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OILING AND SPRINKLING
During the summer there was spent on oiling streets $1068.46. Sprinkling was nothing. Now under oiling and sprinkling of course there is to be considered the blanket we use over our tarvia roads to prevent dust from blowing. This has been charged up to Maintenance of Roads. I wish more oiling might be done, as I believe that when a gravel road, properly shaped up, wet and well rolled, then left to dry out a day or two, if oiled directly after this process, it will keep its shape and at a less cost of maintenance, for a good while, especially Andover Street from Woburn clear around to residence of Joseph Stanley where tarvia starts. This would preserve the road and would save on repairs greatly. Summer Street, which has just been graded with material from Elm Street, should be just the same, and so on.
SURFACE DRAINAGE
Drain and catchbasins have been laid on Elm Street, Morton Street, Andover Street in Ballardvale, and in fact lots of stone culverts which have been filled up are being removed and large pipes are being placed in their places. This drainage is some- thing that I am putting a good deal of thought and study into, as all streets before being built new must be drained properly or the street will be washed away. Of course the more catch- basins put in, the greater the cost of maintenance will be, as these must all be cleaned out several times a year.
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GRAVEL ROADS
These are all right where the travel is light, but on any of our main streets it is impossible with the heavy travel of today, to keep them in repair and safe. And gravel fit for our side streets is almost impossible to find. So about the only thing to do is to build water-bound roads on our side streets, and tarvia or something else on all our main thoroughfares. These tarvia roads should be built, and that is what we are doing wherever possible. These should be built so as to have a passage on both sides for the horse-drawn vehicles.
GUTTERS
Gutters are continually washing out and need cleaning or oiling to kill weeds two or three times a year. I hope to repair gutters as fast as possible with a paving, or fill well with crushed stone and then run Tarvia X into same. This we tried on Walnut Avenue, and heavy rains came before the tarvia was cold, but the material still is in place. This I believe is as good as · anything for the money.
RESURFACING
Most streets will only receive enough blanketing in 1916 to prevent dust blowing; instead of using one-half gallon to the yard, one-quarter gallon will be used, reducing the cost of the work from 512c to about 3c. Of course, some streets will need the regular amount, but this work will have to be done at least once in two or three years on the outside streets only.
SIDEWALKS
This work has been going on at all times of year. Ashes here and there, with a little dust put over same, makes a good walk for side streets, and we are doing this a great deal during the early months of the year; hauling the ashes, then in spring we cover with the dust. Tar sidewalks have been repaired on Bartlet Street, Main Street ,Salem Street, Elm Street. New walks under the Betterment Act were built on Abbot Street, Shawsheen Road, and Lowell Street. The repairing and new
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work was done by W. F. Duffee of Haverhill under a contract and a seven-year guarantee. Curbing was also set on Shawsheen Road, one-half of same being paid by the Smith & Dove Co.
There were three cars of dust put on sidewalks in Ballard- vale during 1915. There was also an addition to the curbing on the east side of Andover Street, 275 feet. I am in hopes to do more of the cement work during the coming year.
The expenditures on repairs and new work by streets is as follows:
Argilla Road
$ 45 96
Abbot Street
149 08
Andover Street (Does not include Haggerty's work)
255 36
Bartlet Street, resurfacing and new work
3317 03
Burnham Road, ashes, wetting and rolling
217 71
Brook Street, gravel
7 40
Chandler Road, washout
735 50
Chestnut Street
127 59
Corbett Street, washout
5 92
Central Street
32 14
Elm Street
9292 16
Florence Street
23 94
High Street
1502 68
Haverhill Street
394 57
Harding Street, above bridge
46 02
Harding Street, below bridge
374 59
Hardy's Hill, West Andover
191 99
Lowell Street
6164 33
Locke Street
47 07
Lewis Street
141 61
Lincoln Street
17 46
Main Street
684 78
Maple Avenue
168 99
Morton Street
928 38
Phillips Street
32 41
Punchard Avenue
49 04
Porter Road
336 52
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Poor Street
36 45
Pine Street
90 44
Park Street
147 20
Prospect Hill Road
25 77
River Road
482 25
Salem Street
688 86
Summer Street
522 23
School Street
68 72
Whittier Street
59 60
Wolcott Avenue
65 94
Walnut Avenue
955 20
Washington Avenue
203 04
Catchbasin
195 55
Ballardvale District, all work from Jan. 1 to Jan. 1
$1756 02
Many small jobs were done of which no account was kept, on many other streets where only a load or two of material was needed, and on work done around the shop, barn, etc., where no foreman or superintendent was present, no exact time could be kept, only on payrolls, which show elsewhere.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Central Street to be rebuilt from Essex Street.
