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Ringing Town bell
5 00
Miscellaneous
2 90
$521 46
Deficit
11 46
$521 46 $521 46
Auditor's Department
Appropriation
$115 00
Payments
Salary
$100 00
Postage and stationery
·
25 15
Printing
1 75
.
$126 90
Deficit
$11 90
$126 90 $126 90
91
Treasurer's Department
Appropriation
$230 00
Payments
Salary
$200 00
Postage, stationery, telephone
27 50
$227 50
Unexpended
2 50
$230 00 $230 00
Tax Collector's Department
Appropriation
$660 00
Payments
Salary
$687 97
Postage and stationery
32 62
Printing
15 00
Telephone
15 33
$750 92
Deficit
$90 92
$750 92 $750 92
Assessor's Department
Appropriation
$500 00
Payments
Salaries
$495 00
Postage and stationery
3 98
Printing
16 50
Abstracts of deeds, etc.
28 80
$544 28
Deficit
44 28
$544 28 $544 28
92
Town Clerk's Department
Appropritaion
$125 00
Received for printed records . 2 50
Payments
Salary
$75 00
Postage and stationery
.
9 41
Miscellaneous
3 00
.
$87 41
Unexpended
40 09
$127 50 $127 50
Election and Registration
Appropriation
$230 00
Payments
Salaries, Election Officers
$110 00
Stationery
16 50
Miscellaneous
1 20
Salaries, Registrars of Voters
100 00
Printing
4 00
$231 70
Deficit
$1 70
$231 70 $231 70
Town Hall
Appropriation - . $160 00
93
Payments
Salary, Janitor
$75 00
Telephone
17 17
Lighting
14 45
Repairs
9 67
Supplies
5 10
Fuel
8 00
$129 39
Unexpended
30 61
$160 00 $160 00
Police Department
Appropriation
$600 00
Received from fines
50 00
Received from police duty
144 00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$685 00
Telephone
21 64
Car fare
2 19
Court fees
24 49
Uniforms and equipment
10 00
Printing
5 00
Medical services for prisoner
2 00
Team hire
2 00
Miscellaneous
10 35
$762 67
Unexpended
31 33
.
$794 00 $794 00
94
Fire Department
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Payments
Salaries and wages .
$686 54
Telephone
14 19
Horse hire
95 00
Whistle repairs.
21 38
Hardware, lumber, etc.
45 78
Supplies
3 99
Stable rent
36 00
Fuel
54 50
Building repairs
13 25
Whistle service
36 00
$1,006 63
Deficit
$6 63
$1,006 63
$1,006 63
Tree Warden
Appropriation
$250 00
Payments
Salaries and wages .
$132 20
Maple trees
31 45
Fertilizer
4 00
Arsenite of Lead
60 00
Tools, etc.
13 75
$241 40
Unexpended
8 60
$250 00
$250 00
.
1
95
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Appropriation
$25 00
Received from Sealers' Fees
17 00
Payments
Salary
$35 00
Stamps and dies
2 40
Printing
2 20
Nickle-plating weights
2 00
Expressage
20
$41 80
Unexpended
20
$42 00
$42 00
Forest Fires
Unexpended balance 1912
$292 10
Appropriation
500 00
Payments
Salaries and wages .
$694 15
Telephone
14 04
Horse hire
144 10
Pails, cans, lanterns, etc.
8 70
Repairs
10 57
Supplies
1 00
Miscellaneous
12 06
884 62
Overdraft
92 52
$884 62
$884 62
Overdraft
$92 52
Due from Town of Andover
$16 40
Due from B. &. M. R.R.
29 45
45 85
Deficit
$46 67
.
96
Suppression of Moths
Appropriation
$ 683 73
Appropriation (Spraying machine,
transferred)
600 00
Charged Property Owners
765 65
Received from Private Work .
·
128 90
Received from State
1,761 49
Payments
Salaries and wages .
$3,511 66
Stationery and postage
26 55
Freight and expressage
7 58
Team hire
325 50
Car fare.
1 66
Hardware
5 02
Printing
11 75
Telephone
10 35
Gasoline
28 16
Wheel jack
4 25
Repairs
1.25
Miscellaneous
16 00
$3,949 73
Deficit
9 96
$3,949 73
$3,949 73'
.
