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I wish to express my appreciation of the co-operation of many of the citizens in my work, also to the special officers who have in any way aided me, the police departments of nearby towns and cities for courtesies rendered, and especially to Miss Emily Skilton of Lowell with whom I have co-operated in a certain line of police work, which is one of the problems of this Town.
COMPLAINTS, INVESTIGATIONS, ETC.
Assault and battery
9
Attempted assault with a dangerous weapon.
2
Strike duty
1
Attempt to rape.
2
Malicious mischief
3
Larceny
18
Breaking and entering.
14
Fruit thieves
23
Chicken thieves
4
Auto violations
25
Abandoned autos
Auto and motorcycle accidents.
Liquor raids
Illegal sales of liquor
Keeping and exposing.
Liquor complaints
Bootlegging
18
Dogs killed by autos
5
Dogs shot
4
Non-support
1
Desertion
11
Wayward girls
2
Complaints regarding custody of children.
42
Family disturbances
10
Disturbance of peace
7
Drunkenness
42
3 10 14 16 14 9 1
Complaints against dogs
6
Misconduct
3
Delinquent children
69
Public nuisance
5
Slander
2
Setting fire without a permit.
1
Vagrants
2
Obnoxious persons
1
Suspicious persons
3
Trespassing
2
Violation of probation
1
Complaints against minors
15
Petty complaints
117
Investigations
203
Attempted arson
2
Pedestrians struck by autos
2
Cruelty to children.
1
Summonses and notices served.
104
Warrants served
22
Patients taken to Worcester State Hospital for Insane.
2
Patients taken to Tewksbury State Infirmary.
1
Escaped from State School at Wrentham (Returned)
1
Fires attended
25
Shows
53
Dances
Ball games
Duty at other public gatherings
Sunday licenses
68
Unpaid dog licenses-female
25
Notices posted.
25
Auto transfers
18
Auto license suspended
1
Auto license revoked.
1
Auto registration suspended
4
Auto registration revoked
1
Traffic duty and attendance at District and Superior Courts.
Respectfully submitted,
HARRY E. WHITING,
January 20, 1923.
Chief of Police.
38 51 15 15
Unpaid dog licenses-male.
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Report of Fish and Game Warden
In making this report, I can say I have given more time to the work than in former years and I think our common birds are getting more scarce every year. There are no Martins, very few swallows and very small flocks of Red-Wing Black Birds; Thrushes and Finches about the usual number. Our common song birds that nest near dwellings will never increase very fast until we can induce people to keep their cats shut up during the nesting season. Cats are very useful to keep our houses and barns clear of rats and mice but are very destructive as far as our birds are concerned also with small animals. I have seen a cat with a full grown rabbit over a mile from the nearest house. All cats are hunters. Not a fault; it is their nature.
We have a few quail but the snow is too deep this present winter. They will have a hard time until spring. Partridges and pheasants have increased the last two years but I think we should have a closed season on partridges for five years and two seasons on pheasants. Pheasants have no chance to increase where they are liberated in the summer and have the law come off in the fall.
We have quite a lot of small rabbits. I liberated a lot of large Snow Shoe Rabbits last year but I can't tell yet much about them. They don't increase much in numbers. There is a family of Otters that frequents our ponds and brooks; they are quite tame and if they can escape the trappers for a few years we will have quite a lot of them. Some boys killed one at Stony Brook last year.
I got a report from an adjoining town telling me that they had a family of Beavers on one of the Brooks in their town. But I can't prove that story.
All of our brooks and most of our ponds have been well stocked with fish the past year and in looking over the trout brooks, I can say they are all doing fine. During the past year I have made two arrests for illegal hunt- ing. The cases were tried in the District Court at Ayer. Both were con- victed and paid the usual fine in such cases, $10.
The following is a list of the fish and game put out in the Town of Westford during the year 1922 :
FISH
5,000 Brook Trout Fingerlings. 75 Brook Trout Adults.
6,000 Rain Bow Trout Fingerlings.
1,200 White Perch Adults.
1,600 Horn Pout.
