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5
5
44
25
19
0
44
0
15
Ina B. Talbot
3
46
29
17
0
46
0
19
Julia Drummy
5
46
21
25
0
46
0
16
51
E. Louise Ward
1
37
16
21
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8
44
181
STATISTICS FOR SCHOOL YEAR, 1918-1919
Average
Member-
ship
Average At-
tendance
Per Cent. of
Attendance
No. Tardi-
nesses
Pro Rata
of Tardi-
nesses
No. Days in
Session
Avg. Days Att. All
Pupils
43.2
40.9
94.67
71
1.64
138.
6417.
53.9
52.2
96.85
42
.78
158.
8456.
91.5
89.5
97.81
58
.63
158.
14494.
158.4
150.0
94.70
167
1.05
155.
5667.
38.66
36.79
95.16
28
.72
154.
5687.
40.77
39.46
96.78
9
.22
154.
6078.
35.11
32.69
93.11
30
.86
154.
5035.5
36.19
33.88
93.62
25
.69
154.
6021.
42.88
38.84
90.57
30
.58
155.
6052.5
42.07
39.04
92.79
30
.71
155.
6251.
42.93
40.32
93.92
18
.42
155.
6399.
42.8
41.2
96.26
25
.58
155.
6844.5
46.53
44.16
94.91
64
1.38
155.
6735.
46.3
43.4
93.75
46
.99
155.
6451.
44.31
42.18
95.19
61
1.37
155.
6538.5
43.96
41.97
95.46
19
.43
153.5
6443.
47.06
44.14
93.79
69
1.47
153.5
6777.
40.18
30.21
75.20
34
2.23
153.5
7133.5
50.39
46.47
92.22
58
1.14
153.5
6306.5
42.50
40.42
95.10
48
1.12
156.
6261.5
43.43
40.65
93.59
21
.48
154.
7013.
45.09
44.59
98.89
42
.93
155.5
6679.
43.36
43.09
99.37
57
1.31
155.
6136.
35.42
33.88
95.62
62
1.75
154.
5218.
27.56
26.55
96.33
38
1.37
154.5
4103.
37.73
36.46
96.63
40
1.06
154.
5616.
43.7
41.5
94.96
62
1.41
155.
4795.
32.56
30.94
95.02
43
1.32
155.
4732.5
33.03
30.53
92.43
16
.48
155.
6550.5
44.72
42.26
94.49
14
.29
155.
6419.5
43.39
41.41
95.43
38
.85
155.
3351.
43.39
21.83
93.33
34
1.45
153.5
6453.5
34.0
32.7
96.18
28
.82
153.5
5028.
40.06
38.29
95.58
12
.29
153.5
5879.
10326.
35.32
33.31
94.30
67
1.89
155.
4199.5
28.71
27.02
94.12
37
1.28
155.
4243.
28.88
27.37
94.76
16
.55
155.
5085.
33.70
31.77
94.27
22
.65
155.
4925.
38.54
36.45
94.36
11
.28
153.5
5595.5
37.76
35.58
94.22
50
1.32
153.5
5462.
38.38
36.13
94.13
51
1.32
153.5
5598.
38.08
36.46
95.75
58
1.52
153.5
3509.5
24.02
22.86
95.17
63
2.62
153.5
5203.
35.96
33.89
94.24
6
.16
153.5
34.55
32.07
92.82
37
1.07
153.5
4922.
34.03
32.15
94.47
49
1.43
153.5
4934.5
33.59
32.30
96.15
58
1.72
154.
4945.5
31.6
30.28
95.82
39
1.23
154.
4663.5
28.78
27.13
94.27
16
.55
153.5
4180.
26.86
24.00
89.35
36
1.34
153.5
3685.
2328.74
2202.15
94.44
2297
1.01
8785
348546.5
44.30 /
41.61
93.92
33
.72
.. 85
153.5
5815.
40.34
37.88
93.90
90
.66
153.5
42.36
39.97
94.36
28
.94
153.5
43.44
42.04
96.77
41
34.00
32.5
95.58
25
.73
155.
6439.
38.46
36.93
96.02
25
.65
154.
24164.
5217.5
155.
5884.
5545.5
TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1920.
School
Grade
Name
Date of Appointment
Where Graduated, Highest Institution (Also Other Courses)
High
Prin.
