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We wish to thank Police and all other town officials for services rendered during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
DANIEL W. O'CONNOR PETER F. WARAKOMSKI GEORGE B. CHENEY
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Report of Assessors
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Palmer, The Board of Assessors, respect- fully submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1945:
Town Appropriations:
To be raised by taxation $395,743.24
To be taken from available funds
2,826.03
Maturing Debt and Interest
5,272.50
State Tax
9,248.00
State Parks and Reservations 346.11
State Audit
652.09
State Guard
442.57
County Tax
12,254.24
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment 622.59
Overlay
10,644.76
$438,052.13
Estimated Receipts
Income Tax
$29,312.97
Corporation Taxes
64,264.26
Reimbursement, State-owned land
162.69
Gasoline Tax
15,745.00
Motor Vehicle Excise
8,000.00
Licenses
7,600.00
Fines
700.00
Protection of Persons and Property
150.00
Health and Sanitation
200.00
Highways
500.00
Charities
4,000.00
Old Age Assistance
20,000.00
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Old Age Tax (Meals)
1,250.00
Soldiers' Benefits
600.00
Schools
4,000.00
Interest on Taxes and Assessments
500.00
Total Estimated Receipts
$156,984.92
To be taken from available funds
2,826.03
Available funds
5,000.00
Total Estimated Receipts and Available Funds
$164,810.95
Net amount to be raised by Taxation
$273,241.18
Less 3,196 Polls at $2.00 each
6,392.00
Total amount to be raised by taxation
on Property
$266,849.18
Tax Rate: $37.00 per M
Assessed Valuation for 1945
Personal Estate
$1,123,505.00
Buildings, exclusive of land
4,552,915.00
Land, exclusive of buildings
1,535,720.00
Total Valuation $7,212,140.00
All
Number of Persons assessed
Individuals Others
Total
On Personal Estate
190
20
210
On Real Estate
1270
60
1330
On both Personal and Real Estate
350
20
370
1910
28
Number of Live Stock assessed
Horses
87
Cows
595
Yearlings
150
Bulls
20
Swine
34
Sheep
2
Fowl
6375
Goats
20
Number of acres of land assessed 18,339
Number of dwelling houses assessed 1,560
RECAPITULATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE AND TRAILER EXCISE
Com-
Date of Commitm't
Num- ber
Value
Excise
mitm't
First
May 1 1945
1317
$140,130.00
$5,005.36
Second
Sept 1 1945
719
78,400.00
2,635.47
Third
Nov 1 1945
114
25,270.00
480.73
Fourth
Dec 22 1945
70
6,930.00
143.81
Fifth
Dec 31 1945
11
4,320.00
26.02
Total for 1945
2231
$255,050.00
$8,291.39
Excise Tax Rate :
$35.60 per M
Abatements granted on Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
1943 Levy $ 2.91
1944 Levy
36.99
1945 Levy
193.55
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Abatements granted on 1943 Tax Levy
Poll Tax
$ 14.00
Personal
42.35
Real Estate
4.37
Abatements granted on 1944 Tax Levy
Poll Tax
$22.00
Personal
15.75
Real Estate
169.75
Abatements granted on 1945 Tax Levy
Poll Tax
$2,028.00
Personal
66.97
Real Estate
1,430.05
Tax Title Account abatement granted $5,245.96
Respectfully submitted, DAVID B. SMITH
OSCAR F. BRESSETTE
LUDWIK MARHELEWICZ
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List of Jurors
In accordance with Chapter 234 of General Laws, the Selectmen of the Town of Palmer have prepared the following list of inhabitants of said Town of Palmer as qualified to serve as jurors for the year beginning July 1st, 1945:
PRECINCT A
James Rathbone
Grover C. Smith
Frank J. Splaine
James R. DeMaio
Leo H. Roberge
James J. Sullivan
Maurice Kelley
George Scott Neil R. Thompson
James A. Vennert
John W. Carlson
John J. Kenney
Alfred E. Goodhind Levi Cole John S. Huggard
Leslie R. Keith
James H. Mulvey
Samuel J. Mullen
Joseph M. Russo
Leopold Laviolette William J. Doyle
Wilfred L. Dupre
Walter P. Kartz
Robert B. Mackintosh