2,000 Black Bass Fingerlings.
GAME AND BIRDS
38 Snow Shoe Rabbits.
50 Adult Pheasants.
12 Yearling Pheasants.
100 Pheasant Eggs.
Hoping this report will meet with your approval, I am,
Yours,
JOE WALL,
Game Warden.
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Report of Forest Warden
During the last year there has been 27 forest fires, 13 caused by railroads and 14 from other causes. One of the latter was caused by a man burning brush at Oak Hill without a permit. This was taken to Court and he was fined $20 and costs.
I have issued 170 permits.
A list of persons with whom fire extinguishers have been placed and a list of forest fires are herewith submitted.
LIST OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS IN TOWN OF WESTFORD
January 1, 1923
No. 1 David Greig
40 W. Butterworth
2 Bert Drew
41 Everett Jarvis
3 Eben Prescott
42
C. M. Griffin
4 Sam Taylor
43 James Sullivan
5 John Flynn
44 W. Seifer
6 L. J. Eliason
45 John O'Brien
7 Charles Edwards
46
A. Blaisdell
9 Walter Whidden
47
A. Burnham
10 Herbert E. Fletcher
49
D. Desmond
12 Herbert E. Fletcher
52
A. A. Hildreth
14 Herbert E. Fletcher
53 Albert Flagg
15 J. Lundberg
55
James Wilson
17 Graniteville Fire House
18 Graniteville Fire House
19 Jim O'Brien, Providence Rd.
59 Parker Village Fire House
20 W. Williams
60
Warren Sweetsir
21 Brookside Fire House
61
Mabel Drew
22 Brookside Fire House
62 Graniteville Fire House
23 West Graniteville Depot
63 Graniteville Fire House
24 F. Banister
65 Sullivan Bros.
25 Charles Couture
66 Guy Decatur
26 H. D. Wright
67 A. Jordan
27 Gilman J. Wright
68 A. Dureault
28 Horace Gould
69
C. B. Wetmore
29 H. O. Keyes, Est.
70 T. Sullivan
30 E. Ward
71 Fred Blodgett
31 J. M. Booke
72 O. R. Spalding
32 C. Shugrue
73 Frank Wright
33 J. A. Healy, Dunstable Road
75 W. Anderson
34 Westford Depot
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Fred McCoy
36 Will Greene
79 J. W. Pyne
37 John Martin
80 Westford Pumping Station
38 George Kimball
81 Richard Prescott
39 Judson Sweetser
S2 Fred Burbeck
48 N. Decatur
11 Herbert E. Fletcher
50 Angus McDonald
13 Herbert E. Fletcher
Calvin Howard
16 Nat. Whitney
56 Alec McDougall
57 Otis Day
35 Westford Depot
78 George Hartford
72
83 James O'Brien,
108 A. Polley
Stony Brook Road
109 L. Cloutier
84 Frank Hildreth
110 S. B. Wright
86 A. Vose
111 Westford Fire House
87 C. Parker
112 Westford Fire House
SS John Connell
113 Alec McDonald
89 Graniteville Fire House
114
M. Downs
90 Graniteville Fire House
115
George O'Brien
91 C. Johnson, Whidden's Corner
116
John Simpson
92
Westford Fire House
117
O. R. Spalding
93
Westford Fire House
118
J. Sargent
94 Westford Fire House
119
Geo. C. Moore
95 H. Whitten
120
J. Sanburg
96 H. Murphy
121
H. Anderson
97
J. Wayne
122 Westford Fire House
98
Westford Fire House
123
Westford Fire House
99 Westford Fire House
124
A. MeDougall
100
Forge Village Fire House
125
Westford Fire House
101
Forge Village Fire House
126
Westford Fire House
102
Forge Village Fire House
127 Westford Fire House
103
Forge Village Fire House
128 Westford Fire House
104 Frost School
129
Westford Fire House
105 George Irish
Instructions for Taking Care of Fire Extinguishers
1. Any person who is loaned a fire extinguisher by the Town of Westford for use at brush or house fires must be responsible for same.
