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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
FOR THE
TOWN OF PALMER,
AND OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures for the Year Ending March 1, 1884.
PALMER, MASS. JOURNAL PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 1884.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
FOR THE
TOWN OF PALMER, officers.
AND OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures for the Year Ending March 1, 1884.
PALMER, MASS. JOURNAL PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 1884.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. HAMPDEN, SS.
To H. A. NORTHROP, Constable of the Town of Palmer, GREETING.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn all the inhabitants of the town of Palmer qualified to vote in elections and town affairs to meet at the Town House in said Palmer, on Mon- day, the 17th day of March next, at ten o'clock, A. M., to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To determine the number of selectmen, overseers of the poor, assessors, school committee, and constables the town will elect for the ensuing year.
ART. 3. To act upon the reports of the selectmen, school committee, and other town officers.
ART. 4. To see if the town will vote to determine the compensation of the collector of taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 5. To see if the town will allow a discount upon the taxes that may be assessed for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To determine the manner the town will take to collect the taxes that may be assessed for the ensuing year, and state the terms and conditions of the same.
ART. 7. To elect all necessary town officers for the ensuing year.
ART. 8. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the current expenses of the town for the ensuing year, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 9. To see if the town will authorize its treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of the taxes for the current year, the same to be paid from said taxes.
ART. 10. To determine the manner of repairing the highways and bridges for the ensuing year.
ART. 11. To see if the town will continue to hire the roomis now occupied for a lock-up and tramp-room.
ART. 12. To vote by ballot, which shall be, "yes " or " no," according to provisions of chapter 54 of Acts of 1881, in answer to the question, " Shall. licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors be granted in this town?"
ART. 13. To see what action the town will take in regard to choosing a board of health.
ART. 14. To see if the town will accept the list of jurors as revised by the selectmen.
ART. 15. To hear reports of committees and act thereon.
ART. 16. To choose committees and give them instructions.
ART. 17. To see if the town will make an appropriation for the benefit of the Young Men's Library Associatiom.
ART. 18. To see if the town will raise money for celebration of Decoration Day, or toward building a Soldiers' monument, and appropriate money for the same.
. ART. 19. To see if the town will accept of the provisions of chapter 158, Acts of 1871, being entitled, An act to provide for the selection of road commissioners.
ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to pay Austin Woodard, Jr., the sum of five hundred dollars in settlement of claim for damages for injuries received through a defect in the highway in November, 1882.
ART. 21. To see if the town will increase the number of the committee on Town History.
ART. 22. To see what action the town will take in regard to letting private families enter the sewers in town.
ART. 23. To see what action the town will take in relation to draining Church and Pleasant streets in the Depot village.
ART. 24. To see if the town will grade the hill and widen the highway at Stimpson hill so called upon the highway leading from Palmer Center to Ware, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 25. To see if the town will vote to sell the whole or any part of the land owned by the town near the old church building at Palmer Center and make a conveyance of the same.
ART. 26. To see if the town will accept a town way as laid out by the selectmen in the Depot village, from Main street south-westerly under the tracks of Ware River and the New London Northern railroads, thence north- westerly past the foundry of Edgerton & Davis to the lumber yard of F. F. Marcy.
ART. 27. To see if the town will vote to pay the notes of Reubin and Pamelia Rogers.
ART. 28. To see if the town will vote to establish a watering trough at the Depot village and raise and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 29. To see if the town will vote to accept sections 10 and 11 of chap- ter 54 of the Public Statutes. Also chapter 242 of the Statutes of the year 1867.
ART. 30. To see what action the town will take concerning a new high school building and to raise and appropriate money therefor.
The polls will be open at ten o'clock A. M., and close at two o'clock P. M. The names of Selectmen, Overseers of Poor, Assessors, School Committee and Constables, who are voted for, must be all on one ballot. Town Clerk and Treasurer on a separate ballot. And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at the different public places designated by the vote of the town, seven days, at least, before the holding of said meeting, and cause this warrant to be printed in the Palmer Journal, at least two issues before the holding of said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the holding of said meeting.
