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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Middlesex ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Tewksbury in said County :
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabi- tants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at Town Hall in said Tewskbury, on Saturday the 7th day of February, 1925 at nine o'clock A. M., to act on the following articles :
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose all necessary Town officers, to choose by ballot a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, three Overseers of the Poor, three members of the Board of Health, a Town Treasurer, an Auditor, a Collector of Taxes, a Tree Warden and Constables, (Three) all to serve one year: one Highway Com- missioner to serve three years ; one School Committee to serve three years ; one Trustee of the Public Libra- ry to serve one year, two Trustees of the Public Li- brary to serve three years; one Park Commissioner to serve two years, one Park Commissioner to serve three years; one Assessor to serve three years. The polls for the election of Town Officers to be opened at nine o'clock A. M., and close at four o'clock P. M., and to vote on the following question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this Town?" Yes: No.
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ART. 3. To hear reports of Town Officers and Com- mittees and act thereon.
ART. 4. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation to defray necessary ex- penses for the current year, and make appropria- tions for the same.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote the money aris- ing from licensing dogs, for the ensuing year, to aid in support of the Public Library.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
The vote to be as follows :
Voted :- That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1925, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said finan- cial year.
ART. 7. To see what compensation the Town will vote for the collection of taxes, and at what rate and from what date interest shall be charged on taxes of 1925 unpaid after November 1, 1925, or to take any other action relative thereto.
ART 8. To see if the Town will vote to borrow, if necessary a sum not exceeding one twenty-fifth of one percent, of the current year's valuation, such sum of money to be used in the suppression of the Gipsy and Brown Tail Moths, and not to be expended before December 1st next, and to be raised in the tax levy of the year 1926.
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ART. 9 To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $225.00 for the proper obser- vance of Memorial Day, and appoint a committee to expend the money. Said committee to be taken from members of the G. A. R., Spanish War Veterans, and American Legion, and Sons of Veterans.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to institute suits on behalf of the Town or defend any suits that are, or may be brought against the Town.
ART 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $150.00 or some other amount, and elect a director for demonstration work in agri- culture and home economics, the money to be ex- pended by, and the director to serve in co-operation with the County Trustees for Aid to Agriculture of Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics, under the provisions of Chapter 273, General Acts of 1918; it being understood that $50.00 of this amount shall be used to provide local paid supervision of boys' and girls' club work.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to repair and maintain the sidewalks radiating on all Streets from Town Hall for a distance of one mile, and make ap- propriation for same or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 13. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to installing electric lights from the present terminal on Whittemore Street to East Street, on East Street to Carter Street, to the residence of George E. Gray and make an appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 14. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to installing electric lights on Shawsheen Street from Main Street to the Billerica line, make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 15. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to installing electric lights from the present terminal on Chandler Street to Livingston Street, on Livingston Street to the residence of Henry Scarlet make appropriation for same or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to install six electric lights on Marshall Street, make an appro- priation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to install Electric lights on Maple Street, from the present terminal, to the residence of H. B. Treadwell, make an appro- priation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights on Whipple Road from the end of Pleasant, Street to the present terminal near the residence of Austin French and make an appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights on Whipple Road corner of Pleasant Street to Chapman Road, on Chapman Road to the residence of Axel Anderson and make an appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights on East Street from Carter Street to the An- dover line and make an appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 21. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to installing electric lights on Brown Street and make appropriation for same, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights on South St. from Salem Road to the resi- dence of P. J. O'Neil or install lights on any other portion of said street, and make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights on Foster Street, Shawsheen River Park and make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3500.00 to complete the ad- ditions and alterations to the Foster School, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $700.00 to furnish electric light fixtures for the Foster School, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1500.00 for drilling a new well or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2431.00 for a steam heating plant to be installed in the Shawsheen School or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to macadam North Street from East Street to Almont Station and make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2500.00 for cinders to be used on the following roads, Fiske, Trull Road, up- per end of River Road to Fiske Street and from Kelley's Crossing on East Street to the Andover line or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to widen An -. dover Street from the end of the car line to the resi- dence of Mr. Hilton and make an appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to apropriate a sum not exceeding $500.00 to build Town Hall Ave- nue and act thereon.
