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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS.,
FOR THE
YEAR 1901.
MIDDLEBORO, MASS. : MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE OFFICE. 1902.
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1901.
Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector. AMOS H. EATON.
Selectmen and Assessors.
ALBERT T. SAVERY .
Term expires 1902
EDWIN F. WITHAM .
66 1904
CHARLES W. KINGMAN
1903
Overseers of the Poor.
SYLVANUS MENDALL
Term expires 1903
ANDREW M. WOOD
66 1902
ALVAN P. VAUGHAN ·
66 1904
School Committee.
BERT J. ALLAN .
Term expires 1904
JOHANNA T. LEONARD
.. . 1904
66
1903
NATHAN WASHBURN
66 1903
WARREN H. SOUTHWORTH
66 1902
WILLIAM C. LITCHFIELD
66
1902
Superintendent of Schools. CHARLES H. BATES.
Municipal Light Board. ·
T. S. HODGSON, M. D.
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Term expires 1902
JOHN A. MILLER
66 1904
HENRY W. SEARS
66 1903
Board of Health.
JOHN S. WILLIAMS ·
Term expires 1902
T. S. HODGSON, M. D. .
1903
JAMES A. BURGESS · .
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66 1904
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WILLIAM A. ANDREWS
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Constables.
LEANDER M. ALDEN.
JOSIAH T. CARVER.
GEORGE W. HAMMOND.
HERBERT L. LEONARD.
EVERETT T. LINCOLN.
SAMUEL S. LOVELL.
JOHN M. LUIPPOLD.
WILLIAM McALLISTER.
SYLVANUS MENDALL.
Superintendent of Streets. SAMUEL N. SHIVERICK.
Registrars of Voters.
THOMAS C. COLLINS
Term expires 1903
PETER M. RAMSEY
66 1902
JAMES H. RUSSELL
1904
Fish Wardens.
ALBERT T. SAVERY. EDWIN F. WITHAM. CHARLES W. KINGMAN.
Trustees of Public Library.
C. D. KINGMAN .
Term expires 1902
W. H. SOUTHWORTH'
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NATHAN WASHBURN
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1903
WARREN B. STETSON JOSEPH E. BEALS
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1903
DAVID G. PRATT
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66
1904
66
1904
Fence Viewers.
CHESTER E. WESTON. WALLACE M. TINKHAM. JOHN N. MAIN.
Auditor.
WILLIAM R. MITCHELL.
66
1902
66
1902
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66
1904
GEORGE BRAYTON E. S. HATHAWAY ANDREW M. WOOD
1903
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BENJAMIN W. BUMP.
WILLISTON B. CHANDLER.
SAMUEL HATHAWAY.
REPORT OF THE ASSESSORS
For the Year Ending December 31, 1901.
APPROPRIATIONS MADE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD MARCH 4, 1901,
And Adjournments held March 16, and April 20, and Sep- tember 21, and October 2, and October 9, and October 29.
Support of schools . $23,500 00 .
Repairs on schoolhouses . . . .
1,000 00
Building fence, Forest street lot
. . 200 00
Concrete walks
. 100 00
Sprinkling streets
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600 00
Police Department .
1,000 00
Support of poor
8,000 00
Soldiers' relief
2,000 00 ·
Reseating Town Hall
675 00
Military aid .
1,300 00
Town officers
3,000 00
Incidentals
2,700 00
Town house committee
500 00
Water supply
1,500 00
Town debt
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Lighting bond . .
. 1,500 00
Interest on lighting bonds
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3,328 00
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5,000 00
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Suburban lighting . ·
$400 00
Salaries of lighting board
150 00
Construction .
772 00
Interest
3,920 00
Board of Health
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2,000 00
Moderator
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15 00
Highway Department .
13,000 00
Grade crossing debt
1,164 67
Grade crossing debt
58 25
Sprinkling cart .
350 00
G. A. R., Memorial day .
200 00
Committee on reseating hall
10 00
Board of Health
200 00
$78,142 92
Less corporation and bank tax
7,000 00
To raise by tax
. $71,142 92
Voted by the Town
. $71,142 92
State tax
2,572 50 ·
State highway tax
83 35
Grade crossing tax not included in amount voted
by the Town, being that part of $4,259.95 3,037 03
County tax .
