Town of Wilmington Annual Report 1917-1918, Part 7

Author: Wilmington (Mass.)
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Town of Wilmington
Number of Pages: 320


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ARTICLE VII.


Section 1. All existing By-Laws or votes of the town which conflict with or are inconsistent with these By-Laws are hereby repealed.


Sec. 2. These By-Laws may be amended at any annual Town Meeting by a majority vote; any proposed amendment, however, must appear in full in the warrant for such meeting.


Sec. 3. The foregoing By-Laws shall take effect from and after their passage and their approval by the Attorney General.


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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 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 fourth day of March next, at 6 o'clock in the forenoon, the polls to be opened at 6 o'clock a. m., and may be closed at 4 p. m., for the election of Town 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 Select- men, 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, one School Committee for one year, two Trustees of the Public Library for three years, one member of the S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee for five years, one Tree Warden, one Trustee of Trust Funds for three years and to vote also on the following questions, viz .:. Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town? "Yes or No." Shall the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 254, Acts of 1917?


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" An Act to authorize cities and towns to pay to their employees who enlist in the service of the United States the difference between their military and their municipal compensation."


And 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 reports 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, Support of Poor, Dependent Widows and Soldiers' Relief, Schools and Maintenance, including tuition at Vocational Schools. Library, Cemetery, Interest, Notes Payable, Street Lights, State and County Tax. Printing Town Reports. Care of Town Clock, Contingent Fund and Tax Abatements.


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 determine 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, and after the first of January next.


*Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to widen and straighten Glen Road so as to make it safe to travel, or what they will do in relation thereto.


*Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of fifteen dollars for the upkeep of the land at the junction


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of High Street and Middlesex Avenue, or do anything in relation thereto.


Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Assessors to sell during the year all lots of land acquired by the Town at the unredeemed sales on tax titles, the sale price to be determined by the said Board, and shall include the tax of 1918, thus giving the purchaser thereof a deed of release in behalf of the Town signed by a majority of said Board.


*Art. 12. To see if the Town will accept and lay out the following streets, as shown on a plan known as Wilmington Square Park : "Beginning at a point on Church Street, as much of Hanover Street as runs to the northwest corner of Forest Avenue." " Then Forest Avenue to State Street," and then State Street, to the north and west corners of Fairview Avenue, and that the Town appropriate a sum of money sufficient for laying out said streets.


*Art. 13. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to contract for electric street lights to be installed on Railroad Avenue, and two more on Parker Street.


, Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 367, Acts of 1911, as amended by Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1912. (School Comm.)


*Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to transact the business of the annual Town Meeting, other than the election of Officers, at an adjourned meeting to be held on the evening of the first Monday in March and successive Monday evenings, till all articles have been acted upon, or do anything in relation of the same.


*Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 795 of the Acts of the year 1914, and pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.


Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Town Accountant, or do anything in relation thereto.


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*Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to prohibit bathing on Sundays at Silver Lake, or do anything in relation thereto.


Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to equip the Town Farm buildings with electric lights and raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient for such purpose.


Art. 20. Shall the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 23, General Acts of 1917? "An act to provide for the licensing of coffee houses, so-called."


Art. 21. To see if the Town will vote to create a Public Improvement Commission, to consider and promote the several interests, civic, commercial, industrial, educational and social as may seem most expedient. This Commission shall consist of not less than nine members, three appointed by the Selectmen, the pastors of the three churches, who shall be members ex officii, and three others selected by the said six. The Commission shall thereafter have power to effect its own organization and replete or enlarge its membership on the basis of two men to one woman and shall finance its own affairs. It shall make a report at the next annual Town Meeting, and a full report at the end of three years.


*Art. 22. To see if the Town will install street lights on Adams Street or do anything in relation thereto.


*Art. 23. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars for the purpose of purchasing a Service Flag for use on the Flag Pole situated on the Common, or do anything in relation to the same.


"Art. 24. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred and Seventy-five ($375.00) Dollars for the use of the Committee on Public Safety, or do anything in relation to the same.


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Art. 25. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to Excess and Deficiency Account, when received, the 1917 franchise and excise taxes due from Bay State Street Railway Company and amounts due from State account Poor and Dependent Mothers, now repre- sented all or in part, by Accounts Receivable in Balance Sheet.


Articles marked thus (*) inserted on petition.


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 eighteenth day of February, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.


TO


730 .* SS


THE WHITEFIELD ELM


ITED


HERBERT C. BARROWS, ARTHUR W. EAMES, EDWARD N. EAMES,


Selectmen of Wilmington.


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INDEX


Assessors' Valuation, 1917


110


Board of Health, Report of


128


By-Laws


143


Carter Lecture Course Committee, Report of


126


Chief of Police, Report of


118


Collector's Account


112


Fire Department, Report of


120


Forest Warden's Report


123


Inspector of Animals, Report of


129


Inspector of Meats and Provisions, Report of


131


Jury List


10


Librarians's Report .


