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Date Dec. 1905- Nº 11912
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Annual Reports
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
Town of Attleborough
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1905
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1906
11912
Town Officers. 1905=1906.
Selectmen :
WM. H. GOFF, WM. N. GOFF, GEO. A. SWEENEY.
Town Clerk and Treasurer : FRANK I. BABCOCK. Overseers of the Poor:
JOSEPH V. CURRAN, BENJ. P. KING, ALBERT M. EVERETT.
Assessors of Taxes :
WVM. H. GOFF, HARRY E. CARPENTER, GEO. M. WORRALL.
Collector of Taxes : SAMUEL M. HOLMAN.
Commissioners of Sinking Fund :
EVERETT S. HORTON, CHARLES E. BLISS, LOUIS J. LAMB.
Water Commissioners :
IVM. M. STONE, GEO. H. SNELL, DAVID E. MAKEPEACE.
Water Registrar and Superintendent : GEO. H. SNELL.
Attleboro Public Library Joseph L. Sweet Memorial
3
ANNUAL REPORT.
Registrars of Voters :
JOHN W. CODY,
HENRY A. STREETER,
FRANK I. BABCOCK, JOHN R. CURRY.
Auditors :
BENJ. F. LINDSEY, FRED LeBARON, *BYRON R. HILL.
Sealer of Weights and Measures : ABIJAH T. WALES.
Inspector of Cattle, Milk and Provisions :
CALEB E. PARMENTER.
Constables :
FRANKLIN H. BONNEY, SETH R. BRIGGS,
ARTHUR GAFFNEY,
ROBERT E. HARRIS,
GEO. F. IDE, JOHN H. NERNEY,
JOHN BORA,Y CHARLES E. WILBUR, CHARLES E. RILEY.
Night Patrol:
ARTHUR GAFFNEY, FRANKLIN H. BONNEY.
Day Patrol : ROBERT E. HARRIS.
Sunday Patrol: ERNEST G. HEMPLE.
Fence Viewers:
LYMAN M. STANLEY, ISAAC ALGER, EVERETT S. HORTON.
* Deceased.
4
ANNUAL REPORT.
Park Commissioners :
KARL H. HYDE, CHARLES E. BLISS, EDWARD CAUFY.
Superintendent of Streets : HUGH A. SMITH.
Engineers of Fire Department : HIRAM R. PACKARD, Chief ; JAMES HOWARTH, E. V. HICKS, Assistants.
School Committee :
CHARLES E. BLISS, Chairman ; WALTER J. NEWMAN, Secretary ;
BENJ. P. KING, THOMAS G. SADLER, >
MISS LENORA P. BEERS, MRS .. EMILY L. RICHARDSON, MRS. FLORENCE B. THEOBALD, GEO. M. WORRALL.
Superintendent of Schools :
*WILLIAM P. KELLY, LEWIS A. FALES.
Board of Health:
CHARLES S. HOLDEN, M. D., Chairman ; GEO. K. ROBERTS, M. D., Secretary ; WVM. O. HEWITT, M. D.
Trustees of Public Library :
EVERETT S. HORTON, Chairman ; CHARLES S. HOLDEN, Secretary ; LOUIS J. LAMB, CHARLES H. WHEELER,
MRS. ALICE M. WALES, *WM. P. KELLY,
MRS. IRENE T. HILL. MARK E. ROWE, MRS. ELEANOR CARPENTER.
Resigned.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Surveyors of Wood and Bark:
L. Z. CARPENTER,
HUGH A. SMITH,
GEO. A. MONROE, EARL B. SMITH,
C. E. RICHARDS,
JAMES ORR, H. D. FAIBROTHER, WM. E. VICKERY.
FRANK E. SHAW.
Fire Police :
SETH R. BRIGGS,
GEO. F. IDE,
WVM. E. DUNHAM,
CHARLES E. WILBUR, ERNEST HEMPLE, DEXTER E. NEWELL.
Tree Warden : EVERETT S. HORTON.
Pound Keeper : CHARLES E. BLISS.
Annual Report of the Board of Selectmen.
The Selectmen respectfully submit the following re- port of their doings for the year ending December 31, 1905, together with recommendations for the year 1906:
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
CURRENT AND INCIDENTAL.
