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The polls will be opened at five forty-five o'clock in the forenoon, and will be closed at three o'clock in the afternoon.
You are further directed to notify and warn the said inhabitants qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree on Monday, the tenth day of March, 1930, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose all Town Officers, except those elected by ballot.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Article 3. To see if the Town will hold its Treasurer harmless on his bond for 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 4. To see if the Town will hold its Collector 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 report of the several boards of Town Officers, and any committee, and to choose any committee the Town may think proper.
Article 6. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries of Town Offi- cers, Firemen, Policemen, Librarians, Inspectors, Janitors, Sealers, Superintendents and School Teachers, as follows: Moderator $ 25.00
Selectmen (3)
3,000.00
Town Accountant 2,000.00
Auditors 225.00
Tax Collector
2,000.00
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Town Treasurer
1,700.00
Assessors (3)
3,600.00
Town Clerk
1,800.00
Town Counsel
800.00
Registrars (3)
300.00
Election Officers (48)
1,476.00
Election Constables (3)
90.00
Election Janitors (3)
60.00
Town Hall Janitor 1,104.00
Town Hall Assistant Janitor
1,300.00
Overseers of Public Welfare (3)
600.00
Visitor of Public Welfare
1,404.00
Supt. and Matron at the Braintree Infirmary . .
1,200.00
One Girl at the Braintree Infirmary
480.00
Extra Help at the Braintree Infirmary
300.00
Superintendent of Streets
3,500.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
500.00
Inspector of Buildings
1,000.00
Inspector of Wires
300.00
Board of Health (3)
900.00
Inspector of Animals
225.00
Inspector of Milk
200.00
Inspector of Plumbing
834.80
Inspector of Meat 350.00
Caretaker of Dumps
1,400.00
Water Commissioners (3)
300.00
Electric Light Commissioners (3)
300.00
Life Guard at Sunset Lake
364.00
Thayer Public Library :
Librarian 1,600.00
Asst. Librarians (2 at $2,580; 2 at $1,180; Part Time Assistant at $100)
3,860.00
Janitor
300.00
Assistant Janitor 120.00
Moth Superintendent
600.00
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Engineering Department:
Town Engineer 2,080.00
Transit Man
2,184.00
Rod Man
1,560.00
Chain Man
1,248.00
Fire Department:
Chief
3,000.00
Deputy Chief
2,500.00
Permanent Men (10)
19,855.29
Five New Men (39 Weeks)
6,374.55
Regular Call Men
1,555.00
Superintendent of Fire Alarm
225.00
Police Department :
Chief
3,000.00
Sergeants, 3 at $2,100
6,300.00
Regular Patrolmen, 5 at $2,000; 2 at $1,950 ; 4 at $1,700)
20,700.00
New Patrolmen, 3 at $1,700 each 5,100.00
Special Police
1,000.00
Retired Chief, Pension
1,250.00
School Teachers
205,060.00
Supt. of Plain Street Cemetery
500.00
Article 7. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries of Clerks in the several departments of the Town as follows :
Selectmen's Department, Clerk, 1
.$1,400.00
Accountant's Dept., Clerk, 1 for 4 weeks 75.00
Tax Collector, 1 Clerk 1,075.00
Town Treasurer, 1 Clerk 235.00
Extra Clerical Help 400.00
Assessors' Department, Clerks, 2 2,236.00
Town Clerk's Dept., Clerk, 1 780.00
Board of Health Dept., Secretary, 1 200.00
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Article 8. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the vari- ous departments of the Town, as follows:
Selectmen's Department $ 973.00
Town Hall: Maintenance
2,500.00
Telephones 1,475.00
Tax Collector's Department
2,660.00
Town Accountant's Dept.
275.00
Town Treasurer's Dept., Bond, etc.
