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REPORT
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OF THE
Receipts and Expenditures
OF THE
Town of Middleton
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1922
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SALEM, MASS. MILO A. NEWHALL & CO., PRINTERS
1923
INDEX
Abatements
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Abatement Reserve
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American Legion
16
Analysis of Appropriations and Payments, 1922
Cash
24
County and State Tax
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Contingent
18
Fire Protection
14
Health Department
15
Highway Department
10
Highway Special
19
Interest
17
Library
16
Memorial Day
13
Middleton Electric Light
26
Military Aid
16
Moth and Tree Department
11
Municipal Indebtedness
18
Police Department
13
Poor Department
16
Reserve
24
Revenue Notes
23
School Department
20
Soldiers and State Aid
16
Statement and Balance Sheet
25
Tax Levy Analysis .
25
Tax Returns
21
Town Officers
4
Town Officers Salaries
9
Treasurer of Massachusetts
29
Town Treasurer's Report
29
PART II
Cemetery Endowment Report
37
David Cummings' Fund
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40
B. F. Emerson Fund
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41
Flint Public Library Fund .
42
Jurors List
41
Librarian's Report
44
School Reports
49
Sealer of Weights and Measures Report .
39
Tax Collector's Report
46
Town Hall Report
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47
PART III
Report of Finance Committee .
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Town Warrant
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64
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47
Vital Statistics Report
7
Cemetery Department
12
23
24
21
TOWN OFFICERS 1922
MODERATOR
Lewis E. Rogers
Term expires March, 1923
TOWN CLERK
Wayne A. Giles
Term expires March, 1923
TREASURER
Harry H. Bradstreet
Term expires March, 1923
SELECTMEN
Harry B. Croxford, Clerk
E. Stimpson Hutchinson
Term expires March, 1923 Term expires March, 1923
Maurice E. Tyler, Chairman
Term expires March, 1923
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
Lyman S. Wilkins Maurice E. Tyler J. Allen Atwood
Term expires March, 1923 Term expires March, 1924 Term expires March, 1925
BOARD OF HEALTH
Harry B. Croxford E. Stimpson Hutchinson
Maurice E. Tyler
Term expires March, 1923 Term expires March, 1923 Term expires March, 1923
BOARD OF ASSESSORS
Lyman S. Wilkins B. Frank Phillips Maurice E. Tyler
Term expires March, 1923 Term expires March, 1924 Term expires March, 1925
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
George E. Gifford
Mrs. M. W. Berry
Arthur E. Curtis
Term expires March, 1923 Term expires March, 1924 Term expires March, 1925
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR
Clyde Hood Term expires March, 1923.
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TOWN OFFICERS
TAX COLLECTOR
Henry A. Young
Term expires March, 1923
TREE WARDEN
B. McGlauflin Term expires March, 1923
MOTH SUPERINTENDENT
W. W. Wilkins Term expires January, 1923
CONSTABLE AND CHIEF OF POLICE
Will A. Russell Term expires March, 1923
SUPERINTENDENT OF BURIAL
J. Allen Atwood
Term expires March, 1923
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS AND SLAUGHTERING
Lyman S. Wilkins Term expires March, 1923
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
E. P. Oakman, Jr. Term expires May, 1924
FOREST FIRE WARDEN
Will A. Russell Term expires January, 1923
CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
Oscar Sheldon Term expires May, 1923
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Elmer O. Campbell Term expires May, 1923
MANAGER OF ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Maurice E. Tyler Term expires April, 1923
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TOWN OFFICERS
ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMISSIONERS
Harry B. Croxford E. Stimpson Hutchinson Maurice E. Tyler
Term expires March, 1923
Term expires March, 1923 Term expires March, 1923
WATER COMMISSIONERS
H. K. Richardson
Term expires March, 1923
George Ogden
Term expires March, 1924
Oscar Sheldon
Term expires March, 1925
TRUSTEES DAVID CUMMINGS FUND
Maurice E. Tyler J. Allen Atwood
Term expires March, 1923
Term expires March, 1924
George E. Barnaby
Term expires March, 1925
TRUSTEES FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY
George E. Barnaby
Term expires March, 1923
William R. Godfrey
Term expires March, 1923
Henry A. Young
Term expires March, 1924
H. Galen Howe, Chairman
Term expires March, 1924
Maurice E. Tyler Term expires March, 1925
Charles Hutchinson
Term expires March, 1925
TRUSTEES B. F. EMERSON FUND Naumkeag Trust Company, Salem, Mass.
