City of Melrose annual report 1898-1899, Part 4

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For governor ; lieutenant governor ; secretary of the com- monwealth ; treasurer ; auditor ; attorney general ; coun- cillor for the sixth councillor district; senator for the fourth Middlesex district ; representative in the general court from the thirty-first Middlesex district ; county com- missioner for Middlesex county ; two special commission- ers ; district attorney ; register of probate and insolvency ; sheriff ; representative in congress.


The polls will be opened at 6 o'clock a. m., and will be closed at 4.30 o'clock p. m.


And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days before the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.


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Given under our hands this twenty-sixth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.


SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK,


SIDNEY D. FARRAR,


EUGENE H. MOORE,


JONATHAN C. HOWES,


L. FRANK HINCKLEY, Selectmen of Melrose.


Warrant served by William L. Pierce, Constable.


WARRANT FOR MEETING NOVEMBER 8th, 1898.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose, in the County of Middlesex : GREETING.


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of Precinct Two of the town of Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the town hall, on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, A. D. 1898, at 6 o'clock a. m., then and there to give in their votes on one ballot :


For governor ; lieutenant governor ; secretary of the com- monwealth ; treasurer ; auditor ; attorney general ; coun- cillor for the sixth councillor district; senator for the fourth Middlesex district ; representative in the general court from the thirty-first Middlesex district ; county com- missioner for Middlesex county ; two special commission- ers ; district attorney ; register of probate and insolvency ; sheriff ; representative in congress.


The polls will be opened at 6 o'clock a. m., and will be closed at 4.30 o'clock p. m.


And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting


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attested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days be- fore the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.


Given under our hands this twenty-sixth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.


SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, SIDNEY D. FARRAR, EUGENE H. MOORE, JONATHAN C. HOWES, L. FRANK HINCKLEY, Selectmen of Melrose,


Warrant served by William L. Pierce, Constable.


WARRANT FOR MEETING NOVEMBER 8th, 1898.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose, in the County of Middlesex : GREETING.


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of Precinct Three of the town of Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the school house on Grove street, corner Myrtle street, on Tuesday, the eighth day of November, A. D. 1898, at 6 o'clock a. m., then and there to give in their votes on one ballot :


For governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of the com- monwealth, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, councillor


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for the sixth councillor district, senator for the fourth Middlesex district, representative in the general court from thirty-first Middlesex district, county commissioner for Middlesex county, two special commissioners, district attor- ney, register of probate and insolvency, sheriff repre- sentative in congress.


The polls will be opened at 6 o'clock, a. m., and will be closed at 4.30 o'clock p. m.


And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post- offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days before the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.


Given under our hands this twenty-sixth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.


SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, SIDNEY D. FARRAR, EUGENE H. MOORE, JONATHAN C. HOWES, L. FRANK HINCKLEY, Selectmen of Melrose.


Warrant served by Wm. L. Pierce, Constable.


5


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RESULT OF THE BALLOTING AS FURNISHED TO THE TOWN CLERK FROM THE SEVERAL PRECINCTS.


GOVERNOR.


Precinct


1


2


3


Total


Alexander B. Bruce, of Lawrence, Democratic, .


56


91


182


329


George R. Peare, of Lynn, Soc. Labor Party, .... Winfield P. Porter, of Newburyport,


4


2


6


12


Democratic Social Nomination Paper, . .


1


1


2


4


Samuel B. Shapleigh, of Boston, Prohibition, ...


6


9


4


19


Roger Wolcott, of Boston, Republican,


370


524


480


1374


Blanks,


10


16


36


62


Total,


447


643


710


1800


LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.


Michael T. Berry, of Haverhill, Soc. Lab. Party,.


5


5


10


20


W. Murray Crane, of Dalton, Republican, .


364


504


455


1323


John L. Kilbon, of Lee, Prohibition,


9


13


13


35


Isaac W. Skinner, of Brockton,


Democratic Social Nomination Paper, .


