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During the year there have been several changes of teachers. Mrs. N. L. Palmer taught the last half of the spring term in the place of Miss Anna E. Merrill, in the Second Primary, who resigned. Miss Lizzie M. Norton was transferred from the Thomas District to the Second Primary for the fall and winter terms. Miss Nellie Hammond was placed in charge of the Thomas District School. Mr. E. F. Adams resigned the South Grammar during the summer vacation, and Mr. George M. Stroud was secured. Miss Clara E. Nichols resigned the In- termediate School at the close of the fall term, and Mrs. N. L. Palmer took charge of this school in the winter term. Mr. S. A. Holton resigned the Centre Grammar School at the close of the fall term, and Mr. W. R. Brown taught the winter term. The other schools have been under the charge of the teachers who have taught them so efficiently so many previous years, as follows : Lokerville, Miss Nellie R. Rice ; First Primary, Miss Gracie C. Langmaid ; Rutter School, Miss C. M. Lee ; Centre Primary, Mrs. E. Wheeler ; North School, Miss E. N. Morse. The changes have, as a whole, added to the efficiency of the schools. The committee congratulate themselves and the citi- zens on the fact of a decided and commendable improvement in the schools as a whole. The teachers have been earnest and patient, generally wise and careful in discipline. Very few cases of insubordination have occurred. Our present corps of teachers is efficient and zealous.
Although the committee are much pleased with the marked improvement during the year, they feel there is yet a wide field
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for advancement. The style of teaching has of late years undergone great changes in modes and methods. We feel our schools are not quite up to the times. There is a tendency on the part of some to fall into ruts and monotony. There is a tendency on the part of some parents to object to and complain of any changes. We do not want innovations or things new because they are new ; but we do want the best methods. More of the oral, in distinction from textual teaching, would be a great advantage. There ought to be growth and improvement each year. Let us all co-operate, the citizens with the School Committee and teachers, in making our schools all they ought to be.
There has not been a great amount of truancy, - still, more than there ought to have been. A few pupils have been very persistent in this pastime. We have had enough to see that our means of dealing with these delinquents is singularly in- efficient. The teacher cannot be expected to meet the difficulty, as corporal punishment on this class of pupils has no effect whatever. The parents seem wholly indifferent. The com- mittee are powerless. Result : these pupils run at large when inclination suggests, much to the hurt of the school as a whole, and the truant's growth in ignorance. The truant-officer ought to have more authority, or use what he has. The schools in the South Village were badly broken up by sickness during the winter term. For a month the measles prevailed, sadly inter- rupting the First and Second Primary. Two weeks before the schools should have closed, a few cases of diphtheria occurred ; and so many scholars were withdrawn by their parents that the committee were obliged to close the five schools of this part of the town. It seems to the committee that there was needless alarm ; but the schools could not continue without pupils. The committee fail to see the consistency of the parents in with- drawing the children from the schools, thereby breaking them up, and then letting them run the streets afterwards, and ex- posing them to this disease far worse than if they had been kept quietly in school.
In the South Village we have not sufficient accommodations for the pupils. The First Primary has been all the year fully twice as large as it ought to be. Immediate action should be
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taken to provide at least one more schoolroom; two would be better still. The First Primary ought to be reduced one-half. It would be well to more carefully grade the schools, reducing the number of pupils in those now too large, and make TWO more schools. The committee are unable to do any thing till more room is provided. One more school is absolutely neces- sary for next term. Two will be needed in the immediate future. By this crowding the schools, the teachers' efficiency is lessened at least one-half. The School Committee hope the town will take immediate action in this matter. The Commit- tee would recommend an appropriation of four thousand dollars for the coming year.
EDW. A. PEIRCE. C. H. BOODEY. F. NICHOLS.
TABLE.
SPRING.
FALL.
WINTER.
No. of Scholars.
Av. Attendance.
No. of Scholars.
Av. Attendance.
No. of Scholars.
Av. Attendance.
Cochituate Grammar
54
49
36
34
34
27
Intermediate
Primary
40
36
42
39
36
28
Primary
55
50
63
56
63
50
Lokerville Primary
.
32
30
33
31
25
21
Centre Grammar .
.
29
26
27
22
29
22
Primary ·
.
34
28
36
32
35
28
Rutter Primary .
31
27
29
23
28
23
Thomas Primary .
17
15
17
14
14
12
North Primary
9
6
9
7
10
8
.
