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The moderator appointed as Tellers, Dexter F. Parker and Ever- ett E. Harvey, and a rising vote was taken and gave the yeas 70, nays 2.
Article 3. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to stipulate and agree in behalf of the town to indemni- fy and save harmless said Commonwealth against all claims and de- mands for damages which may be sustained by any person whose property is taken for or is injured by the construction of the New- buryport Turnpike so called commencing at the boundary between the Town of Saugus and Lynnfield, and extending northerly along the Newburyport Turnpike to the boundary between the Town of Lynnfield and the City of Peabody, or what action it will take thereon.
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On motion of Joseph F. Smith as amended by Peter Walsh it- was voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to stipulate and agree in behalf of the town to indemnify and save harmless said Common- wealth against all claims and demands for damages as set forth in form of release, which may be sustained by any person whose property is taken for or is injured by the construction of the Newburyport Turnpike, so called, commencing tt the boundary between the town of Saugus and Lynnfield and extending northerly along the Newbury- port Turnpike to the boundary between the Town of Lynnfield and the City of Peabody.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to make an additional increase in the salaries of the teachers of the public schools, or what action it will take thereon.
On motion of Benjamin F. Griffin as amended by Franklin W. Freeman it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of One Thous- and and Fifty Dollars ($1,050.00) for the use of the School Depart- ment to be used as the School Committee shall determine.
A unanimous vote.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD JULY 12, 1920
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting. Nelson B. Todd was unanimously elected moderator.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for the general repair of highways, or what action it will take thereon.
James H. Savage moved that the town raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000) which was duly seconded by Carl H. Russell.
The moderator appointed as Tellers Carl H. Russell and Ralph E. Cox. The vote was yes 9; no, 9. As a two-thirds vote was neces- sary to carry the motion, the vote was lost.
Article 3. To see if the town will vote to pay the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per year as salary of the Chief of Fire Department, or what action it will take thereon.
Lewis F. Pope made a motion, seconded by Peter Walsh, that the town raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00). The moderator appointed as Tellers Carl H. Russell and Ralph E. Cox. The vote was Yes, 2; No, 8. It was not a vote.
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STATE AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 1920
PRESIDENT
Pre. 1
Prec. 2
Total
Cox and Roosevelt
Democrat
34
33
67
Cox and Gillhaus
Socialist Labor
1
2
3
Debs and Steadman
Socialist
1
10
11
Harding and Coolidge
Republican
240
191
431
GOVERNOR
Channing H. Cox
Republican
254
186
440
Walter S. Hutchins
Socialist
2
9
11
Patrick Mulligan
Socialist Labor
0
8
8
John J. Walsh Blanks
Democrat
20
37
57
10
10
20
LIEUT .- GOVERNOR
Marcus A. Coolidge
Democrat
22
39
61
David Craig '
Socialist Labor
1
3
4
Alvan T. Fuller
Republican
