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OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
Town of Lexington
For the Year 1918
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TOWN OF LEXINGTON
LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS
FROM
March, 1918 to March, 1919
Town Clerk
CHARLES W. SWAN
Selectmen
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN (Chair-
man) '20
JAY 0. RICHARDS '19
WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21
Overseers of the Poor
WILLIAM B. FOSTER (Chairman)
,21
JAY 0. RICHARDS '19
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN '20
Road Commissioners
JAY 0. RICIIARDS (Chairman) '19
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN '20
WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21
Board of Survey
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN (Chair-
man) '20
JAY 0. RICHARDS '19
WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21
Assessors
GEORGE H. JACKSON (Chairman)
'20
FREDERICK J. SPENCER '19
HENRY E. TUTTLE '21
Town Treasurer
GEORGE D. HARRINGTON
Collector of Taxes
BYRON C. EARLE
Cemetery Committee
ARTHUR A. MARSHALL (Chair-
man) '21
LESTER E. SMITH '19
GEORGE W. SPAULDING '20
Town Accountant
CHARLES F. PIERCE
Board of Health
DR. WILLIAM L. BARNES (Chair-
man)
Chaimman) '20
CHARLES H. FRANKS '19
WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21
School Committee
GEORGE E. BRIGGS '10
EDWARD P. MERRIAM '20
HALLIE C. BLAKE '21
Park Commissioners
DR. J. ODIN TILTON (Chairman) '19
EDWARD WOODS '20
WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN '21
Water and Sewer Commissioners
EDWARD H. MARA (Chairman) '20
ALBERT B. TENNEY '19
WILLIAM H. BURGESS '21
Trustees Public Trusts
F. FOSTER. SHERBURNE '20
FRANK D. PEIRCE '22
JOHN F. TURNER '24
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Tres Warden
ALFRED E. ROBINSON
Moderator
EDWIN A. BAYLEY
Constables
CHARLES H. FRANKS
PATRICK J. MAGUIRE
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Fence Viewers
FRANK P. CUTTER
CHARLES E. WHEELER
CHARLES H. SPAULDING
Field Drivers
WILLIAM F. FLETCHER
PATRICK J. MAGUIRE
Surveyors of Lumber
FRANK P. CUTTER
EDGAR W.HARROD
Planning Board
FREDERICK L. EMERY '19
S. LEWIS BARBOUR '20
DR. FRED S. PIPER '21
CHRISTOPHER S. RYAN '19
HOWARD S. 0. NICHOLS '20
EDWARD T. HARTMAN '21
APPOINTED OFFICERS
Almshouse, Superintendent and Matron
MR. AND MRS. ROBERT H. WHITE
Animal Inspector
DR. HARRY L. ALDERMAN
Assistant Town Clerk
HELEN C. GALLAGHER
Bridge Charitable Fund Trustees
F. FOSTER SHERBURNE '20
FRANK D. PEIRCE '22
JOHN F. TURNER '24
Building Inspector
WILLIAM GRATTO
Burial Agent
ARTHUR A. MARSHALL
Burial Permit, Agent to Issue
CHARLES W. SWAN
Cary Memorial Library, Board of Trus-
tees
THE SELECTMEN
THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
THE SETTLED CLERGYMAN OF
THE TOWN
Cary Memorial Library, Librarian
MISS MARIAN P. KIRKLAND
Cary Memorial Library, Assistants'
MISS HELEN E. MUZZEY
MISS KATHERINE BUCK
MISS DOROTHY B. WENTWORTH
MISS EMMA 0. NICHOLS (East
Lexington Branch)
Cary Memorial Library, Janitor
FRANK E. CLARKE
Cary Memorial Library, Treasurer
ROBERT L. RYDER
Constable
CHARLES E. WHEELER
Fire Engineers
EDWARD W. TAYLOR (Chief)
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN
BYRON A. RUSSELL
Forest Warden
OSBORNE J. GORMAN
Fumigator
ARTHUR A. MARSHALL
Gammeli Legacy Income, Trustees Act-
ing with Overseers of Poor
LHS. WILLIAM W. REED
MRS. ARTHUR C. WHITNEY
APPOINTED
Lockup Keepers
CHARLES H. FRANKS
THOMAS C. BUCKLEY
Measurer of Grain
MOSES F. WILBU R
Measurer of Wood, Bark and Manure
HENRY W. PRESTON
GEORGF R TEAGUE
Milk Inspector
ANDREW BAIN
Moth Department Superintendent
OSBORNE J. GORMAN
Moth Department Supervisor
WILLIAM 5. SCAMMAN
Odorless Cart, Charge of
ERNEST W. MARTIN
Police Officers
CHARLES IH FRANKS
Chief)
PATRICK J. M A G U TRE
JAMES 7. SULLIVAN
JAMES IRWIN
WILLIAM F. FLETCHER
THOMAS C. BUCKLEY
WALTER H. KEW
JOHN C. RUSSELL
EDWARD C. MAGUIRE
Police (Park)
JOHN J GARR•ITY
Police (Special)
MARIA DODD
FRED W. JOHNSON
CLIFTON E. WALKER
WILLIAM P. WRIGHT
GEORGE S. TEAGUE
EDWARD W. TAYLOR
THOMAS F. FARDY
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN
ALECK OHLSON
JOHN CAMPBELL
CHARLES A. MANLEY
THOMAS F. GRIFFIN
VERNON C. PAGE
GEORGE CRAWFORD
FRANK E. CLARKE
(Acting
OFFICERS 5
JOSEPH TROPEANO
CHARLES G. RICHARDS
JOHN G. FITZGERALD
DEXTER M. WHITEHILL
WALTER S. BEATTY
JOHN E. KELLEY
Plumbing Inspector
ANDREW BAIN
Registrars of Voters
CHARLES F. NOURSE (Chairman)
'20
BARTHOLEMEW D. CALLAHAN
'19
DAVID F. MURPHY '21
CHARLES W. SWAN (Clerk)
Sealer of Weights and Measures
CHARLES E. HADLEY
Slaughtering Inspectors
DE. HARRY L. ALDERMAN
CHARLES H. BUTTERFIELD
Stone Building Janitor
JOHN E. GARMON
Street Supervisor
ROBERT H. WHITE
Town Engineer
J. HENRY DUFFY
Town Hall Janitor
JOHN E. KELLEY
Town Physician
DR. HENRY C. VALENTINE
Town Scales Superintendent
WILLIAM E. DENHAM
Undertakers
'ARTHUR A. MARSHAL
JAMES F. McCARTHY
Village Hall Janitor
WILLIAM P. WRIGHT
Water and Sewer Department, Superin-
tendent and Registrar
CHARLES S. BEAUDRY
Water and Sewer Department, Clerk
FLORENCE M. BOYE
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Weigher of Beef
WILLIAM E. DENHAM
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Weighers of Coal
WILLIAM E. MUI,TJTZFN
GEORGE S. TEAGUE
JOHN E. A. MUT LIKEN
GEORGE F. TEAGUE
JACOB BIERENBROODSPOT
Weighers of Hay and Grain
MOSES F. WILBUR
ROBERT E. HANAFORD
FRED W.' GIVEN
Weighers (Public)
WILLIAM E. DENHAM
GEORGE F. TEAGUE
GEORGE S. TEAGUE
WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN
JACOB BIERENBROODSPOT
Weigher at Stone Crusher
MISS L. T. WHITING
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
COMMITTEES APPOINTED AT VARIOUS
TOWN MEETINGS
By-laws—
EDWIN A. BAYLEY
ARTHUR L. BLODGETT
CHARLES W. SWAN
Committee to Confer with Assessors—
ALBERT H. BUIRNHAM
DANIEL B. LEWIS
THEODORE A. CUSTANCE
WILLIAM W. REED
FREDERICK 0. WOODRUFF
Finance Committee
Term expires in March 1920
ARTHUR L. BLODGETT (Chair-
man)
HUGH D. MaLELLAN
JOHN CALDER
JOHN C. GRAHAM
EDWARD C. STONE
Term expires in March 1919
EDWARD T. HARTMAN
JOHN P. DAILEY
GEORGE H. CHILDS
JOHN E. A. M1JUJKEN
W. ROGER GREELEY (Secretary)
Term expires in March 1921
WILLIAM W. REED
ARTHUR W. HATCH
JOSEPH W. LEONARD
WILLARD C. HILL
WALDO P. GLIDDEN
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TOWN OF LEXINGTON
ROLL OF HONOR
Names of Lexington Residents who
have served in the United States or Al-
lied Forces in the World War.
In order that the following list may
be as complete and accurate as possible
and of value for historical purposes, it
is requested that everybody carefully
read it and notify the Town Clerk nt
once o£ any names that may have been
omitted or incorrectly given.
Names
Abramson, Charles
Adams, Norman I, Jr.
Armstrong, Katherine
Armstrong, Robert, W.
Ashley, Harold C.
Austin, Howard B.
Baker, Edward W.
Basher, Maurice
Bashian, Aram M.
Benson, Leonard V.
Bigelow, Helen
Blake, Charles M.
Blodgett, James I -I.
Bornstein, Albert R.
Bornstein, Jaeob
Boutwell, Fred A.
Bowman, Edson H.
Bramhall, Eugene K.
Briggs, Henry
Briggs, Russell
Broderic, Hubert D.
Broderick, James W.
Broughall, Stephen
Brousseau, Harry W.
Brown, Ames T.
Brown, Ronald D.
Bryant, Robert E.
Buckle, William G.
Buckley, Eugene T.
Buckley, Joseph W.
Buckley, Matthew H.
Buckman, Bowen
Burgess, George P.
Enlisted
.Tune 5, 1917
Ang. 23, 1917
Aug. 1918
Jr. - Sept. 11, 1918
Sept. 3, 1918
May 1917
May 14, 1918
Oct. 4, 1017
Oct. 24, 1918
July 8, 1918
Nov. 25, 1917
Oct. 17, 1018
Oct. 22, 1918
Aug. 6, 1918
Jan. 30, 1918
Dee. 14, 1917
Oct. 18, 1918
July 1917
Jan. 5. 1918
May 1917
Dec, 28, 1917
Dec. 8, 1917
April 1917
Oct. 1, 1918
Aug. 23, 1917
Dee. 20, 1916
Juh• 17, 1917
Sept. 20, 1917
In all cases when the date of enlist-
ment is incorrect or not given, it is re-
quested that correct and missing dates
be given the Clerk at once. It is also
urged that the date of discharge be sent
the Town Clerk as soon as possible.
The State authorities also urge that
all names and dates be secured if pos-
sible.
Names
Burke, Frank E.
Burke, Leon A.
Burnham, Laurence H.
Butterfield, Laurence D.
Cady Harold E.
Campbell, Edward 0.
Canty, Dennis
Carroll, Edward P.
Casella, 8ebastiano
Cashman, John J.
Cassidy, Edward M.
Cataldo, Antonio N.
Chatfield, Harold B.
Clapp, Roger S.
Clark, Philip M.
Coburn, Charles L.
Cohen, Samuel D.
Collier, Christopher W. Rev.
Colon, Gordon L.
Comeau, Chester R.
Comley, George E.
Comley, Lester 1".
Conway, James P.
Cook, Charles W.
Cook, Lloyd S.
Cook, Roy A.
Coolidge, Ralph A.
Corbin, Daniel S.
Cosgrove, John T.
Cotton, Henry C.
Cotton, Joseph R.
Cowdrey, Frank E.
Cronin, Timothy P.
Crosby, Lillian
Crowther, Stuart F.
Currier, Ralph C.
Cutter, Ernest F.
Cutting, Winthrop B.
Dacey, John H.
Dailey, Frank J.
Dalrymple, Ralph F.
Dalrymple, William E.
Darling, Alfred D.
Davis, F. Langdon
Day, George B.
Dean, Winthrop
Denham, Elmer B.
DeVeau, Leo E.
Doe, Freeman C.
Douglass, James Loring
Earle, Arthur H.
ROLL OF HONOR
Enlisted
April 20, 1917
Der. 12, 1917
Nov. 5, 1918
July 20, 1918
July 25, 1917
Jiuie 5, 1918
Dee. 18, 1917
Oct. 4, 1917
April 29, 1918
May 9, 1917
May 20, 1918
Oet. 1910
April 16, 1917
April 20, 1917
Dee. 4, 1917
July, 10, 1917
Aug. 20, 1917
Aug. 1017
Jan. 16, 1918
July 25, 1917
Oct. 22, 1918
July 22, 1918
Sept. 3, 1018
Sept. 8, 1917
Nov. 1915
Sept. 20, 1917
Jan. 17, 1918
May 29, 1918
June 22, 1918
.Tune 4, 1917
.l.pril 27, 1918
Sept. 5, 1917
Sept. 1917
Oct. 1, 1918
Aug. 26, 1918 .
Dee. 12, 1017
April 19, 1916
June 2, 1917
.Tnly 30, 1918
Sept 29, 1917
Feb. 20, 1917
June 5, 1917
Aug. 5, 1917
Out. 20, 1917
Dee. 9, 1917
Oct. 2, 1917
9
Discharged Dec. 17, 1918
Died Dee. 2, 1917
Discharged Dec. 14, 1918
Died Oct. 14, 1918
10
Names
Eaton, George E.
Eaton, Ralph C.
Emery, Leland H.
Emery, George W.
Enowsky, Adam
Esposito, Domenico
Fardy, Joseph L.
Ferguson, Roy A.
Perry, Anthony
Ferry, Jesse S.
Fitzgerald, Thomas E.
Fowler, Clarence D.
Fox, Fred Joy
Freeman, Sidney A.
Gaffney, James J.
Garmon,Roland E.
Geraghty, Michael
Gleason, Clarence H.
Goulding, Edward
Graham, Louis H.
Grant, Robert 11.
Grose, Archie H.
Hadley, Earle L.
Hall, Edwin S.
Hall, Harold S.
Hall, Harry J.
Hall, Norman P.
Harding, Marston
Harmon, Roy V.
Harrington, Herbert E..
Hayden, J. Willard, Jr.
Haynes, Frank E.
Haynes, Warren E.
Headley, Domaine C.
Hennessy, Win. A.
Hill, Converse
Hill, Stanley
Hokanson, Arthur E.
Holt, Robert H.
Hossfield, James H.
Hubbell, Roger K.
Hubbell, Richard Van A.
Huntington, Fred D.
Isnor, Ernest S.
Jackson, C. Henry
Jamieson, William D.
Jensen, Irving C. P.
Johnson, Eric A.
Johnson, Fred W. Jr.
Johnson, Richard F.
asteno, Karlo
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Enlisted
Aug. 5, 1917
Sept. 5, 1918
Oct. 9, 1918
July 31, 1917
Dec. 13, 1917
May 21, 1918
July 30, 1917
Oct. 15, 1918
Sept. 10, 1918
Oct. 10, 1918
Dec. 15, 1917
Dec. 19, 1917
Sept. 20, 1917
June 3, 1918
May 1, 1917
Oct. 4, 1917
June 6, 1918
May 27, 1918
May 17, 1918
July 9, 1918
July 31, 1918
Oct. 1, 1918
April 19, 1918
Nov. 1, 1918
June 23, 1916
May 29, 1918
April 9, 1918
Nov. 6, 1918
Oct. 6, 1917
July 7, 1918
Nov. 14, 1917
June 1917
Oct. 1917
July 25, 1917
May 18, 1917
Dee. 8, 1917
Aug. 1914
Oct. 10, 1918
Discharged Dec. 9, 1918
Died Aug. 14, 1918
Names
Kenealy, William
Kelley, Thomas P.
KettelI, Russell H.
Kilgour, Walter M. 8.
Lacava, Salvatore
Lassoff, Samuel
Lawrence, Warren B.
Leary, Joseph R.
Le Blanc, Ferdinand
Lee, Michael
Lennon, Edward J.
Lewis, G. Parker
Libbey, Sam R.
Locke, Clayton G.
Locke, Winthrop W.
Lougee, William P.
Love, John 1).
Lowe, Henry E.
Lyons, John W.
Mabey, Edson R.
MaeFarland, Samuel H.
Mader, Ellard C. R.
Maderias, Anthony H.
Maguire, Edward C.
Mann, Ernest L.
Manning, Harold E.
Mansfield, Frank
Marciano, Alfred
Mark, Rev. John W.
Marshall, William J.
Martin, William F.
Matthews, George W.
MeAvoy, Daniel
McCoubrey, Walter W.
McDonagh, John
McDonald, Herbert L.
McDonnell, Michael E.
McDonnell, Patrick H.
McDonnell, Timothy C.
McGann, Joaeph C.
McGreal, Dominick
McGrory, Edward
McIsaac, John
McKearney, James A.
McKearney, John F, Jr.
McKenzie, James L.
McLalan, Edgar Roy
McLaughlin, Patrick
McNamara, Edward J.
Merriam, Gordon P.
Merriam, Robert C.
ROLL OF HONOR
Enlisted
Aug. 24, 1917
June 29, 1918
July 22, 1918
July, 5, 1918
Jan. 3, 1918
April 20, 1917
Sept. 20, 1917
July 18, 1917
July 22, 1918
Sept. 25, 1917
Aug. 13, 1917
June 1917
Jan. 5, 1918
July 25, 1917
Dee. 13, 1917
May 29, 1018
Oet. 23, 1917
Oct. 4, 1917
Oct. 1, 1918
Mar. 26, 1918
July 6, 1917
April 28, 1917
Oct. 24, 1918
July 1917
April 8, 1917
Sept. 6, 1917
April 5, 1917
Sept. 2, 1918
Sept. 20, 1917
Nov. 4, 1918
July 13, 1918
Aug. 5, 1918
July 22, 1918
Dee. 10, 1917
July 25, 1918
May 29, 1918
Sept. 20, 1917
Dec. 8, 1917
Sept. 1917
Sept. 20, 1917
Mar. 29, 1918
March 27, 1918
July 30, 1917
July 11, 1917
Aug. 17, 1917
11
Died Jan. 31, 1918
Died Oct.. 18, 1918
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Names
Meyer, Martin J.
Mitehie, George A. Aug. 5, 1917
Montague, Edward J. May 26, 1917
Montague, Thomas
Moore, Harold F. Dee. 12, 1917
Moore, Walter K. Sept. 21, 1917
Mugridge, Charles H. Oct. 4, 1917
Murphy, William F. July 1, 1918
Nelles, Philip A. Jr. April 4, 1918
Norris, Harold A. July 15, 1918
Norton, Thomas K. Oct. 4, 1917
Nunn, Harold M. May 21, 1918
Nunn, Wellington C. April 6, 1918
O'Connell, Charles J. April 29, 1918
O'Connell, David F. Jr. Sept. 25, 1917
O'Connor, Edward B. Nov. 11, 1918
O'Connor, James R. Nov. 4, 1918
O'Connor, John E. July 13, 1918
O'Connor, William Sept. 6, 1918
Olson, Adolph M.
O'Neil, James E. June 16, 1917
O'Neil, William June 1914
Owen, Arthur S. June 4, 1918
Page, Carl A. July 18, 1918
Page, Vernon C. Jnne 13, 1918
Parks, Alexander W. July 6, 1918
Parks, Helen A. Mar. 17, 1915
Parks, Joseph A. Sept. 20, 1917
Parks, Kathleen C. May 7, 1918
Pauley, Herman A. Dec. 23, 1917
Picarid, Raffaele
Piceriello, Vincenzo Aug. 26, 1918
Pfeiffer, Albert
Pierce, Harold C.
Pierce, Irving B.
Prentiss, Russell I.
Preston, Jerome
Preston, Richard G.
Preston, Roger
Ready, Aaron B.
Reed, Harry B. Sept. 1917
Reynolds, Joseph L.
Reynolds, Patrick J. Aug. 1918
Reynolds, Stephen H. Mar. 15, 1918
Riee, Joseph J.
Riley, Charles W. Sept. 20, 1917
Riley, William J. Dec. 26, 1917
Robb, Guy I. Sept. 24, 1917
Robinson, Vernon T. June 20, 1917
Rouse, Richard E. Oct. 1, 1918
Rudd, John Jr. July 5, 1918
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Enlisted
Nov. 1912
Aug. 5, 1917
Nov. 5, 1917
Feb. 19, 1917
March 15, 1915
July 14, 1918
Discharged Dec. 16, 1918
Discharged Dec.. 14, 1918
Discharged Dec. 31, 1918
Died Jan. 28, 1918
Names
Rudd, Thomas F.
Russell, Edward B.
Russell, Galen A.
Ryan, George V.
Sachetti, John F.
Saul, Herbert W.
Saul, Milton E.
Sears, Morris T.
Sebastian, P.
Seltzer, Max
Sherburne, Richard R.
Sherburne, Thomas R.
Smith, Frank C.
Smolenski, A.
Sorensen, Oscar
Spaulding, Edwin H.
Spicer, Donald
Spicer, Rolf
Stacey, Robert H.
Stabler, George A.
Stickel, Paul J.
Stevens, Rupert H.
Stone, C. L.
Stone, Elbridge L.
Sturtevant, Leon J.
Sullivan, Frank
Swain, William D.
Swan, Walter
Sylvia, Matthew V.
Thompson, George N.
Thompson, Maurice R.
Thurlow, Rev. George L.
Tibbetts, John M.
Tibbetts, Perly C.
Tilton, Gardner
Tobin, Frank H.
Tobin, Raymond
Tower, William R.
Tu11ar, Frederick H.
Tupper, Hugh C.
Tyler, Winsor M.
Viano, Ernest E.
Viano, Eugene J.
Viano, Fred N.
Wadleigh, John W.
Walker, Alton M.
Walley, Harold G.
Walsh .lames J., M. D.
Walsh, Joseph T.
Waters, Joseph
Watt, Charles H.
ROLL OF HONOR
Enlisted
Dee. 12, 1917
Oct. 21, 1918
June 28, 1918
May 1917
July 1917
Oet. 23, 1918
Aug. 27, 1918
Aug. 5, 1918
Aug. 5, 1917
Sept. 5, 1918
Mar. 26, 1918
Nov. 6, 1918
July 22, 1918
May 20, 1917
April 20, 1917
May 8, 1918
Sept. 23, 1917
Aug. 26, 1918
May 21, 1917
Sept. 20, 1917
Dee. 13, 1917
July 16, 1917
Oct. 8, 1917
Dec. 7, 1917
Oct. 5, 1917
June 10, 1918
Jan. 1, 1918
Jan. 22, 1914
Oct. 7, 1917
Oet. 10, 1918
Oet. 24, 1918
Ort. 4, 1917
Sept. 3, 1918
May 29, 1918
Dee. 7, 1917
Feb. 26, 1918
Dec. 14, 1917
June 5, 1918
June 23 1916
June 16, 1917
Dec. 12, 1917
Nov. 22, 1917
May 15, 1918
13
Discharged Nov. 7, 1918
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Names
Welib, Edmund A"
Webb, Melville W.
Webster, Gordon W.
Webster, Walter F.
Wellington, Herbert L.
Wellington, Samuel W.
White, Warren R.
Whitney, Robert
Wiggins, James A.
Wiggins, Joseph H.
Wilson, Donald
Wilson, George S.
Wilson, Leo H.
Woodhouse, John Joseph
Woodhouse, Richard F.
Woodhouse, Robert W.
Woodman, Ralph C.
Woodruff, F. Scott
Wright, Wallace W.
Zintschuk, Marfian
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Enlisted
Dee. 14, 1917
Oct. 25, 1917
July 1915
Oct. 1917
June 3, 1917
Sept. 20, 1917
Oct. 1, 1918
May 11, 1917
June 14, 1917
June 14, 1917
July 25, 1917
Dee. 13, 1917
Dee. 1, 1917
Aug. 6, 1918
Oct. 5, 1918
July 3, 1918
April 16, 1917
April 28, 1917
Discharged Jan. 25, 1918
WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To either of the Constables of the Town
of Lexington, in said County.
Greeting:—
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to noti-
fy the inhabitants of the Town of Lex-
ington, qualified to vote in elections and
in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall
in said Lexington on Wednesday, the
thirtieth day of January, A. D., 1918,
at seven -thirty o'clock P. M., then and
there to set on the following articles
Art. 1. To receive the report of any
Board of Town Officers or of any Com-
mittee of the Town for the action there-
on, and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To see if the town will author-
ize their Treasurer under the direction
of the Selectmen, to borrow money for
any necessary purposes, in anticipation
of revenue for the current year, the
same to be repaid directly from the pro-
ceeds of said revenue or act in any man-
ner relating thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will make
an additional appropriation sufficient to
pay the amounts awarded by the County
Commissioners to Katherine H. Wood,
Thomas Coyle, Norman J. Hingley,
Mathews Shalelis, J. Newton Frost, Leo-
pold Grubis and Edith F. Lenk for lands
taken by said Commissioners for a town
Cemetery, said appropriation also to in -
elude expenses incidental to the taking
of said property, and to determine the
method by which the money shall be
raised, whether by the issue of bonds or
otherwise, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Middlesex, as.
Art. 4. To see if the town will make
an appropriagon sufficient to meet the
cost of additional insurance, and the re-
newal of insurance from time to time,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 5. To see if the town will au-
thorize the Selectmen to employ a town
counsel and vote to appropriate money
for this purpose, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the town will vote
to determine the salary of the Town Ac-
countant and appropriate money for the
same, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due re-
turn of this Warrant with your doings
thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before
the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington,
this sixteenth day of January, A. D.
1918.
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN
JAY 0. RICHARDS
WILLIAM B. FOSTER
Selectmen of Lexington.
Lexington, Mass., January 28, 1918.
To the Town Clerk: ---
I have notified the inhabitants of Lex-
ington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing warrant in the Post Office,
and in five (5) other public plaees in
the town, and by mailing a printed copy
of the same to every registered voter in
the town, eight days before the time of
said meeting.
Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER,
Constable of Lexington.
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TOWN OF LEXINGTON
TOWN MEETING
January 30, 1918
The meeting was called to order by
the Moderator. The Clerk proeeeded to
read the warrant, but upon motion
of William S. Scamman itwas voted
that the further reading be omitted.
The Clerk then read the return on the
warrant.
Art. 2. On motion of Jay 0.:Riehards,
it was Voted that the Town Treasurer
with the approval of the Selectmen he
and hereby is authorized to borrow
money from time to time in anticipation
of revenne of the present municipal year
to an amount not exceeding in the ag-
gregate $150,000.00 at a rate of interest
not to exceed 6% per annum, and to is-
sue a note or notes therefor parable
within one year. Any debt or debts in-
curred under this vote to be paid from
the revenue of the present municipal
year.
Art. 3. On motion of William S.
Scamman, it was Voted that an addition-
al sum of $10,000.00 he appropriated to
pay the amounts awarded by the County
Commissioners to Katherine H. Wood,
Thomas Coyle, Norman, J. llingley,
Mathews Shalalis, J. Newton Frost, Leo-
pold Grubis and Edith F. Lenk for lands
taken by said Commissioners for a Town
Cemetery, and for expenses incidental
to the taking of said property, and for
the purpose of raising the money so
appropriated the Town Treasurer be and
hereby is authorized to issue and sell,
under the direction and with the approv-
al of the Selectmen negotiable eonpon
bonds of the town in serial form to the
aggregate principal sum of $10,000.00
to bear interest at a rate not to exceed
6% per annum payable semi-annually
and payable both principal and interest
in gold coin of the United States of Am-
erica of the present standard of Freight
and fineness, such bonds to be signed by
the Treasurer and countersigned by a
majority of the Selectmen with the ma-
turities so arranged that $1000 of the
principal will fall due and payable in
1910 and 81000 annually thereafter until
said loan is paid in full.
2-1 voted in favor and 0 against.
Art. 5. On motion of Arthur L. Blod-
gett, if was Voted that the Selectmen
he and are hereby authorized to employ
Town Counsel and fix the compensation
of such ofllcer and further voted that the
stuff of $550 is hereby appropriated and
assessed for compensation and expense
of said office, and farther voted, That
the appointment of the Town Counsel
:and the affairs and management of his
o1Tlce shall he snhject to the following
•onditions :----
See. 1. Except as otherwise provided
by law, or by vote of the town, at a meet-
ing duly called for the purpose, the
Board of Selectinen shall have the full
mid exclusive authority as agents of the
ton n to institute, prosecute, defend, com-
promise and settle all claims, suits and
actions brought by or against the town,
provided, however, that no suit, claim
or action by or against the town, unless
redueed to the form of an execution or
decree of court, shall be compromised or
settled by the payment of any sum of
money in excess of $300.00, without a
special vote of the town therefor.
Said hoard shall also have authority
as agent of the town to appear person-
ally or by counsel before any court, com-
mittee of the Legislature, or any state
or county board or commission, but such
authority shall not authorize said board -
to commit the town to any course of ac-
tion without a special vote of the town
therefor.
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
Seo, 2, The Board of Selectmen shall
annually and prior to the first day of
May appoint some attorney-at-law as
general town counsel, who shall serve
for the term of one year and until his
successor is appointed.
Said board may, whenever it deems
necessary, employ special town counsel
to assist the general town counsel. Such
town Counsel shall receive for services
such compensation as said board may de-
termine. The town counsel both special
and general, may }ie removed at the plea-
sure of said board, provided, however,
that before such removal becomes effect-
ive, the Board of Selectmen shall file with
the Town Clerk a written statement set-
ting forth the speeific grounds for such
removal.
See. 3. 'l'he Town Counsel shall give
advice and furnish opinions on such le-
gal subjeets and questions as may he
submitted to them by any Town officer,
board, Commission or committee upon
any legal matter relating to their official
duties, and no town officer, board, com-
mission or committee shall, at the ex-
pense, or in behalf of the town, employ
or be represented by any other than the
ton counsel.
See. 4. The general town ensinsel shall
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annnally, and not later than the fret
day of Jannary in each year, make a re-
port in writing to the Board of Select-
men of al] actions brought by or against
the town during the preceding fiscal year.
Such report shall show the full name of
each plaintiff and of each defendant, the
nature and amount of the claims of such
actions, whether the same are still pend-
ing and if settled the terms of such set-
tlements; such report shall be printed in
the annual town report.
Sec. 5. The general town eonnsel shall
not, during his term of office, be a mem-
ber of any elective board, commission
or committee of the town.
Art. 6. On motion of Jay O. Richards
it was Voted that the salary paid the
Town Aecountant be fixed at the rate of
$1200.00 per year, and further voted
that the suns of :':1200.00 he appropriated
and assessed on aeeonnt of salary for
1918.
Art. 4. On motion of William S.
Seamman it was Voted that the sum of
$3300.00 is hereby appropriated and as-
sessed to meet the cost of additional in-
surance and for the renewal of insurance
expiring the current year.
Meeting dissolved at 8.20 P. M.
TOWN WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To either of the Constables of the Town
of Lexington, in said County,
Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to
notify the inhabitants of the Town of
Lexington, c1uaLified to vote in elections
and in town affairs to meet in the Town
Hall in said Lexington, on Monday, the
fourth day of March, A. D., 1918, at
seven o'eloek, A. M., then and there to
act on the following articles:
Art. 1. To ehoose by ballot the fol -
Middlesex es.
lowing town officers: One Town Clerk
for the term of one year; one Selectman
for the term of three years; one Over-
seer of the Poor for the term of three
years; one Road Commissioner for the
term of three years; one Assessor for the
term of three years; one Town Treasurer
for the term of one year; one Collector
of Taxes for the term of one year; one
Auditor for the term of one year; one
Water and Sewer Commissioner for the
term of three years; one member of the
Cemetery Committee for the term of
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three years; one member of the School
Committee for the term of three years;
one member of School Committee for
one year to fill a vacancy; one member
of the Board of Health for the term of
three years; one Park Commissioner for
the term of three years; one Tree War-
den for the term of one year; two Con-
stables for the term of one year; one
Moderator for the term of one year; one
Trustee of Public Trusts for the term
of six years.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote
for or against granting licenses for the
sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer to
the question: "Shall licenses be granted
for the sale of intoxicating liquors in
this town?"
Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote
to accept Chap. 23, General Acts of 1917
being "An Act to provide for the licens-
ing of coffee houses, so called," to take
effect in any town upon its acceptance
by vote of the town at any anneal town
meeting or at any special meeting duly
called for the purpose, and in any city
upon its acceptance by the city council
with the approval of the mayor.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote
to accept Chap. 254, General Acts of
1917, being "An Aet to authorize cities
and towns to pay to their employees who
enlist in the service of the United States
the difference between their military and
their municipal compensation," to take
effect upon its acceptance in towns by
the voters thereof at any regular or spec-
ial town meeting, and in cities upon its
acceptance by the mayor and city coun-
cil.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote
to accept Chap. 140, General Acts of
1917, amending Chap. 291, General Acts
of 1916 being "An Aet relative to the
tenure of office of chiefs of fire depart-
ments in the Metropolitan Fire Preven-
tion District," to take effect upon its
passage (April 3, 1917) in such cities
and towns as have accepted the provi-
sions of said Chapter 291, General Acts
of 1916, or in which the provisions of
the civil service Iaws are already applic-
able to said chief. But in all other cities
and towns included in the fire preven-
tion distriat the question of accepting
said Chapter 291, as amended by said
Chapter 140, General Acts of 1917, shall
be submitted to the voters of said cities
and towns at their next respective muni-
cipal elections or town meetings and
shall take effect in any such city or
town upon its acceptance by a majority
of the voters voting thereon.
Art. 6. To sec if the town will vote
to accept Chapter 327 of the Acts of
1904, being an Act entitled, "An Act
to provide for the pensioning of perman-
ent members of Police Department and
Fire Departments in towns."
The election officers will receive votes
under Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, on the
official ballot prepared by the Town
Clerk.