Given under our hands this first day of March, A. D. 1884.
H. G. LOOMIS, Selectmen E. G. HASTINGS. of JOSEPH KERIGAN, Palmer.
H. A. NORTHROP, Constable.
A copy. Attest :
Assessors' Report.
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS.
For support of poor, . $3,500.00
Contingencies,
. 2,500.00
Highways, . . 3,500.00
Bridges,
1,500.00
Railings,
200.00
Interest,
115.00
Discount on taxes,
1,500.00
Teachers' salaries, fuel and care of school-houses,
10,000.00
Contingent for schools, .
900.00
Repairs on school-houses,
850.00
Salary of School Committee, 600.00
Soldiers' monument,
500.00
Decoration day,
100.00
Library,
500.00
Cemetery at Depot Village, .
200.00
New school-house, Wire Mill,
2,500.00
New highway at Bondsville, .
500.00
Pest-house, .
1,000.00
Sewer at Depot Village,
. 3,000.00
Thorndike Village,
.
County tax,
2,592.29
State tax,
· 2,130.00
$40,487.29
Overlay on tax, . Non-resident bank tax,
355.74
. 1,739.10
Total on collector's book,
$42,582.13
300.00
Heater, Thorndike school-house,
·
2,000.00
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VALUATION FOR 1883.
Personal estate, .
$871,398
Real
. 1,659,946
Total,
. $2,531,344
Number of polls,
1,436
Tax on polls,
$2.00
Rate of tax,
$15 to $1,000
PALMER, August 6, 1883.
JOHN CLOUGH, Assessors DAVID KNOX, of
D. B. BISHOP, Palmer.
H. A. NORTHROP, Collector,
In Account with the Town of Palmer.
Amount due the town in uncollected taxes,
March 1, 1882,
$2,476.37
To cash paid treasurer,
$2,134.57
Abatements,
341.80- $2,476.37
To amount committed to collector on tax book for 1883, $2,582.13
Cash paid treasurer, Aug. 20, . $35,000.00
Amount of discount, 2,234.00
Cash paid treasurer after August 20, . 3,856.13
Amount due the town, 1,492.00-$42,582.13
Uncollected taxes, $2,017.92.
H. A. NORTHROP, Coll.
Treasurer's Report
Of the Receipts and Expenditures for the year ending March 1, 1884.
Balance in Treasury March 5, 1883, . $2,978.98
Received of Palmer Savings Bank, borrowed,
. 5,000.00
State Treasurer, corporation tax, 790.90
National Bank tax, 407.39
State aid, .
545.66
Military aid, 172.00
Aid to State paupers, 91.45
Transportation, State paupers, 11.25
Burial of State paupers, 45.00
Income Mass. school fund,
273.54
County Treasurer, dog fund,
252.12
Lock-up fees,
35.50
G. W. Randall, auctioneer's license,
2.00
J. A. Palmer, 66 66
2.00
J. A. Palmer, cash received for damage to pest-house, 18.00
City of Worcester, expenses on account of ' paupers, .
34.00
Town of Randolph, aid to Michael Lynch,
19.02
Town Hardwick, aid Hammond children, Belchertown, repairs on bridges,
103.18
Interest on Merrick fund,
34.34
Interest on Thompson fund,
43.27
Old plank,
5.50
Stove, .
8.00
Tuition at Bondsville,
7.00
Rent of school lot at Three Rivers,
5.00
Rent of town hall,
150.00
H. A. Northrop, taxes, 1882,
2,134.57
H. A. Northrop, taxes, 1883,
38,856.13
$52,159.79
A. D. Smith, board of Mrs. Burlingame,
16.50
Town of North Brookfield, aid to Lewis Mathews and family,
106.99
10.50
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EXPENDITURES.
Paid Palmer Savings Bank, borrowed, $5,000.00
Interest on borrowed, 41.31
County tax,
2,592.29
State tax,
2,130.00
National bank tax, .
1,618.31
Deposited in Savings bank for soldiers' monument, 500.00
State aid,
460.00
Military aid,
336.00
Selectmen's orders, 20,268.75
School committee's orders, 12,944.66
$45,891.32
Total receipts, .
