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10 26 Cerebral Hemorrhage
91
11
2 Arteriosclerosis -Hydrocephalus
-
-
5 George Wilkins Ives
63
10
30 Florence V. Kelley
89
9
11 Cerebral Hemorrhage
11 Emma F. (Skinner) Stevens
8 Shooshan Lillian Dagdigian
11 Fred W. Stone
88
29 Peter Gilman
87
2 2 Broncho Pneumonia 27 hours Cardiac Failure 3 25 Carcinoma of liver
15 Leonard Bernard Muise, Jr. 0
DEATHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1947
Date Name
YMD
Cause of Death
July
13 Melvin Cyrus Lane
52
11 27 Coronary Occlusion
15 Arthur S. Cook
83
1 18 Cerebral Thrombosis
15 Amy Beatrice Lewis Ballou
76 11
24 Gastric Hemorrhage
16 Anne T. Maher
2 Bilateral Congenital Atelectasis
19 Dolly (Eames) Scott
63
3
2
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
20 Gertrude Lee Mckay nee Brown
81
1
12 Carcinoma of Intestine
28 George William Glover Poole 59 7
6 Pulmonary Infarction
31 Cyrus Brown Haskell
29
5
24 Fracture, bone at side
August
7 Frederick I. Turner
57
3
18
Congestive Heart Failure
8 George E. Horrocks
87
7
3 Coronary Thrombosis
15 May Helena Berry
74
2
8 Broncho Pneumonia
19 William Davenport
89
3
4 Arteriosclerotic Heart
24 Mary Emma Roberts nee Freeman
83
Hypostatic
Pneumonia
25 Minnie Warden (nee McCabe)
94
1 12
Hemorrhage from the Urinary Bladder
29 Harrison W. Bowers
66
10
19 Coronary Occlusion
30 David Lehr
5
9
4 Injuries, Auto Accident
September
1 Ralph R. Eldridge
70
3 20 Coronary Thrombosis
5 Mary E. Fox
87
7
0 Arteriosclerosis
6 Harold W. Bridges
62
0
26 Coronary Heart Disease
7 Rose Levine (nee Litman)
65
- - Cardiac Decompensation
7 Ida Mabel Wiley (Johnson)
80 2 22 Cerebral Embolism
14 William J. Gay
23
- Rupture of Aorta Accident
17 William Herald Gilderson
59 9
17
Cerebral Hemorrhage
18 Mary Elizabeth (Landry) Whittle
78
10
1 Cerebral Thrombosis
26 Mary Nettie Brown (West) 82
2
18 Cerebral Hemorrhage
27 Evelyn C. Power
40 9
6 Chronic Endocarditis
-
89
DEATHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1947
Date Name
YMD
Cause of Death
September
27 Wendell Burleigh Horton 67 10 12 Hypertensive Heart Disease
29 Julia A. (Ready) Sullivan
62
1
3 Coronary Occlusion
29 Carrie H. Emerson 81 0 4 Cerebral Hemorrhage
October
3 Ivaloo Chase Robinson
82
9 14 Cerebral Hemorrhage
5 Doherty
2 Prematurity
6 David William Carter
10
7 20 Acute Nephritis
8 Herbert J. O'Dell 68
11 3 Electrocution, accident
17 Harriet Symmes Wellington 92 0
28 Chronic Myocarditis
22 S. Isabel (Coon) Sellers 81
11
1
Cerebral Hemorrhage
26 Harriette P. Leuchtman (Ladd) 62 0 27
Coronary Thrombosis
25 Murdock Gillis
85
6
23 Coronary Occlusion
29 Julia Annie Slack
81
4
3
30 Jessie E. Skaling
73
11
9
31 Douglas Baker Marshall
67
-- 22
Metastatic Carcinoma of Brain Pulmonary Embolus Arteriosclerotic Gang- rene
November
9 Bride Bruce
58 11
17 Acute Myocardial Failure
12 Mabel B. Butters
80
5 26
Metastatis Carcinoma of Brain
13 Daniel Doucette
66
7 11 Cerebral Concussion (Accident)
15 Thomas H. Condon
63
4 22
Coronary Occlusion
17 Mary Leah (Richards) Denno
81
0
12
20 Allicon
0
0
1
24 Grace M. (Cowell) Grant
71
10
28
Uraemia, Chronic Nephritis
24 Walter G. Sargent
67
8
0 Coronary Occlusion
29 Grace Ella Jones
87
4 28 Cerebral Thrombosis
29 Susan R. (Nichols) Tuttle
82
3 17 Chronic Myocarditis
-
-
Cerebral Hemorrhage Prematurity, Congenital Heart Disease
90
DEATHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1947
Date Name
YMD
Cause of Death
December
1 Frank Tulin
66
8 20 Coronary Occlusion
3 Otis Bishop Ruggles
77
1 14 Myocarditis
4 Martha Charlotte Lee
77
8 12 Coronary Occlusion
5 George Kenneth Jones
55
7 20 Coronary Occlusion
8 Josephine I. Smith
69
7 23 Accident, Injuries ceived
re-
13 Charles F. Bessom
80
