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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1897 Annual Town ReportOFFICERS' R~EPORT OF I'HE Receipts and Expenditures AS PRESENTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE Financial Year, Ending January 6, 1897, ~NCLUDING- Report of qchool Committee. JAMES WARD. JR,, PRINT. TOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER, OFFICERS' RE POP, T OF TIlE Receipts and Expenditures AS PRESENTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE · Financial Year, Ending January 6, 189?, INCLUDING Report of. School Committee. TOWN OFFICERS, 1896. Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, JAMES W. LEITCH. GEORGE H. PERKINS. Selectmen, Assessors. Overseers of Poor, Board of Ilea]th, A. A. CURRIER, Collector of Taxes, EDMUND S. COLBY. WALTER H. HAYES, P.P. DAW. Auditor, CHARLES H, ROBINSON. School Committee, MARY 9. CARLETON, Term Expires ~898. DANIEL A. CARLETON, Term Expires x897. DR. C. P. MORRILL, Term Expires x896. Trustees of Public Library, MARTIN H. PULSI. FER, Term Expires ~897. JOSEPH H. PUTNAM, Term Expires ~898. ERVIN E. CHESLEY, Term Expires ~899. Constables and Police Officers. ENOS S. ROBINSON, Constable and Chiel of Police. Constables. ORRIN A. BADGER, FRANK A. COAN, GEORGE L. HARRIS, JOSEPH S. LEIGHTON. Police Officers. CALVIN M. SANBORN, WILLIAM J. TOOHEY, MATTHEW H. MANCHESTER. Police Officers to serve without pay. ALBERT P. BURNHAM, GEORGE E. DODGE, JAMES M. CRAIG, CHARLES W. PAUL, ADDISON M. ROBINSON, GEORGE STONE. Keeper of Lockup, HOLLIS C. PINKHAM. Park Commissioners, THOMAS H. GILMAN, ItERBERT W. FIELD, RALPH BLAKE. Registrars of Voters, CALVIN REA, JAMES Bt. .LEITCH, MICHAEL Ig. BOLTON, ALFRED L. FIBRNANDES. Surveyor of Lumber, JOHN BARKER, DENNIS J. COS'FELl,O, AMOS D. CARLETON, CHAS. F. JOHNSON, JOHN H. REA. Surveyors of Wood and Bark, JOHN BARKER, LEVERETT S. PERLEY, NATHAN FOSTER, AMOS D. CARLETON, WILLIAM S. ROUNDY, CHAS. F. JOHNSON, JOHN H. REA, ORRIN N. FOSTER. Superintendent of To~vn Farm and Ponnd Keeper, ALBERT P. BURNHAM. Weighers of Hay and Coal, FRANK M. GREENWOOD, FRANK E. McKONE, HENRY R. SMITH, WILLIAM S. ROUNDY. Field Drivers, CHARLES O. BARKER, EDWARD A. FULLER, CHARLES W. PAUL, JUDSON E. REYNOLDS, HOLLIS C. PINKHAM. Forest Fire Ward~ Fish Warden, JOHN E. INGALLS. ROBERT ELLIOTT. Inspector of Animals and P~ovisions, DR. GEORGE S. FULLER. Sealer of Weights and Measures, ALBERT P. BURNHAM. Engineers of Firc Department, WILLIAM A. JOHNSON, GEORGE STONE, FRANK TISDALE. Superintendent of Streets, HERBERT M. STOWERS. Water Commissioners, A. A. CURRIER, G.L. BARKER, H.W. FIELD. SYNOPSIS OF THE Town Clerk's Record of Town Meetin§, ARTICLE [. TO choose a Moderator to preside at said meetiBg. N. P. Frye was elected. ART. 2. TO elect Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, one School Committee for three years, one Road Commissione~ for three years, Collector of Taxes, Cons- tables, Auditor, one Trustee of Public Library for three years, one [)ark Commissioner for three years, one Water Commissioner for two years, and one for three years, and all other Town Officers required by law to be voted for by ballot. Also to vote on the question, "Shall licenses be grated for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?" All of the above, except Moderatm, to be voted for on one ballot, ac- cording to Chapter 386 of the Acts :md Resolves of ~89o, and amend- ments thereto. License Yore, ~896: "Yes," i39~ "No~" 320, Blanks, 83. See list of officers. ART. 3' That the Town elect ils Board of IIealth as provided for in Chapter 506 of the Acts of ~895, upon the petition of b. Edgar Osgood and others. No action was taken on the question of election of Board of Health. ART. 4. To see if the Town will accept the report of the receipts and expenditures of the Town, as presented by the Auditor. Voted to accept. ART. 5- TO see if the Town willauthorize the Selectmen to draw orders on the Town Treasurer to pay bills contracted previous to Jan. x, I896, and charge the same to the various departments to which they belong~ and for which there is an appropriation made this current year, and when no appropriation is made to charge the same to the con- tingent fund. Voted to authorize. ART. 6. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the unexpended appropriations. Voted--That all unexpended appropriation except the sum of I~7.99 in the hands of Memorial Day Committee and $~5o.oo in the hands of Engineer of the Fire Department and $35.~9 in the hands of Road Commissions, and $27.~o in the hands of Park Commissioners be covered into the Treasury. AliT. 7. To see what action t~e Town will make as tO the recom- mendations of the Finance Committee. Passed. over this article. See Article 8. A~tT. 8. To see what sums of money the To*vn ~vill raise and ap- propriate for the use of tile several departments for 1;he current year, to wit: Schools, School Houses, Highways and Bridges, Sidewalks, Support of Poor and all the other necessary and proper expenses arising in said Towx~ for the current year. Auditor ..................................... $ rSO oo Assessors ..................................... 525 oo Board of Health Officers .................. 9° oo Board of Health Expenses ............... 2oo oo Clerk of To~vn .............................. x5o oo County and State Tax .................... 6,ooo oo Contingent Fund ............................ 2,ooo oo Collector of Taxes ........................ 55o oo Discount on Notes and Interest ......... ~,coo oo Election Expenses ........................ 3o0 oo Fire Department, Engineers ............. x2o oo Fire Department, Support o~ ............ r,5oo oo Fire Dep. Horses, Support of ............ r,2oo oo Fish Warden ................................ 5 oo Forest Fire Warden ........................ 25 oo Library, Trustees ........................... r,2oo oo Lighting Streets ............................. 2,~oo oo Police Department ......................... 900 oo Poor, Overseers ............................. 225 oo Poor, Superintendent ...................... 50o oo Poor, Support of ........................... 3,500 oo Provisions Inspector ....................... 250 oo Registrar of Voters .................... ~ ~5 oo Streets, ttighways and Bridges ........... 3,ooo oo Sidewalk, Concrete ....................... r,ooo oo Streets, Macadamizing ......... ' ............ 2,~ oo oo Snow, P~tthing .............................. r,ooo oo Surveying ................................... 300 oo Selectmen .................................... 475 oo State and Millitary Aid .................... 550 oo School, Superintendent .................... 80o oo School, Teachers, Janitors, Fuel ......... ~2,9oo co School, Supplies and Repairs ............ r,4oo oo School, Text Books ........................ 7~o oo Treasurer of Town ......................... 375 oo Town Hall, Janitor ....................... x25 oo Memorial .................................... ~ 5° oo Reductio% Town Debt ................... 3,000 oo TOWN CLERK'S RECORD OF TOWN MEETING. ART. 9' To see if the Town will authorize the-Selectmen and Treasurer jointly to hire money temporarily for the use of the Town in anticipation of taxes to be assessed for the current year. Vote to authorize. ART. io. To see if the Towu will authorize the Selectmen and Treasurer jointly to issue its promissory notes to meet outstanding obligations. Voted--(two-thirds having voted)--To authorize the Selectmen and Treasurer, jointly, to issue its promissory notes to meet outstanding obligations. ART. t~. To see what action the Town will take in relation to paying bills contracted between the close of the financial year and the next annual meeting. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to draw orders on the Treasurer to pay the same. ARt. ~2. To see what action the Town will take in the matter of discounts on early paid taxes of the current year, and of collecting interest on overdue taxes, on petition of John A. Wiley and others. Stricken from Warrant. Am'. ~3. To see if the Town will join with the Town of Andover in celebrating the 25oth anniversary of its settlement and incorpora- tion, to occt~r in the month of Ma)' of the current year, appoint a committee to represent it, and raise and appropriate q. reasonable sum of money to defray the necessary expenses incurred. Voted that a committee of ten be appointed by the Mod,erator~ and the tollowing were appointed: Aaron A. Currier, Walter H. Hayes~ Patrick P. Daw, Hon. M. T. Stevens, Thos. K. Gilman~ Daniel A. Carleton, James C. Poor, Calvin Rea, Charles F. Johnson, Rev. Chas. Noyes. On motion of L. Edgar Osgood it was voted to add the following: Wm. J. Dale, Jr., Miss Laura A. Bailey, Miss Sarah Kit- tridge~ Mrs. Eliza Sargeat and John P. Clark. Voted that the cmnmittee be authorized to arrange a suitable pro- gram for the celebration of the 25oth anniversary. Voted that the committee be authorized to confer with the Andover committee and if necessary call a Special Town Mdeting. ART. I4. To see what action the Town will take in relation to paying rent for land upon which the building used for Selectmen's office, l,ockup and Police Court room is situated. Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to see if they can purchase a suitable lot on which to put a Public Town Building and report at a Special Town Meeting, which may be called in regard to celebrating. NORTH ANDOVER. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to pay a reasonable rent for the building now used as a Selectmen's office. Voted that the Town think that Sro per month is not a reasonable ART. r5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum oi one hundred dollars ($~oo) to defray the expenses of survey- lng and making plans and profile of a piece of road within the limits of the Town, and to instruct the Selectmen to petition the State High- way Commission to lay out as a State Fiighway the piece of road so surveyed. Appropriated $ioo and voted that the sum be expended on the Air Line Road commencing at Shawsheen Bridge and going towards the Centre. ART. r6. To see if the town will vote to raise'and appropriate two hundred and fifty dollars ($25o) to replace four hundred feet of old hose with new, on the recommendation of the Board of Engineers. Appropriated $25 o. ART. ri. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to es- tablish and maintain an electric arc llght on Pleasant street, between John Meserve's house ~md Osgood street, and appropriate money for the same, on petition of Thomas H. ~Broderick and others. Appropriated $65. AR~r. i8. To see what action the Town will take in the matter of placing an arc light at the corner of Andover and Chestnut streets in said Town, and appropriate money therefor, on petition of T. J. Murphy and others. Appropriated $65. AR,'. ~'). To see if the Town will accept the list of names j ~,~s as prep ,red and posted by Selectmen. Accepted Thomas P. Wentworth, Charles FI. Farnham, and Edgar R. Tucker excused. ARx. =o. To see if the town will raise and appropriate twelve hundred dollars ($x=oo) /or the support of the Public Library, the purchase of books/or the same, and the rent of the Library rooms, and also to see ii the town will direct that the money received from the County Treasurer for dog licenses be paid for the support of the Library. Appropriated $~ ~oo and dog licenses. ART. 2~. TO see what compensation the Town will pay for the labor on the Highways for the ensuing year. Voted to pay for men $x.'/5 per da5'; for horses $~.5o each. TOWN CLERK'S RECORD OF TOWN MEETING. Voted that the pay for Superintendent of Streets be left with the Selectmen. Voted that all accounts for individual labor in the department of the Superintendent of Streets be made out in the name of the person who is actually employed, that the payment for such labor be made to the order of the person or the persons who do the work, that all accounts for services of horses and carts or other animals or vehicles be made out in the name of and paid to the persons furnishing such service and that such accounts be made to appear in the annual report of the receipts and expenditures as presented by the Auditor under the' de- partment of the Superintendent of Streets. Voted that the Superintendent of Streets which is to be appointed by the Board of Seectmen~ be instructed to make a detailed report to be published in the Auditor's report at the next annual Town Meeting of the nature, kind and amount of work done upon all streets, side- walks or footpaths, bridges, sewers or drains, ami the places within the town where such work is performed. ART. 22. To see if the Town will revoke its acceptance of Sections 74 and 75 of Chapter 27 of the Public Statutes and statutes amenda- tory thereof relating to abolishing Road Commissioners, on petition of John A. Wiley and others. Voted to revoke. ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise al~d appropriate a sum of money for the construction, maintenance and repair of such portions of the Highway in the most thickly settled portions of the Town as are to be used by the inhabitants and other persons for foot travel, on petition of Horace B. Foster and others. Passed. ART. ~4. To see if the Town will accept May street from land of Joseph H. Stone to Hudges street and Hodges street from May street to its intersection with Sargent street, as laid out by the Road Com- missioners, on petition of S. D. Hinxman and others. Voted. Appropriated $650. AET. ~5' To see if the Town will accept the so called Saunders street extension from the corner near the house of John O!Brien southeasterly to the lot owned by C. S. Meserve, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, on petition of E. L. Perley and others. Accepted. Appropriated $r5o. APT. 26. To see if the Town will accept Hodges street from Bel- mont street to Sargent street, ~s laid out by the Road Commissioners, upon the petition of S. D. Hinxman and others. Passed. ro ~ORTH ANT)OVER. ART. z7. To see if the Town will accept May street from Main street to land of J. H. Stone, and raise and appropriate money for the same~ as laid out by the Road Commissioners, on petition of John A. Wiley and others. Stricken from warrant. ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept the street known as Stonington street, running from Maple avenue to Middlesex street, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to improve the same, said street being 4o feet wide and 683 9o-~oo feet long, on petition of Joseph H. Stone and others. Accepted. Appropriated $50o. AR'i'. 29. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($3oo) to widen zoo feet of Lawrence street on the south side of the street at the foot of Middlesex street, on peti tion of James B. Miller and others. Stricken from warrant. ART'. 30. To see what action the Town will take in the matter of adopting a system of sewers, as shown in the report of the Com- mittee on Sewers accepted by the Town at its annual meeting in March, ~893. Voted to adopt. ARr. 3r. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($2o0) to repair the sewers and drains on that portion of Water street between Elm and Clarendon, on petition of John A. Wiley and others. Appropriated $200. ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to extend the Main street sewer from its present terminus near the Methodist church along Water street, and raise and appropriate money for the same, on peti- tion of John G. Brown and others. Appropriated $ ~ 5 oo. ART. 33- To see if the Town will vol~e to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to build a sewer on Main street, from the corner of Church street, to connect with present sewer a~ junction of Main ~nd Water streets, on petition of F. C. Clark and others. Stricken from warrant. ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to extend the sewer on R~il- road street from its present terminus, towards Middlesex street, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same, on petition of James A. Ellison and others. Appropriated ~8oo. TOWN CLERK'S RECORD OF TOWN MEETING. ART. 35- To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($r5o) to defray the expenses of decorat- ing soldiers' graves on the 3oth day of May next, and appoint a com- mittee to take charge of the same. Provided for under Art. 8. Melvin T. Wadlin, David A. Monitorb C. W. Phelps, Calvin M. San- born and Frank W. Eaton ~vere appointed a committee to take charge of same. ART. 36. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 462 of the Acts of ~893: An Act relating to establishing building lines within the limits of the Town, on petition of Village hnprovement Society. Voted to accept. NORTH ANDOV~R. TOWN CLERK'S REPORT, The Vital Statistics of tim Town of North Andover for the year ~ 896 are as follows: Marriages, whole number ....................... Oldest groom ............................. Oldest bride .............................. Youngest groom .......................... Youngest bride .......................... Deaths, whole number ........................ i. Oldest person ........................... Over 80 years of age .................. Over 7o years of age .................... Births, whole number ............................ Foreign parentage ....................... 42 66 20 I9 82 86 9 86 48 JAMES W. LEITCH, Town Clerk. AUDITOR'S CERTLFICATE. 13 AUDITOR'S CERTIFICATE. To the Ciazens q/the Town q/North ,4ndaver:-- I have examined the accounts of the 2'own Officers for the year ending January 6th, ~897, and have found them correct with satisfac- tory vouchers for ail payments made, and herewith present the Annual Report of Receipts and Expenditures classified under the headings of the several departments, with a statement of the Town indebtedness oi the above date, and a schedule of Town Property as valued by the heads of departments having charge thereof. Persons having bins against the Town should be careful and note who ordered the article or articles. Charges to the dif/erent depart- ments should be made out on several bills. All persons having bills due them from the Town are earnestly requested to present them for payment every month. CHARLES II. ROBINSON, ~luditor. NORTH ANDOVER. SELECTMEN'S REPORT, Ta lhe We herewith submit our Annual Report. Following will be found a summary of the Receipts and Expenditures in the various departments for the year ending January 6th, ~897. TABULAR STATEMENq'. I$ TABULAI~ STATE/'IENT. Assessor's ................... : 525 00 Collector of Taxes ...... Fish Warden .......... Fores~ Fire Warden Libra~, Trustees ......... Lighting Streets Park Commissioners Provisions Inspector ... 250 0O School, Superintendent )enditures for the 19. l~onths Ending January 6th, 1897. IH001 ...... : 16799 9O0 001 36 811 2,261 89' 8O0 12,900 24~ 911 ............ t'reasurer of Town ['own Hall, Janitor....]?, Town Hall, Improve. To:.a[ .......... 717 61 268 o$ 16 NORTH ANDOVER. At the close of the financial year, Jan. ~st, r896, there were out- standing notes to the amount of $20,0o% of which a note for $x8,ooo was given on account of debts contracted prior to ~895, and a note for $looo given in anticipation of taxes for t895. At the close of the financial year ending Jan. 6th, x897, there were outstanding notes to the amount of $22,000, the note for ~gIS,000 was reduced to $x5,ooo and a note for $7ooo was given in anticipation of the taxes to meet current expenses incurred during the year ending Jan. 6th, t897. While the outstanding notes have increased $2ooo from last year, the amount of uncollected taxes have increased from $~3,37r.3o to 9o2.43, and the amount of cash on hand and bills due the town have increased from $3,646.32 to $5,7o3.43, the bills against the town remaining unpakl have decreased from $857.56 to $53583. The accmmt of liabilities aed assets in the last report showed a balance against the town of $3839.94, the present report shows a balance in favor of the town oi $2o7o.o3, not including uncollected sewer assessments which amount to $~89~ 87, making a net amount of assets over liabilities of $4962.9o. 8Tt~EET LIO~TINO, In accordance with a vote of the town passed' at the last annual meeting, two arc lights have been added, otherwise the system remains the same as last year and will call for the same appropriation. SUITS Af~AINgT TIt.E TOWN, At the commencement of the fear there were two suits pending against the tow% one of which was tried at the March term of the Superior Court and a verdict rendered in laver of the town. Theothet suit has not yet been tried, but has been taken to the Supreme Court on question of law. Another suit has been entered against the town for damages said to be caused by an alleged defect in the highway and is now pending. 8EWER ASSE881m::NTI~, At a Town meeting held April 29th, ~896, it was "Voted, That under Section ~ ~ of Chapter 5° of the Public Statutes, the town assume and pay two4hirds of the cost of construction, maintenance and repairs the main drains, and common sewers, within the limit of the territory adopted and defined by a vote of the town passed March 2nd, t896, for a system of sewerage, under Section 7 of said Chapter 5o, and that assessments for the balance of such cost, on owners of estate~ within said limits and system, shall be made by the Selectmen, by a SELECTMEN'S REPORT. 