Town of Westford annual report 1896-1901, Part 22

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


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40 00


Mrs. L. L. Tappan, gift


2 00


Mrs. Stedman, gift


I 00


Miss Cheney, gift .


1 00


Appropriation


200 00


Dog Licenses


298 [I


EXPENDITURES.


$632 67


Willard Small, books . $ 392 75


F. J. Barnard & Co., rebinding books .


45 15


Wright & Fletcher, magazines


52 65


D. Appleton & Co., H. M. Meek and others, sub scription books


29 35


Library Art Club .


5 00


$524 90


Balance


$107 77


REPORT OF LIBRARIAN.


Number of books purchased . 380


Number of books presented .


12


Public documents received from the State


15


Public documents received from the United States


86


Whole number of books added during the year


493


Whole number of books in Library


2


Number of books bought to replace worn-out copies


23


Number of books loaned


14 201


Number of pamphlets added


60


Cash on hand from last year .


$2 19


Fines


8 55


· $10 74


Paid for supplies .


8 97


Balance


$1 77


Number of books lost . IO,153


. 81


GIFTS.


Chauncey Craven Hackett


I volume


Abiel J. Abbot


I


Mrs. C. F. Palmer


I


Cambridge W. C. T. U.


I


J. V. Fletcher


A Friend


Dwight H. Olmstead


D. S. Alexander


I


Miss Kate S. Hamlin


I


Commonwealth Institute Scientists


Association of Christian ·


I


G. F. Millis .


27 unbound volumes


Miss Cheney, of Concord


$I co


Mrs. Stedman


1 00


Mrs. L. L. Tappan


2 00


Allan Cameron


Photograph of Lincoln


. Lithograph of Queen Victoria Westford Dramatic Club 3 photographs


Mrs. Josephine F. Barnard 2 pen and ink sketches Charles Henry Prescott, Still River, Minerva, 2 bas-reliefs, 6 busts


Magazines - Union Signal, Our Message, Ladies' Home Journal, L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Outlook, Land of Sunshine, Literary News, Paradise of the Pacific, Woman's Home Companion.


PAMPHLETS.


Dr. W. J. Sleeper


5 volumes J M. Fle'cher


6


Wm. A. Barnes


I


Dr. J. L. Hildreth, Cambridge


I


Walter G. Chase, Boston


I


66


I


3


66


I


66


·


2


LIST OF BOOKS


ADDED TO THE LIBRARY DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1898-9.


A


Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1898 649


Census of Massachusetts, 1895. Manufactures 651


Education, Report of Board, 1896-7 646


Journal of House of Representatives, 1898 647


Journal of Senate, 1898 648


Laws and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1802-3 650


Manual of General Court, 1898


653


Massachusetts Reports. Vols 168, 169, 170 642-4


Massachusetts Special Laws, 1894-97 645


Registration Report, 1897


652


B


Census of United States, 10th, 1880. 5 vols. . . 788-92


Civil Service Commission, 1897 770


Commerce and Navigation in U. S., 1897. 2 vols. 765-6


Commercial Relations of U. S., 1896-7 775 · Congressional Record, 1873-75. 9 vols. . 776-87 .


Education, Report of Commissioner, 1896-7. 2 vols. 771-2


Health Reports. Vol XII. 1997 . 768


Interior Report of Secretary. 1837-99 55 vols 793-847


Interstate Commerce Commission, 1897


769


Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska, 1897, Sheldon Jackson 767 Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, 6 vols 758-763 Smithsonian Institution, U. S. National Museum. Vol


XIX · 774


Smithsonian Reports, U. S. National Museum, 1895 ·


773


83


C


Capt. Cooks Three Voyages Round the World. M. Jones 505


Castilian Days. John Hay 527


Corner of Spain. Miriam Coles Harris 528 . Edinburgh. R. L. Stevenson 526 Family Flight through Mexico. Rev. E. E. and Susan


Hale . 509


First Crossing of Greenland. Fridtjof Nansen 518


Girls' Wanderings in Hungary. H. Ellen Browning 506 Gondola Days. F. Hopkinson Smith Great Streets of the World. Davis, Story, James, etc 524 510


In the Levant. C. D. Warner .


