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3.73
6.50
1.50
Henry Clark, to setting furniture and clean- ing school house District No. 2, 13.40
Michael Kelley, swine killed by order of the Cattle Commissioners, 52.50
E. B. Gates, interest on town loan, 78.50
W. J. Skillings, painting road machine, 11.25
Wesleyan Academy, rent Music Hall,
40.00
C. G. Robbins, lease land for tramp house, ·
10.00
Flynt Building and Construction Company plans and specifications for Memorial Hall, .
85.00
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Henry Clark, postage, stationery and tele- grams, · W. E. Stone, storage, postage and sta- tionery, 27.60 .
Total expenditures for contingencies and Town Officers,
5.25
$573.36
$1063.41
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Expended as follows :
Dist. No. 1, By Henry Clark, .
$103.02
2, M. J. Kelley, . 84.01
3, A. A. Phelps, . 106.05
4, Luther Markham,
136.71
5, Hiram Danks, . 113.95
6, Alvin Chilson, . 171.42
7,
SE. E. Clark,
109.89
Marcus Daniel, . 10.47
8, A. A. Phelps, 133.80
Town Palmer, grading hill
near Walter Green's, 60.00
Alden Bros., timber for bridge, ·
7.83
Total expenditures for highways and bridges,
$1037.15
LIGHTING STREETS.
Oil, wicks, care, etc., at North Wilbraham, $ 37.97
Oil, wicks, care, etc., at Wilbraham street, 45.43
$83.40
WINDING TOWN CLOCK.
Benjamin Gill, .
$ 22.00
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CARE OF CEMETERIES.
J. S. Albray, labor in cemetery near Dea- con Adams', $ 6.00
E. E. Clark, cutting brush in Glendale cemetery, 1.00
Franklin Butler, labor in Butlerville cem- etery, ·
8.00
C. C. Day, labor in Glendale cemetery, . 9.00
Total expenditure for care cemeteries,
$ 24.00
REPAIRING SCHOOL HOUSES.
Nathaniel Knowlton, plastering in District
No. 4, $ 28.95
Henry Clark, labor and material in Dis- trict No. 4, . . .
26.33
W. J. Skillings, painting in District No.8,
75.88
Total expenditures on school houses,
$131.16
STATE AID ACCOUNT. CHAP. 301 ACTS 1879.
Paid Rowena C. Bliss,
$48.00
Frances M. Davis, .
48.00
William Butler,
48.00
A. F. Johnson,
21.00
Catherine O Hara,
28.00
193.00
MILITARY AID. CHAP. 252 ACTS 1879.
Paid O. H. Langdon
72.00
$72.00
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SUMMARY.
Expenditures.
For Schools,
$ 2779.59
Appropriations and Available Funds. $ 3151.80
Paupers,
1866.19
1610.14
Contingences and Town Offi- cers, ·
1063.41 No appropration
Highways and Bridges,
1037.15
1200.00
Lighting Streets,
83.40
75.00
Winding Town Clock,
22.00
22.00
Care of Cemeteries, .
24.00
25.50
Repairs on School Houses,
131.16
200.00
$7006.90
6284.44
RESOURCES OF TOWN.
Due from State of Mass., State Aid,
193.00
Cattle Commissioners, .
42.00
Town of Concord,
292.99
E. E. Clark, grass from Webster place, .
15.00
State Military Aid,
36.00
Cash in Treasury,
.
1393.49
Total resources of town, .
$1,972.48
LIABILITIES.
Due on note, Mrs. Granger,
$318.00
Outstanding bills,
167.00
Outstanding order, C. E. Peck,
302.00
Flint Construction company,
85.00
$872.00
Balance in favor of the town,
$1,100.48
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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
Contingent expenses,
1,500.00
Care of street lamps,
75.00
Improving cemeteries,
40.00
Winding Town clock,
22.00
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY CUTLER, Selectmen HENRY CLARK, of
PHILIP P. POTTER, Wilbraham.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance in Treasury March 15th, 1886, $2,423.98
Received from M. F. Beebe, for grass and hay from Betsey Webster place, . 38.00
Dwight W. Eddy, support at Northampton Insane Hospital of Annise P. Eddy, 45.50
Town of Ludlow, overpaid,
Mary E. Burns, teacher, overpaid,
8.80
J. M. Merrick, town history,
2.00
Henry M. Bliss, auctioneers' license,
2.00
Burial lots in East Wilbraham cemetery, .
