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Annual Reports 5
Of the Town Officers and Financial Statement of the
Town of Southbridge
For the year ending Jan. 1 1913
O. J. Paquette & Co., Printers Southbridge, Mass.
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Town Officers For 1912-13
TREASURER Solomon E. Blanchard.
CLERK William W. Buckley.
Alexis Boyer, Jr.,
SELECTMEN Charles Proulx, James F. Earls.
Napoleon Giroux,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR Gedeon Pinsonneault, Jr. Daniel T. Morrill.
ASSESSORS
W. H. McGilpin, Antoine Farland, Joseph Gagnon,
Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914
Arthur Cabana,
AUDITORS Joseph Metras, Joseph Lafleche, 2nd
BOARD OF HEALTH
Jos. E. Donais, George Webster, J. A. Caron,
Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914 Term expires 1915
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR Alfred Mckinstry.
4
TOWN OFFICERS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
P. H. Hebert, F. A. Wald, Albert J. Thibault, J. A. Whittaker, Charles A. Tetrault, Albert B. Wells,
Term expires 1913 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914 Term expires 1914 .
Term expires 1915
. Term expires 1915
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
J. A. Whittaker, Wm. C. Flood, Henry J. Tetrault, Theophile Houle,
Isidore Leblanc, J. J. Delehanty, William F. Hefner, Origene J. Paquette, F. E. Corbin,
Term expires 1913 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914 Term expires 1914 . Term expires 1914 Term expires 1915 . Term expires 1915 Term expires 1915
CEMETERY COMMITTEE
M. D. Morrill, Wardwell M. Edwards, Morris H. Marcy, Adolphe Peloquin,
Clarence F. Morse, Joseph Desrosiers
Terin expires 1913 Term expires 1913 . Term expires 1914 Term expires 1914 . Term expires 1915 Term expires 1915
CONSTABLES
Pierre Caplette, Patrick Donnelly, A. R. Brown, P. H. Laughnane,
Andrew M. Higgins, Marcus L. Dillaber, Louis Lamothe, Joseph Paquin.
TAX COLLECTOR F. X. Tetrault.
5
TOWN OFFICERS
SEWER COMMISSIONERS
H. U. Bail, James Pendergast, W. J. Lamoureux,
Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914 . Term expires 1915
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS
Hector Leclair, Joseph Lafleche, Isidore Leblanc, .
Term expires 1913 . Term expires 1914 Term expires 1915
TREE WARDEN Pierre Benoit.
Appointive Officers
TOWN COUNSEL L. O. Rieutord.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Fred E. Corbin.
CARE OF TOWN CLOCK George T. Armes.
POUND KEEPER Honore Dorval.
KEEPER OF LOCKUP
Jesse F. Coombs,
Assistant, Louis Peloquin.
JANITOR OF TOWN HALL BUILDING Pierre Caplette.
6
TOWN OFFICERS
CATTLE INSPECTOR Wm. T. Pugh, V. S.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Felix Gatineau.
S. D. Perry,
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
Moses Gagnon, 1
J. J. O'Shaughnessy, Wm. W. Buckley, Clerk.
FIRE ENGINEERS Charles Proulx, Chief.
Joseph E. Duchesneau, G. N. Laughnane, Louis Lamothe, J. J. Hogan, J. N. A. Langevin, Superintendent of Fire Alarm.
FIRE WARDENS
Aime Langevin, Chief.
Charles Blackmer, James H. Mason, F. Brissette, Silas B. Morse,
Thomas Hughes, George H. Clemence, H. C. Wadleigh.
POLICE OFFICERS
John E. Hefner,
Jules Blain, Alfred Langevin,
J. Wilcox, D. A. Kenny, George Lamoureux,
George O. Severy, Napoleon Garceau, Napoleon Boiteau,
Origene Lacasse, Jules Theriault, Louis Peloquin,
Charles O. Cozzens, Joseph Bachand,
I. R. Apte, Honore Dorval, Louis Meunier, Thomas Nichols, Prosper Proulx.
George Hebert, Thomas Troye, H. S. Freeman, George H. Chaffin, Roy Sanders, Daniel Blute,
Patrick Sheridan,
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TOWN OFFICERS
PUBLIC WEIGHERS
George E. Morse, A. D. Cornell, Thomas Hughes, C. Russell Morse,
F. B. Vinton, Herbert Carpenter,
Clarence Morse.
