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ANNUAL REPORTS
OSTAGE
OF THE TOWN OFFICIALS OF THE
TOWN OF OAKHAM
MASSACHUSETTS
OAKHAM
MA
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1762
AC
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FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1928
HEFFERNAN DRESS
SIXTEEN
SPENCER
MECHANIC STREET
MASSACHUSETTS
AWASHING CENTS
ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE TOWN OFFICIALS OF THE
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TOWN OF OAKHAM MASSACHUSETTS
KH.
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000
MA
TS
1762
ACHUS
FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1928
The HEFFERNAN PRESS
SIXTEEN
SPENCER
MECHANIC STREET
MASSACHUSETTS
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1928
TOWN CLERK
EFFIE T. SWINDELL
Term expires 1930
SELECTMEN
EARLE C. PARKER WALTER A. WOODIS JOHN P. DAY
Term expires 1929
Term expires 1930
Term expires 1931
ASSESSORS
ROBERT C. DWELLY JOHN MORAN CARL M. WHEELER
Term expires 1929
Term expires 1930 Term expires 1931
BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
MORTON F. LINCOLN
Term expires 1929
CARL M. WHEELER
Term expires 1930
SARA E. BUTLER
Term expires 1931
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
MINNIE M. DAY EARLE C. PARKER LEONE B. DANIELS
Term expires 1929
Term expires 1930
Term expires 1931
LIBRARY TRUSTEES
SARA E. BUTLER
Term expires 1929
FLORENCE E. BOTHWELL
WILLIAM A. NYE
Term expires 1930 Term expires 1931
CEMETERY COMMITTEE
GEORGE W. DEAN JOHN W. DWELLY EDWIN GREEN
Term expires 1929 Term expires 1930 Term expires 1931
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ONE-YEAR TERMS -
TAX COLLECTOR M. MORTON BUTTERFIELD TREASURER EFFIE T. SWINDELL
TREE WARDEN CLARENCE L. GRIMES
AUDITOR ORTON O. BUTLER
FENCE VIEWERS /
W. WALLACE GRIMES FRANK H. BOYD
ALFRED B. MORSE
CONSTABLES
W. E. SWINDELL RALPH I. DANIELS SAMUEL BRUNO BERT S. REED ROBERT C. DWELLY
JOSEPH POTTER
MEASURERS OF LUMBER
WALTER A. WOODIS GEORGE H. MORSE SYLVESTER R. DEAN
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
CHARLES B. DANIELS WALTER BRUCE JOHN N. MOORE
FIELD DRIVERS
JOHN ROBINSON JOHN O'DONNELL
PERCY F. WILBUR
TOWN AGENT HARRY B. PARKER -
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ANNUAL REPORT
APPOINTED
CATTLE INSPECTOR
HENRY W. STONE
MEAT AND PROVISIONS HENRY W. STONE
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES W. E. SWINDELL
FIRE WARDEN
CHARLES H. TROWBRIDGE
MOTH SUPERINTENDENT PERCY F. WILBUR
UNDERTAKER AND BURIAL AGENT J. P. FAIRBANK
JANITOR OF HALL AND LIBRARY WILLIAM A. NYE
DOG OFFICER SAMUEL BRUNO
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT JAMES R. CHILDS
LIST OF JURORS
Orton Butler
Frank Cheever
Ralph Cody
Carl M. Wheeler
George Dean John O'Donnell John Moran
REPORT
OF THE TOWN CLERK
VITAL RECORDS OF 1928 BIRTHS
Mar. 20 Richard Edmund, son of Ralph M. and Julia (Sey- mour ) Cody.
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May 7 Ralph Edgar, son of Percy F. and Lila (Parkman) Wilbur.
May 12 Theresa Giavana, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Marzenti) Arrigoni.
June 7 Harold Orrin, son of Theodore R. and Alla (Carpen- ter) Ayer.
June 14 Jennie Sieczkiski, daughter of Stanley and Blanche (Bidevo) Sieczkiski.
July 3 Patrick, son of Patrick W. and Mabel (Fendell) Man- ning.
