USA > Massachusetts > Middlesex County > Lincoln > Town Report on Lincoln 1930-1934 > Part 23
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38
Location of Apparatus
Pump and Number 2 Combination Truck at Doherty's Garage, South Lincoln, and Number 3 Combination Truck at T. J. Dee's, North Lincoln.
Fires
Seventy-eight alarms have been answered. Pump and Number 2 Combination Truck responded to ten chimney, thirty-six grass and wood, three auto, four building and one out of town.
Number 3 Combination Truck responded to eighteen forest and grass, three chimney and three building.
135
Loss $15,600
The Fire Department succeeded in raising $85.00 with which they bought much needed equipment, rubber coats, hats and rubber boots.
M. H. DOHERTY, Chief, T. J. DEE, J. J. KELLIHER, H. G. FARRAR, A. J. DOUGHERTY, JR., H. S. COUSINS, SUMNER SMITH.
136
TREE WARDEN'S REPORT
The Tree Warden submits a brief report of the work done on the trees and against the gypsy and brown tail moths for the year ending December 31, 1932. The work has been carried on as in former years, removing dead trees, dead limbs, and limbs obstructing the highways, and also the cutting of brush and thinning on several of the roads was done this year where it interfered with public travel. As we have a good many miles of narrow roads in Lincoln, our work cannot be confined to any one section, but we do try to keep our highways passable and safe for the public.
The scarcity of the elm leaf beetle has been quite noticeable the past several years; however, we found it necessary this year to spray several of our large elms, with arsenate of lead, with very good results.
The method used in handling the gypsy moth was prac- tically the same as in past years - creosoting the egg clusters on trees along the roadsides and omitting again this year the spraying; however, in some parts of the Town we found a slight increase in the number of egg clusters in woodland from that of last year.
The total expenditure of this department for 1932 is $1,349.38. I recommend that $800.00 be appropriated for tree work and $500.00 for moth work this year.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN J. KELLIHER.
137
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE COMMITTEE
The year of 1932 has been a busy one in all branches of the nursing work. The total number of district calls was 948, divided as follows: 576 medical, 161 surgical, 119 child welfare, 30 maternity, and 62 Board of Health. In addition there was social welfare work to be done, and the regular school work to be carried on as usual. Twenty-three visits were made to the Sudbury schools.
Two changes which occurred during the year should be noted. Mrs. Dorothy Snelling resigned her position as nurse after seven years of efficient service, and the Town of Sudbury terminated its agreement for the use of our nurse in the Sudbury schools. Mrs. Marion N. Ober was elected in Mrs. Snelling's place, and has proved eminently satis- factory.
The committee had hoped to be able during the coming year to replace the nurse's car, which has given three years of service. It seems best, in the interests of economy, to ask for no appropriation for this purpose at the present time. We hope for better things next year.
Respectfully submitted,
EDITH B. FARRAR, ROLAND C. MACKENZIE, R. D. DONALDSON.
138
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS FOR 1932
To the Board of Selectmen:
I have inspected 52 barns and found 378 cows, 98 young cattle, 29 bulls, 36 sheep, and 10 goats. The barns are all in good condition. Four herds have been added to the number under State and Federal supervision, and practically all the rest of the milk raisers in Town have petitioned for the tuberculin test. It is hoped that the test will be given to the remaining herds by early spring.
I have inspected 14 piggeries and found 3,594 swine. I found the condition of the piggeries steadily improving. One reason, I think, is that the swine raisers fear that the Board of Health may revoke their permits to keep pigs if things are not kept up to the standard.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN F. FARRAR, Inspector of Animals.
139
REPORT OF THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE
In agriculture the principal work done with the dairymen was on the eradication of bovine tuberculosis. A general meeting was held for promoting this work and a petition cir- culated to have the cattle in the Town tested on the area test plan. Twenty farm visits were made to dairymen in promoting this work, and in addition assistance was given on dairy replacements, forage crops, and markets. Assistance was given those farmers who had to have an emergency test made of their herd in order to hold their milk market.
