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Director
ANTHONY G. KELLEY
Chauffeur
JOHN H. KELLEY
Railroad Employee
BUZZELL KING
Farmer
GEORGE J. McCOY
Jeweler
JAMES C. MARSHALL Farmer
WILLIAM R. MILLETT
Gardener
LINDSAY L. MEISTER
Herdsman
BENJAMIN J. MARSH Fireman
ADOLPH B. MOORE Merchant
JAMES W. MILLER
Railroad Employee
HARRY L. NASH
Chauffeur
PATRICK D. NASH
Florist
ELMER OLSON
Tinsmith
JAMES F. O'CONNELL
Fireman
DANIEL P. PIKE
Farmer
WILLIAM SPEKE
Printer
EDGAR SMITH
Ice Dealer
FRANKLIN F. SPAULDING
Merchant
GEORGE W. TRULL Retired
HARRY B. TREADWELL.
Carpenter
FRANCIS S. WHITTET
Plumber
GEORGE E. WINTERS
Box Maker
IRVING F. FRENCH JOSEPH W. JORDAN WILLIAM H. KELLEY Selectmen of Tewksbury.
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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 Tewksbury, on Saturday the 4th day of February, 1928 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 members of the Board of Public Welfare, 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 Commissioner to serve three years, one Highway Commissioner to serve two years; one School Committee to serve three years ; two Trustees of the Public Library to serve three 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.
ART. 3. To hear reports of Town Officers and Com- mittees and act thereon.
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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, 1928 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 1923 unpaid after November 1, 1928 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 1929.
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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 appropriate the sum of $150.00, or some other amount and elect a director; the money to be ex- pended by and the director to serve in cooperation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Service, under the provisions of Sections 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws of Massachu- setts.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to build and main- tain a sidewalk on East St., beginning at the land of Mrs. Scott and ending with the land of Mr. Robin- son, and make an appropriation of three hundred dollars ($300.00) be made for the building thereof, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $500 to gravel or einder Maple Street or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will vote to cinder or gravel Livingston Street from North Street to Ken- dall Street and make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to cinder or gravel River Road, from Andover Street, to the resi- dence of C. L. Barker, make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to macadamize North Street, from the railroad tracks at Tewksbury Centre to Almont, appropriate money for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to cinder or gravel Chapman Street, from Whipple Street, to the Billerica line, make appropriation for same, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 18. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to accepting Sec. 26, Chapter 81, of the General Laws as amended by Chapter 315 of Acts of 1926, whereby the Town receives State aid on highways, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to place cinders on Trull Road, from the Nesmith's driveway to the residence of Mr. Buchanan, make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate two-hundred ($200.00) to cinder Fisk Street, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6000.00 or any other sum for the erection of a suitable bridge on Bridge Street over the Shawsheen River, to replace the present structure, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 22. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, if any, for the pur- chase of a new gravel pit for the Highway Depart- ment, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3000.00 for oil or other binder or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3000.00 for cinders or gravel, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum $10,000.00 or any other sum to macadamize Salem Road; from Main Street to the Wilmington town line, or any portion thereof; pro- vided the state and county each appropriate a simi- lar amount, as provided in chapter 90 of the Gen- eral Laws.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2000.00 or any other sum, to be used exclusively for the removal of snow and ice from its highways, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum sufficient to purchase one or more dump trucks for the highway department. The price of same not to exceed $1000.00 per truck.
ART. 28. To see if the Town.will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1000.00 for specifie repairs on Andover Street, provided the state and county each appropriate a similar amount as provided in Chapter 90, of the General Laws.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1000.00 for specific repairs on East Street, provided the state and county each appropriate a similar amount as provided in Chap- ter 90, of the General Laws.
