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Marcel de Villers
Eugene Menard
Olive Williams
SECOND AWARDS
Edward Barrows
Marjorie Barlow Elsie Bellows
Edward Morris
Clara Snyder
THIRD AWARDS
Gladys Dudek Rose Germaine Michael Guskey
Marion Longee Donald Mahoney Russell Proctor Josephine Skarbek
Improvement Certificate
Mary Hurd
Final Certificates
Mary Barnes Aurore Menard Statia Shivick
Rita Caplette Rita Renaud Rita Suprenant
Alice Thompson
Armand Strack
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AWARDS
Awards for the best posters for promoting kindness to animals submitted to the Massachusetts Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals. Miss Leona Butkiewicz, Supervisor.
LARGE BRONZE MEDAL
(First Prize)
HIGH SCHOOL Hazel Bayatzi Julia Klok Dorothy Gould
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Marie Bevard Vincent Gill Dora Barrott
ALLEN L. JOSLIN
Donald Mahoney Frederick Emmons Bruce Greene
Gordon Proctor
COMINS
Beatrice Madelle
Marguerite Flebbert
THAYER
Beatrice Beaudette
WOODWARD Rosamond Flagg Enid Carlson Rita Bouthillette
SMALL SILVER MEDAL
(Second Prize)
HIGH SCHOOL
Frances Marsh
Hazel Stoll Rita Dandurand
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL John Pietrewicz
Rosemary Herbert Oliver Riel Marjorie Noles
ALLEN L. JOSLIN
Russell Proctor
Rita Caplette Charles Plante Yano Nesta
COMINS Joseph Mainville
THAYER
Maria Bouthilette
WOODWARD Clarence Gallant Mary Foster John Tauber
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Honorable Mention (one year's subscription to maga- zine entitled "Our Dumb Animals".)
HIGH SCHOOL
THAYER
Bessie Doutsis
ALLEN L. JOSLIN
Edward Morris
Walter Mowry
Steven Solenski
Lillian Plante
Roland Racine
Pauline Gendron
WOODWARD Alva Avery Theresa Faubert Rita Morris
COMINS
Warren Scott Beulah Merriam
Jeannette Gibson Ethel Faneuf Louise Garry
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Eva Dumas
Mary Shivick
Doris Goss
Shirley Snyder
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ATTENDANCE-OXFORD
Dec. 1, 1932
(In Detail)
Junior High :
7-8
High :
190
130
29 24
30
37
41
42
40
36
39
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30
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6B
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Woodward :
7-8
6
5
3-4
1-2
320
Allen L. Joslin :
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Thayer :
3-4
29
1-2
32
61
Hammond:
3-4 33
30
1-2
63
South Primary :
1-2-3
30
30
Total
916
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PROMOTIONS
June, 1931
School Grade Enrollment Promoted Not Promoted
Junior High
8
48
48
0
7
60 108
59 107
1
1
Allen L. Joslin
6A
30
30
0
6B
27
27
0
5
33
31
2
4-5
36
34
2
4
38
37
1
3
41
40
1
2
39
39
0
1
35 279
33 271
2
8
Woodward
7-8
31
29
2
5-6
38
31
7
3-4
27
24
3
1-2
28 124
24 108
4 16
Thayer
3-4-5
24
23
1
1-2
13
37
12
35
1
2
Hammond
3-4
32
32
0
1-2
28
60
25
57
3
3
South Primary
1-2
20
20
18
18
2
2
Comins
1-6
26
26
19
19
7 7
Totals
654
615
39
Per Cent of Failures, 6.
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ATTENDANCE STATISTICS, 1931-1932
Grade
Av. Daily
Attend.
Total
Mem'ship.
Average
Mem'ship.
P. C. of
Attend.
