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Town Water bonds,
$50,000 00
Less amount of Sinking Fund, 2,072 14
Balance,
$47,927 86
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
Paid Haydenville Savings Bank,
$189 83
Water Commissioners, 98 00
Interest on I. F. Baker legacy,
10 50
66 on Town bonds, 2,000 00
-
$2,298 33
Appropriation,
$300 00
Received interest on deposit,
39 60
66 " over due taxes,
50 68
Raised by assessment, 2,000 00
- -$2,390 28
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ACCOUNT WITH DISTRICT COURT.
Received on account of fines,
$111 00
Paid Samuel J. Edwards, fees,
$44 88
Reuben Bell,
18 31
William G. Nicholl, 66
5 14
Henry A. Bisbee, 66
4 97
$73 30
STATE AID ACCOUNT.
Paid George H. Ames,
$48 00
Myron Ames,
72 00
Agnes M. Adams,
48 00
William S. Brown,
48 00
Egesta S. Black,
48 00
Willis Guilford,
48 00
Emily L. Hill,
48 00
Edwin J. House,
20 00
Robert P. Loud,
20 00
Lyman W. Parsons,
48 00
Jane Richardson,
48 00
William F. Rhood,
24 00
Olive Warner,
48 00
Mary D. Smith,
42 00
Eliza McCaffrey,
32 00
Mary E. Higgins,
4 00
$646 00
DOGS.
115 males at $2.00,
$230 00
5 females at $5.00,
25 00
$255 00
Less fees,
24 00
$231 00
Paid County Treasurer,
$231 00
Respectfully submitted, HENRY W. HILL, Treasurer.
Town Clerk's Report.
BIRTHS IN 1905.
Jany. 9. Ralph Loomis.
20. Katherine A. Phillips.
Feby. 6. Edward L. O'Brien.
7. Ben Kmit.
24. Iola Bates.
Mar.
16. Margaret Lucy Heath.
17. Mary Demerski.
31. Francisek Mesorski.
April 9. Wladislau Mahora.
23. Ernest Sarto Lupien.
May 9. John Victor Shaver.
June 6. Ruth Ellen Smart.
22. Joseph Paul Duseau.
Aug.
17. Margaret Trainor.
31. Alice U. Paul.
- Jergensen.
Sept.
31. 5. Esther Jondreau.
23. Edward McCaffrey.
24. Olive Prince.
25. Mary Margaret Kearney.
Oct.
4. Harold Frederick Hosford.
5. John Clarence Gilbert Schofield.
8. William Miller Watson.
13. Morin.
17. Marshall Carr Dewey.
22. Raymond L. Morrissey.
32. Ralph Edwin Brewer.
30. - - Ryan.
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Nov. 10. Eldora Belle Wait.
10. Gladys Dorella Ball.
10 Joseph Charles Ball.
10 Chester Ward Cross.
10 Edmond Babineau.
22. Margaret Sarah Kempkis.
27. Mary Elizabeth Wells.
Dec.
9.
Thomas F. McCarthy.
30. Mary Burke.
MARRIAGES IN 1905.
Jan. 18. Stephen Burke,
Williamsburg.
Mabel Mahoney,
May 22. Andrzei Antosz,
66
Agnes Zolenia, 66
66
June 14. Robert P. Purrington, Ethel May Spencer,
22. Carroll F. White, Myrtle B. Ingraham,
Williamsburg. Northampton. Williamsburg. 66 Northampton. Williamsburg. 66
66
DEATHS IN 1905.
Date.
Name.
yrs. m. d.
Jan. 1. Mary Grace Christopher,
76
14. Joseph Morrill,
34
22. Margaret H. Pomeroy,
45
Feb. 12. Onslow G. Spelman,
83
5
15. Dewey Williams,
84
8
28
28. Maria Lawrence,
70
3
25
Mar. 27. Howard W. Loomis,
35
2
5
30. Catherine Hickey,
37
10
Oct.
5. Frank Boekneck, Nellie Dolegu,
Chesterfield.