FENCE VIEWERS George H. Clemence, C. M. Morse.
Walter Leonard, Philias X. Casavant, George Webster, Arthur E. Conner,
FIELD DRIVERS
Morris A. Feyler, Arthur J. Lacroix, John G. Curran.
Pierre Caplette,
TRUANT OFFICERS Thomas Walsh, Herbert S. Freeman.
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
Charles Hyde, E. C. Ellis,
George Simpson, V. W. Lamoureux, John Ryan,
Thomas Hughes, A. D. Cornell, E. M. Morse,
J. R. Harris,
E. W. Ide,
Eugene D. Ide,
H. H. Clemence,
George H. Clemence, M. Duhamel,
A. J. Harwood.
A. M. Higgins, Oliver Paul, Jr., Pierre Cormier,
UNIFORM POLICE FORCE Jesse F. Coombs, Chief. James Coughlin, Patrick Donnelly, Joseph Paquin, Daniel Blute, Substitute.
F. E. Randall, E. C. Ellis, E. I. Knowles, Joseph Degrenier, Mederic Duhamel, George A. Berry, Alfred Mckinstry,
Henry A. Morse,
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
TOWN TREASURER
SOLOMON E. BLANCHARD in account with the Town of Southbridge, Jan. 1, 1912, to Jan. 1, 1913.
TAX BILL FOR THE YEAR 1912.
State tax,
$11,312 50
Highway tax,
68 00
County tax,
6,966 00
Town appropriations,
135,770 00
Overlayings,
5,159 16
Non-resident bank tax
2,529 04
$161.804 70
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS.
Voted at meeting March 11, 1912 :-
Abatement of taxes, $1,300 00
Bridges,
2,000 00
Camp Ponce, 50 00
Cemetery improvements,
750 00
Contingent,
8,000 00
Contingent schools,
4,500 00
Electrician, 200 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Engine men,
$5,495 00
Evening schools,
750 00
Fire department,
3,800 00
Hamilton street improvements,
2,800 00
Highway, Excise tax and
6,000 00
High school,
6,700 00
Insurance,
900 00
Interest,
8,000 00
Memorial day,
150 00
Outside poor,
7,000 00
Playgrounds,
1,500 00
Police department,
7,400 00
Police station,
800 00
Printing,
1,800 00
Public band concerts,
250 00
Public library, dog fund and
2,150 00
Railings,
500 00
Repairs farm buildings,
200 00
Salaries,
7,500 00
School apparatus,
250 00
Sewer contingent,
1,000 00
Sidewalk repairs,
2,000 00
Sinking fund,
750 00
Soldiers' relief,
1,350 00
Street lights,
10,000 00
Support of poor, 3,000 00
Town hall contingent, rents and 2,100 00
Water supply, 3,700 00
Obligations to be provided for
in tax levy of 1912, 16,900 00
Art. 18. Chestnut street cul- vert, 2,300 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Art. 19. Street signs, 400 00 -
Art. 21. Main street retain-
ing wall, 200 00
Art. 24. Worcester street,
note due 12/12,
2,500 00
Art. 25. Goddard court,
5,250 00
Art. 26. Dupaul street,
575 00
Art. 27, Mill
street retain-
ing wall, 175 00
Art. 28. Charlton street side- walk. 1,000 00
Art. 29. Fire alarm battery, 600 00
Art. 30. Marcy street drain, 400 00
Art. 32. Hook street cross-
walk,
75 00
Art. 33. River and Oliver
street culvert, 500 00
Art. 34. Harrington street grading, 250 00
$135,770 00
Transfers from unappropriated funds :- To Common schools, $18,000 00
$18,000 00
Transfers to unappropriated funds :-
From Brochu street sidewalk, $83 19
Chapin street sidewalk. 2 06
E. Main street sidewalk, 09
Main street cut, 129 25
River street sidewalk,
22 46
Oakes avenue widening, 50
Union street sidewalk, 3 41
$240 96
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Transfer to sewer assessments :-
Balance from River, Pleasant, Walcott, and Plimpton street sewer, $305 21
$305 21
Meeting September 9, 1912 :-
Art. 3. No appropriation.
