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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS.,
FOR THE
YEAR 1895.
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. : MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE OFFICE. 1896.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS OF
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS.,
FOR THE
YEAR 1895.
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS .: MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE OFFICE. 1896.
TOWN OFFICERS, = 1895.
Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector. AUGUSTUS M. BEARSE. Selectmen and Assessors.
ALBERT T. SAVERY
Term expires 1896 66 66
EDWIN F. WITHAM
1898
CHARLES W. KINGMAN
66
66 1897
Overseers of the Poor.
SYLVANUS MENDALL
Term expires 1897
ANDREW C. WOOD (Deceased)
1898
CHARLES T. THATCHER (Deceased)
66
66 1896
School Committee.
ADELINE V. WOOD
·Term expires 1896
AUGUSTUS PRATT
66
66
1896
EBENEZER PICKENS
66
66
1897
JOHANNA T. LEONARD
66
66 1898
JAMES M. COOMBS
66
:6 1898
ANNIE DAVIS DEANE
66
66
1897
Superintendent of Schools. ASHER J. JACOBY.
Board of Health.
ALBERT T. SAVERY
A. VINCENT SMITH
1897
JAMES A. BURGESS
66 1896
Municipal Light Board.
GEORGE E. WOOD
Term expires 1896
E. LEONARD LEBARON
JOSEPH E. DIXON
6.
66 1898
Constables.
LEANDER M. ALDEN,
EVERETT T. LINCOLN, SAMUEL S. LOVELL,
BENJAMIN W. BUMP,
JOHN M. LUIPPOLD,
SYLVANUS W. BUMP,
SYLVANUS MENDALL,
GEORGE W. HAMMOND,
FRED. C. SPARROW,
HERBERT L. LEONARD,
CHARLES C. TINKHAM,
HENRY C. TINKHAM.
Superintendent of Streets. SAMUEL N. SHIVERICK.
Registrars of Voters.
WARREN B. STETSON
Term expires 1896 THOMAS C. COLLINS
66
66 1897
CHARLES H. CARPENTER
66 66 1898
AUGUSTUS M. BEARSE, Town Clerk, ex officio.
66
1897
CHARLES A. BLISS,
Term expires 1898 66 66
66
66
REPORT OF ASSESSORS
For the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1895.
APPROPRIATIONS MADE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING.
Voted by the town for support of schools, in- cluding school-books, incidentals, and Su- perintendent's salary . $21,000.00
School Committee's salaries
150.00
Support of poor
4.800.00
Support of insane
1,700.00
Military aid
400.00
Soldiers' relief
800.00
Town officers
2,500.00
Incidentals
2,500.00
G. A. R., for Memorial day
200.00
Town House committee
500.00
Water supply for fire district
1,500.00
Town debt, note due
5,000.00
Lighting bond, due . $1,000.00
Interest on lighting bonds
3,060.00
Expense of lighting plant
6,500.00
Construction of lights to the Green 500.00
$11,060.00
Less est'd income from l't'g plant .
6,500.00
Leaving appropriation 4,560.00 .
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Water street bridge voted in 1894 . $2,000.00
Interest .
3,200.00
Board of health
600.00
Highway department
15,000.00
Night watch and police
900.00
ADJOURNED MEETING, MARCH 23D.
Concrete sidewalk 500.00
Grove street
1,000.00
Water street bridge .
500.00
Dredging Nemasket river .
2,000.00
ADJOURNED MEETING, MARCH 27TH.
Electric light plant .
4,000.00
$75,310.00
Less corporation and bank tax, estimated .
7,100.00
$68,210.00
Raised by two permanent loans
10,000.00
Voted to raise by tax
$58,210.00
State tax
2,550.00
County tax
5,650.80
Non-resident bank tax
114.33
Overlaying's
1,285.20
$67,810.33
Poll taxes assessed
. $3,994.00
Taxes on personal property
8,826.73
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Taxes on real estate
. 54,875.27
Non-resident bank tax
.
114.33
$67,810.33
Number of polls assessed, 1,997.
Valuation of buildings, excluding land
. $1,774,562
Valuation of land, excluding buildings
1,517,943
Total valuation of real estate
$3,292,505
Valuation of personal estate
529,521
$3,822,026
Persons, firms, etc., assessed on property, resi-
dents . .
