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At the close of the winter term, Miss Goold, who had taught at the South School for some years, resigned the position and was succeeded by Miss Smith, who taught through the spring term. There being evident need of more control over the pupils in their conduct when outside of the school-house than a woman could be expected to exercise, it was decided to transfer Mr. Drake from the North School, where he had taught with success, to the South, the effect of which has been salutary in a marked degree, and although the school is much larger than any other in town, it gives evidence of faithful and diligent care and commendable ability on the part of the teacher.
A teacher for the North School being required in the autumn, the position was given to Miss Andrews, who has fully satisfied the Committee of her fitness for the position. The school is in excellent order in all respects.
Continued sickness in several families in the east part of the town in the winter and spring greatly reduced the number of pupils in the East School in the early part of the year. After many fruitless efforts to secure the attendance of two children properly belonging to the East School, it became necessary to apply the law which resulted in their attendance for nearly twenty weeks in the winter and spring terms ;
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one of these two has attended school through the autumn term; the other has left town.
Good order and commendable progress have been marked the past year in this school.
The Centre School, in charge of Miss Chapin, is now larger than at any former period, and fully sustains its former credit for good order and progress.
Expense for repairs upon school-buildings has been small. The roof of the South school-house has required slight repair.
To prevent the action of frost upon the foundation of the High school-house and the water-pipes, a stove has been placed in the cellar to be used in extreme weather. Moreover, it is advisable, in view of possi- ble harm to the foundation wall of the High school- house, that gutters and conductors be provided to carry the water from the roof away from the building.
Some means should be devised to insure the better heating of this house in extreme weather, as the present arrangement is inadequate and exposure dan- gerous to the health of the pupils is an unavoidable result. Double windows would greatly add to the comfort while the economy in fuel would pay a hand- some dividend on the cost.
Within the summer vacation, all the school-books were gathered for examination. Many were much worn and soiled. Favorable propositions for an exchange of books were made by various publishers, and it was considered advisable. Two new series of readers were adopted in exchange for the old. All old and new books were newly covered, and the record of all books, (which had lapsed) was revised and cor- rected. The books were all in such condition at the
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opening of the autumn term that any abuse to them would be readily recognized, and the pupils duly cau- tioned to keep them in good condition, which injunc- tion has been duly observed. The effect of posting a copy of the laws forbidding injury or defacement of the school-buildings is still entirely satisfactory. Upon inquiry, at the commencement of the autumn term, several pupils were found who had not been vaccin- ated; the requirements of the law were willingly com- plied with and all continued in school.
The foregoing statements briefly present, with as near an approach to accuracy as is possible, the more important facts pertaining to our schools. As indices of improvement in attendance at school, your Com- mittee view them with a measure of satisfaction, showing, as they do, the result of their continued effort in that direction. This has been largely effected by the adoption of a rule requiring weekly reports from the several teachers to our Secretary, of all absentees and all tardy pupils, with the cause assigned. If not satisfactory, the parent or guardian of the pupils has been prompted to a correction of the default. Yet we find no opportunity to rest from our labors in this direction, as the inclination of many parents is to relapse into indifference to duty to their children, and the privileges of education. "It requires but little ex- perience in the instruction of children and youth to convince any one that the only means which will assure progress in their studies, is to secure their constant attendance and the faithful application of their mental powers to the studies in which they are engaged.
If the mind of the pupil be not open to instruction, vain will be all effort of the teacher to lead him in the
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path of knowledge. This opening of the mind in children is accomplished by interesting them in their studies. But how can this be done if they are absent two or three days in each week, with recitations omitted and lessons unlearned, at the caprice or indif- ference of parent or child ?
To interest a child he must be made to understand the instruction given him, otherwise you do but feed him on chaff which he cannot appreciate.
If he has failed of preparation in prior lessons, he will not understand those that follow; and if required to learn both the lessons of yesterday and those of today, he will fail and become discouraged ; inevitably his interest flags and he loses all confidence in himself and is unable to apply his mind to the studies marked out for him. The rule requiring constant and prompt attendance, is for the good of the pupil and to secure the very objects contemplated by the law in the estab- lishing of public schools. These are, therefore, reason- able and proper requirements."
