Town annual report of Weymouth 1895, Part 9

Author: Weymouth (Mass.)
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 346


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Ireland. Weymouth.


19


Elwood F. Thurber.


Disease.


Birthplace.


Ireland.


Middleboro. Weymouth.


Weymouth. Weymouth.


widow of Philip .. 41


Apoplexy.


Roxbury. Weymouth.


2


4


Capillary Bronchitis ... Hæmoptvsis and Phthisis Pulmonalis.


69 3 21


Old Age


182


DEATHS. - Continued.


Age.


Date -


Name.


Death.


| Years.


| Months.


| Days.


Feb. 20


71 8 23


Brochial Pneumonia ...


Abington.


Ireland. Weymouth. Weymouth.


Northboro'. Holbrook. Ireland.


Weymouth.


Ireland.


Weymouth. Ireland. Marshfield. Abington.


Weymouth. Weymouth,


Augusta, Me.


Weymouth. Weymouth.


Scituate. Ireland.


Guildhall, Vt. Ireland.


Wey mouth.


25


2 Herbert W. Bates. 2|21 Scarletina Maligna


6 27


Willie F. Griffin. 26


3 25 Phthisis Pulmonalis.


..


31


Arthur L Dexheimer. 20


Pneumonia.


April 2


Betsey (Cushing) Smith, widow of otis.


80


9


3


Mary E. (Barnes) Jacob, widow of Peter H 67


24


Cardaic Hyperthropy Gangrene


Marasmus.


6 Lena F. Bagley


38 8 10 Lencocythœmi:


4


8


Albert P. Worthen 1


3 22 Convulsions


8 Martm H. White. .


52


11 Eveline S (Kittrell) Richmond, wife of William B ... .. 72


6 |23 Lucy W. (Tirrell) Bayley, wife of Nathaniel W .. 75 3/28 Carcinoma of the Breast


14 Almeda D (Orcutt) Hollis, wite of John Q. 62


1


3 Pneumonia


17 Alfred O. Smith


64


2


9 Double Pneumonia.


2 19 9 Susan J. Morales. 124 Pneumoma.


07. John Lynch. 23 Moses R. Greeley. 68 8|10 11 Acute Bronchitis. . Acute Millary Tuber. culosis


" 23 Jolin E. Stoddard 60


72


2


8


3


Ilarriet (Ford) Vining, widow of Elias 79


4 28


3


Catherine T Youreil. 22


7


15 Phthisis.


6


Alexander Sherman 72


A poplexy .


6


Florence E. Cushman. 14


3


6 Peritonitis


6 Jennie R. (Turell) Pratt wife


of Gustavus J. 26


1 113


8 Annie Hanalan .. 14


3


8


Elizabeth S. (Coss) Parker,


widow of Daniel S. 10 22


8


John L. Pratt.


72 5 23


La Grippe and Paraly- sis of Heart


12 Edward P. Tirrell 62 11 23 Heart Disease


15


Ellen A. (Merritt) Cudworth, wife of George L. 44


66


20


Thomas Quinn .. 85


2,26


Mary C. , Ross) Harris, widow of William .. 72|11|13


23 Michael ronovan 72 10 23


24


Arthur T Morales 5.11 |18


Convulsions.


Weymouth.


Weymouth. Weymouth.


Weymouth.


Hingham. Wey mouth. Boothbay, Me. Weymouth. Marshfield.


Kingston,


Weymouth.


Weymouth. Cambridge. Weymouth. Weymouth.


Hudson, N. H. Scituate.


“ 20


wife of Patrick. 91


1 20


",20


Leander C. T. Hersey . 48 11 18


.4 28


James A. Denbroeder 26


2 17


៛ 28 Alice C. (Smith) Emmons, wi e of George E,. 33


4


7


Acute Phthisis


" 28


Lucy M. (Newcomb) Thay er, wife of Noah B. 62


6 26


" 28


Matthew Lynch 91


General Debility.


Mar. 1


Nelson Thomas. 68


2|18


Chronic malaria and en argement of liver and spleen, with


general debility.


3


Ann ( Allen) Sherlock, widow of Robert.


Valvular Disease of the Heart and La Grippe


Typhoid Pneumonia ...


Pulmonary Phthisis ..


Phthisis.


Chronic Myelitis .


Phthisis. Old Age


Dropsy. Cardiac


Influenza.


Natural C'auses.


Heart Disease


14


5 .John Orsi.


1 17


Disease.


Birthplace,


Royal Norton . Ann (Fitzgibbons) Wethers.


