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Home My WebLink About1939-02-20 ANNUAL. 'TOWN ELEcTiON FEBRUARy 20, '19~9.,,1' Pursuant to warrant the inhabitants of~the town met in the American Legion Hall,~Monday , February 20th,~1939 at 9 A. M. Cards of'instructions to voters, penalty;cards, Voting~~' lists, Speciman Ballots, were posted outside the guard rail. Instructions to voters,&penalty cards were posted in the booth~. ,,' The following ballot clerks were sworn in:~Ira~-~Appleton, William Barrett, Edward P. Tice, John Driscoll, Nelson 0. Dunham, S. W. Legg. The ballots in two packages said to contain seventeen hundred and six hundred and fifty-six official ballots were delivered to the ballot clerks at the gate and-thgir receipt .taken therefore. ,, ~', ,. The ballot box was'then opened for public inspection. It was examined by Moderator, Roy E. Sanguinetti,.Constable Lawrence F. Mooney, Constable Franklin S. Chadwick, Irving A.~Soverino and Wesley A. Fordyce. Found to be empty.. The register was set at 0000..- The ballot box locked and the keys thereof turned over to Arthur R. Callwitz, Constable. Con- sta~e Mooney presented the warrant for the Annual'Town Elec- tion. Moderator Sanguinetti read Article I of the Warran$. "' S~lectmen Soverino moved that when the polls,close at 5 P. M. the meeting adjourn to reconvene Tuesday evening, ,. February 21, 193~, at ~:30 P. M. at Drea~land Theatre. Motion carried. Polls declared open at 9 A. M. Voting starting at once., -At ll~ll A. M. the register on the ballot box standing at ~50. The ballot box was opened and the ballots removed to the emergency ballot box by Constable Callwitz, Sanguinetti, and Wesley A. Fordyce, Town Clerk. The ballot box locked' and the keys returned to the Constable. Voting continued. At 2:23 P. M. the register on the ballot box standing at 1008. The ballot box was opened and the ballots remove~ to the'emergency ballot box by Constable Charles C.'Chadwick, Ballot Clerk ,Tice and Town Clerk Fordyce. The ballot box locked and the keys returned to the Constable. Voting continu~ At 4:56.P.M. the Moderator announced the polls would close in four minutes. Moderator declared the polls closed at § P. M. the'register on the ballot box stan¢ing, at, 1384.. .... ;;JC The ballot box was opened and the b~llots removed to ,the emergency ballot box. ' ..... ...... ', ... The following tellers were sworn in: , George C. ~ule, Walter J. Royal, Herbert Wood, Clarence s*if~, Harrison Gorman, Jay H. Gibbs, Arthur B. Tunning, Jr., Lin- coln Ceeley, J~hn E. Backus, George Johnson,'William Murphy~- Robert D~ Congdon, Charles C. Bart, Joseph M. Cadrain, William Winslow, Edward Butler, Samuel Swayze, Frank L. Hardy. They started counting votes. !'~¢'~i' The absentee ballots were then ch~cked and voted and.., i.~9.~und to be 48 men and 81 women total 96. .: ~.. ;,~... i,,. The ballots f¢om the ballot bce and the emergency box.:; were sorted, counted and found to be 1384...'The absentee ballots 96, a to~al' of 1480, of which 796 were men and 68~ women. ~ .?., .At 9:15 P. M. the tally of the vo~es comPleted, ......... ,,,- , ' , the Town Clark read the following results: MODERATOR Roy E'.' s~;nguinetti "' Nine h~nd~ed eighty 980 Scattering One .... 1 Four h~ndred ninety-nine' 499 Blanks SELEGTMEN Eight hundred twenty-one 821 Nine Hundred thirty-four 934 Eight hundred eight 808 Six hundred fifty-five 655 Five hundred fifty-two 552 Eight hundred twenty-one 821 Eight hundred seventy-two 8~2 One. 1 Nineteen hundred thirty-six 1936 Charles H. BloUnt Henry B. Coleman John L. Hardy Arthur C. Hayden Charles Pond Kimball Herbert P. Smith Irving A. Soverino Scattering Blanks One thousand seventy-nine Four hundred one 1079 ' &O1 TOWN TREASURER Edwin S. TirreI Scattering 109 Elected Elected Elected Elected Elected Elected 1t0,, · Clifford R.' Morris Blanks ,,',i ', -':~Z-'~ · ASSESSOR George E. Grimes Arthur C. Hayden John R. Killen Joseph King Jj ~ · Joseph M. 'Larkin William R. Morris Cecil Richrod Blanks co isS o James Y. ' Deacon Scattering ' Blanks ~ · , .~ SEWER COMMISSIONER La~ence '/Johnson" John~ C-.~ Ring,'~' Jr. Blanks ~ ' TREE WARDEN Frank B. Gardner Bl~nks. One thousahd eighty-seven ~._ ,~, 108Y ~ree h~dred ninety-three 393 Three h~dr~d fort~five ': ?~ '~ 345 ~o hundred thirty-three ~ 233 One hundred fi~e ...... ~ lO8 Forty- ei~t ~ ~-; 48 ~ree hundred twenty-four One h~dred ~ ~ ~ ~ 100 ~o h~dred th'irtY-f°ur ~;_ 2~34 Ninety-one ..... 91 One thousand twelve ~ ~ lO12 Five ~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Four hundred sixty-three ........ ~ 463 Five h~dred'sixty ,. ~'~ ~ 560 ,. Seven huhdred sixSy .,;"~ ,~60 ~ One hunted sixty~, "~, 160 · Eleven hundred thirty-six 1136 ,-'Three huhdr~d fo~ty-four;'~ ',~, 344 SCHOOL coMMITTEE (Three years) Bertha'L. Hayden- Charles A. Selden Blanks-. Elected Elected Elected Elected SCHOOL COMMITTEE (One Year) Stuart B.' Day,~ :~ :, · Margaret Har~, :0?,d Blanks ~ :: .: ;,..:,,~, ~ CONSTABLES ~co ~ , . ~ ' ~ Arthur R.'Callwitz' Charles C.-Chadwick ~'' FrAnklin S.~Chadwick Williammj. Henderson Everett V. Lamb ~"~'-' Lawrence F. Mooney, Jr. Blanks'' ~ '~' Elected Four hundred fifteen : ,~' Eight hundred eighty-seven One hundred seventy-eight Five hundrdd fifteen~~'~ Six hundred~.eighty~two Two hundred 'eighty-three 283 ~ :: :.~. One thousand ninetY-one. ':-';' 1091 Mine'-hundred thirty-four '; "934 Nine hundred fifty-nine '~ ,959 One'thousand twenty-six%--'' ': 1026 One thousand twelve/ Nine hundred fifty&nine ~ '~'959 Elected Elected Elected Elected Elected Elected ~vo thousand eight n~nety-ni~,~899, ;The ballots 'voted~ the unused ballots and the check lists were then sealed up in separate packages, endorced as 'the law directs and delivered into the custody of the Town Clerk. ~-.. ,.,, Adjourned at 9:20 P. M.~., ' ~%s~~le A?For' ~~ '"":' '"dyce : "~' Town clerk. :-~;',: '