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Aug. 24.
Donald Normand Frazer.
Aug. 25. George Martin. Jr.
Aug. 27. Arthur Orville Pike.
Aug. 28.
-Amero (Male).
Sept. 1.
Mendes (Male).
Sept. 5.
Irene Gracia. Everett Curtis Pittsley, Jr. -Lemos (Female) .
Sept. S. Sept. 8.
William Penn Briggs.
Sept. 10. Delbert Dammon Hirst.
Sept. 11. Herbert Edwin Neville, Jr.
Sept. 15. Richard ( Male).
Sept. 18.
Lorina Rua.
Sept. 21. Macedo (Male).
Sept. 21. Leguer (Female).
Sept. 22. Tollenti (Female).
Sept. 25.
Robert Antone Ramos.
Sept. 7.
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Births Registered in Fairhaven in 1924-(Continued)
Date
Name of Child.
Sept. 27.
Myrtle Gladys Nordell.
Sept. 28.
Ruth Silva.
Sept. 28.
-Bartello (Male).
Sept. 29.
-Arseneau (Female).
Oct. 1.
William Cross, Jr.
Oct. 2. -Bilodeau ( Male ).
Oct. 3.
Correia (Male).
Oct. 10. Catherine Cowen Crabe.
Oct. 10. Mary Louise Bennett.
Oct. 1ɔ̃. Natalie Elizabeth Kerwin.
Oct. 16. Barbara Dean.
Oct. 18. Loretta Raymond Burgo.
Oct. 19. Dorothy Mabel Gardner.
Oct. 21. Alice Gomes.
Oct. 25. Francis Jos. Kean.
Oct. 25. James Franklin Easter. Jr.
Oct. 25.
Albert Foster (Twin).
Oct. 25.
Alfred Foster (Twin).
Oct. 27.
Constantine Gulecas.
Oct. 27.
Ethel Louise Eldredge.
Oct. 28.
Irena Luis.
Nov. 1.
Elizabeth Raiche.
Nov. 5. Rosa Dagesse.
Nov. 5.
Alice Mareira.
Nov. 7.
Hazard ( Male).
Nov. 9.
Elinor Morrissette.
Nov. 10.
Agnes Braga.
Nov. 11.
Brackett (Male).
Nov. 11.
Jane Elizabeth D'Anjou.
Nov. 11. Francis Roberts, Jr.
Nov. 12. Jenney (Female).
Nov. 16. Rocha ( Male).
Nov. 16. Blanche Claire Berube.
Nov. 18. Joseph Alphonse Romeo Faford.
Nov. 24. Elaine Claire Luckraft.
Nov. 24. Janet Baker Swift.
Nov. 26. Carlton Russell Driscoll.
Nov. 27. Lindsey Shepherd Gifford.
Nov. 6.
Caton (Female).
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Births Registered in Fairhaven in 1924-(Continued)
Date
Name of Child.
Dec. 1. Mary Santos.
Dec. 1.
-Timms (Male).
Dec. 1. Manuel Medeiros, Jr.
Dec. 6. Myrtle Ayis Dort.
Dec. 9. Stanley Richard Francis.
Dec. 18. Martin (Female).
Dec. 21. Thomas Gilbert Livesey.
Dec. 22.
-Jarvis (Female).
Dec. 22.
Warren Melvin Baldwin.
Dec. 23.
Jason (Male).
Dec. 24.
Azlene Madelyon Benjamin.
Dec. 24.
Burrell (Male).
Dec. 30.
Frank Archer Queripel, Jr.
Dec. 31.
Jerome (Male).
Carena
1925
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN 1924
Date. Groom.
Bride.
Jan. 3. Ralph Gibbs to Ruth Malvina Douglass.
Jan. 5. Percy Edward Silver to Marion Ruth Humphrey.
Jan. S Delbert Eben Hirst to Ruby Dammon.
Jan. 19. Alvah Gladu to Laura Alice Desroches.
Jan. 19. Jack Revell to Ruth Broughton.
Jan. 26. Paul Aime Neron to Marie Aurora Richard.
Feb. 21. George Clinton Smith to Celina Florence Bruyere.
Feb. 21. Frank Joseph Francis to Ida Gertrude Hiller Sylvia.