Paralysis from old age. Cirrhosis of Liver ... Typhoid Pleuro-Pneu monia


Diabetis.


6| Cerebral Embolism ...


22


183


DEATHS. - Continued.


Age.


Date of Death.


Name.


| Years.


| Months.


Disease.


Birthplace.


Apr 24


Alexander W. Cormack.


62


Cardiac ..


“ 25


Paul White. ..


73


Na nral Causes


4. 27


Mary E. Levangie


1.11 3 { roup. . .


4 27


Mary A. Kinzig .


8 18


Brouchitis.


" 28


Rosabelle (Tirrell Wagner, wife of Samuel W. 23


5 17


Concealed Accidental Hemorrhage


“ 29


Male child of Frank E. and Bertha H. Shores


Stillborn


Weymouth.


Weymouth. Weymouth.


Brown'gton, Vt


Weymouth. Weymouth. Weymouth- Scituate. Weymouth.


Danville, Me. Princeton, Me. Switzerland. Weymouth. Vermont. Roxbury.


Weymouth.


Braintree. Weymouth. Wey mouth. Wey mouth.


Weymouth.


Weymouth.


Biddeford, Me.


3


Ella F. (Tırrell) Stewart, wife of John E 46 3 23


Oedema of Lungs.


6


Ebenezer F. Colson. 68


5 12 Paralysis.


7


Sophia (Porter) Tirrell, wife of Elbridge G. 86


3 16


George F. Vinson 44


5


14 Francis M. Shaw. 63


11


18


Harry L. Virgin 14 1 21 Peritonitis


23 Patrick Ryan. 64


23


James L. Hunt. 66


9 Uræmia


24


William J. Kenney 30


66


25


Eva L. Blemis . 1


8 3 Scarlet Fever


25


Anna Maunion. 20 10 16


25


Female child of Arthar L. and . Alice L. Blanchard ...


2 10


Natural Causes.


Phthisis. Cerebral Hemorrhage.


England. Can da. Weymouth. Weymouth.


Weymouth.


“ 30


Jolın T. Sullivan . . . 25


4


8 Posterior Spinal Scle- rosis


May 1 66 2


Josiah L. Thayer. 77


3 19


Consumption.


Bright's Disease.


4


Martha (Shaw) Hollis, wife of Sanford. 74


1


29


Insanity


4 He en Hart 5


11 Tubercular Meningitis Pyelo Hephritis.


57


Frederick Farrar 43


3


Peritonitis and Cancer Apoplexy


13


Cordelia (Goss) Blethen, widow of Simeon. 65


3 20


16 Fred V. Clarke. 19


5


9 Consumption.


21


Charles E. Kanzig 38


5 27 Tuberculosis


24


Joseph F. Coyle ...


11


4


Samuel C. Derusha 41


7|14 Tuberculosis


27


John L. MoKrever. 48


Cancer of the Liver.


29


Femal- child of Elmer W. and Adella S. Honghton ..


66 29


Mary L. (Houghton) Farrar, wife of Hosea D. 40


3


Phthisis Pulmonalis.


9 Phthisis.


66


29


70 Ebenezer H. Thomas. |11


Apoplexy


30


Joshua Phillips .. . 83


2 10 Cerebral Apoplexy, ..


June 1


1


Male child of Peter and Mary Hughes


13


Natural Causes.


2


Benjamin F. Rice. 77 4 7


General Debihty and Slight Valvular Disease of Heart ....


Cerebral Apoplexy ..


Pleuritis


Weymouth. Weymouth.


Weymouth. Rochester, NH Ireland. ockland. Weymouth. Rockland.


Ireland.


July


Nellie White ...


50


5


2 2 Annie M. Lougee.


Olin D. Sterling. 12 3 22


9 Acute General Tuber culosis .


Cardiac Disease ..


Suicide by Drowning .


Septic Intection from hip joint disease ...


Stillborn


Weymouth. Boston. Weymouth. Weymouth.


5


Richard r. Lynch. 26


Roswell L. Corbin 63


7 18


Uterus Tumor


Bronchitis ..


Stillborn


8


29


John Cohan 32


2


Malo child of Edward R. and Edith M. Wilder ..


Stillborn.


W. Abington. Weymouth.


7


Huldah E. (Pelton) Clark, wife of Henry. 66


27


Days.


184


DEATHS. - Continued.


Age.


Date of Death.


Name.


Years.


Months.


| Days.


July .5 " '5


Norma Marden .


8


Tubercular Meningitis


Boston.


