Town annual reports of the selectmen, overseers of the poor, town clerk, and school committee of West Bridgewater for the year ending 1945-1949, Part 2

Author: West Bridgewater (Mass. : Town)
Publication date: 1945
Publisher: Town Officers and Committees
Number of Pages: 964


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On motion this article carried.


ARTICLE 17


To see if the Town will authorize the Moderator to appoint a Special Building Committee; appropriate a sum of money, not to exceed $1,000.00 for the use of the committee; to authorize this committee to determine a building site; to retain an architect; to obtain estimates; to consult experts if necessary; and to have plans drawn for a six year Senior-Junior High School Building, in accord- ance with recommendations of the Special Committee. They shall be authorized to render a report at the next annual Town Meeting.


On motion this article was carried.


ARTICLE 18


To see if the Town will vote to transfer the Special Account Surplus $39.75, remaining in Military Retirement, December 31, 1944 into Surplus Revenue.


On motion this article carried.


ARTICLE 19


To see what action the Town will take relative to thé collec- tion of Dog License Tax.


On motion the Town Clerk is to transmit to the Dog Officer a list of all delinquent dog license payers and the dog officer is to Bill to them the amount due with a charge of $.35. If not paid within 10 days a further sum amounting to $1.00 in the aggregate shall be collected.


Motion carried.


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ARTICLE 20


To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.


Motion was made to adjourn the meeting. Carried.


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


15% INCREASE


The 15% increase over the 1944 amounts of expense was determined to be necessary because of the increased cost of living and applies to the following Departments:


Old Age Assistance Ad. $ 439.49 to $ 720.00


Police Department Expense 3,194.32 to 3,500.00


Aid to Dependent Children 21.00 to 158.00


This increase is verified by the various special vote in favor of the above Departments as appearing in the Finance Committee recommendation of Budget.


This also includes all other departments except School Department as verified upon vote on the Department Articles in the Budget.


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, April 10, 1945


Meeting was called to order by the Moderator and Warrant was read by Town Clerk, H. E. Bryant.


The meeting proceeded as follows:


ARTICLE 1


To hear the report of the Town By-Laws Committee and to act thereon.


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Proposed By-Laws of the Committee were accepted with Amendments and motions made that they be referred to Attorney General for Approval.


ARTICLE 2


To make retroactive to January 1, 1945 salary increases voted at March 12, 1945 Town Meeting to elective Town officials for the year 1945.


On motion this article was carried.


On motion the meeting was adjourned.


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, April 30, 1945


Meeting was called to order by the Moderator, E. Marion Roberts and the warrant read by H. E. Bryant, Town Clerk.


The meeting proceeded as follows:


ARTICLE 1


To hear the report and recommendations of the Water Com- missioners in regard to a better water supply for the Town and act thereon.


Moved that we admit the Engineers, Whitman and Howard, to represent the Water Commissioners in their report on the fur- ther supply of Town Water. Motion carried. The four means by which a better supply was outlined by Engineers, was read and discussed to some length. Three of these plans were outlined by increasing flowage by means of laying mains from the several points of source to points indicated, (Standpipe as a reservoir)


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included in all three plans. Plan number four recommended by the Engineers will mean a Town owned water system, supplied from Driven wells, and that such supply and quality may be determined to be adequate to our needs.


.ARTICLE 2


To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 from the available water surplus account for test wells and pumping test to determine if a sufficient supply of water of the required quality can be obtained in a reasonable location in West Bridgewater.


It was moved that the sum of $3,000.00 be appropriated from Surplus Funds of the Water Department for further investigation.


On Motion meeting was adjourned.


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


SCHOOL HOUSING COMMITTEE


The following committee was appointed by the Moderator in accordance with article 17 of the Warrant of the Annual Town Meeting, held at West Bridgewater on March of 1945.


