Town Report on Lincoln 1920-1924, Part 10

Author: Lincoln (Mass.)
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Lincoln (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 748


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"Beginning with the opening of school in September my work of school nurse has consisted of daily visits to the class rooms for the purpose of ascertaining the pres- ence or absence of symptoms of contagious disease. Dur- ing the period of brilliant autumnal foliage many cases of poisoning by Poisy Ivy or Poison Sumac occurred among the younger children, and were treated by me in the school office upon instruction from the school physician. Many


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small injuries were dressed and cared for and instruction given in the care of sores, a number of which, of a con- tagious nature, were discovered. A few children were kept at home and not allowed to return to school till the sores had been properly treated by the family physician, and the danger from contagion had passed. A few cases of tonsilitis were discovered, and the children kept at home till recovery was complete."


CAROLYN VIETS, School Nurse.


During the months of cold weather up to the April vaca- tion hot cocoa was furnished at the noon lunch hour. This was the third year of this service, and the benefits are so marked that we hope that it will be made a permanent insti- tution. The cost for the last two years has been $132.46 and $171.30 respectively, most of which was raised through the devoted interest and active work of the late Mrs. Conrad P. Hatheway. The same service was begun again this month of December with a small fund of $30, donated by the Home Eco- nomics Club, and $50 by the Lincoln Grange, together with one hundred pounds of cocoa and one hundred pounds of sugar given by individuals.


Last April, the Dental Clinic of the Middlesex County Farm Bureau began work among the school children. Eighty-five different children had their teeth attended to by the dentists at a moderate cost to the parents. Most of these children had never before been to a dentist, and in all probability would not have done so for several years to come.


STATISTICS


The following statistics, for the year ending June 30, were furnished the Department of Education of the Commonwealth : Pupils enrolled 210


Boys 110


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Girls 100


Pupils for whom the town paid tuition elsewhere 25


Non-resident pupils attending school in Lincoln 23


Average daily attendance 183


Number of days schools were in session 180


Average membership 199


Registration of minors, April 1, 1921,


5 years and under 7 48


7 years and under 14 169


14 years and under 16 38


Total 255


MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE, DECEMBER 23, 1921


Age


5 67 8 9


10


11


12


13


14


15


16


Total


Grade I -


18


3


1


22


66


II


-


1


14


16


4 01 1


37


6.6


III


1


12


11


3


1


28


1


10


8


5


5


2


2


33


66


V


-


2


8


12


3


1


26


66-


VI


-


1


3


4


6


5


1


20


" VII -


1


4


7


7


3


22


" VIII


-


2


5


6


4


3


20


66


IX -


2


0 |1


7


0


10


Total


19


18


30


27


20


23


21


21


21


15


3


218


-


IV


-


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The figures in the first space to the right of the first heavy line show the numbers of normal age for the grade, while those to the right of the second heavy line are three years above this normal age and must be classed as backward.


The growth of the school has been slow but steady. At the end of the fall term the membership for the last four years has been


1918


151


1919


185


1920


199


1921


207


Since 1918 we have had the lowest high school grade added to our numbers, but as these number only ten pupils it is seen that our real increase has been 46 in the last four years, or more than one additional school room.


The Town is now paying tuition for 40 pupils in the high schools of other towns, 29 in Concord, 6 in Waltham, 2 in Weston, 1 in Lexington, and 2 in the Boston Trades School. With the 10 in our home school, the Town is now providing high school education for 50 pupils.


Respectfully submitted,


CHARLES H. MORSS, Superintendent.


Lincoln, Mass., December 31, 1921.


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NOTICE:


Business Meeting Monday, March 6th, at 1 P. M.


WARRANT


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


MIDDLESEX, SS.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County :


GREETING:


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, qualified to vote at Town Meeting for the transac- tion of Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Lincoln on Monday, the sixth day of March next at 1 o'clock P. M., then and there to act on all of the following Articles except Article 2, and to meet in said Town Hall on Saturday, the eleventh day of March next at 12 o'clock noon, then and there to act on the following Article 2, by posting a copy of this, Warrant, by you attested, in each of the Post Offices and in some other public place in said Town seven days at least before the sixth day of March next:


The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March 11th, will be open at 12 o'clock noon and may be closed at 6:30 o'clock P. M.


