc. Labor, o; Hisgen and Graves, Ind. League, 8; Taft and Sherman, Rep., 221.
Governor-James F. Carey of Haverhill, Soc., 2 ; Eben S. Draper of Hopedale, Rep., 168; William N. Osgood of Lowell, Ind. League, 15; James H. Vahey of Watertown, Dem., 44; Willard O. Wylie of Beverly, Pro., 5; blanks, 19. Lieutenant Governor-Charles J. Barton of Melrose,
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Dem., 30 ; Louis A. Frothingham of Boston, Rep., 180; John Hall, Jr., of West Springfield, Soc., 6; Robert J. McCartney of Kingston, Ind. League, 7; Frank N. Rand of Haverhill, Pro., 4; blanks, 26.
Secretary-James F. Aylward of Cambridge, Dem., 18; Herbert B. Griffin of Boston, Pro., 5; William M. Olin of Boston, Rep., 185; Squire E. Putney of Somerville, Soc., I ; John F. Williams of Waltham, Ind. League, 9 ; blanks, 35.
Treasurer-Charles E. Butterworth of Somerville, Ind. League, 10; Arthur B. Chapin of Holyoke, Rep., 188; Charles C. Hitchcock of Ware, Soc., 3 ; Edward Kendall of Cambridge, Pro., 5; Erwin H. Kennedy of Pittsfield, Dem., 15; blanks, 32.
Auditor-John E. Dempsey of Fall River, Ind. League, 8; George G. Hall of Boston, Soc., 3; Wilbur D. Moon of Lynn, Pro., 7; Henry E. Turner of Malden, Rep., 183; Simeon Viger of Lawrence, Dem., 15; blanks, 37.
Attorney-General-Henry M. Dean of Hyde Park, Pro., 9; Dana Malone of Greenfield, Rep., 183; John Mc- Carty of Abington, Soc., 2 : Richard J. Talbot of Springfield, Ind. League, 10; John Alden Thayer of Worcester, Dem., 16; blanks, 33.
Congressman (Twelfth District)-Albert E. George of Walpole, Ind. League, 14; Jesse C. Ivcy of Newton, Dem., 21 ; John W. Weeks of Newton, Rep., 183 ; blanks, 35.
Councillor (Second District)-Albion F. Bemis of Brookline, Rep., 183; Charles G. Kidder of Taunton, Ind. League, 24 ; blanks, 46.
Senator (Second Norfolk District)-James M. Lynch of Avon, Dem., 25; Bradley M. Rockwood of Franklin, Rep., 189 ; blanks, 39.
Representative in General Court (Twelfth Norfolk Dis- trict )-Frederick S. Lane of Foxborough, Rep., 196; blanks, 57
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County Commissioner (Norfolk)-Daniel J. McDon- ald, 2nd, of Quincy, Soc., 7; John F. Merrill of Quincy, Rep., 197 ; blanks, 49.
Register of Probate and Insolvency (Norfolk County) -John D. Cobb of Dedham, Rep., 192 ; Albert Hess of Ran- dolph, Soc., 4 ; blanks, 57.
Ballot Clerks-Gardner Warren, Frank W. Gardner. Tellers -- Harry B. Thompson, Fred W. Gardner.
JAMES H. SHANNON, Town Clerk.
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Town Clerk's Meeting
A record of the doings of the Town Clerks of the towns of Bellingham, Foxboro, Franklin, Plainville and Wren- tham, constituting the Twelfth Norfolk Representative Dis- trict :
On the thirteenth day of November, 1908, the Clerks of the above-named towns met at the Town House in Franklin and examined and compared transcripts of the votes cast on the third day of November, 1908, in said towns for Representative in the General Court for the Twelfth District in the County of Norfolk, and did ascer- tain that Frederick S. Lane of Foxboro was duly elected, and issues certificates of his election, one of which was sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth at Boston and one was delivered to the Constable of Foxboro to be served on the said Frederick S, Lane.
Tabulation
F. S. Lane
C. D. P. J. Phil White Murphy Horan
B. F. Boyden
Blanks Tolals
Bellingham
119
1
1
76
197
Foxboro
373
.1 145
509
Franklin
530
1
293
824
Plainville.
