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Voted-to group and consider together the following articles 28-29-30-34-36 and 37:
ARTICLE 29-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water mains from the corner of Os- good Street and Blanchard Street along Blanchard Street a distance of thirty-three hundred feet to the Tewksbury Line and appropriate the sum of $7800.00 on petition of Kazar Loosigian and others.
ARTICLE 30-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of River Road and Brundrett Avenue along Brundrett Avenue a distance of sixteen hundred (1600) feet to the property of Jacob Shlakis and appropriate the sum of forty-four hundred ($4400.00) dollars on petition of Arthur H. Maddox and others.
ARTICLE 34-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of River Road, along Boutwell Road to the corner of Haggetts Pond Road, thence along Haggetts Pond Road to a point opposite the proper- ty of August E. Johnson, and appropriate the sum of eighteen thousand seven hundred ($18700.00) dollars therefor, on petition of Frederick J. Kearn and others.
ARTICLE 36-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main on Canterbury Street from the existing dead end a distance of eight hundred feet and appropriate the sum of $2200.00 on petition of George C. H. Dufton and others.
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ARTICLE 37-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main on Woodland Road from the existing dead end near the property of Mr. John Franklin a distance of four hundred feet and appropriate the sum of $1120.00 on petition of Emery E. Trott and others.
Voted-to lay the matter of water extensions on the table.
ARTICLE 31-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to build a gravel road with a hard surface on Stratford Road and Tarvia-Lithic sidewalks and grass plots on both sides of the street and appropriate the sum of $3150.00 therefor, on petition of Sarah B. Young and others.
Voted-that article be withdrawn.
ARTICLE 32-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to provide and maintain an Andover Skating area during the cold weather and appropriate the sum of five hundred ($500.00) therefor, on petition of Blanche Walen and others.
Voted-that the Moderator be authorized to appoint a Com- mittee to give early consideration of Coordinated Recreation for Andover. The Committee to include the present Chairman of the Pomps Pond Committee and the Play Ground Committee.
The committee to make an immediate study of Skating Facilities in Andover.
ARTICLE 33-To see if the town will vote to reappropriate the $1000.00 as held over from Article No. 15 voted in 1937 and not expended and authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase and improve land for playground purposes at West Center School, on petition of West Center School Playground Committee.
Voted-to reappropriate the $1000.00 as written in article.
ARTICLE 35-To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of seven hundred sixty ($760.00) dollars and authorize the Board of Health to spend not in excess of that amount for the purpose of purchasing and installing further equipment for our laboratory to be used to establish and maintain bacteriological standard for the milk consumed in Andover and to maintain an additional check on our drinking watter, our swimming ponds, and our ice supply, on petition of Franklin H. Stacey and others.
Voted-that article be indefinitely postponed.
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ARTICLE 38-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to construct a diverting drain extending in a gen- erally Southwesterly direction from the present stone culvert on the Westerly side of High Street at Berry's Brook so-called, cross- ing various parcels of real estate to an outlet on the Westerly side of Burnham Road, and to improve the present drainage system from that point in a Westerly direction to the Shawsheen River for the purpose of alleviating the overtaxed existing drainage structures through Shawsheen Village, and to this end authorize the town, wherever it may become necessary or advisable, to take by eminent domain such lands or easements as may be required therefor, and to appropriate the sum of seventy-five hundred ($7500.00) dollars therefor, provided that Andover Shawsheen Realty Company will absorb the cost of the pipe to the amount of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500.00) on petition of Walter C. Tomlinson and others.
Voted-that provided twenty-five hundred ($2500.00) dollars of the cost of material be absorbed by Andover Shawsheen Realty Company, and provided that the necessary easements be furnished by Andover Shawsheen Realty Company without cost to the Town, and provided that the work is approved by the Federal Government as a W.P.A. Project, the Town will appro- priate the sum of forty-five hundred ($4500.00) dollars for the purposes stated in said Article.
ARTICLE 39-To see if the town will vote to change the name of Prospect Hill Road from Salem Street to Holt's Hill and name said public way Prospect Road, on petition of John Scherner and others.
Voted-to change the name Prospect Hill Road from Salem Street to Holt's Hill and name said public way Prospect Road.
