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Feb. 21. John Joseph Toomey, Fracture of skull (accident)
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Feb. 21. Stanislaus J. Gedrin, Increased intra- cianial pressure (accident)
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Feb. 22. Lottie Belle Shepardson, Coronary
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Feb. 22. Lucy Ann Phillips, Probable Cerebral hemorrhage
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Feb. 29. Arthur Edward Bannon, Cardio renal clisease
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Mar. 9. Etta Belle Tyrell, Hepatic insufficiency
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Mar. 20. Jefferey Powers, Acute cardiac failure
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Apr. 4. Margaret C. Efford, Carcinoma abdom- inal viscera
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Apr. 12. Mary Ellen O'Toole, Chronic arterio sclerotic heart disease
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Apr. 22. Hannah Sheehan, Natural causes
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Apr. 22. Minnie Alice Toomey, Cashexia
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Caroline E. Stearns, Carcinoma of signoid 58
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May 7. Ralph Geiger, Fractured skull, Flame Burns (accident)
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May 21.
Marceline Janelle, Myocarditis
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June 20.
Helen E. Hawkins, Cerebral hemorrhage
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Lucius T. Wilson, Cerebral hemorrhage
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June 25.
Katherine O'Connell Dunlap, General debility
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July 1.
Ruth Frances Parker, - Erythroblastosis
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Sarah J. Hammond, Respiratory failure
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Annah P. Blood, Cerebral hemorrhage
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July 24. Elinor H. Kahl, Leucaemia
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Joan Moulton, Natural causes
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Andrew V. Pillsbury, Cancer Prostate
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Helen F. Sullivan, Cashexia
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Ella Kinnan, Cerebral hemorrhage
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Sept. 16. John Leo Mulcahy, Natural causes
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Mary Ann Tierney, Obstructive Jaundice
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Francis G. Hayes, Natural causes
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Bernard F. Neagle, Natural causes
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Sept. 29. David Andrewchuk, Multiple compound fracture skull (accident) 59 0 0
Sept. 29. Louise F. Patrick, Acute Pulmonary Edema
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Oct. 3. Herbert L. Thompson, Heart disease
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Oct. 8. Nicholas Morrissey, Post operative shock
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Oct. 16. Mary A. Wade, Acute cardiac failure
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Oct. 30. Clara H. Baker, General arterio sclerosis
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Nov. 20. George W. Nichols, Heart failure
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Nov. 22. Dominic B. Greiczuis, Natural causes
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Nov. 14. Ethel May Call, Pulmonary embolism
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Nov. 22. Elmira Shattuck, Broncho pneumonia
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Dec. 4. James Lynch, General arterio schlerosis
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Dec. 27. Charles H. Jewett, Chronic valvular disease of heart
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Dec. 30. Fannie K. Hobart, Cerebral hemorrhage 76
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DOGS MUST BE LICENSED ON OR BEFORE MARCH 31
Or the Owners or Keepers Thereof Are Liable to a Fine
BRIEF EXTRACTS OF THE DOG LAWS
The owner or keeper of a dog which is three months old or over shall annually, on or before March 31st,, cause it to be registered, numbered, described and licensed for one year from April 1st following if the dog is kept in Boston, in the office of the Police Commissioner, or if in any other town in the office of the Clerk thereof. The owner or keeper of a licensed dog shall cause it to wear around its neck or body a collar or harness of leather or other suitable material to which shall be attached a tag upon which shall appear the license number, the name of the town and the year of issue. If any such tag is lost the owner or keeper shall forthwith secure a substitute tag from the town or city clerk. Any person may bring from another state any dog licensed under the laws thereof and keep such dog in this commonwealth not exceeding 30 days, without licensing.
A person who after April first in any year becomes the owner or keeper of a dog which is not duly licensed, and the owner or keeper of a dog when it becomes three months old after March thirty-first in any year, shall cause it to be reg-
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istered, numbered, described, licensed, collared or harnessed and tagged as required by section one hundred and thirty- seven. A person who after April first in any year becomes the owner or keeper of a dog which is duly licensed in the town where kept shall forthwith give notice in writing to the clerk of such town or if kept in Boston, to the Police Commissioner, that he has become such owner or keeper, and said clerk or said police commissioner, as the case may be shall change the record of such license to show the name and address of the new owner or keeper.
