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Randolph Town Reports
1875-1890
S
TURNER JUL 2 4 1967 FREE LIBRARY RANDOLPH, MASS.
For Reference
Not to be taken
from this library
THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, AND SUPER- INTENDING SCHOOL, COMMITTEE,
OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
TOGETHER WITH
THE REPORTS OF THE ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, TREASURER AND TRUSTEES OF THE STETSON SCHOOL FUND,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1875.
8531
BOSTON: JAS. HARRIS & CO., PRINTERS, 19 SPRING LANE, 1875.
THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and Super- intending School Committee,
OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH,
TOGETHER WITH
THE REPORTS OF THE ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPART- MENT, TREASURER AND TRUSTEES OF THE STETSON SCHOOL FUND,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1875.
BOSTON: JAS. HARRIS & CO., PRINTERS, 19 SPRING LANE, 1875.
Town Officers for the Year 1874-75.
Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor.
J. WHITE BELCHER, JOHN T. FLOOD, JAMES A. TOWER.
Town Clerk and Treasurer. HIRAM C. ALDEN.
School Committee.
JONATHAN WALES, TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 1875.
NATHANIEL HOWARD,
1876.
MICHAEL A. DONNOVAN,
66
66
1877.
Trustees of Stetson School Fund.
EPHRAIM MANN,
TERM EXPIRES MARCH 1, 1875.
SIDNEY FRENCH,
66
66
1876.
CHARLES H. HOWARD,
1877.
Auditors.
FRANK MORTON,
FRANK PORTER,
EDGAR HOWARD.
Constables.
WILLIAM H. WARREN,
JAMES FRIZZELL,
EZRA R. PAYNE,
LOUIS GORES,
HENRY H. FRANCIS.
ELEAZER BEAL,
Fence Viewers.
ADAM F. JONES,
BENJAMIN THAYER.
Engineers of the Fire Department.
WILLIAM H. WARREN, Chief Engineer.
EDWARD E. LOTHROP,
Clerk.
LEVI WILBUR.
Superintendent of Almshouse. MACE GAY.
Keeper of the Lockup. WILLIAM H. WARREN.
Collector of Taxes. HORATIO B. ALDEN.
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Representative to the General Court. E. EVERETT HOLBROOK.
MAY 1 4 1963
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
The Selectmen of the Town of Randolph herewith pre- sent their Annual Report, showing the appropriations and expenditures for the financial year ending March 1, 1875.
Appropriations by Vote of the Town.
For Schools (including $500, for Stetson High School),
$8,500.00
" Repairs on Highways, 2,500.00
" New Roads (including land damage), 1,600.00
" General Town Expenses, 10,000.00
" Fire Department,
1,800.00
66 Grand Army,
100.00
Payment on Town Debt,
5,000.00
State Tax,
3,140.00
" County Tax,
2,855.12
Total,
$35,495.12
Taxable Valuation, May 1, 1874.
Personal estate, Real estate,
$622,690.00 1,420,420.00
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Bank stock owned by residents of Ran- dolph, taxed by the State, $438,750.00
Corporation stock owned by residents of Randolph, taxed by the State, 130,000.00
Total valuation,
$2,611,860.00
Increase over 1873,
$111,755.00
Rate of taxation, $14.00 on $1,000.
Average rate of taxation through the State, $15.51 on $1,000.
Number of Polls, 1169
Number of Dwelling-houses,
728
Number of Horses, 295
Number of Cows, 227
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Estimated Value of Property owned by the Town, March 1, 1875.