High
9-12
151.13
163
156.86
93.78
Junior High
7-8
109.61
125
113.26
96.77
Allen L. Joslin
6A
27.30
33
28.68
95.18
6B
25.99
33
28.10
92.49
5
33.53
36
35.03
95.72
4-5
33.70
43
35.61
94.63
4
34.68
44
36.32
95.48
3
37.30
48
39.63
94.12
2
36.19
44
38.82
93.22
1
31.30
40
34.16
91.62
Woodward
7-8
28.93
33
30.76
94.09
5-6
34.60
41
37.06
93.36
3-4
23.80
27
25.84
92.10
1-2
24.66
32
27.14
90.86
Hammond
3-4
26.24
37
28.32
92.65
1-2
25.11
34
28.40
88.42
Thayer
3-4-5
23.03
26
24.49
94.03
1-2
12.28
14
12.96
94.75
South Primary
1-2
18.22
27
19.48
92.5
Comins
1-6
20.85
26
21.76
95.80
Totals
758.
906
803.
94.39
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PERFECT ATTENDANCE-1931-1932
School High
Grade 9-12
Beatrice Davis Regina Ekbergh Ellen LaRose
Margaret Leahy Marion Nygren Marcelle Paige Anthony Morris Irving Sibley Marion Dodge Henry Dalbec
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Philip Fales Harry Jolly Gladys Stone George Sibley
Junior High
8
Marie Berard Charles Mowry Dorothy Brown Esther Clementson Matthew Sands Eugene Schofield Kenneth Williams Eleanor Thompson
Junior High 7 Olive Coonan Joseph Plante Rita Berard Marion Noles . Rogernette Paige Warren Whaley Joseph Brodeur Martin Roukat Curtis Tarbell
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Allen L. Joslin
Woodward
Thayer
Hammond
Comins
Elsie Bellows Homer Prunier Leo Prunier Yano Nesta Madelyn Williams Roger Sands Ethel Coonan Joseph Maisto Esther Kleinsmith Lawrence Lapan Antonio Maisto Walter Mowry Francis Parker Warren Bell Edwitch Gonegeon Ada LaPearl Gabriel Casavant Patricia Herbert Hannah Vitkus George Prunier Arleen Columbus John Snyder Paul Herbert
Margaret Carlson Rita Morin Raymond Stoll
Cecilia Cormier Rubia Bonin
Raymond Partridge Harold Partridge Olive Davis
Doris Bergeron Flora Bergeron
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TOWN WARRANT
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Worcester, ss:
To either of the Constables of the Town of Oxford in the County of Worcester, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the in- habitants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to meet at the Memorial Hall, in said Oxford on Monday, the sixth day of March next, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the fol- lowing articles :
Article 1. To choose by ballot the following Town Officers for the ensuing year: One Selectman for three years; a Town Clerk for one year; a Town Treasurer for one year; a Collector of Taxes for one year; a mem- ber of the School Committee for three years; one As- sessor for three years; a member of the Board of Health for three years; one Trustee of the Free Public Library for three years; a Cemetery Commissioner for three years; a member of the Board of Public Welfare for three years; a Tree Warden for one year; a Moderator for one year; three Trustees of the Hannah Harwood Fund for one year; a Trustee of the Charles Larned En- tertainment Fund for three years; two Constables in Dis- trict No. 1 for one year; one Constable in District No. 2 for one year; a Constable in District No. 3 for one year; one Constable in District No. 4 for one year; and a Con- stable in District No. 5 for one year. All of the above
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Officers to be voted for on one ballot. Also the following Officers to be elected from the floor: Surveyors of Wood and Lumber; Weighers; three Fence Viewers; two Field Drivers and one Pound Keeper.
Article 2. To hear and act upon the reports of the several Town Officers or any Committee or Committees ap- pointed at any former meeting and to choose any Commit- tee or Committees the Town may think proper.
Article 3. To see what sums of money the Town will raise by taxation and appropriate to defray the neces- sary and usual expenses of the several departments of the Town for the fiscal year of 1933 and especially for any and all of the following purposes, to wit: Moderator; Selectmen; Accountant; Treasurer; Collector of Taxes; Assessors; Other Finance Officers and Accounts; Town Clerk; Elections and Registrations; Memorial Hall; Huguenot Hall: Police; Fire; Hydrants and Fountains; Sealer of Weights and Measures; Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth; Tree Warden; Forest Fires; Dog Officer; Health; Hospital District Apportionment for Tubercu- losis; Hospital Clinic for the Removal of Diseased Ton- sils and Adenoids of School Children; Inspector of Ani- mals; Streets; Bridges; Snow and Ice Removal; Street Lights; Public Welfare; Old Age Assistance; State Aid ; Military Aid; Soldiers' Relief; Schools; Independent Industrial Schools; Library; Memorial Day; District Nurse; Printing Town Reports; Insurance; Cemetery ; Interest; Notes Maturing ; and Reserve Fund.
Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of reve- nue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1933, in addition to the amount previously authorized and to is-
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sue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew such note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws; any debt or debts in- curred under authority of this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1933.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to re- fund any or all of the revenue notes issued in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1932 in accordance with the provisions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws; any debt so incurred to be paid from the revenue of the year 1932.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to reim- burse the Treasury for the following overdrafts of 1932: Public Welfare, $3,085.40; and Soldiers' Relief, $256.31, or act thereon.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,589.80 in order to pay out- standing bills of previous years, as follows: Collector of Taxes, $92.68; Police, $5.50; Streets, $150.85; Bridges, $4.03; Public Welfare, $5,046.39; Old Age Assistance, $112.80; Soldiers' Relief, $21.00; and Schools, $152.52; or act thereon.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $21,420.00 for the purpose of paying the Town's share of the cost of providing the Wor- cester County Tuberculosis Hospital, the assessment therefor having already been duly made against the Town, determine whether all or any portion of said as- sessment be funded as authorized by Chapter 111 of the Acts of 1932 and for what period not exceeding fifteen
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years, direct the Town Clerk to file with the County Commissioners promptly a copy of such vote as may be passed under this article, and any other papers request- ed, or take any action in relation to the subject matter hereof.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the purchase, by a Committee, of suitable equipment for the suppression of Forest and Rural Building Fires, or act thereon. as peti- tioned for by Karl R. Berggren and others.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to trans- fer a sum of money from the Road Machinery Fund to the Road Machinery Maintenance Account, or act there- on.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to co- operate with the State under Chapter 81 of the General Laws in regard to the maintenance and repair of the highways of the Town, or act thereon.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to co- operate with the State and County under Chapter 90 of the General Laws in regard to the maintenance and re- pair of Chapter 90 Highways of the Town, and raise and appropriate the sum of $750.00; the State and County each to contribute alike, or act thereon.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salaries of the members of the School Committee and raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or act thereon.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to amend Article 11 of the By-Laws of Oxford Cemeteries adopted
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April 4, 1898, so as to read as follows: "Article 11. The Board of Commissioners shall receive any gifts or be- quests made thereto for maintaining cemeteries or ceme- tery lots, which shall be paid into the Town Treasury and, with the accounts thereof, shall be kept separate from the other money and accounts of said Town. The Town Treasurer shall invest all such funds in accord- ance with the stipulations, if any, accompanying them; otherwise, he shall invest them as ordered by the Select- men and said Commissioners and pay the income there- from upon their order or with their approval. These funds may, with the approval of the Selectmen and Commissioners, be re-invested at any time by the Town Treasurer and this provision shall apply to any funds heretofore invested under this article as originally adopt- ed. The proceeds of sale of lots or rights of burial in said cemeteries or public burial grounds shall be paid into the Town Treasury and shall be subject to said orders;" or act thereon.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to rescind all previous votes with reference to the rental of Memor- ial Hall and see what action the Town will take with re- ference to future rentals.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to rescind all previous votes fixing the salaries of Librarian and Library Janitor and leave the fixing of such salaries to the Library. Trustees.
Article 17. To see if the Town will direct the Selectmen to appoint an Agent who shall receive, inves- tigate and report on each application for relief in ac- cordance with the resolution adopted by the Oxford Tax- payers Association.