(1) As road is at present there are 12,000 square yards. Estimated cost, $8400.
(2) If a 18-foot roadway is built, except first 200 feet, 9756 yards. Estimated cost, $6829.
(3) Full width past T. A. Holt's, 22-foot to South Church, 18-foot to bridge, 10,236 yards. Estimated cost, $7165.
(4) Full width past T. A. Holt's, 22-foot to Phillips Street, 18-foot to bridge, 10,902 yards. Estimated cost, $7631.
There are two corners at Brook Street, two at Chestnut Street, $100.00, four at School Street, as well as drains and catchbasins to be built - $500.00. The estimate of this street is $7680.00.
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SCHOOL STREET .- A 16-foot tarvia-bound road which will leave ample room on either side for horse-drawn vehicles, from Central to Main Street. Curb corners where not already done. Build a large drain starting at Locke or Abbot Street and running down to the brook between the cemeteries on lower end of School Street. Catchbasins at Abbot Street, Locke Street, and also connect culvert which crosses Mr. Cann's and Miss Kimball's property, relieving that a great deal; from here down a larger pipe would be necessary.
Estimated cost of street, and drains, catchbasins, etc, $6000.
BROOK STREET .- I would recommend curbing both sides of the street and building a gravel or water-bound road, so that Essex Street may be blanketed before coming apart; then the heavy teaming may be done on Brook Street, and Essex Street may be used for lighter-drawn vehicles. This gravel road on Brook Street may be well treated with oil, and I think will make an excellent road for heavy teaming and will also be dust- proof. $1600.
Abbot Street, Lupine Road, and the roads in Abbott Village also need a great deal of attention. Abbott Village will of course be dug up more this coming summer on account of house connections to be made with the sewer; after this there will need be many repairs in this section.
West District needs roads scraped and shaped up, as now the water all runs in the center of the roads. The trouble in the outlying districts is that the gutters have been and are now, more or less blocked up.
Lowell Street needs to be continued from Station 28. I hope a separate appropriation may be obtained for this road, to go with the Massachusetts Highway Commission and County, as this is being done under the Betterment Act, each bearing one-third of the cost, and the more the town gives, the more help we get from the County and State. The State has prom- ised, and we hope that a separate amount may be set aside for this work each year, and the State and County will meet the amount we appropriate. So this year I hope the amount will be $5000. This will only be spent providing they equal it.
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Curbing needs to be re-set on a great many corners in town, and this is being done as fast as possible.
I would recommend $1000 be appropriated to go with what we have on hand, to replace the 4-inch water main on Chestnut Street from Main to Whittier Street, for a 8-inch C. I. main and make necessary connections; and install new hydrants with a 6-inch opening.
Sidewalk complaints are coming in every day, but when the frost is coming out of the ground, I or no one else can help the muddy streets. Now there is a Betterment Act under which the people may apply for a tar sidewalk, curbing, or asphalt walk, and any time before September 1st the Board are glad to receive same, and due care is always used in this expenditure.
PARK DEPARTMENT WORK .- I would recommend that a baseball diamond be laid out in Ballardvale, as a great deal of enjoyment is obtained in this game down there, and at present we spend about $100 a year there and then there is nothing but holes and weeds. I would recommend the making of a baseball diamond on the play grounds at Ballardvale.
PARK DEPARTMENT
General work is all that has taken place during the last year, except placing an additional pipe across Mr. Lombard's land to relieve the water which flows to the main brook. I would say the amount spent in the Park Department, including work on Ballardvale Playstead, was $1279.23, leaving a balance of $220.77 on hand.
