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Safe Deposit and Trust Co., interest, 16.95
Interest A. E. Bell fund, 1.40
From W. M. Green, collector, taxes, 1902, 8,510.60
$17,289.87
The amount of the Chloe Bliss Stebbins fund is $300, deposited in Springfield Institution for Savings, book No. 136,333.
F. A. FULLER, Treasurer. Wilbraham, Mass .. Feb. 21, 1903.
Of the cash in the treasury $237.23 is due the town library.
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EXPENDITURES.
Cash paid Selectmen's orders, $11,743.59
State and military aid, 448.00
Assessors' abatements, 1901, 114.51
M. Wells Bridge, county tax, 817.91
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 1,000.00
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 1,000.00
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 500.00
Discount Springfield Safe Deposit
and Trust Co., note, 11.50
Discount Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 23.12
Discount renewal Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 11.25
Discount Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 2.22
State treasurer, repair of state high- way, 34.06
State treasurer, State tax,
420.00
Old check, return birth 1899 check No. 1993, .25
Cash in treasury, Feb. 21, 1903, 1,163.46
$17,289.87
Report of the Sealer of Weights and Measures.
The following measures were brought to the office and sealed :
For Geo. W. Tupper, March 17th, scales.
For F. A. Fuller, May 19th, 4 pr. counter scales, 1 pr. platform scales. June 10th, 6 1-qt. measures, 1 2-qt. measure, 1 1-gal. measure.
For James Egan, May 19th, 3 pr. counter scales, 1 pr. platform scales, 4 dry measures, 2 liquid measures.
For H. M. Green, May 24th, 1-qt. milk measure.
For C. M. Mowry, June 7th, 1 pr. counter scales.
For W. H. Morse, June 13th, 1 pr. platform scales, 1 pr. counter scales, 3 liquid measures, 5 dry measures.
For F. A. Gurney, June 14th, 1 pr. platform scales, 2 counter scales, 6 liquid measures, 6 dry measures.
For Henry LaBroad, July 24th, 1 qt. milk measure.
For J. W. Robb, Aug. 5th, 1, 2, 4 and 8-qt. dry measures.
For Geo. W. Hulme, Nov. 11th, 4 dry measures.
The scales following were visited by the sealer :
For N. Y. C. & H. R., lessee, June 7th, 2 pr. platform scales.
For the Collins Mfg. Co., June 7th, 2 pr. platform scales. Aug. 5th, 2 pr. platform scales.
For J. W. Baldwin, June 7th, 1 pr. hay scales.
For W. L. Collins est., June 10th, 1 pr. hay scales.
For American Express Co., June 10th, 1 pr. platform scales.
For Wesleyan Academy. June 12th, 1 pr. hay scales.
For Jason Butler. June 12th, 1 pr. hay scales.
For the Cutler Co., June 14th, 10 pr. platform scales, 1 pr. car scales.
For W. H. McGuire, Nov. 11th. 1 pr. hay scales.
F. A. FULLER, Sealer.
Abner E. Bell Fund.
NORTH WILBRAHAM, MASS., Dec. 3, 1901.
Received from the town of Wilbraham the sum of forty dollars, the same being in full for land damage awarded by the County Com- missioners, June 25, 1901, by reason of relocation of highway in North Wilbraham in their decree dated April 3. 1901. The amount to be deposited in some savings bank in trust for the town of Wilbra- ham and Abner E. Bell, the interest to be paid annually to said 'Abner E. Bell during his life by reason of his life tenancy in that portion of the late Henry Cutler's estate. At his decease the principal to revert to the town of Wilbraham for the use of the Pub- lic library according to the terms of the will of the late Henry Cutler.
F. A. FULLER, Trustee of the town of Wilbraham and Abner E. Bell.
NORTH WILBRAHAM, MASS., Dec. 23, 1901.
I have this day deposited the sum of forty dollars in the Spring- field Institution of Savings in the city of Springfield, Book No. 158877, as trustee for the town of Wilbraham and Abner E. Bell.