The polls will be opened as soon as
possible after the organization of the
meeting and may be kept open until five
P. M. In compliance with Article III of
the By -Laws as amended January 29,
1900, business under the following Arti-
cles will he transacted at an adjourned
meeting to be held Monday evening,
Mareh 11, 1918, unless the adjourned
meeting shall by unanimous vote, be or-
dered for some other specified time.
Art. 7. To receive the report of any
Board of Town Officers or of any Com-
mittee of the Town for action thereon,
and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 8. To choose such Town Officers
as are required by law and are usually
chosen by nomination.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will make
an appropriation for the proper observ-
ance of Memorial Day, to be expended
under the direction of Post 119, Grand
Army of the Republic..
Art. 10. To provide for the support
of the Public Schools the ensuing year,
and grant money for the same.
Art. 11. To provide for the support
of the poor at the AIms House the en-
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suing year, and grant money for the
same.
Art. 12. To provide for the support
of the Outside Poor the ensuing year,
and grant money for the same.
Art. 13. To provide for the support
of the Highways the ensiling year, and
grant money for the same.
Art. 14. To provide for the support
of the Street Lights the ensuing year,
and grant money for the same.
Art. 15. To provide for the support
of the Fire Department the ensuing
year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will make
the usual appropriations for Town ex-
penses the ensuing year, not specified in
other articles, or act in any manner re-
lating thereto.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will in-
struct the Selectmen to improve the con-
dition of the Town Hall grounds, and
make an appropriation for this purpose,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will make
an appropriation to construct sidewalks
with concrete or other materials where
the abutters will pay one-half the ex-
pense thereof.
Art. 19. To see if the Town will make
an appropriation for the suppression of
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths in accord-
ance with Chap. 381, Acts of 1905 and
amendments thereto, or act in any man-
ner relating thereto.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will ap-
propriate a sum of money for the use of
the Finance Committee, or take any ac-
tion relating thereto.
Art. 21.
To provide for the support of the
Public Parks for the ensuing year, and
grant money for the same, or act in any.
manner relating thereto.
Art. 22.
To see if the Town will make further
appropriations of money for the sup-
pression of insects, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 23.
To see if the Town will vote to abolish
the office of Auditor in accordance with
the terms of Chapter 624 of the Acts of
1910, or take any action relating thereto.
Art. 24.
To see if the Town will vote to accept
an extension of Muzzey Street from
Forest Street to Vine Brook, and also
two parcels of land situated at each cor-
ner of the present Muzzey Street and
Forest Street, all as laid out by the Se-
lectmen for highway purposes, or act in
any manner relative to the acceptance of
said extension or pareels.
Art. 25.
To see if the Town will vote to accept
a relocation of Locust Avenue from
Massachusetts Avenue to Tower Street
and also an extension of Locust Avenue
from Tower Street to Fallen Road as laid
out by the Seleetmen for highway pur-
poses, or act in any manner relative to
said relocation or extension,
Art. 26.
To see if the Town will vote to create
a Planning Board of six members in ac-
cordance with Chapter 283 of the Acts
of 1914 and amendments thereto, or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 27.
To see if the Town will vote to elect
a Planning Board to consist of six mem-
bers as follows: -Two members for the
term of one year, two members for the
term of two years and two members for
the term of three years, and annually
thereafter two members for the term of
three years.
Art. 28.
To see if the Town will authorize the
Selectmen to purchase or take by right
of eminent domain a parcel of land on
Waltham Street, the same being the
promises on which the Stone Crusher is
located and adjacent thereto, and ap-
propriate money for this purpose, or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 30.
To see if the Town will make an ap-
propriation for the purpose of laying out
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and developing the New Cemetery, or
act in any manner relative thereto.
Art. 31.
To appropriate such sums as may be
needed for any or all of the purposes of
the Water Department, including the
payment of liabilities incurred in meet-
ing the extreme emergencies lately aris-
ing through the freezing of ►nater mains,
which involved the life and safety of
the people and their property; to pro-
vide for the raising of said sums by cur-
rent assessment, by issuance or bonds or
notes of the Town, or by any one or
more of such means; and to take any
other or further action related to the
raising of money for the use of the De-
partment, whether by borrowing or other-
wise.
Art. 32.
To see if the Town will vote to appropri-
ate money to widen and deepen the
brooks in the Town so as to obtain bet-
ter surface drainage, the same to be ex-
pended by the Water and Sewer Com-
missioners or take any other action re-
lating thereto.
Art. 33.
To see if the Town will make an ap-
propriation to provide funds for the
payment of pensions to retired town
veterans under Chapter 447 of the Acts
of 1912, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 34.
To see if the Town wilt vote to es-
tablish building lines on any of the
streets in the Town, and determine on
what streets said building lines shall be
established, and appropriate a sum of
money sufficient for this purpose or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 35.
To see if the Town will make an ap-
propriation sufficient to meet the re-
quirements of Chapter 254 of the Gen-
eral Acts of 1917 provided said Chapter
is accepted by this Town or act in any
manner relating thereto.
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Art. 36,
To see if the Town will make an ap-
propriation for the maintenance of the
Town Engineer's Department or act in
any manner relating _thereto.
Art. 37.
To see if the Town will vote to appro-
priate and assess an amount of money
to be used as a Reserve Fund, as pro-
vided by Chapter 645, Acts of 1913, or
take any action relating thereto.
Art. 38.
To see if the Town will by vote trans-
fer any unexpended loan or revenue bal-
ances, where the purpose of the original
appropriation has been completed, or
act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 39.
To see if the Town will vote to approp-
riate and assess money to provide for the
following overdrawn accounts, as of De-
cember 31, 1917, or act in any manner
relating thereto;
Overlay 1917 on account of
Abatement of Taxes of
1917
Printing and Certification
Bonds
Forest Fires
Snow Removal
Interest
$450.13
of
178.05
196.82
259.72
233.78
Art, 40.
To see if the Town will by vote, pro-
vide that from and after December 31,
1918, all unexpended balances remain-
ing after the purpose for which an ap-
propriation has been made, has been ae-
eomplished, shall be credited to an ac-
count on the books of the Town to be
designated "General Revenue and Sur-
plus Account," with the exception of
balances of loan appropriations and
balances to the credit of the Water and
Sewer Departments; also to provide that
ail income and revenue accruing to or
received by any department of the Town,
from any source, excepting all income
and revenue accruing to the Water or
Sewer Departments, shall be similarly
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credited to said "General Revenue and
Surplus Account," from and after Jan-
uary 1, 1919, or act in any manner re-
lating thereto.
Art. 41.
To see if the Town will make an ap-
propriation to fit up a room in the base-
ment of the Town Hall for the use of the
Milk Inspector, and provide proper
equipment for the same, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 42.
To see if the Town will make an ap-
propriation for the salary and expenses
of the Milk Inspector, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 43.
To see if the Town ■Fill make an ap-
propriation for the salary of the Plumb-
ing Inspector, or act in any manner re-
lating thereto.
Art. 44.
To see if the Town will make an ap-
propriation for the salaries of the In-
spectors of Slaughtering, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return
of this Warrant, with your doings there-
on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the
time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington,
this twentieth day of February, A. D.,
1918.
WILLIAM SCAMMAN,
JAY O. RICHARDS,
WILLIAM B. FOSTER,
Selectmen of Lexington.
Lexington, March 1, 1918.
To the Town Clerk:
I have notified the inhabitants of
Lexington by posting printed copies of
the foregoing warrant in the Post Once
and in five other public places in the
Town, and by mailing a printed copy of
the same to every registered voter in
the Town, seven days before the time of
said meeting.
Attest:
CHARLES E. WHEELER,
Constable of Lexington.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
March 4, 1918
The meeting was called to order by
the Moderator at seven o'clock A. M.
The Clerk proceeded to read the war-
rant, but upon motion of William S.
Scamman it was voted that further read-
ing be omitted. The return of the Con-
stable was then read.
Charles G. Kauffman, James A. Hur-
ley, Ralph H. Marshall and John J. Gar-
rity were sworn as Ballot Clerks.
The polls were declared open.
The Moderator was obliged to leave
and appointed William S. Seamman as
Moderator pro tem. Alston M. Redman,
William C. O'Leary, Fred E. Butters,
John J. Mandigo, Bartlett J. Harring-
ton, Samuel B. Bigelow, Wallace E. Mil-
ler and Nathaniel Nunn were sworn as
Tellers.
At 1.30 o'clock 200 ballots were taken
from the ballot box; at 4.05 o'clock 100
ballots were taken out, and at the close
of the polls at five o'clock 27 ballots
were removed from the box, making a
total of 327 votes east at the election.
Eleven women voted for School Com-
mittee.
At 5.50 o'clock P. M., the Clerk an-
nounced the result as follows:
Town Clerk
Charles W. Swan
Charles P. Nourse
300
1
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22
Dennis Reardon 1
Blanks 25
Charles W. Swan was declared elected.
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Selectmen for. Three Years
William B. Foster
Blanks
William B. Foster
elected.
was
285
42
declared
Overseer of the Poor for Three Years
William B. Foster
Patrick Mulvey
Blanks
William B.
elected.
274
1
62
Foster was declared
Road Commissioner for Three Years
271
1
55
declared
William B. Foster
Patrick Mulvey
Blanks
William B. Foster
elected.
was
Assessor for Three Years
Henry E. Tuttle
Wm. Roger Greeley
Blanks
Henry E. Tattle was declared elected.
Town Treasurer for One Year
George D. Harrington
Frank Holmes
Patrick Mulvey
Blanks
George D. Harrington
elected.
267
1
59
Collector of Taxes
Byron C. Earle
Patrick Mulvey
Blanks
Byron C. Earle was
287
1
1
38
was declared
for One Year
293
1
33
declared elected.
Auditor for One Year
C. F. Pierce
Frank Holmes
Sidney Wrightington
D. B. Lewis
A. C. Washburn
Blanks
2
1
1
1
1
321
Water and Sewer Commissioner
Three Years
William H. Burgess
John Devine
Patrick Mulvey
Blanks
William H.
elected.
Cemetery Committee for Three Years
Arthur A. Marshall
Patrick Mulvey
Blanks
Arthur A. Marshall
elected.
Burgess
was
for
270
1
1
55
declared
270
1
56
was declared
School Committee for Three Years
Millie C. Blake 291
Blanks 47
Hallie C. Blake was declared elected.
School Committee for One Year
(To Fill Vacancy)
George E. Briggs 285
Blanks 53
George E. Briggs was declared elected.
Board of Health for Three Years
William B. Foster
J. Alexander Wilson
Patrick Mulvey
Blanks
William
elected.
B. Foster
Park Commissioner for
William E. Mulliken
Philip A. Nelles
Blanks
William E. Mulliken
elected.
Tree Warden for
Alfred E. Robinson
Blanks
Alfred E. Robinson
elected.
was
266
1
1
59
declared
Three Years
255
1
71
was declared
One Year
255
7
was declared
Constables for One Year
Charles H. Franks
Patrick J. Maguire
266
267
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
Patrick Mulvey 1
Blanks 120
Charles H. Franks and Patrick J.
Maguire were declared elected.
Moderator for One Year
Edwin A. Bayley 264
Patrick Mulvey 1
Blanks 62
Edwin A. Bayley was declared eleeted.
Trustee of Public Trusts for Six Years
John F. Turner 263
Blanks 64
John F. Turner was declared eleeted.
Shall license be granted for the sale
of intoxicating liquors in this Town,
Yea 85
No 226
Blanks 16
The Town voted no license.
Shall the Town accept Chapter 23,
General Acts of 1917, being "An Act
to provide for the licensing of coffee
houses, so called'?"
Yes 128
No 74
Blanks 125
The Town accepted Chapter 23, Gen-
eral Acts of 1917.
Shall the Town accept Chapter 254,
General Acts of 1917, being "An Act
to authorize cities and towns to pay to
their employees who enlist in the serv-
ice of the United States the difference
between their military and their muni-
cipal compensation?"
23
Yes 162
No 95
Blanks 70
The Town accepted Chapter 264, Gen-
eral Acts of 1917.
Shall the Town accept Chapter 140,
General Acts of 1917, amending Chapter
291, General Acts of 1916, being "An
Act relative to the tenure of office of
Chiefs of Fire Departments in the Met-
ropolitan Fire Prevention District,"
Yes 120
No 79
Blanks 128
The Town accepted Chapter 140 Gen-
eral Acts of 1917.
Shall the Town accept Chapter 327,
of the Acts of 1904, being "An Act to
provide for the pensioning of perman-
ent members of Police Departments and
Fire Departments in Towns,"
Yes 174
No 114
Blanks 39
'the Act was notaccepted two-thirds
having failed to vote for acceptance.
Meeting adjourned.
Lexington, March 8, 1918.
This is to certify that 1 have this day
appointed Helen C. Gallagher, Assistant
Town Clerk of Lexington, and that she
has been sworn to perform the duties of
said office to the best of her knowledge
and ability.
Attest:
CHARLES W. SWAN,
Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING
March 11, 1918
The meeting was called to order by
the Moderator at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
The Chairman of the Selectmen stated
that because of reasons beyond the con-
trol of the Selectmen, the Annual Town
Reports were not ready for delivery, and
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he therefore suggested that all articles
asking for an appropriation be put off
until a later meeting.
Art. 26. Creation of PIanning Board.
On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was
Voted, that a Planning Board be created
in accordance with Chapter 283 of the
Acts of 1914 and amendments thereto,
said Board to eonsist of six members,
two members to be elected for the term
of one year, two members to he elected
for the ter1n of two years and two mem-
bers for the term of three years, and
annually hereafter• in the month of
March two members shall he elected .fur
the term of three years.
Vote passed unanimously at 7.47 P. M.
Art. 27. On EIeetion of Planning Board.
On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was
Voted, that the Moderator appoint A
nominating eoniunittee of three citizens
who shall Irving before this Town fleet-
ing before its final adjournment n list
of names front which six members of the
Planning Board may be elected.
Vote passed unanimonslr at 7.51 P. M.
The Moderator appointed the follow-
ing committee: Jay O. Richards, Frank
D. Peirce, Edward 73. Ifara.
Art. 23.
On motion of William S. Scamman,
it was unanimously voted that the of-
fice of Auditor be abolished.
Vote passed at 7.53 P. M.
Art. 17
On motion of William S. Scamman it
was unanimously voted that this article
relative to the improvement of the Town
Hall Grounds be indefinitely postponed.
Vote passed at 7.56 P. M.
Major AIfred Pierce read a letter
from Governor McCall urging all towns
to exercise strict economy in making ap-
propriations for town expenses.
Art. 28.
On motion of Jay O. Richards it was
LEXINGTON
unanimously voted that this article rela-
tive to the purchase or taking of land
now occupied by the Stone Crusher be
indefinitely postponed.
Vote passed at 7.58 P. M.
Art. 34.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett it
was unanimously voted that this article
relative to the establishment of Build-
ing Lines be indefinitely postponed.
Vote passed at 8.00 P. M.
Art. 8. Minor Town Officers.
The following were elected as Fence
Viewers:
f'l,arles H. Spaulding
ilba ries H. Wheeler
Frank F. Fletcher
:1s Field Drivers
Patrick J. Maguire
William H. Fletcher
As Surveyors of Lumber:
Edgar W. Harrod
Frank P. Cutter
Locust Avenue
William S. Scamman presented a mo-
tion provided for the relocation and ex-
tension of Locust Avenue to Pollen
Road.
Mr. Scamman also offered a report for
the Seleetmen describing the Iayout and
lines of the relocation and extension.
- On motion of Edward P. Merriam it
was voted that the report be accepted
and placed on file. A vote was taken on
Mr. Seammon's motion to accept the
relocation and extension and the same
was defeated at 8.32 P. M.
At 8.38 o'clock on motion of Jay O.
Richards, it was voted to adjourn to
Monday evening, March 25, 1918, at
7.30 P. M.
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING
March 25, 1918
The meeting was called to order by
the Moderator at 7.34 P. M.
Art. 38. Transfer of Balances.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was Voted, that the following loan and
appropriation balances be transferred,
on the books of the Town, and placed
to the credit of the appropriation for
Town Debt, as follows:
Loan Balances, viz:
School House Construction
New Stone Crusher
New Fire Apparatns
New Sehool House Fund
Total
Appropriation Balances,
Committee on New Cemetery
Contingent
Repairing Mass. Ave.
New fire Hose
Preserving Plans
Protecting Burial Grounds
Fittings, Town Vault
Valentine Fund
Committee on Highways
Total
$27.35
13.43
.37
415.20
$456.35
viz:
$52.03
1,286.72
164.77
15.00
5.91
222.00
11.50
381.00
500.00
$2,638.93
It was also Voted, That the appropri-
ation balance of $54.04 be transferred
from the account of Auditor, and cred-
ited to account Town Accountant Sup-
plies.
Vote passed at 7.40 P. M.
Art. 31. Water Department Appropria-
tion.
On motion of Edward H. Mara, it was
Voted, that for payment of liabilities
incurred by the Water Department, in
meeting the extreme emergency lately
arising through the freezing of water
mains and connections in Lexington,
which involved the life and safety of
the people and their property, and for
Water Departmental Equipment, the
Treasurer, under the direction and with
the approval of the Selectmen, is hereby
authorized to issue and sell at not less
than face value and accrued interest,
three negotiable promissory notes of the
'Pawn for one thousand five hundred dol-
lars each, bearing interest ata rate not
exceeding six per rent per annum, paya-
ble semi-annually, and with maturities so
arranged that one note wilt become pay-
able in the year 1519, one in 1920, and
the third in 1921; each such note be
payable, both principal and interest, in
United States gold coin of the present
standard or weight and fineness.
And further Voted, that the Treasurer
be and he is hereby directed, as pay-
ments are tnade on said notes, whether
for interest or principal, to charge the
same against the then current revenue of
the Water Department; it being intend-
ed hereby to provide that the notes shall
be paid out of the earnings of the de-
partment.
92 voted in the affirmative and 1
against.
Vote passed at 8.00 P. M.
Art. 32.
Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be ap-
propriated and -assessed to be expended
under the direction of the Board of
Water and Sewer Commissionera for the
purpose of deepening, widening and
straightening the various brooks of the
Town, or any of them.
Vote passed at 8.07.
Art. 7. Committee Reports.
Jay 0. Richards submitted the follow-
ing report for the committee appointed
at the last meeting:
The Committee appointed under Ar-
ticle 27 to nominate a list of names
for the Planning Board begs to submit
the following names as its selection:
Two Members for One Year
Frederick L. Emery 3 Stetson St.
Christopher S. Ryan 10 Bedford St.
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Two Members for Two Years
B. Lewis Barbour 54 Hancock St.
Howard S. 0. Nichols 19 Hayes Ave.
Two Members Tor Three Years
Dr. Fred S. Piper 20 Clark St.
Edward T. Hartman Locust Ave.
Respectfully submitted,
J. 0. RICHARS,
EDWARD H. 1 EARA,
FRANK D. PEIRCE.
On motion of William S. Scamman,
it was voted that the report be accepted
and placed on file.
Art. 10. School Appropriation.
On motion of Hallie C. Blake, it was
Voted, that the sum of $59,750.00 be
appropriated for the support of the
Public Schools during the ensuing year,
to be made up as follows:
Net balance on hand Jan. 1, 1918 $78.91
Estimated Revenue 3,500.00
To be assessed 56,171.09
Total $59,750.00
Vote passed at 8.13.
Art. 14.
Voted, that the sum of $10,000.00 be
appropriated for maintenance of Street
Lights, to be made up as follows:
Balance Dec 31, 1917 $448.84
To be assessed 9,551.16
Total $10,000.00
Vote passed at 8.15.
Art. 27. Election of Planning Board.
On motion of Jay. 0. Richards, it was
unanimously Voted, that the Town now
proceed to elect by ballot six members
of the Planning Board as follows: Two
members for one year, two members for
two years and two members for three
years.
It was also voted that ballots be dis-
tributed and that the Moderator appoint
Tellers to collect and count the votes.
Edwin B. Worthen, George W. Spauld-
LEXINGTON
ing and Everett S. Emery were accord-
ingly appointed.
After the ballots had been counted,
Mr. Worthen announced the result as
follows:
Two Members for One Year
Frederick L. Emery
Christopher S. Ryan
Two Members for Two Years
S. Lewis Barbour 123
Howard S. 0. Nichols 144
Two Members for Three Years
Dr. Fred S. Piper 151
Edward T. Hartman 130
The above were declared elected.
Various persons each received a few
votes for the several terms.
Result announced at 10: 21 o'clock.
Art. 18. Sidewalk Appropriation.
On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was
unanimously Voted, that the aum of
$1,441.71 be appropriated for Sidewalks,
to be made up as follows:
Balance Dee. 31, 1917 $941.71
To be assessed 500.00
148
150
Total $1,441.71
Vote passed at 8.49 P. M.
Art. 11. Almshouse Appropriation.
On motion of William B. Foster, it
was Voted, that the sum of $1,034.67 be
appropriated for Support of Poor, to be
made up as follows:
Balance Dee. 31, 1917
To be assessed 800.00
$234.67
Total $1,034.67
Vote passed at 9.39.
Henry L. Stone made an unsuccessful
attempt to have the Town take different
care of the inmates.
Art. 39. Overdrawn Accounts.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was Voted, that the sum of $1,318.50 be
appropriated and assessed to provide for
overdrawn accounts, as follows:
Overlay 1917 on account of
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
Abatement of Taxes of 1917
Printing and Certification of
Bonds
Forest Fires
Snow Removal
Interest
Total
Vote passed at 9.41.
Art. 12. Outside Poor.
On motion of William B. Foster, it
was Voted, that the sum of $5,700.00 be
appropriated for Outside Aid, to be made
up as follows:
Balance Dec. 31, 1917
To be assessed
$460.13
178.05
196.82
259.72
233.78
$1,318.50
$2,566.81
3,133.19
Total $5,700.00
Vote passed at 9.43.
Art. 9. Memorial Day.
On motion of Charles G. Kauffman,
it was Voted, that the sum of $250.00
be appropriated and assessed for the
proper observance of Memorial Day to
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be expended under the direction of Post
119, G. A. R. of this Town.
Vote passed at 9.44.
Art. 19. Moth Department Appropria-
tion.
On motion of William 8. Seamman, it
was Voted, that the sum of $7,190.00 be
appropriated for Moth Department, to
be made up as follows:
Balance Dee. 31, 1917 $1,140.22
To be assessed 6049.78
$7,190.00
Of this aenouut $3,394.08 is for the
town's liability.
Vote passed at 9.50.
Art. 24. Muzzey Street.
Chairman Scamman presented a re-
port giving the boundaries and layout
of Massey Street extension.
It was voted that the report be re-
ceived and placed on Me.
Vote passed at 10:18.
At 10.22 it was voted to adjourn for
two weeks at 7.30 P. M.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING
April 8, 1918
The meeting was called to order by
the Moderator at 7.31 o'clock P. M.
Art. 15. Fire Department Appropria-
tion.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was unanimously "Voted that the sum
of $13,620.00 be appropriated for the
Fire department to be made up as fol-
lows:
Balance
To be assessed
$77.46
13,542.54
$13,620.00
to be expended under the direction of
the Board of Fire Engineers."
Vote passed at 7.33 o'clock.
Art. 29. Layout of New Cemetery.
On motion of Jay O. Richards, it was
unanimously Voted, that the Cemetery
Committee and the Town Planning Board
be appointed a committee to lay out and
develop the New Cemetery and that the
sum of $1,000.00 is hereby appropriated
and assessed for that purpose."
Vote passed at 7.34 o'clock.
Art. 36. Town Engineers Appropriation.
On motion of William S. Seamman it
was unanimously Voted, that the sum
of $4,000.00 be appropriated for the
Town Engineer's Department, to be
made up as follows:
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Balance Dee. 31, 1917
To be assessed
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
$260.02 To be made up as follows:
3,739.98 Balanee on hand
To be assessed
$4,000.00
Vote passed at 7.49 o'clock.
Art. 21. Park Department Appropria-
tion.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was unanimously Voted, that the sum of
$2,800.00 be appropriated for Park De-
partment for the ensuing year, to be
made up of:
Balance on hand $11.77
To he assessed 2,788.23
$2,800.00
Vote passed at 7.51 o'clock.
Art. 13. Highway Appropriation.
On motion of Jay O. Richards, it was
unanimously Voted, that the sum of
$34.075.00 be appropriated for the High-
way Department, to be made up as fol-
lows:
Balance Dee. 31, 1917
To be assessed
Vote passed at 8.20 o'clock.
Art. 16. Miscellaneous Appropriations.
On motion of Arthur L. BIodgett, the
following votes were passed:
Voted, that the sum of $105.13 be ap-
propriated for the eelebration of April
19, 1918, to be made up as follows:
Balance on hand $58.13
To be assessed 50.00
$1,0055.79
$33,069.21
$34,075.00
$108.13
Voted, that the sum of $2,200.00 be
appropriated for the Assessors for the
ensuing year as follows:
For salaries
For other expenses
$1,900.00
300.00
$2,200.00
$48.82
2,151.18
$2,200.00
Voted, that the sum of $3,327.41 be
appropriated and assessed on acoount of
the income deficit from bank and cor-
poration tax for 1917.
Voted, that the sum of $150.00 be
appropriated and assessed for the Bacon
Real Estate expenses for the ensuing
year.
Voted, that the sum of $2,000.00 be
appropriated for the Board of Health
for the ensuing year, to be made up as
follows:
Balance on hand $128.40
To be assessed 1,871.60
$2,000.00
Voted, that the sum of $212.75 be
appropriated for the Board of Survey
for the ensuing year, to be provided by
the balance on hand of $212.75.
Voted, that the sum of $4,200.00 be
appropriated for the Cary Memorial
Library for the ensuing year, to be made
up of:
Balance on hand
To he assessed
$5.98
4,194.02
$4,200.00
Voted, that the sum of $980.00 be ap••
propriated for Cemeteries for the ensu•
ing year, to be made up of :
Balance on hand $214.22
To be assessed 765.78
$980.00
Voted, that the sum of $87.50 be ap-
propriated for Clerk of School Commit-
tee for the ensuing year, to be made
up of:
Balance on hand $37.50
To be assessed 50.00
$87.50
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
Voted, that the sum of $1,916.94 be
appropriated for the collection of taxes
for the year 1918, to be made up as
follows:
Unexpended balance on hand,
Jan. 1, 1918 $116.94
To be assessed
1,800.00
$1,916.94
$1,500 of this total amount should be
for the Collector's salary for 1918.
Voted, that the sum of $50.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for Dog Officer
for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $660.00 be ap-
propriated for Elections and Registra-
tions for the ensuing year, to be pro-
vided as follows:
Balance on hand $39.95
To be assessed 620.05
$660.00
Voted, that the sum of $750.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for Extinguish-
ing Forest Fires for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $5.00 be appro-
priated and assessed for Hastings Park
for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $2,000.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Hydrants
for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $525.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Inspector
of Buildings for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $600.00 be
appropriated for Inspector of Cattle for
the ensuing year, to be provided as fol-
lows:
Balance on hand $16.67
To be assessed 583.33
$600.00
Voted, that the sum of $782.00 he
appropriated for Inspector of Meats and
Provisions for the ensuing year, to be
provided as follows:
Balance on hand
To be assessed
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$10.00
772.00
$782.00
Voted, that the sum of $11,227.13 be
appropriated and assessed for Interest
on Town Debt for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $4,212.60 be
appropriated and assessed for general
interest payments for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be
appropriated and assessed for legal ex-
pense for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $25.00 be appro-
priated and assessed for Licenses and
Permits for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Overseers
of the Poor for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $9,600.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Police De-
partment for the ensuing year, to be
made up of:
Balance on hand $676.02
To be assessed
8,923.98
$0,600.00
Voted, that the sum of $600.00 be
appropriated and assessed for printing
town report for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $150.00 be
appropriated for the Sealer of Weights
and Measures for the ensuing year, to
be made up as follows:
Balance on hand $19.74
To he assessed
130.26
$150.00
Voted, that the sum of $1,800.00 be
appropriated for the Selectmen for the
ensuing year to be made up of:
Balance on hand
To be assessed
$583.78
1,216.22
$1,800.00
Voted, that the sum of $800.00 be
appropriated for Stone Building for the
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ensuing year, to be made up of:
Balance on hand
To he assessed
$210.50
725.78
$800.00
Voted, that the sum of $2,000.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Snow Re-
moval for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for Road Com-
missioners for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $1,500.00 be
appropriated for Town Clerk for the en-
siling year, as follows:
For salary
For other expenses
To be made up of:
Balance on hand
To be assessed
$1,400.00
100.00
$210.50
1,289.50
$1,500.00
Voted, that the sum of $43,150.00 be
appropriated for Town Debt for the en-
suing year, to be made up:
Amount transferred from loan
balances $2,638.93
Amount transferred from ap-
propriation balances 456.35
To be assessed 40,054.72
Voted, that the sum of $3,085.00 be
appropriated for Town Hall for the en-
suing year, to be made up of:
Balance on hand
To be assessed
$36.30
3,048.70
$3,085.00
Voted, that the sum of $109.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for Town Phy-
sician for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $1,450.00 be
appropriated for Town Treasurer for the
ensuing year, as follows:
For salary
For other expenses
81,100.00
350.00
To be made up of:
Balance on band
To be assessed
$42.24
1,407.76
$1,450.00
Voted, that the sum of $76.00 be ap-
propriated for the Treasurer of the Cary
Memorial Libray for the ensuing year, to
be made up of:
Balance on hand
To be assessed
$25.00
50.00
$75.00
Voted, that the sum of $750.00 be
appropriated for Tree Warden for the
ensuing year, to be made up of:
I3alanee on band
To be assessed
$149.87
600.13
$750.00
Voted, that the sum of $75.00 be ap-
propriated for the Trustees of Public
Trusts for the ensuing year, to be made
up as follows:
Balance on hand
To be assessed
$5.00
70.00
$75.00
Voted, that the sum of $25.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for the Town
Scales for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum. of $200.00 be ap-
propriated for the Town Accountant
Supplies for the ensuing year, to be made
up:
Amount transferred from ac-
count Town Auditor
To be assessed 145.96
854.04
$200.00
Voted, that the sum of $200.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for Unclassified
Expense for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 31
appropriated for Village Hall for the en -
ening year, to be made up of:
Balance on hand $39.24
To be assessed 260.76
$300.00
Voted, that the sum of $75.00 be appro-
priated for Vital Statistics for the en-
suing year.
Voted, that the sum of $400.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for Vocational
School Tuition for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $100.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for Watering
Troughs for the ensuing year.
Voted, that the sum of $25.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for the use of
the Planning Board, said money to be
spent under the direction of said Board.
Art. 31. Water Department Appropria-
tion.
On motion of Edward H. Mara, it was
unanimously voted, That for payment of
liabilities incurred by the Water Depart-
ment in meeting the extreme emergency
lately arising through the freezing of
water mains and connections in Lexing-
ton, which involved the life and safety
of the people and their property and for
Water Departmental Equipment, there
be appropriated and assessed the sum of
forty-five hundred dollars ($4,500.00)
and that the Town Accountant be and
he hereby is authorized to charge the
same against the current revenue of the
Water Department at the rate of fifteen
hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per year for
the years 1919, 1920 and 1921 respec-
tively. It being intended hereby to pro-
vide that the payment of the foregoing
liabilities be made from the earnings of
the Water Department.
And. further Voted, That the vote
passed at the adjourned Town Meeting,
held March 25th, 1918, which provided
for the payment of liabilities herein-
above mentioned, be and the same is
hereby rescinded.
Vote passed at 9.40 o'clock.
Art. 7.
Voted, that the Moderator appoint a
committee of five to confer with the
Board of Assessors on the matter of se-
curing a more uniform valuation of real
estate for assessment purposes and re-
port to the town. Committee is as
follows:
Albert H. Burnham, Theodore A. Cus-
tance, Daniel B. Lewis, William W.
Reed, Frederick 0. Woodruff.
Art 24. Extension of Muzzey Street.
On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was
Voted that the layout of an extension
of Muzzey Street from Forest Street to
Vine Brook and also the Iay-out of two
parcels of Iand, situated at each corner
of the present Muzzey Street and Forest
Street, all as laid out by the Selectmen
for highway purposes be approved and
accepted, and that said extension and
parcels be and are hereby established as
a public way of this town in accordance
with a plan, entitled "Plan of Muzzey
Street Extension and Relocation of
Forest Street at its junction with Muz-
zey Street, Lexington, February, 1918,
Scale 1 inch 20 feet, J. Henry Duffy,
Town Engineer," and further voted, that
the sum of $225.00 be appropriated and
assessed for this purpose.
Vote passed at 10.39 o'clock.
Art. 33. Veterans' Pensions.
On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was
Voted, that $842.40 he appropriated for
Veterans' Pensions, to be made up as
follows:
To be assessed, $842.40.
Vote passed at 10.41 o'clock.
On motion of William S. Seamman, it
was voted to adjourn for one week at
7.30 o'clock.
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ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING
April 15, 1918
Meeting ealled to order at 7.47
o'clock. -
Art. 22. Suppression of Insects.
On motion of William S. Scamman, it
was "Voted, that the sum of $800.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Suppres-
sion of Inserts, to be spent under the
direction of the Moth Department."
Vote passed at 8.00 o'eloek.
Art. 16. Insurance.
Voted, that the sum of $12.64 be ap-
propriated for Insm'ance to be provided
by balance unexpended $12.64.
Art. 16.
Voted, that the sum of $657.57 be ap-
propriated for Repairs of Stone Build-
ing to be provided by balance un-
expended $657.57.
Art. 16.
Voted that the sum of $669.88 be ap-
propriated for Repairs of Town Hall,
to be provided by balance unexpended
*669.88.
Art. 7.