517


Little Tour in France. Henry James


519


My Winter on the Nile. C. D. Warner 516


Nippur. or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates John Punnett Peters. 2 vols . · 514-15


Northward over the Great Ice. Robert E. Peary. 2 vols 512-13 Notable Voyages from Columbus to Parry. W. H. G. Kingston . 508


Philippine Islands. Dean C. Worcester 51I


Porto Rico of Today. Albert G. Robinson 521


Portraits of Places. Henry James . 520


Puerto Rico and Its Resources. F. A. Ober 523


· Thumb-Nail Sketches. George W. Edwards 529


Tropical Africa. Henry Drummond 507


Two Pilgrims' Progress. J. and E. R. Pennell 525


Yesterdays in the Philippines. Joseph E. Stevens .. 522 .


D


Alexander. History of Origin and Growth of Art of War- fare till 301 B. C. Theodore A. Dodge . 904


Ave Roma. Studies from Chronicles of Rome. F. M. Crawford. 2 vols 909-10


Battlefields of '61. Willis J. Abbot 881


Bay Colony. 1624-1649. Wm. Dummer Northend 887 Bismarck and German Unity. Munroe Smith 927


Border Wars of New England. called King William's


and Queen Anne's Wars. 1688-1711. S. A. Drake 885


Bradford's History of " Plimoth Plantation " 847


Bulfinch Front, The. Centennial of State House 896


84


Cæsar, Commentaries of. Anthony Trollope 892


Cuba and Porto Rico with the Other Islands of the West Indies. Robert T. Hill 902


Deeds That Won the Empire. Historic Battle Scenes.


Rev. W. H. Fitchett 886 De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida. Grace King


924


English Constitution, Origin and Growth of. Part II. Hannis Taylor . 905


Fifteenth Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Infantry, History of. 1861-64. Andrew E. Ford 903


From Manassas to Appomattox. James Longstreet 900


Greece, History of. Adolph Holm. 4 vols 911-14


Herodotus. George C. Swayne 890


Historic Towns of New England. Ed. by Lyman Powell 908


Holland, Story of. J. E. Thorold Rogers 922 Home Life in Colonial Days. Alice Morse Earle . 926 Industry in England. Historical Outlines. H. de B Gibbins 906 Jackson, Stonewall, and American Civil War. G. F. R. Henderson, (2 vols.) 929-30


Livy. Rev. W. L. Collins .


893


Making of the Ohio Valley States. 1660-1837. S. A. Drake 884


Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies. 1578-1701. S. A. Drake 883


Mankind, History of. Friedrich Ratzel. 2 vols. 879-80


Mexico of Today. The Awakening of a Nation. C. F. Lummis 888


Netherlands, History of People of. Petrus Johannes Blok . 901


New Orleans, the Place and the People. Grace King 925


Papacy, History of, from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. M. Creighton. 6 vols. . 916-21


Perugia, Story of. M. Symonds and L. D. Gordou 928


Philadelphia, the Place and the People Agnes Repplier 923


Portugal and Its People. W. A Salisbury


Revolution, The Story of. Henry Cabot Lodge. 2 vols. 882


Rome, History of, to death of Cæsar. W. W. How 898-9


and H. D. Leigh 915


Tacitus. Wm. Bodham Donne


891


85


Thucydides. Rev. W. L. Collins 894 Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. Wilbur H. Siebert . 907


War in Cuba. Gonzalo de Quesada 895 War Memories of an Army Chaplain. H. Clay Trumbull 931


Xenophon. Sir Alexander Grant 889


E


Alexanders of Maine, The. De Alva Stanwood Alexan-


der


952


Andersen, Hans Christian. Story of My Life . 941


Aristotle. Sir Alexander Grant


929


Bismarck. Some Recent Pages of His History. Moritz


Busch. 2 vols. 953-4


Blackwood, William, and His Sons. Annals of a Publish- ing House. Mrs. Oliphant. 2 vols. 918-19 Brougham, John. Life, Stories and Poems. Ed. by Wm. Winter 927


Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Rev. James Davies 928


Cicero. Rev. W. L. Collins


930 Cicero, Roman Life in Days of. Rev. A. J. Church 926


Demosthenes. Rev. W. J. Brodribb 932


Emerson-Sterling Letters, with Sketch of Sterling's Life. Edward W. Emerson 939


Field, Eugene. Francis Wilson 925


Franklin, Benjamin. Sidney G. Fisher


949


Glimpses of Fifty Years. Frances E. Willard 917


Great Mother, A. Sketch of Madame Willard. F. E. Willard and M. B. Norton 915 Gustavus Adolphus and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence. C. R. L. Fletcher 922


Hugo, Victor. Letters. Series II. Ed. by Paul Meurice 955


Joan of Arc, or the Maid of Orleans . 933


Lee, Robert E, and the Southern Confederacy. 1807-


70. Henry A. White 923


Lincoln, Abraham. Carl Schulz 940 . Memoirs of Early Italian Painters. Mrs. Jameson . .