2. After using and before refilling, the extinguisher should be thoroughly washed out to prevent corroding. The hose and nozzle also should be washed. Make sure the hole in the nozzle is clear.
3. Always wash and refill immediately. There may be another fire.
4. In winter the extinguisher should be put near a stove or in a warm place, to prevent freezing. Otherwise it should be emptied and washed out.
5. By putting into the extinguisher 3/4 of a cup of salt and stirring until dissolved, the extinguisher will not freeze so easily. It cannot, however, be left in a wholly unheated building.
6. All persons having extinguishers, who close their houses for the winter or who leave town, should notify the Forest Warden, Harry I .. Nesmith, by telephone and give the extinguishers to him.
7. Every spring the extinguishers should be discharged, washed out and refilled.
8. Any extinguisher that is lost or becomes defective should be reported to the Forest Warden.
9. Each person taking an extinguisher to a fire should take his own extinguisher home.
10. Know the number of your own extinguisher.
11. Any person allowing an extinguisher to freeze must pay for having it repaired.
Per Order, BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS,
Town of Westford.
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Forest Fires
Dam-
Date
Owner
Acres
age
Town Expense
Railroad Expense
Mar. 25
Mrs. Keyes
1
$
1
$
8.15
Apr. 10 T. Elliott
5
5
9.80
Apr. 14 C. Richard
1
5
6.65
Apr. 21 J. A. Healy
2
10
Apr. 24
J. A. Healy
5
20
Apr.
2ɔ̃
Mrs. Reed
1
5
5.40
Apr. 26
M. Downs
10
30
17.90
Apr. 26
J. A. Healy
1
5
8.20
Apr. 27
C. Edwards
1
5
13.20
Apr. 29
O. R. Spalding
1
10
18.40
Apr.
29 F. Hildreth
3
10
14.50 (B. & M.)
May 1 Oak Hill
800
800 *
815.00
May 2 H. Wright
7
35
24.82
May 3 G. Smith
3
25
May 9 J. V. Fletcher
8
60
May 10
O. R. Spalding
3
15
16.10
May
10
G. C. Moore
3
15
15.70
May
14
G. Smith
1
5
13.95
May
15 O. R. Spalding
1
5
10.65
May 17 G. Smith
1
5
6.60
May 23
C. Rourke
1
5
6.05
May
27
J. F. Sweetser
3
15
34.25
June
7 W. Sweetser
1/2
2
6.60
Oct. 24 J. F. Sweetser
1
2
2.75
Oct. 25 M. Downs
10
13.00
Oct. 25
O. Rourke
3
6.80
Nov. 24
Graniteville
1/4
3.30
$982.97
$166.65
$ 8.25 (B. & M.) 11.30 (B. & M.)
18.40 (N. Y. R. R.) 29.90 (B. & M.)
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Report of the Engineers of the Westford Fire Department
The Board of Fire Engineers submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1922.
At the first meeting of the Board, the engineers organized as follows : Alonzo H. Sutherland, chief ; Alfred Prinn, assistant chief ; John Edwards, clerk.
The companies have responded to 25 fires other than forest fires during the year: 10 chimney fires, 6 automobile and truck fires, and 9 building fires.
Some of the automobiles were totally burned and others slightly damaged.
The following is a list of the buildings where damage occurred :
January 4th-House of Ralph Cutting, Main Street. Total loss. Cause, defective chimney.
April 29th-Barn of S. B. Watson, Main Street. Roof partly burned. Cause, sparks from chimney.
May 1st -- Barn of Steve Zenkey, Forest Road. Roof partly burned. Cause, sparks from grass fire.
June 9th-Hall and store of Lewis Trudell, Brookside (known as Marshall Hall). Part of this building was in Westford and part in Chelms- ford. Total loss. Cause, unknown, probably set.
July 30th-House and barn and contents of the Estate H. O. Keyes, Keyes Road. Total Loss. Cause, spontaneous combustion in hay barn. Oct. 31st-House of Estate H. Maria Blaisdell, Chelmsford Road. House partly damaged. Cause, rats and matches.
