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Superintendent of Streets' Report.
Appropriation for Highways, $2,800.00
Work done under the Supervision of G. L. Rindge prior to March 15.
J. H. Farr, labor,
$17.33
C. P. Bolles, labor
9.31
C. B. Hitchcock, labor, 24.57
J. W. Rice, labor, 4.88
IV. H. McGuire, labor,
14.87
Wilbraham Academy, labor,
6.00
H. J. Clark,
2.50
Theodore Gebo, repairs,
4.87
WV. H. Metcalf, repairs,
9.85
William Balfe, repairs,
5.00
R. McDonald, repairs,
5.00
H. I. Edson, repairs,
1.56
Stephen Ferauzoontz, repairs,
.63
Albert Sowa,
2.98
J. A. Bennett,
1.25
F. W. Green,
3.76
Henry Smith,
1.10
G. L. Rindge,
31.36
Repairs on stump puller used on new road, 1912, $29.48
$176.30
Work under Supervision of A. M. Seaver for remainder of year
L A. Jewell, labor, $ 47.93
F. Bobard, labor, 21.31
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William Patch, labor, 159.90
Wilbraham Academy, labor,
49.00
Wilbraham Academy, coal,
1.00
WV. H. McGuire, labor, 219.69
J. Pickens, labor, 24.00
B. B. Green, labor,
52.00
E. Evans, labor, 21.00
F. C. Phelps, labor, 23.00
C. B. Hitchcock, labor,
54.00
Nicholas Rank, labor,
39.00
Wallace Metcalf, labor,
24.00
L. J. Bennett, labor, 120.00
L. J. Bennett, gravel,
9.10
Roscoe Bennett, labor,
162.00
F. W. Green, labor,
59.13
A. Sowa, labor,
210.25
Truman Laird, labor,
31.25
J. W. Rice, labor,
60.93
F. B. Metcalf, labor,
9.00
Tohn Ashe, labor,
3.00
Sidney Calkins, labor,
3.00
E. N. Lyman, gravel,
2.00
Charles Newton, labor,
181.52
Henry Woods, labor,
159.64
Walter Powers, gravel,
8.80
G. L. Rindge, labor,
2.00
G. L. Rindge, stamps,
.40
Clarence Pease, labor,
17.50
William LaPine, labor,
5.40
James Ritchie,
2.50
George Sweatland,
1.25
R. J. Sackett, man and team,
15.50
R. J. Sackett, use of tractor,
11.25
J. A. Bennett, labor,
1.25
Paul Tupper, labor,
48.75
Roland Bennett, labor,
9.00
F. A. Gurney, gravel,
1.90
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Milo Green, labor
37.00
Clement Laird, labor,
3.00
Rochelle Pittsinger, labor,
6.00
James Farr, labor,
18.37
Ralph Bennett, labor,
9.00
W. R. Munsell, labor,
83.25
J. Smith, labor,
1.15
F. A. Thayer, labor,
2.50
L. L. Farr, labor,
33.00
Peter Boyea, railing and posts,
59.38
A. A. Turner, labor,
2.25
L. P. Page, shovel,
1.25
Ludlow M'f'g Asso., gravel,
1.50
Collins Paper Co., gravel,
.80
K. Wetupski, gravel,
5.10
E. Jones, red dirt,
.90
T. T. Clark, 3.00
Theodore Gebo, repairs, 10.95
New England Metal Colvert Co., 169.70
George Robbins Co., 2 x 6 railing, 27.71
Henry Godben, state boundary stone, 2.00
T. C. Newton, supplies, 18.26
A. M. Seaver, Supt. of Streets,
431.50
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$2,810.90
$2,987.27
Received for moving sign, from Rotary Club,
$ 4.75
Outside contributions for Burleigh road, 25.00
$29.75
A. M. SEAVER, Superintendent of Streets.
Report of Forest Warden.