Sept. 13. Dennis F. Lee, Jennie M. Warner,
14. Frank C. Buffum, Rhoda V. Evans,
12
Apr. 1. Eliza Ann Cole,
80
5 23
10. Idalette L. Longley,
45
2 10
17. Abner Damon,
67
23
May 1. Mari Wells,
75
10
1
15. William F. Rhood,
79
11
21
27. Frank McCaffery,
47
June 6. Susan Alice Williams,
75
10
27
6. Merilla King Kingsley,
85
6
15. Frank Lester Carr,
46
8 15
21. Frank M. Holmes,
69
July 29. John Mahoney,
47
31. Charles Goodale,
35
21. Jane Connell,
79
16
Aug. 5. Frank Dunlavey,
26
22. Francis E. Porter,
62
8
Sept. 7. Rollin N. Brown,
61
3
5
9. Mary Munyan Purrington,
64
9 30
17. Margaret Fenton,
54
21. Maylen Prince,
40
23. Joseph Fenton,
32
Oct. 13.
Infant daughter Philip Morin, M. J. Ryan,
48
5
31.
Don Juan Dean,
56
4 15
Nov. 23.
Thomas Dehey,
70
26. Abbie T. Mack,
22
29. Navick Demerski,
3
4
Dec.
3. Ellen O'Brien,
95
6. Hiram G. Hill,
65
5 14
11.
Amadee Brais,
38
12. Mary Coogan,
65
24. Jacob H. Hills,
50
4
4
30 Theron L. Barrus,
76
4
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY W. HILL, Town Clerk.
30.
30
Ida May Stebbins,
31. Infant son of S. Jergensen,
Selectmen's Report.
To the Citizens of Williamsburg :-
Your Selectmen herewith present their report for the year ending February 1st, 1906.
The expenses of the town have been kept within the appropriations with the exceptions of the highway, contin- gent, and Soldiers' relief accounts. Your Selectmen over- ran the amount available for the highway account owing to the falling off of the Street Railway franchise and excise taxes, and the contingent account owing to the falling off of the National Bank and Corporation taxes. On account of the serious illness of Mrs. Emily Hill, it was necessary to exceed the amount available for the Soldiers' relief account.
In carrying out the vote of the town at its last annual meeting, your Selectmen appointed Hallock H. Nichols as general surveyor of highways, and the efficient manner in which he has performed his duties in this capacity we are sure will meet the hearty approval of all.
An unusual amount of new material has been carted on to the roads in general the past season, greatly to their improvement.
An opportunity was offered by the Haydenville Co. to obtain a large quantity of gravel for our highways, free of charge.
This was accepted by your Selectmen and a large amount of this gravel was carted on to a section of road in the vil- lage of Haydenville, beginning at the spur track of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. and continuing to the watering tank. By the generosity of the Village Improvement Soci-
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ety, and a number of the citizens of Haydenville, this work was continued from the watering tank to the Church corner making a fine hard road, also a great improvement to the Village which we are sure will be greatly appreciated by all.
At a special meeting of the town held May 4th it was voted to establish voting precincts in the town. In the car- rying out of this vote your Selectmen divided the town into two suitable voting precincts, which were used for the first time in the fall State Election, to the general approval of the voters.
It was also voted at said meeting to build a sidewalk in the village of Haydenville, beginning near the residence of Daniel Sheehan, and continuing to the Northampton city line. This vote has been carried out by the laying of tile, and the grading and building of a gravel and cinder walk, much to the convenience of the citizens of this part of the village.
APPROPRIATIONS, 1905.
Schools,
$4,300 00
Superintendent,
375 00
Text-books and supplies,
450 00
General repairs,
300 00
Tuition,
275 00
Sanitary improvements,
100 00
Highways,
1,200 00
Memorial Day,
50 00
Poor,
1,200 00
Contingent,
800 00
Interest,
300 00
Soldiers' Relief,
225 00
Sidewalks,
500 00
Fire Department,
700 00
Sinking Fund,
1,000 00
Watering tanks and hydrants,
800 00
Street lights,
1,150 00
Library,
100 00
- $13,825 00 ---
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HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES. HALLOCK H. NICHOLS, SUP'T.