201
155
356
Thomas Nicholson
Socialist
0
15
15
Robert M. Washburn Blanks
Independent
48
23
71
14
15
29
SECRETARY
Frederick W. Cook
Republican
243
193
436
Edward E. Ginsburg
Democrat
20
28
48
Anthony Houtenbrink
Socialist Labor
0
6
6
Socialist
3
8
11
Edith M. Williams Blanks
20
15
35
TREASURER
George H. Jackson
Citizen
6
10
16
James Jackson
Republican
244
182
426
Louis Marcus
Socialist
0
8
8
Patrick O'Hearn
Democrat
19
32
51
Albert L. Waterman Blanks
Socialist Labor
0
3
3
17
15
32
23
Alonzo B. Cook Alice E. Cram
Democrat
31
31
62
Stephen J. Surridge
Socialist Labor
0
4
4
Socialist
2
10
12
Herbert H. Thompson Blanks
20
29
49
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
J. Weston Allen
Republican
239
169
408
Morris I. Becker
Socialist Labor
1
2
3
John Weaver Sherman
Socialist
2
9
11
Michael L. Sullivan
Democrat
23
49
72
Blanks
21
21
42
CONGRESSMAN SEVENTH DISTRICT
George F. Hogan
Prohibition
30
13
43
Robert S. Maloney
Republican
173
178
351
Michael F. Phelan
Democrat
23
49
72
Blanks
19
17
36
COUNCILLOR SIXTH DISTRICT
Charles Sumner Smith
Republican
228
182
410
Blanks
58
68
126
SENATOR SEVENTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT
Charles H. Burns
Democrat
24
46
70
Gardner M. Pearson
Republican
227
165
392
Blanks
35
39
74
REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT THIRTEENTH ESSEX DISTRICT
John P. Carroll
Ind. L'b'r Dem. 17
40
57
Michael H. Cotter
Independent
6
14
20
Vernon W. Evans
Republican
221
159
380
Tony A. Garofano
Democrat
25
57
82
Charles F. Hawthorne
Republican
159
149
344
Daniel J. Haden
Democrat
29
66
95
Fred A. Hutchinson Blanks
Republican
201
138
339
164
127
291
COUNTY COMMISSIONER, ESSEX COUNTY
Parkman B. Flanders
Socialist
6
20
26
Benjamin B. Gilman
Republican
216
171
387
James C. Poor
Republican
211
174
385
Blanks
139
135
274
AUDITOR
Republican
233
176
409
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SHERIFF FOR ESSEX COUNTY
John F. Putman
Socialist
7
18
25
Arthur G. Wells Blanks
Republican
226
184
410
53
48
101
REGISTER OF DEEDS, ESSEX SOUTHERN DISTRICT
Moody Kimball
Republican
217
182
399
Blanks
69
68
137
"Shall an act entitled 'An Act to regulate the Manufacture and Sale of Beer, Cider and Light Wines', and in which it is provided that all beverages containing not less than one half of one percent and not more than two and three fourths per cent of alcohol by weight at sixty degrees Fahrenheit shall be deemed not to be intoxicating liq- uor, which act passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 121 in favor and 67 against, and passed the Senate by a vote of 26 in favor and 6 against, and was thereafter vetoed by His Excellency the Governor, and failed of passage in the Senate over the said veto by vote of 14 in favor and 22 against, be approved?"
Yes No
86
102
188
160
107
267
Blanks
40
41
81
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VITAL STATISTICS BIRTHS REGISTERED IN LYNNFIELD, 1920
DATE
NAME OF CHILD
NAME OF PARENTS
1919
Aug. 9.
Frances Edith Sparks Lester Curtis Alboth
Aug. 11.
Oct. 11.
John William Donovan
1920
Jan. 17.
Martha Elizabeth Plummer
Jan. 31.
Eleanor Marion Smith
Feb. 1.
Audrey Louise Bailey
Feb. 26.
Barbara Gerry
Mar. 30.
Harry Nashel Gaston
Apr. 14.
Marion Nesbitt
May 12.
Virginia Grant Lambert Elizabeth Rebecca Cox
June 9.
June 20.
Louis Emerson Merithew
July 7.
Mildred Cecil Kenney
July 9. Edwin Richard Hunt
July 20. Aug. 7. Aug. 27. Aug. 28.
(Still born)
Ruth Whelan Doherty
John Elroy Foy
Peter Joseph Walsh, Jr.
Aug. 29. Sept. 1. Sept. 17. Oct. 16.
Nov. 6.
May 8. Aug. 21.
