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ALTERNATE DELEGATES AT LARGE, GROUP 1. Alexander McGregor had two hundred forty-two (242). Lombard Williams had two hundred thirty-one (231). Daniel Cosgrove had two hundred twenty-five (225). William H. Armstrong had, two hundred twenty-seven (227). Blanks, two hundred thirty-one (231).
GROUP 2.
Butler Ames had three hundred and twenty-four (324). Louis A. Frothingham had three hundred thirty-one (331). Eben S. S. Keith had three hundred fourteen (314). Frank W. Stearns had three hundred sixteen (316). Blanks, one hundred eighty-three (183).
DISTRICT DELEGATES, EIGHTH DISTRICT, GROUP 1. George B. Wason had three hundred thirty-three (333). Wilton B. Fay had three hundred thirty-four (334). Blanks, one hundred sixty-two (162).
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GROUP 2. Eben H. Googins had one hundred seventy-two (172). Victor A. Friend had one hundred seventy (170). Charles H. Brown had twenty-two (22). Blanks, one hundred nineteen (119).
DEMOCRATIC PARTY (28) DELEGATES AT LARGE. David I. Walsh had twenty-six (26).
Joseph H. O'Neil had twenty-six (26).
Humphrey Sullivan had twenty-six (26). Charles B. Strecker had twenty-six (26). Blanks, two (2).
ALTERNATE DELEGATES AT LARGE.
H. Oscar Rocheleau had twenty-three (23). Edmund D. Codman had twenty-three (23). Vincent Brogna had twenty-three (23). Thomas F. Higgins had twenty-three (23). Blanks, twenty (20).
DISTRICT DELEGATES, EIGHTH DISTRICT. J. Edward Barry had twenty-three (23). John F. O'Brien had twenty-three (23). Blanks, ten (10).
ALTERNATE DISTRICT DELEGATES. No ballots cast. Blanks fifty-six (56).
PROHIBITION PARTY (2).
DELEGATES AT LARGE.
William Shaw had two (2).
Alfred H. Evans had two (2).
Daniel A. Poling had two (2). Frank N. Rand had two (2). Albert J. Oren had two (2). John B. Lewis had two (2). John M. Fisher had two (2). Wilbur D. Moore had two (2).
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ALTERNATE DELEGATES AT LARGE.
No ballots cast. Blanks two (2).
DISTRICT DELEGATE, EIGHTH DISTRICT.
No ballots cast. Blanks two (2).
ALTERNATE DISTRICT DELEGATE, EIGHTH DISTRICT.
No ballots cast. Blanks two (2).
The primary returns were filled in by the election officers to be forwarded to the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The meeting adjourned at 9.45.
A. true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Arlington.
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the Constitution requires to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall. in said Town, Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of June, 1916, at 7.30 P.M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz .:
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of Committees hereto- fore appointed.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for repairs in the Old Town Hall Building, determine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action thereon.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote to increase the school accommodations by the erection of new buildings, or by additions to present buildings, authorize the acquiring of additional land for schoolhouse purposes, make an appropriation for such buildings and land, determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended, or take any action thereon.
(Inserted at the request of the School Committee.)
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ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to secure from the School Committee annually, and publish in the annual Town book the table of statistics, showing the attendance and membership of the pupils in the Arlington public schools, and also to secure and publish in the book for 1916 the above de- scribed tables for the years 1913-1914 and 1914-1915.
(Inserted at the request of Frank W. Hodgdon et al.)
ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to accept and adopt the following By-Laws, relating to hawkers and pedlers:
Section 1. No person, except one engaged in the pursuit of agriculture, shall go about from place to place within this Town, carrying or exposing for sale, or selling fruits or vegetables or fish in or from any cart or other vehicle, or in any other manner, with- out a license therefor from the Board of Selectmen.
Section 2. The Board of Selectmen shall have authority to grant such license to any person of good repute for morals and integrity who is, or has declared his intention to become, a citizen of the United States. Said licenses, unless sooner revoked by the Board of Selectmen, shall expire one year after the granting thereof, and each person so licensed shall pay therefor a fee of ten dollars.
Section 3. No hawker or pedler shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any of the articles enumerated in Section 15 of Chapter 65 of the Revised Laws, or in any acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, until he has recorded his name and residence with the Board of Health, or such other board or officer as may be designated by the Selectmen. Every person licensed under the provisions of the preceding section as a hawker or pedler of fruits and vegetables shall record his name and residence in like manner with such board or officer.