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HIGHWAY EXPENDITURES, 1915
NAMES
Mainte- nance
Con- struction
Drains
Snow
Side- walks
New Barn
Total
Winchester Rock Co., stone
$ 61 12 $
923 83
$ 233 47
$ 1218 24
Anderson & Bowman
55 75
38 50
3 50
97 75
Morrison & O'Connell
178 50
20 60
20 50
25 00
4 10
248 70
Tyer Rubber Co., ashes
11 85
14 70
26 55
Payrolls, labor and teams .
6253 22
6314 42
313 70
555 92
339 65
418 02
14194 93
Fred Gould
70 44
15 75
46 70
132 89
Samuel Rawsden, labor
7 80
7 80
John C. Collins, stone
576 69
4982 07
5558 76
New England Tel. & Tel. Co.
76
10 29
17 05
William J. Doherty
16
4 16
John Clinton
19 20
19 20
John Baker, Jr. (oil for street)
157 50
157 50
Dr. J. F. Winchester
8 75
8 75
Barrett Mfg. Co. (tarvia)
3777 04
4666 50
8443 54
Myerscough & Buchan
167 38
109 33
276 71
John H. Campion
227 45
45 90
273 35
Frank L. Cole .
17 37
17 37
Philip Hardy, stock and labor
57 75
132 67
29 75
121 45
341 62
Edward S. Hardy
2 25
11 00
13 25
3 75
7 95
19 35
Harold L. Bond
1 65
1 65
School Department
60
60
New England Culvert Co.
323 36
323 36
Hardy & Cole, stock and labor
189 60
167 65
7 68
761 59
1126 52
Walter I. Morse
115 08
16 63
12 40
18 92
167 48
W. F. Duffee
1355 40
Clinton Foundry Co.
38 00
38 00
Poor & Riley
2 33
1 25
3 58
Boston & Maine
123 07
695 51
33 98
142 07
994 63
Buffalo Steam Roller Co.
62 70
13 71
76 41
Ira Buxton
90
90
Jerry Golden, labor
64 65
9 00
73 65
Universal Road Machine Co.
25 76
25 76
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Smith & Dove, twine and ashes T. F. Morrissey & Son
7 65
26 02
26 02
1 45
1355 40
4
Frank Golden, labor
12 00
12 00
Alden Spearis Co., oil
910 96
910 96
O. P. Chase
1 00
1 00
Harry M. Eames, hay
25 00
25 00
Buchan & McNally, supplies
5 05
2 72
7 77
Scott Shattuck
14 50
14 50
Mrs. N. F. Flint, gravel
40 50
3 60
21 15
115 80
Pacific Mills, ashes
561 00
144 00
6 00
711 00
George Ward
98 60
98 60
Elmer Conkey
36 45
38 03
41 25
115 73
James J. Abbott
12 00
12 00
Joseph Bordelais
27 00
27 00
W. M. Wood, sand
5 80
5 80
Paul Lee
27 75
27 75
George Averill
15 25
15 25
Henry Provo
4 50
4 50
Charles Baker, sand
120 00
120 00
Edward Beaulieu
13 00
13 00
John Franklin .
13 00
5 00
18 00
Curry Bros., supplies
4 50
4 50
Cross Coal Co.
11 00
184 25
195 25
15 75
15 75
Alvin Jenkins
163 87
10 50
174 37
Frank A. Davis
2 18
2 18
Charles F. Emerson
30 90
30 90
Fire Department
. 934 26
50 63
984 89
James May
11 50
35 00
46 50
City of Lawrence
3 00
5 00
John Joyce, dust
66 00
66 00
Andrew Wilson, roofing
73 00
73 00
W. A. Snow
20
10 20
W. H. Coleman & Co.
9 35
1 28
24 50
35 13
Portland Stoneware Co.
344 02
344 02
Cendella & Co., drains
582 40
582 40
Hannigan Plow Co., grates
48 00
48 00
Fred Smith
15 50
15 50
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50 55
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Joseph Brown .
2 00
Names
Main- tenance
Con- struction
Drains
Snow
Side- walks
New Barn
Total
A. M. Colby
10 80
21 00
4 06
Dove Machine Co., supplies
4 50
1 93
136 60
John McCarthy
22 50
C. A. Claflin & Co.
22 50
2 59
Treat Hardware Co.