·
Moth Spraying Machine
Appropriation
$600 00
Note: As the State furnished the Spraying Machine, the sum of $600 was deducted from remittances due the Town for Moth work, therefore this sum is transferred to Moth account.
97
Health and Sanitation
Appropriation .
$325 00
Received from State, account In- spector of Animals ·
75 00
Received from inspection fees ·
27 00
Received from slaughter house
licenses
4 00
Payments
Salary, Board of Health Agent
$ 15 00
Fees, returning births, marriages
and deaths ·
50 40
Salary, Inspector of Animals
150 00
Salary, Inspector of Meats and Pro- visions
154 00
$369 40
Unexpended
61 60
$431 00
$431 00,
Highways, Roads and Bridges
Appropriation
$1,800 00
Received for posts .
23 20
Received for stone
34 27
Received for use road machine
30 00
Payments
Salaries and wages .
$617 74
Team hire
674 11
Repairs to Town Pumps
92 98
1
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98
Employees' Liability Insurance
$ 50 00
Repairs
42 25
Street plans ·
21 75
Snow plows (2)
120 00
Lumber, hardware, etc.
119 79
Freight .
7 00
$1,745 62
Transferred to School Account
100 00
$1,845 62
Unexpended
41 85
$1.887 47
$1,887 47
New State Highway
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Received from State
1,000 00
Payments
Wages .
$425 75
Team hire
268 57
Crushed stone
378 86
Freight on stone
348 46
Tarvia
467 12
Signs
10 10
Miscellaneous
122 63
$2,021 49
Deficit
21 49
$2,021 49
$2,021 49
99
Street Railway Tax
Unexpended balance, 1912
$4,930 34
Street Railway Tax, 1913
3,457 62
Franchise Tax, 1913
2,537 13
Received from private work
10 00
Payments
Salaries and wages .
$3,392 44
Team hire
2,183 99
Hardware, lumber, etc.
382 59
Gravel
276 88
Removing snow .
29 15
Repairs to tools, etc.
64 92
Freight .
1 77
Miscellaneous
10 00
$6,341 74
Unexpended
4,593 35
$10,935 09 $10,935 09
Electric Street Lights 3.
Unexpended balance, 1912
$1,086 15
Appropriation
1,700 00
Appropriation (new lights)
699 00
Paid for lighting
$2,999 16
Transferred to School Account
300 00
. Unexpended
185 99
$3,485 15
$3,485 15
State Aid
Due from State .
$448 00
Paid aid per schedule . $448 00 .
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100
Soldier's Relief
Appropriation
$48 00
Paid Relief
$48 00
Public Library
Appropriation
$400 00
Payments
Salary, Librarian
$125 00
Lighting
18 83
Labor
11 62
Supplies
77
Repairs to building.
33 95
Fuel
7 00
Books and magazines
202 85
$400 02
Deficit
02
$400 02
$400 02
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$150 00
Payments
Refreshments .
$32 00
Music
59 00
Printing
2 85
Special car
6 00
Flowers
12 00
Memorial address
10 00
Flags
7 68
Miscellaneous
70
$130 23
Unexpended
19 77
$150 00
$150 00
.
.
101
Miscellaneous
Appropriation
$500 00
Received Corporation Tax
215 06
Received Business Tax 6 90
Received National Bank Tax
55 93
Received from licenses
35 00
Received from tax releases
20 06
Payments
Certification of Town notes
·
$12 00
Legal services
50 00
Printing Town Reports
222 08
Rent safe deposit box
10 00
Tax sale and taxes
38 32
Aid, paid under Dependent Mothers Act
54 00
Care town clock and flag
47 00
Sundries
1 96
Salary, Town Constable
50 00
Sealing Town scales
1 12
$486 48
Transferred to School Account
200 00
Unexpended
146 47
$832 95
$832 95
Cemetery
Appropriation
$400 00
One-half sale of lots
50 50
.
102
Payments
Wages .
$407 22
Hardware, paints, etc.
8 68
Horse hire
5 00
Fertilizer
1 00
$421 90
Unexpended
28 60
$450 50
$450 50
Public Schools
Appropriation
$11,400 00
Massachusetts School Fund
1,220 05
Dog Tax
358 51
Received from Town of Tewksbury (for tuition)
50 00
Tuition of State wards
67 50
Account Superintendent's salary
333 33
Massachusetts High School Fund
500 00
Old iron sold .
