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Art. 4. Voted to lay on the table.
Art. 2. Voted to take from the table.
Art. 2. Voted that the reports of Town Officers and Finance Committee be accepted as printed.
Art. 15. Voted to take from the table, and the following vote was passed : -
Voted that the Water Commissioners be instructed to extend the water main on South st. easterly from Walnut street to house of David Weston, and westerly from Walnut street to house of Jonathan Heselton and to extend the water main on West street to South street, thence through South street to house of Joseph Mar- shall, and that four one thousand dollar bonds be used to pay for the same.
Voted to adjourn " sine die."
A true copy, attest :
MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, SEPT. 29, 1909.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant and the Constable's return thereon, a Town Meeting was held at the place and time therein specified, and said meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, Millard F. Charles.
The warrant was partially read when, upon motion by William I. Ruggles, it was voted to dispense with further reading of warrant except the Constable's return thereof, which being read, Article 1 was taken up to elect a Moderator. James W. Killam was appointed to check the names of those voting. The ballot was duly opened and closed with the following result: George L. Flint received six votes, all that were cast, and was duly declared elected Moderator.
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Art. 2. To see if the Town will accept the Provisions of Chapter 539, of the Acts of 1909, entitled " An Act to establish a low-water mark in Lake Quannapowitt for the Town of Wakefield, and to provide for the drainage of the adjacent meadows."
Art. 2. Voted that the subject matter of this Article be referred to a committee of five to investigate and estimate the probable cost of land damage and cleaning out ditches, and other expenses, and report in writing at a Town Meeting to be held not later than one month from this date.
The following were appointed by the Moderator as the Com- mittee : Lewis M. Bancroft, Robert T. Edes, M. D., John Connelly, Samuel Brown, Adelbert E. Batchelder.
Art. 6. To determine what instructions the Town will give its Town Officers.
Art. 6. Voted to take up.
Art. 6. Voted that the Water Commissioners are hereby in- structed not to expend four thousand dollars in experiments in sinking wells in Grove street meadows.
Voted to instruct the Selectmen to discontinue suit Town vs. Mahlon E. Brande on sidewalk on Pleasant street.
Art. 3. To authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year commencing January 1, in anticipation of the collection of taxes for said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the Town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for said year, giving the notes of the Town therefor, payable within one year of the date thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote shall be paid from the taxes of the present municipal year.
Art. 3. Voted to take up.
Voted that the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year beginning January 1, 1909, in anticipation of the collection of taxes, the sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars (such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the
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Town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for said year), giving the notes of the Town therefor payable within one year of the date thereof. All debts incurred under the authority of this vote shall be paid from the taxes of the present municipal year.
Art. 4. To see what action the Town will take in regard to building a school house on the Lowell street lot, and how much money they will raise and appropriate, or otherwise provide for that purpose, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 4. Voted to raise and appropriate six thousand dollars, and appropriate the proceeds of the insurance on burned school house of one thousand dollars, to build a four-room school house on the Lowell street lot.
Art. 4. Voted to lay on the table.
Art. 5. Voted to see if the Town will enlarge the present Lowell street school house lot by purchasing land in the rear of the present lot, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 5, Voted to appropriate five hundred dollars of the money received for insurance for the purchase of land in the rear of the Lowell street school lot, being lots numbered 5 and 6 on a plan surveyed by James A. Bancroft for Martin B. Hartshorn.
Art. 4. Voted to take from the table.
Voted that for the purpose of building a school house on the lot on Lowell street the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed, under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, to issue the note or notes of the Town therefor in the amount not exceeding six thou- sand five hundred dollars, at the rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, payable within a period of twenty years from date of issue.
On a standing vote counted by tellers, fifty-one voted in favor and two against the above vote.
Moved to reconsider the above vote. Vote was not carried.
Voted to adjourn without date.
MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.
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STATE ELECTION, Nov. 2, 1909
Reading, Mass., Nov. 2, 1909.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant and the Constable's return thereof, an election was held at the time and place therein specified.
The meeting was called to order by James W. Killam, chairman of the Board of Selectmen and presiding election officer. Prayer was offered by Rev. F. S. Hunnewell, the warrant was read, the ballot box was opened, examined and declared empty and registered 0000. The keys were delivered to the Constable in charge of the ballot box. The ballots were delivered to the Presiding Election Officer, who receipted for seventeen hundred ballots.
The following ballot clerks were duly sworn: Chester C. Richardson, Horace E. Eames, John F. Sawyer, George L. Flint, Samuel Rounds, Frank E. Gray.