We had fourteen fires this year, all but two in the spring. Those fires endangered buildings seriously. One was extinguished by women alone. Three were caused by illegally set fires, which lawlessness has seldom occurred in this town. It is safe to say that these three persons will not try it again. The high price of fuel has caused the cutting of much wood, probably nearly three thousand cords, in this vicinity.
Expenses
Fighting fires,
$104.94
Extinguisher, charges and apparatus,
76.63
Granting permits, 1917 and 1918,
12.70
$194.27
HENRY I. EDSON,
Forest Warden.
Tree Warden's Report
The trees needing less care than usual, the work this year consisted mostly in cutting brush. As it was not pos- sible to get two gangs of help, the Superintendent of Streets, Mr. A. M. Seaver, was given charge of the work; and he has the credit of putting the roadsides in better shape than they have been in for many years.
Expenses
Cutting roadside brush,
$145.56
Setting trees,
7.50
Bolting tree,
4.00
Cutting dead tree,
6.00
$163.06
HENRY I. EDSON, Tree Warden.
Moth Inspector's Report.
The spring search for Brown-tail Moths failed to dis- cover even one nest. We were relieved of the Gipsy Moth inspection by the Government department, which made a very careful search all through this section, but found no egg clusters in this town. We are very fortunate.
Expenses
Brown-tail Moth inspection,
HENRY I. EDSON. $8.05
Cemetery Commissioners' Report.
ADAMS CEMETERY
R. J. Sackett, care and improvements, $ 65.10
A. J. Bryant, digging graves and care, ' 64.25
Gebo, 1.00
F. C. Newton, 2.00
$131.35
EAST WILBRAHAM CEMETERY
B. B. Green, $19.00
GLENDALE CEMETERY
C. M. Calkins, Relaying bank wall,
$27.50
50.00
11.50
Total expense, $233.85
R. J. SACKETT, B. B. GREEN, H. I. EDSON,
Cemetery Commissioners.
Report of Trustees of the Free Public Library.
Number of volumes in Library Jan. 1, 1918,
3,209
Number of volumes added by purchase, 48
Number of volumes added by gift,
94
3,351
Number of volumes lost and discarded
14
Number of volumes in Library Dec. 31, 1918,
3,337
Circulation
Borrowers
North Wilbraham,
4,002
212
Wilbraham,
1,022
93
Glendale.
400
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Stony Hill,
206
12
5,630
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Receipts
Rent of town offices,
$144.00
Appropriation by the Town,
500.00
Interest Cloe Bliss Stebbins Fund,
4.04
$648.04
Balance on hand, January 1, 1918,
59.89
Expenditures
Cutler Co. repairs water pipe, etc., $ 2.97
H W. Cutler, four electric lights, 1.40
F. A. Fuller, screen door, 2.00
T. M. Walker Co. glass and putty,
1.59
$707.93
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Homer Foot & Co., blind catch, .80
C. W. Vinton, paint and papering, 22.00
Geo. E. Burke, repairs to chimney, piazza and bulkhead, 53.00
Cutler Co., cement, etc., 8.89
Mrs. Abbott, paint and paper,
15.08
W. H. McGuire, coal, 28.00
Cutler Co., coal, 134.82
H. R. Huntting Co., books, 46.21
F. C. Newton, rent room at Wilbraham, 42.00
Cutler Co., water rental, 16.00
John Ventura, care of yard, 66.10.
James Jaffrey, care of heater, 64.00
Cutler Co., fertilizer, etc., 3.86
Central Mass. Electric Co., lighting,
28.51
$531.32
Balance on hand, December 31, 1919, 170.61
$707.93 Besides the above, the Librarian has received from fines and cards during the year, $14.52, which added to amount on hand at the beginning of the year, 38c, makes a. total of $14.90, which is accounted for as follows : Subscription of Youth's Companion, $2.00 Magazines, .60
Mosquito netting, 1.50
Cleaning the Library, 3.00
Small supplies, 1.40
Ruth Calkins, care of books and Glendale, 5.00
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1918, 1.40
$14.90
The legacy from the Estate of Henry Cutler is de- posited as follows :
$500 in Springfield Five Cent Savings Bank, Book No. 55481.