983.75
Assessors' Dept. 2,267.00
Town Clerk's Dept. 215.00
Election and Registration
874.00
Town Counsel, Legal Expenses
300.00
Board of Public Welfare, Expenses of Visitor ... 313.00
Expenses and Maintenance of Town Infirmary . . 9,030.23
Expenses, Including Transportation of Sealer of Weights and Measures 600.00
Expenses of Inspector of Buildings 400.00
Expenses of Inspector of Wires 200.00
Expenses of Board of Health, Miscellaneous 800.00
Collection of Garbage 5,400.00
Vital Statistics 75.00
Dental Clinic 1,000.00
Tuberculosis Clinic 100.00
Diphtheria Clinic 2,000.00
Contagious Diseases 5,000.00
Expenses of Fire Department :
General Expenses, Including Hydrant Service 8,235.00
Qualey's Truck and Man 1,500.00
Extra Pay of Men 1,500.00
Maintenance of Buildings 173.00
Expenses of Fire Alarm System 2,975.00
Expenses of Police Department :
New Equipment 1,159.00
General Expenses
3,950.00
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Expenses of Engineering Department :
Office Supplies 1,343.00
Field Equipment 2,237.00
Recording Plans, Examination of Titles, Let- tering 500.00
Expenses of School Dept., Including Repairs on
Buildings
87,900.00
Expenses of Thayer Public Library
9,100.00
Expenses of Plain Street Cemetery
877.50
Article 9. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Public Welfare De- partment for Outside Relief, as follows .$13,000.00
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended under Chapter 118 of the General Laws, as follows:
Mothers' Aid $6,000.00
Article 11. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of State Aid, Military Aid, Soldiers' Burials and Soldiers' Relief, as follows :
State Aid and Soldiers' Burial $ 950.00
Soldiers' Relief 3,500.00
Military Aid 180.00
Forestry
Article 12. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths, care and planting of trees, and Town Forest, as follows :
For Suppression of Gypsy Moths, etc. . $3,145.00 For the Care and Planting of Trees 6,360.37 For Removal of Trees Caused by Construc- tion and Repairs of Town Ways and Sidewalks 4,357.00
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Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,565.95, being the portion of the expense incurred and apportioned by the County Com- missioners upon the Town for the care, maintenance and repairs of the Tuberculosis Hospital, in accordance with Chapter 286 of the General Acts of 1916.
Article 14. PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended on Parks, Playgrounds and Public Lands of the Town, under the direction of the Park Com- missioners, and also for the expense of organized play, as follows :
Precinct One, for Parks, Playgrounds, etc. . $1,348.00 Precinct Two, for Parks, Playgrounds, etc .. 2,190.00 Precinct Three, for Parks, Playgrounds, etc. 2,000.00 For Organized Play 900.00
Article 15. ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department the sum of $18,497.17 for Depreciation Fund ; the sum of $300.00 for the salaries of the Municipal Light Board; and the sum of $306,202.83, together with the unexpended balance of $2,263.09 of the year 1929 for operating expenses, renewals, repairs and new construction.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the purchase or taking by eminent domain for public pur- poses in connection with the Municipal Electric Light Plant, of the land on Allen Street, East Braintree, adjoin- ing the Municipal Electric Light Plant now owned by Benjamin F. Torrey, as recommended by the Municipal Light Board, and authorize the Treasurer, with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums in accordance with the provision of any General or
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Special Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such pur- pose, or take any action relative thereto.
Water Department
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of laying a water main not less than six inches in diameter from Little Pond to the yard of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., and from there to Quincy Avenue at a point opposite the plant of the Cities Service Co., acquiring land and constructing a Standpipe thereon, and authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sum in accordance with the provisions of any General or Special Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the maintenance and operation of the Water Department, including interest and debt on Water Loans, the same to be taken from the revenue of the Department and the unexpended balance of 1929.
