Town annual report of Chelmsford 1912, Part 7

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Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Town of Chelmsford
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In this connection it is encouraging to note that, although our entering class was small, there are now more pupils in the upper classes of our high school than last year. We expect to have a graduating class of three in June and there is a good prospect of this number being doubled next year. I may add that all of our prospective graduates are planning to con- tinue their education either at Normal' school or College and that our one graduate of 1911, Miss Gertrude M. Quigley, is now studying at the Lowell Normal School.


The program for our graduating exercises of last June was considerably interfered with owing to Miss Quigley's illness and to the inability of Miss Warley and the Rev. Edmond T. Schofield to take the parts assigned to them. As originally planned the program was as follows:


Selection Orchestra


Invocation Rev. William C. H. Moe


Chorus-"Dry Yo' Eyes" School Landsberg


Reading-"The Builders" Longfellow


Miss Ethel Warley


Semi-chorus-a "Snowflakes" . Cowen


b "Forget-me-not" By request


Solo-"Carmena" Gertrude Marie Quigley


Wilson


Selection


Orchestra


Salutatory Ethel Louise Richardson Pres: of Class of 1912 N. C. H. S.


Essay-Drinking Water and Some of its Sources Gertrude Marie Quigley


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. Chorus-" The Fisherman" Gabussi


School


Presentation of Diploma


Supt. Benjamin E. Martin


Benediction


Rev. E. T. Schofield


Selection


Orchestra


Graduate


Gertrude Marie Quigley


In closing, I wish to thank the teachers for their loyal, earnest work, and the Superintendent and School Committee for their interest and assistance in promoting the welfare of our school.


Respectfully submitted,


FRANK E. HOLT,


Principal.


Annual Report


of the


Trustees of the Adams Library


and the


North Chelmsford Library Corporation


of the


TOWN OF CHELMSFORD


for the


Year Ending February 29th, 1912


Report of the Trustees of the Adams Library


The Trustees of the Adams Library beg leave to report that the Board met for organization in the Library on April 1, 1911, at 2.30 p. m., and officers were elected as follows :


CHAIRMAN


MR. ALBERT H. DAVIS


SECRETARY


MR. EDWIN R. CLARK


TREASURER


REV. WILSON WATERS


LIBRARIAN


MRS. E. R. CLARK


Various committees were also chosen to carry on the work of the Library, which has progressed to the satisfaction of the Trustees and, they believe, to that of the public. The Treasurer's report is hereto appended. The efficiency of the Librarian is to be commended.


This year the Trustees received $200, a legacy from Miss Maria L. Reed, with the condition that it be expended for a suitable memorial to the Reed family; in compliance with which the Trustees have caused to be build a plain but hand- some reference case, designed by Mr. E. R. Clark in harmony with the other furnishings of the building, and have had it placed against the east end of the reading-room. This neces- sitated the removal of the bronze tablet from the wainscoting to the wall above, where it is secured on an oak backing, by which its effect is much enhanced. The portrait of Mr. Adams, which the tablet displaced, has been hung in a better position, above the mantle-piece, where it can be seen in a more favorable light. These changes have added to the beauty of the room. In addition to the reference-case, and as a part


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of the memorial, there has been purchased the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and Webster's International Dictionary. The top of the case forms a double sloping desk on which to rest the books when in use, and is surmounted by a shaded gas light.


Special care has been given to the grounds about the Library and some changes have been made in the arrangement of the shrubbery. The severe heat of the summer made necessary an increased expenditure for this purpose.


A number of standard works worn out by constant use have been replaced by the latest editions, among these latter being a set of Rolfe's Shakespeare in convenient size and good type for reading. The increased appropriation this year has enabled the purchasing committee to add to the Library, besides the usual amount of fiction, a better assortment of more solid literature and books on practical subjects for which there is an increasing demand. A much needed case for the shelf. catalogue has been provided for the Librarian's use, which also relieves the congested condition of the case containing the Authors' and Title catalogue.


The growing demand on the part of the patrons of the Library for reference books and books on special subjects indicates a wider usefulness and makes necessary a better supply of works of this nature. The aim of the Trustees has been to stimulate, and to satisfy with the necessary books, the desire of its patrons for information on practical subjects con- nected with the higher and more useful branches of knowledge, especially as related to the instruction given in the schools of of the town, and to the most approved methods of agriculture, horticulture and other allied subjects. With this idea, a special list of books in the Library bearing on these subjects is in preparation for distribution among those desiring such in- formation. It is hoped that all residents of the town will feel the right to call for books and other information on any subject in which they are specially interested. The Trustees and the Librarian will take pleasure in doing everything possible to provide what is needed.


