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The Field Drivers were appointed Fence Viewers and Pound Keepers.
Fire Warden-John Condon.
Tree Warden-Clement A. Cahoon.
Surveyors of Wood and Lumber-Clarence S. Burgess and Sidney B. Moody.
Article 5. Motion Albert D. Long, voted to lay on table.
Article 6. Motion W. Sears Nickerson, that the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in antici- pation of the taxes of the present year to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $15,000, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year. Any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the taxes of the present year. Voted unanimously.
Article 7. Motion Joseph N. Atkins, voted chair ap- point committee consisting of Selectmen, School Committee and one from each Post Office to retire and make up a list of appropriations.
Committee appointed :- Harwich Centre-N. C. Underwood. West Harwich-Gustavus V. Crowell. North Harwich-Anthony H. Ryder. East Harwich-Walter Emery .. South Harwich-William A. Eldredge. Harwichport-James O. Hulse, Jr. Pleasant Lake-Joseph N. Atkins. Selectmen and School Committee. Article laid on table till after recess.
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Article 8. Motion John H. Drum, article accepted and proposed legislation endorsed.
Article 9. Motion J. H. Drum to lay on table. Lost. Motion W. H. Baker, appropriate $250, or such amount as necessary, to repair until summer people come. Lost. Mo- tion J. K. Robbins, voted to lay on table until estimates could be furnished by Ralph Gorham.
Article 10. Motion Everett W. Eldredge article be ac- cepted. Amendment by Albert D. Long that no part of ap- propriation shall be used to turn the waters of Andrews river into Salt Water pond. Amendment lost. Amendment by William H. Baker state furnish $5,000, or such sum as they may deem expedient. Article and this amendment voted.
Article 11. Motion Thomas H. Nickerson article be ac- cepted and adopted. Voice vote being doubted a rising vote was taken. Voted, 95 to 65.
Article 12. Motion George W. Nickerson article ac- cepted and $500 appropriated.
Article 13. Motion C. S. Hunt accepted unanimously.
Article 14. Motion G. V. Crowell accepted.
Article 15. Motion J. K. Robbins article be received and reports read. Reports on different roads read and ac- cepted. Motion Walter Emery article be accepted and roads built under joint supervision of Road Commissioners and Selectmen, the roads to be under direction of Highway Com- mission. After considerable discussion meeting adjourned to 1.30 P. M. for dinner.
Called to order at 1.30 P. M.
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After more discussion on the article, question called by Charles R. Clarke and by rising vote lost, 95 yes, 119 no.
Article 7. Taken from table and committee reported on appropriations :
Almshouse,
$1,200
Outside Poor,
1,500
Poor in other Cities and Towns,
350
State Paupers,
50
Tax abatements,
500
Miscellaneous,
1,000
Town officers,
1,800
Transportation High School,
500
Schools and Superintendent,
7,000
Election officers,
50
Tree Warden,
20
Inspection animals,
25
Board Health,
100
Fire Warden,
200
Repairs Public Buildings,
300
Snow,
600
Fences and railings,
100
Bridges,
200
General repairs roads,
1,200
Town macadam,
250
State macadam,
325
State Aid,
1,350
Insurance,
450
Interest,
700
Macadam, 1902,
1,000
Brewster,
600
Gypsy and brown tail moths,
150
State and County tax,
4,200
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Suppression crime,
100
Treasurer's bond,
35
Fish Wardens,
25
Hearings,
150
Painting Almshouse,
100
Painting Exchange building,
700
Wychmere,
500
North Harwich Cemetery,
150
East Harwich Cemetery,
100
District Court, .
100
Brooks Library,
100
Moderator,
10
Neil Road,
500
Road from Capt. Megathlin's to J. Larkin's,
100
Total, $28,390
$75 was added to report for suppression of crime. Mo- tion William H. Baker to strike out $700 on appropriation for painting Exchange. Lost.
Article 9. Taken from table. Martin L. Chase gave estimate with concrete floor, $1,600; plank floor, $900; abut- ments, $1,000.
Motion George T. Bassett to appropriate $2,500. Lost.
Motion Samuel Small to appropriate $400 to repair. Lost.
Motion A. L. Weekes to appropriate $3,000 and pay in $500 annual payments. Lost.
Motion A. L. Weekes to indefinitely postpone. Lost.
