Annual Reports of the Municipal Officers and Supervisor of Schools of the Town of Palmyra, 1900-1901 Palmyra (Me.)
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Town Documents Maine Government Documents 1900 Annual Reports of the Municipal Officers and Supervisor of Schools of the Town of Palmyra, 1900-1901 Palmyra (Me.) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/towndocs Repository Citation Palmyra (Me.), "Annual Reports of the Municipal Officers and Supervisor of Schools of the Town of Palmyra, 1900-1901" (1900). Maine Town Documents. 4075. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/towndocs/4075 This Report is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Town Documents by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Come to Pittsfield for your L ight and heavy hardware. Pumps, Churns and w oodenware. farming Implements, Glass and Rope. Plain and Barb w ire and fencing, L ime, Cement and Drain Pipe. Sporting Goods, Cutlery and Bicycles. Harnesses, Rohes and Blankets. Paints, Oils, L ead, Brushes, Etc. NOWHERE IN THIS VICINITY WILL YOU FIND SUCH A STOCK TO SELECT FROM. THE PRICES WILL BE SATISFACTORY. T. G. Lancey & Co. everything in hardware. Pittsfield, maine. ANNUAL REPORTS .. OF THE .. MUNICIPAL OFFICERS .. AND .. SUPERVISOR OF SCHOOLS .. OF THE .. town of Palmyra 1900- 1901. 1901. PRINTED BY LOUIS O. HASKELL, PITTSFIELD. Town Warrant. To F. W. Thompson, Constable of the town of Palmyra, in the County of • Somerset.— GREETING: In the name of the State of Maine you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town of Palmyra, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at the town house in said town on Monday, the fourth day of March, A. D. 1901, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz : Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. Art. 2. To choose a Town Clerk for the ensuing year. Art. 3. To hear all reports made at said meeting. Art. 4. To choose three Selectmen. Art. 5. To choose three Assessors. Art. 6. To choose three Overseers of the Poor. Art. 7. To choose a Town Agent. A rt 8. To choose a Town Treasurer. Art. 9. To choose a Collector of Taxes. Art. 10. To choose a Road Commissioner. Art. 11. To choose two members of the Superintending School Committee. Art. 12. To choose a Superintendent of Schools. Art. 13. To choose Sextons for the various cemeteries in town. Art. 14. To choose all other town officers required by law to be chosen at the annual town meeting. Art. 15. To see how much money the town will vote to raise to defray town charges. Art. 16. To see how much money the town will vote to raise for the support of schools. Art. 17. To see how much money the town will vote to raise to repair roads and bridges. Art. 18. To see how much money the town will vote to raise for the support of public library. ' Art. 19. To see if the town will vote to raise a sum of money towards a Soldiers’ Monument; and also to choose a board of trustees to govern the funds and to solicit aid. Art. 20. To see how much money the town will vote to raise to shingle the north side of the town house. Art. 21. To see if the town will vote to raise a sum of money to paint the hearse. Art. 22. To see how much money the town will vote to raise for appliances for schools. Art. 23. To see how much money the town will vote to raise for repairing schoolhouses. Art. 24. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise to repair the abuttments of the iron bridge and to paint said bridge. Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to accept the road laid out by the selectmen, running across F. W. Brooks’ land, com mencing at turn of road on the line between said Brooks and O. M. Whitman, running 45 rods more or less to land owned by Samuel Maxim, said road being one rod wide. Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to make a discount on all taxes paid in to the collector on or before Aug. 1, 1901 ; also on all taxes paid in to same on or before Oct. 1, 1901; if so, how much, and to see if the town will vote to charge interest after a specified time on all taxes remaining unpaid, and to fix a time within which the aforesaid taxes in said town shall be paid. Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to raise money to pay discounts on taxes : if so. how much. Art. 28. To see how much money the town will raise to pur chase a new road machine. Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to pay W. A. Blaisdell the sum of $8.25 for work done on highway, as per bill. Art. 30. To see what action the town will take in regard to the management of the town farm for the year ensuing. Art. 31. To see how much money the town will vote to raise for purchase of text books. Art. 32. To see if the town will vote to reopen the school in the Warren hill schoolhouse, which was closed by law in 1898, and if so, to see how much money the town will raise to repair said schoolhouse. The selectmen will be in session at said town house, for the purpose of revising the list of voters, at nine o’clock in the fore noon of the day of said meeting. Hereof fail not to make due return with this warrant with your doings thereon, on or before the day of said meeting. Given under our hands this 25th day of February, A. D. 1901. F. L. BROWN, -) Selectmen C. W. HOMSTEAD, f of C. R. McCRILLIS, ) Palmyra. Selectmen’s Report The Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor respect fully submit to the inhabitants of Palmyra their annual report ending February, 1901. ASSESSORS’ DEPARTHENT. Amount of money appropriated at the last annual meeting, March 5, 1900. For support of roads and bridges..............................................¡81500 00 “ schools....................................................................................... 1000 00 “ town charges 805 00 “ repairing schoolhouses.......................................................... 300 00 “ school books.. 75 00 “ public library 50 00 “ Memorial services.................................................................... 25 00 “ appliances for schools.......................................................... 25 00 “ Warren Hill cemetery fence............................................. 25 00 Amount assessed for State tax .................................¿1917 36 it county tax 302 79 of overlayings 130 56 $1350 71 Total amount assessed $5155 71 Valuation of real estate resident $225,095 00 “ “ “ “ non-resident... 44,800 00 “ “ personal estate resident.... 46,713 00 “ “ “ “ non-resident. 1,481 00 $318,089 00 We assess $2.00 each on 224 polls...................... $ 448 00 “ “ .0148 per cent, on $318,089.00____ 4707 71 Total amount assessed $5155 71 Amount of supplementary tax ................................................... 12 00 Total amount committed $5167 71 SELECTMEN’S DEPARTMENT. INCIDENTAL EXPENSE ACCOUNT. D r. Amount raised by vote of town for town charges and support of poor $805 00 Amount for Memorial services..................................................... 25 00 “ Warren Hill cemetery fence................................ 25 00 “ of overlayings..................................... 130 56 Total amount $985 56 Cr. Paid J. A. Goodrich, services as moderator. .......................$ 1 50 D. L. Raymond for culvert by vote of town 10 00 Byron Porter, certificates of deaths for the past five years..................................................................... 5 25 I-oring, Short & Harmon, for town books 12 70 H. C. Webber, for fence around Goodwin cemetery, 108 96 Judkins & Gilman, supplies for town farm 3 51 for Memorial services. 12 00 S. L. Pennell, order of abatement by vote -of town for his tax for the year 1899 8 86 S. C. Spaulding, order of abatement by vote of town for his tax for the year 1899 15 75 C. H. Folsom, for use of watering tub, 1899 .... 1 50 “ “ “ “ “ " “ “ 1900 3 00 Geo. Varney, order of abatement on his tax by vote of town, caused by fire, 1898 9 00 C. A. Leavitt, for election clerk 1900 3 00 F. H- Farnum, “ “ « “ 3 00 Paid E. M. Frost, for ballot clerk 1900........................,....$ 3 00 L. L. Carter, “ “ “ “ 3 00 S. B. Millett, work on Spring hill cemetery for the year 1899............................................................. 3 00 L. L. Carter, for labor and material for shingling hearse house 8 84 F. J. Taylor, certificates of deaths and births 1 00 A. S. Maxfield, wood for town house 2 13 C. R. McCrillis, for labor and material for Warren hill cemetery fence.......................................... 24 26 Town of Palmyra, furnished for town farm fertilizer, 7 10 R. A. Stacy, postage.............................................................. 63 John Humphrey, for printing town report........... 15 50 J. B. Chase, Board of Health 1900 ............................... 13 15 G. W. Appleby, “ “ “ “ 6 00 W. E. Hunt, “ “ “ “ 3 00 orders drawn for pauper account of Palmyra and for pauper account charged to Troy and state, 97 40 A. M. Bartlett, damage to pung on highway 3 50 F. W. Thompson, damage to sheep by dogs 4 00 F. W. Dyer, Col. 1898, abatement....................... 6 89 M. Dyer, “ 1897, “ 4 22 F. W. Thompson, “ 1900, “ 1 00 C. F. Gerald, public watering tub ................................ 3 00 J. F. Harvey, services with hearse................................. 22 50 ,F. L. Brown, writing material and postage.................. 60 R. A. Stacy, recording births, deaths and oaths.... 4 90 town officers’ bills 1900.............................................. 307 85 L. W. Frost, postage, town treasurer............................ 38 Total amount expended $753 88 Balance unexpended $231 68 ROADS AND BRIDGES. EXPENSE ACCOUNT.