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Remarks
This department, co-operating with the School Department and the officials in charge of St. John Parochial School, furnished speakers and literature and also held fire drills in observance of Fire Prevention Week.
The Marblehead Water Department officials have agreed to give us two new hydrants to be located on their new 16 inch Marblehead water main near the Sunbeam Inn, State road.
Chief of Department,
JAMES WARNOCK.
Board of Fire Engineers,
GEO. B. LEARNED,
BENJAMIN B. BLANCHARD, JEFFERSON G. OWENS, Jr.
Superintendent of Cemetery
To the Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my 15th report as Superintendent of the Swampscott Cemetery.
The year 1930 was a very busy year, having passed all records for deaths and lots sold.
Interments for year 1930 numbered 100. The town has received for sale of lots and perpetual care the sum of $8,262.50.
The new lots being made in the rear of the Cemetery, numbering about 20, will be finished in the spring. The single grave lots are still scarce.
The avenues of the Cemetery were greatly improved by the appli- cation of about 75 tons of blue gravel, given by Theodore Cooke, in memory of his father, James A. Cooke.
Respectfully submitted.
THOMAS HANDLEY, Superintendent.
Dog Officer
To the Board of Selectmen:
There have been 29 complaints investigated this year. Twenty- eight dogs have been restored to their owners and forty-nine stray dogs have been taken care of. Have notified owners who have neglected to license their dogs, as called for in the public statutes, and as a result 552 dogs have been licensed, and 1 breeder's license granted.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Dog Officer.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
[ Dec. 31
Surveyor of Highways
To the Citizens of Swampscott:
. I herewith submit my annual report for the year 1930. All con- struction work this year has been done by contract.
Phillips avenue, from Atlantic avenue to Plummer avenue, has been put to grade, drains laid, catch basins built and resurfaced with bituminous macadam asphalt.
Humphrey street, from Lynn line to Holden's Store, resurfaced with asphalt' top mixed concrete, and from Holden's Store to Puritan road. scaled.
Bay View Drive, put to grade, sidewalks built and resurfaced.
Ocean avenue, from Atlantic avenue to Shephard avenue, put to grade. catch basins built, surfaced with gravel and scaled.
Culverts on Salem street have been put to grade and larger cement pipes laid in place of the old stone ones that were in bad condition .. Work on these jobs was done by the M. McDonough Co. of Swamp- scott.
Humphrey street, from Commonwealth avenue to Glen road, has been resurfaced with a vulcanized type of pavement, the work being done by Simpson Bros. of Boston.
Barnstable street put to grade, sidewalk built and resurfaced with gravel.
Plymouth avenue, put to grade, sidewalks built and resurfaced with gravel.
Rock avenue, from Burrill street to top of hill, resurfaced with tarred rock.
Bay View avenue, new catch basin built, drain laid, street put to grade and resurfaced with tarred mixed top.
Road to Palmer Pond resurfaced with gravel. There have been used on other streets of the town about 1,200 loads of gravel. taken mostly from the town pit.
All streets where curbstones were laid this year the gutters and sidewalks have been resurfaced with either gravel or tarred mixed stone.
Shoulders to Atlantic avenue and Essex street have been shaped and tarred mixed stone used for filling three times during the year.
The usual work of patrolling street surfaces has been done.
About seven miles of streets were seal coated in whole or in part.
Buena Vista street ledge, 206 yards removed. There is still con- siderable more rock to be taken out.
Repairs on sidewalks have been done where needed. the following amounts of material being used: 626 tons of stone dust, 292 loads of gravel, 56 loads of cinders.
Number of loads of sand used for sanding icy sidewalks and streets. 229.
Tar concrete sidewalks were repaired at a cost of $1 per yard for new work and 65 cents per yard for skim coating. This work was done under contract by F. P. Hart, of Lynn. The number of yards laid new, 983. Some 226 yards of granolithic sidewalks were repaired and 2,140 yards of either tarred or asphalt mixed concrete sidewalks were laid by the department.
Seven catch basins were retopped and two new catch basins built.
The following drain pipe was laid: 230 feet of 8 inch, 12 feet of 10 inch, 16 feet of 6 inch.
All catch basins in town streets cleaned at least twice, others oftener when needed.
