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TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Walter A. Hill, Constable of the Town of Wilmington. Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the manner prescribed in Section 2, Article 1, of the By- Laws of the Town of Wilmington, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town Hall on Monday, the sixth day of March next, at 6 o'clock in the forenoon, the polls to be opened at 6.15 a.m., and may be closed at 4 p.m., for the election of officers and to act on the following articles, namely:
Article 1. To elect by ballot a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To bring in your votes on one ballot for three Selectmen, who shall also be Overseers of the Poor and Board of Survey, one Assessor for three years, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Constable, three Fence Viewers, one School Committee for three years, two Trustees of Public Library
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for three years, one member of S. D. J. Carter Lecture Com- mittee for five years, one Tree Warden, one Trustee of Trust Funds for three years; also to vote on the following questions, to wit: Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town? " Yes or No."
At 10 o'clock in the forenoon to act on the following Articles :
Art. 3. To choose all other Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Art. 4. To hear the report of committees and act thereon.
Art. 5. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for General Government, Protection of Life and Property, Health and Sanitation, Tree Warden, Forest Warden, Highways, Roads and Bridges, Poor, Dependent Widows and Soldiers' Relief, Schools and Maintenance, also tuition at Vocational Schools, Library, Cemetery, Interest, Notes Payable, Street Lights, State and County Tax, Printing Town Reports, Care of Town Clock, and Contingent Fund.
Art. 6. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the observance of Memorial Day and to determine how the same shall be expended.
Art. 7. To see what method the Town will adopt for the collection of taxes and to provide for the compensation of the Collector.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue of the present financial year.
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Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to install street lights on Marion Street or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to install street lights on Butters Row or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will accept Veranda Street as laid out by the Selectmen according to the Silver Lake Park Plan recorded at the North Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans No. 20, Plan No. 9, or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars for the purpose of planting trees and shrubs on the High School grounds, or do anything in relation to the same.
Art. 13. To see what action the Town will take in regard to fixing the salary of the School Committee.
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Art. 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $400 for fencing the West and Whitefield School lots, or do anything in relation to the same.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to adopt a code of building laws or what they will do in regard to the matter.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money necessary to convey outlying district school children to and from schools, or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of $2000 under Chapter 525, Acts of 1910, to be
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expended under the direction of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, or do anything in relation thereto.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doing thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands and the seal of said Town this twenty- fifth day of February, A.D., one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
GTO
THE
1730 .* SS
WHITEFIELD ELM
HERBERT C. BARROWS. ARTHUR W. EAMES, EDWARD N. EAMES,
Selectmen of Wilmington.
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INDEX
Assessors' Valuation, 1915
132
Board of Health, Report of .
151
Carter Lecture Course Committee, Report of
149
Chief of Police, Report of
140
Collector's Account
134
Fire Department, Report of
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142
Forest Warden's Report
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· 146
Inspector of Animals, Report of ·
152
Inspector of Meats and Provisions, Report of
154
Jury List
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Librarian's Report
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158
List of Library Books . .
160
Overseers of the Poor, Report of
128
School Committee, Report of
49
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
155
Selectmen's Recommendations
126
Superintendent of Streets, Report of
147
Town Accountant, Report of
95
Town Clerk, Town Meetings, Report of
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Births Registered
42
66 Marriages Registered
44
Deaths Registered
46
66 Recapitulation .
48
Treasurer's Report
135
Tree Warden's Report
157
Trustees of Trust Funds, Report of
138
Town Officers, 1915 .
