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Article 49. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of obtain- ing an expert appraisal of the value of the Real and Per- sonal Property of the Cities Service Refining Company and the Braintree Processing Company, on which to base a just and equitable assessment for taxation purposes ; said sum to be expended by and under the board of As- sessors, or take any other action relative thereto.
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Article 50. To see if the Town will accept or purchase for one dollar ($1.00) from the Trustees of the Thayer Academy, or others, certain tracts of land lying along the Monatiquot River, particularly at Commercial Street, East Braintree, for park purposes, or otherwise.
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to accept, in accordance with the terms thereof, the contribution of certain employees who have agreed or may agree to con- tribute a portion of their salaries to the Town Treasury to be expended as a portion of the appropriation for the departments under which they are employed, or any other department of the town, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 52. To see what action the Town will take in regard to giving preference to Braintree residents in em- ployment on all construction work, or any other action relative thereto.
Article 53. To see what disposition the Town will make with reference to surplus funds in the Electric Light Department.
Article 54. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to amend its code of By-Laws by adding and adopt- ing thereto a new article, said article to read as follows :- To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to establish and create the position of Wire Inspector ; to appoint such official, and to appropriate a sum of money for the salary of such Wire Inspector, and act on any- thing relating 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
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least before said sixth day of March, 1933, and by pub- lishing the same once each week for two successive weeks in 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 tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hun- dred and thirty three.
HORACE T. CAHILL JOHN H. CAHILL HARRY H. BOUSQUET Selectmen of the Town of Braintree.
A true copy. Attest :
JOHN J. HEANEY, Constable of Braintree.
Braintree, Mass., February 18, 1933.
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 men- tioned, for the purposes therein mentioned.
JOHN J. HEANEY,
Constable of Braintree.
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Town Officers for 1932
Moderator WILLIAM F. ROGERS
Town Clerk ERNEST C. WOODSUM
Town Treasurer OTIS B. OAKMAN
Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare HARRY H. BOUSQUET 1933
HORACE T. CAHILL 1935 JOHN H. CAHILL 1934
Assessors
WALTER B. SKINNER
Term expires 1933
NORRIS H. PINAULT CHARLES S. HANNAFORD
Term expires 1934 Term expires 1935
Auditors
RALPH H. ARNOLD HERBERT W. CURTIS
THOMAS J. HENSHON
Water Commissioners and Commissioners of Sinking Fund
JOSEPH LANDERS THOMAS E. SEARS GEORGE A. WALKER
Term expires 1933 Term expires 1934 Term expires 1935
School Committee
C. FREDERICK TARBOX
Term expires 1933
WILFORD P. WOODSUM
Term expires 1933
ALIDA N. STEVENS
Term expires 1934
HENRY D. HIGGINS
Term expires 1934
HARRIET B. W. KIMBALL
Term expires 1935
HOWARD B. BLEWETT
Term expires 1935
437
Municipal Lighting Board
ALEXANDER A. CARSON CHARLES G. JORDAN NORTON P. POTTER
Term expires 1933
Term expires 1934
Term expires 1935
Park Commissioners
JOHN N. RODGERS
Term expires 1933
WILLIAM C. MITCHELL
ALBERT F. HOLLIS
Term expires 1934 Term expires 1935
Collector of Taxes OTIS B. OAKMAN
Tree Warden CLARENCE R. BESTICK
Planning Board
JOSEPH W. PARKER
SAMUEL M. ELLSWORTH
Term expires 1933
J. CALEB JUSTICE
Term expires 1934
THERON I. CAIN (Resigned)
Term expires 1934
ARCHIE T. MORRISON (Appointed)
Term expires 1933
JOHN F. CLINTON
Term expires 1935
Board of Health
JOHN H. CAHILL
Term expires 1933
HARRISON W. BAILEY (Appointed)
Term expires 1933
JOSEPH G. BAILEY (Resigned)
Term expires 1934
JOHN J. ATKINSON
Term expires 1935
Trustees of Thayer Public Library
ALBERT E. AVERY
Life Member
JOHN W. HARDING
Life Member
STACY B. SOUTHWORTH
Life Member
MABEL S. ROGERS
Term expires 1933
CLARA G. WETHERBEE
Term expires 1934
Sewer Commissioners
WALTER R. HOWLAND
Term expires 1933
CHARLES S. MARSHALL
Term expires 1934 Term expires 1935
WILLIAM D. AITKEN
Term expires 1933
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Constables
RAYMOND F. ANDERSON CLARENCE R. BESTICK
CHARLES F. FERGUSON
ALTON D. GRIGGS
JOHN J. HEANEY
HARVEY HOWE
JOHN B. RILEY
GUSTAF ARNOLDSON, JR.