July 4 Aubrey Lytle, daughter of Herbert A. and Herble (Lytle) Daniels.
July 9 Edna, daughter of Matthew and Stephana (Varnot) Kowel.
Aug. 14 Dorothy Lucille, daughter of Joseph A. and Nellie J. (Brown) Potter.
Sept. 8 Ann Cecile, daughter of Everiste and Anna (Brodeur) Dufresne.
Sept. 26 Gerald Donald, son of Donald C. and Anna (Jacob) Agar.
Sept. 30 Dorothy Josephine Dogal, daughter of John and Josephine (Meliescwska) Dogal.
Oct. 6 Stillborn.
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Nov. 30 Vivian Mae, daughter of Chester C. and Josephine (Karp) Showalter.
MARRIAGES
July 28 Frank Edward Clough and Elsie L. McClanathan.
Aug. 20 Frank Bruno Cometo and Susie Webber Winslow.
Oct. 12 William Beechan and Anna Stehlik.
Dec. 13 George F. W. Stone and Ethel May Dennis.
Nov. 22 Clement N. Ayres and Marion G. Dearborn.
DEATHS
Jan. 30 Maria F. (Fairbank) Rugg
86
9
12
Apr. 2 Fred H. Hapgood
60
9
13
Apr. 23 Lorena M. (Westurn) Watson
62
11
30
May 6 Charles Williams
69
7
27
May 19 Lizzie A. (Morse) Loring
71
2
14
June 1 Eunice C. (Dean) Crawford
89
11
19
Aug. 9 Edward H. Dwelly
75
3
23
Aug. 25 Lillian E. (Crawford) Conant
66
6
11
Oct. 6 Stillborn.
Nov. 7 Charles P. McClanathan
72
7
18
Nov. 21
Julius F. Allen
76
7
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BURIED IN TOWN
Eulah V. Davis of Barre
42
5
14
Mary G. Holmes of Boston
64
8
4
J. Forrest Sunllerson of Fitchburg
45
5
13
Frank W. Stoddard of Worcester
54
11
15
Isaiah Dean of Chelsea
83
8
13
LICENSES
DOGS
86 Males and spayed females at $2.00 $172 00
Y.
M.
D.
Jan. 31 Abraham Covel
31
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22 Females at $5.00
110 00
1 Breeders' license at $25.00
25 00
109
$307 00
SPORTING
62 Resident citizens' sporting at $2.25
$139 50
5 Trappers' at $2.25 11 25
8 Minors' at .75
6 00
75 $156 75
Respectfully submitted,
EFFIE T. SWINDELL,
Town Clerk.
STATE AUDIT REPORT
June 16, 1928
Assets
Cash $1,012 81
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes :
Levy of 1925
$ 24 90
Levy of 1926
734 08
Levy of 1927
2,345 69
3,104 67
State and County Aid to
Highways 10,500 00
Electric Light Rates
109 95
Revenue 1928
$21,430 00
Less estimated receipts,
collected 2,879 12
18,550 88
Overdrawn appropriations :
1927 2,493 73
1928
207 56
$35,979 60
Debt Accounts
Net Funded or Fixed Debt $14,500 00
$14,500 00
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Trust Accounts Trust Funds-Cash and Securities $15,393 91
$15,393 91
Liabilities
Temporary Loans :
In Anticipation of Revenue $3,000 00
Surplus War Bonus Fund 330 88
Trust Fund Income :
Alden Worthy Poor Fund $269 24
Library Funds 21 90
Cemetery Perpetual Care
Funds 5 20
$296 34
Appropriation Balances :
General
$21,238 61
Electric Light
Operation
957 25
Construction
176 67
22,372 53
Overlays -- Reserved for
Abatements :
Levy of 1925
$24 90
Levy of 1926
62 91
Levy of 1927
248 13
335 94
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus 402 06
Electric Revenue-Avail-
able when collected 109 95
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Surplus Revenue
9,131 90
$35,979 60
Electric Light Loan
$14,500 00
$14,500 00
Mary Lincoln Alden Charity Fund
$4,100 00
5,340 55
Library Funds Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
5,953 36
$15,393 91
REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
The Selectmen submit the following report for the financial year ending December 31, 1928.
