The record of the town meetings, and abstract of births, marriages, and deaths, in the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1887-1896, Part 19

Author: Dedham (Mass. : Town); Hill, Don Gleason, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Dedham, Mass. : Transcript Steam Job Print.
Number of Pages: 1461


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Article Seventeen-To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money to complete the grading on Westfield street, as ordered by the County Commissioners.


Article Eighteen-To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money to maintain an arc light at the junction of Curve and Maverick streets.


Article Nineteen-To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money to light the street from the residence of W. C. Fuller on Clapboardtree to Milk street ; thence through Milk to Gay street; thence to Washington street.


Article Twenty-To see if the town will place an electric light on Washington street, near the Boston line, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Twenty-One-To see if the town will authorize and instruct the Selectmen to place hydrants, not more than five in number, on the proposed extension of the Water Company pipes on Pine and Needham streets, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Twenty-Two-To see if the town will set a hydrant on Eastern avenue, near the junction of Dwight street.


Article Twenty-Three-To see if the town will raise and appropriate money for 400 feet of hose for Engines No. 2 and 6.


Article Twenty-Four-To see if the town will appoint a com- mittee to see what arrangement could be made with the town of Norwood for water for fire protection.


Article Twenty-Five-To see what sums of money the town will raise and appropriate in order to keep the concrete sidewalks of the town clear of snow and ice.


Article Twenty-Six-To see what sums of money the town will raise and appropriate to carry on the concreting of sidewalks and laying of curb stones in the same manner as last year.


Article Twenty-Seven-To hear and act on the report of the Selectmen for dividing the town into voting precincts, as required by the acceptance of Sec. 72 of Chap. 423, of the Acts of 1890.


Article Twenty-Eight-To see what sums of money the town will raise and appropriate to carry into effect the acceptance of Sec. 72 of Chap. 423, of the Acts of 1890, dividing the town into voting precincts.


Article Twenty-Nine-To see if the town will revoke its


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acceptance of the provisions of Sec. 72, Chap. 423, of the Acts of 1890, relating to dividing the town into voting precincts, and to see if it will discontinue voting precincts.


Article Thirty-To see if the town will instruct the Select men and Highway Surveyors to first employ the inhabitants of the town upon all work, and no others to be employed unless there are no inhabitants of the town who can do the work.


Article Thirty-One-To see what action the town will take in regard to drainage near the junction of High and Common streets ; also Washington street, corner of Spruce street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Thirty-Two-To see what action the town will take in the matter of the purchase of a new piano for Memorial Hall, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Thirty-Three-To see what action the town will take upon the printed report, recommendation and suggestions of the Committee on Fire and Police Alarm Telegraph, and raise and appropriate money for the same. .


Article Thirty-Four-To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Selectmen to instruct the Superintendent of Streets to pay men employed upon the highways two dollars per day.


Article Thirty-Five-To see if the town will vote to establish an office, to be known as the Secretary of Public Boards, said person to be Secretary of all the public Boards of the town, and to receive a salary not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars per year, and to be chosen by the Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, and such other boards as the town sees fit to add, in joint convention, each board to vote and to be counted as a unit, said Secretary to give his entire time to the business of the town, and keep full and separate reports of all proceedings and accounts of said boards, all of which shall be open to the inspection of citizens, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Thirty-Six -- To see what action the town will take with reference to the compensation of the Collector of Taxes, as provided in Section 6, Article 3 of the town By-Laws.


Article Thirty-Seven-To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $100 to be expended in paying the ex- penses in giving a series of open-air concerts during the season of 1892.


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Article Thirty-Eight -- To see if the town will accept a new street, as laid out by the Selectmen, leading from High street to Avery street, through the land of John Crowley, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Thirty-Nine-To see if the town will regrade and im- prove High street, between Memorial Hall and Westfield street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Forty-To see if the town will vote to purchase a stone crusher, with power to operate it, for use upon the highways, and raise and appropriate money for the same.


Article Forty-One-To see if the town will adopt a by-law respecting moneys deposited for the care of lots in the public cemeteries, as recommended in the report of the Cemetery Com- missioners.


Article Forty-Two-To see if the town will authorize the Cemetery Commissioners to settle upon the boundary line be- tween Brookdale cemetery and the estate of the late Thomas Barrows, and to execute any deed which may be necessary for that purpose.


Article Forty-Three-To hear and act upon the report and recommendations of the Town Clerk, relating to printing the early town records.


Article Forty-Four-To see what action the town will take with regard to the devise given it under the will of Mary Emerson.


By-Laws of the Town require the Polls to be open at seven o'clock, and remain open till thirty minutes past four in the after- noon.


Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.


Given under our hands, and the seal of said town of Dedham, aforesaid, this twenty-fourth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-two.


HOWARD COLBURN, HENRY SMITH, 1


THOMAS P. MURRAY, JOSEPH A. LAFORME, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, j.


Selectmen of Dedham.


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Norfolk, ss.


DEDHAM, March 9, 1392.


By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the post offices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing a copy - thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting ; in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town of Dedham.


. JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


Norfolk, ss.


At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, at Memorial Hall, in said town, on the first Monday of March (being the 7th day of said month), A. D. 1892.


The meeting was called to order at the time and place named in said warrant, by the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.


Edward L. Burdakin was apponted and sworn by the Town Clerk, a teller, to aid the Town Clerk in receiving and counting votes cast for Moderator.


Erastus Worthington was chosen Moderator by written ballot, in receiving which the check list was used.


Article Two-Before the opening of the polls, the Selectmen appointed as Ballot Clerks, Aaron W. Baker and Frank E. Morse, and they were sworn into said office by the Town Clerk before the ballots were delivered to them, and after said polls were opened, the Moderator also appointed John B. Fisher and Edward L. Burdakin, additional ballot officers, and they were sworn by the Town Clerk. After the Moderator had been chosen as aforesaid, and before the opening of the polls, the Town Clerk delivered to said Ballot Clerks the bundle packed by him and sealed as required by law, containing 2,200 official ballots and 200 special official ballots for women, together with the specimen ballots and cards of instruction, and the Town Clerk caused the


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" cards of instruction to be posted in each of the twenty voting * compartments provided by the town and guarded as required by law, and the Town Clerk also caused three such cards and five specimen ballots to be posted about the polling room outside the . guard rails, and a receipt for said ballots was given by the Ballot - Clerks to the Town Clerk.


Upon the delivery of the ballots to the voters by the Ballot Clerks, the check list was used, and the name of each voter receiving a ballot was announced and checked thereon. The ballot, as delivered to each voter, was by such voter marked in the voting compartments, and deposited by the voter in the ballot boxes, called the Standard, furnished and certified to by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the ballots cast by the women being deposited in a separate box from those deposited by the `men, and the name of each voter depositing a ballot in said boxes "was announced in a loud and distinct tone of voice, and checked *upon the voting list by the election officers in charge at said "boxes and list.


The following persons were appointed and sworn by the Moderator as Tellers to aid him in receiving, sorting and count- ing the ballots cast at said meeting, viz : Edward L. Burdakin, Fred R. Storrs, Fred W. Murphy, John B. Fisher, Arthur B. Whitman, John N. McKerry, Thomas J. Hannon, John F. Reilly, Wm. C. Williams, Charles W. Wolcott, George C. Stearns, Rob. H. O. Schulz, Edw. T. Baker, Aaron W. Baker and Fred E. ·Smith.


All the ballots deposited in said boxes were sorted, counted, and declaration thereof made by the Moderator as follows, viz :


Whole number of ballots cast by the men voters was 1,001- whole number of ballots cast by the women voters was 10. The two check lists used for the men voters each showed 1001 names checked thereon, and the two check lists used for women voters 'each showed 10 names checked thereon. The number of ballots left at the close of the polls, deducted from the whole amount receipted for by the Ballot Clerks, showed 1001 delivered to the men and 10 to the women.


For Town Clerk :


Don Gleason Hill, Willow street, had 702.


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And said Hill was declared elected, and was sworn into said office by the Moderator in open town meeting.


For Town Treasurer :


Lewis H. Kingsbury, Village avenue, had 699.


Scattering 2.


And said Kingsbury was declared elected.


For Selectmen :


James T. Clark, Oakdale avenue, had 227 John Crowley, off Mt. Vernon street, had 412


Henry E. French, High street, had 489


Joseph A. Laforme, High street, had 481


Jacob Lorio, off Quincy street, had 113


- Thomas Murphy, Myrtle street, had .


309


Thomas P. Murray, High street, had


474


Charles H. Shriver, Highland street, had


183


Henry Smith, High street, had 448


George W. Weatherbee, East street, had 517


Alonzo B. Wentworth, East street, had 393


Scattering 5


And said French, Laforme, Murray, Smith and Weatherbee, were declared elected.


For Assessors :


John Crowley, off Mt. Vernon street. had . 470


Henry E. French, High street, had .' 541


Daniel A. Lynch, Needham street, had 316


John J. McLane, Washington street, had 213


Horatio G. Turner, Dale street, had .


344


Alonzo B. Wentworth, East street, had .


