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7.30
Towing 6.00
Waste Wiping Material 28.52
Matting
68.63
Blankets
26.08
70
New Equipment Appropriation : New Equipment 499.55
New Siren Purchase St. Station 73.55
Other Expenses :
Express
7.84
Stationery, Printing &
Postage
64.72
Telephones
151.53
Lunches
171.98
Express
2.58
Advertising
12.00
Association Dues
6.00
Badges
30.28
Serving Notices
1.20
39,532.18
Wire Inspector :
Salary 400.00
Sealer of Weights & Measures:
Salary
600.00
Expenses :
Seals
15.20
Recutting dies
6.00
Measures
80.52
701.72
Gypsy Moth Suppression :
Labor
56.00
Truck Hire
9.43
Creosote
24.96
90.39
Care of Trees:
Superintendent
111.61
Labor
462.39
Expenses :
Stationery
2.00
Hardware & Tools
191.42
Trees
14.00
71
Trucking
91.25
Sundry Materials
1.85
874.52
Brush Fires:
Warden
12.75
Firemen
292.50
Auto Hire
3.00
Lunches
9.25
Brooms, etc.
41.85
Repairs to Equipment
12.46
Gas
.90
372.71
Dog Officer:
Salary
75.00
Shooting & Boarding Dogs
235.00
Complaints
121.00
Serving Notices
37.00
Auto Hire
31.45
499.45
Court Fees 89.70
Rifle Practice :
Transportation to Range 170.00
Lunches 29.85
199.85
Total for Protection to Persons & Property
68,752.16
Health and Sanitation
Health :
General Administration: Salaries :
Members 300.56
Agent
240.52
Expenses :
Stationery & Postage 43.23
Printing &
Advertising
121.34
72
Telephone
68.76
Rent
180.00
Auto Hire
251.20
Keys
.50
Janitor's Supplies
3.51
Office Supplies
8.60
Cleaning Windows
5.50
Flood Payroll
51.00
Directory
5.00
Quarantine & Contagious Diseases :
Medical Attendance
650.00
Treatment Hospital
15.00
Drugs & Medicine 195.63
Dry Goods & Clothing
91.98
Groceries & Provisions
289.44
Cities & Towns
310.50
Tuberculosis :
Board & Treatment 7,610.51
Worcester T. B. Hosp.
Assess.
7,053.39
Worcester T. B. Hosp. Constr.
9,150.58
Vital Statistics :
Births
103.25
Deaths
55.00
Other Expenses :
Sanitary Inspector 300.00
Plumbing Inspector
599.40
Animal Burial 98.50
Repairs to Furniture
1.25
Janitor's Supplies
1.03
Laundry
16.31
Unpaid Bills-1937
50.00
Inspection of School Children:
Health Nurse
1,200.00
Expenses 146.49
Inspection of Animals :
Inspector 300.00
Expenses
126.75
73
Inspector of Meat & Provisions :
Inspector
1,382.00
Expenses 4.50
Dental Clinic :
Dentist
1,050.00
Cleaning Office
49.00
Light & Power
10.16
Laundry
14.34
Rent
180.00
Dental Supplies
77.85
Printing
7.00
Furnishings
3.23
Janitor's Supplies
1.39
Total for Health Department 32,424.20 Garbage Contract 2,300.01
Sewer Maintenance: Salaries :
Commissioners
650.00
Superintendent
1,560.00
Clerk
200.00
Expenses :
Stationary, Printing &
Postage
9.00
Telephone
59.15
Light, Power &
Water
1,069.01
Fuel
4.25
Trucking
136.95
Tools & Equipment
92.70
Pipe & Fittings
184.21
Gas & Oil
3.14
Raising Manholes
812.97
Repairs
226.40
First-Aid Supplies
2.10
7.00
Rental of Equipment Hose
39.75
Auto Hire
15.00
Rent of Land
10.00
Labor
2,915.40
Total for Sewer Maintenance 7,997.03
74
Sewer Construction : P. W. A. Docket 1023: Engineering Fees 1,123.60
Contract 116.85
Total for P. W. A. Docket 1023 1,240.45
Pleasant Street :
Advertising 4.50
Engineering Services 112.16
Contract
475.00
Total for Pleasant Street Sewer 591.66
Installation of New Pump:
Advertising
10.52
Engineering Services
84.02
Pump Contract
802.75
Total for Installing New Pump 897.29
Total for Health & Sanitation 45,450.64
Highways
General Administration :
Superintendent
2,000.00
Clerk
200.00
Office Expenses
313.04
General Expenses :
Labor 11,172.24
Trucks
341.97
Broken Stone, Gravel, Etc. 786.72
Equipment & Repairs
703.75
Gasoline & Oil
1,199.60
Tarvia & Road Oil
64.46
Insurance
545.90
Guard Rail
42.58
Fuel
76.47
Storage of Tools & Equipment 15.00
Highway Stakes
15.00
75
Lunches
9.15
Other Materials & Supplies 279.51
Total for Highways 17,765.47
New Equipment & Repairs :
New Equipment 1,782.00
Repairs
214.87
Total for New Equipment & Repairs 1,996.87
Oiling Streets :
Labor
728.11
Oil
3,749.69
Materials
521.84
.
