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investigated and asked the occupants what they were doing there. They said they were sleepy and pulled off the road. The officers took them to the station and checked the operator's license and registration. As everything appeared all right they released them. In the morning the number of this car was sent out be- cause of the discovery of the break at the store in the district where this car was found parked the previous night. By the quick thought of these officers sending out this registration number, these men were later caught in Nashua, N. H. In the car at the time they were caught they were carrying a 45 automatic and a 32 calibre revolver, sticks of dynamite, percussion caps and fuses and burglar tools. They were wanted for a number of grain store breaks in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. This was a very good piece of police work and we feel that these officers should be given special mention. They have so much against these men in New Hampshire and Vermont that they could not turn them over to this department. In conclusion, I wish to thank the townspeople and other members of the Department for their co-opera- tion during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
COLEMAN J. HOGAN,
Chief of Police
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS
December 31, 1935
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen:
The Board of Fire Engineers respectfully submit the report of the Fire Department for the year ending De- cember 31, 1935.
Apparatus
The apparatus in service consists of a Seagraves 600 gallon pump; a Reo 300 gallon pump and a Ford Forest Fire truck. There is a Hose truck in reserve.
Hose
This year we purchased 450 feet of 21/2 inch double jacket treated hose. This makes a total of 2,500 feet of serviceable 21/2 inch hose, and 800 feet of serviceable 11/2 inch hose.
Equipment
The past year we purchased an all service mask to be used for gas, ammonia, smoke, etc .; also a vapor muzzle for use on oil fires and confined fire in the home where water damage must be kept down.
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Fire Loss
The fire loss this year has been considerably less than last year. A total of $1784 on buildings and $62 on con- tents. All but $50 of this was covered and paid by in- surance companies. Wood fires cover 123/8 acres-damage $246. Automobile loss, $1.
Recommendations
The Board recommends an appropriation of $3000 for the year 1936.
Summary for Year
The total alarms answered by the department was 71 of which 22 were whistle and 49 were still. These are classified as follows:
Woods and brush
29
Grass
15
Buildings
9
Chimney
9
Rubbish
3
Automobile
3
Oil Heater
1
One call to Millis for camp fire, and one call for two lost children. On the night of July 3, 1935, the depart- ment answered 11 calls for fires.
There was 5350 feet of hose used during the year. Also, 37,006 gallons of water used from hydrants and 903 gallons drafted from other sources. Of the 71 calls
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for fires, 59 were extinguished by the booster pump equipment on the Forest Fire truck using a total of 10,025 gallons of water.
During January and June of 1935 there were no calls.
The Engineers wish to thank the townspeople and members of the department for their co-operation.
Respectfully submitted, ALLAN A. KINGSBURY EDGAR W. ALLEN
Fire Engineers
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DEPARTMENT OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Medfield, Massachusetts ยท December 31, 1935
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
I herewith submit my report of work done in the year ending November 30, 1935.
Medfield District No. 2
Scales tested and sealed :
Platform over 5000 pounds, 2 sealed.
Platform under 5000 pounds, 24 sealed.
Trolley track under 5000 pounds, 1 sealed.
Counter under 100 pounds, 1 adjusted, 12 sealed.
Beam over 100 pounds, 1 sealed.
Spring under 100 pounds, 14 sealed, 1 condemned.
Spring over 100 pounds, 3 sealed.
Computing under 100 pounds, 8 sealed, 3 adjusted, 1 condemned.
Personal weighing, 3 sealed, 1 condemned. Prescription, 2 sealed.
Total scales-62 sealed, 1 adjusted, 2 condemned.
Weights, 133 sealed, 4 adjusted. Liquid measures, 32 sealed. Kerosene pumps, 2 sealed with total of two stops.
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Gasoline pumps, 8 adjusted, 31 sealed with total of 107 stops.
Oil meters, 2 sealed.
Yard sticks, 2 sealed.
Total articles sealed 264, adjusted 5, condemned 2.
Packages reweighed in nine stores, 293. Correct 286, under 3, and over 4.
Expenses :
Supplies
$6.44
Transportation
30.40
Salary
50.00
$86.84
Receipts :
Sealing fees
$27.54
Adjusting charges
1.39
From Town of Dover for use of
Medfield's tools
5.00
$33.93
Respectfully submitted, ALDEN H. WHEELER
Sealer of Weights and Measures District No. 2, Medfield and Dover
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LIBRARY REPORT
To the citizens of the Town of Medfield, the trustees of the Memorial Public Library respectfully submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1935.