196
57
253
Wrentham
179
55
234
Totals
1,3871
1
1
1 626
2,017
Witness our hands, at Franklin, the 13th day of Novem- ber, 1908.
HENRY A. WHITNEY, Town Clerk of Bellingham. HOWARD E. NEWTON, Town Clerk of Foxborough. ORESTES T. DOE, Town Clerk of Franklin.
JAMES H. SHANNON, Town Clerk of Plainville.
DAVID T. STONE, Town Clerk of Wrentham.
Births Recorded in Plainville, in 1908
Date
Name of Child
Name of Parents
January 11 .
James Edward Butler .
Walter and Delia
January 15 .
Monetta Ellsworth Lowe
Frank and Fannie Edwin and Jessie
February 26. .
Joseph Lovely . .
Fred and Sophia
March 10 ..
Edward Landry
Edward and Dora .
March 14.
Wallace Edgar Worrall.
Herbert S. and Flora E
April 3
Louis Frederick Doll
Louis Frederick Jr. and Lillian Fay
April 3
Herbert Alden Smith.
Sylvester and Mamie E.
April 5
Lea Marie Desautels ..
Adelard and Aurora
April 6
Jessie Frances Ward.
Francis A. and Josephine
April 9
Heury Ernest Marlow (twin)
George and Mary Angelina
April 9
Thomas Oscar Marlow (twin)
George and Mary Angelina Myron Oakman and Blanche A
April 15
Albert Joseph Goodell
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John and Malvina
May 15
Herbert Burton Fletcher
Walter and Jennie . Charles H. and Maud M.
June 20 (Stillborn) Male ..
June 24
Èli Berube. .
George and Delia
June 28.
Ruth Adelaide Atwood
. Frank Thayer and Emma
July 4.
Grace Elizabeth Boyd.
Thomas F. W. and Mary E.
July 14 ..
Dorothy Bell Wood .
Fred R. and Maud ·
August 4
Harriet Edith Roney .
·
Byron Aspinwall and Addie
August 6 .
Oakes Hewitt Ellis ..
Henry G. and Lena
August 14 . Earle Huntington Bragdon.
Calvin William and Elizabeth Hilda
September 6. Novman Cecil Hartman.
Frederick B. and Anna
September 17. Rhoda Cook.
James and Gertrude
September 18. Nels Wolff.
Carl and Ellen
September 19 ... Eleanor May Swallow
Roy M. and May Josephine
November 13 Albert Francis Rose ..
Moses A. and Annie Mabel ·
November 18 . . Norma Ethel Barney .
Frank Eugene and Ethel Esther .
December 15 .. . Harold Irving Dingle.
George A. and Margaret ·
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January 26 .
Philip Edwin Holden ..
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April 13
Dwight Marshall Patton
May 30 Harry Edwin Randall.
Marriages Recorded in Plainville, in 1908
Date
January 12. Adolph Grzenda
February 4. Azarie J. Perry
April 23 . William Howe Stanley
April 29
Raymond Bartlett
Elsie Boeger
June 17
Edward McAfee
Caroline Hartmann
June 27 . Chester Bugbee Simpson
Minna Lucy Berthold
August 5 Stauly Roguski
Melissa E. Cudworth
August 7 Willard Henry Rowell
Ada Estelle Grinnell
September 3 .
. James Henry Carley
Louise Richmond Martin
December 2.
James Horace Cheever
Maude Frazier Beam
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Anna (Kwialkowski) Romesn
Florence Beniworth
Nellie L. Morton
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Deaths Recorded in Plainville, in 1908
Date
Name
Age Y M D
Cause of Death
January 7 ..
Edward Payson Davis.
69
10
23
General Paresis
February 26
Joseph Lovely . . . . .
8 hrs Atelectasis
March 31
Henry Sonderegger.
75
4
1
Mitrel Insufficiency
April 12 .
James McNeill. .
81
2
10
Tri-Facial Neuralgia
April 15 ..
Frank Nelson Shepard.
54
6
8
Apoplexy
June 11.
Charles Henry Reed ..
25
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Tuberculosis
June 13.
Cynthia Angenette Powers
74
2
11
Valvular Disease of Heart
June 20.
Male.
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Stillborn
June 29. .