F. A. FULLER.
Chloe Bliss Stebbins Fund.
ESTABLISHED 1897.
This is a contribution of three hundred dollars, made by Solomon Bliss Stebbins of Boston, from money given to him by Chloe Bliss Stebbins of Wilbraham, said sum to be held by the town as a memorial of her regard for its association with her long life dwelt therein, and in which she died Feb. 20, 1897. The income of the fund is to be paid annually, one-third to the overseers of the poor for the relief of the poor of the town ; one third to the managers of the town library to aid in its support, and one-third to secure perpetual good care of the graves in the town burial ground of Eber and Elizabeth Bliss Stebbins, and their children, buried in the same range.
JASON BUTLER, Selectmen HENRY CLARK, of Wilbraham.
F. W. GREEN, -
Report of the Board of Assessor. FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH, 1903.
APPROPRIATIONS MADE AT THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
For general repairs, highways and bridges, $2,000.00
Support of schools, 3,400.00
Repairs on schoolhouses,
200.00
Support of paupers,
800.00
Contingent expenses and town officers,
500.00
Support of street lights,
200.00
Care of cemeteries,
100.00
Care and support of public library,
25.00
Tuition high school pupils,
600.00
Graveling the road in the Springfield st., district, 200.00
Instruction in music,
150.00
$8,175.00
State tax for 1902,
$420.00
County tax for 1902,
817.91
Road tax for 1902.
34.06
Overlayings for 1902,
158.06
$1,430.03
Total tax,
$9,605.03
Besides the above amount there was appropriated from the money in Treasury, at the beginning of the fiscal year :
For contingent expenses and town officers,
$1,000
For Memorial Day,
75.00
Care and winding of Tower clock,
25.00
Vault in East Wilbraham cemetery,
150.00
$1,250.00
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Raised by taxation, 1902,
$9,605.03
Appropriated from treasury, 1902, 1,250.00
Total amount raised and appropriated by the town, 1902, $10,855.03 $ 788.00
Number of polls at $2.00 cach, 394,
Value assessed personal estate, $160,513.00
Tax on assessed personal estate,
1,725.51
Value assessed real estate,
659,676.00
Tax on assessed real estate,
7,091.52
Total tax, town, county and state,
$9,605.03
Total property assessed,
$820,189.00
Rate of total tax per $1,000, $10.75.
Number of dwelling houses,
286
horses,
292 597
cows,
acres of land,
12,956 13-48
sheep,
10
60 neat cattle other than cows,
240
66 swine, 38
L. W. RICE, ) Assessors A. A. PHELPS, of
F. R. RINDGE, ) Wilbraham.
Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library.
Number of volumes in library, last report, 1 759
Number of volumes added, 15
Number of volumes in library Feb. 21, 1903, 1774
Number of books loaned from library during past year, 2480
RESOURCES.
Appropriation by the town.
$ 25.00
Dog fund, 1901, 191.85
Income Chloe Bliss Stebbins fund,
3.53
Fines and cards, 4.35
Balance on hand, Feb. 21, 1903.
66.70
$291.43
EXPENDITURES.
H. R. Johnson, books, $ 20.00
F. W. Green, transportation of books, 10.20
Librarian.
24.00
Balance Feb. 21, 1903,
237.23
$291.43
The legacy from the estate of Henry Cutler is deposited as follows ; $500 in Springfield Five Cents Savings Bank, book No. 55481. $500 in Springfield Institution for Savings, book No. 145,815.
FRANK R. GURNEY. Trustees MINNIE M. MORGAN, Free, Public H. W. CUTLER, - Library.
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Report of School Committee.