Motion William H. Baker that Selectmen and Road Commissioners be a committee to examine bridge and report at future town meeting. Meanwhile bridge be closed. Voted. Resolutions on shell fisheries by Louis B. L. Raycroft :
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Whereas, The present scallop law (Acts 1910, Chap. 177,) so acts as to practically prohibit our fishermen from engaging in what has heretofore been a considerable in- dustry and source of income to our people; and
Whereas, A special bill has been introduced into the present legislature by Mr. Raycroft of Dennis with a view to remedying the law in several towns, including Harwich ; therefore be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that said special bill (H 1441) should be passed, and the Honorable Legislature is hereby petitioned to pass and enact the bill.
Motion Carrol F. Doane, voted unanimously.
Article 16. Motion Ensign Rogers, voted to accept. Motion William H. Baker voted no appropriation.
Article 17. Motion William H. Baker, voted to accept and contract sold to lowest bidder and work to be under supervision of Road Commissioners and Selectmen. Voted to appropriate $500 on motion A. L. Weekes after first vote was reconsidered.
Article 18. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 19. Motion A. L. Weekes that Selectmen be authorized to sell grants. Lost.
Article 20. Motion William H. Baker voted at next an- nual town meeting that the election of officers be second day and report of town officers be first day.
Article. 21. Voted. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 22. Motion J. H. Drum voted indefinitely post- poned.
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Article 23. Motion Wm. H. Baker voted not to receive Public Document series.
Article 24. Motion Wm. H. Baker voted to accept and appropriate $100.00.
Article 5. Taken from table. Motion Geo. T. Bassett "that assessors be instructed to give in their future reports to the town an itemized account of the town's valuation as follows: The tax value and the total value of the real estate and the tax value and the total value of personal estate; and also the total value of both real and personal estate. "'
Motion voted and balance of article accepted.
Article 25. Motion Wm. H. Baker that an advisory board of ten be appointed to assist assessors. Lost.
Motion J. H. Drum that sense of meeting be that the same disposition be made of the $10,000 Chase fund as last year. Voted.
Motion A. L. Weekes that doings of this meeting be printed in next annual town report. Voted.
Motion Wm. H. Baker that thanks of meeting be ex- tended to Moderator Ralph W. Doane for his courtesy and fairness.
Motion Samuel Small voted to adjourn. Time 4:50 o'clock p. m.
A true copy attest :
NATHAN C. UNDERWOOD, Town Clerk.
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Town Clerk's Report of Births Recorded in the Town of Harwich in 1911
DATE
NAME OF CHILD
NAME OF PARENTS
Jan. 18 Mary Thelma Ellis
Feb. 7 Erdine Franklin Doane
Feb.
12 James Lincoln Chase
Feb.
21 |Donald Solomon Ellis
Feb.
24 Edmund Crosby Lee Higgins Joseph Morse Walker
Mar. 5
Mar. 13
Mar. 28
Katherine Ida Domina
Mar. 31
Apr. 7 Ellwood Britt Allen
Apr.
12 Male (stillborn)
May 4 Ruby Leland Young
July 12 Will Curtis Nesbit, Jr.
July
13 Bernard Freeman Tripp
July
21| David McNeilly, Jr.
Aug. 18 Sept. 5 Jeffrey Nickerson
Oct. 6 Charles Edward Vose, Jr.
Oct. 7 Male (stillborn)
Oct. 15 Louis Eldredge Gilbert
Nov. 12 Wallace Cleveland Bassett
Nov. 21 Female (stillborn)
Nov. 27 Norman Earl Holmes
Dec. 1 Edward Prince Bassett
Dec.
