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Voted. To refer to Selectmen.
Art. 14. To see if the [town will vote to build and extend the sewer from the corner of Cedar and Albion streets, thence in Albion street to Gould street, thence in Gould street to Byron street, thence in Byron street to Albion street, and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor. Willis A. Cloudman and others.
Voted. To authorize extension, payment to be in five notes or bonds payable $1500, in 1912, $1000, each in 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916.
Art. 15. To see if the town will vote to furnish and install at the Armory of Co. A additional uniform lockers and appa -. ratus for heating the rifle range, also to make necessary
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repairs to the roof and sills of the building, brace up under the assembly room and make needed repairs to the boiler, piping and valves of the main heating plant, and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor, or what they will do about it. George E. Walker and others.
Voted. $700 Committee of three to carry out vote. George E. Walker, John H. McMahan, William H. Tay:
Voted. That a committee of five be appointed to confer with the State authorities to try and procure a State Armory in con - nection with the Town of Stoneham.
Committee : E. J. Gihon, C. A. Dean, G. A. Goodale, Geo. E. Walker, E. C. Miller.
Art. 16. To see if the town will instruct the Municipal Light Plant to install one incandescent light on Nichols street corner Eustis avenue, or what they will do about it. George A. Burgess.
Voted. To instruct Commissioners to install light.
Art. 17. To see if the town will authorize and instruct the Municipal Light Board to illuminate by electric lights the clock dial on the Universalist Church on Main street, or some other clock dial, and raise and appropriate the neces- sary funds for this purpose. Edwin C. Miller and others. Voted. To indefinitely postpone.
Art. 18. To see if the town will authorize and instruct the Municipal Light Board to install an arc light on the corner of Main and Center and to rearrange the lighting of Main street between Water and Lafayette street, installing such adnitional arc and incandescent lights as may seem desirable. Edwin C. Miller, Secretary.
Voted. To authorize Commissioners to make such changes as they may deem desirable.
Art. 19. To see if the town will vote to install a fire alarm box on Renwick Road at such place as the Chief of the Fire De- partment may designate, and raise and appropriate a suffi- cient sum of money therefor, or what they will do about it. George E. Walker and others.
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Voted. $84 to install box.
Art: 20. To see if the town will instruct the school committee to grant the free use of the hall in the H. M. Warren school- house to the West Side Improvement Association and to have installed at once gas or electric lights in said hall. William E. Eaton.
Voted. That use of hall be granted.
Art. 21. To see if the town will provide for the removal of ashes, garbage and other refuse and to raise and appropriate money therefor, or what they will do about it. John J. Butler ahd others.
Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sufficient sum of money to maintain a garbage wagon, for the collec- tion of offal, or what they will do about it. Joseph W. Heath and others.
Voted. To take up Article 22 in connection with Article 21.
Voted. That committee of five be appointed to investigate sub- ject. Committee : L. Withington, J. W. Heath, G. A. Cowdrey, Wm. J. Murphy, Thomas Hickey.
Art. 5. Voted to take up Article 5.
Voted to reconsider appropriation for Police Department.
Voted to add to appropriation $108.80 to be divided equally among the four regular officers.
Art. 23. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money for the proper observance of the 135th anniversary of the Decla- ration of Independence. George W. Abbott and others.
Voted. $450 and balance of $42 from last year.
Committee : George W. Abbott, E. F. Preston, F. E. Bunker, Wm. H. Sullivan, C. H. Stearns.
Art. 24. To see if the town will pay to James Scales, Alice E. Hodgman, Cora Heatherstone and Lottie S. Cox the sum of $50 awarded to the town of Wakefield by the County Com- missioners of Middlesex County in May, 1904, for land damages in the taking of certain land situated on Water street near Oliver street, so called, for the widening of said
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Water street or what they will do about it. John J. Butler and others.
Voted. To refer to Town Counsel to report at Fall meeting.
Art. 25. To see if the town will accept and adopt the report of the committee appointed under Article 32 of the Town War- rant of November 1910, or what they will do about it. John J. Butler.
Voted. To lay on table.
Art. 26. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars for a new floor on the stage of the town hall and the building of a small dressing room at the north of the stage, or what they will do about it. Fred C. Scott and others.
Voted. To instruct Selectmen to have work done, cost to be taken from Town Hall Appropriation.
Art. 27. To see what action the town will take relating to the bath house and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor. M. E. S. Clemons and others.
