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Dr. Orma L. Clark, Chairman . 25.00
Herbert Leusher
15.00
Martin Duggan 10.00
Eileen Hale, Town Nurse .
2,880.00
Hazel Vose, Substitute Nurse . .
646.50
Town Dump payroll
2,602.37
Edward J. Higgins, Agent
323.00
Francis B. Whouley, Agent
25.25
Francis B. Whouley, Inspector .
211.75
6,738.87
Expenses :
Board Members
200.28
Nurse
660.00
Agent
448.25
Inspector
330.14
Dump
1,004.30
State Sanatorium
1,785.18
Medical Supplies
261.45
Clinic
142.62
4,832.22
Haynes Memorial Hospital - Special Article
1,340.10
Garbage Disposal
Henry Anderson, Contract
2,200.00
Administration Expense
83.70
2,283.70
Inspector of Animals
Salary :
Arno H. Perkins
150.00
Expense, Sundry
23.62
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173.62
163
HIGHWAYS
Village
Wages :
Russell C. Berry, Supt.
549.25
Payrolls
1,613.40
Expenses :
Trucks
216.00
Cold Patch
67.93
Granite Boundary Markers
150.00
Insecticide
58.60
Oil
67.86
Supplies and tools
237.26
Sundry
38.42
·
2,998.72
Chapter 81
Wages :
Russell C. Berry, Supt.
2,334.75
Payrolls
8,216.25
Expenses :
Trucks
837.60
Rental of Machinery
5,480.72
Cold Patch and Asphalt
4,968.59
Stone, sand and gravel
1,237.55
Calcium chloride
120.00
Cement and lumber
209.92
Cable guard and Posts
431.00
Brushkiller
43.40
Asphalt coated perforated bands
307.97
Catch Basin
36.18
24,223.93
Chapter 90, Maintenance
Wages :
Russell C. Berry, Supt. 63.00
Payrolls
183.60
164
.
Expenses :
Trucks
74.73
Rental of Machinery
178.15
Cold Patch and Asphalt
2,159.16
Stone, sand, and gravel
340.25
Chapter 90, Construction
Wages :
Russell C. Berry, Supt.
502.25
Payrolls
1,627.36
Expenses :
Trucks
172.20
Rental of Machinery
2,696.25
Cold Patch and Asphalt
4,330.67
Stone, sand, and gravel
1,811.82
Guard Rail and Posts
858.20
11,998.75
Highway Department Vacations
Payrolls
657.60
Signs and Lines
Painting Lines
212.00
Signs
165.68
377.68
Snow Removal
Wages :
Russell C. Berry, Supt.
813.75
Payrolls
2,343.75
Expenses :
Trucks
1,307.45
Sander
1,221.50
Plowing
2,187.25
Sand
589.48
Salt
1,210.00
Gas and oil
196.13
Forecast Service
150.00
Parts and repairs on equipment .
949.55
2,998.89
10,968.86
165
Road Machinery
Gas and oil 605.72
Parts and repairs on
equipment
1,121.05
Sundry
138.50
1,865.27
Highway Department Truck
International Harvester Co. ...