TOWN CLERK
Paid Effie T. Swindell $85 00
TREASURER
Paid Effie T. Swindell
$125 00
TAX COLLECTOR
Paid Morton Butterfield
$125 00
SELECTMEN
Paid John P. Day
$100 00
Paid Earle C. Parker
75 00
Paid Walter A. Woodis
75 00
$250 00
ASSESSORS
Paid Carl W. Wheeler
$ 93 76
Paid John Moran
100 00
Paid Robert Dwelly
80 00
Auto, John Moran
10 00
$283 76
AUDITOR
Paid Orton Butler $75 00
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BALLOT CLERKS AND TELLERS
Paid Grace Parker
$16 00
Paid Mrs. Cody
16 00
Paid Mrs. Ayres
11 00
Paid Mrs. Lincoln
5 00
Paid Mrs. Leone Daniels
11 00
Paid Mrs. Rossi
5 00
$64 00
MODERATOR
Paid Chas. Trowbridge
$3 00
REGISTRARS
Paid John P. Day
$12 00
Paid Walter Woodis
4 00
Paid Effie T. Swindell
20 00
$36 00
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Paid Edgar Swindell
$25 00
DOG OFFICER
Paid Samuel Bruno
$15 00
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
Support of Poor
$190 72
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Paid for Support of Schools
$11,911 02
SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS
Paid for Highways
$3,676 39
Paid for Material
1,948 66
$5,625 05
LIBRARY
Paid for Support of Library $347 81
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STATE AID
Paid State Aid $72 00
BONDS FOR TOWN OFFICERS
Paid Treasurer's and Clerk's Bond $19 00
Paid Tax Collector's Bond 30 00
$49 00
PRINTING
Paid Heffernan Press $202 00
Paid Standard Printing Co.
11 50
$213 50
TOWN OFFICERS' SUPPLIES
Paid for Supplies
$84 87
STATE AND COUNTY TAX
Paid County Tax $776 00
Paid State Tax
680 00
Paid State Highway
139 60
Paid Municipal Light Tax
38
Paid Auditing Accounts
45 85
Paid Worcester County Hospital District
57 53
$1,699 36
INTEREST
Paid Worcester Bank & Trust Co.
$172 50
OPENING ROADS
Paid for Opening Roads
$160 41
INSURANCE OF EMPLOYEES
Paid for Insurance $394 21
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RESERVE FUND
Howard Clock Co. $103 40
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Paid for Fighting Fires
$165 75
GYPSY MOTHS
Paid for Suppression of Gypsy Moth $307 75
MEMORIAL DAY
Paid for Memorial Day
$50 00
INSPECTION
Paid H. W. Stone, inspector of barns $47 01
Paid H. W. Stone, inspector of meat
28 50
$75 51
POLICE
Paid Edgar Swindell
$13 20
Paid Samuel Bruno
5 00
Paid Bert Reed
5 00
Paid Ralph Daniels
1 00
Paid Fred Parkman
1 00
Paid Fay Russell
1 00
$26 20
RUTLAND ROAD
Paid for Repairing
$6,209 25
Paid for Material
1,290 86
$7,500 11
SNOW FENCES
Paid for Snow Fences $100 00
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CEMETERIES
Paid for Care of Cemeteries $672 82
STREET LIGHTS
Paid for Street Lights $600 00
TOWN HALL FLOOR
Paid for Town Hall Floor and Repairs
$330 50
ADDING MACHINE
Paid Burroughs Adding Machine Co. $98 60
TREE WARDEN
Paid Clarence Grimes
$44 00
MISCELLANEOUS
Lights for hall
$ 30 00
George S. Butler, supplies
2 98
John Dwelly, wood
70 00
Percy William
42 50
Fay Russell, labor
4 00
Certifying notes
4 00
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
2 00
C. B. Daniels, labor and material
147 17
C. H. Trowbridge, labor
3 00
W. A. Woodis, perambulating town lines
3 00
John P. Day, perambulating town lines
2 00
Mechanics' Savings Bank
4 00
John P. Day, expenses to Boston
6 00
Earl Parker, supplies
75
W. A. Nye, care of hall
129 40
James Fairbanks, death returns
1 75
Carl Wheeler, care of clock
35 00
$487 55
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WILD CAT BOUNTY
Paid John Moran
$10 00
Paid Municipal Electric Light Dept.
