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In homemaking a series of meetings was held for those inter- ested in food selection-this group was made up of home-makers and high school girls. The purpose of the project is to help in the selection and preparation of foods for the family, with special ref- erence to its influence on health.
In the boys' and girls' 4-H club activities work was carried on in food, canning, poultry and garden clubs. One hundred thirty-eight boys and girls were enrolled under the local leadership of nine people. Alice Henxman won third prize in the county-wide room beautiful contest. Dorothy Hathaway and Marjorie Ireland were awarded a two-day trip to the Massachusetts Agricultural College for outstanding club work. An Achievement Club program was put on at which the boys and girls exhibited the results of their season's work and told of the benefits of club work. Club mem- bers in this town were in competition with 3,690 boys and girls of Middlesex County.
Several county-wide meetings were conducted, such as the county picnic at the Market Garden Field Station, the annual meeting of the Extension Service at Waltham, and sectional meetings of fruit- growers and poultrymen. These were attended by many Wilming- ton people.
ERNEST R. CURRIER, Director.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
FOR THE
Financial Year ending December 31, 1926
SHOWING APPROPRIATIONS, RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS, STATEMENT OF TOWN DEBT AND BALANCE SHEET
86
REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Herewith I hand you my account for the financial year ending December 31, 1926, giving appropriations, receipts, payments, statement of town debt and balance sheet after closing of the books.
The books and accounts of the Tax Collector, Assessors, S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee and Town Clerk's Dog Tax Records have audited and found in order.
The books and vouchers of the Treasurer have been examined and the cash balance as stated in his account, $38,306.09, is correct.
Respectfully,
HARRY R. DEMING, Town Accountant.
87
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Selectmen
Appropriation
Payments
Salaries
$675.00
Perambulating town lines
25.00
Postage, printing and stationery
30.75
$730.75
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
169.25
$900.00
$900.00
Town Accountant
Appropriation
$650.00
Payments
Salary
$600.00
Postage, printing and stationery.
34.26
$634.26
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
15.74
$650.00
$650.00
Treasurer
Appropriation
Payments
Salary
$400.00
Premium on bond
100.00
Check writer
20.00
Postage, printing and stationery.
50.00
$570.00
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
5.00
$575.00
$575.00
Tax Collector
Appropriation
$1,700.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund.
72.53
Payments
Salary
$1,500.00
Premium on bond
113.00
Postage, printing and stationery.
159.53
$1,772.53
$1,772.53
$900.00
$575.00
Deficiency Account
88
Finance Committee
Appropriation $100.00
Payments
Postage, printing and stationery. $90.23
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account 9.77
$100.00
$100.00
Assessors
Appropriation
$1,500.00
Salaries
$1,080.00
Clerical hire
196.00
Record of property transfers.
56.00
Transportation
23.00
Postage, printing and stationery
16.75
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account 128.25
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
Printing Valuation Books
Balance from 1925 account
$639.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund.
96.00
Payments
Printing 750 copies Valuation Books. $720.00
15.00
$735.00
$735.00
Town Clerk
Appropriation
$220.00
Payments
Salary
$200.00
Postage, printing and stationery
14.60
Miscellaneous
3.00
$217.60
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
2.40
$220.00
$220.00
Election and Registration
Appropriation
$500.00
Payments
Election:
Salaries
$252.00
Delivering above
$1,371.75
89
Labor on booths and seats. $28.63 Postage, printing and stationery 38.45 $319.08
Registration:
Salaries
$125.00
List of voters.
