Norwood annual report 1923-1927, Part 17

Author: Norwood (Mass.)
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 1656


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Radeliffe College, A. B.


French


Lucile Foster


June


1923


Colby College, A. B.


Commercial


Grace MeGonagle


Nov. 1917


Chandler Normal School


Geometry and Latin


Sarah A. Blake


Sept. 1918


Smith College, A. B.


History


Marguerite Elliott


Aug.


1920


Boston University, A. B.


Commercial


Mary C. Coughlin


June


1923


Chandler School for Women


Mathematics


Ruth M. Gow


Dec. 1918


Boston University, A. B.


English


Hazel Blaisdell


Aug.


1920


Brown University, A. B.


Latin


Helen E. Johnson


May


1920


Swarthmore College, A. B.


Household Arts


Lucy E. Steele


Oct.


1917


Framingham Normal, Household Arts Depart- ment


Spanish Commercial


Florence E. Hayes Eleanor Stockwell


Sept. 1922


Mt. Holyoke College, A. B.


Sept. 1922


Chandler School for Women


254


Junior High


Economics and History Principal


Dorothy Abbott


Sept. 1922


Radcliffe College, A. B.


George W. Allen


Oct. 1909


Cortland, N. Y., Normal School


Wilda L. Vose


Sept. 1913


Castine Normal School


9


Ruth Manchester


Jan.


1920


Western Normal School


9


Josephine Heagney


Nov. 1917


Framingham Normal School


9


Nellie L. Twiss


Sept. 1921


Bridgewater Normal School


9


Helen P. Gale


Sept.


1921


Farmington Normal School


8-9


Florence McNamara


Sept.


1922


Bridgewater Normal School


8-9


Edythe Twiss


Sept.


1922


Bridgewater Normal School


8-9


Helen Follett


June


1921


Gorham Normal School


8


Marion Smart


Sept.


1921


Farmington Normal School


8


Eliza M. Houghton


Mar. 1916


Castleton Normal School


8


Marion F. Clapp


Dec.


1921


Hyannis Normal School


8


Lelia Edgerly


Sept.


1922


Gorham Normal School


8


Leonora Bradford


Sept.


1921


Private School. South Manchester High School


8


Mary Mccarthy


Sept.


1920


Fitchburg Normal School


Household Arts


Doris M. Cutler


Sept.


1921


Framingham Normal, Household Arts Dept.


7


Grace M. Everett


June 1919


Pottsdam Normal School


M. Agnes McCarthy


Sept.


1910


Quincy Training School


7


Mary Nichols


Feb.


1921


Farmington Normal School


7


Gertrude Shaw


Sept.


1919


Aroostook State Normal School


7


Louise Bachelder


May


1923


Bridgewater Normal School


7


Marie S. Brown


Sept.


1922


Lowell Normal School


7


Mary Callahan


Sept.


1923


Bridgewater Normal School


Guild


6


Caroline Bodell


Sept.


1921


Bridgewater Normal School


255


Everett


9


TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1924


School


Grade


Name


Date of Appointment


Where Graduated


6


Florence M. Hayes


Jan. 1919


Gorham Normal School


5


Edna E. Frost


Jan.


1915


Framington Normal School


5


Alice V. O'Connor


Feb.


1923


Rhode Island Normal School


5


Anna Sheehan


Sept.


1919


Framingham Normal School


4


Ina Talbot


Sept.


1916


Fitchburg Normal School


4


Ethel Overlock


Nov.


1919


Gorham Normal School


3


Julia Drummy


Sept.


1909


Framingham Normal School


3


Estelle Callahan


Jan.


1903


Framingham Normal School


2


Julia Shechan


Sept.


1915


Bridgewater Normal School


1


Lucy H. Brooks


Sept.


1913


Worcester Normal School


Shattuck


Principal


Flora B. Reed


Sept.


1909


Mt. Holyoke Collège, A. B.


6


Marion Lynch


Nov.


1917


Bridgewater Normal School


5


Elizabeth Costello


Sept.


1922


Framingham Normal School


4


Jessie Webster


July


1920


Aroostook State Normal School


3


Florence P. Noyes


Sept.


1920


Plymouth, N. H. Normal School


2-3


Katharine R. Healey


Sept.


1921


Fitchburg Normal School


2


Maude Woods


Sept.