Dr.
To appropriation $11,000.00
Received from Clerk Fourth Bris-
tol District Court, court fines 1,044.54
Pool and billiard table licenses . . . 372.50
Peddlers' licenses I36.00
Milk licenses
33.50
Other license fees
47.50
Rent of land for bill board
5.00
Duplicate bill
10.00
Overdrawn
537.37
Cr. $13,186.41
Salaries of Town Officers paid from Current and In- cidental Account :
Selectmen.
Wm. H. Goff, Chairman $ 500.00
Wm. N. Goff, Clerk 350.00
Geo. A. Sweeney
300.00
$1,150.00
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Assessors.
Wm. H. Goff, Chairman $ 500.00
H. E. Carpenter, Clerk 300.00
Geo. M. Worrall 300.00
$1,100.00
Town Clerk and Treasurer.
Frank I. Babcock, Treasurer $ 400.00
Frank I. Babcock, Clerk 400.00
Frank I. Babcock, clerk hire 200.00
Frank I. Babcock, extra clerk hire
300.00
Frank I. Babcock, Treasurer of
Sinking Fund
50.00
$1,350.00
Auditors.
B. F. Lindsey $ 50.00
F. L. LeBaron 50.00
B. R. Hill
50.00
$150.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Lyman M. Stanley $ 52.50
A. T. Wales
87.50
$140.00
Town Solicitor.
Frank I. Babcock
$ 100.00
$100.00
Inspector of Milk and Cattle.
Coleb E. Parmenter
$ 200.00
$200.00
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Inspector of Wires.
Edgar Tregoning, salary from March 1, 1904, to March I, 1905 $ 50.00
Salary from March I to December 31, 1905 81.21
$131.21
Inspector of Plumbing.
Henry H. Wilcox $ 378.00
$378.00
Registrars of Voters.
F. I. Babcock $ 85.00
F. I. Babcock, Clerk 40.00
J. W. Cody 85.00
J. R. Curry
85.00
H. A. Streeter
85.00
$380.00
Board of Health.
C. S. Holden, M. D., Chairman $ 100.00
G. K. Roberts, M. D., Clerk 100.00
Wm. O. Hewitt, M. D. 50.00
$250.00
Collector of Taxes.
S. M. Holman
$1,404.00
$1,404.00
Company I, Fifth Regiment, M. V. M.
Alfred Pierce, rent of Armory and
rooms $720.00
Attleboro Gas Co., gas 84.34
Olaf Wendall, rent of range 50.00
Repairs at Range
58.76
$913.10
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Births
$ 204.75
Marriages 41.IO
Deaths
64.45
$310.20
Dog Officer.
Wm. E. Dunham, salary $ 65.00
Blanks, etc. 8.75
Incidental expenses
7.00
Court Fees.
Seth R. Briggs
$ 28.83
John Bora 5.06
Peter Benway
23.68
E. C. Brown
105.74
Franklin H. Bonney
15.00
Wm. E. Dunham
25.06
Henry S. Freeman
2.4I
Peter Gagne
18.58
Arthur F. Gaffney
8.50
Edward E. Gobin
49.18
Ernest G. L. Hemple
28.52
Robert E. Harris
9.50
O. A. Hodgeman
9.06
Geo. F. Ide
II.38
Wm. Norwood
6.98
C. E. Ladd
4.42
John H. Nerney
1,060.34
H. A. Perry
6.74
Warren Parker
48.66
Richard Rossiter
19.69
T. H. Stevenson
23.02
M. J. Tierney
7.75
J. A. Welsh
3.92
C. E. Wilbur
I.00
$80.75
· $1,523.02
10
ANNUAL REPORT.
Dodgeville Cemetery.
Town lot
$ 90.00
Loam
12.00
Labor
16.00
$118.00
Incidental Expenses of Selectmen.
Town Reports
$352.50
Jurors' List
6.00
Blanks, etc. 9.75
Bill heads
11.25
Advertising
18.85
Carriage hire
8.50
Expense attending hearing Fair
Haven bridge 4.80
Expenses, Selectmen and witnesses
attending hearing before R. R. Commission 22.70
Incidentals
8.40
$442.75
Assessors.
