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Margaret Pauline Jones. Arlington
Sept. 24 Arlington
Harold Clifford Denham ..
. Lexington
Harriet Berry .
Arlington
Harold Otis Phalen Rahway, N. J.
· Mildred Edwina Jones
Arlington
Sept. 26 South Boston
Joseph P. Savage.
Arlington
Sept. 27 Gloucester
Henry Ransford Reed.
.Arlington
Sept. 29 Cambridge
Carl Einar Ramberg.
Arlington
Signa Rebecca Ohlson
Arlington
Sept. 30 Arlington.
Terrence Kenney.
Woburn
Gloucester
Sept. 29 Arlington
Carl Spofford .
Mildred Crocker .
Arlington
Waltham
Sept. 24 Arlington
Mary J. O'Neil.
South Boston
Marion Dean Babson
Margaret Cullinane.
Arlington
Alice B. Dickie.
Arlington
Geraldine A. Barry Arlington
Ruth Marion Swain. Arlington
284
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Date Place
Names Residence
Oct. 1 Arlington.
Lee Thomas . Arlington
Josephine Galarneau ..
Arlington
Oct.
3 West Medford.
John Milton Phillips.
Arlington
Eleanore Elizabeth Sinclair. Medford
Oct. 4 Arlington.
Euril Francis Wharton. . . Arlington
Helen Josephine Hollihan .. . Duluth, Minn.
Oct. 4 Arlington William Francis McMahon. East Boston Mary Ann Barry Arlington
Oct. 5 Boston
Ernest E. Young
Boston
Maria M. Silva Arlington
Oct.
7 Somerville
Hagop Atamian.
Cambridge
Paris Fereshetian ..
Arlington
Oct. 8 Arlington Thomas Henry Mullen Arlington
Marcella Lynch .
Arlington
Oct.
8 Arlington
Harold Bernard Turner
Arlington
Ruth Clark Seeds.
Arlington
Oct. 9 Arlington.
Charles Freeman Marston .
Arlington
Oct. 10 Arlington.
Jeremiah George Herlihy. South Boston
Katherine Irene Moran.
Arlington
Oct. 10 Quincy
Raymond Clyde Taylor
Arlington
Oct. 10 Watertown
James Joseph Canniff
Arlington
Oct. 11 Arlington
Ernest Edwards Pearse
Arlington
Olivette May Pigott
Arlington
Oct. 11 Belmont.
Arthur Carle Smith.
Arlington
Oct. 14 Arlington
William Francis Carey
Malden
Mary Ellen Cadagan.
Arlington
Oct. 17 Boston
John Henry Folan.
Woburn
Esther Sophie Johnson
Arlington
Oct. 17 Arlington.
George H. Laffee.
Enfield, N. H.
Mary E. Kyne.
Arlington
Oct. 20 Arlington
Joseph Leo Ryan.
Cambridge
Mary Agnes O'Brien.
Arlington
Oct. 20 Waldoboro, Me .. . Harold F. Robie .. Arlington
Wava E. Winchenbaugh
Waldoboro, Me.
Oct. 21 Arlington
John Edward Ring
Arlington
Mildred Moody Stevens.
Arlington
Oct. 22 Arlington.
Frederick Joseph Ring.
Winthrop, Me.
Marion Ethel Watts.
Arlington
Oct. 27 Arlington.
Damon Luther Moses.
Elmwood, N. H.
Nellie May Munhall
Arlington
William Kelley. .
Arlington
Margaret G. Manning
Quincy
Oct. 28 Boston
Thomas Macre. .
Arlington
Francesca Allosso.
Arlington
Oct. 31 York, Maine. Horatio Wellington Lamson.Arlington Vena Morse. York Village, Me.
Nov. 6 Arlington Bernard Louis McMahon. . .Arlington
Helen Elizabeth Spellman . . Arlington
Nov. 7 Arlington.
Peter James McKenna.
