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50.00
50.11
1.25
1.25
50.11
Potter
100.00
161.29
4.03
3.50
161.82
Prescott, Jeremiah
75.00
78.69
1.97
3.00
77.66
Purington, Abby J.
50.00
176.73
4.42
4.00
177.15
Rathe, Walter E.
50.00
. 50.17
1.25
1.25
50.17
Reilly, John
and Annie
50.00
52.87
1.32
1.25
52.94
Reilly, William P.
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Rigby, Jane
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Roberts, Mary E.
100.00
135.81
3.40.
3.00
136.21
Roberts, Sally
100.00
200.54
5.01
5.00
200.55
Rogers & Jewett
50.00
85.80
2.15
2.00
85.95
Rogers & Johnson
100.00
119.30
2.98
2.50
119.78
Ross, Martha E.
150.00
151.84
3.80
3.00
152.64
Russ, Emily E.
100.00
100.06
2.50
2.50
100.06
Russell, Arthur
100.00
102.55
2.56
2.00
103.11
Porter, Winniebelle
100.00
121.03
3.03
3.00
121.06
143
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Balance
Name of Fund
Orig. Amt.
Jan. 1
Income
Expended
Balance Dec. 31
Russell, Daniel S.
100.00
119.27
2.98
3.00
119.25
Russell, David
and Susan
50.00
50.14
1.25
1.25
50.14
Russell, Foster Heirs 100.00
100.05
2.50
2.50
100.05
Russell, Henry F.
100.00
162.88
4.07
3.00
163.95
Russell, William H.
50.00
50.75
1.27
1.25
50.77
Rust, Kate
100.00
105.02
2.63
2.50
105.15
Rust, William L.
50.00
50.52
1.26
1.25
50.53
Saunders, Willett
100.00
124.43
3.11
5.00
122.54
Sayward, Harry
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Scanks, Jacob
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Scotten, Eliza
100.00
109.94
2.75
8.50
104.19
Senior, Seth
50.00
64.00
1.60
2.00
63.60
Seward, Sarah A.
100.00
187.70
4.69
4.00
188.39
Sheppard, Arthur
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Shatswell,
Nathaniel
100.00
173.52
4.34
4.50
173.36
Sheppard, James H.
50.00
52.95
1.32
1.50
52.77
Sheppard, Walter
50.00
55.52
1.39
1.50
55.41
Simms, Mrs.
Nellie B.
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Simmons, Susanna
50.00
51.22
1.28
1.25
51.25
Smith, Caroline L.
100.00
133.90
3.35
3.00
134.25
Smith, Elizabeth L.
100.00
120.08
3.00
5.00
118.08
Smith, Harry P.
100.00
106.72
2.67
3.00
106.39
Smith, Jeremiah
Z
and Family
100.00
105.92
2.65
3.00
105.57
Smith, Lemuel
50.00
55.45
1.39
2.00
54.84
Smith, Olive P.
100.00
150.17
3.75
3.00
150.92
Spears, Oscar Kippin 75.00
75.26
1.88
1.50
75.64
Spencer, Robert A.
50.00
50.05
1.25
1.25
50.05
Spiller, George
300.00
541.43
13.54
8.00
546.97
Spiller, Jennie M.
50.00
52.96
1.32
1.25
53.03
Spiller, Jerry
100.00
101.33
2.53
3.00
100.86
Spiller, Joseph
50.00
67.02
1.68
2.00
66.70
Spiller, Lucy F.
50.00
79.03
1.98
3.00
78.01
Spiller, William A.
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Spinney, Eugene
100.00
217.32
5.43
6.00
216.75
Stackpole, Elmer E. 100.00
131.08
3.28
5.00
129.36
Stackpole, William A.
and Ida M.
125.00
175.25
4.38
4.00
175.63
144
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Name of Fund
Orig. Amt.
Balance Jan. 1
Income
Expended
Balance Dec. 31
Staniford
50.00
221.64
5.54
5.00
222.18
Staniford,
Mary J. Est.
100.00
105.39
2.63
3.00
105.02
Staniford, Curtis
100.00
105.82
2.65
2.00
106.47
Stewart, Martha J.