2 59
8 13
Robinson Hardware Co.
8 1
25 00
Phillips Academy .
30 00
30 00
H. E. Fletcher & Co. (curbing)
325 23
43 55
John W. Henderson
43 55
22 40
Andover Waterworks
22 40
60
American Express
60
32 00
John H. McDonald
32 00
30
M. T. Stevens Co., ashes
30
14 55
Evelyn Hardy, sand
: 55
12 20
George E. Flint, gravel
12 20
14 25
Merrimack Foundry Co.
14 25
83 89
George W. Disbrow
83 89
5 00
John P. Wyllie
5 00
5 40
Pike Bros., sand
5 40
1 00
Olaf Benson
1 00
34 50
George Brown
34 50
38 28
E. Pariseau, teaming .
38 28
58 75
Hood Farm, teaming and labor
58 75
4 00
Dr. A. W. Baker
4 00
385 00
385 00
Highway Department
$15779 97 $19000 55 $1388 98 $1497 21 $2410 59 $1476 28 $41553 58
31 80
Bride Grimes & Co., supplies
4 06
6 43
136 60
25 00
F. F. McDonnell & Co., (iron horses)
325 23
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Appropriation, March 1, 1915-
Highway Department
$25000 00
Railway Franchise Tax
2021 75
Railway Excise Tax
2001 60
Sprinkling
1453 74
Massachusetts Highway Commission
2000 00
County Commission
2000 00
Credits (various accounts)
1333 83
Transferred from Snow
385 00
$36195 92
Expenditure-
Maintenance Highways
$14711 51
Construction Highway
19000 55
Drains
1388 98
Oiling
1068 46
Balance, Jan. 1, 1916
26 42
$36195 92 $36195 92
SIDEWALKS
SIDEWALKS
Appropriation, March 1, 1915
$2000 00
Credits
466 67
Expenditures
$2410 59
Balance, Jan. 1, 1916
56 08
$2466 67
$2466 67
SNOW
Appropriation, March 1, 1915 Expenditure Balance
$1500 00
$1497 21
2 79
$1500 00
$1500 00
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PARK DEPARTMENT
Appropriation, March 1, 1915 Expenditure Balance, Jan. 1, 1916
$1500 00
$1279 23
220 77
$1500 00
$1500 00
HOVEY'S WATER EXTENSION
Appropriation, March 1, 1915
$1500 00
Expenditure
$1492 03
Balance
7 97
$1500 00 $1500 00
NEW BARN
Appropriation, March 1, 1915 Expenditure Balance, Jan. 1, 1916
$1500 00
$1476 28
23 72
$1500 00
$1500 00
FRANK L. COLE, Supt.
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TOWN OF ANDOVER
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
W PORATED MAY 6 ...
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FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1916
ANDOVER, MASS. THE ANDOVER PRESS 1917
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CONTENTS
Almshouse Expenses
64
Memorial Hall 52, 118
Personal Property at
68
Librarian's Report 123
Relief out of
68
Repairs on 66
Superintendent's Report
69
Moth Superintendent's Report 82
Aiding Mothers
67
Moth Suppression 44
Animal Inspector
85
New High School 33
Appropriations, 1916
15
Notes Given 54
Art Gallery
144
Notes Paid
55
Assessors' Report
91
Overseers of the Poor
63
Assets
93
Police
40, 79
Auditor's Report
100
Printing and Stationery 43
Board of Health 42, 72
Board of Public Works
Appendix
Sewer Sinking Funds 60
Water Sinking Funds
60
Bonds, Redemption of 59
Brush Fires 39
Building Laws, Report on
Appendix
Collector's Account
91
Cornell Fund
86
County Tax 53
Dog Tax
53
Dump, Care of
50
Special Report Street Lighting 109
Fire Department
36, 77
Fire Alarm Box 38
Finance Committee 101
G. A. R. Post, 99
52
Town Officers 4,34
Hay Scales
- 50
Town Warrant 104
Insurance 51
Interest on Notes and Funds
56
Tree Warden
47
Liabilities 93
Memorial Day 52
Report of 81
Punchard Free School, Report of Trustees 115
Retirement of Veterans 52