Central St., Palmer 5 Fenton St., Palmer 20 Grove St., Palmer 11 Maple St., Palmer 15 Oak St., Palmer 23 Park St., Palmer 12 Pine St., Palmer Smith St., Palmer 120 Thorndike St., Palmer Wilbraham St., Palmer Brown St., Palmer Brown St., Palmer Brown St., Palmer Central St., Palmer Breckenridge St., Palmer Central St., Palmer South Main St., Palmer Green St., Palmer Chestnut St., Palmer North Main St., Palmer Pine St., Palmer Park St., Palmer 563 North Main St., Palmer 571 North Main St., Palmer
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Garton J. Quimby John J. Culnane
Walter J. Phaneuf
John J. Terry
Trevor A. Baker
Harold E. Curtin
Francis C. Blair
James W. Duffy
Oliver E. Reim
Ladislas Laviolette
Edward E. Denning
Oscar J. Tryon
David Davis
Julius Riel
Homer W. Smart
Ernest Hey
42 Pine St., Palmer 46 Pine St., Palmer 298 South Main St., Palmer 17 Church St., Palmer 14 Walnut St., Palmer 10 Foster St., Palmer 84 Pleasant St., Palmer 17 Brown St., Palmer Pine St., Palmer 560 North Main St., Palmer 243 South Main St., Palmer 17 Pearl St., Palmer 20 Maple St., Palmer 21 Arnold St., Palmer 8 Pine St., Palmer Brown St., Palmer
PRECINCT B
Geo. Fortune William H. St. Amand
Chester A. Bogacz
Henry J. Kosmider
Bernard R. Cantwell
Arthur Lord, Jr. Stanley I. Janosz
George E. Rogers
Martin M. Brosnan Robert P. Barton Francis G. LaForest
Carlos E. Sullivan
Harold S. Crane Moise Cadieux William S. Siok Edward A. Reynolds Stanley G. Wilk
Center St., Thorndike Church St., Thorndike Church St., Thorndike Commercial St., Thorndike Commercial St., Thorndike Church St., Thorndike Church St., Thorndike Church St., Thorndike High St., Thorndike High St., Thorndike River St., Thorndike Summer St., Thorndike Church St., Thorndike 65 Church St., Thorndike 30 Church St., Thorndike High St., Thorndike High St., Thorndike
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PRECINCT C
Harold A. Chamberlain
Aime E. Poulin
Isaac Ritchie
Harry W. Stein
Alfred Zeigler
Ernest V. Lundquist
Anthony S. Klekotka
George J. Magoni
Ronald R. Dubuque
Stanley A. Wojtowicz
Stanley Zuhowski
Frank T. Pytka
Orlin F. Rogers
Edward Nadolny
Elmer A. Palm
William T. Cole Theodore D. Roberts Edward W. Roman
Henry M. Senecal
Dennis J. Horgan Edward Bachand Harvey W. Barber William Wysmutek Gabryel Skowronek Stanley J. Klaus Joseph Sirard
Joseph P. T. Belanger
Aylmer C. Giroux
Eugene F. Flaherty
Maple Ter., Three Rivers Belanger St., Three Rivers Maple Ter., Three Rivers Maple Ter., Three Rivers Baptist Hill, Three Rivers Maple Ter., Three Rivers Belchertown St., Three Rivers Belanger St., Three Rivers Maple Ter., Three Rivers North St., Three Rivers High St., Three Rivers North St., Three Rivers Maple Ter., Three Rivers Maple St., Three Rivers Maple St., Three Rivers Maple Ter., Three Rivers Maple Ter., Three Rivers Bourne St., Three Rivers Bourne St., Three Rivers Main St., Three Rivers 11 Springfield St., Three Rivers 21 Ruggles St., Three Rivers 21 Monat St., Three Rivers 110 Belchertown St., Three Rivers Palmer Rd., Three Rivers Main St., Three Rivers Main St., Three Rivers Maple St., Three Rivers Maple St., Three Rivers
PRECINCT D
Edward T. Pollack
Joseph W. Mastalerz
Harold F. Lamb
Henning W. Forsman
State St., Bondsville 168 High St., Bondsville Pine St., Bondsville Palmer St., Bondsville
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Charles H. Sharratt Michael Mikna Thomas J. Fitzgerald Leo H. Labonte Joseph J. Klaus Joseph F. Lusty Robert C. Hayes
Romeo P. Beauregard Lawrence F. Donovan Michael Mega
Pine St., Bondsville Pine St., Bondsville South High St., Bondsville South High St., Bondsville High St., Bondsville South Main St., Bondsville 14 Hill St., Bondsville 182 High St., Bondsville State St., Bondsville Main St., Bondsville
D. W. O'CONNOR
P. F. WARAKOMSKI GEORGE B. CHENEY
Board of 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 of Palmer for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1945.