6,338.24
Spare wheel, etc. 155.69
6,493.98
Street Lighting
Boston Edison Co. 6,001.22
Sand Spreader
Sandberg Equipment Co. 1,372.00
Accessories 86.09
1,458.09
Granite Marker Restoration
Acton Monumental Co. 88.50
CHARITIES
Public Welfare
General Relief :
Cash
1,103.94
Medicine and Hospital
89.00
Funeral assistance
50.00
1,242.94
Administration
Nashoba Public Welfare District . 800.00
Acton Board Salaries :
Walter Stevens
85.41
A. Perry Marble 75.00
Lossie E. Laird
114.59
166
Expense :
Postage
. 15.00
1,090.00
Old Age Assistance
Town Funds :
Cash aid to individuals 41,000.00
Federal Grant:
Cash aid to individuals 16,091.03
Aid by other communities
2,660.11
Aid to Dependent Children
Cash aid to individuals -
Town Funds 5.000.00
Federal Grant
1,571.25
6,571.25
Disability Assistance
Cash aid to individuals -
Town Funds
3,500.00
Federal Grant
560.42
4,060.42
VETERANS' AID Veterans' Benefits
Salary :
Edward J. Higgins, Agent 150.00
Administrative:
Travel, expense, postage, and telephone 149.50
Cash Aid to Veterans
4,360.00
VETERANS' SERVICES
Salaries and Wages :
Theron A. Lowden, Director .. 735.00
Geraldene Prentiss, Clerk
71.50
806.50
Expense-Sundry
6.00
167
59,751.14
EDUCATION
Instruction
112,854.00
Textbooks and Supplies
6,779.73
Plant operation
22,547.18
Maintenance
990.25
Auxiliary agencies
10,303.49
General Control
8,664.47
Outlay
1,703.62
Contingency fund
471.38
164,314.12
School lunches
5,074.64
Athletics
1,781.37
Lighting Fixtures, West School
795.37
Vocational tuition
1,485.38
Nagog Regional School District
22,668.00
Elementary School Building ...
210,537.01
School land purchase
2,350.00
Blanchard Auditorium land
purchase
120.00
Sewage Disposal
3,686.00
Blanchard Auditorium and
Gymnasium Building . ..
116,514.77
Transportation-Special Article
2,675.00
Regional School District
226.59
Planning Committee
LIBRARIES
Salaries and Wages :
Librarians :
Mary H. Lothrop
894.00
Marian L. Piper
46.00
Edith A. Hopkinson
188.00
Barbara Nylander
17.50
Ina Milbery
30.00
Custodial services . . 374.50
.
1,550.00
168
Expenses :
Heat
460.40
Light
115.03
Water
25.00
Stationery and printing
134.48
Equipment and maintenance
180.44
Insurance
36.95
Sundry items
30.76
983.06
Library Books
Books and magazines
897.90
Redecoration of Memorial Library
Fullonton and Decker
375.00
CEMETERIES
Salaries and Wages:
Frederick S. Kennedy, Supt.
3,180.00
Payrolls
5,302.20
8,482.20
Expenses :
Fuel oil and heater service
221.52
Lights
39.44
Repairs to equipment
133.09
Seed, fertilizer, etc.
170.87
Gas and oil
63.97
Water
93.27
Hardware, pipe, paint, etc.
254.73
Lime, lumber and cement
120.14
Printing and stationery
34.25
Trucking
573.00
Flowers
36.25
Wiring outlets in Chapel
100.00
New equipment
234.13
Sundry items
222.66
2,297.32
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Air Compressor
Dawson-MacDonald Co. ... 1,000.00
Mt. Hope Oiling
Asphalt and sand 415.01
Woodlawn Clearing and Grading
Payrolls
455.60
Equipment rental
668.80
Sand
180.00
Sundry expense
137.55
1,441.95
Perpetual Care
Payrolls
524.30
Flowers
59.55
Fertilizer, loam and seed
128.00
711.85
Susan Noyes Hosmer Fund
Payrolls
684.60
Mower
179.95
Asphalt 259.06
Sand and gravel
108.75
Peat moss, fertilizer and loam
186.15
Landscape work
157.90
Sundry expense
154.82
1,731.23
Private Trust Funds
J. Roland Wetherbee Fund
117.92
Raymond Fund
20.42
Georgia Whitney Fund
11.40
149.74
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RECREATION
Playgrounds
F. W. Rimbach, Supt. 1.00
Payrolls
390.06
Gas and oil
61.40
Water
25.00
Salt and lime
19.10
Repairs and parts on equipment
101.87
Sundry
12.83
611.26
Water Safety
Laffin's Garage
450.00
Maturing Debt and Interest
High School Addition loan
1,000.00
Elementary School loan 15,000.00
Interest
5,875.00
21,875.00
Unclassified
Delivering Town Reports .....
