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Car Fare, I 50
Paid Richard L. Folkins, for services as School Committee, 35 00
Paid Edward N. Eames, Ballot inspector, 13 00
S. Warren Taylor, 66 13 00
John Granfield, 66
13 00
John Kelley,
8 00
Dennis McGuire, 8 00
Fred A. Eames, for services as Auditor, 3 00
Warren Eames, “ 66
3 00
$798 50
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9
Highways.
Paid William H. Carter, 2nd, labor.
$641 33
" F. Braburt.
147 33
' A. Braburt, ..
44 17
·· D. Braburt, ..
,6 33
" Morton Hayden. 66
J 23 50
" James Kernon,
49 00
" Elmer Simonds,
73 17
" Frank Kidder,
49 00
" Charles Blake,
54 6;
" W. H. Parker.
27 83
" Charles Blaisdell, ..
10 00
" Walter D. Carter,
41 00
" A. P. Pearson, ..
61 00
" E. E. Poor,
28 25
". C. O. Pearson.
3 83
" Herbert Poor,
II"
" William Jacques,
3 00
" Edward A. Carter,
.€
1 50
"' Town Farm, 324 28
$1,760 36
Material and Supplies.
Paid Walter D. Carter,
gravel,
$13 70
Horace Sheldon,
..
12 72
' N. D. Dean.
17 04
" F. B. Hathaway,
12 60
. Wm. Jaques,
1 50
·· John Howells,
66
1 00
66 E. B. Carter,
..
, 00
" Frank S. Bedell,
6 40
" Peter McGrane,
4 90
" Irving E. Morse,
9 85
. L. C. Eames,
.
5 90
" Sylvester Carter,
5 50
" Levi Swain,
11 35
" Joshua Gowing,
, 05
Gilman Gowing,
S 25
. W. L. Harris,
1 50
Amount carried forward,
$126 26
10
Amount brought forward, $126 26
Paid L. Tompson, tools,
5 40
Henry Sheldon, posts, 3 60
J. H. Carter, lumber and nails,
5 70
66 S. R. McIntosh, repairing tools,
6 70
66 Wm. H. Carter, 2nd, Supt., salary, 75 00
66 A. P. Pearson, gravel, I 00
$223 66
Removing Snow.
Paid A. P. Pearson,
$9 50
“ John Morrill,
83
Lewis Getchell, 3 00
Frank Carter,
3 33
Walter D. Carter,
6 50
F. Carter,
3 16
66 Warren Hale,
I 34
E. N. Eames,
I 34
66 Watson Alexander,
4 79
Wm. H. Carter, 2nd,
10 50
66 Chas. E. Carter,
2 67
66 D. C. Norcross,
1 83
W. H. Boutwell,
1 00
C. F. Harris,
2 00
C. A. Taylor, 1 00
$52 79
Poor account, Town Farm.
Paid Buck Bros., groceries and grain, $303 89
C. E. Hudson, 66
66 246 17
J. W. Murray,
20 II
66 F. W. Kidder,
8 86
Aiken & Dutton, fish,
4 12
66 E. N. Eames, meats and provisions, 90 93
C. E. Carter, 85 II
6: J. W. Perry, dump cart,
80 00
66
blacksmith,
55 41
S. R. McIntosh, “
II 90
O. L. Fuller, sett wheels, 25 00
N. B. Eames, fertilizer,
20 85
Amount carried forward, $972 35
11
Amount brought forward, $972 35
Paid A. T. Carter, sawing lumber,
9 51
James Kernon, cow, 50 00
Stephen Buck, cow and calf, 43 00
Thompson Hardware Co., barbed wire,
18 78
66 66 " wringer,
2 00
D. T. Buzzell, medical attendance,
16 00
A. N. Fezette, I month salary,
33 33
G. H. Spaulding, 10 months salary, 291 70
Milton T. Holt, wheelwright, 6 15
$1,422 82
Outside Poor.
Paid Danvers Lunatic Asylum, account of
George S. Eames,
$177 55
Acct. Mary White, 170 30
Westboro Insane Asylum, acct. Sa- rah M. Woodman,
169 94
Acct. Benjamin Swain,
Paid N. B. Eames, coal, 14 25
J. W. Murray, groceries, 14 00
" J. H. Buck, wood, 5 50
' C. J. Sargent, provisions, 3 91
D. T. Buzzell, medical attendance, 21 50
E. M. Nichols, funeral expenses, 40 00
Account Robert C. Smith.