In conclusion, your committee earnestly solicits the cooperation of all citizens in their efforts to secure the fullest and most constant attendance at school, of all children of school age. As the incidental expenditure of late years has unavoidably exceeded the appro- priation, we respectfully ask that the appropriation be relatively increased.
GEORGE FLINT, JAMES H. FARRAR, ? School Committee. MOSES W. KIDDER,
Muss Ellen Wheeler
REPORT OF THE FFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN,
From Feb. 1, 1888, to Feb. 1, 1889.
ALSO, THE
Report of the School Committee,
FOR THE SCHOOL-YEAR 1888-89.
BOSTON : " WASHINGTON PRESS :" GEO. E. CROSBY & CO., PRINTERS, 383 WASHINGTON STREET. 1889.
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN,
From Feb. 1, 1888, to Feb. 1, 1889.
ALSO, THE
Report of the School Committee,
FOR THE SCHOOL-YEAR 1888-89.
BOSTON : "WASHINGTON PRESS :" GEO. E. CROSBY & CO., PRINTERS. 383 WASHINGTON STREET, 1889-
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1888-89.
Town Clerk. JAMES L. CHAPIN.
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
SAMUEL HARTWELL. EDWARD C. FOSTER. GEORGE F. HARRINGTON. Assessors.
EDWARD C. FOSTER. SAMUEL' HARTWELL: GEORGE F. HARRINGTON.
Treasurer and Collector of Taxes. CHARLES S. WHEELER. Committee to Examine Treasurer's Accounts.
GEORGE M. BAKER. WILLIAM L. G. PEIRCE.
EDWARD C. FOSTER. .
Road Commissioners.
JOHN R. HARTWELL,
/Term expires 1889
JAMES L. CHAPIN, .
1890
DANIEL H. SHERMAN,
1891
Constables.
LORENZO E. BROOKS.
ANSEL G. DOUGLAS.
School Committee.
. .
JAMES H. FARRAR, .
Term expires 1889
GEORGE FLINT,
1890
MOSES W. KIDDER,
. .
1891
Truant Officers.
LORENZO E. BROOKS.
JOHN F. FARRAR.
Water Commissioners.
LEONARD W. WESTON,
Term expires 1889
GEORGE L. CHAPIN, .
.
66 1890
EDWARD C. FOSTER,
.
1891
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Field Drivers.
GEORGE L. CHAPIN. CHARLES S. SMITH.
Fence Viewers.
LORENZO E. BROOKS.
JAMES E. BAKER.
Measurers of Wood and, Bark.
JAMES L. CHAPIN. GEORGE M. BAKER.
JAMES H. FARRAR. JAMES E. BAKER. ALBERT A. COOK.
Surveyors of Lumber.
N. F. COUSINS. GEORGE F. HARRINGTON.
EDWARD R. FARRAR.
Sealer of Weights and Measures. JAMES L. CHAPIN.
Cemetery Committee.
JAMES L. CHAPIN,
Term expires 1889
GEORGE F. BEMIS,
.
1890
JOHN TASKER,
66 1891
CHARLES S. WHEELER,
66 1892
EDWARD C. FOSTER,
66 1893
Commissioners of Sinking and Trust Funds.
JAMES L. CHAPIN,
Term expires 1889
GEORGE M. BAKER,
66 1890
GEORGE ROPES, .
1891
Sexton.
EDA B. BARNES.
Trystees of Lincoln Library.
DR. GRUURGE G. TARBELL, President.
SAMUEL H. PIERCE. JOHN F. FARRAR,
SAMUEL HARTWELL, Chairman Selectmen, ex-officio.
GEORGE FI INT, Chairman School Committee, ex-officio.
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WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln, in said County, GREETING.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the In- habitants of the Town of Lincoln, duly qualified to vote in Town affairs, to assemble at the Town Hall, on Monday, March fourth, next, at one o'clock, p. m., to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To act on the Reports of the Town Officers, and the Committee chosen to examine the Treasurer's accounts, and to choose an Examining Committee for the ensuing year.
ART. 3. To choose all necessary Town Officers, Committees and Commissioners.