EVERETT A. BUKER
WILLIAM J. GAUTHIER
CHARLES S. HANNAFORD MARK HENNEBURY
FREDERICK L. MURPHY GEORGE A. ROXBOROUGH JOHN P. SHAY
Trustees of the School Fund
WILLIAM D. AITKEN
Term expires 1934
HENRY F. ARNOLD (Deceased)
Term expires 1934
ARTHUR L. HALE
Term expires 1934
JOHN W. HARDING
Term expires 1934
WILLIAM H. HEATH
Term expires 1934
OTIS B. OAKMAN
Term expires 1934
GEORGE A. WALKER
Term expires 1934
Measurers of Wood and Weighers of Hay
CHARLES G. SHEPPARD WILFORD F. WOODSUM R. ALLEN GAGE
Measurers of Lumber
HERBERT W. BORDEN SHELLEY A. NEAL CHARLES O. MILLER
APPOINTED OFFICERS
Police Department JOHN J. HEANEY, Chief N. ERIC NELSON, Deputy Chief
EVERETT A. BUKER, Sergeant
EDWARD D. CAHILL, Sergeant EARL A. PRARIO, Sergeant
HARVEY J. ANNIS CHRISTOPHER M. GARLAND
WALTER S. BELYEA
JOHN W. ILLINGWORTH
JAMES F. BURNS ALBERT R. KLAY
HENRY A. COHOON GEORGE L. NOVELLINE
ARTHUR C. FORST JOHN F. O'ROURKE
WILLIAM GALLIVAN JOHN P. SHAY
GEORGE E. WILSON, JR.
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Fire Department
FRED A. TENNEY, Chief HARRY T. SEARS, Deputy Chief
Board of Registrars
ROGER LAKIN VIRGIE M. SEARS ERNEST C. WOODSUM
THOMAS F. MULLIGAN
Field Drivers
BENJAMIN KAPLAN MANSFIELD A. BELYEA THEODORE N. FOGG
Fence Viewers
HARRY C. LAKE MARTIN J. COLLINS W. HOMER MELVILLE
Inspectors of Plumbing
WALTER B. SKINNER ISRAEL P. WESTON Town Engineer, GEORGE N. WATSON
Measurer of Leather, EDWARD H. DRINKWATER Superintendent of Fire Alarm, FRED A. TENNEY Matron of Braintree Infirmary, LUVIA N. GOLDEN Superintendent of Streets, FRED AUSTERBERRY Superintendent of Electric Light Department, FRED B. LAWRENCE Superintendent of Water Department, JOHN W. MULCAHY Superintendent of Plain Street Cemetery, JOHN W. MAHAR Sealer of Weights and Measures, CHARLES S. HANNAFORD Inspector of Animals, WALTER J. MATTIE Inspector of Meats and Provisions, HARRY F. VINTON Inspector of Wires, KENNETH O. WARD Moth Superintendent, EDWARD T. DWYER Forest Warden, FRED A. TENNEY Burial Agent, CHARLES S. HANNAFORD Pound Keeper, JOHN BARNETT
Appropriation Committee
RICHARD A. HUNT, Chairman, 1933
W. H. J. FITZGERALD 1933 WILLARD P. SHEPPARD 1934
ALBERT L. RICE 1933 GEORGE T. WOODSUM 1934
CHARLES C. TEMPLE 1933 DR. C. A. SULLIVAN 1935
CHARLES G. NEWCOMB 1933
BERNARD A. ANDREWS 1935
MERTON L. EMERSON 1934 HENRY H. STORM 1935
DUDLEY P. HOWLAND 1934 HENRY W. GRADY 1935
JOSEPH A. HALEY 1934 RAYMOND P. PALMER 1935
INDEX
Accountant's Report
366
Assessor's Report 400
Balance Sheet
400
Births in 1932
94
Board of Health Report 327
Citizen's Committee to Investigate the Highway Dept. 353
Consulting Engineer's Report
192
Contagious Diseases
331
Deaths in 1932
113
Dental Clinic, Report of
334
Dog License Account
92
Election Report
57
Electric Light Department, Report of 167
Engineering Department 185
Expenditures .373
Fire Alarm Department, Report of.
