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INDEX.
Town Officers
3
Town Warrant
5 9,
Town Meetings
22
Town Clerk's Report
Births
Marriages
Deaths
Non-Resident Burials
Dog Licenses
Selectmen's Report
List of Jurors
Treasurer's Report
Auditor's Report
Assessors' Report
67 68
Road Commissioners
70
Board of Health
73
Overseers of the Poor
76 83
Tree Warden
Report of Cemetery Commissioners
91
Acton Memorial Library
96
School Report
99
School Calendar 101
Organization 102
Committee 113
Financial Statement 119
Superintendent's Report 121
Supervisor of Drawing 127
Supervisor of Music 128
Roll of Honor 129
Statistical Tables 131
134
Graduation Exercises
School Census 136
Truant Officers 137
Department of School Supplies 138.
State Election
26 27 29
31 33 34 37 60 61 66
Collector's Report
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF ACTON, MASSACHUSETTS : FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1909
TOGETHER WITH THE SCHOOL REPORT
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ACTON.
HUDSON, MASS. NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS
1909
TOWN OFFICERS, 1908.
Selectmen.
James B. Tuttle, Bertram D. Hall, Asaph Merriam.
Town Clerk. Horace F. Tuttle.
Town Treasurer. Jona. K. W. Wetherbee.
Assessors.
James B. Tuttle
Term expires 1909
William F. Kelley Term expires 1910
Wililam F. Stevens Term expires 1911
Overseers of the Poor. Octavus A. Knowlton. J. Sterling Moore, William F. Kelley.
Auditor. Waldo E. Whitcomb.
Collector of Taxes. William F. Stevens.
Tree Warden. William F. Stevens.
Constables.
Albert S. Bradley, James Kinsley, William F. Stevens.
Moses A. Reed,
Bertram D. Hall,
Fence Viewers. Asaph Merriam, James B. Tuttle.
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Field Drivers.
Albert S. Bradley, James Kinsley, William F. Stevens.
Moses A. Reed,
Road Commissioners.
Albert H. Perkins . Term expires 1909.
Anson C. Piper. Term expires 1910.
William H. Kingsley . Term expires 1911.
Cemetery Commissioners.
Julian Tuttle. Term expires 1909.
Horace F. Tuttle Term expires 1910.
Herbert T. Clark. Term expires 1911.
School Committee.
Samuel A. Christie. Term expires 1909.
Arthur F. Blanchard. Term expires 1910.
Charles J. Williams Term expires 1911.
Board of Health.
Frank E. Tasker. .Term expires 1909.
Frank J. Barker (Removed from Acton) . Term expires 1910.
Charles J. Williams Term expires 1911.
Trustees of Memorial Library. (Chosen by the Town.)
Lucius A. Hesselton. Term expires 1909.
Horace F. Tuttle. Term expires 1910. Charles J. Williams . Term expires 1911.
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TOWN WARRANT.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Acton, in the County of Middlesex.
Greeting: You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of the. Town of Acton qualified to vote in elec- tions and Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall in said Town, on Monday, the twenty-ninth day of March, A. D. 1909, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles as they may think proper, viz:
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To bring in their votes on one ballot for the following Town Officers: Town Clerk, three Selectmen, three Overseers of the Poor, Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Auditor, Tree Warden, four Constables, four Field Drivers, three Fence Viewers, all for one year; one Assessor, one Road Commissioner, one Trustee of Memorial Library, one Member of School Committee, one Cemetery Commis- sioner, one Member of Board of Health, all for three years, also one Member of Board of Health for two years to fill a vacancy and one Member of Board of Health for one year to fill a vacancy. Also on the same ballot with the above named Town Officers, to vote upon the following question :
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town?"
The polls will be opened at 9.30 A. M. and may be closed at 4 o'clock P. M.
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Article 3. To vote by separate ballot, Yes or No, in answer to the following question: "Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and eight, entitled, "An Act to provide for the protection of forest or sprout lands from fire," be accepted by this town?"
