Town of Westford annual report 1896-1901, Part 15

Author: Westford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Westford (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 836


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Rev. A. D. Mayo, five pamphlets.


Dr. J. L. Hildreth, one pamphlet.


Magazines .- Union Signal, Our Message, Ladies' Home Journal, Ladies' Home Companion, Ladies' World, L. A. W. Bul- letin and Good Roads, Land of Sunshine, Literary News.


LIST OF BOOKS


ADDED TO THE LIBRARY DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1897-8.


A.


Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1897 626


Census of Massachusetts, 1895, 2 vols. 622-3


Education, Report of Board of, 1895-6. 618


Journal of House of Representatives, 1897 627


Journal of Senate, 1897.


628


Laws and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1798-9, 1800-I, 2 vols. . 624-5


Lunacy and Charity, Report of the State Board of, 1898 629 Manual of General Court, 1897. 617


Massachusetts Reports, Vols. 166-7


619-20


Public Documents of Massachusetts, 1896. 12 vols. 630-41


Public Statutes, Supplement to, 1889-95. 621


B.


Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1895. 751 749-50


Commerce and Navigation of United States, 1896, 2 vols Education; Report of Commissioner of, 1895-6. Vol. I 753


Interstate Commerce Commission, Report of, 1896 .... 752


Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska. Shel- don Jackson, 1896. 739


Marine Hospital Service, Report of, 1893, 1896.


746-8


Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, 3 vols. 755-7


Smithsonian Institution, Report of, 1890-95. 6 vols. 740-5


Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1897 754


C.


Farthest North. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. 2 vols 488-9


Hired Furnished. Margaret B. Wright. 496


Journeys through France. H. A. Taine. 501


Lazy Tours in Spain and Elsewhere. Louise Chandler Moulton 491


Moosehead Lake. Guide Book. C. A. J. Farrar. 493


Passages in Foreign Travel. I. A. Jewett. 2 vols. 498-9


Picturesque Washington. Joseph West Moore. 490


74


Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome. Rodolfo Lanciani


502


Seat of Empire. C. C. Coffin. 494


Some Strange Corners of Our Country. Charles F. Lummis


500


South Seas, The. Robert Louis Stevenson.


492


Through the Dolomites. From Venice to Toblach. Alexander Robertson ... 495


Travels in West Africa. Mary H. Kingsley.


503


Walks and Rides in the Country Round About Boston. Edwin M. Bacon. 497


White Man's Africa. Poultney Bigelow 504


D. American Revolution. John Fiske. 2 vols. 838-9 Army of the United States, 1789-1896. Ed. by Roden- bough & Haskin. 836


Beside Old Hearth-Stones. Abram English Brown. .


847


Canada, History of. C. G. D. Roberts.


842


Chelmsford, Mass., History of, 1653-1820. Wilkes Allen


877


Christian History, Outlines of, A. D. 50-1880. Joseph Henry Allen. 863


Colonial Policy of Great Britain, 1816.


835


Dover, Mass., History of. Frank Smith.


England, History of, from Accession of James I. to Out- break of Great Civil War, 1603-42. S. R. Gardiner. IO vols ..


France. J. E. C. Bodley. 2 vols.


Great Civil War, 1642-49. S. R. Gardiner. 4 vols. Great Fire, Boston, November, 1872. C. C. Coffin .... Groton, Pepperell and Shirley, History of. Caleb But- ler, 1848. 878


Hannibal, and the Crisis of the Struggle Between Car- thage and Rome. Wm. O'Connor Morris. 845


History of Our Own Times. Justin McCarthy. Vol. III. 843


Modern France, 1789-1895. Andre Lebon. 872


Old Virginia and Her Neighbors. John Fiske. 2 vols. 840-I


Plague in London, History of. Daniel Defoe. 833


Romans Under the Empire. Charles Merivale. 8 vols. 864-71


Switzerland, Annals of. Julia M. Colton. 844


Ten Great Events in History. James Johonnot. 862


United States, from Earliest Times to Landing of the Pil- grim Fathers. G. Barnett Smith. 846


848-57 875-6 858-61 834


Documents Illustrative of United States History, 1776- 1861. Ed. by Wm. MacDonald.


