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Myrtle Iris Dickinson
Alice Pearl Emery
Ruth Therese Fitzpatrick
Everett L. Goodwin
Edith M. Sargent
Isabelle Winters
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Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
February 3, 1930, and February 10, 1930
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To John E. Johnson, a Constable of the Town of Chelmsford.
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid you are hereby requested to notify and warn the legal voters of said Chelmsford to meet in their several Polling Places, viz:
Precinct 1, Town Hall, Chelmsford Centre.
Precinct 2, Town Hall, North Chelmsford.
Precinct 3, Historical Hall, West Chelmsford.
Precinct 4, School House, East Chelmsford.
Precinct 5, Liberty Hall, South Chelmsford.
Precinct 6, Golden Cove School House, Westlands.
on Monday, the Third Day of Februay, 1930, being the first Monday in said Month, at 12:00 o'clock noon, for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes for the following officers :
Moderator for one year.
One Town Clerk for three years.
One Selectman for three years.
One member of the Board of Public Welfare for three years.
Town Treasurer and Tax Collector for one year.
One Assessor for three years.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One Member of the Board of Health for three years.
One School Committeman for three years.
One Park Commmissioner for three years.
One Cemetery Commissioner for three years.
Two Trustees for Adams Library for three years.
One Insurance Fund Commissioner for three years. One Constable for one year.
All on one ballot.
The polls will be open from 12.00 M. to 8.00 P. M., and to meet in the Town Hall of Chelmsford Centre on the following MONDAY THE TENTH DAY OF FEB-
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RUARY, 1930, at 9.30 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To hear reports of Town officers and com- mittees; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 2. To raise and appopriate such sums of money as may be required to defray Town charges for the current year.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Se- lectmen to act as its agent in any suit or suits which may arise during the current year; also in such other matters as may arise requiring in their judg- ment the action of such agent, and to employ coun- sel therefor.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenues of the current financial year.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropri- ate from money already in the hands of the Treas- urer, a sum not exceeding Two Thousand Dollars ($2000) to be used as a reserve fund at the discre- tion of the Finance Committee, as provided in Gen- eral Laws, Chapter 40, Section 6; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400), or what other sum, for State Aid; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from money already in the hands of the Treasurer, a sufficient sum with which to meet unpaid bills of 1929 ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to contract with the Lowell Electric Light Corporation for the purpose of installing ad- ditional lights at the locations hereinafter desig- nated, and to raise and appropriate sufficient money to pay the expense thereof viz:
Four lights on Westford Road.
One light on Boston Road.
Four lights on the Lowell Road.
One light on Pine Hill Road. Six lights on Mill Road. One light on Billerica Road.
Five lights on Parker Village Road.
Four lights on Proctor Road.
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Five lights on the Richardson Road. Two lights on Grand View Road. Three lights on Park Road.
Three lights on the Dunstable Road. Or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from what is called "The Cushing Mill Pond Ap- propriation," the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300) to the Excess and Deficiency Account; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the account called "Improving Vinal Square Appropriation," the sum of Twelve Hundred Dol- lars ($1200) to the Excess and Deficiency account; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the account called, "New Grammar School Building Fund," Thirty-seven Dollars and Forty-five cents ($37.45) to the Excess and Deficiency ac- count; or act in relation thereto.
ARTRICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150), or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing a power lawn mower; or act in rela- tion thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred and Seventy- five Dollars ($175) for the purpose of repairing the Flag Pole located in the Centre Village; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($350), or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing and erecting a flag pole on the Com- mon at South Chelmsford; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200), or some other sum, for the purpose of locat- ing a stone with a tablet affixed to it on the common in the centre of the village as a memorial to the Chelmsford soldiers who served in the Civil War; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of print- ing a report of the revaluation of real estate in Chelmsford; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300) or some other amount and elect a director, the money to be expended by and the director to serve in co-operation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesexx County Extension Service, under the provisions of Section 40 to 45, Chapter 128, Gen- eral Laws of Massachusetts.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) or some other amount, for the purpose of purchasing fire hose for the fire department; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and .appropriate the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of reconstructing Acton Road; two-thirds of the ex- pense to be borne equally by the County and Com- monwealth ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of reconstucting Central Square, in the Centre Village; two-thirds of the expense to be borne equally by the County and Commonwealth; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Dollars (3,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of reconstructing the Old Westford Road; two-thirds of the expense to be borne equally by the County and Commonwealth; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of reconstructing the Carlisle-Concord Road; two- thirds of the expense to be borne equally by the County and Commonwealth; or act in relation there- to.
ARTCLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of reconstructing the Riverneck Road; two-thirds of the expense to be borne equally by the County and Commonwealth; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars
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($2,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of reconstructing a portion of Newfield Street; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to widen and relocate Central Square and to appropriate and use a portion of Central Park, so-called, for this purpose; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Seventy-two Hundred Dol- lars ($7,200), or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing an automobile truck for the Highway Department; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay-out Wildwood Street from its termination on the Dalton Road through Perham Park to Chelmsford Street; or act in relation there- to.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee to investigate the advisability of estab- lishing municipal water systems in different sec- tions of the Town. Said committee to make its re- port and recommendations at the next town meet- ing; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 29. In the event of an affirmative vote under Article 28, to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended by the Committee created under ARTICLE 28 for the pur- pose of employing a hydraulic engineer to make a survey and estimate the cost of establishing munici- pal systems; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000), or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing from Loren J. Ellenwood, a tract of land containing about 5300 square feet, more or less, with the buildings thereon, and the contents therein, situated on the westerly side of Main Street in that part of Chelms- ford called West Chelmsford. Said property to be used as a fire station. The transaction to be under the supervision of the Board of Fire Engineers; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 31. In the event of an affirmative vote under Article 30, to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50) for the purpose of making a survey of said property and the legal expenses incident to the ultimate consumption of said transaction ; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate from money already in the hands of the Treas- urer the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of painting and decorating the old portion of the Adams Library; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay the expenses in- curred in the search for victims drowned in the Merrimack River; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing grappling irons and equipment inci- dent thereto; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000), or some other amount, for the purpose of improving the Varney Playgrounds at North Chelms- ford; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sunset Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clrk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sylvan Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clerk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to accept B street as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clerk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to accept McMahon street as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clerk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept from Fred E. Varney title to certain land in that part of Chelmsford called North Chelmsford; the first portion of which is situated on the northeasterly side of Grant street, and is lot numbered one hun- dred and fifty-eight on a plan entitled, 'Plan of Land in North Chelmsford, Mass., belonging to the Thom- as J. Adams Estate and Charles W. S. Adams, sur- veyed July and September, 1892, Melvin B. Smith, Civil Engineer." The second portion of which Is situated on the northerly side of Adams street and is lots numbered one hundred and fifty-six and one hundred and fifty-seven on "Plan of Land in North
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Chelmsford, Mass., belonging to Thomas J. Adams Estate and Charles W. S. Adams, July and Septem- ber, 1892, Melvin B. Smith, C. E., with additions to November, 1902, by Smith & Brooks, C. E.'s and addition to August, 1919. Said property to be for- ever used as a playground under the provisions of Chapter 45, Section 14, of the General Laws, and to be part of, "The Varney Palyground." Or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to accept from the J. Cushing Company, a lease of the property known as the Russell Mill Pond and an approach thereto; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 42. In the event of an affirmative vote un- der ARTICLE 41 to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars, or some other amount, for the purpose of constructing a dam and gate at the Russell Mill Pond and to clean the bed of the said pond ; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 43. In the event of a negative vote under ARTICLE 41, to see if the Town will vote to in- struct the Selectmen to seize by right of eminent domain the property known as the Russell Mill Pond, and to raise and appropriate the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, or some other amount to accom- plish this purpose; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of four to work in conjunction with the School Committee in making a survey of the con- gested conditions in the schools. The committee ap- pointed to make a report and recommendations at the next Annual Town Meeting; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to name the Centre Grammar School, so-called, the Susan S. McFarlin School; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 46. In the event of an affirmative vote un- der ARTICLE 45, to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for the purpose of suitably marking said Grammar School in accordance with the vote under ARTICLE 45. The expenditure to be made under the direction of the School Committee; or act in re- lation thereto.
AND YOU ARE DIRECTED to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Post Offices in the Centre of the Town, South Chelmsford, North Chelms-
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ford and West Chelmsford, and at the School House East Chelmsford, and at the Golden Cove School House, West- lands, seven days at least before the time appointed for holding the first meeting aforesaid.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make return of this WAR- RANT, with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding the first meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-third day of Jan- uary, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thir- ty
GEORGE RIGBY, ELIPHALET G. BROWN, FRANK J. LUPIEN, Selectmen of Chelmsford.
A true copy.
Attest:
JOHN E. JOHNSON,
Constable.
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INDEX
Accountant's Report- Pages
Appropriations and Expenditures 56 to 62
Balance Sheet 64, 65
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds 47 to 55
Debt Accounts
66
Payments 35 to 45
Payments of Interest 68
Payments of Principal 67
Receipts
.31 to 35
Trust Funds
46
Trust and Investment Accounts
66
Reports of-
Assessors
69, 70
Board of Fire Engineers .75, 76
Board of Health 82, 83
Cemetery Commissioners 74
Forest Warden
85
Inspector of Animals 74
Insurance Fund Commissioners 70
Inspector of Markets 84
Librarian's Report to Trustees of the Adams Library 78
Middlesex County Extension Service 84, 85
Milk Inspector 83
North Chelmsford Library Corporation
76, 77
Police Department 79, 80, 81
Slaughtering of Animals 84
Tax Collector for No. Chelmsford Fire District. 73
Tax Collector for Chelmsford Water District , 73
Town Treasurer and Tax Collector .70, 71, 72
Treasurer of Adams Library .79
Trustees of Adams Library 77, 78
Town Clerk's Reports-
Births Recorded 22, 23, 24
Business Meeting, February 11, 1929 11 to 17
Business Transacted at Special Town Meeting, Mar. 20, 1929. 18
Business Transacted at Special Town Meeting, Aug. 7, 1929 20
Business Transacted at Special Town Meeting, Sept. 27, 1929 21
Deaths Recorded 26, 27, 28, 29
Election of Officers 10, 11
Financial Report 30, 31
List of Jurors
29, 30
Vital Statistics
.22 to 29
. Marriages Recorded
.24, 25, 26
Officers Elected and Appointed .3, 4, 5, 6
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting 107 to 114
Warrant Feb. 11, 1929 Town Meeting 7, 8, 9,10
Warrant for Special Town Meeting, Mar. 20, 1929 17, 18 Warrant for Special Meeting, Aug. 7, 1929 .19
Warrant for Special Town Meeting, Sept. 27, 1929 21
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INDEX OF SCHOOL REPORT
Enrollment by Grades, Fall, 1929
103
Graduates of High School
104
Graduates of Grade Schools
105, 106
Reports of-
Financial Summary 104
High School Funds
98, 99
High School Principal
.97, 98, 99, 100
School Committee
.90, 91
School Budget
.104
School Nurse
101, 102
Superintendent
.92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97
Supervisor of Music
.100
Supervisor of Physical Education
100, 101
School Calendar
.88
School Officials
88
No School Signal
88
School Teachers
.88, 89, 90
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