Almshouse property,
$10,500.00
Town house and land,
18,000.00
Three fire-engine houses and lockup,
4,200.00
Two fire-engines, hook and ladder carriage, apparatus and fixtures,
2,125.00
One hearse,
200.00
Ten acres salt marsh,
800.00
School-house and land, District No. 1,
2,000.00
District No. 3,
1,350.00
66
District No. 5,
1,200.00
. . District No. 6,
1,650.00
District No. 8,
6,000.00
Prescott School-house and land,
15,000.00
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School-house and land, District No. 10, $5,750.00 Eight shares Randolph National Bank, 1,500.00
Stetson School Fund (par value $10,600), market value, 12,000.00
Total,
$82,275.00
The Selectmen have drawn orders on the Treasurer amounting to $26,010.84
On account of Schools (teaching, fuel, and care
of rooms), 6,828.10
66
Stetson High School, 500.00
Repairs and Incidental Expenses, 846.85
66 Repairs on Highways,
2,128.44
66
Removing Snow,
48.75
New Roads, building and widening,
2,271.29
New Road from Holbrook to
Weymouth,
1,500.00
Poor in Almshouse,
1,790.65
Poor out of Almshouse,
1,557.83
66
Poor of other Towns,
622.45
66
Poor belonging to Randolph and Holbrook,
505.87
66
State Paupers,
279.73
66
Funeral Expenses,
198,00
State Aid,
3,028.50
66
Fire Department,
1,714.74
66
Abatement on Taxes,
334.57
66
Town Officers,
1,563.58
Miscellaneous Expenses, 691.49
Total,
$26,010.84
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Expenditures for Schools.
By direction of the School Committee for the financial year ending March 1, 1875 (for items see report of the same),
Paid sundry persons for teaching,
$6,059.50
for fuel, 391.50
66 for care of rooms, 377.10
Appropriation for Stetson High School,
500.00
Miscellaneous expenses,
846.83
Total,
$8,174.95
Amount received from the State School Fund, $383.26
received Coddington Fund, 156.50
received appropriations, 8,500.00
$9,039.76
Expenditures less than appropriations and
receipts,
$864.81
Repairs on Highways and Bridges.
JACKSON BELCHER, SURVEYOR, DISTRICTS NO. 1 AND 7.
Paid Jackson Belcher, with horse and cart, 21} days, $91.00
" Patrick McMahon, with horse and cart, 42 days, 19.00
" Richard Adams, with horse and cart, 52 days, 22.50
" John Wales, with horse and cart, 34 days, 13.00
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Paid Ephraim Mann, two horses and cart, 2 days, $12.00
" Charles H. Mann, two horses and cart, 2 days, 12.00
" Ephraim Wales, with horse and cart, 1 day, 4.00
" Mace Gay, with horse and cart, 1 day,
4.00
John Gill & Sons, labor, 26 days,
52.25
Patrick McLaughlin, labor, 11} days,
22.50
" Thomas Prior & Sons, labor, 13& days,
25.00
James McMahon, labor, 1} days,
3.00
" John Desmond, labor, 124 days,
24.25
6 Simon O'Brien, labor, 1} days,
3.00
" Michael Morgan, labor, 2 days,
4.00
Mr. Blanchard, labor, 12 days,
24.00
" Mr. Sullivan, labor, 24 days,
4.50
" Thomas Brophy, labor, 154 days,
22.87
" Daniel A. Elliot, labor, 1} days, 3.00
" Jacob N. Foster, labor, 1 day,
1.75
" sundry persons, blasting rocks, ploughing, etc., 21.00
" Jackson Belcher, for 160 loads gravel,
9.60
" Ebenezer Alden, for 216 loads gravel,
10.80
" John Long, for 86 loads gravel,
6.02
" Isaac Moulton, for 127 loads gravel,
7.62
" P. McMahon, for 55 loads gravel,
3.30
" Richard Adams, for 12 loads gravel,
1.20
$427.16
ROYAL T. MANN, SURVEYOR, DISTRICT NO. 3.
Paid Royal T. Mann, labor, 11} days, $29.25
66 R. T. & E. M. Mann, with team, 7} days, 36.30
" Mace Gay, with team, 3} days, 14.00
" A. G. Swain, with team, 1 day, 4.00
.