ART. 4. To consider the Jury List prepared by the . Selectmen for revision and acceptance by the Town.
ART. 5. To make provision for he support of the Poor, from and after the first day of April next.
ART. 6. To hear reports of Committees and Com- missioners whose duty or privilege it is to report at this meeting, and act thereon.
ART. 7. To determine the manner of repairing the Highways and Bridges of the Town the ensuing year.
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ART. 8. To appropriate Money for all necessary purposes, including the Sinking Fund, or enact any- thing in relation to the same.
ART. 9. To give in their votes by ballot in answer to the question, " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?" The check-list shall be used, as provided by Sec. 5, Chap. 100 of the Public Statutes.
ART. 10. To determine the manner of collecting taxes; also, the compensation of the Collector for the ensuing year; and to see whether the Town will au- thorize the Collector to use all means of collecting taxes which a Town Treasurer, when appointed Collec- tor, may use.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, if necessary.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will continue its vote of last year in relation to the use of a hearse, or enact anything in relation to the matter.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will build a School House during the current year at South Lincoln and choose a committee, grant, or otherwise provide money to accomplish the same.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will designate land for the location of a School House lot in South Lincoln, or for the enlargement of the School House lot in said South Lincoln, and grant money to pay for said lot or said enlargement.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will take measures to improve the condition of the Town House .- To see if the Town will enlarge or improve the Town Hall, or take any action in regard to the subject.
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ART. 16. To see if the Town will repair the road in the center of the Town, between the house occupied by Mrs. Rebekah Smith and the water trough.
ART. 17. To choose a Trustee of the Grammar School Fund in place of William F. Wheeler, who has resigned that trust.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by post- ing an attested copy thereof at each of the Post Offices and the Meeting House of the First Parish eight days, at least, before the time of meeting, and making sea- sonable return hereof, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk. Hereof fail not.
Dated at Lincoln, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
SAMUEL HARTWELL, EDWARD C. FOSTER, CEO. F. HARRINGTON,
Selectmen, of Lincoln.
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, FOR THE TOWN OF LINCOLN. 1888-9.
To the Inhabitants of Lincoln :
The Selectmen in making their annual report to the town the present year, in addition to the public finances, have very little of importance to offer. One or two suggestions may not be out of place. It appears that our cemeteries are not kept in as good order as would seem desirable; money which is appropriated by the town, freely, is not expended, and the result is untidiness. Our new cemetery, where several thousand dollars have been laid out in recent years, the past year has received little or no attention ; the nicely graded paths of two or three years ago are largely grown up to weeds ; the entire surface of the land is growing up either to tall grass or bushes. Lots surveyed at considerable cost and marked by small stakes need to have substantial stone markings. The cemetery needs to be fenced, a large part of it has no fence whatever ; a former committee talked a good deal about a fence, but never decided sufficiently about the kind to have one erected. Last year a committee of five of our best citizens were chosen as our cemetery committee ; they are all farmers or business men, and have no time to attend to the matter. Our suggestion is that a far more satisfactory result would be obtained if the town should ap- point one suitable person as superintendent of public grounds with a salary of perhaps fifty dollars per year, and that he employ a good reliable man during the entire summer season in our several cemeteries, and also to keep our Common and Library ground in good order. It must be evident to all that in order to receive benefit for what we have already expended, it is necessary to con- tinue our care and go forward with our improvements. A well- kept cemetery serves in a great measure to dispel the unpleasant thoughts and associations which naturally cling about the place of burial. With a wisely directed annual expenditure of the amount of our present appropriation, a few years' time ought to so change the appearance of our cemeteries as to convince all of our citizens of the wisdom of the appropriation.
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We would also suggest that our roads receive a very liberal ap- propriation, they are and have been the past year in much worse condition than usual ; for a few years the road scraper seemed to do good service, and still does in some places, where the roads are well crowned and free from brush and stones ; in other places it makes our roads too narrow, making a new set of gutters two or three feet inside of the original ones, the old gutters are quickly occupied by bushes, stones and leaves, thus rendering the passage of water in them impossible, and the new ones being so much nearer the wheel ruts render any washouts that may occur much more dangerous. Some of our roads upon which the most. travel occurs are situated far from any good material to repair them. If our appropriation for highways was large enough so teams could be employed in the winter time, when there is leisure, to haul good material from a distance and apply it either directly to the road bed or put it in piles along the road where it could be easily got at in the spring, possibly the improved condition of our roads would compensate for the expensive long haul. Upon whatever matters we may disagree I think we shall agree that good wide, hard roads are a luxury.
