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2298 90
$3 70
$3 79
$42529 58
$43568 48
For the Convenience of the Voters in Determining upon the Tax Rate for 1927, the Following Budget, Based upon the Two Tables Above Is Suggested-1927
Suggested. rate
Net Amt. suggested rate would produce
Average annual net expenditure last 2 years
Schools
$1 40
$16092 27
$18855 81
Bridges and repairs
25
2873 62
2649 55
Highways
75
8620 86
10695 75
Support of poor
35
4023 75
4720 57
Int. on debt
30
3448 35
3935 91
State tax*
25*
2873 62
1844 91
Miscellaneous
30
3448 35
3255 72
Reduction of debt
20
2298 90
700 00
$3 80
$43679 72
$45358 22
* NOTE :- Increase of 10c necessary to provide for probable legislative action increas- ing direct state tax 10c, for highway purposes.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
A. B. Pollard, Treasurer
Year Ending January 31, 1927
RECEIPTS
Cash balance February 1, 1926 $3561 32
Cash balance February 1, 1926, divided as follows:
General fund
$2963 38
Campbell fund
524 66
Cemetery fund
73 28
On temporary loans
$24500 00 $24500 00
Individual Cemetery Fund
Nettie Seaver Estate
$ 50 00
Nathan Hall Estate
50 00
Hall and Lawton Estate
50 00
E. M. Carlisle
50 00
D. Wesley Davis Estate
50 00
C. D. Ordway
50 00
Hiland Chandler Estate
50 00
Effie F. Hubbard
50 00
Sanders and Holt
50 00
Abbie Moody Estate
100 00
$ 550 00
Taxes
Collected by treasurer
$41416 85
Collected by W. M. Offutt
229 99
Collected by A. B. Pollard®
262 64
Collected by C. F. Henry
810 02
$42719 50
Rents
H. E. Huntley, janitor town hall
$247 00
Guy C. Sawyer, picture shows
390 00
Postoffice rent
60 00
B. J. Monier, restaurant
330 00
$1027 00
Overseer of Poor
Refunds
$1080 87
Farm receipts
1718 40
$2799 27
$ 3561 32
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Dog Licenses
$ 393 00
Miscellaneous Receipts
Fred W. Waite, refund Perry money $ 4 00
Vermont Talc Co., lumber 12 00
Railing refund, Henry Four Corners
14 12
M. Longe, wire fence
3 00
Chester Savings Bank, refund interest
6 40
Frank C. Snow, use of boiler
30 00
Refund bounties 16 00
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$
85 82
Schools-From State Treasurer
Advanced instruction $675 55
Transportation and board of scholars
997 22
Trained teachers employed in rural schools
646 00
Junior High School
300 00
Vocational courses
331 04
Rebate for current expenses
46 78
$2996 59
Reimbursement, Act 13, from state treasurer $560 00
State share of school repairs 588 54
$1148 54
School Directors
Lease land rent
$ 65 30
Rent of Kingdom schoolhouse
36 00
Tuition, non-resident
1339 31
Miscellaneous
37 42
$1478 03
Highways-From State
Highway tax
$1005 13
Auto maintenance fund
1131 21
Unselected highways
1255 85
Permanent work
1000 00
$4392 19
Campbell Fund
Received for interest
$ 193 36
Cemetery Commissioners
Sale of lots
$ 218 00
Received from State Treasurer on Nigger bridge
$1972 82
Total receipts for the year
$88035 44
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EXPENDITURES
Temporary loans paid
$24500 00
Interest Paid
Temporary loans
$ 578 28
Outstanding loan orders
3187 00
Campbell fund
193 36
Trustee individual cemetery fund
268 70
$4227 34
Highways
Winter roads
$ 967 32
Selectmen's orders, winter roads
324 56
Summer roads
2782 71
State patrol
1290 00
State road, Poplar Grove
132 50
State road, Trebo
1023 15
State road, Springfield
1434 64
Resurfacing Gassetts road
1508 26
Henry Four Corners
1237 20
Village of Chester
2151 63
$12851 97
Selectmen's Orders
Bridges and repairs
$1312 07
State highway, 5% tax
612 70
State school tax, 10%
1225 39
Miscellaneous
3364 65
Services town officers
1503 97
$8018 78
Nigger bridge
$ 1949 62
Schools
School orders drawn and paid
$24875 50
Overseer of Poor
Orders drawn and paid
$ 8298 64
Miscellaneous
Indexing and filing vital statistics $ 28 00
Physicians reporting deaths and births and to state
40 75
Fees for licensing dogs
23 40
A. B. Pollard, treas., 1% tax collection fees
414 17
Paid damage done to sheep by dogs
10 00
Refund taxes
10 65
$ 526 97
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Campbell Fund
Expense
$ 264 71
Cemetery Fund
Expense
$ 193 15
$85706 68
Cash Balances
$ 98 13
Cemetery fund Campbell fund
453 31
General fund
1777 32
$2328 76
