OFFICIAL REPORTS

OF THE- TOWN OF WAYLAND

FOR ITS

One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth

Municipal Year

FROM

JANUARY i, 1917 TO JANUARY 1, 1918

Natick, Mass. press of natick bulletin 19.18'

OFFICIAL REPORTS

OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND

FOR ITS

One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth

Municipal Year

FROM

JANUARY i, 1917 TO JANUARY 1, 1918

Natick, Mass. press of natick bulletin 1918

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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT

OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND 1917—1918

TERM EXPIRES MODERATOR EDMUND H. SEARS 1918

TOWN CLERK WARREN L. BISHOP 1918

SELECTMEN CHARLES A. BENSON, Chairman 1918 FRANK HAYNES, Clerk 1918 JAMES FERGUSON 1918

TREASURER PRANK E. YEAGER 1918

COLLECTOR OF TAXES XESTER R, GERALD 1918

AUDITOR JAMES H. CARROLL 1918

TREASURER OF LIBRARY FUNDS FRANCIS SHAW " 1918

OVERSEERS OF POOR

WALTER S. BIGWOOD 1918 HOWARD C. HAYNES 1919 THOMAS W. FROST 1920 SCHOOL COMMITTEE GEORGE FRANCIS POUTASSE 1918 ERNEST E. SPARKS 1919 LLEWELLYN MILLS 1920

ASSESSORS ALFRED A. CARTER 1918 GRANVILLE L. LOKER, deceased 1919 NATHANIEL R. GERALD 1920

WATER COMMISSIONERS JAMES G. McKAY 1918 CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS 1919 HENRY G. DUDLEY 1920

TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY JOHN CONNELLY 1918 '

AMOS I. HADLEY • 1918 LESTER R. GERALD 1919 RICHARD AMES 1919 ALFRED W. CUTTING 1920 FRANCIS SHAW 1920

SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS JOHN CONNELLY 1918 WALTER B. HENDERSON 1919 CHESTER B. WILLIAMS 1920

CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS COLON C. WARD 1918 ANDREW S. MORSE 1919 WALLACE S. DRAPER. 1920

TREE WARDEN FRANK F. AMES 1918

SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS CHARLES W. FAIRBANK 1918 7

BOARD OF HEALTH HOWARD E. SHERMAN 1918 JOHN L. CORCORAN 1919 WALDO L. LAWRENCE 1920

CONSTABLES OSCAR L. AMES 1918 ALFRED A. CARTER 1918 CHARLES F. DUSSEAULT 1918 LEWIS S. HANNA 1918 JOHN E. LINNEHAN 1918 FRANK C. MOORE .1918 EDWARD R. LEWIS 1918

TRUSTEES OF ALLEN FUND ISAAC DAMON 1918 JOHN CONNELLY 1918 WALTER B. HENDERSON 1918

FENCE VIEWERS

CONSTABLES . . 1918

FIELD DRIVERS CONSTABLES 1918

SURVEYOR OF LUMBER WILLIAM FULLICK 1918

MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK OSCAR L. AMES 1918 ARTHUR F. MARSTON 1918 WILLIAM S. LOVELL 1918 MEMORIAL DAY COMMITTEE CHARLES B. BUTTERFIELD 1918 IRVING SCHLEICHER 1918 JOSEPH M. MOORE, deceased 1918 8

JAMES I. BRYDEN 1918 THOMAS W. FROST 1918

INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS FRANK BIGWOOD 1918

BURIAL AGENT JOSEPH F. MOORE, deceased 1918

FIRE WARDEN HOWARD HAYNES 1918

SUPT. GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTHS

DANIEL J. GRAHAM 1918

SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES HERBERT DUDLEY 1918

JANITOR OF TOWN HALL

J. CHARLES VINCENT 1918

CHIEF OF POLICE EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1918

PUBLIC WEIGHERS JAMES C. McKAY 1918 LEWIS LOVELY 1918

FINANCE COMMITTEE

WILLIAM S. LOVELL 1918

FRANK I. COOPER 1918 FRANK E. DAVIS 1918 ERNEST F. LAWRENCE 1918 NAPOLEON PERODEAU 1918

REGISTRARS OF VOTERS BENJAMIN W. DAMON, Republican 1918 9

CLEMENT BOND, Democrat, Resigned 1010 JOSEPH W. ZIMMERMAN, Democrat, Appointed

to fill vacancy 1010 EDWARD F. LEE, Republican, Chairman 1920 WARREN L. BISHOP, Democrat 191S

ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER 1918 CHARLES H. McGUIRE 1918

CHARLES J. POTVIN 1918 WILLIAM STEARNS 1918 HOWARD C HAYNES 1918

ELECTION OFFICERS

PC. 1

JAMES I. BRYDEN, Warden August 1918 WILLIAM STEARNS. Clerk it tt PHILIP S. IDE WILLIAM SANDERSON tt THOMAS F. MAYNARD tt JOHN E. DOLAN tt

Substitutes CHARLES W. ELMMS tt JAMES LINEHAN tt tt FRED J. WHEELER HERBERT F. PARMENTER tt JOHN F. CUMMINGS tt

Pc. 2.

GEORGE S. SCOTT, Warden tt ALVIN B. NEALE, Clerk tt ALBERT CHELTRA tt WALDO LAWRENCE tt WILLIAM MORRISSEY tt WILLIAM CORCORAN it 10

Substitutes

JOHN O'ROURKE August 1918 ALBERT MARCHANT JOHN F. FOLEY FRANK LATOUR ARTHUR MARSTON

POUND KEEPER ALEXANDER SAUER 1918

DEPUTY GAME WARDEN CHARLES M. MAGORTY 1918

DOG OFFICER

' J. CHARLES VINCENT 1918 :

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TOWN WARRANT

FEBRUARY 4th, 1918.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

MIDDLESEX, SS.

To either of the Constables of the Toivn of Wayland in said County. GREETING

In the name of the Commonwealth you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in town elections to meet at their respective polling places on Monday, February 4th, 1918, at six o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring- in their ballots for a Moderator, a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, a Treasurer of Library Funds, a Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden, one Assessor to fill vacancy, and seven Constables, all for one year.

One member of the School Committee, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, one mem- ber of Board of Health, one Water Commissioner, all for three years.

Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the acceptance of Chap.

23, General Acts of 1917, which is "an act to provide for the licensing of coffee houses, so-called." :

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Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the acceptance of Chap.

254 General Acts of 1917 which is "an act 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."

Also to vote "Yes'' or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"

All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot. The polls will be open at 6.15 o'clock in the forenoon and will re- main continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed unless the voters otherwise order-

And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday, February 6th, 1918, at 7.45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles

Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers, agents, and committees and act thereon.

Article 2. To choose all necessary officers, agents, and committees not elected by official ballot.

Article 3. To grant money for all necessary town pur- poses.

Article 4. To authorize the Selectmen to consult coun- sel on important town cases and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.

Article 5. To appropriate the money received from dog licenses.

Article 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the 13

Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.

Article 7. To see if the town will install an electric light on Shawmut Avenue Extension, near the, home of Charles Wright, and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose, or do or act.

Article 8. To see if the town will place a hydrant on Shawmut Avenue Extension, near the home of Charles Wright, and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose, or do or act.

Article 9. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $1,000-00 for re-shaping, rolling, gravelling and oiling the Old Connecticut Path from Cochitu- ate Road east to State Road or do or act.

Article 10. To see if the town will vote to change the name of the street in Cochituate now known as German Hill

Street to its former name, "Pemberton Road" or do or act.

Article 11. To see if the town will vote to sell water by meter where requested and fix the price for same or otherwise act.

Article 12. To see if the town will vote to discontinue the charge of $2-00 per year for water used in bath tubs or otherwise act.

Article 13. To see if the town will vote to raise the pay of the Cochituate firemen from $10.00 to $25.00 per year, or otherwise act.

Article 14. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $375.00 with which to gravel or patch up Pelham Island Road, from concrete bridge —

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over the Sudbury River to the Sudbury town line.

.Article 15. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum not to exceed $2,000.00 to purchase a portable stone crusher.

Article 16. To see if the town will appropriate and assess $150.00 to build a conduit on the Old Sudbury Road near the residences of Frank Moore and Mrs. M. C Baldwin.

Article 17. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and- assess a sum of money not exceeding $2,000.00 for the purpose of continuing the repairs on Main Street, Cochituate, or do or act.

Article 18. To see if the town will vote to borrow a sum of money in anticipation of a reimbursement from the State and County on account of repairs on Main Street, Cochituate.

Article 19. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $150.00 for the pur- pose of painting and repairs on the Engine House in Cochitu- ate.

Article 20. To see if the town will accept the following bequest :

$100.00 received from Mrs. Maggie L. Tuck, to be known as the "Otis Loker Fund," income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Otis Loker Lot in the Cen- ter Cemetery.

Article 21. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of installing four electric lights on Rice Road, between the residence of Alexander Sauer and Old Connecticut Path.

Article 22. To see if the town will appropriate and 15

assess a sum of money to rebuild the so-called Dry Bridge on Old Sudbury Road, or do or act.

Article 23. To see if the town will appropriate and raise a sum of money for purpose of purchasing a piece of land in Cochituate, called Griffin's Ball Field, or do or act.

And you are required to serve, this Warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in town, and on the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said election.

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before February 1st, 1918.

Given under our hands this 12th day of January in the, year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

CHARLES A. BENSON, FRANK HAYNES, JAMES FERGUSON, Selectmen of the Town of Wayland.

January 1918.

A true copy, attest.

Constable of Wayland. 16

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

FEBRUARY 5, 1917.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

MIDDLESEX, SS.

To either of the constables of the Town of Wayland in said County.

Greeting :

In the name of the Commonwealth you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in town elections to meet at their respective polling places on Monday, February 5th, 1917, at six o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring in their ballots for a Moderator, a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, a Treasurer of Library Funds, a Surveyor of Flighways, a Tree Warden and seven Constables, all for one year.

One member of the School Committee, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of the Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, one member of the Board of Health, one Water Commissioner, all for three years.

Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?" : :

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All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot. The polls will be open at 6.15 o'clock in the forenoon and will remain continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed unless the voters otherwise order.

And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the Town Hall, on Wednesday, February 7th, 1917, at 7.45 o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz

Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers, agents, and committees and act thereon. „

Article 2. To choose all necessary officers, agents, and committees not elected by official ballot.

Article 3. To grant money for all necessary town pur- poses.

Article 4. To authorize the Selectmen to consult coun- sel on important town cases and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.

Article 5. To appropriate the money received from dog licences-

Article 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.

Article 7. To see if the town will accept the following bequests

$100. Given, to be known as the "Edward Rice Fund," in- come from which to be used for perpetual care of lots of

Edward Rice and Edward Rice, Jr., in North Cemetery. 18

$100. Given by William U. Ricker, to be known as the "Ellen Ricker Fund," income from which to be used for per- petual care of S. Jameson Lot, in Lake View Cemetery,

No 6, Sec. D.

$100. Given by Mrs. Hattie Wellington, Extrx., to be known as "Elbridge A. Wellington Fund," income from which to be used for perpetual care of Elbridge A. Wellington Lot, in North Cemetery, No. 171.

$100. Given by Warren S. Wheeler, to be known as the "Warren S- Wheeler Fund," income from which to be used for perpetual care of the Thomas Wheeler Lots, in North Cemetery, Nos. 141, 142.

$100. Given by Eunice N. Morse, to be known as the "Noyes Morse Fund," income from which to be used for per- petual care of Jonas N. and Sarah A. Morse Lot, in North Cemetery, No. 184.

Article 8. To see if the town will vote to execute a re- lease to Dr. Martin Edward of a strip along the front of land bought by him from the Willard A. Bullard Estate on the State Road East, bounded on the West by land heretofore re- leased by the Town to Mrs. Susan L. Pierce, on the Southeast by the Southerly line of the old County road and on the North by the present Southerly line of the State Road.

Article 9. To see if the town will instruct the Water Commissioners to install water meters where requested and fix the price for water thereby.

Article 10. To see if the town will accept Hill Street, Cochituate Park, as a town street and have Selectmen lay out the same or otherwise act-

Article 11. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum of money not exceeding $600.00 for purpose of re- 19

pairing the Town Hall and the walks and steps leading to it, or do or act.

Article 12. To see if the town will accept Chapter 153 of the Acts of 1916 relative to the license fee for slaughter houses in towns.

Article 13. To see if the town will appropriate and assess not exceeding $150.00 toward a fund for the erection of a National Civic Hall at Washington, D. C, as a Peace Memorial to the Father of our Country.

Article 14. To see if the town will appropriate and' as- sess a sum not to exceed $500.00 for a gravel path, for the, safety of horses, to extend from Wayland Center on State Road to Bigelow's Corner.

Article 15. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum not exceeding $900-00 for re-shaping, rolling, and oiling the Auburndale-Framingham Road in Cochituate Vil- lage from the Natick-Wayland line on the East to the Natick-

Wayland line on the West, or do or act.

Article 16. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum of money not exceeding $700.00 for the purpose of repairing the road m North Wayland from Watson's Corner to the Lincoln line, or do or act.

Article 17. To see if the town will appropriate from the revenue of the W'atei Department a sum of money not ex- ceeding $500-00 to be used by the committee on Waterworks for experimental purposes or otherwise act.

Article 18. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum not exceeding $125.00 for the purpose of repairing the Engine House and Lock-up in Cochituate Village, or do or act.

Article 19. To see what action the town will take in re- 20 gard to furnishing motor transportation for the Fire Depart- ment in Wayland or do or act-

Article 20. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess $77.00 to be paid the heirs of Herbert Loker, as directed by the County Commissioners, for damage to land of said Loker, or do or act.

Article 21. To see if- the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum not exceeding $50.00 to purchase a snow plow for use on the Plain Roads or do or act.

Article 22. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to fixing license fees for pedlers.

Article 23. To see if the town will change the Annual Town Election Day to the first Monday in March or do or act*

Article 24. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money not exceeding $350.00 for the purpose of building a sidewalk on the south side of Harrison Street adjoining land of C. F. Chessman and John Lamarine.

Article 25. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum not exceeding $500.00 for a gravel sidewalk on Mill Brook Road from Main Street going easterly or do or act.

Article 2fi. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $1,500.00 for the purpose of continuing the repairs on Cochituate Road.

Article 27. To see if the town will vote to borrow a sum of money in anticipation of a re-imbursement from the State and County on account of repairs on Cochituate Road.

Article 28. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess the sum of Fourteen Hundred Dollars to pay the balance due on account of School House improvement and equipment. :

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Article 29. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing a Road Roller.

Article 30. To see if the town will appropriate and as- sess a sum of money not exceeding $600.00 for the purpose of repairing Harrison Street and continuing sidewalk on the Southerly side of said street to German Hill Street or do or act.

And you are required to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in town, and at the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said election.

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, on or before the 1st day of February, 1917.

Given under our hands this 17th day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

CHARLES A. BENSON, FRANK HAYNES, GEORGE W. BISHOP, Selectmen of Wayland. January 1917.

A true copy, Attest

Constable

TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE

February 1th 1917.

And pursuant to said warrant, the inhabitants of Wayland :: : :

22 qualified to vote in Town Affairs met and did the following business

Article 1. No action.

Article 2. Isaac Damon, John Connelly, and Walter B. Henderson were elected Trustees of the Allen Fund.

VOTED : —that the Constables act as Fence Viewers.

VOTED : —that the Constables act as Field Drivers.

William Fullick was elected Surveyor of Lumber.

Oscar L. Ames, Arthur F. Marston, and William S. Lovell were elected Measurers of Wood and Bark. Charles B. Butterfield, Irving Scheleicher, Joseph M. Moore, James i. Bryden and Thomas W. Frost were elected Memorial Day Committee.

Artcle 3. Voted that the meeting return to Article 1.

Article 1. Voted that the report of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted and recommendations adopted.

Article 3. Voted that the various amounts as recom- mended by the Finance Committee be appropriated and as- sessed. The report and recommendations are as follows

General Administration

Salaries $3,000.00 Moderator Selectmen Auditor Treasurer Collector Assessors Overseers of the Poor 23

Town Clerk Election Officers Registrars Sealers of Weights and Measures

Incidentals 1,200.00

Protection of Life and Property Police $1,500.00 Fire Dept., Cochituate 900.00 Fire Dept., Wayland 300.00 Tree Warden Dept. 200.00

$2,900.00

Health and Sanitation Board of Health $500.00 Inspector of Animals Salary 150.00

$650.00 Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks $5,000.00 We recommend that $1,000,000 of this appropriation be used for applying oil to the highways.

Street Lighting $3,000.00

Moth Extermination ' 1,242.09 Charities

Support of the Poor 2,000.00

Education

Covering School Committee, Salaries $17,700.00 Teachers and Janitors Supplies Transportation Superintendent Manual Training 24

Incidentals Vocational School Tuition 450.00 School Physician 50.00

Library and Reading Room 1,700.00 Memorial Day Celebration 200.00 Soldiers' Benefits 450.00

Cemeteries Lake View $250.00 North and Center 250.00

500.00 Sinking- Fund 1,408.80 Wayiand Schoolhouse Equipment Bonds 1,400.00 Cochituate Schoolhouse Bonds 1,500.00 Interest 3,000.00

Total $47,350.89

The above appropriations are recommended for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1917, in addition to such balances as appear on the Treasurer's books unexpended from last year's appropriations.

We recommend that all money received as reimburse- ments from County and State on account of Highway work be applied to payment of Highway notes ; and that all High- way and Bridge notes not otherwise provided for be paid from the Revenue Account.

Also that the money for removing snow, town insurance and surety bonds and requirements for legal claims be drawn from revenue account.

Also, the overdraft on sidewalks $15.93 be charged to revenue account. 25

Article 4. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to consult counsel on important town cases and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.

Article 5. Voted to appropriate the money received from Dog Licenses, one half to the schools and one half to the Li- brary.

Article 6. Voted that the Town Treasurer with the ap- proval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year, beginning January 1, 1917, to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, any debt or debts in- curred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the said financial year.

Article 7. Voted to accept the following bequests:

$100.00 given to be known as the "Edward Rice Fund," income from which to be used for perpetual care of lots of

Edward Rice and Edward Rice, Jr. in North Cemetery.

$100.00 given by William U. Ricker to be known as the "Ellen Ricker Fund," income from which to be used for per- petual care of S. Jamesson lot in Lake View Cemetery, No. 6, Sec. D.

$100.00 given by Mrs. Hattie Wellington, Extrx., to be known as "Elbridge A. Wellington Fund," income from which to be used for perpetual care of Elbridge A. Wellington lot in North Cemetery, Nos. 141, 142.

$100.00 given by Eunice N. Morse to be known as the "Noyes Morse Fund," income from which to be used for per- petual care of the Jonas N. and Sarah A. Morse lot in North Cemetery, No. 184.

Article 8. Voted to refer the matter to the Selectmen and 26

Town Treasurer with full power, in their discretion to execute such release without covenants.

Voted that the above named committee be authorized to acknowledge and deliver such release, if made, in behalf of the Town of Wayland.

Article 9. Passed over.

Article 10. Passed over.

Article 11. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $600. for the purpose of repairing the

Town Hall and the walks and steps leading to it and that the Selectmen be appointed a committee to carry out the work.

Article 12. Voted to accept Chapter 153 of the Acts of 1916.

Article 13. Passed over.

Article 14. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum not to exceed $500.00 for a gravel path for the safety of horses, to extend from Wayland Center on State Road to Bigelow's Cor- ner.

Voted that Selectmen and Mr. George E. Dwight be a committee to co-operate with County Commissioners and State Highway Commission to carry out the vote under this artcle.

Article 15. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum not ex- ceeding $900. for re-shaping, rolling, and oiling the Auburn- dale-Framingham Road in Cochhituate Village from the Na- tick-Wayland line on the East to the Natick-Wayland line on the West, and that the Highway Surveyor be empowered to carry out this vote.

Article 16. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $700.00 for the purpose, of repairing the 27

road in North Wayland from Watson's Corner to the Lincoln line and that the money be taken out of the regular Highway appropriation.

Article 17. Voted to appropriate from the revenue of the Water Department a sum of money not exceeding $500.00 to be used by the Committee on Waterworks for experimental purposes.

Article 18. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum not ex- ceeding $125.00 for the purpose of repairing the Engine House and Lock-up in Cochituate Village.

Article 19. Voted that a committee of three be appointed

by the Moderator to consider the matter a >d report at a future town meeting. Committee appointed were Paul T. Draper, Chairman, William Stearns, and William S. Lovell.

Article 20. Voted to appropriate and assess $77.00 to be paid the heirs of Herbert Loker, as directed by the County Commissioners, for damage to land of said Loker.

Article 21. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum not ex- ceeding $50.00 to purchase a snow plow for use on the Plain Roads.

Article 22. Voted that the license fee for pedlers be $3.00.

Article 23. Voted not to change the date of the Election.

Article 24. Voted to defer action under this article until Article 30.

Article 25. Passed over.

Article 26. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $1,500.00 for the purpose of continuing the repairs on Cochituate Road, providing the County and State contribute a like amount. :

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Article 27. Voted that the Town Treasurer be authorized with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow, in anticipation of a reimbursement from the State and County, on account of repairs on Cochitnate Road, a sum of money not exceeding $3,000.00 and to issue a note or notes therefor payable one year from date with interest. Voted unanimously.

Article 28. Voted to appropriate and assess the sum of $1,400.00 to pay the balance due on account of School House Improvement and equipment.

Article 29. Passed over.

Article 30. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $600. for the purpose of repairing Harri- son St. and continuing sidewalk on the southerly side of said street to German Hill, and that the money be taken from the general highway appropriation.

Meeting dissolved at 10.25.

A true copy, attest WARREN L. BISHOP,

Town Clerk of IVayland. : : :

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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING

MAY 7, 1917.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Middlesex, ss.

To either of the Constables of the Tozvn of Wayland in said County.

Greeting

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town

Hall on Monday, the 7th day of May next at 7.45 p. m. there and then to act on the following- articles, viz

Article 1. To hear any reports of Town Officers, agents and committees and act thereon.

Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to pay all Town laborers three dollars per day or do or act.

Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to pay six dollars and fifty cents per day for a double team or do or act.