The School"Committee respectfully submit their annual report : The revenues of the current year have been as follows :
Appropriation for school purposes, $3,400.00
Appropriation for school repairs, 200.00
Appropriation for tuition, high school. 600.00
Appropriation for music, 150.00
From State school fund, 526.34
From State on account of Superintendent of Schools, 312.50
From State for State children,
215.00
Interest on town loan, 78.50
Due from State, account of Supt. Schools,
231.00
Due from town of Monson, tuition, 125.00
Due from town of Palmer, tuition,
72.00
Due from John Davis, tuition,
8.88
Due from State, one-half tuition paid Palmer high school, 67.50
$5,986.72
EXPENDITURES.
TEACHERS' WAGES.
M. E. Howard, teaching music, $ 150.00
Mary E. Mack, 267.00
.
N. C. Bliss, 30.00
Effie Morgan,
272.00
Ida M. Blair,
297.40
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Bertha Twitchell,
$120.00
Martha Bowdish,
342.00
Elsie Martin,
96.00
Jessie Burnham.
192.00
Harriet T. Ross.
200.80
Gertrude Allen,
19.20
Charlotte Sibley,
64.00
Stella M. Greene,
307.50
Edith B. Butler,
·96.00
Mrs. E. M. Calkins,
96 00
Gertrude Taber,
64 00
Prue Haley,
128.00
Hannah G. Hammond,
96.00
Mabel Applin,
288.00
Elsie Leavitt,
96.00
Grace Thompson,
192.00
Lena Cogswell,
311.12
Mrs. Warner Bell,
88.88
$3,813.90
SCHOOLHOUSE REPAIRS.
C. C. Filmore,
.35
E. L. Thompson,
3.00
E. S. Keyes,
108 95
F. D. Benton,
78.72
C. W. Vinton,
30.83
M. P. Wright,
8.35
J. S. Morgan,
95.55
L. N. Pero,
31.55
M. Pero,
20.00
F. A. Fuller,
6.48
Homer, Foot & Co.,
1.86
Sidney L. Scott,
.75
George Makepeace,
5.10
Francis B. Greene,
.50
Ethelbert Bliss,
5.00
F. A. Gurney,
.40
C. E. Peck,
2.20
$399.39
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CARE OF SCHOOLS.
George R. Stephens,
$ 26.50
C. G. Robbins,
1.75
Stella M. Greene,
16.20
C. F. Fuller,
18.15
James H. Farr,
4.50
A. M. Seaver,
2.50
Walter Richardson,
4.00
Bertha M. Farr,
12.60
Effie Morgan,
16.00
C. W. Vinton,
3.80
A. D. Tufts,
1.00
J. F. Henderson,
2.95
Joseph Cotter,
5.15
W. V. Baldwin,
28.75
Arthur Vinton,
8.00
Martha Bowdish,
8.30
Ida M. Blair,
11.20
Mary E. Mack,
9.10
F. B. Greene,
.75
Mrs. J. H. Farr,
2.50
$183.70
SCHOOL BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
C. T. Baynall,
$ 4.65
The McMillan Co.,
3.39
J. L. Hammitt & Co.,
102.43
Ginn & Company,
146.70
Springfield News Co.,
17.15
D. C. Heath & Co.,
7.98
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.,
18.21
H. G. Webber,
96.45
T. H. Castor & Co.,
2.40
Edward E. Babb & Co.,
14.21
Thomas Y. Crowell,
1.03
W. R. Jenkins,
.65
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
5.10
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Boston School Supply Co.,
$ .15
Henry Holt & Co.,
7.00
American Book Co.,
13.41
Lee & Shepard,
3.23
Silver Burdett & Co.,
14.00
V. H. Deming,
1.96
A. H. Bartlett,
3.54
Henry M. Green,
5.00
Town of Ludlow,
14.00
Orville Brewer Publishing Co.,
4.00
C. W. Sever & Co.,
1.14
Funk and Wagnalls Co.,
1.60
Andrus & Church,
4.50
Sibley & Ducker,
3.00
Allen & Bacon,
3.41
J. C. Haynes & Co.,
.86
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
39.65
Educational Pub. Co.,
1.17
The Morse Co.,
31.68
D. Appleton & Co.,
8.59
H. M. Bliss,
76.50
Mabel Applin,
1.47
Jason Butler,
25.00
H. Rude,
1.35
Wesleyan Academy,
3.30
F. H. Gaston & Co.,
2.40
Henry R. Johnson,
2.70
W. D. Fuller,
5.50
J. A. Bennett,
25.75
Ethelbert Bliss,
52.94
F. A. Fuller,
.12
F. A. Gurney,
.50
$ 779.77
Salary Superintendent of schools,
$ 428.40
Tuition, Wesleyan Academy,
817.80
Palmer High School,
135.00
$1,381.20
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TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
J. A. Bennett,
$ 8.60
Theodore Gebo,
124.00
Mary L. Poland, S. & E. S. R. R. tickets,
13.75
$ 146.35
Total expenditures,
$6,705.31
Value of books and supplies on hand March 1, 1903, $ 200.00
Value of books and supplies in schools, estimated, 900.00
$1,100.00
We recommend the coming year an appropriation of $4,000 for school purposes, $400 for repairs, $800 for tuition high school.