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Paid Ephraim Mann, with team, 1} days, $8.00
" Seth Mann, with team, 1 day, 6.00
" Ellis Tucker, team drawing road-scraper, 6.00
" Delazon D. Mann, labor, 11 4-5 days,
24.35
" Jedediah French, labor, 62 days,
14.63
" Lewis Jones, labor, 7} days,
15.00
Noah Chessman, labor, 7} days,
15.00
66 Prescott E. Wilbur, labor, 8} days,
17.00
Selwyn Wilbur, labor, 8 days,
16.00
66 Jonathan Hunt, labor, 2} days, R. H. Piper, labor, 2} days,
5.00
5.00
" James Thompson, labor, 1 day,
2.00
" Edwin A. Tabor, labor, 1} days, 2.25
" L. Tabor, labor, 1} days, 2.25
sundry persons, labor, 6.88
" Ephraim Mann, for 48 loads gravel, 4.80
66 Loring Binney, for 59 loads gravel, 5.90
A. S. Niles, for 89 loads gravel, 7.53
" Edwin A. Tabor, for 47 loads gravel,
3.32
$250.46
JEDEDIAH FRENCH, SURVEYOR, DISTRICT NO. 5.
Paid Jedediah French, 9-3% days, $21.85
66 Mace Gay, labor and team, 6-8% days, 27.20
66 A. G. Swain, labor and team, 4-5 days, 18.00
Noah Chessman, labor, 7 days, 14.00
Delazon D. Mann, labor, 5} days, 11.00
Lewis Jones, labor, 62 days, 13.00
George W. Burrill, labor, 8} days, 17.60
$6 Columbus Holbrook, labor, 5 days, 10.00
" Samuel Burrill, labor, 6 days, 10.50
" John Long, for 52 loads gravel, 5.20
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Paid Amasa Clark, for 67 loads gravel, $6.70
" Martin L. Eddy, for 47 loads gravel, 4.70
" Royal S. Holbrook, for 58 loads gravel, 5.80
$165.55
CALEB TUCKER, SURVEYOR, DISTRICT NO. 6.
Paid Caleb Tucker, labor and team, 21 days, $85.00
" Caleb Tucker, labor on road, 3.00
Rufus Jones, labor with team, 9 days, 32.50
6 Rufus Jones, labor, 13 days, 26.00
6 Morris Kiley, labor with team, 2 days, 6.00
66 Morris Kiley, labor, 72 days, 15.00
John S. Abbott, labor with team, 2 days, 8.00
John S. Abbott and others, blasting rocks,
50.00
66 Thomas B. Jones, labor with team, 1 day, 3.00
66 Ellis Tucker, drawing scraper, 1716 day, 13.50
66
Adam F. Jones, labor, 7 days,
14.00
66 A. W. Jones, labor, 2 days, 4.00
66
A. H. Tucker, labor, 26,3% days,
52.60
" Lawrence Ormsby, labor, 2} days, 5.00
66 Owen Neary, labor, 1} days, 3.00
sundry persons, labor and repairing tools, 6.45
" Joseph Mann, 135 loads gravel, 6.75
$333.80
JOHN LONG, SURVEYOR, DISTRICT NO. 8.