$7,962 97
NOTES
Worcester Bank & Trust Co. $8,000 00
Total Expenditures $48,542 37
JOHN P. DAY, EARLE C. PARKER, WALTER A. WOODIS,
Selectmen of Oakham.
REPORT
OF THE
LIBRARY TRUSTEES
FOBES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
RECEIPTS
Town Appropriation
$150 00
Dog Fund
238 17
$388 17
EXPENDITURES
Glenwood Range Co., grate
$37 75
Haven & Carter Coal Co. 89 93
Windsor Book Shoppe
3 50
Sara E. Butler, express
1 35
Robert Briggs, carrying books
25 00
Ira A. Pinney, librarian
41 67
Jessie D. Russell, librarian
79 16
Augusta Dean, assistant librarian
29 00
Percy Wilbur, wood
8 50
Electric lights (Dec. 1, 1927 to Jan. 1, 1929) 31 95
$347 81
Received from the Librarian and paid to Town Treasurer (fines) $3 65
Miss Eva Allen has presented the Library with an enlarged portrait of her deceased father, Jesse Allen. Mr. Allen was a trustee of this library for many years.
We take this way of publicly thanking Miss Allen.
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ANNUAL REPORT
The roof of the Library building is being repaired and the interior should be refinished this year.
Respectfully submitted, SARA E. BUTLER, FLORENCE E. BOTHWELL, WILLIAM A. NYE,
Trustees.
REPORT
OF THE
LIBRARIAN
To the Trustees of the Fobes Memorial Library:
The number of books in the Library is 4109. Circulation in 1928 was 3112. We have received gifts of books from Mrs. Gifford, John Richardson, Mrs. Josephine Wright, Ernest Hay- ward, Mrs. E. F. Wilbur, Isabel Daniels and Charles Daniels. The Library has received an enlarged portrait of the late Deacon Jesse Allen, the gift of Miss Eva Allen. This has been placed in the reading room. The historical room received the gift of a saddle from Mrs. Edmund Cody.
RECEIPTS
Received for fines and cards $3 65
$3 65
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
Kings Life of Self Control
The Chief Legatee
A Son of His Father
The Loring Mystery
All the Sad Young Men
The Shelleys of Georgia Simon Called Peter
Sayings of Mrs. Solomon
Ten Girls from History
The Girl I Loved
Dorothy Dale, a Girl of Today
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Dorothy Dale, at Glenwood School
Dorothy Dale's Great Secret
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Dorothy Dale's School Rivals Dorothy Dale in the City Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays
Dorothy Dale and Her Chums
My Dogs in the Northland
Marilly of Clothes-line Alley As You Were, Bill James Meredith The Lighted Lamp My Home in the Field of Honor Pigs is Pigs The Kink The Heart of Life
The Hill-top Girl My Lady of the Island Mr. Britling Sees It Through Thistle-down The Goose Girl The Hound of the Baskervilles The Golden Treasury of Songs Moor Fires The Moth The Art of Living The Island of Intrigue Our Village
Shavings The American Girls' Handy Book The Lightning Conductor Garden Grace War Brides Rip Van Winkle A Mid-summer Night's Dream
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The Forum of Democracy
Doctor Nye Shiela Intervenes
The Night of the Wedding After Noon
No More Parages
The Gold Fish
Sandoval
A Maiden All Forlorn
Webster's Bridge
Thomas Jefferson
Contrary Mary
Maxa
Dead Men's Money
Arsene Lupin
Equal Opportunity for All
Grey Face
The Angel
Three of Clubs
A Pawn in Pawn
Endymion's and other Poems
Christmas Stories
Sidelights on American History
Hand and Ring Fireside Series for Boys
Pee-Wee Harris in Camp
Daniel Boone, Backswoodsman
Dapples of the Circus
Treasure Island
A Dear Little Girl at School Silver Pitchers Eight Cousins Snowbell Lamb
In the High Valley Dear Daughter Dorothy
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The Brook Book Life of Herbert Hoover Wanderer of the Wasteland Quintus Claudius Webster's Man's Man The Lion's Brood Summer Wulf, the Saxon The Hill
At the North Pole
Mosses from an Old Manse
The Old Wives' Tale Young Carthaginian Reveries of a Bachelor
Blithdale Romance Marcella Vol. 1
Marcella Vol. 2 Stella House of Mirth
Christmas Carol
Emerson's Essays
Training of a Forester
King's Stratagem Jimmie Moore of Bucktown
Leave of Absence The Smoking Flax Ruben and Ivy Sên
Morry Ye that Judge Whipped Cream
Head of the House of Coombe The Son of the House
The Oldest God
Teeftallow The Golden Beast
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The Immortal Girl
Air Service Boys in Big Battle Air Service Boys Over the Rhine Air Service Boys Flying for France Early Autumn
Mrs. Wright has placed copies of "Soldiers of Oakham," and "Fobes Memorial Library" in the library for sale at $1.00 per copy, the proceeds to apply to the development of the "Wright Memorial Park."
