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William P. Nichols
Advisory Board to the Assessors William N. Eldredge Charles E. Hamer
Henry T. Cobb
Article 4. Report of all Town Officers and Com- mittees.
Motion to accept was lost and it was moved that this article be laid on the table until after lunch hour and the following committee was appointed to consider the report : Wm. P. Barnes, Ralph F. Gorham and Joseph B. Atkins. After corrections had been made by the Special Committee the Report of the Town Officers was accepted.
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Article 5. Permission to the Treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of taxes. Voted and accepted.
Article 6. Appropriations for 1925 as submitted by the special committee :
Almshouse
$2,700.00
Outside Poor
3,000.00
Poor of other cities and towns
200.00
Miscellaneous
2,000.00
Town Officers
3,000.00
Schools
29,000.00
Election Officers
75.00
Gypsy and Browntail Moths
1,034.01
State and County Tax
14,000.00
Suppression of Crime
1,000.00
Treasurer's Bond
110.00
Fish Wardens
250.00
Hearings
200.00
Tree Warden
75.00
Second District Court
400.00
Moderator
10.00
Chase Library
50.00
Harwichport Library
50.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
150.00
Milk Inspector
150.00
Electric Lights
2,600.00
Wire Inspector
200.00
Ambulance
150.00
Exchange Building
500.00
Insurance
800.00
Inspector of Animals
150.00
Inspector of Slaughtering
100.00
Board of Health
400.00
Fire Warden
800.00
Repairs on Public Buildings
900.00
Snow
300.00
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500.00
Fence and Railings
Bridges
500.00
State Macadam
1,300.00
Interest
1,000.00
School Inv. Committee
85.25
$68,539.26
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS
Visiting Nurse
$1,000.00
Cape Cod Farm Bureau
200.00
Surveyers Map
1,000.00
General Road Repairs (Chapter 81)
7,400.00
Harwich-Brewster Road
8,000.00
Hammond Road
200.00
General Repairs on Roads
1,500.00
School invs. Committee
1,500.00
Gordon-Ritchie Road
100:00
Hearse House Shed
200.00
Burial of John Chase
150.00
For Tractor
1,700.00
Tree Emergency-1924 Storm
1,089.58
Town Dump
200.00
Total
$24,239.58
68,539.26
Grand Total
$92,778.84
Article 7. Pertaining to the taking of eels and shell fish from town waters. Accepted after inserting the words 'General Laws' in the place of Chapter 91 Section 85, and acts and amendments thereto of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts.
Article 8. $1,000.00 asked for the Visiting Nurse. Accepted and adopted.
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Article 9. To have Brooks Block managed by the Selectmen instead of Trustees. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 10. To elect a Director and make appro- priation for the Farm Bureau. John T. Wood elected Director and $200.00 appropriated.
Article 11. Electric lights from the residence of the late Erastus Chase, West Harwich, connecting with the lights in Harwichport. Recommended and $400.00 appropriated.
Article 12. $1,000.00 for an Assessor's map from Brooks Road to the Chatham line. Accepted and adopted.
Article 13. To increase salary of Selectmen, Over- seers of the Poor and Assessors. Accepted and adopted.
Article 14. To raise and appropriate $7,400.00 under the provisions of Chapter 81. Accepted and adopted.
Article 15. $8,000.00 for the Harwich-Brewster road. Accepted and adopted.
Article 16. To accept Dodd Lane. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 17. Hammond Road, South Harwich. Ac- cepted. $200.00 appropriated.
Article 18. Road from Baptist Church, West Har- wich, southerly to shore. $500.00 to repair road.
Article 19. To improve with cinders, Doane Road, Harwichport. $600.00 from general fund.
Article 20. To improve Oak Street, Harwich Cen- ter, from Main to Railroad. $400.00 appropriated from general fund.
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Article 21. To raise $1,500.00 for general repairs on roads. Accepted and adopted.
Article 22. To hear the report of Special Com- mittee on school accommodations. This report was re- ceived and placed on file. An investigating committee was appointed to act with this special committee to re- port at a Special Town Meeting held not later than three weeks from this date, and $1,500.00 was appro- priated for the use of the committee.
Article 23. To raise $94,000.00 for erecting a cen- tral school building. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 24. To carry out the preceding article. In- definitely postponed.
Articles 25 and 26. Relating to Article 23. Indefi- nitely postponed.
Article 27. To raise $100.00 to widen the Gordon- Ritchie Road, West Harwich. $100.00 appropriated.
