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From State of Mass.,
Expenses of Harriet Sullivan, 5.00
Total amount refunded,
79.68
CONTINGENCIES AND TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriation by the Town,
$1,400.00
Expended as follows :
A. H. Bartlett, printing town reports,
$30.80
. "Yes" and "No" .50
ballots,
S. E. Baker, posting warrants, 12.00
Springfield Printing Co., Assessors' books, 3.75
E. H. Cutler, freight on town reports, .50
C. E. Stacy, recording births, marriages and deaths, 5.40
C. E. Stacy, storage, and services as Reg- istrar,
4.20
C. G. Robbins, notifying town officers, 4.20
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James B Crane, deed of Crane lot, $250.00
Orson Knowlton, repairs on tank, 2.00
C. E. Peck, balance due putting salmon trout in Nine Mile Pond, 4.45
Springfield Republican, advertising proposals Memorial Hall and school house, 11.70
Springfield Union, advertising proposals Memorial Hall, 6.48
A. H. Bartlett, printing valuation lists, 35.00
notices bicycle riding, 1.25
C. H. Whiting, index and record books, 5.13
W. E. Stone, moving safe, books etc. 15.00
66 telegrams, express, postage etc. 4.99
J. S. Morgan, services as building committee, 7.50
W. L. Collins, services as Undertaker, 65.00
Hiram Danks, Tax-bills, 1885, 1.75
William Roonan, reward for the arrest and conviction of John Metz, 25.00
Dr. J. W. Hannum, returning births. 2.50
M. F. Beebe, cash paid Maynard for cutting wood, 2.00
Dr. H. G. Webber, returning births,
2.50
Rent of Music Hall, to April 1st, 1886,
40.00
Henry Morris, legal counsel,
7.00
C. L. Gardner, “
110.00
E. B. Gates, Interest on Town loan,
78.50
Ira G. Potter, expenses in purchasing Crane lot. 10.50
W. E. Stone, recording births, marriages. and deaths, and procuring loan, 51.42
Esther M. Allis, use of room for registrars, 1.50
F. E. Clark, cash paid for copying specifica- tions, contract, express, etc., 4.05
C. E. Peck, postage, stationery and express, 3.20
P. P. Potter, services as building committee, 10.00
Henry Clark, postage and stationery, 7.00
Expenditures for Contingencies,
$826.77
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TOWN OFFICERS. SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
M. F. Beebe, Henry Clark,
$76.00
85.00
P. P. Potter,
57.50
$218.50
ASSESSORS.
Chauncey E. Peck,
$58.25
H. T. Bolles,
23.75
Alvin Chilson,
15.62
$97.62
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Jason Butler,
$47.50
Jesse L. Rice,
41.25
Chas. D. Woods,
40.00
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS.
$9.00
M. F. Beebe,
8.00
Henry Clark,
8.00
P. P. Potter,
3.00
$28.00
Hiram Danks,
Total expenditures for contingencies & town officers, $1,364.64
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Appropriation by the Town,
$1,200.00
Expended as follows :
Dist. No. 1, By Henry Clark,
$ 69.36
2, " J. C. Cooley,
128.93
3, " A. A. Phelps,
92.43
4, " Luther Markham,
128.39
. 5, " Hiram Danks,
208.97
6, " G. H. Hastings, 152.36
$128.75
W. E. Stone,
COLLECTOR OF TAXES. 65.00
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Dist. No. 7, By Randolph Beebe, $108.40
8, " A. A. Phelps, 140.48
J. P. Wilcox, cement pipe and cement, 15.25
Henry Clark, drawing pipe and cement, 4.00
One half lighting and repairing Collins and Red bridges, 25.47
G. H. Hastings, chestnut plank for bridges, 18.63 #
Total expenditures for Highways and Bridges, $1,092.67
BUILDING SCHOOL HOUSE IN NO. 2.