873 874


75


Wilkinson, Gen. James. Proofs of Corruption of and Connection with Aaron Burr. Daniel Clark, 1809. 837


E.


Arnold, Thomas and Matthew, and Their Influence on English Education. Sir Joshua Fitch. . 859 905-6


Audubon and His Journals. Maria R. Audubon. 2 vols.


· Authors and Friends. Annie Fields. 854


Biographical Sketches. T. B. Macaulay 856


Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Letters of. Ed. by Fred- eric G. Kenyon. 2 vols. 869-70 Buonarroti, Michelango. John Addington Symonds. 2 vols. . 907-8


Cogswell, William. Memorial Addresses. 880


Du Guesclin, Bertrand. Enoch Vine Stoddard.


910


Early Hildreths of New England. Arthur Hildreth. 2 copies 912-13


Garfield, James A., Life of, and Sketch of Chester A. Arthur. C. C. Coffin. 852


Gladstone's Life, Story of. Justin McCarthy. 914


Grant, General. James Grant Wilson. 863


Greenhalge, Frederic T., Life and Work of. James E. Nesmith 848


Hancock, General. Francis A. Walker. 864


Hawthorne, Memories of. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. . 851


Hugo, Victor, Letters. Ed. by Paul Meurice.


849


Jay, John. Correspondence and Public Papers. Ed. by


Henry P. Johnston. 4 vols. 899-902


Jefferson, Joseph. Autobiography


879


Johnston, General. Robert M. Hughes 86 1


Jowett, Benjamin. Life and Letters. Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell. 2 vols. 882-3


Lee, General. Fitz Hugh Lee. 866


Living Authors of England, 1849. Thomas Powell.


Men I Have Known. Frederick W. Farrar, D. D 857


873


Miner, A. A. George H. Emerson.


884


Nelson, Life of. Capt. A. T. Mahan. 2 vols 877-8


Pare, Ambroise, and His Times, 1510-1590. Stephen Paget 911


Peter the Great. K. Waliszewski.


871


Pioneers of Science in America. Sketches of Their Lives and Scientific Work. Ed. by Wm. Jay You- mans 909


Private Life of the Queen 853


76


Schaff, Philip. David S. Schaff . 876


Sherman, Roger. Lewis Henry Boutell. 872


Schuyler, Catherine. Mary Gay Humphreys 858 86:2


Scott, General. Marcus J. Wright.


Seward, Wmn. Henry. Thornton Kirkland Lothrop 855 . Sheridan, General. Henry E. Davies. 867


Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Life and Letters. Ed. by


Annie Fields.


Symonds, John Addington. Horatio F. Brown. 2 vols


868 903-4 860


Taylor, General. Oliver Otis Howard.


Tennyson, Alfred. Memoir by His Son. 2 vols:


874-5


Washington, General. Bradley T. Johnson 865


Washington, George. Woodrow Wilson.


850


Washington, George, Writings of. Coll. and Ed. by


Worthington C. Ford. 14 vols. 885-898


Winthrop, R. C. R. C. Winthrop, Jr 88I


F.


American Contributions to Civilization. Charles W. Eliot 669


American Highways. N. S. Shaler.


654


Ancient Geography, History of. H. F. Tozer 661


Ancient Ideals. Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early Times to Establishment of Christianity. Henry Osborn Taylor. 2 vols.


666-7 650


Art of Reading and Speaking. Canon Fleming. . Astronomy, Progress in United States of, 1850. Elias Loomis 668


Aurora Borealis, The. Alfred Angot.


653


Bird-Life. Frank M. Chapman ..


670 651


Birds, Story of. James Newton Baskett.


679


Chemistry in Daily Life. Dr. Lassar-Cohn


696


Chemistry, Story of. Harold W. Pictou.