Fifteen farm visits were made to fruit growers and market gardeners, and a fruit meeting was held during the winter of interest to several local men.
There are three groups of homemakers in Lincoln carrying the homemaker's day project. Seventy women attended these group meetings, and as a result 464 new practices were adopted. These women passed information along to 376 others.
Twenty-six women attended the child guidance group meetings. The information was passed on to 37 women and 353 new practices were adopted.
A single meeting on furniture and its arrangement was held in South Lincoln.
Two members of the Extension staff have each spent two afternoons training the Girl Scouts for their homemaker's badge. The girls have been given help and suggestions on several different phases of homemaking.
An active 4-H Club Town Committee has brought the enrollment in Lincoln from 7 to 52 boys and girls, in clothing, garden, poultry, and canning clubs. Mrs. Guilbert Winchell
140
is chairman of the committee. Club leaders are Mrs. D. L. Hamilton, H. S. Cousins, Mrs. Guilbert Winchell, Mrs. M. Doherty; and other members of the Town Committee are Mrs. C. Shea, Mrs. Philip Snelling, Miss Bertha Bowles, and Miss Florence Wheeler, and Mr. H. L. Dean.
A tour to the best 4-H gardens in the Town was made by the garden club, some of whom also visited the Market Garden Field Station in Waltham.
All clubs exhibited at the Lincoln Fair.
Respectfully submitted by THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE.
141
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE LINCOLN LIBRARY
Your Trustees submit on the following pages the reports of the Treasurer and of the Librarian for the year ending December 31, 1932.
During the past year the interior of the library has been painted, the floors sanded and waxed, and certain repairs made on the roof, including a new copper valley on the north-east side. New window shades were purchased for the reading room and librarian's room, and new draperies for the reading room.
The re-cataloging of the non-fiction has been started and approximately one-third of this work has been finished. Your Trustees plan to complete another third during the coming year. We forsee no extraordinary expense ahead and ask for an appropriation of eight hundred and seventy-six dollars plus the dog tax for the year ensuing.
Respectfully submitted,
ANTHONY J. DOHERTY, JOHN F. FARRAR, DOROTHY B. HILL, C. LEE TODD, GEORGE G. TARBELL.
Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library for Year Ending December 31, 1932
Receipts
Expenditures
Balance in bank, January 1, 1932
$244 45
Check tax
$0 24
Income from Liberty Bonds
8 50
Water .
9 00
Income from Codman Fund
43 75
Telephone
29 52
Fines, etc., 1932
76 00
Light .
54 3
Dog Tax, Returned
392 29
Binding
73 71
Town Appropriation, Special
725 00
Supplies
83 54
Town Appropriation, Regular
FueÎ
207 80
Income from Trust Funds:
Magazines
72 65
George Russell Fund
$16 78
Books
334 25
George G. Tarbell Fund
126 78
Repairs
765 16
Abbie J. Stearns Fund
57 76
Receipts of 1931 to Town Treasurer .
98 00
Julia A. Bemis Fund
27 62
Income of Pierce Fund to Librarian .
45 00
John H. Pierce Fund
45 00
Cataloging .
200 00
Salary .
600 00
Total expenditures .
$2,573 17
Unexpended balance of appropriations
1 97
Bank balance, as of December 31, 1932
258 18
$2,833 32
$2,833 32
The Codman Fund is invested in five shares of Boston and Albany stock.
The Trustees also hold Liberty 414s to the amount
of $200. The securities are in the custody of the Town Treasurer.
JOHN F. FARRAR, Treasurer.