38
34
40
37
36
29
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NORTH AND CENTRAL CEMETERIES.
THE sum of fifty dollars, appropriated for fencing purposes, has been expended on the line (about 530 feet in length) divid- ing the North Cemetery from land of Jude Damon.
Clearing the cemeteries of unsightly bushes and briers of several years' growth, constitutes the other labor performed.
One burial-lot in the Central Cemetery has been sold during the year.
FEB. 1, 1881.
J. A. ROBY, Superintendent.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOR THE YEAR 1880-81.
Deficit due J. C. Butterfield on last year
$22 80
Paid Marchal Garfield, for labor on Cemetery
10 00
Charles Fairbank,
22 00
" J. C. Butterfield, 66
5 00
Expenditure .
$59 80
Amount due on lots last year
$77 50
Cash received on lots,
72 00
Due Cemetery
$5 50
Cash received
$72 00
Expenditures were
59 80
Due Cemetery
$12 20
66
66
.
5 50
$17 70
Expenditures .
59 80
$77 50
Respectfully submitted.
J. C. BUTTERFIELD. [Not audited.]
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
THE affairs of the town during the past year have, in general, been conducted by its officers in as commendable a manner as in former periods; yet not without some attending diffi- culties.
The annual auditing of accounts finds corresponding vouchers in the several departments. Imperfections in some of the bills are noted in connection. Among the credit-bills, quite too many, and some of large amount, are compelled to lie among the miscellaneous for lack of definiteness, or of indorsement by proper officers. Two of them ($1.27) were overpaid, caused by errors in transferring to the general order. One bill of $37.50, belonging in the School department, was erroneously drawn from the Incidental fund. The salary account has been over- drawn in two cases by direct charges for salaries, and in one instance by a charge on the Auditor's bill of thirty-three cents for stationery and postage.
In making the transfer from the tax-book to the Collector's book in 1879, an error of one dollar was made against a tax- payer, which has been refunded to him by one of the Assessors of that year.
The Treasurer's report for last year was made up amid the cares and anxieties of severe sickness ; and it was not discov- ered, until too late for correction, that an error was made against the Treasurer on account of tax-titles accredited as cash receipts with no counterbalancing statement; making the balance of cash in the treasury too large by the amount for which the tax-titles were received and held as security. In his report for this year, the correction has been made with the approval of the Auditor.
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Considerable anxiety has been felt from inadequate payments into the treasury (of the taxes of 1879) to meet the demands of the town's creditors. The rate of taxation for the year was unusually high, making it difficult, in some cases, for taxpayers to meet the demands of the Collector promptly. Add to this the absence of that accustomed spur (interest required from delinquents), and it is not very surprising that complaints during the last fifteen months have been neither unfrequent nor without cause, -from the Collector, of inability to secure pay- ments ; from the Treasurer, of a depleted money-vault ; and from the creditors of the town, that their bills were not readily cashed.
So far as the two causes named above are concerned, the citi- zens of the town, acting in their proper capacity as legal voters, must bear a large share of the responsibility. When deciding questions of money appropriations and their assessment, they must know, and should consider, that they are levying demands, pro rata, upon their own individual pockets ; and, by neglect- ing suitable expedients in aid of collecting the money assessed, they invite unnecessary delays and their attending embarrass- ments.
The attention of the Auditor has been repeatedly called to the existing state of the town's finances during the past year. On the fourteenth day of October last, he made an examination of the Treasurer's and Collector's accounts : by which it appeared that a note of $2,000 against the town, for money borrowed in anticipation of taxes of 1878, was long overdue, without resources in the treasury to pay it; and that there was due from the Collector the sum of $2,316.77 of the taxes of 1879.
The Collector's account showed that at the same date the balance of uncollected taxes amounted to $1,172.51 ; leaving in his hands as collected, but not paid over to the Treasurer, the sum of $1,144.26.
It seems too obvious to escape notice, that the Collector has not conformed to the instructions voted by the town for making payments to the treasury ; his last payment previous to Oct. 14 being under date of Sept. 15, and his next following being Oct. 16 of $434.27. These facts are left with the citizen tax- payers for their just criticism.
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The Auditor proceeded, further, to examine the Collector's bond with its sureties as accepted by the Selectmen ; and was compelled to the conclusion, that more dependence could be placed upon the personal integrity of the Collector than upon that document.