Voted. To authorize the Selectmen to grant the Y. M. C. A. or any other person or organization the use of the Bath House for public instruction in swimming and to raise and appro- priate $50 for repairs and cleaning up beach.
Art. 28. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of fourty-four (44) dollars to pay John Minniken for services rendered at Forest Glade Cemetery, or what they will do about it. John Minniken and others.
Voted. $44.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to authorize the asses- sors to number the houses on the streets in Precinct 2 and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor, or what they will do about it. J. I. Stewart and others.
Voted. To refer to Selectmen with power to act.
Art. 30. To see if the town will repay to Dennis Greany the amount of taxes illegally assessed upon and collected from said Greany in the town of Wakefield in the years 1901 to
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1908, inclusive, and interest thereon, and to raise and appro- priate money therefor. George M. Poland and others.
Voted. $261.92.
Art. 31. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed under Article 18 of the warrant of November 14th, 1910, relative to the purchase of a certain parcel of land situated on the westerly shore of Crystal Lake.
Committee reported that the town indefinitely postpone further action. Report accepted and adopted.
Art. 32. To see if the town will accept the provisions of Chap- ter 476, Section 1, 2 and 3, entitled an Act relative to vacations for members of police departments, except in the City of Boston, or what they will do about it. George W. Abbott.
Voted. To indefinitely postpone.
Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to pay the regular police officers at the rate of $2.75 per day, or what they will do about it. Louis P. Gowing and others.
Voted. To indefinitely postpone.
Art. 34. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen lay- ing out a town way from the Melrose City line, northerly to a private way known as Pearl street in that part of the town known as Greenwood and being what is now known as Renwick Road and see if the town will accept and allow the same.
Voted. That report as submitted by the Selectmen be accepted and adopted and that Street be accepted and allowed.
Art. 35. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen laying out a new town way from the westerly terminus of Hanson street in Greenwood to the easterly line of the loca- tion of the Boston & Maine Railroad, being the private way now known as Pearl street, and see if the town will accept and allow the same.
Voted. That report as submitted by the Selectmen be accepted and odopted and that Street be accepted and allowed.
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Art. 36. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen in reference to changing the name of Hanson street to Pearl street as called under Article 29 of the November warrant. Voted. To indefinitely postpone.
Art. 37. To see if the town will accept the devices and bequests contained in the will of the late John G. Aborn, or what they will do about it.
Voted. To refer to Town Counsel.
Voted. That the meeting be dissolved.
TOWN MEETING JUNE 19, 1911
Article 1. To choose a Moderator, by ballot, to preside at said meeting.
Thomas G. O'Connell was elected Moderator.
Art. 2. To see what disposition the town will make of the sum of $45,221.63 collected by suit from the American Surety Co. and now in the town treasury, including an appropria- tion therefrom for services of M. E. S. Clemons in prose- cuting said suit or what it will do about it. Charles A. Dean and others.
Voted. That Article 2 be divided, the first division to consider what appropriation shall be made for services of M. E. S. Clemons ; the second division to consider what disposition should be made of the remaining sum.
Voted. To take up first division.
Voted. To pay M. E. S. Clemons $5,000 as a special and total compensation for all services rendered in connection with the suit of the town vs. the American Surety Company.
Voted. That all further action under division 2 be postponed and Article laid upon the table until the Town Treasurer may ascertain and report to the town whether the town can purchase and retire certain of the outstanding Sewer Bonds for each of the years in which the whole issue is still to be paid and to make report also on any other method he may deem
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advisable with respect to using the money mentioned in Article 2 for the payment in part of the Sewer debt.
Resolution. Charles A. Dean introduced the following resolution : That the town of Wakefield expresses its appreciation of the services of the Sewer Commissioners in building the Wake- field Sewerage system and giving years of time to this work. And the contract by which the town's rights were protected is in addition a monument to the faithful and efficient ser- vice of George M. Tompson, William H. Lee and William B. Daniel. That this resolve be printed in the town report. Resolution amended by adding names of O. K. Morgan and John A. Meloney.
Art. 3. To see if the town will vote to purchase land bordering on Crystal lake, and raise and appropriate sums of money therefor, or what they will do about it. Charles A. Dean and others.
Art. 4. To see if the town will vote to issue bonds, notes or scrip, and determine the amount thereof, the proceeds to be used in payment of any land which the town may under the preceding article vote to buy, or what they will do about it. Charles A. Dean and others.
Voted. That Articles 3 and 4 be taken up jointly.