Miss Anne C. Donlan and Dr. Frank H. Clough were elected to the board at the March election. Dr. Frank H. Clough was made chairman and Theodore B. Pederson, secretary.
During the year the following books were purchased :
Non-fiction 74
Fiction 144
Juvenile 87
Total 305
Also 60 Boy Scout Pamphlets.
We extend our thanks to the following for their gen- erous contributions. Books donated :
By Mrs. Arthur Mitchell 42
By Mrs. Wheelwright 6
By Mrs. Nowers 2
By Mrs. Flagg 7
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Circulation (exclusive of magazines)
Fiction
11,691
Non-fiction
2,401
Juvenile
3,875
Total
17,967
$90.89 has been turned over to the Town Treasurer for fines collected.
New lampshades have been placed on the lamps in the library this year.
The trustees ask for an appropriation of $2,000 and the dog tax for the ensuing year.
Respectfully submitted,
THEODORE B. PEDERSON,
Secretary
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LIST OF JURORS AS PREPARED BY THE SELECTMEN
Ashley, Leon
Caretaker Vinald Road
Atherton, James L.
Patten Maker Mitchell Street
Ballou, Robert E.
Mechanic Brook Street
Bowley, Robert R.
Mechanic
Hospital Road
Bullard, Charles L.
Chauffeur
South Street
Bullard, William
Painter
South Street
Burns, Robert E.
Salesman
Cottage Street
Cady, Frank
Harness Maker Adams Street
Caine, Balfour G.
Laborer Cottage Street
Callow, William
Fireman
Summer Street
Conners, Louis. S.
Straw Worker
Spring Street
Devine, Patrick J.
Patrolman Spring Street
Dewar, Harry L.
Mechanic Miller Street
Dyer, Albert L.
Straw Worker Adams Street
Germain, George I.
Store Keeper Elm Street
Haigh, Charles W.
Supervisor
Hospital Road
Hamilton, George M.
Fireman
Frairy Street
Hanson, Horace J.
Laborer
North Street
Harris, Clarence M.
Straw Worker
Janes Street
Lantz, Byron B. Mechanic
Pine Street
Leighton, Newell W.
Carpenter
South Street
Lucy, Dennis H. Farmer High Street
Mair, Joseph A.
Straw Worker Green Street
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Miller, George F.
Straw Worker
Frairy Street
Miller, John R.
Straw Worker
North Street Mitchell Street
Moore, Carroll B.
Clerk
Morgan, John
Straw Worker
Brook Street
Morse, Herbert H.
Farmer
Miller Street
Mckay, Harold A.
Carpenter
Curve Street
O'Hare, George M.
Painter
Pleasant Street
Owen, Roy
Chauffeur
Main Street
Pederson, Isaac
Straw Worker
South Street
Petrie, Alexander
Carpenter
Oak Street
Roberts, Joseph A.
Undertaker
Miller Street
Smith, Charles B.
Straw Worker
Adams Street
Smith, Fred A.
Carpenter
Main Street
Welch, Howard A.
Stone Mason
Harding Street
Werner, Chester C.
Laborer
Harding Street
Wills, Arthur E.
Store Keeper
Main Street
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Town Clerk's Records For the Year 1935
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN MEDFIELD DURING THE YEAR 1935
Date
Child's Name
Parents
1934 Sept. 1935
15
William Labert Williams
William L. and Alie Hall
Jan.
1
Robert Aldous Howlett
Leslie and Edith MacIntyre Arthur R. and Kathryn Bolster
Jan.
9 Nancy Lee Stagg
Jan.
25 Burton Bennett Welton
Bernard A. and Elsie E. Bennett
Jan.
28 Janet Zullo
Alfred and Julia DeGregory
Feb.
9 Marie Louise Macleod
Charles and Theresa Green Walter I. and Ruth Hocking
Mar.
13 Donna Elayne Maker
Cecil V. and Floris Laverty
Apr. 9 Robert Francis Cox
James F. and Margaret Wheeler
Apr. 12
Dorothy Clark
Apr. 17 Robert Ardey Cantoreggi
Pascal and Enid Baker
Apr. 24 Joseph Arthur Roberts, 3rd
Apr.
