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36 ORGANIZATION.
report at the next town meeting.
The committee
consisted of Samuel Langley of Newton
Centre, Lemuel Crehore of Lower Falls, and
John Mead of West Newton, and they reported
at a town meeting held April 2, 1838, in favor
of the town purchasing of its owners, at its cost
price, the old No. 6 engine.
Another engine was at once purchased for the
Centre, which the company at its April 17th,
1838, meeting voted to name Eagle, and to have
it painted green, with words "Newton Centre"
on the rear end.
The engine at Oak Hill never had a company.
It was kept in a small building owned by Calvin
Rand, on Dedham Street, near the present schoolhouse
location.
Its principal use was for the
storage of beans and other farm products.
It
was sold in 1857 for five dollars, and the purchaser
probably thought twice before he purchased
it even at that price.
The selectmen were instructed, at a town
meeting held May 7, 1838, to exchange the two
engines at the Corner for a more suitable one,
and a month later Avere instructed to dispose of
the two engines at West Newton and procure
one of larger dimensions if they considered it
expedient.
They did not consider it expedient
to make either of the exchanges.
Newton Corner was persistent in its demand
for a new and better engine, and had articles