W. R. Greeley Secretary of the Com-
mittee on Improved Form of Town Gov-
ernment submitted a report for the com-
mittee and asked that the committee be
discharged.
It was voted that the report be re-
ceived and placed on file.
Art. 30.
Voted that the sura of $200.00 is here-
by appropriated and assessed for the use
of the local company of the State Guard,
the same to be expended under the direc-
tion of the Selectmen.
Vote passed at 8.20 P. M.
Art. 20. Finance Committee Appropri-
ation.
Voted, that the sum of $150.00 be ap-
propriated for the Finance Committee
for the onauing year, to be made up as
follows:
Balance on hand
To he assessed
$16.45
133.55
Total $150.00
Vote passed at 8.21 o'clock.
Art. 35.
It was voted that this article relative
to an appropriation under the provisions
of Chapter 254 of the General Acts of
1917, be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 37. Reserve Fund.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was voted that a sum of $1,000.00 be
appropriated and assessed to be used
as a Reserve Fund as provided by Chap-
ter 645, Acts of 1913.
Vote passed at 8.30 o'clock.
Art. 40.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett it
was (First) Voted, that there shall
be an account on the books of the Town
designated "General Revenue and Sur-
plus Account," to which shall be credit-
ed from and after December 31, 1918, all
unexpended balances remaining after the
purpose for whieh the appropriation
was made has been accomplished, except
balances of loan appropriations which
shall be disposed of as required by law,
and except any balances to the credit of,
or income received from any source by
the Water and Sewer Departments.
(Second) : Voted, there shall be cred-
ited to the General Revenue and Sur-
plus Account on the books of the Town
from and after January 1, 1919, all in-
come and revenue accruing to or re-
ceived by any department of the Town
from any source, excepting transfers
from any other Town departments and
any income the disposition of which is
regulated by law, and also excepting any
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balances to the credit of or income re-
ceived from any source by the Water
and Sewer Departments.
Vote passed at 8.49 o'clock.
Art. 7.
Arthur E. Horton moved that the
meeting now consider the report of the
Overseers of the Poor, but the meeting
refused to do so.
Art. 7.
Arthur E. Horton made an unsuccess-
ful attempt to have the Sewer Commis-
sioners submit a comprehensive report
on or before May 24, 1918, in addition
to the report for 1917.
Mt. 41.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was Voted, that the sum of $100.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Milk In-
spector's Room for the ensuing year.
Art. 42. Milk Inspector's Salary.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was Voted that the sum of $200.00 be
appropriated and assessed for salary
and expense of Milk Inspector for the
ensuing year.
Vote passed at 9.15 o'clock.
Art. 43. Plumbing Inspector's Salary.
On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it
was Voted, that the sum of $500.00 be
appropriated and assessed for Plumbing
Inspector's Salary for the ensuing year.
Vote passed at 9.19.
Art. 44.
Voted, that the sum of $700.00 be ap-
propriated and assessed for compensa-
tion of Inspectors of Slaughtering for
the ensuing year.
Selectman Richards called attention of
the meeting to the hearings now being
given by the State Public Service Com-
mission on the petition of the Middle-
sex and Boston Street Railway Company
for authority to inerease its charges for
fares.
No votes relative to the matter were
passed by the Town.
Meeting dissolved at 9.47 o'clock.
WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARY
September 24, 1918
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To either of the Constables of the Town
of Lexington,
Greeting:—
In the name of the Commonwealth you
are hereby required to notify and warn
the inhabitants of said Town who are
qualified to vote in Primaries to meet
in Town Hall Lexington on Tuesday, the
Twenty -Fourth Day of September, 1918,
at 2.30 o'clock P. M., for the following
purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary
Officers for the Nomination of Candi-
dates of Political Parties for the follow-
ing offices:
Middlesex, sa.
Governor for this Commonwealth.
Lieutenant Governor for this Common-
wealth.
Secretary of the Commonwealth for this
Commonwealth.
Treasurer and Receiver General for this
Commonwealth.
Auditor of the Commonwealth for this
Commonwealth.
Attorney General for this Common-
wealth.
U. S. Senators in Congress for this Com-
monwealth.
Congressman for 8th Congressional Dis-
trict.
Councillor for 6th Councillor District.
34 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Senator for 5th Senatorial Distract.
One Representative in General Court for
28th Representative District.
County Commissioner for Middlesex
County.
County Treasurer for Middlesex County.
Register of Probate and Insolvency for
Middlesex County.
And for the Election of the following
officers: District Member of State Com-
mittee for each political party for 5th
Senatorial District.
Members of the Democratic Town Com-
mittee.
Members of the Republican Town Com-
mittee.
Members of the Socialist Town Com-
mittee.
Delegates to State Convention of the
Democratic Party.
Delegates to State Convention of the
Republican Party.
Delegates to State Convention of the
Socialist Party.
All the above candidates an officers
are to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from 2.30 to
8.00 P. M.
And you are directed to serve this
Warrant by posting and mailing printed
copies thereof seven days at least before
the time of said meeting as directed by
vote of the Town.
Hereof fail not and make due return
of this Warrant with your doings there-
on at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this 11th day
of September A. D,, 1918.
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN,
JAY 0. RICHARDS,
WILLIAM B. FOSTER,
Selectmen of Lexington.
Lexington, Mass., Sept. 16, 1918
To the Town Clerk:
I have notified the inhabitants of Lex-
ington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and
in ten (10) other public places in the
Town and by mailing a printed copy of
the same to every registered voter in the
Town nine (9) days before the time of
said meeting.
Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER,
Constable of Lexington.
STATE PRIMARY
September 24, 1918
The meeting was called to order at
2.30 P. M., by the Chairman of the Se-
lectmen.
The Warrant and the Return thereon
was read by the Town Clerk.
Charles G. Kauffman and James A.
Hurley were sworn as Ballot CIerks.
The ballot box was shown to be empty
and the key given to the Constable.
Samuel B. Bigelow, William C.
O'Leary, William E. Muiliken, Patrick
F. Dacey, Allston M. Redman, Fred E.
Butters, John J. Garrity and Nathaniel
Nunn were sworn as Tellers.
At the close of the polls at eight
o'clock the ballot box was opened and
542 ballots taken therefrom. The num-
ber of names checked on each list was
542. The dial on the box registered 541.
The Tellers completed the work of count-
ing the votes at 1.55 A. M., with the fol-
lowing results: -
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Whole number of votes cast
Governor
Calvin Coolidge
Blanks
Lieutenant Governor
Channing H. Cox
Guy A. Earn
Blanks
Secretary
Albert P. Langtry
Blanks
Treasurer
Charles L. Burrill
Frank W. Thayer
Blanks
Auditor
Alonzo B. -Cook
Alonzo P. Grinnell
Blanks
Attorney General
J. Weston Allen
Henry C. Atwill
Blanks
Senator in Congress
John W. Weeks
Thomas W. Lawson
Blanks •
Congressman
Frederick W. Ballinger
Blanks
Councillor
James G. Harris
Blanks
Senator
Charles S. Smith
Blanks
Representative
Arthur W. Hatch
Edward W. Taylor
Blanks
County Commissioner
491 Alfred L. Cutting
Blanks
County Treasurer
410 Charles Bruce
81 Joseph 0. Hayden
Blanks
262 Register df Probate
164 William G. Andrew
65 Frederick M. Fsty
Blanks
• a• 1r
35
^�T
,y.
36 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Clarence P. Johnson
362 Robert L. Ryder
109 Alfred E. Haynes
Charles H. Spaulding
Henry L. Stone
131 Joseph H. Cody
260 Edward Wood
100 William H. Burgess
Blanks
and Insolvency
124
259
108
392 State Committee
Edward W. Taylor
Edward P. Merriam
352 Edwin A. Bailey
49 Arthur W. Hatch
90 Edward " A. Bayley
James W. Smith
Alfred Pierce
346 Charles Hayden
47 Charles H. Rudd
98 Charles S. Smith
Blanks
99
160
245
86
395
1
1
Delegates to
Arthur W. Hatch
Edwin A. Bayley
Edward C. Stone
Frank D. Peirce
Willard C. Hill
Edward W. Taylor
Edwin B. Worthen
Eugene Kraetzer
392 Louis L. Crone
99 Blanks
State Convention
Town Committee
375 William S. Scammau
116 Charles F. Bertwell
Arthur W. Hatch
Charles E. Hadley
385 Sydney R. Wrightington
106 Wesley T. Wadman
Lewis C Sturtevant
Edward L. Child
115 Willard. C. Hill
365 Arthur L. Blodgett
11 George H. Childs
l
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
481
349
361
381
363
368
1
1
1
1
629
382
344
346
342
346
334
352
343
354
348
349
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Whole number of votes east
Governor
Edward P. Barry
William A Gaston
Richard H. Long
Blanks
Lieutenant Governor
Richard H. Long
Joseph H. O'Neil
Blanks
Secretary
Charles: H. McGlue
Blanks
Treasurer
Charles Giddings
Blanks '
Auditor
Francis M. Costello
Blanks
Attorney General
Joseph L. P. St. Coeur
Blanks
Senator in Congress
David 1, Walsh
Blanks
Congressman
James F. Aylward
John F. Daly
355
344
339
357
1
1
1
1
2,126
Edward Taylor
Blanks
Blanks.
Councillor
Blanks
Senator
Edward W. Taylor
Blanks
2
2
16
51
1
50
51 Representative in General Court
Edward W Taylor 11
Arthur W. Hatch 2
15 E. Taylor . 1
15 Edwin Willis Taylor 1
19 Edward F. Taylor 1
2 Edward Taylor 1
Blanks 34
1
7 Blanks
43
County Commissioner
51
County Treasurer
Blanks 51
8 Register of Probate and Insolvency
43 Blanks 51
State Committee
8 John F. Mitchell
43 Blanks
Delegates to State Convention
8 William C O'Leary
43 John J. Garrity
BIanks
43 David F. Murphy
Bartholomew D. Callahan
William C. O'Leary
John J. Garrity
Arthur O'Leary
Thomas F. Fardy, Jr.
Philip P. Leaf
Charles E. Moloy
16 Blanks
17 No Socialist ballots were cast.
Town Committee
36
15
29
22
32
32
2
31
27
27
32
26
29
25
27
184
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
TOWN WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To either of the Constables of the Town
of Lexington in said County,
Greeting:—
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to notify
the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing-
ton qualified to vote in elections to meet
in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on
Tuesday the fifth day of November, A.
D., 1918, at six o'clock A. IL, to east
their ballots for the following officers:
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secre-
tary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney Gen-
eral, Councillor for 6th Councillor Dis-
trict, Senator for 5th Senatorial District,
Representative for 28th Middlesex Dis-
trict, United States Senator in Con-
gress, Congressman for 8th Congression-
al District, County Commissioner for
Middlesex County, County Treasurer
for Middlesex County and Register of
Probate and Tnsolveuey for Middlesex
County.
Also to vote for or against the adop-
tion of any or ail of the nineteen Amend-
ments to the Constitution as submitted
by the Constitutional Convention and
published in the pamphlet mailed with
this Warrant, and which are in brief as
follows:
Article of Amendent No. 1.
The establishment of the popular in-
itiative and referendum and the legisla-
tive initiative of specific amendments
of the Constitution
Article of Amendment No. a
The Conservation development and
utilization of the agricultural, mineral,
forest, water and other natural resources
of the Commonwealth are public uses,
and the Genera] Court shall have power
to provide for the taking, upon payment
of just compensation therefor, of lands
and easements or interests therein, in -
37
Middlesex, ss.
eluding water and mineral rights, for the
purpose of securing and promoting the
proper conservation, development, util-
ization and control thereof and to enact
legislation necessary or expedient .there-
for.
Article of Amendment No. 3.
Advertising on public ways in public
places and on private property within
public view may be regulated and re-
• strieted by law,
Article of Amendment No. 4.
The preservation and maintenance of
ancient landmarks and other property
of historical or antiquarian interest is a
public use, and the Commonwealth and
the cities and towns therein may, upon
payment of jest compensation, take such
property or any interest therein under
such regulations as the General Court
may prescribe.
Article of Amendment No. 5.
The General Court, by concurrent
vote of the two houses, may take a re-
cess or recesses amounting to not more
than thirty days; but no such recess
shall extend beyond the sixtieth day
from the date of their first assembling.
Article of Amendment No. 6.
To authorize the General Court to pre-
scribe, subject to certain restrictions,
the manner of the appointment and re-
moval of military and naval officers to
be commissioned by the Governor.
Article of Amendment No. 7.
To define the powers and duties of the
General Court relative to the military
and naval forces, and of the Governor
as Commander -in -Chief thereof.
Article of Amendment No. 8.
To provide for the suceession, in cases
of vacancies in the offices of Governor
38 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
and Lieutenant Governor, by the Seere-
tary, Attorney General, Treasurer and
Receiver General and Auditor, in the or-
der named.
Article of .Amendment No. 9. •
To authorize the Governor to return to
the General Court with a recommenda-
tion for amendment bills and resolves
which have been laid before him.
Article of Amendment No. 10.
Article IV of the articles of amend-
ment of the Constitution of the Common-
wealth is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following words: Women shall
be eligible to appointment as Notaries
Public. Change of name shall render
the Commission void, but shall not pre-
vent reappointment under the new
name.
Article of Amendment No. 11.
(Relative to the Retirement of Judicial
Officers)
Article I of Chapter I11 of Part the
Second of the Constitution is hereby
amended by the addition of the follow-
ing words: and provided also that the
Governor, with the consent of the Coun-
cil, may after due notice and hearing
retire them because of advanced age or
mental or physical disability. Such
retirement shall be subject to any provi-
sions made by law as to pensions or
allowances payable to sueh officers upon
their voluntary retirement.
Article of Amendment No. 12.
Every charter, franchise or act of in-
corporation shall forever remain subject
to revocation and amendment.
Article of Amendment No. 13.
The General Court shall have power
to limit buildings according to their
use or construction to specified districts
of cities and towns.
Article of Amendment No. 14.
The General Court shall have authori-
ty to provide for compulsory voting at
electives, but the right of secret voting
shall be preserved.
Article of Amendment No. 16.
To limit the power of the General
Court to lend the credit of the Common-
wealth and to contract loans.
Article of Amendment No. 16.
To provide for a State Budget and the
veto by the Governor of items or parts
of items in appropriation bilis.
Article of Amendment No. 17.
To provide for biennial elections of
State Ol]ieers, Councillors and members
of the General Court.
Ariicle of Amendment No. 18.
No person elected to the General Court
shall during the term for which he was
elected be appointed to any office cre-
ated or the emoluments whereof are in-
creased during sueh term, nor receive
additional salary or compensation for
service upon any reeess committee or
commission except a committee appoint-
ed to examine a general revision of the
Statutes of the Commonwealth when
submitted to the General Court for adop-
tion.
Article of Amendment No. 19.
On or before January first, nineteen
hundred twenty-one, the executive and
administrative work of the Common-
wealth shall be organized in not more
than twenty departments, in one of
which every executive and administrative
office, board and commission, except
those officers serving directly under the
Governor or the Council, shall be placed.
Such departments shall be under such
supervision and regulation as the Gen-
eral Court may from time to time pre-
scribe by law.
The polls will be opened immediately
after the organization of the meeting
and may remain open until four o'clock
P. M., and as mach longer as the meeting
may direct, but not later than the hour
prescribed by law.
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS
Hereof fail not and make due return
of this Warrant with your doings there-
on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the
time of said meeting.
Given under aur hands at Lexington
this sixteenth day of October, A. D.,
1918.
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN,
WILLIAM B. FOSTER,
JAY O. RICHARDS,
Selectmen of Lexington.
39
Lexington, Masa., October 28, 1918.
To the Town Clerk:
I have notified the inhabitants -of Lex-
ington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and
in eight other public places in the Town,
and by mailing a printed copy of the
same to every registered voter in the
Town, 10 days before the time of said
meeting.
Attest:
CHAELE E. WHEELER,
Constable of Lexington.
STATE ELECTION
November 5, 1918
The meeting was called to order at
six o'clock A. M. by the Chairman of the
Selectmen; the Warrant and the Return
was read by the Town Clerk. Charles G.
Kauffman and James A. Hurley were
sworn as Ballot Clerks and Ralph H.
Marshall and John J. Garrity as Deputy
Ballot Clerks.
Walter B. Wilkins, Fred E. Butters,
Bartlett J. Harrington, William C.
O'Leary, Allston. M. Redman, Patrick
F. Dacey, Samuel B. Bigelow, Thomas
J. Doherty, William E. Mulliken, Na-
thaniel Nunn, Willard E. Wormwood
and Edward M. Tupper were sworn as
Tellers.
At 9.10 A. M., the Ballot Box was
opened and 300 ballots were removed.
At 11.50 the Box was opened and 200
ballots were taken out. At 2.50 P. M., 200
ballots were taken from the Box.
At 3.50 o'clock, on motion of Arthur
W. Hatch it was Voted, that the polls
be kept open until five o'clock.
At 4.30 o'clock 150 ballots were taken
from the Box.
At five o'clock the polls were Declared
closed and 67 ballots were removed from
the Box.
The Ballot Box registered 867 and that
number of names was checked on each
voting list.
At seven o'clock the clerk announced
the result as follows:
Whole number o£ votes 867
Governor
Calvin Coolidge
Richard H. Long
Sylvester J. McBride
Ingvar Paulsen
Blanks
Lieutenant Governor
Channing H. Cox
Oscar Kinsalas
Joseph H. O'Neil
Blanks
Secretary
Albert P. Langtry
Charles H. McGlue
William Taylor
Blanks
Treasurer
Charles L. Berri!!
Charles Giddings
Mary E. Peterson
Blanks
604
246
3
3
11
616
5
226
20
616
204
10
37
614
204
9
40
40 TOWN OF
Auditor
Alonzo B. Cook
Francis M. Costello
Fred E. Oelcher
Blanks
Attorney General
Henry C. Attwill
Morris I. Becker
Joseph L. P. St. Coeur
J. W. Allen
Blanks
Senator in Congress
Thomas W. Lawson
David I. Walsh
John W. Weeks
Blanks
Congressman
James F. Aylward
Frederick W. I7al i i neer
Blanks
Councillor—Sixth District
Janes G. Harris
Blanks
Senator -5th Middlesex District
Charles S. Smith
E. A. Bayley
Joseph Tropeno
Blanks
Representative in General Court
28th Middlesex District
Edward W. Taylor
Irving Fox
A. W. Hatch
Arthur W. Hatch
Blanks
County Conunisaioner
Alfred L. Cutting
B. J. Harrington
Blanks
County Treasurer
Joseph O. Hayden
Blanks
609
202
5
51
617
8
201
6
35
22
275
554
16
232
596
39
629
238
635
1
1
230
705
1
2
1
168
649
1
217
646
221
Register of Probate and Insolvency
Frederick M. Esty 637
Blanks 228
LEXINGTON
H. L. Wadsworth 1
W. Vienna
1
Amendment No. 1
Shall the Artiele of Amendment rela-
tive to the establishment of the popular
initiative and referendum and the legis-
lative initiative of specifie amendments
of the Constitution, submitted by the
Constitutional Convention, be approved
and ratified.
Yes
No
Blanks
222
499
146
Amendment No. 2
Article of Amendment: "The The conser-
vation, development and utilization of
the ae icit]tural, mineral, forest, water
and other natural ,resources of the Com-
inonwealth are public uses, and the Gen-
eral Court shall have power to provide
for the taking, upon payment of just
eompeusation therefor, of lands and
easements or interests therein, including
Water and mineral rights, for the pur-
pose of securing and promoting the pro-
per conservation, development, utiliza-
tion and control thereof and to enact
legislation necessary or expedient there-
for.
Yes
No
Blanks
288
321
258
Amendment No. 3
Article of Amendment: Advertising
on public ways, in private places, and
on private property within public view
may he regulated and restricted by law.
Yes 449
No 175
Blanks 243
Amendment No. 4
Article of Amendment : The preserva-
tion and maintenance of ancient land-
marks and other property of historical
or antiquarian interest is a public use,
and the commonwealth and the cities and
towns therein may, upon payment of just
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 41
compensation, take sueh property or any
interest therein under such regulations
as the General Court may prescribe.
Yes 414
No 185
Blanks 288
Amendment No. 5
Article of Amendment: The General
Court, by concurrent vote of the two
Houses, may take a recess or recesses
amounting to not more than thirty days;
but no such recess shall extend beyond
the sixtieth day from the date of their
first assembling.
Yes
No
Blanks
311
240
316
Amendment No. 6
Shall the Article of Amendment au-
thorizing the General Court to prescribe,
subject to certain restrictions, the man-
ner of the appointment and removal of
military and naval officers to be com-
missioned by the Governor, submitted by
the Constitutional Convention, be ap-
proved and ratified?
Yes
No
Blanks
337
209
321
Amendment No. 7
Shall the Article of Amendment de-
fining the powers and duties of the
General Court relative to the military
and naval forces, and of the Governor as
Commander -in -Chief thereof, be ap-
proved and ratified/
Yes
No
Blanks
352
187
328
Amendment No. 8
Shall the Article of Amendment pro-
viding for the succession, in cases of
vacancies in the offices of Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, by the Secretary,
Attorney -General, Treasurer and Re-
eeiver-General and Auditor, in the order
named, he approved and ratified?
Yes 394
No 103
Blanks 310
Amendment No. 9
Shall the Article of Amendment au-
thorizing the Governor to return to the
General Court with a recommendation
for amendment bills and resolves which
have been Iaid before him, be approved
and ratified?
Yes 366
No 175
Blanks 326
Amendment No. 10
Article IV of the articles of amend-
ment of the constitution of the com-
monwealth is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following words: Women
shall be eligible to appointment as no-
taries public. Change of name shall
render the commission void, but shall not
prevent reappointment under the new
name.
Yes 323
No 249
Blanks 295
Amendment No. 11
Article of Amendment: Article 1 of
Chapter III of Part the Second of the
constitution is hereby amended by the
addition of the following words: and
provided also that the Governor, with
the consent of the Council, may after
due notice and hearing retire them be-
cause of advanced age or mental or phy-
sical disability.
Such retirement shall be subject to any
provisions made by law as to pensions
or allowances payable to such oflioers
upon their voluntary retirement.
Yes 349
No 183
Blanks 336
Amendment No. 12
Shall the following Article of Amend-
mentrelative to the Revocation or Al-
t
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TOWN OF
terations of Grants, Franchises, Privi-
leges or Immunities submitted by the
Constitutional Convention, be approved
and ratified?
Yes 350
No 189
Blanks 328
Aanendment No. 13
Article of Amendment: The General
Court shall have power to limit buildings
according to their use or eonstrnction to
specified districts of cities and towns.
Yes 372
No 186
Blanks 309
Amendment No. 14
Article of Amendment: The General
Court shall have authority to protide
for compulsory voting at elections, but
the right of secret voting shall be pre-
served.
Yes 272
No 307
Blanks 288
Amendment No. 15
Shall the amendment of the Constitu-
tion lireiting the power of the General
Court to lend the credit of the Common-
wealth and to eontraet loans, be approved
and ratified/
Yes 33(1
No 202
Blanks 329
Amendment No. 16
Shall the amendment to the Constitu-
tion providing for a state budget and
veto by the Governor of items or parts
of items iu appropriation bills be ap-
proved and ratified?
Yes 347
No 175
Blanks 345
Amendment No. 17
Shall the amendment of the Constitu-
tion providing for biennial elections of
state officers, councillors and members of
LEXINGTON
the General Court, he approved and
ratified ?
Yes 341
No 213
Blanks 313
Amendment No, 18
Article of Amendment: No person
elected to the General Court shall during
the term for which he was elected be
appointed to any office created or the
emoluments whereof are increased dur-
ing such term, nor receive additional
salary or compensation for service upon
any recess committee or commission ex-
cept a committee appointed to examine a
general revision of the statutes of the
commonwealth when submitted to the
General Court for adoption.
Yes 332
No 197
Blanks 338
Amendment No. 19
Article of Amendment: On or before
January first, nineteen hundred twenty-
one,
wentyone, the executive and administrative
work of the commonwealth shall be or-
ganized in not more than twenty depart-
ments, in one of which every executive
and administrative office, board or com-
mission, except those officers serving di-
rectly under the Governor or the Coun-
cil, shall be placed. Such departments
shall be under such supervision and regu-
lation as the General Court may from
time to time prescribe by law.
Yes
No
Blanks
358
172
337
• November 15, 1918.
The Town Clerks of Belmont and Lex-
ington met at Belmont this day and
signed the following certificates:
The Commnowealth of Massachusetts,
County of Middlesex.
At a meeting of the qualified voters of
Representative Distriet number twenty-
eight held on the fifth day of November
instant, for the choice of Representative
in the General Court, to be holden on
TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 43
the first Wednesday of January next,
EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Lexington,
having received a total of sixteen hun-
dred and forty-two votes was elected to
said office.
Dated at Belmont the 15th day of No-
vember in the year one thousand nine
hundred and eighteen.
ARTHUR E. HOUGH,
Town Clerk, Belmont.
CHARLES W. SWAN,
Town Clerk, Lexington.
Lexington, Mass., Nov. 15, 1918.
To the Town Clerk of Lexington, Mass.:
I have this day delivered at the usual
place of residence of Edward W. Taylor
a certificate of his election as representa-
tive in the Legislature of the 28th Mid-
dlesex District, said certificate being
signed by the said Clerks of Belmont and
Lexington.
CHARLES H. FRANKS,
Constable of Lexington.
LAY OUT OF MUZZEY STREET
We, the Selectmen of Lexington, hav-
ing decided that public convenience and
necessity require an extension of 111uz-
zey Street from its present terminus at
Forest Street to Vine Brook and the re-
location of said Muzzey Street at its
junction with Forest Street gave notice
on February 15, 1918, to all resident
owners of land over which the proposed
extension and alteration is located of our
intention to reloeate and extend said
Muzzey Street to Vine Brook, and we
now having met at the time and place
and for the purposes specified in said
notice, relocate said Muzzey Street and
also lay out an extension of said street
from its present terminus to Vine Brook.
For the purpose of relocating Forest
Street at its junction with Muzzey
Street and extending said Muzzey Street
from Forest Street to Vine Brook, the
following described parcels or land are
hereby taken:
Parcel No. 1
supposed to belong to the Old Belfry
Club, containing about 720 square feet,
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound at the
intersection of the northwesterly line of
Muzzey Street with the northeasterly
line of Forest Street; thence northwest-
erly along Forest Street 32.08 feet to a
point, thence bounded by a curved line to
the right, having a radius of 55.00 feet,
46.30 feet to the northwesterly line of
Muzzey Street, thenee southwesterly by
said Muzzey Street 36.21 feet to the
point of beginning.
Parcel No. 2
supposed to belong to the Oriska Realty
Corporation, John E. Hubbell, Presi-
dent, containing about 381 square feet,
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at an iron pipe at the inter-
section of the southeasterly line of Muz-
zey Street with the northeasterly line
of Forest Street, thence southeasterly
along said Forest Street 26.13 feet to
a point, thence by a curved line to the
left, having a radius of 55.00 feet, 32.94
feet to a point in the southeasterly line
of Muzzey Street, thence southwesterly
along said Muzzey Street 25.72 feet to
the point of beginning.
Parcel No. 3
supposed to belong to the Town of Lex-
ington, eontainiug about 810 square feet,
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound in the
present southwesterly line of Forest
Street, said stone hound marking the
division line between the northwesterly
boundary of land supposed to belong
44 TOWN' OF LEXINGTON
to Frederick L. Emery and the south-
easterly boundary of land of said Town;
thence southwesterly along said boundary
line 80.37 feet to its intersection with
the northwesterly line of said extension
of Muzzey Street extension, thence
northeasterly along said Muzzey Street
extension 54.95 feet to a point, thence
northerly by a curved line having a ra-
dius of 55 feet, 38.60 feet to said Forest
Street, thence southeasterly along said
Forest Street, 31.53 feet to a stone bound
marking an angle in said street line,
thence southeasterly by said street 5.06
feet to the point beginning.
Parcel No. 4
supposed to belong to Frederick L.
Emery, containing about 11,740 square
feet, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound in the
present southwesterly line of Forest
Street, said stone bound marking the
division line between the northwesterly
boundary of said Emery and the south-
easterly boundary of land of said town,
thence southwesterly along said boun-
dary 8.37 feet to its intersection with
the northwesterly line of said extension
of Muzzey Street, thence southwesterly
along said extension about 155 feet to
the center of Vine Brook, thenee south-
easterly along the center of said brook
about 52.8 feet to a point, thence north-
easterly, paralled and 50 feet distant
from the northwesterly line of said
Muzzey Street extension about 193 feet
to a point, thence easterly by a curved
line having a radius of 55.00 feet, 50.54
feet to Forest Street, thence north-
westerly along said Forest Street 70.15
feet to the point of beginning.
Said parcels are shown more particu-
larly by a plan, entitled "Plan of Muz-
zey Street Extension and Reloeation of
Forest Street at its junction with Muz-
zey Street, Lexington, February, 1918.
Seale 1 inch 20 feet, J. Henry Duffy,
Town Engineer/' which is made a part
hereof.
The Selectmen having considered the
question of damages sustained by abut-
ting owners hereby decide that no dam-
ages are sustained and no awards are
made.
Done at Lexington this twenty-seventh
day of February, 1918, and at a meeting
on April 3, 1918.
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN,
JAY 0. RICHARDS,
WILLIAM B. FOSTER,
Selectmen of Lexington.
Whole number recorded
Date
Names
BIRTHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1918
January
7. Virginia Childs
9.
10. Dutra
27. James Francis Jaynes
27. Charles Emmett McLeod
28. Katherine Bunce
31. Jose Ello Merino
February
5. Mary Ahearn
7. Clarence Edwin Locke
7.
12. Elsa Josephine Beatty
12. Eleanor Agnes Leary
16. Walter Edward Krakoski
16. Elizabeth Jane Fitzgerald
16. John Ilammer
18. Gardner Charles Ferguson
20. Madeline Louise Hall
21. Josephine Helen Hrones
23. Henry Young Hunter, Jr.
24. Theresa De1'leee
24. Joseph Doniinicko DeFlees
28. Ida Gertrude Armstrong
28. Ralph Lepore
Parents
Calvin W. and Josephine (Galloupe) Childs
William J. and Philanima (Rabello) Dutra
George F. and Anna G. (McNulty) Jaynes
John W. and Gladys (Platt) McLeod
Charles Ernest and Katherine E. (Waite) Bunce
Comando J. and Gravannina (Espara) Merino
Date Names .
March
3. Nieoletta Santosuosso
6. Milton Alexander Matthews, Jr.
8. Silva
14. Aurelio Carmine Carota
15. Frederick Wight Allen
18. John Edwin Bryant
21. Elizabeth Moody
21. Rosie Elizabeth Modugno
21. William Frederick Cordillo
22. Robert Wallace Custance
22. William M. Bloustein
30. Vareni Ricci
31 Leslie Armstrong
April
3. Elvira Nici
3. Barbara Shannon
4. Eva Vieenzina Tropiano
4. Elizabeth Helen Peake
5. Elsie Clare Nutt
5. Francis Vincent Connolly
7. Micheal Santosuosso
8. Majorie Adeline Wheeler
10. Richard Otis Brainhall
13. George Henry Wezieger
15. Veronica Adeline Delphino
19. Virginia Dandridge Hunneinan
22. George Alien Bean
22. Paul Siduey Brousseau
May
10. James Manley
14.
James M. and Ellen (O'Rourke) Ahearn
Herbert H. and Mabel A. (Tuttle) Locke
James A. and Emma K. (Carlson) Beatty
William J. and Elizabeth A. (McGann) Leary
Charles K. and Sophia E. (Tiehni) Krakoski
John G. and Helen K. (Rooney) Fitzgerald
Alex. M. and Sara (Herrick) Hammer
Charles E. and Alice R. (Nordenan) Ferguson
George C. and Agnes L. (Lee) Hall
Edward F. and Eva (Bletsch) Hrones
Henry Y. and Ethel (MaeFarland) Hunter
Joseph and Theresa (Spada) DePiece
Joseph and Theresa (Spada) DePiece
Ernest A. and Amalei (Johnson) Armstrong
Pelegrino and Philomena (Carbone) Lepore
Parents
Benign and Managrazia (Luongo) Santosuosso
Milton A. and Helen F. (Sturtevant) Matthews
Augustus J. and Lillian P. (Sears) Silva
Tony and Theresa (Carole)
Edward. C. and Marion L. (Gage) Allen
Robert E. and Ethel L. (Milliken) Bryant
.John F. Jr. and Ruth H. (Galloupe) Moody
Dominic and Asunda (Pieariello) Modugno
Michael A. and Alice 13. (Flemming) Cordillo
Howard E. and Orra A. (Lyon) Custanee
Max and Minnie (Glover) Bloustein
John and Elsie (English) Ricci
Johnson and Annie (Corbett) Armstrong
Sebastiano and Anna (Cardio) Niei
Clarence and Edith M. (Holmes) Shannon
Joseph and Carolina (Fiore) Tropiano
James W. and Minnie A. (Dean) Peake
James B. and Annie (Insley) Nutt
Micheal W. and Bridget (McLoughlin) Connolly
Benjamin and Josephine (Santosusso)
Arthur E. and Christine E. (Hanson) Wheeler
William S. and Eva F. (Kraetzer) Bramhall
Wallace G. and Grace R. (Lake) Wezinger
Louis and Carolina (Gentile) Delphino
Frederic B. and Louise G. (Fay) Hunneman
.James A. and Louisa A. (Teague) Bean
Theodore D. and Laura M. (Love) Brousseau
Michael X. and Mary F. (McCarthy) Manley
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Date Names
16. Arline Constance Carpenter
18. Covell
20. Louis .Alfhonse Leturmy
20. Elizabeth Leturmy
23. Manuel Sousa
24. Henry Edgar Nicola
June
1
4
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Madeline Mary Mahoney
Mabel Frances Britt
4. Jean Morse
7. Ella Louise Noonan
13. Anthony Robert Cataldo
18. Irving Chester Doe
24. Donna Cole Howland
July
3. Clifford Laurence Muzzey, Jr
11. Richard Leslie Reed
13. Margark Semonian
18, Manuel Anthony Cunha, Jr.
