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At this point John F. O'Connell spoke as follows: Your Board of Selectmen has assigned to me the sad duty of bringing to your attention the fact that yesterday our beloved townsman Prof. Charles H. Forbes passed away. Less than a week ago he was dis- cussing town affairs and expected to take part in our councils this day. We remember him during the years as devoted citizen participating in our discussions with rare ability and gentle humor. Today we stand sharing with the boys, the men, and the women of Phillips Academy, our common grief.
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I move that this brief and inadequate expression of our senti- ments be placed upon the records of this meeting and that the Moderator ask us to rise and stand for a moment in silence in memory of our departed neighbor.
Street Lighting Committee-for one year-(appointed by Moderator): Walter H. Coleman, George G. Brown, George L. Graham, Herbert F. Chase, Chester A. Johnson.
Finance Committee for One Year (appointed by Moderator) : Edward Shattuck, Hugh Bullock, Charles A. Branton, O.S.A., Mitchell Johnson, Howell F. Shepard, Joseph M. Hargedon, Harvey G. Turner.
Took up Article 3
After appropriations had been voted for budgets of all depart- ments, some of which were based on the 1932 rate of wages and salaries, while others were based on reduced rates, it was
Voted at 4.25 P.M. to adjourn to call of the chair.
At 4.30 P.M. the Moderator called the meeting to order and caused the warrant for meeting called for Monday the 13th day of March, 1933 to be read.
Voted at 4.35 to adjourn this meeting and take up following Article 25 of the first warrant.
Voted at 5.49 P.M. to reconsider appropriations which had passed at reduced rates. While this vote was being applied item by item
Voted at 6.10 P.M. to adjourn to Monday, March 20 at 1.30 P.M.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 20, 1933
The Moderator opened the meeting at 1.30 P.M. and proceeded to the unfinished business of the previous meeting.
Upon completing the reconsideration it was moved to further reconsider and the Moderator ruled that such a motion to be out of order unless the assembly over ruled the Chair.
Voted at 2.35 P.M. to over rule the Chair and reconsider all appropriations under Article 3 and voted to appropriate the following stated sums of money:
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American Legion
$ 600.00
Veterans of Foreign Wars
480.00
Armistice Day
150.00
Memorial Day
725.00
Mothers' Aid
6000.00
Soldiers' Relief
4500.00
State Aid
500.00
Old Age Assistance
16977.50
Public Welfare
16700.00
Damages to Persons and Property
500.00
Elections and Registrations
1400.00
Insurance
6765.00
Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital
4711.85
Pomps Pond
1556.00
Public Dump
470.00
Printing Town Report
500.00
Town Officers
18220.00
Town Scales
117.50
Inspector of Wires
420.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
470.00
Municipal Buildings
3391.00
Infirmary
7331.00
Moth Suppression
3563.00
Tree Warden
3482.00
Police Department
23690.52
Fire Department
25717.00
Brush Fires
1000.00
Interest
15000.00
Retirement of Bonds
34000.00
Board of Health
3320.00
Board of Health-Care of Patients
2730.00
Memorial Hall Library
7200.00
together with Dog tax refund
Spring Grove Cemetery
7035.00
Street Lighting Committee
19400.00
School Committee
138708.50
(including $160.50 unpaid tuition bill 1931-1932)
Highway Maintenance 55000.00
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Water Department Maintenance
26435.00
Water Construction
11125.00
Sewer Department Parks and Playgrounds
5375.00
3694.00
To relocate baseball diamond
1100.00
Snow removal and Sanding
15000.00
$495059.87
Article 5 : Main-Chestnut St. Traffic Signals
500.00
Article 6: Water Ext. River Rd.
7580.00
Article 7: Water Ext. High Plain Rd.
4292.00
Article 9: Water Ext. Stinson-Holt Rd.
2000.00
Article 10: Water Ext. Gray Road
2500.00
Article 11: Fire alarm-Corbett St.
350.00
Article 12: Gravel Rd.
3700.00
Article 13: Ferndale Ave.
6500.00
Article 19: Carmel Rd.