It is but just to say, however, that, at the close of the finan- cial year, the number of delinquent taxpayers has been so reduced as to give promise of a speedy closing of the account.
In view of the above, a few reflections are almost too obvious to require statement ; yet, with a view of placing before every citizen of the town considerations that may tend to future improvement, let it be urged, -
First, That, as promptness is the life of all social enterprise, and an essential element in successful business, so it is equally important in the financial affairs of a town.
Second, While it must be considered disreputable for a town not to be able to meet all demands on its treasury as they mature, it should be held doubly so for its citizens, amenable to the town for its financial supplies, to withhold or delay payments, except under the severest exigency. Such delinquencies should be stamped as unjust towards all who pay their taxes promptly, and as tending to fix a blot upon the fair name of the town.
Before leaving this topic, two or three suggestions seem appropriate.
First, Let the citizen voters guard against all unnecessary public expenditures when making their annual appropriations.
Second, Let conditions to encourage the prompt payment of taxes be liberal.
Third, Let Boards of Selectmen accept only such a bond from the Collector as shall specifically and fully cover his obli- gations to the town, with such sureties as shall be ample in case of default, held each and separately for a certain amount, instead of jointly and collectively for the whole.1
1 " The Collector shall make weekly payments into the treasury of all taxes collected ; provided also, that, after deducting the county tax, he shall pay into the treasury one- half of all the taxes on or before the first day of October, and the balance on or before the last Monday in December."- Vote in Town Meeting, April 7, 1879.
"Now, if the said Edward Pousland shall, as Collector, as aforesaid, faithfully collect, account for, and pay over, all the taxes which he shall be legally required to collect, and also faithfully discharge all other legal duties of said office, then this obligation shall be void," etc. - Condition in Collector's Bond for 1879.
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The frequent defalcations in managing public trusts, in other places where, in some cases, integrity had stood unblemished and unsuspected, should teach the wisdom of guarding with extreme vigilance against the invasion of such intruders within our precincts.
DEPARTMENTAL EXPENDITURES.
SCHOOLS.
Expenses in the several schools during the year, for teaching, care of rooms, and (so far as is definitely shown by bills) for fuel.
CENTRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
S. A. Holton, for teaching (three terms) $596 00
W. H. Brown, (four weeks)
72 00
Jacob Reeves, care of room (three terms) 23 20
C. W. Reeves, 62 cords of wood, at $7.50
50 63
$741 83
SOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
E. F. Adams, for teaching 11 weeks, at $20 $220 00
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11 6 at $18 .
198 00
G. M. Stroud, 66 11 " at $18 . 198 00
B. S. Hemenway, care of schoolhouse, one quarter, 37 50
$653 50
COCHITUATE FIRST PRIMARY.
Grace C. Langmaid, teaching three terms, at $9 per week .
$288 00
COCHITUATE SECOND PRIMARY.
Anna A. Merrill, teaching 17 weeks, at $9 $153 00
L. M. Horton,
11 66 at $9 99 00
N. L. Palmer, 5 at $9 45 00
$297 00
COCHITUATE INTERMEDIATE.
Clara E. Nichols, teaching 33 weeks, at $9.50 · $313 50
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THOMAS SCHOOL.
Lizzie M. Norton, teaching two terms . $195 50
Nellie Hammond, 66 11 weeks, at $8.50 93 50
L. M. Norton, care of schoolroom . 5 50
11 50
Katie McCann, 66 S. M. Thomas, 32 cords wood, $28; } cord sawed and split, $3
31 00
$337 00
LAKEVILLE SCHOOL.
Nellie R. Rice, teaching 33 weeks, at $9
$297 00
66 care of room .
22 00
George A. Rice, 22 cords wood (presumed for this school)
22 00
$341 00
RUTTER SCHOOL.
Carrie M. Lee, teaching 32 weeks, at $9
$288 00
care of room . 10 25
Charles Green, “ 66
·
5 00
L. Brooks, 2 cords of wood
14 00
$317 25
CENTRE PRIMARY.
Ella A. Wheeler, teaching 33 weeks, at $9 George Parmenter, care of room, two terms Leonard D. Draper, " one term 5 00
$297 00.
6 30
C. W. Reeves, 1 cord of wood
7 50
$315 80
NORTH SCHOOL.
Eunice N. Morse, teaching 33 weeks, at $8
$264 00
John Mulloy, care of room
5 50
Thomas Maynard, care of room
6 60
Edward Maynard, 1 cord of wood .
