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Number of Pupils in the Several High and Trade Schools Five-Year Period, 1934-1939
(As of December in each year)
Junior Classical High Technical Ludlow Palmer
High High School
High
High
High Trade
School School Commerce School School School
School Total
1934
35
13
22
46
8
39
163
1935
48
14
22
40
7
52
183
1936
52
14
23
39
2
7
40
177
1937
53
13
28
29
2
9
44
178
1938
51
15
30
30
3
10
54
193
1939
38
16
36
35
3
8
55
191
years
Total
99
Elementary School Graduates, June, 1939
George A. Backus
Zelva June Barber
Walter Moroz Edward Peczka Stanley Podgurski
Alfred Sumner Beane
Henry Harold Boyer
Julia Marjorie Porteri
John Howard Calkins
Wanda Chmura
John S. Presz Shirley-Ann Reuter
Rosanna Esther Collette
William T. Riddle
Raymond Francis Dahlgren
Alfred Rodriques
Silvio Gendron, Jr.
Janet Elizabeth Rogers
Evelyn Harrington
Jemima Sneddon
Doris May Herter
Helen Agnes Taylor
Malcolm Dayton Johnson
John Herbert Tupper
Helen Kowalczyk
Ralph E. Tupper, Jr. James Belcher Van Wart
Alice Menard
Kenneth James Wheaton
High and Trade School Honor Roll, 1939
Walter Bak
Sophie Boryczka
Doryce Bower Elva Bower
Josephine Pasierb Donald Phillips Clara Porteri Julia Porteri
Gordon Brady
Richard Preston
Gladys Brosch
Stephen Presz Lillian Rex
Shirley Butler
*Emma Rice Alvin Richmond Myrtie Riddle Thelma Rivers Janet Rogers Lynford Samble
*Richard Childerhose Mitchell Chmura Thaddeus Ciesla Roy Collins Mildred Cote Valeta Cutting Julia Cwieka Stanley Dabrowski Mary DePinto Nicholas DePinto Richard Dibble Audrey Edson Merle Farr Rosemary Flannery
Margaret Singleton Thaddeus Skrzyniarz Stanley Soja Jerome Stedman Marylis Stedman Mary-Lou Strasburg Michael Swedt
Helen Swiatek John Swiatek
George King
Nina Moroz
Jane Brosch
100
Millie Galas Marjorie Goodenow Terry Griffin Marcella Hagman
Teddy Szcepanik Genevieve Szczygiel Roger Tiffany
Evelyn Harrington
Jennie Tupek Claire Tupper
Leonard Harrington
Emily Ukleja
Doris Herter
James Van Wart
Lloyd Hoover
Mitchell Walch
Thaddeus Jachym
Patricia Walker
Josephine Koslovski
Lucille Whiting
Stella Kret
Genevieve Witowska
Stella Nowak
Mitchell Wozniak
Anna Olczewska
Emeric Wyzik
Jennie Opalinska
Julia Zawrotney
Helen Orszulak
*Three-year honor students, Technical High School.
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School Directory, January 1, 1940 Superintendent of Schools
Burr F. Jones, Residence, North Main St., East Longmeadow Office, Town Hall, East Longmeadow
Superintendent's Secretary
Emily O. Cormier, White Avenue, East Longmeadow
Teachers
The Pines School
Mrs. Agnes I. Simmington, Principal,No.Wilbraham Grades 7-8 Helen S. Kochanek, 39 Ludlow Ave., Indian Orchard Grades 7-8 Marion E. Kelley, North Wilbraham Grades 7-8
Mrs. Esther L. Johnson, 8 Randall Pl., Springfield Grades 5-8 Mrs. Liane S. Fontaine, 19 Knox St., Palmer Grades 3-4
Marion L. Holland, 218 Pearl St., Springfield Grades 1-2
Springfield Street School
Mrs. Milicent G. Green, Principal, Wilbraham Grades 5-6
Mrs. Mildred P. Daniels, 125 Magazine St., Spfld. Grades 3-4
Katherine A. Hart, 6% Rochelle St., Springfield Grades 1-2
North Wilbraham School
Mrs. Mary G. Logan, Principal, North Wilbraham Grades 5-6 Mrs. Ruth G. Sullivan, 57 Woods Ave., Holyoke Grades 3-4
Mrs. Minnie M. Sanderson, North Wilbraham Grades 1-2
Janitors The Pines School
Charles Lapine, 98 Stony Hill Rd. Wilbraham, (P.O. Address, Ludlow)
Springfield Street and North Wilbraham Schools
Henry Hyde, Wilbraham Supervisor of Art Mrs. Helen B. Tower, Allen St., Hampden, (P. O. Address, East Longmeadow)
Supervisor of Music
Mrs. Ethel C. Morse, 244 Pearl Street, Springfield School Physician
Dr. A. L. Damon, North Wilbraham School Nurse Signe L. Polson, 36 Summit Street, Springfield School Dentist
Dr. Irving P. Dinneen, 162 Main Street, Indian Orchard
Supervisor of Attendance
Charles Lapine, 98 Stony Hill Rd., Wilbraham, (P. O. Address,
Ludlow)
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Town Warrant COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
HAMPDEN, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Wilbraham in the County of Hampden.