$88035 44
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Jan. 31, 1927 Liabilities
Town orders outstanding Feb. 1, 1927 (per-
manent loans)
$63300 00
Due Campbell fund (note)
5525 00
Due Individual Cemetery fund
266 97
Due Contingent Cemetery fund
7380 00
$76471 97
Assets
Uncollected taxes subject to abatement
$ 1690 99
Bank deposits, Fullerton and Piper account
175 00
Cash in bank 2328 76
$ 4194 75
Net liabilities Jan. 31, 1927
72277 22
$76471 97
Net liabilities Jan. 31, 1927
$72277 22
Net liabilities Jan. 31, 1926
70802 29
Increased liabilities
$ 1474 93
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AUDITORS' STATEMENT
We have examined the accounts of the town officers, and find them to be correct, and cash in bank corresponding to the balance shown on the treasurer's report.
L. V. CROCKER BESSIE P. RICHARDSON L. J. RICHARDSON Auditors
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF WHITING LIBRARY
The trustees of the Whiting Library herewith submit the financial report and the report of the Librarian for the year ending Jan. 31, 1927.
. We have been handicapped this year financially, because of inability to collect interest due on some of the mortgage loans. We hope this situation is temporary. It is embarrassing to us because it has restricted our purchase of books.
We have the very great pleasure of announcing through out report what is already known to those who visit the library, that through the generosity of Mr. George Holden a reading al- cove has been fitted up for the juvenile patrons of the library. The juvenile books have been placed in this alcove, a reading table and chairs suited to the children, and children's magazines as far as they are available. Mr. Holden has also donated funds so that a substantial addition to our list of children's books can be made each year. Mr. Holden makes this gift in honor of his mother.
A large number of books for adults has been added to the list in the library through the efforts of a committee of the Chester Review Club. A delightful entertainment was given through the efforts of this committee last fall, and the proceeds used to buy books. The selection of books included some of a different kind from that usually bought, but full of interest. We deeply appreciate these gifts.
Three of our rural schools are acting as distributing agen- cies for library books, and making it possible for citizens of Chester in the sections farthest from the village to have the benefits of our books. We are indeed anxious to have the library serve every possible person in every possible way.
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FINANCIAL REPORT
Receipts
Cash on hand, Feb. 1, 1926
$187 99
Town appropriation
400 00
Income from funds
336 57
Fines
46 00
Withdrawn from Savings Bank
100 00
$1070 56
Expenditures
Salary of librarian
$225 00
Janitor
111 20
Fuel
208 34
Lights and water
17 75
Books and periodicals
151 51
Repairs
231 01
Bond for trustees
15 00
Funds replaced
100 00
Sundries
7 37
Balance on hand
$1067 18 $ 3 38
The funds of the library are:
Chester orders
$1600 00
Mortgage loans
4800 00
Bonds
1000 00
Chester Savings Bank
200 00
$7600 00
PERCY H. BLAKE ALBERT W. HARVEY HENRY L. BALLOU
Trustees
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The 34th Annual Report of the Librarian of the Whiting Library for the Year Ending Jan. 31, 1927
Number of books in library, 5664; added by purchase, 33; the Ellen McGee Holden fund, 36; the Chester Review Club, 17; individual gifts, 30; circulation, 5394; adult fiction; non-fiction 552; young folks fiction; non-fiction 242.
The library was closed 25 days last summer when the walls were redecorated and the young folks' reading room made. This room with the two tables and four chairs, the gift of George J. Holden of Providence, R. I., in honor of his mother (Ellen McGee Holden) is very much appreciated and used by our younger readers. We have a fine list of eight magazines espe- cially for this room.
With a number of the best magazines on the table in the reading room for older ones. Books for school use have been taken out by teachers in five out-districts. We will be glad to have others take out and use in schools as many as they care to.
