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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01882 1907
GC 974.202 AU19AR, 1895-1897
TOWN OF AUBURN,
1895.
.
F. L. WALLACE & CO.
PRACTICAL
UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS.
MANCHESTER, N. H.
We keep constantly on hand everything needed in the
Undertaker's Business,
FROM THE COMMON COFFIN TO THE FINEST CASKET MADE.
We have the only large assortment of
CLOTH - COVERED CASKETS
To be found in the City, and our prices are the Lowest.
A large assortment of
GENT'S AND LADIES' ROBES
Constantly on hand.
Remember we deliver our goods in the adjoining towns and render any assistance FREE OF CHARGE.
F. L. WALLACE. A. G. FAIRBANKS.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF AUBURN
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 15, 1895,
TOGETHER WITH THE REPORTS OF
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CEMETERY AND LIBRARY TRUSTEES, SCHOOL- BOARD AND TOWN CLERK.
CONCORD : PRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 895.
MOODY'S CLOTHING HOUSE.
Thanking the people of Auburn for your patronage in the past, the continuance of the same is cordially solicited. I have a
LARGE AND ELEGANT STOCK OF CLOTHING,
HATS AND FURNISHING GOODS,
RUBBER COATS,
FUR COATS.
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Make my store your headquarters when in the city.
H. M. MOODY,
950 Elm St. - Manchester, N. H.
WALTER H. WRIGHT, MANAGER.
BOOTS SHOES AND
Farmers' good shoes $1.00, 1.50.
School boots
.
$1.00, 1.25.
Ladies' fine button boots
$1.50, 2.00.
Ladies' good slippers .
50c., $1.00.
Family umbrellas, large size
$1.00.
Ladies' rubbers ..
·
30c., 35c., 40c., 50c.
BEST RUBBERS AT DODGE'S.
MY STORE IS THE PLACE TO GET BARGAINS IN ALL KINDS OF FOOTWEAR.
Lowest prices and best goods at
GEO. W. DODGE'S.
931 ELM ST.
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MANCHESTER, N. H. =
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
STATE AND COUNTY TAXES.
Paid state treasurer, $710.00
county treasurer,
703.72
$1,413.72
SCHOOL MONEY AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
Paid treasurer of school district :
school money,
$1,006.29
repair money,
45.00
school supplies,
81.99
$1,133.28
SERVICES AND EXPENSES OF SCHOOL AND TOWN OFFICERS, EXCEPT SELECTMEN.
SCHOOL BOARD'S SERVICES.
FRANK B. COULT'S BILL.
1894.
Mar. 15. One half day to organize, $ .75
21.
66 laying plans, .75
24. 66 16 examine teachers, .75
28. 66
school business, .75
April 2.
school business, .75
14 66 66 examine teachers,
.75
16. 66 66 visited in Nos. 3 and 5, .75
17.
66
to Manchester for
supplies .75
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干
April 19. One half day visited No. 5,
$.75
21.
66 with school board, .75
24. .. 66 visited No. 3, .75
25.
6, .75
May
1:
66
3,
.75
23.
settling trouble in
.75
No. 3,
24 66 66 visited No. 3,
.75
June
14.
visited No. 2,
.75
21.
visited No. 5 .75
1.50
28.
one half day visited No. 7,
.75
July
3.
.6
66
on school board, ‹
.75
Aug. 3.
66
6
examining candidate, etc., .75
14.
66
66
on school board, .75
21. 66
66
.75
Sept. 7.
visited No. 6,
.75
19.
66
6
3,
.75
24
one day visited Nos. 2 and 8,
1.50
Oct.
23.
one half day visited No. 3,
.75
Nov. 28.
one day visited Nos. 3 and 6,
1.50
1895.
Jan. 12.
one day settling bills, 1.50
Feb.
2.
66 preparing reports for printer, 1.50
.75
$27.75
KATE A. HALL'S BILL.
1894.
Mar. 15. One half day to organize, $ .75
21.
66 with board, .75
24.
66 examining candi- dates, .75
28.
66
with board, .75
April 14. 6.
examining candi- dates, .75
22.
one day visited Nos. 3 and 4,
66
6,
.75
29. 6
66
66
66
4. one half day with auditor,
5
April 16. One half day visiting village
school, $ .75
21. ..