Feb. 22.
Warren Francis Griffin to Ethel Wheeler Doran.
Feb. 23. Manuel James Furtado to Mary Bettencourt.
Feb. 24. George David Kennedy to Agnes Smith Mowatt.
Feb. 25. Frank Gularte to Sylvia Perry.
Mar. 1. Fred Cliffe to Edith Isherwood.
Mar. 8. William A. Bumpus to Lillian May Ravenhill Abbott.
Mar. 8. Albert Santos to Ethel I. Maxcy.
Mar. 16. Howard Eugene Brightman to Mabel Elizabeth Francis.
Mar. 29. John Hosker to Marion Isherwood.
Apr. 5. Milton Howland Frost to Marjorie Alice Nichols.
Apr. 19. James Cyril Mercer to Alice Mildred Giegerich.
Apr. 19. James Reed. Jr., to Emily Gretiss Gething.
Apr. 21. William Henry Hagen to Bridie Teresa Hartigan.
Apr. 28. Howard Cushman Mandell to Katheryn Leonard Morse.
May 5.
Noel Bouchard Couture to Leda Benoit.
May 19. Orias Joseph Babineau to Fedora DeBlois.
May 20. William Adolph Erlbeck to Emily L. Taylor.
May 22. Herbert Edward Vowles to Bessie E. Fairchild.
May 28. Edward Marsh to Leah Amelia Goode.
May 30. Herbert Wilson Stevens to Lillian May Hall.
May 31. Lawrence Berry Taylor to Faith Dudgeon:
June 7. Manuel Baptista to Benvinda Robbins.
June 7. Samuel Longworth to Selina Shaw.
June 11. Franklin Benjamin Allen to Elva Annabel Rose.
June 12. Charles Philip Thatcher to Helen May Goodhue.
June 14. Chester Rodman Wing to Abbie Russell Allen.
Apr. 30. George Nelson Gardiner to Edith Irene Benson Frank Maria Gonsalves to Theresa Avilla.
May 5.
Joseph Rocha Pacheco to Mary Grace Oliver.
Feb. 19.
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Marriages Registered in Fairhaven in 1924-(Continued)
Date.
Groom.
Bride.
June 14. Manuel T. Bota to Maria Beruardo.
June 16. Albert Maria Gonsalves to Mary Gracia Andrade.
June 17. Clayton Earlman Fisher to Alberta Waldron Campbell.
June 18. Charles Justin Lincoln to Edith Jane Vestal.
June 21. Earle Francis Sears to Elsie Irene Knott.
June 23. Frank Antoine Hoffman to Louise Mathilda Simon.
June 23. Oliver Benoit to Delina Barie.
June 23. John Maxim Ryder to Martha Veronica Ford.
June 24. John Ferreira to Lillian Jeanette Braley.
June 25. Rudolph Dvorak to Olive Mosher Pardee.
June 28.
William Robert Crump, Jr., to Florence May Bullen.
July 3. Henry Howland Taber to Cora Evelyn Schultz.
.July 3. Arthur Dewhurst to Olive Sellers.
July 5. John Sylvia Roderick to Ethelina Piva.
July 7.
Earl Sumner Whiting to Madeline Besse Caswell.
July 7. Joseph Boehler to Ellen Louise Dunn.
July 8.
George Edward Sylvia, Jr., to Ida Gertrude Gerber.
July
19. Peter Murray to Margaret Adams Ross.
July 10. Lawrence Vernon Robinson to Ada Calverley.
July 16. Napoleon Boivin to Edith Hargraves.
July 26. John J. Gonsalves to Lena Jean Baptiste.
July 26. Francisco Gonsalves Brazil to Emilia Marguerite Amancio.
July 27. Spiros Houlis to Mary Ridings.
July 28. Albert Maxim Racine to Mabel Delia Couture.
July 28. Paolo Salotti to Mary Medeiros.
July 28. Joseph Bissaillon to Marie Alma Ross.
Aug. 4.
Eugene John Carroll to Alice Josephine Gaucher.
Aug. 4. Leroy Calvin Sisson to Mary Georgianna Jepson.
Aug. 23. Frank Judson Moody to Millicent Alida Maxfield.
