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FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF MIDDLETON,
WITH
REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1906.
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1906.
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Unexpended balance due schools, $ 446.84
Appropriation, 2000.00
Received from dog tax, 129.12
Due from State for their share of Superintendent's pay, 125.00
$2700.96
Moses Peabody, transporting children, C. Alice Manning, teaching Grammar School, 460.00
$779.00
Ann W. C. Merrill, teaching Inter- mediate School, 364.00
Nellie C. Howe, teaching Primary School, 480.00
Augustus Shepard, services as janitor, 150.00
W. P. Early, coal for schoolhouse, 207.31
George F. Smith, teaching music in Public Schools, 52.50
Danvers Water Board,
30.00
H. K. Richardson, wood for school- house, 32.50
W. P. Early, sawing wood, 4.88
Andrew Thomson, superintendent of schools, 150.00
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Oscar Cram, services as truant officer, 3.00 H. K. Richardson, taking school census, 4.00
$2717.19
Overdrawn,
16.23
$2700.96
Received from State School fund, available for 1906, $873.58
High School Department.
Amount received from State, $280.00
Due from State,
275.00
$555.00
Town of Danvers, tuition of High School scholars, $555.00
School Books and Supplies.
Town appropriation, $175.00
Amount overdrawn, 1904-5, $ 33.96
Mary B. Gage, 3.90
Edward E. Babb & Co., 153.81
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Ginn & Co.,
20.50
Silver, Burdett & Co.,
9.54
$221.71
Amount overdrawn, 1905-6,
46.71
$175.00
School Incidental Department.
Town appropriation, $150.00
Amount overdrawn, 1904-5, $ 26.37
D. W. Case, cleaning cess-pool and labor putting new rope on flag staff, 9.75
Caskin & O'Connell, repairs on water closets, plumbing, etc., 7.65
Augustus Shepard, cleaning and re- pairing on schoolhouse and mate- rial furnished,
45.45
C. Alice Manning, ribbons for diplo- mas, .90
Red Cross Company chart,
2.00
Alice Milberry, washing towels,
1.10
H. M. Tyler, whitening and painting school rooms, 12.75
Pitman & Brown, material, varnish, oil, etc.,
11.03
W. H. Kehew, clocks,
9.75
M. E. Tyler, varnish,
1.87
Edward E. Babb & Co., material for blackboards, 18.67
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Edmund Dernier, repairs and shingling gutters,
4.50
A. P. Tyler, car fare, express, etc., 8.29
Barry Printing Co., printing reports,
14.40
H. A. Wilkins, supplies, 14.06
H. K. Richardson, cleaning ashes from school house yard, trips to Boston and Hamilton, etc.,
17.60
$206.14
Overdrawn,
56.14
$150.00
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CURRENT EXPENSE DEPARTMENT.
Town Officers.
Frank Currier, Auditor, $ 15.00
S. S. Merrill, services as Assessor, February 1 to March, 1905, 3.75
Jesse W. Peabody, services as Select- man and Assessor, February 1 to March, 1905, 20.00
H. K. Richardson, Selectman and Assessor, February 1 to March, 1905, 30.00
M. J. Emerson, Selectman and Asses- sor, February 1 to March, 1905, 25.00
Rufus Peabody, services as Election Officer, 6.00
Albert T. Barrows, services as Elec- tion Officer, 3.00
Albert E. Coleman, services as Elec- tion Officer, 6.00
Charles W. Hutchinson, services as Election Officer, 3.00
B. T. McGlauflin, moderator, 9.00
Fred. W. Giles, services as Election Officer, 6.00
M. M. Merritt, services as Moderator,
10.00
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TOWN OFFICERS.
