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Voted: That the sum of $100 be appropriated toward the erection of a State Fire Observation Tower in the City of Wal- tham.
Article 52 taken up (Driveway at High School):
The Committee recommended and it was so voted: That no action be taken under this Article.
Article 48 taken up (Town Grant):
Voted: That the several amounts appropriated at this meet- ing for the purposes indicated by the various votes, and not otherwise provided for, amounting to $456,765.75 be raised by general tax the present year, and that all notes issued under the authority of any vote passed at this meeting shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 616, Acts of 1910, or Amendments thereto.
Article 3 taken from the table.
Under this Article, Mr. Muller presented the report of the Committee to investigate town forms of government in printed form. The report was received, and the subject matter referred back to the Committee to study the bill pending in the Legisla- ture, to investigate similar forms in other towns, and to report at the next Annual Meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 11.05 P. M.
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Attendance, 469.
A true record. Attest :
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
To any 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 the Town of Arlington, qualified as the Constitution requires to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, Arlington, Tuesday, the third day of April, 1917, at 4.00 o'clock P. M., for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the nomi- nation of candidates for delegates to the Constitutional Con- vention: thirty-two delegates at large, eight delegates from the eighth Congressional district.
All the above candidates are to be voted for upon one ballot.
Each voter may vote only for sixteen candidates at large, and four candidates from the Congressional District.
The polls will be open from 4.00 o'clock P. M., to 8.00 o'clock P. M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meet- ing, 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 twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventeen.
HORATIO A. PHINNEY, WILLIS P. HOWARD, THOMAS J: DONNELLY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
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CONSTABLE'S RETURN.
Arlington, April 2, 1917.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the voters of the Town of Arlington qualified 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. I further certify that a notice of said meeting was published in the local papers.
WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.
In pursuance of the foregoing Warrant, the voters of the Town of Arlington qualified to vote in primaries, met in the Town Hall, in said Arlington, Tuesday the third day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventeen and were called to order at four o'clock in the afternoon by Horatio A. Phinney, 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.
Mr. Phinney continued as Chairman of the meeting in accor- dance with the law governing Primaries.
The law governing elections prevailed and the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off and booths pro- vided for the use of voters to examine and mark their ballots.
Each booth was supplied with suitable facilities for the pur- pose. Cards of instructions to and penalties on voters were posted according to the law.
The following 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, Arthur J. Hendrick, George H. Peirce and George McK. Richardson.
Checkers at Ballot Boxes - Frank Y. Wellington, George C. Tewksbury, William D. Grannan and Charles A. Paine. ..
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These officers also acted as Tellers at the close of the polls.
Sealed packages of ballots supplied by the Commonwealth were delivered to Election Officers by the Town Clerk.
These ballots were opened in public and given to the ballot clerks for distribution to the voters.
Specimen ballots, cards of instruction to and penalties on voters were 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.
Lists of registered voters were supplied to the election officers by the Registrars of Voters.
At five minutes after four o'clock the polls were declared open and they remained open until eight 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 o'clock, the registers on the boxes showed that 678 ballots had been cast.
The Ballot Clerks and Tellers counted the names checked by them and found the number to agree with the number regis- tered by the ballot boxes, namely, 678.
The ballots were sorted, counted and announcement made of the result at nine o'clock, as follows:
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. DELEGATES AT LARGE.
Charles Francis Adams had four eighty-two (482).
George W. Anderson had one hundred seventy (170).
William G. Andrew had fifty -eight (58).
Albert S. Apsey had three hundred sixty-seven (367).
Charles J. Barton had three hundred fourteen (314).
John L. Bates had
Addison P. Beardsley had twenty-seven (27).
William H. Brooks had three hundred eighteen (318).
Walter A. Buie had eighty-seven (87).
Harvey S. Chase had one hundred eleven. (111)
Charles F. Choate, Jr., had three hundred eighty-one (381).
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Charles W. Clifford had three hundred five (305).
George W. Coleman had one hundred eighty four (184). Louis A. Coolidge had three hundred ninety-two (392). John W. Cummings had three hundred sixty-eight (368) .. Edwin U. Curtis had four hundred and six (406). Samuel R. Cutler had thirty-six (36). Arthur W. DeGoosh had twenty-two (22).
Daniel E. Denny had thirty-five (35).
Daniel R. Donovan had ninety-four (94).
George H. Doty had one hundred twenty-nine (129). Hugh P. Drysdale had twenty-four (24).