Lena Hall.
84
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4 21
Marasmus
September 6.
Francis Edgar Fletcher ..
62
6
19
Myelitis
October 8
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.. Demski ...
64
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. .
Nephritis Endocarditis Hepatic Cirrosis
November 2.
Geneva Violet Whiting
53
10
. .
Chronic Parenchymatis Nephritis
November 13.
Rosalie Morrisaux.
74
30
Brights Dicease
November 28 ...
Emily Bate . .
64
. .
· ·
Apoplexy
December 12. .
Emily Maria Gilbert. 90
4
9
Senility
December 12 ..
John Robert Kriegel. . 38
. .
·
Chronic Endocarditis
December 24. .
Josephine Nussbaum. 68
. .
·
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Chronic Valvular Dlsease of Heart
September 3.
Henry E. Marlow.
. .
Stranlulation (Suicide)
November 1 . .
Charles Gregoric.
70
·
. .
. .
Myocarditis
. .
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Trustees of the Public Library
The Public Library has during the past year been conducted about the same as in the previous year, except that it is proper to state that where one librarian is named, in practice the ser- vices of two of the trustees have been necessary each evening to attend to the receiving and issuing of books. This will be somewhat changed, we trust, during the ensuing, year for an effort will be made to open the rooms for exchange of books in the afternoon in addition to the evening.
With the appropriation granted by the town, furniture, book- shelves and books have been added until the number of volumes now exceeds one thousand, and the room is comfortably furnished for ordinary public needs.
Generous donations of books have been received from the Richards Memorial Library of North Attleboro, fifty-two volumes from the Massachusetts Women's Educational Association Li- brary Department, fifty-four volumes, and contributions from William F. Maintien, John J. Wait, and others.
A peculiar interest is being taken in our efforts to maintain a public library, for these contributions have come voluntarily from the donors without any solicitation. There is readily found help for those who show an effort to progress.
The increased interest taken by the schools in the fund of in- formation that a library should afford awakens us to the needs of the pupils in our schools and an endeavor will be made to an- swer their demands as early and as completely as we can with an economical expenditure of the citizens' funds.
The circulation during the past year was 2913 volumes, almost wholly in fiction, the records only showing the card use, whereas the schools are allowed by principal and teachers to use from its shelves as occasion arises.
Two hundred and thirty-eight cards have now been issued, though the number using the library is not so large as that,
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To offer at the outset as large a supply of reading matter as possible and at a small outlay, has occasioned a little deficiency in the matter of the large and valuable works of reference that a library should contain for educational aids. The standard works needed will be added as rapidly as possible.
Contributions from the State, such as Public Documents, Regi- mental Histories, Books of Vital Statistics of the several towns up to the year 1850, are being received soon as issued.
The trustees expect the library to receive the same amount of financial support for the current year as had the preceding year, for the interest taken, the results attained and the great desire for progress awakened in our community warrant your generous support.
Respectfully submitted, FRED W. NORTHUP, JOHN W. BLACKWELL, JAMES SHANNON,
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School Committee
RUFUS KING, Chairman. GARDNER WARREN, Secretary. JOHN W. BLACKWELL. GEORGE M. BEMIS, Superintendent. E. WRIGHT SARGENT, Truant Officer.
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Report of the School Committee
To the Citizens of the Town of Plainville :
We submit our annual report, which is the fourth in the history of the Town.
Careful supervision, efficient instruction and a fine spirit of earnest endeavor on the part of pupils, show's most excellent results for the year's work.
It has been the aim of the committee to make it possi- ble for the pupils of our schools to receive as good educa- tional advantages as are furnished by adjoining towns.
In the great struggle of life, the boys and girls of Plain- ville will have to compete with those of other towns, and, unless the mental foundations are somewhere near equal, successful competition cannot be expected.
In common with almost every other town in the State, a little more time has been given to industrial work.
This work is very strongly advocated by the leading educators of the country and is not confined to Massachu- setts.
Mental ability combined with manual skill will place in the possessor's hand the key to certain success.
Our teachers have been carefully selected for their abil- ity and devotion to the work. Under the best of supervi- sion, every request has been complied with, and every sug- gestion cheerfully followed. The result must be apparent to the citizens who have visited our schools.
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