19. Elizabeth Raymond Nourse
22. Paul Gordon Matthews
August
8. Eleanor Hope MacDonald
9. Shirley Robertson
10. Beatrice Ruth Kelsey
10. Gladys Irene Winlock
18. Beverly Stevens
22. Melvin Riebard hinds
28. Warren Winfield Love
30. Sletten
31. James Stymest
Date
Names
September
2. Velmah Mosher
5. Josephine Morretti
5. Eveline Mary Dalrymple
5. Helen Louise Johnson
11. Sonja Ingeborg I<ellman
11. William Edward Russell
12. Marie Abbott
13. Wensley Barker, Jr.
14. Francis Arthur Sullivan
15. Rita McNamara
16. Agnes Virginia Houghton
16. Oliver Robertson Houghton
20. Robert Boynton Sanborn
20. Robert Hall Moore
22. Ralph WilIiatn Sehwendinman
22. Irene Mildred Prior
26. Gorden Stewart Dalrymple
28.
30. George Francis Doe
October
1. Norah Catherine Duffy
3. Thomas Frederick Bentley
6. Elizabeth Geoghegan
6. Ruth Elvira Nelson
9. Hannah Elizabeth Waite
9. MelaIan
11. William Wheeler Stevens
12. Elizabeth Simonian
17. Galt David Parsons
Parents
Peter J. and Anna L. (Knox) Carpenter
Freeman E. and Pearl (Mollenhauer) Covell
Louis J. and Eva (Valois) Leturmy
Louis J. and Eva (Valois) Leturmy
Prank and Cecelia (Costa) Sousa
Chester and Catherine M. (Russell) Nieols
Daniel and Lillian L. (Deschamps) Mahoney
Michael J. and Sarah (Belson) Britt
George V. and Beatrice L. (Fuller) Morse
Louis E. and Ella J. (Hicks) Noonan
Ciriaco and Mary (Tribune) Cataldo
Chester W. and Gertrude E. (White) Doe
Gerald S. and L. A. (Cole) Howland
ClifOrd L. and Mae E. (Carver) Muzzey
Walter J. and Clair F. (Hickey) Read
Martin and Vartanoosh (Arakelian) Semonian
Manuel A. and Levinia W. (Robinson) Cunha
Charles F. and Elizabeth (Smith) Nourse
Edward F. and Emma H. (Mayer) Matthews
Alexander D. and Susie M. (Day) MacDonald
James G. and Hester Vernon (Tarr) Robertson
Barry S. and Mable M. (Todd) Kelsey
Harvey F. and Mabel (Grebenatein) Winlock
Damon B. and Abby E. (Wellman) Stevens
Melvin W. and Agnes E. (Barker) Hinds
Frank J. and Helen E. (Day) Love
Obert and Beatrice (Gardner) Sletten
Frank P. and Leona (Barrett) Stymest
Parents
Loring A. and Venda V. (Owen) Mother
Pasquale and Camilla (Santosuosso) Morretti
William J. and Annie (Grace) Dalrymple
Walter H. and Mary (Collins) Johnson
Adolph W. and Hildur (Henrikson) Fellman
John C. and Annie L. (Quinlan) Russell
George W. and Stella M. (Shepard) Abbott
Wensley and Kirstine (Weyhe) Barker
James J. and Mary (Spencer) Sullivan
Denis and Catherine E. (Lynch) McNamara
Randall B. and Mabel R. (Robertson) Houghton
Randall B. and Mabel E. (Robertson) Houghton
Howard S. and Bernice B. (Bersback) Sanborn
Andrew L. and Edith I. (Hall) Moore
Frederick W. and Amelia (Dick) Schwendinman
Vernon E. and Bessie E. (Lukey) Prior
John M. and Bertha A. (Mitton) Dalrymple
Francis D. and Julia K. (Whelden) Doe
Michael J. and Mary (Corbett) Duffy
Charles E. and Elizabeth (Wilkins) Bentley
James M. and Julia M. (O'Leary) Geoghegan
Peter A. and Selma E. (Ekwall) Nelson
Edwin L. and Ada T. (Ekwall) Waite
Aubrey and Elizabeth A. (Cavanaugh) Melelan
William J. and Phoebe K. (Wheeler) Stevens
Peter M. and Hagarrosh (Nahigian) Simonian
Galt F. and Helen (Butler) Parsons
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
MARRIAGES
Chole number of marriages recorded for the year 1918-51
Date Name
January
21. Bernard J. C. Donahoe
Wiyfred E. Greeley
February
15. Benjamin Franklin Holt
Marilla Sally Davis
24. Frederick Dudley Litton
Ruth May Wynn
March
5. Frank Love
Mary Riley
7. Norman Lewis Lund
Hazel Della Cushman
21. William James Stevens
Phoebe Kate Wheeler
24. William Clinton Morton
Eleanor Abigail Dodge
April
3. Dr. Karl Oscar Bertling
Helene Glotz
8. John 1 dw•ard O'Connor
Catherine Frances MacPherson
11. William James Marshall
Alice Gertrude Carew
15. Victor Roy Hughes
Ethel May Hanson
27. Clifton Potter Ashley
Octavia Shockley Ashley
30. Charles D'Aubre Suzette, Jr.
Lucille Harriette Ladd
May
26. Philip Stephen O'Dowd
Rose Anna Ferry
29. Walter Edgar Whilton
Annie Louise Biggins
Residence
Boston
Boston
Lexington
Strafford, N. H.
Medford
Med ford
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Waltham
Lexington
Cambridge
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
New Bedford
Lexington
Cambridge
Bedford
Lexington
Lexington
Arlington Heights
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
June
4. Ernest Elbridge Williams
Charlotte May Carpenter
5. William John McDevitt
Catharine Elizabeth Fox
14. Benjamin Schofield Stoney
Pearl Evelyn Wright
15. Harry Malcolm Cole
Alice Bertha Cole
16. Harvey Greene Lowe
Hazel Ottilea Bailey
16. Ralf]h Davis Eaton
Gertrude Louise Robinson
23. James Joseph Conway
Sarah Josephine Dinneen
24. Paul Wheeler Dempsey
Marjorie May Brackett
29. Frederick Theodore Manning
Mildred Ivy
July
3. Raymond Francis Tobin
Helen O'Donnell Finn
8. James Walter Corbin
Helen Blanche McFarland
20. Howard Weston Burnett
Cora Ethel Turner
24. Irmorenzo Palmeri
Vinia Genetti
27. Warren Reed
Marjorie M. Sylvester
29. William Henry Behnke
Ellen Teresa Donovan
August
5. Roderick James Mackenzie
Gladys Viola Withrow
10. William 11. Whitfield
Mercy Anderson Otis
14. George M. Dimond
Elizabeth Helen Cavanagh
September
1. Walter Henry White
Elizabeth Agnes Moynihan
14. Malcolm Willard Reed.
Dorothy Vickery
21. Lloyd William Terhune
Myrtle Nellie Stevens
24. Thomas Manning
Nellie Baldaro
25. Robert Alfred McAdoo
Mary Janet McLalan
Lexington
Lexington
Woburn
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Bedford
Lexington
Arlington
Lexington
Jamaica Plain
Boston
Lexington
Lexington
Norridgewoek, Me.
Meriden, Conn.
Newton
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Cambridge
Lexington
Norfolk Downs
Bedford
Bedford
Revere
Boston
Cambridge
Cambridge
Lexington
Waltham
Lowell
Lexington
Bedford
Bedford
Watertown
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Waltham
Waltham
Waltham
Lexington
51 • 3`. 52
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
October
10. Hall B. Waring
Maud P. Baekus
19. William Jackson
Gladys Ward Freeman
20, John Alexander Smith
Alida Bertha Greene
30. Bernard Frederick Hossfeld
Ellen Harriet Falleson
November
2. Edward Andrew Trotte
Rose Theresa Selmesky
2. Anthony Nicholas Cateldo
Concetta Tribuna
20. Frank A. Doane
Margaret 1. Carson
23. Anthony Piasecki
Veronica Jazefowiez
27. William Hayes
Mary Ann McDonald
30. Michael John Shannon
Kathryn Louise Maguire
December
6. Fred Tower Boyd, Jr.
Doris Perla Lyon
25. Horace Wentworth Shepard
Elizabeth Frances Woods
29. Charles M. Collins
Mary Helen Reed
Salisbuug, Conn.
Lexington
Quincy
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Brockton
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Milford
Lexington
Lexington
Cambridge
East Boston
Lexington
East Boston
Lexington
Somerville
Lexington
Brookline
Somerville
Andover
Lexington
DEATHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1918
Whole number recorded for 1918, including stillbirths recorded as deaths, 98.
Date Name
January
4. Mary Costa
11. Alice Butler Cary
18. Elizabeth S. Tenney
21. Florence E. Kimball
22. Ellen B. Lane
28. Aaron Bernard Ready
28. Thomas Harrison
31. Samuel La oti<
Age Birthplace
y. m. d.
3 4 Lowell
79 2 12 Birmingham, Ohio
53 5 18 Anson, Me.
47 1 6 Boston
74 2 4 filoncester
25 11 8 Lexington
83 4 7 England
22 Russia
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
Date Name
February
3. Harriet Howe
13. Charles H. Bacon
14. William S. Gannett
24. Abbie Louisa Hartwell
25. Elizabeth M. Doe
28. Florence A. Cavanaugh
March
3.
15.
16.
18.
29.
29.
Caroline Hunt Rimmer
Catherine Ferguson
Mary E. Woodward
Melvin George Hinds
Margaret McQuade
Eliza Valentine Sherman
April
2. Sebastian Kramer
2. George Arthur Spencer
2. Kenneth Latham
4. Harriet Tapley Richardson
12. Gladis Rowell
18. James E. Cook
18. Margaret A. Gorman
19.
20. Florence Palermo
24. Ida Louisa Davis
May
4. Sarah J. VL hitcher
14.
18.
25. Gardner Aldrich
30. Martin Lynch
June
11.
12.
14.
15.
19.
19.
29.
July
3.
15.
20.
27.
31.
Anthony J. Carey
John B. Robinson
George Winn Abbott
Annie Margaret Roes
Michael Manley
Elizabeth Peaks
Emma Frances Parker
Charles Haven Damon
Mary Silva
Barbara McKay
George F. Hinckley
James Hapgood Wright
Age
75 7 4-
82
82 2 27
81 6 21
78 8 9
60 2 6
7 27
Birthplace.
Waterville, Me.
Basham, N. H.
Scituate
Bedford
Boston
Lexington
66 4 17 Randolph
50 6 11 Pleasant Bay, N. S.
64 10 12 Nei' Bedford
Everett
75 Ireland
68 6 New Bedford
16 2 9
83 11 27
40 11 28
Boston
Arlington
1 1 1 Winchester
97 3 30 Rising Sun, Ind.
21 0 9 Somerville
50 3 6
St. Johns, N. F.
60 5 1 Sudbury
17 1 28 Boston
63 10 0 Holyoke
79 7
3 1 10
75
2
55
42 14
55 10
80
3 15
65 2 22
66 9 17
4 7
69 2 22
59 18
73
New York City
Lexington
Ireland
Boston
New Orleans
Watertown
Nova Scotia
Ireland
Lexington
Lexington
Lowell
Lexington
Prince Edward Island
Brunswick, Me.
Concord
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Date Name
August
8. Daniel J. Chishalm
9. Annie M. Kearney
16. Melvin F. Underwood
23. Albert E. Carter
September
8. Rose A. Clarke
11. Janet Sharp Niven Calder
12. Basilio Ceroni
12. Margaret Ann Steward
20. Herbert G. Locke
24. Edith I. Moore
24. Jennie Clark Kraetzer
27 Raymond Charles Considine
27. George Irving Tuttle
28. John J. Walsh
28. Annie M. Baker
October
1. James McGinty
5. Michael Ma cNamara
6. Honors B. Hughes
7. James B. Nutt
10. Edith Myrtle Smith
10. Frank S. Clark
11. Annie Rushe
13. Agnes O'Connor
13. Mabel A. Locke
15. Carolina Ruocco
16. Betsy,Warner
18. Timothy McDonnell
31. -Warren R. Sherburne
31. Samuel Dudley
November
3.
7. Mary Caroline Sweetser
9. Martin Trhra
13. Bessie Servinsky
13. Emma E. H. Wright
25. Philip Sims
28. Alice B. Ford
:30. John Joseph Crowley
December
4. Elisha Horton Tower
5. Catherine E. Burke
Age Birthplace
49 11 3 Nova Scotia
55 4 8 Ireland
44 8 19 Boston
36 6 1 London, Eng.
84 9 16 Landoll, N. H.
44 9 13 Scotland
22 Italy
79 4 26 Portage Lake, Me..
66 10 10 Lexington
25 6 6 Harper, Pa.
69 6 29 Medway
29 2 6 New York City
38 1 17 Lexington
37 Ireland
36 11 29 New York City
37 6 14
30
69 2 15
31 14
28 8 27
47
67
18 2 21
33 13
26-
80 3 13
27 2 10
58 6
77
74 21
34 10
50
66 23
9 17
34 4 18 Brockton
7 1 Boston
Ireland
Ireland
Halifax, N. S.
England
Fitchburg
Moncton, N. B.
Ireland
Lexington
Atkinson, N. H.
Italy
Holland
Lexington
Charlestown
Boston
Newburyport
Curland, Russia
Russia
Cambridge
74 4 4 South Braintree -
41 4 22 Easton
Date
Name
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
8. Nicholas Weiler
9. John R. Haynes
11. Charles Follen Butterick
11. Elizabeth J. Freeman
14. Beatrice C. Sharkey
16. Barbara Fiske
17. Gerald Allen Pease
22. Henrietta Niles Tower
25. Panayiota Karahalis
27. Esther Goodman
27. Molly Goodman
29. Willis Austin M. Stockbridge
83
82
80
57
22 7 1 East Boston
84 1 14 Germany
33 11 4 Edgartown
45 10 23 Charlestown
37 Greece
12 Boston
14 Boston
38 8 10 Gloucester
Age Birthplace
6 15 Germany
9 1 Nova Scotia
6 3 Lexington
6 22 England
Number of Dogs Licensed, 372.
Number of Hunters' Licenses Issued,
145.
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TOWN OF LEXINGTON
LIST OF JURORS AS SUBMITTED BY THE
BOARD OF SELECTMEN 1918
NAME
Adams, George H.
Andrews, Daniel J.
Barbour, S. Lewis
Barnes, John E.
Bramhall, William
Breed, Ezra F.
Breslin, Thomas H.
Brown, Samuel E.
Buffum, Fred A.
Bull, Leslie A.
Burriil, William L.
Butters Elmer F.
Clteever, L. Minot
Clark, Richard A.
Coburn, Frank W.
Cole, George P.
Coolidge, Harry L.
Crowther, William T
Currier, Charles H.
Cutter, Frank P.
Dacey, Patrick F.
Doe, Chester W.
Doherty, Thomas J.
Donovan, John J.
Dwyer, William F.
Feehan, Thomas S
Ferguson, William
Fitzgerald, Thomas
Foster, Wbitney
Glenn, William F.
Gorman, Arthur A.
Hadley, Charles E.
Harrington Bartlett
Hatch, Arthur W.
RESIDENCE
353 Mass. ave.
13 Bedford st.
Hancock st.
165 Mass. ave.
S. 25 Parker st.
Mass. ave.
637 Mass. ave.
10 Oakland st.
Shirley at.
83 Hancock st.
Bedford st.
416 Mass. ave.
11 Shirley st.
Bedford st.
Percy rd.
Bedford at.
203 Muss. ave.
• Hancock ave.
Woburn st.
North Hancock st.
Muzzey st.
52 Fletcher ave.
185 Mass. ave.
Arcadia ave.
7 Tewksbury st.
• Bedford at.
W. Forest st.
W. Fletcher ave.
Concord ave.
Forest st.
48 Bedford st.
Mass. ave.
J. Curve st.
5 Bedford st.
NAME
Hayden, J. Willard
Haynes, Alfred E.
Hendley, Eugene D.
Hill, Willard C.
Johanson, Alfred
Kelly, Edmund S.
Kraetzer, Eugene G.
Lynah, George C.
Maguire, Hugh J.
Mandigo, John J.
Montague, Edward
Otis, Elisha W.
Ray, William A.
Raymond, Henry S.
Rice, William A.
Riley, William J.
Russell, Byron A.
Sandison, William A.
Sawyer, Fred E.
Sefton, Charles H.
Smith, Charles F.
Spencer, Frederick J.
Stevens, Edwin C.
Stone, George E.
Vinal, Charles H.
Wilkins, Walter 13.
Wood, Edward
RESIDENCE
Jr. Shade at.
Hill et.
Mass. ave.
624 Mass, ave.
Slocum rd.
Edgewood rd.
Mass. ave.
Manley et.
Wood at.
State rd. '
Maple et.
217 Mass. ave.
29 Woburn st.
16 Clark at.
63 Bedford A.
York st.
120 Mass. ave.
117 Bedford at.
St. Margaret ave_
Fair View ave.
Bedford st.
East A.
2 Oakland at.
Bloomfield at.
Ward st.
Forest st.
Forest st.
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN,
JAY 0. RICHARDS,
WILLIAM B. FOSTER,
Selectmen of Lexington.
Lexington, June 12, 1918.
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT
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REPORT OF BOARD OF SELECTMEN, ROAD
COMMISSIONERS, OVERSEERS OF THE
POOR AND BOARD OF SURVEY
The past year has been replete with prob-
lems especially in Municipal business
both on account of high prices and the
shortage of labor. We have succeeded in
keeping within the appropriations allowed
the various departments and by so doing
have been obliged to disregard some mat-
ters which would in ordinary times have
been given more attention.
The Highways have suffered by our in-
ability to do sufficient work and some-
thing must be done next year to prevent
further deterioration.
Plans were submitted and approved
for Muzzev Street extension and part of
the work has been done.
The -work done on Massachusetts Ave.
from Pleasant Street to the State Road
showed very rapid deterioration caused
by the lack of cohesion in parts of the
binding material used. This condition
was shown to the manufacturer who pro-
vided more material and men (without
cost to the town) to bring the street back
to good condition.
The work planned to be done on the
south side of Massachusetts Avenue from
Waltham Street to Winthrop Road was
held up again this year by the high cost
of labor and material. If there is a suf-
ficient reduction of prices this year or if
the plans of construction are changed
this work may be finished during the com-
ing year.
No work has been done on that part
of Woburn Street intended for a State
Highway during the past year.
The Iauk of street signs and the poor
condition of a large part of those in use
is very noticeable. We hope to be able
this year by replacements and additions
to improve these conditions to the satis-
faction of every one.
Sidewalks. Considerable patching has
been done during the summer and a com-
plete new sidewalk with curbing was laid
bordering the Masonic property at the
corner of Elm Avenue and Bedford Street.
For a number of years the surface
drainage from the Bloomfield Street dis-
trict has during heavy rains, and spring
Freshets, caused more or less overflow to
the property adjacent to the Munroe
School. This summer a large drain was
laid from the school grounds to the cul-
vert under the Boston & Maine Railroad
traeks and we do not expect any further
trouble from this source.
The Moth department deserves great
eredit for the fine condition of the trees
on all streets of the town and has also
performed a large amount of private
work. The department has received the
commendation of the State Forestry De-
partment both for the tine appearance of
the trees and for the careful way in which
the work has been done.
The awards made by the County Com-
missioners to the owners of property
which was taken for cemetery purposes
have been aceepted by nearly an the par-
ties interested.
The Selectmen early in the year turned
the property over to the Cemetery Com-
mittee and the Planning Board.
By vote of the Town the State system
of municipal accounting was installed by
the Board and has been in operation dur-
ing the year 1918. This system is of
greater expense to the Town and does
not appear to be more efficacious than the
system which it replaced.
58 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
This year the citizens elected a Plan-
ning Board which in our opinion, will be
of inestimable service to the Town when
affairs' return to normal conditions.
The Selectmen wish at this time to
thank the Planning Board for the assist-
ance rendered them during the past year.
During the past year the automobile
traffie has been a serious problem in the
Police Department both on account of the
great amount of such traffic through the
Town and the small number of polies
officers.
Great credit is due to several public-
spirited citizens who were appointed
Special Police and who performed with-
out monetary remuneration, splendid ser-
vice at a number of dangerous locations
and without doubt thereby saved serious
injury if nut fatality to a great number
of people. The Board takes this oppor-
tunity to thank these gentlemen for the
interest t}iey have taken and the service
they have so efficiently performed. The
Polies Department work increases each
year and it is impossible to give proper
police protection with the small number
of officers we now have, and the Board
earnestly recommends that two officers
be added to the force not later than May
1, 1919. The Board held a conference
with Judge Keyes of the District Court
and upon his recommendation a card sys-
tem was installed in the Police Depart-
ment by which a reeord of any driver of
an automobile who is stopped for any
reason is kept, thus being able to estab-
lish in court more tangible evidence than
heretofore.
During the coal shortage last winter it
seemed to the Selectmen that the Town
could save by curtailing the street light-
ing by running the lights on a moonlight
schedule. This was tried out and as it
appeared satisfactory it has been con-
tinued throughout the year and has re-
sulted not only in saving coal but also in
saving money to the Town. The eost of
street lighting being $1,371.03 less than in
1917 with approximately the same num-
ber of street lights.
The work of the Town Engineer's De-
partment has been interrupted a great
deal on account of his inability to pro-
cure permanentassistants, those which
he had having enlisted in war service,
but even with this handicap, a large
amount of office work has been accom-
plished and during the coming season we
shall be able to do considerable new
work as well as the work which has been
held up.
It appears that the time has come for
the Town to either purchase or take by
right of eminent domain sufficient land
for a central plant containing stable,
garage, tanks, bunkers, mixing beds, and
yard room for the tools and equipment of
all the public works departments, as well
as storage for all eoal, used in the various
public buildings and a side track from
the railroad.
Such property may be obtained and
could be properly fenced and kept in
such condition that it would not be un-
sightly or objectionable to any one.
With t]ie work of all departments in-
creasing yearly, it will be but a short
time when such a plant will be absolutely
necessary.
We call the attention of the eitivens to
the fact that the land east of the Town
Hall, formerly oceupied by the Keeley
Institute is for sale and may at any time
he bought by individuals and used for
purposes that would be unsightly and
very objectionable to the citizens and an
injury to the Town. It would seem that
the Town should own this property even
if only to hold. it until such time as it. may
be of use as a site for a public building.
The Selectmen joined with the repre-
sentatives of a number of cities and towns
of the State to protect their interests in
what seems to us an unfair apportionment
of the State tax and distribution of the
income tax by a protest to the recess com-
mittee and to earry the matter to the
Legislature.
Board of Survey
The Board has approved a layout of
streets on the property called Farmhurst
SELECTMEN'S REPORT 59
on the northerly side of Middle Street but
has refused to approve the layout of
streets on the property on the southerly
side of Middle Street.
The Board has also approved a lay-
out of a street from Massachusetts Ave-
nue to Vine Brook Road on both sides
of Vine Brook as it appears to the Board
that this will make an entrance to a
large area of desirable property, which
will later bring in a substantial amount
of money to the Town in taxes.
The Board refused to approve a lay-
out of streets presented on a plan by
the Suburban Land Company on the
O'Riordan property at East Lexington
for several reasons, priueipally because
a crossing witb the Boston & Maine Rail-
road at grade would be necessary. The
Board considers thatthere are already
sufficient grade crossings in the Town.
The pians also presented a scheme to take
land belonging to the Town of Arlington.
Land development schemes present a very
serious condition which the citizens should
guard against continually as it tends to
lower valuations of the residential prop-
erty already developed and a lowering
of valuations will surely increase the tax
rate.
The Board intends to consult the Plan-
ning Board in all matters of development
and street layouts.
Overseers of the Poor
The high cost of necessities has been
particularly noticeable in this department
during the past year, both at the Alms-
house and with the outside aid.
The Board has investigated the methods
of the Charlton Poor Farm Association
which is an arrangement whereby a num-
ber of towns in Worcester County have
joined together and have Teased the Charl-
ton Poor Farm, eaeh town paying a fixed
amount each year, according to its valua-
tion, whether or not it has any inmates
at the farm and also paying board for
each inmate it may have to send to the
farm.
Any profit from the farm is divided
:among the towns belonging to the associ-
ation.
The Overseers have written a number
of our neighboring towns to ascertain if
they would be interthted in such a propo-
sition but have not received any favorable
replies, all towns stating that the idea did
not interest thein except one, which asked
for further particulars.
Mr. and Mrs. 'White, who have so effi-
ciently taken care of the Almshouse prop-
erty and inmates for thirty-five years,
have decided that they will not continue
in these duties after April 1st, so that it
will be necessary to make a change of
some kind.
It may be better in view of the changed
conditions to dispose of the Almshouse
property and to find some other way of
taking care of the inmates.
The members of the Board recommend
that they shonld be appointed a commit-
tee either with or without other citizens
with full powers to definitely settle the
matter.
WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN,
JAY 0. RICHARDS,
WILLIAM B. FOSTER.
60 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF THE
Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1919.
To the Board of Selectmen,
Gentlemen:
The following report relating to work
done by the Town Engineer's Department
for the year 1918 is respectfully sub-
mitted.
In general the Engineer's office fur-.
nishes the various Board and Committees
with such information as they may desire
in the form of plans, design, estimates,
etc. When requested the Engineer at-
tends the meetings of the several Boards.
Information has been furnished the va-
rious departments in connection with the
following matter:
Highway Department
Follen road at its junction with the
State road has been completed. Follow-
ing out the lines and grades of the En-
gineer's office the Highway department,
with the co-operation of the Massachu-
setts Highway Commission has widened
and resurfaced this junction point. Sev-
eral trees which obstructed the view were
removed, and the danger to public travel
which formerly existed, because of the
view being cut off and the narrowness of
the travelled way, is now eliminated.
In connection with the construction of
Muzzey street extension, lines and grades
were indicated for a new drain extending
from the drain in F Brest street some 800
feet to Vine Brook. This drain is a sub-
stitute for one which was formerly main-
tained on private land adjoining.
At the Masonic Building at the junction
of Elm avenue, and Bedford street, about
300 square yards of tar -concrete side-
walk and 275 feet of granite curbing
were laid from plans, ete., prepared by
the office. A sufficient amount of land
was given by the Masonic Associates on
TOWN ENGINEER
tho Bedford street side of the premises to
allow for a wider sidewalk.
During the year a drain has been laid
from the Munroe School premises through
land of Alfred Pierce to a culvert at the
Boston and Maine Railroad. Heretofore
the surface drainage from this locality
was inadequately eared for by means of
two large dry wells situated in the rear
of the Munroe School. The bad drainage
condition which formerly existed here will
be remedied by the new arrangement.
Board of Survey
Many plans and studies have been made
at the request of the Board in connection
with approval of the layout for a future
street leading from Massachusetts ave-
nue at Vine Brook to Vine Brook Road.
In order to properly study any extension
of this proposed Iayout and its connection
with adjoining territory, a detailed sur-
vey and plan was made of the territory
lying southerly of Massachusetts avenue
bounded by Waltham street, Middle street,
Highland avenue and Winthrop road, to-
gether with a portion of the Park lands
on the westerly side of Waltham street
as well as Forest and Muzzey streets.
In this connection a plan was also
prepared showing the territory included
within the following streets—Massachu-
setts avenue, Grant street, Sherman street,
Sheridan street and FIetcher avenue.
Information has also been furnished the
Board with reference to the petition for
approval of plans of ]and owned by Neil
McIntosh, known as "Farmhurst" the
same being a portion of the premises
formerly known as the Valley Field Pam.
Studies have also been made in con-
nection with the petition of the Suburban
Land Company for approval of plans of
the development of the land formerly
owned by the O'Riorden estate and situ-
REPORT OF THE
ated in East Lexington near the station
and extending across the Boston and
Maine Railroad tracks to land owned by
the Town of Arlington.
Park Department
Stone Monuments have been set to
permanently mark the boundaries of the
Reservoir lot on Middle street which was
surveyed at the request of the Board last
year.
Information has also been furnished
the department with reference to the
planting of shrubbery, grading, etc,, on
Muzzey street and Muzzey street exten-
sion.
At the request of the Board a plan of
the Community gardens was made divid-
ing the area into lots of uniform size.
Water and Sewer Board
At the request of the Board a survey
and pIan was made showing the water
shed of the brook rising on land of the
Tower estate nortbeaserly of Middle
street and flowing in a southerly direc-
tion through lands of Cotton, Dailey and
Meek to Clematis Brook. General levels
on the brook and other drainage features
were also furnished in connection with
this matter.
New Cemetery
During the spring a detailed topogra-
phical survey was made o£ the new cem-
etery site involving some 43 acres. Copies
of the map were furnished the landscape
architect, employed by the joint Plan-
ning and Cemetery Board to design the
new cemetery. Late in the year the pro-
posed road system in the cemetery was
indicated on the ground at the request
of the Planning Board and Cemetery
Commissioners.
Special Committee on Real Estate
Assessments
At the request of this Committee a
large detail plan was compiled showing
in general the more highly developed
area of the town.
TOWN ENGINEER 61
Town Nap
During the year about 200 plans filed
of record at the Registry of Deeds at
East Cambridge have been copied for
subsequent use in building up a map of
the town and for the convenience of the
various Boards of the town, partioulary
the Assessors. In the majority of cases
the official plans which accompany the
record of the laying out of our town ways,
are not on file in the town records, but
at the Registry of Deeds. As time per-
mits these plans are being copied that
our record may be complete here and
opportunity given to consult them more
conveniently. This condition is also true
in a measure witli reference to other
plans of the various properties owned
and controlled by the town.
The following streets have been sur-
veyed during the past season:—Bloom-
field Street, Highland Avenue, Winthrop
Road, Warren Street, Eustis Street, Pel-
ham Road, Eliot Road, Bennington Road,
Washington Street, Slocum Road, Perey
Road, Middle Street from Massachusetts
Avenue, to Walthein Street, and Pollen
Road at its junction with Pleasant Street
atnd Massachusetts Avenue.
In General
A plan for record was made to accom-
pany the purchase of additional land
for the Center Engine House.
In the matter of the proposed accept-
ance of Locust Avenue, detailed plans
and studies were made.
A plan was also made to accompany
the lease of the Stone crusher site on
Waltham Street.
Building Lines
Attention is again respectfully directed
to the matter of the consideration of
building lines as touched upon in Ieat
year's report.
Apparently the theory of the building
line statute is to furnish the method for
widening streets along the lines of least
resistance. In effect it permits a line
of restriction to be placed on a street
beyond which no substantial structures
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TOWN OF LEXINGTON
shall be built so that when publie neces-
sity and convenience requires it, a street
may be widened without the excessive
cost which would necessarily result if the
area taken for widening was occupied by
expensive structures.
Referring to the widths of some of our
main streets as noted in last year's re-
port it would seem that some eonsidera-
tion ought to be given to the question of
providing sufficient space on some of our
streets to accommodate the increased traf-
fic which will inevitably come with the
growth of the Town. There has been an
unusual increase in automobile traffic dur-
ing the last few years and especially com-
mercial motor trucks, all of which would
seem to indicate that we should devise
adequate means of preparing for it, not
only in the matter of wider roads but
roads which will economically withstand
the trate.
Respectfully submitted,
J. HENRY DUFFY,
Town Engineer.
REPORT OF THE TOWN COUNSEL
REPORT OF THE
Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1919.
Board of Selectmen,
Town of Lexington, Mass.
Dear Sirs:
In accordance with the provisions of
the vote of the Town passed at the Town
Meeting held January 30, 1918, author-
izing the appointment of Town Counsel,
I herewith submit the annual report pro-
vided for in said vote.
The necessity of a Town Counsel has
been clearly demonstrated during the past
year by the large number of town prob-
lems that have been referred to your
appointee for advice and counsel and the
number of legal opinions that have been
rendered. With one or two exceptions,
legal opinions have been requested and
rendered to every department of the Town
and I don't believe that it is too much
to say that a great many errors of pro-
cedure have been avoided and consider-
able expense saved to the Town by the
officers and various departments, owing
to the fact that they have consulted coun-
sel before action instead of "locking the
door after the horse has been stolen" as
has been too frequent the case in the past.
The Town has also been represented
at a number of hearings before commit-
tees at the State House on questions ef-
fecting the Town's interests and at hear -
TOWN COUNSEL
63
ings before the Public Service Commis-
sion, concerning proposed raises in fare
on the Middlesex & Boston Street Rail-
way.
There were pending against the Town
January Brat, 1918, three petitions for
damages for the taking of lands for high-
way purposes and two petitions for taking
of lands for sewer purposes as well as
several other claims of a minor nature.
During the year a petition was brought
by Katherine Wood, one of the owners
from which land was taken for cemetery
purposes and who refused to accept the
award of the County Commissioners.
The Town has also been a party to a
suit before the Industrial Accident Board,
growing out of the death of Daniel Chis-
holm, an employee of Contractor Louis
Bills, who was engaged by the Town to
repair the Fire Alarm System.
There was also a petition brought by
the executors of the H. P. Boutelle Es-
tate for the abatement of taxes assessed
on that estate for the year nineteen hun-
dred and eighteen,
A number of these matters are now in
order for trial and will undoubtedly be
disposed of during the coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT L. RYDER,
Town Counsel.