1,383
Persons, firms, etc., non-residents
327
Persons assessed for poll tax only
976
Total number of persons, etc., assessed 2,686
Number of horses
1,042
Number of cows
682
Number of sheep
30
Number of neat cattle other than cows
159
Number of swine
43
Number of dwelling houses
1,404}
Number of acres of land
39,259}
Number of fowl
2,987
Population of the town in 1895
6,692
Amount of taxes remitted from 1887 to 1893,
inclusive
$621.10
Amount of taxes remitted for 1894
$473.43
.
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Upon examination of the tax books and lists committed to the late Charles T. Thatcher, your Selectmen found the amount of uncollected taxes for the years 1887 to 1893 inclu- sive, to be $3,167.64. It was thought best to strike from the amount $621.10 as not being collectable, which left a balance of $2,546.54 due for the above years. This amount was recommitted to A. M. Bearse, the present Collector, and a warrant given him to collect the same forthwith.
We believe that when these back taxes are collected and paid into the treasury of the town a much more prompt system of collecting the taxes may be adopted, which will result in equal advantage to the town collectively and the tax payer individually.
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Assessors of Middleboro, Mass.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
For the Year ending Dec. 31, 1895.
The Selectmen have drawn orders upon the Town Treas- urer for the amounts hereinafter given, under the several appropriations made by the town.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriated for town officers . $2,500.00 ·
A. M. Bearse, town clerk $120.00
A. M. Bearse, treasurer and collector 800.01
A. T. Savery, selectman and assessor 386.25
E. F. Witham, selectman and assessor 386.25
C. W. Kingman, selectman and assessor 397.50
A. C. Wood, overseer of the poor ·
187.00
S. Mendall, overseer of the poor 163.50
C. T. Thatcher, est., overseer of the poor 82.50
A. M. Wood, auditor 25.00
C. H. Carpenter, registrar of voters 55.50
T. C. Collins, registrar of voters 48.50
W. B. Stetson, registrar of voters 51.24
A. M. Bearse, registrar of voters 61.22
Election officers, Precinct 1 26.00
Election officers, Precinct 2 115.00
James A. Burgess, board of health 86.75
2,992.22
Overdrawn
$492.22
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INCIDENTALS.
$2,500.00
Appropriation . Orders drawn :
J. C. Sullivan, legal advice $12.00
N. H. Ryder, pump South Midd. 12.50
Geo. Soule, returning deaths of 1894 22.00
F. W. R. Emery, binding assessors' books . 4.50
New York & Boston Despatch Exp. Co., express 5.10
Thorp & Martin Co., stationery 1.80
M. R. Warren, collector's warrants 3.00
A. E. Martell, stationery . 3.50
P. B. Murphy, posters and blanks 2.25
Walter T. Bryant, forest fire ward
31.65
Chas. W. Kingman,
7.70
Geo. F. Day, 66
2.50
L. M. Fuller,
4.00
Warren H. Southworth, moderator
15.00
Chas. O. Denham, injury received on the highway . 500.00
H. C. Hopkins, services rendered Wm. Dwyer 5.00
H. L. Thatcher & Co., printing 120.92
William J. McCausland, damages re- ceived on the highway . 40.00
Secretary of Commonwealth, printing 3.50
H. L. Leonard, keeper of lockup . 67.00
A. V. Smith, M. D., returning births 10.25
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R. E. Southworth, painting 1.50