Richard Butman Tyacke George William Pyburn Edward David Sheehan Emerson Osborne Potter Myrtle Lottie Dearborn Ina Georgia Harvey Margaret Louise Earle
William C. & Tryphena (Nichols) Kurt & Bertha (Nye John W. and Katherine (McHugh)
Enfield W. & Helen F. (Finch)
Joseph F. & Marion W. (Preston) Irwin C. & Lillian O. (Jeffrey) Elbridge H. & Catherine (Salsbury) John & Vahanoshe (Zanaizian) Harry F. & Ella M. (Westover) George E. Jr. & Hannah (Pingree) Harold C. and Blanche (Boudreau) Charles H. & Helen C. (Bailey) William E. & Florence G. (Hurd) William C. & Lillian M. (Tracy)
J. Joseph & Jennie (Sullivan) William F. & Mina G. (Gould ) Peter J. & Helen V. (Walsh) Charles W. & Ethel (Butman) Thomas W. & Sarah E. (Farland) David C. & Mabel (Oram) George O. & Margaret A. (Kelley) Howard S. & Florence (Melanson) Everett E. & Georgia (Richardson) Herman & Margaret (Urquhart)
MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN LYNNFIELD, 1920
DATE
PLACE OF MAR'GE
NAME OF GROOM AND BRIDE
RESIDENCE
1920 Mar. 24.
Boston
Howard S. Dearborn
Florence L. Melanson
Mar. 28.
Melrose
Robert B. Hawley
Hattie Winifred Wyman (Farrar) Constantine Miggopulos
Apr. 4.
Lynnfield
Lynn
Ernestine Boure
Lynn
Apr. 26.
Lynnfield
Wilbur Earl Waitt
Peabody
. June 1.
Providence, R. I.
St. Clair Winter
Lynnfield
Providence, R. I.
June 9.
Lynnfield
Frank William Kramer
Ft. Atkinson, Wis.
June 14.
Lynn
Walter Franklin Amero
Lynn
Lynnfield
June 21.
Swampscott
Francis Amory Spurr Emily Crosby Munroe
Lynnfield
July 28.
Lynnfield
Karl Raymond Putman Marion Agnes Stewart
Lynnfield
Aug. 7.
Cambridge
Lynnfield
Aug. 13.
Wakefield
George Thomas Dixie Barnjum Louise Maria Webber Roger A. Durkee Ruth M. Peabody
Lynnfield W. Peabody Lynnfield
Lynnfield Lynnfield Lynnfield Melrose Hlds.
Gladys Veno
Peabody
Beatrice · DeKehoe
Doris May Hodgdon
Lynnfield
Marie Evangeline Saulnier
Lynn
Peabody
Aug. 18.
Lynnfield
Wilbur Francis Bryant
Lynnfield Lynnfield Melrose
Aug. 30.
Lynnfield
Lynnfield
Oct. 27.
Boston
Ruth Howard Anthony Harold Chester Millar
Lynnfield
Nov. 20.
Lynnfield
Hazel Gertrude McMahon Howard M. Taylor Eva Mildred Dill
Boston Lynnfield Malden
Dec. 18.
Marshfield
John W. Ross
Lynnfield
Samantha G. Neil (O'Brien)
Dorchester
Emma Agnes Preston Kenneth Millard Hills
DEATHS REGISTERED IN LYNNFIELD IN 1920
DATE
NAME OF DECEASED
AGE
CAUSE
1920
Y.
. M.
D.
Jan. 10 Carrie Abbie Melanson
43
7
22
Tuberculosis of lungs
Jan. 12 Mary L. Hawley
57
10
29
Acute inflammation of kidney
Jan. 18 (Premature Birth)
Jan. 29 Sarah Billings
30
Lobar pneumonia
Feb. 6 Joseph B. Welch
39
9
19
Acute Bronchitis
Feb. 7 Jennie Fullerton
70
6
23
Chronic Valvular Heart Dis.
Feb.
7 George A. Fuller
83
7
11
Acute Bronchitis
Feb. 7 Adeline Williams
69
7
27
Epilepsy
Feb. 15 John Morton Danforth
80
1
15
Arterio Sclerosis
Feb. 20 Annie Elizabeth Griffin
29
2
28
Tuberculosis of lungs
Mar. 6 Mary B. Stevens
86
16
Cerebrose Hemorrhage
Mar.