RECEIPTS
Taxes for Current Year
Poll
Personal
$ 4,416.00 41,161.74 207,222.61
Real Estate
Motor Vehicle Excise
7,884.12
$260,684.47
Taxes for Previous Years
Poll
32.00
Personal
159.41
Real Estate
14,225.57
Motor Vehicle Excise
193.77
$ 14,610.75
Sidewalk Assessment - (1943) 35.64
$ 35.64
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Sale of Tax Possessions
Sale Price, Tax Title No. 33
100.00
Sale Price, Tax Title No. 13 275.00
Sale Price, Tax Titles Nos. 6 & 8 800.00
Sale Price, Tax Title No. 41
250.00
$
1,425.00
Taxes from State
Income
33,324.20
Corporation
67,882.26
Meal Tax, Old Age Assistance
1,593.19
$102,799.65
Fines and Forfeits
Court Fines 522.55
$
522.55
Withholding Tax
Amount withheld during 1945
22,880.10
$ 22,880.10
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Amount withheld during 1945
246.20
$
246.20
Licenses and Permits
Bicycle Registrations
$15.25
Dog
1,266.80
Peddlers
60.00
Junk. Licenses and Privileges
208.00
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Sunday
30.00
Pool and Billiards
58.00
Agents
4.00
Used Car Dealers
10.00
Firearms
2.00
Auctioneers
4.00
Innholders
1,535.00
Common Victualers
2,268.00
Club
1,500.00
Package
900.00
Drug
300.00
Seasonal
500.00
Roadside Stand
125.00
One Day
5.00
8,791.05 $
Grants and Gifts
From County - Dog Licenses $ 1,136.30
$
1,136.30
From Federal Government for :-
Old Age Assistance $ 22,168.52
Old Age Administration 738.90
Dependent Children - Aid
2,571.37
Dependent Children - Adm.
211.91
Vocational Schools
1,816.88
$ 27,507.58
From State :-
Highway Fund Health
15,745.00 50.71
$ 15,795.71
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General Government
Street Light Account
$ 8.50
Sale of Old Lumber
10.00
Sale of Summer Street Bridge
100.00
Rent of Town House
106.00
Forest Fire Account
50.75
Tax Title Foreclosure
6.00
Sale of Observation Tower
27.50
$
308.75
Protection of Persons and Property
Sealing Fees
$190.00
$
190.00
Health Department
Licenses for :
Alcohol
$ 6.00
Slaughtering and Poultry Dressing
2.00
Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts
65.00
Pasteurization
50.00
Milk and Oleo.
34.50
Undertakers
6.00
Bottling
40.00
Overnight Cabins
2.00
$
205.50
Highway Department
Sewer Connections
$225.00
Loading Gravel
102.00
Use of Equipment
514.75
Guard Rail Repairs
35.05
Catch Basins
38.40
$ 915.20
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Chapter 90 Maintenance
State County
$999.94 999.94
$ 1,999.88
Public Welfare
Infirmary :
Board
$411.00
Sale of Hay
35.00
Sale of Wood
200.00
$ 646.00
Reimbursement for Aid Rendered:
State
$1,917.55
Cities and Towns
2,658.96
$ 4,576.51
Old Age Assistance
Reimbursement for Aid Rendered :
State Cities and Towns
$25,918.77 5,677.66
$ 31,596.43
Aid to Dependent Children
Reimbursement for Aid Rendered
State $2,615.56
$ 2,615.56
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Soldiers' Benefits
State Aid
$110.00
Military Aid
480.00
World War II
845.75
Soldiers' Burial
100.00
$
1,535.75
Education
Tuition :
State Training School
$3,536.73
Town of Wilbraham
400.00
Individuals
125.00
Sundry Receipts :
Rent
694.01
Sale of Mdse.