1899


Wheelock Kindergarten Training School


1


Anna E. Nelson


Aug.


1920


Framingham Normal School


1


Emma F. Niles


Mar.


1903


Wellesley College (1 yr.)


Beacon


6


Annie M. Thompson


Oct.


1919


Fitchburg Normal School


5


Inez H. Sanford


Sept.


1920


Castine Normal School


4


Ethel C. Clapp


Sept.


1921


Westfield Normal School


.


256


257 ,


Balch


Principal


Katharine Carbec


Sept.


1901


Plymouth Normal School


6


Lizzie Hadley


Sept.


1901


Templeton High School


6


Mildred Morse


Sept. 1919


Fitchburg Normal School


5-0


Geraldine Woods


Sept.


1922


Bridgewater Normal School


5


Grace Beverly


Sept.


1923


Johnson, Vt., State Normal


5


Lottie E. Deckman


Sept.


1923


Truro N. S., Normal School


4


Katharine W. Porter


Sept.


1923


Framingham Normal School


4


Ethel Kcefe


Sept.


1918


Plymouth, N. H., Normal School


4


Helen Holloway


Sept.


1922


Bridgewater Normal School


3


Maude Dalton


Jan.


1907


Sharon High School


3


Margaret Flaherty


Jan.


1921


Framingham Normal School


3


Ruth Vance


Sept.


1922


Fitchburg Normal School


2


Mildred Holloway


Jan.


1924


Bridgewater Normal School


2


Cecelia Mitchell


Aug.


1920


Wheelock Training School


2


1


Special Principal 6


Jessie Cushman Louise McManus Minnie C. Cole Julia MeCarthy Bertha S. Winslow


May 1922


Castine Normal School Quincy Training School


June


1916


Feb. 1922


Hyannis Normal School


May


1920


Framingham Normal School


Sept.


1922


Westbrook Seminary (1} yrs.). North Yar- mouth Academy (3} yrs.)


5-(


Agnes Hedberg


Sept.


1920


Salem Normal School


5


Marion Kannally


Hyannis Normal School


4


Bertha Brown


Feb. 1907


Farmington Normal School


4-3


Katie M. Hunt


Sept. 1921


Bridgewater Normal School


3


Mary C. Fleming


Sept.


1921


Lowell Normal School


2


Florence Baker


May


1921


Bridgewater Normal School


1


Gertrude Cuff


Sept.


1014


Framingham Normal School


Winslow


TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1924


School


Grade


Name


Date of Appointment


Where Graduated


2


Mary Hadley


Sept. 1914


Bridgewater Normal School


2


Bertha Wahl


Sept. 1923


Framingham Normal School


1


Evangeline Ryan


Nov. 1920


Gorham Normal School


1


Jennie Mann


Sept.


1919


Perry Kindergarten Normal School


1


Josephine McCabe


Sept.


1922


Bridgewater Normal School


1


Rachel Ellis


Dec.


1921


Hyannis Normal School


Special


Josephine Fokes


Nov.


1921


Boston Normal School


Unassigned


Delia Lydon


Sept.


1923


Fitchburg Normal School


East


2


Blanche Mayhew


Sept. 1920


Keene Normal School


1


Hittie MeIntyre


June 1920


Castine Normal School


2


Ethel Farley


Aug.


1918


Fitchburg Normal School


1


Grace Franklin


May


1920


Perry Kindergarten Normal Sehool


Musie


Adelbert H. Morse


Sept.


1923


Boston University Extension School


Physical


Erna H. Kiley


Oct.


1915


Sargent School of Physical Education


Physical


Training


H. Bennett Murray


Sept.


1921


Boston College, A. B.


Drawing


Helen L. Arnold


Dec.


1921


Massachusetts Normal Art School


Household


Arts


Agnes M. Bridges


Sept.


1911


Framingham Normal School


Nurse .


Helen W. Gould


May


1921


New York Hospital Training School


Nurse


Sadie E. Downs


Sept.


1922


Morton Hospital, Taunton


258


West


Training


259


JANITORS


Name


Address


School


Michael Connolly


247 Winter Street.


High


Alfred Disnard . .


59 Walnut Avenue


High


George Fitzgerald.


