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To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions :-
(a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this city (or town) of any and all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "YES" on all three questions.
(b) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages only to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on question one, "YES" on question two and "NO" on question three.
(c) If he desires to permit the sale herein of all alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on questions one and two and "YES" on question three.
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(d) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverage, to be drunk on and off the premises where sold and in addition other alco- holic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on question one and "YES" on questions two and three.
(e) If he desires to prohibit the sale herein of any and all alcoholic beverages whether to be drunk on or off the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on all three questions.
1. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages) ? Yes
289
No 352
Blanks 97
2. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of wines and malt beverages (winess and beer, ale and all other malt bever- ages) ? Yes
311
No 307
Blanks 120
3. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises? Yes
412
No 224
Blanks 102
1. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed horse races be permitted in this county?
Yes
367
No 267
Blanks 104
2. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed dog races be permitted in this county?
Yes
278
No
338
Blanks
122
Meeting dissolved.
NELLIE L. SPARRELL,
Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION OF TOWN CLERKS
(Third Plymouth Representative District)
On the thirteenth day of November, A. D. 1942 the Town Clerks of Hingham, Cohasset, Hull and Norwell, said towns comprising the Third Plymouth Representative District, assembled at the office of the Town Clerk in Hingham at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of examining the returns of votes given in and determine who had been elected to represent said District in the General Court, to be holden at Boston on the first Wednesday of Jan- uary next, proceeded to canvass said returns and found the ballots given in for the candidates to be as follows.
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Hingham 2558
Cohasset 1062
Hull 826
Norwell 634
Total 5080
John Q. Knowles
Samuel Cassidy
1
1
Blanks
291
199
189
104
783
Total
2850
1261
1015
738
5864
It appearing that John Q. Knowles of Spring Street, Hull has received a plurality of the votes given in, a certificate of election was issued to him.
WILLIAM L. HOWARD Town Clerk of Hingham ANDREW F. POPE Town Clerk of Hull WILLIAM H. MORRIS Town Clerk of Cohasset NELLIE L. SPARRELL Town Clerk of Norwell
REPORT OF TOWN TREASURER Year Ending December 31, 1942 RECEIPTS
Cash on hand, January 1, 1942 $ 20,907.75
Total receipts for 1942 203,601.86
$224,509.61
EXPENDITURES
Total payment of Warrants
$172,828.35
Cash on hand, December 31, 1942 51,681.26
$224,509.61 For detailed account of receipts and expenditures see report of the Town Accountant.
SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COFFIN FUND
Amount of Fund, $2,000.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1942
$435.48 61.25
$496.73
Withdrawn, 1942
$ 0.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1943
496.73
$496.73
FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ABIGAIL T. OTIS POOR FUND
Amount of Fund, $2,000.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1942
$520.44
Interest added, 1942
63.07
Refund
30.00
Withrawn, 1942
$ 30.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1943
583.51
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ANNABEL WAKEFIELD POOR FUND
Amount of Fund, $1,000.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1942 ... $345.92
$613.51
$613.51
Interest added 1942