Article 18. To see if the Town will direct the Board of Public Welfare to appoint an Agent who shall
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receive, investigate and report on each application for relief in caccordance with the resolution adopted by the Oxford Taxpayers Association.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to pur- chase trucks for use of the Road Department and discon- tinue the hiring of private transportation except where citizens wish to work in payment of taxes, or act thereon.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 3-A, Chapter 115, of the General Laws of Massa- chusetts which has to do with the appointment of an agent for Soldiers' Relief who shall be separate from the Public Welfare Agent, or act thereon.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 97, Chapter 41, of the General Laws of Massa- chusetts which has to do with the appointment of a Chief of Police by the Selectmen, or act thereon.
Article 22. To see if the Town will direct its Offi- cials and Employers to appoint or employ only citizens of the Town who are in need of employment unless no competent citizen can be found after diligent search and public request for applications, or act thereon.
Article 23. To see if the Town will direct the Board of Public Welfare and Selectmen to see that no able bodied person shall receive aid without working for it, providing suitable work can be provided, or act thereon.
Article 24. To see if the Town will fix or adjust any salaries or wages of Town Official or Employees, or act thereon.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $10,000.00 to be used as an unemployment fund, employing only citizens of the Town, or act thereon.
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Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to discontinue to use or remove the watering trough located at the corner of Main and Charlton Streets, or act thereon.
Article : 27. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the Notes Maturing account the sums of money received from the sale of the North Oxford Depot School Lot and land at the Infirmary amounting to $101.00 and $200.00 respectively, or act thereon.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to change the date of the annual Town meeting from the first Monday in March to the first Monday in February, or act thereon.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by post- ing up attested copies thereof at the Post Office on the Plains at Oxford and at the Post Office at North Oxford in said Town, fourteen days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this War- rant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting, as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.
IRVING J. JOHNSON, CHARLES N. TURNER, ROBERT T. POWERS,
Selectmen of Oxford.
A true copy. Attest :
ALBERT J. MAYNARD,
Constable.
INDEX
Assessors, Report of 107
Board of Health, Report of
168
Board of Public Welfare, Report of 119
Cemetery Commissioners' Report 127
Dog Officer, Report of 160
Finance Committee, Report of
30
Fire Department, Report of
152
Forest Fire Warden, Report of 157
161
Janitor of Memorial Hall, Report of
213
Library Report-Treasurer's Report
Librarian's Report
215
List of Jurors .
10 134
Lockup Keeper, Report of
151 154
Oxford District Nurse, Report of
156
Oxford Home for Aged Persons
135
Oxford Water Company, 1932, Report of
148
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
105
Selectmen's Report
273
Attendance
42
Attendance Statistics
45
Graduation Exercises
25
Palmer Penmanship Award, Joslin School
39 37
Perfect Attendance
46
Principal's Report
Promotions
Report of School Committee
32
Report of School Nurse
29
Report of School Physician
28
School Directory
2
Superintendent's Report
9
Supervisor of Music
229
State Audit Report, Town Accounts
239
Balance Sheet
169
Tax Collector, Report of
183
Town Accountant, Report of
207
Balance Sheet
212A
Table of Accounts
13
Town Meetings, Report of
28
Town Officers
3
Town Physician, Report of
126
Town Treasurer, Report of
109
Tree Warden, Report of
163
Town Warrant
321
Trustees of Hannah Harwood Fund
167
Vital Statistics
14
Palmer Penmanship Awards, Junior High
22 44 6
Report of Supervisor of Drawing
35
State Audit Report of Accounts of the Town Clerk
266
Superintendent of Streets, Report of
110
Town Clerk's Report
Inspector of Animals, Report of
166
Moth Inspector, Report of
Oxford District Nursing Association, Financial Statement
164
School Report
5.
INDEX
Assessors, Report of 107
Board of Health, Report of
168
Board of Public Welfare, Report of 119
Cemetery Commissioners' Report 127
Dog Officer, Report of 160
30
Fire Department, Report of
152
Forest Fire Warden, Report of
157
Inspector of Animals, Report of
161
Janitor of Memorial Hall, Report of
.
.
.
Librarian's Report
10
Lockup Keeper, Report of
151
Moth Inspector, Report of
154
Oxford District Nursing Association, Financial Statement Oxford District Nurse, Report of
156
Oxford Home for Aged Persons
135
Oxford Water Company, 1932, Report of
148
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
164
Selectmen's Report
105
School Report
42
Attendance Statistics
45
Graduation Exercises
.