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ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator.


ART. 2. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers and any other officers required by law to be elected by Australian ballot :


One Town Clerk for one year.


One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years. One member of the Board of Assessors for three years. One member of the Board of Health for three years.


One Treasurer for one year.


One Collector for one year.


One Auditor for one year.


Two Constables for one year.


One Tree Warden for one year.


One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.


One member of Trustees for Free Public Lectures for three years.


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One member of the School Committee for three years.


One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.


One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.


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Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the following question :


"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of non-intoxicating beverages in this Town?"


ART. 3. To bring in their votes for any committees, com- missioners, trustees and officers required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.


ART. 4. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Offi- cers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.


ART. 5. To appropriate money for necessary and expe- dient purposes of the Town and enact anything in relation to the same.


ART. 6. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year.


ART. 7. To determine the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.


ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the muni- cipal year, beginning January 1st, 1922, in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the Town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for the said year, giving the notes of the Town in payment therefor payable in one year from the date thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote shall be paid from the taxes of the present municipal year.


ART. 9. To see if the Town will extend the electric lights -street and commercial-from near the house of the Misses


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Chapin to the house of the Misses Peirce or make any exten- sion of street lighting.


ART. 10. To see if the Town will adopt any by-law to control advertising signs on or near the highways, or revise the by-laws in any respect, or take any action in relation to the matter.


ART. 11. To see if the Town will appoint a Committee to confer with the Prudential Committee of the 1st Parish to determine if possible the relative interests of the town and parish in the Common (so-called) or take any action in rela- tion to the matter.


ART. 12. To see if the Town will purchase additional equipment for the Fire Department and appropriate money for the same or take any action in relation to the matter.


ART. 13. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to appoint a committee of citizens to investigate and report at the next Town Meeting on the possibility of establishing a Town forest and to appropriate the sum of Twenty-five Dol- lars ($25) for the use of the committee for this purpose.


ART. 14. To see if the Town will purchase the Lewis Pickle Factory property (so-called) or take any action with reference to the matter.


ART. 15. To see if the Town will maintain a District Nurse in Lincoln until March 1st, 1923, or take any action re- garding the same.


ART. 16. To see if the Town will acquire, by purchase or otherwise, sufficient land for a playground or athletic field and appropriate any money for the same, or take any action there-


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on, or appropriate a sum of money to improve the schoolhouse grounds or take any action with reference to the matter.


ART. 17. To see if the Town will take any action toward providing an addition to the present school building in the center of the Town, or take any action toward the erection of a new schoolhouse building, and appropriate money for the same.


ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to adopt some method or methods of keeping the citizens informed on Town business, or take any action relative to the same.


HEREOF FAIL NOT.


And make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time for the meet- ing aforesaid.


Given under our hands this 11th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.


CHARLES S. SMITH, - JOHN F. FARRAR, ROBERT D. DONALDSON, Selectmen of Lincoln.


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By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


MIDDLESEX, SS.


At the Superior Court, within and for the County of Middlesex, Anno Domini, 1897.


The following By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln, in said County, are presented to this Court for approval, to wit :-


"ARTICLE I.


TOWN MEETINGS.


Section 1. The annual town meeting shall be held on the first Monday of March in each year.


Sect. 2. Notice of every town meeting shall be given by posting copies of the warrant calling the same, attested by the officer making service thereof, in each of the post-offices within the town, and in one of the churches, or one other public place, within the town, not less than seven days be- fore the day appointed for such meeting. But when, in the judgment of the selectmen, the interests of the town require a meeting to be held without giving so long a notice, a meeting may be called by posting attested copies of the warrant in the places above mentioned, and by leaving a


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printed copy thereof at each dwelling-house within the town, at least three days before the time appointed for the meeting ; pro- vided that in such cases the selectmen shall certify that, in their opinion, the interests of the town require that a town meeting be called upon a notice of less than seven days, which certificate shall be made upon, or attached to, the original warrant, and shall be served as a part thereof.


