Annual report of the town officers of the town of Springfield, Vt. for the year ending 1920, Part 4

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Summer Hill


Cornelia Olney (Elias Olney lot) $ 50 00


Cornelia Olney (A. G. Wash- burn lot) 50 00


J. A. Warner (Warner lot) 50 00


Ida L. Whitcomb (Oliver Put- nam lot) 50 00


Samuel L. Chipman 100 00


Mark A. Adams (Jane Ball lot) 50 00


Charles O. Fletcher estate


100 00


· Bertha Richmond 100 00


John C. and Wm. H. Loveland 100 00


Oakland


Charlotte F. Miller (Miller and Litchfield lot) $100 00


J. R. Philbrook, M. J. Grimes, G.


D. DeCamp, J. P. Niles and Gerald DeCamp 100 00


Pine Grove


·Joseph W. Leland $100 00


Sale of Lots $950 00


500 00


Trust funds for perpetual care have increased during year ending Jan. 31, 1920,


$1450 00


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RECAPITULATION


Balance by error


$ 457 06


2350 00


Town appropriations Interest on funds


941 36


Sale of lots and special work


758 75


Perpetual care


950 00


$5457 17


Paid Trustees Public funds


$ 950 00


Orders drawn 4326 46


$5276 46


Balance Feb. 1, 1920


$ 180 71


Orders outstanding No. 60, 64, 65 $9 54


Other liabilities 2 38


Total liabilities $ 11 92


82


Francis F. Parker Fund


Receipts for Year


Cash on hand $2173 66


Interest on


American Tel. & Tel. Co., bonds, Feb.,


Mar., Aug., Jan. 45 00


American Tel. & Tel. Co., bonds, Feb. 400 00


American Tel. & Tel. Co., bonds, June, Dec. 200 00


American Tel. & Tel. Co., bonds, Apr.,


July, Oct., Jan. 176 00


American Writing Paper Co., bond, July, Jan. 70 00


Adirondack Electric Power Co., stock, Apr., July, Oct., Jan. 30 00


City of Chelsea, Mass., bond, Mar., Sept. 120 00


Town of Chester, bond, July, Jan. 20 00


Town of Everett, bond, July, Jan. 40 00


Town of Johnston, R. I., July, Jan.


40 00


Village of Lyndonville, Vt., Mar., Sept.


40 00


Mergenthaler Linotype Co., stock, Apr., July, Oct., Jan. 60 00


New England Tel. & Tel. Co., stock, Apr. July, Oct., Jan. 238 00


John T. Slack Corp., bonds, Mar., Sept. 200 00


Town of Springfield, bonds, May, Nov. 560 00


Town of Springfield, notes, Jan. 577 92


Village of Springfield, bonds, Mar., Sept. 310 00


Carried forward


$5300 58


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Brought forward


$5300 58


Springfield, Mass., Street Railway Co., stock, July, Jan. 120 00


Village of Winooski, Vt., bond, July, Jan. 40 00


Village of Windsor, Vt., bond, July, Jan. 40 00


Springfield Savings Bank account, July, Jan. 44 52


Miscellaneous


1 00


$5,546 10


Expenditures


Lawrence & Wheeler, for bonds


$ 30 00


Town of Springfield, 6% school note, Mar. 24 2500 00


Rent of safe deposit box, 1 year 3 00


$2533 00


Investments and Securities on Hand


Jan. 1, 1920.