L. P. Thatcher, error in taxes 3.69
Thacher B. Lucas, envelopes 64.80
A. M. Bearse, Treasurer, recording births, deaths and marriages . .
82.15
A. M. Bearse, Treasurer, office supplies 38.95
William Bense, printing 7.00
Chas. W. Drake, office supplies 1.50
Little & Brown, book for town officers 4.00
Myra K. Leonard, copying 16.80
Ladies' Auxiliary, supper for election officers 15.75
J. L. Fairbanks & Co., tax book 12.00
Grace L. Elliott, copying . 30.00
James A. Burgess, Ins. Milch Cows & Pro. 185.00
A. T. Savery, traveling expenses and money paid out 49.30
A. T. Savery, for use of team . ·
25.00
E. F. Witham, for use of team 60.00
E F. Witham, traveling expenses and money paid out 15.62
C. W. Kingman, for use of team 42.50
C. W. Kingman, traveling expenses and money paid out 12.90
W. F. Fryer, M. D., med. attendance 15.50
Mrs. A. M. Wood, copying 62.50
Chas. F. Cushman, insp'r of vinegar . 40.00
D. D. Sullivan, error in tax ·
5.00
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Wood & Tinkham, printing town re- ports, etc. 531.15
M. M. Copeland, printing 206.00
Chas. H. Morse, damage to team 35.00
Edward E. Hobart
3.00
2,440.78
· Unexpended
$59.22
WATER SUPPLY.
Appropriation
$1,500.00
Orders drawn :
Middleboro water works
$750.00
Middleboro water works
750.00
$1,500.00
CONCRETE SIDEWALKS.
Appropriation $500.00
Orders drawn :
Shiverick & Thomas
$886.88
Charged to abutters
299.83
587.05
Overdrawn
$87.05
NIGHT WATCH AND POLICE.
Appropriation
$900.00
Orders drawn :
Herbert L. Leonard, night watch $720.00
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James H. Russell, special police, 1894
and 1895 10.00
A. P. Vaughan, special police, 1895 . 5.00
H. H. Caswell, 66 .6 66 5.00 .
B. F. Baker, 66 66 66 5.00 ·
Leander M. Alden, “
66 5.00
.
D. S. Surrey, 66 66 · 5.00
J. M. Luippold, 66 .. . 5.00
Nelson Shaw, 66 66 5.00
C. T. Gammons, .6 66 .6 15.00
Everett T. Lincoln, constable, 1895 . 10.00
James A. Burgess, special police 63.00
F. E. Cummings, special police 10.00
Sylvanus Mendall, constable, 1895 21.00
884.00
Unexpended $16.00
TOWN HALL ACCOUNT.
Appropriated for expense account
$500.00
Received from rent of hall $439.00 ·
Received from rent of rooms
. 581.00
1,020.00
$1,520.00
Middleboro Gas & Electric Plant, gas and electric light . $407.95
Thomas W. Pierce 33.85 ·
George F. Bryant, coal
227.04
B. F. Johnson, care of lawn
25.00
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Hartford steam boiler inspection and
insurance 50 00
H. G. Porter, labor on town hall 16.80
Lloyd Perkins, 2d, labor on town hall 41.99
H. A. Sparrow, labor and material 10.88
Hiram Whittemore, repairs 5.40
Jones Brothers, rubber mat
15.00
L. Lincoln, labor .75
S. S. Lovell, labor 2.30
T. W. Clark, wringers 10.00
F. C. Sparrow, labor and material 14.97
T. W. Pierce, labor and material 3.40
16.86
Sundries
B. F. Johnson and A. M. Wood 468.00
1,350.19
Unexpended $169.81'
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Appropriation $600.00
Received of Geo. Soule for undertaker's license 5.00
$605.00
Orders drawn to April 1, 1895 :
C. S. Cummings, professional services to John Paul $18.00
Clark & Vaughan, groceries for John Paul . 2.12
Wood & Tinkham, printing sanitary
notice, etc.
71.25
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J. J. Fowler, damages from fumiga- tion 10.00
Eli Wardell, inspector of plumbing 84.33
James A. Burgess, health officer 194.50
$380.20
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHAS. W. KINGMAN.
Board of Health.
Report of the Board of Health from April 1, 1895, to Jan.
1, 1896.
Orders drawn :
Eli Wardell, inspector of plumbing .
. $83.65
M. M. Copeland, printing sanitary notice, &c. 59.00
Wood & Tinkham, " 66 18.00
H. L. Thatcher & Co., printing and stationery . 8.00
A. E. Martell & Co., board of health book 3.50
W. F. Fryer, professional services for family of Edwin Braley 37.50
C. W. Drake for disinfectant 3.75
L. F. Tinkham, cleaning up rubbish 19.90
$613.50
Overdrawn
$8.50
SANITARY CONDITION OF THE TOWN.