Article 4. To see if the Town will accept the following bequest

$50.00 received from the Administrator of the estate of Mrs. Caroline E. Miller, to be known as the "Caroline E. Mil- ler Fund," income from which to be used annually for plants or flowers on Lots Nos. 54, 55, Section B, in Lake View Cem- etery, known as the Alfred Bryant and Curtis Dudley Lots. 30

Article 5. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess $100.00 to install eight electric lights on Rice Road, or other- wise act.

Article 6. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess $300.00 to repair Glezen Road from Junction of Glezen and Concord Roads to Junction of Glazen Road and Hazelbrook Lane or do or act.

Article 7. To see if the Town will abolish the so-called moon-light schedule in relation to the Electric Lights in town and to appropriate and assess $413.00 for said purpose, or do or act.

And you are required to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in Town, and on the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the 5th day of May next.

Given under our hands this 25th day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

CHARLES A. BENSON, JAMES FERGUSON, FRANK HAYNES,

Selectmen of Wayland.

TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE

May 7th, 1917

And pursuant to said warrant, the inhabitants of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs met and did the following busi- ness: :

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Article 1. Mr. J. Sidney Stone, Chairman of the Com- mittee on By-Laws, reported for the committee and presented the proposed By-Laws.

Voted that the Committee's report be accepted and the

By-Laws be ordered printed in the, next Annual Report to be considered at the next Annual Town Meeting.

Article 2. Voted that the Town pay all laborers $3.00 per day.

Article 3. Voted that the Town pay $G.50 per day for a double team.

Article 4. Voted to accept the following bequest:

$50.00 received from the Administrator of estate of Mrs. Caroline E. Miller, to be known as the "Caroline E. Miller Fund," income from which to be used annually for plants or flowers on Lots Nos. 54, 55, Section B, in Lake View Ceme- tery known as the Alfred Bryant and Curtis Dudley Lots.

Article 5. Voted to pass over the, article.

Article 6. Voted that it is the sense of this meeting that the Highway Surveyor repair Glezen Road from Junction of Glezen and Concord Roads to Junction of Glezen Road and Hazelbrook Lane to the extent of $300.00.

Article 7. Voted to pass over article.

Meeting dissolved at 8.25 p. m.

A true copy, attest WARREN L. BISHOP, Town Clerk of IVayland. 32

PROPOSED BY LAWS FOR TOWN OF WAYLAND

ARTICLE I. Town Meetings and Notice Thereof.

Section 1. The annual town meeting shall be held on the

first Monday of February in each year.

Section 2. All business of the annual town meeting ex- cept the election of officers and determination of such matters as by law are required to be placed on the official ballot shall be considered at an adjournment thereof to be held in the Town Hall not later than seven days after said first Monday of February.

Section 3. Service of the warrant for every town meet- ing shall be made by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, at the voting place in Cochituate, and at each Post Office seven days at least before the time appointed for such meeting.

ARTICLE II. Procedure at Town Meeting.

Section 1. All reports of town officers, agents or Com- mittees which are to be considered at any Town Meeting, shall be reduced to writing and a copy thereof deposited with the

Town Clerk before such report is presented for action.

Section 2. All motions shall be reduced to writing if so requested by the presiding officer or any legal voter.

Section 3. If a vote is doubted, a ballot shall be taken upon the request of one-third of the voters present.

Section 4. There can be no reconsideration of a vote once

reconsidered or after a vote not to reconsider it. No article in the warrant shall again be taken into consideration after it has been disposed of by vote unless ordered by a vote of two- thirds of the voters present and voting.

ARTICLE III. Duties of Selectmen.

Section 1. The Selectmen shall have full authority as 33 agents of the town to employ counsel to appear for and defend suits brought against the town, unless otherwise especially ordered by a vote of the town. They may settle any claims or suits against the town which in their opinion it is unwise to defend, acting upon the advice of counsel when the amount to be paid exceeds one thousand dollars.

Section 2. Regular meetings shall be held at such times as the Selectmen shall appoint. Special meetings shall be held at any time at the request of any Selectman. Notice of all special meetings shall be sent to all the; Selectmen at least twenty- tour hours before the time fixed for the meeting, but less than twenty- four hours' notice shall be sufficient if a rea- sonable opportunity to be present is given.

Section 3. The Selectmen shall notify the town clerk of all appointments and of all licenses and permits issued.

Section 4. The Selectmen shall cause a copy of the annual Town Report to be left at the residence of every registered voter not less than seven days before the annual town meeting.

ARTICLE IV. Finances.

Section 1. The Selectmen shall, not later than December

1st, appoint a Finance Committee of five members, none of whom shall hold any other town office, or hold any contract with the town. Every town department shall annually submit to the Finance Committee, not later than December loth, an estimate of its requirements for the ensuing year, and the Finance Committee shall, not later than January 1st, give a public hearing thereon, and on requests for appropriation made in writing by any ten citizens of the town. Notices of said hearing shall be posted not less than seven days previously, in the same manner as the notices of town meetings. Said Committee shall, not later than January 10th, submit to the Selectmen a report with recommendations for appropriation, 34 grouped in harmony with the recommendation of the State Bureau of Statistics which shall be printed in the annual Town Report.

Section 2. The head of every department, board or com- mittee authorized to expend money shall, at the close of the fiscal year, furnish the Treasurer, for incorporation in his annual report, a list of all outstanding liabilities of such de- partment, board or committee, showing to whom the same are due, for what due, and the amounts thereof together with an inventory of all property in his possession belonging to the town.

Section 3. All bills against the town shall be made out in detail with the proper date for each item and shall be ap- proved by a majority of the board contracting said bill and shall be presented to the Auditor, and if approved by him shall be examined by the Selectmen. If approved by them they shall give an order to the Treasurer to pay the, same, said order to specify from what appropriation the same is to be drawn. No bill shall be paid unless so approved, excepting school bills and such others as may be required by statute.

Section 4. No town officer and no salaried employee of the town or an)- agent of any such officer or employee shall sell materials or supplies to a board of which he is a member or receive any compensation or commission for work done by him for the town except his official salary and fees allowed by law without the permission of the Board of Selectmen ex- pressed in a vote which shall appear in their records with the reasons therefor.

Section 5. The valuation of estates made by the Assessors shall be printed in full in the annual Town Report at least once in every three years.

ARTICLE V. Records and Accounts.

Section 1. All town officers, agents, boards or committees 35

of the town shall submit to the Selectmen, not later than Jan- uary 1st, written annual reports giving an account of the busi- ness transacted during the year, which the Selectmen shall prepare for publication in the annual Town Report.

Section 2. Departmental current receipts shall be credited to the department to which they apply and shall be available for the requirements of that department. All current receipts not applying to any department under the grouping of the Bureau of Statistics shall be credited to the Revenue Account and no money shall be drawn therefrom except by vote of the town. All balances of appropriations of the preceding year for purposes other than outlays, remaining unexpended June 1st each year, shall be carried to said account, except the unexpended balances of the poor account, schools, cemetery account and interest on taxes which shall remain to the credit of said account. The Selectmen shall be authorized to draw from the Revenue Account, as if especially appropriated, any sums that the towT n may be required by the State to spend, for which the town is to be reimbursed by the, State. Interest on taxes shall be applied to reimbursement of town funds, in ac- cordance with the vote of the town to this effect, until said funds have been invested.

ARTICLE VI. Water Commissioners.

The Water Commissioners shall appoint a superintendent, who shall not be a member of their body. The superintendent, under the direction of the Commissioners, shall have the gen- eral superintendence of the out-door work connected with the Water Works. The clerk shall keep the records of the Board under its direction, and shall keep a set of books in which he shall enter all receipts and expenditures of the Water Works.

He shall collect all bills for the use of water and all other money due the Water Department, and shall make weekly pay- ments thereof to the Town Treasurer when the sum in his hands amounts to one hundred dollars or more. 36

ARTICLE VII. Junk Collectors.

Section 1. The Selectmen may license suitable persons as junk collectors to collect, by purchase or otherwise, junk, old metals and second-hand articles from place to place in the town, and may require that such collectors shall display badges upon their persons or upon their vehicles or upon both when engaged in such business and .may prescribe the design thereof.

Section 2. The Selectmen may require that any place, vehicle or receptacle used for the collecting or keeping of said articles may be examined at any time by said Selectmen or their agent.

ARTICLE VIII. Police Regulations.

Section 1. No person shall place or cause to be placed in any public way or square, without the written consent of the Selectmen, any dirt, wood, timber, or other material to obstruct or mar the appearance of said way or square.

Section 2. No person shall throw any stones, snow-balls, or other missiles in any public way, or obstruct in any manner travel upon such way.

Section 3. No person shall by rude, indecent, or disor- derly conduct or by the use of profane, indecent or insulting language in any public way or place, or near any building, or on or near any body of water owned or controlled by the town, annoy or disturb any person.

ARTICLE IX. Penalties.

Whoever violates any provision of any article of the Town By-Laws not otherwise provided for, shall be punish- able by a fine of not less than $2 nor more than $20.

ARTICLE X. Repeal.

All by-laws existing prior to the adoption of these by-laws 37 hereby repealed.

Respectfully submitted,

J. SIDNEY STONE, RICHARD AMES, WARREN L. BISHOP, Committee on By-Laws. 38

BIRTHS

REGISTERED IN WAYLAND FOR THE YEAR 1917

January Date Name of Child Name of Parents 5 Francis A. Barrett Joseph, Melina.

26 Bergin William J., Alice M.

February

11 Esther Marion Lawrence Warren F., Julia. 25 Cameron Alexander, Grace.

March

5 James Arthur Roust Richard F., Agnes. 17 Ernest Chester Balcom Clifford H., Eva. 23 Lindbohm Carl F., Ida L.

April

9 9 Edward Francis McGee Edward, Annie.

June

6 William Isaac White William O., Esther J.

July 7 Lydia Martin Edwards Martin, Ethel E. 12 Ronald Elliott Ernest J., Adelah. 29 Veronica Qaire Gladu Leon, Cecelia. August

3 Anne Palmer Sanford D., Helma. September

3 Edward Thomas Damon, Jr. Edward T., Elizabeth. 13 Francis Evlyn Davieau Romeo J., Hazel. 39

October 4 Eunice Delma Peck Arthur, Arise. 13 William Frederick Marstoiv Arthur F, Edna Mae. 23 Thelma Roberta Hersey Ralph A., Reba.

November

9 Mary Phillips Trumbull Franklin H., Miriam P. 10 Charles Edward Perodeau Louis H., Philomene. December 6 Herbert William Ames Oliver E., Gladys A. 40

MARRIAGES

REGISTERED IN WAYLAND FDR THE YEAR 191T.

January

1 1 Tracy C. Binford, Mary E. Irving, at Wellesley by Rev. Frederick E. Heath.

25 Edmund Hamilton Sears, Sophia Whitney Bennett, at Wayland, by Rev. Samuel McClad Crothers.

February

12 Archibald Nelson Walker, Olive Bartlett Sloper, at Na- tick, by Rev. Arthur W. Ackerman.

March 14 Edwin Jefferson Decker, Marcia Sherman Buoncore, at Wayland, by Rev. William H. Brannigan.

April

7 James Riley Pebbles Bell, Frances Marian Hoyle, at Bellows Falls, Vermont, by Rev. John C. Prince.

May 2 Francis Leslie Ames, Edna Mildred Draper, at Way- land, by Rev. Albert A. Felch.

6 Joseph Arthur Chaisson, Margaret Josephine Mc- Manus, at Wayland, by Rev. R. A. Fortier.

June 2 Cornelius Leo Foley, Anna Theresa Shea, at Natick, by Rev. John W. Churchward. 3 John A. Patterson, Dorothy Hovey, at W. Medford, by Rev. Seth C. Beach. 41

9 William James Sullivan, Ethel Marion Dooling, at Way- land, by Warren L. Bishop, Town Clerk, Justice of the Peace. 17 Thomas Henry Ryan, Mary Albina Potvin, at Wayland, by Rev. Henry L. Scott. 26 Lester Edward Rogers, Rachael Moore Tatroe, at Way- land, by Rev. Albert A. Felch. 27 Royal Louis Bond, Pearl W. Wignot, at Wayland, by Rev. R. A. Fortier. 28 Ralph Brown Parlin, Hazel Walker, at Wayland, by Rev. Albert A. Felch.

July

1 Ernest Williams, Maty Carter, Natick, by Rev. Albert A. Felch.

August

7 James Joseph Bolton, Sadie Jane Levis, at Wayland, by Rev. R. A. Fortier.

September

5 Leland George Hollingworth, Helen Olive Felch, at Na- tick, by Rev. Albert A. Felch. 10 John Lawrence Corcoran, Anna Cecelia Hurley, at Marlboro, by Rev. Thomas B. Lovering. 12 William Harrison Gates, Annie May Atwell, at Fram- ingham, by Rev. Henry Barber. A. , 24 Joseph Francis Saunders, Lula Erma Neale, at Natick, by Rev. John W. Churchward.

October

3 Charles Theadore Whitney, Alice Elizabeth Russell, at Worcester, by Rev. James B. King. 15 Arthur Napoleon Davieau, Marie Louise Dowd, at Na- tick, by Rev. John W. Churchward. 30 Harry Davenport Lee, Mary Elizabeth Walsh, at Wal- tham, by Rev. Frank G. Potter. 42

November 4 Harold Whitcomb Martin, Mildred Gwendolyn Ames, at Natick, by Rev. Albert A. Fejch. 29 Henry Manuel DeFlumear, Edna Grace Belmore, at Wayland, by Rev. R. A. Fortier.

December

7 Paul Ferrin Terrill, Marguerite C. Beck, at Boston, by Rev. George R. Stair. 17 Neal McCrillis, Marion Bullard, at Wayland, by Rev. Frederic Gill. 43

DEATHS

REGISTERED IN WAYLAND FOR THE YEAR 1917.

Date Name Age, y m d January 2 Edwin Augustus Dudley 85 4 14 8 Francis A. Barrett 0 0 3 17 Mary A. Kelton 57 11 1 24 Edward N. Jackman 73 0 0 26 Marcia Drury Cutting 87 10 0

February

2 Dexter Fairbanks 90 5 0 7 Henry Park Sherman 43 3 15 13 Lucy Pauline Dix 75 0 3

March

4 Ruth Bessie Lee 0 6 11 7 Mary Olive Haynes 29 1 0 15 Louis E. Dargneault 49 0 0 17 Louise Dodd Parmenter 1 5 10

May

1 Joseph Marshall Moore 85 3 22 9 Michael Rowan 91 0 0

21 Granville L. Loker 70 7 23 31 Harry Bond 54

July 31 Josiah White Parmenter 84 44

August

11 Agnes Mar>r Hines 0 0 23 27 Elizabeth W. Havener 65 7 28 Catherine Guilfoyle 88

October 20 Katherine H. Hayward 78 31 Annie Hart 56

November 11 Sarah Jane Glover 79 3 24

December

7 Edward Eldridge Hardy 17 10 22

DOGS LICENSED

FROM DEC. 1ST, 1916 TO DEC. 1ST, 1917

Males, 128 at $2.00 $256.00 Females, 26 at $5.00 130.00 Kennell, 2 at $25.00 50.00

Total $436.00 45

VOTE OF TOWN ELECTION, FEB. 5th, 1917.

MODERATOR

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total Edmund H. Sears, Norn. Papers 124 169 293 Alfred W. Cutting, 1 0 1

TOWN CLERK

Warren L. Eishop, Citizen's Party, Nomination Papers, 107 172 219

SELECTMEN Richard Ames, Nomination Papers 81 94 175 Charles A. Benson, Citizen's Party 92 97 189

George W. Bishop, Nomination Papers 61 D < Tames E. Ferguson, Citizen's Party 3? 144 181 Frank Haynes, Citizen's Party 92 126 218

William J. Scotland, Nomination Papers 39 100 139

TREASURER

Frank E. Yeag-er, Citizen's Party, Nomination Papers 129 18? 316

COLLECTOR OF TAXES

Lester R. Gerald. Citizen's Party, Nomination Papers 125 188 313

AUDITOR

James H. Carroll, Citizen's Party 66 123 189 Harold H. Loker. Nomination Papers 71 103 174

TREASURER OF LIBRARY FUNDS

Francis Shaw, Citizen's Party, Nomination Papers 126 181 307 46

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR Thomas W. Frost, Citizen's Party, Nomination Papers 128 169 297

ASSESSOR

Nathaniel R. Gerald, Citizen's Party, Nomination Papers 118 182 300

SCHOOL COMMITTEE Llewellyn Mills, Citizen's Party 130 162 292

WATER COMMISSIONER Henry G. Dudley, Nomination Papers 98 159 257

TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY Alfred W. Cutting, Citizen's Party,

Nomination Papers 119 153 . 272 Francis Shaw, Citizen's Party, Nomination Papers 121 173 294 #

SINKING FUND COMMISSIONER Chester B. Williams, Norn. Papers 93 144 227

BOARD OF HEALTH Waldo L. Lawrence, Citizen's Party 118 158 276

SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS Charles W. Fairbank, Citizen's Party 53 152 205 William S. Lovell, Independent, 75 44 119 t William C. Neale, Norn. Papers 15 32 47

CEMETERY COMMISSIONER Wallace S. Draper, Norn. Papers 121 152 273 t TREE WARDEN Frank F. Ames, Nom. Papers 94 143 237 Walter L. Griffin, Citizen's Party 33 81 114 47

CONSTABLES 997 v_/btdr J—<. /\IIlcb, IN UII1. x dJJcrb DO 66 I Alfred A. Carter, Nom. Papers 69 125 194 Charles F. Dusseault, Citizen's Party 63 138 201 Lewis S. Hanna, Citizen's Party- 66 120 186 John E. Linnehan, Citizen's Party- 75 126 201 Frank C. Moore, Nom. Papers 76 130 206 Edward R. Lewis 0 23 23 Scattering 19 4 23

Shall licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxicating liquors in this town? Yes 45 63 108 No 80 134 214 48

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PRIMARY,

APRIL 3, 1917.

DELEGATES AT LARGE

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total Charles Francis Adams 43 45 88 George W. Anderson 20 25 45 William G. Andrew 7 8 15 Albert S. Apsey 6 30 36

Charles J. Barton 16 30 46 John L. Bates 40 39 79 Addison P. Beardsley 9 2- 11 William H. Brooks 21 28 49 Walter A. Buie 6 13 19 Harvey S. Chase 13 12 25

Charles F. Choate, Jr. 34 31 65 Charles W. Clifford 14 10 24 George W. Coleman 16 23 39 Louis A. Coolidge 29 36 65 John W. Cummings 23 42 65 Edwin U. Curtis 31 31 62 Samuel R. Cutler 2 9 11 Arthur W. DeGoosh 1 2 3 Daniel E. Denny 3 8 11 Daniel R. Donovan 5 8 13 George H. Doty 31 32 63 Hugh P. Drysdale 3 4 7 Frank E. Dunbar 15 33 48 '36 Samuel J. Elder 26 62 Wilmot R. Evans, Jr. 20 23 43 Eugene N. Foss 6 18 24 Harry A. Garfield 11 10 21 49

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total Ralph W. Gloag 0 0 0 Gurdon W. Gordon 1 6 7 Matthew Hale 17 32 49 Arthur D. Hill 16 20 36 Waflter S. Hutchins 3 8 11 Patrick H. Jennings 7 20 27

Lewis T. johnson 5 19 24 Abbott Lawrence Lowell 33 28 61 Nathan Matthews 30 30 60 James T. Moriarty 14 34 48 Joseph C. Pelletier 14 34 48 Josiah Quincy 22 42 64 Clarence W. Rowley 4 1 5 John Weaver Sherman 5 5 10 James A. Stiles 3 7 10 Moorneld Storey 22 14 36 Charles B. Strecker 5 15 20 Wendell Phillips Thore 2 6 8 Whitfield L. Tuck 1 4 5 Joseph Walker 22 23 45

David I. Walsh 18 37 55 Robert M. Washburn 6 10 16 Sherman L. Whipple 26 34 60 Lombard Williams 6 11 17 George H. Wrenn 10 22 32

THIRTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Frederick L. Anderson 8 Z0 28

Charles S. Bird, Jr. 21 40 61 George E. Brock 3 7 10 Courtenay Crocker 30 28 58

Daniel J. Daley 6 16 22 Henry S. Dennison 15 29 44 Frederick P. Fish 14 9 23 Nathaniel A. Francis 18 19 37 1

50

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total Walton A. Green 22 13 35 Walter Hartstone 0 3 3 Robert Luce 28 21 49 Samuel L. Powers 19 17 36

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ELECTION,

TVi" A V 1 1Q1I7 MA x 1, ly 1 / .