697


Coal, Story of a Piece of. Edward A. Martin. 647


Curious Homes and Their Tenants. James Carter Beard 680


Education in the United States. Richard G. Boone .... 688


Educational Reformers, Essays on. Robert Hebert Quick 690


Experiment in Education, An. Mary R. Alling-Aber. . 657 Familiar Features of the Roadside. F. Schuyler Mathews 652 Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden. F. Schuyler Mathews 676


Birds of Eastern North America. Frank M. Chapman


77


Familiar Trees and Their Leaves. F. Schuyler Mathews 675 Flowers of Field, Hill and Swamp. Caroline A. Creevey 662 Geography, How to Study. Francis W. Parker. 687 Hallucinations and Illusions. Edmund Parish. 678 Horse Book. Oscar R. Gleason. .


How to Live Longer, and Why We Do Not Live


Longer. J. R. Hayes, M. D .. 68 1


Insect Life. John Henry Comstock. 671


International Bimetallism. Francis A. Walker.


Mental Development in the Child. W. Preyer 655


682


Moral Instruction of Children. Felix Adler.


689


Moral Science, Outlines of. Archibald Alexander. 677


Pioneers of Evolution, from Thales to Huxley. Edward Clodd 673


Place of Death in Evolution. Newman Smyth.


649


Practical Hints for Teachers. George Howland.


684


Practical Idealism. Wm. DeWitt Hyde.


694


Principles of Sociology. Herbert Spencer. 3 vols.


Problems of Modern Democracy. E. L. Godkin. . Psychology Applied to the Art of Teaching. Joseph Baldwin 693


School Management and Methods. Joseph Baldwin.


692


School Supervision. J. L. Pickard.


685


Study of Death, A. Henry Mills Alden.


Study of Words, A. Richard C. Trench. .


674 648


Systematic Science Teaching. Edward G. Howe.


691


Teaching the Language Arts. Speech, Reading and Composition. B. A. Hinsdale. 686


Ventilation and Warming of School Buildings. Gilbert B. Morrison 683


Warfare of Science with Theology, History of. Andrew


I). White. 2 vols.


664-5


Who Invented the Reaper. R. B. Swift. 698


Woman and the Republic. Helen K. Johnson 672


G.


Bible, The .. 338


Bible and Islam, The. Henry Preserved Smith 339


Christianity and Social Problems. Lyman Abbott. 335


Common Prayer, Book of .. 337


Imitation of Christ. Thomas a Kempis. 340


Theology of an Evolutionist. Lyman Abbott 336


656


Principles and Practice of Teaching and Class Manage- ment. Joseph Landon. 695 658-60 663


78


H.


Arthur Arundel, etc. . 2054


Beth Book, The. Sarah Grand. 2096


Besom Friend, etc. 2056


Brokenburne. Virginia Frazer Boyle. 2095


Burglar Who Moved Paradise. Herbert D. Ward. 2039


Captains Courageous. Rudyard Kipling 2088 Chevalier d'Auriac. S. Levett Yeats. 2078


Children of Gibeon. Walter Besant ..


2043


Children at Sherburne House. A. M. Douglas


2098


Choir Invisible, The. James Lane Allen .


2042


Christian, The. Hall Caine.


209 I


Corleone. F. Marion Crawford. 2 vols.


2070-71 208 1


Dcan's Wife. Mrs. Eiloart.


2062


Dear Faustina. Rhoda Broughton


2073


Day of His Youth, The. Alice Brown.


2040


Eighteen Hundred and Twelve, or Napoleon's Invasion of Russia. Louis Rellstab. 2059


Emigrant Ship, The. W. Clark Russell.


2030


Equality. Edward Bellamy .


2090


Federal Judge, The. Charles K. Lush.


2100


Folly of Pen Harrington. Julian Sturgis


2076


From One Generation to Another. H. S. Merriman . . . 2099


Great K. and A. Train Robbery. Paul Leicester Ford. . 2036


2049


His First Charge. Faye Huntington.


2086


Hugh Wynne. S. Weir Mitchell. 2 vols.


2079-80


In Simpkinsville. Ruth McEnery Stuart.


