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The Cemetery Commissioners should establish an annual charge for the regular care of lots for which deposits have been made for care, the same as for the care of lots not under perpetual care; and should submit to the Treasurer, as early as possible each year, a list of the charges against each lot under perpetual care. The proper amount should then be withdrawn from the bank and made available for this purpose before the expenditures are actually made.
Before any special or extraordinary repairs are made in a lot under perpetual care, the amount of income available should be ascertained from the Town Accountant in order to avoid drawing on the principal of the fund.
The accounts of the Tax Collector were examined, the collections re- ported as paid to the Treasurer were checked with the Treasurer's books, and the abatements were checked to the Assessors' records of abatements granted. The outstanding accounts were listed and a reconciliation of the taxes and assessments for 1920, 1921, and 1922 was made and checked with the Accountant's ledger.
Tables showing summaries of the tax and assessment accounts are appended to this report.
The records of licenses and permits issued by authority of the Selectmen were examined and the receipts checked to the Treasurer's records.
The record of receipts at the Town Farm were examined and payments to the Treasurer verified.
The accounts of the library were examined, and receipts for fines, etc., checked, as were also the payments to Treasurer.
The surety bonds covering the Treasurer and Tax Collector were examined and found to be in proper form.
While engaged in making the audit, I received the co-operation of the various officials, and for this courtesy and assistance I wish to extend, both for my assistant and myself, my thanks and appreciation.
Respectfully submitted,
EDW. H. FENTON,
Chief Examiner.
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RECONCILIATION OF TREASURER'S CASH
Cash balance, January 1, 1922.
$
1,813.32
Receipts 255,336.72
$257,150.04
Payments
$247,789.83
Cash balance December 31, 1922 9,360.21
$257,150.04
Cash balance December 31, 1922.
$
9,360.21
Cash in office, deposited in bank January 3, 1923 $ 2,989.94 Union National Bank balance December 31, 1922 6,370.27 $ 9,360.21
Bank balance December 31, 1922. $ 6,370.27
Outstanding checks, per list
8,785.48
Unlocated difference 10.00
$ 15,165.75
Balance December 31, 1922, per bank statement .. $ 14,974.44
Deposit, credited after statement was issued. ...
146.31
Deposit of money order, in dispute. 45.00
$ 15,165.75
TAXES, 1920
Outstanding January 1, 1921, per audit $ 667.68
Additional collected, not committed
19.80
Moth credited as taxes.
7.20
Interest and costs credited as taxes
8.57
$ 703.25
Payments to Treasurer in 1921. $ 677.77
Abatements in 1921 25.48
$ 703.25
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TAXES, 1921
Commitment per warrant.
$ 80,810.82
Additional commitment
168.25
Abated and refunded in 1921.
29.50
$ 81,008.57
Payments to Treasurer in 1921
$ 78,412.26
Abatements in 1921. 483.63
Outstanding December 31, 1921, per ledger
2,112.68
$ 81.008.57
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Outstanding January 1, 1922, per ledger $ 2,112.68 Additional collected, not committed. 28.50
Abated and refunded in 1922. 5.00
$ 2,146.18
Payments to Treasurer in 1922.
$ 2,123.64
Abatements in 1922.
22.50
Commitment in excess of detailed list.
.04
$
2,146.18
TAXES, 1922
Commitment per warrant.
$116,996.98
Additional commitment
179.50
Abated and refunded.
8.62
Detailed list in excess of warrant.
.02
$117,185.12
Payments to Treasurer.
$112,676.29
Abatements
841.81
Taxes credited as Moth.
19.00
Outstanding December 31, 1922.
3,648.02
$117,185.12
MOTH ASSESSMENTS, 1920
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Outstanding January 1, 1921, per audit. $ 43.80 .
Payments to Treasurer in 1921.
$ 36.60
Collections credited to taxes
7.20
$ 43.80
MOTH ASSESSMENTS, 1921
Commitment per warrant. $ 1,013.42
Payments to Treasurer in 1921. $ 947.92
Outstanding December 31, 1921, per ledger.
65.50
$ 1,013.42
Outstanding January 1, 1922, per ledger.
$ 65.50
Payments to Treasurer in 1922. $ 65.50
MOTH ASSESSMENTS, 1922
Commitment per warrant. $ 872.76
Additional commitment 11.25
Taxes credited as Moth.