Aug. 28. Henry Helt Draper to Marion Augusta Becker.
Aug. 28. Arthur Ensebe Tousignant to Margaret Mary Ward.
Sept. 1. John Santos to Isabella Perry.
Sept. 1. Antone Duarte Mello to Theresa Agnes Kelley.
Sept. 6. Everett Sanford Ransom to Elsie May Higgins. Sept. 7. Joseph Isadore Flourent. Jr., to Dina Lilea Benoit. Sept. 8. Sterling Kingsley Wilson to Alice Louise Silva.
Sept. 8. James Anderson McKay to Evelyn Elsie Hathaway.
Sept. 16. Arthur Lewis to Mildred Nancy Barker.
Sept. 22. Manuel Andrade to Maria Silvinia Freitas.
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Marriages Registered in Fairhaven in 1924-(Continued)
Date.
Groom.
Bride.
Sept. 23. Robert Bakewell Collinge to Claire Francis Lovejoy.
Sept. 27. Earl Manchester to Alice Eleanor Johnson.
Sept. 27. Walter Sylvia Roderick to Gloria DeMello.
Sept. 30. William James Telford to Agnes Veronica Duff.
Oct. Henry Royal Holt to Florence Mildred Wheeler.
Oct.
1. 4. Robert Francis Packard to Elizabeth Aun Lawrence.
Oct. 6. Joseph Andrew Kobak to Florence Goulart Freitas.
Oct. 6. Frank Argyle Jepson to Florence Agnes Porter.
Oct. 6. Norman Duckworth to Margaret Helen Porter.
Oct. 11. Jonathan Borden to Emma Louise Christopher.
Oct. 19. Antone Thomas Sylvia to Doris Velina Davis.
Oct. 20.
Manuel Viera Costa to Maud Ellen Strahan.
Oct. 20.
Antone Ferreira Beserra to Seraphina Souza.
Oct. 22. Charles Philip Nye to Gladys Pearl Goodspeed. Josephi Furtado to Ada Fowler.
Oct. 25.
Horace Souza Rezendes to Anna Rose Marshall. Eugene Bert McGilvery, Jr., to Elizabeth Mary Mylott.
Nov. 1. William Edward Goodwin to Amy Maybelle Hallows.
Nov. 4. Edward J. Lafferty to Florence Galligan.
Nov. 7.
Lloyd Kirby Rourke to Leona Maillette. Frank Marks to Maria Perpatua Oliveira.
Nov. 10.
Milton Irving Pardee to Lydia Frances Staples.
Nov. 22.
Bradford Woodhouse Braley to Bertha Mae Russell. Theodore Borges to Isabel Arruda.
Nov. 24.
Joseph Gonsalves Sylvia to Mary Alexander.
Nov. 28. Antone Soares Medeiros, Jr., to Mary Isabel Foster.
Nov. 27. Cory Madison Babbitt to Alice Chadwick Ray.
Dec. 10. James Broome to Christina Garry.
Dec. 15. Henry Armand Desjardins to Gladys Mae Nolan.
Dec. 18. Stephen E. Cheever to Helen F. Savary.
Dec. 19. Oscar Linwood Whipple to Marion Bassett Johnson.
Dec. 20. Charles F. James to Sadie L. Stowell.
Dec. 20. John F. Donnelly to Ada L. Farrell.
Oct. 20.
Arthur A. Desrosiers to Maria Laura Lillianne Foisy.
Oct. 25.
Oct. 30.
Nov. S.
Nov. 20.
Bartholomew Anthony Davis to Elma May Machado.
Nov. 22.
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DEATHS REGISTERED IN 1924
Date of
Death.
Years. Months. Days.
1924.
Jan. 1. Leonard W. Morse
83
10
14
Jan. 7. Leander A. Plummer. Jr.
36
3
23
Jan. 8. Ernesto Duarte Pacheco
9
18
Jan. 8. Helen Lillian Tracy
4
1
Jan. 9. Louisa Francis
about 76
Jan. 9. George Abram Seaman
61
1
25
Jan. 12. Carlton H. Stone
28
9
17
Jan. 15. Loramus C. Fish
82
4
10
Jan. 16.