934


Mitchel, Ormsby Macknight. F. A. Mitchel .


947 My Long Life. Mary Cowden-Clarke 924 Neesima, Joseph Hardy. Life and Letters. A. S. Hardy 946


86


Nineteen Beautiful Years. Frances E. Willard 916 Paul, the Man, Missionary, and Teacher. Orello Cone . 948 Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens. Evelyn Abbott 4,21 Pliny's Letters. Rev. A. J. Church and Rev. W. J Brodribb 931


Renan, Ernest. Madame James Darmesteter . 944 Richardson, William Adams. Frank Warren Hackett 950


Robert the Bruce, and the Struggle for Scottish Inde- pendence. Sir Herbert Maxwell 920


Saint Francis of Assisi, Little Flowers of. Trans. by Abby L. Alger . 935


Savonarola, Girolamo. Life and Times. Pasquale Vil-


lari 95


Shakespeare, William. Sidney Lee 945


Vailima Letters. R. L. Stevenson. 2 vols. 936-7


Washington, George. Horace E. Scudder 938


Wesley, John. J. H. Overton 942


Whittier, John G. Francis H. Underwood 943


F


American Citizen. Charles F. Dole 708


Anglo-Saxon Superiority. Edmond Demolins 721


Aristocracy and Evolution. W. H Mallock 725 Atheism in Philosophy, and Other Essays. F. H. Hedge 715 Causes and Consequences. John Jay Chapman 714


Congressional Government. Woodrow Wilson 707


Control of the Tropics. Benjamin Kidd 713


Darwinism and Other Essays. John Fiske 718


Denizens of the Deep. Dr. G. Hartwig 704


Educational Reform. Charles W. Eliot . 723


Foot-Notes to Evolution. David Starr Jordan 709


Geological Sketches. L. Agassiz. 2 vols. 716-17


How to Name the Birds. H. E. Parkhurst 705 Illustrated Flora of the Northern U. S., Canada, and British Posses- sions. N. L. Britton and A. Brown. Vols. II and III 625-6


Inebriety, Its Source, Prevention and Cure. Charles Fol- len Palmer 702


Laborer and Capitalist, The. Freeman Otis Willey 722 Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects. F. H. Wines and John Koren 712


87


Lucretius. W. H. Mallock 706 Metals, Playbook of. John Henry Pepper 700 Political Economy, Science of. Henry George 724 Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee. N. P. Gilman 7.19


Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns. George E. Waring 711


Studies of Good and Evil. Josiah Royce 710 Treasures of the Earth : Mines, Minerals and Metals. : William Jones 701


Winged Life in the Tropics. Dr. G. Hartwig .


.


703


Wonderful Century, The. Alfred R. Wallace 720


Wonderful Inventions. John Timbs


699


G ..


Continuity of Christian Thought. A. V. G. Allen . 348 Evolution of Religion. Edward Caird. 2 vols. 349-50 Freedom of Faith. Theodore T. Munger 346


Hope of Immortality, The. J. E. C. Welldon 347


Human Immortality. William James 344


Lamps and Paths. Theodore T. Munger


345


Manliness of Christ. Thomas Hughes


343


Protestant Faith, or Salvation by Belief. Dwight H.


Olmstead 342 .


Renascent Christianity 351


Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures. M. B. G. Eddy 34I


Adventures of Francois. H. Weir Mitchell 2130


Afterwards and Other Stories. Ian Macla en, pseud. 2129


Antigone. Paul Bourget


2137


Battle of the Strong, The. Gilbert Parker


2145 .


Border Lances .


2117


Caleb West : Master Diver. F. Hopkinson Smith


2115


Castle Inn. Stanley J. Weyman 2143


Colonel Starbottle's Client. Bret Harte 2156


Day's Work, The. Rudyard Kipling 2123


Dead Souls. Nikolaï V. Gogol


2135


Despot of Broomsedge Cove. Charles Egbert Craddock, ps.ud. . 2126


Donal Grant. George MacDonald .