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$500 in Springfield Institution for Savings, Book No. 145815.
Abner E. Bell Fund :
$40 deposited in Springfield Institution for Savings, Book No. 158877.
Morton L. Day Fund :
$500 is deposited in Hampden Savings Bank, Springfield, Book No. 59155.
LIBRARY WAR SERVICE
480 books have been sent overseas and to Camp libraries. Scrap books and post card folders have been sent overseas and to the base hospital library at Camp Devens. All express charges have been paid by the sale of old papers and magazines.
The Trustees gratefully acknowledge gifts of books, pictures and magazines from Mrs. Herbert Myrick, Wil- braham Sunday School, Wilbraham Study Club and many others.
Respectfully submitted, A. L. DAMON, F. A. GURNEY, H. W. CUTLER, Trustees.
School Committee's Report.
The School Committee respectfully submits the follow- ing annual report. The revenues of the current year have been as follows :
APPROPRIATIONS
General school purposes,
$7,000.00
High and Vocational school tuition,
2,500.00
Music, 300.00
Manual Arts, 300.00
Repairs,
600.00
Medical Inspection,
150.00
Evening School,
1,000.00
$11,850.00
Other Revenues
Massachusetts School Fund,
$1,104.65
Dog Fund,
198.81
Sale of car tickets,
38.90
School fines,
.25
Tuition refunded by the state,
2,088.87
Common school tuition,
47.25
Superintendent of schools refund,
355.73
High school transportation,
1,217.40
Warriner Fund,
89.24
Tuition of State wards,
138.00
Industrial school,
67.50
Sale of books,
24.56
Refund on car tickets,
84.81
Tuition Kathryn Trask,
35.00
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Tuition Alonzo Gilbert, 5.80
City of Springfield tuition refund,
12.00
- $5,538.77
RESOURCES
Superintendent's salary,
$234.30
High school tuition,
935.00
State wards tuition,
16.00
'Transportation,
701.49
$1,886.79
LIABILITIES
Medical Inspection, H. G. Webber,
$25.00
Town of Ludlow, Evening school, and High school tuition, 209.00
$734.00
EXPENDITURES Supervisors Music
Bertha Hebert, $285.34
Manual Arts
Ethel Benz,
$120.00
Dorothy Nichols,
$173.67
$579.01
Teachers' Salaries
'Katherine Stewart,
$ 45.10
Dorothy Kline, Fannie Pease,
132.00
253.15
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Edith Loomis, 104.00
Edna Burroughs,
286.00
Agatha O'Connell,
486.00
Pauline Burns,
264.00
Ellen Burroughs,
208.00
Mary E. M. Mack,
204.50
Cora M. Lance,
99.20
Mary Davis,
213.60
Irva Kennedy,
208.00
Margaret Burns,
264.00
Mary Eldridge,
236.00
Anna Taylor,
264.00
Ellen Tabor.
208.00
Genevieve Waite,
330.00
Anna Dunne,
11.00
Edith Feustel,
617.70
Madalyn O'Day,
96.00
Ella Stetson,
364.00 .
