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ANNUAL REPORTS
TOWN OFFICERS
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Warrant for Town Meeting.
Monday, March 16, 1914
WORCESTER SS.
To any Constable of the Town of Douglas, in the County of Worcester. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of Douglas, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet in the town hall, East Douglas, in said Douglas, on Monday, the sixteenth day of March current, at 5.45 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles :
ARTICLE 1. To elect a moderator, a town clerk, a town treasurer, six constables, a tax collector, an agent of Devise of Moses Wallis, one highway commissioner, a tree warden, an auditor, all for the term of one year, also one selectman, one assessor, one overseer of the poor, one water commissioner, three members of the school committee, one trustee of the public library, one town cemetery commissioner, all for a term of three years, and to vote Yes or No on the question "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town the ensuing year ?"
ART. 2. To choose all other necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
ART. 3. To hear the reports of the town officers and outstanding committees and act thereon.
ART. 4. To raise by tax and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for support of poor, for schools, for debts and inter- est, for salary of superintendent of schools, for maintaining street
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lights, for fire protection, for exterminating browntail and gypsy moths, for salaries of town officers, and for other contingent expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
ART. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary for making and repairing of highways and town ways for the ensuing year, and order the same assessed upon polls and estates of residents and non-residents as other town charges are assessed.
ART. 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of 75 dollars for forest fire apparatus, to secure a like amount to be paid the town by the state.
ART. 7. To see what disposition the town will make of the dog fund.
ART. 8. To see if the town will vote to pay the members of the hose company the sum of eight dollars each for their services the en- suing year, the organization and control of said company to be under the supervision of the fire engineers.
ART. 9. To see of what number the acting superintending school committee shall consist, and what their compensation shall be.
ART. 10. To see if the town will petition the Director of the Bureau of statistics for an audit of its accounts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598, acts of 1910, and amendments thereof.
ART. 11. To see what sum the town will raise and appropriate for the relief of disabled soldiers and their families.
ART. 12. To see what salary the town will pay its treasurer.
ART. 13. To see what salary the town will pay its tax collector the ensuing year.
ART. 14. To see what price the town will pay for teams and labor on the highways the ensuing year.
ART. 15. To see if the town will vote to authorize the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes of the current year and to be paid therefrom.
ART. 16. To see what sums of money the town will raise and appropriate for constructing and repairing sidewalks and under whose supervision it shall be expended.
ART. 17. To see if the town will vote to pay twenty-five dollars for repair of town clock, so called, to be paid from the contingent fund.
ART. 18. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appro- priate for the Simon Fairfield Public Library.
ART. 19. To see if the town will vote the sum of one hundred dollars to Lambert B. Simmons Camp, 123, S. V., for defraying expenses for Memorial day.
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ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to be used on the highways under supervision of the selectmen, or act or do anything in relation to the same.
ART. 21. To see if the town will vote to accept the alteration and relocation of that part of Maple Street so called, beginning at a stone monument on the southerly line of said street, easterly of the residence of Bertrand F. Aldrich, thence N. 76° w. 16 rods to a stone bound, thence N. 71° w. 20 rods to a stone monument by the wall on southerly line of said street, said courses marking the southerly line of said street as relocated said street to be as formerly two rods wide.
ART. 22. To see if the town will vote to extend the water system by laying a pipe from the termination on North Street to a point opposite the residence of Frederick Chappelle, and raise and appro- priate money therefor.
ART. 23. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars for watering the streets, the same to be assessed under Chap. 452 of Acts of 1908, upon the abutters on the streets watered.
The polls may close at two o'clock.
You are directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at the Post Office in East Douglas, and at the Post Office in Douglas Center, ten days at least 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 meet- ing aforesaid.
Given under our hands this fifth day of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.
W. R. WALLIS, W. E. SCHUSTER, W. L. CHURCH,
Selectmen of Douglas.
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Report of the Selectmen.