2033


Jerome, a Poor Young Man. Mary E. Wilkins


2069


Kate Coventry and Misrepresentation. 2058


Lad's Love. S. R. Crockett. 2027


Light That Failed. Rudyard Kipling. 2044


Little Good-for-Nothing, The. A. Daudet 2064


Little Upstart, The. Wm. H. Rideing 2063


Louisa of Prussia. L. Muhlbach. 2053


Many Cargoes. W. W. Jacobs. .


2077


Marked "Personal." Anna K. Green


2102


Martian, The. George Du Maurier. 2094


Mary Seahan, etc .. 2057


Massarenes, The. L. de la Rame (Ouida). 2092


Miss Archer Archer. Clara Louise Burnham 2034


Miss Marjoribanks. Mrs. Oliphant. 2065


Gray Lady, The. H. S. Merriman


Hilda Strafford. Beatrice Harraden


2068


Dariel. R. D. Blackmore.


79


Mrs. Keith's Crime. Mrs. W. K. Clifford. . : 2083


Muriella, or Le Selve. L. de la Rame (Ouida). 2093


Never Again. W. S. Mayo 2060


Noblesse Oblige.


2066


Open-Eyed Conspiracy. W. D. Howells. 2084


Paste Jewels. John Kendrick Bangs 2067


Philanderers, The. A. E. W. Mason.


Phroso. Anthony Hope. 2085


2029


Pomp of the Lavilettes, The. Gilbert Parker


2041


Pride and Irresolution, etc ..


2055


Prisoners of Conscience. Amelia E. Barr


2026


Quo Vadis. Henryk Sienkiewicz. 2050


Romance of a Transport. W. Clark Russell 2031


Seal-Skin Cloak, The. Rolf Boldrewood. 2048


Seven on the Highway. Blanche Willis Howard. 210I


Silver Cord. Shirley Brooks 2052


Sir George Tressady. Mrs. Humphrey Ward. 2 vols. 2046-7


Soldier of Manhattan, A. Joseph A. Altsheler 2075


Soldiers of Fortune. Richard Harding Davis. 2032


Son of the Old Dominion. Mrs. Burton Harrison. 2089


Stories of a Sanctified Town. Lucy S. Furman


2045


Stuart and Bamboo. Mrs. S. P. McLean Greene 2082


That Affair Next Door. Anna K. Greene


2103


Three Partners. Bret Harte. 2072 Trail of the Sword. Gilbert Parker 2074


Transatlantic Chatelaine. Helen Choate Prince


2037


Trooper Peter Halket. Olive Schreiner 2025


Uncle Bernac. A. Conan Doyle


2028


Violin Player. Bertha Thomas 2061


Weir of Hermiston. Robert Louis Stevenson 2038


Well-Beloved, The. Thomas Hardy. 2051


When Valmond Came to Pontiac. Gilbert Parker 2097


Wisdom of Fools. Margaret Deland. 2035


Wolfville. Alfred Henry Lewis 2087


J.


American Revolution, Century Book of. Elbridge S.


Brooks 1079


Arimal Story Book. Andrew Lang. 1052


Blue Fairy Book. Ed. by Andrew Lang 1083 Boy Travellers in Africa. T. W. Knox


1049


Camp and Trail. Isabel Hornibrook. 1060


Columbus, True Story of. Elbridge S. Brooks 1077 Dick. Anna Chapin Ray 1064


80


Grant, True Story of. Elbridge S. Brooks 1074 Great Island, The, or Cast Away in Papua. Willis Boyd


Allen 1068


How the Children Raised the Wind. Edna Lyall


лобо


Jerry the Blunderer. Lily F. Wesselhoeft. 1053


Jolly Good Times Today. M. P. W. Smith.


1055


Knights of the Round Table. Wm. Henry Frost. 1065


Lincoln, True Story of. Elbridge S. Brooks 1075


Little Girl of Long Ago. Eliza Orne White.


1061


Little House in Pimlico. Marguerite Bouvet.


108 [


Modern Fairyland. Elcy Burnham. 1073


More Good Times at Hackmatack. M. P. W. Smith ...


1056


Old Herrick House, In the. Ellen Douglas Deland. .. 1059


Over the Andes, or Our Boys in New South America. H. Butterworth. 1071


Painted Desert, The. Kirk Munroe 1066


Phronsie Pepper. Margaret Sidney.


