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152.46
4.57
6.00
151.03
Murray, Frank T. 106.83
3.20
3.00
107.03
McIntire, Dexter
50.97
1.53
1.50
51.00
Newcomb,
Mrs. Jean M.
83.15
2.49
85.64
Newman, Benjamin 139.13
4.17
3.00
140.30
Nourse, S. Sophia
123.23
3.70
3.00
123.93
Noyes & Damon
111.69
3.35
3.00
112.04
Ordway, Henry S.
78.01
2.34
3.00
77.35
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Palmer, Charles
125.43
3.76
4.00
125.19
Parsons, Hannah
93.01
2.79
2.00
93.80
Patterson,
Mary J.
139.16
4.17
4.00
139.33
Peabody, Johanna
50.00
1.50
1.50
50.00
Peabody, Moses
& Ezekial
163.68
4.91
3.00
165.59
Pearson, Hannah H. 89.68
2.69
2.00
90.37
Peatfield,
Hannah M.
144.00
4.32
5.00
143.32
Peatfield, Mary E. 128.88
3.87
3.00
129.75
Perkins &
Chapman
257.03
7.71
6.00
258.74
Phillips,
Moritz B.
323.08
9.69
11.00
321.77
Pickard, Ernest H.
50.00
1.50
1.50
50.00
Pinder,
Caroline F.
50.00
1.50
2.00
49.50
Pingree
162.70
4.88
2.00
165.58
Piouff
66.00
1.98
3.00
64.98
Plouff, Clara F.
52.53
1.58
4.00
50.11
Porter,
Winniebelle
125.24
3.76
4.00
125.00
Potter
163.42
4.90
8.00
160.32
Prescott, Jeremiah
82.70
2.48
3.00
82.18
Purington, Abby J. 181.53
5.45
4.00
182.98
Rathe, Walter E.
50.65
1.52
2.00
50.17
Reilly, John A.
& Annie
50.10
1.50
51.60
Rigby, Jane
51.06
1.53
2.00
50.59
Roberts, Mary E.
142.87
4.29
4.00
143.16
Roberts, Sally
218.17
6.55
27.00
197.72
Rogers & Jewett
85.26
2.56
3.00
84.82
Rogers & Johnson
119.22
3.58
4.00
118.80
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Ross, Martha E.
152.00
4.56
6.00
150.56
Russell, Arthur
100.85
3.03
3.00
100.88
Russell, Daniel S.
118.22
3.55
3.00
118.77
Russell, David
& Susan
50.15
1.50
2.00
49.65
Russell, Foster Heirs 98.96
2.97
101.93
Russell. Henry F.
156.38
4.69
3.00
158.07
Russell, William H. 54.51
1.64
2.00
54.15
Rust, Kate
100.00
3.00
103.00
Rust, William L.
51.60
1.55
2.00
51.15
Saunders, Willett
124.94
3.75
3.00
125.69
Sayward, Harry
50.00
1.50
1.50
50.00
Scanks. Jacob
50.00
1.50
1.50
50.00
Scotton, Eliza
110.05
3.30
3.00
110.35
Senior, Seth
65.23
1.96
2.00
65.19
Seward, Sarah A.
183.58
5.51
3.00
186.09
Sheppard, Arthur
50.00
1.50
2.00
49.50
Shatswell,
Nathaniel
174.02
5.22
5.00
174.24
Sheppard, James H. 53.25
1.60
1.50
53.35
Sheppard, Walter
57.35
1.72
1.50
57.57
Simms, Mrs.
Nellie E.
50.00
1.50
1.50
50.00
Simmons, Susanna
54.04
1.62
2.00
53.66
Smith,
Caroline L.
119.95
3.60
123.55
Smith,
Elizabeth L.
134.61
4.04
7.00
131.65
Smith, Harry P.
107.23
3.22
3.00
107.45
Smith, Lemuel
57.75
1.73
2.00
57.48
Smith, Olive P.
149.86
4.50
4.00
150.36
Spears, Oscar
Kippin
76.49
2.29
3.00
75.78
Spencer, Robært A. 32.14
1.56
3.00
50.70
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Spiller, George
511.44
15.34
5.00
521.78
Spiller,
Jeremiah M.