142
273 94
1,069 39
143
Library Circulation Statistics 1932
Number of volumes at beginning of year
10,770
Number of volumes added by purchase 184
Number of volumes added by gift
197
Number of volumes withdrawn
30
Number of volumes at end of year 11,121
Number of volumes of fiction loaned
5,607
Number of volumes of non-fiction loaned
1,643
Number of volumes of juvenile literature loaned
2,377
Number of periodicals loaned
1,098
Total circulation for the year
10,725
Per capita circulation
7
Number of days library was open
102
Average daily circulation 105
Number of volumes borrowed from other libraries 24
144
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NAMING THE ROADS OF LINCOLN
The committee appointed to recommend names for the streets of the Town felt that, to avoid confusion, old names and names established by usage should be kept as far as possible and that, for the guidance of strangers, the names of important roads should be continued for the greatest practi- cable distances. In studying the situation, the committee found that usage had developed in these ways, to a large extent, so that the principal needs seemed to be for uniform- ity and for authorizing what is already tradition in names. In a few cases only have changes in the use of roads raised problems.
The committee recommends the following names :
South Great Road, numbered Route 117, from the Concord line at Lee's Bridge to the Weston line.
North Great Road, numbered Route 2, from the Concord line to the Lexington line.
Concord-Wayland Road, numbered Route 27, from the Con- cord line to the Wayland line.
Old Concord Road, from the Concord-Wayland Road at Baker Bridge to the Concord-Wayland Road near St. Anne's Church.
Farrar Road, from the Concord-Wayland Road to the Oxbow Road.
Oxbow Road, from the Wayland line to the Wayland line, continuing the name given to the road in Wayland.
Old Sudbury Road, from the South Great Road near Haynes's Crossing (both ways) to the Wayland line.
Trapelo Road, from the centre of the town past the Library to the Waltham line.
145
Weston Road, from the center to the Weston line toward Silver Hill.
Station Road, from the centre, past the railroad station, across the South Great Road, to the Wayland line.
Sandy Pond Road, from the centre, past Sandy Pond, to the Concord line.
Bedford Road, from the centre, past the Town Hall and the Shea and Fleming houses, to the North Great Road.
Virginia Road, from the North Great Road, opposite the end of Bedford Road, past Hartwell Farm, to the Concord line.
Old Bedford Road, from the Bedford Road, past the site of the old North Schoolhouse, to the Virginia Road at the McHugh house.
Bedford Lane, from the North Great Road near the Keizer place, across the Virginia Road, to the Bedford line.
Cambridge Turnpike, from the Concord line, past the Loring house, to the Lexington line.
Brooks Road, from the Cambridge Turnpike at the Brooks house to the North Great Road at the Concord line. Lexington Road, from the Trapelo Road at the three-cornered cemetery to the Cambridge Turnpike at the Loring house, then from the Cambridge Turnpike at the Farqua- har place to the Lexington line.
Old Lexington Road, from Bedford Road at the foot of the Common, past the Donaldson house, to the Lexington Road.
Library Lane, from the Bedford Road, behind the Library, to the Trapelo Road.
Mill Street, from the Lexington Road near the Farquahar place to the North Great Road.
Nelson Road, from the North Great Road at the Nelson place to the Lexington line.
146
Page Road, from the Trapelo Road to the Cambridge Turn- pike, past the Page place.
Winter Street, from the Trapelo Road, past the Coane house (both ways) to the Waltham line.
Silver Hill Road, from the Trapelo Road, past the Herman house, to the Weston Road.
Conant Road, from the Weston Road, past the Browning house, to the Weston line.
Old County Road, from the Weston line near the junction with Conant Road, past the Cambridge Basin, to the Lexing- ton line near the junction with the Cambridge Turnpike. Tower Road, from Station Road at the Doctor Chapin house to the Weston line.
Peirce Hill Road, from the Tower Road at the Peirce houses to the Station Road.
McIntosh Lane, from the Station Road at the Hodges house to the Storrow Farm Road.
Baker Bridge Road, from the Sandy Pond Road, past Stor- row Farm, to the Concord-Wayland Road.