Frank P. Dunbar had two hundred ninety-three (293).
Samuel J. Elder had four hundred sixty-seven (467).
Wilmot R. Evans, Jr., had two hundred ninety-seven (297). Eugene M. Foss had one hundred thirty-eight (138). Harry A. Garfield had one hundred (100). Ralph W. Gloag had twenty-eight (28). Gurdon W. Gordon had nineteen (19).
Matthew Hale had one hundred ninety-two (192).
Arthur D. Gill had one hundred sixty-two (162). Walter S. Hutchins had forty-five (45).
Patrick H. Cummings had one hundred nineteen (119). Lewis J. Johnson had one hundred fifteen (115).
Abbott Lawrence Lowell had four hundred nine (409). Nathan Matthews had three hundred sixty-eight (368). James T. Moriarty had one hundred nineteen (119). Joseph C. Pelletier had two hundred nineteen (219).
Josiah Quincy had three hundred twenty-four (324).
Clarence W. Rowley had thirty-one (31). John Weaver Sherman had fifty-five (55). James A. Stiles had twenty-six (26). Moorfield Storey had one hundred forty-eight (148).
Charles B. Strecker had eighty-one (81). Wendell Phillips Thore had thirty-one (31). Whitfield L. Tuck had fifty-eight (58). Joseph Walker had one hundred seventy-eight (178).
David I. Walsh had two hundred fifty nine (259).
Robert M. Washburn had eighty-four (84). Sherman L. Whipple had two hundred sixty-two (262).
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Lombard Williams had twenty-eight (28).
George H. Wrenn had ninety-one (91).
Blanks, thirteen hundred nine (1309).
DELEGATES FROM EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Claude L. Allen had two hundred eighty-four (284).
Everett C. Benton had four hundred twenty-six (426).
John Q. A. Brackett had five hundred fifty-two (552).
Lawrence G. Brooks had one hundred twenty-eight (128).
Theodore Eaton had fifty-three (53).
Whilton B. Fay had three hundred forty (340).
George A. Goodwin had fifty-five (55).
Albert Bushnell Hart had one hundred ninety-eight (198).
Harry A. Penniman had thirty-seven (37).
Harry N. Stearns had one hundred five (105).
Charles C. Willard had fifty-five (55).
Blanks, four hundred thirty-one (431).
The election returns were filled in, signed by the election officers and the Town Clerk, and were delivered to the Town Clerk to be forwarded by him to the Secretary of the Common- wealth.
All business having been disposed of, the presiding officer at thirty minutes after nine o'clock declared the meeting dissolved.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
To any Constable 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, Wednesday, the twenty-fifth day of April, 1917, at 7.30 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz:
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ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To see what action the Town will take with reference to the acquiring of land and the building of school building, or buildings, in the vicinity of Fessenden Road, or in the Cutter School District; make an appropriation therefor; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended, or take any other action thereon.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will vote to make an appropriation for the protection of the Town, the same to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen, determine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action thereon.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote to change the form of government, or the duties of its officers, or take any action thereon.
(Inserted at the request of Arthur E. Perkins, et al.)
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote to seek the removal of the restrictions on the use of its water works properties, make an appropriation therefor, or take any action thereon.
(Inserted at the request of Arthur E. Perkins, et al.) ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to publish the salaries and fees of the Town officers, or take any action thereon.
(Inserted at the request of Arthur E. Perkins, et al.)
ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to improve the Locke School playground, make an appropriation therefor, or take any action thereon.
(Inserted at the request of Arthur E. Perkins, et al.)
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase or otherwise a certain parcel · of land off Mill Street, said land to be used for Municipal Pur- poses, make an appropriation therefor, or take any action thereon.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for necessary equipment at the Town Yard to protect the property of the Town, make an appropriation for the same, or take any action thereon.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will amend the vote passed under Article 32 of the Warrant calling the Annual March Meeting of 1917, by striking out the words of said vote as follows: "East- erly by Tufts Street 350 feet, northerly by land of Purslow and
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of Allen 350 feet, westerly by land of Allen 350 feet and south- erly by lands of Allen and of Fisher 350 feet, containing about 124,000 square feet," and to substitute therefor the following:
Beginning at a point on northerly side line of Tufts Street as at present laid out as a public way, said point being 384.40 feet southwesterly from the southerly side line of Broadway. Thence the line runs northwesterly by land now or formerly of Cather- ine Purslow and by land of the estate of William G. Allen, 340.38 feet; thence southwesterly at right angles by land of said Allen estate, 200 feet; thence southeasterly at right angles by land of said Allen estate, 84.14 feet; thence southwesterly at right angles by land of said Allen estate, 150 feet; thence south- easterly at right angles by land of said Allen estate and land now or formerly of Ethel E. Tappan, 246.24 feet to Tufts Street; thence northeasterly by Tufts Street 350 feet to the point of beginning, containing 106,512 square feet, more or less.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting at- tested 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 sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventeen.