312.89
$ 5,068.63
Cemeteries
Sale of Lots
$517.00
Care of Lots
1,425.73
Grading Lots
ยท 28.00
Opening Graves
855.00
Foundations
319.14
$
3,144.87
Interest
On Taxes :
Interest
$461.85
Demands
40.25
On Sidewalk Assessment
4.00
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On Public Trust Funds :-
Merrick Fund
17.00
Thompson Fund
19.02
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
861.73
$ 1,403.85
Legion Field
Rent of Baseball Field
$35.00
$ 35.00
Veterans' Service Center
Photostat Work
$27.60
$ 27.60
Agency and Trust
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$1,625.00
$ 1,625.00
Refunds
Loss of Taxes
$162.69
Insurance
263.55
Bounty on Wildcat
10.00
General Departments
466.68
Total Receipts Cash on Hand January 1, 1945
$ 902.92
$513,232.45
255,651.41
$768,883.86
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PAYMENTS General Government
Selectmen's Department :
Salaries of Board
$1,600.00
Auctioneer
10.00
Stationery and Postage
2.00
Printing and Advertising
221.19
Car Fare
94.10
Supplies
23.27
Telephones
164.92
Sundry Items
9.55
2,125.03 $
Selectmen's Contingent Account :
Spot Light
$ 21.83
Outside Fires
881.22
Finance Committee
65.00
Tin Can and Paper Drive
59.33
Honor Roll
50.00
Bounty on Wildcat
10.00
Sundry Items
127.20
1,214.58 $
Town Office :
Rent
$1,500.00
Care
360.00
Lights
105.30
1,965.30 $
Auditing and Accounting :
Auditing
$ 90.00
Accounting
1,980.00
$ 2,070.00
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Treasurer's Department :
Salary
$2,220.00
Clerical Hire
300.00
Surety Bond
181.00
Supplies
86.57
Stationery and Postage
290.55
Printing and Advertising
35.37
Carfare, etc.
28.50
Sundry Items
55.15
3,197.14 $
Town Clerk's Department:
Salary
$615.00
Surety Bond
5.00
Supplies
30.25
Stationery and Postage
57.44
Printing and Advertising
10.81
Sundry Items
16.89
$ 735.39
Election and Registration :
Registrars
$200.00
Election Officers
254.00
Clerical Work
2.10
Printing and Advertising
371.24
Carfare
6.00
Listing Names
170.13
Sundry Items
61.83
$ 1,065.30
Collector's Department :
Salary for 1945
$1,710.00
Clerk
1,040.00
Supplies
46.25
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Stationery and Postage
188.78
Printing and Advertising
98.05
Telephone
33.57
Surety Bond
302.50
Sundry Items
31.73
$
3,450.88
Assessor's Department :
Salaries of Board
$2,400.00
Clerk
1,544.40
Drafting and Work on Maps
141.00
Stationery and Postage
225.56
Printing and Advertising
2.92
Carfares, Auto Hire and Travel
337.69
Telephone
6.80
Sundry Items
78.56
$
4,736.93
Law and Claim :
Town Counsel
$600.00
Property Agent
260.00
Claims
50.00
$ 910.00
License Commissioners :
Clerical Hire
$ 29.00
Postage
3.00
Transportation
20.50
Telephone
18.00
Printing
12.50
Sundry Items
4.14
$ 87.14
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Town House :
Janitor
$ 18.50
Fuel
45.00
Lights
17.94
Janitor's Supplies
2.10
$
83.54
Town Dump :
Care
$780.00
$ 780.00
Planning Board :
Transportation
$ 12.30
Supplies
1.35
$
13.65
Estimated Receipts :
One-half of Bottling Permits to State $ 20.00
$ 20.00
Total for General Government
$ 22,454.88
Protection of Persons and Property
Police Department :
Chief
$3,300.00
Deputy Chief
2,640.00
Day Patrol
2,640.00
Night Patrol
3,009.60
Special Police
3,144.27
