Plainville, Massachusetts annual reports 1922-1933, Part 26

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Article 17. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to accept Riley or Moran street extension and make an appropriation therefor or do or act in any manner rela- tive thereto.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appro- 2000 priate the sum of $1200.00, or any other sum, for the removal of snow.


Article 19. To see if the Town will appoint a com- mittee to look into the advisability of the purchase of a Tractor for the removal of snow or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 20. (Petition) To see if the Town will raise , and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for the installation 01 Shower Baths in the Town Hall building.


Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $15.00 for the planting of 1,000 trees on the Town Lot bordering Ten Mile River, to be known as the Town Forest, as recommended by the Tree Warden.


Article 22. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to extend the electric lighting system from Barrows Farm on Warren street to the residence of Walter Marble, corner of Walnut and High streets, and make an appropriation therefor, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 23. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to tar East Bacon street from Pleasant street east, to top of hill, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 24. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 or any other


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sum, for the Community Fourth of July celebration, and to determine how same shall be expended.


Article 25. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote taken at the Special Town Meeting held Aug. 23, 1920, whereby the Town voted to elect a Board of Road Commissioners. This vote to be taken in accordance with Section 63, Chapter 41, of the Gen- eral Laws.


Article 26. To choose any committee to hear the re- port of any committee and act thereon.


Hereof fail not to make due returns of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk in con- formity with the Public Statutes at or before the time of said meeting.


Given under our hand and the Seal of the Town of Plainville this the 16th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred and twenty-six.


[Seal]


JAMES E. McNEILL, MYRON A. DAY, WALLACE H. PECKHAM, Selectmen of Plainville.


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INDEX


Assessors


96


Auditors' Report


Building Committee


Collector of Taxes


Fire Engineers


Inspector of Milk


Inspector of Animals


Moth Department


Plainville Public Library


Road Commissioners


Sealer of Weights and Measures


Report of School Committee


Attendance Table


Graduating Exercises


48 57


List of Teachers


58


Pupils Enrolled


Report of School Superintendent


38 44 49


Report of Principal


Report of Supervisor of Drawing


Report of Domestic Science


50 47 53


Report of School Nurse


Report of School Physician


51 61


Report of School Dentist


33


School Officials


Selectmen's Report


Current and Incidentals


Poor Department


Town Hall


Salaries


Highway Department


Permanent Sidewalks


90 93


Water Department


Police Department


81 94


Pumping Account


70


62 72 66 68 68 67 29 63 69 35 59


81 83 87 85 90 88


Report of Supervisor of Music


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State Aid


87


Board of Health


8


Fire Department


91


Moth Department


94


Town Clerk's Report


6


Births


26


Marriages


27


Deaths


28


Jury List


25


Perambulation of Difision Line


29


Town Officers


3


Tree Warden


69


Town Treasurer


73


Water Commissioners


66


Warrant for Special Town Meeting


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Warrant for Annual Town Meeting 1926


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TOWN OFFICERS


TOWN CLERK Theodore E. A. Fuller


SELECTMEN, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AND BOARD OF HEALTH


James E. McNeill


Wallace H. Peckham


* Myron A. Day ASSESSORS


James E. McNeill


Term expires 1929


Theodore E. A. Fuller


Term expires 1928


John A. Kenerson


Term expires 1927


SCHOOL COMMITTEE


Harlie E. Thompson


Term expires 1929


Lorenzo B. Sturtevant


Term expires 1928


Charles H. Peasley


Term expires 1927


WATER COMMISSIONERS


Harry B. Thompson


Term expires 1929


Joseph E. Jette


Term expires 1928


Richard F. Barton


Term expires 1927


ROAD COMMISSIONERS


Archie L. Walden


Frank E. Herring


George B. Greenlay


TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY


Theodore E. A. Fuller Millard M. Rines


Fred W. Northup


Term expires 1929 Term expires 1928 Term expires 1927


TAX COLLECTOR Oliver P. Brown


* Removed from Town.