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ANALYSIS SHEET
Town Appropria- tion Receipts
Due from Accounts Receivable
Transfer from Reserve $ 220.72
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Total $2,407.72
Selectmen's Orders $2,277.72 2,926.30
Accounts Payable $130.00
Transfer to Reserve
Town Officers .
$2,187.00
Highways
3,000.00
Bridges
150.00
150.00
114.13
35.87
Sidewalks
100.00
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25.76
Snow Removal
500.00
102.33
602.33
602.33
Moth
461.41
209.71
x 556.49
50.15
1,277.76
1,277.76
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.72
Cemetery, Tomb
600.00
· 85.00
961.54*
1,646.54
1,331.54
315.00
Memorial Day .
175.00
5.79
359.90
359.90
Police
800.00
402.74
1,202.74
1,202.74
Forest Fires
500.00
31.80
1,807.14
2,338.94
1,905.69
433.25
Firemen's Wages
65.00
65.00
65.00
American Legion
110.00
110.00
82.50
27.50
Board of Health
300.00
260.70
413.01
973.71
933.41
40.30
Poor Department
1,000.00
597.25
252.86
1,850.11
1,850.11
Soldiers' Benefits
100.00
296.00
296.00
296 00
Military Aid
60.00
15.00
75.00
30.00
Interest
1,300.00
1,300.00
1,287.19
12.81
Municipal Indebtedness Essex Sanitorium
155.73
155.73
155.73
Contingent
2,500.00
124.00
2,624.00
2,221.91
402.09
State Tax
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$16,980.14
$725.41 $1,435.38 $4,410.33 $23,926.32 $27,835.57
$946.05
$615.96
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816.00
815.28
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ANALYSIS SHEET
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County Tax
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Tree Warden
816.00
Cemetery
600.00
600.00
595.99
4.01
Cemetery, Endowment
359.90
180.79
180.79
Building Fires .
100.00
194.05
294.05
294.05
Fire Hose
300.00
300.00
300.00
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100.00
84.00
16.00
State Aid
45.00
1,100.00
1,100.00
1,100.00
3,556.14
1,915.12
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73.70
3,000.00
100.00
74.24
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Town Appropria- tion
Due from Accounts Receivable $1,435.38
Transfer from Reserve
Total
Selectmen's Orders
Accounts Payable $946.05
Transfer to Reserve $615.96
Brought Forward
$16,980.14
Receipts $725.41 1.00
231.53
1,232.53
1,232.53
59.72
Library Account
250.00
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4.82
13,079.82
13,079.82
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150.00
30.00
9.00
195.00
195.00
Maple St. Highway
32,172.98
298.61
32,471.59
32,471.59
Maple St. Bridge
2,000.00
3,559.42
f 1,110.58
7,527.95 6,670.00
6,456.91
391.54
213.09
Abatement, 1920 Taxes
300.08
Abatement, 1921 Poll
10.00
Abatement, 1921 Taxes
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Abatement, 1922 Taxes
Abatement Reserve
70.98
10.02
Taxes, 1920
4,499.57
Taxes, 1921
6,813.33
Taxes, 1922
21,357.56
Poll Taxes, 1920
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15.00
1,467.00
Moth Assessment, 1921
40.05
276.11
Revenue Notes
32,000.00
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State Treasurer
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1,005.45
c 651.03
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Reserve Account
8,430.97
a1,040.82
b 5,709.16
$34,080.14 119,946.20
$2,116.41 $5,709.16
123,087.88
$1,337.59
$888.77
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250.00
250.00
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7,491.35
36.60
7,527.95
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ANALYSIS SHEET
1921
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1922
1922
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Includes balance Jan. 1, 1922, of $462.69 not added in total. (a) Transfers to Reserve from other accounts as unexpended balances. (b) Transfers from Reserve to other accounts to cover overdrafts which totaled $5.061.27. (c) Includes all other outside accounts due Town beside what State owes. (x) $375.06 of Moth Accounts Receivable due from Tax Levy and not added in total.