For the Fiscal year ending March 1, 1914, the Selectmen have drawn orders on the Town Treasurer amounting to $30,380.69 for items of town expenses as follows :
Schools
$11,410 76
Highways
$2,515 26
Gravel Road, North Street. 242 12
66 Church Street. 186 88
Repairing stone roads.
299 28
$3,243 54
Snowpaths
29 68
Support of poor
2,033 00
Street Lighting
1,703 93
Soldiers, and widows' relief
233 50
Moth extermination
71 55
Tree warden
261 07
Library
486 12
Interest on water bonds .
1,680 00
Fire protection telephone
36 44
Douglas hose company
195 42
Street sprinkling
370 88
Stone road
4,580 65
S. of V. Memorial day
100 00
Repair town clock
25 00
Sidewalks
180 01
County tax
727 50
-$27,369 05
SALARIES TOWN OFFICERS.
Selectmen
$100 00
Water Commissioner
100 00
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School Committee
$50 00
Treasurer .
75 00
Check book
1 75
Assessors
342 50
Supplies and expenses
37 79
Overseers of poor .. .
170 00
Collector on salaries
225 00
Supplies and expenses
123 48
Registrars
60 00
Supplies
17 25
Town clerk
131 05
$1,433 82
CONTINGENT.
State aid.
$514 00
Auditor
38 25
Repairing safes
29 80
Mowing cemetery
12 00
Police duty.
30 00
Care monument lot
3 00
Care watering trough
5 00
Town dump
15 00
Town hall and engine hall
57 50
Dog officer
10 00
Auto damage, W. E. Balcom
8 95
Boundary posts
6 50
Sealing weights
1 00
Board of health
107 26
Vital statistics
19 00
Forest fires
225 92
E. P. Heath
3 50
Election expenses
124 00
Printing
118 70
Cattle inspector
102 00
Meat inspector
31 83
Burial Indigent Soldier.
50 00
Bridges
64 61
$1,577 82
$30,380 69
STATE AID.
James G. Adams $48 00
Wellington Balcome
42 00
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Mrs. Chas. II. Barton
$48 00
Horace Belding .
48 00
Ruth A. Bowdish
16 00
Mrs. William Cook
48 00
Chas. E. Greene.
72 00
Mrs. William H. Marshall.
48 00
Francis Steere
48 00
Chandler Titus.
48 00
Chas. A. Whipple
48 00
$514 00
W. R. WALLIS, W. E. SCHUSTER, W. L. CHURCH,
Selectmen of Douglas.
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Treasurer's Report
GILBERT W. ROWLEY, Treasurer.
1913
CR.
March 1 Court money, Willie Manahan
$11 64
11 Corporation tax public service, State Treas. 13 82
31 E. P. Heath, collector, tax abatements 1912 4 40
April 1 Court money, Willie Manahan . . .$10 65
66 J. B. Howard. 11 33
21 98
Selectmen's orders, 1411 to 1431.
2,016 29
17 Temporary aid from state, H. D. Mowry . 44 05
May
5 Selectmen's orders, 1432 to 1458
2,601 14
29 State Treasurer, liquor licenses, one quarter
1,000 25
31 Court money, Herbert E. Hughes
4 40
June 2 Selectmen's orders, 1459 to 1475
3,461 23
20 Abatements 1912, E. P. Heath
28 15
25 E. P. Heath, collector, taxes 1912, check protested 39 44
July
2 Court money, Herbert Hughes
11 43
7 Selectmen's orders, 1476 to 1495
2,718 93
23 H. D. Mowry, temporary aid . .$ 2 00
66 Town of Canton .. 51 00
53 00
Aug. 4 Selectmen's orders, 1496 to 1511
825 20
30 Court money, E. P. Heath 26 84
Sept. 2 Selectmen's orders, 1512 to 1519
2,643 34
3
66 66 1520
13 00
26 Abatements 1912, E. P. Heath, collector . 179 02
IO
Oct. 1 County tax, one-half due, Edgar L. Rams- dell, Treas. $727 50
2 Court money, Willie Manahan . .$20 34 66 E. P. Heath 11 91
6 Selectmen's orders, 1521 to 1546
21 H.D.Mowry,support of sick paupers $37 00 66 temporary aid. 13 00
50 00
Nov. 3 Court money, J. B. Howard $11 83
6. Herbert E. Hughes. 18
20 01
Selectmen's orders, 1547 to 1562
1,795 35
10 H. D. Mowry, check of B F. Aldrich . 36 00
17 State tax (State Treas.) $3,200 00 State highways, repairs 106 50
3,306 50
Dec.