Miss R. L. Bushee, clerical work. . $156.00
Miss R. M. Goff, clerical work .... 140.50
Poll Tax List books 62.40
Field books 20.18
Plat books 19.00
Blanks and Posters
8.85
Carriage hire
4.50
Incidentals
3.95
$415.38
Expenses Town Clerk and Treasurer.
Check books $ 55.00
Typewriter 75.45
Envelopes 49.71
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Record and Blank books
47.25
Blanks, etc. 36.50
Sundry supplies 99.96
$363.87
Rents, Etc., Town Offices.
Selectmen and Town Clerk, rent .. $450.00
Assessors and Overseers of Poor .. 150.00
Janitor service 60.00
Electric lights 27.52
Providence Telephone Co. 32.00
Providence Towel Supply Co.
II.00
$730.52
Registrars and Election Expenses.
Election officers, spring election. . $ 60.00 Election officers, fall election I20.00
Meals for election officers
30.70
Rents, caucuses and town meeting 72.00
Moderators 10.00
Town ballots 42.50
Town meeting warrants
35.00
Posting warrants 17.50
Voting lists 84.90
Repairing ballot boxes 12.70
Repairing booths
3.48
Serving election warrants
3.00
Posting voting list
4.00
Advertising Registrars' meeting,
etc.
28.14
Incidentals
4.00
$527.92
Care of Common.
M. Galligan, labor $149.00 .
Lawn mower
10.75
Grass signs 5.25
Incidentals
4.04
$169.04
12
ANNUAL REPORT.
Expenses Board of Health.
Geo. K. Roberts, fumigation. $ 26.00
G. I. Simpson. fumigation supplies 78.15
G. K. Roberts, vaccinations 26.50
Mc Bride case, nurse and care
40.25
Mc Bride case, bedding, etc.
34.44
McBride case. provisions and sup- plies 30.99
Blanks 6.68
$243.01
Incidental Expenses.
Numbering houses $ 38.90
Joseph A. Green, burning refuse at dump
28.00
Felix Doyle, burning refuse at dump 25.00
Survey plat and plan, Library lot.
25.00
Survey and plans for new street from South Main to County street 79.00
Report of hearing on new streets. .
15.40
Survey and plans Thacher brook drain 42.00
Serving Abbutors' notices
4.30
IV. C. Goff, damage to horse 50.00
Advertising By-Laws 32.70 Karl H. Hyde, locating old roads. 44.50
Jessie Ingles, rebate on taxes ....
13.28
Fidelity Co., Treasurer's bond. . .
50.00
Attleboro Band, Flag Day
25.00
F. I. Babcock, adminstering oaths
17.00
Cleaning Ten Mile river 9.58
Ice bill 7.85
Tax Collector's books 13.75
Rebinding old valuation books 12.80
Karl H. Hyde, copying location of Taunton Branch Railroad. .
12.85
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ANNUAL REPORT.
John H. Nerney, witness fees ..... 7.10
J. W. Battershall, medical attend-
ance rendered to Delundeville 9.75
Recovering tables 8.00
Diamond for Sealer of Weights and Measures 7.50
Expenses Town Solicitor 10.80
Repairs to rooms and furniture . . 11.93
S. M. Holman, board for Morris Ross 5.88
Incidentals 7.77
$615.64
$13,186.41
POLICE SERVICE AND PATROL.
Dr.
To appropriation
$3,300.00
$3,300.00
Cr.
Franklin H. Bonney, night service $892.50
Arthur F. Gaffney, night service .. 892.50
Robert E. Harris, day service .... 639.00 Ernest Hemple. Sunday service .. 127.50
Geo. F. Ide, Hebronville 100.00
John Bora, South Attleboro 100.00
Richard Rossiter, Dodgeville 75.00
Charles E. Ladd, Dodgeville 25.00
Sydney Burton, lock up keeper ... 100.00
William Norwood, night and day service 50.00
Warren Parker, night and day service 47.50
Charles E. Wilbur, night and day service 71.25
Police duty July 4 37.00
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Providence Telephone Co., police
call
31.25
Police badges 23.01
Gas bills
7.14
Incidentals
3.80
Unexpended balance
77.55
$3,300.00
ENFORCEMENT OF LIQUOR LAWS.