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HORATIO A. PHINNEY, WILLIS P. HOWARD, THOMAS J. DONNELLY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
CONSTABLE'S RETURN.
April 25, 1917.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the in- habitants 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
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by posting an attested copy of said Warrant at the doors of the Town Hall, in said Arlington, seven days at least before said day of meeting. Notice of the time, place and object of said meeting were published in the Arlington Advocate and the Ar- lington Weekly News.
(Signed) WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.
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Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law requires to vote in elec- tions and town affairs, met in the Town Hall in said Arlington, on Wednesday, the 25th day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, at thirty minutes after seven o'clock in the evening, and were called to order 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.)
Jacob Bitzer was the unanimous choice of the meeting for Moderator, and he was sworn to the faithful performance of his duties by the Town Clerk.
Article 3 taken up. (Appropriation for Town Protection.)
Voted: That the sum of $5,000 be and hereby is appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen for the protection of the Town, said sum to be raised by general tax in 1917.
Article 4 taken up. (Government of Town.)
The Committee of Twenty-one recommended and it was so voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 5 taken up. (Restrictions on Water Properties.)
The Committee recommended and it was so voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 6 taken up. (Publication of Salaries and Fees.)
The Committee recommended and it was so voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 2 taken up. (Proposed School Building on Crusher · Lot.)
This article was debated by a number of citizens. The Chair- man of the School Committee presented, by means of stereopti-
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con slides, the present and anticipated capacity of the present school building. Numerous questions were asked and answered. On a rising vote being called for, the motion to appropriate $156,000 for the erection of a Junior High School Building on this site was declared not carried, 195 voting against, and 123 voting in favor of the motion.
Article 7 taken up. (Locke School Playground.)
The Committee recommended and it was so Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 10 taken up. (Description of Land on Tufts Street.)
Voted: That the vote passed under Article 32 of the Warrant calling the Annual March Meeting of 1917 be amended by strik- ing out the words of said vote, as follows: "easterly by Tufts Street 350 feet, northerly by land of Purslow and of Allen 350 feet, westerly by land of Allen 350 feet and southerly by lands of Allen and Fisher 350 feet, containing about 124,000 square feet." And substituting therefor the following:
Beginning at a point on northerly side line of Tufts Street as at present laid out as a public way, said point being 384.40 feet southwesterly from the southerly side line of Broadway, thence the line runs northwesterly by land now or formerly of Catherine Purslow and by land of the estate of William H. Allen, 340.38 feet; thence southwesterly at right angles by land of said Allen estate, 200 feet; thence southeasterly at right angles by land of said Allen estate, 84.14 feet; thence southwesterly at right angles by land of said Allen estate, 150 feet; thence southeas- terly at right angles by land of said Allen estate and land now or formerly of Ethel E. Tappan, 246.24 feet to Tufts Street thence northeasterly by Tufts Street 350 feet to the point of beginning, containing 106,512 square feet more or less.
Article 8 taken up. (Proposed purchase of Land on Mill Street).
The Committee of Twenty-one recommended the purchase of the land specified in Article 8, but on motion of Mr. Birch the following vote was passed:
Voted: That a Committee of three be appointed by the Mod- erator to investigate the Mill Street proposition, that this Com- mittee be made up of an architect, a civil engineer, and a con- tractor, and that they be authorized to make a study of the
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present Town yard. This Committee to report at a special or regular Town meeting. The Moderator appointed the following citizens to serve on this Committee: Walter F. Robinson, Howard B. S. Prescott and William F. Fairchild.
Article 9 taken up. (Equipment of Town Yard.)
In view of the action taken under Article 8 the Committee recommended and it was so voted: That no action be taken un- der this article.
All articles in the Warrant calling the meeting having been disposed of, the meeting at ten o'clock voted to adjourn.