52.13
1.56
53.69
Spiller, Jerry
111.83
3.35
3.00
112.18
Spiller, Joseph
69.56
2.09
71.65
Spiller, Lucy F.
78.12
2.34
2.00
78.46
Spiller, William A. 51.98
1.56
3.54
50.00
Spinney, Eugene
220.69
6.62
7.00
220.31
Stackpole, Elmer E. 131.22
3.94
3.00
132.16
Stackpole, William
A. & Ida M.
175.48
5.26
5.00
175.74
Staniford
207.82
6.23
3.00
211.05
Staniford, Est.
Mary J.
106.07
3.18
3.00
106.25
Staniford, Curtis
100.00
3.00
2.00
101.00
Stewart, Martha J.
51.43
1.54
1.50
51.47
Stone. Alice A.
136.47
4.09
140.56
Stone, E. Maria
96.80
2.90
3.00
96.70
Stone, Robert
50.19
1.51
1.70
50.00
Sullivan, Mrs.
John J.
126.92
3.81
3.00
127.73
Tenney, Ward F.
64.03
1.92
2.00
63.95
Thompson, Fred O. 50.31
1.51
2.00
49.82
Tonge, Henry F.
50.79
1.52
1.50
50.81
Trow
647.42
19.42
5.00
661.84
Twombley,
Sarah E.
132.02
3.96
3.00
132.98
Tyler, Emily W.
145.29
4.36
8.00
141.65
Tyler, Sophie
& A. W. Dodge 127.37
3.82
3.00
128.19
Underhill,
N. Rawson
101.11
3.03
3.00
101.14
Varrell
585.27
17.56
5.00
597.83
Wade, Annie P.
53.28
1.60
3.00
5.1.83
167
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Wade, Annie G.
& Francis C.
100.11
3.00
3.00
100.11
Wait, Joseph
& Sons
538.43
16.15
17.00
537.58
Waite, Luther
169.54
5.09
27.00
147.63
Wales, Mrs. F. H.
53.53
1.61
2.00
53.14
Wallace, John
64.68
1.94
2.00
64.62
Wardwell, Moses
270.92
8.13
5.00
274.05
Weeks, Mrs.
Charles D.
132.84
3.99
4.00
132.83
Weeks, Frances P.
75.49
2.26
2.00
75.75
Welch, Mrs. E. H. 152.59
4.58
157.17
Wells, Charles H.
75.23
2.26
2.00
75.49
Wentworth,
Etta L.
124.36
3.37
4.00
124.09
White, William
53.10
1.59
2.00
52.69
Whittier, Maynard 104.79
3.14
3.00
104.93
Willcomb,
103.93
3.12.
5.00
102.05
Willcomb, Mrs.
Charles S.
120.65
3.62
3.00
121.27
Willcomb, Eva C. 110.65
3.32
7.00
106.97
Willcomb,,
Frederick
110.10
3.32
3.00
110.42
Willcomb, Henry P. 77.06
2.31
3.00
76.37
Willis & Stacy
175.91
5.27
3.00
178.18
Willcomb, Capt. Joseph W.
240.43
7.21
3.00
244.64
Winch, Susan E.
54.00
1.62
3.00
53.62
Wood, Chalmers
200.00
6.00
6.00
200.00
Wood, Joseph F.
103.51
3.11
4.00
102.62
Woodbury, Andre
49.95
1.50
1.45
50.00
Woodworth,
William H.
140.81
4.22
3.00
142.03
.
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Young
27.49 .82 28.31
$43,957.02 $1,318.74 $1,317.14
$43,958.62
New Funds:
Russ, Emily
100.00
100.00
Doughty, Howard 50.00 .50
50.50
Flitner, Isaac 100.00
100.00
Gallagher, Thomas 150.00
150.00
Goodwin, Silas
Henry
100.00
100.00
Hart, George
100.00
100.00
Hubbard, Aaron
50.00
50.00
Mallard
Albert D.
