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Loans
275,000.00
Memorial Bridge Loans
3,000.00
High School
I3,000.00
High School Addition
10,000.00
Other Schools
7,000.00
Highway
2,000.00
Sewer
1,000.00
311,000.00
Agency Trust and Investment
Taxes, State Bank
II.74
Private Trust Funds
685.24
696.98
Refunds
Taxes
35.00
Interest
.17
Excise
192.7I
227.88
Recapitulation
Payments for year 193I
General Government
13,605.16
Municipal Buildings 3,935.62
Protection to Persons and
Property
14,613.64
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Health and Sanitation
18,141.03
Highways
20,024.96
Charities, Soldiers' Benefits and Old Age Assistance
34,628.57
Highway Construction
49,577.81
Street Lighting
10,419.05
State Parks and Reservations ..
I45.53
Schools
1 56,450.00
Schools State Trust Funds
198.89
Library
1,947.55
Unclassified, Bonds
567.50
Unclassified, Other expenses
3,600.03
Dental Clinic
199.53
Old Age Assistance
2,081.00
State Tax
9,525.00
County Tax
17,057.87
Public Service Enterprises
22,975.02
Public Service Construction
8,176.61
Cemeteries
124.00
Interest and Maturing Debt
Interest
18,759.52
Debt
311,000.00
Agency Trust and Investment
696.98
Refunds
227.88
718,678.75
718,678.75
Cash balance on hand
9,808.17
728,486.92
Trial Balance After Closing Books December 31, 193I
Cash
9,808.17
Cash in School Dept.
50.00
Taxes 1929
213.27
Taxes 1930 Polls
208.00
Taxes 1930 R & P
39,323.48
Taxes 1931
126,498.54
Taxes 1931 Poll
510.00
Old Age Assistance Tax
266.00
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Motor Vec. Excise 1929
91.69
Motor Vec. Excise 1930
924.50
Motor Vec. Excise 1931
1,852.72
Accounts Receivable
Health
812.62
Sewer Ent.
277.94
Pub. Welfare
3,510.8I
Sealer
63.13
Schools
748.99
Sidewalks 1928
87.38
Sidewalks 1929
290.80
Sidewalks 1930
432.15
Co. Aid Highways
986.93
State Aid Highways
985.93
Water Rates
4,171.06
Water Entrances
287.00
Tax Titles
4,754.75
Revenue Loans
100,000.00
Surplus War Bonus
2,701.14
Overlay 1929
838.59
Overlay 1930
2,401.74
Overlay 193I
3,443.47
Phelon Library Fund Income
36.80
Old Cemetery Fund Income
96.58
Maple Grove Fund Income
47.10
Overlay Reserve
3,393.63
Departmental Revenue
5,413.49
Special Assessment Revenue
810.33
Water Revenue
4,458.06
Tax Title Revenue
4,754.75
Motor Vehicle Excise Revenue 1929
91.69
Motor Vehicle Excise Revenue 1930
924.50
Motor Vehicle Excise Revenue 1931
1,852.72
Excess and Deficiency
64,083.17
Westfield St. Construction
2,190.43
Library
326.23
Old Age Assistance Tax
6.00
Water Maintenance
1,036.94
Water Construction
2,011.56
199,037.39
199,037.39
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Treasurer's Report
Year ending December 31, 193I
Balance on hand January 1, 193I ... $ 30,770.61 Receipts of 1931 (see accountant's
report)
694,716.31 $728,486.92
Payments of 1930 (see accountant's report)
718,678.75
Balance on hand Dec. 31, 1931
9,808.17
728,486.92
TRUST FUNDS
Whiting Street Fund
On hand January 1,193I
Securities
5,500.00
Cash
766.99
Income from Fund
301.93
6,568.92
Paid by order of Trustees
742.4I
On Hand December 31, 1931
Securities
5,500.00
Cash
326.51
6,568.92
Desire A. Pyne Fund
On hand January 1, 1931
Securities
2,000.00
Cash
II3.94
Income received
91.00
2,204.94
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Paid by order of Selectmen On hand December 31, 1931 Securities
83.60
2,000.00
Cash
121.34
2,204.94
Phelon School Fund
On hand January 1, 193I
Securities
4,150.00
Cash
1,244.36
Income from fund
209.44
5,603.80
Paid orders of School
Committee
495.42
On hand December 31, 1931
Securities
4,150.00
Cash
958.38
5,603.80
Phelon Library Fund
On hand January 1, 1931
Securities
500.00
Income from fund
22.75
522.75
Paid to Trust Fund Income
22.75
On hand December 31, 1931
500.00
522.75
Davis Library Fund
Income from Spfld. Safe Deposit and Trust
685.24
685.24
Paid Agawam Library Association
685.24
685.24
Maple Grove Cemetery Fund
Balance on hand January 1, 193I Securities
500.00
Income
22.75
522.75
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Paid Trust Fund Income
22.75 Securities on hand
December 31, 1931
500.00
522.75
Old Cemetery Fund
Balance on hand
January 1, 1931