8 00
$284 10
50
SUMMARY OF ENTIRE EXPENSES IN MAINTAINING SCHOOLS.
For teaching .
. $3,617 50
" fuel 222 88
"' care of rooms (allowing two quarters for South Grammar School) 175 85
"' school-books, furniture, repairs, etc. (see Credit Bills) . 290 72
" other items (see Incidentals) . 20 46
" superintendence by School Committee 110 00
Total $4,437 41
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Expenditures.
George W. Philbrick, labor $115 00
J. M. Parmenter, · 133 50
J. W. Parmenter, 66 240 20
Melvin Sherman,
57 07
Charles B. Heard, 66 105 23
Charles B. Heard, labor, and material on bridges 8 23
S. D. Bryden, 125 70
H. G. Hammond,
190 00
J. C. Butterfield, 66
50 00
Charles Fairbanks,
190 00
Samuel M. Thomas, " ·
167 00
H. Heard and others, committee for repairing Bridle- point Bridge, under special appropriation, - lum- ber, $111.37 ; spikes, $6 ; labor, $32.63 150 00
Labor and material (see Credit Bills) 154 80
Total . $1,686 73
SUPPORT OF POOR.
Expenditures (for items, see Overseers' Report) $946 29
66 (see Incidentals, bill of J. C. Butter- field) 6 10
Total
$952 39
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LIBRARY.
Expenditures.
J. S. Draper, services as librarian, with assistant .
$150 00 C. A. Parker, expressing books between Wayland and Cochituate . ·
50 00
C. A. Parker, other express fees
55
Estes & Lauriat, for books purchased
304 97
Other items of expense (see Library Treasurer's account)
49 68
Other items of expense (see Credit Bills)
.8 65
Total
$563 85
NEW TOWN HALL.
Expenditures (for items, see Credit Bills) $69 03
66 ( " Incidentals) 91 96
66 on wall and out-buildings (special ap- propriation) . 150 00
Total
$310 99
SCHOOLHOUSE HALL.
Expenditures (see Credit Bills)
$85 82
Janitor's service (see Incidentals) .
75 00
Total
$160 82
LOCK-UP.
Expenditures (see Credit Bills)
·
$34 60
66 (see Incidentals) ·
5 00
Total
$39 60
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Firemen's pay (1879-80) .
. $400 00
Expenditures (for items, see Credit Bills) 107 40
Total
$507 40
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WATER-WORKS.
Cost of maintenance account, above receipts (see Treasurer of Water Commissioners' Report) $143 20 Interest account above receipts of water rates (see Treasurer of Water Commissioners' Report) 10 50
Other expenses, including $40 salaries, 1879 (see Credit Bills) 268 00
Cost of settling land-damages of C. and H. F. Lee, 30 00
Sinking-fund . 500 00
Total
$951 70
CEMETERIES.
Fence at North Cemetery $50 00
66 Lake-view Cemetery 42 00
Expended for general purposes (see Superintend- ent's Report) 38 00
Superintendent of Lake-view Cemetery (salary) 15 00
Total
$145 00
SELECTMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
Expenditures (for items, see Credit Bills) .
$7 95
Salaries and other expenses (for items, see Inciden-
tals) . 120 04
Total
$127 99
ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT.
Assessors' pay, 1879 (see Salaries) $118 00
Other expenses, 1879 (see Credit Bills) . 10 00
Total
$128 00
Assessors' pay, 1880 (see Salaries)
$137 50
Other expenses, 1880 (see Incidentals) . 6 00
Total
$143 50
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TOWN CLERK.
Expenditures, etc. (see Credit Bills)
$51 45
Salary .
20 00
Total
$71 45
COLLECTOR.
For collecting taxes (appropriations for two years) , $225 00 Account for 1879 not closed Feb. 1, 1881.
Claim of Train & Teele, borrowed in anticipation of taxes in 1881
$213 36
STATE AID.
Adeline Adams
$48 00
E. A. Palmer
48 00
Susan Mellen
14 66
Rebecca J. Dickey
48 00
H. B. Fischer
54 00
Total
$212 66
ABATEMENTS.
By vote of the town, April 5, 1880 . $130 54
" Assessors of 1880 (see Assessors' Report) 210 70
Total
$341 24
INTEREST.
Detailed Statement.
1880.