Voted. That a committee of nine be appointed, of which three members shall be the Water Board, to consider subject mat- ter of Articles and report at a future meeting. Committee : H. M. Dolbeare, T. E. Dwyer, F. T. Woodbury, C. N. Winship, Richard Dutton, M. E. S. Clemons and the Water and Sewer Board.
Voted. To adjourn for one week.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, JUNE 26, 1911
C. H. Stearns introduced the following resolution : That a com mittee consisting of the Electric Light Board, the manager of the plant and the Town Counsel be requested to attend a town meeting to be held in the town of Reading Monday
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evening, June 26, in relation to the supplying of gas to the town of Reading. Amended by Dr. Coles that the com- mittee consider the whole subject of the Electric Light and Gas question
Resolution as amended was voted.
Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Wakefield Water and Sewerage Board to employ an engineer to draw plans and lay out as a part of the sewer district of said town the whole or any part of the portion of the town lying south of Broadway and make report thereof at the next town meet- ing and raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor. M. E. S. Clemons and others.
Voted. That the Wakefield Water and Sewerage Board be authorized to employ an engineer and to report at the next town meeting. $500 raised and appropriated therefor.
Art. 6. To see if the town will vote an additional appropriation for the general maintenance of the Municipal Light Plant and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor, or what they will do about it. L. W. Sweetser and others. Voted. $2500.
Art. 7. To see if the town will authorize and instruct the Mu- nicipal Light Board to supply gas to the Town of Reading and the inhabitants thereof, and to lay new gas mains, install gas meters and all other necessary pipes and appliances there- for in said Reading and to repair certain gas mains and gas meters in said town of Reading and raise and appropriate the sum of $25,000 therefor. L. W. Sweetser and others. Art. 8. To see if the town will authorize an issue of bonds to an amount not exceeding $25,000 for a term not exceeding ten years ; make provisions for the payment of said bonds and interest thereon, and appropriate the proceeds of said bonds to the payment of additions, constructions, repairs and re- newals authorized under the preceding article. L. W. Sweetser and others.
Voted. That Article 7 and 8 be acted upon jointly.
Voted. To lay on table pending advice as to action taken by the
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town of Reading.
Art. 2.
Voted. To take up Article 2.
Voted. That the Selectmen and Town Treasurer be and hereby are authorized to use so much of the balance remaining re- covered from the American Surety Company to it ៛40,221.63 as they can advantageously in purchasing outstanding Sewer Bonds of the town, and in such manner as will so far as pos- sible distribute such purchase over the years in which the Sewer Bonds still run, in a proportion which will relieve equally the tax levy for such years.
Art. 9. To see if the town will authorize the Town Treasurer to pay bills of the Municipal Light Dept. in anticipation of re- ceipts of the department. Edwin C. Miller.
Voted. To indefinitely postpone.
Art. 10. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $2240 paid to the town on account of fire insurance in settlement of loss by fire at the Municipal Light Plant to the use of the Municipal Light Department. Edwin C. Miller and others. Voted. To appropriate $2240.
Art. 11. To see if the town will install a fire alarm box at the corner of Water street and Montrose avenue, raise and ap- propriate money therefor, or what they will do about t. Hale L. Cummings and others.
Voted. $115. Location of the box to be determined by the Fire Engineers.
Art. 12. To see if the town will raise and appropriate $271.50 for Clerical help, and examining and transcribing transfers for 1911, for the Board of Assessors. Samuel T. Parker and others.
Voted. $271.50.
Art. 13. To see if the town will vote to accept as a gift the real estate situated at Wakefield Junction, and bounded easterly by Main street (89 ft.) southerly by land of Norcross (154} ft.) westerly by land of Boston & Maine R. R. (107 ft.) and northerly by the court leading to the depot from Main
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street (126} ft.) containing 13,169 square feet, together with the sum of $400, the said sum and the interest thereof to be used under the direction of the Park Commissioners in the care, perpetuation and adornment of said land, or any land exchanged for any part thereof. Eugene S. Hinckley.
Voted. That the town accept the gift of real estate situated at Wakefield Junction as described in the Article together with the sum of $400, to be used as the Article directs.
Voted. That the Park Commissioners be instructed to extend to the donor of the land and money the thanks of the town for his generosity.
Art. 14. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $200 for clerical hire in compiling returns of the financial transactions for the years 1909 and 1910 as requested by the State Bureau of Statistics in accordance with Section 6 Chap- ter 371 of the Acts of 1909 or what they will do about it. Board of Selectmen.