Anna Lillis,
264.00
Mabel Welch,
85.20
Edith Jackson,
90.00
Ebba Fredrickson,
208.00
Gertrude Church,
2.00
Marjorie Pixley,
45.00
E L. Morgan,
2.60
E. O. Beebe,
15.00
$6,248.56
Transportation,
$1,527.34
Superintendent of Schools
$570.22
Salary,
Supplies, 11.32
Telephone and telegraph,
17.13
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Securing teachers, Postage,
8.64 10.88
$618.19
Janitors
Mrs. J. H. Farr,
$ 32.40
C. W. Vinton,
25.00
Paul Tupper,
33.40
Martin O'Connor,
152.00
Cyrille Brodeur,
155.00
J. P. Buckingham,
39.00
Mrs. Sweatland,
173.10
Mrs. Thomas,
34.60
Mrs. F. D. Perry,
6.50
Ellen O'Connor,
12.00
$653.00
Miscellaneous
Medical Inspection, H. G. Webber, M. D., $58.30
Census, Fanny Ray Pease, 21.23
Labor certificates, Fanny Pease, 6.60
Attendance Officer, Ed McDowell,
62.10
Springfield Library,
2.15
Electric lights,
8.25
$165.43
Fuel.
H. M. Greene,
$238.00
W. H. McGuire,
544.78
Mrs. J. H. Farr,
1.00
Paul Tupper,
1.00
C. F. Tupper,
40.00
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Wissett Farms,
38.50
W. F. Berry, 80.00
$943.28
Repairs.
E. O. Beebe, pump and furnace grate, $15.71
J. P. Buckingham, .50
L. L. Stone, 7.71
Cyrille Brodeur, glass and putty, 3.00
W. E. Beebe, repairs on pump and furnace, 7.75
John Anderson, interior repairs, 4.95
Theodore Gebo,
1.00
W. F. Morgan,
3.00
Mrs. C. E. Pease,
.50
W. H. Farnham,
15.40
Wright Wire Co., wire fence,
200.00
William Whitney, repairs at five,
30.17
A. J. Bryant, 7.50
John Ventura, 27.00
3.00
Morrissey Bros., cleaning furnaces,
2.92
George Knowlton, painting,
16.75
George Herder, 2.50
F. A. Bodurtha, carpenter work,
18.44
Mrs. Sweatland, cleaning, etc., 10.00
Elsie Perry, cleaning room at 5,
6.00
Walter Bliss, 10.00
Mrs. L. Bosworth, 5.00
Supplies.
C. P. Bolles, care and distribution of supplies, $17.57
Walter Bliss, distribution of supplies, 38.27
$404.80
C. B. Hitchcock,
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H. E. Tupper, water, 5.00
E. L. Morgan, refund on supplies, 10.05
J. W. Rice, collecting supplies with truck, 8.00
Daniel O'Neil, flags, 18.00
Cyrille Brodeur, putty, glass and nails, 8.25
Palmer Journal, paper and printing, 13.97
City of Springfield, books,
19.25
Chalman Brooks, brooms,
10.50
Milton Bradley, miscellaneous supplies for class room, 305.88
F. A. Fuller, lass and putty,
3.74
Wright and Potter, paper,
2.06
J. L. Hammett, paper and blanks,
173.33
C. E. Pease, .95
E. L. Morgan, desk at number five,
16.69
M. J. Gottsche, broom,
.90
J. D. Law, tools for manual art work,
15.70
Holden Book Covers,
18.20
Blodgett Music Store,
1.50
Forbes and Wallace, books,
10.14
T. M. Walker, paint,
42.10
Hampden Lumber Co.,
8.87
Johnson's Bookstore, books,
8.50
Cutler and Company, plaster,
1.15
George Herder, plaster,
1.00
John Anderson, corks,
1.40
Hampden Cornice Works,
2.64
J. B. Logan, sundries,
2.95
$$66.56
High School Tuition.
Springfield Junior,
$622.00
Springfield Vocational,
22.00
Springfield Technical,
1,404.00
Springfield Commerce,
1,152.00
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Springfield Central, 360.00
Ludlow High, 118.75
$4,088.75
Fifty per cent refunded by the State. Wilbraham Academy, $520.00
$4,608.75
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
Springfield School of Commerce.
Ida Horner
Blanche Backus
Marion Cormack
Kathryn Garvey
Eunice Bell
Blanche Moulton
Bertha Cormack
Helen Parker
Ralph Bennett
Technical High School.
