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C. WAKEFIELD LIBRARY FUND, $500.
This fund is also for the benefit of the Library and is invested in the same manner as the Dr. Hurd Fund. The sum of $20 has been paid as interest to the Treasurer of the Library.
C. SWEETSER BURIAL LOT FUND, $1,000.
The income from this fund is to be used in keeping in repair and beautifying with flowers and shrubbery the burial lot of the parents of the donor. The principal is on deposit with the Wakefield Sav- ings Bank.
STATEMENT OF INTEREST.
Balance available at last report,
$371 68
Interest on above to Feb. 1, 1894,
14 87
Interest from Wakefield Savings Bank to Aug. 1, 1893,
40 20
Total,
$425 75
Expended as per Auditors' report,
3 00
Balance available,
$423 75
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C. SWEETSER LECTURE FUND, $10,000.
This fund is now invested as follows :
Town of Attleboro 4s, due 1897, 5 Bonds $1,000 each, . $5,000 00 City of Boston, 4s, due 1899, 5 Bonds, $1,000 each, · 5,000 00
$10,000 00
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
Received from Attleboro bonds,
$200 00
Town of Wakefield note,
123 32
66 City of Boston bonds, 66 81
$390 13
The above amount has been paid to the Treasurer of the Sweetser Lectures.
This fund is for the purpose of providing such lectures as will tend to improve the public mind. A reasonable fee for admission is re- quired and the net proceeds of the course are to be paid to such charitable organization in said Wakefield as the municipal officers of the town may designate, to be distributed among the worthy poor of the town.
The arrangement of the course the present year was such that it would not close until Feb. 21. It was, therefore, not possible to render a financial report in season to print herewith. The course. consists of six lectures, the course tickets being placed at 60 cents each, and the evening admissions at 15 cents each. The attendance has been smaller than usual, the audiences not averaging over two hundred. A financial statement will be given to the local press at the close of the course, and will be inserted in the next annual report.
The Treasurer desires to call attention to the fact that the three first named trusts are not invested funds. These were treated by the former treasurer as gifts to the town, the money passed into the common treasury, and used in the ordinary business channels, and interest upon the principals were allowed for the purposes named in the gift. The present treasurer has therefore continued the same method in the disbursement of interest, and for the purpose of keeping the matters properly before the town has reported them
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annually as "Trust Funds" although no funds ever came to his hands representing such trusts. It would seem desirable that the town should at some time set apart from its appropriations a sun sufficient to cover at least the Flint Memorial and the Nichols Tem- perance funds, and invest them either as a loan to the town or in other securities, and that they hereafter be held as trust funds in their true sense, to be added to by further gifts from other generous donors.
STATE AID.
The Treasurer has paid the following. individuals State Aid by di- rection of the, Selectmen. This amount is reimbursed by the state.
Wm. W. Bessey,
$48 00
Margaret Madden, $48 00
Walter B. Berry,
12 00
Elizabeth Moses, 48 00
Margaret Bladden, 40 00
Elizabeth A. Miller, 36 00
Mary V. Brown, 48 00
Mary Newhall, 48 00
Augusta M. Chandler, 48 00
Adah E. Cowdrey,
48 00
Dennis O'Connell, 36 00
Lizzie S. Cutter,
48 00
James Oliver, 54 00
John Davis,
36 00
Johanna Orpin, 48 00
Annette Davis,
36 00
W. D. Parker, 48 00
Elizabeth Denison,
48 00
Flora W. Parker, 48 00
James Dupar,
48 00
Florence A. B. Ryder,
48 00
Hannah Dupar,
24 00
Emily O. Stoddard,
48 00
Rodney Edmands,
72 00
William Sweeney,
24 00
WVm. O. Evans,
36 00
John P. Swain,
32 00
Frances F. Evans,
6 00
Jas. T. Toothacker,
14 00
Honora Evans,
48 00
Lydia B. Ward,
48 00
Francis M. Ellis,
14 00
Maria Welch,
48 00
Patrick Fay,
24 00
Geo. H. Wiley,
50 00
Mary Fay,
12 00
Julia A. Wiley,
48 00
Isaac E. Green,
24 00
Louisa Winch,
48 00
Mary A. Hall,
48 00
Hiram Woodis,
53 00
Micah Heath,
48 00
Hannah M. Wheeler, 21 00
T. J. Keough,
54 00
Matilda L. Kidder,
48 00
Total, .