Respectfully submitted,
H. G. WEBBER. VERNON H. DEMING, School
ETHELBERT BLISS,
Committee.
Names of students attending Wesleyan Academy at expense of the town of Wilbraham.
Eunice Bates,
Edward Carney,
Ruth Bates,
Elmer Demond,
Hazel Bolles,
Walter Green,
Minnie Coote,
Charles B. Hitchcock,
Emma Coote,
George LaBroad,
Florence Green,
Hector Lussier,
Ruth Green,
E. K. Lynch,
Ethel Lombard,
James McCaw,
Ethel Mowry,
Ernest Powers,
Alice Munsell,
Allen Robb,
Alice Perry,
Leo Rock,
Dora Miller,
Roderick Merrick,
Alice Thompson,
William Thompson,
Attending Palmer High School.
Minerva Demond,
Elmer Demond,
Marion Demond, Raymond C. Fuller,
Hazel Kingsley.
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HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTION.
The town having voted to pay the tuition at the Wesleyan Acad- emy for high school instruction of such children as are duly qualified, the following regulations have been adopted :
1. Examinations shall be given by the Wesleyan Academy to those candidates only who are recommended by the Superintendent of Schools.
2. No candidate shall be recommended by the superintendent for examination unless he has satisfactorily completed in course or by examination the studies of the "Course of Study " for the public schools of Wilbraham.
3. Examinations shall be given by the Wesleyan Academy in Arithmetic, English, Grammar, Geography, United States History and Spelling.
4. All who shall pass these examinations shall receive from the Superintendent of Schools a certificate which shall entitle the person named therein to tuition at the expense of the Town of Wilbraham, in the Wesleyan Academy in the Academic, Classical, Industrial Science, or Latin Scientifie Courses,
5. All students educated at the expense of the Town of Wilbra- ham in the Wesleyan Academy shall be under the rules and regula- tions of that institution.
H. G. WEBBER, ETHELBERT BLISS, School Committee.
VERNON H. DEMING,
TABLE OF MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE.
No. of School.
WHOLE NUMBER OF PUPILS.
AVERAGE MEMBERSHIP.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE.
Spring.
Fall.
Winter.
Year.
Spring.
Fall.
Winter.
Year.
Spring.
Fall.
Winter.
Year.
1
24
15
15
24
23.33
12.96
12.25
16.18
17.24
11.87
9.62
12.91
2A
16
23
21
23
13.68
19.56
20.36
17.87
11.80
17.37
17.02
15.30
2P
30
36
36
36
23.27
32.64
32.74
29.55
24.19
29.73
25.58
26.47
3
25
27
24
27
23.63
25.63
23.67
24.31
21.73
23.90
22.33
22.65
4A
14
17
17
17
14.00
15.70
16.93
15.54
13.23
14.53
14.10
13.95
4P
14
18
15
18
11.63
14.50
14.32
13.48
10.70
12.59
11.44
11.58
5
13
15
13
15
12.40
13.30
12.00
12.80
11.80
12.70
11.10
11.90
6
19
18
18
19
17.63
18.00
17.00
17.54
16.23
15.80
14.42
15.48
7
14
12
15
15
12.78
12.00
13.67
12.82
12.60
11.39
11.58
11.86
8A
14
27
23
27
12.90
22.90
22.33.