30 shares Springfield, Mass., Street Rail- way Co., stock $2550 00


5 shares Boston & Maine Railroad, stock 625 00


22 shares American Tel. & Tel. Co., stock 2816 00 3 shares American Tel. & Tel. Co., stock 282 00


34 shares New England Tel. & Tel. Co., stock


4250 00


6 shares Mergenthaler Linotype Co.,


stock 1200 00


3 Chelsea, Mass., bonds


3000 00


1 Everett, Mass., bond


1000 00


1 Winooski, Vt., bond


1000 00


1 Lyndonville, Vt., bond


1000 00


1 Windsor, Vt., bond 1000 00


Carried forward $18723 00


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Brought forward $18723 00


1 Johnston, R. I., bond 1000 00


1 American Writing Paper Co., bond 1000 00


4 John T. Slack Corp., bonds 4000 00


4 American Tel. & Tel. Co., bonds 4000 00


4 American Tel. & Tel. Co., bonds 400 00


5 shares preferred stock Adirondack Electric Power Co. 445 00


45 shares common stock Adirondack Electric Power Co. 1125 00


40 shares Pittsburg & Eastern Railway stock 700 00


Town of Springfield, Vt., 4% bonds 14000 00


Village of Springfield, Vt., 4% bonds 7000 00


Village of Springfield, Vt., 3% bonds


878 42


Town of Springfield, demand notes 10000 00


Town of Chester, school bond 475 90


Balance on hand, Springfield Savings


Bank, on interest 3013 10


$66760 42


M. E. STEARNS


Trustees


D. S. BROWNELL


F. Z. PRESTON


Francis F. Parker Fund


The gain in this accountfor the year 1919 is $3339 44


.


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Campbell Fund


-


Cash on hand Feb. 1st, 1919 $ 631 87


Jan. 13, 1920, Interest received on fund 13 orders given and paid


$881 87


90 00


Cash on hand Feb. 1, 1920 $791 87


Respectfully submitted, D. J. McDONALD W. H. H. SLACK FRED G. FIELD®


1 Commissioners.


Statement of Tax Rate


General town tax


80 cents


Town school tax 70 cents


Special highway


02 cents


State tax 40 cents


State school 10 cents


Highway 20 cents


222 cents


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Statement of Tax Collectors


W. H. Frazier


List


Unpaid


Collected


Abated


Due


1913


$ 16 79


$ 16 79


1914


146 71


66 24


$ 80 47


1915


505 37


238 88


266 49


1916


1516 54


1347 67


168 87


E. R. Purdy


List


Unpaid


Collected


Abated


Due


1917


$ 486 00


$ 3 40


$449 25


$ 33 62


1918


1057 86


41 72


815 97


200 17


1919


1834 77


123 99


601 78


The abatements on the 1918 list included soldiers.


There are taxes on the 1919 list of $129 76 which is uncollectable owing to ages, some under 21 and some over 70 years of age; also a few that are residents of other towns.


Statement of Assets and Liabilities


Assets


Cash on hand


$5926 41


Unpaid taxes


1351 40


Unpaid land rents


184 27


$7462 08


Liabilities


Outstanding indebtedness as per Treas-


urer's report


$124508 68


Interest


1870 10


$126378 78


87


Brought forward


$126378 78


Outstanding Orders


School account


$1236 85


Selectmen's account


943 32


Road commissioners' account


17 00


Overseer's account


18 50


Cemetery account


11 92


.


Total liabilities


$128606 37


Total assets


7462 08


Excess of liabilities over assets, Feb. 1, 1920 $121144 29


Deduct excess liabilities over assets, Feb.


1,1919 116421 01


Increase in liabilities for the year $ 4723 28


Trustees of Public Funds


In Account with the Town of Springfield


Cr.


By cash, interest, paid by Town of Spring- field on Campbell fund loan, $5000 00, Jan. 1, 1919, to Jan. 1, 1920 $250 00


By cash, interest paid by Town of Spring- field, on Library and Cemetery trust funds, loaned at 41/2%, Jan. 1, 1919, to Jan. 1, 1920 162 00


By cash Springfield Savings Bank, dividend on deposit, Cemetery trust funds 354 78


$766 78


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Dr.


