TOWN OF ANDOVER ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Receipts and Expenditures ««II1IUUUI«SV FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JANUARY 13, 1913 ANDOVER, MASS. THE ANDOVER PRESS *9 J 3 CONTENTS Almshouse Expenses, 7i Memorial Day, 58 Personal Property at, 7i Memorial Hall Trustees' Relief of, out 74 Report, 57, 121 Repairs on, 7i Miscellaneous, 66 Superintendent's Report, 75 Moth Suppression, 64 Animal Inspector, 86 Notes Given, Appropriations, 1912, 17 58 Art Gallery, 146 Notes Paid, 59 Assessors' Report 76 Overseers of Poor, 69 Assets, 93 Park Commissioner, 56 Auditor's Report, 105 Park Commissioners' Report 81 Board of Health, 65 Playstead, 55 Board of Public Works, Appen dix, Police, 53, 79 Sewer Maintenance, 63 Sewer Sinking Funds, 63 Printing and Stationery, 55 Water Maintenance, 62 Punchard Free School, Report Water Construction, 63 of Trustees, 101 Water Sinking Funds, 63 Repairs on old B. V. School, 68 Bonds, Redemption of, 62 Schedule of Town Property, 82 Collector's Account, 89 Schoolhouses, 29 Cornell Fund, 88 Schools, 23 County Tax, 56 School Books and Supplies, 3i Daughters of Revolution 68 Dog Tax 56 Selectmen's Report, 23 Dump, care of 58 Sidewalks, 42 Earnings Town Horses, 48 Soldiers' Relief, 74 Elm Square Improvements, 43 Snow, Removal of, 43 Fire Department, 51 77 Spring Grove Cemetery, 57, 87 Haggett's Pond Land, 68 State Aid, 74 Hay Scales, 58 State Tax, 55 Highways and Bridges, 33 Street Lighting, 50 Highway Surveyor, 46 Street List, 109 Horses and Drivers, 4i Town House, 54 Insurance, 63 Town Meeting, 7 Interest on Notes and Funds, 59 Town Officers, Liabilities, ior 4, 49 Town Warrant, 117 Librarian's Report, 125 Account, Macadam, 35 Treasurer's 93 Andover Street, 37 Tree Warden, 50 Salem Street, 39 Report, 85 TOWN OFFICERS, 1912 Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor HARRY M. EAMES, Chairman, Term-expires 1914 " " CHARLES BOWMAN 1915 " « WALTER S. DONALD, Secretary, 1913 Town Clerk GEORGE A. HIGGINS Tax Collector JOHN W. BELL Town Treasurer GEORGE A. HIGGINS School Committee *CHARLES G. WILLARD and JOHN C. ANGUS Term expires 1913 y> n ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL 1913 u a THOMAS E. RHODES 1913 (( a ALFRED E. STEARNS 1913 it n GEORGE A. CHRISTIE 1914 GRANVILLE K. CUTLER t tt 1914 t tt EDWARD C. CONROY 1914 t tt BARTLETT H. HAYES 1915 t a HENRY A. BODWELL 1915 Superintendent of Schools GEORGE M. BEMIS Board of Public Works and Sinking Fund Commission WILLIS B. HODGKINS Term expires 1914 " JAMES C. SAWYER " 1914 " JOHN W. BELL " 1913 " LEWIS T. HARDY " 1913 " ANDREW McTERNEN " 1915 ^Resigned 3 Superintendent of Public Works FRANK L. COLE Engineers of Fire Department LEWIS T. HARDY, Chief WALTER I. MORSE, Clerk ALLAN SIMPSON Park Commissioners MYRON E. GUTTERSON Term expires 1914 FRED S. BOUTWELL 1913 COLVER J. STONE " 1915 Highway Surveyor FRANK M. SMITH Term expires 1913 Board of Health BANCROFT T. HAYNES Term expires 1914 JOHN A. LEITCH, M. D. " 1915 CHARLES E. ABBOTT, M. D. 1913 Chief of Police GEORGE W. MEARS, Appointed Constables JOHN H. CLINTON Term expires 191 GEORGE W. MEARS " 1913 LLEWELLYN D. POMEROY " 1913 Trustees of Memorial Hall Library GEORGE F. SMITH Term expires 1915 CHARLES C. CARPENTER tt tt 1914 ft ft FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL 1913 ALFRED E. STEARNS tt tt 1916 tt tt BURTON S. FLAGG 1917 E. KENDALL JENKINS tt tt 1918 JOHN ALDEN tt tt 1919 5 Trustees of Punchard Free School — Terms expire 1913 SAMUEL H. BOUTWELL HARRY H. NOYES MYRON E. GUTTERSON HARRY M. EAMES FRANK T. CARLTON Auditors JOHN S. ROBERTSON WALTER H. COLEMAN NESBIT G. GLEASON Trustee of Cornell Fund JOSEPH A. SMART and " " JOHN C. ANGUS . 1913 " " ALLAN SIMPSON 1913 " " FRANK E. GLEASON 1915 Tree Warden JOHN H. PLAYDON Moderator of Town Meetings HARRY A. RAMSDELL Deceased TOWN MEETINGS Annual Town Meeting, March 4, 1912 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ESSEX, SS.: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover. Greeting : In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town House, in said Andover, on Monday, March 4th, 1912, at 6 o'clock a.m., to act on the following articles. Article 1.—To choose 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, one member of the Board of Health for three years, three members of the School Committee for three years, one Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years, one Park Commissioner for three years, one member of the Board of Public Works for three years, one Tree Warden for one year, three Auditors of Accounts for one year, three Constables for one year, one Highway Surveyor for one year, one Trustee of Cornell Fund for three years, seven members of Spring Grove Cemetery for three years, Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, Surveyors of Lumber, Pound Keeper, and any other officers the town may determine to choose. Article 2.