Nathaniel A. Cutler
Sept. 1899
Amherst College, A. B. Courses at Tufts College and Har- vard University.
Asst.
Emily B. Etzensperger
Jan. 1913
Asst.
Helen L. Colby
Sept. 1913
Smith College, A. B.
Asst.
Adelia McMillan
Sept.
1915
Asst.
Antoinette T. Webb
Sept. 1915
University of Maine, A. M.
Asst.
Hazel White
Sept.
1916
Tufts College, A. B. Course at Simmons College.
Asst.
Viola A. Brittain
Sept. 1917 Boston University, A. B.
Asst.
Grace C. McGonagle
Nov. 1917
Chandler Normal Shorthand School. Courses at Boston College Evening Sehool.
Asst.
Ruth M. Gow
Jan.
1918
Boston University, A. B.
182
Asst.
Louise B. McLane
Sept. 1918
Chandler Normal Shorthand School.
Asst.
Sarah A. Blake
Sept. 1918
Smith College, A. B.
Asst.
Helen E. Smith
Sept. 1918
Asst.
Adele Mathey
Jan. 1919
Mt. Holyoke College, A. B. Boston University, A. B. Boston Normal, Boston University.
Asst.
Wm. F. Greeley
July
1919
Asst.
Robert D. Metcalf
July 1919
Amherst College, A. B.
Asst.
Bernice M. Hall
Sept.
1919 University of Vermont, A. B.
Prin.
Isaiah A. Whorf
May
1910
Hyannis Normal School. Harvard College, S. B. Course at Harvard Summer School.
8
Wilda L. Vose
Sept. 1913
Castine, Me., Normal School.
8
Eliza M. Houghton
Mar. 1916
Castleton, Vt., Normal Sehool.
8
Josephine A. Heagney
Jan. 1918 Framingham Normal School.
8
Grace Everett
July 1919
Potsdam, N. Y., Normal School.
8
M. L. McLeod
Sept. 1919
Framingham Normal Sehool.
Sept.
1910
Quiney Training School.
7
M. Agnes McCarthy Julia E. Danahy
Sept.
1901
Bridgewayer Normal School. University Extension Course.
Everett
Guild
Wellesley College, A. B. Course at Boston University.
Boston University, A. B.
Shattuck
Prin.
George W. Allen
Oct.
1909
Cortland, N. Y., Normal School. versity School of Pedagogy.
7
Myra McGuirk
July 1919
Fitchburg Normal School.
6
Marian Lynch
Sept. 1919
Bridgewater Normal School.
5
Alice Maquire
May ,1919
Hyannis Normal School.
4
Florence M. Hill
Jan. 1881
3
Ona L. Smith
Sept.
1916
Gorham, Me., Normal School. Lansing, Mich., Train- ing School.
2-3
Kathleen Broderick
Oct. 1918
Fisher Normal School. Summer Course at Hyannis Nor- mal School.
2
Maude A. Woods
Sept. 1899
1
Emma F. Niles
April 1903
Norwood High School, Wellesley College, 1 year. Sum- mer Course at Hyannis Normal School.
Beacon
7
Stella A. Chiasson
May 1919
Framingham Normal School.
6
Gertrude Gorman
Sept. 1919
Fitchburg Normal School.
6
Margaret Pearson
May 1919
5
Eunice Stack
May
1919
Salem Normal School.
1
A. Louise McManus
Sept.
1916
Quincy Training School. Summer Course at Salem Nor- mal School.
Winslow
Prin. 7
Flora B. Reed Gertrude Shaw
Sept.
1910
Sept.
1919
Aroostook State Normal School. Summer Course Teach- ers' College, Columbia University, N. Y.
6 6
Jennie Twecdie Ethel Overlock
Dec. 1919
Framingham Normal School.
Nov. 1919
Gorman, Me., Normal School.
5 Margarita E. Burns
Oct. 1904 Bridgewater Normal School.
5 Edna E. Frost
Dec. 1914
Farmington, Me., Normal School.
4 Ina B. Talbot
Sept. 1916 Fitchburg Normal School.
Sept.
1918
Keene, N. H., Normal School.
4
Adella A. Rand Estelle M. Callahan Julia Drummy
Jan.
1903
Framingham Normal School.
3
2
Julia A. Shechan
Sept. 1915
Bridgewater Normal School.