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wilbraham qualified to vote in town affairs to meet in Grange Hall in said town on Monday, the fifth day of Feb- ruary next at 9 o'clock A. M. to bring in their votes for town officers and act on the following articles. The polls will open at 9 A. M. and may be closed at six o'clock P. M. All business of said meeting and election of town officers except the election of such officers and the determination of such matters as by law are required to be elected or determined by ballot shall be considered after ten o'clock A. M.
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside in said meeting.
Article 2. To choose a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, and Tree Warden for the ensuing year; one Selectman for three years who shall be a member of the Board of Public Welfare; one Assessor for three years; five Constables; one Auditor for the ensuing year; one School Committee for three years; Town Collector for the ensuing year; one Cemetery Commissioner for three years; one member of the Water Com- missioners for three years; one member of the Water Commis- sioners for one year; one Library Trustee for three years; two members of the Planning Board for three years; one member of the Planning Board for two years; one member of the Plann- ing Board for one year. All on one ballot. Also all other town officers.
Article 3. To hear and act on reports of the Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer, School Committee and other officers.
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Article 4. To fix the compensation of all elected Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Article 5. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for defraying the expenses of the Town for the en- suing year and appropriate the same and vote how the same shall be raised.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money from time to time in anticiption of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1940 and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following cemetery trust funds left to the Town since the last annual meeting; John W. Baldwin, one Trust Fund of $200.00, Adams Cemetery, one Trust Fund of $200.00 Glendale Cem- etery; Fred W. Green one Trust Fund of $100.00, East Wil- braham Cemetery, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to prosecute any person selling or transporting intoxicating liquors in this Town contrary to the laws of the Common- wealth, or take any action in regard to the same, or raise any money for the same.
Article 9. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Tax of 1939. 757
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended under the direc- tion of the Selectmen for necessary costs of materials and trucking on the local Works Progress Administration projects or on local projects operated under the successor, if any, of the Works Progress Administration, or take any action upon same.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the maintenance of Chapter
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90 Roads, provided the State and County contribute toward the same, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90, General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to institute or defend suits and employ counsel for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Town and to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for same, or take any action thereon.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Seventy-Five Dollars ($75.00) for the observance of Memorial Day, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the care of Parks at Wilbraham, North Wilbraham and Glendale, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) to be expended in the Town by the Hampden County Trustees for Aid to Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Laws of the Commonwealth, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the Town, fourteen days at least before sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure pro- vided that the Selectmen, or whomsoever they authorize to hold such public auction, may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) to be expended by the Safety Committee, with the approval of the Selectmen, in accordance with Laws of the Commonwealth, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used to protect the school children from traffic hazards, or take any action relative thereto.