A. P. Tyler, services as Election Offi- cer, 3.00
Hosea W. Richardson, services as Election Officer, 3.00
D. W. Case, services as School Com- mittee, 35.00
A. P. Tyler, services as School Com- mittee, 35.00
L. F. Atwood, Superintendent of bur- ials, recording deaths, 11.75
H. E. Howe, Overseer of Poor, 35.00
B. T. McGlauflin, Overseer, 20.00
Oscar Cram, constable, 41.00
A. W. Peabody, Overseer, 20.00
S. A. Fletcher, Town Treasurer, 50.00
S. A. Fletcher, Registrar,
10.00
S. A. Fletcher, services at March and November election, 6.00
S. A. Fletcher, services as Town Clerk, 10.00
S. A. Flether, administering oaths, 4.50
S. A. Fletcher, Recording births, mar- riages and deaths, 9.50
Jesse W. Peabody, services as Asses- sor, 42.00
M. J. Emerson, services as Selectman and Assessor, 125.00
M. J. Emerson, Registrar, 10.00
M. E. Tyler, services as Selectman, 45.50
M. E. Tyler, Registrar, 10.00
H. K. Richardson, services as Select- man and Assessor, 125.00
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MISCELLANEOUS.
H. K. Richardson, services as Regis- trar of voters, 10.00
H. K. Richardson, services as School Committee, 35.00
$833.00
Miscellaneous.
George W. Ewing, inspecting and disinfecting, $12.00
John M. Peabody, care of street lamps, 1904-5, 12.00
John M. Peabody, care of street lamps, 1905-6, 12.00
F. E. Moynahan, printing ballots and registrars blanks and tax bills, 15.25
Danvers Savings Bank, interest on note of $1000, 40.00
Danvers Savings Bank, principal and interest on note of $1000, 1018.23
Barry Printing Co., printing Town reports, 49.80
Danvers Water Board, water for Town Hall, 6.00
George F. Margeson, cutting wood in cemetery, 6.91
W. P. Early, coal for Town Hall, 55.40
H. K. Richardson, error in tax of 1904, 8.70
H. K. Richardson, two journeys to Boston to gypsy moth hearings, 6.24
Flint Public Library, interest on note, 75.00
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MISCELLANEOUS.
L. G. Estey, fighting fires on Boston street, Osborn's, etc., 15.30
H. M. Dolbeare, printing canvassing books, etc. 2.20
S. A. Fletcher, insurance policies on school house, 96.00
M. E. Tyler, printing guide post boards at three roads, 3.00
B. T. McGlauflin, setting post at three roads, 2.00
L. G. Estey, fighting fires at Will's Hill and Perkins land, 16.61
L. G. Estey, fire at A. M. Richardson's house,
18.89
Hiram L. Hutchinson, interest on $2000 note, 80.00
Lilla D. Stott, abstract of deeds, 13.90
Arthur B. Chapin, principal and inter- est of note of $1000, 1016.50
Carter Ink Co., .75
W. W. Richardson, special officer, July 4th, 5.00
L. G. Estey, services as special police, July 4th, 5.00
L. G. Estey, fire on Boston street, 5.89
Henry Young, supplies for town hall, 5.48
Henry Young, cleaning hall. 5.00
Henry Young, special police officer, July 4th, 5.00
L. G. Estey, fire at G. A. Currier's house, 17.54
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MISCELLANEOUS.
L. G. Estey, fire in South Middleton woods,
27.89
L. G. Estey, labor on hose house, 9.33
Wright & Potter, book for town clerk,
1.25
Calvin Putnam Lumber Co., lumber for hose house,
12.58
M. E. Tyler, cash paid for advertise- ment in Salem News, 1.50
H. M. Tyler, whitening, painting and repairing lockup,
13.75
H. M. Tyler, set of wheels for fire ladders,
8.00
L. G. Estey, fire on South Main street,
4.50
H. M. Dolbeare, tax table,
.75
Robert Curtis, watching at Edgar Gregory's,
2.50
M. E. Tyler, making, painting and lettering guide post signs, 35.65
B. T. McGlauflin, setting posts for guide boards,
4.28
L. G. Estey, fire at Lever place,
2.01
Flint Public Library, interest on $500 note,
20.00
County Treasurer, county tax,
620.00
A. G. Huntoon, wood for town hall,
1.00
B. T. McGlauflin, inspection of animals,
35.00
B. T. McGlauflin, care of street lamps,
10.00
B. T. McGlauflin sealer of weights and measures,
5.00
Hobbs & Warren, blanks and postage, 2.32
A. N. Webb & Co., printing election warrants, 3.00
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MISCELLANEOUS.