19.00
$ 903.01
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Payments to Treasurer
$ 791.71
Abatements
43.50
Outstanding December 31, 1922
67.80 $ 903.01
METCALF MONUMENT FUND
Savings Bank Par Value
Cash Deposits of Securities
Total
On hand at beginning of year
$128.00 $209.56 $2,000.00 $2,337.56
On hand at end of year .... $208.00 $222.94 $2,000.00 $2,430.94
Receipts
Payments
Interest and income. .. $ 93.38
Deposited in savings bank $ 13.38 Cash on hand at end of
Cash on hand at beginning
of year
128.00*
year 208.00*
Total
$221.38
Total
$221.38
WHITNEY PLAYGROUND FUND
Savings Bank Par Value
Cash Deposits of Securities Total
On hand at beginning of year ..
$160.66 $5,000.00 $5,000.00 $10,160.66
On hand at end of year. . . ....
$5,282.39 $5,000.00 $10,282.39
Receipts
Payments
Interest and income. $622.39
Deposited in savings bank $282.39
Advance by Town 43.99
Expenditures 544.65
Cash on hand at beginning
of year 160.66*
Total $827.04
Total
$827.04
WHITNEY SHADE TREE FUND
Savings Bank Par Value
Cash Deposits of Securities Total
On hand at beginning of year $179.85
$500.00 $2,000.00 $2,679.85
On hand at end of year .... $217.45 $500.00 $2,000.00 $2,717.45
Receipts
Payments
Interest and income. ... $ 85.00
Expenditures $ 47.40 Cash on hand at end of
Cash on hand at beginning
of year 179.85*
year
217.45*
Total
$264.85
Total
$264.85
*In general cash.
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LIBRARY FUNDS
Savings Bank
Cash
Deposits Total
On hand at beginning of year
$ 10.09
$4,250.58 $4,260.67
On hand at end of year.
$204.89
$4,250.58
$4,455.47
Receipts
Payments
Interest and income .... $194.80
Cash on hand at end of
Cash on hand at beginning
year
$201.89*
of year 10.09*
Total $201.89
Total $204.89
CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
Savings Bank Par Value
Cash Deposits of Securities Total
On hand at beginning of year
$349.58 $9,268.40 $3,650.00 $13,267.9S
On hand at end of year ...... $430.73 $9,792.95 $3,650.00 $13,873.68
Receipts
Payments
Interest and income. $627.11
Deposited in savings bank $524.55
Bequests 450.00
Expenditures 471.41
Cash on hand at beginning
Cash on hand at end of
of year 349.58*
year
430.73*
Total $1,426.69
Total
$1,426.69
*In general cash.
TOWN OF WESTFORD BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1922 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
Cash :
In bank and office.
$ 9,360.21
At Town farm.
30.00
Trust Fund Income :
Whitney Shade Tree Fund ..... $ 217.45
Library Funds
204.89
Metcalf Monument Fund ...... 208.00
Accounts Receivable : Taxes :
Levy of 1922
$ 3,648.02
Special Assessments :
Moth, 1922
67.80
Due from State :
State Aid
248.00
Schools :
Forge Village Construction
231.34
Fire Department (Rent) .. $ 11.50
Town Farm (Board and
Brookside Construction ... Brookside Equipment ....
780.33
Care)
45.50
57.00
Appropriations Overdrawn :
Groton Road
4.69
Brookside Road
388.53
Schools-Text-Books and Sup-
Departmental Revenue
57.00
plies
11.15
Overlay, 1922-Reserved for abate- ments . . Reserve Fund-overlay surplus. .
2,735.37
Whitney Playground (from trust
funds ) 43.99
448.36
Surplus Revenue .
5,244.38
$ 13,869.39
LIABILITIES
Trust Funds : Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund.
$
50.00
At library
10.00
$ 9,400.21
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds 380.73
1,011.07 38.96
Tailings Account
Appropriation Balances forward to 1923: Street lights .. $ 593.84
Departmental :
Forge Village Equipment. . 50.89
110.10
Forge Village Land. ·
1,500.00
Library 7.84
$ 3,274.34
Special Assessment Revenues. .. ·
48.80
1,409.47
$ 13,869.39
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DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt . .. .....