Section 4. No person hawking, peddling, or carrying or ex- posing for sale any of the articles enumerated in Chapter 345, Acts of 1906, shall cry his wares to the disturbance of the peace and comfort of the inhabitants of the Town, nor shall carry or convey such articles in any manner that will tend to injure or disturb the public health or comfort nor otherwise than in vehicles and receptacles which are neat and clean and do not leak.
Section 5. Every hawker and pedler licensed by the Board of Selectmen shall be assigned a number and shall be provided by
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the Board of Health with a badge which shall be conspicuously worn by him; and every other such hawker and pedler as described in section three shall provide himself with a badge, of such type and design as may be approved by said Board of Health, which he shall wear in like manner. Whoever neglects to wear, or wears such badge without authority, shall be punished by the penalty provided in section eleven of this by-law. (Any other board or officer may be designated in place of the Board of Health.)
Section 6. Every vehicle or other receptacle used by a licensee as a conveyance for articles offered or exposed for sale by him shall have attached thereto on each side a number plate, to be furnished by the Town with his license, bearing the number and date of expiration of such license.
Section 7. No person shall be registered or assigned a badge or number under the provisions of sections three and five of these by-laws, until he presents a certificate from the Sealer of Weights and Measures stating that all weighing and measuring devices intended to be used by such person have been duly inspected and sealed as required by law. The use of, or possession by such person with intent to use, any false or unsealed weighing or meas- uring devices shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of his license, or the cancellation of his registration.
Section 8. Any licensee who fails, neglects or refuses to exhibit his license when the same is demanded of him by a selectman, commissioner or inspector, or sealer of weights and measures, Town treasurer or clerk, constable, police officer or justice of the peace, shall be subject to the same penalty as if he had no license.
Section 9. Nothing in these by-laws shall be construed as conflicting with any license issued under the authority of the Commonwealth.
Section 10. Any license granted under these by-laws or any by-law amendatory or additional thereto, may be revoked by the Board granting the same.
Section 11. Whoever violates any provisions of these by-laws shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence.
Section 12. All by-laws or parts of by-laws inconsistent here- with are hereby repealed.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a Committee
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to revise the Building Laws of the Town, refer the matter to a Committee already appointed, or take any action thereon.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell the property owned by the Town and known as the Hobbs Court property, or take any action in relation thereto.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men, in the name and behalf of the Town, to acquire by purchase or otherwise, land for municipal purposes, make an appropriation therefor, determine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for the construction of Summer Street Extension, deter- mine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action thereon.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, on or before said day and hour of meeting.
Given under our hands at said Arlington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
THOMAS J. DONNELLY, HORATIO A. PHINNEY, WILLIS P. HOWARD, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
Arlington, June 28, 1916.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet at the time and place and for the pur- poses herein named, by causing a printed attested copy of the same to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by posting an attested copy of said warrant at the doors of the Town Hall, in said Town, seven days at least before said day of meeting. A notice of the time, place and purpose of said meeting was pub- lished in the Arlington Advocate.
WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington
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Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall, in said Town, on Thursday the twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and were called to order at thirty minutes after seven o'clock by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Article 1 taken up. (Choice of Moderator.)
John G. Brackett was the unanimous choice of the assembled citizens for Moderator, and he was sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties by the Town Clerk.
Article 2 taken up. (Reports of Committees.)
Loren W. Marsh, Chairman of the Finance Committee of Twenty-one, presented the report of the Committee in printed form, the same being distributed to the voters present. The report was received.
On motion of Mr. Marsh it was voted that the remaining articles in the warrant be now taken up, and that the recommendations made under these articles by the Finance Committee be considered as now before the meeting to be voted for without further motion, separately and in the order in which they appear in said report.
Article 3 taken up. (Repairs in old Town Hall Building.)
Voted: That a sum not exceeding $600 be appropriated for repairs in the old Town Hall Building, of which sum $537 be transferred from "Old Town House Account" and the balance of $63 be transferred from the "Sale of Offal Account."
Article 4 taken up. (School Accommodations.)
The Committee submitted an extended report under this article, covering all propositions submitted to it, for a relief of the conditions existing and to be expected, and made the follow- ing recommendation, which was:
Voted: That the Moderator appoint a special committee, composed of five members, to make a study of the present and anticipated requirements for housing our school children over a period of five years or more. This Committee to submit in print their findings at a Town Meeting not later than November, 1916. This Committee to be composed of one member from the School Committee, one from the Town Planning Board, and three citizens.