The fee for every license (except as otherwise provid- ed) shall be $2.00 for a male dog and $5.00 for a female. If a female dog has been spayed, such dog can be licensed for $2.00 providing a proper certificate from a registered veter- inarian is filed with the clerk.
Whosoever violates the provisions of the dog law shall be liable to a fine or not more than $15.00. 1.
The Board of Health is required to furnish anti-rabic vaccine free of charge, and treatment of persons.
A dog license is valid throughout the state. In case of permanent removal to another town, the dog must be li- censed within thirty days in such town.
The assessors shall annually take a list of all owners or keepers of dogs. An owner or keeper who gives false infor- mation to assessors is liable to a fine of not less than $10.
The Mayor and Selectmen shall annually appoint one or more dog officers. Such officers may also be appointed by the County Commissioners.
The Mayor and Selectmen shall between June 1 and 10 issue a warrant to such dog officers directing them to seek out, catch and confine all unlicensed dogs and prosecute com- plaints against the owners or keepers, and shall kill all such dogs after being confined for six days. Dog officers failing to comply with the warrant shall be removed.
Cropping or cutting the whole or any part of the ears of dogs is forbidden.
KENNEL LICENSE
Any owner or keeper of a kennel may apply for a license in the town where the kennel is located. Such license shall be in lieu of any other license while said dog is kept in such kennel. Such owner or keeper shall cause each dog so kept to wear, while it is at large, a collar or harness of leather or some suitable material to which shall be attached a tag
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showing the number of the kennel license, the name of the town and year. These tags are to be furnished by the town clerk where the kennel is licensed. The fee for each kennel license shall be $25.00 if not more than ten dogs are kept and $50.00 if more than ten. Dogs under six months of age shall not be included in the number of dogs kept. Holders of kennel licenses may operate a boarding kennel. The name and address of every owner of such dog shall be kept avail- able for inspection.
Every holder of a kennel license, on delivery of an un- licensed dog shall attach to such dog a collar or harness which shall carry a tag marked with the name and address of the kennel licensee, and a number to be recorded; and shall also furnish to the owner or keeper of the dog a certifi- cate, bearing the same number and description, date of pur- chase, which, with the tag, shall be a legal substitute for a license for two weeks only. The purchaser shall within two weeks, either return the dog to the kennel with the collar, harness, tag and certificate or return to the kennel said tag with a certificate from the city or town clerk certifying that the dog has been licensed. If a purchaser of a dog fails to comply with the foregoing the owner of the kennel shall notify the city or town clerk. Kennels are liable to inspec- tion to see if they are maintained in a sanitary and humane condition.
Respectfully submitted, IRENE S. LEARY Town Clerk
Attention is particularly called to the following extracts from the General Laws.
GENERAL LAWS, CHAPTER 46
Extracts from Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8
Section 1. Each city and town Clerk shall receive or obtain and record *.* * facts relative to births * * * in his city or town.
Section 3. Every physician or medical officer regis- tered shall keep a record of the birth of every child in cases
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of which he was in charge and * shall, within fifteen days after such birth, mail or deliver to the clerk or registrar of the town where such birth occurred a report * * If the child is illegitimate, the name and other facts relating to the father shall not be stated except at the request in writ- ing of both father and mother filed * * Upon presentation to him of a certificate of the town clerk stating that any such birth has been duly reported, the town treasurer shall pay to such physician or officer a fee of twenty-five cents for each birth so reported. * * * A physician or any such officer violating any provisions of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty-five dollars.
Section 4. A member or servant of a family in which a child is born, having knowledge of the facts required * * * shall furnish the same upon request of the clerk of the town * * or of any person authorized by him. (Penalty for refusal not more than ten dollars.)
Section 6. Parents, within forty days after the birth of a child, and every householder within forty days after a birth in his house shall cause notice thereof to be given to the clerk of the town where such child is born.
Section 8. (Penalty for neglect to comply with the pro- visions of Section 6, not more than five dollars.)
GENERAL LAWS, CHAPTER 207
Section 36. If a marriage is solemnized in another state between parties living in this Commonwealth, who return to dwell here, they shall within seven days after their re- turn file with the clerk or registrar of town where either of them lived at the time of their marriage, a certificate or declaration of their marriage, including the facts required in a notice of intention of marriage.
Section 55. Whoever violates Section 36 shall forfeit ten dollars.
The Town Clerk hereby gives notice that she is prepared to furnish parents, householders, physicians, and registered hospital medical officers applying therefor with blanks for : return of births as required by law.