26 Neil Kibbe Muncaster
May 2
Gloria Grace Tucker
May
25 Peter Franz Walton
June 3
Shirley Anne Gromberg
July 7
Ruth Mckinnon
July
10
Marie Antoinette Vasaturo
Aug.
4
.
.
Aug. 13
George Folger Canfield
Joseph A., Jr. and Harriet E. Norton James H. and Barbara A. Kibbe John A. and Evaline G. Miller Clarence E. and Elin Henings
Edwin H. and Evelyn Ekstrom
James E. and Vera MacGregor Peter and Ruth DeMichell
Robert W. and Camilla Brown
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Mar. 28 Joan Erline Mick
Charles F. and Katherine Farrell
Aug. 14 Phillip Romolo Luttazi
Sept.
1 Robert Bond Ross
Sept. 1 John Martin Hunt
Sept. 7
Sept. 17
Baby Frink
Sept. 21 Robert William Dunn
Sept. 27 Richard Edward Fenton
Oct. 8
Elliot Atwood Young
Oct. 9
Kenneth Waldron Getchell
Oct. 10 Jean Argyle Beake
Oct. 14 Rena Ann Malcholmson
Oct. 19
Sarah Anne Colantonio
Alfred and Colorinda Palumbo
Oct.
30 Talbot Baker
Talbot and Polly Beale
Nov. 24 Mary Bradford Flagg
Nolan R. and Mary R. Kelly
Dec.
6 Baby Graham
Roland F. and Anna G. Firth
Dec.
21 Clifford Webster Bosselman, Jr.
Clifford and Marian Cheney
Total number of births, 36. Females, 16. Males, 20.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Chapter 46 of the General Laws of Massachusetts requires that every physician shall within fifteen days after a birth at which he has officiated, report the same to the city or town in which the birth took place.
Parents within forty days after the birth of a child, and every householder, within forty days after a birth in his house shall cause notice thereof to be given to the clerk of the town where such child is born.
Failure to give such notice is punishable with a fine.
Blanks for the return of births may be obtained upon application to the Town Clerk.
Romolo and Gina Grandomenico Robert J. and Marjorie B. Roberts Warren L. and Dorothy M. Brown
Herbert W. and Doris Sawyer Reynold W. and Thelma Lincoln
Warren H. and Eleanor G. Barry
Elliot A. and Esther R. Matheson Kenneth and Philomena Haynes Arthur W. and Meta Goring James and Myra Hurd
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MARRIAGES RECORDED AT MEDFIELD DURING THE YEAR 1935
Date
Name
Residence
Where and by whom Married
Jan. 24
Joseph Pelrine Helen E. Babcock
Medfield Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. M. J. Prendergast
Jan.
30
Gilbert .F. Caswell Monica M. Wallace
Smithville, N. H.
In Medfield, by Rev. Jason G. Miller
Feb.
13
Byron Theall Helen Urbanorvitch
Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. M. J. Prendergast
Mar.
2
Edward S. Kelly Gertrude M. Mccullough
Cambridge Cambridge
In Medfield, by Rev. M. J. Prendergast
Mar. 9
Harry B. Gill Doris H. Phillips
Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. Jason G. Miller
Mar. 27
Frank D. Taylor Alice Mclaughlin
Medfield
In Medway, by Geo. S. Bent, J. P.
Apr. 20
Dana B. Jefferson, Jr. Dorothy Bridges
Medfield
In Newton, by Rev. Richard T. Loring
May 29
Donald E. Merritt Rose Mortimer
Natick
In Medfield, by Rev. Laurence Blackburn
June 8 Michael J. Flaherty Katherine A. Kennedy
Norwood
In Medfield, by Rev. Francis S. Keaney
June 19
Leighton Greenwood Cleaves Marie S. A. Coulombe Nicola Novello Maria Bravo
Franklin Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. Francis S. Keaney
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Somerville
Medfield
Newton
Medfield
Medfield
Taunton Medfield
In Providence, R. I., by Rev. Leo H. Carlin
June 23
Smithville, N. H.
Medfield
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June
29
Christian W. Ehnes
Gertrude L. Browning
July 28
Timothy F. Toomey Dorothy M. Savage
Aug. 5 Samuel W. Dickson Beatrice A. Wills
Brookline Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. Thos. M. Webb
Aug. 7 Alfred J. Amelotte Mary E. Czeriven
Medfield Providence, R. I.
