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303.79
Eddy Valve Co.
200.92
Hydraulic Development Corp.
195.80
Earl C. Fowler
159.00
E. L. LeBaron Foundry Co.
144.23
J. E. Sprague
77.00
Miscellaneous Items
4.95
Transfers :
Equipment
616.62
Labor
5,818.14
Total Expended
$ 9,995.97
Balance to Treasury
4.03
Total
$ 10,000.00
Appropriation, March 6, 1933
$ 10,000.00
Equipment :
Superintendence
$ 494.96
Schofield's Garage
1,311.94
Vulcan Tool Mfg. Co.
377.17
A. C. Trojano
328.35
Sargent Bros.
296.38
The Edson Corp.
197.88
Charles H. Chubbuck
184.45
Duncan MacKellar
175.00
Cote Bros.
157.16
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.
150.00
Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.
147.63
Ingersoll-Rand Co.
121.61
Curry Bros. Oil Co.
91.90
277
M. R. Loud & Co. Gene F. Miller Miscellaneous Items Labor
79.68
55.80
691.29
1,200.04
Total Expended
$ 6,061.24
Balance to Treasury
2,155.60
Total
$ 8,216.84
Appropriation, March 6, 1933 Transfers :
$ 2,000.00
Maintenance and Operation
$2,661.65
Private Work
1,551.47
Minor Construction
1,315.48
Replacements
616.62
Commercial Expenses
71.62
6,216.84
Total
$ 8,216.84
Commercial Expenses :
Superintendence
$ 319.84
Roger N. Butler
1,295.83
Alice J. Ashton
936.00
Marion T. Smith
935.00
Town Treasurer's Department
1,500.00
Andrew J. Housman
361.28-
Postage, etc.
791.64
Printing
143.05
L. E. Muran & Co.
198.86
Thresher Bros., Inc.
75.00
Addressograph Co.
40.82
Miscellaneous Items
111.85
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Transfers :
Equipment.
71.62
Labor
1,218.55
Total Expended
$ 8,000.34
Balance to Treasury
499.66
Total
$ 8,500.00
Appropriation, March 6, 1933
$ 8,500.00
Salaries :
Howard M. Dowd, Chairman
$ 40.00
Edwin R. Sampson, Clerk
65.00
George E. Bicknell
40 00
George W. Perry
40.00
Everett E. Callahan
25.84
278
William A. Hannaford
8.33
Joseph Crehan
5.83
Edwin R. Sampson, Treasurer
400.00
Emerson R. Dizer, Accountant
450.00
Accounting Department
550.00
Total Expended
$ 1,625.00
Balance to Treasury
25.00
Total
$
1,650.00
Appropriation, March 6, 1933
$
1,650.00
Interest :
Due, April 1, 1933
$ 662.50
Due, May 1, 1933
1,232.50
Due, July 1, 1933
180 00
Due, October 1, 1933
602.50
Due, November 1, 1933
1,136.25
Due, January 1, 1934
160.00
Total Expended
$ 3,973.75
Balance to 1934 Account
3.54
Total
$ 3,977.29
Appropriation, March 6, 1933
$ 3,973.75
Accrued Interest on Notes
3.54
Total
$ 3,977.29
Note and Bond Retirement :
Due, April 1, 1933
$ 3,000.00
Due, May 1, 1933
4.500.00
Due, July 1, 1933
1,000.00
Due, October 1, 1933
1,000.00
Due, November 1, 1933
6,000.00
Total Expended
$ 15,500.00
Appropriation, March 6, 1933
$ 15,500.00
Private Work:
Superintendence
$ 74.24
A. C. Trojano
371.68
J. E. Sprague
147.02
V. S. Croce
73.00
Lot Phillips & Co., Corp.
40.50
Miscellaneous Items
224.68
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Transfers :
Equipment
$1,551.47
Minor Construction
1,099.68
2,651.15
Labor
1,276.75
Total Expended
$ 4,859.02
Balance to General Fund
5,140.98
Total
$ 10,000.00
Appropriation, March 6, 1933
$ 10,000.00
Land Bordering Pond :
Superintendence
$ 92.12
Wm. B. Belcher
3,500.00
Helen O. Downey
3,320.00
Percy W. Belcher
450.00
K. L. Nash
50.00
American Bank Note Co.