Municipal Indebtedness
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the payments due on Municipal Indebtedness and for the' payment of interest on Town debt, and on loans in antici- pation of revenue, as follows :
Town Hall $ 2,000.00
Norfolk County Hospital 1,000.00
Hollis School
3,000.00
Thomas A. Watson School
4,000.00
Noah Torrey School, Addition 10,000.00
High School 23,000.00
Penniman School Addition 7,000.00
Abraham Lincoln School Addition 5,667.00
Braintree Highlands School 7,147.76
Highways (Washington and Union) 17,000.00
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Interest as follows :
Schools
30,092.50
Town Hall 200.00
Highways (Washington and Union) 2,040.00
Norfolk County Hospital 270.00
Anticipation of Revenue
15,000.00
Planning Board
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Zoning Committee and adopt the Zoning By- Laws, as recommended in this report, or take any action with reference thereto.
Article 21. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Zoning Committee, for the preparation of comprehensive Zoning By-Laws, and for the general expenses of the Zoning Committee.
Article 22. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate such sums of money as may be necessary for the purchase or taking by eminent domain for park purposes or other public purposes, of any land on the easterly side of Washington Street between Holbrook Avenue and Union Street, as recommended by the Planning Board, 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 Special Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such purposes, or to take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Planning Board in the preparation of a comprehensive Town plan, and for the general_expenses of the Planning Board.
Education
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to sell at auction or private sale the school building-South School so-called-and land
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located on the East side of Washington Street, second lot north of the intersection of Standish Avenue with Wash- ington Street, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the School Committee to report at the next Annual Town Meeting its recommendations for securing such additional school sites as may seem advisable.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such additional 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, as follows:
For Unforeseen Contingencies $7,000.00
Miscellaneous
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,600 for Miscellaneous Ex- penses.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000 for insurance under the Employees' Compensation Act.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,272.49 to pay premiums of In- surance Policies on Fire and Liability.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept the legacy given to it in the will of the late Julia A. Min- chin, upon the terms and for the purposes set forth in said will.
Article 31. 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 Veterans of Foreign Wars No. 1702, in defraying expenses of Memo- rial Day, as follows :
Post 87, G. A. R. $200.00
Post 86, American Legion 100.00
No. 1702, Veterans Foreign Wars 100.00
$400.00
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Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate the sum of $500 to be expended by the American Legion to pay part of the cost of a fireworks display for a Fourth of July Celebration.
Article 33. To see if the Town will direct the Select- men to again lease the Legion Building, so-called, to Post 86, American Legion.
Article 34. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Elizabeth McEwan for injuries received in the Gymnasium Class in the Braintree High School, and reimburse her for her hospital and doctors' expenses.
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to grant a permit to conduct Amateur Box- ing Bouts to be held in the Strand Ballroom, Norfolk Square, East Braintree.
Article 36. To see what sums of money, in addition to that appropriated under any other article, the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Land Damages re- sulting from taking of any land.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the purchase or taking by eminent domain of land, and for the purpose of constructing, furnishing and equipping a combined Police and Fire Station thereon, and to au- thorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums, in accordance with any general or special act authorizing the Town to borrow money for such purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 38. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for improving the channel of Smelt Brook, and to determine on what condition the same shall be available, or take any other action thereto.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the painting of a sign on the roof of the Reclamation Plant.
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Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Engineering.
Article 41. 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 Reserve Fund.
Article 42. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of providing public entertainment in connection with the National Convention of the American Legion to be held in Boston the current year.
Article 43. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a certain sum of money for the pension of one, Peter Kearney, a laborer, under the provisions of Chapter 32, Section 77 of the General Laws.
Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct its Selectmen to appoint, rather than choose by ballot, from its inhabitants, one or more Constables, commencing in the year 1931, and thereafter.