8 Harold Emmons Nickerson
Dec. 11 Osborne James Rogers
Dec. 26 Bertha Elsie Cahoon
Ralph Ellis, Sadie Olsen
Chester Doane, Maud S Nickerson James H Chase, Charlotte M Spindle Solomon T Ellis, Jr, Marjorie Small Willie Hadley Lord Higgins, Rosannah Lee William B Walker, Florence Chase Robert Walker Chase, Hester Blachford Frederick Wallace Domina, Lillian Baker Winfred C Sylvia, Mary A Bassett Avis May Allen
Peter Dumont, Lucy Annie Eldredge R Stanley Young, Millie Leland Higgins Will Curtis Nesbit, Elsie Whoopes Frank Bernard Tripp, Nellie Freeman Chase David McNeilly, Kate Gunn Elliot A Long, Delia M Bassett Valentine L' Nickerson, Marion C Small
Charles Edward Vose, Florence May Grant Wilbur Bassett, Bertha .K Drew Ernest P Gilbert, Sarah O Baker Benjamin Cleveland Bassett, Louise W Love Ernest F Walker, Annie E Crocker Charles D Holmes, Eunice E. Kendrick Prince Hall Bassett, Lillian M Bassett Edgar C Nickerson, Adalena Eldredge Otis James Rogers, Beulah Bogue Ralph Melvin Cahoon, May G Bassett
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BIRTHS-Continued
PORTUGUESE
DATE
NAME OF CHILD
NAME OF PARENTS
Jan. 9 Adeline Nellie Pina
Apr. 8 James George Gomes
Apr.
12 Dorothy V. Silva
Augustus M Pina, Elizabeth L Ramos George M Gomes, Mary Pina John J Silva, Minnie Gomes
May
5 Nellie Reno
Antone Reno, Bellbena Gomes
May
16 Clara Lima
John Lima, Mary Jibou John J Morris, Lizzie Gonsalves
June 28 John Henry Morris
July 14 Male (died unnamed)
Aug. 11 Augustus Burgo
Sept. 4 Josephine M. Baptiste
Oct. 15 Minnie Rose
Nov. 23 Emulous Duman Gomes
Dec. 17 Paul Taber
Dec. 25 Mamie Fernandes
William Rose, Julia Pena Antone Burgo, Julia Pina Henry Baptiste, Emma Corria John Rose, Emily Rose
Isaac Gomes, Isabella Montiero
Manuel Taber, Mary Lopes Joseph Fernandes, Mary Montiero
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Town Clerk's Report of Marriages Recorded in Town of Harwich in the Year 1911
DATE
NAME OF PARTIES
AGE
RESIDENCE
Jan. 17
Wilbur E. Stokes Bertha M. Joslin
26
Brockton Harwichport
Jan. 30 Peter Andrea
34
Harwich
Katharine Barrows
26
Harwich
Feb.
8 Lewis Freeman Harding Lucretia Dena Clark
23
Harwich
Feb. 14 Thomas L. Kenney
22
East Harwich
Della E. Gregory
20
South Carver
Feb. 22 Thomas Anthony Rogers
22
Harwich Dennis
Feb. 25 Richard Pigeon
28 E. Boston
Emma R. Kelley
27
E. Boston
Mar. 8 Lawrence B. Robbins Ethel H. Crowell
24
Harwich Attleborough
Mar. 12
Valentine Linwood Nickerson Marion C. Small
21
East Harwich Harwich
May 14 Abner R. Woodhouse Helen A. Berry
55
Harwichport Harwichport
May 17 Alvah B. Crabe Helen Cavanaugh
43
Harwich Harwich
May 28 Samuel J. Smith
49
Harwich Dennis
Rebecca M. Sawyer
28
June 18 Jabez W. Crowell
35
East Harwich Harwich
Lucy E. Mecarta
36
July
1 Harry Humphrey Cnase Bernice Isborn Bassett
25
West Harwich Harwich
21
Middleboro
Elizabeth Mae Long
17
21
21
62
30
19
27
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MARRIAGES-Continued
DATE
NAME OF PARTIES
AGE
RESIDENCE
1
July 12
Frederick K. Sawyer Sara Lucille Grinnell
32
Searsport, Me. Searsport, Me.
Aug. 10 George E. Gray
21
North Harwich
Blanche L. Nickerson
19
Harwich
Aug. 28 Milton Edward Ellis Mabel E. Morse
24
Harwich
Sept., 1 Antone Roderick Ida Gonsalves
22
Harwich
21
Harwich
Sept.
1 Harold Winfred Ellis Susie May Kelley
20
Harwich South Yarmouth
Sept.
2 Watson W. Baker Mary A. Baker
36
Harwich South Dennis
Sept. 24 Fred B. Ellis Annie Gannon
31
Harwich Cambridge
Oct.