Dr.
To appropriation $250.00
$250.00
Cr.
John H. Nerney
$150.00
Unexpended balance 100.00
$250.00
GRADE CROSSING EXPENSES.
Paid from surplus funds in Town Treasury, Charles A. Allen, consulting engineer $107.93
Hallowell and Hammond, at- torneys 5,040.63
Selectmen's expenses
5.30
$5,153.86
ASSESSORS' PLATS.
Dr
To appropriation $500.00
Cr. $500.00
W'm. H. Goff, labor and material. .
$500.00
$500.00
15
ANNUAL REPORT.
MEMORIAL DAY.
Dr.
To appropriation $300.00
$300.00
Cr.
Wm. A. Streeter Post, No. 145, G. A. R. $300.00
$300.00
QUARTERS WM. A. STREETER POST, 145, G. A. R.
Dr.
To appropriation $348.00
$348.00
Cr.
Wm. A. Streeter Post, No. 145,
G. A. R.
$348.00
$348.00
*MARKERS FOR REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
Dr.
To appropriation
$122.00
Cr. $122.00
M. D. Jones & Co., markers $ 99.00
Unexpended balance
23.00
$122.00
VALUATION BOOKS.
Dr
To appropriation $500.00
$500.00
* To be assessed in 1906.
16
ANNUAL REPORT.
Cr.
Sun Publishing Co., printing $345.60
Miss R. M. Goff, preparing copy. . 100.00
Blanks, etc. 3.50
Unexpended balance
50.90
*NEW POLICE STATION.
Dr.
To appropriation $1,500.00
$1.500.00
Cr.
Karl H. Hyde, specifications $ 6.75
E. O. Dexter, labor and material. . 23.78
Water Department, water con-
nection 5.25
H. A. Brown, electric wiring 5.84
Geo. H. Snell, iron work
17.50
Wm. J. Fogerty, plumbing
344.69
James H. Tower, steel cells 825.00
Incidental
3.00
Balance to be carried to 1906.
268.19
$1.500.00
STREET LIGHTS.
Dr.
To appropriation $II,000.00
Cr. $11.000.00
Paid Attleboro Steam and Electric
Co., lights for
January
$847.92
February
847.92
March
847.92
April
825.17
$500.00
To be assessed in 1906.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
May
825.17
June
868.67
July
871.67
August
898.17
September
901.40
October
910.15
November
925.52
December
937.90
Unexpended balance
492.42
$11,000.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Dr.
To . appropriation
$11,000.00
Sale of old junk
50.58
Received from Water Department 12.50
$11,063.08
Cr.
Salary, Chief Engineer $400.00
Salary, Assistant Engineer
200.00
Salary, Clerk of Engineers
25.00
Salaries of Hose Co. No. I
915.00
Salaries of Hose Co. No. 2.
840.00
Salaries of Hose Co. No. 3. 150.12
Salaries of Hose Co. No. 4.
I50.00
Salaries of Hose Co. No. 5.
I50.00
Salaries of Hose Co. No. 6.
24.00
Salaries of Hose Co. No. 7 ..
24.00
Salaries of Hook and Ladder No. I Salaries of Hook and Ladder No. 2
915.00
Salary, Janitor of Hose Co. No. 3
52.00
Salary, Janitor of Hose Co. No. 4
52.00
Salary, Janitor of Hose Co. No. 5 Salaries of permanent men
52.00
3,312.00
Fire Police
70.00
Gas bills 18.76
Electric light bills
190.67
I 50.00
18
ANNUAL REPORT.
Coal 615.63
Hay and grain
866.17
Horse shoeing, etc.
183.31
Harness supplies and repairs
82.13
Telephones
76.10
Exercise wagon
228.00
Use of horses at fires
24.00
Insurance 80.00
Veterinary services and medicines
44.18
Coal shed, South Attleboro . .
69.00
Repairs and painting of apparatus
45.52
Painting, papering, etc. 81.76
Horse hire
28.50
Clipping horses 17.50
Electric supplies and repairs.
35.99
Repairs to slate roof and concrete
20.75
N. Perry & Co., repairs
71.II
French & Brownell, repairs
54.76
J. W. Gifford Co., repairs
36.34
Grant Bros., repairs
86.18
H. E. White & Co., repairs 18.49
Grant Bros., fire alarm system. ...