Highways
Article 45. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Highway Department, including labor, repairs to high- ways, Town ways, and bridges; also, for repairs and building sidewalks, stone roads and removal of snow, oil- ing of streets, purchase of equipment for said department as follows :
General Maintenance, Including Flashlights $14,850.00 Street Cleaning 3,000.00
Tarvia 18,000.00
Drains and Catch Basins 3,500.00
Guard Rails and Fences
1,200.00
Street Signs 1,089.50
Bridges 2,800.00
Snow Removal 10,000.00
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New Equipment :
1 Replacement of Supt. Car 1,145.00
Sidewalks as follows :
Academy Street from Washington to Tremont Street, 1,350 feet $ 4,912.50
Washington Street from Thayer to Frederick Road, 340 feet, south side 453.00
Tremont Street from Lakeview Avenue to Academy Street, 600 feet, west side . .... Frederick Road from Hancock to Washington, 1,102 feet 3,576.20
2,152.15
Replacement of Washington Street, opposite Hobart's Block, 100 feet 364.00
Washington Street sidewalk from M. E. Church to Whitman's Block, 126 feet 410.00
Mt. Vernon Avenue from Washington to Mt. Vernon Street, 976 feet, south side 3,281.80
Storrs Avenue from Abbott to Washington Street, 875 feet, north side 2,653.15
Cedar Street from Elm to Washington, east side, 1,175 feet 3,784.00
Stedman Avenue from Elm to School, east side, 775 feet
2,500.00
Shaw Street from Mill Lane to Norfolk Square, 1,400 feet, east side
5,408.50
Quincy Avenue from 25 Commercial Street to R. R. tracks, 325 feet 433.50
Quincy Avenue from Gas Company to Bridge, 325 feet 541.50
Liberty Street from Union to Lincoln Heights, 1,650 feet 4,487.00
Bellevue Road from Commercial to Stetson Street, 1,475 feet 4,865.75
Front Street from Hobart to Commercial, 1,500 feet 5,440.50
Washington Street from Monatiquot School to St. Francis Church, 2,620 feet 11,790.00
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Pond Street from Noah Torrey School to Town Street, 1,325 feet 4,314.00
Washington Street from K. C. Hall to Han- cock Street, 1,000 feet 1,333.50
Washington Street from Wynot Road to Monatiquot School, 1,065 feet, east side 4,581.00 Charles Street, 475 feet, west side 1,150.00
Washington Street from Sheppard. Avenue to State Bridge, west side, 1,200 feet 2,901.00
Lakeview Avenue from Tremont to Franklin Street, 800 feet 2,181.55
Corner of Tremont and Summer Street
125.00
Presidents Road from School to Washington, 735 feet, east side 2,200.00
West Street from Five Corners, 2,580 feet, east 7,239.00
Resurfacing as follows :
Hollingsworth Boulevard from Academy to Franklin Street 3,200.00
Pearl Street from Monatiquot River Bridge to Fountain Street, 600 feet 3,300.00
Hawthorn Road from Elm' to Home Park Road, 1,545 feet 7,132.50
250.00
Intersection of Cedar and Washington Street Union Street from Liberty Street, 1,200 feet west
11,594.40
Commercial Street from Adams to Union Street, 2,660 feet 4,434.00
Commercial Street from Union to Shaw Street, 1,850 feet
10,792.50
Dyer Hill, 1,800 feet
4,000.00
Boscobel Street, 500 feet 1,300.00
Adams Street from Drinkwater Lane to Com- mercial Street, 2,400 feet 4,000.00
Drainage as follows :
Washington Street from 321 Washington Street to Brook 950.00
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Pond Street from Dewey Avenue to Farm
River, 1,450 feet 5,628.00
Charles Street, 475 feet 750.00
West Street, 1,000 feet 1,850.00
Reconstruction as follows :
River Street, south side, 760 feet 5,689.85
Hancock Street 52,268.85
Washington Street from Hollis Avenue to West Street 27,710.31
Hayward Street from Commercial to North
Bowditch, 1,700 feet 39,696.10
Edgemont Road, 675 feet ยท 2,921.69
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,300 for repairs and maintenance of the Quincy Avenue Bridge over the Monatiquot River.
