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EDUCATION
Article 109. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the sup- port of the Public Schools.
Article 110. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the pur-
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chase or taking by eminent domain of land for school purposes as recommended by the Sites Committee.
Article 111. To see if the Town will vote to au- thorize and instruct the Selectmen to sell at auction or private sale the one room portable school building and the two-room portable school building located in the rear of the Noah Torrey School, or take any action rel- ative thereto.
Article 112 ... To see if the Town will raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, and equipping an addition to the Abraham Lincoln School, and authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums in accordance with the provisions of any General or Spe- cial Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such pur- poses, or to take any action relative thereto.
Article 113. To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, and equipping a grade school building in that part of South Braintree known as Braintree Highlands, and authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row all or any part of said sums in accordance with the provisions of any General or Special Act authoizing the Town to borrow for such purposes, or to take any ac- tion relative thereto.
Article 114. To see if the Town will vote to re- scind so much of the vote under Article 102 of the An- nual Town Meeting of 1927 as pertained to the taking by eminent domain of the land in East Braintree ad- .joining the Thomas Watson School.
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CEMETERY
Article 115. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the care and pro- tection of the Plain Street Cemetery and for the laying out and grading of lots in said cemetery.
Article 116. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salary of a superintendent of the Plain Street Cemetery.
Article 117. To see if the Town will vote to ac- cept the bequest of $100.00 provided for. in the will of the late Mrs. Hannah R. Hollis for the care of a lot in the Elm Street Cemetery.
Article 118. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the repairing and restoring of the Burying Ground situated on Dyer Hill, so-called.
Article 119. To see if the Town will vote to pur- chase or take by eminent domain land on Plain Street opposite the present cemetery for cemetery purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 120. To see if the Town will vote to pur- chase or take by eminent domain the Vinton Tomb, so- called.
INTEREST-MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS
Article 121. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- sary for the payments due on the Municipal Indebted- ness and for the payment of interest on Town debt and on loans in anticipation of revenue.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Article 122. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellan- eous expenses.
Article 123. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to assist Post 87, G. A. R., Braintree Post 86, American Legion, and Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, Lennon-Murray Post No. 923, in defraying expenses of Memorial Day.
Article 124. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the insurance un- der the Employees' Compensation Act.
Article 125. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to pay pre- miums on insurance policies of fire and liability.
Article 126. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to paint the exterior of the Legion Building on Washington Street; and for repairs to said building.
Article 127. To see if the Town will vote to abandon a strip of land approximately 450 feet long on the southerly side of Washington Street, South Braintree, running southwesterly from Hancock Street to Washington Street, and formerly used as a town way.
Article 128. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to have printed and published in book form (similar to the one used in Mil- ton) the assessed value of all properties in the Town of Braintree as the same appears in the Assessors' books for the years 1926 and 1927; also, that the Assessors be allowed to choose an assistant, if necessary, from each precinct to complete the work of compiling and distributing the same, not later than October 15, 1928.
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Article 129. To see if the Town will vote to dis- continue the office of Highway Surveyors on the ex- piration of the terms of office of the Highway Survey- ors elected at the 1928 Annual Town Meeting. (This Article inserted by vote of the Town at the 1927 An- nual Town Meeting.)
Article 130. To see if the Town will vote to in- struct the Selectmen to prepare a plan for dividing the. Town into five convenient voting precincts, and submit said plan for the approval of the Town at a special meeting to be called for the purpose not later than. ninety days prior to the 1929 Annual Town Meeting. (This Article inserted by vote of the Town at the 1927 Annual Town Meeting.)
Article 131. To see if the Town will vote to ac -. cept Section 25 A, Chapter 41 of the General Laws, thus empowering the Assessors to appoint assistants. with powers equal to their own. (This Article inserted by vote of the Town at the 1927 Annual Town Meet -. ing).
Article 132. To see if the Town will vote to ac- cept land on Hollingsworth Avenue, formerly the prop -. erty of Elsie M. Hollingsworth, and recently deeded by her to the Town.