December 4th-Horse sheds and tool house of George C. Moore at Nabnasset Farm. Buildings partly burned. Cause, unknown, probably set.
The equipment of the several companies is the same as last year, and is in good condition.
Owing to the large number of chimney fires each year, the engineers feel that quite a large number of these might be averted, if persons owning or those renting property would have their chimneys cleaned out more often then they have been. We find some chimneys have never been cleaned. This would save quite an expense to the Town, and in some cases, save the total distruction of property.
The Fire Engineers recommend the sum of $1800.00 be raised and appropriated to meet the expenses of the Fire Department for the coming year.
ALONZO H. SUTHERLAND, Chief.
:
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Report of Finance Committee
Westford, January 29, 1923.
The Finance Committee has carefully considered the articles in the Warrant, calling for expenditures of money whereon action will be taken at the Annual Town Meeting in February, 1923.
We submit herewith a list of appropriations asked and the amount we recommend in each instance.
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Article 10. Highways,
1-General
$ 16,700.00 $ 16,000.00
2-Snow Removal
2,000.00
2,000.00
Amount Amt. Asked Recommended
11. General Government,
Selectmen
$ 500.00 $ 500.00
Town Accountant 825.00
825.00
Town Treasurer
400.00 400.00
Tax Collector. . 1,400.00
1,400.00
Assessors
800.00
800.00
Town Counsel .
200.00
200.00
Town Clerk .
250.00
250.00
Election Officers
and Registrars.
450.00
450.00
Town Hall.
1,500.00
1,500.00
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12. Charities,
Outside Aid
6,000.00
6,000.00
Westford Home
4,000.00
4,000.00
Town Farm Barn
200.00
200.00
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13. Police Department
2,300.00
2,300.00
66
14.
Schools
57,600.00
57,000.00
66
15. Moth Department
2,300.00
2,300.00
.6
16. Fire Department
1,800.00
1,800.00
66
17. Forest Fires
1,200.00
1,000.00
66
18. Out-standing Bills
66
19.
Overdrawn Appropriations
15.84
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21. Legion Headquarters
200.00
200.00
22. Town Reports
600.00
600.00
66
23.
Care of Common
75.00
75.00
66
24.
Hydrant Service
2,400.00
2,400.00
25.
Liability Insurance
600.00
600.00
66
26.
Sealer of Weights and Measures
125.00
125.00
66
27.
General
3,000.00
3,000.00
28.
Memorial Day
300.00
300.00
29 Game Warden
75.00
75.00
30. Tree Warden
300.00
300.00
66
31. Street Lights
4,500.00
4,500.00
Amount Amt. Asked Recommended
6,325.00
6,325.00
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Amount
Article 32. Library
$
Amt. Asked Recommended 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00
..
33. Cemeteries-General
900.00
900.00
34. Cattle Inspector
175.00
175.00
35. Soldiers' Benefits
1,000.00
600.00
66
36. Farm Bureau
250.00
250.00
..
37. Reserve Fund
2,000.00
2,000.00
66
44. Graniteville School Plans
300.00
300.00
Interest on Loans,
1-Temporary Loans
1,900.00
1,900.00
2-General Loans
2,000.00
2,000.00
Loans,
1-General Loans
5,200.00
5,200.00
State and County Tax,
$13,430.48-$5,869.56
19,300.00
19,300.00
Valuation of Town for year 1922-$3,214,485.00
$147,720.84 $145,820.84
Article 10. We draw the attention of the Selectmen to the votes passed by the Town in years 1920 and 1921 calling for a patrol system of highways and a general plan of permanent road improvement and recommend a carrying out of these plans. Unless favorable action is taken under Article 40 we recommend that the appropriation for highway purposes be reduced to $12,000.00.
Article 14 .- We recommend that the appropriation for schools be made in two budgets, one covering personal service, the other material and supplies.
If these amounts, as recommended, are appropriated and based on amount of income received last year together with the present valuation and apparent increase we estimate that the tax rate will be about $33.00 per thousand.
H. V. HILDRETH, JULIAN A. CAMERON, W. R. TAYLOR, GEORGE F. WHITE,
Finance Committee.