ARTICLE 40-To see if the town will vote to accept Section 103A of General Laws as amended by Chapter 77 of the Acts of 1937, an act providing for absent voting at regular town elections.
Voted-to accept Section 103A of General Laws as amended by Chapter 77 of the Acts of 1937, an act providing for absent voting at regular town elections.
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ARTICLE 41-To see if the town will vote to accept the recom- mendation of the committee on Centralization of Municipal Offices as follows:
"That the moderator appoint a committee of five to study the proper location of a new municipal building with particular refer- ence to the parking problems. of the business area of the town, and to report with recommendations in 1940."
On petition of the committee on Centralization of Municipal Offices.
Voted-to approve as written.
ARTICLE 42-To see if the town will vote to instruct its Senator and Representatives to the Great and General Court to oppose the bill known as the Sales Tax, whereby it is proposed to levy a tax of two per cent on all sale transactions, on petition of Fred G. Cheney and others.
Voted-to approve as written.
ARTICLE 43-To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to regulate the sale of fish by hawkers and pedlars and to establish fees and penalties therefor, on petition of Robert W. Taylor and others.
Voted-that article be indefinitely postponed.
ARTICLE 44-To see if the town will vote to take by eminent domain, for highway purposes, a parcel of land situated at the northeasterly corner of Orchard and Holt Streets and lying be- tween the present easterly side-line of Holt Street and the follow- ing described line, beginning at a stake in the easterly line of Orchard Street, said stake being located at the southwesterly end of a wall marking the line between land of Boland and land of Bullock, thence in a general southeasterly direction by a curve having a radius of one hundred eighty-two and thirty-five one hundredths (182.35) feet, a distance of seventy-six (76.0) feet to a stake, thence South 35° 33' East a distance of one hundred seventy-eight and fifty-eight one hundredths (178.58) feet to a stake; thence by a curve to the left having a radius of fifty-two and thirty-eight one hundredths feet, a distance of eighty-nine and thirty-eight one hundredths (89.38) feet to a stake in the wall on the northerly line of Holt Street, said parcel of land being shown on a plan entitled "Plan showing street lines corner
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Holt and Orchard Streets, Andover, Mass." dated November 1936, drawn by Morse & Dickinson and Goodwin, Engineers, now on file in the Town Clerk's office.
Voted-to approve as written.
ARTICLE 45-To see if the town will vote, in order to straighten the easterly side-line of Main Street between Chestnut Street and Post Office Avenue, to take by eminent domain, for highway purposes, two strips of land lying next east of the present easterly side-line of Main Street; the first strip of land being about 6.3 feet wide and running about 236.76 feet from the northerly side-line of Chestnut Street to the southerly side-line of Barnard Street, and the second strip of land being triangular in shape, being about 4.56 feet wide at the intersection of the northerly side-line of Park Street with the easterly side-line of Main Street and running about 143.5 feet from the northerly side-line of Park Street to the southerly side-line of Post Office Avenue; said strips of land being shown on a plan entitled "Plan showing Street Line as Surveyed for a portion of Main Street, Andover, Mass." dated September 1936, drawn by Morse & Dickinson and Goodwin, Engineers, now on file in the Town Clerk's office.
Voted-to approve as written.
ARTICLE 46-To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in the treasury.
Voted-That all unexpended balances be turned into the treasury with the exception of $792.33 in the War Bonus Surplus Fund; that $15000.00 of the free cash be transferred to the Reserve Fund; and that $30000.00 be voted the assessors for re- ducing the 1938 tax rate.
ARTICLE 47-To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
Voted-to accept and place on file.
ARTICLE 48-To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Voted-that the meeting be dissolved at 11:22 o'clock p.m.
Attest:
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Special Town Meeting APRIL 20, 1938
Agreeable to a Warrant signed by the Selectmen April 4, 1938 the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in Town Affairs, met and assembled at the Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday the twentieth day of April 1938 at 7:30 o'clock p.m. ESSEX, SS:
Andover, April 20, 1938
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabi- tants 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 School house 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.
GEORGE N. SPARKS, Constable
Moderator Frederick Butler presided and called the meeting to order at 7:30 o'clock and proceeded to take up:
ARTICLE 1-To see if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of forty-five hundred ($4500.00) dollars for the im- provement of Elm Street between the square and Washington Avenue; said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State and County, or both, for this purpose, at the discretion of the Board of Public Works, on the petition of Floyd B. MacDonald and others.