L. G. Estey, fire at Fuller house on Essex street, 5.90
M. J. Emerson, perambulating town lines and cash paid, 18.50
M. E. Tyler, perambulating town lines, 18.00
M. E. Tyler, use of team, perambu- lating town lines, 11.00
M. E. Tyler, cash paid H. F. White and telegraph messages, 3.45
H. K. Richardson, perambulating town lines, 18.00
H. K. Richardson, posts for guide boards, 6.00
W. C. Cole, re-setting bound stones on Boxford line, 5.00
B. F. Emerson, fund Trustee interest on Town note of $800, 40.00
L. G. Estey, services and cash paid at fire at Gallagher house, 8.25
Danvers Water Board, use of whistle, 12.65
J. E. Ropes, repairing furnace at Town Hall, 5.30
H. M. Dolbeare, printing voting lists, George B. Sears, counsel for street railroad committee, 25.00
7.00
H. A. Wilkins, lunch for election officers, 2.71
H. A. Wilkins, supplies for Town Hall, 27.17
H. A. Wilkins, supplies for street lamps, 8.08
Oscar Cram, care of flag, 1904-1905, 11.00
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Oscar Cram, posting warrants, 4.00
Oscar Cram, services July 4th., 6.00
Oscar Cram, services on account of dog tax,
4.00
Oscar Cram, postage and telephone,
.95
Henry . Young, services as janitor of Town Hall, 106.40
Henry Young, supplies for Town Hall,
2.10
L. G. Esty, fighting fire at Nathan Dow's dinking shop,
2.88
S. A. Fletcher, journey out of town, express and postage, 9.45
George W. Ewing, returning deaths, 1904-1905, 2.75
Jesse W. Peabody, services as tax col- lector, 1903, 1904 and 1905, 168.26
Jesse W. Peabody, postage and express,
11.31
Jesse W. Peabody, advertising prop- erty and looking up records, 2.90
Arthur B. Chapin, state tax,
760.00
George Frost, expense committing Robert Rogers to asylum, 3.00
M. J. Emerson, journeys out of town and cash paid, 9.14
M. E. Tyler, time and team and jour- neys out of town, 34.01
M. E. Tyler, cash paid for postage, telephone and stationery, 2.27
H. K. Richardson, teaming wood from cemetery, 4.50
H. K. Richardson, time spent with agents of state highway, 5.00
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SOLDIER'S RELIEF DEPARTMENT.
H. K. Richardson, fifteen journeys to Boston about railroad fares, Loren Goodwin's bill, state high- way tax commissioner, commis- sion of state aid, etc., 46.80
H. K. Richardson, journeys to Salem and Danvers and cash paid, 6.20
$4876.83
Settlement of two notes, 2000.00
County tax,
620.00
State tax,
760.00
$3380.00
Actual miscellaneous expenses, etc.,
1496.83
$4876.83
Soldiers' Relief Department.
Henry Peabody, $5.50
J. Allen Atwood, teaming wood to B. F. Gould, .50
A. G. Huntoon, hauling wood to B. F. Gould, .75
Sarah P. Johnson, 16.00
H. K. Richardson, wood to B. F. Gould,
9.37
$32.12
State Aid Department.
Lucy W. Peabody,
$48.00
Catherine Danforth,
48.00
Henry Peabody, 48.00
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STATE AID DEPARTMENT.