The suits brought against the town for damages by Thomas Coan and Bridget Coan are still pending.
As Assessors it gives us pleasure again to report a large increase in taxable property ; in personal property, $218,707, in real estate, $9,490, total $228,197 in excess of the previous year. As Over- seers of the Poor we report the same persons dependent upon the town as last year, no deaths having occurred and no additions re- ceived. Your Overseers were obliged to pay Mr. Sherman five hundred dollars the present year for caring for the same persons and tramps as last year, being an excess of one hundred dollars over the previous contract.
The following is a list of the receipts and expenditures for the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
SAMUEL HARTWELL,
EDWARD C. FOSTER,
GEO. F. HARRINGTON, 7 Selectmen of
Lincoln.
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TOWN GRANTS FOR 1888-89.
Support of Schools,
.
$2,500 00
Incidentals of Schools,
1,000 00
Library, $500 ; and Dog Tax, $228,
728 00
Support of Poor,
800 00
Cemeteries,
593 33
Interest,
1,800 00
Highways and Bridges,
3,000 00
Sinking Fund,
2,000 00
Miscellaneous Expenses, .
1,000 00
Amount of Appropriations, . . $13.421 33
VALUATION AND ASSESSMENT FOR 1888.
Valuation of Personal Estate, taxed, . $1,000,792 00
Real
629,485 00
Whole Valuation, . $1,630,277 00 .
Rate of Taxation, $6.20 on $1,000.
No. or Polls taxed, 282.
Tax assessed in 1888,
$10,671 67
Deduct County Tax,
845 81
Amount to be paid Town Treasurer,
$9,825 86
received by " יי
7,722 96
Due on uncollected taxes of 1888,
$2,102 90
INDEBTEDNESS OF THE TOWN.
Lincoln Water Bonds, due Dec 1, 1894, interest at 6 per cent. semi-annually, $30,000.00, less the Sinking Fund.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The Receipts into and Payments from the Treasury from Feb. 1, 1888, to Feb. 1, 1889, have been as follows :-
Balance in the Treasury Feb. 1, 1888 . . $5,210 81 Received of County Treasurer on account of Dog Tax returned . 228 00 of State Treasurer on account of Corpo- ration Tax of 1887 . . 22 86
Paid Selectmen's orders, . . $13,229 09
" State Tax, .
·
1,507 50
$14,736 59
Balance in Treasury, .
$2,998 23
· of State Treasurer on account of Corpo- ration Tax of 1888 . 645 78
of State Treasurer on account of Nat'l Bank Tax of 1888 . . .
. 1,140 23
of State Treasurer on account of Foreign Ships . · · .
. 212 44
of State Treasurer on account of income Mass. School Fund . ·
155 24
Income of the Grammar School Fuud 52 33 for School Books sold . 4 94
for Rent of Sandy Pond
20 00
balance of Taxes of 1887
2,229 37
Interest on Taxes of 1887 ·
78 03
on account of Taxes of 1888
7,722 96
Interest on Taxes of 1888
7 83
for use of Town Hall .
4 00
Amount received, .
$17,734 82
E. & O. E.
$17,734 82
CHARLES S. WHEELER, Treasurer.
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EXPENDITURES.
FOR SCHOOLS.
RECEIPTS.
Town appropriation, $2,500 00
Income Massachusetts School Fund,
155 24
Income Grammar School Fund. 52 33 .
$2,707 57
PAYMENTS.
Centre School.
J. C. Knowlton, teaching High School, $592 00
Carrie B. Chapin, teaching Prim'y School, 338 25
John R. Hartwell, 12 tons coal, 87 00
George Flint, two cords wood, .
12 00
J. L. Chapin, care of house, 65 00
J. C. Knowlton, teaching four weeks,
72 00
John R. Hartwell, six tons coal,
45 00
$1,211 25
South School.