10.00
Postage, printing and stationery 42.75
177.75
$496.83
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
3.17
$500.00
$500.00
Town Hall
Appropriation
$500.00
Payments
Salary, janitor
$110.00
Telephone
39.76
Fuel
7.50
Light
64.28
Repairs and supplies
83.60
Insurance
53.44
$358.58
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
141.42
$500.00
$500.00
Fire-Proof Office Equipment
Appropriation
$290.00
Payments
Safe
$245.17
Freight and carting
12.66
$257.83
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
Deficiency Account
32.17
$290.00
$290.00
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY Police Department
Appropriation
$4,000.00 1,072.57
Overdraft, carried to 1927
Payments
Salaries and wages
$4,297.50
Auto hire
136.59
Telephone
108.54
90
Premium on bond
$5.00
Hire of outside lock-up
10.00
Traffic signs
115.46
Light-traffic signs
251.13
Medical services
42.30
Repairs
1.35
Ambulance
18.00
Equipment
43.20
Veterinarian
7.00
Uniform
18.00
Traveling expenses
15.00
Printing
3.50
Overdraft to 1927
$1,072.57
Police Department (1925 Overdraft)
Appropriation
$1,945.36
Overdraft from 1925
$1,945.36
Constable
$50.00
Salary
$50.00
Fire Department
Appropriation
$2,800.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$1,021.06
Repairs, replacements and supplies
802.27
Fuel
185.20
Light
17.74
Power
125.36
Telephone
25.04
Caps
7.40
Alarm maintenance
60.00
Gasoline
127.60
Rent
60.00
New equipment:
Chemical tank
$175.00
Test pump
95.00
Miscellaneous
15.34
285.34
Accident insurance
34.00
Miscellaneous
8.05
$2,759.06
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
40.94
$2,800.00
$2,800.00
Appropriation
Payments
$5.072.57
$5,072.57
91
Fire Department (1925 Overdraft)
Appropriation
$151.14
Overdraft from 1925
$151.14
Inspection of Buildings
Appropriation
$500.00
Payments
Salary, inspector
$400.00
Telephone
24.24
Printing
51.25
$475.49
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
Deficiency Account
24.51
$500.00
$500.00
Sealing of Weights and Measures
Appropriation
Payments
Salary, Sealer
$150.00
Transportation
35.00
Dies, seals, etc.
5.10
$190.10
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
59.90
$250.00
$250.00
Suppression of Moths
Appropriation
$2,100.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$1,421.34
Team and truck hire
340.75
Repairs and supplies
138.33
Liability insurance
133.73
Telephone
41.13
Postage, printing and stationery.
9.08
Advertising
12.00
Miscellaneous
2.32
$2,098.68
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
1.32
$2,100.00
$2,100.00
Moth Spraying Machine
Appropriation
$300.00
$250.00
Deficiency Account
92
Payments
1 Model C, Arlington XL spraying machine $295.00 Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account 5.00
$300.00
$300.00
Tree Warden
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$749.63
Truck hire
62.50
Repairs and supplies
38.28
Trees
89.50
Tools
47.00
Fertilizer
6.00
Miscellaneous
3.82
$996.73
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account 3.27
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
Forest Fires
Appropriation
Transferred from Reserve Fund
Payments
Wages, fire duty
$917.40
$917.40
$917.40
Forest Fires (1925 Overdraft)
Appropriation
$413.95
Overdraft from 1925. $413.95
Health and Sanitation
Appropriation
$800.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund. 81.31
Payments
Salary, inspector of meats and provisions .... $76.00
Salary, inspector of animals 150.00
Vital statistics, fees for return of births, deaths and marriages 170.25
Salary, Agent Board of Health
25.00
Account contagious diseases : Hospital care $78.58
$600.00 317.40
93
Groceries and provisions $299.23
Fuel
17.00
$394.81
Disposal of garbage
60.00
Printing
5.25
$881.31
$881.31
Health and Sanitation (1925 Overdraft)
Appropriation
$206.50
Overdraft from 1925
$206.50
Public Health Nurse
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Payments
Salary, District Nurse
$1,000.00
HIGHWAYS, ROADS AND BRIDGES
Town Account, Repairs and Construction
$21,199.45
Less transferred to Chapter 81.
$6,450.00
Less transferred to Loader Account.
500.00
Less transferred to Boutwell Street.
600.00
Less transferred to Glen Road.
650.00
8,200.00
Net amount for Town Account.
$12,999.45
Transferred from Reserve Fund.
290.14
$13,289.59
Payments
Salaries and wages
$3,886.81
Team and truck hire
2,447.52
Removing snow:
Wages
$2,886.62
Team and truck hire
1,069.30
Repairs and supplies.
560.12
4,516.04
Sand and gravel
86.00
Liability insurance
439.56
Rent
108.00
Repairs and supplies
798.73
Coal
11.00
Tarvia
265.39
Signs
17.00
Surveys and plans
115.50
Cinders
498.04
Insurance on stone crusher
100.00
$13,289.59
$13,289.59
Appropriation
94
Town and State Account (Chap. 81, G. L.)