25.50
Town of Palmer, tuition and school books, two years, 84.63
Josephine Granger, note outstanding,
333.00
State Treasurer, support state paupers, 19.14
State Treasurer, temporary support state paupers, ·
7.50
State Treasurer, corporation tax, . 256.59 ·
State Treasurer, National bank tax, 186.05
State Treasurer, state aid,
228.00
County Treasurer, dog fund,
115.40
State Treasurer, income Massachusetts school fund, . 216.92
Hiram Danks, collector, .
6,078.33
E. B. Gates, town loan committee, interest on town loan, . 78.50
$10,151.34
.50
Druggists' license, 1.00
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EXPENDITURES.
Paid State tax, .
$600.00
County tax,
836.00
State and military aid-state, $193.00 ; $72.00, .
military,
265.00
Josephine Granger, endorsed on note,
15.00
Assessors' abatements, 1885 taxes, .
8.06
Assessors' abatements, 1886 taxes, .
111.64
Selectmen's orders,
6,921.90
State Treasurer, one-fourth druggist license,
.25
Cash in Treasury March 15, 1887,
. 1,393.49
$10,151.34
WALTER E. STONE, Town Treasurer. Wilbraham, March 15, 1887.
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
Valuation of personal estate,
$150,081.00
Valuation of real estate, . 542,030.00
Total valuation,
$692,111.00
Number of Acres of land taxed,
12,931
Dwelling houses, ·
296
Horses,
224
Cows,
·
473
Sheep,
68
Poll-tax for men, $2.00 ·
Poll tax for women, .50
Number of polls at at $2.00 each, .
435
Number of polls at 50 cents each, 1 .
Total amount assessed on polls, . $870.50
Total number of persons paying a tax on property, 176
Total number of persons paying a poll tax only, . 259
Amount of state, county and town tax assessed on
property, .
. $5,189.83
Town tax assessed on property,
3,753.83 ·
Total State tax,. $600.00 .
Total County tax, ·
836.00
Total Town tax,
4,547.00
Total tax committed to collector, . $5,060.33
.
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TOWN APPROPRIATIONS.
For lighting streets in town,
$75.00
Winding clock on Memorial Hall,
22.00
Schools, .
100.00
Books and supplies for schools,
200.00
Incidentals, 50.00
Permanent repairs of school houses,
200.00
Paupers,
1,500.00 .
Highways and bridges,
1,200.00
Contingencies,
1,200.00
NUMBER OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM FIVE TO FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
District No. 1, 10; No. 2, 44; No. 3,35; No. 4,49; No. 5, 19 ; No. 6, 23 ; No. 7, 16; No. 8, 44. Total number of children, 240.
No. Militia, 215
No. of dogs, .
. 60
No. of steam boilers,
.
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ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
School houses, $13,000; Cemeteries, $1000; Water works, $500 ; Fire apparatus, $100. Total assets, not including cash in treasury, $14.600.
H. T. BOLLES, Assessors W. FRANKLIN MORGAN, of ALVIN CHILSON, Wilbraham.
Wilbraham, March 16, 1887.
Report of the School Committee of the TOWN OF WILBRAHAM.
The School Committee of the Town of Wilbraham submit the following report :
The schools during the year just closing have, on the whole, been very successful. The Spring Term in No. 6 was an exception to this. While the teacher employed came to us highly recom- mended, and was, from an educational standpoint, amply qualified to teach the scholars of the district, her powers of government were so small that her term's work was a failure, and the school was closed after having been kept seven weeks. We were fortunate in the selection of her successor, and the school has been put into first-class condition, and the work done has been of an excellent character.
There have not been scholars enough to warrant maintaining a school in No. 1. The school was opened in the Spring, but after three weeks it was closed, only five scholars having appeared.
Only one school was maintained in No. 2 during the Spring and Fall, but in the Winter both rooms were occupied, as the number of scholars warranted the extra school.
Both schools at No. 8 were closed in the seventh week of the Winter Term on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever in the Depot Village. After remaining closed four weeks they were again opened, but so few scholars appeared it was thought best to close them till the Spring Term. They opened for the Spring Term March 21st, two weeks before the other schools, and the term will be of thirteen weeks in order to make up for part of the time lost in Winter.
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During the latter half of the Winter Term a vacation was given to Miss Beebe, the teacher in No. 7, on account of her health, and the term was finished by Miss Cora Pease. Miss Beebe is expecting to resume her duties in the Spring Term. The other schools in the town have been kept open the same number of weeks as last year. viz, thirty-four, and they have been successfully taught.