. $1,976 00
Lucinda Locke,
48 00
Vasti Woodis, 12 00
Justin Howard,
J. B. Wheeler, 10 00
N. C. Hunter,
24 00
Lucien E. Newhall, 8 00
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RECEIPTS FROM LICENSES.
$2 00
Chas. F. Hartshorne, auctioneer, John Day,
2 00
J. S. Bonney, 6th class liquor,
I 00
C. F. Gilman, 66
I OO
J. C. Oxley,
66
I 00
W. H. Brooks, 66
(two)
2 00
S. E. Ryder,
66 .
(two)
2 00
W. H. Packard, victualler,
2 00
Smith & Dean, 66
·
2
00
Crawford Cafe,
2
Mrs. Kitchen, 66
2 00
E. S. Smith, innholder,
2 00
66 fireworks,
I 00
C. A. Cheney, 66
I 00
A. Butler,
I 00
E. E. Lee,
I
Cutler Bros.,
I 00
G. E. Jarvis, show, .
2 00
Scribner & Smith's circus,
5 00
Hunting's
6 25
Kickapoo Indians,
16 50
C. H. Keene, hack, .
.
I OO
$56 75
LIST OF TAX DEEDS HELD BY TREASURER FOR NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES.
No.
To whom Taxed.
Tax of
Date of Deed.
Am't.
104
Aurelius L. Brown,
1885.
July 13, 1887.
$8 95
109
Sarah W. Stevens, .
1887.
July 13, 1889.
37 33
113
John D. Young,
1888.
Aug. 11, 1890.
6 27
II4
Isaac Evans,
1888.
Aug. 11, 1890.
6 27
115
Stephen D. Learnard,
1889.
June 27, 1891.
7 48
I16
Samuel P. Abbott,
1889.
June 27, 1891.
7 48
II7
Cyrus N. Campbell,
1889.
June 27, 1891.
6 75
118
Samuel P. Abbott,
1890.
June
6, 1892.
7 55
119
Stephen D. Learnard,
1890.
June
6, 1892.
7 55
I2I
Frank I. Barrett.
1891.
July
3, 1893.
IO 33
I22
Samuel P. Abbott,
1891.
July
3, 1893.
7 65
124
Stephen D. Learnard,
1891.
July
3, 1893.
7 65
125
Martha M. C. Reid,
1891.
July
3, 1893.
50 45
I 26
Sylvanus Toppan, .
1891.
July
3, 1893.
84 83
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NOTE ACCOUNT.
NOTES ISSUED.
Date.
Amount.
Account.
Rate.
When Payable.
Mch. 7, '93,
$10,000 00 Temporary Loan,.
5 1-2 per centum,
Oct. 7, 1893.
Mch. 9, '93,
10,000 00 Temporary Loan,
|4 1-4 per centum,
Oct.
9, 1893.
June 1, '93,
10,000 00
Temporary Loan,
5 1-2 per centum,
Oct. 1, 1893.
Aug. 3, '93,
5,000 00
Temporary Loan,
6 per centum,
Oct. 3, 1893.
Oct. 26, '93,
5,000
Temporary Loan,
5 1-4 per centum,
Oct. 26, '93,
5,000 00
Temporary Loan,
5 1-4 per centum,
Sept. 26, 1894. Sept. 26, 1894. Oct. 2, 1894.
Nov. 2, '93,
5,000 00
Temporary Loan,
5 1-4 per centum,
Nov. 23, '93.