C. GINEVRA POLLARD, Librarian
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VITAL STATISTICS
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Births Registered in Town of Chester, 1926
Jan. 12 George Austin Hazen, son of Charles R. Hazen and Addie Frances Austin, Chester, Vt.
17 Beatrice Anne Wilder, daughter of Frank Wilder and Ethel Allen Wilder, Chester, Vt.
Feb. 25 Arlene Goodrich, daughter of Dana C. Goodrich and Ada M. Buffum, Chester, Vt.
Mar. 15 Ruth Irene Bliss, daughter of Raymond Bliss and Pearl Haseltine, Chester, Vt.
21 Earl Byron Thomas, son of Henry C. Thomas and Nona C. Patnode, Chester, Vt.
24 Abner Field Farrar, son of Harry A. Farrar and Beatrice Field, Chester, Vt.
25 Ruth Barbara Goodnough, daughter of Lynn L. Good- nough and Thalma M. Rushton, Bridgewater Cor- ners, Vt.
Apr. 22 Thelma Barbara Cole, daughter of George Munroe Cole and Bessie Elizabeth Blood, Chester, Vt.
June 1 Joyce Mildred Farrar, daughter of Raymond F. Farrar and Adelia V. Foster, Chester Depot, Vt.
29 Donald Merton Gates, son of Osborn George Gates and Margery Benson, Chester, Vt.
July 22 Etta Maxine Bennett, daughter of George E. Bennett and Ella M. Carlisle, Chester, Vt.
28 William David Bates, son of Ralph Edgar Bates and Bertha Josephine Karvonen, Chester, Vt.
Aug. 15 Rowena Marion Shattuck, daughter of Carroll D. Shattuck and Leona May H. Shattuck, Chester, Vt.
15 Roberta May Shattuck, daughter of Carroll D. Shat- tuck and Leona May H. Shattuck, Chester, Vt.
19 Faith Louise Hunsdon, daughter of John H. Hunsdon and Margaret E. H. Skinner, Chester, Vt.
20 Florence Lillian Goodrich, daughter of Dallas E. Goodrich and Hermie M. Holden, Chester, Vt.
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26 Donald Bernard Wilson, son of Frank T. Wilson and Margaret Hunter, Chester, Vt.
Sept. 11 Rene Henry Wright, son of Henry M. Wright and Leuretta S. Picard, Chester, Vt.
Oct. 20 Margaret Winifred Carlisle, daughter of Herbert Car- lisle and Mae Davis, Chester, Vt.
23 Shirley Mae Crocker, daughter of Lawton V. Crocker and Gertrude Parks, Chester, Vt.
24 Robert Alonzo Drury, son of Robert Alonzo Drury and Alice Fuller, Chester, Vt.
28 Lorraine Virginia Goldsmith, daughter of Wallis M. Goldsmith and Marjorie L. Edson, Chester, Vt.
Dec. 18 Junior Earle Beam, son of Clarence A. Beam and Edna M. Howard, Chester, Vt.
Marriages Registered in Town of Chester, 1926
Feb. 13 Clinton G. Perry, Chester, Vt., and Josephine R. Hobbs, Saco, Me.
Mar. 6 Glen Franklin Litchfield, Chester, Vt., and Irene Fanny Bingham, Chester, Vt.
May 11 Earl Manley Batchelder, Peru, Vt., and Rachel Eleanor Abbott, Chester, Vt.
15 George E. Bennett, Chester, Vt., and Ella Carlisle, Chester, Vt.
July 29 Walter G. Goodhue, Webster, N. H., and Pauline Phelps, Webster, N. H.
Aug. 8 Theodore R. Bailey, Claremont, N. H., and Elva Eva- line Wheeler, Chester, Vt.
11 Harry James Farr, Springfield, Vt., and Mary Abbie West, Chester Depot, Vt.
Sept. 4 Frank E. Harrington, Chester, Vt., and Claribell Wil- liams Rust, Beverly, Mass.
Oct. 16 Charles H. Merritt, Simonsville, Vt., and Thelma A. Balch, Chester, Vt.
Nov. 11 Uriah D. Wyman, Chester, Vt., and Hazel Isabel Mar- tin, Cavendish, Vt.
