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Coal, Oil and Gasoline
2,592.21
Equipment and Repairs
1,248.58
Telephone
140.09
33
Sundry Items
292.79
Contract Work
235.00
19,948.29
Bridge Repairs :
Superintendent
57.50
Labor
393.15
Equipment and Materials
803.52
Oil and Gasoline
20.01
Sundry Expenses
29.56
1,303.74
Railings :
Superintendent
28.50
Labor
54.05
Materials
13.51
96.06
·
Snow Removal:
Superintendent
134.58
Labor
972.52
Trucks
390.50
Teams and Auto
150.80
Equipment and Repairs
97.32
Gasoline, Etc.
76.39
1,822.11
34
Sewers and Culverts:
Superintendent
149.13
Surveying
45.00
Labor
1,057.23
Teams and Truck
15.03
Equipment
528.70
Culverts and Fittings
360.55
Gasoline
25.37
Sundry Items
97.45
Contract Work
613.20
2,891.66
Memorial Approach and Knox
Marker:
Labor 105.18
105.18
Boston Road Underpass :
Contract Work
1,000.00
1,000.00
Ford Truck
535.00
535.00
4
Quaboag River Bridge:
Contract Work
7,904.17
7,904.17
35
Street Lighting :
Contract
14,643.63
14,643.63
Maple Street, Palmer:
Surveying
65.00
Contract Work
685.00
750.00
Pinney Street, Palmer:
Surveying
60.00
Contract Work
940.00
1,000.00
Pleasant Street, Palmer:
Surveying
125.00
Superintendent
8.25
Labor
45.50
Road Oil and Gasoline
125.85
Contract Work
1,195.40
1,500.00
High Street, Thorndike:
Surveying
38.00
Superintendent
51.00
Labor
481.95
Tarvia and Gravel
298.50
36
Gasoline and Fuel
40.18
Culvert Equipment and Repairs
26.40
63.71
999.74
1
Pleasant Street, Thorndike:
Surveying
445.00
Superintendent
159.94
Labor
1,194.96
Truck
1,413.83
Steam Shovel
1,375.66
Gravel and Stone
106.20
Coal, Gasoline and Oil
196.81
Equipment and Repairs
98.60
Sundry Items
9.00
5,000.00
Maple and Front Streets,
Three Rivers :
Surveying
180.00
Equipment
121.00
Contract Work
2,058.95
2,359.95
Pleasant Street, Three Rivers:
Surveying
150.00
Equipment
73.00
Contract Work
1,577.00
1,800.00
37
Ruggles Street, Three Rivers :
Surveying
150.00
Printing
13.50
Equipment
73.00
Contract Work
1,563.50
1,800.00
Springfield Street, Three Rivers:
Superintendent
69.38
Labor
533.10
Tarite, Gravel and Gasoline
177.60
Travelling Expenses
40.38
Sundry Expenses
15.21
Contract Work
27,772.92
28,608.59
Griffin Street, Bondsville:
Superintendent
75.75
Labor
759.60
Gravel, Fuel, Gasoline
43.96
Culvert and Equipment
116.33
995.64
Sidewalk Repairs:
Surveying
30.00
Superintendent
15.75
Labor
164.75
Truck
12.50
Materials
169.73
38
Gasoline Contract Work
4.81 2,202.46
2,600.00
Curbing :
Superintendent
14.25
Labor
30.55
Materials
5.45
Contract Work
139.33
189.58
North Main Street Sidewalk,
Palmer:
Surveying
425.00
Superintendent
8.63
Labor
34.85
Cutting Down Trees
350.00
Advertising
13.50
Contract Work
4,131.87
4,963.85
Bourne Street Sidewalk,
Three Rivers:
Surveying
285.00
Superintendent
1.87
Labor
4.25
Cutting Down Trees
75.00
Contract Work
3,133.88
3,500.00
39
Converse Street Sidewalk,
Palmer:
Surveying
75.25
Superintendent
2.25
Labor
273.30
Truck
32.25
Curbing
224.62
Freight
89.76
Contract Work
726.34
1,423.77
Walnut Street, Curbing:
Surveying
60.00
Labor
130.23
Truck
38.25
Curbing
279.70
Freight
94.33
602.51
Wire Mill Underpass Sidewalk:
Contract Work
1,118.98
1,118.98
Total for Highways
$118,462.45
EDUCATION
General Expenses :
Superintendent $ 4,999.92 Clerical Work 1,750.00
40
Truant Officer
133.75
Printing, Stationery, Postage
243.63
Telephones Travelling Expenses
536.45
71.75
Sundry Items
161.41
7,896.91
Teachers Salaries :
High Elementary
22,636.06
76,969.36
99,605.42
Text Books and Supplies :
High :
Books
1,401.29
Supplies
1,737.33
Elementary :
Books
1,252.71
Supplies
2,575.89
6,967.22
Tuition :
Expense 559.27
559.27
41
Transportation : High Elementary
4,011.51 6,560.49
10,572.00
Janitor Service :
High Elementary
2,072.64
8,930.57
11,003.21
Fuel and Light :
High Elementary
2,359.58
6,300.25
8,659.83
Maintenance of Building and Grounds :
High
Elementary
1,036.94
2,142.66
3,179.60
Furniture and Furnishings :
High
Elementary
345.21
244.62
589.83
42
Other Expenses :
School Census
137.75
Diplomas and Graduation Exercises
87.95
Miscellaneous Printing
329.10
Nurse
1,739.92
Medical Aid
900.00
Orchestra
250.00
Insurance
2020.51
Sundry Items
1,867.93
7,333.16
$156,366.45
Americanization :
Teachers
1,330.22
Clerical Work
50.00
Text Books and Supplies
5.36
Janitor
149.00
Transportation
25.00
Sundry Items
24.18
1,583.76
Commercial :
Teachers
6,440.00
Text Books
758.61
Machine Repairs
159.35
Miscellaneous Supplies
193.13
7,551.09
43
Music, Manual Training and
Drawing:
Music Instructor
1,600.00
Books and Music
175.28
Manual Training Instructor
1,742.09
Transportation
115.58
3,632.95
Repairs :
High :
Carpentry and Painting
146.69
Plumbing and Electric Repairs
69.75
Materials
40.04
Elementary :
Carpentry and Painting
1,284.61
Plumbing and Elec. Repairs
290.28
Materials
32.79
1,864.16
Total for Education
$170,998.41
LIBRARY
Young Men's Library Assn.
4,600.00
4,600.00
CHARITIES
Salaries :
Of Board
600.00
Of Secretary
1,147.19
Of Town Physician
200.00
1,947.19
44
Town Infirmary :
Warden
1,200.00
Labor
800.48
Provisions
960.91
Fuel and Light
286.96
Hay and Grain
1,431.57
Equipment and Repairs
113.70
Telephone
40.31
Pair of Horses
325.00
Insurance
67.90
Sundry Items
86.21
5,313.04
Outside Poor:
Cash
4,542.60
Rent
2,045.75
Provisions
5,678.02
Clothing
493.94
Fuel
521.95
Hospital and Medical Attendance
1,606.19
Board and Care
1,773.48
Other Cities and Towns
1,539.23
Telephone
54.04
Sundry Items
340.33
18,595.53
Wing Memorial Hospital :
Care and Treatment
430.43
430.43
45
Soldiers Relief :
Cash
921.00
Rent
90.00
Fuel
18.00
Clothing
9.90
1,038.90
State Aid:
Cash
72.00
72.00
Total for Charities
$27,397.09
UNCLASSIFIED
Memorial Day
200.00
Agricultural Demonstration
500.00
Care of Town Clock
50.00
Town Engineer
50.00
Printing Town Reports
1,166.00
Hampden County Tubercular
Hospital
1,654.02
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
923.75
General Insurance
646.79
Total for Unclassified $ 5,190.56
CEMETERIES
Care and Maintenance:
Secretary Labor
150.00 3,086.10
46
Loam
90.20
Shrubs, etc.