Most of the complaints made to the Board of Health, upon investigation proved well founded. A few complaints proved to be trifling things, and matters that did not come under the
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jurisdiction of the Board. Except in regard to overflowing cesspools, our town has been in a good sanitary condition. There were complaints made of thirty-six full cesspools and fifteen defective vaults. Some people think their water ser- vice is like a flowing brook that runs through a farm, and is let to run rather than repair the faucet at the sink. In a great many of the complaints, the leaking faucet has made the trouble, and some families use the privy vault as a dump- ing place for tin cans and the garbage. A large per cent. of the refuse from kitchen can and should be burned in the cook stove. There has been made to the Board complaints of four offensive hog-pens, but, with one exception, the owners upon being requested to remove them, immediately did so. We have been obliged in one instance to enter upon the premises and clean both stable and house cellars.
There has been left in an exposed place near the roadside, the bodies of one dead horse and four dogs, which have had to be buried.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
In the winter of 1894 a case of scarlet fever made its appearance in a family in the school district known as the West Side district, and on investigation the Board were satis- fied it came from exposure of the person in the city of Quincy. With the beginning of the year of 1895 the disease made quite a little progress and it was thought on the part of the Board and the School Committee that the school-house should be fumigated and it was done, and soon the cases in that part of the village abated. In one family of seven the
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entire family were sick, with the exception of the father, and aid and help had to be furnished. There were during the year thirty-six cases of scarlet fever and but one death. Of diph- theria there were eight cases and two deaths. In one family the cause on investigation and the report of the attending physician came from a full cesspool, and the owner of the property upon being notified by the Board immediately con- nected with the sewer. In the family of Paul, the Indian, the disease came from a sick child brought here from Phila- delphia. For the last six months there has not been a case of the above diseases reported to the Board. There have been reported to the Board four cases of typhoid fever but, with two exceptions, these were in a mild form with the exception of one death, and on closing our report on contagious diseases we find our town in a far healthier condition than any of our neighboring towns and cities.
A DUMPING GROUND.
It has been a vexed question what to do with the accumula- tion of rubbish, and the Board were very fortunate in finding a piece of land near the house of the late Hugh Tully beyond the railroad, just off from Vine street. the property of W. B. Macomber, to use for that purpose. The bushes were cut and a sign put up and a notice put in the paper, yet some persons persisted in dumping on the side of the road on Everett street, making a nuisance of the side of the road, and the use of the private individuals for a dumping ground of any rubbish on the land of another should be stopped.
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SWILL.
The Board was fortunate in finding a man who without any expense to the town would come and collect the swill from the families, and while in some instances it has not been a success it has been a great benefit to the village.
SEWER.
There have been received from the parties entering the sewer six hundred dollars, and while the Board has not at any time had to use the law, in every case the law of moral suasion has done its work. If at some future time the sewer should be extended from the corner of School and Pierce to Oak, from Oak to Arch, from Arch to Forest street, a very wet and soggy piece of land could be drained and the owners of the houses along the route could enter the same, and a canvass of the same shows that about two-thirds are ready to do so, and a source of expense and danger to the public could be re- moved, and in concluding our report we feel that we have done what was the best for the sanitary interest of the town.
ALBERT T. SAVERY, A. VINCENT SMITH, M. D., JAMES A. BURGESS, Board of Health.
SOLDIERS' RELIEF AID.
Appropriation $800.00
Received from New Bedford
99.75
Due from Wareham, on acct. of Wm. Westgate 287.60
Due from State on acct. Geo. W. Tillson $35.00
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Due from State on acct. Wm. Westgate 35.00
A. J. Gardiner 35.00
105.00
$1,292.35
Due from Lynn, on acct. Marcus M. Holloway 25.00
$1,317.35
Orders drawn :
William W. Westgate $117.00
C. S. Cummings, M. D., professional
services to W. W. Westgate 102.10
Geo. Soule, burial of W. W. Westgate 62.00
Fanny S. Bumpus, nursing W. W.
