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"The usual routine of weighing, assisting the school phys- ician with vaccinations, physical examinations, immuniza- tion treatments, and Schick tests has been carried on. To this has been added the task of assisting the school dentist at clinics and examinations. Home visits have been made when deemed necessary.
"More children than usual were given the diphtheria immunization treatment last fall, and in the intermediate room at North Wilbraham every child has now received this treatment. It would be a wonderful step forward if the same could be said of every school in town. Preventing diphtheria is what counts.
"Two of the nurse's ambitions for Wilbraham have been realized during the past year,- a dental clinic has been established and the hearing of children in grades 3 to 8 has been tested by means of an audiometer. Both these meas- ures are very important. When Mr. Dinneen, the school den- tist, made his examinations, out of 410 children only 100 were found to be eligible for a certificate stating that their teeth were in good condition and that they were not in need of dental work. Good for the 100. The remaining 310 re- ceived notices of defects, and 96 of these sent in requests for work to be done at the clinic. The report on the dental clinic will show what has already been accomplished there. The audiometer test speaks for itself. It rests with the pa- rents to give their children the attention of an ear specialist if they received notice of defective hearing.
"Every child has the right to expect that he may enter school without handicaps in the way of remediable defects. This is the reason for the pre-school examinations. Last May forty children were examined and vaccinated at the pre-school clinic. Thirty-three were found with defects,- thirty-two had dental defects and ten diseased tonsils. No- tices were sent to the parents of these children, and in some cases, but not in all, were given consideration. At the Child Health Day exercises eighty-seven children received teeth
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tags, sixty-nine physically fit tags, and one hundred and sixty-six improvement tags. We should have a greater number of physically fit children. Let us give them a chance."
SIGNE L. POLSON School Nurse
The Teaching Force :
During the past year there has been little change in the corps of teachers. Miss Winifred Egan resigned in June to accept an appointment in the Springfield schools, and Miss Yolande A. Richard was transferred from East Wilbraham to The Pines to take the school made vacant by Miss Egan. Miss Helen Kochanek, a Westfield graduate who had shown her worth as a substitute teacher in the Wilbraham schools, was appointed to succeed Miss Richard at East Wilbraham. On December 1st the resignation of Miss Ruth Mason, teacher at Stony Hill, was received, and Miss Liane S. Laramee, a graduate of the Palmer High School and Bridgewater Normal School with several weeks of successful experience as a substitute in the Palmer schools, was appointed to complete the year at that school.
The teachers of Wilbraham are well trained, experi- enced, competent, and professionally alert. They average to have taken two full years of professional study in resi- dence beyond high school graduation. Fourteen of the six- teen are graduates of professional schools. Eight teacher training institutions are represented by graduates in our force. In addition to study taken toward securing their de- grees, no less than forty-four summer courses, university extension courses, or other similar professional courses have been taken by our teachers during the last ten years. They have had an average of eight years of teaching experience. The maximum number of years that any one of them has taught is twenty-two, while the two who received appoint-
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ments during 1930 had each had equivalent of a term's ex- perience in addition to their teacher training assignments at normal school.
Sick Leave:
In December, 1929, a vote of the school board provided that each teacher be allowed during each school year five days of absence on account of illness without loss of pay. Provision for sick leave is the rule rather than the exception in Massachusetts School systems. In passing such a vote the school board of Wilbraham granted to the Wilbraham teachers a privilege already possessed by the teachers of Monson, Palmer, Ludlow, Springfield, East Longmeadow, Hampden, and most of the towns and cities of the common- wealth.
The vote was appreciated by the teachers, but has not been abused. During the financial year of 1930, only seven out of the sixteen teachers of the town were absent on sick leave, and the total number of days of absence for this cause amounted to but eighteen. The added expense to the last budget on account of this vote was but ninety dollars. Nine teachers were not absent at all on account of sickness during 1930.
Textbooks and Courses of Study :
During 1930, as a result of considerable discussion and examination of various textbooks, a new series of texts in geography were adopted and introduced for use. Most of the books displaced were published eight or ten years ago. The new series is up-to-date and the reports are that it is proving satisfactory.
During the year also, with the cooperation of the tea- chers, brief statements setting forth the grade requirements and the textbook assignments of the courses of study in arithmetic, reading, geography, and spelling were got out.