5,000
Temporary Loan,
4 3-8 per centum,
Sept, 23, 1894.
Nov. 23, '93,
5,000 00 Temporary Loan,
4 3-8 per centum,
Sept. 23, 1894.
Dec. 21, '93,
5,000 00
Temporary Loan,
4 per centum,
Sept. 21, 1894.
Jan. 1I, '94,
5,000 00 Temporary Loan,
3 3-4 per centum, per centum, 4
Sept. 11, 1894. Demand.
NOTES PAID.
Date of Note.
When paid.
Amount.
Account.
Nov. 17, 1892,
Sept.
17,'93,
$5,000 00 Temporary Loan.
Feb.
1, 1893,
Sept.
17,'93,
5,000 00 Temporary Loan.
Dec.
1, 1892,
Sept.
17,'93,
5,000 00 Temporary Loan.
Dec.
1, 1892,
Oct.
I, '93,
5,000 00 Temporary Loan.
July
7, 1884,
Sept.
20, '93,
1,000 00 Park Loan,
Feb.
1, 1890,
Sept.
30, '93,
1,000 00|
Park Loan.
June
1, 1893,
Oct.
I, '93,
10,000
Temporary Loan.
Aug.
3, 1893,
Oct.'
3,'93;
5,000 00
Temporary Loan.
Mch.
7, 1893,
Oct.
7,'93,
10,000 00
Temporary Loan.
Mch.
9, 1893,
Oct.
9, '93,
10,000
Temporary Loan.
May
1, 1891,
Nov.
I, '93,
5,000 Lincoln School House.
Nov. 13, 1883,
Nov.
13, '93,
1,500 00 Hamilton School House.
June 1, 1888,
Dec.
I, '93,
5,000 00 Funded Loan.
Total,
$68,500 00
.
Jan. 18, '94,
3,000 00 Temporary Loan,
Total,
$73,000 00
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LOAN ACCOUNT.
Amount of loan, Feb. 1, 1893,
$105,160 84 Since hired by Treasurer,
· 73,000 00
Amount paid since Feb. 1, 1893, .
$178,160 84 . 68,500 00
Distributed as follows :
Demand note to order of Treasurer,
$3,000 00
Thomas Winship, Cashier, due Sept. 11, 1894, 66 66 21, 1894,
. 5,000 00
Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook, “ 66 23, 1894,
5,000 00
23, 1894, · 5,000 00
66
66
66
66 26, 1894, 26, 1894,
5,000 00
Wakefield Savings Bank,
Oct. 2, 1894, 5,000 00
66 6, 1894, 2,323 34
5 Coupon Notes to bearer, $1,000 ea., due Nov. 1, 1894, 5,000 00
66 66 $1,000 ea., “ Dec. 1, 1894, 5,000 00 5
Wakefield Savings Bank, due Oct. 1, 1895, 3,000 00
" 6, 1895,
1,337 50 5 Coupon Notes to bearer, $1,000 ea., due Nov. 1, 1895, $5,000 00 4 66
66 $1,000 ea.,
" Dec. 1, 1895, 4,000 00
5
66 $1,000 ea., Nov. 1, 1896, 5,000 00 4 66
66 $1,000 ea., Dec. 1, 1896, 4,000 00
66 $1,000 ea., " Nov. 1, 1897,
5,000 00
66
66
66 $1,000 ea.,
Dec. 1, 1897,
4,000 00
$1,000 ea., 66 " Nov. 1, 1898, 5,000 00 5
5
66
66
$1,000 ea.,
Nov. 1, 1900,
5,000 00
5
$1,000 ea., 66 Nov. 1, 1901, 5,000 00 5
" Nov. 1, 1902,
8,000 00
Wakefield Savings Bank,
Total,
$109,660 84
.
. 5,000 00
66
· 5,000 00
66
66 66 66
66
66
5
4
66
$1,000 ea., Nov. 1, 1899, 5,000 00
$109,660 84
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Dr. THOMAS J. SKINNER, Treasurer,
To Cash balance in Treasury as per report Feb. 10, '93, $757 71 hired on Town Notes, .