Susan A. Stewart,
48.00
Annie J. Sheldon,
48.00
Scott Wilkins,
48.00
Henry F. White,
48.00
Alexander Murray,
48.00
Isaiah B. Peabody,
48.00
Benjamin F. Gould,
48.00
Robert Rowley,
48.00
Harriet Hunt,
32.00
Augusta C. Bousley,
12.00
Charlotte Rowley,
40.00
George Morrill,
12.00
Rebecca A. Anable,
12.00
Sarah P. Johnson,
4.00
$640.00
Current Expense Balance.
Town Officers,
$833.00
Miscellaneous,
1496.48
Soldiers' Relief,
32.12
State Aid,
640.00
$3001.60
Unexpended balance,
1851.39
$4852.99
Unexpended balance, 1905,
$2070.18
Town appropriation,
1000.00
Appropriation for collecting taxes,
100.00
Corporation tax,
22.50
National Bank tax,
19.72
Street Rail-road tax,
785.16
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CURRENT EXPENSE BALANCE.
State, from Inspection of Animals,
17.50
Received for ink, .45
Military and State Aid, 594.00
Henry Young, for use of hall,
95.48
Frank Danvenport, cash for North School-house shed, 20.00
Cash from Town of Peabody, for fight- ing fires, 11.00
Estate of George P. Hutchinson, for cemetery lot, 17.00
William Jones, for cemetery lot, 10.00
Mary Tiernan, for cemetery lot, 16.00
Received from State for burial of indi- gent soldiers, 70.00
L. G. Estes, for old ladder-house, 4.00
$4852.99
Highway Department.
Town appropriation, $900.00
Unexpended balance last year, 326.80
$1226.80
Eli E. Richardson, storing road machine, $6.00
Chapin & Soden, four casks of pitch, 8.52
Barbour, Stockwell & Co., culvert for catch basin at H. A. Wilkins' store, 10.50
M. P. Paige, drain pipe, 69.14
M. E. Tyler, storing snow plow, 3.00
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HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Calvin Putnam Lumber Co., lumber for railing on Forest street, 16.81
H. A. Wilkins, supplies for highway department,
11.77
Hosea W. Richardson,
54.81
George Margeson,
36.17
Scott Wilkins,
16.92
L. W. McGlauflin,
5.47
Clinton P. Stiles, sharpening tools and gravel,
15.70
Frank Atwood,
1.17
B. T. McGlauflin,
233.74
Moses Peabody,
21.04
Charles Wilkins,
5.96
Jerome Leavitt,
2.00
Eunice Fletcher, gravel,
.80
Hans Swenson,
4.75
John P. Fuller,
22.36
William N. Brown,
15.34
Ulysses S. Stone,
39.66
Dennis W. Case,
8.25
Thaddeus E. McGlauflin,
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Chester Campbell,
.20
Allen D. Bryer,
6.04
William A. Hutchinson,
3.50
M. J. Emerson, posts and labor,
8.00
Henry Fuller,
.50
Ernest Curtis,
1.00
Levi Harlow,
4.00
W. P. Early,
16.50
John L. Peabody,
72.34
W. W. Wilkins,
33.97
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HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Herbert Richardson,
4.47
Fred S. Flint,
43.94
Otis Rennard,
4.47
Albert E. Coleman,
4.67
Byron Morrison, sharpening, picks, etc.,
3.95
Harley M. Tyler,
1.80
Porter I. Gould, labor on culvert,
10.00
Arthur Peabody,
1.55
Earl Collins,
27.80
Eugene Brown,
7.00
Levi Curtis,
5.84
Frank Curtis,
40.05
Ralph Currier,
2.72
Herbert Currier,
2.14
George E. Currier, gravel,
3.40
George A. Currier, gravel,
10.85
H. Erskine Howe,
17.88
Ellen Kelley, gravel,
12.12
Bert Foote,
12.64
George E. Soper,
36.43
M. E. Tyler,
15.83
B. & M. railroad freight,
1.81
David L. Sheldon,
91.77
Waldo Wilkins,
48.13
E. Stimpson Hutchinson,
1.45
John B. Putney gravel,
27.10
William E. Sanford,
3.25
Daniel Fuller,
49.61
William Maynard,
.50
Fred. A. Richardson,
22.40
Oscar Sheldon,
70.98
$1494.60
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HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Overdrawn,
167.80
$1226.80
Highway (snow), excise tax,
$877.33
Eli E. Richardson,
24.40
B. T. McGlauflin,
20.86
Unexpended,
$832.07
$877.33
Bridge Department.