IRENE S. LEARY Town Clerk
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Pepperell, Mass., February 21, 1944
In accordance with the warrant calling this Annual Meeting the citizens of Pepperell qualified according to law to vote in State, County, District and Town affairs assembled at the Town Hall, on the evening of February 21, at 7:30 P. M. o'clock.
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 P. M. o'clock by the Town Clerk, who read the Call of the Warrant, ap- pointed tellers, and called for the nomination and election of a Moderator. Under Article 1 Trescott T. Abele was elected Moderator and was sworn to the faithful perform- ance of his duties by the Clerk and at once took up Arti- cle 2.
Article 2. The reports of the Town Clerk, Treasurer, Selectmen and Board of Health, Assessors, Board of Public Welfare, School Committee, Cemetery Commissioners were accepted as printed in the Annual Town Report. A motion to accept the remaining reports as printed in the annual report under a blanket coverage was carried unani- mously.
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 3. Voted that all Town Officers and Commit- tees for the ensuing year not required to be elected by ballot be appointed by the Selectmen. -
Article 4. To determine whether the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the consent of the Select- men to borrow money in anticipation of revenue for the cur- rent year.
Article 4. Voted that the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized with the consent of the Selectmen, to borrow money and issue notes therefor in anticipation of revenue for the current year in accordance with the provisions of Chap. 44, Sec. 4 of General Laws.
Article 5. To determine what salaries the Town will vote to pay the elected Town Officers for the year 1944, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 5. Voted that the Salaries of the Elected Town Officers be the same as last year ..
Article 6. To determine what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, to defray the expenses
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of the Public Schools, Department of Public Welfare and various other departments and special accounts.
Article 6. Voted to accept and adopt the recommenda- tions of the Finance Board with exceptions as noted.
PART ONE
1 Selectmen
$ 700.00
2 Legislative
300.00
3 Law
400.00
4 Health
1,500.00
5 Soldiers' Relief
2,000.00
6 Street Lights
5,000.00
7 Insurance
1,600.00
8 Town Hall
1,500.00
9 Common
50.00
10 Rationing Board
350.00
11 Contingent Fund
200.00
12 Police Department
3,500.00
12A Police Station Repairs
250.00
13 Fire Department
3,000.00
14 Fire Hose
500.00
15 Sealer of Weights and Measures
100.00
PART TWO
16 Town Treasurer
750.00
18 Interest
100.00
19 Town Accountant
550.00
20 Town Clerk
570.00
21 Registrars
280.00
22 Listing
300.00
23 Election Officers
400.00
24 Assessors
1,500.00
25 Tax Collector
1,500.00
PART THREE
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Tree Warden
200.00
27 Moth Control
500.00
28 Highways
2,500.00
29 Town Dump
200.00
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Workmen's Compensation Fund
500.00
31 Memorial Day
150.00
32 Playgrounds
150.00
33 Cemeteries
1,000.00
34 Soldiers' Graves
150.00
35 Library
1,400.00
36 District and School Nurse
1,000.00
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PART FOUR
37 Public Schools (Plus Dog Tax) 46,100.00
38 Public Welfare 5,500.00
39 Old Age Assistance 32,500.00
40 Aid to Dependent Children 4,200.00
Article 7. To determine what method the Town will adopt for the collection of taxes.
Article 7. Voted that all taxes shall be collected in ac- cordance with the provisions of General Laws in relation thereto and that the collector be paid one percent on the principal of all taxes collected up to and including Decem- be 31, in the year they are due and three-fourths of one per- cent on the principal collected after that date.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Welfare to appoint one of its own members to act as Agent and to fix his salary in accordance with the provis- ions of Section 4A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, or act in relation thereto.
Art. 8. Voted that in accordance with Chapter 41, Sec- tion 4A that authorization be given to the Board of Public Welfare to appoint a member of said board to act as agent for a period of one year at a salary of 1,200.00 this act to become effective March 1st, 1944.
Article 9. To determine if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1,500.00 from available funds to a fund to be known as the "Reserve Fund" in accordance with Section 6 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 9. Voted that the sum of 1,500.00 be trans- ferred from the Overlay Surplus Reserve to a special ac- count to be known as the Reserve Fund to be used in accord- ance Section 6 of Chapter 40 of General Laws.
Article 10. To determine if the Town will vote to ap- propriate the sum of $7,200.00 from Water Department re- ceipts, to pay operating and maintenance cost of the depart- ment for the current year.