141
Fire Department, Report of
131
Funded Debt of Town
128
Highway Department, Report of
Consulting Engineer
192
Superintendent's Report
220
Citizen's Committee, Report of
353
Inspector of Animals, Report of
339
Inspector of Buildings, Report of
143
Inspector of Meats, Report of 331
338
Jury List
415
Marriages in 1932
103
Milk Inspector, Report of
333
Park Commissioners, Report of Board of
317
Plain Street Cemetery
349
Planning Board, Report of
245
Police Department, Report of
145
Public Welfare
414
Recapitulation Table
406
Receipts
366
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
347
Sewer Commissioners, Report of
321 -
School Committee, Report of
249
Sporting License Account
93
Tax Collector's Report
120
Thayer Public Library, Report of Trustees of
312
Town Clerk's Report
3
Town Infirmary
346
Town Officers for 1932
436
Treasurer's Report
125
Tree Warden's Report 350
Tuberculosis Follow-up Work, Report of 334
Warrant for Annual Town Meetings of 1932 419
Water Commissioners, Report of 149
Welfare Department 340
Wire Inspector 352
Inspector of Plumbing, Report of
RULES AND DIRECTIONS IN CASE OF FIRE
To give an alarm of fire, open door, pull hook down once and let go, stay at box and direct firemen 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: 12: noon test.
Three blows; Chief's call.
Four blows; to open draw bridge.
Five calls; Call firemen to central sta- tion.
Twelve blows; Police call. 2-2-2; Lost child call.
Box test; at noon Saturdays. 99; Boy Scout call.
Out-of-town calls
55, Quincy; 66, Weymouth; 77, Ran- dolph; 88, Holbrook. Apparatus answer- ing calls to be covered by Squad A.
Do not pull box for woods fires, call Central Station. Tel. 0315.
No school signal on stormy days, 3-3-3, will be sounded on the fire alarm; no sessions for all grades at 7:30 A.M., No session for first four grades, 8.00 A.M. No session for all grades, 11:30 A.M. No session for first four grades, 12:30 P.M.
NUMBER AND LOCATIONS OF BOXES
Precinct 1
41 Union & Middle Sts.
42 Union & Washington Sts.
43 Pearl & Washington Sts.
151 Wildwood. Ave .; B. H. School
411 Liberty & Middle Sts.
46 Hancock St .; Diauto Coal Co.
412
Town Infirmary
47 Pond St. opp. Rose Ave.
421 Union St .; Round House
48 Five Corners
422
Thayer Academy
52 Washington St .; B. High.
53 Washington & Waldron Rd.
54 Washington St .; Holbrook Line
142 Franklin St. & Central Ave.
481 West St .; Blue Hill Cemetery
143 Washington & Pond Sts.
511 Peach & Liberty Sts.
145 Fountain St.
531 Norfolk County Hospital
Precinct 2
31 Middle & Elm Sts.
134
Washington & Common Sts.
32 Middle & River Sts.
135 West & Mt. Vernon Sts.
34 Washington & Elm Sts.
136
Oak St.
35 Washington & West Sts.
137
West St .; Geo. B. White Estate
36 Ash & Hollis Sts.
311
Elm St .; Drinkwater's
37 Hollis Ave. & Walnut St.
312 Holmes St.
38 Washington St .; Monatiquot
131 Cedar & Pleasant Sts.
351
Clarke St.
Precinct 3
21 Quincy Ave. & Hayward St.
23 Quincy Ave. & Commercial St.
211 Edgemont Road
24 Elliot St.
221 Hayward & Howard Sts.
25 Allen & Commercial Sts.
223 Pleasant View Ave.
26 Allen & Shaw Sts.
225 Liberty St .; Ryan's Greenhouse
27 Commercial St. & Factory Hill
28 Hayward St .; Laing Bros.
29 Hayward & Commercial Sts.
123 Beechwood Rd. & Arthur St.
.125
Liberty & Lisle Sts.
226 Shaw St. & Cotton Ave.
227 Hobart & Prospect Sts.
231 Commercial St. & Elm Knoll Rd.
232 Union St .; Cottage Hospital
51 Hancock St. & Highland Ave.
442 Tremont St. & Hobart Ave.
444 Reclamation Plant
446 Monatiquot Rubber Co.
471 Pond & Granite Sts.
146 Plain & Grove Sts.
147 Pond & Town Sts.
148 Franklin St. & Hollingsworth Ave.
45 Pearl St .; Shoe Factory
321 Cleveland & Harrison Aves.
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