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REPORT OF SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS
1930]
Gutters in all streets have been cleaned where needed and about 1,100 square yards of tar and mixed stone have been laid in gutters to prevent washing out. Two manholes have been built, and 28 driveways were lowered. Some 421 feet of curbstone reset, 2,551 feet of new curbstone laid; 1,136 feet of guard rail fence repaired; one crossing reset. Snow fences placed on Salem street, Crossman avenue, Puritan road and Dennison avenue.
Roy street drain, 2 manholes built 170 feet of 15 inch pipe drain laid.
Elm place drain found in good condition; built two manhole clean outs.
Palmer pond drain. No work has been done on this drain this year.
There were 50,707 gallons of asphalt road oil and tar used on the streets, same being purchased under contract. The prices paid were cold patch at town yard and put in barrels, 14 cents; 45 or 65 per cent. asphalt oil applied, .052 cents. All oil applied on streets was covered with sand. Price of sand delivered at town yard, 95 cents; teamed by town trucks, 75 cents per ton.
The amount spent for repairs on wood block pavement, Humphrey street, from Holden's Store to Fish House, which has blown up 24 times this year, was about $360.
Old stone crusher and building sold to John W. Sheehan of Lynn for $500, the highest bidder.
The town buildings, State road. have been taken down and all the best of the lumber used in building additional shed room in the rear of the yard. All other buildings have been overhauled and repaired and painted. also a chain link fence built. The buildings are now in good condition.
Fence on Essex street, from the bridge to the Dennis Lyons estate. a cement cap has been laid on the top of the wall and 141 feet of chain fence built.
The working force of the department remains the same as last year. New equipment added to the department consists of one Healey catch basin cleaner, one oil burning tar kettle. one gasoline pump. The Healey catch basin cleaner works perfectly.
Streets that ought to be resurfaced the coming year are Puritan road, from Humphrey street to New Ocean House; Beach Bluff avenue. from Humphrey street to Atlantic avenue; the pavement on Phillips avenue continued to Humphrey street: Foster road resurfaced with a mixed top; also the hills on Barnstable street cleaned and resurfaced with a mixed top.
I recommend that the town vote to purchase a sand spreading machine, and appropriate money therefor.
I recommend that the town vote to purchase a 212 or 3 ton truck and appropriate money therefor.
Respectfully submitted,
MICHAEL J. RYAN, Surveyor of Highways.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
Board of Public Welfare
To the Citizens of Swampscott:
We herewith submit our annual report for the year 1930.
The Department has had the heaviest year in its history, owing to unemployment and the growth of the town.
We have co-operated with the several other organizations in the town which have been dispensing aid, in order that the chance of duplication might be kept at a minimum. While these organizations have been of great service during this emergency, the citizens should realize that through our department aid is rendered continually and not just at the holiday season, when one is apt to feel most charitable.
No one having requested aid has been refused, but the Board does not feel it is justified or has the right to inquire into the affairs of persons with the idea of placing them on the Public Welfare's books, other than at their request.
We would recommend that the town appropriate the sum of $25,000 for maintenance of the Board of Public Welfare and Old Age Pensions for the ensuing year.
SECRETARY'S REPORT 1930
Persons having settlement in Swampscott, aided by other
cities and towns 36
Families partially supported in Swampscott. 20
Men, women and children receiving aid from Swampscott, during 1930 150
Settlements in Swampscott
99
Settlement elsewhere in State
17
State settlements 22
Persons fully supported in State Hospitals
4
Persons fully supported in Salem Home
1
Respectfully submitted,
EDMUND RUSSELL, Secretary.
FINANCIAL REPORT
Reimbursed by State $2,307.38
Reimbursed by cities and towns
359.50
Due from State and cities and towns
3,445.75
JOSEPH F. CROWELL, Chairman,
EDMUND RUSSELL, Secretary, HARRY E. CAHOON.
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REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
1930]
Trustees of the Public Library
To the Citizens of Swampscott:
The Board of Trustees of the Public Library herewith submit their annual report.