25
Palmer Penmanship Award, Joslin School
39 37
Perfect Attendance
46
Principal's Report
22 44
Promotions
6
Report of Supervisor of Drawing
32
Report of School Nurse
29
Report of School Physician
28
School Directory
.
Superintendent's Report
9
Supervisor of Music
35
State Audit Report of Accounts of the Town Clerk
229
State Audit Report, Town Accounts 239
Balance Sheet
266
Superintendent of Streets, Report of
169
Tax Collector, Report of
183
Balance Sheet
207 212A
Table of Accounts
13
Town Meetings, Report of
3
Town Physician, Report of
126
Town Treasurer, Report of
109
Tree Warden, Report of 163
321
Town Warrant
167
Trustees of Hannah Harwood Fund
Vital Statistics
14
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.
.
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166
213
Library Report-Treasurer's Report
215
List of Jurors
134
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273
Attendance
.
.
Report of School Committee
..
2
Town Accountant, Report
110
Town Clerk's Report
28
Town Officers
Palmer Penmanship Awards, Junior High
.
Finance Committee, Report of
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE TOWN OF OXFORD, MAR. 6, 1933
The need for further retrenchment in the conduct | Schools of the business affairs of the Town is evidenced by our present financial condition. Due to the continuance of the business depression the income of the Town will be greatly reduced through the decrease in receipts from the State, wbile we find at the same time the ex- penditures for relief are increasing. For these reasons the general routine business of the Town must be car- ried out with the utmost economy. With this end in view each Department in Town has been informed of these facts and have been asked to reduce its 1933 budget to a minimum by the elimination of every non- essential. The budgets submitted have been given thorough study and careful analysis as it has not been Interest our intention to make an indiscriminate slashing of ex- penditures without regard to consequences but to prac- tice constructive rather than destructive economy. Nearly all departments have co-operated loyally in this endeavor and we present an appropriation budget for the current year, which by careful departmental man- agement can be maintained except in those departments where some unforseen emergency may arise. The rec- ommended appropriation with our recommendations on the articles in the Town Warrant have been considered in a joint meeting with the Selectmen and Trustees of the Taxpayers- Association and been approved by them.
$50,000.00
School Committee and Clerk. . 275.00
Independent Industrial Schools . Library
1,500.00
Total for Schools and Library
53,275.00
Memorial Day
$200.00
District Nurse 400.00
Printing Town Reports 500.00
Insurance
1,500.00
Total Unclassified
2,600.00
Cemetery
$500.00
500.00
$7,500.00
Notes Maturing
8.699.00
Reserve Fund
2,000.00
Total for Interest, Notes Ma- turing and Reserve
18,199.00
GRAND TOTAL
$133.173.23
Article 4: Recommended.
Article 5: Recommended.
Article 6: Recommended.
Article 7: Recommended.
Article 8: Recommend that the sum of $420.00 be raised and appropriated this year and that the balance of the amount of $21,000.00 be funded for a term of fifteen years by issuing fifteen serial notes for $1.400.00 each.
Article 9: While we recognize the fact that this equip- ment would be a desirable addition to our present fire fighting apparatus we cannot, in view of the financial condition of the Town. recommend the expenditure of this sum this year and therefore recommend dismissal of the article.
Article 10: We recommend the transfer of $943.16 from the Road Machinery Fund to the Road Machinery Maintenance Account.
Article 11: Recommended.
Article 12: Recommended.
Article 13: Recommended that the salary of the Chairman of the School Committee be $75.00 and of the other two members be $50.00 each and that the sum of $175.00 be raised and appropriated therefor.
Article 14: Recommended.
Article 15: Recommend that the Town vote to re- scind all previous votes with reference to the rental of Memorial Hall and that in the future free use of Memo- rial Hall be granted to Veterans' Organizations and their Auxiliaries and to the Whatsoever Club, and that the Schools shall pay one half rental price for those rentals where they charge admission.