2


3


12


17


Edward J. Slattery, of Framingham, Democratic,


45


77


170


292


Blanks


22


41


50


113


Total.


447


643


710


1800


SECRETARY.


Charles H. Bradley, of Haverhill,


Democratic Social Nomination Paper. Henry A. Inman, of Newton, Prohibition.


5


3


11


19


6


9


11


26


Henry Lloyd, of Boston, Democratic, .


49


81


146


276


William M. Olin, of Boston, Republican, . James F. Stevens, of Boston, Soc. Lab. Party, ... Blanks,


350


499


450


1299


5


3


10


18


32


48


82


162


Total,


447


643


710


1800


...


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TREASURER.


Precinct


1


2


3


Total


1


3


11


15


54


72


159


285


337


496


440


1273


13


11


9


33


Democratic Social Nomination Paper,


4


2


6


12


Blanks,


38


59


85


182


Total, .


447


643


710


1800


AUDITOR.


Charles S. Grieves, of Amesbury,


Democratic Social Nomination Paper, John W. Kimball, of Fitchburg, Republican, . . . .


343


491


432


1266


John Palme, of New Bedford, Soc. Lab. Party, ..


3


3


10


16


Charles F. Parker, of Boston, Democratic, .. Walter E. Sanford, of Attleborough, Prohibition, Blanks,


54


80


159


293


5


9


11


25


41


59


90


190


Total,


447


643


710


1800


ATTORNEY GENERAL.


Patrick Kilroy, of Springfield, Democratic, ..


40


74


159


273


Hosea M. Knowlton, of New Bedford, Rep., . .


367


509


466


1342


Clarence E. Spelman, of Westfield, So. Lab. Party, Blanks,


4


5


12


21


36


55


73


164


Total, .


447


643


710


1800


COUNCILLOR, (Sixth District.)


Marcellus H. Fletcher, of Lowell, Democratic ...


61


85


187


333


S. Herbert Howe, of Marlborough, Republican, . Blanks,


342


488


427


1257


44


70


96


210


Total, .


447


643


710


1800


SENATOR, (Fourth Middlesex District.)


George M. Buttrick, of Everett, Prohibition, ....


15


18


29


62


Samuel E. O'Donnell, of Malden, Democratic, ...


48


75


176


299


George E. Smith, of Everett, Republican, .


342


495


432


1269


Blanks,


42


55


73


170


Total,


447


643


710


1800


1


1


S


10


Martha Moore Avery, of Boston, Soc. Lab. Party, Harry J. Jaquith, of Wellesley, Democratic, .... Edward P. Shaw, of Newburyport, Republican, . Herbert Morely Small, of Templeton, Prohibition, Charles W. White, of Winchester,


RECORDS OF TOWN MEETINGS.


REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT. (Thirty-first Middlesex District.) Precinct 1 2


Charles H. Adams, of Melrose, Republican,


368


526


496


1390


Arthur M. Willis, of Melrose, Democratic,


60


94


183


337


Blanks,


19


23


31


73


Total,


447


643


710


1800


COUNTY COMMISSIONER, (Middlesex.)


Francis Bigelow, of Natick, Dem., Rep.,


329


449


429


1207


Blanks, .


118


194


281


593


Total, .


447


643


710


1800


SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS, (Middlesex County.)


Truman W. Hagar, of Framingham, Democratic, David T. Strange, of Stoneham, Republican, ....


39


57


139


235


282


425


354


1061


260


399


347


1006


Edward Everett Thompson, of Woburn, Rep., .. George W. Van Horn, of Melrose, Democratic ... Blanks,


68


83


166


317


245


322


414


981


Total,


894 1286 1420


3600


DISTRICT ATTORNEY, (Northern District.)


Fred N. Wier, of Lowell, Rep., Dem.,


321


455


446


1222


Blanks,


126


188


264


578


Total, .


447


643


710


1800


REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY.