Jane Smalley
68
16
Jan. 19.
Betty Bowman
2
1
22
Jan. 21.
Robert N. Doran
58
8
28
Jan. 21.
Joao F. Escobar
78
6
27
Jan. 23.
Leander P. Nichols
76
3
12
Jan. 24.
Marcelina Nerbonne
83
10
Jan. 24.
Josephine Charpentier
52
4
27
Jan. 28.
Phoebe Elizabeth Twiss
74
9
12
Jan. 30.
Margaret R. Gauthier
2
8
Jan. 31.
Bessie A. Grant
33
6
13
Feb. 1. Alvan B. Marston
92
3
14
Feb. t . Alice P. Crabe
54
3
19
Feb. 9. Jeremiah H. Pease
83
10
4
Feb. 13. Mary Allick
27
10
3
Feb. 14.
Gilbert Martins
64
5
2-1
Feb. 18.
Charles E. Hackett
78
9
8
Feb. 21.
Ella F. Slocum
63
2
4
Feb. 21. Henry M. Knowles
43
4
11
Feb. 25. Joseph J. Jenney
Feb. 29.
Robert James Gifford
2
4
22
Mar. 1. John McDonald
68
9
10
Mar. 1
Dosithe Montplaisir
52
11
17
Mar. 3. Clarence A. Beardsley
53
11
1
Mar. 4
Phebe P. Perry
82
9
28
Mar. 4.
Jotham Goodnow
72
3
10
...
....
Jan. 28.
Alfred George Vegiard
Feb. 5. John Robbins
43
......
Feb. 13. Manuel C. Canastra, Jr.
17
Feb. 15.
Clara Eunice Lanphear
41
1
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Deaths Registered in Fairhaven in 1924-(Continued)
Date of Death.
Years. Months. Days.
1924.
Mar. 10. Emily L. Nichols
54
8
18
Mar. 11. George Leo Marshall
77
10
3
Mar. 19. Alton E. Hubbard
31
2
23
Mar. 27.
Capt. Hosea R. Chester
61
6
22
Mar. 28.
Emma Nye
68
1
20
Mar. 29.
Charles Seals
43
11
30
Apr. S. Margaret Ashley
46
2
6
Apr. 9.
Florence A. Dunham
45
7
24
Apr. 9.
Rita Charbenneau
87
4
25
Apr. 19.
Caroline Kraihanzel
64
S
24
Apr. 19.
Annie E. Holgate
34
6
2
Apr. 22.
Mrs. Bertha Wingersty Lipman
41
6
9
Apr. 26. Maria S. Grassa
46
T
25
May
Malcolm B. Tuell
1
2
6
May 7. Elizabeth Machado
1
6
4
May 16.
Emma A. Thompson
78
6
4
May 16.
Alice L. Duffy
50
...
1
May 20.
Elizabeth Simpson
35
9
16
May 22.
Lydia Anna Westgate
52
9
16
May 22.
Mabel G. Aldrich
67
11
4
May 22.
Theophilus Frates
43
May 30.
Francis J. Harrison
1
7
Jume 1.
Frederick Clifton Dunhanı
59
1
11
June 1. Herbert Daniel Burke
62
11
1
June 2. Felipa G. Machado
52
7
5
June 5.
Zenas Winsor
69
9
12
June 10.
Ellen M. Lapham
S4
....
June 11. Lorenzo James Geddis
57
11
5
June 14. Robert Joseph Veira
9
26
June 14. Adelaide M. Fish
about 74
June 1S.
Elbridge G. Paull
SS
1
2S
....
Apr. 5. Mary O'Donnell
71
21
Apr. 5. August Lelaider
37
5
11
Apr. 22.
Jacinto Cabral
1
10
......
Apr. 4. George W. Mankey
65
2
6
Mar. 18. Charlotte M. Howard
Apr. 9. Sarah R. Taber
May 18.
Henry Edmundson
19
.
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Deaths Registered in Fairhaven in 1924-(Continued)
Date of Death.
Years. Months. Days.
1924.
June 20.
Mary . L. Davis
43
9
28
June 20. Nagib Mikati
37
June 24. Susan D. Hammond
84
2
11
June 27. Lillian Fernandes
4
2
22
July 3.
