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MEETING, Jsn. 7,1926.
special meeting of the cpf_,rd of Selectmen was held on
Jan. 7, 1926, at 8 P r;nlectmen' s Hoom, 2own Hall , Lexington.
This meeting was attended by the ,_ellowing members of the
noard Messrs. Hutchinson, oulton lies, Justance and Burnham.
Sydney '.r. rightington was also present.
The purpose of this meeting was to arouse interegt in securing
from the Trustees of the Isaac Harris 'ary Educational Fund another
opportunity to vote upo the question of whether the town should have
a large building Mich ould incluOe a Town Hall and rather to enforce
this issue, than to let the onnortunity slide by and the Trustees
ould, build a small building, •'hich would. not benefit the Town.
The Trustees have been informed by the , ttorney General that
they should not delay longer in carrying nut the will , and wonld
therefor have to take artion t an early date. Thus this meeting
of about one hundred citi-ens ,.,- called together by the osrd and
petitions nirculated among them, in which the bard asked that the
Trustees of the Isaac Harris wary _ Lind prepare plans of a larger
building to be Thcated upon the so called, Plummer Estate on Mass. ,
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enue , and asked that othem sign the petition for this building.
The following citizens were nresent at this meeting:
John H. l'iustin, Hubert D. rroderic, E ra v'. breed,.0PatrickaJ. inrosby,
Clarence Ti. Uut3=7.FTcicsh=bseirila:tralil-a=:J. uHenrynuffy,
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Childs , James
,rthur Rarle ' alph H. Llvedt , 11 lam f . j. j-aton, Peiligrina i'orri ,
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Herbert I-lint, Patrick ilynn, George E, joster, Edward J . Fenn,
Thomas Hardy, Mrs. dabie I. -Fuller,John H. Uilcreast, George H . ( ibson,
,oland L . Garmon, Hubert C. Grieves , Bartlett J. Harrington, Elliot
Hadley, !Lclgar 7. Harrod, Converse Hill , John Hinchey, Henry Jacksol,
James F. Kimball, "alter Longbottom, J1sper , Lane, 'hilip leaf,
Clarence daahee, JIrville H. Ma -nard, Howard M. Munroe, illiam T.
Liul , iken, David i''. Murphy, rs . Hugh I) itcLellan, Fred Liller,
II's . Trnest EacPhee , Finest C . ichola, Harry ". Tatterson, George J.
Proctor, James G debertqon , More floss , Catrick J. Shanahan,
FrederickJ. opencer, A. Martin Swenson, L S Seaver, IZobert L,tone ,
Jomes . -'mith, 1 H. Ztevens, Francis joye, El tche- 7 2aft,
Albert ri. Tenney, Parley Tibbetts, Ellis To er, Furene J . viano,
"harles F Vaughan, Sydney F . Irightington aid. Hollis Tebster.
4uestions in regard to the reason for taking tbis step were
asked, also questions pert inint to the -ill , location of land were
asked her the following ons , Messrs . George oss , Charles uallaban,
David H. Alrphy, 2-doert K. 2enney, Francis Toye , Elliot Hadley, Hollis
"Vebster, Patrick Flynn, J mes U. ztooertson, Ernest 0. Dichols, illlem
R Mulliken.
George H ijibson cave a brief description of the worl, of the
Conference Committee and stated that sketch plans vere in existence
of a Proposed. office building in connection with tl-se memorial building
IThe meeting ;as chairmaned by ,r Cu7tance , it being necessary
for 'dr. Hutchinson to retire daring the meeting. The questions asked
were answered by the members of the Aoard aad tie Town Counsel.
The situation appears to he tht there is available about
4280,000 for a small memorial building and if possible it is desirable
to secure a lFrger building 'fhich .17 to of some service to the town. !
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After this meeting adjourned, a meeting as held in the
town offices and the following business was transected.
abatement slip was signed for Jesse Curra for bil] of
,v57.00 for care of his child at the hospital
n iliam O ' Connor was ap ;ointed as Special Police, he being
employed ns a Janitor in the high school.
It was voted to place 300 insurance upon the seals and
utensils of the E- ealer of eights and L:,asures at his home
] 18 Bass. 11venue This was placed with Hubert D. Broderic.
Letter was received from the Supt. of Public 'dork.s informing
the Board about the additional work over the contract that was
done on oburn street
'lttention was called by the Chief of Police to the fact that
he was appointed Chief of Police for one year and that at the end
of that time he would lose his Civil .Jervice standing as sergeant
if appointed permanently os "hi f of police. on the other hand his
appointment as Chief of Police did not rive him any assurance of
his position and he reeuested that the Chief of 'police be placed
under Civil -ervice. It was scordinrly voted that the Board
would insert an article in the warrant for the acceptance of ec.
49, Chapter 31 of the General Laws of 1921.
Moor "ehicle Licenses were signed for Prod N. Viano to do
business at 400 ;Iass . Avenue and illiam G. Murphy to do business
at Bow Street .
4ppli_cation 9or in^urance on town property were received
from Charles B. ,cho"ield of Taltham tre't and Jasper A. Lane of
altham street . Both of these applications came in too late for
consideration of tie allotment of new insurance on the New High
chool . The Board acknowledeed receipt of both applic tions and
informed the gentlemen that their applications would be placed
on file for future reference.
On account of an accident due to a cave in of a section of
Bedford ,treet above the railroad crossing a bill for the amount
of ;r 69.'10 was received from Roy . Ferguson for tires, and a
bill for ,; 1-1.90 was also received from Mrs . hose A. jmith for
repairs to her c-r caused by the same defect in the street.
A letter Ym s received from George Gilmore in which he
resigned as Fuel 'dmi_nistrstor of the Town owing to the fact that
he was going abroad. I'he Board did not see any immediate need of
appointing anyone else and therefor did not take any action.
It was voted to appoint Osborne J. Gorman, Supt. of the Moth
Department and 7orest arden for the ensuing year subject to the
approval of the -tate Department.
true record, Attest :
>20,1to-fvu
Clerk.