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Appropriation
$6,125.00
Received from State 2,200.00
Transferred from Contingent Fund
475.00
Transfered from Tree Warden Account
72.33
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.
.
.
139
Payments
Salaries and wages
$2,965.21
Team and truck hire .
3,633.51
Repairs and supples
76.92
Coal and water .
177.41
Gravel and Sand
307.15
Crushed stone
4.80
Road oil
1,547.08
Culverts
113.22
Signs
15.00
New equipment
28.52
Miscellaneous
.
2.25
$8,871.07
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
1.26
$8,872.33 $8,872.33
Salem Street Construction
Appropriation ·
$2,000.00
Received from State ".
·
.
2,000.00
Received from County
2,000.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
. $1,464.26
Team and truck hire
1,033.00
Repairs and supplies
124.24
Crushed stone
2,917.66
Gravel
·
105.20
Road oH
.
210.00
Coal
137.16
$5,991.52
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account .
8.48
$6,000.00 $6,000.00
.
.
.
·
.
140
Salem and Lowell Streets (specific repairs)
Appropriation
$500.00
Transferred from Contingent Fund 2.95
Payments
Salaries and wages
$202.25
Team and truck hire .
208.00
Road oil .
·
46.25
Repairs and supplies .
46.45
$502.95
$502.95
Grove Avenue (Construction)
Appropriation
$300.00
Transferred from Contingent Fund 1.23
Payments
Salaries and wages
$128.93
Team and truck hire
129.50
Survey
42.80
$301.23
$301.23
Swain Road (Construction)
Appropriation
$350.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$150.00
Team and truck hire ,
..
..
191.00
Gravel
8.00
$349.00
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
1.00
Account
$350.00 $350.00
141
Hillside Way (Construction)
Appropriation
$300.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$124.21
Team and truck hire .
.
159.50
Gravel
15.60
$299.31
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
.69
$300.00
$300.00
Main Street Sidewalk Construction
Appropriation .
$1,000.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$649.75
Team and truck hire .
329.50
Gravel
20.00
$999.25
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account ·
· ·
.75
$1,000.00 $1,000.00
Electric Street Lights
Appropriation . $7,018.50 Appropriation (lighting 5 a.m. to day- light) 229.50
.
.
142
Payments
Paid for street lights per contract .
.
$7,023.52
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
224.48
$7,248.00 $7,248.00
CHARITIES
Poor
Appropriation .
$2,200.00
Overdraft, transferred to Balance
Account
1,004.45
Payments
Board
·
$631.00
Cash
788.00
Fuel
236.80
Rent
303.00
Groceries .
671.84
Clothing and shoes
9.00
Hospital
530.21
Transportation
14.50
Burial
15.00
Medical services
3.85
Miscellaneous
1.25
$3,204.45 $3,204.45
Mothers' Aid
Appropriation No payments. Unexpended, transferred to Balance
$200.00
Account
$200.00
143
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
State Aid
Appropriation
$400.00
Overdraft, transferred
to.
Balance
Account
10.00
Payments
Paid per State returns
$410.00
$410.00
$410.00
Military Aid
Transferred from Contingent Fund
$240.00
Payments
Paid per State returns
$240.00
Soldiers' Relief
Appropriation
$144.00
Transferred from Contingent Fund
240.00
Payments
Paid to soldiers' dependents $384.00
$384.00 $384.00
144
EDUCATION
Schools
Appropriation
$39,976.00
Payments
Administrative salaries
. $1,775.00
Other general salaries
108.55
Other general expenses
450.76
Teachers' salaries
23,846.70
Text books and supplies
1,868.54
Tuition
728.19
Transportation .
2,100.00
Janitors' services
.