700.00
Income from fund
31.84
731.84
Paid to Income Trust Fund
31.84
On hand December 31, 193I
700.00
731.84
H. E. BODURTHA, Treasurer
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LIABILITIES, DECEMBER 31, 1931
Eleven bonds of $1,000, each payable annually Oct. I, 1932-42 to Old Colony Trust Co., at 4% water loan
$ II,000.00
Bonds of 1913 water loan payable $3,500, annu- ally July 1, 1932-43 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 41/2% 37,000.00
Bonds of 1917 water loan payable $1,000, an- nually Oct. I, 1932-42 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 41/2%
11,000.00
Bonds of 1916 Schoolhouse loan payable $1,000, annually July I, 1932-1934 to Old . Colony Trust Co. at 4% 3,000.00
Bonds of 1917 Schoolhouse loan payable Sep- tember I, 1932
1,000.00
Bonds of 1916 Sewer loan payable $1,000, an- nually Dec. 1, 1932-1943 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 4%
12,000.00
Bonds of High School loan payable $12,000, annually Sept. I, 1932-1941 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 5%
I20,000.00
Bonds of 1924 Schoolhouse loan payable $2,000, annually June I, 1932-1944 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 41/4%
26,000.00
Bonds of 1925 Schoolhouse loan payable $3,000, annually June I, 1932-1940 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 4%
26,000.00-
Bonds of Memorial Bridge loan payable $3,000, annually Oct. I, 1932-1944 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 4%
39,000.00
Bonds of Highway loan payable $2,000, an- nually Oct. I, 1932-1933 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 4% 4,000.00
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Bonds of High School Addition of 1928 pay- able $10,000, annually Nov. I, 1932-1938 to Old Colony Trust Co. at 4%
70,000.00
Notes of 1931 water loan payable $1,000, an- nually Jan. 1, 1932-1939 to First National Bank at 334%
7,500.00
Temporary loans
100,000.00
$467,500.00
Of the above sum
Water debt is
$ 66,500.00
Outside of debt limit
159,000.00
Inside of debt limit
142,000.00
Payable during 1932
41,500.00
Per capita indebtedness 1931 42.42
Per capita indebtedness 192I
66.00
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REPORT OF Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare and Board of Health
In making our recommendations for the coming year we wish to call your attention to the unusual conditions of the past year which we hope will not continue through 1932. There have been unusual demands on several de- partments and at the same time it takes more hours of labor or more farm produce to pay the taxes on a thousand dol- lars worth of property than it did a year or two ago. There- fore in order to bring the tax rate within the property own- ers income we recommend the strictest economy in your appropriations this year. This is the only way to reduce taxes.
Highway Department
Some over two miles of hard road was built on West- field Street this year starting where the work was stopped in 1930 and extending through Feeding Hills center to- wards Westfield. One year more would finish this road to the Westfield line and the State and County are ready to build this year, if the Town votes to put up our third of the money. It is up to you.
In our general highway department we bought a new truck, a new road scraper with a scarifier attached and a new tar kettle with a burner attached for patching roads.
We put in a piece of new stone base road on Barry St., 7/10 of a mile long ; 1500 feet of gravel road on Shoemaker Lane; the hill on Leonard St., which was very dangerous was widened and new culverts, catch basins and new rail-
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ings were put in which makes a decided improvement in that spot. Several other roads were graveled and about one thousand dollars was spent on Springfield St., repair- ing the road and shoulders which are a constant source of trouble on this road.
How much we spend this year is of course up to the voters but we must bear in mind that our roads cover a lot of territory ; the demands on them are ever increasing and they must be kept in shape.
