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JEREMIAH F. GALLIVAN AUGUST JOHNSON JOHN P. SHAY PHILIP J. KROHN GEORGE N. NORDAHL THOMAS F. O'MALLEY
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Measurer of Leather, EDWARD H. DRINKWATER
Field Drivers
CLARENCE R. BESTICK
CHARLES W. MATTHEWS JOSEPHUS SAMPSON
Engineers of Fire Department
J. SAMUEL HILL
FRED A. TENNEY FRANK O. WHITMARSH
Superintendent of Fire Alarm, FRED B. LAWRENCE
Board of Registrars
WILLIAM ALLEN
Term expires 1917
CHARLES B. CUMMINGS
WALTER N. MCKEAN
Term expires 1916 Term expires 1915
Sealer of Weights and Measures, CHARLES S. HANNAFORD Inspector of Animals, JOSEPHUS SAMPSON
Inspector of Milk, F. HERBERT GILE
Inspector of Meat and Provisions, WILLIS H. MARTIN
Inspector of Plumbing, J. EDWARD LUDDEN
Forest Warden, JAMES M. CUTTING
Local Moth Superintendent, CLARENCE R. BESTICK
Superintendent of Plain Street Cemetery, JAMES M. CUTTING Burial Agent, HENRY A. MONK
Superintendent of Braintree Home, DANIEL JAMES
Keeper of Lockup, DANIEL JAMES
Pound Keeper, DANIEL JAMES
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Braintree. Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective Precincts, to wit :
Polling place in Precinct No. 1, Town Hall.
Polling place in Precinct No. 2, Hose House, Hollis Ave- nue.
Polling place in Precinct No. 3, Hose House, Allen Street.
On Monday the first day of March, 1915, at five forty- five o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the Wardens of their respective Precincts their votes on the offi- cial ballot for a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, three Select- men, one member of the Board of Assessors for a term of three years, three Overseers of the Poor, three Highway Surveyors, three Auditors, three Fence Viewers, a Tax Collector, a Tree Warden, two members of the Board of School Committee for a term of three years, one member of the Board of Health for a term of three years, one Water Commissioner, and Commis- sioner of Sinking Funds for a term of three years, one Elec- tric Light Commissioner for a term of three years, two Trustees for the Thayer Public Library for a term of two years and fifteen Constables.
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town ?"
The polls shall be opened at five forty-five o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at one-thirty o'clock P. M.
You are further directed to notify and warn said inhabi- tants qualified to vote as aforesaid to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree on Monday, the eighth day of March, 1915, at seven and one-half o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
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Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To choose all other Town Officers except those clected by ballot.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Article 4. To see if the Town will hold its Treasurer harmless on his bond from any loss which may arise from the failure of any National Bank or Trust Company in which the funds of the Town may be on deposit, said Bank or Trust Company being designated by the Selectmen.
Article 5. To hear and act upon the reports of the sev- eral boards of Town Officers and of any committee, and to choose any committee the Town may think proper.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Article 6. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries of the Town Officers and the expenses of the several departments, including the bond of the Town Treasurer and the bond of the Tax Collec- tor
Article 7. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of Registration and Elections.
TOWN HALL.
Article 8. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support and maintenance of the Town Hall, and for the services of a Janitor.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Article 9. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries and expenses of its Police Department and for the necessary expenses re- quired for the enforcement of the law.
Article 10. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of Court ex- penses.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Article 11. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support and mainten- ance of the Fire Department, and for hydrant service.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for extra pay of firemen.
Article 13. To see if the Town will raise and appropri- ate a sum of money for the purchase of new hose.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for painting hose wagon No. 3.
Article 15. To sce if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to build a concrete platform at Hose House No. 2, Hollis Avenue.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to purchase, or take the Union School and lot as a site for a Central Fire Station.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to build and furnish a Central Fire Station on the lot now occupied by the Union School.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to build a cen- tral fire station near the centre of the Town and raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 19. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support and maintenance of the Fire Alarm System.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for three new Fire Alarm boxes.
INSPECTION.
Article 21. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the sealing of weights and measures.
FORESTRY.
Article 22. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths, care of Trees and Forest Fires.
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HEALTH.
Article 23. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries and expenses of the Board of Health; also for Vital Statistics and for the In- spection of Milk, Animals, Slaughtering, Provisions and Plumbing, and care of dumps.
SANITATION.