Appropriation (from Town Account)
$6,450.00
From State
4,149.95
Transferred from Reserve Fund
149.93
Payments
Salaries and wages
$2,152.05
Team and truck hire
1,798.13
Repairs and supplies
318.75
Coal
99.00
Sand and gravel
332.75
Road oil
2,073.92
Tarvia
3,600.28
Steam roller hire
375.00
$10,749.88
$10,749.88
Salem Street (Construction)
Appropriation
$2,000.00
From State
2,000.00
From County
2,000.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
332.48
Payments
Advertising for bids
$29.88
Paid for construction, per contract.
6,301.89
$6,331.77
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
Deficiency Account
.71
$6,332.48
$6,332.48
Salem and Lowell Streets (Specific Repairs)
Appropriation
$500.00
From State
493.63
From County
493.63
Payments
Salaries and wages
$551.05
Team and truck hire
422.75
Tarvia
433.74
Gravel
28.75
Crushed stone
44.10
$1,480.39
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
Deficiency Account
6.87
$1,487.26
$1,487.26
Boutwell Street-Repairs Appropriation (from Town Account) ..
$600.00
95
Payments
Salaries and wages
$540.23
Team and truck hire
58.50
$598.73
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
Deficiency Account 1.27
$600.00
$600.00
Glen Road-Repairs Appropriation (from Town Account)
$650.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$343.73
Team and truck hire
16.00
Cement, etc.
34.60
Gravel
5.00
Culvert
250.00
$649.33
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
.67
$650.00
$650.00
Nichols Street-Repairs
Appropriation
$50.00
Payments
Salaries and wages
$30.33
Team and truck hire
18.00
Gravel
1.00
$49.33
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
.67
$50.00
$50.00
Loader
Appropriation (from Town Account)
$500.00
From 1925 Highway Account
500.00
Payments
1 Conant loader, engine, screen, etc.
$1,000.00
$1,000.00 $1,000.00
Tractor and Snow Plow
Appropriation $2,650.00
96
Payments 1 Model K, Cletrac tractor, plow and cab .... $2,650.00
$2,650.00 $2,650.00
Road Scraper
Appropriation
$950.00
Payments
Road machine and extra front wheel.
$537.50
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
412.50
$950.00
$950.00
Highway 1925 Unpaid Bills
Appropriation
$988.38
Payments
Water
$71.00
Gasoline, oil and repairs
95.41
Crusher repairs
79.00
Crushed stone
742.97
$988.38
$988.38
Summary of Highways for 1926
Total appropriations
$27,349.45
Received (or due) from State
6,643.58
Received from County From 1925 Highway Account
500.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
772.55
Total resources
$37,759.21
Total expenditures
37,336.52
Unexpended balance
$422.69
Electric Street Lights
Appropriation
$8,165.00
Payments
506 lights, 3 mos. at $15.00 year.
$1,897.50
510 lights, 9 mos. at $15.00 year.
5,737.50
$7,635.00
Less credit
1.72
$7,633.28
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
531.72
$8,165.00
$8,165.00
2,493.63
97
CHARITIES Poor
Appropriation
Overdraft carried to 1927
$4,000.00 764.19
Payments
Board
$1,246.00
Cash
1,324.00
Fuel
276.50
Rent
180.00
Groceries and provisions
688.87
Hospital care and board.
916.64
Transportation
39.10
Medical services
24.75
Burial
67.00
Miscellaneous
1.33
Balance to 1927
764.19
Poor (1925 Overdraft)
Appropriation
$1,440.21
Overdraft from 1925
$1,440,21
Mothers' Aid
Appropriation
$500.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
540.80
Payments
Cash
$988.00
Fuel
51.87
Medicine
.93
$1,040.80
$1,040.80
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
State Aid
Appropriation
$350.00
Payments
Paid as per State returns
$164.00
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
Deficiency Account
186.00
$350.00
$350.00
Military Aid
Appropriation
$500.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund.
174.89
$4,764.19
$4,764.19
98
Payments.