Schedule of Town Property 87
Schools 26
Selectmen's Report 26
Soldiers' Relief 67
Spring Grove Cemetery 48, 83, 84 67
State Aid
State Tax 53
Street Lighting 51
Summary Collector's Cash Acct. 92
Town House 35
Town Meetings 7,21
Treasurer's Account 93
Miscellaneous 61
TOWN OFFICERS, 1916
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor
HARRY M. EAMES, Chairman
Term expires 1917
CHARLES BOWMAN WALTER S. DONALD, Secretary
1919
Town Clerk GEORGE A. HIGGINS
Tax Collector JOHN W. BELL
Town Treasurer GEORGE A. HIGGINS
School Committee
ALFRED E. STEARNS
Term expires 1917
GEORGE A. CHRISTIE
1917
LILIAN BREWSTER
66
1917
BARTLETT H. HAYES
66 1918
HENRY A. BODWELL
66
66
1918
JOHN C. ANGUS
66
1918
MARY B. SMITH
66
1919
FREDERIC G. MOORE
66
1919
PHILIP F. RIPLEY
66
1919
Superintendent of Schools HENRY C. SANBORN
Board of Public Works and Sinking Fund Commission
THOMAS E. RHODES
Term expires 1917
WILLIS B. HODGKINS
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1918
ANDREW McTERNEN
66
1918
BARNETT ROGERS
66
66
1919
CHARLES B. BALDWIN
1919
1918
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Superintendent of Water, Sewer Department, Highways and Parks FRANK L. COLE
Engineers of Fire Department CHARLES S. BUCHAN, Chief WALTER I. MORSE, Clerk ALLAN SIMPSON
Board of Health
BANCROFT T. HAYNES
·Term expires 1917
FRANKLIN H. STACEY
1918
CHARLES E. ABBOTT, M.D.
66
1919
Chief of Police FRANK M. SMITH
Constables
GEORGE W. MEARS
Term expires 1917
FRANK M. SMITH
66
66
1917
WILLIAM L. FRYE
1917
CHESTER H. LAWRENCE
1917
Trustees of Memorial Hall Library
NATHAN C. HAMBLIN
Term expires
1917
GEORGE F. SMITH
66
1922
ALFRED E. STEARNS
66
66
1923
BURTON S. FLAGG
66
1917
E. KENDALL JENKINS
66
1918
REV. WILLIAM H. RYDER
1917
FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL
66
1920
Trustees of Punchard Free School - Terms expire 1919
SAMUEL H. BOUTWELL
HARRY H. NOYES
MYRON E. GUTTERSON HARRY M. EAMES
FRANK T. CARLTON
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Auditors
JOHN S. ROBERTSON WALTER H. COLEMAN NESBIT G. GLEASON
Trustees of Cornell Fund
JOHN C. ANGUS
Term expires 1917
ALLAN SIMPSON
1919
DR. WILLIAM D. WALKER
66 1918
Superintendent of Moth Department JOHN H. PLAYDON
Tree Warden JOHN H. PLAYDON
Moderator of Town Meetings ALFRED L. RIPLEY
Registrars of Voters
GEORGE W. FOSTER
PATRICK J. SCOTT
JOHN F. HURLEY GEORGE A. HIGGINS, Clerk
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TOWN MEETINGS
Annual Town Meeting, March 6, 1916
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 sixth day of March, 1916, at 6 o'clock A.M., to act on the following articles:
Article 1 .- To choose 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, five Trustees of the Punchard Free School for three years, two members of the Board of Public Works for three years, one member of the Board of Health for three years, three Auditors of Accounts for one year, three Constables for one year, one Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years, one Tree Warden for one year, one Trustee of Cornell Fund for three years, seven Trustees of Spring Grove Cemetery for three years, Fence Viewers, Pound Keeper, and any other officers the town may determine to choose.
Article 2 .- To take action on the following question, Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?
