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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS.,
FOR THE
YEAR 1900.
MIDDLEBORO, MASS. : MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE OFFICE. 1901.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS.,
FOR THE
YEAR 1900.
MIDDLEBORO, MASS. : MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE OFFICE. 1901.
TOWN OFFICERS, 1900.
Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector. AMOS H. EATON.
Selectmen and Assessors.
ALBERT T. SAVERY
Term expires 1902
EDWIN F. WITHAM
1901
CHARLES W. KINGMAN
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Overseers of the Poor.
SYLVANUS MENDALL
Term expires 1903
ANDREW M. WOOD
66
1902
ALVAN P. VAUGHAN
66
1901
School Committee.
BERT J. ALLAN .
Term expires 1901
JOHANNA T. LEONARD
1901
ANNIE DAVIS DEANE
66
1903
NATHAN WASHBURN
66 1903
WARREN H. SOUTHWORTH
66
1902
WILLIAM C. LITCHFIELD
1902
Superintendent of Schools. ASHER J. JACOBY.
Municipal Light Board.
T. S. HODGSON
Term expires 1902
JOHN A. MILLER
1901
HENRY W. SEARS
66
1903
Board of Health.
ALBERT T. SAVERY .
Term expires 1901
T. S. HODGSON
60
1903
JOHN S. WILLIAMS
66
1902
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1903
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Constables.
LEANDER M. ALDEN.
EVERETT T. LINCOLN.
WILLISTON B. CHANDLER.
SAMUEL S. LOVELL.
BENJAMIN W. BUMP.
SYLVANUS MENDALL.
GEORGE W. HAMMOND.
JOHN M. LUIPPOLD.
HERBERT L. LEONARD.
SAMUEL HATHAWAY.
JOSIAH T. CARVER ..
BRADFORD HARLOW.
WILLIAM McALLISTER.
Superintendent of Streets. SAMUEL N. SHIVERICK.
Registrars of Voters.
THOMAS C. COLLINS
Term expires 1903
PETER M. RAMSEY .
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66 1902
JAMES H. RUSSELL
1901
Fish Wardens.
ALBERT T. SAVERY.
EDWIN F. WITHAM. CHARLES W. KINGMAN.
Trustees of the Public Library.
C. D. KINGMAN
Term expires 1902
W. H. SOUTHWORTH
1902
NATHAN WASHBURN
190
GEORGE BRAYTON
66
1901
E. S. HATHAWAY
1901
ANDREW M. WOOD
66
1901
WARREN B. STETSON
66
1903
JOSEPH E. BEALS
66
1903
DAVID G. PRATT
66
1903
Fence Viewers.
CHESTER E. WESTON. WALLACE M. TINKHAM. JOHN N. MAIN.
Auditor. WILLIAM R. MITCHELL.
REPORT OF THE ASSESSORS For the Year Ending December 31, 1900.
APPROPRIATIONS MADE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD MARCH 5, 1900,
And Adjournments held March 10, 1900, and special March 21, 1900, and April 4, 1900.
Support of schools .. $21,500 00
Repairs on schoolhouses 1,000 00
Forest street schoolhouse 300 00
School Committee's salary 150 00
Support of poor and insane
8,500 00
Military aid .
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800 0.0
Soldiers' relief
.
3,000 00
Highways · ·
13,000 00
Town officers
3,000 00
Incidentals
2,500 00
Use of Post 8, G. A. R.
200 00
Board of Health
500 00
Note due
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5,055 00
Interest
3,500 00
Night watch and police .
800 00
Town House Committee
.
500 00
Sprinkling streets .
300 00
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Water supply
1,500 00
Lighting bond
. 1,500 00
Interest on lighting bonds
3,340 00 ·
For suburban lighting
375 00
Construction, electric light plant
785 00
Salary for municipal light board
150 00
Repairs of concrete walks
200 00
New concrete sidewalks
300 00
Sewers
2,200 00
Suppression of crime
1,000 00
Moderator
15 00
Voted
9,950 00
$85,920 00
Less corporation and bank tax
7,000 00
Total amount appropriated Voted to hire
. 10,000 00
Voted by the Town to assess
. $68,920 00
State tax
2,310 00
County tax
5,172 85
Non-resident bank tax
134 81
Overlayings .