Article 10. So voted.
Article 11. To determine if the Town will vote to ap- propriate the sum of $268.53 to be added to Water Depart- ment Surplus.
Article 11. So voted.
Article 12. To determine if the Town will vote to ap- propriate from Water Department Surplus the sum of
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$2500.00 to pay for repairs and improvements of Engines at Station No. 1. 4
Article 12. Voted to appropriate from Water Depart- ment surplus the sum of 2,500.00 to pay for repairs and im- provements of Engines at Station No. 1.
Article 13. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2500.00 for removal of snow and ice, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 13. So voted.
Article 14. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,750.00 for repairs and improvements on outlying roads under the provision of Section 26 through 29, Chapter 81 of General Laws, as amended or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 14. So voted.
Article 15. To determine whether the Town will raise and appropriate $1,100.00 and appropriate $700.00 from available funds, making a total of $1,800.00 for maintenance of Chapter 90 roads; money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by State or County, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 15. So voted.
Article 16. To determine whether the Town will vote to instruct the Assessors to take $5,000.00 from Surplus Revenues, with the consent of the Tax Commissioner, to reduce the tax rate for the current year.
Article 16. So voted.
Article 17. To determine whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 and transfer the sum of $200.00 from the unexpended balance of 1943 Forest Fire Account, for the Forest Fire Department, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 17. So voted.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds in the Teasury ,the sum of $11,100.00 for the purchase of Series "F" U. S. Savings Bonds matur- ing at $15,000.00; in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5, Acts of 1943.
Article 18. Voted on a substitute motion to take suffi- cient funds from Surplus account to purchase 50,000.00 Government Bonds maturity value, the same to be ear- marked for Post War improvements.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $136.50 in accordance with Chapter
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708 of the Acts of 1941 as amended by Section 9 and 9A, approved in 1943, to cover accrued liability on account of retirement payments of members of the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement Association in the military service, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 19. So voted.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the balance on the following closed W. P. A. accounts to the Excess and Deficiency Account:
Tree Warden $ 331.69
Stump Removal 20.99
Drainage Project 2,649.16
$ 3,001.84
Article 20. Voted that the sums of 331.69 and 20.99 be transferred to the Excess and Deficiency Account and the sum of 2,649.16 remaining in the closed W. P. A. Drain- age Project be left as is.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer $300.00 from the 1943 unexpended balance of the Treasurer to a special Tax Title Account.
Article 22. To determine if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of $500.00 to have prepared, an "Engineering Report of Post War Construc- tion Projects" for the Town of Pepperell, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 22. Voted that a Committee of five, consisting of the three Selectmen and two others appointed by them be authorized to act as the Pepperell Post War Public Works Committee and that a sum not to exceed 500.00 be trans- ferred from available funds to have prepared under the Committee's direction an Engineering Report of Post War Public Works Program for the Town of Pepperell.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to accept the sum of $200.00; the income therefrom to be expended for the perpetual care of the Charles W. Card lot in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Article 23. So voted.
Article 24. To determine if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed $450.00 to paint the exterior of the Tarbell Street School Building, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 24. So voted.
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Article 25. By Petition-To determine if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $38.00 to add two street lights on Townsend Street beyond Mt. Lebanon Street, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 25. Voted to pass.
Article 26. By Petition-To determine if the Town of Pepperell will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to expend a sum of $13,200.00 from the water departments surplus or by raising and appropriating the said sum, to extend the water main from a point near the Catholic Ceme- tery down Lowell Road to the Dunstable line, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 26. Voted that the water main be extended 750 feet down Lowell Road toward the Dunstable Line from the present end of the water main near the Catholic Ceme- tery, and that $1,500 be raised and appropriated.
A motion that the Town of Pepperell, Mass., accept the gift from Dr. Oscar Crocker of the property known as the Crocker Hospital with the furnishings, fixtures and equip- ment therein and thereon on the terms and conditions out- lined in Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Article No. 27, of the Town Warrant of Feb. 21, 1944, which is as follows:
Article 27 (By Petition) To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift from Dr. Oscar Crocker the following described premises :
A certain parcel of land in the center village of Pep- perell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with the buildings thereon, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the Southwesterly corner of the premises on the Northerly side of the road leading Westerly from the Meeting House towards the Town Pound and known as Heald Street; thence Northerly by land now or formerly of John Parker, twelve (12) rods and six (6) links; thence Easterly by land now or formerly of Charles D. Hutchinson to Park Street; thence Southerly by Park Street to said Heald Street; thence Westerly by Heald Street to the point of beginning. Containing about one and one-half (11/2) acres. Said premises being the same formerly operated by Dr. Crocker as a hospital known as the Crocker Hospital, together with all the furnishings, fixtures and equipment therin and theron, all on the following terms and conditions :
(1) That the Town of Pepperell shall maintain and use the said premises, together with its furnishings, fixtures and equipment, as a GENERAL HOSPITAL.
