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War Bonus Surplus
911.33
Memorial Hall Library Building
50712.54
Assessors' Survey
892.50
Essex Sanatorium Refund
23198.03
130847.50
$1190542.93
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Richardson Fund - Shawsheen Village School DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$1318.70 60.35
$1379.05
Heywood Wakefield Co.
126.25
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
1252.80
$1379.05
Draper Fund DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$1133.06
Andover Savings Bank, interest
56.09
CR.
Knuepfer and Dimmock
50.00
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
1139.15
$1189.15
Edward Taylor Fund - Fuel
DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$367.33
Andover Savings Bank, interest
18.57
$385.90
CR.
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
385.90
$385.90
Varnum Lincoln Spelling Fund
DR.
Balance, January 1, 1926
$571.30
Andover Savings Bank, interest
26.62
$597.92
CR.
Henry C. Sanborn, Supt.
45.00
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
552.92
$597.92
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Andover Savings Bank, interest
CR.
$1189.15
Dr. Edward C. Conroy School Fund DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$272.42
Andover Savings Bank, interest
13.52
$285.94
CR.
N. C. Hamblin
$10.00
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
275.94
$285.94
Holt Fund - School
DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$213.52
Andover Savings Bank, interest
1 10.77
$224.29
W. A. Allen
$25.00
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
199.29
$224.29
Alfred V. Lincoln Spelling Fund
DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$506.25
Andover Savings Bank, interest
25.60
$531.85
CR.
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
$531.85
$531.85
Isaac Giddings Burial Ground Fund
DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$1000.00
Andover Savings Bank, interest
50.62
$1050.62
CR.
$50.62
Jonathan E. Holt
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
1000.00
$1050.62
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CR.
Abbie M. Smart Special Cemetery Fund DR.
Balance January 1, 1926
$1079.72
Andover Savings Bank, interest
54.02
$1133.74
CR.
George D. Millett
$48.00
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
1085.74
$1133.74
Cemetery Fund
: PERPETUAL CARE DR.
Balance, January 1, 1926
$39735.73
Andover Savings Bank, interest
2067.10
Deposits for Perpetual Care
4025.00
$45827.83
CR.
Spring Grove Cemetery, for care of lots
$813.50
Private Cemeteries, for care of lots
801.75
Deposits, Andover Savings Bank
44212.58
$45827.83
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AUDITORS' CERTIFICATE
We have examined the accounts of the several Town officers and find them correctly cast, with satisfactory vouchers for all payments.
The funds in hands of the Treasurer have been verified and Bank Balances have been reconciled with Cash Book. Funds in Trust have been verified and accounts of Trustees examined.
The accounts of the Tax Collector were examined and col- lections agree with Treasurer's account. Verification notices covering uncollected taxes were mailed October 30, 1926.
The accounts of the Board of Public Works were examined.
The Town Treasurer has on deposit in the Andover National Bank and Cash on hand $130,847.50.
JOHN S. ROBERTSON HARRY SELLARS LOUIS S. FINGER
Auditors
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of February, 1927.
CHESTER W. HOLLAND, Notary Public.
My commission expires August 9, 1929.