Ralph Frellick Miss Grace Keenan Leon Lothrop


Fred Bisbee


Sherman Perkins Harvey Scranton


Mrs. Raleigh Holden


Rev. Thomas Devlin


Willard Peterson


A. Scudder Moore Samuel Read George Maxim Mrs. Ralph Fish Warren Snell Manuel Travers Arthur Ryder Allen Foye E. Marion Roberts


Clifford Carlson


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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, October 18, 1945


The meeting was called to order by the Moderator E. Marion Roberts and the warrant was read by Town Clerk, H. E. Bryant.


The meeting proceeded as follows:


ARTICLE 1


To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $3,500.00 from the Road Machinery fund for the purchase of Highway Equipment.


Moved that the sum of $3,500.00 be transferred from Road Machinery Fund, for the purchase of Highway Equipment. An explanation of this Article and its purpose was made by Selectman William Noyes.


Upon vote the article was carried.


ARTICLE 2


To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Water De- partment Surplus Revenue account, the sum of $1,000.00 for the use of the Water Department.


Moved that the sum of $1,000.00 be transferred from the Water Department Surplus Revenue for the use of the Water Department.


Chairman, George May, of the Water Department made an explanation of the requirements of the Department.


This motion was carried.


On motion the meeting was adjourned.


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, December 6, 1945


In the absence of the Moderator E. M. Roberts, the meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant and then requested nominations for a Moderator Pro Tem. Arthur Ryder was nominated and upon voice vote was chosen.


The By-Law requirement, 50 voters necessary to proceed with meeting not being present, on motion the meeting was ad- journed to December 13, at 7:30 P.M.


H. E. BRYANT,


Town Clerk


ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, December 13, 1945


Meeting called to order on Thursday, December 13, by Mod- erator E. M. Roberts. Articles in Warrant were read by Town Clerk H. E. Bryant.


The following was the result:


ARTICLE 1


To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2,750.00 from Surplus Revenue for School Department.


Amendment was made by School Committee Chairman, Sherman Perkins to reduce the amount to $1,975.00. Reasons for reduction of the amount made by School Superintendent, Arthur Lord. On Motion it was voted to appropriate the sum of $1,975.00 from the surplus revenue for the School Department.


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ARTICLE 2


To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $150.00 from Road Machinery Fund for the purchase of Highway Equip- ment.


An explanation of this article by Selectmen that this money was not required as plans were changed. It was voted on motion to pass same.


ARTICLE 3


To see what action the Town will take in establishing a Building Code and revising Town By-Laws relative thereto.


After some discussion this article was referred to Annual Town Meeting.


Moved that the meeting be adjourned.


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


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ABSTRACT FROM CHAPTER 46 OF THE GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS


Sec. 3. Physicians and midwives shall, within forty-eight hours after the birth of every child in cases of which they were in charge, mail or deliver to the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which the birth occurred, a notice stating the date and place of the birth giving the street number if any, color and the family name. They shall within fifteen days after the birth, mail or de- liver to the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which the birth occurred, a report of the birth, stating the date and place, the name, if any of the child, its sex and color, and the names, ages, places of birth, occupations and residences of the parents, giving the street number, if there be any, and the number of the ward in the city, the maiden name of the mother, if the full return is not made within forty-eight hours.


The fee of the physician or midwife shall be twenty-five cents for each birth so reported. A physician or midwife who neglects to report each birth within forty-eight hours or fifteen days there- after, shall for each offence forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars.


Sec. 6. 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 city or town in which such child is born.


The facts required for record, as stated in section 3, shall so far as known or obtainable, be included in every notice given under the provisions of this section.


Sec. 8. A parent, or other person who, by section 6, is re- quired to give, or cause to be given, notice of a birth or death, who neglects to do so for TEN DAYS after the time limit therefor, shall forfeit not more than five dollars for each offence.


Sec. 24. The Town Clerk shall furnish blanks for returns of births to parents, householders, physicians and midwives who apply therefor.


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VITAL STATISTICS


Births in West Bridgewater, 1945


Date Name


Parents


January


27


Harold Donald Van Dyke, Jr.


