Annual Report of the Town of Andover
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TOWN OF ANDOVER ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Receipts and Expenditures FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1922 ANDOVER, MASS. THE ANDOVER PRESS 1923 CONTENTS Almshouse Expenses 63 Memorial Day 56 New Almshouse 65 Memorial Hall Library 56, 130 Relief out of 66 Military Aid 64 Aiding Mothers 66 Miscellaneous 60 Andover Post No. 8 58 Moth Superintendent's Report 70 Animal Inspector 75 Moth Suppression 51 Appropriations, 1922 18 Notes Given 58 Art Gallery 152 Notes Paid 58 Assessors' Report 68 Overseers of the Poor 62 Assets 99 Police 48,71 Auditors' Report 102 Printing and Stationery 50 Board of Health 49,88 Punchard Free School, Report of Board of Public Works Appendix Trustees 103 Sewer Sinking Funds 55 Retirement of Veterans 57 Water Sinking Funds 55 Schedule of Town Property 77 Bonds, Redemption of 58 Schools 40 Brush Fires 47 Selectmen's Report 40 Building Inspector's Report 76 Soldiers' Memorial 59 Collector's Account 85 Soldiers' Relief 64 Cornell Fund 86 Spring Grove Cemetery 52,73 County Tax 55 State Aid 64 Dog Tax 56 State and Highway Tax 55 Dump, Care of 57 Street Lighting 54 Fire Department 46, 87 Tax Collector 84 Finance Committee 121 Town House 44 G. A. R. Post 99 56 Town Meeting 13 Hay Scales 54 Town Meetings, special 27 , 31, 36 Insurance 54 Town Officers 4,42 Interest 57 Town Warrant 117 Jury List 81 Treasurer's Report 94 Liabilities 94 Tree Warden 51,69 Librarian's Report 135 War Memorial Committee 106 TOWN OFFICERS 1922 Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor WALTER S. DONALD, Chairman Term expires 1923 CHARLES BOWMAN " 1924 ANDREW McTERNEN, Secretary " 1925 Assessors WALTER S. DONALD, Chairman Term expires 1925 CHARLES BOWMAN " 1924 ANDREW McTERNEN, Secretary 11 1925 Town Clerk GEORGE A. HIGGINS Town Treasurer GEORGE A. HIGGINS Tax Collector WILLIAM B. CHEEVER School Committee FREDERICK E. CHEEVER Term expires 1923 n n EDWARD C. CONROY 1923 n << ALFRED E. STEARNS 1923 it a EVERETT C. HILTON 1924 u MARY W. FRENCH u 1924 DAVID R. LAWSON it it 1924 ROY H. BRADFORD it (( 1925 DOUGLAS G. CRAWFORD it it 1925 a n W. DUDLEY YATES 1925 Superintendent of Schools HENRY C. SANBORN Board of Public Works and Sinking Fund Commission THOMAS E. RHODES Term expires 1923 PHILIP L. HARDY 1924 WILLIAM D. McINTYRE 1924 ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL 1925 EDWARD SHATTUCK 1925 Superintendent of Water, Sewer Department, Highways and Parks FRANK L. COLE Engineers of Fire Department CHARLES F. EMERSON, Chief LLEWELLYN D. POMEROY, Clerk HARRY E. WELLS Board of Health BANCROFT T. HAYNES Term expires 1923 FRANKLIN H. STACEY " 1924 CHARLES E. ABBOTT, M.D. " 1925 Chief of Police FRANK M. SMITH Constables GEORGE W. MEARS Term expires 1923 FRANK M. SMITH " 1923 GEORGE N. SPARKS " 1923 Trustees of Memorial Hall Library ALFRED E. STEARNS Term expires 1923 BURTON S. FLAGG 1924 E. KENDALL JENKINS 1925 REV. FREDERICK A. WILSON 1926 FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL 1927 NATHAN C. HAMBLIN 1928 *CHARLES U. BELL 1929 Trustees of Punchard Free School — Terms expire 1925 FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL JOHN H. CAMPION MYRON E. GUTTERSON HARRY H. NOYES EDMOND E. HAMMOND Auditors JOHN S. ROBERTSON WALTER H. COLEMAN HARRY SELLARS * Deceased. 5 Trustees of Cornell Fund JOHN C. ANGUS Term expires 1923 DR. WILLIAM D. WALKER " " 1924 CHARLES N. MARLAND " " 1925 Superintendent of Moth Department EDWARD H. BERRY Tree Warden EDWARD H. BERRY Moderator of Town Meetings ALFRED L. RIPLEY Registrars of Voters SAMUEL P. HULME JOHN F. HURLEY PATRICK J. SCOTT GEORGE A. HIGGINS, Clerk Trustees Spring Grove Cemetery WALTER I. MORSE DANIEL H. POOR FRED E. CHEEVER WARREN L. JOHNSON EVERETT M. LUNDGREN DAVID R. LAWSON JOHN W. STARK Street Lighting Committee WALTER H. COLEMAN HENRY J. GARDNER FREDERIC G. MOORE JOSEPH L. BURNS FRED G. CHENEY Finance Committee HENRYA.BODWELL, Chairman GEORGE ABBOT JOHN C. ANGUS, Secretary CHESTER W. HOLLAND EDWARD V. FRENCH GEORGE H. WINSLOW GEORGE L. AVERILL TOWN WARRANT THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Essex, ss. : To either of the Constables of the Town of An- dover: Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet and assemble at the Town House in voting Precinct One and the Old School House Ballard Vale in voting Precinct Two, in said Andover, on Monday, the sixth day of March, 1922, at 6 o'clock a.m., to act on the following articles: Article 1. — To elect a Moderator for one year, Town Clerk for one year, Treasurer for one year, Collector of Taxes for one year, one member of the Board of Selectmen for three years, one member of the Board of Assessors for three years, three members of the