Municipal Improvements – Palmyra ME

Description

1930 population 887

1934
SUMMER ROADS
Town share $116.80 E.R.A. employed 4 men spreading gravel.
E.R.A. employed a nurse for the town.

1935
Report of the School Superintendent
“Through the efforts of the Selectmen a WPA project for the improvement of public buildings was obtained and work started the first of December. The expense for labor has been borne by the federal government. The town has paid for the material used. According to the agreement the school department agreed to use the balance in its repair account for this purpose and the Selectmen were to provide the additional funds needed.
Under this project the Gale, Ell, Adams, Egypt and Village school buildings have been completely redecorated on the interior, the walls and ceilings being painted and the furniture refinished. The Gale and Carr school houses have been re-shingled and the west side of the Village building. The chimneys at the Gale and Village were topped out and the stoves at the Gale and Ell repaired as well as numerous other minor repairs at nearly all of the schools.
This work has necessitated the temporary closing of several of the schools and some inconvenience but has resulted in a large amount of much needed work being done at a relatively small expense to the town.”

1936
G. W. Sherman, moving W. P. A.$4.00
Asa Ladd, account W. P. A. 10 00
A. R. Burton & Son, material for W. P. A. on Indian Stream bridge $14 08
F. L. Griffith, supplies for W. P. A. 18 05
B. F. Bacon, gravel for W. P. A. 21 75
L. W. Estes, gravel for W. P. A. 27 75
R. R. French, gravel for W. P. A. 2 40
F. N. Raymond, gravel for W. P. A. 70 05
Fern Cunningham, work for W. P. A. 1 25
Richard Robinson, lights on Indian Stream bridge, W. P. A. $3.00
A. R. Burton & Son, acct. Indian Stream bridge, W. P. A. 4.44
A. R. Burton & Son, acct. W. P.A. on Town House 13 17
A. R. Burton & Son, acct. W. P. A. 23 60
Lena Davis, stumpage to W. P. A. 3 85