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ANNUAL REPORT of the OFFICERS of the Town of Scituate
MASSACHUSETTS
For the Year Ending December 31 1916
SATUIT
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JONATHAN HATCH
Born in South Scituate, November 26, 1844 Died in Scituate, July 29, 1916; Age 71 years, 8 months, 3 days. Member of 42d Regiment Co. D. Mass. Volunteers. Served the Town as Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of the Poor from 1911 until the time of his death.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Officers of the Town of Scituate
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1916
TOWN.
SETTS
IN
SATUIT
RPORAT
PRINTED BY THE BOUNDBROOK PRESS, NORTH SCITUATE, MASS.
PROF. 917.4.48
INDEX OF ACCOUNTS
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Salaries and Expenses 13
Town Survey . 17
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Police Department. 18
Fire Department 19
Hydrant Rental 44
Sealer of Weights and Measures 21
Moth Work.
21
Elm Tree Beetle 23
Tree Warden 23
Forest Fires. 24
Bounties . 25
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Board of Health. 25
HIGHWAYS
Roads, General 27
Sidewalks. 30
Snow and Ice 30
Preservation of Macadam 33
Street Lighting 34
CHARITIES
Support of Poor 34
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
State Aid .
37
Soldiers' Relief 37
EDUCATION
Support of Schools 38
LIBRARIES . 43
RECREATION
Park Commission 43
UNCLASSIFIED 44
REDUCTION OF DEBT. 55 STATE AND COUNTY TAXES 55 REFUNDS 55 INTEREST. 56
RESERVE FUND .
56
INDEX OF REPORTS
ANIMAL INSPECTOR 126
ASSESSORS .
69
AUDITOR . 79
BOARD OF HEALTH
133
COLLECTOR .
73
DRAWING TEACHER
160
FIRE DEPARTMENT
128
MILK INSPECTOR .
125
OVERSEERS OF POOR
72
PARK COMMISSION
118
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
127
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
145
SELECTMEN .
13
Street Naming Committee.
130
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
150
TREASURER
75
TREE WARDEN
121
TOWN CLERK
82
TOWN OFFICERS, 1916
Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor. - ANSEL F.
SERVAN, JAMES W. TURNER, JONATHAN HATCH, Scituate. Town Clerk. - JETSON WADE, Greenbush.
Treasurer. - WILLIAM P. RICHARDSON, Scituate.
Collector for 1916. - ALBERT D. SPAULDING, North Scituate ..
Collector for 1913-1914. - JOHN F. TURNER, Egypt.
School Committee. - CHARLES S. SHORT, Chairman, Scituate;
JOY K. GANNETT, Minot; HAMILTON W. WELCH, Scituate Centre.
Superintendent of Schools. - WILLIAM E. CHAFFIN, Scituate. Board of Health. - WILLIAM P. GROVESTEIN, Chairman,
Scituate; GEORGE T. OTIS, Scituate; HENRY WEBB, Scituate.
Highway Surveyor. - HENRY T. COLE, Scituate. ¢
Park Commissioners. - WILLIAM H. NORTH, Chairman, Minot; HENRY T. BAILEY, North Scituate; WALTER S. HARRUB, Scituate.
Chief of Fire Department. - ERNEST R. SEAVERNS, North Scituate.
District Engineers. - District No. 1, MAURICE O'HERN, Scituate; District No. 2, FRANK W. LITCHFIELD, Green- bush; District No. 3, ERNEST R. SEAVERNS, North Scitu- ate; District No. 4, DANFORTH P. SYLVESTER, Minot; District No. 5, CHARLES M. LITCHFIELD, Scituate Centre. Registrars of Voters. - CHARLES F. CLAPP, Greenbush; WALTER J. STODDARD, North Scituate; WILLIAM STANLEY, Scituate; JETSON WADE, Clerk, Greenbush.
Tree Warden. - PERCIVAL F. BROWN, Scituate.
Auditor. - HOWARD O. FRYE, Scituate.
Sealer of Weights and Measures. - WILLIAM P. RICHARDSON, Scituate.
Advisory Board. - WALTER HAYNES, Scituate; CLIFTON B.
LEE, North Scituate; WILLIAM O. CLAPP, North Scituate; HAROLD W. POLAND, North Scituate; CHARLES A. CUSH- MAN, Scituate; JOSEPH A. WARD, Scituate; FREDERICK COLE, Greenbush; EDGAR TILDEN, Minot; WILLIAM W. WADE, Egypt.