3000.00
Article 21 : Hurley Fence
200.00
Special Articles
30622.00
Total
$525681.87
4.07 P.M. At this point the Moderator declared a recess of about five minutes and adjourned to the call of the Chair.
The meeting was called to order at 4.12 P.M.
Took up Article 4
Voted at 4.16 P.M. that the Moderator be instructed to ap- point a committee of six including himself to represent Andover and request the State authorities to reconsider the project of es- tablishing a State School in West Andover.
The Moderator appointed Harvey G. Turner, South Main St .; Ralph W. Emerson, 36 York St .; Clara A. Putnam, 30 Washing- ton Ave .; Grace E. Merrick, Lowell St .; James C. Souter, 41 Washington Ave. and Frederick Butler, Lowell St.
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Took up Article 5
Voted at 4.21 P.M. to appropriate $500.00 to purchase from the Automatic Signal Corporation, the traffic signal installation now in operation at the intersection of Main and Chestnut Streets.
Took up Article 6
Voted at 5.11 P.M. to authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end at Henderson Farm on River Road to the residence of Leon Hardy on River Road and appropriate the sum of $7580.00 to care for this work.
Took up Article 7
Voted at 5.15 P.M. to extend the water main from its present dead end on High Plain Road along High Plain Road to a point opposite the property of George Muller and appropriate the sum of $4292.00 therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works.
Took up Article 8 Voted at 5.19 P.M. Article lost.
Took up Article 9
Voted at 5.21 P.M. to authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of Stinson Road and Holt Road to a point in front of the property of Arthur N. Comeau and appropriate the sum of $2000.00 therefor.
Took up Article 10
Voted at 5.26 P.M. to authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end on Gray Road to property of James A. Lynch on Gray Road and appropriate the sum of $2500.00 to care for the work.
Took up Article 11
Voted at 5.27 P.M. to extend the fire alarm system by locating a signal box on Corbett Road, in the vicinity of Topping Road, and appropriate the sum of $350.00 for this purpose, to be ex- pended by the Fire Department.
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Took up Article 12
Voted at 5.29 P.M. to appropriate the sum of thirty-seven hund- red dollars ($3700) for the purpose of building a gravel road with a hard surface top on Corbett Street from Ayer Street to the Law- rence line, a distance of 2783 feet.
Took up Article 13
Voted at 5.33 P.M. to install a drainage system, lay curbing, and build a road on Ferndale Avenue and appropriate the sum of $6500.00 therefor.
Took up Article 14
Voted at 5.39 P.M. Article lost. (No 208-Yes 155) (Recount- No 263-Yes 244)
Took up Article 15
Voted at 6.02 P.M. to accept as a public way the way now known as Canterbury Street from a point 600 feet westerly from Lowell Street for a distance of about 2500 feet as approved by the Board of Survey.
Took up Article 16
Voted at 6.05 P.M. to indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 17
Voted at 6.07 P.M. to take up Articles 17 and 18 collectively.
It was then voted: to accept for the purpose of street widen- ing a voluntary conveyance of two parcels of land in Andover, by Quitclaim Deed of Edmund Marcoux et ux to the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover, the plan describing said parcels being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, and said parcels, according to said plan being described as follows:
Parcel 1. Beginning at a point in the northerly line of Juliette Road, said point being 719.13 feet more or less easterly of the junction of the northerly line of Juliette Road with the easterly line of Corbett Road; thence northeasterly by land of grantor 47.5 feet to land of Alice and Alfred Bedard; thence southeasterly 10 feet to the northerly line of Juliette Road; thence westerly by said northerly line of Juliette Road 48.48 feet to point of begin-
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ning, being a triangular shaped piece of land and containing 237.5 square feet.
Parcel 2. Beginning at a point in the northerly line of Juliette Road said point being 967.61 feet more or less easterly from a point marking the junction of the northerly line of Juliette Road with the easterly line of Corbett Road; thence northwesterly 10 feet to a point at land of Alice and Alfred Bedard; thence north- easterly by land of grantor 155 feet to a point at land of Henry and Sarah Provencher; thence southeasterly by land of said Provencher 10 feet to a point on the northerly line of Juliette Road; thence southwesterly by said northerly line of Juliette Road 155 feet to point of beginning, being a rectangular shaped piece of land and containing 1550 square feet.