Paid E. P. Hemenway, labor,
$34 27
C. A. L. Patch,
10 24
Frank Loomer,
66
76 17
John Ice,
66
71 15
P. J. Kelley, 66
5 33
E. J. House,
66
1 35
John Alvord,
66
90
Aleck Barsafkey,
66
18 00
H. D. Waite, 66
66
20 63
66 for railing,
2 32
James P. Ryan,
labor,
9 75
William O'Neil,
4 00
Earl Edwards,
1 15
T. J. Ryan,
66
6 75
F. A. Shumway,
66
93 00
W. I. Thayer,
66
50
Richard O'Brien,
66
4 50
William O'Brien,
66
53 31
W. H. Warner,
55 06
66
for railing,
5 00
Charles Church,
labor,
3 00
John Black,
66
48 99
John Kinney,
24 77
Reuben Bates,
66
25 50
Edward Brady,
4 50
J. S. Graves,
66
47 65
John Gezer,
66
2 10
H. C. Nash,
1 30
John O'Neil,
66
13 80
W. Harris,
66
12 67
Eusebe Gongeon,
4 50
L. Dolan, gravel and
4 27
Almon Everett,
11 50
Rufus Miner,
66
10 57
Thomas Culver, gravel,
2 40
16
Paid John Wade,
labor,
$10 20
W. E. Pillinger,
66
17 50
Harry Drake,
6 00
Lewis Vacheli,
66
13 00
Carl Weston,
66
7 24
Earnest Kinney,
66
1 09
C. R. Damon,
10 50
66 sundries,
14 29
C. K. Merritt, labor,
5 00
J. J. Handfield, blacksmithing,
1 05
R. D. Ames, labor,
21 50
G. M. Bradford, 66
89 00
bridge plank, 282 29
Climax Road Mach. Co.,scraper blades, 10 00
H. H. Nichols, labor and material, 272 07
Metcalf & Sheehan, sundries, 6 08
H. W. Hill, freight on Akron pipe, 5 28
Shumway & Riley, Akron pipe, 41 80 Norwood Engineering Co., sewer grates, 8 37 Frank Richardson, labor, 19 65
George Brazil,
12 60
Oscar Walker,
4 50
George LaCane,
9 75
Fred Wagner,
12 00
Tom Wodena,
4 50
J. Vachelli,
4 50
Dennis Brazil,
55 14
Frank Wells,
31 50
H. H. Cranson,
66
15 75
F. E. Sanderson,
66
4 83
P. Richards,
66
60
J. M. Williams,
66
13 12
George A. Thresher,
66
50 28
A. G. Cone, paint,
2 50
R. Trainor,
labor,
40 00
M. N. Adams,
66
28 70
Willard Williams,
66
25 45
17
Paid Henry Simeneau, labor,
$4 50
A. L. Waite, 66
8 25
J. Fountain, 66
4 50
M. Phillips, 66
4 50
Mrs. Duggan, material,
5 00
Graves Bros., labor and material,
6 50
George Dansreau, labor,
21 00
C. S. Damon,
11 83
Harry Forsythe, 66
4 00
S. A. Clark,
3 50
S. La'Madlin, 66
1 40
H. N. Brewster & Co., Akron pipe,
1 08
F. L. Guilford, gravel and labor,
104 44
J. E. Welch, labor,
3 00
J. B. Welch,
66
3 00
C. W. Warner,
17 50
Cyrille Babineau
3 00
John Dumphy, 66
1 56
Edward Black,
1 50
Joseph Davenport, 66
4 25
$2,063 02
AVAILABLE FOR HIGHWAYS.
Town appropriation,
$1,200 00
Street Railway Franchise Tax, 384 15
66 66 Excise
304 48
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$1,888 63
Appropriation recommended,
$1,200 00
SIDEWALK ACCOUNT.
Paid J. L. Mather's bill for sidewalks,'03, $583 04
$ 583 04
Appropriation, $200 00
2
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SPECIAL WALK IN HAYDENVILLE.
Paid William O'Brien, labor,
$33 47
Dennis Brazill, 66
18 83
M. Phillips,
16 50
Edward Brady, 66
14 14
Frank Loomer, 66
21 83
Patrick Kearney,
4 98
Howard Tennyson,
5 83
H. H. Nichols,
88 21
E. A. Warner,
7 25
G. M. Bradford, 66
20 61
66 66 chestnut lumber,
6 02
Shumway & Riley, Akron pipe,
59 68
Joseph Fountain, labor,
3 00
H. W. Hill, freight on Akron pipe, 3 69
M. D. Patteson, engineering, 5 90
$309 94
REPAIRING WALKS IN WILLIAMSBURG.