Article 133. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for dredging the channel of the Fore River, or take any action relative- thereto.
PLANNING BOARD
Article 134. To see if the Town will vote to ac -- cept the report of the Zoning Committee, appointed in accordance with the vote of the Town under Article 109 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1926, and adopt
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the Zoning by-laws as recommended in said report, or- take any action with reference thereto.
Article 135. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the ex -- penses of the Planning Board in the preparation of a comprehensive town plan, and for the general expenses .. of the Planning Board.
Article 136. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 2, Article VII of the Town By-Laws for. the purpose of changing the length of term of office of members of the Planning Board, so that the members. of said Board shall hold office for a term of three years, and in such a manner that the terms of not more than . two members shall expire in any one year.
UNCLASSIFIED
Article 137. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Engineering.
Article 138. To see what sums of money, in ad -- dition to that appropriated under any other article, the- Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Land Dam- ages resulting from taking of any land for highway" purposes.
Article 139. To see what action the Town will take under Article XLVIII of the amendments to the constitution covering the proper initiative, namely II, Section 3, for "An Act to permit certain sports and games on the Lord's Day."
Article 140. To see if the Town will vote to in- struct the Selectmen to discontinue publishing in the Town Report, the Warrant for the Town Meeting for- the following year, and to receive articles for insertion in the Warrant for any Annual Town Meeting up to, and including 14 days prior to the date fixed for said. Annual Town Meeting.
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Article 141. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Samuel A. Henderson, a call fireman in the Braintree Fire Depart- ment, for loss of services due to an injury received in the performance of his duty.
Article 142. To see if the Town will vote to in- struct its Selectmen to provide suitable Parking and Traffic Regulations for the highways of the Town.
Article 143. To see if the Town will adopt the following as a by-law, viz .- Authority is hereby grant- ed, so far as the Town can legally do so, to the present and each succeeding Board of Selectmen when duly elected and qualified, to make such rules and regula- tions from time to time as they may deem best for the control and use of any and all animals, and any and all motor vehicles, and all other kinds of vehicles, in and upon any and all streets and ways within the Town limits, with penalties for violations of such rules and. regulations, or any of them.
Article 144. To see if the Town will vote to elect. its Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, and Highway Surveyors, for a term of three years, under the pro- visions of Section 1, Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
Article 145. To see if the Town will vote to choose a committee to take all necessary preliminary steps so that the limited Town Meeting form of gov- ernment may be placed before the citizens of the Town of Braintree for adoption, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 146. To see if the Town will vote to ac- cept as a town way, Storrs Avenue, running in a wester- ly direction 400 feet from Cochato Road, as laid out by- the Selectmen in 1922.
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Article 147. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws by adding the following articles, as follows :
The following specifications are required of de- velopers who build streets which they desire to have approved by the Board of Survey.
Section 1. Removal of all sub-soil for the full length and width of the street and to a depth of at least 6 inches, and more if necessity requires, none of which shall be used as filling. All cuts, fills, lines and grades, shall be complied with according to the plans approved by and as directed by the Board of Survey. The owner shall notify the Superintendent of Highways «previous to beginning work.
Section 2 .. The necessary drainage to take care of surface water, size of pipes and catch basins are to be determined by the Superintendent of Highways, also the necessary depth for said pipes shall be determined by him.
Section 3. All tree stumps and stones over six :inches in diameter, and weak spots, such as clay, sand pockets or any other materials which have a tendency to weaken the sub-grade, shall be removed to a depth of at least 1 foot (12 inches). The sub-grade shall be filled in with a first class coarse gravel to a depth of . six inches below the finished grade.
Section 4. The finished grade on said streets shall be built of six inches of good binding gravel, and rolled under water, leaving a good, hard surface, after rolling with steam roller of at least 10,000 lbs.