.


.


134


List of Library Books


136


Overseers of the Poor, Report of


106


School Committee, Report of


41


Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of


132


Selectmen's Recommendations


104


Selectmen, Report of


115


Superintendent of Streets, Report of


124


Town Accountant, Report of


76


Town Clerk, Town Meetings, Report of


11


Births Registered .


34


Marriages Registered


36


Recapitulation


40


Treasurer's Report


113


Tree Warden's Report


133


Trustees of Trust Funds, Report of


116


Town Officers, 1917


5


Town Warrant


.


152


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·


Deaths Registered 38


WILMINGTON, MASS.


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


FOR THE


FINANCIAL YEAR, ENDING DECEMBER 31


1918


GTO


SS.


1730.+


THE


WHITEFIELD ELM


BOSTON C. M. BARROWS CO. 1919


12225


TOWN OFFICERS 1918


Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor


CHARLES F. PERRY FRANK W. DAYTON HERBERT C. BARROWS, Chairman


Assessors


GEORGE W. BUCK


Term expires 1919


JAMES E. KELLEY MILTON T. HOLT


Term expires 1920


Term expires 1921


Town Clerk JAMES E. KELLEY


Treasurer


FRANK L. EAMES


Collector of Taxes


WALTER L. HALE


Town Accountant HARRY R. DEMING


Constable WALTER A. HILL


Chief of Police


WALTER A. HILL


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Special Police


ALBERT D. BUTTERS


EDWIN L. DAY


PAUL L. COTTING


ORA HOLBROOK


WELLINGTON S. BRAZEL


MELVIN W. BROWN DANIEL C. NORCROSS OTIS A. ELLIS


HARRY L. FOOTE


ARTHUR W. GIROUX JOHN F. DUNN


Board of Survey SELECTMEN


Registrars of Voters


PETER F. McMAHON


Term expires 1919


HENRY N. AMES, (Resigned)


JOSEPH PATCHETT, (Appointed)


ALDICE G. EAMES


Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921 JAMES E. KELLEY, Clerk of Board


Keeper of Lock-up WALTER A. HILL


Fence Viewers


CHARLES F. PERRY


FRANK W. DAYTON


HERBERT C. BARROWS


Field Drivers


MICHAEL J. McMAHON FRANCIS NICHOLS


MELVIN W. BROWN ALBERT D. BUTTERS


Surveyors of Lumber


HERBERT C. BARROWS JAMES E. KELLEY


SCHAMIEL R. McINTOSH


FRANK L. EAMES


EDWARD N. EAMES ARTHUR W. EAMES


WALTER L. HALE THOMAS T. SIDELINKER HARRY R. DEMING


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Surveyors of Wood and Bark


JAMES E. KELLEY


HERBERT C. BARROWS


SCHAMIEL R. McINTOSH


FRANK L. EAMES


HARRY R. DEMING


EDWARD N. EAMES ARTHUR W. EAMES WALTER L. HALE


THOMAS T. SIDELINKER


Measurers of Leather


J. ARTHUR TAYLOR


ARTHUR F. BLAKE


HARRY R. DEMING


Public Weighers


J. ARTHUR TAYLOR GEORGE A. HART


FRANK L. EAMES ALBERT LANE


FRED W. CARTER WALTER L. HALE JOHN A. HOWE HARRY R. DEMING


Sealer of Weights and Measures


ARTHUR B. EAMES


Janitor of Town Hall OLIVER A. McGRANE


Pound Keeper MELVIN W. BROWN


Superintendent of Town Farm


MELVIN W. BROWN


Superintendent of Streets


WILLIE B. McINTOSH


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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


ARTHUR W. GIROUX


M. W. BROWN ERNEST W. EAMES EDWARD F. FORTIS


Fire Department ALBERT D. BUTTERS, Chief


SELECTMEN


Cemetery Committee ALBERT D. BUTTERS, Superintendent


Common Committee


JAMES E. KELLEY


Term expires 1919


JOSEPH PATCHETT .


Term expires 1920


JOB P. ESTES


Term expires 1921


School Committee


CHARLES C. ALDEN


Term expires 1919


FRED W. CARRIER, (Resigned)


Term expires 1920


PHILIP B. BUZZELL, Appointed until March, 1919 Term expires 1921


ELLEN S. PERRY


Undertaker EDWARD M. NICHOLS


Burial Agent MILTON T. HOLT Trustees of Public Library


EDWARD N. EAMES


Term expires 1919


HERBERT C. BARROWS


Term expires 1919


D. FRED WAITE . Term expires 1920


JOSEPH PATCHETT


Term expires 1920


GUY E. NICHOLS .