1 Court money, Herbert E. Hughes $11 87 66 Maurice P. Clare. . 5 78
17 65
Selectmen's orders, 1563 to 1582
3,219 64
3 Inhabitant's tax 1913 $20 81
Discounts 66
66 (E. P. Heath) 265 78
286 59
1914
Jan.
1 Court money, E. P. Heath . .$13 51
66 Herbert E. Hughes. 15 53
29 04
5 Selectmen's orders, 1583 to 1600
3,563 18
8 H. D. Mowry, temporary aid $38 84 Transportation of paupers 1 20
Support of sick paupers 4 00
44 04
30 H. D. Mowry, poor "outside"
86 00
26 E. P. Heath, abatements 1913 87 90
31 Court money, Willie Manahan
8 74
Feb.
2 Selectmen's orders, 1601 to 1605
1,171 02
17 E. P. Heath, abatements 1912 $8 00
66 H. Humphrey, deed 1912. 7 06
Weilock, J., deed 1912. 15 88
30 94
25 E. P. Heath, abatements 1913 270 36
26 Selectmen's orders, 1606 to 1638 2,619 51
1639 to 1655 1,370 33
32 25 2,332 53
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Feb. 28 Transportation of paupers May 20, $1 20 H.D.Mowry, “ Oct. 3, 1 20
$2 40 28 By cash February 28, 1914, in hands of Treasurer and in bank 4,682 81
$41,537 84
1913
DR.
March 1 Cash on hand $7,483 99
School tuition, Town of Sutton 62 00
11 Corporation tax, business State Treasurer 23 96
15 Reporting births, error, P. F. Ela, M.D .. .
25
31 E. P. Heath, collector, 1912 taxes
300 40
1 District Court.
14 11
Interest, Worcester Trust Co
23 75
5 Keeper of jail and master of house of correction 7 00
7 F. Bowen, undertaker's license
1 00
F. E. Smith, auctioneer's license 2 00
44 05
30 W. H. Herendeen, auctioneer's license Rinfritte & Terrien, common victualer's license . 2,000 00
May
1 A. Goodness, pool license
20 00
J. T. Derham & Co., inholder's license. . 2,000 00
2 Interest, Worcester Trust Co
22 24
5 E. P. Heath, auctioneer's license
2 00
E. E. Young, undertaker's license
1 00
E. Kelly, butcher's license
1 00
9 O. Tranque, pool license.
5 00
12 H. C. Holden, druggist license
1 00
13 I. Shor, junk license
20 00
19 Forest fires, refund order No. 1425, W. L. Church 8 80
20 State Board of Charity, transportation of paupers 1 20
3 00
June
24 C. E. Society, Miss Cook, rent of town hall 2 Forest fires, refund order No. 1425, G. H. Dudley
1 00
T. J. Murphy, butcher's license.
1 00
Interest, Worcester Trust Co
16 48
16 Peddler's license, H. S. Hewett, state No. 66 8 00
20 E. P. Heath, collector, 1912 taxes, No. 21 336 73
July
1912 No. 22 37 40
April
16 State Treasurer, temporary aid
2 00
1 2
July
District Court. Interest, Worcester Trust Co
$68 54 17 30
17 Temporary aid $2 00 Compensation of inspection animals 23 50
25 50
18 Town of Canton, poor department. 51 00
1 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 1.
3,892 68
66 1913 No. 2. 500 00
66
1913 66 No. 3.
2,300 00
4 66
1913 66 No. 4. 1,280 00
66
1913 66 No. 5. 402 00
Interest, Worcester Trust Co.