Department of Public Welfare
Our Welfare problems for the year just passed have been numerous and very trying. Residents of Agawam, due to business conditions have been without employment until in many cases it has been necessary for them to ap- ply for assistance. During the summer months some of the heads of families were able to find out-of-doors work that made them self-supporting but at that they were handicapped, as they were obliged to depend on Agawam work almost entirely, as Public Works jobs in other places were done as nearly as possible by men of those communi- ties. This winter we lost out on the brush cutting job to beautify the bank of the Connecticut River on the River Road, which is being done by the State department ; though we submitted a list of names to the State department. The men doing the work are being brought here from other towns and cities.
The amount spent in this department during 1931 is a radical increase over what we have ever been called upon to spend at any time before but this same fact is true in all towns and cities in the State. Another feature of the situa- tion is that our town being located near cities of large manufacturing interest, many of our residents work in these places and have settlements other than Agawam, making practically one third of welfare money used returnable to us from the State and other towns.
The amount it will be necessary to use during 1932 is hard to estimate but we are hopeful that before the year is over everyone will be at work.
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Health Department
Thirty-four cases of scarlet fever have been reported to this department during this year, all light cases causing no serious alarm.
Nine dog bites, seven tubercular and the usual number of whooping cough, measles and chicken pox cases also reported.
A fact of interest in view of the immunization clinic for diptheria during 1930 is that not one case of this disease has been reported during 1931.
The most alarming was the fact of twelve cases of in- fantile paralysis, most of which were slight, but in a few cases lasting results remain. These cases in some instances required quite an expenditure of money.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWIN L. TALMADGE, GILES W. HALLADAY, JOHN L. BURKE,
Selectmen, Public Welfare, Board of Health.
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REPORT OF Chief of Police
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen -- I hereby submit to you the annual report of the Police Department from January Ist, 1931 to Decem- ber 3Ist, 1931, inclusive.
Arrests
Automobile Violations
75
Breaking and Entering and Larceny
2
Breach of Peace
2
Bastardy
2
Carrying Revolver
2
Carrying and exposing indecent pictures
I
Cohabitation
4
Drunkenness
43
Fornication
3
Fugitive from Justice
3
Illegal Liquor Keeping
2
Illegal Liquor Selling
2
Indecent Assault
I
Insane
2
Lewd and Lascivious Persons
2
Non-Support
2
Robbery while Armed
I
Runaway Boys
6
Rape
2
Suspect
I
Stubborn Child
I
Violation Probation
I
Violation Fish and Game Laws
I
Total number of Arrests 167
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Larceny
6
Disposition
Continued Day to Day 6
Filed
I
Fined IO7
Probation 6
Released
7
Sentenced to House of Correction
I2
Sentenced to State Farm
I
Sentenced to Lancaster Reformatory
2
Sentenced to Lyman School
I
Sentenced to Charlestown I
Sentenced to Northampton (Insane)
2
Suspended Sentences II
Turned over to other Police
IO
Total 167
Total Amount of Fines Imposed $4287.00
Total Amount turned back to Town Treasury 1684.00
Value of Stolen Automobiles Recovered 1700.00
In presenting my fifth annual report to the Town of Agawam, it is gratifying for me to be able to state that we have accomplished considerable more this year than was anticipated from the appropriation that was allotted to this department, consideration not being given to the pur- chase and equipping of a motorcycle or the paying of a Traffic Officer, which we have done and still kept inside our appropriation. Our Traffic Officer has taken care of Traffic in a very satisfactory manner and I feel accidents have been reduced practically to a minimum.
I believe that law and order have been maintained throughout the Town to a very thorough degree, and I wish to state that we have not had any breaks in the last six (6) months with the exception of one which was of a very trivial nature.
I was called upon to police the Air Meet at the Bowles Agawam Airport for three (3) days, at which time many extra men were needed and some expense involved. We do feel from comments received and from a police standpoint
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and size of the undertaking that the job was satisfactorily accomplished.
It has always been my intention to give Agawam the best possible Police Protection and at the same time at the least possible expense to the Taxpayers, which I shall con- tinue to do as long as I am in office.
I wish to express my appreciation to all who have been of assistance to me during the past year in connection with Police Work.