Art. 4. Worcester and Cen-
tral street macadam, $4,800 00
Art. 5. Main street macadam, 4,500 00
Art. 6. Insurance account,
300 00
Art. 7. Worcester street side-
walk,
650 00
Art. 8. Chestnut street cul-
vert, 30 04
Art. 9. No appropriation.
Art. 10. Grading Dupaul st., 500 00
Art. 11. Repairs on Water street, 300 00
Art. 12. Repairs on Culverts, Thomas, Charlton and Me- chanic streets, 500 00
Art. 13. Repairs on Everett street culvert, 300 00
$11,880 04
All above sums to be raised by transfers from unappropri- ated funds.
Meeting November 5, 1912 :--
Art. 2.
Police department,
$650 00
Art. 3. Printing, 325 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Art. 4. Soldiers' relief, $350 00
Art. 5. Lebanon hill road, 250 00
$1.575 00
All above sums to be raised by transfers from unappropri- ated funds.
SOLOMON E. BLANCHARD, in account with the Town of Southbridge, Dr.
RECEIPTS.
Jan. 1, 1912, balance, $8,593 70
Taxes-1910, F. X. Tetrault, 167 70
1911, F. X. Tetrault, 15,171 45
1912, F. X. Tetrault, 146,967 65
Notes payable :--
Anticipation of taxes, 60,000 00
Worcester street macadam, 5,000 00
Cemetery lots sold, 2,040 00
Cemetery fund :-
Interest on deposits, 1,129 36
D. Nichols, 20 00
J. Brown, 20 00
Edward Lovejoy,
20 00
Ellen A. Vinton,
25 00
City of Lowell to board of Health, 57 29
Corporation tax,
3,345 20
Corporation tax, public service, 905 11
Corporation tax, business,
5,331 87
District court fees,
675 00
District court fees, house cor- rection, 10 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Dog fund,
$772 97
Dennison rent,
150 00
Fire department :-
Copper sold,
24 00
Zinc sold,
5 00
Street Railway Co., 70 41
Hamilton street improvement,
5,566 52
Highways :-
Worcester Consolidated
St. Railway Co., 629 27
Rent of steam roller,
60 00
State, rent of roller, 60 00
Insurance, refund, armory,
12 00
Interest on mortgage,
8 63
Interest Augusta water bonds,
640 00
Liquor licenses,
19,207 00
Military aid, state,
240 00
Mynott fund,
4 40
National bank tax,
361 94
Street Railway tax,
1,504 90
Outside poor :-
Charlton,
120 90
Boston,
10 00
Lowell,
3 65
Springfield,
2 00
Sturbridge,
4 00
Worcester,
52 53
Reimbursement.
21 00
State,
198 21
Police station :-
Charlton, 25 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Sturbridge, Rents, Beneditto,
25 00
180 00
Public library fines,
159 85
Playgrounds :- Premium,
8 00
Grass sold, 5 00
Receipts, sealer of weights,
43 88
Sale of armory and school house, 15,000 00
Sidewalk assessments,
850 30
Schools :-
Town of Dudley,
6 50
Town of Dudley, 8 25
Town of Sturbridge,
27 00
Card tickets,
38 00
Tuition,
153 00
Supplies sold,
49 56
Sewer assessments,
2,192 05
Sewer contingent :-
Shed sold, 5 00
Southern N. E. R. R. Co., 55 00
Sewer, Hamilton st., Alden est., 29 64
Sidewalk repairs :-
C. D. Paige, 5 10
C. M. Carpenter,
35 55
Water Supply Co.,,
114 53
Rev. E. St. Onge,
84 16
State aid, state,
1,128 00
Support of poor,
806 61
Sunday licenses. 483 50
Town hall contingent, rents,
906 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Lumber sold, 10 00
Worcester Consolidated St.