Total for Oiling Street 4,999.64
Purchase St., Constr. 1937-Chap. 90:
Labor
1,345.50
Equipment
823.97
Materials
9,556.29
Telephone
56.70
Replacing Sewer
Connection
15.28
Sharpening Tools
132.78
Office Rent
54.00
Total Purchase St., 1937 11,984.52
Purchase St., Constr. 1938-Chap. 90:
Labor
9,790.29
Materials
10,509.63
Telephone
24.00
Sharpening Tools
10.48
Express .50
Advertising
49.50
Equipment Rental
1,277.40
Fuel Oil
69.40
Repairs to Equipment
264.22
Gasoline & Oil
689.65
Total Purchase St.,-1938 22,685.07
76
Maintenance & Care of Town Improvements Built under E. R. A .- C. W. A .- W. P. A. Retaining Walls Rebuilt 132.00
Repairs on Account of Flood Damages :
Labor
15,794.22
Materials
28,338.56
Trucking
772.11
Bridge Contract
300.00
Equipment Rental
2,171.00
Rebuilding Manholes
177.25
Lunches
8.90
Express
8.06
Water
2.10
Equipment & Repairs
324.93
Engineering Services
15.00
Repairs to Walls- Contract
50.00
Recording Fees
9.00
Rebuilding Walls
11.50
Telephone
15.80
Office Supplies
1.57
Total for Repairs on Account of Flood Damages 48,000.00
Chapter 500 Acts of 1938
Labor
1,445.35
Truck Hire
509.00
Materials 292.33
Recording Fees
12.64
Supervision
96.00
Lunches
31.20
Total for Chapter 500 Acts of 1938 2,386.52
Sidewalks :
General :
Labor
270.36
Materials
859.97
Total for General Sidewalks
1,130.33
77
East Street:
Tools
8.45
Trucking
119.50
Materials
192.96
Total for East Street Sidewalks 320.91
Snow & Ice Removal:
Labor 6,273.21
Truck Hire
5,709.55
Tools & Equipment
129.15
Gas & Oil
256.91
Equipment Hire
391.67
Sand
152.75
Repairs to Equipment
65.06
Advertising
9.00
Lunches
8.95
Office Supplies
3.75
Total for Snow & Ice Removal 13,000.00
Street Lights:
Contract
16,900.41
Total for Highways
141,301.74
Charities & Soldiers' Benefits General Administration :
Salaries :
Board Members
550.00
Almoner
1,020.00
Clerical
995.00
Supervision Com-
missary
200.00
Expenses :
Printing, Stationery & Postage
242.19
Office Supplies
56.06
Telephone
365.08
New Typewriters
205.35
Typewriter Rental
10.00
Auto Expense
103.30
Commissary Supplies
114.50
78
Police Duty 26.25
Adding Machine
Maintenance 8.90
First Aid Supplies 2.04
Administration Expense Commissary (U.S.A.) 437.38
Outside Relief by Town:
Groceries & Provisions 3,504.73
Fuel 540.00
Board & Care 8,003.79
Medicine & Medical Aid 1,292.41
State Institution
773.45
Cash
46,781.00
Rent
9,874.50
Trucking
1,020.63
Light & Water
789.82
Ambulance Service
31.00
Auto Hire
118.50
Commissary Supplies
633.95
Dry Goods & Clothing
116.02
Repairs 72.61
Burial Expense
90.00
Barber Services
10.50
Disinfectant
17.35
Laundry Work
49.26
Relief by Other Cities and Towns:
Cities
2,287.90
Towns
5,869.27
Total for General Aid 86,212.74
Mothers' Aid :
Cash
27,351.95
Clerical
450.00
Almoner
136.00
Stationery, Printing & Postage
60.11
Hospital Care
61.00
Medicine & Medical Attendance
68.90
Fuel
12.00
Groceries
54.00
79
Auto Expenses
30.25
Moving
14.00
Total for Mothers' Aid 28,238.21
Old Age Assistance :
Administration
1,951.20
Cash
93,898.14
Board & Care
1,191.35
Cities & Towns
825.78