Being parcels "A" and "C" shown on plan entitled, "Plan of land in Andover, Mass., Edmund Marcoux et al and Alice Bedard et al to the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover, made by Morse & Dickinson, Engineers, Haverhill."
Took up Article 18
Voted to accept as a voluntary conveyance for the purpose of street widening the following described parcel of land, by Quit- claim Deed of Alfred Bedard et ux to the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover the plan describing said parcel being on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
Beginning at a point in the northerly line of Juliette Road, said point being 767.61 feet easterly from a point marking the junction of the northerly line of Juliette Road with the easterly line of Corbett Road; thence northwesterly 10 feet to a point at land of Edmund and Felexine Marcoux; thence northeasterly by land of the grantor 200 feet to a point at land of Edmund and Felexine Marcoux; thence southeasterly 10 feet to a point in the northerly line of Juliette Road; thence southwesterly by said northerly line of Juliette Road 200 feet to point of beginning, being a rectangu- lar shaped piece of land and containing 2000 square feet and shown as parcel "B" on a plan entitled "Plan of land in Andover, Mass., Edmund Marcoux et al and Alice Bedard et al to the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover, made by Morse & Dickin-
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son, Engineers, Haverhill. It was also included in the vote that the Town Clerk be instructed to file at Essex Registry of Deeds, No. Dist. these deeds with plan.
Took up Article 19
Voted at 6.09 P.M. to appropriate the sum of $3000.00 for the purpose of cutting down the street grade on Carmel Road from Walnut Avenue to the Town Infirmary and establish a new grade adjusted to the grade of the adjoining properties and including the building of a sidewalk in said street.
Took up Article 20 Voted at 6.10 P.M. to indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 21
Voted at 6.11 P.M. to erect a suitable fence on the south and southeasterly line of the Town of Andover property on the line of Hurley, Bell, Crawford, Rand, Dwane, Bell and Ronan, a dis- tance of about 1020 feet providing for such entrances as may be deemed advisable and appropriate $200.00 to cover the cost of same to be expended by the Board of Public Works.
Took up Article 22
Voted at 6.26 P.M. to indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 23 Voted at 6.34 P.M. Article lost.
Took up Article 24 Voted at 6.37 P.M. Article lost.
Took up Article 25 Voted at 6.45 P.M. Article lost.
At this point warrant calling meeting for Monday, March 13, 1933 at 4.30 P.M. which was adjourned to be taken up following Article 25 was acted upon.
Took up Article 1
Voted at 6.46 P.M. That the Town Treasurer, with the approv- al of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money
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from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1933, and to issue notes therefor, pay- able within one year: any debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Took up Article 2
Voted at 6.48 P.M. That all unexpended appropriations, with the exception of the War Bonus Surplus of $803.33, be turned into the treasury ; that $15,000.00 be transferred from the Overlay Reserve to the Reserve Fund; and that free cash in the treasury to the amount of $35,000. 00 be voted to the assessors for the pur- pose of reducing the 1933 tax rate.
Took up Article 3
Voted at 6.49 P.M. that the report of the Town Officers be ac- cepted and placed on file.
Took up Article 4
Voted at 6.50 P.M. to convey to Maurice J. Curran of Andover in consideration of the sum of $300.00, a certain strip of land situ- ated in said Andover, bounded and described as follows: “Begin- ning at a point where Main Street crosses the Shawsheen river running on the river and bounded thereby in a northeasterly direction one hundred and seven (107) feet: thence turning and running S. 12° 15' E. eighty-seven and one half (8712) feet to a point: thence turning and running S. 77º 45' W. one hundred (100) feet to said Main Street: thence turning and running N. 12º 15' W. on said Main Street fifty (50) feet to the point of begin- ning; containing about six thousand seven hundred and ninety- five (6795) square feet, more or less"; being the same premises conveyed by the said Maurice J. Curran and John Joyce to the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover by deed dated July 1, 1898 and recorded in Essex North District Registry of Deeds, Book 171, Page 99: the said premises to be conveyed subject to an ease- ment in favor of the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover of maintaining the main sewer line now laid in said strip with the right to enter to make repairs in connection therewith; and further, that the Selectmen be authorized in the name of the In-
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habitants of the Town of Andover to execute a good and suf- ficient quitclaim deed in accordance with this vote.