Weymouth. Rockland.


Weymouth. Brooklyn,N.Y.


Virginia.


Weymouth;


Boston. Weymonth. Hingham. Weymouth.


Sanford, Me. Windham, Me. Weymouth.


Braintree. Weymouth. Weymouth.


Stoneham. Weymouth. Weymouth. Lynn.


Wey mouth.


Nova Scotia.


Weymouth. W-ymouth. Boston.


Weymouth. Weymouth.


Weymouth. Weymouth. Boston. Weymouth. Weymouth.


SanborntonNH Weymouth. Weymouth. &


Weymouth .; Weymouth. Windham,N.H


Ireland.


9


Mary G. Hearn


1


3


11


William R. Rogers.


61


11


Ruth W. (White) Shaw, widow of David .. 90


8


Neuralgia of the heart.


15


Francis (Turrell) Loring, widow of Israel ... 75


6 19


.6 16


Richard M. Holbrook. 67


F 26


17 Walter Carver 10


18


Wicklie Desando, 3


2


9


18


wife Cora B. (Dorman) Clapp, of Albert F. 28


Trberculosis


18


Edwin Mayberry


68


21


E. nest M. Spear


4


23


Mary E. (Poole) Crosby, wite of Joshua .. 60


2


23


Howard W. Tirrel).


21


7


24


George M. D'avis, Jr.


23 21


Lora F. (Stevens Rowland, wife of Edward.


42 11


Thomas W. French


Cerebral Embolism ..


Jacob Holbrook 6


C'ancer


Joshua Rainsdall .. 8


56 8 16 Hem . plegia.


9


Male child of James and Martha Brayshaw ..


9


Margaret (Coughlan) Harigau, wife of Michael Mary I. Lowell ..


64 41 11 3


10


Pulmonary


Tubercu-


losi-


Blanche L. Busiere.


13


3


1


6 Diphtheria ..


" 14


9


Whooping Cough, sum- mer diarrhea and hydrocephaloid.


1 Cholera Infantum.


16 17


Margaret N. (Pratt) Rice, widow of Willian.


83


4 11


6


19


Eugene H. Lynch. .


3


20


Esther V. Dimmock


4 8 ( holera Infantum.


66


21


Esther Richards. 1


6 Cholera Infantum


21


Marı Gould.


Infantile Debiliry. 1


22


Hannah P. (Wadleigh) Pollard widow of Calvin 8|10


91


Dvsenterv.


Edward M. Terry


1


( holera Infantum.


24


Elten L. M.Carthy


26


5


9 Phthisis Pulmonalis . .


26


Male child of George W. and Grace Kimball 10


Debility from prema- ture birth


27


IIenry F. Cushing. 73


Carcinoma ..


27


Thomas Nesmith. 73


1


2 Valvular Disease of


Ileart.


“ 28


Patrick Sheely. 58 4 6 Shork from accidental injury ...


7


Paralysis of Heart .. ..


?


Mary H. (Po brook) Bnrre Il,


widow of William


57.11 11


Maria R. Dondero.


1


5 Capillary Bronchitis


following Whooping Cough


Natural Causes, .. Chronic Mania, Apo plexy .


Apoplexy.


Chronic heart disease. Diphtheretic Croup ... Scarlet Fever


Cerebral Embolism .. Cholera Infantum.


Acute Bright's Disease Acnte Tuberculosis ... Septicemia


Aug. 3


Broncho Pneumonia ...


6


11


6 71 76 7 24


Premature Birth


Softening of the Brain.


12


Cholera Infantur


12


Rosella Bryant. Alberta F. Dunbar.


John W. Boyd .


8


Old Age Diarrhea.


24


Clarissa II. (Clapp) Richards, wi ow of Warren.


90


3


Suicide


8


Disease.


Birthplace.


5 15


185


DEATHS. - Continued.


Age.


Date of Death.


Name.


| Years.


¡ Months.


Days.


Aug.28


Male chil l of J. Frank and Lizzie J Hollis


Stillborn


Weymouthı.


" 30


Elizabeth J. (Hammond) Holhs wife of John F. 37


11 13 Fibroid Tumor


Hanover.


“ 30


Harold E. Fraher.


8


8 Hydrocephal- id follow- ing enteritis


Weymouth.


" 30


Mary (Moran) Moran, wife of Jeremnah. 65


Pneumonia.


Ireland.


“ 31


William J. Terry 3


4 24 Typhoid Dysentery.


Weymouth. ..


