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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 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 first day of March, 1915, 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 on one ballot for the following named town officers, to wit: Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, five Selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, one As- sessor for three years, Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, two School Committee for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one member of the Board of Health for three years, one Park Commissioner for three years, three Trustees of Tufts Library for three years, one Commissioner 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 question :
" Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
The polls will be opened at a quarter before six o'clock in the forenoon and will 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 Fogg Opera House,
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on Monday, the eighth day of March, 1915, 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, one Pound Keeper and a Planning Board.
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 vote to authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in an- ticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Art. 5. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for a reserve fund.
Art. 6. 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., a legal depository for the securities of the town.
By request of the committee.
Art. 7. To see if the town will vote to reduce the number of its selectmen, overseers of the poor and assessors from five to three members and to' elect the same in the year 1916 in the fol- lowing manner : one for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years, and annually there- after elect one for a term of three years and determine the amount of compensation to be paid to said officers per year or take any action in relation thereto.
Art. 8. On petition of John L. Bean and nine others : To see if the town will vote to amend Section 1 of the town by-laws by striking out the word " first " in the second line and substituting the word " second " and by striking out the word "second" in the fifth line and substituting the word " first"; this amendment to take effect upon its passage.
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Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, on or after January 1, 1916, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1916.
Art. 10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools and for the transportation of pupils to and from school.
Art. 11. On petition of W. S. Wells and nineteen others : To see if the town will erect and furnish a 14 or 16 room building in Ward Three adequate for the use of 560 pupils and will raise by a loan or otherwise and appropriate to those uses a sum suffi- cient for the purpose and take all other action necessary or proper to carry into effect the foregoing proposition.
Art. 12. On petition of the Lovell's Corner Improvement Association : To see if the Town of Weymouth will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred (100) Dollars for the purpose of building a fence on the boundary line between the land of Frank Sherman and the land owned by the Town of Wey- mouth on which the Pratt Schoolhouse stands.
Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repair of highways, townways and bridges and for the removal of snow.
Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of street watering and oiling
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief and support of the poor.
Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief of disabled soldiers and sea- men and for the families of disabled soldiers and seamen under Chapter 79 of the Revised Laws.
Art. 17. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and 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. 18. To see if the town will accept the provisions of Chapter 576 of the Acts of 1907, Sections 102 to 105 inclusive in relation to establishing a municipal buildings insurance fund.
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Art. 19. To see what sum of money if any the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of establishing a municipal buildings insurance fund.
Art. 20. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Fire Department.
Art. 21. On petition of the Fire Engineers : To see if the town will vote to instruct the Engineers to sell apparatus not needed by the Department.
Art. 22. On petition of the Fire Engineers : To see if the town will give the Engineers authority to disband such companies as they think advisable.
Art. 23. On petition of H. B. Chandler and nine others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 to install a fire alarm box on Union Street near Elmwood Cemetery.
Art. 24. On petition of Edward L. O'Brien and fifteen others : To see if the town will vote to install a fire alarm box on Wash- ington Street between Congress and Middle streets and appropri- ate money for the same.
Art. 25. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police work. -
Art. 26. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Tufts Library.
Art. 27. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of a public reading room at Fogg Library.
Art. 28. To see if the town will raise and appropriate $2,500 for the purpose of refunding the Susanna Hunt Stetson fund of that amount and provide that the same shall be invested as a permanent fund.
Art. 29. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the abatement and remittance of taxes.
Art. 30. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest which may be- come due the current year.
Art. 31. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
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Art. 32. To see if the town will vote to cause the report of Louis A. Cook of his visit to Weymouth, England, to be printed and raise and appropriate any sum of money therefor.
Art. 33. To see if the town will authorize the selectmen to acquire by purchase or otherwise, land for park or playground purposes, and vote to raise and appropriate money therefor, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 34. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.
Art. 35. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.
Art. 36. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the rent and care of town offices.
Art. 37. By request of the Planning Board : To see what action if any the town will take in relation to providing a new town hall.