20.00
Delivering Zoning Reports
77.15
Delivering Meeting Warrants
144.27
Advertising
69.60
Burglary Insurance
75.00
Planning Board By-laws
18.75
Plaque for Hayward
43.35
Legal Expense
63.35
Special Town Meeting expense .
75.00
586.47
Civil Defense
Communication equipment and
service 28.50
Blood Typing program
16.50
Worcester emergency
· 57.66
102.66
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Town Counsel
Albert W. Wunderly .... 410.00
Town Reports
Concord Press, Inc. 1,316.00
Surety Bonds
Treasurer
198.00
Collector
389.75
Town Clerk
7.50
595.25
Insurance
Fire Companies
385.25
Workmens Compensation
1,598.52
Town Buildings .
1,922.62
Officer and Employee Insurance
967.27
4 823.66
1952 Unpaid Bills
General Relief
58.90
Old Age Assistance
455.60
Town Clerk, Salary
144.50
Town Clerk, Expense
44.23
Elections and Registrations,
Salaries
50.00
753.28
Memorial Day
23rd Infantry Band
225.00
Flowers and Wreaths
157.40
Refreshments
28.67
Flags
64.80
Buses
· 45.00
.
520.87
Planning Board
Maps
152.00
172
Clerical payroll
33.00
185.00
Zoning Committee
Map work
150.40
Duplicating paper
26.64
Sundry
10.70
187.74
Town Forest Committee
Surveying
80.00
Town Forest-Cutting Brush
Franklin Charter, Supt.
15.00
Payrolls
56.40
71.40
Pension and Military Service Fund
Middlesex County Retirement
System .
2,029.50
No Appropriation Accounts
Withholding Taxes
26,652.30
Massachusetts Hospital Service
2,874.30
Massachusetts Teachers
Retirement
5,588.42
Middlesex County Retirement .
3,257.63
Middlesex County Dog Licenses
1,022.80
Middlesex County Tax
10,880.89
Middlesex County Hospital Assessment
3,682.42
State Audit
1,925.61
State Parks
537.63
Refunds on Taxes
3,232.78
Trust Accounts
1,897.00
Interest on Trust Funds
6,286.19
Trust Fund Expenditures
1,611.49
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Premium Received on Elementary School Bonds .
50.00
Total Disbursements
893,774.19
Cash Balance,
December 31, 1952
359,235.46
$1,253,009.65
Reserve Fund Transfers
Moderator 30.00
Fire Department,
Salaries and Wages
1,350.00
Fire Department, Expense ·
41.54
Police Department,
Salaries and Wages
175.00
Board of Health, Board Members Expense
100.00
Board of Health, Inspector of
Milk and Food, Salary ...
65.00
Board of Health, Inspector of
Milk and Food, Expense ..
85.00
Board of Health, Agent, Salary .
150.00
Board of Health,
Town Nurse Salary ·
15.00
Board of Health,
Substitute Nurse
450.00
Board of Health,
Medical Supplies
150.00
Board of Health,
Dump Salaries
752.37
Board of Health,
Dump Expense . . Board of Health,
405.00
Garbage Collections .
50.00
Town Collector, Salaries
200.00
Town Collector, Expense
200.00
Treasurer, Expense .
154.85
Proctection for members of Vol-
unteer Fire Cos. (Art. 17) .
35.25
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Radios and Alternators Fire Dept. (Art. 26)
170.72 Elections and Registrations, Salaries and Wages 53.15 . Moth Department, Expense
15.02
Tree Department, Expense
5.32
Library, Expense
3.06
4,656.28
Road Machinery Fund
Balance, January 1, 1953
9,101.63
Received from rentals 4,980.58
Unexpended balance, Road Machinery Account
634.73
Unexpended balance, Highway
Dept. Truck Account
6.07
14,723.01
Transferred to Road
Machinery Account
2,500.00
Transferred to Highway Dept. Truck Account
6,500.00
Balance, December 31, 1953 . .