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FIFT FHATFS AT T APHF

Charles Francis Adams OOQQ 06 14U

George W. Anderson bU 0 I CO QQ 0 Albert S. Apsey O/C OV y i QQ QQ Charles J. Barton ©y John L. Bates DO£Q 4oA Q 110

A IS Q (Z QQ \\ llham rl. Brooks 4/ DO OO Walter A. Buie o4Q A 4o oOOA A'X Charles F. Choate, Jr. OO 4o 111 Charles W. Lliftora do 81 George W. Coleman 49 55 104 iLouis A. Coolidge 61 48 109 John W. Cummings 69 72 141 Edwin U. Curtis 59 44 103 Daniel R. Donovan 36 48 84 Frank E. Dunbar 48 31 79

Samuel J. Elder 60 41 101 ' Wilmot R. Evans, Jr. 35 55 90 Eugene N. Foss 38 29 67 Matthew Hale 48 68 116 Arthur D. Hill 47 51 98 Patrick H. Jennings 38 46 84 Abbott Lawrence Lowell 69 46 84 Nathan Matthews 55 38 93 51

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total James T. Moriarty 30 45 75 Joseph C. Pelletier 39 56 95 Josiah Quincy 52 57 109 Moorfield Storey 69 42 111

1 T") Ci - 1 Charles B. btrecker 28 41 by Joseph Walker 51 60 111

JJavid 1. Walsn 51 57 iuo oiiernidii l^. vv nippic 70 65 lOO George H. Wrenn 38 47 O K

THIRTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Frederick L. Anderson 48 53 101

Charles S. Bird, Jr. 49 56 105

Daniel J. Daley 20 37 57 Henry S. Dennison 59 49 1lUoHQ Frederick P. Fish 35 16 51 Walton A. Green 71 46 117 Robert Luce 62 54 116 'Samuel L. Powers 55 39 94

THIRTEENTH MIDDLESEX REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT

Arthur T. Johnson 90 57 -Lit/ William Wheeler 30 31 61

VOTE AT STATE PRIMARY, SEPT. 25, 1917 REPUBLICAN PARTY

GOVERNOR

Grafton D. Cushing 3 3 6 Samuel W. McCall 21 29 50 52

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Calvin Coolidge 24 29 58

SECRETARY

Albert P. Langtry 23 27 50sr/v

TREASURER

Charles L. Burrill 23 27 50

AUDITOR

Charles Bruce 4 9 13 Alonzo B. Cook 19 23 42

ATTORNEY-GENERAL •

Henry C. Attwill 23 26 49 Conrad W. Crooker 1 5 COUNCILLOR James G. Harris 22 26 48 SENATOR

Charles S. Smith 23 26 49

REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT Benjamin Loring Young 23 29 52

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

Walter C. Wardwell 23 25 48 STATE COMMITTEE Adelbert B. Messer 23 26 49

DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION

C. B. Williams 1 1 2 William S. Lovell 3 0 3 Edmund H. Sears 1 1 2 John Connelly 0 3 3

Scattering 9- 53

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total TOWN COMMITTEE

James J. Bryden 2 7 9 William S. Lovell 6 0 6 Edmund A. Sears 2 7 9 John Connelly 1 6 7 C. S. Williams 1 7 8 W. S. Bigwood 0 6 6 Alvin B. Neale 0 6 6 Theodore H. Harrington 0 6 6 Chester B. Williams 0 6 6 William Scotland 0 6 6 Scattering 36

DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

GOVERNOR Frederick W. Mansfield 8 7 15

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Matthew Hale 2 3 5

SECRETARY

Arthur Reed 0 3 3

TREASURER

Humphrey O'Sullivan 0 3 3

AUDITOR

Edgar Choquette 0 3 3

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

Josiah Quincy 0 3 3 54

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT

'David G. Sheehan 6 4 10

STATE COMMITTEE John F. Mitchell 7 5 12

DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION Clement Bond 5 4 9 Howard C. Haynes 5 6 11 TOWN COMMITTEE John F. Foley 5 6 11 Warren L. Bishop 5 6 11 Clement Bond 5 5 10 Adolphus W. Scott 5 5 10 Thomas F. Maynard 4 6 10 Howarl C. Haynes 5 6 11 George S. Scott 4 .6 10 Thomas L. Hynes 5 6 11 Frank Haynes 4 6 10 55

VOTE AT STATE ELECTION, NOV. 6, 1917

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total GOVERNOR

James Hayes, Socialist Labor 1 3 4 Chester R. Lawrence, Prohibition, 0 2 2 rrecienck W. Mansnela, JJemo- cratic ox31 DU Q1

A. AO Samuel W. McCall, Republican JoX 1llo1 9 0 a (V John McCarty, Socialist 1 b <

LIEUTANT GOVERNOR Calvin Coolidge 94 113 207 Matthew Hale, Democratic, Pro- OA hibition, Progressive o4 o4 A A A Sylvester J. McBride, Socialist u y V Fred E. Oelcher, Soc. Labor u 0a b

SECRETARY

Herbert S. Brown, Prohibition 1 2 3 A A Albert P. Langtry, Republican lib xJOb

T T>1 • Ingvar Paulsen, Soc.CTL^Labor 1 6 4 en Arthur B. Reed, Democratic o4CM 06 ob Marion E. Sproule, Socialist 0 8 8

TREASURER

Charles L. Burrill, Republican 93 118 211

Solon Lovett, Prohibition 1 1 2 Joseph A. Murphy, Socialist 0 7 7 Humphrey O'Sullivan, Democratic 29 49 78 Mary E. Peterson, Soc. Labor 0 4 4

AUDITOR Elzear H. Croquette, Democratic 33 55 88 Alonzo B. Cook, Republican 87 112 199 David Craig, Soc. Labor 0 4 4 56

Prec't 1 Prec't 2 Total

Walter S. Peck, Socialist 1 8 9 o Henry G. Smith, Jr.. Prohibition 0 2

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Henry C. Atwill, Republican 90 114 204 Frank Auchter, Prohibition 1 2 3 William R. Henry, Socialist 0 9 9

Thomas J. Maher, Soc. Labor 0 4 4 Josiah Quincy. Democratic 34 52 86

COUNCILLOR James G. Harris, Republican 95 125 220

SENATOR

Charles S. Smith, Republican 96 121 21?

REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT David G. Sheehan, Democratic 33 52 Ow Benjamin Loring Young, Republican 92 121

COUNTY COMMISSIONER

Walter C. Wardwell, Republican 8? 106 193

Shall the following Article of 1 Amendment relative to absentee voting, submitted by the Constitu- tional Convention, be approved and ratified?

Yes 89 120 209 Xo 22 46 68

In place of Article 18 of the 2 Articles of Amendment of the Constitution, shall the following Article of Amendment relative to 57

appropriations for educational and benevolent purposes, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?

Yes 88 113 201 No 30 47 77

Shall the following Article of 31 Amendment relative, to the taking and distribution by the Common-

wealth and its municipalities of the

common necessaries of life, sub- mitted by the Constitutional Con-

vention, be, approved and ratified?

Yes 80 131 211 No 18 20 38

REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT.

*0 C

David G. Sheehan, of Concord 251 43 17 85 24 Benj. Loring Young, of Weston 490 101 104 213 294

Mr. Benjamin Loring Young of Weston, Republican, was declared ejected.

Respectfully submitted,

WARREN L. BISHOP, Town Clerk of Wayland. 58

SELECTMEN'S REPORT

TOWN HALL At the annual meeting an appropriation of six hundred dollars was made for repairs on Town Hall, walks and steps

leading to it, but owing to the high cost of material and labor

r w e did not think it was for the best interests of the town to ex- pend the money. Only such part of the work as was necessary

to protect the, property such as repair of roof has been done. COCHITUATE ROAD

About eight hundred feet of macadam road has been built in the village of Cochituate the past year under the direction

of F. D. Saline, State, Engineer," the Town, State and County each paying one third of the cost. POND STREET At the annual meeting the Town appropriated the sum of nine hundred dollars to repair Pond Street. In April we peti- tioned the Massachusetts Highway Commissioners for and under the provision of Chapter 525 of the Acts of 1910. On October 30 the Massachusetts Highway Commission and County Commissioners allotted the Town the sum of nine hundred dollars each to be expended under the direction of the State Engineer. The work was begun and continued until freezing weather put a stop to the work. STATE ROAD. At the annual meeting the Town appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars to build a horse path along the sides of

the State Road from its junction with Cochituate Road to the

. Weston Town line. The work has been completed under the 59

direction of the State Engineer, the Highway Commissioners furnishing the balance of the money necessary to complete the work. APPOINTMENTS The regular appointments have been made as required by law. They appear in the lists of Town Officials and Com- mittees. OILING ROADS During the past year about two thousand dollars has been expended for oiling roads. The Highway Commission fur- nished one-half of the expense. This money was expended principally on Concord and Cochituate Roads under the direc- tion of the State Engineer.

CHARLES A. BENSON, JAMES FERGESON, FRANK HAYNES,

Selectmen of Wayland. fin

REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE

The Committee recommend the following appropria-

tions : GENERAL ADMINISTRATION Salaries $3,200.00 Moderator Selectmen Auditor Collector Assessors Overseers of the Poor Town Clerk Election Officers Registrars Sealer of Weights and Measures

Incidentals 1,200.00

Protection of life and property-

Police . $2,000.00 Fire Dept., Cochituate 900.00 Fire Dept., Wayland 100.00

Tree Warden Dept.

Health and Sanitation

Board of Health 500.00 Inspector of Animals, Salary 150.00

Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks 4,000.00 61

Oiling Highways 2,000.00

Street Lighting 3,000.00

Moth Extermination 941.03

Charities

Support of Poor 1,200.00

Education

Covering School Committee, Salaries 18,500.00 Teachers and Janitors Supplies Transportation Superintendent Manual Training Incidentals Vocational School Tuition and Including Reim- bursements 90.00 School Physician 75.00 Library and Reading Room 1,600.00

Memorial Day Celebration 200.00

Soldiers' Benefits 450.00

Cemeteries Lake View 250.00 North and Center 250.00

500.00 Sinking Fund 1,408.80 Wayland Schoolhouse Equipment Bonds 1,400.00 Cochituate Schoolhouse Bonds 1,500.00 Interest 5,000.00

Total $49,914.83

The above appropriations are recommended for the fiscal 62 year eneding December 31, 1918 in addition to such balances as appear on the Treaasurer's books unexpended from last year's appropriations.

We recommend that all money received as reimburse- ments from County and State on account of Highway work be applied to payment of Highway notes, and that all Highway and Bridge notes not otherwise provided for be paid from the Revenue Account.

Also, that the money for removing snow, town insurance and surety bonds and requirements for legal claims be drawn from Revenue Account.

Also, the overdraft on interest account $1,017.49 and Abatement of Taxes Account $2,359.04 be charged to Rev- enue Account.

FRANK IRVING COOPER, Chairman, F. EDWIN DAVIS, ERNEST F. LAWRENCE, NAPOLEON PERODEAU, WILLIAM S. LOVELL, Clerk. 63

ASSESSORS REPORT

1917

Valuation of Real Estate April 1, 1917 $2,148,300.00

Valuation of Personal Estate April 1, 1917 204,268.00

Total Valuation $2,352,568.00

Valuation of Real Estate April 1, 1916 $2,108,710.00

Valuation of Personal Estate April 1, 1916 991,176.00

Total Valuation $3,099,886.00

Valuation April 1, 1916 $3,099,886.00

Valuation April 1, 1917 2,352,568.00

Decrease $747,318.00 Taxes assessed for town purposes $52,502.89 State Tax 7,150.00 State Highway Tax 1 516.00 County Tax .3,270.02 Overlay 661.67 Excise Tax 877.32 Additional Assessments 384.85

Polls assessed April 1, 1916 663

Polls assessed April 1, 1917 615 Number of assessed persons 1,082 Number of residents assessed property 448 Number of non-residents assessed property 274 Number of all others 360 64

Total number assessed on property 722 Total number assessed on polls only 360 Total value of land $851,445.00 Total value of buildings $1,296,855.00 Number of horses assessed 223 Number of cows assessed 510 Number of swine assessed 582 Number of fowls assessed 990 Number of sheep assessed 22 Number of acres of land 9,805 Neat cattle other than cows 89 Rate 1917 $19.50 TAXES ABATED

Abated in 1914 $861.28 Abated in 1916 2,861.73 Abated in 1917 196.58

The large abatements are owing to the December addi- tional assessments made the past four years and have no bear- ing on the tax rate of any year, meaning instead additional funds added to the treasury.

ALFRED A. CARTER, NATHANIEL R. GERALD. 67

Abated 4.48

$72.31 $72.31

1913 Balance 1917 $15.60 Balance $15.60

1912 Balance $3.50 Abated $3.50

INTEREST ACCOUNT Collected Paid Treasurer: 1917 $38.58 1916 $282.00 1915 311.99 1914 193.95 1913 38.62

$865.14

*Personal Tax now collected at State Department.

**Account collected and closed also 1913.

All 1915 taxes will have to be collected at once owing to the Attorney General suing towns for back taxes of this year. Keep from having your property advertised by paying at once.

L. R. GERALD, Tax Collector. 68

TREASURER'S REPORT

SCHEDULE I

Cash Statement 1917

Jan. 1 Cash balance $2,871.68 Total receipts for 1917 (Sched. II) 142,617.82

$r45,489.50 Total payments (Schedule III)... 142,295.92

Dec. 31 Cash balance $3,193.58.

SCHEDULE II

Cash Receipts Items

Jan. Interest on deposit, revenue $3.45

City of Boston, Draper Fund Int ; 20.00 State Treasurer, Cochituate road 1,300.00 District Court, revenue .01 W, S. Draper, Clerk, Cemetery 20.00

Cambridgeport Savings Bank, J. Draper Fund Int. 10.00 Feb. Interest on deposit, revenue 5.22 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1913 152.22 tax, 1914 2.52 tax, 1915 2.93 tax, 1916 5.122.89

" .int. on tax, 1913 28.90 65

TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT

1917

State Tax $7,150.00 State Highway 516.00 County Tax 3,270.02 Town Tax 52,502.89 Overlay 661.67 Excise Tax 877.32 Additional 384.85 Collected Paid Treasurer $18,812.13 Abated 196.58 Excise Tax Collected. Paid Treasurer 877.32 Balance 28,482.67 Allotment State Dept. 16,994.05

$65,362.75 $65,362.75

1916

Balance uncollected 1917 $33,400.65 Collected Paid Treasurer $15,008.61 Abated 2,861.73 Balance 15,530.31

$33,400.o5 $33,400.65

1915

Balance uncollected 1917 $9,746.55 Collected Paid Treasurer $5,129.98 66

Balance 4,616.57

$9,746.55 $9,746.55

1914

Balance uncollected 1917 Collected Paid Treasurer $3,414.11 Abated 861.28 **Balance 28.39

$4,303.78 $4,303.78

1913 Balance uncollected 1917 $590.48 Collected Paid Treasurer $590.48

$590.48 $590.48 MOTH ACCOUNT 1917 Amount $796.31 Collected $239.77 Balance 556.54

$796.31 $796.31

1916 Balance 1917 $469.91 Collected $136.49 Balance 333.42

• $469.91 $469.91

1914 Balance 1917 $72.31 Collected 67.83 71

G. F. Pontasse, Schools .1.25

J. C. Vincent, Hall Rent 8.00 June Interest on deposit, revenue 13.42 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 11874 L. R. Gerald, Collector... tax, 1914 47.92 tax, 1915 825.65 tax, 1916 1,997.98 ...int. on tax, 1914 4.78 ...int. on tax, 1915 69.60 ...int. on tax, 1916 25.27 ....Moth tax, 1914 4.20 ....Moth tax, 1915 1.26 ....Moth tax, 1916 22.22 City of Boston, Schools 27.00 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, tax note No. 82 5,000.00 Estate Eliz. Wilson, Poor Dept 248.04 July Interest on deposit, revenue 7.81 City of Boston, Draper Fund int 20.00 F. H. Benedict, Supt. Schools 17.84 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1913 307.80 tax, 1914 309.22 tax, 1915 60.08 tax, 1916 49.34 ...int. on tax, 1913 .55 ...int. on tax, 1914 8.39 ...int. on tax, 1915 .19 ...int. on tax, 1916 1.50 ....Moth tax, 1914 2.24 Dist. Court, revenue 100.00 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 143.50

J. C. Vincent, Hall Rent 8.00

Cambridgeport Savings Bank, J. Draper Fund Int 10.00 W. H. Brannigan, Schools 2.10 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 194.00 72

Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, tax note No. 83 5,000.00 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, tax note No. 84 5,000.00 Aug. Interest op deposit, revenue 2.85 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1914 233.55 " tax, 1915 131.04 tax, 1916 190.46

" .int. on tax, 1914 10.29 " . . .int. on tax, 1915 12.16 ...int. on tax, 1916 5.99 ... .Moth tax, 1915 7.00 E. F. Dorsheimer. Fire Dept 12.42

D. J. Graham, Supt. Moth Dept 34.50 Francis Shaw, Moth Dept 189.60 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 121.00 Franklin Savings Bank, Donation Fund Inc. 22.75 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, tax note No. 85 5,000.00 E. F. Dorsheimer, Police .82

D. J. Graham, Supt. Moth Dept 9.50 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 249.50 Natick Trust Co., tax note No. 86 5,000.00 Natick Trust Co., tax note No. 87 2,500.00 W. S. Draper, Clerk, Cemetery 25.00

Sept. Interest on deposit, revenue 2.28 C. B. & Q. R. R. Bonds, int., Allen Fund Inc. 20.00 Francis Shaw, Treasurer Library 200.00 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1914 40.96 tax, 1915 103.40 tax, 1916 160.43

. . .int. on tax, 1915 9.37

. . .int. on tax, 1916 6.16 ....Moth tax, 1915 .84 tax, 1914 113.76 tax, 1915 47.83 69

L. R. Gerald, Collector . . .int. on tax, 1914 .30 " .int. on tax, 1915 .18

" .int. on tax, 1916 46.26 ... .Moth tax, 1916 11.57 Country Treasurer, Dog licenses 281.70

C . S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 255.47 F. H. Benedict, Supt. Schools 1.50 Franklin Savings Bank, Donation Fund int. 52.52

J. C. Vincent, Hall rent 11.00 Mar. Interest on deposit, revenue 11.51 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1914 385.75 tax, 1915 951.05 tax, 1916 493.58 .int. on tax, 1914 47.10

. . .int. on tax, 1915 60.58

" .int. on tax, 1916 4.11 " ... .Moth tax, 1914 5.60 ... .Moth tax, 1915 2.52 ....Moth tax, 1916 7.22 Natick Trust Co., tax note No. 76 5,000.00 Natick Trust Co., tax note No. 77 5,000.00

E. I. Clark, Scales 1.55

, E. F. Dorsheimer, Police 1.40

D. J. Graham, Supt. Moth Dept 19.00 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 321.70 Town of Natick, Poor Dept 186.75 State Treas., Highway Dept 61.43 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1913 126.46 tax, 1914 203.54 tax, 1915 133.69 tax, 1916 1,341.21 ...int. on tax, 1914 21.58 ...int. on tax, 1915 3.88 ...int. on tax, 1916 14.57

....Moth tax, 1914 4.90 ....Moth tax, 1915 4.52 70

L. R. Gerald, Collector .Moth tax, 1916 12.26 Apr Interest on deposit, revenue 8.54 District Court, revenue 14.99 State Treasurer, Schools 150.00 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, tax note No. 78 5,000.00 Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, tax note No. 79 5,000.00

W. S. Draper, Clerk, C. E. Miller Fund. . . . 50.00 Town of Natick, Poor Dept 51.50 F. H. Benedict, Supt. Schools 3.21 W. H. Sayward, Schools 1.25 Suffolk Savings Bank, E. E. Draper Fund. inc 10.00 W. S. Draper, Clerk, Otis Loker Fund 100.00 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 149.00

May Interest on deposit, revenue 11.40 L. S. Gerald, Collector tax, 1913 4.00 tax, 1914 105.16 tax, 1915 375.99 ..tax, 1916 2,093.44 u " ...int. on tax, 1913 9.17 u " ...int on tax, 1914 2.56

.. .int. on tax, 1915 16.56 ...int. on tax, 1916 63.19 ....Moth tax, 1914 1.40 ....Moth tax, 1915 2.50 ....Moth tax, 1916 6.10 B. & A. R. R. Bonds Coupons, Loker Fund Inc 40.00 C. B. & Q. R. R. Bonds Coupons, Allen Fund Inc 20.00 State of Mass., tax note No. 80 5,000.00 State of Mass., tax note No. 81 5,000.00 State Treasurer, Moth Dept 22.50 State Treasurer, Cochituate road 405.86 75

Moore Fund 12.88 Reeves Fund 4.30 Rice, C, Fund 4.29 Roby Fund 17.18 Page Fund 2.15 Frost Fund 4.30 Thomas Fund 4.29

Russell, J. M., Fund 4.30 Parsons Fund 8.59 Lovejoy Fund 8.59 Lee Fund 4.29 Johnson Fund 4.30 Holbrook Fund 6.44 Damon Fund 4.29 Russell, M., Fund 4.30 Harrington Fund 4.29 Heard, F. C, Fund 4.30 Wellington, A. H., Fund 4.29 Loker, A. C, Fund 4.30 Bryant and Miller Fund 4.29 Rice, Edw., Fund 4.30 Wellington, E. A., Fund 4.29 Ricker Fund 4.30 Wheeler Fund 4.29 Morse Fund 3.28 Loker, O., Fund 2.25 Miller Fund 1.12 156.97

State Treasurer, Corporation tax, P. S 1,030.33 Corporation tax, Bus 3.13 Income tax 16,244.60 National Bank tax 2,206.72

St. Railway tax 73.20 Military aid 20.00 State Aid 835.00 " " Soldiers' Exemption 48.96 76

L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1914 64.68 tax, 1915 484.87 tax, 1917 441.86 ...int. on tax, 1915 44.38 " . . . .Moth tax, 1914 12.09 K i . . .Moth tax, 1915 1.68 " ... .Moth tax, 1917 2.33 Francis Shaw, Treasurer Library 80.00

American LaF. Fire Eng. Co., Fire Dept. . . . 5.50 State Treasurer, Schools 572.55

Dec. Interest on deposit, revenue 4.73 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1915 212,82 tax, 1916 262.27 tax, 1917 1,094.75 " .int. on tax, 1915 17.38 " . . .int. on tax, 1916 12.80 ...int. on tax, 1917 4.61 ....Moth tax, 1915 3.36 ....Moth tax, 1917 53.86 School Committee, Schools 13.75

Herbert Dudley, Weights and Measures. . . . 16.57 State Treasurer, Cochituate road 1,351.75 E. F. Dorsheimer, Fire Dept 7.86 Francis Shaw, Treasurer Library 125.62

D. J. Graham, Supt. Moth Dept 19.50 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1915 303.76 tax, 1916 42.29 tax, 1917 828.60 ...excise tax, 1917 877.32

" .int. on tax, 1915 14.31 " .int. on tax, 1916 2.69

" .int. on tax, 1917 2.42 "... .Moth tax, 1915 3.36 ....Moth tax, 1917 6.98 W. L. Bishop, Clerk, Licenses 5.00 County Treasurer, Cochituate road 1,351.75 73

L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1916 470.82 (( 1917 183.43

it (< int. on tax, 1914 .60 " H int. on tax, 1916 20.09

«< « . . Moth tax, 1916 14.29 << << 1914 96.36 tt u 1915 97.37 It <( tax, 1916 290.92

(« « tax, 1917 633.98 M it int. on tax, 1914 12.74

<< int. on tax, 1915 10.90

<« (« int. on tax, 1916 14.43 tt « . . Moth tax, 1916 2.48

C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept , 173.50 Interest on deposit, revenue 3.74 625.00

L. R. Gerald, Collector. . tax, 1914 390.25

<< «< tax, 1915 12.82 u <« 1916 912.74 <« 1917 8,601.56

<< int. on tax, 1914 61.99

<< tt .int. on tax, 1916 12.18 <« a . . Moth tax, 1914 14.19 tt . . Moth tax, 1916 23.93 << <« . . Moth tax, 1917 78.68 42.14 M. W. Hynes, 10.92 Natick Trust Co., tax note No. 88 5,000.00 Suffolk Savings Bank, E. E. Draper Fund Int. 10.00 C. S. Williams, Clerk, Water Dept 146.83