Harold D. and Anna S. Finch


February


21 Darrell Clayton Turner


Elgin A. and Ethelle C. Peterson


May


15 Rhonda Lee Nickerson


Albert E. and Helen F. Hayden


August 3 Betty Anne Finch


Alvin and Mildred R. Kugis


3 Bobby Anse Finch


26 James Edward Finch


James L. and Elsie M. Bates


October


28 Elizabeth Ann Silveria


John and Mary C. Reardon


Births Elsewhere to West Bridgewater Parents, 1945


Date


Name


Parents


January 2 Margaret Frances Podielsky


2 Carolyn Frances Pettengill


2 Coralie Ann Isabel


William D. and June Wilson


6 Bruce Stanley Carlson


Stanley O. and Olive J. Hargreaves


Chester M. and Elsa L. Pearson ,


8 Stanley Martin Johnson


9 Virginia Ann Woodard


16 Meredith Lee Johnson


18 Ronald Alan Coelho


23 Joanne Farrell


26 Thomas Trillo


28 Ellen Ryder Foye


30 Nancy Mae Okerstrom


30 David Richard


William W. and Elsie Jordan Charles G. and Clara F. Perry


Roger E. and Doris E. Lutz Myron T. and Dorothy L. Baillie Anthony P. and Angie P. Braga Charles T. and Margaret R. Caron Thomas A. and Lillian M. Salvador Allen B. and Gertrude Howard


Lars O. and Maimi J. Pajanen LeRoy F. and Vera E. Gartland


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Date Name


February


9 John Scott Newell, 3rd.


19 Stillborn


20 Hugh Ramsay Hurley


27 George Louis Byford


March


9 Charles Warren Gardner


11 Christine Shirley Pearson


16 William Esward Jacques


April 5 Jonathan Franklyn Lindquist


10 Myrtis Louise Ellis


16 Lynette Ann Turski


22 Kathleen Mary Cobbett


30 Carla Elizabeth Bodwell


May 4 John Randall Huston


6 Stuart Roberts Reller


9 Laura Mabel Smith


29 Stillborn


June 28


Gary William Carlson


July . 6 Bernard Arthur Roy


6 Joseph William Morris


16 Francis E. Crossen, Jr.


19 Joanne Elaine Kaminsky


25 Judith Marian Landry


26 Teresa Lee Martin


26 Donna Lee Chouinard


31 David Albert Ticchi


August 4 Christopher Read


23 Betty Jean Pennington


26 Patricia Elizabeth Martin


27 Arthur Louis Thayer


29 Meryl Jean Snell 30 Karl Leo Slater


Parents


John S. and Dorothy A. James


James E. and Edna A. Howard George W. and Mary D. VanderHaegen


Charles W. and Charlotte Edwards Carl R. and Shirley Olwyn William E. and Mary L. Chaves


Arnold W. and Helen Lyon Leslie E. and Eleanor M. Cashman Adam and Ruth D. Levy Harold L. and Alice Frazier


Everett E. and Laura E. Hazelton


John K. and Mary Manoli William H. and Jean Roberts George H. and Laura E. Powers. 41 . ..


Carl W. and Rebecca Clark


George C. and Marguerite D. DuBois Joseph E. and Beatrice Mary Stack Francis E. and Bernice D. Aronson Louis R. and Louise Helen Moore. Arthur W. and Helen L. Mitchell John F. and Edna M. Turley William A. and Marguerite M. Dearth Andrew P. and Mary A. Covezoli


Samuel A. and Hattie M. MacCurrach Hozzie H. and Virginia F. Fuller Frederick J. and Patricia Litchfield Eldon N. and Marion F. Cobbett Royal K. and Dorothy E. Smith Lester P.and Mary Eileen Noonan