Refunded to State
125.33
Medicine & Medical
Attendance
15.00
Auto Hire
30.75
Funeral Expenses
1,020.00
Total for Old Age Assistance
99,057.55
Infirmary :
Salaries:
Superintendent 1,500.00
Other Employees 1,103.40
Expenses :
Groceries &
Provisions 3,491.02
Dry Goods & Clothing 2,497.09
Buildings 1,927.32
Fuel & Light 960.80
Hay & Grain 2,070.24
Automobile Expense 434.62
Hardware & Supplies 2,027.53
Newspaper Sub- scriptions 16.40
Medicine & Medical
Attendance
86.08
Express 4.03
Repairs to Equipment 186.56
Stationery, Printing & Postage 45.24
Telephone 116:07
Veterinary Services 33.00
Shoeing Horses 43.75
80
Auto Hire
1.75
Trucking
60.00
Equipment Rental
22.00
Meals
958.80
Sand, Gravel, Cement, Etc.
32.00
Laundry
111.82
Boiler Inspection
5.00
Total for Infirmary 17,734.52
Rebuilding Town Farm:
Adjusting Fees
840.81
Supervision
242.30
Truck Hire
29.50
Gas & Oil
33.69
Architects
898.00
Plumbing
72.00
Contract
14,633.00
Incidentals
46.38
Total for Rebuilding Town Farm
16,795.68
Soldiers' Benefits :
State Aid: Cash Grants 300.00
Soldiers' Benefits :
Cash Grants
11,883.23
Fuel
440.84
Groceries & Provisions
154.93
Rent
172.50
Medicine & Medical
Attendance
643.67
Auto Hire
25.50
Printing
17.67
Moving
28.00
Clothing
20.95
Funeral Expenses
50.00
Total for Soldiers' Relief
13,437.29
Total for Charities & Soldiers' Benefits
261,775.99
81 Schools and Libraries
Schools :
General Expenses :
Salary of Supt.
3,999.60
Clerical Hire
2,096.50
Truant Officer
1,450.00
Printing, Stationery,
Postage
535.63
Telephone
364.62
Travel Expense, Nurse 228.94
School Physicians
1,000.00
Trucking
123.43
Asst. Football Coach
200.00
Repairs to Equipment
8.50
Shoveling Snow
6.00
Watchmen 85.00
Chair Rental
8.00
Boiler Inspection
60.00
School Nurses
2,874.60
Sundries
51.25
Teachers' Salaries :
High 54,010.88
Elementary
108,064.94
Text Books & Supplies : High School:
Text & Reference Books 1,586.10
All Other
2,082.57
Elementary Schools : Text & Reference Books 682.52
All Other
2,546.37
Tuition :
Trade Schools 4,335.76
Transportation : School Children (Contract) 5,663.43 Teachers 396.96
82
Janitors' Services :
High
3,539.10
Elementary
8,005.50
Fuel, Light & Water :
High
6,204.74
Elementary
10,484.60
Maintenance of Buildings & Grounds :
High School :
Repairs
257.01
Janitors' Supplies
116.68
All Other
5.22
Elementary Schools:
Repairs
2,846.23
Janitor's Supplies 464.55
All Other 147.01
Furniture:
Elementary 12.77
Graduation Expenses 148.50
Repairs to Original High School Building :
Architect's Fees 1,458.00
Advertising
12.75
Flag Pole
223.00
Bronze Tablet 200.00
Contracts 61,846.45
Refurnishing Original High School Building : Furniture &
Furnishings
7,121.21
Unpaid Bills-1937
1,100.53
Total for Schools
296,655.45
Libraries :
Salaries :
Librarian
1,320.00
Assistant Librarians 2,830.18
Clerical
168.00
83
Expenses :
Books
758.37
Periodicals
33.40
Binding Books
323.39
Light
140.82
Stationery, Printing,
Postage & Supplies
85.13
Membership Dues
1.00
Towels & Cups
7.80
Lamps
6.25
Express
7.25
Repairs to Equipment
2.80
Total for Library 5,684.39