2,565.50
Fuel
1,802.17
Maintenance grounds and buildings
1,609.38
Outlays:
New grounds and buildings
31.75
New equipment
813.80
Miscellaneous
774.21
$38,474.55
Transferred to Balance Account
101.45
Balance carried forward to 1923
1,400.00
$39,976.00 $39,976.00
Balance brought forward
$1,400.00
Unpaid Bills
Woburn & Reading Bus Line, Inc., for
transportation .
$1,400.00
(Note: payment of these bills held up by writ of attachment)
145
Special School Appropriation
Balance from 1921
$51.23
Payments
On account of right of way for drain
$50.00
Stamps and recording deed
1.23
$51.23
$51.23
Public Library
Appropriation
$650.00
Received income from Trust Funds
7.63
Payments
Salary, Librarian
$200.00
Janitor
13.00
Books and magazines
289.27
Binding
53.90
Fuel
39.00
Light
16.47
Cataloging
10.75
Trimming trees
12.00
Labor
6.00
Postage and stationery
17.24
$657.63
$657.63
Painting Public Library
Appropriation
$150.000
146
Payments
Painting building
$74.00
Transferred to Highways Account
50.00
$124.00
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account ·
26.00
$150.00
$150.00
Regan Park
Appropriation
$15.00
Payments
- Care of grass plot
15.00
Flag for Regan Park
Appropriation
$10.00
Payments
Flag
$10.00
Aid to Agriculture of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics
Appropriation
$200.00
Payments
Paid Middlesex Co. Bureau of A. & H. E.
$200.00
Unclassified
Appropriation
$800.00
147
Payments
Printing Town Reports
$421.50
Delivering Town Reports
39.20
Certifying Town Notes
·
18.00
Care Town Clock
45.00
Town flag and staff, care and repairs
11.37
Damage to property
65.12
Rent, Grange Hall
.
34.00
Printing and stationery
9.95
Moderator
15.00
Rent safe deposit box
10.00
Legal services
60.00
Miscellaneous
8.04
$737.18
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
62.82
$800.00
$800.00
Memorial Day
Appropriation
$400.00
Payments
Music
$102.00
Printing
.
7.50
Flowers
32.00
Refreshments
151.50
Flags and markers
20.10
Auto hire
30.00
$343.10
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
56.90
$400.00 $400.00
148
Cemetery
Appropriation
$600.00
Payments
Labor
$518.10
Team hire
10.00
Tools
40.76
Repairs and supplies
19.35
Seeds and fertilizer
9.15
$597.36
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
·
2.64
$600.00
$600.00
Improvement of Old Cemetery
Appropriation
$100.00
Payments
Labor
$98.00
Unexpended, transferred to Balance
Account
2.00
$100.00
$100.00
Trust Funds
Received from Trustees, income S. D. J. Carter Free Lecture Fund $315.00
Received from Trustees, income from Common and Cemetery Funds
358.50
Received for perpetual care fund,. account cemetery lot, Newman Parker Jr. 100.00
.
149
Payments
S. D. J. Carter Free Lecture Committee, income . $315.00
Trustees of Trust Funds, Perpetual Care Fund, Cemetery Lot, Newman Parker, Jr.
100.00
Trimming trees on Common
3.00
Care Cemetery Lots:
Susan Carlton
3.00
George W. and Minnie A. Sidelinker
42.00
Sabra Carter (Jaques Lot)
29.00
Wm. H. Carter
24.00
Dolly Harnden
13.00
Sabra Carter .
22.00
Rich Carter
22.50
James Frazer .
20.00
S. D. J. Carter
38.00
Charles H. Hopkins
25.00
Abner C. Childs
13.00
Gilman C. Harnden .
4.00
Laura Parker
1.00
Sarah G. Sheldon
25.00
Rufus C. Eames
8.00
John Sheldon Sargent
13.00
Isabelle Holt .
3.00
Henry Blanchard
8.00
Nathan B. Eames
13.00
Thomas Day
3.00
Lorenzo Meads
3.00
Almira J. Carley
10.00
George E. Swain
5.00
Elbridge Carter
and Walter H.