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Date Name


September 2 Stillborn


6 Janice Elaine Bishop


6 Barbara Jean Newman


8 Darryl Constance Phelan


12 Mary Elizabeth Sears


13 Brooks Marshall Farrar


16 Wayne Dennis Poole


24 William Arthur Greene


25 Stillborn


Parents


Henry A. and Barbara L. Hackenson Raymond L. and Marie R. Cabral Philip S. and Florence Hutchinson Herbert A. and Florence E. Murray Karl W. and Nellie K. Prophett Francis E. and Frances G. Hopgood Harry D. and Capitola G. Nelson


October


4 Jeanne Roberta Dalton


18 Robert Carl Newman


28 Louise Patricia Crowley


November


6 Robert Sterling Macleod


10 Diane Lee Johnson


15 Jean Frances Redmann


18 Stephen Swift Cunningham


22 Eleanor Irene Cook


24 Timothy Dwight Fellows


December


1 Carolyn Jeanne DeHay


19 Carolyn Jean Hayward


22 Pauline Mae Perry Paulette Marie Perry


29 Jamcs Michacl Cheyunski


George M. and Loretta D. Beaudrault John E. and Ellen J. Olson Francis J. and Pauline Johnson


Ira M. and Doris A. Whitcomb Ejnar W. and Audrey E. Miles Robert H. and Elizabeth Jennings William F. and Beatrice E. Swift Albert B. and Thelma G. Johnson Dorothea E. Leffingwell


Edward J. and Jennie Smith Howard M. and Mary C. Harris Lester and Elsie Marie Gustafson


Adolph J. and Lillian J. Waitt


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


Delayed Birth Returns


Date


Name


Parents


November 12, 1944


David Walter Sawyer


July 14, 1943 Charles Douglas Hill


Harry J. and Edna B. Marshall


Charles L. and Ellen Lindquist


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


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Deaths Recorded in West Bridgewater, 1945


Date


Age Y. M. D.


Cause


January


8 Margaret E. Martin (Duggan)


66


8


23 Coronary Thrombosis


19 Frank P. Burque


62


6


4 Coronary Thrombosis


26 Anna Myrtle Morris


65


6


9 Subarachnoidal Hemorrhage


February


1 Felix J. Glinski


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4 20 Electrocution while working on Elec- tric power switchboard


1 Minnie B. Austin (Curtis) 77


6 13


Organic Heart Disease


2 Georgie Andrews (Morrill) 77


9


10 Coronary Thrombosis


17 Harold F. Height 1


3


5


Broncho-Pneumonia


March


14 Robert M. McCourt


53


4 11


Not Given


May


9 George Elmer Horton


80


1


25


Broncho-Pneumonia


13 John Augusta Sylvia


75


6


19


24 Jaqueline Carnello


3


9


7


Organic Heart Disease Asphyxiation by Immersion in water, (drowning)


29 Stillborn


30 Emelia Rosen (Peterson)


68


4 17 Hypostatic Pneumonia


June


7 Christopher Read _


76


0


27


Coronary Thrombosis


15 Margaret Reehill (Hennessey)


80


0


0


Hypertensive Heart Disease


July


19 Evelyn B. Shader (Alger)


69


3 17


Hypostatic Pneumonia


20 Margaret A. Mannigan (O'Connor)


74


4


20 Cerebral Hemorrhage


25 Wilbur S. Austin


80


0


5 Organic Heart Disease Hemorrhage of the Brain (accidental)


25 Wilfred Grant


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26 George A. MacCurrach


62


11 15 Cardiac Failure


31 Tessie Leighton (McIntyre) 56 0


6 Cerebral Thrombosis


19 Stillborn


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Date


Age Y. M. D.