Total for Schools & Libraries
302,339.84
Recreation and Unclassified
Parks:
Salary of Clerk
100.00
Expenses :
Labor
1,556.50
Equipment & Repairs
94.16
Loam
67.51
Removing Trees
60.00
Water
62.03
Raising Flag
58.50
Disinfectant
13.50
Express & Trucking
7.88
Gas & Oil
8.25
Landscaping Draper
Park
175.00
Clay
10.00
Flowers
45.00
Keys
1.50
Rebuilding Gutters
70.00
Lime
22.50
Salt
5.50
Janitor's Supplies
11.10
Total for Parks 2,368.93
84
Playgrounds :
Instructors
1,497.20
Labor
55.00
Apparatus & Repairs
105.05
Sand
16.00
Rakes
10.00
Trucking
8.82
Repairs
1.47
First Aid Supplies
6.00
Total for Playgrounds 1,699.54
Repairs to Tennis Courts : Contract
200.00
Tree Surgery & Spraying :
Labor
60.50
Trucking
16.00
Creosote
.50
Spraying
15.00
Total for Tree Surgery & Spraying 92.00
Playground Rental: Oliver Street Land 115.00
Total for Parks & Playgrounds
4,475.47
Unclassified
Improvements-Cedar Swamp Pond P.W.A. 1446-F:
Engineering Services 600.00
Advertising Bids
59.40
Postage 3.03
Total for Cedar Swamp Pond Improvements
662.43
Damage to Persons & Property
2,893.85
Memorial Day : G. A. R. 200.00
American Legion 150.00
Spanish War Veterans 50.00
Total for Memorial Day 400.00
85
Armistice Day :
Veterans of Foreign Wars
150.00
Printing Town Reports . 1,523.25
Tax Title Foreclosures : Fees 398.96
Christmas Lights :
Wiring
285.80
Erecting Tree
20.00
Light
73.55
Total for Christmas Lights
379.35
Blanket Insurance :
Premiums
5,599.02
Workmen's Compensation & Public Liability :
Premiums
2,800.00
Construction of War Memorial:
Trucking
6.00
Contract for Base 240.00
Total for Construction of
War Memorial 246.00
Chester L. Clark Heirs Award:
Judgment 420.00
Installing Street Signs:
Posts 117.40
Signs 237.50
Specifications &
Supervision 38.00
Contract for Erection
88.25
Total for Street Signs 481.15
Flowage Rights-Clark Heirs
138.00
86
S. Alden Eastman Claim: Settlement 500.00
Land Registration-Cedar Swamp Pond:
Engineering Services
480.00
Searching Titles-
Land Court Searcher
985.00
Legal Services
500.00
Total for Registration
1,965.00
Worcester County Extension Service :
Aid to Agriculture 50.00
Land Damages Purchase Street:
Materials
300.62
Settlements 75.00
Total Land Damages-Purchase St. 375.62
Municipal Retirement Act :
To Retirement System
8,582.03
Purchase of Tools, Materials, Trucking, Etc .:
Salaries & Wages
2,110.00
Tools 2,825.30
Materials
46,120.93
Equipment Hire
2,402.53
Trucking
9,359.37
Plant Rental
1,241.50
Office Expenses
773.97
Contracts
1,969.62
Auto Hire
505.00
Sundries
1,905.15
Total for Tools, Materials, Trucking, Etc. 69,213.37
Petty Cash :
A. O. Caswell
100.00
E. Blake
5.00
Total for Petty Cash
105.00
87
State Tax
41,650.00
County Tax
27,287.16
Auditing Municipal Accounts
201.05
State Parks & Reservations
540.65
Dog Licenses to County
1,737.20
Total for Unclassified 168,299.09
Cemeteries
North Purchase Cemetery : Labor 40.50
Vernon Grove Cemetery :
Secretary of Trustees
300.00
Labor
2,166.00
Loam
164.00
Tools & Repairs
170.72
Care of Lots Pine Grove Cemetery
10.50
Plowing and Harrowing
84.00