Article 4. To choose all necessary Town officers not. named in Article 2, and fix salaries.
Article 5. To see if the Town will accept the reports of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, School Committee, Library Trustees and other Town Officers.
Article 6. To hear and act upon the reports of any Committees chosen to report at this meeting.
Article 7. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for due observance of Memorial Day.
Article 8. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the repairing and building of roads and bridges, or act anything thereon.
Article 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of its Selectmen, to borrow money for the Town, if necessary, in anticipation of taxes the cur- rent year.
Article 10. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for support of Memorial Library the present year.
Article 11. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the support of Schools the present year.
Article 12. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for School supplies.
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Article 13. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the enforcement of the Liquor Laws, or act anything thereon.
Article 14. To see what amount of money the Town will appropriate for the care of Cemeteries, or act anything thereon.
Article 15. To see if the Town will accept the legacy of three thousand dollars ($3,000) given the Town in trust by the will of Charlotte L. Goodnow, late deceased of Wor- cester, Mass., for the purposes as in said bequest set forth ; or pass such votes in relation thereto as the Town may deem proper.
Article 16. To see if the Town will choose Trustees, to be known as the "Trustees of the Goodnow Fund," to ad- minister the fund of three thousand dollars ($3,000) given the Town in the legacy under the will of Charlotte L. Good- now, according to the provisions of said bequest; or pass such votes in relation thereto as the Town may deem proper.
Article 17. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for maintenance of Fire Department, or act thereon.
Article 18. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the extermination of the brown tail and gypsy moth.
Article 19. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for Town charges.
Article 20. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the collection of taxes.
Article 21. To see what action the Town will take in regard to street lamps the present year.
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Article 22. To see what action the Town will take in reference to contesting or settling the suit brought against it by Oscar A. Jones and others, now pending in the Superior Court for the County of Middlesex, and numbered 14,888 therein.
Article 23. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the extermination of the elm leaf beetle.
Article 24. To see if the Town will accept as a Town way, the laying out by the Road Commissioners of a town road in West Acton, from a point on Arlington street, so called, near the house of George B. Parker to the Union Turnpike, connecting with the road leading to house of James Kinsley and others, or pass such votes in relation thereto as the Town may deem proper.
Article 25. To see if the Town will provide a suitable Vault and Safes for the preservation of the Town Records, or act anything thereon.
Article 26. To see if the Town will accept the Calvin and Luther Blanchard Memorial and the premises belonging thereto, given to the Town by the will of Luke Blanchard; also, to see if the Town will accept from the trustees under the will of Luke Blanchard, the sum of five hundred dollars, the income of which is to be expended in the care of the burial lot of said Blanchard; also, the sum of one hundred dollars, the income of which is to be expended in the care of the Calvin and Luther Blanchard Memorial, and the sum of one hundred dollars, the income of which is to be expended in the preservation and care of the family tomb, formerly belonging to Simon Blanchard of Boxboro, and invest said funds, and expend the income thereof in accordance with the provisions specified in the will of said Blanchard.
Article 27. To see if the Town will instruct the Over-
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seers of the Poor to contract out the medical attendance for the poor the ensuing year, or act anything thereon.
Article 28. To see if the Town will instruct the Road Commissioners to repair the road in front of I. O. O. F. hall, or thereabout, or act thereon.
And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting copies, attested by you, in the following places : one in each of the Post Offices and Railroad Stations ; one in each of the stores of C. H. Mead & Company, W. E. Whitcomb, M. E. Taylor and Company, Tuttle & Newton, Finney & Hoit, J. Cushing & Company, and one at the Nagog House, at least seven days before the time appointed for holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrent with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen or the Town Clerk, on or before the time of holding said meeting.
Given under our hands in Acton, this eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and nine.
JAMES B. TUTTLE, BERTRAM D. HALL, ASAPH MERRIAM, Selectmen of Acton.
A true copy attest :
Constable of Acton.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH. 30, 1908.