2,800 33
Total assessment
. $79,337 99
Poll taxes assessed
. $4,112 00
Taxes on personal property
. 12,314 21
Taxes on real estate
. 62,776 97
Non-resident bank tax
.
134 81
$79,337 99
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. $78,920 00
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Number of polls assessed, 2056. Value of buildings, excluding land $1,879,166 00
Value of land, excluding buildings
1,381,962 00
$3,261,128 00
Value of personal estate
639,670 00
$3,900,798 00
Persons, firms, etc., assessed on property,
residents
1,358
Persons, firms, etc., non-residents
302
Persons assessed for poll tax only 1,131
Total number persons assessed 2,791
Number of horses assessed
880
Number of cows assessed
543
Number of sheep assessed .
21
Number of neat cattle other than cows
98
Number of swine
36
Number of dwelling houses
1,478
Number of acres of land
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39,338
Number of fowl '
800
Population of the town, 1900
6,885
Amount of taxes remitted for 1898
$257 23
Amount of taxes remitted for 1899
523 69
Amount of taxes remitted for 1900
532 48
Rate of tax, $19.25 on $1,000.
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ALBERT T. SAVERY, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, EDWIN F. WITHAM, Assessors of Middleborough, Mass.
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN For the Year Ending December 31, 1900.
The Selectmen have drawn orders upon the Town Treasury for the amounts hereinafter given under the several appro- priations made by the town.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriation .
. $3,000 00
Unexpended .
116 72
$3,116 72
Orders drawn :
Amos H. Eaton, for treasurer and
collector, 1899 . $83 33
Amos H. Eaton, town clerk, treas-
urer and collector, including bond, 1,100 00 Amos H. Eaton, one of board of registrars, 60 00 A. T. Savery, selectman and assessor, 1899 . 107 50 A. T. Savery, selectman and assessor, 355 00
C. W. Kingman, selectman and as- sessor, 1899 222 68
C. W. Kingman, selectman and as- sessor 203 65
E. F. Witham, selectman and asses- sor, 1899 130 00
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E. F. Witham, selectman and assessor, $353 33
W. R. Mitchell, auditor, 1899 75 00
Election officers, precinct 2 94 00
Election officers, precinct 1
34 50
T. C. Collins, one of board of registrars, 51 75 Jas. H. Russell, one of board of registrars, 50 00 Peter M. Ramsey, one of board of reg- istrars 50 00 ·
S. N. Shiverick, tree warden . 75 00 ·
$3,045 74
Unexpended
$70 98
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Orders drawn from appropriation for poor and insane for salaries :
Sylvanus Mendall .
$257 00
Alvan P. Vaughan .
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73 00
Andrew M. Wood .
150 00
$480 00
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INCIDENTALS.
Appropriation
. $2,500 00
Unexpended .
147 91
Received from Old Colony R.R. Co.
and State treasurer, account of
grade crossing .
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1,515 30
Received from herring account
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308 77
$4,471 98
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Orders drawn :
A. T. Savery, use of team and travel-
ing expenses for 1899 . $14 00
C. W. Kingman, use of team, travel- ing expenses, 1899 38 39
E. F. Witham, use of team, traveling expenses, 1899 . 18 50
Nathan Washburn, legal services, 1899, 100 00
A. M. Bearse, postmaster, envelopes, 96 80
Southern Massachusetts Telephone . 32 91.
