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DAYS
9 Leo E. Henrichon
41
28
14 Vashti W. Knowlton
87
6
7
16 Paul Siok
47
28 Jane Mastalerz
4
9
13
31 Joseph Dudek
62
31 Thomas F. Quigley
66
September
1 Carl S. Carlson
35
22
24 Jeremiah T. Deming
about 74
25 Walter C. Ring
66
3
22
October
4 Edgar A. Johnston
66
3
2
8 Clara Lynch
about 56
11 Marie L. Leveille
85
9
23
12 Sara A. Ayres
58
3
8
15 Rose E. Marchesseau
8
16 Michael T. Collins
83
23 Emma LaFave
64
25 Michael Lafond
81
28
29 Raymond F. Keith
78
2
11
November
1 Alice B. Rehn
25
4
11 Wilfred Desmorais
54
6
9
12 Pauline Lapierre
76
16 Wojciech Swist
67
20 William Horan
56
10
20 Mary E. Loomis
91
10
15
20 (Approx.) Arthur Roberts
67
10
6
25 Raymond N. Johnson
24
11
19
December
2 George Madison
66
3
27
2 Thomas Normoyle
62
3 Adam Hecment
64
4
22
3 Margaret Riddle
82
22
DATE NAME
YEARS
MONTHS DAYS
4 John Gondek
63
5 William N. Ward
78
11
7 Estelle J. Truesdell
90
6
26
11 Rose Markot
54
5
15
19 William Laun
60
4
16
25 Mary E. Murphy
about 60
25
Timothy J. Sullivan
67
8
12
25
William M. Sullivan
80
11
28 Gustaf G. Lindstrom
81
9
25
29 Everett F. Nelson
65
8
4
31 John Nowak
65
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Cemetery Commissioners' Report
The Cemetery Commissioners hereby submit their report for the year 1940.
A constantly increasing interest is being manifested in the permanent care of the lots in our cemeteries as shown by the addition of $2300.00 to our Perpetual Care Fund this year, the largest in any single year, making the total $36,588.83.
In spite of additional work in levelling up the base, your commissioners, because of the excellent work of the men employed, were able to put a stone top on 850 feet of new road in Oak Knoll for the appropriation of $1000.00 instead of a gravel top as proposed by the engineer.
Your commissioners have been informed that the drainage project for Oak Knoll has been approved in Wash- ington and may be a project to be started in the near fu- ture.
A portion of one of the roads in Four Corners has been gravelled, the loam and sod removed being used in the re-grading of lots financed by the owners, thus reducing the cost of road improvement. This work should be con- tinued as the roads are too soft for modern traffic.
Descendants of some of the men who made Palmer possible, now buried in the old cemetery at Palmer Cen- ter, are showing an increasing interest in the care of their ancestors last resting place. This old cemetery needs a new fence; would not a permanent enclosure be a fitting memorial to those old pioneers to whom we owe so much ?
An increase of individual care of lots and prompt pay- ment of bills would aid in general improvement of our cem- eteries.