Transportation for Chief
700.00
Extra Car Hire
127.00
Telephones
198.01
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Motorcycle Upkeep
16.65
Lights
14.00
Stationery and Postage
50.46
Printing
9.25
Sundry Items
48.19
$ 15,897.43
Chief's Office :
Rent
$240.00
Telephone and Toll Calls
32.04
Bicycle Registrations
12.00
Sundry
2.00
$ 286.04
Lockup:
Rent
$1,250.00
Care
240.00
Lights
45.03
Telephone
39.00
1,574.03 $
Tree Department :
Labor
$672.50
Trucks
100.00
Equipment
21.65
$ 794.15
Forest Fire Department :
Salary of Warden
$300.00
Labor
796.25
Telephone
22.30
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New Truck
4,500.00
New Hose
763.21
Equipment
43.85
Trucks and Lunches
79.99
Storage
16.00
Gas and Oil
28.21
Sundry Items
35.07
$ 6,584.88
Sealer of Weights and Measures:
Salary
$690.00
Transportation
99.96
Equipment and Supplies
25.90
Telephone
21.96
Stationery and Postage
2.28
$
840.10
Moth Department :
Labor
$525.80
Trucks
88.00
Spraying Trees
350.00
$ 963.80
Total for Protection of Persons and Property $26,940.43
Health Department
General Administration:
Salary of Board
$300.00
Salary of Clerk
220.00
Stationery and Postage
33.56
Printing and Advertising
33.16
Telephones
80.72
Sundry Items
45.63
$ 713.07
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Quarantine and Contagious Diseases :
Medical Attendance
$ 81.00
Hospital Care
80.89
$ 161.89
Tuberculosis :
County Hospital Maintenance
$622.59
Westfield State Hospital
1,237.50
Rutland State Hospital
546.00
Rutland Training Center
243.63
Tewksbury State Hospital
214.50
$ 2,864.22
Meat and Milk Inspection :
Meat
$120.00
Milk
416.90
$ 536.90
Toxin-Antitoxin
$100.00
$ 100.00
District Nurse
$1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
Vital Statistics :
Births
$213.00
Deaths
78.50
Marriages
69.00
$ 360.50
Total for Health Department . $ 5,736.58
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Highway Department
General Repairs :
Superintendent
$1,597.55
Clerk
360.00
Office Expenses
13.45
Labor
10,327.55
Grits, Gravel, etc.
516.17
Equipment and Repairs
2,474.79
Gas and Oil
867.75
Road Oil
495.97
Lights
143.06
Telephones
143.57
Sundry Items
52.07
$ 16,991.93
Snow Removal :
Superintendent
$425.00
Labor
3,554.65
Trucks
31.25
Equipment and Repairs
623.85
Gas and Oil
401.14
Sand
946.08
$ 5,981.97
Oiling Roads :
Superintendent
$241.25
Labor
1,514.45
Equipment and Repairs
2.65
Grits and Sand
748.20
Gas and Oil
660.30
Asphalt
2,833.02
$ 5,999.87
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Chapter 90 :
Superintendent
$249.00
Labor
1,789.55
Sand
362.70
Asphalt
598.58
$
2,999.83
Fox Street :
Superintendent
$ 30.00
Labor
103.65
Sand and Gravel
62.56
$ 196.21
Dublin Street :
Superintendent
$ 15.00
Labor
88.15
Sand and Gravel
31.88
Gas and Oil Asphalt
5.90
43.12
$
184.05
Sidewalks and Curbing :
Superintendent
$120.00
Labor
773.25
Colprovia
276.65
Gas and Oil
28.51
Cement
1.50
$ 1,199.91
Shearer Street Sewer: Superintendent Labor
$ 25.00 257.45
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Sand
6.50
Tile
63.60
Gas and Oil
4.04
$ 356.59
Sewer-Hill and Church Streets:
Superintendent
$130.00
Labor
816.85
Cement and Sand
26.00
Gas and Oil
4.75
Tile Pipe
313.72
Hose
7.75
1,299.07 $
Sewers and Culverts :
Superintendent
$228.85
Labor
1,674.05
Equipment.