50.00
50.59
1.26
1.50
50.35
Stone, Alice A.
100.00
115.41
2.89
2.50
115.80
Stone, E. Maria
75.00
95.32
2.38
2.50
95.20
Stone, Robert
50.00
52.61
1.32
1.25
52.68
Sullivan,
Mrs. John J.
100.00
126.16
3.15
3.00
126.31
Stackpole, Josiah
50.00
50.31
1.26
1.25
50.32
Smith, Nellie
100.00
100.00
2.50
2.50
100.00
Taylor, Mary J.
100.00
104.23
2.61
2.50
104.34
Tenney, Ward F.
50.00
62.64
1.57
1.50
62.71
Thompson, Fred O.
50.00
50.00
1.25
1.25
50.00
Thurston, Rebecca
65.00
65.76
1.64
1.50
65.90
Tonge, Henry F.
50.00
50.89
1.27
1.50
50.66
Towle, Susan
50.00
50.03
1.25
1.25
50.03
Trow
300.00
637.58
15.94
19.00
634.52
Twombley, Sarah E. 100.00
132.88
3.32
3.00
133.20
Tyler, Emily W.
100.00
147.66
3.69
6.00
145.35
Tyler, Sophia A. &
A. W. Dodge
100.00
125.54
3.14
3.00
125.68
Underhill,
N. Rawson
100.00
100.76
2.52
3.00
100.28
Varrell
200.00
516.71
12.92
9.00
520.63
Wade, Annie P.
50.00
51.34
1.28
2.00
50.62
Wade, Annie G.
and Francis G.
100.00
100.11
2.50
2.50
100.11
Wait, Joseph & Sons 500.00
515.69
12.89
12.00
516.58
Waite, Luther
150.00
152.30
3.81
3.00
153.11
Wales, Mrs. F. H.
50.00
51.12
1.28
1.25
51.15
Wallace, John
100.00
102.67
2.57
2.50
102.74
Wardwell, Moses
200.00
281.21
7.03
7.00
281.24
Weeks, Charles D.
100.00
134.87
3.37
3.00
135.24
Weeks, Francis P.
50.00
70.48
1.76
1.50
70.74
Welch, Mrs. E. H.
100.00
174.33
4.36
4.00
174.69
Wells, Charles H.
75.00
75.42
1.89
1.75
75.56
Wells, Daniel H.
75.00
77.01
1.93
78.94
Wentworth, Etta L. 100.00
124.10
3.10
3.00
124.20
145
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Name of Fund
Orig. Amt.
Balance Jan. 1
Income
Expended
Balance Dec. 31
White, William
50.00
50.14
1.25
1.25
50.14
Whittier, Maynard
100.00
104.95
2.62
3.00
104.57
Wildes, Frank P.
100.00
110.92
2.77
3.00
110.69
Willcomb
60.00
100.75
2.52
2.50
100.77
Willcomb, Mrs. Charles S.
100.00
116.80
2.92
3.00
116.72
Willcomb, Eva C.
100.00
105.19
2.63
3.00
104.82
Willcomb, Frederick 100.00
111.09
2.78
3.00
110.87
Willcomb, Henry P. 75.00
75.26
1.88
1.75
75.39
Willis & Stacey
100.00
178.94
4.47
4.50
178.91
Willcomb, Capt. Joseph W.
200.00
253.69
6.34
10.00
250.03
Winch, Susan C.
50.00
51.14
1.28
2.00
50.42
Wood, Chalmers
200.00
200.13
5.00
5.00
200.13
Wood, Joseph F.
100.00
100.40
2.51
2.50
100.41
Woodbury, Andre
50.00
50.03
1.25
1.25
50.03
Woodworth,
William H.
100.00
141.10
3.53
3.50
141.13
Young
25.00
27.25
.68
1.00
26.93
49,111.70
1,227.00 1,170.61
49,168.09
New Funds:
Arcade J. Theriault
150.00
150.00
Joseph A. Huckins (Flowers)
100.00
1.46
101.46
Mary Blenkhorn
100.00
.58
100.58
Alice A. Roberts
100.00
.47
100.47
Dominick Tahaney
100.00
1.30
101.30
Additions :
Charles E. Goodhue
9.00
.19
9.19
Abbie M. Fellows
100.00
1.71
101.71
146
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Balance
Balance
Name of Fund Orig. Amt.