20 James A. Isley
53
5
10
Chronic Disease of Heart
Mar. 22
George Reed
76
8
23
Carcinoma of Stomach
Mar. 24 Thomas R. Evans
53
4
6
Carcinoma of Stomach
Mar. 26 Alfred Carver Hemmingway
69
4
20
Lobar Pneumonia
Apr. 19 Sarah E. Cook
84
3
19
Chronic Endocarditis
May 10 Edward Francis Chase
84
10
6
Bronchial Pneumonia
May
29 Charles Marion Newhall
68
5
4
Spartic Paraplegia
June 21 Georgia A. Neal
77
2
23
Cancer of Gall Bladder
July 3 Mary Agnes Coughlin
63
4
0
Abdominal Cancer
July 20 (Still born)
July
22 Olive May Prentiss
16
0
16
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
July 24
Enoch Wilbur Wiley
73
3
19
Aug.
2 Johanna Lundahl
86
3
Chronic Nephritis Arterio Sclerosis
1
Aug. 16 Prudence A. Danniels
68
10
24
Cancer
Aug. 17 (Premature Birth)
Aug. 28 Sarah Soule Talbot
81
3
14
Acute Lobar Pneumonia
Sept. 12 Peter Joseph Walsh, Jr.
15 Cerebral Hemorrhage
Sept. 17 Edward David Sheehan
11Min. Inertia Heart Disease
Sept. 30 Helen Dow
21
4
3 Lobar Pneumonia
Oct. 31 Fergus O. C. Jacobs
79
1
3 Apoplexy
Nov. 17 Emerson Osborne Potter
1
1 Inanimation
Dec. 11 Susie A. Gray
50
7
7
Cancer
Dec. 30 Sarah E. Mitchell
78
11
30
Chronic Myocarditis
REPORT OF SELECTMEN
To the Citizens of the Town of Lynnfield:
The first meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held March 22, 1920.
Organization :- A. P. Mansfield, Chairman F. C. Newhall, Secretary C. H. Russell
Appointments were made for ensuing year.
WORK ON SALEM STREET
The work on Salem Street has proven very satisfactory the last season, 3100 feet of macadam pavement having been laid. For the year 1921 we have been able to secure the co-operation of the State Department of Public Works to the extent of rebuilding the entire distance from the end of the work in 1920 to the Lynn line provided the town will pay one-third the cost of the work as far as the Turn- pike.
TURNPIKE
The work on Newburyport Turnpike is progressing rapidly and when completed will be a big improvement, not only as a highway but to the adjoining property.
REMOVAL OF SPINNEY HOUSE
By request of the Selectmen the County Commissioners have taken the Spinney House, corner of Broadway and Salem Streets. This house is to be moved and lot left vacant, thereby doing away with a very blind corner and improving the square.
CISTERN IN SQUARE
Owing to the cost of construction the Board has decided not to build a cistern for fire purposes.
RELOCATION OF POLES
At the request of the Telephone Company and Peabody Electric Light Co., the poles at the junction of Salem and Lynnfield Streets have been moved to the north side of Salem Street. This work was made necessary by improvements on Lynnfield Street by the City of Lynn.
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CHARITIES
There seems to be no limit to the requests for aid made on the Poor Department, due partly to the high cost of living, but in a great many cases to a lack of self-respect on part of the individuals. All worthy cases have been cared for at a greatly increased expense.
IMPROVEMENTS FROM NASH FUND
$24.10 were taken from Nash Improvement Fund for a barberry hedge in Nash Cemetery.
PERAMBULATION
The lines between Lynnfield, Lynn and Saugus were perambu- lated on Sept. 30, 1920 (as required by law). Bounds found satis- factory.
Respectfully submitted,
SELECTMEN OF LYNNFIELD, F. C. Newhall, Sec'y.