278.97
Tile Pipe
79.11
Gas and Oil
36.97
Sundry Items
1.82
$
2,299.77
Sewer, Chestnut Street:
Superintendent
$ 15.00
Labor
181.40
Cement :
.75
Tile Pipe
94.80
Hose
7.75
$ 299.70
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Memorial Plots : Labor Equipment
$608.70 11.25
$ 619.95
Street Lighting :
Per Contract
$11,649.69
$ 11,649.69
Total for Highways
$50,078.54
Support of Poor
General Administration :
Salary of Board
$600.00
Salary of Secretary
1,210.00
Salary of Town Physician
500.00
Salary of Clerk
550.00
$ 2,860.00
Town Infirmary :
Salary of Warden
$1,500.00
Groceries and Provisions
1,545.54
Dry Goods and Clothing
121.35
Supplies
78.43
Fuel and Light
498.87
Transportation
39.50
Grain
319.00
Repairs
30.71
Telephones
43.24
Papers
14.37
Vetinary
29.00
Medicine
52.37
Sundry Items
67.14
1
$ 4,339.52
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Outside Poor :
Cash
$587.85
Clothing
94.71
Groceries and Provisions
1,278.36
Coal and Wood
187.46
Board and Care
1,668.59
Hospital Medicine and Medical Care
1,185.39
Rent
177.63
Transportation
64.00
Postage
9.00
Telephones
97.33
Sundry Items
50.32
5,400.64 $
Aid by Other Cities and Towns :
Cities
$790.75 256.92
Towns
$
1,047.67
Aid for State
$612.49
$ 612.49
Burial
$112.00
$ 112.00
Total for Support of Poor
$ 14,372.32
Old Age Assistance
General Administration :
Salary of Board
$300.00
Salary of Secretary
650.00
Salary of Clerk
460.00
$ 1,410.00
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Assistance :
Cash
$38,781.62
For other Cities and Towns
6,223.20
By other Cities and Towns
654.64
For State
12,005.32
Indirect Payments
1,702.21
Telephone
9.39
Sundry Items
388.55.
$ 59,764.93
Total for Old Age Assistance
$ 61,174.93
Aid to Dependent Children
General Administration :
Salary of Secretary
$330.00
Salary of Clerk
60.00
$ 390.00
Assistance :
Cash
$7,932.04
Equipment and Supplies
55.77
Transportation
13.00
Sundry Items
23.56
$ 8,024.37
Total for Aid to Dependent Children $ 8,414.37
Soldiers' Benefits
Soldiers' Relief :
Agent
$1,560.00
Cash
1,885.00
Fuel
282.21
Groceries and Provisions . 214.59
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Rent 734.50 Clothing 82.63
Hospital, Medicine and Medical Care
1,262.01
Sundry Items
79.11
$ 6,100.05
Burial of Soldiers or Sailors
200.00
$ 200.00
State Aid
$ 627.50
Military Aid
640.00
Soldiers' Burial
100.00
$ 1,367.50
Total for Soldiers' Benefits
$ 7,667.55
Veterans' Service Center
Clerks
$ 1,535.00
Telephones
97.94
Postage
22.31
Equipment and Repairs
39.18
Photostat Supplies
224.61
Sundry Items
147.37
Total for Veterans' Service Center $ 2,066.41
Education
General Administration :
Superintendent
$
5,165.52
Clerks
2,833.59
Truant Officers 170.00
Printing, Stationery and Postage
80.75
Telephones 411.80
55
Traveling Expenses Sundry Items
118.80 :
30.14
$
8,810.60
Teachers' Salaries :
High Elementary
$35,739.46 49,733.77
$85,473.23
Text Books and Supplies :
High
$3,247.46
Elementary
2,210.95
5,458,41 $
Transportation :
High
$5,832.00
Elementary
6,139.50
$ 11,971.50
Janitor Service :
High
$5,269.78 8,115.87
Elementary
$ 13,385.65
Fuel and Light:
High
Elementary
$2,997.98 5,120.44
$
8,118.42
Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds :
High Elementary
$1,246.13 1,467.46
$ 2,713.59
56
Furniture and Furnishings:
High
$210.32
$ 210.32
Other Expenses :
Band
$110.00
Physician and Nurse
2,866.00
Diplomas and Graduating Exercises
30.00
Miscellaneous Printing
202.84
Insurance
1,157.63
Sundry Items
1,191.79
$
5,558.26
Commercial :
Salaries
$6,227.00
Books
407.18
Supplies
122.92
Repairs
28.76
Sundry Items
158.46
$
6,944.32
Music, Manual Training and Drawing :
Salaries
$4,848.11
Equipment and Supplies
326.28
Books
361.83
Sundry Items
11.50
$ 5,547.72
Repairs :
High
$1,553.89
Elementary
711.84
$ 2,265.73
.