JESSIE D. RUSSELL,
Librarian.
REPORT
OF THE
CHARLTON HOME FARM ASS'N
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1928
RECEIPTS
Inmates Board
$10,104 88
Boarders
274 00
Stock
537 50
Milk, etc.
1,387 63
Interest
29 51
$12,333 52
Corrected Balance 1927
1,823 65
Total
$14,157 17
EXPENDITURES
Frank Walker, Warden
$ 125 00
Howard D. Sargent, Warden
1,275 00
Labor
1,343 68
Groceries
1,071 75
Grain
930 00
Supplies
725 74
Miscellaneous
722 61
Meat, etc.
1,077 81
Coal
422 50
Gasoline and Oil
141 10
Tobacco
205 81
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Repairs
468 98
Electricity
99 66
Stock
1,628 50
Blacksmithing
26 30
Fertilizer
178 13
Seed
92 67
Telephone
45 13
Medical Attendance, etc.
82 24
Clothing
93 68
$11,531 85
Balance in favor of Association
$2,625 32
There were inmates from these towns during the year, Charl- ton, Rutland, Westminster, Millbury, Brookfield, West Brook- field, West Boylston, Sterling, Auburn, Princeton, Paxton, Ash- burnham, Leicester, Oakham, Holden, Warren, Hardwick, Boylston, East Brookfield. None from Holland, New Brain- tree, Berlin, Hubbardston, and Dana.
There were no Boarders at the Home at the close of the year.
Warden Frank Walker resigned at the January meeting and Howard D. Sargent was engaged as Warden. Many improve- ments were made about the farm and the piazza on the men's side enlarged and enclosed with glass, affording a pleasant place for the men inmates in winter and on stormy days.
Respectfully submitted,
H. N. SHEPARD, President. LOUIS M. HANFF, Sec .- Treas.
AUDITOR'S REPORT FOR 1928
I have audited the bills of the officers of the Association who have received and expended money during the year ending Dec.
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31, 1928, and all bills have been corrected and checks signed by the President and Treasurer.
EDWARD A. LAMB, Auditor.
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REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE FOR 1928
Charlton Home Farm Association
$108 97
Burial Expenses
50 00
Carl Wheeler, Services
13 00
Morton F. Lincoln, Services
13 00
Sara E. Butler, Services Telephone Postage
5 00
60
15
$190 72
CARL M. WHEELER MORTON F. LINCOLN SARA E. BUTLER
Board of Public Welfare
REPORT OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMITTEE
Balance, January 1, 1928
343 35
Sale of current 3,824 40
$4,167 75
Paid for current
1,790 15
Paid notes
1,000 00
Paid interest
683 13
Paid for repairs and material
110 17
Paid for meter reading and collecting
240 00
Paid miscellaneous expenses
32 85
.