Art. 38. On petition of A. C. Gerstley and nine others : To see if the town will vote to hold its town meetings alternately in the following manner commencing with East Weymouth in 1916, all the meetings of one year to be held at East Weymouth, those of the next year at Bates Opera House, and those of the next yeart at Fogg's Opera House, South Weymouth ; North Wey- mouth to be included in this arrangement when a suitable hall is provided, and, if necessary, a permit secured from the Legislature to use Bates Opera House.
Art. 39. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50 for the care and maintenance of the town parks.
Art. 40. On petition of Chester J. Underhill and sixteen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 to be used in further developing the Webb Park playground.
Art. 41. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths.
Art. 42. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers.
Art. 43. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for election expenses.
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Art. 44. To see what sum of money the town will vote. to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Board of Health.
Art. 45. To see what action the town will take in compliance. with the requirements of Chapter 613 of the Acts of 1911, as. amended by Chapter 151 of the Acts of 1912 and with Chapter 576, Acts of 1911 as amended by the Acts of 1914, Chapter 408, in relation to the establishment of hospitals and dispensaries for the treatment of tuberculosis cases.
Art. 46. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the lighting of streets.
Art. 47. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from the revenue of the Water Works for the current year the sum of $44,095, to be expended for the following purposes, viz : $15- 000 for Superintendent's salary, maintenance and pumping station ; $2,500 for current expenses, Commissioners and Office Expenses ; $10,000 for the installation of meters ; $9,595 for in- terest on bonds, viz : $4,600 on Sinking fund bonds at 4 per cent. on $115,000, $4,410 on Serial bonds at 4₺ per cent. on $98,000, $585 on Serial bonds at 42 per cent. on $13,000 ; $7000 for Serial bonds due this year, viz : $2,000 due May 1 and $5,000 due November 1.
Art. 48. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and direct to be paid to the Trustees of the Sinking Fund from the revenue of the Water Works for the current year the sum of $5,000 to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the Weymouth Water Loan Bonds.
Art. 49. To see if the town will, for the purpose of making new Construction, authorize the issue of bonds to the amount of $5,000 under the authority of Chapter 276 of the Acts of 1913 entitled : "An act to authorize the town of Weymouth to make an additional water loan."
Art. 50. To determine in what manner taxes shall be col- lected the current year and to fix the rate of interest on all taxes remaining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
Art. 51. 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.
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Art. 52. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of completing the survey and plotting of the town and for the making of a lithograph map of the town.
Art. 53. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to commence suit for the recovery of any money or property due it or to prosecute a bill in equity or any other proceedings in court when in their judgment it is expedient in the interest of the town to do so.
Art. 54. To see if the town will accept the report of the committee appointed to prepare a revision of its By-Laws and adopt those so reported or act in any manner in relation thereto.
Art. 55. To see what provisions the town will make for any deficiencies in the appropriations for the year 1914 or for any overdrafts already made.
Art. 56. On petition of Elmer E. Lunt and twenty-one others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) for repairs to the Soldier's Monument and the approaches thereto.
Art. 57. By request of the Committee of the Board of Trade on Playgrounds and Bathing places : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate ($300) three hundred dollars for the purpose of making a plan and survey of proposed playgrounds and bathing locations for the use of the Town's people and an estimate of the cost of each location.
Art. 58. By request of the American Forestry Association : To see what action the town will take, if any, with regard to the planting of shade trees, and to appropriate at least $150 for this purpose in order that the town might enter the Shade Tree Plant- ing Contest donducted by the Massachusetts Forestry Associa- tion.
Art. 59. By request of the George Washington Memorial Association of Washington, D. C .: To see what action the town will take to raise and appropriate $550 for the George Washington Memorial Building, Washington, D. C.
Art. 60. On petition of A. Spencer Marsh and nine others : To see if the town will vote to amend Section thirteen of the town by-laws by adding the following sentence thereto, or take
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any action in relation thereto, "After an article has been con- sidered and definitely rejected at the annual town meeting, no article substantially the same shall be considered until the next annual meeting."
Art. 61. 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. 62. 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. 63. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of two hundred dollars for the purpose of making a permanent memorial of the plot of land on Park Avenue, near the residence of J. F. Martin, whereon are buried several of the early settlers of the South precinct, and also contains the graves of three revolutionary soldiers.