Walden Road, from the Concord-Wayland Road, past the Codman place to the South Great Road.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY L. WHEELER, GILBERT WINCHELL, ANDREW J. DOUGHERTY, JR.
147
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS
Proposed By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln
ARTICLE I
Town Meetings
Section 1. The annual town meeting shall be held on the first Monday of March in each year at 7.30 P.M., for the con- sideration of all business except the election of such officers and the determination of such matters as by law are required to be elected or determined by ballot. The election of such officers and the determination of such matters as by law are required to be elected or determined by ballot shall take place on the following Saturday, when the polls shall be open from 12 M. until 7 P.M. or until such later hour as the meeting may by vote determine.
Sec. 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 with- in the town, and in one other public place within the town.
Procedure at Town Meetings
Sec. 3. Only voters shall be admitted to the place of meet- ing or to a defined portion thereof, and the check list shall be used in the enforcement of such order. This order shall be enforced by the Moderator.
Sec. 4. All votes, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be taken in the first instance by a voice vote. If the Modera- tor is in doubt as to the result of the vote, or if seven registered voters immediately doubt the vote, the Moderator shall call either for a standing vote or for a vote by ballot or by use of the check list as the Moderator may determine.
148
Sec. 5. When a question is before the meeting, the follow- ing motions, to wit:
To adjourn,
To lay on the table,
For the previous question,
To postpone to a time certain,
To commit, recommit, or refer,
To amend,
To postpone indefinitely,
shall be received and shall have precedence in the foregoing order; and the first three shall be decided without debate.
Sec. 6. On proposed amendments involving sums of money, the larger or largest amount shall be put to the question first, and an affirmative vote thereon shall be a negative vote on any smaller amount.
Sec. 7. When a report of a committee is placed in the hands of the Moderator, it shall be deemed to be properly before the meeting for its action thereon, and a vote to accept the same shall discharge the committee; for the adoption of the recommendations of the committee, however, a specific vote shall be required. No appropriation shall be made under the report of any committee of the town until the matter has been considered and reported upon by the Finance Committee.
ARTICLE II Finances
Section 1. The town treasurer shall have the custody of all funds belonging to the town, including trust funds, except funds for which other provision is made by law. Except as provided in Section 5 in this Article, he shall pay no money from the treasury except upon a warrant signed by a majority of the Selectmen, stating the account to which the same is chargeable. Such warrant shall be sufficient authority to the treasurer to pay the same, and the payment thereof shall
149
discharge him from all liability on account of the money so paid.
Sec. 2. 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.
Sec. 3. A majority of the water commissioners, school committee, or of any board, or committee, and any officer having charge of the expenditure of an appropriation, shall 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 ex- amined 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.
Sec. 4. No money except State and County taxes, and principal and interest of town notes or bonds, final judgments of courts and money payable to the commissioners of sinking funds, shall be paid from the town treasury except upon a warrant therefor signed by a majority of the selectmen.
Sec. 5. The treasurer shall file and safely keep all approved 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. Except as otherwise provided by law, the treasurer shall have custody of deeds, bonds, contracts, insurance policies, and other similar documents owned by the town -
150
except that the bond given by the treasurer to the town shall be in the custody of the selectmen.
Sec. 6. No warrant shall be issued by the Selectmen unless there is sufficient appropriation to pay the same, except for money payable to the commissioners of sinking funds.
Sec. 7. The selectmen and treasurer respectively shall make a record, in a book kept for the purpose, of each appro- priation, with a list of the drafts drawn against such appro- priation, and shall make a record of all bonds, notes, scrip or other evidence of indebtedness of the town, signed or coun- tersigned by them.