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ANNUAL REPORT AUDITOR Alice E. Ribero


CONSTABLES


Archie L. Walden


Joseph S. Craik


Elmer C. Pease


TREE WARDEN


George H. Snell


FENCE VIEWERS


Oswin C. Woodward


Rufus King


FIELD DRIVERS


John A. Kenerson


Alfred Paris


MEASURERS OF WOOD, LUMBER AND BARK


Millard M. Rines


George B. Greenlay


Frank E. Herring


Henry I. Riley


APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN


MILK INSPECTOR


John J. Eiden


FIRE ENGINEERS Richard F. Barton, Chief Christian F. Henrich, First Assistant Arthur L. Martin, Second Assistant


FIRE WARDEN


Richard F. Barton


SPECIAL POLICE


George B. Greenlay


Fred W. Northup


Chester Meyer Theodore E. A. Fuller


FIRE POLICE


Christian F. Henrich Arthur L. Martin


Richard F. Barton


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ANNUAL REPORT INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS, MEATS AND PROVISIONS Frank E. Herring DOG OFFICER Joseph S. Craik MOTH INSPECTOR George H. Snell


SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Frank E. Whiting REGISTRARS OF VOTERS


Fred W. Northup


Harold L. Anderson


Harry A. Holt Theodore E. A. Fuller


APPOINTED BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE


SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Laurence G. Nourse


SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Dr. F. J. Carley


SCHOOL NURSE


Pauline Gilbert


SCHOOL DENTIST


Dr. J. P. Edwards


TRUANT OFFICER Joseph S. Craik


APPOINTED AT TOWN MEETING


ADVISORY OR FINANCIAL COMMITTEE


James E. McNeill Rufus King Walter E. Barden


Edward E. Osterholm Sylvester Smith Frank O. Patton


Millard M. Rines


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Town Clerk's Report


WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Norfolk, ss.


To either of the Constables of Plainville, Greeting :


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabi- tants of the Town of Plainville, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said Plainville, on Monday,


THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1926


at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following Articles, viz :


Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.


Article 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers. The following are to be chosen by ballot, viz. : Three Se- lectmen, three Overseers of the Poor, one Treasurer, one Town Clerk, one Auditor, one Collector of Taxes, one Trustee of the Public Library for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one Water Commissioner for one year, one member of the School Committee for three years, one Road Commissioner for three years, one Assessor for three years, one Assessor for two years, one Assessor for one year, one Tree Warden, three Con- stables, and also on the same ballot to vote Yes or No on the acceptance of Sections One to Nine, inclusive, of Chapter 45 of the General Laws as amended by Chapter 209 of the Acts of 1924 relative to the election of Park Commissioners and prescribe their term of office.


All officers, except the above named, are to be chosen for one year.


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The polls will be open at nine-thirty o'clock A. M. and may be closed by vote at two o'clock P. M.


Aticle 3. To consider and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Treasurer and other Town officers.


Article 4. To see of the Town will vote to postpone action on all Articles calling for appropriations to an ad- journed meeting to be held Monday evening, March 1st, 1926.


Article 5. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for :


1. The support of schools the current year.


2. For school books and supplies.


3. For school incidentals.


4. For the employment of a Superintendent of Schools.


5. For the employment of a School Physician.


6. For the employment of a School Nurse.


7. For the employment of a School Dentist.


8. Forth support of the Public Library.


9. For the payment of the salaries of the different Town Officers.


10. For current and incidental expenses the current year.


11. For the support of Poor and Soldiers' Relief the current year.


12. For Highways and Bridges the current year and to determine how the same shall be expended.


13. For State and Military Aid the current year.


14. For Memorial Day and Geo. H. Maintien Post, G. A. R., the current year.


15. For the payment of interest the current year.


16. For the Fire Department the current year.


17. For lighting the streets the current year.


18. For Water Department, incidental and pumping.


19. For sidewalks.


20. For Board of Health.


21. For Police Department.


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Article 6. To see if the Town will grant the use of the Town Hall free of charge to:


1. George H. Maintien Post, G. A. R., three days.


2. Plainville Fire Department, six evenings.


3. Alumni Association, two evenings.


4. Plainville Grange, one evening.


5. Plainville M. E. Church, one day and one evening.


6. John Edward McNeill Post, No. 217, American Legion, five evenings.


7. Parent-Teachers' Association, two evenings.


Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sec- tion 14 of Chapter 39 of the General Laws relative to the election of a Moderator for the term of one year.