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HISTORICAL SKETCH
NOTE: The following historical sketch was given to the Selectmen for publication in the Town Report. It seems fitting and timely that it should have permanent record here. The Town has recently acquired this property for municipal purposes. In the near future we may wish to preserve and make it a valuable addition to the civic beauty of the Centre.
THE JAMES CUDWORTH HOUSE
"The Society in consideration of the great difficulty that the Society labour under, by reason of the meeting house standing so near to the easterly part of the precinct, and that the house wanteth repairing, the sd Society agreed to take down sd house and remove it to a certain peice or gore of land betwixt two high- ways, which two highways open from that which goeth by Balch's towards Cohas- set, the one by James Cudworth's house, the other by John Otis's."-Vote of the First Parish March17, 1729.
The first James Cudworth, variously entitled Captain, Major and General, as his advancement in military train- ing and ability put him in command of the local train band, a battalion, and ultimately the whole of the Colony forces in the war with Philip in 1676, came to Scituate in 1630. His father, Ralph Cudworth, a man of genius and learning, having resigned his fellowship in Emmanuel College, Cam- bridge, England, was ordained minister of St. Andrew's Church in that town and afterward was chaplain to James I. His wife was "nurse" to the eldest prince .* After the death of his father, in 1624, the widow married Rev. Dr. Stoughton, a non-conformist clergyman,t who took upon himself the education of the young man and his brother Ralph, later the intimate of Butler,¿ Prebendary of Glouces- ter, exponent of the Platonic idealism and himself a rare philosopher.
* Scott. Introduction to Cudworth's Treatise, London, 1891.
t Pratt. The Early Planters of Scituate.
¿ Analogy, Part I, Chap. 1, Sec. 3; Scott, Introduction to Cudworth's Treatise, page 61.
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While this brother was leading the sedentary life of a teacher and minister in his native country, Jaines was fol- lowing his ideals under much less comfortable and propi- tious circumstances in Scituate. Here he reared a family of five children. The eldest son, named James, received two- thirds of his father's real estate,* which included the home- stead at Egypt in the Conihasset tract and generous acres two miles west of the first home on Kent Street.
Jonathan, the third son, received by this division "forty acres of upland with the dwelling house upon it, which he now enjoys." ¡
This dwelling did not long survive its. owner, although part of its material went into its successor, the present structure. This is evidenced by disused mortises cut in the adze-hewn oak floor timbers and rafters of the house. The weather-stained longitudinal roof boarding and the handmade laths likewise show their former use in the house of 1698 by the irregular nail holes which appear in both.
Jonathan died in 1717. His "forty acres of upland" had slightly increased and are particularly described in the inventory of his estate as "about 24 acres of land near the house £192" and the "Ensign lot 17 acres £68."
His children were Nathaniel, the eldest, James, Jonathan, Israel, Bethia, Sarah, Rachael and Hannah, the wife of Thomas Hatch.
It was manifestly impossible that all the members of this family could enjoy the paternal acres intact, and when the matter was referred to Isaac Winslow, the Judge of Pro- bate, that worthy found "that the said lands cannot be divided among all the children without great prejudice to and sporeling of the same." He therefore entered this decree :
"I do therefore hereby order and settle the whole of the said lands of said Jonathan Cudworth . .. upon Nathaniel Cud- worth the oldest son of said Jonathan Cudworth, his heirs and
* As was usual in those days in the Plymouth Colony, the English rule of primo- geniture was not observed. The eldest son was, however, usually preferred in some degree. In this case James received two-thirds of his father's estate; the other brothers, one.
+ March 19, 1697-8, Plymouth Deeds, Book 3, pages 73 and 74.
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assigns forever, he having paid unto the other children of the deceased their equal shares, &c."*
It was not an easy task to comply with this order of the Court. Each share represented approximately £90 and in addition before giving the estate to this eldest son, Judge Winslow had made provision for the widow by setting off to her as her "thirds" thirteen of the forty-one acres lying to the eastward of the dwelling house. Recourse was had, however, to the expedient of giving, in at least two instances, a bond for the above-named sum. This settlement was not completed until March 30, 1720. Between that date and 1724 the present house was built. This is accurately ascertained from the inventoryt of the estate of Nathaniel Cudworth filed August 27, 1724. In the four short years of his ownership Nathaniel Cudworth had purchased from his mother the thirteen acres set off to her as her dower and had built the house now standing, a pretentious structure for its time. Stephen Otis, Samuel Turner and Ebenezer Mott, appraisers of the estate, describe it in the inventory filed by them:
"Item. To ye mansion seat of about 45 acres of land house, barn & orchard £500."
