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Ruck, Berta. Sudden Sweetheart R53-24
Ruck, Berta. Understudy R53-25
Sabatini, Rafael. The Stalking Horse S1-46
Sayers, Dorothy. Strong Poison S15 rep.
Scarlett, Roger. Murder Among the Angells S17-31
Scarlett, Roger. In the First Degree S17-32
Seaman, Augusta Huell.
The Disappearance of Anne Shaw S26-46 rep.
Seltzer, Charles Alden. Clear the Trail S29-74
Smith, Sheila Kaye. Gipsy Wagon S74-37
Snow, Charles H. The Invisible Brand S75-83
Snow, Charles H. The Cowboy From Alamos S75-84
Spearman, Frank H. Hell's Desert S82-10
Strange, John Stephen. Black Hawthorn S114-60
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter Series
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter and His Rivals S115-14
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter at Bear Camp S115-15
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter and His Double S115-16
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter's Return to School S115-20
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter at Oak Hall S115-23
Stratmeyer, Edward.
Dave Porter in the Far North S115-24
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter in the South Seas S115-25
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter and His Classmates S115-26
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter at Star Ranch S115-27
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter Under Fire S115-28
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Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter's War Honors S115-29
Stratmeyer, Edward. Dave Porter's Great Search S115-30
Stringer, Arthur. Marriage By Capture S116-34
Tarkington, Booth. Wanton Malley T3-26
Tarkington, Booth. Presenting Lily Mars T3-27
Thayer, Lee. Hill Gate Tides T18-25
Titus, Harold. Code of the North T32-79
Tuttle, W. C. Mystery at the J. H. C. Ranch T54-55
Tuttle, W. C. The Silver Bar Mystery T54-56
Van De Water, Frederic. Plunder V3-51
Van Dine, S. S. The Kennel Murder Case V3-86
Van Dine, S. S. The Dragon Murder Case V3-87
Vance, Louis Joseph. Encore the Lone Wolf V4-41
Van Noy, Kathryne, and Hedrick Elinor.
Jack and Matt of the W X V5-20
Wallace, Edgar. The Mystery of the Frightened Lady W3-85
Wallace, Edgar, and Curtis, R. J. The Green Pack W4-47
Walpole, Hugh. Vanessa W4-26
Walling, R. J. In Time For Murder W4-69
Wasson, Mildred. Nancy W19-22
Wells, Carolyn. The Roll Top Desk Mystery W24-72
Wells, Carolyn. The Clue of an Eyelash W24-73
Wells, Rhea. Zeke, the Raccoon W24-84
Weston, Garnett. Murder on Shadow Island
W28-50
Wheeler, Francis Rolt. The Book of Cowboys
W29-37*
Whipple, Dorothy. Green Banks
W32-45
White Nelia Gardner. This, My House
W34-44
White, Stewart Edward. Ranchers
W34-90
White, William Patterson. Adobe Walls
W35-44
Widdemer, Margaret. The Years of Love
W35-78
Wilder, Isabel. Mother and Four
TV36-70
Wilson, Eleanor H. Flyaway Flipperty.
A Journey From Holland To Egypt W36-95
Wilson, Mary Badger. From Nine to Five W37-51
Wilson, Benn Ames. Money Musk W40-77
Wolff, William A. Murder at Endor W52-61
Wright, Harold Bell. Ma Cinderella -W66-38
Yore Clem. Rider of the Red Ranges Y6-74
Young, E. H. Jenny Wren Y7-9
Young, Francis Brett. The House Under the Water Y7-24
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NON-FICTION
Philosophy Ethics
Phelps, William Lyon. Easter
170-P15
Phelps, William Lyon. Appreciation 170-P16
Phelps, William Lyon. The Courage of Ignorance 170-P17
SOCIOLOGY
Associations and Institutions
Lawes, Lewis E. Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing .......... 365-L
NATURAL SCIENCE
Physics
Smalley, Janet. How It All Began
530-S10
Birds
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz and Allan Brooks.
Portraits of New England Birds
598-F10
USEFUL ARTS
Public Health
Kallett, Arthur and Schlink, F. J. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs .. 614-353K
AGRICULTURE
Domestic Animals
Bartlett, Arthur C. Skipper, the Guide Dog 636-B9 Harris, Hugh K. Pepper 636-H2
Linderman, Frank B. Stumpy 636-L10
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FINE ARTS
Landscape Gardening
De la Mare, A. T. Garden Guide 716-2D The Amateur Gardener's Handbook.
Sculpture
National Sculpture Soc. Contemporary American Sculpture 735-N*
LITERATURE
American Poetry
Auslander, Joseph. (Trans. from the German of Albert Sixtus).