31.82
W. E. Decrow, supplies fire alarm
76.43
Union Hardware Co., supplies fire alarm 73.67
Labor on fire alarm
28.00
N. Perry & Co., supplies
45.36
French & Brownell, supplies . .
61.96
Combination Ladder Co., supplies
25.50
Boston Woven Hose Co., supplies
23.69
L. Z. Carpenter, supplies 39.43
G. A. Sweeney, supplies and furn- ishings 41.00
Incidentals 106.16
Balance unexpended
64.09
$11,063.08
19
ANNUAL REPORT.
Fire Alarm Boxes.
Dr.
To appropriation 500.00
Cr. $500.00
W. E. Decrow, boxes
$375.00
Union Hardware Co., wire
79.80
Labor on line
41.50
Balance unexpended
3.70
$500.00
Storage Battery. Dr.
To appropriation $1,200.00
$1,200.00
Cr.
W. E. Decrow, storage plant $1,000.00
Copper wire
20.47
Insulated wire 8.28
Fire alarm poles
18.00
Labor on line, etc.
12.50
H. A. Brown, incidentals
9.69
Unexpended balance
131.06
$1,200.00
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Dr.
Appropriation $10,000.00
Balance from 1904 1,497.34
Excise Tax from Interstate Street Railway Company 1,847.93
Street Railway Tax 2,250.42
Norton and Taunton Street Rail-
way Excise Tax 38.38
20
ANNUAL REPORT.
Bristol County Street Railway
Excise Tax 188.34
Providence Telephone Co., use of streets
25.00
Sale of horse
125.00
Sale of stone and gravel
349.13
J. F. Keon & Co., for work and materials on temporary cross- ings 286.08
Work done for Attleboro Gas
Light Co.
21.00
Received from Interstate Street
Railway Co., for work and
materials on South Main and
Orange streets and Newport avenue
969.60
Work done for Water Department
7.50
Received for lumber
6.00
Received for sewer entrances.
225.00
Received for curbing
4.90
Work done by Highway Depart- ment :
Holman street
79.25
Dunham street 15.92
James street 405.18
Peck avenue
87.00
Park street drain
7.16
North Main street
25.71
Cherry street
98.59
Orange street
31.69
Highland avenue
51.33
Sidewalks
340.00
Incidentals
5.00
$18,988.45
Cr.
North division, pay roll
$4,923.20 Fast division, pay roll 609.09
21
ANNUAL REPORT.
West division, pay roll 672.82
South division, pay roll
1,295.62
Southwest division, pay roll
1,571.3I
Street cleaning, pay roll
1,854.19
Stone and gravel
I,348.91
Snow
605.03
Superintendent's salary
900.00
Horse
225.00
Tools and repairs
280.24
Lights in barn
59.91
Catch basins
255.25
Repairs and supplies for crusher and roller
776.28
Bridges and repairs
297.83
Surveyors
103.50
Cross walks
77.69
Harnesses and repairs
58.95
Grain and hay
925.II
Shoeing
104.89
Lumber
139.77
Incidentals
207.4I
Curbing south
side of Orange
street
472.85
Curbing for Peter Nerney, North Main street 140.00
Curbing Bronson building, North Main and County streets 104.78
Labor
49.44
Balance
929.38
$18,988.45
Cherry Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
$500.00
ANNUAL REPORT.
Cr.
Surveying
$ 9.00
Pay rolls
392.4I
Highway Department
98.59
$500.00
Benefit Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
Credit from Highway Department
12.32
$512.32
Cr.
Surveying
$ 19.00
Pay rolls
493.32
North Main Street Extension.
Dr.
Appropriation
$750.00
$750.00
Cr.
Surveying $ 16.75
Samuel M. Thompson, for land 150.00
Miles Gorman, for land
50.00
Ellen - McCabe and Philip E.
Brady, for land 125.00
Pay rolls
.
408.25
$750.00
Orange Street. Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
$500.00
$512.32
23
ANNUAL REPORT.
Cr.
Surveying
$ 10.25
Pay rolls
489.75
$500.00
Franklin Street.
Dr.
