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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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