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LOWER MERION – Lower Merion officials say they’ve recently found a small collection of 90-year-old township financial records and made them available for public viewing.
The newly discovered records give a glimpse of Depression-era township finances.
The records are from 1933, and township officials have digitized them and made them available on its website.
“Recently, when going through our office, we discovered auditor and financial reports from 1933,” said Eric Traub, director of finance for Lower Merion.
Township officials digitized the 90-year-old documents and made them accessible on the township’s website.
According to Traub, the documents give a glimpse of Lower Merion’s financial status during the early 1930s.
According to some of the highlights in the reports, the township collected nearly $9,000 in beer license revenue in 1933. Prohibition was repealed on Dec. 5, 1933.
The Lower Merion Health Board was responsible for milk control in the township and neighboring areas.
The township also paid on bonds for the 1925 construction of the township administrative building.
In 1933, Lower Merion had only five volunteer fire companies, each receiving $6,000 from the township. The Gladwyne Fire Company did not form until 1944.
The township spent a total of $8,500 to support the township’s five libraries that existed in 1933. There was no Belmont Hills Library in 1933.
“You can look through there and find other interesting facts,” Traub said.
Links to the documents can be found at www.lowermerion.org/departments/finance-department/financial-transparency.
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