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RECEIPTS
Appropriations
$5300.00
Sale of lots :
Oak Knoll
$ 357.00
Four Corners
56.00
Palmer Center
4.00
$ 417.00
Earnings :
Care of lots
$1,148.15
Grading lots
300.00
Opening graves
452.00
Foundations
243.14
$2,443.29 $2,860.29
BILLS RECEIVABLE
Frank P. Carroll, grading, 1928
$ 13.50
Raymond Milligan, care, 1934
2.00
Fred I. Collis, care, 1933-1934
4.00
Fred L. McDonald, grading, 1937
17.75
P. M. Emery, care, 1938
3.00
Anna L. Fuller, care, 1938
2.00
Archie T. Kenyon, care, 1938
2.00
Harry Coto, lot
8.00
Louis L. West, lot
14.00
George Matchett, lot
20.00
Michael Yusko, grave
10.00
James J. Moran, Est., foundation, 1938
13.33
J. Belanger, grave
10.00
Lionel D. Ellis, care
2.00
Mrs. Georgianna Fuller, care
2.00
Frank Prouty, care
2.00
E. F. Hulett, care
4.00
Lawrence D. Burlingame, care
6.00
Mrs. E. R. Mckenzie, care
2.00
$ 137.58
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EXPENDITURES
Salary
$ 150.00
Printing & Postage
44.25
Supplies
246.57
Labor
3810.65
Trucks
697.75
Equipment & Repairs
213.93
Fertilizer
61.89
All Others
71.77
Balance
3.19
$5,300.00
Paid R. L. McDonald, Treasurer
Sale of lots
$ 417.00
Earnings
2443.29
$2,860.29
ARTICLE 36
APPROPRIATION
$1,000.00
Expenditures :
Labor
$ 248.30
Rollerman
46.80
Trucks
287.25
Gravel
1.65
Steam Shovel
2.75
Roller
6.00
Coal
8.00
Tar
188.33
Stone
210.92
$1,000.00
PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
Name
Principal
Present Condition $ 105.99
Henry Scism
$ 100.00
John A. Squier
100.00
101.79
Calista E. Hendricks
100.00
102.38
Laura E. Child
500.00
506.20
Minnie K. Bennett
200.00
203.05
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Present Principal Condition
Name
Avery W. Green
200.00
212.04
Waterman Fuller
200.00
213.58
John & Lucy Smith
200.00
202.98
W. A. Breckenridge
200.00
206.20
James W. Snow
100.00
103.46
Franklin Blanchard
100.00
102.51
John H. Haynes
200.00
216.36
Mary A. Shaw
100.00
102.52
Jane A. Gibson
100.00
109.98
E. B. Gates
200.00
206.52
Louise M. Waid
200.00
253.36
Amos O. Allen
100.00
108.68
Torrey Lot
100.00
106.78
Pliney Cooley
50.00
54.62
Henry G. Loomis
200.00
208.83
William Holbrook
200.00
211.26
Maria Lawrence
500.00
629.98
Keyes Foster
100.00
102.62
Harriet Coolidge
200.00
206.33
Mrs. L. W. Brown
200.00
289.63
Eliza J. Kenerson
200.00
209.20
William Merriam
200.00
224.70
Mary Redding
50.00
51.88
D. S. Davis
200.00
202.85
Marshall Andrews
200.00
207.45
Ambrose M. Andrews
200.00
214.96
Enos Calkins
100.00
108.72
Samuel C. Rogers
200.00
217.41
Willard G. Kenerson
100.00
101.45
Maria B. Chapman-GB lot
100.00
103.32
Maria B. Chapman-SC lot
200.00
227.95
Julia H. Henry
100.00
110.21
Isaac King
150.00
154.78
Abel H. Calkins
100.00
103.29
Edward C. Sexton
100.00
107.29
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
Henry A. Moore
100.00
106.75
J. S. Koster
100.00
103.78
Melissa Hall
150.00