Sept. 9


Mary (Coakley) Welch, widow of Willam 8.2


10


Heart Disease


Ireland.


..


9


Hattie Baker. 27


12 Pulmonary Tuberculosis Oakland, Me.


« 10


Sarah H. Downing) Clapp. wife of Aaron D. 79


7 29 Hemorrhage of the


bowels and Diarrhea


Marblehead. . . .


“ 12


Ellen A. (Reagan) Monahan, wife of John F. 31


3


Heart Disease


11 12 Typhoid Fever. Strangulation of Intes- 2 21 tine ..


Ireland ..


Gertrude ( leary. 11


2 Hemorrhage


Weymouth ..


21


Robert T Bicknell.


53


5 16 General Paresis


Weymouth. .. .


23 28


Herbert L. Derusha ..


4 27 Marasmus.


Weymouth .....


Bertram Parker Rogers


21|Marasmus. Weymouth. ... .


" 29


Bertha Pratt Rogers.


2 Marasmus


Weymouth. ..


29


Irene May Kennedy.


5


7 Enteritis


Weymouth. ...


Oct. o


Lucy E. (Hall) Reed. wite of


1


28 Aortic Insufficiency.


River Point, R.I.


6


F.male child of Albert and Helen L. Smith. ..


Premature Birth.


Weymouth ... . .


7


Female child of James and Mary Maguire


Stillborn


7 10 Typhoid Fever


9


Maurice A. Garvey


11


Amie M. (Boylan) Quinlan, wife of John J. 32


27 Acute Gastritis.


Weymouth.


13


Amnie L. ( Kennedy) Garvey, wife of Michael J 30 Andrew Coakley .. 65


4


15


18


Helen L. Tisdale.


1


Capillary Bronchitis. 7


20 20


John W. Tirrell. 59 4|14 Bronchial Pneumonia


Weymouth ..... E. Providence, R. I ..


66 22 23


Hattie L. Montgomery


5 22 Consumption.


St. John, Me ...


Freu C. Manson.


2,13 Enteritis and Laryngis- mus Stridulus


Weymouth. Weymouth .. . .


23 ‹‹ 24


John H. Greaney .6


7 28 Consumption.


Margaret ( Reed) Ford, widow of 65 John ..


Ireland.


27


Annie B. (Lincoln) Binney, 78 5


widow of John


Nehemiah Thayer. 81 16 Natural Causes 7


Maria J. ( Wales) Lord, wife of 154 George T ...


New York City


7


John F. Cohan. 31


.0 Septicemia. 5 20 Pulmonary Consumption en ing with Hemorr hage.


Braintree .... . . .


8 Female child of Robert S. and


Anna M. Burbank


Stillborn


Weymouth. ...


12


Mildred I. Larmney George E. Gardner. 37


7 Convulsions.


St. John, N. B. Weymonth ..... Hingham ..


13


16


Rebecca H. (Payne) Wrighting- ton, wife of Benjamin E 28


Henry A. Richards ... 30 1 4 26 Meningitis.


Weymouth .. .. Weymouth .... . Worcester ... ...


Holyoke ..


8 Phthisis Pulmonalis .... Phthisis and Capillary Bronchitis


Ireland .. .. Weymonth .. ...


Ennna B. ( Armington) Foster, widow of William 11. 87 19


8 20 Disease of Heart.


9|19 General Paresis. 1 Heart Disease


Weymouth ..... Weymouthı .....


28 Nov. 6


8


Quincy L. 67


Disease.


Birthplace.


186


DEATHS. - Continued.


Age.


Date of Death.


Name.


Years.


Months.


Davs.


Nov.12


Antoinette M. Palmer.


1


26


Enteritis.


13


John L. Monson .


35


l'uberculosis


14


Avis K. (Hawes) Walker, wife of Dana B. H 39


1 5 Pneumonia.


16


Margaret T. Walsh 29


18|Pulmonary Tuberculosis 5


23


Isabella Ferry.


3


Enteri is.


Weymouth .. ..


27


5


3


9 Membraneons Croup


and Bronchitis


Weymouth. ...


28


Mary R. (Leonard) Marshall, wi low of Benjamin F 62


2


3


Lympho-Sarcoma


Wareham .. . ...


29


Eliza L. (Loud) Howe, widow of Appleton. 83


6 20 Endocarditis


Weymouth. ....


Dec. 1


Ellen F. Holbrook. 19 3,17 Phthisis.


Cambridge. ....


7


Rosauna (Cunniff) Murray,


widow of Martin 55 Erysipelas


Ireland ..