Cash
$390.00
Fuel
25.00
Groceries and provisions
259.89
$674.89
$674.89
Soldiers' Relief
Appropriation
$500.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
677.00
Payments
Cash
$969.00
Rent
208.00
$1,177.00
$1,177.00
Soldiers' Relief (1925 Overdraft)
Appropriation
$348.24
Overdraft from 1925
$348.24
EDUCATION
Schools
Appropriation
$50,130.00
Payments
Superintendent's salary
$1,890.00
School physician's salary
75.00
School nurse's salary
770.00
Truant officer
50.00
Superintendent's traveling expenses
357.63
Telephones
73.57
Principals', supervisors' salaries
and teachers'
29,013.00
Transportation of pupils
4,455.32
Janitors' salaries
3,283.00
Fuel
2,382.91
Light
108.33
Books and supplies
3,830.60
Insurance
644.17
Water
71.20
Repairs and maintenance
1,239.34
New equipment
1,187.61
Miscellaneous
114.35
$49,546.03
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
583.97
$50,130.00
$50,130.00
99
Schools (1925 Unpaid Bills)
$1,835.17
Payments
Telephones
$5.16
Fuel
83.75
Transportation of pupils
837.00
Books and supplies
323.38
Repairs
75.60
$1,324.89
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
510.28
$1,835.17
$1,835.17
Vocational Training
Appropriation
$800.00
Payments
Tuition, Lowell Vocational School
$437.53
Tuition, Boston Trade School
27.20
$464.73
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
335.27
$800.00
$800.00
Public Library
Appropriation
$800.00
Received income from Trust Funds
37.08
Payments
Salary, Librarian
$287.50
Janitor
15.00
Books and magazines
350.05
Repairing books
30.00
Fuel
33.75
Light
5.55
Postage, printing and stationery
9.01
Insurance
63.21
Repairs
3.01
Grading and seeding grounds
40.00
$837.08
$837.08
HAROLD DOGERS, REGAN AND NEE PARKS
Appropriation
$75.00
Care of parks Payments $75.00
Appropriation
100
AID TO MIDDLESEX COUNTY BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
Appropriation
$200.00
Payments
For demonstration work in agriculture and home economics $200.00
UNCLASSIFIED
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Payments
Printing Town Reports.
$533.50
Delivering Town Reports
30.00
Certifying town notes
10.00
Care town clock
45.00
Care town flag
4.00
Rent Grange Hall
10.00
Printing and stationery
176.11
License plates and badges
4.64
Painting town clock
50.00
Repairs town flagstaff
15.04
Rent safe deposit box
10.00
Adding machine repairs
8.50
Miscellaneous
10.00
$906.79
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and
Deficiency Account
93.21
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
WATER SUPPLY
Balance from 1925
$378.93
Payments
Legal services
$175.00
Advertising
9.38
$184.38
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
194.55
$378.93
$378.93
MEMORIAL DAY
Appropriation $400.00
101
Payments
Music
$115.00
Printing and postage
3.75
Flowers
48.75
Refreshments
168.75
Flags
9.60
Transportation
25.00
Memorial address
25.00
$395.85
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess ana Deficiency Account 4.15
$400.00
$400.00
CEMETERY
Appropriation
$2,200.00
Payments
Labor
$1,242.88
Tools and repairs
43.80
Trees, plants, shrubs, seeds, etc.
41.10
Fertilizer
10.50
Lot markers
68.62
Grading
599.42
Road oil
154.20
Pump
12.86
Printing
14.00
Miscellaneous
2.25
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
10.37
$2,200.00
$2,200.00
GRADING SOLDIERS' NEW LOT
Balance from 1925
$100.00
No Payments
Balance
$100.00
Balance to 1927
$100.00
TRUST FUNDS
Received perpetual care fund cemetery lot Capt. George W. McIntosh
$200.00
Received from estate of Chester W. Clarke, Library Trust Fund
500.00
Received from Trustees, income S. D. J. Carter Free Lecture Fund ..
240.00
Received from Trustees, income Common and Cemetery Funds 178.50
$2,189.63
102
Payments
To S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee, in-
come from Trust Fund.
$240.00
To Trustees, perpetual care fund
200.00
To Trustees, Library trust fund.
500.00
For mowing Common.
