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Article Thirty-Nine .- To see if the Town will vote to build
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a suitable building for the storage of tools and materials used in the repair of highways, purchase land if necessary, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty .- To see if the Town will vote to cause a hy. drant to be set, as recommended by the Board of Engineers, on Lowder street, at the Upper Village, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty-One .- To see if the Town will vote to purchase 1000 feet of Hose for the use of the Fire Department, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty-Two .- To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Engineers to cause the steam fire engine to be put in thorough repair, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty-Three .- To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to give to the Dedham & Hyde Park Gas & Electric Light Company their consent to use the streets for Electric Lighting, pursuant to the third section of the charter of said Company.
Article Forty-Four .- To see whether the Town will accept Electric Lighting for the streets and the public buildings, and what contracts, if any, it will instruct the Selectmen to make in the premises.
Article Forty-Five .- To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate to meet the expense of Electric Lighting.
Article Forty-Six .- To see what action the Town will take in the matter of introducing the Electric Lighting system for lighting the streets of the town.
Article Forty-Seven .- To see whether the Town will pay the claim of Thomas F. Welch as Superintendent of Streets, or in- struct the Selectmen to defend against the same.
Article Forty-Eight .- To see if the Town will enlarge the culverts on Highland street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty-Nine .- To hear and act on the reports of Committees.
Article Fifty .- To hear and act on the report of the Town Clerk with regard to printing the Records.
By-Laws of the Town require the Polls to be opened at 7
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o'clock, and remain open till thirty minutes past four in the afternoon.
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, at Ded- ham, aforesaid, this twenty-first day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
HOWARD COLBURN, THOMAS P. MURRAY, Selectmen of Dedham.
DON GLEASON HILL, ALFRED HEWINS,
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, 7
On this warrant the following return was made :
Norfolk, ss. · DEDHAM, March 2, 1889.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, to meet at the time and place, and for the several 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 an attested copy thereof to be published twice, before the time of said meeting, in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said Town.
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 fourth day of said month) A. D. 1889.
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.
Article One .- John Crowley was appointed and sworn by
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the Town Clerk a teller to aid the Town Clerk in receiving and counting votes cast for Moderator.
Alonzo B. Wentworth was chosen Moderator by written bal- lot, in receiving which the check list was used.
Article Two .- Voted to choose the Selectmen, Surveyors of Highways, and authorize and instruct them to employ a Superin- tendent of Highways.
Article Three .- Voted to take up this article and ballot thereon at the same time ballots are cast for town officers under article four, at which time the vote on said question was taken by separate ballots, and the result was as follows : "Yes," four hun- dred and twenty-three ; "No," three hundred and seventy-four.
In receiving these ballots, the check list prepared by the Registrars of Voters, and also the box approved and provided by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, were used, and all the ballots cast under this article were deposited in said box, and all were duly cancelled, and the ballot box register at the close of the polls showed the whole number of ballots cast to be seven hun- dred ninety-seven.
Article Four .- Voted, that the Town proceed to ballot for five Selectmen, of whom two shall be elected for three years, two shall be elected for two years, one shall be elected for one year ; five Assessors, of whom two shall be elected for three years, two shall be elected for two years, one shall be elected for one year ; five Overseers of the Poor, of whom two shall be elected for three years, two shall be elected for two years, one shall be elected for one year; three members of the Board of Health, a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, (3) three Auditors, nine Constables, all for one year; and two School Committee for three (3) years each, all on one ballot.
The Moderator appointed as tellers, to assist him in receiv- ing. sorting and counting the ballots under this article, Howard Colburn, E. Scott Morse, T. Munroe Murphy and Willie W. Baker, and they were duly sworn by the Town Clerk before en- tering upon said duties.
At half-past four o'clock in the afternoon it was voted that the polls be closed in ten minutes.
In receiving the ballots cast at this meeting under this article, the check list prepared by the Registrars of Voters was used.
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At forty minutes past four o'clock in the afternoon the polls were closed, 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 : Frederick D. Ely, Winslow Warren, John W. Chase, George C. Stearns, Erastus Worthing- ton, Cornelius A. Taft, Thomas W. Killikelly, Henry Smith, C. C. Sanderson, Francis L. Babcock, John Crowley, Lyman D. Will- cutt, Simon W. Hathaway, John Dean, Daniel A. Lynch, John L. Fisher, Charles French and Willie W. Baker, who, with Howard Colburn, chairman of the Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of Highways, Seth C. Beach, chairman of the School Committee, George A. Guild, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, members ex-officiis, constitute the full committee of twenty-one.
After the ballots for town officers had been sorted and counted, the Moderator made declaration thereof as follows :
Whole number of ballots (except for School Committee), 756. For School Committee 154 additional ballots were cast by the women voters.
For Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of Highways, for one year :
Thomas P. Murray had 680
Scattering, 20
And said Murray was declared elected.
For Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors
of Highways, for two years :
Don Gleason Hill had 731
Alfred Hewins had 673
Scattering, 12
And said Hill and Hewins were declared elected.
For Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors
of Highways, for three years :
Howard Colburn had 730
George W. Weatherbee had 726
Scattering, 6
And said Colburn and Weatherbee were declared elected. For Board of Health :
Geo. A. Southgate had 739
Francis L. Babcock had 750
Alonzo W. Cheever had 753
Scattering,
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And said Southgate, Babcock and Cheever were declared elected.
For Town Clerk :
Don Gleason Hill had 751
Scattering,
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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 had 751
Scattering, . 1
And said Kingsbury was declared elected.
For Tax Collector :
Thomas J. Baker had 754
Scattering, .
1
And said Baker was declared elected.
For School Committee, for three years :
Ordello P. Bessey had 895
John H. Burdakin had
905
Scattering, 5
And said Bessey and Burdakin were declared elected.
For Auditors :
Daniel A. Lynch had
743
Edward C. Paul had .
754
Frank M. Bailey had
754
Scattering,
2
And said Lynch, Paul and Bailey were declared elected.
For Constables :
William F. Drugan had
721
Eustis Baker had
751
John Wardle, Jr., had
725
Chas. O. Haynes had
747
Martin J. Barrett had
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741
George E. Morse had
727
James J. Gaffney had
733
John Dean had .
745
Martin Hanson had
721
Scattering,
12
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And the nine persons named above were declared elected.
The remaining town officers were chosen by the meeting as follows :
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Field Drivers-William Connelly, John E. Kelly, William Eagan, John Crowley, Michael Kelley, Dennis Haley.
Fence Viewers-Ebenezer Gay, Thomas Murphy, Eben T. Paul.
Surveyors of Lumber-Hiram Hinkley, Francis Turner.
Measurers of Wood and Bark-James R. Finn, Frederick Page, Charles H. Ellis, B. S. Wood, P. O'Sullivan, George P. Goding, Frank M. Bailey, E. W. Bonnemort, Nathaniel Morse, John F. Shine.
Weighers of Hay and Coal-Charles Russell, Frederick Page, George A. French, Frank M. Bailey, George F. Curtis, C. W. Wolcott, James R. Finn, Franklin Kimball, Waldo Chase.
Sealer of Weights and Measures-John Bestwick.
Voted, that when this meeting adjourn it be to the first Mon- day of April next, at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, at said Memorial Hall.
The ballots cast for town officers were sealed up in an envelope, also the ballots cast under article three, in another envelope, and the check lists used, in another envelope, all in open town meeting, and all were endorsed thereon by the Mod- erator and placed in the custody of the Town Clerk, after which the meeting was adjourned to the time and place designated in the foregoing vote.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, held at Memorial Hall in said Dedham, on the first day of April, A. D. 1889, by adjournment from the fourth day of March, 1889, the meeting was called to order at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon by Alonzo B. Went- worth, the moderator, and the business of the meeting proceeded as follows :
Article 4. The Committee of Twenty-one, appointed March 4, 1889, under the By-Laws, to whom were referred the remaining
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articles of the warrant, presented their report, and it was voted that said report be accepted. (See report on file.)
Article 5. Voted to accept the reports of the Auditors of the Treasurer's and Collector's accounts. (See reports on file.)
Article 6. Voted to accept the list of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen and posted according to law, the names of Henry D. Humphrey, Charles J. Hurley, Albert C. Luke, Hayden A. Merrill, Warren F. Redfield and Charles A. Turner being first stricken, by vote, from the list. (See list on file.)
Article 7. Voted to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means as Town Treasurer may use when acting as Col- lector.
Article 8. Voted that the compensation of the Collector of Taxes be fixed at six hundred dollars.
Article 9. The committee on the distribution of the interest of the Damon and Draper donations reported that they had re- ceived and distributed the sum of fifty-nine 7% dollars. Voted that this report be accepted. (See report on file.) Voted that John W. Chase and Willie W. Baker be chosen a committee to distribute the interest of said funds the ensuing year.
Article 10. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars to defray the incidental and other necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for the ensuing year, as follows : Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor and Highway Surveyors, $1600; Town Clerk, $100; Town Treas- urer, $250; Board of Health, $150; Registrars of Voters, $200; Superintendent of Streets, $1000 ; Removing Snow, $1000; Sta- tionery, Advertising and Printing, $650; Poor in Almshouse, $1400; Poor out of the Almshouse, $3800; Painting and Repair- ing Almshouse, $300; Insane and Reform School, $1600 ; Lock- up Keeper and Supplies, $700 ; Tax Collector, $600; Abatement of Taxes, $1200; Fire Department, $3500; Lighting Streets, $3200 ; High School note and interest, $3550; Police Depart- ment, $2200 ; Miscellaneous Expenses, $1000.