156.85
Jeremiah Long
1000.00
1000.00
Mary J. Plympton
100.00
104.26
Clymena P. Fuller
150.00
160.80
Abigail T. Nichols
50.00
52.58
Mary Hastings
100.00
107.59
Orrin B. Smith-OBS lot
200.00
215.65
Orrin B. Smith-TBS lot
100.00
110.30
Laura P. Green
100.00
103.71
J. H. Kenerson
100.00
102.84
William Harvey
150.00
162.51
Alden L. Fletcher
60.00
61.41
Carrie A. Kurtz
100.00
103.58
Ralph Green
200.00
243.64
Meriva L. Capen
100.00
105.78
Minerva R. Olds
100.00
104.33
Otis C. Lyon
100.00
106.05
Hitchcock-Graves
100.00
103.97
Minerva M. Gates
200.00
224.89
Rogers-Paine
150.00
172.64
Elizabeth D. Moore
100.00
106.94
Mary E. Bailey
100.00
103.94
M. M. Rogers
100.00
103.66
Nellie S. Hooker
75.00
80.99
Ethan Warriner
100.00
102.45
Lizzie E. Fletcher
200.00
210.21
Andrew Pinney
100.00
121.39
Frank F. Marcy
500.00
509.02
Thomas McDougall
100.00
107.66
Sarah J. Winter
200.00
210.35
C. B. Fiske
200.00
227.24
Minnie B. Converse
500.00
545.71
Amelia M. Culver
100.00
106.05
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
Omer W. Marcy
100.00
103.47
Frank M. Eager
250.00
258.24
Maria Ritchie
100.00
111.41
Charles H. Burleigh-AB lot
100.00
102.82
Julia A. Burleigh-BB lot
100.00
109.69
A. H. & J. A. Burleigh-JWC lot
25.00
26.13
Emily M. Holdsworth
100.00
104.73
Sarah D. Smith
100.00
107.15
Hollowell P. Marcy
100.00
107.36
Josie M. Northrop
300.00
310.71
Ellis & F. M. Dodge
200.00
215.75
Calvin Childs
100.00
102.10
Joseph A. Brown
500.00
529.13
Sarah L. Lee Snow
50.00
51.07
Abby J. Peirce
100.00
106.54
D. W. Taft
75.00
83.57
Henry Graves
50.00
50.60
William H. Osborne
50.00
52.49
Sarah E. Ward
50.00
52.58
George F. Sedgwick
100.00
102.48
George H. Cobb
50.00
51.83
B. M. Griswold
50.00
51.86
Thomas Bruce
100.00
108.05
H. H. Paine
50.00
50.71
Susan M. Page
100.00
106.70
Peebles Fund
100.00
105.37
George F. Merrick
100.00
103.99
Maria M. Hastings
200:00
214.21
Walter E. Stone
200.00
215.64
Mary A. Thayer
50.00
50.49
Lucy M. Shaw
100.00
107.59
Samuel Sharratt
100.00
104.20
George Robinson
200.00
228.34
Joseph F. Gerald
100.00
101.40
James F. Fenton
100.00
115.42
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
Liberty Jenks
200.00
216.75
Martha J. Mooers
200.00
201.21
Byram Woodhead
100.00
103.19
Almenia Hastings
100.00
105.17
Clara B. Fisherdick
100.00
105.71
Austin E. Gould
100.00
105.86
Susan Beebe
100.00
101.05
James I. Milliken
200.00
225.90
Christen Christiansen
50.00
53.87
Millie G. Rose
100.00
105.82
Mary E. Murdock-FMM lot
100.00
102.35
Mary E. Murdock-LB lot
100.00
101.17
Robert Chambers
100.00
104.33
Josiah P. Stevens
100.00
104.43
William A. Bennett
100.00
103.28
Charles W. Bennett
100.00
100.94
Charles E. Fuller
100.00
108.57
Frederick H. Conant
100.00
103.37
Joseph V. Clark
100.00
104.27
Robert Reid
100.00
104.67
Edwin B. Newell
100.00
104.33
Martha A. Shaw
211.00
299.04
August Carlson
100.00
112.13
Elizabeth R. Macomber
200.00
220.27
Thomas D. Frame