Feb. 2. Six months' interest on water bonds $625 00
Mar. 24. Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co. 1,112 50
April 1. H. Heard, six months' interest 49 50
21. H. G. Harwood, six months' on $3,000, 67 50
27. Plymouth Savings Bank 500 00 .
June 15. H. G. Harwood, one year's .
90 00
Amount carried forward · $2,444 50
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!Amount brought forward . $2,444 50 July 30. "Waltham National Bank, three months
and eight days' . 20 42
Aug. 1. Water bonds 625 00
Sept. 20. Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co. ·
1,112 50
20. Otis Atwell, five months and seven days', 4 92
Oct. 15. H. Heard, six months' . .
11 25
29. H. G. Harwood, six months' on $3,000, 67 50
Nov. 6. Salem Savings Bank, one year's . 606 00
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15. H. G. Harwood, six months' 45 00
66 27. Lynn Institute for Savings . 451 68
Dec. 16. James S. Draper, Library Fund 30 00
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31. Treasurer of Donation Fund . 24 70
( 1881.
Jan. 3.
Allen Fund 60 00
17. H. Heard, one month and twenty-six days 14 25
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24. Six months' interest on water bonds 625 00
Total
. $6,142 72
INCIDENTALS.
Amount paid out .
$519 34
LAW CASE : WOOD V. WAYLAND.
C. J. Frost, engineer services $31 50
D. W. Ricker, summoning witnesses 5 80
Selectmen, cash paid fourteen witnesses . 88 00
team and telegraphing . 4 50
William Hammond, six days' attendance 12 00
C. B. Felch, professional services . 15 00
Total
$156 80
PRINTING.
H. L. Wells, printing warrants, $3 ; posters, $1.50, $4 50
66 jury-list, $1.50 ; teachers' certificates, $1.25 ·
2 75
H. L. Wells, printing posters, $2.75 ; bills, $1.50 . 4 25
Amount carried forward $11 50
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Amount brought forward $11 50
T. S. Sherman, cash paid for printing Selectmen's orders 2 50 ·
Cook & Sons, printing (items not given) ·
4 00
George Phinney, printing town warrants 8. 00
S. O. Daniels, printing fifty posters 3 00
Total
$29 00
.
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLHOUSES.
C. Holbrook, one thermometer for First Primary School .
$0 50
C. Holbrook, cleaning and repairing clock, Inter- mediate School . 1 50
4
David Flint, stock and labor on South Schoolhouse, 14 26
Conant & Houghton, four boxes chalk 1 00
B. S. Hemenway, two locks and keys, and setting glass .
3 20
Total
$20 46
TOWN HALL.
T. S. Sherman, work on well, $3 ; machine oil, $0.50, $3.50
9} feet pine wood, $5.84 ; alcohol, $0.25. · 6 09
66 cash paid for labor on gas-machine,
11 85
A. G. Paul, four barrels gasoline . 44 28
C. A. Peirce, carting gasoline and returning barrels, 3 75
C. A. Kirby, one draw-cock, and connections .
4 00
C. Moulton, sawing, splitting, and packing four cords wood
7 37
E. Pousland, two cords wood .
11 12
Total
$91 96
SELECTMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
William Hammond, perambulating town lines $6 00
66 travelling expenses 7 80
Amount carried forward $13 80
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Amount brought forward $13 80
C. H. Boodey, six days' duty out of town 12 00
railroad fares, $7.68 ; postage and stamps, $1.56 9 24
לי 66 copying, stationery, etc. 10 00
Miscellaneous. $45 04
Edward Carter, cash paid for Assessors' and Collect- or's books . $6 00 J. C. Butterfield, team and time in case of Jane Fay (a pauper) 6 10
T. S. Sherman, two police-badges, $2.15; repairing guide-boards, 50 cents 2 65
B. S. Hemenway, care of South Schoolhouse (two quarters) . 75 00
P. F. Woodbury, two mattresses for Lock-up 5 00 Union Lumber Co., 2,900 feet plank (purpose not stated) 50 12
SALARIES.1
C. H. Boodey, Select-
man
$50 00
J. S. Draper, As- sessor, 1879 . $43 00
William Hammond,
Selectman
25 00
L. H. Sherman, Over- seer of Poor . 20 00
C. H. Boodey, School Committee
35 00
J. C. Butterfield, Overseer of Poor. . 20 00
E. A. Peirce, School Committee ·
30 00
C. Fairbanks, Over- seer of Poor . 20 00
L. Flanders, School Committee ·
30 00
20 00
Horace Heard, Treas-
urer
50 00
Horace Heard, As-
sessor, 1879 .