Edward G. Baldwin
58
4
19
July 5.
Laurette Hevey
11
19
July 13.
Eliza B. Nye
81
11
3
July 17. Lucy B. Connor
36
11
18
July 19.
Cordelia G. Tait
56
7
5
July 30.
Marie Anna DeBlois
42
15
July 29.
Peter V. Eldredge
82
2
14
Aug. 7. Eda Frances Kelley
66
9
3
Agu. 7. James Marod
29
4
4
Aug. 19.
Arthur R. Torres
9
2
Aug. 24.
Manuel S. Mello
46
6
10
Aug. 25.
Mrs. Alice Bourbeau
37
9
18
Aug. 26.
Robert L. Sylvia
3
3
12
Aug. 2
Elizabeth Agnes Wood
51
12
Sept. 1.
Elizabeth N. Strongman
82
17
Sept. 1.
Ethel May Lucas
31
3
10
Sept. 4.
Herbert D. Buike
32
5
20
Sept. 6.
Sarah G. Brownell
67
4
6
Sept. 17.
Dianah Ray
90
6
10
Sept. 24.
Eugene H. Vien
46
11
3
Sept. 26.
Antone Sousa Cordeira
49
9
28
Oct. 1.
Ida May Donnelly
54
3
21
Oct. 5. Benjamin F. Coman
60
9
Oct. 8. Edward Sisco
about 75
Oct. 11.
Emily Law
45
4
29
Oct. 14.
Walter Camera
8
11
3
Oct. 16.
Julia M. Allen
85
6
10
Oct. 25.
Edythe M. Easter
31
11
14
Oct. 27.
Agnes Barrows
15
......
18
Aug. 6.
Emma F. Flood
69
8
17
Aug. 22.
Ella Simpson
70
Aug. 25.
Johanna Halloran
76
....
Sept. 30.
Antone Lewis
about 60
22
Aug. 12.
Lydia M. Shurtleff
16
78
Deaths Registered in Fairhaven in 1924-(Continued)
Date of Death.
Years. Months. Days.
1924.
Oct. 29. William Henry Bly
47°
3
26
Nov. 2. George T. Packard
1
2
4
Nov. 4. Elisha E. Whiting
77
9
Nov. 21.
Freida Richards
19
5
19
Nov. 21.
Annie C. Clark
70
9
28
Nov. 23.
Emma B. Hathaway
68
5
15
Nov. 25. Deolinda da Silva
Nov. 25.
Amanda F. Sears
S2
11
15
Dec. 1. James F. Gammans
44
7
25
Dec. 6. William H. Schroeder
80
3
16
Dec. 11. Abbie J. Manchester
88
Dec. 22.
Louisa M. C. Taylor
63
11
16
Dec. 30. Henry Gervais
80
......
......
Nov. 9. Jennie B. Dunbar
53
2
8
Nov. 13. Mary Metcalf
S6
29
Nov. 19. Albert Vincent
1
....
43
Nov. 30. Abbie A. Smith
72
10
27
Nov. 3. Catherine Louise Browne
40
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REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD.
The Planning Board reports at the end of its first year. This, it is considered, has been rightly most important in its educative effect upon the members of the board who have considered it wiser to begin with preparatory study than to hasten to make a showing. In all respects. however, it is believed that the work of the first year compares very favorably with the first years of other boards in the State. Monthly meetings have been held on the second Tuesday of each month.
Action has been taken on the following matters :
By-laws have been prepared to govern the operations of the board, and these have been adopted by a special town meeting and approved by the Attorney General of the Common- wealth.
Parking rules have been recommended to the Selectmen to relieve auto'mobile congestion at the centre.
The board has made a study of opportunities for reforesta- tion in the town, as directed by the last annual town meeting. A special report is appended.
Recommendations have been made to the Selectmen regard- ing the location of gasolene filling stations.
Affiliation has been effected with the Massachusetts State Federation of Planning Boards, and delegates were sent to the 11th Annual Massachusetts Conference on City and Town Planning at Worcester in October.