20.50
Certifying Notes
20.00
Russell H. Whiting
18.97
Miscellaneous Items
10.78
Total Expended
$ 7,482.37
Balance to 1934 Account
19,339.59
Total
$ 26,821.96
Appropriation, March 6, 1933
$ 1.00
Balance from 1932 Account
26,820.96
Total
$ 26,821.96
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STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Appropriation Accounts:
Balance from 1932 Account: Land Bordering Pond
$ 26,820.96
Appropriations, March 6, 1933:
From Revenue :
Minor Construction
$15,000.00
Maintenance and Operation
30,000.00
Replacements
10.000.00
Equipment
2,000.00 ยท
Commercial Expenses
8,500.00
General Salaries
1,650.00
Interest
3,973.75
Debt Retirement
15,500.00
86,623.75
From General Fund:
Private Work
$10,000.00
Land Bordering Pond
1.00
10,001.00
Transfer Credits:
Minor Construction
$ 1,099.68
Equipment
6,216.84
7,316.52
Accrued Interest on Notes Sold
3.54
Total
$130,765.77
Expended :
Minor Construction
$16.049.17
Maintenance and Operation
29 953.13
Replacements
1
9 995.97
Equipment
6.061.24
Commercial Expenses
8,000.34
Salaries
1.625.00
Interest
3 973.75
Debt Retirement
15,500.00
Private Work
4.859 02
Land Bordering Pond
7,482.37
Total
103,509.99
Balance Unexpended
$ 27,255.78
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Balance to Treasury
$ 2,771.67
Balance to General Fund
5,140.98
Total
7,912.65
Balance to 1934 Account
$ 19,343.13
Land Bordering Pond
$19,339.59
Interest
3.54
$19,343.13
WATER DEPARTMENT BALANCE SHEET-DECEMBER 31, 1933
ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Treasurer's Cash
Accounts Receivable :
$19,339.59
Water Rates
$51,372.48
2
Water Construction
2,101.50
53,473.98
Revenue Reserved until Collected
53,473.98
Loan authorized
5,000.00
Surplus Revenue
31,323.60
$104,140.71
$104,140.71
DEBT ACOUNTS
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Water Debt
12 0 1 0 , 1 4
$92,500.00 Water Loan-Nov. 1, 1914
$ 3,000:00
Water Loan-May 1, 1921
3,000.00
Water-Loan-Oct. 1, 1924-
~1,000.00
Water Loan-April 1, 1925
7,000.00
Water Loan-May-1, 1926,
1.000.00
Water Loan-July 1, 1926
8.000.00
7
Water Loan-April 1, 1927.
9.000.00
P
Water Loan-May 1, 1928
10,000.00
Water Loan-May 1, 1929
11,000 00
Water Loan-Nov. 1, 1929
11,000.00
10
Water Loan-April 1, 1930
12,000.00
6
Water Loan-May 1, 1931
6.500.00
Water Loan-Dec. 1, 1933
10,000.00
$92,500.00
$92.500.00
72
2
$45,666.73 Unexpended Appropriation Balances: Land Bordering Pond Interest
3.54
19,343.13
Cash and Securities
TRUST AND INVESTMENT FUNDS $19,000.00 H. S. Moody Land Co. Fund N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Co. Bonds
$ 2,000.00 17,000.00
$19,000.00
$ 19,000.00
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ACCOUNTS
177,750 0 0
16,430.01
Land Buildings Personal Property . Water Mains, Pipes, etc.
$ 115,250.00 Real and Personal Property 39,225.00 24,297.62
$1,200,230.35
1,021,457.73
$1,200,230.35
$1,200,230.35
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EMERSON R. DIZER, Town Accountant.
284
REPORT OF TREASURER FOR WATER DEPARTMENT FOR 1933
To the Board of Water Commissioners:
The report of the Treasurer for the year 1933 is as follows: RECEIPTS FOR 1933
Water Rents
Construction Account
$ 81,056.48 4,427.34
Interest N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Bonds 31/2 per cent maturing 1954
595.00
Interest Weymouth Trust Check Account
15.73
Interest Weymouth Trust Savings Dept.