Arlington
Mabel Clara Puddister.
Arlington
Nov. 7 Arlington
Thomas Henry Greary
Cambridge
Anna Agnes Barry ..
Arlington
Ada B. Merrill .
Arlington
Dolly Anna Elhatton.
Quincy
Frances Anne Andrews.
Watertown
Ruth Anderson. .
Arlington
Oct. 28 Quincy
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
Date Place Names Residence
Nov. 8 Arlington.
Andrew Leo Lane .
Arlington
Corinne Marie Edna Joyce. . Arlington
Nov. 10 Arlington Roger Prescott Eaton. . .. Woburn
Alice Adelaide Hardy .
Arlington
Nov. 10 Arlington .Perley Thomas Coombes. . Brighton Helene Cunningham . Arlington
Nov. 10 Arlington. Milton Hallett Howard. Charlestown
Elizabeth O'Hara.
Arlington
Nov. 10 Boston. John Rodosloych Arlington
Emmy Othilia Erlandson Dorchester
Nov. 14 Cambridge
John Francis Barry.
Arlington
Nov. 17 Cambridge.
Margaret Mary O'Connor. . Cambridge Chester Moring Langill . Arlington
Nov. 21 Arlington.
Ruth Priest Millett.
Arlington
Nov. 25 Arlington.
Wensley Barker Arlington Johanna Christine Weyhe. . Arlington
Nov. 26 Arlington. Charles Augustine Costello .. Cambridge Frances Edith Kerrigan . Arlington
Nov. 28 Cambridge
Salvatore Caterino
Arlington
Mary Frances Hayes.
Arlington
Heman P. Crocker.
.Hyannis
Nov. 28 Arlington
Robert Valentine Bean Boston
Beryl O'Hara.
Arlington
Nov. 28 Arlington.
Joseph Meadows. ..
Arlington
Alice Elizabeth Keating
Arlington
Nov. 28 Arlington
William Michael Griffin .
Arlington
Catherine Veronica Breen ..
. Arlington
Nov. 28 Arlington. Thomas Arthur Shea .. . .Stoneham Myrtle Elizabeth Hamall .. . Arlington Nov. 29 Arlington. Arthur Henry Nealey . . . Somerville Margaret Isabelle Chisholm. Arlington Charles Johnson. . Waltham
Nov. 29 Arlington.
Alice Linea Erickson. .
Arlington
Nov. 29 Chelsea. Anthony Thomas FarringtonArlington Marion Lincoln Carleton . . . Chelsea
Nov. 29 Boston George Bertram Washburn. Arlington Grace May Tasker. Boston
Dec. 5 Somerville Charles F. Wyman. Arlington Lillian Forest Jones .. Somerville
Dec. 5 Arlington.
Raymond Osgood Chaffee. . Belmont
Ruth Frances Morgan
Arlington
Dec. 8 Arlington.
Ray Richard Mobley
Panora, Iowa
Dagmar Chaffers .
Arlington
Dec. 11 Dorchester.
Emdon Burtal Cornwell. Mattapan Carrie Myrtle Gillcash Arlington
Dec. 12 Roxbury.
Charles Harvey Colvin.
Arlington
Katie Elizabeth McLoud ..
. Cambridge
Dec. 14 Arlington Roy Elton Swin Arlington
Emma Boudreau .
Arlington
Dec. 15 Arlington. Clarence Elmer Mercer. . Framingham
Katherine Alice MacDonald.Arlington
Dec. 18 Arlington.
Guy E. Nicholas.
Boston
Margaret Crockett.
Boston
Dec. 22 Arlington
Arthur George Eastman ..
Hanover, N. H.
Elizabeth Veronica Smith. . Hyannis
Anna Bertha Whalen . Arlington
Nelson Lemuel McCully. Walpole
Nov. 28 Arlington.
Lizzie S. Hinckley Hyannis
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Date Place Names Residence
Dec. 22 Arlington.