In Medfield, by Rev. Thos. M. Webb
Sept. 4 James McCaffery Agnes Ham
Brookline Medfield
In Nashua, N. H., by Rev. Denton J. Neily
Sept. 7 George J. Ehnes, Jr. Gertrude H. Felsch
Medfield Hyde Park, Mass.
In Roxbury, by Rev. Paul Loeber
Sept. 15 Harold Soderberg Olive L. Bemis
Medfield
In Mansfield, by. Rev. Joseph G. Bisbee
Oct. 19
Thomas Balmer, 2nd
Eleanor E. Hamant
Irvington, N. Y.
Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. Charles R. Joy
Oct. 26 Theodore Harding Ward Gladys Hibbert
Medfield
In Somerville, by Rev. Archiver J. Strait
Nov. 2
Francis Flanagan Stella Mary Ryan
Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. Francis S. Keaney
Nov. 16
Medfield
Medfield
In Medfield, by Rev. Thos. M. Webb
Nov. 18
William Bragdon McGregor Marion M. McDonald Phillip Warren Leeds Maria Antonio Rossi Total Number of Marriages, 23.
Medfield
In Providence, R. I., by Rev. Francesca Sannella Baptist
Providence, R. I.
Married in Town, 13. Married out of Town, 10. Resident of Medfield, 27. Non-resident, 19.
Medfield Medfield
Rockland, Mass. Medfield
In Roxbury, by Rev. Paul Loeber In Rockland, by Rev. Henry J. O'Connell
Mansfield
Waltham
Medfield
DEATHS OF RESIDENTS OF MEDFIELD DURING THE YEAR 1935
Date of Death
Y.
Age M.
D.
Jan.
4
Marcia Merrill
71
-
21
Lobar Pneumonia
Jan.
22
Edward H. Abell
66
27
Carbuncle of Neck
Jan.
25
Anna Robinson
95
5
5
Arteriosclerosis
Feb.
2
Lewis A. Cutler
79
10
Acute Capilliary Bronchitis
Feb.
16
Margaret A. Dean
84
10
2
Arteriosclerosis
Feb.
26
David Haley
70
4
13
Carcinoma of Larynx
Mar.
8
Mary G. Ferrone
44
9
8
Hypertensive Heart Disease
Apr.
13
Clara A. Babcock
83
4
2
Myo-Carditis
Apr.
13
Abigail Page Dawson
74
6
17
Carcinoma of Pancreas
Apr.
29
Margaret Gilbert
86
10
18
Arteriosclerosis
May
4
Annie Phillips
70
Valvular Heart Disease
May
7
Lucy Abbott Tedford
75
4
1
Arteriosclerosis
May
11
Forest L. Parker
53
3
23
Carcinoma of Rectum
May
14
Richard James Allenspacker
7
Bronchial Pneumonia
May
15
Antonetta Palumbo
58
10
21
Cardiac Asthma
May
18
Edward F. Pear
80
3
4
Carcinoma of Stomach
May
19
Charles Martin Loeffler
74
Angina Pectoris
June
6 Alvin H. Wright
72
Arteriosclerosis
Aug.
22
Peter Walton
2
27
Bronchitis
Aug.
29
Florence Ferrone
21
2
20
Acute Rheumatic Fever
Sept.
8 Mary Olyott
63
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Cause of Death
35
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:
Sept. 13
Henry Saarm
66
2
16
Arteriosclerosis
Sept. 14 William F. Meaney
46
11
26
. Acute Alcoholic Poisoning Stillborn
Sept.
17 Baby Frink
Sept.
30 Florence Amy Fernald
65
1
2
Carcinoma of Cervix
Oct. 1
John Lewis Allen
39
11
19
Cancer of Bladder
Oct.
29
Patrick L. Murphy
65
10
23
Angina, found dead
Nov. 11
Edward H. Sawyer
48
15
Gas Poisoning
Nov.
25
Richard D. Wilmot
64
7
7
Acute Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis
Nov.
22 Caty D. Hall
68
5
12
Myocarditis
Dec.
23
Mary Ann Sheppard
85
24
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Dec.
29
Frederick Herbert Hinckley
25
9
19
Dec.
31 Mamie Hoak Oram
66
Complete freezing of the body Cerebral Embolism
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Total number of deaths, 161. Residents of Medfield, 32. Non-resident of Medfield, 1. Medfield State Hospital, 128.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
March 4, 1935
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Medfield, in said County :
GREETING : 1.