1-2
Lucy H. Brooks
Sept. 1913
Worcester Normal School.
1
Celia F. Taylor
Mar. 1919
Framingham Normal School.
Un assigned
Florence Hayes
Jan.
1919
Gorham, Me., Normal School.
Courses in N. Y. Uni-
Norwood High School. Course at University of Maine.
183
Wheelock Kindergarten Training School.
Salem Normal School.
Mt. Holyoke College, A. B.
3
Sept. 1909
Framingham Normal School.
TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1920 (Continued)
School
Grade
Name
Date of Appointment
Where Graduated, Highest Institution (Also Other Courses)
Winslow
6
Gertrude Flynn
Sept. 1918
Worcester Normal School.
5
Anna Thompson
Nov. 1919
Fitchburg Normal School.
4
Bertha L. Brown
Feb.
1907
Farmington, Me., Normal School.
4
Ruth Stewart
May
1919
Framingham Normal School.
3
Mary A. Ahearn
Sept.
1911
Plymouth, N. H., Normal School.
3
Gertrude Callahan
Sept.
1919
Lowell Normal School.
1
Gertrude D. Cuff
Sept.
1914
Balch
Prin.
Katherine L. Carbee
Sept.
1901
shire State Normal School. Summer Course at Teach- ers' College, Columbia University, N. Y.
184
5
Lizzie E. Hadley
Sept.
1901
Templeton High School.
4
Ethel Keefe
Sept.
1918
Plymouth, N. H., Normal School.
4
Mildred Morse
July
1919
Fitchburg Normal School.
3
Mildred Libby
June
1919
Lowell Normal School.
3
Dorothy Rider
May
1919
Salem Normal School.
3
Anna Murphy
Sept.
1919
Framingham Normal School.
3
Ruth Vance
Dec.
1919
Fitchburg Normal School.
2
Maude E. Dalton
Jan.
1907
Sharon High School, Rhode Island Normal School, one year.
2
Mary Hadley
Sept.
1914
Bridgewater Normal School. Summer Course at North Adams Normal School.
2
Blanche Bacon
Sept. 1918
Keene, N. H., Normal School.
1
Julia Coyle
Sept. 1919
1
Jennie Wittrup
June
1919
Perry Kindergarten Normal School.
1
Agnes Curtin
Sept. 1903
Bridgewater 'Normal School.
1
Rosine L. Benkert
April
1918
Fitchburg Normal School.
2 Ethel M. Farley
Sept.
1918
Fitchburg Normal School. Nasson Institute, one year.
2
Elinor Feeley
Sept.
1919
Fitchburg Normal School.
Framingham Normal School.
Plymouth, N. H., Normal School. Course at New Hamp-
Bridgewater Normal School.
West
East Drawing
Music Household Arts
Asst.
Lucy E. Steele
Oct. 1917
Framingham Normal School. Household Arts Depart- ment.
Household Arts
Edward E. Parlin
Sept.
1917
Fitchburg Normal School. Course at Rhode Island School of Design.
Physical Train. Nurse
Erna H. Kiley
Oct.
1915
Sargent School of Physical Education.
Mary L. Bowker
Sept.
1916
Lowell General Hospital.
Nurse
Vera H. Brooks
Sept.
1918
Lowell General Hospital.
School Dentist
Timothy J. Curtin
Sept.
1919
Tufts Medical College.
School Doctor
Edward F. Brennan
1916
Tufts College. Tufts Medical College.
School Doctor
Clement H. Hallowell Jan.
1917
Colby College, Boston University.
School Optician
H. B. C. Reimer
Jan.
1920
Bucknell College, Harvard University.
Truant Officer
William Barrctt
Jan.
1919
Clerk
Mildred F. Metcalf
May
1918
Norwood High School.
Clerk
Marjorie K. Parker
Dec.
1919
Norwood High School.
1
Gladys P. Huse Anna B. Greene
May
1919 Salem Normal School.
Sept. 1919
Wheaton College, one year. Massachusetts Normal Art Art School, four years.
Asst.
Frances B. Courchene Helen M. Hall Agnes M. Bridges
Oct.
1918
Massachusetts Normal Art School.
Jan. 1919
Crane Normal Institute of Music.
Sept. 1911
Framingham Normal School. Household Arts Depart- ment. Summer Course at Teachers' College, Columbia University, N. Y.