Took up Article 5 including Article 26 of the previous warrant.
Voted at 6.51 P.M. that the Andover Emergency Committee services be terminated and its funds be placed at the disposition of the Board of Public Welfare.
Voted that in the future the time and place of Town Meetings be left to the discretion of the Board of Selectmen.
Voted at 6.52 P.M. that the meeting be dissolved.
The foregoing is a true copy of the warrant and of the officers' return on same, also a true record of the doings of the meeting.
Attest GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Town Warrant
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX, ss: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in Town Affairs to meet and assemble at the Case Memorial Building, Highland Road, Precinct Four, in said Andover, on MONDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1933 at 7:45 o'clock P.M., to act on the following articles :
ARTICLE 1 .- To see if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate a sum of money for the construction of a junior high school building and heating plant, a common assembly hall and a gym- nasium, and authorize the Selectmen to petition the Federal Gov- ernment for a grant of money under the National Industrial Recovery Act and accept such grant, and to provide by borrowing or otherwise, any sum of money that is required to be raised by the town for completing said project, or take any action relative thereto, upon petition of the School Committee.
ARTICLE 2 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $2250.00 to be used for material and truck hire for resurfacing highways; this work to be done in connection with the Civil Works program, on petition of the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 3 .- To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money necessary to purchase and install a 750 G.P.M. Electric Centrifugal Pump and necessary appurtenances, together with the changing of foundations, piping, switchboard wiring etc., for the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station, and authorize the Select- men to petition the Federal Government for a grant of money under the National Industrial Recovery Act, and accept such grant, and to provide by borrowing or otherwise any sum of money that is required to be raised by the town for completing
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said project or take any action relative thereto, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 4 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to install a steam crank and flywheel engine and pump at the Pumping Station at Haggetts Pond, and appropriate the sum of $37,000.00 therefor, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 5 .- To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a 1,500,000 gallon Reservoir adjacent to the present one located off Bancroft Road, empower- ing the Board of Selectmen to buy or take by right of eminent domain such land as may be required, and authorize the Select- men to petition the Federal Government for a grant of money under the National Industrial Recovery Act, and accept such grant, and to provide by borrowing or otherwise, any sum of money that is required to be raised by the town for completing said project, or take any action relative thereto, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 6 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to erect a 150,000 gallon standpipe with automatic pump on Wood Hill in accordance with Weston & Sampson's plans, and appropriate $18,000.00 therefor, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 7 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to lay another suction line from the pump into the pond at the pumping station at Haggetts Pond, and appropriate $7,000.00 therefor, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 8 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to lay another discharge line from the pumping station to Lowell Street at the pumping station at Haggetts Pond, and appropriate $2500.00 therefor, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 9 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from Lowell Street along
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Haggetts Pond Road, a distance of 5300 feet, and appropriate $14,000.00 therefor, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 10 .- To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to lay water mains from the standpipe on Wood Hill in accordance with the plans of Weston & Sampson, in so- called West District, and appropriate $50,000.00 therefor, on petition of William F. Barron and others.
ARTICLE 11 .- To see if the town will reconsider that part of Article 3 of the Town Warrant of March 13, 1933, whereby $1100.00 was voted for the purpose of relocating the baseball diamond on the Playstead, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 12 .- To see if the town will vote to extend the water main from its present dead end on Lovejoy Road along Lovejoy Road to a point opposite the property of Ludwika Murach, and appropriate the sum of $3400.00 therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Herbert Lewis and others.
ARTICLE 13 .- To see if the town will vote to extend the water main from the corner of Boston Road and Rattlesnake Hill Road along Rattlesnake Hill Road to the property of Charles Kibbee, and appropriate the sum of $3200.00 therefor, on petition of Charles Kibbee and others.