From some reason not evident to us, there has been a falling off throughout the year in the attendance at some of the schools, so that during the Winter Term there were thirty-two less scholars in our schools than in the preceding spring. In this connection we would earnestly call the attention of parents to the importance of sending their children to the schools, and sending them regularly. The aver- age attendance of scholars for the year was 78 per cent of the number registered in the schools. This number of absences practically re- duces the amount of schooling more than one-fifth, the number of school days per week from five to four, and the number of weeks of school from thirty-four to twenty-seven. Not only does this irregularity in attendance affect the scholar who is ab- sent, but it affects the scholarship of each school and interferes with thoroughness and completeness of the work of instruction. Allow us to again urge upon parents the fact that an absence from school is not a light matter.
The long established custom of employing, when practical, resi- dents of the town as teachers, and of retaining the same teachers term after term, has been kept up, and, in our opinion, much of the success that has attended our schools is due to this latter fact. In the term just opening there is only one change in teachers, and this does not give us a new teacher, but is a transfer from one school to another.
Some years ago it was found necessary to reduce the salaries paid teachers, and this was effected by a scaling down of ten per cent. This left the salaries at very peculiar amounts as, $25.20, $28.80 and $30.60 per month. These have been slightly modified so that we are now paying $26, $28 and $30 per month.
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The only repairs made during the year, were plastering the walls and ceiling of No. 4 and painting the outside of No. 8. Our school houses are now in very good condition, and will not need to have any expenditures of importance upon them during the coming year.
Before submitting our financial report, a few words of explana- tion may help to a clearer understanding.
At the last town meeting we asked for and obtained the appro- priation with the expectation that there would be ten schools of three terms each, making an aggregate of 340 weeks. As stated above, the number of pupils in No. 1 was so small that it was closed after running only three weeks, and while No. 2 was a very large school, we thought it better economy to pay higher wages to one teacher than to run two schools during the Spring and Fall. These facts, with the unexpected shortening of Nos. 6 and 8, reduced the total number of weeks of school to 275, or five-sixths of time anticipated. As seen from this we ought to have one-sixth of the appropriation left in the treasury, which will be seen to be the case. The item of books and supplies is unusually large this year from the fact that one bill amount- ing to $144.96 should have been paid from last years' appropriation, but was presented too late, and hence appears in this years' expenses. The Town of Palmer finds it more convenient to have some of its scholars attend school No. 6 in this town, than to provide schooling in Palmer for them. As this does not interfere with the success of the school in any way, this has been permitted, and the town of Palmer has been charged a proportional part of the expenses of the school. For amount thus received see below.
The revenues for the current year have been :-
Appropriation for schools,
$2500.00
Appropriation for books, supplies, etc.,
250.00
From Mass. School Fund,
216.92
From Dog Tax of 1885,
100.25
Interest on Town Loan,
78.50
.
.
·
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Town of Palmer, tuition for 1884-5,
32.16
Town of Palmer, tuition for 1885-6,
52.47
Total,
$3230.30
Total expenditures for schools, 1886-7,
2779.92
Balance in treasury,
$450.38
From the liability of its being necessary to maintain ten schools, part or all of the year, we would recommend the same appropriations for the following year as were made for the present, viz :-
Appropriation,
$2500.00
Books and supplies,
·
250.00
Total,
$2750.00
Respectfully submitted,
JASON BUTLER,
JESSIE L. RICE, Committee.
CHAS. D. WOODS,
ROLL OF HONOR.
NOT ABSENT OR TARDY ONE TERM.
Joseph Baldwin,
Cora Beebe,
Leon J. Bennett,
Mary Lynch, Johnnie Lyons, Albert Markham,
Clara Brunelle,
Arthur Miller,
Flossie Brunelle,
Bertie Pease,
Joseph Brunelle,
Charlie Phelps,
Luther Butler,
Sarah Phelps,
Minnie Callahan,
Tommie Powers,
Jimmie Canty,
Charlie Raymond,
Patsey Conery,
Arthur Ricker,
Jimmie Connors.
George Rist,
Minnie Connors,
Allyn Seaver,
Robert Coote,
George Stebbens.
Charlie Day,
Arthur Stevens,
Henry I. Edson,
John Stevens,
Lizzie Foskit,
Lizzie Stevens,
Willie Foskit,
Russell. C. Stevens,
E. Grace Greene,
Josie Sweeney,
Lydia Greene.
Herbert E. Tupper.
