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D. S. Surrey, 2 stone steps for Dr. George Ellis 12.00
D. S. Surrey, 2 stone steps for C. Hathaway 12.00
James Thomas, moving wall cor. Sachem and Wareham streets, also horn pine rollers 12.00
E. Cromwell, blacksmithing · 96.96
C. E. Weston, surveying and plan of Water street bridge and Vine street 23.00
Taylor Steel Co., manganese steel jaw, 419 lbs. at 10c. 41.90
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L. S. Bailey, blacksmithing 84.99 O. S. Kelley, rental of steam roller one year 1,200.00
Thomas Smith, stone at 40c. per ton 5.99
J. B., O. F. & F. Carver, stone and teaming 57.48
J. A. Thomas, stone and teaming 13.95
J. Caples, stone and teaming 4.93
J. K. & B. Sears & Co., lumber per bills . 161.59
N. F. Shurtleff, labor and teams graveling 54.25
Levi Tinkham, stone 6.59
L. T. Miller, 1,050 feet land cor. Sachem and Wareham streets 10.00
Moving wall, $6.00; stone, $17.58 23.58
J. P. Marshall, stone, wood and tallow 14.83
George F. Bryant, 6,600 lbs. coal 13.50
L. B. Pratt, 1,257 yds. excavation and build- ing part of Vine street, per contract 293.19
T. G. Ford, blacksmithing 7.50
W. B. Stetson, 36 loads gravel at 10c. 3.60
J. & G. E. Doane, merchandise per bill
108.49
Received from selectmen for superintendent's ser-
vices from Oct. 1st, 1894, to April 1st, 1895 387.50
From April 1st, 1895, to Jan. 1st, 1896 581.25
$14,789.49
Balance reserve for State road . $711.77
It has been necessary the past season to replace and build quite an amount of street railing, which has been done in a thorough manner. All guideboards and street names have had attention, and the law complied with as far as known. I
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would say that our dealings with Messrs. Nightingale and Childs was not very satisfactory.
STATE HIGHWAY.
October, 1894, the State Highway Commission granted Middleboro a State road from Sachem street to Wood street ; in June an extension was granted from Wood street to Water street. Work was begun on same April 15th, and completed about Sept. 15th. 6,500 feet has been accepted by the State, or as far as macadamized; the balance will probably be finished in 1896, when, as understood, some credit due the unfinished portion will be paid upon acceptance of same. It seems as though the State road must be appreciated as it is extended ; there is certainly a popular demand for it from all sections of the State. I wish I could report that cost had not exceeded State's allowance for same. As designed, Barden Hill would not have been lowered; in other places the State was laying out but twenty-one feet for width. We were allowed a four and one-half feet cut in Barden Hill, also our road was widened to thirty feet. These changes were great improvements, but very much increased the exca- vation, the hardest prices to compete with, which were 30 cents per cubic yard on first section, and 25 cents on hill section. I could not personally look after all excavation. Mr. Foster, State Engineer, reported me a serious loss in this item, also on the fencing, the fence on first section to be allowed 123 cents per foot with two coats paint, and 15 cents on second section. I doubt if it can be done, according to specifications, for either sum. I think my losses confined to
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these items. As stated last season, the State furnishes no apparatus, but maintains the road for all time. Stone were crushed, separated in grades, loaded into carts and weighed, when deposited in front of crusher, as low as 12 cents per ton. Some orders have been specified as State orders, per- haps, that do not belong to cost of construction, but are a part of crushing plant.
Paid help, receiving, storing and weighing in 2,360 tons stone
$65.00
Paid Jacob Wood, stone at 40c. ton . $17,11
Jacob Wood
8.83
L. N. Leonard
66
57.35
Jas. Thomas
266.93
J. P. Marshall
66
42.99
W. D. Cornell
66
22.30
Jas. Farley
6.10
W. S. Barden
66
18.42
Wm. N. Shaw
66
72.67
T. West
66
17.01
Geo. Sherman
66
21.31
John Caples
66
.
46.41
John McNally
48.24
Lucien Atwood
66
46.96
J. B. Carver
66
50.28
O. F. Carver
66
147.99
Geo. Gammons
.6
24.67
G. Simmons
66
60.01
S. S. Lovell
66
12.58
E Downing
66
. 64.79
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Paid S. Downing, stone at 40c. ton . 4.00
L. B. Pratt 66
71.58
A. F. Cobb 66 80.04
T. C. Swift
66 14.10
.