50
700
1,000
75
2.20
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Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars($250.00) or any sum to be expended in the so called follow up work arising from the Well Child Conference, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to have the water mains on Stony Hill Road extended from its present terminus, south of the Wilbraham Country Club, to Tinkham Road, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to defray the cost of same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to re-establish street lights on Glendale Road, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of maintaining a street light on the south side of Boston Road just east of the residence of George E. Northup, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the restoration of street lights along Tinkham Road between Main Street and Stony Hill Road, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow as a town way as laid out by the Selectmen, that section of Pomeroy Street beginning at the termination of the portion of Pomeroy Street which is now an existing public way and near the residence of Clara Strasburg and extending approximately one hundred and fifty feet (150) easterly to the eastern boundary of lots owned by Howard Cutting, said way being fifty feet in width throughout its entire length. Said way being now laid out over land now or formerly belonging to the heirs and devisees of Metille Brooks, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of surface treating
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Ripley Street and Pomeroy Street as far as they have been accepted as public streets in the Town of Wilbraham, or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 26. To see if the Town will assume liability in the manner provided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws and Chapter 513 of the Acts of 1939, for all damages that may be incurred by work to be performed by the Depart- ment of Public Works of Massachusetts in rivers and streams of the town, in accordance with the provisions of said Chapter 513, and authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the authority granted the town treasurer or Selectmen from further borrowing under the provisions of the vote taken in regard to the laying of water pipe on the new bridge over the Chicopee River, granted at the Annual Meeting on February 7, 1938, or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) more or less for the purpose of building sidewalks on the easterly and westerly side of Weston Street from the intersection of Stony Hill. The above sum to be used for the purchase of materials and the work to be done as a W. P. A. project.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise the salary of the Town Collector to the sum of $1,200.00 a year.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to have the Town Collector elected for a period of three years instead of annually.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to have the road surveyor elected annually at a salary of $2,000 a year.
Article 32. To transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting.
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And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one at the Post Office at Wilbraham, one at the Post Office at North Wilbraham and one at Glendale Church, seven days at least, before the time for holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the time for holding said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-third day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty.
GEORGE E. MURPHY, JR., WM. H. McGUIRE, ALBERT L. MARTIN, Selectmen of Wilbraham.
ANKER PRINTING CO. c Po. HOLYOKE. MASS.
Table of Contents
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Assessors Report
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Auditors Report.
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Barn and Animal Report .
Building Inspectors Report .
Balance Sheet.
Contagious Diseases.
Contingent . Care of Parks.
Cemetery Commissioners
Dental Clinic.
Dependent Child Aid
Dog Officers Report
Finance Committee Report .
Fire Department Report.
Forest Warden Report
Gypsy Moth Report .
Green-Towne Bridge.
Hampden County Improvement League.
Insurance and Bonding.
Legal Advice.
Liquor Law Enforcement
Library Trustees Report
Memorial Day Report
Memoriam ..
Milk Inspectors Report
Old Age Assistance.
Police Department.
Public Welfare Report .
Registrars Report.
Soldiers' Relief .
State Auditor's Report .
Street Lights.
Safety Committee Report :
School Committee Report.
School Nurse Report. .
School Physician Report.
School Statistics Report .
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Selectmen's Report .
Summary
Superintendent of Schools Report .
Superintendent of Streets Report.
Tax Collector's Report .
Temporary Aid.
Town Clerks Report .
Town Meeting and Special Town Meeting .
Town Officers .
Town Officers Expense
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Town Warrant . .
Treasurer's Report. .
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Tree Warden's Report.
Trust Funds Report.
Visiting Nurse Association. . . 31 Water Commissioners Report . 61 28 . . . .
Works Progress Administration
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Town of Wilbraham
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Elected Town Officers-1940
AND DATE OF EXPIRATION OF TERMS
Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare WVM. H. McGUIRE, Chairman, 1941 ALBERT L. MARTIN, 1942 GEORGE F. MURPHY, JR., 1943
Assessors
HENRY I. EDSON, Chairman, 1941 E. RAY PFASE, 1942 CHARLES W. VINTON, 1943
School Committee HORACE J. RICE, 1941 H. W. CUTLER, 1942 MRS. MARY S. MERRICK, 1943
Town Collector FRANK B. DOBEK, 1941
Treasurer WALTER F. BERRY, 1941
Town Clerk MRS. JENNIE T. ABBOTT, 1941
Auditor WILLIAM E. PORTER, 1941
Cemetery Commissioners
ARTHUR E. DIBBLE, 1941 HENRY I. FDSON, 1942 ADELBERT J. BROOKS, 1943
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Water Commissioners
GERALD B. OWENS, 1941 HOWARD F. CALKINS, 1942 GEORGE F. NORTHUP, 1943
Trustees of Public Library H. W. CUTLER, 1941 MRS. MARY R. GRFFN, 1942 DR. A. I .. DAMON, Chairman, 1943
Tree Warden FRNEST M. HAYN, 1941
Constables ERNEST L. BACON, 1941 WILLIAM E. DAY, 1941 AUGUSTUS F. FRIEND, 1941
EVERETT P. PICKENS, 1941 JOHN B. TUPPER, 1941
Planning Board WALTER F. LAUFFERT, 1941 CARL NELSON, 1942, Resigned RAY PALMER, 1943 HERBERT F. SWETLAND, 1943 A. I. MACDONALD, 1942
Officers Appointed by Selectmen
Town Counsel ERNEST E. HOBSON, 1941
Clerk and Visitor for Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare
HELEN C. BODEN, 1941
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Bookkeeper for Selectmen E. G. BURBANK, 1941
Superintendent of Streets FRED C. PHELPS, 1941
Financial Committee
WINTHROP E. BELL, 1941 LEON A. JEWELL, 1941
J. LORING BROOKS, JR., 1941 JOHN J. LYONS, 1941
FRANK N. BODEN, 1941 CARL NELSON, 1941
IRVING J. CORDNER, 1941 LEE W. RICE, 1941, deceased
Board of Fire Commissioners WESLEY G. CHAPMAN, 1941 JAMES T. FITZGERALD, 1941, Resigned DAVID J. MUIR, 1941
Forest Warden JERRY DONOHUE, 1941
Sealer of Weights and Measures CHARLES W. VINTON, 1941
Building Inspector GEORGE HERTER, 1941
Inspector of Provisions, Slaughtering and Cattle Inspector of Milk JAMES M. PICKENS, 1941
Gypsy Moth Superintendent E. RAY PEASE, 1941
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Registrars of Voters
MRS. JENNIE T. ABBOTT, Clerk (Fx-officio), 1941 WILLIAM L. DEMPSEY, 1941 JOHN F. BALDWIN, Resigned, 1941 JAMES F. KEEFF, 1942, Resigned HAROLD R. PORTER, 1943 JOHN J. POWERS, 19+2
Fence Viewers HAROLD W. BROWN, 1941 WILLIAM L. DEMPSEY, 1941 JOHN J. LYONS, 1941
Dog Officer JOHN B. TUPPER, 1941
Wilbraham Civilian Committee for Defense J. LORING BROOKS, JR., Chairman Appointed by His Excellency, the Governor
CARROLL J. ENEMARK FREDERICK B. RFIDY
ALBERT L. MARTIN RALPH S. STEDMAN
HAROLD J. MURPHY JOHN B. TUPPER EDWARD RACIBORSKI
In Memoriam
BENJAMIN B. GREEN Former Cemetery Commissioner LEE W. RICE Former Cemetery Commissioner; Member Financial Committee
ERNEST L. THOMPSON Former Member Board of Selectmen
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Report of Annual Town Meeting
February 5, 1940
Article 1. Dr. Frederic T. Steele was elected Moderator.
Article 2. Minor officers elected :
Pound Keeper James M. Pickens
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Measurers of Wood and Charcoal
Walter Clark
Robert M. Welch
Surveyors of Lumber
Walter Clark
J. Wilbur Rice
Field Drivers
Harold M. Brown
John B. Tupper
James M. Pickens
Weighers of Grain
Ralph Bennett Henry Clark
Article 3. Voted to accept the reports of Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer, School Committee and other officers as printed.
Article 4. Voted that the compensation of elected officers be the same as last year.
Article 5. Voted the following appropriations:
Public Welfare $12,000.00
Old Age Assistance
12,000.00
Aid for Dependent Children
1,000.00
Board of Health Appropriation
4,000.00
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Schools, Trade School Tuition and all Transpor- tation $63,200.00
School Bonds and Interest
3,120.00
Water Bonds and Interest
5,040.00
Water Notes and Interest
3,337.00
Water Board Appropriation
3,500.00
Town Officers' Salaries
5,800.00
Street Lights
2,500.00
Library
1,000.00
Hydrants
2,190.00
Miscellaneous Highways, Snow Removal
1,400.00
Highways, Chapter 81
6,600.00
Fire Department
3,000.00
Cemeteries
500.00
County Tuberculosis Hospital
437.50
Dental Clinic
600.00
Americanization Class
375.00
Insurance and Bonding
800.00
Interest
300.00
Police
300.00
Soldiers' Relief
1,200.00
State Aid
100.00
Road Machinery Account
300.00
Printing Town Reports
265.25
Town Clerk's Expenses
60.00
Town Treasurer's Fxpenses
350.00
Town Collector's Expense
400.00
Registrars' Expense
75.00
Assessors' Expense
100.00
Building Inspector's Expense
10.00
Contingent Appropriation
700.00
Forest Warden's Appropriation
100.00
Tree Warden's Appropriation
250.00
Office Rent
144.00
Care of Parks
225.00
Liquor Law Enforcement
300.00
W. P. A. Projects
1,000.00
Highways, Chap. 90
700.00
Legal Claims
1,000.00
Memorial Day
75.00
County Aid to Agriculture
75.00
Safety Committee
50.00
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Protection of School Children
$600.00
Well Child Conference
300.00
Lights on Glendale and Bostor Roads
96.25
96.25
Lights on Tinkham Road Surfacing Ripley and Pomeroy Streets Grading Pines School Grounds Reserve Fund
300.00
200.00
4,894.00
Gipsy Moth
500.00
$147,465.75
Article 6. 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 current financial year beginning January 1, 1940, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, and to renew any notes or note that may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Chapter 44, Section 17, General Laws.