Paid C. E. Hudson, groceries,
22 00
Account Ida Miller,
Paid C. E. Hudson,
10 00
$648 95
SCHOOLS.
Paid Walter W. Rowe, High, 12 weeks,
$180 00
Harriet V. Elliott, “ 21
288 75
Grace P. Thomas, Gram. 4
45 00
Lou M. Thomas, 29
316 25
66 Blan Alexander, sub " 33
297 00
66 Helen H. Buck, Pri'ry, 33 66
297 00
Nettie M. Buck, North 33
297 00
Amount carried forward, $1721 00
12
Amount brought forward,
$1721 00
Paid Charlotte S. Buck, East, 5 weeks,
45 00
Mary C. Flagg, 7 49 00 66
Lizzie Webber, 2I 66
152 00
Sylvia E. Prescott, South 33
264 00
Cora Fitch, West, 2I 66
147 00
.
$2,378 00
Janitors.
Paid Walter W. Rowe, High School building, I 2 weeks, $30 00
". Frank R. Carter, High School build- ing, 16 weeks, 16 00
Herman A. Parker, North, 12 weeks, 6 00
Nettie M. Buck, 16 66
8 00
Willie Taylor, South, 12
6 00
Leslie Taylor, 16
8 00
Chester O. Hall, East, 12
6 00
Lewis Holt,
16
8 00
66 Willie M. Boynton, West, 16 66 8 00
Darius S. Fuller, fireman, 50 00
$146 00
Superintendent of Schools.
Paid L. T. Mckinney, Feb., '92 to Feb. '93,
$285 34
Fuel.
Paid Geo. E. Lane,
$27 00
William H. Carter,
10 00
66 Town Farm,
172 76
W. H. Colburn, sawing wood,
I 50
66 W. H. Eames,
3 00
Fred B. Perry, 66
3 00
66 Geo. L. Allen, 66 :6
I 00
W. H. Cutter, 66 66
2 00
Leslie Taylor, 66 66
1 00
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$221 26
Furniture, Repairs, Maintenance, etc.
Paid C. W. Clark, desk and chair,
$20 00
Francis Bros., stove,
16 50
R. L. Folkins, repairs,
28 09
Amount carried forward, $64 59
.
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13
Amount brought forward, $64 59
Paid Walter W. Rowe, oil, etc.,
I 77
" Harry N. Ames, printing, 5 00
" H. C. Kendall, filling diplomas, I 25
' D. F. Perkins, dressing blackboards, 8 75
Wardsworth, Holland & Co., black- board dressing, 7 50
66 Ames Plow Co., canal barrow, I 58
66 A. O. Buck, sundries, 9 3I
Buck Bros., wood saw, etc.,
2 30
Fred B. Perry, labor, 75
66 Walter Blaisdell, cleaning school house, 2 00
66
vault,
50
Ellen Kief, 66 school houses, 3 00
Adelia Parker, cleaning High school bldg, 9 00
Mrs. Wm. E. Taylor, cleaning school house, 3 75 -
$121 05
Books and Supplies.
Paid Ginn & Co.,
$52 43
Geo. F. King & Merrill,
73 73
Silver, Burdett & Co., 51 00
B. A. Fowler & Co.,
43 00
66 University Publishing Co.,
39 35
D. C. Heath & Co.,
29 79
66 Lee & Shepard,
21 92
66 American Book Co.,
14 22
Tompson, Brown & Co.,
IO IO
" L. T. McKenney,
9 25
J. L. Hammett,
9 12
Smith, Benidictt & Siegemund,
8 27
66 Leach, Shewell & Sanborn,
6 00
66 George E. Crosby,
4 18
66 George S. Perry & Co.,
7 20
66 Prang Educational Co.,
6 54
Effingham, Maynard & Co.,
5 04
Boston School Supply Co.,
2 70
Carl Schoenhol, I 92
Thorp, Adams M'f'g Co.,
54
$396 30
14
New Cemetery.