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5,002 44
Non-resident bank tax .
176 00
Overlayings . ·
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$83,113 20
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Poll taxes assessed
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. $4,052 00
Taxes on personal property
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. 13,468 60
Taxes on real estate
65,416 60
Non-resident bank tax .
176 00
$83,113 20
In addition to the foregoing appropriations it was voted to appropriate $7,500 for more power at electric light station and issue bonds for the same.
Number of polls assessed, 2026.
Value of buildings, excluding lands $1,860,351 00
Value of land, excluding buildings . 1,410,489 00
$3,270,840 00
Value of personal estate
632,230 00
$3,903,070 00
Persons, firms, etc., assessed on property, residents
1,395
Persons, firms, etc., non-residents 310
Persons assessed for polls only 1,114
Total number of persons assessed 2,819
Number of horses assessed
861
Number of cows assessed
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577
Number of sheep assessed
16
Number neat cattle other than cows
106
Number of swine
29
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Number of dwelling houses
1,519
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Number acres of land
40,256
Number of fowl
1,300
Population of the town
6,885
Amount of taxes remitted for 1898 ·
$8 18
Amount of taxes remitted for 1899
330 73
Amount of taxes remitted for 1900
706 33
Amount of taxes remitted for 1901
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. 409 93
Rate of tax, $20 on $1,000.
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Assessors of Middleborough, Mass.
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
For the Year Ending December 31, 1901.
The Selectmen have drawn orders upon the Town Treas- urer for the amounts hereinafter given under the several ap- propriations made by the town.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriation
. $3,000 00
Unexpended .
70 98
$3,070 98
Orders drawn :
C. W. Kingman, selectman and as-
sessor for 1900 $239 85
C. W. Kingman, selectman and as- sessor 309 32
E. F. Witham, selectman and asses- sor for 1900 59 17
E. F. Witham, selectman and assessor, 312 94
A. T. Savery, selectman and asses- sor for 1900 132 '50
A. T. Savery, selectman and assessor, 470 00
Amos H. Eaton, town clerk, treas- urer and collector 1,168 75
William R. Mitchell, auditor, 1900 . 75 00
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T. C. Collins, one of board of regis- trars $60 05
Peter M. Ramsey,one of board of registrars ·
58 75
James H. Russell, one of board of registrars .
57 75
Election officers, precinct 2 ·
99 00
Election officers, precinct 1 . .
34 50
S. N. Shiverick, tree warden ·
25 00
$3,102 58
Overdrawn
$31 60
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INCIDENTALS.
Appropriation . $2,700 00
From Middleboro Water Works 100 00
From sealer of weights and measures,
36 01
$2,836 01
Overdrawn-
277 96
- $2,558 05
Orders drawn :
C. W. Kingman, for 1900 traveling expenses, etc. $77 40
E. F. Witham, for 1900 traveling ex- penses, etc. 36 50
Emery Record Preserving Co., pre- serving old records 189 75
J. W. Darling, error in tax 2 00
H. L. Thatcher & Co., printing 146 17
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Southern Mass. Telephone Co. $27 67
A. C. Wilber, M.D., return of births, 3 75
C. P. Keith, V.S., inspector . .
225 50
C. S. Cummings, M.D., return of births 14 25
Amos H. Eaton, town clerk
137 93
Town of Rochester
21 50
Nathan Washburn, account grade
crossings 1,500 00
J. F. Shurtleff, M.D., return of births, 3 00
Municipal Engineering Co. 2 00
Jones Brothers Co. 6 25
A. M. Bearse, P.M., envelopes
106 60
Samuel Ward Co., office supplies 5 45
George W. Stetson, damages to A. F. Crosby 100 00
Wood & Tinkham, printing town re- ports, etc. 326 90
Joseph E. Beals, typewriting . 1 40
Sarah A. Phinney, election dinners .