50.00
1.50
1.50
50.00
Merrill,
& Kimball
100.00
100.00
Nelson, Per
100.00
.25
100.25
Wildes, Frank P. 100.00
100.00
Wallace, John
(Additional)
40.00
40.00
$44,997.02 $1,320.99 $1,318.64 $44,999.37
Undivided Income 38.57
$45,037.94
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS
Receipts
Amount of Funds January 1, 1936 New Funds Income
$44,056.76
1,040.00
1,259.82
$46,356.38
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Expenditures
Care of Lots
$1,318.64
$45,037.94
Investment Account
Town of Ipswich, Water 4's $2,000.00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
$43,037.94
$45,037.94
Income Account
Balance undivided January 1, 1936
$ 99.74
Town of Ipswich, Water $ 100.00
Town of Ipswich, Electric Light
20.67
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
1,139.15
1,259.82
$1,359.56
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BROWN SCHOOL FUND
Report of the Trustees for the Year 1936.
Income:
Balance January 1, 1936 $3,053.44
Interest to December 31, 1936 94.10
$3,147.54
Expenditures : Paid Burke Motor Service
for transportation October 1, 1936 $90.00
Balance December 31, 1936 3,057.54
$3,147.54
Respectfully submitted, By the Trustees: CHARLES G. BROWN
CHESTER A. BOLLES J. WARREN HORTON
February 5, 1937.
February 6, 1937.
I hereby certify that I have this day examined the ac- counts of the Brown School fund and that I find them to be correct and in accordance with the above report.
DENNISON C. WALLACE
Town Auditor.
Securities Comprising Fund : Salem Five Cents Savings Bank $1,357.55
Ipswich Savings Bank 1,699.99
$3,057.54
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MRS. WILLIAM G. BROWN FUND
Town of Ipswich, in trust, the income to be used under the direction of the Selectmen, by the Agent of the Society of the prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Balance January 1, 1936 Income
$1,799.50
54.38
$1,853.88
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
December 31, 1936 $1,853.88
JOHN C. KIMBALL FUND
Town of Ipswich, under the will of John C. Kimball, the income to be used for the purchase of books for the Ipswich Public Library.
Balance January 1, 1936
$500.00
Income
15.11
$515.11
Expenditures
15.11
$500.00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
December 31, 1936
$500.00
RICHARD T. CRANE, JR., PICNIC FUND
Amount of Fund January 1, 1936 Income
$21,289.16 4,435.46
$25,724.62
Expenditures
965.73
Amount of Fund, December 31. 1936
$24,758.89
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Securities Comprising Fund 200 Shares Crane Co., pfd., Capital Stock $20,000.00 4,758.89
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
$24,758.89
REPORT OF TRUST FUND COMMISSIONERS
To the Citizens of Ipswich:
We submit the following report of the funds which are under our supervision as Trust Fund Commissioners.
EUNICE CALDWELL COWLES FUND
Amount of fund Jan. 1, 1936
Interest received to Jan. 1, 1937
$10,047.34 303.68
Total $10,351.02
Cash paid for scholarships in 1936
300.00
Total fund Jan. 1, 1937
$10,051.02
Securities Comprising Fund
Deposit in Salem Savings Bank
$5,025.79
Deposit in Inst. for Savings, Newburyport
5,025.23
Total $10,051.02
MARIANNA T. JONES FUND
Amount of fund Jan. 1, 1936-cash
$27,194.90
Interest received to Jan. 1, 1937
446.94
$27,641.84
Less amount appropriated New High School
25,000.00
Jan. 1, 1937 Balance $ 2,541.84
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Securities Comprising Fund
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank $2,641.84
MARTHA I. SAVORY FUND
Amount of fund January 1, 1936
$273.51
Income
8.26
Jan. 1, 1937 Balance $281.77
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank $281.77
This Fund is now increased by 2 shares
Western Union Telegraph Co., valued at $150.00.
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE A. SCHOFIELD,
CHARLES M. KELLY, CHARLES E. GOODHUE, Trust Fund Commissioners.