The modest farm of his father had doubled in value; but it was not to be enjoyed by his children. The debts which he had contracted in acquiring the shares of his brothers and sisters under the decree of the Probate Court, the dower rights of his mother, and in building the "mansion," were his undoing and it went to his brother. There is no deed on record showing the conveyance to this brother James (the fourth of that name and grandson of General Cudworth). It was in his possession, however, in 1729, when the First Parish passed the vote appearing at the head of this article. The location is exactly defined. "Balch's" was the house of Benjamin Balch who married Nazareth, the daughter of Judge John Cushing. It stood on "the Countrey Way leading to Cohasset," near and fifty rods south of the North Meetinghouse. The road is now Main
* Plymouth Probate Records No. 5320.
¡ Plymouth Probate Records No. 5327.
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Street. The two highways which opened from it are Central Street, upon which the old house now stands, and the Beaver Dam Road or Willow Street, where was John Otis's house.
A side light, which in the absence of a definite record may be taken as conclusive, is thrown upon the situation by a letter addressed to Col. Isaac Winslow, the Judge of Probate at Caresrull,* his home in Marshfield. It will be remem- bered that Judge Winslow but five years before the date of the letter had divided the estate of Nathaniel Cudworth and his correspondent was one of the bondsmen. Elizabeth Cudworth, the widow, had at the time of the letter asked to be allowed to sell the real estate to pay debts.
Here is the letter:
"To Colonell
Isaac Winslow at Marshfield
Sir -I finde A mistake in ye widow Cudworth's Acompt. James Cudworth's Debt in sd acompt is 118 pounds which Realy is 180 pounds, it being his shear and Thomas Hatch's shear .; Sir, you may remember yt A shear is 90 pounds & yt James Cud- worth's bond was two 90 pounds which is 180 pounds so yt his Debt in sd acompt is 62 less than it Really is & ye Interost of 62£ for 4 years is £ S d
14-17 6 so yt ye acompt is 76=17=6 Les then it ought to be & I would pray your honor to Rectifie ye mistake in sd acompt for in her petition she prays for allowance to sel Lands to ye vallue of 312= 10= 11 which is ye whole sum Due from said estate, ye mistake being mended.
No more sir, but take boldness to subscribe myself your most humble servant.
EBENEZER MOTT."
From Scituate
April 26, 1725.
* Frequently erroneously written "Careswell." It was the seat of Gov. Edward Winslow and called after the home in England which he had left. His son Josias, also Colonial governor, occupied it from 1673 to 1680. Isaac Winslow, son of the latter, built the present house near the site of his grandfather's original dwelling and lived there at the time of these occurrences. He was a colonel of the Colony troops and Judge of Probate.
¿ Hannah Cudworth, daughter of Jonathan, married Thomas Hatch. She deceased without issue, and her share went to her husband. He sold it to James Cudworth, his brother-in-law.
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The James Cudworth who thus became possessed of the farm which old General Cudworth had given to his third son, and on which his brother Nathaniel had built a man- sion house, was himself the father of a James Cudworth, born in 1714. This son continued to live upon and culti- vate the farm, although a portion of it (twelve acres) went upon the death of his father to his younger brother, Zeph- aniah. He was a valued member of and constant attendant upon services at the First Church. His home was at this time (1762 to 1781) the center of church life outside of the meetinghouse itself. The pastor was young Ebenezer Grosvenor. He came to Scituate to preach when but twenty-three years old, a handsome youth, mild and gener- ous in his faith, too liberal by far to satisfy the strict ortho- dox Calvinistic beliefs of some of his congregation; too lovable to preach the total depravity of his flock and much less pugnacious to his critics than was his estimable wife.
In the big north room, which served as kitchen and dining room, and in the very shadow of the meetinghouse across the way, Cudworth's neighboring pewholders, who came upon saddled and pillioned mares from a distance, gathered between services to sit at table or upon a long bench which ran the length of the room under the windows, and digest at the same time the material food from the family basket and the spiritual sustenance afforded by the morning sermon.