6 72
5 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 6 1,100 00
1913 No. 7. 800 00
11
Keeper of jail and master of house of correction . 15 00
14 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 8 400 00
15 Highways, repairs, Southern New England R. R. Corp. 10 50
Sept.
25 2 8
E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes. No. 9 66 1913 No. 10
1,270 00
Interest, Worcester Trust Co
2 89
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29 School tuition, Town of Sutton
28 00
Oct.
District Court. .
2 12
20 08 Interest, Worcester Trust Co
3 Support of sick paupers $37 00
Temporary aid . 13 00
Transportation of paupers (State Treas.). 1 20
51 20
8
9
8 00
21
22
E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 12 950 00 Peddler's license, Nicola Essa, No. 332 state 8 00 66 Andrew Hussen, No. 351 state 600 07 F. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 13 John Macuga, highways, old plank Lovett bridge. 2 00
Nov.
3
E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 14 1,100 00 Interest, Worcester Trust Co 24 42
4
10 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 15 H. D. Mowry, B. F. Aldrich. 36 00
1,162 00
14 State highway loan fund, State Treas., Douglas town state road, 1,500 00
1,000 11
15 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 11 66 1912 66 No. 22 441 48
650 00
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Aug.
13
17 Corporation tax. public service. $ 244 65 66 business 2.056 24
National bank tax 216 04 State aid 603 00
High school tuition,special cases (State Treas.) 500 00
$3,619 93
22 C. W. Scott, state school union fund 500 00
1 Interest, Worcester Trust Co 23 75
Peddler's license, J. D. Bousquet, No. 408 state . 8 00
3 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 16 976 59
5 Corporation tax, business State Treasurer 37 18
15 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 17 825 00
1914
Jan.
1 District Court 5 22
Interest, Worcester Trust Co 26 23
Dog fund, County Treasurer
236 12
3 State Treas., support sick paupers . $4 00 temporary aid . . . . . . 38 84
transportation paupers 1 20
44 04
9 Poor Dept., Town of Canton 86 00
Keeper of jail and master of house of correction
10 00
26 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 18 St. Anne Society, used hall Jan. 23 3 00
638 90
28 State School Fund, State Treas. Mansfield 1,313 36
Feb.
3 Interest received of Worcester Trust Co. . 24 41 Peddler's license, Andrew Husson, No. 30 8 00
5 Board of Health, Town of Holden, Cosista family 57 00
17 E. P. Heath, collector, 1912 taxes, No. 24
47 14
66 1912 No. 25
32 79
24 WV. S. Schuster, broken stone . $10 00 W. E. Schuster 6 00
16 00
25 E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 taxes, No. 19 747 36
26 School tuition, Town of Sutton 56 00
28 Interest, Worcester Trust Co 19 85
$41,537 84
Dec.
14
ASSETS.
Cash on hand Feb. 28, 1914. $4,682 81
Due from E. P. Heath, collector, 1913 175 43
State aid. . 514 00
$5,372 24
In trust, Henry Whiting Fund, Peoples Savings Bank, Worcester, for care of cemetery lot .... $123 32
In trust, Sarah E. Scott Fund, Peoples Savings Bank, Worcester, for care of cemetery lot . 63 34
In trust, Ezra Aldrich Fund, Peoples Savings Bank,
Worcester, for care of cemetery lot. . 100 00
GILBERT W. ROWLEY,
Town Treasurer.
Office of WILLIAM FRANKLIN HALL, C. P. A.,
Exchange Building, Boston, Mass., Feb. 28, 1914.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Town of Douglas, Mass.
GENTLEMEN :
I have examined the books and accounts of the Town Treasurer, agent of Devise of Moses Wallis, and Water Commis- sioners for the year ending February 28, 1914, and find them to be in excellent condition and all funds fully accounted for.