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Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, Westford, Mass.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To the Constable of the Town of Westford, in said County : GREETING :
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn all the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in elections, and also in Town affairs, to meet at the Town House, in said Westford, on Monday, February 12, 1923, being the second Monday in said month at 7.45 o'clock A. M. The polls will be opened at eight o'clock A. M., and may be closed at one o'clock P. M., and they are then and there to act upon the following articles, to wit :
1st. To bring in their votes for one Selectman, one Overseer of the Poor, one Assessor, two members School Committee, one Commissioner of Public Burial Grounds, one Trustee of the Public Library, one mem- ber Board of Health, all for three years ; Moderator, Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Constable and Tree Warden, all for one year ; also to vote on the following question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this Town?"
2nd. To hear the report of the Finance Committee, and act in relation to the same.
3rd. To hear the report of the Town Accountant, and act in relation to the same.
4th. To hear the report of the Selectmen, including the report on guide boards and the naming of streets and roads, and act in relation to the same.
5th. To hear the report of the Overseers of the Poor, and act in relation to the same.
6th. To hear the report of the School Committee, and act in relation to the same.
7th. To hear the report of the Trustees of the Public Library, and act in relation to the same.
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Sth. To hear the report of the Commissioners of the Burial Grounds, and act in relation to the same.
9th. To determine the compensation of the Tax Collector.
10th. To appropriate money for highway purposes.
11th. To appropriate money for general government expenses.
12th. To appropriate money for charities.
13th. To appropriate money for the police department.
14th. To appropriate money for school purposes.
15th. To appropriate money for the moth department.
16th. To appropriate money for the fire department.
17th. To appropriate money for the expenses in connection with extinguish- ing forest fires.
18th. To appropriate money to pay the bills outstanding on December 31, 1922.
19th. To appropriate money to meet the overdrafts of various departments.
20th. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Town Treasurer to the sum of $250.
21st. To appropriate money for the rent of headquarters of Westford Post 159, American Legion.
22nd. To appropriate money for printing and distributing Town reports.
23rd. To appropriate money for the care of the Common.
24th. To appropriate money for hydrant service.
25th. To appropriate money for liability insurance.
26th. To appropriate money for the Sealer of Weights and Measures.
27th. To appropriate money for the Board of Health.
28th. To appropriate money to commemorate Memorial Day.
29th. To appropriate money for a Fish and Game Warden.
30th. To appropriate money for expenses of the Tree Warden. .
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31st. To appropriate money for street lighting.
32nd. To appropriate money for library purposes.
33rd. To appropriate money for cemeteries.
34th. To appropriate money to meet the expense of cattle inspection.
35th. To appropriate money for Soldiers' Benefits.
36th. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 or some other amount and elect a director, the money to be expended by, and the director to serve in co-operation with the County Agricultural Trustees of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics under the provisions of Sections 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws of Massachusetts.
37th. To see if the Town in accordance with the provisions of Section 6 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws will appropriate money as a re- serve fund.
38th. To see if the Town will establish an additional hydrant on a private way known as Palermo Street, and act in relation thereto.
39th. To hear the report of the committee chosen at the last Town meeting relative to the establishment of a War Memorial and act in relation thereto.
40th. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to expend money from the General Road appropriation to purchase a tractor, loader and other machinery to be used in connection with the construction and repair of roads and act in relation thereto.
41st. To see if the Town will accept Sections 21-28 both inclusive of Chapter 136 of the General Laws, permitting sports and games on the Lord's Day.
42nd. To see if the Town will vote to erect a schoolhouse on the land to be acquired in Forge Village, equip and furnish the same and act in relation thereto.
43rd. To see if the Town will vote to borrow one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to meet the expense to be incurred in erecting a schoolhouse in Forge Village and furnishing and equipping the same, and will vote to petition the General Court for authority to borrow a sum of money over and above the debt limit sufficient to carry out the provisions of this vote and act in relation thereto.
44th To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money and authorize the preparation of plans for an addition to the schoolhouse at Granite- ville, and act in relation thereto.
