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Joseph F. Gerald
100.00
104.68
James F. Fenton
100.00
116.71
Liberty Jenks
200.00
224.07
Martha J. Mooers
200.00
210.83
Byram Woodhead
100.00
104.41
Almenia Hastings
100.00
110.13
Clara B. Fisherdick
100.00
110.13
Austin E. Gould
100.00
106.87
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NAME
PRINCIPAL
PRESENT CONDITION
Susan Beebe
$ 100.00
$ 101.00
James I. Milliken
200.00
232.54
Christen Christiansen
50.00
55.74
Millie G. Rose
100.00
106.83
Mary E. Murdock-F. F. M. lot
100.00
110.45
Mary E. Murdock-L. B. lot
100.00
105.45
Robert Chambers
100.00
105.45
Josiah P. Stevens
100.00
109.45
William A. Bennett
100.00
105.45
Charles W. Bennett
100.00
100.84
Charles E. Fuller
100.00
109.39
Frederick H. Conant
100.00
108.94
Joseph V. Clark
100.00
105.86
Robert Reid
100.00
103.87
Edwin B. Newell
100.00
105.45
Martha A. Shaw
211.00
291.88
August Carlson
100.00
113.66
Elizabeth R. Macomber
200.00
223.57
Thomas D. Frame
200.00
217.69
O. P. Allen
100.00
110.72
Albert A. Sherman
100.00
107.03
Charles A. Royce
100.00
109.68
Martin L. Farrington
100.00
108.89
Joseph H. Jones
150.00
163.40
Mary S. Moore
100.00
108.91
Horace R. Paine
50.00
54.11
Arthur W. Holbrook
100.00
107.51
James S. Morgan
200.00
214.16
Silas B. Keith
100.00
103.55
James H. Davis
100.00
105.64
George S. Peck
100.00
107.88
Nettie O. Coleman
50.00
52.64
Jennie C. Carpenter
100.00
103.28
Esther A. Graves
100.00
104.08
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NAME
PRINCIPAL
PRESENT CONDITION
Nellie M. Bond
$ 100.00
$ 108.42
Cyrus W. Cross
100.00
109.73
Lucy A. Hitchcock
100.00
103.32
John C. Green
100.00
103.49
Charles E. Fish
100.00
108.77
Lewis E. Royce
200.00
219.63
Henry McMaster
50.00
51.67
Porter C. Jenks
100.00
103.08
Samuel W. Lyon
100.00
107.26
Orissa L. Merrifield
100.00
100.33
Edwin J. Duncan
50.00
51.12
Elizabeth Dyson
100.00
104.93
James Metcalf
100.00
105.23
Agnes Larkin
50.00
51.67
Hitchcock-Rice
100.00
104.27
Lewis A. Conant
100.00
104.75
Julia F. McKendrick
100.00
100.77
Nellie M. Sizer
100.00
105.30
William J. Smith
100.00
105.19
John W. Smith
50.00
51.43
Thomas J. Chalk
100.00
105.22
Edward T. Prindle
100.00
110.97
Justin W. Keith
200.00
229.93
Willis E. Shaw
100.00
105.15
J. J. and S. J. McAdam
100.00
101.49
Charles Nicholson
100.00
104.70
Minnie Smith
100.00
105.80
Thomas W. Cole
100.00
108.09
George A. Branford
100.00
107.02
Merriam Fund
100.00
106.42
Joseph M. Allen
200.00
214.45
Charles M. Kempton
100.00
105.67
A. M. Billings
100.00
103.64
Charles K. Gamwell
100.00
107.13
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NAME
PRINCIPAL
PRESENT CONDITION
Grosvenor-Brown
$ 50.00
$ 50.83
Luther H. Gager
100.00
109.66
L. Agusta Thompson
100.00
101.81
John M. Ramsdell
100.00
108.87
Henry S. Howe
200.00
217.44
Charles Duane Fuller
100.00
104.86
Albert S. Geer
50.00
52.29
Clara V. Pendleton
100.00
108.44
Henry W. Calkins
50.00
53.17
Charles H. Hobbs
100.00
101.84
Albert D. Thomas
100.00
102.82
Hiram Converse
100.00
105.56
Isabella H. Ballantyne
200.00
216.90
Herman M. Kendall
50.00
51.02
Myron K. Chamberlin
100.00
104.71
Clara L. Converse
100.00
101.80
William A. Weld
100.00
104.08
Martin Salmonsen
50.00
52.77
Caroline Geer
100.00
107.98
Charles F. Smith
200.00
210.43
Ocran Hanks
100.00
101.45
William H. Heald
100.00
103.10
Cora Forte
100.00
103.88
Jason B. Thomas
100.00
102.80
Martin M. Thomas
100.00
103.82
Caroline B. Talmadge
100.00
103.62
Agnes F. Wilson
200.00
206.39
A. Blanche LeGro
100.00
102.90
L. W. Caryl
100.00
103.12
Charles R. Russell
100.00
102.84
Mary C. Cummings
100.00
102.84
Thomas H. Cole
100.00
102.05
Anna B. Wakefield
100.00
101.92
Clara B. Kendall
200.00
208.32
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NAME
PRINCIPAL
PRESENT CONDITION
Emerson J. Loy
$ 100.00
$ 102.58
W. O. Twogood
100.00
100.30
Willard F. Fillmore
100.00
101.30
B. F. Clark
100.00
100.30
Mary J. Cole
100.00
101.64
Emma F. Blair
100.00
100.30
Leon Henrichon, Sr.