. $52,159.79
Total expenditures,
. 45,891.32
Balance in treasury,
· $6,268.47
Respectfully submitted,
JAS. B. SHAW, Treasurer.
REPORT
OF THE
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
For the Year Ending March 1, 1884.
In presenting our annual report to the voters of Palmer, we would say the highways are in very good condition throughout the town. We have hardened some six miles of road this past season, and if this plan of hardening roads is continued from year to year, it will be but a few years before this town will have as good roads as there are in the State.
BRIDGES.
We have made quite extensive repairs on bridges throughout the town. The Cooley bridge had to be new timbered and planked throughout, as also the Ferrill and Bondsville bridge, between our town and Belchertown. This present year the King bridge, as well as the wooden bridges at Three Rivers and Thorndike, will have to be new planked.
RAILINGS.
We have overrun our appropriation a small amount, and as the railings throughout the town in many places are very poor, it seems to us necessary that there should be considerable new railing put up this present year.
Our Poor Farm, under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Green- leaf, has been well looked after and the inmates well cared for, to the satisfaction of the Overseers of the Poor.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
H. G. LOOMIS, E. G. HASTINGS,
JOSEPH KERIGAN.
Selectmen and Overseers of Poor of Palmer.
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HIGHWAYS.
Appropriation, $3,500.
M. C. Mowry, labor on highways, $3.05
J. R. Wellman, breaking out roads, 12.00
J. R. Wellman, labor on highways, District No. 5, Jerry Dutton, breaking out roads,
255.30
Geo. H. Calkins, repairing road near his house, .
9.90
Wm. Nelson, year's gravel for 1882 and 1883, .
11.00
J. S. Loomis, labor on highway, District No. 4,
367.75
J. S. Loomis, graveling on highway, District No. 4, Eugene Shorley, repairing highway, District No. 6, Henry McMaster, repairing highway, District No. 2, .
3.25
J. D. Sawyer, cash paid Mrs. Crowly for gravel,
5.00
J. D. Sawyer, labor on highway. District No. 3.
475.00
J. D. Sawyer, hardening road, District No. 3,
99.50
J. F. Twiss, labor on highway, District No. 2, .
380.00
J. F. Twiss, hardening road, district No. 2,
66.90
J. F. Kerigan, labor on highway, District No. 10,
140.00
J. F. Kerigan, hardening roads, District No. 10,
30.75
E. M. Bartlett, labor on highway, District No. 13,
120.00
E. M. Bartlett, hardening roads. District No. 13,
44.25
Calvin Blodget, labor on highway, District No. 8,
130.00
F. D. Orcutt, repairs on highway, District No. 12, Frank Miller, labor on highway, District No. 14,
1.87
W. H. Bush, labor on highway, District No. 12,
78.89
Luther Collis, labor on highway, District No. 11,
340.00
Luther Collis, hardening roads, District No. 11,
56.10
Samuel Brown, labor on highways, District No. 1, 125.00
23.75
George Moores, repairs on roads, District No. 3,
9.60
Michael Kinnevan, labor on highway, District No. 7, .
70.00
James Olney, labor on highway, District No. 9, 35.00
17.00
W.K . Hitchcock, sewer pipe, .
6.44
J. K. Knox, gravel for roads, . 23.50
Mrs. J. K. Ferrill, storing scraper,
5.00
$3,312 85
75.00
Samuel Brown, hardening roads, District No. 1, .
James Olney, hardening roads, District No. 9,
4.50
283.25
4.30
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RAILINGS.
Appropriation, $200.
J. D. Sawyer, railing near Kelliher's, $6.75
H. C. Smith, railing near William Hancock's, 58.00
J. R. Wellman, railing near King bridge, . 12.50
Samuel Brown, railing near Old Center, 14.00
H. C. Smith, railing new road at Bondsville, 14.50
H. C. N. Cross, railing on Thorndike bridge, 5.50
F. F. Marcy, railing and lumber at Three Rivers, 92.59
$203.84
BRIDGES.
Appropriation, $1,500.