Section 5. SIDEWALKS : Sidewalks shall con- sist of 12 inches in depth and full width of binding .gravel, of which the finished grade shall be three inches above the finished center line of the street, and shall
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be seven feet wide from gutter line to building line. No stones more than 1/2 inch shall be left in the finished grade after raking and rolling by roller of at least 500 lbs. in weight.
Article 148. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 6 of the General Laws, as a Re- serve Fund.
You are directed to serve this warrant by posting true and attested copies thereof in three public places in each voting Precinct in said Town of Braintree, ten days at least before said fifth day of March, 1928, and by publishing the same once each week for two succes- ¡ sive weeks in The Braintree Observer, the first publica- tion to be at least eight days before said meeting.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this war- rant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk be- fore said meeting.
Given under our hands at Braintree, this seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.
JONATHAN W. FRENCH, EDWARD AVERY, HORACE T. CAHILL, Selectmen of Braintree.
.A true copy. Attest :
JOHN J. HEANEY,
Constable of Braintree.
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Braintree, Mass., February 11, 1928 ...
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I hereby notify" and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree,. qualified as expressed therein, to meet at the time and. place mentioned for the purposes therein mentioned ...
JOHN J. HEANEY,
Constable of Braintree ..
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Town Officers for 1927
Moderator WILLIAM F. ROGERS
Town Clerk
Town Treasurer
M. MAGDALENE VINING
OTIS B. OAKMAN.
Selectmen, Highway Surveyors and Board of Public Welfare JONATHAN W. FRENCH
EDWARD AVERY
HORACE. T. CAHILL
Assessors
WALTER O. HASTINGS (Resigned)
Term expires 1928:
CHARLES S. HANNAFORD
WALTER B. SKINNER
Term expires 1929 Term expires 1930
JAMES E. FOLSOM (To fill unexpired term of Mr. Hastings.)
Auditors
RALPH W. ARNOLD HERBERT W. CURTIS; RALPH W. MAGLATHLIN
Water Commissioners and Commissioners of Sinking Fund
WILLIAM C. HARRISON (Deceased)
GEORGE H. WALKER
Term expires 1928: Term expires 1929
CHARLES B. CUMMINGS Term expires 1930.
THOMAS E. SEARS (To fill unexpired term of Mr .. Harrison)
Municipal Light Board
CHARLES T. CRANE NORTON P. POTTER ALEXANDER A. CARSON
Term expires 1928:
Term expires 1929 Term expires 1930
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Board of Health
JOSEPH G. BAILEY PERCY T. RICHARDS
HARRY H. BOUSQUET
Term expires 1928:
Term expires 1929, Term expires 1930;
School Committee
C. FREDERICK TARBOX
Term expires 1930
FRANKLIN H. MERRIAM
Term expires 1930.
RALPH W. WOODSUM
Term expires 1929
CARRIE F. LORING (Deceased)
Term expires 1929-
ALIDA N. STEVENS
Term expires 1928
HENRY D. HIGGINS
Term expires 1928-
HARRIET B. KIMBALL (To fill unexpired term of Mrs. Loring.).
Trustees of the School Funds Term Expires 1928 1
HERBERT F. KNEELAND
(Deceased)
ELMER E. ABERCROMBIE OTIS B. OAKMAN
ARTHUR L. HALE
HENRY F. ARNOLD
WILLIAM H. HEATH
JOHN HARDING
Park Commissioners
JOHN N. RODGERS ALBERT F. HOLLIS
LAWRENCE A. TRAINOR
Term expires 1930- Term expires 1929 Term expires 1928.