Respectfully submitted, PERLEY J. HEWEY,
Chief of Police
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REPORT OF Board of Fire Engineers
For the Year Ending December 31, 1931
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Dear Sirs-We submit herewith our report for 1931, and our recommendations for 1932 for your consideration.
During the past year, a new fire truck was purchased and installed at the North Agawam Station. This piece of apparatus was received during June of the past year and has given entire satisfaction. It consists of a two and one- half ton International chassis, twelve hundred feet hose body, 100 gallon Booter tank and pump (pump capacity 100 gallons per minute), 200 feet 3/4 inch hose on reel from tank, extension ladder, roof ladder, 2 soda and acid ex- tinguishers and other equipment which was considered necessary.
Several bad fires occurred during the year, but our loss remained small in comparison with surrounding towns.
During the latter part of the year, all apparatus and equipment was inspected by a representative of the New England Fire Insurance Exchange and found in good con- dition and standard in accordance with their requirements. Their only request was that we have more hose, a condi- tion which we were aware of and which should be given consideration in 1932.
For a good many years, in fact longer than any of the present members of the board have served, a hose reel with 400 feet of 21/2 inch hose, nozzles and wrenches has been
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kept at the house of Sumner Schwartz on the River Road. In many cases this reel has reached a fire in this section of the town quite a few minutes before the apparatus from the Center and has given valuable aid. During the fire at Mr. Schwartz's last summer this reel and hose were destroyed. We think this should be replaced.
We wish at this time to thank each and every member of our Fire Department for their unselfish and efficient work during the past year.
Following is a list of calls made upon the Department during 1931 :
Dwellings 27
Barns
6
Stores 3
Automobiles 2
Grass and Brush
4I
Gasoline Station 2
Road Stand
I
Dump Fire
2
Lumber
I
Total 85
These were divided as follows :
North Agawam 22
Feeding Hills 3I
Agawam Center 32
Total 85
Assessed value of Property destroyed $39,900.00
Insurance paid $20,471.25
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD J. GOSSELIN, Chairman
JAMES W. SHEA, Purchasing Agent
FRANK T. GOSS, Secretary
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Assessors' Report
Horses
285
Cows
525
Sheep
63
Neat Cattle
164
Swine
525
Fowls 8,800
Value of Fowls $8,800.00
Value of Stock in Trade
$67,050.00
Value of Assessed Machinery
$887,980.00
Value of Assessed Live Stock
$73,375.00
Value of All Other Tangible
Personal Property
$184,824.00
No. Dwelling Houses Assessed.
1,525
No. Acres of Land Assessed
13,77I
Valuations
Buildings
$ 5,449,550
Land
2,875,600
Total Real Estate
8,325,150
Personal Estate
1,213,229
Total Valuations
9,538,379
Upon which Taxes have been levied as
follows :
County Tax
17,057.87
State Tax
9,525.00
State Audit Tax 4.49
Parks and Reservation
I45.53
Special State Tax (Old
Age Assistance)
2,075.00
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Town Appropriations 336,113.5I
Overlay for Current Year
3,822.72
Judgment of Court (Land Damage)
837.57
1928 Overlay Deficit
49.85
Total
$369,631.54
Less Estimated Receipts :
Income Tax
42,676.03
Motor Vehicle Excise
II,000.00
Corporation Tax
4,353.69
Bank Tax
60.63
Licenses
1,350.00
Fines
1,600.00
Special Assessments
460.00
General Government
1,000.00
Gas, Electric and Water Companies
796.44
Health and Sanitation
400.00
Highways
100.00
Charities
150.00
Soldiers' Benefits
150.00
Schools
2,300.00
Libraries
75.00
Highway Appropriation Offset (Ch. 122, Acts of 1931)
3,320.75
Public Service Enterprises ..
100.00
Interest on Deposits
350.00
Interest on Taxes and
Assessments
4,500.00
Railroads, Tel. & Tel.
Companies
1,158.63
Rentals
600.00
Bills in Lieu of Taxes
800.00
Total of Estimated Receipts 77,301.17
Total Deductions
$ 77,301.17
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Net Amount to be raised on Polls and Property $292,330.37
No. of Old Age Assistance Taxes 2075@$1.00 each 2,075.00
No. of Poll Taxes 2052@$2.00 each
4,104.00
Tax Rate $30.00 per $1,000-Pro- perty Tax
286,151.37
292,330.37
Omitted Taxes-Dec. Assessment 7.50
Total Excise Tax
12,477.62
Additional Polls assessed in Dec., 1931-7@$2.00 each 14.00
Additional Old Age Assistance
assessed in Dec.@$1.00 each ....