21 Clarance H. Nickerson Mollie E. Hawes
43
West Harwich Dennis
Oct. 26 Chester B. Kelley Ada Florence Berry
18
South Yarmouth West Harwich
Nov.
5 Barnabas Taylor Sarah D. Rogers
41
Harwichport Harwichport
Nov. 11 Manuel G. Pena
21
Harwich Harwich
Reta Pena
20
Nov. 18 Robert Lima
38
Harwich
Julia Diaz
25
Harwich
Nov. 22 George Anthony Smalley
36
Harwichport Orleans
Clara Esther Fleming
26
Dec.
12|Lorenzo S. Pickering Lucie Estelle Chapman
24
West Dennis
21
Dennisport
23
Harwich
18
27
26
28
23
51
21
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Town Clerk's Report of Deaths Recorded in the Town of Harwich in the Year 1911
DATE
NAME OF DECEASED
AGE
CAUSE OF DEATH
Jan.
6 Jeremiah Walker
75
1 21 Arterio Sclerosis
Jan. 15 Valentine Doane
77
8 29 Chronic Valvular Heart Disease
Jan.
16 Marana S. Doane
81
6
22 Uraemia
Jan.
21 |Rufus S. Mayo
55
Phthisis Pulmonalis
Feb.
5 Daniel H. Smith
88
6
9
Acute Intestinal Obstruction
Feb.
6 Christopher C. Snow
64
Gangrene of left leg and Senile Dementia ·
Feb.
7 Winslow S. Rogers
83
10
16
Nephritis Chronic Interstitial
Feb.
8 Greenleaf P. Bassett
75
9
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Feb.
19 Annette Tuttle
75
5 26
Pneumonia Lobar
Feb.
23 Thomas W. Baker
56
7 29 Chronic Valvular Heart Disease
Mar.
. 2
Rosane Sears
82
5 17 Paralysis following Cerebral Haemorrhage
Mar. 15
Ella F. Smith
59
4 21
Uterine Carcinoma
Mar. 18
Maria Chase
89
10
13 Heart Failure
Mar. 21 William W. Cook
57
6
7 Taber Dorsalis
Apr. 1
Cecil B. Holmes
1 11
Acute Bronchitis
Apr. 12 Female Infant (P. Dumont)
42
1
3 Carcinoma of Liver & Intestine
Apr.
22 Darius F. Weekes
78 1
2 Chronic Valvular Heart Disease
Apr.
27
27 Ellen Burt
62
22 Locomotor Ataxia
May
4
Jonathan C. Hall
62 2
12 Acute Indigestion
May
5 Adaline Montero
3
Pneumonia
May 12 Obed S. Doane
87
6
23 Apoplexy
June 4 Isaac H. Smith
86
10 24 Arterio Sclerotic Gangrene
June 10 Myrtle L. Ellis
1
6
21 Pneumonia
June 11
Henry C. Robbins
90
10 Senile Arterio-Sclerosis
June 17
Minnie Carrie
72
10
2 Fracture Hip (Gangrene)
June 17
Lilian M. Hammond
31
0
23 Phthisis
June 23
Inez H. Phillips
37|
Acute Gastritis
July 2or3 Cyrus Baker
83
3 Indigestion (Cardiac Spasm)
July 3 John D. Haley
41
2
1 |Natural Causes (indefinite)
July 6 David Kendrick
74
4 Cardiac Dilatation 9
July 14 Lewis Lima
1
2
27 |Convulsions
July 14 Ann R. Bassett
78
8 16 Arterio Sclerosis Stillborn
July®
14 Infant Male (Wm. Rose)
1
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M
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16 58
Uraemia
Apr.
30
Hazel M. Gilman
11|23 Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Apr.
20 Freeman E. Ellis
Congenital Inanition
Apr.
Betsey K. Small
10 4
.
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DEATHS-Continued
DATE
NAME OF DECEASED
AGE
CAUSE OF DEATH
July 15
Betsey C. Joseph
July 16 Christian Piris
62
Gonorrhaeal Septicaemia
Aug. 29 Raymond L. Cobb
16
10
2 Acute Hepetitis
Sept.
2 Nathaniel T. Small
69
11 15 Fracture of Trachea
Sept. 3 Edna May Gray
6
6 Bronchitis
Sept. 19|
Edmund C. Lee
66
11
26 Lobar Pneumonia
Oct.