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TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Report of work done by the Police De-
partment for the year ending December
31, 1918:
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:'
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to submit the follow-
ing report:
The number of arrests
Males
Females
Residents of the town
Non-residents
Native born
Foreign born
Married
Single
Offenses for Which Arrests Were
Assault and battery
Adultery
Bastardy
Breaking and entering
Contempt of court
Cruelty to a horse
Drunkenness
Default
Deserters, U. S. A.
Gaming
Insane
Idle and Sleeping in the open
Larceny
Lewd Cohabitation
Manslaughter
Malicious mischief
Non-support
Not displaying light on vehicle
Profanity
Ran away from home
Suspicious persons
Trespass
Unlawfully earring fire arms
Violating automobile law
Violating game law
Violating probation
Violation milk bottle law 1
3
Vagrants
Disposition of Cases
Fined 112
Probation 7
Committed to the House of Correction 4
Committed to State Farm 1
Committed to State Infirmary 1
1
1
224 Committed to Shirly School
113 Committed to Jail
11 Committed to Liman School .. .. .. 3
71 Committed to Insane Hospital 4
152 Committed to State Board of Charity 1
159 Discharged by court 19
69 Plaeed on file 38
88 Released by Probation Officer 3
136 Released by Police 13
Made Now pending in Court 3
13 Nol Pressed 2
2 Turned over to Ti. S. Officers 2
1 Turned over to out of town police 7
12 Given to friends to take home 3
2 Miscellaneous Work
1 Aggregate amount of fines imposed
31 $964.43
3 Amount of property reported
2 stolen 3,876.00
7 Amount of stolen property re -
5 covered 2,002.40
2 Buildings found open and seeured 18
18 Dangerous places in streets reported 13
2 Leaks in water pipes reported 11
2 Leaks in gas pipes reported 2
2 Street fights reported out 80
3 Lost children eared for 3
1 Lanterns hung in dangerous places 7
1 Sick persons assisted 3
5 Wires reported down 7
10 Vacant houses cared for 12
4 Dead bodies taken charge of and
1 Medical Examiner called 5
84 Persons taken to hospital 4
1 The Police Officers have attended court
2 169 times and done 100 extra street du-
INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS
ties for which they do not receive any
Pay.
Conclusions
I wish to thank the Selectmen for the
kind manner in which they have treated
us and the assistance they and all others
who by their co-operation and good wishes
have assisted in the work of the depart-
ment and I wish to thank the Police Of-
ficers for the excellent work they have
done. On account of the great increase
in automobile travel we should have more
Police Officers. If the act to pension the
Police and Firemen is accepted at the
March Town Meeting, I will ask to be
retired next fall.
I am eligible to be retired for the num-
ber of years I have been in the service.
Last August, while making an arrest, I
received a serious injury, which is very
troublesome to me.
CHARLES H. FRANKS,
Acting Chief of Police.
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS
Office of Inspector of Buildings
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Lexington, Mass.
I herewith submit my report of the
inapeetion of buildings for the year end-
ing December 31, 1918. Fifty-three per-
mits were granted and two hundred
ninety-five calls made in connection with
applications and for information.
Buildings are classified as follows:
Dwellings, 1 -family 12
Dwellings, 4 -family 1
Additions and alterations 10
12
16
1
1
Stables
Garages
Tool house
Manure pit
$19,100
4,000
17,050
11,100
37,535
250
1,000
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM GRATTO,
Inspector of Buildings.
66 TOWN OF LEXLNGTON
REPORT OF
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to submit the follow-
ing report of the work done for the year
ending December 31, 1918:
Scales sealed weighing over a
5,000 lbs. 4
Scales sealed weighing under
5,000 lbs.
Computing scales
All other scales
Number of weights tested
Number of dry measures
Number of liquid measures
Pumps
Linear Measures
Slot weighing machines
30
24
50
223
4
39
16
9
2
1
1
Property in the office of the Sealer of
Weights and Measures
Twenty 50 ib. weights
Two
One
10 "
4 «
2 a(
1S(
25 «
5 fa
8 oz.
4 "
2 as
1
if
Brass
of
One 5 gal, tin measures.
Two 4 qt. measures.
Two 2 qt. measures.
Two 1 qt. measures.
Two 1/2 qt. measures.
One 1 oz. Weight brass
as y14 " If as
as 1/ a fa fa
1/16 as (a as
Two balances in ease.
Set of Metric weights
Set of Apothecary weights
One drilling machine, drills steel and
stamps. '
Two 1/2 pt. Measures.
One yard stick in case.
Paper seals, Red and Green, wires and
leads.
Two measures for measuring dry meas-
ures.
Record books.
Receipt books.
Press and measure clamp.
Fees collected
$34.32
Several test weighings have been made
in store and found to be very satisfac-
tory. Pedlers and Junk seals have been
inspected.
CHARLES E. HADLEY,
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
FIRE ENGINEER'S REPORT 67
REPORT OF BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS
Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1919.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Lexington, Mass.
Gentlemen:
We beg to submit the following report
for the year 1918.
The Department has responded to 12.4
alarms. It has laid and cared for 13,350
feet of hose; raised 1,424 feet of ladders,
and used 2,338 gallons of chemicals.
There is, at the present time, in the
Department 5,550 feet of hose which has
been tested as usual and is in good condi-
tion.
The fire loss in the Town during the
past year was the smallest for many years.
The number of chimney fires was about
as usual, but there were very few brush
fires eompared with the previous five
years.
The _lmeriean-La France truck and
the Kissel Combination have proved their
worth during the past year. These pieces
of apparatus are in excellent Condition,
and have thus far cost the Town prae-
tieally nothing for maintenance.
The Knox Pump was thoroughly over-
hauled and the permanent men remodelled
and rebuilt the body. They also painted
this piece of apparatus, thereby saving
the Town considerable expense.
Very IittIe money was required to main-
tain the American -La Franee Combina-
tion at the Massachusetts Ave. Fire Sta-
tion, and, although this piece of appar-
atus has served the Town seven years,
it is in as good condition today as when
it was newly installed.
The Fire Alarm System has been fur-
ther improved in efficiency by the instal-
lation of additional apparatus in the
Fire Alarm Room at Headquarters.
It seems proper at this time for the
Engineers to speak of the good work
which the firemen did at the time of the
Tornado which caused so much damage
in the Town of Lexington last August.
The firemen did much in clearing the
thoroughfares of debris, and in cutting
live wires which were in many instances
endangering the lives of the public.
These firemen worked from shortly
after 7 o'clock until long after midnight
before the streets were in a safe condi-
tion. Fortunately no lives were lost at
that time, but on the following day a
lineman, Daniel J. Chisholm, employed
by the Fire Department lost his life while
working on the Signal System.
Necessarily this tornado cost the .Wire
Department a considerable sum of money,
due to the destruction of the Fire Alarm
Systetu all over the Town.
The Engineers feel, now that the De-
partment is motorized, that the Head-
quarters on Merrifm Street is sufficiently
large and in such condition that it will
suffice for all needs of the Department
for several years to come.
It 'nay be compulsory at some future
date to place the Fire Alarm apparatus
in a fireproof room, but otherwise we be-
lieve that it will not be necessary to en-
large the house to any great extent.
The Engineers again remind the citizens
that they will be very glad to have them
call at the Engine Hooses so that they
may become acquainted with the appar-
atus of the Fire Department and the
methods employed in fighting fires. The
Houses are open to visitors between the
hours of 10 A. If. and 10 P. M. daily.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD W. TAYLOR,
Chief.
68 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
To the Citizens of Lexington:
The following is the report of the
Board of Health for the year ending De-
cember 31, 1918:
The Board organized, with no change
in personnel from the previous year,
with Dr. W. L. Barnes as chairman,
Chas. H. Franks and W. B. Foster.
The following officials were appointed:
Chas. W. Swan, agent to issue burial
permits, etc.
Dr. W. L. Barnes, Health Officer.
A. A. Marshall, fumigator.
E. W. Martin, in charge of odorless
east.
Harry L. Alderman, D. V. S. and Chas.
H, Butterfield, Inspectors of Slaughter-
ing.
Andrew Bain of Arlington, Inspector
of Plumbing and Milk Inspector.
A laboratory was fitted up in the base-
ment of the Town Hall, at an expense
within the appropriation, for the Milk
Inspector.
The usual nuisances• were abated and
the routine work of the Board attended
to during the year.
During the first and most severe in-
fluenza epidemic a number of eases were
taken care of at various hospitals at the
expense of the Board where it waa im-
possible to get proper care at home. The
advisability of opening a temporary hos-
pital in the old Adams Sehoot building
in East Lexington was gone into, but Lex-
ington not being as hard hit as were
some communities, this was not neces-
sary. The epidemic soon abated, but was
followed later by a new but Ieas serious
outbreak. The total number of cases
recorded does not give a good idea of
the number of cases in town, because
there were many cases before the State
Board of Health made the disease report-
able.
The following eases of contagious dis-
eases were reported during the year:
Chicken Pox 15
Diphtheria 6
Dog Bite 1
German Measles 31
Measles 36
Mumps 16
Scarlet Fever 5
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) 8
Tuberculosis (Other Forms) 1
Whooping Cough 28
Influenza 411
Phihisis 1
Pneumonia (Neuingitis) 1
Tubueular Neuingitis 1
Erysipelas 1
Grippe 3
Lobar Pneumonia 23
Total
Respectfully submitted,
WM. L. BARNES, M. D.,
Chairman.
WILLIAM B. FOSTER,
CHAS. H. FRANKS.
588
REPORT QF INSPECTOR OP MEATS
AND PROVISIONS
Dec. 3, 1918.
To the Board of Health,
Gentlemen:
The following is a report of my in-
spection and stamping of meats and pro-
visions for the year of 1918:
Holman, 36 beeves, 306 veals, 417 swine,
and 10 sheep.
Whiting, 40 swine.
Private slaughtering, 94 swine.
Twelve (12) swine, 19 beeves and 6
veals were condemned and rendered.
H. L. ALDERMAN, D. V. S.,
F. M.
BOARD OF HEALTH .
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF
SLAUGHTERING
To the Town of Lexington,
Gentlemen:
My report for the year 1918 as Inspee- .
for of Slaughtering is as follows:
Bunze1
Beeves 42
Swine 800
Veal 783
Sheep 3
Young
Beeves 51
Swine 753
Veal 136
Sheep 8
3 Beeves, 7 Veal, 10 Swine, have been
condemned rendered on account of tu-
berculosis and cholera.
C. H. BUTTERFIELD,
Inspector.
REPORT OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR
To the Board of Health,
Lexington, Maes.
Gentlemen:
1 herewith submit my report as In-
spector of Plumbing for the year ending
December 31st, 1918:
Number of applications received and
permits granted
Number of applications received on
which work has not been completed 2
Number of calls made in connection
with testa, inspections and infor-
mation 186
Inspections of old buildings have been
made where the sanitary conditions re-
quired the drainage system to enter the
sewer. The necessary changes were made
at the time of construction, and they were
promptly and satisfactorily attended to.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDREW BAIN,
56•
REPORT OF BELE INSPECTOR
To the Board of Health,
Lexington, Mass.
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my report as Inspec-
tor of Milk for the year ending December
69
31st, 1918. It has been the policy of your
Inspector to try to mace Lexington's milk
supply clean, pure, and reasonably safe.
In carrying out this policy it was neces-
sary in some instances that changes be
made in the construction and sanitary im-
provements of some of the Dairies and
Milk -plants. As to the result of these
requirements I take this opportunity to
thank the dealers for their co-operation
and willingness in making the changes
that were suggested.
I . have analyzed ninety-four (94)
samples of milk during the year, and the
results obtained from them proved the
milk to be very good quality, and re-
markably low in sediment.
License issued for the sale of
milk
Permits issued for the sale of
milk
Stores registered for the sale of
Oleomargarine
Inspection of Stores
Inspection of Dairies
25
20
8
16
12
Inspection of Milk Plants 14
Well water tested for sewage
contamination 1
Estimated number of quarts of
milk sold daily in the Town 1,850
Respectfully submitted,
ANDREW BAIN.
ODORLESS CART REPORT
Board of Health,
Town of Lexington.
Gentlemen:
I submit report for work done in 1916:
January 11 cesspools 24 loads
1 vault
February 16 cesspools 36 "
1 vault
March 18 cesspools 39
April 20 cesspools 48
4 vaults 4
May 33 cesspools 80
10 vaults 11
June 25 cesspools 42
5 vaults 5
1 a
70
July .
August
September
October
November
December
TOWN 01' LEXINGTON
12 cesspools
2 vaults
9 cesspools
3 vaults
15 cesspools
1 vault
13 cesspools
2 vaults
21 cesspools
12 vaults
6 cesspools
1 vault
21 " 104 cattle, 31 sheep, 18 goats, and 3,156
2 " swine.
21 " Six (6) cattle were condemned of Tu -
3 " beroulosis; they were rendered and stables
33 " disinfected.
1 " Hog cholera was reported
27 " herds causing their owners to
2 " herds immunized.
40 if
Thirty-six (36) cattle and one horse
in several
have their
7 " came frorn other states into the town and
15 "
1 "
Total 199 cesspools 426 loads
42 vaults 38 "
Financial Report
August 8-3
September 1-19
September 20-30
October 1-31
November 1-30
December 1-31
Total
9 loads @ .15
22 " " .15
12 "
29 " " .25
47 " f' 25
16 " °° .25
$L35
3.30
3.00
7.25
11.75
4.00
$30.65
And I enclose cheek for $30.65 in full
payment for year 1918.
Respectfully submitted,
ERNEST W. MARTIN.
REPORT or ANIMAL INSPECTOR
To the Selectmen of Lexington,
Gentlemen:
In my annual inspection in 139 stables
the following animals were inspected, 1, -
quarantine released.
H. L. ALDERMAN, D. V. S.
REPORT OF FUMIGATOR
To the Board of Health,
Town ai Lexington, Mass.
Gentlemen:
191. T hereby8: submit my report es Fumiga-
tor for the year ending December 31,
Number of cases fumigated Six (6),
requiring the fumigation of Seven (7)
rooms.
One (1) case of tuberculosis, requir-
ing the fumigation of one (1) room.
Three (3) cases of Diphtheria, requir-
ing the fumigation of four (4) rooms.
One (1) case of Scarlet Fever, requir-
ing the fumigation of one (1) room.
One (1) case of Cholesytitis, requiring
the fumigation of one (1) room.
Respectfully submitted,
ARHUR A. MARSHALL,
Fumigator.
CEMETERY COMIMITTEE 71
REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE
Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1918.
To the Honorable Board. of Selectmen:
Lexington, Mass.
Gentlemen:
In addition to the usual care of the
Cemeteries the Committee were obliged
to care for sixty trees that were blown
down by a severe wind storm which oc-
curred August 7th. The trees were strewn
in every manner on the grounds and in
many eases tipped over monuments which
had to be reset and repaired to the best
of the ability of the Committee. The
wood from these trees was sold and the
receipts turned over to the general care
of the Cemetery.
There have been Six (6) lots sold dur-
ing the year and Three (3) lots placed in
perpetual care. There has been a little
more than the usual amount of grading
and foundation work this past year.
The Cemetery Committee has had the
sum of $2,256.25 to expend on the Ceme-
teries and have spent the amount of
$1,771.50. We respectfully recommend
an appropriation of $1,800.00 for the
care of the Cemeteries for the year 1919.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR A. MARSHALL, Supt.,
LESTER E. SMITH,
G. W. SPAULDING.
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF TREE WARDEN
The work of this department has been
greatly handicapped this year because
it has been impossible to secure com-
petent help, particularly climbers, to do
such trimming and repair work that would
have ordinarily been done. It requires
experienced men to do this sort of work
properly, and unless it is done properly,
it is better left undone. Only about one-
half of the appropriation for this work
has therefore been expended.
In August, a gale of unprecedented
force passed through the town, and in
consequence many large and valuable
trees were blown down or broken to such
an extent as to make their removal neces-
sary. It has been possible to remove only
such of the trees and broken limbs as
were a menace to publie safety, and
much remains to be done as soon as ca-
pable help can be obtained.
A large number of trees continue to
be injured by electric wires passing
through the tops, causing them to be
charged and in some cases burned. This
has been referred to in previous reports,
and is a matter that should receive the
serious consideration of the citizens of
the town. There should be a clearly de-
fined policy with respect to the manner
in which wires carrying a high voltage
can be carried through the town.
A. E. ROBINSON,
Tree Warden.
December 31, 1918.
PLANNING BOARD 73
REPORT OF PLANNING BOARD
The Planning Board organized on April
2, 1918, and between this date and the
close of the year held twelve meetings,
eight of wbieli were joint meetings with
the Cemetery Committee. Numerous in-
formal meetings of various members of
the Board have been held.
Upon a number of occasions members
of the Board of Selectmen, Board of Sur-
vey and Park Board have met with the
Planning Board, and upon other occa-
sions members of the Planning Board
have met with other Boards.
The principal work of the Planning
Board has been in connection with the
Cemetery Committee, serving as a joint
board under vote of the Town to lay out
the new cemetery.
At the time the Planning Board was
established, the Town assigned to it in
co-operation with the Cemetery Commit-
tee the task of securing plans for the de-
velopment of the new cemetery. Owing
to the demands of this work, the Board
has naturally given to the Cemetery pro-
ject the major portion of its time. Meet-
ings of the joint committee, conferences,
interviews, visits to cemeteries in this
vicinity and elsewhere have been very
nearly continuous with the result that a
report will soon be ready. Plans are
nearing completion, and it is hoped that
a full report with plan of the proposed
lay -out and draft of rules and regula-
tions for handling the matter may be in
the hands of the citizens prior to the an-
nual town meeting. It is expeeted that
the plan of development will be at that
time suffieiently complete to enable the
Town, provided it accepts the same, to
take definite action looking toward actual
work of construction.
Aside from the fact that the work upon
the new cemetery has taken the major
part of the Board's time and attention,
it is to be remembered that the Planning
Board is a new one with no traditional
or well-defined lines laid down for its
work. The inevitable result has been to
require time to feel out the situation
vhieh confronts the Town, and to deter-
mine to what line or lines the Board
could best devote its time and effort.
The Board is without any real power
in connection with any matter, and must
content itself with recommendations and
suggestions to be put into effect by the
Town, and while numerous matters hav-
ing to do with the welfare of the Town
as the Board coneeives it have been con-
sidered and gone into to considerable ex-
tent, it seems wise at the present time
not to dwell upon matters that at pres-
ent can only he considered as possibili-
ties.
At the very outset of its work, the
Planning Board encountered the neces-
sity for an adequate map of the Town,
and until such a map can be produced,
cry little of real value can be accom-
plished in the intended line of activity
of a Planning Board.
Lexington has large areas of unde-
veloped land,—farms that were once op-
erated hnt are now in the market for
development. These areas will go to hap-
hazard, cheap development, each area to
he developed upon a plan largely its
own and without due regard to the devel-
opment of adjoining areas, unless they
he considered as a whole, Iaid out with
proper reference to the topography and
served by a Comprehensive system of
roads. The Board of Survey, upon whom
devolves the responsibility for improving
development ]ay -outs, cannot properly
pass upon the same and should not be
charged with responsibility therefore in
the absence of a proper and sufficient plan
of the Town.
74
TOWN OP LEXINGTON
New lines of highway should be devel-
oped to relieve the traffic on Massachu-
setts Avenue and to open up outside areas,
but here again, nothing can be done with-
out a Town map.
The Planning Board urges with all pos-
sible emphasis the necessity for immedi-
ately providing for such a map. The
Town Engineer is doing what he can in
this direction, but with the force at his
command and other duties devolving upon
him must necessarily require a long time
in its preparation. In our opinion, a
special appropriation is justified to in-
crease the engineer's force to enable him
to make immediate progress to this end.
The duties of Planning Boards, as
specified in the law, are "To make careful
studies of the resources, possibilities and
needs of the Town, particularly with re-
spect to conditions which may be injur-
ious to the public health or otherwise in-
jurious in and about rented dwellings,
and to make plans for the development
of the municipality with special refer-
ence to the housing of its people,"
The Homestead Commission and tlie
Federation of Planning Boards both point
out the importance of a town map, top-
ographical and showing existing streets,
railways, parks and undeveloped land,
as a basis for a careful study of future
developments; and that the board should
forecast developments needed at least fifty
years in advance of any given time. Such
developments should be, when adopted by
the town, laid down on the map as the
basis of procedure.
It is further pointed out that it is the
absence of such planning, and the fore-
sight it brings into play, which is re-
sponsible for the chaotic conditions so
generally found. In practically every
other respect we find careful planning in
advance. Municipal development is the
exception, where accident or the inter-
ests of a developer dictate what is tp rule
the Town for good or ill for centuries.
We plan our homes, which have a compar-
atively short life. We have left to chance
the laying out of our streets, which last
practically forever. When an old es-
tablished street is changed it is at a fright-
ful east.
The foregoing sets forth the general
purposes of a Planning Board, No one
can dispute the wisdom of the course out-
lined. The Board hopes, without any
power of its own, that it can justify its
continued existence by the wisdom of its
suggestions, plans and activities.
Respectfully submitted,
FREDERICK L. EMERY,
EDWARD T. HARTMAN,
CHRISTOPHER S. RYAN,
HOWARD S. 0. NICHOLS.
CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 75
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE
CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
• The circulation of books was unusually
large in 1918, and seemed scarcely af-
fected by the great war, and the special
activities which it imposed upon all. Be-
sides the routine work of the library this
past year has been busy with extra ser-
vices to meet wax -time conditions. The
quality of service given has been note-
worthy as well as the amount for the li-
brary staff have an honorable pride in
rendering cheerfully any help to readers
and inquirers after information. In addi-
tion to caring for and distributing the
collection of books under their charge
they regard themselves as assistants to
the public in every proper way wher-
ever guidance or advice may lighten the
labors of readers, or make their researches
profitable and efficient. Tliis kind of aid
cannot he summed up in statistics, and yet
it forms a considerable part of the duties
of the library staff. An important per-
manent addition to the group of librarians
was made by the appointment of Miss
Katherine Buck as Children's Librarian.
As the advantages of direct contact with
the children are unlimited a desk has been
placed in the children's room for her use.
Miss Buck had experience as substitute
librarian, and took a special course at
Simmons College, before entering upon
her new duties last September.
As "Conservation" has been the watch-
word for alI for some time, we have con-
tinued our conservation helps during the
year. Books, pamphlets and posters have
been exhibited and circulated, and quan-
tities of government publications have
been freely given to the public.
Appreciating the aim of the modern
publie library to be a common meeting
ground for town activities we welcomed
the opportunity to assist the work of the
Red Cross. As Buckman Tavern couId
be kept open but two days of each week
we were very glad to receive and dis-
tribute yarn and receive packages of fin-
ished articles.
We undertook the sale of thrift stamps,
the capital with which we worked being
supplied by Mr. Hallie C. Blake. At the
Main Library, 632 stamps were sold, and
at the Brandi 284, making a total of 916.
We hope it may be continued during the
current year. In the interests of fuel
conservation several of the smaller or-
ganizations have held meetings at the
library. This privilege extended by the
Trustees has been much appreciated.
The many exhibitions which have been
held at the Library have elicited much ap-
preciation and much effort has been ex-
pended to keep something of interest be-
fore the public. Aside from the exhibits
which come to us through our member-
ship in the Library Art Club we have had
an interesting collection of war trophies
which have been brought or sent from the
other side. Those who have so generously
Ioaned us these trophies are mentioned
in the report appended.
Through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs.
.1. Henry Duffy we have been privileged
to exhibit interesting doeuments and pos-
tal cards having historical value. The
coins and medals loaned us by Mrs. Henry
Simonds and Mr. George L. Gilmore have
been very tine specimens enjoyed by all.
Believing that the various industries
are little known to the public as a whole,
we have been endeavoring to collect such
educational exhibits as it is possible to
secure. Responses to our request have
been very gratifying and we hope to se-
cure many more as.thev are brought t6
our attention.
The most pressing needs of the library
is a decided and early increase of its en-
dowed funds. It is now fifty years sinee
the Library was founded and although
•
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76
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
it has developed in importance and size,
its invested funds amount only to $16,-
942.50, the income from which in 1918
was $559.26. This is a small sum con-
trasted with the proper requirements of
our Lexington population. To be sure,
the proceeds of the dog -tax are also avail-
able for library uses, and these have
amounted to about $750.00 in recent
years. Even with this additional fund,
however, the sum actually available for
the purchase of books is seldom more
than $800, because the expense for sub-
scriptions to magazines and periodicals,
and for binding books, with other neces-
sary charges, reduces the amount at the
disposal of the trustees, especially as a
measure of prudent management a small
reserve of one or two hundred dollars
must be maintained. If $1,200 could be
used yearly for buying books there would
be at once apparent a marked awakening
of interest in the Library through the
increased accessions of new books and
the much wider usefullness that a more
rapidly growing collection of books would
assure. This is only an increase of fifty
per cent but it would require a doubling
of the endowment at once to provide for
it. The future of the Town must also be
considered and plans be laid for an ac-
cumulation
e-cumulation of invested funds equal to
fifty thousand dollars. And if this can-
not be gathered at once our citizens should
be reminded that a small bequest in their
wills for the Library endowment would
serve as a permanent memorial to their
name, and forever make them active con-
tributors to the intellectual welfare of
their beloved Town, This anniversary
year, the semi -centennial of the founda-
tion of the Library, is surely an oppor-
tune time to solicit the co-operation of
our fellow-eitizens in strengthening and
assuring the expanding usefulness of our
Library.
Respectfully submitted,
For the Trustees,
JOHN M. WILSON,
Chairman.
GIFTS
From Mr. Hallie C. Blake—Letter
from Theodore Parker to Prof. Edward
Desor of Switzerland. Interesting also
because it is written on birch bark from
the White Mountains.
Collection of 5,000 photographs on art
and arehiteeture:
From Mrs. Ralph G. Wells—Auto-
graph letter of Louisa M. Aleott. Auto-
graph letter of Booker T. Washington.
Prom Mrs. A. E. Scott—Collection of
photographs and photogravures.
From Mr. J. Willard IIayden—Framed
portrait of Miss Alice Butler Cary.
Prom Mrs. Henry Simonds—Water
color painting by Miss Caroline Hunt
Rimmer.
Gifts of books from the following:
American Ambulance Field Service—
Mrs. Grace Cook—Miss Mabel P. Cook
—Prof. W. M. Dixon—Miss Ellen E.
Doe—Mr. Francis Deane—Mr. E. C.
Farnsworth --Dr. F. S. Piper—Mrs.
Henry Simonds—Mr. Hollis Webster --
Mr. G. C. Worthen.
CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN OF CARY
MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Statistical Report 1918
Branch Library:
Accessions by purchase:
New books
Books to replace old copies
Periodicals
Main Library:
Aeeessions by purchase:
New books
Books to replace old copies
Periodicals
Accessions by gift
461
36
31
528 Accessions by gift
51
Books disearded and withdrawn
Net increase
In Library Dec. 31, 1917
Periodicals, bound
Periodicals, unbound
Philosophy and Religion
Biography
History
Travels and Description
Social sciences
Natural sciences
Arts, useful
Arts, recreative
Arts, fine
Language and Literature
Poetry
Fiction
Music scores
Stereographs. (Seta)
• Representing 6,411 pictures
77
26
3
3
32
5
Books discarded and withdrawn
570
36 Net increase
In Library Dec. 31, 1917
543
37
3
34
3,006
27,058 _
Total number of volumes in Main
27,601 Library and Branch
Circulation 1918
Home use
Main
Library
156
3425
351
781
2330
638
352
432
612
207
185
822
301
28743
230
78
39643
Home use
through
Branch
5
12
27
139
32
3,040
30,641
Home use
from
Branch
112
353
.13
16
118
65
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Total circulation Main Library 42,784
Total cirulation Main Library
and Branch 45943
Total circulation from Children's
room 10,797
Number of days Library was open:
Main Library 302
Branch Library 253
Registration 1918:
Main Library:
Adult 2,334
Juvenile 648
Temporary 248
Withdrawn:
Adult
Juvenile
Temporary
162
149
200
3,230
511
Registration Main Library, Dee.
31, 1918 2,710
Registration 1918
Branch Library:
Adult 892
Juvenile 274
Withdrawn:
Adult
Juvenile
666
24
32
Registration Breneb Library, Dec.
31, 1918
Total registration Main Library
and Branch
14 Miscellaneous
1 66 Main Library:
16 46 Periodicals subscribed for
8 44 Periodicals given
11 Newspapers subscribed for
29 52 Newspapers given
7 10 Books rebound
2851 2253 Books repaired
Books lost by borrowers 6
Books borrowed from other libraries 20
Books loaned to other libraries 4
Periodicals bound 25
PostaIs sent delinquents for over-
due books 999
Pasta's sent for books reserved 825
Stereographic pictures used in
Children room (Friday after-
noons only) ' 12,987
Branch Library:
'
Periodicals subscribed for 23
Periodicals given 1
Newspapers subscribed for 1
Newspapers given 1
Books rebound 32
Periodicals bound 3
Books repaired 126
Exhibits in Main Library:
From membership in Library Art Club:
Panama exposition—Longman's war
pictures — Algiers — F. Hopkinson
Smith's drawings—Renaissance door-
ways: Italian—War pictures—No. 1
War pictures No. 2----Rbodesia—Bel-
gium, No. 2—Hungary—Colonial fur-
niture—Kindergarten set—Advertising
posters—Marclien Bruner' (}airy tale
fountain).
Exhibits loaned by individuals:
Soy bean exhibit—Artificial silks made
from wood pulp ---Loaned by Mr. G.
56 C. Worthen.
610
3,329
62
7
3
1
403
3,774
3141
3159
Trophies of the European war—Loaned
by Mr. F. L. Emery—Rev. C. W. Col-
lier—Mrs. Henry Simonds—Mr. G. L.
Gilmore --Mr, and Mrs. J. Henry Duf-
fy—Young People's Soeiety of Han-
cock Church—Mrs. W. T. Crowther—
Mrs. G. L. Thnrlow--Mr. S. B. Bige-
low.
French war posters—Loaned through the
courtesy of Mr. E. G. Preston.
Respectfully submitted,
MARIAN P. KIRKLAND,
Librarian.
CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
79
REPORT OF THE
TREASURER OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Income
January 1, 1918.
Balance on hand
Dog Tax
Interest on bank deposit
Investment Com. Int. on bonds,
etc.
Investment Coin. Int. on Brig-
ham fund
Pines
Expenditures
Bindery
Books
American Library Assoc.
Library Art Club
Express
Laundry
Library of Congress
Music
Newspapers and Periodicals
$199.09
807.12
8.43
414.62
Postage
Printing and supplies
Cash balance in Bank
75.66
90.89
201.64
$1,752.39
EAST LEXINGTON BRANCH
100.20 January 1, 1918.
222.93 Balance on hand
Investment Com. Interest
$1,752.39
$247.42
805.55
5.00
6.00
20.11
1.48
30.00
13.22
255.42
Books
Cash Balance in Bank
$41.25
44.44
$85.69
$40.02
45.67
$85.69
GEORGE E. BRIGGS,
Treasurer of the Cary Memorial Library.
Examined and approved,
CHARLES F. PIERCE,
Town Accountant.
80 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF TRUSTEES - CARY MEMORIAL
INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
January 1, 1918.
Balance:
Principal Funds
December 31, 1918.
Income for the year:
Interest on bonds
Interest on Saving's Bank De-
posit
Interest on Lexington Trust Co.
Deposit Saving's Dept.
$16,942.50
400.00
139.06
20.20
$559.26
$17,501.76
Payments:
(leo. E. Briggs, Treasurer 559.26
Balance December 13, 1918 $16,942.50
Accounting viz:
Bonds:
B. & M. 41/2 due 1919 (Receiver
for R.R.) Nos. 77-78-79
Interest defaulted 3,000.00
West End 4 per cent due 1932 Nos,
60-70-71 3,000.00
B. & A. 4 percent due 1933 Nos.
M. 79-M 80 2,000.00
Am. T. & T. Co. 4 per cent 1929
Nos 67742, 68799, 67832 3,000.00
Bedford Town Notes 4 per cent No.
37 due Aug., 1919 1,000.00
No. 38 due Aug., 1920 1,000.00
Deposit at Lexington Savings Bank
Cary Library -Robbins Fund -
E. Lexington Branch -Book 1476
100.00
Gary Library. Book Purchase Fund
Book 1522 1,000.00
Cary Library. Beal Fund. Book
2235 1,000.00
Wellington Fund. East Lexington
Branch. Book 5123 1,000.00
Gary Library -Portion of Maria
Cary Fund. Income Reserve.
Book 6940
Deposit in Savings Dept.
Lexington Trust Co.
Cary Library, Balance of Laura
Brigham Fund. Book 840. 500.00
342.50
$16,942.50
Investment Committee.
HALLIE C. BLAKE,
JOHN M. WILSON,
JAY O. RICHARDS,
Examined and approved,
CHAS. F. PIERCE,
Town Accountant.
PARK COMMISSIONERS
REPORT OF PARK COMMISSIONERS
To the citizens of the Town of Lexington:
In view of the conditions existing dur-
ing the past year, your Board of Park
Commissioners have endeavored to ad-
minister their department with extreme
conservatism and economy and in conse-
quence cannot report any such extended
development of the Parks and Play-
grounds as has been their privilege in
the past. We can, However, report the be-
ginning of a new entrance to the Park
lands at the foot of Muzzey Street, acting
with the abutters in accordance with the-
agreement
heagreement whereby this land was given
to the Town. We have moreover made a
suceessful planting of 1,000 pine seed-
lings which we hope to make the nucleus
of a nursery from which in the future the
Town may draw for its shade and orna-
mental trees. We have spent consider-
able time in a careful pruning and cut-
ting down of the trees under our juris-
diction where they were proving detri-
mental to the healthy growth of others
and in some cases an absolute menace to
public safety bemuse of their decayed
condition.