6.00
Account care cemetery lots :
Isaac Cazneau
5.25
Susan Carlton
4.25
George W. and Minnie A. Sidelinker
15.00
Sabra Carter (Jaques lot)
14.25
William H. Carter
6.25
Dolly Harnden
6.25
Thomas P. Eames
4.00
Sabra Carter
5.25
Rich Carter
6.25
James Frazer
12.00
Martha Temple
6.25
S. D. J. Carter
5.25
Charles H. Hopkins
5.25
Abner C. Childs
5.25
Gilman C. Harnden
7.00
Sarah G. Sheldon
6.25
Rufus C. Eames
4.00
John Sheldon Sargent
4.25
Isabelle Holt
3.00
Nathan B. Eames
3.00
Thomas Day
6.25
Lorenzo Meads
6.25
Almira J. Carley
5.25
George E. Swain
5.25
Jacob H. Shedd
3.00
George T. Eames
6.25
Jonathan Eames, 2nd.
4.00
Irwin E. Morse
4.00
Sylvester and Lois R. Carter
4.00
$1,118.50
$1,118.50
INTEREST
Appropriation
$5,000.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
209.25
Payments
On temporary loans
$4,405.51
On highway loan
95.00
On High School house bonds.
708.74
$5,209.25
$5,209.25
TOWN INDEBTEDNESS
Appropriation
$2,750.00
103
Payments
High School House Bonds Nos. 23 and 24 .... $1,750.00
Highway Note No. 32. 1,000.00
$2,750.00
$2,750.00
RESERVE FUND
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Transferred to:
Tax Collector
$72.53
Printing Valuation Book
96.00
Forest fires
317.40
Health
81.31
Highways-Town Account
290.14
Highways-Chap. 81
149.93
Salem Street
332.48
Mothers' Aid
540.80
Military Aid
174.89
Soldiers' Relief
677.00
Interest
209.25
Unexpended balance, carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
58.27
$3,000.00
$3,000.00
ABATEMENT 1925 TAXES
Balance from 1925
Overdraft to 1927
1925 taxes abated
$640.33
$640.33
$640.33
Balance to 1927
$127.31
ABATEMENT 1926 TAXES
Overlay
$314.83
1926 taxes abated
$249.07
Balance
65.76
Balance to 1927
$65.76
OVERLAY RESERVE ACCOUNT
Balance from 1925
$1,349.23
Balance
$1,349.23
Balance to 1927
$1,349.23
$2,941.73
$513.02 127.31
$314.83
$314.83
104
PROPERTY TAX SALE ACCOUNT
Dr.
Balance from 1925
$3,423.55
Taxes and expenses on property taken by town
677.32
Cr.
$232.29
Balance
3,868.58
Balance, Dr. to 1927
....
$3,868.58
REVENUE ACCOUNT
Dr.
Appropriations (for town purposes).
$135,383.40
Balance carried to Excess and Deficiency Account
89.50
Cr.
Committed to Collector
$110,612.52
Estimated Receipts
24,770.88
Special Forestry Tax
.86
Additional taxes 1925
21.09
Additional taxes 1926
67.55
$135,472.90
REVENUE ACCOUNT 1925
Dr.
Balance from 1925
$331.02
Transferred from Excess and Deficiency
Account
$331.02
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Dr.
Estimated amounts :
Income tax
$9,786.96
Corporation tax
732.78
Bank tax
8.39
Licenses
582.00
Fines
376.00
Moth work, private
743.50
Health
20.00
Charities
1,747.24
Soldiers' benefits
410.08
$4,100.87
Received from redeemed taxes.
$4,100.87
$135,472.90
$135,383.40
105
Schools
$6,841.31
Library
76.83
Cemetery
453.00
Interest on deposits
445.25
Interest on taxes
1,892.40
Building inspection
119.00
Sealer weights and measures
37.83
Street railway tax
467.61
Unclassified
25.00
Reimbursement-loss of tax
5.70
$24,770.88
Paid State-trust company tax 1922
6.50
Balance (excess of actual receipts over estimates) carried to Excess and Defi- ciency Account
2,935.23
$27,712.61
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Cr.
Amounts actually received:
Income tax 1926
$9,786.96
Income tax 1926
4,482.50
Income tax 1923
67.50
Income tax 1924
85.50
Income tax 1925
225.00
$14,647.46
Corporation tax, bus. 1926
$616.39
Corporation tax, P. S. 1926
320.20
Corporation tax, bus. 1924
.02
Corporation tax, bus. 1925
51.95
988.56
National bank tax
58.67
Trust company tax
135.32
Licenses
644.00
Fines
324.00
Moth Department:
Private work, charged property
owners
$711.40
From State-highways
42.50
Telephone tolls
4.90
758.80
Health, printed records
3.00
Charities :
Outside board
$677.00
Outside relief
228.00
Temporary aid-State
1,453.18
Hospital board and care
123.00
106
Burials
$20.00
Rent Town Farm land.