In the report for 1930 the Trustees recommended the addition to the library of a study and reference room and the finishing and furnish- ing of the upper floor of the present building as a children's room. The finance board recommended and the town appropriated $7,500 for pro- viding a children's room. The specifications for the room were made by Grave & Epps, Architects. In July competitive bids for the work were received, all of them in excess of the amount appropriated. The Trustees voted to have new and simplified specifications drawn up which would make it possible to provide a room which, with a later appro- priation, could be furnished and improved. The contract for work as called for in the second set of specifications was awarded to Thibeau & Comeau, the lowest bidders. The work has been finished in a most satisfactory manner. At a special town meeting December 4, $3,000, as recommended by the finance board, was appropriated for furnishing the new room.
Miss Lillian Ansley, formerly children's librarian in Watertown, Massachusetts, has been engaged to take charge of the work in the children's department, and the Trustees hope that the room may be in use before the end of January.
While much time and attention has gone into the plans for the new children's room, the routine work of the library during the year 1930 has gone on as usual.
The circulation of books, which is an important feature of our work, is a matter of statistics; cold figures can not give an accurate estimate of a library's value to the community. Use of the library for reading and reference is of at least equal importance, and there has been a gratifying increase in the number of people who have used these priv- ileges. By means of inter-library loan, an arrangement between libraries for borrowing and loaning books, our patrons have had the use of material not to be found in our own library.
The number of new books added during 1930 was 1,048, an in- crease of 110 over the accessions of 1929. During the year 396 books were discarded. The number of books discarded during the last few years may seem large, but it is our purpose to remove the out-of-date material from our shelves so that our record of books on hand may represent volumes which are in active service.
Last June, after nine months of efficient service, Miss Mildred Parker left us in order to take a business position. Miss Jeannette Crosby and Miss Anna Soutter, High School students, were engaged at that time to give part-time assistance.
The Sunday attendance during the winter of 1929-30 was as follows: Total attendance, 539; adults, 155; students, 189; children, 195.
One of the most interesting gifts which has ever come to the library was donated by the James L. Bates Post of the Grand Army. It con- sists of the charter, framed and ready to be hung; the roll-call book; and the old silk flag, beautifully embroidered with the name of the Post. Books have been received from the Leon Abbott Post of the Legion,
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
ĮDec. 31
John Albree, Professor Elihu Thomson, Dr. Charles H. Bangs, Miss Louise Ricker, Mrs. James J. Fenelon, Mrs. Samuel H. Hollis of Lynn. Miss Carrie Millett of Newton, and The American Geographical Society of New York. These gifts the Trustees and Librarian acknowledge with gratitude.
Respectfully submitted, GUSTAVUS J. ESSELEN, JR., ELIHU THOMSON, JEAN G. ALLAN, Board of Trustees
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
Circulation :
Adult fiction
Adult non-fiction
30,360 6,658
37,018
Juvenile fiction
11,693
Juvenile non-fiction
2,693
14,386
Current periodicals
886
52,290
New books added during the year, 1048.
Books in the library, January 1, 1931, 13,743. There were 396 books discarded during the year.
Fine receipts turned over to the town, $425.55.
LUCY M. EVELETH, Librarian.
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SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
1930]
Sealer of Weights and Measures
To the Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my report from January 1, 1930, to December 31, 1930.
This department tested, sealed or condemned all the various meas- uring devices and records made thereof, the summary of which is as follows:
Non- Sealed
Con- demned
Platform scales over 5000 1bs.
1
Sealed 6
0
0
Platform scales under 5000 1bs.
17
22
1
0
Counter scales under 100 1bs.
15.
48
0
0
Beam scales over 100 1bs.
0
3
0
0
Beam scales under 100 1bs.
0
1
0
0
Spring scales over 100 1bs.
0
8
0
0
Spring scales under 100 1bs.
12
37
0
3
Computing scales under 100 1bs.
14
34
0
1
Personal scales
0
8
0
0
Prescription scales
2
4
0
0
Avoirdupois weights
10
208
3
0
Apothecary weights
2
76
0
0
Metric weights
0
22
0
0
Liquid measures
0
126
0
0
Dry measures
0
10
0
0
Gasoline measuring pumps
13
48
5
0
Gasoline measuring meters
5
15
0
0
Quantity measures on pumps
94
290
0
0
Yard sticks
0
2
0
0
Total
185
968
9
4
Trial Weighing
Number Number Tested
Correct
Under
Over
Bread
45
45
0
0
Butter
231
231
0
0
Coal in bags
95
89
0
6
Coal in transit
8
1
0
7
Confectionery
261
261
0
0
Dry commodities
368
363
4
1
Flour
39
39
0
0
Fruits and vegetables
130
110
0
20
Meats and provisions
64
63
0
1
Total
1241
1202
4
35
This department made during the year 2,534 inspections and 74 tests with very good results. Complaints investigated were satisfac- torily adjusted.