11 65
A. T. Savery, traveling expenses, etc., W. F. Fryer, M.D.
5 50
Herbert L. Leonard, keeper of lock-up, 87 00
Walter T. Bryant, F. F. Ward 38 90
P. B. Murphy
4 75
C. F. Cushman, inspection of vinegar, 57 25
S. N. Shiverick, account elm leaf beetle 275 07
E. F. Witham, money paid out .
6 75
70 00
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James M. Coombs, sewerage com- mittee
$528 37
Nathan Washburn, legal advice ·
115 00
George Soule, return of deaths 13 25
Charles E. Ryder, typewriting 6 00
M. M. Copeland, printing
102 00
John E. Benson, F. F. W. .
46 20
A. H. Bartlett
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1 10
Garfield and Sawyer
2 50
C. & C. Press .
3 50
W. C. Davis
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18 00
Otis Briggs, teams . .
9 50
E. B. Peterson 10 92
Mae Witham, copying .. 80 00
Theodore N. Wood .
20 00
L. S. Bailey, error in tax 3 04
William B. Atwood, error in tax 83
T. W. Pierce, elm leaf beetle 2 60
T. F. Creedon, flower . 10 00
Jesse B. Ryder, decorating
10 00
Whitman & Sparrow, decorating 19 22
Dean & Main, engineering 25 00
The Memorial Press 12 00 .
A. G. Hayes ·
5 00
J. L. Fairbanks, printing .
6 00
Allen Brothers, stationery .
1 55
Carter Ink Co. 1 25
L. A. Merritt, M. D.
50
D. S. Surrey, forest fire 6 00
S. S. Lovell, sealer weights and measures, 80 00
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Chester E. Weston $39 00 C. W. Kingman, traveling expenses, etc., 57 80
- $4,727 52
Overdrawn
$2,169 47
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation for repairs of highway,
snow bills, etc., including super- intendent's salary ·
$3,000 00
Unexpended
526 39
Other receipts as per report of super-
intendent of streets
6,857 17
--- $20,383 56
Orders drawn :
General highway bills, etc., ap-
proved by superintendent of
streets
20,381 96
Unexpended
$1 60
WATER SUPPLY.
Appropriation
$1,500 00
Orders drawn
$1,500 00
SOLDIERS' RELIEF.
Appropriation
$2,000 00
Overdrawn
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43 63
$1,956 37
Credit by cash received
150 00
$2,106 37
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Orders drawn :
Mrs. A. Bliss
$50 00
John N. Main
29 50
Town of Bourne, account of Esther
Gibbs 140 00
Ira Tinkham, account of C. Pittsley, 10 00
Shaw & Childs, account of C. Pittsley, 47 64
William N. Shaw 30 00
Charles O. Cook . .
38 00
Wilson Orr
20 00
Abiel Gibbs . · .
74 00
Town of Sandwich, account of H. P. Lovell ·
166 05
Charles A. Howes, account of C. H.
Perry
165 25
Henry A. Eaton ·
25 00
John M. Luippold, guardian F. H. Tobey's children 88 00
Alfred O. Standish . .
22 00
Mrs. C. H. Crandall . .
44 00
C. W. Clark . 55 00 .
Mrs. Hannah Bates .
88 00
Mrs. Solomon Kitterell .
88 00
Eben H. Atwood
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130 00
Mrs. Lousia Parry .
65 00
Mrs. Eugene Blackwell, account of A. C. Howland 196 00
Samuel Williams .
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27 00
James E. McMann . .
36 00
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Isaac M. Foye
$50 00
Mrs. Maria S. Haines
40 00
Thomas E. Kinder .
5 00
Stephen Hammond
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15 00
George H. Holmes
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40 00
William F. Thompson
20 00
Mrs. Joanna Shaw .
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10 00
Theodore P. Holmes
43 44
Lysander Field
15 00
James L. Jenney, account of C. H.
Perry 18 80
George L. Finney . ·
20 00
Job N. Cole . 10 00
Daniel F. Wilber 60 00
George Powers .
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5 00
Thomas E. Wilmott
33 00
Bernard Glancey
5 00
Arad Thomas 10 00
George Soule, burial of Eliza Wood, 35 00
George Soule, burial of Wm. Whitcomb, 35 00
George Soule, burial of Caleb H. Perry, 35 00
John S. Williams, burial of Priscilla
Thomas 35 00
John S. Williams, burial of Jonathan
Hall . 35 00
Jones Bros. Co., burial of Harriet N. Vaughan . 35 00
Marshall A. Washburn 5 00
· Solon Robertson . . 45 00
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Arthur A. Holmes, account of Jona-
than Hall . $1 00
Willard E. Fay, account of Jonathan Hall, 3 00
Benjamin A. Bennett 1 50
Sparrow Brothers, account of Arte-
mus Morse 27 00
James H. Tripp
4 00
John F. Anderson, account of H. N.