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Interest added, 1942
33.84
$379.76
Withdrawn, 1942
$ 0.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1943
379.76
$379.76
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ANNABEL WAKEFIELD LIBRARY FUND
Amount of Fund, $100.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1942
$67.30
Interest added, 1942
4.20
$71.50
Withdrawn, 1942
$ 0.00
Available Interest, January 1, 1943
71.50
$71.50
INCOME CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS
Income 1942
Expended 1942
Available Jan. 1, 1943
Amount of Fund
Abigail T. Otis
$27.66
$27.66
$113.75
$1,000.00
Abigail T. Otis Tomb Fund
16.36
16.36
158.13
500.00
Samuel C. Cudworth
6.89
6.89
77.73
200.00
Eliza Josslyn
6.29
6.29
53.13
200.00
Prudence C. Delano
10.06
10.06
105.00
300.00
Nancy Hersey
2.77
2.77
11.38
100.00
Mary O. Robbins
6.04
6.04
43.00
200.00
Charles H Merritt
1.47
1.26
.84
100.00
James W. Sampson
7.54
7.54
53.75
250.00
Susan C. Damon
2.77
2.77
11.38
100.00
Davis Damon
3.01
3.01
21.50
100.00
Robbins Tomb Fund
3.14
3.14
26.56
100.00
George H. Bates
2.64
2.64
6.31
100.00
Adeline F. Payne
5.65
5.65
27.81
200.00
N. P. Brownell
3.77
3.77
1.88
150.00
Betsey Tolman
2.61
3.00
4.21
100.00
George P. Clapp
2.97
3.00
18.38
100.00
Gad Leavitt
3.44
5.00
35.49
100.00
Thomas Sampson
2.04
3.00
5.04
75.00
John H. Knapp
2.74
7.00
5.21
100.00
Albert S. Greene
7.43
5.00
97.77
200.00
Charles Tolman
2.69
3.00
7.05
100.00
Chester S. Barker
2.59
3.00
3.27
100.00
Samuel D. Stetson
1.90
1.50
1.43
75.00
Sarah T. David
1.91
1.50
1.46
75.00
Melvin Little
2.74
5.00
7.10
100.00
Hosea J. Stockbridge
5.22
0.00
13.07
200.00
Leaffie C. Miller
3.91
3.50
7.09
150.00
Abbie S. Bates
12.00
2.75
287.05
200.00
Olive H. Brigham
3.03
3.25
20.70
100.00
Benjamin P. Nichols
1.89
1.75
27
75.00
Timothy Chapman
2.77
3.25
9.97
100.00
Lewis W. Kilburn
2.84
3.25
12.98
100.00
Wallace W. Farrar
3.80
4.25
.67
150.00
Robert K. Stoddard
4.74
3.25
40.38
150.00
Henry L. Nichols
2.61
3.25
4.01
100.00
Wilbur Nichols
2.51
2.50
.15
100.00
Charles E. Brewster
2.51
2.50
.09
100.00
Maurice E. Pratt
2.51
2.50
.21
100.00
Vadilla A. Damon
5.03
5.00
.21
200.00
Floretta Whiting
2.51
2.50
.26
100.00
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Martha E. French
2.51
2.50
.09
100.00
Peter Tomansen
1.26
1.25
.05
50.00
Rufus H. Binney
5.32
6.25
10.72
200.00
Arthur Stoddard
2.51
2.50
.07
100.00
Herbert, T. Howard
2.51
2.50
.08
100.00
Willard Thatcher
1.26
1.25
.18
50.00
Alpheus Thomas
2.51
2.50
.08
100.00
Asa Vining and George Wilder
2.51
2.50
.11
100.00
Rufus Binney
5.14
3.50
8.22
200.00
R. J. Coulter
1.91
0.00
3.18
100.00
John M. Hall
2.51
2.50 0.00
0.00
15.60
Alice K. Henderson
1.04
0.00
1.04
100.00
Walter M. Wood
0.00
0.00
0.00
90.00
John M. Hall
0.00
0.00
0.00
100.00
E. Chamberlain and M. Tyler
0.00
0.00
0.00
100.00
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT E. ROBBINS,
Treasurer.
REPORT OF STATE AUDIT
Mr. Theodore N. Waddell,
Director of Accounts,
Department of Corporations and Taxation,
State House, Boston,
Sir :
As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the Town of Norwell for the period from May 19, 1939, the date of the previous audit, to August 5, 1942, and submit the following report thereon :
The financial transactions, as recorded on the books of the several departments collecting or disbursing money for the town were examined and checked.
The books and accounts of the town accountant were examined and checked in detail. The ledger accounts were analyzed, the recorded receipts and payments being checked with the treasurer's books. The appropriations voted by the town and the transfers from the reserve fund, as recorded, were checked with the town clerk's records of financial votes passed at town meetings and with letters from the advisory committee on file in the town accountant's office authorizing transfers from the reserve fund.
A trial balance was taken off, and a balance sheet, showing the financial condition of the town as of August 5, 1942, was prepared and is appended to this report.
