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PROPERTY OF THE RIAL HALL LIBRARY ANDOVER, MASS. -A552 1935-39
MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY Andover, Massachusetts 475-6960
TOWN OF ANDOVER
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
O
RPORATED
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MOI
VER
6. 104%.
MASSACHUSETT .....
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
December 31, 1935
PRINTED BY THE ANDOVER PRESS, ANDOVER, MASS. 1936
INDEX
PAGE
Accounting Taxes and Assessments 86
American Legion Quarters 79
Andover Post 2128 V.F.W.
79
Animal Inspector
54, 143
Appropriations for 1935
42
Armistice Day 80
Assessments and Receipts (B.P.W.)
89,92
Assessors
52, 114
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
114
Municipal Properties and Public Improvements 115
Balance Sheet 102
Board of Health
61,136
Board of Public Welfare
55, 69, 129
Charities 43
Infirmary 70,130
Mothers' Aid
70
Old Age Assistance
72,88
Soldiers' Relief
71
State Aid 71
Board of Public Works 163
Accounts Receivable
92
Assessments and Receipts
Highways 64
Horses 68
Sewers 63
Steam Pump
82
Snow Removal and Sanding
68
Water Maint. and Construction 81
Bonds, Redemption of See Town Debt Building Inspector 59, 144
Certification of Notes
53
Charities 43
Damages to Persons and Property 78
Departmental Accounts Receivable 92
E.R.A. Projects 67
Election and Registration 55
Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital 62
Excess and Deficiency Account
93
Expenditures for 1935 50
Finance Committee Recom-
mendations 184
Fire Department 57,131
Forest Fires
60
Game Warden
54
General Government
Election and Registration 55
Municipal Buildings 56
Town Officers 50
Highways 64
Insurance
79
Interest
44, 84
Investigation Committee 134
Junior High School
74
Jury List
152
Memorial Day
79
Memorial Hall Library
75, 155
Library Statistics 162
Report of Finance Committee 156
Report of Librarian 158
157
Milk Inspector
141
Moderator
54
Moth Superintendent 58, 145
Moth Assessments 88
89 Mothers' Aid 70
Motor Vehicles Excise Tax 87,114
Municipal Buildings 56
Municipal Properties and Public Improvements 115
Old Age Assistance
72,88
Overlay
91
Parks and Playgrounds 76
Planning Board
116
Proposed Zoning By-Law 116
Police Department 56, 132
Pomp's Pond Bathing Beach 78
Printing Town Reports 80
Public Dump 63
Receipts for 1935 45
*School Department 72
Junior High School 74
Sealer of Weights and Measures
60, 149
Sewers
63
Assessments 89
Smith-Hughes Fund 75
*Also see School Report Supplement
PAGE
Report of Trustees
Rafaranca
974.45 A552 1935-1939 Cp. 2.
Snow Removal and Sanding
68
Soldiers' Relief
71
Special Funds
94
Spring Grove Cemetery
83, 147
State Aid
71
Town Counsel
53
Town Debt
101
Town Infirmary
70,130
Town Meetings Proceedings 11, 20, 34
Warrants 10, 14, 32, 185
Town Officers
4,50
Town Physician
143
Town Scales
80
Treasurer
51,107
Tree Warden
59, 146
*Trustees of Punchard Free School 97
Vital Statistics 40
Water Accounts Receivable 92
Departmental Accounts Receivable
92
Water Maint. and Construction 81
Excess and Deficiency Account
93
Wire Inspector 60, 150
Expenditures for 1935
50
W.P.A. Projects
66