200.00
213.93
O. P. Allen
100.00
107.95
Albert A. Sherman
100.00
102.91
Charles A. Royce
100.00
105.75
Martin L. Farrington
100.00
102.79
Joseph H. Jones
150.00
157.55
Mary S. Moore
100.00
108.05
Horace R. Paine-HH lot
50.00
51.02
Arthur W. Holbrook
100.00
105.51
James S. Morgan
200.00
215.29
Silas B. Keith
100.00
102.30
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
James H. Davis
100.00
102.96
George S. Peck
100.00
102.76
Nettie O. Coleman
50.00
52.03
Jennie C. Carpenter
100.00
102.00
Esther A. Graves
100.00
101.75
Nellie M. Bond
100.00
102.28
Cyrus W. Cross
100.00
105.80
Lucy A. Hitchcock
100.00
101.52
John C. Green
100.00
101.17
Charles E. Fish
100.00
107.91
Lewis E. Royce
200.00
221.20
Henry McMaster
50.00
50.98
Bessie C. Jenks
100.00
101.79
Samuel W. Lyon
100.00
109.37
Orissa L. Merrifield
100.00
101.89
Edwin J. Duncan
50.00
50.40
Elizabeth Dyson
100.00
103.73
James Metcalf
100.00
103.80
Agnes Larkin
50.00
51.03
Hitchcock-Rice
100.00
103.07
Lewis A. Conant
100.00
103.58
Julia F. McKendrick
100.00
101.34
Nellie M. Sizer
100.00
103.66
William J. Smith
100.00
104.05
John W. Smith
50.00
50.78
Thomas J. Chalk
100.00
104.08
Edward T. Prindle
100.00
110.27
Justin W. Keith
200.00
232.28
Willis E. Shaw
100.00
101.91
John J. & Sarah J. McAdam
100.00
101.06
Charles E. Nicholson
100.00
103.03
Minnie Smith
100.00
103.67
Thomas W. Cole
100.00
106.13
George A. Branford
100.00
102.90
Merriam Fund
100.00
105.39
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
Joseph M. Allen
200.00
208.32
Charles M. Kempton
100.00
102.46
A. M. Billings
100.00
102.89
Charles K. Gamwell
100.00
103.01
Grosvenor-Brown
50.00
50.57
Luther H. Gager
100.00
108.87
L. Augusta Thompson
100.00
101.40
John M. Ramsdell
100.00
106.97
Henry S. Howe
200.00
218.84
Charles Duane Fuller
100.00
103.16
Albert S. Geer
50.00
51.68
Clara V. Pendleton
100.00
107.56
Henry W. Calkins
50.00
51.57
Charles H. Hobbs
100.00
100.94
Albert D. Thomas
100.00
101.47
Hiram Converse
100.00
101.80
Isabella H. Ballantine
200.00
218.26
Herman M. Kendall
50.00
50.80
Myron K. Chamberlin
100.00
103.54
Clara L. Converse
100.00
101.40
William A. Weld
100.00
104.89
Martin Salmonsen
50.00
50.92
Willis D. Geer
100.00
106.07
Charles F. Smith
200.00
211.27
Ocran Hanks
100.00
102.57
William H. Heald
100.00
101.73
Cora Forte
100.00
104.68
Jason B. Thomas
100.00
101.95
Martin M. Thomas
100.00
105.16
Caroline B. Talmadge
100.00
102.32
Agnes F. Wilson
200.00
206.92
A. Blanche LeGro
100.00
101.03
L. W. Caryl
100.00
104.42
Charles R. Russell
100.00
104.11
Mary C. Cummings
100.00
104.11
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
Thomas H. Cole
100.00
103.26
Anna M. Wakefield
100.00
103.12
Clara B. Kendall
200.00
212.08
Emerson J. Loy
100.00
103.33
W. O. Twogood
100.00
101.36
Willard F. Fillmore
100.00
102.44
B. F. Clark
100.00
101.36
Mary J. Cole
100.00
102.80
Emma F. Blair
100.00
100.86
Leon Henrichon, Sr.