And the following were duly sworn as tellers : Clinton L. Newell, John Connelly, Harry E. Cook, Spencer G. Stewart, William H. Baker, Henry M. Donegan, Walter K. Badger.
The polls were declared open at 6 o'clock A. M. It was voted to close the polls at four o'clock and fifteen minutes P. M. Ballots were taken out of the box at various times during the day and counted, no objection being made.
The polls were duly declared closed at four o'clock and fifteen minutes p. M.
The ballot box registered that 916 ballots had been cast and the ballot clerks reported that 916 names of voters had been checked.
The following is the result of the vote cast as counted by the tellers : -
FOR GOVERNOR
Eben S. Draper of Hopedale
665
John A. Nichols of Boston
24
Moritz E. Ruther of Holyoke
3
James H. Vahey of Watertown
204
Daniel A. White of Brockton
8
Blanks .
12
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LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
Eugene N. Foss of Boston . 230
Louis A. Frothingham of Boston
641
George G. Hall of Boston
4
Ernest R. Knipe of Holyoke .
16
Lawrence Yates of New Bedford
4
Blanks .
21
Total
916
SECRETARY
David T. Clark of Williamsburg
136
Harriet D'Orsay of Lynn
6
Henry C. Hess of Boston
5
William G. Merrill of Malden
23
William M. Olin of Boston
699
Blanks
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Total
916
TREASURER
James H. Bryan of Westfield
136
James B. Carr of Chelmsford
8
David Craig of Milford
2
Daniel Parlin of Worcester
20
Elmer A. Stevens of Somerville
695
Blanks .
55
Total
916
AUDITOR
Alexis Boyer, Jr., of Southbridge .
133
Charles A. Chace of Swansea
17
Sylvester J. McBride of Watertown
9
Jeremiah P. McNally of Salem
2
Henry E. Turner of Malden .
695
Blanks
60
Total
916
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Henry M. Dean of Hyde Park
32
John A. Frederickson of Quincy
4
41
Dana Malone of Greenfield
687
Harvey N. Shepard of Boston
138
John Weaver Sherman of Boston .
9
Blanks
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Total
916
COUNCILLOR, SIXTH DISTRICT
Henry G. Burke of Lowell
12
Charles H. Callahan of Lowell
133
Herbert E. Fletcher of Westford
695
Blanks
76
Total
916
SENATOR, SEVENTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT
Frank P. Bennett of Saugus
688
James Kingsley of Acton
154
William S. Trefrey of Billerica
12
Blanks
62
Total
916
REPRESENTATIVE TO GENERAL COURT, TWENTIETH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT
George F. Bean of Woburn .
659
Walter S. Campbell of North Reading . 150
Joseph D. Gowing of North Reading
640
Michael J. Meagher of Woburn
111
Blanks
272
Total
1832
COUNTY COMMISSIONER, MIDDLESEX
Patrick Conlin of Lowell
. 130
Robert J. Kelley of Lowell
9
Samuel O: Upham of Waltham
701
Blanks
76
Total
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916
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COUNTY TREASURER, MIDDLESEX COUNTY
Joseph O. Hayden of Somerville .
699
Anson B. Hobbs of Cambridge
12
Dexter C. Whittemore of Carlisle .
130
Blanks
75
Total
916
The vote was counted and the result declared in open Town Meeting and were signed, sealed and delivered to the Town Clerk.
Voted to adjourn " sine die."
MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.
VOTE FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO LEGISLATURE TWENTIETH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
CITY OF WOBURN
[SEAL]
In accordance with the provisions of Section 290, Chapter 560, Acts of 1907, the City Clerk of Woburn and the Town Clerks of Burlington, Reading, North Reading and Wilmington, being the City and Town Clerks of every city and town in the Representative District number twenty within said County, met at the City Hall, Woburn, at noon on Friday, November 12, A. D. 1909, being the tenth day succeeding the day of election held on Tuesday, November 2, A. D. 1909, and then and there opened, examined and compared the copies of the records of votes cast at said election for the office of Representative, and determined therefrom that George F. Bean of Woburn and Joseph D. Gowing of North Reading were elected to the office of Representative.
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The following is the schedule of the names of all persons for whom votes for Representative were given in said district and the number of votes given for each person, viz .: -
George F. Bean of Woburn .
1815
Walter S. Campbell of North Reading
1162
Joseph D. Gowing of North Reading
1737
Michael J. Meagher of Woburn
1321
Defective
6
Blanks
1177
Total .
7218
In witness whereof, we, the City Clerk of Woburn and the Town Clerks of Wilmington, Burlington, Reading and North Reading, here- unto set our hands this twelfth day of November, A. D. 1909.