Voted-Yes 55; No 267; article lost.
ARTICLE 2-To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to construct Tarvia-Lithic sidewalks on Elm Street between Maple Avenue and Walnut Avenue on the north side and between Whittier Street and Washington Avenue on the south side and appropriate the sum of seventeen hundred ($1700.00) dollars therefor, on the petition of Floyd B. Mac- Donald and others.
Voted-in the negative.
ARTICLE 3-To transact any other business they may legally come before the meeting.
Voted-at 8:15 o'clock p.m. that the meeting be dissolved.
Attest: GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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State Primary SEPTEMBER 20, 1938
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 Primaries to meet in the designated polling places in Precincts One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six, viz: the Town Hall in Precinct One; the Square and Compass Club Hall in Pre- cinct Two; the Administration Building, Shawsheen Village in Precinct Three; the Andover Grange in Precinct Four; the Old Schoolhouse, Ballardvale in Precinct Five and the Phillips Club House, School Street, in Precinct Six, in said Andover, on
Tuesday the Twentieth day of September, 1938 at 9:00 o'clock a.m. for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomina- tion of Candidates of Political Parties for the following officers :
Governor for this Commonwealth.
Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth.
Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth.
Treasurer and Receiver-General for this Commonwealth.
Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth.
Attorney General for this Commonwealth.
Representative in Congress for the Seventh Congressional District.
Councillor for the Fifth Councillor District.
Senator for the Fourth Essex Senatorial District.
Two Representatives in General Court-for the Sixth Essex Representative District.
District Attorney for Eastern District.
County Commissioner for Essex County.
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Sheriff for Essex County.
A Register of Deeds, Northern Essex District (to fill vacancy), and for the election of the following officers:
One Delegate to the State Convention of the Democratic Party.
Twelve Delegates to the State Convention of the Republican Party.
The polls will open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your do- ings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this Sixth day of September, A.D. 1938.
HOWELL F. SHEPARD J. EVERETT COLLINS ROY E. HARDY
Selectmen of Andover
Andover, September 20, 1938
ESSEX, SS.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabi- tants of said town, to meet at the time and places 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.
GEORGE N. SPARKS, Constable
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in Primaries, convened in the designated and appointed polling places in said Andover on the twentieth day of September, 1938 at 9:00 o'clock a.m. agreeably to the require- ments of the foregoing warrant, they did bring in their votes as follows:
REPUBLICAN PARTY GOVERNOR
Precincts
1 2
4
5 6
150 142
3 200
133
50 110
Frederick Butler 785
34
Precincts
1
2
3
4
5
6
31
15
18
8
12
13
William McMasters
97
225
114
127
54
31
172
Leverett Saltonstall
723
35
20
23
5
11
22
Richard Whitcomb
116
4
1
5
4
1
1
Blanks
19
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
61
40
86
57
19
19
Dewey Archambault
282
106
84
76
55
29
70
Horace T. Cahill
420
15
11
16
8
2
7
J. Watson Flett
59
145
77
84
36
24
138
Charles P. Howard
504
65
20
54
25
11
41
Kenneth D. Johnson
216
19
25
21
12
5
13
Robert Wilson, Jr.