2 10 Myocardial Failure
14 Agnes White (nee White)
84
0
0 Coronary Infarction
15 Oscar F. Timlin
79
8
2 Cerebral Thrombosis
20 James Blanchard Slater
76
9 30 Cardiac Infarct
21 Maude Farmer (nee Trimm)
58
-
- Terminal Broncho Pneumonia
21 Mary Tozier (Payne)
80
8
0 Hypertensive Cardio Vascular
22 Barbara Standish (Fellows) Sturges
71
3
0 Acute Ventricular Tad- eycardia
24 McMullen
Stillborn
DEATHS DELAYED IN OTHER YEARS
1946
October
13 Mary Crowell Anderson
45 9 7
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT
The annual report of the Board of Selectmen for the year ending December 31, 1947, is hereby submitted.
On March 3, 1947, at an adjourned meeting, the Board organized as follows :
Kenneth C. Latham, Chairman Charles E. Wilkinson, Secretary G. Lawrence Roberts Mildred J. Gray, Clerk
Monday evening has been the regular meeting night of the Board with the exception of July and August when meetings were held every other week and we do not see but that the Town went along just as well as when we met every week. Extra meetings were held when occasion demanded.
The method started last year, of asking the citizens to make appoint- ments with the Clerk of the Board, to see the Selectmen, worked out so successfully we have followed the same procedure during 1947. By so doing many citizens were kept from cooling their heels and getting hot under the collar while waiting for the Board to complete its business with others.
The agenda of our meetings has been printed in the Chronicle each week. The various departments under the jurisdiction of the Board have made reports which appear on other pages, so we will comment briefly on one or two highlights of the year. The report will be short as we doubt if over ten citizens ever read this report.
The Town Parking Area has at last become a reality and was opened in October, 1947. It has been marked off so that it will accom- modate 70 cars. This area would not have been possible but for the co- operation and donations of several merchants whose lands or business border the Parking Area. The Capitol Realty, Inc. gave outright 7,650 square feet of land. Aaron A. Levin deeded a fifteen foot right of way from Woburn Street. The Masonic Temple Corporation has given a fifteen foot right of way from Haven Street, good for ten years. Mr. Jacob Rabinovitz of the Economy Grocery Stores contributed $500.00 cash. Mrs. Laura S. Gordon bought the bowling alley and the ground on which it stood, contributing the same to the Town with the under- standing the Town would erect a fence separating Mrs. Gordon's pro- perty from the Parking Area. Mrs. Gordon's contribution represented approximately $10,000.00 But for the above contributions, it is doubtful if the Town could have finished this Parking Area for some time. The Board, as well as the Town, owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Walter M. Fowler, who acted as Agent for the Board over a period of several years,
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making arrangements to bring the Parking Area to a successful conclu- sion.
The Board is happy to announce that during the summer of 1947, the Boston & Maine Railroad installed automatic gates at the Willow Street crossing thus removing a dangerous spot.
Your Board wishes to thank the Auxiliary Fire Department and Auxiliary Police Department for the excellent help they gave on sev- eral occasions during the past year, especially at the time of the forest fires in the Fall. In that respect the Board also wishes to thank the Red Cross, Salvation Army, local organizations, telephone operators and many citizens who gave their services during this hazardous period.