6. with board, .75
23. .. ..
visiting No. 7, .75
25. ..
5, .75
May 1. .. Nos. 5 and 6, .75
9. .. 56 No. 3. .75
..
2.
.75
22. one day visiting Nos. 4 and 8, 1.50
.75
23. one half day on school business. 24. visiting No. 7,
.75
June 8. .. . .
.75
21. .. ..
.. closing of No. 5, .75
22. one day visiting closing of Nos. 3 and 4, 1.50
27. one half day visiting No. 6,
.75
28.
visiting closing of
No. 7, .75
29. one day visiting closing of Nos. 2 and 8, 1.50
July
3. one half day with school board, .75
Aug. 3. examining candidates, etc .. .75
21.
.75
Sept. 12. visiting Bunker Hill school, .75
13.
No. 7, .75
18. ..
.. 2, .75
Oct. 2. . . .. 3,
.75
11. .. Nos. 2 and 5, 1.50
12. ..
.. 4 and 8, 1.50
15.
No. 6, .75
2, .75
7,
.75
Nov. 14.
6. 3,
.75
16.
7.
.75
24.
66
..
3,
.75
Dec.
6.
2. .75
7.
4,
75
14.
5, 75
29.
31. 66
5, .75
28.
15.
6
1895.
Jan. 12. one day settling accounts, $1.50
writing three check-lists, 1.50
Feb. 2. one day making out reports, settling, etc., 1.50
4. one half day with auditor, . . 75
$39.00
MARY HARVEY'S BILL.
1894.
Mar. 15. One half day to organize, $.75
21. 66
" lay plans, .75
24. " examining can- didates, .75
28. 66 on school business, .75
April 14. One half day examining can- didates, .75
17. One half day to No. 4 to see what was wanted and make a visit, .75
21. One half day to examine a candidate and other business also, .75
23. One half day to Nos. 2 and 8 to see what was wanted and made a visit at each place, .75
25. One half day to visit No. 3, .75
27. One half day I carried book and supplies to Nos. 2, 4, and 8, .75
Mày
1. One half day I visited Nos. 5 and 6, .75
8. One half day I visited No. 7 and went to the village for books for schools, .75
23. One half day I met at Mrs. Hale's on account of trouble in the village school, .75.
June 18. One half day I visited No. 7, .75
21. One half day at close of No. 5, .75
7
June 22. One whole day at the close of No. 5, $ .75
22. One whole day at the close of two schools, Nos. 3 and 4, 1.50
28. One half day at close of No. 7, .75
Aug. 14. One half day on school busines, .75
21. " to examine candidates, .75
Sept. 4.
66 " I went to Nos. 4 and 8 to see what books were wanted, also supplies, .75
10. One half day I went to No. 2 to see what was wanted, .75
11. One half day I went to the vil- lage and got books and sup- - plies and carried them to Nos. 2, 4, and 8, .75
13. One half day I visited No. 7 and went to the village for broom and pail for No. 8, .75
Oct.
15. One half day to visit two schools, Nos. 3 and 6, .75
Nov. 7.
One half day to visit No. 2, .75
8.
66 66 4,
.75
27. One half day at the close of No. 7, .75
28. One half day at the close of No. 3, .75
Dec. 6. One half day at No. 2, .75
7. 66 the close of No. 4, .75
14. 66 5, 1895.
.75
Jan. 12. Whole day preparing accounts, 1.50
Feb. 2.
66 making reports and
accounts, 1.50
4. One half day with auditor, .75
$29.25
$96.00
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Paid A. D. Emery services as school board after Feb. 15, 1894, $9.40
E. C. Griffin, school district clerk, 1.25
C. Spofford, services as supervisor, 9.65
L. McDuffee,
66
66
6.00
G. W. Pingree, 66
6.00
A. D. Emery, moderator, two meetings, 6.00
S. E. Emery, services as officer to en- force the dog law, 10.00
H. P. Wood, services and expenses as town clerk, 36.50
H. P. Wood, treasurer of school district, 8.00
S. G. Prescott, town treasurer, 25.00
A. T. Wood, collector for 1891 and 1892, in part, 3.15
H. P. Wood, collector for 1893, in part, 13.11
$230.06
REPAIRS ON HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Paid Emery and Heselton for plank and stringers, $141.00
G. W. Davis, railing bridge, 3.25
T. J. Crombie, labor,
1.95
A. Emery, 66
1.75
F. Merrill, 66
3.00
M. Hall, 66
1.75
H. J. Cilley, 1893 and 1894,
2.70
$155.40
ROAD AGENT.
