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Last year's report showed the total number aided out of the Home as 286 individuals in 124 families of one or more. The year now closed shows a gratifying decrease, the whole number being 238, of whom 57 were on account of the State or of other towns or cities. Of the number aided in the past year 96 were . males and 142 females. The total number receiving aid at the close of the year is 196.
The cost for aid to the poor out of the Home has been as follows :
For the town's poor $8,581.13
For those having no settlement here 1,604.09
Total
$10,185.22
All of the cities and many of the large towns of the State have private charity organizations which materially lighten the burdens of the public charities. We realize the fact that much good is done by individuals in our communities in ministering to the needs of the poor, but believe there is a field in our town where a well organized charity could do great good, especially if some of our good citizens who are blessed with an abundance of this world's goods were moved to devote some portion of their means to its endowment, and in so doing lighten the burden of the town which it now' carries in the relief of the poor.
TOWN PHYSICIANS.
The physicians appointed in the work of this department for the year ending June 1, 1911, are as follows : Ward One and the Town Home, William A. Drake; Ward Two, John C. Fraser ; Ward Three, George D. Bullock ; Ward Four, Karl H. Granger ; Ward Five, Edward N. Maybury.
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If the usual list of names of those who have been aided or sup- ported by the town is missed from this report its absence can be accounted for by the provisions of the following act of the last session of the General Court :
Acts of 1910, Chap. 412, Sec. 1. No city or town, and no department or official of any city or town in this commonwealth, shall publish in any annual or other report for general distribu- tion to the public, or to the citizens of any city or town, the names of persons assisted in any way by the poor department of any city or town, or the names of any person receiving aid under the provisions of chapter seventy-nine of the Revised Laws and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, residing in such city or town.
EDWARD W. HUNT, BRADFORD HAWES, GEORGE L. NEWTON, WILLARD J. DUNBAR, A. FRANCIS BARNES,
Overseers of the Poor of Weymouth.
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town 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, Three, Five and Six, in the halls of the Fire Engine Houses located in those precincts respectively ; in precinct numbered Two, at the Odd Fellows' Opera House, and in precinct numbered Four, at the Hose House at Nash's Corner, on Monday. the seventh day of March next, at five o'clock and forty-five minutes in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the wardens of their several precincts their votes ou one ballot for the following named town officers, to wit: Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, five Selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, two Assessors for three years, Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, two School Committee for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one member of Board of Health for one year, one for two years and one for three years, of which board one must be a physician, one Park Commissioner for three years, three Trustees of Tufts Library for three years and one for one year for the unexpired term of Preston Pratt, removed, one Commis- sioner for the Sinking Fund of the James Humphrey School House for three years, one Tree Warden and ten Constables, and to vote on the same ballot, " Yes" or "No," upon the following ques- tion :
" Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
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The polls will be opened at a quarter before six o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at one o'clock in the afternoon.
You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Town Hall on Monday, the fourteenth day of March, next, at nine o'clock and fifteen minutes in the forenoon, then and there to act on the fol- lowing articles, namely :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose all necessary town officers other than those elected by ballot, viz. : Public Weighers, Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark; two or more Fence Viewers; two or more Field Drivers and one Pound Keeper.
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 committees the town may think proper.
Art. 4. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of a majority of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year begining January 1, 1910, in anticipation of the collection of taxes of said year such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the town, but not ex- ceeding the total tax levy of said year, giving the note or notes of the town therefor, payable within one year from the dates thereof.
Art. 5. To see if the town will designate the First National Bank of South, Weymouth, the First National Bank of Boston and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, as legal depositories for the funds of the town, and the First National Safe Deposit Company of Boston, Mass., as a legal depository for the securities of the town.
Art. 6. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools and for trans- portation of pupils to and from school.
Art. 7. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appopriate for the repair of highways, townways and bridges and for the removal of snow.
Art. 8. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief and support of the poor. .
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Art. 9. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen and for the families of disabled soldiers and seamen, under Chapter 79 of the Revised Laws.
Art. 10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to appropriate for the payment of State and Military Aid and for burials, under the provisions of Chapter 468, of the Acts of 1909 and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
Art. 11. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the fire department.
.Art. 12. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Tufts Library.
Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of a public reading- room at the Fogg Library.
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the abatement and remittance of taxes.
Art. 16. To see what action the town will take in regard to a note of $5,000 which becomes due May 8, 1910.
Art. 17. To see what aetion the town will take in regard to a note of $7,500 which becomes due June 15, 1910.
Art. 18. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest which may become due the ensuing year.
Art. 19. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
Art. 20. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.
Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.
Art. 22. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the rent and care of town offices.
Art. 23. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for care and repair of the Town Hall.