The Battle Green and Buckman Park
have had their usual are and attention
and been kept up to the high standard
that these spots deserve. The Playgrounds
have been kept open omitting however,
the paid supervision and instruction of
previous summers. This step was taken
because we could anticipate but a slim
attendance owing to the enrollment of
children in the "War Garden" and other
war work. The Community Gardens
were again the scene of great activity with
a much increased acreage under cultiva-
tion. In spite of the unseasonable frosts
they were remarkably productive and al-
ready we are reeeiving applications for
additional plots for the coming season.
81
The several other tracts of Park Land
have received such attention as was ab-
solutely necessary and with the co-opera-
tion of our Town Engineer, surveys have
been made, bounds established, and maps
drawn to make our record of Park Areas
more complete.
We wish to emphasize in closing that
the brevity of the above report does not
indicate any lack of interest or let up in
work on the part of your Board of Park
Commissioners and request your careful
study of the Treasurer's report. You
will note therein that nearly two-thirds
of our appropriation was used for the
payment of labor. 'fhe distribution of
these expenditures required our constant
thought and supervision that it might be
most eflieient. Of the remaining thousand
dollars over $500 was required to make
the absolutely neeessaxy repairs to the
Cottage occupied by our Superintendent
and in the purchase of a motor lawn
mower. Without this latter we would
have been unable to keep the lawns in
shape owing to the. labor shortage. An-
other $100 was used to assure the con-
tinued growth of the newly seeded lawn
on Buckman Park, with a second hundred
for trees, shrubs, grass seed, etc., for
various parts of the Park system. This
left us roughly hut. $300 for incidental
expenses and the purchase of necessary
supplies, That we accomplished what we
did and kept within our appropriation is
a source of gratification to us and we
trust satisfactory to the Citizens of Lex-
ington.
Respectfully submitted,
J. ODIN TILTON,
WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN,
EDWARD WOOD,
Park Commissioners.
82 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
TREASURER'S REPORT FOR YEAR
Receipts
Cash on hand January 1, 1918
Appropriated
Rentals
Sale of gravel
1918
$11.77
2,788.23
102.00
9.40
$2,911.40
Expenditures
Pay roll $1,685.91
Outside Labor 173.88
Trees and Shrubs 97.27
Fertilizer 95.00
Motor Lawn Mower 280.26
Repairs to Cottage 263.36
Toboggan Slide (Labor and Mate-
rial) 60.50
Playground Supplies 19.90
Lumber 11.64
Horse hire 46.25
Repairing flags 13.78
Repairing Drinking Fountain 18.90
Raising and Lowering. Flag poles 28.00
Water Department 10.93
Signs
Miscellaneous
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1919
Summary
Belfry Hill
Community Gardens
Centre Playground
East Lexington Play-
ground 60.00
Muzzey Street Exten-
sion 208.00
Buckman Park 440.00
Supt. Cottage
Battle Green 392.00
Common to all 82.00
6.55
97.15
$2,909.25
Labor
$72.00
178.00
428.00
$2.15
Other
Expenses
11.64
33.90
22.27
95.00
263.36
135.90
487.18
$1,860.00 $1,049.25
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM E. MILLIREN,
Treasurer.
WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF
WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS
The Board of Water and Sewer Com-
missioners herewith present their report
of the operations of their departments
for the year 1918:
WATER DEPARTMFNT
General summary of the finances for
the year. ending December 31, 1918:
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATING
ACCOUNT
Receipts
Schedule A-1918 Items $24,888,79
Expenditures
Schedule B -Maintenance Ex-
penses 28,836.19
Excess Expenditures over Re-
ceipts
,Appropriation, reimbursement
on account of thawing ser-
vices and mains
$3,947.40
4,500.00
Balance
1916-1917 Items collected in
1918, Schedule A
$552.60
1,383,34
1917 Cash balance forward 1,595.66
$3,531.60
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT
Expenditures
Schedule C
1917 Cash balance in Con-
struction Aeeount
Transferred from 1918 Oper-
ating Account
$1,971.76
$1,953.59
1.8.17
$1,971.76
CASH STATEMENT
1916-1917 Items collected in
1918 $1,383.34
1917 Cash balance forward 1,595.66
Cash, 1918 Operating Account 552.60
Less amount transferred to
1918 Construction Account 18.17
$3,531.60
In hands of Town Treasurer
Cash on hand in Department
$3,513.43
$3,399.55
113.88
$3,513.43
SCHEDULE "A"
Detail of Revenue from WATER RATES and MISCELLANEOUS Accounts
Total
Collected Rebated Unpaid Committed
1917 Water Rates $1,048.13 $97.45 0 $1,145.58
Guarantees 292.72 165.42 458.14
Miscellaneous Items 42.49 10.00 52.49
$1,383.34 $272,87 0 81,656.21
84
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Collected
1918 Items
Water Rates $21,553.57
Guarantees 231.15
Hydrants 1,990.00
Troughs 100.00
Repairs to Services 494.85
Sale of Junk 44.37
Turning on Water 64.00
Rent of Land 90.00
Sale of Water 38.01
Miscellaneous 282.84
$26,272.13
Rebated. Unpaid
$649.92 $239.95
164.54
120.48
Total
Committed
$22,443.44
395.69
1,990.00
100.00
494.85
44.37
64.00
90.00
38.01
442.32
$922.79 $524.97 $27,719.89
SCHEDULE "B"
Detail of MAINTENANCE and OPER-
ATING Expenses
Metropolitan Tax *9,398.37
Interest on Debt 4,906.00
Labor 3,269.55
Maintenance of Horse and Wagon 598.55
Maintenance of Ford Automobile 467.61
Stock 993.78
Freight 37.07
Insurance 343.33
Leak Locator 90.00
Rent of Land (B. do M. R. R. Yard)
195.00
Thawing services and mains
Salaries
Office Expenses
Miscellaneous
SCHEDULE "C"
Detail of CONSTRUCTION
Labor
Large Iron Pipe
Meters
Gates
Hydrants
Lead Pipe
Small Iron Pipe
Small Pipe Fittings
Other Stock
Miscellaneous
4,715,34
2,736.31
354.36
730.92
$28,836.19
Expenses
$1,119.63
26.24
465.75
10.00
61.70
192.48
517.41
294.05
383.98
49.51
$3,120.75
Receipts from Installing services
$1,192.07
Leas excess deposits returned 43.08
$1,148.99
$1,971.76
DETAIL OF UNPAID ITEMS
In obedience to a vote of the Town,
passed in 1907, a complete list of those
who have failed to pay their bills is given
herewith, being the total amount so out-
standing at the close of the books of the
Department, December 31, 1918.
Water Rates
Norutnbega Park Company $202.01
Andrew W. Green 3.00
Fair Oaks Realty Company 11.26
Paid since books closed 20.68
Rebated since books closed 3.00
Guarantees
Norris F. Cowley
Henry L. Stone
Louis Lawrence
J. Betheldo
Faria Brothers
Mary Basher
F. Traverse
Paid since books closed
$239.95
$20.60
7.67
7.00
4.77
29.93
29,93
29.93
34.71
$164.54
WATER AND SEWER. COMMISSION ERS 85
Miscellaneous
Thomas E. Stretton
Paid since books closed
$36.48
84.00 "Not yet acquired by the Town
1916 St. Margarets Avenue 6 520
1917 Rawson Avenue 6 175
$120.48
Total Amount $524.97
EXTENSION OF MAINS
There were no Mains laid during 1918.
LENGTHS OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF
WATER MAINS IN, USE Dee, 31, 1918
Diameter Length
12 inches 9,000 feet
10 inches 4,879 feet
8 inches 30,643 feet
6 inches 109,674 feet
4 inches 27,794 feet
Smaller sizes 4,209 feet
The foregoing does not include exten-
sion of the mains in Private Ways, a list
of which is given herewith:
Year Location Size L'gth
Made Inches Feet
1911 Wilbur Properties 6 5,000
1913 Mariott St. Hayes Est. 6 537
1914 York Street 6 622
1914 Webb Street 6 373
1914 Follen Road' 8 4,790
1915 Baker Avenue 6 912
1915 Locust Avenue 6 410
1916 Off Follen Road 6 455
1916 Arcadia Avenue 6 1,508
WATER METERS
In obedience to the law all new ser-
vices installed and placed in use were
equipped with meters.
The following table slows the progress
made since 1906 in the installation of
meters:
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
Of
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
Number of Services
702
738
780
838
910
961
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
which there were Metered:
96 1913 •
245 1914
362 1915
475 1916
615 1917
752 1918
1083
1113
1156
1206
1245
1264
843
947
1063
1139
1231
1264
Average gross income, per service, per
year :
1907 $21.40 1913 $18.18
1908 20.54 1914 18.70
1909 21.60 1915 17.37
1910 22.20 1916 17.24
1911 21.36 1917 17.72
1912 19.38 1918 17.05
MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY CONSUMPTION OF WATER
PER CAPITA
Year Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May
1906 71 73 70 68 74
1907 68 72 73 70 72
1908 48 56 51 58 75
1909 48 52 59 64 69
1910 58 65 59 72 78
1911 63 64 64 67 82
1912 70 75 79 80 83
1913 52 55 55 63 60
1914 59 60 58 60 77
1915 61 58 58 60 63
1916 58 60 62 64 69
1917 63 65 69 67 72
1918 77 114 106 87 92
June July
74 96
82 85
109 105
84 101
73 119
80 115
101 107
68 86
93 73
80 63
71 73
77 93
94 89
Aug.
88
105
83
90
94
93
74
82
63
63
81
90
87
IN GALLONS
Sept. Get.
76 74
76 65
91 70
75 62
85 84
81 75
66 57
76 66
75 66
70 68
76 75
74 73
76 64
Nov. Dec.
65 54
62 51
65 51
55 50
71 75
77 62
56 56
63 60
63 60
62 60
69 65
71 70
63 58
86
HYDRANTS
TOWN OF, LEXINGTON
The following Hydrants were in ser-
vice on the dates given:
January 1, 1918 Public, 195; Private, 25
January 1, 1919 Public, 199; Private, 22
MOVEMENT OF THE BONDED DEBT
The debt movement up to the present
time is as follows:
Added Paid Net Debt
1896 original bond issue $200.000.00
1896 10,000 210,000.00
1897 1,000 209,000.00
1898 10,000 1,000 218,000.00
1899 2,000 216,000.00
1900 2,000 214,000.00
1901 10,000 2,000 222,000.00
1902 5,000 3,000 224,000.00
1903 53,000 4,000 273,000.00
1904 8,200 264,000.00
1905 5,200 8,200 261,800.00
1906 2,000 19,300 244,500.00
1907 18,300 226,200.00
1908 13,000 15,700 223,500.00
1909 8,600 16,700 215,400.00
1910 17,900 197,500.00
1911 16,000 17,900 105,600.00
1912 32,000 18,900 208,700.00
1913 4,800 21,700 191,800.00
1914 . 8,500 22,900 177,400.00
1915 4,000 19,400 162,000.00
1916 3,000 20,400 144,600.00
1917 4,000 21,400 127,200.00
1918 19,700 107,500.00
Summary:
Original Debt
Total Additions
$200,000.00
189,100.00
Total Indebtedness Incurred $389.100.00
Total Payments made 281,600.00
Balance of Debt Dec. 31, 1918 $107,500.00
Amount to be paid in 1919 $18,200.00
VALUE OF THE PLANT
The estimated value of the plant
at the close of 1917 as given in
the report of that year was:
$255,000.06
Additions in 1918 1,971.78
Value Dec. 31, 1918 $256,971.76
STOCK AND TOOLS ON HAND
Stock; valued, at $2,500.00
Tools, valued at 300.00
Horse and Wagon 300.00
Automobile 400.00•
$3,500.00
The Commissioners present the follow-
ing estimate of receipts and expenses for
the year 1919:
Estimated! Receipts
Unpaid forward
Water Rates
Guarantees
Hydrants
Troughs
Repair Work
Miscellaneous
$640.85
21,500.00
200.00
2,000.00
100.00
200.00
159.15
$24,800.00
Estimated Expenses
Metropolitan Water Tax $10,000.00
Interest on Bonds 4,234.00
1919 payment on $4,500 appro-
priation for thawing 1,500.00
Labor 3,666.00
Stock and Tools 500.00
Maint. of Horse and Wagon 500.00
Maint. of Automobile 400.00
Office Expenses' 400.00
Salaries 3,000.00
Insurance 300.00
MiseeI1aneous 300.00
$24,800.00
WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS 87
Estimated Expenses
Construction
Hydrants
Gates and boxes
Meters
Other Stock
Labor
Tools and Repairs
$250.00
500.00
750.00
599.55
1,200.00
100.00
$3,399.55
Summary :
1918 Cash balance forward. (In
hands of Town Treasurer) $3,399.55
Less Dept. Working balance 2,500.00
Balance available for Construc-
tion work in 1919 $899.55
Estimated Construction Expenses
$3,399.55
Less amount transferred from
899.55
Operating Account
Amount to be provided by bond
issue or otherwise $2,500.00
On aecount of the extreme cold of last
Winter, the Department was put to a
most unusual expense of approximately
$4,700. This being an extreme emergency
which involved the life and safety of the
people and their property, the Board
felt that it should be reimbursed from the
Tax Levy. The Finance Committee, how-
ever, were of the opinion that the Water
Commissioners should provide for this
expense by revenue from the Water De-
partment, if necessary increasing the rates
charged the consumers for water.
The Town appropriated the sum of
$4,500 to be reimbursed from the revenues
of the Water Department at the rate of
$1,500 per year for the years 1919, 1920
and 1921.
With strict attention paid to economy,
in spite of increased costs of labor and
material, the Department shows practi-
cally the same eash balance with which it
entered the year. By the continuation of
the same policy this next year, the Board
hopes that it may be able to make the
1919 payment of $1,500 from its operat-
ing income; if not, the rates will have to
be increased before the year is over.
Inasmuch as a large part of the ex-
pense was due to freeze ups on private
property, the hoard believes that this part
of the expense should in the future be
paid for by the consumer. This policy
has been adopted by the Board and the
consumers notified to this effect.
During the past year the Board has
lowered several of its pipes where the
covering had been reduced during past
years by the lowering of the grades of
the highway, and by doing this has re-
duced somewhat the liability of freeze ups
in its distributing mains.
In its report in 1915, the Board dis-
cussed the condition of the concrete stand-
pipe. They desire that this matter be
kept in mind and recommend that the
structure be made permanently tight as
soon as finances permit.
The Board expects but few requests
for extensions during the coming year.
It must, however, add several gates in
order that its system may be more flexible,
making repairs possible without shutting
off the water to a large number of con-
sumers. This, by the way, is only a part
of the work that eventually must be done
to bring the system up to the maximum
• of efficiency. The Board referred to this
in its report of 1913.
There will be requests for a few ser- .
vices which require meters, materials and
labor. The Board estimates that they will
need about $2,500 and will ask the Town
for an issue of Bonds to provide these
additions to its water system.
BROOK DEPARTMENT
Financial Statement Year ending Dec,
31, 1918:
1917 balance forward $9.62
1918 Appropriation 300.00
$309.62
0
88
Expenses:
Payroll
Miscellaneous
TOWN OP LEXINGTON
$293.16
11.72
$304.88
Cash balance on hand with the
Town Treasurer 4.74
$309.62
In 1914 the Town appropriated $2,000
for the improvement of the Vine, Sickle,
North Lexington and Clematis Brooks
and since there has been appropriated
each year:
1915
1916
1917
1918
$1,522.56
500.00
300.00
300.00
The result of the work is manifested
by the large amount of land which has
been made available for farming pur-
poses. Last year the Board requested
$400 for Maintenance, but the Finance
Committee recommended only $300.
The result has been that on account of
the increased cost of labor and the re-
duced appropriation, all the brooks have
not received the attention that was neces-
sary to maintain the work done in 1914.
The results are apparent, and if the 'town
does not wish to lose what it has done,
it must this year increase its appropria-
tion to $700 in order that the work may
be brought back to its original condi-
tion.
The Board receives constantly requests
for help along other brooks and feels
that where individuals have shown suf-
eient enterprise to help themselves, that
the 'l'own should in turn do its share.
This is particularly true of the farms
drained by the Munroe Brook between
Lowell, Maple and Woburn Streets where
Mr. Ryder has spent $1,400.
SEWER DEPARTMENT
Main Sewer Construction
Financial Statement
1917 balance brought forward $2,193.22
Expenses
Land Damages $31.54
0. G. Seeley 4.10
McClintock & Woo dfal l 887.27
$922.91
Balance, Cash on hand 1,270.31
$2,193.22
During the installation aY the sewer,
the Commissioners were able to settle all
elaims for damages except that of the
Estate of James P. Munroe and the
Breek-Robinson Nursery Company. These
parties having brought suit against the
Town, the jurisdiction of making a set-
tlement automatically passed from the
Board of Water and Sewer Commission-
ers to the Board of Selectmen who now
have this matter in hand.
In its report of 1916 the Board out-
lined that the extension of the sewer sys-
tem should follow the plan of sewer dis-
tricts rather than making individual street
extensions. The Board understands, how -
over, that the Board of Health will insist
that a sewer be built in Sylvia Street dur-
ing the coming year. It is estimated that
this work will cost $1,500, and the Board
will ask for an appropriation to do this
work.
SEW ER MAINTENANCE
Maintenance of System and Construction
of House Connections
Financial Statement
1receipts :
From Deposits $380.00
Less excess deposits re-
turned 26.13
------- $353.87
WATER
Additional Payments
Sewer Rentals
Miscellaneous
1917 Items Collected
1917 Cash balance forward
Less Expenses:
Stock
Office Expenses
Labor
Miscellaneous
AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS
3.92
383.72
62.70
33.17
$821.38
35.98
$863.36
139.81
5.00
458.28
214.43
$817.52
Balance, Cash in hands of Town
Treasurer $45.84
Value of Stock and Tools on hand
Stock, valued at $50.00
Tools, valued at 44.00
$90.00
During the past year but eight new
connections to the Sewer system were
89
made. This brings the total number of
connections up to 84, of which 74 are in
actual operation.
At the time the Town voted to build the
sewer system, there were 213 buildings
which could be connected and it is a mat-
ter of deep regret to the Board that only
74 connections have been made. This is
undoubtedly due in part to the high cost
of material and labor. To relieve this
somewhat, the Board suggests that the
Town give consideration to an issue of
Bonds, to aid the abutter in making con-
nections. Such bonds can be issued cov-
ering a period of years thus permitting
an abutter to pay for same over a period
of time.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD H. MARA,
ALBERT B. TENNEY,
WILLIAM H. BURGESS,
Board of Water a.nd Sewer Commis-
sioners.
t
90 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
1918
ASSESSORS' REPORT
The Assessors hereby render their an-
nual report.
Real estate of resident
owners $6,342,509.00
Real estate of non-resident
owners 1,170,690.00
Personal estate of resident
owners 793,811.00
Personal estate of non-
resident owners 205,627.00
Total valuation
Gain on real es-
tate
$52,327.00
$8,512,637.00
$52,327.00
Town grant 243,943.50
State tax 22,110.00
Eire prevention tax 77.92
County tax 10,957.22
Highway tax 1,78151
Metropolitan sewer
tax 5,946.00
Metropolitan water
tax 0,398.37.
Auditing Municipal
account tax 500.17
Overlay 2,317.24
Amount to be raised $297,031.93
From which deduet
amount taken from
Bank and corpora-
tion tax $15,000.00
From Cambridge 313.44
From Arlington 277.82
State of Mass. in-
come tax 1918 54,937.39
State of Mass. in-
come tax 1917
balance 804.00
State of Mass., Con-
nerney estate 52.98
Water receipts 9,398.97
$80,784.00
Total to he raised
Rate of taxation $25.00 on
$1,000.00 on a valuation
of $8,512,637.00
1716 Polis at $2.00
$216,247.93
$212,815.93
3,432.00
Amt. committed to Collector $216,247.93
Tax on Omitted assessments,
Dee. 20, 1918 416.25
Number of residents assessed
on property 1,416
Number of non-resident
sessed on property 1,060
Whole number of persons as-
sessed on property 2,476
Number assessed for poll tax
only 1,013
Number assessed for poll and
property 703
Whole number assessed for
poll 1,716
Number of cows assessed 966
Number of horses assessed 177
Number of meat cattle other
than cows assessed 112
Number of swine assessed 033
Number of fowl assessed 4,090
Number of dwelling houses
assessed 1,364
Number of acres of hind as-
sessed 9,242
Value of real estate exempt
from taxation , $140,600.00
Value of real estate belong-
ing to town $470,325.62
Value of personal property
exempt from taxation $22,000.00
GEORGE H. JACKSON,
HENRY E. TUTTLE,
FREDERICK J. SPENCER,
Assessors.
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TAX COLLECTOR
REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR
I herewith submit my report as Collec-
tor of Taxes for the year 1918:
All taxes, previous to the Commitment
of April lst, 1918, have been collected.
The law does not require an itemized
list of valuations to be placed on back
of Tax Bills.
The Assessor's Publie Book shows how
the tax is made up and can be seen dur-
ing office hours at Town Hall.
If there is dissatisfaction as to amount
of Tax the Assessors should be seen.
It is the duty of a Collector to follow
the law in regard to payment of Taxes.
Time is granted for good reasons but
not later than April lst of each year.
1917 TAX
Uncollected Jan. 1st, 1918 $43,840.53
Collected in 1918 $42,186.96
Abated in 1918 834.76
Tax Liens held by Town 818.81
$43,840.53
1918 TAX
Amount Committed Sept. 17th,
1918 $216,247.93
93
Omitted Tax of Dee. 20th, 1918 416.25
Total $216,664.18
Collected to Jan. 1st 1919
$176,685.87
Abated to Jan. 1st, 1919
703.60
Tax Liens held by Town 405.62
Lneolleeted Jan. lst, 1919
38,869.09
$216,664.18
GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTH
1917
Uncollected Jan, 1st, 1918 $302.57
Collected in 1918 302.57
GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTH
1918
Amount Committed Sept. 17th,
1918 $1,683.05
Collected to Jan. lst, 1919
$1,362.86
Abated to Jan. 1st, 1919 1.66
Uncollected Jan. lst, 1919 318.53
-X1,683.05
BYRON C. EARLE,
Collector of Taxes.
94 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
FINANCIAL REPORT, TRUSTEES OF THE
PUBLIC TRUSTS, 1918
Dee. 31 Eleanor S. Beals Legacy
—Principal Account $2,000.00
Principal if fund invest-
ed in $2,000 City of Lynn
4s 2,000.00
ELEANOR S. BEALS LEGACY—IN-
COME ACCOUNT
Receipts
Apr. 1 Cash received for coup-
ons on $2,000 City of
Lynn 4s $40.00
Apr. 18 Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest
on account 15.50
Oet. 1 Cash received for coup-
ons on $2,000 City of
Lynn 4s 40.00
Oet. 19 Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest
on account 14,88
$110.38
Disbursements
Dec. 31 Cash paid at various
dates for charitable ob-
jects $158.85
Excess of disbursements
over receipts 48.47
Balance of Income De-
cember
o-eember 31, 1917 828.10
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1918 779.03
Harriet R. Gilmore Legacy
—Principal Account 500.00
Principal of fund deposit-
ed in Lexington Savings
Bank, book number 6949 500.00
HARRIET R. GILMORE LEGACY—
INCOME ACCOUNT
Receipts
Apr. 18 Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest
on account 5.60
Oat. 19 Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest
on account • 25.92
$31.52
Disbursements
Dec. 31 Cash paid at various
dates for charitable ob-
jects $33.17
Excess of disbursements
over receipts $1.65
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1917 280.81
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1918 $279.16
Charles E, French Legacy
Principal Account $4,000.00
Principal of fund invest-
ed in $4,000 Town of Lex-
ington 4s 4,000.00
CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY—
INCOME ACCOUNT
(Cemetery)
Receipts
Apr. 1 Cash received for inter-
est
nterest on $2,000 Town of
Lexington 4s $40.00
Apr. 18 Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest
on account 9.86
. TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS
Oct. 1 Cash received for inter-
est on $2,000 Town of
Lexington 4s 40.00
Oct. 19 Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest
on account 8.36
May 14
July 29
$98.22
Disbursements
Cashpaid to A. A. Mar-
shall $100.00
Cash paid to A. A. Mar-
shall 25.00
$125.00
Excess of disbursements
over receipts 26.78
Balance of Incoine De-
cember 31, 1917 493.46
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1918 $466.68
CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY -IN-
COME ACCOUNT
(School)
Receipts
Apr. 1 Cash received for inter-
est on $2,000 Town of
Lexington 4s
Apr. 18 Credited by
Savings. Bank
est on account
Oct. 1 Cash received
est on $2,000
Lexington 4s
Oet. 19 Credited by
Savings Bank
est• on account
$40.00
Lexington
for inter.
7.38
for inter -
Town of
40.00
Lexington
for inter -
7.14
$94.52
Disbursements
June 27 Cash paid to William C.
Dorrety, for medals $59.00
Excess of receipts over
disbursements $35.52
96
Balance on Income De-
cember 31, 1917 369.34
Balance on Income De-
cember 31, 1918 $404.86
Jonas Gammell Legacy-
Principal
egacyPrincipal Account $500.00
Principal of fund on de-
posit in Lexington Sav-
ings Bank, book number
7044 500.00
JONAS GAMMEL LEGACY - IN-
COME ACCOUNT
Receipts
Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for inter-
est on account:
April
October
$3.70
23.92
Disbursements
Cash paid on account of
almshouse inmates, as un-
der:
Aug. 23 N. J. Hardy
W. K. Hutchinson
Nov. 21 Lester E. Smith
Dee. 31 Est. H. V. Smith
$27.62
$1.27
1.06
1.10
3.72
$7.15
Excess of receipts over
disbursements $20.47
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1917 18518
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1918 $205.65
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS
Receipts
Jan. 31 Edward P. Nichols
(1916) $75.00
Apr. 16 John A. Sweetser, Lot
No. 195 100.00
July 17 Frederic W. Tower, Lot
No. 39 100.00
'96
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Dec. 7 H. A. C. Woodward, Lot
No. 387B 50.00
Dee. 18 George • Irving Tuttle,
Lot No. 386V 100.00
$425.00
Amount of funds Decem-
ber 31, 1917 18,010.00
Amount of funds Decem-
ber 31, 1918 $18,435.00
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS -IN-
COME ACCOUNT
Receipts
San. 31 Received from Lexington
Trust Co. for interest on
accounts $66.33
Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest:
April $49.24
October 685.68
$734.92
$801.25
Disbursements
Cash paid to A. A. Mar-
shall, as under:
Apr. 18
July 29
Dec. 27
$250.00
250.00
6.23
$506.23
Excess of receipts $295.02
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1917 2,080.29
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1918 $2,375.31
George 0. Smith Legacy
-Principal Account $2,500.00
Principal of fund invest-
ed, as under:
$2,000 Chicopee 4s 2,000.00
Deposited in Lexington
Savings Bank, book No.
5887 500.00
$2,500.00
GEORGE 0. SMITH LEGACY -IN-
COME ACCOUNT
June 1 Cash received for inter-
est on $2,000 Chicopee
4s $40,00
Dec. 1 Cash received for inter-
est on $2,000 Chicopee
4s 40.00
Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for interest
on account:
April .54
October 21.56
$22.10
$102.10
Disbursements
Nov. 21 Cash paid Field it Gar-
den Club $105.00
Excess of disbursements $2.90
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1917 47.51
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1918 $44.61
Hayes Fountain Fund -
Principal Account $862.72
Principal of fund on de-
posit in Lexington Sav-
ings Bank, book No. 5260
862.72
HAYES FOUNTAIN FUND -INCOME
ACCOUNT
Receipts
Credited by Lexington
Savings Bank for inter-
est on account $38.22
Disbursements
.00
$38.22
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1917 84.38
Balance of Income De-
cember 31, 1918 $122.60
LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOL-
ARSHIP FUND
Balance reported in 1917 $52.27
Interest credited by Lex-
ington Savings Bank 1.10
Received from Arthur H.
Carver, Supt of Schools:
100 U. S. Liberty Loan
4%s (converted into 4%s
from 2nd 43) 100.00
Cash for coupon thereon 2.00
Total Fund, December 31,
1918 $155.37
Invested as under:
100 U. S. 41/4s $100.00
Bruce Wellington note 50.00
Lexington Savings Bank 5.37
$155.37
97
ELIZABETH B. GERRY FUND
Balance reported in 1917
$1,493.87
July 1 Received from sale of
land 550.00
Total of Fund December
31, 1918 $2,043.87
Invested, as under:
DeVeau note $1,400.00
650 U. S. 4%s 626.33
Accrued interest pd. 4.07
Lexington Savings Bank 13.47
$2,043.87
FRANK D. PEIRCE,
F. FOSTER SHERBURNE,
JOHN F. TURNER,
Trustees of Public Trusts.
Examined and approved
CHARLES F. PIERCE,
Town Accountant.
98 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF BRIDGE
CHARITABLE FUND
Principal Account *4,000.00
Invested as under:
$2,000, City of Quincy 4s 2,000.00
Mortgage of Caroline Welling-
ton, Tr 2,000.00
$4,000.00
Income Account
February 1
Interest $2,000 Quincy 4s $40.00
April 4
Interest Wellington notes 62.50
April 18
Interest Lexington Savings Bank 16.28
August 1
Interest $2,000 Quincy 4s 40.00
October 8
' Interest Wellington notes 62.50
October 19
Interest Lexington Savings Bank 14.96
$236.24
Income from Gerry Fund
April 18
Rent of land $24,00
May 1
Interest Lexington Savings Bank 1.86
Interest Deveau note 42.00
October 19
Interest Lexington Savings Bank .26
November 1
Interest Deveau note 42.00
$110.12
$346.36
Disbursements
Cash paid for charitable objects
$307.58
Cash paid for legal services 107.20
Excess of disbursements
Balance of Income December
1917
$414.78
68.42
31,
1,364.10
Balance of Income December 31,
1918 $1,295.68
FRANK D. PEIRCE,
F. FOSTER SHERBURNE,
JOHN S. TURNER,
Examined and approved,
CHARLES F. PIERCE,
Town Accountant.
Trustees of the Bridge Charitable Fund.
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT 99
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
TREASURER'S RECEIPTS
TAXES
Current Year
• Polls
Personal property
Real estate
Previous Years
Polls
Personal property
Real estate
FINES
Police Court $276.16
$2,468.00 $276.10
19,071.02 GRANTS AND GIFTS
155,146.25 Dog licenses $897.12
$170,685.87
$268.00
1,702.68
40,422.03
$42,452.71
k ROM COMMONWEALTH
Bank
Corporation
Income (1918)
Ineome (1917)
LICENSES
Junk
Pedlars
Milk
SIaughtering
Carriage
Theatre and bowling alleys
Park
Circus
All others
Permits
Marriage
Liquor
$2,724.12
5,202.41
54,186.78
1,005.00
$63,118.31
$282,250.89
$400.00
11.00
16.50
230.00
15.75
30.03
15.00
5.00
95.90
$807.12
OTHER GENERAL REVENUE
City of Cambridge (tax) $326.52
Commonwealth of Mass. (tax) 54.46
Town of Arlington (tax) 289.40
$070.38
$2,622.81
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
Moth (1917) $302.57
Moth (1918) 1,362.86
Sewer (1917)
Sewer (1918)
Sewer (in advance)
Sidewalks
Sidewalks
Sidewalks
(1916)
(1917)
(1918)
$1,665.43
$1,234.76
335.71
366.82
$1,937.29
$72.51
169.99
329.37
$571.87
$4,174.59
DEPARTMENTAL
1$825.15 GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Collector
$42.00 Certificates
2.00 Returned premium on bond
$44.00
$7.00
50.00
$57.00
100 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Town Hall
Rent
Rent, Masonic Hall
Refund
$124.50 Labor
75.00
Fire Department
Alarm boxes
Reimbursement thawing pipes
Rent, Village Hall
Apparakts at forest fires
$199.50
$195.00
3.09
35.00
784.25
$1,017.34
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND
MEASURES
Fees $29.31
MOTH DEPARTMENT
Commonwealth of Mass. ac-
count of work on highway
Old barrels, arsenate of lead
TREE WARDEN
Labor
Wood
$45.24
23.60
.75
390.00
ALMSHOUSE
Produee
Reimbursement for board
Board Highway Dept. horses
Cow
Reimbursement thawing pipes
$761.62
$1,182.55
300.70
600.00
118.76
3.79
$2,205.80
OUTSIDE AIII -
Reimbursement From Commonwealth
Temporary Aid $50.00
Mothers' Aid 830.95
CITY OF BOSTON
$880.95
$68.84 Temporary Aid $17.15
Mothers' Aid 18.00
City of Cambridge Temporary Aid 21.59
$55.42
41.50
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Commonwealth of Mass. re-
imbursement
Refund
Cleaning cesspools
$96.92
$97.14
1.75
30.65
$129.54
SEWER MAINTENANCE
Receipts $853.51
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Watering cart
Old barrels
State highway labor
Pipe and freight
Use of roller
Use of teams
$50.00
94.50
40.00
128.37
10.00
48.00
$56.74
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
State aid, reimbursement Com-
monwealth of Mass. $589.00
Soldiers' burials, reimburse-
ment Commonwealth of Mass. 200.00
SCHOOLS
Tuition, State wards
Junk
Reimbursement thawing pipes
Vocational Schools, reimburse-
ment
Tuition, individuals
Furnaces
Town of Burlington, tuition
Town of Bedford, tuition
School tickets
$789.00
$238.70
6.70
9.90
177.67
40.00
200.00
307.6'3
2,730.68
438.96
$4,150.29
LIBRARIES
Rent, Stone building
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT 101
Deferred taxes and moth assess -
$16.00 ment 1,242.01
Sewer assessment 202.49
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
Rent of shed
Rent of cottage
Community gardens
$55.00
20.00
27.00
$102.00
$11,414.36
UNCLASS1Ir1ED
Rent, Bacon real estate $208.00
Returned premiums, insurance 122,03
Commonwealth of Mass., sol-
dier's exemption 9.60
$2,673.57
LOANS
Anticipation of Revenue $140,000.00
Anticipation of Bond Issue,
new cemetery 6,000.00
Engine house land 1,000.00
New cemetery bonds 10,000.00
Premium on bonds 7.00
$157,007.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT
$429.63 Cemetery, perpetual care, $350.00
WAT1al DEPARTMENT
Meter rates $24,200.51
Miscellaneous, services, guar-
antees, eta 2,882.21
Sale of materials 14.43
Repairs, etc. 251.17
CEMETERIES
Sale of lots
Care of lots
Old fence and wood
Gradings, foundations
Interments
$27,348.32
$325.00
690.35
51.50
82.40
127.00
NEW CEMETERY
Rent of houses
Grass
INTEREST
Deposits
$1,276.25
$133.G0
5.00
$138.00
$1,414.25
$1,229.08
REFUNDS
Interest $50.u0
Total receipts $4$9,741.42
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1918 53,865.15
$543,606.57
EXPENDITURES
DEPARTMENTAL
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Sel ect men
Salaries
Stenographer
Stationery and postage
Printing and advertising
Auto hire
Bureau of Dept. Reports
(membership)
$400.00
758.00
144.22
121.55
16.00
15.00
$1,454.77
ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
Accountant
Salary
Clerical services
$1,200.00
8.00
102
Stationery and postage
Steel cabinet
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
14.73
168.25
Auditing Municipal Accounts
tax
$1,390.98
500.17
$1,891.15
LAW DEPARTMENT
Salary $250.00
Legal advice 299.03
$549.13
TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT
Salary
Stationery and postage
TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT Printing
Bond
Express
Salary
Stationery and postage
Printing
Bond
$1,100.00
90.45
81.75
80.00
$1,352.20
COLLECTOR'S DEPARTMENT
Salary
Stationery and postage
Printing
Auto hire
Bond
$1,466.66
189.78
72.99
1.50
100.0(1
$1,830.93
ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT
Salaries
Stationery and postage
Printing
*Real estate transfers
Carfares, teams, etc.