New York & Boston Despatch Ex- press Co. 2 50
M. M. Copeland, printing 173 50
Amos H. Eaton, town clerk, record- ing births, deaths, etc. 139 65
Amos H. Eaton, town clerk, office supplies 17 05
C. P. Keith, V.S., inspection milch cows and provisions 208 50
J. F. Shurtleff, M.D., recording births and deaths 3 00
H. L. Thatcher & Co., printing poll list, etc. 141 66
C. S. Cummings, M.D., returning births and deaths 14 50
W. F. Fryer, M.D., returning births and deaths . 5 75
William F. Dean 2 50
Wood & Tinkham, printing town re- ports, etc. . 504 92
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Dennis D. Sullivan, on account of
damages to Daniel Cornell's horse, $25 00 A. T. Savery, use of team, traveling expenses 85 00
Sarah A. Phinney, election suppers, 6 50
Estate of F. W. R. Emery, binding books ·
14 75
A. C. Wilbur, M.D., return of births, 75
E. H. Cornish, M.D., return of births, 50
A. V. Smith, M.D., return of births . 7 75
A. B. Paun, M.D., return of births . 1 25
A. P. Thompson, M.D., return of births, 25
Charles E. Ryder, typewriting 5 00
Walter T. Bryant, forest fire ward . 33 60
Herbert L. Leonard, keeper of lock- up, etc. 170 00
Samuel Ward Co., printing, etc. 5 02
S. S. Lovell, fighting fire 1 80
A. M. Hinkley, fighting fire . 10 95
George R. Sampson, forest fire ward,
22 80
Charles F. Cushman, inspector vinegar, 61 85
George Soule, return of deaths 17 25
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. . 1 00
Nathan Washburn, legal services 166 10
Nathan Washburn, legal services, suppressing crime 10 00
L. M. Fuller, forest fire ward . ·
1 60
A. S. Buckman, repairs to pump ·
10 00
Thomas F. Denham, damages re- ceived on highway . 50 00 ·
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Lyman P. Thomas, engineering . $1,515 30 Nathan Washburn, account of grade crossings 600 00
Abner Wood, forest fire ward . 2 80
E. H. Cromwell, forest fire ward
44 70
Lloyd Perkins, 2d, sealer weights and
measures 7 00
Municipal Engineering Company 2 00
Theodore N. Wood, copying ' . 18 60
Edwin F. Witham, use of team and
traveling expenses 50 00
Charles H. Thomas, teams
34 00
Carolyn H. Parker . 2 70
Mae Witham, copying 53 40
Josiah H. Thomas, forest fire warden,
10 00
Francis G. Pratt estate, error in tax,
11 36
C. W. Kingman, chief of fire de- partment, fire at N. Middleboro 12 00
Nancy Werner, error in tax 9 63
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
counting machine ·
5 00
James A. Burgess, suppression of crime 10 00
Benjamin W. Bump, serving summons, 26 00
Robert S. Robson, repairs to ballot box, 10 00
Charles W. Coffin, error in tax 2 00
Estate of Hosea Kingman, legal ser- vices 82 00
A. W. Brownell, printing, etc. ·
3 60
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C. W. Kingman, forest fire ward $10 00
C. E. Weston, engineering . 5 00
$4,749 94
Overdrawn
$277 96
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Appropriated for repairs of highway,
snow bills, etc., including super -.
intendent's salary . $13,000 00
Unexpended
100 69
Received as per report of superintend-
ent of streets
.
3,067 42
-- - $16,168 11
Orders drawn :
General highway and snow bills ap-
proved by superintendent of streets, 15,641 72
Unexpended
$526 39
WATER SUPPLY.
Appropriation .
. $1,500 00
Orders drawn
$1,500 00
SOLDIERS' RELIEF.
Appropriation
. $3,000 00
Overdrawn
£
1,062 58
$1,937 42
Credit by cash received .
613 11
$2,550 53
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Orders drawn :
Simeon Harlow $15 00
Town of Sandwich, account of H. P.
Lovell, 1899 146 14
William F. Thompson · ·
20 00
Town of Weymouth, account of Har- riet Mellen, 1899 96 00
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A. P. Rogers
96 00
John M. Luippold, F .. H. Tobey's children 96 00
A. O. Standish
24 00
Mrs. Hannah Bates . 96 00
Mrs. C. H. Crandall
48 00
Mrs. Solomon Kitterell
96 00
Eliza Wood .
4 00
Mrs. Eugene Blackwell, account of
Alvan Howland . 210 00
Mrs. Louisa Parry . 65 00
B. F. Lane, for care of Mrs. Hannah Bates 12 50
James E. McMann
20 00
Bernard Glancey 16 00
T. S. Hodgson and A. C. Wilbur,
M.D., account of B. F. Lane 100 00
Drs. Hodgson and Wilbur, account of Mrs. Hannah Bates 124 50
James L. Jenney, account of C. Pittsley, 2 56
Ira Tinkham, account of C. Pittsley, 84 00
W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of C. Pittsley 42 50
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Isaac M. Foye $28 00
George Soule, burial of Martha Whitcomb, 45 00 A. P. Thompson, M.D., account of Alvan Howland . 8 50°
Mrs. B. F. Lane, account of Mrs.