Blanchard
·
3.00
George T. Eames
·
.
2.00
Jonathan Eames, 2d
.
.
3.00
·
$773.50
$773.50
150
Interest
1
Appropriation
$3,025.00
Received interest on taxes .
2,292.47
Received interest on bank balance
245.39
Payments
On temporary loans
$3,594.45
On High School Bonds
1,023.76
On Motor Fire Apparatus Notes .
24.00
On Brush Fire Truck Notes
46.88
$4,689.09
Balance, transferred to Balance Account
873.77
$5,562.86 $5,562.86
Town Indebtedness
Appropriation
$2,650.00
Payments
High School Bonds Nos. 15 and 16
$1,750.00
Motor Fire Apparatus, Note No. 70 400.00
Brush Fire Truck Note No. 5 500.00
$2,650.00 $2,650.00
151
Contingent Fund
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Transferred to:
Assessors
96.25
Tax Collector
199.69
Election and Registration
100.85
Town Hall
53.70
Fire Department
.
211.15
Health .
57.75
Sealer Weights and Measures
28.48
Forest Fires
51.20
Soldiers' Relief
240.00
Military Aid .
240.00
Highways-Town Account
241.75
Highways-Chap. 81
475.00
Grove Ave. Extension
1.23
Lowell and Salem Streets
2.95
$2,000.00 $2,000.00
Abatement 1920 Taxes
Balance from 1921
$66.62
Balance transferred to Reserve Account
36.57
1920 Taxes abated
$103.19
$103.19
$103.19
Abatement 1921 Taxes
Balance from 1921
$703.42
1921 Taxes abated
.
.
$170.01
Balance
. .
533.41
$703.42
$703.42
Balance
$533.41
.
152
Abatement 1922 Taxes
Overlay
$320.17
Balance
287.67
1922 Taxes abated
$607.84
$607.84
$607.84
Balance
$287.67
Reserve Account
Balance from 1921
$398.42
Transferred from Abatement 1921 Taxes
$36.57
Balance
361.85
$398.42
$398.42
$361.85
Property Tax Sale Account
Dr.
Balance from 1921
$815.13
Taxes and expenses on property taken
by Town 1,173.76
Cr.
Received for redeemed taxes
$105.40
Balance
1,883.49
Balance
$1,988.89 $1,988.89 . $1,883.49
Balance
153
Excess and Deficiency Account
Cr.
Balance Jan. 1, 1922 .
$4,790.31
Net gain for year (transferred from Balance Acct.) 202.85
$4,993.16
Dr.
Balance
. $4,993.16
Credit Balance Jan. 1, 1923
. $4,993.16
154
SCHEDULE 2
BALANCE ACCOUNT
Dr.
Overdrafts:
Police Department
$840.14
Fire Department
216.78
Poor
1,004.45
State Aid
10.00
·
$2,071.37
Civilian War Poll Tax
2,223.00
$4,294.37
Net gain for year (transferred to Excess and De- ficiency Account)
202.85
$4,497.22
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155
SCHEDULE 2
BALANCE ACCOUNT
Cr.
Unexpended Balances:
Selectmen
$100.82
Town Accountant
9.68
Treasurer
3.00
Town Clerk
2.32
Moth Account
97.99
Building Inspection
11.00
Tree Warden
219.99
Highways, Chap. 81 G. L.
1.26
Swain Road
1.00
Hillside Way .
.69
Main St. Sidewalk .
.75
. . Electric Street Lights
224.48
Aid to Dependent Mothers
200.00
Schools .
101.45
Painting Public Library
26.00
Unclassified
62.82
Memorial Day
56.90
Cemetery
2.64
Old Cemetery
2.00
Interest
873.77
Salem Street
8.48
$2,007.04
From Revenue Account
.
.
258.82
Excess, Estimated Receipts
.
2,231.36
·
.
.
.
$4,497.22:
156
SCHEDULE 3
REVENUE ACCOUNT
Dr.