22 Lloyd H. Martin, Chester, Vt., and Evelina Benware,- Cavendish, Vt.
22 Ernest A. Duprey, Chester, Vt., and Ruth E. Benson, Chester, Vt.
22 Nelson E. Brooks, Chester, Vt., and Viola E. Butler, Chester, Vt.
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1
Deaths Registered in Town of Chester, 1926
Yrs. Mos. Dys.
Mar. 7 Clarence Ervine Meader, son of Arthur E. Meader and Laura E. Field, Chester, Vt. (last residence)
52
1 26
15 Loren Monroe Cole, son of Levi D. Cole and Caroline Smith, Chester, Vt. 64
7
7
28 Nancy Jane Wood Carlisle, daughter of Harvey Wood and Betsy Mason, Chester, Vt. 88
0 20
29 William Henry Blodgett, son of William A. Blodgett and Caroline Maynard, Ches- ter, Vt.
83
5 21
Apr. 4 Hazel Lottie Cole, daughter of Fayette E. Cole and Louise Parker, Chester, Vt. 6
7 16
5 Abner Field Farrar, son of Harry A. Farrar and Beatrice Field, Chester, Vt.
0
0
12
5 Henry Hall, son of Hiram Hall and Lucy Ann Goodell, Chester, Vt.
75
0
20
67
11 George Carley Howe, son of Norman Howe and Sarah A. Blanchard, Chester, Vt.
70
2
28
25 Walter C. Stuart, son of John Stuart and Mary Austin, Chester, Vt.
69
0
9
May 8 Katherine Agatha L. Harrington, Chester, Vt.
48
11
2
10 Frank F. Hunsdon, son of William Watson Hunsdon and Clara Jinks, Chester, Vt. ·
72
8
23
20 Akron F. Fish, son of Hiram Fish and Almira Perry, Chester, Vt.
79
11
27
25 Sarah White Davis, daughter of Mr. White and Frances Munger, Chester, Vt.
68
10
18
26 Frank A. Clark, son of Jeremiah Clark and Diana Pierce, Chester, Vt.
67
9
17
29 Sarah Jane Johnson Chandler, daughter of William Johnson and Arvilla Robinson, Chester, Vt.
75
3
19
31 Frank Dexter Martin, son of Dexter Martin and Charlotte Lee, Chester, Vt.
80
0
5
Deaths Registered in Town of Chester, 1926
Yrs. Mos. Dys.
June 15 Charles Henry Waterman, son of Volney Waterman and Sarah E. Wright, Chester, Vt.
70
0 21
16 Zina Herbert Howe, son of A. Howe and Sarah Stewart, Chester, Vt.
65
7 24
16 Richard Phineas Couburn, son of Merriel Couburn and Susan Fellows, Chester, Vt.
70
7 10
26 Evangelist Francis Duby, son of Nicceses Duby and Margretts Vegernough, Ches- ter, Vt. .
68
1 16
July
1 Donald Merton Gates, son of Osborn Geo. Gates and Margery Benson, Chester, Vt. 0
0
2
Aug. 8 Joseph P. Goodrich, son of Joseph Goodrich and Lucy Payne, Chester, Vt.
74
6
2
12 Mary Lizzie Derby, daughter of Haskell Derby and Roxanna Grout, Chester, Vt.
67
7
9
18 Chestina Cutler, daughter of Loami Cutler and Merriel House, Chester, Vt.
94
3
8
68
Sept. 3 Anna Pamelia Patch Hodge, daughter of Benjamin Patch and Sophia Willis, Ches- ter, Vt.
68
6
6
Oct. 2 Charles Perley Dodge, son of Perley W. Dodge and Sophia Phelps, Chester, Vt.
62
0
29
8 Josiah Gilson White, son of Ira B. White and Emily Buck, Chester, Vt.
78
4
7
11 Lana Gertrude Dawson, daughter of Manley S. Rawson and Laura Hall, Chester, Vt. 56
10
11
17 Martha Louisa Warren Whipple, daughter of Luther P. Warren and Louisa Barrett, Chester, Vt.
79
0
29
21 Harold C. Dorand, son of Urban F. Dorand and Mary Carlisle, Chester, Vt.
21
1 0
26 Robert Alonzo Drury, son of Robert A. Drury, and Alice Fuller, Chester, Vt.
0
0
2
Nov. 5 George E. Corbell, son of Napoleon Corbell and Hannah Fifield, Chester, Vt.
78
6
16
30 Clara E. Tufts, daughter of John Tufts and Mary A. Richardson, Chester, Vt.
67
0
0
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