At such times, denouncing the complaints against the preachments of the liberal pastor, Cudworth himself, true follower of that great grandfather who in 1660 had suffered dismissal from the train band and government for his pacific attitude toward the Quakers, upheld his friend and with warmth denounced the charge that Grosvenor was "affected toward Arminianism."
Upon one subject there was much discussion, but no dispute. The worshippers were of one accord in their arraignment of the attitude of the mother country in its attempt to "extort our monies from us" without voice or representation, and, as Deacon Anthony Waterman put it, "fixing the shackles of slavery and oppresion on the
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ankles of all of us in general." They were severe men, ready to carry their convictions into action whether in matters of church or state. The opposers of Mr. Grosve- nor, who were many, softened toward him and his preach- ing, however when, during the war, impoverished themselves and unable to pay his meagre stipend except in the debased Revolutionary currency of the day, they saw him sturdy, patient and uncomplaining in his privations and listened more charitably to the Sunday sermon delivered by him in homely, yet dignified, English and a patched coat.
The furnishings* of this house, the rendezvous for these Sunday gatherings, may even today be accurately de- scribed. Over the broad fireplace in the north room, which served alike as kitchen and living room, hung the old flint- lock musket carried by Israel Cudworth in the Narragansett fight and beside it the swords carried by father and son, the General and the Captain, leaders of men in the same bloody war. On the hearth the andirons supported big logs cut from "the ensign lot." Over it hung the iron kettle on its trammel and beside it the tongs and fire slices. Along- side it was the hide-covered sea chest which that other Captain James Cudworth, mariner, had carried in his "viages" to the Orient. Sitting on the hearth was the iron teakettle, while hanging above it from a place of greater honor on the jamb of the chimney, was the brass kettle which supplanted it on funeral and wedding days, Thanks- giving, Christmas and Sundays. The nine "Puter Plaites" which comprised Mistress Cudworth's entire stock, ranged along the mantelpiece, but there were also two china dishes and four quart "basons" in the cupboard. Over in the corner stood the spinning and quill wheels and, near by, the loom and warping bars. A pair of "flats," a dish kettle, a bread trough and two washing tubs completed the list of utensils of household economy.
In the east, which was the "best" room, another generous fireplace, flanked by an iron Franklin fire frame with its
* They are all set out in the inventory of the estate of James Cudworth, gentle- man, of Scituate, returned to the Probate Court by Joseph Otis, James Jenkins and Benjamin Clapp, May 19, 1791.
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balls of brass, opened into the great chimney. In front of it stood the round table and over it the looking glass re- flected the morning sunlight admitted through the twenty panes which filled the small windows. Seven chairs at nine shillings apiece stood stiffly against the low wainscoted walls. This was all-severe, utilitarian with no surrender to the esthetic or the creature comforts.
From this room, through a panelled door, swung upon inverted right-angle hinges and fastened with handmade iron latch, and a small box entry lighted only from the three glass bull's-eyes over the front entrance, the family passed to the "front" room occupied as a sleeping apartment. Here was the corded bedstead and underbed surmounted with feather bed, bolster and pillows. Over all was the coverlid, or counterpane, a pink and green creation, hand- woven, and upon which two cupids bearing garlands stood guard over the sleeping occupant.
Under a portion of the house the small cellar served to store the cider and vegetables for winter use, while in the attic were the flax, hemp and shearings which goodwife Cudworth of each generation wove into homespuns for the men-folk.
The James Cudworth last mentioned died in 1781. His son Zephaniah inherited the property and was followed in turn by his son James, the last of the family to occupy it. He sold it with ten and one-half acres of land, "the late homestead of the aforesaid James Cudworth," in 1851, just before his death, to Theophilus Thorndike, mariner, for $1100. The ownership by Captain Thorndike and his successors is current history.
This historic structure stands in the shadow of the modern High School building, a link between the early days of struggle in colony and province and the accomplished com- monwealth of today. It is greatly to the credit of Scituate that it has acquired this notable "mansion seat" in time to preserve it. It should be thoroughly restored and main- tained as a public monument. Scituate will thus set an example to its neighbors by establishing a municipal his- torical building, adapted to and used in connection with the study of colonial history by the descendants of its makers.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Appropriation $5,500 00
Permits, rights and licenses 309 00
Rental of Town Hall
12 00
Refund on Collectors' Bond
50 00
Reimbursement on telephones .