Westgate 12.00
M. W. Thompson, nursing W. W.
Westgate 4.50
J. W. Reed, digging grave 2.00
Francis H. Tobey 72.00
Alfred O Standish . 66.00
William McMann
10.00
Lydia McMann, board of Wm. Mc
Mann 74.25
T. S. Hodgson, M. D., professional services to Wm. McMann 15.50
Marcus M. Holloway 25.00
Mrs. Alice W. Bennett, board of Wilson Orr . 13.00
C. S. Cummings, M. D., professional services for W. Orr 10.00
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Geo. Soule, burial of Chas. C. Mellen 60.50
Geo. Soule, burial of Geo. Tillson 35.00
Geo. Soule, burial of A. J. Gardiner 61.00
Isaac M. Foye 24.00
Charles F. Fuller
6.00
Simeon Harlow
10.00
Bernard Glancy
10.00
Chas. Behlman, board of Mrs. Haskins
3.00
Chas. T. Thatcher, on account of An-
drew J. Gardiner 42.00
Marshall A. Washburn
5.00
Charles A. Howes
10.00
Harrison Haskins
15.00
William F. Thompson
5.00
George Powers
5.00
Theodore P. Holmes
10.00
Samuel Williams
6.00
William B. Shaw
20.00
Thomas E. Kinder
5.00
Charles T. Thatcher, on account of
Charles Pittsley
10.60
928.45
Unexpended
$388.90
HERRING ACCOUNT.
Received from sale of herrings . $275.00
Due from towns on Taunton river, for inspection at East Taunton 130.00
$405.00
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Orders drawn :
James A. Thomas
11.25
F. C. Sparrow
7.70
Allen B. Thomas
130.00
Sproat estate
3.00
Everett T. Lincoln
5.00
A. T. Savery .
5.00
Chas. W. Kingman .
5.00
Edwin F. Witham
5.00
$171.95
To divide with Lakeville $233.05
SEWER ACCOUNT.
Charges for permits to enter sewers, 1895 $600.00 Orders drawn :
E. F. Witham, committee on sewer assessments . 16.17
M. O. Rounsville, work on Water st. 29.50
C. W. Kingman, committee on sewer assessments . 16.17
Lucian A. Taylor, engineering 26.60
Ansel G. Hayes, care of sewer basin 5.00
A. T. Savery, committee on sewer as- sessments 16.00
109.44
$490.56
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HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Appropriated for repairs of highways, snow bills, etc. . $11,000.00
Appropriated for new roads and bridges 4,000.00
Appropriated for Water street bridge 500.00
$15,500.00
Received from the State, on account of State road 7,668.35
$23,168.35
Orders drawn :
General highway and snow bills approved by the superintendent of streets (for details see superintendent's report. ) State highway bills approved by superintendent of streets
23,745.05
Overdrawn $576.70 There is an unadjusted claim with the State.
ESTIMATE FOR A TAX, 1896.
For support of schools, including books, inciden-
tals and Superintendent's salary . $21,000.00
School Committee salary .
150.00
Repairs of school buildings
1,000.00
Supervisor of music 500.00
Support of poor and insane
7,500.00
Military aid
400.00
Soldiers' relief
800.00
Town officers
3,000.00
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Incidentals
2,500.00
G. A. R. for Memorial day
200.00
Town house committee
700.00
Water supply for fire district
1,500.00
Town debt note due
5,000.00
Lighting bond due . . 1,000.00
Interest on lighting bonds
. 3,120.00
Expenses of lighting plant
. 12,500 00
16,620.00
Estimated income from lighting plant 11,000.00
5,620.00
Interest .
3,400.00
Board of health
500.00
Highway department for general repairs and clearing highways of snow, including Super- intendent's salary 15,000.00
Concrete sidewalks .
500.00
Night watch and police
900.00
$70,170.00
Less corporation and bank tax .
7,000.00
To be raised by tax $63,170.00
LIABILITIES AND ASSETS.
LIABILITIES.
The following notes to the Middleboro Savings Bank :
Dec. 1, 1887, at 42 per cent., payable in 9 yrs. $5,000.00
June 16, 1888, at 44 66 10 yrs. 5,200.00
July 25, 1888, at 41 66 66 11 yr's. 5,200.00
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Dec. 18, 1888, at 44 per cent., payable in 12 yrs.