Paid Florence Densmore, labor,
$47 30
James Conway,
45 73
" Thomas McDonald, 5 00
John McDonald, 66
3 00
Ambrose Babine,
42 40
66 Frank Wilbur, 6 00
66 Otis Carter, 66
17 67
Otis Buck,
9 00
Barney Babine,
14 00
66 George Blaisdell, 66
5 00
Peter Muse, 6.
41 23
Horace Sheldon,
12 15
C. F. Harris,
102 00
W. H. Boutwell, 66
97 12
66
O. A. Closson, 66
39 80
66 John T. Wild, 69 00
teaming and freight, 4 40
M. Forbes & Son, labor and material, 153 75
" James A. Bancroft,, surveying etc., 138 25
Reading Planing Mill Co., 1248 Chest- nut stakes, 28 08
" H. E. Fletcher, 95 bound marks, 19 00
J. H. Carter, bbl. cement, I 75
" B. & M. R. R. Co., freight, 2 92
George D. Goodrich, 100 ft. drain pipe, 50 00
66 Ames Plow Co., tools, II 54
$967 09
Cemetery (Old.)
Paid John McDonald, labor, $10 00
" J. B. Nichols,
39 00
B. Babine, 66
6 00
66 R. Briggs, resetting tablet,
4 50
66 J. W. Bancroft, labor,
24 80
F. R. Carter,
2 02
Otis Carter, 66
26 00
Walter Blaisdell,
14 50
E. M. Nichols, flowers,
I 00
" Union Ice Co., labor, 8 75
66 Parker & Woods, tools,
5 95
$142 52
15
Memorial Day.
Paid Post No. 194, Reading, flowers and flags, $6 34
" Tewkesbury Band, 35 00
" Post No. 194, for barge, 10 00
6 : L. J. Poor, printing, 65
Boston Regalia Co., standards, 7 50
$59 49
Common.
Paid Otis Buck, labor, $6 50
: Allen Sheldon,
5 00
$II 50
Neck Road Improvements.
Paid Sheldon & Harris,
$150 00
Repairs on Public Buildings.
Paid D. F. Perkins, tinting walls and var- nishing wood-work at North, South, and East school houses,
$50 00
R. L. Folkins, repairs on High school building, 7 20
R. L. Folkins, rep. on East school bldg, 14 91
66 West 22 46
66 North " 6 28
" South " I 65
J. H. Carter, lumber and labor on Library fence, 3 26
J. H. Carter, shingling Public Library, 67 20
$172 96
Fire Department.
Paid National Mfg. Co., 10 Johnson pumps,
$40 00
Miscellaneous.
Paid Warren Eames, ringing bell, $5 00
" John G. Maguire, council in case against Procter, 15 00
" D. T. Buzzell, returns of births, 6 25
Sec. of Commonwealth, Register of Voters, I 25
Amount carried forward, $27 50
16
Amount brought forward, $27 50
Paid Mrs. H. G. Ames, use of hall for
Registrars, I 00
M. P. Foster, printing lists of voters, 8 00
G. S. Tukey, 4 buckeye pumps and repairs, 73 00
W. F. Butler, repairs on ballot box, 3 00
Harvey N. Ames, printing, 7 50
John W. Morrill, cleaning well, North, 2 75
Wendell Bancroft, lumber, I 92
66 Samuel R. Rice, services as Fire Warden, 2 25
66 " " Special Police, 2 00
Dennis C. Welsh, conveying prisoners to House of Correction, 3 25
" E. M. Nichols, insurance on Town Hall, 18 75
" Howard M. Horton, services as Fire Warden, 2 50
" Milton T. Holt, police duty, 24 64
66 Daniel C. Norcross, burying horse, 3 00
66 John C. Lovell Co., hand-cuffs, 5 90
Daniel C. Norcross, on Powell case, 38 00
" Warren Eames, auditing for 1891, 3 00
Fred Eames, 66 66 66
3 00
66
66 66 66 School 66 66
20 25
66 Ballots, 9 00
66
L. M. Lawrence, cleaning town clock, 5.00
" Winkley, Dresser & Co., order book, 6 25
66 E. M. Nichols, care Town Hall,
15' 00
66 66 town clock,
25 00
66
66 supt. cemetery, 20 00
66
66 qualifying Representative, 2 00
tax book,
1 00
66
66 66 express, 3 15
66
66 killing horse, 2 00
66 66
66
rope for flag, 2 00
66
66 ret'g 30 deaths, Town Clerk, 7 50
66
66 " 35 births, Sec. of State, 17 50
66
66
" 17 marriages, 2 55
Amount carried forward, $433 28
66 66
66 M. P. Foster, printing Town Report, 64 12
17
Amount brought forward, $433 28
Paid E. M. Nichols, returning 30 deaths,
5 00
" John Murray, watching fire, 1 00
" John Murray, Jr., “
75
J. W. Hale, 66
2 00
Levi Swain and others, expenses incurred at the burning of W. H. Haley's house and the Forest Fire,
65 00
" D. C. Norcross, police duty, 4 00
66 66 court fees, 21 71
J. P. Thompson, recording deed, 75
Fred A. Eames, postage, 2 00
$535 49
Public Library.