Article 28. To repair East Harwich Cemetery Road. $500.00 taken from the general fund.
Article 29. To build an addition on the hearse house. Voted to raise $200.00 for the same.
Article 30. To reimburse W. S. Nickerson for burial of John Chase. Voted $150.00.
Article 31. Relative to the purchase of a tractor. Voted to raise $1,700.00.
Article 32. To repair Gorham Road. Voted $300.00 from general repairs.
Article 33. To repair Queen Ann Road from cor- ner of Pleasant Lake Road to the railroad. Voted $150.00 from general repairs.
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Article 34. Repairing South County Road in Har- wichport from Main Street to the lower bridge on Her- ring River. Voted $1,200.00 from general fund.
Article 35. Electric Lights on Pleasant Bay Road, East Harwich. Voted $350.00, which is included in general appropriation for lights.
Article 36. To accept Pilgrim Road, Harwichport. Accepted.
Article 37. To raise $1,099.58 for tree emergency of 1924. Accepted and adopted. £ $1,089.58 appro- priated.
Article 38. To establish bed in Cape Cod Hospi- tal. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 39. To adopt a By-law relative to an Ap- propriation and Finance Committee. Indefinitely post- poned.
Article 40. Relative to a building for housing the fire truck and ambulance.
Motion carried that a committee be appointed by the chair, one from each P. O. district to act in conjunc- tion with the fire warden and Selectmen, to consider this entire question, and to report at some future meet- ing. Committee: Wm. P. Barnes, Douglas B. Sawyer, Joseph L. Ellis, Arthur H. Chase, Joseph B. Atkins Walter Emery and Geroge W. Banspach.
Articles 41-42-43-44 referring to Truck drivers, Rent of Stores, Rent of Exchange Theatre, and Shell Fisheries respectively, were voted to be indefinitely postponed.
Article 45. To appropriate money for a town dump. $200.00 appropriated.
Town Meeting adjourned at 5.30 o'clock.
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JURORS DRAWN MARCH 16, 1925
Grand Jurors
Charles F. Hall, Jr. Laborer N. Harwich
Robert F. Pierce Retired E. Harwich
Traverse Jurors
Henry F. Chase
Druggist W. Harwich
Caleb Chase Carpenter W. Harwich
Everett T. Cahoon
Laborer N. Harwich
Traverse Jurors Drawn Sept. 21, 1925
Alton P. Hall
Trader
N. Harwich
Willie L. Cole
Carpenter Harwich Center
Edwin K. Bearse Retired
W. Harwich
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, MAY 1, 1925.
Article 1. John H. Paine was chosen Moderator.
Article 2. To hear the report of estimating com- mittee on school building. Wm. N. Eldredge read a very complete report of said committee.
This report was voted to be received and filed. It was further voted that, The Investigating Committee be continued and requested to bring in at the next Annual Town Meeting a definite recommendation on the sub- ject of improving our schools, and the sum of $1,100.00 was appropriated for carrying out the work.
Articles 3-4-5-6-7-8-9 . Relative to further school- house plans, traffic officer for Harwichport, and condit- ions in Town Office were indefinitely postponed.
Meeting adjourned at 11 o'clock.
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Town Clerk's Report of Births Recorded in the Town of Horwich for the Year 1925.
Date
Name of Child
Name of Parents
Jan. 5
Jan.
7
Illegitimate-Female Henry Manuel Rose, Jr. Alina Bertha Galvin
Jan.
19
Jan.
20
Russell Elwood Hall
Jan.
23
Marie Cecelia Raneo
Jan.
27
David Kenney Nickerson
Feb.
18
Mar. Mar.
1
Illegitimate-Female Lena Daminga Santos Bertram Manuel Nunes
Mar.
14
Mar.
19
Apr.
1
-Female-Hopkins Male-Stillborn Teocty Vagenas
Apr.
23
Madolyn Pearl Chase
Apr.
22
Marion Lopes
May
1
6
Geraldine Mary Gammons Olive Betsey Mckinley Manuel Alvah Gomes Kenneth Wendell Jones June Elizabeth Bassett Albert Hazen McKenney Mary Phillis Rodrick Illegitimate, Female
Albert and Addie Kennedy Manuel and Lilly Pena
Wilmon H. and Elizabeth Dunham
Manuel and Julia Rose
Antone and Bessie Gonsalves Freeman S. and Viola M. Hall Manuel S, and Mary Raneo Norman L. and Beatrice F. Nickerson George A. and Laura Data Sears Arthur M. and Ethel M. Allen Hillary M. and Vivian F. Doane Bertram W. and Hazel M. Holman Edmund C. and Ada M. Baxter Romeo S. and Lottie E. Antone Henry I. and Maud D. Eldredge James and Carol Massonneau John and Emilia Rose
Matti E. and Anna Lawson Charles P. and Carrie E. Miller EverettT. and Louise E. Chase
Nov. Nov. Dec.