Paid Frank Loomer, labor,
$ 1 50
H. H. Nichols, 66
12 75
Frank Wells,
3 50
Dennis Brazill, 66
4 50
William O'Brien, 66
4 50
H. G. Hill, gravel,
3 25
$30 00
REPAIRING WALKS IN HAYDENVILLE.
Paid Frank Loomer, labor,
$1 50
H. H. Nichols, 66
3 25
Dennis Brazill, 66
1 50
C. S. Damon, gravel,
1 25
C. R. Damon, cement,
5 20
$12 70
$352 64
Appropriation, $500 00
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EXPENDITURES UNDER CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
Paid Walter Thayer, Ballot Clerk, $2 50
J. J. Morrissey,
66 66
2 50
Hubert Smith,
66
66
2 50
J. R. Mansfield, 66 66 2 50
F. C. Richards, Moderator, 2 50
C. W. Fay, sundries,
4 40
J. A. Sullivan, cement,
3 50
The Wakefield Daily Item, printing,
4 55
Byron Loomis, team, 2 00
J. L. Fairbanks & Co., vagrant register,3 00
W. M. Purrington, insurance,
73 50
Sanford Putnam & Co., field books and legal blanks, 6 00
C. R. Damon, surveying plank,
1 00
L. A. Morrissey, labor on lockup,
2 00
H. H. Nichols,
66
2 75
G. P. O'Donnell, legal services,
30 00
R. F. Burke, labor and material,
Town Hall,
3 25
C. W. Warner, labor and material, Town Hall, 12 45
Mercury Pub. Co., posters, 1 00
F. A. Brooks, team Miller's
fire,
3 25
" McCallman's "
5 00
M. D. Patteson, engineering, and making plans, 17 50
E. A. Warner, labor, drinking fount,
1 00
R. F. Burke, Collector 1904, 125 00
Gazette Printing Co., printing, 56 20
T. I. Breckenridge, coal for lockup,
1 13
E. A. Warner, labor on
66
50
W. M. Cochran & Co., tax collector's . bond, 12 00
W. H. Leonard, watching fire,
2 75
Prosper Lussier, 66 1 25
20
M. H. Beals,
precinct officer A,
$2 50
F. E. White,
66
66
2 50
W. H. Thayer,
66
66
66
2 50
Adelbert Bailey,
€
66
66
2 50
A. P. Miller,
66
66
66
2 50
J. D. Staab,
66
66
2 50
F. P. Crosby,
2 50
Harry Warner,
66
66
B,
2 50
W. S. Smith,
2 50
J. R. Mansfield,
66
66
66
2 50
M. E. Riley,
66
66
66
2 50
J. J. Morrissey,
66
66
2 50
H. C. Pomeroy,
66
66
66
2 50
M. J. Cusick,
66
66
66
2 50
H. A. Smith,
66
66 and
expenses, 3 00
H. C. Pomeroy, tree warden, 30 00
F. A. Brooks, express, 4 00
Haydenville Hose Co., Williamsburg Engine House fire, 15 40
Haydenville Hose Co., Pomeroy's and Brass Shop fires, 5 20
Bridgman & Lyman, records, 2 00
C. L. Hyde, watching fire, 1 00
E. L. Shaw, legal services 1904-5, 65 75
J. M. Williams, labor, Town Hall, 70
Metcalf & Sheehan, sundries, lockup, 1 20
Samuel Edwards, special police, 75 00
L. Molloy, Selectman, Assessor, Over- seer of Poor, 100 00
L. Molloy, sundries, 2 74
H. S. Leonard, Selectman, Assessor, Overseer of Poor, 100 00
C. S. Damon, Selectman, Assessor, Overseer of Poor, 125 00
C. S. Damon, sundries, 12 03
A. S. Hills, School Committee, 75 00
66
66
66
21
E. H. Miller, School Committee, $75 00
Mrs. F. Bisbee,“ 66 55 00
M. H. Beals, Elector, 10 00
S. Jorgensen, Registrar, 5 00
C. A. Phillips,
66
5 00
H. E. Bradford,
66
5 00
H. H. Nichols, Inspector of animals, 30 00 H. S. Leonard, renewing bound. stone, 2 00 Selectmen, for 6 day's perambulating town lines, 21 00
Williamsburg Hose Co., Miller's fire, 7 70
C. R. Damon, sundries,
62
John Black, labor on lockup, 1 50
Williamsburg Hose Co., Polmatier's fire, 6 80
H. H. Nichols, labor on waste water in Haydenville, 4 25