In the name of the Commonwealth you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Med- field, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town hall, in said Medfield on Monday the fourth day of March A. D. 1935 at 6:00 A. M. then and there to act on the following articles :
Article 1. To choose all Town Officers required to be elected annually by ballot, to wit:
One Moderator, One Town Clerk, One Treasurer, One Collector of Taxes, Three Constables, One Tree Warden, One Member of the Water and Sewerage Board, One Member of the Board of Health, all for one year.
One Selectman, One Assessor, One Member of the School Committee, Two Trustees of the Public Library, One Member of the Water and Sewerage Board, all for three years.
One Member of the Planning Board for five years.
The polls to be opened at 6:00 A. M. and closed at 2:00 P. M.
Article 2. To choose Fence Viewers, Field Drivers and Pound Keeper.
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Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept the reports of the several Town Officers for the past year.
Article 4. To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate to defray departmental and inci- dental expenses of Town for the ensuing year not other- wise provided for.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Moderator's Salary
$ 25.00
Selectmen's Salary
450.00
Accountant's Salary
400.00
Clerk of Department's Salary
1,144.00
Other expenses
181.00
TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT
Treasurer's salary
500.00
Treasurer's bond
100.00
Other expenses
150.00
COLLECTOR'S DEPARTMENT
Collector's salary
1,000.00
Collector's bond
150.00
Deputy Collector's bond
10.00
Other expenses
140.00
ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT
Assessors' salary
500.00
Reports of Valuation
500.00
Other expenses
100.00
TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT
Town Clerk's salary
300.00
Other expenses
50.00
ELECTION AND REGISTRATION
Registrar's salary
40.00
Other expenses
140.00
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TOWN HOUSE
Janitor's salary Other expenses
1,092.00
1,408.00
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chief's salary
2,080.00
Officer's salary
458.00
Traffic officer's salary
150.00
School Traffic Officer
300.00
Lockup Keeper
100.00
Other expenses
432.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries and expenses
3,000.00
New Hose
600.00
SEALER'S DEPARTMENT
Sealer's salary
50.00
Other expenses
50.00
MOTH DEPARTMENT
1,200.00
TREE WARDEN'S DEPARTMENT
Planting shade trees
100.00
Mowing bushes
700.00
Trimming and care of trees
500.00
Spraying elms
300.00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Board of Health Vital Statistics
200.00
Board of Health salaries
75.00
Inspector of Animals
150.00
Inspector of Provisions
100.00
Care of Public Dump Inspector of Cultures :-
25.00
Framingham Board of Health
50.00
Vaccine ... Rabies treatment
50.00
Other expenses
50.00
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SEWER DEPARTMENT 1,000.00
WATER DEPARTMENT
Commissioners' salaries
150.00
Registrar's salary
50.00
Collector's bond
5.00
Massachusetts Department Mental Diseases ... Water
4,500.00
Other expenses
1,300.00
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
General Highways
7,000.00
Guard Rails
150.00
Bridges
100.00
Sidewalks
300.00
Snow Removal
Street Lighting
5,000.00
Public Welfare
7,500.00
Salary-chairman public welfare
200.00
Soldiers' Relief
1,500.00
Old Age Assistance
6,000.00
District Nurse
450.00
School Department
29,500.00
Library, including Dog Tax
2,000.00
PARKS
Care of Baxter Park
75.00
Care of Playground-Grange Field
150.00
CEMETERY DEPARTMENT
Maintenance
2,600.00
New Fencing
500.00
Memorial Day 225.00
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County Hospital
764.96
Reserve Fund 3,000.00
Contingent 650.00
Notes-Maturing Jan. 1, 1935-Jan. 1, 1936 18,000.00
Interest on notes and bonds-Jan. 1, 1935 Jan. 1, 1936 7,923.75
Interest on Temporary Notes 2,000.00
Liability Insurance 725.00
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1935, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable with- in one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 6. To determine in what manner the taxes shall be collected for the ensuing year, also determine what percentage shall be allowed the Collector for the ensuing year.
Article 7. To see what compensation the Town will allow members of the Fire Department for the ensuing year.
Article 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Col- lector to use all means in the collection of taxes as the Treasurer might if elected to that office.