23 4 Betsy Alden Sawyer
Dec.
15 Juvino L. Fernandes
Dec.
27 Roger Lee Bassett, Jr.
Dec. 28
Mabel Stella Gomes
Henry M. and Laura F. Pena James O. and Edith Lopes Alton P. and Olive F. Phillips
Rudolph J. and Matilda F. Cotell Harold A. and Abbie M. Ryder Hilliard E. and Gladys R. Newcomb
Nelos G. and Erene Stefanes Harry H. and Bernice Bassett Gideon and Mary Lomba William D. and Mary Shearing Joshua and Avis A. Grant Frank J. and Mary Rose Mervyn H. and Lucy M. Hayes Ozias H. and Elizabeth M. Bassett
May May June
21 1
June
3
June
19
June
27 5 11 21
Caroline Crocker Sheldon Stillborn
July July July July June
2 19
Illegitimate, Female
June
27 9 14 24
Kenneth Antonio Roderick Shirley Jean Doane Mary Thatcher
Aug. Aug.
Aug.
25
Beatrice Joyce Bassett Ivan Everett Bassett Horace Ray Ellis
Aug. May Sept. Sept. Oct.
28
19 Roy Holman Eldredge Alma Crosby Lee
Oct.
3 Carleton Sterling Oliver 1 Margaret Handy Coulson
Oct.
2 Priscilla Winslow Baldwin Betty Jeannette Rose
Oct. Oct.
14
17 Olivia Matti Suhonen
Oct.
23 James Godfrey Marceline
14 Roland Everett Ryder Illegitimate, Female
Douglas B. and Eleanor B. Jerauld Manuel and Rosie Monteiro Roger L. and Madeline A. Beauprie George and Mary Pena
Mar.
14
Malcolm Howes White
Frank and Nellie Pena Wendell W. and Marion Meader
John and Mary S. Pena
9
Amelia J. Nunes
Aug.
29
25
Constance Sylvia LeClair
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Report of Marriages Recorded in Town of Harwich for the Year 1925
Date
Names
Age Residence
Jan. 14
Sidney A. Chase
62 Etsa Harwich
Laura A. Brown
26 East Harwich
Jan. 28
Thomas F. Corcoran
36 West Harwich
Feb.
14
Manuel B. Armado
27 Northboro, Mass.
Laura E. Gomes
18 Pleasat Lake
Feb.
15
Almond G. Ryder
29 Harwich Center
Wilhelmena Pye
22 .
W. Barnstable, Mass.
Feb.
22
Fred S. Garland
39 Harwichport
Mar.
18
Paul L. Eldredge
33
Harwich Center
Marie E. St. Pierre
23
Tiverton, R. I.
Mar. 19
Douglas B. Sawyer
27 South Harwich
Feb.
25
Norman Reed Baker
19
Yarmouth, Mass.
May
24
Abner N. Smalley
41
Harwichport
Nettie M. Cahoon
39
Brockton
June 16
Thomas B. Cave
22
Chatham, Mass.
21
East Harwich
June
27
Bernard F. Small
24 Harwich Center
June
27
Henry Gomes
21 Harwich Center
July
12
Henry C. Gray
55 Hyannis, Mass.
July
18
Charles A. Anderson
21 Fairhaven, Mass.
Aug.
1
Manuel Fernandes
55 North Harwich
Aug. 6
Reginald D. Love
31 Harwichport
Ida M. Valli
28 Barnstable, Mass.
Aug. 15
Roger W. Cahoon, Jr.
23
West Harwich
Aug.
15
Charles E. Johnson
28
Providence, R. I.
Sept.
6
Raymond Vincent
26 Hyannis, Mass.
Sept. 7 Helmuth C. Bentzen Harriet Price
32
Boston, Mass.
Sept. 12
Manuel Driggs, Jr.
Etta B. Love
26 Harwichport
Sept.
13
Leslie V. Nickerson
24 Harwichport
Sept.