* $900.00 of this tranfer had been appropriated several years ago.
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1,000.00
Library Heater
700.00
700.00
640.38
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School
13,000.00
School and Cem. Fence
75.00 6.00
$4,410.33 $23,926.32 $27,835.57
Town Scales ·
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10.00
33,000.00
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11.77
66.26
Middleton Elec. L. Dpt.
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TOWN OFFICERS' SALARIES
Town Officers' Salaries
Appropriation
$2,187 00
Transfer from Reserve
220 72 $2,407.72
Selectmen :
M. E. Tyler
$100 00
E. O. Campbell
25 00
H. B. Croxford
99 99
E. S. Hutchinson
83 34
$308 33
Treasurer
250 00
Accountant
300 00
Town Clerk
187 32
Auditor
50 00
Moderator
24 00
Assessors :
M. E. Tyler
$249 00
B. F. Phillips
109 25
Lyman Wilkins
248 50
$606 75
Registrars :
E. O. Campbell
$ 5 00
H. B. Croxford
14 00
E. S. Hutchinson
12 50
M. E. Tyler
19 50
$51 00
Overseers of Poor :
M. E. Tyler
$30 00
J. A. Atwood
30 00
Lyman Wilkins
30 00
$90 00
Superintendent of Burials
$ 15 00
Constable
50 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
: 50 00
Inspector of Cattle
100 00
Inspector of Slaughtering
50 00
10
HIGHWAY ACCOUNT
Water Commissioner :
Oscar Sheldon
$ 10 00
Tax Collector
265 32
$2,407 72
Highways
Appropriation
$3,000 00
Labor
$2,061 81
Team
684 27
Tools
78 06
Repairs to equipment
2 85
Gravel, pipe, etc.
83 04
Express
1 27
Curbstone for Maple Street
15 00
Transferred to Reserve
73 70
$3,000 00
Bridges
Appropriation
$150 00
Labor
$58 04
Labor
19 31
Team
11 28
Lumber and nails
25 50
Transferred to Reserve
35 87
$150 00
Sidewalks
Appropriation
$100 00
Labor
$52 64
Team
18 80
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Gravel
$ 2 80
Transferred to Reserve
25 76
$100 00
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MOTH ACCOUNT
Snow Removal and Sanding Walks
Appropriation
$500 00
Transferred from Reserve
102 33
$602 33
Labor for removal of snow
$340 99
Team for removal of snow
180. 93
Repairs to plow
1 50
Labor for sanding walks
55 01
Team for sanding walks
20 90
Sand
3 00
$602 33
Moths
Appropriation
$461 41
Due from State
152 48
Due from private work
28 95
Due from tax assessment
375 06
Received from private work and sale of lead
89 10
Received from State
120 61
Received from Reserve
50 15
$1,277 76
Labor
$617 70
Team
116 36
Tools
4 60
Supplies
37 87
Moth Notices
13 25
Private work
392 11
State work
38 06
Cemetery
57 81
$1,277 76
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CEMETERY ACCOUNT
Tree Warden
Appropriation
$816 00
Labor
$457 58
Team
9 20
Tools
25 41
Repairs to equipment
7 09
Labor, repairing storm damage
301 00
Team
15 00
Transferred to Reserve
72
$816 00
Cemetery
Appropriation
$600 00
Labor
$526 02
Team
28 00
Tools and equipment
35 97
Water
6 00
Transferred to Reserve