5,055.00 Dec. 26, 1891, at 4 per cent., payable Nov. 1, 1897 5,000.00
April 28, 1894, at 4 66
66 1902 8,000.00
Dec. 31, 1895, at 4
66 1903 5,000.00
Dec. 31, 1895, at 4
66
1904 5,000.00
Sewer loan at 4 66
1901 5,000.00
66
at 4 66
1907
5,000.00
66 at 4 66 66
66 1908
5,000.00
66 1909 5,000.00 66
66 at 4
at 4
66
66 1911 5,000.00
Notes payable at Middleboro National Bank :
Sewer loan, at 4 per cent., payable Nov. 1, 1912 5,000.00
" at 4
66 1913 5,000.00
Notes payable in Boston :
Railroad Loan at 4 per cent., payable Nov. 1, 1918
5,000.00
at 4 66
1919
5,000.00
66 66 at 4 66 66 1920 5,000.00 66
66 at 4 66 60 66 1921 5,000.00
Municipal light loan bonds, due from Nov. 1,
1896, to Nov. 1, 1923 . 73,000.00
Temporary loans payable on demand :
To Middleboro Savings Bank 5,000.00
To Middleboro National Bank .
10,000.00
$191,455.00
Other liabilities, estimated
2,500.00
Estimated loss on taxes
500.00
$194,455.00
at 4
66
66
1910 66 5,000.00 66
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ASSETS.
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1896 $10,212.97
Due on taxes, Jan. 1, 1896 . 12,310.23
Due from State, Military aid
416.00
Due from State, State aid
3,364.00
Due from State, on account burial of soldiers
105.00
Due from Wareham, on acct. soldiers' relief . 87.60
Due from Lynn, on account soldiers' relief . 25.00
Due from towns on Taunton river, of
inspection of herrings . 130.00
Due from concrete sidewalk account .
299.83
26,950.63
$167,504.37 ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHAS. W. KINGMAN,
Selectmen of Middleborough, Mass.
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LIST OF JURORS.
The Selectmen propose the following persons to serve as jurors the ensuing year. viz. :
Jared F. Alden.
Emery F. Atwood,
F. Austin G. Atwood,
Harrison W. Atwood, Harvey N. Atwood,
William F. Atwood.
George T. M. Gammons,
Joseph E. Beals,
Frederic T. Belcher,
Israel T. Hathaway.
Grover Bennett,
John S. Benson,
Howard M. Bishop,
Joshua K. Bishop,
George F. Bryant,
Charles E. Bump,
Marshall P. Burgess, Josiah T. Carver,
Benjamin F. Caswell,
Frederic P. Chase,
Abisha T. Clark, Jr.,
George S. Clark,
Charles F. Cornish.
George A. Cox,
Nathaniel S. Cushing, Jr.,
James S. Cuzner, Albert Deane,
Orin E. Deane.
Arad R. Dunham. George A. Earle. Henry K. Ellis. Lucius M. Fuller.
Foster A. Harlow,
Benjamin E. Holmes, James L. Jenney, B. Frank Jones. Charles W. Kingman, Thomas J. LeBaron, Ezra S. Leonard,
William McAllister Adam P. McKeen, Andrew W. Miller, Luther B. Murdock, J. Frank Peirce, Isaac E. Perkins, Ebenezer Pickens. David G. Pratt. Luther B. Pratt, Enoch Pratt, Nathan W. Pratt,
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John C. Robinson, John H. Ryder, Edmund S. Russell, Albert T. Savery,
Truman C. Savery, Benjamin C. Shaw,
George H. Shaw, 2d,
Joseph A. Shaw, Walter A. Shaw,
Albert W. Smith,
Walter M. Snow,
George L. Soule, Warren H. Southworth,
George E. Standish,
Dennis D. Sullivan,
Myron R. Sturges, David S. Surrey,
Charles H. Thomas. Ichabod B. Thomas. John B. Thomas, Josiah H. Thomas, Lazelle E. Thomas, Henry A. Thompson. George F. D. Tinkham, Alvin P. Vaughan. William L. Wade, Asaph F. Washburn, Seneca T. Weston, William L. White, Edwin F. Witham. Albert J. Wood.
Edward C. Wood. Edward F. Wood.
ALBERT T. SAVERY. EDWIN F. WITHAMI, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Selectmen of Middleborough.