Stella M. Greene,
Annie Hakey,
John Wynn, Julia Wynn,
Chas. E. Hollingworth.
NOT ABSENT OR TARDY TWO TERMS.
Louise Baker,
Herbert F. Greene,
George Bosthwick.
William W. Greene,
May Canty,
Charlie Stone,
Gertrude A. Chase.
Alice Veasy,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Kate Wynn, Arthur Gill,
Frank Foskit.
Cora E. Hollinsworth. NOT ABSENT OR TARDY ONE YEAR.
Blanche B. Butler, James Seaver,
Olive L. Greene, Willie Taylor, Cassius B. Seaver, Nora Wynn.
NOT ABSENT OR TARDY TWO YEARS.
Ida J. Butler,
Albert H. H. Butler,
Benj. C. Butler, Willie M. Morgan.
STATISTICAL TABLE,
Number of School.
Grade of School.
Length of School
Spring
Fall
Winter
F Spring
Fall
Winter
Spring
Fall
Winter
SPRING.
FALL.
WINTER. a
1 Ungraded.
3
$ 25.20
5
5
$ 20.16
$ 20.16 Cora M. Pease,
2
Primary.
34
32.00 $ 32.00 $ 30.00
50
55
39
38
43
33
2
$ 46.41
266.50 82.50
395.41 Mary E. Burns,
2
Advanced.
11
30.00
21
16
26- 23
18
27.50
251.70
279.20 M. Adele Pease, 296.00 Jennie H. Swift,
4 Ungraded.
34
30.60
30.60
30.00
35
32
28
33
28
26
37.70
258.30
Ungraded.
34
25.20
26.00
28.00
26
18
19
14
15
16
29.02
224.80
253.82 Emma W. Vinton,
6
Ungraded.
31
28.80
30.00
30.00
34
32
31
28
21
25
8.68
230.40
239.08 Sarah E. Norton,
7
Ungraded.
34
25.20
26.00
28.00
17
17
13
12
14
12
30.50
218.80
249.30 Evanore O. Beebe,
8 8
Primary.
30
28.80
30.00
30.00
40
35
27
36
28
16
221.70
*1,046.95
Fannie Stebbins, Maria E. Bliss,
Advanced.
30
28.80
30.00
30.00
26
29
30
18
24
24 5
221.70
Totals.
275
253.40 234.60
266.00 266 247 234 210 196 186
783.36
1,996.56
2,779.92
NAMES OF TEACHERS.
in Weeks.
Monthly Wages paid to Teachers.
Average Whole No. Attendance of Pupils. of Pupils.
Incidentals.
Total
Teachers' Wages.
Total expenditures
for Schools.
*Including $538.60 for books and supplies for all the schools.
Mary E. Burns, Nancy M. Bragg,
3 Ungraded.
34
28.80
30.00
30.00
33
29
26
Mary E. Burns,
Fannie Merrick, Clara A. Markham, Emma W. Vinton, Luella J. Bancroft,
Evanore O. Beebe, Jennie H. Swift, Maria E. Bliss,
Fannie Merrick, Clara A. Markham, Emma W. Vinton, Luella J. Bancroft, § Evanore O. Beebe, Cora M. Pease, Jennie H. Swift, Maria E. Bliss.
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*603.55
REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TREASURER, ASSESSORS,
AND
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM,
Year Ending March 15th, 1888.
PALMER, MASS. : PRESS OF C. B. FISK & COMPANY. 1888.
REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TREASURER, ASSESSORS,
AND
SCHOOL COMMITTEE -
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM,
Year Ending March 15th, 1888.
PALMER, MASS. : PRESS OF C. B. FISK & COMPANY. 1888.
LIST OF JURORS,
As Revised by the Selectmen.
ERASMUS B. GATES, BENJAMIN F. GREEN, HENRY M. BLISS, ALBERT A. PHELPS, ANSON SOULE, · ANSON C. BREWER, CHARLES A. CORBIN, MARCUS DANIELS, FRANCIS M. ANGELL,
JAMES RICHARDS, MYRON BREWER, GEORGE H. HASTINGS, CHAUNCEY E. PECK, JESSIE L. RICE, ELIAS S. KEYES, WILLIAM A. MOWRY, A. DELOS SEAVER, PHINEAS KNOWLTON.
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 ?
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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.
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 provide for the adequate lighting of the streets in town.
ART. 13 .- 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, or take any action in regard to the same.
ART. 14 .- To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Fund of 1886.