30 34
Refund by Bureau of Statistics
20 00
Fee for appraisal of dog damage
2 40
PAID
Selectmen, services
$550 65
Selectmen, expense.
35 31
Auditor, services.
125 00
Auditor, expense
8 25
Treasurer, salary.
433 36
Treasurer, expense
177 14
Collector, salary
1,134 71
Collector, expense
422 72
Assessors, services
734 20
Assessors, expense .
- 47 09
Advisory Board, expense
30 00
Law .
354 72
Town Clerk, salary .
223 80
Town Clerk, expense
62 14
Registration . .
214 00
Elections, salaries.
91 00
Elections, expense
83 56
Town Hall, janitor
33 90
Town Hall, expense
278 96
Miscellaneous expense
325 68
Printing and distributing Town Re-
ports . .
387 89
Unexpended . 169 66
Payments as follows:
$5,923 74 $5,923 74 Selectmen, services,
Frederic T. Bailey
$43 35
Ansel F. Servan 228 90
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General Government - Salaries and Expenses
James W. Turner
$99 90
Jonathan Hatch . 51 00
Jetson Wade, clerk 127 50
$550 65
Frederic T. Bailey, expense .
$21 05
Ansel F. Servan, expense.
3 56
James W. Turner, expense
1 05
Jetson Wade .
9 65
$35 31
Howard O. Frye, Auditor
$125 00
$125 00
J. L. Fairbanks, Auditor's supplies . .
8 25
8 25
Treasurer's salary, W. P. Richardson
433 36
433 36
Treasurer, expense,
P. Curran, stationery .
$37 30
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
45 72
Bureau of Statistics.
34 00
Ætna Liability Co., treasurer's bond .
50 00
Office supplies, W. P. Richardson . 10 12
$177 14
Collectors' salaries,
Albert D. Spaulding
$1,028 07
John F. Turner
106 64
$1,134 71
Collectors' expense,
Boundbrook Press.
$56 00
Albert D. Spaulding.
70 38
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
37 59
John F. Turner.
8 75
Jere R. Ainslee, collectors' bonds. .
150 00
Frederic T. Bailey & Co., collectors' bonds . 100 00
$422 72
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General Government - Salaries and Expenses
Assessors, services,
Frederic T. Bailey
$57 80
Ansel F. Servan . 305 20
James W. Turner .
133 20
Jonathan Hatch .
68 00
Jetson Wade, Clerk
170 00
$734 20
Assessors, expense,
Frederic T. Bailey
$28 08
Ansel F. Servan
4 74
James W. Turner
1 40
Jetson Wade .
12 87
$47 09
Advisory Board, expense,
Edgar Tilden.
$3 00
Boundbrook Press
19 00
Henry T. Cole .
8 00
$30 00
Harvey H. Pratt, legal services
$354 72
TOWN CLERK
Jetson Wade, salary.
$223 80
Jetson Wade, expense
$14 01
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co
32 55
A. W. Brownell.
1 25
Boundbrook Press
6 25
Other expenses, J. Wade
8 08
$62 14
REGISTRATION
Jetson Wade, services .
$49 00
Charles F. Clapp, services
49 00
Walter J. Stoddard, services
44 00
William Stanley
44 00
Expense,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. $1 50
Boundbrook Press . 26 50
1
$186 00
$28 00
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General Government - Salaries and Expenses
ELECTIONS
Salaries,
Jetson Wade.
$21 00
Harold W. Cole. 4 00
Frank H. Barry
4 00
Ernest R. Seaverns
4 00
John W. Burke
12 00
William O. Clapp
4 00
Henry T. Bailey
5 00
Harvey H. Pratt
5 00
Charles F. Curran
12 00
William Wade.
4 00
Henry A. Litchfield
8 00
Frank L. Bates
8 00
$91 00
Expense,
Jetson Wade .
$29 56
Wright & Potter 20 50
William Stanley, lunches.
16 00
Wiley S. Damon.
9 50
Mrs. Wiley S. Damon, lunches.
8 00
$83 56
TOWN HALL
Wiley S. Damon, janitor
$33 90
Expense,
Fred L. Litchfield .