At the last annual town meeting a vote was passed re- questing the Trustees of the town trust funds to publish in the town report this year in connection with their report "a short history of the fund and purpose of the fund." In compliance with that request, the Trust Fund Commission would say that the Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund was a bequest of $10,000. under a will in 1928. When the request was paid to the Town Treasurer the amount had been increased by interest to $10,082.22.
Under the will, the income only of this Fund is to be used for the purpose of helping worthy graduates of the Manning High School who had a rank of 85 per cent or better to continue their education. It further provides that not over $200. should be paid to any one boy or girl in any one year and that no pay-
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ments to any one boy or girl should be made for more than three years. The Town Treasurer and the Master of the Manning High School and the Selectmen were named in the will as the parties to make the decision as to whom the awards should be given.
The Marianna. T. Jones Fund is not a trust fund as no trust was created in the will. It was an outright gift to the town from Marianna T. Jones in memory of her father, Samuel Treadwell, who was born in Ipswich. The will did not state any purpose for which the money should be used or that it should be kept in trust but left the whole matter to the town to dispose of the gift at such time and for such purpose as the town in town meeting should decide. The total amount received by the town was $27,283.70. From this Fund and its accumulated interest the town has paid $29,720. towards the expense of the new High School building and as a mark of appreciation of the gift of Mrs. Jones and in memory of her father, the new audi- torium at the High School has been named the Treadwell Audi- torium and a tablet to that effect has been placed in the audi- torium by the High School Building Committee. $4,794.70 was paid from the Fund in 1933 to help reduce the tax rate.
The Martha I. Savory Fund, like the Jones Fund, is not a trust fund. In the will of Martha I. Savory appears the follow - ing statement among the bequests given: "To the Town of Ipswich for the purchase of the best shrubs and trees to beautify the place, five hundred dollars."
The word "place" is rather indefinite but it is assumed to have meant the town of Ipswich.
It will be seen from the above that this was an outright gift and the entire sum could be voted by the town for the pur- pose named as no provision is made in the will to have the money held in trust and use only the income. The executors of this will were not able to pay the entire sum of $500. to the
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town. They mde a payment of $250. and later, by agreement made in town meeting, the town accepted two shares of the Western Union Telegraph Company stock in final settlement of the other two hundred and fifty dollars. Those shares were of very small value at the time they were given but today are quoted around $76. each.
Trust Fund Commissioners, By GEORGE A. SCHOFIELD,
Chairman
ARTHUR WESLEY DOW PARK FUND
Amount of Fund January 1, 1936
$108.50
Income 3.27
$111.77
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
$111.77
HEARD FUND OF IPSWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Balance on hand, January 1, 1936
$37.99
Income from Investments
$150.00
Income from Treadwell Fund
700.00
Income from Spiller Fund
35.42
Sundry Persons
43.00
Income from Deposits
84.62
$1,013.04
$1,053.03
Expenditures :
Salaries and Wages
$348.34
Fuel, Light, Insurance and Miscellaneous Expense 667.57
Balance on Hand December 31, 1936
437.12
$1,053.03
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Securities Comprising Fund
35 shares B. & M. R. R. Pfd. $3,500.00
10 Shares B. & M. R. R. 1st Pfd. 1,000.00
33 shares B. & M. R. R. 1st Pfd. Class B. 3,300.00
10.41 shares B. & M. R. R. Prior Pref. 1,041.00
1 bond, C. B. & Q. R. R. 1,000.00
3 bonds, Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Corp. 1,200.00
1 bond, Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern 1,000.00