1 00
Lumber sold
73
Transferred from miscellaneous
200 00
Transferred from street lights.
300 00
Transferred from highways, roads and bridges
100 00
Payments
Salaries, books, supplies, fuel, etc. (for details see School Com- mittee Report) $14,556 86
Deficit .
25 74
$14,556 86 $14,556 86
103
Grading Walker School Lot
Appropriation
$200 00
Payments
Wages, labor
$53 81
Team hire
127 93
Sand
16 80
$198 54
Unexpended
1 46
$200 00
$200 00
Trust Funds
Received from Trustees of Trust Funds
$80 20
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Payments
Sabra Carter Cemetery Fund
$1 50
S. D. J. Carter Cemetery Fund
4 85
Rich Carter Cemetery Fund .
2 65
James Frazer Cemetery Fund
4 25
Martha Temple Cemetery Fund
3 10
Susan S. Carlton Cemetery Fund
8 00
Thomas P. Eames Cemetery Fund
3 40
Isaac Cazneau Cemetery Fund
2 25
George W. and Minnie A. Sidelinker Cemetery Fund 4 00
Sarah G. Sheldon Cemetery Fund 7 75
Abner C. Childs Cemetery Fund
5 65
William H. Carter Cemetery Fund
8 00
Gilman Harnden Cemetery Fund
1 40
Dolly Harnden Cemetery Fund
75
Laura Parker Cemetery Fund
6 00
Sabra Carter (Jaques Lot) Cemetery Fund
2 50
Charlotte C. Smith Cemetery Fund
2 15
Sabra Carter Common Fund 12 00
SSO 20 SSO 20
104
New Trust Funds
Received for perpetual care fund Charles
Hopkins Lot .
$200 00
Paid to Trustees of Trust Funds $200 00
Abatement of Taxes
Appropriation
$100 00
Abated account 1911 Taxes
$108 26
Abated account 1912 Taxes
3 45
Abated account 1913 Taxes
14 79
Deficit
26 50
$126 50 $126 50
Interest
Appropriation
.
$100 00
Collected on taxes
665 00
Collected on deposits
53 20
Expended
Paid Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank:
On temporary loans $564 45
On Fire Department loan ·
11 26
On High and. Walker Schools loan
28, 80
Estabrook & Co .:
On Bond No. 1
200 00
Unexpended
13 69
1
$818 20 $818 20
105
Bond Payable
Received of Sinking Fund Com-
missioners
$10,202 43
Expended
Paid Estabrook & Co .:
Bond No. 1
$10,000 00
Unexpended
202 43
$10,202 43 $10,202 43
Notes Payable
Permanent Loans
Appropriation
$490 00
Expended
Paid Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank:
Balance on Fire Department
loan
$250 00
Partial payment on High and
Walker Schools loan . 240 00
$490 00 $490 00
Temporary Loans
Note No. 6, anticipation taxes 1912 . $6,000 00
Received of Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank :
Note No. S, anticipation taxes 1913 . 5,000 00
Note No. 9, anticipation taxes
1913 . 6,000 00
Note No. 10, anticipation taxes 1913 . 5,000 00
Note No. 11, anticipation taxes 1913 . 2,000 00
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Expended
Paid Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank:
Note No. 6
$6,000 00
Note No. 8
5,000 00
Note No. 10
5,000 00
Note No. 9, outstanding
6,000 00
Note No. 11, outstanding
2,000 00
$24,000 00 $24,000 00
HERBERT C. BARROWS, Chairman. ARTHUR W. EAMES, EDWARD N. EAMES,
Board of Selectmen.
107
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
Number of inmates in Almshouse 3
W. S. Benson, Superintendent.
Inventory of Personal Property at Almshouse January 1, 1913
Live stock $975 00
Farming tools and vehicles
739 35
Hay, grain, wood, manure, etc.
371 50
Household furniture
369 00
Groceries, provisions, etc.
114 70
$2,569 55
Inventory of Personal Property at Almshouse, January 1, 1914
Live stock $945 00
Farming tools and vehicles
785 65
Hay, grain, wood, manure, etc. 474 00
Household furniture
391 50
Groceries, provisions, etc.
169 15
$2.765 30
Increase in Personal Property
$195 75
108
Memorandum of Expenses at Town Farm paid on Town Orders
Salary, Superintendent
$500 00
Telephone
17 23
Stationery
3 50
Live stock
220 00
Hay and grain
97 14
Harness .