The books and accounts of the town treasurer were examined and checked. The cash book conditions were verified and the recorded receipts were analyzed and compared to the town accountant's ledger, with the records of the various departments, and with the other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury. The disbursements were checked with the selectmen's warrants authorizing the treasurer to pay out of town funds, and the cash balance as of August 5, 1942, was proved by reconcilia- tion of the bank balance with a statement furnished by the bank deposit and by actual count of cash in the office.
The recorded payments of debt and interest were proved with the amounts falling due and by examination of the cancelled securities and coupons on file.
.01
100.00
Mrs. Peter Larsen
.38
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The records of tax titles held by the town were examined. The amounts added to the tax title account were compared with the collector's records, the reported redemptions were checked with the receipts as recorded on the treasurer's cash book, and the tax title deeds as listed were checked with the records in the Registry of Deeds.
The savings bank books representing the investment of trust funds in custody of the treasurer were examined. The income was proved and the withdrawals were verified.
The books and accounts of the tax collector were examined and checked. The poll, property, motor vehicle excise taxes, and special assessments out- standing at the time of the previous examination and all subsequent commit- inents and recommitments were audited and reconciled with the assessor's warrants. The payments to the treasurer were checked to the treasurer's cash book, the recorded abatements were compared with the assessor's records of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were listed and reconciled with the respective ledger accounts.
Verification of the outstanding accounts was made by sending notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books as owing money to the town, the replies received thereto indicating that the accounts as listed are correct.
The records of dog and sporting licenses issued by the town clerk were examined and checked. The recorded payments to the treasurer and to the State were certified and the town clerk's cash balance on September 17, 1942, was proved by actual count of cash in the office.
The surety bonds of the town officials required by law to furnish them were examined and found to be in proper form.
The available records of accounts receivable of the welfare department, including the Bureau of Old Age Assistance, were examined, the payments made to the treasurer and disallowances by the State were verified, and the outstanding accounts as of August 5, 1942, were listed and reconciled with the town accountant's books.
The accounts of the sealer of weights and measures were examined and checked and the payments to the treasurer were verified. Attention of the sealer is called to the provisions of Section 34, Chapter 98, General Laws, which requires all fees collected to be paid into the treasurer monthly.
The records of licenses and permits issued by the selectmen, of receipts for town hall and school hall rentals, as well as the records of all other departments collecting money for the town, were examined, checked and reconciled with the treasurer's and accountant's books.
In checking the records of the cemetery department it was noted that receipts for opening graves, etc., have been retained by employees doing the work, in which connection it is recommended that all such receipts be paid into the town treasury, as required by Section 53, Chapter 44, General Laws. The compensation of the employees should be paid on duly authorized warrants from an appropriation provided therefor.
In connection with highway projects operated in conjunction with the State and county, attention is called to the fact that expenditures for these projects may not exceed the aggregate amount of the appropriations voted by the town, together with the amount actually received by the town on account of allotments. Whenever reimbursements from the State or county are not received in time to provide funds for the payment of pay-rolls and materials, temporary loans under the provisions of Section 6A, Chapter 44, General Laws, may be issued by the treasurer without a vote of the town.
In addition to the balance sheet referred to, there are appended to this
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report tables showing a reconciliation of the treasurer's and tax collector's cash, summaries of the tax, tax title, tax possession, and interest accounts, as well as tables showing the condition and transactions of the various trust funds.
While engaged in making the audit, cooperation was received from all town officials, for which, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, I wish to express appreciation.
Respectfully submitted, HERMAN B. DINE, Assistant Director of Accounts.
TREE WARDEN REPORT
To the Selectmen of the Town of Norwell:
I wish to report that the Tree Warden account for 1942 was used mainly for the removal of dead elms.
Mowing Bush account was spent on corners.
Tent Caterpillars on roadsides were sprayed twice.
It would help some if owners would remove wild cherry trees around their walls.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN T. OSBORN.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR 1942 DISEASES DANGEROUS TO HEALTH January 1, 1942, to January 1, 1943
Chicken Pox
1
Dog Bite
14
Malaria
1
Measles
2
Mumps
5
Scarlet Fever
2
Septic Sore Throat
1
Total
26
As you see by the number of dog bites that have happened this year are much more than usual, the board urges that more care be exercised in the care of dogs.
