USA > Vermont > Bennington County > Bennington > Village of Bennington, Vermont annual report 1938 > Part 2
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Rutland Railroad Company, freight 124 07
Israel Laflamme, sand and gravel 113.15
Wills Insurance Agency, insurance on reservoir house, barn and employes 80 56
Jchn Winslow, labor and supplies 56 20
W. B. Shea, Treasurer, transferred to renewal fund account 1500 00
21 75
Pittsburg Meter Company, repairs to meter
15 55
Village of Bennington Cemetery Dept., lime
29 96
Arthur Henson, reimbursement of tools
30 00
New England Tel. & Tel. Co., tel. service
14 00
Roy Perry, sharpening lawn mowers
10 60
Moffitt's Welding Service, thawing water pipes 20 00
Bruce Cole, sharpening lawn mowers 5 50
5 00
Harrington's Express, cartage 10 30
4 95
Hersey Meter Company, repairs to meter
5 52
National Meter Company, repairs to meter
4 29
Neptune Meter Company, repairs to meter
3 75
Moffitt's Welding Service, labor
3 00
J. E. Mattison, labor on safe
1 06
American Railway Express, express
Village of Bennington, 1/2 cost of office expenses for period ending March 1, 1938
1113 82
$ 3622 93
Supplies
R. D. Wood & Company, cast iron pipe $ 1468 45
590 71
Aird-Don Company, supplies 290 34
Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co., supplies 314 61
122 35
A. H. Winslow, Inc., supplies
40 47
Builders Iron Foundry, charts for Venturi meter
12 68
James Hogan, old lead 6 90
14 08
Fred Williams, old lead
168 43
National Meter Cc., meters
$ 3029 02
Buffalo Meter Company, repairs to meter
31 50
Edward Silver, Chief, men stationed at fire houses
Joseph Pierce, sharpening lawn mowers
Warren Pipe Company, cast iron pipe
Adams Hardware Co., supplies
21
ANNUAL REPORT-1938
Supplies for W. P. A. Project
Lafayette Lyons, dynamite
$ 35 00
Bennington Office Supply Company, exploders 49 76
7 83
F. L. Potter, tools
53 19
Davey and Waite, kerosene
47 97
H. M. Tuttle Company, trucking
2 90
Robert Dempsey, labor and supplies
$ 196 65
Supplies for New Reservoir and Repairs to Reservoir No. 1
M. J. Burrington, Jr., pipe $ 134 97
142 79
H. M. Tuttle Company, cement and brick
Adams Hardware Company, fence 162 44
23 75
George Burgess, gravel
26 53
A. J. Dewey, lumber
24 50
H. E. Estes, paint
36 49
A. H. Winslow, Inc., supplies
29 70
Israel Laflamme, gravel
10 40
H. W. Myers & Son, supplies
33 80
T. A. Carpenter & Sons, Inc., supplies
$ 625 37
Payroll orders for period ending March 1, 1938
Disbursements for 12 months ending March 1, 1938, as shown by payrolls
$ 1121 79
General work
67 49
Supplies
335 50
New Services
340 00
Care of Lake Hancock
1344 65
Maintenance of reservoir and springs
567 05
Work at new reservoir
$ 3776 48
W. P. A. Project
Labor sponsored by village for water main extensions on the following streets:
Franklin Lane, Imperial Ave., Grandview,
Spring St., Hamlin Ave., Jefferson Ave.,
Depot St., Pratt St. and Maple St.
459 35
$ 4375 00
$ 4235 83
22
VILLAGE OF BENNINGTON
Summary
Payroll orders
$
4375 00
Balance from last audit 110 51
$
4485 51
Disbursements $ 4235 83
Unexpended balance 249 68
$ 4485 51
W. B. SHEA, Treasurer In Account with Cemetery Fund Dr.
W. P. Hogan, Clerk, current collections .$ 602 75
Perpetual care 332 35
Transferred from General Account
319 25 $ 1254 35
Cr.
By Trustees' orders for current year
1254 35
W. B. SHEA, Treasurer In Account with Water Department Dr.
1937
March Balance as shown by last audit $ 8939 78 Water rents in clerk's hands as shown by last audit 640 40
Water rents collected from March 1st to March 31, 1937 461 01 Cash deposited by clerk to March 1, 1938 31,889 17 $ 32,990 58
$ 41,930 36
Cr.