Percy Jonathan Look. Andover
Jane Barker Braley. Arlington
Dec. 23 Arlington.
Harry Joseph Rosenkranz. . Dorchester
Martha Bessie Friedman. . Arlington
Dec. 27 Arlington.
John Joseph Mahoney . Arlington
Dec. 29 Arlington.
Everett Trowbridge Giles. . . Provo, Utah
Alice R. Palmer . Arlington
Dec. 29 Arlington
Thomas Foster Wheeldon. . Boston
Margery Cutting
Arlington
Dec. 31 Arlington.
Ulric Leo Thain .. Lynn
Mildred Florence Megroth .. Arlington
Dec. 31 Dorchester.
Robert Baird .
Arlington
Mazie Stanley Lewis Dorchester
Mary O'Hara. Arlington
287
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
DEATHS REGISTERED DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1917
Date of Death
Name
Yrs. Mos. Days
Jan. 1 Harriet Louise Pearsall
42
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Jan.
2 Effie McLeod
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Jan. 5 Laura M. Buckley
20
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Jan. 7 Joseph E. Cronin
55
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21
Jan. 7 Mary Ellen Bean
73
6
20
Jan.' 10
Catherine Sullivan
60
Jan. 11 Daniel Duggan
5
2
Jan. 11
Emma Wyman
55
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6
Jan. 12
Lucy Mary Devereaux
74
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25
Jan.
12 John Spear Hatch
22
Jan.
15
Patrick Rogers
71
4
10
Jan.
16
Clara G. Gaylord
81
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14
Jan.
17
Edmund Harding Tift
63
6
29
Jan.
18
Joseph Linane
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Jan. 20
Charles Powell Bryant
84
6
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Jan.
21
Frank Preston Stearns
71
17
Jan.
25
Eunice E. Osborn
89
7
16
Jan. 28
Rodney Perkins
8
10
Jan. 29
Catherine Prizzio
31
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30
Jan. 29
Richmond W. D. Parkhurst
18
6
25
Jan. 30
Ralph C. Graves
27
8
25
Jan. 31
Oscar Leonard Johnson
41
5
24
Feb.
1
Eleanor Frances Ingell
78
6
8
Feb.
1
William Schouler Brown
74
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25
Feb. 5 Melnotte A. Hobbs
63
6
22
Feb.
5
Rita M. Jennings
1
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27
Feb. 10
Margaret Greadon Hollace
63
4
16
Feb. 11
Catherine Taylor Farmer
68
1
23
Feb. 12
David Ryan
70
Feb.
13
Abbie Eveline Collupy
68
10
23
Feb. 17
Elizabeth Ayres
76
6
3
Feb. 19
Mary Kelly
75
7
17
Feb: 21
Joseph Asadoorian
7
3
14
Feb. 22
David W. Duncan
50
4
22
Feb. 22
Stephen J. Hicks
48
11
21
Feb. 23
Joseph L. Lerett
4
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4
Feb. 24
Lucy E. Meserve
51
7
29
Feb. 27
William M. Miles
52
6
7
Mar.
1
Caroline M. Torrey
73
6
Mar.
1
Laura M. Poirer
38
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25
Mar. 3
Mar. 3 Almira A. Chase
69
24
Mar. 3
Rosanna Holian
55
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Mar. 6 James A. Breslin
35
Mar.
Harriet Elizabeth Harwood
30
14
Mar. 8
Charles Frederick Rood
22
10
8
Mar. 10
Felix Zilkus
6
10
Mar. 10
Francis J. Hogan
2
6
Mar. 11
Elsie May Maxham
42
7
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Mar. 13
Mary Rose Oneto
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Age
Yrs. Mos. Days
Mar. 14 Ann Elizabeth Waddell
63
4
27
Mar. 15 Mary D. Meyrelles
25
2
13
Mar. 16
Sarah Ann Garside
54
4
16
Mar. 24 Sarah E. Morgan
77
7
15
Mar. 24
George Howard Keazer
51
11
2
Mar. 26
Fannie Charm
28
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Mar. 29
Catherine Lunney
65
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Mar. 30
Caroline Duebel
43
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April 2
Thomas Hogan
69
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April 4
Catherine Young.