School Committee for three years, Five Trustees of Punch- ard Free School for three years, two members of the Board of Public Works for three years, one member of the Board of Health for three years, three Auditors of accounts for one year, three Constables for one year, one Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years, one Tree Warden for one year and all town officers required by law to be elected by ballot. Also to take action on the following question, Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this town? All to be voted for on one ballot. The polls will be open from 6 o'clock a.m. to 5 o'clock p.m. After final action on the preceding article one, the said meet- ing shall stand adjourned by virtue of Section 20, Chapter 39 of the General Laws to Monday March 13th, at 1.30 o'clock p.m. at the Town Hall, then and there to act upon the following Articles, namely: Article 2. — To elect all other officers not required by law to be elected by ballot. Article 3. — To determine what sums of money shall be ap- propriated for Almshouse Expenses, Relief out of Almshouse, Aiding Mothers with Dependent Children, Board of Health, Brush Fires, Fire Department, Hay Scales, Highway Department, Insurance, Interest, Memorial Hall Library, Memorial Day, Post 99, G. A. R., Miscellaneous, Parks and Playsteads, Police, Printing and Stationery, Public Dump, Retirement of Veterans, Redemption of Water, Sewer, High School, and Shawsheen Bridge Bonds, Schools, Sewer Maintenance, Sewer Sinking Funds, Soldiers' Relief, Spring Grove Cemetery, State Aid, Street Light- ing, Town Officers, Town House, Tree Warden, Moth Depart- ment, Water Maintenance, Construction and Sinking Funds, and other town charges and expenses. Article 4. — To see if the town will approve the recommenda- tion of the Board of Public Works and vote to reconstruct the highway on Main Street from Chapel Avenue to Andover Square, with macadam pavement or other road material in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by the State Department of Public Works, Division of Highways. Also to see if the town will vote that said work of reconstruction be done by contract under the supervision of the Board of Public Works at an ex- pense not to exceed $100,000. Also to see if the town will vote that notes or bonds of the town be issued to raise funds for the payment of work undertaken under this article, payable annually in the years 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927, in conformity with Chapter 44 of the General Laws. Article 5. — To see if the Town will authorize and direct the Board of Public Works to petition the legislature for authority to issue bonds or notes, outside the statutory limit to the amount of $40,000. to be denominated on the face thereof "Andover Water Loan, Act of 1922", said loan to be for the purpose of making necessary changes in and extending the present system of water works in the town of Andover under such terms and conditions as the General Court may provide, on petition of the Board of Public Works. Article 6. — To see if the town will authorize and direct the Board of Public Works to petition the Legislature for authority to borrow $200,000. outside the statutory limit of indebtedness, by bond issue or otherwise, for the following purposes: To con- struct and maintain a pipe line, in accordance with plans ap- proved by the State Board of Health, for the purpose of disposing of the sewage of the Town of Andover, said pipe line to extend from Andover through the City of Lawrence to the Merrimack River, and to authorize the purchase or taking of land In said Andover and Lawrence necessary for said site and to award and pay damages for said purchases or takings. On petition of the Board of Public Woiks. Article 7 . — To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $15,000.00 as their share of the cost in the reconstruction of Main street by the State, through Shawsheen Village on petition of the Board of Public Works. Article 8. — To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $5,748.08 to pay the balance due on Haverhill Street Sewer on petition of the Board of Public Works. Article 9. — To hear the report of the committee on housing the inmates of the Town Farm and to see if the town will appro- priate the sum of $10,000. in addition to the $30,000. now on hand, received from the sale of the Town Farm property, for the purpose of erecting a new building and other necessary expenses. [Article 10. — To see if the town will appropriate the sum of Three thousand ($3000) dollars to purchase the property in Whittier Court, adjacent to the PI aystead, known as the Cun- ningham property, and consisting of approximately one (1) acre of land with the buildings thereon, on petition of Frederic S.