19.38
12.75
21.98
19.83
18.19
81
17
18
18
18
16.02
15.14
17.76
16.31
15.21
14.44
16.01
15.25
8P
31
33
33
33
28.88
31.61
29.36
29.95
25.74
29.27
23.34
25.45
Report of Superintendent of Schools.
To the School Committee of Wilbraham :
GENTLEMEN : The customary annual report of the schools is here- with presented.
Since the last report was written I have made eighty-one visits in the schoolrooms and conducted a number of meetings for teachers.
The selection and appointment of teachers form an important part of the work assigned a superintendent, and much time and care have been devoted to these duties.
RESIGNATIONS.
School 3 Miss Bertha Twitchell, June, 1902, Teaching in Grafton School 4 Harriet Tracy Ross, Dec., 1902, Teaching in Quincy School 4 Elsie Martin, July, 1902, Teaching in Quincy School 6 Miss Lizzie Calkins, Nov., 1902. School 6 Miss Prue A. Haley, Dec., 1902. School 7 Miss Martha Bowdish, June, 1902, Teaching iu No. 3 School 7 Miss Prue A. Haley, Nov., 1902. School 8 Miss Elsie Leavitt, June, 1902.
In my last report I endeavored to show you some of the adverse conditions under which our teachers and pupils were laboring.
The difficulties to which I then called your attention have been obviated, in part, by uniting all the pupils of grades eight and nine under the care of one teacher, where they receive much personal attention and are given all the work they are capable of doing.
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The number from each school represented in this union is as fol- lows :
School No 2 66 66 6 66 8 3
4
4 2
5 1
2
6 1
Making a total of sixteen in the two upper grades.
The six girls of grade six, from school No. 8, are also seated in this room.
The transferred pupils have not only been benefited by this union, but their conduct has generally been a credit to their parents and and their presence helpful in the school which they attend. To my mind the change has been a decided advantage to the entire body of school children in the town.
At the present time we have nineteen students in the Academy, five in Palmer high school, and a total membership of two hundred forty-one in the public schools. Nine of the latter are in the ninth grade preparing for examinations in June.
During the year, Nichols' arithmetics have taken the place of Prince's, the Quincy Word List has been introduced as a spelling book, and Frye's old geographies have been exchanged for his new editions.
Unsanitary conditions made changes in the Stony Hill school building imperative, and more than half the entire appropriation for repairs was expended in absolutely necessary work on the building in East Wilbraham.
True economy suggests immediate attention to the other school houses, and the comfort and health of teachers and pupils demand an expenditure far larger than the usual appropriation.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY L. POLAND).
Jan. 19, 1903.
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SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS, JANUARY, 1903.
School No. 1 Miss Mary E. M. Mack, 2 Ad. Miss Ida M. Blair,
EDUCATED.
ELECTED
Jan. 1902
Wesleyan Academy, Quiney High and Quincy Training Class, 1900
2 P. Miss Effie Morgan,
3 Miss Martha Bowdish,
66 4 Ad. Miss Charlotte Sibley,
66
4 P. Miss Jessie Burnhanı,
Framingham Normal,
Aug. 1902
5 Miss Stella Greene,
Wesleyan Academy,
Apr. 1898
6 Miss Gertrude Taber,
Woodstock Academy,
Jan. 1903
7 Miss Hannah Hammond,
1 Chatham Public Schools, Hyannis Normal, Jan 1903
S Mrs. Lena Cogswell Bell,
Tufts College,
Aug. 1901
S Miss Grace Thompson,
Normal Training School,
Lewiston, Me. Aug. 1902
S
Miss Mabel Applin,
Brattleboro, Vt., High, Aug. 1901 1
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP IN EACH SCHOOL IN WILBRAHAM.