77
April 7 Harriet Yates Howatt
69
10
23
April 7 Bridget Ahern
64
3
13
April 11
Cynthia Cutter Russell
96
1
19
April 13
Francis J. MacDonald
4
4
17
April 16
Catherine F. Ryan
39
11
2
April 20
Joseph Fisk Smith LeBaron
80
3
5
April 21
Laurena Dunbar Noy
46
6
April 22
Louise J. Powers
81
11
24
April 24
Daniel F. Donovan.
63
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April 26
Annie Harrington
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April 26
Emma Hall Keazer
54
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28
April 28
Eugusta A. Harlow .
75
9
22
April 28
Laurence Locke Peirce
40
11
4
.May
1
Esterina Valentino
28
20
May 3
Eveline Elizabeth Curtis
68
3
9
May 4 Edith B. Martin
29
1
3
May
4 Damon Yates Wellington
14
7
28
May 5 Sidney Taylor
71
1
22
May
5
William Henry Pattee
84
3
4
May 6 Alice Russell Guernsey
33
4
3
May 7 David H. Kidder
1
10
19
May 9 Arthur Edmund Waycott
47
4
May 10
Thomas W. Kickey
39
7
10
May 11
Emily Francis Davis
85
7
11
May 11
Sarah E. Harrington
50
9
28
May 16
Annie D. Quinn
40
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May 19
Susan Wentworth Merrill
65
13
May 19
Thomas Henry Sullivan
4
May 21 Elizabeth Henderson
79
11
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May 22
Edward Everett Bacon
71
9
21
May 24
Effie H. Crocker
45
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May 25
George F. Toye
May 26
Isabelle Gray
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Elsa H. S. Haller
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May 29
RobertA. Powers
37
May 31
Luigia Fenochetti
62
7
June 2 Carrie Pike Schumacher
25
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12
June 3 Hannah Burns
29
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3
June 4 James C. Suthland
60
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June 4 Mary Hartwell Gleason
93
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
Date of Death
Age Yrs. Mos.
Days
June 7 Howard David Ramsay
58
8
16
June 8 Florence B. Davis
48
7
28
June 11 Ada Savage
7
2
1
June 11 Thomas E. Holway
73
2
3
June 13 Elizabeth DeBlois
87
4
7
June 13 James B. Rand
75
11
6
June 14
Leslie Werner
2
June 14
Ellen T. Keefe
41
5
6
June 16
David Flynn
57
11
12
June 19
James Edward Robillard
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June 21
Lars Ohlund
50
10
3
June 22
Ida A. Johnson
18
June 22
Edward E. Schumacher
27
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June 23
Christine Given
54
11
24
June 23
Mary E. Coffey
65
June 23
William F. Johnson
76
9
26
June 25
Sabato Pannetta
21
June 25
Andrew Johnson
60
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12
July 2
Olive R. Wood
82
11
15
July 2
John Nason, Jr.
47
July
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Edward Walsh.
57
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July 16
Sarah Major Holmes
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July 18
William E. Stratton
27
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4
July 18
Emily Cora Allmon
75
4
6
July 20
Mary Cahill
48
5
July 22
Waldo H. Libby
34
4
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July
26
George Armanavicus
5
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11
July 27
Ellen Ring
70
2
27
July 27
Louisa Angenola
4
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10
July
29
Margaret M. Hogan
65
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Aug. 2
Robert Earle Harvey
4
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Aug. 5
Myer Oris.
14
8
Aug. 6
Ralph E. Libby
24
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25
Aug.