Paid Henry C. Sanborn, road agent, 1894, for highways, $998.06
For Deer Neck bridge,
25.00
$1,023.06
REPORT OF HENRY C. SANBORN, ROAD AGENT FOR THE TOWN FOR 1894.
Received of town treasurer, for repairs on highways,
$998.06
Paid Albert H. Dunwell,
$11.40
Luther P. Woods,
33.23
Waldo B. Colman,
38.25
Myron Brown,
39.88
Henry Preston,
32.25
Herbert 'Preston,
15.52
L. S. Hardy,
4.50
S. E. Emery,
4.50
James R. Preston,
17.65
John H. Sprague,
31.50
Frank P. Reid,
25.50
Hugh J. Crombie,
5.25
H. H. Totman,
3.00
Leon H. Reid,
18.75
Manson M. Brickett,
3.25
Frank T. Colman,
10.50
Horace E. Colman,
10.50
Alvin W. Pingree,
4.00
C. J. Esty,
3.00
Edward C. Griffin,
8.25
Benjamin A. Haselton,
21.87
E. B. Haselton,
3.80
Leroy Mc Duffie,
3.75
Nathaniel Johnson,
.75
Bert Ballou,
2.25
H. J. Cilley,
3.00
Thomas F. Dodge,
3.00
Josiah T. Davis,
26.25
John P. Griffin,
1.50
Benjamin Eaton,
32.00
Benjamin D. Emery,
2.10
George K. Eaton,
4.00
A. S. Nichols,
7.00
10
Paid James C. Crombie,
$6.30
W. M. Neal,
3.00
Hazen Sanborn,
9.15
John W. Canfield,
8.00
E. W. Canfield,
3.00
S. H. Hunting,
1.50
Daniel C. Davis,
1.50
George S. Patten,
10.80
G. W. Pingree,
2.25
I. F. Grant,
12.00
E. J. Bannon,
9.25
Henry Rivers,
3.00
Charles C. Grant,
11.50
Fletcher Brown,
2.45
Charles Spofford,
6.90
Daniel C. Abbott,
1.05
J. B. McKinley,
3.75
Nathan Gage, for 510 ft. of plank at $15 per M., and 347 oak timber, 12.85
James Benson, 783 ft. chestnut plank at $17 per M.,
13.31
W. A. Heselton,
.25
A. D. Emery,
2.62
Manchester Water Works, for old ce- ment lined pipe,
21.00
John A. Brown,
38.50
Four oxen, 253 days,
102.00
R. Brown,
65.10
Horses, 40} days,
101.25
Henry C. Sanborn, for work during the year, 113.83
$998.06
Received of town treasurer,
$25.00
Paid Charles Spofford, expenses on Deer Neck bridge, $3.00
George S. Patten,
1.50
Harvey Severance,
1.50
Fletcher Brown,
4.35
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Paid James Benson, fitting bolts, $1.50
Henry C. Sanborn, for labor and other expenses, 6.00
$17.85
Balance in Henry C. Sanborn's hands,
$7.15
BREAKING OUT HIGHWAYS.
Paid M. Hall,
$47.16
D. H. Webster,
8.02
C. F. Whittemore,
13.35
H. Severance,
4.95
W. S. Haselton,
4.35
J. N. Bartholomew,
60.37
G. S. Patten,
27.00
Herbert Preston,
32.65
A. E. Ballou,
32.40
B. S. McDuffee,
18.05
H. J. Crombie,
4.05
J. W. Lang,
2.25
G. W. Davis,
26.62
L. Hall,
32.79
C. J. Esty,
15.15
G. W. Pingree,
.90
J. B. McKinley,
2.90
L. McDuffee,
3.30
E. J. Bannan,
12.22
A. J. Dunwell,
3.00
J. W. Canfield,
6.30
I. F. Grant,
8.50
J. W. Merrill,
2.55
F. Brown,
7.35.