(Middlesex County.)


Samuel H. Folsom, of Winchester, Dem., Rep., ..


340


465


446


1251


Blanks,


107


178


264


549


Total,


447


643


710


1800


SHERIFF, (Middlesex County.)


Henry G. Cushing,


319


448


448


1215


Blanks,


128


195


262


585


Total.


447


643


710


1800


3


Total


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REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS. (Seventh District.)


Precinct


1


2


3


Total


Joseph F. Malloney, of Lynn, Soc. Lab. Party, ..


1


4


5


Walter L. Ramsdell, of Lynn, Democratic, .


89


145


278


512


Ernest W. Roberts, of Chelsea, Republican,.


346


480


401


1227


Blanks,


11


18


27


56


Total,


447


643


710


1800


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RECORDS OF TOWN MEETINGS.


WARRANT FOR MEETING NOVEMBER 14th, 1898.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose, in the County of Middlesex : GREETING.


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of the town of Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the town hall, on Monday, the fourteenth day of November, A. D. 1898, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., then and there to act on the following articles, viz .:


Article I. To choose a moderator.


Art. 2. To see if the town will authorize the treasurer to pay all necessary expenses which may be incurred from January Ist, 1899, in anticipation of the annual appropria- tions, and authorize him to borrow money temporarily for the same if necessary, by request of the treasurer.


Art. 3. To see if the town will authorize the treasurer to receive from the administrator of the estate of John Warren, late of Melrose, deceased, such sum or sums as may be in his hands, on account of the claim of the town of Melrose against the estate of said Warren, and hold said adminis- trator harmless by reason of his making payment thereof prior to the expiration of two years from the time of his appointment. On petition of the overseers of poor.


Art. 4. To see if the town will reconsider the vote passed October 3d, 1898, wherein the town voted to petition the general court for a city charter, and act thereon. On petition of A. V. Lynde and others.


Art. 5. To see if the town will reduce the number of


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selectmen to be elected in 1899 and thereafter, from five to three. On petition of A. V. Lynde and others.


Art. 6. To see if the town will change the assessments, the rates, times of payments and collection of sewerage assessments, and act thereon. On petition of A. V. Lynde and others.


Art. 7. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed by the town to report upon the subject of addi- tional compensation for the Melrose men in the Spanish- American war, and to authorize the town treasurer to borrow money to carry out the vote of the town. By request of the committee.


Art. 8. To see if the town will accept the following street as laid out by the selectmen :


Beginning at a point on Richardson road about 200 feet north of the junction of Richardson road and Alpine street and running northerly about 350 feet to the Wakefield line, and when said street is accepted that it be called Renwick road.


Art. 9. To see if the town will accept the laying out of certain main drains or common sewers, as laid out for public use by the sewer commissioners, as provided in Chapter 50, Section 2, of the Public Statutes, as amended by the Acts of 1895, Chapter 423, Section 24, in the following courts and private ways, viz. :


Oliver court, from Vine street southerly over land of Mary E. Oliver. Franklin street, northerly to Botolph street, across land of Chester Shepard, W. S. B. Maine, and George W. Crawford.


Art. 10. To see if the town will accept the jury list as revised by the selectmen.


Art. II. To see if the town will appoint a finance com- mittee for the ensuing year.


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Art. 12. To see what action the town will take with refer- ence to the invitation of the city of Malden to join with them in the 250th anniversary of the incorporation of Mal- den as a town.


Art. 13. To hear and act upon the reports of committees, and for the transaction of any other business that may legal- ly come before this meeting.


And you are directed to serve this warrant, by posting at- tested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days be- fore the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.


Given under our hands this twenty-third day of July, in. the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.


SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, JONATHAN C. HOWES, L. FRANK HINCKLEY, SIDNEY D. FARRAR, EUGENE H. MOORE, Selectmen of Melrose ..


Warrant served by William L. Pierce, Constable.