4 01
$600 00
Cemetery Tomb
Appropriation
$600 00
Transferred from Reserve
900 00
Transferred from Reserve
61 54
Due from sale of lumber and supplies
85 00
$1,646 54
Labor
$642 80
Team
22 50
Estimates
13 81
Door frame, rods and teaming
215 00
Lumber, cement, rock and supplies
424 96
13
POLICE ACCOUNT
Freight and express Brick wall
12 47
315 00
$1,646 54
School and Cemetery Fence
Appropriation
$150 00
Sale of old fence
6 00
Received from Lester Dore
30 00
Transferred from Reserve
9 00
$195 00
School fence including labor and super- vision of erection
$195 00
Police
Appropriation
$800 00
Transferred from Reserve
402 74
$1,202 74
Labor
$393 76
Automobile
112 50
Court fees
61 61
Lawyer
90 00
Storage
64 00
Miscellaneous expenses
22 35
Telephone
12 20
Uniforms
5 00
Police matron
8 00
Watchman on Maple Street
433 32
$1,202 74
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$175 00
Transferred from Reserve
5 79
$180 79
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FIRE ACCOUNT
Band
$108 00
Refreshments
20 04
Wreaths
14 40
Flowers
12 00
Speaker
10 00
Flags
7 26
Programs
5 40
Organist
3 00
Flag fixture
69
$180 79
House Fires
Appropriation
$100 00
Transferred from Reserve
194 05
$294 05
Labor
$153 50
Automobile
26 50
Outside chemicals from Danvers
100 00
Drying hose
3 50
Repairs to hose house
1 93
Water and electricity
8 62
$294 05
Forest Fires
Appropriation
$500 00
Refund from payroll
10 00
Refund from Boston and Maine
5 76
Refund from American Express
1 70
Refund from Boxford
14 34
Transferred from Reserve
1,807 14
$2,338 94
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BOARD OF HEALTH ACCOUNT
Labor
$207 99
Automobile
64 65
Labor, Essex Street fire
1,431 00
Automobile, Essex Street fire
118 00
Miscellaneous expenses, Essex Street fire
45 77
Danvers chemical, Essex Street fire
100 00
New equipment
300 36
Bottles, acid, soda and supplies
45 46
Repairs to equipment
1 92
Miscellaneous
15 79
Forest warden
8 00
$2,338 94
Firemen's Wages
Appropriation
$65 00
Expended
$65 00
New Hose
Appropriation
$300 00
Expended 600 feet
$300 00
Board of Health
Appropriation
$300 00
Accounts received due from State
260 70
Transferred from Reserve
413 01
$973 71
Postage and permits
$51 48
Disinfection
6 00
Notice
1 00
Contagous diseases
440 73
Essex sanitorium patient
474 50
$973 71
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SOLDIERS' AID ACCOUNT
Library Account
Appropriation Expended
$250 00
$250 00
Poor Department
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Due from City of Lynn
268 55
Due from City of Boston
328 70
Transferred from Reserve
252 86
$1,850 11
Assistance to City of Lynn
$ 268 55
Assistance to City of Boston
328 70
Assistance to town poor
1,251 36
Miscellaneous
1 50
$1,850 11
Soldiers' Relief
Appropriation
$100 00
Expended
$84 00
Transferred to Reserve
16 00
$100 00
Library Heater
Appropriation
$700 00.
New heater, labor, etc.