$3,856 30
Balance
311 45 $
Due from consumers
101 40
Due Gardner Electric Co. for Dec. current 196 20
Received from Gardner Electric Light Co., for line $22,093 43
JOHN P. DAY, SYLVESTER R. DEAN, GEO. S. BUTLER,
Electric Light Committee.
REPORT OF THE TOWN TREASURER
Balance in Treasury, Jan. 1, 1929, $25,144.39.
We owe $14,000 for Electric Light Notes
APPROP.
RECEIPTS EXPEND.
Balance of General Fund Jan. 1, 1928
$2,921 80
Bonding
$ 50 00
$ 49 00
Cemeteries
50 00
672 82
Annual care of Lots
55 00
55 00
Perpetual care of Lots
270 54
Sale of Lots
20 00
20 00
Dog Officer
15 00
15 00
Dental Clinic
50 00
Electric Light Line 2,500 00
1928 Balance of Building line
152 95
1928 Balance of Earnings, line
343 35
Rec'd of W. H. Sawyer
212 00
Dr. George
375 81
Rec'd of Burton Loring
25 00
1928 Earnings of line
3,824 40
Sale to Gardner Electric Co.
22,092 43
7,962 97
Fire Dept. 100 00
165 75
Gypsy Moth
300 00
21 00
307 75
Inspection of Meat
35 00
28 50
Inspection of Barns and Animals
50 00
16 00
47 01
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APPROP.
RECEIPTS
EXPEND.
Insuring Employees
220 00
394 21
Interest
75 00
52 68
172 50
Library, Support
150 00
3 65
347 81
County Dog Tax returns
238 17
238 17
Library, Repairs
125 00
Memorial Day
50 00
50 00
Miscellaneous
375 00
487 55
Sale of Paint
2 00
Rent West Schoolhouse
5 00
Licenses
5 00
Rent Memorial Hall
60 00
Opening Roads
500 00
160 41
Overseers of Poor
500 00 Court
190 72
Police Dept.
50 00
400 65
26 20
Printing
185 00
213 50
Roads-Maintenance Chap. 81
1,125 00
4,523 00
5,625 05
Roads-New Chap. 90
1,500 00
6,000 00
7,500 11
Schools
12,150 00
11,911 02
School Fund Income
2,526 44
Rutland Tuition
90 00
Supt. Small Towns
193 33
High School Tuition
2,289 38
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Fines
APPROP.
RECEIPTS EXPEND.
High School Transportation Tuition of Children
2,074 05
58 78
Reserve Fund
150 00
103 40
Snow Fences
100 00
100 00
Sealer Wgts. and Measures
25 00
25 00
Sealing Fees
11 86
Division of Standards
3 00
Street Lights 600 00
600 00
Soldiers' Relief
10 00
Town Officers 925 00
1,046 76
Town Officers' Supplies
75 00
84 87
Town Hall Floor
200 00
330 50
East Center Dist. School Ass'n
55 25
Dramatic Club
55 25
Tree Warden
50 00
44 00
Adding Machine
150 00
98 60
State Aid
72 00
72 00
Taxes 1926
1,453 09
Interest
138 47
Taxes 1927
3,030 94
Interest
102 75
Taxes 1928
9,215 43
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APPROP.
RECEIPTS
EXPEND.
Interest
15 05
Loss of Taxes
33 44
Income Tax 1927
80 00
Income Tax 1928
2,400 00
National Bank Tax
9 89
Veterans' Exemption
6 75
Corporation Tax, Business
81 93
Public Service Tax
58 27
Wildcat Bounty
10 00
10 00
Worcester Co. Hospital Dist.
57 53
County Tax
776 00
State Tax
680 00
Auditing Municipal Accts.
45 85
Repairs to State Highway
139 60
Municipal Lighting Plant Tax
38
Notes for General Expenses
8,000 00
8,000 00
Total
73,686 76
48,542 37
Balance on hand
$25,144 39
Debts, Electric Light Notes
$14,000 00
Balance when all notes are paid
.
$11,144 39
ANNUAL REPORT
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TRUST FUNDS Mary Lincoln Alden Fund .
APPROP. RECEIPTS
EXPEND.