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Art. 24. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from the revenue of the Water Works for the current year the sum of $28,875.00 to be expended for the following purposes, viz : $19,675.00 for interest on the Weymouth water loan bonds, becoming due the ensuing year ; $7,500.00 for Superintendent's salary, maintenance of works and pumping station, and $1,700.00 for current expenses, Commissioners and office expenses.
Art. 25. To see if the town will appropriate and direct to be paid to the Trustees of the Sinking Fund out of the income of the water rents for the current year the sum of $9,000.00 to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the Weymouth water loan bonds.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for the purpose of making further construction of the Water Works.
Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,000.00 for hydrants and for the water rents and care of drinking fountains.
Art. 28. To see what sum of money the town will appropri- ate for the purpose of street watering and to determine what part of the same shall be raised by general taxation.
Art. 29. By request of the Park Commissioners : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the care and maintenance of the town parks ..
Art. 30. To see what sum of money the town' will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of the gypsy and brown- tail moths.
Art. 31. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers.
Art. 32. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for election expenses.
Art. 33. On petition of the Trustees of Tufts' Library : To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to lay a floor tn the hall of the Tufts' Library Building.
Art. 34. At the request of the Water Commissioners : To see if the town will instruct the Water Commissioners not to issue licenses for boating and fishing on Weymouth Great Pond.
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Art. 35. At the request of the Water Commissioners : To see if the town will vote to authorise the Board of Water Commis- sioners to purchase, subject to the approval of the State Board of Health, snch land bordering the shore of Weymouth Great Pond, as in the judgment of said commissioners, may be deemed neces- sary for the purpose of protecting the town's water supply from pollution, and to provide for payment of land so purchased.
Art. 36. By request of Thomas F. Brady: To see if the town will vote to pay Thomas F. Brady for labor at the Pumping Station, from and including November 15, 1902, to January 1, 1905-Sunday work-as suit is still pending in Norfolk Superior Court at Dedham.
Art. 37. By request of the Police of Weymouth : To see if the town will accept the provisions of Section 37, Chapter 19, of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts in its application to the police force, thereby placing the said force under the rules and regulations of the Civil Service.
Art. 38. On petition of H. B. Reed and thirty others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the maintenance of the Board of Health.
Art. 39. On petition of Harry W. Kimball and twenty-nine others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50,000 for a school house and site in South Weymouth.
Art. 40. Ou petition of W. H. Mace and twelve others : To see if the town will vote to place a fire alarm box on Washing- ton Street, opposite Lake View Park.
Art. 41. On petition of George E. Perry and nine others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for a fire alarm box to be located on Main Street, near . the residence of Emery Staples.
Art. 42. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for electric lighting of the streets.
Art. 43. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate toward the Sinking Fund for the payment at maturity of the James Humphrey School House bonds.
Art. 44. To determine in what manner taxes shall be col- . lected the ensuing year and to fix the rate of interest on all taxes remaining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
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Art. 45. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the preservation of shade trees, the same to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
Art. 46. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of continuing the survey and plotting of the town.
Art. 47. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to commence suit for the collection or recovery of any money or property due it.
Art. 48. To see what provision the town will make for any deficiencies in the appropriations of the current financial year or for any overdrafts already made.
Art. 49. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to contract with the Massachusetts Highway Commission for the construction of a section of the State highway on Main Street.
Art. 50. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to sell any real estate of which it may be possessed and for which it has no further use.
Art. 51. By request of the State Forester: To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the pur- chase of forest fire fighting equipment for use by the Forest War- den.
Art. 52. . On petition of Elmer E. Leonard and twenty-one others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500.00 for the purpose of purchasing an automobile hose wagon to be used as a part of the fire apparatus at Weymouth and to be located in Ward Two, or to take such other action as the towu may desire.
Art. 53. On petition of John H. Driscoll and . seventeen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of purchasing a suitable piano for the Town Hall. .
Art. 54. On petition of Walter W. Pratt and twenty-five others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $30.00 for a new pump at Lovell's Corner.
Art. 55. On petition of the Pond Plain Improvement Society : To see if the town will raise and appropriate $1,500.00 for the continuation of the gravelling, grading and laying out of side- walks on Pond Street.
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Art. 56. On petition of the Pond Plain Improvement Society : To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the purchase of three hundred feet of fire hose, to be used for fire purposes under the direction of the Fire Protection Committee of the Pond Plain Improvement Society.
Art. 57. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the further working of Loud Street.
Art. 58. On petition of Patrick Coffey and fifteen others ; To see if the town will install an electric light on Grove Street, about midway between Raymond and Myrtle Streets, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 59. On petition of George H. Nelson and fifteen others : To see if the town will install two incandescent lights on Commer- cial Street, between Union Avenue and King Oak Hill.