. 2118


88


Ebb Tide, The. R. L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne . 2106


Flint. Maud Wilder Goodwin 2149


Free to Serve. E. Rayner 2122


From the Other Side. Henry B Fuller


2155


Girl at Cobhurst, The. Frank R Stockton 2III Golden Age, The. Kenneth Grahame 2157 Sorrow, A. Maria Louise Pool 2132


Great Love, A. Clara Louise Burnham


2150


Helbeck of Bannisdale. Mrs. Humphrey Ward. 2 vols. 2152-3


Her Memory. Maarten Maartens, pseud.


2139


Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories. Abraham Cahan 2154


Island Nights Entertainments. R. L Stevenson 2108


Life is Life, and Other Tales. Zack, pseud. 2131


Little Book of Profitable Tales. Eugene Field 2119


Locke Amsden. D P. Thompson 2113


Lover of Truth, A. Eliza Orne White 2151


Loves of the Lady Arabella, The. . Molly Elliot Seawell 2146


Marjorie Daw and Other People. T. B. Aldrich 2124


Midst the Wild Carpathians. Maurus Jokai 2138


Minister of France, Memoirs of. Stanley J. Weyman · 2144


Mistress of Sherburne, The. A. M. Douglas


2147


On the Eve. Ivan Turgenev


2158


On Many Seas. Frederick Benton Williams 2120


Patty's Perversities. Arlo Bates


2127


Plain Living. Rolf Boldrewood


2114


Pride of Jennico. Agnes and Egerton Castle


2104


Prince Otto. R. L. Stevenson


2107


Puritans, The. Arlo Bates 2128


Rangers, or The Tory's Daughter. D. P. Thompson . 2112


Red-Bridge Neighborhood. Maria Louise Pool 2133


Red Rock. Thomas Nelson Page .


2134


Romance of Old New York, A. Edgar Fawcett . 2164


Rupert of Hentzau. Anthony Hope, pseud. . 2141


Sherburne Girls. A. M. Douglas 2148 .


Shrewsbury. Stanley J. Weyman 2142


Simon Dale. Anthony Hope, pseud. 2140


Sportsman's Sketches. Ivan Turgenev. 2 vols 2161-2


Sprightly Romance of Marsac. Molly Elliot Seawell 2105


Story of Old Fort London. Charles Egbert Craddock, pseud. 2125


Susan's Escort and Others. E. E. Hale. . 2116


.


89


Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War. J. C. Harris 212I Taras Bulba. Nikolaï V. Gogol 2136 · Ten Thousand a Year. Samuel Warren. 2 vols. · 2109-10 Torrents of Spring. The. Ivan Turgenev 2163


Virgin Soil. Ivan Turgenev. 2 vols. J


Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain, pseud. II24


Among the Forest People. Clara D. Pierson . II25


Among the Meadow People. Clara D. Pierson II26 Bilberry Boys and Girls. Sophie Swett . 1108 · Boy Travellers in Australasia. H. Butterworth II20 .


Boy Travellers in Central Europe. H. Butterworth .


II2I


Boy Travellers in the Levant. H. Butterworth .


I[22


Boy Travellers in Mexico. H. Butterworth 1118 Boy Travellers in Northern Europe. H. Butterworth · 1119


Boy Officers of 1812. E. T. Tomlinson . II29


Boy Soldiers of 1812. E. T. Tomlinson . II28 .


Boys with Old Hickory. E. T. Tomlinson II31


Cæsar, Julius Jacob Abbott .


1091


Charles I. Jacob Abbott


1094


Charles II. Jacob Abbott


1095


Children's Book, The. Collection of Best and Most


Famous Stories in English Language. Chosen by H. E. Scudder . II23


Cleopatra. Jacob Abbott 1096


Conquests of the Seven Hills. Mrs. C. H. B. Laing .


1086


Cortez, Hernando. J. S. C. Abbott .


IIOI


Darius the Great. Jacob Abbott 1087


For Name and Fame, or Through Afghan Passes. G.


A. Henty . III2


Four Hundred Animal Stories. Sel. by Robert Cockrane 1132


Grandpapa's Stories, or Dame Nature. Trans. by X. B. Saintine III4 ·


Heroic Deeds. James Johonnot


1103


Hortense. J. S. C. Abbott 1098


Icelandic Fairy Tales. Trans. and Ed. by Mrs. A. W. Hall . III7


In the Wilds of the West Coast J. M. Oxley III5


Josephine. J. S. C. Abbott 1097


Louis the XIV. J. S. C. Abbott .