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ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue that portion of Bridge Street extending from a point near the bridge over the Shawsheen River to Shaw- sheen Street, at a point near the bridge over Strong- water Brook. Being the same portion now tempor- arily closed by the Highway Commissioners as a dan- gerous thoroughfare.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for specific repairs to the bridge on Mill Street over the Shawsheen River, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 32. To see what sum of money, if any, the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to purchase a new tractor or tractor tread truck and snow plow. Also to determine what type of tractor or tractor tread truck is best suited to the needs of the Town, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept Bay . State Road as laid out as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
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ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to rebuild the culvert on South Street near the Lowell and Salem R. R. crossing, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 35. To see if he Town will authorize the High- way Commissioners to sell any or all of the horses or horse drawn equipment and to see if the Town will appropriate the proceeds of the sale to the operation of the highway department.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote the sum of $1500 to gravel South Street, from Main Street, to the Andover line, make appropriation for same, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate $500, to gravel Brown Street, from Mich- igan Road to Shawsheen River, or taken any other action relative thereto.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1068.60, to pay unpaid bills contracted by the highway department during 1927, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to have a real estate valuation book printed for 1928 make appro- priation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 40. To see what action the Town will take in regard to continuing the lease on the Legion quarters.
ART. 41 To see what action the Town will take to pipe Legion quarters from Town Hall plant for heat- ing purposes, or put in a separate heating system for the Legion quarters, make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 42. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for repairs, alterations or additions to the North Tewksbury schoolhouse, or take any action .relative thereto.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will vote to erect a four room schoolhouse in North Tewksbury, appropriate money for the same, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 44. To see if the Town will vote to install elec- tric lights on Coolidge St., (Shawsheen River Park), make appropriation for same, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote to install elec- tric lights on Heath St., (Shawsheen River Park), make appropriation for same, or take any other ac- tion relative thereto.
ART. 46. To see if the Town will vote to install elec- tric lights on South St., from present terminal to the residence of Dennis O'Connell, and make appro- priation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 47. To see if the Town will vote to install elec- tric lights on Mill Street, from Shawsheen Street to the residence of Henry Pringle, and make appropria- tion for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 48. To see if the Town will vote to install elec- tric lights on Shawsheen Street, from present ter- minal to Vale Street, and on Vale Street to the res- idence of N. F. Saunders, and make appropriations for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 49. To see if the Town will vote to install elec- tric lights on Woburn Street, from the present ter- minal at end of So. Lowell car line to the Tewksbury- Billerica boundary line, make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 50. To see if the Town will vote to install elec- tric lights on Foster Street, from Chandler Street, approximately twelve hundred feet, to the property of Mr. Belton, make appropriation for same, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 51. To see what sum of money, if any the Town will appropriate for cutting and burning brush, or take any action relative thereto.
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ART. 52. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue the annual appropriation for the cutting of brush and make the salary of the tree warden $1300 per year, thereby enabling him to continue this work through- out the year.
ART. 53. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2000 to be paid to the estates of the two Wilmington firemen who lost their lives in a fire, provided the legislature votes permis- sion, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote not to accept any streets or ways unless first provided with a suit- able sub-grade, and laid out acceptable to the high- way commission.
ART. 55. To see what sum of money the Town will vote for electric light extensions, or take any other action relative thereto.
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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 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 fourteenth day of Jan- uary, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.
IRVING F. FRENCH. WILLIAM H. KELLEY. Selectmen of
JOSEPH W. JORDAN Tewksbury.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF TEWKSBURY
ALSO REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1927
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1927
All the schools in the town with the exception of the North School have had numerous repairs and improvements, putting them in very good condition.
The Foster School has required very little repairing during the past year. The lunch room which has been most successful in every way has had new benches made for all the tables. A new gas stove has also been installed in the kitchen. A more convenient system of electric switches have been placed in all the corridors.
During the summer the Spaulding School was thoroughly painted both inside and out. Electric lights have been placed throughout the building. The ceilings and outside of the West School were also painted.
The Shawsheen School has been greatly improved with a new shingled roof, and outside painting.
Last year a special committee reported on repairs needed at the North School. As your Committee did not receive the money neces- sary to make these repairs, the school still remains in the same con- dition. The School Committee ask you to consider again the much needed improvements for this building. These are, an addition of one large school room, an efficient heating plant which will comfort- ably heat all the rooms and more modern and convenient sanitary conditions.