Respectfully submitted,
FREDERIC A. WHEELER Superintendent of Schools
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
To the Superintendent of Schools, School Committee, and Parents of Wilbraham :
I have Schick tested 61, vaccinated 66, immunized 70, and examined 174. Two have been brought to my office for examination, and I have made one call at No. 8 by re- quest. The town is to be congratulated in that it has one room of pupils at North Wilbraham, under the care of Mrs. J. B. Logan as teacher, in which every pupil has been im- munized against diphtheria. I sincerely wish this could be said of all pupils in the town.
Respectfully submitted,
A. L. DAMON, M. D. School Physician
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School Calendar, 1930-1921
School Calendar, 1930-1931
Fall Term :
Tuesday, September 2, to Tuesday, December 23.
Winter Term :
Monday, January 5, to Friday, February 20.
Spring Term :
Monday, March 2, to Friday, April 24.
Summer Term :
Monday, May 4, to Thursday, June 25.
CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL CENSUS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION, OCTOBER 1, 1930
5 to ? years
? to 14 years
14 to 16 years
Boys
46
222
$4
Girls
45
252
60
Total
91
474
134
Distribution :
In public school
85
346
79
In Trade School
0
0
32
In private school
3
126
Not enrolled in any school
3
2
16
Total
91
474
134
STATISTICS MEMBERSHIP BY SCHOOLS AND GRADES, DECEMBER, 1930
Name of School
Number of Grade
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Special Class Total
Stony Hill
2
4
2
5
2
15
The Pines
41
32
25
18
17
29
31
22
12
227
Wilbraham St.
5
8
10
6
13
14
14
10
80
E. Wilbraham
8
3
2
3
2
3
21
No. Wilbraham
18
10
15
11
13
12
18
9
106
Total
74
57
54
43
47
58
63
41
12
449
-
-
101
102
SCHOOL MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE 1929-1930
Name of School
Aggregate
Attendance
Average
Attendance
Total
Membership
Membership Average
Per cent of
Attendance
Cases of
Tardiness
Cases of
Dismissal
Stony Hill
2,623.5
17.65
21
15.46
91.9
27
1
The Pines :
Mrs. Simmington
5,346.5
28.67
39
29.73
96.43
3
Miss McCorrison
5,112
27.41
29
28.71
95.47
Miss McDonald
5,804
31.14
33
32.13
96.93
5
2
Mrs. Welch
5,109
27.61
31
28.66
95.52
20
Miss Egan
5,474
29.32
33
30.57
95.89
3
Miss Gennett
4,935
26.45
30
28.04
94.37
5
Miss Holland
5,041.5
28.4
30
28.22
96.54
5
Miss Terwilliger
2,441.5
13.09
17
13.71
95.47
23
4
Wilbraham St :
Mrs. Parsons
2,963.5
15.94
19
17.32
92.1
2
Miss Lindell
5,652
30.49
37
32.92
92.61
12
7
Miss Hart
3,957
21.33
34
23.98
88.9
12
15
E. Wilbraham
3,392.5
18.29
21
19.46
94
23
North Wilbraham :
Miss Kelley
3,876.5
20.95
27
22.45
93.32
12
8
Mrs. Logan
6,306
33.94
44
35.52
95.47
12
6
Mrs. Sanderson
6,427.5
34.6
44
36.99
93.7
15
2
74,462.