Writing public hook
$1,900.00
19.91
90.18
49 .92
28.95
100.00
$2,188.96
OTHER FINANCE OFFICES AND
ACCOUNTS
Certifying notes
Legal adviee
Printing
Advertising
$36.00
35.00
20.50
18.25
$109.75
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Stationery and printing $116.65
$1,350.00
75.95
41.27
4.00
1.25
$1,472.47
ELECTION AND REGISTRATION
DEPARTMENT
lieg'istrars
Election officers
Stationery and postage
Printing
.Mals
Booth lights
$150.00
195.00
10.64
178.94
87.00
16.25
$637.83
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Salary, engineer
Clerks
Cases for office
Carfares, etc.
Printing
Signals
Plans, blue prints, etc.
Office supplies
$1,800.00
976.00
194.50
28.21
46.81
141.24
208.96
72.95
$3,466.67 ,
PLANNING BOARD
Magazine subscription $3.75
TOWN HALL
Janitors
Labor,
Fuel
Light.
Janitor's supplies
Repairs
Water rates
$1,235.50
12.50
728.37
159.83
76.85
184.49
14.42
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Telephone
Express and removing ashes
Shrubs
Furniture
Ice
Hags
Stationery
173.22
32.06
9.00
25.84
29.70
58.72
1.84
BOARD OF SURVEY
Printing
Auto hire
$2,742.34
$10.66
12.00
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries:
Chief
Patrolmen
Special officers
Matron
Auto hire
Equipment for men
Light
Stationery, printing, postage
Telephones
Subscription Auto Lists
Legal services
Hospital expense
Meals for prisoners
Traveling expenses
Medical attendance
Hardware, towels, cups, etc.
Directory
$22.66
$1,351.65
7,586.40
4.50
6.00
$8,948.55
65.35
53.85
53.81
03.40
202.80
36.00
25.00
94.00
35.00
4.72
30.00
19.47
2.50
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries and wages:
Engineers
Regular men
Call men
Horse hire
$9,634.54
$250.00
6,894.14
1,587.50
$8,731.64
111.10
Equipment and repairs:
Apparatus
Hose
Equipment for men
Alarm boxes, ete.
Construction
Fuel
Light
Freight, cartage
Maintenance of buildings:
Repairs
Furnishings
Laundry work
Sewer and water
103 •
$1,553.74
686.15
61.07
535.99
403.50
559.24
80.93
17.71
$3,898.33
143.77
56.34
72.99
28.50
Power for blowing fire whistle 60.00
Hardware, gasoline, etc. 82.51
Cleaning cesspool
Gravel and ashes
Plants
Rent of land and expense
Thawing pipes
6.30
8.00 -
2.50 '
55.09
3.09•
$519.09
Stationery, printing and postage $35.30
Telephones 69.35
Medical services 10.15
Firemen's Herald 2.50
Hydrant service 1,990.00
Fire prevention tax 77.92
VILLAGE HALL FIRE STATION
Maintenance of building:
Fuel
Light
Building repairs
Engine house land
231.93
8.25
32.04
$272.22
1,000.00
$16,717.60
INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS
Salary, inspector $500.00
Printing 14.50
$514.50
104
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND
MEASURES
Salary
Stationery
Dies
Auto hire
$100.00
5.65
2.69
30.00
$138.34
GYPSY AND BROWN -TAIL MOTH
EXTERMINATION
Salaries and wages:
Superintendent
Labor
Clerks
$1,161.50
4,132.55
200.00
$5,494.05
Stationery, printing and postage 10.70
2,331.00
17.25
60.34
218.00
7.05
265.25
Insecticides
Hardware and tools
Gasoline and oil
Teams
Cartage and express
Carriage hire
TREE WARDEN
Labor
Hardware and tools
Trees
$8,403.64
$505.63
5.33
15.00
FOREST WARDEN
Fighting fires
Telephone
Use of fire apparatus
DOG OFFICER
Collecting dog licenses
$525.96
*380.40
44.81
784.25
$1,209.4'5
*50.00
$50.00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Salaries, Board of Health $150.00
50.00
6.00
35.64
38.46
112.00
Agent
Stationery and postage
Printing
Telephone and express
Medical attendance
Contagious diseases:
Hospitals $180.25
Cities and towns 131.64
Birth and death returns
Salary, plumbing inspector
Fumigation
Lowering brooks, labor
Repairs on cart
Burying dead animals
Examining cultures
Ambulance service
Dose
Labor and material
Inspection:
Animals $200.00
Meat and provisions 1,109.00
Milk 200.00
Milk room 99.91
311.89
17.50
500.00
32.50
304.88
73.93
19.50
30.00
25.50
28.80
300.50
1,608.91
$3,646.01
SEWER MAINTENANCE
Stationery, printing and postage $5.00
468.28
19.08
178.85
9.50
Labor
Pipe and fittings
Insurance
Repairs
Connections:
Pipe and fittings
Excess deposits
$136.81
26.13
162.94
Metropolitan sewer tax 5,946.00
$6,789.65
SEWER CONSTRUCTION
$31.54
227.68
663.69
Land damage
Engineering and inspection
Surveys, plans, estimates
$922.91
HIGHWAYS
Salaries and wages:
Supervisor •
Commissioners
Labor
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
$600.00
300.00
15,536.17
$16.436.17
317.50
600.00
619.39
8,939.99
3,558.79
2,368.56
1,441.30
469.99
23.57
78.78
70.92
18.00
14.00
165.00
1.44
Auto hire
Board of horses
Teams
Broken stone, gravel, tarvia, etc.
Equipment and repairs
Hay, grain and straw
Construction
Tar patching
Supervision auto truck scale
Freight and cartage
Fuel
Recording deeds
Supplies and printing
Rent of land
B. d& M. R. R. expanse
Muzzey Street repairs
Watering troughs
Commonwealth Highway tax
SIDEWALKS
Construction
Cement
Lumber
Gravel
$35,123.40
34.80
100.00
1,781.51
$1,661.67
52.0
7.70
17.50
$1,738.87
SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL
Labor
Teams
STREET LIGHTS
Street lighting
CHARITIES
Salaries of overseers
$1,451.73
621.62
$2,073.35
$9,517.33
$300.00
105
Outside relief:
Stationery, printing, post-
age 8.62
Groceries and provisions 574.17
Coal and wood 181.59
Board and care 916.25
Medicine and medical at-
tendance 128.55
State institutions 20.57
Cash aid 1,534.00
Hospitals 131.50
Boots and shoes 4.1.35
Auto hire 12.50
Burials 88.50
Aid for other cities and
towns 76.29
Mother's Aid, by town 872.711
Mother's Aid, by other
cities and towns 242.36
ALMSHOUSE
Superintendent
Labor
Groceries and provisions
Dry goods and clothing
Building repairs
Fuel and light
Hay and grain
Livestock
Water
Fertilizer and seeds
Telephone
Carriage hire, freight, cartage
Repairing wagons
Hardware
$4,828.95
$600.00
345.01
668.04
21.05
74.88
290.14
817.39
260.20
14.88
45.09
65.52
10.17
23.48
4.47
$3,240.32
$8,369.27
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Veterans' pensions
State aid
Soldiers' relief
$842.40
1,406.00
42.00
$2,290.44
106 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
SCHOOLS
General Expenses
Superintendent
Secretary
Truant officer
Stationery, printing, postage
Telephone
Traveling expenses
Nurse and school census
Clerk of committee
School physician
$740.00
474.30
75.00
238.64
194.34
109.16
270.00
87.50
300.00
$2,488.94
Teachers' Salaries
High School $14,064.71
Elementary Schools 22,404.72
$36,469.43
Text Books and Supplies
(High) Text and reference books 465.21
[ High) Supplies 781.08
(Elementary) Text and ref-
erence books
(Elementary) Supplies
$1,246.32
$1,144.38
1,642.19
$2,786.57
Transportation 5,574.62
Janitors' Salaries
High School $1,267.31
Elementary Schools 3,013.28
Fuel and Light
High School
Elementary Schools
$4,280.59
$2,206.14
2,399.27
$4,605.41
MAINTENANCE, BUILDINGS AND
GROUNDS
High School
Repairs
Janitors' supplies
Water and sewer
Hardware, express, eartage
Removing tree
Elementary
Repairs
Janitors' supplies
Water and sewer
Removing ashes
Flag
Hardware
14.07
10.00
$1,199.94
$455.88
314.10
285.20
87.85
20.12
9.15
$1,172.30
Furniture and Furnishings
High School $23.59
Diplomas and graduation ex-
ercises, 151.64
Dinner supervision 232.50
Vocational schools 68.26
$60,300.11
LIBRARIES
Cary Memorial Library and Branch,
Salaries and Wages
Librarians $1,200.00
Assistants 1,662.78
Treasurer 25.00
Janitors 994.92
Buildings
Fuel
Light
Repairs
Furnishings
Water rates
Removing ashes
Cartage
Stationery, printing,
Janitors' stipples
Office supplies and ice
Express
Traveling expenses
$3,882.70
$412.55
242.01
164.57
21.20
33.08
34.30
3.60
telephone 67.56
68.94
10.06
14.55
60.00
$1,132.42
$971.26 Repairs (Special) Stone building $383.88
27.86
176.75 $5,399.00
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Treasurer, Cary Memorial Li-
brary (dog licenses) 807.12
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
Labor
Equipment
Manure, seed, loam
Trees
Grain and salt
Repairing flags and cannon
Water rates
Hardware and paint
Signs and express
Expense on flagstaffs
Mason work
Gasoline and repairs on mower
Repairs on fountain
Cottage repairs and toboggan
slide
Teams
Lumber
UNCLASSIFIED
April Nineteenth
Lexington Drum Corps
Refreshments
Powder
$1,819.16
323.28
95.00
96.20
10.13
27.35
10.93
20.86
7.62
28.00
28.00
21.69
17.95
327.81
58.88
16.39
$2,909.25
$50.00
11.25
1.50
MEMORIAL DAY
Post 119, G. A. R.
TOWN REPORTS
Printing
Express
Delivering reports
Insurance
$62.75
$250.00
$442.10
5.18
30.00
$477.28
3,164.55
BACON REAL ESTATE
Water rates $13.41
Repairs 34292
Thawing pipes 81.68
-$438.01
Light
Poles
Telephone
Printing
STATE GUARD
SUNDRIES
107
$21.58
7.50
7.95
3.75
$40.78.
Office supplies, stationery,
printing, all departments 84.35
Fireworks (Victory Celebra-
tion)
80.00
$1'64.:10
$4,597.67
WATER DEPARTMENT
Maintenance
Superintendent
Clerk
Stationery and postage
Printing and advertising
Telephone
Gasoline, ear repairs
Labor
Teams
Pipe and fittings
Meters and fittings
Equipment and repairs
Freight
Rent of land
Metropolitan water tax
Fuel
Interest
Meals for men
Analysis of water
Legal services
Insurance
Rebates
Excess deposits returned
Thawing mains
Manure, charcoal, etc.
$1,933.32
802.99
264.62
75.99
18.00
310.53
5,427.21
951.51
251.84
427.13
1,201.75
58.11
195.00
9,398.37
98.51
4,906.00
56.10
20.00
5.00
343.33
23.42
38.79
2,042.08
25.38
$28,874.98
108
Construction
Labor
Pipe and_fittings
Meters and fittings
Repairs
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Anticipation of bond issue
(cemetery)
General loans
TOWN SCALES
CEMETERIES
Superintendent
Labor
Loam
Shrubs, ete.
Tools
Stationery, stamps
Printing
Repairs
Water rates and repairs
Carriage hire
$1,148.66
1,425.92
548.46
$3,123.04
170.83
11,127.38
$15,962.68
$31,998.02 MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS
Temporary Loans
$10.00 Anticipation of revenue $150,000.00
Anticipation of bond issue 6,000.00
General Loans 23,450.00
Public Service Enterprises
Water bonds and notes $19,700.00
$150.00
1,277.34
62.75
51.90
50.63
18.53
15.75
28.66
114.44
1.50
$1,771.50
New Cemetery (Layout and Develop-
ment of)
Architect $326.31
New Cemetery (Land, Etc.)
County Commissioners $39.50
14,682.50
560.25
• 5.33
14.30
9.20
Land
Legal services
Water rates (house)
Signs
Carpenter
INTEREST
Temporary Loans
Anticipation of revenue
$15,311.08
AGENCY
County tax
State tax
$199,150.00
$10,957.22
22,110.00
$33,067.22
TRUST AND INVESTMENT
Cemetery, perpetual care funds $350.00
ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST
FUNDS
Salary, Clerk of Trustees $50.00
Typewriting 6.00
Stationery, printing 6.78
Rent of safe 10.00
$17,408.89 Interest
$4,664.47
REFUNDS
$72.78
$422.78
$50.00
Total expenditures .$499,503.44
Cash balance, Dec. 31, 1918 44,103.13
$543,606.57
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS
Licenses and Permits
Finanee Committee
Committee on Highways
Committee on New Cemetery
Selectmen's Department
Accountant
Treasurer
Collector
Assessors
Law Department
Town Clerk
Board of Survey
Engineering Department
Elections and Registration
Town Hall
Town Hall Repairs
Fittings for Town Vaults
Planning Board
Police Department
Fire Department
Fire Department (new hose)
New Fire Apparatus
Hydrant Rentals
Village Hall (Fire Station)
Inspector of Buildings
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Moth Suppression
Insect Pest Extermination
Tree Warden
Forest Fires
Dog Officer
Health Department
Vital Statistics
Inspection of Cattle
Inspector of Slaughtering
Inspector of Plumbing
Inspector of Milk
Inspector of Milk (room)
Sewer Maintenance
Sewer Construction
Lowering Brooks
Salaries of Commissioners
Highway Department
Summer Street Extension
Massachusetts Avenue Repairing
Massachusetts Avenue Improvement
109
Transfers and Expenditures
Receipts and Transfers Balance
$894.15 $894.15
150.00 .$116.65 33.35
500.00 500.00
52.03 52.03
1,800.00 1,454.77 345.23
1,400.00 1,390.98 9.02
1,450.00 1,352.20 97.80
1,973.94 1,830.93 143.01
2,200.00 2,188.96 11.04
850.00 549.03 300.97
1,500.00 1,472.47 27.53
212.75 22.66 190.09
4,000.00 3,466.67 533.33
660.00 637.83 22.17
3,284.50 2,742,34 542.16
669.88 669.88
11.50 11.50
25.00 3.75 21.25
9,876.16 9,634.54 241.62
14,602.34 13,377.46 1,224.88
15.00 15.00
.37 .37 --
2,000.00 1,990.09 10.00
335.00 272.22 62.78
525.00 514.50 10.50
179.31 138.34 40.97
9,72427 8,403.64 1,320.63
800.40 800.00
846.92 525.96 320.96
1,209.46 1,209.46
50.00 50.00
2,304.54 1,389.72 914.82
75.00 17.50 57.50
600.00 200.00 400.00
1,482.00 1,109.00 373.00
500.00 500.00
200.00 200.00
100.00 99.91 .09
889.49 843.65 45.84
2,193.22 922.91 1,270.31
309.62 304.88 4.74
300.00 300.00
34,836.62 34,832.80 3.82
7,180.47 7,180.47
164.77 164.77
10,000.00 10,000.00
• 110 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Woburn Street Improvement
Muzzey Street
Sidewalks
Snow Removal
Street Lights
Watering Troughs
Stone Crusher
Salary of Overseers
Support of Poor
Outside Aid
Town Physician
Soldier's Relief
Veterans' Pensions
Clerk, School Committee
School Maintenance
Vocational Schools
School Construction
Land for New School
Plans and Specifications
Cary Memorial Library
Salary, Library Treasurer
Stone Building
Stone Building -Repairs
Hastings Park
Parks and Playgrounds
April 19th
Memorial Day
Insurance
Valentine Land
Preserving Town Plans
Bacon Real Estate
State Guard
Town Report
Unclassified
Reserve Fund
Water Department
Town Scales
Cemeteries
Protection of Burial Grounds
New Cemetery (Land, etc.)
New Cemetery (Layout, eta.)
Salary, Secretary, Trustees of
Interest on Public Debt
Maturing Debt
Transfers and Expenditures
Receipts and Transfers Balance
6,000.00
225.00
2,013.58
2,073.35
10,000.00
100.00
13.43
300.00
3,240.47
6,637.69
100.00
70.29
842.40
87.50
60,222.62
577.67
27.35
415.20
15.00
4,200.00
75.00
816.00
657.57
32.52
2,911.40
108.13
250.00
3,434.67
381.00
5.01
463.00
200.00
600.00
1,486.72
1,000.00
35,397.57
25.00
2,256.25
222.00
20,029.40
1,000.00
Public Trusts 75.00
18,194.60
43,150.00
5,000.00
34.80 190.20
1,738.87 274.71
2,073.35
9,517.33 482.67
100.00
13.43
300.00
3,240.32 .15
4,728.95 1,908.74
100.00
42.00 28.29
842.40
87.50
60,144.35 78.27
68.26 509.41
27.35
415.20
15.00
4,178.56 21.44
25.00 50.00
811.56 4.44
383.88 273.69
32.52
2,909.25 2.15
62.75 45.38
250.00
3,164.55 270.12
381.00
5.91
438,01 24.99
40.78 159.22
477.28 122.72
1,451.02 35.70
635.56 364.44
31,998.02 3,399.55
10.00 15.00
1,771.50 484.75
222.00
16,311.08 4,718.32
326.31 673.69
72.78 2.22
16,361.98 1,832.62
43,150.00
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT 311
TOWN DEBT. WHEN DUE
DECEMBER 31, 1918
Year Water Sewer Trust Funds Other Debt Total
1919 18,200.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 19,450.00 42,650.00
1920 15,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 18,450.00 39,150.00
1921 15,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 16,450.00 37,150.00
1922 13,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 14,450.00 33,150.00
1923 13,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 10,850.00 29,550.00
1924 11,500.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 10,850.00 27,350.00
1925 11,500.00 4,000.09 1,000.00 9,500.00 26,000.00
1926 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 9,500.00 15,000.00
1927 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 9,500.00 15,000.00
1928 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 7,000.00 12,500.00
1929 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 6,000.00 11,500.00
1930 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 6,000.00 11,500.00
1931 3,000 00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00
1932 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00
1933 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00
1934 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00
1935 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00
1936 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1937 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1938 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1939 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1940 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1941 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1942 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1943 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00
1944 3,000.00 3,000.00
1945 3,000.00 3,000.00
107,500.00 ' 88,000.00 17,000.00 161,000.00 373,500.00
112 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
BALANCE SHEET — December 31, 1918
GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
Cash Balance:—
In Banks and Office
Accounts Receivable:—
Taxes, Levy, 1918
Special Assessments
Moth, 1918, $318.43
Sidewalk, 1916 16.09
Sidewalk, 1917 27.27
Apportioned Sewer, 1918 75.66
Tax Titles
Departmental Bills :—
Sewer
Sewer Maintenance $26.29
Bacton Real Estate 78.00
Tree Warden 7.85
Highways 44.93
State Aid, 1918 1,406.00
Cemetery Bills 80.50
Water Bills 640.85
$44,103.13
38,869.09
$437.55
6,098.17
$2,284.42
Overdrawn Accounts :—
Overlay, 1917 834.76
$92,627.12
DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Apportioned Sewer Assessments, not due *1,999.40
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
LIABILITIES
Temporary Loans in Anticipation of Revenue $30,000.00
Tax Title Suspense • • 77.36
Department Appropriations (Loan Balances) :—
Sewer Construction $1,270.31
Summer Street Extension 7,180.47
Massachusetts Avenue Improvement 10,000.00
Woburn Street Improvement 5,000.00
New Cemetery 4,718.32
$28,169.10-
Water
28,169.10Water Department Maintenance 3,399.55
Sewer Maintenance 45.84
Sewer Assessment Fund. (available for Sewer Department) 12,883.90
Tax Title Reserve 6,098.17
Departmental Revenue 573.17
Sewer Maintenance Revenue 28.29
Sewer Assessment Revenue 75.66
Water Revenue 640.85
Special Reserve (Overlay Balance, 1916) 238.54
Omitted Assessments, 1918 68.75
Overlay, 1918 1,613.64
Hydrant Rentals 10.00
Lowering Brooks 4.74
Salary of Library Treasurer 50.00
Cemetery Maintenance 484.75
New Cemetery (Layout and Development) 673.69
Surplus Revenue, 1918 7,493.12
DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Apportioned Sewer Assessments:—
Due in 1919 $384.99
1920 328.68
1921 257.48
1922 209.28
1923 204.73
1924 204.73
1925 204.73
1926 204.78
$92,627.1.'1
$1,999.40
114 TOWN OP LEXINGTON
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Bonded or Fixed Debt, December 31, 1918
$373,500.00
$373,500.00
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
DEBT ACCOUNTS
General Loans
Engine House and Fire Equipment Loan, 1911, 4 per cent. $3,000.00
Auto Fire Equipment Loan, 1913, 414 per cent. 3,000.00
Fire Equipment Loan, 1817, 41/2 per cent. 6,000.00
Engine House Land Loan, 1918, 5 per cent. 1,000.00
Widening Massachusetts Avenue Loan, 1916, 4 per cent. 4,000.00
Massachusetts Avenue Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 9,000.00
Summer Street Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 4,500.00
Woburn Street Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 4,000.00
Stone Crusher Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 2,400.00
Munroe School Loan, 1904, 31/2 per cent. 8,100.00
Adams School Loan, 1912, 4 per cent. 36,000.00
School Construction Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. 36,000.00
Buckman • Tavern Park Loan, 1913, 41/4 per cent. 25,000.00
Sewer Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. 88,000.00
Trust Fund (Refunding) Loan, 1910, 4 per cent. 17,000.00
Water Loans
Water Loan (Metropolitan), 1903, 31/2 per cent.
Water Loan (Refunding), 1905, 4 per cent.
Water Loan, 1911, 4 per cent.
Water Loan (Extension and Standpipe), 1912, 4 per cent.
Water Loan, 1914, 41/2 per cent.
Water Loan, 1915, 4 per cent.
Water Loan, 1916, 4 per cent.
Water Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent.
11,000.00
70,000.00
3,000.00
18,000.00
500.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
3,000.00
118 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
TRUST FUNDS ACCOUNTS
Cash and Securities
In hands of Trustees 357,913.64
357,913.64 '
PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTS
Town of Lexington $824,005.93
Cemetery Loans
Cemetery Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 9,000.00
New Cemetery Loan, 1918, 41/2 per cent. 10,000.00
3824,005.93
3373,500.00
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
TRUST FUNDS ACCOUNTS
Eleanor S. Beals Charity Fund
Samuel J. Bridge Charity Fund
Harriet R. Gilmer Charity Fund
Jonas Ganunell Charity Fund
Elizabeth B. Gerry Charity Fund
Lexington High School Scholarship Fund
Cary Memorial Library Fund
Cary Memorial Library Fund (Income Reserve)
Robbins Library Fund
Wellington Library Fund
Beals Library Fund
Laura M. Brigham Library Fund
Book Fund (Library) •
George O. Smith Park Fund
Hayes Fountain Fund
Charles E. French Medal and Cemetery Fund
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds (Income)
Real Estate
Water Works
Sewer System
PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTS
117
$2,779.63
5,295.68
779.16
705.65
2,043.87
155.37
11,000.00
342.54
100.07
1,000.00
1,000.00
2,500.00
1,000.00
2,544.61
985.32
4,871.54
18,435.00
2,375.31
$57,913.64
$470,925.62
255,000.00
98,080.31
$824,005.93
CHARLES F. PIERCE,
Town Accountant.
118
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF TOWN TREASURER
Receipts Expenditures
Cash ou hand January 1, 1918 7$53,865.15 Paid on warrants $499,503.44
Receipts, 1918 489,741.42 Cash on hand Jan, 1, 1919 44,103.13
$543,606.57
$543,606.57
GEORGE D. HARRINGTON,
Town Treasurer.
REPORTS
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
Town of Lexington
For the Year 1918
THE ALPINE PRESS
32 OLIVER ST.. BOSTON
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Hallie C. Blake, Chairman and Treasurer,
Oakmount, Merriam St. Tel. Lex. 631
(Term expires March, 1921)
Edward P. Merriam, Secretary,
6 Stetson St. Te]. Lex. 647
(Term expires March, 3.920)
George E. Briggs,
Fair Oaks Tel. Lex. 27
(Term expires March, 1919)
Regular meetings of the School Com-
mittee are held on the first and third
Tuesdays of eaeli month.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
Superintendent of Schools
Arthur H. Carver,
10 Parker St. Tel. Lex. 402-M
Office: High School Bldg. Tel. Lex. 277
Superintendent's Secretary
Barbara M. Parks,
Bedford St. Tel. Lex. 606-W
School Physician.
Dr. J. 0. Tilton,
1 Elm Ave. Tel. Lex. 15
School Nurse
Mrs. J. Rowe Webster,
Hancock St. TeL Lex. 176-M
Attendance Officer
Patrick J. Maguire,
Bedford St. Tel. Lex. 681-W
SCHOOL CALENDAR
1919
Schools open December 31, 1918.
January z, 1919, holiday.
Close for winter recess, February 21,
1919.
Open March 3, 1919.
Close for Good Friday and spring reeess,
April 17, 1919.
121
Open April 28, 1919.
May 30, 1919, holiday.
June 17, 1919, holiday.
Close for summer vacation, June 25, 1919.
Schools open September 9, 1919.
Close for Thanksgiving recess, Novem-
ber 26, 1919.
Open Deeember 1, 1919.
Close for Christmas recess, December 23,
1919.
Open January 5, 1920.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Financial Statement 1918
Balance unexpended from 1917 $78.91
Appropriated 1918 56,171.09
Income 1918 3,972.62
$60,222.62
Expenses 1918
$36,203.43
sup -
10,343.63
1,800.54
3,563.87
303.39
303.69
Salaries
Operation and Janitor's
plies
Repairs and New Construction
Text Books and Supplies
Athletics
Health
Superintendent and Enforcement
of School Law 1,451.18
Supervision of Children 382.50
Transportation 5,492.12
School Physician 300.00
Balance unexpended
$60,144.35
78.27
$60,222.62
Bills unpaid $52.36
Awaiting approval 78.60
GEORGE E. BRIGGS,
EDWARD P. MERRIAM,
HALLIE C. BLAKE.
122 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The School Committee respectfully
submits the following report for the
year ending December 31, 1918.
In the first place the School Committee
wishes to acknowledge an ever deepen-
ing sense of its great responsibility. It
is impossible to eircnuiseribe the bene-
ficent influences of a sound and well con-
ducted school system. Here the moulds
of master minds are made, latent powers
energized, and future leaders in thought
and action developed. Important as
such a product is, however, the average
intelligence of the mass will mainly de-
termine its own rate of progress, no
matter how brilliant the leaders may be.
The teaching force of any well conducted
public school must of necessity be chiefly
concerned with development of the aver-
age scholar, but to a measurable extent
at least it should also give the apt stu-
dent his chance for more intensive work.
From the theoretical standpoint a sys-
tem of graded schools might seem to be
poorly designed to meet the needs of a
brilliant scholar, but m actual practice
it has been found entirely practicable
to take care of the interests of such chil-
dren by means of extra promotions from
time to time. This leads us to the ques-
tion as to how much encouragement
should be given to this practice. The
decision should rest upon the sound judg-
ment of experienced educators. Some-
times local conditions affect to a con-
siderable degree such decisions. Some
of the school rooms in our elementary
grades are at present so overcrowded
that extra promotions cannot be en-
couraged, for in most eases additional
pupils would dimply add to the burden
of overworked teachers who are already
caring for more than forty pupils in
their particular rooms. In connection
with this congested condition of our
grade schools we desire to call attention
to the fact that parents .should be very
careful to observe without fail the rule
requiring school children to be present
on the opening day of each school year,
otherwise serious embarrassments de-
velop with respect to the assignment of
seats, distribution of books, etc.
Referring again to the major responsi-
bility of any school policy toward the
masses, there is nothing which should so
much concern the citizens of Lexington
at the present time as the imperative need
of a new school building, to establish which
the town has already voted, and in addi-
tion expended considerable sums of money
for a building site; also for plans and
specifications which are safely deposited
in the town vault in the custody of the
Town Clerk. It is necessary to state
here that these plans would probably
have been executed and the building con-
structed by this time if had not been for
the war. When consideration was given
to the various bids by different con-
tractors it was found that the town
could not put the building up without
borrowing in excess of its debt limit
which of course made it impossible to
go ahead with the plan. The School
Committee is of the opinion that this
matter should not be allowed to drop,
but that the town should at once begin
proceedings to obtain from the Legisla-
ture an enabling act which will permit
the town to borrow outside its present
debt limit a sum of money sufficient to
erect this building whenever the town,
in its judgment, shall indicate by vote
its u•i]lingness to grant the necessary ap-
propriation. In the meantime the Com-
mittee repeats the oId, old story, and
further declares that one school rooms
are overcrowded, teachers are over-
worked and the results secured, because
of these conditions, comparatively un-
satisfactory to all concerned. Transfers
from both ends of the town have been
necessary to suer an extent that at pres-
ent over one hundred children are be-
ing educated at the Munroe school who
woul d naturally find their work at the
Hancock or Adams school. Both of
these buildings just mentioned reached
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their full capacity some time ago, and
the Munroe school building is now filled
to overflowing so that it is absolutely
necessary to make some further provi-
sion for the annual increase in our school
population. As a temporary measure
the Committee proposes to furnish two
rooms on the lower of the old Adams
school building in East Lexington, and
within a year at least the contracts for the
new High School building should be signed
and the work started if the reputation of
the Lexington schools is to be sustained..
The special commission on education ap-
pointed at the last session of the Legis-
lature reporting to the General Court
on January 20, 1919, made a recom-
mendation '`to establish Junior High
Schools," all of which endorses our
town's position on this broad question.
In view of this recommendation, when
shall we have a better opportunity to
secure appropriate legislation for the
construction of our own new building?
The matter should be taken up and
passed upon by our Finance Committer
and a recommendation merle, if sound,
to petition the present General Court
for an enabling act.
Among the questions which 1 he Sehool
Committee has been called noon to con-
sider during the past year is the so-
called "one session" plan for the grade
schools. The idea is by no means a new
one, it having been urged upon the at-
tention of the local Se•]ioul Committee
by certain interested groups. several
High
Number of pupils 246
Pupils holding war
securities 237
Value of Thrift and
W. S. S. $4,521.00
Pupils holding Lib-
erty Bonds 116
Value of Liberty
Bonds $11,450.00
Total of war se-
curities $15,971.00
times during the last decade. An oppor-
tunity for the presentation of the mat-
ter was afforded to a committee of the
proponents who met the School Com-
mittee by invitation at the High School.
Later, at the request of the proponents
a public hearing was held. This oc-
curred at the High School on the even-
ing of April 23, 1918. The question was
discusser) thoroughly at this meeting, at
the elose of which an expression of sen-
timent secured from those in attendance
showed a slight majority opposed to a
change in the present practice. Later
a searehing questionnaire w'ts prepared
and sent out to the school departments
of many towns and cities, both in and
outside of. New England, where the one
session plan was known either to be or
to have been in operation. Nineteen
inost interesting replies were received,
the bulk of that testimony being with
few exceptions unfavorable to the plan.