Jan. 1
Income Expended
Dec. 31
Jane Rigby
50.00
.73
50.73
Charles H. Baker
100.00
1.46
101.46
Eddie Comeau
25.00
25.00
49,945.70 1,234.90 1,170.61 50,009.99
Undivided Income 81.74
50,091.73
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS
Receipts
Amount of Funds January 1, 1941 New Funds
49,193.67
834.00
Income
1,234.67
51,262.34
Expenditures
Paid for Care of Lots
1,170.61
50,091.73
Investment Account
Ipswich Savings Bank 49,941.71
Medford Savings Bank
150.02
50,091.73
147
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IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Income Account
Balance Undivided Income January 1, 1941 81.97
1,231.66
Ipswich Savings Bank Medford Savings Bank
3.01
1,316.64
ELWYN F. MCCARTHY, Treasurer.
Heard Fund of Ipswich Public Library
Balance, January 1, 1941 $ 41.77
Income:
From Investments $ 272.60
From George Spiller Fund 36.24
From John C. Kimball Fund 12.58
From Elizabeth R. Lathrop Fund 40.00
From sale of books
and fines
92.69
Gift
5.00
459.11
$ 500.88
Expenditures:
Salaries
Fuel
$ 357.53 53.86
148
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Light and Water
39.22
Books 1.33
Deposited in the First
National Bank
5.55
Services and Supplies
22.05
479.54
Balance, January 1, 1942
$ 21.34
Securities Comprising Fund
Mkt. Val.
Par Value
35 shares B. & M. R. R., Pfd.
$ 3,500.00
Jan. 1, 1942 $ 596.00
10 shares B. & M. R. R., 1 st Pfd.
1,000.00
112.50
33 shares B. & M. R. R.,
1st Pfd. Class B.
3,300.00
812.50
10.41 shares B. & M. R. R., Prior Pfd.
1,041.00
59.00
3 Bonds, Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Corp.
1,200.00
no bid
1 Bond, Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern
1,000.00
no bid
1 Bond, National Press Building
1,000.00
800.00
1 Bond, Penn. Water Service Corp. 1,000.00 Ipswich Savings Bank Deposit 404.45
1,000.00
Salem Savings Bank Deposit
1,500.00
1,500.00
5 Paid-up shares Ipswich Co-operative Bank
1,000.00
1,000.00
$16,945.45
$ 7,209.45
FREDERICK A. KIMBALL,
Treasurer.
925.00
1 Bond, C. B. & Q. R. R.
1,000.00
404.45
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT 149
Treadwell Fund of Ipswich Public Library
Balance, January 1, 1941 $ 253.60
Income:
Boston & Albany R. R. $ 168.75
Vermont & Massachusetts R. R. 150.00
Bond-New York Water Service Corp. 50.00
Ipswich Savings Bank
30.02
Massachusetts Savings Bank
21.56
Salem Savings Bank
13.76
Ipswich Co-operative Bank
24.00
U. S. Liberty Bond
16.25
474.34
$ 727.94
Expenditures :
Salaries and Wages
$ 122.50
Fuel
40.51
Water
2.00
Books and Periodicals
101.34
Supplies
6.00
Services
4.00
New Equipment
125.00
Insurance
19.50
420.85
Balance, January 1, 1942
$ 367.09
1
150
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Securities Comprising Fund
Par Value
Mkt. Val. Jan. 1, 1942
50 shares B. & M. R. R., 1st Pfd. Class A
$ 5,000.00
$ 686.00
6 shares B. S. M. R. R., Prior Pfd.
600.00
45.00
30 shares Old Colony R. R.
3,000.00
300.00
25 shares Boston & Providence R. R.
2,500.00
312.50
25 shares Main Central R. R.
2,500.00
100.00
25 shares Boston & Albany R. R.
2,500.00
2,475.00
25 shares Vermont and Mass. R. R.