To cash, paid to Springfield Libra- ry, interest on Dana fund, $2000 00, at 41/2%, Jan. 1, 1919, to Jan. 1, 1920 $ 90 00


To cash paid commissioners of Campbell fund, interest on Campbell fund, $5000 00, at 5%, Jan. 1, 1919, to Jan, 1, 1920 250 00


To cash paid Cemetery Commis- sioners, interest on Cemetery trust funds, to Jan. 1, 1920 426 78


$766 78


Amount of Trust funds, Feb. 1, 1919 Received since that time:


$16643 00


J. W. Leland, care of lot


100 00


Elias Olney, care of lot


50 00


A. I. Miller, care of lot 50 00


Jairus Litchfield, care of lot 50 00


Alphonso Washburn, care of lot


50 00


Jane Ball, care of lot 50 00


C. O. Fletcher, care of lot


100 00


Philbrook, Grimes, DeCamp and Niles, care of lot 100 00


James Warner, care of lot


50 00


Oliver Putnam, care of lot


50 00


Samuel Chipman, care of lot


100 00


John C. Loveland and William H. Love- land, care of lot 100 00


Bertha Richmond, care of lot


100 00


Amasa Woolson fund 2974 65


$20567 65


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These funds are loaned as follows :


Campbell fund to Town of Springfield $5000 00


Dana library fund to town of Springfield 2000 00


Part of Cemetery fund to


Town of Springfield 1600 00


Amasa Woolson fund, in- vested in U. S. Government Bonds 2884 73


Balance of Amasa Woolson


fund, deposited in Spring- field Savings bank 89 92


Balance of Cemetery fund,


deposited in Springfield Savings bank 8993 00


$20567 65


E. J. FULLAM


M. E. STEARNS


H. H. BLANCHARD


Trustees of Public Funds


90


Town Library Statement


Receipts


By cash in Treasurer's hands, Feb. 1, 1919 $135 93 By cash received from Town of Springfield, appropriation 2500 00


By cash received from Town of Springfield, interest on loan 153 52


By cash received from "A Friend" 300 00


By cash received interest on Dana fund 90 00


By cash received interest on Chase fund


42 95


By cash received from loan of duplicate fiction 223 50


By cash received from books sold 6 69


By cash received from Altrurian club 3 50


By cash received from fines, dues, etc. 439 83


$3895 92


Expenditures


To cash paid for books, from


Dana fund $ 90 00


To cash paid for books, from Chase fund 42 95


To cash paid for books, from 1


Duplicate pay collection 223 50


To cash paid for books, from general collection 549 64


$ 906 09


To cash paid for magazines and papers 188 69


To cash paid for librarian and assistants 1547 22


To cash paid for care and transportation of North Springfield books 72 80


Carried forward $2714 80


91


Brought forward


To cash paid for supplies


$2714 80 60 15


To cash paid for binding books and maga- zines 188 00


To cash paid for freight, express and post- age 17 22


To cash paid for janitor


87 00


To cash paid for fuel


273 10


To cash paid for lighting


179 76


To cash paid for water rent


6 00


To cash paid for miscellaneous expense


17 02


To cash paid for insurance


53 31


To cash paid for repairs


97 71


To cash on hand


201 85


$3895 92


H. H. BLANCHARD, Treasurer.


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Librarian's Report


To the Trustees of the Springfield Town Library and to the Public :-


The following is a report of the work of the library for the year ending January 31, 1920 :-


There were 10229 books in the library February 1, 1919. Seven hundred fifteen books were acquired during the year, of which 565 were purchased, 9 were gifts and 141 were transferred from the pay collection of duplicate fiction. Two hundred eighty- four old and worn books were removed from circula- tion. There are now 10660 books listed.


Fifty-two thousand three hundred ninety books and magazines were loaned in the 292 days the li- brary was open to the public, an average of 179 per day, and an increase of 1490 over last year's circula- tion. Four hundred twenty-four cards were issued to new patrons.


The library was closed from March 24 to April 7 because of the influenza epidemic.


One hundred eighteen books were in the pay col- lection of duplicate fiction February 1, 1919. One hundred forty-eight were added to the collection dur- ing the year, and 141 were transferred to the free shelves of the library, leaving 125 now in the collec- tion. Two hundred twenty-three dollars and fifty cents was realized from the loan of these books. This money was used to purchase new books.