$21 44
Electric Light & Power Co.
34 51
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
120 73
Wiley S. Damon.
1 75
Charles F. Andrews, fuel .
30 25
William Harney, repairs .
1 65
Ernest R. Seaverns, repairs
41 06
George F. Welch Co., supplies.
2 37
W. P. Richardson, insurance
25 20
$278 96
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General Government - Salaries and Expenses
Miscellaneous expense,
Egypt Garage & Machine Co.
$10 83
Henry T. Cole . 49 00
Bound Brook Garage.
2 50
Franklin Publishing Co. 5 00
Hobbs & Warren. 41 93
F. T. Bailey & Co.
3 00
Mrs. Wiley S. Damon
2 00
P. Curran ..
21 24
Adams, Cushing & Foster
1 50
Caleb W. Prouty
5 70
Library Bureau
3 20
William James
15 00
John W. Burke
18 00
E. W. Prescott.
42 08
Webster's Garage .
21 75
Scituate Transportation Co
18 00
John B. Washburn.
1 45
Boundbrook Press
20 75
Ward's ..
17 75
Jetson Wade, insurance
10 00
Henry Webb .
5 00
Harvey Pratt.
5 00
Henry T. Bailey
5 00
$325 68.
TOWN REPORTS
Boundbrook Press
$362 39
Paul S. Spaulding, delivering
13 50
James W. Turner, delivering
12 00
$387 89
TOWN SURVEY
Appropriation
$2,000 00
Payments,
Harrison L. House
$1,736 99
Boundbrook Press
1 75
Henry A. Litchfield
35 00
Unexpended . 226 26
$2,000 00 $2,000 00
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POLICE DEPARTMENT
Appropriation . . $3,000 00
From fines, Second District Court. 69 04
Reimbursements on telephones .
00 00
Reimbursements from uniforms
88 50
Exceeded .
1,026 61
Paid, services
$3,388 52
Expenses
795 63
$4,184 15 $4,184 15
SERVICES
Elmer F. Burrows .
$1,395 02
George R. Walling
129 00
G. Wilbur Damon .
297 00
Eugene Longfellow
109 00
David W. O'Hern
109 00
John Stonefield.
294 50
John F. Turner
617 50
Charles M. Litchfield .
162 50
James S. Barry
150 00
Ralph H. Young
99 00
Arthur N. Sampson
2 00
William O. Clapp
8 00
Stephen C. Webster
8 00
Ellis E. Damon
8 00
$3,388 52
EXPENSES
Egypt Garage & Machine Co
$127 00
Bound Brook Garage
3 00
Henry T. Cole .
26 50
John W. Burke.
2 50
Webster's Garage .
7 15
Electric Light & Power Co.
12 00
Stone & Forsyth Co
3 35
Stephen C. Webster
87 50
Harney Bros. .
3 40
The George F. Welch Co.
17 88
Protection of Persons and Property - Fire Department 19
Meadow Brook Laundry
$1 25
Dr. Harry F. Cleverly
1 50
Dr. H. E. Fernald.
3 00
M. Linskey & Bros.
183 00
A. F. Servan .
3 20
John F. Turner
112 73
Elmer F. Burrows.
35 25
Charles M. Litchfield.
37 40
Caleb W. Prouty, Adams Express
8 92
James W. Turner
3 50
John T. Conlon
4 05
Traffic Sign Co .
109 55
James D. McQuarrie 2 00
$795 63
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Appropriation .
$2,500 00
Payments, services
$687 50
Horses and autos .
139 50
Buildings and maintenance
268 65
Equipment and repairs.
966 73
Fuel and lights
70 88
Other expenses.
409 74
Exceeded 43 00
$2,543 00 $2,543 00
Payments as follows:
SERVICES
Payrolls on house fires . .
$509 50
To 89 firemen at $2.00. 178 00
$687 50
HORSES AND AUTOS
Egypt Garage & Machine Co $81 00
Bound Brook Garage
37 50
Henry T. Cole.
15 00
Joseph W. Morris.
5 00
C. Bertram Tilden
1-00
$139 50
'20 Protection of Persons and Property - Fire Department
BUILDINGS AND MAINTENANCE
Seth A. Dunbar
$25 00
James J. Andrews
35 20
Elwin L. Cook .
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