Art. 60. On petition of Frank H. Graves and seven others ; To see if the town will place two electric incandescent lights, one on Monatiquot Street and one on Bluff Road, at most desirable position midway of their extent, and raise and appropriate a suf- ficient sum of money therefor.
Art. 61. On petition of Charles H. Clapp and others : To see if the town will instruct the electric light committee to place one more electric light on Hollis Street, near the house of the late Roswell Corbin.
Art. 62. On petition of John Kohler and others : To see if the town will extend its electric light service on Main Street, South Weymouth.
Art. 63. On petition of John L. Morton and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote to place an electric light on the bend of Washburn street, East Weymouth, near the residence of John L. Morton.
Art. 64. Oh petition of Arthur W. Phillips and nine others : To see if the town will instruct its electric light committee to install a light on Bay View Street, between Bridge Street and Holbrook Road, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 65. On petition of Russell G. Hunt and nine others : To see if the town will instruct the electric light committee to place an electric light at the corner of Granite and Summit Streets.
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Art. 66. On petition of Russell G. Hunt and nine others : To see if the town will instruct the electric light committee to place an electric light at the corner of Keith and Summit Streets.
Art. 67. On the petition of Eliot C. Pierce and seventeen others : To see if the town will vote that another electric light be placed on the street known as Commercial Street, between the railroad station and Webb Street, or the present lights be so located that sufficient light shall be furnished to the users and residents of said Commercial Street.
Art. 68. On petition of Percy L. Bicknell and others: To see if the town will vote to locate and maintain an electric light on Burton Terrace on pole opposite house of W. A. Harris, or act in any manner in relation thereto.
Art. 69. On petition of Miles P. Keene and nine others : To see if the town will instruct its electric light committee to install a light on Green Street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 70. On petition of Elis Milette and thirty-two others : To see if the town will vote to install three additional electric lights on Norton Street, beginning at North Street.
Art. 71. On petition of W. R. Field and thirty-three others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 to build a three-foot granolithic extension (with the nec- essary crossings of streets and driveways) to the present concrete sidewalk from Independence Square to the South Weymouth Railroad statiou, or act in any manner in regard to the same.
Art. 72. To see if the town will accept the report of the Se- lectmen upon the laying out of a proposed town way over a part of the private way known . as Wessagussett Road, from Sea Street to a private way known as Hobomack Road.
Art, 73. On petition of Ashton S. Frothingham and ten others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the working of Wessagussett Street from Sea Street to Hobomack Road.
Art. 74. To see if the town will accept the report of the Se- lectmen upon the laying out of a proposed town way over the private way known as Leonard Road and through land of Henry A. Nash, from Sea Street to Bay View Street.
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Art. 75. On petition of Leonard F. Wolfe and eleven others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400 for the working of Leonard Road.
Art. 76. To see if the town will accept the report of the Se- lectmen upon the laying out of a proposed townway over the private way known as Bicknell Road, from Bay View Street to Holbrook Road.
Art. 77. On petition of Merton Y. Clement und nine others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400 for the working of Bicknell Road.
Art. 78. On petition of John H. Thompson and twenty-two others : To see if the town will vote to pay the sum of $2.25 per day to all able bodied men for labor on the highways and water works and the sum of $1.75 per day for each horse so em- ployed.
Art. 79. On petition of Nelson B. Gladwyn and fifteen others : To see if the voters of this town will vote to raise and appropriate $1,000 or any other sum to repair the sidewalk on River Street and Neck Street south as far as Lovell Street.
Art. 80. On petition of William H. Trask and twenty-two others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 to complete the working of Phillips Street.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting a copy thereof attested by you in writing in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the third day of March next.
Given under our hands at Weymouth, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ten.
GORDON WILLIS, BRADFORD HAWES, GEORGE L. NEWTON, EDWARD W. HUNT, WILLARD J. DUNBAR,
Selectmen of Weymouth.
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WEYMOUTH, February 26, 1910.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified and warned the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid to meet at the respective places and times and for the purposes set forth in said warrant by posting a true and attested copy thereof in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting, as therein directed.
PATRICK BUTLER, Constable of Weymouth.
A true copy. Attest : JOHN A. RAYMOND, Town Clerk.
ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION.
A meeting of the Registrars of Voters was held at the Town Office Savings Bank Building on Monday, March 7th, 1910, for the purpose of canvassing the votes cast in the several precincts for Town Officers as certified to by the precinct officers and found that the following having received the largest number of votes cast, were duly elected to their respective offices :
TOWN CLERK. John A. Raymond. TOWN TREASURER. John H. Stetson.
SELECTMEN.
A. Francis Barnes, Willard J. Dunbar,
Bradford Hawes, Edward W. Hunt,
George L. Newton.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
A. Francis Barnes,
Willard J. Dunbar,
George L. Newton.