Town appropriation, $225.00
Received from town of Danvers as
their share of Bridge repairs on South Main street, 48.95
Hard pine plank on hand, 9.55
Cash received from old bridge plank, 9.91
$293.41
George McQuesten, hard pine lumber for bridge on Maple street, 78.75
Calvin Putnam Lumber Co., lumber for railing for bridge on Maple st., 16.51 Town of Peabody, lumber for paper- mill bridge, 8.00
George McQuesten, lumber for bridge on Peabody street, 68.78
George McQuesten, lumber for bridge on South Main street, 76.93
Calvin Putnam Lumber Co., lumber
for Beach Brook bridge, 34.27
John Q. Averill, drawing plank, 2.16
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SIDEWALK DEPARTMENT.
B. T. McGlauflin, labor,
49.60
John L. Peabody,
5.15
M. J. Emerson,
15.84
Hans Swenson,
3.58
D. W. Case,
1.75
Oscar Sheldon, teaming plank,
9.10
B. & M. Railroad, freight on lumber,
20.40
B. Frank Phillips, lumber,
1.10
Fred Richardson,
7.83
Ulysses S. Stone,
2.33
David L. Sheldon,
8.06
H. K. Richardson,
1.25
$411.39
Overdrawn,
117.98
$293.41
Sidewalk Department.
Town appropriation,
$46.97
Unexpended balance last year,
53.03
$100.00
David L. Sheldon,
$12.84
Fred S. Flint,
4.67
Benjamin T. McGlauflin,
14.07
G. A. Currier, gravel,
3.20
Frank Curtis,
3.89
Ulysses S. Stone,
12.06
Oscar Sheldon,
.50
Earl Collins,
3.25
Clinton P. Stiles, gravel,
7.00
TREE WARDEN DEPARTMENT. . 21
John L. Peabody,
8.05
William N. Brown,
1.44
W. W. Wilkins,
32.50
George Margeson,
2.92
Waldo Wilkins,
7.97
Loren G. Esty, gravel,
3.10
Scott Wilkins,
5.25
Fred A. Richardson,
2.53
Hosea W. Richardson,
6.03
$102.02
Overdrawn,
2.02
$100.00
Tree Warden Department.
Town appropriation,
$200.00
Unexpended balance last year,
45.18
Received from B. T. McGlauflin, for private work,
18.08
$263.26
W. W. Wilkins,
30.25
David L. Sheldon,
18.13
Arthur Peabody,
9.80
John L. Peabody,
14.70
Frank Curtis,
6.40
B. T. McGlauflin,
43.66
ยท Harley M. Tyler,
25.13
George E. Currier,
9.50
Ralph Currier,
5.35
Ulysses S. Stone,
1.00
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MOTH DEPARTMENT.
Byron Morrison,
.75
Scott Wilkins,
2.68
George Wilkins,
3.20
Louis Eaton,
2.68
Eugene Brown,
3.20
Maurice Margeson,
1.60
J. N. Crowe, ladders,
20.36
H. A. Wilkins, supplies,
11.21
$209.60
Amount unexpended,
53.66
$263.26
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Department.