60 00
Insurance
60 06
Groceries, provision, etc.
14 40
Labor and repairs .
74 30
Hardware, etc.
24 16
$1,070 79
Receipts at Almshouse
Labor and team hire
$1,336 59
Milk
·
201 18
Butter and eggs
24 59
Live stock .
145 50
Vegetables
162 01
Miscellaneous
30 55
$1,900 42
Payments at Almshouse
Labor
$573 17
Clothing and shoes
65 30
Groceries and provisions
387 67
Blacksmithing.
40 63
Hardware, paints, etc.
23 56
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Stable supplies
$ 4 65
Medical services and medicine.
10 30
Repairs
53 78
Household furnishings
63 24
Hay and grain
424 31
Live stock
6 00
Seeds and fertilizer
13 43
Fuel
15 00
Miscellaneous
7 83
$1,688 87
Paid Town Treasurer
211 55
$1,900 42
Payments Account Outside Poor
Groceries and provisions
$248 22
Fuel
63 65
Clothing and shoes
6 00
Cash
12 00
Medical aid and board
191 36
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$521 23
Recapitulation of Poor Account 1913
Resources 1
Appropriation
$1,600 00
Received for aid rendered Outside.
Poor 47 27
Receipts at Town Farm .
1,900 42
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Payments
On Town orders
$1,070 79
At Town Farm
.
1,688 87
Account Outside Poor
521 23
$3,280 89
Unexpended
266 80
$3,547 69
$3,547 69
Unexpended .
$266 80
Add increase in personal property
195 75
Total Credit balance
$462 55
EDWARD N. EAMES, Chairman, HERBERT C. BARROWS, ARTHUR W. EAMES,
Overseers of the Poor.
111
ASSESSORS' VALUATION, 1913
Real Estate
$1,567,455 00
Personal property
249 764 00
Amount of tax assessed
32,253 81
State tax assessed
3,280 00
State Highway Tax
183 50
County tax assessed
1,654 71
Rate of taxation per $1,000
17 10
Schedule of Town Property
Schoolhouses and lots
$30,000 00
Town Farm
5,000 00
Personal property at Town Farm.
2,666 30
Town Hall and lot
2,300 00
Cemetery land and lots
1,400 00
Public Library and lot
1,200 00
Contents of Public Library
2,200 00
Hearse house
100 00
Highway tools
300 00
Town hearse
200 00
Town scales
150 00
Cemetery tool house and tools
100 00
Furniture in Selectmen's Office
100 00
Six safes
875 00
Two fire engines . ·
1,000 00
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Two hose wagons
$ 250 00
Two fire engine houses and lots
1,600 00
Hose, ladders, horses, harness, etc.
600 00
Police equipment
35 00
Land account tax sales
95 00
Moth building
600 00
Sprayers, and fixtures
1,400 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures outfit
150 00
Forest fire outfit
100 00
$52,421 30
JAMES E. KELLEY,
GEORGE W. BUCK,
MILTON T. HOLT,
Assessors of Wilmington.
113
COLLECTOR'S ACCOUNT
Account of 1911 Tax
Uncollected, January 1, 1913
$4,432 40
Taxes collected
$4,317 72
Taxes abated
108 26
4,425 98
Uncollected, January 1, 1914, on Town Tax Titles $6 42 Interested collected $386.83.
Account of 1912 Tax
Uncollected, January 1, 1913
$11,678 87
Taxes collected
$6,976 90
Taxes abated
3 45
6,980 35
Uncollected, January 1, 1914
$4,698 52
Interest collected $264.40.
Account of 1913 Tax
Commitment (with additions) $33,057 24
Taxes collected
$20,566 89 .
Taxes abated
.
14 79
$20,581 68
Uncollected, January 1, 1914
$12,475 56
Interest collected $13.77.
Excise tax collected
$2,537 13
JOSEPH PATCHETT,
Collector.
114
TREASURER'S REPORT
Receipts
Cash in Treasury
$1,361 85
Cash received from :
State Treasurer, Income Mass.