ART. 15 .- To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to build or place a school house on the ground formerly occupied by the old No. 3 school-house, and establish and maintain a school there.
Report of the Selectmen
and Overseers of the Poor.
SCHOOLS.
Salaries of teachers,
$2,090.00
Books, paper, ink, pencils, etc.,
$144.05
Purchase and care of same,
.
18.00
Commission, .
10.00
$172.05
Fuel and incidentals,
265.87
Cleaning and care of school houses and
sawing wood, . ·
86.13
Total expenditure for schools, . $2,614.05
REPAIRS OF SCHOOL HOUSES.
J. C. Cooley, District No. 2,
$8.44
H. Danks, District No. 5,
2.75
H. Danks, District No. 7,
7.85
H. Danks, District No. 8,
5.25
- E. S. Keyes, labor and material on various houses, 39.57
Total expenditure on school houses, $63.86
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PAUPERS.
Expended as follows :
A. S. Tufts and wife, board and care,
$260.00
Caroline Bliss's support at Northampton lunatic hospital,
$52.08
Coffin and funeral expenses, . .
28.50
$80.58
Abbie S. Knight, support at Northampton lunatic hospital,
$169.68
Daniel A. Warner, support at Northamp- ton lunatic hospital, .
$183.12
O. H. Langdon and wife, board and care, Betsey Webster, supplies and care, last year, 20.20
$72.00
Betsey Webster, supplies and care, this year, .
79.39
$99.59
Wm. Davis, board, care and clothing,
$119.23
Emma L. Bliss, board and care,
$102.00
Mrs. Daniel Grady, supplies, 129.36 Medical attendance, J. W. Hannum, 11.00
$140.36
Munn C. Jones, rent, last year, .
$24.50
E. W. Ferris, supplies, .
$18.55
Mrs. Elmer F. Barden, cash, charged city of Springfield, .
$4.00
Rachael Pomery, expense to Shelburne Falls, charged town of Buckland, . $4.60 Mrs. Wm. Barrows, wood, charged town of Wendell, $4.50
James Olmsted, supplies,
16.00
Medical attendance, J. W. Hannum, (Charged to State of Massachusetts.)
3.00
Wm. Barrows, telegraphing death of,
$1.69
Timothy Powers, expense of wife at Spring- field city hospital, $29.00
$19.00
Refunded by Powers, $14.
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J. F. McGuan and family :-
(Charged to City of Holyoke.)
Medical attendance, J. W. Hannum,
18.00
Medicine, nursing and burial expenses, Supplies, . . ·
42.96
257.37
C. G. Robbins, for lodging tramps, and
fuel,
138.74
Coal,
22.09
$160.83
Total expenditure for paupers,
$1,811.56
TOWN OFFICERS.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
C. D. Woods,
50.00
J. L. Rice,
·
·
37.50
Jason Butler,
·
. .
35.00
$122.50
SELECTMEN.
Henry Cutler,
49.50
A. C. Brewer,
43.50
$93.00
ASSESSORS.
H. T. Bolles,
58.00
W. F. Morgan, .
31.00
Geo. I. Hammel,
.
30.00
$119.00
TAX COLLECTOR.
Hiram Danks,
·
$75.00
REGISTRARS.
W. E. Stone, ·
$10.00
$419.50
.
.
.
$318,33
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CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
E. B. Gates, interest on town loan, $78.50
W. L. Collins, service as undertaker, . 73.25
E. W. Wall, notifying town officers, · 18.00
E. W. Wall, writing and posting warrants, 18.00
E. W. Wall, expense and station charges, H. Moriarty, 2.20
E. W. Wall, expense and station charges, T. Clematis, 2.07
E. W. Wall, expense and station charges, D. Lane, .
1.25
E. W. Wall, expense and station charges, J. Courtney, 1.25
E. W. Wall, notifying H. Clark of election, 1.50
As Representative :