The number of citizens attending the meeting was 379, as determined by the Constables in charge of the turnstiles.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Toun Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX, SS.
To any of the Constables of Arlington, in said County,
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, Tuesday, the first day of May, 1917, at six o'clock, A. M., then and there to act on the following matiers:
To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention as follows: Sixteen delegates at large, four delegates from the eighth Congressional District, one delegate from the twenty-ninth Representative District.
All of the above candidates to be voted for on one ballot.
Each voter may vote only for the number of delegates in each case to be elected.
The meeting will be called at six o'clock A. M., May 1, 1917, and the polls will be open as soon after the organization of the
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meeting as possible, and will be kept open until thirty minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting at- tested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting, and you are further directed to leave an attested copy of this Warrant 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 ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
HORATIO A. PHINNEY, WILLIS P. HOWARD, THOMAS J. DONNELLY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
CONSTABLE'S RETURN.
Arlington, May 1, 1917.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY,
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law directs to vote in elections and Town affairs to meet at the time and place, and for the purpose therein 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 Arlington seven days at least before said day of meeting. A notice of said meeting was also published in the local papers.
(Signed) WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, the voters of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections, met in the Town Hall, Tuesday the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and were called to order at six o'clock in the morning, by Horation A. Phinney, Chair- man of the Board of Selectmen, who requested the Town Clerk to read the warrant calling the meeting and the return thereof of the Constable, who served the same upon the inhabitants.
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Under the law governing elections, Mr. Phinney served as Chairman of the Meeting.
The law governing elections prevailed, and the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a place railed off and forty steel booths provided for the use of the voters.
Each booth was supplied with suitable facilities for the pur- pose. Cards of instruction to and penalties on voters were posted in accordance with the law.
The following election 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, John F. Buckley, 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 - Frank E. Kenney, Chester E. Hoyt, John McCarthy and John B. Meaney.
Tellers - William D. Grannan, George McK. Richardson, Daniel L. McCarthy, and George C. Baumesiter.
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 instruction to and penalties on voters were conspicuously posted for the information of voters. 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.
Lists of registered voters were supplied to the election officers by the Registrars of Voters.
At five minutes after six o'clock the polls were declared open, and they remained open until thirty minutes after four in the afternoon, at which time, after due notice, they were declared closed.
In accordance with law, the ballot boxes were opened from time to time for the purpose of counting ballots.
At the close of the polls at thirty minutes after four o'clock the boxes registered the number of votes cast as 1,604.
The unused ballots were sealed up and delivered to the Town
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Clerk together with the ballots cast, the total being the number furnished the Town by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Chairman, Town Clerk and Election Officers canvassed the votes given in and the whole number was found to be 1,604, which were sorted, counted, and declaration made thereof in open meeting by the Town Clerk at thirty minutes after seven o'clock in the evening as follows:
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. DELEGATES AT LARGE.
Charles Francis Adams had one thousand thirty-eight votes (1,038).
George W. Anderson had seven hundred twelve (712).
Albert S. Apsey had seven hundred ninety (790).
Charles J. Barton had seven hundred twenty-four (724). John L. Bates had nine hundred ninety-seven (997).
William G. Brooks had six hundred ninety-four (694). Walter A. Buie had five hundred thirty-seven (537) .. Charles F. Choate, Jr., had eight hundred six (806.) Charles W. Clifford had five hundred eighty-two (582). George W. Coleman had seven hundred fifty-three (753). Louis A. Coolidge had eight hundred fifteen (815). John W. Cummings had one thousand four (1,004). Edwin W. Curtis had eight hundred seventy-one (871). Daniel R. Donovan had six hundred twelve (612). Frank E. Dunbar had five hundred ninety-seven (597). Samuel J. Elder had nine hundred eighty-six (986). Wilmot R. Evans, Jr., had seven hundred ten (710). Eugene N. Foss had seven hundred thirteen (713). Matthew Hale had seven hundred twenty-one (721). Arthur D. Hill had six hundred eighty-nine (689). Patrick H. Jennings had five hundred fifty two (552). Abbott Lawrence Lowell had eight hundred sixty-one (861). Nathan Matthews had seven hundred seventy-five (775). James F. Moriarty had five hundred forty-seven (547). Joseph C. Pelletier had six hundred forty-nine (649). Josiah Quincy had seven hundred sixteen (716). Moorfield Storey had seven hundred seventy (770). Charles B. Strecker had six hundred forty-two (642).
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