Paid John Long, labor and team, 23 days, $72.12
" John Long, labor, 10} days, 26.25
" Ephraim Mann, labor with team, 53 days, 33.60
" Seth Mann, labor with team, 53 days, 33.60
" Josiah Clark, labor with team, 5 days, 30.00
" Mace Gay, labor with team, 11} days, 43.15
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Paid J. N. Bullock, labor with team, 1} days, $3.00
Terrence Dargan, labor with team, 4 days, 14.00
" John Desmond, labor, 151 days, 31.07
Michael Morgan, labor, 73 days,
15.20
Owen Sullivan, labor, 2 days,
4.00
Patrick Sullivan, labor, 34 days,
3.80
" Timothy M. O'Niel, labor, 16,8% days,
30.10
Patrick Wren, labor, 63 days,
13.20
Patrick Feeney, labor, 152 days,
27.92
66 William Cole, labor, 2} days,
5.00
John King, labor, 4g days,
4.80
Thomas Duff, labor, 53 days,
11.20
Florence Sullivan, labor, 53 days,
11.20
Patrick Sullivan, labor, 53 days,
11.20
66 Thomas Harty, labor, 53 days,
11.20
Simon O'Brien, labor, 7716 days,
14.20
Harry Roundsville, labor, 1} days,
1.50
Terrence Dargan, labor, 2} days,
5.00
66
Dennis Sullivan, labor, 24 days,
5.50
66 Edmund Burke, labor, 24 days,
5.50
boys, picking stones,
34.40
John Desmond, jr., labor, 6 days,
6.00
John Gill, labor, 92 days,
16.50
William Cunningham, labor, 5 days,
8.75
Frank Smith, labor, 2} days,
4.25
John Cahill, labor, 2 days,
2.75
Charles Dolan, labor, 1 day
1.00
sundry persons, labor, .
4.00
John Long, for 272 loads gravel,
23.48
" Mace Gay, for 103 loads gravel,
7.75
$577.19
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A. G. SWAIN, SURVEYOR, DISTRICT NO. 10.
Paid A. G. Swain, labor with team, 20} days, $69.65
Mace Gay, labor with team, 6776 days, 30.20
" Edwin M. Mann, labor with team, 4} days, 25.00
66 Josiah Clark, labor with team, 5 days, 30.00
" Mason Lovering, labor with team, 82 days, 35.00
66 Jedediah French, labor, 174 days,
36.56
66 Lewis Jones, labor, 132 days,
27.50
Noah Chessman, labor, 102 days,
22.68
66 Thomas Johnson, labor, 42 days,
9.00
Michael Sheridan, labor, 6} days,
12.50
B. R. Lovering, labor, ¿ day,
1.00
Leonard Thayer, labor, 4 days,
8.00
George Burrill, labor, 7 days,
14.00
Austin Roel and others, building wall,
20.25
66 sundry bills,
1.21
Charles Belcher, 395 loads gravel,
31.73
$374.28
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New Roads and Bridges.
Paid Mace Gay and others, completing road from Mt. Pleasant Square to Allen Street as laid out by Road Commissioners, $89.95
" John Long and others, widening and grad- ing Howard Street, 264.57
" Caleb Tucker and others, for building War- ren Street in part, as accepted by the Town, 825.89
" Nathaniel F. Roel and others, for building Warren Street in part, as accepted by the Town, 627.40
" N. F. Roel and others, labor on bridges, 76.23
12
Paid Edson M. Roel and others, picking stones,
$13.50
Thomas Moran, land damage, Warren Street,
15.00
" Caroline Abbott, "
66
25.00
66 Jeremiah Mahoney, «
66
18.00
" Thomas Stanton, 66
66
10.00
James Dean, 66
66
22.00
David Ahearn, 66
66
7.50
Cornelius Ahearn,
66
7.00
Hannah Buckley, 66
66
16.00
John Rieustlow, 66
6.00
66 Michael McAuliffe, “
66
5.00
66 Patrick Welch, 66
66
6.00
Patrick Donahoe, 66
66
8.00
6 Thomas Morris, 66
66
11.00
Edward McDonald,«
5.00
David Pope,
66
12.00
Daniel Denahey, 66
66
15.00
66 Daniel Kelliher,
66
4.25
6 Catharine Callahan,“
8.00
John Kane,
66
3.50
John Dooley, jr., "
66
15.00
Margaret Donahoe, "
66
7.50
66 Margaret Bennett, «
66
25.00
Hannah Harris,
66
66
8.00
66 Seth Mann, 2d, 66
66
1.00
" Peter McConety,
6.