2,500.00
2,565.00
3 Bonds, Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Corp.
1,200.00
no bid
1 Bond, Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern
1,000.00
no bid
1 Bond, N. Y. Water Service Corp.
1,000.00
992.50
1 Bond, Missouri Pacific R. R.
1,000.00
150.00
1 U. S. Liberty Bond
500.00
545.00
Deposit Ipswich Savings Bank
2,201.37
2,201.37
Deposit Ipswich Savings Bank
from sale of Lexington Securities Bond
1,000.00
1,000.00
Deposit Massachusetts Savings Bank
1,078.32
1,078.32
Deposit Salem Savings Bank
550.00
550.00
3 Paid-up shares Ipswich
Co-operative Bank
600.00
600.00
$28,729.69
$13,600.69
FREDERICK A. KIMBALL,
Treasurer.
151
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
George Spiller Fund
Income:
Balance, January 1, 1941
$ 1,812.05
(Deposit in Massachusetts Savings Bank) Interest to December 31, 1941 36.24
$ 1,848.29
Expenditures:
Paid to Heard Fund of Library
$ 36.24
Balance, December 31, 1941
1,812.05
$ 1,848.29
Annual Report of the Feoffees of the Grammer School of Ipswich
As of January 1, 1942
Income:
Cash on hand
January 1, 1941
$
373.13
Received from rents
4,989.60
Received from taxes 7,009.25
152
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Received from interest on
rents and taxes 84.06
Received from sale of cottage on lot 31 450.00
$12,906.04
Expenditures:
Town of Ipswich-on High School
Principal's salary $2,000.00
Town of Ipswich-taxes 7,780.34
Town of Ipswich-water 6.00
S. Foster Damon-salary
400.00
Ernest Harding- legal services 52.25
Ipswich Lumber Company- material 82.47
J. W. Goodhue Corporation- material 10.48
Estate of A. C. Damon- material 9.18
Fred R. Hull-printing
5.00
Damon & Damon-insurance
137.60
The Barrett Company-tar
64.00
Trimount Bi-Products
Company-oil 87.49
Alvery Marriott-sand
9.00
Joseph H. Leet- police services
32.50
John Michon-police services
10.00
S. D. Conley, Postmaster-
stamps and envelopes 25.26
Little Neck Association-
cleaning playground 10.00
J. Alex Gallant-garbage and rubbish collection 400.00
153
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Delbert Matheson-signs,
post and labor 10.50
A. B. C. Mulholland- truck and labor 48.00
Lester L. Wood-
truck and labor 45.00
Michael Ryan-use of truck 15.00
Benjamin Colas-labor
18.00
Kenneth Earle-labor
18.00
Albert Sheppard-labor
1.17
Alvery Marriott-labor 1.58
John D. Kelly-labor
6.00
Joseph Surpitski-labor
1.50
Louis Kelly-labor
1.50
Alex Bartniski-labor
1.50
Samuel Chouinard-labor
1.50
John Ewic-labor
1.50
Jean Godin-labor
1.50
John Szklarz-labor
1.50
John Tremblay-labor
1.00
Joseph Iwic-labor
1.00
Stanley Figol-labor
1.00
Gordon Comeau
1.00
Harold Como-labor
1.00
William Burridge-labor
205.24
$11,514.56
Cash on hand, January 1, 1942 $ 1,391.48
Property in hand of Feoffees as of January 1, 1942:
Cash on hand in First National Bank, Ipswich $ 1,391.48
15,000.00
Little Neck valued at Hotel and Barn valued at 4,000.00
154
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank $17,034.66
Interest on above 428.52
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank -Essex School Farm Fund 3,937.28 Interest on above 99.04
17,463.18
4,036.32
Cottage on lot 168 taken for taxes
396.51
Cottage on lot 188 taken for taxes
50.00
Cottage on lot 210 taken for taxes
50.00
$42,387.49
S. FOSTER DAMON,
Treasurer.
Burley Education Fund
The Trustees of the Burley Education Fund herewith sub- mit their one hundred sixteenth annual report.