Town Meeting Monday, November 14, 1898, at 7.30 p. m. Meeting opened by the town clerk.


Article I. Unanimously elected Levi S. Gould to be moderator.


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Art. 2. Voted, unanimously, That the treasurer be, and is hereby authorized to pay all necessary expenses which may be incurred from January Ist, 1899, in anticipation of the annual appropriation, said amounts to be charged to the several appropriations. Also to authorize him to borrow money temporarily for the same if necessary.


Art. 3. Voted, unanimously, That the town treasurer be authorized to receive from the administrator of the estate of John Warren, late of Melrose, deceased, such sum or sums as may be in his hands on account of the claim of the town of Melrose against the estate of said Warren, and hold said administrator harmless by reason of his making payment thereof, prior to the expiration of two years from the time of his appointment. On petition of the overseers of the poor.


Art. 4. Reconsideration refused.


Art. 6. Not a vote.


Voted, to adjourn, sine die.


E. K. BORDMAN, Town Clerk.


WARRANT FOR MEETING DECEMBER 12th, 1898.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose, in the County of Middlesex : GREETING.


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of the town of


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Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the town hall, on Monday, the twelfth day of December, A. D. 1898, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., then and there to act on the following articles, viz. :


Article 1. To choose a moderator.


Art. 2. To see if the town will accept the jury list as revised by the selectmen.


Art. 3. To see if the town will appoint a finance com- mittee for the ensuing year.


Art. 4. To see what action the town will take with refer- ence to the invitation of the city of Malden to join with them in the 250th anniversary of the incorporation of Mal- den as a town.


Art. 5. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed by the town to report upon the subject of addi- tional compensation for the Melrose men in the Spanish- American war, and to authorize the town treasurer to borrow money to carry out the vote of the town, by request of the committee.


Art. 6. To see if the town will accept the laying out of certain main drains or common sewers, as laid out for public use by the sewer commissioners, as provided in Chapter 50, Section 2, of the Public Statutes, as amended by the Acts of 1895, Chapter 423, Section 24, in the following courts and private ways, viz. :


Oliver court from Vine street, southerly over land of Mary E. Oliver. Franklin street, northerly to Botolph street, across land of Chester Shepard, W. S. B. Maine, and George W. Crawford.


Art. 7. To see if the town will authorize the treasurer to borrow the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the highway department.


Art. 8. To see if the town will authorize the treasurer to


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borrow the sum of five hundred dollars for the payment of salaries to the tax collectors.


Art. 9. To hear and act upon the reports of the com- mittee on city charter.


Art. 10. To hear and act upon the reports of committees, and for the transaction of any other business which may legally come before the meeting.


And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post- offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days before the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.


Given under our hands this fifth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.


SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, JONATHAN C. HOWES, EUGENE H MOORE, L. FRANK HINCKLEY, SIDNEY D. FARRAR,


Selectmen of Melrose.


Warrant served by William L. Pierce, Constable.


Town Meeting. Monday, December 12th, 1898, at 7.30 p. m.


Meeting called to order by Sidney H. Buttrick, chairman of the selectmen, in the absence of the town clerk, on


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account of illness. W. DeHaven Jones was unanimously- chosen town clerk, pro tem. Polls were opened and ballots used.


Article I. Unanimously elected Levi S. Gould to be moderator.


Art. 2. Voted, To accept the jury list as revised by the selectmen, excusing the following at their request :


Thomas T. Bailey.


J. Augustus Barrett.


George Berry. Oscar F. Frost.


Frank Messenger. Charles E. Palmer.


Edwin S. Small.


And adding


Frank E. Morton. Charles A. Messenger.


Art. 3. Voted, That the finance committee, which served the town so faithfully last year, be re-elected for the next year, and have the same powers.