7.00
ADOLPHUS PROVOST CLARENCE H. GRANGER PAUL B. JOHNSON
Assessors
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REPORT OF Tax Collector
193I
Tax Committed
$290,276.87 $290,276.87
Cash paid to Treasurer
162,020.73
Less refunds
27.00
161,993.73
Abatements
379.25
Tax Titles
895.35
Uncollected
127,008.54
290,276.87
Previous Years
January I, 1931 balance due
125,008.72
Plus added commitments
24.00
125,032.72
Cash paid to Treasurer
83,665.26
Less refunds
16.84
83,648.42
Transfer
4.03
Abatements
1,474.97
Tax Titles
160.55
Uncollected 1929
213.27
Uncollected 1930
39,531.48
125,032.72
Motor Vehicle Excise 1931
Committed
12,417.62
12,417.62
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Cash paid to Treasurer
9,894.75
Less refunds
228.02
9,666.73
Abatements
898.17
Balance due
1,852.72
12,417.62
Previous years
Balance due Jan. I, 193I
2,658.II
Plus added committments
69.83
2,727.94
Cash paid to Treasurer
1,332.23
Less refunds
24.69
1,307.54
Abatements
404.2I
Balances
1,016.19
2,727.94
Old Age Assistance Tax Committed 193I
2,082.00
2,082.00
Cash paid to Treasurer
1,816.00
Balance due
266.00
2,082.00
FREDERICK A. RAISON, Collector
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Auditor's Report
February 10, 1932
This is to certify that I have examined the accounts of the Town Clerk and Treasurer also the Collector for the year of 1931 as set forth in their annual reports and to the best of my knowledge they are correctly and accurately recorded.
LEAFIE N. MAYNARD, Auditor
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1931
Town of Agawam :
The Town of Agawam appropriated to the Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture the sum of $300 for the purpose of strengthening locally the 4-H Club work with boys and girls and the Home Bureau work with women. In short this money goes to Agawam people as reimbursement for expenses incurred by them as local leaders and follow-up helpers to the County Agents. These local people not only render valuable assistance themselves but also enable the County workers to serve more people in the Town and do better work.
Two hundred and thirty-seven (237) Agawam boys and girls did 4-H Club work this year. They won $380 in cash prizes at the 1931 Eastern States Exposition. The County 4-H Agents had the assistance of eleven local people in carrying on this work which included the following proj- ects : Baby Beef, Bee, Canning, Field Corn, Dairy, Fruit, Gardening, Pig, Poultry, Sheep, Clothing, Foods and Room Improvement. This work reached every community and section of the Town. Two County Championship honors were awarded, one to Charles Brown of Feeding Hills for 4-H Garden Work, and one to Earle Dickinson for the best Sheep Club Work in the County. Dorothy Brown of Feed- ing Hills also won the second best County honor in the canning project, and Creighton Abrams was honored at Camp Gilbert as the County's Baby Beef Club delegate. The Room Improvement Work among the girls was a new
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project for the Town this year. The canning Club girls preserved 3,791 jars of fruits and vegetables in their 4-H Canning Club Work.
In connection with the Home Bureau work, there were fifty-four enrolled in the Home Furnishing project, thirty- six in the Low Cost Meals project, thirty-four in the Better Kitchens project and four in the Contest; nineteen people enrolled in the Vegetable Preparation project, sixteen in Advance Nutrition and three in the Better Homes Contest. A total of sixteen leaders assisted the County Home Dem- onstration Agents with this work. Twenty-eight meetings were held in the Town of Agawam in connection with these projects and there was a total attendance of three hundred and ninety-eight (398). During the year a new group was organized in North Agawam and has had the vegetable preparation and Low Cost Meals Projects. The Fire De- partment has been very cooperative in granting the use of the Hose House Hall for these meetings in North Agawam.
One hundred and four (104) farmers and home owners were visited in response to requests made directly to our County Agricultural Agents. . Aside from these visits, spe- cial assistance was given the dairy farmers in completing the petition for the Area Tubercular Test in which the owners of 87% of the Town of Agawam cooperated. The farmers were assisted with other problems such as garden- ing, fruit, poultry and pasture improvement.