73,000 00
Chas. F. Woodward, Collector, taxes of 1893, . 66 66 .
. 68,243 08
1892, . · 8,556 86
66 1891,. . 7,013 02
State Treasurer, account Corporation taxes,
66 66
National bank taxes,
1,072 II
66 State Aid, 1892, .
.
1,880 50
66 66 66 Military Aid, 1892, 295 00
County Treasurer, Dog Tax, 1893,
570 20
66 rent of Court Room,
200 00
Overseers of the Poor, receipts, 1,812 52
Road Commissioners, 66
38I II
Selectmen, receipts from Town Hall, .
607 00
School Committe, tuition, . 190 00
66 sale of stove, .
15 00
Fire Department, " " “ etc., .
5 25
W. N. Tyler, Clerk of Court, bal. of fines due town, ·
295 03
J. M. Fisk, House of Correction, 66 66 66
132 50
Tax Deeds, released, ·
74 94
Sundry Licenses, 56 75
Insurance on High School House in part, . 332 15
Concrete bills from J. S. Rounds and C. F. Boynton, . 61 92
IV. G. Strong, committee, for fence, 15 00
Surplus from Collector's tax sales, 14 49
Interest on Sweetser Lecture Fund,
423 32
66 Beebe Town Library Funds,
180 00
66 Sweetser Burial Lot Fund,
40 20
" deposits,
31 58
66
66
rebated, .
10 00
28 39
Mrs. H. A. Shepard, librarian, receipts, Junius Beebe, donation to library,
100 00
·
$169,826 65
·
3,431 02
66 66
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in account with the TOWN OF WAKEFIELD, Cr.
By cash paid Selectmen's orders, . $78,121 37
Principals on loans,
. 68,500 00
Interest 66 " 5,639 02
State Treasurer, State tax,
5,350 00
66
Bank tax,
907 58
66 I-4 Liquor License receipts, I 75
County Treasurer, County Tax, ·
4,368 61
State Aid to sundry persons, 1,976 00
Town Library bills (see Library finances),
1,229 73
Reading room bills 66
174 33
T. J. Skinner, Treas. Sweetser Lectures, income of Fund 390 13
Chas. F. Woodward, Collector, acct. Tax deeds, 223 09
Cash paid account J. Nichols Temperance Fund,
30 00
F. M. Crosby, refunded for tax deed,
12 25
C. W. Eaton, account tax deeds, 13 00
Interest advanced, city of Boston bonds, . 33 19
Interest on Flint Memorial Fund,
60 00
Total cash paid out, .
$167,030 05 Balance in treasury Feb. 10, 1894, .
. 2,796 60
$169,826 65
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Dr. THOMAS J. SKINNER, Treasurer,
To Balance unexpended from last year,
$165 04 Annual appropriation, 300 00 Dog tax of 1892, 561 94
Interest from Dr. Hurd Fund, I yr. to Dec. 1, 1893, 100 00 66 C. Wakefield Fund, I yr. to Dec. 1, '93, 20 00
66 " Flint Memorial. Fund, to Feb. 1, 1894, 60 00 Donation from Mr. Junius Beebe,
100 00
Mrs. H. A. Shepard, librarian, fines, cards, etc., 24 64 ·
66 66 sale of catalogues, .
3 75
$1,335 37
Dr. THOMAS J. SKINNER, Treasurer,
To Annual appropriation,
$175 00
$175 00
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in account with the BEEBE TOWN LIBRARY, Cr.