We appreciate the co-operation and friendly spirit of the other Departments, Boards, Committees and general public.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES E. WILKINSON, Secretary
Board of Selectmen
REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD
The Planning Board was instrumental in securing the filing of a bill in the General Court changing the boundary line between Reading and Lynnfield. This bill was enacted and the line has been changed. Sub- stantially the change consists of straightening the old line in the so- called cedar swamp on the northerly side of the town. As a result Lynnfield acquires a small area that formerly was in Reading and Read- ing acquires a somewhat larger area from Lynnfield. It is expected that perambulation of the town bounds in this swampy area will be simplified in the future.
During the year the Board has considered several proposals for re- zoning areas in the town. A public hearing was held on the application of a resident for rezoning a sizeable area on the westerly side of Haverhill Street. After the hearing the Board recommended that the lot sizes in this area be reduced fom 40,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet. An article to amend the Zoning By-Laws was placed in the warrant for a special Town Meeting in October, 1947 on petition of the required number of voters and the amendment was passed in accordance with the Planning Board's report.
A number of alleged violations of the Zoning By-Laws have come to the attention of members of the Board and in several instances complaints have been made to the Board by citizens that the By-Law
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was being violated. The Board has advised the Building Inspector, who is charged with enforcing the law under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, of all these alleged violations. Conferences have been had with both the Selectmen and also with the Building Inspector concerning them. The Board has consistently urged that the By-Law be enforced.
Members of the Board have attended numerous hearings held by the Board of Appeal during the year on applications for variation of the Zoning Law. The Board has opposed many of these applications and in a few instances has approved of them. Members of the Board have also attended several hearings held by the Board of Survey on proposed subdivisions, and have offered advice with respect to them.
As in past years the Board of Selectmen have asked the Planning Board for its recommendations when offers have been received for the town owned property. The Board has made a recommendation in every instance.
At the instance of some of the editors of the local papers in the several cities and towns which will be crossed by the proposed new Route 128 several meetings were called to consider methods to promote the construction of the road. The Board has attended two of those meetings. A committee made up of one representative from each of the towns and cities was created. The chairman of the Planning Board has served on that committee. This committee has held a number of meetings and has met with the Governor and with the Commissioner of Public Works to discuss the construction of the Route
Members of the Planning Board attended a Public hearing held by the Commissioner of Public Works on the proposed lay out of the Route from where new construction now ends in Lynnfield to Route 28 near the Reading-Stoneham town line. The layout as established will cross the swamp area northwesterly of Lake Quannapowitt, pass on the Wakefield-Stoneham side of Bear Hill and cross Route 28 just northerly of the Reading-Stoneham Town line. The Planning Board is pleased to report that this is the location advocated by the Planning Board for many years.
Mr. David and Mr. Pease have served as the Planning Board's rep- resentatives on the Capital Expenditures Planning Committee.
Respectfully submitted,
PHILIP R. WHITE, Chairman A. LLOYD DAVID, Secretary WINTHROP D. PARKER GEORGE B. PEASE WALTER D. BERRY
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BOARD OF CEMETERY TRUSTEES
Fred L. Nutter, Chairman
Term expires 1949 " 1950
James W. Fairchild, Secretary
Harry C. Barr
1948
Edouard N. Dube
1948
William P. Pierpont
..
1949
David E. Hersee
1950
Superintendent HAROLD F. DAVIS
Office Hours Room 16, Municipal Building Afternoons 2-5 except Saturday. Monday Evenings 7:30-9 '
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT - 1947
To the Board of Cemetery Trustees,
Town of Reading, Mass.
Gentlemen :
The Superintendent's Report on the operation of the two Town Cemeteries, Laurel Hill and Forest Glen, for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1947 is herewith submitted.
While the normal functions of the Department, including interments, maintenance and snow removal to provide accessability to the lots and graves, were carried on throughout the year, other tasks to improve and further develop both Cemeteries were accomplished.