The funds in their hands January 1, 1942 are as follows:
In Salem Savings Bank $ 805.78
In Salem Five Cents Savings Bank 715.63
In Ipswich Savings Bank 2,008.76
In Ipswich Savings Bank Caldwell Fund 1,397.20
In Ipswich Cooperative Bank, matured certificate 1,000.00
155
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
15 shares B. & M. Common Stock 1,500.00
3 shares B. & M. Prior Preference Stock 300.00
$ 7,727.37
The income from the funds in their possession for the year 1941 is as follows:
Interest from Salem Savings Bank $ 19.77
Interest from Salem Five Cents Savings Bank 21.07
Interest from Ipswich Savings Bank 48.34
Interest from Ipswich Savings Bank Caldwell Fund 34.27
Dividends from Ipswich Cooperative Bank
40.00
$ 163.45
Expended for rent of safety deposit box
5.55
$ 157.90
S. FOSTER DAMON, President
WILLIAM F. HAYES
JOSEPH T. MORTON
ROY K. TILTON
GEORGE W. TOZER, Clerk and Treasurer
156
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Mrs. William G. Brown Fund
Town of Ipswich, in trust, the income to be used under the direction of the Selectmen by the Agent of the Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to animals.
Balance, January 1, 1941
Income
$ 2,057.65 51.75
$ 2,109.40
On Deposit in the Ipswich Savings Bank December 31, 1941 . $ 2,109.40
ELWYN F. MCCARTHY, Treasurer.
John C. Kimball Fund
Town of Ipswich, under the will of John C. Kimball, the income to be used for the purchase of books for the Ipswich Public Library.
Balance, January 1, 1941
$ 500.00
Income
12.58
512.58
Expenditures
12.58
On deposit in the Ipswich Savings Bank
500.00
December 31, 1941
ELWYN F. MCCARTHY,
Treasurer.
157
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Richard T. Crane, Jr. Picnic Fund
Balance January 1, 1941 $29,460.06
Income:
Ipswich Savings Bank $ 90.31
Dividend on Stocks $ 1,250.00
$ 1,340.31
$30,800.37
Expenditures:
Picnic
1,373.15
$29,427.22
Securities Comprising Fund
250 Shares Crane Co., 5 per cent Preferred $25,000.00
On Deposit in the Ipswich Savings Bank December 31, 1941 4,427.22
$29,427.22
ELWYN F. MCCARTHY,
Treasurer.
158
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund
Balance, January 1, 1941
$10,164.17
Income:
Salem Savings Bank $ 128.50
Institution for Savings
Newburyport $ 127.17 255.67
$10,419.84
Cash paid for scholarships in 1941
250.00
$10,169.84
Deposits Comprising Fund
Salem Savings Bank
$ 5,112.36
Institution for Savings Newburyport
5,057.48
$10,169.84
ELWYN F. MCCARTHY, Treasurer.
Marianna T. Jones Fund
Amount of Fund January 1, 1941 $ 745.16
Income
18.74
$ 763.90
On Deposit in the Ipswich Savings Bank
December 31, 1941 $ 763.90
ELWYN F. McCARTHY, Treasurer.
159
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Martha I. Savory Fund
Amount of Fund January 1, 1941
$ 120.62
Income:
Ipswich Savings Bank $ 2.89
Western Union Telegraph Co. $
4.00
6.89
Expenditures
8.75
$ 118.76
Securities Comprising Fund
On deposit in Ipswich Savings Bank
December 31, 1941 $ 118.76
This Fund also includes two (2) shares
Western Union Telegraph Stock par value $200.
ELWYN F. MCCARTHY,
Treasurer.
Dow Boulder Memorial Fund
Amount of Fund January 1, 1941. $ 124.04 3.11
Income
$ 127.15
On Deposit in the Ipswich Savings Bank
December 31, 1941 $ 127.15
ELWYN F. MCCARTHY, Treasurer.
$ 127.51
160
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Elizabeth R. Lathrop Fund
Income:
Interest Ipswich Savings Bank Deposit $ 11.86
From Ipswich Co-operative Bank Dividend 40.00
$ 51.86
Expenditures:
To the Heard Fund Balance, January 1, 1942
$ 40.00
11.86
$ 51.86
Securities Comprising Fund:
Paid-up share Ipswich Co-operative Bank $ 1,000.00
Deposit in Ipswich Savings Bank 793.10
$ 1,793.10
FREDERICK A. KIMBALL,
Treasurer.