Vaughan 11 00
John T. Haskell 15 00
J. P. Marshall, account of H. N. Vaughan 1 00 ·
Benjamin F. Lane and wife, care of
Hannah S. Bates
100 00
Ephraim Hunt 50 00 ,
J. & G. E. Doane, account of H. N.
Vaughan 1 25
Mrs. A. Whitman, account of H. N.
Vaughan 26 00 .
Charles W. Turner 10 00
D. S. Surrey, account of C. H. Perry,
10 00
Mrs. C. H. Perry 4 00
Whitman, Sparrow & Co. 2 46
Harrison Haskins ·
25 00
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of D. F. Wilbur 7 00
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of A. Bliss · 182 00
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of A. L. Dorr 82 00
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Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of J. Wood $115 50
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of A. O. Standish · 6 00
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of Lucius Raymond 15 00
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of John Hall 21 00
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of George Powers 2 50
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of W. F. Thompson .
10 00
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of S. Bisbee 21 50
Winsor F. Fryer, M. D., account of Mrs. H. N. Vaughan 37 50
Drs. Hodgson and Wilbur, account of Mrs. H. Bates 114 50
Drs. Hodgson and Wilbur, account of B. F. Lane and wife . 87 00
A. B. Paun, M. D., account of Mrs. E. Wood . 75 00
A. B. Paun, M. D., account of Ste- phen Brown 25 00
A. V. Smith, M. D., account of San- ford Weston 16 00
C. S. Cummings, M. D., account of C. H. Perry ·
76 00
C. S. Cummings, M. D., account of W. Orr 3 10
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C. S. Cummings, M. D., account of P. Haven . $8 50
C. S. Cummings, M. D., account of Solon Robertson ·
61 90
.C. S. Cummings, M. D., account of A. Gibbs . · ·
6 25
C. S. Cummings, M. D., account of L. Field . ·
3 00
- $3,853 14
Overdrawn
$1,476 77
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation . $1,000 00
Unexpended 102 66
Balance from suppression of crime .
760 58
75 00
Orders drawn :
Herbert L. Leonard, chief of police
$849 00
James A. Burgess
23 00
Williston B. Chandler
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45 00
Benjamin W. Bump
20 00
Ira Tinkham .
10 00
Everett T. Lincoln
45 00
Frank C. King
27 00
Samuel S. Lovell
34 00
George E. Hatch, night watch
384 02
D. D. Sullivan, liquor cases .
100 00
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$1,938 24
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Samuel Hathaway
$31 00
Sylvanus Mendall .
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41 00
George W. Hammond
20 00
E. F. Witham
10 00
-- $1,639 02
Unexpended .
$299 22
TOWN HALL ACCOUNT.
Appropriation
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$500 00
Unexpended
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122 38
From rents
1,041 71
Orders drawn :
Middleboro Gas & Electric Plant
$498 03
Amos H. Eaton, agent .
610 78
Lloyd Perkins, 2d
7 10
Thomas A. McGowan .
25 00
Continentel Brush Co.
15 19
Jones Bros. Co.
6 78
India Alkali Works
6 18
Office, Bank & Library Co.
350 00
Walter L. Beals
1 35
Myron Baker & Co.
45 50
Thomas W. Peirce
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3 65
William F. Dean .
4 25
George F. Bryant .
312 50
Hartford Steam Boiler Ins. Co. ·
50 00
Worcester Fire Appliance Co. 21 00
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Benjamin F. Johnson .
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$83 00
J. & G. E. Doane
26 72
$2,067 03
Overdrawn .
$402 94
ALBERT T. SAVERY,
EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Town House Committee.
SEWERS.
Unexpended from 1900 .
$263 76
Sewer permits
200 00
Unexpended
$463 76
SPRINKLING STREETS.