7
Alfred Skraaney
28
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Aug. 11
Ella Abbie Churchill
61
8
13
Aug. 14
Christina Larson
89
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24
Aug. 14
George Archibald Houghton
26
1
5
Aug. 15
Charles E. Blodgett
59
2
5
Aug. 17
Agnes Mellin
26
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26
Aug. 19
Edwin Mills
76
4
26
Aug. 20
Howard Boyd
3
20
Aug. 22
Mary Reilly
59
10
16
Aug. 22
Abbott Davis Whiting Annie Gertrude Wentworth
53
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Aug. 26
Aug. 29
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July 7
Grace Gage
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July 16
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June 23
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Date of Death
Age Mos. Days
Aug. 30 Hannah C. Marshall
69
5
Sept. 4 James Thomas Haley
1
27
Sept. 8 Margaret D. Trowbridge
72
11
25
Sept. 15
Giovanni Bellizia
49
10
24
Sept. 15
Philip Eugene Packard
24
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22
Sept. 18
Sept. 20 Flora A. Webber
25
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Sept. 22
Louise Harriett Oliver
66
30
Sept. 26
Josephine Forti
28
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26
Sept. 27
Ellen Colbert
86
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Oct.
2
Margaret Galligan
53
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Oct. 4
Margaret Welch
63
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Oct. 4 Mary Hurley
95
Oct.
5 Eugene O'Neil
53
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12
Oct. 6 Joseph Kanasilwicz
6
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3
Oct. 8 Carl R. Theller
61
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4
Oct. 10 John F. Simonds
91
29
Oct. 10
John Henry Hardy
70
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Oct. 11 Mary Alphonse Sawyer
51
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14
Oct. 12 Jessie Alice Smith
17
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Oct. 16 Murdock McLeod
79
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Oct. 18
Margaret Henshon
17
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Oct. 18
Michael DeCoursey
70
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Oct. 24
Mary Augusta Long
73
Oct.
24
Martha J. Staples
54
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10
Oct. 31
Ernest G. R. Peterson
35
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25
Nov. 5
Bessie A. Leseur
59
1
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Nov. 8
Mary C. Marrigan
19
Nov. 10
John Zebulon Currie
69
10
Nov. 10
Cornelius A. Regan
49
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Nov. 10
Anna G. Howard
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Nov. 11
Eleanor F. Jones
2
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Nov. 15
John O'Brien
1
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Nov. 19
Laurence J. Dennen
4
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15
Nov. 22
James Harris Pierce
64
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14
Nov. 23
Louise W. Bradley
69
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25
Nov. 26
Patrick H. Dunn
68
Nov. 26
Susan J. Harris
82
4
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Nov. 27
Henry T. Clary
46
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Nov. 29
Nicholas Martino
55
Dec. 1
Susanna I. Buchnam
80
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Dec. 1
Julia E. Page
82
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26
Dec. 6
Margaret E. Denham
58
4
6
Dec. 6 Farrell Coleman
97
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Dec. 10
Edith M. Robart
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Dec. 12
Caroline Elizabeth Deane
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Dec. 12
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Date of Death
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Dec. 15
John J./Flynn
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Dec. 18 Corydon Thompson Curtis
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Dec. 20 Mary Bigelow Adams
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Dec. 21
William Chester Belyea
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Dec. 21 Stephen Newell Moody
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Dec. 22
Elizabeth A. Sutcliffe
74
Dec. 25 Annie Augusta Gorham
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Mary Vincent Tryon
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Leverett Wyman Perley
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REPORT OF THE JOINT BOARD OF SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
The Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works herewith present the fourteenth annual report of the Board on matters coming under their supervision and control for the year ending December 31, 1917.
At the annual meeting held March 5, 1917, Mr. Thomas D. Kennedy was elected a member of the Board of Public Works for the term of three years, and under the law became a member of the Joint Board.