12.00
". Richard McAuliffe, "
66
16.50
Loring Thayer,
66
8.00
Catharine Finerty, “
66
20.00
66 James Denahey, 66
66
3.00
66 John Roddan,
66
66
8.00
66 Ellen T. Du Bois, "
8.00
66 John McLean, 66
66
13.00
" Catharine Sullivan, "
66
5.00
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Paid Heirs of John Kennedy, land damage, Warren Street, $12.00
Bartholomew Kenney, land damage, War- ren Street, 7.50
$2,271.29
New Road from Holbrook to Weymouth.
Paid County of Norfolk in full payment, $1,500.00
Removing Snow.
Paid Jedediah French and others, $4.20
" John Long and others, 4.80
" Jackson Belcher and others, 10.50
" Caleb Tucker and others,
4.00
" R. T. Mann and others,
6.25
" P. A. Wales, for snow-plow,
18.00
" P. A. Wales, team drawing snow-plow,
1.00
$48.75
Supplies and Expenses for the Almshouse and Town Farm.
Paid Mace Gay, services as Warden for one year, $500.00
" T. J. Hill, groceries, 113.82
66 Briggs & Co., groceries, 177.25
R. W. Turner & Co., groceries, 87.13
" Daniel B. White & Co., groceries, 68.99
". N. E. Buck, groceries, 19.95
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Paid T. Prior, fish, $10.84
66 Josiah Clark, meat, 111.77
66 R. W. Turner & Co., coal, 188.33
J. White Belcher, grain and meal,
225.90
" N. Rosenfeld, clothing,
27.75
" L. Hofferman, clothing,
6.25
G. H. & C. Prescott, clothing,
6.23
66 Joseph McMullen, clothing,
15.77
66 Sidney French, shoes,
12.20
66 Mace Gay, supplies furnished,
17.50
William Campbell, repairs, etc.,
27.05
66 Adam F. Jones, posts,
2.00
Jesse Fenno, cow, 55.00
" Walter Cartwright, supplies, 5.00
" Town of Randolph, for salt grass, 17.25
C. A. Wales, labor and material, 10.82
" T. S. Clogston, repairs, 27.05
66 Thomas Devine, two pigs,
16.00
" P. A. Wales & Son, one pump,
16.00
" F. Porter, medicine,
3.30
" Dr. W. M. Babbitt, medical attendance, 15.00
" Heirs of Wm. Cole, pasturage,
16.00
$1,790.65
Relief of Poor out of the Almshouse.
ANN F. THAYER.
Paid Esther M. Packard, board and clothing, $100.00
EDWARD AND MARY CHESSMAN.
Paid Samuel Chessman, board, $156.00
" Dr. E. A. Allen, medical attendance, 1.00
$157.00
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STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Paid for board and clothing, Triphena Niles, $225.82
board and clothing, Levi L. Holbrook, 32.15
$257.97
MRS. WILLIAM GRADY AND FAMILY.
Paid T. J. Hill, for supplies,
$96.00
Ann Crosly, for nursing, 7.00
66 Dr. E. A. Allen, for medical attendance, 47.75
" Ralph Houghton, for coffin,
12.00
$162.75
Paid for Mrs. Michael Crowley,
$8.75
Bradford W. Sylvester,
8.00
J. W. Sylvester,
41.07
66 John Fencer and family,
102.24
66 Lysander P. Holbrook,
12.88
66 Rose Gill,
25.50
Levi Linfield,
92.75
66 Mrs. William Barry,
13.50
66 Mrs. Richard Carey,
10.50
66
Mrs. Margaret Kennedy,
21.00
66
Mrs. Philip Kenney,
20.50
66
Mrs. Hugh Roddan,
27.50
66
Mrs. Frances Holbrook,
15.00
66 Elias Cole,
3.00
66
Mrs. David McKay,
10.50
66 Mrs. James Walch,
7.00
Mrs. Gerald Farrell,
10.50
66
Mrs. James Riley,
10.50
66 sundry persons, relief,
39.42
$480.11
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Relief of Poor of other Towns.