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The Superintendent of Schools expresses himself as in harmony with the oft-stated policy of the Trustees, in being desirous of a large utilization of the Library in connection with the work of the schools. The educational value of good literature, such as the Library affords, is more and more recognized by our best instructors. The aim of education is to prepare for complete living. To make the most out of life is what all thinking people wish. In order to do this, human nature must be energized at all points. The successful man is the man of expanded capacity, the man of power, with the ability to think and feel and act-the man of aspirations, the many sided man. An intimate knowledge of literature gives a larger equipment for life. The inspirational power of literature determines its educational value. Good books are rich in incentives, replete with ideals, they stir the intellect to activity and stiffen the will. They bring to the student the best motives of all time. The close acquaintance with books gives us intellectual quickening, institutional knowledge, ethical stamina, æsthetic and emotional culture. The love of good books brings us the beauty and fragrance of the poem, the enthusiam and high moral purpose of the drama, the sturdiness and vigor of the great novel, and has a sweetening, mellowing and strengthening effect upon the character.


The circulation for the year has been 12,114.


Character of circulation has been as follows : Fiction, 68.4; general literature, 15.1; history, 2.9; travel and des- cription, 2.4; literature, 2.2; natural science, 1.2; biography, 1.6; fine arts, 1.1; useful arts, 1.7; religion and philosophy, 1.6; education, 1.8.


The library has been open to the public 192 sessions.


Attendance in reading room averages about 15.


Number of volumes purchased 329


Number of volumes purchased (replacing wornout) 32


Number of volumes magazines bound. 31


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DONATIONS


Other than the above mentioned :


Rev. Wilson Waters.


2 volumes


Rev. Wilson Waters, magazines unbound


7


66


Mr. W. Wright.


1


Mrs. A. H. Park.


1


Miss C. L. Richardson


3


Miss E. L. Parkhurst


1


Mr. E. R. Clark.


3


State of Massachusetts. 19


United States


9


Number of volumes in library 9,878.


The amount of the "Joseph Warren Fund" is $913.81; that of the "Adams Emerson Fund" is $115.20. No money has been drawn from either of these funds.


FRANCES CLARK,


ALBERT H. DAVIS, OTIS P. WHEELER, EDWIN R. CLARK, A. HEADY PARK, WILSON WATERS,


Trustees.


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REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE ADAMS LIBRARY 1


RECEIPTS


Balance on hand


$ 12 92


Received from the Town 1,200 00


$1,212 92


EXPENDITURES


De Wolfe & Fiske Co., for books $ 387 91


Librarian 240 00


H. L. Parkhurst, coal. 105 00


Periodicals. 94 35


Gas .. 64 19


S. L. Felch, work 54 31


Binding


51 96


Bartlett & Dow, sundries 36 80


45 60


Library Bureau, catalogue case.


Welch Bros., gas lights and repairs. 29 49


Books from various publishers. 13 50


12 71


Sweetser & Day, fertilizer and seed. C. H. House, work


3 60


Index cards.


4 00


Pratt & Forrest . 6 65


Book plate.


2 50


C. E. Parkhurst, carpenter work. 4 61


Wood


6 00


G. T. Parkhurst, printing 27 50


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E. T. Adams, basket. 55


A. H. Park, transporting books to S. Chelmsford.


13 00


Postage.


1 10


Balance.


7 59


$1,212 92


WILSON WATERS,


Treasurer.


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Report of the Directors of the North Chelmsford Library Corporation


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BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF CHELMSFORD,


Gentlemen :


At the annual meeting of the North Chelinsford Library Corporation held March 6, 1911, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year :


Directors : Royal S. Ripley, president ; Mrs. H. Ellen Sargent, Mrs. Sarah E. Sheldon ; vice president, Preston L. Piggott; secretary, Otis P. Wheeler; treasurer, Stewart Mckay.


OTIS P. WHEELER,


Secretary.


The library has been open 152 session during the year. There are 86 new borrowers, making 467 borrowers in all. The circulation is 9728.


225 new books have been added during the year.


There are now 6298 books available on the shelves.


More than 200 books have been send to the bindery and about three times that number have been repaired by the the Librarian.


ROYAL S. RIPLY, H. ELLEN SARGENT, Directors.


North Chelmsford, March 6, 1912.


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TREASURER'S REPORT


North Chelmsford Library Corporation, 1911-1912.


RECEIPTS


Balance on hand


$25 48


Town appropriation.


600 00


Receipts from fines, catalogues, etc. 2 50


$628 82


EXPENDITURES


Librarian


$180 00


Janitor and Assistant Librarian


24 00


Books


292 70


Bindery


34 06


Printing


27 00


Carrying books to West Chelmsford


9 60


Fuel


15 12


Electric light


16 90


Supplies .