Appropriations (for Town purposes) .
$92,193.97
Transferred to Balance Account ·
258.82
$92,452.79
Estimated Receipts
Dr.
Estimated :
Income Tax, general purposes
$3,422.08
Corporation Tax
.
491.83
National Bank Tax
121.60
Reimbursement, loss of taxes
3.93 .
Licenses
388.00
Court fines
687.00
Schools
.
7,252.00
State Aid
.
400.00
$12,766.44
Excess, transferred to Balance Account
2,231.36
$14,997.80
157
SCHEDULE 3
REVENUE ACCOUNT
Cr.
Tax Committed to Collector (for Town purposes)
$79,431.06
Additional Commitment . 255.29
Estimated Receipts
12,766.44
$92,452.79
Estimated Receipts
Cr.
Amounts actually received :
Income tax, general purposes
$2,703.37
Corporation taxes
386.81
National Bank tax
178.07
Reimbursement, loss of taxes
4.25
Licenses
371.50
Court fines
523.50
Schools
7,746.79
State Aid
402.00
Town Hall
79.00
Police Department
595.92
Fire Department
38.34
Tree Warden
122.85
Sealing of Weights and Measures
31.66
Health
1.25
Forest Fires
·
.
64.30
Poor .
1,376.95
Highways
52.13
Public Library
67.17
Cemetery
52.00
Town Hearse
1.00
Soldiers' Exemptions
53.16
Street Railway tax
.
145.78
.
.
.
.
$14,997.80
158
SCHEDULE 4
STATEMENT OF TOWN DEBT
Temporary Loans (Anticipation of Revenue)
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1922:
Note No. 10
$25,000.00
Note No. 12
. .
10,000.00
Note No. 13
.
.
10,000.00
$45,000.00
Borrowed during 1922:
Note No. 14
$5,000.00
Note No. 15
5,000.00
Note No. 16
10,000.00
Note No. 17
25,000.00
Note No. 18
10,000.00
Note No. 19
15,000.00
Note No. 20
.
10,000.00
Note No. 21
10,000.00
$90,000.00
$135,000.00
Paid during 1922:
Note No. 10
$25,000.00
Note No. 12
10,000.00
Note No. 13
10,000.00
Note No. 14
5,000.00
Note No. 15
5,000.00
Note No. 19
.
15,000.00
$70,000.00
·
.
.
.
.
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1922
$65,000.00
159
(Reimbursement Loan-Salem Street Construction)
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1922: Note No. 22
$4,000.00
High School Bonds (Issue of 1914)
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1922 .
$22,750.00
Paid during 1922
1,750.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1922
$21,000.00
Motor Fire Apparatus Notes (Issue of 1919)
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1922
$400.00
Paid during 1922
400.00
Brush Fire Trusk Notes (Issue of 1920)
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1922
$1,000.00
Paid during 1922
.
.
500.00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1922
.
. $500.00
Summary
Temporary Loans (anticipation of Revenue) . $65,000.00
Temporary Loans (reimbursement loan)
4,000.00
High School Bonds ·
21,000.00
Brush Fire Truck Notes . .
·
500.00
Total Indebtedness Dec. 31, 1922
$90,500.00
160
SCHEDULE 5
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1922
Dr.
Cash in Treasury
$17,030.69
George W. Buck, Collector:
1921 Taxes, uncollected
$19,843.86
1922 Taxes, uncollected
37,328.96
57,172.82
Accounts Receivable 1.75
Property Tax Sale Account
1,883.49
Abatement 1922 Taxes
287.67
Balancing Account (High School
Bonds)
21,000.00
Balancing Account (Brush Fire
Truck Notes) .
500.00
$97,876.42
161
SCHEDULE 5
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1922
Cr.
Temporary Loans (anticipation of revenue).