R. S. Hook,
9.50
S. E. Ray,
12.00
G. A. Hall,
3.53
C. Spofford,
7.65
$408.86
12 MISCELLANEOUS BILLS.
Paid C. W. Emery, services and expenses as Board of Health, 1893, $9.51
C. W. Emery, stationery, blank-books, and postage furnished, 1893, 9.44
C. W. Emery, extinguishing forest fires, 1893, 6.60
S. Bradeen, extinguishing forest fires, 1893, 4.00
C. W. Emery, services and expenses as selectman after Feb. 15, 1894, 6.75
D. H. Webster, library fund, 1893, 25.00
Harrison Preston, extinguishing forest fires, 1893, 2.70
W. H. Griffin, appropriation for library building, 199.00
E. Plummer, voted for Memorial day, 25.00
G. K. Eaton, board and care of horse, by order of selectmen, 5.00
T. H. Tuson, printing town reports, 1894, 38.25
F. T. Colman, watching forest fires, 5.00
M. T. Brown, extinguishing forest fires, 1.50
F. P. Reid, 1.50 66
D. H. Webster, library fund, 1894, 25.00
G. F. McClure, services as police, 6.00
A. W. Pingrey, extinguishing forest fires, 1.50
J. E. White, 66
2.00
W. A. Pingrey, 3.00
D. H. Webster, services and expenses as selectman after Feb. 15, 1894, 8.00
A. Emery, services as police, 2.50
G. E. Spofford, services and expenses as selectman after Feb. 15, 1894, 3.00
B. A. Heselton, stone posts for ceme- tery, labor, and services as trustee, 22.25
A. E. Preston, blacksmith, work for road agent, 6.90
1
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Paid Massabesic Grange, rent of hall, $25.00
W. H. Griffin, public watering trough to Jan. 1, 1894, 5.00
W. H. Griffin, services and expenses as agent for Deer Neck bridge, 4.43
G. K. Eaton, attending funerals, 14.00
G. W. Davis, bounty on hawks, .50
W. G. Brown,
2.75
$471.08
DEPENDENT SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES.
Paid D. H. Webster, fuel for Sarah H. Davis, $4.50
F. H. Prescott, fuel and supplies for Sarah H. Davis, 28.98
W. Emery, supplies for James R. Preston, 10.93
W. C. Underhill, house rent for James R. Preston, 24.00
F. H. Prescott, supplies for James R. Preston, 53.90
William G. Brown, supplies for Sarah H. Davis, 4.82
$127.13
SUPPORT OF POOR.
Paid S. Bradeen for boarding Adeline C.
Parks thirteen weeks, to Sept. 24, 1894, $26.00
John Davis, 2d, board and clothing, for C. H. O. Emery, 22.00
S. Bradeen, keeping transients,
3.00
J. H. Sprague, 31.25
G. W. Davis, 2.25
$84.50
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14
CROMBIE SUIT.
Paid C. W. Emery, services and expenses, and witness fees, $26.81
E. G. Eastman, services as attorney, 135.00
J. W. Fellows, 66 66
170.00
$331.81
DEBTS PAID.
Paid Clara B. Carr, note and interest, $41.60
A. D. Emery, exr., interest on Sarah Emery note, 17.50
$59.10
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Paid A. T. Wood on 1891 list :
Nathan P. Emery, gone from town,
$1.80
Charles K. Emery, 66
1.29
Leo West, 66
1.29
$4.38
Paid A. T. Wood on 1892 list :
Alphonso F. Bryant, gone from town,
$1.10
Charles C. McKinley,
1.10
Frank C. McDuffee, 66 66
1.10
Leo West,
66
1.10
W. S. Jewell, wrong tax,
2.19
Edward Sampson, uncollectable,
1.38
$7.97
Paid H. P. Wood on 1893 list :
Alphonso F. Bryant, gone from town,
$1.28
James W. Adams, 66 1.28
James H. Sargent, loss of steamboat by fire, 7.68
James H. Garvin, gone from town,
1.28
Nathaniel Johnson, over seventy,
1.28
15
Paid Harrison Preston, horse lost,
$ .64
Frank S. Hardy, unable to pay,
1.28
$14.72
Paid H. J. Cilley on 1894 list :
Olympian Boat Club, over tax,
$1.32
Andrew F. Fox,
6.60
Benjamin A. Heselton, 66
2.50
Charles Spofford,
1.25
Alfred J. Sanborn, wrong tax,
7.92
Charles H. Allen, soldier,
1.32
Abraham Hook, over seventy,
1.32
Nathaniel Johnson, “
1.32
Crescent Boat Club, wrong tax,
1.32
$24.87
$51.94
SELECTMEN'S EXPENSES.