Merle A. Drake, teaching,
$400 00
Anna H. Farrar,
212 00
Cook Brothers, six tons coal,
40 50
James H. Farrar, 12 cords wood,
9 50
Merle A. Drake, care of house,
8 25
John Delory, 66
5 25
Mary E. Welch, 6
4 96
Anthony Dougherty, "
1 50
John Maguire,
(1887)
1 00
$682 96
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North School.
Edith A. Andrews, teaching,
$361 20
John Dee, five cords wood,
30 00
cutting one cord pine,
1 00
John R. Hartwell,
5 00
Francis Curry, care of house,
15 00
George Flint, three cords wood,
17 25
$429 45
East School.
Ethel W. Kidder, teaching 34 weeks,
$268 00
George Flint, four cords wood,
20 00
Michael Dempsey, cutting 3} cords wood, .
5 25
William Dempsey, care of house,
11 00
$304 25
$2,627 91
Unexpended balance,
$79 66
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INCIDENTAL EXPENDITURES.
FOR SCHOOLS.
RECEIPTS.
Town appropriation,
. $1,000 00
Books sold,
4 94
$1,004 94
PAYMENTS.
Centre School.
J. C. Knowlton, care of books, $10 00
''' . .. towels,
70
Carrie B. Chapin, “
38
postage and expressage,
1 29
Everett S. Locke, furnace,
265 00
James L. Chapin, school supplies,
14 57
George Flint, outside windows,
29 00
$320 94
South School.
Merle A. Drake, sundries, $2 46
James H. Farrar, repairs on organ, . 2 00
Cook Brothers, 30 gallons kerosene oil, 3 78
66 sundries, . 9 46
Mrs. Dougherty, washing room and towels, 6 00
C. F. Mead, school supplies, 4 00
T. Ham, chain for dipper, 75
J. T. Calkins, one day's labor, . 2 50
Arthur W. Patterson, carrying children to Centre School, . 216 00 ,
J. L. Chapin, school supplies, . 1 02
C. F. Mead, 12 gallons kerosene oil, . .
1 56
$249 53
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North School.
Edith A. Andrews, sundries,
$1 15
Cook Brothers, carting,
1 00
Mrs. Curry, cleaning room, washing towels,
2 50
1 65
John Curry, work around house, .
75
James L. Chapin, school supplies. .
1 38
$8 43
East School.
William Dempsey, cleaning room and win-
dows, . ·
2 50
James L. Chapin, school supplies, ·
58
$3 08
GENERAL SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
Moses W. Kidder, vaccination, $7 00
school supplies, . 77 00
John S. Rice & Co., tank, ventilators, etc., 19 30 J. L. Hammett, blackboard and trimmings, 30 73
D. Appleton & Co., school books, ·
13 05
E. H. Butler & Co., reading chart,
6 00
William Ware & Co., readers, .
5 42
Paine's Furniture Co., chairs, burlap,
9 65
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., four electic wall maps, .
10 00
Boston School Supply Co., books and sup- plies, . 57 42
Ginn & Company, books, 6 25
Thompson, Brown & Co., books, 8 25
Harrison Hume, readers, . · 1 67
Joel Goldthwait & Co., two mats, 6 00
Harper & Brothers, books, etc., 41 46
N. F. Cousins, labor and materials, 39 24
Boston School Supply Co., supplies, 3 27
J. L. Hammett, school supplies, 4 81
A. M. Edwards, language chart,
5 00
Amount carried forward, . $351 52
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Amount brought forward, . $351 52
M. W. Kidder, school supplies and ex- pense, . 8 10
Cowperthwait & Co., school books, . 28 62
James L. Chapin, school supplies, express- age, etc., 17 70
Thomas Hall, school supplies, . 4 78
· William C. Cannon, school books, 12 00
E. H. Butler, exchange of books, 14 10
$436 82
$1,018 80
Expenditures above receipts, .
$13 86
LIBRARY.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant,
$500 00
Dog Tax returned, year of 1887, 228 00
$728 00
PAYMENTS.
Samuel Hartwell. Treas., Town Grant.