Appropriation
$600 00
Assessed on abuttors
600 00 -
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$1,200 00
Credit to Highway Department
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$1,200 00 .
CONCRETE SIDEWALKS.
Appropriation
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$100 00
Unexpended
102 42
$202 42
Overdrawn : Shiverick & Thomas
191 05
Unexpended
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$11 37
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BOARD OF HEALTH.
Orders drawn from appropriation for Board of Health, for salaries :
John S. Williams, for 1900 $200 00
A. T. Savery, for 1900 . · 10 00
T. S. Hodgson, M. D., for 1900 25 00
James A. Burgess
335 50
$570 50
SPRINKLING CART.
Appropriation
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$350 00
Orders drawn :
L. Edgar Thomas
200 00
$150 00
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Selectmen of Middleborough, Mass.
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REPORT OF FISH WARDENS.
Received from sale of herrings
$104 00
Received from towns down the river, 140 00
$244 00
Orders drawn :
Herbert L. Leonard
$30 00
Daniel F. Wilbur .
20 25
William B. Thomas
130 00
A. T. Savery
5 00
Charles H. Tobey
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5 00
Benjamin W. Bump
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5 00
Katharine A. Sproat
10 00
Charles F. Cornish
2 00
Everett T. Lincoln
5 00
Edwin F. Witham .
5 00
Charles W. Kingman
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222 25
To divide with Lakeville
$21 75
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5 00
ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Fish Wardens of the Town of Middleborough, Mass.
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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Your inspector reports the annual inspection ordered by State Cattle Commission of all herds and buildings where same are kept. The killing and burial of four tubercular cows and thirteen horses affected with glanders and farcy.
· C. P. KEITH,
Inspector.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
Again I appear before you on lettered page after an interim of two years, and by the elective voice of the voters I again enter on the duties of my office.
The work of the year has been a busy one. Work that was needed and not attended to called for immediate action. Early in the year the Board adopted an order forbidding spitting upon our sidewalks and public places, which has been very well complied with.
The keeping of fowl has become a serious and vexed ques- tion. A person will live in the residential part of our village and will build his hen yard up to the street, another will hire a house with hardly any land, then keep a flock and turn them loose to run on his neighbor's land. The writer of this report found a flock of 80 fowl, 22 ducks and 8 geese, and the stench from that yard was unbearable. The worst case of cholera in New Orleans came from a hen yard.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The year has seen a large number of contagious diseases ; it began in March in the centre and later in the south part of the town. In the fall months the cases have been very prev- alent, with but one death ; fifty-six cases of contagious and infectious disease.
The disease will show itself in a family, the house will be placarded, and in some families it seems, instead of obey-
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ing and keeping within their house and away from the public, they start out with a fixed determination to go where they please and when they please.
One person came home and found his house placarded ; he immediately tore the card down. Another undertook to run an open house for her own and the neighbors' children, another thought it of more importance to fumigate her house so her children could attend a dance than the safety of the . public.
A proper regard for themselves and the community in which they live will save in the future much trouble.
The expenses of contagious diseases are heavy enough without the trouble and labor that comes from such conduct.
A man high in authority on sanitary laws attributes the prevalence of contagious diseases to the dry fall and prevail- ing high winds ; the germs of disease that would have decayed in our gutters and open cellars and stables have dried into a fine dust, which has filled the air with microbes. If such is the fact, would it not be well to sprinkle our streets in the fall months and save the health of the people and free our homes from dust ?
In most of our large towns as well as our cities, there is the question of a more careful attention to the care of the schoolhouses in the matter of fumigation, and it is believed by the Board that at least twice in a season the schoolhouses should be fumigated.
The gutters should be kept free from leaves and all accu- mulated matter whereby the stagnant water will tend to in- crease filth. Our village suffers largely from covered drive-
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ways. A man will own one horse, and he will want to start from the street and go to his stable on a level, and the more horses a man keeps he will have an open driveway, and in some cases the covered drain remains when no animal has been kept for at least ten years. One-half the year they are filled with sand and the other half they are frozen up and the water runs everywhere but where it is intended for. Some 'action should be taken by the town to have open driveways.
A good many people will make a dumping ground of our gutters, which should be stopped at once, and if every one will give the subject of the cleanliness of our streets a single thought a great good might be accomplished.