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PUNCHARD FREE SCHOOL
REV. CHARLES W. HENRY, President
HARRY H. NOYES, Clerk and Treasurer
REV. E. VICTOR BIGELOW MYRON E. GUTTERSON REV. NEWMAN MATTHEWS JOHN H. CAMPION
EDMOND E. HAMMOND FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL
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TRUSTEES OF PUNCHARD FREE SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL FUND
January 1, 1926
Cash in Banks
$30175.00
Real Estate Mortgages
46825.00
$77000.00
December 31, 1926
Cash in Banks
$36040.00
Real Estate Mortgages
40960.00
$77000.00
RESERVE FUND
January 1, 1926
Cash in Savings Bank
$2528.33
Received from Income Account
400.00
Received from Interest
137.97
$3066.30
December 31, 1926
Cash in Savings Banks
$3066.30
INCOME
January 1, 1926
Cash on hand
$2210.59
Interest
4309.31
$6519.90
EXPENDITURES
N. C. Hamblin, Principal
$1030.00
M. E. Stevens, Instructor
2430.00
Rogers Agency, Insurance
25.00
Transfer to Reserve
400.00
Amount carried forward
$3885.00
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Amount brought forward
$3885.00
Andover National Bank, Box Rent
5.00
Smart & Flagg, Insurance Harry H. Noyes, Treasurer Cash on hand
14.80
200.00
2415.10
$6519.90
BARNARD FUND
January 1, 1926
Cash on hand
$25.50
Dividends, Union Pacific Railroad
40.00
$65.50
PRIZES AWARDED
First
$20.00
Second
12.00
Third
8.00
December 31, 1926, Cash on hand
25.50
$65.50
DRAPER FUND
January 1, 1926
Cash on hand
$1522.88
Dividends (Savings Bank)
77.05
December 31, 1926
Cash in Savings Bank
$1599.93
GOLDSMITH FUND
January 1, 1926
Cash on hand, Savings Bank
$277.75
Dividends
14.02
$291.77
Prizes Awarded
$10.00
Cash in Savings Bank
281.77
Examined :
HARRY SELLARS
JOHN S. ROBERTSON LOUIS S. FINGER
$1599.93
$291.77
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REPORT OF THE WAR MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover, Massachusetts: -
In pursuance to the vote of the Town at the Annual Meeting in 1926, authorizing the further study of a War Memorial, the Committee, appointed by the Moderator at said meeting, pro- cured the services of Mr. Daniel Chester French, the well-known sculptor of New York City, and Mr. Charles A. Coolidge, senior member of the firm of architects of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, of Boston.
In approaching the question of the location of the Memorial, the Committee, with Mr. French and Mr. Coolidge, inspected the different sites in the Town last June. The location in the public park at the corner of Bartlet and Chestnut streets was the one selected, because it was the only site on which the light in the daytime would be thrown. on the statue from the right direction. This is a most important factor in the selection of a site for any piece of statuary. This site was chosen also on account of the trees in the background and the possibility of treating it in a monumental way with planting and proper setting.
The old-fashioned way of putting a monument on the highest and most prominent spot does not 'really represent the feeling that a memorial to the fallen men should express. It should be removed from crowded thoroughfares and should have an element of seclusion and sacredness. The most notable in- stance of this is Saint Gaudens' Adams Monument at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington which is visited by thousands of people every year.
The design prepared by Mr. French represents an angel in bronze, with outstretched arms, resting on a pedestal of Pink Westerly granite eight feet high. The figure is in an attitude of
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benediction and is larger than life size. On the pedestal sup- porting it, will be a brief and appropriate inscription. At the foot of the statue, and in proper relation with the head and out- stretched arms of the angel, is a slab on which is superimposed a bronze tablet bearing the names of the fourteen Andover men who made the supreme sacrifice. This memorial tablet is placed on a platform of Pink Milford Granite which is raised three steps, monumental in their proportions. From the path which ap- proaches the monument and on each side of this platform are seats, also of Pink Milford Granite, which add to the monumental character of the setting. One step above the platform where the memorial slab rests is another platform semicircular in form, from which the base of the statue of the angel rises.
In order that the statue may be properly lighted at night it is proposed to use bronze standards with electric lights which can be focussed so as to throw the light on the statue itself.
The plans call for a clipped hemlock hedge surrounding the granite platform on which the statue and pedestal stand. Behind the seats, and framing the platform, will be planted different kinds of evergreen. The whole platform and monument will be raised slightly from the level of the surrounding ground to add to the dignity of the structure. The plans show the paths arranged so as to make a proper approach to the monument. On the side of the path, opposite the monument, is shown planting, with a seat, making it possible for visitors to sit and study the front view of the memorial at a proper distance.
A model of the Memorial will be before the citizens of the Town for their inspection in the Andover Savings Bank Building, to which the public are cordially invited. The plans and specifi- cations for the Memorial, together with photographs of the model, are filed herewith, and are open to the inspection of the citizens at the Town Clerk's Office.