100.00
102.30
Frank D. Waite
200.00
203.11
Timothy D. Potter
100.00
101.53
Nettie L. Davis
100.00
100.26
Frederick D. Thompson
150.00
151.67
Edith R. Nordstrom
100.00
100.26
Gerda V. Anderson
100.00
100.26
Calvin W. Johnson
100.00
101.51
Ida M. Lloyd
100.00
101.01
Nettie E. Hurd
100.00
100.50
Charles T. Brainerd
100.00
100.50
Louis J. Brainerd
400.00
402.03
Louis R. Wheeler
100.00
101.25
Ellen S. Leach
100.00
100.50
William J. Thompson
50.00
50.25
Fred K. Thayer
50.00
50.12
Elizabeth Holden Pope
200.00
200.00
Ethel R. Weeden
192.83
192.83
Edward B. Sparrow
50.00
50.00
Mattie A. Jencks
50.00
50.00
Charles E. Trout
100.00
100.00
$31,488.83
$33,905.61
Gain in Perpetual Care Funds
$ 892.83
Respectfully submitted, DAVID L. BODFISH, LOUIS J. BRAINERD, ROBERT E. FAULKNER, Cemetery Commissioners
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Report of Neglected Graves
To the Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :
I hereby submit my report of the expenditure of the fund for the care of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines who fought in the wars of the United States. Appropriation $ 250.00
Expenditure : Paid P. Coache-
St. Anne's Cemetery, 18 lots $18.00
Rev. D. E. Hennessey- St. Thomas' Cemetery, 26 lots $52.00
Cemetery Commissioners-
Palmer Center Cemetery, 35 lots $ 35.00
Oak Knoll Cemetery, 71 lots 103.00
Four Corners Cemetery, 35 lots 40.00
Three Rivers Cemetery,
2 lots 2.00
$180.00
Respectfully submitted,
$250.00
DAVID L. BODFISH, Superintendent of Graves
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Report of Assessors
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Palmer, the Board of Assessors respectfully submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1937 :
Town Appropriations :
To be raised by taxation $400,352.86
To be taken from available funds 24,300.00
Maturing Debt and Interest 18,200.00
1933 Levy, Old Age Assistance Abatements
11.00
State Tax
15,180.00
State Parks and Reservations
187.49
State Audit
437.37
Civil War Veterans
816.00
County Tax
13,570.73
County Tax paid in 1936 in
excess of estimates raised
340.11
Overlay (of current year)
7,192.36
$480,587.92
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Income Tax $ 39,635.18
Corporation Taxes
52,204.03
Reimbursement, State owned lands
134.67
Motor Vehicle Excise
12,000.00
Licenses
8,000.00
Fines
2,000.00
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Grants and Gifts
$ 2,000.00
General Government
50.00
Protection of Persons and Property
1,000.00
Health and Sanitation
500.00
Highways
300.00
Charities
5,000.00
Old Age Assistance
3,217.14
Soldiers' Benefits
200.00
Schools
5,900.00
Cemeteries
2,000.00
Interest on Taxes and Assessments
3,000.00
Total Estimated Receipts $137,141.02
State Tax raised in 1936 in
excess of amounts paid
$ 44.62
County Tax raised in 1936 in excess of amounts paid
4.80
Available Funds
30,000.00
Transfers
24,300.00
Total Deductions : $191,490.44
Net amount to be raised by taxation
$289,097.48
Less 2629 Polls at $2.00 each
5,258.00
Total amount to be raised by
taxation on property
$283,839.48
Assessed valuation for 1937 :
Personal Estate
$1,058,450.00
Buildings, excluding land
4,392.768.00
Land, excluding buildings
1,644,769.00
Total Valuation :
$7,095,987.00
Tax Rate
$40.00 Per M
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Number of persons, partnerships and
corporations assessed on real estate 1652
Number of persons, partnerships and corporations assessed on personal property
816
Number of horses assessed
87
Number of cows assessed
692
Number of neat cattle assessed
124
Number of sheep assessed
10
Number of swine assessed
39
Number of fowl assessed
4410
Number of dwelling houses assessed
1540
RECAPITULATION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE
EXCISE FOR THE YEAR 1937
COMMITMENTS:
TOTAL NO. TOTAL VALUE
EXCISE
May 1st.