Term expires 1921


DANIEL T. BUZZELL


Term expires 1921


Trustees of Trust Funds


CALEB S. HARRIMAN .


Term expires 1919


FRED A. EAMES


Term expires 1920


DUDLEY B. PURBECK Term expires 1921


Tree Warden OLIVER A. McGRANE


Superintendent for Suppressing Moths OLIVER A. McGRANE


Sarah D. J. Carter Lecture Fund Committee


JAMES E. KELLEY


Term expires 1919


DANIEL T. BUZZELL


Term expires 1920


GUY E. NICHOLS .


Term expires 1921


EDWARD N. EAMES


Term expires 1922


JOHN W. HATHAWAY


Term expires 1923


Ballot Clerks and Tellers


THOMAS H. McMAHON J. HOWARD EAMES JOHN E. DENEHY THOMAS J. MORLEY


OTIS GOWING WARREN EAMES EUGENE G. SHAW EUGENE F. GALLAGHER


JURY LIST, TOWN OF WILMINGTON Revised July 15, 1918


Street


Occupation


Arthur W. Giroux


Printer


Clarence W. Buck


Swain Road Wildwood St.


Provision Dealer Salesman


Roland W. Cox


Church St.


Edward J. Lyons


Off Shawsheen Ave. Picture Operator


Arthur W. Eames


Woburn St.


Farmer Salesman


Harry R. Deming


Federal St.


Bookkeeper


Samuel F. Cole


Glen Road


Currier


Joseph Patchett


West St.


Tax Collector


Walter D. Carter


Lowell St.


Farmer


George W. Buck


Church St.


Retired


M. Herbert Foskett


Ballardvale St.


Printer


John E. Denehy Irvin Eames


Grove St.


Insurance Agent


Samuel F. Perry


Woburn St. High St.


Pattern Maker


William T. Henderson


Shawsheen Ave.


Electroplater


Clarence E. Carter


Salem St.


Bookkeeper


Harry E. Lake


High St.


Civil Engineer


John H. Addison


Burlington Ave.


Jeweler


Walter R. Eberts


Adams St.


Clerk


Arthur B. Eames


Woburn St.


Farmer


J. Henry Buck Charles E. Carter


Shawsheen Ave.


Laborer


Donald K. Colgate


Adams St.


Painter


Frank E. Day


Off Marion St.


Retired


Peter F. McMahon


Middlesex Ave.


Provision Dealer


(Signed)


HERBERT C. BARROWS, Chairman of Selectmen.


Farmer


Woburn St.


Tel. Operator


Daniel R. Carter


Shawsheen 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


Special Town Meeting, Held February 1, 1918.


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 accordance with the By-Laws of said Town, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qual- ified by law to vote in Town affairs to meet and assemble at the Town Hall on Friday, the first day of February, 1918, at eight o'clock, p. m., to act upon the following articles, namely :


Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing.


Article 2. To see what action the Town will take toward accepting the provisions of Chapter 795 of the Acts of the year 1914 and pass any vote or votes 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 seal of said Town this twenty- fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.


[SEAL]


HERBERT C. BARROWS, ARTHUR W. EAMES, Selectmen of Wilmington.


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TOWN MEETING


Record of Proceedings of Special Town Meeting February 1, 1918


The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock, p. m., by the Town Clerk, the Warrant was read and Article 1 acted upon.


Article 1. Edward N. Eames was elected Moderator by ballot, the check list being used.


Art. 2. Motion made by Mr. J. W. Hathaway. To accept the provisions of Chapter 795, Acts of 1914. Mr. Harry E. Lake made some explanatory remarks in relation to the work- ing of the law and the benefits to be derived therefrom, after which he answered several questions in further explanation. A vote was then taken on the motion with the following results: Fifteen (15) voted yes and thirty-two (32) voted no, and the Moderator declared the motion not carried.


On motion it was voted to adjourn.


Attest:


JAMES E. KELLEY,


Town Clerk.


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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 the By-Laws of the Town of Wilming- ton, 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 fourth day of March next, at 6 o'clock in the forenoon, the polls to be opened at 6 o'clock a. m., and may be closed at 4 p. m., for the election of Town 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 Select- men, who shall also be Overseers of the Poor and Board of Sur- vey, one Assessor for three years, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Col- lector of Taxes, Constable, three Fence Viewers, one School Committee for three years, one School Committee for one year, two Trustees of the Public Library for three years, one member of the S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee for five years, one Tree Warden, one Trustee of Trust Funds for three years and


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to vote also on the following questions, viz .: Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town? "Yes or No." Shall the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 254, Acts of 1917? " An Act to authorize cities and towns to pay to their employees who enlist in the service of the United States the difference between their military and their municipal com- pensation."


