ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF TREMONT, ME. FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, 1919 WITH REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS ALSO THE WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING To BE HELD MARCH 3, 1919 ELLSWORTH, MAINE: HANCOCK COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS 1919. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF TREMONT. ME. FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, 1919 WITH REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS ALSO THE WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING To BE HELD MARCH 3, 1919 ELLSWORTH, MAINE: HANCOCK COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS 1919. 3 SELECTMEN'S STATEMENT. VALUATION OF TREMONT. Resident real estate $202,520 personal estate 54,455 TOWN OFFICERS Total resident valuation $256,975 19 8-19 Non-resident real estate $95,610 personal estate 9,630 105,240 Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor: Total valuation of Tremont 362,215 Loren W. Rumill, Clifton M. Rich, Joshua A. Sawyer Exempted from personal tax by vote of town 14,595 Town Clerk, Total assessed valuation $347,620 Lowell A. Bunker Town Treasurer, Number of polls assessed, 302; unassessed, 49. B. B. Reed Poll tax, $3. Rate of taxation, .036. Superintending School Committee: Population, 1,100. A. L. Black, J. R. Kelley, T. A. Bartlett Resident tax $9,251 10 Superintendent of Schools, Non-resident tax 3,263 22 W. E. Clark Poll tax 906 00 Road Commissioner, Total commitment $13,420 32 Sidney Eugene Wallace Board of Health, MONEY ASSESSED. Lowell A. Bunker, Clinton H. Gray, Sullivan C. Webster County tax $480 08 State tax 1,993 80 Support of common schools 2,300 00 Repair of schoolhouses 250 00 Support of poor 400 00 Highways and bridges 1,700 00 Repair of sidewalks 100 00 Purchase of text-books 300 00 Town charges 2,200 00 Town debt 1,600 00 Interest 475 00 Tuition 300 00 Brown-tail 15 00 State road 533 00 4 5 School supplies 150.00 TEXT-BOOKS. Bass Harbor library 25.00 RECEIPTS. Crocket's Point road 150 00 Appropriated by town $300.00 Decorating graves of soldiers and sailors 50.00 Unexpended bal 1917 148.00 Mt. Desert Bridge district tax 265 40 Overlays 133 04 Fund for 1918 $448 00 $13,420.32 Expended 308 34 Bal unexpended Jan. 31, 1919 $139 66 SCHOOLS. TUITION. RECEIPTS. RECEIPTS. Appropriated by town $2,300 00 Amt appropriated by town $300.00 Received from State 2,310 Unexpended balance 1917 250 00 Equalization fund 415,00 Received from State 500 00 Telephone and railroad tax 22 50 Unexpended bal from 1917 204 06 Total $1,050.00 Expenditures 1,142.00 Total fund for 1918 $5,251 56 EXPENDITURES. Overdraft $92.00 Paid teachers and board $3,844.05 W E Clark, expenses procuring teachers 43, 32 SCHOOL SUPPLIES. janitors 248 30 RECEIPTS. for wood 890 80 Amt raised by town $150 00 Total $5,026.47 Unexpended balance 1917 152 61 Bal unexpended Jan 31, 1919 $225 08 Fund for 1918 $302 61 Expended 274 66 Unexpended $27 95 REPAIR FUND. RECEIPTS. BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. Appropriated by town $250.00 Amount appropriated by town $15 00 Overdraft of 1917 82 51 Nothing expended Fund for 1918 Unexpended balance 15 00 $167.49 EXPENDITURES. SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' GRAVES. Overdraft 472 RECEIPTS. Amount raised by town to fence and decorate $50 00 $305.12 EXPENDITURES. For flags $5 15 Paid L W Rumill for decorating 3 00 8 15 Unexpended $41 85 6 7 LOCAL POOR. JOSIE REED'S TWO CHILDREN. By reimbursement from A C McLoon, George Paid Sarah C. Swazey, their board to January 31 $172 50 Bunker's bondsman 2 17 MYRA SOMES. reimbursed by George Bunker 10 00 Paid C H Gray for 11/2cds wood fitted and de- 12 17 livered $19 50 295 25 A H Farrell, moving her to Robbins place 2 25 HL Sawyer, 1/2 cd wood, delivered, not fitted 4 00 3 25 Due from George H Bunker and A C McLoon, his bonds- HL Sawyer, moving her to Reed estate $29 00 man, $20 per month from June 11, the date of his bond, to Feb 11 $160 00 ARAM T OBER. Paid A A Bartlett for supplies 1917 $23 50 WILLIS TWOMBLY Geo A Neal, MD, medical attendance 12 50 To cash loaned $20 00 $36 00 Pd. T W Jackson for supplies 20 10 JOHN W. LUNT $40 10 Pd. Salathiel Reed, nursing $117 50 CHARLES GROSS supplies 8 94 Pd. TS Tapley medical attendance 10 00 F W Lunt, supplies 2 08 BENJAMIN HALLETT Watson Walls, digging grave 5 00 44 00 Pd. T W Jackson for supplies 33 16 L W Rumill, casket $35, robe $9 services (undertaker) 5 00 LEVI W GRAY Albert Ober, conveying remains to grave 1 50 Pd. T Tapley medical attendance $13 00 $184. 02 A C Hagerthy 34 00 LYDIA REED Harry C Austin & Co, casket for son 20 00 Pd. F W Lunt, supplies, 1917 $9 08 $67 00 Elwell Lunt, 1 cord wood, 1917 8 50 L R Hodgdon, fitting 2 cords wood 5 11 Total cost of poor $947 73 Minnie Harper, supplies 10 50 Amt raised by town 400 00 Geo A Neal, medical attendance 5 50 Overdraft $547 73 Mrs J S Powers, supplies, $7.51; A L Ober, wood, $1.50 9 01 One-half of mothers' aid paid to Agnes Dow and Abbie Ober 112 98 L W Rumill, 1/2 C fitted wood, delivered 5 00 A H Reed, fitting wood 1 00 Total overdraft $661 71 Lucy M Dodge, rent of camp 27 00 $80 70 GEORGE H. BUNKER'S FAMILY. HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES. Pd George Loring for fitting wood $5 56 A D Moore, for supplies 3 54 RECEIPTS. J A Sawyer, expenses to Bar Harbor to Amount raised by town $1,700.00 execute warrant against George Bunker 10 00 Patrol money deducted by law 543 25 F N Sawyer, for supplies 235 82 L W Rumill for 1/2 cord wood 4 50 Fund to be expended under road commissioner $1,156 75 Phebe Thurston, rent 48 00 Expenditures 1,389 22 307 42 Overdraft $232 47