700
$141,920.00
$ 4,946.95
June 17h.
588
143,320.00
4,923.33
July 23rd.
458
126,280.00
3,370.56
August 26th.
60
20,740.00
453.08
Sept. 13th.
97
33,020.00
615.67
Nov. 13th.
106
33,520.00
480.25
Dec. 28th.
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10,790.00
102.77
Total for 1937 : 2041 $509,590.00
$14,892.61
Excise Tax Rate $34.62 Per M.
Abatements on Motor Vehicle Excise Tax :
1934 Excise Tax Levy
$ 128.67
1935 Excise Tax Levy
72.43
1936 Excise Tax Levy
193.82
1937 Excise Tax Levy
946.43
Abatements Granted on 1931 Tax Levy :
Real Estate $ 13.35
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Abatements Granted on 1934 Tax Levy :
Poll Tax $ 4.00
Personal 37.80
Abatements Granted on 1935 Tax Levy :
Poll Tax
$ 12.00
Interest on Personal 67.00
Interest on Real Estate
64.90
Abatements Granted on 1936 Tax Levy :
Poll Tax
$ 64.00
Real Estate
214.38
Abatements Granted on 1937 Tax Levy :
Poll Tax
$ 44.00
Personal 156.00
Real Estate
4,084.20
Respectfully submitted,
DANIEL V. FOGARTY OSCAR F. BRESSETTE DAVID B. SMITH
Board of Assessors
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Report of The Board of Public Welfare
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of Palmer :
The annual report of the Board of Public Welfare for the year 1937 is hereby respectfully submitted :
AIDED IN THIS TOWN
NO. OF CASES
NO. OF PERSONS
AMOUNT
Account of :
Town Infirmary
12
12
$ 5,522.55
In Homes, Private Families and Institutions
133
617
14,877.01
Aid to Dependent Children
10
39
4,132.21
For Other Cities and Towns
17
60
903.35
For State
27
103
3,614.10
By Other Cities and Towns
17
48
2,108.24
Amounts expended for State and other cities and towns will be reimbursed by the State and said cities and towns.
Amounts expended for Aid to Dependent Children will be reimbursed by the State for one-third of the total expended, and approximately one-third of the amount ex- pended will be granted to the town by the Federal Gov- ernment.
The title of the Mothers' Aid Laws as amended by
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Chapter 413 of the Acts of 1936 is "Aid to Dependent Children."
The law as amended also conforms to the Social Se- curity Act under which grants for aid from the Federal Government are available to cities and towns through the Commonwealth.
Money appropriated for Aid to Dependent Children should be kept as a separate account. Therefore the Board of Public Welfare recommends a separate appropriation for this account for 1938.
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Money received from the Federal Government as a grant for aid to dependent children may be immediately used by the Board of Public Welfare, as they do not have to be appropriated.
Received
$1,529.28
Payments
1,494.73
Balance
$34.55
RECEIPTS
Appropriations :
General Administration
$28,000.00
Salaries of Board
600.00
Salaries of Physician
500.00
Salaries of Secretary
1,100.00
Transfer
2,000.00
Refunds
54.23
Federal Grant (A. D. C.)