School Fund
$1,220 05
State Treasurer, Corporation Tax P. S. 315 06
State Treasurer, Corporation Tax Business 6 90
State Treasurer, National Bank Tax . 55 93
State Treasurer, State Aid
426 00
State Treasurer, Street Rail- way Tax
3,457 62
State Treasurer,
High School
Tuition 500 00
State Treasurer, Reimbursement for loss of taxes on land used for public institutions . 35
State Treasurer, suppression of moths .
1,686 44
State Treasurer, suppression of moths on State highway .
75 05
State Treasurer, Inspector of Animals ·
75 00
115
State Treasurer, account high-
way . '
1,000 00
State Treasurer, tuition of
children
67 50
County Treasurer, dog licenses . 358 51
Cemetery lots and graves 101 00
S. R. McIntosh, grading 28 53
New England Tel. & Tel. Co., account moth department .
36 00
Fourth District Court, fines
50 00
Boston & Maine R.R., forest fires . 39 40
Sinking Fund Commissioners, account Whitefield School 10,202 43
Town of Tewksbury, tuition 50 00
F. H. Roberts, crushed stones . 22 49
H. M. Horton, old iron, account schools 1 00
Town of Dracut, account Sup- erintendent Schools 333 33
F. H. Alexander, Exec. Estate of Charles Hopkins, perpet- ual care of cemetery lot 200 00
J. Howard Eames, inspecting slaughter houses 27 00
H. M. Horton, Sealer's fees 17 00
H. M. Horton, lumber, account schools 73
Trustees of Trust Funds, in- come 80 20
William B. McIntosh, Super- intendent of Streets, labor and materials 65 78
Oliver A. McGrane, Superin- tendent moth department . 78 90
First National Bank, Reading, interest 53 20
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116
John W. Dailey, board, Mrs.
Dailey, State Sanatorium . $ 47 27
William S. Benson, Superinten- dent Town Farm 211 55
Thomas H. McMahon, cutting elm tree 14 00
Thomas H. McMahon, posts
9 20
Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank, temporary loans 18,000 00
H. C. Barrows, licenses 31 00
James E. Kelley, licenses
8 00
James E. Kelley, printed records
2 50
Walter A. Hill, Chief, police
duty
144.00
Joseph Pachett, Collector :
On account tax 1911 4,317 72
Interest 386 83
On account tax 1912
6,976 90
Interest
264 40
On account tax 1913
20,566 89
Interest
13 77
Excise tax, Bay State
Street Railway 2,537 13
Deeds of release
20 06
-. $75,444 47
Payments
1
Paid Selectmen's orders . . $41,542 07
State Treasurer, State Tax
3,280 00
State Treasurer, repairs State Highway 183 50
County Treasurer, County Tax.
1,654 71
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Woburn Five Cents Savings
Bank:
Temporary loans
$16,000 00
Interest
564 45,
Permanent loans
490 00
Interest
40 06
Estabrook & Co .:
Bond No. 1
10,000 00
Interest
200 00
Cash in Treasury
1,489 68
$75,444 47
FRED A. EAMES, Treasurer.
118
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
Assets
Cash in Treasury
$1,489 68
Due on taxes 1911
6 42
Due on taxes 1912
4,698 52
Due on taxes 1913
12,475 56
Due from State, State Aid 448 00
Due from State, account Poor
33 41
Due from State, account Superintend- ent of Schools 166 66
Due from Town of Andover, account Forest Fires 16 40
Due from Boston & Maine R. R., account Forest Fires
29 45
Due from State under Dependent Mothers Act
14 00
$19,378 10
Liabilities
Note, dated September 15, 1905, for ten years account, High and Walker Schools, balance $480 00
Note No. 9, anticipation taxes 1913
6,000 00
Note No. 11, anticipation taxes 1913 2,000 00
Street Railway account 4,593 35
Excess of Assets 6,304 75
$19,378 10
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SINKING FUND ACCOUNT WHITEFIELD SCHOOL
Commissioners' Final Report
The bond of the Town maturing on June 1, 1913, we withdrew the fund with the accumulated interest, amounting to $10,202.43, and paid the same to the Treasurer of the Town, on May 27, 1913, taking his receipt in return.
We thus have completed our duties and also our term of service.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES E. KELLEY, JOSEPH PATCHETT, DANIEL T. BUZZELL, Commissioners -
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
All Town bills have been audited, and recorded in Auditor's Voucher Journal in conformity with the classifications pre- scribed by the State Bureau of Statistics. I believe the tax-payers will appreciate the value of the present form of accounting, as it shows in a concise and business-like manner for what purposes "their "money" has been expended. I think it safe to say that the State system of municipal accounting will be made compulsory in the near future.