$2,500.00
Appropriation by the Town, Expended as follows :
E. P. Ball, survey and plan, $ 7.46
F. R. Rindge and others, grading, 107.85
P. P. Potter, stone and stakes, 5.94
T. D. Potter & Co., 1,669.00
M. J. Dillon, two privy vaults, 30.00
L. Giffin, squaring school house etc., 5.00
J. C. Cooley and others, cleaning school house, 2.00 moving and repairing furniture, 8.22
H. S. Ball, dressing over furniture, 4.08
D. B. Montague. stove and fixtures, 20.39
O. D. Case & Co., school furniture, 91.89
Henry Clark, freight on 3.11
Total expenditures on school house, $1,954.94
LIGHTING STREETS.
$75.00
Appropriation by the Town, Expended as follows :
C. E. Peck, fitting lamp post, $ .60
E. B. Gates, oil, chimneys and wicks,
10.16
J. C. Moody, .. . . 18.53 care of lamps, thirteen months, 32.00
John Ruppel, care of lamps twelve months, 26.00
Total expenditures for lighting streets,
$87.29
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IMPROVING CEMETERIES.
Appropriation by the Town, $50.00
Expended as follows :
Hiram Danks, plank at Butlerville cemetery, $.75
J. S. Albray, mowing cemetery near David Adams, 6.00
Franklin Butler, mowing cemetery at Butler- ville, 6.00
Total expenditures for cemeteries, $12.75
WINDING AND CARE OF TOWN CLOCK.
Appropriation by the Town, $22.00
Paid Benj. Gill for winding and care of clock, 22.00
BUILDING MEMORIAL HALL.
Appropriation by the Town, Expended as follows : C. E. Peck, 66
$6,000.00
$50.00
252.29
$302.29
STATE AID ACCOUNT.
Paid Rowena C. Bliss,
$48.00
Frances M. Davis,
48.00
William Butler,
48.00
Albert F. Johnson,
36.00
Catherine O'Hara,
48.00
$228.00
SUMMARY.
Expenditures.
Appropriations and Available Funds.
For Schools,
$2,799.28
$2,895.26
Paupers,
1,575.36
1,579.68
Highways and Bridges,
1,092.67
1,200.00
Contingencies and town officers, 1,364.64
1,400.00
Improving Cemeteries,
12.75
50.00
Lighting Streets,
87.29
75.00
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Building School house Dist. No. 2.
1.954.94
2,500.00
Winding Clock,
22.00
22.00
Memorial Hall,
302.29
6,000.00
$9,211.22
$15,721.94
RESOURCES OF THE TOWN.
Due from State of Mass., State Aid,
$ 266.00
66 M. F. Beebe and others, for grass on Betsey Webster's place, 43.00
Cash in Treasury,
2,423.98
$2,732.98
LIABILITIES.
Outstanding Orders,
$302.29
Pauper bills due April 1st. (Estimated)
175.00
Flynt Building & Construction Co.,
30.00
School Supplies,
142.91
$650.20
Balance in favor of the Town. $2,082.78
The Selectmen recommend the following appropriations for the ensuing year :
For Schools,
$2,500.00
Paupers,
1,500.00
Highways and Bridges,
1,200.00
Care of Street Lamps,
75.00
Winding Clock,
22.00
Improving Cemeteries,
40.00
Memorial Hall,
2,475.00
Furnishing Hall,
600.00
Memorial Tablets,
100.00
Respectfully Submitted,
M. F. BEEBE, Selectmen
HENRY CLARK, of Wilbraham
P. P. POTTER,
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The Town of Wilbraham in account with Walter E. Stone. Treasurer, for year ending March 15, 1886.
CR.
By Cash in Treasury, March 15, 1885, $2,240.84
From County Treasurer, Dog Fund, 1885, 100.25
State Treasurer, National Bank Tax, 210.85
66 Corporation Tax, 211.11
66 66 Income Mass.School
Fund, 215.04
State Treasurer, State Aid refunded, 159.00
Ira G. Potter, guardian of Caroline Bliss, 49.50
Palmer National Bank, Temporary loan, 1,000.00
Town Loan Committee, interest on town loan, 78.50
Town of Paxton, aid to Mrs. J. Fouracre, 8.00
State Treasurer, aid to paupers,
50.00
6 6 burial of paupers, 10.00
City of Boston, aid to R. Gougher, 4.24
W. E. Stone, druggist's license, 1.00
Hubbard & Co., grass on Crane lot, 4.50
M. F. Beebe, rye raised on Betsey Webster's land, 3.03
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By Cash From Boston & Albany R. R., account of Thomas Sullivan, $ 31.50
Town of Westfield, account of Thos. Sullivan, 43.18
Jason Butler, coal, school house No.8. 13.50
Hiram Danks, Collector, 1885, 9,580.19
$14,014.23
DR.