66


8


Mary (Gannon) McMann, widow of Anthony 71 Leila E. Bullock


Paralysis of Heart ...


Ireland.


-


9


14 Henry Keay 69


17


Mabel Mckenna


1 10 Septicemia.


Har over.


18


Jennie P. Stedman. 21


4|11 \ onsumption


Hanson ...


22


Male child of Irving P. and Lil lian I- Loud ...


Stillborn


Weymouth. ..


6 23


Male child of Walter L. and S. Ellen M.Conney.


Stillborn.


25


John Logue. 69 Pneumonia ..


66


26


Male child of Giuseppe and Fil lomena Jeaffo.


Stillborn.


Weymouth. ·


“ 31


Annie F. (Waters] McGlynn, wife 01 John. 35


Functional Disease


of


5 5 Heart and Embolism in Brain.


Quebec, Can .. .


Disease.


Birthplace.


Weymouth .. Sweden.


Saugus. Weymouth


Flora S. Farrar


Mary (Collins) Croker, wire of Thomas. 76 Rosalie Trask. 6 2 17 Meningitis


Consumption


Ireland .. Weymouth.


8


7 11 Croupous Laryngitis .. Cerebral Hemorrhage ..


Weymouth England ..


Weymouth. .... Ireland ..


-


187


Number of marriages recorded in the town of Weymouth for the year 1895 :-


Where one or both parties were residents of the town . 113


Non-residents


13


Total . 126


Number of births :-


Males


155


Females


115


Total


270


Number of deaths :


Males


102


Females


.


115


Total . ·


217


Excess of births over deaths


53


JOHN A. RAYMOND,


Town Clerk.


WEYMOUTH, Jan. 30, 1896.


TOWN RECORDS FOR 1895.


ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


NORFOLK, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Weymouth, in said County ; GREETING.


In the name of said Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid, qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective voting precincts, to wit :


In Precincts numbered One, Two, Three and Five, in the halls of the Fire Engine houses located respectively in those precincts ; in Precinct numbered Four in the upper hall of the Town House, and in Precinct numbered Six, in Grand Army Hall, over the store of Henry Loud on Broad street, on Monday, the Fourth Day of March next, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the Wardens of their several precincts their votes, on one ballot, for the following-named Town Officers, to wit : Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, five Selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, five Assessors, three Auditors, Collector of Taxes, ten Constables, Water commissioner for three years, two School Com- mittee for three years, Park Commissioner for three years, and three Trustees of the Tufts Library for three years ; and also to vote on the same. ballot, "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"


.The Polls will open at six o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at one o'clock in the afternoon.


189


You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants, qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Town House in said town on Monday the Eleventh Day of March next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :


Article 1. To choose a moderator for said meeting.


Art. 2. To choose all other necessary town officers except those elected by ballot.


Art. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the several boards of town officers, and of any committee appointed at any former meeting, and to choose any committee the town may think proper.


Art. 4. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools.


Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to instruct the school com- mittee to employ a superintendent of schools.


Art. 6. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repairs of highways, townways and bridges.


Art. 7. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the poor.


Art. 8. To see what sum of money the town will vote to ap- propriate for the payment of state aid, military aid, and for relief under Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1890, to disabled soldiers and seamen, and the families of disabled soldiers and seamen, and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.


Art. 9. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the fire department.


Art. 10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.


Art. 11. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Tufts Library.


Art. 12. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for abatement and remittance of taxes.


Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest that may become due the ensuing year.


190


Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.


Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.


Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers.


Art. 17. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.


Art. 18. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for care and repair of the town house.


Art. 19. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for electric lighting.


Art. 20. To see if the town will authorize and direct the treas- urer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow temporarily in anticipation of the taxes of the present municipal year, the sum of $70,000, as the same may be from time to time required and to give the negotiable note or notes of the town for money so bor- rowed, and that all such temporary loans shall be payable from the said taxes.


Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for hydrants and for water rent and care of drink- ing fountains.


Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from the revenue of the water works for the current year, the sum of $25, 720 to be expended for the following purposes, $17,120 for the interest on the Weymouth water loan becoming due the ensuing year ; $2,700 for salaries of the superintendent of the works and engineer at the pumping station ; $2,200 for maintenance of works and $3,700 for all other necessary expenses.


Art. 23. To see if the town will appropriate and direct to be paid to the trustees of the sinking fund out of the income of water rates for the current year the sum of $8,560 to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the principal of the Weymouth Water Loan Bonds.