1,529.28
Town Infirmary
$2,198.44
$33,783.51
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Reimbursements :
Federal Grants
$1,529.28
State for 1935-1936
3,655.75
State for 1936-1937
2,280.90
State for Mothers' Aid
356.14
Other Cities and Towns
1,302.72
Refunds
54.23
$11,377.46
PAYMENTS
Salaries
Board of Public Welfare
$ 600.00
Town Physician
500.00
Secretary
1,100.00
$2,200.00
Administration Expenses
Trans. and Travel Expenses
$ 146.44
Postage, Supplies and Office Equipment
118.70
Telephone
102.93
Transients
1.50
Transportation C. C. C.
22.00
$ 391.57
Town Infirmary
Warden's Salary
$1,500.00
Provisions
1,083.06
Grain
711.64
Fuel
335.60
Clothing
51.74
Labor
875.50
Telephone
35.42
Light
90.24
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Seed and Fertilizer
$ 272.01
Medicine
43.97
Equipment
164.49
Repairs
34.17
Papers
16.34
Ice and Sawdust
54.00
Gasoline for sawing wood
12.90
Apple Spraying
39.00
Dental
1.00
Pasture
22.00
Supplies
47.00
Transportation
127.40
Boiler Inspection
5.00
$ 5,522.48
Aid to Dependent Children :
Cash
$ 4,132.21
$ 4,132.21
Outside Poor :
Town Cases :
Provisions
$ 8,517.66
Rent
2,041.86
Fuel
1,032.39
Cash
348.00
Lights
59.69
Clothes
398.07
Medical
227.84
Hospital
755.99
Board in Homes
408.14
Board in Institutions
488.36
Medicine
439.26
Burials
95.00
Transportation
28.00
Moving
9.00
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Seed
$13.20
Household Necessity
3.55
Eye Glasses
11.00
$14,877.01
Outside Poor :
For State :
Provisions
$ 1,803.88
Rent
860.00
Fuel
345.86
Clothes
171.86
Board
67.42
Light
7.11
Medicine
184.43
Transportation
36.00
Medical
23.74
Hospital
34.85
Eye Glasses
12.00
Moving
15.00
Burial
15.00
Furniture
11.95
$ 3,614.10
Outside Poor :
For Other Towns :
Provisions
$ 312.09
Rent
129.00
Fuel
68.67
Clothes
13.30
Board
100.00
Medical
31.16
Hospital
150.87
Medicine
98.26
$ 903.35
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Outside Poor :
By Other Towns :
Provisions
$ 419.00
Cash
540.50
Board
642.43
Fuel
122.72
Medical
23.13
Clothes
34.74
Moving
3.70
Hospital
112.98
Furniture
6.41
Ambulance
3.00
Medicine
19.23
Rent
180.40
$ 2,108.24
Total Expenses
$33,748.96
NET COST OF CHARITIES
Total Expenses
$33,748.96
Less Receipts of Town Infirmary $ 2,198.44
Refunds 54.23
Federal Grant (A. D. C.)
1,529.28
State for 1935-36
3,655.75
State for 1936-37
2,280.90
State for Mothers Aid 1936 356.14
Other cities and towns 1,302.72
Outstanding Accounts
3,818.21
$15,195.67
$18,553.29
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Plus Outstanding Accounts
Receipts, previous years
$ 948.93 4,420.22
$ 5,369.15
Actual Net Cost for 1937
$23,922.44
TOWN INFIRMARY
Cash Receipts-1937
Sale of Milk
$ 1,103.49
Produce
386.94
" Stock
131.00
"
" Wood 464.00
Board 65.00
Reimbursement from U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture for Lime 48.01
Total Cash Receipts $ 2,198.44
Paid Town Treasurer
$ 2,198.44
Paid Town Treasurer-Direct
Board 1936
97.00
$2,295.44
Cash Payments-1937
Salary, Warden and Matron
$ 1,500.00
Provisions
1,083.06
Grain
711.64
Fuel
335.60
Clothing
51.74
Labor
875.50
Telephone
35.42
Light
90.24
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Seed and Fertilizer
$ 272.01
Medicine
43.97
Equipment
164.49
Repairs
34.17
Newspapers
16.34
Ice and Sawdust
54.00
Gasoline for sawing wood
12.90
Apple Spraying
39.00
Dental
1.00
Pasture
22.00
Supplies
47.00
Transportation
127.40
Boiler Inspection
5.00
Total Payments
$ 5,522.48
Net Cost
$3,227.04
Bills Receivable
Milk
$ 51.44
Inventory
Furniture
$ 600.00
Food and Supplies
118.50
Live Stock
1,265.00
Hay, Grain and Ensilage
1,075.00
Farm Implements
800.00
Wood, Coal and Lumber
700.00
$ 4,558.50
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Number of Inmates registered during year 12 Largest number at one time 10
Number of Inmates December 31, 1937 10
Respectfully submitted,
MAURICE F. LAWLOR, Warden NORA D. LAWLOR, Matron
The Board recommends the following appropriations for its use during the year 1938 :
Support of Poor
$29,700.00
Aid to Dependent Children
6,000.00
Salaries of Board