5,723.01
14,723.01
Cemetery Land Fund
Balance, January 1, 1953
2,510.35
Received from sale of lots .
170.00
2,680.35
Transferred to Woodlawn
Clearing and Grading
1,500.00
Balance, December 31, 1953 ...
1,180.35
2,680.35
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BALANCE SHEET
DECEMBER 31, 1953
GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
Cash
$359,235.46
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes:
Levy of 1948
Real Estate
31.20
Personal Property
267.07
Poll
4.00
$
302.27
Levy of 1949
Real Estate
130.66
Personal Property
300.80
Poll
12.00
Levy of 1950
Real Estate
421.28
Personal Property
336.52
Poll
14.00
.
771.80
Levy of 1951
Real Estate
317.46
Personal Property
763.75
Poll
24.00
1,105.21
Levy of 1952
Real Estate
8,066.63
Personal Property
791.35
Poll
18.00
. .
8,875.98
Levy of 1953
Real Estate
20,237.66
Personal Property
2,713.01
Poll
190.00
..
...
23,140.67
34,639.39
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443.46
BALANCE SHEET
DECEMBER 31, 1953
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Payroll Deductions
$ 630.91
Tailings-Reserve for unclaimed checks .
144.81
Road Machinery Fund
5,723.01
Cemetery Land Fund
1,180.35
County Dog Licenses
5.40
Fire Apparatus Depreciation Fund
5,000.00
School Lunch Fund
1,803.10
High School Athletic Fund
475.86
Appropriation and Transfer Balances:
Highway Culverts
$ 4,000.00
Granite Marker Restoration
411.50
Laurel Court
69.14
Sand Spreader Body
41.91
Elementary School Building
15,306.64
Blanchard Auditorium-Gymnasium
Building
191,410.23
School Land Purchase
12,650.00
Auditorium-Gymnasium Land Pur- chase
9,413.75
Sewage Disposal
314.00
Mt. Hope Cemetery-Oiling
34.07
Mt. Hope Cemetery-Clearing and Grading
500.00
Woodlawn Cemetery-Clearing and Grading
1,058.05
Skating Rink
500.00
Surface Drainage
1,000.00
Zoning Committee
312.26
Civil Defense
1,738.08
Town Forest - Cutting Brush
...
281.42
Town Forest Committee
420.00
239,461.05
Trust Fund Income Transfer Balances:
Cemetery-Perpetual Care
457.67
J. Roland Wetherbee Fund
347.53
Hosmer Fund
345.99
Henry S. Raymond Fund
38.03
Georgia Whitney Fund
53.88
Library-Wilde Memorial Fund ...
6.65
949.75
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Motor Vehicle Excise
Levy of 1947
17.78
Levy of 1948
156.29
Levy of 1949
719.62
Levy of 1950
. . ..
601.87
Levy of 1951
1,108.41
Levy of 1952
1,484.49
Levy of 1953
4,622.49
8,710.95
Tax Titles
79.37
Tax Title Possessiong
400.19
479.56
Departmental:
School
191.08
Veteran's Benefits
285.00
Old Age Assistance
365.57
Aid to Dependent Children
701.66
Cemetery
195.00
Highway
84.00
1,822.31
Other:
Ethel A. Davis, Former Collector and /or Boston Insurance Co.
1,319.34
Aid to Highways:
County
3,000.00
State
7,061.71
10,061.71
Under Estimates-1953:
County Hospital Assessment
263.13
State Parks
173.80
436.93
$416,705.65
-DEBT ACCOUNTS
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Net Funded or Fixed Debt $379,000.00
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Over Est:mate 1953-County Tax . Old Age Assistance Recovery
302.01
3,751.59
Federal Grants:
Old Age Assistance:
Administration .. ..
132.27
Assistance ...
7,431.91
Aid to Dependent Children:
Administration
161.56
Assistance . .
2,139.41
Disability Assistance:
Administration
1.34
Assistance
.... ... .