Hannah Bates 10 00
W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of Amos D. Dorr 74 00
Theodore P. Holmes . .
26 00
Stephen Hammond 4 00 . .
Abial Gibbs . 23 00
Alphonso Bliss . 58 00
Wilson Orr 16 00
Samuel Williams 28 00
Daniel F. Wilbur
75 00
Charles O. Cook
22 00
W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of Otis Standish 160 00
Henry A. Eaton .
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10 00
Charles A. Howes
15 00
Sanford Weston
30 00
George F. Bryant, account of C. P.
Pittsley
1 50
Geo. F. Bryant, account of Alphonso Bliss 13 26
Lysander W. Fields
15 00
Sparrow Brothers, account of Artemas Morse 12 75
William S. Staples
5 00
Eben H. Atwood . 56 00.
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C. S. Cummings, M.D., account of
W. F. Thompson $7 50
John S. Williams & Co., burial of Charles Englestead 35 00
Charles Pittsley
8 00
Charles W. Clark
35 00
Town of Bourne, account of Esther Gibbs 24 00
Thomas E. Wilmot
17 00
Mrs. Mary L. Capen · .
10 00
Joseph Nichols, Jr.
21 00
George L. Finney .
20 00
C. S. Cummings, M.D., account of Abiel Gibbs 1 50
Shaw & Childs, acc't of C. Pittsley . 8 08
T. C. Savery, account of A. Bliss .
1 87
W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of A. Bliss . 18 00
Amos B. Paun, M.D., account of Eliza Wood ·
108 00
C. S. Cummings, M.D., account of A. Otis Standish 2 75
John N. Main ·
20 00
Caleb F. Perry
20 00.
John S. Williams & Co., burial of Jos. Nichols, Jr. 35 00
Mrs. Fred Packer, account of Jos. Nichols, Jr. ·
10 00
A. Vincent Smith, M.D., account of A. L. Dorr .
12 00
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C. A. Howes, acc't of C. F. Perry . $14 25 Charles W. Turner, making out State aid papers . .
8 00
W. F. Fryer, M.D., acc't of George Powers 7 00
2,594 16
Overdrawn
$43 63
NIGHT WATCH AND POLICE.
Appropriation
$800 00
Unexpended .
17 10
Received from 4th District Court 351 06
$1,168 16
Orders drawn :
William L. Wade
$6 00
David Pushee
12 00
Williston B. Chandler
122 50
E. F. Witham
20 00
H. L. Leonard
668 00
Benjamin W. Bump
38 50
Everett T. Lincoln
20 00
Ira Tinkham .
10 00
James A. Burgess
36 00
Samuel Hathaway
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18 00
Samuel S. Lovell
31 00
Frank C. King
51 50
George W. Hammond
15 00
Sylvanus Mendall .
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17 00
1,065 50
Unexpended
$102 66
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TOWN HALL ACCOUNT.
Appropriation
$500 00
Unexpended .
.
55 60
Cash received
1,116 37
$1,671 97.
Orders drawn :
Sprinkling streets . $11 80
H. A. Sparrow
4 50
Middleboro Gas & Electric Plant 535 28
Amos H. Eaton, Agent .
591 19
India Alkali Works
6 50
J. A. Sargeant
5 00
Thomas W. Pierce .
3 23
George F. Bryant .
267 50
Masury, Young & Co.
15 00
William E. Bump .
1 50
A. G. Hayes . ·
5 00
B. F. Johnson, care of lawn and extra work 37 00
Highway Department
24 00
J. & G. E. Doane . . .
42 09
Unexpended .
$122 38
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1,549 59
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Town House Committee.
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SEWERS.
Appropriation
. $2,200 00
Unexpended . 166 05
Received from sewer permits 197 78 ·
Orders drawn :
Martin O. Rounseville
$995 07
John A. Miller
5 00
Note .
1,300 00
2,300 07
Unexpended .
$263 76
SPRINKLING STREETS.
Appropriation .
$300 00
Assessed on abuttors
.
300 00
$600 00
Credit to Highway Department.
$600 00
NEW CONCRETE SIDEWALKS.