38.00
Markers
24.00
Tools
109.82
Trucks
176.50
Sundry Items
26.64
3,701.26
NEGLECTED GRAVES
Care of Neglected Graves 224.00
224.00
Total for Cemeteries $ 3,925.26
INTEREST
Temporary and General Loans :
Anticipation of Taxes 7,034.83
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
1,298.55
Three Rivers School Loan 750.00
School Loan, Acts of 1920
4,930.00
School Loan Acts of 1920 Series "B"
956.25
New High School
318.75
Bondsville Grammar School Loan
935.00
Wire Mill School
1,600.00
Macadam Pavement Loan
340.00
Highway Improvement Loan 240.00
Street Pavement Loan 187.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
59.50
Total for Interest $18,649.88
47
MUNICIPAL NDEBTEDNESS
Temporary Loan:
Anticipation of Taxes
225,000.00
Three Rivers School Loan
5,000.00
School Loan, Acts of 1920
9,000.00
School Loan, Acts of 1920, Series "B"
1,500.00
New High School
500.00
Bondsville Grammar School
2,000.00
Wire Mill School
3,000.00
Macadam Pavement Loan
2,000.00
Highway Improvement Loan
2,000.00
Street Pavement Loan
4,400.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
1,400.00
Total for Municipal Indebtedness
$255,800.00
AGENCY AND TRUST
Agency :
State Tax
14,875.00
County Tax
19,373.86
State Highway Tax
4,059.70
Snow Removal
311.00
State Audit
18.08
National Bank Tax
.50
Corporation
4.38
Veteran's Exemption
21.67
Trust Company Exemption
2.15
38,666.34
48
Trust :
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
950.00
950.00
Total for Agency and Trust
$39,616.34
REFUNDS AND TRANSFERS
Refunds :
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
230.97
230.97
Grand Total
$790,970.90
Cash on Hand December 31, 1929
72,885.88
$863,856.78
NON REVENUE ACCOUNTS TRUST ACCOUNTS
Cash and Securities
28,411.94
Thompson Fund
951.28
Merrick Fund
850.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund
26,610.66
$28,411.94 $28,411.94
DEBT ACCOUNT
Net Funded Debt
217,000.00
Bondsville Grammar School Loan
21,000.00
Three Rivers School Loan No. 2
10,000.00
Department
Appropriations
Refunds & Loans
Transfers from
Transfers to
Available
Expenditures
Balance Dec. 31
Selectmen:
Salaries of Board
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Expense Account
500.00
500.00
360.44
139.56
Contingent Account
1,300.00
1,300.00
858.58
441.42
Auditing & Accounting: Salary 1,890.00
1,890.00
1,800.00
90.00
Assessors:
Salary
2,400.00
2,400.00
2,400.00
Clerical Work
780.00
780.00
675.00
105.00
Expense Acct.
1,000.00
1,000.00
840.03
159.97
Town Clerk:
Salary
450.00
450.00
450.00
Expense Acct.
209.30
209.30
161.79
47.51
Collector:
Salary
1,600.00
1,600.00
1,200.00
400.00
Expense Acct.
700.00
50.00
750.00
739.47
10.53
Treasurer:
1,800.00
1,800.00
1,800.00
Expense Acct.
387.50
348.92
38.58
Law:
Salary
1,700.00
1,700.00
1,470.56
220.45
License Commissioners:
Expenses
25.00
25.00
12.75
12.25
Election and Registration
700.00
50.00
750.00
741.01
8.99
Town Offices
1,850.00
25.00
1,875.00
1,852.54
22.45
Clerical Work for Committee
from each Precinct:
25.00
25.00
Town Dump
400.00
400.00
400.00
Town House
100.00
100.00
47.83
52.17
Town Engineer
50.00
50.00
50.00
Right of Way:
800.00
800.00
800.00
Police Department:
Chief
3,000.00
3.000.00
3,000.00
Deputy Chief
2,390.00
2,390.00
2,390.00
Day Patrol
2,190.00
2,190.00
2,190.00
Extra Patrol
2,190.00
2,190.00
2,190.00
Night Police
2,737.50
2,737.50
2,737.50
Special Police
2,075.00
2,075.00
2,005.95
69.04
Incidentals
200.00
200.00
197.30
2.70
Lockup Expenses
1,600.00
1,600.00
1,599.18
.82
Chief's Office Expenses
300.00
300.00
269.87
30.13
Sealer of Weights & Measures: Salary
500.00
500.00
500.00
Expenses
260.00
260.00
259.57
.43
Preservation of Shade Trees