$65,000.00
Temporary Loan (reimbursement loan, account Salem Street)
4,000.00
Reserve Account
361.85
Cemetery Lots-Reserve Account
88.00
Abatement 1921 taxes
533.41
High School Bonds
21,000.00
Brush Fire Truck Notes
500.00
Schools .
1,400.00
Excess and Deficiency Account .
4,993.16
.
.
$97,876.42
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF TRUST FUNDS 1922
Amount
¡Accumulated Interest
With- drawn
Balance on Deposit
Library Funds:
Burnap. .
. Andover
No. 8512
$200.00
$50.62
$250.62
Benjamin Buck
. Andover
No. 18341
500.00
83.51
$7.63
575.88
Charlotte C. Smith.
. Mechanics
No. 4215
500.00
76.91
576.91
Sabra Carter Common Fund. .
. Andover
No. 18349
200.00
87.12
3.00
284.12
Cemetery Funds:
Isaac Cazneau.
Andover
No. 18985
100.00
42.95
142.95
Susan Carlton. .
Andover
No. 18345
75.00
16.98
3.00
88.98
George W. and Minnie A. Sidelinker
Andover
No. 22450
200.00
107.10
42.00
265.10
Sabra Carter (Jaques Lot).
. Andover
No. 18346
200.00
84.41
29.00
255.41
William H. Carter.
. Andover
No. 24631
100.00
39.15
24.00
115.15
Dolly Harnden.
Andover
No. 18342
100.00
34.33
13.00
121.33
Thomas P. Eames
Andover
No. 18346
100.00
36.29
136.29
Sabra Carter.
Andover
No. 18348
100.00
57.53
22.00
135.53
Rich Carter. .
Andover
No. 22451
100.00
34.88
22.50
112.38
James Frazer.
Andover
No. 18343
200.00
78.81
20.00
258.81
Martha Temple.
. Andover
No. 18344
100.00
57.36
157.36
S. D. J. Carter.
Andover
No. 22579
200.00
98.60
38.00
260.60
Charlotte C. Smith.
Mechanics
No. 4214
50.00
8.79
58.79
Charles H. Hopkins.
Blackstone
No. 4248
200.00
51.13
25.00
226.13
Abner C. Childs. .
Woburn
No. 33384
100.00
34.50
13.00
121.50
Gilman C. Harnden.
. Woburn
No. 32614
100.00
22.41
4.00
118.41
Laura Parker.
. Woburn
No. 32615
50.00
8.15
1.00
57.15
Sarah G. Sheldon. .
. Woburn
No. 33814
200.00
50.51
25.00
225.51
Rufus C. Eames.
. Blackstone
N9. 4642
100.00
21.93
8.00
113.93
John Sheldon Sargent.
. Blackstone
No. 4859
100.00
23.38
13.00
110.38
Isabelle Holt. ..
Blackstone
No. 5169
75.00
11.84
3.00
83.84
Henry Blanchard.
Blackstone
No. 5604
50.00
9.30
8.00
51.30
162
Nathan B. Eames.
.Mechanics
No. 6899
100.00
21.80
13.00
108.80
Thomas Day.
Andover
No. 31514
100.00
17.08
3.00
114.08
Lorenzo Meads ..
Mechanics
No. 7176
100.00
14.69
3.00
111.69
Almira J. Carley .
. Andover
No. 32237
100.00
16.51
10.00
106.51
George E. Swain.
. Blackstone
No. 7304
100.00
11.88
5.00
106.88
Josiah Monroe (care Elbridge Carter and Walter H. Blanchard Lots)
Mechanics
No. 7559
100.00
9.74
3.00
106.74
Jacob H. Shedd. .
. Blackstone
No. 7701
100.00
5.91
105.91
George T. Eames.
Blackstone
No. 7746
200.00
10.13
2.00
208.13
Jonathan Eames, 2d.
Andover
No. 35188
100.00
3.77
3.00
100.77
Newman Parker, Jr.