ARTICLE 14 .- To see if the town will vote to authorize the building of a sewer, beginning at the terminus of the existing sewer at the corner of Ayer Street and Corbett Street and ex- tending along Corbett Street to a point opposite the property of Carmelina Catanzaro, and appropriate the sum of $3000.00 therefor, and assess betterments upon the estates benefited by the above extension; said work to be done under the direction of the Board of Public Works, on petition of John Buckley and others.
ARTICLE 15 .- To see if the town will vote to extend the sewer line on Carmel Road from an existing manhole near the Town Infirmary to a point in front of the property of Mr. Frank C.
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Hughes and appropriate the sum of $3185.00 therefor and assess betterments upon the estates benefited by the above extension; said work to be done under the direction of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Frank C. Hughes and others.
ARTICLE 16 .- To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3500.00 for the purpose of building Brechin Terrace and also straightening curbing and repairing sidewalks, on petition of George Crocket and others.
ARTICLE 17 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $16,000.00 for the purpose of rebuilding Salem street, including sidewalks, from Highland road to Holt street, said work to be done under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on peti- tion of John M. Erving and others.
ARTICLE 18 .- 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 28th day of November A.D., 1933. FRANK H. HARDY ANDREW McTERNEN JEREMIAH J. DALY
Selectmen of Andover
A true copy.
Attest: GEORGE N. SPARKS, Constable
Andover, December 1, 1933.
Andover, December 11, 1933
ESSEX, SS.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabi-
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tants of said town, to meet at the time and place and for the pur- poses 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 usual- ly posted and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said warrants have been posted and published seven days.
GEORGE N. SPARKS, Constable
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, DECEMBER 11, 1933
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in Town Affairs convened in the Case Memorial Building, Highland Road, in said Andover on Monday theeleventh day of December, 1933 at 7.45 o'clock in the evening, agreeably to the requirements of the foregoing warrant, Moderator Freder- ick Butler presided and by unanimous consent of the meeting the following were allowed to be present: Mr. R. D. Morrill and his assistant, Suffolk Electric Company, and Alfred Kellogg, guest of the School Committee.
Article 1-Moved and seconded :
That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $406,000.00, to be expended under the direction of a building committee, ap- pointed by the Moderator; said sum to be divided approximately as follows: for the construction of a Junior High School and heat- ing plant, $230,000.00, for a common assembly hall, $110,000.00 and a gymnasium; $66,000.00; and to meet said appropriation the treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow said sum and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor, said bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with the National Industrial Recovery Act and, in so far as not inconsistent with said Act, in accordance with Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1933 and Chapter 44 of the General Laws. The whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years or at such a period as may be determined by the Emergency Finance Board referred to in said Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1933.
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All money granted by the Federal Government under the National Industrial Recovery Act on account of such project shall be applied to the extinguishment of the serial bonds or notes maturing earliest together with interest and during such period estimated at four years as the amount of the grant shall allow.
Voted the question be divided
1st question-Junior High School and heating plant $230,000.00
Yes-628 No-11 Total 639-voted
2nd question-Common assembly hall 110,000.00 Yes-406 No-199 Total 605
3rd question-Gymnasium
Yes-452 No-98 Total 550 66,000.00
The Moderator announced that $406,000.00 had been appro- priated under Article 1.
Vote completed 9.58 P.M.
Took up Article 2 and
Voted at 10.00 P.M. to appropriate the sum of $2250.00 to be used for material and truck hire for resurfacing highways; this work to be done in connection with the Civil Works program, on petition of the Board of Selectmen.
Took up Article 3 at 10.02 P.M.
Moved and seconded :
That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $7000.00 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works to purchase and install a 750 G.P.M. Electric Centrifugal Pump and necessary appurtenances, together with the changing of founda- tions, piping, switchboard wiring etc., for the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station; and to meet said appropriation the treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow said sum and to issue bonds or notes of the town there- for, said bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with the National Industrial Recovery Act and in so far as not inconsistent with said Act, in accordance with Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1933 and Chapter 44 of the General Laws. The whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty (20) years or at such period as may
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