1937
March Paid outstanding orders . . $ 2,539 77 Paid orders for current
year 29,579.86 32,119 63
Balance $ 9,810 73
23
ANNUAL REPORT-1938
W. B. SHEA, Treasurer In Account with Renewal Fund
Dr.
1937
March Balance as shown by last audit
1086 72
Sept. 30 Water Commissioner's or- der No. 3351 $ 1500 00
Interest to Jan. 1, 1938
23 85
1523 85
*$ 2610 57
"No current orders drawn against this account
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON IN ACCOUNT WITH VILLAGE OF BENNINGTON BONDS AND COUPONS
1937
Nov. 15 To order No. 8859 (part) $ 20,000.00
By Bonds Nos. 21 to 40, inclusive
$ 20,000.00
$ 20,000.00
$ 20,000.00
1937
May 15 To order No. 8541 $ 1,635.00
To Nov. 15, 1936 coupons outstanding 22.50
By November 15, 1936 coupons paid .. By May 15, 1937 coupons paid
$ 22.50
1,635.00
$ 1,657.50 $ 1,657.50
Nov.15 To order No. 8859 (part) $ 1,635.00
By November 15, 1937 coupons paid . .
$ 1,635.00
$ 1,635.00 $ 1,635.00
BONDED DEBT
41% per cent refunding bonds dated May 15. 1932, which is due Nov. 15, 1938, $20,000 $ 20,000.00
11/2 per cent refunding bonds dated Nov. 15, 1936, of which are due Nov. 15. 1939, $20,000-Nov. 15, 1940, $20,000- Nov. 15, 1941, $20,000-Nov. 15, 1942, $20,000-Nov. 15, 1943, $18,000
98,000.00
1937
24
VILLAGE OF BENNINGTON
Report of the Auditors
We. the undersigned, your auditors, have attended to the duties of our office and report as follows:
We have examined the accounts and vouchers of your Trustees, Water Commissioners, Clerk, Collector and Treasurer, and find them correct as herein reported.
We have cancelled all orders paid by the Treasurer, drawn by the Trustees and Water Commissioners, also 20 four and one-half per cent $1000 refunding bonds Nos 21 to 40 inclusive.
We have also cancelled the following coupons:
20 $1000 41/2% refunding bonds, Nos 21 to 40 inclusive . .$ 20,000.00
1 coupon at $22.50, due, paid and cancelled Nov. 15, 1936
22.50
98 coupons at $7.50, due paid and cancelled Nov. 15, 1937 735.00
40 coupons at $22.50, due paid and cancelled Nov. 15, 1937 900.00
98 coupons at $7.50, due paid and cancelled Nov. 15, 1937 735.00
40 coupons at $22.50, due paid and cancelled Nov. 15. 1937
900.00
The following is a statement of the financial condition of the Village as we find it March 1, 1938, also a comparison of same with one year ago.
Assets
1938
1937
Bal. in General Fund
$
3,601.67
$ 2,489.26
Bal. in Highway
1,172.61
197.79
Street Payrolls
690.63
169.33
Sewer Payrolls
57.39
17.45
Road Oiling Payroll
31.71
Uncollected Taxes
19,705.46
24,060.38
Putnam Hose Property
3,500.00
3,500.00
International Truck
2,069.99
2,069.99
Snow Blade for Truck
401.29
401.29
Police Car
334.00
Unpaid Sidewalk Assessments
3,801.61
3,923.27
Berkshire Street Railway
21,909.24
21,909.24
Village of Old Bennington assessment)
(dumping ground
50.00
50.00
State of Vermont, appropriation for sewer con- struction
2,000.00
State of Vermont, winter maintenance account
343.00
$ 59,668.60
$ 58,788.00
25
ANNUAL REPORT-1938
Liabilities
The First National Bank of Boston, 41/2% re- funding bonds issued May 15, 1932, acct. Water Dept. $25,000; acct. General Fund $35,000)
20,000.00
40,000.00
First National Bank of Boston, 11/2% refund- ing bonds issued Nov. 15, 1936
98,000.00
98,000.00
County National Bank, avail order No. 8432, Feb. 5, 1937
2,800.00
County National Bank, avail order No. 8452, Mar. 2, 1937
1,500.00
4,294.69
3,292.90
Outstanding orders
Complying with vote of annual village meeting of 1937, wherein a tax of 121/2 cents on the dollar of the Grand List was voted to pur- chase a recreational center and swimming pool
4,500.00
$126,794.69
$145,592.90
Total assets
59,668.60
58,788.00
Net debt of village
$ 67,126.09
$ 86,804.90
Apparent decrease during year
$ 19,678.81
GENERAL FUND ACCOUNT Outstanding Orders
9022
Wm. B. Shea
101 52
9024 Edward Silver
40 00
9025
Myers Auto Sales, Inc.