Art. 64. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate for the suppression of forest fires, to be expended under the direction of the Forest Warden.
Art. 65. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate or will appropriate for the building of permanent sidewalks, the same to be expended under the provisions of the betterment act.
Art. 66. To see if the town will instruct its Selectmen to in any way control, regulate or prohibit the taking of clams from the shores and flats of the town.
Art. 67. On petition of Edward Laskey and twenty-four others : To see if the town will install lights on Randolph street from the residence of Nathaniel Derby to the Holbrook line.
Art. 68. On petition of Thomas Burgoyne and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote to install an electric light on Charles Street, widway between the Clapp factory and the corner of Middle and Charles streets, and another to be placed at or near the factory steps.
Art. 69. On petition of Edward L. O'Brien and fifteen others : To see if the town will vote to install electric lights on Washing- ton street from its junction with Main to Middle street.
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Art. 70. On petition of Sarah M. Savage and twelve others : To see if the town will vote to install two lights on Charles Street, one to be placed at or near the Clapp factory and the other at or near the corner of Humphrey Street.
Art. 71. On petition of Mrs. Johnston Kilpatrick and others : To see if the town will vote to install a light on Newton Street near the residence of David F. Wolfe.
Art 72. On petition of Philip Crowder and nineteen others : To see if the town will vote to install an electric light on Moulton Avenue midway between Bridge Street and No. 34 Moulton Avenue.
Art. 73. On petition of James P. Haddie and eleven others : To see if the town will vote to install two electric lights on Union Avenue.
Art. 74. On petition of Thomas Greaney and thirty-three others : To see if the town will vote to install lights so as to suitably light the northerly side of North Street.
Art. 75. On petition of Henry E. Hanley and fifteen others : To see if the town will vote to install an electric light on the pole ·on Raymond Street opposite the residence of Waldo Turner.
Art. 76. On petition of Edward, L. O'Brien and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote to repair Washington street which was partly repaired last year and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 77. To see if the town will vote to incur debt to the amount of $5000 in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 719, Section 5, clause 8 of the Acts of 1913, as amended by Chapter 317 of the Acts of 1914, for macadam pavement or other road material under specifications approved by the Massachusetts Highway Commission, or act in any manner in relation thereto.
Art. 78. At the request of the Planning Board : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of improving Washington street between its junction with Main street and the Hingham line and provide how said sum shal be raised or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 79. On petition of the South Weymouth, North Wey- mouth and Pond Plain Improvement Associations : To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200 to be
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used by the street department in taking care of grass plots en- closed by town highways in all parts of the town.
Art. 80. On petition of P. J. Derrig and ten others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250 for the purpose of working Morrell Street.
Art. 81. On petition of Sidney G. Dunbar and others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400 for the purpose of further construction of Weybossett Street.
Art. 82. On petition of Frank H. Torrey and others ; To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250 for the purpose of continuing the working of Pilgrim Road.
Art. 83. On petition of P. J. Derrig and others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 for the purpose of constructing a suitable sidewalk on Neck Street from Bridge to Shaw Street.
Art. 84. On petition of James W. Colgan and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250 for the purpose of constructing a sidewalk on the westerly side of Bayview street from Bridge Street to the junction of Bayview and Bartlett streets.
Art. 85. On petition of David M. Kidder and twenty-eight others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250 for the purpose of constructing a suitable sidewalk on the easterly side of Pearl street from Crescent Road to Sea street.
Art. 86. On petition of Walter J. Sladen and nine others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for repairs on Green street.
Art. 87. On petition of Braman A. Bennett and nine others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to continue the sidewalk on the westerly side of Union street from No. 251 to Central street
Art. 88. On petition of Richard F. Madden and twenty-one others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) for the purpose of grav- eling White street and sidewalk.
Art. 89. On petition of the Pond Plain Improvement Associ- ation : To see if the town will regravel the sidewalk on the west-
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erly side of Pond street, from the South Weymouth Depot to Fountain Square and raise and appropriate $300 to pay the cost of the same.
Art. 90. To see if the town will raise and appropriate one hundred dollars for the further working of Fogg road.