WILLIAM G. BROWN'S BILL.
1894.
Paid blank books, stationery, and postage,
$6.46
expenses to Manchester, Exeter, and Concord, 6.55
dinners and horse baitings for town officers, 14.25
use of team twenty-eight times, 21.00
$48.26
THOMAS F. DODGE'S BILL.
1894.
Paid use of team eighteen times,
$13.50
dinners and horse baitings for town
officers, 9.00
22.50
GEORGE W. DAVIS'S BILL.
1894.
Paid use of team twenty-seven times,
$13.50
dinners and horse baitings,
1.50
15.00
$85.76
16
SELECTMEN'S SERVICES.
WILLIAM G. BROWN'S BILL.
1894.
Mar.
20 One half day on town business, $.75
28.
66 66
.75
April
2-9. Six days taking invoice, 9.00
14. One day settling accounts, 1.50
Preparing invoice books, 3.00
One half day on town business, .75
30. Four days making taxes, 6.00
May
Three days copying taxes, 4.50
June
9. One day on town business, 1.50
Aug.
3. One day to Exeter,
1.50
9. One half day on pauper busi- ness, .75
29. One half day on pauper busi- ness, .75
Aug. 30, 31. One and one half days at for- est fires, 2.25
Sept. 1. One half day on town business,
.75
15. One half day on pauper busi- ness, .75
19. One day with commissioners, 1.50
22. on town business, 1.50
Oct.
15. One half day on town business, One day to Concord, 1.50
.75
22. Making and posting warrants, .75
Nov.
30. One day to Concord, 1.50
Dec.
1.
66 settling accounts, 1.50
18. One half day on town business, .75
1895.
Jan. 12. One day settling accounts, 1.50
31. One half day on town business, .75
Feb.
2. One day settling accounts, 1.50
9-11. Two days settling with treas- urer and collector, 3.00
July
12. One half day on town business, .75
20. 66 horse case, .75
17
Feb. 9-11. Two days on warrants and accounts for printer, $3.00
One day with auditors, 1.50
$57.00
THOMAS F. DODGE'S BILL.
1894.
Mar. 16-20. ' Town business,
$2.00
April 2-9.
Six days taking invoice, 9.00
14. One day settling accounts, 1.50
21-24. Three days making taxes,
4.50
May 6. One half day on town business,
.75
13. 66
.75
June
14. 66 66 66
66
.75
July
20.
66
.75
$20.75
GEORGE W. DAVIS'S BILL.
1894.
April 2-9. May
Five days taking invoice,
$7.50
One day on town business, 66 1.50
1.50
1.50
One half day on town business,
.75
Two days on town business, 3.00
One day on town business,
1.50
66
1.50
66
66
1.50
Three days copying inventory for commissioners, 4.50
Dec.
1. One day settling accounts, Revising jury list,
.75
1895.
Jan. 12. One day settling accounts, 66 1.50
1.50
Feb. 2.
Feb.
11.
Settling with treasurer and
collectors, 1.50
15. One day with auditors, 1.50
$33.00
$110.75
.75
16.
1.50
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Town of Auburn in account with Simon G. Prescott :
DR.