$500 00
،، 66 Dog Tax, . 228 00
$728 00
SUPPORT OF POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant,
$800 00
PAYMENTS. Daniel H. Sherman, support of George Tower and John McGrath, and care of Tramps from January 1, to April 1, 1888, $100 00
Daniel H. Sherman, support and care of the same, April 1, 1888, to January 1,1889,
375 00
Amount carried forward, . $475 00
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Amount brought forward, . $475 00
Trustees of Worcester Insane Asylum, sup- port of Sarah C. Hartwell, from Jan- uary 1, 1888, to January 1, 1889 169 92
Worcester Lunatic Hospital, support of Patrick Kenna, from January 1, 1888, to January 1, 1889, 169 92
$814 84
Expenditure above receipts,
$14 84
CEMETERIES.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant,
$300 00
Unexpended balance, last year, 293 33
$593 33
PAYMENTS.
James L. Chapin, 5g days work of John Sul- livan in new cemetery, $8 25
William H. Woolley, mowing cemetery, 4 00
William H. Woolley, trimming hedge, 1 50
$13 75
Unexpended balance,
$579 58
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Town Appropriation,
. $1,800 00
PAYMENTS.
Interest on Water Bonds,
2
. $1,800 00
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HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Town Grant,
RECEIPTS.
. $3,000 00
PAYMENTS.
Road Commissioners' Orders, .
-
. 3,298 54
Expenditures above receipts,
.
$298 54
WATER LOAN SINKING FUND.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant, . $2,000 00
PAYMENTS.
James L. Chapin, Treasurer of Sinking Fund Commis- sioners,
€ . $2,000 00
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MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant, .
$1,000 00
Rent of Town Hall, . . . 4 00
$1,004 00
PAYMENTS.
L. E. Brooks, services as Constable, $14 00
L. E. Brooks, services as Truant Officer, 2 50
A. G. Douglass, services as Constable, 2 00
Water Commissioners, for water service at Centre School to July 1, 1889, . ·
14 00
Water Commissioners, for water service at two troughs to July 1, 1889, 35 00
James F. Laird, mowing common twice, . 6 00
James F. Laird, 1 cord oak wood at Town House, . 5 10
John R. Hartwell, drain and grading near Town House,
25 00
George E. Crosby & Co., 400 Town Re- ports, 50 00
George E. Crosby & Co., 12 Town War- rants, 1 00
H. W. Darling, 2 Assessors' books, . 4 00
Waltham Free Press, 400 tax bills, 2 50
I. N. Hartwell, use of bearse, etc., at fune- ral of Mrs. Thomas Brooks, ·
5 00
Charles T. West, use of hearse, etc., at funeral of George Watts, .
5 00
Samuel Hartwell, services as Selectman, .
50 00
. 6 Assessor, .
30 00
. .
Overseer of
Poor, 20 00
Registrar, .
5 00
stationery and postage, . 2 00
66
66 half expense repairing
pump, use of N. School 1 00
Amount carried forward, .
$279 10
6 4
20
Amount brought forward, . $279 10 Samuel Hartwell, cash paid, returning one
birth, 25
M. W. Kidder, services as School Commit- tee, . 50 00
James H. Farrar, services as School Com- mittee, 25 00
John F. Farrar, services as Truant Officer, James L. Chapin, oil, etc., for Town House 1 71
care of Town Hall, 16 00
ringing bell, . 20 00
66 recording 18 births, 9 00
. .
5 marriages, .
75
15 deaths, 3 00
services as Town Clerk, 20 00
Registrar of
Voters, . 10 00
66 stationery and express-
age, .
E. B. Barnes, returning 9 deaths,
Charles S. Wheeler, services as Treasurer,
40 00
stationery and postage,
1 50
collecting taxes, 1887,
181 33
abatement “ 1887,
64 16
E. C. Foster, services as Selectman, . .
30 00
66
Assessor, .
50 00
Overseer of Poor,
15 00
66 66 Registrar, ..
5 00
66
66 stationery and postage,
75
half day's labor breaking roads, .
85
George F. Harrington, services as Select-
man,
25 00
George F. Harrington, services as Assessor, 25 00
66
Overseer
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