The taxes are closely collected and properly accounted for to the Treasurer. The Treasurer's cash was verified and found to be as follows :
On deposit in Worcester Trust Co. as per the bank statement February 28. $7,985 87
Less checks outstanding 3,580 59
$4,405 28
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Add checks in office . $ 277 53
Total cash on hand February 28, 1914 $4,682 81 agreeing with balance required by the cash book.
DOUGLAS WATER DEPARTMENT.
Balance on hand March, 1913. $1,621 58
Cash receipts to February 28, 1914 2,261 72
$3,883 30
Cash disbursed to February 28, 1914
1,509 01
$2,374 29
On deposit in Old Colony Trust Co., per bank state-
ment February 28, 1914. $773 24
Less checks outstanding
69 29
$703 95
Whitinsville Savings Bank
$1,020 00
Uxbridge Savings Bank .
505 00
Checks in office .
145 34
Total cash on hand $2,374 29
Respectfully submitted,
WM. FRANKLIN HALL, C. P. A.
Per A. T. Byrnes.
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Report of the Water Commissioners
For the Year Ending March 1, 1914.
Eight house connections have been added the past "year, making now in the total 174.
During another trying season, we have had plenty of the very best water.
A recent fire at the James Smith place was good evidence of how well organized our hose companies are, and what they have to depend on when they reach a fire.
It was well along when discovered, but the complete telephone fire alarm made it possible to sound an alarm at once, which was promptly responded to, and in a remarkably short space of time two streams were playing on the flames and a fire was subdued with but slight loss, which otherwise would have destroyed the premises.
The first two of the forty-two $1,000 bonds are payable July 1, and will be paid from the money now on hand.
Our superintendent is to be congratulated on having collected all the water bills, excepting one of $5.00, which is promised him right away.
RECEIPTS FROM HOUSE CONNECTIONS.
1913
June 3 To received for making house connections $25 00
66
5 87
July 29
66
66
66
8 00
Sept. 25
Nov. 20
66
66
66 66
15 66
I 7
1914
Feb. 26 To received for making house connections $6 00
28
-_ $76 53
LABOR AND SUPPLIES IN MAKING HOUSE CONNECTIONS.
1913
March 29
By paid Eddie Cooke,
labor .
$1 00
May 3
Albert Perry,
50
Chas. Raguso,
8 00
15
Louis Fullone, 6.
10 80
June 14
Chas. Raguso, 66
10 00
Louis Fallone,
16 40
April
7
Chas. Raguso,
11 00
23
Chas. Raguso,
10 00
Sept. 19
Ernest Watson,
66
60
Nov.
1
Chas. Raguso, 66
7 00
1914
Feb.
6
Louis Gardner,
.6
2 60
20
Samuel Elliot, 6
2 00
National Meter Co., meters.
124 80
Walworth Mfg. Co., stop and wastes
12 92
W. R. Wallis, supplies .
9 79
E. R. Correll,
1 25
$240 66
OPERATING RECEIPTS.
1913
April 30
To received for water service.
$279 29
May 5
86 21
June 23
29 66
66
",
109 34
Sept. 25
66
66
20 08
Oct. 13
66
66
66
255 12
Nov. 20
66
60
66
. . .
103 04
Dec.
24
66
66
. . .
61 54
..
22 00
July
66
263 60
Aug. 11
. .
Italian,
2 00
6.
8 00
Chas. Raguso,
16 00
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1914
Jan. 28 To received for water service. . $531 56
Feb. 7
198 92
26
66
... 90 00
28
66
. . 33 34
66
Sprinkler service 73 76
Cash income
$2,127 80
To 53 town hydrants valued at
1,590 00
Water for sprinkling streets, valued at
100 00
Water for watering trough, library and bubbling foun- tain, valued at. .
100 00
OPERATING EXPENSES.
By paid E. R. Correll, Supt
Worcester Sub. Electric Co., power for Feb
46 10
66 66
66
Mar
49 50
66
66
66
June. . .
55 70
66
66
66
66
July . . .
50 10
66
66
Aug. . .
58 50
66
66
66
Sept. . .
52 10
:‹
66
16
Oct .. . .