Article 9. To see how much per hour the Town will allow for work on the highways for the ensuing year.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to appoint one of its members as Water Registrar.
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Article 11. To see what compensation the Town will -4 allow the Water Registrar for the ensuing year.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the pruning of dead wood from the elms and for the removal of any dead or dying elms on the public streets.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $185.60 to reimburse the follow- ing named persons for their boilers that burst from ex- cess pressure.
Gustaf and Laura Carlson
$ 10.00
George S. Cheney
44.80
Patrick J. Devine
67.20
Lewis Dewar
10.00
Elizabeth Donlan
10.00
Minnie A. Longworth
33.60
Mary E. Spear
10.00
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote a sum of money to replace one of the furnaces in the Ralph Wheel- ock School.
Article 15. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of furnish- ing materials, and equipment for FERA projects.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote authorization of the Board of Selectmen to appoint an Inspector of Wires in accordance with Chapter 166, Section 32, Gen- eral Laws.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate $1,000 provided the State and County re- imburse a like amount for general maintenance of Chap- ter 90 roads.
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Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the following amounts to scarify, re-shape and tar the following streets.
Miller Street $ 650.00 ,
Upham Road
150.00
Frairy Street 450.00
Mitchell Street
320.00
Adams Street
1,430.00
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $225.00 to purchase calcium chlo- ride to be used for gravel roads.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a new police car.
Article 21. To see what action the Town will vote to take regarding the disposal of the old police car.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the payment of out- standing bills incurred by the various departments in 1934 as follows:
Water Department
Medfield State Hospital $ 651.33
Police Department Alexander Allen 10.95
Police Department F. D. Kennedy 13.82
Town Hall Edison Elec. Illum. Co.
33.60
Board of Public Welfare
Rutland Sanitorium
138.00
Fire Department N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
3.50
Board of Public Welfare City of Cambridge 741.00
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,778.75 to pay for a card index system, giving locations of all curb boxes and gates for entire water system.
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Article 24. To see if the Town will raise and appropri- ate a sum of money for the purchase and installation of traffic lights at the junction of North, Main and Pleasant Streets.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting warrants in said Medfield, 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, until the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 15th day of February A. D. Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Five.
FRANK G. HALEY, CHARLES W. HAIGH, CHARLES F. ALLEN, Selectmen of Medfield.
Attest :
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
Medfield, Massachusetts
February 23, 1935.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield qualified to vote in elections to meet at the time and for the purpose named, by posting attested copies of said warrant in not less than five public places in the town at least seven days before the time of holding the meeting.
FRED C. CHICK,
Constable of Medfield.
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ANNUAL MEETING March 4, 1935
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, duly warned and notified in the manner prescribed by law, met at the Town Hall on the Fourth day of March, 1935, at six o'clock in the forenoon to elect their officers for the ensu- ing year.
Article 1. To choose all Town Officers required to be elected annually by ballot, to wit:
One Moderator, One Town Clerk, One Treasurer, One Collector of Taxes, Three Constables, One Tree Warden, One Member of the Water and Sewerage Board, One Member of the Board of Health, all for one year.
One Selectman, One Assessor, One Member of the School Committee, Two Trustees of the Public Library, One Member of the Board of Health, One Cemetery Com- missioner, One Member of the Water and Sewerage Board, all for three years. One Member of the Planning Board for five years.
Cards of Instruction and Specimen Ballots were posted as required by law.
The ballot box was examined and found in good work- ing order and at close of voting agreed with the check lists in the number of ballots cast.
The following named persons appointed by the Select- men and sworn by the Town Clerk were assigned to duty as follows: Louise Brennan and Charles Bullard to dis- tribute ballots; Abbie Sheahan and Eugene Munson to check at the ballot box. Ann Young, Edna Huebener,
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Alexander MacLean, Richard Conrick, Roy Hunt, Leslie Mckay, George Miller, and Luther Cheney as Tellers, and Coleman J. Hogan, Constable at the ballot box.
The ballots were counted in open meeting and the total vote cast was seven hundred fifty-nine (759).
After the ballots had been counted and tabulated the presiding officer, Frank D. McCarthy, announced the re- sults as follows :
Moderator
Frank D. McCarthy
585
Blanks 174
Town Clerk
Grace W. Everett 424
William Palumbo
303
Blanks
32
Selectman
Charles F. Allen
383
Robert R. Fraser
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