W. Pratt
60
42.23
Geo. Clark
66
85.59
Lewis Shaw
66
26.81
Harvey Thomas 66
28.60
L. E. Thomas 66
13.52
C. O. Cook
66
35.13
Thomas Smith
66
36.41
L. T. Miller 66 27.24
Paid for stone and receiving $1,583.24
Paid help and teams for labor 6,544.13
J. A. Thomas, 24.2 cubic yards stone work on Stony Brook at $2.50 60.50
413 yards paving at 65 cents 26.87
6.73 cubic yds. stone laid in cement at $5 33.65
Setting 17 stone bounds and cartage at $1.25 21.25
Freight on stone bounds 15.79
George F. Bryant, 50 tons coal
237.50
George Sherman, 175 loads gravel at 10 cts.
17.50
L. T. Miller, 781 66 78.10
J. P. Marshall, 659 66 66
65.90
F. C. Sparrow, fencing ·
.
574.70
$9,259.13
Respectfully submitted, S. N. SHIVERICK.
GAS AND ELECTRIC PLANT.
REPORT OF THE GENERAL MANAGER.
MIDDLEBORO, January 1, 1896.
To the Officers of The Municipal Light Board :
GENTLEMEN :- I have the honor to submit the following report of receipts and disbursements for the year ending January 1, 1896 :
Expended for maintenance of electric plant as follows :
Globes for arc lamps
$3.67
Insurance
514.19
Commissioners' expenses
140.75
Stable account
129.99
Wages at station
. 2,131.17
Care of arc lamps, including Titicut
985.00
Office expenses
142.16
Salary and clerical work
742.45
Painting building at electric station 173.55
Repairs steam plant 82.99
electric plant
11.79
66 street lines 441.54
66 water plant
319.94
Paid Middleboro water works
38.25
General maintenance account
532.57
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Coal consumed* 3,276.87
Wood consumed
2.50
Carbons consumed
369.78
Oil and waste consumed
184.18
Tools and appliances
1.55
$10,224.89
Paid for construction (electric) as follows :
Transformers 221.33
Station tools and appliancest 329.35
Separate arc line to Titicut
241.13
Boiler house
270.00
Foundation for boiler
165.00
Moving and setting boilers
253.00
Connecting and fitting boiler
284.16
Connecting stack
101.80
Building and equipping line to Green 712.00
General construction 300.99
Paid M. O. Rounseville, excavating, building walls and blasting rocks in river 2,000.00
$4,878.76
Paid for maintenance (gas) as follows :
Repairs of gas plant $281.12
Paid Middleboro water works
13.56
Wages at gas works
508.03
Salary and clerk hire
702.47
* The amount of coal consumed may seem at first sight to be much more than is being shown per month from July to January, 1895, which is owing to the fact that we had no water until the 12th of April.
t This includes one Weston Volt Meter, one Price's Current Meter, for accurately esti- mating the flow of the Nemasket river; also one Crosby Indicator, for measuring the energy exerted by steam plant.
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General office expenses
137.66
Repairs of meters
188.84
Stable account 123.51
Coal and wood
691.39
Naphtha
814.37
Fuel oil .
389.44
Repairs of gas mains and services
82.22
Apparatus and machinery
33.11
$3,965.72
Expended for construction (gas) :
Moving and setting boiler
$193.84
Water ballast on gas-holder
23.87
Piping boiler .
28.61
Piping to steam trap
17.34
$263.66
Maintenance of suburban lights :
Paid for oil
$136.13
Lamp wicks
3.25
Freight
14.49
Chimneys
18.93
George R. Eastman, supplies and
carting oil
14.77
George R. Eastman, wages
192.00
William Reed, supplies and cart- ing oil . 2.09
William Reed, wages 96.00
Repairs of lamps, including paint-
ing
23.13
Howard M. Bishop
2.50
$503.29
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Inventory of stock in hand January 1, 1896 :
50 gallons cylinder oil
$32.50
40 gallons engine oil
12.00
50 pounds grease
7.50
200 pounds waste
16.00
10 pounds rubber packing
4.00
One-half barrel compound
7.50
Belting
115.00
Carbons
50.50
Cut-outs
28.55
Cleats
14.00
Rosettes
22.00
Switches
40.45
Key sockets
29.35
Keyless sockets
24.31
O. K. and R. C. wire
110.00
U. S. wire
93.00
New gas meters
54.00
Silk and cotton cord
24.12
Incandescent lamps
22.25
Arc lamps
41.58
Pipe and fittings
83.00
Valves and cocks
28.73
W. P. line wire
98.30
Poles and cross arms
45.30
Insulators and pins
8.00
Poles
18.00
Braces, lags, &c.