Cause


August


1 Hazel E. Covezoli


29


6 20 Congestive Heart failure


9 Andrew John Johnson


77


2


10


Senility


26 Oscar S. Johnson


54 3 29


Sudden death Probable coronary occlu- sion


September


2 Stillborn


25 Mary H. Pratt.(Pope)


78


10 1 Coronary Thrombosis


25 Stillborn


October


2 Titus Burba


61


3 17


Carcinoma of lower lip


2 Alfred Eustace Howard


82


5 26


Heart Block


18 Emma Lydia Kent (Warren) 90


2 17 Senility


24 Eddy P. Dunbar


84 6


22 Arteriosclerosis-Myocarditis


28 Theresa Gummow


84


3 28


Cerebral Embolus


November


22 Edward I. Chase


61


11 7 Coronary Thrombosis


December


6 Abner Ellis


64


3


25 Coronary Thrombosis


9 Ralph H. Dunbar


66


3 17


Uremia


10 Mary A. Boss


87


1


9 Hypostatic Pneumonia Myocardial Failure


15 William E. Gouin


84


15 Aaron Anderson


76


Myocardial Failure


24 Clarence H. Thompson 78


Fractured Skull


H. E. BRYANT,


Town Clerk


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Marriages Recorded in 1945


January


26 James Louis Finch of West Bridgewater and Elsie May Bates of Brockton at Brockton, by Albert S. Kellie, Minister.


February


11 George Arthur Knox of West Bridgewater, and Beatrice L. Seymore of Brockton, at Brockton by Leonard J. Burke, Priest.


March


1 John Clayton Bemis of West Bridgewater and Alena Marie MacQuarrie of Newton, at West Bridgewater by Albert Q. Perry, Clergyman.


9 Charles S. Ellis of West Bridgewater, and Lorna Southworth of Eastondale, at Boston, by George M. Marshall, Clergyman.


9 Edward H. Bradbury of West Somerville, and Doris A. Morse of West Bridgewater at Brockton by Karl Gott- schling, Minister.


30 George A. Holyoke of West Bridgewater and Caroline Cox of Canada at West Bridgewater, by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


April 19 John M. Jordon of Pembroke, and Constance L. Carlin of West Bridgewater, at Brockton, by Edwin H. Gibson, Minister.


May 19 William E. Sweeney of Brockton and Mary T. Guinea of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


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June


1 Frank E. Parker of West Bridgewater and Evelyn D. Four- nier of Brockton at Brockton, by Joseph W. Kenney, Priest.


2 Roy F. Van Vleet of New York and Cora E. Porter of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Edward McClurg, Clergyman.


10


Robert A. Woodward of West Bridgewater and Beverly Wheeler of Rockland, at West Bridgewater by James F. Grimes, Priest.


15


Robert W. McFarlan of West Bridgewater and Dorothy E. Broderick of Whitman, at Whitman by Harold S. Capron, Minister.


16


Clifford M. Hutchins of Brockton and Clare Noonan of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


24 William E. Gibson, Jr. of West Bridgewater and Marion L. Alger of East Bridgewater at West Bridgewater, by Ernest A. Thorsell, Clergyman.


16 Harold T. Cleverly of Middleboro and Doris M. Harlow of Plymouth at West Bridgewater, by Frank Fellows, Clergy- man.


29 Charles G. Alden of West Bridgewater and Dorothy H. Fay of Brockton, at Brockton, by Francis L. Cooper, Minister.


July 15 Edward J. Johnston of Bridgewater, and Blanch Morrill of West Bridgewater, at Bridgewater by Benjamin Lockhart, Clergyman.


22 Howard M. Hayward of West Bridgewater and Mary C. Harris of Stoughton at Stoughton, by A. Avery Gates, Clergyman.


25 Walter D. Fountain of Brockton and Lorraine A. Kohl of West Bridgewater at Brockton, by Bryan F. Archibald, Clergyman.


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August


18 William M. Mahoney of West Bridgewater and Ruth A. Anderson of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Oscar B. Anderson, Minister. 1


24 Gard L. Rowe of Whitman and Astrid V. Johnson of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Linwood Rowe, Clergyman.


25 Raymond J. Burke of Brockton and Arlene F. Keith of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater, by Nolan J. McClurg, Clergyman.