Two thousand twenty-five books were sent to the delivery station at North Springfield from Feb- ruary 1 to October 15, 1919, in fortnightly deliveries. Because of difficulty in obtaining any one to trans-


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port the books back and forth every two weeks it was decided to convert the delivery station into a branch library. That is to send a greater number of books up at a time, to be kept and circulated from Mrs. Kendall's and the schoolhouse, instead of charg- ing the books here at the library on individual cards. This change gives the people a chance to select from the books instead of sending lists to us. The change has been successful and 942 books were circulated from October 15, to date. Much credit is due Mr. and Mrs. Kendall in working out this plan, and to Sadie Olney and Beatrice Ward for their work with the books at the schoolhouse.


Two magazine clubs for people outside the vil- lage were supplied with magazines from our reading room tables.


The garden flower exhibit held in June under the auspices of the Cosmopolitan club was a delight to all who saw it.


In July Mrs. Bradford H. Harlow presented to the library a very fine collection of birds in memory of Dr. Ebenezer A. Knight, the collector. Dr. Knight was a prominent citizen and leading physician in Springfield for 26 years, 1846-1872. The collection is now crowded into a corner of one of the reading rooms, near the collection presented to the library by Mrs. H. H. Blanchard, three years ago. It is hoped that some time we will have more room so these col- lections may have a more prominent place.


The over-crowded condition of the whole li- brary is deplorable. The stacks are over-crowded and the children's department is badly congested. The last available space in the reading room for a book case has been used this year. In September


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Miss Slack, who had been an efficient assistant at the library for more than a year, resigned her position. The vacancy was filled by Meryl Johnson.


In behalf of the library I extend thanks to each and every one, who, by gift of money, books, maga- zines, personal services, or other tokens of apprecia- tion and interest, have helped in the work.


ELIZABETH M. MCCARTHY,


Librarian.


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Town Treasurer's Report


For Year Ending Feb. 1, 1920


Feb. 1, 1919


Dr. Cr.


Dr. cash on hand


$ 5861 22


Dr. to miscellaneous re- ceipts 176441 95


Dr. to cash proceeds from


notes 92500 00


Cr. by paid on bonds $ 5000 00


Cr. by paid on notes


87700 00


Cr. by orders other than above 176176 76


Feb. 1, 1920


Cr. cash on hand


5926 41


$274803 17 $274803 17


Feb. 1, 1919


There were outstanding


bonds and notes including


Library and Cemetery


Trustfunds to the amount of $124708 68


Issued during the fiscal


year 92500 00


Notes have been paid to the amount of $87700 00


Bonds have been paid to the amount of


5000 00


There is now outstanding


124508 68


$217208 68 $217208 68 .


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.


Of which bonds represent $25000 00 Of which unpaid notes represent 99508 68


There has been paid over to the trustee of public mon- ies the following Ceme- tery cash :-


Perpetual care of lots $ 950 00 $ 950 00


CASH ACCOUNT-DEBIT


Feb. 1, 1919 Cash on hand


$ 5861 22


Selectmen :


Town and state school list, 1919


89133 76


Tax collector 795 06


W. E. Dix, use of truck


1701 31


Rent of town clerk's office


150 00


Dog account


791 45


Town hall account


1530 90


Refund expenses, Hugh McGrigan


83 30


Bridge plank


11 08


Gravel


39 75


Grass


10 00


Scrap iron


15 00


Hearse


35 00


One-half income of town scales


30 48


Refund on license of auto


50


School :


Town school tax, 1919


47237 44


Tax collector


416 37


Tuition


1214 00


Land rents


89 02


Manual training course


3024 48


Carried forward


$152170 12


97


Brought forward


$152170 12


Grass 5 00


Overpayment Houghton Mifflin Co.