William Bell
Franklin Murphy
Viola Bodurtha
Clifford Greene
Luella Brodeur
Edna Porter
Margaret Flanagan
Cecile Murphy
Katherine Garvey
Charles Roberts
Edna Porter
Harold Porter
Mildred Lyman
Blanche Lyman
Blanche Moulton
Edmund Garvey
Central High School.
John Hardy Andrew Rice
Vocational School.
Anson Brewer
Francis Powers
Isabella Young
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Springfield Junior High.
Kathryn Keefe
Francis Murphy
Herbert Tupper
Helen Parker
Edward Garvey
Teresa Boylan
Clarence Keefe
Maurice Cole
Mary Murphy
Charles Hardy
Bertha Cormack
Leslie Swetland
Frederick Rice Eunice Bell
Everett Pickens
Edmund Garvey
Ludlow High School.
Paul Butler
Kathryn Trask
Edward Landry
Myrtle Vinton
Frederick Allen
Charles Kittredge
Virginia Allen Rosemary Cady
Alonzo Gilbert
Herbert Tupper
Gladys Piper Ida Sherwin Charles Kittredge
Paul Tupper Mary Tupper
Dorothy Ellinwood
John O'Connor
Doris Ellinwood
Wilfred Brodeur
Helena Driscoll
Frederick Rice
Arthur Files
Ethel Eton Eunice Rice
Warren Files
Wilbraham Academy Students.
Louis Bryant
Charles Merrick Stuart Merrick
Clinton Jewell
Harold Merrick
Wesley North
Edwin North
Charles Stephens
Andrew Rice
George Murphy
Wesley Stephens
Albert Lyman
Ellery Gebo William Eatom
James Stewart
Richard Merrick
Mary Normoyle Ethel Kingdon
Louise Piper
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The following appropriations are recommended for the
coming year :
General school purposes,
$8,000.00 600.00
Repairs,
Music,
300.00
Manual Arts,
300.00
Medical Inspection,
150.00
High School Instruction,
2,500.00
Evening School,
1,000.00
$12,850.00
Respectfully submitted, EVANORE BEEBE, Chairman, WALTER M. BLISS,
EFFIE L. MORGAN,
Committee.
School Medical Inspector
Wilbraham, Mass., December 31, 1918. As Medical Inspector, I have visited all the schools three times during the year-that is, each term. At each visit I have separately inspected all pupils in attendance. I found the condition of the children so favorable at those inspections that only one reinspection has been necessary. The calls of teachers for special inspections have been but few.
Under the amendment, Acts of 1910, .I have examined all applicants for employment tickets, and have given health or age certificates to such children as I have found in sufficently sound health and physically able to perform the work they intend to do.
H. G. WEBBER, M. D. Medical Inspector.
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ATTENDANCE DATA FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1917-18
Total Attendance,
40,615 days 3,951
Absence,
Tardinesses, 934
Dismissals,
139
Membership,
331
Average membership,
252
Average attendance,
228
PERCENTAGE OF ATTENDANCE BY SCHOOLS
Stony Hill,
91.0%
Pines Intermediate,
91.9%
Pines Primary,
91.9%
Mile Tree,
92.5%
Center Primary,
94.4%
Center Grammar,
94.5%
Mountain,
87.7%
East Wilbraham,
89.4%
Glendale,
91.0%
North Wilbraham Grammar,
92.6%
North Wilbraham Intermediate,
88.3%
ATTENDANCE DATA FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1917-18
Average from Above Figures
Percentage of Attendance,
91.2%
Tardinesses,
+ per child
Dismissals,
1 for every two children
Absences,
16 for every child
MUSIC
The Music Supervisor has made two visits to the schools every alternate week. The work has gone on in general, very satisfactorily, with one exception. This ex- ception is the matter of the singing, or rather, the disin-
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clination, on the part of the boys in some sections of the town, to do that part of the music work. Music is a re- quired subject throughout the State. It is rated on the same basis as the other subjects and a failure here means just so much of a detriment to the total standing of the pupil so failing. On this account. all parents are urgently requested to see to it that children do the grade of work in this subject which will keep their average up to the standard necessary for promotion in all subjects.