This report would like to correct a popular idea fostered by the ambitions and conspicuous improvement schemes of large, wealthy cities, that the principal function of a planning board is to devise ways of spending large sums of money in correcting old municipal layouts to fit the modern requirements of traffic and health. This board hopes to exist with a reputa- tion for sanity. It expects to be a money saver rather than a spender. It has no mind to consider any expensive correction of any of the town now built or laid out; but it is extremely interested in the future growth of our community and it
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considers its principal duty to assist this development so that it may be orderly and accomplished with as few mistakes as possible. This assistance is to be rendered by the provi- sion of a comprehensive plan of the town in advance of build- ing, together with certain by-laws regulating the use of different areas, which will be presented to the town for approval, and by the study of the necessary new undertakings of the town as provided by the by-laws passed last summer by the town meeting. These by-laws are printed with this report and deserve study. It will be seen that this board has only the power of any citizen to devise new public undertakings. Most important, however, it has become incumbent upon the other departments of the town to await the study and recommenda- ions of the Planning Board before committing the town to matters of major importance, like the erection of buildings or the laying out of streets. This operation of the board will be similar to that of the Finance Committee but with oppor- tunities for much greater thoroughness of study. In the end the counsel of eight interested, unpaid citizens, should be of great value to the town and result in economy.
The only effective, legal way of controlling the use of specified areas so as to keep nuisances in their place, and pro- tect the home against the encroachment of industry or business, is by the process called "Zoning." Zoning is an agreeable pro- cess accomplished as regards areas already occupied chiefly by taking counsel of the desires of the dwellers therein and then framing a by-law to protect those desires against newcomers or others who would inject undesired new construction or business destruction of established values, or ruinous to the home making quality of the district.
Twenty-four cities and towns in Massachusetts have passed zoning ordinances. In the entire country 24 million people are now living under zoning laws. The merits of zoning are well stated in the following quotation :
"Students of progress in civic and social affairs have in zoning today one of the most interesting, even inspiring, fields of study ever offered, and no means of arousing a better
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community spirit exists than those obtained from effective, resultful, desirable products of zoning. The home maker, craving fresh air, sunshine, and well-kept lawns, naturally shuns a section of a city devoted to industrialism, and it is a natural instinct that directs him to select a home site far removed from the commerce, trade and industry of the com- munity. It is the province of zoning to guarantee to him that his inalienable right shall not be encroached upon. A city systematically developed offers greater attractiveness to the home seeker than one that is developed in a haphazard way. The one compares to the other about as a well-ordered depart- ment store compares to a junk shop."
The good fortune that during the past summer the Sanborn Map Co., of N. Y., made a complete survey of the present town, which enables them to show on some thirty-one sectional maps, the exact location, character and use of every building, will allow the Board to obtain practically all the necessary data to "Zone" the Town at a very slight expense. ($70.00 for the set of maps. )
The data at hand from which the Assessors plans or plats were made will serve as adequate information from which to make a general street map of the Town as now existing. The making of this map is now under way and a set of the San- born Maps have been ordered. Both of these expenditures from the Planning Board appropriation will provide informa- tion which will be of utmost value for general use in the various offices and departments of the Town.
Planning Board By-Laws
Section 1. A board of eight members is hereby created and established to be known as the planning board. At the annual town meeting to be held in 1925, there shall be elected two members to serve for one year, two members to serve for two years, two members to serve for three years, two members to serve for four years, and thereafter there shall be elected at the annual town meeting each year two members to serve for the term of four years.
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Section 2. Vacancies occurring in the board shall be filled in accordance with law.
Section 3. The duties of such board shall be such as are stated in chapter forty-one, sections seventy to seventy-two, of the General Laws of the commonwealth, and further to consider and advise upon municipal improvements either at the request of other officials of the town or upon its own initiative. The board shall meet at regular intervals. It may also hold public meetings. It shall at all times have access to all public documents or information in the possession of any town official or department. It shall examine the plans for the exterior of any public building, monument or similar fea- ture, and for the development and treatment of the grounds about the same before the adoption thereof, and may make such recommendations thereon as it may deem needful. It may make investigations and studies relative to new street and park developments. It may provide for public lectures and other educational work in connection with its recommendations. Said board may incur expenses necessary to the carrying on of its work within the amount of its annual appropriations.