Paid Francene Buck, Librarian, $50 00
Middlesex Institute,
2 00
66 Hollingsworth & Whitney,
90
66 Abram E. Brown,
3 50
" Hub Blank Book Co.,
I 50
66 66 rebinding,
7 25
R. L. Folkins, book cases, 24 00
66 Damrell & Upham, new books, 85 84
State Aid.
Paid Phebe F. Simpson,
$48 00
Harriet Young, 48 00
" Timothy D. Upton, 32 00
66 Luke Estabrook,
27 00
Notes Payable.
Paid Woburn Five Cent Savings Bank, acct. of principal, 10 year loan,
$825 00
Interest.
Paid Provident Institution For Savings, acct. interest on temporary loan, $114 65
First National Bank, Reading, on tem- porary loan, 206 88
L. C. Swain, interest on temporary loan, 33 33
66 N. B. Eames, interest on temporary loan, 16 66
66 Woburn Five Cent Savings Bank, 207 56
$579 08
$174 99
$155 00
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State Tax.
$560 00
County Tax.
625 26
1,185 26
Total,
$14,139 48
VALUATION FOR 1892.
Real Estate,
$694,375 00
Personal Property,
81,815 00
Total,
$776,190 00
Amount Tax Assessed, 1892,
$12,704 95
Rate of Taxation per $1,000,
15 50
Number of Poll Taxes, 337,
SCHEDULE OF TOWN PROPERTY.
Town Farm,
$4,000 00
Personal Property at Town Farm,
2,040 05
Eldad Butters place,
75 00
School Houses and Furniture,
14,000 00
Town House,
2,000 00
Town Scales and Sealers' Office,
250 00
Hearse,
100 00
Cemetery Land and Lots,
2,000 00
Furniture in Town House and Selectmen's Office,
450 00
Public Library and Furniture,
1,500 00
Johnson Pumps,
40 00
Highway Tools,
75 00
Lock-up,
300 00
.
-- $26,830 05
19
ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS.
We recommend the following appropriations for the ensuing Municipal year :
Schools, including teachers' and janitors' pay, fuel and maintenance, etc., $2,800 00
For Bills payable,
850 00
" Cemetery,
1,000 00
" Common, 25 00
" Highways, 2,000 00
" Interest on notes and funds, 450 00
" Miscellaneous, 300 00
" Outstanding, 600 00
" Public library,
100 00
" Repairs on public buildings, 250 00
" Support of poor,
800 00
" State and county tax,
1,200 00
" Town officers,
800 00
" School books and supplies,
250 00
" Superintendent's salary, 200 00
" Police and Fire Wardens, 150 00
" Memorial Day, 65 00
J. HOWARD EAMES, JUSTIN L. PARKER, EDWARD M. NICHOLS,
Selectmen and Assessors.
Wilmington, February 15, 1893.
20 .
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
NAMES AND AGES OF THE INMATES AT THE ALMSHOUSE.
No. Regist'd.
Name.
Age.
Remarks.
22
Charlotte Butters,
20
50
Peter Cunningham,
66
52
Martha A. Pearson,
60
Died Nov. 17, 1892.
53
Edward Swain,
2I
Discharged Aug. 8, 1892.
Whole number during the year, 4.
Present number, 2. 298 lodgings and 596 meals furnished to vagrants.
INVENTORY OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, FEB. 1, 1893.
Live stock, .