502 00
9027 Rutland Railroad
3 80
9028
Cities Service Oil Company
11 90
9029 Redfield Norcross
42 52
9030
New England Tel. & Tel.
360 00
9031
President and Trustees Salary
18 00
9033
Serviced Products Company
8 00
9038 Twin State Gas & Electric Co.
833 86
9040 Chas. Sausville
150 00
9041 Wm. Braisted
24 15
9042 Robert Dempsey
34
9043 Guy Morse
88 00
9046
Hilda Hurley
95 83
9047
Wm. P. Hogan
$ 3122 08
9032
Arthur Watson
16 29
9034 Giles Harbour
115 50
9026 F. R. Paddock
43 92
9023 F. Howard Ferguson
334 00
296 45
26
VILLAGE OF BENNINGTON
HIGHWAY ACCOUNT
9035
Israel LaFlamme
56 63
9036 Morris Levin
93 75
9037 Davey & Waite
22 23
9039 Harry Clark, payroll 1000 00
$ 1172 61
WATER DEPARTMENT
3408 Village of Bennington
1113 82
3409 President and Commissioner's salary
315 00
3410 W. P. Hogan
95 83
3411 Grover Lyons
190 00
3412
Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co.
85 51
3413
New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co.
2 50
3414 Rutland Railroad Co. .
4 79
3415 Moffitt's Welding Service
20 00
3416 Payroll order
125 00
$ 1952 45
RECAPITULATION OF DEPARTMENTS
Department
Gross
Credit
Net Cost
Fire
12,820.55
$ 184.51
$ 12,636.04
Police
10,976.53
263.60
10,712.93
Street Lighting
8.606.43
8,606.43
Sewer
2,400.07
2,400.07
Miscellaneous
14,071.47
14,071.47
Supplies
2,357.33
2,357.33
Annual and Special Village meet- ings
1,269.20
1,269.20
Cemetery
1,254.35
935.10
319.25
Salary and usual appro.
5,170.71
425.00
4,745.71
Refunding village and interest
indebtedness
23,699.19
23,699.19
Reimbursements
147.46
147.46
Road oiling
5,848,07
500.00
5,348.07
W. P. A.
7,280.32
7,280.32
Highway account
15,400.00
1,054.10
14,345.90
Special highway
4,729.00
1,123.50
3,605.50
Highway bills
5,333.08
549.15
4,783.93
$121,363.76
$5,034.96
$116,328.80
To provide for the running expenses of the Village for the com- ing year and to pay obligations maturing it will be necessary to raise a tax of 2.45 cents on the dollar.
I. F. WAITE ARTHUR ELWELL
KENNETH CLAYTON
Auditors
27
ANNUAL REPORT-1938
Budget
Fixed expense of the Village for the year ending March 1, 1938.
Interest
$ 4,000.00
Sewer maintenance
3,000.00
Fire Department
11,000.00
Salaries and app.
6,000.00
Police Department
11,000.00
Village meetings and elections
1,500.00
Street Lighting
10,500.00
Street oiling
4,000.00
Miscellaneous
14,000.00
Bonds due Nov. 15. 1938
20,000.00
Materials, tools, W. P. A. projects
4,000.00
$ 89,000.00 Tax rate $2.45
Comparison of net debt of Village for the past six years
4444
EF
1932 $160,632.67
1933 $127,217.33
1934 $126,431.17
1935 $105,012.58
1936 $86,804.89
1937 $67,126.09
WARNING
The legal voters of the Village of Bennington are hereby notified and warned to meet at the State Armory in said Village of Ben- nington on Tuesday, March 15, 1938, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon to transact the following business:
Article 1 .- To elect a president, a clerk, a treasurer, a collector of taxes, a corporation attorney, three auditors, three trustees, two water commissioners.
Article 2 .- To see if the Village will vote to endorse daylight sav- ing, so-called, for the summer of 1938 and so instruct its trustees, this question to be determined by ballot.