Respectfully submitted, C. WALTER BURRILL, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Adjusted
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
Water and Sewerage Board
WATER DEPARTMENT
To the Citizens of Swampscott:
We submit herewith our annual report for the year ending De- cember 31, 1930. Water mains have been laid in all streets as voted by the town this year, except streets which have not been completed as required before water pipes can be laid, namely: Duke street, Hamp- shire street and Allen road. A number of dead ends have been con- nected up which will give a better circulation and service.
Extension of mains (with cost) including gates and hydrants, etc .: Charlotte road
225 ft. 6-in. C. I. pipe $641.80
Bristol avenue
465 ft. 6-in. C. I. pipe (replaced 2-in.)
1,119.99
Stanley road
567 ft. 6-in. C. I. pipe
1,141.53
Dale street
629 ft. 6-in. C. I. pipe
1.270.00
Nason road
145 ft. 6-in. C. I. pipe 331.50
Minerva street
172 ft. 6-in. C. I. pipe 475.89
$4,980.71
Gates:
In use, December 31, 1929 Added
6
Total December 31, 1930 Hydrants:
592
In use December 31, 1929
275
Added
4
Total December 31, 1930 Services :
2,625
Added
49
Abandoned
1
48
Total December 31. 1930 Meters:
2,673
Total cost to December 31, 1929
$30,703.94
Purchased during year, 36
817.50
Total cost to December 31, 1930
$31,521.44
Table of Distributing Pipe in Feet December 31, 1930
Wrought Iron
Cast
Cement
Lined
Kalemin
Total
11/4 inch
528
528
2
9,190
1.153
10.343
4
..
6,335
1,031
7,366
6
114,028
1,861
115.889
S
7,375
7,375
10
21,800
21,800
12
6,714
6,714
14
3,721
3,721
9,190
159,973
3,622
1.031
173.816
115
80
SO
..
Iron
279
In use December 31, 1929
586
1930]
REPORT OF WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD
151
Water Debt
Bonds and notes issued to December 31, 1930
Bonds and notes paid to December 31, 1930
$368,300.00 297,300.00
Decrease during the year
$8,000.00
Bonds and notes due 1931
8,000.00
(For details of above debt see report of Town Treasurer )
Inventory of Property, Water Department December 31, 1930
Water mains and stand pipe
$213,732.34
Land on Pine street
2,000.00
Brick building, Pine street
2,000.00
Work shop and garage
2,500.00
Auto truck and coupe
800.00
Office furniture
800.00
Meters and parts
31,521.44
Stock on hand
8,000.00
$261,353.78
GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, HAROLD ENHOLM, CHARLES E. HODGDON, Water and Sewerage Commissioners.
SEWER DEPARTMENT
All sewers have been completed as authorized by the town and all houses on the thirty streets where sewers were laid this year have been connected, increasing the sewage to be pumped to quite an amount. Sewage pumped this year is approximately three hundred million gal- Jons. There seems to be a demand for more lateral sewers which will appear in articles in the town warrant. Sewer maintenance
Appropriation
$10,365.00
Expended Balance
$952.10
Particular sewers
Appropriation Expended
518.29
Balance
$481.71
Section "A"
535 lin. ft. 12-in. vit. pipe
@
$4.73
$2,530.55
3299 lin. ft. 10-in. vit. pipe
a
1.84
6,070.16
4431 lin. ft. 8-in. vit. pipe
1.44
6,380.64
2301 lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe
@
0.87
2,001.87
270.4 cu. yds. ledge excavation
a
7.48
2,022.59
45 manholes
a
79.00
3,555.00
34.8 M. sheeting in place Extra work:
@
40.00
1,392.00
Bellevue road
$3,484.11
Beach Bluff avenue
333.77
Mostyn street
378.76
Phillips avenue
258.45
Humphrey street
24.80
Crosman avenue
24.24
Plus 15%
675.62
5.179.75
Inspection
525.00
Blue prints and stencils
10.15
Advertising
13.65
9,412.90
$1,000.00
Construction Details
4,504.13
$71,000.00
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
Manhole rings and covers
$691.51
Police
7.50
Water department flush manholes
193.37
Lynn Gas & Electric Co.