The Home Grounds Department visited and gave spe- cial assistance to several home owners. This Department also assisted in the Highway Beautification Contest.
OTIS E. HALL, Managing Director and Clerk
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REPORT OF Board of Water Commissioners
Credit Balance from 1930
$ 1,340.67
Receipts of 1931
20,597.4I
$21,938.08
Payments
Commissioners
300.00
Superintendent
1,560.00
Clerk
500.00
Printing, Stationery and
postage
106.15
Telephone
6.00
Truck and upkeep
963.38
Gas and oil for same
182.81
General Department, pipe and fittings
25.3I
Meters and equipment
698.48
Water consumed
8,600.98
All other general expense
134.02
Service pipe department
Pipe
666.96
Labor
804.00
All other expense
22.55
14,570.64
Interest on water debt
2,904.38
Payment on bonds
5,500.00
8,404.38
22,975.02
Payments in excess of receipts
1,036.94
21,938.08
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Water Construction
Credit Balance from 1930
188.17
Voted Town Meeting 1931
10,000.00 10,188.17
Payments North St. Construction
Labor
2,288.50
Trucks
50.00
Pipe, etc.
5,740.22
All other
97.89
8,176.61
Unused balance of construction
2,011.56
WALTER S. KERR, DUDLEY K. BODURTHA, D. M. CROWLEY
Water Commissioners
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REPORT OF Library Trustees
Books
Number at Agawam 9778
Number at Feeding Hills
6532
Number at North Agawam
2358
Circulation
Agawam
20014
Feeding Hills
9369
North Agawam
I2556
Borrowers
Agawam
1000
Feeding Hills
356
North Agawam
420
ALICE B. GRANGER, ANNA H. RUDMAN, IDA BERNATCHEZ,
Library Trustees
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REPORT OF Sealer of Weights and Measures
To the Selectmen of the Town of Agawam:
Gentlemen-In my report to you, I would make the fol- lowing suggestion :
If people who sell wood would give a bill of the amount sold and describe how sold, whether in four foot or stove length, as the law requires, they would save themselves trouble.
Articles sealed 286
Articles condemned 2I
Inspections made 9I
Commodities tested 88
Correct
75
Under weight IO
Over weight
3
Respectfully submitted,
E. U. LEONARD, Sealer
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REPORT OF Superintendent for Gypsy Moth Control
To the Selectmen of the Town of Agawam:
Gentlemen-About three hundred (300) Gypsy Moth egg clusters have been found and treated; and all new in- festations located.
All the old infestations have been held under control which is all that could be done under the present conditions.
Respectfully submitted,
E. U. LEONARD, Superintendent
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REPORT OF THE FORESTRY DEPARTMENT
Have tried to keep the trimming done where it was necessary. The wind storms which we had last summer did some damage to trees some of which had to be taken down. Have removed several large trees that were in bad condition. Some of the older trees are in bad condition and should be closely watched.
Have taken down some poplar trees where the owners of property were planning to set better shade trees.
The poplar tree is proving to be a bad tree for better shade trees also water and drain pipes.
FRANK W. RANDALL, Tree Warden
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ANNUAL REPORTS of the
School Committee and the
Superintendent of Schools of the Town of AGAWAM, MASS.
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For the Year Ending December 31
1931
Agawam Public Schools
ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL BOARD Clifford M. Granger, Chairman Term expires March, 1932 Post Office Address, Feeding Hills
Mrs. Grace B. Reed Term expires March, 1932 Post office Address, Agawam
Mrs. H. G. Lewis Term expires Mach, 1934. Post Office Address, Agawam
Warren C. Bodurtha Term expires March, 1934 Post Office Address, Agawam
Joseph L. Roy Term expires March, 1933 Post Office Address, North Agawam
Sidney F. Atwood, Secretary Term expires March, 1933 Post Office Address, Feeding Hills
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Benjamin J. Phelps Telephone : 4-2831
SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1932
Winter Term-January 4 to March 25
Spring Term-April 4 to June 10, Elementary Schools Spring Term-April 4 to June 17, Junior-Senior High School Fall Term-September 6 to December 23
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OFFICE HOURS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT High School Building-School Days, 8.30-9.00 a.m., and by appointment.
SECRETARY Emma Mellor Telephone : 4-1630
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