Dennis Brazill,
66
66
3 00
William O'Brien, 66 3 00
Thomas P. Larkin, Auditor,
3 00
G. M. Bradford,
3 00
C. R. Damon, glass, 50
H. A. Bisbee, labor and material,
8 50
66 services as Constable, 23 70
66 66 66 Janitor, 15 00
66 66
66 Special Police,25 00
C. S. Damon, services with State Aid visitor, 2 00 Henry W. Hill, services as Town Clerk and Treasurer, 125 00
Henry W. Hill, services as Registrar 1904 and 1905, 15 00
Henry W. Hill, sundries,
13 80
66 " recording births, deaths and marriages, 28 30
R. F. Burke, sundry abatement 1904
taxes,
127 92
$1,666 09
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AVAILABLE FOR CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
Appropriation,
$800 00
National Bank tax,
636 64
Corporation
120 63
Rent of Town Hall,
23 00
Balance District Court fines,
37 70
Sundry licenses and articles sold,
12 00
Compensation of Inspector of animals,
13 50
Appropriation recommended,
$800 00
and State Corporation and Bank Tax.
PAUPER ACCOUNT. EXPENDITURES.
For Ellen O'Brien, deceased,
$180 50
Salome Warner,
155 44
Mrs. Anna Loomis,
29 01
William Naven, deceased,
14 00
James H. Nichols,
14 75
George Cheney,
72
Mrs. F. Montgomery,
15 75
Mrs. Mary L. Thayer,
131 44
Mrs. Bridget Dehey,
30 00
Mrs. Henry Grise,
10 00
Miss Johanna Keating,
48 00
Miss Gertrude Sluett,
1 25
Thomas Dehey, deceased,
90 00
Edmund Fowler,
10 08
Richard Keating,
6 57
Mrs. Nancy Jordan,
35 43
James Wright,
20 86
$793 80
AVAILABLE FOR PAUPER ACCOUNT.
Appropriation,
$1,200 00
Transportation of Paupers, 3 30
4 19
Temporary support
$1,207 49
$1,643 47
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SOLDIERS' RELIEF.
Paid Myron Ames,
$90 00
Mrs. Emily Hill,
267 24
$357 24
AMOUNT AVAILABLE.
Appropriation,
$225 00
Received from Mrs. Hill, 96 00
$321 00
Appropriation recommended, $225 00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Paid Combination Ladder Co., for hose and fixtures, $432 43
D. T. Clark, labor and supplies,
17 03
66
hose wagon, 43 50
66 sundries, 9 03
M. S. Harris, slating engine house in Haydenville, 50 00
Williamsburg Hose Co., 20 men, 40 00
Haydenville 66
47 66 94 00
Larkin Bros., coats and boots for Haydenville Hose Co., 26 00
C. R. Damon, coats and boots for
Williamsburg Hose Co., 22 00
Nonotuck Silk Co., ladder hooks, 2 50
Graves Bros., lettering coats and boots, 2 15
James M. Baker, Gladding spanners, 6 00
L. A. Morrissey, labor and material Engine house, Haydenville, 1 57
Wm. C. Pomeroy & Co., for 2 ladders, 10 02
$756 26
AMOUNT AVAILABLE.
Appropriation, $700 00 Sale of old metal, 86 17
$786 17
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MEMORIAL DAY.
Paid H. S. Leonard, committee, Appropriation, $50 00
$50 00
LIST OF JURORS NOMINATED BY SELECTMEN.
Fred C. Miller,
Alvin Lawrence, Frank L. Bisbee,
Clesson W. Bradley,
Michael Cusick,
Thomas Coogan,
Patrick J. Kelley,
Clarence D. Loomis,
Philip Mansfield,
Richard J. O'Neil,
Prescott W. Richards,
George E. Tennyson,
John Linehan,
Silas Snow,
Charles L. Hyde,
Michael Shea,
Philip Moran,
Roderick D. Ames,
Edwin F. Miller,
James Morrissey.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLLS S. DAMON. LAWRENCE MOLLOY, of
Selectmen
HENRY S. LEONARD, Williamsburg.