95
34
38
36
11
15
30
Blanks
164
SECRETARY
401
242
340
173
90
277
Frederic W. Cook
1523
44
53
33
31
15
41
Blanks
217
TREASURER
236
123
185
98
37
177
William E. Hurley
856
181
110
147
69
53
101
Alonzo B. Cook
661
8
22
15
14
6
13
John J. Hurley
78
20
40
26
23
9
27
Blanks
145
AUDITOR
128
97
123
69
28
76
Carl D. Goodwin
521
249
125
191
98
57
178
Russell A. Wood
898
68
73
59
37
20
64
Blanks
321
ATTORNEY GENERAL
128
81
113
59
33
94
Howe Coolidge Amee
508
148
74
111
52
33
107
Clarence A. Barnes
525
64
53
52
31
15
34
Frank F. Walters
249
George Clark
1
105
87
97
61
24
83
Blanks
457
CONGRESSMAN-SEVENTH DISTRICT
268
156
215
111
56
164
George W. Eastman
970
89
72
89
46
24
80
Harland A. McPhetres
400
88
67
69
47
25
74
Blanks
370
35
1
COUNCILLOR-FIFTH DISTRICT
Precincts
1
2
3
4
5
6
339
168
248
122
67
240
Bayard Tuckerman
1184
68
64
77
51
26
48
Fred A. Turner
334
38
63
48
31
12
30
Blanks 222
SENATOR-FOURTH ESSEX DISTRICT
384
223
305
153
86
278
Frank D. Babcock
1429
61
72
68
51
19
40
Blanks
311
REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT SIXTH ESSEX DISTRICT
13
14
34
24
8
21
William Beaulieu
114
36
8
48
25
12
22
Gilbert E. Calvert
151
307
143
213
116
62
229
Gordon R. Cannon
1070
27
18
22
7
4
19
Peter Dugan
97
164
141
151
58
43
103
Paul A. L'Antigua
660
153
108
122
80
26
98
William McCoubrie
587
192
158
154
98
55
144
Blanks
801
DISTRICT ATTORNEY-EASTERN DISTRICT
233
174
223
119
56
195
Hugh A. Cregg
1000
188
80
116
65
36
97
Charles A. Green
582
24
41
34
20
13
26
Blanks
158
COUNTY COMMISSIONER-ESSEX COUNTY
17
30
26
8
6
14
Clarence Andrews 101
9
8
7
4
9
Wilbert F. Barrett
37
60
61
78
42
22
46
Wallace H. Bell
309
45
13
45
17
7
37
James D. Bentley.
164
18
8
3
5
4
9
Samuel S. Conary
47
76
26
72
33
16
41
264
2
9
1
4
3
8
20
6
6
11
1
5
William J. Greenler
49
2
1
1
5
9
Bertram V. Hawthorne
9
22
12
6
9
1
20
Alfred W. Ingalls Albert McClellan
7
1
1
1
3
David J. McNeilly
6
2
2
4
3
2
4
Edward J. Melvin
17
114
55
86
50
21
51
C.F. Nelson Pratt
377
58
62
36
21
17
62
Blanks
256
70
2
1
4
George E. Dalrymple Frank L. Floyd
27
36
SHERIFF-ESSEX COUNTY
Precincts
1
2
3
4
5
6
247
136
214
112
55
156
Frank E. Raymond
920
123
75
36
33
19
71
Harold E. Larkin
357
37
33
53
22
14
33
Joseph A. Morrison
192
38
51
70
37
17
58
Blanks
271
REGISTER OF DEEDS-ESSEX NORTHERN DISTRICT (to fill vacancy)
341
199
255
142
72
208
G. Hudson Driver
1217
51
44
76
27
17
54
Edward J. McVey
269
53
52
42
35
16
56
Blanks
254
DELEGATES
TO
STATE CONVENTION (ANDOVER)
307
179
233
130
70
236
Mildred H. Brown
1155
311
171
240
129
70
234
Harriet S. Chase
1155
310
174
229
131
69
235
Marion G. Graham
1148
314
182
232
140
81
231
Edward P. Hall
1180
310
179
231
128
66
233
C. Milton Jackson
1147
319
185
237
130
71
237
Mitchell Johnson
1179
326
180
236
145
68
234
Roger H. Lewis
1189
306
172
243
145
72
238
Cynthia E. Pike
1176
281
167
216
125
63
228
Frank J. Rizzo
1080
293
175
237
133
67
234
Frances T. Wade
1139
312
180
242
152
76
244
Mary D. Winslow
1206
335
184
222
131
69
245
Richard M. Zecchini
1186
1616
1412 1678
829
418
987
Blanks
6940
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
GOVERNOR
91
176
78
54
43
42
Charles F. Hurley 484
53
99
33
26
24
18
James M. Curley
253
45
87
30
14
22
28
Francis E. Kelly
226
4
15
13
4
6
8
Richard M. Russell
50
7
22
8
6
3
5
Blanks
51
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
44
98
31
21
30
23
James Brennan
247
46
59
43
21
15
18
Edward T. Collins
202
37
Precincts
1
2
3
4
5
6
23
67
17
3
11
5
Alexander F. Sullivan
126
33
51
26
28
18
21
Joseph C. White
177
1
12
9
6
4
5
William P. Yoerg
37
53
112
36
25
20
29
Blanks
275
SECRETARY
7
16
7
5
6
4
William J. Ahearne
45
12
25
7
8
3
4
John M. Bresnahan
59
4
6
4
4
2
1
Henry Clay
21
134
240
102
49
64
62
Katherine A. Foley
651
9
16
3
8
4
4 William F. Sullivan
44
3
17
9
4
2
6
John H. Wallace
41
31
79
30
26
17
20
Blanks
203
TREASURER
54
86
47
33
38
23
William F. Barrett
281
4
20
8
6
5
2
Ernest J. Brown
45
11
22
17
5
4
5
William H. Burke, Jr.