To Walter Maynard, abatement,
$ 6.43
Postage stamps and express,
1.25
State Treasurer, { liquor license,
.25
Palmer National Bank, temporary loan.
1,000.00
interest,
13.78
State Treasurer, state tax,
630.00
County Treasurer, county tax.
766.74
Assessors' abatements,
34.87
Selectmen's orders,
8,908.93
State aid,
228.00
Cash in Treasury,
2,423.98
$14,014.23
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CERTIFICATE OF AUDITOR
I hereby certify that I have carefully examined the books and accounts of the Selectmen for the past year and find them correctly kept, and proper vouchers for every order drawn on the Treasurer.
I have also examined the books of the Treasurer, and find all payments properly vouched for, the accounts correct; and the amount of cash on hand to be $2,423.98.
A. J. BLANCHARD, Auditor. Wilbraham, March 22, 1886.
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
Valuation of personal estate,
$162.925.00
Valuation of real estate, 540.890.00
Total valuation,
$703,815.00
Number of acres of land taxed,
12,931
Dwelling houses,
295
Horses,
231
Cows,
469
Sheep,
107
Poll tax for men, $2.00
Poll tax for women,
.50
Number of polls at $2.00 each.
388
Number of polls at .50 each,
1
Total amount assessed on polls.
$776.50
Amount of State tax assessed on property,
242.00
Amount of County tax assessed on property, 378.74
Town tax assessed on property,
8,107.00
TOTAL RATE PER CENT, OR RATE PER 1000. 12.50
Total State tax, 630.00
Total County tax, 766.74
Total Town tax,
8,107.00
Overlayings,
70.45
Total committed to Collector, $9,574.19
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS.
For Schools, $2,200.00
Paupers, 1,500.00
Highways and Bridges,
1,200.00
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For Street lamps,
$ 75.00
Town Clock,
22.00
Cemeteries,
50.00
School books,
200.00
School incidentals,
100.00
Prosecuting liquor sellers,
100.00
Building school house.
1,660.00
Building Town hall. (to be taxed this year)
1,000.00
$8,107.00
TABLE SHOWING NO. OF POLLS, NO. OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, AND AMOUNT OF RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT TAXES ASSESSED IN EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Dist.
No. of Polls
No. of school children
Resident Taxes.
Non-resident Taxes.
Total.
1
37
14
$1,056.41
$ 23.88
$1,080.29
2
43
32
389.39
310.88
700.27
3
45
35
1,156.80
39.42
1,196.22
4
78
52
1,635.82
31.87
1,667.69
5
16
11
343.56
19.37
362.93
6
37
30
607.42
178.44
785.86
7
24
16
445.15
79.62
524.77
8
108
55
1,608.92
1,647.24
3,256.16
$9,574.19
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
School houses, $11,000; Cemeteries, $1000; Water works. $500 ; Fire apparatus, $100. Total assets, not including cash in treasury, $12,600.
CHAUNCEY E. PECK,
Assessors ALVIN CHILSON, of
HENRY T. BOLLES, Wilbraham.
Wilbraham, March 19, 1886.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF WILBRAHAM.
The School Committee of Wilbraham submit the following; report :
The work of our schools for the year just closed has for the most part, been as good as we could expect. Our teachers have been earnest and zealous in their labors ; have shown a great deal of interest in the important work to which they have devoted themselves. There have been more changes among our teachers the past year than for some time previous ; for this reason some of our schools have not shown that degree of ex- cellence which they otherwise would under the continued labors of experienced teachers. We have always obtained the best results by retaining a teacher in the same school, when one was found with tact and ability. It necessarily takes valuable time for teachers and pupils to become mutually acquainted and ready to work together with that mutual sympathy which is so essential to the proper training of the pupil's mind.