508


Scattering · ·


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And said Crowley, French and Wentworth were declared elected.


For Collector of Takes :


Thomas J. Baker, off Court street, had 744


Scattering 5


And said Baker was declared elected.


For Overseers of the Poor :


Howard Colburn, High street, had


592


Henry Smith, High street, had .


505


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William T. Tapley, High street, had . 346


George W. Weatherbee, East street, had 513


Henry W. Weeks, Church street, had 259


Scattering


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And said Colburn, Smith and Weatherbee were declared elected.


For Board of Health :


Francis L. Babcock, Walnut street, had


683


John W. Chase, Church street, had .


515


Alonzo W. Cheever, Mt. Vernon street, had


441


George A. Southgate, Court street, had


501


Scattering


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And said Babcock, Chase and Southgate were declared elected.


For Trustees of the Public Library for 3 years :


John R. Bullard, High street, had


616


Alfred Hewins, Maple place, had


539


Preston R. Mansfield, Mt. Vernon street, had


378


Carlos Slafter, Chestnut street, had .


449


And said Bullard, Hewins and Slafter were declared elected.


For School Committee for 3 years : 1


Willie W. Baker, High street, had


727


Julius H. Tuttle, Bullard street, had


667


- Scattering


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And said Baker and Tuttle were declared elected.


For Auditors :


Frank M. Bailey, Milton street, had . 629


Daniel A. Lynch, Needham street, had 640


Edward C. Paul, Worthington street, had


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650


Scattering


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And said Bailey, Lynch and Paul were declared elected. For Constables :


Martin J. Barrett, Bussey street, had . 718


John Bell, Barrows street, had 286


William H. Clements, Belknap street, had 291


William J. Cull, High street, had


213


John Dean, High street, had


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490


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Irving Donley, Winthrop street, had . 517


William F. Drugan, Elm View place, had 624


James R. Finn, Mt. Hope street, had 348


James H. Fogarty, Curve street, had . 201


James J. Gaffney, Curve street, had . 373


John F. Gaffney, Curve street, had 196


Charles O. Haynes, off Westfield street, had 462


Edward P. Kelley, Whiting avenue, had 176


George E. Morse, Willow street, had .


461


Scattering 13


And said Barrett, Clements, Dean, Donley, Drugan, Finn, James J. Gaffney, Haynes and Morse were declared elected.


In answer to the question, " Shall licenses for the sale of in- toxicating liquors be granted in the town ?" the town voted :


Yes


413


No


471


By reason of some unknown defect in the ballot boxes in which the ballots were cast, said boxes did not correctly register the number cast, but all said ballots were cast into said boxes and were duly cancelled thereby.


The polls were closed, on motion, at 40 minutes past four o'clock, p. m.


After which the Moderator appointed as the Committee under the By-Laws, to whom were referred the remaining articles of the warrant the following persons: Winslow Warren, Joseph A. Laforme, Henry W. Richards, George C. Stearns, Charles H. Shriver, John J. McLane, Frank M. Bailey, Elisha Greenhood, Patrick A. Nolan, T. Munroe Murphy, Alexander H. Watson, Horatio G. Turner, George W. Weatherbee, Daniel A. Lynch, Charles H. Ellis, Aaron W. Baker and John E. Fisher, who with Howard Colburn, Chairman of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor ; Alonzo B. Wentworth, Chairman of the Assessors ; Frederick D. Ely, Chairman of the School Committee ; and Geo. A. Guild, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, members ex- officiis, make the full committee, twenty-one.


Voted that all the remaining officers not voted for by ballot be appointed by the Selectmen. Voted that when this meeting


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adjourn it be to the first Monday of April next, at this place, at 7 1-2 o'clock, p. m.


After the declaration of the vote, all the ballots cast at said election were sealed up in an envelope, and indorsed thereon by . the Moderator, and the check lists used were also sealed up, and also being indorsed thereon by the Moderator and Ballot Clerks, respectively, were all placed in the custody of the Town Clerk.


And on motion, at 5 o'clock a. m., of the morning of the 8th . instant, the meeting was adjourned to the first Monday of April next, at 7 1-2 o'clock, as aforesaid, at this place.


Attest :


DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.


OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, DEDHAM, March 10, 1892.


[Town Seal.]


DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Town Clerk :


Dear Sir :


In accordance with the vote passed at the Town Meeting held March 7-8, that all remaining Town officers not elected by ballot be appointed by the Selectmen, the following appoint -. ments were made by the Selectmen, at a regular meeting held. this day, viz :


Field Drivers.


John Crowley, John E. Kelley, Dennis Haley.