1 bond, National Press Bldg. 1,000.00
Ipswich Savings Bank 404.45
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank
500.00
Salem Savings Bank
2,000.00
1 bond, Penn. Water Service
1,000.00
$16,945.45
INTEREST
General Loans
$5,974.20
Temporary Loans
452.96
Tax Titles
126.00
Taxes
1.80
$6,554.96
Mosquito Control
$750.00
Agency & Miscellaneous Refunds
Park & Reservations
$ 87.28
Veterans Exemptions
11.50
State Tax
10,500.00
County Tax
10,172.26
Taxes 1933
4.25
Taxes 1934
31.75
Taxes 1935
522.37
Taxes 1936
30.50
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1932
8.68
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1933
1.00
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Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1934
8.68
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1935
4.12
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax 1936
177.18
Motor Vehicle Agents Class I Licenses
.58
Mass. Dept. of Public Health
10.00
Old Age 1933
2.00
Telephone Refunds
5.75
James D. Reilly Trust Officer
1,090.00
$22,667.90
Total Payments for the Year 1936
$1,008,541.91
Balances:
General and High School Cash, December 31, 1936 17,097.21
$1,025,639.12
Deduct :
Amount Received from Federal Government for Account of New High School Not De- posited Through Cash Receipt Book $231,725.00
To Balance as per Cash Receipts
$739,914.12
TREADWELL FUND OF IPSWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Balance, on hand January 1, 1936
$139.16
Income from Investments $749.98
Interest on Bank Deposits
98.00
Miscellaneous Receipts 3.65
$851.63
$990.79
Expenditures : Transferred to Heard Fund $700.00
Books and Periodicals 194.77
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Balance on Hand December 31, 1936 96.02
$990.79
Securities Comprising Fund
50 shares B. 8. M. R. R. 1st Pfd. Class A $5,000.00
6 shares B. S. M. R. R. Prior Pfd. 600.00
30 shares Old Colony R. R.
3,000.00
25 shares B. & P. R. R.
2,500.00
25 shares Maine Central R. R.
2,500.00
25 shares B. & A. A. R.
2,500.00
25 shares Vt. & Mass. R. R.
2,500.00
1 bond Lexington Utility Co.
1,000.00
3 bonds Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Corp.
1,200.00
1 bond New York Water Service Corp.
1,000.00
1 bond Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern 1,000.00
1 bond Missouri Pacific R. R. 1,000.00
1 bond Liberty 500.00
Ipswich Savings Bank
1,201.37
Mass. Savings Bank
1,578.32
Salem Savings Bank 750.00
$27,829:69
THOMAS H. LORD FUND
Income:
Interest on Deposits $30.00
Securities Comprising Fund
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank
$1,000.00
Cash on Hand December 31, 1936
783.55
$1,783.55
GEORGE SPILLER FUND
Income: Interest on Deposits $35.42
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Expenses: Transfers to Heard Fund $35.42
Securities Comprising Fund
Mass. Savings Bank $1,500.00
R. H. MANNING FUND
Income: Interest on Deposits $358.15
Expenses:
Transferred to Manning School Fund Securities Comprising Fund
$550.00
60 $25.00 shares Patterson Bridge Co. $1,500.00
22 $100.00 shares Pere Marquette Ry. Comm. 2,200.00
11 $100.00 shares Pere Marquette Ry. Pfd.
1,100.00
Ipswich Savings Bank 11,781.65
$16,581.65
MANNING SCHOOL FUND
Balance January 1, 1936 $90.15
Income:
R. H. Manning Fund
$550.00
Rents
628.00
Investments
480.00
Ipswich Savings Bank
(Reduction Fund)
200.00
$1,858.00
$1.948.15
Expenses:
Building Expenses, Labor, Water,
Insurance, Etc.
$1,140.31
Building Expenses. Teachers Salaries
500.00
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Legal 15.70 Salaries 150.00
Balance on Hand December 31, 1936
$1,806.01 142.14
$1,948.15
Securities Comprising Fund
15 shares Patterson Bridge Co. $ 375.00
12 $1,000.00 Bonds Peoria & Eastern R. R. 12,000.00
Masters House and Land 5,500.00
Colonial Building 10,000.00
Ipswich Savings Bank 553.57
3 $1,000.00 National Railway of Mexico 4 1/4 3,000.00
1 $500.00 National Railway of Mexico 4 500.00
1 $1,000.00 National Railway of Mexico 4
1,000.00
1 $100.00 National Railway of Mexico 4 100.00
1 Ctf. United States of Mexico 405.00
1 Ctf. United States of Mexico 810.00
$34,243.57
FREDERICK A. KIMBALL, Treasurer.