Article 8. To see of the Town will vote to have the surety of the Collector of Taxes or other Town Officers' bond placed with a fidelity or guarantee company, and appropriate a sum of money to pay for the same.


Article 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row money after January 1st, 1927, in anticipation of the revenue of 1927.


Article 10. To see how much money the Town will appropriate for the use of the Tree Warden to care for the shade trees of the Town.


Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 81 of the General Laws and make an appropriation therefor.


Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropri- ate the sum of $620.00 for the purpose of paying indem- nities for land damage occasioned by relocation of State Highway.


Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to have a plat made of the Town and to appropriate money for same.


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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 42A to 42F inclusive of Chapter 391 of the Acts of 1923 relating to the collection of water rates or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate the sum of $1,000.00, or any other sum, for perma- nent sidewalks and determine where the same shall be spent.


Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate the sum of $35.00 for the purchase of a Road Scraper, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 17. (Petition) To see of the Town will vote to accept Riley or Moran street extension and make an appropriation therefor or do or act in any manner rela- tive thereto.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate the sum of $1200.00, or any other sum, for the removal of snow.


Article 19. To see if the Town will appoint a com- mittee to look into the advisability of the purchase of a Tractor for the removal of snow or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 20. (Petition) To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for the installation of Shower Baths in the Town Hall building.


Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $15.00 for the planting of 1,000 trees on the Town Lot bordering Ten Mile River, to be known as the Town Forest, as recommended by the Tree Warden.


Article 22. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to extend the electric lighting system from Barrows Farm on Warren street to the residence of Walter Marble, corner of Walnut and High streets, and make


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an appropriation therefor, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 23. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to tar East Bacon street from Pleasant street east, to top of hill ,or do or act in any manner relative thereto.


Article 24. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 or any other sum, for the Community Fourth of July celebration, and to determine how same shall be expended.


Article 25. (Petition) To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote taken at the Special Town Meeting held Aug. 23, 1920, whereby the Town voted to elect a Board of Road Commissioners. This vote to be taken in accordance with Section 63, Chapter 41, of the Gen- eral Laws.


Article 26. To choose any committee to hear the re- port of any committee and act thereon.


Hereof fail not to make due returns of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk in con- formity with the Public Statutes at or before the time of said meeting.


Given under our hand and the seal of the Town of Plainville this the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-six.


[Seal]


JAMES E. McNEILL, MYRON A. DAY, WALLACE H. PECKHAM, Selectmen of Plainville.


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Norfolk, ss.


Town of Plainville, February 27, 1926.


Pursuant to the within Warrant I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Plainville within described to meet at the time and place and for the purpose within mentioned, by posting up attested copies of this Warrant in ten public places in said town, ten days before the time of said meeting.


ARCHIE L. WALDEN, Constable of Town of Plainville, Mass.


PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


Town Hall, Plainville, Mass., March 1, 1926.


Pursuant to the above Warrant, the twenty-second Annual Town Meeting wos held in the Town Hall, it being the 1st Monday of March, 1926.


The meeting was called to order at 9 o'clock A. M. by the Town Clerk, reading the Warrant and return thereon.


Article 1. Election of Moderator. On motion of J. C. Craik, Fred W. Northup was nominated. Harry A. Holt, acting as Teller, 8 Ballots were cast and Mr. Northup had 8 ballots and was declared elected.


There being no objection Article 4 was taken up. On motion by Sylvester Smith, unanimously voted "That action on all Articles, in the Warrant, carrying an appro- priation be postponed to an adjourned meeting to be held, in this Hall, this evening at 7:30 o'clock."


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The Polls were declared open at 9:30 o'clock A. M., Ballot Clerks E. Irene Mullen and Harry A. Holt, and Tellers Florence Fuller and Frank King, being duly sworn to the faithful performance of their duties, the assembled voters proceeded to cast their ballots.


Article 29. On motion by T. E. A. Fuller, unanimous- ly voted that the Moderator name a Committee of 5 to bring in nominations for a Financial or Advisory Com- mittee, to the adjourned meeting. Nominating Com- mittee : Millard M. Rines, Albert B. Pond, George B. Greenlay, Harry A. Holt and Perry M. Cook.