H. C. N. Cross, lumber and labor on Thorndike bridge, $1.50
5.00
Samuel Brown, repairing bridge near Harding Hunt's, Joseph Kerigan, repairing Shaw and Whiting bridge, . Isaac Ramsdell, painting three iron bridges, Monson and Palmer,
60.00
F. F. Marcy, labor, spikes and bolts on Cooley bridge, 106.89
F. F. Marcy, labor and lumber on bridge near Goddard, 46.84
78.28
T. D. Potter & Co., labor and lumber on bridge at Bondsville,
180.39
Shea & Moriarty, putting in sluice in Duckville, . ·
20.00
J. A. Breckinbridge, painting Powers and King bridges, J. F. Twiss, building wall and filling for Three Rivers bridge, .
34.25
Joseph Kerigan, building abutment for bridge at old M. E. Church,
8.00
J. R. Wellman, repairing and plank on bridge near Keith's,
18.25
Samuel Brown, labor on stone bridge near town farm, Thorndike Co., repairs on No. 2 canal bridge, Thorn- dike, ·
6.62
Town of Monson, repairs on Cooley and Blanchard bridge, 1882,
22.44
Joseph Kerigan, labor and lumber on Whiting bridge,
5.00
Barker & Garrett, repairing scraper, . 13.65
2.03
Paid town of Brimfield, balance due on bridges, .
6.21
$706.19
Received from town of Belchertown, $103.18
J. R. Wellman, old plank, 5.00
66
6 T. Brown, .50- $108.68
$597.51
41.84
T. D. Potter & Co., labor and lumber on bridges,
25.00
24.00
Robinson & Brooks, spikes for bridges,
12
NEW ROADS.
Appropriation, $500.
Mrs. Lucy Allen, land damage and moving shed, $60.00
Charles Hastings, stone monument for roads, 2.25
George M. Atkins, building new road as laid by Com- missioners, · 280.00
Henry McMaster, building new road near Mrs. Allen's, 53.00
J. F. Twiss, building new road near D. Lamb's, 330.00
$725.25
PEST HOUSE.
Appropriation, $1,000.
Hannah Calkins, for pest-house and land, . $800.00
F. F. Marcy, new windows and blinds for pest-house, .
52.70
$852.70
LIBRARY.
Appropriation, $500.
W. C. Dewey, Treasurer, .
$500.00
CONTINGENCIES.
Appropriations, $2,500.
M. C. Mory, care of tramp room and lock-up to March 1, 1884, $60.00
C. B. Fisk, advertising, warrants and printing reports, 1882, 1883, 122.63
Taft & Kennefick, insuring town house for five years, .. 22.50
J. A. Palmer, enforcing license law for year ending May 1, 1883, 175.00
O. P. Allen, public statutes,
3.10
L. Giffin, building and painting fence, Four Corners Cemetery,
319.08
E. F. Nichols, setting bounds and assisting surveyor, 3.50
W. H. Brainard, for surveying, 14.00
Samuel Brown, repairs on scraper, .
1.50
Rufus M. Bacon, opening graves, 2.00
1.50
William Brooks, putting in shaft, broken on highway, . Joseph Kerigan, wood for town house, 12.50
H. P. Holden, crackers and oil for tramp-room, . .
11.01
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John Clough, services as Assessor,
$125.00
John Clough, making duplicate valuation, 18.00
D. B. Bishop, making duplicate valuation, . 20.00
David Knox, making duplicate valuation, 20.00
David Knox, as Assessor, . 120.00
D. B. Bishop, as Assessor,
125.00
John Clough, books and stationery, 8.32
Stephen Place, support of water tub to March 1, 1884, 5.00
William Brooks, lumber for voters' list, .75
J. F. Twiss, cutting down street, ordered by Commis- sioners, . .
40.00
Walter Winter, repairing hearse, ·
2.85
F. C. Allen, cutting tree out of road and cleaning sewer, Holden & Ellis, crackers, oil, etc., for tramp-room,
29.55
J. F. Twiss, widening road at Three Rivers, ordered by Commissioners, 10.00
J. J. Moynehan, returning deaths,
13.50
A. L. Haynes, opening graves and returning deaths, 37.40
J. K. Knox, support of water tub,
5.00
H. G. Loomis, services as Selectman,
150.00
Palmer Savings Bank, rent and heating lock-up and tramp-room, . 180.00
G. A. Brown & Co., axe for town house,
1.20
E. G. Hastings, services as Selectman, 62.00
Smith & Co., oil and chimneys for railroad bridge lamp,
7.46
Silas Ruggles, M. D., returning 19 births, .