By Mrs. H. A. Shepard, Librarian, salary to Feb. 1, 1894, $600 00 66 66 sundry supplies, . · 20 97
Little, Brown & Co., books,
$239 19
N. J. Bartlett & Co.,
178 73
Colby & Rich, 4 88
Dean Dudley, 66
2 00
W. E. Rogers, 66
3 00
427 80
H. W. Upham, repairs of books, .
59 80
F. J. Barnard & Co., " "
3 06
V. H. Hall & Co., paper,
17 04
Greenough, Adams & Cushing, sundries,
I 65
A. W. Brownell, printing, 46 50
M. P. Foster,
2 60
Wakefield Record, advertising,
2 40
Pierce's express,
5 30
Geo. H. Taylor & Co., repairs,
8 96
H. T. Mitchell, 66
23 65
Thomas E. Dwyer,
6 75
Bernard Blythe, 66
3 25
Total expended,
$1,229 73
Balance unexpended, .
.
.
105 64
$1,335 37
in acct. with the PUBLIC READING ROOM, Cr.
By C. A. Cheney, periodicals,
$158 33
National Binder Co., repairs,
16 00
Total expended,
$174 33
Balance unexpended,
67
$175 00
.
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TOWN DEBT.
Amount of Notes outstanding, $109,660 84
Accrued interest to Feb. 1, 1894, 683 68 Outstanding Town Orders, . 1,452 00
Balance of interest due J. Nichols Fund, 206 46
C. Sweetser Burial Lot,
423 75
Unexpended balance Beebe Town Library,
105 64
66
New Drinking fountain,
150 00
66 Plans for Assessors,
100 00
66 Lincoln school house, .
1,578 17
Total,
$114,360 54
LESS AVAILABLE ASSETS.
Cash balance in Treasury, . $2,796 60
Due from State for State Aid, 1893,
. 2,131 00
66 Military Aid, 1893, . 322 00
County for rent of Court Room, ·
100 00
Uncollected taxes, 1893, warrant, . . 26,804 03
66 66 1892,
. 9,499 62
Total,
$41,653 25.
Net debt, .
$72,707 29
COMPARISON.
Net debt as reported Feb. 10, 1893, £ 66 above, ·
. $82,629 36
. . 72,707 29
Decrease in net debt, .
. $9,922 07
Total loans reported above, .
$109,660 84
Feb. 1, 1893,
105,160 84
Increase total loans,
. $4,500 00
NOTE .- The increase in total debt, while the net debt shows a decrease, is, owing to the unusual large amount in uncollected taxes.
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INTEREST ACCOUNT.
Appropriation authorized, Expended,
.
· $4,500 00
Paid Coupon interest, . . $2,680 00
Wakefield Savings Bank,
. 1,18I 33
Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook, . 1,031 76
Thomas Winship, Cashier,
329 06
State Treasurer,
212 50 .
Sweetser Lecture Fund, .
123 32
Lynn Institute for Savings,
52 16
Southbridge Savings Bank,
28 89
Flint Memorial Fund, .
60 00
J. Nichols, Temperance Fund,
47 55
C. Sweetser Burial Lot Fund,
14 87
$5,761 44
Excess,
. 1,261 44
$4,500 00
The Treasurer was obliged to exceed the amount appropriated for Interest Account. This was due to the higher rates prevailing dur- ing most of the year and also from the fact that more money than usual was required for temporary loans. As the law requires that all interest shall be raised by taxation annually (Chap. 29, Sec. 9) the Treasurer would recommend that the sum of $7,000 be appropriated for Interest the present year, which unless some unforseen exigency arises will be sufficient to cover the excess of the past year.
To provide also for an increasing balance during the past three years, between the amount of temporary loans and the amount of uncollected taxes, caused by overdrawal of appropriations and the occasional omission from the tax levy of appropriations which should have been included, the Treasurer would recommend that the sum. of $3,000 be appropriated for the payment of the Town Debt.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS J. SKINNER, Treasurer.
BOSTON, Feb. 10, 1894.
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tended to provide. It is true, the people might save money in their tax bills, but if their streets were impassable in win- ter, or dangerous to travel for want of repair, or if there were no means of pure water supply for domestic, mechan- ical and manufacturing purposes, nor for fire protection ade- quate for saving life and property ; if, from the sanitary con- ditions of the place, the death rate was abnormally large ; if police and fire department were inadequate or inefficient and school facilities poor, the money saved in the tax rate would be lost over and over again, year after year, in the social and mercantile stagnation which such an order of things would inevitably superinduce.