50.00
$2,551.18
Soldiers' benefits:
State aid
$250.00
Military aid
15.00
265.00
Soldiers' exemptions-State
Schools:
Dog licenses
$712.54
Rent, High School Hall
10.00
Tuition, Tewksbury
412.17
Account Supt .- State
1,160.00
Vocational training, State
263.02
2,557.73
Library, fines, etc.
99.96
Cemetery, sale of lots
896.00
Interest on deposits
476.86
Interest on taxes
2,508.23
Building inspection:
Permits
$115.50
Telephone tolls
5.25
120.75
Sealing of weights and measures, fees ....
42.02
Street railway tax
512.36
Reimbursement-loss of tax
5.78
Tax Collector, return bond premium
4.80
Police, account liquor raids
15.80
Fire Dept., return accident insurance
premium
3.45
Highways:
Barrels sold
$28.00
Crushed stone sold
14.00
42.00
$27,712.61
EXCESS AND DEFICIENCY ACCOUNT
Cr.
Balance from 1925
$11,989.83
Unexpended balances:
Selectmen
$169.25
Town Accountant
15.74
Treasurer
5.00
Assessors
128.25
Finance Committee
9.77
Town Clerk
2.40
Election and registration
3.17
Town Hall
141.42
Fireproof office equipment
32.17
Fire Department
40.94
Building inspection
24.51
50.88
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Sealing, weights and measures
$59.90
Suppression of moths
1.32
Spraying machine
5.00
Tree Warden
3.27
Road scraper
412.50
Nichols Street-repairs
.67
Salem Street-construction
.71
Boutwell Street-repairs
1.27
Glen Road-repairs
.67
Salem and Lowell Streets
6.87
Electric street lights
531.72
State Aid
186.00
Schools
583.97
Schools-1925 bills
510.28
Vocational training
335.27
Unclassified
93.21
Memorial Day
4.15
Water supply
194.55
Cemetery
10.37
Reserve Fund
58.27
$3,572.59
Balance from Revenue Account
89.50
Balance from Estimated Receipts
2,935.23
Dr.
Transferred to Revenue Account 1925.
$331.02
Balance
18,256.13
$18,587.15
Cr. balance to 1927
$18,256.13
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS (Year 1925)
Dr.
Balance due December 1, 1925
$525.00
Received during 1926
$525.00
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS (Year 1926)
Dr.
Allotment, account Chap. 81
$4,149.95
Allotment, account Chap. 90, Salem St .. ...
2,000.00
Allotment, account Salem and Lowell Sts.
493.63
$6,643.58
Cr
Received during 1926
$6,293.63
Balance due
349.95
$6,643.58
Balance to 1927
$349.95
Cr.
$18,587.15
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COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
Dr.
Allotment, account Chap. 90, Salem St ........
$2,000.00 493.63
Allotment, account Salem and Lowell Sts.
$2,493.63
Received during 1926 Cr.
$2,493.63
RECAPITULATION OF 1926 TAXES
Town appropriations
$135,383.40
State Tax
5,400.00
State Highway Tax
794.60
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth Tax
282.29
Fire Prevention Tax
37.96
Auditing town accounts
162.15
County Tax
4,380.90
Tuberculosis Tax
75.69
Overlay
314.83
$146,831.82.
Less Estimated Receipts (for details see Estimated Receipts Account)
24,770.88
Amount to be raised by taxation
$122,060.94
Raised as follows:
Poll taxes, 986 at $2.00
$1,972.00
Property Tax, valuation $3,511,297.00 at $34.20 per $1,000.00
120.088.94
$122,060.94
Moth work charged property owners
711.40
Special Forestry Tax
.86
Committed to Tax Collector
$122,773.20.