ARTICLE II.


FINANCES.


Section 1. The financial year shall commence with the first day of February and end with the thirty-first day of January annually.


Sect. 2. The town treasurer shall have the custody of all funds belonging to the town except sinking funds, trust funds and funds for which other provision is made by law ; and he shall pay no money from the treasury except upon a draft signed by a majority of the selectmen, stating the account to which the same is chargeable. Such draft shall be sufficient authority to the treasurer to pay the same, and the payment thereof shall discharge him from all liability on account of the money so paid.


Sect. 3. The water commissioners and all other boards, committees and officers shall, on the first day of each month, pay to the town treasurer all sums collected by them the month previous to the custody of which the treasurer is entitled.


Sect. 4. A majority of the water commissioners, school committee, or of any board, or committee, and any officer hav- ing charge of the expenditure of an appropriation, shall


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approve in writing all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls properly chargeable to such appropriation, and shall trans- mit the same with his or their approval to the selectmen. All other accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls shall be examined by the selectmen and, if proper, shall be approved by them. The selectmen shall label all accounts, claims, bills and pay- rolls which have been approved either by themselves or by the other officers before mentioned, and shall keep a record thereof in a book kept for the purpose, stating the persons to whom payable, the amounts and dates thereof, and the funds, or appropriations, from which the same are payable.


Sect. 5. Drafts signed by a majority of the selectmen, stating the accounts to which the same are chargeable, shall be drawn upon the treasurer for the payment of all sums by law payable from the treasury to the commonwealth or county, final judgments of courts, bonds, notes, and scrip of the town and interest thereon and money payable to the commissioners of the sinking fund and to the trustees of the public library ; and also for the payment of all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls which have been approved in the manner provided in the previous section. Such drafts shall not be negotiated, but shall be transmitted by the selectmen directly to the treas- urer accompanied by the approved bills or other documents for the settlement of which the drafts are drawn.


Sect. 6. The treasurer shall file and safely keep all ap- proved and receipted accounts, claims, bills, and pay-rolls, and all vouchers, cancelled bonds, notes, scrip, and other evidences of indebtedness of the town which have been paid from the treasury.


Sect. 7. No draft shall be drawn by the selectmen unless there is sufficient appropriation to pay the same, except for sums by law payable to the commonwealth or county, final judgments of courts, bonds, notes and scrip of the town and


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interest thereon, and money payable to the commissioners of the sinking fund.


Sect. 8. The selectmen and treasurer respectively shall make a record, in a book kept for the purpose, of each ap- propriation, with a list of the drafts drawn against such appropriation, and shall make a record of all bonds, notes, scrip or other evidence of indebtedness of the town, signed or countersigned by them.


Sect. 9. When the bills contracted or approved by any board, committee, or officer have exhausted the entire ap- propriation for such board, committee or officer, they shall incur no further expenditure, except in cases where such expenditure may be required by law; and it shall be the duty of each board, committee or officer before the close of the financial year to approve all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls chargeable to their appropriation. During the interval between the thirty-first day of January in each year and the time of making the next annual appropriations, the selectmen, school committee and water commissioners, in order to meet the liabilities of their several departments, incurred in the carrying on of the work entrusted to them, shall have authority to make expenditures and payments from the treasury from any available funds therein, and the same shall be charged against the next annual appropria- tion. Such expenditures and liability incurred for any purpose shall not exceed one-fourth the entire amount appropriated for that purpose in the previous year.


Sect. 10. Unless the town shall expressly otherwise vote, no extension of water pipes shall be made unless before the work of construction is begun one or more of the persons whom it is proposed to supply with water by means of such extension, shall file with the town clerk a bond with sureties satisfactory to the water commissioners, conditioned to pay


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to the town for five years next following the completion of such extension and the letting of water into the same, a sum sufficient, together with the net anuual income from such extension, to amount annually to five per centum of the total cost thereof.