Overlay 91
45
Reserve Fund
85
Special Funds
94
Town Debt
101
PAGE *Trustees of Punchard Free School 97 Water Accounts Receivable 92
Town Clerk 40, 54
State Census Survey
78
Street Lighting 69
Supervised Play 77
Tax Collector
51,109
Moth Assessments
88
Summary of Tax Collector's Cash Account 113
Tax Title Account 89
Town Accountant 41,50
Accounting Taxes and Assessments 86
Appropriations for 1935
42
Balance Sheet
102
Board of Public Works Accounts Receivable 92
Maturing Debt 84
Sewing Project 70
Carmel Woods 77
Receipts for 1935
Zoning By-Law, Proposed
116
* Also see School Report Supplement
50335
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Town Officers
ELECTED AND APPOINTED
Board of Selectmen and Public Welfare
JEREMIAH J. DALY, M.D., Chairman
Term expires 1936
HOWELL F. SHEPARD 1937
J. EVERETT COLLINS
1938
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Clerk and Agent of Bureau of Old Age Assistance
Board of Assessors
JEREMIAH J. DALY, M.D., Chairman
Term expires 1936
HOWELL F. SHEPARD
1937
J. EVERETT COLLINS
1938
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Clerk
Assistant Assessors
JOSEPH E. STOTT
JOHN J. DOYLE
JOHN H. ANDERSON
MARY J. BROWN
WILLIAM THOMPSON MABEL BARRON
ARTHUR M. GRAHAM
Town Clerk
Moderator
GEORGE H. WINSLOW'
FREDERICK BUTLER
Collector of Taxes
Town Counsel
WILLIAM B. CHEEVER
JOSEPH L. BURNS
Treasurer
THAXTER EATON
Town Accountant MARY COLLINS
Board of Public Works
WILLIAM D. MCINTYRE, Chairman
Term expires 1936
JOHN H. PLAYDON 1936
FRANK A. BUTTRICK, Secretary
1937
HENRY A. BODWELL
1937
WALTER I. MORSE
1938
CHARLES T. GILLIARD, Superintendent
EDWARD R. LAWSON, Assistant Superintendent
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School Committee
ELMER J. GROVER, Secretary
Term expires 1936
ARTHUR R. LEWIS
1936
MAY EVELYN BARNES
1936
WILLIAM A. DOHERTY
1937
NATHANIEL STOWERS, D.M.D.
66
1937
*J. EVERETT COLLINS
+HERBERT P. CARTER
1936
FREDERICK C. SMITH, Chairman
66
1938
MARY E. C. GEAGAN
66
66
1938
ANNIE S. ANGUS
1938
HENRY C. SANBORN, Superintendent
Attendance Officer
School Physician
HERBERT H. LYLE
PHILIP W. BLAKE, M.D.
Athletic Medical Director
School Nurse
HARRY B. EAST, M.D.
EDITH MORETON, R.N.
Director, Continuation School CARL M. GAHAN
Board of Health
FRANKLIN H. STACEY, Chairman
Term expires 1936
WILLIAM D. WALKER, M.D.
66 66 1937
GEORGE G. BROWN, Secretary
1938
Trustees of Memorial Hall Library
PHILIP F. RIPLEY, Chairman
Term expires 1936
HENRY G. TYER
1937
BURTON S. FLAGG
1938
CLAUDE M. FUESS
1939
REV. FREDERICK A. WILSON
1940
FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL, Secretary
66
1941
NATHAN C. HAMBLIN EDNA A. BROWN, Librarian
66
66
1942
66
1937
66
66
*Resigned +Appointed
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Trustees of Punchard Free School
REV. CHARLES W. HENRY, President EDMOND E. HAMMOND, Clerk and Treasurer
Term expires 1937
FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL
1937
MYRON E. GUTTERSON
66
1937
CHARLES C. KIMBALL
1937
HENRY G. TYER
66
1937
REV. NEWMAN MATTHEWS
REV. FREDERICK B. NOSS
Trustees of Cornell Fund
WILLIAM D. WALKER, M.D., Treasurer Term expires 1936 FREDERICK E. CHEEVER 1937
EDWARD P. HALL