Fence Viewers.


Ebenezer Gay, Thomas Murphy, Eben T. Paul. Surveyors of Lumber. Hiram Hinckley, Thomas Coleman, Francis Turner. Measurers of Wood and Bark.


Frank M. Bailey, P. O. Sullivan, Charles H. Ellis, George P ... Goding, E. W. Bonnemort, Nathaniel Morse, John F. Shine.


Weighers of Hay and Coal.


Frank M. Bailey, George A. French, George F. Curtis, .. Charles Russell, Thomas Coleman, Chauncey S. Churchill, Edward Moffette.


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Sealer of Weights and Measures.


John Bestwick.


·Per Order.


GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.


The following officers elected as above were sworn into their respective offices by the Town Clerk, viz : as Town Treasurer, Lewis H. Kingsbury, March 9; as Selectmen, Henry E. French, March 9; Henry Smith, March 8, and Joseph A. Laforme, Thomas P. Murray, George W. Weatherbee, March 10 ; as Con- stables, Martin J. Barrett, John Dean, Irving Donley, Wm. F. Drugan, James J. Gaffney. Charles O. Haynes, March 8 ; George E. Morse, March 9; Wm. H. Clements, March 14; James R. Finn, April 4 ; as Assessors, Henry E. French, March 9 ; Alonzo B. Wentworth, March 23, and John Crowley. April 19; as Col- lector of Taxes, Thomas J. Baker, March 29; as Overseers of Poor, Howard Colburn and Henry Smith, March 8, George W. Weatherbee, March 10; as Auditors, Frank M. Bailey and Edward C. Paul, March 8, and Daniel A. Lynch, March 12; as Fence Viewers, Ebenezer Gay and Thomas Murphy, April 11, and Eben T. Paul, May 3; as Surveyors of Lumber, Hiram Hinckley, April 1, and Francis Turner, April 4; as Measurers of Wood and Bark, F. M. Bailey, March 12, Geo. P. Goding, E. W. Bonnemort, Nathaniel Morse and J. F. Shine, March 17, and C. H. Ellis, May 5 ; as Weighers of Hay and Coal, F. M. Bailey, March 12, C. S. Churchill, March 14, G. F. Curtis, March 29, Geo. A. French, March 30, C. Russell, April 4, and Thomas Coleman, May 26; as Sealer of Weights, John Bestwick, March 14; as Superintendent of Streets, April 19, Philip Putnam ; July 15, Edward Moffette, as Weigher of Hay and Coal.


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


Norfolk, ss.


At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, held in Memorial Hall, in said Dedham, on the first Monday of April, (being the fourth day of said month) A. D. 1892, by-adjournment from the seventh day of March, 1892, the meeting was called to order at half past


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seven o'clock in the afternoon, by Erastus Worthington, the Moderator, and the business of the meeting proceeded as fol- lows, viz :


The committee of twenty-one, through the chairman thereof, Winslow Warren, Esq., presented their report, as printed in the Dedham TRANSCRIPT of April 2, and it was voted that said report be accepted and placed on file. (See report on file).


Article Three-Voted to accept the report of the Auditors of the Treasurer's and Collector's account.


Article Four-Voted to accept the list of Jurors, as prepared by the Selectmen, and posted according to law, the names of Henry S. Talbot, Henry E. Weatherbee, Chauncey S. Churchill, Charles A. Turner, Charles Russell and F. F. Favor having been by vote and at their request, first stricken from the list, the names. as accepted are as follows :


Bailey, Frank M.


Johnson, Silas


Baker, Aaron W.


Keelan. Michael


Bigelow, Henry C.


Kelly, Edward P.


Brooks, Charles D.


Killikelly, Thomas W.


Bonnemort, E. W.


Kingsbury, George


Cheever, Alonzo W.


Lorio, Jacob


Clifton, John D.


Mansfield, Preston R.


Colburn, Allen


Matta, William H.


Crowley, John


Morse, E. Scott,


Conlan, Daniel


Moloney, Michael J.


Ellis, Charles H.


Marden, H. Everett,


Ellis, James M.


McCaffrey, Bernard J.


Fairbanks, Dexter.


Morrell, William A.


Farrington, Arthur B. Finn, Richard M. Fisher, John B.


Murphy, Thomas


Fisher, Joseph L.


Norris, Andrew J.


Fisher, John L.


Newcomb, Lester A.


French, William H.


Nichols, Charles C.


Fuller, Willis C. Gaffney, Peter B.


Nolan, Patrick A.


Goding, George P.


Paul, Ebenezer T.


Goding, William B. Giles, John J.


