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rim MEETI1G, AUGUST 14, 1923. n regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen and Public Works war held in the Selectmen's Room, Town full, Lexington, on Tuesday, august 14, 1923 at 8 P.ai. The following members of the Board were present, namely iieerre. Scamman, Make, hutchinson, Burnham and %ioulton; the Town Clerk and the Xe:''t 2own Slerk were also present. The Town Counsel was absent. vir. Dodell of the Edieon Co, and sir. Howard -`.�iunroe came before: the Board relative to the petition of the Edison Co. for location of 12 poles on voburn St. 400 ft. east of Lowell St. .:.r. Munroe appeared at the last meeting of the 13oard and objected to this location being granted. The petition wav therefore held up. ::r. wodell explained that this was a high tension lire and that they felt they- should 'nave the location. i. -r. Liunroe claimed that the Edison Go..pany owed him a bi11 for rental of land upon which the poles were located. The Hoard requested Lir. Munroe to take this matter up with uir. Iodell and straighten out -is claim, but that they felt thie had no particular bearing upon the petition. The Board therefor voted to grant the petition. ,r. C• a. Ryan of 10 Bedford Wit. carve before the Board with the request that the Board lay a granolithic sidewalk in front of ' his house, t1r. Britton's house and �+r. 'Tobin'v houre. Lir. yan felt that thio should be done while the work on Elm live. and Bedford at, ie beinp� done by contractor John 'l. ,dales. 1r. Ryan war informed by the -Board. that they would have the Supt. of Public corks look up the appropriation and if there was sufficient in the appropriation to have the work done to do so. Kusa 3ros. of Lowell St. came before the Board with the request that they be furnished mith a two inch pipe and :peter in place of the one inch pipe now installed eo that they could get pressure from the w_.ter through the pipe.` They claimed that at prevent they were unable to water their garden crops properly. it was left with the Oupt. of Fublic Works to look into this matter and install a two inch pipe and meter vo that they could. f;et better -�,ater service. Theodore H. Custance, urairman of the Board of %F-eesore, came before the Board and stated that the r.esessore department .,ould have to close dorm unless they got some money. The Board were all in favor of a transfer from the he -nerve round and consulted with Charles P. Tvunn, John L. h. W.ulliken and +Yilliam S. Stickel of the appropriation �o=dttee, who were all in favor of the transfer. It was, therefore, voted by the appropriation Com .ittee that j500 be transferred from the Reserve Fund. to the rieveseors ticcount. There appears to be $500 more needed to run thio department for the balance of the year and for that amount an article v,ill be placed in the ,arrant for the to;Nn meeting. Letter was received from the Breck-Robin:lon hurnery Co. asking the Board to write to the Boston Laine RR. Co. requesting them to place signal signs at the crossing near the r,unroe Station as re-