1,783.54
11,650.03
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
6,409.52
Overlays Reserved for Abatement of Taxes:
Levy of 1948
302.27
Levy of 1949
443.46
Levy of 1950
771.80
Levy of 1951 . .
1,105.21
Levy of 1952
900.48
Levy of 1953
.......
5,987.08
9,510.30
Revenue Reserved Until Collected:
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise ....
8,710.95
Tax Title and Tax Possession
479.56
Departmental
1,822.31
Aid to Highways
10,061.71
21,074.53
Surplus Revenue
108,632.83
$416,705.65
DEBT ACCOUNTS
High School Addition Loan .... Elementary School Loan .
275,000.00
Blanchard Auditorium Notes ...
100,000.00
$379,000.00
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. .
$ 4,000.00
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TRUST ACCOUNTS
In Custody of Treasurer:
Henry S. Raymond Cemetery Fund ..
833.70
Henry S. Raymond Monument Fund .
2,238.26
Charlotte Conant School Library Fund
1,547.16
J. Roland Wetherbee Cemetery Fund . Hoit and Scott Cemetery Fund
10,613.45
565.58
Elizabeth White Charity Fund
27,046.78
Georgia E. Whitney Charity Fund ...
14,898.09
Wilde Memorial Library Fund
17,138.54
West Acton Firemen's Relief Fund ..
809.75
Acton Firemen's Relief Fund
6,154.97
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
66,763.49
Cemetery Surplus Fund
215.63
Luke Blanchard Cemetery Fund
1,585.55
Frank C. Hayward Cemetery Fund ..
1,131.13
Georgia E. Whitney Cemetery Fund .
1,640.66
Susan Noyes Hosmer Cemetery Fund
85,635.83
Betsy Ball Charity Fund
11,012.96
$249,831.53
In Custody of Trustees:
In Charlotte Goodnow Fund .
3,465.54
$253,297.07
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TRUST ACCOUNTS
Trust Funds, Cash and Securities:
In custody of Town Treasurer In custody of Trustees
$249,831.89 3,465.54
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$253,297.07
Respectfully submitted
DONALD O. NYLANDER,
Town Accountant
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REPORT OF THE TREE WARDEN
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
I herewith submit my report for the year 1953. The Department removed 143 trees of all species this year. Low or dangerous limbs were removed along the town roads.
The Department planted 36 Maple and Linden trees along the town ways.
The poison ivy around the public buildings and along the town roads was sprayed again this year. This work has reduced the amount of Ivy to a point where it is now pos- sible to cover most of the streets every year.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANKLIN H. CHARTER,
Tree Warden
REPORT OF THE CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS FOR THE YEAR 1953
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
We hereby submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1953.
The account of the town treasurer shows that during the past year the cemetery department has received and paid into the treasury the sum of $1,423.00 which can be found itemized in the town treasurer's report. Also in the town collector's report you will find the sum of $679.50 collected for the annual care of lots, which is credited to the cemetery department receipts.
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There has been added to the perpetual care account the past year, in new and additional accounts, the sum of $1,625.00.
A section of land in the new section of Woodlawn Cemetery, has been cleared of the trees and the stumps and the stone walls removed, also the roads for this section have been laid out and filled in with gravel. The remaining cleared area has been semi-graded in preparation for the final grading and the seeding down with grass seed in the spring.
We plan to clear a section of land in Mt. Hope Cemetery this spring so that additional lots can be made available in that cemetery this coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
RAY L. HARRIS
HOWARD F. JONES
HARRY E. HOLT
Cemetery Commissioners
REPORT OF THE ACTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Carl A. Christofferson, Chairman
Alden C. Flagg, Sr. Florence A. Merriam
Wilfred W. Forbes, M.D.