September


1 Harold J. Morse of East Bridgewater and Edna Mary Fisher of West Bridgewater at East Bridgewater by Alex Porteus, Minister.


1 James E. Green of East Bridgewater and Antoinette H. Dost of East Bridgewater at West Bridgewater, by Frank F. Fellows, Clergyman.


7 Arthur T. Tucker of Brockton, and Alice M. Perry of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


26 Alphonse M. Braga of West Bridgewater and Mildred J. O'Connor of Taunton at Taunton by William A. O'Brien, Priest.


29 Edward J. Mahoney of Readville, and Eleanor M. Crowley of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by James T. Cotter, Priest.


October


7 Adam Meskinis of Bridgewater and Eleanor I. Farnum of West Bridgewater at Bridgewater by George Keirstead, Clergyman.


7 Walter W. Salvador of West Bridgewater, and Esther M. Cruz of Bridgewater at Bridgewater by James F. Grimes, Priest.


18 Edward A. Amaral of Bridgewater and Rose A. Lupien of


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West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


27


Bernard E. Gaffney of West Bridgewater and Robina M. Smith of Brockton at Brockton, by Francis L. Cooper, Minister.


28 Anthony DaSilva of West Bridgewater and Gloria Lucier of Brockton at Brockton, by A. Paul Gallivan, Priest.


November


3 Roger Ransitt of West Bridgewater and Virginia Barclay of West Bridgewater at Brockton, by Franklin F. Ellis, Clergyman.


4 Thomas Rogers of West Bridgewater and June Marie Teixeria of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater, by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


10 Manuel J. Cabral of West Bridgewater and Florence E. Bentcourt of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater, by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


12 James A. Pope of Brockton and Eva E. Hawes of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Arthur M. Clarke, Minister.


18 Samuel L. Luizzi of Brockton and Irene G. Ferrini of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater, by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


25 Romeo J. Wedge of West Bridgewater and Florence C. Waite of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Thomas F. Devlin, Priest.


December


9 Herbert C. Rainey of Bridgewater and Grace A. Gummow of West Bridgewater at West Bridgewater by Frank F. Fel- lows, Clergyman.


15 Albert E. Hodgson of West Bridgewater and Barbara E. Waite of Brockton at Brockton, by Francis L. Cooper, Minister.


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


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DOG LICENSES ISSUED IN 1945


Males


282


@ $ 2.00


$ 564.00


Spayed Females


114


@


2.00


228.00


Females


72


@


5.00


360.00


Kennels


3


@


25.00


75.00


Kennels


2


@


10.00


20.00


473


1,247.00


Less Clerk's Fees


473


@


.20


94.60


$1,152.40


Delinquent payments of 1944 Licenses


Kennel


1


@


25.00


25.00


Male


7


@


2.00


14.00


Spayed Female


2


@


2.00


4.00


Female


2


@


5.00


10.00


53.00


Less Clerk's Fees


12 @


.20


2.40


50.80


Military FREE


22


Whole Number Issued 505


Paid During year to County Treasurer


1,203.20


H. E. BRYANT, Town Clerk


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FISH AND GAME LICENSES ISSUED IN 1945


Resident Fishing Licenses


51


@ $ 2.00


$ 102.00


Resident Hunting Licenses


67


@


2.00


134.00


Resident Sporting Licenses


58


@


3.25


188.50


Resident Female or Minor


Fishing Licenses


17


@


1.25


21.25


Resident Minor Trapping Licenses


8


@


2.25


18.00


Resident Citizen Trapping Licenses


8


@


5.25


42.00


209


507.25


Less Clerk's Fees


209


@


.25


52.25


455.00


Resident Sporting Licenses


12


FREE


Resident Military or Naval Sporting Licenses


6


FREE


Duplicate Licenses


3


@


.50


1.50


Whole Number Issued


230


Paid to Fish and Game Division


456.50


HERBERT E. BRYANT,


Town Clerk


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LIST OF JURORS


Name


Address


Alden, Charles G., 616 North Elm Anderson, Howard, 201 Howard


Arvidson, Albert E., 431 North Elm Baker, Frederick W., 136 Copeland Baxter, Walter I., 21 Commonwealth Bergstrom, Eric P., 690 North Main Brown, Dexter E., 36 Brooks Pl.