The Committee are interested in receiv-
ing any new light that can be shed on
this question, but have concluded that
up to this point the advisability of a
change to the one session system in the
Lexington grade schools has not been
established.
We have been fighting the greatest
war of all times, and the citizens of
Lexington may welI be proud of the
fact that our school ehildren awn nearly
$53,000 in war securities, as the follow-
ing interesting tabulation shows:
Adams I3ancoek Munroe Total
296 351 374 1,273
202 263 212 914
$2,266.50 $4,201.50 $1,693.50 $12,681.50
57 121 51 345
$12,800.00 $11,050.00 $4,050.00 $39,950.00
$15,065.50 $15,851.50 $5,743.50 $52,631.50
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This remarkable record speaks volumes
for the wide -spread general intelligence
and virtue developed in our school chil-
dren. It is the kind of intelligence that
enthrones ideals of honesty, thrift, in-
dustry, and patriotism in the lives of
Lexington's boys and girls. Our citizens
should be particularly grateful to those
who encouraged the children to save
their money and invest it in these war
securities.
Your Committee in its budget this
year has made provisidn to cover in-
creases in the salaries of our teachers
which we ]selievo to be reasonable and
necessary. In order to promote more ef-
ficient and intensive work more teachers
must be secured and our best talent held.
In order to do this adequate provision
must be made to support a steady but
consistent system of salary increases.
Some of the parents are rather critical
in their attitude toward the school ad-
ministration because of the many changes
that occur each year in our teaching
force. The last two years have been par-
ticularly trying in this respect because
of the abnormal conditions imposed upon
every working organization by the war.
It will be seen from the statement made
below that by far the Iarger proportion
of these changes are due to causes and
circumstances over which the School
Committee has no eontroI whatever.
When these are eliminated it does not
appear that, everything considered, there
were more changes than might be ex-
pected under the cirenmstanees.
CHANGES IN LEXINGTON TEACH-
ING FORCE JAN. 1, 1918 — JAN.
1, 1919
Illness 2
Change of profession 6
Better paying position 5
Married 2
Retired 1
Ceased teaching temporarily 1
17 changes
Miss Emma E. H. Wright passed away
on November 13, 1918. For forty years
she taught the children of our public
schools. This faithful teacher will ever
be held in grateful memory, both by the
large number of our citizens who came
under her influence and by the publie at
large.
Respectfully submitted,
HALLIE C. BLAKE,
EDWARD P. MERRIAM,
GEORGE E. BRIGGS.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
OF SCHOOLS
Lexington, Mass., January 1., 1919.
To the Lexington School Committee:
It is my privilege to submit herewith
my sixth annual report as Superintendent
of the Lexington schools, this being the
thirty-third in the series of superinten-
dent's reports for the Town.
At this time circumstances seem to war-
rant a brief survey of the progress of
local school affairs during the past six
years. It is always interesting to review
the changes which have taken place during
a Considerable period of time in any grow-
ing institution. Upon particular occa-
sions such a procedure becomes a real
necessity if the problems of the future
are to be met intelligently. The present
appears to be such a time. Six years
ago we had reached a point where the
expansion of our school system compelled
the Town to maize wider provision for
the housing and instruction of our school
population. The measures taken at that
time ushered in a new epoch in Lexing-
ton school life. Today, however, we have
reached the limits of growth for which
provision was then made and once again
are called upon to face a similar problem.
To those who have kept in touch with
the situation there is nothing startling
or unexpected in such a statement. It is
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
a question whether it has not been made
so frequently as to have lost some of its
force through repetition. For our years
the warning has consistently been sound-
ed. In the superintendent's report for the
year 1914 occurs this sentenee:—"To
form the habit of delaying action in any
business until working conditions have
approached an intolerable state is to
maintain, with no ultimate saving in ex-
pense, a constantly ineffective plant."
Since that time no year has passed with-
out every effort being made to impress the
community with the fact that the time
is close at hand when an extensive addi-
tion to our school plant can no longer
be avoided. Nor have these efforts been
without results. Special committees ap-
pointed by authority of the Town have
investigated the question, recognized the
situation, made their reports, and secured
action to the extent that a valuable tract
of land has been purchased for school
purposes, tentative plans for a new build-
ing Lave been drawn, and estimates of
cost obtained. The war, however, put a
stop to all building operations and, so
far as practical results are concerned,
nothing has been produced. All efforts
to keep ahead of the growth of our school
population have been frustrated by an
event impossible to foresee. With the
return of peace, however, and the removal
of the ban upon buildings operations, the
most urgent reasons exist for an immedi-
ate resumption of the consideration of
this whole matter to the end that the ac-
tual work of construction be started at
the earliest possible date. Every day that
we must wait for a new building means
not only increased congestion and all but
intolerable working conditions for teach-
ers and pupils alike butalso just that
much more delay before we can begin
to adjust our schools to meet the new de-
mands of education. The great world war
has shaken every American institution to
its very foundations, revealing both
strength and weakness equally unsuspect-
ed. Entering, as we are, into a period
of profound social, economic, and Maus -
125',
trial reconstruction, we are forced to ree-
ognize that the means, methods, and aims
of public education, however admirably
adapted to the needs of the past, must
now undergo extensive modification to fit
changed conditions. Our boys and girls
must be prepared for the new problems
of citizenship by a system of education
which adjusts itself to an altered civiliza-
tion. The selective draft forced home the
appalling consequences which have fol-
lowed our nation-wide neglect to provide
for the physical education of our youth.
The demands of the army and navy for
young men possessing even elementary
skill in the simplest technical operations
involving the use of tools or machinery
revealed an all but unbelievable dearth
of material for which an over bookish,
impractical national educational system
must bear the responsibility. To ignore
the obvious lessons of these experiences
is to yield to the paralyzing effects of
blind adherence to worn out customs and
traditions. It means that education ab-
rogates its rightful position of leader-
ship in progress and leaves us, who are
responsible, mere passive spectators of
the great transition period in which we
live, content to rest under the charge of
sending forth our sons and daughters but
poorly equipped to compete with their
more fortunate fellows. The Junior High
School, with its flexible curriculum and
varied equipment, successfully established
in hundreds of ptaces, is one of the nec-
essary
eo-essary agencies for meeting the new de-
mands of education. It must be estab-
lished in Lexington before we can hope
to offer to our boys and girls the broad-
ened
roadened advantages which every progressive
community desires today for its youth.
But at best there must necessarily be a
considerable lapse of time before we can
possibly enjoy the full fruition of any
plans involving the use of a new build-
ing such as has been proposed. What
are we going to do in the meanwhile! A
constantly increasing army of boys and
girls, already taxing our housing facili-
ties to their utmost capacity, are present -
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TOWN OF
ing themselves as claimants for their ed-
ucational rights, What answer shall we
give them next fall? To understand the
full import of this question we must sur-
vey the developments of the last few years
as indicated at the outset in this report.
We shall find that much, indeed, has been
done to promote the efficiency of our
schools, yet without fully keeping pace
with the growth of the problem. We need
and are entitled to some vitally important
and, let us admit it fearlessly, expensive
additions to our equipment and teaching
force to carry us successfully through
this period of enforced congestion. Un-
less we ran have them we must be con-
tent with mediocre sehools.
On January first, nineteen hundred and
thirteen, Lexington had a school popula-
tion of nine hundred and thirty-five pu-
pils, of whom seven hundred and twenty-
seven were in the grades. The education
of these pupils was in the hands of thirty-
three teachers. The lianeock school was
the only grade building in which there
was a teacher for each grade. The Mun-
roe school was a six -room building, each
teacher from the fourth grade up having
parts of two grades in her room. .A t East
Lexington the condition was even Less
favorable. The Old Adams building, a
fire trap in construction, contained only
four rooms, there being in use as a tem-
porary makeshift a fifth room located on
the second Hoer of the East Lexington
Branch Library. The text -books in use
throughout the town were not uniform
and in many cases seriously out of date.
The course of study under these circum-
stances was necessarily- different in the
various schools. Anything like an equali-
zation of educational opportunity in the
several parts of the community was im-
possible. Families moving from one part
of the town to another during the middle
of a school year found their children seri-
ously embarrassed in adjustingthemselves
to the ehange. East Lexington was send-
ing relatively but a small per cent of the
graduates of the Adams School to the
high school, and those that did come were
LEXINGTON
at a disadvantage in their preparation.
In those days the only manual training
equipment was ideated at the High School
building. Once a week the boys of the
seventh and eighth grades from each
school journeyed thither at considerable
cost in time and money and received such
training in wood working as could be
given them. No adequate instruction in
sewing was provided for the girls, al-
though a beginning had been made.
At the High School confusion existed
due to inexact definition of courses of
study. The requirements for graduation
in the college preparatory courses were
such that a pupil might complete any of
them and yet be somewhat short of ade-
quate preparation for entrance into most
colleges. Although the fact was never
known to the public, our privilege of cer-
tification to New England colleges had
lapsed. Many parents felt obliged to send
their boys and girls out of town to private
preparatory schools. The commercial
course took the full time of one teacher
and part of the time of one other. In that
department we had an equipment of ten
typewriters. The courses was not well
arranged, it could not compete with the
husine..ss colleges, and the graduates had
difficulty in securing positions. The build-
ing itself:' had no general study room and
no proper protection from fire. Certain
valuable space was not being utilized
while other parts of the building were
congested. In fact the school, although
considerably smaller than at present, pro-
duced the effect of being over -crowded.
For the maintenance of this system the
Town was paying forty-six thousand and
fifty dollars.
On January first, nineteen hundred and
nineteen, our school population numbered
twelve hundred and eighty-six, of whom
one thousand and thirty-six were in the
grades. The number of teachers em-
ployed was flirty -three. During the in-
terval the New Adams building has been
built and the Munroe School enlarged,
Loth buildings being models of comfort,
convenience, and sanitary construction.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
All grade schools have uniform, modern
text -books and operate under the same
course of study with one grade to a room.
There is a complete equalization of edu-
cational opportunity throughout the
Town. All schools send their graduates
to the High School on equal terms and in
about the same proportion. Each build-
ing has its own manual training equip-
ment where training in wood work is
given to all boys in the sixth, seventh,
and eighth grades while the girls are
pursuing a graded course of instruction
in sewing. The High School is attend-
ing to the educational needs of practical-
ly every boy and girl of proper age in
the community. Our graduates are enter-
ing college well prepared and are mak-
ing excellent records there. Three teach-
ers are devoting their whole time to the
commercial department, the typewriting
equipment has been doubled, and the de-
mand.
o-mand. for our graduates by business
houses is greater than we can supply. A
commodious study hall has been made out
Adams
Hancock
Munroe
Grade Total
High
Special Teachers
Grand Total
Pupils
203
300
224
727
208
935
Raised by taxation for schools in 1913
Raised by taxation for schools in 1918
Income from schools available in 1913
Income from schools available in 1918
Increase in pupils
Increase in teachers
Increase in income earned
Increase in town appropriation
From the foregoing figures four im-
portant inference$ may fairly be drawn:
First, we have a rapidly growing school
population. Since the grade schools are
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of practically waste space, ample fire pro-
tection has been installed, and the Town
is receiving a sizable income from the
tuition of pupils from other communities
who find the educational advantages of
our High School worth paying for. The
cost of the schools to the Town during -the
year 1918 was approximately $56,250.
The preceding comparison would seem
to indicate substantial progress. But it
must be remembered that this progress
was made possible by the foresight of
those who some years ago fathered the
erection of one new building' and the en-
largement of another beside improving the
existing equipment in many ways. Their
work was well done. But the growth for
which it provided has been achieved.
Meanwhile the Town has furnished neith-
er the financial resources nor the teaching
force necessary to offset the increased
number of pupils. That this may be
clear the following statistics are intro-
duced at this point:
1913
Teachers
5
8
6
19
10
4
33
now
Pupils
300
366
381
1037
249
1286
1.919
Teachers
8
9
10
27
12
4
43
$46,305.72
56,250.00
892.42
3,901.33
38%
30%
330%
21%
full, some provision for extra room
must be made before next September.
Second, the increase in our teaching
force has not kept pace with the increase
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TOWN OF LEXIitiGTON
in pupils by eight per cent. With a heav-
ier load to carry due to the handicap of
over -crowded rooms the work of instrue-
- tion is being done by relatively leas
teachers.
Third, the income which the schools
are earning for the Town has been more
than quadrupled.
Fourth, the increase in the amount of
funds actually raised by the Town for
school purposes has been much smaller
than the increase in pupils, a fact which
assumes added significance when the great
advance in cost of every form of materials
and labor is considered.
In view of these facts I feel justified
in recommending that provision be made
for several additions to the teaching force
at once. While we wait for the erection
of the new building that will give us op-
portunity far the full expansion of school
activities to meet in adequate measure
the needs of the day, there is nothing
short of an imperative duty resting upon
us to provide every means that will help
to counteract the evils of congestion. Such
a condition clearly demands more teachers
in proportion to the number of pupils in-
stead of less than what is considered
proper in normal times. At present each
grade school' suffers from lack of super-
vision. Principals should have an oppor-
tunity to inspect the work of the various
rooms every day. Moreover, individual
help is badly needed in many cases where
sickness or other causes have conspired
to make pupils fall behind. Both of
these ends can be accomplished by the
employment of a building assistant, or
unassigned teacher, at each school. This
would also solve the vexing question of
securing substitutes when teachers are
ill. Most of the better school systems
around us employ such assistants with
splendid results. A similar arrangement
would be of great advantage at the High
School. An assistant is also badly needed
in the department of drawing and manual
training, as the work to be done is al-
together beyond the rapacity of one su-
pervisor. The addition of these five teach-
ers would not only bring large returns
to the children, for whom the echodls
exist, but would •also increase the effi-
ciency of the present force by relieving
them from the strain of over work.
In concluding allow me to call attention
to the tables found in the appendix to
this report. It is to be noted that the
figures showing the registration in the
various schools are as of January 1, 1919,
and hence do not show the whole difficulty
of the problem of accommodation. Many
pupils have been members of the various
schools for some time during the present
school year whose names are not included.
This results from the fact that families
keep moving both from and into the Town
more or less continuously. Certain famil-
ies spend the winter months regularly in
Cambridge or Somerville, being in Lex-
ington in both fall and spring. Observa-
tion has shown that our membership is
about at its minimum on January first
each year. The extent of the variation
may be seen from the fact that, whereas
the total membership is given in the
tables as being twelve hundred and eighty-
six, the whole number of pupils who have
actually been accommodated in our schools
since September, 1918, is thirteen hundred
and sixty-six. The registration is always
heavy early in the fall, so that we must
be prepared next September to house
and instruct about fourteen hundred pu-
pils.
The spirit among parents, pupils, and
teachers has been especially helpful dur-
ing the past few months when our work
has been done under the most serious
difficulties. Never in reeent years has
sickness worked such havoc with our
school attendance. So much time has been
lost that we can scarcely hope to ae-
eomplish a full year's work this year.
With everybody co-operating, however,
we shall make the best of the situation.
My personal thanks are due the School
Committee for the intelligent support
which has been given to the entire teach-
ing force and for the willing sacrifices
of tinie which each member is constantly
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
making in the interests of the education of
our youth. Few communities are as for-
tunate as Lexington in this respect,—a
129
fact which is fully appreciated by my-
self
yself and my associates.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR H. CARVER,
Supt. of Schools.
LIST OF TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1919
High School
Years of Ex -
Elected perienee Preparation
Name
Arthur H. Carver, A. M., Prin.
Lewis W. Newell, Vice-Prin.
Dorothy Dixon
Grace P. French
Bertha V. Hayward
Marietta L. Kirby
Cora D. Leighton
Inez E. Lind
Effie M. Lowe
Rae L. Mead
Elsa W. Regestein
Dorothea Waltz
Name
Katherine T.. Gregory, Prin.
Mary A Mayeoek
Esther Lane
Eckiess Nay
Edith M. Snow
Helen M. Conroy
Etta M. Taylor
Mary E. Bevington
Name
Maud E. Adlington, Prin.
Bernice H. Vickersou
Harriet S. French
Margaret B. Noyes
Neva G. Mitchell
Hattie E. Baker
Jennie F. Blodgett
Alice Crompton
]:pima L. Colton
1913 16
1918 7
1916 4
1911 18
1918 8
1917 8
1918 5
1917 3
1916 13
1917 3
1908 15
1918 4
Dickinson College
Tufts College and Bridgewater
Normal
Radeliffe College
Wellesley College
University of Maine
Boston University
Radcliffe College
Salem Normal
Colby College
Worcester Normal
Mt. Holyoke College
Boston University
Adams School
Years of Ex -
Elected perience Preparation
1912 10 Farmington Normal, Me.
1917 4 Fitchburg Normal
1918 2 Fitchburg Normal
1918 6 Keene Normal
1918 0 Lowell Normal
1917 2 Fitchburg Normal
1913 18 Voohree's Normal Kindergarten
1917 2 Niel 's Training School
Hancock School
Years of Ex -
Elected perienee Preparation
1918 10 Simmons College
1918 1 Salem Normal
1914 14 North Adams Normal
1917 3 Bridgewater Normal
1902 28 Quiney Training School
1911 8 Perry Kindergarten fiehooI
1894 24 Bridgewater Normal
1918 0 Lowell Normal
1918 11 Lowell Normal
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Munroe School
Years of Ex -
Name Elected perience Preparation
Hilary C. Lusk, Prin. 1911 12 Missouri State Normal
Julia B. Smith 1918 12 Westfield Normal
Joanna M. Kilmain 1910 11 Framingham Normal
Pearl M. Olsen 1918 2 Washington State Normal, Me.
Anna F. O'Dowd 1918 1 Lowell Normal
Blanche Whelpley 1915 4 Salem Normal
Winifred A. Briggs 1912 15 Gorham Normal
Katherine Hennessy 1917 2 Salem Normal
Laura B. Chase 1916 5 Lowell Normal
Grace M. Chase 1918 13 Concord, N. H., Kindergarten
Sehool
Name
Ruth Reardon, Drawing and
Manual Training 1918 3
Gertrude F. O'Brien, Music 1817 1
'Edith G. Clarke, Sewing 1917 2
Minnie E. 'Reynolds, Penmanship 1915 14
Lieut. Joseph Swan, Mil. Drill 1917
Special Teachers
Years of Ex -
Elected perienee
Grade
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Grade
8
7
65
Preparation
Mass. Normal Art School
Lowell Norma)
University of Maine
Cedar Rapids Business College
U. S. Army
NUMBER OF PUPILS IN GRADE SCHOOLS
Boys Girls
13 10
12 19
19 19
18... 23
14 25
20 19
24 17
24 24
144 156
Boys Girls
20 20
22 20
29 15
18 21
Dec. 31, 191.8.
Adams School
Total
23
31
38
41
39
39
41
48
300
Hancock School
Total
40
42
44
39
Teacher
Katherine T. Gregory
Mary A. Mayeoek
Esther Lane
Eckless Nay
Edith M. Snow
Helen M. Conroy
Etta M. Taylor
Mary E. Bevington
Teacher
Maud E. Adlington
Bernice H. Nickerson
Harriet S. French
Margaret B. Noyes
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
131
132 TOWN OF LEXINGTON
Grade Boys Girls Total Teacher
4 20 19 39
Neva G. Mitchell TOTAL MEMBERSHIP TABLE
3 21 25 48 Hattie E. Baker (Showing whole number of pupils who have been members of Lexington Schools
2 23 25 48 Jennie F. Blodgett since September 10, 1918.)
1 23 25 48 Alice Crompton Adams School 322
Special 6 4 10 Emma L. Colton Hancock Sehool 382
Munroe Sehool 400
182 174 356
Munroe School
Grade Boys Girls Total Teacher Grand Total 1,366
8 15 18 33 Mary C. Lusk
7 17 16 33 Julia B. Smith
6 17 24 41 Joanna M. Kilmain ENROLLMENT BY AGE AND GRADE
5 34 20 54 Pearl M. Olsen 1918
Anna F. O'Dowd
4 29 26 55 Blanche Whelpley Grade Sex Age Totals
3 25 25 50, Winifred A. Briggs 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Katherine Hennessy
2 34 30 64 Laura B. Chase 1 M GS 27 8 1 104
1 26 25 51 Grace M. Chase F 65 24 2 k 92
2 M 4 33 30 6 73
197 184 381 F 6 41 25 6 1 79
3 M 3 29 34 13 1 4 84
SUMMARY OF PUPILS IN LEXINGTON SCHOOLS F 1 35 25 15 4 80
4 M 3 34 25 13 7 `? 1 85
December 31, 1918. F 1 27 27 7 1 3 66
5 M 2 28 25 6 7 4 1 73
Grade Boys Girls Total
18 25 43 1' 4 29 18 12 2 3 68
High Sehool Seniors 6 M 1 4 18 18 14 6 5 66
High School Juniors 20 41 61 F 2 7 17 11 13 3 1 2 56
High School Sophomores 14 41 55 7 M 3 15 25 7 3 3 56
High School Freshmen 43 44 87 F 1 9 16 20 9 2 1 58
High Sehool Specials 1 1 2 8 M 5 18 16 8 3 2 52
High Sehool Post • Graduates 1 1 F 3 21 13 7 1 2 47
9 M 6 14 8 5 2 35
Total in High School 96 153 249 F 12 21 13 2
Eighth 48 48 88 10 M 2 5 15 6 3 30
Seventh 51 55 106 F 2 24 14 9 49
Sixth 65 58 123 11 51 6 8 6 20
Fifth 70 64 134 F 1 5 12 9 2 2 31
Fourth 63 70 133 12 M 4 6 6 2 18
Third 66 69 135 Fi 4 11 5 2 22
Second 81 72 153 T
First 73 74 147 Total M 72 63 70 78 70 60 55 74 53 46 28 19 6 2 696
Special 6 4 10 F 71 66 63 65 80 55 43 71 52 52 36 31 7 4 696
Total in Grades 523 514 037 Census M 91 70 73 79 70 60 55 72 53 45 28 702
1,
F 87 69 66 67 82 54 43 71 52 51 35 677
Grand Total 619 ' 667 1,286 Date of School Census April 1, 1918.
Total in Grades
High School
1,101
262
SCHOOL' COMMITTEE 133
AWARD OF PRIZES
1918
HIGH SCHOOL
Clapp Written Prize
Eleanor Burtis Saxe
Clapp Oral Prize
Thomas Edmund Fitzgerald
George 0. Smith Prizes
Eleanor Burtis Saxe
Marie Cecilia Maguire
French Medals
Helen Frances Locke
Eleanor Burtis Saxe
Lilian May Roberts
WINNERS OF FRENCH MEDALS—
GRADE SCHOOLS
Adams School
Nancy Mary Walsh
George Coggeshall Hatch
George Edward Wheatley
Hancock School
Fred Clarke Newhall
Ardelle Maxine Terhuue
Kenneth Hadden Dunham
Munroe School
Madelene Evans Pierce
Elwyn 0. Preston, Jr.
Evelyn G. Nourse
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
CLASS OF 1918
Aram Bashian, at home,
Gladys E. Blake, Dana Hall, Wellesley.
Eugene K. Bramhall, C. E. Loud, Boston.
Frank P. Bruce, S. C. Pulsifer, Boston.
Ariel C. Buckman, Herbert M. Lawrence.
Paul L. Callahan, Wentworth Institute.
Hester Champney, Post Graduate.
Edward J. Connors, American Railway
Express Co.
F. Langdon Davis, Camp Library Service.
Thomas E. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts
Institute Technology.
Mary Hautala, office work in Lowell.
Gladys F. Hill,- B. U. College of Liberal
Arts.
Jane E. Jaclfson, at home.
Richard F. Johnson, Massachusetts In-
stitute Teehnology.
Katherine B. Kinneen, Brown, Durrell
Co.
Agnes Leary, Massachusetts Bonding &
Insurance Co.
Helen F. Locke, Radcliffe College.
Thomas 0. Lynah, B. U. School of Busi-
ness Administration. •
Marie C. Maguire, at home.
George W. McKearney, New England
News Co.
Madeline V. Meagher, Middlesex Coal &
Grain Co.
J. Lawrence Miles„ Phillips Andover
Academy.
Mary E. Moulton, S. K. Mulford Co.
Mildred V. Munroe, Lexington Coal Co.
Eleanor M. O'Dowd, Lowell Normal
School.
Maybelle M. Pfeiffer, Sargent's School
of Physical Culture.
Dana R. Pulsifer, Automobile Club.
Ruth J. Reynolds, Boston & Maine Rail-
road Co.
Lilian M. Roberts, Simmons College.
Emil Savage, Shipping Clerk, Boston.
Eleanor B. Saxe, Radcliffe College.
William H. Shurtleff, Jr., Philips Exeter
Academy.
Osear Sorensen, U. S. Army Service.
Gertrude M. Westlake, at home.
Zelma G. Wetherbee, C. H. Smith & Co.
Warren R. White, B. U. School of Busi-
ness Administration.
Helen Wilkinson, Bachrach Studio.
Dorris E. Wilson, Textile World Journal.
GRADUATION PROGRAM
CLASS OF 1918
Music - Orchestra
Graduation March
Invocation Mgr. Edward F. Hurley
When the Flag Goes By George Nevin
High School Glee Club
TOWN
OF LEXINGTON
THE RESPONSE OF YOUTH TO THE
RECONSTRUCTION OF
• AMERICANISM
Part I Four Years of Chsinging
Ideals Eleanor Burtis Saxe
Part II War Time Activities Among
High School Pupils
Helen Frances Locke
Part III Tomorrow's Call
Thomas Edmund Fitzgerald
Cantata, "Columbus" Homer
High School Glee Club
Address
Hermon Carey Bumpus, Ph. D., LL. D.,
President of Tufts College
Music Orchestra
Award of Prizes
Mr. George E. Briggs of the School
Committee -
Conferring of Diplomas
Mr. George E. Briggs
Music Orchestra
GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES
ADAMS SCHOOL
Augusta Bornstein
Leo Bornstein
Muriel M. Cameron
Neal L. Cobb
Bessie Diekerman
Howard D. Fisk
Mary J. Foley
Viola M. Harkins
George 0. Harrington
George C. Hatch
Anna E Irwin
Mary E. Krakoska
Arthur C. Lowe
Erville B. Maynard
Agnes M. Monahan
Harry A. Spector
Doris C. Stoney
Winifred E. Waite
Nancy M. Walsh
Lucy D. Walsh
Eileen M. Whalen
George E. Wheatley
HANCOCK SCHOOL
Barbara Ballard
Nellie M. Banks
Frank I. Berquist
Charles E. Breslin
Loraine Cloyes
Grace R. Cody
Beatrice L. Comeau
Margaret Collieson
Margaret Dailey
Kenneth H. Dunham
Samuel L. Fardy
Wallace W. Ferguson
Malcolm C. Govan
William J. Hosea
Eloise E. Hubbell
John McNamara
Fred C. Newhall
John J. Rogers
Ardelle M. Tcrhune
Agnes F. Viano
Challis Wilson
MUNROE SCHOOL
Alfred .1. Bevington
George Broderick
James J. Burton
Rose E. Callahan
Art]uir Collins
Mary- 0. Condinho
Elizabeth E. Corbett
Mildred E. DeLong
Robert T. Dunham
Wilfred A. Emond
Rosabel Fardy
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Grover M. Gaffney
Nelson Hardy
Walter E. Hrones
Louise S. McKay
Mary J. McKenzie
Sally L. Mongeon
Dorothy H. Moulton
Helen M. Murphy
Dorothy Norris
Evelyn G. Nourse
Andrew .T. Pewtherer
Madelcne E. Pierce
Elwyn G. Preston, Jr.
James J. Ryeroft
SCHOOL COMMITTEE 135
Romaine J. Shelton
Bertha B. Spidel
Charles R. Spidle
Catherine Tower
Damon Valentine
Byron B. Walters
Elizabeth S. Watson
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE
The following statement eolers the
period between September 10 and De-
cember 31, 1918.
The School • Nurse is employed to
assist the School Physician, who ex-
amines each pupil at the beginning of
the year. The work is followed up in
the schools each morning by the physi-
cian and the nurse.
Children are sent home when it seems
advisable, hath for ther own safety and
for that of other pupils. The school
rooms and lavatories are visited, and
everything is done to prevent the spread
of any infection. Many of the cases
have to be followed up in the homes.
The influenza in the fall, and again
in the last four weeks of the period
named above, has made the work very
strenuous and it has been difficult to
give ali the time necessary to the
schools.
A number of complaints from parents
regarding the ventilation of the school
rooms have been received. Every effort
is being made by the teachers to keep
the rooms well ventilated.
Number of home visits 162
Number of children treated
out of town 6
Number of children taken
to the dentist 1
Respectfully submitted,
ETHEL B. WEBSTER,
REPORT OF ATTENDANCE OFFIOER
January 1, 1919.
To the Superintendent of the Lexington
Schools:
Dear Sir:—As Attendanee Officer of
the Town of Lexington I respectfully
submit the following report for the yeah
ending December 31, 1918:
Number of cases investi-
gated 69
Left town 2
Sickness 21
Kept home by parents 10
Truants 21
No shoes 10
Working 5
Respectfully yours,
PATRICK J. MAG UIRE.
Assessors, Report of
Accountant, Report of
Accounting Department
Administration of Trust Funds
Agency
Almshouse
Almshouse
Appropriation Accounts
Assessors' Department
Bacon Real Estate
Balance Sheet
Board of Survey
Cemeteries
Cemeteries
Charities
City of Boston
Collector's Department
Departmental General Government 99
Dog Officer 104
l:leetion and Registration De-
partment
Engineering Department
Expenditures
Finance Committee
Fines
Fire Department
Forest Warden
Froin Commonwealth
Grants and Gifts 99
Gypsy and Brawn -Tail Moth
Extermination
Health Department
Health and Sanitation
Highways
Highway Department
Interest
Interest
Inspection of Buildings
Law Department
Libraries
Libraries
Licenses
Loans
INDEX
Page
90
99
101
108
108
100
105
109
102
107
112
103
101
108
105
100
102
102
102
101
102
99
103
104
99
104
100
104
105
100
101
108
10:3
102
101
106
99
101
.Pagr
Maintenance, Buildings and
Grounds
Memorial Day
Moth Department
Municipal In debted cess
New Cemetery
Other Finance Offices and Ac-
counts
-Other General Revenue
Outside Aid
Parks and Playgrounds
Parks and Playgrounds
Planning Board
Police Department
Refunds
Refunds
Town Clerk's Department
Town Debt
Town Hall
Town Reports
Town Scales
Treasurer's Department
Treasurer's Receipts
Tree Warden
Tree Warden
Trust and Investment
Trust and Investment
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Sewer Construction
Sewer Maintenance
Sewer Maintenance
Schools
Schools
Sidewalks
Snow and Ice Removal
Soldiers' Benefits
Soldiers' Benefits
Special Assessments
State Guard
Street Lights
Sundries
Unclassified
106
107
100
108
101
102
99
100
101
107
102
103
101
108
102
1.11
102
107
108
•102
99
100
104
101
108
100
104
104
100
104
100
106
105
105
100
105
99
107
105
107
101
INDEX—Continued
Page
Unclassified 107
Village Hall Fire Station 103
Water Department 101
Water Department 107
Board of Health, Report of 68
Bridge Charitable Funds, Report of 98
Cary Memorial Library Librarian,
Report of 77
Cary Memorial Library, Treasurer,
Report of 79
Cary Memorial Library, Trustees,
Report of 75
Cary Memorial Library, Finance
Committee, Report of 80
Cemetery Committee, Report of 71
Fire Engineers, Report of 67
Fumigator, Report of • 70
Inspector of Animals, Report of 70
Inspector of Buildings, Report of 05
Inspector of Meat, Report of 68
Inspector of Meats and Provisions
Report of 68
Inspector of Slaughtering 69
Inspector of Milk Report of 69
Inspector of Plumbing, Report of 69
Jurors, List of 56
Layout of Muzzey Street 43
Lexington Town Records
Warrant for a Town Meeting,
Jan. 30, 1918 15
Town Meeting, Jan. 30, 1918 16
Warrant for a Town Meeting,
March 4, 1918 17
Town Meeting, March 4, 1918 21
Adjourned Meeting, March 11, 1918 23
Adjourned Meeting, March 25, 1918 25
Adjourned Meeting, April 8, 1918 27
Adjourned Meeting, April 15, 1918 32
Warrant for State Primary, Sept.
24, 1918 33
Page
State Primary, Sept. 24, 1918 34
Warrant for State Election, Nov.
5, 1918 37
State Election, Nov. 5, 1918 - 39
List of Town Officers 3
Committees Appointed 7
Officers Appointed by the Select-
men 4
Oderless Cart Report 69
Park Commissioners, Report of 81
Park Treasurer, Report of 82
Planning Board, Report of 73
Police Department, Report of 64
Roll of Honor 8
Sealer of Weights and Measures,
Report of (30
Selectmen, Highway Surveyors,
Overseers of Poor, Report of 57
Tax Collector, Report of 93
Town CIerk 50
Births, 45
Deaths 52
Dog Licenses 55
Hunters' licenses 55
Marriages 50
Town Counsel 63
Town Engineer, Report of 60
Town Treasnrer's Report 118
Tree Warden, Report of 72
•Trustees of Public Trusts, Report of 94
Water and Sewer Commissioners 83
SCHOOL REPORT
Award of Prizes 133
Grammar School Graduates 134
High School Graduates 133
High School Graduation 133
Report of Attendance Officer 135
Report of School Nurse 135
Report of School Committee 121
Report of Superintendent 124