Taxed to town of Middleton by the state for one-half year ending, December 31, 1905,
$129.19
Received from state, 494.81
Taxed to town of Middleton by the state for full year, 1906, 258.37
Amount allotted the town of Middle- ton by state for year, 1906, 800.00
$1682.37
M. J. Emerson, cash paid for postage, $2.50
A. N. Webb, printing notices and envelopes, 7.50
H. K. Richardson, trip to Lynnfield, etc., 2.50
M. E. Tyler, time and teams,
7.50
M. J. Emerson, time spent and cash paid, 10.10
Bowker Insecticide Co., creosote,
1.50
J. N. Crowe, ladders, 31.65
Calvin Putnam Lumber Co., lumber for poles, .90
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MOTH DEPARTMENT.
H. K. Richardson, journeys out of town and copying gypsy and brown tail moth valuation book, 19.36
M. J. Emerson, time and cash paid on gypsy and brown tail moth valuation book,
18.63
S. A. Fletcher, car fare and taking oaths on brown tail moth bills,
5.00
George E. Currier, labor,
98.50
Herbert Currier,
63.40
Ralph Currier,
63.60
Lester Eaton,
36.00
Roy Eaton,
51.60
Sargent Odgen,
38.50
William Gurley,
53.63
Guy Sheldon,
26.10
B. T. McGlauflin,
142.66
A. M. Richardson,
13.10
George P. Evans, labor,
59.00
H. K. Richardson,
2.00
M. J. Emerson,
64.18
Ernest Curtis,
5.60
H. A. Wilkins,
12.25
David L. Sheldon,
85.54
John L. Peabody,
59.10
Fred S. Flint,
.59
Clinton P. Stiles, repairs,
2.35
Byron Morrison, repairs,
2.85
Scott Wilkins'
11.20
Waldo Wilkins,
13.20
Arthur Margeson,
29.55
Frank Margeson,
8.00
Rufus H. Peabody,
4.80
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TOWN HALL DEPARTMENT.
Hosea W. Richardson,
8.00
Waldo Rounds, 10.00
$1072.44
Balance unexpended and to be ex- pended in 1906, 609.93
$1682.93
Town Hall Department.
DR.
Henry Young, services as janitor,
$106.40
Henry Young, supplies,
7.58
Henry Young, cleaning hall,
5.00
W. P. Early, coal for Town Hall,
55.40
A. G. Huntoon, wood,
1.00
Danvers Water Board,
6.00
J. E. Ropes & Co., repairing furnace,
5.30
H. A. Wilkins, supplies for Town Hall,
27.17
$213.85
CR.
Cash received from I. O. R. M., $36.10
Cash received from First Congregational
Society, 18.00
Received from entertainments and dances, 69.50
$123.60
Balance against Town, 90.25
$213.85
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CEMETERY DEPARTMENT.
Cemetery Department.
Appropriation,
$200.00
Unexpended balance, 1905,
.14
$200.14
Danvers Water Board, water for Cemetery, 6.00
L. F. Atwood, labor and cash paid for same, 191.10
$197.10
Unexpended balance, 3.04
$200.14
Cemetery, New Avenues.
Unexpended balance, 1905,
$1.83
L. F. Atwood, labor, 1.83
Cemetery Trust Fund.
L. F. Atwood, care of private lots in cemetery, $45.00
CR.
Bank interest on funds deposited for care of private lots, $45.00
Poor Department.
Town appropriation, $300.00
Unexpended balance, 499.52
Due from North Andover for medical attendance for Mrs. Weaver, 60.00
Due for outstanding bill,
56.00
Dr. George W. Ewing, medical attendance
on Mrs. Giddings,
$21.00
$915.52
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FIRE DEPARTMENT.
B. T. McGlauflin, locking up 271 tramps, 27.10 Town of Peabody, board of Mrs. Harriet Smith in almshouse and medicine, 136.53
J. L. Fairbanks Co., travellers and vagrants register, 6.50
City of Salem, board of Henrietta Tyler at Hospital eight weeks, 56.00
H. A. Wilkins, supplies for Tramp House, 14.80
Oscar Cram, services in taking Roger Roberts to Asylum, 5.00
Salem Hospital, 56.00
George W. Ewing, medical attendance for
Mrs. Weaver,
60.00
$382.93
Unexpended balance,
532.59
$915.52
Firemen's Department.