Pettee, Henry L.


Perry, John W.


Haggett, George H. Hartnett, David Hinckley, Hiram Hilles, Conrad


Richardson, Rufus,


Robinson, Fred E.


Ridley, Matthias


Rice, Frederick W.


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Morse, Nathaniel Morse, Elmer P.


Neal, David


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Schuler, John M.


Tucker, Charles W. -


Smith, Fred E.


Wilson, George E.


White, Isaac W.


Smith, Nathaniel Shine, John F.


Weatherbee, Benjamin


Spalding, John J.


Weatherbee, George W.


Sweeney, Jerry


Whitten, Abraham®


Tapley, William T.


Withington, Warren


Tracy, Andrew


Walley, Joseph H.


Trefrey, Charles B.


Woods, Charles S.


Article Five-Voted to accept the report of the committee on the distribution of the interest of the Damon and Draper donation, which was presented showing the sum of $53.36, received and disbursed during the year, and it was voted that said report be accepted, and the town chose Dr. John W. Chase, and Willie W. Baker, as the committee to distribute the interest of said funds the ensuing year.


Article Six-Voted to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means as Town Treasurer may use when acting as collector. .


Article Seven-Voted to raise and appropriate, to defray the incidental and other necessary expenses, not .otherwise provided . for, of the town, for the ensuing year, the sum of forty thousand and thirty-one dollars, as follows : The vote being taken on each item separately and then on the whole amount, viz


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Town Clerk $150


Treasurer


350.


Board of Health .


150 1


Registrars of Voters


200


Cemetery Commissioners,


100


Selectmen


800


Overseers of the Poor


400


Assessors


1,000


Superintendent of Streets,


1,400


Abatement of Taxes


1,200 ..


Police ($500 of which being to enforce the liquor law.)


3,500


Printing, advertising and stationery 800. 22 .


Poor in Alms House 1,300


Poor out of Alms House


4,500


Insane and Reform School


2,300


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Lock-up and Salary of Keeper .


$700


Fire Department


3,500


Electric Lights


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6,921


Water 5,200


High school debt and interest 3,360


Miscellaneous .


1,000


Removing snow


1,200


$40,031


Being two hundred dollars less for the Assessors than re- commended by the committee of twenty-one.


A motion was made at 8:45 o'clock, that the foregoing vote be reconsidered, which motion was lost.


Article Eight-Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for the decoration of the soldiers' graves.


Article Nine-Voted to appropriate for the Dedham Public Library, the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, one thousand and one of which is to be taken from the money in the treasury, received last year from the dog tax, the balance of twelve hundred and forty-nine dollars to be raised by taxation, and that two hundred and fifty dollars of said amount be ex- pended for the purchase of books.


Article Ten-Voted to raise and appropriate, to keep the cemeteries in repair, as follows : Five hundred dollars for Brook- dale cemetery, four hundred dollars for cemetery in Dedham Village, and one hundred and fifty dollars for the cemetery at West Dedham.


Article Eleven-Voted to authorize the Collector of Taxes to charge six per cent on all taxes not paid November 1, 1892.


Article Twelve-Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of thirty-seven thousand dollars for the support of public schools, and the payment of the salary of the Superintendent of Schools for the ensuing year.


Article Thirteen-Voted to raise and appropriate for instruc- tion in the elementary use of hand tools, and in sewing in the public schools, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars.


Article Fourteen-Voted to appropriate the amount received from other towns for scholars attending the public schools in Dedham, for contingent expenses of the public school.


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Article Fifteen-Voted to raise and appropriate for repairs of highways, sidewalks, and lumber for repairs of bridges and railings, the sum of eleven thousand five hundred dollars.


Article Sixteen-Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars to build a covered drain from the junction of High and East street to the main ditch under the railroad bridge ; also to construct in connection with the same a drain to conduct the surface water from Harvard street into said drain


Article Seventeen-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.


Article Eighteen-Voted that one arc light be placed at the junction of Curve and Maverick streets, and the money to main- tain the same be taken from the treasury, and that four incandes- cent lights near the said junction be discontinued.


Article Nineteen-Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars for twenty-five incandescent lights to light the street from the residence of W. C. Fuller on Clapboardtree to Milk street, thence through Milk to Gay street, thence to Washington street.


Article Twenty-Voted to place an electric light on Wash- ington street, near the Boston line, and raise and appropriate for the same the sum of sixteen dollars.


Article Twenty-One-Voted to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to place hydrants, not more than five in number, on the proposed extension of the Water Company pipes on Pine and Needham streets, and raise and appropriate for the same one hundred and seventy-five dollars.




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