DRAWING AND MANUAL TRAINING
The Drawing and Manual Training have also had their ups and downs this year. The drawing teacher was changed at the close of the last school year. The teacher for the present year is making progress which is extremely gratify- ing when consideration is made of the unusual irregularity of the work. occasioned by the epidemic prevalent during the early months of the present year.
The greatest fault of this department is the lack of suitable accommodations and equipment.
The work of the schools as a whole during the present school year has suffered continuous handicaps from the beginning. The country-wide shortage of teachers oc- casioned by the entrance of many, who had intended to be- come teachers, into the ranks of Government Workers, left us with three schools unsupplied at the start, or very shortly thereafter. It was necessary to make use of substitutes, and to consolidate some of the schools for the relief of the more troublesome cases. Then the epidemic of influenza visited the town and the schools were closed for eight weeks with the exception of two days when an unsuccessful attempt was made to reopen and continue them. These handicaps have made it necessary that the very best efforts of parents, teachers, and pupils be put forth, if the work of the year is to be successfully accomplished.
One item, of considerable importance to the financial
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department of the Town, is the new State Law, which makes the minimum salary for teachers, in towns of one million dollars of valuation, five hundred, fifty dollars per year. This will necessarily mean an increase of appropria- tion.
This report cannot be completed without mention of the unusual interest and enthusiasm exhibited by the people of the Mountain district. During the summer vacation the residents of that neighborhood combined to paint the inside of the building, bearing the expense of this themselves, with the exception of the small sum of five dollars. Such neigh- borhood interest cannot be too highly commended.
RECOMMENDATIONS OF SUPERINTENDENT
1. That a good assortment of books for reading for the four upper grades be purchased as soon as is possible.
2. That the present arrangement in regard to the uniting of the Center and Stony Hill schools be continued as long as it may be possible to so continue it.
3. That the town increase the salaries of teachers to an extent that will attract teachers of experience, ability, and responsibility.
LEANORA E. TAFT,
Superintendent of Schools.
Town Warrant.
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
Art. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Select- men, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, School Committee, and other officers.
Art. 3. To fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
Art. 4. To choose a Town Clerk and Treasurer, and one Selectman for three years, who shall be Overseer of the Poor; one Assessor for three years, five Constables, four Fence Viewers, one Auditor, for the ensuing year, one School Committee for three years, one for two years, Collec- tor of Taxes for the ensuing year, one Library Trustee for three years, one Tree Warden for the ensuing year, one Cemetery Commissioner for three years, all on one Ballot.
Also all other Town Officers. To decide by ballot which shall be yes or no, the question, Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor in the Town?
Art. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for defraying the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same and vote how the same shall be raised.
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 finan- cial year.
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Art. ?. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to prosecute any persons selling or transporting intoxica- ting liquors in this Town contrary to the laws of the Com- monwealth or take any action in regard to the same.
Art. 8. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Tax of 1918.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will grant money for the observance of Memorial Day.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will appropriate money for the care and winding of the Town Clock on Memorial Church.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to extend the sewer up Chapel Street on the Mountain Road about 450 ft. and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to place an elec- tric light on Railroad Street opposite the home of W. L. Dempsey, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) to be ex- pended within the Town under direction of the Hampden County Improvement League for the promotion of Boy's and Girl's Club work, and the improvement of agriculture and country life in the town, including agricultural demonstration work on land owned by the Town or owned by any resident of the Town in accordance with the provi- sions of Chapter 707 of the Acts of 1914.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Assessors to publish valuation lists.