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45th. To choose all other Town officers necessary to be chosen.
46th. To hear the report of the committee on by-laws, a copy of which was printed in the last annual report, and see what action the Town will take thereon.
47th. To see what action the Town will take through the adoption of by-laws, or otherwise, for the regulation of carriages and vehicles used in this Town, and act in relation thereto.
48th. To hear the report of the Committee appointed to investigate and report relative to the entering into a contract for lighting streets. To see if the Town will vote to revoke the vote passed at the last meeting whereby such contract was to be for the period of one year only, and further to see upon what terms the Town will authorize the execution of such contract, and act in relation thereto.
49th. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to investigate and report at a subsequent meeting as to the best and most economical way of heating the Town Hall, and appropriate money to meet the expense of such investigation, and act in relation thereto.
50th. 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.
51st. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year, also the rate of interest on taxes remaining unpaid at a time to be fixed by vote of the Town, and when and how said taxes shall be paid into the treasury, and act in relation to the same.
52nd. To see what action the Town will take towards discontinuing the present Union School System, and employing a superintendent for the schools of the Town only, and act in relation thereto.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up true and attested copies at the Town House and each Depot in said Westford, eight days at least, before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding the meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands, this twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-three.
FRANK L. FURBUSH, JOHN B. GRAY, A Majority of the Board of Selectmen of Westford.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF WESTFORD, MASS.
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FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1922
Lowell, Mass. COURIER-CITIZEN COMPANY, PRINTERS
1923
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Organization, School Committee
WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, Chairman. Term Expires 1925
FRANK L. FURBUSH.
1925
ARTHUR G. HILDRETH, Secretary.
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A. MABEL DREW
6.
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GEORGE D. WILSON
1923
ARTHUR E. DAY
6 6 1923
* Deceased
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
HERMAN C. KNIGHT, Littleton, Mass. Telephone, Littleton 42-3
COMMITTEE ON TEXT-BOOKS
A. MABEL DREW
SUPPLY AGENT
HERMAN C. KNIGHT
TRUANT OFFICERS
John Sullivan Willard H. Beebe
J. A. Healy Everett Miller
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
CYRIL A. BLANEY, M. D.
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Report of the School Committee
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF WESTFORD :
We submit herewith our annual report for the year 1922.
We feel that excellent progress has been made in our schools during the year through the untiring efforts of our Superintendent and Teachers.
We would call your attention to the separate reports submitted herewith.
The William E. Frost and Sargent Schools have been painted outside ; the Sargent School reshingled, the Cameron School refreshened and shades furnished for some of the buildings.
It will probably be necessary to shingle the Frost School during the year.
The new Nabnassett School has been successfully opened, further detail of which is to be found in the report of our Superintendent.
Although the Special Building Committee will deal more in detail with the matter, we would again call your attention to the immediate need of additional accommodation at Graniteville and at Forge Village, and trust that favorable action will be taken by the Town toward providing same.
The expense account for the year 1922 is tabulated under the Town Accountant's report.
We respecfully ask for the sum of $57,600.00 for school expenses for the year 1923.
WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, Chairman.
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School Calendar
HIGH SCHOOL
March 22-Winter term closes. April 3-Spring term begins. June 20-Spring term closes.
1923-1924
September 5-Fall term opens. November 28-Fall term closes.
December 3-Winter term begins. Christmas vacation, December 20 to January 2, 1924.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Same calendar as above, except closing date, June 8, 1923.
Special Exercise Days and Holidays, 1923
Feb. 12-Lincoln Exercises, one-half hour. Feb. 21-Washington Exercises, one-half hour.
April 18-Patriots' Day Exercises, one-half hour. May 29-Memorial Day Exercises, one hour.
Oct. 11-Columbus Day Exercises, one-half hour. Nov. 23-Thanksgiving Exercise's, one hour.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS
January 1st, February 22nd, April 19th, May 30th, July 4th, First Monday of September, October 12th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. (The day following when any of the four first days mentioned, the 12th of October or Christmas occurs on Sunday.)
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