The whole tendency of your modern life goes to show that one of the surest ways to create municipal wealth is to know how (which is seeing things rightly ) to spend money freely but yet judiciously, and that economy in expenditures to save the cent or the dollar one has then in his pocket, may be just as disastrous in its results to the future well-being of the individual, or the municipality, as extravagance. The public sense governing a town is a standing advertisement of it spread before the public. Municipal affairs of our town should be so conducted as to realize to its people the full value of every cent expended. and this calls for time, thought and labor from municipal officers.
Municipal wealth does not take care of itself any more than private wealth. It needs, and has got to have human care, to preserve it from the " tooth of time." The machin- ery and housing of an idle mill will soon rust out and go to decay without human care. Perhaps it can all be summed up by saying, that sometimes trying to save money ends in travagance, and sometimes freely spending it ends in economy.
Our vision, as a tax-paying citizen, must be larger than our nose or the street we live on, and larger than the lot of land we occupy, and must be directed along the line of the future needs of our municipal growth (not wants).
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Spending before earning, is often necessary in both indi- vidual and municipal life, to maintain our position intact, but, nevertheless, it mortgages the future to the present and should not be indulged in any more than is absolutely neces- sary by any person or community. Every worthy success in life is the result of an intelligent plan, with a thinker and a worker behind it, and we ask our good citizens, one and all, to harness their thoughts to the car of progress, and, entering the race, make Wakefield second to none.
Respectfully submitted,
OTIS V. WATERMAN, S. J. PUTNEY, DANIEL EVANS, CHARLES E. WALTON, G. W. HARRINGTON,
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Selectmen of Wakefield.
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OVERSEERS' REPORT.
Affairs in the poor department remain about the same as they were last year. The farm is in good condition and has been kept up to the standard of other years. The buildings are in fair repair with the exception of the barn which needs shingling, and for which we must have an appropriation this year, as it leaks badly and is beyond repair.
Some muck has been obtained this year and some meadow land reclaimed.
As last year we have received over one thousand dollars for milk. It is hard work to raise pork with our present accommodations as we have to put the hogs under the barn which was built over a slough hole and is, therefore, wet all the time ; notwithstanding this fact we have a large herd growing.
There have been two deaths the past year at the house and a. great deal of sickness.
In the outside department the calls have been very large, especially the past month or six weeks. Many persons being out of employ- ment apply for fuel to tide themselves over the winter but can get along otherwise. The expenditure for our insane account has in- creased over three hundred dollars over last year and is likely to increase more this year.
We have eighteen persons in our state institutions at our expense, three of whom are refunded.
We have engaged the services of the present superintendent, Mr. Donald and his wife, for another year.
Respectfully submitted,
HIRAM EATON, W. A. CUTTER, WILLIS S. MASON, '
Overseers of the Poor.
WAKEFIELD, Feb. 10, 1894.
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AUDITORS' REPORT.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1893-4.
Interest on Town Debt, . $4,500 00 .
Payment of Town Debt, 2,500 00 ·
Support of Schools,
21,750 00 ·
School Contingent Fund, 1,000 00%
School Text Books and Supplies,
1,250 00
Poor Department ($1500 voted Nov. 13, 1893),
6,500 00
Highways and Bridges ($3,000 voted Dec. 5,
1893),
· 8,000 00
Macadamizing Main Street,
2,000 00
Albion Street, . .
1,000 00
Fire Department ($950 voted Nov. 13, 1893),
3,550 00
Public Library, 300 00
Reading Room,
175 00
Salaries Town Officers,
3,175 00
Street Lights,
3,000 00
Town House expenses.