P. B. Murphy, dog posters, 1.00
J. D. Gill, book and blanks for assessors, 3.60
C. B. Fisk & Co., town reports and ballots, 17.35
Gates & Co., blanks for registrars, 5.50
C. L. Long, legal service, 1885, ·
16.00
C. E. Stacy, storage, weights and measures,
6.00
Dr. J. T. Webber, returning births, 1.50
N. W. and J. P. Rand, returning births, .50
Geo. M. Stearns, legal service, 206.00 ·
A. M. Copeland, legal service, 1885, .
5.00
W. E. Stone, express, postage, stationary, etc., 17.05
W. E. Stone, storage, . 25.00
W. E. Stone, returning births, marriages and deaths, 27.35
Hiram Danks, expense and labor on sewer, 7.45
Mrs. E. M. Allis, rent of room for registrars, · 4.00
W. L. Collins, rent of room, 2 years, for selectmen and registrars, 24.00
J. Baldwin, rent of hall for 1887 and 1888, .
40.00
A. H. Bartlett, tax-bill blanks, . 1.75
Wm. Lincoln & Co., insurance of school houses, 5 years, 120.00
Total contingencies, $725.07
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Expended as follows :
Dist. No. 1, By Henry Clark, . 2 M. J. Kelley, . ·
$95.46
111.84
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Dist. No. 3-8 A. A. Phelps, 165.22
4 "Luther Markham, 103.35
5 Hiram Danks, 154.50
6 Alvin Chilson, 201.76
7 Marcus Daniels, 64.56
Town of Ludlow, half expense of lighting bridge, 15.45
Alden Bros., plank for bridge near Henry Clark's,
12.86
Alden Bros., plank for bridge near Henry Clark's,
14.86
P. P. Potter, plank for bridges near Henry Clark and Chas. Rindge, ·
9.00
W. H. Day, railing near cider mill, .
5.98
A. Chilson, snowing Red Bridge, ·
4.00
REPAIR AND ESTIMATES ON RED BRIDGE.
E. H. Waid, labor,
$8.00
T. D. Potter & Co., lumber, .
9.00
C. A. Smith, labor,
2.00
Geo. White, inspection and estimates,
14.50
P. P. Potter, time and expense, .
10.00
$43.50
43.50
Half charged Town of Ludlow, . Total expenditure Highways and Bridges, LIGHTING STREETS.
$1,002.34
Oil, wicks, care, etc., North Village, $31.59
Oil, wicks, care, etc., South Village,
49.88
$81.47
New street lamps at North Village,
$32.52
CARE OF CEMETERIES.
J. S. Albray, old yard, .
$10.00
C. C. Day, Glendale,
4.95
Franklin Butler, Butlerville,
.
8.00
$22.95
STATE AID. CHAP. 301, ACTS 1879.
Paid Rowena C. Bliss,
$48.00
Francis M. Davis,
48.00
William Butler,
48.00
Catherine O'Hara, .
. .
20.00
.
.
$164.00
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MILITARY AID. CHAP. 252, ACTS 1879.
Paid O. H. Langdon,
$144.00
$144.00
SUMMARY.
Expended for Schools, .
$2,614.05
Paupers, .
1,811.56
Highways and bridges,
.
1,002.34
Lighting streets, .
81.47
New street lights, . .
32.52
Care of cemeteries,
22.95
Repair of school houses,
63.86
Contingencies,
725.07
State aid, .
164.00
Military aid,
·
144.00
Town officers,
· 419.50
Total expenditures for year,
$7,081.32
RESOURCES OF TOWN.
Due from State of Mass., State aid,
$164.00
State Military Aid,
72.00
J. Olmsted,
3.00
$239.00
Town of Ludlow,
12.25
Town of Wendall,
4.50
Town of Buckland,
4.60
City of Holyoke,
105.77
City of Springfield,
4.00
Cattle commissioners, .
42.00
E. E. Clark, grass from Webster place, 1886,
15.00
Timothy Powers,
15.00
Uncollected taxes, 1887,
392.92
Cash in treasury, .
·
1,512.94
$2,347.98
.
·
12 LIABILITIES.
Outstanding bills, (estimated)
300.00
Outstanding order, C. E. Peck, .
302.00
$602.00
Balance in favor of the town,
$1,745.98
The Selectmen recommend the following appropriations for the ensuing year :
For Schools,
$2,200.00
Paupers,
1,500.00
Highways and Bridges, .
1,500.00
Contingent expenses,
1,300.00
Care of street lamps,
.
100.00
Care of cemeteries, .
.
40.00
.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY CUTLER, Selectmen PHILIP P. POTTER, of
ANSON C. BREWER, Wilbraham.
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TREASURER'S REPORT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance in Treasury, March 15, 1887, . .
$1,393.49
Received from M. F. Beebe, balance for hay from
Betsey Webster's land, 5.00
Town of Concord, John Cornwell case, 293.99
For druggist's license, . 1.00
Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co., loan, 1,000.00
Timothy Powers, part of City Hospital bill for wife, ·
14.00
Cutler & Co., loan, 500.00
Hiram Danks, grass from Betsey Web- ster's land, . 17.00
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