74.71
E. C. Phillips, Buist & Libby, sewer pans
177.50
Cast iron water pipe
558.78
Boston & Maine Railroad
48.48
$31,433.21
Section "B"
130 lin. ft. 15-in. vit. pipe
@
$5.00
$650.00
963 lin. ft. 10-in. vit. pipe
@
5.00
4,815.00
1878 lin. ft. 8-in. vit. pipe
@
4.00
7,512.00
952 lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe
@
1.00
952.00
778 cu. yds. ledge excavation
@
1.00
778.00
20 manholes
@
75.00
1,500.00
7.056 M. sheeting in place Extra work:
@
40.00
282.24
53.5 hours labor
@
$.75
40.13
2 bags cement
@
.75
1.50
1/2 ton stone
@
2.00
1.00
Plus 15%
6.39
49.02
Inspection
560.00
Blue prints and stencils
6.50
Advertising
14.70
Cast iron water pipe
15.63
Manhole rings and covers
332.16
Water Dept. flush manholes
82.23
Buist & Libby, sewer pans
35.00
Section "C"
94 lin. ft. 12-in. vit. pipe
@
$2.45
$230.30
267.6 lin. ft. 10-in. vit. pipe
@
2.45
655.62
758 lin. ft. 8-in. vit. pipe
@
2.15
1,629.70
1558 lin. ft. 6-in. vit. pipe
@
1.85
2,882.30
1116
lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe
@
1.05
1,171.80
1120.2 cu. yds. ledge excavation
@
3.40
3,808.68
21 manholes
@
49.00
1,029.00
@
$1.25
30.00
8 hours helper
@
.90
7.20
21 hours foreman
@
1.25
26.25
87 hours labor
@
.75
65.25
8 bags cement
@
.75
6.00
30 bricks
@
.02
.60
4 rails for manholes
1.25
5.00
140.30
Plus 15%
21.05
161.35
Inspection
522.50
Blueprints
1.65
Advertising
12.60
Manhole rings and covers
399.62
Water dept., flush manholes
180.78
Buist & Libby, sewer pans
56.00
$12,741.90
42.63
$17,584.48
Extra work:
24 hours mason
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1930] REPORT OF WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD
Section "D"
404 lin. ft. 12-in. vit. pipe
@
$1.50
$606.00
944 lin. ft. 8-in. vit. pipe
@
1.50
1,416.00
695 lin. ft. 6-in. vit. pipe
@
1.25
868.65
414 lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe
@
.80
331.20
736.2 cu. yds. ledge excavation
@
5.00
3,681.00
13 manholes
@
70.00
910.00
2 catch basins
@
70.00
140.00
Extra work:
113 hours labor
@
$.75
84.75
8 hours foreman
@
1.25
10.00
5 hours mason
@
1.25
6.25
4 hours helper
@
.90
4.50
7 bags cement
@
.75
5.25
1 ton sand
1.50
450 bricks
@
.02
9.00
2 lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe @
.0225
.45
21 lin. ft. 12-in. vit. pipe @
.0675
14.18
8 hours compressor @
5.00
40.00
175.88
Plus 15%
26.38
202.26
Advertising
14.70
Blue prints
3.45
Inspection
340.00
Water pipe
31.50
Manhole rings and covers
222.04
Gratings
33.00
Water dept., flush manholes
82.83
A. French, connection
4.50
Buist & Libby, sewer pans
38.50
E. C. Phillips iron pipe
9.00
Nason road
406 lin. ft. 8-in. vit. pipe
@
$1.50
609.00
192 lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe
@
.80
153.60
55.4 cu. yds. ledge excavation
@
4.00
221.60
3 manholes
@
70.00
210.00
Extra work:
2.00
1.50
.23
1.73
Advertising
7.45
Blue prints
.75
Inspection
30.00
Manhole rings and covers
39.93
Buist & Libby, sewer pans
10.50
Rockland and King streets
330 lin. ft. 6-in. vit. pipe
@
$1.25
$412.50
20 lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe
@
.80
16.00
34 cu. yds. ledge excavation
@
4.00
136.00
4 manholes
@
70.00
280.00
Extra work:
@
1.50
235.50
157 lin. ft. 12-in. vit. pipe Advertising
7.35
Manhole rings and covers Inspection
66.53
60.00
$8,934.73
3/4 ton crushed stone @ Plus 15%
$1,284.56
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
A. French, loam
$3.00
Water dept., flush manholes
22.10
$1,238.98
Atlantic avenue (Breed and Kimball) P. J. McDermott Manhole rings and covers
425.60
26.62
$452.22
Inventory of Property, Sewer Department December 31, 1930
Pumping station
$17,000.00
Pumping plant
14,000.00
Land
5,000.00
Office furniture
350.00
Tools
500.00
Truck and garage
500.00
$37,350.00
GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, HAROLD G. ENHOLM, CHARLES E. HODGDON, Water and Sewerage Board.