ART. 32. To see what sum of money the Town will appropriate to obtain the establishment of the boundary line between town hall lot and land of Mr. Alexander and the easements of the town in land of Mr. Alexander, and to erect suitable markers.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $100.00 to fill up the saucers on the sidewalks and repair the same where needed with cinders or gravel or take any action. Work to be done under the su- pervision of the road commissioners.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the money $1186.62 returned to the Town under Acts of 1924 Chapter 480 to provide suitable quarters for the American Legion Post as a memorial to the Veterans of the Town or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 35. To see what sum the Town will appropriate for cutting brush along the highways, and to see if the Town will designate the highways where the money shall be expended.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to print new valuation books of real estate and personal property and make an appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 37. To see if the Town fill vote to appropriate the sum of $1800. to purchase a new Reo Chassis for the Fire Department and to mount the present ap- paratus on same, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to make the sal- ary of the Road Commissioners $100.00 each per year.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to change the name of the "Almont" railroad station to "Tewks- bury" and instruct the selectmen to confer with the officials of the B. & M. R. R. relative thereto.
ART 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept Foster Street, Shawsheen River Park.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will vote to accept Bay State Road from Lake Street to Water Street.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will vote to accept School Street.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will vote to accept Forest Avenue from Lowell Street to Felker Avenue.
ART. 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept Veran- da Avenue.
ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 6, Chapter 40, of the General Laws, to establish a RESERVE FUND, from which, by vote of the Board of Selectmen, a small sum may be transferred to another account to meet an emergency, in case there is no money left under the regular appropria- tion; and make apropriation for same.
ART. 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate $5000.00 for oil or other binder, or take any other action relative thereto.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by post- ing up attested copies thereof, one at each of the Public Meeting Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices, and leave one hundred copies for the use of
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the citizens at the Post Offices in said Town, 10 days at least, and over two Sundays, before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this War- rant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid:
Given under our hands, this sixteenth day of Jan- uary, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.
JEREMIAH K. CHANDLER, - IRVING F. FRENCH, Selectmen of
WILLIAM H. KELLEY, Tewksbury.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF TEWKSBURY
TOGETHER WITH THE REPORT OF THE 'SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1924
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1924
In all our schools the usual necessary small repairs have been made for the upkeep of our buildings. Very little has been required at the North and West Schools.
A new electric motor has been installed at the Spaulding School to take the place of the gas engine for pumping water. This engine caused us a lot of trouble and was a bill of expense to the town.
At the Shawsheen School the heating plant has been giving a great deal of trouble. In fact for some few years past it has been the same, but this winter it has been more difficult to make it reach a tem- perature sufficient for any comfort in the school rooms. Not only have the teachers and children been obliged to sit in cold rooms, often times wearing their coats but have had to endure the physical discomfort of smoke which at times fills the building. Your com- mittee are asking you for sufficient funds to install a new heating plant.
The new addition to the Foster School is progressing most satis- factorily the report of which has been adequately given by your Building Committee. It is expected to be completed in March and an invitation is extended to every citizen in the town to inspect it and see for themselves the splendid improvements which will be a benefit mount in both children and teachers.
Respectfully submitted,
HECTOR JACKSON, Chairman MAY L. LARRABEE ARTHUR A. FOSTER, Secretary
The School Committee recommend the following sums be raised to cover expenses for the year 1925:
Teachers
$ 16,000.00
Supervision
1,509.00
Superintendent
1,225.00
Health
1,100.00
Fuel
2,200.00
Janitors
3,851.00
Transportation
7,352.00
Tuition
7,940.00
Books and Supplies
2,250.00
Insurance
625.00
School Houses
1,000.00
Miscellaneous
625.00
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-$ 45,677.00
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FINANCIAL REPORT FOR YEAR 1924 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 7
Receipts
Reimbursements from State:
Supervision
$ 580.00
High School Transportation
3,058.50
High School Tuition
3,731.36
Interest on bonds
38.25
Total
$ 7,408.11
Appropriation
$ 43,303.81
Expenditures
Teachers
$ 16,639.50
Fuel and Janitors
4,912.81
Supervision
1,058.75
Transportation
6,725.20
Tuition
7,775.67
Books and Supplies
1,601.12
School Nurse
970 00
Medical Inspection
100.00
Mass. Retirement Fund
529.00
School Houses
1,210.35
Miscellaneous
1,163.35
Total
$ 42,685.75
Unexpended balance Jan. 1, 1925
$ 618.06
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Lowell, Mass., Jan. 9, 1925.