And 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 reports 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, Support of Poor, De- pendent Widows and Soldiers' Relief, Schools and Mainte- nance, including tuition at Vocational Schools, Library, Cemetery, Interest, Notes Payable, Street Lights, State and County Tax, Printing Town Reports, Care of Town Clock, Contingent Fund and Tax Abatements.


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 determine the compensation of the collector.


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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, and after the first of January next.


*Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to widen and straighten Glen Road so as to make it safe to travel, or what they will do in relation thereto.


*Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of fifteen dollars for the upkeep of the land at the junction of High Street and Middlesex Avenue, or do any- thing in relation thereto.


Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Assessors to sell during the year all lots of land acquired by the Town at the unredeemed sales on tax titles, the sale price to be determined by the said Board, and shall include the tax. of 1918, thus giving the purchaser thereof a deed of release in behalf of the Town signed by a majority of said Board.


*Art. 12. To see if the Town will accept and lay out the following streets, as shown on a plan known as Wilmington Square Park: "Beginning at a point on Church Street, as much of Hanover Street as runs to the northwest corner of Forest Avenue." " Then Forest Avenue to State Street," and then State Street, to the north and west corners of Fairview Avenue, and that the Town appropriate a sum of money sufficient for laying out said streets.


*Art. 13. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to contract for electric street lights to be installed on Railroad Avenue, and two more on Parker Street.


Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Chapter 367, Acts of 1911, as amended by Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1912. (School Comm.)


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*Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to transact the busi- ness of the annual Town Meeting, other than the election of Officers, at an adjourned meeting to be held on the evening of the first Monday in March and successive Monday evenings, till all articles have been acted upon, or do anything in relation of the same.


*Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Chapter 795 of the Acts of the year 1914, and pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.


Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Town Accountant, or do anything in relation thereto.


*Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to prohibit bathing on Sundays at Silver Lake, or do anything in relation thereto.


Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to equip the Town Farm buildings with electric lights and raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient for such purpose.


Art. 20. Shall the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 23, General Acts of 1917? " An act to provide for the licensing of coffee houses, so-called."


Art. 21. To see if the Town will vote to create a Public Im- provement Commission, to consider and promote the several interests, civic, commercial, industrial, educational and social as may seem most expedient. This Commission shall consist of not less than nine members, three appointed by the Selectmen, the pastors of the three churches, who shall be members ex rofficii, and three others selected by the said six. The commis- sion shall thereafter have power to effect its own organization and replete or enlarge its membership on the basis of two men to one woman and shall finance its own affairs. It shall make a report at the next annual Town Meeting, and a full report at the end of three years.


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*Art. 22. To see if the Town will install street lights on Adams Street or do anything in relation thereto.


*Art. 23. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars for the purpose of purchas- ing a Service Flag for use on the Flag Pole situated on the Common or do anything in relation to the same.


*Art. 24. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred and Seventy-five ($375.00) Dollars for the use of the Committee on Public Safety, or do anything in relation to the same.


Art. 25. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to Excess and Deficiency Account, when received, the 1917 franchise and excise taxes due from Bay State Street Railway Company and amounts due from State account Poor and Dependent Mothers, now represented all or in part, by Accounts Receivable in Balance Sheet.


Articles marked thus (*) inserted on petition.


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 eight- eenth day of February, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.


GTO


THE


WHITEFIELD ELM


1730 .* 'SS


HERBERT C. BARROWS, ARTHUR W. EAMES, EDWARD N. EAMES,


Selectmen of Wilmington


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TOWN MEETING


Record of Proceedings of Annual Town Meeting March 4, 1918


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. Chester W. Clark 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 Constable. 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 an- nounced 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 lists numbered three hundred and seventy-six (376) and fifty-one (51) specials for " School Com-


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mittee Only," and the ballots as counted from the Ballot Box numbered three hundred seventy-six (376) regular and fifty-one (51) specials, and the register indicated four hundred twenty- seven (427).


Selectmen (To act as Overseers of the Poor and Board of Survey)


Elected, Herbert C. Barrows had one hundred seventy-


eight votes . 178


Elected, Frank W. Dayton had one hundred sixty- seven votes . 167


John F. Dunn had forty-three votes


43


Arthur W. Eames had one hundred forty-five votes 145


Edward N. Eames had one hundred fifty-eight votes .


158


Howard M. Horton had one hundred twenty-three votes 123


Elected, Charles F. Perry had two hundred sixteen votes 216


Blanks, ninety-eight 98


Assessor (Three Years)


Elected, Milton T. Holt had two hundred twenty-seven votes


227


Arthur W. Sprague had one hundred twenty-four votes 124


Blanks, twenty-five 25


Town Clerk


Elected, James E. Kelley had three hundred thirty-three votes .




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