JAMES A. BURGESS,
Clerk and Agent.
Below are the expenses of the year and some that were incurred in 1900.
STATEMENT OF EXPENSES OF BOARD OF HEALTH.
Albert T. Savery, services
$10 00
Smith & Hathaway, disinfectant
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1 00
John S. Williams, services 200 00 . .
Thomas S. Hodgson, services . .
25 00
A. J. Bailey, painting night soil cart
8 00
M. O. Rounsville, disinfecting
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6 20
Nathan Washburn, legal advice
15 00
Fred A. Shockley, use of carriage, smallpox case, 5 00
Melvin & Badger, cleaning regenerator, and sun- dries . 17 00
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Smith & Hathaway, alcohol $1 00
James A. Burgess, services in diphtheria . 10 00
$298 20
All the above bills were incurred in the year 1900.
Alexander Matheson, labor on Mayflower ditch, $7 50
A. J. Bailey, painting night soil cart 8 50 .
Everett Snell, labor on night soil cart .
1 50
Thomas W. Pierce, sundries . .
7 98
James C. Smith, sulpho- napthol
5 00
Estate Richard Jeffers, care of public dump
5 00
James Wright, care of public dump
15 00
Wood & Tinkham, printing
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17 00
H. L. Thatcher & Co., printing .
3 00
F. Landgrebe, labor on Muttock Dam
14 00
C. P. Keith, killing and burying horse .
4 00
Alexander Matheson, labor .
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6 00
· C. O. Cook, killing and burying horse John McNally, care and expenses burying horse, 5 00
3 00
Austin J. Peters, for stamp 1 75
James A. Burgess, services 53g days, $3 per day, 160 00
$264 23
Expenses in contagious diseases :
Shaw & Childs, sundries $7 83
Mattie Martin, services as nurse in family of Leo Courtney 18 00
J. F. Shurtleff, M. D., medical attendance in family of Leo Courtney 25 00 .
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James A. Burgess, horse hire, car fare and in- cidentals .
$42 50
Melvin & Badger, formaldehyde
3 00
James A. Burgess, services ·
175 00
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$271 33
Total
$833 76
VALUATION OF PROPERTY.
Night soil cart
$60 00
Cart for cleaning gutters
10 00
Formaldehyde lamp and fluid
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38 00
2 iron barrels and tools . 7 00
$115 00
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JOHN S. WILLIAMS, THOMAS S. HODGSON, JAMES A. BURGESS,
Board of Health.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
The following are highway, State highway, snow, bridges and town team bills, etc., as rendered since January 1st, 1901 :
Appropriation for highways . $13,000 00
Unexpended balance 1900 526 39
Received of town of Lakeville, use of steam roll and crushed stone .
99 00
Received of New England Telephone Co., right of way 300 00
Received of State Treasurer, corporation tax 2,077 63
Received of Thomas & Connors, for crushed stone, 334 87
Received of Taunton Street R'y Co., excise tax, 58 50
Received for sprinkling streets ·
1,200 00
Received of A. M. Peckham, for hogs
44 17
Received of Middleboro & Brockton Street Rail- way, excise tax 822 58
Received for repairs on State highway 47 95
Received of Middleboro, Wareham & Buzzards Bay R. R. Co., macadam, etc. 1,859 97
Received of H. W. Sears, crushed stone 5 00
Received of C. H. Shaw, manure 7 50
$20,383 56
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The following orders have been approved for payment of teams, labor, etc., to assistants in their several sections :
S. N. Shiverick . $6,230 72
I. E. Macomber · ·
139 21
Arad R. Dunham
233 03
Charles H. Shaw
539 84
Charles Cobb
371 26
George Sampson district, by Charles Cobb 83 00
E. S. Ober
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32 10
H. A. Thompson .
346 09
Walter Bryant .
397 96
Ichabod Thomas .
173 59
Shadrach Atwood
123 43
W. A. Shaw
296 20
Abner Wood
121 25
J. H. Tripp
254 10
Henry C. Tinkham
364 42
O. F. Carver
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171 25
Josiah H. Thomas
538 44
S. L. Pratt
451 03
EXPENSE ON ACCOUNT OF SNOW SINCE JAN- UARY 1ST, 1901.