Trustees Manning School Fund.
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REPORT OF THE FEOFFEES OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Income:
Cash on hand - January 1, 1936 $ 116.13
Received for rents 5,533.90
Received for taxes 9,305.69
Received from interest on rents
and taxes 201.58
Received from Ipswich Savings Bank-
withdrawal 5,000.00
Received from Town - refund on taxes
8.58
$20,165.88
Expenditures :
Town of Ipswich - on salary of High School Principal $ 1,500.00
Town of Ipswich School Committee 5,000.00
Town of Ipswich - taxes 8,713.10
Wilfred E. Wile - labor and truck 1,013.60
Arthur C. Damon - salary 300.00
James H. Rogers - police duty 59.00
Alex. Gallant - garbage and rubbish collections 395.50
Damon & Damon - insurance 138.04
The Barrett Co. - oil 558.14
Lathrop Bros. - gravel
35.25
A. Story Brown - gravel
20.80
Florence Crane Robinson - gravel
31.82
Hume Pipe Co. - pipe 12.80
J. W. Goodhue Co. - supplies 16.10
Ernest O. Peabody - labor 46.00
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Little Neck Improvement Society - playground repairs 10.00
S. D. Conley, Postmaster - envelopes and stamps 29.76
Wm. G. Horton - supplies 6.00
C. G. Hull Press - printing 9.00
Marcorelle Bros. - supplies
24.75
Michael Ryan - hauling gravel and truck 109.30
Wm. F. Hayes - attorney's fee 37.00
Ray T. Hull, bldg. new swimming ladder
and repairing float at upper pier 4.00
Walter H. Hulbert - hauling gravel 109.15
A. B. C. Mulholland - hauling gravel 100.30
Canney Lumber Co. - lumber 2.00
C. Gardner Caverly - labor on playground 26.40
J. L. Fairbanks - record book 14.20
A. C. Damon - paint 6.00
Charles E. Goodhue - use of car and overseeing 60.00
Town of Ipswich - guy wire 2.00
Ipswich Savings Bank - replacing 1,400.00
Town of Ipswich Highway Dept. - gas 1.87
Ralph DeFrancesco - labor on road 16.00
William Blonda - labor on road 8.00
John Clancy - labor on road 12.00
Francis Pickering - labor on road 12.00
Russell Scahill - labor on road 12.00
Albert Sheppard - labor on road 4.67
Alvery Marriott - labor on road 8.00
Joseph Phaneuf - labor on road 4.00
$19,868.55
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Cash on hand - January 1, 1937 297.33
$20,165.88
Property in their hands as follows:
Little Neck valued at $15,000.00
Hotel and Barn valued at
4,000.00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank 15,742.56
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
-Essex School Farm Account 3,547.30
$38,289.86
ARTHUR C. DAMON,
Treasurer.
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BURLEY EDUCATIONAL FUND
The Trustees of the Burley Education Fund herewith present their one hundred eleventh annual report.
Income:
Interest from Salem Savings Bank $ 93.91
Interest from Salem Five Cents Savings Bank 95.51
Interest from Ipswich Savings bank 45.97
Interest from Ipswich Savings Bank, Caldwell Fund 36.01
Dividends from Ipswich Co-op. Bank
40.00
$311.40
Expenditures :
Rent of Safety Deposit Box
$ 5.50
Town of Ipswich
2,500.00
Town of Ipswich
2,500.00
Securities Comprising Fund
Deposit in Salem Savings Bank 701.22
Deposit in Salem Five Cents Savings Bank 616.32
Deposit in Ipswich Savings Bank 1,596.67
Deposit in Ipswich Savings Bank, Caldwell Fund Ipswich Co-op Bank, Matured Certificate
1,227.97
1,000.00
15 Shares B. & M. Common Stock
1,500.00
3 shares B. & M. prior preferred stock
300.00
Note of Town of Ipswich
5,000.00
$11,942.18
GEORGE W. TOZER, Clerk and Treasurer.
