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88.20
Ray Murrey
24.00
George Chambers
53.65
George Gilbert
39.60
Charles Williams
32.00
William Sliney
16.00
James Trites
4.00
George Brew
8.00
Charles Dow
28.00
Frank Chase
4.00
George Colbert
3.60
$4,545.83
Unexpended balance
1.59
$9,000.00
GENERAL HIGHWAY
Appropriation $1,000.00
Middlesex County Electric Co.
$6.75
Arthur W. Bartlett
94.86
George A. Shattuck
17.00
Sheldon's Express
5.05
Pepperell Water Department
12.00
Proctor Bros. Co.
4.07
Boston & Maine R. R.
14.92
Edward Glow
1.20
Dyar Sales Machine Co.
8.20
Pepperell Garage
4.55
Edward E. Iten
2.85
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Bertha T. Boynton
40.00
Arthur A. Charbonneau
17.40
Railway Express Co.
1.55
2.00
Archibald G. Pike D. E. Weston
7.63
$240.03
W. E. Chapman
11.60
Trucks
139.00
Glen Parker, Trucks
23.00
F. O. Parker, Teams
102.80
Victor Geiger, Teams
124.60
Harry Dow
7.20
William Dwyer
62.20
John Horan
37.00
Charles Dow
24.00
Donald Parker
29.00
Everett Smith
12.00
William Dunham
28.35
James Winch
39.60
J. J. Sullivan
43.20
Jerry Sullivan
25.20
Beecher Cotton
14.40
Alexander Jerszyk
10.80
Bernard Cunniff
7.20
Wendall Messer
7.20
Leonard Dow
3.60
$751.95
$991.98
Unexpended balance
8.02
$1,000.00
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CHAPTER 81, MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION
State $6,800.00; Town, $8,500.00
George A. Shattuck
6.00
Dyar Sales Machine Co.
83.00
L. P. Richardson
35.56
Amos Boulia
120.41
William J. Chase
40.27
Conant Machine Steel Co.
193.15
F. A. Stockley
78.00
Arthur A. Charbonneau
23.20
Edwin E. Iten
33.73
Pepperell Garage
10.85
Charles F. Maynard
4.15
Standard Oil Co.
203.33
P. I. Perkins
42.03
Koppers Products Co.
1,802.51
Texas Oil Co.
18.19
Attridge Bros.
15.00
Harry Hobart
208.80
Ernest Blood
8.70
Laura Blood
212.70
Solway Sales Corp.
183.51
Paramount Steel Co.
175.11
$3,498.20
W. E. Chapman
348.70
Trucks
1,518.32
Tractor
112.50
Frank Ford, Truck
970.75
Glen Parker, Truck
979.56
Howard Trites, Truck
1,001.44
Thomas Cody, Truck
912.74
Jerry Lorden, Truck
328.40
Andrew Blood, Tractor
300.00
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Irwin Wilkins, Tractor
17.50
Victor Geiger, Teams
26.10
Harry Dow
361.40
James Winch
287.50
Harry Warren
318.60
Peter Fitzpatrick
303.50
J. J. Sullivan
190.75
John Horan
274.60
Jerry Sullivan
127.50
Bernard Cunniff
202.05
Leonard Dow
14.40
James Lynch
135.00
Ernest Nichols
107.45
Harold Herbert
33.85
Leslie Parker
112.80
Louis Nutting
183.20
William Dwyer
140.70
Donald Parker
487.70
Andrew Blood
226.90
James Trites
22.80
Julius Greenwood
194.35
Wendall Messer
81.00
William Clapp
39.60
Francis Lorden
160.60
Dennis O'Brien
43.20
Edward Drinan
70.00
Patrick Hally
195.25
Everett Smith
41.60
Fred O. Parker
41.40
Harold Lynch
223.40
Declan S. Lynch
34.00
Frank Chase
14.70
John K. O'Neill
161.35
Harold Toomey
7.20
Leon P. Richardson
7.20
Daniel Driscoll
7.20
Harold Copp
1.80
133
F. W. Morse
4.05
Joseph Davis
10.80
Charles Dow
61.50
Charles Williams
32.00
William Monahan
8.00
Beecher Cotton
32.00
E. G. Hammond
28.00
Pete Gilman
29.50
William Attridge
16.00
Timothy Lorden
8.00
Frank Markham
4.00
Martin Newmire
26.00
Ray Murray
4.00
William Sliney
8.00
George Brew
16.00
¿ lexander Jerszyk
8.00
Joseph McGrath
8.00
Charles Goodwin
36.00
James Cush
4.00
Leon Breen
8.00
Walter Hackett
28.00
Lester Blood
16.50
Jerry Murphy
4.00
Halley Sartelle
26.55
Louis Pisoneault
4.00
$11,801.46
$15,299.66
Unexpended balance
.34
$15,300.00
SNOW APPROPRIATION $1,000.00
26.34
Amos Boulia George E. Hallbourg 5.00
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George A. Shattuck
16.00
Railway Express Agency
.38
Middlesex County Electric Co.