Carrigan, Curtis W., 26 Cyr Comlin, Chester E., 59 Maolis


Correia, Gill, 97 Copeland Craddock, Edwin R., 519 Manley Curtis, William F., 44 West Center Dalton, George M., 110 Prospect DiGiano, Frank, 228 Matfield Edson, Leon, 280 North Elm Ellis, Abner, 48 South Frazier, John L., 119 South Elm Freeman, Stanley L., 419 Spring Gaffney, Horace I., 11 Roosevelt Gibson, William E., Jr., 22 River Giovanoni, Joseph D., 27 Glenmere Guertin, Joseph H., 3 Prospect Guinea, Thomas F., 535 West Center Harvey, John E., 12 River Hayward, John L., 151 East Center Helgeson, Elmer, 495 West Center Hill, Everett G., 601 East Center Lawson, Oliver A., 433 Spring Leonard, Charles, 19 Merritt


Occupation


Discharged Serviceman Farmer Shoeworker Poultry Man Salesman


Contractor Manager Shoecutter Bus Driver Cabinet Maker Salesman


Investment Sales Reporter Farmer Glazier Printer Police Guard Dairy Service Shoeworker Dairy Farmer Salesman Salesman Shoeworker Shoeworker


Farmer Printer


Defense Worker


Bank Clerk Farmer


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MacTighe, Charles, 19 Merritt Martin, John F., 146 South Main McCarthy, Jeremiah J., 10 Beacon Miner, Charles E., 37 North Main Noyes, William W., 455 Spring Peterson, James P., 57 North Main Purdy, Leonard, 121 East Center Ryder, Arthur F., 15 Charles Savage, Raymond, 202 West Center Sullivan, Patrick H., 287 South Main Trohon, William H., 70 North Main


Chauffeur Chauffeur Retired Machinist Oil Salesman Retired Farmer Clerk Carpenter Assistant Poultry Man Defense Worker


LIST OF JURORS DRAWN FOR JURY DUTY, 1945


Harold E. Allen


Louis O. Belmore


William F. Curtis


Robert G. Dean


Alton Eaton


Phillip Erbeck Harry D. Green Frederick Hodgson Joseph D. Giovanoni John F. Martin


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BY LAWS


ADOPTED MARCH 10, 1945


Boston, Mass., January 17, 1946 1


The following by-laws are hereby approved.


Clarence A. Barnes, Attorney General


ARTICLE I


Town Meeting


Sec. 1 Notice of every town meeting shall be given by posting attested copies of the warrant for the meeting in not less than' seven days before the day on which the meeting is to be held.


Sec. 2


a. The Annual Business Meeting of the Town shall be held on the Second Monday in March at 7:30 o'clock in the evening, to transact any business that may legally come before it.


b. The Annual Election of Officers by Ballot, for the en- suing year, will be held on the succeeding Saturday in March from 9:00 o'clock A.M. to 8:00 P.M.


Sec. 3 Check lists at the entrance shall be used to determine the Legal voters. Non-voters shall be admitted to Town Meeting only after all voters have been admitted. Citi- zen non-voters may be admitted and seated only as directed by the Moderator.


Sec. 4 No vote shall be passed at a town meeting, appropria- ting more than one thousand dollars, unless there shall be present, at least fifty legal voters of the town.


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ARTICLE II


Procedure at Town Meetings


Sec. 1 All articles in the warrant shall be acted upon in the order of their arrangement, unless the meeting by vote otherwise determines. .


Sec. 2 Any report, resolution or motion shall be reduced to writing, if the moderator so directs.




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