Appropriation
$300 00 $300 00
Orders drawn :
Shiverick & Thomas
197 60
Unexpended
$102 40
REPAIRS ON CONCRETE SIDEWALK.
Appropriation
$200 00
Unexpended
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.28 65
$228 65
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$2,563 83
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Orders drawn :
Shiverick & Thomas $240 00
Overdrawn
$11 35
SUPPRESSION OF CRIME.
Appropriation
. $1,000 00
Overdrawn from old account
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126 92
$873 08
Orders drawn :
S. S. Lovell ·
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$7 50
H. L. Leonard
60 00
Nathan Washburn
25 00
Samuel Hathaway .
20 00
112 50
Unexpended
$760 58
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Orders drawn from appropriation for Board of Health for salaries :
A. T. Savery, agent $80 00
John S. Williams .
50 00
$130 00
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LIST OF JURORS.
The Selectmen propose the following persons to serve as Jurors the ensuing year, viz. :
Jared F. Alden. Albert Deane.
Emery F. Atwood.
Orin E. Deane.
F. Austin G. Atwood.
Arad R. Dunham.
Harrison W. Atwood. George A. Earle.
Wm. F. Atwood, France st. Lucius M. Fuller. Otis L. Barden.
George T. M. Gammons.
Walter L. Beals.
William M. Haskins.
Grover Bennett.
Arthur M. Hinkley.
John L. Benson.
Thomas J. LeBaron.
Howard M. Bishop. Clarence E. Libby.
Joshua K. Bishop. Thacher B. Lucas.
George F. Bryant.
Nathan B. Maxim.
Charles E. Bump.
Adam P. McKeen.
Marshall P. Burgess.
John M. Casey. Frederic P. Chace.
John Merrihew. Andrew W. Miller. J. Frank Peirce. Isaac E. Perkins. Robert S. Phillips.
Abisha T. Clark, Jr. George S. Clark. James M. Coombs.
George A. Cox.
George H. Place. David G. Pratt.
Nathaniel S. Cushing, Jr. Enoch Pratt.
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Luther B. Pratt. James F. Roberts. John C. Robinson. Edmund S. Russell. John H. Ryder. Albert T. Savery.
Truman C. Savery.
Benjamin C. Shaw.
Albert W. Smith.
Seneca T. Weston.
William L. White, Jr.
Walter H. Smith.
Walter M. Snow.
Edwin E. Soule.
Orlando Soule.
Warren H. Southworth.
George E. Standish.
Myron R. Sturges.
David S. Surrey.
John J. Sullivan.
Hiram Whittemore.
Warren B. Stetson. Charles F. Cole.
Isaac M. Foye.
Carleton W. Maxim,
George F. Bourne.
James A. Thomas.
John B. Thomas.
Lazell E. Thomas. Henry A. Thompson.
George F. D. Tinkham.
Alvan P. Vaughan. William L. Wade.
Asaph F. Washburn.
Edwin F. Witham.
Edward C. Wood. Edward F. Wood.
Louis D. Churbuck.
Herbert W. Cornish.
Horace A. Vaughan. George H. Wilbur.
Charles M. Thatcher. Alfred E. Thomas.
Charles H. Thomas.
Ichabod B. Thomas.
Charles E. Ryder.
Lorenzo Wood.
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Selectmen of Middleborough, Mass.
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ESTIMATE FOR A TAX, 1901.
For support of schools, current expenses and
Superintendent's salary . $22,850 00
Music, special teacher 500 00
Ordinary repairs, alterations and permanent im- provement of school property 1,000 00
School Committee's salary . .
150 00
Support of poor and insane 8,000 00 . .
Soldiers' relief 2,000 00
Military aid . .
1,300 00
Town Officers
3,000 00
Incidentals
2,700 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 bonds due
1,500 00
Interest on bonds ·
3,328 00 .
Suburban lighting .
400 00
Light Commissioners' salary
150 00
Construction .
772 00
Interest
3,920 00
Board of Health .
2,000 00
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Highway Department, including general repairs, clearing highways of snow and Superintend- ent's salary ·
. $13,000 00
Night watch and police ·
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800 00
Sprinkling streets . . 300 00
$74,870 00
Less corporation and bank tax, estimated
7,000 00
$67,870 00
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REPORT OF FISH WARDENS.