Article 7. Voted to accept the following Cemetery Trust Funds left to the town since the last Annual Meeting: John W. Baldwin one Trust Fund of $200., Adams Cemetery; one Trust Fund $200., Glendale Cemetery; Fred W. Green one Trust Fund $100., East Wilbraham Cemetery.
Article 8. Voted to instruct the Selectmen to prosecute any person selling or transporting intoxicating liquors in the town, contrary to the laws of the Commonwealth: and to raise and appropriate $300.00 for same.
Article 9. Voted that the Dog Tax of 1939 be given to the Library.
Article 10. Voted to raise and appropriate $1,000.00 to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen for necessary costs of materials and trucking on the local W. P. A. projects or on local projects operated under the successor if any of the W. P. A.
Article 11. Voted to raise and appropriate $700.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90 roads, provided the State and
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County contribute toward the same in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 90, General Laws.
Article 12. Voted to instruct the Selectmen to institute or defend suits and employ counsel for the purpose of protecting. the interests of the town, and to raise and appropriate $1,000.00 for the same.
Article 13. Voted to raise and appropriate $75.00 for the observance of Memorial Day.
Article 14. Voted to raise and appropriate $225.00 for the care of Parks at Wilbraham, North Wilbraham and Glen- dale.
Article 15. Voted to raise and appropriate $75.00 to be expended in the town by the Hampden County Trustees for Agriculture, in accordance with the provisions of the laws of the Commonwealth.
Article 16. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town fourteen days at least before sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure provided that the Selectmen, or whomsoever they authorize to hold such public auction, may reject any bid which they deem inadequate.
Article 17. Voted to raise and appropriate $50.00 to be expended by the Safety Committee with the approval of the Selectmen, in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth.
Article 18. Voted to raise and appropriate $600.00 to be used to protect the school children from traffic hazards.
Article 19. Voted to raise and appropriate $300.00 to be expended in the so-called follow up work arising from the Well Child Conference.
Article 20. Voted not to extend the water mains on Stony Hill Road.
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Article 21. Voted to re-establish four street lights on Glendale Road.
Article 22. Voted to maintain one street light on the south side of Boston Road just east of the residence of George E. Northup. Voted to raise and appropriate $96.25 for the street lights in Articles 21 and 22.
Article 23. Voted to raise and appropriate $96.25 for the restoration of street lights on Tinkham Road between Main Street and Stony Hill Road.
Article 24. Voted to accept and allow as a town way as laid out by the Selectmen, that section of Pomeroy Street beginning at the termination of the portion of Pomeroy Street which is now an existing public way and near the residence of Clara Strasburg and extending approximately one hundred and fifty feet easterly to the eastern boundary of lots owned by Howard Cutting, said way being fifty feet in width throughout its entire length, said way being now laid out over land now or formerly belonging to the heirs and devises of Metelle Brooks.
Article 25. Voted to raise and appropriate $300.00 for the purpose of surface treating Ripley Street and Pomeroy Street as far as they have been accepted as public streets.
Article 26. Voted to assume liability in the manner pro- vided by Chapter 91, Section 29, General Laws and Chapter 513 of the Acts of 1939, for all damages that may be incurred by work to be performed by the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts in rivers and streams of the town, in ac- cordance with the provisions of said Chapter 513, and to authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth.
Article 27. Voted to rescind the authority granted the Town Treasurer or Selectmen from further borrowing under the provisions of the vote taken in regard to the laying of water pipe on the new bridge over the Chicopee River, granted at the annual meeting February 7, 1939.
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