Mrs. Edward W. Moore
Eugene L. Hall
Mrs. Marion C. Reed
Frederick T. Heyliger
Mrs. David W. Thompson
Librarians
Mary Lothrop Memorial Library
Marian L. Piper; Assisitant Memorial Library
Edith Hopkinson West Acton Branch
Custodian Glenn Pasanen
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Early in the year, Boxboro lost its Library and contents by fire, and we are proud that we were among the first to offer help. We gave them several hundred duplicate or sur- plus books and rejoice that so many other Towns later responded to their needs.
At about the same time, we lost by death, Arthur F. Davis, who had been Librarian here for forty-three years and was a Trustee at the time of his passing.
In March, South .Acton Cub Den No. 2 (12 boys and 2 leaders) called by appointment, so that they might see the Library and its contents, listen and talk without interruption. As usual, the boys riveted their attention on the guns. Mrs. Nordberg and Mrs. Jarvi expressed appreciation, and the boys behaved beautifully.
In May, the State Certificate Honor Winners held the usual party at the Woman's Club to whom we send our thanks. Also, our gratitude goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Allen and their son Charles of Concord, who showed us fine pictures. Mr. Allen said he had sufficient thanks when one child laughed so hard that he fell out of his seat. ,
The paint job and re-arrangement of the furniture have met with much approval on all sides. Many of our treasures are still packed away, to be brought out and suitably placed when there is sufficient room and protection.
Mrs. Edward Moore gave us andirons for the fire-place and the public comments favorably on the home atmosphere. With the excellent care which Glenn Pasanen takes of the building, it looks as if it were renovated just yesterday.
We are grateful to all our friends who have helped in various ways. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Olsen exhibited a fine collection of military buttons. Mr. Olsen repaired a Leather Hat that was used in the War of 1812. Also, he and Professor Phalen and Mr. Christoffersen helped us discard outmoded books, each in his own line. It was a tremendous help to those who had discarded general subjects through the winter.
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Especial gratitude and deep appreciation go to all Trus- tees and their families, and friends in general, who gave a lift during our period of rapid growth. When the growth was established, the Trustees appointed Mrs. Ralph W. Piper as Assistant Librarian. The Librarian thanks every one for his consideration, particularly since few realize until told, that the return and issuance of books is a small part of the job. There is cataloguing, buying, putting away and mend- ing, and every two weeks twenty or thirty books are selected, stamped and listed and taken to the West Branch. The hardest part is to find books which they have not already had. Newcomers and beginners need help in finding what is desired. We are always glad of constructive criticism. The esprit de corps is 100 percent, and the success of the year just over is due partly to that and partly to the growth of the town.
All non-fiction is being re-indexed according to the most recent Classification of the Dewey Decimal system. Conse- quently, the card catalogue system is being re-made entirely and cross-indexing is being introduced. Plans have been made for concentrating all Juvenile material in the Reading Room for the children. This will free some shelf space in the main stack room for adult accessions. We contemplate creating shelves on the main floor for the display of books displaced by new acquisitions but too recent to be shelved in their final homes. We feel it is a help to keep Mysteries in one section and Westerns in another.
The great increase of persons coming and going about the old-fashioned counter-style desk, with its inconvenient approach through the Children's Room, has led to difficulty in the receiving and issuing of books, and great awkwardness in traffic. To remove this confusion and smooth out the problems of the Librarian and the public both, the Trustees wish to have removed the present counter-desk, and, to serve in its place, install a modern semi-circular library desk which will face the Library entrance, and lie against the wall facing the entrance. This will open up a free passage to the whole floor, speed up the handling of books, and
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ultimately, (when the current Re-cataloguing of non-fiction has been completed) make available for use by the public, the card catalogue.
To look ahead, it is clear that the Library is going to have to be enlarged in proportion to its greater use by the enlarging population. There is virtually no room for further shelf space for new accessions. This problem has been stayed temporarily by the recent review of each individual book in the Library from the standpoint of being useful and up-to- date and the disposal of all found to be obsolete or outmoded. While such evaluation will always be maintained, there will not again be any substantial gain of shelf space as a result.