We have inspected the sanitary conditions at the overnight cabins and found them good. The licenses were approved by the State Board of Health.
The regulation about keeping pigs was changed to read five instead of three. This to be in effect for the duration only.
A license for pasteurization was granted to Homestead Farms, Inc. Fee, $10.00.
Overnight cabins licensed, 21, to Mrs. Charlotte Forkey. Fee, $11.50.
JOSEPH F. MERRITT, HORACE WILLIAMSON, HORACE D. GAUDETTE, Board of Health.
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REPORT OF THE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION, INC.
To the Board of Selectmen, Town of Norwell:
The 22nd annual report of the Norwell Visiting Nurse Association, Inc.
The association has ended a very successful year, carrying on as usual the Well Child Conference, the Pre-School Clinic and the School Dental Clinic.
In the spring Dr. Vinal held a clinic to provide diphtheria immuniza- tion. Thirty-seven children were immunized.
The Well Child Conference continues under the direction of Dr. Edmund Fitzgerald, meeting in the Town Hall the third Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. Miss Catherine Roe, Public Health Nurse, and Mrs. Harold King are in attendance.
With the increasing shortage of doctors all mothers of children under five years of age are urged to take advantage of this splendid service. The fee is fifty cents and transportation is provided if necessary.
Half the amount realized from the Christmas T. B. Seals sale is returned to this organization for health purposes. This past summer one child was sent to the Bailey Health Camp.
Mrs. Ralph Coleman, who has been chairman of the Seals sale for several years, is resigning and Mrs. Lee Turner will become the chairman for 1943. Mrs. Coleman has given generously of her time, which is greatly appreciated.
The Nursing Service has been given in the past two years two hospital beds and one bedside table. These may be borrowed without charge by any Norwell resident.
The budget was raised by the spring and fall rummage sales, the Tuber- culosis Seals sale and the annual membership drive. An auction was a new idea in connection with the fall rummage sale.
We wish to thank the townspeople for their generous response to the membership drive, also the wholehearted manner in which so many help to make the rummage sales and the auction successful.
This organization sponsors the Blue Cross, Mass. Hospital Service, Inc. Information may be had by calling Mrs. Ernest Sparrell.
The annual meeting of the association will be held the second Monday in March at 2:30 p. m. All paid members will be notified by card. All are invited.
Respectfully submitted, GRACE L. SPARRELL, President.
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Mrs. Ernest H. Sparrell, President Miss Dorothy Durgin
Mrs. Humphrey Turner, Secretary
Mrs. C. Campbell Baird
Mrs. Theodore Dyer
Mrs. Edward P. Keefe, vice-President
Mrs. Wesley Hall
Mrs. Richard Brooks, Treasurer
Mrs. Ashley Jones
Mr. James Barnard
Mrs. Harold King
Rev. Alfred J. Wilson
FOR NURSING SERVICE
Make calls to Norwell 5-M. Call before 9 a.m. for morning visits, and before 1:15 for afternon visits. The fee per visit is 50 cents. For delivery or assisting at operations, $5.00 The nurse's hours are from 9:00 a.m. to
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4:30 p.m., Sundays and holidays excepted. Saturdays, from 9:00 a.m., to 12 p.m.
FINANCIAL REPORT
Norwell Visiting Nurse Association, Inc., for the year ending Dec. 31, 1942 Receipts :
Dues
$284.40
Fees
225.50
Refund Nurse's personal use of car
52.00
Dental Clinic
142.75
Baby Clinic
39.50
Bank Interest
14.76
Tuberculosis Seal Sale
116.72
Miscellaneous (refund and donation)
7.00
Town of Norwell for Nurse's Transportation
300.00
Entertainment and Sales
672.70
Total
$1,855.33
Cash on hand January 1, 1942
882.79
Total
$2,738.12
Expenditures :
Salary for Nurse
$431.65
Auto Expense
203.81
Insurance
55.10
Dental Clinic
139.50
Baby Clinic
240.00
Supplies, Postage, Printing
28.01
Medical Office, Telephone
56.68
Miscellaneous
33.00
Reserve Automobile Fund-invested in U. S. Defense Sav- ings Bonds, Series G.