ARTICLE III.


TOWN SEAL.


Section 1. The design of the town seal shall be : a circle, in the border the words "Lincoln. Incorporated in 1746 as a precinct ; in 1754 as a Town"; in the center, a shield, in the chief or upper part of which on a cross, gules, a fleur- de-lis, gold, from the old seal of Lincoln, England, and in the base of the shield a view of the present town hall; crest, the old chestnut tree standing upon the common in Lincoln ; in saltire two shepherd's crooks; the device thereof being as follows :


Sect. 2. All deeds and other legal documents made, given or entered into by the town requiring a seal shall be sealed with the town seal, and signed in behalf of the town by a majority of the selectmen.


Sect. 3. The town clerk shall have the custody of the town seal.


ARTICLE IV.


RECORDS.


Section 1. The town clerk shall record in full in a book kept for the purpose all written contracts, deeds and other


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instruments to which the town is a party except such in- struments as may by law be recorded in the Registry of Deeds; and it shall be the duty of any board or officer exe- cuting or receiving such written contract, or other instru- ment, to deliver the same forthwith to the town clerk for the purpose of record. It shall be the duty of the town clerk to see that all conveyances of real estate to the town are properly recorded in the Registry of Deeds.


Sect. 2. The town clerk shall keep a file of all town reports, reports of all committees chosen by the town, and all original documents relating to the affairs of the town which may come into his possession.


ARTICLE V.


BOOKS.


Section 1. Books, records and laws received by the town from the commonwealth shall be deposited in the public library building.


Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the town officer by whom any book mentioned in the preceding section is received, to cause the same to be at once deposited in the public library building.


Sect. 3. Such books may be used by the inhabitants of the town within such building, and may be taken therefrom upon written receipt to the librarian for a period not ex- ceeding one day at any one time for use in any town meet- ing, or by or before any committee or official of the town.


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ARTICLE VI.


SUITS AND CONTROVERSIES.


Section 1. The selectmen may compromise claims and suits to which the town is a party, provided that they shall act upon the advice of counsel when the amount claimed by or against the town exceeds $200.00.


Sect. 2. The selectmen shall have, unless it is otherwise voted by the town, full authority as agents of the town to institute and prosecute suits or other proceedings in the name of the town before any tribunal, to appear and repre- sent or defend the town before any tribunal in all suits and other proceedings against the town or in which the town has an interest, to employ counsel for the purpose afore- said and for other purposes when it may be expedient to do so, and to take all necessary and proper measures for the protection of the interests and rights of the town.


Sect. 3. If the town shall, at any meeting called for the purpose, choose a committee on claims, such committee shall have and exercise exclusively all the powers and duties conferred upon the selectmen by the two preceding sections.


ARTICLE VII.


REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS BY THE TOWN.


Section 1. The annual reports of the town officers, boards and committees shall be prepared in form suitable for printing on or before the tenth day of February in each year. The selectmen shall cause such reports to be printed and distributed to the legal voters of the town seven days at least before the annual meeting.


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Sect. 2. The selectmen shall cause to be printed and bound each year with the annual reports of the town offi- cers, boards and committees, a copy of the records of the town meetings during the preceding year; a statement of all devices, bequests and donations to the town during the preceding year; a list of all laws of the commonwealth accepted by the town during the year ; all by-laws adopted by the town since the preceding annual report; copies of the laying out, alteration, locating anew or discontinuance of any highway or townway within the limits of the town during the preceding year ; and a statement of all outstand- ing bonds, notes and obligations of the town for the pay- ment of money.


Sect. 3. The selectmen shall from time to time cause to be printed a sufficient number of copies of the by-laws of the town and shall incorporate therewith a list of the laws of the commonwealth which have been accepted by the town.


ARTICLE VIII.


TRUANTS.