Art. 4. Resolved, That the citizens of Melrose, in town meeting assembled, accept the cordial invitation of the city of Malden, to join with them in the celebration of the 250th anniversary of its incorporation as a town, on the 22d and 23d days of May, 1899, and it is therefore


Voted, That a committee of nine, including the moderator of this meeting, be appointed by the moderator, to meet with the committee of the city of Malden, to make such arrangements as may be necessary to co-operate with them in the celebration of the 250th anniversary of its incorpora- tion as a town.


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Art. 5. Voted, To indefinitely postpone.


Art. 6. Voted, To accept the laying out of certain main drains or common sewers, as laid out for public use by the sewer commissioners, as provided in Chapter 50, Section 2, of the Public Statutes, as amended by the Acts of 1895, Chapter 423, Section 24, in the following courts, and private ways, viz: Oliver court from Vine street, southerly over land of Mary E. Oliver, Franklin street, northerly to Botolph street, across land of Chester Shepard, W. S. B. Maine, and George W. Crawford.


Art. 7. Voted, That the town treasurer is authorized to borrow the sum of fifteen hundred ( $1,500.00 ), dollars for the highway department.


Art. 8. Voted, That the town treasurer is authorized to borrow the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars for the payment of salaries to the tax collectors.


Art. 9. Committee on city charter reported progress.


Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it be until January 3, 1899, when the committee on city charter will report.


Art. 10. No business under this article.


Meeting adjourned until January 3rd, 1899, at 7.30 o'clock, p. m.


Committee appointed by the moderator to co-operate with Malden in the celebration of its 250th anniversary of its incorporation as a town.


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Committee.


Levi S. Gould.


Sidney H. Buttrick.


George R. Jones.


Charles H. Adams.


Elbridge H. Goss.


John Larrabee.


B. Marvin Fernald. Stephen F. Keyes.


Willis C. Goss.


Attest :


W. DEHAVEN JONES,


Town Clerk, pro tem.


REPORT OF REGISTRARS OF VOTERS,


FOR THE YEAR 1898.


Number of names on voting lists per last report, November 1, 1897, ·


2,439


Number registered February 16, 1898,


. ·


3


. . 23, 27


.. 26,


45


75


Total March 1, 1898,


2,514


Number dropped in September (not includ-


ed in assessors' list May I, 231


Registered September 22, 1898,


23


.. October 6,


..


٠١ 13,


5


. .


20,


..


13


..


29, ..


120


175


Total November 1, 1898,


2.458


Divided into precincts as follows :


Precinct I,


. 570


2,


. 907


١١


3,


· 98 1


2,458


2,283


14


80


REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.


WOMEN VOTERS. Number of names on voting list as per last


report, November 1, 1897, 331


Number dropped, removed, . 7


324


Registered February 26, 1898,


5


Total November 1, 1898, 329


Divided into precincts as follows : Precinct I,


78


2. · · I73


3,


·


78


329


Respectfully submitted,


VICTOR C. KIRMES,


CHARLES W. COCHRANE,


EDGAR R. SOMES, W. DEHAVEN JONES, (Town Clerk, pro tem.)


Registrars of Voters.


AUDITOR'S REPORT.


To the Inhabitants of Melrose :


In compliance with the provisions of Chapter 221 of the Acts of the year 1889, I have the honor to report as follows :


I have examined the books of the treasurer, collector, water registrar, and sewer department, and find them cor- rectly kept and proper vouchers for all the transactions they contain.


In compliance with the vote of the town, I have compiled the annual town report, and submit the same.


Respectfully, EDWIN C. GOULD, Auditor.


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EXPENSES OF THE TOWN OF MELROSE


FOR THE


YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1898,


As compiled by the auditor from the original vouchers.


ASSESSORS' CONTINGENT.


Balance, 1897,


$228 90


Appropriation,


300 00 -


$528 90


EXPENDED.