The Statistics for the calendar year of 1947 are as follows :
Laurel Hill Forest Glen Total
Interments
58
25
83
Foundations :
Monuments
9
10
19
Markers
22
6
28
Lots Repaired
4
0
4
Graves Repaired
49
1
50
Winter Graves Repaired
17
6
23
Cement Crypts Used
19
13
32
Cement Vaults Used
39
12
51
Lots Sold :
8 Grave
0
1
1
6 Grave
0
3
3
4 Grave
0
7
7
2 Grave
1
10
11
Single Graves
3
3
6
Baby Graves
3
0
3
ยท
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Three single graves and five old lots were put in Perpetual Care and one old lot had an additional amount added during 1947, in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Vandalism again left its mark on Laurel Hill Cemetery during the weekend of September 13th and 14th. Twenty-two monuments were displaced from their foundations and one marble slab was broken. To repair the damage it was necessary to engage the services of a Monu- mental Firm at a considerable expense to the Cemetery Department.
On August 25, 1947 a Dodge 11/2 ton Truck with a 2 yard dump body was placed in commission. This was authorized by the 1947 Annual Town Meeting and replaces a 1929 Ford Truck, which was sold.
Laurel Hill Cemetery Improvements
A progressive tree surgery program was inaugurated this year, and by the able assistance of the Tree Department, seventy large shade trees were pruned and trimmed and two poplars were removed. It is the intent to carry on this work from year to year.
On Pine Avenue a large leaching basin was constructed and 100 lineal feet of curbing so placed as to check the surface runoff from draining onto Lots 259, 262 and 263. The grade of these lots was then raised by filling in, loaming and reseeding, thus eliminating a very bad depression.
At the upper level of the service yard, on the concrete foundation completed during the previous year, two fireproof stalls, to facilitate the garaging of the two Cemetery trucks, are under construction. Funds available allowed the near completion of one, so as to permit its occu- pancy.
Forest Glen Cemetery Improvements
This Department, when the W.P.A. went out of existence, inherited the unfinished project of excavating, casting over, the removal of large stones, boulders and stumps, grading, loaming and seeding an area of several acres in preparation for laying out into lots and graves.
During this fiscal year the brush was cleared from the area, the stones and boulders segregated, and the casting piles leveled to a pre- liminary sub-grade. Over this area a cross-section survey was made in order to study its development. Further development is planned for 1948.
The financial statement will appear in the report of the Town Ac- countant.
Respectfully submitted, HAROLD F. DAVIS, Superintendent
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CEMETERY TRUSTEES
The Report of the Superintendent as submitted by him is hereby approved by the Board of Cemetery Trustees and constitutes its Report to the Town.
FRED L. NUTTER, Chairman JAMES W. FAIRCHILD, Secretary HARRY C. BARR EDOUARD N. DUBE WILLIAM P. PIERPONT DAVID E. HERSEE
Board of Cemetery Trustees
REPORT OF CUSTODIAN OF SOLDIERS' and SAILORS' GRAVES
The Honorable Board of Selectmen
Town of Reading Massachusetts
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report as Custodian of Soldiers' and Sailors' graves for the Town of Reading.
Four Veteran graves were repaired in Laurel Hill Cemetery and the Veteran Plots in Laurel Hill and Forest Glen Cemeteries were taken care of during 1947, besides the usual care of all Veteran graves.
Appropriation
$ 800.00
Pay Roll
$ 523.64
Repairs on Veteran Graves
16.00
Care of Veteran Plot, L. Hill
60.36
Care of Veteran Plot, F. Glen
200.00
$ 800.00
$ 800.00
There was one Spanish War and World War I Veteran, four World War I Veterans, and two World War II Veterans interred during 1947, as follows :
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Spanish War and World War I
Richard A. Skane, Lot No. 10811/2, Laurel Hill Cemetery, died May 27, 1947, buried May 31, 1947. World War I
Gardiner I. Byam, Lot No. 1180, Laurel Hill Cemetery, died Feb. 12, 1947, buried Feb. 15, 1947.
Ellis J. Wilson, Lot No. 406, Forest Glen Cemetery, died May 4, 1947, buried May 7, 1947.