17 fixed uniform rate based upon the area of such estates, not exempt under Section 7, and the rate shall be fixed at a given sum per square foot of area, under the provisions of said last named section. That in no case shall the area of an estate having a depth of mo?e than one hundred feet frmu any street or way, where such drains or sewers are laid, be computed beyond the depth of one hundred feet." In order to carry out the provisions of the above vote it became necessary to find the area of land owned by each abuttor liable to assessment. To do so the Board of Selectmen employed Prank L. Fuller, civil engineer, to make surveys and plans of land liable to assessment, abutting on all sewers that have been laid as part of the system. Plans ~were carefully prepared, showing the location of all man holes and ¥'s for counections and also each lot of land, with owner's name, the dimension and the amouut of assessable area o[ each lot. After carefully considering and estimating the cost of constructing, maintaining and repairing all the main drains and common sexvers within the limit of the territory adopted, it was voted to assess each square foot of assessable area at three mills per square foot. Assessments were accordingly made and committed to the Town Treasurer for collection. A more detailed report o[ assessments made upon each portion of sewers laid will be found in the Treasurer's Report in relation to Sewer Assessments. A portion of the sewer in Ehn street which was included in the system of Sewerage adopted, was built before the plans for the system had been made, and in 1892 the Selectmen under the provisions of the Public Statutes, assessed such persons as desired to, and did make use of said sewer, assessing them the stun o[ $r2.50 for each tenement connected with the sewer, on such estates as paid for the permanent use of the sewer no additional assessments have been made. Upon the question, whether those persons who had already paid, could be made to pay an additional assessment the late E. T. Bufley, to whom the matter was referred, gave the following opinion: "I think it clear that the Town may adopt a system of sewerage to include or exclude sewers already constructed by the Town, but whether an abuttor against whom an assessment has been legally laid and paid before such adoption, for the permanent use of any branch included in the same can again be assessed after snch adoption, is a question not free from difficulty. i8 NORTH ANDOVER. I am, however, of the opinion that such additional assessment can be legally made, provided the Town can establish the fact that by either adopting a system of sewerage which includes the portion for which the assessment was laid, or by extending the system after such adop- tion, the abntter already assessed has thereby received additional bene- fit, either directly or indirectly, if such indirect benefit shall be more than the general benefit to the inhabitants outside the limits of the adopted system. It would seem that it ought not to be difficult to maintain such a proposition under conditions which will probably exist in your Town, as a perfected system, in a thickly settled village, tends to make the service more efficient throughout, and is well calculated to increase cleanlines's and limit disease, and therefore to make the neighborhood all the more desirable for habitat/on. But such secomt assessment should include only such additional special benefits as such abuttor shall derive, by the adoptiou of a sys~ tern, or by the extension thereof, or by both, as the case may be, over and above the benefits already assessed and paid for, and perhaps the only practical method of reaching this result is to assess such abuttor under the rule adopted for all others, and from the amom~t so ascer- tained to deduct the amount already paid by him." Whether the fact of additional benefits to abuttors who have already paid for the permauent use of the sewer can be proved and maintained is a matter upon which the Board of Selectmen did not care to decide, as they did not wish to make any assessments upon the legality of which there was any doubt% preferring to leave the matter /or such action as the Town may take. The amount collected for permanent use of the sewer was $~oo. The amount assessed under the rule adopted for all others would be $~68.93. PETITION FOR ~TATE HIGHWAY, The Board of Selectmen were instructed ~t the last annual Town Meeting to have a portion of Lawrence street (beginning at the Law- rence line and extending toward the North Andover Post Office), surveyed, and plans and profile of the same sent with a petition to the 3{assachusetts Highway Commission, asking that the said piece of road be laid out as a State Highway. Plans were made and with a petition were sent to the Commissioners, and the receipt of the same was duly acknowledged. Under the date of July 2o'~h, ~896, the following was received from the office of the Highway Commission: "Notice is SELECTMEN'S REPORT. 19 hereby given that all the money appropriated by the Legislature for the construction during the current year of State Highways has been allotted for the construction or maintenance of such roads, and there- fore that no new work can be undertaken until further appropriation be made." It is doubtful if any 'further action will be taken on the petition, unless the matter is persistently urged by the Town, and in our judg- ment the petition should be renewed as soon as fi~rther appropriations for State Highways are made, and the subject be agitated until definite and final action is taken in regard to the same. VILLAGB O~FIOB BUILDING. At the annual Town Meeting, held March ~th, T896, a communica- tion from a representative of the North Andover Mills (who own or control the land upon which the building used as Selectmen's Office and Police Station is located) was read. Said communication contained a proposition to lease the said land to the Town ou very favmable . terms. The Town voted to instruct the Selectmen to accept the proposition and execute the lease. The Selectmen h'ad the lot surveyed and a plan made of the same, and were ready to accept the lease when the North Andover Mills not only declined to give a lease upon any terms whatever, but requested that the buiiding be removed and the lot vacated within thirty days. Upon the representations of the Board of Selectmen that the Town had no land available upon which to move the building~ and that if they insisted upon the removal of the building within thirty days a special Town Meeting would have to be called to act in the matter. Consent was finally obtained that the building might remain upon the land until April xst, t897. The Town will be called upon to take some action in the matter at the next annual meeting. AARON A. CURRIER,) ,Se/ecl'men WALTER H. HAYES, ~ of PATRICK P. DAW, ) North Andover. 20 NORTH ANDOVER. ASSESSORS' REPORT. 1Ve herewith submit our annual report: Nmnber of polls assessed : Male, ~24; female, 3- Aggregate of personal estate ............... $ 6o3,o23 oo Aggregate of real estate ................... 2,320,566 oo $2,923,589 oo Amount of State Tax ...................... $ 2,362 50 Amount of County Tax ................... 3,063 72 Town grant and over]ay .................... 39,507 68 Poll tax ....................................... ~ 2,249 50 Tax on personal estate ..................... 8,804 ~4 Ta× on real estate ........................... 33,880 26 $44,933 9° $44,933 9° Rate of tax per lgr,ooo, $[4.60. Number of horses assessed ................. 474 Number of cows assessed .................. ~,o85 Number of cattle other than cows as- sessed ................................. ~92 Number of sheep assessed ................. 6o Number of swine assessed .................. ~4o Number of fowl assessed .................. ~,492 Number of dwellings assessed ......... 756 Number of acres of land assessed ........ ,5,56x AARON A. CURRIER, ) .4ssessars WALTER H. HAYES, ~ aZ PATRICK P. DAW, ) _/Vorth Andover. TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT. TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT. I herewith submit my annual report: x892. Balance uncollected Jan ~, ~896... Cash collected in ~896 ........... Abated ....................... eR. Dry. $466 oo $399 55 66 45 $466 oo $466 °o x893. Balance uncollected Jan. ~, ~896... 852 66 Cash collected in ~896 ........... $~86 9° Abated ..... : ................... 33 6o Uncollected .................... 632 x6 ~894. Balance uncollected Jan. x, ~896... Cash collected in x896 ............ Abated ......................... $852 66 3852 66 3~,755 ~4 $5°9 44 6o 02 Uncollected ..................... r,x85 68 $~,755 ~4 $~,755 ~4 x895. Balance uncollected Jan. ~896 ...... $~o,297 5° Cash collected in ~896 ............ $7,449 64 Abated ......................... x29 33 Uncollected ..................... 2,7x8 53 $xo,297 5° $~o,297 5° ~896. Amount of Assessor's warrant ...... $44,933 9° Cash collected in ~896 ............ $30,495 6x Abated ........................ 72 23 Uncollected ..................... $x4,366 o6 $44,933 9° $44,933 9° 2 2 NOI~I'H AND0'¢ER. 00LblgOT01~'8 0181t A000UNT. Cash in bank, x896 .............. $ 9~4 26 Total collections ................. 39,°4~ ~4 Paid Treasurer .................. $35,700 oo Cash in bank .................... 4,255 4° $39,955 4o $39,955 4° Respectfully submitted, E. S. Colby, Colleclo~-. OUTSTANDING NOTES. Town of North AMover Outstanding Notes at Last Annual Report. No.[ Amvunt. Date of Date when Date when Rate of Amount Discount. Time. Dne. Paid. Discount of Place of Discount. ' Discount. 146 I ~,~0 00JOec.~0. '~; 1 mo. JFeb. 3, '9O~FcD.~, ~.J1~8'149 . ~: J ~Bav State Nat. Bank. Town of ~orth kndover Note~, 1896, Mhr, 10 '967mos. Oct.]3 '9~[¢)ci,13 Apr. 11, '96 12 ...... ~ I [*i'l per ct Apr. li, ~J6,7 ...... }N'ov. 17: ~96}Nov. I7, '96~*~J5 per ct May lS, '967 nos. /Dec. 15, 'gOjDec. 15. '96 *i)~ per ct June 9~ '~1e mos. ~ days~Dec. 28, '96]Dec. 28, '96]*I)~ per ct Jub' ~, '~elS mos. ]nec. 17 'gglDec. lg '96 *4h~ per ct Bay Stnte Nat. Bank. Essex Savings Bank. Essex Savings Bank. Bay State Nat. Bank. Bay State Nat. Bank, 09 00 Bay State Nat. Bank. 80 $8 Bay State Nat, 58 65 Play State Nat. Bank, '29 25 Bay State Nat. Bank. 6 97 Bay State Nat. Bank. 2 fillBay State Nat. Plank. 29 75(Bay State Nat. Bank. T~otai an, oufit f_or._interes~t and d_i¥.ount .................. $SS6 The above are all the Notes given by the Town of North Andover for the y~'ar t896. Note No. ~58, with what moBey was in the hands of the Treasurer, was ;iven in payment of Notes Nos. ~5~, ~54 and x$6. The outstanding Notes a :he close of the fiscal year, Jan. 6th, are $r5,ooo, with interest, due Essex ~aviugs lqank, and $7,000 due Bay State National Bank. AARON A. CURRIER, WALTER H. HAYES, PATRICK P. DAW, ) GEO. H. PERKINS, 24 NORTH ANDOVER. Streets. ~kssessed. IA ...... d P.,id I unnp°a~t~t Main ............................ 315,8§0 sq. ft. $1,0ag 56 $10~ 651 $931 98 Sargent..., ..................... i 87,188 sq. ft.] ~61 66 I 261 ~ WOn Elm street there are 50,~90 square feet, owned by seven ditt'erent individuals, xvho paid entrance Fee under old ~.rrangement~ xvhich has not been assessed. GEORGE H. PERKINS, Treaszirer. January 6th, I897. TREASURER'S REPORT. TREASURER'S REPORT, ~-E01tGr, H, PERKINS, TREASURER, I1~ B.000UET WITH THE TOWI~ OF E0ttTH AND0¥ER, B, & M. R. R. one-half cost electric light.. Commonwealth of Massassachusetts, in- come Massachusetts school fund ......... Essex s.s. dog licenses, i895 ................. Joseph Trombly, stoves at Union school... John G. Brown, labor account engine horses Commonwealth of Massachusetts, corpora~ tion tax, 1895 ................................ D. A. Moulton, reimbursement .............. Henry B. McCarthy, pool table license (2) George H. Perkins, liquor license ........... John P. Murphy, liquor license .............. Horace Barker, use of town cart ............ Peter Holt, Jr., auctioneer's license ........ T. A. Holt & Co., fireworks license ......... Patrick F. Murphy, fireworks license ........ John W. Sharpe, fireworks license ........... James A. Ellison, stone ........................ Mrs. M. E. Perkins, broken stone ........... Mrs. Eliza Phelps, broken stone ............. Michael Murphy, use of sewer pump ....... Eli Watts, use of sewer pump .................. Davis & Furber Machine Co., loam ........ Hon. W. A. Russell, use oi sewer pump... Lawrence Gas Co., repair culvert ........... Town of Andover, use of Stoae Roller ..... John Fitzgerald, reimbursement ............. Trinitarian Congregational Society, crushed stone ........................................... $ 32 5° 2I9 2o 366 5° 20 O0 I 25 39 5I 2 72 4 oo I oo I oo 25 200 r OO I OO i oo 6 oo e 5° 2 50 50 5o 9 6o 6 oo 5 oo 13 oo 9° oo 5 oo Carriedfar~oard, ~833 53 NORTH ANDOVER. Brought forward, Mrs. P. W. Whittier, use of sewer pump... David Meserve, use of sewer pump ........ ' Edward Adams, crushing stone ............. City of Lawrence, reimbursement ............ Payee (C. Cooper) not found ................ James C. Poor, use of sewer pump ......... James A. E1]ison, crushed stone .............. Miss Mary G. Car]eton, school supplies ..... Miss Hannah Kittredge, crushed stone ..... Hon. M. T. Stevens, crushed stone ......... Dr. Chas. P. Morrill, crushed stone ......... Andover Savings Bank, interest on Moses Towue school fund ......................... Broadway Savings Bank, interest on Moses Towne school, fund .......................... Essex Savings Bank, interest on Moses Towne school fund ........................... Lawrence Savings Bank, interest on Moses Towne school fund ........................... Patrick Haley, Town Hall rental ............. Patrick Haley, glass ............................ City of I,owe/1, reimbursenrent ............... Hou. N. P. Frye, court receipts .............. Chas. F. Bisbee, reimbursement ............. James Standing, sewer assessment ............ Hon. N. P. Frye, sewer assessment .......... Hum John A. Wiley, sewer assessment ..... Heury Keniston, sewer assessment .......... Davis & Furber Machine Co., sewer as- sessment ....................................... Mrs. b;llen Morrissey, sewer assessments... George H. Perkins, sewer assessment ....... Estate of J. M. Stone, sewer assessment .... Estate of Eben Sutton, sewer assessment... Commonwealth of Massachusetts, burial of state paupers (2) ............................ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, corpora- tion tax ........................................ $833 53 5° 200 4 80 e6 86 I O0 5° ~ 50 ~2 80 22 5° 250 5° 7 5o 4° 4° 40 40 40 4o 40 4° 4o oo 25 43 36 8~ 185 24 ~5 33 I8 02 t34 39 35 26 54 21 ~8 oo ~6 5° 4~ 67 29 54 3° oo 7,535 77 Carried forward, ' $9,543 86 TREASURER'S REPORT. 27 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, national bank tax ..................................... Commonwealth of Massachusetts, military aid, Chapter ~79 ............................ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, state aid, Chapter 3o~ ................................. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, baria! of indigent soldier ............................... A. P. Burnham, Poor Farm receipts E. S. Colby, taxes ............................. Bay State National Bank, notes ............. Total Receipts ............................. Cash on hand beginning of year ....... Money expended on account Overseers' expenses ...................................... Money expended on account general ex- penses ........................................ Money expended on account school ex penses ........................................ Essex Savings Bank, note ..................... Bay State National Bank, notes .............. Total Expenditures .................... :.. Cash in Bay State National Bank ...... MOBI]8 T0W31P. S01t00L ~U31D. Andover Savings Bank, ................... Essex Savings Bank ......................... Lawrence Saving Bank ...................... Broadway Savings Bank ..................... Total .................................... $9,543 86 3280 3~ 48 oo 508 oo 35.oo 26~3.88 35,700.00 30,000.00 $81,729.o5 :,326.o6 $83,o55.r~ 6,862 18 3o,84o 92 x6,878 54 3~000 OO 25,000 O0 $82,58~ 64 473 47 $83,055 t~ llOOO OO I,OOO OO Annual interest, amounting to ;~61.6% has been drawn and placed at the disposal of the School Committee. 28 NORTH ANDOVER. TAYLOR PUND. Amount of Fund~ last annual report ..... Annual interest to Oct. ~ist, x896 ....... Total .................................... $335 4t $32a 4r ~3 oo Respectfully submitted, GEORGE H. PERKINS, 75zas~zrrr. ANoov~, January 6th, ~897. FINANCIAL STATEMEICf. 29 FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Liabilities, Outstanding notes ................ Bills unpaid Tax Collector ........ Bills m~paid support of poor ...... Balauce for Town ........... Cash Treasurer account ........... Cash Tax Collector account Uncollected tax, x895 ............ Uncollected tax, I894 ............ Uncollected tax, i895 ............ Uncollected tax, ~896 ............ Uncollected bills, Town Farm ..... Due from State Aid, Chapter 3Ol.. Due from State Aid, Chapter 279.. I)ue from B. & M. R. R ......... Due from Ipswich ............... Due from sewer assessments ....... Due from Commonwealth ......... $22~OOO OO 200 4~ 335 42 $22,535 83 4,962 9° $27,498 73 $ 473 47 4,255 4° 632 ~6 x,~85 68 2,718 53 I4,366 06 31o 67 472 oo 48 oo 32 5° 98 07 2,892 87 ~3 32 $27,498 73 Special effort has been made to present as nearly as pos- sible the true financial condition of the town at the close of the financial year, and believe that there are but few bills against the town not shown in this report, and those of small amounts. CHARLES H. ROBINSON, Auditor. 30 NORTH ANDOVER. REPORT 0F SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SUPT. 0F SCHOOLS. '~Fa lhe ?luditar a/ ~Varlh ~ln~tover .' We herewith submit our report of the Receipts and Expendi- tures in the School Department for the year ending Jan. r, ~897. REPORT Olr SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 3 I REPORT OF: THE SgHOOL ~;OFIFllTTEE. For the first time, since t887, the committee have to face an ore}- drawn account of nearly $600. The chairman of the committee is mostly to blame for this con dition of affairs, as he did not examine all the school buildings prior to making the estimate of amount needed fro- repairs during the year. We found at the close of the school year in June that the primary room in the centre building needed thorough renovation. The walls and ceiling had to be scraped and re-tinted, and the wood work painted and varnished, also the lower hallway. One of the fl~rnaces was worn out, and was replaced by one from the Sanborn Furnace Co., Methuen, Mass., which is gnaranteed to heat the rooms in the coldest weather. The cost of repairing this room, the hallway, and purchasing the furnace was $4~8. For items you are referred to the financial state- ment. The repairs at the High School building have also been more than usual. A floor has been laid in the laboratory which was much needed, as it makes the room warmer and enables the janitor to keep it clean. The large number of scholars now in attendance, compelled us to make a recitation roma over the hall. It makes quite a pleasant room. A small radiator wilt probably have to be put in. The expense of fitting tip this room will come out of next year's appropriation. The Merrimac building needs attention the coming year. There has always been trouble in heating this buikling during very cold weather, and, occasionally, some of the rooms have to be closed in the forenoon, as they cannot be made comfortable. This, all will acknowledge, is only poor economy, for if two hundred children are out of school, one half day, it means a loss of one hundred days. The committee intends to haw: the buildings and boiler examined, by some one cornpetent, to decide what shah be clone. tf the boiler is not b~rge enough, or if the chimney needs en- larging, we will endeavor to have the defect remedied as soon as possible. 32 NORTH ANDOVER. The building needs a new roof, or to be reslated, and the cupola should be rebuilt or repaired if possible, so the water will fall off the ~oo[ instead of through ft. Most of the rooms need repairing, in order to make them pleasant and healthy', but it will be a waste o~ tummy to fit up tb_e rooms and tint the walls unless the roof can be made water-tight. We were obliged to buy new furniture for the new room opened in the Bradstreet house. Repairs have been made at Pond, Farnham, Union and River houses as will be seen by looking at the financial statement. The coming year we shall need all the money we call for, for repairs, and perhaps more, to keep our school buildings in first class. condition. At the River School a new well will have to be made, as the water in the old one is not fit to drinlc. We wish to call tP.e attention of parents to the fact, that children must be successfully vaccinated be[ore they can be admitted to our schools. The results which have followed skilled supervision of our schools since Mr. Chickering took charge of them, have proved entirely satisfactory. We shall have a better class of teachers; a well arranged and properly balanced course of stud)'; greater care in selection of books; and, we hope, a greater interest in the schools on the part of parents. It is stated that o~ the ~o,409 teachers in this state, 9,447 or 90.7 per cent. were under supervision last December. The committee received a letter a short time since, containing five dollars, from an unknown [ormer pupil, the same to be expended for some book of reference, for the use of members of Johnson High School. The committee selectec~ Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities. CHAS. P. MORRILL, ) Schoat MARY G. CARLETON, ~ Cammi#ee. DANIEL A. CARLETON, SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT--SCHOOLS. 