Voted. To refer to the Board of Selectmen with authority to have the work performed at an expense not exceeding $200, to be taken from Miscellaneous Fund.
Art. 15. To see if the town will vote to amend or rescind that part of section seven of the Cemetery Commissioners' Rules and Regulations for Forest Glade Cemetery, which was adopted at the annual town meeting in 1908, to wit: (and no work shall be performed by any of the Commissioners where remuneration is to be paid) or what they will do about it. Hoyt B. Parker.
Voted. To indefinitely postpone.
Voted. To adjourn.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, JULY 10, 1911
Art. 16. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen, to hire a sum of money sufil- cient to meet the appropriations made at this meeting, on a
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term not exceeding one year, and to issue the notes of the town therefor.
Voted. To authorize the Treasurer to hire $3386.50.
Voted. That a committee of five be appointed to ascertain what the Cutler land at the corner of Water and Main streets and the Wakefield land, from the Armory lot south to Richard- son street can be purchased for and report at a future meet- ing.
Committee : George E. Walker, Frank J. Henkel, Wil- liam G. Strong, Clinton H. Stearns, Michael Low.
Voted. That this meeting be dissolved.
TOWN MEETING SEPT. 5, 1911
Article 1. To choose a moderator by ballot to preside at said meeting.
Thomas G. O'Connell was elected Moderator.
Art. 2. To hear and act on a report of the Committee on Armory Repairs appointed at the Spring Town Meeting.
Voted. To lay upon the table.
Art. 3. To hear and act on a report of the Committee appointed at the last l'own Meeting to ascertain prices of the Cutler lot and of land south of the Armory lot for purposes of a High School.
F. J. Henkel reported for the committee. Report accepted and a vote of thanks given the committee.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct. the Board of Selectmen to sell either the old Armory Build- ing or both the building and the land on which it stands and pass title to the same, or what they will do about it. Board of Selectmen.
Voted. That the Board of Selectmen be authorized and instructed to sell either the old Armory Building or both the building and the land on which it stands and pass title to the same.
Art. 2. Voted that Article two be taken from the table.
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Mr. Tay made verbal report for the committee and presented a financial statement showing a balance of $487.83. Voted. That report be accepted.
Voted. That balance of appropriation be turned into the miscel- laneous fund to be used by the Selectmen for any repairs needed to Armory.
Art. 5. To hear and act on a report of the Special Committee on New Armory appointed at the Spring Town Meeting.
Col. E. J. Gihon reported for the committee.
Voted. That report be accepted.
Art. 6. To see if the town will appropriate from the money now in the hands of the town treasurer received from insurance on the Armory, the sum of $1,000, to assist the State in the purchase of a certain lot of land on which to build a new State Armory, and authorize the Town Treasurer to pay same over to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or what they will do about it. John H. McMahon and others.
Voted. To appropriate from sum received from insurance on Armory the sum of $1,000 to assist the State in purchase of land for new Armory ; provided that State decides to buy property known as the Wakefield lot.
Art. 7. To see if the town will appropriate from the money now in the hands of the Town Treasurer received from insurance on the Town Hall, the sum of $100, as extra compensation for the Wakefield Fire Department, and authorize the Town Treasurer to pay same over to the Wakefield Fire Depart- ment as a mark of appreciation of the services rendered by the Department in saving the Town Hall from destruction by fire on the evening of July 6th, 1911, or what they will do about it. George E. Walker and others.
Voted. To appropriate from money received from insurance on Town Hall the sum of $100 as extra compensation for the Fire Dept. as a mark of appreciation of the services rendered at fire of July 6, 1911.
Art .. 8 To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of
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eighteen hundred dollars for the Poor Department, or what they will do about it. Hugh Connell and others.
Voted. $1800.
Art. 9. To see if the town will appoint a Committee to consider the question of better fire protection, and to authorize them to investigate the advisability of the Town purchasing a piece of automobile apparatus for the use of the Fire Department. Said Committee to report at fall town meeting. Edward S. Jacob.
Voted. To appoint a committee of seven to consider subject matter of article and also investigate and outline a plan for placing fire alarm wires in centre of town under ground, to report at Fall Meeting. Committee : W. E. Cade, C. E. Learned, C. L. Sopher, A. S. Hill, E. S. Jacob, F. A. Long, F. S. Hartshorne.