161
IPSWICH TOWN REPORT
Manning School Fund
Balance, January 1, 1941 $ 1,157.14
Income:
From Investments $ 402.38
From Rents 489.32
From Interest on Deposit in
Ipswich Savings Bank
53.11
944.81
$ 2,101.95
Expenditures :
Building and Ground Maintenance and Town Taxes $ 778.24
Treasurer's Salary 150.00
928.24
$ 1,173.71
Securities Comprising Fund
Par Value
Mkt. Val. Jan. 1, 1942 $ no bid
15 shares Patterson Bridge Co. $ 375.00
Bonds Peoria & Eastern R. R. 4%
6,600.00
3,267.00
3 Bonds National Railway of Mexico 41/2 % 3,000.00
no bid
1 Bond National Railway of Mexico 4%
500.00
no bid
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Mkt. Val.
Par .. Value Jan. 1, 1942
1 Bond National Railway of Mexico 4%
100.00
no bid
1 Certificate United States of Mexico
810.00
no bid
50 shares First National Bank of Boston
not stated
2,375.00
Ipswich Savings Bank Deposit
2,667.50
2,667.50
Master's House and Land 22 North Main Street
4,500.00
Colonial Building
26 North Main Street
7,500.00
FREDERICK A. KIMBALL,
Treasurer.
R. H. Manning Fund
Income:
Interest on Deposit Securities Comprising Fund:
$ 302.25
Par Value
Mkt. Val.
60 shares Patterson Bridge Co.
$ 1,500.00
no bid
22 shares Pere Marquette Ry. Common
2,200.00
$ 192.50
11 shares Pere Marquette Ry. Pfd.
1,100.00
269.50
Ipswich Savings Bank Deposit 12,317.54
12,317.54
FREDERICK A. KIMBALL,
Treasurer.
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Brown School Fund
Report of the Trustees for the Year 1941
Income:
Balance January 1, 1941 $ 3,044.40
Interest credited during year 84.49
$ 3,128.89
Expenditures:
Accounts payable: A. B. C. Mulholland for transportation during 1941 $ 90.00
Balance December 31, 1941 3,038.89
$ 3,128.89
Respectfully submitted, by the Trustees:
CHESTER A. BOLLES J. PERRY SMITH, JR. J. WARREN HORTON, Clerk
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Agent's W. P. A. Report
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To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my report as Sponsor's W. P. A. Agent for the year ending December 31, 1941.
During the past year, insofar as I have been able to do so, I have carried on the W. P. A. Program in keeping with the recommendations of the Committee appointed to study future W. P. A. Projects in the Town of Ipswich.
The Fellow's Road Water Extension Project and the Argilla Road Drainage Project carried over from last year were completed during the first of the year.
The Argilla Road Water Extension Project was then started and carried on until conditions were suitable to start the construction of the causeway on lower East Street.
The construction of the East Street Causeway was started in June and was carried on until November 9. In order to improve existing conditions, an entirely new layout was made across the marsh at this point, eliminating dangerous curves and raising the grade to a point above high-water mark under normal conditions. Under the new layout the roadway across the marsh was shortened considerably. An additional six hundred feet of roadway, not originally included in the project, was constructed on the south end of the causeway, and a drain- age system six hundred feet long was installed at this point. This additional work has greatly improved this section of the
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road by removing two high banks on each side of the road and widening it in such a manner that very bad snow drifts will be eliminated in the future. Anticipating that some settling would occur during the winter and spring months, I have not had this project closed out, but have suspended it so that some additional work can be done in the spring of 1942. I would recommend that the causeway be brought up to grade in places where settling has occured and that the shoulders of the road be re-graded and an application of Tarvia and pea stone be applied. The Federal Government made an allotment to assist the town in the purchase of materials required for the construc- tion of this road, and the engineering costs were cut to a minimum due to the assistance of engineers from the Depart- ment of Public Works, whose advice and cooperation were of great value in connection with the operation of this project.
In November the workers were transferred back to the Argilla Road Water Extension Project and at the present time are engaged in the completion of this Project. Working under favorable weather conditions this project should be completed during the spring months.