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Allen Brooks Parker was chosen Moderator.
Art. 2. To bring in their votes on one ballot for the. following Town Officers :
The following Town Officers were chosen on one ballot ::
Town Clerk-Horace F. Tuttle.
Selectmen-James B. Tuttle, Bertram D. Hall, Asaph Merriam.
Assessors-William F. Stevens for three years ; William. F. Kelley for two years; James B. Tuttle for one year.
Overseers of the Poor-William F. Kelley, Octavus A. Knowlton, J. Sterling Moore.
Treasurer-Jona. K. W. Wetherbee.
Auditor-Waldo E. Whitcomb.
Collector of Taxes-William F. Stevens.
Constables-Albert S. Bradley, James Kinsley, Moses A. Reed, William F. Stevens.
Field Drivers-Albert S. Bradley, James Kinsley, Moses. A. Reed, William F. Stevens.
Fence Viewers-Bertram D. Hall, Asaph Merriam, James B. Tuttle.
Road Commissioner-William H. Kingsley.
School Committee-Charles J. Williams ..
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Cemetery Commissioner-Herbert T. Clark.
Board of Health-Charles J. Williams.
Trustee of Memorial Library-Charles J. Williams.
Tree Warden-William F. Stevens.
Also on the same ballot the vote on the question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in' this Town ? " was :
Whole number of ballots cast 383
Yes 186
No 182
Blanks 15
Art. 3. To choose all necessary Town Officers not named in Article 2, and fix salaries.
Voted: That the Selectmen appoint surveyors of lum- ber, wood, hoops and staves.
Voted: That the salary of the Collector of Taxes be one percent of the amount collected and that he perform all the duties hitherto performed by said officer.
Voted : To fix the salary of the Auditor at six dollars.
Voted : That the salary of the Road Commissioners be two and one-half dollars per day, nine hours to constitute a day.
Article 4. To see if the town will accept the reports of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, School Committee, Library Trustees and other Town Officers.
Voted: To accept the reports of the Selectmen, Over- seers of the Poor, Road Commissioners, Cemetery Commis- sioners and Trustees of the Memorial Library.
Voted: To. accept the report of the School Committee as printed, excepting therefrom the following paragraphs:
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(1) Page 114 of the Annual Report of Town Officers, 1908 :
"Doubtless such an arrangement would be entirely sat- isfactory to the State Board of Education and would receive its cordial approval both from an educational and legal standpoint."
(2) "When the State Board is not engaged in the se- rious labor of collecting statistics it not infrequently occu- pies itself in doing or attempting to do an injury to the pub- lic schools."
Art. 5. To hear and act upon the reports of any com- mittee chosen to report at this meeting.
The Selectmen made a verbal report on the matter of accepting the provisions of law relating to sidewalks.
Voted : To accept their report.
Art. 6. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the due observance of Memorial Day.
Voted: To appropriate fifty dollars.
Art. 7. To see if the town will accept the jury list as- revised by the Selectmen.
Voted: To accept the jury list as revised by the Selectmen.
Art. 8. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the repairing and building of roads and bridges, or act anything thereon.
Voted : To raise five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Art. 9. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer with the approval of its Selectmen, to borrow money for the town if necessary, in anticipation of taxes the current year.
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Voted: To authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for the town, if neces- sary, in anticipation of taxes the current year.
Art. 10. To see what amount of money the town will raise for support of Memorial Library the present year.
Voted: To raise four hundred dollars ($400) for cur- rent expenses and two hundred dollars ($200) for books.
Art. 11. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the support of schools the present year.
Art. 12. To see what amount of money the town will raise for school supplies.
Art. 11 and 12. Voted : To raise for
Common schools $4,750.00
School supplies 625.00
Transportation of pupils ... 1,360.00
Salary of superintendent ... 480.00
Medical inspection
100.00
High school
4,200.00
$11,515.00
Art. 13. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the enforcement of the liquor laws, or act any- thing thereon.