To appropriation
$100.00
Cr.
Surveying
$ 3.25
Pay roll
71.71
Pay rolls
24.17
Balance
.87
$100.00
Fourth Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$300.00
$300.00
Cr.
Surveying
$ 10.25
Pay rolls
289.37
Balance
.38
$300.00
Holman Street. Dr.
Appropriation
$200.00
$200.00
Cr.
Surveying
$ 3.75
Pay rolls
196.25
$200.00
24
ANNUAL REPORT.
Dunham Street. Dr.
Appropriation
$800.00
Sale of dirt
30.45
Cr.
Surveying
$ 5.00
Lumber
64.14
Mason work
90.00
Carpenter's work
13.73
Cement and lime
48.60
Pay rolls
608.98
$830.45
Parker Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$350.00
$350.00
Cr.
Surveying
$ 5.00
Pay rolls
323.33
Balance
21.67
$350.00
James Street. Dr.
Appropriation
$650.00
$650.00
Cr
Surveying
$ 2.25
Pay rolls
647.75
$830.45
$650.00
25
ANNUAL REPORT.
Martin Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$400.00
$400.00
Cr.
Surveying
$ 6.75
Pay rolls
393.08
Balance
.17
$400.00
Peck Avenue.
Dr.
Appropriation
$ 90.00
$90.00
Cr.
Surveying
$ 3.00
Pay rolls
87.00
$90.00
Alden and Linden Streets.
Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
Credit from Highway Department 37.12
$537.12
Cr.
Surveying
$ 12.75
Pay rolls
524.37
$537.12
26
ANNUAL REPORT.
Pike Avenue. Dr.
Appropriation $500.00
Cr. $500.00
Pay rolls
$495.31
Balance
4.69
$500.00
Highland Avenue.
Dr.
Appropriation $1,000.00
Credit by material taken from
Highland avenue and sold .. 500.00
$1,500.00
Cr.
Pay rolls
$1,448.67
Labor by General Highway De-
partment
51.33
$1,500.00
Park Avenue Drain.
Dr.
Appropriation
$225.00
$225.00
Cr.
Lumber
$158.16
Mason work
7.73
Carpenter's work
45.20
Labor
13.91
$225.00
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Redressing Concrete. Dr.
To appropriation $500.00
Cr. $500.00
R. H. Jones, redressing concrete. . $425.77
Balance 74.23
$500.00
Fountain at South Attleborough.
Dr.
To appropriation $200.00
$200.00
Cr.
Freight
$
10.00
Concord Foundry and Machine
Co.
82.50
Dry well for fountain
6.00
Water Department 24.78
Labor and materials
55.15
Balance
21.57
$200.00
Sidewalks.
Dr.
Appropriation $3,000.00
Curbing I37.00
Labor and material for Highway Department 717.63
Betterment assessment
1,511.40
$5,366.03
28
ANNUAL REPORT.
Cr.
Curbing
$3,185.40
Setting curbing
906.90
Paving 247.50
Labor
556.72
Surveying
101.85
Incidentals
27.66
Highway Department, to
labor
and paving stone
340.00
Street Sprinkling. Dr.
To Appropriation $2,400.00
Cr.
IV. C. Goff, services
$361.25
A. W. Parmenter, services
673.25
R. D. Manchester, services 683.05
Daniel Callahan, services
340.00
Repairs on carts
204.07
Pay roll
50.00
Water Department
60.55
Balance
27.83
$2,400.00
South Attleborough Street Sprinkling.
Dr.
To appropriation
$350.00
Cr. $350.00
Frank Shaw, services
$339.00
Boston Woven Hose Co.
11.00
$350.00
$5,366.03
$2,400.00
29
ANNUAL REPORT.
New Street, County to South Main. Dr.
Appropriation
$14,000.00
Extension of wall
20.00
Labor
7.36
$14,027.36
Cr.
Surveyors
$ 96.10
Edwin F. Thayer, trustee, land
600.00
James E. Blake, land
1,000.00
Mrs. Eliza J. Carpenter, land
2,750.00
J. F. Keon & Co., building wall. .
3.071.40
Gravel
31.70
Pay rolls
1,097.57
Incidentals
24.30
Balance
5,356.29
$14,027.36
Peck Street Bridge.
