Town of Agawam, Massachusetts annual report 1931-1935, Part 3

Author: Agawam (Mass. : Town)
Publication date: 1931
Publisher: Agawam (Mass. : Town)
Number of Pages: 812


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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


61


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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