64
38
73
23
8
12
16
Joseph W. Doherty
170
15
40
10
10
9
10
Owen Gallagher
94
15
1
2
2
3
John F. Harkins
23
5
4
3
8
6 Daniel J. Honan
26
8
23
8
5
6
7
John J. McGrath
57
65
116
45
27
22
29
Blanks
304
AUDITOR
105
196
72
32
48
53
Thomas H. Buckley
506
27
45
30
31
10
16
John J. Barry
159
11
41
25
15
13
8
Leo D. Walsh
113
57
117
35
26
27
24
Blanks
286
ATTORNEY GENERAL
134
248
114
67
77
62
Paul A. Dever
702
66
151
48
37
21
39
Blanks
362
CONGRESSMAN-SEVENTH DISTRICT
144
287
121
61
60
58
Lawrence J. Connery
731
29
50
15
26
28
23
Henry Murphy
171
27
62
26
17
10
20
Blanks
162
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COUNCILLOR-FIFTH DISTRICT
Precincts
1
2
3
4
5
6
57
92
58
22
23
25
John T. Coan
277
36
74
21
19
23
20
William G. Hennessey
193
31
64
32
18
19
15
Augustine McMorrow
179
8
30
13
12
5
8
John J. Norton
76
68
139
38
33
28
33
Blanks
339
SENATOR-FOURTH ESSEX DISTRICT
89
172
91
56
60
50
John H. Mitchell
518
111
227
71
48
38
51
Blanks 546
REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT SIXTH ESSEX DISTRICT
10
20
10
13
21
11
William L. Barrett 85
16
16
10
10
4
2
William J. Casey
58
2
10
5
2
9
Henry P. Claus
28
14
73
27
4
7
14
Peter W. Connors
139
142
290
70
52
58
58
James J. Darby
670
17
35
10
17
11
7
Joseph Dineen
97
1
5
3
1
8
2
John E. Foley
20
14
12
4
2
2
Edward J. Grimley
34
13
17
3
2
2
Thomas J. Kerins
37
9
4
6
1
8
2
John D. Kerrigan
30
12
17
21
11
3
4
Walter L. Kiernan
68
5
16
15
9
1
4
Patrick Magee
50
10
11
9
4
16
2
Henry J. Moore
52
Philip B. Moran
6
6
19
32
21
3
9
Arthur Ouellette
90
12
10
7
7
6
13
Joseph P. Thornton
55
14
17
20
11
6
10
Cornelius J. Twomey
78
1
10
6
4
1
4
Joseph W. Walsh
26
11
66
11
4
3
5
Robert J. Winters
100
91
158
47
33
34
42
Blanks
405
DISTRICT ATTORNEY-EASTERN DISTRICT
62
101
77
36
41
21
Joseph Cussell
338
10
31
4
5
6
10
Hyman Marcus
66
39
79
28
18
18
17
Alphonsus McCarthy 199
39
2
3
1
Precincts
1
2
3
4
5
6
12
27
8
12
4
12
S. William Stanton
75
77
161
45
33
29
41
Blanks 386
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-ESSEX COUNTY
19
35
23
8
14
14
Charles M. Boyle
113
110
214
89
74
49
51
John J. Cahill
587
3
16
10
9
5
5
Louis J. Dion
48
9
17
9
1
5
2
Rickard F. Walsh
43
59
117
31
12
25
29
Blanks
273
SHERIFF-ESSEX COUNTY
37
77
42
27
24
30
Joseph B. Clancy
237
25
54
33
19
15
7
John Allen Murphy
153
59
116
36
25
28
29
John J. Murphy
293
79
152
51
33
31
35
Blanks
381
REGISTER OF DEEDS-ESSEX NORTHERN DISTRICT (To fill vacancy)
67
149
37
30
30
34
James P. Donnelly
347
4
10
5
2
8
1
William A. Fuller
30
4
13
4
1
3
Harold L. Norton
25
4
2
8
2
2
Angelo G. Rocco
18
84
163
101
43
45
46
Louis J. Scanlon
482
8
14
7
2
2
2
James J. Sullivan
35
3
1
1
1
Thomas E. Waterman
6
30
45
10
14
9
13
Blanks
121
DELEGATE TO STATE CONVENTION (ANDOVER)
117
253
102
70
72
57
Augustine Reilly
671
1
John P. Cussen
1
82
146
60
34
26
Blanks
392
TOTAL VOTE
445
295
373
204
105
318
Republican
1740
200
399
162
104
98
101
Democratic
1064
2804
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REPORT OF CLERK-PRECINCT ONE
Andover, September 20, 1938