L. R. Gerald, Collector. . tax, 1914 1,405.91 «< «« 1915 656.85 «< «< 1916 876.80

«< M tax, 1917 2,468.67

tt (I .int. on tax, 1914 21.16 :

74

L. R. Gerald, Collector int. on tax, 1915 8.67 ...int. on tax, 1916 23.24 ....Moth tax, 1914 23.21 ....Moth tax, 1916 22.52 ....Moth tax, 1917 41.85 E. F. Dorsheimer, Police 1.76 Nov. Interest on deposit, revenue 1.74 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1914 11.69 tax, 1915 105.01 tax, 1916 421.25 tax, 1917 1,060.23 " .int. on tax, 1914 2.10 " .int. on tax, 1915 40.85 ...int. on tax, 1916 18.43 ....Moth tax, 1915 14.27 ....Moth tax, 1916 13.02 ....Moth tax, 1917 11.29

B. & A. R. R. Bonds int., Loker Fund Inc.. . 40.00 C. A. Benson, Conservator Poor Dept 350.00 E. F. Dorsheimer, Police .44 C. S. Williams, Clerk Water Dept 80.00 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1914 2.84 tax, 1915 577.32 tax, 1917 1,638.09 ...int. on tax, 1914 .36 ...int. on tax, 1917 7.66 ...int. on tax, 1917 7.66 ....Moth tax, 1915 31.58 ....Moth tax, 1915 31.58 ....Moth tax, 1917 2.79

Natick Trust Co., Coch, Road note No. 89. . 3,000.00

Natick Five cents Savings Bank, Cemetery Funds int. Gale Fund $4.30 Draper, W. S., Fund 4.29 Heard, D. B., Fund 4.30 Jackson Fund 4.29 79

Town Indebtedness Tax Notes Paid 57,500.00 Highway Notes Paid 4,500.00 Bridge Notes Paid 1,000.00 School Bonds Paid 2,900.00 Cemetery Funds Invested 250.00

Total Cash Payments $142,295.92

TAX NOTES ACCOUNT Borrowed in Anticipation of Taxes

1917

Jan. 1. Notes outstanding (65-67-70-71-73-74-75) $35,000.00

Mar. 3. Natick Trust Co., No. 76, 1 year @ 4% . . 5,000.00 Mar. 3. Natick Trust Co., No. 77, 7 mos. @ 4% . . 5,000.00 Apr. 7. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk„ No. 78, 1 year @ 4% 5,000.00 Apr. 7. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 79, 7 mos, @ 4% 5,000.00 May 5. Com. of Mass., No. 80, 1 year @ 4.15%. . 5,000.00 May 5. Com. of Mass., No. 81, 7 mos. @ 4.15% 5,000.00 June 9. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 82, 1 year @ 4^% 5,000.00 July 27. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 83, 1 year @ 4y4 % 5,000.00 July 27. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 84, 7 mos. @ 4^% 5,000.00 Aug. 10. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 85, 1 year @ 5% 5.000.00 Aug. 30. Natick Trust Co., No. 86, 1 mo. @ 5%. . 5,000.00 Aug. 30. Natick Trust Co., No. 87, 2 mos. @ 5% . . 2,500.00 Oct. 9. Natick Trust Co., No. 88, 3 mos. @ 5% . . 5,000.00

$97,500.00

NOTES PAID

Mar. 5. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk, No. 65. . . $5,000.00 80

Apr. 8. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 67.. 5,000.00

May 5. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 70... 5,000.00

June 2. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 73. . 5,000.00 July 29. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 71.. 5,000.00

Aug. 2. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 74. . 5,000.00

Sept. 2. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 75. . 5,000.00

Oct. 1. Natick Trust Co., No. 86 5,000.00

Oct. 3. Natick Trust Co., No. 77 5,000.00 Oct. SO. Natick Trust Co., No. 87 2,500.00

Nov. 7. Natick 5c. Sav. Bk., No. 79... 5,000.00

Dec. 5. Com. of Mass.. No. 81 5,000.00

$57,500.00

Dec. 31. Notes outstanding (76-78-80-

$97,500.00

NOTES AND BONDS OUTSTANDING

42 Town Bonds, due March 1, 1919 $42,000.00 13 School House Bonds, $1000 due annually }3,000.00 5 School House Bonds, $500 due annually 2,500.00 4 School House Equip. Bonds, $1000 due annually 4,000.00 4 School House Equip. Bonds, $400 due annually 1,600.00

1 Concord Road note No. 16, due Jan. % 1918. . . 500.00

1 Cochituate Road note No. 89, due Nov. 10, 1918 3,000.00

1 Bridge note No. 53, due July 15, 1918 1,000.00

1 Bridge note No. 54, due July 15, 1919 £,000.00

1 Tax note No. 76, due March 3, 1918 5,000.00

1 Tax note No. 78, due April 7, 1918 5,000.00

1 Tax note No. 80, due May 5, 1918 5,000.00

1 Tax note No. 82, due June 9, 1918 5,000.00

1 Tax note No. 83, due July 27, 1918 5,000.00

1 Tax note No. 84, due Februay 27, 1918 5,000.00 77

C. S. Williams, Clerk Water Dept 325.00 Sehool Committee, Sehools 8.00 F. H. Benedict, Schools 6.09 State Treasurer, Income tax 260.00 C. S. Williams, Clerk Water Dept 67.50 Town of Dover, Poor Dept 162.02 L. R. Gerald, Collector tax, 1915 47.50 tax, 1916 282.19 " tax, 1917 1,860.96

. . .int. on tax, 1915 2.98 ...int. on tax, 1916 11.09

. . .int. on tax, 1917 23.89 ....Moth tax, 1915 2.52 " ... .Moth tax, 1916 .88 ....Moth tax, 1917 41.99

Total receipts $142,617.82

SCHEDULE III

Treasurer's Payments by Departments Agency Payments Taxes to County $3,270.02 Taxes to State 7,666.00 Taxes to State National Bank 22.20 Town Administration Salaries 3,031.48 Incidentals 1,270.80 Insurance 711.36 Bonds 159.29 Legal Requirements (from Rev. Acct.) 1,026.72 Loker Heirs claim 77.00 Snow Plow 50.00

Protection of Life and Property

Police Dept 1,469.76 78

Fire Dept., Cochituate 927.60 Fire Dept., Wayland 166.42 Fire Dept., Repairs 123.29 Tree Warden 195.89 Moth Dept 2,687.46

Health and Sanitation Board of Health 578.48 Inspection of Animals 150.00 Inspection of Schools 50.00

Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks General Highways 6,376.70 Cochituate Road 4,364.76 Pond Street 608.83 Snow Removal 360.94

Street Lighting 3,283.60

Charities Poor Dept 2,163.90 Poor Funds Income 172.52

Soldiers' Benefits

State Aid 1,051.00 Soldiers' Relief 445.64 Soldiers' Burial 74.00

Education 19,270.08 Vocational School 450.00 Library and Reading Room 2,402.00 Memorial Day 200.00 Water Dept 2,260.20 Cemeteries 659.36 Cemetery Funds Income 88.75 High School Fire Prot. and Equip 1,388.69 Interest 5,482.38 Sinking Fund 1,408.80 81

1 Tax note No. 85, due August 10, 1918 5,000.00

1 Tax note, No. 88, due January 9, 1918 5,000.00

$108,600.00

INTEREST ACCOUNT Appropriation $3,000.00

Interest on Taxes , . 864.89 Payments On Town Bonds $1,680.00 On School Bonds 680.00 On School Equip. Bonds 252.00 On Tax Notes 2,554.73 On Concord Road Notes 50.65 On School Street Notes 25.00 On Cochituate Road Notes 120.00 On Bridge Notes 120.00 Overdrawn 1,617.49

$5,482.38 $5,482.38

REVENUE ACCOUNT Receipts Interest on Bank Deposits $76.69 Scales 1.55 District Court 168.06 Licenses 5.00 Additional Assessments 384.85 St. Ry. Tax 73.20 Corporation Tax 1,033.46

National Bank Tax 2, 184.52 State Aid 855.00 Sidewalk Account 4.97 Island Road Bridge Account 48.00 Forest Warden Account 12.74 82

Play Grounds Account 14.80 Unexpended balance last year 9,967.57 Payments Snow Bills $360.94

Insurance , ..' 711.36 Bonds 159.29 State Aid 1,051.00 Burial Soldiers 74.00 Highway Notes 1,090.64 Sidewalk overdraft, 1916 15.93 Legal Requirements 1,026.72 Balance Dec. 31, 1917...... 10,340.53

$14,830.41 $14,830.41

LIBRARY FUNDS. Invested by Library Trustees James Sumner Draper Fund $5,000.00

Cynthia Roby Fund , . . , 3,155.76 ChiWs Fund 100.00 Invested' by Sinking Fund Commissioners Securities turned over to Town Treasurer in ac- -with cordance vote of .Town Meeting of Oct. .

2, 1914. . Ella E. Draper Fund 500.00 James Draper Fund 500.00 Grace Campbell Draper Fund 1,000.00

$10,255.76

CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS

$3,750 deposited in Natick 5c. Savings Bank W. S. Draper Fund $100.00 D. B. Heard Fund 100.00

Fund . 100.00 Jackson .. 83

A. M. Lovejoy Fund 200.00 E. L. Moore Fund 300.00 Parsons Fund 200.00 Henry Reeves Fund 100.00 Calvin Rice Fund 100.00 Roby Fund 400.00

A. M. Page Fund ...... 50,00 E. R. Frost Fund 100.00 L. B. Thomas Fund 100.00

J. M. Russell Fund 100.00 P. M. Lee Fund 100.00 E. R. Johnson Fund 100.00 Edwin Gale Fund 100.00 Charles Holbrook Fund 150.00 Jude Damon Fund 100.00 Marshall Russell Fund 100.00 F. C. Heard Fund 100.00 George Harrington Fund 100.00 A. H. Wellington Fund 100.00 A. C. Loker Fund 100.00 Edward Rice Fund 100.00 Bryant & Miller Fund 100.00 Ellen Ricker Fund 100.00 E. A. Wellington Fund 100.00 W. S. Wheeler Fund 100.00 Noyes Morse Fund 100.00 C. E. Miller Fund 50.00 Otis Loker Fund 100.00

$3,750.00

POOR TRUST FUNDS Donation Fund $1,300.00 In Franklin Savings Bank Allen Fund 1,000.00 In C. B. & Q. Bond (Reg.) @ 4% —

S4

Loker Fund 2,000.00 In B. & A. R. R. Bonds (Reg.) @ 4%

$4,300.00

TRIAL BALANCE Revenue $10,340.55 Abatement of Taxes $2,359.04 Salaries 55.54 Town Scales 455.00 Police 35.38: Fire Dept. Cochituate 8.21 Fire Dept. Wayland 293.13 Fire Dept. Repairs 1.71 Board of Health 111.43 Cochituate Road 385.19 Gravel Path 500.00 Pond Street 291.17 Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks 240.52 Street Lights 651.47 Tree Warden 175.37 Poor Dept 902.22 Incidentals 154.54 Town House Repairs 600.00 Education .31 School Fire Prot. and Equip 21.33 Library 55.30 Moth Dept 240.70 Soldiers' Relief 38.41 Cemetery 139.79 N. & C. Cemeteries .62 Interest 1,617.49 W ater Dept 98.92 Cash 3,193.58

Taxes : 1909 7.68 85

1910 5.48 1911 36.50 1912 5.21 1914 28.39 1915 4,616.57 1916 15,530.31 1917 28,923.16 Cemetery Funds Invested 3,750.00 Poor Funds Invested 4,300.00 Library Funds Invested 10,255.76 Sinking Funds Invested 40,646.28 Tax Loans 40,000.00 Town Bonds 42,000.00 Highway Notes 500.00 Bridge Notes 2,000.00 Cochituate Road Note 3,000.00 School House Equip. Bonds 5,600.00 School House Equip. Bonds 15,500.00 Cemetery Trust Funds 3,750.00 Poor Trust Funds 4,300.00 Library 10,255.76 Cemetery Funds Income 342.45 Poor Funds Income 142.75 Library 31.00 Balance Account, Net Debt 27,953.72

$143,223.96 $143,223.96

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS 1916 1917 Taxes, current year $29,550.29 $35,365.69 Taxes, prior years 21,399.03 24,143.18 Corporation Taxes, from State 1,212.72 1,033.46 National Bank Taxes, from State 2,499.62 2,206.72 Street Railway Taxes, from State.... 134.80 73.20 86

Dog Licenses, from County 350.46 281.70 Other Licenses 12.00 5.00

Town Administration Rent of Hall 110.50 27.00 Town Scales 12.70 1.55

Protection of Life and Property Court Fines 11.30 168.06 Fire Dept 15.25 25.78 Weights and Measures 21.41 16.57 Moth Dept. from State 55.10 22.50 Moth Dept. from others 550.50 272.10 Moth Dept. from Tax Coll 662.10 519.50 Police 4.42

Highways and Bridges Street Ry. Excise Tax 850.68 877.32 Reimbursements from State and County 2,594.14 4,470.79

. Charities

Poor Dept., Reimbursements 598.04 Other Cites and Towns 141.85 400.27 Income of Poor Funds 172.52 142.75

Soldiers' Benefits

State Aid, from State 762.00 855.00 Burial Soldiers, from State 50.00

Education

Tuition from State 653.75 572.55 Tuition, from others 39.75 27.00 Salaries, from State 625.00 625.00 Income of Trust Fund 8.00 8.00 Refunds and damages 1.97 46.99 Half Dog Licenses 175.23 140.85

Vocational School from State. . . . 150.00 87

Library and Reading Room Half Dog Licenses 175.23 140.85 Treas. of Library Funds 366.14 405.62 Income of Trust Funds 110.00 110.00 Water Department 2,268.87 2,345.74

Cemeteries

Sale of Lots, etc 100.00 45.00 Income from Funds 130.26 156.97

Interest On Treas.' Bank Dep 126.06 76.69 On Taxes 826.51 864.89 Town Indebtedness Tax Notes 55,000.00 62,500.00 Cochituate Road Note 3,000.00 3,000.00

Trust Funds Cemetery Funds received 500.00 150.00

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PAYMENTS 1916 1917 County Tax $3,407.40 $3,270.02 State Tax 5,280.00 7,150.00 State Highway Tax 516.00 516.00 National Bank Tax 22.20 Town Administration Moderator, Salary Selectmen, Salary 325.00 325.00 Selectmen, Incidentals 92.50 174.92 Auditor, Salary 100.00 100.00 Auditor, Incidentals 3.05 5.70 Tax Collector, Salary 691.00 532.48 Tax Collector, Incidentals 85.88 54.23 Treasurer, Salary 500.00 250.00 Treasurer, Incidentals 41.62 68.73 88

Assessors, Salary 1,041.00 1,035.00 Assessors, Incidentals 16.50 51.10 Town Clerk, Salary 100.00 100.00 Town Clerk, Incidentals 117.57 99.48 Election ahd Registration 308.00 339.00 Election and Registration, Inci- dentals 88.65 149.15 Insurance and Bonds 366.90 870.65 Town House and Clocks 272.31 209.79 Miscellaneous Incidentals 445.02 436.09 Town House, Repairs and Inci- dentals 9.21 209.79 Legal Requirements 350.00 1,026.72 Overseers of Poor, Salaries 300.00

Sealer of Weights and Measures. . 50.00 50.00

Protection of Life and Property Police 1,121.37 1,469.76 Fire Dept., Cochituate 916.01 927.60 Fire Dept., Cochituate, repairs... 123.29 Fire Dept., Wayland 227.50 166.42 W eights and Measures 21.41 21.61 Moth Dept 2,286.47 2,687.46 Tree Warden 28.75 195.89

Board of Health 510.09 578.48

Inspection of Animals 150.00 150.00

Inspection of Schools 100.00 50.00 Highways and Bridges Street Repairs 5,690.39 6,376.70 Island Road Bridge 1,666.90 Cochituate Road 4,253.50 4,364.76 Snow Removal 1,106.16 360.94 Pond Street 608.83 Snow Plow 50.00

Street Lighting 2,909.80 3,283.60 89

Charities Poor Dept 2,083.97 2,163.90 Income of Poor Trust Funds.... 172.52 142.75

Soldiers' Benefits State Aid 871.00 1,051.00 Burial of Soldiers 74.00 Soldiers' Relief 432.55 445.64 Education School Committee, Salaries 160.00 50.00 Teachers, Salaries 10,545.85 10,849.25

Janitors, Salaries : 1,006.19 1,025.00 Supplies 926.55 619.67 Transportation 3,163.00 3,253.00 Superintendent 833.32 791.64 Repairs 271.66 420.51 Incidentals 558.80 471.06 Fuel and Light 888.33 1,789.95 High School Fire Protection and Equipment 8,056.98 1,388.69 Vocational Schools 300.00 600.00 Playgrounds 485.20

Library and Reading Room Payments by Town Treasurer 2,373.80 2,402.00 Memorial Day 201.02 200.00 Water Dept 3,041.48 2,260.20

Cemeteries Labor and Maintenance 486.15 661.36 Income of Trust Funds 112.59 88.75

Interest On Tax Notes 997.91 2,554.73 On Town Bonds 1,680.00 1,680.00 On Highway Notes 317.10 195.65 On School House Bonds 740.00 680.00 On School House Bonds Equip... 140.00 252.00 90

On Library Funds 110.00 110.00 On Bridge Notes 160.00 120.00 Sinking Fund 1,408.80 1,408.80 Town Indebtedness Tax Notes Paid 45,000.00 57,500.00 Highway Notes Paid 6,000.00 4,500.00 School House Bonds Paid 1,500.00 1,500.00 School House Equip. Bonds Paid. 1,400.00 Bridge Notes Paid 1,000.00 1,000.00 Trust Funds Cemetery Funds Invested 400.00 250.00

FRANK E. YEAGER, Treasurer. 7

91

Appropriations for 191

Additional Credits thereto and Payments therefrom and Balances at end of Year, December 31, 1917 appropria- A'ditonal Payments Balance tions Credits Abatement of Taxes 1,560.55 3,919.59 2,359.04 Salaries 3,000.00 87.02 3,031.48 55.54 Incidentals 1,200.00 225.34 1,270.80 154.54 Police 1,500.00 5.14 1,469.76 35.38 Fire Department, Cochituate 900.00 35.81 927.60 8.21 Fire Department, Wayland 300.00 159.55 166.42 293.13 Tree Warden 200.00 171.26 195.89 175.37 Board of Health 500.00 189.91 578.48 111.43 Inspector of Animals 150 00 150.00 Inspector of Schools 50.00 50.00 Highw'ys.Bridges and Sidew'ks 5,000.00 1,617.22 6,376.70 240.52 Cochituate Road 1,500.00 3,249.95 4,364.76 385.19 Pond Street 900.00 608.83 291.17 Gravel Path, State Road 500.00 500.00 Street Lights 3,000.00 935.07 3,283.60 651.47 Moth Department 1,242.09 1,686.07 2,687.46 240.70 Poor Department 2,000.00 1,066.12 2,163.90 902.22 Education 17,700.00 1,570.39 19,270.08 .31 Library and Reading Room 1,700.00 757.30 2,402.00 55.30 Memorial Day 200 00 200.00

Soldiers' Relief 45 . 00 34.05 445.64 38.41 L. V. Cemetery 250.00 3 50 253.50 N. and C. Cemetery 250.00 104.68 354.06 .62 Sinking Fund 1,408.80 1,408.80 School Equip. Bonds, Wayland 1,100.00 1,400.00 School House Bonds, Cochituate 1.500.00 1.500.00 Vocational School 450.00 150.00 600.00 Interest 3,000.00 864.89 5,482.38*1,617.49 Repairs Town House 600.00 600.00 Repairs Engine House 125.00 123.29 1.71 Loker Heirs 77.00 77.00 Snow Plow 50.00 50.00 School House Equipment 1.400.00 10.02 1,388.69 21.33

52,502. 89 14,483.84 66,200.71 APPROPRIATION FROM REVENUE ACCOUNT State Aid 1,125.00 Removal of Snow 360.94 Insurance and Bonds 870.65 Legal Requirements 1,026.72

Highway Notes • 1,099.64 Sidewalk Overdraft, 1916 15.93

4,4S9.88 overdrawn 92

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUND

Amount of Fund January 1, 1917 $37,752.03 Received, Appropriation, 1917 $1,408.80 Received, Interest 1,485.45

$2,894.25

Amount of Fund January 1, 1918 $40,646.28 INVESTED AS FOLLOWS: Fitchburg R. R. Bond due 1928, $1000 4% @ par $1,000.00 Chicago. B. & Q. R. R. Bonds 1929-49, $5000, 3i/2% @ cost 4,730.00 New York, N. Haven & H. R. R. Bonds 1955, $2000, 4 % @ par 2,000.00 Boston & Maine R. R. Bonds 1926, $2000, 4% @ cost 1,970.00 Boston Elevated Rwy. Bonds, 1941, $3000, 4^% @ par 3,000.00 Old Colony R. R. Bonds 1932, $2000, 2>y2 % @ cost 1,855.00 Old Colony R. R. Bonds 1925, $1000, 4% @ par 1,000.00 Boston Elevated Rwy. Bonds 1935, $3000, 4% @ par 3,000.00 Boston & Albany R. R. Bonds 1963, $6000, 5% @ par 6,000.00 98

City of Boston Bond 1927, $1000, 4% @ cost 977.53 City of Quincy Sewerage Loan Bond 1938 $500, Sy2 % @ cost 448.13 City of Newton Water Loan Bond due 1922, $3000, 4% @ cost 2,985.00 United States Liberty Loan Bonds, 20% paid on account $9000 1,800.00

$30,765.68 Deposited in North End Savings Bank, Boston $3,472.84 Deposited in International Trust Co., Savings Department 6,407.81

$9,880.65

$40,646.28

All Bonds are registered.

CHESTER B. WILLIAMS, Chairman, JOHN CONNELLY, Secretary, WALTER B. HENDERSON, Treasurer.