14
Theodore C. Holmes
18 East Harwich
Helen S. Young
16 Chatham, Mass.
Pauline M. Sylvester
19 Harwich Center
Mamie Fernandes
13 Harwich Center
Isabel Dunlevey
55 Hyannis, Mass.
Cora A. Stephens
24 New Bedford, Mass.
Rosie Gomes
41 North Harwich
Mildred E. Higgins
18 Brewster, Mass.
Hildur E. Ohman
27 Providence, R. I.
Gertrude L. Chase
24 Hyannis, Mass.
45
Quincy, Mass.
21 Falmouth, Mass.
Annie M. Parker
24 Dennis, Mass.
Velma C. Lake
29 Harwichport
Eleanor B. Jerauld
19 Chatham, Mass.
Lila Eldredge
18 Brewster, Mass.
Gladys M. Nickerson
35 West Harwich
Anna L. Twohig
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MARRIAGES-Continued
Date
Names
Age
Residence
Sept. 16
Edward P. Chase
25 Dennis, Mass.
Dorothy N. Murray
21 Dennis, Mass.
Sept. 17
Norris E. Batchelder
64 Chatham, Mass.
1
Madella M. White
63 Chatham, Mass.
Sept.
19
Antone Silva
28 Harwich
Matilda Centeio
15 Dennis, Mass.
Sept.
27
Francis K. Kendrick
23 East Harwich
Oct.
10 William H. McCracken
30 Boston, Mass.
Dec.
19
Fred A. Amberman
35 Chatham, 'Mass.
Adelide K. Rogers
32 Chatham, Mass.
Eletha M. Sparrow
20 Eastham, Mass.
Mary L. Hammond
25 Boston, Mass.
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Town Clerk's Report of Deaths Recorded in the Town of Harwich for the Year 1925
Date
Name of Deceased
Y M D
Cause of Death
Jan.
9
Stillborn
Jan.
11
Sarah Jeanette Nickerson77
8
15
Organic heart disease Cerebral hemorrhage
Jan.
24
Anna F. Baker
79
7
14
Pneumonia
Jan.
26 Phebe L. Chase
84
4
11
Arterio Sclerosis
Jan.
11
James R. Lothrop
57
4
1 Cerebral apoplexy
Feb.
10
Sarah M. Nickerson
81
10 10 Arterio sclerosis
Mar.
14
Mar.
17
Tamson Hall Baker
79
Mar.
19
William O. Lawson
72
10
25
Acute indigestion
Apr.
5
Esther A. Stokes
68
3
20 Cancer of liver
Apr.
6
Joseph Gorham
43
11
17
Pneumonia
Apr.
11
Hester B. Chase
43
5
1 Embolus
Apr.
20 Laura L. Crowell
56
5
7
Cerebral hemorrhage
Apr.
22 Minerva A. Barwise
54
10
23
Tuberculosis
Apr.
30 Hiram L. Crowell
76
2
8
Organic heart disease
May
1 Charles E. Kenealy
49
6
. .
Angina pectoris
May
5
Rose M. Eldredge
46
8
1 Cancer of stomach
May
10
Helma C. Lawson
63
3
29
Uterine carcinoma
May
21
Mary Nettleton
63
.
. 20
Pneumonia
June
1
Edgar D. Kelley
74
11
5 Carcinoma of stomach
June
16
Linwood E. Doane
18
8
22
Diabetis millitus
June
7
Harry F. Gibbs
75
4
21
Mitril regurjation
June
29
Ambrose C. Miles
76°
7
1 Softening of brain
July
7
Gustavus C. Robbins
85
24
Cardio-renal disease
July 15-18
Emma F. Handren
73
1
11 Acute indigestion
July
22
William Harding
65
11
6 Carcinoma of esophagus
July
22
Mary Hurd Bearse
85
11
12
Cerebral hemorrhage Stillborn
Aug.
11
George Henry Snow
81
9
3
Cerebral hemorrhage
Aug.
23
Horace W. Keach
83
9
28
Arterio sclerosis
July
12
Gordon Silva
68
Carcinoma of jaw
Sept. 7
Simon Willard Thayer
57
11
Automobile accident
Sept.
21
Cynthia S. Hammond
76
8
24
Carcinoma of intestines
Sept.
28
Eliza Jane Crowell
75
4
3
Cerebral hemorrhage
Oct. 1 Barnabus F. Taylor
65
6
21
Ruptured gall bladder
Nov.
4
Russell W. Gifford
85
1
17
Arterio sclerosis
Nov.