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This report is to include recommendations regarding the possi- bility and advisability of minor alterations in existing buildings to accommodate the immediate urgent needs and to include a recommendation for the erection of buildings and the purchase of land for school purposes as may be indicated by their study of future requirements. This Committee in their consideration of the matter to give due consideration to any proposed changes in the system of instruction, if such there be, as may be outlined by the School Committee, and to report the effect of such changes in relation to housing and that the sum of two hundred (200) · dollars be appropriated for the use of this Committee, this sum to be taken from sidewalk assessments now in the Treasury. The Moderator appointed the following citizens to serve on this Committee: Alton F. Tupper, James P .. Parmenter, Frank W. Hodgdon, Robert N. Turner and Joseph C. Holmes. Mr. Holmes being unable to serve, John R. Foster was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Article 5 taken up. (Selectmen to secure school data.)
Voted: That the Selectmen be instructed to secure from the School Committee annually and publish in the annual Town book, the table of statistics, showing the attendance and membership of the pupils in the Arlington Public Schools, and also to secure and publish in the book for 1916 the above described tables for the years 1913-1914 and 1914-1915.
Article 6 taken up. (Hawkers and Pedlers.)
After a discussion of the by-laws submitted for approval, a conflict of authority being apparent, it was,
Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred back to the Committee of Twenty-one, to report at a later meeting and with instructions to confine the authority under the proposed by-laws to one Board.
Article 7 taken up. (Revision of Building Laws.)
Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Committee already appointed to revise the Building Laws of the Town. This Committee is made up as follows: Peter Schwamb, Frank W. Hodgdon, Henry S. Adams, S. Frederick Hicks and William Proctor.
Articles 8 and 9 taken up together. (Sale and purchase of land for and to the Town.)
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Under this article Mr. Hodgdon, Chairman of the Committee, appointed at the March Meeting to report on the sale of Town property, reported as follows, the report being offered and accepted as a partial report:
To the Town of Arlington: The Committee appointed at the Annual March Meeting of 1916, to report on sale of Town prop- erty, reports in part as follows:
In relation to the Hobbs Court property, we recommend that if a strip of land along the brook can be obtained or retained sufficient to allow the laying out of a highway across the property, in which a main sewer can be built, that it will be to the advantage of the Town to sell the remaining portion of the lot, if a reasonable price can be secured, provided another lot is acquired in a more central location and better adapted to the use of the Public Works Department. The Board of Public Works states that its work can be carried on in a more efficient manner if its teams and tools are all housed and cared for in one location.
A majority of the Board do not consider the Hobbs Court location a proper one for this purpose, and neither do any of the Board consider the old Almshouse location a proper one. Your Committee is not ready at the present time to report on all the various Town lots, but are unanimous in the above recommenda- tions that a portion of the Hobbs Court property, as above outlined be sold and that the proceeds of the Town sales be used in pur- chasing a proper location as a headquarters for the Public Works Department, near the center of the Town. The Committee has looked over other properties, and has consulted the citizens and organizations, but is not, as yet, ready to report on them. The sale of Mystic Street property to be conditional on not placing more than three (3) houses on the property, all to be single family houses of value not less than $5000 designed and construction supervised by an architect.
Signed, Claude A. Palmer, Ernest R. Kimball, and Frank W. Hodgdon.
This report of the Committee was laid on the table pending a difference of opinion as to the conditions that should be attached to any sale of the property known as the Hobbs Court property.
A recess of ten minutes was granted, in order to enable the
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parties differing to meet with the Town Counsel, and determine what form the vote should take.
During the interval Article 10 was taken up.
Article 10 taken up. (Additional Appropriation for Summer Street Extension.)
Voted (by a two-thirds vote): That the sum of $5500 be appro- priated for the construction of Summer Street Extension, and the Selectmen are hereby authorized to raise the aforesaid sum by issuing a note of the Town payable in one year from date, with interest not exceeding four per cent, payable semi-annually, to be designated on the face thereof "Summer Street Extension Loan of 1916" and to be issued in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 616 of the Acts of 1910, and acts in amendment thereof, or in addition thereto.
Articles 8 and 9 again taken up.
The ten minutes' recess, taken to consider the form of vote to be presented under these articles, having expired and all parties agreeing on the form, these articles (8 and 9) were again taken up and it was
Voted (by a two-thirds vote): That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized, in the name and behalf of the Town, to sell and convey either to the State or the Trustees of the Amherst Agri- cultural College the property now owned by the Town and known as the "Town Yard" or "Hobbs Court" property, excepting the offal house thereon, and such land as may be necessary therefor, and reserving to the Town and its successors a right of way from Massachusetts Avenue to said offal house and also reserving a strip of land on the southerly side of said lot for future municipal purposes, for a sum not less than twenty-five hundred (2500) dollars; and in the event of a sale of the said Town Yard property as aforesaid, but not otherwise, the Selectmen are hereby au- thorized in behalf of the Town to purchase, or to take by eminent domain, for municipal purposes, a certain parcel of land, situated on the southerly side of the Boston & Maine Railroad location, near Mill Street containing about 4.23 acres, and now owned by Annie M. Easte and in the event of a purchase to pay therefor a sum not exceeding four thousand two hundred thirty (4230) dollars; said sum to be raised by issuing a note payable in one year
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from date with interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, payable semi-annually.