At the meeting of the Board held March 13, 1917, Mr. Horatio A. Phinney, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, was elected as Chairman of the Joint Board. Thomas J. Robinson was elected as Clerk of the Board.
The following appointments were made for the year ending April 1, 1918:
Town Counsel, Philip A. Hendrick.
Superintendent of Public Works and Town Engineer, George E. Ahern. 1
Superintendent of Wires, Reuben W. LeBaron.
The regular meeting nights of the Board are alternate Tues- days, and such other times as business pertaining to the Board requires.
The authority of the Board is contained in Section 5 of Chap- ter 3 of the Acts of 1904, creating the Joint Board, and is as follows:
"Section 5. Upon the election of said Board of Public Works all the powers, rights and duties and liabilities of the Selectmen in said Town, now existing, or hereafter created by law, relating to highways, Town ways, the laying out and discontinuance of ways, bridges, sidewalks, guide posts, monuments at the termi- nal and angles of roads, public squares, playgrounds, shade trees, sewers, drains, street watering, street lighting, the assessment of damages and betterments, water pipes, gas pipes, conduits, poles, wires, street railways, the granting of locations, rights or licenses
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for structures upon, under or over highways, or other ways, shall be exercised, enjoyed, performed and incurred by a Board con- sisting of the Selectmen and the Board of Public Works, created by this act, sitting jointly as the Board of Survey,"
The foregoing Act was accepted by the Town, February 8, 1904, and has been in operation since that time.
NEW STREETS.
The Town having accepted the provisions of Chapter 249 of the Acts of 1897, known as The Board of Survey Act, the Board has established the following rules and regulations governing petitions for the laying out and acceptance of new streets. The Board found this action necessary in order to avoid misunder- standings, and to enable petitioners to know approximately what the ultimate cost of the street would be, and the conditions un- der which the Board could recommend the acceptance of these streets to the Town. The rules, as adopted by the Board, are:
1. Approval of Plans. No plan will be approved which does not comply with the following Board of Survey Act.
2. Petition for estimate of cost of construction. After the approval of plans by the Board the interested parties may on application receive from the Clerk of the Board a blank form of petition requesting the Board to furnish an estimate of the cost of construction of the proposed street. This petition should bear the names of all owners of land abutting on the street to- gether with the signatures of the parties petitioning.
On receipt of this petition the Board will designate the type of construction and direct the Town Engineer to make an esti- mate of the cost of this construction.
3. Petition for the laying out of streets. A blank form of peti- tion for layout, stating the length, width, type of construction and estmated cost, will then be sent to the petitioner. This petition should also show names of all owners of land abutting and their addresses, together with the signatures of as many as possible of the parties desiring the layout. On receipt of this petition the Board will set a date for a hearing and all interested parties will be notified.
4. Action by the Board at first hearing. After this first hear-
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ing, if, in the opinion of the Board, common convenience and necessity require that the street in question be laid out as a public highway, they so vote and further vote that it is the in- tention of the Board to so lay out. A hearing is then set on the intention of the Board, and all interested parties are notified by warrant served by a Constable of the date of said hearing.
5. Final hearing on intention of the Board to lay out. If after the second hearing the Board are still of the opinion that public convenience and necessity require that said street should be laid out as a public way a vote is passed laying the street out in ac- cordance with the plans approved by the Board and a record is made of the description of the street by meters and bounds.
6. Acceptance by the Town. After the vote by the Board to lay out it is then within the authority of the Board of Selectmen on petition to insert an article in the Town Warrant for the acceptance of the street. No street can be brought before the Town for acceptance until the foregoing rules have been com- plied with. The Board would remind all persons intending to petition for the laying out and acceptance of streets that appro- priations for this purpose are only made at the March meeting of each year. The petitions should, therefore, be filed during the early fall months, in order to allow time for hearings before the drawing of the Warrant for the March meeting.