IIO2


2159-60


90


March on London Wat Tyler's Insurrection. G. A. Henty 1113


Nero. Jacob Abbott 1092


Patriot Schoolmaster. H. Butterworth 1116


Philip. King J. S. C. Abbott 1100


Pyrrhus. Jacob Abbott 1090


Richard III. Jacob Abbott


1093


Roland, Madame. J. S. C. Abbott . 1099


Romulus. Jacob Abbott .


1089


Rover's Secret. Harry Collingwood


IIIO


Sagacity of Animals-Stories of Cats and Dogs. W. H. G. Kingston . 1107


Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales. Sel. and Ed. by Sir George Douglas 1106 .


Search for Andrew Field. E. T. Tomlinson II27


Seven Kings of Seven Hills. Mrs. C. H B. Laing . 1085


Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. E.


Eggleston 1 105


Tecumseh's Young Braves. E. T. Tomlinson


1130


Things in the Forest. M. and E. Kirby 1104 War of Independence, The (Riverside Series). John Fiske II33 Xerxes. Jacob Abbott 1088


Young Colonists. G. A. Henty IIII


Young Macedonian and Army of Alexander the Great.


Rev. A. J. Church 1109


L


Æschylus. Reginald S. Copleston 367


Aristophanes. Rev. W. L. Collins 361


Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads. Rudyard Kipling 357


From Sunset Ridge. Julia Ward Howe


373


Greek Anthology, The. Lord Neaves


370


Hesiod and Theognis. Rev. James Davies


359


Historic Ornament. James Ward. 2 vols.


384-5


Homer, the Iliad. Rev. W. L. Collins


365


66 " Odyssey. Rev. W. L. Collins


364


Horace. Theodore Martin 369


How to Enjoy Pictures. M. S. Emery 383


Indian Epigrams, A Century of. Paul Elmer More


372


Juvenal. Edward Walford 360


Legends of the Madonna. Anna Jameson. Ed. by Estelle


M. Hurll 381


91


Life of Our Lord in Art. Estelle M. Hurll 382


Lowell, James Russell. Poems. 4 vols. 377-380 Marston, Philip Bourke. Poems 376


Ovid. Rev. Alfred Church 366


Plautus and Terence. Rev. W. L. Collins 362


Pindar. Rev. F. D. Mori. e 371


Prose Poems. Ivan Tourgueneff


374


Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land. C. G. Leland 358


Sophocles. Clifton W. Collins 368


Talks on Art. W. M. Hunt 386


Virgil. Rev. W. L. Collins


363


What Is Art? Leo Tolstoy


375


M


Across the Plains. R. L. Stevenson 930


Amateur Emigrant. R. L. Stevenson 931


American Prose. Ed. by George Rice Carpenter 950 Auld Lang Syne. F. Max Müller 935 Cheerful Yesterdays. T. W. Higginson . 927


Conduct as a Fine Art. N. P. Gilman and E. P Jackson


944


Do-Nothing Days. Charles M. Skinner .


958


English Literature, Short History of. George Saintsbury


947


Essays on Work and Culture. Hamilton W. Mabie 966


Eye Spy. W.m. Hamilton Gibson 936 General Manager's Story, The. Herbert E. Hamblen


Field and Hedgerow. Richard Jefferies . 928 Gleanings in Buddha Fields. Lafcadio Hearn 959


956


Heroes of Asgard. A and E. Keary 967


Heroes of Chivalry and Romance. Rev. A. J. Church 941


Hours with German Classics. F. H. Hedge . 946


Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome K. Jerome 952


Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets. Vida D. Scudder 942


Lucian. Rev. W. L. Collins 933


Making and Unmaking of a Preacher. Wm. Jewett


Tucker 949


Martin Luther and Other Essays. F. H. Hedge 945


New England Poets, The. Wm. Cranston Lawton 962


On the Cam. Lectures on the University of Cambridge,


England. Wm. Everett 96 1


92


Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid. C. Piazzi Smyth 934


Plato. Clifton W. Collins 932


Railroad, Story of. Cy Warman 948 Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome K. Jerome 953


Silverado Squatters. R. L. Stevenson


Social Forces in German Literature. Kuno Francke


943


929 938 Social Ideals in English Letters. Vida D. Scudder . .


Story of Jesus Christ. E. S. Phelps 926 . Ten No-License Years in Cambridge 937


Treasures of the Humble. M. Maeterlinck 968


University Addresses. John Caird .