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REPORT OF ASSESSORS
To the Citizens of the Town of Lynnfield:
The Annual Report of the Board of Assessors for the year end- ing December 31, 1920 is herewith submitted:
ESTIMATES FOR TAX RATE FOR 1920
APPROPRIATIONS AT ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 8TH
Memorial Day
$ 100.00
General Government
3,500.00
Charities
800.00
Police Work, etc.
250.00
Gypsy Moth Work
688.55
Highways
8,000.00
Schools
14,500.00
Street Light Contract
2,550.00
Liability Insurance
500.00
Tree Warden, Shade Trees
50.00
Tree Warden, Cutting Bushes
400.00
Fire Department
1,500.00
Public Library
200.00
Forest Fire Warden
200.00
Cemeteries 150.00
Centre School, grading of grounds
500.00
Centre School, grading of grounds additional
441.63
Repairs to Chemical House, Precinct 2
1,000.00
Highways, Salem Street
3,000.00
Highways, Main Street
1,000.00
Grading of Cemetery
200.00
Revaluation
500.00
School, South End, Ventilating
800.00
$40,830.18
APPROPRIATIONS AT SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, APRIL 12
School Department 1,050.00
Total Appropriations $41,880.18
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OTHER EXPENSES
Note on Centre School
$ 1,000.00
County Tax
2,645.09
State Tax
4,480.00
State Tax (Soldiers)
211.20
Street Railway Tax
44.49
Moth Tax
1,277.88
Overlay
1,722.18
11,380.84
Total Amount
$53,261.02
ESTIMATE OF CREDITS
Bank Tax
$ 100.00
Corporation Tax
500.00
Corporation Tax (Public Service)
250.00
Polls-340 at $2.00
680.00
Income Tax
1,342.56
$ 2,872.56
Net levy to be raised by taxation
$ 50,388.40
Valuation of April Assessment
$1,976,018.00
Tax Rate to meet above levy
25.50
TABLE OF AGGREGATES FOR APRIL ASSESSMENTS
Number of residents assessed on property 383
Number of non-residents assessed on property 219
Total number of persons assessed on property 602
Number of polls assessed 343
Valuation of assessed personal estate
$ 252,785.00
Valuation of assessed real estate
1,723,233.00
Total valuation of property assessed
1,976,018.00
Tax on personal estate
6,446.02
Tax on real estate
43,942.44
Total Tax
50,388.46
Tax on polls at $5.00
1,715.00
Tax rate per $1,000.
25.50
Number of horses assessed
101
Number of cows assessed
249
Number of swine assessed 116
Number of sheep assessed
10
Number of neat cattle assessed
6
Number of fowl assessed
2,407
Number of dwelling houses assessed 457
Number of acres of land assessed 6,039
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DECEMBER ASSESSMENTS
Value of real estate assessed
$3,150.00
Value of personal estate assessed 100.00
Tax on real and personal estate 87.88
1 Poll
5.00.
VALUATIONS: COMPARISONS WITH PREVIOUS YEARS
Real and personal property, April 1917
$1,486,221.00
Real and personal property, December 1917 21,400.00
Real and personal property, April 1918 1,615,333.00
Real and personal property, December 1918 2,150.00
Real and personal property, April 1919
1,713,263.00
Real and personal property, December 1919
8,115.00
Real and personal property, April 1920
1,976,018.00
Real and personal property, December 1920
3,250.00
ABATEMENTS OF TAXES ON POLLS, REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Levy of the year 1918:
On Personal Property
$ 21.60
On Real Estate
45.63
On Moth Tax
4.32
On 67 Polls
134.00
$205.55
Levy of the year 1919: .
On Personal Property
1.14
On Real Estate
113.75
On Moth Tax
3.05
On 56 Polls
112.00
229.94
Levy of the year 1920:
On Personal Property
38.25
On Real Estate
110.14
148.39
HENRY W. HODGDON, Chairman, GEORGE H. BANCROFT, ELBRIDGE H: GERRY, Secretary. Board of Assessors.