Mowing
5.00
Weed Killer
23.00
Flowers
38.15
Express
1.44
Total for Vernon Grove Cemetery 2,962.81
Repairs to Soldiers' Monuments :
Contract 100.00
Total for Cemeteries 3,103.31
Interest and Maturing Debt
Interest:
Anticipation of Revenue 2,076.63
High School Loan
4,845.00
Relief Loan 405.00
Chapter 307 Loan
700.00
Tax Title Loan
411.11
Sewer Loans
2,526.25
Total for Interest 10,963.99
88
Premiums on Loan : Coupons
29.24
Maturing Debt:
Anticipation of Revenue 372,000.00
High School Loan 11,000.00
Tax Title Loan
6,077.11
Sewers
5,000.00
Emergency Finance Loan 20,000.00
Municipal Relief Loan
2,000.00
Total for Maturing Debt
416,077.11
Total for Interest & Maturing Debt
427,070.34
Trust Funds
Cemetery Perpetual Care
450.00
Refunds and Transfers
Refunds :
Taxes 2,090.86
M. V. Excise 1935
6.64
M. V. Excise 1936 6.20
M. V. Excise 1937
110.48
M. V. Excise 1938
698.66
Fire Loss Paid in Error 9.54
Interest
10.12
Taxi Badges
3.00
Total for Refunds
2,935.50
Transfers:
Reserve Fund to:
Town Hall 880.14
Election, Registration & Town Meetings 1,500.00
Assessors
250.00
Court Fees 17.78
Accountant
230.00
Treasurer 20.00
Memorial Hall
81.92
89
Fire-Pay of Members 400.00
Fire-Incidentals
217.95
Fire-Brush Fires 23.00
Dog Officer 50.00
Care of Trees 183.30
Inspector of Animals 80.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance 6.35
Schools-General
271.27
Municipal Retirement Fund 125.00
Construction of War Memorial
350.00
Blanket Insurance 176.00
Parks-General 71.85
Fire Loss to:
Fire-Incidentals 1,973.00
Fire-Repairs to Alarm System 450.00
Fire-Purchase St.
1937 1,096.00
Infirmary 35,166.38
Excess & Deficiency to Revenue 30,000.00
Maintenance & Care of Town Improve- ments to Purchase of Tools, Trucking, Etc. 2,369.00
Sewer P. W. A. 1023 to Purchase of Tools, Trucking, Etc. 4,470.98
Clerk Hire: Town Clerk to Pur- chase Tools, Trucking, Etc. 602.50
Sale of Railroad St. Land to Purchase of Tools, Trucking, etc. 700.00
90
Highways - General to Purchase St., Construction 1937 3,195.03
Schools-Salaries & Wages to: Schools-General 500.00 New Equipment- Vocational Edu- cation 500.00
Chapter 90 Maint. to Police Dept. 300.00
Totals for Transfers
86,257.45
Total for Refunds & Transfers 89,192.95
Total for Expenditures
1,544,352.11
Cash in Treasury December 31, 1938
100,463.55
Grand Total 1,644,815.66
RECAPITULATION AND ESTIMATES
1937 Balance
1938 Appro- priation
Receipts and Transfers
Total
Account
1938 Expend- itures
1938 Balance
1939 Estimates
General Government
100.00
100.00
Moderator
100.00
100.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
Selectmen
1,477.00
23.08
1,500.00
100.00
100.00
Finance Commission-Secretary
84.08
15.92
100.00
2,800.00
230.00
3,030.00
Accountant
2,994.25
35.75
3,000.00
2,050.00
21.75
2,071.75
Treasurer
2,063.74
8.01
2,050.00
223.00
223.00
Treasurer's Bond
223.00
231.50
4,650.00
4,650.00
Tax Collector
4,504.06
145.94
5,650.00
446.00
446.00
Tax Collector's Bond
446.00
463.00
4,400.00
250.00
4,650.00
Assessors
4,629.65
20.35
4,450.00
Assessors - Hearing Tax Appeal Board
Costs .