$ 42,400.00
Forge Village Schoolhouse Loan, 1921 $ 4,900.00
Brookside School Loan, 1922. 30,000.00
Motor Fire Apparatus Loan ·
2,700.00
Graniteville Road Loan .. 800.00
Groton Road Loan, 1921.
4,000.00
$ 42,400.00
$ 42,400.00
$ 42,400.00
TRUST FUND ACCOUNTS
Trust Funds :
Library Funds .
$ 4,150.00
Cash and Securities. . .. $ 29,570.25
Whitney Shade Tree Fund. 2,500.00
Trust Fund Income :
Metcalf Monument Fund ...
2,000.00
Cash and Securities. . 3,128.61
Whitney Playground Fund.
10,000.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds ....
10,920.25
$ 29,570.25
Library Fund Income ..
$ 100.58
222.94
282.39
2,522.70
3,128.61
$ 32,698.86
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$ 32,698.86
Metcalf Monument Fund Income ... Whitney Playground Fund Income .. Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund In- come
$ 32,698.86
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Board of Health Report
The Board of Health respectfully submits the following report for the year ending December 31, 1922.
The Board wishes to thank the people of the Town for their co-operation with the Board and its agents for the past year.
This year a change in the Board of Health's personnel was necessitated by the resignation of the Public Health Nurse in September. By the with- drawal of Miss Lord from duty the Board of Health feels that the Town has lost a most efficient health nurse, one who has rendered very valuable service to the Town. A new nurse who was very highly recommended by the State authorities, especially as a School Nurse, was finally chosen to fill Miss Lord's position. Due to the new nurse's wide school experience and inas- much as the Schools were increasing in size rapidly, it was decided at a joint meeting of the School Committee and the Board of Health to have the new nurse concentrate her work in a larger degree on the schools, making the district nursing more a matter of emergency and of attending to the families who could not obtain the help of a nurse elsewhere. The rapid growth in the size of the Town during the last few years together with the widely scattered school and town area, really seem to render impracticable one nurse carrying on School Nursing, District Nursing, with a call to duty at any time of night or day, together with odds and ends of Board of Health Work, and doing all of these in a thoroughly complete and competent manner. What it seems to amount to is this :
Is one nurse to devote her time for the most part to one branch of nursing and do this very thoroughly and completely, or is she to carry on in every branch, doing as much as is possible, but concentrating her efforts on no particular nursing problem ?
It would seem to us, the Board of Health, that the interests of the Town as a whole could best be served by making neither District Nursing or School Nursing the prime factor, but by the nurse carrying on in a more general way, doing whatever she can in each capacity where duty calls. And to be specific in denoting "where duty calls," we recommend that the nurse be summoned as a District Nurse only upon the attending doctor's recommenda- tion, or in cases of extreme emergency, when a doctor cannot readily be ob- tained, and that the nurse devote to school nursing, supplemented with the few odds and ends of Board of Health work, the balance of her time which should be and we hope will be the major portion.
A plan of this sort we feel will serve the Town the best of any routine which is to be carried out by one nurse, and such a policy we shall endeavor to pursue during the coming year. Please remember, if there be any failings in either the school or district side of Town nursing, that the nurse has a tremendous amount of work to do, and to do everything thoroughly demands more time than one person is capable of giving. Like the past two years, the
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majority of the Health Work throughout the Town has been performed by the Public Health Nurse. This year as there have been two nurses, two reports appear below.
To the Westford Board of Health :
Gentlemen :- The following brief covers part of the work carried on this year.
In the schools there is a steady improvement in the health work. During the winter and spring months we have had a small epidemic of Whooping Cough throughout the Town. Absentees were many and con- siderable follow-up work had to be done, and, in many cases, nursing work was necessary.
Early in the summer a survey of the babies born during the year was made and a great deal of time was spent with the parents giving advice and instructions.
I wish at this time to thank the teachers and all the townspeople for their co-operation and many kindnesses. Without their aid the work would have been very difficult.
REPORT JANUARY, 1922 TO SEPTEMBER, 1922
School Visits 169
Absentee Visits
81
Children Examined for Minor Ailments 121
Children Sent Home for Illness. 9
Nursing Visits
157
Prenatal and Postnatal Visits.