600.00
Board and Care 1 Child for 56 days at Health Camp
60.00
Furnishings and Ordinary Repairs
12.17
Total
$2,059.92
Cash on Hand Jan. 1, 1943-Rockland Trust Co.
$210.97
Cash on Hand Jan. 1, 1943-South Scituate Savings Bank
467.23
Total
$2,738.12
Respectfully submitted, LILLIAN H. BROOKS,
Treasurer.
REPORT OF VISITING NURSE
Number of patients cared for
57
Number of nursing visits
566
Number of free nursing visits
73
Number of pre-natal visits
27
Number of infant welfare visits
64
Number of pre-school visits
121
Number of tuberculosis visits
17
Number of social-service visits
210
Number of visits made for Boards of Health and Public Welfare
77
Number of visits by parents to Well Child Conferences
91
Number of children attending diphtheria prevention clinics
37
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Number of conferences attended
16
171
Number of follow-up visits for hospitals and clinics
Respectfully submitted,
CATHERINE A. ROE,
Visiting Nurse.
REPORT OF MOTH DEPARTMENT
To the Selectmen of the Town of Norwell:
The roadside elms were all sprayed once and most of them twice.
The allotment for gypsy moth and private spraying is used for painting moth nests and also spraying same. Private spraying is on fruit trees and the cost is charged back on taxes.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN T. OSBORN.
REPORT OF POLICE DEPARTMENT
Board of Selectmen, Town of Norwell:
I herewith submit the following report of the activities of the Norwell Police.
Auto accidents investigated 6
Dogs shot and buried 5
Summons served 10
Two Constables were appointed by the Selectmen, sixteen Special Police Officers and six Auxiliary Police.
OFFICIAL ROSTER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CHIEF OF POLICE A. Lester Scott CONSTABLES Frederick A. Hall
Lloyd B. Henderson
SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS
Chester A. Bell
Robert L. Molla
Ralph H. Coleman Stephen Thomas
Lyonal Forkey
Bert I. Richardson *James H. Bennett *Francis E. Spicer
*Resigned
AUXILIARY POLICE Alan C. Virtue, Chief
ยท CAPTAINS
John T. Osborn
Richard H. Brooks
Lloyd S. West
Howard A. Delano
John D. Murphy
Lawrence E. Newcomb Everett F. Osborne
The Auxiliary Police have also the power to act as traffic officers in connection with Civilian Defense, which they have been doing during the past year as patriotic citizens.
Respectfully submitted,
A. LESTER SCOTT, Chief of Police.
James A. Liddell Lloyd B. Henderson
Frederick H. Hall
John G. Marland
LIEUTENANTS Horace D. Gaudette
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REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
We take pleasure in reporting the performance of the Fire Depart- ment for 1942.
The following calls were answered :
House 31
Chimney
12
Grass and brush 55
We have endeavored to get as much for our fire dollar as is possible. Members of all companies have spent a great deal of their own time bettering our equipment and becoming more proficient in its use. About 30% of our man hours are covered by payroll expense.
We ask that you use particular care during 1943. Make certain that chimneys are clean. Check your stove type oil burner frequently, and light no grass fires without permits. Our largest single expense was answering grass fires lighted without permits. We would like to make a charge for this type of call.
Many of our younger firemen are now in the service, and some of those that were employed nearby are in defense work. This means that fewer firemen are available, particularly in the daytime.
Combination No. 3, at Church Hill, was organized this year. A building 20 x 50 feet, fully equipped will be given to the town. It will afford fire protection to about 25% of the taxable property of the town. This company is very ably manned.
Please help us by not making the call necessary.
Yours very truy, HOWARD HALL, Chief, and Board of Fire Engineers.