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1928
$155 38
Income from Investment
386 22
Refund Worcester Co. Farm Bureau
10 00
Interest on Bank deposit
10 65
Gift from Clara I. Alden
300 00
$862 26
Expenditures
$439 04
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1929
$423 22
LIBRARY FUNDS
Fobes Memorial Fund
$3,393 21
B. P. Clark Legacy
1,413 19
Soldiers' War Bonus
380 90
Alfred Parks Wright Memorial
588 38
J. H. O. Lovell Legacy
188 47
$5,964 15
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REPORT OF THE CEMETERY FUND Pine Grove Cemetery
DONOR
AMT. TO DATE
Ann Adams
$ 26 12
Jesse Allen
109 23
Heirs of Lewis Allen
138 43
Frank D. Ayers
111 33
G. N. Briggs Heirs
105 90
Mary J. Clark
112 05
Foster, A. H.
Charles A. Fobes
124 40
M. T. F. Rugg
105 45
Flora A. Arnold
50 47
George H. Gould
233 09
Lewis N. Haskell
117 40
Hattie E. Prouty
111 78
*Fannie Kimball
William Lincoln and Clara Alden
226 82
H. W. Lincoln Heirs
102 22
Grandchildren of Abner Lincoln
109 98
William A. Nye
100 00
Caroline M. Maynard
289 83
George M. Ross
115 94
Mrs. Samuel Ripley
25 97
Heirs of W. W. and Helen F. Russell
109 38
Ruth Robinson
50 03
Weeks and Elliot
127 73
Lyman Walker
111 10
Heirs of Charles Hastings
111 88
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Edw. Dwelly
100 00
George Conant
100 00
Crawford and Malcolm
100 00
Mrs. William C. Abbott
107 30
Heirs L. W. Newcomb
74 89
James Boyd Heirs
61 97
South Cemetery
Laura Burt
121 69
Daniel H. Dean
203 66
Walter R. Dean
107 70
William Haskell
100 00
A. J. Holden
50 00
Alfred C. Morse
54 40
Martha Macullar
252 49
Sumner Reed
137 23
Henry P. Wright
120 50
Henry E. Morse
122 80
William A. Nye
50 00
Sophronia Parker Heirs
106 80
Frances Robinson
75 80
Ella J. Olmstead
50 46
Wm. and Joseph Dwelly
100 00
Southwest Cemetery
J. H. D. Lovell
169 46
Frank L. Nickerson
119 31
Jennie Trowbridge
51 61
Mary E. Brown
61 76
Ed. P. Maynard
11 84
Edwin Spooner
50 00
Green Hollow Cemetery
H. S. Clifford
50 30
H. A. Crawford
141 33
William A. Fobes
133 28
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ANNUAL REPORT
Barr, Moore & Keep
103 62
Received in 1928
Total $5,911 75
Roger Conant for care of Henry Conant Lot $100 00
Samuel R. Dean for Lot 18, Pine Grove Cemetery
100 00
Wm. S. Crawford Est., for W. S. Crawford, Lot Green Hollow Cemetery 300 00
$500 00
Having served the town as Treasurer for the past five years, and feeling that the responsibility of the position together with the ever increasing demands of the State is more than I care to assume this year, I wish to thank the Town Officials and all of the townspeople for their kind co-operation during my term of service.
Respectfully submitted
EFFIE T. SWINDELL,
Treasurer.
REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS
AMOUNT EXPENDED ON ROADS IN THE TOWN OF OAKHAM IN 1928 UNDER CHAPTER 81
No. Road
Amount
1. N. Brookfield
240 08
2. N. Braintree 239 64
3. East Hill
40 00
4. Hubbardston
10 00
5. Cadwell
22 60
6. Pine Plain
69 90
7. Poverty Square
8 60
8. Depot or Coldbrook
1,600 81
9. Ware Corner
145 06
10. Robbinson
73 10
11.