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REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
GENTLEMEN :- I herewith submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1920.
Sealed
Platform scales over 5,000 lbs.
1
Platform scales under 5,000 lbs.
7
Counter scales 5
Spring balances
8
Computing scales platform
5
Weights avoirdupois
35
Liquid measures
26
Oil measuring pumps
11
Molasses measuring pumps
5
Ice cream cans
14
Yard measures
1
Total fees collected-$11.28.
WALTER E. WILKINSON, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my report for the year ending December 31, 1920.
There have been nine arrests and several calls to other distur- bances.
During the summer police on duty Sundays and holidays would undoubtedly be much better for the town.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT G. TEDFORD, Chief of Police.
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REPORT OF TREE WARDEN
To the Citizens of the Town of Lynnfield:
At the last Annual Town Meeting the sum of Seventy-Five Dol- lars ($75.00) was appropriated for the use of the Tree Warden.
There were fourteen Norway Maples purchased and planted in various parts of the town. The rest of the money was used to re- move dead trees which were dangerous to the public.
There are many trees which have dead limbs, but owing to the small appropriation it is impossible to attend to them.
I hope a large appropriation will be made so that the work may be carried on more satisfactorily.
LYMAN H. TWISS, Tree Warden.
REPORT OF FOREST WARDEN
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
The forest fires of the past year have been few but expensive. Though there has been very little damage done the fires have cost more than they should.
F. C. NEWHALL, Warden.
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :- The work during the past year has been about the same as in the year 1919, with the exceptions that their were no tuberculosis cases and most of the stock was found to be well housed and healthy.
WALTER GRAY, Inspector of Animals.
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REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES
To the Citizens of the Town of Lynnfield:
We hereby submit the following report, as given by the Librarian and Assistant Librarian together with the financial state- ment for the year which shows a small balance, ascribable to the fact that all bills were not in when the books were closed for the year. We are at present practically without funds and will need at least an appropriation of $400.00 together with trust funds in order to carry on the work for another year.
We wish to say a word in regard to the Branch Library. At pesent we are housed in the South School building which is now overcrowded and the School Committee has stretched a point in allowing us to remain there up to the present time. It is therefore necessary that the townspeople shall take some action in regard to a new site for the Branch Library or the Trustees may be forced to close the branch at the beginning of the next school term.
We are planning on a system of exchanging books from the main library with the branch, increasing the circulation, avoiding duplication, and lessen the cost of books which we hope will meet the approval of the townspeople.
GEORGE E. LAMBERT, JR., Chairman
ELBRIDGE H. GERRY, Secretary, ANDREW MANSFIELD .
REPORT OF THE MAIN LIBRARY (for the year 1920)
Number of book patrons 157
Number of books loaned 3,139
Number of magazine patrons 28
Number of magazines loaned 276
Received from fines $ 7.98
Received for old magazines and books®
15.11
Refund from magazine subscriptions 1.05
Magazines have been received from Mrs. F. W. Freeman, Miss Alice Bartlett, Miss Alice Livingston, E. W. Lundahl, and Warren J. Bond.
Books have been received from Mass. Free Library Commission 58
A. L. A. War Service books 19
Mrs. James Rourke 1
Mrs. Ellen H. King, Mrs. Emma R. Williams, Arthur H. Wellman 1 Books purchased by Town 33
Magazines subscribed for 4
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As the library was closed for nearly two months the report of the circulation is for about ten months.
Two collections of pictures have been loaned us by the Woman's Educational Asso. of Mass. and were much enjoyed.
The new charging system as recommended by the Commission has been used since the library opened June 30th.