5.60
Bolts
8.72
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Coal
879.64
Horse and wagon
147.00
Naphtha
92.40
Fuel oil
71.00
Empty oil barrels
64.00
Empty wire reels
30.00
Rubber hooks
8.37
Insulating
46.13
Hay and grain
14.43
Fire brick
19.62
Fire brick slabs
21.30
Wire cable
43.36
Kaolin
1.75
Fire clay
2.30
$2,485.56
Cash on hand January 1, 1896
$243.54
Amount due from consumers
$804.90
Amount paid town treasurer
$9,020.95
I wish to call your attention to the fact, that in order to legally observe the flow of the Nemasket river, (which duty was imposed by the Taunton Water Works, inasmuch as they erected at the source of the Nemasket river a dam, which materially decreases our supply of water,) we have been obliged to keep in constant employ a civil engineer and assistant, which extra expense I have charged to the mainten- ance account. This must be done in order that the town might be in a position to defend the case for damage to water
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plant, already instituted with Hosea Kingman, Esq., as counsel.
The survey of flow of water was commenced January, 1895, and continued until January, 1896, giving an account care- fully compiled by three surveys each week at Vaughn's bridge and several made at the source of the Nemasket river.
In closing this report, you will please accept my heartfelt thanks for your very valuable assistance and gentlemanly demeanor in my behalf, which has afforded me much pleasure and must leave pleasant memories for me.
Yours to command,
JOHN N. MAIN, Manager.
Approved.
GEORGE E. WOOD, E. L. LEBARON, J. E. DIXON, Light Commissioners.
REPORT OF THE LIGHT COMMISSIONERS.
To the Citizens of Middleboro:
The preceding report of the Manager of the Gas and Elec- tric Plant, which has received our approval, shows in detail . all moneys received and disbursed by this department, and from which we deduce the following summary :
EXPENSE.
Total amount of orders drawn on town treasurer $22,324.88
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Which has been expended as follows :
For maintenance, electric plant $10,224.89
Maintenance, gas plant 3,965.72
Construction, electric plant
4,878.76
Construction, gas plant 263.66
Suburban lighting by oil
503.29
Stock and material on hand, as
per inventory
2,485.56
$22,324.88
RECEIPTS.
Amount paid town treasurer, received
from consumers $9,020.95
Due from consumers to Jan. 1, 1896 804 90
Cash in hands of manager Jan. 1, '96 243.54
10,069.39
$12,255.49
Less amount of stock and material on hand Jan. 1, 1896 2,485.56
Showing net expense
$9,769.93
From which should be deducted amount expended for suburban lighting $503.29
Also amount expended in construc- tion for gas and electric plants, both of which are for permanent improvements and increase the
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value of the property to that
amount . 5,142.42
5,645.71
Leaving total maintenance expense . $4,124.22 for one hundred and eleven are lights, from Jan. 1, 1895, to Jan. 1, 1896, or $37.15 per light per year. To which should be added the amount paid for interest on bonds, $3,000, making an actual cost of $64.19 per light per year.
As some of the citizens may consider the payment of bonds which mature yearly an expense against the lights, but which in reality is a partial payment on so much property bought, and as paid for becomes an asset of the town and is in no way chargeable to the maintenance of lights, be added, it would make the cost appear $73.19 per light, which is much below what adjoining towns and cities are paying.
There has been this year an expense, as previously stated by the manager, of over $500 for services of a civil engineer in taking measurements of the flow of the river and for sur- veys, to protect the town's interests against the city of Taun- ton, caused by the erection of the dam at the lake, and which through our counsel we are led to believe will be recovered together with a sufficient sum as damages for the interference with the natural flow of the river.
In the matter of insurance on the electric plant the amount paid in premiums per year, $514.29, seems to be a needless expense, as the risk, considering the manner in which the building is equipped with hose and other fire protection, re- duces the risk to a minimum, and should a loss occur it would
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seem that it would be necessarily small, and we suggest that the town assume this risk. The above items alone, which have been charged to maintenance and which should not again occur, will reduce cost of lights nearly ten dollars each per year.