ALMONERS OF WHITING STREET FUND.
Amount received, $240 00
Paid 48 beneficiaries, $5 each, 240 00
Respectfully submitted,
SUSIE M. CROSBY, F. A. BROOKS, Almoners, MICHAEL E. RILEY,
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SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS.
LIABILITIES.
1905.
March 1, Balance on hand at last
report,
$1,000 00
Int. on deposit Haydenville Sav Bank, 35 30
July 25, Town Treasurer,
1,000 00
1906.
Jan. Interest on deposit,
16 84
" bond,
20 00
$2,072 14
ASSETS.
Williamsburg bond No. 50,
$1,072 98
Deposit at Haydenville Sav. Bank, 999 16
$2,072 14
BYRON LOOMIS, C. J. HILLS,
W. M. PURRINGTON,
Commissioners.
Report of Street Lighting Committee. 1
Town appropriation at the March meeting for lights, $1,000 00
Town appropriation at the March meeting for renewals, 50 00
Town appropriation at the March meeting for renewals 1903, 1904, 150 00
The following sums were expended, lights for Feb. and March $171.70, $26.15 for new renewals 1905, and $150.00 for old renewals 1903 and 1904, leaving a balance of the $1,000.00 for lights, of $828.30. The above sum of $171.70 was spent pending a settlement between the street light committee and the Electric Light Company. The conditions of the vote taken at the above meeting were, that the Company furnish 80 lights to burn until midnight. This the Company refused to do. With the sanction of the selectmen, the committee agreed to pay for the month of March at the old rate $85.85, thinking perhaps the Com- pany would accept the town's terms at the expiration of the month. This they did not do, and the streets were in dark- ness after April 1st, all bills having been paid as aforesaid to that date. The streets having been in darkness for sev- eral weeks, a special Town Meeting was called May 4th, and a motion to rescind the former vote of $1,000.00 (or $828.30 balance left of the $1,000.00). A new motion to appropriate $1,000.00 for street lights was carried. To the old committee of three, four names were added. This com- mittee was given full power to expend the $1,000.00; also, should they see fit to make a three years' contract with the Electric Light Co. The following contract was made :
This indenture witnesseth an agreement between the Mill River Electric Light Company a corporation located in Williamsburg, Mass., and the Inhabitants of Town of
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Williamsburg, Mass., for the lighting of the streets of Williamsburg and Haydenville as follows :
The said Mill River Electric Light Company agrees to light seventy-five incandescent lights of thirty-two candle power each, and one enclosed arc light of 1200 candle power, from dark until 12 o'clock midnight on what is com- monly known as the " Moonlight schedule."
The said service shall be given and continued from June 1st 1905 to April 1st 1906.
In consideration of the foregoing service well and truly to be performed, the said Inhabitants agree to pay the said Company ten hundred dollars in ten monthly install- ments of one hundred dollars each.
In witness whereof the two parties to this agreement hereunto set their hands and seals this 19th day of May in the year nineteen hundred and five.
The Committee thought best to make the contract to April 1st, so that the town would be assured of lights until after the annual meeting in March. The committee report the following sum expended from the time the contract was made until February 1st 1906, as $806.00; the $6.00 being for all night service July 3d, leaving a balance unexpended of the $1,000.00, of $194.00, and a total for the year includ- ing $50.00 for 1905 renewals of $1,030.70. Provision should be made for the payment of balance of the contract amounting to $200.00, for the months of February and . March, 1906.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES C. CONNELL, CHARLES A. PHILLIPS, F. W. THAYER, HIRAM G. HILL, S. A. EWING,
C. W. FAY,
R. F. BURKE,
Committee on Lights.
REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES.
The trustees of the Haydenville Public Library present the seventh annual report of that institution as given below.
We are glad to be able to state that it is in good shape to carry on the work it has done so efficiently since its inception nearly twenty years ago by the young people of the village who were bound to have a library, and who by earnest work brought it into successful operation as an institution, and by continual endeavor made it an element of the village life that always tended for the best intellec- tual good of the public.
