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ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE Towr? of Enfield, For the Year Ending March 4, 1895. NOBTHAMPTON, MASS. t WADE & DANIELS, Pbintebs, W5* List of Jurymen RECOMMENDED FOR 1895. John M. Eddy, J. Edward Woods, Leander W. Newcomb, Henry M. Smith, Reuben K. Aldrich, Edward S. Handy, Henry W. Richards, Arthur J. N. Ward, Benjamin T. Harwood, Charles D. Haskell, William P. El well, Stanton P. Fleming, Edward P. Smith, Edward B. Downing, Edward Rohan, Joseph P. Walker, Lyman P. Webber. APPROPRIATIONS. Recommended for 1895. 1894. Contingent, $1,000 $1,000 Paupers, 1,000 1,000 Highways and Bridges, 1,200 1,200 Sidewalks, 500 500 Schools, 2,200 2,200 School Supplies, 200 200 Transportation, 100 100 : TOWN WAKKANT. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Hampshire, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Enfield, Greeting : In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Enfield, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said Enfield, on Monday, the eighteenth day of March, inst., at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz. Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing. Art. 2. To hear the report of the officers of the town and act thereon. Art. 3. To choose all necessary town officers for the year ensuing ; also to vote on the question of granting license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town. Vote " Yes " or "No," all on one ballot. Art. 4. To choose almoners of the income of the Whiting Street Will Fund for the town of Enfield. Art. 5. To determine the manner of repairing the highways and bridges for the ensuing year. Art. 6. To see if the town will accept the list of Jurymen selected by the Selectmen. Art. 7.—To see what action the town will take in regard to support of street lamps. Art. 8.—To see if the town will authorize a discount on tax- es, paid on or before a certain day, and how much. Art. 9.—To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year and to appropriate the same. 3 Art. 10.—To see if the Treasurer be authorized, with the approval of the Selectmen, to hire money in anticipation of taxes of the ensuing year, and to issue notes of the town therefor, and the debts incurred under the authority of this vote to be paid from said tax. Art. 11.—To see what action the town will take in regard to appropriating the Dog tax refunded to the town, for the bene- fit of the Enfield Library Association. Art. 12.—To see if the town will establish a rate for collect- ion of taxes. Art. 13.—To see if the town will raise five hundred dollars Or any part of the same for building concrete side walks and repairing the same or others already laid. Art. 14.—To see what action the town will take in the matter of an appropriation to the Grand Army Post of Enfield to defray the expense in part of Memorial Day. Art. 15.—To see if the town will accept the bequest of the late Mrs. Sarah II. Blodgett, and accept the terms of the same. Art. 16.—To see if the town will ratify the award made by the referees on the cost of building wall and taking land near the center bridge and instruct the road commissioners to pay D. B. Gillett for the same from the town treasury. Art. 17.—On petition of John L. Davis and sixteen others, to see what action the town will take in regard to making the town road leading from the house of A. T. Tuttle, east 10 1-2 deg. south of the house of John L. Davis, (as laid out by the Selectmen March 30th, 1846, and accepted by the town April 3rd, 1846) an open town way and free from the restrictions of Gates and Bars. Art. 18.—To see if the town will instruct the road commis- sioners to remove snow from concrete sidewalks, when in their judgment the same is necessary, and to sand the same when icy and unsafe. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, at each Of the public meeting houses in said town, seven days at least before holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the town clerk, on or before the time of hold- ing said meeting. Given under our hands this fourth day of March, A. D. 1895. LYDAN D. POTTER, ) Selectmen JOSIAH W. FLINT, y of ARTHUR J. N. WARD. ) Enfield. Selectrqeri s Report. To the Citizens of Enfield: Your Selectmen submit the following as their report of ex- penditures under the several appropriations in their charge, and a statement of orders drawn on account of bills approved by the officers and committees chosen by the town for the year ending March 4, 1895. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. March 26, Paid L. D. Potter, cash paid for order book, $4 00 W. H. Brock & Co., printing annual rep., 30 00 31, W. S. Arms, meals for election officers, 3 50 April 2, Charles Richards, printing ballots, 5 65 Charles Richards, preparing ballots and papers for March election, 5 00 Charles Richards, for use of pound, 1893, 3 00 June 1r, Henry Ballou, highway damages, 20 00 July h Thomas Sanderson, mowing church cemetery, 6 00 G. I. Davis, painting town clock faces and gilding the same, 41 42 28, E. H. Moore, mowing Woodlawn cem. 5 00 Aug. 25, H. He Barlow, colleotor sidewalk tax, 24 11 25, Joseph Walker, blacksmith bill, 10 50 Sept. 1, H. E. Brown, books, stationery, exp., pos. 3 58 1. W. B. Kimball, school house repairs, 140 35 Oct. 3, Charles Richards, voter's list, printing, $8 40 3, Selectmen's repairs on hearse, 74 90 5, W. H. Kingman, taking hearse to Ware and going for the same, 6 00 25, O. H. Bartlett, work in church cemetery, 26 50 Nov'rS, G. W. Gardner, work on cera. gate post, 18 75 8, Selectmen, repairs on town house furnace, 24 82 10, Charles Richards, preparing paper for November election, 5 00 17 J W. Flint, Whiting Street Will Fund, 57 50 24 John D. Talbot, painting hearse springs, 1 00 24 Selectmen, stone post for cemetery gate, 7 50 24 H. M. Coney, services in Kittredge and Woods' case, 32 00 1895 Jan 3, H. S. Gere, publishing cattle notice, 15 00 3, Charles Richards, recording and returning births, marriages and deaths, 19 75 Feb 26 B. A. Sawtell, M. D., returning births to town clerk, 3 25 26 L. D. Potter, paid for administering oaths, $4, lime, cement, $2.58, express, $1, postage and stationery, $1.50, fare to Athol, 84 cents, record book, 95 cents, 10 87 C. H. Gardner, auctioneer, 1 oo Mar 1 J. E. Woods, oil, wicks, burners, etc., 4 82 F. E. Davis, care of town hall, 36 00 W. H. Kingman, meals for election officers, 1 00 W. H. Kingman, use of Pound for '94, 3 00 Charles Richards, express, postage, etc., 8 84 A. J. N. Ward, repairs on meeting house horse shed, 3 35 J. W. Flint, for street lamp, 3 75 J. W. Flint, freight on stone post, 1 28 J. W. Flint, paid for administering oath, 25 Gillett and Flint, wood for town hall, 20 00 A. J. N. Ward, care and repairs town clock, 28 25 Selectmen, paid for sawing wood at the town hall, 35 7 Mar. 1 Raymond Richards, care street lamps to March 6, $68 95 1 J. H. Crowther, care street lamps to March 6, 51 05 $845 24 PAUPER EXPENSES. Paid Northampton Lunatic Hospital, support of Timothy Burns, from Jan. 1, '94 to Jan. 1, '95, $169 46 Timothy H. Gates, 1 year to Jan. 1, 95 169 46 « Mrs Sar. J. Holden 1 *' 169 46 $503 38 Henry R. Squires, board Miss Ellen Packard from February 3, '94 to February 13, '95, $110 25 E. H. Howe for shoes, 1 25 J. E. Woods for merchandise, 3 58 115 08 Mrs Richard E. Wright, board Sam- uel Crockett from February 28, '94 to February 23, '95, $142 12 Town of Palmer, medical service, 12 00 154 12 Stillman Downing, board and clothing Ellen Webber from August 1, '93 to November 8, '95 $110 00 E. M. Perkins, medical service, 39 24 149 24 Support Ira Woods, 71 10 F. F. Hendrick, board Ferren F. Blair children of Leominster, from March 3, '94 to August 11, '95, 80 50 Support of Lyman Jones, 8 00 Mrs Nancy Demond, board Carrie Demond, 51 weeks to February 23, '95, 102 00 8 James Thayer, board Kittredge family $26 62 J. E. Woods, merchandise, 23 82 B. A. Sawtell, medical service, 13 00 $63 44 Homeopathic Hospital, board of Emma Woods, 4 00 Samuel A. White, board 6 weeks, 12 00 B. A. Sawtell, medical service, 71 93 87 93 E. H. Moore, undertaker in the case of Mrs Mary J. Adams, Auburn 22 25 Support of Daniel Montgomery, 2 00 Andrew Lebare, to move family to Grafton, 25 00 Mrs D. T. Trask, rent for Mrs Joseph Hanks, $18 00 Support of Mrs. Joseph Hanks and expenses to New Britain, Ct., 25 00 E.