1.75
Henry Baron
2.50
Archibald G. Pike
2.00
Deveny & Mason
.40
P. I. Perkins Co.
1.27
Arthur W. Bartlett
1.95
Pepperell Garage
5,32
Dyar Sales Machine Co.
22.20
Sheldon Express
.50
$85.61
W. E. Chapman
$130.00
Tractor
20.00
Trucks
385.50
Glen Parker, Trucks
12.00
Ernest Blood, Team
86.50
Victor Geiger, Team
121.08
F. O. Parker, Team
60.00
Harry Dow
71.70
Henry Wilson
28.50
Silas Nokes
8.50
Alfred Parker
15.00
Glen Parker
22.00
Julius Greenwood
6.00
Arthur Greenwood
14.00
James Winch «
6.50
George Brew
6.00
Charles Goodwin
8.50
J. K. O'Neill
10.50
Andrew Blood
8.00
.
$1,020.28
$1,105.89
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Overdrawn
$105.89
TOWN DUMP
Appropriated
$50.00
To Labor
11.20
$11.20 $38.80
Unexpended balance
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. CHAPMAN,
Highway Surveyor.
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Report of the Board of Health
The Board of Health herewith submits its report for the year ending December 31, 1932:
The local Board of Health this last year has functioned with and through the Nashoba Health Unit. A report of this unit follows and embodies all of the important work carried on by the local Board.
Communicable Diseases Reported in 1932:
Whooping Cough 2
Tuberculosis 2
Chicken Pox 5
Diphtheria 1
Measles
1
Mumps 9
Scarlet Fever
4
To the Board of Health:
:
1
Gentlemen:
I submit herewith for your consideration a very brief report of the work done by the Nashoba Health Unit in the Town of Pepperell.
Other than mumps and possibly chicken pox, Pepperell has been comparatively free from contagious diseases. Our ser- vices, to the Board of Health in the control of these dis- eases, has been available.
We have continued our program of diphtheria immuniza- tion and feel that we have been fairly successful in this field
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although we would like to have more and more infants and younger children attend our clinic.
In Pepperell, the nurse, along with every nurse in the Nashoba District, has had, through the Unit, certain advant- ages of belonging to a group. Thus meetings have been held in which programs and problems have been discussed. In va- rious ways the big problem of keeping up with professional advancement has been met. The Unit also helps with cleri- cal work for nursing service, in tabulating statistics and col- lecting and analyzing data for a cost per visit study. Vaca- tion relief was arranged with Tyngsboro and Dunstable. We have helped the nurse on various instances when her work was unusually heavy.
There has been established a tuberculosis diagnostic clinic at the Ayer Community Memorial Hospital under the direction of the Unit which serves all of the towns in the Area. This clinic is staffed by a clinician and an X-ray tech- nician from the Middlesex County Sanatorium and has given valuable service since its organization.
We were able to secure Dr. Fredrika Moore, State De- partment of Public Health, to give a series of six lectures to the teachers on health education. We feel that this was of considerable advantage to those attending in helping them to be posted on the most up-to-date information regarding health education for schools. This was held in the new Spaulding Memorial School in Townsend and attended by a large group of teachers from surrounding towns. The teach- . ers in Pepperell took advantage of this opportunity.
The following table gives in statistical form the amount . of work done in the field of milk inspection and sanitation:
Dairy farm inspections 80
Milk and cream sample collected and analyzed 77
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Milk and cream licenses or permits issued
18
Water supplies examined 2
Water samples collected and analyzed 2
Private sewage systems examined 13
Food handling establishments inspected 12
Schools inspected
1
3
Nuisances investigated
13
Fees collected and turned over to Town Treas., $7.00
During the early part of the year, in addition to the work tabulated above, practically all cattle owners in the Town were visited and a petition of the tuberculin testing of dairy cattle was circulated among them. Sufficient signatures were secured to assure that at a later date all cattle will be tubercu- lin tested under the supervision of the State Division of Ani- mal Industry and the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry. Considerable testing has already been done in town among some of the herds. The eradication of tuberculosis from the dairy cattle of the town is a significant step toward insuring a safer milk supply.