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Moth Department
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,463.14
35.86
Forest Warden's Department
1,600.00
1,900.00
1,752.72
137.28
Animal Inspection
400.00
400.00
344.91
55.09
Board of Health:
175.00
175.00
Clerical Work
100.00
100.00
100.00
Contagious Diseases and
Other Expenses
2,500.00
Toxin Antitoxin
100.00
600.00
597.96
2.04
Vital Statistics
725.00
725.00
398.75
325.25
Hampden County Hospital
1,554.02
1,654.02
1,654.02
District Nurse
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Highways:
General Repairs
20,000.00
20,000.00
19,948.29
51.71
Underpass (Boston Road) 10,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
Maple Street, Palmer
750 00
750.00
750.00
Pleasant 14
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
Pinney =
1,000.00
1,000.00
999.74
.26
Pleasant
5,0CO.CO
5,000.00
5,000.00
Maple & Front Streets,
Three Rivers
2,400.00
2,400.00
2,359.95
40.05
Pleasant Street,
Three Rivers
1,800.00
1,800.00
1,800.00
Three Rivers
1,800.00
1,800.00
1,800.00
Springfield Road,
Three Rivers
9,925.68
20,269.35
30,195.03
28,608.59
1,586.44
Griffin Street, Bondsville
1,000.00
2,000.00
1,822.11
177.89
Bridge Repairs
1,500.00
12,000.00
7,904.17
4,095.83
Railings
500.00
3.000.00
2,891.66
108.34
Sidewalk Repairs
2,600.00
250.00
189.58
60,42
N. Main Street Walk
9.9G3.85
9,963.85
4,963,85
5,000.00
Wire Mill Underpass Walk
1,250.00
1,250.00
1,118.98
131.02
Converse Street Sidewalk
1,425.00
1,425.00
1,423.77
1.23
Walnut Street Curbing
675.00
675.00
602.51
72.49
Bourne Street --- Walk
and Curb
3,530.00
550.00
5.35.00
15.00
Care Knox Marker &
Memorial Approach
125.00
14,750.00
14,643.63
105.37
Street Sprinkling
Bal.
€8.16
Public Welfare:
Salaries of Board
C00.00
200.00
200.00
Secretary for Board
1,300.00
1.300.00
1,147.19
152.81
Support of Poor
24,400.00
Refunds
37.55
Wing Memorial Hospital:
Approved Bills
500.00
Soldiers' Relief:
1,000.00
50.00
1,050.00
1,038.90
11.10
State Aid:
72.00
Education:
171,000.00
171,000.00
170,998.41
1.59
Library
4,600.00
Agricultural Demonstration
500.00
50.00
50.00
Care of Town Clock
50.00
200.00
200.00
Insurance-General
1,000.00
1,000.00
545.79
353.21
Workmen's
950.00
923.75
25.25
Printing Town Reports
1,155.00
1,166.00
1,166.00
725.00
Reserve Fund
3,000.00
2,275.00
4,000.00
3,701.26
298.74
Care of Cemetery
4,000.00
250.00
224.00
26.00
Maturing Deht
30,832.90
30,832.90
30,800.00
32.90
Interest on Funded Debt
10,315.50
10,316.50
10,315.50
Interest on Temporary Loans 5,500.00
800.00
7,300.00
7,034.83
265.17
$412,270.97
29,259.35 2,275.00 2,275.00
441,540.32
424,338.71
17,201.61
1,000.00
3,500.00
3,372,84
127.15
100.00
100.00
Meat & Milk Inspection
600.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
High
Thorndike
1,000.00
1,000.00
995.64
4.36
Snow Removal
2,000.00
1,500.00
1,303.74
196.25
Quaboag River Bridge
3,000.00
9,000.00
500.00
96.06
403.94
Sewers & Culverts
3,000.00
2,600.00
2,600,00
Curbing
250.00
3,500.00
3,500.00
Ford Truck
550.00
125.00
105.18
19.82
Street Lighting
14,750.00
68.16
68.16
600.00
600.00
Town Physician
200.60
24,437.56
23,908.57
528.99
500.00
430.43
69.57
Approved Bills
Approved Cases
72.00
72.00
General
4,500.00
4,600.00
500.00
500.00
Memorial Day
200.00
Compensation
950.00
725.00
Care of Neglected Graves
250.00
300.00
Salaries
175.00
Forest Lake Road
25.00
Salary
387.50
for use
Ruggles Street,
49
School Loan, Acts of 1920
107,000.00
School Loan, Acts of 1920, Series "B"
21,000.00
New High School Loan
7,000.00
Wire Mill School Loan
37,000.00
Macadam Pavement Loan
6,000.00
Highway Improvement Loan
2,000.00
Quaboag River Bridge Loan
6,000.00
$217,000.00 $217,000.00
HARRIET PAINE,
Bookkeeper.