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT L. TRULL, Chairman ARTHUR FOSTER MAY L. LARRABEE, Secretary
The School Committee recommend the sum of $50,730.00 be ap- propriated for the Schools for 1928 based upon the following proposed budget:
Teachers
$ 18,450.00
Supervisors
1,500.00
Superintendent
1,225.00
Health
1,300.00
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Fuel
1,800.00
Janitors
3,755.00
Transportation
8,900.00
Tuition
9,000.00
Books and Supplies
2,000.00
Insurance
1,000.00
Repairs
800.00
Miscellaneous
1,000.00 _ -
-$ 50,730.00
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Tewksbury,
Mrs. Larrabee and Gentlemen;
I herewith submit my fifteenth annual report which is the thirty- seventh in the series of superintendent's reports. The year has been one of consistently good work on the part of the teachers, but of no marked changes from other years.
Teachers and Supervisors. I am pleased that so few changes have taken place among our teachers. Miss Mildred Smith, supervisor of drawing last year, accepted a position elsewhere in June. Miss Mary E. Brackett, a graduate of the Massachusetts School of Art, was chosen for the position. Miss Brackett has made a splendid beginning in her work, winning the esteem of both teachers and pupils. Among the teachers you will find but two new names this year. One is that of Miss Bernice McCann who is in the primary room at the North in place of Miss Angier who resigned last June to marry. The other is that of Miss Elsie Hicks, assistant to Miss Eagles. Each of these teachers is a graduate of Lowell Normal School. Miss McCann had taught one year at Medford with marked success, Miss Hicks, one of Tewksbury's young people, is without experience.
The fact that our schools are good schools is due to the fact that for several years we have been able to keep satisfactory teachers.
The School Situation. There are more pupils enrolled at the Foster school than ever before. The fact that both the seventh and the eighth grades are very large obliged us to use the spare room in the building, occupied, for the last half year by grade one, Miss O'Brien serves as "opportunity" teacher in the upper grades, with classes from each grade. This arrangement seems to prove a success.
Grade One was again placed in the Spaulding School in Septem- ber and proved so large that it was necessary to hire an assistant teacher, so that both rooms are in use in this building. It was found desirable to place electric lights in the school, which was done from the regular appropriation, and is much appreciated by teachers and pupils.
There has been no increase in enrollment at the other schools.
All of the other schools are in excellent repair except the North which I will describe in the following topic.
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North. The situation at the North is the same as for the past two years in which I have mentioned conditions in my report. The num- ber of pupils has not increased. It is not that there is not enough room for the 33 pupils in each room; it is that the heating and ventil- ating in both rooms rooms is entirely inadequate, while the primary room was never built for a school room, simply for an emergency six years ago.
You will remember that two small recitations were built for the use of the student-teachers from the Normal School each opening from the room, then the only one, now commonly called "Miss Her- sey's room." Six years ago the partition was partially removed from these two small rooms, and a primary teacher placed in this im- provised room with the first three grades. The student-teachers from that time have taken their classes in the small entries. Absolutely no changes were made in 'heating, ventilating or lighting at the time of the removal of the partition. The boys of the primary room cannot even pass to the toilets without going through the upper grade room, while the girls of Miss Hersey's room can reach their toilets only through the primary room. The State Inspector of Buildings has as- sured me within a few weeks that changes must be made in this school, or it should be closed.
I recommend a one room addition to the North school, together with toilets and coat rooms on the ground floor. This would include a new heating and ventilation system for the entire building. If the two small rooms should be retained for their original use, the North school would be comfortably housed for many years, and at a mini- mum expense.
Playground. Now that the field on the west of the Foster school has been purchased it is desirable that it be graded to a small extent, and that some simple playground equipment be secured. - By simply filling some of the large holes, or sinks, the field could be made suitable for a ball field with little expense. You will see by the next topic that the Parent Teachers Association is interested in securing equipment.
P. T. A. I quote directly from Mrs. Drake, president of the local as- sociation that part of the activities for the past year that have close application to the schools.
"In May a pre-school clinic was held for children who were to enter school in September. The organization has tried to assist in maintaining good attendance by honoring such with a book.