Paid state and county taxes,
$1,413.72
school and repair money and school supplies, 1,133.28
services and expenses of school and
town officers, except selectmen, 230.06
repairs of highways and bridges, 155.40
road agent, 1,023.06
breaking out highways,
408.86
miscellaneous bills,
471.08
dependent soldiers and families,
127.13
support of poor,
84.50
Crombie suit,
331.81
debts paid,
59.10
abatement of taxes,
51.94
selectmen's expenses,
85.76
selectmen's services,
110.75
services and expenses of auditors, and expenses of selectmen,
6.50
balance in treasury, 352.29
$5.692.95 6,045,24
Town of Auburn in account with Simon G. Prescott:
CR
Balance in treasury February 15, 1894, $14.00
Received of A. T. Wood, collector for 1891,
in part, 4.38
A. T. Wood, 1892, in part, 153.27
H. P. Wood, 66 1893, 656.15
19
Yeceived of H. J. Cilley, collector, for 1894, $2,367.00
cemetery trustees,
9.00
school board, books sold, 2.87
county for dependent soldiers, 88.85
advertising in town reports,
16.50
town clerk, dog licenses,
70.80
W. G. Brown,
250.00
Caroline Taber,
435.00
Mary A. Brown,
650.00
state treasurer, railroad tax,
46.20
66 savings bank tax,
1,137.73
literary fund, 143.51
$6,045.24
I hereby certify that the above account is correct.
SIMON G. PRESCOTT,
Treasurer.
We hereby certify that the above account is correct.
WILLIAM G. BROWN, GEORGE W. DAVIS, Selectmen of Auburn.
STATEMENT.
Due from A. T. Wood, collector for 1890, $15.31
66 66 1891, 103.13
66
1892, 163.98
H. P. Wood,
1893,
537.54
H. J. Cilley, 66 1894,
1,581.34
resident tax land sold town in 1886,
10.61
Balance in treasury,
352.29 - $2,764.20
The town owes the following note : Estate of Sarah Emery, balance Mar. 1, 1895, $350.00
20
The town owes the following notes, including interest, to Feb. 15, 1895 :
A. B. Heselton, note dated June 10, 1893, $216.80
A. F. Fox,
66 Oct. 2,
1,602.62
G. E. Spofford,
66
1,068.47
Mary J. McDonald, “
1,068.47
W. G. Brown,
April 14, 1894,
260.41
Caroline Taber,
18, 452.94
Mary A. Brown, 66
June 15, 671.66
$5,691.37
Balance against the town, $2,927.17 WILLIAM G. BROWN, GEORGE W. DAVIS, Selectmen of Auburn.
AUBURN, February 15, 1895.
This certifies that we have this day examined the foregoing accounts of the selectmen, town treasurer, and cemetery trustees, and find them correctly cast, with proper vouchers for the sev- eral charges, and we recommend that the town allow the same. .
GEORGE K. EATON, SYLVESTER E. EMERY, EDGAR L. PRESTON, Auditors.
COPY OF WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[L. s.]
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Auburn in the County of Rockingham in said State, qualified to vote in Town Affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet at Clarke's hall in said Auburn on Tuesday, the twelfth day of March next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, to act upon the following subjects :
1. To choose all necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
2. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriations of the same.
3. To see if the town will accept the selectmen's and town treasurer's account for the year past.
4. To raise money to repair highways the ensuing year, and estab- lish the price to be allowed for labor and use of tools.
5. To see what action the town will take in regard to the claim of Samuel H. Hunting for injury to horse.
6. To see if the town will vote to purchase an iron watering trough for use at the village and contract for water for a drinking fountain, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
7. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appro- priate to finish and furnish the library and museum building.
. 8. To see if the town will grant to Willard H. Griffin, his heirs and assigns, the right to build a dam on the highway at the bridge on the south side of Griffin's mills leading to the Currier place, provided he keep said bridge in repair.
9. To see if the town will vote to raise a sum of money for Memorial Day and choose an agent to expend the same.
10. To see if the town will vote to build a receiving tomb at the vil- lage cemetery, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
11. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Given under our hands and seal this 23d day of February, A. D. 1895.
WILLIAM G. BROWN,
GEORGE W. DAVIS, Selectmen of Auburn.
REPORT OF CEMETERY TRUSTEES.
AUBURN, N. H., February 15, 1895. DR.
Paid B. A. Haselton :
1894.
Aug. Mowing cemetery, $5.00
One day's labor, 1.50
Jan. 10. Fifty stone posts for cemetery
at $0.30 a piece, 15.00
Jan. 30. Making deed, .75
$22.25
CR.