284 Lenox Street. Balch


John J. Fitzgerald


284 Lenox Street .


Guild


Hans P. Hansen


23 Lenox Avenue


Everett


Beacon


Frank Laidlaw


16 Hoyle Street.


Winslow


West


John P. Oldham:


260 Pleasant Street.


High


Robert Oldham


7 Monroe Street.


Everett


William Shyne.


330 Washington Street . Shattuck


East


INDEX


Accountant's Trial Balance


120


Assessors, Report of . .


163


Appropriations, Report of .


116


Showing receipts and disbursements and balances


Board of Health, Report of .


167


Cemetery Trust Funds


126


Finance. Commission


175


Indebtedness, The Limitation of .


74


Librarian, Report of .


186


Library Trustees, Report of .


185


Municipal Light Department.


127


Publie Property Account.


125


Payments


Ageney Trust and Investment.


113


Ash Removal.


94


Assessors .


87


Cemeteries .


111


Certification of Notes.


86


Charities.


101


Education .


Eleetion and Registration


Electric Light.


Engineering .


Evening School.


Finance Commission.


Financial Statement


Fire Alarm System.


Fire Department.»


General Manager.


Health.


Highways. .


Inspector of Buildings


Inspector of Cattle.


Interest.


Library.


Moth Suppression


Municipal Indebtedness.


Norfolk County Hospital.


Police Department.


Parks.


Planning Board.


Public Works Overhead.


111


Sealer of Weights and Measures


91


Sewer Construction .


95 93


Sewer Maintenance.


Soldiers' Benefits. .


101


Stone Crushed, Cost of.


137


102 87 107 88 102 86 122 91 90 85 92 96 91 91 112 105 91 112


92 89 106 88 137


Real Estate.


Page


II


Payments (continued)


Page


Town Clerk and Accountant.


86


Town Counsel. . .


87


Town Office Building .


88


Town Physician .


101


Town Reports, Printing of .


106


Treasurer and Collector


86


Trees, Care of


91


Unclassified .


106


Water Department.


108


Receipts


Agency, Trust and Investment Transactions


84


Cemeteries


82


Charities.


81


Education.


81


Electric Light.


82 76 79 75 80


General Revenue.


Health ..


Highways


Interest .


Libraries.


Licenses and Permits.


Moth Suppression .


Municipal Indebtedness


Police.


Real Estate.


Refunds.


Sanitation .


Sealer of Weights and Measures


Soldiers' Benefits.


81


Town Clerk and Accountant.


78


Treasurer and Collector


78


Water.


82


Recapitulations of Receipts and Expenditures .


114-115


Report of Fire Engineer


190


School Committee, Report of


191


Selectmen, Report of .


152


Statement of Money Borrowed.


72


Tax Collections.


171


Total Fixed Debt.


70


Town Accountant, Remarks of .


139


Town Counsel, Report of ..


181


Town Debt, Classified Statement of .


70


Town Manager, Report of .


140


Treasurer and Collector, Report of .


173


Vital Statistics.


26


80 83 81 76 79 83 79 82 84 80 79


Fines and Forfeits


Fire Department


.


53RD RD


ANNUAL REPORT


Town of Norwood


MASSACHUSETTS


For Year Ending December 31


1924


AS


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NORWOOD, MASS. AMBROSE PRESS, INC., PRINTERS 1925


TOWN OFFICIALS


For the Year Ending December 31, 1924


Selectmen: THOMAS B. MULVEHILL, 1922-1925, Chairman; EDMUND G. DALTON, 1923-1926; H. EUGENE RICE, 1923-1926; EUGENE ENDICOTT, 1924-1927; HAROLD W. BAKER, 1924-1927.


Finance Commission: CHARLES J. PRESCOTT, 1923-1926, Chairman; FRED R. ELLIS, 1924-1927; FRANK A. FALES, 1922-1925.


Moderator: JAMES A. HALLORAN, 1924.


Town Counsel: JAMES A. HALLORAN.


Town Clerk and Accountant: JAMES E. PENDERGAST. Assistant: CHARLES P. STONE. L Treasurer and Collector: HAROLD W. GAY, 1924. General Manager: WILLIAM P. HAMMERSLEY.


Superintendent of Public Works: JOSEPH E. CONLEY. Superintendent of Municipal Light: FRED S. BARTON. Superintendent of Cemetery: GEORGE ALFRED SMITH. Chief of Police: WILLIAM C. KINDELAN.