7 Female Infant (W. F. Bassett)
Stillborn
Oct.
18 Lewis Gilbert
2 Premature Birth
Oct.
25 Jeffrey Nickerson
1
10
Inanition
Nov.
21|Annie E. Walker
27
Acute Nephritis
Nov.
21 Female Infant (E. F. Walker)
Premature
Detachment of
Placentae
Nov. 21 Margaret S. Cash
74
5 16 Gastric Ulcer
Nov. 21
William E. Chase
60
7
19 Artharoma
Nov. 29 Elvira Cahoon
83 11
7 Cerebral Haemorrhage
Dec. 13 George H. Kelley
72
Carcinoma Pancreas
Dec. 15 Sarah C. Weekes
59|10
15 Cancer Stomach
Dec. 28 Reuben B. Weekes
74
1
7 Carcinoma Sigmoid Flaxere
1
1
.
Y 85
M D
10|Arterio Sclerosis
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DOG LICENSE ACCOUNT.
13 Female Dogs at $5.00,
$65.00
97 Male Dogs at $2.00,
194.00
110
$259.00
Clerk's fees,
22.00
Paid County Treasurer,
$237.00
Respectfully submitted,
NATHAN C. UNDERWOOD,
Town Clerk.
Town Meeting Warrant, 1912
BARNSTABLE, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Harwich, in said County, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Harwich, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at Exchange Hall, in said town, on Monday, February 5, 1912, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, with the exception of the articles relat- ing to all officers to be elected or appointed, and on Tuesday, February 6, 1912, at 8.30 o'clock, to act on the articles afore- said :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator.
Article 2. To determine the rate of per cent. to be paid the Tax Collector for the ensuing year, and act fully thereon.
Article 3. To hear the report of all Town Officers and Committees for the year 1911, and act fully thereon.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes for the ensuing year, and act fully thereon.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town expenses for the ensuing year, and act fully thereon.
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Article 6. To see if the town will vote to instruct its Selectmen to control, regulate and prohibit the taking of eels, clams, quahaugs, oysters and scallops, within the town limits, as provided by Chapter 91, Section 85, and acts in amend- ment thereto, of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts, and to make any regulations in regard to such fisheries as they deem expedient.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to make an appro- priation of fifty dollars for the use and benefit of the Chase Library.
Article 8. To see if the town will authorize the School & Committee to establish a Department of Agriculture, aided by 1500 the State, in the Harwich High School, as provided by law, Acts 1911, and raise and appropriate money for the same, and to take any and all steps in relation thereto.
Article 9. To see what provision the town will make in regard to accommodations or quarters to be used by the pro- posed Department of Agriculture in the High School; to raise and appropriate sufficient money for same, and act fully . thereon.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money sufficient to harden and improve 500 with oil, the main road running through the village of East Harwich, beginning at a point on said road known as Nathan Nickerson's corner, thence continuing southerly through said village to the East Harwich church, and to determine in what manner the money shall be raised, and the payment thereof met, and to act fully thereon.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to harden and improve with oil the Brewster road, so-called, beginning at a point
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thereon near the house of Nathan B. Walker, at the termina- tion of the macadam, and thence extending north to the Brewster line, excepting that small portion of macadam already existing through the village of Pleasant Lake; and to determine the way and manner in which said sum shall be raised and the payment thereof met, and act fully thereon.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to connect the landing to the upper hall in the Exchange Building with the fire escape as it now stands in said building, or in some other way provide and install a suitable fire escape to said upper hall, that the requirements of the law may be met, and said room made available for public use when needed; also to pro- vide suitable lighting for the same, and to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for purpose mentioned, and act fully thereon.
Article 13. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to be used in leveling, turn- piking and hardening with cinders and clay, that portion of the road leading from the Post Office, Main street, Harwich- port, to the shore, beginning near the residence of the late S. B. Kelley and extending southerly to the southern extremity of the property of Estelle Tuttle.
Article 14. To see if the citizens of the Town of Har- wich will empower the Board of Selectmen of Harwich to give permits or grants to citizens of said town for planting and cultivation of quahaugs in the waters and flats of Pleasant Bay; the permits or grants not to exceed the distance of twenty-five yards into said bay, from mean low water, and act fully thereon.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to rescind the vote it passed at a special meeting, held March 13, 1911,
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whereby it voted to appropriate $2,500 to build a steel bridge, Herring River Lower Bridge, so-called.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to establish pre- cinct voting in the Town of Harwich for State Elections, and the Selectmen to make all necessary arrangements for the same, for 1912 election.