There has also been an additional charge this year to main- tenance account for painting electric station, which was neces- sitated by the condition of the bricks, some of which being soft were affected by the rains and were scaling or chipping off, but have been preserved by the paint and the building is in excellent condition, all work having been done in a thorough manner.
The construction account is increased this year nearly $1,900 by the extension to the Green of the arc lights at an expense of $700, and by the necessity of larger boiler capacity at the electric station, which was provided by removing the 100-horse power boiler from the gas plant and transferring the small heater boiler at electric station to gas plant. This exchange with foundations, together with the erection of a corrugated iron building at electric plant of sufficient capacity to hold three large boilers for future use, has caused an ex- pense of $1,200. All of which work we trust will meet your approbation upon inspection.
You will note that in the last two years the amount received from consumers has increased nearly $3,500. This increased output of current, together with the loss of water occasioned by the interference of Taunton with the natural flow of the river, together with an additional number of arc lights to the Green, has in the dry season taxed the steam plant to some
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extent, and with the continued applications for commercial lights on account of the new bank building and other private consumers, compel us as a safeguard to the town and present consumers, should we have a dry summer and still further increased demand for commercial service, to recommend the purchase of a 250-horse power engine for the electric station.
The outlook for the coming year is that your receipts from commercial business will fully meet the maintenance expense, and as there appears to be little needed except the above recommendation for engine your construction account will be small, giving you street lights at a small sum per light.
We wish to extend our thanks to the Manager for faithful- ness in the care of the property and his willingness at all times to do the work of others at either plant, which has been a material saving to the town.
All of which we respectfully submit. GEORGE E. WOOD, E. L. LEBARON, JOSEPH E. DIXON, Light Commissioners.
TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
JANUARY, 1896.
The report of the Librarian, herewith appended, presents the work of the library as performed by her and her assist- ants.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
To the Trustees of the Middleboro Public Library :
I have the honor to submit the twenty-second annual report of the public library, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1895.
The library has been open 305 days, from 2 until 8 p. m. Twenty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty-one volumes have been delivered with cards. No record has been kept of books consulted in the library.
A careful estimate has been made of the number and class of books drawn, and, as in all free public libraries, fiction predominates,-12,629 volumes having been issued. The historical novels count up to 2,102. Juvenile books given out number 5,129 ; travels, 909; history, American and for- eign, 536; biography, 599; scientific, 361; literature and poetry, 710; religious, 159 ; bound volumes of magazines, 366 ; other works, not classified, 261.
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Four hundred and eighty-five volumes have been added during the year, and the library now numbers 6,769 volumes, not including pamphlets. Forty-three books are laid aside for the binder, and 213 volumes have been rebound. Fifteen books have been discarded as worn out, but will be replaced by new ones, as far as practicable. One hundred and three volumes of magazines have been bound, which are included in the number of books added.
Number of the last card issued, 1,512, and increase of 252 from last year.
The largest monthly circulation was in March, 2,791 vol- umes, and the smallest, 1,514, in July. Covered, numbered and labeled, 1,196 volumes.
Miss Lucy M. T. Brayton has served regularly as assistant from 2 until 4, and Miss Myra K. Leonard and Miss Alice M. Alden as occasion has required.
Received from sale of catalogues
$1.50
Received from sale of cards
1.00
Received from fines .
35.25
$37.75
Paid for postoffice box
$2.00
Paid for express and sundries
4.25
Paid for rubber stamps and pads
1.50
$7.75
ADELAIDE K. THATCHER,
January, 1896.
Librarian.
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The library has received several volumes of Massachusetts State Reports and other books and documents from the Secre- tary of State ; Congressional Record and other public docu- ments, through the efforts of Hon. Elijah A. Morse, M. C .; a volume from Rev. W. B. Hale, and a number of bound and unbound reports and documents from the different depart- ments of the national government at Washington.
Special effort is made to meet the needs of teachers and scholars in different departments of school work, also of students and readers in lines of literary, historical and scien- tific work, so far as the means at the command of the library will permit.
The following periodicals may be found regularly on the reading-room table :
American Agriculturist,
Arena, Art Interchange,
Atlantic Monthly,
Biblia,
Century Magazine,
Cosmopolitan,
Current Literature,
Eclectic Magazine,
Engineering Magazine, Forum,
Frank Leslie's Monthly, Godey's, Harper's Magazine,
Manifesto, McClure's Magazine, New England Magazine, Outing,
Overland Monthly,
Popular Science Monthly, Public Opinion,
Review of Reviews,
Saint Nicholas,
Scientific American,
Scientific American Supple- ment, Scribner's Magazine.