Dr.
Appropriation
$50,000.00
$50,000.00
Cr.
Surveying $ 55.00
Lydia and Sabra Peck, for land. . 776.70
E. B. Bliss, for land 165.00
Incidentals
3.40
Balance
48,999.90
$50,000.00
30
ANNUAL REPORT.
SOLDIERS' RELIEF.
Under the provision of Chapter 447, Acts of 1890, and Chapter 237, Acts of 1893.
Dr.
To appropriation $2,800.00
Medical attendance
200.00
Received from Town of Grafton . . 72.00
Received from Town of Rehoboth 18.00
Received from Town of Mansfield
80.00
Amount refunded
8.00
Overdrawn
135.58
$3,313.58
Cr.
Geo. H. Alfred
$107.75
Mary E. Atkinson
104.00
Catherine Allison
104.00
Ellen Appleton
104.00
Nancy Bradford
104.00
*Maria E. Bishop 70.00
James Baines
104.00
*Julia Craig
52.00
*John Campbell
36.00
Evelyn Campbell 78.00
W'm. H. Caswell
104.00
A. Frank Claflin
96.00
Hiram L. Danforth
78.00
Geo. H. Dorrance
24.00
Charles Desjardins
22.00
Joseph N. Drake
104.00
Daniel K. Franklin 104.00
Emma Gay 104.00
Robert Hoffman
104.00
Julia Hyland
104.00
Joseph Hunt
104.00
Deceased.
31
ANNUAL REPORT.
Elizabeth Handy
104.00
Patrick Mangan
106.00
Charles Martin
104.00
John McCracken
104.00
Lydia A. Robbins I02.00
Louisa Stafford
104.00
Dora B. Savery
104.00
Adelbert Smith
12.00
** Mary Shepardson
72.00
Geo. L. Titus
104.00
*Otis Vickery
22.50
Minnie Webster
104.00
Ephraim Harrington
100.00
+John H. Kimball
72.00
*Emily Rollins
15.00
Emma M. Randall
34.00
Nancy Tucker
36.00
* Richardson 2.00
$3,113.58
Medical Attendance.
J. W. Battershall, M. D. $139.60
Geo. K. Roberts, M. D. 37.20
H. H. Amsden, M. D.
14.53
C. S. Holden, M. D. 4.65
WVm. O. Hewitt, M. D.
4.02
$200.00
$3,313.58
Deceased.
t Paid by Town of Grafton. ** Paid by Town of Mansfield.
32
ANNUAL REPORT.
Military Aid. One-Half paid by State. Dr.
To appropriation $ 60.00
Due from State 60.00
Cr. $120.00
Aid rendered Daniel K. Franklin. $120.00
$120.00
Soldiers' Burial.
Paid by State.
Emily Rollins $ 35.00
John Campbell 35.00
Otis Vickery
35.00
Isaac E. Shepardson'
35.00
Bertha J. Springer
35.00
$175.00
STATE AID.
Paid by State under Chapter 301, Acts of 1894.
Geo. H. Alfred $ 60.00
Ellen Appleton
48.00
James Baines
54.00
Maria Bishop
32.00
Nancy Bradford
48.00
Cynthia L. Belcher
48.00
Annie T. Brown
48.00
*Julia E. Craig
24.00
Wm. H. Caswell
36.00
Sarah E. Caswell 48.00
A. Frank Claflin
48.00
Sarah C. Chipman
48.00
Deceased.
33
ANNUAL REPORT.
Thomas F. Clark 72.00
Lewis Comey
48.00
Elijah Caswell 60.00
Sarah D. Dean
24.00
Joseph N. Draké
48.00
Hiram L. Danforth
60.00
Elizabeth Fleet 48.00
Mary A. Griffin 48.00
Mortimer A. Guild
48.00
Emma F. Gay
48.00
Margaret Hawkins
48.00
Phoebe A. Hathaway
48.00
Isaac N. Johnson
72.00
Mary E. Kingman
24.00
John H. Kimball
72.00
Margaret Lyons
48.00
Dexter P. Moulton
72.00
Margaret McKee
48.00
Susan McNeely
48.00
Julia E. Miller
48.00
John R. Nelson
72.00
Emily Rollins
4.00
Emma M. Randall
48.00
Charles Seagraves 72.00
Dora B. Savery 48.00
Geo. L. Titus 48.00
Josephine White
48.00
Emma A. Whaley
48.00
John Upton 72.00
Sarah E. H. Cole
36.00
Adelbert Smith
24.00
Peter Boulette
16.00
Gilbert A. Goff
40.00
Martin Barry 60.00
Wm. H. Cargill 42.00
Thomas Lynch
42.00
Bertha J. Springer
20.00
Otis Williams 42.00
34
ANNUAL REPORT.