The cost of the Memorial, complete, will be $62,500. This includes the cost of excavating, grading, planting, bronze stand- ards for electric lights, architect's commission, sculptor's charge, construction and placing of the Memorial, and all items of expense connected therewith. Estimates of the cost of the Memorial have been obtained from reliable sources and reputable firms.
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PROPOSED WAR MEMORIAL
Your Committee makes the following recommendations :
FIRST: That the Town construct a Memorial, sub- stantially in accordance with said plans, specifications, and model.
SECOND: That the Memorial be located in that part of the public park near the corner of Bartlet and Chestnut Streets, as shown on said plans.
THIRD: That your Committee now be authorized to pro- ceed with the construction of this Memorial.
FOURTH: That the sum of $62,500 be appropriated for the construction of said Memorial, to be raised by a Bond Issue, or otherwise, as the Finance Commission may recom- mend, or as the Town may determine.
Your committee is unanimous in urging the adoption of the foregoing recommendations.
It feels that the Town has been fortunate in getting Mr. French, a sculptor of national reputation, interested enough to give the committee and the townspeople the benefit of his great artistic skill, and long experience in designing memorials.
The Committee is also indebted to Mr. Coolidge, one of the foremost architects of the country, for the beautiful setting he has created for the statue.
In selecting both men to assist it in presenting to the Town a Memorial which is simple, beautiful, expressive, and in good taste, the Committee feels that it has given the townspeople the opportunity to show its lasting appreciation, abiding respect, and profound love for the men of Andover who made the supreme sacrifice, by dedicating to them, this Memorial.
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH L. BURNS, Chairman ROY E. HARDY, Secretary FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL ERNEST A. JOHNSON NATHAN C. HAMBLIN
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TOWN WARRANT
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX, ss .: To either of the Constables of the Town of GREETING:
Andover,
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 in 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, Ballardvale, in Precinct Two; the Boys' Club House, Shawsheen Village, in Precinct Three; and the Phillips Club House, School Street, in Precinct Four, in said Andover, on MONDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH, 1927, at 6 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 mem- ber of the Board of Assessors for three years, three members of the School Committee 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 Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for three years (to fill vacancy), one Tree Warden for one year, and all town officers required by law to be elected by ballot.
All to be voted for 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 meeting shall stand adjourned by virtue of Section 20, Chapter 39, of the General Laws, to Monday, March 14th, 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 determine what sums of money shall be appro- priated for Almshouse Expenses, 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., Parks and Playsteads, Police, Printing, Election and Registration, Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital Main- tenance, Public Dump, Retirement of Veterans, Reserve Fund, Redemption of Water, Sewer, High School, Main Street, Shaw- sheen Bridge, Essex Sanatorium, and Shawsheen School Bonds, Schools, Sewer Maintenance, Soldiers' Relief, Spring Grove Cemetery, State Aid, Street Lighting, Town Officers, Town House, Tree Warden and Moth Department, Water Maintenance and Construction, Andover Post No. 8, American Legion, and other town charges and expenses.
Article 4. - To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $15,000. for the purpose of making improvements at the playstead, said improvements to be carried out in accordance with plans drawn and recommendations of Morse & Dickinson, landscape engineers, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Article 5. - To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $15,000. to make the following alterations and extensions to the Water System: Laying a new main on Lowell Street 2200 feet of 8-inch and 2400 feet of 6-inch pipe; laying 650 feet of 6-inch main on Florence Street to take the place of the 4-inch main; also laying 1400 feet of 6-inch on Washington Avenue to take place of 4-inch main, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Article 6. - To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $5000. to extend the water main from the North School House down the River Road to the Lawrence line, on petition of Albert A. Hardy and others.