Parmenter
10 00
12. Sanders
13. South
54 00
14. Spencer
260 65
15. Flint
16. Beecham
60 00
17 Lupa
86 00
18. Crawford
95 95
19 Whitehall
7 00
20. Old Turnpike
465 12
21. Old Turnpike Ext.
22. Rutland
271 52
23. Swindle
7 00
24 Hopgood
25 Sargent's Lane
1
39
ANNUAL REPORT
26. Stone
22 50
27. Rutherford
22 50
28. Lincoln
85 50
29. Maple
245 41
30. Barre
93 10
31. Daniels
32. Bullard
10 00
33. Edson
21 50
34. Happy Hollow
7 00
35. Hunt
82 50
36. Adams
126 65
37 F. Gafney
22 00
38. J. Gafney
22 00
39. Scott
133 35
40. Crockernye
43 50
41. Whitney
14 00
Gas and oil
152 20
Machinery and Repairs
475 98
Tools
119 03
Tool Repairs
34 95
Miscellaneous
79 00
Blasting Supplies
123 56
$5,625 05
Total Payrolls
$3676 39
Total Materials
1,948 66
$5,625 05
Amount over-run
05
$5,625 00
Town allotment
$1,125 00
State allotment
$4,500 00
$5,625 00
REPORT OF THE
TAX COLLECTOR
1928
DR.
Taxes committed to me for collection, 1928 :
Appropriation of annual meeting
State Tax
$11,316 67 680 00
County Tax
776 00
State Highway Tax
139 60
Poll Tax
80 00
Auditing
45 58
Municipal Lighting Plant
38
December Assessment
42 88
Overlaying
308 36
Interest
15 05
$13,404 52
CR.
By Treasurer's Receipts $9,230 18
$9,230 18
$4,174 34
Respectfully submitted, M. MORTON BUTTERFIELD, Collector
REPORT
OF THE
FIRE WARDEN
The Fire Warden wishes all persons to comply with the law in regard to securing permits before starting fires in the open, between March 1st, and December 1st.
This year extra precautions should be taken because of the unusual quantity of standing grass left unharvested in the fields and a warning is issued to smokers to be extremely careful while in the open. Cigarette stubs should be dropped only in a dirt road or pond.
Report to warden any smoke as soon as seen, which might lead to a forest fire.
CHARLES H. TROWBRIDGE
Fire Warden.
REPORT
OF THE AUDITOR
This is to certify that I have examined and approved all bills of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, School Committee, Road Commissioner, Cemetery Committee, Tree and Fire Wardens, and Library Trustees, and found them to be correct. I have also examined the accounts of the Treasurer and Collector and found them to be correct.
Respectfully submitted,
ORTON O. BUTLER, Auditor.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Appropriation for Schools
$12,150 00
RECEIPTS
State Returns-School Fund
$2,526 44
State Returns-High School Tuition $2,289 38
State Returns-High School Transportation
2,074 05
State Returns-School Superintendent
193 33
State Returns-Income Tax for General School Pur-
poses
1,040 00
Tuition of Children (Grade)
148 78
$8,271 98
EXPENSES
Paid Earle C. Parker, services
$10 00
Paid Minnie M. Day, services
20 00
Paid Leone B. Daniels, services
5 00
$45 00
SUPERINTENDENT'S SALARY AND EXPENSE OF OFFICE
Paid James R. Childs, salary $330 00
Paid James R. Childs, traveling expenses 48 06
Paid James R. Childs, telephone, supplies, express 9 74
Paid, James R. Childs, clerical work 2 00
Paid Majorie P. Newell, clerical work 16 75
$407 55
44
ANNUAL REPORT
TEACHERS
Paid Miss Florence E. Bothwell
$1,039 04
Paid Miss Ethel M. Braman 1,100 16
Paid Miss Ruth E. Butterfield
1,144 49
Paid Mrs. Ethel M. Handy
50 00
Paid Miss Annie P. Stevenson, music su- pervisor
100 00
Paid Miss Mary R. Spofford, music su- pervisor
76 00
Paid Miss Odessa Long, drawing supervisor
84 50
Paid Miss Doris L. Potter, drawing su- pervisor 71 13
$3,665 32
SUPPLIES
Paid Edward E. Babb & Co.
$30 89
Paid J. L. Hammett Co.
32 79
Paid Milton Bradley Co.
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