The Dwarf's Railway 811-A11
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
China
Waln, Nora. The House of Exile 915-1W2
Biography
Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia. Always Grand Duke 923-A5
Emerson, Edwin. Hoover and His Times 923-H18*
Chambers, Walter. Samuel Seabury. A Challenge 923-S26
HISTORY
Current
Sullivan, Mark. Our Times. Vol. 4. 1909-1914 940-9S13
United States in General
Adams, James Truslow. Second and Final Volume.
March of Democracy 973-A4
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose all necessary Town Officers, to choose by ballot a Moderator, 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 Commis- sioner to serve three 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; one Commis- sioner of Trust Funds to serve three years. The polls for the election of Town Officers to be opened at 12 noon and close at 8 P. M. And to act on the following articles, com- mencing at ? P. M.
ART. 3. To hear reports of Town Officers and Committees and act thereon.
ART. 4. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation to defray necessary expenses for the current year, and make appropriations for the same
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote the money arising from licensing dogs, for the ensuing year, to aid in sup- port of the Public Library.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Trea- surer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current finan- cial year.
The vote to be as follows :
Voted :- That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1934, 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 financial year.
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ART. 4. To see what compensation the Town will vote for the collection of taxes, and what rate and from what date interest shall be charged on taxes of 1934 unpaid after Nov. 1. 1934, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $350.00 for the proper observance 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. American Legion, and Sons of Veterans.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to institute suits on behalf of the Town or defend any suits that are, or may be brought against the Town, and to sign any contracts or agreements in behalf of the Town.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex, as required by law, the town's share of the net cost of the care, main- tenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital, and for the Town's share of the expense under the provisions of Chapter 331 of the Acts of 1933, which provides for the settlement of certain claims of the Com- monwealth against the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital District, including interest or discount on tem- porary notes issued therefor, as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of the General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, or take any action in relation thereto.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will vote to observe the anni- versary of its incorporation, and raise and appropriate money for same, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to revise the Town by-laws, and appoint a committee for same, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to reimburse the Town Treasurer for extra work in connection with civil works projects, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 14 To see if the Town will increase the membership of the School Board to six members, and authorize the
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Selectmen to make the three additional appointments pending the regular election.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,000.00 to improve the bathing beach owned by the Parent Teacher Association at Long Pond.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of seven hundred dollars ($200.00) to pur- chase an automobile for the use of the Police Department, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 17-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of $850.00 to purchase a Barton Centrifical Pump, a 300 gallon booster tank, a 24-foot roof and ex- tension ladder and materials for equipping and remodel- ing Chemical Truck No. 1, or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,500.00 to purchase a Reo Two Ton 166 inch wheel base Chassis Model 2J, a 500 gallon per minute Barton Cetrifical front end pump to be mounted on same, a 300 gallon booster tank and material for equip- ping same or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,200.00 to purchase 2 1-2 and 1 1-2 inch hose and accessories or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 20 To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights from present terminal on Vale street to the res- idence of George Kaulen on Shawsheen street and make appropriation for same or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept Lakeview Avenue, as laid on plan Lakeview Park Land Co., record- ed Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, book 27, plan 16, as detailed on plan submitted to the Road Commission- ers ; or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 22 To see if the Town will vote to accept Dubuque Avenue, a portion of which is part of Linden Avenue, as laid out on plan of J. W. Wilbur, Wamesit Terrace No. 2,
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on file with Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, and a part of Barker Road as relocated on plan on file with the Town Cierk May 5, 1922, and detailed on plan submitted to the Road Commissioners ; or take any other action rel- ative thereto.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,000.00 for road oil or other binder for the highways; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,000.00 for the maintenance of Chap- ter 90 Highways, providing the State and County appro- priate similar amounts, as provided for in Chapter 90 of the General Laws; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,500.00 for specific repairs on Whipple Road, from Pleasant Street to Chandler Street, providing the State and / or County contribute an allotment as pro- vided for in Chapter 90 of the General Laws.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,200.00 for specific repairs on Chap- man Street, from Whipple Road to the Billerica town line, providing the State and / or County contribute an allot- ment as provided for in Chapter 90 of the General Laws.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,500.00 for specific repairs on Andover Street, from the termination of the 1933 construction westerly, providing the State and / or County contribute an allotment as provided for in Chapter 90 of the General Laws.
ART. 28. To see if the town will vote to take by right of eminent domain land necessary to extend Vernon street through to Durn St. as proposed on plan on file with the Road Commissioners, and raise and appropriate the sum of $750.00 as damages for same, or take any action rela- tive thereto.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept Durn street as proposed on plan on file with the Road Commissioners, from Bay State Road to the land of the Cottage Park Land Co., or take any action relative thereto.