405.28
489
423.87
93.66
182
59
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Number of Pupils in High School, December, 1930
Central High School,
18
High School of Commerce, 20
Technical High School, 20
Myrtle Street School,
State Street Junior High School,
15
Buckingham School,
1
Ludlow High School,
2
Palmer High School,
1
Total
84
Trade School,
44
Grand Total,
128
HONOR ROLL
On Honor Roll of High and Trade Schools One or More Times During 1930
Joseph Baldwin
Lucy Lee
Dora Barcome
Mary Lyons
Barbara Berry
Ian Mackenzie
Francis Bennett
Stanley Misiaszek
Mary Bliss
Louise Morgan
Mitchel Brosch
Stanislaus Nowak
Georgia Curns
Janet Piper
Stanley Dudek
Stella Presz
Dorothy Fairchild
Arthur Putnam
Bertha Farnham
Lee Rice
Teddy Golemo
John Szczygiel
Gordon Holdridge
Michael Tupek
Dorothy Keyes
Edith Wallace
Margaret Kimball
Winifred Wallace
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Awarded Certificates by the A. N. Palmer Co., 1929-30 for Excellence in Penmanship
Josephine Bak
Julia Nowakowska
Rena Bertini
Julia Opalinska
Anna Bulat
Julia Skrzyniarz
Bertha Iwaniec
Helen Soja
John Iwaniec
Amelia Sowa
Valeria Kawa
Catherine Szczebak
Stella Kook
Helen Szewizyk
Julia Lichwala
Genevieve Walch
Celia Lisona
Stella Workum
Anna Maciaga
Adella Ziemba
Jennie Misiewicz
Nellie Ziemba
Julia Nowak
Sigmond Ziemba
Perfect Attendance, 1929-30
Herbert Butler
Roger Logan
Esther Clark
Stanley Mitus
Stanley Cyranowski
Joseph Nietupski
Mitchell Dobek
Mary Opalinska
Stanley Dobek
Beatrice Porteri
Everett Eldridge
Alphonse Sambor
Edith Farr
Dorotheen Smith
William Feranzoviz
Elizabeth Smith
Gertrude Johnson
John Smith Helen Soja
Valeria Kawa
Stanley Ziemba
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GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES, JUNE, 1930
Francis J. Bennett
Virginia A. Bottum
Eleanor A. Burgess
Esther Catherine Clark
Mitchell Joseph Cyran Everett Warner Eldridge
Blanche May Morgan Robenia Lois Myrer William C. Nagman Joseph Presz Wallace N. Rogers
Gertrude M. Soule
Rebecca Bertha Enslin
Geraldine E. Thompson
Celia K. Lisona
Carolina Urban
Richard Gibbons Logan
Stella Workum
Anna Maciaga
Nellie Ziemba
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CORPS OF TEACHERS
January 1, 1931
STONY HILL SCHOOL
LIANE S. LARAMEE, 45 Park St., Palmer
THE PINES SCHOOL
MRS. AGNES I. SIMMINGTON, Principal 9 Converse St., Palmer, Grade 8
RUTH M. GENNETT, 57 Woods Ave., Holyoke, Grade 7
SUSIE F. McCORRISON, 151 Sherman St., Springfield, Grade 6
LORETTA K. McDONALD, 24 Monroe St., Springfield, Grades 4 and 5
MRS. MABEL E. WELCH, 216 Jasper St., Springfield, Grades 2 and 3
YOLANDE A. RICHARD, 3 Fountain St., Monson, Grade 2
MARION L. HOLLAND, 218 Pearl St., Springfield, Grade 1
FERNE E. TERWILLIGER, 2 Gold St., Westfield, Special Class
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WILBRAHAM STREET SCHOOL
MRS. ELEANOR B. PARSONS, Principal, Hampden, Grades 7 and 8
ESTHER I. LINDELL,
8 Randall Ave., Springfield, Gardes 4, 5, and 6
KATHERINE A. HART,
64 Rochelle St., Springfield, Grades 1, 2, and 3
EAST WILBRAHAM SCHOOL
HELEN S. KOCHANEK, 39 Ludlow Ave., Indian Orchard
NORTH WILBRAHAM SCHOOL
MARION E. KELLEY, Principal, North Wilbraham, Grades 7 and 8
MRS. MARY G. LOGAN, North Wilbraham, Grades 4, 5, and 6
MRS. MINNIE M. SANDERSON, North Wilbraham, Grades 1, 2, and 3
SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING
MRS. HELEN B. TOWER, 23 Haskins St., Springfield
SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC
MRS. ETHEL C. MORSE, 122 Fort Pleasant Ave., Springfield
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SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
FREDERIC A. WHEELER, East Longmeadow
SUPERINTENDENT'S CLERK
EMILY O. CORMIER, East Longmeadow
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
DR. A. L. DAMON, North Wilbraham
SCHOOL NURSE
SIGNE L. POLSON, 36 Summit St., Springfield
SUPERVISOR OF ATTENDANCE
FRANK PATNAUDE, North Wilbraham
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Town Warrant
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Hampden, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden,
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Wilbraham qualified to vote in town affairs to meet in Grace Church Parish House in said Town on Monday the Second day of February next, at ten o'clock a. m. to bring in their votes for town officers and act on the following articles. Vis:
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside in said meeting.
Article 2. To choose a Town Clerk, a Town Treas- urer, one Selectman for three years who shall be a member of the' Board of Public Welfare, one Assessor for three years, five Constables, one Auditor for the ensuing year,
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one School Committee for three years, Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year, one Library Trustee for three years, one Tree Warden for the ensuing year, one Cemetery Com- missioner for three years, five members of the Planning Board, all on one ballot.