Sec. 8. When the bills contracted or approved by any board, committee, or officer have exhausted the entire appro- priation for such board, committee, or officer, they shall incur no further expenditure, except in such cases where such ex- penditure may be required by law ; and it shall be the duty of each board, committee or officer before the close of the finan- cial year to approve all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls chargeable to their appropriation. During the interval between the thirty-first day of December in each year and the time of making the next annual appropriations, town officers authorized to make expenditures may incur liability in carry- ing on the work intrusted to them and payments therefor shall be made from the town treasury from any available funds therein, and the same shall be charged against the next annual appropriation. Such liability and expenditure incurred for any purpose shall not exceed in any month the sums spent for similar purposes during any one month of the preceding year; and, provided, further, that said officers may expend in any one month for any new officer or board lawfully created an amount not exceeding one-twelfth of the estimated cost for the current year. All interest and debt falling due in said period shall be paid.
Sec. 9. Unless the town shall expressly otherwise vote,
151
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 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 annual income from such extension, to amount annually to five per centum of the total cost thereof.
Sec. 10. There shall be a Finance Committee composed of three voters of the Town who shall serve without pay and shall not, while serving on said committee, hold any other Town office. Within thirty days after the adjournment of the Town Meeting at which this By-Law is adopted, the Moderator shall appoint three persons to serve on said Com- mittee, one person for a term of three years, one person for a term of two years, and one person for a term of one year. Thereafter the Moderator shall appoint, within thirty days after the adjournment of every Annual Town Meeting, one person to serve on said Committee for a period of three years. The members of the Committee shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified, and any vacancy shall be filled by the remaining members of the Committee and the Moderator. The Committee shall choose a chairman and a secretary and shall, prior to the Annual Town Meeting, confer with the Selectmen for consideration of the annual budget, and may hold public hearings. The Committee shall consider all questions that require the expenditures of money and shall consult with all boards, committees, or officers on their respective annual or special requests for appropria- tions. The committee shall make reports and recommenda- tions in the Annual Town Report or by special report on any question brought before the Town at a Town Meeting other than the Annual Town Meeting.
152
Sec. 11. Within forty-eight hours after the dissolution or adjournment without day of any Town Meeting, the Town clerk shall transmit to the Selectmen, to the town treasurer, to the auditor, and to the assessors respectively, a certified copy of all votes appropriating money or authorizing the expenditure of money or otherwise affecting the finances of the Town, and within the same period the town clerk shall transmit to all other town officers or committees a certified copy of any vote of the Town affecting their respective powers or duties.
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 :
Sec. 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.
Sec. 3. The town clerk shall have the custody of the Town seal.
ARTICLE IV Powers and Duties of Officers
Section 1. The Selectmen shall have general direction and management of the property and affairs of the Town in all matters not otherwise provided by the law of the Common- wealth or by these by-laws.
153
Sec. 2. 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.
Sec. 3. 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 aforesaid, and for other purposes when it may be expedient to do so, and to take all necessary and proper measures for the protec- tion of the interests and rights of the Town.
Sec. 4. 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 con- ferred upon the selectmen by the two preceding sections.
Sec. 5. 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. 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.
Sec. 6. The collector of taxes shall cause to be printed upon each tax bill a statement of the law relative to the date when taxes are payable, the rate of interest charged on unpaid taxes, and the valuation upon which such tax is based, and, in case a tax bill covers two or more parcels of real estate, the tax bill shall be itemized by the assessors to show the tax on each parcel which shall be identified.
Sec. 7. No officer or board of the Town shall make any contract on behalf of the Town in which such officer or any
154
member of such board is directly or indirectly financially interested, except competitive contracts.
Sec. 8. Except in cases of public calamity or extreme necessity, whenever any work is required to be done for the Town and a contract for labor or materials, or both is to be made in behalf of the Town, for an amount exceeding the sum of $500.00, the town officer, having the matter in charge, shall solicit proposals for the same from two or more reliable parties, regularly engaged or employed in such work or busi- ness, or shall publicly advertise for bids, but no contract shall be split, separated or divided for the purpose of reducing the amount thereof below said sum of $500.00.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.