February 18, 1896.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
To the Board of Selectmen:
Highway appropriation for 1895 . $15,000.00
Bills rendered Town Collector :
Town of Bridgewater, on bridge account 48.23
J. Crowe, 35 steel rails .
96.60
Middleboro Electric Light & Gas Co., use of derrick, &c. 68.10 ·
Middleboro School Department, on well account Fall Brook . 71.31
Middleboro Water Department, iron beam and labor . 19.67
City of Taunton, 15 days' use steam roller 183.00
Received for drain pipe for driveways 14.35
$15,501.26
The following orders have been approved to section men for payment of labor and teams :
Appropriation exceeded, 1894 .
$304.07
Paid S. S. Lovell
3,562.09
I. E. Macomber
523.18
Albert Reed
515.23
Sylvanus Bump
244.06
George Sampson
200.00
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H. A. Thompson 344.49
H. L. Thomas . 329.72
S. L. Pratt 458.35
I. B. Thomas 191.34
N. S. Cushing
124.25
W. A. Shaw
312.67
H. M. Bishop .
222.35
Henry Tinkham 397.87
B. P. W. Lovell 135.30
O. F. Carver
387.48
J. H. Thomas . 262.54
Expense on snow account, 1895 : Paid S. S. Lovell 206.20
I. E. Macomber 25.10
Sylvanus Bump
19.40
H. L. Thomas . .
7.10
S. L. Pratt
26.20
W. A. Shaw
14.85
H. M. Bishop
4.00
Henry Tinkham
29.27
B. P. W. Lovell
29.00
Paid L. Lincoln & Son, blacksmithing
71.25
Fairbanks Scale Co., one pair 5-ton scales 100.00
S. S. Lovell, labor paid at crusher 9.80
George Sampson, 2,350 brick .
17.62
Geo. Tibbetts, revolving screen $100.00
Geo. Tibbetts, western reversible
scraper 250.00
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Geo. Tibbetts, 8-horse plow and
cutting plates, &c. 50.00
$400.00
Credit by second-hand scraper 50.00
$350.00 350.00
O. F. Carver, 40 tons building stone 16.00
Lloyd Perkins, 2d, steam pump, piping, &c. 109.47
Lloyd Perkins, 2d, pulleys, shafting, hose- lift, &c. 76.51 ·
Lloyd Perkins, 2d, 1,497 ft. 2-in. pipe at 10c. 149.70
Lloyd Perkins, 2d, freight, cartage, laying, &c. 69.10 ·
Lloyd Perkins, 2d, labor, oil, waste and forgings 24.15
A. J. Bailey, sign boards, 1893 and 1894 8.00
G. F. Blake, 50 bars railroad iron 131.38
C. H. Carpenter, 474 loads gravel 38.60
E. O. Parker, cement 4.20
M. O. Rounseville, setting curbing on North and Main sts., blasting on Grove st., &c. 62.30
Excavating, stone work, cement, blasting and setting steel beams at Water street bridge 651.85 C. Clemens, carting derrick, Taunton to Middleboro . 10.00 E. M. Barden, care of water trough, 1894 . 5.00
C. H. Thomas, 13 bbls. Portland cement . 29.25
Joseph Pease, 85 loads gravel on Everett street, 1892 . 25.50
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E. T. Jenks, damage to driveway cutting grade, 1893 . 4.80
City of Taunton, rental of derrick 5 months 75.00
W. R. Pierce, 51 stone bounds, year 1881 25.50
A. G. Williams, 3,198 ft. hard pine plank at $25.00 79.95
Labor and teams, Pratt's and Titicut bridges 16.50
M. H. Cushing, lime for catch-basins 4.10
Hartford . Boiler Insurance Co., 3 years' in- demnity of $5,000 on crusher boiler 50.00
F. C. Sparrow, 240 hours building railings, East Main, Coombs and Water streets, also
putting up guideboards and street names
89.69
T. W. Pierce, merchandise as per bill 74.75
Carl Maxim, labor, 1894 .
17.00
Snow plows, repairs on scrapers, &c. 42.85
A. A. Savery, 112 loads gravel
8.96
Nightingale & Childs, exchange of elevator 150.00 Jaws for crusher, cheek pieces, toggles, bearings, grease, &c. 83.53
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