28
George P. Hamilton
65
4
28
Apoplexy
Dec.
4 Hope D. Chase
77
9
15
Cerebral hemorrhage
Dec.
17 Flora E. Horton
68
6
5 Cercinoma of breast
Dec.
19 Walter R. Thornton
1
3
3
Pneumonia
Dec.
31
Willie L. Kelley
63
10
8
Ulcer of stomach
July
22
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.
July
27
Betty Emelia Rose
. .
.
22
Premature birth
Aug.
23
Joseph Silva
69
.
Apoplexy
Nov.
4
Lois Grant
47
.
.
Cancer cervix
Jan.
25 Henry G. Gomes
70
. .
.
Premature birth
Arterio sclerosis
Mar.
19
. .
Stillborn
May
27
Everett L. Ellis
64
2
Carcinoma pancreas ·
.
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Bodies Brought to Harwich for Interment
Y M D
Place of Burial
Jan.
6
Abbie F. Kelley
79
12
North Harwich
Feb.
13 Delilah F. Chase
89
5
10
East Harwich
Mar.
14 Ruth Winn
84
9
5
North Harwich
Mar.
16 Martha W. Kendrick 68
East Harwich
Mar.
24 Hezekiah F. Doane
81
. . East Harwich
Mar.
25 Zulette Cobb
76
. .
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Mar.
27
William S. Wilson
40
8
8
West Harwich
Mar.
28
Georgie M. Doane
82
8
16
East Harwich
Apr.
20
Prudence A. Berry
70
2
9 East Harwich
May
20
Clara M. Long
67
6 West Harwich
May
Henry Smalley
82
11
South Harwich
June
22
Irene K. Bearse
89
24
23
East Harwich
June
27
William Brown
63
2
3
East Harwich
July
6
Elmer I. Megathlin
64
5
2
Harwich Center
July
11
A. Ross Baker
50
East Harwich
July
12
John F. Ryder
52
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. .
Harwichport
Aug.
18
Everett W. Freethey 37
1
4
East Harwich
Aug.
24
Annie F. Moody
. .
.
East Harwich
Oct.
14
Delilah E. Chase
82
8
1 East Harwich
Oct.
24
Ruhanah Baker
89
10
17
West Harwich
Nov.
10 Alonzo Eldredge
73
3
3
East Harwich
Nov.
12 Edward D. Whelpley 72
7
24 South Harwich
Dec.
11 Ruth M. Counsell
31
3
29 Harwich Center
Dec.
13
Ledora A. Chase
80
4
8
Harwichport
Dec.
22
Frank Gonsalves
54
Harwich Center
Mar.
28
Hope D. Sears
76
1
Harwichport
Apr.
19 Bennett N. Larkin
61
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Aug.
15
George H. Snow
.
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Harwich Center
Aug.
31
Infant-Cook
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Harwich Center
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West Harwich
Harwich Center
Town Meeting Warrant, 1926
BARNSTABLE, S. S.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Harwich, in said County,
GREETING :-
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Harwich, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in Exchange Hall, in said town, on Monday, February 1, 1926, at 8.30 o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following Articles :-
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to act in said meeting.
Article 2. To choose on one ballot the following Town Officers and Committees: - Town Clerk and Treasurer for one year; one Selectman and Overseer of Poor for three years; one Assessor for three years; one Selectman and Overseer of the Poor for one year, one Assessor for one year; three Herring Committee for one year; two Auditors for one year; three Con- stables for one year; one School Committee for three years; one Trustee Brooks Library for three years; one Park Commissioner for three years.
Article 3. To choose all other necessary town officers and committees.
Article 4. To hear the report of all town officers and committees for the year 1925, and act fully thereon.
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Article 5. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, and act fully thereon.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- sary to defray town expenses for the ensuing year, and act fully thereon.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to raise the present Fire Warden's pay from fifty cents per hour to $1.00 per hour.
Article 8. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Selectmen to name the principal streets in the town that are not already named, and to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money to erect and maintain street signs for the purpose of directing traffic, and to act fully thereon.
Article 9. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $7,400 to come under the provision of Chapter 81, Section 26, of the Acts of 1922, to secure an allotment by the State, and act fully thereon.