$640 38
Transferred to Reserve
59 62
$700 00
American Legion
Appropriation Expended
$110 00
$110 00
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INTEREST ACCOUNT
Town Scales
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Sale of lumber
1 00
Transferred from Reserve
231 53
$1,232 53
Scales and supervision
$623 50
Lumber and posts
103 35
Mason work
51 70
Labor
312 26
Sand and gravel
74 47
Scale house
36 70
Freight, gasoline and testing scales
30 55
$1,232 53
Military Aid
Appropriation
$60 00
Due from State
15 00
$75 00
Expended
$30 00
Transferred to Reserve
45 00
$75 00
State Aid
Due from State
$294 00
Expended
$294 00
Interest
Appropriation
$1,300 00
Expended
$1,287 19
Transferred to Reserve
12 81
$1,300 00
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CONTINGENT ACCOUNT
Municipal Indebtedness
Appropriation
$1,100 00
. Expended
$1,100 00
Essex Sanitorium
Appropriation
$155 73
Expended
$155 73
Contingent
Appropriation
$2,500 00
Received from town of Danvers account
"Log" bridge 100 00
Received from Salem News duplicate payment 24 00
$2,624 00
Water and light, Town hall
120 88
Janitor, Town hall
258 20
Fuel, Town hall
225 00
Telephone
3 75
Miscellaneous expense
59 14
Perambulating
3 50
Premium on Town bonds, etc.
50 00
Election officer
102 00
Election officers' expenses
9 30
Town reports and envelopes
107 25
Ballots
56 20
Maple Street special expenses
25 50
Blowing whistle
87 78
Miscellaneous
85 88
Town clerk expenses and records vital statistics 59 00
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CONTINGENT ACCOUNT
Sealer of weights and measures expenses
101 19
Selectmen's expenses
47 82
Town treasurer's expenses and bonds
92 92
Town accountant's expenses
42 84
Tax collector's expenses
109 47
Assessors' expenses
19 14
Repairing "Log" bridge
200 00
Repairing water line at tank : Labor
55 31
Repairing water line at tank : Pipe
34 56
Resurfacing Town square
166 35
Repairing North Main Street gutter
100 00
Transferred to Reserve
402 09
$2,624 00
Maple Street Highway
Received from County
$16,086 49
Received from State
16,086 49
Transferred from Reserve
298 61
$32,471 59
James Watkins, contractor
$32,172 98
Advertising bids
53 70
Grates, freight and express
164 88
Moving poles
80 03
$32,471 59
Maple Street Bridge
Received from County
$3,745 68
Received from State
3,745 67
Received from Reserve
36 60
$7,527 95
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SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Engineering, Service and Con. Co. $7,491 35
Advertising for bids 36 60
$7,527 95
School Department
Schools
Appropriation
$13,000 00
Received from N. Andover duplicate payment 75 00
Transferred from Reserve 4 82
$13,079 82
Teachers' salaries
$5,104 82
Superintendent, salary and expenses
527 77
Janitor's salary 750 00
School nurse, expenses and medical supplies 213 05
School physician
9 00
Transportation of children
1,645 00
High school pupils' tickets
1,112 05
Tuition in other Towns
2,539 30
Water, fuel and light
494 78
Books and supplies
517 56
Repairs to building
127 78
Miscellaneous expenses
23 11
Truant officer
10 00
Postage, freight and express
5 60
$13,079 82
Abatement 1920
Balance January, 1922
$147 71
Transferred from Abatement Reserve 152 37
$300 08
Taxes abated 1922
$300 08
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TAX ACCOUNT
Abatement 1921
Balance January, 1922
$310 75
Taxes abated 1922
$ 11 77
Balance December 31, 1922
298 98
$310 75
Abatement 1922
As per Tax Levy
$371 71
Taxes abated 1922
$ 66 26
Balance December 31, 1922
305 45
$371 71
Abatement Reserve
Balance
$101 41
Transferred from Reserve
70 98
$172 39
Transferred to abatements 1920
$172 39
Taxes 1920
Receipts
$4,499 57
Balance due January, 1922
$4,342 42
Transferred to Reserve
157 15
$4,499 57
Taxes 1921
Receipts
Balance due December 31, 1922
$6,813 33
5,461 75
Balance due January 1, 1922 $12,275 08