119
Child Welfare Visits
262
Observation and Advisory
189
Obstetrical Cases
9
Surgical Dressings
86
Business Visits 10
(No report was made for the month of September, 1922)
Patients Taken to Dentist. 11
Patients Taken to Tewksbury. 1
Patients Taken to Lowell General Hospital. 5
Patients Taken to Physician 20
Patients Taken for X-Ray. 1
Two Children Taken Twice to Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston
. ..
Patient to Groton Hospital.
Patient to Dr. Patch's Hospital, Framingham
1
Child to Children's Hospital, Boston
1
Patient to Greek Hospital, Lowell.
1
Patient to Abbot Hospital for X-Ray. 1
Children Operated On for Tonsils and Adenoids. 15
(Ether given) 5
Respectfully submitted,
EVA M. LORD, Nurse.
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Baby Taken to Waverly Hospital 1
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Having been in Westford only three months my report must necessarily be but a short one.
The month of October was spent chiefly in becoming acquainted with the schools and the children, learning to know them, and by talks in the different class rooms, giving them an idea of what a school nurse means, the wide character of her work, and the value which it means to the in- dividual child, as well as to the different families, and to the community as a whole. Strong emphasis was given to the fact that Medical Authorities of every kind and degree were co-operating to teach people how to keep well, that preventative teaching, showing people how to keep well is the modern, scientific law of health.
It has been a great help and pleasure to have the teachers in all the schools most cordial and willing to welcome the nurse and her work. Their co-operation is invaluable. Most of the schools are now serving hot cocoa at noontime, which is of especial value during the cold weather.
The work for and with the children is necessary in scope and possi- bilities, as through them the message of the value of health makes itself known in innumerable ways in their homes.
The children in all the schools have had physical examinations by the school physician.
A dentist's services have been obtained, at reasonable rates for one morn- ing every week. Children have been taken to him every Friday for the last month. It has been possible to enlist the services of one of the best oculists in Lowell, who is generous and interested enough to enable one to take the school children to his office, and he also promises to make the fees as reason- able as possible.
In time, as it becomes possible to know personally all the parents, I feel that a big, fine, tremendous work can be done for the children, which of course will mean more efficient, happy, responsible citizens for the United States, and which is of course, the objective that the Government has in view, and for which it has established the huge Public Health Working Force.
This report is short and general, in its one line, but after having been here longer a more detailed and comprehensive one will be possible.
REPORT OCTOBER, 1922, TO JANUARY, 1923
School visits 124
Absentee visits
9
Children examined for minor ailments. 36
Home visits 58
Talks in schools
105
Dressings
31
Advisory 17
Children sent home for illness 1
Children taken to oculist (Lowell) 2
Children taken to dentist.
10
The children in all the schools have been examined by the School Physician.
One day was spent by the Nurse at a conference of the Board of Educa- tion and Public Health at Lowell.
Two days given to Agents of the P. P. C. from Boston.
Three visits were made to the Overseers of the Poor.
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A drive was made for the A. R. C. and T. B. Stamps. Both met with very good success
During Cancer week talks were given to the older children in the schools under the title "A message of Hope," which was sent out all over the country under the directions of the Public Health Department.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES YEAR OF 1922
Chicken-pox
3
Pneumonia
9
Measles
1
Whooping-cough
16
German Measles
3
Scarlet Fever
11
T. B. Pulmonary.
2
Influenza
9
Septic Sore Throat.
1
Diptheria
1
Typhoid Fever
12
Mumps
Malaria
DEATHS, 1922
Pneumonia
1
Influenza
2
Typhoid Fever
1
Whooping-cough
1
Diptheria
1
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HARRIET HORTON, R. N.
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APPROPRIATION FOR 1923
The Board of Health desires that the sum of $3,000 be appropriated for its department for 1923. This sum will include the salary of the Public Health Nurse.
ALEXANDER A. CAMERON, Chairman. EDWARD T. HANLEY, P. HENRY HARRINGTON.
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Report of Demonstration Work in Agriculture and Home Economics in the Town of Westford for the Year Ending December 31, 1922
An appropriation of $250 was made at the annual Town Meeting for demonstration work under the direction of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics. Following is a report of the work done by this organization in Westford :
Agents of the Bureau made 98 farm and home visits. The County Agricultural Agent held a program meeting, conducted an extension school, and gave a poultry-culling demonstration. He also organized a poultry automobile tour to study some successful poultry plants in the northern part of the county. The Home Demonstration Agent held a program meeting, a class in millinery, and gave a demonstration on the making of dress forms.