Care of Brooks
Kings brook culvert as voted by the town has been completed as far as Cherry street without any cost to the town for easements and has relieved the bad situation to quite an extent, but should be con- tinued to the Lynn line in the near future.
Appropriation
Expenses Balance
$500.00 68.08
$431.92
Kings Brook Culvert
Appropriation
$2,800.00
M. McDonough
$2,630.00
Advertising
12.60
Manhole rings and covers
53.49
.
Cast iron pipe
5.85
Bradford & Weed
70.00
2,771.94
Balance
$28.06
GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, HAROLD G. ENHOLM, CHARLES E. HODGDON.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
1930]
School Committee-1930
John Vannevar, D. D., Chairman
Br. 3508-M
Marion C. Miller (Mrs.), Secretary Br. 8813
73 Fuller avenue
Eleanor H. Ingelfinger (Mrs.) Br. 8790-R
George C. Thomas
Br. 3667
82 Millett road
Regular meeting, second Wednesday of each month Superintendent of Schools Harold F. Dow 62 Thomas road Telephone-Br. 9600
Office of Superintendent of Schools-Hadley School, Br. 2067 The office of the Superintendent of Schools is open on school days from 8:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M .; Saturdays from 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 M.
School Calendar -- 1931
Winter term begins
Monday, January 5
Winter term closes
Friday, February 20
Spring term begins
Monday, March 2
Spring term closes
Friday, April 17
Summer term begins
Monday, April 27
Summer term closes
Friday, June 19
High School Graduation
Fall term begins
Fall term closes
Friday, June 19 Wednesday, September 9 Wednesday, December 23
Report of the School Committee
To the Citizens of Swampscott:
The School Committee herewith submits to you the report of the Superintendent of Schools.
Your Committee appreciates the spirit of co-operation which you have shown in aiding them to continue the policy of strengthening the personnel of the schools.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN VANNEVAR, Chairman, MARION C. MILLER, ELEANOR H. INGELFINGER, GEORGE C. THOMAS, RALPH MAXWELL, Swampscott School Committee.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Swampscott:
Ladies and Gentlemen :- It is my privilege to submit to you at this time my eleventh annual report as superintendent of schools. To accord with the policy of the town in regard to such documents this report will be limited as others of the series have been to such facts as seem worthy of being called to the attention of the citizens of the town. You, as a committee, will find herein little that is new to you; your great interest in and close attention to the educational and ad-
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Ralph Maxwell
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
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ministrative problems that have been encountered the past year have kept you in close touch with all our undertakings. It is my hope that you will find this summary a faithful portrayal of the incidents in which you have participated.
Before entering upon a discussion of the events of the past year. however, it would seem that at the end of this decade period. December 1930, it is an opportune time to glance in retrospect over the past ten years and compare briefly the school situation of 1920 with that of 1930.
1920
1930
Town population
8,101
10,346
School enrollment
1,504
1,605
School rooms
48
60
Total staff
62
92
Elementary staff
26
35
Junior High staff
14
22
High staff
12
19
Number of janitors
5
6 full time
4 part time
Average size Elementary Classes
45
33
Average size Junior High Classes
30
25
Average size High School Classes
27
21
The parallel columns listed above show certain aspects of our growth during the period mentioned, but these merit certain elaboration, and other phases of our development deserve mention.
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