Balance from '98 and '99
$323 47
By cash received 1900
195 00
$518 47
Orders drawn :
Edwin F. Witham, for 1899
$5 00
Charles W. Kingman, for 1899
5 00
Charles F. Cornish
2 00 .
William B. Thomas
130 00
Charles H. Tobey .
5 00
Katherine A. Sproat
10 00
A. T. Savery
5 00
Town of Lakeville, for '98 and''99
30 70
Everett T. Lincoln
5 00
C. W. Kingman
5 00
E. F. Witham
5 00
Town of Lakeville .
2 00
209 70
Credited to incidental account .
$308 70
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Fish Wardens of the Town of Middleboro, Mass.
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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
I respectfully submit the following report.
The examination of all animals suspected by their owners or others of having some contagious disease during the year and the annual inspection ordered by the cattle commission- ers of the State of all herds and buildings where same are kept.
During the year have had seven head of cattle killed and buried afflicted with tuberculosis.
C. P. KEITH, V.S.,
Inspector.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF · HEALTH.
To the Citizens of the Town of Middleboro :
The Board of Health submit their report for the year ending December 31, 1900.
The Board has had an unusually busy year as scarlet fever prevailed in the spring, small-pox in the summer, and diph- theria in the fall and winter. There have been twelve cases of scarlet fever, three of small-pox and fourteen of diphtheria reported to the Board during the year.
There were no deaths from infectious diseases in this town during the year.
On July 1, 1899, the Board held a hearing in the Town House on a petition of Lorenzo Wood and others, alleging that certain banks and flats in the Nemasket river at Mut- tock are wet, spongy, rotten and injurious to the public health. The Board expected that the heirs of the Philander Washburn estate would build a dam and cover said flats, as they held the water privilege and would be required by law to keep said dam in repair. But at the hearing their attor- ney stated that they relinquished all right and title to said privilege and would not build a dam or spend any money on that property. As it was September 1 before this con- clusion was reached, the Board did not follow the matter any further that year, but receiving several complaints in
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June, 1900, decided to build a dam at their expense, and hired Martin Rounseville to build one for them. It was con- sidered advisable to build one which would last three or four years and see if the town would not make an appro- priation for a permanent structure after the present one decays.
SMALL-Pox. .
On June 14, 1900 Dr. A. V. Smith reported a case of small-pox, in the house of Mrs. John Wholley, to the Board of Health. The Board immediately quarantined the house and hired two watchmen to prevent anyone entering or leav- ing it. On the next day Dr. Morse, assistant physician of the State Board of Health, came to Middleboro and ex- amined all the inmates of the house where the small-pox existed and reported three cases, John McCarthy, aged 35, George Pinder, 9 years, and Eddie Pinder, 7 years.
The Board thought it advisable to employ a doctor to take charge of all the the patients we might have during the epi- demic. On Saturday, June 16, a pest house was built on land owned by John LeBaron, situated on West Grove street. It was built, furnished and occupied before 8 P.M. of said Saturday, as the Board could not find a house suit- ably isolated to use as a pest house.
After the patients had recovered and been released, the pest house was disinfected with Formaldehyde gas and then taken to pieces and washed with solution of corrosive sub- limate and the material given to the town highway depart- ment, as the Board could get no offer for it, and the highway department could use it in constructing sheds.
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The Board took every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease and were in position to handle twenty patients if required. The Board requested the scholars to be present at the different public schools in the village on Monday morning, June 18, 1900, and had physicians in attendance to vaccinate free of charge all those who desired to be vaccinated. Over two hundred availed themselves of the privilege.
There was a large family at Mrs. Wholley's as she had six men boarders who worked in the LeBaron foundry, who were quarantined at her house.
The Board supported fifteen persons for more than a month and as many as eighteen at different times.
The Board places the following financial report before you showing first the regular expenses of the Board except the small-pox expenditures, then those caused by the small-pox.
We expect a small rebate from the State Board of Charities on account of John McCarthy, as he did not have a residence in Middleboro.
We would say in closing that the expense of small-pox, though large, is smaller per individual than that of Fall River, New Bedford, or any of the towns in this section of the State, and if the disease had spread we were in position to take care of ten to twenty patients with but a small in- crease in expense.