S. N. Shiverick
59 60
I. E. Macomber
11 80
Charles H. Shaw
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Walter Bryant
4 70
S. L. Pratt
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J. H. Tripp
$6 00
Henry Tinkhanı
10 00
Charles Cobb
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10 00
O. F. Carver
6 40
GENERAL EXPENSES.
T. Ford, blacksmithing 85 10
M. H. Cushing, grain and hay
418 73
A. C. Norris, stable supplies ·
45 40
Electric Light Co.
17 90
Bryant and Soule, hay and grain
320 46
Taunton Locomotive Co., screen sections, stack,
etc. 78 12
William F. Dean, sawing stakes
2 95
H. L. Thatcher, printing .
1 85
J. K. Sears & Co., lumber
193 90
J. Williams, blankets 18 34
W. S. Barden, 97 tons, 985 lbs. stone at 50 cts .. .
48 75
W. S. Barden, 77 tons, 410 lbs. stone at 35 cts. 27 02
Edgar Snow, exchange of horses
260 00
W. B. Stetson, 62 loads of gravel at 10 cents .
8 70
C. H. Carpenter estate, 785 loads of gravel at 10 cts. 78 50
C. W. Maxim, shafting, pulleys, etc. 10 72
A. C. Cooseboom, blacksmith and repairing 64 38
Wylie Bros., machine work ·
16 44
E. O. Parker, grain and hay
224 88
N. Y. & B. D. Ex. Co., express . 6 10 .
Walter Blair, 3 tons, 1540 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 1 88
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H. L. Bryant, 46 tons, 1800 lbs. stone at 50 cts. $23 45
O. F. Carver, 8 tons, 400 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 4 10
T. F. Cleverly, 32 tons, 980 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 16 24
Elbridge Downing, 107 tons, 1730 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 53 93 E. Hathaway, 50 tons, 535 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 25 13 Galen Lovell, 83 tons, 1575 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 41 89 John Mullen, 6 tons, 25 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 3 00
John McNally, 651 tons, 1290 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 325 82
E. S. Ober, 85 tons, 990 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 42 75
S. L. Pratt, 185 tons, 780 lbs. stone at 50 cts. . 92 69
4 06
A. B. Paun, 8 tons, 255 lbs. stone at 50 cts. · Winslow Pratt estate, 129 tons, 1910 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 64 98
George R. Sampson, 19 tons, 300 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 9 57 F. E. Stets, 61 tons, 640 lbs. stone at 50 cts. .
30 66
T. B. West, 350 tons, 1605 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 175 40
John Chase, 35 tons, 950 lbs. stone at 50 cts. . 17 73
John Chase, 3 tons, 1720 lbs. stone at 40 cts.
1 54
John Caples, 77 tons, 970 lbs. stone at 50 cts. . 38 74
Alex. Eaton, 20 tons, 1120 lbs. stone at 40 cts. 8 22
Alex. Eaton, 77 tons, 1685 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 38 92
C. H. Thomas, 118 tons, 965 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 59 24
40 60
Job Braley, 270 tons, 1770 lbs. stone at 15 cts. G. W. Tibbetts, crusher $975 00
Watson wagon
165 00
edges and belting 37 25
cheek plates 8 00
$1,185 25
Credit second-hand crusher
219 60
965 65
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Jefferey Manufacturing Co., sprocket wheels $3 87
Leonard & Ellis, Albany grease .
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3 60
George Bryant, coal for crusher .
183 84
J. B. LeBarron, cedar posts .
42 63
W. T. Tenney, carpentering
18 03
Dr. C. P. Keith, veterinary service 9 00
Thomas Spooner, 40 tons, 775 lbs. stone at 50 cts. 20 19 John McCormick, stone work, setting curbing, etc., 56 08
John McCormick, on account of Water street bridge contract . 1,100 00
William Gore, paving gutter 23 13 .
J. K. Potter & Co., valves for sprinkler . 7 20 ·
J. C. Keith, harnesses for sprinkler and nets Smith & Hathaway, time books
48 00
2 05
Lloyd Perkins, machinist work
22 68
F. C. Norris, labor, etc. ·
8 85
A. W. Hodges, engineering services.
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