A very great loss has been sustained during the past year, in the death of two of our most highly valued and successful teachers. It is a coincidence that they should have been con-
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nected, at different times with the same school, and that it should be the scene of the last labors of both.
Miss Carrie E. Farnham devoted herself with great energy and fidelity to her work ; possessed a most happy faculty in the direction both of teaching and discipline and exerted an influ- ence of the most gentle and yet positive kind over her pupils. Her amiability of spirit together with her energy, of character eminently fitted her for her work which with great heroism she continued until within a few days of her death. She died at her home in Dunstable, Mass., May 23, 1885.
Miss Lillie B. Pease succeeded Miss Farnham and after a term of thorough and conscientious service was compelled by disease to abandon the work to which she was greatly attached and died September 27, 1885. Miss Pease gave marked promise as a teacher. She felt the responsibility of her position and gave herself up with untiring devotion to the welfare of her pupils. Her pleasant and persuasive manners together with great gentleness of temper won their confidence and her death was the occasion of deep sorrow to all who knew her.
Drawing has been introduced into our schools. We think this study will prove very beneficial to the pupils in many ways. It will enable them to obtain correct ideas of form, size and distance. It cultivates the powers of observation by teaching the child to observe closely the forms which are to be drawn. It trains the hand to make upon the blackboard or paper the picture that is formed in the child's mind. It may seem a very simple and easy task to draw a straight line uniform in size some required length ; it is quite a different thing to take pencil or crayon and produce such a line. The true artist is one that makes every stroke of the brush, pencil or crayon mean some- thing. The ability to make these master-strokes is only acquired by careful patient toil. We would impress upon our teachers the importance of having the work thorough in order to obtain the best results. The pupils seem interested in the work and if we were to offer any criticism it would be that they try to do
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too much without taking as much pains as they should to do the work well. This study brought into the Common Schools will serve to develop any taste that the pupil may have for art or architecture. While we do not expect that every child will become an artist, we do believe that this study properly con- ducted will prove beneficial to all.
There were not enough pupils to warrant the expense of keeping school No. 1 during the spring and fall terms. In the winter there were twelve pupils, most of these were of such an age that they would attend only in the winter.
We have had thirty-four weeks of school the past year in most of our schools and we hope and think the town will be willing to have as many the coming year.
In accordance with the vote of the town at the last annual meeting, a nice school house with two rooms has been built in former District No. 2. Only one room was furnished in the fall as it was thought best to keep the school in the winter and see if more accommodations were necessary before furnishing the other room. There were over fifty pupils in the school and we expect that we shall have to keep two schools hereafter. In consequence of this we shall need a little larger appropriation for schools in order not to be obliged to shorten all of our schools. The second room has been supplied with furniture and is now ready for use.
School house No. 4 needs repairing on the inside and it has been thought best to treat it in the same manner in which No. 5 was fixed. by sheathing the interior, which will make a durable finish.
There were purchased during the first year that we came into the new arrangement :-
Books and supplies, amounting to $284.81
Amount delivered to schools, on hand April 1st, 1885,
$221.37
63.44
$284.81
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Amount on hand April 1st, 1885, $63.44
Purchased in 1885 & '86, 249.67
$313.11
Amount on hand April 1st, 1886. $143.17
The revenues for the year now closing have been :
Appropriation,
$2,500.00
From State school fund.
215.04
From Dog Tax,
88.22
Interest on Town Loan,
78.50
Total,
$2,881.76
Total expenditures.
2,799.28
Balance in treasury,
$82.48
Recommended for the following year :
Appropriation,
$2,500.00
Permanent repairs,
200.00
Books and supplies.
200.00
Incidentals,
50.00
Total,
$2.950.00
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. D. WOODS.
JASON BUTLER.
Committee.
JESSE L. RICE.
ROLL OF HONOR.