Wayland, Mass., January 2, 1918. 94

REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEERS

We respectfully submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1917. COCHITUATE DEPARTMENT

Balance January 1, 1917 $ 10.03 Appropriation 900.00 Sale of old copper and zinc 25.78

$935.81

Expenditures 927.60

Balance December 31, 1917 $ 8.21

Jan. 31 Henry Tyrell, labor $ 1.05

C. J. Maguire, labor .70 Robinson Jones Co., coal 18.00

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 4.10 Pettingell Andrews Co., supplies 97.38 Water Board 2.00 Howe & Co., express .25

Feb. 28 Oscar L. Ames, team 1.00 Robinson Jones Co., coal 18.00

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 3.90

Mar. 28 Robinson Jones Co., coal 9.00

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 4.20 Suburban Press 2.50 95

April 25 Engineers' salary (3) 30.00 C. H. Boody, H. & L. Co., payroll 182.50

J. M. Bent, Hose Co., payroll 117.50 Leslie C. Buck, janitor, 3 motnhs 10.00 Forest Gorman, janitor, 9 months 30.00

Henry T. Tyrell, supt. fire alarm 50.00 M. E. Church, use of tower 50.00 E. F. Dorsheimer, engineers clerk 10.00 Robinson Jones Co., coal & wood 10.38

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 2.50 Pettingell Andrews Co., supplies 22.08 Napoleon Perodeau, supplies 1.50

Charles J. Potvin, supplies 1.55

May 30 Edison Electric 111. Co., light 2.10 Howe & Co., express .90

June 30. Ernest Williams, fire payroll 5.25 Melville Loker, team 1.00

Edison Electric 111. Co. .70

July 25 Henry T. Tyrell, labor 4.50

C. J. Maguire, labor .75 Pettingell Andrews Co., supplies 61.59 Howe & Co., express .75

Aug. 29 Alpheus Lucier, labor and supplies 2.20

Edison Electric 111. Co., light .80 Wayland Water Board 2.00 Pettingell Andrews Co., supplies 36.00

Sept. 26 H. G. Keim, team 1.00

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 1.20 Pettingell Andrews Co., supplies 1.33 Robinson Jones Co., sulpho Napthol .40 Howe & Co., express .25

Oct. 31 Fiske & Co., supplies 1.90

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 1.40 96

Robinson Jones Co., coal & wood 20.75 Pettingell Andrews Co., supplies 2.88 Am. LaFrance Co., supplies 1.75 Howe & Co., express .75

Nov. 28 Francis Shaw's wood fire, payroll 14.25

Mary Mathews' barn fire, payroll 4.50 A. W. Palmer, pair rubber gloves 2.75 Fiske & Co., supplies 1.00

J. E. Gladu, repairs 6.00

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 1.60 Howe & Co., express .51

Dec. 31 Pettingell Andrews Co., supplies 11.35 Robinson Jones Co., coal 39.00

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 2.40 R. H. White Co., flag 12.00 SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR REPAIRS ON EN- GINE HOUSE AT COCHITUATE

Appropriation $125.00 Expenditures 123.29

Balance 1.71 E. A. Marston, material and labor $112.58 C. H. Maguire, repairs on gutters 7.20 Fiske & Co., supplies 3.51 WAYLAND DEPARTMENT

Balance January 1, 1917 $159.55 Appropriation 300.00

459.55

Expenditures 166.42

Balance January 1, 1918 $293.13 9T

Jan. 31 Edison Electric 111 Co., light 2.10

Feb. 28 Edison Electric 111. Co., light 1.10

April 25 Engineers' salary (2) 20.00 Ralph Yetton, janitor 13.32

J. E. Linnehan Co., clerk 5.00 Drury barn fire, payroll 11.00

Mrs. W. Ward chimney fire, payroll 4.00 B. Dixon wood fire, payroll 1.50

Herbert Parmenter fire, payroll 2.50

George Dwight fire, payroll 2.50

Sherman's grass fire, payroll 7.00

Thomas Ward's fire payroll 12.50

Morse's grass fire, payroll 6.00

T. P. Draper grass fire, payroll 2.50

Charles Cole fire, payroll 2.50

Edison Electric 111. Co., light .40 A. A. Atwood, wood 4.00

July 25 Shaw's grass fire, payroll 3.00 Coolidge grass fire, payroll 4.00

Zolo house and wood fire, payroll 16.00

Clay Pit Hill wood fire, payroll. 8.50

Glover's wood fire, payroll 3.00

Damon's chimney fire, payroll 1.50

Edison Electric 111. Co., light 1.10

Oct. 31 A. A. Atwood, coal 20.00

Dec. 31 Henderson wood fire, payroll 4.00

State Road auto fire, payroll 3.50

Edison Electric 111. Co., light .50 Lovell's grocen-. supplies 3.40 NUMBER OF ALARMS ANSWERED BY THE COCHITUATE DEPARTMENT

Feb. 5 Still alarm, Wm. Neale chimney.

Feb. 12 Still alarm. Wm. Smith chimney. 98

June 23 Engine House, Ernest Williams house.

June 24. Still alarm, Sam Howe chimney.

Aug. 9 Box 23, Mary Lyons house.

Oct. 13 Box 23, false alarm. Nov. 10 Sydney Loker push button, Shaw's woods.

Nov. 19 Box 34, Mary Mathews' barn.

Dec. 30 Still alarm, Nellie R. Fiske chimney.

Dec. 30. Still alarm, M. A. Bond house. NUMBER OF ALARMS ANSWERED BY THE WAYLAND DEPARTMENT

Mar. 1 Drury's barn. T Mar. 4 Mrs. W m. Ward's chimney. Mar. 24 B. Dixon wood fire.

Mar. 24 Herbert Parmenter wood fire. Mar. 30 George Dwight chimney.

April 15 Sherman's grass fire.

April 15 Thomas Ward wood fire.

April 19 Morse's grass fire.

April 23 Charles Cole grass fire.

April 24 T. P. Draper grass fire. May 3 Shaw's grass fire. May 4 Coolidge grass fire. May 14 Zolo house and wood fire. May 20 Clay Pithill woods. May 31 Glover's woods. June 1 Damon's chimney. Nov. 12 Henderson's woods. Nov. 15 State Road auto fire.

CHARLES J. POTVIN, Chief, HOWARD C. HAYNES, District Chief, WILLIAM F. STEARNS,

CHARLES J. MAGUIRE, EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER, Clerk. 99

CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS' REPORT

Since our last annual report the town has received as gifts two funds, making a total of thirty-one funds amounting to thirty-seven hundred and fifty dollars, income from which is for perpetual care of individual lots.

The appropriations for the care of the cemeteries have been judiciously expended which with the available income from funds and the interest manifested by owners in the care

of their lots is reflected in the good general appearance of all the cemeteries.

Appended is statement showing balances held subject to order of the Commissioners on December 31st, 1917. GENERAL CEMETERY ACCOUNT 1917

Jan. 1 Balance $148.59 Proceeds from sale of lots in Lakeview Cemetery 20.00 Proceeds from sale of lots in North Cemetery 25.00 $193.59

Expended for improve- ments in Lake View Cemetery 18.00 Expended for improve- ments in North and Cen- ter Cemeteries 35.80 53.80

Dec. 31 Balance $139.79 100

LAKEVIEW CEMETERY 1'917

Jan. 1 Balance $1.50 Feb. 7 Appropriation 250.00 $251.50

Expended $251.50

NORTH AND CENTER CEMETERIES 1917

Jan. 1 Balance $104.68 Feb. 7 Appropriation 250.00 $354.6&

Expended 354.06

Dec. 31 Balance $.62

PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS 7 Q1 1917 Tj 1 0> ince , • 1 e 0 r-^ CO 5 ft X & «$ r Q E. L. Moore Fund $81.93 $12.88 $ 2.75 $92.06 Parsons Fund 32.67 8.59 7.75 33.51 Ann M. Lovejoy Fund .12 8.59 4.00 4.71 Charles Holbrook Fund 5.49 6.44 3.00 8.93 Dwight B. Heard Fund 5.76 4.30 2.75 7.31 Jackson Fund 13.43 4.29 2.75 14.97 W. S. Draper Fund 7.13 4.29 2.75 8.67 Edward P. Johnson Fund 3.68 4.30 2.00 5.98 Henry Reeves Fund 9.91 4.30 2.75 11.46 Calvin Rice Fund 9.66 4.29 2.75 11.20 Roby Fund 51.48 17.18 8.25 60.41 Ambrose M. Page Fund .44 2.15 2.00 .59 101

E. Russell Frost Fund 11.81 4.30 2.75 13.36 Lurinda B. Thomas Fund 6.85 429 2.75 8.39 Josiah M. Russell Fund 7.50 4.30 2.75 9.05 Phebe Maria Lee Fund 4.75 4.29 2.75 6.29 Edwin Gale Fund 3.46 4.30 2.75 5.01 Jude Damon Fund 2.44 4.29 2.75 3.98 Marshall Russell Fund 2.34 4.30 2.75 3.89 Frank C. Heard Fund 3.09 4.30 2.75 4.64 George Harrington Fund 4.29 2.75 1.54 Adaline H. Wellington Fund 1.94 4.29 2.75 3.48 Alfred C. Loker Fund 3.29 4.30 2.00 5.59 Bryant and Miller Fund .04 4.29 2.00 2.33 Edward Rice Fund 3.02 4.30 2.75 4.57 Ellen Ricker Fund 1.00 4.30 2.00 3.30 Elbridge H. Wellington Fund 1.00 4.29 2.75 2.54 Warren S. Weeler Fund 4.29 1.50 2.79 Noyes Morse Fund 3.28 2.75 .53 Caroline E. Miller Fund 1.12 1.12 Otis Loker Fund 2.25 2.00 .25

$342.45 Respectfully submitted,

ANDREW S. MORSE, COLIN C. WARD, WALLACE S. DRAPER, Clerk, Cemetery Commissioners. 102

REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE

Number of arrests 72 Automobile violations 47 Drunkenness 8 Breaking and Entering 4 Non-support 3 Larceny 2 Assault 1 Disturbing the Peace 2 Selling horse unfit for labor 1 Illegal sale of liquor 2

Keeping liquor with intent to sell 2

72 Commitment to House of Correction 2 Commitment to Insane Hospital 1 Commitment to Lyman School 1

EDWARD F. DORSHEIMER, Chief of Police. 103

GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH

From January 1, 1917 to December 31, 1917.

PAY ROLL

D. J. Graham $797.50 William Sanderson 744.75 William Coughlin 721.00 Edward Damon 95.00

$2,358.25 SCHEDULE OF BILLS L. M. Baldwin, storage of sprayer $10.00 L. H. McManus, repairs 2.00

D. J. Graham, expense account 12.06 A. W. Atwood, team for sprayer 149.00

I. A. Lupien, gasolene 29.40 Alice Haynes, mailing moth notices 3.00 A. W. Brownell, 500 moth notices 1.75 The Suburban Press Co. 2.00 M. H. Hynes, postage stamps 7.50

$216.71

DANIEL J. GRAHAM, Superintendent,

SPRAYING 1917 G. E. Sewell $12.50 104

R. K. Snow 69.50 S. W. Heyward 6.00 E. A. Rogers 9.50

J. C. Hubbard 16.00 Jim Whitney 6.00 Henry Drew 32.00 Roger Merrill 7.50 T. D. Smith 4.00 Richard Ames 4.00 105

REPORT BOARD OF HEALTH

The Board of Health respectfully submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1917.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

Mumps 6 Chicken Pox 5 Parotitis 1 Measles 5 Scarlet Fever 6 All stagnant water was sprayed with mosquito oil for the prevention of malaria.

Jan. 1, 1917 Balance 189.91

Feb. 1, 1917 Appropriation $500.00

$689.91

Dec. 31, 1917 Expenditures 578.48

Tan. 1, 1918 Balance 111.43

Feb. 9 Waldo Lawrence, Inspection of Slaughtering $19.50 D. P. Loker, Death Returns 2.25

Mar. 2

John L. Corcoran, Inspection of Slaughtering, telephone and expense 10.00 Town of Sudbury 177.93 106

April W. C. Neal, Inspector of Slaughtering $13.50

May 2 Howard E. Sherman, Inspection 4.00 Waldo F. Lawrence, Inspector 6.00 John L. Corcoran, Inspection and Burial of Dead Animal 10.00 June

W. S. Lovell, Mosquito Oil 20.40 Walter L. Corcoran, spraying 7.50 Edward Corcoran, spraying 2.00 P. H. Grover, spraying 3.00

E. F. Lawrence, Jr., spraying 3.00 Waldo L. Lawrence, inspection 6.00 John L. Corcoran, inspection and spraying 10.00 Fiske & Co., 25 feet of hose 2.25

July 3 Howard E. Sherman, inspecting 8.00 Waldo L. Lawrence, inspecting 8.00 John L. Corcoran, inspection and fumigation 15.00 W. L. Corcoran, spraying 3.00 Lovell Grocery, mosquito oil 23.90 Dr. P. S. Ide 3.00 Aug. Waldo L. Lawrence, inspection 4.00 Waldo L. Corcoran, spraying 6.00 John L. Corcoran, salary 25.00 John L. Corcoran, inspection and Fumigation 8.00 C. N. Fairbanks, hose 2.41 W. C. Neal, inspection and slaughtering 4.00

Sept. 5 Waldo L. Lawrence, inspection 4.00 Walter L. Corcoran, labor 3.00 107

John L. Corcoran, inspection 8.00

Oct. Waldo L. Lawrence, inspection and auto hire 4.50 John L. Corcoran, inspection and labor 8.00

J. C. Vincent 1.00 Lovell's Grocery, auto hire 1.50 Commercial Press 1.75 Nov. Howard E. Sherman, inspection 8.00 Waldo Lawrence, inspection and fumigation 14.00 John L. Corcoran, inspection and placing Scar- let Fever Cards 12.00 C. B. Dodge, candles 9.30

Dec. John L. Corcoran, fumigation and expenses 18.28 W. S. Lovell, auto hire 3.00

Dec. 18 Dr. Sparks 9.00 Peck & Davieau Grocery 40.13 Robinson Jones & Co., coal 7.38 John L. Corcoran, fumigation and telephone 5.00 W. C. Neal, inspection of slaughtering 12.50

HOWARD E. SHERMAN, WALDO L. LAWRENCE, JOHN L. CORCORAN, Sec. 108

REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR

The Overseers of the Poor during the past year visited their charges at Worcester and outside and submit the follow- ing report.

Receipts Balance $68.81 Appropriation 2,000.00 Reimbursements 998.31

$3,066.12 Expenditures 2,163.90

Balance $902.22 At Franciscan Home, Worcester, board and clothing $564.72 Having settlement in Wayland and re- siding there 792.50 Having settlement in Wayland and re- siding elsewhere 203.62 Having settlement elsewhere and resid- ing in Wayland 378.21 Medical attendance 12.00 Stationary and supplies 11.73 Burial expenses 158.00 Expenses 43.12

$2,163.90 Respectfully submitted, THOMAS W. FROST, Chairman, HOWARD C. HAYNES, Clerk, WALTER S. BIGWOOD.

January 1, 1917 to January 1, 1918. 109

WATER COMMISSIONERS* REPORT

The Wayland Water Commissioners respectfully submit the following report.

At the regular meeting March 5, 1917, all members present the board was organized as follows : James C. McKay, Chairman; Clarence S. Williams, Clerk.

Walter S. Bigwood was reappointed as superintendent of works.

There was plenty of water the past year and we didn't need to buy from the Natick Department. Extensions have been laid off Plain Street near Lake Cochituate known as Shore Acres.

We have many new applications for water from the line on Old Connecticut Path but fear we will be unable to take them all on owing to small size pipe running from Simpson's Corner.

During the past four years there has been an increase of sixty-five services due to the Brown and Stackpole land de- velopment around Dudley Pond and Cochituate Lake with an average of about six dollars per service.

This new business helps out greatly as there are many of the tenements in the village idle which used to be occupied by shoemakers. :

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CLERK'S ANNUAL REPORT

December 31, 1917 IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN TREASURER

Dr. 1916 Dec. 31. Balance with the Town Treasurer $ 13.38 Cash turned over to Treasurer 1917 Feb. 5 255.47 Mar. 9 321.70 April 26 149.00 June 1 118.74 July 5 143.50 July 28 194.00 Aug. 10 121.00 Aug. 24 249.50 Sept. 25 173.50 Oct. 22 146.83 Nov. 9 80.00 Dec. 26 325.00 Dec. 31 67.50

$2,359.12

Cr. IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TREASURER 1917 Mar. 5 Bills approved 161.78 Ill

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j-jiiio cippi kj v cu. 108 37 Dec. 31 Bills approved 119.38 Dec. 31 Salary, James C. McKay, Commissioner 20.00 Salary, Henry G. Dudley, Commissioner 20 00 Salary, Clarence S. Williams 20.00 Salary, Clarence S. Williams, Clerk 32.50 Salary, Clarence S. Williams, Collector 100.00 Salary, Walter S. Bigwood, Supt. 150.00 Balance with Town Treasurer 98.92

$2,359.12

CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS, Clerk, JAMES C. McKAY, HENRY G. DUDLEY. 112

WAYLAND WATER WORKS

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.

MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT Mar. 5 Walter Bigwood, telephone $2.37 C. W. Fairbanks, gravel 3.00 Central Supply Co., tools 2.57 Natick Water Dept., water 91.99 John Donahue, labor, 7 days, 3 1-2 hrs. 18.59 Walter Bigwood, labor 9 days, 1 hr. 29.20 W. C. Neal, labor, 5 days, 5 hrs. 14.06 Apr. 2 George Leach, envelopes 10.80 Fiske Corporation, fittings 3.97 The Suburban Press, Printing 6.75 C. S. Williams, envelopes 1.08 C. S. Williams, supplies 9.08 W. C. Neal, labor, 3 days, 1 hr. 7.81 W. C. Neal, horse hire 2.41 Walter Bigwood, labor, 2 days, 7 hrs. 9.20 Apr. 17 John Donahue, labor, 8 days 20.00 Walter Bigwood, labor, 7 days, 1 hr., 22.80 May 15 Chapman Valve Co., valves 12.83 113

W. M. Todd Co., fittings 3.36 Walworth Mfg. Co., sewer boxes 12.56 Howe & Co., express .30 Hobbs & Warren, book 5.62 Hobbs & Warren, office supplies 3.90 John Donahue,, labor, 4 days 7 hrs. 12.29 John Donahue, labor, 2 days, 5 hrs. 7.87 Walter Bigwood, labor, 5 days, 1 hr. 15.60 Walter Bigwood, labor, 3 days, 4 hrs. 14.00 James McKay, attending gate 10.00

June 7 W. C. Neal, man and team 1.00 Chadwick-Boston Lead Co., lead pipe 16.24 Walworth Mfg. Co., tools 2.42 Walter Bigwood, telephone 2.37 Walter Bigwood, labor 2 days 6 hrs. 8.00 John Donahue, labor, 3 days 2 hrs. 9.75 Harry Craig, labor 6 hrs. 2.25

June 20 John Donahue, labor, 4 days 5 hrs. 13.87 Walter Bigwood, labor, 1 day, 5 1-2 hrs. 3.75

July 2 Tenny Morse Co., fittings 6.97 C. S. Williams, steel tape 2.75 Walter Bigwood, labor, 4 hrs. 2.00 Harry Craig, labor 2 hrs. .75

Aug. 1 Walworth Mfg. Co., gate pipe 5.98 W. C. Neal, man and team 3.06 114

Walter Bigwood, telehponc 1.58 Howe & Co., express 2.85 John Donahue, labor, 1 day, 4 hrs. 4.50 John O'Rouke, labor, 4 days, 4 hrs. 13.50 Harry Craig, labor, 3 days, 5 hrs. 10.87 Walter Bigwood. labor, 4 days, 4 hrs. 18.00

Sept 1 John O'Rourke, labor, 4 hrs. 1.50 Harry Craig, 1 day, 3 hrs. 4.13 John Donahue, labor, 3 days, 1 hr. 9.38 John Yeager, labor, 5 hrs. 1.88 Walter Bigwood, labor,

1 day, 4 hrs. 6.00

Oct. 1 Walter Bigwood, labor, 7 hrs. 3.50 Harry Craig, labor, 7 hrs. 2.63 John O'Rouke, labor, 3 days, 2 hrs. 9.75

George Phylis, labor, 1 day, 2 hrs. 3.75 H. G. Dudley, labor, 1 day 4.00 John Yeager, labor, 3 days, 2 1-2 hrs. 9.94

Nov. 5 Napoleon Perediau, sythe 1.00 W. M. Todd Co., fittings 1.86 The Suburban Press, printing 10.30 Natick Water Dept., jute and sleeve 8.96 Joe Peredeau, labor, 3 days, 4 hrs. 10.50 John Yeager, labor, 3 days 9.00 John O'Rouke, labor, 4 days, 5 hrs. 13.86 Walter Bigwood, labor, 115

7 days, 7 hrs. 31.50

Nov. 21 John O'Rourke, labor, 7 days, 4 hrs. 22.50 Joe Peredeau, labor, 9 days, 6 hrs 29.25 W. Bigwood, 8 days, 3 hrs. 33.50

Dec. 5 W. T. Smith, labor at reser- voir, 22 days 66.00 W. C. Neal, labor, 2 days, 5 hrs. 7.87 Joe Peredeau, labor, - day, 4 3-4 hrs. 4.75 John O'Rouke, labor, 4 days, 2 hrs. 12.75 Walter Bigwood, labor, 4 days, 2 hrs. 17.00

Dec. 29 Walworth Mfg. Co., service boxes, fittings 19.47 C. S. Williams, supplies 2.73 Robinson & Jones, charcoal .16 James McKay, jobbing 7.55

M. J. Maloney, repairing boots .40 Central Supply Co., gate pipe and curb cocks 76.37 Walter Bigwood, telephone 3.95 John O'Rouke, labor, 1 day, 2 hrs. 3.75 Walter Bigwood, labor, 1 day, 2 hrs. 5.00

$951.75

CONSTRUCTION AT SHORE ACRES May 15 Tenny Morse & Co., galv. pipe 130.37 Tenny Morse & Co., cast iron pipe 257.85

June 4 Walter Bigwood, freight 12.92 116

Walter Bigwood, labor 3.00

June 20 Harry Craig, labor, 4 days, 1 hr. 12.38 John Donahue, labor, 4 days, 1 hr. 12.38 Walter Bigwood, labor, 4 days, 1 hr. 16.50

T July 2 W al worth Mfg. Co., service boxes 17.47 D. D. Griffin, carting pipe 13.50

Tenny Morse & Co., hemp and fittings 14.50 Harry Craig, labor, 2 days, 6 hrs. 11.25 Walter Bigwood, labor, 2 days, 4 hrs. 14.00 John Hibbard, labor, 10 days 30.00 John Yeager, labor, 7 days 21.00 John Donahue, labor, 6 days 18.00

July 18 John O'Rourke, labor, 10 days, 6 hrs. 32.25 John Donahue, labor, 6 days, 5 hrs. 19.87 John Hibbard, labor, 2 days, 4 hrs. 7.50 John Yeager, labor 12 days, 6 hrs. 38.25 Walter Bigwood, labor, 4 days 16.00 Albert Bond, old lead 16.74

Aug. 1 John Yeager, labor, 12 days 36.00 John Donahue, labor, 7 days, 4 hrs. 22.50 John O'Rouke, labor, lday, 3 1-2 hrs. 4.31 W. Bigwood, labor, 1 day, 2 hrs. 5.00 Harry Craig, labor, 2 hrs. .75

Sept. 1 Harry Craig, labor, 3 1-2 hrs. 1.31 John O'Rourke, labor, 3 1-2 hrs. 1.31 John Donahue, labor, 4 hrs. 1.5© 117

Oct. 1 John Yeager, labor 1 day 3.00 Nov. 5 Framingham Water Dept., plug .65 Robinson. & Jones, coke & charcoal 2.30 John Yeager, labor, 4 hrs. 1.50

$795.86

WALTER BIGWOOD, Supt. 118

REPORT OF TREE WARDEN

Jan. 1, 1917, Balance $171.26

Feb. 7, 1917, Appropriation 200.00

$371.26 Mar. 7 Frank F. Ames, labor 16.25 Apr. 4 Frank F. Ames, labor 18.75 Sept. 5 Frank F. Ames, labor 21.38 Oct. 3 Frank F. Ames, labor 22.13 Nov. 7 Frank F. Ames, labor 20.63 Dec. 5 Frank F. Ames, labor 31.50 Dec. 5 Wayland Construction Co., teaming 6.00 Dec. 19 Frank F. Ames, labor 19.50 Dec. 31 Frank F. Ames, labor 39.75

$195.89

Jan. 1, 1918, Balance $175.37 FRANK F. AMES, Tree Warden. 119

AUDITOR'S REPORT

The accounts of the financial officials have been examined and approved. JAMES H. CARROLL, Town Auditor. 120

SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Wayland, Mass., January 7, 1918.