Railway Co., 734 65
Worcester street macadam, state, 2,725 00
Worcester street macadam, re- fund, 40 00
$304,513 62
CR. BY EXPENDITURES.
Abatement of taxes,
1,541 11
Bridges,
1,946 88
Camp Ponce,
50 00
Cemetery improvements,
1,818 41
Contingent,
8,164 30
County tax,
6,966 00
Culverts :-
River and Oliver street,
499 01
Chestnut street,
2,330 04
Charlton, Mechanic and Thomas street,
494 66
Everett street,
231 31
District court fees,
395 35
Dupaul street,
1,040 81
Engine men,
5,495 00
Electrician,
200 00
Fire alarm battery,
600 00
Fire department,
3,693 71
Goddard court,
5,221 55
Harrington street grade,
250 00
Hamilton street improvement,
8,346 62
Highways, 8,556 23
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Hook street,
$74 50
Insurance,
1,226 11
Interest,
7,507 63
Lebanon hill grade,
. 247 44
Main street macadam,
4,954 95
Main and Mill street wall,
369 09
Memorial day,
150 00
Military aid,
445 00
Mynott fund,
4 40
Marcy street drain,
391 50
National bank tax,
2,381 90
Outside poor,
7,245 10
Playgrounds,
1,519 20
Plimpton street extension,
2,045 31
Police department,
7,938 45
Police station,
949 94
Printing,
2,129 45
Public band concerts,
250 00
Public Library,
3,009 58
Railings,
441 13
Repairs, farm buildings,
142 10
Repairs, water street,
286 05
Salaries,
7,789 48
Schools :-
Apparatus,
252 43
Common,
18,774 18
Contingent,
4,586 78
Evening,
746 95
High,
6,075 41
Sewers :-
Contingent, 1,126 34
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Charlton street,
$1,367 90
Hamilton street,
33 10
Main street,
47 35
Mill street,
863 52
Morris street,
179 97
Pleasant street,
817 75
South street and Oakes
ave.,
3,523 15
Sidewalks :-
Charlton street,
998 90
Repairs,
2,166 70
Worcester street,
297 41
Soldiers' reliet,
1,854 35
State aid,
1,212 00
State tax,
11,312 50
Street lights,
10,664 68
Street signs,
98 50
Support of poor,
4,395 71
Town hall contingent,
3,729 12
Water supply,
3,742 96
Worcester street macadam,
12,630 40
Liquor licenses, 14 to state,
4,801 75
Deposits in banks :-
Athol savings,
1,000 00
Leominster savings,
1,000 00
Northampton Inst. for
savings, 1,000 00
Southbridge savings, 430 00
Notes payable :-
Anticipation of taxes, 60,000 00
Central street bridge, 1,000 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Main street bridge,
$1,000 00
River and Mill street
bridges, 1,000 00
Mechanic street school,
1,000 00
Hamilton street paving,
1,000 00
Hamilton street improve-
ment,
2,300 00
Hamilton street improve-
ment,
1,000 00
Stone crusher,
500 00
River street walk,
1,500 00
Chapin street walk,
300 00
Brochu street walk,
800 00
Main street widening,
450 00
Worcester street macadam, 2,500 00 Sewers :-
Filter beds,
$1,000 00
Mechanic street,
1,000 00
Outlet pipe,
1,000 00
Sewerage loan,
550 00
Sewerage loan,
500 00
Sewerage loan,
1,000 00
$288,448 11
Cash balance Dec. 31, 1912,
160,65 51
$304,513 62
Notes
NOTES OUTSTANDING DEC. 31, 1912 PAID IN 1912
Central St. bridge,
Mill and River St. bridges,
$1,000 00 $1,000 00 12,000 00 1,000 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Main St. bridge,
$6,000 00 $1,000 00
Hamilton St. paving,
9,000 00
1,000 00
Mechanic St. school,
2,000 00
1,000 00
Stone crusher,
1,500 00
500 00
Anticipation of taxes,
15,000 00
15,000 00
Anticipation of taxes,
20,000 00
20,000 00
Anticipation of taxes,
15,000 00
15,000 00
Anticipation of taxes,
10.000 00
10,000 00
Hamilton St. improvements,
31,000 00
3,300 00
Brochu St. walk,
800 00
800 00
Main St. widening,
450 00
450 00
River St. walk and improve-
ments,
1,500 00
1,500 00
Chapin St. walk,
300 00
300 00
Sewers :-
July 1, 1929,
30,000 00
May 1, 1930,
20,000 00