Section 4. All plans for laying out, extending, discontinuing or changing the limits of any way, street, public park or square and every purchase of land for the site of any public building, and all plans for the location, erection or alteration of public buildings, shall be submitted to said board for its opinion at least two weeks in advance of action by the Board of Selectmen.
Section 5. Such board shall make a report to the town annually, giving information regarding the conditions of the town and any plans or proposals for the development of the town and estimates of the cost thereof. Such report shall be sent to the selectmen not later than such time in January in each year as selectmen may prescribe or as may be pre- scribed by law in force relative to reports, and a copy thereof shall be filed with the Massachusetts department of public. welfare,
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Reforestation Report
The Planning Board has investigated the matter of a Muni- cipal forest as ordered by the town meeting of 1924, and herewith submits the following report:
In the three centuries since the white race landed on these shores, the vast unbroken forest that covered all the north- eastern portion of the country has been totally destroyed, and in memory of men now living, prices of rough sawed lumber have advanced from $3 to $45 per thousand feet, with pros- pect of worse future shortage and higher prices.
Lumber is a necessity of our civilization, not an individual but is effected by such conditions. They increase the cost of the house we live in, the rents we pay, transportation charges, clothing, food and utensils.
Already forward-looking men have seen profit in planting forest trees for lumber. But a lumber crop is long in maturing. The profit is long deferred. Hence it is not probable that in- dividual effort can be trusted to relieve the prospective lumber famine. Man's life is limited, but municipalities live on, and our towns are being urged to establish public forests. The idea is not new, municipal forests have existed and forestry has been practiced in Europe for a thousand years, many of them paying annual dividends to their communities, and Japan, where until recently all structures were of wood, by the simple law "Who cuts a tree must plant a tree," has for 800 years supplied her own lumber needs.
Twenty-three towns in Massachusetts have already estab- lished town forests. In some cases the lands have been donated, and some have been established as memorials. What can be grander or more enduring than a Memorial Forest? It is recommended that these forests be developed as wild, natural parks, where wild birds and animals should be protected. A tract of this kind within easy access of the settled portions of the town, properly planted, should in a few years become not only a most attractive wild park, but a most popular picnic
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ground for our citizens, young and old, and the experience of other towns indicates such would be the fact. This considera- tion alone would seem to warrant the enterprise.
In outlying districts of the town the committee has located large areas, too hard and rocky, or too wet for agricultural purposes, much of it growing worthless scrub, but susceptible of growing good timber, which is now absolutely valueless to the owners as far as any revenue is concerned. Some of this it would seem possible to obtain for a town forest at a fair price ; perhaps, considering the purpose for which it is to be used. as in case of other towns, tracts might be donated.
In view of these considerations, to bring the matter before the town meeting, we recommend the following article be inserted in the warrant :
"To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $1000 10 be placed in the tax levy, to establish a town forest, the money to be expended by a special committee to be appointed by the Selectmen."
It is estimated that $1000 should buy and plant with small white pines some 30 to 40 acres.
DANIEL C. POTTER, LEWIS F. POOR,
WILLIAM B. GARDNER,
VICTOR O. B. SLATER,
WILLIAM TALLMAN, JAMES A. STETSON, WARREN L. SWETT,
Planning Board.
85 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS
ORGANIZATION: G. Winston Valentine, Chairman, Frank W. Morse, Clerk, and William J. Fitzsimmons, Superin- tendent of Equipment.
SEWER CONSTRUCTION: Authorized by vote of the Town at the Annual Town Meeting held February 9, 1924.
TERRY STREET : northerly from Spring Street two hun- dred twenty-five feet of 8 inch sewer at a cost of $591.60; all above built under contract by Norman M. Paull; Shone System.
SOUTH PLEASANT STREET: northerly from Cottage Street in Pleasant Street, 570 feet at a cost of $3,189.12 on an appropriation of $2,500.00 making an overdraft of $689.12; said overdraft caused by excess ledge. All above built under contract by Frank H. Street ; Gravity System.
The Board also took over as authorized by vote of the Town, in South Chestnut Street, south of Allen Street, 500 feet of 8 inch sewer, cost $1,487.68. built by M. F. Perry and W. J. Fitzsimmons; Gravity System.
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