Platform scales over 5,000 lbs. 3

Platform scales under 5,000 lbs. 12 Counter scales 10 Beam scales 4 Spring balances 16 Computing platform scales 8 Slot weighing scales 1 Avoirdupois weights 91 Liquid measures 43 Oil measuring pumps Molasses measuring pumps 2 Yard measures 2 Reweighed packages 4 Coke and charcoal 3 Coal in wagons 3 Coal in bags 3 Flour in bags 4 Butter in lbs. 4 Meats 5 Bread 3 Miscellaneous packages 25 Dry commodities 55 Sealing fees $16.57 HERBERT DUDLEY,

Sealer of Weights and Measures. 121

REPORT OF HICHWAY SURVEYOR

HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND SIDEWALKS

Jan. 1, 1917, Balance $678.47

Feb. 7, 1917, Appropriation 5,000.00 Mar. 23, 1917, State, Treasurer 61.43 Dec, 1917, Excise Tax 877.32

$6,617.22 Expenditures 6,376.70

Jan. 1, 1918, Balance 240.52 FAY ROLL

C. W. Fairbanks, 166 days, 7 hrs. $491.32 T. Garvey, 51 days, 2 1-2 hrs. 148.42 H. Clark, 6 days 15.00 C. Gay, 13 days, 4 hrs. 36.25 N. Tetreault, 59 days, 1-2 hr. 167.66 C. W. McEnroy, 45 days, 2 hrs. 129.50 L. Dunham, 6 days 16.50 R. Porter, 8 days, 4 1-2 hrs. 22.91

J. B. Charbonneau, 46 days, 4 hrs. 134.29

J. Ploss, 12 days, 2 hrs. 35.36 C. Maguire, 1 day 2.50 N. Gladu, 3 days 9.00 H. Wyatt, 31 days, 1 hr. 89.29 W. Ford, 10 days 30.00 W. F. Lawrence, 40 days, 4 hrs. 117.22 H. Bent, 2 days 5.00 W. Bond, 3 days 9.00 122

i no A ry J. Perodeau, 45 days, 2 hrs. 166 .47 1 1 A 1(1 u. u. orimn, o / Gays, o nrs. F. McKnroy, 4 days 1 9 AA

r\ W. Lrriiiin, 6 days 9.00r\r\

9 (\f\ W. U. Aeal, 1 day one to 1 . .L. riynes, lUo days, 1 nr. oUb.oo

L,. 1 . riynes, bo days, o nrs. 461.61

"i o k 1 a M. VV. riynes, bo days, 6 nrs. loo.iy

\j. j oner, do aays, i nr. loo.\)'± 1QIV f\A A. Eagan, 71 days, 1 1-2 hrs. iy i .v*±

E. Eagan, 44 days, 4 1-2 hrs. iiy1 1 Q .yQ1i F. Davidson, 6 days 1 Q C\l\ vj. ivicradden, -ci days O-C. OU p. lvioore, io aays Q9 ^fl

H. Carter, 12 days, 3 hrs. O < .10 G. Sherman, 15 days o7.50

1l. riynes, xJl days 0,0. 50 T. Dowey, 9 days T. Maynard, 1 day

A Sherman, 11 days, 4 hrs. /CO. 75

J. Brainard, 55 days, 4 hrs. 104.04: 1 CO fkfl J. Malloy, oo days lb-o. UU W. Randolph, 27 days 77.00 H. Lee, 30 days 90.01 A. Gleason, 7 days, 5 hrs. 19.06 M. Barbogg, 12 days 36.00 C. Harrington, 16 days 46.50

J. Eagan, 6 days, 4 hrs. 19.50

J. Bryden, 1 day 3.00 W. Hynes, 7 days 21.00 W. Rich, 3 days 9.00 TEAMING C. W. Fairbanks, 162 days, 5 1-2 hrs. 276.86 T. L. Hynes, 196 days, 1 1-2 hrs, 582.32 T. Dowey, 9 days 27..00 123

M. W. Hynes, 49 days 169.00

J. W. Eagan, 6 days, 4 hrs. 22.75 G. Sherman, 15 days 45.00 A. Sherman, 11 days, 4 hrs. 34.50 A. Gleason, 7 days, 5 hrs. 22.88 C. Harrington, 12 days 23.50 A. W. Atwood, 11 days 31.50 H. Wyatt, 65 days, 3 hrs. 104.87 W. Lawrence, 81 days 137.47 D. D. Griffin, 77 days, 2 hrs. 131.91

J. I. Bryden, 1 day 3.50 F. Davidson, 6 days 21.00 W. C. Rich, 3 days 10.50 SCHEDULE OF BILLS Feb. 9 Good Roads Mch. Co., bolts $8.50 Apr. 4 The Fiske Co., shovels 3.75 Puritan Cement Co., bound stones 124.00 Mrs. Edward Carter, gravel 18.15 Jos. Breck & Sons, supplies 19.05 Apr. 17 Mrs. Edward Carter, gravel 45.00 H. Parmenter, stove 1.00 W. Stearns, repairs 12.00 May 2 Mrs. Edward Carter, gravel 19.80 Wayland Cons. Co., cement 1.05 May 16 T. Irving, gravel 31.20

May 28 J. Bolton, gravel 21.60 T. Irving, gravel 41.25 June 20 Robinson & Jones, cement 1.42

M. J. Morris, labor 148.72 July 2 H. C. Haynes, building fence 119.85 July 18 Union Lumber Co., lumber 22.52 E. W. Marston, labor 7.90 Aug. 1 T. Irving, gravel 10.20 H. C. Haynes, labor 5.60 Oct. 3 H. C. Haynes, repair bridge 15.66 124

A. S. Russell, repair bridge, 2.03

Nov. 21 J. I. Bryden, freight bill 1.43 H. C. Haynes, labor and supplies 18.30 F. Haynes, labor and supplies 9.21 N. E. Road Mch. Co., 18.50

J. Bolton, gravel 14.55

Dec. 1 J. Bolton, gravel 9.90 H. C. Haynes, labor and supplies 14.30

I. A. Lupien, supplies 3.30

Dec. 19 J. C. McKay, repairs 41.56 Dec. 31 Lovell's Grocery, supplies 2.10 COCHITUATE ROAD

Jan. 1, 1917, Balance $249.95

Feb. 7, 1917, Appropriation 1,500.00 Nov. 10, Notes 3,000.000

$4,749.95 Expenditures 4,364.76

Jan. 1, 1918, Balance $ 385.19 May 2 Pay roll 194.94 Robinson & Jones Co., supplies 13.58 C B. Williams, gravel 8.25 C. B. Williams, water cart 2.00 May 16 Pay roll 15.75 Natick Street Dept., roller 40.00 C. E. Dearborn, labor 11.53 Sept. 5 Pay roll 80.67 Joseph Breck & Sons, supplies 25.34 G. F. Marston, supplies 1.00

M. J. Maloney, supplies .55 Sept. 15 Pay roll 114.91 F. Diehl & Son, pipe 315.00 G. F. Marston, supplies .50 The Good Roads Mch. Co. 15.05 125

Barbour & Stockwell Co. 35.50 Oct. 3 Pay roll 238.09 Waterhouse, Bro., labor 20.00 Robinson & Jones, supplies 10.95

Oct. 17 Pay roll , 225.83 F. Diehl & Son, brick 33.60

M. J. Maloney, supplies 1.20

J. C. McKay, repairs 7.45

Nov. 7 Payroll . 12.17 Nov. 21 Framingham Cons. Co. 33.00 Natick Street Dept. 24.00 F. Diehl & Son, balance 2.50 Framingham Cons. Co. 2,000.00 Dec. 5 Pay roll 12.82 C. S. Wright & Son, labor 11.50 Robinson & Jones .75 Dec. 19 Framingham Cons. Co., balance 856.33

E. POND STREET

Fe,b. 1917, Appropriation $900.00 Expenditures 608.83

Jan. 1, 1918, Balance $291.17

Nov. 7, 1917 Pay roll 133.50

Nov. 7, 1917 J. W. Doon & Son Co. 22.33 Nov. 21, 1917 Pay roll 209.50 Nov. 21, 1917 Natick Street Dept. 56.00

Dec. 5, 1917 Pay roll 187.50 CHARLES W. FAIRBANK, Surveyor of Highways.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF THE

TOWN OF WAYLAND

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1917

NATICK, MASS. PRESS OF NATICK BULLETIN 1918 .

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SCHOOL OFFICERS. 1917

COMMITTEE George F. Poutasse, Chairman, Wayland Term expires 1918 Ernest E. Sparks, Acting Chairman, Cochituate Term expires 1919 Llewellyn Mills, Secretary, Wayland Term expires 1918 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Frank H. Benedict, Cochituate

ATTENDANCE OFFICERS

J. Charles Vincent, Wayland Henry G. Dudley, Cochituate SCHOOL PHYSICIAN

W. H. Sylvester, M. D., Natick . 129

REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

To the Citizens of Way I and : Your School Committee begs to submit reports from Superintendent of Schools, Principal of High School and School Physician for your careful reading, the same are in- structive and the recommendations are worthy of your best thought. We believe Wayland should hold her own with other towns of the Commonwealth in regard to her schools, and feel the money spent for education as being one of the town's best assets. The problem of keeping an efficient teaching staff becomes more and more difficult unless we can be assured of sufficient money to pay salaries in accord with the unusual conditions we are all meeting at this time, and it is hoped we shall have your support in this matter. We have had a great many changes in our force this year, but have full complement at this time and matters are moving smoothly.

The fuel question has been a serious one for most schools, this year, but we are fortunate in having a supply to keep us warm this winter, and with the exception of a few extreme days our schools have been comfortable.

We trust the report of the School Physician in regard to the children's teeth will be helpful and that parents will not ignore the advice given.

As you know, our Board lost its chairman, Mr. Poutasse when he went to France with the American Expeditionary Forces, and we have felt his loss very much, and we prav he 130

and all our Wayland boys may return to us well and strong after the world war is over.

Respectfully,

DR. E. E. SPARKS, Acting Chairman, LLEWELLYN MILLS, Secretary

School Committee of Wayland. — —

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

1917

SALARIES School Committee George F. Poutasse $50.00 $50.00 Teachers W. Herbert Moore $906.25

George D. Richert • 543.75 Helen Sprague 15.00 Hazel A. Irwin 468.75 Mrs. A. G. Williamson 82.80

Mrs. J. J. Healy 18.00 Elizabeth G. Hodge, 623.75 Sarah H. Dow 406.25 Doris E. Pitman 262.50

Katherine I. McGrath 240.50 Mabel C. Whetten 647.13 Russell E. Tupper 1,023.67 Jane C. Noel 564.92 Julia F. Hastings 647.13 Ethel M. Hamilton 671.90 Sarah F. Caldwell 606.04 Sylvia E. Prescott 621.66 Helena M. Coleman 343.75 Marie L. Leach 359.38 Janet McNamara 580.84 —— —

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Nina P. Trueman . 210.00 Almira E. Fuller 144.72 Beulah E. Mabie 65.00 Agnes E. Boland 209.36 Earle S. Russell 250.00 Marjorie A. Evans 186.50 Clement Downs 150.00 $10,849.25

Superintendent Frank H. Benedict $791.64 $791.64

Janitors

J. P. Stewart $124.98 Henry G. Dudley 375.02

J. Charles Vincent 525.00 $1,025.00 Transportation Alexander Sauer $791.00

J. Fred Wheeler 273.00 Thomas Ward 220.00 Alexander W. Holmes 380.00 Frank Bigwood & Son 240.50 Andrew Paul (E. E. Jennison) 168.00 Harry Carter 375.00 George Richardson 225.00 Middlesex & Boston St. Ry. Co. 580.50 $3,253.00

Supplies

Fairbanks & Son .68 Publisher Aus Nah und Fern 2.00 American Water Supply Co. of N. E. 5.50 Edward E. Babb & Co. 177.23 American Book Co. 40.62 Ginn & Company 79.10 Frost—Adams Company 3.86 D. C. Heath & Company 29.62 H. S. Chadbourne 1.20 — —

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Chandler & Barber Company 33.89 Oliver Ditson Company 8.15 The Literary Digest 6.75 Allyn & Bacon 8.49 Silver, Burclett & Company 3.52 Remington Typewriter Company 2.15 Dowlmg School Supply Company 77.90 The Riverdale Press 7.16 Cambridge Botanical Supply Co. 46.36 L. C. Smith & Brothers .75 The MacMillan Company 28.46

F. J. Barnard Company 28.20

J. L. Hammett Company 2.83 Newton Lumber Company 44.00 Charles May & Son Company 1.25 $619.17

Fuel, Light, Power

The Edison El. II. Co. of Boston $36.79 A. W. Atwood 203.97 Dexter & Carpenter, Inc. 648.71 Robinson & Jones Co. 301.73 George Richardson 15.00 Waltham Coal Company 190.10 Boston & Maine Railway Company 393.65 $1,789.95

Repairs

C. R. Cole $27.46 The Fiske Corporation 12.81 The Natick Machine Company 1.40

J. C. Massie 21.32 D. W. Richardson 7.05

D. J. Foley 17.60 T. Weld Frost 30.68 L. H. McManus 2.00 A. W. Atwood 1.00 Wm. H. Mitchell & Son Company 1.00 —

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Union Lumber Co. 16.29 S. A. Barry 2.65

J. A. French 15.00 Walter S. Bigwood 47.00 Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Co. 212.75 Henry G. Dudley 4.50 $420.51

Incidentals Wayland Water Boaro Benjamin R. Parker .40 W. S. Daniels 5.00 Louisa A. Nicholass 20.88 A. W. Atwood 44.27 The "Fiske Corporation 29.14 Remington Typewriter Co. 50.00

H. I. Dallman Company 20.75 Ethel M. Hamilton 1.80 L. H. McManus 4.80 The George T. Johnson Company 21.25 Chandler and Barber Company 1.80 M. S. Shea 5.00 The Wason Company 11.50 Middlesex County 9.43 The Suburban Press 38.50 Waviand Construction Company .75 Howe & Company 2.45 E. W. Jennison 3.90 F. W. Martin Company 22.50 W. Herbert Moore 5.67 Warren D. Valentine 5.75 Hazel A. Irwin .84 Frank H. Benedict 47.76 Agnes E. Boland 12.00 H. W. Flagg 5.50 Colby & Company 1.26 ——

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Masury—Young Company 11.00 Reynolds & Son 4.75

J. Charles Vincent 12.22 American Water Supply Company 5.00 Llewellyn Mills 1.50 Fairbanks & Son .68 Cochituate Grange 8.00

F. J. Bigwood & Son . 1.00 William S. Lovell 24.00 $471.06

RECEIPTS Town Grant $17,700.00 Dog License 140.85 City of Boston, Tuition 27.00 State—Transportation and Tuition 572.55 State—Account of Superintendent 625.00 State—Vocational Reimbursement 150.00 Income Donation Fund 8.00

Sales Lumber—M. T. Department 19.84 Tickets, Books, Paper 8.80 On Account of Damages to School Property 18.35 $19,270.39

RECAPITULATION Salaries

School Committee $50.00 Teachers 10,849.25 Superintendent 791.64 Janitors 1,025.00 Transportation 3,253.00 Supplies 619.67

Fuel, Light, Power 1,789.95 Repairs 420.51 136

Incidentals 471.06 $19,270.08

Balance $ .31

MEDICAL INSPECTION Town Grant $50.00 W. H. Sylvester, M. D. 50.00 137

REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

To the Wayland School Committee :

Gentlemen : —The Annual Report of the Wayland School Department is herewith presented for the eighth time bearing

my signature. It is the twenty-first in the series from this office.

The unusual times through which we are passing, the great unstableness of the hour, affecting all business and social life so extensively as to be almost beyond the comprehension of any one, must of necessity bear more or less potently upon child welfare and child training.

Some have thought that the schools should be run as here- tofore and earnest pleas have been made for education along established lines, conforming only to the plans and dreams of yesterday. While we may agree that our youth must be edu- cated as thoroughly as in years gone by, and possibly mote thoroughly regarding business efficiency yet there seems to be ground for the belief that educational institutions must re-organize, re-model, curtail, economize and at the same time become more efficient in the upbuilding of character, citizen-

ship, intelligent producers and consumers . We should there- fore dream our educational dreams for Wayland but stand ready at all times to conform to the needs of the hour as such are revealed to us by time and we should hold ourselves ever in readiness to grasp and perfect methods of instruction and economy that are sure to develop provided the same shall con- form to the needs of Wayland schools. 138

A review of the first six ye< r s of school work seems to indicate that possible changes except in the way of economy are slight. Good citizenship in a democracy needs emphasis. The inestimable value of perfect health and the causes in early life that retard development and leave weaknesses that in later life afford breeding places for disease will claim attention from the public in some form of educational activity for these early years.

The later years of the grammar schools and all of the high school life must be scrutinized with a view to making not only the expenditure of the money to maintain these institu- tions that school life may be available to all yield a return but also that the years of the boys and girls thus spent shall be profitable to every individual. Tremendous changes must come in our methods and facilities for industrial training. We must not be satisfied with producing alone the theorist and idealist but those who shall be expert workmen in the field of labor—the farm, the shop, and the home. Education must elevate all forms of the world's work and make worth while commercially the becoming of an expert in every line of toil necessary for human existence and happiness.

Small towns may not hope to maintain courses of any great value in strictly trade lines. The cost of instruction, equipment, and materials for giving courses along any one line are high. Only small groups in small towns desire the same trade. Hence the relationship between cost and product are such as to prohibit. We must in all probability look to the larger community for our trade schools.

There are certain matters to which your attention has been especially called and to which we should call the attention of our citizens. These are not new to any one but may have been overlooked as applying to schools.

That there are no longer enough young men for all the peace time work of today is evident. The schools are feeling 139 this already and will be called upon to do so much more if con- ditions creating the shortage do not soon change. The smaller school which draws upon the young and inexperienced men and the larger school that employs young submasters are indeed hard pressed whenever a vacancy appears. We need therefore to look forward to a time when women will of neces- sity be employed as heads of our schools. We may not approve of such employment but we must prepare ourselves to be satisfied.

At present no one has been found to succeed Mr. Downs in the Manual Training Department. Were the work of the year not thoroughly organized for this instruction and much accomplished on projects by our boys I should advise making no further attempt to secure a man for this work. Consider- ing the cost of materials and the difficulty of securing compe- tent instructors for the shop it will be well for you to consider closing the .'.hop temporarily another school year, or until such time as instructors are available and the cost of the department reduced.

There seems no other message to give you in regard to teachers' salaries than to report that the salaries must be sub- stantially increased or the town must be satisfied with younger and less efficient teachers than have been employed thus far and also to be satisfied to have many and frequent changes in the teaching force. While this is a subject of general interest to the citizens of Wayland and of especial interest to the parents of children in school, it is of vital importance to the children themselves and they have no voice in the decision. Wayland schools are maintained for the children and should be as good as the town can afford. The decision to stand for higher wages to school employees in order to maintain the standards of the past is yours and mine only to the extent of laying the situation before the voters. The schools are Way- land's schools maintained for Wayland boys and girls and can- not reach a level above that which the citizens in general wish to support. 140

The increasing cost of transportation and the need of pay- ing your janitors and school physician higher salaries, the in- crease in the cost of fuel and other supplies add greatly to the burden of administration as well as to the burden upon the tax payers. We have reduced the amount of supplies used some- what the past two years. Parents should impress upon their children the need of being judicious in their treatment of books and in the use of other school supplies. All should assist in every way possible to lessen school expenses so long as the wel-

fare of the boys and girls is not materially jeopardized.