100.000
100.00
Certification of Notes
95.00
5.00
75.00
1,200.00
1,200.00
Town Solicitor
1,200.00
1,200.00
1,700.00
1,700.00
Town Clerk
1,700.00
1,700.00
780.00
780.00
Town Clerk-Clerk Hire
780.00
4,800.00
1,500.00
6,300.00
Election-Registration-Town Meetings
6,290.64
9.36
4,383.75
4,000.00
880.14
4,880.14
Town Hall
4,875.32
4.82
3,400.00
1,100.00
81.92
1,181.92
Memorial Hall
1,180.01
1.91
1,200.00
44.53
44.53
Memorial Hall-Unpaid Bill 1937
44.33
.20
Protection to Persons & Property
24,800.00
306.50
25,106.50
Police-Salaries-Expenses
25,102.82
3.68
24,860.00
400.00
400.00
Police-New Equipment
400.00
75.00
17.78
92.78
Court Fees
89.70
3.08
75.00
500.00
500.00
Police-Maint. of Traffic Signals
488.82
11.18
500.00
91
500.00
RECAPUTULATION AND ESTIMATES-Continued
1937 Balance
1938 Appro- priation
Receipts and Transfers
Total
Account
1938 Expend- itures
1938 Balance
1939 Estimates
Protection to Persons & Property-Continued
18,500.00
400.00 2,190.95
18,900.00
Fire-Pay of Members
18,899.83
17
19,200.00
3,400.00
5,590.95
Fire-Incidentals
5,589.18
1.77
5,225.00
500.00 75.00
500.00
Fire-New Equipment & Repairs
499.55
.45
75.00
Fire-New Siren-Purchase St. Station
73.55
1.45
400.00
450.00
850.00
Fire-Repairs to Alarm System
847.06
2.94
550.00
1,450.00
1,450.00
Fire-New Hose
1,443.01
6.99
800.00
350.00
23.00
373.00
Brush Fires
372.71
.29
350.00
12,180.00
12,180.00
Hydrant Service
12,180.00
12,300.00
200.00
200.00
Rifle Practice
199.85
.15
400.00
400.00
400.00
Inspector of Wires
400.00
400.00
765.00
765.00
Sealer of Weights & Measures
701.72
63.28
750.00
100.00
100.00
Gypsy Moth Suppression
90.39
9.61
500.00
700.00
183.30
883.30
Care of Trees
874.52
8.78
2,000.00
New Trees
1,000.00
450.00
50.00
500.00
Dog Officer
499.45
.55
450.00
Health & Sanitation
17,000.00
17,000.00
Health-General
16,650.52
349.48
17,000.00
50.00
50.00
Health-Unpaid Bills-1937
50.00
350.00
80.00
430.00
Inspector of Animals
436.75
3.25
350.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
Dental Clinic
1,392.97
107.03
1,500.00
7,053.39
7,053.39
Worcester County T. B. Hosp. Assess.
7,053.39
92
9,150.58
9,150.58
Worcester County T. B. Hosp. Constr.
9,150.58
8,000.00
16.94
8,016.94
Sewer Maintenance
7,997.03
19.91
9,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
897.29
102.71
600.00
600.00
Sewer-Construction Pleasant St.
591.66
8.34 810.00
1,094.00
4,616.43
5,711.43
Sewer-Construction-P.W.A. 1023 5,711.43
Sewer-Chester L. Clark Heirs Award
420.00
Highways
Highway-General
23,036.00
50.89
21,000.00
Highway-New Equipment &
Repairs
1,996.87
3.13
2,000.00
Highway-Oiling Streets
4,999.64
.36
5,000.00
7,801.31
4,183.21
11,984.52
10,000.00
14,952.85
24,952.85
Purchase St., Constr. Chap. 90-38 22,685.07
2,267.78
93
800.00
800.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance-1938
300.00
500.00
800.00
2,500.00
2,500.00
Maint. & Care of Town
Improvements
2,500.00
2,500.00
321.05
321.05
Sidewalks-East Street
320.91
.14
1,500.00
1,500.00
Sidewalks-General Repair
1,130.23
369.67
1,500.00
Snow Removal
13,000.00
17,500.00
17,500.00
Street Lights
16,900.41
599.59
17,400.00
New Hydrant-Congress Street
60.00
New Hydrant-West Fountain St.