100.00
102.49
Frank B. Waite
200.00
203.41
Timothy D. Potter
100.00
102.68
Nettie L. Davis
100.00
101.32
Frederick D. Thompson
150.00
153.09
Edith R. Nordstrom
100.00
101.32
Gerda V. Anderson
100.00
101.32
Calvin W. Johnson
100.00
101.63
Ida M. Lloyd
100.00
102.63
Nettie E. Hurd
100.00
101.57
Charles T. Brainerd
100.00
101.57
Louis J. Brainerd
400.00
404.41
Louis R. Wheeler
100.00
102.39
Ellen S. Leach
100.00
101.57
William J. Thompson
50.00
51.01
Fred K. Thayer
50.00
50.86
Elizabeth Holden Pope
200.00
200.06
Ethel R. Weeden
192.83
193.73
Edward B. Sparrow
50.00
50.97
Mattie A. Jencks
100.00
101.15
Charles E. Trout
100.00
100.50
Josephine H. Ham
100.00
101.10
Rufus W. Stimson
100.00
101.38
Cyrus F. Stimson
100.00
100.52
Martha F. Swann
100.00
100.52
Anna J. Collis
100.00
101.70
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
Katherine T. Warren
100.00
101.33
Sidney H. Calkins
100.00
101.11
Angelina Adams
150.00
152.61
Fred C. Gamwell
200.00
200.96
Anna L. Fuller
100.00
100.47
Jonathan Marshall
100.00
100.26
Edward L. Wright
100.00
100.63
John W. Baldwin
200.00
200.44
Annette A. Reed
200.00
202.44
Alice C. Waite
100.00
100.51
Weldon E. Smith
100.00
101.30
Frank L. Morway
100.00
101.30
George W. Camp
100.00
101.30
Sarah E. Ward
300.00
303.27
John J. Helliwell
200.00
201.67
Abbie J. Ryther
100.00
101.08
Emma E. Converse
200.00
202.08
Estelle M. Howe
100.00
101.04
Frederick R. Sistare
100.00
100.42
Gladys G. Crosby
100.00
100.42
Alice T. Childs
100.00
100.21
James F. McElwain
200.00
200.42
Henry McElwain
100.00
100.21
Georgianna MacGeachey
100.00
100.00
Sarah Fenton
100.00
100.00
Albert B. Ramsdell
100.00
100.00
Etta M. Harris
100.00
100.00
Joseph P. Brown
300.00
300.00
William C. Millen
100.00
100.00
A. E. Peterson
100.00
100.00
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Name
Principal
Present Condition
Edward P. Brown
200.00
200.00
Archie E. & Alice J. Beebe
100.00
100.00
David B. Smith
100.00
100.00
$ 36,588.33
$ 38,497.38
Gain in Perpetual Care Funds
$ 2,300.00
Respectfully submitted,
LOUIS J. BRAINERD
DAVID L. BODFISH
ROBERT E. FAULKNER
Cemetery Commissioners
35
Report of Neglected Graves
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen:
I hereby submit my report for the expenditure of the fund for the care of neglected graves 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, 35 lots
$ 35.00
Oak Knoll Cemetery, 69 lots 103.00
Four Corners Cemetery, 36 lots 40.00
Three Rivers Cemetery, 2 lots 2.00 180.00 $ 250.00
Respectfully submitted,
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 Decem- ber 31, 1940:
Town Appropriations :
To be raised by taxation
$396,039.39
Maturing Debt and Interest
20,426.25
State Tax
20,000.00
State Parks & Reservations
345.77
State Audit
29.54
Veterans Exemptions
19.40
Veterans Exemptions (1939
Underestimate)
2.20
County Tax
10,667.23
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment 1,071.76
Overlay 6,816.84
$455,418.38
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Income Tax
$34,747.27
Corporation Taxes
54,406.10
Reimbursement, State owned land
141.60
Gasoline Tax
18,618.56
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
14,000.00
Licenses 8,500.00
Fines
1,000.00
General Government 300.00
Protection of Persons and Property
100.00
Health and Sanitation
300.00
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Highways
700.00
Charities
10,000.00
Old Age Assistance
14,000.00
Soldiers' Benefits
100.00
Schools
8,500.00
Cemeteries
2,500.00
Interest on Taxes and Assessments
3,000.00
Public Utility Tax
2,712.94
Total Estimated Receipts
$173,626.47
State Parks & Reservations
Overestimate
48.89
Available Funds
15,000.00