50
Trial Balance
Assets
Liabilities
Cash
$72,885.88
Taxes 1927
938.20
Taxes 1928
13,452.22
Taxes 1929
45,992.79
Excise Tax 1929
3,518.03
Tax Titles
98.97
Street Sprinkling
66.39
Sidewalks and Curbing Assessment
4,269.42
Accounts Receivable Health
638.00
Accounts Receivable Highways
144.00
Accounts Receivable Public Welfare
4,134.07
Accounts Receivable Schools
2,007.00
Temporary Loans
50,000.00
Overlay 1927
3,858.63
Overlay 1928
3,063.71
Overlay 1929
2,463.85
Overlay Reserve
11,976.94
Sidewalk and Curbing Revenue
4,324.30
Sprinkling Assessement Revenue
66.39
Tax Title Revenue
98.97
Departmental Revenue
6,923.07
Excise Tax Revenue
3,518.03
Excise and Deficiency
55,456.86
Premium on Loans
.79
Auditing and Accounting
90.00
Collector's Salary
520.00
Springfield Road
1,586.44
51
Quaboag River Bridge Street Sprinkling Expense Acct Maturing Debt.
4,095.83
68.16
32.90
$148,144.97 $148,144.97
Abatements Outstanding
$1,288.80
Tax Titles Outstanding
737.16
$ 2,025.96
52
Report of Treasurer
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand January 1, 1929
$141,290.07
Anticipation of Revenue Loans
300,000.00
Concrete Bridge Loan
6,000.00
John T. Brown, Tax Collector:
Taxes and Interest 1926
2.26
1927
10,660.80
66
1928
31,759.95
66
66
1929
231,320.69
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
Taxes, Reimbursements, etc.
111,003.45
All other sources
31,819.56
722,566.71
$863,856.78
DISBURSEMENTS
Paid out on Selectmen's Warrants
$790,970.90
Balance on hand December 31, 1929
72,885.88
$863,856.78
ROBERT L. McDONALD
Town Treasurer.
53
Report of Tax Collector
Account of 1926
Outstanding January 1, 1929
$ 2.00
Interest .26
2.26
Paid Treasurer
2.26
Account of 1927
Outstanding January 1, 1929
$10,621.29
Interest
977.71
11,599.00
Paid Treasurer
10,660.80
Abatements
689.70
Tax Titles
248.50
11,599.00
Account of 1928
Outstanding January 1, 1929
$44,119.83
Interest
1,100.66
45,220.49
Paid Treasurer
31,701.88
54
Abatements Tax Titles
160.88 262.34
32,125.10
Outstanding December 31, 1929
13,095.39
Account of 1929
Assessors' Warrants to be collected
$281,185.86
Interest
40.75
281,226.61
Paid Treasurer
231,320.69
Abatements
1,064.29
Tax Titles
126.32
232,511.30
Outstanding December 31, 1929
48,715.31
Betterment Assessments (Committed to Collector May 8, 1928)
Outstanding January 1, 1929
54.98
Interest 3.09
58.07
Paid Treasurer
58.07
JOHN T. BROWN,
Collector of Taxes
55
Report of Cemetery Commissioners
The Board of Cemetery Commissioners hereby sub- mit the following report:
We deeply regret to announce the death on February 27 of Alden P. Knowlton for some years an efficient mem- ber of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners and an able officer of the Town in whatever position he might be ·placed.
Mr. L. J. Brainerd was chosen as his successor.
In accordance with our pledge given the voters at the beginning of the year that if given a working capi- tal we would return all but the sum necessary for the economical conduct of the department we report an un- expended balance of $298.74 with gross earnings of $2836.25, making the net cost of caring for the ceme- teries $865.01.