33 SUPERINTENDENT'$ I~EPOI~T. NORTIt ANDOVER, ~;[ass., Jauuary i3, ~896. To lite Sc/too/ Commill, se .' The record of the schools for the past year is mainly an accouut of the carrying out of the s~ggestions made in my last annual report. All the grades above the sixth that were formerly accommodated in the Bradstreet and Union Schools, have been transfen'ed to the MerrL mack School, where more atteution can be givcn them, and where greater progress ought to be made. it is possible that next year it may be necessary to send the sixth grade pupils now at the Bradstreet School to the Merrimack, as the natural increase b?ds fair to be suffic- ient to exceed the limits of the three rooms now occupied, and not large enongh to warrant the opening of another room. I have en- deavored to make Second street the dMding line between the Brad street and Merrimack Schools, and with success as regards the Prinrary grades. The other grades will gradually adapt themselves to this arrangement as the classes are promoted. The limits of the Union district remain the same as heretofore for all grades below the seventh. TEA0i~ER8. The following changes bare been made in the corps of teachers, viz: Miss Carpenter closed her connection with the Bradstreet School at the end of the school year, as dkI also Miss Haskell. Mis~ Whit- ford resigned her position at the River School during the summer vacation to accept a more lucrative situation in another town. Miss Hubbard of the Pond School resigued in October, and Miss McDon- nell, who succeeded Miss Carpenter as Principal of the Bradstreet, resigned early m the same month to accept a situation in Ls. wrence. These vacancies were filled by the election of Miss Martha A. Putney for the Bradstreet School, Miss Edith M. Brown for the River, and Miss Grace A. Hubbard for the Pond. Miss Carrie E. Allen succeeded Miss Haskell at the Bradstreet, and Miss Hannah C. Carleton, who had been absent from her room at the Merrimack during the greater part of the past year, returned to her work at the opening of the fall term. Miss Eliazbeth Goldsmith was added to the High School corps. Ail of th'ese teachers appear to be doing satisfactory, work. NORTH ANDOYER. THE WORK OF THE 80HOOLS, shows an imI)rovement over that of the previous year, and I feel sure that the end of the present school year will give practical evidence of still greater progress. Thc last class that entered the High School has been more satisfactory to the teachers of that school than for several years past. The fitness of pupils to enter this school is determined by averaging the rank obtained by the pupils during the year with that secured by a~ examination given by the Superintendent at the end of the year. Any discrepancy betweeu the two, if the average o£ the latter falls below seventy per cent., is made the subject for further consideration, and, on the recommendation of the teacher, the pupil is allowed to take a second examination at the end of the vacation. Tbe changes in grade of the teachers o1[ the Merrimack School, while not just what I would have advised had the situation been differ- ent, have been brought about with little, ii any, friction and under the efficient management of Mr. King, the work has been taken up with a will, and is now being successflllly carried on. The organization of the school is now better regulated and more complete than previously, and I shall be much disappointed if it is not appreciated by the teachers, and does not prove productive of greater progress for the p,~pils. TEXT BOOKB, I am pleased to record the action of the Committee towards a greater uniformity in the text books used in the schools. While sup- plementary matter is desirable in all studies, uniformity in text books for each grade is ahnost a necessity, and especially so in the case of the transfer of pupils from one school to another. 1%ope the appro2 priation for text-books and supplies for the coming year will be large enough to pemnit the carrying out of the action to cmnpletion. TEAOHBRS' LIBRARY. A Teachers' Library would be a good investment. Such a library need not be very expensive. Twenty-five dollars would be a good basis to start on, which increased by ten or fifteen dollars each y~ar afterwards, wou~d be al! that would he required. These books might be kept at the office of the Superintendent, or at the house o( the Secretary, or possibly at the Public Library, where they would be easily accessible. I need not speak of the advantage of such a library further than to say that in no other way can teachers be kept abreast of modern educational thought. There is progress in education as in everything else. The environment of the/ children SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT--SCHOOLS, 35 of today is not exactly the same as that of their fathers ancl mothers, and the instruction giveu in the public schools should recognize this fact. HIGH 80H00L. The Johnson High School, it should be borne in mind, is an integral part of the Public Schools of the Town. It is not, and shoutd not be, regarded as a distinct organization. It is subject to the same rules, nnder the supervision and iurisdiction of the same committee, and open to all the pupils whose previous training and mental ability will permit of their successfi~lly taking up the work defined in its three courses. It should not be so conducted as to prevent any pupil who does honest work from obtaining all the advantages there offered. For this reason alone, although others can be advanced, the course should be made somewhat elastic--as much so as is consistent with a high standard in scholarship. The individual should not be obliterated by an iron-clad curriculum, and, above all, genius should not be offered up as a sacrifice to an "all round" education intended for the many. It does seem that in a High School at least individual- ism might be recognized, and each pupil be permitted under wholesome regulations to work out his own intellectual salvation on the lines of the least resistance. These remarks are not intended in any way as a reflection on our own High School, but rather as suggestive of what any further action on our part should be, and expressive of my own personal opinion of what High Schools in general ought to be. The Johnson High School is doing good work. The discipli~e is excellent, the scholars are diligent and the teachers are earnest. The number of pupils at the opening of the term in September was not such as to require extra seating room, and no extra expense has been incurred therefor. The only outlay has been for an extra recitation room which, owing to the difficulty of heating the lower hall in winter, and its frequent use for other purposes, was much needed. I am glad to note that this school is rapidly winning the confidence of the people of the Town, as the large and increased attendance indicates. The following are the names of the last graduating class :- ALFRED E. CHESLEY, CORNELIUS J. MAHONE¥, IDA B. JEWETT, KATHERINE R. REAGAN, MARTHA E. KEATIN(3, BELLE L. ROACHE. I~U810 AND DRAWING. Very sat~s[actory work is being done in Music and Drawing. The following schedule will give an idea of the time devoted to these branches by the ~pecial teachers. In Music, Mr. Butterworth teaches as follows: 36 NORTH ANDOVER. Monday, a. m.--Centre and Farnham schools. " p. ~n.--Bradstreet, Miss Hatch's and Miss Allen's rooms. Tuesday--Merrimack school. Thursday, a. m.--High, Centre until io.3o, then, alternate weeks, at Pond and River schools. Thursday, p. m.--Union and Bradstreet schools. Miss Condon teaches Drawing as follows: Weduesday, a. m.--Merrimack school, 8.3o to 9.45. " a.m.--Centre t, ro to I 1.45. " p.m.--Union " x.3o to 3.r5, Thursday, a. m.--Merrimack IX, 8.30 to 9.3o. " a.m.--Bradstreet 9.45 to ~ r.3o. " p.m.--Merrimack VI, VII, VIII. Friday, a. m.--High school. Third Wednesday, a. m., each month--Farnham, Kimball and Pond schools. Third Friday, p. m., each month--River school. NO 8E88ION 8IgrNAL, The signal for no session of the schools in stormy weather is the ringing of the bell on the Merrimack school building at 7.40 a. m. for no session in the forenoon, and ~ 2.40 for no session in the after- ATT]~I~DAi~O~, The attendance of the schools was sadly interfered with by an epidemic of measles during the spring term, and the per cent. in consequence has fallen from 94, the record of several previous years, to 92 for the school year of ~895-6. The total enrolment at the opening of the fall term was 38 more than for the corresponding period of the previous year. The total number registered in the month of September, ~896, was 767. This, of course, naturally re- quired an extra room and an extra teacher, but, by the re-arrangement of the grades in the Merrimack school whereby the services of an assistant on the upper floor were dispensed with, there was no in crease in the total number of teachers below the High school. Attention is called to the record of tardiness on a succeeding page. It will be valuable for reference and comparison. The figures are obtained by dividing the total number of cases of tardiness by the product of the average daily attendance and the number of sessions f~/c t~e c6rr~ponding) period: of time. ' SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT--SCHOOLS. 37 I would suggest, if the finances of the Town will permit, that in asking for the appropriation for the expenses of the coming calendar year the following matters be considered~ viz.: (~) Tinting the walls and varnishing the woodwork of ~[iss Small's room at the Centre School. I advise tinting the walls because the cost is little if any more than for whitening, and the color more agreeable to the eye. Repairs are also needed on the outbuilding of this school5 also the tinting of the walls in the romns of the Merrimac School, or should this be deemed too expensive, a thorough cleansing of the walls as they now are. (2) Dividing the cellar of the Union School by a matched- board partition so that the coal can be kept in the rear and separated from the furnaces. As these furnaces take their supply of fresh air from the basement, such an arrangement would prevent the diffusion o£ coal dust throughout the schoolrooms abov% and thereby conduce to the general cleanliness of the furniture and apparatus. (3) The purchase of door mats for the Merrimack and Bradstreet Schools. (4) Concreting the walks at the Merrimack and Bradstreet Schools~nd the building of a fence to enclose the grounds of the latter. (5) The digging of a new well at the River School. (6) The pur- chase of many new books to replace many of those now in use, but which are pretty thoroughly worn out, and also more supple- mentary matter for the use of both teachers and pupils. WORK 0~ THE SCHOOLS, As regards the work the past year in the different branches of study we have made some progress. In reading we have made an advance in the line of good literature. In arithmetic we have adopted a new text book and require more work in the intermediate grades in what is regarded as the essentials--the fundamental rules. We are doing some work in physiology, particularly ia the lower grades. In spell- ing, writing and geography, the work has been about the same as usual. In language, we are incidentally imparting a knowledge of: nature in the lower grades by first developing thought by observation, and then expressing it both orally and in writing, hoping thereby to awaken original ideas, and to acquire facility in the use of correct English. Nature study has not received the attention that it is hoped we may give it later, mainly because so much is needed to be done in other lines. We hope next year to so correlate it with other branches that it may help rather than interfere with the other work. NORTH ANDOVER. THE KII~BALL 80]t00L. I feel it a duty to again call your attention to the condition of the Kimball school, as regards attendance, and to repeat the suggestions made in my report of last year concerning it. An average attend ante of four to five pupils during the school year, and not over three during the winter months, at an average expeuse of over 382 per pupil for fuel, teaching, and supplies for the year, makes it appear to the critical observer that the Kimball district is getting its full share of the town appropriation. This appearance becomes real when recourse is had to figures, and it is found that the average cost per pupil for the same service in the whole town is only ~8.65. In my opinion better results could be attained, both educationally and finan- cially, by closing this school for the winter months, if not for the entire year, and transporting the children to thc Farnham school. IN GENERAL, A system of schools, when accurately graded and adjusted, has sometimes been likened to a machine. To some extent such a like- ness is a correct one. In so far as each school shall be an integral part of the whole, and the whole so arranged as to do a certain work and no more, it is nothing else. It may even be a term of reproach. Yet, each school need not be and can not be identical in method, nor can identical results be reasonably expected. It seems to me that the likeness consists more in the smoothness and certainty with which the schools do the work assigned them. Noise in a school room is often thought to be an indication of work, and is o~ten ex- cused on this idea. To a certain limit this is true, but it must be remembered that the most accurately adjusted machinery makes the least noise and does the best work, and so educational work, when it is best done, is the occasion of very little friction, either within or without the school room, and noise within, or bickerings without, are only symptoms of a diseased condition of the body schofas:~¢. There being no sucb symptoms manifest at present, the inference one natur- ally draws is that good, steady, honest, and fairly satisfactory work is being done. It is encouraging to thus perceive the visible results of our united labor for the improvement of our schools. In conclusion, I thank you, the members of the committee, parents, teachers and pupils for the uniform courtesy extended to me at all times since my connection with you, and for the many kind acts of assistance. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE E. CHICKERING, S~2~er~nfendenl a/ ~chao/s. TABLE OF ATTENDANCE. · < Z' m < 4° NORTH ANDOVER. OUTLINE OF OOUR2E OF STUDY IN PUBLIO 80ltOOL8 OF NORTH ANDOVEE, MA~S, FIRST GRADE. P,.E,~mNG--Familiar words and simple sentences from blackboard; first half of ~ne or more First Readers; elementary sonnds and their symbols. ARrrm~E~'Ic--Numbers objectively to to, all the combinations; connting to 50; signs; teach halves, thirds and fourths. SeELZ:r~a--Words in reading lessons by sound. LaNc. u*¢E--Correct forms of expression, oral and written. W}~maa--Letters and simple words on slate and paper. Di~awrr~c; .is directed by special teacher. Musxc--As directed by special teacher. O~S~RWq'rON Lasso,xs--in oature, including elementary physiology. PHYSICAL EXERCISES. SECOND GRADE. RE~mNo--Second half of First Readers, and first half of one or more Second Readers; names and use of punctoation marks as they occur; Phmfics. Aan'a~mT~c--Numbers to 20 or more; Numeration and Notation to ~oo; ceunting to too; Fractions to eighths. SeELLI~a--Oral and written from readers by letter; new words by sound. LaNGUi~3a--Use Of capital letters, period and interrogation mark: dictation exerci.~es; original Composition in connection with Observ- tion Lessons. WmTXN¢--Primary Copy Book, or ruled paper from copy. Di~awIr~a--As directed by special teacher. Music--As directed by special teacher. OBSERVXrmN LEssozqS--Continued on same lines. PHYSICAL EXERCISES. THIRD GRADE. REamh'c--Finish Second Readers; read first half of an easy third; Phonics; Supplementary Readers. ARITHMET~c--Numbers to too, all combinations; nmltiplication tables to ~2xr:~; adding of columns of two figures; Fractions to twelveths: Numeration and Notation; Milne's Arithmetic, (or its equivalent) to Notation and Numeration. SI'ELLZNC,--Oral and written from Readers, and from Harrington's Speller to Lesson 48. COURSE OF STUDy--SCHOOLS. 41 LAt,'cr;A(~--Abbreviations; quotation nmrks; possessive forms; copying; reproduction and dictation exercisesj original written ex- pression; letter writing begun. WRn'~,xc~--Copy Book No. 2, primary. D~AwTr~¢--As directed by special teacher. Music--As directed by special teacher. O~SERW~O~r L~ssoNs--In Nature, Physiology and Geography. ~HYSICAL I~XERCISES. FOURTH GRADE. Rg.~.D1No--Third Reader and supplementary matter. Teach use of dictionary. AE~THME'['IC--Continue work in simple common fractions, and ~vrite decimals to thousandths; practical work in denominate numbers; adding of columns of three figures each. Milne's Arithmetic (or its equivalent) to common fractions. SPELL,S-c--Oral ~md written from readers, and Harrington's Speller to Lesson 87. L~Nc, rJxaE--Continue and extend previous work; original composi~ tioa. Hyde's Language Book, No. r, firs~ half. GEOG~APH¥--F~ye's Primary to "['eople." Wren'mC--Copy Book No. 3, with pen and ink. D~xw~(~--As directed by special teacher. Music--As directed by special teacher. [~H¥SrCAL EXERCISES. ELEMENTARY SCIENCE--As directed~ including Botany, Geology, Physiology and Zoology. FIFTH GRADE. RExr)~r~a--Third Reader and supplementary matter. Aa~T~m~r'lc--Practice in ~nndgmeutal operations; mental drill; practical use of measures and welglxts; complete common fractions. Milne's Arithmetic to Decimal Fractions. S~[zi~a--Oral and written from.readers, and Harrington's Speller to Lesson ~ 25. L~,NGUAOE--Continue and exgend previous year's work; original compositions. Hyde's Language Book~ No. ~, finished. GEooR.aPHY--Frye's Primary completed. WmT~rc--Copy Book No. 2, large. D~,wiNc~--As directed by special teacher. Mt~sxc--As directed by special teacher. PHYSICAL EXERCISES. 42 NORTH A~DOVER. ELEMENTARY SCIENCE--As directed. Continuation of previous year's work. SIXTH GRADE. REaDiNG--Fourth Readers and supplementary matter. ARrrH~ETIC--lqnish Milne's Elementary. SPELLiS(J--Harrington's Speller to Part L^~OUAoz--Hyde's Language Lessons, No. 2, first haiti GEocgArHv--Grammar School text Book--Earth, North America, Sou~ch America, with special reference to their physical formation, etc. WmTI~t;---Copy Book No. 3. l)aawiNo--As directed by special teacher. Music--As directed by special teacher. PHYSICAL EXERCISES, ELEMENTARY SCIENCE--As direct;ed. Continuation of previous work. SEVENTH GRADE. READING--Fourth Readers and supplementary matter. AmrH~IETIC--" Milue's Stand~rd" to percentage reviewing the four fundamental rules in integers aud fractions, both common and decimal; accounts and bills; denominate numbers; longitude and time and practical measurements. SPELLINO Harrington's Speller to Lesson 75, Part II. Lascr~acE--Hyde's Language, Lesson No. 2, second half or its equivalent. G~OaR^?u¥--Grammar Sctmol Text Book, Asia, Europe, Africa. WRm~c--Copy Book No. 4; movement exercises. Dgawi~o--As dirccted by special teacher. Music--As directed by special teacher. Pm:s~oLoc~'--Dunglison's first third (or its equivalent). EtZUErqTaaV ScmNcz--Continued. Book KE~mZqo--Elements preparatory to study. I>HYSICAL EXERCISES. EIGHTH GRADE. RE^r)ING--Selections. AR~TUME~rm--Percentage iu all its applications; mental work, "Milne's Standard" to Proportion. SPSL~lN(;--Harrington's Speller to Lesson ~68, Part Lah'c, uAoE--Hyde's Language Book, No. 3, first half j considerable work in original composition. GEOOm&rA¥--Grammar School Text Book, Australia, etc., United States. COURSE OF STUDY--SCHOOLS. 43 HISTOt~Y--U. S., first half, Eggleston's ~VRIT1NO--Copy Book No. 5: movement exercises. Da~-wn~c3--As directed by special teacher. Mvstc--As directed by special teacher. ELEMENTARY SCIENCE~As directed, continued. PHYStOLOc¥--Dunglison's second third (or its eqnivalent). BOOK K~:Emsc--Elements, preparatory to use of books. PHYSICAl. EXERCISES. NINTH GRADE. REAmNG--Selections. ARITHMETIC-- Proportiou 3 Square and Cube Root 3 Measurements; Milne's Arithmetic, finished and reviewed. SPELLinG--Finish Speller. GRAMMAR--Hyde's Book, No. 3, finished; analysing aud parsing original composition. GEO6EAPHY--Finish and review, United States, New England States. HISTOEY--Finish and review. Writing--Copy Book, "Business Forms." D['.aw~4g--As directed by special teacher. Musm--As directed by special teacher. ELEMENTARY SclEN'cE--Continued. PHYsiOLOgY--Finish text book and review. Book K~'~'v~r~g--Meservey's Single Entry', with blanks. PHYSICAL EXERCISES. CIv~cs--Dole's "American Citizen," carefi, lly read and discussed. For dermis see "Course of Studies" for elementary schools, pre- pared under the direction of the Massachusetts Board of Education, particularly in relation to Nature Work, Elementary Science and Physiology. For su~i~lementary reading matler consult the Superintendent. 44 NORTH ANDOVER. JOHNSON HI(iH .SCHOOL, NORTH ANDOVER, CLASSICAL COUtiSE LATiNCOURSE. I ENGL{St[ COURSE. Algebra. 15, iAlgcbra. 5. iCotn. Arithmetic. (Book.keepinK opt Drawing. 1. (ltook keeping opt. 9.) Drawing. 1. Music. 1, 3ook-ke;ping opt. 2.) Music. 1. Algehra. (Book-keepin~ opt. 2.) Music· 1. B~okkeeping and Cont. Algebra, Cmn. 2krithmetic. Book-keeping and Com. [Drawing. 1. IDra~vlng. 1. (Typewriting o tlonai ) [Latin. ~. General ~Hisrorv. GENERAL I~XERCiSES. Instri~ctian in Physical Geography~ Zoology, Astronmny. and Political Economy is given te each class by lectures. Each pupil declaims befi~re the school once ~n six weeks. JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL. Johnson High School, North Andover, Mass. (]0UttSE8 OF INSTRUOTION AI~D TEXT-B00KS. FIRST YEAR. AL'GEBRA, THROUGH QuaDRxrlcs. Wentworth School Algebra. I.aa'~ LEiqONS. Collars and Daniell's text. ARITHMETIC~ Packard's Commercial. PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. Lincoln's text complete. E-~GLISU. Grammar, History of Language, Figures of Speech, Common Errors, Punctuation, Letter Writing and Composi- tion. Reading of Irving's Sketch Book, Cooper's Spy. BOoK-KEEPING, DOUBLE ENTRY. Commercial Forms and Cus- toms. ENGLISH HISTORY. Montgomery's text complete. DRAWiNg, Freehand. Music. SECOND YEAR. GEOMETRY, ]?LAIN. Wentworth's text complete. L.aTI>~. C~esar's Gallic War, Books 1-IV; (or an equivalent in selections from Euthopius, Nepos, C~esar, Gelliu% Cicero, Livy, as found in Arrowsmibh and Whicher's text. Latin Composition Exercises based on C~esar, Book 11. G~N~KAL HIS'rom'. Myer's Ancient, Medieval and Modern, complete. ENGLISH. American Literature, Hawthorne and Lemmon's text complete, with reading of the authors (selections) Irving, Hawthorne, Bryant, Emerson, I.ong£ellow, Whittier, Lowell~ Holmes and others. GR~.EK L~SSONS. White's Beginner's Book. CiViL GOVERNMENT. Young's text complete. Bo:r,~v. Gray's School and Field Book. Study o¢ text followed by practical laboratory and field work. A[r3EB~A. Intenhediate Equations, Logarithms, Ratio, Propor- tion, Variation, Series, Binomial Formula, Chance. DRAWING, Geometrical. Music. THIRD YEAR. L^Tn4. Cicero, Orationes in Cati!inam, Pro Marqel!o, Pro A~hla.: selected sight leading. Ovid, ~)~oo lines. NORTH AND0VER. GEOMETRY. Original Problems and Theorems. Solid Geometry. Conic Sections. Wentworth's text. E~ULISm Rhetoric. Reading of Caucer's Canterbury Tales, Spenser's Faerie Queeue, with study of the lives of the authors. Paragraph Writing. Extempore Compositions. CUE~lSTRV. Text-book and laboratory work first half year. Second half year, laboratory work (Bartlett's Laboratory Exercises) with illustrated essays by pupils on assigned subjects. RO~AN HISXORV, frmn earliest periods to 500 A. D. Allen's History of the Roman People complete. GREEK. Anabasis, Books I-IV. GREEK HISTORY, from earliest periods to 325 B. C. Oman's History of Greece complete. GREEK COMPOSITION. Exercises based on Anabasis, Collar and Daniell's complete. FRENCH. Grammar, first half year. Super's French Reader second half year. French composition. D~.aWiNC:. Projection. Model and objecL Music. FOURTH YEAR. LATIN. Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI. Selections from Ennius, Plautus, Lucretius, Horace, Livy, Tacitus and others. Selected sight reading. LATI~ COMPOSrnON. Exercises based on passages selected from Cicero as found in Collar's Practical Latin Composition. TRmonE_~am'R¥. Trigonometric Functions, The Right Triangle, The Isosceles Triangle, The Regular Polygon, Goniometry, The Oblique Triangle. Text, Wentworth's Plain Trigo- nometry. AMERICAN HISTORY, studied topically from texts of several writers ENaLlSH. Reading o~ Milton, Shakespeare, Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin, Addison, Pope and others. College requirements. Study of lives of the several authors. Essay writing on assigned subjects. P~¥s~cs. Gage's Introduction, complete, fully illustrated by ex- periments performed by instructor. Gx~.m~. Homer's Iliad, Book I-IIL Sele~mns from Herodotus, Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon. ' Sight ~ea4ing. JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL. 47 F'~E~CH. Reading of college requirements with composition ha.seal on works read. R~:v~vzws of some special subjects, or electives of additional branches, at discretion of Principal. 1)RAWIHC,. Mechanical. Light and Shade. Music. NO~TH ANDOYER. FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. HIGH 80H00L, Teachers and Janitor .............................. $2,7 [8 75 Fuel .................................................. ~76 35 Repairs and supplies .............................. 493 86 M~,RRIMAOK 8OHOOL. Teachersaud Janitor ............................. $4,218 .52 Fuel .................................................. 255 37 Repairs and supplies ........................... ;. 612 54 BRADgTREr. T 80H00L. Teachers and Janitor ............................ $~,~ [6 oo Fuel .................................................. 59 25 Repairs and supplies .............................. ~96 33 UNION SOH00L, Teachers and Janitor. ........................... $9~2 oo Fuel ................................................. r 72 oo Repairs and supplies .............................. 221 25 0ENTRE 80HOOL, Teachers and Janitor .............................. %944 oo Fuel ................................................. ~26 75 Repairs and supplies ............................ 444 78 $I'515 53 FARNHAM 80H00L. Teacher ........................................... %342 oo Fuel ................... ............................... 3° 5e Repairs and supplies ............................. 80 ~9 $452 69 KIMBALL 80H00L. Tescher and Janitor .............................. $~74 oo Fuel ................................................. ~ 8~ Repairs and supplies .............................. 2 38 POND SOH00L. Teachers and Jauitor, ........................... $349 oo Fuel .................................................. 37 75 Repairs and supplies ............................. 76 22 RIVER SOHOOL. Teachers and Janitor .............................. %373 oo Fuel ................................................. 32 75 Repairs and supplies ............................ I5 4~ Music and Drawing ................................ $768 oo ~3,388 96 85,086 43 %~,37~ 58 8~,3°5 ~5 $298 $462 97 %42I 17 $768 oo %r5,o7o 77 FINANCIAL REPORT--SCHOOLS. 49 ITEHIZED A000UNT 0P TEAOHERS, JANITOR8 AND PIJEL. James C. Flagg, teaching ....................... $,,2~8 75 Annie L. Sargent, teaching ....................... 585 oo Ethel A. Jacobs, teaching ....................... 39° oo Elizabeth Goldsmith, teaching ................ 35o oo A. F. King, Jr., teaching ...................... 941 05 Alice M. Barstow, teaching ..................... ~4a ~o H. Frances McDonnell, teaching ............. ~82 5o Hannah C. Carleton, teaching .................. ~97 37 Mary E. Quealy, teaching ...................... 4r8 oo Helen C. Sargent, teaching .................... 399 oo Laura A. Bailey, teaching ....................... 399 oo Annie E. Sanborn, teaching .................... 399 oo Annie M. Osgood, teaching .................... 399 oo Mabel F. Fuller, teaching ....................... 3~9 co Ella F. Carpenter, teaching ..................... 24x 5© Henrietta Hatch, teaching ....................... 399 oo Florence C. Haskell, teaching ..... ,- ............ 72 oo · Carrie E. Allen, teaching ....................... tao oo M. A. Putney, teaching .......................... xo5 oo Estelle S. Rogers, teaching ..................... 4~8 oo Helen E. Roache, teaching ..................... 399 oo Ella A. Small, teaching .......................... 456 oo Clara E. Bryer, teaching ........................ 364 50 E. Maud Randall, teaching ..................... 342 oo Louise K. Morss, teaching ....................... 266 oo Margaret P. Hubbard, teaching ............. e6i oo Grace A. Hubbard, teaching .................... 63 oo Grace B. Whitford, teaching .................... 230 oo Edith M. Brown, teaching ....................... t2o oo Harriet D. Condon, teaching ................... 378 oo Edward l~utterworth, teaching .................. 390 oo Patrick Haley~ janitor and fi~el ................. x77 75 James M. Craig, janitor ......................... 5ox oo Joseph Trombly, janitor ........................ 95 oo George A. Towne, janitor and fuel ........... xe4 75 John A. Bencker, janitor ......................... 8 oo H. ~Perley Chase, janitor ........................ 25 oo H. Dana Currier, janitor ....................... ~9 oo Leon It. Bassett, Jr., ianitor .................... 4 oo 50 NORTH ANDOYER. Brought forward, $ x ~,o ~ 9 E. McKone, fuel ................................. 393 Joseph Jacobs, fuel .............................. 358 O. N. Foster & Son, fuel ........................ 7 Edward Adams, fuel .............................. 7 A. P. Fuller & Son, fuel ......................... 6 Moses Towne, fuel ............................... 9 B. H. Farnum, fuel .............................. x7 Daniel A. Carleton, fuel .......................... ~8 Julius Bode, fuel ................................... ~ r Nathan Foster~ fuel .............................. 37 W. H. Hayes~ fuel ................................ 32 OO OO OO OO 8~ 75 75 Expended .......................................... $ t ~,92 7 80 Appropriation ..................................... Ig~ 2,9oo oo Overdrawn ....................................... ~7 80 IT~IgED A¢00UNT OF I~.tPAIIt8 AND 81It PhlgS. P. P. l).~w, repairs ................................. $463 7o E. [.. W ~t,m, repairs .............................. 26o S~nborn Furnace Co., fm-naces .................. 308 OO 4o Hardy & Cole, repairs ............................ 69 5° D. J. Costello, repairs ............................. 91 78 J. H. Rea, repairs ............................... 53 o7 P. J. Sweeney, repairing.steam boilers, etc .... 96 88 Edward McCabe, repairing boiler .............. ~9 40 Edward Adams, cementing cellar ............... 46 4~ Calvin Rea, stock and labor ..................... ~ 7 25 I. W. Marden, painting, setting glass, etc., .... ~ 7 99 J. Trombly, cleaning, grading, etc .............. ~6 oo John Murley, mason work ....................... 5 3© J. It. Tattersall, glass and setting .............. 6 80 James Brierley~ repairs ........................... 7 35 John Perry, repairs ............................... 4 65 Davis & Fuber Machine Co., repairs ........... 6 47 George A. Towne, repairs and cleaning ........ ~3 oo S. K. Nowell, mason work .................... 7 75 Carn~dforv. mrd, ~i,5~ 2o FINANCIAL i~EPORT--SCHOO[~$. 5 I J. E. Ingalls, repairs ............................ 3 5° Henry Keniston, repairs ......................... ~' 25 Erwin C. Pike, repairs ......................... 5 69 George Gould, repairs ............................ 3 25 Mr. Gafl~ey, repairs ............................... 5 oo S. D. Hinxman, repairs .......................... :~ 65 E. Butterworth, tuning pianos, etc .............. 8 3© James W. Leitch, repairs and snpplies ......... ~ t 7 64 Chandler Adjustable Co, furniture ............ ro$ 5© Bobrick School Furniture Co., chair pedes ta~s ............................................ 3t 50 Briggs & Allyn, book case, etc .................. 52 x8 Ziegler Electric Co., supplies .................. 55 94 Smith Premier Typewriter Co., supplies ..... 4 85 Dyer & Company, drawing instruments, etc.. 3° 32 James C. Flagg, supplies ............. ~ .......... 29 ao George H. Perkins, supplies ............... .. .... 42 54 J. L. Hammett Co., slate ...................... i2 32 Lord & Co .......................................... 8 oo H. P. Do% clocks .............................. x2 oo Buck]ey, McCormick & Sullivan, furniture... 8 oo D. S. Hall & Co., supplies ....................... 6 38 M. E. Austin & Co, supplies .................... 9 59 J. W. Richardson, supplies ....................... 7 25 Greenwood School Supply Co ................. 3 o6 Mineral 'lhblet Ink Co ........... : ............... zoo C. A. Pilling, stamped envelopes ............... 8 29 Fred L. Sargent, freight, and carting furniture 6 2 ~ T. A. Holt & Co., supplies ...................... r 76 Geo. E. Chickering, postage .................... 3 5o N. S. S. Tompkins, supplies .................... 2 87 A. P. Cheney, trucking settees ................. 3 oo G. C. Cannon, lettering diplomas .............. 5 25 Geo. Campbell, labor ............................ 85 Joseph Campbell, labor ........................... 3 oo Charles Wilcox, cleaning vaults ................. ~5 oo James M. Craig, truant officer .................. to oo Andover Press, printing .......................... rt 5° Car~ed.fd~ar~"' $~, x63 34 52 NORTH ANDOVER. Brough/forward, $2,t63 34 John N. Cole, supplies ........................... 2 60 American Publishing Co., printing ............. 2o 7e Hannah C. Carleton, taking census ............ 25 on Geo. C. Josselyn, expressing .................... 28 72 J. H. Fuller, snpplies.. .......................... 2 o6 G. A, Higgins & Co., supplies .................. 2 60 Mrs. Wormald, cleaning .......................... 5 55 Mrs. Shannahan. cleaning ...................... 2 55 Mrs. Kemp, cleaning ............................. 4 80 Mrs. Broadhead, cleaning ..................... ~ 80 Geo. Hall, cleaning .............................. 2 5° H. Perley Chase, cleaning ....................... 2 on Herman Kober, cleaning ........................ 2 no · H. Dana Currier, cleaning ...................... ~ 5° Joseph Jacobs .................................... 2 79 H. C. Pinkham ................................... 2 25 W. E. Rice, supplies .............................. 3 95 Geo. F. King & Merrill ........................... 80 on $2,356 7t $1,4oo on 239 2o 7r7.5r $2,356 7[ 82,356 7~ Appropriation ................................ Mass. School Fund and sales .............. Overdrawn .................................... ITI~MI~,~.D A00OU~IT OP ~O01r8 AND 8TATI01~ERY. American Book Company ....................... r47 70 Ginn & Company ................................. ~31 7~ J. L. Hammett Co ............................... 8~ r9 D. C. Heath & Co ............................... 6i 66 Silver, Burdett & Co ............................. 37 35 Boston School Supply Co ........................ too 09 Houghton, Mifflin &Co ......................... 36 65 Willard Small .................................... 45 ~ 2 Leach, Shewell & Sanborn ....................... ~7 77 Allyn & Bacon ..................................... ~4 ~7 Maynard, Merrill & Co ........ : ............... 90 Wm. Ware & Co .................................. 2r 25 Werner School Book Co ......................... ~3 64 FINANCiaL REPORT. Braught farward, D. Appleton ........................................ Thompson, Bro~vn & Co ........................ Harriet D. Condon .............................. Oliver Ditson Co ................................. H. H. Williams .................................... Rand & McNally ................................. T.H. Castor ....................................... II. F. Chandler .................................... Dyer & Company ................................. Educational Publishing Co ...................... 13. F. Larrabee & Co ........................... (leo. F. King & Merrill ......................... Appropriation .............................. Sales ........................................... Overdrawn .................................. $709 2o 200 5 95 5 70 5 oo 15 oo t3 49 i [ oo i 50 7 42 7 50 ~3r 95 $920 83 7oo oo ~ 80 208 03 $920 83 $920 83 SUPERINTENDENT AND 00M~tlTTEE, Geo. E. Chickering, Supt ......................... $55° oo Mary G. Carleton .................................. ~'5 oo $665 oo Appropriation ............................... Unexpended ............................. r35 oo $80o oo $800 oo g8oo oo I~08E~ TOWNE ]?UND, William 14. Guild & Co .......................... $ 8 20 Interest r896 and unexpended int. ~895 Unexpended ............................. 226 58 $234 78 $234 78 $234 78 54 NORTH ANDOVER. TO~N OF I~ORTK AND0VEZ I~ AGCOUNT ~ITK ~0HOOL8. Appropriation for teacher% janitors and fuel..S~ 2,900 oo Repairs and supplies ............................. ~,4oo oo Books ............................................. 700 oo Superintendent .................................... 8o0 oo Received from Mass. School Fund ............ 2 ~9 ~o Sales ............................................... 3~ 8o Interest ~896 and unexpended interest ~895 of Moses Towne Fund ......... ........... 234 78 Overdrawn ......................................... 59x 76 $~6)878 54 GR. Teachers, janitors and fuel.' .................... Repairs and supplies ............................. Books, etc .......................................... Superintendent ................................... School Committee ............................. Moses Towne Fund ............................ $i5,927 80 5,356 7t 920 83 550 oo ~'5 oo 8 ~o $t6878 54 REPORT. ENGINEERS' REPORT, To the Auditor of lhe Town of l~'orlh Andover : The Board of Engineers respectfully submit the annual report of the Fire Department of the Town of North Andover. The fire apparatus of the Town is in good condition and well equipped. We have visited the Public Buildings and consider thexn safe from fire, but would recommend fire escapes for the Merrimack and Union School Houses. SUPt~ORT OF ]~IttF, DEPAgTMF, I~T. Appropriation ................... $x,5oo oo Street Department ............... 2o0 oo PAID P0g FIRE Pay-roll Cochichewick Co ........ $455 oo Pay-roll Eben Sutton Co .......... 276 oo E. S. Robinson, engineman ....... 52 oo Lawrence Gas Co., gas .......... x8 33 William Page, team and services.. 6 5o Davis & Furber Machine Co., sup- plies ....................... 5 93 George A. Towne, cleaning snow from reservoir ............... 2 75 John A. Townes, janitor .......... x2 oo J. W: Richardson, supplies ....... 8 E. McKone, coal ................ 54~ x9 S. D. Hinxman, labor and supplies. 8 r5 George L. Gage, Cannel coal ..... x5 oo S. A. Fish, labor at fire .......... 2 oo Alonzo Bixby, use of team for fire. x oo M. H. Pulsffer, labor ............ 3 50 Carrietlfarward, $x,7oo oo $9~8 46 NORTH ANDOVER. ]3rought farward, P. P. Daw, carpenter work ....... George H. Perkins, telephone, etc. American Publishing Co., blanks.. Cornelius Callahan Co., repairing hose and spanners ........... Josselyn's Express ............... P. Carrow, harness and supplies... A. W. Badger, labor ............ William Nokes, exchange of horse. W. E. Rice Co., supplies ......... William Fernald, ringing bell for fire A. P. Currier, supplies ........... John F. Bennet, supplies ......... John F. Sanborn, supplies ........ Gilmet & Morin, wood ........... McDonald & Hanna£ord, supplies.. William P. Whittaker, janitor ..... William Nokes, two new horses. $400; credited by one old horse, $60 ........................ T. A. Holt & Co., supplies ....... Treat Hardware Co., supplies .... Joseph Jacob, coal ............... Charles J. Kelley, labor on reservoir H. H. Easterbrook, book ......... J. G. Brown, supplies ............ Bean & Poor, lumber ............ Broad Guage Iron Works, manger, Cochichewick Ice Co., use oi horse. FIItll ALARI~I. Richard Hill, labor .............. Jesse Briefly, labor .............. Treat Hardware Co., cutters ...... Davis & Furber Machine Co., sup- plies ....................... Lawrence Electric Supply Co., sup- plies ....................... Unexpended ................ $[,7oo oo $9~8 46 66 5° 2 20 3 75 6 oo 55 134 oo 5 ° oo i 50 1 50 ~ 52 z 43 i 76 z 25 5 75 15 O0 34 ° oo x 89 3° oo 50 I oo 43 33 76 3 35 I0 O0 $r,636 5° 32 75 -I O0 I oo t 9° 2o 95 $~,694 IO 5 9° $I~7OO OO ~I,7OO OO ENGINEERS' REPORT. 57 TIP OART. Appropriation ................... $15o GO S. D. Hinxman, new cart, etc ..... Unexpended ................ NEW Appropriation ................... Cornelius Callahan Co., 40o feet 2 i-2 inch hose .............. 11114o oo I0 O0 $z5o GO ~15o GO $250 GO ~25o GO $250 GO $250 GO P, NGINEER8 Appropriation ................... $12o GO William A. Johnson ............. $40 GO George Stone ................... 4o GO Frank Tisdale .................. 4° GO $120 GO $120 R~OORD 0P ALARm8 AND PIERS FOR YEAR ENDING DE0, $1, 1896, Feb.10 June 8 9.40 p.m. No Alarm,l_. Sparks on Boys with Owner. Property. Mrs, Ann Fish. " j. 1~. Reynolds. S.D. Hinxman.] Shop. L~,O0 None. 10 O0 Matches. M.T. Stevens. I a'V°ods' ~ .... [ ...... False Alarm ....................................... I ..... W. A. JOHNSON, ) GEORGE STONE,~ ~'~j(ineers. FRANK TISDALE, 58 NORTH ANDOVER, t~0R81i IiXPE~SES. Appropriation ................... $z,2oo oo J. G. Brown, use of cart .......... x 25 H. Barker, use of cart ............ 25 C. Cooper, bill .................. zoo Wellington Davis, steward and driver John W. Richardson, grain and supplies ................... John H. Fuller, grain and supplies. S. D. Hinxman, shoeing and sup- plies ....................... Davis & Furber Machine Co., stock and labor ................... Sanborn & l~obinson, tar paper .... Dr. C. Bricault, services .......... 'F. M. Vietor, straw .............. Geo. H. Perkins, supplies ......... Jas. W. Leitch, labor and supplies. M. E. Austin, horse clippers and latch ....................... John A. Day, soap ............... J. C. Poor, hay .................. Josselyn's Express ............... Peter Carrow, harness and supplies John Laycock, hay ............... Ella F. Weil, stable rent ......... C. Cooper, linitnent .............. Charles J. Kelley, shoeing ........ $I~202 50 $605 oo 62 65 206 3° z2z 4° z9 28 4 7° ~900 37 83 t8 07 19 59 2 75 96 33 3O 50 84 35 77 27 2 5o I OO r2 75 ~I,2O2 5° $x,329 2o Overdrawn .................. z26 7° $t,329 20 $I,329 20 ENGllWERRS' RRPORT. ~9 The following days labor have been performed by the horses of the Fire Department for the Town of North Andover in the year x895, including the services of the driver oi steamer horses: STEAMER HOSE January, 2 horses 5 days, 83.oo per day February, 2 horses, z days, 83.oo per day ........................... March, 2 horses, 25 days, 53.oo per day March, x horse, x8 days, ~.5o per day April, x horse, xt. days, $x.5o per day April, 2 horses, 26 days, ,¢3.oo per day May, 2 horses, 25 days, ,¢3.oo per day May, 2 horses, ~7 days, ~3.oo per day June, 2 horses, 25 days, $3.00 per day June, 2 horses, a6 days, $3.oo per day July, 2 horses, 26 days, ~3.oo per day July, 2 horses, 26 days, $3.00 per August, 2 horses, 24 days, ,4~3.oo per August, 2 horses, 24 days, -'3.00 per Sept., 2 horses 26 days, $3.oo per Sept., 2 horses Oct., 2 horses Oct., 2 horses Nov., 2 horses Nov., 2 horses Dec., 2 horses. Dec., 2 horses. day day day day 26 days, ~3.oo per day 26 days, 53.oo per day.. 26 days, f~3.oo per day 23 days, ~3.oo per day 23 days, ~3.oo per day 26 days, 83.oo per day 26 days, ~3-9o per day HORSES. HORSES. DAYS. DAYS. 5 2 25 r8 26 25 25 26 2(5 26 24 24 20 26 26 26 23 23 26 26 8~,855 75 Steamer Horses total time ........ 259 One man, at $x.75 per day ....... 259 Hose Horse total time ........... 29 Hose Horses total time ............ ~94 259 days Steamer Horses at $3.00 per day ..... 8777 oo 259 days man at $x.75 per day ............... 453 25 x94 days Hose Horses at ~3.oo per day ........ 582 oo 29 days Hose Horse at $~.5o per day ......... 43 5° 60 NORTH ANDOVER. POLICE DEPABTI~E~T. I herewith submit the annual report of the ]Police Department f~r the year euding January 6, r897: 1~¢tain this (~atalo~u~ for l~¢fcrence. NORTH ANDOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY. List of Books Not on Catalogue. LIST OF BOOKS NOT CATALOGUED. BOOKS NOT ON CATALOfiUE. The following is a list of Books catalogue. A Man's a Man/or a' That, Alexander's Empire, History of Ali's Dross But Love. American Home Garden, The, American Girl's Handy Book, Aa American Peeress, American Weather, Anarchist Peril, The, Another Girl's Experience, Ants, Bees and Wasps, Animals Rights, August, Poems of, Banishment of Joseph Blyth, Bareroc k, Baths and Bathing, Barrington's Fate, Beaconsfield, Lord, Memories of Behaving, Biddy Club, The, Bible Stories for Little Folks, Bohemian, The, Boston, Young Folks History of, Bright Days, Bryan, Walter P., Life of, Burman, The, 2 % Camps in the R6ckies, Captain Horn, Adventures of, Carl's First Days, Children of the Soil, Confessions of Con Cregan, The, Da'ngerous Tendencies in Ameri- can Life, Doctor's Suggestions. Drawing and Painting, Hints on, found in Library not published in 265 r9 J. P. Mahaffy. 29~ A. E. Lancaster. 250 io3 A. Watson. 3oi 85 L. and A. B. Beard. 30~ 8~ H. C. C. Taylor. 