Also all other Town Officers.
Article 3. To hear and act on reports of the Select- men, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer, School Com- mittee, and other Officers.
Article 4. To fix the compensation of all elected Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Article 5. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for defraying the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same and vote how the same shall be raised.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current finan- cial year.
Article 7. To see if the Town will instruct the Select- men to prosecute any person selling or transporting intoxi- cating liquors in this Town contrary to the laws of the Commonwealth or take any action in regard to the same, or raise any money for the same.
Article 8. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Tax of 1930.
Article 9. To see if the town of Wilbraham will raise and appropriate the sum of $94.25 to settle the claim of Elizabeth Curns for damage to her automobile caused by loose gravel on Glendale road, while the road was being widened and repaired, the gravel extending beyond a tree which was then inside the road.
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Article 10 To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate money to extend the existing water main in Mount- ain road to the residence of J. Watson Flannery.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to fix the compensation of the Chief of the Fire Department at $500.00 per annum.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to accept the street known as Pineywoods Avenue as a public highway and install street lights thereon.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate money to install street lights from the present location near Glendale Church to the house of Leon J. Ben- nett.
Article 14. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of Four Thousand Dollars, ($4,000.00) to continue the permanent highway work on Stony Hill road (so called) from the Boston Road to the Springfield Road, providing the State and County furnish a like amount.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($400.00) Four Hundred Dollars, for the use of the American Legion in carrying out the following program.
(A) The proper observance of Memorial Day
(B) The care of the Memorial lots at North Wil- braham, Wilbraham and Glendale
(C) The installation of water for the purpose of caring for the grass on the World War Veterans' memorial monument at Wilbra- ham Center.
(D) For the repair of the Civil War Veterans' memorial monument at Wilbraham Center.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to have the Tax Collector collect all the bills owed the town.
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Article 17. To see if the town will instruct the School Committee to provide transportation for the children of the former No. 5 School District from their homes to and from No. 8 School who live beyond a distance of one mile from No. 8 School. .
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following Planning Board by-law;
Section 1. A board of five members is hereby es- tablished to be known as the planning board. The terms of members shall be three years, but at the annual town meeting to be held in the month of February, 1932, there shall be elected two members to serve for one year, two members to serve for two years, and one member to serve for three years, and thereafter there shall be elected at the annual meeting in each year such members as are necessary to fill vacancies.
Section 2. Vacancies otherwise occurring in the board shall be filled as provided in General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 11.
Section 3. The duties of such board shall be such as are stated in Chapter 41, Sections 70 to 72, of the Gen- eral Laws, and further to consider and advise upon muni- cipal improvements either at the request of other officials of the town or upon its own initiative. It shall consider and develop a town plan, with special attention to main ways, land developments, zoning, playgrounds and parks and sites for permanent school plants. The board shall meet at regular intervals. It may hold public meetings. It shall at all times have access to public documents or information in the possession of any town official or department. It shall examine the plans for the exterior of any public building, monument or similar feature, and for the development and treatment of the grounds about the same before the adoption thereof, and may make such recommendations thereon as it may deem needful. It may provide for public lectures
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and other educational work in connection with its recom- mendations. It may incur expenses necessary to the car- rying on of its work within the amount of its annual or special appropriations.
Section 4. All plans for laying out, extending, dis- continuing or changing the limits of any way, street, play- ground, public park or square, and every purchase of land ior the site of any public building, and all plans for the location, erection or alteration of public buildings, shall be submitted to said board for its opinion at least two weeks in advance of action by the board of selectmen or the town.
Section 5. The board shall make a report to the town annually, giving information regarding the condition of the town and plans or proposals for the development of the town and estimates of the cost therefor. Such reports shall be sent to the selectmen not later than such time in January in each year as the selectmen may prescribe or as may be prescribed by law in force relative to reports, and a copy thereof shall be filed with the Massachusetts depart- ment of public welfare.
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to accept Sec- tions 3, 4, 5, and 6 through 12, Chapter 143 of the General Laws.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to accept Sec- tion 73 of Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to accept Sec- tion 37 of Chapter 82 of the General Laws.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to accept the Zoning By-law as drawn up by the Planning Board and printed in the town report, or take any action thereon.
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Article 23. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars for the use of the Planning Board.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to appropriate money to cover the overdrawn accounts of town.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 to be expended by the Hamp- den County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in ac- cordance with the provision of the Laws of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts.