1938
Trustees of Spring Grove Cemetery Terms Expire 1937
WALTER E. CURTIS, Chairman JOHN M. ERVING
FREDERICK E. CHEEVER, Secretary WALTER I. MORSE C. LEROY AMBYE SAMUEL P. HULME
MATTHEW BURNS
FRED A. SWANTON, Superintendent
Board of Registrars
RALPH A. BAILEY, Chairman
Term expires 1936
JOHN F. HURLEY
66
1937
JOHN W. STARK
1938
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Clerk
Street Lighting Committee
WALTER H. COLEMAN, Chairman *GEORGE L. GRAHAM ERNEST R. EDWARDS, Secretary HERBERT F. CHASE CHESTER A. JOHNSON
Finance Committee
HUGH BULLOCK, Chairman EDWARD SHATTUCK
LEO F. DALEY, Secretary JOSEPH M. HARGEDON
MITCHELL JOHNSON HARVEY G. TURNER RALPH A. WOODCOCK
*Deceased
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Supervised Play Committee
ROY E. HARDY HENRY G. TYER CHARLES R. SCOTT
Survey Committee-Town Departments
HENRY S. HOPPER, Chairman WILLIAM R. HILL
HAROLD T. HOUSTON, Secretary ELDON E. STARK STAFFORD A. LINDSAY
Superintendent of Moth Department and Tree Warden RALPH T. BERRY
Pomps Pond Committee
HERBERT M. WRIGHT, Chairman HENRY TODD
WILLIAM C. CROWLEY CHARLES A. GREGORY WILLIAM A. HARNEDY, Secretary
Inspector of Buildings
Inspector of Plumbing
JOHN J. DRISCOLL
JOSEPH P. NOLAN
Planning Board
EDWARD P. HALL
Term expires 1936
SIDNEY P. WHITE
66
1938
ROY E. HARDY, Secretary
1939
WALTER M. LAMONT, Chairman
66
1940
Inspector of Wires WILLIAM J. YOUNG
Sealer of Weights and Measures LEWIS N. MEARS WILLIAM C. BROWN, Deputy
Town Physician JOHN J. HARTIGAN, M.D.
Police Department GEORGE A. DANE, Chief
LEONARD SAUNDERS, Sergeant JOHN DEYERMOND
JAMES WALKER
DAVID GILLESPIE
THOMAS DAILEY
CARL STEVENS
ARTHUR JOWETT FRANK McBRIDE
WILLIAM SHAW WILLIAM R. HICKEY
HERBERT H. LYLE, Dog Officer
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1937
BERNARD L. McDONALD
Fire Department CHARLES F. EMERSON, Chief LESTER HILTON, Deputy Chief Central Station-Permanent men
ALBERT COLE, Lieutenant KERR SPARKS
HENRY POMEROY
RALPH BAKER TIMOTHY MADDEN ALEXANDER MACKENZIE.
Central Station-Call men
FREDERICK L. COLLINS, Captain
WILLIAM COLLINS WILLIAM ROSS
CHARLES S. BUCHAN
C. EDWARD BUCHAN
EDWARD DOWNS WINTHROP K. WHITE
HERBERT BROWN ROBERT JACKSON
ARCHIBALD MACLAREN JAMES WILLIAMS GORDON COUTTS HARRY M. HAYWARD
Station No. 2-2 Permanent men
WILLIAM REA *LOUIS KIBBEE
Station No. 2-Call men
JAMES OLDROYD, Lieutenant
CHARLES MURNANE
GAVIN McGHIE
HENRY PLATT FOSTER MATTHEWS
PATRICK MURNANE HOWARD L. COLBATH
Forest Warden-CHARLES F. EMERSON
Constables Terms expire 1936
GEORGE A. DANE JAMES L. SMITH GEORGE N. SPARKS
JAMES L. SMITH, Civil Constable
Inspector of Animals RAY S. YOUMANS, D.V.M.
Inspector of Slaughtering LOTTA M. JOHNSON
Burial Agent, Soldiers and Sailors FRANCIS P. MARKEY
*Deceased
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Surveyors of Wood, Bark and Lumber
EDWARD S. HARDY
GEORGE M. CARTER
JOSEPH I. PITMAN +SAMUEL H. BAILEY
Public Weighers
BENJAMIN JAQUES JEROME W. CROSS HERBERT W. AUTY
RALPH BAKER
PHILIP CHURCHILL
LOUIS BEAULIEU JAMES WALDIE WELSEY DIETRICH BERNARD L. McDONALD EDWARD VANNETT
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE WENDELL H. KYDD EVERETT D. BURTON A. HUESTIS SULIS, JR.