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Town Warrant
165
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WILMINGTON, MASS.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
FOR THE
FINANCIAL YEAR, ENDING DECEMBER 31
1916
GTON
INCO
WHITEFIELD ELMI
730 .* 'SS
BOSTON C. M. BARROWS CO. 1917
12223
TOWN OFFICERS 1916
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor
ARTHUR W. EAMES
FRANK W. DAYTON
HERBERT C. BARROWS, Chairman
Assessors
JAMES E. KELLEY MILTON T. HOLT
GEORGE W. BUCK
Term expires 1917 Term expires 1918 Term expires 1919
Town Clerk JAMES E. KELLEY
Treasurer FRED A. EAMES
Collector of Taxes JOSEPH PATCHETT
Town Accountant HARRY R. DEMING
Constable WALTER A. HILL
Chief of Police
WALTER A. HILL
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Special Police
ALBERT D. BUTTERS
FRANK W. DAYTON
EDWIN L. DAY ARTHUR W. GIROUX
MELVIN W. BROWN DANIEL C. NORCROSS FRANK E. PEINERT JOHN F. DUNN
Board of Survey SELECTMEN
Registrars of Voters
HENRY N. AMES
ALDICE G. EAMES
PETER F. McMAHON
Term expires 1917 Term expires 1918 Term expires 1919
JAMES E. KELLEY, Clerk of Board
Keeper of Lock-up WALTER A. HILL
Fence Viewers
ARTHUR W. EAMES
FRANK W. DAYTON HERBERT C. BARROWS
Field Drivers
MICHAEL J. McMAHON FRANCIS NICHOLS ALBERT D. BUTTERS
WALTER D. CARTER
Surveyors of Lumber
HERBERT C. BARROWS SCHAMIEL R. McINTOSH FRANK L. EAMES GEORGE S. FOOTE
JAMES E. KELLEY EDWARD N. EAMES ARTHUR W. EAMES THOMAS T. SIDELINKER
Surveyors of Wood and Bark
JAMES E. KELLEY
HERBERT C. BARROWS
SCHAMIEL R. McINTOSH
FRANK L. EAMES
GEORGE S. FOOTE
EDWARD N. EAMES ARTHUR W. EAMES WALTER L. HALE
Measurers of Leather
J. ARTHUR TAYLOR
ARTHUR F. BLAKE
Public Weighers
WARREN EAMES ALLAN YOUNG
GEORGE L. BLAISDELL
J. ARTHUR TAYLOR
GEORGE A. HART
FRANK L. EAMES
FRED W. CARTER ARTHUR F. BLAKE WALTER L. HALE JOHN A. HOWE
Sealer of Weights and Measures ARTHUR B. EAMES
Janitor of Town Hall CHARLES B. OSBON* ALBERT D. BUTTERSÝ
Pound Keeper MELVIN W. BROWN
Superintendent of Town Farm MELVIN W. BROWN
Superintendent of Streets WILLIE B. McINTOSH
*Resigned tAppointed
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SELECTMEN
Board of Health
DR. D. T. BUZZELL, Agent
Inspector of Animals CALVERT H. PLAYDON, M. D. V.
Inspector of Provisions J. HOWARD EAMES
Forest Fire Warden OLIVER A. McGRANE
Deputy Forest Fire Wardens
H. C. BARROWS
W. B. McINTOSH
A. D. BUTTERS
CHARLES L. FIENDEL
EDWARD F. FORTIS
ARTHUR W. GIROUX
HENRY H. CUTTER
Fire Department ALBERT D. BUTTERS, Chief
SELECTMEN
Cemetery Committee ALBERT D. BUTTERS, Superintendent
Common Committee
JOSEPH PATCHETT JAMES E. KELLEY CHARLES B. OSBON
Term expires 1917 Term expires 1919 Term expires 1918
School Committee
HOWARD M. HORTON PHILIP B. BUZZELL ELLEN S. PERRY
Term expires 1917 Term expires 1919 Term expires 1918
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M. W. BROWN GEORGE S. FOOTE
ERNEST W. EAMES
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Undertaker EDWARD M. NICHOLS
Burial Agent MILTON T. HOLT
Trustees of Public Library
D. FRED WAITE
Term expires 1917
JOSEPH PATCHETT
Term expires 1917
GUY E. NICHOLS
Term expires 1918
DANIEL T. BUZZELL
Term expires 1918
EDWARD N. EAMES Term expires 1919
HERBERT C. BARROWS
Term expires 1919
Trustees of Trust Funds
DUDLEY B. PURBECK .