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TAX ACCOUNT
Taxes 1922
Receipts $21,357 56 14,790 55 $36,148 11
Balance due December 31, 1922
Tax Levy
$36,148 11
Poll Tax 1920
Receipts $10 00
Transferred to Reserve
$10 00
Poll Tax 1921
Receipts $15 00
Balance due January 1, 1922
$15 00
Poll Tax 1922
Receipts
$1,467 00
Balance due December 31, 1922
208 00
$1,675 00
Tax Levy
$1,675 00
Moth Assessments 1921
Receipts
$40 05
Balance due December 31, 1922
52 25
$92 30
Balance January 1, 1922
$92 30
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REVENUE NOTES
Moth Assessments 1922
Receipts
Balance due December 31, 1922
$276 11 98 95 $375 06
Tax Levy
$375 06
Revenue Notes
Notes payable January 1, 1922
$23,000 00
Notes payable contracted during 1922 32,000 00
$55,000 00
Notes payable paid
$33,000 00
Balance notes payable, Dec. 31, 1922
22,000 00
$55,000 00
Accounts Receivable : Balance due December 31, 1922 Due from State Treasurer :
$2,116 41
Moth
$152 48
Military aid 15 00
State aid 296 00
Board of Health
260 70
City of Lynn
268 55
City of Boston
328 70
Town of Topsfield
150 00
Private citizens
169 48
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Middleton Elec. Light customers 475 50
$2,116 41
Accounts Payable :
Town of Topsfield
$110 00
Town of Boxford
323 25
Appropriation accounts
512 80
$946 05
Accounts payable December 31, 1922
$946 05
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RESERVE ACCOUNT
Reserve Account
Balance January 1, 1922
$4,540 61
Sundry receipts 8,430 97
Received by transfer from other accounts 827 73
Received by transfer from Middleton Electric Light cash balance 213 09
Received by transfer from Excess and Deficit account 2,297 36
$16,309 76
Estimated receipts tax levy 1921
$5,000 00
Estimated receipts tax levy 1922 5,600 00
Transfer to other departments account overdrafts 4,090 89
Transfer to abatement reserve
70 98
Transfer to cemetery tomb
900 00
Transfer to Middleton Electric Light
account as of Jan. 1, 1922 for con-
struction and depreciation accounts 647 89
$16,309 76
Cash Account
Balance on hand January 1, 1922
$ 5,157 09
Receipts for the year
119,946 20
$125,103 29
Selectmen's orders
$122,791 88
State aid
296 00
Cash balance December 31,1922
2,045 41
$125,103 29
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BALANCE SHEET
Analysis Tax Levy
Money raised to be expended as follows :
County tax
$1,915 12
State tax
3,556 14
Appropriations March, 1922
34,080 14
Appropriations Dec., 1921, special meeting 3,500 00
Overlay
371 71
Moth assessment
375 06
$43,798 17
Money for the above raised as follows :
Tax levy
$36,148 11
Estimated receipts
5,600 00
Poll tax
1,675 00
Moth assessment
375 06
$43,798 17
Balance Sheet
Cash on hand
$2,015 41
Due from taxes 1921
5,461 75
Due from taxes 1922
14,790 55
Due from poll taxes 1922
208 00
Due from accounts receivable
2,116 41
Due from moth assessment 1921
52 25
Due from moth assessment 1922
98 95
$24,743 32
Accounts payable
$1,337 59
Notes payable (revenue)
22,000 00
Abatement 1921
298 98
Abatement 1922
305 45
Excess and deficit
801 30
$24,743 32
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TRUST ACCOUNT
Net Funded Debt Acccount
Net funded debt
$3,800 00
Refunding notes
1,800 00
Electric light notes
2,000 00
$3,800 00
Trust Fund Account
Trust funds $31,102 57
David Cummings fund, stock 1,200 00
David Cummings fund, cash 6,978 84
Charles L. Flint library fund
5,123 16
B. F. Emerson library fund 10,077 89
Cemetery perpetual care fund
7,722 68
$31,102 57
Middleton Electric Light Company Report
Operating Revenue :
Metered sales to customers $3,532 05
Town appropriation 2,000 00
$5,532 05
Operating Expenses :
Electricity purchased from Danvers
Street Lights
$ 597 63
Electricity purchased from Danvers House Lights 2,246 53
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MIDDLETON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.