1057


Plants and Their Children. Mrs. Wm. Starr Dana.


1050


Prize Cup, The. J. T. Trowbridge. 1063


Queer Stories for Boys and Girls. Edward Eggleston. .


1051


Ready Rangers, The. Kirk Munroe. 1067 Red Fairy Book. Ed. by Andrew Lang 1084 Sparrow, the Tramp. Lily F. Wesselhoeft. 1054 1080


Sue Orcutt. Charlotte M. Vaile.


Three Little Daughters of the Revolution. Nora Perry. 1062


Tom Pickering. Sophie Swett.


1070


United States of America, True Story of. Elbridge S. Brooks


1078 1076


Washington, True Story of. Elbridge S. Brooks. ... Washington's Young Aids. Story of the New Jersey Campaign. Everett T. Tomlinson. .


1072


White Conquerors, The. Tale of Toltec and Aztec. Kirk Munroe. 1058


Young Puritans of Old Hadley. M. P. W. Smith. 1082


L.


Aeschylos, Tragedies of. Trans. by E. H. Plumptre. .. . . 342 Architecture, History of. Banister Fletcher and Banis- ter F. Fletcher. . 350


Architecture, Story of. Charles Thompson Mathews. . .


352


How to Listen to Music. Henry E. Krehbiel 345 Hymnal 346


In Woods and Fields. Augusta Larned. 349


Le Morte Darthur. Sir Thomas Malory 351


81


Love Songs of Childhood. Eugene Field. 341 Musical History and Bibliography, Handbook of. James E. Matthew ..


356


Once Upon a Time. Mary E. Wilkins 347


Poems. S. T. Coleridge. .


355


Purple East, The. William Watson.


348


Seven Seas, The. Rudyard Kipling.


344


Schools and Masters of Painting. A. G. Radcliffe 354


Schools and Masters of Sculpture. A. G. Radcliffe. ..


353


Sophocles, Tragedies of. Trans. by E. H. Plumptre ... 343


American Claimant, and Other Stories. S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain). 894


American Lands and Letters. Donald G. Mitchell. 895


American Literature. Katharine Lee Bates


Boyle's Court Guide, 1878. 909


896


Celebrated Trials. Henry L. Clinton


899


Comenius, Nicolas, or ye Pennsylvania Schoolmaster of ye Olden Time. Wm. Riddle. 918


Country By-Ways. Sarah Orne Jewett.


884


Dreams and Ghosts. Andrew Lang ..


904


Essays on Nature and Culture. Hamilton WV. Mabie ...


886


Four-Handed Folk. Olive Thorne Miller 887


French Literature. Edward Dowden 907


Gulliver's Travels. Lemuel Gulliver.


919


Hellenica, Essays on Greek Poetry, Philosophy, History and Religion. Ed. by Evelyn Abbott. 922


Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies. Abbe J. A. Dubois. 2 vols.


920-21


How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays. S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain) ..


893


-Mere Literature, and Other Essays. . Woodrow Wilson


890


Modern English Literature. Edmund Gosse.


908


My Studio Neighbors. Wm. Hamilton Gibson


. 898


Myths and Legends of Our Own Land. C. M. Skinner. 2 vols. 888-9


Observations of a Foster Parent. John Charles Tarver 891 Old Town by the Sea, An. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. ... 906


People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote. C. D. Warner. . 905 Pursuit of the House-Boat. John Kendrick Bangs .... 885


Romance of the Table. J. K. Hoyt. 897


School Boy Life in England. John Corbin 903


Essays of Michael De Montaigne. W. Hazlitt. 4 vols .


912-15


82


Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House. Wm. Root Bliss. 892 Social Transformations of the Victorian Age. T. H. S. Escott 900


Story of the Cowboy, The. E. Hough.


916


Story of the Mine, The. Charles Howard Shinn 917


Talks on the Study of Literature. Arlo Bates


902


Talks on Writing English. Arlo Bates.


901


Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. 4 vols. 922-5


Yankees of the East. Sketches of Modern Japan. Wm.