Charles B. Desjardins
30.00
Andrew Hinckley
24.00
James B. Smith
18.00
John J. Thayer
12.00
$2,440.00
Under Chapter 561. Acts of 1898, the above amount has been expended by the Town of Attleborough for the State, for aid in 1905, all of which will be returned to the Town by the State in 1906.
SUMMARY OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES AND APPROPRIATIONS OVERDRAWN.
Overdrawn. Unexpended.
Current and incidental
$537.37
Police Service and Patrol
$ 77.55
Fire Department (current and in- cidentals)
64.09
Fire alarm boxes
3.70
Storage battery
131.06
Highway and Bridges
929.38
Fourth street
,38
Franklin street
.87
George street
500.00
Martin street
.17
Parker street
21.67
Pike avenue
4.69
Redressing sidewalks
74.23
Street sprinkling
27.83
Fountain, Washington and Turner streets
21.57
Fountain, Capron Park
II.86
Public Library
14.81
Pauper Department
1,792.73
Soldiers' relief
135.58
Revolutionary markers
23.00
Valuation books
50.90
New Police station
268.19
35
ANNUAL REPORT.
Street lights 492.42
Enforcing liquor law
100.00
Evening Schools
71.77
School House, Briggsville
242.86
New Sanitaries, . School Depart-
ment
66.95
General account, School Depart- ment
885.71
Street, South Main to County
5,356.29
Peck street extension.
48,999.90
$2,790.30 $58,117.23
Total unexpended
$58,117.23
The following balance carried
forward :
Highway Department $ 929.38
Peck street extension 48,999.90
Street, South Main to County 5,356.29
New Police Station
268.19
New Police Station
268.19 $55,553.76
$2,563.47
Total overdraft
$2,790.30
Total unexpended less balance
carried forward 2,563.47
To be assessed, 1906 $226.83
Examined Feb. 2, 1906, and found correct. BENJAMIN F. LINDSEY, FREDK. L. LeBARON,
Auditors.
JURY LIST
Prepared by the Selectmen of Attleborough, to be pre- sented for acceptance or revision, at the Annual Town Meeting, to be held on Monday, March 5, 1906.
Adams, Thornton H. Merchant
Adell, George . Jeweler
Aeschliman, Frank L. Toolmaker
Alger, Isaac
Farmer
Alger, Isaac, Jr. Farmer
Alger, Willard I. . Jeweler Allen, George W. Farmer
Angell, Albert H. Retired
Ashley, Millard F.
Contractor
Atwell, Albert I.
Music Dealer
Bates, Charles R. Jeweler
Barney, Alban S. Farmer
Bell, Anson R. Jeweler
Benson, John
Miner
Bicknell, George F. Real Estate Dealer
Blaney, Samuel C. Painter Bliss, Everett B. Retired
Bliss, Charles E. Retired
Briggs, Edward E. . Jeweler
Brownell, Alonzo N. Contractor
Brooks, J. P. .Jeweler Briggs, John S. Merchant
Bunker, Joseph L. Farmer
Burbank, Charles M. Jeweler
Butterworth, Herbert A. Farmer
37
ANNUAL REPORT.
Caldwell, George B. Salesman
Capron, Harford A. Retired
Card, Thomas P. Jeweler
Carnes, William L. Jeweler
Cargill, Walter B. Farmer
Carlisle, George Laundryman
Carpenter, Charles E. Farmer
Carpenter, Eustace V. Farmer
Carpenter, Lyman Retired
Chatterton, Alfred H. Jeweler
Chace, Frank Carpenter
Chace, James E. .Jeweler
Claflin, Charles O. Teamster
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