Trustees of Thayer Public Library
ALBERT E. AVERY HERBERT F. KNEELAND (Deceased.). JOHN W. HARDING
AMY C. MANNING
Term expires 1929-
Term expires 1929+
Tax Collector, OTIS B. OAKMAN
Tree Warden, CLARENCE R. BESTICK
Treasurer, OTIS B. OAKMAN
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Constables
HARVEY J. ANNIS
WALTER S. BELYEA
CLARENCE R. BESTICK
JOHN P. SHAY
JEREMIAH F. GALLIVAN THOMAS SLAVIN
CHRISTOPHER M. GARLAND W. GORDON STACKHOUSE'
CHARLES S. HANNAFORD
JOHN J. HEANEY
HARRY F. VINTON AUGUSTUS T. WENTWORTH
MARK HENNEBURY
Surveyors of Wood and Weighers of Hay
CHARLES G. SHEPPARD
WILFORD F. WOODSUM. FRED W. PERCY
Measurers of Lumber
HERBERT W. BORDEN SHELLEY A. NEAL. CHARLES O. MILLER
Planning Board
THERON I. CAIN J. CALEB JUSTICE JOHN W. ILLINGWORTH MERTON A. TURNER. WALLACE W. WILSON
Officers Appointed Police JOHN J. HEANEY, Chief
AUGUST JOHNSON
JOHN P. SHAY
N. ERIC NELSON
WALTER S. BELYEA
HARVEY J. ANNIS EARLE A. PRARIO
CHRISTOPHER M. GARLAND GEORGE L. NOVELLINE
EDWARD D. CAHILL
EVERETT A. BUKER
Measurer of Leather, EDWARD H. DRINKWATER
Field Drivers
THOMAS SLAVIN CHARLES W. MATTHEWS:
Fence Viewers
THOMAS CROKE ALBERT QUALEY
HARRY C. LAKE
AUGUST JOHNSON
N. ERIC NELSON
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Fire Department
FRED A. TENNEY, Chief HARRY T. SEARS, Deputy Chief
Superintendent of Fire Alarm, FRED B. LAWRENCE
Board of Registrars
WILLIAM ALLEN HERBERT STACKHOUSE W. CHESTER CONNELL
"Sealer of Weights and Measures, CHARLES S. HANNAFOFRD Inspector of Animals, WALTER J. MATTIE
Assistant Inspector of Animals, ALFRED H. HOLBROOK
Inspector of Meats and Provisions, HARRY F. VINTON Inspector of Plumbing, J. EDWARD LUDDEN Forest Warden, FRED A. TENNEY
Local Moth Superintendent, WILLIAM J. McCUSKER
Burial Agent, CHARLES S. HANNAFORD
Superintendent of Braintree Home, JAMES T. CHRISTIAN
Superintendent of Streets, FRED AUSTERBURY
Pound Keeper, JAMES T. CHRISTIAN
Inspector of Wires, AUGUSTUS T. WENTWORTH
Appropriation Committee
CHARLES 'S. MARSHALL JOSEPH LANDERS
J. ARTHUR HILLIER
CHARLES W. LAING
ALBERT E. BENTHAM BERT H. REED
CHARLES O. MILLER
WALTER E. THOMPSON
WALLACE H. PRATT
ROBERT E. WHITMAN
WILLIAM D. AITKEN J. H. MAXWELL
GEORGE H. HAMBLETT HERBERT A. HOLDER JAMES H. CORRIGAN
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INDEX
Accountant's Report 278
Assessor's Report 121
Balance Sheet 313
Births in 1927 57
Board of Health, Report of 109
Deaths in 1927
77
Dental Clinic, Report of
95
Dog License Account
56
Electric Light Department, Report of
257
Expenditures
284
Fire Department, Report of
101
Funded Debt of Town
93
Friendly Aid Association 95
Highway Department, Report of 323
Hunters' License Account 56
Inspector of Animals, Report of 118
Inspector of Animals, Report of Assistant
119
Inspector of Meats, Report of 118
Inspector of Milk, Report of 321
Inspector of Plumbing, Report of 117
Inspector of Buildings, Report of 120
Jury List 337
Marriages of 1927 66
Park Commissioners, Report of Board of 253
Penniman School Addition, Building Com. Report 322
Planning Board, Report of 247
Police Department, Report of 125
375
Recapitulation Table 316
Receipts 278
School Committee, Report of
131
School Buildings Committee, Financial Report 183, 195
School Buildings Committee, Report of 220
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of 275
Selectmen, Report of 278
Tax Collector's Report 83
Thayer Public Library, Report of Trustee of 269
Town Clerk's Report 3
Town Officers for 1927
370
Treasurer's Report 85
Tuberculosis, Follow up work, Report of
97
Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1928 342
Water Commissioners, Report of 225
Welfare Worker 98.