Article 11. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for the decoration of Soldiers' graves.
Article 12. Voted that the Town accept the gift of the fran- chise, library and property, real and personal, of the Dedham Public Library, upon the condition that the Town will forever
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maintain the same as a free public library, and assume the debts of the Library existing at the time of the transfer.
Article 13. Voted to appropriate the sum of two thousand · dollars for the Dedham Public Library, eleven hundred and sixty-seven and 0 dollars of which is to be taken from the amount in the town treasury received last year from the dog tax, and the balance of eight hundred and thirty-two and 187 dollars to be raised by taxation ; also voted to raise and appropriate the further sum of three hundred and fifteen and 1% dollars to pay unpaid bills of the Public Library Corporation due April 1, 1889.
Article 14. Voted to elect a board of nine Trustees for the Dedham Public Library, three for one year, three for two years, and three for three years. And the town made choice of the fol- lowing persons as trustees, viz :-
For three years-Alfred Hewins, Carlos Slafter, and John R. Bullard ; for two years-Albert Hale, Winslow Warren, and Don Gleason Hill ; for one year-Henry W. Richards, Henry P. Quincy, and James M. Ellis, and the same were elected by ballot, in receiving which the check list was used, and the Moderator appointed and swore the Town Clerk to assist him in receiving said ballots, and also appointed Howard Colburn and Andrew J. Norris as tellers, to aid in counting the ballots, and said tellers were duly sworn by the Town Clerk.
Article 15. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of nine hundred and seventy-five dollars for the Cemeteries, viz. : five hundred dollars for Brookdale, three hundred and fifty for the Old Cemetery, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for Cemetery in West Dedham.
Article 16. Voted to authorize the Tax Collector to charge 6 per cent on all taxes not paid Nov. 1, 1889.
Article 17. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-six thousand nine hundred dollars for the payment of sal- aries of the school teachers and Superintendent of Schools the ensuing year, and that three hundred dollars of that amount be used for evening schools.
Article 18. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-three row dollars for repairs and care of the schoolhouses, and for fuel and supplies for the same.
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Article 19. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of fif- :cen hundred dollars for school stationery and text books.
Article 20. Voted to appropriate the amount received from other towns for scholars attending the public schools in Dedham, for contingent expenses of the public schools.
Article 21. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars for chemical and physical apparatus and supplies for the High school.
Articles 22 and 23 were acted upon together,and it was voted : That these two articles be referred to a committee consisting of Rev. George W. Cooke, Rev. Robert J. Johnson, Chas. F. Kim- ball, John L. Wakefield, Rev. Ordello P. Bessey, John H. Burda- kin-School Committee; and Lyman D. Wilcutt, Daniel A. Lynch, Chas. C. Sanderson, John Crowley, John R. Bullard, to report at a future town meeting to be called at the request of the committee.
Article 24. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 25. Voted to raise and appropriate five thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars to pay for water for hydrants and public buildings required by the contract with the Dedham Water Company.
Article 26. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of four- teen thousand five hundred dollars for repairs of highways, side- walks, and for lumber for the repairs of bridges and railings, di- vided as follows : General Repairs, $8000 ; Extras, $1000; Lum- ber for Bridges and Railings, $500; Sidewalks and repairs, $2000; Edgestones and Paving Gutters, $3000.
Article 27. Voted to accept the extension of Dale street to the New York & New England R. R., as laid out by the Select- men, and raise and appropriate two hundred dollars for the same. (See report of laying out in Highway Book, page 117.)
Article 28. Voted to raise and appropriate one thousand dollars for repairing the road leading from Needham line to Vine Rock Bridge, so called.
Article 29. Voted to instruct the Selectmen to ascertain and permanently mark the bounds of the strip of land known as the Long Causeway, on Needham street, Dedham Island.
Article 30. The subject matter of this article having been
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included in the appropriation made under Article 26, no further action was taken thereon.
Article 31. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 32. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to instruct the Superintendent of Streets to pay men employed upon the highways two dollars per day, and that nine hours constitute a day's work.
Article 33. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 34. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 35. Voted to build a reservoir in front of the store of Charles H. Ellis on High street, West Dedham, and raise and appropriate three hundred and fifty dollars for the same.
Article 36. Voted that the subject matter of this article be referred to a committee of three, consisting of Henry Onion, Alonzo W. Cheever, and Dr. Geo. A. Southgate, to investigate and report in print or otherwise, at the next annual town meeting.
Article 37. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars, to be expended in aid of the library at West Dedham, and for the purpose of maintaining a room for a library and reading.
Article 38. Voted to furnish a circular iron fountain for watering horses, to be located opposite the Dexter School House, and to raise and appropriate one hundred and seventy-five dollars for the same.