$452 00
Farming tools, etc.,
627 35
Provisions and groceries,
146 55
Wood, manure, hay and grain,
477 00
Household furniture,
317 15
Contents of Lobby,
20 00
$2,040 05
EXPENDITURES AT THE ALMSHOUSE.
Paid Buck Bros., groceries and grain,
$311 49
C. E. Hudson, “
275 93
Alvah Jellison, cutting wood,
14 40
66 Wm. Parker,
35 29
S. R. McIntosh, blacksmith,
15 83
66 Cummings & Chute, grain,
13 64
F. W. Kidder, groceries, 17 03
J. W. Murray, 20 II
66 E. N. Eames, provisions and meat,
90 93
Amount carried forward, $794 65
21
Amount brought forward, $794 65
Paid C. E. Carter, provisions and meat,
85 II
J. W. Perry, dump cart, · 80 00
66
blacksmith, 55 41
66 O. L. Fuller, sett wheels,
25 00
N. B. Eames, fertilizer,
20 85
66 A. T. Carter, sawing lumber,
9 51
66 James Kernon, cow,
50 00
66 Stephen Buck, cow and calf,
43 00
Thompson Hardware Co., barbed wire, 18 78
66
wringer,
2 00
D. T. Buzzell, medical attendance, 16 00
G. H. Spaulding, on 1892 salary, 291 70
A. N. Fezette, on 1891 salary, 100 00
66 Milton T. Holt, wheelwright, 6 15
Aiken & Dutton, fish, 4 12
$1,602 28
SUPERINTENDENT'S ACCOUNT AT THE ALMSHOUSE.
EXPENDITURES.
Paid for smoking hams,
$ 50
" fish,
17 33
" window glass,
20
" repairs on harnesses,
I 35
" wagon, 50
" making cider,
1 00
" bells, I 50
" horse collar,
8 00
66 screws,
69
66 killing hogs,
3 00
6:
" crackers,
18 25
" groceries,
21 58
66
" use of wagon and sled,
10 00
66
" pigs,
18 00
66
" blankets,
2 00
" oil,
I 30
66 " scythe and rifle,
1 00
Amount carried forward,
$106 20
22
Amount brought forward, $106 20
Paid for rakes,
84
6 " saddle hooks,
75
66
" surveying wood,
I 87
" labor,
156 89
66 " cutting wood,
70 99
cows,
120 00
66
" coal,
29 85
66 dry goods,
22 57
66 " meat,
6 28
" repairing shoes,
55
66
" pasturing cows,
4 25
66
" grass and garden seeds,
2 83
66 " dishes and tin ware, 2 28
66 " halters, 2 30
66 " whiffletree,
I 00
66
whip,
I 00
66
" beets,
I 00
66
" onions,
2 25
66
" rope,
90
" standing grass,
37 75
66 zinc and pipe,
4 34
66 medicine,
12 09
66
use of mowing machine,
10 00
66
" horse feed,
3 45
66 " shoes,
3 75
66
sled,
25 00
$630 98
RECEIPTS.
Received for milk,
$607 72
66
" wood,
253 81
66
" COWS,
100 00
" calves,
32 50
66 : " horse,
65 00
66
" potatoes,
81 18
" cabbages,
33 75
66
" beans,
.
90
66
" peas,
4 75
Amount carried forward,
$1179 61
23
Amount brought forward, $1179 61
Leceived for corn,
66
" hay,
17 18
" barbed wire,
6 45
66
" tobacco,
70
" old junk,
50
66
" lumber,
16 08
66
" labor,
1 50
66
" chair,
50
" fowls,
3 00
" hogs,
18 84
66
" labor on highways,
324 28
66
" wood furnished schools, 172 76
" board,
9 00
66
" logs of A. T. Carter,
224 77
$1,979 17
OUTSIDE POOR SUPPLIES.
Paid Danvers Lunatic Asylum acct. George
S. Eames,
$177 55
" acct. Mary White, 170 30
" Westboro Insane Asylum, acct. Sarah M. Woodman, 169 94
Account Benjamin Swain,
Paid N. B. Eames, coal,
20 25
J. W. Murray, groceries. 14 00
J. H. Buck, wood,
5 50
" C. J. Sargent, meat, 3 91
D. T. Buzzell, medical attendance, 21 50
66 E. M. Nichols, funeral expenses, 40 00
Account Robert C. Smith.