Bankers and Tradesman Co., weekly, . $5 00 Cash, sundries, expenses, paper, inks, etc., 45 13 Cox, Mabel S., transfers, 122 75 Deering, J. P. & Co., stock for desk, 2 42


Dunton & Potter, printing cards and polls, 184 00 Maynard & Noyes, stationery, 3 70


Ripley, T. W., street books, 13 00


Upham, F. R., horse hire, 65 00


Woodward, D. R., labor on desk, 3 25


$444 25


Balance,


$84 65


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EXPENSES OF THE TOWN.


CEMETERY.


RECEIPTS.


Cash for dressing, .


$3 50


foundation,


III 56


single graves, .


III 00


.6


interments,


531 50


labor,


II 00


care of lots,


1,295 25


sale of lots,


1,530 00


66


66 rent of Pratt farm,


105 00


66


vaults,


100 00


wood,


17 00


$3,815 81


EXPENDED.


Benson & Co., S. E., lime, cement, etc., $45 85


Boston & Maine R. R., freight, 34 16


Boardman & Co., W. W., hacking, 4 00


Bugbee & Barrett, sundries, . 6 45


Burrell, W. A., paper for Pratt house, . 7 II


Casey, C., flowers, . 26 25


Dunton & Potter, printing, 3 50


Goss, C. B. & F. H., cement, 10 00


Gould, Edwin C., services, 1898, 75 35


Hildreth, H. V., covering stones, . 65 22


Hocking, A., P. M., stamps, . 18 00


Kunhardt, L. Henry, salary, 1898,


25 00


Larrabee, John, salary, 1898, 25 00


Larrabee & Stearns, telephone, 50


Amount carried forward, $3,815 81


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EXPENSES OF THE TOWN.


Amount brought forward, .


$3,815 81


Library bureau, lot book, $10 00


McCoubry, Thomas, stock and labor, 2 58


McDonald & Co., D., capstone, 19 25


Maclachlan, A. L., repairing strap, 50


Marshall, James, manure, 12 50


Melrose Hardware Co., pump, 8 00


Newhall, F. E., cap stone,


52 00


Newhall, George, salary, 1898,


25 00


Norton, Daniel, duck, 4 20


Osgood & Hart, grates,


14 13


Perry, H. J., hardware, .


12 77


Riley, J. W., manure,


18 00


Sargent, Wingate P., and estates of D.


W. Gooch and George W. Heath, deed for lots as per vote of town, Dec. 9, 1897, 500 00


Smith Bros., repairing lawn mower, 3 00


Stevens, W. C., survey and contour map, 52 00


Upham, F. R., manure, . 12 00


Washburn & Son, D., brick, . II IO


Williams, H. B., repairing lawn mowers,


5 00


Marshall, Thos., Supt., 5 mos., $325 00


Labor, men and teams, as per


pay rolls, 3,371 30


$3,696 30


$4,804 72 Expenditures exceed receipts, $988.91


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EXPENSES OF THE TOWN.


CONTINGENT.


Appropriation,


$3,500 00


RECEIPTS.


Cash, auctioneers' licenses,


$32 00


milk,


50 00


" carriage, 66


11 00


collections on flag staff, 86 25


Transfer from numbering buildings, 68


$179 93


$3,679 93


Less amount overpaid, 1897,


60


$3,679 33


EXPENDED.


American Express Co., expressage, $2 60


Benson & Co., S. E., cement for flag


staff, 26 00


Burlen, Robert, binding poll list, I 25


Burnett, A. J., stock and labor, polling place, I 97


Carrie & Co., W. A., treasurer's check book,


30 00


Cheever, F. H., ringing bell, 8 00


Dill & Co., Jesse A., lunches, election officers, .


225 75


Dimond & Co., H. C., stamps,


2 98


Amount carried forward, . $3,679 33


86


EXPENSES OF THE TOWN.


Amount brought forward, $3,679 33


Dunton & Potter, printing,


$33 20


66


16 advertising,


.


49 00


town reports, .


650 40


66


collectors, .


135 50


registration, 129 30


6 00


Eastman's Express, expressage,




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