School Board: FREDERICK A. CLEVELAND, 1924-1927, Chairman; JULIA R. O'BRIEN, 1923-1926; FLORENCE M. FIELD, 1923-1926; BRAINARD A. ROWE, 1922- 1925; ARTHUR S. HARTWELL, 1924-1927; EDWARD F. BRENNAN, 1922-1925.


Superintendent of Schools: HERBERT H. HOWES. Sealer of Weights and Measures: HARRY M. KING. Building Inspector: FORREST M. DOUGLASS.


(Continued on inside of back cover)


53RD RD


ANNUAL REPORT


Town of Norwood


MASSACHUSETTS


For Year Ending December 31


1924


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NORWOOD, MASS. AMBROSE PRESS, INC., PRINTERS 1925


REPORT OF TOWN CLERK AND ACCOUNTANT.


ABSTRACTS OF RECORDS OF TOWN MEETINGS AND VITAL STATISTICS.


RECORD OF TOWN MEETINGS.


ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


Monday, January 21, 1924, and adjournment to March 20, 1924.


On a Warrant duly issued by the Selectmen, under date of January 8, 1924, and signed by Frank G. Allen, Thomas B. Mulvehill, H. Eugene Rice and Edmund G. Dalton, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which Warrant was duly attested by Thomas C. Lydon, Constable of Norwood.


All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-Laws relating to elec- tions and Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order, the articles contained in the Warrant and the action there- under 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 Treas- urer and Collector of Taxes for one year; one Finance Commissioner 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; 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 licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this towm?"


Two Selectmen for three years.


Harold W. Baker had eight hundred sixty-three (863), eleeted, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.


Eugene Endieott had nine hundred forty-five (945), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.


Arthur J. Forrest had five hundred fifty-nine (559).


Blanks, four hundred thirty-four (434).


Scattering, one (1).


Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for one year.


Harold W. Gay had one thousand one hundred forty (1140), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.


Blanks, two hundred sixty-one (261).


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One Finance Commissioner for three years.


Fred R. Ellis had one thousand forty (1040), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.


Blanks, three hundred sixty-one (361).


Moderator for one year.


James A. Halloran had one thousand eighty-six (1086), elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.


Seattering, two.


Blanks, three hundred thirteen (313).


One member of Board of Health for three years.


Michael J. O'Leary had four hundred ninety-nine (499).


John A. Shannon had eight hundred three (803), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.


Blanks, ninety-nine.


Two members of the School Committee for three years.


Frederick A. Cleveland had nine hundred eighty-eight (988), elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.


Arthur S. Hartwell had one thousand fifty-nine (1059), elected, sworn by the Town Clerk and Accountant.


Blanks, seven hundred fifty-three (753).


Scattering, two.


Two Trustees of the Morrill Memorial Library for three years.


Walter Blair had nine hundred seventy-seven (977), elected.


M. Agnes Mahoney had one thousand one hundred fifteen (1115), elected.


Blanks, seven hundred ten (710).


Two members of Planning Board for three years.


Eli L. Chamberlain had nine hundred fifty (950), elected.


Charles E. Houghton had nine hundred sixty-four (964), elected. Scattering, one.


Blanks, eight hundred eighty-seven (SS7).


Six Constables for one year.


William J. Barrett had eleven hundred seven (1107), eleeted.


Peter N. Curran had eleven hundred five (1105), eleeted.


J. Irving Reid had ten hundred fifty-four (1054), eleeted. Patrick J. Coyne had ten hundred eighty-cight (1088), elected. Charles R. Donnell had ten hundred sixty-nine (1069), elected. Thomas C. Lydon had one thousand one (1001), eleetcd. Scattering, five.


Blanks, one thousand nine hundred seventy-seven (1977).


"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this Town?"


Yes, four hundred eighty-two (482).


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No, six hundred thirty-four (634).


Blanks, two hundred eighty-five (285).


Article 2. To hear and act on the reports of Town Officers and com- mittees.


Voted: That the report of the Town Officers be accepted as printed.


Voted: That the report of the Finance Commission as presented be accepted.


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 a Collector.


Voted: To so authorize.


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 re- ceived for dog licenses.