The Selectmen's accounts, and their orders on Town Treasurer have been checked and found correct.
The valuation book was examined and compared with the Commitment book before delivery of latter to the Collector.
The books and accounts of the Tax Collector were ex- amined and found correct.
The account and bank books of Trustees of Trust Funds have been audited and found in order.
The Treasurer's books and his orders from Selectmen have been checked, and the cash balance in Town Treasury, as appears in his account, one thousand four hundred eighty- nine and sixty-eight one-hundredths dollars ($1,489.68) is correct.
HARRY R. DEMING,
Auditor.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF TRUST FUNDS OF TOWN OF WILMINGTON 1913
FUNDS DEPOSITED IN ANDOVER, BOSTON, READING AND WOBURN SAVINGS BANKS, AND BONDS HELD BY TRUSTEES IN SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS
NAME
Amount
Accumulated Interest
Withdrawal
Balance on Deposit
Burnap Library Fund
$200 00
$45 16
$245 16
Benjamin Buck Library Fund
500 00
214 22
714 22
Charlotte C. Smith Library Fund
500 00
52 02
552 02
Sabra Carter Common Fund
200 00
55 85
12 00
243 85
Isaac Cazneau Cemetery Fund .
100 00
12 80
2 25
110 55
Susan Carlton Cemetery Fund
75 00
17 79
8 00
84 79
George W. and Minnie A. Sidelinker Cemetery Fund
200 00
28 73
4 00
224 73
Sabra Carter (Jaques Lot) Cemetery Fund
200 00
32 74
2 50
230 24
William H. Carter Cemetery Fund
100 00
10 13
8 00
102 13
Dolly Harnden Cemetery Fund
100 00
32 96
75
132 21
Thomas P. Eames Cemetery Fund
100 00
11 96
3 40
108 56
Sabra Carter Cemetery Fund
100 00
15 20
1 50
113 70
Rich Carter Cemetery Fund
100 00
02
2 65
105 37
James Frazer Cemetery Fund
200 00
36 33
4 25
232 08
Martha Temple Cemetery Fund
100 00
22 52
3 10
119 42
S. D. J. Carter Cemetery Fund
200 00
34 44
4 85
229 59
Charlotte C. Smith Cemetery Fund
50 00
20
2 15
53 05
Charles H. Hopkins Cemetery Fund
100 00
2 21
65
106 56
Abner C. Childs Cemetery Fund
100 00
7 21
1 40
105 81
Gilman Harnden Cemetery Fund
50 00
56
6 00
52 56
Laura Parker Cemetery Fund
Sarah G. Sheldon Cemetery Fund
100 00
10 98
7 75
103 23
$3,575 00
$675 03
$80 20
$4,169 83
.
.
.
.
.
200 00
200 00
.
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S. D. J. Carter Lecture Fund : Six $1000 Bonds Costing Interest
$5,541 50 240 00
$5,781 50
$578 50
Blackstone Savings Bank
34 92
Interest
613 42
$6,394 92 274 92
Paid Lecture Committee .
$6,120 00
D. B. PURBECK, C. S. HARRIMAN, E N. EAMES, Trustees. 123
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SELECTMEN'S RECOMMENDATIONS
The Selectmen recommend the following appropriation for the fiscal year 1914:
General Government:
Selectmen, salaries and general expenses $600 00 Town Accountant or Auditor, salary and general expenses 225 00
Treasurer, salary and general expenses . 280 00
Collector, salary and general expenses . 750 00
Assessors, salaries and general expenses .
700 00
Town Clerk, salaries and general ex- penses
125 00
Election and registration, salaries and general expenses 230 00
Town Hall, janitor, light, fuel and repairs 150 00
Constable
50 00
Total for General Government
$3,110 00
Protection of Life and Property :
Police Department
$600 00
Fire Department
1,000 00
Suppression of gypsy and brown-tail
moths (compulsory $726.49, and incidentals $25.00) 751 49
Sealer of Weights and Measurers (and fees) . 35 00
Tree Warden
250 00
Forest fires
500 00
Total for protection life and property
$3,136 49
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Board of Health Agent, quarantine
wages, Inspector of Animals, In-
spector of Meats and Provisions Highways, roads and bridges
$ 400 00
1,800 00
Poor, Town Farm and Outside Poor .