Fence Viewers GEORGE A. DANE CHARLES T. GILLIARD RAYMOND L. BUCHAN
Town of Andover Population 1935 Census-10,542 Registered voters 1935-5483
Political subdivisions including Andover Seventh Congressional District
WILLIAM P. CONNERY, JR., 11 Bellevue Rd., Lynn Fifth Councillor District
WILLIAM G. HENNESSEY, 653 Western Ave., Lynn
Fourth Essex Senatorial District CHARLES A. P. McAREE, 29 Bradford Ave., Haverhill Sixth Essex Representative District JAMES P. DONNELLY, 221 Bailey St., Lawrence THOMAS J. LANE, 92 Abbott St., Lawrence
Essex County Commissioners FREDERICK BUTLER, Andover ROBERT H. MITCHELL, Haverhill CHARLES M. BOYLE, Peabody
+Resigned
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Town Warrant
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX, SS: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in Town Affairs to meet and assemble at the Town House in said Andover, on MONDAY, THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF FEB- RUARY, 1935 at 7.30 o'clock P.M., to act on the following articles :
ARTICLE 1 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing and originally equipping a Junior High School building and heating plant, a common assembly hall and a gymnasium, said sum to be in addi- tion to the amount authorized by vote of the town under date of December 11, 1933, as amended by vote of the town under date of May 31, 1934; and to authorize the treasurer, with the ap- proval of the selectmen, to borrow the amount voted and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor under authority of and in accordance with Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1933 as amended, Chapter 44 of the General Laws, and the National Industrial Recovery Act, or take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 2 .- To see if the town will request the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to submit to the Secretary of Agriculture a project for the improvement of Lowell Street from Main Street to the Tewksbury line for con- struction with funds apportioned to the Commonwealth under Section 204 of the National Industrial Recovery Act and will agree with said Department that if such project is approved and constructed by the Department and the Secretary of Agriculture, the Town thereafter, at its own cost and expense, will maintain the project in a manner satisfactory to said Department and Secretary of Agriculture, or their authorized representatives, and will make ample provision each year for such maintenance, and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign such a request and
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agreement in behalf of the Town, or take any other action relating thereto.
ARTICLE 3 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies and publication thereof, seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by the By-Laws of the town.
Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this eleventh day of February, A.D., 1935.
FRANK H. HARDY JEREMIAH J. DALY Selectmen of Andover
Andover, February. 25, 1935
ESSEX, SS.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabitants of said town, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said warrant, by posting a true and attested copy of the same, on the Town House, on each Schoolhouse and in no less than five other public places where bills and notices are usually posted and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said warrants have been posted and published seven days.
GEORGE N. SPARKS, Constable
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, FEBRUARY 25, 1935
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Andover, qualified to vote in Town Affairs, convened in the Town House in said Andover, on Monday the twenty-fifth day of February, 1935 at 7.30 o'clock in the evening agreeably to the requirements of the foregoing warrant. Admittance was checked by use of list of voters.
Moderator Frederick Butler presided and after brief remarks in appreciation to Mr. Hamblin, Mr. Gahan and the boys of manual
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training class at High School for speaker's stand and gavel fur- nished by them, took up the following:
Article 1 moved by Frank H. Hardy, seconded by Harold C. Dunn.
Voted at 8.16 P.M .: to raise and appropriate the sum of $98,- 000.00 for the purpose of constructing and originally equipping a Junior High School building and heating plant, a common assembly hall and a gymnasium, said sum to be in addition to the sum appropriated at the meeting held on December 11, 1933, as amended by the vote passed at a meeting held on May 31, 1934 and to be expended by the building committee referred to in the said original vote, and that the treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be authorized to borrow said sum and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor under authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1933 as amended, Chapter 44 of the General Laws, and the National Industrial Recovery Act, so the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years or at such earlier dates as may be approved by the Emergency Finance Board. Any sum received from the Federal Government by way of a grant in addition to sums covered by now existing contracts with the Federal Government shall be applied to the cost of construction in which event the amount of the loan herein authorized shall be reduced by the sum so received and applied or may be applied to the payment of the debt therein authorized.