STATEMENT OF TOWN DEBT Temporary Loans
(Anticipation of Taxes)
Outstanding January 1, 1926:
Note No. 39
$30,000.00
Note No. 40
25,000.00
Note No. 42
25,000.00
$80,000.00;
Borrowed during 1926:
Note No. 45
$30,000.00
Note No. 46
25,000.00
Note No. 47
20,000.00
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Note No. 48
Note No. 49
$25,000.00 24,000.00 $124,000.00
$204,000.00
Paid during 1926:
Note No. 39
$30,000.00
Note No. 40
25,000.00
Note No. 42
25,000.00
Note No. 47
20,000.00
Note No. 49
24,000.00
$124,000.00
Outstanding December 31, 1926.
$80,000.00
(Note-Note No. 41 cancelled.)
Highway Loans (Main Street Construction Loan, 1923)
Outstanding January 1, 1926:
Note No. 32
$1,000.00
Note No. 33
1,000.00
$2,000.00
Paid during 1926, Note No. 32.
1,000.00
Outstanding December 31, 1926
$1,000.00
High School House Bonds (Issue of 1914)
Outstanding January 1, 1926
$15,750.00
Paid during 1926
1,750.00
$14,000.00
Summary
Temporary loans (anticipation of taxes)
$80,000.00
Highway loans (Main St. construction)
1,000.00
High School house bonds
14,000.00
Total Town Indebtedness, December 31, 1926
$95,000.00
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BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1926
Dr.
Cash in Treasury
$38,306.09
George W. Buck, Collector, 1926 Taxes uncollected.
56,758.26
Departmental Overdrafts:
Police Department
$1,072.57
Poor
764.19
1,836.76
State of Massachusetts, due account Highways.
349.95
Property Tax Sale Account
3,868.58
Abatement 1925 Taxes
127.31
Balancing Account-High School Bonds
14,000.00
Balancing Account-Highway Notes
1,000.00
$116,246.95
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1926
Cr.
Temporary Loans (anticipation of taxes)
$80,000.00
Highway Loans (Main St. construction)
1,000.00
High School Bonds
14,000.00
Grading Soldiers' New Lot
100.00
Abatement 1926 Taxes
65.76
Overlay Reserve Account
1,349.23
Surplus War Bonus Funds
1,475.83
Excess and Deficiency Account
18,256.13
$116,246.95
HARRY R. DEMING,
Town Accountant.
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TOWN WARRANT
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 seventh day of March next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the polls to be opened at 9:45 a. m. and shall be closed at 8 p. m. for the election of Town Officers.
Article 1. To bring in your votes on one ballot for three Select- men, who shall also act as Overseers of the Poor and Board of Survey; one Assessor for three years; Town Clerk; Treasurer; Collector of Taxes; Constable; Three Fence Viewers; Two mem- bers of the School Committee for three years; Two trustees of the Public Library for three years; One trustee of Trust Funds for three years; One member of the S. D. J. Carter Lecture Committee for five years; Tree Warden; Moderator.
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 on elections and Town affairs, therein to assemble subsequently, and meet in Town Meeting at the Grange Hall, Wildwood Street, in said Town of Wilmington, on Monday, the fourteenth day of March, A. D. 1927, at eight (8) o'clock p. m., then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 2. To choose all other Town officers for the ensuing year.
Article 3. To hear the reports of Committees and act thereon.
Article 4. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the following items:
General Government Cemetery Town Indebtedness
Protection of Life and Property Health and Sanitation
Street Lights Unclassified
Highways Charities and Aid
Finance Committee
Soldiers' Benefits Interest
Reserve Fund
Public Library
Education
Article 5. 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 6. To see how much money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the observance of Memorial Day, and to de- termine how the same will be expended.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars for Public Health Work, or do anything in relation thereto.
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Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars or some other amount, and elect a Director, the money to be expended by and the director to serve in co-operation with the Middlesex County Trustees for county aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Ex- tension Service under the provisions of Sections 40 to 45, Chapter 128, of the General Laws of Massachusetts.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred sixty-five ($165) dollars for the upkeep of Regan Park, Rogers Park and Thomas Nee Park, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to contract to retain the service of the ten (10) Nova- lux street lights now on trial, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to contract for one (1) Novalux street light at the junction of Main and Lowell Streets, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to contract for one (1) electric light on Washington Av- enue, about 150 feet from Clark Street, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to contract for one (1) electric light to be installed on High Street at Regan Park, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to contract for one (1) electric light to be installed on Clark Street, between Church Street and Middlesex Avenue or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to contract for electric lights to be installed on Park Street from the last light now located on said street easterly to the North Reading Town Line, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Select- men to contract for two (2) electric lights to be installed on Parker Street, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of eighteen hundred thirty-six dollars and seventy-six cents ($1,836.76) for departmental overdrafts for the year 1926 or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Over- law Reserve Account to Abatement of 1925 Taxes Account the sum of one hundred twenty-seven dollars and thirty-one cents ($127.31) or do anything in relation thereto. .