940


University Problems in U. S. Daniel C. Gilman


939


What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living? Charles F. Win-


gate 951


With Feet to the Earth. Charles M. Skinner 957


Workers, The. East. Walter A. Wyckoff 954


Workers, The. West. Walter A. Wyckoff


955


World Beautiful. Lilian Whiting. 3 vols. 963-5


World of Green Hills, A. Bradford Torrey


960


N


Annual Cyclopædia. 1897 · 194 Biographical Review. Sketches of Leading Citizens of Middlesex Co., Mass. 195


Church Book, Belonging to the Second Church in Chelms- ford, Anno 1727 198


Longfellow, H. W., Complete Works. Illustrated. 3 vols. 191-3


Lowell Suburban Directory. 1898-9 . 196


Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of Revolutionary War Vol. IV 199


References for Literary Workers. Henry Matson 197


P


Littell's Living Age. 16 vols. · 200-215


PAMPHLETS.


A


Free Public Library Commission of Mass., Report of. 1898 75 Hatch Experiment Station, Report of. 1898 72


High Schools in Mass. 1895. J. W. MacDonald 78 Legislation to Limit Height of Buildings in Boston. J. H. Benton, Jr. 77


Public Reservations, Report of Trustees 1897 76


School Attendance and Truancy in Mass. 1896 79


State Library, Report of Librarian. 1897-98. 2 vols. 73-4


Supervision of Schools in Mass. A. W. Edson 80


Tuberculosis, Prevention of. Jas. B. Russell


81


B


American Tariffs. Speeches of Hon. J. H. Gallinger. 1896 410 Consular Reports. Nos. 210-221. 12 vols. 416-27


66 Special. Soap, Screws, Bolts, Argols, ·


Ramie, etc., in Foreign Countries 423


Education in Alaska. 1895-96. Sheldon Jackson


66 Report of Commissioner. 1897 442


Exports Declared for the U. S. Jan .- Nov. 1898. 4 vols. . 412-15


441


Finance and Commerce of the U. S. Monthly summary. I 2 vols. 429-40


Light-House Board, Report of. 1898 4II


M


Acton, Mass. Catalogue of Memorial Library. 1897 II7


Acton, Mass. Dedication of Monument. 1851 . IOI


Army of the Potomac. Horatio C. King . 104 Brookline, Mass. Public Library Report. 1898 108 Dartmouth College Catalogue, 1897-8 IIO


Fitchburg, Mas .. , State Normal School Catalogue, 1898 From the Perishable the Permanent. Rev. John C. Kim- 109


ball . 113


Hallam, A. H. W. E. Gladstone III


94


How Russia Cares for Her Foundlings. J. L. Hildreth, M. D. 107


How Shall We Keep Sunday? M. J. Savage, etc. . 112 Ipswich, Mass, Exercises at Unveiling of Tablet to the


" Unknown Dead." 1897. Rev. John C. Kimball . II4


Lowell General Hospital, Report of. 1896 TO2


Lowell, Mass. Contributions to Old Residents Historical Association. 1898 103


Mass. Institute of Technology. Catalogue 1897.8 I16


Psychology, Hypnotism, Personal Magnetism and Clair- voyance. Wm. A. Barnes 106


Soldier's Home, Chelsea, Mass. Report of Trustees 1898 105


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.


MIDDLESEX, SS.


To Eugene DeRoehn, 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 twentieth day of March, being the third 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 following 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, one Trustee of the Public Library, all for three years; Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, two Con- stables, 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 relation 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.


96


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 reported 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.


I7th. 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.


I9th. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensu- ing year, also the rate of interest on taxes remaining unpaid 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.


21st. 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 rela- tion to the same.


23d. By request of the Committee on New Building at Town Farm, to see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300) for the purchase of material to complete the building at the Town Farm, and act in relation to the same.


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24th. By request of Julian A. Cameron, to see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to purchase enough settees to furnish the Town Hall, and act in relation to the same.


25th. To hear the report of the Committee on Highways, and act in relation to the same.


26th. By request of E. A. Moore and others, to see if the Town will vote to have the Selectmen, in their report on roads, give the amount expended on said roads by School Dis- tricts, and act in relation to the same.


27th. By request of Samuel L. Taylor, to see if the Town will grant the use of the Town Hall free once a month to any organization in Town, for a public meeting where an admission fee is not charged, and act in relation to the same.




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