4.75
W. H. Stowe, M. D., returning 16 births, . 4.00
Dr. Sevoir, returning 28 births, 7.00
Wm. Holbrook, returning 9 births,
2.25
W. E. Holbrook, returning 7 births, .
1.75
H. A. Smith, returning 13 births, 3.25
A. C. Downing, returning 5 births,
1.25
G. H. Wilkins, returning 3 births,
.75
Joseph Kerigan, services as Selectman,
125.00
W. E. Hancock, support of water tub,
5.00
David Knox, going with hearse, opening graves and returning deaths, 232.75
J. B. Shaw, oil for tramp-room,
.30
J. B. Shaw, services as Treasurer, 50.00
J. B. Shaw, recording births, marriages and deaths, 97.50
J. B. Shaw, cash paid out, 5.00
2.00
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C. L. Gardner, legal services, · $20.00
C. L. Gardner, services, Brown case, sewer contract, and road at Three Rivers, 16.00
G. W. Cobb, crackers for tramp-room, .
1.50
H. A. Northrop, collecting taxes for 1882, . 200.00
H. A. Northrop, posting towu warrant, dog warrant, and Truant officer, 19.00
John Clough, sealing weights and measures, 5.80
$2,534.20
DEBTS OF THE TOWN.
Notes due on demand, Permelia Rogers,
$1,300.00
Notes due on demand, Reuben Rogers,
1,000.00
Interest on above, due in 1883, .
115.00
Interest on above, due in 1884, .
115.00
$2,530.00
CLAIMS AGAINST THE TOWN, MARCH 1, 1884.
Notes and interest,
$2,530.00
Due H. A. Northrop, Collector, 200.00
Outstanding orders, Nos. 306 and 308, to teachers, 70.00
$2,800.00
DUE THE TOWN, MARCH 1, 1884.
Balance in Treasury,
$6,268.47
H. A. Northrop, uncollected taxes, 1,492.00
. Due from State for State aid, 796.00
Due from State on account of State paupers, 72.64
Due from Mrs. A. D. Smith, board Mrs. Burlingame, 48.50
$8,677.61
SEWERS AT PALMER DEPOT.
Appropriation, $3,000.
J. B. Shaw, cash paid Charles Sidney for surveying and for specification,
$26.92
J. H. Austin, building sewers at depot,
2,958.00
E. Calkins, cash paid for advertising proposals, 7.30
E. Calkins, services as committee, 20.00
H. P. Holden, services and cash paid,
6.00
$3,018.22
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SEWERS AT THORNDIKE.
Appropriation, $2,000.
Republican Co., advertising sewers at Thorndike, $2.40
Charles Sidney, surveying and for specification, 26.00
J. H. Austin, building sewer at Thorndike, 1,462.49
W. H. Hitchcock, sewer pipe, 507.11
$1,998.00
GRAND ARMY.
Paid William Holbrook,
$100.00
REPAIRING CEMETERY AT PALMER DEPOT.
Appropriation, $200.
Orson Stebbins, labor and lumber on fence, ·
$10.44
E. P. Bowen, painting fence, 43.37 .
$53.81
SCHOOL HOUSE NEAR WIRE MILL.
Appropriation, $2,500.
J. M. Converse, land for school-house, $200.00
W. H. Brainard, surveying school-house lot, 2.00
R. L. Goddard, grading school-house lot, 44.75
Madison & Lyman, building school-house, .
2,014.09
S. S. Taft, cash paid O. D. Case & Co. for school fur- niture,
112.00
George A. Griffin, grading school-house lot,
64.50
Loomis Bros., settees and chairs for school-house,
15.10
$2,452.44
SUMMARY.