RECEIPTS
Appropriation :
$4000.00
Sale of lots :
Oak Knoll
$201.00
Four Corners
48.00
Palmer Center
14.00
$ 263.00
Care of lots
1482.87
Grading lots
187.75
Opening Graves
666.80
Foundations
121.82
$2722.24
56
BILLS RECEIVABLE
F. P. Carroll, grading, 1928
13.50
P. C. Story, care
3.00
Mrs. B. F. Hathaway, care 2.00
C. S. Ruggles, care
2.00
Mrs. F. Lizzie Eaton, care
2.00
Henry D. Converse, care
2.50
Mrs. Emma C. Carpenter, care
3.00
W. F. Cahill, foundations
86.01
$ 114.01
The following accounts carried on last year's Report as Bills Receivable have been paid :
J. H. Shaw $ 9.75
C. E. Snow and Son 8.00
L. R. Hill 8.00
Met. Dist. Water Sup. Corp.
5.00
Mrs. B. F. Hathaway
2.00
Mrs. Martha E. Royce
2.00
Mrs. Emma C. Carpenter
3.00
Edward G. Rice
18.50
$ 56.25
EXPENDITURES
Salaries, orders drawn
$ 150.00
Printing and postage
6.99
Supplies
105.10
Labor 3061.10
Trucks
201.50
Equipment and repairs
77.27
Fertilizer 90.20
57
All others Balance
9.10 298.74
$4000.00
Paid R. L. McDonald, Treas.
Sale of lots
$ 263.00
Earnings 2459.24
2,722.24
Less Attorney's Fees for Collections 2.67
$2719.57
INVENTORY OF PROPERTY
Tool House, Oak Knoll
$ 75.00
Tool House, Four Corners
50.00
Tools
50.00
$ 175.00
Unsold lots at list price :
Four Corners 107 @ 8.00 856.00
Oak Knoll
4 @ 50.00
200.00
8 @ 25.00
200.00
77 @ 24.00
1848.00
35 @ 20.00
700.00
2 @ 14.00
28.00
1 @ 12.00
12.00
49 @
1:00
49.00
$3893.00
$4,068.00
58
PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
Present Condition
Henry Scism
Amount $100.00
110.70
John A. Squier
100.00
114.05
Calista E. Hendricks
100.00
109.05
Laura E. Child
500.00
552.49
Minnie K. Bennett
200.00
215.15
Avery W. Green
200.00
225.35
Waterman Fuller
200.00
217.83
John and Lucy Smith
200.00
212.62
W. A. Breckenridge
200.00
213.25
James W. Snow
100.00
110.49
Franklin Blanchard
100.00
108.55
John H. Haynes
200.00
223.83
Mary A. Shaw
100.00
105.42
Jane A. Gibson
100.00
113.17
E. B. Gates
200.00
219.15
Louise M. Waid
200.00
248.61
Amos O. Allen
100.00
112.48
Torrey Lot
100.00
111.33
Pliney Cooley
50.00
55.44
Henry G. Loomis
200.00
212.56
William Holbrook
200.00
219.05
Maria Lawrence
500.00
610.23
Keyes Foster
100.00
106.82
Harriett Coolidge
200.00
234.93
Mrs. L. W. Brown
200.00
270.32
Eliza J. Kenerson
200.00
226.40
William Merriam
200.00
242.56
Mary Redding
50.00
55.12
D. S. Davis
200.00
214.39
Marshall Andrews
200.00
224.00
Ambrose M. Andrews
200.00
221.85
Enos Calkins
100.00
110.36
Samuel C. Rogers
200.00
225.07
Willard G. Kenerson
100.00
110.36
Name
59
Name
Amount
Present Condition
Maria B. Chapman c/G. B. Lot
100.00
106.69
Maria B. Chapman c/S. C. Lot
200.00
227.22
Julia H. Henry
100.00
112.51
Isaac King
150.00
160.36
Abel H. Calkins
100.00
110.46
Edward A. Sexton
100.00
111.43
Henry A. Moore
100.00
107.23
J. S. Koster
100.00
109.28
Melissa Hall
150.00
168.77
Jeremiah Long
1000.00
1000.00
Mary J. Plympton
100.00
103.46
Clymena B. Fuller
150.00
166.61
Abigail T. Nichols
50.00
54.05
Mary Hastings
100.00
110.36
Orrin B. Smith c/O. B. S. Lot
200.00
221.85
Orrin B. Smith c/T. B. S. Lot