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(2) That said hospital shall at all times bear the name of "JULIA CROCKER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL."
(3) That the Town of Pepperell shall keep the said premises, furnishings, fixtures and equipment in good state of repair; pay all expenses of running said hospital, includ- ing taxes and other charges.
(4) One free bed shall be available to Dr. Oscar Crocker, if he should need to be hospitalized; or this free bed may be used by a member of Dr. Oscar Crocker's im- mediate family, if and when that member should need to be hospitalized. It is intended that hospitalization shall in- clude supplies normally furnished by this hospital, and the term "immediate family" shall include father, brothers, sisters, wife or children.
(5) That Dr. Oscar Crocker should at all times be granted the right and privilege of practicing his profession as a physician and surgeon in the hospital while the same is operated by the Town of Pepperell.
(6) That in the event the premises cease to be used by the Town of Pepperell in the manner and for the pur- poses before-mentioned, then, in that event, the said prem- ises, together with the furnishings, fixtures and equipment shall revert to the Grantor as if this conveyance had not been made.
Arcticle 27. Lost by a check list vote of: Yes, 28; No, 135.
Article 28 (By Petition) To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Board of Trustees to manage the JULIA CROCKER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
Article 28. Passed over. .
Article 29 (By Petition) To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Thousand Dollars ($9,000) for the operation, maintenance and improvement of the JULIA CROCKER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL for the remainder of the current year or to act in any way in rela- tion thereto.
Article 29. Passed over.
A true copy,
Attest:
IRENE S. LEARY, Town Clerk.
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Report of Highway Surveyor
2 Conant Gravel Loaders
2 Adams Graders
2 Cement Mixers
2 Tar Kettles
2 Patrol Scrapers
1 Water Cart
6 New Adams Scraper Blades
7 Simonds Cross Cut Saws
5 Road Drags
4 Sidewalk Plows
2 Large Grease Guns
12 Picks
6,200 ft. Snow Fence
12 Mattocks
8 Iron Bars
6 Forks
4 Scythes and Snaths
4 Brush Snips
4 Iron Rakes
4 Axes
6 Snow Shovels
1 Buffalo Springfield Roller 1 Self Propelling Nozzle
1 Holt Best Thirty Tractor
64 Shovels of various types
2 Extension Ladders
30 Street Brooms
Various small tools
$ 50.00
15,000 Calcium Chloride
240.00
386.00
GENERAL HIGHWAY
Appropriation
2,500.00
Osporn Construction Co.
4.75
John Boynton Estate
40.00
Central Grain Co.
191.25
W. E. Chapman
16.65
Roy Elliott
9.00
William P. Proctor
27.06
Koppers Company
193.19
D. H. Munroe Company
15.51
George A. Shattuck
38.12
Arthur W. Bartlett
25.63
Ralph Palmer
2.06
Middlesex County Electric Co.
10.00
Town of Pepperell, Water Dept.
6.00
579.22
1,920.78
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4. New Patrol Scraper Blades
96.00
W. E. Chapman, Trucks Frank Ford, Truck
586.40 312.00
898.40
1,022.38
W. E. Chapman
384.00
Edward Drinan
210.15
Edward Fahey
92.30
Joseph Murphy
71.50
J. J. Sullivan
173.55
Lemuel Lohnes
78.00
Chester Shattuck
5.20
1,014.70
Unexpended Balance
7.68
Snow and Ice Removal
2,500.00
Appropriated Roy Elliott
102.72
C. B. Colburn Co.
145.00
247.72
2,252.28
W. E. Chapman, Trucks
1,045.70
Frank Ford, Truck
342.90
Glenn Staveley, Truck
327.00
Ernest Blood, Team
60.00
Victor Geiger, Team
154.13
1,929.73
322.55
W. E. Chapman Lester Blood
205.50
Theodore Palmer
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