A high standard regarding the qualities of the books placed on the shelves of the library has always been main- tained, first, by a very careful selection of the books, the committee usually reading all books where there was any reason to think it necessary, and a number of books have been withdrawn from circulation from time to time as found best for the interests of the library to do so; and secondly, by confining the purchases of books to a large extent, among the better known authors, and reducing the chances of filling the shelves with trash or something worse.
Since the library has belonged to the town, the same care has been used, and your committee can safely say that the library is a general means of reading and study to the whole village.
We have received during the year a few volumes by gift from Mrs. Charles Francis, who has always been very gen- erous to the library in this respect.
We have added by purchase about seventy-five volumes, including novels, travel, biography, and some valuable works of reference, among them being an Unabridged Dic-
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tionary, and a fine illustrated work on Medicine, also the new volume of Stoddard's lectures, a readable book on the Panama Canal problem, and another on the Japanese- Russian war, and a number of the latest and best works of fiction, are among the additions just made.
The year just closed has been as successful as usual, and nearly every family of the village have made continuous use of the books for their reading, as well as the upper grades of the public schools using them for reference and study helps.
Under the efficient care of our librarian and his assistant all comers are cordially received, and their wants carefully attended to, and their books selected for them if they so desire.
During the rains of the past fall and winter the roof began leaking badly, and we had it patched but this has proved unsatisfactory even as a makeshift, and we would recommend an extra appropriation for this purpose.
Aside from this, the building is in good shape, and the property fairly insured for several years to come.
THOMAS J. COOGAN,
R. A. COLE,
Committee.
A. R. THATCHER,
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Balance on hand,
$ 1 26
Town appropriation,
100 00
$101 26
EXPENDED.
For books, magazines,
$45 00
Librarian and assistant,
25 00
Premium on insurance policy,
11 90
Fourteenth volume Stoddard lectures,
3 00
Vol. on medicine, and dictionary,
10 50
Postage, car fare, stationery, express-
age, repairs, 3 67
99 07
Balance on hand,
2 19
$101 26
WATER COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance cash on hand previous report, $5,531 20
Rec'd for water rents, 1,202 73
Iron pipe sold, 2 87
Pipe reel returned,
2 25
Interest on deposit,
88 40
on town note,
98 00
Service connections,
363 00
Rent of hydrants, etc.,
800 00
On town note,
2,000 00
--- $10,088 45
EXPENDITURES.
Paid for repairs and maintenance, $133 52
Labor, plumbing and material, 502 58
Expenses in Vaughn suit, 304 73
H. W. Hill, Treas., town loan, 3,000 00 66 66 cash, 2,000 00
Rebate on water rents,
3 75
Balance cash on hand, 4,143 87
- - $10,088 45
Respectfully submitted,
A. S. HILLS, J. W. HILL,
$ Water Commissioners. F. A. BROOKS,
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
For the Year ending February 1st, 1906.
To the Citizens of Williamsburg :
We herewith submit our Annual Report and the report to us of the Superintendent (with statistics and calendar for coming school year and program of last graduating- day exercises), report of the Music Teacher, Truant officers and Committee Treasurer.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The High Schools have been in session forty (40) weeks, all others thirty-six (36) weeks.
The South Street School was closed at the beginning of the school year, the pupils being transported to the Center School.
Transportation is being paid for eleven (11) pupils, from Haydenville, who attend the High School in Williamsburg.
In accordance with Sect. 3, Chap. 42 of the Revised Laws, tuition is now being paid for pupils attending Northampton High School unless a full course has been completed in the Williamsburg High School.
The total outlay for our schools gradually increases over a period of years, and will continue to increase so long as the State Board of Education introduce new requirements demanding the employment of broader educated and better paid teachers, more school apparatus and a greater variety of text books.
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While the amounts recommended by the Committee to be appropriated grow larger, yet it should be borne in mind as stated in our report last year, that we support a larger number of school rooms in proportion to our population than many other towns whose valuation considerably exceeds ours. The proper standard by which to judge whether school expenditures are excessive, is the propor- tion of amount raised by taxation to the valuation of the town.
Larger appropriations mean more competent teachers, better accommodations, and as a result a higher standard of scholarship among the pupils, and later on a more intel- ligent citizen body.
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