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32 located on Waltham Street, a real estate office and sign nine feet by nine feet for a period of two years, , under the Lexington Zoning Law or in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 27A of the General Laws and amendments. The hearing will be held on May 18, 1934 at 8:00 P.M. at the Selectmen's Office, Town Office Building, bexington, Mass. Arthur N. Maddison, Chairman, Board of Appeals. The Chairman declared the hearing open upon the application of James A. Guthrie of 24 Taft Avenue for permission to erect a community club on Baker Avenue, at 8:20 P.M. The Clerk read the notice of the hearing. Mr. Guthrie representing the Liberty Heights association stat6d that they were applying for permission to erect a club house on Baker Avenue. He presented a petition signed by those in favor of the erection of the clubhouse, also plan of the proposed club house which was to.be 24 feet by 44 feet in dimension. He stated that this community club up to last Novembdr was previously the Liberty Heights Improvement Association in existence for the past:twenty years, since November 1913. During those twenty years as an improvement , association it has been a great help to that community, in times when the town was not equipxed as it is today. During the years 1913 to 1919 they expended $1200 out of their own pockets for work done in that community. Last November they decided to abolish the old organization and rename it the Liberty Heights Community Club in order to create more social interest. Mr. Guthrie explained that there are about 150 houses in that neighborhood and that the `'club would be practically isolated from the rest of the town in this neighborhood, and would create more social interest in that neighborhood. There are'two churches that have two groups and this club would be a place where other organizations could have their socials. He did not think that there was any other organization that did as much as this club has done. The Club always holds an outing for the women and children in the neighborhood and supplies everything free of cost. The club is not incorporated. The land was going to be given by one of the members of the organization and everything else except materials will be free gratis as the labor in connection with the building, plumbing, electrical work, roofing and shingling, will be done by the members. They will only have to buy the lumber and materials and they have started a`building fund.by subscription through which they expect to realize about ' X400.