JOHN H. FINN, City Clerk of Woburn.
HARRY H. NICHOLS, Town Clerk, Burlington.
MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk, Reading. ARTHUR F. UPTON, Town Clerk, North Reading. JAMES E. KELLEY, Town Clerk, Wilmington.
Town Clerk's Office, Reading, Mass. Received and recorded, November 13, 1909.
Attest :
MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Reading, November 30, 1909.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant and the Constable's return thereof, a Town Meeting was held at the place and time therein specified, and said meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, Millard F. Charles.
The warrant was partially read when, upon motion of Willie E. Twombly, it was voted to dispense with further reading except the Constable's return thereon, which was read. Article 1 was taken
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up to elect a Moderator. George L. Pratt was appointed to check the names of those voting. The ballot was duly opened and closed with the following result : George L. Flint received six votes, all that were cast, and was duly declared elected.
Article 2. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars, received from the insurance company on the Lowell street school house burned in March, 1909, and authorize the School Committee to expend same either in connection with the construction of a new school house, or in the purchase of additional land to en- large the present school house lot, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 2. Moved and seconded that one thousand dollars be appropriated from amount received for insurance on the Lowell street school house burned in March, 1909, to be expended by the School Committee, either in purchase of land or in construction of a new school house on Lowell street.
Voted not to appropriate by a vote of thirty-one yes and thirty- seven no.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept the provisions of Chapter 539, of the Acts of 1909, entitled " An Act to establish a low water mark in Lake Quannapowitt in the Town of Wakefield, and to provide for the drainage of the adjacent meadows."
Art. 3. Voted to accept the provisions of Chapter 539, of the Acts of 1909, entitled " An Act to establish a low-water mark in Lake Quannapowitt, in the Town of Wakefield, and to provide for the drainage of the adjacent meadows.
By a vote of seventy-seven in favor and three opposed.
Art. 3, continued : -
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON COST OF FIXING WATER LEVEL IN LAKE QUANNAPOWITT
Your Committee have examined conditions and investigated the cost of fixing a low-water mark in Lake Quannapowitt, in the Town of Wakefield, and provide for the drainage of the adjacent
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meadows, as provided in Chapter 539, Acts of 1909, as well as they can without employing an engineer.
We find that the mill property which the Act contemplates taking is assessed for $1,000, and the owner's asking price is $5,000; the $4,000 limit of cost provided in the Act was made up as follows : - Water rights on Vernon street . $2,000 00
Culvert on Lowell street 1,000 00 ·
Weir at outlet of the lake 1,000 00
We are satisfied that the culvert and the weir can be constructed less than the price named, but the amount that will have to be paid the owner of the flowage right is problematical. The Harbor and Land Commission will undoubtedly take this property by right of eminent domain and award the amount of damage they think reasonable.
After this the owner may have the damage assessed by a jury of the Superior Court if suit is brought within two years of the record of taking.
This Act does not provide for the opening of the brook between the culvert at Lowell street and near the outlet of the lake and the dam at Vernon street, or through the meadows at the north of the lake.
We think that some provision should be made for the opening of the brook between the culvert at Lowell street and the dam at Vernon street, also for the opening of the ditches in the meadows northwest of the lake. This, we think, would not cost over $1,000, and that Wakefield can be made to pay a part of it.
We are of the opinion that the owner of the flowage right is the only person or corporation that will be in any way damaged by fixing this water level.
LEWIS M. BANCROTT, SAMUEL BROWN, JOHN CONNELLY, ROBERT T. EDES, ADELBERT E. BATCHELDER,
Committee.
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A communication was received from a committee of fifteen, Charles A. Dean, chairman, and Harris M. Dolbeare, secretary, representing the Town of Wakefield, asking for a like committee to be appointed in regard to the drainage of Lake Quannapowitt.
Voted to receive said communication and that it be placed on file.
Voted that a committee of fifteen be named to confer as asked for in said communication.