100.00
111.43
Laura P. Green
100.00
111.43
Joseph H. Kenerson
100.00
106.16
William Harvey
150.00
170.94
Alden L. Fletcher
60.00
64.75
Carrie A. Kurtz
100.00
110.36
Ralph Green
200.00
235.85
Meriva L. Capen
100.00
111.43
Minerva R. Olds
100.00
108.21
Otis C. Lyon
100.00
109.28
Hitchcock-Graves
100.00
110.36
Minerva M. Gates
200.00
224.00
Rogers-Paine
150.00
168.72
Elizabeth D. Moore
100.00
111.43
Mary E. Bailey
100.00
107.23
M. M. Rogers
100.00
108.21
Nellie S. Hooker
75.00
83.58
Ethan Warriner
100.00
107.13
Lizzie E. Fletcher
100.00
111.43
Andrew Pinney
100.00
126.82
60
Name
Amount
Present Condition
Frank F. Marcy
500.00
530.97
Thomas McDougall
100.00
110.36
Sarah J. Winter
200.00
220.77
C. B. Fiske
200.00
222.92
Minnie B. Converse
500.00
557.36
Amelia B. Culver
100.00
109.28
Omer W. Marcy
100.00
109.28
Frank M. Eager
250.00
270.58
Maria Ritchie
100.00
109.28
Charles H. Burleigh c/A. B. Lot
100.00
108.21
Julia A. Burleigh c/B. B. Lot 100.00
110.36
C. H. & J. A. Burleigh c/J. W. C. Lot
25.00
27.00
Emily Holdsworth
100.00
110.36
Sarah D. Smith
100.00
111.43
Hollowell P. Marcy
100.00
110.36
Josie M. Northrop
300.00
334.84
Ellis & F. M. Dodge
100.00
108.21
Calvin Childs
100.00
110.36
Joseph A. Brown
500.00
552.00
Sarah I. Lee Snow
50.00
58.65
Abby J. Pierce
100.00
110.36
D. W. Taft
75.00
88.95
Henry Graves
50.00
54.05
William H. Osborne
50.00
54.05
Sarah E. Ward
50.00
54.05
Geo. F. Sedgewick
100.00
109.28
Geo. H. Cobb
50.00
54.57
B. M. Griswold
50.00
54.67
Thomas Bruce
100.00
108.21
H. H. Paine
50.00
54.05
Susan M. Page
100.00
110.36
Peebles Fund
100.00
110.36
Geo. F. Merrick
100.00
110.39
Maria M. Hastings
200.00
220.77
61
Name
Amount
Present Condition
Walter E. Stone
200.00
220.77
Mary A. Thayer
50.00
55.65
Lucy M. Shaw
100.00
110.36
Samuel Sharratt
100.00
108.21
Geo. Robinson
200.00
233.70
Joseph F. Gerald
100.00
105.08
James F. Fenton
100.00
113.58
Liberty Jenks
200.00
220.05
Martha Mooers
200.00
217.13
Byron Woodhead
100.00
108.68
Almenia Hastings
100.00
108.68
Clara B. Fisherdick
100.00
108.68
Austin E. Gould
100.00
110.00
Susan Beebe
100.00
102.35
James I. Milliken
200.00
230.82
Christen Christianson
50.00
54.93
Millie G. Rose
100.00
109.28
Mary E. Murdock c/F. M. M. Lot 100.00
108.93
Mary E. Murdock c/L. B. Lot
100.00
108.93
Robert Chambers
100.00
108.93
Josiah P. Stevens
100.00
108.21
William B. Bennett
100.00
108.21
Chas. W. Bennett
100.00
108.93
Chas. E. Fuller
100.00
109.28
Frederick H. Conant
100.00
108.56
Joseph V. Clark
100.00
108.56
Robert Reid
100.00
108.56
Edwin B. Newell
100.00
108.21
Martha A. Shaw
211.00
256.14
August Carlson
100.00
111.31
Elizabeth Macomber
200.00
228.30
Thomas D. Frame
200.00
220.50
O. P. Allen
100.00
109.15
Albert A. Sherman
100.00
108.33
Chas. O. Royce
100.00
108.33
62
Name
Amount
Present Condition
Martin L. Farrington
100.00
108.21
Joseph H. Jones
150.00
161.67
Mary S. Moore
100.00
107.80
Horace R. Paine c/H. H. Lot
50.00
54.12
Arthur W. Holbrook
100.00
107.93
James S. Morgan
200.00
220.77
Silas B. Keith
100.00
107.00
James H. Davis
100.00
109.83