Article 3 .- To determine what sums of money shall be ap- propriated for Almshouse Expenses, Repairs on Almshouse, Relief out of Almshouse, Aiding Mothers with Dependent Children, Board of Health, Brush Fires, Fire Department, Hay Scales, Highway Department, Insurance, Interest, Memorial Hall Library, Memorial Day, Post 99, G. A. R., Miscellaneous, Parks and Playsteads, Police, Printing and Stationery, Public
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Dump, Retirement of Veterans, Redemption of Water, Sewer, and Andover Loan Bonds, Schools, Sewer Maintenance, Sewer Sinking Funds, Soldiers' Relief, Spring Grove Cemetery, State Aid, Street Lighting, Town Officers, Town House, Tree Warden, Moth Department, Water Maintenance, Construction and Sink- ing Funds, and other town charges and expenses.
Article 4 .- To see if the town will accept the provisions of Sections 1, 2, and 4, and the eight following sections of Chapter 655, Acts of 1913, and appoint a committee of five (5) to be known as the Committee on Building Laws, said committee to submit a printed report to the voters on or before March 1, 1917. That the sum of $25 be appropriated for the expenses of said committee, upon petition of the Selectmen.
Article 5 .- To see if the town will appropriate money for a fire alarm box to be located on South Main Street, near Gould Road, on petition of Harry W. Hayward and others.
Article 6 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of two thousand ($2000) dollars for the extension of the macadam road on Salem Street and Jenkins Road, on petition of Everett W. Ricker and others.
Article 7 .- To see if the town will appropriate $3500 to macadam River Road from Martin Lydon's to Fish Brook and repair the River Road to the Tewksbury line, on petition of Samuel H. Boutwell and others.
Article 8 .- To see if the town will appropriate $1000 to repair Bailey Road to Tewksbury line, Pleasant Street to Boutwell Road, and Boutwell Road to River Road, on petition of James E. Dodge and others.
Article 9 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $5000 to macadam Lowell Street, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Article 10 .- To hear the report of the Special Committee, appointed March, 1915, relative to the erection of a new high school building, and to act upon its recommendations as fol- lows :- That the town shall vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the purpose
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of building and equipping a new high school building to be lo- cated on land in front of the present Punchard School building; to make any changes deemed necessary to preserve and use the present Punchard School building; and to make any necessary changes in the Central Heating Plant and its connections.
That for the purpose of building and equipping said new high school building the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized to issue and sell bonds of the town to an amount not exceeding $100,000, dated October 1, 1916, and payable $5000 thereof on the first of October in each of the years 1917-1936 inclusive, bearing in- terest at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent per annum payable semi-annually. The said bonds shall be denominated on their face Andover High School Loan 1916.
That the Moderator appoint a committee of five in number to be known as the High School Building Committee, said committee to be authorized and instructed to obtain plans, make contracts, approve payments, and to do and act as may be necessary and proper to carry out all provisions of the foregoing vote.
Article 11 .- To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to extend the street lighting system up Prospect Hill Road, on petition of George M. Garland and others.
Article 12 .- To see if the town will vote to change the light now at the foot of Bancroft Road and Main Street to pole on opposite side of Bancroft Road, also place a new light opposite pumping station on Bancroft Road, on petition of Fred E. Cheever and others.
Article 13 .- To see if the town will vote to extend the water system on Bellevue Road from the Osgood Schoolhouse to the Boston & Maine track, a distance of about 2800 feet, on petition of Fred T. Harrington and others.
Article 14 .- To see if the town will vote to accept the Boulders so-called, near the Boston & Maine station, as a part of the Park system of the Town of Andover.
Article 15 .- To fix the pay of the firemen for the ensuing year.
Article 16 .- To determine the method of collecting the taxes for the ensuing year.
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Article 17 .- To authorize the Town Treasurer to hire money for the use of the town in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, with the approval of the Selectmen.
Article 18 .- To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations.
Article 19 .- To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
Article 20 .- To determine the amount of money to be raised by taxation the ensuing year.
Article 21 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
The polls will be open at 6 o'clock A.M., and may be closed at 2 o'clock P.M.
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 nineteenth day of February, A.D. 1916.
HARRY M. EAMES WALTER S. DONALD CHARLES BOWMAN
Selectmen of Andover
ANDOVER, MARCH 6, 1916
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.
FRANK M. SMITH
Constable
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 6, 1916
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 sixth day of March, 1916, at six o'clock in the forenoon, agreeably to the requirements of the foregoing warrant, Moderator Alfred L. Ripley presided and after reading a part of the warrant it was
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