Article 24. To see if the Town will build a drain on Mt. Vernon Avenue and Washington Street to the Sherbrooke Avenue drain and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 25. To see if the Town will build a drain on Rail- road Street and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to extend the drain on Franklin Street, from near Summer Street, to Azel Road, so-called, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
HIGHWAYS.
Article 27. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Highway Department, repairs of highways, town ways and bridges, also for repairs and building sidewalks, stone roads, removal of snow, watering and oiling streets, and street lighting; also for the purchase of a road roller.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars to be expended in accordance with petitions under Chapter 47 of the Revised Laws, Chapter 279 of the Acts of the year 1908 and Chapter 525 of the Acts of the year 1910 in the construction of Wash- ington Street from the Braintree and Holbrook town line to the bridge over the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.
Article 29. To see if the Town will accept the laying out as Town ways as made by the Selectmen, of Elmwood Avenue, Sumner Avenue, Sumner Street, also the parts of Academy Street and Hobart Avenue west of Tremont Street.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to relocate that part of Pearl Street beginning at a point about 800 feet west of the bridge over Monatiquot river and running to Liverty Street.
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Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen of Pros- pect Street, so-called, leading from Fountain Street to a point about four hundred feet east, and raise and appropri- ate a sum of money for the same ; also change the name of said street.
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laving out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen, a con- tinuation of Fountain Street for about two hundred feet south.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen, of Park Avenue, so-called, leading from Washington Street to the east- orly line of Putnam Avenue, so-called, and raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the same.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400 to bring Standish Avenue to a grade made by the town and corresponding to the granolithic sidewalk now laid.
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out of Webster Road, so-called, as a Town way as made by the Selectmen, leading easterly from Washington Street near the Hollis School and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out as made by the Selectmen, of a Town way from Robinson Avenue to Mt. Vernon Street and raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the same.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to take as a Town way a proposed street called Abbott Street, leading north from Storrs Avenue and crossing a proposed street called Prospect Street as shown on a plan numbered 3751 B fled in the Land Registration office in Boston.
Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laving out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen of Oak Street, leading north from Front Street and raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the same.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen, of Fair- mount Avenue, leading from Hayward Street to Somerville Avenue, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
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Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen, of Som- crville Avenue from Hillcrest Road to easterly end, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen, of Hill- crest Road from Somerville Avenue northerly to crest of hill, and raise and appropriate-a sum of money for the same.
Article 42. ` To see if the Town will vote to accept the laying out as a Town way as made by the Selectmen, of Dewey Road, leading from Quincy Avenue to Shaw Street.
Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to build a new bridge on Union Street over the Monatiquot river.
Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to build a cin- der or gravel sidewalk on each side of Union Street to extend from in front of the Braintree Home to in front of the prop- erty owned by Catherine B. Holbrook and raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the same.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for building a sidewalk from South Braintree village to Braintree village, or as much of such sidewalk as said appropriation will complete.
CHARITIES.
Article 46. To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the support of the Poor and the maintenance of the Braintree Home.
Article 47. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended under Chapter 763, Acts of the year 1913.
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS.
Article 48. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of State Aid and Soldiers' Burials, Military Aid and Soldiers' Relief.
EDUCATION.
Article 49. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Public Schools and for transporting pupils to and from same.
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Article 50. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for repairs upon the Hollis School.
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate $300.00 for grading work at the Abraham Lin- coln School
Article 52. To see what suns of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for enlarging and altering the Pond School.
Article 53. To see if the Town will vote to follow the recommendations of the School Board in regard to the dispo- sa! of the Union School property.
Article 54. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to complete the Penniman School hall.
Article 55. To see if the Town will authorize and re- quest the School Committee to include cooking and sewing, cither or both subjects, among the matters taught pupils in the public schools, and if so to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to defray the expense thereof, and to take any other action in regard thereto.
LIBRARY.
Article 56. To see what sums of money the Town will yote to raise and appropriate for the Thayer Public Library. for the, distribution of books and for the services of a Janitor.
Article 57. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 to be used for the support of a library in Precinct Three, provided there shall be furnished iu said Precinct, without cost to town, a building site and li- brary building, the building to cost not less than $5,000.
RECREATION.
Article 58. To see if the Town will elect a Board of Park Commissioners consisting of three persons and prescribe their term of office.
Article 59. To see if the Town will raise and appropri. ate the sum of $1,000 to be expended upon the Parks, Play- grounds, and Public Lands of the Town under the direction of the Park Commissioners, or otherwise.