The three members of Board of Selectmen were appointed as tellers to count the vote, which they reported as follows: Yes, 485; no, 5; total, 490.
Took up Article 2.
Voted at 8.19 P.M .: that the Town will request the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sub- mit to the Secretary of Agriculture a project for the improvement of Lowell Street from Main Street to the Tewksbury line for construction with funds apportioned to the Commonwealth under Section 204 of the National Industrial Recovery Act and will agree with said Department that if such project is approved and constructed by the Department and the Secretary of Agriculture the Town thereafter, at its own cost and expense, will maintain the project in a manner satisfactory to said Department and
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Secretary of Agriculture, or their authorized representatives, and will each year make ample provision for such maintenance, and that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to sign such a request and agreement in behalf of the town.
Voted at 8.20 P.M .: that the meeting be dissolved. .
The foregoing is a true copy of the warrant and of the officers' return on the same, also a true record of the doings of the meeting.
Attest :.
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Town Warrant
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX. ss: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in Elections and Town Affairs to meet and assemble at the designated polling places in Precincts One, Two, Three and Four, viz: The Town House in Precinct One; the Old School House, Ballard Vale, in Precinct Two; the Administration Building, Shawsheen Village, in Precinct Three; and the Phillips Club House, School Street, in Precinct Four, in said Andover, on MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH, 1935 at 6:00 o'clock A.M., to act on the following articles :
ARTICLE 1 .- To elect a Moderator for one year, Town Clerk for one year, Treasurer for one year, Collector of Taxes for one year, one member of the Board of Selectmen for three years, one member of the Board of Assessors for three years, three members of the School Committee for three years, one member of the Board of Public Works for three years, one member of the Board of Health for three years, three Constables for one year, one Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years, one Tree Warden for one year, one member of the Planning Board for five years, one member of the Planning Board for four years, to fill a vacancy, one member of the Planning Board for three years, to fill a vacancy; one member of the Planning Board for one year, to fill a vacancy; and all town officers required by law to be elected by ballot.
All the above candidates to be voted on one ballot. The polls will be open from 6 o'clock a.m. to 6.30 o'clock p.m.
After final action on the preceding Article One, the said meet- ing shall stand adjourned by virtue of Section 20, Chapter 39, of General Laws, to Monday, March 11, at 1.30 o'clock p.m. at the Town Hall, then and there to act upon the following articles. namely :
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ARTICLE 2 .- To elect all other officers not required by law to be elected by ballot.
ARTICLE 3 .- To establish the salary of elected Town Officers for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE 4 .- To determine what sums of money shall be appro- priated for the following purposes.
Appropriation for the Assessors, Board of Selectmen, and all Depart- ments under their control.
American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Armistice Day, Memorial Day, Mothers' Aid, Soldiers' Relief, State Aid, Old Age Assistance, Public Welfare, Damages to Persons and Pro- perty, Elections and Registrations, Insurance, Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital, Pomps Pond, Public Dump, Printing Town Report, Town Officers, Town Scales, Inspector of Wires, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Assessors Survey, Municipal Buildings, Infirmary, Moth Suppression, Tree Warden, Police Department, Fire Department, Brush Fires, Interest, and Re- tirement of Bonds.
Appropriation for the Board of Health: Care of Tubercular patients. Appropriation for Trustees of Memorial Hall Library.
Appropriation for Trustees of Spring Grove Cemetery.
Appropriation for Street Lighting Committee.
Appropriation for School Committee.
Appropriation for all departments under the control of the Board of Public Works.
Highway Maintenance, Highway Construction, Water Main- tenance, Water Construction, Sewer Maintenance, Park and Playgrounds, Snow Removal.
Appropriations for any other Town Charges and Expenses.
ARTICLE 5 .- To see if the Town will vote to authorize the town treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1935, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in ac- cordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
ARTICLE 6 .- To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in treasury.
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ARTICLE 7 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to be expended in conjunction with Emergency Relief Administration labor for the purchase of materials and for truck hire on approved projects.
ARTICLE 8 .- To see if the Town will adopt the Zoning Plan presented by the Town Planning Board and enact the Zoning By- Law recommended by the Board; as postponed at Special Town Meeting, October 1st, 1934.