Filter beds, July 1, 1910-07,
24,000 00
1,500 00
Filter beds, July 1, 1910-17,
6,000 00
1,000 00
Outlet pipe, July 1, 1910-17,
6,000 00
1,000 00
Mechanic St., July 1, 1910-15,
4,000 00
1,000 00
Worcester St., macadam,
5,000 00
2,500 00
$208,550 00 $78,850 00
Paid in 1912,
78,850 00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1912, $129,700 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Obligations to be Provided for in the Tax Levy of 1913
Main street bridge,
$1,000 00
Mill and River street bridges,
1,000 00
Hamilton street paving,
1,000 00
Mechanic street school,
1,000 00
Hamilton street improvements,
3,300 00
Stone crusher,
500 00
Worcester street macadam,
2,500 00
Sewers :-
Filter beds,
1,500 00
Filter Beds,
1,000 00
Outlet pipe,
1,000 00
Mechanic street,
1,000 00
$14,800 00
Invested Funds of the Town are Deposited as follows :
CEMETERY FUND.
BOOK NO.
NAME OF BANK.
54964
Worcester Five Cent Savings Bank, $1,000 00
6862
Amherst Savings Bank, 1,000 00
1498
Salem Five Cents Savings Bank, 1,000 00
79028
Worcester County Institution for Savings, 1,000 00
3481
Leicester Savings Bank,
1,000 00
47299
40500
Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank, 1,000 00 North Adams Savings Bank, 1.000 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
153048 Springfield Institution for Savings, $1,000 00
24902 Dedham Institution for Savings, 1,000 00
32073 Natick Five Cent Savings Bank, 1,000 00
55266 Worcester People's Savings Bank, 1,000 00
8465 Southbridge Savings Bank, 1,778 24
3791 Ware Savings Bank, 1,000 00
9849
Millbury Savings Bank, 945 00
11619
44746
Webster Five Cent Savings Bank, · 1,014 25 Northampton Institution for Savings, 1,000 00
30460
Athol Savings Bank,
1,000 00
14744
Gardner Savings Bank,
992 50
22841
Leominster Savings Bank, 975 00
SINKING FUND.
BOOK NO. 21209
NAME OF BANK.
Southbridge Savings Bank, $1,692 96
50139
Worcester People's Savings Bank, 844 26
51856
Fitchburg Savings Bank, 685 94
34032
Clinton Savings Bank, 795 90
Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank, 640 00
73989 16257 29970
Amherst Savings Bank, 750 00
Salem Five Cent Savings Bank,
750 00
4443
Leicester Savings Bank,
659 32
25862
Leominster Savings Bank, 1,000 00
City of Augusta Water Bonds,
16,000 00
MYNOTT FUND.
9529
Southbridge Savings Bank, 990 58
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
AUDITORS
Cemetery
Cemetery Fund
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1912, $17,840 03
Received from L. Wesley Cur-
tis, for sale of lots and per- petual care, , 2,040 00
$19,880 03
EXPENDITURES. Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1913,
$19,880 03
Cemetery Improvements
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation, $750 00 1,214 36
Interest,
$1,964 36
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn Jan. 1, 1912, $218 15 L. Wesley Curtis, men and teams, $1,242 91 Salary 1911, 200 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Salary 1912, $200 00
$1,642 91
Southbridge Coal Co., fountain, 50 00
Samuel Williams, est., plants,
32 20
T. J. Harrington, plants, 26 50
Southbridge Water Supply Co., water, 20 00
Weld & Beck, supplies,
10 00
G. C. Winter, supplies,
8 35
Charles Proulx, loam,
7 50
P. H. Carpenter Co., supplies,
5 60
T. H. Comberbach, manure,
5 25
M. H. Delehanty, loam,
3 00
W. R. Olney, sod,
3 00
The Southbridge Press, printing
billheads,
2 50
Oldham & Ranahan, supplies,
1 60
$2,036 56
Account overdrawn Jan. 1, 1913, $72 20
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Library
Mynott Fund
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1912,
$928 94
Interest,
66 04
$994 98
EXPENDITURES.