57
Adult Alien : Salaries Sundry Items
$1,201.60 5.90
$
1,207.50
Trade School :
Tuition
$1,909.42
1,909.42 $
Wennimessett School Repairs:
Superintendent
$83.75
Labor
300.85
Supplies and Equipment
32.69
Sundry Items
18.65
$ 435.94
Heating Sytem for Three Rivers Grammar School, per Contract $11,773.57
$ 11,773.57
Total for Education
$171,784.18
Young Men's Library Association
Per Agreement
$3,500.00
$ 3,500.00
Cemetery Department
Care and Maintenance:
Secretary
$150.00
Auto Hire
150.00
Labor
4,972.25
Colprovia and Cement
983.26
Gravel
81.58
58
Tools and Equipment
96.29
Trucks Gas and Oil
943.13
66.78
Sundry Items
56.48
$ 7,499.77
Neglected Graves :
Care and Maintenance
282.00
$ 282.00
Total for Cemeteries
$ 7,781.77
Legion Field and Eager Playground
Care and Maintenance :
Labor
$1,273.70
Equipment and Supplies
240.84
Lights
32.72
Water
37.88
Gasoline
13.48
Sundry Items
8.25
Total
1,606.87 $
Burleigh Park
Care and Maintenance :
Labor
$439.10
Clerical Work
25.00
Gasoline
3.45
Cement, Lumber, etc.
55.83
Total $ 523.38
Civilian Defense
Salary Clerk Janitor
$1,560.00 116.67 300.00
59
Telephone
134.39
Lights
8.19
Tin Can Collection
28.00
Equipment and Supplies
76.98
Sundry Items
27.90
Total
$ 2,252.13
Municipal Indebtedness
Wire Mill School Loan
$2,000.00
Municipal Relief Loan
3,000.00
Total
$ 5,000.00
Interest
On Maturing Debt:
Wire Mill School Loan
$160.00
Municipal Relief Loan
112.50
$ 272.50
On Trust Funds :
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds $861.73
$ 861.73
Total for Interest
$ 1,134.23
Agency and Trust
Agency :
State Tax
$9,248.00
County Tax
12,501.69
State Park and Reservations
260.01
State Audit
652.09
Dog Licenses for County
1,280.00
60
Trust :
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
1,625.00
Total for Agency and Trust $ 25,566.79
Refunds
On Real Estate Taxes
$61.90
On Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes
124.26
Total for Refunds
$ 186.16
Unclassified
State Census
$449.91
County Aid to Agriculture
50.00
Edward T. Goodreau Post
156.00
Engine House
1.00
Printing Town Reports
666.00
Memorial Day
250.00
Memorial Hall Repairs
111.91
General Insurance
859.37
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
1,029.70
Animal Inspection
300.00
Wing Memorial Hospital
39.45
Town Engineer
50.00
Total for Unclassified
$
3,963.34
Withholding Tax Deductions
$22,559.40
Total
$22,559.40
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Deductions
123.10
Total
$ 123.10
Grand Total
$444,887.36
Cash on Hand December 31, 1945
323,996.50
$768,883.86
61
Non-Revenue Accounts
Net Funded Debt Wire Mill School Loan
$8,000.00
$2,000.00
Municipal Relief Loan
$6,000.00
$8,000.00
$8,000.00
Trust Funds -
Cash and Securities
$46,794.28
Thompson Fund
$ 951.28
Merrick Fund