1 1
Inez H. Moore Lillian McDonnell
June 1919
Perry Kindergarten Normal School.
Feb. 1919
Miss Niels' Kindergarten School. Summer Course at Hyannis Normal School.
185
186
CONCLUSION.
It may be fitting to enumerate some of the important characters of the Educational System which the voters support.
1. An approved High School.
2. Departmental teaching, 7-8 grades.
3. Excellent buildings.
4. School nursing.
5. Medical inspection.
6. Dental clinic
7. Eye and Ear clinic.
8. Manual Training.
9. Domestic arts.
10. Classical curriculum in the High School.
11. Scientific curriculum in the High School.
12. Commercial curriculum in the High School.
13. Mechanic arts curriculum in the High School.
14. Domestic arts curriculum in the High School.
15. School savings system.
16. Vacation school.
17. Evening school.
18. Supervisors of drawing.
19. Supervisor of writing.
20. Supervisor of singing.
21. Supervisor of physical education.
LIST OF GRADUATES-HIGH SCHOOL June 13, 1919.
Dorothy Annie Bashford .
Charles Bernard Kenefick
*Evelyn Velma Blasenak
Elisabeth Layton
Mary Louise Brennan
Catherine Josephine Leehan
Annie Louise Connolly
Mary Louise Conton
Margaret Louise Corcoran
Doris Helen DeAlmeida
Katherine Alicia Dowling
Eva Margaret Ferrari
Ellen Elizabeth Flavin
*Donald Grant Morrow Rosewell Andrews Norton Harold O'Brien Margaret Edel Oldham Marjorie Kendall Parker
Agnes Winifred Flood Agnes Jeanette Foley Julia Mildred Foley
¿Francis Cushing Foss Violet Gertrude Mary Foster
*Mildred Louise Small Lena Needham Shaw Elinor Agnes Schell Vincent George Ross Astrid Marie Elizabeth Peterson Margaret Charlotte Stanton
Rose Elizabeth Griffin Martha Zilpha Grinnell Emily Clement Hallowell
Gertrude Marie Johnson
John Sullivan
Harold Torston Johnson
Mary Elizabeth Kelley
Herbert Lewis Thompson Helen Frances Watson
Fannie Dorothea Wellman
* Medal scholar.
t Not absent or tardy during High School course.
# Berwick English Prize Scholar.
Alice Buck Littlefield
tįLizzie Edith Millett Louise Moreland Ruth Marie Morgan
187
LIST OF GRADUATES-GRAMMAR SCHOOL June 26, 1919
Abbott, Helen Madeline
Altonen, Naima Aliina
Anderson, Anders Walfrid
Heaps, Porter Warrington
Anderson, Helen Elizabeth Anderson, Ruth Esther
Henrickson, Ester Frances
Andrews, Delores Felicia Bailey, Louisa Mae Bemis, Dorothy Louise
Howden, Harold Edwin
Brissette, Ellen
Hurst, Fred
Bullard, Kenneth Hartshorn
Karshis, Tony Dominic
Butler, Vida Raphael
Kelley, Dorothea Loretta
Callahan, Margaret
King, Nora Theresa
Carlson, Eva Sophie
Knock, Edith Louise
Caswell, Gladys Mae
Knoll, Frederick
Cavanaugh, Steven Francis
Chitty, William Samuel
Lappin, Sidney Harry
Conelly, Agnes
Connolly, Albert Francis
Lennis, Olga Jerome
Corcoran, Mary
Lepper, Cynthia Louise
Costello, Margaret Elizabeth
Costello, Mary Louise
Levine, Louise
Lewis, Ida Margaret
Lindstrom, Lillie Wihelmina
Littlefield, Estelle
Dargwonis, Konstantu Vincent
Darling, John Kenneth
Davis, Stella Elizabeth
Davis, Theodore Francis
De Costa, John Norman
Deeb, Sadie Sarah
Devin, Kathryn Louise
Donovan, Margaret Agnes Donovan, Mary Josephine Doran, Mary Louise Dorando, Theresa
Dower, Daniel Francis
Dyer, Joseph Raymond Ekholm, Cecelia Alexandra
Morrison, John Taylor Muehlberger; Edward Otto
Murphy, Julia Murray, Dorothy Adelaide
Nee, Edward Martin Newman, Doris Eleanor Norris, Helen
Nyborn, Hilma Elina
Oatt, Ralph Lawrence
O'Brien, Mary
Patzold, Willard Emil