The library was closed for the circulation of books from May 12th to June 30th, that the work of card-cataloguing might be done under the direction of the Mass. Free Library Commission. The card-cataloging work was considerable of a task, and the expense was considerably lessened by the kindly assistance of some of the ladies of the town as well as by the school-children and the librarian giving her services the first week of the work. We hereby wish to thank publicly the following who so kindly helped :- Miss B. E. Butman, Miss K. H. Haywood, Miss A. Sweetser, Mrs. S. H. Blanchard, Chas. and Frederick Sweetser, Robert and Eugene Rourke, Robert Moulton, Clara Looke, Violet Savage, Katherine and Celia Gersinovitch, Bea- trice Farello, Alice Cook, Jean Alice Caldwell, Dorothy Flannigan and Rose Duffy.
A fine bunting flag with iron standard has been presented the librarian for the reading room by Mr. E. W. Lundahl.
ELIZABETH W. GREEN, Librarian.
BRANCH LIBRARY
Number of book patrons 300
Number of books loaned 3841
Number of magazine patrons 144
Number of magazines loaned 1033
Received in fines $19.00
Received from sale of old magazines
5.58
Total
$24.58
Bought by Town for adults
37 books
Bought by Town for children 5 books
PRESENTED
E. Witham, for children 2 books
G. Lynch, for children
2 books
Clara Melanson, for children
2 books
Sherman Harding, for children
12 books
Mabel Harding, for children
7 books
Gladys Gilbo, for children
1 book
Dorothy Hunt, for children
1 book
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PRESENTED
Martha Mansfield, for adults-3 books.
Mass. Free Public Library Commission-A number of non-fiction books from "Over-Seas."
Magazines presented by Mrs. Fletcher and Sherman Harding.
FLORENCE R. HOWE, Asst. Librarian.
REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS .
To the Citizens of the Town of Lynnfield :
The cemeteries have had thorough general care. Willow Ceme- tery has been well kept, and some wood has been cut, to open up some needed lots. West Burying Ground has been cleaned up, and as an improvement, a Japan Barberry hedge has been planted along the front, which will add much to the appearance of the ground in a few years. In Forest Hill Cemetery, the avenue around the circle, in the center, has been opened which was a much needed improvement. We would respectfully suggest, that owners of occupied lots, in all burying grounds, would plan some kind of a marker, at the head of every grave. It may be readily seen that when new graves are opened it is often impossible to avoid old ones, unless they are ac- curately marked, especially when the ground is bound with winter frost. This is a suggestion of great importance and we earnestly hope that all will see it to be so. Markers need not be expensive, any imperishable driven to a level of the ground, would be entirely in order. Lots along Forest Hill Avenue in Forest Hill Cemetery were considered discontinued at the time the wall was built, to provide room for that wall. We fail to find any record of their discontinuance. This wall was built about 1872. At that time several bodies were re- moved from those lots. We shall consider it necessary to ask the Town to vote this year to have them recorded as discontinued.
SETH H. RUSSELL, Chairman, WILLIS E. PEABODY, Secretary, BERTRAM M. PARKER, Cemetery Commissioners.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of the Town of Lynnfield:
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The School Committee submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1920. The reports of the receipts and disburse- ments for the calendar year as also the report of our Superintendent are to be found elsewhere in the Town Report.
The year just closed, the Committee feel, finds the Lynnfield Schools maintaining their position among the elementary schools of the state, having in mind, of course, the difficulties which are neces- sarily inherent in view of the necessity of combining two or more grades under one teacher. We successfully passed through the coal shortage of the winter of 1919-1920 and, notwithstanding the great shortage of teachers, we lost in the Lynnfield Schools but two teach- ers and those both left to be married.
Miss Wilbur at the Center School was replaced by Miss Dorothy Hulburt of Lexington and Miss Winston of the South School by Miss Angelyn Chase of Danvers. In both cases we believe there has been no loss in efficiency and conduct of the school.
At the South School we replaced the old fixed desks in .Miss Marsh's room (grades 5 and 6), which were worn beyond economical repair, by movable desks and chairs. The change has been, it is needless to say, of benefit both to the teacher and to the children.
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