Bureau moving pictures were shown five times to a total audience of 905.
Eighty-one boys and girls enrolled in club work, the greatest interest being shown in home economics. Forty-one meetings were held with these groups by agents of the Bureau.
Middlesex County continues to lead all others in the United States in the number of boys and girls enrolled in club projects. There were 2,965 enrolled in various club projects and they produced $75,475 worth of products during the year. All of these young people were under the leadership of agents of the County Bureau and 184 paid and volunteer local leaders.
W. OTIS DAY, Director.
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Westford Water Company CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT
Balance January 1, 1922.
$ 95,311.42
Spent from Jan. 1, 1922 to Dec. 31, 1922 in
construction of new building at the Pump- ing Station. 6,347.45
Total cost of construction to Jan. 1, 1923. $101,658.87
A STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FROM JANUARY 1, 1922 TO JANUARY 1, 1923
RECEIPTS
52 Hydrants
$ 2,080.00
Town Hall
32.00
Library
28.00
Schools
222.00
Town Farm
50.00
Fire Cottage
23.00
Whitney Playground
10.00
Subscribers
8,947.27
$ 11,392.27
EXPENSES
Interest Account Net.
$ 1,645.15
Fuel
87.82
Power
1,935.08
Oil
23.05
Wages
2,182.64
Supplies
147.95
Repairs
102.52
Salaries
450.00
Expense Account
363.23
Taxes
740.50
Service Connections
406.14
8,084.08
Net profit for the year ending Dec. 31, 1922 ....
$ 3,308.19
CHARLES O. PRESCOTT, Treasurer.
Westford, Mass., January 16, 1922.
Middlesex, ss.
Then personally appeared Charles O. Prescott and made oath that the above is a true statement of the cost of construction of the Westford Water Supply System to January 1, 1923 and of the receipts and expenditures of the Westford Water Company from January 1, 1922 to January 1, 1923, before me.
CHARLES L. HILDRETH,
Notary Public.
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Tax Collector's Report
TAXES REMAINING UNPAID JANUARY, 1923
1922 TAXES
Andrew G. Anderson
$ 89.44
Louisa Beauchamp
52.50
Delia Boynton heirs
140.00
Benjamin R. Caunter
23.33
Louis A. Cloutier
102.55
Amie Dureault.
42.00
Mrs. Adelaide Decatur.
14.99
Resimond Degagnon
7.00
Almon E. Downing.
10.50
Mary E. Downing
107.00
Agnes Dunn.
45.50
James Edgar.
48.30
Philomena Gagnon.
36.75
Denis Gagnon and Geo. J. Brule.
10.50
William E. Green.
71.39
Wade V. Hitchcock.
31.50
Amy L. Johnson
31.50
Eva M. Lawton & Lawton
34.13
James Palermo.
42.00
Arthur B. Parrott
64.75
John D. Prarias.
180.25
Ella Perkins.
24.50
Wm. Poulapoulos
45.50
Harry R. Sloat.
56.87
Thomas O. Sullivan
63.00
Fletcher Symmes.
12.25
Leude Toussignant
7.00
Velengas & Son.
109.72
Ira E. Webster.
20.82
Asa B. Wheeler.
120.05
Edmund Whitney.
17.50
Cutler F. Winchester
24.50
Sidney B. Wright.
143.30
Walter W. Wyman
38.50
William N. Wyman.
38.50
NON-RESIDENTS
John C. Blaisdell heirs
$ 7.70
Herbert Bruce heirs
1.75
Frank W. Dorr.
43.75
Harry A. Dutton.
8.75
John H. Eacrett.
80.50
Warren A. Hanson
35.00
Amount carried forward
$2,085.34
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Amount brought forward.
$2,085.34
Annie E. Higgins.
7.00
Samuel C. Hunt heirs
8.75
Frank P. Lyons.
. 17.50
Lowell & Fitchburg St. Ry.
561.05
Adeline Moffett
143.25
Geo. C. Potter
3.50
Geo. A. Parker heirs
. .
3.50
Parsons & LeCam
3.50
Harriet M. Perham heirs
3.50
Warren H. Sherman
1.75
John C. Sheahan
2.62
Standard Oil Co.