1 30


Interest Gaylord fund


58 75


Books sold


15 00


Rent stalls


4 00


State Aid:


Superintendent schools


1825 00


School nurse


150 00


Transportation


469 78


Teachers


533 00


Junior schools


500 00


Vocational


400 00


Rebate


440 97


Allotment Federal funds


1526 44


Overseer:


Care minor children


10 00


Refund from Mrs. Hattie R. G. Sargeant


on funeral expenses Clayton O. Gould


37 75


Refund, board, Minerva Taylor


756 00


Team work and labor on highway


83 25


Pasturing 10 00


Stock, meat, milk, cream, plums and pears 2166 63 Road Commissioner :


Town tax, 1919


3000 87


Tax collector 66 68


One-fourth village highway tax


3961 02


Town vote for rural special work


500 00


State tax for rural special work


672 49


Special vote for regular work


1000 00


W. E. Dix, use of truck


1127 12


Nails for bridges


36 90


Parker Hill appropriation


500 00


Cutting brush


48 75


Transportation school children


20 00


Carried forward


$172096 82


98


Brought forward $172096 82 1 54


Old bridge plank


Refund on orders paid by road commis- sioner for work at Fair grounds 58 00


Refund cash paid by road commissioner for trucks, roller and gravel 1709 20


Gravel and use of truck 42 80


Work with truck and material


18 00


Labor and teams, Putnam bridge


97 22


Agent State Highway Commissioner:


5% tax


948 74


State aid


780 74


Town vote


1000 00


Winter Roads :


Town vote


1000 00


Resurfacing :


Town vote


500 00


Cemetery :


Interest on note


414 58


Interest on Trust funds


291 09


Interest on Cemetery funds


235 69


Special work, M. L. Lawrence


4 00


Appropriation, Soldier's graves


300 00


Special appropriation


2000 00


Sale of lots


465 00


Special work and sale of Lots


289 75


Balance of appropriation


50 00


Cash for notes issued


92500 00


$274803 17


CASH ACCOUNT-CREDIT


By selectmen's orders paid, (interest, bonds and notes) $75408 19


Carried forward


$75408 19


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I


Brought forward $75408 19


By selectmen's orders paid, (bridge work) 4673 31 By selectmen's orders paid, (other than above) 76699 03


By school orders paid, (interest, bonds and notes) 23856 82


By school orders paid, (other than above) 60957 73


By overseer's orders paid 6502 29


By road commissioner's orders paid (reg- ular work) 11210 31


By road commissioner's orders paid, (re- surfacing)