2,000 00
repairs,
300 00
Miscellaneous Expenses ($2,000 voted Jan. 22, 1894,
8,500 00
Rental of Hydrants,
4,400 00
Police Department ($150 voted Nov. 13, 1893),
1,150 00
Common and Park expenses, .
350 00
New Engine House ($125 voted Nov. 29, 1893),
625 00
New Engine House, balance 1892,
1,806 15
Widening Chestnut Street.
75 00
Steadman Street, · .
75 00
Park avenue, .
75 00,
.
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Plans for Assessors,
$100 00
Fish Committee expenses,
25 00
Memorial Day,
200 00
New Street Lights,
65 00
Superintendent Fire Alarm,
75 00
New Fire Alarmı Boxes, .
250 00
Superintendent of Schools,
1,000 00
Extension Emerson Street,
50 00
Repairs Spring Street, . .
500 00
Widening Main Street, Lakeside,
1,000 00
Draining Elm Street, 250 00
Concrete Sidewalks.
500 00
Concrete Sidewalks Repairs,
500 00
Night Watch,
.
1,800 00
Forest Fire Ward's bills,
300 00
Claim of J. Laybolt, (voted Nov. 13, 1893),
250 00
Greenwood Hose House, balance 1892,
65 01
New School House, balance 1892,
1,878 17
New Drinking Fountain, (voted Nov. 13, 1893),
150 00
Lake Street Culvert,
200 00
New Hydrants, 66 60 .
225 00
Real Estate and Bld'g Asso'n, Gould Street, (voted Nov. 13, 1893), · .
300 00
Water Street Sidewalk, (voted Dec. 5, 1893), 40 00
Total, . . $87,779 33
Balances from 1892 available in 1893, .
. $3,749 33 .
Voted at annual meeting,
75,140 00
" since «
8,890 00
Total, .
. $87,779 33
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
March 6; 1893. Appropriation authorized, . $21,750 00
Expended as follows :
1
.
.
.
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·
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TEACHERS' SALARIES.
Pay Rolls, 1 year, to Feb. 1, 1894, . $17,790 20
Town of Melrose, Tuition of Maud Stamford
and C. Vose, 1 yr. to July 1, 1893, . 30 00
$17,820 20
JANITORS' SERVICES.
Geo. E. Gamage, Lincoln, to Feb. 1, 1894, $660 00
Wm. H. Wiley, High, 1, " 335 00
Noah M. Eaton, West and Hamilton, to July 1, 1894, 115 00
Mrs. Lucy A. Hill, Franklin Street, to Feb. 1,'94, .
122 50
Frank Murphy, Woodville, to Feb. 1, 1894, .
40 00
Noah M. Eaton, Hamilton, 5 mos. to Feb. 1, '94, 75 00
A. W. Ventress, West, 5 " 1. « 40 00
B. F. Shedd, North, to Feb. 1, 1894, 40 00 .
I. F. Sheldon, South, 1 year, to Feb. 1, 1894, 80 00
Chas. Drury, East Ward, 40 weeks,
40 00
$1,547 50
MILITARY EXPENSES.
Philip J. Flanders, drill master, to June 1, '93, 100 00
Jas. H. Keough, opening Armory 50 times at 75c. 37 50
$137 50
FUEL ACCOUNT.
Haley & Jones, 20 tons furnace coal,
$127 00
66 13 1-2 cords of wood, 71 00
Wakefield Coal Co., 6 tons egg and furnace coal, Lehigh Wilkes Barre Coal Co., 300 tons, 300 lbs. coal,
39 75
1,441 34
Boston & Maine R.R., freight on coal from Salem 180 15 Arthur Greenough, hauling and basketing coal, 98 75 I. F. Sheldon, sawing and split'g 1 1-2 c'd wood 3 00 B. F. Shedd, 66 wood, . 1 25
134
J. Bransfield, sawing and splitting wood, $3 50
A. W. Ventress, “ .. 66 1 50
Geo. E. Gamage, housing wood,
.