Article 47. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Street Lighting, as follows $14,274.37
Article 48. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the installation of Traffic Signal Lights as follows:
Five Corners $1,352.00
South Braintree Square 1,300.00
North Braintree Square 1,300.00
East Braintree Square
1,300.00
$5,252.00
Article 49. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way DEWEY AVENUE, so- called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise. Estimated $3,550.00
Article 50. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town. Way FAIRVIEW AVENUE,
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so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authoriz- ing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise. Esti- mated .$3,275.00
Article 51. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way WALNUT STREET EX- TENSION, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improve- ment of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or other- wise. Estimated $7,503.75
Article 52. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way BOWERS ROAD, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be ex- pended under the provisions of law authorizing the assess- ment of betterments, or otherwise. Estimated. . $5,552.00
Article 53. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way BURROUGHS ROAD EX- TENSION, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improve- ment of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or other- wise. Estimated $700.00
Article 54. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way EDGEMONT ROAD EX- TENSION, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improve- ment of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or other- wise. Estimated .$1,687.70
Article 55. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way BELLEVUE ROAD, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen; and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way. Estimated .... $500.00
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Article 56. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way PARK AVENUE, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended for the improvement of said way.
Article 57. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way, as laid out by the Selectmen, the following streets : ELMKNOLL ROAD, PLEASANT VIEW AVE- NUE, STORRS AVENUE, WALDRON ROAD, ELM- LAWN ROAD, EDGEMONT ROAD, BICKFORD ROAD, RIVER STREET, CLEVELAND AVENUE, MAR- SHALL STREET, EDGEHILL ROAD, WILDWOOD AVENUE, BEECHWOOD ROAD EXTENSION, TAL- BOT ROAD, AND NORTON ROAD, ARBUTUS AVE- NUE, LIBERTY PARK AVENUE, and a portion of POND STREET; and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the development of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise.
Sewerage
Article 58. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 17 of the Acts of 1930, the same being an act authorizing the Town of Braintree to construct and operate a system of sewerage and to borrow money for such purpose in excess of the statutory limit, or will take any action rela- tive thereto.
Article 59. To see if the Town in accordance with Chapter 17, Section 3 and Section 5 of the Acts of 1930, will vote that the Selectmen shall act as a Board of Sewer Commissioners, or will vote to elect a Board of three Sewerage Commissioners, or will vote to appoint and au- thorize a committee to carry on the construction of the system of sewerage authorized by said Chapter 17 of the Acts of 1930 until the Board of Sewer Commissioners shall have been elected as provided in said act or the Selectmen have first been authorized by vote to act as such Board, as the case may be, or will take any action relative thereto.
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Article 60. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum or sums of money to be expended under the direction of the Committee on Sewerage for revision of plans or other necessary purposes, or will vote to raise and appropriate any sum or sums of money for the purpose of paying any necessary expenses and liabili- ties incurred under Chapter 17 of the Acts of 1930, as the same may be accepted by the Town, and to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums in accordance with the pro- vision of any general or special act authorizing the Town to borrow for such purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
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 third day of March, 1930, and by pub- lishing the same once each week for two successive weeks in the Braintree Observer and the Braintree Citizen, the first publication to be at least eight days before said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk before said meeting.
Given under our hands at Braintree, this first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hun- dred and thirty.
EDWARD AVERY, HARRY H. BOUSQUET, HORACE T. CAHILL, Selectmen of Braintree.
A true copy. Attest :
JOHN J. HEANEY, Constable of Braintree.
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Braintree, Mass., February 10, 1930. 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 places mentioned for the purposes therein mentioned.
JOHN J. HEANEY,
Constable of Braintree.