Voted: That the Selectmen, F. C. Nash, Edgar H. Hall and O. A. Knowlton constitute a committee to enforce the liquor laws.
Voted: That three-quarters of the amount paid to the town for liquor licenses be appropriated for the enforcement of the liquor laws; that not more than five hundred dollars be expended the current year, the balance to remain in the treasury for future use.
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Art. 14. To see what amount of money the town will appropriate for the care of cemeteries, or act anything thereon.
Voted : To appropriate five hundred dollars ($500).
Art. 15. To see what amount of money the town will raise for maintenance of fire department, or act thereon.
Voted: To raise three hundred and fifty dollars ($350).
Art. 16 To see if the town will raise a sum of money for the purpose of widening Acton street, South Acton, as laid out by the County Commissioners, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600), and to leave the matter of building with the Road Commissioners.
Art. 17. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to the extermination of the brown tail and gypsy moths.
Voted : To raise seven hundred dollars ($700).
Art. 18. To see if the town will vote to rebuild the road leading from the D. Hennessey place to the new state road, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To dismiss the article.
Art. 19. To see what amount of money the town will raise for town charges.
Voted: To raise three thousand dollars ($3,000).
Art. 20. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to the collection of taxes.
Voted: That the Collector charge interest at the rate of five percent per annum on all taxes remaining unpaid after the first day of November next.
Art. 21. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to street lamps the present year.
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Voted: To raise one thousand dollars to maintain street lamps, to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen.
Voted: That the town consider the agreement made between it and the American Woolen Company, relating to. street lighting, terminated by reason of the failure of said American Woolen Company to accept the proposition.
Voted: That the Selectmen notify the American Woolen Company of this action.
Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to build a suitable building for the purpose of storing the steam roller and other road machinery.
Voted: To raise and appropriate three hundred dollars ($300) to erect a building in which to keep the steam roller and other road machinery.
Art. 23. To see what action the town will take respect- ing the maintaining of a high school and the transportation of high school scholars.
Art. 24. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to building a high school building, or the building of an addition to either of its present buildings.
Art. 23 and 24. Voted: To raise and appropriate ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to build a high school building.
Voted: That the Assessors be instructed not to assess a tax exceeding fourteen dollars per thousand the current year.
Art. 25. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to furnishing water for the watering trough at West Acton.
Voted: That the Selectmen be instructed to secure if possible, a supply of good water for the watering trough at West Acton.
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STATE ELECTION, NOVEMBER 3, 1908.
Party designations : R., Republican; D., Democratic; P., Prohibition; I. L., Independence League; S., Socialist ; S. L., Socialist Labor.
Precincts
1 104
2
3 Total
Whole number of ballots cast,
140
141 385
Electors of President and Vice President.
Bryan and Kern, D.,
17
31
29
77
Chafin and Watkins, P.,
0
0
2
2
Debs and Hanford, S.,
2
1
0
3
Gillhaus and Munroe, S. L.,
0
0
0
0
Hisgen and Graves, I. L.,
1
4
4
9
Taft and Sherman, R.,
76
95
103
274
Blanks,
8
9
3
20
Governor.
James F. Carey, S.,
1
2
0
3
Eben S. Draper, R.,
76
85
87
248
Walter J. Hoar, S. L.,
0
2
0
2
William N. Osgood, I. L.,
2
8
4
14
James H. Vahey, D.,
18
31
33
82
Willard O. Wylie, P.,
0
2
3
5
Blanks,
7
10
14
31
Lieutenant Governor.
Charles J. Bartow, D.,
18
22
27
67
Joao Claudino, S. L.,
1
0
0
1
17
Louis A. Frothingham, R.,
76
93
94
263
John Hall, Jr., S.,
1
0
0
1
Robert J. McCartney, I. L.,
1
7
4
12
Frank N. Rand, P., Blanks,
0
1
2
3
7
17
14
38
Secretary.