. Blackstone
No. 8259
100.00
100.00
$5,100.00
$1,340.00
$366.13
$6,073.87
S. D. J. Carter Lecture Fund:
Am. Tel. & Tel. Col. 4% Bonds, Nos. 17546, 19667, 3986, 3992, 3993 Blackstone Savings Bank, No. 1879 .
$5,541.50
578.50
$6,120.00
Bond interest 1922
.
·
·
·
.
.
.
.
.
·
.
$6,524.18
Paid Frank L. Eames, Treasurer
315.00
$6,209.18
EDWARD H. EAMES CHESTER W. NICHOLS C. S. HARRIMAN
Trustees
163
.
.
.
.
.
240.00
Bank interest 1922 ·
164.18
·
·
164
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
To the Citizens of Wilmington:
The Overseers of the Poor herewith submits its annual
We are boarding our one inmate at the Wakefield Town Farm, where she is contented and receiving good care.
The Town Farm was let to Mr. S. P. Pike for pasturage and cultivation purposes.
The requests for help from the outside poor has increased to a large extent the past year.
ARTHUR W. EAMES, Chairman CARL S. PETTINGILL FRANK W. DAYTON Overseers of the Poor
165
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
To the Citizens of Wilmington :
The Board of Health herewith submits its annual report.
The number of contagious diseases reported to this Board in the past year is as follows:
Whooping Cough
12
Diphtheria · .
1
Chicken Pox
3
Scarlet Fever
2
Typhoid Fever
2
Measles
36
In accordance with the vote at the last Annual Town Meeting $1,000.00 was expended for Public Health Service Work, under the direction and supervision of the Board of Health and its agent.
The work of the Public Health Nurse is as follows:
Nursing visits .
1129
Infant Welfare
.
.
181
Prenatal
48
Tuberculosis
16
School visits .
43
Home visits to school children .
157
Social service visits .
.
.
.
36
Hospital visits
.
-
16
·
.
.
.
.
166
Attendance at clinics and nurses' meetings . 22
Other visits
87
Total
1732
Respectfully submitted, FRANK W. DAYTON, Chairman ARTHUR W. EAMES CARL S. PETTINGILL D. T. BUZZELL, M.D., Agent
Board of Health of Wilmington
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AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMIES
REPORT OF DEMONSTRATION WORK IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS IN THE Town of Wilmington for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1922
An appropriation of $200 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 Wilmington:
: Agents of the Bureau made fifty-two farm and home visits during the year. The Agricultural Agent held a program meeting 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, conducted three milinery classes at which forty-eight women learned how to make hats, and gave demonstrations of making dress forms and of making jolly and jam.
The Dental Clinic made a return trip to the town in March and work of previous years was found to have been showing good results. Only a short time was required to complete the work compared with previous years.
Bureau moving pictures were shown three times to a total audience of 350.
Boys' and Girls' Club work organized for the first time proved very successful. Ten were enrolled in Agricultural Club and nine in Canning. Some of the most successful work in the entire County was done by these two groups. Two large Home Economics Clubs are being carried on, one in the high school and one in the eighth grade; also a Poultry Club. The total enrollment in all projects for the year is fifty-nine. Lewis Gold- berg was second in the County in the Potato Club. The Canning
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Club girls who are entitled to especial mention for good work and valuable leadership are Elizabeth Tibbetts and Mary Currier. Club Agents have had twelve meetings with organized clubs of young people and there are indications of an increased interest as the work continues to grow.
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.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES F. PERRY, Director
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATIONS
General Government:
Selectmen, salaries and expenses ·
$850.00
Town Accountant, salary and expenses.
650.00
Treasurer, salary and expenses
500.00
Collector, salary and expenses
1,500.00
Assessors, salary and expenses .