Voted: That this article be laid upon the table and taken up and acted upon with Article 6, Sub-division D, Section 6.


Article 6. 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: That the Selectmen receive no salarics. (b) By taxation, for incidental and personal expenses of the Selectmen, the sum of $100.00.


2. Town Clerk and Accountant and Town Bookkeeper. (a) Salaries. (b) Incidentals.


Voted: Salary of Town Clerk, $400.00; salary of Town Accountant, $2900.00. (b) By taxation the sum of $4,710.00 and by transfer $1890.00.


3. Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes. (a) Salary. (b) Inci- dentals.


Voted: For salary $2,000.00. (b) For incidentals, including premium on suretyship bond, the sum of $3,053.00. By taxation.


4. Assessors. (a) Salaries. (b) Incidentals.


Voted: For salaries of Assessors, $1,200.00; for incidental expenses, $1,200.00. By taxation.


5. Certification of Bonds and Notes.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $200.00.


6. Finance Commission. (a) Incidentals.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $200.00.


7. Law. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals. Voted: By taxation for salary the sum of $1,200.00 and for incidental


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expenses the sum of $3,100.00, of which $3,000.00 is for expenses incurred in connection with the Neponset River Expense Apportionment proceed- ings.


8. Election and Registration. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals.


Voted: By taxation for salaries the sum of $300.00 and for ineidentals the sum of $1,820.00.


9. Town Offices. (a) Incidentals.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $900.00.


10. General Manager. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals, including pre- mium on suretyship bond.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $4,500.00 and for ineidentals, including premium on suretyship bond the sum of $150.00.


11. Engineering. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals.


Voted: By taxation (a) the sum of $2,200.00 and (b) the sum of $1,310.00.


12. Board of Survey. (a) Incidentals.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $100.00.


13. Planning Board. (a) Incidentais. Voted: By taxation the sum of $500.00.


B. Protection of Persons and Property.


1. Police Department, including prosecution of illegal sale of non- intoxicatng beverages.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $26,615.00.


2. Fire Department. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals.


Voted: By taxation for salaries and wages the sum of $8,850.00 and (b) for ineidental expenses the sum of $12,833.00.


3. Maintenance and Extension of Fire Alarm System.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $725.00.


4. Inspector of Buildings. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals.


Voted: By taxation for (a) salary the sum of $500.00 and (b) for inci- dental expenses the sum of $50.00.


5. Inspector of Cattle.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $150.00.


6. Sealer of Weights and Measures. (a) Salary. (b) Incidentals. Voted: By taxation (a) for salary, $350.00 and (b) for ineidentals, $100.00, and that all fees received shall be paid into the Town Treasury.


7. Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth and other Insect Pest Extermination. Voted: By taxation the sum of $3,350.00.


8. Care and Planting of Shade Trees.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,950.00.


9. Street Lighting.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $5,800.00.


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C. Health and Sanitation.


1. Board of Health. (a) Salaries. (b) Contagious Diseases, Refuse and Garbage Disposal, Maintenance of Town Dump and Incidental Ex- penses.


Voted: By taxation (a) the sum of $100.00 and (b) the sum of $11,590.00.


2. Sewer Department. (a) Maintenance. (b) Particular Sewers.


Voted: By taxation (a) for maintenance of Scwer Department the sum of $7,935.00 and (b) for construction of Particular Sewers the sum of $6,000.00 by taxation.


3. Sewer Construction.


Voted: By borrowing the sum of $20,000.00 and the further sum of $5,735.00 by taxation.


4. Maintenance and construction of main drains and cleaning brooks and drains other than main drains.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $3,350.00 for maintenance and the further sum of $6,980.00 by taxation for construction.


5. Removal of Ashes.


Voted: By taxation, the sum of $1,500.00.


D. Miscellaneous.


1. Maintenance, repairs and construction of highways, culverts and bridges, highway equipment, paving gutters, building sidewalks, setting edgestones, removal of snow and ice, sanding sidewalks, street signs and guide boards and operation of stone crusher plant.


Voted: For the foregoing purposes, excepting removal of snow and sand- ing sidewalks, by taxation the sum of $62,870.00, by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account the sum of $10,000.00 and further sum for the removal of snow and sanding sidewalks, by taxation, $6,500.00.


