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31"7 SPECIAL MEETING, YfiY 40 1926. �. A` spetlial meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in' the Seleotmen�s Roan, Town Hall, Lexington on Tuesday, May 40 19269 at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Custance, Burnham, Miles, Robertson, and .Ballard were present; the Superintendent of Public Works and the clerk were Also present. P Attention Was called to the fact %hat the permit granted to John C. Phelps to maintain a garage for the storage for cars and Bales and service station on Bedford Street also gave him permission to install inside of the building, a 500 gallon gasoline tank, Mr. Phelps requested that this permit be changed so that his ineur- anee rates would be lower, thereby saving him about $50.00 per year. It was therefor voted to grant Mr. Phelps permission to install the galaoline tank outside of the- building on the side entrance. Abatement slip for the Water Department in the amount of $61.92 was signed by the Board. A 1+ tger was reoeived from Fred W. Miller of Winthrop Road in which he enclosed photographic copy of letter received from his attorney giving opinion that Mr. Miller was entitled to damages on account of the stagnant water on his property. In the warrant for the Town Meeting, May 12, request is being ' made for an appropriation to cover the cost of the drainage work in this section. Mr. Miller was informed to this effect. Mr. Pitt F. Drew, President of the Middlesex & Boston St. Ry. Co., having been requested to come before the Board to discuss what action his company is willing to take to give service on the State Road to the parties desiring same and who were present at the hearing a week ago, appeared at 8:30 P.M. quite unexpected a number of residents in the vicinity of the State Road again appeared before the Board to request that the Lovell Bus Line, Inc, be given permission to operate their busses on the State Road. Mr. Lovell together with his attorney, Mr. Howard, also appeared, as did Dr. Glazier, repre- sentative.of the Hudson Board of Trade. The Board again adjourned to Cary Hall so that all persons present could be seated. Mr. Edward S, Payson, resident of the State Road, spoke very favorably toward the proposition of the Lovell Bus Line. Jospeh R• Cotton called upon the Lovell Bus Line, Inc. to give statements of what they intended to do, and Mr. Howard informed the meeting that they proposed to run hourly from Concord to Arlington Heights and to give art express service of from four to six trips a day from Leominster, to Arlington Heights, the first bus to leave Arlington Heights at 6:30 in the morning and the lest bus at 11:45 at night. He stated that they would not agree to place busses on for two or three months and then re- port that they did not pay, but, on the other hand, were willing to guarantee that they would give service for some time to cane. Keil McIntosh Again urged the necessity of the line over the State Road to Arlington Heights. Dr. Glazier also urged that the Selectmen consider the towns above them and give this throw++ service. He presented a written statement from the Hudson Board of Trade urging that the Lovell Bus Line be granted a permit. Mr. Drew states' that he was not ready to make a proposition to the Board relative to service, but desired to know what the Selectmen wanted