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The greatest interest has been shown in the playground move- ment for which considerable money has been raised. Swings were erected at the Spaulding School and proportionate amounts given to the other schools with the exception of the Foster School. The amount belonging to the Foster School is to be expended in equipping the lot, recently obtained for a playground, as soon as the plans are completed.'
Lunch serving. The plan begun last year has been carried on this year with marked success. New equipment has been purchased as needed, new benches made for the tables in the basement. All the winter weeks fromThanksgiving to April Mrs. Maclaren is in charge, assisted by several upper grade pupils, serving warm lunches. Each child brings something from home, he also buys at a nominal price something hot, together with a cup of hot cocoa. About two hundred pupils are served daily in an orderly and capable manner.
Milk is served at recess for the underweight pupils.
Middlesex County Club. Club work has been carried on among our pupils with success, as you may judge from the report of the County Agent, Mr. George Erickson, which I quote in full.
REPORT OF 4-H CLUB WORK IN TEWKSBURY FROM NOVEMBER 1926 TO NOVEMBER 1927
"Forty-four boys and girls were enrolled in 4-H Club work in Gardening, Lunch-Box, Poultry and Pig projects.
The Lunch-box and Poultry Clubs were under the leadership of Mrs. E. P. Maclaren who deserves a great deal of credit in giv- ing the young people valuable information in both subjects. Mrs. Maclaren has not been satisfied with doing just the required work, but has made the work interesting by means of plays, demonstra- tions, and other methods.
The work of the year was completed by having an achieve- ment program and exhibit in conjunction with the Extension Ser- vice Movies at the Town Hall.
Mrs. Maclaren's work as a leader was recognized at a County- wide leaders' party at which time she was one of twenty leaders in the whole County who were awarded a leadership pin by the Extension Service.
The Garden and Pig Club work was carried on under the di- rection of Mrs. Ruth Howe, an out-of-town leader.
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The Two-Day Trip to the Massachusetts Agricultural College was awarded to Manuel Furtardo in Gardening, Lucy Kaulen in Lunch-box and Dorothy Foster in Canning."
Banking. The banking with the Mechanics Savings Bank in Lowell has been continued for another year. Fully half the rooms have won certificates for 100% of depositors, that is every pupil in the room is taking part in the banking if only to the extent of a few cents per week. Moreover about half of all the pupils in school have a "blue" bank book, that is, a real book with money at interest. Many child- ren deposit a considerable amount, several dollars per week, as you may judge from the fact that Tewksbury pupils within the last year have deposited $2394.92.
All of this has been done in precisely the same manner as if each transaction was actually made at the bank. It seems to me to be the foundation of excellent habits of thrift.
The relations between the teachers and the bank officials have been most cordial.
Institute. It has become an annual custom to hold an "Institute" for the teachers of the two towns comprising the union. The last was held Friday, Feb. 19, 1927 in Tewksbury and proved a success. The teachers seem to feel that they receive more practical help from these small institutes than from the mammoth conventions held at Boston.
Graduation. The graduation exercises were held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening June 23, 1927. After the program Chairman Herbert L. Trull presented diplomas to thirty-seven pupils, Gilbert Gordon Ackroid, Marcelle Mary Aubut, Mary K. Blair, Carolyn A. Blanchard, Virginia C. Briggs, Mary Carmody, Robert Carmody, Bruno Cislauycis, Joseph Cislauycis, Ernest C. Cote, Ferdinand L. Cuccoli, Vincent L. Flynn, Edna E. Gale, Richmond T. Ga'e, Gerish A. Lincoln, Paul Gineres, Marie Teresa Gray, Hector Lewis Jackson, Elizabeth Helen Jewell, Lucy Kaulen, Bronslaw Kohanski Fanny Lipomi, Harry L. Mann, Jr., Volfred Martinson, Thomas B. McCormack, Jr., Charles K. Meister, Mildred Catherine Obert, Thelma May Olson, George A. Peirce, Jr., Margaret Peirce, Lyman J. Penny, Edward Saw- yer, Ruth Edna Smal!, Annette Suslovich, Sotira Tatseos, Arnold J. Zambeck, Monica L. Zambeck.
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