Early in the year I anticipated that there would not only be an increase in the price of materials but that they would be difficult to secure and, therefore, I ordered materials enough to practically complete this project. By so doing, I not only was able to save a considerable amount on the cost of materials, but I made sure that enough materials were made available to com- plete the project. I also was able to get the Federal Government to make a contribution towards the cost of some of the water pipe used on this project.
The completion of the Argilla Road Water Extension Propect will not only add greatly to the assets of the Water Department but will give this part of the Town a long needed water supply system which will result in better water supply,
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increased fire protection and a decrease in insurance rates to the residents of this part of the town. The completion of this project practically completes the water supply system in the Town of Ipswich and, together with other water supply ex- tensions completed under Federal Works Projects, gives to the Water Department extensions valued at thousands of dollars that the town would never have been able to undertake with- out the assistance of Federal Funds.
Due to a curtailment of the W. P. A. Program by the Federal Government, the Sewing Project, the Clam Reseeding Project and the Library Project, as well as the Nursery School Project, were closed the last of June.
In accepting the appointment as Town Accountant, my resignation as Sponsor's W. P. A. Agent will take effect upon the election of a new member of the Board of Selectmen. In order that there will be no interruption of the W. P. A. Pro- gram, I have prepared and have had approved a sufficient number of Projects to carry the present number of workers well along in the year 1942.
There is at the present time set up in Washington a board known as the Federal Works Reserve Board for the purpose of drawing up a nation-wide program of public works projects to be carried on in the future. I recommend very strongly that the Town of Ipswich appoint a local Works Reserve Com- mittee to study this problem, and prepare plans and specifica- tions so that the Town of Ipswich will be in a position to take full advantage of any program that the Federal Government might embark upon after the present world wide conflict, when we will probably see an unemployment situation far worse than the one that existed at the start of the C. W. A. I feel that the Town of Ipswich would be very lax not to take some action in regard to a matter that might be of great importance to us in the near future. I advise very strongly that the town
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give very serious consideration to preparing plans and specifi- cations for the construction of a sewerage system, the construc- tion of a parking place, a new Town Hall, and a project for the general improvement and beautification of the grounds surrounding the new High School, to include the construction of a retaining wall around the entire water front, with the reconstruction of the Green Street Dam, together with the im- provement of the area now used as a town dump and the erection of permanent bleachers at the football field.
Respectfully submitted,
BRAINARD C. WALLACE,
Sponsor's W. P. A. Agent.
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Selectmen's Report
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To the Citizens of Ipswich:
During the year, the Board of Selectmen have at all times tried to solve matters coming before them in the interests of the Town at large. We have tried to keep in very close touch with the expenditures of the departments that come under our con- trol, with the result that we have been able to finish the year within the amounts appropriated, and in some departments we have finished the year with sizable unexpended balances.
All department heads over which the Selectmen have control have filed their individual reports and they have been approved by the Board of Selectmen and will be found in this Annual Report. The Board is quite satisfied with the manner in which these departments have been operated and are pleased with the cooperation given by the department heads in keeping expenditures at a minimum. The Board of Selectmen, in pre- paring their budgets for 1942, have endeavored to keep them at the lowest possible figure, and we feel that the amounts requested are needed to carry on the work in an efficient manner.
During the year the Board has attended all public hearings where matters of interest to the Town of Ipswich were dis- cussed and has labored at all times, together with the Town Counsel, to put forward all claims of Ipswich to the end that we might receive a fair proportionate part of whatever was to be expended from outside sources.
At the last special town meeting a motion was made and carried that the Town Report for this year be printed in detail. While this was merely an expression of opinion vote and the
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Board of Selectmen were in no way legally bound to comply with the vote, it was, however, the intention of the Board to comply with it. Since then conditions have arisen which make it impossible to get out a report in detail. It is only after many long and tiresome hours during the past two months by those responsible in assembling the necessary information required for a town report that we feel with any assurance that the Town Report will be in the hands of the citizens before the Annual Town Meeting. During the past few years there has been a great deal of discussion in regard to the manner in which the Town Report should be printed, and with this in mind the Board of Selectmen has inserted an article in the Warrant so that the Town can decide once and for all, just what they would like to have done relating to the printing of the report.
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