Art. 10. To see if the town will instruct the Sewer Com. missioners to construct a sewer from Converse Street, in and through Dell Avenue, Park Ave. and Stedman Street and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor or what they will do abont it. M. E. S. Clemons and others.
Voted. To lay upon the table.
Art. 11. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to sell the worn out discarded parts of the old stone crusher, or what they will do about it. Board of Selectmen.
Voted. To instruct Selectmen to sell.
Art. 12. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer, with. the approval of its Selectmen, to hire a sum of money suffi cient to meet the appropriations made at this meeting, on a a term not exceeding one year, and to issue the notes of the- town therefor.
Voted. To lay on the table.
Voted. To adjourn to Monday evening Sept. 25th at 7.30 o'clock ..
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ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING SEPT. 25, 1911 Article 10. Voted. To take from table.
Voted. To indefinitely postpone.
Art. 12. Voted. To take from table.
Voted. That Town Treasurer be authorized to hire $1800.
Voted. That this meeting be dissolved.
STATE ELECTION, NOVEMBER 7, 1911
PRECINCT ONE
Meeting called to order in the Town Hall at 6 o'clock A. M. by Warden George M. Poland.
The polls were then declared open and the following Elec- tion Officers were sworn in by Warden George M. Poland :
WARDEN-George M. Poland.
CLERK-J. Fred Parker.
INSPECTORS AND TELLERS-J. D. Alden, J. M. Cate, C. E. Walton, A. G. Abbott, A. L. Cutler, E. S. Jacob, W. H. Sul- livan, M. T. Lane, C. O. Anderson, E. B. Kelly, F. B. Jordan, C. O. Bayrd, G. A. Sheehy, Wm. Logan, A. D. Cate, George E. Potter.
The Ballot Box was opened by the Warden in the presence of the Election Officers and found empty. It registered 000. It was then locked and key given to Police Officer L. N. Tyzzer.
The Ballot Box was opened at 10.33 A. M. for the purpose of packing and pressing down the ballots, it then registered 899.
It was opened again at 12.16 P. M. for the same purpose and registered 1086. At one o'clock P. M. the ballot box was opened for counting, no objection being made, it registered at that time 1245.
At 2.30 P. M. Ballot box opened and registered 1435. " 3.40 P. M. 66 1685.
" 4.30 р. м. 66
66 1772.
The Polls were closed at 4.30 P. M.
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The Ballot Box at that time registered 1772.
At 6.35 o'clock p. M. the ballots having been counted, public declaration of the vote in Precinct 1 was made by the ballot clerk.
PRECINCT Two
At 5.53 A. M. Ballot Box and Four Hundred and fifty Official Ballots arrived.
At 5.57 A. M. Warden Eaton swears in the following Election Officers.
DEPUTY WARDEN-Howard A. Jones.
CLERK- Harry P. Alden.
DEPUTY CLERK-James T. Findley.
INSPECTORS-Frank Evans, Charles W. Cheever.
DEPUTY INSPECTORS-Edward A. Jones, D. F. Reagan.
TELLERS-H. G. Leete, A. M. Baxter, R. L. Pittman, T. F. L. Davis.
At 6.00 A. M. Polls opened and Ballot Box registered 000.
At 7.45 A. M. Ballot Box failed to register and out of order.
At 10 A. M. Two Hundred and fifty nine ballots were removed from the Ballot Box. Two Ballots were torn.
At 2.45 P. M. Fifty six ballots were removed from the ballot box.
At 4.00 P. M. Nine ballots were removed from the ballot box. At 4.15 P. M. Two ballots were removed from the ballot box.
At 4.30 Polls closed. Check list number one shows Three Hundred and Twenty Six cancelled ballots.
Check list number two shows Three Hundred and Twenty Six cancelled ballots.
Total number of ballots cast Three Hundred and Twenty Six. Ballot Box registers Three Hundred and Twenty Five.
Ballot Box Ballots used and unused, tally sheets and total sheet sealed and returned to the Town Clerk.
The complete vote of the town is given herewith by precincts.
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Precincts
Totals
GOVERNOR
James F. Carey
41
9
50
Eugene N. Foss
·
·
·
703
67
770
Eugene N. Foss
179
25
204
Louis A. Frothingham
785
217
1002
Dennis McGoff
0
1
1
Frank N. Rand
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.
8
3
11
Eugene N. Foss
.
.
27
2
29
Blanks
29
2
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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Walter S. Hutchins
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