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Town Officers for 1929
Moderator WILLIAM F. ROGERS Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare HORACE T. CAHILL Assessors
WALTER B. SKINNER JAMES E. FOLSOM
CHARLES S. HANNAFORD
Term expires 1930 Term expires 1931 Term expires 1932
Auditors
RALPH W. ARNOLD HERBERT W. CURTIS
CHARLES W. EVANS
Water Commissioners and Commissioners of Sinking Fund CHARLES B. CUMMINGS
Term expires 1930
THOMAS E. SEARS
GEORGE H. WALKER
Term expires 1931 Term expires 1932
Municipal Light Board
ALEXANDER A. CARSON
Term expires 1930
CHARLES G. JORDAN
Term expires 1931
NORTON P. POTTER
Term expires 1932
Board of Health
HARRY H. BOUSQUET
Term expires 1930
JOSEPH G. BAILEY PERCY T. RICHARDS
Term expires 1932
School Committee
C. FREDERICK TARBOX
Term expires 1930
FRANKLIN H. MERRIAM
Term expires 1930
ALIDA N. STEVENS
Term expires 1931
HENRY D. HIGGINS
Term expires 1931
RALPH W. WOODSUM
Term expires 1932
HARRIET B. KIMBALL
Term expires 1932
Trustees of the School Funds
ARTHUR L. HALE
ELMER E. ABERCROMBIE
WILLIAM H. HEATH
HENRY F. ARNOLD
OTIS B. OAKMAN JOHN W. HARDING
Park Commissioners
JOHN N. RODGERS WILLIAM C. MITCHELL ALBERT F. HOLLIS
Term expires 1930 Term expires 1931 Term expires 1932
Term expires 1931
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Trustees of Thayer Public Library
ALBERT E. AVERY
Life Member
JOHN W. HARDING
Life Member
AMY C. MANNING
Term expires 1932
CLARA G. WETHERBEE To fill unexpired term of Mrs. Manning
MABEL S. ROGERS Term expires 1932
Tax Collector, OTIS B. OAKMAN
Tree Warden, CLARENCE R. BESTICK Treasurer, OTIS B. OAKMAN Constables
HARVEY J. ANNIS
AUGUST JOHNSON
ARTHUR C. AUSTIN
N. ERIC NELSON
WALTER S. BELYEA
GEORGE L. NOVELLINE
CLARENCE R. BESTICK
EARLE A. PRARIO
JEREMIAH F. GALLIVAN
THOMAS SLAVIN
CHRISTOPHER M. GARLAND W. GORDON STACKHOUSE
CHARLES S: HANNAFORD
JOHN P. SHAY HARRY F. VINTON
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 JOSEPH W. PARKER MERTON A. TURNER JOHN F. CLINTON Officers Appointed Police JOHN J. HEANEY, Sergeant N. ERIC NELSON, Sergeant EDWARD D .. CAHILL, Sergeant EVERETT A. BUKER, Sergeant
AUGUST JOHNSON EARLE A. PRARIO
JOHN P. SHAY GEORGE L. NOVELLINE
HARVEY J. ANNIS
JOHN W. ILLINGSWORTH
CHRISTOPHER M. GARLAND JAMES F. BURNS
WALTER S. BELYEA HENRY A. COHOON ALBERT R. KLAY
Measurer of Leather, EDWARD H. DRINKWATER
JOHN J. HEANEY
336
PRATT & PRATT 16724
46
THOMAS SLAVIN
Field Drivers THEODORE M. FOGG MANSFIELD A. BELYEA Fence Viewers
THOMAS CROKE ALBERT QUALEY
STANLEY R. SYLVESTER
Fire Department
FRED A. TENNEY, Chief HARRY T. SEARS, Deputy Chief Superintendent of Fire Alarm, FRED B. LAWRENCE
Board of Registrars
WILLIAM ALLEN HERBERT F. STACKHOUSE W. CHESTER CONNELL
Sealer of Weights and Measures, CHARLES S. HANNAFORD Inspector of Animals, WALTER J. MATTIE Inspector of Meats and Provisions, HARRY F. VINTON Inspector of Plumbing, J. EDWARD LUDDEN Deputy Inspector of Plumbing, DWIGHT A. CHANDLER Forest Warden, FRED A. TENNEY Local Moth Superintendent, EDWARD T. DWYER Burial Agent, CHARLES S. HANNAFORD Superintendent of Braintree Home JAMES T. CHRISTIAN Pound Keeper, JAMES T. CHRISTIAN Inspector of Wires, FRANKLIN W. MORSE
Appropriation Committee
WILLIAM D. AITKEN EDWARD E. PALMER
WALLACE H. PRATT
FRANK H. JENKINS
JOSEPH LANDERS CHARLES W. LAING
HERBERT A. HOLDER
RALPH W. MEGATHLIN
CHARLES O. MILLER
HENRY H. STORM
FRANK E. HOPKINS LINDSAY ELLMS
W. CHESTER CONNELL
JAMES H. CORRIGAN
JAMES H. MAXWELL
INDEX
Accountant's Report 260
Assessor's Report
306
Balance Sheet
296
Births in 1929
63
Board of Health, Report of
109
Deaths in 1929
79
Dental Clinic, Report of
170
Dog License Account
61
Electric Light Department, Report of
197
Expenditures
266
Fire Department, Report of
99
Funded Debt of Town
97
Friendly Aid Association
170
Highway Department, Report of
231
Hunters' License Account
61
Inspector of Animals, Report of
167
Inspector of Meats, Report of
114
Inspector of Plumbing, Report of
165
Inspector of Buildings, Report of
166.