Paid for Mrs. William Taunt, Braintree, $4.00
Mrs. J. A. Hobart, Holbrook, 8.00
Catherine Curtis, Holbrook, 75.75
66 Lucius Hollis, Holbrook,
134.97
66 Alice E. Clark, Boston,
90.58
66 Ellen M. Erskine, Abington, 7.00
Edmund Burke, Foxborough, 22.00
Nancy Swain, Quincy,
13.00
66 John Ward, Boston,
9.15
66 Jeremiah Saxton, Braintree,
100.00
66 Henrietta Woodbury, Boston, 158.00
$622.45
CR.
By cash paid Treasurer, and bills due for labor, board, and produce sold, $418.42
Net expense of supporting poor in Alms- house, 1,372.23
Total expense of supporting poor out of Alms- house, 1,157.83
Total expense in and out of the Almshouse, 2,530.06
Relief of Poor whose Military Settlement is in Randolph and Holbrook.
Paid for Ann Sloan,
$68.29
66 Mary Mullins, 21.38
66 Frederick Hill, 26.00
66 Mrs. John E. Mann, 34.50
66 Mrs. Rose Murphy, 31.00
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Paid for Mr. Albert Howard and family, $60.91
66 Mrs. Jeremiah C. Buckley, 203.04
66 Mrs. Daniel Cleary, 50.25
66 Leonard Thayer, 10.50
$505.87
State Paupers.
Paid William H. Warren, for 611 tramps com-
mitted to lockup,
$179.80
" John Holman, bedding for lockup, 47.70
" R. W. Turner & Co., supplies for lockup, 52.23
$279.73
Funeral Expenses.
Paid Ralph Houghton, attending 66 funerals at $3.00, $198.00
State Aid.
Paid sundry persons (as per account returned to the State), $3,028.50
Fire Department.
Paid sundry bills (for items see report of Engineers ), $1,714.74
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Abatements on Taxes.
Paid Edson M. Roel, Collector for 1873, $16.65
Horatio B. Alden, Collector for 1874, 317.92
$334.57
Town Officers.
Paid Solomon L. White, services as School Committee from March 1 to April 1, 1874, $25.00
" Nathaniel Howard, services as School Committee, 135.00
" Nathaniel Howard, use of horse and car- riage, 47.50
" Jonathan Wales, services as School Com- mittee, 50.00
" Michael A. Donnovan, services as School Committee, 66.00
.' Edson M. Roel, Collector of Taxes, 1873,
325.08
" J. White Belcher, services as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, including cash paid and expenses on Town business, 275.00
John T. Flood, services as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, including cash paid and expenses on Town business, 275.00
" James A. Tower. services as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, including cash paid and expenses on Town business, 275.00
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Paid William H. Warren, services as Con- stable, $25.00
" Engineers of Fire Department, for ser- vices to May 1, 1874, 65.00
$1,563.58
Miscellaneous Expenses.