Art. 24. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $3,000 for the purpose of extending the main water pipe line.


191


Art. 25. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or will appropriate, to provide for any de- ficiencies in the appropriations for the current year, or for any overdraft already made.


Art. 26. To determine in what manner taxes shall be collected the ensuing year, and to fix the rate of interest upon all taxes re- maining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.


Art. 27. To choose a committee on appropriations, to report at the next annual meeting.


Art. 28. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to act as attorneys to defend the town in any suit that may be brought against it.


Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000 for the payment of a note for that amount be- coming due the ensuing year.


Art. 30. To see if the town will recommend the granting [of sixth-class licenses to all druggists in the town, or act in any manner in relation to the same.


Art. 31. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of suppressing the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, and to determine the manner of expending the same.


Art. 32. On petition of M. E. Hawes and others : "To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $40,000, to build a town house at Weymouth Center.


Art. 33. On petition of John A. Connell and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $30,000 to build a high school building at Weymouth Center.


Art. 34. On petition of John G. Worster and others: "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500,- $500 for each Ward,-to sprinkle the main streets of each Ward of the town, from May 1st to October 15th.


Art. 35. To see what sumn of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for working the re-location of Bridge street, as laid out by the County Commissioners.


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Art. 36. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the construction of the street off Sea street, accepted by the town at the last annual meeting.


Art. 37. On petition of John A. Connell and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate $500 to work the street leading from Pleasant street, which was accepted by the town at the last annual meeting."


Art. 38. On petition of John A. Connell and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $600, to be ex- pended on Lake street the ensuing year."


Art. 39. On petition of W. J. Dunbar and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the purpose of draining Commercial square, Water, School, High and Broad streets."


Art. 40. On petition of Arthur Cunningham and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300 to complete the sidewalk on the east side of Middle street, between Hillside avenue and the Bates estate."


Art. 41. On petition of N. B. Peare and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the pur- pose of working the proposed widening and re-location of Cedar street."


Art. 42. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the purpose of working the extension of Phillips street to Prospect street, as laid out and accepted by the town.


Art. 43. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $100 to complete the working of the widening of Torreys lane.


Art. 44. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of working the re-location of Front street, as laid out by the County Commissioners.


Art. 45. On petition of Elbridge Nash and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500 to com- plete Tower avenue, Ward 5."


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Art. 46. On petition of Edgar S. Wright and others : "To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $800 for the purpose of procuring a hook and ladder truck for the Reso- lute Hook and Ladder Company, Ward 5."


Art. 47. On petition of Edward I. Pratt and others : "To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300, or such other sum as may be necessary, for the purpose of purchasing a hose carriage or wagon for the use of Hose Company No. 7 of the Weymouth Fire Department."


Art. 48. On petition of William W. Burke and others: "To see if the town will vote to establish and maintain a plant for electric lighting in town, or act on anything relating thereto."


Art. 49. On petition of George E. Perry and others : "To see if the town will authorize the placing of electric lights on Pond street, from near the Depot to Pooles Corner, the light at the last-named place to be an arc light, and appropriate money for the same."


Art. 50. On petition of Moses R. Greeley and others : "To see if the town will appropriate a sum sufficient to place a marker of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at the grave of each Revolutionary soldier or sailor buried in this town, the expense not to exceed one dollar each."


Art. 51. On petition of John E. Farrell and others : "To see if the town will instruct the Board of Selectmen or Superintendent of Streets that in the employment of teams on the highways an equal division of work be given to owners of teams in the different wards."


Art. 52. On petition of M. W. Lynch and others : "To see if the town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to pay $2.00 per day to all able-bodied men for work performed by the town, whether by contract or otherwise, and preference to be given to the townspeople, and that nine hours shall constitute a full day's work."


Art. 53. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the Selectmen on the re-location of Cedar street.


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Art. 54. At the request of James Humphrey : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate any sum of money for the purpose of making surveys of the boundary and street lines of the town, . preparatory to the making of a correct map of Weymouth, and will appoint a committee to superintend the expenditure of such appropriation."


Art. 55. To see if the town will raise and appropriate $300 for the purpose of re-setting the curbstone and re-paving the gutter on the easterly side of Washington street, from Washington square to Richmond street.


Art. 56. To see if the town will raise and appropriate $250 for the purpose of building a retaining wall on Broad street, opposite the Hunt schoolhouse.


Art. 57. To see if the town will authorize the placing of elec- tric lights on Union street, from near the residence of Edward May to the Rockland line, and appropriate money for the same.




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