It is gratifying to us to note that there has been an in- crease in the amount of work done compared with last year. It is our earnest desire to be of service in matters pertaining to general sanitation.
Respectfully submitted, DR. G. FLETCHER REEVES,
Director Nashoba Associated Boards of Health
FINANCIAL REPORT
For the Year Ending December 31, 1932
EXPENDITURES
Board and Treatment
$239.28
139
Printing
5.01
Recording Births
2.75
Inspection of A. and S. All other
300.00
31.62
RECEIPTS
Milk Licenses
$6.00
Alcohol Licenses
7.00
Reimbursement from State
120.71
Expenditures less Receipts
444.87
$578.58
Appropriation
$700.00
Expense
578.58
Balance
$121.42
Respectfully submitted,
OTTO B. OLSEN
GEORGE P. PARKER
WARREN C. FULLER
Board of Health
$578.58
$133.71
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Report of Tax Collector
1930 MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE
Balance to collect
$71.65
Error in taking abatement
.84
Overpayment to Treasurer
.27
Total outstanding
$72.76
Cash collected
$2.00
Abated by order of Tax Commissioner
70.76
.
$72.76
Interest Collected .08
1930 POLL TAX
Balance to collect
$108.00
Cash collected
$92.00
Abated
16.00
$108.00
1930 MOTH TAX
Balance to collect
$3.00
Cash collected
$3.00
1930 REAL AND PERSONAL TAX
Balance to collect
$11,518.76
Cash collected
$11,108.66
Abated 342.85
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By Tax Title 47.25
Collected and held on order Town Counsel 20.00
$11,518.76
Interest collected on 1930 Taxes $2,013.76
1931 MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE
Balance to collect
$621.71
Warrant of Jan. 20, 1932
21.26
$642.97
Cash collected
$562.05
Abatements Issued
3.49
$565.54
Balance to collect
$77.43.
1931 POLL TAX
Balance to collect
$152.00
Cash collected
$110.00
To be abated
42.00
$152.00
1931 OLD AGE ASSISTANCE TAX
Balance to collect
$154.00
Cash collected
$88.00
To be refunded from State
66.00
154.00
1931 REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE TAX Balance to collect $54,952.83
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Cash collected
$38,705.36
By Previous Tax Title
51.64
Abatements Issued
630.49
$39,387.49
Balance to collect
$15,565.34
Interest collected on 1931 Taxes
1,817.63
Unassessed Tax Voluntarily paid
38.65
1932 POLL TAX
Warrant to collect
$1,878.00
Cash collected
$1,762.00
Abatements Issued
42.00
$1,804.00
Balance to collect
$74.00
Interest collected
.07
1932 OLD AGE ASSISTANCE TAX
Warrant to collect
$958.00
Cash collected
$882.00
Balance to collect
$76.00
Interest collected
.02
1932 MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE
Warrant to collect
$4,404.15
Cash collected
$3,964.06
Abatements Issued
91.83
$4,055.89
Balance to collect
$348.26
Refunds issued and Paid
51.46
Refunds issued but Unpaid
7.39
Interest collected
7.74
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1932 REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE TAX
Warrant to collect
$91,023.42
Cash collected
$44,002.66
Abatements Issued
171.30
By Previous Tax Titles
137.25
$44,712.21
Balance to collect
$46,712.21
Interest collected
38.48
Respectfully submitted
RAY M. NEWELL,
Collector of Taxes
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Report of Moth Superintendent
To the Citizens of Pepperell, Mass., and all others who may be interested:
I submit my report for the work of this Department end- ing December 31st, 1932:
During the year of 1932 I have painted moth eggs and sprayed to the extent that the very small appropriation for this department would permit. I desire to bring to the atten- tion and serious consideration of the citizens, that, due to the shrinkage of the appropriation year after year, the work of this department is placed at a serious disadvantage, as lack of necessary funds compels the neglect of work that should be attended to at once. Thus, the good work of previous years amounts to very little. The moths are increasing and unless the work is done now, the expense in the near future will be greater. I, therefore, recommend the appropriation for this department for 1933 be not less than $1,500.00.