Article 17. To see if the town will choose a Highway Surveyor for one year, and act fully thereon.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to finish repairing Lower Herring River Bridge.
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to build the road beginning at the macadam road in Harwichport, running 2 south to intersect with the road leading to the Snow Inn, as 350, laid out by the Road Commissioners, on the petition of Ensign Rogers and others, provided, however, that James E. Patton, Jr., will pay one hundred and fifty dollars towards its con- struction.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of one hundred dollars for the purpose of helping build the fence now under construction around Union Cemetery near East Harwich M. E. Church, said fence now being about one-half completed.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of two thousand dollars, or a sufficient sum therefor, to build and oil one mile of road through the village of North Harwich, beginning at the location of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., near the North Harwich station, and thence continuing northerly over said road through the villiage to the four corners, so-called, and thence easterly over said road over the Herring Brook, toward Harwich Center.
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Article 22. To see if the town will vote to charge inter- est at the rate of six per cent. per annum on all taxes unpaid after Dec. 15, 1912.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to instruct the U. S. trustees of the Chase Fund, so-called, to invest said sum in some way or manner other than loaning to the town in antici- 7.5. pation of taxes; to elect a board of trustees consisting of not more than seven citizens, one from each post office district, and act fully thereon.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the improvement of Wych- mere Harbor, provided the sum of $5,000 will be appropriated by the Land and Harbor Commission, for the same purpose ; such sum to be expended under the supervision of said Com- mission.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the purpose of building a new vault for the Public Records, in Exchange Building, and for the installation of the Town Offices in said building, and act fully thereon.
Article 26. To see if the town will vote to top-coat the town macadam roads with oil and sand, and to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money therefor, and act fully thereon.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to elect its Select- men and Overseers of the Poor in the following manner: One for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, at the next annual election, and at each annual election thereafter, elect one for the term of three years, in accordance with Chapter 560, Section 367, Acts 1907.
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Article 28. Asking the town to appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to harden the road called Pine street, leading from Island street, Harwichport, southerly through Ocean Grove, said material consisting of cinders.
Article 29. To see what action the town will take toward buying the Road Machine of the late Rinaldo El- dridge. (By request.)
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to pay twenty cents per hour for work done by horses on the town roads. (By request.)
Article 31. To see what action the town will take in
A regard to purchasing land for the purpose of Public Dumps. (By request.)
Article 32. To choose on one ballot the following Town Officers and Committees for the term of one year: Town Clerk and Treasurer, three Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, three Herring Committee, two Auditors, three Con- stables, one Tax Collector; and for the term of three years : one Assessor, one School Committee, one Road Commissioner, one Park Commissioner, one Trustee for Brooks Library.
Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors ? Vote Yes or No.
Article 33. To choose all other necessary Town Officers and Committees, and act fully thereon.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one in each post office in said town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting. The polls will be opened at 9 o'clock A. M., on Tuesday, February 6, 1912, and may be closed at 2 o'clock P. M.
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Hereof, fail not, and make due returns of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twentieth day of January, 1912.
W. SEARS NICKERSON, JOHN H. DRUM, EPHRAIM H. DOANE, Selectmen of Harwich.
Correct, attest :
Constable.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF The School Committee and
Superintendent of Schools
OF THE
Town of Harwich
TOWN
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For the Year 1911
ORGANIZATION OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF
HARWICH, MASS.
1911
JOHN P. NICKERSON, M. D., Chairman. Term expires 1914.
JOSEPH B. ATKINS, Secretary.
Term expires 1912.
THOMAS H. NICKERSON, Treasurer.
Term expires 1913.
Superintendent of Schools-LORING G. WILLIAMS. Residence, Parallel Street. Telephone 39-3.
Truant Officer-WILLIAM H. BASSETT. Residence, Oak Street. Telephone 31-5.
School Committee's Report
The School Committee organized for the year 1911 by the choice of John P. Nickerson, Chairman; Joseph B. Atkins, Secretary, and Thomas H. Nickerson, Treasurer.
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