—To take action on the following question, " Shall License be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this " town ? Article 3.—To determine what sums of money shall be appro- priated for Schools, Schoolhouses, School Books and Supplies, Highways and Bridges, Macadamized Roads, Sidewalks, Re- moving Snow, Horses and Drivers, Street Lighting, Town Officers, Police, Public Works (Maintenance, Construction and Sinking Funds), Fire Department (Maintenance and Fire Alarm), Town House, Almshouse Expenses, Repairs on Almshouse, Relief out of Almshouse, Soldiers' Relief, State Aid, State Tax, County Tax, Interest on Bonds, Funds and Notes, Redemption of Water Bonds and Schoolhouse Bonds, Printing and Stationery, Mis- cellaneous, Memorial Day, Insurance, Spring Grove Cemetery, Park Commissioners, Hay Scales, Tree Warden, Moth Work, Public Dump, Memorial Hall Library, and other town charges and expenses. Article 4.—To see if the town will vote to authorize the issue of serial bonds to an amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars for the purpose of renewing or refunding certain indebtedness of the town, on petition of the Board of Selectmen. Article 5.—To see if the town will vote to establish a Branch of Memorial Hall Library in Ballardvale and appropriate a sum of money therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Trustees of Memorial Hall, on the petition of Daniel H. Poor and others. Article 6.—To see if the town will appropriate the sum of twenty-five ($25) dollars to make any necessary repairs on the markers placed upon Revolutionary soldiers' graves. Article 7.—To see if the town will vote to discontinue about 150 feet of Prospect Hill Road in front of the house of William H. Higgins, the same to be replaced by a new piece of road running by the rear of the house, the change to be made at the expense of Mr. Higgins and to the satisfaction of the Highway Surveyor, on petition of William H. Higgins and others 8 Article 8.—To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money sufficient to paint and make necessary repairs on the old schoolhouse in Ballard Vale, on petition of William Shaw and others. Article 9.—To see if the town will vote to lay out, accept, and make passable a street commencing at the southerly end of High Street, Ballard Vale, at a point near the Catholic Church and running in a southerly direction to a point on River Street, Ballard Vale, south of land owned by William F. Quinn of Beverly, Mass.; in all a distance of about one-eighth of a mile more or less, on petition of Chas. W. Richardson and others. Article 10.—To see if the town will vote to continue the repairs on Salem Street and appropriate the sum of two thousand (2000) dollars therefor, on petition of John B. Jenkins and others. Article 1 1.—To see if the town will vote to macadam that part of Andover Street between Abbott bridge on the B. & M. R. R., and residence of T. A. Matthews in Ballard Vale, and appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars therefor, on petition of Joseph T. Lovejoy and others. Article 12.—To see if the town will authorize the Board of Fire Engineers to sell the J. P. Bradlee fire engine and the old hand tub, the proceeds to be turned into the Town Treasury, on petition of the Board of Engineers. Article 13.—To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Works to purchase the strip of land on the northwesterly side of Haggett's Pond, now owned by the Boston Ice Co., payment of same, if purchased, to be taken from the water receipts, on petition of the Board of Public Works. Article 14.—To see if the town will vote to extend the water from the residence of Horace E. Dyer to the residence of Samuel Thomes (about 1400 ft.), on petition of H. E. Dyer and others. Article 15.—To see if the town will vote to establish and maintain electric lights between Ballard Vale Road and Carter's Corner, on petition of Henry E. Gould and others. Article 16.—To see if the town will vote to establish and maintain three electric lights on Holt Street, one opposite Geo. A. Stewart's, one at the junction of Holt Road and Bancroft Road, one at the junction of Holt and Stinson Streets, on petition of George Dumont and others.