Term expires 1918
CALEB S. HARRIMAN
Term expires 1919
FRED A. EAMES Term expires 1917
Tree Warden OLIVER A. McGRANE
Superintendent for Suppressing Moths OLIVER A. McGRANE
Sarah D. J. Carter Lecture Fund Committee
DANIEL .T. BUZZELL
Term expires 1920
GUY E. NICHOLS
Term expires 1921
EUGENE G. SHAW
Term expires 1917
JOHN W. HATHAWAY Term expires 1918
JAMES E. KELLEY
Term expires 1919
Ballot Clerks and Tellers
THOMAS H. McMAHON
FRANK W. KIDDER J. HOWARD EAMES JOHN E. DENEHY
OTIS GOWING WARREN EAMES EUGENE G. SHAW OLIVER A. McGRANE
JURY LIST, TOWN OF WILMINGTON
Revised June 26, 1916
Street
Occupation
Daniel R. Carter
Shawsheen Ave.
Carpenter
Harry R. Deming Harold Swain
Federal St.
Bookkeeper
Samuel F. Cole
Glen Road
Laborer Currier
Oliver McGrane
Church St.
Moth Superintendent
Harry A. Maynard Lawrence C. Swain
Middlesex Ave.
Retired
Joseph Patchett
West St.
Tax Collector Farmer
Walter D. Carter
Lowell St.
George W. Buck
Church St.
M. Herbert Foskett
Ballardvale St.
Grocer Printer Insurance Agent Telegraph Operator Currier
Thomas H. McMahon
Middlesex Ave. High St.
Pattern Maker Electroplater
Clarence E. Carter
High St.
Bookkeeper
Harry E. Lake
High St.
Charles B. Osbon
Middlesex Ave.
Civil Engineer Carpenter Jeweler Printer
John Allen Walter R. Eberts
Adams St.
Clerk
Charles C. Alden
Clark St.
Clerk
William A. Cameron
Hopkins St.
Machinist
George McKittrick
Eames St.
Arthur B. Eames
Woburn St.
Clerk Farmer
John E. Denehy Irvin Eames
Grove St.
Woburn St.
Samuel F. Perry
William T. Henderson
Shawsheen Ave.
John H. Addison
Burlington Ave.
Burlington Ave.
Off Burlington Ave. Brakeman
Middlesex Ave.
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
Records of Warrants and Proceedings of Town Meetings, Births, Marriages and Deaths, with a Statement of Money Paid to the County Treasurer on account of Dog Licenses
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TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss.
To Walter A. Hill, Constable of the Town of Wilmington. Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the manner prescribed in Section 2, Article 1, of the By- Laws of the Town of Wilmington, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town Hall on Monday, the sixth day of March next, at 6 o'clock in the forenoon, the polls to be opened at 6.15 a.m., and may be closed at 4 p.m., for the election of officers and to act on the following articles, namely:
Article 1. To elect by ballot a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To bring in your votes on one ballot for three Selectmen, who shall also be Overseers of the Poor and Board of Survey, one Assessor for three years, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Constable, three Fence Viewers, one School Committee for three years, two Trustees of Public Library
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for three years, one member of S. D. J. Carter Lecture Com- mittee for five years, one Tree Warden, one Trustee of Trust Funds for three years; also to vote on the following questions, to wit: Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town? " Yes or No."
At 10 o'clock in the forenoon to act on the following articles:
Art. 3. To choose all other Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Art. 4. To hear the report of committees and act thereon.
Art. 5. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for General Government, Protection of Life and Property, Health and Sanitation, Tree Warden, Forest Warden, Highways, Roads and Bridges, Poor, Dependent Widows and Soldiers' Relief, Schools and Maintenance, also tuition at Vocational Schools, Library, Cemetery, Interest, Notes Payable, Street Lights, State and County Tax, Printing Town Reports, Care of Town Clock, and Contingent Fund.
Art. 6. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the observance of Memorial Day and to determine how the same shall be expended.
Art. 7. To see what method the Town will adopt for the collection of taxes and to provide for the compensation of the Collector.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue of the present financial year.
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Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to install street lights on Marion Street or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to install street lights on Butters Row or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will accept Veranda Street as laid out by the Selectmen according to the Silver Lake Park Plan recorded at the North Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Book of Plans No. 20, Plan No. 9, or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars for the purpose of planting trees and shrubs on the High School grounds, or do anything in relation to the same.