Paid C. E. Hudson, groceries, 22 00
Account Ida Miller,
Paid C. E. Hudson groceries.
10 00
Account Martha A. Pearson,
Paid Eva Gray, rent, 10 00
- $664 95
4 00
24 SUMMARY OF EXPENSES.
Total expense at Almshouse,
$2,233 26
" receipts " 66
1,979 17
Net expense at Almshouse,
$254 09
Expense of Outside Poor,
664 95
Total, $919 04
Expense paid on acct. year 1891,
195 46
$723 58
Due from city of Woburn on acct. Robert C. Smith,
22 00
Net expense inside and outside Almshouse, $701 58
JUSTIN L. PARKER, J. HOWARD EAMES, EDWARD M. NICHOLS, Overseers of Poor of Wilmington.
WILMINGTON, February 15, 1893.
25
Table of Expenditures and Appropriations.
Schools.
Outstanding reappropriated,
$44 71
Schools,
3,300 00
Books and Supplies,
300 00
Superintendent,
200 00
Interest Mass. School Fund,
368 31
Return Dog Licenses,
138 00
Due from State on account Supt., etc.,
181 20
$4,532 22
Expenditures,
3,547 95
Unexpended,
$984 27
Highways,
$2,000 00
Expenditures,
1,984 02
Unexpended,
$15 98
Public Buildings,
$350 00
Expenditures,
172 96
Unexpended,
$177 04
Cemetery,
$150 00
Expenditures,
142 52
Unexpended,
$7 48
Memorial Day,
$65 00
Expenditures,
59 49 .
Unexpended, $5 51
26
Common.
Expenditures,
$100 00 II 50
Unexpended,
$88 50
Public Library,
$150 00
Interest on Trust Fund,
25 00
$175 00
Expenditures,
1 74 99
Unexpended,
$0 01
Town Officers,
$600 00
Expenditures,
798 50
Excess,
$198 50
Snow,
$200 00
Expenditures,
52 79
Unexpended,
$147 2I
Miscellaneous,
$300 00
Received from court fines,
55 00
$355 00
Expenditures,
535 49
Excess,
$180 49
Notes and Interest,
$1,225 00
Expenditures,
1,404 08
Excess,
$179 08
State and County Taxes,
$1,100 00
Expenditures,
1,185 26
Excess,
$85 26
New Cemetery,
$1,000 00
Expenditures,
967 09
Unexpended,
$32 91
27
Johnson Pumps, Expenditures,
$50 00 40 00
Unexpended,
$10 00
Straightening Neck Road,
$150 00
Expenditures,
150 00
Poor,
$1,000 00
See Overseers of the Poor Report page 20. J. HOWARD EAMES, JUSTIN L. PARKER, EDWARD M. NICHOLS, Selectmen and Assessors of Wilmington.
WILMINGTON, February 15, 1893.
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CONDENSED CASH,
DR. FRED A. EAMES, TREASURER PRO TEM., IN ACCOUNT
To cash in Treasury, Feb'y 18, 1892,
$42 12
from State Treasurer, Corporation tax,
5 81
66
66
66
66 National Bank tax,
34 16
66
66 66 66 Military Aid,
13 50
66
66 66
State Aid,
128 00
66
66 66
rebate account Supt., etc.,
181 20
66
66
income Mass. school fund,
368 31
66
County Treasurer, returns dog licenses,
138 00
66
" Town notes, temporary loans,
8,000 00
66
Cemetery lots sold,
32 00
Edw. M. Nichols, collected taxes, 1887,
28 63
66
66
1889,
85 03
66
1890,
1,107 22
66
66
1891,
2,061 59
66
66
66
66
66
1892,
8,732 07
66
A. T. Carter, lumber sold,
224 77
635 25
66
Lucy Housel's estate, for board,
9 00
66
City of Woburn, acct. R. C. Smith,
9 00
66
Master House of Correction, fines,
55 00
66
Maverick National Bank claim,
2,114 70
66
66 Interest on deposits, 2 79
$24,090 50
66
66
66 1888,
82 35
66
66
Supt. of Town Farm,
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ENDING FEB. 15, 1893.
WITH THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON.
CR.