632.44
Interest South Weymouth Savings Bank
668.32
Received from Water Loan Notes
10,003.54
Total
Cash on hand January 1, 1933
44,461.35
$141,860.20
PAYMENTS FOR 1933
Paid on Selectmen's Warrants For:
Notes and Bonds 1933
$ 15.500.00
Interest on Loans
3,973.75
Land Taking
7,482.37
Accounting Department
550.00
Collection Service
1,500 00
Sundry Appropriations
67,187.35
Cash on hand December 31, 1933
45,666.73
$141,860.20
CASH ASSETS
Amount due for Water Rents
$ 51,372.48
Amount due for Construction
2,101.50
$ 53,473.98
Cash on hand December 31, 1933
45,666.73
$ 99,140.71
Less Outstanding Checks
1,740.02
Total Assets
$ 97,400.69
Due from Weymouth Trust Company Checking Account $ 5,188.61
Due from Weymouth Trust Company Savings Department
23,867.01
Due from South Weymouth Savings Bank
18,326.13
Petty Cash Drawer
25.00
$ 47,406.75
Less Outstanding Checks
1,740.02
Cash Balance December 31, 1933
$ 45,666.73
$ 97,398.85
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WATER LOAN ACCOUNT
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1934-46
31/2 per cent
$
6,500.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1934-44
4 per cent 47,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1934 41/4 per cent
1,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1934-44 41/2 per cent
14,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1934-44 5 per cent 14,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1934-43
41/4 per cent 10,000.00
Total
$ 92,500.00
INVESTMENTS
H. S. Moody Land Company Fund : Balance January 1, 1933
$ 2,187.16
Interest to December 31, 1933
83.13
Total
$ 2,270.29
N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. 31/2 per cent Bonds due 1954 $ 17,000.00
Respectfully submitted, EDWIN R. SAMPSON,
Treasurer of the Water Department.
Weymouth, Mass., Jan. 25, 1934
I have examined the accounts of Edwin R. Sampson, Treasurer and Collector of the Weymouth Water Department, and find them correct. The records of the Collector's Department have been checked with the Treasurer at least once a month during the year and I am satisfied that both reports are correct.
EMERSON R. DIZER,
Town Accountant.
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REPORT OF PLANNING BOARD
Weymouth, Mass.
January 15, 1934
Your Planning Board has met at frequent intervals, during the past year, but owing to the depression, have felt it unwise to recommend projects, which would entail the expenditure of any large sums of money.
Notwithstanding, we have continued to advocate some of the pro- jects, that we have presented in past years, together with new ones.
We are in favor of traffic lights, at Independence Square, also at Columbian Square, in some form, or another.
We are also in favor of the Town accepting our previous recom- mendations in straightening Pleasant Street, from a point south of the Weymouth Light and Power Co. in a straight line, past the Police Sta- tion, to Riley Avenue. Also beginning at a point east of Chalkes store, on Washington Street, at Lovell's Corner, continuing in a southerly di- rection, through the swamp, in the rear of the Porter Methodist Church, to the junction of Pleasant Street, opposite the estate of the late Brad- ford Hawes, continuing along Pleasant Street, with a 50 ft. with, straightening the curve, west of the Pratt School, and also the curve op- posite Pine Street.
Also the laying out of Academy Avenue from its present terminus to the junction of Broad and Essex Streets.
We would recommend that a survey of Commercial Street from Madison Square, to the junction of Middle Street be made, and also on Commercial Street, at or near Avonia Spring.
Another Street which your Planning Board, has advocated is the widening of West Street, from the Braintree line to Main Street, the plans of which have been prepared by the Town Engineer.