E. F. Dakin, books, $4 40
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1913,
$990 58
Public Library
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1912,
$155 58
2,150 00
Appropriation, Dog fund, 753 77 Fines, 159 85
3,219 20
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
EXPENDITURES.
E. F. Dakin, papers, magazines and books, $472 10
Edith M. Peck, salary, $397 51
Sundry expenses, 20 15
417 66
Ella E. Miersch, salary, 389 56
Sundry expenses, 23 90
413 46
M. W. Plimpton, asssitant
salary, 407 38
Southbridge Electrical Contrac-
ting Co. labor and supplies, 151 54
Webster & Southbridge Gas & Electric Co., lights, 129 13
The H. R. Hunting Co., books, 122 85
Michelson Bros., binding books, 122 55
E. C. Ellis, coal, 108 00
John Coggans, janitor,
103 30
The Southbridge Press, printing labels, fiction list, 102 00
J. Terquem, french books, 60 87
H. P. Oldham, rent, 56 25
Ruth Beecher, services, 55 70
A. Farland, labor and supplies, 39 76
David Farquhar, binding, 37 82
H. W. Wilson Co., catalogue and other supplies, 24 38
Library Bureau, supplies, 21 60
Peter Coggans, labor, 16 70
Fitzgerald Book Co., 10 00
Gaylord Bros., binding books, 9 59
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Caroline L. Himebaug, books, $8 22
Librairie Beauchemin, french
books, 7 75
The Union Library Association, every day science, 7 60
Charles E. Lauriat, books, 7 25
Ellen Laycock, services, 6 90
Quinebaug Historical Society, leaflets, 6 60
American Decorating Co., dec- orating building, 6 00
Library Art Club, assessments, 6 00
G. N. Crane, labor and supplies, 5 50
D. Van Nostrand Co., books, 5 20
A. L. A. Publishing Board, supplies, 5 05
Stone & Forsyth, supplies,
5 00
John Bouvier, labor,
4 90
A. M. Marquis, books, 4 75
C. D. Dodge Co., supplies,
4 38
M. Cadorette, labor,
3 95
Gabree Bros,. supplies,
3 50
D. Appleton & Co., books,
3 50
Massachusetts Historical Socie- ty, collections, vol. 8, 3 00
Alexandre Belisle, books, 3 00
American School of Correspond- ence, books, 2 80
Elbridge J. Copp, books,
2 50
American Sports, books, 2 25
E. J. Barnard & Co., supplies, 2 00
Retenom & Lindrey, books, 2 00
30
REPORT OF AUDITORS
R. T. Reed, repairing clock, $2 00
D. C. Heath Co., books, 1 37
T. F. Rouke, books, 1 00
The Universal Binder. sample binder, 1 00
D. H. Griffin & Son, supplies, 1 00
Playground Association, pam- phlets, 70
The Penn Publishing Co., sup- plies, 40
$3,009 58
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1913, $209 62
Account of Poor
Repairs on Farm Buildings
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1. 1912,
$70 87
Appropriation, 200 00
$270 87
EXPENDITURES.
Joseph A. Allard, labor and
supplies, $122 93
Southbridge Roofing Co,, labor and supplies, 19 17
$142 10
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1913, $128 77
Support of Poor
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1912,
$481 68
Appropriation, 3,000 00 Sale of produce, 806 61
$4,288 29
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
EXPENDITURES.