1895.
Feb. 2. Received from treasurer by cash, $22.25
CEMETERY LOT SOLD.
1895.
Jan. 30.
One lot to William A. Pingrey and Alvin Pingrey, $9.00
B. A. HASELTON, For the Cemetery Trustees.
REPORT OF TREASURER OF CEMETERY FUND.
Deposited in Amoskeag Savings Bank, $100.00 Amount due July 1, 1894, 116.72
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND LIBRARIAN OF THE GRIFFIN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.
The report of the state library commissioners shows that one hun- dred and thirteen towns in the state have complied with the pro- visions of the state library law, and now have public libraries, besides many other towns which have libraries through the benev- olence of their former citizens. Those sons of New Hampshire who wished to help their native towns were probably convinced that they could do more good with their money in that direction than in any other.
These libraries prove to be a three-fold benefit to the towns morally, intellectually, and financially, if proper books are furnished. Time used in reading good books not only aids the mind to acquire knowledge, but prevents such time being wasted or put to a bad use. Whatever attracts strangers here to spend the summer months with us is a financial benefit. Our library and museum have in the past proved to be highly appreciated by them, and with such additions and improvements as may hereafter be made we have no doubt will increase its attractiveness. The library being closed while the addi- tion for museum and other purposes was being built, prevented as large a number of books being taken from the library as last year, otherwise it has been well patronized.
The trustees intend to make an addition of quite a number of volumes in the near future.
It became necessary to expend more on the building than the appropriation, as it could not well remain in the condition it was when that was expended. It will be necessary for the town to make a still further appropriation in order to comply with the con- ditions of Mr. Griffin's gift to the town.
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When we hear the praise bestowed by citizens of other places, even some from large cities, upon the Griffin museum, we feel that Auburn has something that perhaps no other town in the state can boast of, and that her citizens may well be proud of. Respectfully submitted : WILLARD H. GRIFFIN, DANIEL .H. WEBSTER, WELLS C. UNDERHILL,
Trustees.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS.
DR.
1894.
Cash on hand, Feb. 15,
$5.70
Apr. 14.
received from town for 1893, 25.00
Dec. 1.
66
66 66 1894, 25.00
$55.70
CR.
1895.
Feb. 15. For librarian's services,
$5.00
16.
one box stove,
7.85
57 lbs. pipe,
4.56
zinc, fittings, etc.,
2.10
Cash on hand,
36.19
$55.70
DANIEL H. WEBSTER, Treasurer.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
This is my third report as librarian of the Griffin Free Public Library, and in making this report I will say, that books have been taken from the library room quite freely by the citizens of the town.
The library was closed nearly two months during the year, while repairs and additions have been made to the building, and painting done to the outside. About one thousand volumes have been regis- tered and taken from the room, and have been returned. Quite a large number of books have been taken by summer boarders and visitors. This indicates that the chance to get reading matter is appreciated by them while here with us.
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The books mostly called for are fiction, although history and biog- raphy are quite freely taken. Poetical works do not receive much attention.
Donations of books to the library by individuals have been made during the year by Mr. John F. Patten, Mr. Page S. Griffin, Mrs. George P. Clark and Miss Kate T. Clarke, and a few by others have been made. For all these donations thanks are extended.
As we have intimated before in our annual report, greater care should be observed by those who take books from the library, that they are not soiled, or torn, or by hard usage that the leaves are not started from the binding.
SEBASTIAN S. GRIFFIN, Librarian.
Auburn, N. H., February 16, 1895.
SCHOOL REPORT.
To the Citizens of Auburn :
We make the following report of the school work for the past year:
Number of children between five and fifteen years of age, enumer- ated April 1, 1894, 106; boys, 48, and girls, 58.
Number not attending school in this district, 11; boys, 5, and girls, 6.
Number not attending school in the district two weeks during the year, 11; boys, 5, and girls, 6.
Number over five years of age attending school in the district over two weeks during the year, 120; boys, 56, and girls, 64.
Number under five years of age, attending school, 2; 1 boy and 1 girl.
We do not know of any in town between fourteen and twenty-one years of age who cannot read and write.
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