James F. Aylward, D.,
14
21
26
61
Herbert B. Griffin, P.,
0
1
2
3
George Nelson, S. L.,
0
0
0
0
William M. Olin, R.,
79
85
94
258
Squire E. Putney, S.,
1
0
1
2
John F. Williams, I. L.,
1
6
4
11
Blanks,
9
27
14
50
Treasurer.
Charles E. Butterworth, I. L.,
2
6
5
13
Arthur B. Chapin, R.,
77
85
90
252
Henry C. Hess, S. L.,
0
0
0
0
Charles C. Hitchcock, S.,
1
0
0
1
Edward Kendall, P.,
1
2
2
5
Erwin H. Kennedy, D.,
12
20
25
57
Blanks,
11
27
19
57
Auditor.
Frank Bohmbach, S. L.,
0
0
0
0
John E. Dempsey, I. L.,
2
6
4
12
George G. Hall, S.,
1
0
0
1
Wilbur D. Moon, P.,
1
3
3
7
Henry E. Turner, R.,
72
85
93
250
Simeon Viger, D.,
14
20
23
57
Blanks,
14
26
18
58
Attorney General
Henry M. Dean, P.,
0
2
4 6
Elliot C. Harding, S. L.,
0
1
0
1
18
Dana Malone, R.,
73
91
88
252
John McCarty, S.,
1
0
0
1
Richard J. Talbot, I. L.,
2
5
4
11
John Alden Thayer, D., Blanks,
20
22
30
72
8
19
15
42
Congressman.
John J. Mitchell, D.,
24
51
43
118
Charles Q. Tirrell, R.,
72
78
84
234
Charles E. Wood,
0
0
1
1
Blanks,
8
11
13
32
Councillor.
Harry H: Hill, I. L.,
3
8
3
14
Seward W. Jones, R.,
78
85
86
249
William J. Mccluskey, D.,
13
19
25
57
Blanks,
10
28
27
65
Senator.
William H. Brown, I. L.,
1
10
2
13
Isaac E. Graves, D.,
19
21
33
73
James W. Grimes, R.,
73
82
83
238
Blanks,
11
27
23
61
Representative in General Court.
James B. Carr, S.,
0
0
1
1
James E. Smith, D.,
20
21
31
72
Elisha D. Stone, R.,
76
89
91
256
Blanks,
8
30
18
56:
County Commissioner.
Edward Gallagher, D.,
12
20
22
54
Levi S. Gould, R.,
74
78
91
243
Charles F. Walcott, I. L.,
6
12
6
24
Blanks.
12
30
22
64
19
County Commissioner. (To fill vacancy.)
George R. Duren, D.,
18
22
28
68
Andrew W. Jones, I. L.,
1
10
4
15
Charles H. Richardson, R.,
74
79
92
245
Blanks,
11
29
17
57
Register of Probate and Insolvency.
John F. Holland, D.,
16
23
23
62
William E. Rogers, R.,
75
77
88
240
Roswell C. Ross, I. L.,
1
11
5
17
Blanks,
12
29
25
66
Associate Commissioner.
James F. McCarthy, Jr., D.,
11
20
22
53
Alfred W. Parnell, I. L.,
1
10
4
15
Frank A. Patch, R.,
83
82
95
260
Blanks,
9
28
20
57
Vote for Representative in 11th Middlesex District Novem- ber 3, 1908.
Acton
Ayer
Carlisle
Chelmsford
Littleton
Westford
Total
James B. Carr of Chelmsford. S.,|
1| 3
4 29
2|
12
51
James E. Smith of Littleton, D., 72 139
25|167
63
75 541
Elisha D. Stone of Ayer, R ..
. . . 256 321
48|395 127 212 1359
Blanks
56 71
25 141
31
95 419
Totals
385 534 102 732 223 394 2370
20
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
Births.
Whole number recorded 46
Males 22
Females
24
Born in Acton
45
Native parentage
16
Foreign parentage
16
Mixed parentage
14
Marriages.
Whole number recorded 20
Residents of Acton
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