Bradford Hawes, Edward W. Hunt,
COLLECTOR OF TAXES. Winslow M. Tirrell.
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ASSESSORS. For Three Years. Frank H. Torrey. John F. Dwyer.
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PARK COMMISSIONER. For Three Years. Arthur H. Alden.
WATER COMMISSIONER. For Three Years. Douglas M. Easton. SCHOOL COMMITTEE. For Three Years.
H. Franklin Perry, Clarence P. Whittle.
AUDITORS.
Frank N. Blanchard, John P. Hunt, William H. Pratt.
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS LIBRARY. For Three Years.
James H. Flint, Frederick T. Hunt, Clarence P. Wnittle.
TRUSTEE OF TUFTS LIBRARY. For One Year. Joseph E. Gardner.
BOARD OF HEALTH. For Three Years. George E. Emerson.
BOARD OF HEALTH. For Two Years.
John S. Williams.
BOARD OF HEALTH. For One Year. Nelson B. Gladwin.
TREE WARDEN. Charles L. Merritt.
COMMISSIONER OF WARD TWO SCHOOL HOUSE SINKING FUND BONDS. Willard J. Dunbar.
CONSTABLES.
Michael Allen, George W. Conant, John L. Maynard, Nathaniel B. Peare, Isaac H. Walker,
George B. Bailey, Thomas Fitzgerald, George W. Nash, Arthur H. Pratt, John D. Walsh.
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The result of the vote was as follows :
TOWN CLERK.
PRECINCT.
1
2
3 309
163
236
191
1283
Blanks .
45
80
217
80
78
124
624
Total. .
222
287
526
243
314
315
1907
TOWN TREASURER.
John H. Stetson
175
189
301
157
243
167
1232
Blanks
47
98
225
86
71
148
675
Total
222
287
526
243
314
315
1907
SELECTMEN.
A. Francis Barnes . .
149
144
238
137
204
111
983
Willard J. Dunbar . .
165
179
269
133
191
169
1106
Andrew L. Flint . . ..
16
31
47
13
25
25
157
Bradford Hawes . ...
156
158
249
148
199
130
1040
Abbott Healey . .
39
109
174
82
108
175
687
Edward W. Hunt ...
156
158
360
145
191
125
1135
George L. Newton . . Blanks
179
166
268
135
191
149
1088
250
490 1025
422
461
691
3339
Total
1110 1435 2630 1215 1570 1575
9535
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
A. Francis Barnes .. .
145
135
227
130
194
101
932
Willard J. Dunbar . .
152
164
254
130
179
151
1030
Andrew L. Flint.
..
17
30
46
11
23
19
146
Bradford Hawes . .. .
148
142
241
140
181
113
965
Abbott Healey .
38
99
148
77
94
161
617
Edward W. Hunt ...
142
145
332
131
185
117
1052
George L. Newton . . Blanks
177
148
253
126
182
134
1020
291
572
1129
470
532
779
3773
Total.
1110 1435 2630 1215 1570 1575
9535
COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Winslow M. Tirrell ..
174
202
306
159
221
191
1253
Blanks
48
85
220
84
93
124
654
Total
222
287
526
243
314
315
1907
4
5
6
Total
John A. Raymond .. .
177
207
....
..
115
ASSESSOR FOR THREE YEARS.
PRECINCT.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Total.
Charles T. Bailey .. .
108
117
166
101
165
79
736
John F. Dwyer .....
76
131
384
104
118
191
1004
Andrew L. Flint ....
9
25
15
9
5
14
77
Frank H. Torrey ...
168
136
152
108
178
107
849
Walter White.
ยท
5
11
28
7
7
11
69
Blanks
78
154
307
157
155
228
1079
Total.
444
574 1052
486
628
630
3814
PARK COMMISSIONER FOR THREE YEARS.
Arthur H. Alden .. .
161
142
230
118
171
115
937
Albert G. Turpel .. .
8
47
40
12
22
46
175
Blanks
53
98
256
113
121
154
795
Total.
222
287
526
243
314
315
1907
WATER COMMISSIONER FOR THREE
YEARS.
Douglas M. Easton.
134
143
213
120
157
98
865
Joseph P. Ford . . ..
41
73
66
32
54
125
391
Henry B. Vogell ....
5
18
24
3
15
19
84
Blanks
42
53
223
88
88
73
567
Total.
222
287
526
243
314
315
1907
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THREE YEARS.
Louis A. Cook .....
118
114
255
104
129
117
837
Harry W. Kimball. .
68
94
94
97
191
58
602
H. Franklin Perry. .
86
194
367
102
90
233
1072
Rufus S. Turpel . ...
5
20
17
4
5
15
66
Clarence P. Whittle.
133
142
337
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