To the School Committee of the Town of Tewksbury,
Mrs. Larrabee and Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my twelfth annual report which is the thirty- fourth in the series of Superintendents' Reports. You have an ex- cellent corp of teachers and the year has been very satisfactory in school affairs.
Supervisors and Teachers. I am pleased to report so few changes this year. Miss Cecelia Hodgkins from the Foster and Miss Louise Fay from the West resigned to teach elsewhere. Mrs. McElroy, serving as a substitute completed her work with us last June. Miss Marian Adams, a teacher of successful experience, has been engaged for Grade 7, and Miss Marion Piper, one year's experience, for Grade 4, at the Foster School, and Mrs. Sarah Loupret, a recent graduate of Lowell Normal School has been appointed at the West School. Each of the teachers has begun the year's work very satisfactorily.
Foster. The chief item of interest this year is the addition to the Foster School. Due to unavoidable delays the Building Committee was unable to start the work till the last of August, hence the schools in this building are somewhat handicapped this term by having the work on the addition going on while the schools are in progress. Miss Dickinson with Grade 3 occupies a room at the town hall, while Grades four and five are seated in one room, using the hall for a recitation room. This arrangement is only for an emergency of course, and seemed the only way to keep all grades on full time,
In spite of much noise and confusion both teachers and builders are doing their best to be considerate to the other, and all are looking forward to the completion of the building. In my opinion the new part and the renovated old part will make as convenient, usable, and sanitary building as though entirely new, and at a 50% saving.
It would seem to be wise to place the first and second grades, now in a separate building as an overflow school, again in the Foster Building, and I so recommend.
Special work at the Foster has been injured or entirely elimin- ated. Sewing and Manual Training have been conducted with diffi- culty, while lunch serving has been entirely given up. At the com- pletion of the building all of these activities will be resumed.
Health. Milk serving at recess or at noon has been started in all the schools this past term, see the report of the School Nurse for details. While there has been insufficient time to note results, yet
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it is expected that such benefits will be visible among Tewksbury pupils as has been observed among pupils of other towns where milk has been served for several years. Much of the credit of instigating this forward step is due to Mrs. Larrabee of the Committee.
Barges. As there were no eighth grade pupils from the North this year it was not necessary to continue the barge route from Trull road this year.
Owing to the necessity of pupils from the West district going into Lowell and transferring, thus making them very late home, a new barge route has been established from the West. The cost of this barge varies but little from the cost of transporting by trolley; the permanence of the route will doubtless depend upon the satis- faction of the patrons.
District. Again it has seemed best to the State Board of Educa- tion to make a change in the District and Tyngsboro has been re- moved and joined to the Pepperell Union, thus leaving Dracut and Tewksbury to constitute the Union.
Dracut now pays 65% and receives 65% of time, and Tewksbury the remaining 35%. These two towns have been together for thirty- four years. It would seem that they might remain together to their mutual advantage for many years. This division also applies to the supervisors.
Penmanship. During the most of last year a contest was going on in the fifth and sixth grades, and the seventh and eighth, grades of the District (Tyngsboro was then a member) in penmanship. The award to be made by Mr. W. E. Riley of Lowell Normal School, and the reward to be the right to be considered champions of the District. The results were checked up in May and the decision for the upper Grades went to the Eighth Grade of the Foster School. Mr. Riley expressed great pleasure at the work of this room. The award in the intermediate grades went to Grade 6 of Parker Avenue School, Dracut.