Eleroy Curtis. 2 vols. 910-II


N.


Annual Cyclopaedia, 1896. 176


Atlas; Supplement to the Standard Dictionary 186


Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and United States History. Ed. by John J. Lalor. 3 vols. 177-9


Dictionary of American Authors. Oscar Fay Adams. . 180 English Synonyms and Antonyms. James C. Fernald .. 18I


Finding List of Ayer Public Library, 1898. 182 · Historical Lights. Comp. by Rev. C. E. Little. 183


Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of Revolutionary War. Vol. III. 184


Picturesque Europe. Ed. by Bayard Taylor. 3 vols. . 188-190


Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1892-96. 185


Royal Atlas. Alexander Keith Johnston 187


P.


Christian Observer, 1815. 342


83


PAMPHLETS.


A.


Acts and Resolves of Legislature of Massachusetts, 1894 . and 1896. 70-71


Cattle Commissioners, Report of, 1895. 68


Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts, Re- port of, 1897. 56


Hatch Experiment Station, M. A. C., Report of, 1897 .. . 58 Hatch Experiment Station Bulletins :-


Analyses of Manurial Substances and Licensed Fer- tilizers, 1895. 61


Commercial Fertilizers. 64


Fruits, Insecticides and Fungicides


63 60


Glossary of Fodder Terms.


Imported Elm Leaf Beetle, etc 62


Tuberculosis and Tuberculin. 59 .


Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Report of, 1895. 69


Prison Commission, Special Report of, 1894. 65


Public Records, Custody and Condition of, R. T. Swan, 1894 66


Public Reservations, Report of Trustees of, 1896. 57


Treasurer and Receiver-General, Report of, 1895. 67


B.


Congressional Directory, 1889, 1890 and 1897. Pitman


Pulsifer. 3 vols. 373-5


Consular Reports. Nos. 197-209. 13 vols. 376-388


Consular Reports. Index. Nos. 152-203. 389


Consular Reports, Special :-


Money and Prices in Foreign Countries 390


Education, Bureau of :--


Education in Alaska. Sheldon Jackson. 391


Education in Southwestern Virginia, 1890-91. A.


D. Mayo. 392


Finance and Commerce of the United States. Monthly


Summary. Dec., 1896-Dec., 1897. 14 vols. 393-406


Light-House Board, Report of, 1896-7. 2 vols. 407-8 Tariff on Education, A. Speech of S. J. Barrows, 1897. 409


World's Commerce, Review of, 1895-6. 372


M.


Annexation of Hawaii. Lorrin A. Thurston. 86


Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, Beginning, Progress and


84


Conclusion of, 1675-6. . 82 78


Brookline Public Library, Report of Trustees of, 1897. . Concord, 250th Anniversary of Incorporation of, 1635- 1885


Constitutions and By-Laws of Leading Municipal Re- form Organizations, 1897.


Cuban Autonomy, 1897.


Dartmouth College, General Catalogue of, 1890.


Dartmouth College, Catalogue of, 1896-7.


Development of the Voice. Lectures. Josephine Rand Education in the South. A. D. Mayo.


Forbes Library, Northampton, Report of Trustees of, 1896


Good Roads, 1893.


Gospel of Good Roads. Isaac B. Potter


Hawaiian Islands, Resources of, 1896.


Highway Improvement. Col. A. A. Pope.


Houghton Memorial, Littleton, Proceedings at Dedica- tion of, 1895.


Illinois State Historical Library, Report of Trustees of, 1896


King, Horatio


Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, 1897


85 74-5 97


Lowell City Library, Report of Trustees of, 1895-6.


Melrose, By-Laws of Town of.


Middlesex County, Receipts and Expenditures of, 1895- 96.


80-81


New Education in the New South. A. D. Mayo


71


Old Copn's Hill and Burial Ground, 1882.


100


Peach Yellows. L. H. Bailey .


96


Public Care of Insane in Massachusetts. J. L. Hildreth, M. D.


67


Public Library and the State. John S. Hayes, 1897.


80


Road Department at Washington, D. C.


90


Roads, Improvement of.