Art. 13. To see what action the Town will take in regard to fixing the salary of the School Committee.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $400 for fencing the West and Whitefield School lots, or do anything in relation to the same.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to adopt a code of building laws or what they will do in regard to the matter.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money necessary to convey outlying district school children to and from schools, or do anything in relation thereto.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of $2,000 under Chapter 525, Acts of 1910, to be
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expended under the direction of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, or do anything in relation thereto.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands and the seal of said Town this twenty- fifth day of February, A.D., one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
GTO
SS.
730.
THE
WHITEFIELD ELM
HERBERT C. BARROWS, ARTHUR W. EAMES, EDWARD N. EAMES,
Selectmen of Wilmington.
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TOWN MEETING
Record of Proceedings of the Annual Town Meeting, March 6, 1916
In accordance with the directions of the foregoing Warrant, the voters assembled on the above date. The votes as declared by the Moderator are as follows:
The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, and the Warrant read as far as Article 3. On motion it was voted to dispense reading the balance.
Article 1. Edward N. Eames was elected Moderator, the vote being taken by ballot and the check list being used.
Art. 2. The Moderator read Article 2 and then examined the ballot box, which was found empty, the register indicated 0000, the box was locked and the key delivered to the Con- stable. The Ballot Clerks and Tellers having been sworn, the official ballots were delivered to the Ballot Clerks, a receipt for the same being taken by the Town Clerk. The Moderator announced that the polls for the election of officers were open and that balloting might proceed. Later on it was voted that the polls for the election of officers be closed at 4 p.m. At the appointed time the Moderator declared the polls closed.
The names checked upon the male lists numbered three hundred and forty (340), and seven (7) specials for " School
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Committee Only," and the ballots as counted from the ballot box numbered 340 regular and 7 specials, and the register indicated 347.
For Selectmen, to act also as Overseers of the Poor and Board of Survey
Herbert C. Barrows (Elected) had one hundred sixty-six votes, 166
Frank W. Dayton (Elected) had one hundred fifty-nine votes, 159
Alden N. Eames had one hundred six votes, 106
Arthur W. Eames (Elected) had one hundred sixty-one votes, 161
Edward N. Eames had one hundred forty-six votes, 146
Edward M. Neilson had one hundred twenty votes, 120
Blanks, one hundred sixty-two, 162
Assessor for Three Years
George W. Buck (Elected) had two hundred seventy-three votes, 273
Warren P. Blaisdell had one vote, 1
Blanks, sixty-six, 66
Town Clerk
James E. Kelley (Elected) had two hundred ninety-five votes, 295
Blanks, forty-five votes, 45
Treasurer
Fred A. Eames (Elected) had two hundred ninety-seven votes,
Blanks, forty-three, 43
297
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Collector of Taxes
Joseph Patchett (Elected) had three hundred one votes, 301
Blanks, thirty-nine, 39
Constable
Walter A. Hill (Elected) had two hundred eighty-two votes, 282 Blanks, fifty-eight, 58
Fence Viewers
Herbert C. Barrows (Elected) had one hundred sixty-eight votes, 168
Frank W. Dayton (Elected) had one hundred thirty-eight votes, 138
Alden N. Eames had one hundred one votes, 101
Arthur W. Eames (Elected) had one hundred forty-nine votes, 149
Edward N. Eames had one hundred thirty-six votes, 136
Edward M. Neilson had one hundred nineteen votes, 119
Blanks, two hundred nine, 209
School Committee, Three Years
Philip B. Buzzell (Elected) had three hundred three votes, 303
Blanks, forty-four, 44
Trustees Public Library, Three Years
Herbert C. Barrows (Elected) had two hundred forty- eight votes, 248
Edward N. Eames (Elected) had two hundred thirty-nine votes, 239
Blanks, one hundred ninety-three, 193
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S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee, Five Years
Guy E. Nichols (Elected) had two hundred sixty-two votes, 262
Blanks, seventy-eight, 78
Trustee of Trust Funds, Three Years
Caleb S. Harriman (Elected) had two hundred seventy-six votes,
276
Blanks, seventy-eight, 78
Tree Warden
Oliver A. McGrane (Elected) had two hundred eighty-four votes,
284
Blanks, fifty-six, 56
License Vote
Yes, sixty-eight, 68
No, two hundred twenty-two, 222
Blanks, fifty, 50
At 10 o'clock, the hour stated in the Warrant, Article 3 was taken up.