Paid Jas. Harris & Co., printing 1200 Town Reports, $176.50
" Grand Army, Post 110, as per vote of Town, 100.00
" Seth Mann, 2d, clerical services for Road Commissioners, 15.00
M. R. Warren, books and stationery, 17.50
" D. N. Huxford, printing, 38.50
" Hon. J. Q. Adams, professional services, 20.00
" J. White Belcher, Insurance, 38.75
" Little, Brown & Co., General Statutes and Supplements, 7.50
" Eleazor Beal, surveying and setting bounds, and services, 14.50
" P. A. Wales & Son, repairing pump, 13.00
" A. J. Gove, express, and cash paid, 9.20
" William Campbell, varnishing and re- pairs on hearse, 20.00
" Special Police, for services July 4, 5, 6, 1874, 61.00
" D. G. Corliss, stone bounds,
7.80
" Colin Boyd, care of Selectmen's room and labor, 8.10
" John G. Poole, postage,
4.57
" George Talbot and Ellis Tucker, referees in Alden case, 8.00
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Paid Ralph Houghton, bill for repairs, $3.00
" George W. Taylor and Chas. Nichols, distributing Town Reports, 5.00
H. N. Francis, repairs on lockup, 43.61
" Rockwell & Churchill, printing, 3.00
T. Fardy & Son, repairs,
5.75
L. M. Ham and others, labor and mate- rial on lockup, 25.01
. " John B. Thayer, labor and material on lockup, 11.50
" C. A. Wales, stove and repairs, Select- men's room, 12.20
" Sundry bills, for services and repairs, 22.50
$691.49
The undersigned, Auditors of Accounts for the financial year ending March 1, 1875, have attended to the duty assigned them, and report that they have examined the books and accounts of the Selectmen, and find them cor- rectly kept and with proper vouchers.
FRANK MORTON, FRANKLIN PORTER, EDGAR HOWARD,
Auditors.
RANDOLPH, March 15, 1875.
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Almshouse Establishment.
APPRAISAL OF STOCK, FURNITURE, PROVISIONS, ETC., MARCH 1, 1875.
1 horse,
$200.00
2 cows,
80.00
8 hens,
5.00
2 pigs,
20.00
10 tons hay,
225.00
1 horse cart,
65.00
1 farm wagon,
65.00
1 sled,
3.00
3 harnesses,
25.00
1 wheelbarrow,
3.00
1 grindstone,
10.00
4 scythes and snaths,
4.00
3 rakes,
1.00
7 hay and manure forks,
5.00
7 shovels and 1 spade,
6.00
2 plows,
6.00
1 cultivator,
7.00
1 iron bar, 1 pick,
2.50
1 saw-horse,
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4 hoes,
1.25
2 axes, 2 hatchets, 1 bill-hook,
5.00
1 churn,
2.00
1 boiler,
2.00
50 bushels potatoes,
45.00
65 lbs. hard soap,
6.50
1} barrels soft soap,
9.00
2 lbs. coffee,
50
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4 lbs. chocolate, $2.00
§ bushel beans,
40
10 gallons molasses,
6.00
4 lbs. sugar,
50
14 barrels flour,
12.50
18 iron bedsteads,
100.00
16 navy blankets,
12.00
12 blue mixed blankets,
8.00
6 colored spreads,
6.00
7 feather beds,
56.00
13 under beds,
20.00
34 single sheets,
15.00
9 double sheets,
5.00
23 pillow-cases,
10.00
16 feather pillows,
9.00
15 towels,
2.00
Table-cloths,
5.00
6 wooden trunks,
3.00
3 dining-tables,
15.00
5 light-stands,
3.00
60 chairs,
30.00
Ash barrel, sifter, hod, and shovel,
4 00
Cooking-stove and furniture,
25.00
6 flatirons,
2.25
1 hammer,
75
1 wood-saw,
1.25
Steelyards,
1.50
Clothes-wringer,
5.00
Crockery ware,
40.00
Wooden ware,
20.00
Tin ware,
12.00
2 cords wood,
8.00
5 tons coal,
40.00
450 pounds pork,
42.00
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30 pounds lard,
$3.00
50 pounds butter,
17.50
4.50
9 lamps, 30 flour barrels,
6.00
$1,357.65
Names of persons supported in the Almshouse, during the year ending March 1, 1875.
Polly Copeland,
Peter Rierdon,
Eunice Delano,
Lorenzo D. Eddy,
Betsy M. Eddy,
Thomas B. Platts,
Ellen Kennedy,
t Garrett Noonan,
Thomas Stevens,
Keilah H. Kennedy,
Mary F. Veazie,
Clarence B. Veazie,
¿ Ellen Burke,
Catherine Curran,
# Dennis Slattery, Emery Delano.
+ Refunded. ¿ Discharged.