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TREASURER'S REPORT, PUBLIC LIBRARY,
FOR 1895.
Balance on hand at last annual report $184.16
Received from town treasurer, "dog money " 812.30
66 66 "other licenses" . 51.00
for fines, etc., at library 37.75
$1,085.21
Paid A. K. Thatcher, librarian $200.00
Lucy M. T. Brayton, assistant 76.50
Myra K. Leonard, assistant 19.10
Alice M. Alden, assistant .
12.70
Harriet B. Sylvester, assistant 6.80
Estes & Lauriat, books 457.46
James H. Lamb, books 10.00
Balch Brothers, books 12.50
C. A. Nichols & Co., books 30.00
J. G. Cupples & Co., books 8.50
George E. Littlefield, books 10.00
Massachusetts Year Book . 1.00
C. W. Drake, periodicals, &c. 66.22
F. W. R. Emery, rebinding 95.97
F. J. Barnard & Co., rebinding 10.83
Wood & Tinkham, advertising 10.00
Library Bureau, supplies . 3.60
H. L. Thatcher, paper for covers and printing . 17.08
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Paid postage, express, freight, etc. . 16.97
Jones Bros., repairing furniture 2.70
1,067.93
Balance on hand, January, 1896 $17.28 Respectfully submitted.
JOSEPH E. BEALS, Secretary and Treasurer.
Middleboro, January, 1896.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1895-1896.
Term expires 1896. Term expires 1897. Term expires 1898. WM. R. PEIRCE, Pres. GEORGE BRAYTON, E. ROBINSON,
C. D. KINGMAN, JAMES M. COOMBS, E. S. HATHAWAY, W. H. SOUTHWORTH. JOS. E. BEALS, Sec'y. ANDREW M. WOOD.
REPORT OF
THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
For the Year 1895.
Net amount drawn from the treasury $6,819.18
Received as follows from
City of Lynn .
$17.00
Woburn
18.00
Town of Wareham
30.02
66 Freetown
174.38
Nantucket .
8.00
Duxbury
38.00
Produce from farm sold
411.54
696 94
$7,516.12
Paid out as follows : For support of paupers in the almshouse $2,087.89
Out of the almshouse :
Aseneth E. Alden
$52.00
Nancy, Sarah and Olive Leonard 156.00
Mrs. Ellen Croacher
15.00
Mrs. James E. Richmond
75.50
Mrs. Allen Pratt
5.11
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Walker
45.00
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Mrs. Stillman Morse
64.50
Mrs. E. V. Parker .
84.70
Mrs. Albert Elliott . 186.00
Mrs. Mary L. Beisecker
152.87
Mrs. Fidelia Collins
21.00
Mrs. Julia A. Tobey
152.10
Levi Shaw 129.00
Sarah Vaughan
31.00
Wm. L. White, Jr.
21.75
Standish Ryder
58.65
Fred Wilmot
10.00
J. F. Dowsing
104.00
Geo. Messer
100.00
Wm. McAusland
27.07
Foster Tinkham
9.00
Stillman Hall
60.00
Andrew J. Gardner
4.00
1,564.25
Town of Westport, for aid furnished Rosalie A. Thyng $39.00
Town of Fairhaven, for aid for Zilpha E. Barrows 6.35
Town of Yarmouth, for aid for Mrs. Carlona Simmons
41.00
Town of Plymouth, for aid for Eph- raim Bell 81 00
David Shurtleff 18.75
Town of Falmouth, for aid for Clara
S. Carr 96.00
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Town of Freetown, for aid for Annie M. Harlow £ 67.00
Town of Barnstable, for aid for Eunice
H. Tinkham 15.00
Town of Wareham, for aid for Phineas
Haskins 9.00
Samuel Haskins 5.43
Old Ladies' Home, Brockton, for Patience C. Benson 90.00
City of Lawrence, for aid for Mrs. David Jones 18.65
City of New Bedford, aid for Mrs.