Article 7. - To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $12,500. to pay its share of the cost of rebuilding Haverhill Street Bridge and rebuilding 650 feet of roadway east and west of said bridge, it being understood that the balance of the cost will
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be borne by the State, County, and Boston and Maine Railroad, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Article 8. - To see if the Town will accept as a Town Way the private street known as Brechin Terrace, as laid out by the Selectmen. This street leads from Shawsheen Road about 175 feet west of Cuba Street, extending about 400 feet in a north- easterly direction. The road as laid out is 60 feet in width between outside of sidewalk lines, on petition of Smith & Dove Mfg. Company and others.
Article 9. - To see if the Town will accept as a public way, as laid out by the Selectmen, and shown on plan filed with the Town Clerk, a way known as Juliette Street, starting at the easterly line of Corbett Street, thence northerly about 1296 feet to a point near the property of one Nelson, on petition of Edward Topping and others.
Article 10. - To see if the town will accept as a public way, as laid out by the Selectmen, and shown on plan filed with the Town Clerk, a way known as Dufton Road extending from Burn- ham Road to Enmore Street a distance of 857 feet more or less, on petition of George Dufton and others.
Article 11. - To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2000. together with the unexpended balance, to wit $1711.65, now remaining as the Corbett Road balance of un- expended appropriation for water service in 1926, for the purpose of installing water service in Juliette Street, provided the article for the acceptance of said street is adopted, on petition of resi- dents of said street.
Article 12. - To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1200. for the purpose of installing water service in Dufton Road, provided the article for the acceptance of said road is adopted, on petition of George Dufton and others.
Article 13. - To see if the Town will appropriate $3000. to lay out, grade and repair Magnolia Avenue, in Shawsheen Village, on petition of James Mulligan and others.
Article 14. - To see if the Town will vote to accept from the American Woolen Company a conveyance of certain land, with
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the buildings thereon, in Shawsheen Village, bounded and de- scribed as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the easterly line of Main Street and the northerly line of Balmoral Street; thence northerly by said Main Street 258 feet, more or less, to Haverhill Street, thence easterly by said Haverhill Street 46 feet, more or less, to a fence and land retained by the grantor; thence southerly as said fence now stands, by land retained by the grantor 253 feet, more or less, to Balmoral Street; thence westerly by said Balmoral Street 50 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. This parcel of land is commonly known as The Mall.
All as described and set forth in the deed of the American Woolen Company to the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover, which deed, with a plan of the land described therein, is on file in the office of the Town Clerk for examination and inspection.
Article 15. - To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $12,500. to purchase one 750-gallon pump for use in the Fire Department, on petition of Charles F. Emerson and others.
Article 16. - To see if the Town will vote to adopt the recom- mendations of the War Memorial Committee and to construct a memorial to commemorate the services and sacrifices of the soldiers, sailors and marines, men of Andover, in the service of the United States in War, substantially in accordance with the plans, specifications, model and recommendations of said committee, and appropriate therefor the sum of sixty-two thousand, five hundred ($62,500.) dollars; determine how the same shall be raised and by whom expended, or in any way act thereon, on petition of the War Memorial Committee.
Article 17. - To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $3500. to purchase two certain parcels of land situated in the Town of Andover on the northerly shore of Haggett's Pond, con- taining in all about twenty-four acres, on petition of Frederic S. Boutwell and others.
Article 18. - To see if the Town will authorize the appoint- ment by the Moderator of a committee of five to petition the legislature on behalf of the Town for authority to establish a
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limited or representative form of Town Meeting, on petition of Alfred L. Ripley and others.
Article 19. - To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 48, Chapter 31, of the General Laws, relating to its regular police and fire forces, in order that the regular members of the police department and the regular and call members of the Fire Depart- ment shall be subject to said Chapter 31, and the rules made thereunder, known as the "Civil Service;" on petition of Ralph T. Berry and others.
Article 20. - To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $500. (five hundred dollars) for the purpose of reserving certain streets of the Town for coasting, on petition of Ralph T. Berry and others.
Article 21. - To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to pay part of the cost, not to exceed $500., of the retaining wall along the south side of Roger's Brook adjoining the land of John Stewart and connecting with the Town's culvert on Bartlet Street, on petition of John Stewart and others.