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Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote for fire protec- tion, and, if necessary establish a fire district or districts ; also purchase combination chemical and hose car, and other necessary fire apparatus, and raise and appropriate money for the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Art 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to cause o be installed Electric lights on Moun- tain Road, commencing near the home of Timothy Keefe to a point near the home of Mary E. Tupper, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to harden and repair highway known as Maple Street or Stony Hill, from its junction with the Boston Road and extending souther- jy on said Maple Street, and raise and appropriate money for the same or take any action thereto.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to maintain a Junior High School, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
OFFICERS' REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1919
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PALMER, MASS. THE JOURNAL PRINT. 1920
OFFICERS' REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1919
PALMER, MASS. THE JOURNAL PRINT. 1920
Town Officers.
Clerk and Treasurer W. H. McGUIRE, Jr.
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor J. WILBUR RICE, Chairman. FREDERICK A. WARREN ALLYN M. SEAVER
Assessors
FRANK A. GURNEY, Chairman, FRED W. GREEN AUGUSTUS F. FRIEND
School Committee
MISS EVANORE O. BEEBE, Chairman EFFIE L. MORGAN WALTER M. BLISS
H. W. CUTLER
Trustees of Town Library A. L. DAMON F. A. GURNEY
Collector of Taxes FRED W. GREEN
Constables
D. H. EATON
F. B. METCALF
A. F. FRIEND HARRY I. WHITE
EDWARD G. McDOWELL
Auditor J. M. PERRY
Inspector of Animals and Provisions JESSE L. RICE Fence Viewers
J. W. RICE G. R. FILES BENJ. B. GREEN
JAMES FARR
Tree Warden HARRY I. EDSON
Sealer of Weights and Measures CHARLES W. VINTON
Forest Fire Warden HENRY I. EDSON
Cemetery Commissioners
BENJ. B. GREEN
HENRY I. EDSON
RICHARD J. SACKETT
Report of Town Meeting
HELD FEB. 3, 1919.
Art. 1. Thomas W. Coote was elected moderator.
Art. 2. Reports of Selectmen and other town officers was voted to be accepted as printed.
Art. 3. Voted the sum of $200 be appropriated for the collection of taxes.
Art. 4. Voted to raise and appropriate on the polls and estates of the Town:
For Highways and Bridges,
$3.500.00
To be taken from the Resources:
Soldiers' Relief,
500.00
Charities,
2,000.00
Contagious Diseases,
200.00
Contingent Account,
2,000.00
Town Officers,
1,500.00
Street Lights,
1,850.00
Forest Warden,
250.00
Tree Warden,
150.00
Library,
500.00
Cemeteries,
250.00
Schools,
8,000.00
School Music,
300.00
School. Repairs,
600.00
School Manual Arts,
300.00
School Medical Inspection,
150.00
High School,
2,500.00
Evening School,
1,000.00
Art. 6. Voted, that the Town Treasurer, with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to bor-
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row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning Jan. 1, 1919, 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.
Art. 7. Voted, that the Town instruct their Selectmen to prosecute any person or persons selling or transporting intoxicating liquors into this town contrary to the laws of the Commonwealth.
Voted the sum of Three Hundred Dollars be raised and appropriated for the above purpose.
Art. 8. Voted that the Dog Fund of 1919 be appropria- ted for schools.
Art. 9. Voted, that the sum of Twenty-five Dollars be raised and appropriated for the observance of Memorial Day.
Art. 10. Voted, that the sum of Twenty-five Dollars be raised and appropriated for the care and winding of the Town Clock.
Art. 12. Voted, that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $150 to be expended within the Town under the direction of the Hampden County Improvement League for Boys' and Girls' Club work, under Chapter 707 of the Acts of 1914.
Art. 13. Voted, to raise and appropriate the sum of $350 to extend the sewer up Chapel street and the Mountain road.
Art. 14. Voted, to instruct the Assessors to publish a Valuation List for the year 1919.
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