NOT ABSENT OR TARDY ONE TERM.
Louise Alexander.
Lizzie Foskit,
Burdette Mansfield,
Rosa Bumstead,
Willie Foskit,
Matthew McGrath.
Leon Bennett.
George Foskit.
James Powers,
Luther Butler,
Fred Gould,
Sarah Phelps,
Lena Butler, Arthur Gill,
Charles Phelps.
Blanche Butler.
Herbert Green,
Loren Phelps,
Lillie Beebe,
Estella M. Green.
Kittie Powers.
Cora Beebe,
Oliver Green,
Thomas Powers.
Robert Coote,
Lydia Green,
Lee Rice,
Fannie Calkins.
Myra Gates,
Arthur Ricker,
Mabel Calkins,
Lillian Hitchcock.
Rosa Stevens,
Herbert Calkins.
Eugene N. Hill,
John Stevens,
Bernard Conery,
Luke W. Kibbe,
James Stevens.
Richard Davis,
Grace Lilley,
Arthur Stevens,
John Driscoll,
Bernard Lynch,
Thomas Sweeney.
W. Lester Emmons,
Frank Lynch,
Michael Sullivan.
Henry Edson,
Thomas Lyons,
Nora Winn,
John Chardon,
Charles Moody,
Mary Winn,
Kate Winn.
NOT ABSENT OR TARDY TWO TERMS.
George Bennett, Raymond Pease.
James Seaver,
Gertrude Chase,
Wesson Phelps.
Annie Sullivan,
Frank Foskit, Charles Ricker,
Maggie Sullivan.
Nellie Jennings. Lizzie Stevens,
Mary Sullivan,
Blanche Knight. Willie Stevens,
Herbert Tupper.
Minnie Morgan,
Cassius Seaver.
Frank Warner.
NOT ABSENT OR TARDY ONE YEAR.
Ida J. Butler, Cora Hollingsworth. Nellie Morgan.
Benj. C. Butler, Chas. Hollingsworth, John Mack,
Albert H. H. Butler. Henry Donovan, Julia Winn.
NOT ABSENT OR TARDY SEVEN YEARS. Allyn Seaver.
STATISTICAL TABLE
NAME.
Length of Schools
Spring
Fall
Winter
Spring
Fall
Winter
Spring
Fall
Winter|
1
I
Atchinson.
12
$ 27.00
8
$30.25
81.00 260.40
III.25
2
Langdon.
34
$ 28.80 $ 28.80
34.00
27
34
53
19
24
46
28.00
288.40 Ella Green.
3
Merrick.
34
28.80
28.80
30.60
35
30.60
39
42
36
38
38
30
32.20
260.10
292.30 Lotta Bragg,
5
Bliss.
34
25.20
25.20
27.00
16
22
15
15
20
14
27.79
219.60
247.39 Jennie H. Swift,
6
Butler.
34
31.00
31.00
32.00
35
27.00
13
13:
II
I2
I2
IO
21.70
219.60
241.30
( Advanced.
34
28.80
28.80
30.60
3I
38;
35
28
32
31
250.20
250.20
{ Primary.
33
28.80
28.80
30.60
29
24
26
25
20
22
242.55
756.85
Totals.
283
227.20 227.20 269.40 225 229 244 192 190 206
749.13
2,050.15 2,799.28
NAMES OF TEACHERS.
SPRING.
FALL.
WINTER.
Cora M. Pease. Mary E. Burns.
M. Adella Pease. Jennie H. Swift. Emma W. Vinton. Fannie A. Stebbins.
7
Glendale.
34
25.20
25.20
20
28
25
17
22
46.70
266.50
313.20
Fannie A. Stebbins, Evanore O. Beebe, Emma P. Brewer, Maria E. Bliss.
Jennie H. Swift, Emma W. Vinton, Fannie A. Stebbins, Evanore O. Beebe, Emma P. Brewer, Maria E. Bliss.
Fannie C. Ray. Emma P. Brewer. Maria E. Bliss.
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in Weeks.
Monthly Wages paid to Teachers.
A verage Whole No. Attendance of Pupils. of Pupils.