31.50
Louis A. Trudel.
77.00
Eli Trepanier.
7.00
Wilhelmina Mendlik.
35.00
$2,991.76
Paid since audit of January 1st.
729.06
$3,720.82
L. W. WHEELER,
Tax Collector.
Tree Warden's Report
The tree warden submits the following report for the year ending December 31, 1922 :
The ice storm, the worst known for years, which came the last of November, 1921, did considerable damage to the trees. On account of this every road in Town needed much attention. The State forester recom- mended that all broken limbs be removed, that care be taken not to trim too closely to the tree, thereby giving the broken stubs an opportunity to branch out. I think this plan has proved satisfactory. The appro- priation of $1500 for this work has been used. There are a few limbs, cracked by the storm, which were not noticed at the time, but which have since broken. These will have to be taken care of from time to time as they are noticed.
I would suggest that $300 be appropriated this year to complete this work.
Hoping this meets with the approval of the people of the Town, I remain,
Respectfully, HARRY L. NESMITH.
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Report of the Overseers of the Poor for the Year 1922
Number of inmates during the year 7
Number of inmates December 31st. 5
Number of travelers during the year 6
Number in lockup during the year. 14
Repairs .- Several rooms inside the Almshouse were refreshed by papering, painting, and whitening. This work was done by the superin- tendent.
Relative to the construction of the Town Home Barn .- At a Special Town meeting, held July 7th, the citizens of the Town voted to appropriate the sum of $3,000 to be expended to construct a barn at the Westford Town Home. Under the direction of the Overseers of the Poor, bids were called for, the Overseers of the Poor reserving the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Four bids were received and all were rejected because they exceeded the appropriation. The Overseers then purchased all material and contracted for the labor to construct the barn which has been completed according to specifications.
WESLEY O. HAWKES, Chairman, FREDERICK R. BLODGETT, Secretary, PERLEY E. WRIGHT, Overseers of the Poor.
SCHEDULE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AT HOME FARM
December 30, 1922
20 bushels of potatoes.
$ 20.00
Canned fruit and vegetables.
46.00
Groceries
75.00
Fire hose and nozzles.
65.00
Balance of personal property in house.
618.00
$ 824.00
2 horses
$400.00
2 cows
75.00
2 hogs
. C. 40.00
Poultry
184.00
Hay
540.00
Lumber
137.00
Fuel
80.00
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Manure spreader
100.00
Land roller
20.00
Sulky plow
25.00
Two-horse cultivator
45.00
Two-horse hay wagon
100.00
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Amount carried forward.
$ 1,746.00
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Amount brought forward.
$ 1.746.00
Six-horse power gas engine.
$ 75.00
Two-horse tip cart.
20.00
Two-horse wood sled ..
40.00
Balance of personal property in out-buildings
423.50
$ 2,304.50
Total
$
3,128.50
ROBERT PRESCOTT, W. OTIS DAY, ALEC FISHER,
Appraisers.
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures
As Sealer of Weights and Measures for the Town of Westford, I submit the following report for the year 1922:
Number of Platform Scales over 5,000 lbs. capacity 9
Number of Platform Scales under 5,000 lbs. capacity 51
Number of Computing Scales 9
All other scales
43
Total 112
Number of Weights Sealed.
202
Number of Weights Condemned 6
Total
208
LIQUID MEASURES
Number of Liquid Measures Sealed. 10
Number of Kerosene Pumps Sealed. S
Number of Gasoline Pumps Sealed. 9
Number of Molasses Pumps Sealed. 3
Yard Sticks
6
ALBERT A. HILDRETH, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Report of the Committee in Charge of the Whitney Playground
On account of the ice storm in November, 1921, considerable work had to be done during the past year in trimming damaged trees on the Playground. For a statement of the receipts and expenditures see the report of the Town Accountant.
OSCAR R. SPALDING, HERBERT V. HILDRETH, CHARLES L. HILDRETH.
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Report of Police Department
Board of Selectmen,
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my second annual report. The work this year has been similar to that of last year. Reports to the Department of Commerce, Washington, and the Commissioner of Correction of Mass. have been duly made. All money due the Town from the First District Court for fines has not been turned in as yet, but I trust the Clerk of the Court will attend to this in the near future.
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