60.00
500.00
500.00
Road Machinery Account
500.00
Repairs on Account of Flood Damage
48.000.00
Chapter 500-Acts of 1938
2,386.52
9,863.48
Chapter 90 Construction -. Purchase St.
10,000.00
21,000.00 2,000.00
2,086.89
23,086.89
2,000.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
Purchase St., Constr. Chap. 90-37 11,984.52
6.35
6.35
Chapter 90 Maintenance-1937
6.35
13,000.00
13,000.00
60.00
60.00
60.00
60.00
48,000.00
48,000.00
12,250.00
12,250.00
810.00
810.00
Sewer-Construction-Cedar St.
420.00
420.00
Sewer-Installing New Pump
RECAPUTULATION AND ESTIMATES-Continued
1937 Balance
1938 Appro- priation
Receipts and' Transfers
Total
Account
1938 Expend- itures
1938 Balance
1939 Estimates
Charities & Soldiers' Benefits
130,000.00
1,853.63
General & Mothers' Aid
128,777.97
3,075.66
91.41
5,638.81
U.S. Grant-Aid to Dep. Children
3,407.50
2,322.72
60,000.00
567.50
60,567.50
Old Age Assistance
57,838.50
2,729.00
68,000.00
2,139.80
44,571.62
46,711.42
39,922.87
6,788.55
30.40
1,584.17
1,614.57
Fed. Grant-Old Age For Administration
1,407.95
206.62
General Aid
Aid to Dependent Children
94
Aid to Dependent Children- Administration
1,500.00
Old Age Assistance-For Administration
2,000.00
State Aid
300.00
550.00
500.00
500.00
Military Aid
500.00
300.00
15,000.00
133.27
15,133.27
13,437.29
1,695.98
13,000.00
Schools & Libraries
38,635.00
871.99
39,506.99
Schools-General Expenses
39,390.24
116.75
36,875.00
184,365.00
2,398.30
186,763.30
Schools-Salaries & Wages
186,403.27
360.03
187,147.62
59,792.13
4,668.08
64,460.20
63,740.20
720.00
1,100.93
1,100.93
School-Unpaid Bills 1937
1,100.53
.40
7,500.00
7,500.00
School-Furnishings
7,121.21
378.79
131,853.63 5,730.22
Fed. Grant-Old Age For Assistance
85,000.00 27,500.00
850.00 500.00
850.00
Soldiers' Relief
Schools-Repairs to Original High School Building
4,350.00
500.00 1,340.43
500.00 5,690.43
School-Machinery & Equipment- Vocational School Town Library
5,689.39
500.00 1.04
4,350.00 plus 1,372.20 Dog Tax
Recreation & Unclassified
2,300.00
71.85
2,371.85
Town Parks
2,368.93
2.92
2,300.00
1,700.00
1,700.00
Playgrounds
1,699.54
.46
1,700.00
200.00
200.00
Playgrounds-Rental
115.00
85.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
Repairs to Tennis Courts
200.00
500.00
200.00
200.00
New Walks-Parks
200.00
500.00
100.00
100.00
Tree Surgery & Spraying
92.00
8.00
1,523.25
1,523.25
Printing Town Reports
1,523.25
2,800.00
2,800.00
2,800.00
2,900.00
2,900.00
Damage to Persons & Property
2,893.85
6.15
3,300.00 1,200.00
95
8,636.25
55,000.00
24,142.48
87,778.73
69,213.37
18,565.36
25,000.00
138.00
138.00
Flowage Rights-Clark Heirs
138.00
69.00
200.00
200.00
Memorial Day-G. A. R.