Melvin C. Lane, Lot No. 389, Forest Glen Cemetery, died July 13, 1947, buried July 17, 1947.
Otis B. Ruggles, Lot No. 670, Laurel Hill Cemetery, died Dec. 3, 1947, buried Dec. 6, 1947.
World War II
Chester M. Wooldridge, Grave No. 36, Veteran Plot, Forest Glen Cemetery, died Jan. 3, 1947, buried Mar. 18, 1947.
Clark S. Robinson, Lot No. 89A, Forest Glen Cemetery, died May 23, 1947, buried May 26, 1947.
There are 422 Veterans buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery and 26 Vet- erans in Forest Glen, and the number increases every year. I recom- mend that the amount appropriated for 1948 be increased to $1,000.00 to adequately cover the necessary care of Veterans' graves and lots.
Respectfully submitted,
HARRY A. TURNER
REPORT OF VETERANS' BENEFIT AGENT
February 9, 1948
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Reading, Massachusetts
Gentlemen :
Your Agent of Veterans' Benefits respectfully submits his annual report.
We have had occasion to assist 35 cases, comprising 106 persons in general aid under the first year of a new setup of the Chapter 584 of the Acts of 1946.
We have also conducted the office of Veterans' Services to good advantage of those seeking information in State and Federal benefits.
We have worked in close harmony with other agencies and appre- ciate their help.
Yours very truly, CHARLES W. H. SMITH, Agent
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REPORT OF WELFARE AGENT
To the Board of Public Welfare :
I submit the following report as Welfare Agent and Director of Old Age Assistance for the year 1947 :
The pattern of our operations during 1947 has followed closely that of the preceding year as to the number of classification of cases seeking assistance through this department. Employment conditions have re- mained favorable, with some exceptions during the latter months of the year where family assistance under General Aid was required. Old Age Assistance maintained a case load level comparable with that for the past four or five years. Expenditures have arisen substantially, how- ever, as a direct result of increase in the cost of living necessities. Such costs have risen 10% during 1947 over 1946, and approximately 60% since 1941. These rising living expenses are reflected in the mandatory budget requirements placed upon us by state authority, the more import- ant of these being increases introduced in May and November, 1946, and again in September of 1947.
For record, our case load figures for 1947 were: General Aid, 39 cases with 93 persons; Aid to Dependent Children, 20 cases with 79 per- sons ; Old Age Assistance, 271 cases, one person each.
It is not the function of a welfare agent to discuss policies in relief matters in a report of this kind, nor to comment on the laws, rules and regulations given him for execution. His job is to get things done in the legally sanctioned manner, to protect the proper rights and privileges of the recipient, and to safeguard the financial and social interests of the town that employs him. It does not seem amiss, however, that any major trend or development which is observed in the course of his work be brought to notice. Attention is necessarily drawn to the startling changes in Old Age Assistance during the past decade. The flat state- ment in this respect is that the expenditure per case has doubled during the past eight years. About 60% of this increase may be charged directly to the sharp upward trend in the cost of the necessities of life upon which the mandatory budget figures are based. A further factor is legis- lation granting far more generous exemption to children in the matter of liability for the support of parents who are eligible for Old Age Assistance. Medical costs, also, which constitute a substantial item in Old Age expense, have tripled during the period under consideration.
A brief schedule may clarify the point mentioned :
Expenditures for assistance ten years ago compared with expendi- tures for 1947-round thousands.
1937
General Aid
$64,000
1947 $19,000
$45,000
Decrease
Aid Dep. Children
18,000
21,000
3,000
Increase
Old Age Assistance
58,000
150,000
92,000
Increase
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The Old Age case load during this time has remained within a swing of forty, fluctuating between 230 and 270, so it is evident that the increase of total expenditure is due to cost per case rather than to any large influx of recipients. Everybody agrees that the needs of the aged who are without resources should have the most considerate thought but, for the better protection of the elderly people themselves, some concern should be given to the possibility of allowing any major relief program to expend beyond a point where the contributing citizen is "able to pay", thus bringing about a collapse of the entire structure, with consequent loss to the old people of the distinct advantages they have gained during the past decade and a half.