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ART. 30 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the following sums of unpaid bills of 1933: Town Hall account, $180.46; Police account, $74.02 : Highway account, $598.24 ; and Highway account because of C. W. A. project $255.53, or take any action relative to same.
ART. 31. To see what regulations the Town will make for the possession, management and sale of land sold for un- paid taxes and for the assignment of tax titles not incon- sistent with law or with the right of redemption as pro- vided in Section 52 of Chapter 60 of the General Laws as amended by Section 3 of Chapter 126 of the Acts of 1927.
ART. 32. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,500.00 for the municipal insurance fund, or take any action relative thereto.
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Annual Report
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN of TEWKSBURY
OF TEW
TOWN
URY
INCOR
1734.
PORA
FED
Also Report of Superintendant of Schools
For the Year Ending December 31st, 1933
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The year 1933 has been of distinct growth in the Tewksbury School system. The addition at the Shawsheen School has greatly relieved the congested condition at the Center School and reduced transportation by approximately $1,000.00.
The freshman class or ninth grade of fifty pupils was retained at the Foster School, two extra teachers with high school experience were selected. We feel that results are proving very satisfactory.
The retention of this class has saved the town in tuition and transportation about three thousand dollars.
The Foster School was repainted inside and out and necessary re- pairs were made in all school buildings.
Respectfully submitted,
MAY L. LARRABEE, Chairman, GUY B. GRAY, AUSTIN F. FRENCH, Secretary.
The School Committee recommends the sum of $53,000.00 be ap- propriated for the schools for 1934, based upon the proposed budget and also show what was spent on schools in 1933.
Spent in 1933
1934
Superintendent
$
934.40
$ 877.50
Supervisors
1,398.00
1,410.00
Teachers
16,814.75
19,250.00
Janitors
3,625.80
3,490.00
Transportation
8,917.94
8,511.81
Fuel
1,730.68
1,892.00
Tuition High School-
15,634.50
12,000.00
Books and Supplies
2,108.55
1,500.00
Health
1,215.41
1,200.00
Insurance
614.20
1,018.69
District
126.56
150.00
Miscellaneous
1,590.14
700.00
Repairs
2,781.84
1,000 00
$ 57,492.77
$ 53,000.00
$ 2,300.00
Transferred to other town departments
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Supplementary Budget for High School if completed, from September to December 31st, 1934
Teachers
$ 3,429.00
Janitor
500.00
Fuel
267.00
Light and Power
100.00
Insurance
983.45
Books and Supplies
1,200.00
$ 6,479.45
SHAWSHEEN SCHOOL ADDITION
The building committee of the Shawsheen School submits the fol- lowing report:
After careful consideration plans were accepted for a second floor addition to the present building.
Work was started about the first of July and completed in Septem- ber.
Two schoolrooms, accommodating 40 pupils each, and a small classroom were added.
By the addition of wide corridors in the rear of both floors con- nected by wide staircases the safety has been greatly increased.
In the basement two new hot air furnaces were installed and en- tirely new toilet facilities were provided.
Numerous improvements were made on the school grounds, in- cluding grading and removal of trees which had obstructed light on the north side of the building. The flag pole was also removed from the building and set in the semi-circle lawn in front.
After the building was opened overcrowded conditions still existed, making it necessary to equip the small classroom and provide an extra teacher. Twenty-four children are accommodated in this room.
Respectfully submitted,
MAY L. LARRABEE, Chairman, AUSTIN F. FRENCH, Secretary, GUY B. GRAY, LOUIS O. BERUBE,
JOHN R. SMITH, HERBERT A. PAGE
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
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To the School Committee of Tewksbury:
Madam and Gentlemen:
Herewith is submitted my fourth annual report as Superintendent of Schools.
From the standpoint of the one charged with the administration of local school policies and practices, this has been a year of marked growth. There has been a growth in enrolment, in school facilities, and in the number of grades under direct local control and admin- istration. There has also been in evidence a decided growth in com- munity interest in the schools. This last is the most important of all of the year's growths. It is the most healthful sign for the fu- ture of Tewksbury's school system.
It is but the repetition of a truism to state that any community will have schools as good or as poor as it demands. If no public interest exists, no care is given to the selection of those charged with the responsibility for the schools, no desire is shown to do any more than meet the minimum legal requirements of the State. Funds for the support of education are held to the lowest limit, and appropriations are grudgingly made. This of course means poorly paid and discouraged teachers, buildings unfit for use, antiquated textbooks in vile condition, inadequate equipment; in short, general educational demoralization.