Art. 91. To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out of alterations in Pleasant Street at and near the house of Stephen French.
Art. 92. To see if the town will raise and appropriate $700.00 for the purpose of the working called for in article 91.
Art. 93. To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out of alterations in Union Street at and near its junction with Pleasant Street.
Art. 94. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $550.00 for the purpose of the working called for by article 93.
Art. 95. To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out of a town way over the private way known as Randall Avenue.
Art. 96. On petition of W. H. Pratt and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the laying out and working of Randall Avenue as a public way.
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 twenty-fifth day of February, 1915.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this eleventh day of Feb- ruary in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifteen.
EDWARD W. HUNT, BRADFORD HAWES, GEORGE L. NEWTON, HENRY E. HANLEY,
Selectmen of Weymouth.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, S.S.
WEYMOUTH, February 19th, 1915.
I have this day served the within warrant by posting a copy thereof attested by me in writing in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said Town of Weymouth seven days be- fore the time of holding said meeting.
PATRICK BUTLER, Constable of Weymouth.
A true copy. Attest :
JOHN A. RAYMOND, Town Clerk.
ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION.
WEYMOUTH, March 1, 1915.
A meeting of the Registrars of Voters was held at the Town Office, Savings Bank Building, East Weymouth, this evening, for the purpose of examining the returns of votes cast in the several precincts this day for Town Officers, and to make an aggregate of the same, and found that the following persons having received the largest votes cast, were declared as elected to their respective offices, viz :-
TOWN CLERK, John A. Raymond.
TOWN TREASURER, John H. Stetson.
SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, Ralph P. Burrell,
Bradford Hawes,
Henry E. Hanley,
Edward W. Hunt,
George L. Newton.
COLLECTOR OF TAXES, Winslow M. Tirrell.
ASSESSOR, For Three Years,
Leavitt W. Bates.
PARK COMMISSIONER For Three Years, J. Herbert Walsh.
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WATER COMMISSIONER For Three Years, Frank H. Torrey. SCHOOL COMMITTEE For Three Years,
Prince H. Tirrell, Theron L. Tirrell.
AUDITORS,
Frank N. Blanchard, William H. Pratt, William E. Thayer.
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS LIBRARY For Three Years,
Louis A. Cook, William F. Hathaway, John B. Holland.
TREE WARDEN,
Charles L. Merritt.
BOARD OF HEALTH
For Three Years, John S. Williams.
COMMISSIONER OF WARD TWO SCHOOLHOUSE SINKING FUND BONDS For Three Years, William C. Earle.
CONSTABLES,
Charles W. Baker, George B. Bayley, George W. Conant, Elbert Ford, George W. Nash,
Charles W. Barrows, Patrick Butler, Thomas Fitzgerald, Willard F. Hall, Arthur H. Pratt.
Attest :
JOHN A. RAYMOND,
Town Clerk.
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The result of the ballot was as follows :
TOWN CLERK.
PRECINCT.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Total
John A. Raymond
185
257
346
186
328
273
1575
Blanks
39
78
135
39
82
118
491
Total
224
335
481
225
410
391
2066
TOWN TREASURER
John H. Stetson
181
244
330
186
328
240
1509
Blanks
43
91
151
39
82
151
557
Total
224
335
481
225
410
391
2066
SELECTMEN.
Ralph P. Burrell .
150
230
295
185
375
207
1442
Henry E. Hanley
166
274
302
170
287
343
1542
Bradford Hawes .
.
158
216
239
168
276
188
1245
Edward W. Hunt
148
164
236
141
237
155
1081
·George L. Newton
170
- 204
230
153
245
181
1183
H. Franklin Perry Blanks
71
141
304
86
127
158
887
257
446
799
222
503
723
2950
Total
1120 1675 2405 1125 2050 1955
10330
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Ralph P. Burrell .
150
224
290
183
364
201
1412
Henry E. Hanley
161
261
289
166
280
328
1485
Bradford Hawes .
160
210
233
167
268
179
1217
Edward W. Hunt
143
161
237
133
234
147
1055
George L. Newton
167
202
228
149
242
170
1158
H. Franklin Perry Blanks
69
131
285
86
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