600.00
Salary of Secretary
1,200.00
Salary of Physician
500.00
MICHAEL PELCZARSKI, Chairman JOHN K. MCKENZIE, Secretary GEORGE E. CALLAHAN
Board of Public Welfare
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Report of the Bureau of Old Age Assistance
To the Citizens of the Town of Palmer :
The annual report of the Bureau of Old Age Assist- ance is hereby respectfully submitted :
In connection with this report, we submit the follow- ing explanation in reference to the net cost :
The bills to the state and other towns are rendered for the period ending April 30th of each year, therefore we have not been reimbursed for the eight months ending December 31, 1937.
In computing the amount due to this town for the above period, we have a credit of $7,380.00. Subtracting the amount received for the 1936 account, $2,152.43, we show a credit for 1937 of $5,228.17 to be collected in 1938.
In consideration of the above statement, the actual net cost for 1937 is approximately $6,833.37.
Aided
Amount $20,446.20
Town Cases
97
For Other Cities and Towns
13
2,665.48
For State
11
2,788.56
By Other Cities and Towns
9
298.61
Number of active cases Dec. 31, 1936
56
Applications received during the year
84
68
Applications accepted during the year Applications rejected during the year Cases closed during the year
16
16
Palmer settled cases in other towns
9
Number of active cases December 31, 1937
108
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RECEIPTS
Appropriations $17,600.00 $17,600.00
Federal Grant for Old Age Assist- ance only :
Balance on hand January 1, 1937
59.84
Received during the year
10,639.17
Federal Grant for O. A. A.
Administration only 354.59
11,053.60
Refund on State case
1.10
Reimbursements :
Cities and Towns
$
279.24
State
4,332.01
4,611.25
Total Receipts
$33,265.95
PAYMENTS
Town Cases :
Cash
$20,184.85
Medical
32.00
Medicine
5.35
Board and Care
24.00
Burials
200.00
$20,446.20
For Other Towns :
Cash
$ 2,665.48
$ 2,665.48
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For State :
Cash
$2,639.06
Board
3.50
Hospital
38.00
Ambulance
8.00
Burial
100.00
$2,788.56
By Other Towns :
Cash
$ 298.61
$ 298.61
ADMINISTRATION
Salaries :
Bureau of Old Age Assistance
$225.00
Supervisor
900.00
$ 1,125.00
Other Expenses :
Transportation
$117.40
Postage and Supplies
93.12
Equipment
62.50
Notary
3.00
Telephone
19.30
$ 295.32
Total Expenses
$27,619.17
NET COST OF OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Total Expenses $27,619.17
Less Reimbursements $ 4,611.25
Less Federal Grant
11,053.60
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Less Refund
Less Oustanding Bills
$ 1.10 71.67
$15,737.62
$11,881.55
Plus Receipts for previous year
179.99
Net Cost
$12,061.54
SUMMARY OF FEDERAL GRANT (Included in the foregoing Receipts and Expenditures)
Receipts
For Old Age Assistance only :
Balance from last year
$
59.84
Received during the year 10,639.17
$10,699.01
For Administration only
354.59
354.59
Total Receipts
$11,053.60
Payments
Old Age Assistance
$9,663.48
Administration
354.59
Total Expenditures $10,018.07
Unexpended Balance for Old Age Assistance only $1,035.53
Respectfully submitted,
MICHAEL PELCZARSKI GEORGE E. CALLAHAN CHARLES H. GIROUX, M. D. Bureau of Old Age Assistance THOMAS W. MANSFIELD, Supervisor
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Treasurer's Report
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand January 1, 1937
$ 72,055.17
Anticipation of Revenue Loans $200,000.00
John T. Brown, Tax Collector :
Taxes, 1934
141.51
Interest, 1934
22.38
Taxes, 1935
12,794.56
Interest and Demands, 1935
996.70
Taxes, 1936
52,605.79
Interest and Demands, 1936
2,061.02
Taxes, 1937
223,024.37
Interest and Demands, 1937
245.44
Tax Title Redemptions
1,225.58
Sale of Foreclosed Property
920.50
Commonwealth of Massachusetts :
Taxes, Reimbursements and
Licenses, 122,072.71
Chapter 90,
Park Street Account 430.80
Thorndike Street, 1936 account 357.16
Thorndike-Three Rivers Road, 1936 account 5,182.77
Thorndike-Three Rivers Road, 1937 account
5,465.50
Bondsville Road account
1,669.76