Total Estimated Receipts and Available Funds
$188,675.36
Net amount to be raised by taxation
$266,743.02
Less 2960 Polls at $2.00 each
5,920.00
Total amount to be raised by taxation on property
$260,823.02
Tax Rate: $36.80 per M
ASSESSED VALUATION FOR 1940
Personal Estate $1,034,160.00
Buildings exclusive of land 4,435,959.00
Land, exclusive of buildings 1,617,463.00
Total valuation
$7,087,582.00
All
Number of persons assessed Individuals
Others
Total
On Personal Estate only
253
11
264
On Real Estate only
1140
35
1175
On Both Personal & Real Estate 423
15
438
Total number of persons assessed 1877
38
Number of horses assessed
78
Number of cows assessed
657
Number of yearlings assessed
165
Number of swine assessed
31
Number of fowl assessed
5305
Number of dwelling houses assessed
1530
RECAPITULATION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE FOR THE YEAR 1940
Commitments
Total No. Total Valuation Excise
April 27
1424
$272,950.00
$10,034.54
July 16
262
57,200.00
1,944.07
Sept. 7
446
125,260.00
3,132.35
Oct. 30
118
35,280.00
622.70
Dec. 26
211
68,800.00
752.19
Dec. 31
39
19,510.00
120.56
Total :
2500
$579,000.00
$16,606.41
Excise Tax Rate :
$36.40 Per M
Abatements on Motor Vehicle Excise Tax :
1939 Excise Tax Levy $ 13.69
1940 Excise Tax Levy 1,022.26
Abatements granted on 1938 Tax Levy :
Poll Tax
$ 8.00
Personal
132.66
Real Estate
42.59
Abatements granted on 1939 Tax Levy :
Poll Tax
$ 62.00
Personal
19.80
Real Estate
2,352.53
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Abatements granted on 1940 Tax Levy : Poll Tax
$ 338.00
Personal
246.75
Real Estate
5,348.79
Respectfully submitted
DAVID B. SMITH
OSCAR F. BRESSETTE
LUDWIK MARHELEWICZ
Board of Assessors
40
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 1940 is hereby respectfully submitted :
No. of No. of
Cases Persons Amount
Aided in this town
Account of :
Town Infirmary
18
18 $ 4,081.37
In Homes, Private Families and Institutions
191
760
20,015.15
For Other Cities and Towns
33
101
2,104.86
For State
41
127
5,122.37
By Other Cities and Towns
20
71
1,118.93
RECEIPTS
Appropriations :
General Administration
$33,500.00
Salary of Board
600.00
Salary of Secretary
1,100.00
Salary of Physician
500.00
Office Equipment
50.00
$35,750.00
Town Infirmary
2,176.39
2,176.39
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Reimbursements :
Cities and Towns
1,932.25
State
4,324.96
Individuals
94.10
Total Reimbursements
6,351.31
Total Receipts
$44,277.70
Abatements
210.10
PAYMENTS
Administration :
Salaries of Board
600.00
Salary of Town Physician
500.00
Salary of Secretary
1,100.00
$2,200.00
Administrative Expenses :
Transportation and Travel
Expenses
199.87
Postage
26.80
Supplies
45.93
Telephones
159.62
Clerical
72.80
Labor
1.00
Transportation of Wood
135.00
Sawing of Wood
22.55
$
663.57
Office Equipment
34.40
Town Infirmary :
Provisions
710.68
Papers
16.38
Furniture
8.50
Grain
637.20
Clothing
21.78
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Supplies
157.51
Equipment
23.12
Transportation
149.95
Light
82.52
Labor
79.45
Telephone
43.14
Fuel
206.28
Ice
37.50
Swine
10.00
Chicks
16.50
Spray
68.00
Seed and Fertilizer
178.67
Medicine
59.17
Boiler Inspection
5.00
Repairs
37.58
Cinders
1.50
Fire Extinguisher
30.94
Salary-Warden and Matron
1500.00
$ 4,081.37
Outside Poor : (Palmer Cases in Palmer)
Cash
231.00
Rent
3,235.25
Light
36.88
Provisions
8,558.94
Fuel
1,090.05
Medical
290.95
Medicine
392.01
Clothing
480.05
Board, Private Families
1,194.50
Board, Private Institutions
582.07
Private Hospitals
3,164.43
Transportation
48.50
Surgical
278.00
Burials
235.00
Surgical Appliances
11.75
Examination and Glasses
63.50
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X-Ray