Maintenance and depreciation, repairs to House and Street equipment
$1,930 52
Manager's salary
315 00
General office supplies
54 58
Services of accountant
12 00
$5,156 26
Income Statement :
Operating revenue
$5,532 05
Operating expenses
5,156 26
Net operating revenue
$375 79
Profit and Loss Statement :
Credit balance January 1, 1922
$1,343 49
Credit balance transfer from net operating revenue
375 79
$1,719 28
Depreciation of equipment
$315 00
Notes payable
500 00
Interest
104 54
Balance
799 74
$1,719 28
Balance Sheet :
Plant investment
$11,176 38
Cash transferred to Town reserve
213 09
Accounts receivable
475 50
$11,864 97
28
PLANT INVESTMENT ACCOUNT
Construction account
$6,166 60
Notes payable
2,000 00
Accounts payable
391 54
Interest accrued
7 09
Loans prepayment
2,500 00
Profit and loss
799 74
$11,864 97
Plant Investment Accounts
Poles, fixtures and wire as of Dec. 31, 1922 $9,620 23
Customers' meters
833 12
Line transformers
255 65
Street lighting equipment
467 38
Total plant investment
$11,176 38
Plant investment January 1, 1922
$10,608 63
Additions to construction account
882 75
$11,491 38
Depreciation
315 00
Total plant investment
$11,176 38
Cost last year per K. W. to furnish electricity for home and street lighting 9.82 cents.
This high cost was due largely to unusual amount of repairs made necessary by recent ice storm.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
Treasurer's Report for the year 1922 RECEIPTS
Balance January 1, 1922
$4,694 40
Henry A. Young, rent of Town Hall
334 10
rent of piano
35 50
1920 taxes
4,249 49
1920 polls
10 00
1920 interest
447 58
1921 taxes
6,844 83
1921 polls
5 00
1921 interest
176 02
66
1922 taxes
21,564 19
66
1922 polls.
1,467 00
66
1922 interest
13 17
1920 abatement taxes
250 08
66
1920 abatement interest 50 00
66
1921 abatement
8 55
66
1921 abatement polls
10 00
1922 abatement
69 48
Maurice E. Tyler, electric light collections 3,497 68
construction
61 75
STATE TREASURER :
Income tax 1919
5 25
. 1920
36 75
1921
220 50
1922 (general)
480 00
66 1922 (schools)
770 00
Corporation tax, domestic
253 87
public service
50 22
business
569 69
Division of sanatorium
117 86
Vocational education
93 15
66
30
TREASURER'S REPORT
Gypsy and brown tail moth
443 59
Highway commission, gypsy moth 45 31
Compensation, inspector of animals
50 00
Highway commission, moth department
75 30
Reimbursement loss of taxes
459 90
Support of paupers
61 60
National bank tax
31 83
Street railway tax
158 29
Tuition of children
352 85
Transportation high school pupils
449 40
Military aid
60 00
State aid
384 00
Soldiers' exemption
82 86
High school tuition
1,186 25
School superintendent
386 66
Highways, Maple Street
16,086 49
Maple Street bridge
3,745 67
COUNTY TREASURER :
Rebate dog tax
55 70
Highways, Maple Street
16,086 48
Maple Street bridge
3,745 69
SUNDRY RECEIPTS :
Interest on deposits
98 01
Various licenses
42 00
Clerk, first district court
719 39
Merchants National Bank, Salem
Notes Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
32,000 00
Burt McGlauflin, private moth work
76 45
Will A. Russell : Sale oil stoves, barrels, junk, etc.