52 30
66
66
66
Nov. . .
54 50
66
Dec. ..
53 30
66
66
Jan .. . . 51 50
66
66
lighting
12 00
Chas. McKay, repairs
5 10
Frank E. Jones, coal. .
8 :25
Bank, collecting two checks
20
$1,268 35
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS.
To received for labor.
$ 6 00
10 00
for interest of money in bank
41 39
$57 39
66
66
Apr.
44 70
May .. .
50 50
66
$624 00
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RECAPITULATION.
Dr
1913
March 1 To balance in treasury $1,621 58
1914
Feb. 28 To received for making house connections .. . $76 53 To received for water service .... 2,127 80 Miscellaneous receipts 57 39
$2,261 72
$3,883 30
Cr.
By paid for labor and supplies for house con-
nections $240 66
Operating expenses . 1,268 35
$1,509 01
1914
Feb. 28 By cash in treasury. 2,374 29
$3,883 30
Following in the water service given without cash returns :
Town hydrant system, valued at .... $1,590 00 Water for sprinkling streets, valued at .. 100 00 Water for watering trough, library and bubbling fountain, valued at . 100 00
$1,790 00
WILLIE R. WALLIS, CHARLES J. BATCHELLER, HERBERT N. LOUGEE,
Water Commissioners.
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Report of Treasurer
DOUGLAS WATER WORKS.
1913
DR.
Mar. 1 Cash on hand.
$1,621 58
Apr. 30
C. J. Batcheller, commissioner
297 73
May 5
86 21
June
19
Louis Falony refund on order No. 271.
10 00
23
C. J. Batcheller, commissioner
53 00
July 29
287 91
Aug.
11
66
109 34
Sept. 25
66
66
28 08
Oct. 13
273 56
Nov.
20
66
118 70
Dec.
24
66
61 54
1914
Jan.
28
66 66
550 00
Feb. 7
66
198 92
28
145 34
Interest for year.
41 39
$3,883 30
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1913
CR.
March Water Commissioner's orders, 259 to 261 ...
$ 96 10 10
April 2 Old Colony Trust Company, collecting check
April Water Commissioner's order, 262
50 50
May 66
66
263 to 268.
122 00
June
66
66
269 to 272.
125 90
July
66
66
66
273 to 275.
152 70
August 66
66
66
277 to 280. .
244 90
Sept.
66
66
281 to 283.
109 10
Oct.
66 284 to 285.
101 10
Nov.
66
66
286 to 289
113 40
Dec.
60
66
60
290 to 291.
103 50
1914
Jan.
66
66
292
54 30
Feb.
66
66
293 to 301.
235 31
10
Feb. 28 Old Colony Trust Company, collecting check By cash March 1, 1914, in hands of Treasurer and in bank.
2,374 29
$3,883 30
66
GILBERT W. ROWLEY, Treasurer.
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT. 1913.
BIRTHS.
Whole number 47
Number of males
23
Number of females 26
-
47
American parentage. 13
Foreign parentage 27
Mixed .
7
47
MARRIAGES.
Whole number . 28
American birth 30
Foreign birth . 26
Residents of Douglas 43
Elsewhere .
13
First marriage
47
Second marriage
9
DEATHS.
Whole number
58
Males
23
Females. 35
58
American birth -
4:2
Foreign birth 16
- 58
23
Number under 1 year.
17
Between
1 and 5 years
5
5 and 10 years
()
66
10 and 20 years
4
66 30 and 40 years
5
66 40 and 50 years
·2
66
50 and 60 years
6
66
60 and
70 years
4
66
70 and 80 years
5
80 and 90 years
7
66
90 and 100 years
1
58
DOGS REGISTERED.
Whole number 125
Males, 12 at $2.00 $224 00
Females, 13 at 5.00
65 00
$289 00
Less fees, 125 at 20 cts.
25 00
Paid to County Treasurer.
$264 00
J. B. CHAPDELAINE, JR.,
Town Clerk.