1,250.00
Town Clerk, salary and expenses 220.00
Election and Registration, salaries and expenses 400.00
Town Hall, janitor, fuel, light and repairs 400.00
Town Constable
50.00
Protection of Life and Property :
Police Department
3,000.00
Fire Department
2,500.00
Suppression of Moths (compulsory $1,045.35) Incidentals, telephone and insurance ($225.00)
1,270.35
Sealer of Weights and Measures 200.00
Building Inspector .
250.00
Tree Warden .
1,000.00
Forest Fires ·
500.00
Health and Sanitation:
Board of Health Agent's salary, quarantine Wages, Inspector of Animals, Inspector of Meats and Provisions and Vital Statistics. . Highways:
600.00
Highways, roads and bridges and snow removal 6,500.00
Chapters 81 ($2,200.00 from State) 6,600.00
Chapter 90 ($4,000.00 from State and County) 2,000.00
Specific Repairs ($1,000.00 from State and
County) 500.00
Electric Street Lights -
.
7,533.00
.
. . .
. .
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Charities :
Care of Poor .
3,200.00
Aid for Dependent Mothers
200.00
Town Indebtedness .
2,250.00
Reserve Fund .
· 2,000.00
Soldiers' Benefits :
State Aid
400.00
Soldiers' Relief
.
200.00
Education :
Schools, including salaries, books and supplies, repairs, fuel, furnishings, tuition at vocational schools, outside tuition, transportation, includ- ing estimated receipts of $7,900.00
39,500.00
Library
750.00
Memorial Day
400.00
('emetery
900.00
Unclassified, printing Town Reports and care of Town Clock
800.00
Interest :
On loans for general purposes.
5,000.00
Harold Rogers Park
15.00
Regan Park
15.00
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TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex ss.
To Walter A. Hill, Constable of the Town of Wilmington,
Greeting;
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the manner prescribed in the By-Laws of said Town, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town Hall on Monday, the fifth day of March next, at 5.45 o'clock in the forenoon, the polls to be opened at 6 a.m. and may be closed at 4 p.m., for the election of Town Officers.
Article 1. To elect by ballot a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To bring in your votes on one ballot for three Selectmen who shall also be Overseers of the Poor and Board of Survey ; one Assessor for three years: Town Clerk. Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Constable, three Fence Viewers, one School Committee for three years; two Trustees of the Public Library for three years; one member of the S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee for five years, and one member of the S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee for one year; one Tree Warden; One Moderator; one Trustee of Trust Funds for three years, and one Trustee of Trust Funds for one year; also to vote on the following questions, to wit: "Shall the Town petition for the installation of an accounting system by the Commonwealth? Yes or No. (This question is submitted under the provision of Chapter 516, Acts of 1922) "Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this Town? Yes or No.
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You are also hereby further required and directed to notify and warn the said inhabitants of the Town of Wilmington who are qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs therein to assemble subsequently and meet in Town Meeting at the Grange Hall, Wildwood Street, in said Wilmington, on Monday, the twelfth (12) day of March next, A.D., 1923, at eight (8) o'clock p.m., then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 3. To choose all other Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Article 4. To hear the reports of Committees and act thereon.
Article 5. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for General Government, Protection of Life and Property, Tree Warden, Forest Fire Wardens, Health and Sanitation, Highway, Roads and Bridges, Support of Poor, Dependent Widows, Soldiers' Relief, Schools and Maintainance, including transportation, Tuition at Vocational Schools, Public Library, Cemetery, Interest, Notes Payable, Street Lights, State and County Tax, Printing, Care of Town Clock and Reserve Fund.
Article 6. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the observance of Memorial Day, and to determine how the same shall be expended.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue of the present financial year.
Article 8. To see what method the Town will adopt for the collection of taxes and to determine the compensation of the Collector.
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Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of thirty ($30.00) dollars, fifteen dollars of which is to be spent on Regan Park and fifteen dollars to be spent on Harold Rogers Park, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars for Public Health Work, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred fifty ($250.00) dollars or some other amount and elect a director, the money to be ex- pended by said director, who shall serve in cooperation with the County Agricultural Trustees of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics under the provi- sions of Section 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws of Mass- achusetts.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Town Clerk to $200.00 per annum or do anything in relation thereto.
*Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to increase the membership of the School Committee or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to set aside the wild and wooded land of one acre or more in extent it now owns or may acquire for non-payment of taxes, as Town Forest, such forest to be under the control of a committee of three members consisting of the Tree Warden ex-officio and two others appointed by the Selectmen for five year terms after the first appointment which shall be one for a three year and one for a five year term. And raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 to finance the cutting of wood to improve the condition of said forest, or do anything in relation thereto.
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Article 15. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the introduction of water at the High, Center, Walker, and Whitefield Schools or do anything in relation thereto. -
Article 16. To see what action the Town will take relative to purchasing additional motor apparatus for the Fire Depart- ment, and determine how the same shall be paid for, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Article 17. To see what action the Town will take relative to building an addition to Engine House No. 1 for the purpose of housing the Motor Apparatus called for in Article 16. and appropriate money for the same.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a tractor for the use of the Highway Department and determine how the same shall be paid for or what they will do in relation thereto.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to sell the North Schoolhouse, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum sufficient to purchase an Orchard Power Sprayer for the use of the Moth Department, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars under Chapter 90, Section 34, of the General Laws, to be expended under the direction of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, or do anything in relation thereto. '(Salem St.)
*Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to accept Swain Road from Taft Road or any part thereof as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, or do anything in relation thereto.
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Article 23. To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee to furnish transportation to certain pupils in High School and raise and appropriate a sum of money to cover expense of same, or do anything in relation thereto.
*Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to grade Swain Road from Taft Road as far as accepted, or do anything in relation thereto.
*Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to contract for Electric Lights to be installed on Swain Road as far as accepted, or do anything in relation thereto.
*Article 26. To see if the Town will instruct the Select- men to contract for Electric Lights to be installed on Grove Avenue Extension, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 27. To see what action the Town will take in regard to additional school accommodations as asked for by the School Committee in their report.
*Article 28. To see if the citizens will vote to instruct the Selectmen to install Electric Lights on Woburn Street, from the junction of Woburn and Eames Streets, to the Woburn line, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 74 of the General Laws and acts amanda- tory thereto or dependent thereon, and authorize the School Board to establish State aided Vocational Education, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Chairman of the Board of Assessors, or do any- thing in relation thereto.
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Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to Excess and Deficiency Account the amount standing to credit of Reserve Account $398.42, and Cemetery Lots, Reserve Account $88.00.
*Article inserted on petition. .
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands and seal of said Town this fifteenth day of February, A.D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty- three.
GTON
THE
730.+SS
WHITEFIELD ELM
FRANK W. DAYTON CARL S. PETTENGILL ARTHUR W. EAMES
Selectmen of Wilmington
INDEX
Agriculture and Home Economics, Report of Demonstra- tion Work in 167
Assessors' Valuation 1922 55
Board of Health, Report of 165
Building Inspector, Report of . 64
Carter Lecture Course Committee, Report of 59
Chief of Police, Report of .
57
Collector's Account
123
Departmental Recommendations
169
Fire Department, Report of
97
Inspector of Animals, Report of
103
Inspector of Slaughtering, Report of
61
Jury List
10
Librarian's Report
92
List of Library Books
93
Overseers of the Poor, Report of
164
Rules and Regulations for Government of Police Dept. 105
School Committee, Report of . 65
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
62
Superintendent of Streets, Report of 125
Town Accountant, Report of .
127
Town Clerk, Town Meetings, Report of
11
Births Registered 48
Marriages Registered 50
66 Deaths Registered 52
54
Treasurer's Report 121
Tree Warden's Report 91
Trustees of Trust Funds, Report of .
162
Town Officers, 1922 .
.
5
Town Warrant .
.
171
66 Recapitulation
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