Section 1. Any minor being an habitual truant, and any child between the ages of seven and fifteen years found wandering about the streets or public places within the · town having no lawful occupation or business, not attend- ing school, and growing up in ignorance, and such children as persistently violate the reasonable rules and regulations of the public schools, may upon conviction thereof be com- mitted to the Middlesex County Truant School at Chelms- ford, Mass., or to any other place provided by the town within its limits, for confinement, instruction, and discipline.


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ARTICLE IX.


PUBLIC REGULATIONS.


Section 1. No person shall coast upon any public street or part thereof after the selectmen have posted a notice prohibiting coasting upon such street or part thereof.


Sect. 2. No person, unless authorized by law, shall break or dig up any part of any street without a written permit therefor from the selectmen. Every person who after obtaining such permit shall obstruct or render unsafe any public street, shall guard the same by a proper fence or railing, and by lights during the night time, subject to the approval of the selectmen. Such permit may be revoked at any time.


Sect. 3. No person shall be or remain in any doorway, or upon any stairs, doorstep, portico or other projection from any house or building, or upon or against any wall or fence on or near any street or public place, after having been requested by the owner or any occupant of the prem- ises or by any constable or police officer to remove there- from.


Sect. 4. No person shall make, write, print, paint, cut or post any indecent or obscene marks, words, figures or signs upon any fence, building, post, tree or other object exposed to public view.


Sect. 5. No person shall wilfully injure, mar, deface or destroy any fence, signboard, guideboard, lamp-post, lamp or lantern in any street or public place, nor extinguish any street light, nor extinguish or remove any light placed to denote an obstruction or a defect in any public street or way, without proper authority to do so.


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Sect. 6. Any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this article shall forfeit and pay, for each offense, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars."


Which said By-Laws being seen and understood by the Court, are on this nineteenth day of June, A. D. 1897, approved.


In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy of record, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1897.


RALPH M. SMITH, Ass't Clerk.


INDEX


Town Officers, 1921


PAGE 3-5


Proceedings of Town Meetings, 1921


7-17


Town Clerk's Report


18-23


Selectmen's Report .


24-31


Recommendations for Appropriations


25


Auditor's Report


32


Expenditures for the Year


33-49


Collector of Taxes .


64


Report of Assessors


65-80


Treasurer's Report .


81


Report of the Cemetery Commissioners .


62


Report of Town Treasurer in acc't Cemetery Commissioners


63


Report of Commissioner of Sinking Fund


51


Report of Treasurer Commissioners' Trust Funds


52-59


Report of Treasurer Bemis Lecture Fund


50


Report of Water Commissioners


82-84


Report of Inspector of Animals


94


Report of Animals Slaughtered .


95


Report of Fire Engineers


88


Report of Superintendent of Streets


89-91


Report of Tree Warden .


50


Report of Board of Health


93


Lincoln Town Nurse


96


Report of Trustees of Lincoln Public Library


98


Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library Library Statistics


99


List of Accessions to Library


10!


School Committee


110


School Calendar


111


Report of. School Committee


112


School Expenditure


116


Report of Superintendent


117


Warrant of 1922


123


By-Laws


129


100


School Reports


109


REPORT OF THE OFFICERS


OF THE


TOWN OF LINCOLN


FOR THE YEAR 1922


ALSO THE REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL AND OTHER COMMITTEES FOR THE YEAR 1922


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TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1922-1923


Town Clerk. WILLIAM C. PEIRCE


Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.


CHARLES S. SMITH (Chairman)


Term expires 1924


JOHN F. FARRAR


66 1925


ROBERT D. DONALDSON


66


1923


Board of Health.


GEORGE G. TARBELL


Term expires 1924


MARTIN M. WELCH


66


1925


ROBERT D. DONALDSON


66 1923


Assessors.


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WILLIAM H. SHERMAN (Chairman)


Term expires 1923


WILLIAM C. PEIRCE


1925


HERBERT G. FARRAR


66 66 1924


Treasurer. C. LEE TODD




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