We have fewer high school students registered the current year than during the past six years. Seven and eight years ago the registration was in the fifties. This condition is found to be as in Wayland throughout the State in general. Colleges and Normal schools have reported fewer students. We may expect the year following to register even fewer and also we may find that inroads will be made in the grammar school registration. The cost of living, the higher wages for young people, the great need of the world for productive labor from every available source are calling urgently for our young people. The immedi- ate comparative value of one or two years in school and the financial advantage sure to accrue by beginning productive ser-

vice at once place a balance on the side of work now that is quite convincing to many a youth who has practically the deci- sion to make by himself.

Last year we changed our system of grading from a nine-grade to an eight-grade system. I am pleased to report

that this change is working to the advantage of the Wayland Center school children. As the sub-primary room at Cochit- uate took the place of the former first grade, and rather more

since the age of admission is lower, the change to the Cochit- uate children while of less value than to those of the other* school brings no disadvantages but gives a few months of kindergarten training.

It is a pleasure to report that those who have entered col- 141 lege from Wayland are doing exceptionally good work. We have retained the "Entrance without Examination privilege on Trial" to date. Since we now have the required three stu- dents who entered college the past three years in colleges that admit by certificate whose records are satisfactory our school is again eligible for a place in the three year list of schools granted the right to send students to college by certificate.

All of our commercial graduates have been placed and the reports from them are very gratifying.

The times warrant a study of the possibility of shortening the Commercial Course so that students may take only com- mercial subjects the third year. If any find it possible to make records sufficiently intensive and comprehensive as to guar- antee success in offices, the granting of diplomas should become effective after the third year. Ordinarily we should not con- sider such a change. The extra year of study and the courses offered along with the strictly commercial subjects are very valuable to the office worker. Besides many of the students are too immature to stand the strain of the necessary intensive and prolonged commercial study.

After six years of service Mr. W. H. Moore resigned from the High School. Mr. Moore's extremely gentle nature, his great love for the work, his kindly fatherly interest in all the students, his self-sacrificing spirit, his great heart, his pa- tience with those who have found the way of study difficult, his fine scholarship and rare teaching ability have endeared him to the students and to the community. I am sure that I speak for all in wishing him the best of fortune in his newly chosen field of labor.

For the second consecutive year Miss Hodge has been ill for several weeks and out of the service. She will return to

the work after the holidays. While an interruption of this

length is not well for her courses, yet Miss Hodge is so val- 142

uable a woman to have in the school that I commend her to your patience and confidence.

We have lost some tried and valuable teachers the cur- rent year. The Misses Leach, Dow, Irwin, and Mrs. Caldwell have accepted much more lucrative positions.

The State Free Library Commission is offering towns courses in the use of the Library. Through the interest of Mr. Francis Shaw the Wayland Schools were given an opportu- nity to give three groups of students six lessons in Library work. The classes were most ably conducted by Miss Frances YViggin. We feel that the course is very valuable and that the town may well consider offering such instruction every other year. The Library Trustees made every need available for making the lessons effective and agreeable to all concerned.

The reports of the Attendance Officers show but four cases of absence investigated, and only one case of truancy.

The work of Dr. Sylvester in the schools is worthy of especial commendation, not on account of his unquestioned skill, that would be presumptuous, but because of the extent of the service rendered for the small sum paid and for the great interest he has in children and child welfare. His report is presented herewith and should be read by everyone.

The reports of the special teachers contain no unusual recommendations or comments, hence they have been omitted as a matter of economy. The work has been carried on in all three departments along the lines of last year, and the children generally seem to enjoy the work, and have gained thereby in their power to concentrate as well as to have progressed in effi- ciency in the subject.

The interior of the Wayland building needs redressing throughout. The decorations have not been replaced in the hope that this much needed work might be done the coming summer. Of course the required work is for appearances 143 largely, and can be delayed a year or two without material injury to anyone or to the building. Nevertheless, unsightly rooms are not desirable for any term of years. The high prices and the unusual demands for expenditures that are necessities may cause you and the citizens to defer the work another year at least.

In closing allow me to remark that the first business of the home and school, in so far as educative lessons are concerned, is in securing attention and the curing of inattention. The building up of the mental fibre so that prolonged and intensive concentration is possible is truly educative. We cannot create power, but we can teach how to direct and control mental j ower so that conscious attention may become a habit of golden value. Anything that lowers a child's vitality or produces nerve strain may be a sufficient cause for inability to concentrate attention.

Too much or too little food, bad ventilation, too little out-door exercise, eye weakness, bad teeth, or any other physical weak- ness impairs the power to give attention and consequently hin- ders progress in school work. Our children are unusually free from the habit of inattention or defective attention. However, there are cases which call forth extreme effort on the part of the teacher to secure attention which we suspect may be at- tributed to some slight physical disorder. Children as a whole are very uncomplaining and bear many ills older ones would complain of and have remedied. We should, therefore, in my opinion, as school officials, welcome most warmly the tendency to increase physical examinations in point of frequency and extent.

I wish to thank the teachers for their cordial co-operation in all ways, and to express to you my gratitude for your pa- tience with my shortcomings, and your earnest, unselfish sup- port of all things that have seemed to you valuable to the chil- dren of Wayland.

Respectfully submitted, FRANK H. BENEDICT. —

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HIGH SCHOOL REPORT

Mr. Frank H. Benedict,

Superintendent of Schools, Wayland, Mass.

Dear Sir :

I hand you herewith my first report as principal of the Wayland High School. THE SCHOOL

The total membership of 54, present membership 51,

is less than last year and is divided as follows : Seniors 4,

Juniors 13, Sophomores 10, Freshmen 24.

It is encouraging to note that in general, the scholar- ship and spirit of the school is daily improving. But it is also discouraging to have so many pupils fall so far short of what they ought to attain, a fact due in my opinion to lack of systematic home study. The school cannot make the child study in the home, neither can the home make him study in the school, but if both the home and school work together, there would be a great change.

A study room has been established where those pupils who do not spend enough time in home or school study are made to remain in the afternoon, for an hour of super- vised study. This seems to work well, and in the major-

ity of cases, improvement is seen in the work. TEACHERS

In only one case is the corps of teacchers the same as at the close of last year. Miss Doris E. Pitman has taken up the work carried on by Miss Sarah H. Dow last year, while Miss Katherine I. McGrath succeeds Miss Hazel A.

Irwin in the commercial department. Owing to the ill- 145 ness of Miss Hodge this fall, the language work has been somewhat interrupted, but we may feel sure this will be compensated for when she returns after the Christmas holidays. SOCIAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES The meetings of the athletic club held in the High School hall have continued to be very popular with the student body, and have done much to create the right kind of spirit in school, and to bring about a closer and more cordial relation between teachers and pupils, and between different classes. Football was not taken up by the school this year because of lack of material and spirit. It is hoped however that we can make all the better showing in base- ball the coming spring by the inactivity of this past fall. THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL

All the departments are, I believe, steadily increasing in efficiency. We have made many minor changes in the organization of the school, but I wish to call your atten- tion to only two of these changes.

We have introduced corrective physical exercises for both boys and girls for five minutes in the middle of each morning. Miss Pitman has charge of the girls, while I have taken over the boys. This, because it helps all the boys and all the girls, does more than athletics can do alone to build up the physical side of our boys and girls. A healthy mind in a healthy body is what we should strive for in our work of educating.

Our main room is the only home room we have this year and is large enough to accommodate more than all the high school pupils. Instead of having the pupils of each class scattered in different rooms they now all as- semble in one. This system allows study pupils to sit and study in a room which is free from recitations for quite a 146 number of periods. It also allows more recitation classes free from study pupils, and then better teaching on the part of the teacher. RECOMMENDATIONS

1 would respectfully call your attention to the need of the high school for some kind of a no-school alarm for stormy days. Since this is not a new problem I need not go into details concerning the reasons for its need.

Further, I call your attention to the greater need of co- operation of the parents in reducing the number of cases of absence, tardiness, and dismissal. I wish that parents could be more fully impressed with the absolute need of every pupil being present on every school day, promptly, with full prepara- tion, and with the intention to remain to the end of the session. No pupil, I believe, ever fully makes up the work he loses through absence. It should be borne in mind that the prime object of school training is the inculcation of habits that shall remain permanently a part of the pupil's character. In busi- ness often, one's job depends on promptness and regularity.

In conclusion, I wish to thank you, sir, and the members of the School Board for all that has been done to aid me in the undertaking of my new work and for all the kindly interest that has been displayed. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE D. RICHERT, Principal Wayland High School. .

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HIGH SCHOOL

Pupils in High School Membership

Boys Girls Total 11 13 24

1 9 10 8 5 13 2 2 4

Total 22 29 51

Number Graduated in Last School Year Boys Girls Total

. 6 6 12 2 2 2 2 1 2 3

Total continuing their schooling. . 3 2 5

Classes of Various Sizes

Total number of classes in all subjects except music and physical training—30. Of these, 11 contain 1 — 5 pupils. 12 contain 6— 10 pupils. 4 contain 11 — 15 pupils. 3 contain 21—25 pupils. 148

REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN

F. H. Benedict, Supt. of Schools of Wayland : Dear Sir:

I have the honor herewith to present to you my report as School Physician of the Wayland Schools.

I have found on my visits the schools in good condition, the rooms clean, well ventilated and cheerful. The teachers seem to teach because they really enjoy their work. I have never found a group of teachers anywhere who appear to be more thorough in their work, nor whose schools it is more a pleasure to visit. The organization seems to be perfect ; how much of it is due to the most excellent supervision I am un- able to state. The children are almost without exception well dressed and clean. I hardly found a dirty child in any of the schools of this town.

The physical condition has been most excellent all the year,, a few cases only of contagious diseases having occurred. In some ways there has been an improvement over last year. Pediculosis, with which we had such a battle last year, has been little in evidence this year, owing to the vigorous assault before. I have found a good many cases of enlarged tonsils, but only those combined with adenoids have been advised for operation, as almost all simple enlarged tonsils will not make trouble, but will disappear later. Many children to whom dental cards were given last year have had their teeth attended to. The result will be shown in those children in better phys- ical condition and in higher standing in their school work. It is impossible for children to maintain the highest standard in :

149 their studies when they are constantly being poisoned by de- cayed teeth. Many of these little ones suffer more than we be- lieve from pain on account of diseased teeth. I am sorry to say that many other parents to whom dental cards were sent have not attended to their children's teeth, probably in many cases because they could not do it.

I present tables of the result of my examination of the children's teeth, showing what a large amount of work is left to be done, or to be neglected to the lifelong detriment of the children. It seems to me that in the years to come the legis- lature will compel towns to appropriate money for school dentists that those in ordinary circumstances may have their teeth in as good condition as now can only be done by the, well-to-do. Wayland

Room No. 1. Examined 36 children, 23 have 109 diseased teeth.

Room No. 2. Examined 23 children, 13 have 71 diseased teeth.

Room No. 3. Examined 27 children, 16 have 73 diseased teeth.

Room No. 4. Examined 26 children, 10 have 22 diseased teeth. High School: Examined 50 pupils, 18 have 52 diseased teeth. Cochituate School:

Room No. I. Examined 24 children, 13 have 84 diseased teeth.

Room No. 2. Examined 17 children, 10 have 61 diseased teeth.

Room No. 3. Examined 28 children, 25 have 143 diseased teeth.

Room No. 4. Examined 30 children, 26 have 120 diseased teeth. :

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Room No. 5. Examined 30 children, 14 have 32 diseased teeth.

Room No. 6. Examined 28 pupils, 17 have 60 diseased teeth. Totals Whole number examined, 319 pupils. Pupils having diseased teeth, 185. Whole number of diseased teeth 827. This number seems large, but is really better than the schools of the state average. This shows about 58 per cent of our children have defective teeth, while in some schools the number will exceed 80 per cent.

Respectfully submitted,

W. H. SYLVESTER, School Physician. 151

SCHOOL CALENDAR 1918

January 7, Wednesday High School re-opened

January 7, Monday Grammar School re-opened February 22, Friday Holiday March 22, Friday Winter Term ends RECESS OF ONE WEEK

April 1, Monday Spring Term begins April 19, Friday Holiday May 30, Thursday Holiday SUMMER VACATION

September 9, Monday Schools reopen November 27, Wednesday, Schools close for Thanksgiving Recess December 20, Friday Fall Term ends CHRISTMAS RECESS 1919

January 2, Thursday High School re-opens

January 6, Monday Grammar Schools re-open Note.—The dates for closing the schools and the time for the graduations has not been set, owing to the change in sched- ule in January. The Committee had not at the time this went to press been able to determine the portion of lost time to be made up. 152

CHART 1 REGISTRATION BY SCHOOL AND GRADES

School Room Grade No. in Grade Total

Wayland Center 1 1 25 II 17 42 2 III 13 IV 16 29 3 V 21 VI 11 33 4 VII 17 VIII 12 29

Cochituate 1 Sub-I 27 27

2 I 19 19 3 II 21 III 11 32 4 IV 19 V 12 31 5 V 14 VI 16 30 6 VII 16 VIII 12 28 Total Registration, Wayland Center 133 Total Registration, Cochituate 167 Total 300 High School Registration 51

Registration in all schools 351 153

CHART II EYE AND EAR TESTS

Number of children examined 334 Number found defective in vision 21 Number found defective in hearing 4 Number of parents notified 18

CHART III ROLL OF STUDENTS PERFECT IN ATTENDANCE 1916-1917

Name Grade

Lois Valentine I

Walter Smith I William Bindon II Marion Davidson III Elsie Lindbohm V Francis Jones V James Richards V John Foley VII

Flora I. Pettigrew VII

CHART IV ROLL OF GRADUATES

High School Anna Elizabeth Bent George G. Bogren George Murray Burke Alfred Clayton Damon Margaret Elizabeth Dolan 154

Ruth Gladys Felch Helen Josephine Foley Ruth Johnson Eleanor Heard Russell Lewis Samuel Russell Eugene Nelson Sanders Anthony Oliver Schmeltz Agnes Anselm Supple Wayland Grammar Gregory Cooper Edward Francis Foley Olive Irene Haynes William Francis Hynes Nicholas Philip Ide Cecil Thomas Metcalf

Llewellyn Mills, Jr. Thelma Geraldine Moffett Ethel Marion Paul George Francis Poutasse Grace Evelyn Roesbeck Parkman Sayward Dorothy Euretta Small Cochitnate Grammar Everett Roy Bigwood Ruth Burke Oswald Aloysius Garvey May Garnet Hagan Edith Lois Hunt Robert Edwin Keith Grace Adeline Maguire Charles Edward Mann James Murray

Frances I. J. Pettigrew Dorothy Pratt Ellen Magdalen Sullivan Illien Veronica Sullivan 1

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REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES

To the Citizens of Wayiand

The routine of the library has run smoothly and we trust efficiently during the year. The funds placed at our disposal have, been used according to our best judgment in the usual purchase of books, upkeep, and service. A new overhead sys- tem of lighting the children's room has resulted in greatly im- proved conditions, obviating direct light on the eyes of readers, and obtaining better illumination of the room. New lights installed in the entrance vestibule have made that part of the building brighter and more attractive.

More or less trouble has been experienced in the library by the disorderly conduct of growing boys, whereby other users of the institution have been disturbed and annoyed

This is a difficult matter for the trustees to control. They have so far confined themselves to notification of the parents or guardians of these children, citing the library by-laws cover- ing the offence, and leaving the matter of control to them. The trustees recognize fully however, their duty to the town in the matter.

In common with all, our library has been called upon to aid in war equipment the past year. Acting under a sugges- tion of the Massachusetts Free Public Library Commission, the trustees of this library constituted themselves a Local War Library Council, to aid in furnishing and maintaining libraries in National Army, Guard, Officers' Training, and Aviation Camps. An appeal was issued to citizens with the re- 157

suit that $300 was subscribed, $40 over Wayland's maximum allotment, and 1062 volumes given by citizens for the purpose.

The annual report of the Librarian to the trustees and the catalogue list of new books for the year are submitted here- with.

AMOS I. HADLEY, Chairman, ALFRED W. CUTTING, Clerk, JOHN CONNELLY, LESTER R. GERALD, RICHARD AMES, FRANCIS SHAW, Trustees. :

158

REPORT OF TREASURER OF WAYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1917.

Balance of Income on hand January 1, 1917 $75.96 General Income for year ending Jan-

uary 1, 1918 $1,000.00 One-half Dog License 140.85 Collected from Fines and Cards 30.43 Less sundry expenses 8.33 22.10 1162.95

Income from Invested Funds James Sumner Draper Fund 161.26 Cynthia G. Roby Fund 137.00 Grace Campbell Draper Fund 50.00 James Draper Fund 30.00 Ella E. Draper Fund 30.00 416.50 Lydia Maria Child Fund 8.24

Gifts 68.50 68.50

Total 1723.91

EXPENDED Salaries Margaret E. Wheeler, Librarian $400.00

J. C. Vincent, Janitor 240.00 M. E. Wentzel 5.00 645.00 : : : :

159

New Books and Magazines Old Corner Book Store, Books 285.16 15.50 N. J. Bartlett, Books Mary A. Heard, Books 4.00 N. R. Gerald, Magazines 46.50 Rose Bindery 111.65 462.81

Fuel A. W. Atwood, Coal 100.00 Weston Coal Company, Coal 105.00 H. P. Parmenter, Wood 102.00 307.00

Light: Edison Company 115.70 115.70 Repairs Pettingell-Andrews Company 50.00 M. B. Foster Company 42.50

J. C. Massie 50.35 Wayland Construction Company 6.27 C. R. Cole 2.00 151.12

Miscellaneous Expenses Library Bureau 13.63 A. W. Atwood, Express and Ashes 7.30 20.93

Total Expended 1702.56

Balance, January 1, 1918 21.35

COCHITUATE BRANCH LIBRARY AND READING ROOM.

Balance of Income on hand January 1, 1917 $24.87 General Income for Year Appropriation for year : : :

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ending January 1, 1918, $700.00 Collected from Fines and Cards 8.21 Less sundry expenses 4.34 3.87

Cash from Library Treasurer 4.65 708.52

$733.39 EXPENDED Salaries

Gertrude D. Bishop, Asst. Librarian 250.00 M. M. Fiske, Janitor 54.00 304.08 New Books and Magazines Old Corner Bookstore, Books 127.65 N. R. Gerald, Magazines 33.10 160.75

Fuel: Robinson & Jones Company 27.50 27.50

Light Edison Company 27.42 27.42 Miscellaneous Expenses: N. R. Gerald, Rent 144.00 M. M. Fiske. Express 32.24 Library Bureau 2.45 N. R. Gerald, Repairs 1.00 179.69

Total Expended 699.44

Balance, Tanuarv 1, 1918 33.95

INVESTMENT OF LIBRARY FUNDS. James Draper Fund Town of Wayland 6% Note $500.00 Ella E. Draper Fund Town of Wayland 6% Note 500.00 161

Grace Campbell Draper Fund Town of Wayland 5% Note 1,000.00 Lydia Maria Child Fund Deposit in Home Savings Bank, Boston 100.00 Cynthia G. Roby Bequest 3155.76 $3,000. American Telephone and Telepraph Co., 4 % $2,863.76 Deposit in Provident Institution for Savings, Boston 292.00

James Sumner Draper Fund 5,000.00 $1,000. Boston & Albany Railroad 4% 1,001.25 1,000. Boston & Maine Railroad, 4% 990.00 1,000. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 4% 993.75 1,000 Delaware & Hudson Rail- road, 4% 1,000.00 1,000. Fitchburg Railroad, 4% 995.00 Deposit in Provident Institution for Savings, Boston 20.00

$10,255.76 162

LIBRARIAN'S REPORT

To the Trustees of the Public Library : The librarian submits the following report for the year ending December 31, 1917. Number of volumes—classified Fiction 4,808 Non-fiction 10,487

Total 15,295 Unclassified 301

Total 15,596 Number purchased 210 Number presented 241 Circulation for the year: From Main Library 9,249 From Cochituate Branch 6,286 Sent to Cochituate Branch on cards 81 Juvenile from Main Library 1,639

Juvenile from Cochituate Branch . . 1,817

Total 19,072

CLASSES OF READING BY PER CENT Fiction 78.84

General Works . 2.68 Philosophy .38 Religion .48 Sociology .79 —

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Natural Science .98 Art 2.96 Literature 2.64 History 8.64 Biography 1.61

The following periodicals are to be regularly found in the reading room: Atlantic Bird-lore, Bookman Century Country life in America Harper's Monthly Journal of outdoor life Ladies' Home Journal London Illustrated News National Geographic Magazine Our Dumb Animals Outlook Popular Science Red Cross Magazine Review of Reviews Scribner's Magazine St. Nicholas Survey Woman's Home Companion World's Work Youth's Companion MARGARET E. WHEELER, Librarian 164

ACCESSIONS

PHILOSOPHY

Lodge, Sir Oliver. Raymond or life and death. Rinehart. Mary Roberts. Altar of free- dom. Schwab. Charles M. Succeeding with what you have.

RELIGION

Brown, Howard N. Freedom and truth. Gordon, George A. Appeal of the na- tion. McComb, Samuel. God's meaning in life. Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Jerusalem. Wells, H. G. God the invisible king.

sociology

Deland, Lorin F. At the sign of the dol- lar and other essays. Massachusetts women. Anti-suffrage essays. Mayo, Katherine. Justice to all. Story of the Pennsylvania police. Norris, Edwin M. Story of Princeton. Oviatt. Edwin. Beginnings of Yale.

PHILOLOGY Johnson, Burgess. Well of English and the bucket.

NATURAL SCIENCE

Barber, H. Aeroplane speaks. 165

540-1138 Hendrick, Ellwood. Everyman's chem- ist ry. 575-OSI Osborn, Henry F. Origin and evolution of life. 598-P31 Pearson, T. Gilbert. Bird study book. 509-SE2 Sedgwick, W. T. and Tyler, H. W. Short history of science. USEFUL ARTS 613-AD1 .Adams, Samuel H. Health master. 641-B54 Bitting, A. W. and K. G. Canning and how to use canned foods. 613-B83 Bruce. H. Addington. Handicaps of childhood. 617-C23 Carrell, A. and Dehelly, G. Treatment of invented wounds. 646-F18 Fales, Jane. Dressmaking. 641-F22 Farmer, Fannie M. Boston Cooking- School cook book. 613-F53 Fisher, Irving and Fisk, Eugene L. How to live. 641-G82 Green, Mary. Better meals for less money. 699-H65 Hoar, Allen. Submarine torpedo boat. 646-IZ6 Izor, Estelle P. Costume design and

> home planning. 613-L51 Lee, Roger I. Health and disease. 641-M19 MacKay, L. Gertrude.. Housekeeper's apple book. 641-P87 Powell, Ola. Successful canning and preserving. 640-P93 Prince, Jane. Letters to a young house- keeper. 641- ST4 Stern, Frances, and Spitz, Gertrude T. Food for the worker. 641-W11 Wade, Mrs. Mary L. Book of corn cookery. FINE ARTS

770-C69 Collins, Francis A. Camera man. 723-C84 Cram, Ralph A. Substance of Gothic. 716-C88 Croy, Mae Savell. Putnam's garden handbook. 166

751-F31 Fedclen, Romilly. Modern water-color. 790-H145 Hall, H. Z. and Buck, M. M. C. Handi- crafts for the handicapped. 746-K68C Klickmann, Flora ed. Craft of the crochet hook. 746-K68M Klickmann, Flora ed. Modern crochet book. 746-K68K Klickmann, Flora ed. Modern knitting book. 746-N54 Nicoll Maud C. How to knit socks. 799-T37 Thompson, Ernest Seton. Arctic prairies.