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Article 60. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended en the Town Lands.
Article 61. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended on the Hollis Playground.
UNCLASSIFIED.
Article 62. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Miscellaneous Expenses.
Article 63. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to assist Post 87 G. A. R. in defraying expenses Memorial Day.
Article 64. To see what action the Town will take on account of the acceptance of Chapter 807 of the Acts of 1913, being an act to provide for compensating certain public em- ployees for injuries sustained in the course of their employ- ment, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 65. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money in accordance with Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1913, as a reserved fund for extraordinary ex- penditures.
Article 66. To see what action the Town will take to raise and appropriate $500.00 for the George Washington Memorial Building, Washington, D. C.
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT.
Article 67. To see if the Town will appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department the sum of forty- six hundred seventy and 62-100 ($4,670.62) dollars for the Depreciation Fund; the sum of six hundred sixty ($660.00) dollars for interest on bonds; the sum of four hundred thirty ($430.00) dollars for the Sinking Fund; the sum of five hundred three and 38-100 ($503.38) for street light extensions and the sum of three hundred ($300.00) dollars for the salaries of the Municipal Light Board.
Article 68. To see if the Town will appropriate the re- mainder of the income of the Electric Light Department, to- gether with the remaining balance of the income for 1914, for operating expenses, repairs, renewals and new con- struction.
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Article 69. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $30.50 for the installation of one street light at the corner of Prospect and Abbott Streets, and $9.00 for maintenance of same.
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Article 70. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000 for the extension of water mains from Holbrook line down Liberty Street as far as the house of S. F. Hawes, about 2,500 feet.
Article 71. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to extend the water main on Liberty Street from near the house of William Buker to a point near the house of Otto W. Schraeder.
Article 72. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the extension of the water main on Commercial Street to the Quincy line.
CEMETERY.
Article 73. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended on the Plain Street Cemetery.
INTEREST. MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS.
Article 74. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the payments due on the Municipal Indebtedness and for the payment of interest on Town Debt and on loans in anticipa- tion of revenue.
SINKING FUND.
Article 75. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the Electric Light and Water Loan Sinking Funds.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Article 76. To see what action the Town will take upon the question of the joint ownership between the Town and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, of the poles now erected or to be erected and used or to be used by both parties.
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Article 77. To see if the Town will vote to accept the Building Regulations or By-Laws submitted to the Town by the Committee on Building Regulations at the Annual Town Meeting in 1913.
Article 78. To see if the Town will vote to accept pro- visions of Chapter 65 of the Revised Laws and amendments thereto, relating to Hawkers and Pedlers.
Article 79. To see if the Town will appoint a Commit- tee to codify the Town By-Laws and report at some future meeting.
Article 80. To see what action the Town will take to allow boating and canoeing on Sunset Lake.
You are directed to serve this warrant by posting at- tested copies thereof in three public places in each Precinct in said Town of Braintree, seven days at least before said first day of March, 1915, and by publishing the same once in the Braintree Observer-Reporter and Braintree Bee.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk before the twenty-second day of February, 1915.
Given under our hands at Braintree this first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
HENRY M. STORM, GEORGE H. HOLBROOK, B. HERBERT WOODSUM, Selectmen of Braintree.
HORACE F. HUNT, Constable of Braintree.
A true copy. Attest :
Braintree, February 8, 1915.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I hereby notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as therein expressed, to meet at the time and place for the pur- poses therein mentioned.
HORACE F. HUNT,
Constable of Braintree.
INDEX
Animal Inspector's Report
184
Assessors' Report
61
Auditors' Report
134
Births in 1914
43
Board of Health, Report of
181
Braintree School Fund
128
Deaths in 1914
56
Dog License Account
42
Electric Light Department, Report of
166
Fire Department, Report of
144
French Trust
124
Funded Debt of the Town
129
Hunt Trust
123
Hunters' License Account
42
Insurance Account
133 211
Jury List
Library, Report of Trustees of Thayer
Marriages in 1914
126
Penniman Trust
125
Police Department
187
Recapitulation
108
School Committee, Report of
145
Sealer of Weights and Measures
140
Selectmen, Report of
71
Shade Tree and Moth Department
210
Sinking Funds Account
119
Tax Collector's Account
112
Town Clerk's Report
3
Town Officers
214
Treasurer's Report
113
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting of 1914 217
Water Commissioners, Report of 193
173 50
Municipal Light Board
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