Article 26. To see what action the Town will take re- garding the appointment of a Town Director to represent the Town as a member of the Board of Directors for the Hampden County Improvement League and Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to continue the Highway work on Stony Hill Road leading from Springfield Road to Tink- ham Road.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept the roads known as Chapin Drive and Brookdale Road to the west of Stony Hill road near Springfield Street.
Article 29. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to contract for accident insurance for the mem- bers of the fire department for injuries received while on duty as fireman and raise and appropriate a sum of money for that purpose.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to extend the existing water main in Main Street southerly a distance of 1600 feet more or less, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
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And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof : one at the Post Office at Wilbra- ham, one at the Post Office at North Wilbraham and one at Glendale Church, seven days at least before the time for holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the time for holding said meeting.
Given under our hands this tenth day of January, 1931.
GEORGE E. MURPHY, Jr. W. H. McGUIRE FRED W. GREEN
Selectmen
INDEX TO CONTENTS
DEPARTMENT
PAGE
Assessors' Report 40
Auditor's Report
36
Cemetery Commissioners' Report 50
Dental Clinic
75
Fire Department Report
44
Forest Warden's Report
53
Library Trustees' Report
72
Memorial Day
56
Planning Board
57
School Committee's Report
79
Sealer of Weights and Measures Report
Selectmen's Report 14
Superintendent of School's Report 90
Superintendent of Streets' Report
25
Town Clerk's Report
6
Town Officers
3
Town Warrant 109
Treasurer's Report
31
Tree Warden's Report
52
Trust Funds 34
Water Commissioners' Report
45
REVISED BY-LAWS OF 1928
ARTICLE 1.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1.
The by-laws contained in this chapter, and in the chapters following shall be known as the "Revised By- Laws of 1928." All by-laws heretofore adopted by the Town, are hereby repealed.
A. Words importing the singular shall include the plural; words importing the plural shall include the singular ; and words importing the masculine shall include the feminine.
B. The word street shall include all public ways, town ways, squares, lanes, sidewalks and parks, or other open and public places contiguous to public and town ways.
C. The word person shall include corporations.
D. The word owner, used in reference to real estate shall include all persons, whatever their estate therein, who have a rightful estate in possession in and to such real estate.
E. Words prohibiting anything being done, except in accordance with a license or permit, or authority from a board or officer of the Town, shall be construed as giving such board or officers power to license, permit or authorize such an act.
F. Words prohibiting any act shall not be construed as prohibiting any board or officer of the town from doing such things as he or they may rightfully do in the execution of their or his powers of office.
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G. The word sidewalk shall be construed as meaning any sidewalk, foot path, bicycle path or other path commonly and generally used by pedestrians, situated outside that portion of a street commonly used by horses and vehicles for travel whether or not the same has been wrought and constructed by or under the authority of the town.
ARTICLE 2.
CONCERNING TOWN MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS
Section 1.
The warrants for all town meetings and elections shall be directed to a constable or some police officer of the town, and every town meeting and election shall be notified by posting attested copies of the warrant calling the same in not less than three public places in the town, seven days at least before the time of said meeting and election. One copy of said warrant shall be posted at the post office at North Wilbraham, one copy at the post office at Wilbra- ham, and one copy at Glendale, so-called.
Section 2.
The annual Town Meeting and election of Town of- ficers shall be held on the first Monday in February of each year. The polls shall be open from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., when they may be closed, and it shall be so stated in the warrant calling said meeting.
Section 3.
At any town meeting for the transaction of other bus- iness than the election of town officers, twenty registered voters of the town shall constitute a quorum for the trans- action of business.
Section 4.
Articles in the warrant shall be acted upon in the order
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in which they stand, except that the Moderator may, upon request and for reasons stated, entertain the motion to take up an article out of its regular order.
Section 5.
No motion, the effect of which would be to dissolve a Town Meeting, shall be in order until every article in the warrant has been duly considered and acted upon, but this shall not prevent the postponement of action on, or the con- sideration of any article to an adjournment of the meeting to a stated time.
Section 6.
At the annual town meeting in every year, when the term of office of any incumbent expires, and except when other provision is made by law, there shall be chosen by ballot from the inhabitants of the town, the following officers for the following terms of office :
A. A moderator to preside at said meeting.
B. A town clerk for one year.
C. A town treasurer for one year.
D. One Selectman who shall be a member of the Board of Public Welfare, for three years.
E. One Assessor for three years.
F. Five constables for one year.
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