We organized at the beginning of the year with Frank A. Pray Chairman, Ralph H. Haskins Clerk. We are, as in the past, glad to entertain any suggestions you may care to submit.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK A. PRAY, Chairman
RALPH H. HASKINS, Clerk JOSIAH B. REED
CHARLES GRIFFIN
RUSSELL B. WHITING
ARTHUR I. NEGUS
THOMAS J. KELLY
Weymouth Planning Board -
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REPORT OF THE REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen of the Town of Weymouth : Gentlemen :
The Board of Registrars respectfully submit the following report : The total number of voters at the close of registration, June 1, 1933
Polls
Male
Female
Total
Precinct 1
1,218
952
779
1,731
Precinct 2
843
654
540
1,204
Precinct 3
1,085
937
880
1,817
Precinct 4
453
383
312
695
Precinct 5
540
468
440
908
Precinct 6
1,206
796
702
1,498
Precinct 7
527
408
335
743
Precinct 8
461
336
305
641
Precinct 9
666
549
590
1,139
6,999
5,493
4,883
10,376
EDWARD P. MURPHY
JOHN F. REARDON
BASIL S. WARREN
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT
FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY WEYMOUTH, MASS. 1933
WESSA
SET 1622
EST
ABORARE
INCERE
MASSACHUSETTS
7.1635.
635
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FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY
TRUSTEES
Gertrude C. Andrews
Joseph Kelley
John Griffin
Kenneth L. Nash
William F. Hathaway
Arthur E. Pratt
John B. Holland
Franklin N. Pratt
Clarance P. Whittle
SELECTMEN EX-OFFICIO
Everett E. Callahan
Joseph Crehan
William E. Connell Joseph E. Fern *H. Franklin Perry
OFFICERS Clarance P. Whittle, President Gertrude C. Andrews, Secretary
LIBRARIAN Christine E. Evarts
Rachael M. Bodine
Ruth B. Clark
ASSISTANTS Alice M. Gowdy Edith L. Payson
Mary L. Smith
BRANCH LIBRARIANS Mary M. Dingwall, North Weymouth Branch Martha J. Hawes, East Weymouth Branch
JANITOR Thomas E. Shea
Deceased
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INFORMATION
Hours : Main Library : 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. daily. Children's Room 2:30 to 6 P. M. daily ; Saturday 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.
Summer hours : July and August, 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Saturday 9 A. M. to 9 P.M.
Branches : 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P. M. daily, except Wednesday.
The library and the branches are not open Sundays, legal holidays, nor the 17th of June.
The library is for the use of all the residents of Weymouth. Tem- porary residents are entitled to the same privileges as permanent residents.
Each card issued to an adult entitles the holder to one book of recent fiction (a book published within the last year), one current periodical, and any reasonable number of other books.
Children under senior high school age are entitled to a card if the application is signed by a parent or guardian. Cards issued to children entitle the holders to two books, only one of which may be fiction.
All books from the circulating department, except the new fiction, may be kept for fourteen days. At the request of the borrower any book not in popular demand will be charged for one month, subject to recall after two weeks if requested by other borrowers. Fiction published within the last calendar year, and recent numbers of maga- zines are limited to seven days with no renewal privilege.
The vacation privilege allows a borrower to take books which are not recent publications for an extended time.
A book cannot be transferred from one card to another, but any fourteen-day book may be renewed at the library, by mail, or by *telephone, unless another borrower has asked to have the book re- served. The date due, the author and title of the book, and the bor- rower's name should be stated when the request for renewal is made.
Any book will be reserved at the request of a borrower, who will be notified as soon as the book is available. A charge of one cent is made for this privilege in the case of fiction.
A fine of two cents a day will be incurred for each day's deten- tion of a book after it is due. When a book is sent for by the librarian it will be at the expense of the borrower.
Cases of contagious diseases are reported to the library by the Board of Health, and all books which have been exposed to contagion are burned.
For the convenience of residents living in different parts of the town, books are exchanged through the delivery stations once a week as follows :
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Lovell's Corner, W. B. Chalke & Sons
Tuesday
South Weymouth, Fogg Memorial Library Tuesday
South Weymouth, Alfred S. Tirrell Tuesday
East Weymouth, East Weymouth Branch Thursday
North Weymouth, North Weymouth Branch Friday
Weymouth Heights, Adams School
Thursday
Application for borrower's cards may be made at the stations as well as at the library and branches.
The library publishes a bulletin of new books several times dur- ing the year. This will be distributed through the library and its agencies, and sent to any resident upon request.