1 00
N. M. Eaton, sawing wood, .
3 08
Mrs. L. A. Hill, housing and splitting wood, 3 00
A. H. Blanchard, sawing 1 cord wood,
2 00
$1,976 32
RECAPITULATION.
Teachers' Salaries, .
. . $17,820 20
Janitors' Services, .
.
.
.
1,547 50
Military Expenses,
137 50
Fuel Account,
1,976 32
Total, .
$21,481 52 ·
Balance unexpended, 268 48
$21,750 00
SCHOOL CONTINGENT FUND.
March 6, 1893, Appropriation authorized, . $1,000 00
Received from town of Lynnfield, tuition, . 190 00
from town of Reading. sale of old stoves, 15 00
Total, . $1,205 00
Expended as follows :
Citizens' Gas Light Co., 16,600 ft. gas, High
school, '91, '92, at $2.50, $33 69 .
Citizens' Gas Light Co., 9,600 ft. gas, 32 16
Roger Howard, labor, hardware, etc., 40 55
Isaac F. Sheldon, repairs on out house, setting glass, Greenwood, . 3 10
Lucas Bros., repairing electric gong and clocks.
18 00
A. W. Brownell, printing programs, tickets and report cards. . .
19 50
Dunshee Bros., 8 window ventilators at 35c, and labor, 5 00 ·
135
Win. Read & Sons, 4 rifles at $4, 2 bayonets at 75c., . $17 50 · Yale Town Manuf. Co., 4 keys, High school, at 25c., . 1 00
Cutler Bros., wire mat, oil and wicks, ·
7 20
S. F. Littlefield & Co., labor and hardware, .
81 31
E. R. & E. H. Tarbell, lamp and fixtures, . ·
2 15
Charles L. Bly, 1 doz. zincs, 1 00
A. L. Vannah, truant officer, yr. ending Apr. 1,'93, 25 00
R. F. Draper, 25 00
Geo. E. Gamage, paper, oil, glass, stove bar, etc., 7 95
16 41
W. K. Perkins, hooks, and labor hanging maps, Geo. M. Stevens, 1 fire alarm box and apparatus, High, 36 38 ·
R. C. North, 2 pokers at $1.25, . 2 50
Wakefield Water Co., water rates to June 1, '94,
142 00
Edward B. Nye. tuning piano, . · Am. Bank Note Co., 25 High school diplo., at 50c, F. W. Pierce, expressage, ·
2 00
12 50
13 95
American Ex. Co., " 60
M. P. Foster, printing postals, letter heads, and advt. fuel proposals, 55 20
H. C. Kendall, filling 24 diplomas, High school, 6 00 Charles E. Hussey, expenses as supt. of schools, 50 00
Geo. S. Perry, 12 gem sharpeners, 40 00
Nathaniel Ross, emptying vaults, Hamilton,
4 00
Fred S. Hartshorne, census of school children,
30 00
Arthur Greenough, hauling ashes, Lincoln,
12 00
60 building cesspool, Hamilton, 15 00
Wm. H. Wiley, oil and removing ashes, High, . 8 65
C. H. Spencer, lumber, 3 59
C. Latimer, expressage,
3 15
Heliotype Printing Co., 100 copies of map,
25 00
D. W. Hunt, teaming ashes, 8 70
Sydney Merchant, setting glass, 1 20
J. M. Fairbanks, paint and labor, .
5 56
136
J. H. Maxner, 15 ft. ladder, at 16c., . $2 40
W. W. Shedd, 3 loads gravel and labor, 4 98
Wakefield Record, advt. proposals for coal, 2 50 .
A. D. Jenkins & Co., repairing chair, 1 00
C. F. Bickford, 1-2 cord sawdust,
2 00
Natick Citizen Printing Co., blanks, .
75
J. E. Bell, 333 sq. ft. slated paper, at 9c., . 29 97
G. W. Hall & Co., 1 desk and 2 chairs, 41 00 Belknap & Co., rubber stamps and pad, 1 00
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