Estimate of Expenses for 1875.
The following estimate of expenses for the ensuing year is presented for the consideration of the Town :-
For Schools (see report of School Committee), $6,500.00 " Repairs, furniture, and incidental expenses, 1,625.00
" Highways, 3,000.00
" General Town Expenses,
10,000.00
" Reduction of Town Debt,-
5,000.00
" Fire Department,
1,800.00
$27,925.00
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Guide Posts.
Guide posts erected and maintained by the town, remain the same as last year.
The Selectmen recommend a special appropriation for the erection of guide posts at all places deemed necessary and convenient. (See General Statues, chapter 45.)
Respectfully submitted,
J. WHITE BELCHER, JOHN T. FLOOD, JAMES A. TOWER, Selectmen of Randolph.
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SCHOOL REPORT.
To the Selectmen and Inhabitants of the Town : -
GENTLEMEN,-The following is submitted as the Re- port of the School Committee for the past year : -
In a democratic country like our own, where the reins of government lie wholly within the hands of the people, their early education becomes of the utmost and of vital importance. In our schools, and in the manner in which they are conducted, lies the very mainsprings of the future welfare and prosperity of the whole country ; and every year, not only at home but abroad, we find that the sub- ject attracts more and more attention, and even threatens to become one of the national problems in the training of the different nations. Having then in our power and under our control an element of such importance, the question comes home to the committee, how we can im- press upon the people the necessity of giving more atten- tion to our schools : how increase the lax and slight at- tention of a very few : and how to arouse and maintain an interest and enthusiasm among the rest, who appar- ently take no interest in this work. The question, it is true, has been agitated and debated upon again and again, and mentioned in probably every report of every com- mittee throughout the State ; but because no result has been attained from these frequent and urgent admonitions
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of School Committees, it still is no less our duty to call your attention to the necessity of personal supervision of the committee, the houses, teachers, and scholars.
Leaving for the moment the question of the duties of a committee, and the objects and purposes for which they are chosen, have you as citizens done your parts when you have perhaps glanced over the Annual Report and run over the items of expenditures ? We may have been appointed as substitutes for your personal inspection of these things, as the moral overseers of the intellectual mills of the children of the town; but these same sub- stitutes and overseers need looking after, and what is more, they need encouragement from their employers while carrying on their work, provided it is done properly : and in order that you may from your own personal knowledge judge on this point, we earnestly renew an invitation to every one to visit the schools during the coming year. We desire an earnest, fair, and just criti- cism upon all that pertains to our schools ; and after an examination into the existing facts, as to anything which pertains to the schools, scholars, or teachers, we would welcome the opinion of any of the people.
While through the report we can reach a certain class of parents, and thus urge upon them the necessity and their duty to themselves, the children, and to the commu- nity, of sending their children to school constantly, there is a certain class of parents, and behind these parents a class of scholars, whom it is at present impossible to reach.
And to us it seems that the only way in which these children can be reached and made to attend school, at least long enough to acquire education sufficient to enable them to read and write their names, is by means of the legislature, and through some compulsory-education law. We do not propose to insert in this report any argument for
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or against so important and lengthy a subject, but merely to call attention to a want long felt, and often expressed, in the management of our schools.
In our last report it was stated, that we proposed to deduct from the scholars' standing a certain amount in cases of continued absence without satisfactory excuse. We have considered this proposition, and while some of the teachers have expressed their opinions as to the beneficial results to be obtained by this course, and even advised the detention of scholars otherwise qualified to advance, we have not as yet been able to reconcile it with our present method of examination. We claim, however, that it is within the province of the committee to establish such a rule for the government of truants, and we would warn such scholars and their parents that it is liable to enforcement during the next year.
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