George S. Peck
100.00
107.66
Nettie O. Coleman
50.00
53.39
Jennie C. Carpenter
100.00
108.60
Esther A. Graves
100.00
109.01
Nellie M. Bond
100.00
108.21
Cyrus W. Cross
100.00
108.36
Lucy A. Hitchcock
100.00
107.56
John C. Green
100.00
106.73
Charles E. Fish
100.00
107.60
Lewis E. Royce
200.00
213.77
Henry McMaster
50.00
53.19
Bessie C. Jenks
100.00
106.45
Samuel W. Lyon
100.00
106.59
Orrisa L. Merrifield
100.00
102.86
Edwin J. Duncan
50.00
51.49
Elizabeth Dyson
100.00
104.84
James Metcalf
100.00
102.14
Agnes Larkin
50.00
50.77
Hitchcock-Rice
100.00
101.99
Lewis A. Conant
100.00
101.57
Julia F. McKendrick
100.00
101.57
Nellie M. Sizer
100.00
101.43
William J. Smith
100.00
101.90
John W. Smith
50.00
50.94
Thomas J. Chalk
100.00
101.05
Edward T. Prindle
100.00
102.63
Justin W. Keith
200.00
204.40
63
Name
Amount
Present Condition
Willis E. Shaw
100.00
101.33
John J. & Sarah J. McAdam
100.00
103.05
Charles E. Nicholson
100.00
101.33
Minnie Smith
100.00
100.50
Thomas W. Cole
100.00
100.50
George A. Branford
100.00
101.25
Merriam
100.00
100.42
Joseph M. Allen
200.00
200.83
Charles M. Kempton
100.00
100.22
A. M. Billings
100.00
100.00
Charles K. Gamwell
100.00
100.00
Grosvenor-Brown
50.00
50.00
Luther H. Gager
100.00
100.00
L. Augusta Thompson
100.00
100.00
$24,846.00
$27,177.39
Gain in P. C. Fund $ 950.00
DAVID L. BODFISH, ALBERT S. GEER, LOUIS J. BRAINERD,
Cemetery Commissioners.
64
.
Care of Soldiers' Graves
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :
I hereby submit the following report relative to the care of the graves of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, who served in Wars of the United States and who are buried in the Cemeteries within the Town of Palmer.
Appropriation : $250.00
Paid Rev. M. J. Carroll, St. Thomas $ 50.00
Louis Mayotte, St. Anne's 5.00
Cemetery Commissioners 169.00
$224.00
Balance unexpended
$ 26.00
DAVID L. BODFISH,
Superintendent of Graves.
65
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
This department has adjusted, sealed and condemned the following :
Adjusted
Sealed
Condemned
Iw
Platform Scales over 5000 Ibs.
2
4
under
26
57
Counter
over
100
2
3
Beam
over
1
3
Spring
4
1
66
66
under
66
66
18
44
1
Computing
over
1
1
under
16
43
Personal Weighing Scales
11
3
Prescription Scales
3
Avoirdupois Weights
319
Apothecary Weights
94
10
Vehicle Tanks
3
Liquid Measures
20
132
Oil Jars
346
Gasoline Measuring Pumps
3
91
Gasoline Measuring Meters
12
Kerosene Measuring Pumps
13
2
Oil Measuring Pumps
2
Quantity Measures on Pumps Yard Sticks
83
478
13
1
under
66
10
43
66
No. Tested Correct Under Over
Flour
23
6
7
10
Butter
25
11
3
11
Dry Commodities
11
3
3
5
Meats & Provisions
4
3
1
Fruit & Vegetables
7
6
1
Bread
81
34
16
31
Retests of Gasoline Devices
8
4
2
2
Special Scale Inspections
2
Hawkers & Peddlers Licenses
5
Pastry
19
2
2
15
TOTALS
Adjusted
182
Sealed
1,719
Condemned
22
Tested
185
Receipts of Office, Paid Treasurer
$145.63
Respectfully submitted,
LOUIS LEVEILLEE,
Sealer of Weights & Measures
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