* Telephone 1309-M
FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT THE TUFTS LIBRARY
The fifty-fifth annual report of the Tufts Library is herewith respectfully submitted :
The year which has just closed has been a period of crisis and difficult readjustment for all our people, and in increasing numbers men and women who have held their determination to fight through and keep their courage, have sought through books a clearer under- standing and an increased knowledge of their business, trade, or pro- fession, so that they may be better equipped to meet the future. As a result, the library has been called upon to give the community an ever enlarging service. In the three years since the depression was first acutely felt by the majority of people, the circulation of books in the Tufts Library has increased 29%. The changing interests and needs of the people are reflected in this growth. The demand in this period for books on religion and philosophy has more than doubled ; more books dealing with economic and social conditions, both here and in other parts of the world, have been read than of any other type except fiction ; and there is a need among our people who cannot read English, and who in times of unemployment turn to the library for books in their own language. A gain of 100% in the circulation of foreign language books shows us our opportunity for Americaniza- tion. The increase in the demand upon the resources of the library was felt in largest measure during the first nine months of 1933. The new interests, and the new hope that has come in recent weeks with the re-employment of many of our citizens, has lessened somewhat the amount of reading, but the people will continue to turn to the library for information and guidance, and for the fulfillment of the always urgent need for recreational reading. The public library is almost the only place where wholesome recreation is provided without charge.
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During 1933, 104,231 books were circulated from the main library, 39,759 from the North Weymouth Branch and 45,023 from the East Weymouth Branch. Separate figures have been kept this year, also, for the little deposit station which was opened on April 13th in the Adams School. The circulation there since its opening has been 4,591, making a total for all departments of 193,604. This is the largest in the history of the library. It is an increase of 13,477 over the figures for 1932 and is approximately double the circulation for the year 1925.
In these days of retrenchment and of increased work, it is seldom that a library is able to report an enlargement of its facilities for service to the public. But through the cooperation of the school de- partment the Tufts Library was enabled to open a deposit station in the Adams School at Weymouth Heights without incurring a larger expenditure than the former service had entailed. A most attractive room has been fitted up with shelving for books, and a large table at which the books are charged and returned. This was opened to the public the middle of April with 540 books and magazines on its shelves. It replaced the weekly delivery of books which had been made through the Economy Store, and although service is still available only once a week, in the thirty-eight days in which it has been open to the public, its 540 books have circulated 4,591 times. The circulation from January to April through the Economy Store brings the total for the year up to 5,347, a gain of 3,252 over 1932. The library board greatly appreciates all that the school department has done to make possible a more adequate library service to that neighborhood.
Statistics of registration are another index of the growth of the Tufts Library. In 1933 the number of new borrowers who registered for library privileges was 1,451, an average of 121 a month. Sixty-four per cent of these were 'adults, many of them long time residents of Weymouth who are finding the library a resource during difficult and uncertain days.
The activities of the Children's Room have gone forward normally. There has been from this department a circulation of 25,180 books, which together with the juvenile books circulated through the branches, makes a total juvenile circulation of 52,381. Story hours have been held in the library each Saturday morning during the winter months. There has been an average attendance at these group meet- ings of twenty-two boys and girls, and the stories chosen have been such as would stimulate interest in reading the more worthwhile of the children's books. The library has cooperated with the schools through loans both of books and pictures. The children's librarian has visited every elementary school in the town, and upon request has given several book talks in the class rooms. A number of exhibits in the Children's Room have called attention to worthwhile books, or books upon some special subject. The outstanding exhibit of the year is always that of Good Book Week, and the Children's Room is visited by many adults as well as children during this annual display of the new books and the fine editions of old favorites. The book week activities are advertised in the schools, and each year there has been a closer cooperation between the two departments.
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For the fifth consecutive year the Literary Committee of the Mon- day Club has cooperated with the library on the reviewing of new books. One hundred seventy-six books have passed through their hands during the last club year. The library greatly appreciates the service given it in this way. On Tuesday of Good Book Week, the group met in the Parents' and Teachers' Room of the library and Miss Bodine, the children's librarian, told them about the outstanding chil- dren's books of the year.
The library has also been glad to welcome a group from both the Monday Club and the Old Colony Club who met weekly for six weeks to study parliamentary procedure. The Parents' and Teachers' Room, which opens off of the Children's Room, may be made available for small group gatherings of an educational or civic nature at any time during library hours, upon application to the librarian.