Perlmutter, Helen
Foren, David Thomas
Foster, Frank Millish Gifford, Frederick William Gotham, Josephine Lorena Gronroos, Rauha Maria Gruneau, Helen Dorothy Hall, Margaret
Peterson, Sophia Phalan, Harold Francis
Potter, Kenneth Lester Praino, Edward Readel, Irene Dorothy
Reardon, Wilma Catherine Rhoads, Helen Elizabeth
Levine, Arthur Wells
Cuff, Richard Clifford Cutler, Elizabeth Dailey, Veronica
Lowe, Grace Mildred
Maier, Gertrude Mary
Martin, Hugh
Mattson, Allen Edwin
MacWhirter, Evelyn Marie McCarthy, Norman Franklin McCartin, Elizabeth Gertrude McCusker, Magdalen Mary McNally, Joseph Henry Meade, Mary Margaret Metcalf, Toba Gertrude Mohan, Catherine Mary
Ellsworth, Virginia Charlotte Feaver, Herman John Feeney, Marion Louise Fitzgerald, Roger Joseph Fitzpatrick, Blanche Evelyn Flavin, James Cornelius
Flood, William Aloysius Flynn, Margaret Folan, Coleman Folan, Margaret
Hammersley, William Spode Hayes, Mary Evelyn
Heikkila, Eino Hjalmer
Hill, Edith Ellen Howard, Sadie
Landrie, Joseph
Layton, Virginia
188
LIST OF GRADUATES- GRAMMAR SCHOOL-Continued
Rich, Joseph Patrick
Roche, Katherine Charlotte
Vietze, Emma Augusta
Vietze, Frederick Carl
Russell, Alice Frances Saelen, Jon Martin
Wacks, Hannah
Silverman, Rose
Wagner, Blanche Irene
Small, Kenneth Lenwood
Walker, Eleanor Irene
Smith, Elsie Theresa
Wall, William Andrew
Stuntzner, Myrtle Agnes
Walsh, Mary Helena
Sullivan, Clare Marion
Welsh, Thomas William
Swanson, Eric Ragner
Wenzel, Dorothy Helen
Sylvester, Le Forest
Wheeler, Emily Caroline
Tanneyhill, Anna Elizabeth
Williamson, Robert Wallace
Thomas, Mabel Louise
Wosner, William
Thompson, Thelma Mary
Wright, Catherine Hope
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1919.
Winter Term. Monday, January 6, to Friday, April 18.
Spring Term.
Monday, April 28, to Friday, June 27.
Fall Term. Wednesday, September 3, to Friday, December 19.
SCHOOL CALENDAR. 1920.
Winter Term. Monday, January 5, to Friday, April 23.
Spring Term. Monday, May 3, to Friday, June 25.
Fall Term. Wednesday, September 8, to Friday, December 17.
Holidays. October 12, Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday, Good Friday, April 19, May 30, June 17.
A. N. AMBROSE, HENRY CROSBY, BRAINARD A. ROWE.
Uphill, Marjorie Frances
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INDEX
Page
Accountant's Trial Balance
99
Assessors, Report of .
145
Appropriations, Report of .
101
Showing receipts and disbursements
and balances
149
Board of Health, Report of
104
Cemetery Trust Funds.
157
Finance Commission
52
Indebtedness, The Limitation of
163
Librarian, Report of .
162
Municipal Light Department.
Payments
Aid for Dependent Mothers
67
Assessors .
91
Cemeteries .
Certification of Notes
Charities.
Education .
Election and Registration
Electric Light
Engineering .
Evening School
Finance Commission
Financial Statement .
Fire Alarm System
Fire Department.
General Manager
Health .
Highways
Incidentals and Office Expense
Inspector of Buildings
Inspector of Cattle.
Interest
Library
Moth Suppression.
93
Municipal Indebtedness
69
Police Department
91
Real Estate .
71
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
67 81 82 67 88 68 84 66 93 70 70 66 72 77 66 71 71 93 86 71
Library Trustees, Report of .
106
81
II
Payments (cont.)
Page
Sewer Construction
74
Sewer Maintenance 74
Soldiers' Benefits
81
Town Clerk and Accountant.
66
Town Counsel .
68
Town Office Building.