ARTICLE 9 .- To receive and act upon the report of the Police Investigation Committee.
ARTICLE 10 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money not in excess of $850.00 and authorize the Select- men to purchase an automobile and an auto radio for the use of the Police Department as recommended by the Police Investiga- tion Committee.
ARTICLE 11 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money not in excess of $500.00 and authorize the Select- men to purchase and install a pretimed set of traffic signals at or near the junction of North Main, Lowell, Poor and Haverhill Streets in Shawsheen Village Square so called, with the provision that the State Department of Public Works will furnish a like amount, as recommended by the Police Investigation Committee.
ARTICLE 12 .- To see if the Town will vote to purchase and in- stall six Button traffic signs to be placed on streets entering Ando- ver Square and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to cover the cost of same as recommended by the Police Investigation Committee.
ARTICLE 13 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $750.00 to be used for supervised play at the playstead to be expended under the direction of a committee of three to be ap- pointed by the Moderator, on petition of Samuel P. Hulme and others.
ARTICLE 14 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of Lowell Street and Greenwood Road, along Greenwood Road to the pro- perty of J. H. Bourdelais, and appropriate the sum of $25,000.00 to care for this work, on petition of Anna Peterson and others.
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ARTICLE 15 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end at the Disbrow farm on Chandler Rd. along Chandler Rd. to the residence of Charles Garabedian and appropriate the sum of $6700.00 to care for this work, on petition of Charles Garabedian and others.
ARTICLE 16 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of Greenwood Rd. and Chandler Rd. along Chandler Rd. to the residence of Charles Garabedian and also extend the existing water main at the corner of Chandler Rd. and Greenwood Rd. a distance of 840 feet along Greenwood Rd. and appropriate the sum of $19,500.00 to care for this work, on petition of Ovagen Arakelian and others.
ARTICLE 17 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end on Salem St. near Wildwood Road along Salem St. to Jenkins Road thence along Jenkins Road northerly to the North Andover line and appropriate the sum of $15,010.00 therefor, on petition of John J. Sweeney and others.
ARTICLE 18 .- To see if the Town will vote to place the police and fire departments under Civil Service Rules by accepting sec- tions 48 and 49 of Chapter 31 of the General Laws without the pension provision, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 19 .- To see if the Town will vote to appoint a com- mittee to investigate the procedure and cost of installing a munici- pal light, heat, and power plant and report to the next annual Town Meeting, and that the sum of $25.00 be appropriated for said purpose, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 20 .- To see if the Town will vote that all expenditures for materials amounting to $50.00 or over shall be made on a competitive bid, on petition of Roger H. Lewis and others.
ARTICLE 21 .- To see if the Town will vote that the purchase of all truck hire and materials used on the water system, highways, parks and playgrounds and sewer department be made by the Board of Public Works, on petition of Charles B. Roberts and others.
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ARTICLE 22 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to construct a hard surface road and care for grass plots on Dufton Rd. and appropriate the sum of $2700.00, on pe- tition of George Dufton and others.
ARTICLE 23 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept Tantallon Road from Haverhill Street running north to a line three hundred and seventy-five (375) feet north of the northerly line of said Haverhill Street, on petition of A. Norman Warhurst and others.
ARTICLE 24 .- To see if the Town will vote to acquire by emin- ent domain a certain piece of land on the northeasterly corner of Haverhill Street and Hillside Avenue for the purpose of widening said approach of entrance from Haverhill Street to Hillside Ave- nue and appropriate the sum of $200.00 for this purpose, on peti- tion of Edward Fleming and others.
ARTICLE 25 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to widen Hillside Avenue at the lower end and apply a hard surface road the entire length and appropriate the sum of $400.00 therefor, on petition of Edward H. Fleming and others.
ARTICLE 26 .- To see if the Town will instruct the Street Light- ing Committee to arrange for two lights on Corbett Street, one at curve in road near Topping's ledge and one, half way between Juliette Street and Lawrence line and appropriate $45.00 to cover cost of same, on petition of George R. Cairns and others.
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