Jury List
310
Marriages of 1929
71
Milk Inspector
173
Park Commissioners, Report of Board of
228
Planning Board, Report of
211
Police Department, Report of
223
Recapitulation Table
299
Receipts
260
School Committee, Report of
115
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
162
Selectmen, Report of
260
Tax Collector's Report
85
Thayer Public Library, Report of Trustees of
218
Town Clerk's Report
3
Town Officers for 1929
334
Treasurer's Report
88
Tuberculosis, Follow up work, Report of
170
Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1930
315
Water Commissioners, Report of
175
Welfare Worker 168
Wire Inspector 164
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 Brain- tree district.
Six Blows, woods fire Braintree district.
Seven Blows, woods fire East Brain- tree district.
Out-of-Town calls: Quincy 55; Weymouth 66; Randolph 77; Holbrook 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 LOCATIONS OF BOXES Precinct 1
41 Union and Middle Sts.
42 Union and Washington Sts.
147 Pond and Town Sts.
43 Pearl and Washington Sts.
45 Pearl St., opp. Shoe Factory
46 Hancock St., Hollingsworth
411
Liberty and Middle Sts.
421
New Haven Roundhouse (Priv.)
441 Franklin St., and Central Ave.
442 Tremont St., and Hobart Ave.
444 Reclamation (Private)
446 Monatiquot Rubber Co. (Priv.)
471 Pond and Granite Sts.
481 West St., (Blue Hill Cemetery)
54 Division St., Holbrook Line
143
Washington and Pond Sts.
531 Norfolk County Hospital (Priv.)
Precinct 2
31 Elm and Middle Sts.
32 River and Middle Sts.
134 Washington and Common Sts.
135 West and Mt. Vernon Sts.
311 Elm St., Drinkwaters
36 Ash St., and Hollis Ave.
312 Holmes St.
37 Hollis Ave.
321 Cleveland and Harrison Aves.
351
Clark St.
Precinct 3
21 . Quincy Ave., and Hayward St.
23 Quincy Ave., and Commercial St.
223
Pleasant View Ave.
24 Elliot St.
225
Liberty St. (Rhines Green
House)
Shaw St. and Cotton Ave.
Hobart and Prospect Sts.
231
Commercial St. and Elm Knoll Rd. Edgemont Rd.
211
232
Union St., Cottage Hospital
52
Washington St., Braintree High- lands.
53 South and Washington Sts.
511 Peach and Liberty Sts.
145 Fountain St.
131 Cedar and Pleasant Sts.
34 Washington and Elm Sts.
35 Washington and West Sts.
25 Allen and Commercial Sts.
26 Allen and Shaw Sts.
27 Commercial St., and Factory Hill
28 Laing Bros. (Private)
29 Commercial and Elm Sts.
123 Beechwood and Arthur Sts.
125 Liberty and Lisle Sts.
221
Hayward and Howard Sts.
38 Washington St., opp. Monatiquot School
146 Plain and Grove Sts.
148 Franklin St., and Hollingsworth Ave.
47 Pond St., near Shepherd Ice House
48 Five Corners
51 Hancock St., and Highland Av.
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