Article 3 .- To consider the re- ports of the officers of said Village for the past year.
Article 4 .- To see what sum the Village will vote to appropriate to pay the Bennington Fire De- partment.
Article 5 .- To see if the Village will vote to pay the chief of its fire department the sum of $200 and to each of two assistant engineers the sum of $100.
Article 6 .- To see if the Village will vote to reimburse the mem- bers of its Fire Department for their 1938 poll and flood taxes.
Article 7 .- To see if the Village will vote to pay the poll and old age assistant tax of all honorably discharged members of the fire de- partment who have served 15 years or more as active members of said department and reached the age of fifty or over.
Article 8 .- To see what sum the Village will vote to pay its president, trustees and water com- missioners for the year ensuing.
Article 9 .- To see what sum the Village will vote to appropri- ate for the construction and repair of curbs, gutters and sidewalks in
and upon streets in said Village during the year ensuing.
Article 10 .- To see what sum the Village will vote to pay its Clerk in addition to the sum pre- scribed in its by-laws for his serv- ices as such Clerk for the year en- suing.
Article 11 .- To see if the Village will vote to appropriate $200 for the Chamber of Commerce, said sum to be used exclusively for the purpose of advertising the Village of Bennington, this question to be determined by ballot.
Article 12 .- To see if the Vil- lage will vote to instruct, author- ize, and or empower its trustees to borrow in anticipation of taxes, a sum not to exceed $35,000 to de- fray Village expenses and to issue, execute, and or deliver the note or notes of the Village thereof.
Article 13 .- To see what sum the Village will appropriate to and towards the extension of the Vil- lage sanitary sewer system and for the purpose of extension of the mains of its water system.
Article 14 .- To see if the Village will vote to authorize the auditors of the Village to employ the serv- ices of an accountant from the of- fice of the auditors of accounts as provided in No. 55 of the Acts of 1937 to conduct an audit of the ac- counts of the Village.
Article 15 .- To see if the voters of the Village of Bennington will vote to make all water rents owed or to be owed to said Village a lien in the nature of a real estate tax upon the real estate so supplied with water, whether such rates, rents or charges be charged in the first instance against the owner or occupant thereof. Such lien to be enforced in the same manner and to the same effect as a lien for taxes under the charter of said
Village of Bennington, the deed of gift of said water works to said Village of Bennington, and the laws of the State of Vermont, this question to be determined by bal- lot.
Article 16 .- To see if the Village will vote to empower its trustees to enter into an agreement with the Twin State Gas and Electric company to extend the ornamental lighting system on North street from the terminal of said system northerly to the corner of River and North streets, at a cost not to exceed $225.00 per year, this ques- tion to be determined by ballot ..
Article 17 .- To see if the Village will appropriate by vote the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) for a skating rink to be constructed next fall and to be under the di- rection of the Village Trustees, this question to be determined by ballot.
Article 18 .- To see if the Village will vote to assess a tax of four per cent of its Grand List for pub- lic recreational purposes, this question to be determined by bal- lot.
Article 19 .- To see if the Village will vote to reimburse Charles Fienberg the sum of $50.68, the same being one-half the cost of a sidewalk built in front his premises on Washington Avenue.
Article 20 .- To see if the Village will vote to authorize its trustees to purchase street signs for the
Village at a cost not to exceed $500, this question to be determin- ed by ballot.
Article 21 .- To see if the Village will vote to instruct its trustees to establish a sinking fund to be used to replace the present fire trucks as needed, payments to such fund to be made at the rate of $1500 per year on November 1st, of each year, this question to be determin- ed by ballot.
Article 22 .- To see if the Vil- lage will vote to have the fiscal year close February 1st. of each year rather than March 1st as now the custom.
Article 23 .- To see what tax the Village will raise upon the Grand List to defray the expenses of the Village for the year ensuing and to pay the indebtedness and to fix the time for collection of such tax.
Article 24 .- To see if the Village will vote to have the provisions of Chapters 12 and 13 of the General Laws of Vermont and amendments thereto apply to the next annual meeting of the Village and to any intervening meetings thereof.
Article 25 .- To transact any other business found necessary when met.
J. Halsey Cushman, Village President.
Wm. P. Hogan Village Clerk.
Dated at Bennington, Vermont, February 3, 1938.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.