850.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
44,993.00
$46,794.28 $46,794.28
HARRIETTE PAINE
Bookkeeper
62
BALANCE SHEET FOR 1945
Appropriations, Grants, Refunds and Transfers
Amounts
Expended
Balance
Selectmen's Salary Acct. $1,600.00
$1,600.00
General Expenses
600.00
525.03
74.97
" Contingent
5,000.00
1,214.58
3,785.42
Auditing for 1944
90.00
90.00
Auditing for 1945
90.00
90.00
Accounting
1,980.00
1,980.00
Assessors' Salary
2,400.00
2,400.00
"
Clerk
1,544.40
1,544.40
"
General Expenses
800.00
792.53
7.47
Town Clerk's Salary
615.00
615.00
Town Clerk's Expenses
125.00
120.39
4.61
Town Clerk's Binding Records
50.00
50.00
Collector's Salary -
Previous Years 1945
1,900.00
1,710.00
190.00
Collector's Clerk
1,040.00
1,040.00
"
Bond and Other Expenses
895.00
700.88
194.12
Treasurer's Salary
2,220.00
2,220.00
" Clerical Hire
400.00
300.00
100.00
Bond and Other Expenses
700.00
677.14
22.86
Tax Title Foreclosure
60.00
60.00
Election and Registration 2,000.00
1,065.30
934.70
Law and Claim
1,500.00
910.00
590.00
License Commissioners
150.00
87.14
62.86
Town Offices
1,966.00
1,965.30
.70
Town House
100.00
83.54
16.46
Town Dump
780.00
780.00
Chief of Police
3,300.00
3,300.00
380.00
380.00
63
Appropriations, Grants, Refunds and Transfers
Amounts Expended
Balance
Deputy Chief
2,640.00
2,640.00
Day Patrol
2,640.00
2,640.00
Additional Day Patrol
1,234.00
1,234.00
Night Patrol
3,009.60
3,009.60
Special Patrol
4,000.00
3,144.27
855.73
Chief's Office
336.00
272.04
63.96
Lockup, Care, Rent, Fuel 1,630.00
1,581.27
48.73
Transportation of Chief
700.00
700.00
Car Hire
150.00
127.00
23.00
Motorcycle Upkeep
200.00
16.65
183.35
Bicycle Registration
25.00
12.00
13.00
Police Other Expenses
350.00
314.67
35.33
Forest Fires
2,000.00
1,321.67
678.33
Forest Fire Hose
763.21
763.21
New Fire Truck
4,500.00
4,500.00
Moth Department
1,000.00
963.80
36.20
Tree Department
800.00
794.15
5.85
Sealer's Salary
690.00
690.00
" Other Expenses
160.00
150.10
9.90
Salaries of Board of Health
300.00
300.00
Salaries Board of
Health Clerk
220.00
220.00
Tuberculosis and
Dangerous Diseases
3,521.00
2,596.59
924.41
Meat and Milk Inspection
550.00
536.90
13.10
Toxin-Antitoxin
100.00
100.00
Vital Statistics
500.00
360.50
139.50
District Nurse
1,000.00
1,000.00
Highway Repairs
17,000.00
16,991.93
8.07
Snow Removal
5,981.97
5,981.97
Snow Grader
6,500.00
6,500.00
Oiling Roads
6,000.00
5,999.87
.13
64
Appropriations, Grants, Refunds and Transfers
Amounts Expended
Balance
Chap. 90 Roads -
Maint.
3,000.00
2,999.83
.17
Dublin Street
184.15
184.05
.10
Fox Street
196.47
196.21
.26
Sewers and Culverts
2,300.00
2,299.77
.23
Shearer Street Sewer
357.25
356.59
.66
Chestnut Street Sewer
300.00
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