300 Gen. A. W. Greeley. 293 35 F. Dubois. 306 64 L~ Webster. 306 67 Sir John Lubbock. 28o 68 H. S. Salt. 3o~ 83 Ed. O. F. ^dams. 304. 3I J. Hatton. 3o0 61 H. Nash. 3o3 3 264 8z 276 69 277 258 24 a9x 85 :~50 26 ~64 6o ~78 20 280 84 ~5~ 57 275-~4 ~5 Standard. G. A. Nicholas. Chas. De Kay. H. Butterworth. M. R. Bangs. Shuay ¥oe. Win. A. B. Grohman. F, R. Stockton. H. Sienkiewicz. Chas. Lever. 280 85 300 6~ 264 32 300 63 273 44 D B. St. John Roosa. e79 32 H. M. Knowlton. 291 5~ NORTH ANDOVEK. English Daisy Milles, The, E~quimo I,ife, Every Girl's Annual, Family at Missule, The, Famous French Authors. Fighting the Foe, Fishing, Five Acres Too Much, Floating Matter of the Air, Florida Enchantment, For Life and Liberty, Forms of Land and Water, Francis Cluade, Story of, Gardening for Profit, Gen. Washington~ Life of~ Guilty ICwer, The, Hamlet, Tragedy of, Handsome Humes, The, Harper's Young People, x893, His Father's Son, His Grandchild, Hour Will Com% The, House and Its Sorrowings, The, Imaginations, Imprisonment in a Spanish Con- vent. In Bird Land, In Lesler's Times, Land of Gold~ The. Life and Epistles of St. Paul, Lib. Little Brick Church, Longfellow and Emerson, Trib- lites t% Lord's Purse Bearers, The, Lottery 'l'icket~ rFhe, V. W. Johnson, Fridof Nansen, E. Turner. T. Gautries. Fidelite. H. C. Pennelh T. Roosvelt. John Tyndall. H. A. C. Gunter. G. A. Henry. N. D. Anvers. S. J. Weyman. P. Henderson. Gen. B. T. Johnson. W. Collins. Wnr. J. Rolfe. Wm. Black. B. Matthews. M. M. Pollsrd. W. Von Hillbern. I Tudor Jenks. E. C. G. Murray. L. S. Keyser. E. S. Brooks. l- Geo. G. Spurr. Rev-. W. J. Coneybeare. W. C. Faulkner. Mass. Hist. Society. Ileba Stretton. J. T. Trowbridge. 240 274 8o 6~ 44 3o6 68 286 76 307 57 287 9° 278 ~5 285 3 293 ~o8 280 7o 28~ 7~ 280 7~ 308 64 3°6 49 ~68 75 ~5~ 44 3°6 57 278 83 28o 67 303 2~ 306 58 e8o 78 275 43 3or 84 2~o 57 24x 63 268 III 306 70 3or 8~ 255 54 265 20 264 77 ~ORTHANDOVER. Marjory Graham, Mass. Historical Society, vol. 7, May, Poems Mediaeval France, Mexico, Picturesqe, etc., Minister of France, Minister's Wife, The, Mme. De La Rochefoucauld, Life of, Miss Bayle's Romance, Miss Gr~ff, Missouri, History My Girls, Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Mr. Perkin's Daughter, Men and Women, Ed. O. F. Adams. G. Masson. M. E. Blake and M; F. Sullivan. S. J. Weyman Mrs. A. R. Dunning. C. F. Woolson. L. Carr. L. M. Alcott; M. C. Sanza. C. O. Dow& 25o 73 280 ~ 272 x26 293 38 2¢2 ~7 3o6 65 285 97 262 64 292 3r 284. 62 292 20 255 79 277 39 276 33 New England Bird Life, Newgate of Connecticut, Newport, Nine Years in Nipon, Normandy and Brittany, Legends, etc. Nott, Abner K., Mem's., Nun of Kennare, On the Borderland, Only a Dog, Oriental Antiquities, Our Merchant Marine, Outbreak of The Rebellion, W. A. Stearns; R. H. Phelps. Geo. P. Lathrop. Henry Faulds. T. & K. Macquoid. O H. A. Keyser. E. Babelon. D. A. Wells. j. L. Nicolay. 277 284 293 278 355 294 280 g5o 26~ 250 278 75 37 33 77 5~ 33 66 ~7 Patty's Perquisites. Paul Dreyfuss, Phillip II., Krug of Spain, 3 v., Pl~y and Profit, "Political Essays~" "Poetical Works," "Poetical Works," Political Institutions, Part 5, Princess Amelie. Principles and Portraits, Progressive Farmer, The, Projection Drawing, Prince Dresty, John W. Allen. Wm. H. Prescott. E. P. Roe. Jas. R. Lowell. M. Alexander. Earl of Surray. M. Spencer. C. A. Bartol. J. A. Nash. S. E Warren. K. Monroe. 280 89 2~4 3 4-5 287 87 292 8 200 84 2oo 87 280 88 284 33 272 ~g 3o~ 86 286 1oo 260 3° _A H~' OF BOOKS NOT CATALOGUED. Rambles in Rome, Rambles in Wonderland, Raphael, Life of, "Randolph, Phillip, Life of Recreations of a Country Parson, Regents Questions, The, Reminiscenses of Yarrow, Reverberation, The, Rosine, Roundabout Journey, A, Rubens, Life of, Ruhainah~ Russian Empire, The, Russian Peasantry, The, Salammbo, Sander, Walter Savage, Sermons, Monday Club, 1882, germ,ns, Seven Years in Ceylon, Shadow on the Threshold, A, Shooting, Short Stories, Sotnerville, Mary, Life of, Statesman's Year Book, t893, Story of the Government, Sun, Th-e, Ten Great Rellgions~ Tennessee, History of, Tennis, Thaxter, Celia, Letters of, Theatre, The, Thorncliffe Hall, Thoughts on Religion, etc., Three in Norway, Three Kingdoms, Trilly, Fairy of Argyle, The, Two Days. Vegetable Life, Victor Vance, Vidocq. S. R. Forbes. 2-78 85 E. J. Stanley. 260 5 H. Grimm. 293 41 M. Gertrnde. 229 55 A. R. H. Boyd. 234 23 D. J. Pratt. 264 48 Jas. Russell. 286 77 Henry James. 292 12 J. G. w. Melville. 256 55 Chas. D Warren, 284 2 Geo. It. Calvert, 250 53 E. Stanton. 287 93 S. B. Boulton. 280 Stepnaik. 292 28 $ G. Flaubert. 286 78 S. Covlin. 277 84 28t 37 Rev. W. H. Odenhermer. 277 79 M. M. U. Leitch. 276 2 M. C. Hay. z69 97 Lord Walsingham. 306 60 Ed. C. C. H~rrison. 264 I25 M. Somerville. 291 43 J. L. Ketrie. 278 84 Henry Austin. 217 35 C. A. Young. 278 7 T Chas. A. Briggs. 285 8 Jas. Phelan. 293 39 J.M. Heathcote. 3°6 55 A. F. & R.T. 2~. 35 J. M.l.eeds. 249 86 D. Wise. 278 26 Jas. Eddy. 217 39 280 69 29I t41 306 66 380 83 H. H. Ballard. Chas. Nodies. W. Newport. V N. D. Anvers. H. Alger. 280 79 306 6 304 64 NORTH ANDOVER. Wallingiord Wandering Jew, The, Watch Fires of '76, The, Way to gortnne: The, Wayside Poems, We and the World, "Westwood, Josiah, Life of," Who Was Lost and Was Found "White Crown, The," "Whittier, John G., Life of," 2 v., Wild Beasts, Wrinkles and Crimping Pins, Wise Woma% A, Who Did It, Wolf at the Door, Woman of Impulse, Women of the Valois Court, Woman's Wrongs, Wonders of Architecture, Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, Wonders of the World, Wood Magic, World's Progress, The, Yarns On the Beach Year in Eden, A, "Yesterday," Young Folks Astronomy, The, "Young Americans in Japan," "Young Carthaginian. W M. D. Conway. S. A. Drake. W. Bruce. J. H. Ewing. S. Smiles. Mrs. Oliphant. H. D. Ward. S. T. Pickard. J. H. Porter. T. Child. C. F. Burnham, Wm. T. Adams. J. McCarthy. J. De St. Amand, M. A. Dodge, R. Donald, N; Hawthorne, R. Sears. R. Jeffries. Putnam, G. A. Henry. H. W. Preston. J. c. Chaplin, Jr. E. Greey G. A. Genty, Z 29~ 27~ 303 =88 27r 3o6 3o6 306 3o6-6r 306 288 309 ~59 306 300 243 230 3o6 2r3 233 3o0 280 27r 274 3O0 ~9 64 ~48 35 46 5~ 48 ~49 55 35 47 32 3° ~4 69 6 78 ~9 33 77 5o 34 Zigzag Journeys in the Antipodes, H. Butterworth, 29r r POLICE DEPARTMENT. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. NAMES. American Publishing Cornpany ........... Badger, Orrin A .............. Brown, John G., Supplies ..... Coan, Frank A ............ Cheney, A. la., Teams ....... Craig, J as. M Colburn, C ~o (Georgetown) Harris, Geo. L Hinxman, S. D Jaenbs, Joseph, Coal ...... Leighton, Joseph S Leary~ Arthur~ (Use of Boat) Leitch, Jas. w Pinkham, H. C Smith, Geo. I Toohey, W. J Rece pts 86 8100 881 8~0 ~e 81 NORTn ANb0VER. The following number of arrests have been made during the year. Male ........................... 44 Female .............. ' .......... Offences for which arrests were made. Simple drunk ................... x Drunk ......................... ~6 Vagrancy ....................... x Assault ......................... 2 Assault and battery .............. 8 Fight ........................... 2 Illegal fishing .................. ~ Larceny ........................ 3 Malicious mischief .............. 8 Non support .................... ~ Arson .......................... ~ 44 Assaults. 15 Fishermen stopped. Boys throwing stones ~o Fruit stolen. Boys drowned, i Hen stolen. Buildings found open. 2 Illegal sale of liquor. Beating board. 3 Larcency. Breaking and entering, x8 Loafing on corners. Card playing. 2 Money under false pre- Cow stolen, tence. Drunks cared {or. 9 Malicious ,nischief. Dangerous places. ~ Man lost. Disturbances. 2 Children lost. Dog fight, x Prize fight. Dog mad. ~ Stoning train. Dogs killed. 2 Stray horses. Gaming stopped. 2 Turned from home. Fire put out. 3 Tramps on railroad. Fires set. ~ Strangers ordered out of Family quarrels, town. I43 The following complaints and offences have been attended to by the officers and an investigation made when deemed necessary. POLICE D~PARTMENT. 63 During the year a number of complaints bare been at- tended to by officers and no reports have been received from them. Value of property lost, $75.0o. Value of property recovered, $.550.00. Respectfully submitted, E. S. ROBINSON, Chief af Police. 64 NORTH ANDOVER. SELECTMEN'S ~EPARTI~NT. We herewkh submit the annual report of the Selectmen's Department for the year ending January 6, t897: TOWN OFFICERS. .65 Following are the amounts dra,wn by the various ments, and to whom payments were made: TOWN OFFlCEI~S. Depart- - I Total .................... ~ 475 OOl 206 aj Appropriation ............. --4-75 o~ 22~ 5 oo Unexpended ..................... .~ z8 75 A. A. Currier, services ......... W. H. Hayes, " . ........ P. P. Daw, " ......... Chas. H, Robinson, servlces... $15o o~ George H. Perkins, " E. S. Colby Total ................... Appropriation ........... Unexpended .............. Patrick Halcv ........ ~25 oo George S Fuller ...... -2[o eel'. ........... Robert Elliott.. ............... ....... Soe .... JohnA.[amesCalvinM. L.E'__ E.Bolton Pernandes w.Rea l~galls Leitch .......... ......... ............................... ..... ..... ~ 25 ' Total ............. ~25 O0 aSO o°/ 5 °OI 250o Appropriation ...... ~25 oo ~5ooo 5 tx) 25 oo .. ~n_.expended...: 77 i e¢ ~ ~ Total. < 168 7q 3° OO15 442 50 ~68 7c, 3o oo(' 4~7 5o ~68 75 3°oo 4t7 50 506 25 __9~_ oo[$~,277 50 525 oo l ['3Iff oo t8 75 37 5° 3 5°oo ........ ....... I 472 74 35°oo/ 472 74 375 co 55°oc 3~ ~5 oo~ ~8 25 Total ~5o oo 35°oo 472 74 1,12:2 74 ~02 26 Total ~25 oo 250 oo 5o:> 3~ 7g 25 oo 25 oo 5rt 75 53°oo ~8 25 66 NORTH ANDOVER. F-&~.CTION EXPF, NgE~, Appropriation ................... ~3oo oo Arthur P. Chickering, teller and counter, March 4, ~$96 ...... $oo Arthur P. Chickering, clerk, Nov. 3, ~896 ..................... 6 oo Wm. R. Johnson, counter, March 4, ~896 ....................... .3 oo Wm. R. Johnson, deputy clerk and counter, Nov. 3, x896 ........ 6 oo Maurice Herbert, counter, March 4, ~896 ....................... 3 5° Maurice tterbert, teller, Nov. 3', ~896 5 oo P. H. Saunders, counter, March 4, x896 ....................... 3 5° F. H. Saunders, inspector and connt- er, Nov. 3, ~896 ............. 6 oo M. S. Jenkins, counter, March 4, x896 ...................... 3 5o M. S. Jenkins, warden, Nov. 3, ~896 5 50 E. S. Robinson, posting warrant, March and May, ~896 ........ 2 oo ]5'. A. Warren, teller and counter, March 4, ~896 ............... 5 oo F. A. Warren, warden, Nov. 3, ~896 6 oo H. C. Pinkham, carting tables, March 4, I896 .............. ~ oo A. D. Carleton, ballot clerk, March 4, ~896 ..................... 3 50 M. B. Meserve, ballot clerk, March 4, ~896 ..................... 3 50 T. P. Wentworth, counter, March 4, ~'896 ....................... 3 50 J. B. Lewis~ counter, March 4, ~896 3 oo Geo. H. Perkins, supplies ......... 2 ~o John H. Rea, labor on booths 2 26 Carried forward, $3oo~°° $78 86 SEL~ECTMEN'S D EPAR']['~EN'I', 67 Brought forward, American Publishing Co., poll list and warrant ................. A. B. Keefe, counter, March4, ~896 E. A. Fuller, counter, March 4, z896 J: Duncan, counter, March 4, ~896 D. A. Grogan, counter, March 4, ~896 ....................... O. T. Young, counter, March 4, ~896 ....................... O. T. Young, counter and inspector, Nov. 3, ~896 ................ Abbott Prescott, counting, March 4, x896 ....................... Moses A. Dow, counting, March 4, ~896 ....................... M. H. Pulsi£er, teller, March 4, ~896 ....................... Fred A. Carr, counter, March 4, x896 ....................... The H. A. Wadsworth Co., war- rant ....................... The Andover Press, ballots and vot- ing lists .................... P. Healey, labor..: ............. C. H. Morrill, inspector, Nov. 3, x896 ....................... George H. Wilton, counter, Nov. 3, x896 ....................... Jere. McDonald, counter, NOV. 3, x896 ......... : ............. John Morrissey, counter, Nov. 3, x896 ...................... P. P. Daw, labor on booths ....... F. A. Coan, posting warrant, Nov. ~,_._I.896 1:;- ................ ' .C_a..r. ried.f..or_w_~vd, $300 oo $3oo op $78 86 3 oo 3 oo 3o0 3 oo 3o0 5 5© 3 oo 3 oo 3 oo 3 oo x 75 47 25 2 5© 6 oo 3 oo 350 g 50 8 5© I OO ~ZII II 68 NORTH ANDOVER. J~rou~hl forward, Herbert S. Stillings, inspector and counter, Nov. 3, x896 ........ A. P. Currier & Co., lamps ....... Winfield S. Hughes, inspector, Nov. 3, ~896 .................... Frank Tisdale, connter, Nov. 3, 1896 E. E. Chesley, counter, Nov. 3, x896 A. W. Badger, teller, Nov. 3, z896. W. M. McQ~ueston, inspector and counter, Nov. 3, z896 ........ j. L. Callahan, counter, Nov. 3, ~896 ....................... D. J. Reagan, inspector and counter, Nov. 3, z896 ............... George E. Hathorn, deputy warden and counter, Nov. 3, x896 .... P. Callahan, counter, Nov. 3, x896. M. T. Stevens, Jr., clerk, Nov. 3, z896 ....................... John F. Barman, deputy clerk, Nov. 3, x896 .................... Unexpended ................ $3o0 oo $2zz zz 6 oo 75 5 5o 3 5° 3 5o 6 oo 6 oo 2 5° 6 oo 6 oo 2 O0 5 oo I oo $264 8~ 35 x4 $300 oo $300 oo ~TATE AI~D OOUNT¥ TAXES. ~ppropri~t]on ................... $6,ooo oo County Tax .................... State Tax ...................... $3,063 72 2,362 5© Unexpended ................ $5,426 22 573 78 $6,000 oo $6,o00 oo SELECTMEN~S DEPARTMENT. 69 DIS00UNT ON [NOTBS, Appropriation ................... SLooo oo Essex Savings Bank ............. Bay State National Bank ......... $ 88 54 498 20 Unexpended ................ $586 74 5x3 26 $17000 O0 $I~000 O0 LIBRARY A000UNT. Appropriation ................... $I,2oo oo Dog Tax, ~895 ................. 366 5o Paid Trustees ................... $x,566 50 $~,566 5° $~,566 5° TOWN HALL IMPROVE~ENT, Balance from x895 ............... $33 r9 Paid Bailey & Chase, concreting... Charged to Contingent Fund ...... 3 2~ $36 4° __ _~36 4° $36 4° STATE AID. Appropriation ................... ~55o oo Chap. 3o~, Acts of ~889. Ann Blanchard .................. $48 oo William Craig .................. 72 oo Ellen Butterworth ............... 48 oo Emma A. Mills ................. 48 oo Ann McDonald ................. 48 oo Ellen Walwork .................. 48 oo Ann Wood ..................... 48 oo Mary J. Sanborn ................ 24 oo Margaret Winning ............... 48 oo Lucy F. Gould ................. 4° oo Chap. ~79, Acts o~ ~879, William Ward .................. 96 oo Overdrawn ..................... $~8 oo $568 oo $568 oo 70 NORTH ANDOVER. The Town will be reimbursed one- half of aid under Chap, 279... $ 48 oo For State Aid, Chap. 3o~ ........ 472 oo 8TIiZZT LIGttTIiglt,, Appropriation ................... $2,230 oo One-half expense for ~895 of light, Boston & Maine R. R_ ........ 32 5° Lawrence Gas Co ................ $2,226 96 Unexpended .................... 35 54 $:2,262 50 $2,262 50 The Town will be reimbursed for one-half the expense light at B, & M. R. R., year ~896, $32.50. ~UR, VEYING, Appropriation ................... R. A. Hale, surveying, Road Com- missioners account ........... R. A. Hale, surveying and plans to accompany petition £or State IIighway ................... R. A. Hale, surveying May and Ilodges streets ............... R. A. Hale, surveying and setting bounds, Main and Water streets l¢rank L. Fuller, surveying and making plans tor Sewer As- sessment .................... P. Collins and others, labor .setting bounds on Main and Water streets ...................... Unexpended ................ $300 oo $ 3o oo r25 oo 4 oo 40 oo 75 oo 23 ,I-2 2 58 $300 oo 8300 oo SELECTI~IEN~S REPORT. ~E~ORL~L, Unused balance ................ Appropriation ................... EXP~ENDED. Trustees of Library Fund ......... Library Committee, orders ........ Unexpended ................ $ ~7 99 I50 OO $ ~7 99 ~32 94 ~7 06 $x69 99 $x69 99 001~ITIIlGEET FUND. Appropriation .................... $2,00o oo Rent of Town Hall, licenses, etc... John H. Fuller, supplies Town Hall W. W. Colby, returning deaths .... M. J. Mahoney, returning deaths... J. H. Tattersall, stock and labor... A. E. Mack, insurance ............ Lawrence Gas Co., gas, etc., Select- rllen's office ................. James W. Leitch, returning births and marriages ............... James W. Leitch, postage and supplies .................... H. C. Pinkham, janitor services, etc A. A. Currier, postage, etc ........ W. H. Hayes, expense and postage Wm. J. Toohey and others, services at forest fires ................ American Publishing Co., printing Town Reports ............... American Publishing Co., printing and stationery ............... Andover Pre~s, printing tax bills, etc .......................... Star Publishing Co., printing notices North Andover News, printing ad.. Braught far,var'd, 4-I.~ 02 $ 8 7° 8 25 200 5 oo 67 50 x9 °4 52 I5 30 ~5 5.3° 4 5° 353 oo ~9o oo 55 65 34 oo 200 72 NORTH ANDOVER. t~rou~ht farward Unpaid bills for cutting bushes, x895, E. Adams and others ... Unpaid bills for steamer platform, J. C. Poor and others ......... Unpaid bills for sidewalks, J. C. Poor and others ............. S. D. Hinxman, stock and labor... W. E. Rice Co., stationery and supplies .................... E. P. Shaw, State Treasurer, one- fourth liquor licenses ......... P. P. Daw, stock and labor, Select- men's office ................. Newell E. Wood & Co., printing... S. W. Spencer & Son, stamps ..... C. P. Morrill, returning births ..... Charles H. Robinson, postage, etc.. Geo. H. Perkins, use of telephone and supplies ................ A. W. Brownell, Assessors' notices H. A. Wadsworth Co., printing and envelopes ................... Waterhouse & Parsons, burial of George Webster ............. E. McKone, rent of barn ......... North Andover Mill, rent of land to May t, t896, to months .... Eben Sutton S. F. E. Co., taxes re~ imbursed ................... Cochichewick Engine Co., taxes re- imbursed ................... Mrs. E. Mahoney, damage to land. J. C. Poor, labor on land of E. Mahoney ................... J. L. Fairbanks, tax book for As- sessors ..................... Carried farward, $2s000 O0 $850 '4 44 47 124 98 56 73 z2 79 23 76 I OO t9 6t 3 oo 4 60 13 75 3 35 3 94 9 75 35 oo 48 oo I00 O0 3o oo 6o oo IO O0 4 °5 12 50 ~z,47~ 68 SELECT~ENS REPORT~ 73 E. S. Colby, supplies /or tax col- lector ...................... E. S. Colby, insurance .......... Frank L. Fuller, surveying and plans for Sewer Assessments .. E. T. Burley, legal services and expenses ................... J. C. Poor and others, witnesses Wilcox case ................. Hugo Bell, cleaning clock ....... B. W. Farnham, sawdust ......... Bailey & Chase, balance bill, Town Hall improvement ........... N. P. Frye, legal services and ex- penses in petition for State Highway, ~894 .............. N. P. Frye, services in relocation of Main and Water streets, ~894, '95, '96 ..................... N. P. Frye, services vs. B. & M. I{. in sewer under track ...... N. P. Frye, services in plans and lease from North Andover mills Blackbird Pen Co., pens .......... S. W. Jackson, damage to team on highway .................... Unexpended ................ Sx,47e 68 ~5 42 76' 70 206 60 239 oo 22 50 60 3 2x 6 78 9° 87 12 25 50o r 5° ~5 75 2~I~0 II 244 9~ $2,4x5 02 ~,4~5 02 74 NORTH ANDOVER. OVERSEERS' REPORT. To the ~luditor of t/ze J'own of -,5~orth _4ndover : We herewith submit our report of the receipts and expend- tures for the year ending January 6th, t897. 8UPERINTEND]gl~T OF TOWN Appropriation ................... $5oo oo Albert P. Burnham .............. $5oo oo $500 oo $500 oo The board has put water closets in the women's part of the Almshouse the past year which has been about all the repair- ing done in this department. The buildings are in very good condition at present except the house which will need shingling very soon. There has been very little additional aid furnished outside poor. The bill which remains unpaid of $335.42 is for aid furnished the family of Howard Weaver by the Town of Middleton. This was a case of Diphtheria and was handled by the Board of Health of that town and was quite expensive. The Overseers went down and investigated but found that fhere was no way to avoid paying it as the family had a settlement in this town and the disease was a contagious one, so could not be moved. Most of the other cases that have been reported to us we have managed to fix settlement on either the state or other cities or towns and in some cases we have been and seen the parties after they had ceased to be aided and they have paid the bill. All of which is most respectfully submitted. AARON A. CURRIER, ! WALTER H. HAYES,~ Overseers of the PATRICK P. DAW, OVERSEERS' REPORT. 75 ALMgtIOUEE EXPEN,~ES, William G. Brown, meat and pro- visions ..................... $ ~9o 86 Mrs. A. P. Burnham, extra services as matron .................. 25 oo Lalia Reid, housework ........... ~35 oo E. W. Greene, commission selling apples ...................... 89 50 Charles Wilcox, labor ............ 4 5° William Alien, labor ............. 3 3° T. A. Holt & Co., groceries and grain ....................... 485 96 Andrea, Thompson, sho~ing horses, etc ......................... 30 90 Alfred W. Otis, apple barrels ..... r2x 22 W. P. Smith, supplies ............ 2 oo Beach Soap Co,, soap ............ ~x 20 P. J. Sweeney, stock and labor .... 9 5° J. H. Fuller, flour ............... 33 46 Dr. George S. Fuller, veterinary services ................. - .... 5 oo Charles Clarke & Son, truss ....... 3 5° D. A. Carleton, fertilizer $32, cows $x8o ....................... 2~2 oo Sarah W. Carleton, rent of barn and pasture ..................... 55 oo John F. Bennett, meat ............ 60 49 Daniel Chapman, salt, hay, cows and calf, g65 ........... 79 08 James Dunas, chopping wood ...... 25 oo Michael Corcoran, farm work ...... 4 oo Henry Lambert, chopping wood, $r2.59, packing apples, $52.r6. 64 66 T. J. Farmer, fish ............... 5° 04 Bean & Poore, lumber ............ 5 6~ C. E. Churchill, provisions ........ 3 o6 JamesW. Leitch, stock and labor., r7 97 Carriedfarwa~ $x,727 8~ NORTH ANDOVER. Braughl forward $r,727 8r T. J. Bickford, labor ............. 3 oo Thomas Kinneau, bull ............ x5 oo Whittaker Publishing Co., paper... ~ 5° Murray Bros. & Co., potatoes ..... xx 73 B. F. Mitchell, milk cans ......... 6 25 Sanborn & Robinson, hardware and supplies ..................... 37 57 Nathan Foster, use of horse, 6 38, cows and bull, ~3o oo ........ x36 38 E. W. Hastings, potatoes ......... 6 xo A. S. lngalls, subscriptions to paper. 6 oo N. Andover, P. O., box rent ...... 80 Stephen L. Illsley, labor ......... x42 oo F. E. Higgins, provisions ......... 3 x6 A. B. Bruce, crackers, etc ......... 43 67 Reid & Hughes, dry goods ........ 54 x5 S. W. Fellows, house paper ....... x7 69 F. Orris Rea, plants .............. 2 65 S, D. Hinxman, wagon ........... 5° oo F. E. Clarke, cow ............... 25 oo Gustave Roessler, cows ........... 65 oo Geo. H. Perkins, medicines ........ 27 80 D. J. Costello, stock and labor ...... 42 2o The H. A. Wardsworth Co., print- ing ......................... 3 75 Geo. L. Averill, Fertilizer ......... 38 oo John Olsgewsky, labor ............ 234 oo Joseph Jacobs, lumber ............. 69 02 M. E. Austin & Co. mowing ma- chines, etc .................. 50 25 W. F. Roundy, shoe repairs ....... x 45 T. j. Whittredge, shoes ........... 6 85 Small & Jones, coffee and can ..... 6 x5 John H. Fish, farm work .......... 5 25 Wester Hart, {arm work .......... 34 oo Carried.forward i~2,874 ~8 OVERSEERS' REPORT. 77 2?taught forward, 42,874 18 John Baker, £arm work ........... 34 5° R. H. Watts, strawberries ......... 5 95 B. W. Smith, ladders ............. 8 oo H. C. King Co., boxes ............ 2 oo L. B. Wyatt, horse cover ......... 2 5° Thomas McNiff, old cover ........ ~ oo F. B. Bischoff, berries ............ 2 80 B. & M. R. R., freight on barrels. . 24 oo Town N. Andover, dog license .... 2 oo Lawrence Rubber Co., rubber sheet- ing ......................... 4 27 Geo. Gould, painting etc ......... ~2 55 Geo. L. Gage, lime .............. 5° F. A. Warren, clothing ........... 6 60 A. P. Currier & Co., £ruit ......... ? 5° E. C. Pike, plumbing ............. 55 oo Charles Winn, labor .............. 7 33 Joseph Piper, labor ............... xo 5° John Burke, labor ................ 3 3'3 James Keefe, labor ............... 4 oo C. O. Barker, barrels ............. x2 oo Bessie Illsley, house work ......... 30 oo Peter Holt, Jr., butchering cow .... ~ 5° Public Market, lard .............. 4 29 John P. Davis, picking apples ..... ~o oo Frank B. Stevens, picking apples.. 2 oo E. W. Pierce, grain .............. 342 o6 Taylor & Co., corn etc ............ 6 ox B. B. Pratt, cow ................. 35 oo Martin Rogers, £arm work ........ 36 oo R. Callahan, meat ............... 3 30 Dr. Fred S. Smith, medical attend- ance ........................ 42 oo McDonald & Hanna£ord, rep, har- ness, etc .................... 20 43 Essex Truant School, tomato plants., x 5° 3,6x4 60 NORTH ANDOVER. R~,LIP,1? OUT 0P tt01Jatg. Mrs. Hughes ................... ' x75 45 Mrs. J. H. Demming ............. ~44 80 Mrs. H. Farmer ................. 33 H Mrs. Nesbitt .................... 6 ~3 Mrs. J. Wormald ................ r43 2~ Mrs. Thomas .................... 59 43 Mrs. Lynch .................... 78 54 Mrs. ShanahaH .................. 84 5~ Mrs. Beaseaw ................... 2 95 Misses M. and H. Armitage ...... 3o 5° Owen Flynn .................... 9 75 Use of telephone ................. ~o PAID ON A000UNT 0P OlTIE8 AND TOWN8. Lawrence, John Smith ............ 26 86 Lowell, T. L. F. Towns .......... 8 7° Ipswich, Mrs. Lord .............. 98 07 PAID 0Il A000U31T 01v 001131031~'EAI'.TIt. Mrs. O'Leary ................... 7 32 Burial Mrs. M. Flemming ........ 4x oo Finding and bm-ial of unknown man 6 oo PAID 0ITIE~ AND TOWI~. Lawrence, Kate McDonough ...... 83 5° Lawrence, William Demming ..... ~5 5° Somerville, Mrs. Graham and family x52 ~7 Haverhill, Rodney Sargent ........ 2~ 9° Q4fincy, Mrs. Thayer ............. ~ ~ 88 Lowell, John Ivory ............... 6 oo Boston, B. F: Stevens ............ 4 08 768 48 133 63 54 32 z95 03 OUERS~ERS' REPORT. 79 PAID ~OMMONWP, ALTH. Mrs. McGrath Mrs. Flemming ............... 7° 03 PAID TO PUBLI0 INSTITUTIONS, Worcester Insane Asylum, Daniel A. Luke ................... ~69 92 Danvers Lunatic Hospital, A. C. Long ....................... 80 78 Danvers Lunatic Hospital, Rachel Scholes ..................... ~69 93 Danvers Lunatic Hospital, Martin Kennelly ................... ~69 93 Danvers Lunatic Hospital, Asa Deming .................... i69 92 Danvers Lunatic Hospital, George Hopk{ns ................... ~69 92 Danvers Lunatic Asylum, Margaret Flanigan ................... ~+2 72 Medfield Insane Asylum, A. C. Long ....................... 76 8o Massachusetts School for Feeble- Minded, C. J. Barker ........ ~69 92 REOAPITULATI01~ OF A000UNT, Appropriation ................... $3,500 oo Received from Lowell ............ 25 43 Received from Lawrence ......... 26 86 Received from J. Fitzgerald ....... 9° oo Received from C. F. Bisbee, guard- ian ......................... ~85 24 Received from Commonwealth of Massachusetts ............... 65 oo Received from A. P. Burnham, superintendent ....... . 2,6~3 88 7° 03 $~,~9 84 ~6~5o6 4~ 80 NORTH ANDOVER. EXPENDITURES. Support in house ................. Relief out of house ............... Paid on account of cities and towns Paid on accouut of Commonwealth. Paid cities, towns and Common- wealth ..................... Paid public institutions ............ Unexpended ................ 3,6x4 6o 768 48 ~33 63 54 32 365 06 1,219 84 6,x55 93 35° 48 ~6,5o6 3x $6,5o6 4~ The Town will be reimbured as follows: Ipswich ........................ 98 o7 Commonwealth ................. ~3 32 AARON A. CURRIER, ]Ovcrseer* WALTER H. HAYES, ~ of PATRICK P. DAW, } Poor. SUPERINTENDENT'S RI~;PORT. 81 SUPERINTENDENT'S I~EPORT. ~orlh Audover: G]~XTLE~m~ :--i submit the following as my report of this institution for the year t896. To cash received for Eggs and poultry .............. ~24~o Vegetables ................... t ~ 2 Wood ........................ 5~ Hay ......................... ~o2 Cows ........................ 266 Bull ......................... 20 Pigs ......................... ~4 Calves ....................... 2x Labor ........................ 4 Apples ....................... 3~9 Milk ......................... x,36x 34 57 5° 57 O0 . .~ '~ . Paid to Town Treasurer .......... Amount of money uncollected ..... NII~BBt~, Or IN[MATti8 rO~ 1896, OO OO 12 78 Whole number .................. 7 Died ........................... 2 Admitted ....................... z Discharged ................. 2 Present number .................. 4 $ 2,6x3 88 gz 6x3 88 ~3xo 67 NORTH ANDOVER. AGE OF INMATES. Between 80 and 9° ............... Between 7© al~d 8o ............... Between 60 and 7o ............... Between 5© and 6o ............... Between 4o and 5© ............... Between 3o and 4o ............... Between 2o and 3o ............... NUMB~ C~ TgA~P~ ~OE 1896, January ........................ Februar~ ........................ Mm'ch ......................... ~8 April .......................... May ........................... June ........................... July ........................... August ......................... Septembdr ...................... 26 October ........................ 5 November ...................... l)ecember . ..................... Respectfully sub~nitted, 482 ALBERT P. BURNHAM, ,S'uperlnlendcnt q/~ 7'ou n P'arm. BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT. 83 BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT. To the Tow~z o.f ~orlh Andovqr :- The Board organized March 5th with the choice of A. A. Currier (chairman) and P. P. Daw, clerk. Regulation cards were posted in the several places of town. NUIgANOr., But two complaints have been made to the hoard which were promptly attended to and at once abated. The board appointed Mr. Hollis C. Pinkham agent to placard, disinfect and fumigate dwellings when so ordered by the board, and he has attended to his duties in a satisfactory manner, both to the Board and to all parties interested. Mr. James W. Leitch was appointed agent to issue per- mits for the re~noval aad burial of human bodies. H.M. Whittier and H. B. Ellis were appointed agents for the pur- pose o£ cleaning vaults and cesspgols when neccessary. DI~EASE~ DANGEROU8 TO PUBLIO HEALT]t. Of the contagious diseases among the human family, scar- let fever was quite prevalent the first of the year, followed by measles, a large number of cases being reported, but all were promptly attended to and the town is at present in a very healthy condition in regard to contagious diseases. The following is the nmnber of cases reported to the Board during the year, viz: Scad et Fever .................... Measles ........................ Membraneous croup .............. Typhoid fever ................... Diphtheria ...................... 3 ~8 3--2 Died. 6--I " Sixteen dwellings have been fumigated and one hundred and thirty-three placarded. NORT~ ANDOVER. Nowrn Ah-DOVE~, Jan. 20, x897. To the Honorable J~oard of Health q]~ the ]'own q~r 3rorlh Andover. GEr~'rLE~EN: --1 herewith submit the following as my re- port for the year ~896. During the year there have been eighty-two (82) deaths, thirty-nine of which were buried in Town, the remainder in other places. The number and causes of death, as returned, follows: Acute catarrh, ~; Accidents, 3; Apoplexy, 5; Bronchitis, 4; Cancer, x; Chronic Rheumatism, x; Convulsions, 3; Consumption 3; Cholera Infantum, 4; Diarrhoea, 2; Gen- eral Debility x; Heart Disease, 9; Diphtheria, x; Dropsy, ~; Marasmus, x; Membraneous Croup, 2 Miningitis, 3; Nephritis, x; Nausea, x; Obstruction of Bowels, x; Old Age, 7; Peritonitis, x; Pneumonia, 3; Phthisis, 2; Scarlet, Fever, ~; Septicamia, ~; Still Born and Infantil Debility, 8; Softening of Brain, 2; Thrombs. x; Tuberculosis, 2; Ty- phoid Fever, x; Uremia, 3; Unknown Natural Causes, x. Respectfully submitted. JAMES W. LEITCH, Town Clerk. CATTLE [NS?ECI'OR'$ RIDPORT. 8~ CATTLE INSPECTOR'S REPORT. 7'o lhe ffanarable ~aa~'d af J~leclmcf~. I herewith submit my annual report: Number o£ cattle inspected during the year was one thou- sand, £our hundred and sixty-three (L463). Out of tMs number there was sixty-five (65)qua, anfined on suspicion of being effected with Tuberculosis and tested with tuberculin, out of which fifty-two (52) was condemned and destroyed and one died before being tested. There was twelve (~) released as ~ree from dmease. Expense ~or the year, $250.00. GEORGE S. Fuller, ]nspeclor. BOARD 0F HEALTH EXPENSES. Appropriation ................... $200 oo H. C. Pinkha~n,£umigating and post- ing notices .................. Davis & Furber Machine Co., char- coal ........................ American Publishing Co., printing notices ..................... Geo. lq. Perkins, supplies ......... H. A. Wadsworth Co., printing notices ..................... John W. Sullivan, burying cow .... Joseph Toole, burying cow ........ Simond S. Prescott, burying cow and calf ........................ Wm. J. Toohey, burying dog ...... Orrin A. Badger, burying dog ..... F. A. Smith, burying dog ......... Unexpended ................. $77 95 30 x3 oo II 05 200 200 I000 I O0 ~ oo ~ oo x2x 55 78 45 200 O0 *200 O0 86 NORTH ANDOVER. PARK COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. No report. WATER COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 87 WkTER COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. The Water Com~nissioners have nothing to add to previous reports and have little to do, but await any action the Town may see fit to take in the matter of a water supply. A. A. CURRIER, GEO. L. BARKER,I Commissfoners. H. W. FIELD, b~ORTH ANDOVER. MEMORIAL DAY COMMITTEE. To the Auditor of 1¥o. Andover : The Memorial Day Committee submit the following re- port: Appropriation ......................... . ...... $~5o oo EXPiNDITURE8. Paid Ariel P. Cheney, for teams... $~5 5© Paid Edward Butterworth, for ser- vices ....................... 5 oo Paid Frank W. Eaton, stamps, etc. 45 Paid Arlington Mills Brass Band fox' services ..................... 45 oo Paid Geo. H. Perkins, cigars ...... 3 5° Paid A. B. Graham, teams and ser- vices ........................ 5 oo Paid Post 39 ior flags ............ x 5© Paid H. E. Barker, carrying flowers. 3 oo Paid Am. Pub. Co., badges and pro- grams ...................... 6 x5 Paid Ridgewood Cern. Association. 6 oo PaidJ. H. Playden, flowers, etc .... 36 3o Paid Milton B. Pratt, address ...... 5 oo Paid M. T. Wadlin, messenger service ........... ~ .......... Unexpended .................... Respectfully submitted, 54 $I32 94 ~7 o6 $x5o oo MELVILLE T. WADLIN, C. W. PHELPS, D. A. MOULTON, C. M. SANBORN, F. W. EATON, FORESt' FIRE WARD'S 'REPORT FOREST FIRE WARD'S REPORT, NORTH ANDOVEI,, Jan. ~st, x897. :Fo the ]/o~wrable 27oa'rd of Seleclmen : Forest fire May xSth, in woods owned by Geo. Rea. Damage, $~o oo. Forest fire May x6th, woods owned by M. T. Stevens. Damage, $5° ~. Forest fire May ~Sth, woods o~ Abiel Wilson. No dam- Forest Fire May x9th, woods on Old Salem Road, near MMdleton. Damage, $500,00. Respectfully, JOHN E. iNGALLS. NORTH ANDOVER. ROkD COMMISSIONERS' REPORT, No report has been received. The following bills have been presented to the Auditor for examination by Cotnmissioners from January x to March 23, x896: ROAD COMMISSIONERS~ REPORT. horses ....... ~ 00 Carroll, Thos ................ D:,vis~ Furber I~,achilleCo. [ Foss, E. P ................... Goul,I, George ............. NORTH AN~OVER, NAMES. Broug'ht forward Murphy, ~V alter ............ , O'Brlen,T ......................................... Poor, J. C., set tper, use cf ....i 30 I)o! ....... Rea, C. S ............................ .................. [ 6 Ryan,Reed' Rj .......................... San ord, 92 I 42 20 SUPEI/]NTENDR1NT OF STREETS REPORT. 93 8UP'T. OF STREETS REPORT, NO~T~ ANDOVER, Jan. r, ,897. ifa the f]anara3[e Beard qf Se[ecf.nen q/ ~Vorlh ~ndaver: I respectfully submit to you t~e following reparts for the year end lng Jan. 6, ~897: The undersigned was app,inted Superintendent o[ Streets and' sewers, Mar. tS, ~896, and tovk charge of those dep~rtments Mar. 23, ~896. The widespread interest and popular demand at the present time for good roads 13ave made it imperative f,~r Cities and Towns to exercise more care and spend more money in attainit~g this object than Ior- meriy, and the public knowi~g that good roads are expensive, yet are cheaper to keep in order than poor roads, do not beerurJgc a liberal expenditure for this pnrpos% provided it is careflflly and Msely ex pended, it becomes necessary for those having cha~ge of highways to be acquainted with the best and most economical manner of constructing and mfintaining roads. Our increasing number and length of streets demand modern road machines and labor saving devices, without them many streets lack proper care and attention. Situated as this town is, in the m~dst of a large and populous eom- mun~ty with its ,nain streets and county thorcuglffares ever which the travel, b)th for business and pleasure is constantly Jncr~sing, it is evident that these roads at least should be kept in excellent condition, and owing to the large nmnber and length they cannot be kept so without modern appliances to work with. At this point I would recommend that the Town purchase a steam road roller as first class macadamizing cannot be properly and cheaply done without the use of this machine. It is especially adapted for use in repairing worn out macadamized streets. The labor of repairing such streets is reduced to one-half the usual expense be~ides doing the work in a more thorongh manner.. We have at least nearly two miles of macadamized streets that. should b~ tel)aired the coming year? it would also be a saving of time and material if ail such streets could be' spiked and roii~d Bar!~.ia the 94 NORTH ANDOVER. spring when the frost is leaving the ground, it wou]d put them in a smooth and solid condition for summer travel and save small stones from comiug to the sur[ace which is a waste and nuisance to all per sons passing over such a street. LOCATION OF STONE-OI{USHER, In locating stone crusher it was found very di~nlt to find location suitable to perform the labor necessary as private parties did not w*sh to locate such a plant on laud belonging to them as it would require a stone found,~tion, therefore w[~rkiug great injury to such property. The present Iocatioo on Prospect street was decided upon and find it to be well adapted for the pupose and fi~r the short time it is iu operation during the year no great annoyance to the people hying iu the immediate locality. It was also found that the town owned boiler and crusher w/th no working plant but with appropriation of Sz,ooo.oo, I did not wi~h to use any of this sum to buihl such plant but lemaiug by past experieece that this was the best and chcapeit course to pursue, had hoilrr house, storage bins, elevator~ r.tary screen and all modern improvements, leaving a plant which for handling hrokeu stones, quickly and cheaply is all that could be desired. Tine baildings are s,) con.tucted that they can be quickly taken apart and removed to any part of the towu. The cost of completeing this plant, machinery, buildings and labor amounted to the sum of gSoo oo. Would recommend the town to appropriate a sum of money to be used to purch;~se stone to be delivered at crusher in winter, so as to b~ used in early spriug to fill in muddy places in streets when, owing to the muddy season of the year, they could not be otherwise obtained. ' ~AOADA~IZSD STREETS, in looking over the streets that should be macadamized, it was thought best to build on Osgood Street, commencing near the resi- dence of Mr. Carney, and extending to a point where electric rail- road crosses the same near Town Hall, as this would make a con- tinuous macadmfized street from the Centre to the residence of George G. Davis on Maiu Street, then commencing at this point and extending as far as possible towards Water Street~ the amount of linear feet constructed on this street was ~,5oa feet and averages ~7 fee, in width, and covered with coarse broken stones, then topped with fine Stone, well. sprinkled and thoroughly rolled with s~ne roller, weighing about 5 tons .... SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS REPORT. 95 IIAIN 8TII, EET. Amount of linear feet constructed on this street was 975, beginning at George G Davis's residence and extending near residence of F.C. Cla~k, oppc~site Chnrch Street. Five hundred feet of this street, opposite residence of Joseph Stone, being very muddy in the spring of the year it was excavated to a depth of 8 or io inches aod fi/led with cobble stone, the larger part of which had been dumped ami wasted on corner of Middlesex and Railroad Streets and rolled with sectional roller weighing about 3 tons, then covered with coarse bro'~en stones, about 4 inches in depth, then topped with fine stones, sprinkled and rolled i~ a thorough manner. This road is 20 feet in width and makes a very firm aud solid road, and will stand very heavy traffic. '['his sheet was constructed after the Telford method, but it is not recommended by your superintendent, except where streets are very wet and muddy, as th'-y are too expensive for towns of this size, and the amount of traffic does not call fur construction of such streets. The remainder of this street, 475 feet, was covered with coarse broken stones topped with fine gravel and stones, sprinkled and roiled, leaving a firm and solid street. I~I{08?EOT 8TREET. The amount of linear feet constructed was 400 feet, width of strest ~5 feet, covered Mth co~rse bt,ken stoae, toppe,t a, ith finestones and travel, sprinkled and rolled with stone roller. This makes a firm and solid road to stone crusher, which will make the draught on teams much lighter in drawing stone from crnsher. ELM 8T]tEET. This street was covered to a distance of ~ 75 linear feet with coarse broken sgones~ 2o feet ,in width, topped with fine stoue and gravel, sprinkled and rolled. This work was done m part, in order to finish square in proper manner. fiT01~I31~T03I 8TEEET, The amount of linear feet 683. The loam was removed by the abutters, leaving a solid bed to build on. It was then filled to a proper grade with coarse sand and gravel drawn from town pit, the center being covered with broken stones, topped with fine gravel, sprinkled and rolled, leaving a solid and dry street. The sidewa'ks were also built with gravel on both sides, topped with stone (lust on south side nearly the whole distance, on north side as (ay as the street has Been built upon, the remaining distance being covered with fine gravel. 96 NORTH ANDOVER. 8AUNDER8 8TRE[T EXTENSION, The amount of linea~ feet constructed was 35° feet. A cut of about two feet was made on easterly end near Mill pond. This was done in order to let surface water pass off, the rest tSeing filled with gravel drawn from town pit, leaving the street in passable condi- tion. NAY AND It0DG~8 8TREET~, The a~nount of linear feet on these streets r,~25 feet. The above have been ill]ed and gradcd with gravel from town pit, waste gravel taken from Main Street in preparing this street for broken stone, also material from N. P. Frye's cellar ou Main Street. This g,avel was obtained at a small cost to the town, as it was loaded gratis by con- tractor, thus enabling your superintendent to build a much better street, as the fill on May street was about three feet in some places making rather an expensive street to build if gravel had all been drawn from town pit. A twenty-inch pipe was laid across this street which will take all snrface water, also catch basins and grates to drain road beds and ditches. Sidewalks were buik on one side of ea, h street, whmh is ample for all persons passing over these streets. 