Happily, this community is not careless of its duty to its future and its children. Proof of this is seen in the manner in which ad- ditional accommodations were provided this year at the Shawsheen School. It is doubtful that those not close to the workings of the local school system realize how great a return the town got on the money provided for this purpose. The committee charged with this project secured a remarkable value for the sum invested. Not only were two large classrooms added, but also an entirely new heating plant and toilet facilities. In addition, spacious corridors and stair- ways in the rear of the building were provided. These mean so inuch to the safety of the pupils in the building. Then for good measure a third small recitation room was created over the front entrance.
This alone would have been an excellent accomplishment for one year, but it has been almost overshadowed by the action taken at a special town meeting late in December, where by a vote of three to one the town was pledged to take advantage of the offer of
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the Federal Government, under what is known as the P. W. A. pro- vision for the relief of unemployment, and build our own local high school. Since this proposal was first broached to the citizens in the last Annual Report, it is evident that this town is very much alive to the educational needs of its children.
Again a debt of gratitude is due a very efficient committee which was appointed at the last Annual Town Meeting. Right here I desire to express my own personal appreciation of the spirit of that committee, in that it invited me to sit in an advisory capacity at all its sessions. I have never seen a project of this kind more carefully and fairly considered from every possible angle. I can testify to the people of this town that the good of the town, both present and future, was the guiding motive of every member in all of the deliberations.
The initial step towards a local high school organization came in September when for the first time in many years the ninth grade, or High School freshmen, were kept within the town and under lo- cal control.
One third of the school year has passed, and it seems safe to state that the step is going to prove as desirable as we hoped. More of the children are in high school enrollment than could have been, had the class not been retained at home. Fewer pupils went to the Vocational School. The result has been a marked financial saving, as well as a seemingly assured educational success.
Great care was exercised in the selection of the two teachers placed in charge of this class. Miss Rena Mills, who directs the work of the Classical division, is a young lady from a college known for the excellent teachers it has sent out. She had already spent three years teaching in a very good high school, before coming to Tewksbury. Miss Catherine Maguire was selected for the work with the Commercial division for her excellent record as a substitute in Lowell High School, where she has taught these same subjects. Miss Maguire is also a graduate of a favorably known collegiate institu- tion.
Both of these young women have measured up to our hopes and expectations. The class was functioning at the end of the first week of school as if it had been going for years. It has been more suc- cessful than could be reasonably expected in view! of its close relationships with the elementary grades. The teachers have en- deavored to make the children feel the added dignity of their posi- tion as high school pupils, even though they were housed in an ele- mentary school building. Such a morale will be far easier to secure when this class has a home of its own, especially after a few years have passed and created traditions for the school. This point is of
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more importance than is generally realized. It is to the credit of Miss Mills and Miss Maguire that they have secured the beginnings of this type of consciousness under adverse circumstances.
Coincident with the resignation of Miss Ruth Tingley, and her subsequent following in the steps of that colleague of hers, formerly known as Miss Wiggin, into the bourne from which good teachers seldom return, the last of the local schools used for training pur- poses by the State was relinquished. Miss Eva Hersey remained in the school in spite of a drastic cut in salary, and Miss Reynolds was transferred to the North School staff.
The addition to the Shawsheen School made a new organization necessary, especially when Miss Small was also caught in the epide- mic of matrimony last summer. Miss Kelly of the Foster School staff was promoted to the principalship of this building. Miss Katherine Sullivan was also transferred from the Foster to this group which was, as we supposed, completed by the election of Miss Norma Ellis and Miss Desire Goldsmith to the staff.
Schools had not been in session many days before it was evi- dent that even with the increased capacity Shawsheen School was overcrowded. Steps were taken to convert the small room in the front of the second floor into a classroom. After some delay, occa- sioned by slow delivery of furniture, a class of twenty-four was created and placed under the direction of Miss Bernice Lyness of Lowell.
All of the new teachers in this building are well trained and have had more or less experience, so that with those transferred from the Foster School we have a smoothly functioning unit. The remainder of the staff is as in the previous year and continuing its quality of work.
Supervision of the special subjects is under the same leadership as in recent years; no changes in personnel having been made.
Attention should be called to the repairs which have been made to buildings during the year; notably to those in the Foster School. Conditions both within and without have been greatly changed. The removal of the tower and bell, while regrettable for sentimental reasons, has added to the appearance of the structure.
An excellent piece of grading on the grounds has progressed very satisfactorily as a C. W. A. project. When finished this will add materially both to the beauty and utility of the playground.
Following the report of the Superintendent will be found those of the Supervisory Staff, telling of the year's progress in the Spe- cial Subjects. Reports of the School Physician and Nurse will also be found. All of these merit careful perusal. The usual statistical tables concerning enrollment are appended to give information as to the number and distribution of pupils in the schools.
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