EQUIPMENT ON HAND
1 Grindstone
1 Cross-cut Saw
2 Axes
3 Iron Rakes
2 Pairs Climbers
1 30-ft Extension Ladder
2 Cant Hooks
2 Hand Saws
3 Iron Wedges
100 feet Rope
2 Four-tine Forks
2 Pairs Clippers 5 Bush Scythe Snaths
10 Bush Scythe Blades
4 Brown-tail Cutters
6 Creosoting Poles, brushes
2 Long-handled shovels
HAROLD COPP,
Moth Superintendent
1 Power Sprayer (22 h.p.)
700 feet of 5-8-in hose.
50 feet Suction Hose
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Report of Tree Warden
To the Citizens of Pepperell, Mass., and all others who may be interested :
I submit my report for the work of this department ending December 31st, 1932:
The work of this Department has been very little as there was not sufficient funds to take care of this work.
Throughout the Town are many trees that should be taken down and dead limbs removed, as they are a menace to the safety of the public, and I have had numerous com- plaints from citizens on account of the dangerous condition of these trees and limbs, but I cannot attend to this neces- sary work without the money to pay for it.
I, therefore, recommend an appropriation for the year of 1933 of $400.00.
EQUIPMENT ON HAND
1 Ford Truck
1 40-foot Extension Ladder
1 Pair Blocks and Falls
1 Pair Tree Climbers
1 Cross-cut Saw
1 Hand Saw
HAROLD COPP,
Tree Warden
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Report of the Trustees of Lawrence Library
The trustees of Lawrence Library respectfully submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1932:
ORGANIZATION
Chairman,
A. G. PIKE
Secretary,
L. P. RICHARDSON
Executive Committee,
GLADYS JOHNSON L. P. RICHARDSON A. G. PIKE
Finance Committee,
C. B. TAFT L. P. RICHARDSON A. G. PIKE
Book Committee, MARTHA E. SMITH MARION C. FULLER GLADYS JOHNSON
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LIBRARY HOURS
Mondays and Thursdays, 9:00 to 12:00 A. M .; 2:00 to 5:30 P. M. Wednesday and Saturdays 9:00 to 12:00 A. M .; 2:00 to 5:30 P. M. 6:30 to 9:00 P. M.
The Treasurer's account will be found on a separate page of this report.
We are here giving comparative figures showing the in- crease in circulation over a period of five years, also the average annual expense for the same period.
CIRCULATION
1928
16,618 Volumes
1929
17,474 Volumes
1930
19,191 Volumes
1931
23.095 Volumes
1932
27,586 Volumes
Average annual expense, $3,385.35.
The Library is being used very extensively by the pupils of both the Grammar and High Schools, and we hone will so continue. 1
The Library received a bequest during the year from the executor of the will of Ida M. Shattuck amounting to $2,660.19 of which $2,459.73 has been permanently invested in the purchase of Government Bonds, $58.83 transferred to the Savings Bank Account and the balance was used for neces- sary repairs ; the main one being the installation of an electri- cally operated blower which makes it possible to burn buck- wheat coal at a saving of about $5.00 per ton.
The income from our investments has been reduced and
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based on the present figures the income for 1933 will be $2,254.00. Therefore, your Trustees are asking for $1,000.00 to meet expenditures for the year.
The Trustees wish here to express their thanks to all who have in any way aided in making the past year so suc- cessful.
Respectfully submitted,
A. G. PIKE, Chairman.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
January 1, 1933.
To the Trustees of the Lawrence Library:
The librarian respectfully submits the following report for the year 1932:
STATISTICS
Circulation
Number of days the Library was open 202
No. of books and magazines circulated during year, 27,586
Average daily circulation 137
Number of new patrons registered during year 135
Classified circulation of adult books :
General works
7 Literature 474
Philosophy
History 317
Religion
28
Travel 459
Fine Arts
117
Biography
542
Useful Arts
154
Foreign books 17
Social science
125
Periodicals 1,742
Language
3
Fiction
16,253
Science 90
149
Classified circulation of juvenile books
General works
79
Fine arts
33
Philosophy
2
Literature
82
Religion
29
History
250
Folklore
215
Travel
109
Science
159
Biography
118
Useful arts
58
Fiction
6,051
The adult circulation was 20,401 and the juvenile 7,185, making a gain of 4,624 in the adult over that of last year while there was a decrease in the juvenile of 133.
ACCESSIONS
Volumes in library, January 1, 1932
21,443
Volumes added in 1932:
By purchase 345
By gift 74
By binding St. Nicholas magazines 4
Volumes in library, January 1, 1933
21,866
LIST OF DONORS OF BOOKS
Drama Class, P. W. C.