68
Town Physician .
91
Town Reports, Printing of .
87
Treasurer and Collector
67
Trees, Care of
71
Unclassified .
87
Water Department
89
Receipts
Agency, Trust and Investment Transactions.
64
Cemeteries
63
Charities.
62 58
Departmental Receipts
Education .
62
Electric Light.
Fines and Forfeits
Fire Department
General Revenue
Grants and Gifts
Health .
Highways
Interest
Libraries.
Licenses and Permits
Moth Suppression .
Municipal Indebtedness
Privileges
63
Refunds
64
Sanitation
60
Sealer of Weights and Measures
59
Sinking Fund.
104
Soldiers' Benefits .
62
Town Clerk and Accountant
58
Treasurer and Collector
58
Water
63
Watering and Treating Streets
57
Recapitulations and Expenditures
94-95
Report of Fire Engineer .
164
Report of New High School .
165
School Committee, Report of
167
63 56 59 55 56 60
61 65 62 56 59 64 56
Real Estate
III
Page
Receipts (cont.)
Selectmen, Report of
140
Sewer Department .
112
Statement of Money Borrowed.
53
Tax Collections
152
Total Fixed Debt.
50
Town Accountant, Remarks of
113
Town Counsel, Report of .
155
Town Debt, Classified Statement of .
51
Town Manager, Report of .
114
Treasurer and Collector, Report of .
153
Water Works.
111
49TH
ANNUAL REPORT
Town of Norwood
MASSACHUSETTS
For Year Ending December 31, 1920
TOGETHER WITH ABSTRACTS OF THE Assessed Valuation of Estates
MASS.
1872.
FEB
UND. AND-1713
. 23.18
NORWOOD, MASS AMBROSE BROS., PRINTERS 1921
TOWN OFFICIALS
For the Year Ending December 31, 1920
Selectmen: FRANK G. ALLEN, 1918-1921, Chairman; ED- MUND G. DALTON, 1920-1922, Secretary; WALTER F. TILTON, 1918-1921, H. EUGENE RICE, 1920-1922, THOMAS B. MULVEHILL, 1919-1922.
Finance Commission: CHARLES J. PRESCOTT, 1920-1922, Chairman; ARTHUR W. COOLIDGE, 1919-1921, Secre- tary; FRANK A. FALES, 1919-1922. Moderator: JAMES A. HALLORAN, 1920.
Town Counsel: JAMES A. HALLORAN.
Town Clerk and Accountant: JAMES E. PENDERGAST. Assistant: CHARLES P. STONE.
Treasurer and Collector: HAROLD W. GAY, 1919.
General Manager: WILLIAM P. HAMMERSLEY.
Superintendent of Public Works: JOSEPH E. CONLEY. - EDWIN T. MCDOWELL.
Superintendent of Municipal Light: FRED S. BARTON. Superintendent Cemetery: GEORGE ALFRED SMITH. Town Engineer: GEORGE ALBERT SMITH.
Chief of Police: HARRY W. SWIFT.
School Board: CORNELIUS M. CALLAHAN, 1919-1922, Chairman; ALFRED N. AMBROSE 1918-1921, HENRY CROSBY, 1918-1921, JULIA R. O'BRIEN, 1918-1920, BRAINARD M. ROWE, 1920-1921, HARRIET W. LANE, 1917-1920.
Superintendent of Schools: CHARLES O. DALRYMPLE. Sealer of Weights and Measures: HARRY M. KING. Building Inspector: H. FRANK WALKER .- FORREST M. DOUGLASS.
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49TH
ANNUAL REPORT
Town of Norwood
MASSACHUSETTS
For Year Ending December 31, 1920
TOGETHER WITH ABSTRACTS OF THE
Assessed Valuation of Estates
NORW
872
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NORWOOD, MASS AMBROSE BROS., PRINTERS 1921
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK AND ACCOUNTANT.
ABSTRACTS OF RECORDS OF TOWN MEETINGS AND VITAL STATISTICS.
RECORDS OF TOWN MEETINGS.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
Monday, January 19, 1920, and adjournment to March 11, 1920.
On a warrant duly issued by the Selectmen, under date of January 5, 1920, and signed by Frank G. Allen, Walter F. Tilton, Patrick J. Lydon and Oliver J. Barr, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which warrant was duly attested by Harry W. Swift, Constable of Norwood.