Also, the Library owns objects of Historical interest which call for display, and which are now stored in order to make shelf space for books. With adequate room, the Library could exhibit these objects, and would encourage the display of similar objects on a loan basis. The Library logically could and would serve as a means of satisfying interest in local history by such displays.
Therefore, if we are to continue adequately to serve the increasing needs of the Town, it will become necessary some time in the near future to consider extra facilities both in personnel and in space for work and storage.
Accession-Number of volumes in Library January 1,
1953 21,119
Increase by purchase
263
Increase by gift
347
Withdrawn from circulation
2,153
Number of volumes January 1, 1954
19,576
Circulation-Number of days Library was open
149
Number of volumes circulated
23,215
Largest daily circulation (November 14)
454
Smallest daily circulation (June 17)
52
Daily average
plus 155
186
The circulation shows a gain of 2,115 over the best year we ever had which was 21,100 in 1951; and a gain of 2,369 over 1952.
The Circulation break-down is as follows:
Fiction 11,292, Juvenile 8,565, Non-Fiction 3,358
We attribute this gain in part to the many new people coming in, at the rate of several each week, or one or two each day. We are happy to have them find what they like and will continue to try to supply the right material.
The Library acknowledges with gratitude, gifts from the following :
Books
Miss Corinne Smith 1; Mrs. Belle Libby Hinckley, 14 and magazines ; Mrs. Mildred Pope Moore, 90 and magazines ; Com- bat Forces Press 1, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Olsen 2, Mr. and Mrs. Safford Sweatt 6; Elizabeth Condon 1; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Darling 7; Stanford War Library 1; Susan Collins 12; William Flagg 27; Mrs. Robert Colby 1; Dr. and Mrs. Forbes 51; Mr. and Mrs. John Kimball 36; Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. MacPher- son 40; Commonwealth of Massachusetts 8; Miss Romona Davis 6; Acton Cub Scouts 3; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Collins 2; Mr. and Mrs. John Pederson 1; Mr. and Mrs. Julius Roth 7; Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hartwell 1; Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Clark 10; Mrs. Laura Forbes 1; Roberta Davis 1; Marion Willett 8; Miss Jessie Knowlton 1; Caroline Pfeiffer 2; Mary Lothrop 1; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christofferson 1; Theodore Steinway 1; Lois Hall 3; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Firth 3; Mr. and Mrs. McGarigle magazines and Walter B. Stevens magazines.
Financial Receipts
Fines
$196.38
Miscellaneous
12.50
Books sold
14.41
Total
$223.29
MARY LOTHROP,
Librarian
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REPORT OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY EXTENSION
The Middlesex County Extension Service is a publicly supported, educational institution to serve all the towns of the county in agriculture and home economics. In agriculture the work is developed county-wide under the direction of county councils made up of leading farmers in each of the main commodities as vegetables, fruit, poultry, dairying, live- stock, and commercial flowers. A County Bulletin is mailed monthly to all cooperating farmers and timely information sent to anyone on request.
4-H Club Work is developed under a town committee and leaders, and the home economics work is available through a town director, organized groups, or direct requests. Your town director furnishes counsel to the Extension Office on the needs of the towns, services desired, or leadership needed.
Information and assistance were made available on the planning and operation of a poultry farm or enterprise covering the subjects of poultry housing and equipment, ven- tilation and litter management, brooding and rearing, market- ing and management for egg production.
Specialized information on turkey and poultry health was made available through the 1953 Middlesex Flock Health Program. F. Wendell Putnam, Jr., served as a member of the Extension Poultry Advisory Committee, and as President of the Middlesex County Poultry Association which holds monthly meetings in cooperation with the Extension Service in the Acton Town Hall. Mr. Putnam also participated in the 1953 Middlesex Flock Health Program.
The Middlesex County Extension Service renders many services to the dairymen in this area. There are, in the county, herd testing facilities which include complete herd records, pasture, hay, and silage production programs which aim at producing more and better roughage at a lower cost,
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