15.00
Dental
74.00
Barber
1.55
Shoe Repair
4.35
Nurse
6.00
Moving
21.37
$20,015.15
State Cases :
Cash
506.83
Rent
802.50
Light
21.74
Provisions
2,333.13
Fuel
506.84
Medical
30.00
Medicine
107.37
Private Hospitals
548.30
Dental
19.00
Surgical
75.00
Clothing
166.58
Seed
5.08
$5,122.37
For Others: (Cases from Other Towns Aided in Palmer)
Provisions
1,321.45
Rent
249.00
Fuel
201.82
Clothing
35.74
Board, Private Families
60.00
Private Hospitals
136.85
Examination and Glasses
13.00
Surgical
25.00
Transportation
3.75
Moving
10.00
Medical
31.00
Medicine
9.85
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Dental
4.00
Seed
3.40
$2,104.86
By Others: (Palmer Cases Aided in Other Towns)
Cash
201.17
Provisions
250.26
Clothing
19.36
Fuel
49.17
Rent
117.00
Medicine
32.89
Medical
26.58
Glasses
3.50
Board, Private Institutions
93.00
Private Hospitals
326.00
1,118.93
Total Expenses
$35,340.65
NET COST OF CHARITIES
Total Expenses $35,340.65
Less Receipts of Town Infirmary 2,176.39
" Outstanding Bills 1,539.15
" Reimbursements 6,257.21
" Reimbursements from
Individuals 94.10
10,066.85
25,273.80
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Plus Receipts for previous years 748.69
" Outstanding Bills for previous years 426.83
1,175.52
Net Cost
$26,449.32
Town Appropriation Overlay
409.35
REPORT OF WARDEN TO THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
RECEIPTS
Milk
1,264.13
Produce
97.09
Stock
200.00
Board
563.06
Total Receipts
2,124.28
Disbursements :
Paid Town Treasurer
1,561.22
Balance Paid Town
Treasurer-Direct
563.06
2,124.28
BILLS RECEIVABLE
Milk
56.61
Board
375.00
431.61
INVENTORY
Furniture
650.00
Food and Supplies
167.00
Live Stock
1,045.00
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Hay and Grain
675.00
Wood, Coal and Lumber
150.00
Farm Implements
700.00
3,387.00
Number of Inmates Registered during the year
18
Largest number at one time 14
Number of Inmates December 31, 1940
9
Respectfully submitted,
MAURICE F. LAWLOR, Warden NORA D. LAWLOR, Matron
NET COST OF TOWN INFIRMARY
Total Expenses
$4,081.37
Less Receipts " Outstanding Bills
$2,124.28
431.61
2,555.89
1,525.48
Milk Receipts for 1939
52.11
52.11
Net Cost
$1,577.59
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE E. CALLAHAN, Chairman WILLIAM C. DALY, Secretary JOHN K. MCKENZIE
Board of Public Welfare
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Report of The Board of Public Welfare For Aid To Dependent Children
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of Palmer:
The annual report of the Board of Public Welfare for Aid to Dependent Children for the year 1940 is here- by respectfully submitted :
No. of
No. of
Cases
18
Persons 77
RECEIPTS
Town Appropriations
$6,915.00
Town Appropriations-Salary 225.00
Balance on hand, Federal Grant Jan. 1, 1940 163.41
Balance on hand, Federal Grant
for Administration 41.95
Received from Federal Grant During 1940 3,384.74
Received from Federal Grant
for Administration
117.33
TOTAL RECEIPTS $ 10,847.43
EXPENDITURES
Cash from Federal Grant
$3,008.36
Cash from Town Appropriations 6,912.10
$ 9,920.46
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Salary from Town Appropriations From Federal Grant for Adminis- tration Only :
225.00
Secretary
$75.00
Clerical
42.00
Supplies
13.82
Postage
1.69
Transportation
19.00
$ 151.51
TOTAL EXPENSES
$ 10,296.97
Less Outstanding Bills
$ 515.10
Less Reimbursements
4,718.77
Less Federal Grant
3,707.43
$ 8,941.30
$ 1,355.67
Plus Receipts for Previous Years
2,278.77
Net Cost
$ 3,634.44
Balance from Town Appropriations
$ 2.90
Balance from Federal Grant
539.79
Balance from Federal Grant for Administration
7.77
TOTAL BALANCE $ 550.46