By paying State Tax,
$560 00
"
6. County Tax, 625 26
66
Town notes, temporary loans,
10,000 00
66 66 66
" permanent loan,
825 00
66
66 Interest,
579 08
66
State Aid,
155 00
66
Selectmen's orders,
10,900 50
" cash in Treasury, Feb'y 16, 1893;
445 66
$24,090 50
We hereby certify that we have examined the foregoing Accounts and find them to be correctly cast and properly vouched ; and find remaining in the Treasury, Four Hundred and Forty-five and 66-100 dollars.
WARREN EAMES,
Auditors.
CHAS. E. HUDSON,
WILMINGTON, February 16, 1893.
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COLLECTOR'S ACCOUNT.
ACCOUNT TAX, 1888.
Balance, Feb. 18, '92, $199 20 Collected, $82 35
Interest, II 27 Abatement, 12 44
Uncollected Feb. 16, '93; 115 68
$210 47
$210 47
ACCOUNT TAX, 1889.
Balance, Feb. 18, '92, $712 12 Collected, $85 03
Interest, I3 86
Abatement, 119 83
Uncollected, Feb. 16,'93, 521 12
$725 98
$725 98
ACCOUNT TAX, 1890.
Balance, Feb. 18, '92, $1,548 23
Collected, $1,107 22
Interest, 88 65 Uncollected, Feb. 16,'93 529 66
$1.636 88
$1,636 88
ACCOUNT TAX 1891.
Balance, Feb. 18, '92, $3,184 56
Collected, $2,061 59
Interest, 77 79 Uncollected, Feb. 16, 1,200 76
$3,262 35
$3,262 35
ACCOUNT TAX 1892.
Commitment,
$12,704 95 Collected, $8,732 07
Interest, 3 88 Discount, 328 29
Uncollected, Feb. 16,'93, 3,648 47
$12,708 83
$12,708 83
EDWARD M. NICHOLS,
Collector of Taxes.
WILMINGTON, February 16, 1893.
31 AUDITORS' ACCOUNT.
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LIABILITIES.
Permanent Loan.
Woburn Savings Bank,
$4,200 00
Temporary Loans.
First National Bank, Reading,
$3,500 00
Lawrence C. Swain,
1,000 00
$4,500 00
Outstanding Accounts,
700 00
Trust Funds.
Benj. Buck, account of Library,
$500 00
Dolly Harnden, account of Cemetery,
100 00
James Frazer,
66 66
200 00
Martha Temple, 6: 66
100 00
Susan S. Carlton,
75 00
Interest,
23 75
998 75
$10,398 75
ASSETS.
Cash in Treasury, February 16, 1893,
$445 66
Uncollected taxes of 1888,
$115 68
66
ISS9,
521 12
1890,
529 66
6:
I891,
1,200 76
66 I892,
3,648 47
$6,015 69 -
Due from State Treasurer.
account State Aid, 1892,
155 00
rebate acct. Supt., etc.,
ISI 20
Balance Maverick National Bank claim,
704 90
Excess liabilities, 2,896 30
$10.398 75
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
Public Documents received,
14 volumes. From Mr. Reuben Howarth,
66
4
Miss Sabra Carter, 2
66 Mr. Charles W. Swain, I 66
66 Mr. Parker L. Converse, I
"Twenty-fourth Annual Encampment at Boston 1890," I "The Feast of the Virgins and other Poems," I
6
66
Number of books purchased during the year, 91
66
66 66 for circulation, 1867
66 66 taken out during the year, 2996 60
6 . 66 persons taking out books, 261
The library has been supplied during the year with the Century, St. Nicholas and New England Magazines. The following is a list of the books added to the library during the year :
History of the Town of Bedford, by Abram English Brown. Adrift in a Great City, by M. E. Winchester.
A Family Likeness, by B. M. Croker.
Aladdin in London, by Fergus Hume.
Along the Florida Reef, by Charles F. Holden, L. L. D.
A Princess of Fiji, by William Churchill.
Beggars All, by L. Dougall.
But a Philistine, by Virginia F. Townsend.
Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by F. Hopkinson Smith.
David Alden's Daughters, by Jane G. Austin.
David Lindsay, by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth.
East and West, by Edward E. Hale. Equatorial America, by Maturin M. Ballou.