35 00
A. W. Goodnow, As- sessor, 1880 . 37 50
George A. Rice, As-
sessor, 1879 .
40 00
Edward Carter, As- sessor, 1880 . 75 00
J. S. Draper, Auditor, 20 33
Henry Wight, Clerk . W. M. Fullick, As- sessor, 1880 . 25 00
1 By votes of the town, the salaries of its officers for 1879 and 1880 were fixed as follows : -
Chairman of Selectmen, $40; other members of Selectmen, each, $25; Overseers of Poor, each, $20; School Committee, each, $30; Auditor, $20; Clerk, $20; Treasurer, $50; Water Commissioners, each, $20; Superintendent of Water Works, $125. - AUDITOR.
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CREDIT BILLS.
Amount paid out . . $1,589 20
The following bills and accounts were, by vote of the town, in April, 1880, referred to the Selectmen, and have been approved by the Board. Their items have been separated by the Auditor, and are printed in connection with the departments to which they properly belong : -
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLHOUSES.
Wayland Water Board, water for South Grammar School (1879) $10 00
E. A. Peirce, cash paid for one-half dozen erasers 1 75
cash paid for histories 3 85
66 66 cash paid for 25 writing-books . 3 00
D. Flint, work on schoolhouse in Cochituate 2 50
66 66 1 faucet, bolts and stock 2 00
William Videon, cleaning out well at Centre
Primary 1 50
William Videon, work on well at Rutter School- house
50
Edward Carter, repairs on North Schoolhouse 3 53
Cyrus Lee, setting six panes of glass in Centre Grammar Schoolhouse . 75
Cyrus Lee, setting two panes of glass in Rutter Schoolhouse . 16
Cyrus Lee, 1} feet of wood in Centre Primary Schoolhouse
1 25
C. W. Dascomb, grading around schoolhouse-yard . 20 50
13 24 !
66 setting glass ·
.
C. F. Bigelow, 15 boxes chalk 3 75
6 mucilage, 15 cts. ; stationery, $2.95, 3 10 :
C. A. Parker, express fees 1 70
J. M. Forbush, insurance on schoolhouse in Cochit- uate
160 00
G. W. Dixon, 5 lights of glass and setting, 40 cents ; labor on Grammar Schoolhouse, 75 cents . 1 15
G. W. Dixon, labor and material, Centre Primary . 1 15
Amount carried forward
$235 38
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Amount brought forward
$235 38
L. K. Lovell, 19 boxes crayons 4 94
66 drinking-cups, 95 cents ; 2 dust-
brushes, 80 cents . 1 75
2 brooms, 65 cents ; 1 water-pail,
25 cents 90
8 bottles of ink, $4; 6 lights glass, 58 cents 4 58
putty and points, 10 cents ; 3 writing- books, 45 cents 55
20 school-books (of different kinds) . 12 62
E. P. Butler, 5 boxes crayons, $1.25 ; ink, 5 cents . 1 30
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68
2 water-pails, 38 cts. ; 1 broom, 30 cts. stationery, 95 cents ; 9 writing-books, $1.44 . 2 39
46 school-books (of different kinds) . 25 93
Total .
$290 72
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
J. C. Butterfield, snow-work . $1 42
H. G. Hammond,
1 80
66 60 labor on roads
45
Charles Fairbanks, carting gravel and shovelling
snow 7 65
G. H. Philbrick, snow-work . 6 72
carting lumber, and work on Sher- man's Bridge . . 24 00
S. D. Reeves, stone for culvert near his house .
5 00
R. M. Flint, 30 loads gravel supplied to M. French, 66 66 labor on roads .
3 00
J. W. Parmenter, snow-work ·
4 50
66 50 two-horse loads of gravel, at 10 cents . 5 00 ·
C. B. Heard, labor on roads .
3 00
labor and material for railing Bridle- Point Road 16 42
Amount carried forward
$98 99
360 loads of gravel, at 5 cents
18 00
2 03
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Amount brought forward ·
$98 99
T. H. Simpson, snow-bills, paid for by order of Selectmen 17 92
G. W. Dixon, snow-bills, paid for by order of Selectmen 3 30
D. McDonnell, snow-bill 7 80
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