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COMMITTEES APPOINTED
<br />COMMITTEES APPOINTED AT VARIOUS
<br />TOWN MEETINGS
<br />By-laws
<br />Appointed April 29, 1911
<br />• EDWIN A. BAYLEY
<br />ARTHUR L. BLODGETT
<br />CHARLES W. SWAN
<br />Committee to Confer with Assessors
<br />Appointed April 8, 1918
<br />ALBERT H. BURNHAM
<br />DANIEL B. LEWIS
<br />THEODORE A. CUSTANCE
<br />WILLIAM W. REED
<br />FREDERICK 0. WOODRUFF
<br />finance Committee
<br />Term expires in March 1920
<br />ARTHUR L. BLODGETT (Chairman)
<br />HUGH D. McLELLAK
<br />JOHN CALDER
<br />JOHN C. GRAHAM
<br />EDWARD C. STONE
<br />Term expires in March 1921
<br />WILLIAM W. REED
<br />ARTHUR W. HATCH
<br />JOSEPH W. LEONARD
<br />WILLARD C. HILL
<br />THOMAS F. FARDY, JR.
<br />Term expires in March 1922
<br />WALTER S. BEATTY
<br />CHARLES L. PARKER
<br />ALBERT H. BURNHAM
<br />JAMES G. ROBERTSON
<br />JAMES W. SMITH
<br />Collection of Garbage, Committee
<br />Appointed March 17, 1919
<br />LESTER T. REDMAN (Chairman)
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<br />ALEXANDER WILSON
<br />EDWARD H. SARGENT
<br />Deepening and Widening Vine Brook,
<br />Committee
<br />Appointed March 17, 1419
<br />JOHN C. GRAHAM (Chairman)
<br />JOSEPH SWAN
<br />EDWARD WOOD
<br />North Lexington School, Committee
<br />Appointed June 30, 1919
<br />DWIGHT F. KILGOUR
<br />GUY E. DENISON
<br />TIMOTHY IL O'CONNOR
<br />CLAR LNCE D. FULLER
<br />and
<br />THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
<br />George E. Briggs, Edward P.
<br />riam and Hallie C. Blake
<br />Corn Borer Committee
<br />Appointed Oet. 17, 1919
<br />EDWARD WOOD
<br />FRED S. PIPER
<br />ROBERT H. HOLT
<br />ARTHUR H. CARVER
<br />FREDERICK 0. WOODRUFF
<br />ERNEST W. MARTIN
<br />WILLIAM H. BURGESS
<br />ALFRED E. ROBINSON
<br />ROBERT L. R•YDER
<br />HENRY R. COMI.EY
<br />JOSEPH H. CODY
<br />PAUL W. DEMPSEY
<br />CHARLES L. PARKER
<br />WILLIAM H. BACON
<br />HARRISON E. SMITH
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<br />TOWN OF LEXINGTON
<br />In Grateful Remembrance of the Eight Men
<br />of Lexington Who Gave Their Lives
<br />In the World War
<br />RALPH AUGUSTUS COOLIDGE
<br />Son of Lumen B. and Charlottie Cool-
<br />idge; born in Somerville, Mass., October
<br />11, 1888; lived in Waltham prior to com-
<br />ing to Lexington in 1906; wan a steam -
<br />fitter and plumber. December 20, 1911,
<br />he ,enlisted with the 7th U. S. Infantry,
<br />served until December 24, 1914, of which
<br />time fourteen months were spent in guard
<br />duty along the Mexican border and seven
<br />months with the U. S. Expeditionary
<br />Force in the occupation of Vera Cruz.
<br />December 30, 1914, he again enlisted, this
<br />time at Fort Strong, Mass., and served 11
<br />Months with the 46th Co., Coast Artillery.
<br />In November, 1915, he went to Montreal
<br />where he enlisted with the 97th Battalion,
<br />Canadian Grenadier Guards, which was
<br />his third enlistment within the period of
<br />four years. He went overseas in April,
<br />1916, and served in France in the first line
<br />with the llth Brigade, was transferred to
<br />the 4th Divisional Train, l3. E. F., with
<br />which he was serving when he was fatally
<br />injured by accident while on active duty
<br />at Ypres, and died at Lazingham, France,
<br />December 2, 1917.
<br />PRANK JOSEPH DAILEY
<br />Son of John P. and Mary E. Dailey;
<br />born in Lexington, Mass., February 10,
<br />1897; lived in Lexington all his life; at-
<br />tended the Adams and High Schools and
<br />was interested in machinery and quite
<br />mechanical. He was employed by his
<br />father in the general eontracting business
<br />and was also employed as chauffeur. He
<br />entered the U. S. service in August, 1918,
<br />and was sent to Camp Jackson, near
<br />Columbia, South Carolina. He was as-
<br />signed to the Motor Department of the
<br />Heavy Artillery, Battery D, lst Regiment,
<br />Field Artillery, Replacement Depot.
<br />Soon after he reached Camp Jackson, he,
<br />with eleven others, volunteered for special
<br />overseas service and expected to sail early
<br />in October, but he was stricken with
<br />Spanish influenza, from the effects of
<br />which lie died on Oetober 14, 1918.
<br />STANLEY HILL
<br />Son of Willard C. and Clara A. Hill,
<br />horn in Somerville, Mass., December 18,
<br />1896; lived there until coining to Lexing-
<br />ton in 1905. He graduated from Lexing-
<br />ton High School, class of 1914, and was a
<br />member of the High School baseball team;
<br />entered Dartmouth College, class of 1918,
<br />where he enlisted in the 1st Dartmouth
<br />Unit, American Field Service; sailed from
<br />New York, May 6, 1917; served with the
<br />French army until the American Field
<br />Service was taken over by the U. S. in
<br />October, 1917, and then he enlisted for the
<br />duration of the war. During the second
<br />battle of the Marne, in the German of-
<br />fensive
<br />ffensive about Rheims, he was fatally
<br />wounded by a shell while driving his am-
<br />bulance, on the night of July 15, 1918,
<br />and died on August 14, 1918. He was
<br />twice decorated, first with the Croix de
<br />Guerre with Palm, and later with the
<br />Medaille Militaire. Dartmouth College
<br />has awarded his degree. The spirit which
<br />actuated him as well as all our men in the
<br />service and sacrifice then rendered was
<br />well expressed by him in a letter to his
<br />mother written on the pier in New York
<br />just before his steamer sailed, from which
<br />the following is quoted:
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