County of Hampden :
Chapter 90,
Thorndike Street, 1936 account 357.16
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Thorndike-Three Rivers Road, 1936 account 2,591.39
Thorndike-Three Rivers Road, 1937 account 2,723.06
Bondsville Road account 1,441.65
All Other Sources
25,183.28
$661,513.09
$733,568.26
DISBURSEMENTS
Paid out on Selectmen's Warrants $653,419.02
Balance on hand December 31, 1937 80,149.24
$733,568.26
ROBERT L. McDONALD
Town Treasurer
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Report of Board of Selectmen
The Selectmen respectfully submit the following report :
The Board organized with the choice of William F. Griswold as Chairman and Harrison W. Thompson as sec- retary.
The following appointments were made: Ernest E. Hobson, Town Counsel; Harriette Paine, Bookkeeper ; Ralph E. Canning, Burial Agent; David L. Bodfish, Super- intendent of Graves; M. Scott French, Chief Engineer ; Joseph L. Marhelewicz, Inspector of Animals; Henry Ruck- ley, Temporary Superintendent of Streets, and Robert L. McDonald, Clerk of highway matters.
The Board has attended to the several matters of high- way construction and repairs specifically voted at the last annual town meeting.
The Board gravelled and oiled Spring Street in the Depot Village and installed about 150 feet of storm sewer in said street out of the general highway appropriation.
Cement guard posts were installed along a number of roads in dangerous places out of the general highway ap- propriation.
On the Thorndike-Three Rivers Road, the town was promised $10,000 from the State, $5,000 from the County, and appropriated $5,000 for the work. Later the State's contribution was cut to $7,000, the County to $3,500, but
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with these funds and using the $5,000 voted by the town, the road was built by the department and the appropria- tion was not exceeded. The Board would call the atten- tion of the voters to the fact that this is the first contract for Chapter 90 work where the Town contracted to build the road itself, where the appropriation was not exceeded, the first instance in many years.
The Board has arranged with the Department of Pub- lic Works and the County of Hampden for assistance in the construction of a new bridge on the Bondsville Road over the Ware River, called Dutton's Bridge. The esti- mated cost is $60,000, the Department of Public Works agrees to contribute $30,000 and the County $15,000, and the Town's share will be $15,000. Last year arrangements were made for the construction of this bridge at an esti- mated cost of $50,000, and the Town made an appropria- tion of $10,000 for its share. Early this year the Board was advised by the Public Works Department that the cost of the bridge would be $90,000 instead of $50,000, as first stated, and inquiry was made as to whether the town was able to contribute its share of $22,500 and the County $22,500, and the State $45,000. After considera- tion of the matter it was decided to drop the project for this year. Now the arrangements above stated have been made, and the bridge can be built upon the basis of a contribution by the State of $30,000, by the County of $15,000, and by the Town of $15,000. The $10,000 appro- priated at the last annual meeting has not been used.
The Board has arranged with the Department of Pub- lic Works and the County of Hampden to complete the Palmer-Bondsville Road, from Shearer's Corner to Four Corners, at an estimated cost of $40,000, the State to pay $20,000 and the County and Town to each pay $10,000.
The Board has also arranged with the Department of Public Works and the County of Hampden to complete
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the Three Rivers-Thorndike Road, at an estimated cost $10,000, the State to pay $5,000 and the County and Town $2,500 each.
The Board has also arranged for State and County assistance on the maintenance of Chapter 90 Roads, so- called, the estimated cost being $4,000, the State to con- tribute $2,000 and the County and Town $1,000 each.