Rockwood, Mrs. A. P.
Eaton, Miss Nancy
Rockwood, Miss C. B.
Emerson, E.
State of Massachusetts
Groton Public Library
Wady, Miss Pansy
McDermott, P. J.
Washington, D. C.
Merrill, Miss Anetta S.
Wright, Miss Elizabeth
Robinson, Mrs. Anna
HELEN M. WILEY, librarian
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TOWN WARRANT
FOR FEBRUARY 20, 1933
Article 1. To choose a Moderator.
Article 2. To hear and act upon all reports of Town Officers and Committees.
Article 3. To choose all Town Officers and Committees for the ensuing year not required to be elected by ballot or act in relation thereto.
Article 4. To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the consent of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue for the current year.
Article 6. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate money for District and School Nursing.
Article 7. To determine what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to defray Town charges; for the support of Public Schools, Department of Public Wel- fare, repairs of highways and bridges, and various other de- partments.
Article 8. To determine whether the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for Townsend, River, Dunstable, Nashua and Brookline roads maintenance, provid- ing the State and County each appropriate a like amount.
Article 5. To determine what method the Town will adopt for the collection of taxes.
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Article 9. To determine what sums of money the Town will appropriate and raise for general oiling.
Article 10. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for hydrant ser- vice, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 11. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $12,000.00 to pay the expense of the Water Department, including bonds and interest, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 12. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $309.72 to be added to the Water Department surplus, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 13. To determine whether the Town will vote to accept Section 13 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, relative to establishing and maintaining a municipal buildings and in- surance fund.
Article 14. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 to establish a municipal buildings and insurance fund, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 15. To determine whether the Town will vote to establish a Board of three Commissioners of Trust Funds.
Article 16. To determine what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Moth work.
Article 17. To determine if the Town will raise and ap- propriate the sum of $6,800, providing the State will expend the sum of $6,800, for repairs and improvements on outlying roads under the provisions of Section 26 through 29, chapter 81 of the General Laws, as amended.
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Article 18. To determine what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for snow removal.
Article 19. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00, providing the State and County will each furnish a like amount, to repair Hollis Street, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 20. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for use of the Tree Warden in taking care of shade trees.
Article 21. To determine whether the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of nine hundred ($900.00) dollars, and appropriate the sum of one hundred ($100.00) Dollars from the surplus fund which is the amount of fines and in- come received during 1932 and could not be used, for the cur- rent expenses of Lawrence Library or take any action in re- lation thereto.
Article 22. To determine whether the Town will vote to appropriate from the Water Department surplus the sum of ten thousand one hundred fifty dollars $10,150.00) for a new pumping unit for Station No. 1, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 23. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the following sums to care for the sev- eral overdrafts and unpaid bills of 1932; i. e .:
Insurance overdraft
$149.49
Town Hall overdraft
115.66
Unpaid Forest Fire bills
46.50
Killing unlicensed dogs
5.00
Article 24. To determine whether the Town will rise and appropriate the sum of $365 to erect a new fire escape on the Town House, or take any action in relation thereto.
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Article 25. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex, as required by law, the Town's share of the net cost of care, maintenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital and for care and treatment of tubercular patients up to June 30, 1932, under Acts of 1928, Chapter 385, as amended by Acts of 1931, Chapter 60, including interets or discount on temporary notes issued therefor as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of the General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 26. To determine whether the Town will accept the following sums for the perpetual care of the following Cemetery lots :
$100 for the
$150 for the
$100 for the Jonah Parker Lot
$100 for the Joseph Warner Lot
$50 for the Jennie A. Wright Lot G. A. Mention Lot
$100 for the
E. F. Harmon Lot Henry Conant Lot
Article 27. To determine whether the Town will vote to re-appropriate the unexpended balance of the Forest Com- mittee for their use the coming year.
Article 28. To determine whether the Town will give the free use of the Town Halls twice during the year to the Fire Department and American Legion respectively, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 29. To determine whether the Town will vote to reduce the salary of all elective officers 10 per cent, or take any action in relation thereto.
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Article 30. To determine whether the Town will vote to construct a fence on the line between the Play Ground and the land of James F. Winch or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 31. To hear the report of the committee ap- pointed by the Selectmen to investigate the light and power rates of the Middlesex County Electric Co., or take any action in relation thereto.
OTTO B. OLSEN GEORGE P. PARKER WARREN C. FULLER
Selectmen of Pepperell
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