200.00
200.00
150.00
150.00
Memorial Day-American Legion
150.00
150.00
50.00
50.00
50.00
50.00
150.00
150.00
Armistice Day-Vet. Foreign Wars 150.00
150.00
600.00
53.00
653.00
Property Foreclosure-Treasurer
398.96
254.04
300.00
Worcester County Extension- Service
50.00
50.00
6.73
350.00
356.73
Construction of War Memorial
246.00
110.73
5,500.00
176.00
5,676.00
Blanket Insurance
5,599.02
76.98
5,500.00
6.23
1,000.00
1,006.23
Land Damages-Purchase Street
375.62
630.61
10.27
150.00
160.27
Zoning Board
160.27
500.00
500.00
Installing Street Signs
481.15
18.85
500.00
Workmens' Compensation & Public Liability
Purchase of Tools, Materials Trucking, etc.
Memorial Day-Spanish War Veterans
50.00
50.00
RECAPITULATION AND ESTIMATES-Continued
1937 Balance
1938 Appro- priation
Receipts and Transfers
Total
Account
1938 Expend- itures
1938 Balance
1939 Estimates
Recreation & Unclassified-Continued
400.00 500.00
400.00 500.00
Installing-Christmas Lights S. Alden Eastman Claim Land Registration-Cedar Swamp Pond
379.35
20.65
400.00
500.00
2,000.00 8,457.03
125.00 55,000.00
2,000.00 8,582.03 55,000.00
Contributory Retirement System Cedar Swamp Development
662.43
54,337.57
8,637.46
Cemeteries
96
2,300.00
617.81
2,917.81
Vernon Grove Cemetery
2,917.81
2,300.00
39.43
617.87
657.30
639.56
17.74
50.00
50.00
North Purchase Cemetery North Purchase Cemetery- Income Trust Funds
40.50
9.50
50.00
35.50
11.25
46.75
46.75
100.00
100.00
Repairs to Soldiers' Monument- Vernon Grove Cemetery
100.000
Interest & Maturing Debt
11,000.00 38,000.00
11,000.00
Interest Maturing Debt.
10,922.74
77.26
12,500.00 34,000.00
Other Appropriations
5,000.00
5,000.00
Reserve Fund-Transfers
4,934.56
65.44
1,965.00
35.00
8,582.03
Vernon Grove Cemetery-Income from Trust Funds
38,000.00
38,000.00
NET FUNDED OR FIXED DEBT OF THE TOWN OF MILFORD December 31, 1938
Year
Sewer Bonds
Tax Title Loan
High School Bond
Municipal Cedar Swamp Chapter 58 Total Maturity Relief Loan Development Acts of 1938 by Years
1939
5,000.00
35,467.09
11,000.00
2,000.00
10,000.00
6,000.00
69,467.09
1940
5,000.00
11,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
29,000.00
1941
5,000.00
11,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
29,000.00
1942
5,000.00
11,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
29,000.00
1943
5,000.00
11,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
29,000.00
1944
5,000.00
11,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
29,000.00
1945
5,000.00
11,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
29,000.00
1946
4,000.00
9,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
26,000.00
1947
4,000.00
8,000.00
5,000.00
6,000.00
23,000.00
1948
4,000.00
8,000.00
5,000.00
2,000.00
19,000.00
1949-1952
4,000.00 Y'rly
8,000.00 Y'rly
48,000.00
1953-1954
2,000.00 Y'rly
8,000.00 Y'rly
20,000.00
1955
2,000.00
7,000.00
9,000.00
69,000.00
35,467.09
157,000.00
16,000.00
55,000.00
56,000.00
388,467.09
97
98 SALARIES AND WAGES OF EMPLOYEES OF MILFORD
General Government
Position
Salary
Moderator
100.00
Selectmen
250.00
Clerk of Selectmen
500.00
Secretary of Finance Commission
50.00
Accountant
2,000.00
Treasurer
1,500.00
Tax Collector
3,500.00
Assessors (Two Members)
1,000.00
Assessors' Clerk
1,500.00
Town Solicitor
250.00
Town Solicitor, legal fees for special work 1938
950.00
Town Clerk
500.00
Town Clerk, recording fees (Marriages, Deaths and Births-1938)
825.50
Registrars of Voters
150.00
Clerk of Registrars
175.00
Janitor of Town Hall
1,200.00
Janitor of Memorial Hall
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