All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-Laws relating to elections and Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order, the articles contained in the warrant and the action thereunder being as follows:
Article 1. To choose all necessary town officers. The following are to be chosen by ballot, namely: Two Selectmen for three years (who shall be Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of Highways); one Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for one year; one Finance Commis- sioner for three years; one Moderator for one year; one member of the Board of Health for three years; two members of the School Committee for three years; one member of the School Committee for two years to fill vacancy; two Trustees of the Morrill Memorial Library for three years; two members of the Planning Board for three years; six Constables for one year; and also upon the same ballot to vote upon the following question:
"Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town?"
Two Selectmen for three years.
Edmund G. Dalton had two hundred seven (207), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
H. Eugene Rice had one hundred eighty-seven (187), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blank, seventy-two (72).
One Finance Commissioner for three years.
Charles J. Prescott had two hundred three (203), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blank, thirty (30).
Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for one year.
Harold W. Gay had two hundred fourteen (214), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blank, nineteen (19).
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One Member of Board of Health for three years.
Dr. Joseph J. Hagerty had two hundred one (201), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Scattering, one (1).
Blank, thirty-one (31).
Two Trustees of Morrill Memorial Library for three years.
Willard W. Everett had one hundred ninety-eight (198), elected; Maude A. Shattuck had one hundred ninety-one (191), elected.
Blank, seventy-seven (77).
Two Members of School Committee for three years.
Harriet W. Lane had one hundred eighty-four (184), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Julia R. O'Brien had two hundred ten (210), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Patrick O'Neil had forty-seven (47).
Blank, forty-two (42).
Member of School Committee for two years (to fill vacancy).
Brainard A. Rowe had two hundred thirteen (213), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blank, forty-eight (48).
One Moderator for one year.
James 'A. Halloran had one hundred ninety-six (196), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blank, thirty-seven (37).
Two Members of Town Planning Board for three years.
W. Eldon Smith had one hundred ninety-two (192), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
William G. Upham had one hundred eighty-five (185), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blank, eighty-nine (89).
Six Constables for one year.
Walter S. Bagley had one hundred forty-two (142), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
William J. Barrett had one hundred fifty (150), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Peter N. Curran had one hundred twenty (120), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Charles R. Donnell had one hundred sixty-two (162), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Thomas F. Lydon had ninety-eight (98).
J. Irving Reid had one hundred eleven (111), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Harry F. Snow had one hundred seven (107), elected sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Harry W. Swift had one hundred fifty-nine (159), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Scattering, one.
Blank, three hundred forty-eight (348).
Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxicating Liquors in this Town?
Yes, one hundred (100).
No, one hundred twenty-six (126).
Blank, seven (7).
The following officers were elected by voice of the meeting assembled Surveyor of Lumber.
Milton H. Howard.
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Fence Viewers:
H. Frank Walker, Thomas H. Hayden and Frederick H. Nutting.
Measurers of Wood and Bark:
Eugene M. Murphy, Horatio H. Alden and L. H. Beaver.
Article 2. To hear and act on reports of Town Officers and Committees. Voted: To accept as printed.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means as a Town Treasurer may use when acting as Collector.
Voted: To so authorize the Collector of Taxes.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Voted: To so authorize the Treasurer.
Article 5. To see what disposition the Town will make of money received as excise tax from street railway companies
Voted: That the sum of $506.16 be appropriated for the repair and maintenance of Highways, in addition to other amounts appropriated.
Article 6. To see what disposition the Town will make of money received for dog licenses.
Voted: That the sum of $722.75 be appropriated for the support of the Morrill Memorial Library, in addition to other amounts appropriated.
Article 7. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the current fiscal year, for the following pur- poses, or take any other action in the matter:
1. Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of Highways.
(a) Salaries. (b) Incidentals.
Voted: (a) That the Selectmen receive no annual salaries. (b) By tax- ation, for incidental and personal expenses of the Selectmen, the sum of $250.00.
2. Town Clerk and Accountant and Town Bookkeeper.
(a) Salaries. (b) Incidentals.
Voted: Salary of Town Clerk, $400.00; Salary of Town .Accountant and Bookkeeper, $2600.00. For incidental expenses the sum of $5,350.00. By taxation. And that all fees received shall be paid into the Town Treasury.
3. Treasurer and Collector of Taxes.
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