Said note to be designated on the face thereof "Land Purchase of 1916" and to be issued in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 616 of the Acts of 1910, and all acts in amendment thereof, or in addition thereto.
All business calling the meeting having been transacted it was voted that the meeting be dissolved. Meeting dissolved at nine o'clock. Number of citizens attending the meeting 223.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Arlington, in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, who are qualified to vote in primaries, to meet in Town Hall, Arlington, Tuesday, the twenty-sixth day of September, 1916, at 2 P.M., for the follow- ing purposes:
To bring in their votes to the primary officers for the nomination of candidates of political parties for the following offices:
Governor, for this Commonwealth; Lieutenant-Governor, for this Commonwealth; Secretary of the Commonwealth, for this Commonwealth; Treasurer and Receiver General, for this Com- monwealth; Auditor of the Commonwealth, for this Common- wealth; Attorney-General, for this Commonwealth; Senator in Congress of United States, for this Commonwealth; Representa- tive in Congress of United States, for the Eighth Congressional District; Councillor, for the Sixth Councillor District; Senator, for the Sixth Middlesex Senatorial District; Representative in General Court, for the Twenty-seventh Representative District; County Commissioner, for Middlesex County; Associate County Commissioners, for Middlesex County; District Attorney for Northern Middlesex District; Clerk of Courts, for Middlesex
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County; Register of Deeds, for Middlesex County; Register of Probate and Insolvency. Middlesex County. (To fill vacancy.)
And for the election of the following officers:
District Member of State Committee for each political party for the Sixth Senatorial District.
Members of the Democratic Town Committee.
Members of the Republican Town Committee.
Delegates to State Conventions of Political Parties.
All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting and by leaving an attested copy at every dwelling house in the Town, as directed by vote of the Town.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixteen.
THOMAS J. DONNELLY, HORATIO A. PHINNEY, WILLIS P. HOWARD, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
CONSTABLE'S RETURN.
Arlington, September 25, 1916.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
By virtue of this Warrant I have notified and warned the inhabit- ants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law directs, to vote in primaries, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes herein named, by causing a printed attested copy to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by posting an attested copy at the doors of the Town Hall seven days at least before said" day of meeting.
WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.
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Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, the voters of the Town of Arlington qualified to vote in primaries, met in the Town Hall, the twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and were called to order at, two (2) o'clock in the afternoon by Thomas J. Donnelly, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, who requested the Town Clerk to read the warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Under the law governing primaries Mr. Donnelly served as 1 Chairman of the meeting.
The law governing elections prevailed and the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off and forty steel booths. provided for the use of the voters to examine and mark their ballots.
Each booth was supplied with suitable facilities for the purpose. . Cards of instructions to and penalties on voters were posted in accordance with law.
The following election or primary officers, having been appointed by the Selectmen, were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk and assigned as follows:
Ballot Clerks - Joseph J. Duffy, William Adams, Oscar A. Schnetzer and David T. Dale.
Checkers at Ballot Boxes - Frank Y. Wellington, George H. Tewksbury, Arthur J. Hendrick and Charles A. Paine.
Inspectors - P. Henry Casey, William P. Slattery, Chester E. Hoyt and Frank E. Kenney.
· Tellers - William D. Grannan, George A. Clark, George How -. land, George H. Peirce, George McK. Richardson and William P. Dale.
Sealed packages of ballots supplied by the Commonwealth were then delivered to the election officers by the Town Clerk.
These ballots were publicly opened and given to the ballot clerks for distribution to the voters.
Specimen ballots, cards of instructions to and penalties on voters were conspicuously posted for the information of voters as in the case of a State or Town election.
The ballot boxes were examined by the presiding officer and the Town Clerk, and were found to be empty and the register set at zero.
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Lists of registered voters were supplied to the election officers by the registrars of voters.
At six (6) minutes after two (2) o'clock, the polls were declared open and they remained open until eight (8) o'clock, at which time, after due notice they were declared closed.
In accordance with law the ballot boxes were not opened until the close of the polls.
At the close of the polls at eight (8) o'clock the registers on the boxes showed that six hundred fifty-five (655) ballots had been cast, which on being removed and sorted were found to be divided as follows: Republican 550, Democratic 103 and Prohibition 2.
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