Grades.
No. 1
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14
No. 2Ad
3, 4, 5, 6, 23
No. 2 P
1,2, 36
No. 3
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 24
No. 4 Ad
5, 6,7, 17
No. 4 P
1, 2, 3, 14
No. 5
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 13
No. 6
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
18
No. 7
1, 2, 3, 5, 6. 15
No. 8
6,8,9,
22
No. 8
4,5, 6,
18
No. 8
1, 2, 3,
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Total
1-9
3.T: 241
1901
Wesleyan Academy,
Vermont Academy, Dec. 1900
Boston University, Jan. 1900
Report of the Supervisor of Music.
As we look back upon the work of the past year a distinct advance may be seen in the line of music. The interest taken in the subject by both teachers and pupils appears to increase rather than diminish as time goes on. The individual training as exemplified by the Weaver method has proved successful, as it has wherever faithfully followed, and its educational value to the pupil, especially in the line of independent effort, has been marked. This method of teaching is particularly adapted to schools having several grades in one room, those prepared for it being able to advance, while at the same time the more backward children are obtaining the required drill.
Our aim is to teach independent sight -- inging. When our school children can read music of ordinary difficulty as easily as they can the daily papers. there will be no question as to the musical future of our country. After they have " learned to read," it follows natural- ly that they will " read to learn " the best music which the past and the present have to offer. The schools of the town combined to furnish acceptable music for the Decoration Day services held in the Congregational church.
The schools are graded in music as follows :
Grades Prep. and I Three.
Grades:Prep. and III One. Grades I and III Two.
Grades I and IV One.
Grades II Two.
Grades II and IV One. , Grades IV One.
Grades V One.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY E. HOWARD, Supervisor of Music.
Wilbraham, Mass., Feb. 9th, 1903.
Town Warrant.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Over- scers 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 choose a Town Clerk and Treasurer, one Select- man for three years, who shall also be one of the Overseers of the Poor, one Assessor for three years and one for one year to fill a va- cancy, five Constables, four Fence Viewers, one Auditor, one School Committee for three years, Collector of Taxes for ensuing year, one Library Trustee for three years, a Tree Warden for the ensuing year, all on one ballot ; also all other necessary town officers.
ART. 6. To decide by ballot, which shall be "Yes" or "No" the question : " Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
ART. 7. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed neces- sary 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. 8. To see if the town will accept the list of jurors as re- vised by the Selectmen.
ART. 9. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to borrow such sums of money as may be sanctioned by the Selectmen, the same to be paid from the taxes.
ART. 10. To see if the town will provide for the adequate light- ing of the streets in town.
8800
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ART. 11. 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 this Common- wealth or take any action in regard to the same.
ART. 12. To see what disposition the town will make of the Dog fund of 1902.
ART. 13. To see if the town will grant money for the proper observance of Memorial Day.
ART. 14. To see if the town will appropriate money for the care and winding of the town clock on the M. E. Church.
ART. 15. To see if the town will provide for special instruction in music and raise money for the same. 150
ART. 16. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money for the proper observance of "Old Home Week."
ART. 17. To see if the town will vote to build a schoolhouse at North Wilbraham and appropriate money for the same. 8000
ART. 18. To see if the town will vote to furnish bonds for town officers that require bonding.
ART. 19. To see if the town will make an appropriation for the improvement of the highway known as the " Tinkham road" from the mile tree to the Springfield line. 400
ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to grant a Pool License in town.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TREASURER, ASSESSORS, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS AND TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM,
FOR THE
,
YEAR ENDING FEB. 26, 1904.
PALMER, MASS. PRESS OF C. B. FISKE AND COMPANY. 1904.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TREASURER, ASSESSORS, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS AND TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEB. 26, 1904.