111 13
Refund forest fires
9 00
Express claim
1 70
Account, J. W. Mckenzie
10 00
1
31
TREASURER'S REPORT
Town of Danvers, one-half cost of bridge 100 00 W. W. Wilkins, private moth work and lead sold 85 35
E. O. Campbell, sealer's fees
19 35
J. A. Atwood, cemetery lots sold
38 00
Interest on cemetery endowments
359 90
City of Lynn, poor department
183 80
Town of Danvers, tax on land around pond 246 40
Clifton Berry, tuition
30 00
Boston and Maine railroad forest fire,
Howe Station
5 76
Town North Andover refund
75 00
Forest fire, Boxford
14 34
Salem News refund
24 00
Uncollected interest
12 75
Transfer from electric light depreciation
215 25
Miscellaneous
44 29
$124,855 85
EXPENDITURES
Town orders
$122,544 44
State aid orders
296 00
Balance December 31, 1922
2,015 41
$124,855 85
Electric Light Depreciation Account
Balance January 1, 1922
$462 69 200 76
Receipts
$663 45
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ELECTRIC LIGHT ACCOUNT
Selectmen's orders
$448 20
Transfer to Town account
215 25
$663 45
H. H. BRADSTREET, Treasurer.
December 31, 1922.
Outstanding Notes, Amounts And When Due
Notes Due
1923
1924
1925
1926
Revenue March 21, $6,000 00
Revenue May 16, : 16,000 00
Demand Notes Apr. 1, 500 00
500 00
500 00
300 00
Electric Light Dec. 1, 500 00
500 00
500 00
500 00
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
VARIOUS COMMITTEES
OF THE
TOWN OF MIDDLETON
FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1922
PART II
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CEMETERY ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT
Cemetery Endowment Account
NAME
No. of Lot
Fund
Balance 1921
Interest Received
Amount Withdrawn
Balance
Atwood, L. Frank
360
$100 00
$138 31
$6 28 $10 00
$134 59
Averill, Edward P.
52
100 00
101 10
4 59
4 00
101 69
Averill, Joseph
346
100 00
102 25
4 64
4 00
102 89
Barnaby, Caroline V.
646
100 00
102 89
4 66
4 00
103 55
Batchelder, Harold T.
528
75 00
75 56
3 42
2 00
76 98
Berry, Allen
112
122 90
136 29
6 19
8 00
134 48
Bryer, Allen D.
526
100 00
107 33
4 86
4 00
108 19
Conlon, Mary A.
100 00
100 00
3 40
3 40
100 00
Curry, Mary A.
342
100 00
100 00
4 55
4 00
100 55
Curtis, Phoebe .
50 00
51 50
2 32
3 00
50 82
Day, Mrs. Geo. E.
588
50 00
50 56
2 28
2 00
50 84
Dennett, Ruth H.
24
75 00
75 25
3 40
3 50
75 15
Estey, Annie E.
572
100 00
110 63
5 02
5 00
110 65
Esty, Allena A.
258
100 00
101 28
4 59
4 00
101 87
Esty and Hutchinson
48
100 00
103 33
4 68
4 00
104 01
Eaton, Irvin L.
168
75 00
75 77
3 42
3 50
75 69
Fowler, Alonzo
12
100 00
113 52
5 15
8 00
110 67
Frame, L. M.
516
125 00
135 34
6 15
10 00
131 49
Fuller, Jeremiah
70
75 00
79 17
3 58
5 00
77 75
Fuller, Sophronia .
236
200 00
263 03
11 95
10 00
264 98
Fuller, Timothy & Lydia
268
100 00
102 55
4 64
4 00
103 19
Flint, G. B.
152
65 30
65 05
2 95
2 00
66 00
Goswiler, Carl B.
716
150 00
150 53
6 82
4 00
153 35
Gifford, William
180
100 00
105 10
4 77
5 00
104 87
Gould, Porter I.
414
100 00
102 31
4 64
4 00
102 95
Graves, D. A.
234
100 00
108 57
4 93
5 00
108 50
Haskell Ella C.
390
200 00
200 00
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