Unlike General Aid and Aid to Dependent Children, the category of Old Age Assistance does not respond to improved employment condi- tions. An Old Age Assistance case load as of any given time will ordin- arily diminish only in two ways, by decease or by removal to another city or town. Not more than one case out of a hundred goes off Old Age Assistance because of unexpected resources, such as a legacy, the sale of real estate, or some other unusual circumstance. In the meantime there is the constant acquisition of new applications to keep the case load up and, as appearing from present tendencies, to increase it.
It is therefore obvious that any general increase in monies expended for Old Age Assistance is, in effect, a permanent increase.
Beyond the dead-line of "ability to pay" it is equally obvious that danger to the whole system of assistance to the aged is real. .
The item of local tax cost seems important enough to warrant a continuance of the short statement which has been shown in our re- ports for the last several years, this schedule for 1947 being in round figures as follows :
Total expenditure, all forms of relief administered by this department, including cost of administration and main- tenance of office building
Total received through federal grants, state payments from other cities and towns, and from refunds, collections and recoveries 147,000
$ 206,000
Net local tax levy cost $ 59,000
Respectfully submitted EDWARD E. HARNDEN Welfare Agent and Director of O.A.A.
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REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 1947
Gentlemen :
The following is my report of the work completed by the Depart- ment of Weights and Measures for the year 1947.
I. SCALES
Adjusted Sealed Condemned
Platform, over 10,000 1bs.
1
3
Platform, 5,000 to 10,000 1bs.
1
1
Platform, 100 to 5,000 1bs.
1
2
Counter, 100 to 5,000 1bs.
3
4
Counter, under 100 1bs.
3
10
1
Beam, 100 to 5,000 1bs.
1
1
Spring, 100 to 5,000 1bs.
2
2
Spring, under 100 1bs.
3
10
Computing, under 100 1bs.
12
28
Personal weighing TOTAL
27
62
1
II. WEIGHTS
Avoirdupois 43
III. AUTOMATIC, LIQUID MEASURING DEVICES
Gasoline Pumps
18 66
2
Gasoline Meter Systems
66
IV. LINEAR MEASURES
Yard Sticks
9
TOTAL
45
246
3
Trial Weighings and Measurements of Commodities Sold or Put Up For Sale
COMMODITY
No. Incorrect Tested Correct Under Over
Bread
12
12
Butter
8
8
Dry Commodities
18
16
1
1
Grain and Feed
10
10
Potatoes
15
12
2
1
-
-
TOTAL
63
58
3
2
INSPECTIONS MADE
Peddlers Licenses
2
Bread Marking
12
Ice Scales
2
Junk Scales
2
Retest of gasoline devices after sealing
4
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REPORT OF THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE Report to the Town of Reading, Mass.
The year 1947 still called for an all-out food production by farmers, as well as food conservation by homemakers. For this reason, efforts of the Extension Service during the year were largely on these factors, the production and conservation of food.
Commercial poultry is the main agricultural interest in Reading along with commercial vegetables and home gardens. With the com- mercial poultrymen, service has been rendered largely through farm visits, meetings of the poultry association and monthly letters. Disease control, feeding and management have been the main problems.
The main project of interest to homemakers has been home furnish- ings and the work has been developed under the leadership of Mrs. Annie Poore, town homemaking chairman.
Nine boys' and girls' 4-H clubs were organized during the year - four in clothing and one each in home furnishing, knitting and canning, with two in agriculture. Leaders for the year have been Mrs. Walter E. Connor, Mrs. Edna Turner, Shirley Nelson, Mrs. Howard Crowe, Miss Lois Conn. Irene Landers and Jean Symonds were chosen to repre- sent the county at the State Dress Revue at the University of Massachu- setts. Ernest Durb was chosen to represent the county in the Poultry Judging Contest at the Boston Poultry Show, Eastern States' Expo- sition and State 4-H Boys Day at Amherst. Wendell Nelson was awarded a prize by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture for his fine work in the Sheep Club. Kenneth Hickman and Ernest Durb were awarded medals for their outstanding poultry club work.
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