Incidentals.
Total teachers' wages
Total expenditures
for Schools.
28
30
27
23
48.19
250.20
298.39
Carrie E. Farnham | Lillie B. Pease,
Fannie C. Ray,
4
Wright.
34
30.60
30.60
I2
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*Including $394.17 for Books and Supplies, Globes, Maps, Charts etc.
Number.
Mary E. Burns,
*514.30
REPORTS
OF THE
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor,
TREASURER, ASSESSORS
AND
School Committee
OF THE
Town of Wilbraham,
Year Ending March 15, 1887.
PALMER, MASS .: C. B. FISK & COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1887.
REPORTS
OF THE
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor,
TREASURER, ASSESSORS
AND
School Committee
OF THE
Town of Wilbraham,
Year Ending March 15, 1887.
PALMER, MASS .: C. B. FISK & COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1887.
LIST OF JURORS, As Revised by the Selectmen.
A. JACKSON BLANCHARD, ERASMUS B. GATES, BENJAMIN F. GREEN, HENRY M. BLISS, ALBERT A. PHELPS, JOHN SPEIGHT, ANSON SOULE, ANSON C. BREWER,
MYRON BREWER, GEORGE H. HASTINGS, CHAUNCEY E. PECK, JESSIE L. RICE, ELIAS S. KEYES, WILLIAM A. MOWRY, A. DELOS SEAVER, PHINEAS KNOWLTON,
HENRY CLARK.
Articles in Town Warrant .-
ARTICLE 1 .- To choose a Moderator to preside in said meet- ing.
ART. 2 .- To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, School Committee and other town officers.
ART. 3 .- To fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 4 .- To determine the manner of repairing the highways and bridges for the ensuing year.
ART. 5 .- To determine the number and manner of electing Highway Surveyors for the year ensuing.
ART. 6 .- To see if the town will fix the compensation for labor on the highways ; also to see how the town will apportion the appro- priation for highways among the Highway Surveyors.
ART. 7 .- To choose a Town Clerk, Treasurer, three Select- men who shall be Overseers of the Poor, three Assessors, five Con- stables, four Fence Viewers, all on one ballot ; also one School Com- mittee for three years on a separate ballot ; also a Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing, on a separate ballot ; also to choose all other necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year.
ART. 8 .- To decide by ballot which shall be "yes" or "no" the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?
ART. 9 .- To see if the town will accept the list of jurors as revised by the Selectmen.
ART. 10 .- To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for defraying the expenses of the town for the ensuing year, and appropriate the same, and vote how the same shall be raised.
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ART. 11 .- To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to borrow such sums of money in anticipation of the taxes of the cur- rent year as may be sanctioned by the Selectmen, the same to be paid from said taxes.
ART. 12 .- To see if the town will instruct the Assessors to publish the valuation list and assessment of taxes for current year.
ART. 13 .- To see if the town will vote to raise a sum of money to improve the cemeteries of the town.
ART. 14 .- To see if the town will provide for the adequate lighting of the streets in town.
ART. 15 .- To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-two dollars to defray the expense of winding the clock on Memorial Church.
ART 16 .- To see if the Town will instruct their Selectmen to prosecute any person or persons selling or transporting intoxicating liquors within this Town contrary to the laws of the Commonwealth.
ART. 17. - To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Fund of 1885.
ART. 18 .- To see if the Town will instruct the School Com- mittee to establish and maintain a school in connection with the Town of Hampden, located near the line between Wilbraham and Hamp- den.
ART. 19 .- To see what action the town will take in the mat- ter of insuring our school houses against fire and other damages.
ART. 20 .- To see what action the town will take in the mat- ter of the claim of Chauncey E. Peck.
Report of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
SCHOOLS.
Total expenditures for salaries of teach-
ers, books and incidentals, . $2,779.59
PAUPERS.