Mary Lawrence 169.46
Mrs. William Thornton 24.00
Chester Lawrence 3.85
May C. Washburn 9.35
City of Brockton, aid for Robert R. Clark 9.50
City of Taunton, aid for Mrs. Nancy Ashley
85.50
Emma I. Hackett 33.28
City of Boston, aid for Mrs. Evelyn Savery 6.00
828.12
In Taunton Insane Hospital :
Charles Murdock $169.46
C. Herbert Wilder
169.46
Charles H. Littlejohn
169.46
Carrie S. Bryant
169.46
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Emma K. Glancy 169.46
Thomas J. Shaw 17.64
George W. Williams
14.39
Mary E. Haskins
25.51
In Worcester Insane Hospital :
Robert Fitzsimmons 169.46
In Massachusetts School for Feeble
Minded :
Ezra O. Cobb 212.14
In State Farm at Bridgewater :
George Wallen
146.00
Joseph Wallen
146.00
In Westboro Insane Hospital :
Wallace C. Collins 78.46
In Marlboro :
Joanna O'Keefe
156.43
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Aid furnished those having settle- ments in other places :
Mrs. Hannah B. N. Bumpus, Wareham
$16.50
William Bumpus, Wareham
10.12
Charles H. Fuller, Nantucket 2.00
George W. Brackett, Lynn
20.10
D. H. Haskins, Freetown
14.00
"Ray" children, 10.13
Ezra A. Pittsley, 83.25
Mrs. Bridget A. Doherty, Woburn 16.75
Hiram B. Simmons, Duxbury . 62.00
Mrs. Amanda Glover, Plymouth
12.00
246.85
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Paid John M. Cushman, for ashes $242.08 Geo. L. Soule, funeral expenses of John Dick 23.50
Funeral expenses of a child 10.00
James A. Burgess, expenses out of town with pauper 2.50
Thos. C. Collins, for insurance 40.80
S. Mendall, expenses out of town with paupers, and cash paid 6.80
Dr. T. S. Hodgson, at almshouse, one year 50.00
Dr. T. S. Hodgson, outside alms- house, one year 100.00
S L. Nickerson and wife, super- intendent and matron 500.00
975.68
$7,516.12
Whole number in almshouse during year
19
Whole number tramps during year
568
Inmates the whole time
13
Present number
18
Number of weeks for one person
959
Average expense per week, not including super- intendent's salary $2.18
Amount real estate, Jan. 1, 1896 $9,925.00
Amount personal estate, Jan. 1, 1896
3,000.00
$12,925.00
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Amount of produce raised on the farm :
Hay
30 tons
Corn fodder
10 tons
Rye straw
2 tons
Mowed oats
2 tons
Rowen
4 tons
Squashes and pumpkins
3} tons
Corn
350 bushels
Potatoes
190 bushels
Turnips
20 bushels
Beets
28 bushels
Carrots
12} bushels
Beans
91 bushels
Parsnips
5 bushels
Rye
20 bushels
Cabbage
250 heads -
Apples
3 barrels
Butter
465 pounds
Pork
. 1,700 pounds
Beef
. 1,615 pounds
Veal
240 pounds
Milk
2,750 gallons
Cream
26 gallons
Eggs
635 dozens
Pigs
10
Fowl
85
Tomatoes, cucumbers, rhubarb, green beans, green peas, melons, etc., in abundance.
There has been but one death in the almshouse during the year, Mrs. Annie M. Perkins, who died Nov. 22.
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As has been our custom in the past, we again cordially in- vite all persons interested to call at the almshouse, and they may be sure of a hearty welcome both from the inmates and our genial superintendent and matron, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Nickerson, who will cheerfully extend to visitors the hos- pitalities of the house.
By the death on Nov. 18 of Charles T. Thatcher the Board of Overseers were bereft not only of the faithful clerk of the Board, who had served the town for ten successive years, but also an associate, with whom the pleasantest relations have always been sustained, a man faithful to the duties intrusted to him.
ANDREW C. WOOD, SYLVANUS MENDALL, Overseers of Poor.
Since the above report was prepared, Mr. Andrew C. Wood, the chairman of the Board, has passed to his rest. He quietly breathed his last on Saturday morning, February 1, 1896. His period of service on the Board covered twenty- three consecutive years, during much of which time he was chairman of the Board. As a result of a long period of inti- mate relation with Mr. Wood, no one outside of the family circle can feel more sensibly his own personal loss than the remaining member of the Board. Peculiarly fitted as he was by nature and habit for the position he occupied, the town has lost one of its best officers. Careful and considerate in the administration of his trust, the poor of the town will miss him as a kind friend and discreet adviser, and one ever mind- ful of their interests.
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