Town appropriation, $65.00
L. G. Estey, services and cash paid firemen, $65.00
Fire Department.
Town appropriation, $100.00
Unexpended last year, 43.08
$143.08
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., eight 212 in. rings, two hundred ft., of 2}% in. alpha hose, twenty-five washers, two ladder straps, 2 cover respirators, $108.00
L. G. Estey, repairing sail cloth, 4.00
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MEMORIAL DAY DEPARTMENT.
Boston Hose Co., material for repairing hose, 1.20
Harley M. Tyler, repairing pumps, 2.75
L. G. Estey, keys, express and coupling for hose,
1.95
L. G. Estey, repairs on hose house,
6.90
H. A. Wilkins & Sons, supplies for fire department,
10.59
$135.39
Unexpended balance,
7.69
$143.08
Memorial Day Department.
Town appropriation,
Balance overdrawn last year,
.06
John W. Dempsey, opening church,
4.00
L. P. Fletcher,
1.03
Ellis Bakery Co., supplies,
4.40
M. E. Tyler, cash paid speaker,
15.00
M. E. Tyler, telephone, postage, etc.,
.50
J. F. Hayward, 2112 pounds of ham, 5.75
3.87
Barry Printing Co., programs,
8.00
L. F. Atwood, flags and plants,
8.05
H. F. White, forty-eight wreaths,
6.00
George Ogden, blowing organ,
1.00
L. P. Fletcher, playing organ and postage,
2.45
Oliver Ditson, music,
.45
H. A. Wilkins & Sons, coffee, butter, etc.,
2.43
S. A. Fletcher, cash paid for washing dishes, Mrs. Abbott, 1.10
W. C. Metcalf, milk, .40
$110.00
Dirigo Creamery Co., eight gallons ice cream,
28
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
North Reading Band, 50.00
Moses Peabody, transporting school children, 4.00
118.47
Overdrawn,
8.47
$116.00
Liquor Law Department.
Balance unexpended 1905,
$64.07
H. K. Richardson, time spent for suppress-
ing sale of liquor, 5.00
Balance unexpended, 59.07
$64.07
Special Appropriation, LAKE STREET.
Town appropriation,
$250.00
Hosea W. Richardson,
$11.28
Dennis W. Case,
17.33
Thaddeus E. McGlauflin,
42.50
Frank Curtis,
19.48
Earl Collins,
11.56
John L. Peabody,
1.75
David L. Sheldon,
34.43
Waldo Wilkins,
8.75
B. T. McGlauflin,
75.57
B. T. McGlauflin, cash paid for dynamite,
7.83
Fred Flint,
22.56
Oscar Sheldon,
.75
Ulysses S. Stone,
3.70
George Margeson,
5.74
$263.59
Overdrawn,
13.59
$250.00
29
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
CULVERT ON MAPLE STREET.
Appropriation,
$75.00
W. A. Hutchinson,
$6.04
David L. Sheldon,
6.04
Hosea W. Richardson,
.79
Frank Curtis,
.79
B. T. McGlauflin,
8.61
$22.27
Unexpended balance,
52.73
$75.00
FOR NOTES DUE ON HEATING PLANT AND WATER SUPPLY FOR
SCHOOL HOUSE.
Town appropriation,
$465.00
Overdrawn last year,
$62.12
Arthur B. Chapin, payment of third annual note of $200 and interest, 238.50
Arthur B. Chapin, payment of fifth annual note of $150 with interest,
161.39
$462.01
Unexpended balance,
2.99
$465.00
HYDRANT AT HOWE'S STATION.
Town appropriation,
$75.00
Danvers Water Board,
$74.64
Unexpended,
.36
$75.00
WATER PIPE FOR SOUTH MAIN STREET.