Expended as follows :
A. S. Tufts and wife, board and support at $2.50 per week, each,
$260.00
$260.00
Mrs. T. J. Downs and child, board and support at $2.00 per week, . ·
49.56
H. G. Webber, medical attendance,
4.00
$53.56
Munn C. Jones and family, supplies,
44.55
$44.55
F. D. McClintock, board and care,
25.71
$25.71
Betsey Webster, supplies furnished by M. F. Beebe,
9.60
Supplies furnished by A. J. Blanchard,
32.90
E. B. Gates,
29.30
$71.80
Emma L. Bliss, board and care, .
24.00
Coal,
3.56
$27.56
Mrs. Daniel Grady, supplies furnished by P. P. Potter, ·
37.75
Care and nursing,
12.00
Supplies furnished by H. K. Wight,
·
53.05
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Fuel furnished by Edward Haley,
$35.00
Medicine 66
J. H. Losee, 9.40
Milk
D. C. Jones, . 8.10
Supplies
JohnCummings
1.75
Medical attendance by Dr. Squier, . 27.00
66 Dr. Hannum, 15.50
[$199.55
Calvin Robbins, for lodging tramps, and fuel for tramp house,
102.12
Mowry Bros., for coal,
9.94
Hubbard & Co., "
1.68
D. B. Montague, stove and fittings,
10.28
$124.02
William Davis, board, care, medicine and
clothing,
112.51
Clothing,
7.25
$119.76
Mrs. Amo, supplies furnished by Henry
Clark,
3.50
Medical attendance by H. A. Fisk, M. D.,
25.00
$28.50
Abbie F. Knight, support at Northampton Lunatic Hospital,
$140.98
Caroline Bliss, support at Northampton Lunatic Hospital,
$172.28
Daniel A. Warner, support at North- ampton Lunatic Hospital, O. H. Langdon and wife, board and care, Medicine,
$180.98
78.00
1.95
$79.95
John Connell :-
(Charged to town of Concord, Mass.) Board, washing, nursing, etc., by
James McDonald, . .
130.49
Nursing by Maggie McDonald,
43.00
Medical attendance by Dr. Gelineau,
100.00
Burial expenses and coffin, . 19.50
$292.99
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John McLear :-
(Charged to State of Massachusetts.) Surgical attendance, 5.00
Carrying to city hospital, .
4.50
Support at city hospital,
31.50
R. R. fare, Springfield to Keene,
N. H.,
3.00
$44.00
Total expenditures for paupers, $1,866.19
TOWN OFFICERS AND CONTINGENCES.
SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Henry Cutler,
45.50
Henry Clark,
.
.
.
63.75
P. P. Potter,
.
.
.
42.00
$151.25
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Jason Butler,
.
35.00
J. L. Rice,
.
.
.
35.00
C. D. Woods,
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.
.
$108.75
ASSESSORS.
A. Chilson,
30.00
W. F. Morgan,
31.25
H. T. Bolles,
62.80
$124.05
REGISTRARS.
W. M. Green,
.
7.00
A. D. Seaver,
7.00
J. S. Albray,
7.00
W. E. Stone,
.
.
10.00
$31.00
COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Hiram Danks,
$75.00
.
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.
.
.
.
38.75
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A. J. Blanchard, services as Auditor, 4.50
F. E. Clark, services as Bldg. Com., 22.00
W. L. Collins, services as undertaker, 67.00
S. E. Baker, posting town warrants, notifying town officers, 10.50
12.00
W. E. Stone, postage, stationary, sorting and filing papers, and meeting Town Clerks at Monson, . 14.59
W. E. Stone, express and cash paid for legal advice, 6.54
W. E. Stone, recording births, marriages, and deaths, . 20.70
M. F. Beebe, guide posts and setting. $ 1.00
H. G. Weber, returning births, ·
1.00
L. J. Roy, returning births,
.25
A. H. Bartlett, printing valuation list,
38.00
A. H. Bartlett, printing ballots and town reports, 28.30
A. H. Bartlett, printing tax bills, 1.75
4.00
Bosworth & Barrows, legal counsel 1885, J. D. Gill, collector and asssssors' books, Springfield Printing Company, order book, Orson Knowlton, repairs on water tank, . American Road Machine Company, blade for road machine, 6.00
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