92


Syracuse Central Library, New York, Report of Trus- tees of, 1897. 79


Taxation. Greenhalge, Quincy, Long, Lane, Jones, Cobb


95


Third Estate of the South. A. D. Mayo 70


Water Supply for Town of Billerica. . 94


Woman's Movement in the South. A. D. Mayo -


69


99 83 8.4 87 88 72 68 77 89 93 98 91 73


76 81


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


MIDDLESEX, SS.


To Eugene DeRoehin, one of the Constables of the Town of Westford, in said County,


Greeting :


You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn all the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in elections and also in Town affairs, to meet at the Town House, in said Westford, on Monday, the fourth day of April, being the first Monday in said month, at eight o'clock A. M. The polls will be opened at 8.15 o'clock A. M., and closed at one o'clock P. M .; and they are then and there to act upon the follow- ing articles, to wit:


Ist. To choose a Moderator.


2d. To see if the Town will determine the compensation of the . Tax Collector, and act in relation to the same.


3d. To bring in their votes for Town Clerk, for one year; one Selectman, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, two School Committee, one Commissioner of Public Burial Grounds, all for three years; two Trustees of the Public Library, one for two years and one for three years; Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, two Constables, and one Auditor, all for one year; also to vote on the following question: "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" all on one ballot.


4th. To hear the report of the Selectmen, and act in relation to the same.


5th. To hear the report of the Selectmen on Guide Boards, and act in relation to the same.


6th. To hear the report of the Overseers of the Poor, and act in relation to the same.


7th To hear the report of the School Committee, and act in re- lation to the same.


8th. To hear the report of the Trustees of the Public Library, and act in relation to the same.


9th. To hear the report of the Commissioners of Public Burial Grounds, and act in relation to the same.


86


Ioth. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Auditor chosen to audit the accounts of the Town Officers, and act in relation to the same.


IIth. To see if the Town will accept the List of Jurors as re- ported by the Selectmen, and act in relation to the same.


12th. To raise and appropriate money to repair Roads and Bridges.


13th. To raise and appropriate money for Town Debts and Charges.


14th. To raise and appropriate money for Public Schools.


15th. To raise and appropriate money to pay tuition of High School scholars, residents of the Town, at Westford Academy.


16th. To raise and appropriate money for support of Poor.


17th.


To raise and appropriate money for School Text Books and Supplies.


18th. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the written direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time to meet the demands on the treasury, and act in relation to the same.


19th. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensu- ing year, also the rate of interest on taxes remaining un- paid at a time to be fixed by vote of the Town, and when and how said taxes shall be paid into the treasury, and act in relation to the same.


20th. To choose all other Town Officers necessary to be chosen by hand vote, and act in relation to the same.


2Ist. By request of the Veteran Association, to see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50) to com- memorate Memorial Day, and act in relation to the same.


22d. By request of the citizens of Graniteville and Forge Village to see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50) for the purpose of distributing books from the Public Library in these two villages, and act in relation to the same.


23d. By request of Francis L. Fletcher, to see if the Town will vote to withdraw from its alliance with Ayer and Littleton for the employment of a Superintendent of Schools.


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24th. By request of the School Committee, to see if the Town will vote to close the Long-Sought-For School and authorize the School Committee to transport the pupils to the Wright School, and act in relation to the same.


25th. By request of the same, to see if the Town will authorize or direct the School Committee to close the Minot's Cor- ner School and transport the pupils to the Centre schools, and act in relation to the same.


26th. By request of the same, to see if the Town will appropriate money for Transportation of Scholars, and act in rela- tion to the same.


27th. To see if the Town will vote to change the time of holding the Annual Town Meeting from the first Monday in April to the third Monday in March, to take effect next year, and act in relation to the same.


28th. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to appoint three or more persons to act with them as a committee to inquire into the system of the care of our highways, and to make such recommendations they may see fit to the Town at some future meeting, and act in relation to the same.


29th. By request of Wesley O. Hawkes and others, to see if the Town will accept the provisions of Section 101, Chapter 417, Acts of 1893, in regard to a division of the Town · for precinct voting, and act in relation to the same.




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