Article 10. To see what provision the town will make for keeping the town accounts under the new system, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to ap- point a committee to consist of the selectmen and the fire warden and two other voters, to consider the ques- tion of having the fire engine in town premises, the em- ployment of a permanent driver and the providing of suitable quarters for him; the providing of proper tel- ephone connection with him; also with the fire warden. The committee to publish its recommendations in The Harwich Independent three weeks before the annual town meeting in 1927, and to insert in the town warrant
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in 1927 embodying the said recommendations for the consideration of the voters.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to paint and repair the Exchange building on the inside, and act fully thereon.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $800 to maintain two traffic officers in Harwich Port, and any other part of the town as may seem necessary to the board of select- men, and act fully thereon.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to repaint, reshingle the roof and make other repairs, both interior and exterior, to the Brooks Library Building, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Trustees of the Library.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to in- crease the yearly salary of the treasurer and tax col- lector from one thousand dollars ($1000) to twelve hundred dollars ($1200).
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to maintain electric street lights on Main street beginning near the residence of the late Erastus Chase in West Harwich and extending easterly to connect with the street lights now maintained at Harwich Port near the residence of L. P. Beal and to make an appropriation therefor, and act fully thereon.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three hundred Dollars ($300) to maintain electric lights in North Harwich, beginning at the four corners and extending north, east and south, six lights in each direction.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to con- tinue the survey for the Assessors' map under the direc- tion of the board of Assessors, and appropriate ($1000) One Thousand Dollars for that purpose.
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Article 19. To see if the town will vote to legalize the action taken without vote of the town by the late Ambrose N. Doane, chairman of the board of Select- men, and the late N. Carroll Underwood, Town Treas- urer, on Oct. 28, 1903, whereby they deeded back to the heirs of Chester Snow, the property previously bid in by the town.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote that the school authorities may have the use of the Exchange Theatre including water system, heat, and light privi- leges without cost, for any school purposes, including athletics, and act fully thereon.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $2000, to build a permanent dock on the town landing at Wychmere Harbor, Harwich Port.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to r: and appropriate $1000 for the Harwich Visiting Nurse Association, to defray expenses for the ensuing year.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 to repair the side- walks on the State Highway through Harwich Port, with suitable hardening, and act fully thereon.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropirate ($500) Five Hundred Dollars to im- prove the road known as Shore Road, West Harwich, leading from Grey Neck Road westerly, and act fully thereon.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Selectmen to sell Harry H. Chase an oyster grant in Herring River, said grant to be located below the lower Herring River Bridge, and act fully thereon.
Article 26. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty- five dollars to maintain electric street lights in Har-
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wich, beginning at the corner of B. D. Crosby's and ex- tending to the Harwich Railroad Station, and act fully thereon.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to elect a director for the Cape Cod Farm Bureau.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of eight hundred dollars to put a culvert under the town road at Pleasant Lake for the outlet of herring providing the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad Co, will put a culvert un- der their road, and act fully thereon.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5000) for the purpose of obtaining Aerial Assessors' map of the town, and authorize the Select- men to enter into contract with the Fairfield Aerial Surveys Inc. of New York City, to furnish a set of such maps to consist of a Mosaic map and index map; a com- plete set of contract prints, a complete set of enlarge- ments at a scale of one inch equals two hundred feet, and a stereoscope, the cost of above service being based on price submitted for twenty-four square miles of Four Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty-Dollars ($4550).
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Sixty-five Thousand Dollars ($65,000) to build a High School building in Brooks Park, and act fully thereon.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to ap- point or elect a committee of seven, three of whom shall be the school committee, the superintendent to be added in an advisory capacity, to carry into effect any and all actions of the town under the preceding article, or any article in this warrant relating to this subject matter, and to secure the enactment of such legislation as may be necessary, and to do and to act any and all things thereto pertaining.
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Article 32. To see if the town will vote to harden with pea stone and dust or cinders that portion of Bank street between the State highway and Nantucket Sound, and make an appropriation therefor, and act fully thereon.
Article 33. To see if the town will vote to harden with cinders or pea stone and dust the road in Harwich Port called Bay View Road, and make an appropriation therefor, and act fully thereon.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to accept the road in Harwich Port known as Ayerlayne, as laid out by the selectmen on petition of Ralph F. Gorham and others, and act fully thereon.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to harden with cinders the unfinished portion of the South County road beginning at or near Dodd Lane, so called, and extending to the lower bridge on Herring River, and act fully thereon.
Article 36. To see if the town will vote to widen and straighten a portion of the North Harwich road beginning at a point near the residence of James Gal- vin and continuing easterly to the approach to the rail- road bridge, a distance of about 150 yards, in such a manner as the road superintendent shall deem best, and to appropriate a sufficient sum therefor.
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