Article 39. Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to carry out the vote of last year, relating to the subject of this article, and to use the money raised for that purpose last year.
Article 40. Voted to cause a hydrant to be set, as recom- mended by the Board of Engineers, on Lowder street at the Upper Village, and to raise and appropriate fifty dollars for the same.
Article 41. Voted to purchase 1000 feet of hose for the use .of the Fire Department, and to raise and appropriate eight hundred .dollars for the same.
Article 42. Voted to instruct the Board of Engineers to cause
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the steam fire engine to be put in thorough repair, and to raise and appropriate fifteen hundred dollars for the same.
Article 43. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 44. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 45. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of eighteen hundred dollars to meet the expense of Electric Light- ing, in addition to the sum of thirty-two hundred appropriated under article 10, making five thousand dollars in all.
Article 46. Voted that the Town adopt the Electric Light- ing system for lighting the streets of the Town.
Also, voted : That a committee consisting of Frederick D. Ely, Henry C. Bonney, Simon W. Hathaway, John W. Chase, Willie W. Baker, Thomas P. Murray, Lyman D. Wilcutt, and the Moderator of the meeting, Alonzo B. Wentworth, be raised to draft and execute a contract for and in behalf of the Town, by which the Town shall pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dol- lars per year for a term not exceeding ten years, for lighting the streets by electricity. Said contract to provide for lighting West Dedham, Dedham Village, East Dedham, and Oakdale.
Arc lights of 1200 nominal candle power, not to exceed $70 per year ; incandescent lights of 26 nominal candle power, not to exceed $17 per year ; both for as many hours per year as said committee may be able to obtain.
Said contract to contain such conditions and stipulations as in the judgment of said committee shall protect the present and future interests of the Town.
Article 47. Voted to pay the claim of Thomas F. Welch as Superintendent of Streets, amounting to one thousand dollars.
Article 48. Voted to enlarge the culverts on Highland street, and raise and appropriate four hundred dollars therefor.
Article 49. No reports were submitted under this article.
Article 50. The report of the Town Clerk with regard. to printing the Records was presented, and it was voted that the re- port be accepted and its recommendations adopted. The report was as follows :
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT ON PRINTING THE RECORDS.
At the Annual Meeting of the Town in 1887, and again in 1888, I submitted reports upon the matter of printing the Records. These reports were printed in the Town Reports of those years. About the first of December, 1888, the second volume of Records was pub- lished, and the many complimentary letters received, and the notices from the press, all attest the value and importance of this work. This second book contained about 50 pages more than the first and is printed in better style. The appropriations which the town has made for this work have never been sufficient to cover the cost, and it was not my intention that they should be. The books are sold and from the receipts I expected to make up the balance of the cost. If the whole editions of both volumes could be sold at once, they would almost pay for themselves. But that is not to be expected. These books are printed not only for the present, but for future demand, and while the sale at first is quite lively, after a time it becomes slow. The appropriation for the first volume was $850, while the cost was $1036. The second volume cost $1204.15, and nothing has been charged by the Town Clerk for his personal ser- vices on this latter volume, though much time was spent thereon. Yet the appropriation asked for this was only $700, making the cost of the two volomes $690.15 above the appropriations. Of this defi- ciency all but $191.40 has already been paid from the sales of the books. In order to provide for this deficiency, however, consider- able financiering has to be done to increase the sales and bring the work before the public. Both these books stop at 1845, and it seems no more than just that the work should be continued to near the present time. I would therefore recommend that as soon as the cost of those already published has been paid, the receipts from the sales thereafter made may be expended by the Town Clerk in preparing a third volume for publication, and bringing the printed records of the town relating to births, marriages and deaths, down to the pres- ent time. And also that the amounts received from the sales of the proceedings of the 250th Anniversary of the town be placed in his hands for the same purpose.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
Feb. 1, 1889.
And after the ballots for Trustees of the Public Library were sealed up in the envelope and endorsed thereon by the moderator, on motion the meeting was dissolved.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, .
Town Clerk.
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TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
[Town Seal.]
Norfolk, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Dedham, in said County, Greeting:
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town of Dedham, qualified to vote for Senators and Representa- tives in the General Court, to assemble at Memorial Hall in said town, on Monday, the twenty-second day of April, A. D. 1889, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to give in their votes by ballot for or against the following Article of Amendment of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, namely :
"The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, to be used as a beverage, are prohibited. The General Court shall enact suitable legislation to enforce the provisions of this article."
And the polls may be closed as early as four o'clock in the afternoon.
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, at Ded- ham aforesaid, this eleventh day of April, A. D. eighteen hun- dred and eighty-nine.
HOWARD COLBURN, THOMAS P. MURRAY, -
DON GLEASON HILL, ALFRED HEWINS, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE,
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