CHARLES M. KELLY JOSEPH T. MORTON
RALPH L. PURINTON
Trustees
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT - 1936
To the Citizens of Ipswich:
During the year 1936 the Selectmen have fully realized that a tax rate of $44.00 is not only too heavy a burden for our tax-payers to bear but is impeding the natural growth and progress of our town. With this thought in mind, the cost of operation of the different departments has been studied with a view to making such cuts in cost as would be consistent with efficient and economic operation. In nearly every department increased requirements both by State and National legislation make it impossible to make many reductions in operation costs without seriously interfering with the proper operation of de- peratments and in most cases entering the field of false economy. We are convinced therefore, that the high tax rate is not caused so much by the cost of operation of departments but rather that we are, like many other towns in our State and nation, faced with an unemployment situation which is serious. We would not for a minute cast reflections on those who are so unfortun- ate as to be unemployed, nor would we deny those who are in need, but if we would really help them and at the same time help ourselves by restoring our town to a contented and industrious community with a reasonable tax rate, then we must solve the problem of unemployment by absorption into private industry. We are not prepared to say how this can be done, but as this is the major problem facing the town today, we feel that we should all work together to find the solution.
During 1935 no Chapter 90 work was done on Mill Road or Topsfield Road and as a consequence it has cost over $1500.00 to maintain those roads this year. We are asking for an appropriation of $7,000.00 this year for these roads. The County will add $7,000.00 and the State $14,000.00 making a total of $28,000.00 which will practically complete both these roads to Sullivan's Corner. As this will materially reduce maintenance costs on these roads in the future and as
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this is our opportunity to get direct benefit from gasolene tax money, we strongly recommend this appropriation.
Soldiers' relief was considerably less this year partly be- cause of the bonus and partly because of better clamming and employment under W. P. A.
The clamming industry has been a real asset to the town this year and has helped materially to reduce welfare costs. The flats are loaded with clams and the industry has been lim- ited only to the extent of the market. However, green crabs are again appearing and while some work has already been done to exterminate them with State supervision and financial assist- ance the work should be continued and everything possible done for the proper conservation of this industry.
In the new High School building, which has just been completed, we have not only a beautiful building but a well- equipped and practical one excellently designed and constructed To the Committee having this building in charge is due a great deal of credit and they should be publicly thanked for their services.
The ever-increasing calls for police protection and service, together with the inadequate station facilities have added greatly to the work of this department. However. the de- partment has been efficiently handled and the protection and service rendered excellent.
The Fire Department is in first-class condition both as re- gards equipment and personnel, economically and efficiently handled and one of which we may well be proud.
The maintenance of 100 miles of highway with obsolete and inadequate equipment and a very closely figured budget is a problem for any Highway Superintendent or Board of Selectmen. To continually patch and never be able to per- manently repair our roads is unsatisfactory and expensive and it becomes more evident each year that as soon as the town is financially able, a definite yearly plan of permanent construc- tion should be adopted.
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The new tractor and snow plow should help materially to reduce the cost of snow removal and the new grader should help to better maintain more of our secondary roads.
There is much work such as graveling, oiling, drainage, etc., which cannot possibly be done with the present set-up of the department, therefore we recommend a continuation of the purchasing of modern and needed equipment and the adoption of a definite plan of permanent construction as soon as possible.
Under W. P. A. it has been the purpose of the Selectmen and Coordinator to do such work as would be of a permanent and lasting nature such as sidewalks and drainage as far as is possible. That this work has been satisfactory is evidenced by the comments of our citizens and it is our purpose to con- tinue.
One of the major improvements completed during the past year was the new road to Little Neck. Few people realize the amount of benefit received from those who own or occupy houses at Little Neck and Great Neck. In addition to the taxes received and to the amounts paid to the town for water and electric light, which is a dircet benefit to the town, our merchants also receive a very substantial trade from our summer visitors. The construction of this road cannot fail to attract many more people to that section and the ultimate result, in our opinion, will be that Great Neck will in a short time develop to such an extent that there will be a material in- crease in these benefits. In these days of the automobile and the demand for good roads nothing, in our opinion, will help more to bring about this result than the construction of this road.
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