In addition to the foregoing rules the Board has established a rule by which persons desiring the laying out, construction and acceptance of new streets will be informed before final action by the Board of the estimated cost of the construction and the approximate assessment to be levied on the abutting owners. This rule has worked very satisfactorily, enabling the petitioners to know what the street will cost them individually, and relieving the Board, when betterments are assessed, of many misunderstandings as to the portion of the cost which is to be borne by the abutting owners.
STREET BETTERMENT ASSESSMENTS.
During the year three new streets have been accepted and constructed, and two which were accepted the previous year have been completed. Betterment assessments have already
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been levied on two of these streets and the others will be assessed . the coming year. As stated in previous reports, the assess- ment of these betterments is not an easy task, where the Board, as the sworn officials of the Town, desire only to be fair with the parties financially affected and to the Town. A proposition has been advanced many times advocating the abolishment of assessing betterments on newly constructed streets and to have the Town bear the full expense, the reimbursement by the abutters to be in the form of increased valuation on the property by the Assessors. This is a proposition, however, that the Board is not prepared, at this time, to say would be the best method. But they are of the opinion that it is a matter which should be very seriously considered.
STREET LIGHTING.
In accordance with a vote of the Town passed last year, the street lights were placed on the all-night schedule and an appro- priation made therefor of $15,300. Of this amount $14,987.81 · was expended. As the all-night schedule was not ordered in until April 4, 1917, it will be seen that the expenditures covered only nine months of the all-night schedule and three months · of the old schedule. During the year thirty-nine new lights were installed and three were removed, making a net addition of thirty-six new lights., The Board estimated that for the coming year twenty-two additional lights will be required. · If the all- night schedule is to be maintained the coming year an appro- priation of $16,226.80 will be required.
Owing to the economic conditions during the last of the year the ornamental lighting system in the centre of the Town was reduced to four lights. The Board can see at this time no change in these conditions during the coming year, and would, there- fore, recommend the sum mentioned above for street lighting, the Board to use their judgment in the changing of schedules or reducing the number of lights.
PERMANENT SIDEWALKS.
During the past year the Board has inaugurated a new system in granting permits to lay sidewalks of a permanent character. In previous years the appropriation made was insufficient to
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enable the Board to reimburse the parties desiring these side- walks until the following year. This was, in a degree, mortgag- ing the appropriation of the following year. Last year an appro- priation of $3,965.00 was recommended and granted, and the Board was thus enabled to not only reimburse for work done the previous year, but was able to pay for all work done in 1917. The Board now requires the applicant for a permanent sidewalk, to deposit one-half of the cost of the sidewalk, as estimated by the Town Engineer before the work is started. The Board makes the contract for all sidewalks so that the Town is at all times protected as to the quality of this work, and is paying only the lowest price obtainable from bidders for the work.
This system, during the past year, has worked to the satis- faction and advantage of all parties at interest - the Town, the petitioner, and the contractor.
The Board would recommend the same appropriation for permanent sidewalks as was made last year, viz: $2,500.00.
SUMMER STREET AND MYSTIC VALLEY BOULEVARD.
During the year the State Highway Commission has resur- faced Summer Street from Brattle Street into the Town of Lexington, making this street of the same character and width as other state highways. The Town has resurfaced a portion of the street between Grove and Mill Streets. The Town had in previous years established the width of this street between Mystic and Brattle Street as fifty feet, and have partially con- structed the portion between Grove and Brattle Street. On a petition to the Massachusetts Highway Commission for a con- tribution for the maintenance of Massachusetts Avenue, as a main thoroughfare the Commissioners were of the opinion that such amount as they could spend could better be spent on the completion of Summer Street, as this would, in a great measure, relieve the traffic over Massachusetts Avenue. At a conference held with the County Commissioners in relation to this matter it seemed to them also desirable that Summer Street should be completed. The petition of the Board is now pending with the Highway Commissioners and the County Commissioners. Through the efforts of Representative Bitzer the Metropolitan Park Commission has practically agreed to spend the sum of
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