20 and 30 years
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REPORT OF TREASURER
Simon Fairfield Public Library
1913
DR.
March 1 Unexpended balances as follows :
Town appropriation .
$50 00
Income Smith fund .
168 37
Income Fairfield fund
26 35
$244 72
Income for year as follows : -
Dog fund
$236 12
Town appropriation
200 00
Income Keith fund .
8 08
Income Fairfield fund
175 00
Income Smith fund
240 00
Received for fines
18 83
878 03
$1,122 75
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1913-14
Paid Vera H. Warner, librarian $378 00
Martha Belding, assistant librarian 10 00
Herbert E. Hughes, janitor 72 00
Worcester Sub. Electric Co., lighting. 46 72
Newspapers 21 00
Removing ashes
3 00
Painting screens.
1 00
Annual subscription to Reader's Guide, 1913.
6 00
Rubber stamps
95
B. A. Stockwell, making screens.
14 78
Magazines.
39 10
Cleaning library
10 00
Electric bulbs.
3 00
Library cards
2 75
Eagle Printing Co., labels
2 75
Bookbinding
74 16
J. W. Wixtead, supplies.
10 95
Frank E. Jones, coal
75 00
Removing ashes
1 50
Books, freight, cartage and express. . 98 81
Annual subscription to Reader's Guide, 1914.
6 00
$877 47
1914
March 1 Unexpended balances as follows :-
Smith fund
$232 36
Fairfield fund. 12 92
245 28
$1,122 75
ENDOWMENT FUNDS.
Mrs. Royal Keith fund $200 00
James M. Fairfield fund 5,000 00
James Smith fund 6,000 00
$11,200 00
CHARLES J. BATCHELLER, Treasurer.
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Annual Report of the OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
To the Selectmen and Citizens of Douglas :
GENTLEMEN :- The annual report of the Overseers of the Poor for the year ending March 1, 1914, is herewith submitted.
A. S. POTTER, Supt. of Almshouse.
Personal property at almshouse, as per inventory :
March 1, 1913
$2,564 86
March 1, 1914
2,569 66
Increase
$4 80
We have made the Superintendent debtor to what he has received for labor, produce, etc., and credited him with what he has paid out as follows :
DR.
Cash on hand March 1, 1913
$79 62
110 lbs. butter
42 08
Eggs .
8 89
Potatoes
85
Team work.
266 85
Veal and pork
171 20
Board
63 00
Fowls.
9 15
Apples
3 75
Vinegar
7 00
Cows .
70 00
Cash
50 00
Miscellaneous
16 51
$788 90
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Meat and groceries $204 71
Labor . . 270 03
Doctor and medicines . 39 15
Horseshoeing and repairs at shop 72 19
Fertilizer and hay.
64 15
Clothing 7 00
Cow
50 00
Pigs
22 00
Supplies
28 80
Miscellaneous
1S 83
$776 86
March 1, cash on hand 12 04
$788 90
The Overseers have paid the following bills in the almshouse account :
A. S. Potter, Supt. to Jan. 1, 1914.
$400 00 .
J. W. Wixtead, one two-horse mower .. . 40 00
Almshouse, by cash 50 00
One wheel chair 19 10
Dr. George Clarke
34 75
Groceries, meat and grain
357 56
$901 41
Improvement and repairs at almshouse by suggestion of the State Inspector and consent of the Selectmen :
H. T. Barton, building chimneys
$58 50
James B. Chase, labor 39 00
D. E. Casewell, plastering. 9 00
Helper. 6 00
Wm. E. Balcome, carpentering . 77 80
W. R. Wallis, lumber and sundries 119 08
$309 38
SUMMARY.
Superintendent has paid for supplies as per this report $776 86
Overseers have paid out as per this report . 901 41
$1,678 27
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Superintendent, for labor, produce and board ..
$788 90
Increase as per inventory
4 80
$793 70
$884 57
COST OF POOR AT ALMSHOUSE THIS YEAR.
Cost per week . $3 47
Inmates at almshouse March 1, 1914, eight.
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