12 30


Cleaning Library


3 00


General expense, expressage, etc.


7 72


622 40


Balance on hand.


6 42


$628 42


STEWART MACKAY,


Treasurer.


Warrant for Annual Town Meeting At Town Hall, Chelmsford Centre


Monday, March 25, 1912


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


MIDDLESEX, SS.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Chelmsford, in said County, GREETING.


In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Chelmsford to meet in the Town Hall, at Chelmsford Centre, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of March, current, being the fourth Monday in said month, at eight o'clock in the forenoon. The polls will be opened at 8.15 A. M., and closed at 1.15 P. M .; and they are then and there to act upon the following articles, viz :


Article 1. To choose a Moderator.


Article 2. To bring in their votes for one Town Clerk, one Assessor, one School Committee, two Trustees of the Adams Library, one Cemetery Commissioner, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Park Commissioner, all for three years; three Selectmen, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year; three Overseers of the Poor. one for three years, one for two years, ând one for one


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year ; Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, one Constable, and one Tree Warden, all for one year. Also to vote on the following question: "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" All on one ballot.


Article 3. To choose all other Town officers necessary to be chosen by hand vote, or act in relation to the same.


Article 4. To hear reports of Town officers and committees, and act thereon.


Article 5. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray Town charges for the current year.


Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow, subject to the approval of the Selectmen, such sums of money as may be required for the demands upon him, in anticipation of the taxes of the current year and payable therefrom, or act in relation thereto.


Article 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to act as its agent in any suit or suits which may arise during the current year ; also in such other matters which may arise requiring, in their judgment, the action of such agent, and to employ counsel therefor.


Article 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125 00) for the purpose of observing Memorial Day, and appoint a com- mittee to assist the Veteran Association in making the necessary arrangements for such observances, or act in relation thereto.


Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) to be


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paid to the North Chelmsford Fire District for hydrant service for the current year, or act in relation thereto.


Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to change the name of Centre Street, running from the centre of the town to North Chelmsford, to the name of North Road.


Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse Daniel A. Reardon for taxes amounling to $30.00 paid by him on land sold to Nelson Loucraft since 1899, or act in relation thereto.


Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to accept a con- tinuance of Bridge Street, from the present point of acceptance to the resideace of Thos. A. Harmon, as laid out by the Selectmen, or act in relation thereto.


Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to place the Board of Selectmen, Board of Overseer of the Poor, Board of Health and Board of Assessors on a fixed salary basis; or act in relation thereto.


Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to abolish the caucus and to conduct its future election of Town Officers under the Australian Ballot system adopted by the Town ; or act in relation thereto.


Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to sell the Town teams, in whole or in part ; or act in relation thereto.


Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a com- mittee of three to draft up a set of Town By-Laws and to present same and report thereon at the next annual Town Meeting ; or act in relation thereto.


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Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Superintendent of Streets; or act in relation thereto.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the purpose of grading the grounds and miscellaneous work at School House on Highland Ave., at North Chelmsford, the expenditure of this money to be in charge of the School Committee; or act in relation thereto.


Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00 for the purpose of grading the grounds at North Chelmsford School on Princeton Street, the expenditure of this money to be in charge of the School Committee; or act in rela- tion thereto.


Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) to settle land, grade and other damages sustained by Daniel F. Hartley, by reason of the construction of the Littleton Road ; or act in relation thereto.


Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for free band concerts the present season in the several villages of the Town, or act in relation thereto.


Article 22. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a Town way in the North Village, as laid out by the Selectmen.


Article 23. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a Town way known as Bridge Street in the Centre Village and laid out by the Selectmen.


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Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of forty dollars ($40.00) to purchase a new flag at the Centre Village, or act in relation thereto.


Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120.00) for the service of a janitor at the North and Centre fire houses, or act in relation thereto.


Artiele 26. To see if the Town will vote to permit the Inde- pendent Order Bugh-Abraham, of Lowell, Mass., or any other person or persons, to use for the purpose of burial land the location of which for such use as already been approved in writing by Board of Health of the Town, after notice to all persons interested and a hearing; said land being shown on a plan of Highland Park and is bounded and described as follows: Northerly by Waverly . Ave., Easterly by the Lowell and Chelmsford line, South- erly by Highland Park Avenue, and westerly by Stedman street, or act in relation thereto.


Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) for the purpose of continuing the Acton Road, or act in rela- tion thereto.


Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to permit the use of about seventeen acres of land situated on the west side of the Old Middlesex Canal for the purpose of burial, the location of said land having been approved in writing by the Board of Health after notice to all persons interested and a hearing.


Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to divert the water from the land of Walter Wright in South street which enters his premises through the culvert under said street and to connect said culvert with a catch basin a short


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distance below, so that the water will not flow upon his land ; or act in relation thereto.


Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) for land damages sustained by Emeline Haywood by reason of the construction of Littleton road, or act in relation thereto.


Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00) for the purpose of constructing a Macadam road on Chelms- ford street from Billerica to Wilson street, or act in relation thereto.


And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof at Post offices in the Centre of the Town, South Chelmsford, North Chelmsford, West Chelms- ford, and at the school house at East Chelmsford, ten days at least before the time appointed for holding said meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of holding the meeting aforesaid.


Given under our hands this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twelve.


E. T. ADAMS, D. FRANK SMALL, JOHN J. DUNN, CHARLES F. DEVINE, CHARLES LYONS, Selectmen of Chelmsford.


I have served the foregoing Warrant by posting up true and attested copies of the same at the places above mentioned more than ten days before the day of holding said meeting.


KARL PERHAM,


Constable of Chelmsford.


INDEX


Aggregate of Appropriations, Receipts and Expenditures 118 Annual Town Meeting, 1911 11


Appraisers' Report-


Centre Fire Department 104


Highway Property Appraisal. 105


North Chelmsford Fire Department 104


Property Appraisal of Moth Department. 109


Property Appraisal at Town Farm. 101


Property in Charge of Forest Warden 103


Weights and Measures Department. 103


Collector's Report on Tax of No. Chelmsford Fire Dist. . 89


Dogs Licensed for the Year 1911.


10


Joint Primary, Sept. 26, 1911


21


List of Jurors, 1911.


111


Report of Assessors.


43


Report of Auditors.


91


Report of Board of Health .


113


Report of Building Committee


99


Report of Cemetery Commissioners


116


Report of the Chairman of the Board of Health


115


Report of Committee on Acton Road


96


Report of the Forest Warden 97


Report of Inspector of Animals.


100


Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures


95


Report of Tax Collector. 85


Report of Town Treasurer 79


Report of the Directors of the North Chelmsford Library Corporation. 179


Treasurer's Report 180


188


Report of Selectmen-


Band Concerts


67


Care and Improvement on Cemeteries


59


Cattle Inspection


58 60


Cemetery Trust Funds.


Collection and Abatement of Taxes


64


Construction of Gravel Road on Acton St.


Draining Mt. Pleasant Street


58 65 58


Enforcement of Liquor Law


Highways.


Hydrant Service, North Village


51 68 62


Indigent Soldiers and Sailors.


Janitors, North and Centre Fire House


Libraries


Loans and Interest.


Meat Inspection


Memorial Day


Military Aid.


Miscellaneous Expenses


Moth Work ..


New School House, North Chalmsford


Officers and Committees .


Officers for Caucus, Primaries, State Election and March Meeting.


73


Power Sprayer


63


Public Parks.


Records of Interments.


Repairing Canal Road


Repairs of Public Buildings


Sinking Fund


State Aid.


Street Lighting


Tree Warden 63


Village Clock. . .. 67


Weights and Measures 58


63 67 64 58


68 62 74 68 65 70


66 68 65 62 68 62 57


189


Report of School Committee, 1911-1912 121


Apparatus


129


Appropriations. 125


Buildings and Grounds


124


Care of School Houses


129


Fence at East Chelmsford


133


Financial Report


126


Fuel


130


Furniture and Repairs


131


Grading at No. Chelmsford, Princeton St. 133


Incidentals . 131


Medical Inspection . 129


Summary of Receipts and Expenditures 134


Superintendent 123


Teachers 124


Teaching 126


Text Books and Supplies 130


Transportation 129


Report of the Town Clerk-


Births Recorded in Chelmsford in 1911 31


Deaths Recorded in 1911. 39


Mariages Recorded in 1911. 34


Report of the Trustees of the Adams Library 173


Donations


176


Report of the Treasurer 177


State ·Election, Nov. 7, 1911. 25


Special Town Meeting, Aug. 7, 1911.


19


Sept. 18, 1911 20


66


Feb. 19, 1912. 29


Support of Poor-


Expense at Almshouse 47


Inmates at Almshouse 50


Outside Poor. 50


Receipts at Almshouse 49


190


Superintendent's Report .


135


Attendance.


154


Buildings.


144


Centre School.


149


Conclusion. 159


North School


147


School Calendar 1912-1913


136


Sight and Hearing Tests.


144


Special Reports.


160


Statistics.


138


Statistics for the School Year Ending in June, 1911.


140


Teachers, February 29, 1912.


142


Teachers 157


The Course of Study


151


The Problem of our High Schools


145


Thrift.


155


Text Book Changes


153


Vaccination. 157


Town Officers 3


Warrant for Annual Meeting, 1912 181





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