Support of poor, paid out, .
$3,811.25
Contingencies, paid out,
2,534.20
Highways, paid out, .
3,312,85
Bridges, paid out,
706.19
Railings, paid out,
203.84
New roads and land damage,
725.25
Pest-house, paid out,
852.70
Sewers at Thorndike, paid out, .
1,998.00
Grand Army, paid out,
100.00
Repairs on cemeteries, paid out, Palmer depot,
53.81
Library, paid out,
500.00
Sewers at Palmer depot, paid out,
3,018.22
School-house at Wire Mill, paid out, .
2,452.44
$20,268.75
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APPROPRIATIONS.
School-house and land at Wire Mill, .
$2,500.00
Support of poor,
3,500.00
Contingencies, .
2,500.00
Highways,
3,500.00
Bridges,
1,500.00
Railings,
200.00
Pest-house,
1,000.00
Sewers at Palmer depot, Sewers at Thorndike,
3,000.00
Library, .
500.00
Grand Army,
100.00
Repairing cemetery at Palmer depot, .
200.00
Received from State for State paupers,
147.70
Town of Belchertown,
103.18
" J. R. Wellman, for old plank,
5.00
66 Talma Brown, for old plank,
.50
Mrs. A. D. Smith, support of Mrs. Bur- lingame,
16.50
66
City of Worcester, on pauper account, .
34.00
Town of Hardwick, aid to Hammond children,
10.50
66 Town of Randolph, aid to Michael Lynch,
19.02 .
Received interest on Thompson fund, .
43.27
Due from State,
72.64
Due from Mrs. A. D. Smith, for support of Mrs. Bur- lingame,
48.50
Aid of Sullivan family, due from city of Fitchburg, 8.00
Due from city of Lowell, aid to Mrs. Mary Wilson,
111.00
Appropriations,
$21,726.80
Paid out,
20,268.75
Less than appropriations,
$1,458.05
Respectfully submitted,
H. G. LOOMIS, Selectmen E. G. HASTINGS, of
JOSEPH KERIGAN, Palmer.
The Selectmen would recommend the following,appropriations :
Support of poor,
$3,500.00
Contingencies,
2.500.00
Highways,
3,500.00
Bridges, ·
1,500.00
Railings, .
500.00
Interest,
115.00
2,000.00
New roads and land damage,
500.00
North Brookfield, aid to Mrs Matthews,
106.99
Report of Overseers of the Poor.
SUPPORT OF POOR ON TOWN FARM.
Appropriation, $3,500.
Emma L. Sherman, work at Town farm, $72.00
E. L. Greenleaf, balance of salary to April 1, 1883, 25.00
E. L. Greenleaf, salary to March 1, 1884, . 320.83
E. L. Greenleaf, opening grave of Mrs. Ferrill, 2.00
Loomis Brothers, coffin and robe for D. P. Johnson, 14.00
O. C. Marcy, team to Fiskdale for Cobleighs,
5.00
Loomis Brothers, coffin for Asseaneth Green,
10.00
J. D. Sawyer, soap for poor farm,
11.00
Fosket & Holbrook, grain, feed and plaster, . A. M. Bond, range for poor farm,
144.05
James O. Hamilton, for express wagon,
27.25
Loomis Brothers, coffin for Mrs. Ferrill, P. S. Trumble, for blacksmithing,
10.00
Geo. A. Murdock, goods for farm,
99.71
D. N. Squires, blacksmithing for farm,
7.84
Loomis Brothers, coffin for Mrs. Barker, H. G. Loomis, services as Overseer Poor,
100.00
O. C. Marcy, carrying pauper to farm,
1.00
C. H. Rickets, attending funeral of Mrs. Barker,
3.00
E. G. Hastings, services as Overseer of Poor,
25.00
A. M. Bond, goods for town farm,
8.95
Joseph Kerigan, services as Overseer of Poor,
75.00
Wm. Holbrook, medical attendance on poor,
50.00
Wmn. Holbrook, truss for Ball boy,
2.75
J. B. Shaw, goods for poor farm,
115.31
Received of Mrs. A. D. Smith, support Mrs. Burlingame,
16.50
$1,177.77
$1,161.27
Received from Thompson fund, . 43.27
$1,118.00
34.25
3.83
10.00
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Inventory at poor farm, March 1, 1883,
$1,551.96 ·
Inventory at poor farm, March 1, 1884, 1,575.74 ·
Whole number of paupers, . 15
Average number of paupers, 11
Whole number of tramps at tramp-room for the year from March 1, 1883, to March 1, 1884, 631
SUPPORT OF POOR NOT ON TOWN FARM.