By road commissioner's orders paid, (pa- trol) 1045 67


By road commissioner's orders paid,


(winter road work) 394 76


By road commissioner's orders paid, (spe- cial work) 1161 57


By cemetery orders paid


4316 92


By agent state highway commissioner's orders paid


2650 16


By cash on hand


5926 41


$274803 17


TOWN NOTES


Rate


Int. due


No. % Name


Amount


2-1-20


67 4 Anna E. Green $2000 00


53, 54 5 Trustees Campbell fund 5000 00 $ 270 83


55, 56, 57,58 5 Trustees Gay- lord fund 1175 00


58 75


Carried forward


$8175 00 $329 58


100


Brought forward


$8175 00


$329 58


71 3 Jennie M. Chynoweth


1000 00


2 50


72 3 Jennie M. Chynoweth


1000 00


2 50


73 3 Jennie M. Chynoweth


1000 00


2 50


74 3 Jennie M. Chynoweth


1000 00


2 50


84 5 Leon A. Cutler, trustee


Booth fund


500 00


25 00


111 4 Anna E. Green


1500 00


116 41/2 Trustees Public funds 3600 00


13 50


117 4 Cemetery funds


4975 00


Paid


118 6 Library funds


2558 68


12 79


119 4 S. A. Stickney


500 00


20 00


120 4 Elizabeth O. Fisher


1000 00


40 00


121 4 Eliazabeth O. Fisher


1000 00


40 00


200


4 Sabra L. White


800 00


32 00


213


4 Mrs. Harriett A. Lock-


wood


2000 00


73 33


231


6


Trustees Parker fund


5000 00


300 00


237


6


Trustees Parker fund


2500 00


150 00


248


6 Trustees Parker fund


2500 00


140 84


225


5 Springfield Savings


20000 00


241 66


242


5


Springfield Savings


5000 00


60 41


243


5 Springfield Savings Bank


5000 00


60 42


253


4 Ada A. Buss


3900 00


156 00


261 5 Springfield Savings Bank


5000 00


54 17


262


5


Springfield Savings Bank


5000 00


29 16


263


5 Springfield Savings Bank


5000 00


50 00


264


5 Springfield Savings Bank


5000 00


21 52


Carried forward


$94508 68 $1860 38


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Bank


Bank


Brought forward 265 5 Springfield Savings Bank


$94508 68 $1860 38


5000 00 9 72


$99508 68 $1870 10


Town bonds


$25000 00


$124508 68 $1870 10


LAND RENT DUE FEB. 1st, 1920


Lucy A. M. Allen, 1 year


$ 7 45


Carroll G. Bingham, 5 years


6 83


Fred Charles Davis, 1 year


15


J. C. F. Harris, 2 years, 4 months


15 56


E. O. Hopkins, 4 years, 10 months


50 84


John Johnson, 1 year


18 28


C. M. Lovell, 2 years


17 48


I. C. Parks, 4 months


1 35


E. B. Shippey, 1 year


15


Charles P. Smith, 1 year


60


F. E. Thompson or successor, 21/2 months


39


G. L. Witherell, balance due


51 83


Louis Brown, 2 years


6 46


Herreshoff Mfg. Co., balance due


2 73


Victor Brogan, 1 year


4 17


$184 27


TRUSTEES PUBLIC FUNDS


Bequests :


Joseph W. Leland


$ 100 00


Elias Olney


50 00


A. I. Miller and Jairus Litchfield


100 00


Carried forward


$250 00


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Brought forward


$250 00


Alphonzo G. Washburn 50 00


Jane A. Ball 50 00


Charles O. Fletcher


100 00


J. R. Philbrook and Myron Grimes, G. D. DeCamp, J. P. Niles and Gerald De- Camp


100 00


James M. Warner


50 00


Oliver Putnam


50 00


Samuel L. Chipman


100 00


Bertha Richmond


100 00


Emma Loveland


100 00


$950 00


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Russian Orphanage


In 1915 Archbishop Evodokin, head of the Rus- sian Church in America, came here and established what he called a Woman's Monastery and Orphanage for the Russian church in America, and installed Rev. Mother Paulina (Paulina Fedoronko) a Car- patho Russian sister of charity, at the head of the institution. Since then she has been given the title of Abbess, which gives her authority over the whole property and institution.


The archbishop agreed at that time that if chil- dren that were sent here, were taken into the public schools the church would pay as tuition to the town, the same price that the town receives for children coming from out of town. Two members of the board of school directors were notified of the state- ment of the archbishop at that time and did not ob- ject to the arrangement. Up to February 1, 1920, no bill has ever been presented to the church, mon- astery or orphanage by the board of school directors for said tuitions. Your selectmen have called the attention of members of the school board to this con- dition on several occasions, and about a year ago be- gan investigating with the result that we have found that in July, 1917, Archbishop Evodokin was called back to Russia on account of war conditions there and has not returned to this country. Up to that time the orphanage was supplied with sufficient funds to support the children and pay the tuition. After the archbishop left, the church in this country was split in factions, and the affairs of the orphan- age was lost sight of.