LITERATURE

812-B35 Beach, Louis and others. Washington Square plays. 828-D92B Dunsany, lord. Book of wonder. 828-D92D Dunsany, lord. Dreamer's tales. 828-D92F Dunsany, lord. Five plays. 828-D92G Dunsany, lord. Gods of pegana. 828-D92L Dunsany, lord. Last book of wonder. 828-D92S Dunsany, lord. Sword of Welleran. 828-D92T Dunsany, lord. Time and the gods. 814-EA8 Eaton, Walter P. Green trails and up- land pastures. 811-H31C Hay, John. Complete poetical works. 822-T71 Jones, Henry A. Crusaders. 821-L16 La Mare, Walter de. Peacock pie. 814-L952 Lowell, Amy. Tendencies in modern American poetry. 821-M27D Masefield. John. Daffodil fields. 808-R44 Riggs, Kate D. Wiggin comp. To mother. 814-SH5' Sherwood, Margaret. Familiar ways. 814-ST9 Sturgis, Esther M. Random reflections of a grandmother.

HISTORY AND TRAVEL

910-AN2 Anderson, Isabel. Odd corners. 919.6-AN2 Anderson. Isabel. Spell of the Hawaiian Tslands and the Philippines. 917.2-B27 Barron, Clarence W. Mexican problem. 167

915.1-B41 Bell, Archie. Spell of China. 973-C36H Charming, Edward. History of the United States. 4 vols. 942-C42 Chesterton, Gilbert K. Short history of England. 914.7-D73 Dorr, Rheta C. Inside the Rusian revol- ution. 917.4-D780 Drake, Samuel A. Old Boston taverns. 918-F84 Franek, Harry A. Vagabonding down the Andes. 916.1-F98 Furlong, Charles W. Gateway to the Sahara. 917.1-H31 Haworth, Paul L. On the head waters of Peace River. 918.2-TTS6 Hudson, W. H. Idle days in Patagonia. life in 914.2-J13 Jackson, F. J. F. Social England. 917.9-J23A James, George W. Arizona, the won- derland. 914.7- M33 Marcosson, Isaac F. Rebirth of Russia. 917 8-M83D Mills, Enos A. Your national parks. 915.2-M83D Morse, Edward S. Japan day by day. 2 vols. 919.8-M89 Muir, John. Cruise of the Corwin. 917.9-M950 Murphy, Thomas D. Oregon, the pic- turesque. 930-M99 Myers, Philip. Ancient history. 920-OL3F Oliphant. Mrs. M. O. W. Makers of Florence. 920-OL3R Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Makers of modern Rome. 920-OL3V Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Makers of Venice. 914.1-OL3 Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Royal Edin- burgh. 919.8-P31S Peary, Robert E. Secrets of Polar travel. 918-P33 Peck, Annie S. South American tour. 973.7-R34C Rhodes. James F. History of the Civil war. 914.7-R85 Ruhl, Arthur. White nights and other Russian impressions 917.4-SHl Shackleton, Robert. Book of Boston. 168

917.4-SH1N Shackleton, Robert. Book of New York. 918-ST8A Street. Julian. American adventures. 9.a7^9-ST9Y Stuck, Hudson. Voyages on the Yukon and its tributaries. 917.2-V61W Yerrill, A. Hyatt. Book of the West Indies.

BOOKS RELATING TO THE WAR AND ALLIED SUBJECTS

940.9-AI9 Aitken, Max. Canada in Flanders. 2 vols. 940.9-ALBO Aldrich, Mildred. On the edge of the war zone. 940.9-AL5 Allies' statement. War of democracy. 940.9-AT4 Atherton, Gertrude. Living present. ,940.9-AYl Ayscough, John. French windows. 940.9-AZ1 Azan, Paul. War of positions.

940.9-B39A Beith, Tan Hay. Allini it : K 1 carries on. 940.9-C364 Chapman, Victor. Letters from France. 940.9-C45 Cholmondeley, Alice. Christine. 808-C55 Clarke, George H. comp. Treasury of war poetry. 940.9-C77 Coolidge, Archibald C. Origins of the Triple Alliance. 940.9-C94 Curtin, D. Thomas. Land of the deep- ening shadow. 940.9-D32 Dawson, Coningsby. Carry on. 940.9-D46T DeSouza, Charles. Germany in defeat. Third phase. 359-EA7 Earle, Ralph. Life at the U. S. ^Faval Academy. 940.9-C31 Edith Cavell nurse from Massachusetts, The. 355-EL5 Ellis, O. O. and Garey, E. B. Platts- burg manual. 940.9-EM7 Empey, Arthur C. Over the top. 327-F39 Fernau, Hermann. Coming democracy. 940-F76 Forstner, Freiherrn von. Journal of submarine commander von Forst- ner. 940.9-G31 Gerard, James W. My four years in Germany. 940.9-G315 German deserter's war experience. 169

940.9-G355 Gibson, Hugh. Journal from our lega- tion in Belgium. 940.9-H19 Hankey, Donald. Student in arms. 940.9-H19S Hankey, Donald. Student in arms. Sec- ond series. 943-H33 TTazen, Charles D. Alsace-Lorraine un- der German rule.

940.9-H34 Headlam, J. W. Issue. 940.9-H86 Huard, Frances W. My home in the field of honour. 940.9-H86M Huard, Frances W. My home in the field of mercy. 940.9-J31 Jastrow, Morris, Jr., War and the Bag- dad railway. 940.9-K25 Keene, Louis. "Crumps," the plain story of a Canadian who went. 327-L62 Liebknecht, Karl. Militarism. 304-L82 Lodge, Henry Cabot. War addresses. 940.9-M13 McClure, S. S. Obstacles to peace. 940.9-M24 MacOuarrie, Hector. How to live at the tront. c/ttU.Jv-IVI i O ivioKveui, Lj. \Terman iury m JDeigium.

- * ' l\/T r\ri"\ r~r~\ r A/F q 1 1 ri (rrv^fn fprif in Floti- ' ' . 'J ivx Orr 1V1UI IIIIICI , lVldULl. VjrlCCIl LCJ1L 111 XMd.ll ders. 940.9-M96 Murray, Gilbert. Faith, war and policy. 940.9-N66 Nobbs, Gilbert. On the right of the British line. 940.9-N81 Northcliffe, Lord. At the war. 940.0-P18S Palmer, Frederick. My second year of the war. 940.9-P32 Peat. Harold R. Private Peat. 44-3-P58 Picard, Jean A. French-English mili- tary manual. 940.9-P871 Powell, E. Alexander. Italy at war. 304-R67 Roosevelt, Theodore. Foes of our own household. 355-R672 Root, Elihu. Military and colonial policy of the U. S. 940.9-R81 Royce, Josiah. Hope of the great com- munity. 940.9-SM5 Smith, Bertha W. Only a dog. 170

940.9-SO9 Soldier of France to his mother. Let- ters from the trenches on the west- ern front. 940.9-ST4 Stevenson, William Y. At the front in a flivver. 359-ST5 Stirling, Yates. Fundamentals of naval science.

355-SU8 Sutherland, S. J. Reserve officer's hand- book. 914.4-T6G Towne, Charles H., ed. For France. 940.9-TS4 Turczynowicz, Laura de Gozdawa. When the Prussians came to Poland. 940.9-V28 Van Dyke, Henry. Fighting for peace. B-W113W Waddington, Mary King. My war diary. 940.9-W21T Ward, Mrs. Humphrey. Towards the. goal. 940.9-W46I Wells, H. G. Italy, France and Britain at war. 04O.9-W469 Wilson, Woodrow. Why we are at war. 940.9-W851 Wood, Eric F. Note-book of an intelli- gence officer. BIOGRAPHY

B-B756 Blackwell, Alice S. ed. Little grand- mother of the Russian revolution. B-M474 Bowie. Walter R. Master of The Hill, a biography of John Meigs. B-I 634CH Charnwood, G. R. B. Abraham Lincoln. B-C544 Clark, Charles E. My fifty years in the navy. B-C765 Conrad. Joseph. Personal record. B-C864 Creevev. Caroline A. S. Daughter of the Puritans. B-C886 Croswell, Tames G. Letters and writings of. B-D297 Davis, Richard Harding. Adventures and letters of. B-G296 Dilnot, Frank. Lloyd George. B-T394E Emerson, Edward W. Henry Thoreau. B-H134H Hale. E. E., Jr. Life and letters of E. E. Hale. 2 vols. B-AU23H Herrick. Francis H. Audubon the nat- uralist. 2 vols. 171

B-IN65 Inness, George, Jr. Life, art and letters of George Inness. B-T232JM James. Henry. Middle years. B-M825 Morgan, James M. Recollections of a rebel reefer. B-M 825 Morley, John. Recollections. 2 vols. B-OS13D O'Shaughnessy, Mrs. Edith. Diplomatic days. B-C593PA Paine, Albert B. Mark Twain's letters. 2 vols. B-R24HF Redesdale, Lord. Further Memories. B-N1R4RO Rose, Tehn A. Life of Napoleon I. B-T H34RT Rothschild, Alonzo. "Honest Abe." B-T394SA Sanborn, F. B. Life of Henry D. Thoreau.

B-W272S Scott, Emmet J. and Stowe, L. B. Pooker T. Washington. B-I 074SI Sing-master, Elsie. Martin Luther. B-P835 Smith, C. Alphonso. O Henry biography. B-C665 Stirling, A. M. W. Coke of Norfolk end his friends. B-C454S Stronp- Th Q ron C. Joseph H. Choate. B-SU55 Sullivan, Thomas R. Passages from the journal of. B-T126 Tarr^p ^abindranath. My reminis-

B-H734 Thaler William R. ed. Letters of John T T o 1 mes. B-L634T Tracv. Gilbert A. ed. Uncollected let- ^ers of Abraham Lincoln. B-US36 T Tsh°r, Glarence D. American physician in Turkey. FICTION

AU77F \rsttn, Mary. Ford. B152M Railey. Temple Mistress Anne. B?3G4 Fnrb^sse. Henri Under fire. B354A Beaconsfield, B. D. Alrov. B354C Beaconsfield, B. D. Coningsby. B354CO Beaconsfield, B. D. Contafini Fleming. B354E Beaconsfield", B. D. Endymion. B354H Beaconsfield. B. D. Henrietta Temple. B354L Beaconsfield, B. D. Lohair. 172

B354T Beaconsfield, B. D. Tancred or the new crusade. B354S Beaconsfield, B. D. Sybil or the two nations. B354V Beaconsfield, B. D. Venecia. B354VI Beaconsfield, B. D. Vivian Grey. B354Y Beaconsfield, B. D. Young duke. B443Y Benson, E. F. Michael. B443TO Benson. E. F. Tortoise. B56»W Blackwood, Algernon. Wave. B654M Bosher, Kate L." Mary Cary. B811BR Brown, Alice. Bromley neighborhood. B841S Bryant, Marguerite. Shadow on the stone. B853G Buchan, John. Greenmantle. B935W Burnett, Mrs. Frances H. White people. B996A Byrne, Lawrence. American ambassador. C117 Cahan, Abraham. Rise of David Lev- in sky. C164U Canfield, Dorothy. Understood Betsy. C353D Chambers. Robert W. Dark star. C4744D Churchill. Winston. Dwelling place of light. C763R Connolly, James B. Running free. C765SH Conrad, Joseph. Shadow line. C975L Cutler, Robert. Louisburg Square. D374T Delano, Edith B. To-morrow morning. D382H Dell, Ethel M. Hundredth chance. D382K Dell, Ethel M. Keeper of the door. D382W Dell, Ethel M. Way of an eagle. D753P Dowd, Emma C. Polly and the princess. D774HI Doyle,, Arthur C. His last bow. ER96C Ervine, St. John G. Changing winds. F236D Farnol, Jeff rev. Definite object. F247M Farrere, Claude. Man who killed.

F8342I Fox. Tohn, Jr. In Happy Valley. F884A French. Allen. At Plattsburg. F935W Frothingham, Eugenia B. Way of the wind. G184S Garland, Hamlin. Son of the border. G354Y Gibbs, George, Yellow dove. G655MA Gordon, C. W. Major. 173

G831G Greene, Frederick S. ed. Grim 13. G8G7D Grey, Zane. Desert gold. G867R Grey, Zane. Riders of the purple sage, G867W Grey. Zane. Wildfire. H124F Haggard, EL Rider. Finished. H225N Hardy, Arthur S. No. 13 Rue de Bon Diable. H374 Hemenway, Hetty. Four days. H522I Hicheris, Robert. In the wilderness. H864C Hudson, W. H. Crystal age. H874I Hughes, Rupert. In a little town. J157CA Jacobs, W. W. Castaways. J234I Tames, Henry. Ivory tower. J234SA James, Henry. Sacred fount. J234SE James, Henry. Sense of the past. K485H Kester, Paul. His own country. K5832H Kin?, Basil. High heart. K624DI Kipling, Rudyard. Diversity of creat- ures. LH35L Lincoln, Toseph C. Extricating Obadiah.

L794R Locke, William J. Red planet. L957G Lowndes, Mrs. Belloc. Good old Anna. L957LI Lowndes, Mrs. Belloc. Lilla, a part of her life. M165C McFee, William. Casuals of the sea. M184I MacHarg, William and Balmer, Edwin. Indian drum. M762AH Montgomery, L. M. Anne's house of dreams. M823 Morley, Christopher. Parnassus on wheels. N517M Nicholson. Meredith. Madne,ss of May. N517R Nicholson, Meredith. Reversible Santa Clans.

OB65S O'Brien.Edward T. ed. Best short stor- ' ies of 1916. P835C O. Henrv. Cabbaees and kings. P835F O. Henry. Four million. G835G O. Henrv. Gentle grafter. P835H O. Henry. Heart of the West. P8350 O. Henry. Options. P835R O. Henrv. Roads of destiny. P835RO O. Henry. Rolling stones. 174

P835S O. Henry. Sixes and sevens. P835ST O. Henry. Strictly business. P835T O. Henry. Trimmed lamp. P835V O. Henry. Voice of the city. P835W O. Henry. Whirlgigs. OL35B Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Beleaguered city. OL35C Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Country gen- tleman and his family OL35HT Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W.' He that will not when he may. OL35A Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. He,ir pre- sumptive and heir apparent OL35HE Oliphant, M. O. W. Hester. OL35K Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Kirsteen. OL35L Oliphant, Mrs M. O. W. Lady William. OL35M Oliphant,, Mrs. M. 0| W. Marriage of Elinor. OL35N Oliphant Mrs. M. O. W. Neighbours on the green. OL35R Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Railway man and his children OL35S Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Second son. OL35SI Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Sir Tom. OL35SO Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Son of the soil OL35W Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Wizard's son. OL35Y Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. Young Mus- grave ON44G Onions, Mrs. Bertha Ruck. Girls at his billet. ON44 Onions, Mrs. Bertha Ruck. His official fiancee. OP55HI Oppenheim, E. Phillips. Hillman. OR14S Orczy, Baroness. Sheaf of bluebells. P613JE Pier, Arthur S. Jerry. P787HI Poole, Ernest. His family. P8323R Porter, Eleanor H. Road to under- standing. R136Y Raine, W. MacL. Yukon trail. R362C Rice, Mrs. Alice H. Calvary Alley. R394P Richards, Laura E. Pippin. 175

R413R Richmond, Grace S. Red Pepper's patients. R473C Rinehart, Mary R. Circular staircase. R634MH Rohlfs, Mrs. Anna K. Green. Mystery of the hasty arrow. R646 Rolland, Romain. Jean-Christophe. 3 vols. SI12S Sidgwick, Mrs. Cecily. Salt of the earth. S143 Simms, William G. Yemassee.

SN15C Snaith, J. C. Coming. T374P Thompson, Ernest Seton. Preacher of Cedar Mountain. V135F Vachell, Horace A. Fishpingle. W217MI Ward, Mrs. Humphry. "Missing." W462D Wells, Carolyn. Doris of Dobbs Ferry. W464S Wells, H. G. Soul of a bishop. W686H Willsie, Mrs. Honore. Heart of the desert. JUVENILE

j694-ADl Adams, John D. Carpentry for begin- ners. jAL74E Altsheler, Joseph A. Eyes of the woods. jAL74SH Altsheler, Joseph A. Shadow of the north. j949.2-B22 Banks, Helen W. Boys' Motley. Rise of the Dutch Republic. jB236CE Barbour, Ralph H. Centre rush Row- land. jB236WG Barbour, Ralph H. Winning his game. J398-B19S Baldwin, James. Sampo. jP>2843 Barton, Olive R. Cloud boat stories. jB834 Beard, Patten. Marjorie's little doll school. jB64lP Bond, A. Russell. Pick, showel and pluck. jB64lS Bond, A. Russell. Scientific American boy. jB64lW Bond, A. Russell. With the men who do things. jB7233 Bradley, Will. Wonderbox stories. jB810S Brown, Abbie F. Book of saints and friendly beasts. 176 jB810B Brown, Abbie F. Brothers and sisters. jB810C Brown, Abbie F. Christmas angel. jB810CU Brown, Abbie F. Curious book of birds. j811-B81F Brown, Abbie F. Fresh posies. jB810F Brown, Abbie F. Friends and cousins. jB810I Brown, Abbie F. In the days of giants. jB810K Brown, Abbie F. Kisington town. jB810L Brown, Abbie F. Lonesomest doll. j811-B8lS Brown, Abbie F. Songs of sixpence. jB810ST Brown, Abbie F. Star jewels and other wonders. j920-C28 Cather. Katherine D. Boyhood stories of famous men. j533-C69M Collins, Francis A. Air man. jC776 Coolidge, A. B. Bunnies of Evergreen Village. jC818 Cory, David. Billy Bunny and his friends. jD294ST Davis, Richard H. Stories for boys. jD984 Dyer, Walter A. Five Babbits at* Bon- nyacres. jF455C Field, Eugene. Christmas tales and Christmas verse. jF844 France, Anatole. Girls and boys. jG696 Gosse, Edmund. Allies' fairy book. jG833F Green, Flomer. Flag. jH241lL Harris, Ada van Stone. Little folks in busy-land. jH241lT Harris, Ada van Stone. Toy shop book. jH24lN Harris. Joel C. Nights with Uncle Remus. jH24lU Harris, Joel C. Uncle Remus. jH3134G Hawthorne, Hildegrade. Girls in book- land. jH715B Holland, Rupert S. Blackbeard's island. jJ656L Johnston. William. "Limpy." jJ763 Jordan, Kate. Happifats and the Grouch. jK610A Kingsbury. Helen O. All aboard for wonderland. j746-K68G Klickmann, Flora ed. Little girl's knit- ting and crochet book. 177 jK746LO Knipe, Emilie B. and A. A. Lost little lady. jK746MM Knipe, Emilie B. and A. A. Maid of old Manhattan. j811-L76 Livingstone, Robert. Muvver and me. jo90-M23 McNally, Georgia M. Babyhood of wild beasts. j796-M4B Matthews, Franklin ed. Boy scouts year book. j797-M61 Miller, Warren H. Boy's book of canoe- ing and sailing. jM835 Morris, M. C. O. Christmas tales of Flanders.

jOL15 Olcott, Frances J. Red Indian fairy book.

jOLloP Olcott, Frances J. Tales of the Persian genii. iP163S Paine, Ralph D. Sons of Eli. j920-P23T Parkman, Mary R. Heroes of to-day. j920-P23S Parkman, Mary R. Heroines of to-day. jP247 Parry, Thomas W. When daddy was a boy. jP326 Peattie, Elia W. Newcomers. 1*P372L Pendexter, Hugh. Young loggers. iP416B Perkins^ Lucy F. Belgian twins. jP613P Pier, Arthur S. Plattsburgers. iP766 Pollock, Frank L. Nothern diamonds. iP993TW ryle, Katharine, two little mice. jQ4f>BC Quirk, Leslie W. Boy Scouts on cru- sade. jR345P Rhoades, Nina. Plucky little Patsy. 1790-R36 Rice, Grantland. Boys' book of sports. jB-ADl2R Richards, Laura E. Abigail. Adams and her times. jR812 Roy, Lilian E. Little woodcrafter's book. jSA120 Sabin, Edwin L. Opening the West with Lewis and Clark. jSCH83G Schultz, James W. Gold cache. jSH96M Shute, Henry A. Misadventures of three good boys. jSH96Y Shute, Henry A. Youth Plupy. 178 jSM51 Smith, Elva S. comp. Mystery tales for boys and girls. j811-ST4 Stewart, Anna B. Gentlest giant. j808-Y3C This year's book for children. jW462PL Wells, Carolvn. Patty Blossom. INDEX

Annual Town Meeting 11 Assessors' Report 63 Auditor's Report 119 Board of Health 105 Cemetery Commissioners 99 Constitutional Primary 48 Constitutional Election 50 Fire Engineers 99 Finance Committee 60 Highway Surveyor 121 Library Trustees 156 Treasurer 158 Library 162 Accessions 164 Moth Superintendent 103

Officers 5 Police 102 Proposed By Laws 31 Selectmen 58 Sinking Fund Commissioners 92 State Primary 51 State Election 55 II

Schools

Committee's Report 12') Enrolment 152

Financial Statement lol High School Principal 141

School Calendar lj'l School Officers School Physician 148 Town Clerk's Report Births Ms Deaths $9 Dog License 44 Marriages 40 Tree Warden 118 Water Department Commissioners 109 Clerk 110 Superintendent 112