Art. 3. On motion it was voted that a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to bring in a list of names as nominations for the several offices to be filled under the article. Moderator appointed Herbert C. Barrows, Fred A. Lowell and Oliver A. McGrane, who submitted the following list, which on motion was accepted and adopted, and the nominees declared elected.
Field Drivers
Walter D. Carter
Michael J. McMahon
Albert D. Butters Francis Nichols
Melvin W. Brown
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Surveyors of Lumber
James E. Kelley Arthur W. Eames
Edward N. Eames S. R. McIntosh
Frank L. Eames
Herbert C. Barrows
T. T. Sidelinker
Surveyors of Wood and Bark
James E. Kelley Edward N. Eames
Arthur W. Eames
S. R. McIntosh
Herbert C. Barrows Walter L. Hale
Frank L. Eames
Measurers of Leather
J. Arthur Taylor
Arthur F. Blake
Public Weighers
Warren Eames
Fred W. Carter
J. Arthur Taylor Arthur F. Blake
George L. Blaisdell
Walter L. Hale
Frank L. Eames
George A. Hart
Common Committee Three Years
James E. Kelley
Art. 4. The Committee on Automobile Fire Apparatus was called on for a report. Mr. A. D. Butters reported cost of trucks at $4,500 and $6,500, but had no recommendations to make. A motion was then made to accept the réports as printed in the Annual Town Report.
Voted in the affirmative.
Art. 5. Motion: That the Town raise and appropriate or appropriate the several and respective sums recommended by the Selectmen on page 126 of the printed reports and that
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the motion be divided and put upon each item separately and subject to amendment. Voted in the affirmative. After some explanations in regard to slight increase in some depart- ments over last year the following appropriations were made.
General Government
Selectmen, salaries and general expenses $ 800 00
Town Accountant, salary and general expenses 250 00
Treasurer, salary and general expenses 375 00
Collector, salary and general expenses 1,000 00 Assessors, salaries and general expenses 725 00
Town Clerk, salary and general expenses 120 00
Election and Registration, salaries and general ex- penses $350, amendment made that $325 be the amount for Election and Registration expenses and salaries. Voted in the negative. It was then voted to raise and appropriate $350 . 350 00
Town Hall, Janitor, light, fuel and repairs 200 00
Town Constable ·
50 00
Protection of Life and Property
Police Department, receipts and $1,000 00
Fire Department, receipts and
1,250 00
Suppression of Moths (compulsory $843.89 and incidentals $156.11) and receipts 1,000 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures, receipts and 50 00
Tree Warden, receipts and .
300 00
Forest Fires, receipts and .
500 00
Health and Sanitation
Salary Board of Health Agent, quarantine wages, Inspection of Animals, Meats, and Provisions, Vital Statistics. .
$500 00
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Highways, Roads and Bridges
Voted: That the sum of $8,000 be appropriated of which $2,842.51 be raised by taxation, and the balance $5,157.49 to be paid from the Excise and Street Railway taxes received
Electric street lights .
$8,000 00 5,500 00
Charities
Town Farm and Outside Poor. Voted to appro- priate $1,800, the same to be paid from the bal- ance of receipts from sale of lumber from Town Farm $1,800 00
Aid for Dependent Mothers, receipts and 400 00
Town Indebtedness
Bonds Nos. 3 and 4, account new High School $1,750 00
Note No. 45 (balance due on Stone Crusher) 1,320 00
Contingent Fund 1,000 00
Soldiers' Benefits
State Aid: Voted to appropriate $360, $360 00
Soldiers' Relief : Voted to raise and appropriate 48 00
At this time it was voted to take a recess of one hour from further business, except that voting under Article 2 should continue.
At one o'clock on motion it was voted to resume business under Article 5. On motion it was voted to lay Article 5 on the table and take up Article 16.
Art. 16. Motion made to raise and appropriate $700 to transport children one and one-half miles and beyond from the schools which they attend during the months of December,
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