Again this year the library was asked by the Simmons College School of Library Science to take one of the seniors for the period of her practice work, and Miss Martha Kierstadt was working and ob- serving in the library system for two weeks in the spring.
A few changes in the arrangement of the furniture in the main library Reading Room were made in the autumn. The new arrange- ment is pleasing and gives better working conditions and much more effective supervision. This was essential with the greatly increased use of the library.
On June 14th the library and branches were closed for two hours at the time of the funeral of Mr. Franklin H. Perry, Selectman of the Town of Weymouth and ex-officio a trustee of the Tufts Library.
There have been no changes in the professional staff throughout the year. In July, Mr. Arthur Blanchard, who had been janitor at the East Weymouth Branch, was obliged to retire because of illness. Mr. Benjamin Ells was secured as a substitute and upon the death of Mr. Blanchard, a little later, Mr. Ells was regularly hired for the position.
With the organization of the Civil Works Administration in De- cember the library was asked to cooperate in furnishng employment, and has undertaken a project using five workers in clerical work and on the mending of worn books.
The Trustees wish to extend their sincere thanks to Mrs. Mary Fifield King for her generous gift of many old manuscripts of interest in early Weymouth history and her provision of a cabinet to house the Fifield Collection. The little old books look well behind the leaded glass doors of the new cases and there is ample space for the display of material of historic interest.
They also wish to thank for gifts of books, the following persons : Samuel J. Worthen, Miss Annie E. Richards, Miss Rachael Bodine, Mrs. Wilbur Truax, Mr. T. M. Knappen, Miss Frances Sullivan, Mr. M. T. Chernin, Mr. Andrew Morrisey, Captain Austin, Mr. K. K. Kawakami, Weymouth Historical Society, Society of the Latter Day Saints, American Bureau of Shipping, and the Dennison Manufactur- ing Co., also, Mr. Franklin Pratt for a set of pictures of Benjamin Franklin.
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To the friends and neighbors who have shared their garden flowers with the library both the staff and the readers are grateful. The flowers have been very beautiful and have added much to the attractiveness of the rooms.
The Trustees also wish to take this opportunity to express their appreciation for the gifts of bulletins and reports received from other libraries, and for the exhibits generously loaned by Mr. Eric Kelley, Miss Mae Chessman, Mrs. Edward MacDonald, and the Proctor & Gamble Soap Company.
In accordance with the standards set forth by the council of the American Library Association, the Tufts Library endeavors to give every man, woman and child of Weymouth "the means of self-educa- tion and of recreational reading. The library provides materials for education and advice in their use. It diffuses information and ideas necessary to the present welfare and future advancement of the com- munity. It strengthens and extends appreciation of the cultural and spiritual values of life. It offers opportunity for constructive use of the new leisure. It serves all ages and all classes."
Respectfully submitted, C. P. WHITTLE, Chairman By order and on behalf of the Trustees.
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AMERICAN. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION FORM OF STATISTICS
For the year ending December 31, 1933
Population served (Census of 1930)
20,882
Assessed valuation of town
$47,037,748.00
Total number of agencies, consisting of
Main Library
1
Branches
2
Deposit station
1
3
Delivery stations Schools
12
Number of days open during the year
302
Total valuation of library property
$104,600.00
Number of volumes at beginning of year
45,742
Number of volumes added by purchase
1,902
Number of volumes added by gift
67
Number of volumes added by binding
70
Number of volumes lost or withdrawn
951
Total number of volumes at end of year
46,830
Number of volumes of fiction lent
148,240
Total number of volumes lent
193,604
Number of borrowers registered
6,618
Number of new borrowers registered in 1933
1.451
Number of periodicals received : 116 titles; 171 copies.
Receipts from
Payments for
Town appropriation
$19,576.00
Books and periodicals $3,758.10
Endowment funds 1,025.75
Binding
764.48
Salaries, library service, janitor service
11,511.14
Heat 421.10
Light
383.59
Rent (Branches)
1,890.00
Other expenses 1,872.02
Unexpended balance
1.32
$20,601.75
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