The following were named as a committee : James W. Killam, Millard F. Charles, Oliver L. Akerley, John H. Adden, George L. Pratt, Merrick A. Stone, Henry R. Johnson, Ward C. Mansfield, Edgar N. Hunt, James M. Maxwell, Jr., Calvert H. Playdon, William C. Buck, Fred D. Merrill, Walter S. Parker, George L. Flint.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to refund to Willard J. Brooks, of Bethel, Vermont, the amount paid by him from 1895 to 1908, both years inclusive, for taxes illegally assessed to him on the land on the northeast corner of Summer avenue and Woodbine street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 4. Voted to refer to Board of Assessors to investigate and report on at the next Town Meeting.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will repay to Edmund Buxton the amounts erroneously assessed and paid as taxes upon his home in the years 1906, 1907 and 1908, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 5. Voted to repay to Edmund Buxton the amount of the tax upon $1,000 as assessed in each of the years 1906, 1907, 1908, and that the sum of sixty dollars be raised and appropriated for that purpose.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Water Commissioners to lay an eight-inch water main in Gould avenue, between High and Lowell streets, to furnish fire protection to the McTernen Rubber Co., and determine how much money
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they will raise and appropriate or otherwise provide for the cost of laying said pipe, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 6. Voted to refer to the Water Commissioners.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate, or otherwise provide, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800), for the purpose of extending the power lines from the Electric Light and Power Plant to the Pumping Station, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 7. Voted that the Town Treasurer be authorized to borrow, under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars, giving the note or notes of the Town therefor, payable three years from the date thereof, the same to be used by the Municipal Light Board for the extension of the power lines to the pumping station.
Voted to adjourn " sine die."
A true copy of record. Attest :
MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.
DOGS LICENSED DURING YEAR 1909
Whole number licenses issued 351
40 female licenses issued at $5.00
$200 00
311 male licenses issued at $2.00
622 00
Error in 1908 account
3 00
Total received
$825 00
Less fees for 351 licenses at 20c.
70 20
Total due County Treasurer
$754 80
June 1. 1909, paid County Treasurer
$433 80
Dec. 1. 1909, paid County Treasurer
321 00
$754 80
STATUTE LAWS FOR THE LICENSING OF DOGS
Sec. 128. The owner or keeper of a dog which is three months old or over shall annually on or before the 30th day of April cause it to be registered, numbered, described and licensed for one year from the first day of May following in the office of the Clerk of the city or town in which said dog is kept. The owner or keeper of a licensed dog shall cause it to wear around its neck a collar distinctly marked with its owner's name and its registered number.
Sec. 129. The owner or keeper of a dog may at any time have it licensed until the first day of May following; and a person who becomes the owner or keeper of a dog after the first day of May which is not duly licensed, and the owner or keeper of a dog not duly licensed which becomes three months old after the 30th day of April in any year, shall when it is three months old cause it to be
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registered, numbered, described, licensed and collared as provided in the preceding section.
Sec. 130. The fee for every license shall be two dollars for a male dog and five dollars for a female dog, unless a certificate of a competent person who performed the operation has been filed with the City or Town Clerk that said female dog has been spayed and has thereby been deprived of the power of propagation, in which case the fee shall be two dollars.
Sec. 136. A license duly recorded shall be valid throughout the Commonwealth and may be transferred with the dog licensed thereunder, but it shall in each case of transfer be again recorded by the Clerk of the city or town in which said dog is kept. No license shall be required to be recorded anew unless the dog shall have been kept in such city or town at least thirty days.
Sec. 137. Whoever keeps a dog contrary to the provisions of this Chapter shall, except as provided in Section 139, forfeit not more than fifteen dollars, which shall be paid to the Treasurer of the county in which the dog is kept.
Sec. 138. No person shall keep or have in his care or posses- sion any bloodhound, or any dog classed by dog fanciers or breeders as Cuban Bloodhound, Siberian Bloodhound, German Mastiff or Great Dane, Boarhound or Ulmer dog, whether said dog is in whole or in part of said species, unless such dog is kept solely for exhibi- tion. In such case he shall at all times be kept securely enclosed or chained, and shall not be allowed at large, even though in charge of a keeper, unless properly and securely muzzled.
Sec. 139. Whoever keeps a dog described in the preceding section in violation of the provisions thereof shall be fined fifty dollars, ten dollars of which shall be paid to the complainant and forty dollars to the Treasurer of the county in which said dog is kept.
HUNTERS' LICENSES ISSUED 1909
Whole number issued, 82 at $1.00 $82 00 Paid Treasurer of the Commonwealth :
February 6, 1909 $19 00
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March 10, 1909
$ 1 00
April 6, 1909
6 00
July 21, 1909
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2 00
September 14, 1909
8 00
October 25, 1909
35 00
December 2, 1909
10 00
January 18, 1910
1 00
$82 00
CONDENSED GAME LAWS OF COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
FISH
PENALTIES
Black Bass not to be taken under 8 inches $10 00
Pickerel not to be taken under 10 inches $1 00
Trout, Lake Trout and Salmon may be taken between April 15 and the following July 31, inclusive $25 00
Trout not to be taken less than six inches in length $25 00
Wild Trout not to be bought, sold or offered for sale . Smelt may be taken from June 1 to the following March 14, inclusive, but only with hook and hand- line
$25 00
$1 00
Lobsters, alive, not to be less than 9 inches; boiled, not to be less than 82 inches in length $5 00
Lobsters not to be mutilated $5 00
$10-$100
Lobsters bearing eggs not to be taken at any season . Fish in Fresh Water may be taken only by artificially or naturally baited hook, and 10 hooks may be set or used, provided the hooks are not arranged as a trawl; but ponds stocked and closed under Section 19, Chapter 91, Revised Laws, are open to fishing with one hook and line only, from May 30 to the following Oct. 31, Sundays excepted .