DOG OFFICERS' REPORT
To the Board of Selectmen:
We wish to submit the following report:
After receiving a warrant issued to us by the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, we checked with the Town Clerk's list and contacted those whose licenses were unpaid. We hope in the future all dog owners in the Town of Norwell will pay their dog fees promptly, which is April 1st each year, thereby saving the town much expense.
Respectfully submitted, F. H. HALL LLOYD B. HENDERSON
REPORT OF HIGHWAY SURVEYOR
To the Board of Selectmen,
Town of Norwell, Mass.
Dear Sirs:
Chapter 90, for which appropriation was made in 1941, has now been completed.
The work on Chapter 81 has been carried on per schedule under the
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supervision of the State Engineer. The work that was accomplished is itemized below
The expenditures which were taken out of the General Account are also itemized.
Respectfully submitted,
PERRY H. OSBORN, Highway Surveyor
GENERAL ACCOUNT
General Repairs on Highway
$82.00
Expenses on Grader
327.35
Tools and Supplies
192.19
Express
1.53
Telephone and Postage
21.40
Total
$624.47
64
Road
Scrape or
Drag
Grade
Gravel
Gutters and
Shoulders
Drainage
Brush
Patching Bitum.
Surf. Treatment
Tar
Miscellaneous
NINETY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
Summer
$10.00 75.00
$18.38
$55.00
$61.40
$20.00
$164.78
Grove
75.07
204.52
625.41
10.00
990.00
High
Prospect
$82.43
$24.00
$6.92
13.75
112.22
271.93
10.00
521.25
Barstow Ave.
14.08
14.08
47.00
Cedar
29.66
$804.32
6.12
$12.50
852.60
Central
12.00
30.00
80.63
187.73
483.15
10.00
803.51
Circuit
119.62
396.22
50.00
32.74
56.00
654.58
Common Ave.
12.50
4.31
16.81
Common St.
1.81
1.81
Cross St.
1,688.72
70.76
40.25
21.00
1,887.95
Dover
7.04
67.00
6.25
28.25
140.16
Green St.
729.04
81.05
112.50
218.03
1,140.62
Jacobs Ave.
500.00
117.50
617.50
Lincoln
33.38
188.25
Main St., Rt. 123
140.91
69.36
85.94
40.50
217.92
19.17
506.08
Mt. Blue
105.05
21.00
16.50
50.37
97.38
74.50
222.25
Norwell Ave.
3.52
3.52
Oak St.
4.00
181.93
Parker St. 38.43
12.00
85.68
Pleasant Ave.
9.37
19.08
188.61
Pleasant St.
120.16
40.00
6.13
17.50
507.28
10.00
571.16
Pine St.
30.25
31.00
31.00
8.15
7.88
16.03 7.04
Forest Ave.
Forest St.
38.66
87.31
57.56
10.00
76.75
50.75
85.68
12.06
73.08
15.00
100.14
Bowker St. 47.00
67.22
Pond St. River St.
154.69
17.25
137.00
416.52
School St.
18.75
South
21.70
7.11
63.80
Tiffany
5.00
5.00
Bridge
47.25
10.86
5.00
63.11
West
6.90
15.75
22.65
Winter
160.13
Mt. Hope
309.53
318.90
Mill Lane
11.68
Neal Gate
7.04
7.04
Totals
$12,296.35
TOWN OF NORWELL
111.95
554.67
20.00 16.90
858.56 790.69
10.00
18.75
11.00
10.70
Stetson
12.00
44.69
22.00
60.50
77.63
9.37
11.68
65
66
NINETY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
WILLIAM J. LEONARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY
There has been a considerable increase in the demand for books during the past year. A number of defense workers and their families have come into the district, many of whom use the library, and the difficulty in getting about, due to the restricted use of gasoline, has caused our regular readers to depend on books for diversion more than they have before. Accordingly, in spite of the fact that the growing school library has helped meet the young people's needs, our circulation increased this year to 2810, a large figure for a small institution. We feel that it is doing an important work for the community, both in helping keep up public morale by providing wholesome interests and amusement, much needed in these times, and in the circulation of information through such books as "Victory Through Air Power", "Berlin Diary" and Gunther's up-to-date works on Europe, Asia and South America, which have been widely read.
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