At 9:45 A. M. unanimously voted a recess be taken subject to the call of the Moderator.


At 2:35 o'clock P. M. voted to commence the count of the ballots cast, ballot-box indicated 258 ballots cast therein.


At 3:35 P. M. unanimously voted to close the polls. Ballot-box register indicating 267 ballots cast therein, voting-lists used showed 267 names of voters being checked as having voted and 267 ballots had been cast.


The Balloting results were as follows, viz .:


TOWN CLERK, One Year


252


Theodore E. A. Fuller, Grove St., Rep.


Blanks 15


TREASURER, One Year


Edward E. Osterholm, South St., Rep. 231


36


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SELECTMEN, One Year


Myron A. Day, Grove St., Rep. 239


James E. McNeill, Melcher St., Rep. 235


Wallace H. Peckham, South St., Rep. 183


Scattering 3


Blanks 131


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ANNUAL REPORT OVERSEER OF THE POOR, One Year


Myron A. Day, Grove St., Rep. 236


James E. McNeill, Melcher St., Rep. 233


Wallace H. Peckham, South St., Rep. 225


Scattering


3


Blanks 104


ASSESSOR, Three Years


James E. McNeill, Melcher St., Rep. 223


Blanks


44


ASSESSOR, Two Years


Theodore E. A. Fuller, Grove St., Rep. 251


Blanks


16


ASSESSOR, One Year


John A. Kenerson, Bacon Sq., Rep. 206


Blanks


61


SCHOOL COMMITTEE, Three Years


Harlie E. Thompson, Grove St., Rep. . 155


J. Horace Cheever, Witherall Place, Nom. Pap.


86


Blanks


16


WATER COMMISSIONER, Three Years


Harry B. Thompson, Lincoln Ave., Rep. 241


Blanks


27


WATER COMMISSIONER, One Year


Richard F. Barton, South St., Rep.


217


Blanks


50


TRUSTEE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Three Years


Theodore E. A. Fuller, Grove St., Rep.


244


Blanks


23


TAX COLLECTOR


Oliver P. Brown, School St., Rep. 243 Blanks 24


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ANNUAL REPORT AUDITOR, One Year


Fletcher H. Warren, West Bacon St., Rep. 230


Blanks


37


TREE WARDEN, One Year


George H. Snell, Walnut St., Rep. 239


Blanks 28


CONSTABLES, One Year


Joseph S. Craik, South St., Rep. 242


Elmer C. Pease, Bacon Sq., Rep. 230


Archie L. Walden, Spring St., Rep. 219


110


Blanks


Shall Sections one to nine, inclusive, of Chapter 45 of the General Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay out public Parks within their l'imits, be accepted?


111


Yes 28


No


Blanks


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CHAPTER 45


GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS


Section 1. In this chapter "town" shall not include city.


Section 2. A town in which at a town meeting a majority of the voters, voting by ballot with the use of the voting-list, adopt the provisions of the first nine sections of this chapter or have adopted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, may elect a board of park commissioners, consisting of three persons, and prescribe their terms of office, or the members of a town planning board may if so authorized by vote of the town act as park commissioners therein; and the mayor of a city which, at an election held on such day as the aldermen at a regular meeting many designate, accepts said provisions may, with the approval of the city coun-


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cil, appoint a board of park commissioners for said city consisting of five persons, who shall hold office for terms of one, two, three, four and five years respectively from the first Monday in May next following such ap- pointment, or until their successors are qualified; and there after the mayor shall annually, before the first Monday in May, with approval appoint one such com- missioner for a term of five years from said first Mon- day in May. No selectmen, member of the city council, clerk or treasurer of such city or town shall be such commissioner. In cities a vacancy in such board shall be filled in like manner for the residue of the unexpired term. A commissioner may be removed by a vote of two- thirds of the voters of the town, or by a vote of two- thirds of all the members of a city council. Such com- missioners shall serve without pay.