Article 22. - To see if the Town will authorize the Planning Board to prepare a definite plan for a Zoning System of the town, to be presented for action at the next annual Town Meeting; and if the Town will appropriate a sum of money, not to exceed $1200., for the necessary expenses of such preparation; also to see if the Town will enact an Interim Ordinance, establishing certain resi- dential districts and empowering the Selectmen to enforce certain restrictions therein, on petition of the Planning Board.
Article 23. - To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee to report to the next Town Meeting on the adequacy of present school facilities; to furnish an estimate of the annual growth of the school population; and to report its recommenda- tions with reference to additional facilities and equipment re- quired to accommodate such school population, on petition of Elsie P. Poynter and others.
Article 24. - To see if the Town will adopt the following sec- tion as a part of the town By-Laws: All town departments shall call for bids for supplies, equipment, construction work or other
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purposes costing $500. or more, and in so far as possible bids shall be required on expenditures of lesser amounts, on petition of John F. O'Connell and others.
Article 25. - To see if the Town will instruct the Board of Selectmen to establish forthwith a scale of charges for the use of the town ambulance under certain conditions, on petition of John F. O'Connell and others.
Article 26. - To see if the Town will authorize the appoint- ment by the Moderator of a committee of five who shall make a complete and thorough survey of all the salaries and rates of pay for services rendered to the town by its employees, with a view to determining whether there should be any increase in said salaries and rates of pay, and, if so, what amounts. Said com- mittee shall report their findings and recommendations as soon as completed to the Finance Committee, on petition of the Finance Committee.
Article 27. - 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 28. - To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in treasury.
Article 29. - To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
Article 30. - 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 sixteenth day of February, A.D. 1927.
FRANK H. HARDY CHARLES BOWMAN ANDREW McTERNEN Selectmen of Andover.
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RECOMMENDATIONS OF FINANCE COMMITTEE
The Finance Committee respectfully presents herewith its report and recommendations.
We have complied with the duties of such a committee - examining all expenditures for the past year and discussing proposed expenditures for this year. Our desire is to be helpful and we realize our responsibility to the taxpayers. The industrial situation is serious and many people are affected directly or indirectly. We feel that appropriations by articles in the War- rant should have the approval of the departments in which the expenditures are to be made. Our reason for not approving the article for the War Memorial is entirely due to financial con- ditions of the Town. The suggestion to issue bonds for $60,000., payable $3000. yearly for twenty years, means an interest charge at the rate of 4% of $25,200.
Among the expenditures suggested by the School Committee in its budget, and presented to the Finance Committee, is one for $1185.00 for an increase in maximum salary of school teachers of $100.00 each. This sum would be the amount needed for said increase this year; it would commit the Town to an expenditure of $3000. next year over what it is now.
It is very apparent that any recommendation for increase in the salaries of one department (the justice of which alone might be easy to determine) means that there will be a general applica- tion therefor from other town departments, and thus is raised a problem of considerable magnitude.
There are two parties involved; one the citizens of the town, who pay the increased cost; the other the employees who should have proper compensation for their services.
We wish it understood that we are not against fair and proper salaries to our town employees, but we think the question of what is fair and reasonable should be thoroughly investigated and con-
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sideration given to all the elements entering into it and in light of all knowledge that can be secured. But it is a question in our minds whether a Finance Committee, which necessarily must have in mind the barometer readings of the tax rate (increasingly important in these times of threatened industrial cessations) should in justice to the employees be the committee to make such investigation.
We feel that a complete survey of Town salaries should be made at this time. We therefore recommend the appointment by the Moderator of a committee of five citizens who shall make a complete and thorough survey of the salaries of our employees and report their finding to the Finance Committee by January 1st, 1928, or as soon as completed.
We therefore recommend the adoption of Article 26.
Almshouse
$ 8500.00
Almshouse Relief Out
7500.00
Aiding Mothers with Dependent Children
5000.00
American Legion
1000.00
Assessors' Survey
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