PALMER, MASS. PRESS OF C. B. FISKE AND COMPANY. 1904.
Report of the Selectmen and Over- seers of the Poor.
CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
C. G. Robbins, posting warrants, $ 6.00
C. G. Robbins, services at polls, 2.00
C. G. Robbins, lease of ground for tramp house, 1.00
C. W. Vinton, services at polls, 3.00
Trus. Grace Chapel, rent, 20.00
H. M. Green, moving safe, 1.65
H. M. Green, services at polls, 3.00
Cone & Sherwood, treasurer's bond, 15.00
J. W. Baldwin, stamps and envelopes, 13.72
Springfield Union, publishing hearing Spring- field Suburban Street R.R., .68
A. H. Bartlett, printing ballots, 6.00
Wakefield Daily News-Item, dog posters,
4.00
Loring & Axtell, printing letter heads,
1.50
Collins Mfg. Co., paper, .75
C. G. Robbins, notifying town officers, 6.30
W. L. Collin's Estate, rent of office,
50.00
F. W. Green, express and sawing wood,
1.30
L. L. Farr, labor, town farm,
1.50
T. J. Conroy, officers' fees,
6.88
A. F. Friend, services at polls,
2.00
C. B. Fiske & Co., town reports,
34.00
E. W. Wall, postage and express,
1.64
E. T. Bagnall, field books, 2.75
R. H. Smith Mfg. Co., stamps for treas., 1.60
Cone & Sherwood, insurance on schoolhouses, 80.00
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Jason Butler, wood, $ 2.50
Geo. Russell, damage on Red Bridge, · 7.00
Hobbs & Warner, blanks for state bills, 8.00
T. J. Conroy, services Nichols case, 6.70
Springfield Union, schoolhouse bids, 1.50
Cone & Sherwood, collector's bond, 15.00
E. W. Wall, express, postal cards and mucilage, 1.35
A. H. Bartlett, tax bills, 2.00
E. A. Day, interest, .40
Frank Rindge, services at polls, 3.00
Edward Meacham, plans for schoolhouse,
18.00
J. W. Baldwin, envelopes, 1.10
H. W. Burbank, services at polls,
3.00
C. G. Robbins, services at polls, 2.00
C. G. Robbins, posting warrants, 6.00
C. E. Peck, burial expense R. Darrah, 35.00
E. W. Wall, express, stationery and horse hire, 1.48
J. W. Baldwin, stamped envelopes, 12.71
H. F. Green, services at polls, 2.00
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Grace Chapel, rent,
20.00
W. L. Collins estate, rent,
50.00
D. W. Morey, moving voting booths, 1.00
J. S. Morgan, services at polls, 3.00
E. W. Wall, officer fees for H. F. Green, 6.30
J. L. Rice, cattle inspector, 43.25
J. W. Rice, services at polls, 3.00
C. G. Robbins, lease of land for tramp house, 1.00
F. A. Fuller, supplies, .65
C. E. Peck, automobile warning boards, 2.50
Wm. Lincoln & Co., insurance on library, 18.80
Carter's Ink Co., ink, .38
W. H. Day, perambulating town line, 1.50
F. W. Green, undertaker,
79.00
F. W. Green, express and telephone,
1.65
Dr. Geo. C. Roberts, returning births,
.25
Dr. H. G. Webber, returning births, 1.25
Dr. A. L. Damon, returning births, 2.25
W. H. McGuire Jr., care town clock, 25.00
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A. E. Bell, interest on Bell fund, $ 1.40
J. M. Perry, interest on town loan, 78.50
A. A. Phelps, assessors' books, 3.75
E. W. Wall, preparing tally sheets, 6.00
Election officer, 5.00
Meeting town clerks, 2.00
60
Care of weights and measures, 5.00
66 Recording perambulation,
.50
66 Envelopes,
.08
Express,
.90
Recording births,
14.00
Recording marriages,
3.80
Recording deaths,
6.40
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