Explosives and Poisons may not be used in fishing waters
$10 00
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GAME
Resident hunters must register with Clerk of their city or town (fee $1.00).
Non-residents of State must secure from Commis- sioners on Fisheries and Game a license for hunting (fee $10).
PENALTIES
$50 00
Unnaturalized foreign-born citizens must secure from town or city Clerk a license for hunting (fee $15)
Partridge, Woodcock and Quail may be taken only on week days from Oct. 15 to following Nov. 14, inclusive
$20 00
Loons not to be hunted or killed on fresh water $20 00
Ducks, Geese and Brant may be taken and sold only between Sept. 15 and following Dec. 31, inclusive $20 00 Plover, Snipe, Rail and Marsh or Beach Birds may be taken and sold only between Aug. 1 and following Dec. 31, inclusive $20 00
Hares and Rabbits may be taken between Oct. 15 and following Feb. 28, inclusive $10 00
Gray Squirrels not to be killed at any time unless doing damage to buildings
$10 00
Deer not to be killed at any time, or chased by dogs . Insectivorous and song birds not to be killed, cap- tured or held in possession at any time, or used for millinery purposes
$100 00
Ferreting, Trapping or Snaring of Birds and Animals, and Setting Snares prohibited, except that owner on his own land may use traps, other than snares,
$10 00
for hares and rabbits between Oct. 15 and Dec. 1, $20-50 00 Pheasants not to be hunted or killed except by special permit when artificially propagated $50 00
Wood Duck, Swans, Wild Pigeons, Upland Plover, Piping and Kildeer Plover, Herons, Bittern, Eagles, Fish Hawks, Marsh Hawks, Small Owls, Gulls and Terns not to be killed at any time, or feathers used
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for millinery purposes .
$10-50 00 Eggs and nests of birds protected by law are not to be taken or disturbed $10 00
Sending or Carrying Game out of the State . $10-20 00
Hunting on the Lord's Day prohibited $10-20 00
Pinnated Grouse (Heath Hen) not to be hunted or killed . $100 00
Sale of Partridge, Prairie Chickens and Woodcock pro- hibited at all times ·
$20 00
Sale of Quail killed in this State prohibited.
SUPPLIMENTARY LIST OF BIRTHS
DATE
SEX NAME OF CHILD
NAME OF PARENTS
Mar. 12 F Lillian Florabel Little
Frank P. and Lillian A. (Page) Little .
May 11 M Stephen Franklin Wadsworth, Jr. Stephen F. and Clara J. (Lavery) Wadsworth . .
May M Clarence George Gay ..
Louis F. and Catherine E. (Nelson) Gay.
June 7 M William Richard Clarke
William R. and Victoria M. (Slack) Clarke
June 19 F Dorothy Grace Lind.
Frank E. and Alice M. (Burnside) Lind
June 30 F Frances Porch -
Harry G. and Kittie D. (Dees) Porch.
Aug. 2
M Lawrence Gardner Carlson .
Oscar and Ellen S. Carlson.
Oct. 11 M Duncan Henry Stanley .
Duncan A. and Mary E. (Wilson) Stanley
Oct. 19 F Hazel Margarette Cloudman
Everett C. and Carrie E. (Wells) Cloudman .
Nov. 16 M Roy Dexter Ward
Harry S. and Lillian (Dickey) Ward. . . .
Dec. 13 M Justin Greenleaf Nason.
Dec. 14 F
- Dimock
Amasa R. and Viola M. (Greenleaf) Nason. Ernest and Elizabeth A. (Burke) Dimock.
MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1909
Board of Selectmen JAMES W. KILLAM, Chairman OLIVER L. AKERLEY, Secretary GEORGE L. PRATT
(OFFICERS REPORTING DIRECTLY TO BOARD OF SELECTMEN)
Superintendent of Streets LEMUEL W. ALLEN
Local Superintendent Moth Work GUY A. HUBBARD
Chief of Police WILLIAM T. LEGGETT
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