1,600 00
Soldiers' Relief .. 48 00
Dependent Widows
200 00
Schools, including books, supplies, re-
pairs to school buildings, and
salaries of Superintendent and
School Committee and tuition at Industrial Schools
12,000 00
Library
400 00
Memorial Day
150 00
Printing Town Reports, care of Town Clock, etc.
500 00
Cemetery ..
400 00
Interest
100 00
Notes payable
240 00
Abatement of taxes
100 00
Electric street lights .
3,500 00
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REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen: I submit the following report of the work of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1913.
Number of arrests
14
Males
13
Females .
1
Residents
3
Non-residents
11
Causes of Arrest
Drunkenness
5
Larceny
1
Manslaughter
1
Vagrancy
2
Operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor
1 Having watered milk in his possession with intent to sell For watering milk 1
1
Operating a motorcycle at a greater rate of speed than
1 was reasonable and proper
For keeping open shop on the Lord's Day for the pur- pose of doing business therein 1
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Disposition of Cases
House of Correction
2
Placed on file
5
Discharged
1
Tewksbury State Hospital
2
Turned over to the Boston police
1
Number of fines imposed
3
Amount of fines imposed
$110
Search warrants
2
Cases investigated
11
Dogs killed
9
Respectfully submitted, WALTER A. HILL, Chief of Police.
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FIRE ENGINEER'S REPORT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen: I hereby submit the annual report of the Fire Department for the year ending December 31, 1913, a roll call of members, record of fires and alarms, value of buildings damaged by fire and insurance on same.
There were fifteen alarms given in the past year of 1913. Eleven were for building fires and four were for brush fires. There were nineteen fires reported to the Chief in all, but some were for chimney fires and were extinguished without calling out the department.
Number of buildings destroyed by fire 5
Number of buildings damaged by fire 5 ·
Number of fires caused from overheated stoves ·
3 Number of chimney fires 5
·
Number of fires caused from exploded oil stove .
1
Three of the buildings lost by fire were gone before the department arrived. Cause: 1, wrong box number given for alarm; 2, house all burnt before alarm given; 3, could not get alarm in time. The other two lost by fire were burnt several hours before any word was received about them.
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February 8, 1913 - Box 32. House owned by E. G. Taylor. Cause, stove too near partition. No damage. Insured.
February 9, 1913- Box 63. House owned by H. G. Bedell. Cause, stovepipe and chimney burned out. Value $1700. Insured. No damage.
*February 23, 1913. House owned by R. J. White. Cause, stovepipe set woodwork afire. Value $1000. No damage.
*March 8, 1913. Shed used as tool house blown to pieces. Cause, dynamite exploded. Value $25.
March 19, 1913-Box 43. House owned by Frank Marshall. Cause, caught from brush fire. Damage, $10. Value, $700.
April 10, 1913 - Box 18. House owned by C. S. Harri- man. Cause, oil stove exploded in shed. Damage $500. Value, $1200. Insured, $1000.
April 26, 1913 - Box 36. House owned by C. O. Blaisdell. Cause, chimney fire. No damage. Value, $1400.
May 8, 1913-Box 62. House owned by H. F. Porter. Cause, stove near woodwork. Damage, $25. Value, $500. Not insured.
May 12, 1913-Box 36. Shed owned by F. E. Day. Cause, not known. Value of building, $450. Insured, $100. Value of contents, $3000. Insured, $2000. Loss, $2450.
*May 12, 1913. Camp owned by Emma Goodrich burned. Not reported. Cause, stovepipe through wall set tarred paper on fire. Value of building and contents $1060. Not insured.
May 13, 1913 - Box 41. Brush fire at Boutwell Street.
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May 20, 1913- Box 14. Brush fire at Andover and Tewksbury line.
May 26, 1913- Box 36. House owned by Anna Waisnor. Cause, lamp exploded. Value, $1300. Contents, $1000. Insured, $2000.
June 12, 1913- Box 36. Shed burned and house caught fire. Owned by H. W. Folger. Cause, reported ashes had been emptied near shed. Value of shed and contents, $75. Value of house, $2200. Damage to house $25. Insurance, $2000.
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