Town appropriation,
$250.00
Danvers Water Board, 288 feet pipe, 175 pounds lead,
$89.28
8.75
30
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Hydrant,
23.80
Labor,
15.00
Yarn, fuse, etc.,
1.00
Pettingell & Barry,
2.59
Teaming pipe, Teaming tools, etc.,
2.00
Paul B. Patten,
6.05
William H. Hutchinson, labor,
27.51
Frank Evans, labor,
20.60
Edward Evans, labor,
17.10
M. J. Emerson, labor and expense,
25.40
W. N. Brown, labor,
12.44
George Trask,
1.75
Byron Morrison, sharpening tools,
3.65
M. J. Emerson, cash paid for dynamite and fuse,
3.10
H. A. Wilkins & Sons, supplies,
4.67
Oscar Sheldon, teaming,
1.75
$266.44
Overdrawn,
16.44
$250.00
State Highway Department.
H. K. Richardson, cash paid for picking off rocks,
$1.00
H. K. Richardson, time and teams on road machine in shaping up road and cash paid, 7.00
William N. Brown, horse and labor on road, 7.00
James Kelley, 3.50
Waldo Wilkins, 3.50
M. J. Emerson,
3.50
$25.50
31
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Abatement of Taxes.
Jesse M. Peabody, abatement on Oscar Cram's tax of 1903, $2.70
John M. Peabody, abatement on S. J. Tuft's tax of 1901, 1.15
John M. Peabody, abatement on E. C. Larrabee's tax of 1900, 1901 and 1902, 3.65
Jesse M. Peabody, abatement on Mrs. Wil- liam Russell's tax of 1905, 5.50
John M. Peabody, abatement on Charles F. Floyd, tax of 1899 and 1900, 4.00
Jesse M. Peabody, abatement on different taxes in 1897 book, 36.32
$53.32
Wood Account.
Estimated wood on hand February 1, 1905, cords, 5
Amount of wood cut in Town lot this year, cords, 512
10%
Amount of wood used at Town Hall tramp house, 7 1/2
Estimated wood on hand February, 1906,
3
107%
Summary of Orders drawn on Town Treasurer,
High School, $415.00
Schools, for year ending February 1, 1906,
2717.19
32
SUMMARY OF ORDERS.
School books and supplies,
187.75
Incidental school expenses,
179.77
Notes on Water Supply and interest,
161.39
Notes on heating and ventilating plant and interest,
238.50
Town officers,
833.00
Miscellaneous expenses,
1496.83
Notes paid,
2000.00
County tax,
620.00
State tax,
760.00
Highway Department,
1494.60
Snow department,
45.26
Cemetery department,
197.10
Cemetery, new avenues,
1.83
Cemetery trust fund,
45.00
Bridge department,
411.39
Sidewalks,
102.02
Tree Warden,
209.60
Firemen,
65.00
Fire Department
135.39
Memorial Day department,
118.43
Poor department,
382.93
Soldier's relief
32.12
Special appropriation, Lake Street,
263.59
Special appropriation, culvert on Maple Street,
22.27
Special appropriation, hydrant at Howes' Station,
74.64
Water pipe, South main,
266.44
State highway,
25.50
Gypsy and brown tail moths,
1072.44
Orders drawn for abatement of taxes,
53.32
Liquor Law Department,
5.00
$14,633.00
33
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
Tax Collector's Report.
Jesse W. Peabody, tax collector, in account with the Town of Middleton :
Balance of tax list of 1897,
$152.57
Abated, Feb. 1, 1906,
36.32
$116.25
Interest,
11.30
$127.55
Amount collected,
109.66
Uncollected,
$17.89
Balance of tax list of 1903,
$988.60
Abated, Feb. 1, 1906,
2.70
$985.90
Interest,
26.52
$1012.42
Amount collected,
559.69
Uncollected,
$452.73
Balance of tax list of 1904,
$2221.98
Interest,
48.88
$2270.86
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