2. (a) Institutional and Outside Relief. (b) Aid for Dependent Mothers.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $22,000.00.


3. Salary of Town Physician.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $200.00.


4. Soldiers' Benefits.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,500.00.


5. Support of Schools.


Voted: That Articles 7 and 8 be taken up and considered and further voted that Articles 7 and 8 be considered together with Article 6, Sub- division D, Section 5.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $260,868.00.


6. Support of Morrill Memorial Library.


Voted: That Article 5 be taken from the table and acted upon with Article 6, Sub division D, Section 6.


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Voted: By taxation the sum of $10,271.00 and the further sum of $729.26, being money received for Dog Licenses.


7. The use of George K. Bird Post, No. 169, G. A. R., to decorate Sol- diers' Graves on Memorial Day.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $500.00.


8. Recreation and Parks.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $535.00.


9. Printing and Distribution of Town Reports.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,425.00.


10. Defraying incidental and other necessary expense not otherwise provided for.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $500.00.


11. Band Concerts.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $500.00.


E. Public Service.


1. Electric Light Department. (a) Maintenance. (b) Operation. (c) Depreciation. (d) New Construction. (e) Repairs.


Voted: The following sums from the treasury of the Electric Light De- partment: Construction, $7,700.00; Maintenance, Operation and Repairs, $119,000.00; Depreciation, $8,885.00; Interest, $2,677.00; Maturing Debt, $12,500.00; for payment to the Town in lieu of taxes, $6,500.00; and be it further voted that with respect to action taken by the Town at a Special Town Meeting held on December 28, 1923, wherein it was voted that the sum of $8,795.79 be appropriated from the receipts of the Municipal Light Department, that the Town Clerk and Accountant be authorized and instructed to apply the sum so voted as a credit and offset against such sums as the Town has appropriated to the use of the Electric Light Department for construction purposes.


2. Water Department. (a) Maintenance. (b) Construction.


Voted: From treasury of the Water Department the sum of $34,545.00 for Maintenance; $15,000.00 for Construction; $3,794.00 for Interest, and $10,300.00 for Maturing Debt.


F. Cemeteries.


1. Maintenance and Improvement.


Voted: From receipts in the Treasury of the Cemetery Department the sum of $5,855.00.


G. Interest and Debt Requirements.


1. Interest Requirements.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $40,483.28 and by transfer the sum of $95.85


2. Bonds and Notes due in 1924.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $77,359.00, from premiums the sum of $19.15 and by transfer the sum of $9,770.85.


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H. Insurance on Town Property.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $2,963.00, by transfer from receipts of Water Department $100.00 and from receipts of the Electric Light De- partment the sum of $300.00.


I. Abatement of Taxes.


Voted: That no action be taken under this subdivision.


J. Reserve Fund.


Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,000.00.


Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to maintain an evening school as provided by law and raise and appropriate money for such purpose, or take any action in the matter.


Voted: Action taken with Article 6, Subdivision D, Section 5.


Article 8. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for industrial educational purposes, or take any other action in the matter. Voted: Action taken with Article 6, Subdivision D, Section 5.


Article 9. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the establishment and maintenance of con- tinuation schools or course of instruction, or take any other action in the matter.


Voted: Action indefinitely postponed.


Article 10. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to pay not more than the ordinary and reasonable com- pensation for care actually rendered or furnished by the Norwood Hospital or other hospitals in the vicinity of Norwood to such persons as may be in whole or in part unable to care for themselves, the same to be in addition to sums appropriated for the care of contagious diseases and for institu- tional relief, or take any other action in the matter.


Voted: Considered with Article 11.


Article 11. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the employment of district or other nurses, or take any other action in the matter.


Voted: That Articles 10 and 11 be considered and acted upon together. Voted: By taxation the sum of $1,300.00.


Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Asses- sors to take appropriate action as provided by law for the earlier collection of poll taxes, or take any other action in the matter.


Voted: To so instruct the Board of Assessors.


Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to accept a new town way as laid out by the Selectmen and known as Willowwood Street under the provisions of the General Laws authorizing the assessment of betterments, or take any other action in the matter.


Voted: That a new town way to be called Willowwood Street as laid out and reported by the Selectinen be and hereby is accepted and that


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betterments shall be assessed for said improvement in accordance with the provisions of law authorizing the assessments of betterments.




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