Far From Today, by Gertrude Hall. From Dusk to Dawn, by Katherine Pearson Woods Giovanni, by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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In Beaver Cover, by Matt. Crim. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, by Jerome K. Jerome. In Old St. Steven's, by Jeanie Drake. In the Boyhood of Lincoln, by Hezekiah Butterworth. Jane Field, by Mary E. Wilkins. Looking Backward, by Edward E. Bellamy. Our Native Ferns and their Allies, by Lucien M. Underwood, Ph. D. Passing the Love of Women, by Mrs. J. H Needell. Pratt Portraits, by Anna Fuller. Queenie's Whim, by Rosa Nouchette Carey. Somebody's Neighbors, by Rose Terry Cooke. Stepping Heavenward, by Mrs. E. Prentiss. Tenting on the Plains, by Elizabeth B. Custer.
The Berkeleys and Their Neighbors, by Molly Elliot Seawell.
The Great Shadow, by A. Conan Doyle. The Hallam Succession, by Amelia E. Barr. The Medicine Lady, by L. T. Meade. The Plant World, by George Massee. The Talisman, by Sir Walter Scott. The Story of Columbus, by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye.
The West From a Car Window, by Richard Harding Davis. The Young Stepmother, by Charlotte M. Yonge. Vesty of the Basins, by Sarah P. McLean Greene. Winterborough, by Elizabeth Orne White. Zachary Phips, by Edwin Lassetter Bynner. Mammon, by Mrs. Alexander. The Snare of the Fowler, by Mrs. Alexander.
A Window in Thrums, by J. M. Barrie. The Little Minister, by J. M. Barrie. Children of Gibeon, by Walter Besant. The Wrong Gate, by Walter Besant. A Sane Lunatic, by Clara Louise Burnham.
Dearly Bought, " 66 66
Miss Bagg's Secretary, by Clara Louise Burnham. The Mistress of Beech Knoll, by Clara Louise Burnham. Young Maids and Old, by Clara Louise Burnham. Witch Winnie, by Elizabeth W. Champney. Witch Winnie's Studio, by Elizabeth W. Champney. Doctor Claudius, by F. Marion Crawford. Don Orsino, by F. Marion Crawford.
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Greifenstein. Mr. Isaac's. Saracinesca.
A Modern Adam and Eve, by Amanda M. Douglas. Sherburne House, by Amanda M. Douglas.
A Final Reckoning, by G. A. Henty. In Greek Waters, by G. A. Henty.
With Wolfe in Canada, by G. A. Henty.
The Boy Travellers in Northern Europe, by Thomas W. Knox. The Boy Travellers in Central Europe, by Thomas W. Knox. Christus, by Henry W. Longfellow.
Outre Mer, by Henry W. Longfellow.
Donovan, by Edna Lyall. We Two, by Edna Lyall.
Campmates, by Kirk Munroe.
Canoemates, " " 66
A Dozen of Them, by Pansy.
. A Hedge Fence, by Pansy. Gertrude's Diary, by Pansy. The Browning Boys, by Pansy.
"We Twelve Girls," by Pansy. Chrissy's Endeavor, by Pansy. "Interrupted," by Pansy.
A Rosebud Garden of Girls, by Nora Perry.
For a Woman, by Nora Perry.
An Original Belle, by Edward P. Roe. Taken Alive, by Edward P. Roe.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, by Margaret Sidney. Five Little Peppers Midway, by Margaret Sidney.
Five Little Peppers Grown Up, by Margaret Sidney. Crowded Out o' Crofield, by William O. Stoddard.
The Battle of New York, by William O Stoddard.
Flora of Middlesex Co. Mass., by L. L. Dane and F. S. Collins.
FRANCENE A. BUCK,
Librarian.
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TREASURER'S REPORT.
Burnap Library Fund, deposited March, 1886, $115 00
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand, Feb. 1, 1892, $1 41
Received of Town Treasurer, appropriation,
150 00
Received I year interest on Benjamin Buck legacy of $500 to Jan. 1, 1893, 25 00
Received for fines, catalogues and cards, 8 84
$185 25
PAYMENTS.
Paid Damrell & Upham, for books,
$75 84
66 Middlesex Institute for book,
2 00
for magazines,
10 00
66 " binding books and magazines,
8 75
66
" History of Bedford,
3 50
66 repairing and covering books, 6 65
66 " covering paper, mucilage and kerosene, 2 46
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