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One of the selectmen went to New York last De- cember and attended a Carpatho Russian congress, and was invited to speak before about five hundred priests and delegates and explain the condition of the orphanage in Springfield. These priests and dele- gates came from a large number of Russian church- es in America. At the close of his remarks the en- tire audience stood up and pledged themselves to the support of the monastery and orphanage, and to see that the town is reimbursed for its expenses for the institution, and in a vote then taken they asked that their thanks be extended to the citizens of the town of Springfield for their kindness and generosity to the children. Considerable money has already come to the Rev. Mother Paulina since said Congress, most of which had to be used for fuel, food and clothes for the children. Since February 1 the or- phanage has received a bill from the school board for the last half year's tuition, which the selectmen have approved at $246.00 and the town treasurer has re- ceived and given his receipt for the same.


Since Archbishop Evodokin was called back to Russia the orphanage has been very pressed for money with which to support nearly seventy chil- dren, and we recognize that the Rev. Mother Paulina has done a heroic work in getting the money to sup- port so many children and we believe that few Amer- ican women could have done it, but we are surprised to find a majority of the Russian contingent in this town led by Rev. Varlashkin taking advantage of these poor helpless children, and it was only by strict orders of the court that he was compelled to turn over to the orphanage more than eleven hundred dol- lars and now it is represented to us that the Rev. Varlashkin and the St. Trinity Brotherhood are ow- ing the monastery more than three hundred dollars


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for coal and heat for the priest and Brotherhood alone, aside from other indebtedness. If this can be collected it will help pay over two thousand dollars that the orphanage owes the town on back tuitions.


SELECTMEN OF SPRINGFIELD,


by Fred C. Davis, Chairman.


TOWN TRUCKS


Your Selectmen report the results of buying two 21/2 ton self hoisting trucks and the work done by them has been very satisfactory. While the follow- ing figures are not absolutely accurate they give the results of the purchasing and the operating of these trucks in a general way. The trucks were used the first six months after delivery by the Town, Village and State Highway work 1368 hours. They have been rented out when not in use for town work, 1355 hours at a rental of $2.25 an hour, which is about 20% less than 21/2 ton trucks without the dumping hoist can be hired in this town. We find that the expense for hauling one yard of gravel four and one-half miles with trucks cost 54 cents. We find that haul- ing the same amount of gravel the same distance with teams costs $4.00. It would have been impossi- ble for us to have hired teams or trucks to do the town work this year without paying prohibitive prices.


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The purchase price of the trucks $6056 00 The operating expense for 2723 hours 2341 78 Sundries which have been purchased for the trucks, war tax, freight and regis- tration 718 35


Repairs on trucks about


153 27


Adjustment on tires 144 04


$9412 44


Use of trucks for Town, Village and State


highway work, 1368 hours at $2.25 per hour $3078 00


Rental of trucks, 1355 hours at $2.25 3048 75


$6126 75


Had the town and village hired trucks or horses to do the work it would have cost


extra more than $3284 69


$9412 44


SELECTMEN OF SPRINGFIELD


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Report of Special Committee on Town Management Plan


Voters of the Town of Springfield :-


Your special committee, appointed at the last annual town meeting to investigate and report as to advisability of Springfield's adopting the Town Man- ager plan, present the following report :-


We find that considerably over 100 towns and cities in the United States are using the Town Man- ager plan or a similar plan. We furthermore find, almost without exception, that this plan has proved a success in the communities where it has been tried out, resulting either in equal or increased efficiency at a smaller tax rate, or in a greatly increased effi- ciency with the same tax rate. The only cases we have found where the plan has not been a success is where local politicians received the appointment.


We recommend the Town of Springfield vote to accept Chapter 174 of the Public Statutes of the State of Vermont, which places the Town of Spring- field on record in favor of the Town Manager plan for the ensuing year.


We recommend that the voters instruct and re- quest the Selectmen to appoint to this position an out-of-town man with proper experience and train- ing.


We recommend that the selectmen be author- ized and instructed, in case the Village of Springfield also votes in favor of a Town Manager, to unite with the Village trustees and secure a competent man, who will handle the work for both Town and Village, the expense being divided between Town and Village on some equitable basis.




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