8TREET8, I~GHWAYS AND ~RIDGE8. During early spring the dirt and refuse has been removed from all streets in the village and the gutters well cleaned with the road machine and what was~ot fit for road purposes was carted and dnmped where it would widen or iu stone manner would be a benefit to the streets. In looking over the streets in the out!ying districts your superintendent concluded to adopt the same plan that had been successtully used on such streets in other towns the first year and that was to use the road machine and smooth and crown them so as not to allow the water to stand in the ruts made during the early spring when the graund is soft, and in many cases when gravel had been used and forced out on the side by loaded teams forming a shoulder that would hold water, grow grass and bushes, which in time, on back streets, would nearly obstruct ~he street and leave only horse paths and wheel ruts, but when scraped hack made a good road bed and left them in a much dryer and better condition, also preparing them for gravel in future as it will not cost so much to keep such streets in repair after the first year, therefore leav- ing a larger sum to be used in gravel or broken stone. During the past summer and fall the d~rt and refuse has been re- moved as often as thought necessary, such as small stones, tin cans, bits~of wood, hoops, coal ashes and other mat~ers not pleasant to the SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS REPORT. 97 sight and in some cases detrimental to the health of a Community. In J~o line of highway work can money be expended and bring greater returns to the abutters, to passers and citizen in general. It helps to preserve the streets, makes travel easier, removes possible causes of sickness and above all makes with unmistakable clearness the thrift and prosperity of a town. Would recommend public waste barrels to be placed at important points in center o[' the village for receiving of pa- pers and rubbish which would otherwise be thrown into the street, these barrels could be emptied weekly ;vith fire horses at a very small cost to the ri'own. 'l'l~e gutters at the Center were thoroughly cleaned this fall and water-ways put in order so as to carry off all surface water. Owing to heavy rains of last fall the streets both in village and outlying districts were badly washed, requiring a large expenditure of m~ney in repairing sidewalks, gutters and hills, cleaning out water- ways and culverts, building water-breaks and graveling in many places, a tabulated report of which will appear on another page of this report. Main and Water street sewers was constructed from Methodist Church to Cheney's Corner, connecting with Elm Street sewer, a dis tance of r,20o feet, with man-holes and all necessary connections. The average depth of excavations on this sewer was 9 x-z feet, added to quick-sand and water, made expensive work, but with good help it was constrncted with less than expected cost. RAILROAD STREET SEWER, This sewer is an extensiou of Railroad Street sewer to Middlesex Street, a distance of 800 feet. The excavating at some points on this line was i2 feet in depth, also a large quantity of water and quick sand causing quite an expenditure of money for curbing caused by the sides of ditch caving in. For cost of constructing these sewers would refer you to tabulated account. DRAINfil ON WATER 8TRP..IIT. A sum of $2oo,oo was appropriated for repairing drains on this street, but as the sonrce of trouble was located and repaired by Davis, Furber & Co. at no expense to the town, therefore this appropriation was unexpended. 9g NORTH ANDOVER. 8TI%EETg HI~-HW'AYS AND BR,IDC, I18. 'Following will be found a detailed report of money expended on streets, culverts, bridges, sidewalks and gutters, and amount expended upon each street: Supplies ............................................. lg 34z =4 Scraping and smoothing streets ................ r,ooo oo Repairing sidewalks aud building.new ......... 3I6 '/4 Cleaning gntters and raking stones during the season ................................... 85 oI Chesmut Street, graveling road bed and re- pairing sidewalk ............................. 28 25 Mill Street, repairing culvert .................. 5 oo Pleasant Street, a culvert across this street, the stone work was relaid and re timbert, d ...................................... 20 oo Osgood Street, rebuilding cnlvert and bridge over Cochichewick brook .................. 48 35 Sutton Street, culvert repaired near Shaw- sheen Bridge, and new culvert built near Snt{on's mill; also culvert re- paired and broken stone on Ellis's Hill ........................................... 75 5° Bradford Street, labor and gravel .............. 38 95 Barker Street, labor and gravel ................. 53 2o Salem Turnpike, repairing culvert and gravel., r6 oo Pond Street, labor and gravel .................. I= 38 Salem Street, gravel and labor ................. 60 73 Johnson Street, gravel and repairing culverts., io 4o Railroad Street, labor and gravel .............. =5 35 Marblehead~ gravel and broken stone ......... r5 45 Beverly Street, graveling and repairing cul- verts ......................................... 19 55 Lawrence Street, labor and gravel .............. ~ =o Water Street, repairs on road bed and broken stone cross walks ............................. 58 a9 Davis Street, labor and gravel .................. ~5 oo Nason's Corner, repairing with broken stone 3° oo Main Street, cross-walk gravel and repairing culvert ......................................... 2~ I7 River View Street, repairing bridge ............ 28 ~5 Andover Street, gravel and labor ............... 34 67 $2,38 t 58 SUPElgINTENDENT OF STREETS REPORT. 99 Tire balance o[ this appropriation amounting to $200.00 was ex- pended on various streets in different parts of the town repairing wash- outs and small breaks in the streets varying in amount from 5oc to $3.°°- Concrete sidewalk appropriation, $~,ooo.oo, commencing at Corner and termination at Eastern railroad crossing, Main~ Cheney's Street with the exception of 252 feet near Selectmen's office. This could not be completed as the building must be removed from line of street. I believe this to be a step in the fight direction as money ex- pended in this manner will yield larger returns to the taxpayers than any other rnethod of construction as they are durable and always dry and smooth to walk upon. For cost of laying this walk would refer you to tabulated accounL PATttlNG 8NOW. As the fall of snow was light to January ~, z897, therefore the ex- penditure in this department was not large with the exception of shed which was constructed at a cost of $50.o% the capacity of which is 6o square yards, which was filled with screened sand to be used on icy sidewalks and in summer this shed can be used for storage pur- poses. For itemized account see tabulated report. PIItE DEPAltT3IENT lt0ESE8, At special town meeting it was voted to purchase a horse to be used on hose wagon aud to take $2oo.oo from new streets appropria- tion in payment for the same. Horses were purchased and put to work May zx, x896 and worked tire remainder of the year ending Jan., 6 ~897. During this period they have worked x94 days, which at $3.oo would amount to $582.00, it therefore appears to your superintendent that these horses have been paid for with no detriment to the street department or to the town as I believe they have already fully paid for themselves in labor. 8TEA~EI~ lI01tSE~, These horses have worked ~o8 days under my charge. It thus appears that these horses have earned the sum of $924.00 during the season, therefore saving quite an expenditure of money in hiring teams, and, in my opinion, working no injury to the Fire Depart- meut. I wish to thank Mr. Wm. Davis for his care and treatment of these horses~ also for the faithful performance of duties requi~ed of him in this department. NORTH ANDOVER. In closing this repor~ I wish to thank the Honorable Board of Selectmen for their kind and courteous treatment during the past year, and the Engineers of Fire Department, also members of the Police Department for their prompt manner in reporting dangerous places in streets and sewers, and all other town officials and citizens for court- esies extended, the past year, in my official duties. SUPERINqENDENT Ok' STREETS REPORT. SUPEI~INTENDENT'$ I~EPORT. Following is the summary of accounts of the Street Department. fronl March rS, ~896, to January 6, ~897. Sewer~ Railroad Street 800 00 Surface Drain, Water Street 200 ~0 ' Sidewalk, Concrete . 1,000 00 Saunclers Street Extenaion 1S0 00 ] ..... Stonington Street .......... 500 00 I ¢ 00 Streets,Highways and Bridges 2,5~ ~1 i 15 O0 Streets, May and Hodges . 650 00 i 9 ¢0 Streets, Mac,xdamizlng ........ 1,965 27 [ 310 80 Snow, Path ng ................ 017 98 i ' I Unex- Over- Expen~ed[ pended, drawe. Overdraw .... $55 ~7 U nexpended ........ $6fi9 87 ========================== PROPERTY. SCHEDULE AND VALUATION OF TOWN P~OPERTY. Following is a schedule of property valued by the various Departments, for the year ~896: 80HOOL DEPARTMENT High--Laboratory apparatus and chemicals, fuel, furniture aud supplies .................... $ L575 oo Merrimack--Schoolhouse, land, sup- plies ....................... 25,200 oo Union-- " " " 2,700 oo Bradstreet-- '" " " ~2,5oo oo Centre-- " " " I0,27.~ OO Farnham ....... 875 Oo Kimball-- ,, " " 675 oo Pond-- " " " 1,7oo oo River ....... Lo75 oo Books and stationbry on hand.. ~5 oo BOARD 0P HEALTH. Fumigating apparatus ........... 5 oo Sulphur ........................ ~ oo Sulphur, candles, medicine, etc .... 2 oo Stationery, etc ................... Io oo $.56,650 oo 80HEDULE AND VALUATION 0F TOWN PROPERTY. Town Hall, fixtures and land ....... $20,000 oo Settees ......................... 7© O0 Voting booths, railing and furnish- ings ........................ ~oo oo Eight chairs ..................... 6 oo Chandelier and lamps ............ 66 oo ~8 oo Carrfed fa~vard, $20,242 oo $56,668 oo J~rauffhl forward $20,242 Stage scenery ................... ~o oo Tables ......................... x5 oo Clock .......................... Library at Town Farm ........... 25' oo Table at Town Farm office ........ xo oo Chandelier at Town Farm office .... io oo Radiators and fixtures at Town Farm o~ce ....................... 3° oo Chairs at town Farm office ........ xo oo Vault at Town Farm office ........ ioo oo Buildings, village office ........... 80o oo Library, " " ......... 475 oo Two tables .... · ........ 25 oo Nine chairs, .... . ........ 55 oo Letterpress," '0 ......... 6 oo Gas fixtures," " . ........ 3° oo Heating apparatus, village office... 95 oo Safe, ,, ,' i5o oo Curtains and fixtures '~ " 5 oo Waste basket .................... ~ oo Miscellaneous ................... 25 Pump and trough, High street ..... 6o 'Pump and trough, Town Hall ..... ~oo oo Pump and trough, at Centre ....... i5o oo Pump and trough, Railroad street., x75 oo Two commons ................... 700 oo. Standard weights and measures, Treasurer's department ....... 200 Duplicate set fox' deputy's use ...... 9© oo Taylor ~und ..................... 322 41 Moses Towne School fund ........ 4,0o0 oo Safe, Town Clerk's office ......... x75 oo Town seal ...................... 8 oo Registrar's seal. 8 oo Public statutes and supplement .... 7 5° Ballot boxes ................... 50 oo Miscellaneous, Town Clerk's ollice. 25 oo Clock, village office .............. 4 oo $56,~6& oo $28,~73 9~ Carried forward, $84,84x 9t ,g~v~ght farwa~,d, POLICE DEPARTMENT, Nineteen pair handcuffs ........... 76 oo Twenty badges .................. ~5 oo Two mattresses .................. ~ oo Two pillows .................... x oo Eight blankets ................... 9 oo Two iron bedsteads ............... 6 oo Seven lanterns ................... 7 ~5 Two axes ....................... 2 oo Miscellaneous .................... 44 85 $84,8~ 9r PROPERTY AT 00URT ROOM, One desk ....................... 5 oo 'l'wo tables ...................... 3 oo Five chairs ...................... 5 oo Six settees ...................... 9 oo One stove ..: .................... Io oo One coal hod .................... 25 Two chandeliers ................. 4 oo Seven lamps .................... ~ oo One ink stand ................... ~ oo Fifteen yards carpeting and covering ~o oo $~65 o0 0VERSEERS' DEPART~tENT. Town far~n and buildings ......... $9, xoo oo Furniture and clothing ............ 60o oo 48 25 8T00K, Two horses ..................... $~oo oo Seventeen cows .................. 527 oo One bull ........................ 2o oo One hundred and twenty-five fowls. 8~ 25 $9,7oo oo $728 25 G~rriedfarward, $95,483 4I NORTH ~iVDO~gR. I~PLt21I~TS, One market wagon .............. $~$o oo One farm wagon ................. 4o oo One two-horse wagon ............. ~oo oo One two-horse wagon ............. I$ o~ One democrat wagon ............. 75 oo One farm cart ................... 25 oo One hay redder .................. 30 oo One pung...~ ................... ,[o oo One sle{gh ...................... 25 oo Two mowing machines ............ 4© oo One horse-rake .................. 25 oo Three plows ....... .............. I5 oo Two harrows .................... x5 oo One wheel harrow ............... ~$ oo Two cultivators .................. 8 oo One root-cutter .................. 3 oo One grind stone .................. 3 oo One £0rce pump ................. .5 oo One two-horse sled ............... 4° oo One ox sled ..................... 5 oo One set scales ................... ~5 oo One double harness .............. 4° oo Two sets single harness ........... 25 oo Small tools ...................... 3° oo One drag ....................... .5 oo Two wheelbarrows ............... 6 oo Nine ]adders .................... ~5 oo Halters and blankets ............. x5 oo Seed sower ...................... 5 oo Twenty-five £eet of hose .......... 2 5° $832 5° Carriedfarward, $96,3 x5 9r PROPERTY: 113 Broughl forward, SUP'PLIES AT TOWN FARM. One-half ton shorts ............... 6 ,~0 One-fourth ton meal .............. 3 75 One hundred bushels corn on cob... 2o oo Twenty tons English hav .... 2 ... 360 oo Four tons meadow hay ........... 40 oo Five tons swale hay .............. 65 oo Ten bushels oats ................ 3 oo Twenty-five cords prepared wood .. r25 oo Ten cords oak wood .............. 3° oo Six cords pine wood .............. t8 oo Eight tons coal ................. 48 oo Ten bushels potatoes ............. 4 oo Vegetables ...................... 5 oo Five hundred bushels turnips ...... 4© oo Fifty gallons oil ................. 4 oo One hundred gallons vinegar ...... x5 oo One barrel sugar ................. ~5 oo Ten pounds butter ............... 3 oo One barrel flour ................. 5 oo Cider, oil and flour barrels ........ io oo Soap ........................... 3 5° Ice ............................. 4 oo STREEt DEPARTMENT. Stone crushing plant ............. f2,ooo oo Gravel pit ...................... 2.000 oo Tool boxes, picks, shovels, hose. rakes, forks, hammers, sledges, saws, grubhoes, lanterns, oil cans, wooden horses, rammers. sewer pump, plows, ropes. pails, barrels, bars, scoops, gravel screens, wheelbarrows, axes ...... : ................ 150 oo ,~96,34 5 9r $827 '$~i43 66 NORTH ~NDOVER. Broughlfarward, ~4,~5o oo Sand shed ...................... 5° oo Lumber ........................ 25 oo Acron sewer pipe ........ . ........ 3° oo Four snow plows ................ 5° oo FI~E D~,PARTMEN~, Steamer, engine house and stable.. 73,ooo oo Steamer Eben Sutton ............ 3,500 oo One Babcock fire extinguisher ..... 30 oo $97~43 66 $4,305 oo Two fire hooks .................. ~ oo One hose wagon ................. 250 oo Four horses ..................... 95© oo Three carts ..................... 200 oo Boiler and piping ................ 300 oo Collars, surcingle and chains ...... ~2 5° Four halters .................... 2 oo One street lamp ................. 7 oo Twenty-one hundred feet of hose.. 920 oo Seventy-five feet garden hose ..... 5 oo Steamer connection .............. 27 23 Portable bench and vice .......... x5 oo Two pair double hanging harness.. 220 oo One single hanging harness ....... 60 oo Overcoats ..................... 75 oo Horse blankets .................. 54 oo One sled ...................... 5© oo Four ladders .................... 2o tx) Two set double harness, etc ....... x4o oo One hose sleigh ................. 84 oo Two wardrobes .................. 3° oo One bed and bedding ............. 20 5° One clock ..................... 4 oo Hay ........................... 20 oo Cannel coal ..................... x5 oo Cav~iedfa~ard, Sro,o3g ~3 ~Zor,448 66 PROPER'rY. 115 Broughtfarward, $~ o,o32 23 Furnace coal .................... 2o oo Runners for steamer .............. Io oo Fire alarm ..................... 35° oo Cochichewick engine house ....... 800 oo Cochichewick hand engine ........ 300 oo Six hundred and fifty feet hose .... 260 oo Six coats ................ : ...... ~2 oo One stove ........................ ~o oo Three lanterns ................... 3 oo Property in hall .................. Io4 oo Miscellaneous ................... 75 oo $io~,448 66 $~,976 23 $~3,424 89 NORTH ANDOVER. REPORT TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY, 7'0 lhe C/l/zeus o£ North Andover : The Trustees of the Public Library respectfully submit the following report for the year ending January I, x897: Number books in circulation ....... 8,804 Number books added ............. 33~ Number books replaced ........... Number books in reference room.., x,os~ Number phamphlets in reference room ................. 754 Total uumber Books in Library xo,8o8 Estimated value of books .......... $6,35° oo " " "other property.., x3o oo $6,48o oo During the month of August, ~896, the books in the Lib- rary were throughly examined, and a record made of them, which has never been done since the Library started. We found during the examination that books to the number 24~ were missing or worn out, of which number xzx volumes have been replaced, and others will be from time to time. It was also found in going over the catalogue that quite a number of books had never been entered there. Alist of them will be found separate from the new books in this year's report. We also found the present catalogue in a very bad condition in regard to errors in numbering, which ought to be remedied at some future time by making a new cata- logue, or some other system. The circulation ot7 the Library has increased and the read- ing room i~ well patronized. Some of the publications have REPORT TRUST~ES OF pUBLIC LIBIL~R¥. I 17 been changed to supply the general demand. A list of new books added for circulation will be found at the end of this book. Orders drawn on Treasurer, $i,695.98. We have received quite a nmnber of hooks for the Refer- ence Room given by a nmnber of people. Through the kindness of Hon. Moses T. Stevens, U, S. Geological Survey. 25 vols U. S. Mineral Survey. 8 vols Maps, charts and bulletins, t51 vols Congressional Record. 5 vols ~th Census, x89o. 9 vols Naval War Record. 2 vols Com. of Education. 2 vols Hon. Wm. S. Knox, Fur Seal Arbitration. ~6 vols Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 2 vols Secretary Olin, Journal Mass. House and Senate. 2 vols Acts and Resolves, x896. x vol Acts and Resolves, ~794-95- 96-97. ~ vols Manual, ~896. ~ vol Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution. ~ vol Sec'y of Agriculture, Gypsy Moth. ~ vol We also added the Year Book o£ ~896. A. R. Brewster, Lawrence, Lawrence Up to Date. J. H. PUTNAM, M. H. PULSiFER. ~ ~oard o.f Trustees-. CH S,.EY, NORT~ ANDOVER. George H. Perkins, Treasurer, in Account With North Andover Fublic Library Trustees. Town of North Andover, appropria- tion ........................ $~,2oo oo Town of North Andover, Dog Tax (x895) ..................... 366 50 Miss Hannah J. O4maley, Fines and Catalogues .................. 25 9° Total receipts ................... $x,592 4° Cash on hand, Jan. 2, r896 ........ 423 38 ~2,o~5 78 Carrie,/ forward ~x,644 5 x ~xpenrtitures of Public Library, 1990. Wauwinett I~odgeAssociation, rent.. $500 oo Miss Hannah J. Q~,ealey, salary... 300 oo Miss Gora C. Holt, salary ......... 47 oo Geo. L. Moulton ................. 22 75 George W. Meserve .............. ~? 5° Frank E. Well, treas, services ..... 25 oo Jos. It. Putnam ................ 25 oo M. 1t. Pulsifer, treas, services and labor ...................... 32 oo L~ttle, Brown & Co, new books .... 276 06 Little, Browr~ & Co., duplicate books 9° 94 Richard Nagle, Spoiford's History, ro vols ..................... 35 oo F. J. Barnard& Co.,bindinghooks.. 58 ~2 Dumas & Co., binding books ...... 43 07 Geo. L. Harris, papers and maga- zines ....................... 86 32 American Pnb. Co., printing and blanks ...................... 29 25 Fred L. Sargent, carrying books to Centre ...................... 56 4-0 REPORT TRUSTEES PUBLIC LIBRARY. Brought forward Andover Press, sub./or Townsman. Josselyn's Express ................ Miss H. S. Ingalls, care of books at Centre ...................... Neilson Mfg. Co., magazine binders Geo. F. King & Merrill, one Record Book ....................... Jas. W. Leitch, waste basket, lock and two dishes ............... E. E. Chisley, paste .............. Miss Annie Sargent, typewriting... Geo. W. Perkins, envelopes ....... F. S. Blanchard & Co., oi~e Year Book ....................... ~,x,644 5~ 700 4 82 z7 oo 3 75 3 50 x 50 I OO 9° 5° x 50 Cash in Merchants National Bank ~x,695 98 329 80 Jan. 6, x897. 2,o~5 78 GEO. H. PERKINS, Treasurer, North Andover Public Library Trustee. F~O NORTH ANDOVERk List of Books Added to the Public Library in 1896. Titles of l~ooks, A/cans Caelestic% io ¥. Adam Johnstone's Son, Ad*th, Against Human Nature, A Lady of Quality, All Men are Liars, Almayers Ft)lly, Amazing Marriage, a v., Among the Freaks, An Accidental Romance; Au Imaginative Man,, An Old Fogy, Au Initial Experience, An O~iginal Wager, Apocalypse Revealed, * v., At H~art a Rake, A[mt J ohm:ie, Bachelors Christmas, The Bar.d)b ts, B ~ttlement and. Tower, Beyon(l the l)reams cf Averice, B? Iff thc First Empire, BdSsh B trbafians~ The Broom Sqmre, The, Bubble F,rtnne, A, By Tangled Paths, Cameos, Captain Dreams, Captain Pole's Journal and Maps 2 v., A. and B. Authors' Names, lq'OS, Swedenborg 2,o-58 to 67 F. M. Crawford. 298 Carells z5* xo4 M. S. Pool. 306 r F. H. Burnett. 295 1 J. Hocking, 298 90 J. Conrad. *98 x~4 Geo. Meridith 3o6-~o7 xo8 W. L. Alden. *97 9~ W. S. Rossiter. 298 lO2 R. S. Hickens. *97 I17 Mrs. J. [I. Walworth. ~98 Capt. Chas. King. 252 lO2 Vagabond. ~98 9 Swedenborg. 2zo 68 69 F. Marryat. 298 122 J- S. Winter ~5~ 95 Robt. Grant. *98 75 M. Correlli. ,5z 87 O. Rh~sco myl 298 W. Bcsant. 306 E. S. Brook;. 