The Main and Church Street bridges in Thorndike were completed this year. These bridges were built by the State and Federal Government, and the only cost to the Town was land damages plus 1/32 of the cost.
During the year the town has been fortunate in re- ceiving Federal funds to carry on relief projects. The Board has tried to sponsor projects that will give employ- ment to the largest number of the unemployed consistent with projects that will be of the greatest benefit to the Town.
Recommendations for the 1938 appropriations are not published herewith in order to save expense, but they have been filed with the Finance Committee.
The Board appreciates the co-operation and assistance given it by all the officials of the town and others during the year.
WILLIAM F. GRISWOLD AUGUST AMMANN HARRISON W. THOMPSON
Selectmen
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Report of Town Bookkeeper
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen,
Palmer, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen :
I hereby submit my report of Receipts and Expendi- tures for the town for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1937.
RECEIPTS
Taxes for Current Year
Poll
$ 5,082.00
Personal
37,429.00
Real Estate
167,083.47
Motor Vehicle Excise
13,429.90
$223,024.37
Taxes for Previous Years
Poll
$ 200.00
Personal
7,095.35
Real Estate
56,349.58
Motor Vehicle Excise
1,889.18
Motor Vehicle Excise (Quabbin)
7.75
$ 65,541.86
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Tax Titles Redeemed
Sale Price
$ 533.66
Additional Taxes
575.67
Fire Dist. Tax
22.44
Interest on Taxes
79.36
Deeds of Release
12.00
Recording Deed
2.45
$ 1,225.58
Tax Possessions
$ 820.50
$
820.50
Taxes From State
Income Tax
$18,858.22
Income Tax-Education
12,670.45
Income Tax-State Valuation
6,202.87
Income Tax -Machinery
1,888.53
$ 39,620.07
Corporation Tax
$51,056.64
Corporation Tax Gas, Elec. Light
and Water
1,417.37
Corporation Tax Business
976.18
$ 53,450.19
Fines and Forfeits
Court Fines $ 834.15
$ 834.15
Grants and Gifts
From County :
Dog Licenses
$ 1,177.76
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From State :
Old Age Assistance
$3,650.27
Old Age Assistance- Administration
121.66
$ 4,949.69
Licenses and Permits
Dog Licenses
$ 1,244.60
Junk Licenses
408.00
Peddlers' Licenses
135.00
Agents' Licenses
12.00
Used Car Dealer's License
16.00
Pool and Billiard
48.00
Auctioneer's License
4.00
Circus License
40.00
Sunday Licenses
82.00
Inn Holders
1,830.00
Common Victualers
3,162.00
Club
1,200.00
Roadside Stand
250.00
Package
875.00
Drug
450.00
$ 9,756.60
General Government
Rent of Property under Tax
Possessions
$
120.00
$ 120.00
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Protection of Persons and Property
Sealing of Weights and Measures
$ 148.42
Sale of Property
100.00
$ 248.42
Health Department
Reimbursement for care of
Tubercular Patients from : Individuals
$ 106.28
State
832.85
$
939.13
Licenses :
Alcohol
$ 5.00
Milk and Oleo
63.00
Pasteurization
10.00
Ice Cream
65.00
Bottling
40.00
Undertakers
6.00
$ 189.00
Highways
Sewer Connections
.$ 225.00
Sale of Old Materials
308.30
Rental of Machinery
41.25
Loading Gravel
53.50
Bridge Repairs
244.80
Construction :
Park Street-State
430.80
Thorndike Street-State
357.16
Thorndike Street-County
357.16
Bondsville Road-State
1,669.76
Bondsville Road-County
1,441.65
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Thorndike-Three Rivers Road-
State $10,648.27
Thorndike-Three Rivers Road- County 5,314.45
$ 21,092.10
Public Welfare
Infirmary :
Sale of Milk and Produce
$ 1,620.43
Sale of Wood
464.00
Sale of Stock
1.00
Board of Inmates
65.00
$ 20,150.43
Reimbursement for Aid Rendered :
Cities and Towns
$ 1,302.72
State
5,783.65
State Aid for Dependent Children
1,885.42
$
8,971.79
Old Age Assistance
United States Grant :
For Old Age Assistance
$ 7,065.28
For Administration
156.55
$
7,221.83
Reimbursement for Aid Rendered :
Cities and Towns
$
279.24
State
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