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a commit- tee to study the requirements of suitable quarters for the Fire De- partment and to bring in plans and specifications for the erection of a new building for the Fire Department, and also to bring in recommendations for the location of such a building, or do any- thing in relation thereto.
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Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 276 of the Acts of 1926 authorizing the Town to supply itself and its inhabitants with water, and to sell water to the Commonwealth and to Towns of Reading, North Reading and Tewksbury and to the City of Woburn, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 21. To elect by ballot, three persons to hold office, one until the expiration of three years, one until the expiration of two years, and one until the expiration of one year, and thereafter to elect one member each year for three years to constitute a Board of Water Commissioners in accordance with Section No. 8, Chapter No. 276, Acts of 1926.
Article 22. To see if the Town will authorize the Water Com- missioners to negotiate for the purchase of at least seventy-five (75) acres of land for the safeguarding of the water shed, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to change the term of office of the members of the Board of Selectmen from one to three years, as provided for in Section 7, Chapter 41, of the General Laws of Massachusetts and at the next Annual Town Election to elect one member for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and thereafter to elect one member each year for three years, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for carrying out the recommendation of the special com- mittee on school accommodations; to raise by borrowing or other- wise money to acquire said location by purchase, or otherwise, and for the construction and original equipment and furnishing of a school building thereon; or to take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the purchase of a Road Roller, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Article 26. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the purchase of two (2) motor trucks for the High- way Department, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will appoint a committee includ- ing one or more of the Board of Selectmen to look into the matter of furnishing a suitable building for the highway department, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Article 28. To see if the Town will accept so called Floradale Avenue, as laid out by Board of Survey, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred ($300) dollars for a fire well in that sec- tion known as Wilmington Gardens, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Town Treasurer, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 70, 71 and 72 of Chapter 41, of the General Laws. Creating a Plan- ning Board of three members to be elected at the next annual Town Meeting, one to serve for three years, one for two years and one for
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one year, and thereafter annually elect one for the term of three years, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 32. To see if the Town will act on the report of the Committee to remodel the Town Hall and Public Library, and ap- point Mr. Edward N. Eames, Mr. A. Chandler Manning, and Mr. C. S. Harrimen, a building committee to make further investigation or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 33. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) for the use of the Committee to remodel the Town Hall and Public Library, to defray incidental expenses that may arise in further investigations, or do anything in relation thereto.
Article 34. To see if the Town will indemnify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the lay- ing out, alteration, construction or reconstruction of the State High- way known as Main Street in Wilmington, or any section or reloca- tion thereof, and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign an indemnity agreement therefor in behalf of the Town, or take any other action with respect thereto.
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 fourteenth day of February, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.
Seal
CHARLES F. PERRY, CARL S. PETTENGILL, WALTER L. HALE,
Selectmen of Wilmington.
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INDEX
Assessors' Valuation 1926. 33
Board of Health, Report of 47
Building Inspector, Report of 39, 81
Carter Lecture Course Committee, Report of 66
Cemetery Commissioners 74
Chief of Police, Report of. 34
Collector's Account 79
Fire Department, Report of. 35
Inspector of Animals, Report of
71
Inspector of Slaughtering, Report of. 70
Jury List
9
Librarian's Report 40
List of Library Books 42
Middlesex County Extension Service 46
Overseers of the Poor, Report of. 82 49
School Committee, Report of.
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of 38
Superintendent of Streets, Report of. 80
Town Accountant, Report of.
85
Town Clerk, Town Meetings, Report of
11
Births Registered 27
66 Marriages Registered 29
Deaths Registered 30
Recapitulation 32
Treasurer's Report 68
Tree Warden's Report 65
Trustees of Trust Funds, Report of.
72
Town Officers, 1926 3
Town Warrant 111
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