Polls opened at 9:00 a.m. Warden in charge Rowland L. Luce. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 6:30 p.m. Ballot box registered when polls closed 646. Number of ballots received 1762. Number of ballots returned 1116. Mut- ilated ballot 1. Number of ballots cast 645. Police Officer on duty -John Campbell. Voted to count ballots at 11:30 a.m.
JOSEPH W. MCNALLY, Clerk
REPORT OF CLERK-PRECINCT TIVO
Andover, September 20, 1938
Polls opened at 9:00 a.m. Warden in charge Joseph A. Mc- Carthy. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 6:30 p.m. Ballot box registered when polls closed 694. Number of ballots received U-62; D-775; R-786. Number of ballots returned U-62; D-376; R-553. Number of ballots cast 694. Police Officer on duty-Robert Dobbie. Voted to count ballots at 11:00 a.m.
DANA W. CLARK, Clerk
REPORT OF CLERK-PRECINCT THREE
Andover, September 20, 1938
Polls opened at 9:00 a.m. Warden in charge Harold S. Cates. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 6:30 p.m. Ballot box registered when polls closed 535. Number of ballots received 1050-R; 421-D; 60-U. Number of ballots returned 995. One ballot replaced marked void (996). Number of ballots cast 535. Police Officer on duty-Joseph O'Brien. Voted to count ballots at 10.00 a.m.
MICHAEL A. BURKE, Clerk
REPORT OF CLERK-PRECINCT FOUR ·
Andover, September 20, 1938
Polls opened at 9:00 a.m. Warden in charge Herbert B. Mer- rick. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 6:30 p.m. Ballot box registered when polls closed 308. Number
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of ballots received 786. Number of ballots returned 478. Number of ballots cast 308. Police Officer on duty -- Joseph Davis. Voted to count ballots at 11:00 a.m.
FRED R. SHIERS, Clerk
REPORT OF CLERK-PRECINCT FIVE
Andover, September 20, 1938
Polls opened at 9:00 a.m. Warden in charge Clester E. Mat- thews. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 6:30 p.m. Ballot box regsitered when polls closed 203. Number of ballots received R-529; D-273. Number of ballots returned R-424; D-175. Number of ballots cast R-105; D-98. Police Officer on duty-George N. Sparks. Voted to count ballots at 11:00 a.m.
JOSEPH P. LYNCH, Clerk
REPORT OF CLERK-PRECINCT SIX
Andover, September 20, 1938
Polls opened at 9:00 a.m. Warden in charge Llewellyn D. Pom- eroy. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 6:30 p.m. Ballot box registered when polls closed 420. Number of ballots received 1197. Number of ballots returned 777. Number of ballots cast 420. Police Officer on duty-George Dufton. Voted to count ballots at 10:15 a.m.
JOSEPH A. LYNCH, Clerk
The foregoing is a true copy of the warrant and of the officers' return on the same also a true record of the doings of the meeting.
Attest: GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Special Town Meeting OCTOBER 3, 1938
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 Memorial Auditorium, Monday, the third day of October, 1938 at 7:00 o'clock p.m., to act on the following articles :
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