I believe and Mr. Riley concurred that this contest was a great incentive in penmanship. Something similiar will be done this year.
Banking. School banking which was discontinued during the war was resumed last October under the management of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Lowell.
The response has been most gratifying. There has been depos- ited between Oct. 14 and Jan. 9 by the pupils of Tewksbury $595.67. During this time there have been opened at the bank 174 real bank accounts.
The law obliges us to teach thrift in the public schools, I believe that the best way to do this is to teach the children to save.
Graduation. On Tuesday evening, June 24, 1924 were held the annual graduation exercises of the Foster School. After an especially
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pleasing program Mr. Hector Jackson, Chairman of the School Board, presented diplomas to the following pupils.
High School Course, Annette Cote, Alfred Forget, Annie Gelinas, - Olive Haines, Tillie Heidenrich, Ruth Jordan, Nicholas Kartharena, Helen Kazetta, Wilbur Livingstone, Pauline Mountain, Louise O'Con- nell, George Petersen, Edward Pineau, Robert Sawyer, Dorothy Small, Arthur Trull, Antonio Vargis, Marjory Vogt.
Vocational Course, Helen Amiot, Eva Cameron, Clifford Edgecomb, Manuel Furtado, Bradford Gerrish, John McCormack, Arthur O'Con- nell, Annie Stelmack, Jeanette Sutherland, Elbra Wilbur, Raymond Zambeck.
Of these thirty graduates, 17 entered High school, 6 vocational school, 1 returned to Foster, and 6 are at home.
Last year's Freshman class at the Lowell High School made an exceptionally fine record. It is to be hoped that the graduates named above, the Freshmen of this year, will equal or surpass the record of their predecessors. 1
High School. September 1924 there were enrolled at Lowell High School the following pupils from Tewksbury, Mary Barousky, Francis Battles, Roberta Bisbee, Doris Blake, Helen Blake, John Botos, Julia Botos, Ruth Burgess, Eleanor Carson, Harold Carson, Dorothy Cham- bers, Julius Chesus, Ellen Clancy, Alberta Colby, Mary Corr, Annetta Cote, George Davis, Janice Farmer, Robert Farmer, Ethel Fletcher, Alfred Forget, Marion Foster, Elizabeth Fuller, John Gale, Thelma Gale, Ruth Garland, Annie Gelinas, Elizabeth Gore, Alziera Guyer, Theresa Haines, James Hallett, Donald "Hicks, Elsie Hicks, Barbara Johnston, Dorcas Johnson, Ruth Jordan, Helen Keszette, Ruth Kelley, Margaret Lacy, Herbert Larrabee, Edward Latour, Dorothy. Lavelle, Ethel Livingston, Raymond Livingston, Wilbur Livingston, Josephine Lovejoy, Beatrice Marr, Viola Marr, Wesley Millett, Dorothy Moun- tain, Pauline Mountain, John Nash, Katherine Nichols, Louise, O'Con- nell, William O'Neil, George Petersen, Edward Pineau, Harold Roberts, Churchill Rood, Bernice Roper, Grace Roper, Charles Sawitzky, Robert Sawyer, Ruth Sawyer, Dorothy Small, Edward Smith, Jessie. Smith, Katherine Sullivan, Louise Sullivan, Arthur Trull, Velma Trull, An- tonio Vargis, Mary Watson. There are also two pupils at Wilmington, and one each at Billerica and Reading.
Conclusion. Let me call to your attention the reports and tables which follow this report and form a part of it, and in conclusion I again wish to express my appreciation for the loyal co-operation of supervisors and teachers, and the cordial support of the School Board.
Respectfully submitted,
C. L. RANDALL,
Superintendent of Schools.
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REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC
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To the Superintendent and School Board of Tewksbury:
It is with pleasure I present my annual report to you. This year as in the past, I have worked with the aim of creating a love for music, both vocal and instrumental, and the desire to perform as well as appreciate; to give to the pupils a greater understanding of and sympathy for the culture of other nations, and to give them a greater appreciation of the part their own country has played and is to play in the cultural development of the race and to spur them on to do their part toward the contribution of the future.
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