Respectfully, JOHN S. WILLIAMS,
Clerk Middleboro Board of Health.
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CASH PAID OUT BY MIDDLEBORO BOARD OF HEALTH JANUARY 1, 1900, TO JANUARY 1, 1901.
Marcus Copeland, printing
$6 66
Charles Tribou, work at dump
5 00
Middleboro National Bank
30 90
E. T. Lincoln, Treas. C. C.
5 00
Richard Jeffers, work at dump
7 15
Martin O. Rounseville, building dam
150 00
Wood & Tinkham, printing
13 50
H. L. Thatcher
6 75
Richard Jeffers, care of dump
32 75
M. M. Copeland, printing
6 66
L. Deane
2 50
M. M. Copeland, printing
6 66
Wood & Tinkham
10 00
$283 53
Salaries to date
130 00
$413 53
Following is a list of expenditures due to the small-pox :
A. L. Champlin, house rent $10 00
Whitman, Sparrow & Co., bedding 22 33
C. A. Englested, provisions 1 90
Smith & Hathaway, drugs
11 62
Charles H. Thomas, carriage
24 00
Samuel Smith, milk' ·
1 44
M. O. Rounseville, taking down pest house, 25 00
Range, etc, in trade 13 00
12 00
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Melvin & Badger, formaldehyde
6 25
John S. Williams, telephone, car fares, etc. 17 16
F. H. White, shoes 5 75
M. H. Cushing & Co., lime, etc. 4 20
Frank Potter, property used 8 50
J. B. LeBaron, land rent, ice, etc. 18 56
Mrs. Beech, nurse
7 00
Clark & Lovell, groceries ·
.
2 26
Sparrow Bros., clothing
28 10
Charles H. Tribou, watchman .
33 00
Dr. D. H. Holmes, physician
50 00
Starbuck & Whittemore, pest house .
342 60
Leonidas Deane, watchman
35 87
Dr. D. H. Holmes, physician
310 00
Ira Tinkham, groceries
31 00
John S. Williams & Co., furniture for pest house
57 80
Patrick Moran, cleaning Wholley's
7 50
Frank King, provisions
4 39
John Driscoll, nurse .
144 00 .
Mrs. Driscoll, nurse
22 00
T. W. Clark, milk
10 68
Mrs. John Wholley, furniture
80 00
Thomas Washburn, tent 17 00
Shaw & Childs, drugs .
15 95
Paztor & Klar, provisions ·
16 90
C. D. Marble, fish ·
2 30
Thomas W. Pierce, range, dishes, etc. 37 86
Warren B. Stetson
2 50
Total
$1,403 42
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Henry Swan, vaccination
$11 70
Hodgson & Wilbur, vaccination 83 20
Amos B. Paun,
29 90
Winsor Fryer, ce
30 55
N. E. Vaccine Co., vaccine points
42 00
$197 35
$1,600 77
Board of Health expenses not including small-pox,
413 53
Total expenditures
$2,014 30
VALUATION OF PROPERTY.
Soil cart
$60 00
Cart for cleaning gutters
10 00
Formaldehyde lamp, fluid and pellets
40 00
$110 00
CASH.
Unexpended, 1899
$120 08
Appropriations
.
.
.
500 00
Total
$620 08
Total expenditures . $2,014 30
Deficit .
$1,394 22
Also bills which have been paid in January, to
the amount of
200 00
Total deficit
$1,594 22
ALBERT T. SAVERY, THOMAS S. HODGSON, JOHN S. WILLIAMS, Clerk, Board of Health of Town of Middleborough.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
The following are highway, State highway, snow and town team bills, etc., as rendered since January 1, 1900 :
Appropriation for highways, 1900 . $13,000 00
Unexpended balance, 1899 100 69 ·
Received for repairs of State highway, 1900 77 46
Received of East Taunton Street Railway Co. . 642 48
Received of Brockton & Middleboro Street Railway, 86 69
Received of town house committee . 24 00 ·
Received of Hobart & Daley, for gravel 51 90
Received of C. H. Thomas, for gravel ' 20 00.
Received of F. C. King, for hogs 53 76
Received of C. H. Shaw, for manure 13 57
Received of John Chace, for manure 24 00
Received of S. M. Shiverick, for lumber, etc. 11 00
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