Article 16: Recommend passage of this article worded.
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Article 3: We recommend the following appropria- tions :-
APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1933
Moderator
$25.00
Selectmen
600.00
Accountant
700.00
Treasurer
550.00
Collector of Taxes
1,200.00
Assessor
1,000.00
Other Finance Officers
50.00
Town Clerk
450.00
Elections & Registrations
400.00
Memorial Hall
1.500.00
Huguenot Hall
200.00
Total. General Government
$6,675.00
Police
$700.00
Fire
2,500.00
Hydrants and Fountains
3,750.00
Sealer
110.00
Moth
50.00
Tree Warden
100.00
Forest Fire
600.00
Dog Officer
50.00
Total, Protection of Persons and Property
7,860.00
Health
$800.00
Hospital Clinic
200.00
Hospital District-Tuberculosis .
839.23
Inspector of Animals
225.00
Total for Health
2,064.23
Streets
$8,250.00
Snow & Ice Removal
1,000.00
bridges
250.00
Street Lights
500.00
Total for Highways
10.000.00
Pubile Welfare
$20,000.00
Oid Age Assistance
7,500.00
State Aid
600.00
Military Aid
400.00
Soldiers' Relief
3,500.00
EDWIN N. BARTLETT
ALFRED M. TAFT
HJALMAR T. JOHNSON
PHILIP W. JOSLIN
Total for Charitles and Sol- dlers' Relief
32.000.00
Article 26: Recommended.
Article 27: Recommended.
Article 28: Recommended.
IRA G. ELLIS, Chairman
DAVID N. TAFT
Article 19: Recommend that the Town vote to pur- chase two good used trucks for the use of the Street De- partment and discontinue the hiring of private transpor- tation and that the price shall not exceed $600.00 and shall be paid from the Road Machinery Fund.
Article 20: Recommend dismissal.
Article 21: Recommend dismissal.
Article 22: Recommended.
Article 23: Recommended.
Article 24: Recommend that the Town vote that sal- aries paid all Elected Towu Officials this current year shall be 10% less than last year and that this sum shall be transferred to the Reserve Account.
Article 25: We are in favor of what seems to have been intended hy the article but cannot recommend passage In its present form. We suggest that a motion be passed substantially as follows: "That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.000 to be used as a Welfare Department Special Fund. This money to be expended under the direction of an Unemployment Mau- ager who shall be appointed by the Selectmen and ap- proved by the Finance Committee. The names of those working under this plan shall be furnished by the Wel- fare Board from established cases wbo shall spcelfy the maximum amount of work to be granted each week and the wages shall be in cash in so far as the Finance Committee shall deem advisable, Amounts to be ex- pended shall be as follows: Finish improvement at Woodward School $1,500.00; repair Town Tool ched, repair or Improve other Town property under directlon of Selectmen with approval of Finance Committee, $3,500.00."
Article 17: Recommended.
Article 18: Recommended.
The prolonged business depression has affected the ca- pacity of the taxpayers of the Town to pay taxes and consequently the amount of unpaid taxes January 1st, 1933 is larger than ever. This condition is most seri- ious as it directly affects the borrowing capacity of the Town, and we therefore earnestly request the citizens of the Town to pay taxes as promptly as possible. This is indeed imperative as the Town cannot function and pay its bills if it is not done.
The teachers in our schools accepted a 10% reduc- tion in salary at the beginning of the school year and an additional decrease by a shortening of the school year. Your Committee has recommended a 10% reduction in the salaries of all elected Town Officials for the cur- rent year and as these salaries are low the individual reduction will be but a small amount and work no hard- ship on its recipient but its willing arceptance will evi- dence the proper spirit of co-operation which is so necessary in this trying period.
Suggestions and recommendations have been made to the several departments in the Town which we believe will assist in a more economical administration of our Town Government. It is our intention to continue to meet with the Department Officials and work with them throughout the year. We cannot place too much em- phasis on the importance of and necessity for close and harmonious co-operation between all departments em- ploying labor and the Board of Public Welfare. The matter of relief is one of our greatest problems and must be constantly kept in mind.
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