Section 3. Such boards may locate public parks with- in their respective cities or towns and for that purpose may take in fee by eminent domain under chapter 79 or by purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, land which they consider desirable therefor; or may take bonds for the conveyance thereof to their respective cities or towns ; but in a town no taking of land for a public park shall be valid, nor shall any expenditure therefor be incurred, unless such taking has first been reported to the town, filed, accepted and allowed as in the case of a town way and an appropriation sufficient for the estimated ex- pense thereof has been made by a two-thirds vote of a town meeting, and in a city no such taking shall be made or expenditure incurred until a like appropriation there- for has been made by a two-thirds vote of the city council. Such expenditures shall not exceed the appro- priations made therefor, and all contracts involving ex- penditures in excess of such appropriations shall be void. A city or town may take and hold in trust or otherwise any grant, gift, bequest od devise, made for the purpose of laying out or improving any parks therein.


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Section 4. Such boards may connect any public park or way, under their control, with any part of the city or town for which they are appointed by taking over any connecting ways, or part thereof leading to such park, and may accept and add to such parks any way or part thereof, adjoining and parallel with any boundary line of the same; but the consent of the public authorities having control of such way, and the written consent of a majority of the owners of land abutting thereon, shall first be obtained. They shall have the same power and control over such ways as they have over parks, and in a town may invest them with the control, improvement and maintenance of any of the ways thereof for the purpose of carrying out this section. If any such way or part thereof shall pass from the control of any such board, the power and authority over the same shall revert to the public authorities having control of ways in the town in which such way is located.


Section 5. Such boards may lay out and improve public parks, make rules for their use and government, appoint all necessary engineers, surveyors, clerks and other officers ,including a police force to act in such parks, define their powers and duties and fix their com- pensation and do all acts needful for the proper execu- tion of their powers and duties


They shall have the authority given to the mayor, aldermen, selectmen, road commissioners and tree war- den respectively by section 7 of chapter 84 and by chapter 87, in places under their jurisdiction.


Section 6. All amounts received for betterments which acrue by the laying out of parks under this chapter shall be applied to the payment of park loans.


Section 7. Land taken for or held as a public park under this chapter shall be forever kept open and main- tained as a public park, and no building which exceeds


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six hundred feet in area on the ground shall be erected an a common or park dedicated to the use of the public without leave of the General Court; but, except in Bos- ton and in parks comprising less than one hundred acres in extent, structures for shelter, refreshments and other purposes may be erected of such material and in such places as, in the opinion of the fire commissioners, if any, do not endanger buildings beyond the limits of the park. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, upon petition of not less than ten taxable inhabi- tants of the city or town in which such common or park is located, to restrain the erection of a building on a common or park in violation of this section.


Section 8. Without the consent of such board no military organization shall camp, parade, review, or perform any military evolution or exercise in, or enter, any park laid out as aforesaid except in case of riot, in- surrection, rebellion or war.


Section 9. Such boards shall make reports of their respective doings and detailed statement of all receipts, expenditures and liabilities for the preceding financial year, in towns at the annual town meetings and at such other times as the town directs, and in cities to the city council annually within thirty days after the end of the financial year.


Section 10. Ballots on the acceptance of the preced- ing sections of thi chapter shall be "yes" or "no" in answer to the question "Shall sections one to nine, in- clusive, of Chapter Forty-five of the General Laws, authorizing cities and towns to lay public parks within their limits be accepted?" The ballots cast shall be sorted, counted, and public declaration made thereof as prescribed in sections one hundred and four to one hundred and nine, inclusive, of chapter 54. A second meeting for the purpose of voting upon the acceptance of said sections shall not be called within twelve months


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after the first, unless the first meeting fails through illegality or irregularity in the proceedings.


PROCEEDING OF ADJOURNED MEETING


The adjourned meeting was called to order at 7:30 o'clock P. M. by the Moderator, Fred W. Northup. The Town Clerk reading the result of the balloting.


Article 2. Officers not required to be chosen by ballot were elected as follows, viz .:


Fence Viewers-Rufus King and Oswin C. Woodward. Field Drivers-Alfred Paris and John A. Kenerson.


Measurers of Wood, ‘Lumber and Bark-George B.


Greenlay, Millard M. Rines, Henry I. Riley and Frank E. Herring.


Article 3. Unanimously voted on motion by M. G. Day, That reports of the Town Officers be accepted as printed.




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