298 87 G. Allen. ~75 ~o7 S. B. Goal& 304 79 S. Tytler. 299 86 H. M. Briggs. *98 8~ M. Correlli. 298 74 Capt. Chas. King. 252 ~o~ 3o6 75 L~T OF BOOKS. 12I Chain of Gold, The, Childs Garden of Ve'scs, Christmas Religion, The, Cinderella, Cleg Kelly, C. Major of Life, The, Colonels Christmas Dinners, The, Colonial Dames and Good Wives, Colonial Days and Dames, Comedies of Courtship, Corning of Theodoria, The, Conjugal Amenities, Conjugal Love, "Council of Trent, The," , Corruption," Copsford Mystery, The, Courtship by Command, Creole and Puritan, Cricket, Cumberland Vendetta, A., Cup of Trembling, The, Cycling for Health and Pleasure, Damnation of Theresa Ware, The Dances in Yellow, The Dash to the Pole, A} Daughters Heart Days of Auld Lung Sync, The, Desert Ship, The, Divine Love and Wisdom, Divine Providence. Devon Boys, Diana's Huating, Diplmnatic Disenchantments, 1 dstaff and Spindle, Disturbing Elements, Doctor Warwick's Daughters, Doctor Izard, Dolly Dillenbeck, Dolly Madison, Domesticated Animals, Dona Perfects, Dragon o~ Wantley, Ebbing of the Tide, The, Echoes From the Sabine Farm, Effiie~ Hetheringzon, S. O'Grady. R. L. Stevenson. Swedenborg, R. L. Davis. S. L. Crockett. H. Aoucher, Capt. Chas. King. A. ~[, Earle. A. ti. Warton. A. Hope. E. O. White. Delta. Swedenborg. Froude. Percy White. W. C. Russell. \V. W. Blake. '17. C. Deleon. E. W. Timlou John Fox, Jr., ~{. H. Foote. L. H. Porter. H. Frederic. W. E. Norris. H. D. Ward. Cameron. ion McClaren. .L B. Buston. Swedenborg. Geo. M. Fenn. R. Buchanan. E. Bigelow. M. H. Townsend. Mrs. Brichenough. R. H. Davis. A. K. Green. las. L. Ford. M. W. Goodwin. Shaler. M. J. Lerrano, O. Wister. L. Becks. E. & R. W. Field, R. Buchanan. ' 296 74 206 to5 220 7° 299 79 275 69 297 67 252 IOO 306 55~ ~o6 298 76 3°6 298 89 ~2o 306 86 298 115 306 87 ~5~ 76 299 ~o3 ~75 73 299 98 275 89 298 275 76 298 98 299 69 zS~ 86 298 88 ~5z 299 83 ~52 z98 93 306 rr6 275 88 275 84 275 82 306 77 306 ~3~ z52 74 3°6 97 3°6 76 298 68 NORTH ANDOVER. Electricity for Everybody, Elsie at Ton, English Authors, Starres, 2 v., v. t Eve's Ransom, Exploits of Brig. Gerard, The, Failure of Sibyl Fletcher, The, Fair glocade Breaker, A, Famous Painters and Paintings, Famous Sculptors and Sculptures, Fast and Thanksgiving Days, The, Fate at the Door, Federal and Gonfederate Corn's. Feasts of Antolycus, The, Few Memories, A, Flobel's Gifts, Following the Greek Cross, Fool of Nature, Forgotten Debt, A, For Honor of The Flag, Forehanded Folk, Four Leading Religions, The, Fort Frayne, Frail Children of the Air, Front Yard~ The, Gallery of Antiquities, A, Gallopit~g Dick, Gathering Clouds, Gentleman Vagabond, A, God Forsaken, Golden Magnet, Great Men's Sons, Great War in England, The, Gryil Grange,' Hard Woman, A, Heaven and Hell, Heart of Lire, The, Herbert Valennert, History of the People of tile United States, v. 3 4, Horseman's Word, House Boat on the Styx, A, P. Atklnson. 304 67 M. Finlay. 3o6 t~7 England. 3°6 ~35 Ireland. 3o6 t36 Geo. Gissing. 3°6 ~25 A. C. Doyle 3o4 65 A. Sergeant. 299 85 T. C. De Leon. ~52 78 Mrs. J. H. Shedd. 306 89 ...... 306 9° W. De Loss Love, Jr. 306 85 J. V. L. Belden. 306 F. W. Dwight. 306 72 E. R. Pennell. 275 74 M. Anderson. 306 78 K. D. Wiggen. 3°6 ~x9 Gen. T. W. Hyde. 3o6 z23 J. Hawthorne. 299 ~o~ L. De Tinseau. ~98 73 C. M. Robinson. 278 Io,3 O. T. Miller. z99 95 Swedenborg. 220 73 Capt. Chas. King. ~99 73 S. H. Scudder. ~5z 83 C. F. Woolson. 275 87 Balzac. 304 73 H. B. M. Watson. 275 96 F. W. Farr6s. 252 79 F. H. Smith. 252 ~o F. Breton. 298 Geo. M. Fenn. ~99 7~ E. S. Brooks. ~99 67 Wm. Le Queux. 3o6 83 T. L. Peacock. =99 72 V. Hunt. =98 Swedenborg. 220 74 U'. H. Mallock. =98 8~ Keary. 3°6 93 McMasters. ~o-5~ 53 Neff Roy. ~99 82 J. K, Bangs. 299 IO2 I Idvot, The, J.K. Bangs. 275 95 I Married a Wife~ J.S. Winter. 304 75 In Defiance of the King, Hotchkiss. 306 112o lndescretion of the Duchess, The, A. Hope. 275 ~°5 In New England Fields and Woods, R.E. Robinson. 299 97 in the Blue Pike, G. Ebers. 275 Io6 In the Midst of Alarms, Robert Burr. 275 97 In the Smoke of War, Raymond. 306 ~33 Ironclads in Actions, 2 v., FI. W. Wilson. 3o6-73 74 James. Inwick, P.H. Hunter. 304 68 Japanese Marriage, A, D Sladen. 298 ~o6 Jerry's Family, Jas. Otis. 252 80 John Gray, J.S. Allen. 3o4 76 Joneses and the Asterisks~ The G, Combe!l, 299 93 Josephine Crone, H.M. Baulton, 299 77 Josel2h the f3reamer, Robt. Bird. 299 Jude the Obscure, Thcs. Fiardy. 3® 94 King and a Few Dukes, R.W. Chambers. ~98 78 Ki~g of Andaman, J, M. C~bban, ~75 go Kukoro, L. Helm, ~99 94 L Labor Law o~ the United States, Stinson. 3o6 Last Century Maid, The, A.H. Wharton. z98 7o Last Poems, Jas. R Lo,yell. ~75 68 Lavengro, Geo. Borrow. 298 97 Life and Love, Mor'ey. 306 ~o4 Life of Nancy, The S. O, Jewett. 252 11o9 Life and Speeches of Thcs. Cor- win~ Mo.rrow. 306 7 Life of SirWalter Scott, 3 v., Lockhart. ~o 54~55 56 Little Journeys, E. }tnbbard. ~75 9z Little Miss Faith, G. LeBarrow. 298 97 Little Rivers, H. Van Dyke. ~98 7t Lord Coleridge, W.P. Fishback. 27.5 66 Love Aff.drsof a Bibliomaniac,The E. Field. 275 77 Lyre and Lancet, F. Anstey. 275 9~ Madame Roland, Tarbell. x88 79 M!lmmy Mystic, W. G McClennard. ~75 Man of T~vo Minds, A, F.T. Buck. 275 85 NORTH ANDOVER. Mask and Martyr, A, Master Spirit, A, Master Wilberferce, Marriage of Esther, The, Matthe~v Austin, Matthew Froth, Mayor of Caslerbrldge, The, Merchant Vessel, The, Mighty Atom, The, Mistress Dorothy l¥[arviu, Misstress of Quest, The, Modern Pagan, Monk of Fife, A, Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica, "Mrs. Musgrave and Her Hus- band,'' My Lady Nobody, ~Iy Pretty Jane, Mysteries of the Patrician Club, The, "Mr. Rabbit at Home," Napoleon the III, Ne~v Mistress, New Sporting Stories, Nimble Dollar, The, Not Counting the Cost, O~klergh, On Cloud Mountain~ Only Human, Ormond, Out of TmYn, Paul Herrot's Pictures, Paynton, Jack, Gentleman, People of the Mist, The, People We Pass, PeteFs Wife, "Pirate Gold," "Phantom Death, The," Ploughed, Point of Conscience, Potters Thumb, The, Problems of the Fa~ East, E. D. Prescott. H. P. Spofford. Rita. Guy Boothby. W. E. Norris. Ida Lemon. Thos. Hardy. Nordhoff. M. Correlli. J. C. Snaithe. A. Sergeant. C. G. Dubois. A. Lang. J. K. Bangs. R. ~,~[arsh. M. Maartens. E. A. Rowlands. Vandam. J. C. Harris. Sir Win Fraser. Geo. M. Fenn. G.G. C. W. Thompson. Tasma. O E. D. Deland. F. T. Clark. J. S. Winter. M. Edgeworth. R. E. Sherwood. A. McLean. M. Bowker. H. R. }laggard. J. Ralph. Duchess. F. }-. Stinsen, W. C. Russell. L. B. Waif ord. Duchess. F. A. Steel. G. W. Cuzon. z98 72 275 ~o4 275 67 299 9z 252 96 306 3°6 95 306 88 ~98 to9 298 88 3°6 ~9 298 80 298 94 306 z34 275 79 ~75 70 ~98 99 252 m5 306 82 298 77 252 92 ~98 84 ~75 78 3o6 rz6 3o4 7~ 299 80 25~ 94 3o6 m9 275 7~ 298 96 25~ 9~ 304 70 306 ri4 ~5z 93 299 99 3o4 8o 3°6 306 99 306 84 LrST' OF BOOKS. Question of Truth, A, Quiet Stories, Randall Davenant, Red Cockade, Recollections of Lincoln, Red Mien and White, Red Badge of Courage, The, Red Republic, The, Rgds of the Midi, The Roman Gossip, Romance of Two Worlds, A, Rose of Dutcher's Cooly, Ruthless Avenger, A, Sailor Jack the Trader, Samantha In Europe, Seats of the Mighty, The, L. Dougall. A. McLean. ' Capt. C. Bray. S. J Weyman. W. 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Pugh. Geo. Preston. R. L. Stevenson. ,'?G: $etown. M. E. Mann. 252 112 ~52 89 ~52 8z 298 tr! ~98 r~3 252 97 275 72 3o6 9~ 275 86 298 66 25~ 9° 299 84 e99 68 3°6 ~9 306 98 275 8~ 252 xo8 299 76 299 306 9r 304 78 25a 98 252 1I~. 252 99 299 9r 275 298 IO4 306 I27 252 77 3o6 96 299 96 2~O 4i 50 304 77 299 66 298 95 306 304 7 $06 z~8 ~75 ~oo x99 8r ~ORTH ANDOYER. Tales of An Engineer, Tame Surrender, Tennyson Primer~ A, Temptress~ The, The House, The Second Jungle Book, They Call It Love, Three Gringoes in Venezuela, Three Graces, The, Through Colonial Doorways, Toinette's Philip, Tommy Atkins, Tom Grogan, Tommy Toddles, Toxin, Translations of a Savage, The, Trooper Ross and Signal Butte, Trumpet Major, The, Two Women and a Fool, Vampires. Victorian Authology, A, Village Watch Tower, The, Visions and Sermce, Western Verse, West Indies and the Spanish Mainl "When Chas. I. was King," When Greek meets Greek When Valmond came to Pontiac, Whirl Asunder, A, "Widow Lamport, The," "Wierd Tales/' 2 v., With Trumpet and Drum Winterborough, Woman Intervenes, A, Wonderful Visit, The, Young Master Kirke, Young Preteuders, The, Your Money or Your Life, ZurY T Cy Warman. 275 75 Capt. Chas. King. 252 75 Dixon. 3o6 ~o3 Wm. Le Quenx. 304 66 E. Field. 3o6 i21 Kipling. 298 io/ F. F. Moore. 599 87 R. H. Davis. 299 78 Dochess. 298 85 A. H. Wharton. 252 ~o7 Mrs C. B. Jamison. 306 8~ R. Blatch ford. 306 F. H. Smith. 3°4 74 Albert Lee. 298 ~o5 Ouida. 275 ro3 G. Parker. 252 113 Capt. Chas. King, 298 ~oo Thos. Hardy. 252 H. C. Taylor. ~75 94 Reseda ~52 ~o3 E. C. Stedman. 306 8o K. D. Wiggin. 306 t~8 Wm. L~wrence. 3o6 E. Field. 299 89 Jas Rodway. 268 69 J. S. Fletcher, 298 86 Jos. Hutton. 306 ioo G. Parker. 275 93 G. Atherton. 252 r~6 S. L. Yeats. ~75 98 E. T. W. Hoffman. 298-r~9 r~o E. Field. ~75 99 E. O. White. 306 Robt. Burr. 299 7° H. G. Wells. ~75 9° Penn Shirley. 3°6 ~37 E. H. Fowler. ~98 xto E. Carpenter. 299 too Z los. Kkkland. ~5e 85 L~T OF BOOKS. 127 MAOAZINE$. Century, 8 vols.--43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, Cosmopolitan, 5 vols.--i4, 15, ~6, ~7, 18, Harpers, 8 vols.--84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 9°, 9~, New England, 5 vols.--8, 9, 1o, North American Review, 5 vols.- 156, I57, 158, 159, 16o, O Outing, 6 vols.--21~ 22, 23~ 24, 25, $ Scribners's, 5 vols---~3, 14, 15, 16, 17~ 2o5-~ 2-3 4 27-28 29-3o 2o5-5-6 34-35-36 2o5-7-8-9-Io-23-24 25-26 205 ,t-,2-37 38-39 205 13 14-4o-41-42 2o5-15-16 19 2o-~1-~2 ~o5-~7-18-3~-3~-33 1 2 8 NORTH AI'IDOlrER- LIST OF JUl{ORS, The following is a list of jurors, as prepared by the Selcet- men, and presented to the Town for its acceptance: Abbott, Frank W. Adams, Edward Barker, Jacob Barker, John Badger, Orrin A. Bedell, John A. Bisbee, Charles F. Bolton, Michael E. Brainard, Albert W. Bryant, Frank L. Burnham, John Chadwick, George G. Chesley, Ervan E. Clarke, William C. Colby-, Edmund S. Donovan, Timothy J. Fernandes, Alfred L. Fernald, William M. Fisher, Edward C. Foster, Nathan Foster, Orrin N. Goodhue, George H. Graham, Alexander B. Gile, Oliver R. Gile, William Glennie, James, Jr. Harris, George L. Hayes, Walter H. Hinxman, Superbus D. Holt, Albert N. Ingalls, Daniel Jenkins, Alfred F. Kelley, Edward F. Messerve, David H. Meserve, John N. Moulton, David A. Osgood, L. Edgar Pnlsifer, Martin H. Rea, Calvin Reynolds, Judson E. Robinson, Addison M. Reagan, Daniel J. Smith, Charles B. Stevens, Nathaniel Sutcliffe, Daniel W. Tisdale, Frank Toohey, William J. Webster, Henry A. Whittier, Herbert M. Williams, George F. Wooley, William AARON A. CURRIER, ) 3'electme~t WALTER H. HAYES, } of PATR. ICK P. DAW,.} 2Vorth A~dover. RECOMIffEND.~_TIONS OF FINANrCE COMM£t'TEE. ~29 Appropriations Recommended by the Finance Committee. Assessors ....................... 525 oo Auditor ........................ zSO co Board of Health o~cers .......... 9° o0 Board of Healttx expenses ........ zoo oo Fish ~rarden .................... 5 oo Forest Fire Ward ............... a5 oo l~egistrar of Voters ............. xoo oo Selectmea ...................... 475 oo Town Clerk .................... ~5© oo Town Treasurer ................. 35o oo Tax Collector, ~ ~ on collections and premium on bond ............ 55° oo County and State Tax ............ 5,5oo oo Street lighting .................. 2,=3o oo Election expenses ................ 300 oo Public Librarv .................. x,2oo oo Discount and interest ............ x,2oo oo State aid ....................... 600 oo Inspector of animals ............. ~5© oo Janitor of Town Hall ............ x~5 oo Contingent £und ................. 2,0o0 oo Reduction of Town debt .......... 3,ooo oo Police department .............. 9o0 oo Engineers ...................... I2o oo Fire department, including support of horses ................... 3,ooo oo Overseers o~ Poor. .............. 22.5 oo Superintendent .................. 500 oo Support of Poor ................. 3,8oo oo ~3o NORTH ANDOVER- $27,570 l~rought farward Superintendent and School Com- mittee ...................... 800 oo Teachers, 5anitors and fuel ....... x3,3oo oo Repairs and supplies ............. x,8oo oo Text books and supplies .......... x,2oo oo Superintendent of Streets, including use of team ................. I~2OO OO Surveying ...................... 200 oo Sidewalks ...................... x,ooo oo Macadamizing .................. 2,500 oo Streets, highways and bridges ..... 3,ooo oo Pathing snow ................... x,50o oo A. A. CURRIER, C. P. MORRILL, C. H. ROBINSON, ~54,o7o oo Finance TOW~N WARRANT, I ~ i TOWN WARBANT. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,}IC~SSEX, SS. To either of the ConstaMes a/ the Town of 'North ~lndover .. GREETING: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabi- tants of said North Andover, qualified by law to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet in Town Hail in said Town, on Monday, the first day of March, next coming, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz: Au'r. i. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. ART. 2. TO elect Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, one School Committee for three years, Collector of Taxes, Con- stables, Auditor, one Trustee of Public Library for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one Park Commissioner for three years, and all other Town Officers required by law to be voted for by ballot. Also to vote on the question, "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" All of the above, except Moderator, to be voted for on one ballot, accord- ing to Chapter 417 of the acts of ~893, and amendments thereto. The polls will open at ten o'clcck, A. M., and may be closed at 2 P. M. NORTH AN'DOVER. ART. 3- To see if the Town will accept the report at the receipts and expenditures of the Town, as presented by the Auditor. ART. 4. To see what action the town will take in re- gard to the unexpended appropriations. ART. 5. To see what action the Town will take as to the recommendation of the Finance Committee. ART. 6. To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate tar the use of the sevelal depart- ments for the current year, to wit: Schools, School Houses, Highways and Bridges, Sidewalks, Support of Poor and all the other necessary and proper expenses arising in said Town for the current year. ART. 7- To see ii the Town will authorize the Select- men and Treasurer, iointly, to hire money temporarily for the use of the Town, in anticipation of taxes to be assessed for the current year. ART. 8. To see it the Town will authorize the Select- men and Treasurer, jointly', to issue its promissory notes to meet outstanding obligations. ART. 9. To see what action the Town will take in relation to paying' bills contracted between the close of the financial year and the next annual meeting. ART. Ia. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($I25) for a new two-horse tip cart, to replace the old, to be used by the town horses on the roads, on petition of the engineers. ART. ~I. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $500, the same to be expended by the North Andover Improvement Society in the irnprove- ment of the Common, on the petition of Peter Holt, Jr., and others. ART. I2. To see if the Town will elect a TreeWarden and raise and appropriate a reasonable sum for his ser- vices, according to Chapter ~9o of the Acts of I896 on petition at Nathaniel Stevens and others. TOWN WARRANT. ART. t3. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for jurors as prepared and posted by the Select- men. ART. I4- To see if the Town will raise and appropri- ate twelve hundred dollars ($~2oo) for the support oi the Public Library, the purchase of books for the same, and the rent of the Library rooms, and also to see if the Town xvill direct that the money receiv-ed from the County Treasurer for dog licenses be paid /or the sup- port of the Library. AR~. ~5. To see what compensation the Town will pay for the labor on the Highways for the ensuing year. Ar, T. ~6. To see ii the Town will raise and appropri- ate the sum ot seventy-five dollars ($75) to enlarge and rebuild the culvert on Riverview street, on petition of N. P. Frye and others. ART. ~7. SO see what action the Town will take as to purchasing any other land other than the McManuS Iand on Main street for Town uses and appropriate money for the same, on petition of James C. Poor and others. Anat. ~8. 'Fo see what action the Town will take in. relation to procuring a lot of land and moving thereon the building now used as the Selectmen's office and Police Station. A~<v. ~9. To see if the Town will take any action in relation to the collection oi taxes. A~,. 2o. To see if the Town will erect an electric arc light at the corner of Cleveland and Saunders streets in the Sutton's field and raise and appropriate ~noney for the same, on petition of H. Ellis and others. A~¢~. 2z. To see if the Town will locate an Electric arc light on Main Street in front of St. Paul's Church and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same on petition of Alfred L. Fernandes and others. ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars (~6oo) to purchase a road machine and road roller. I34 NORTH ANDOVER, /kP, T. 23. To see ii the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars (~5©) to defray the expenses of decorating soldiers' graves on the 3otb day of May next, and appoint a committee to take charge of the same. Ai~,T. 24, To elect all Town Officers not required to be chosen by ballot. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting true and attested copie~ thereof in each of the Postoffices aud also in the vestib~]es or porches of the several churches of said Town, two Sundays or fourteen days before the time of holding said meeting. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding said xneeting. Given under ()ur hands, in said North Andover, this eighth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninty-seven. AARON A. CURRIER, WALTER H. HAYES, PATRICK P. DAW, A true copy, attest: A~orZ/z ~4~zdover. CONTENTS, Appropriations Recommended ...................... ~ 29 Assessor's Report ................................. 20 Auditor's Certificate ............................... ~3 Board of Health, Report of the ..................... 83 Cattle Inspector's Repm-t ........................... 8~ Engineers' Report ................................. .55 Engineers ................................... 57 Horse Expenses .............................. 58 Record of Alarms and Fi~'es .................... .57 Support of Fire Department .................... 55 Financial Statement ............................... 29 Financial Report of School DepaYtment .............. 48 Forest Fire Ward's Report ......................... 89 List of Books .................................... x2o Magazines ................................... List o/Jurors ..................................... Memorial Day Committees .................. .* ...... 88 Overseers' Report ................. : ............... 74 Ahnshouse Expenses ......................... 75 Expenditures ................................. 8o Paid Commonwealth .......................... 79 Paid to Public Institutions ...................... 79 Recapitulation of Account ..................... 79 Relief out of House .......................... 78 Superintendent's Report ....................... Park Commissioners' Report ........................ 86 Police Department ................................ 60 Report of Trustees ot. Publlc Library ................ Road Commissioners' Report ....................... 9b School Committee, Report of ....................... School Superintendent, Report of ................... Attendance ................................... Appropriation Accmmt with Schools ............. .54 Itemized Account of Teachers, Janitor's and t~'uel.. 49 Itemized Account of Repairs and Supplies ........ 50 Itemized Account of Books a~]d Stationery ....... _",loses Towne Fund ........................... 53 No Session Signal ............................ 36 Outline of Course of Study. .................... Suggestions .................................. 37 Superintendent and Committee .................. 53 The Kimball School ..... · ..................... 38 Teacl~ers' Library ............................. 34 Text Books .................................. ,34 Work o£ tlxe Schools .......................... 34 Selectmen's Report ................................ ~4 Petkion for Sta~e H~g/~wa~ ..................... Street Lighting .............................. Suits Against the To~xu ........................ Sewer Assessments ............................ Tabular Statement ............................ ~5 Village Office Buildh~g ........................ Selectmen's Department ............................ 65 Contingent Fund .............................. 7 Discount ..................................... 69 Election Expenses ............................ 65 Library Account ............................. 69 Mem~ial .................................... State and County Taxes ....................... State Aid .................................... 69 Street Lighting .............................. 7o Surveying ................................... 7o Town OfFtcers' Salaries ........................ 65 Superintendent of Streets Report .................... 9J Sumlnary of Accounts ......................... ~o~ Tabulated Statement of Expenditures ............ ~o2 Sc}~edule and Valnation of To~vn Propcrt5. .......... ~o9 Town Warrant .................................. ~3r Town ()ilk:ers .................................... 3 Town Clerk's Record of Town Meeting ............. 5 Tax Collector's Report ............................ 2~ Town Notes ...................................... z3 Treasurer's Report ................................ ::5 Bfoses Tow~m School Ftmd .................... ~7 Taylor Fur~d ................................ ~8 Water ~:ommlssioners' Report ..................... 87