W. P. Gendreau, supplies, $764 70
Honore Dorval, salary,
600 00
P. Renaud, supplies, 436 64
Weld & Beck, supplies, 331 59
J. R. Harris & Son, supplies,
301 99
Morse Bros., supplies,
284 18
Kilda Phaneuf, labor,
250 00
A. L. Desaulniers, supplies,
196 16 -
Thomas Hughes, coal,
196 00
Gedeon Pinsonneault, Jr., sup- plies, 176 69
Maria Dorval, labor,
126 00
Joseph Lippe, supplies,
84 22
J. F. Lariviere, supplies,
81 63
The Edwards Co., supplies,
65 51
Edward Kelley, cow,
55 00
Maria Phaneuf, labor,
52 00
Joseph Lavallee, labor,
50 00
W. J. Lamoureux & Co., sup- plies, 40 10
Dora Dorval, labor,
35 00
G. C. Winter, supplies,
32 82
O. L. Desaulniers, labor and supplies, 28 10
F. W. Parker, repairing engine, 25 90
E. L. Gay, repairing engine, 25 05
J. E. Donais, M.D., medicines,
19 30
Lemmelin & Lucas, labor, 19 00
Ernest Collette, labor, 17 70
Theodore St. Onge, medicines, 15 45
Stephen Richard, oats, 15 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Dr. W. T. Pugh, professional services, 13 60
H. A. Dresser, supplies,
9 00
Frank Lamontagne, labor,
7 00
Overseers, cash paid appraisers,
6 00
Joseph Blais. repairing shoes,
5 90
Southbridge Roofing Co., labor,
5 50
Ide Lumber Co., lumber, 4 50
A. R. Webster, team hire, 3 50
Henry Courtemanche, repairing shoes, 3 25
P. H. Carpenter Co., supplies,
2 80
F. A. Wald, spectacles, 2 50
J. A. Brightman, repairing clocks,
2 50
The Southbridge Press, printing extracts, 2 00
Gabree Bros., supplies,
1 23
A. D. Cornell, cement, 80
$4,395 71
Account overdrawn Jan. 1, 1913,
$107 42
Outside Poor
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
Jan. 1, 1912,
$837 60
Appropriation, 7,000 00
State Treasurer. 168 21
Town of Charlton, 120 90
34
REPORT OF AUDITORS
City of Worcester,
$79 00
B. J. Proulx, Jr., reimbursement,
21 00
City of Boston,
13 53
Town of Sturbridge,
4 00
City of Lowell,
3 65
City of Springfield,
2 00
$8,249 89
EXPENDITURES.
A. L. Desaulniers, goods de- livered, $698 25
Gedeon Pinsonneault,
Jr., goods deliv- ered, $605 21
Investigating and trans-
portation of pau- pers, 17 88
623 09
Peter Grant & Co., goods de- livered, 408 00
W. J. Fitzpatrick, goods de- livered, 375 00
William Leriche, goods de- livered, 317 50
Town of Webster, aid to outside poor, 313 64
E. D. Hewins, fund aid to town patients, 265 00
Town of Rockland, aid to out- side poor, 251 00
F. M. Marble, goods delivered, 241 00
City of Haverhill, aid to outside poor, 219 43
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Geo. H. Smith, est., goods de- livered, $206 25 Adelard Laporte, goods de- livered, 196 50
Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, State Infirmary, board and care of town patients, 184 30 Earls & O'Shaughnessey, goods delivered, 182 00
Memorial Hospital, board and care of town patients, 176 04
Massachusetts Commission for
the blind, board and care of town patients, 166 00
Town of Attleborough, aid to town patients, 154 40
Lavigne & Benoit, goods deliv- ered, 144 00
St. Vincent Hospital Corpor- ation, board and care of town patients, 140 80
J. R. Harris & Son, goods de- livered, 132 00
The House of Angle Guardian, board and care of town patients, 122 75
City of Pittsfield, aid to town patients, 118 60
Southbridge Coal Co., wood and coal, ·
114 95
City of Worcester, aid to town patients, 111 11
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REPORT OF AUDITORS
Town of Mansfield, aid to out- side poor, 107 17
J. E. Williams, goods delivered, $98 75
Joseph Therien, goods delivered, 92 00
J. E. Donais, M. D., medicine to outside poor, 89 85
Derosier & Peloquin, goods de- livered, 84 00
City of Brockton, aid to outside poor, 83 26
Alderic Jacques, wood delivered, 59 00
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