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE E. CALLAHAN, Chairman
WILLIAM C. DALY, Secretary
JOHN K. MCKENZIE
Board of Public Welfare
49
Report of the Bureau of Old Age Assistance
For the year ending December 31, 1940
Number of active cases December 31, 1939 132
Applications received during the year 52
Applications accepted during the year 37
Applications rejected during the year 15
Cases closed during the year (4 by death) 16
Number of active cases December 31, 1940 153
Palmer settled cases in Other Towns 12
RECEIPTS
Town Appropriation $27400.00
U. S. Grants for Old Age
Assistance Only :
Balance on hand January 1, 1940
.77
Received during the year
22999.75
U. S. Grants for Administration Only :
Balance on hand January 1, 1940
32.65
Received during the year
766.61
$51,199.78
Reimbursements :
Cities and Towns
State
$
626.69
16082.63
$16,709.32
Total Receipts
$67,909.10
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PAYMENTS
Town Cases :
Cash
$37,375.87
Medical and Medicine
84.00
Burials
200.00
$37,659.87
For Other Towns:
Cash
$6,979.69
$6,979.69
For State :
Cash
$4,420.86
$4,420.86
By Other Towns :
Cash
$445.46
$445.46
ADMINISTRATION
Salaries :
Bureau of Old Age Assistance
$ 100.00
Supervisor 1,100.00
$1,200.00
Other Expenses :
Postage and Supplies
$122.07
Telephone
21.78
Clerical Work
137.20
Transportation
182.08
Equipment
22.00
4
$ 485.13
Total Expenditures
$51,191.01
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NET COST OF OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Total Expenses $51,191.01
Less Reimbursements
$16,709.32
Less U. S. Grants
23,799.78
Less Outstanding Bills
902.17
$41,411.27
$ 9,779.74
Plus Receipts for 1939 $ 228.71
228.71
Net Cost $10,008.45
$73.10
Abatements U. S. Grant Unexpended for Old Age Assistance $0.20 U. S. Grant Unexpended Balance for Administration 8.57
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM C. DALY, Chairman
GEORGE E. CALLAHAN
CHARLES H. GIROUX Bureau of Old Age Assistance
THOMAS W. MANSFIELD,
Supervisor
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Treasurer's Report
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand January 1, 1940, $50,094.27
Anticipation of Revenue Loans, $300,000.00
John T. Brown, Tax Collector,
Taxes, 1937, 90.54
Interest & Demands, 1937,
11.77
Taxes, 1938,
13,231.45
Interest & Demands, 1938,
881.90
Taxes, 1939,
49,158.05
Interest & Demands, 1939,
1,554.24
Taxes, 1940,
194,861.24
Interest & Demands, 1940, 277.47
Sale of Tax Possessions, 955.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts :
Taxes, Reimbursements &
Licenses,
151,438.50
Highway Fund, Chapter 504,
18,618.56
Chapter 90 Contracts :
Palmer-Bondsville Road, 1938 account, 1,435.40
Palmer-Bondsville Road, 1940 account 6,857.50
Maintenance, 1939 account,
879.08
Maintenance, 1940 account,
666.60
Dutton Bridge, 1938 account,
5,830.73
Burleigh Bridge, Chapter 505A,
998.22
County of Hampden, Chapter 90
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Contracts :
Palmer-Bondsville Road, 1938
account, 717.71
Palmer-Bondsville Road, 1940 account,
3,428.75
Maintenance, 1939 account,
999.95
Dutton Bridge, 1938 account,
2,915.37
All Other Sources,
27,083.07
$782,891.10
$832,985.37
DISBURSEMENTS
Paid out on Selectmen's
Warrants
$754,385.50
Balance on hand
December 31, 1940,
78,599.87
$832,985.37
ROBERT L. McDONALD,
Town Treasurer
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Report of Board of Selectmen
The Selectmen respectfully submit the following re- port for the year 1940 :
The Board organized with George B. Cheney as Chairman and Charles J. Fountain as Secretary.
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