Warren M. Trumbull, house rent to Mrs. F. Lester, $23.00
J. D. Sawyer, coal and milk to Mrs. F. Lester, 31.50
Loomis Brothers, coffin for L. Matthews, 15.00
Loomis Brothers, coffin for Roberts child,
5.00
Loomis Brothers, coffin and services, J. Richardson,
18.00
Jacob Stever, milk to J. Sheehan,
18.78
Clark & Hastings, meat to J. Sheehan,
14.28
Clark & Hastings, meat to Mrs. L. Matthews,
11.09
Clark & Hastings, meat to John Griffin and wife,
2.00
Joseph Thompson, goods delivered to Mrs. Merrifield for Ball children, 30.45
Joseph Thompson, goods delivered to John Woods, 2.50
Joseph Thompson, goods delivered to Mrs. Burke,
2.50
D. B. Bishop, coal delivered to Mrs. L. Matthews,
10.88
D. B. Bishop, coal delivered to Mrs. J. S. Hutchinson, 10.62
J. Chapin Warner, support of Elinor Thompson, 29.45
Joseph Kerigan, wood to Owen Sullivan,
8.50
Joseph Kerigan, wood to Mrs. F. Lester,
5.00
Joseph Kerigan, wood to Mrs. L. Brown,
6.00
Joseph Kerigan, cash paid out for paupers,. Shea & Moriarty, goods to Thomas Fenton, .
33.00
Shea & Moriarty, goods to Mary O'Connor,
12.00
Shea & Moriarty, goods to John Griffin and wife,
6.00
Shea & Moriarty, goods to Sullivan family, . 8.00
Rebecca A. Palmer, support of Alfred Duncan, 60.00
J. A. Palmer, clothes for Alfred Duncan,
7.00
J. W. Calkins, house rent to Mrs. Merrifield for Ball children, . 18.00
O. A. Parent, goods to D. Shea,
5.31
G. A. Murdock, goods to Mrs. James Hutchinson,
113.97
G. A. Murdock, goods to Mrs. L. Matthews, 65.02
G. A. Murdock, goods to Mrs. J. Sheehan, . 37.01
G. A. Murdock, goods to Mrs. McGrath, Hurley boy,. 17.51
Julia McGrath, support of Hurley boy,
34.49
Murdock Brothers, goods to Pat Dillon,
42.50
Murdock Brothers, goods to Hurlihea,
39.26
H. G. Loomis, cash to Tuffield Gokey, Massachusetts General Hospital, 5.00
H. G. Loomis, cash paid out for poor, . 22.51
15.00
19
H. G. Loomis, stamps and stationery, .
$16.00
Julia A. Johnson, care of Hammond children, 10.50
O. P. Allen, medicine for Mr. Ashworth, 1.70
H. P. Holden, goods to Pat Sheehan, . 4.94
H. P. Holden, goods to Owen Sullivan, 5.00
H. P. Holden, goods to Wm. Mason, .
3.50
Town of Shirley, aid to Geo. E. Burpee and family,
21.61
J. H. Thayer, goods to Jerry Horan, .
5.00
J. H. Thayer, goods to Mrs. Michael Manion,
7.00
J. H. Thayer, goods to Mrs. L. Brown, 10.00
Wmn. Holbrook, medical attendance for Mary Wilson, 41.00
1.00
J. F. Holbrook, coal to Mrs. F. Lester,
2.00
J. F. Holbrook, coal to Daniel Matteson,
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