RULES AND DIRECTIONS IN CASE OF FIRE.
To give an alarm of fire, open door, pull hook down and let go; then shut door, stay at box and direct the fire- men to the fire.
Second alarm is to be given by the Chief or some one in authority. It is to be given by repeating the first.
Two Blows, fire all out.
Two Blows at 12.00, noon test.
Three Blows, Chief's call.
Four Blows, to open draw bridge. One Blow, calls lineman.
2-2-2, lost child call.
Box Test, at noon Saturdays.
Five Blows, woods fire South Braintree district.
Six Blows, woods fire Braintree district.
Seven Blows, woods fire East Braintree district.
Out-of-Town calls: Quincy 55; Weymouth 66, Randolph 77, Hol- brook 88. Vacancy of apparatus answering call to be covered by Squad A.
Do not pull box for woods fires, call Central Station.
No School Signal on stormy days, 3-3-3 will be sounded on the fire alarm; no session for all grades at 7:30 A. M. No session for first four grades 8:00; no session for all grades 11:30 ; no session for first four grades 12:30.
Chief's Res. Tel. 0016.
Central Fire Station, 0315.
East Braintree Station, 0750.
NUMBER AND LOCATION OF BOXES
Precinct 1.
41 Union and Middle Sts.
145
Fountain St.
42 Union and Washington Sts.
146
Plain and Grove Sts.
43 Pearl and Washington Sts.
147
Pond and Town Sts.
45 Pearl St., opposite Shoe Factory
-148
Franklin St. and Hollingsworth Ave.
47 Pond St. near Shepherd Ice House
441
Franklin St. and Central Ave.
48 Five Corners
51 Hancock St., and Highland Ave.
446
Monatiquot Rubber Co. (Priv.)
52 Washington St., Braintree Highlands
471
Pond and Granite Sts.
53
South and Washington Sts.
511
Peach and Liberty Sts.
54 Division St., Holbrook Line
531
143
Washington and Pond Sts.
Norfolk County Hospital (Pri- vate)
Precinct 2.
31
Elm and :Middle Sts. 131
Cedar and Pleasant Sts.
32 River and Middle Sts. 134
Washington and Common Sts.
34. Washington and Elm Sts. 135
West and Mt. Vernon Sts.
35 Washington and West Sts.
311
Elm St., Drinkwaters
36 Ash St. and Hollis Ave.
312
Holmes St.
37 Hollis Ave.
Washington St. opposite Mon-
321
Clevland and Harrison Aves.
atiquot School 351
Clark St.
Precinct 3.
21 Quincy Ave. and Hayward St. 125.
Liberty and Lisle Sts.
23 Quincy Ave. and Commercial St.
221
Haywood and Howard Sts.
Pleasant View Ave.
24 Elliot St.
225
Liberty St. (Rhines Green House)
25 Allen and Commercial Sts.
26 Allen and Shaw Sts.
: 226
Shaw St. and Cotton Ave.
27 Commercial St. 227
and Factory
Hobart and Prospect Sts.
Hill 231
28 Laing Bros., (Private)
29 Commercial and Elm Sts. 232
Union St., Cottage Hospital
123 Beechwood and Arthur Sts. 211
Edgemont Rd.
46 Hancock St., Hollingsworth
411
Liberty and Middle Sts.
442
Tremont St. and Hobart Ave.
444
Reclamation (Private)
481
West St., (Blue Hill Cemetery)
38
223
Commercial St. and Elm Knoll Rd.
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