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Nephritis
Randolph
12
Margaret Gaynor
3
7
Meningitis .
Randolph
21
Frederick C. Shepard,
31
4 17
Consumption
Randolph
24
Obadiah Jones
93
2
3
Old age
Randolph
25
Statira Payne
72
8 13
Heart disease
·
31
Rosella Patten
3
8
Infantile atrophy
·
Feb. 7
Stillborn
Randolph
11 13
James F. Roddan
42
Cerebral hemorrhage, La grippe .
Randolph
17
Eliza P. Howard
74
4 15
Articular rheumatism,
Randolph
Ann O'Shay
60
Erysipelas .
.
·
. 43
7
3
Uremic convulsions .
St. John's N. F.
Mar.
Rebecca Briggs .
84
7|14
Influenza
Stoughton
Adelia Ann French
57
Heart failure
Randolph
Mary A. Hayden
44
4 17
Pneumonia
Randolph
Thomas Halloran
53
Harriet L. French
73 9 22
Carcinoma
.
·
Apr.
Felix B. Curran
76
7
Influenza
New York City
6
John P. Brady
37 2
Tuberculosis
Randolph
6
Edwin A. Taber
71
10 12
11
Edith May Thompson, Patrick Hart
21
4.29
53
Anaemia
Boston
14
John H. Knight
43
Heart disease
·
Randolph
27
James Thompson
.
66
6.20
Cerebral hemorrhage,
Boston
30
Tony Barberri .
53
Pneumonia
Italy
May
Henry Russell
65 1
Locomotor ataxia
Stoughton
9 17
Minot Wales Baker
60
6
Apoplexy .
Stillborn
· Randolph
June
Edward Quinn
64
Arterio sclerosis
· Randolph
Nellie Murray
39
Heart disease
Hopkinton
Anna Jeannette Roel .
- 9 25
Meningitis .
Norwich, Ct.
July
30 2 Michael DeNeill
81 8.10
Nephritis
Ireland
3 George Delaney
1| Premature birth
Randolph
7
Harriet D. Makepeace,
79 2 12
Heart disease
Canton
·
Cerebral hemorrhage,
Boston
Randolph
Stillborn
Randolph
28 31 1 2
John A. Sylvester
77
10 25
La grippe
.
Randolph
Stillborn
Randolph
Cerebral hemorrhage, Heart disease
Randolph
14
Alice J. Croud
5
Spina bifida
.
.
.
Randolph
22 13 18
Elizabeth Ann Dee Mary Brown
84
Pneumonia
Ireland
19 27 27 29 6 7 8 11 14
John Flynn
70
Ireland
Ireland
Premature birth
Randolph
.
.
.
.
.
.
Randolph
11
.
Randolph
.
Buckfield, Me.
Randolph
Ireland Holbrook
.
.
202
Date.
Name.
Age.
Cause of Death.
Birthplace.
July
7
Elsie W. Larsen
-
7
2
Infantile atrophy
Randolph
9
Walter R. Bennett
Boston
11
Elizabeth T. O'Connell
58
Jaundice
Randolph
14
Bridget Delaney
37
Uraemia
Ireland
16
Mary C. Snow .
75
3
9
Cancer
Lewiston, Me.
17
Joseph Donovan
67
6
Polyneuritis
Ireland
18
Eva Maud Morey
4:26
Cholera infantum
Boston
20
Rose J. Bunker .
36
Tuberculosis
Randolph
20
Joanna Anderson
92
7
Dysentery .
Sweden
28
Mary Brennan
66
Heart disease
Ireland
Aug.
6
Warren I. Shaw
29
2
17
Phthisis pulmonalis
Randolph
11 Alice Clark
74
Ileo-colitis
Salem
12 Phoebe Derocha
67
Colitis
Canada
15
Nathaniel Noyes
74
3 22|
Endocarditis
·
Ireland
11
Mary Dee
21
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Randolph
12
Minnie Eliza Taber Michael Lagan
62
Intestinal obstruction,
Ireland
Oct.
6
Frederick H. Briggs
9
Hydrocephalus
Randolph
6
Francis Brady
10
2 29
Heart failure
Randolph
7
Rev. James A. Campbell
55
Apoplexy
Boston
7
Andrew W. Norwood, 129
5
Typhoid fever Diabetes
Braintree
11
Matilda H. Wood
64 5 6
Abdominal tumor
Brockton
20
Bernard H. Roddam .
39
8
1 Hemorrhage
Randolph
23
Edward W. Grady
37
Tuberculosis
Randolph
28
Stillborn
Randolph
29
Clara Taber Mann
.
Nov.
2
Emma D. Stetson
53 5|27
Cancer
Randolph
5
William Porter .
73 2 6
Apoplexy
Stoughton
9
John Luke Manning
84
2 23
Cerebral hemorrhage, Heart disease
Randolph
25
Benjamin O. Pettee Ellen Buckley
60
Pneumonia
Ireland
Dec.
6
7|
Spina bifida
· Randolph
8
Stillborn
Randolph
29
Patrick F. Mahoney . 50 10 19 Pneumonia
Randolph
CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES.
Bronchitis, articular rheumatism, erysipelas, anaemia, locomotor ataxia, jaundice, polyneuritis, cholera infantum, dysentery, hydro- cephalus, diabetes, tumor, hemorrhage, gangrene
Intestinal obstruction, nephritis, meningitis, consumption, old age, infantile atrophy, spina bifida, uraemia, colitis, typhoid fever Carcinoma, apoplexy
. two each-20 three each- 6
La grippe
four- 4
Cerebral hemorrhage, pneumonia
. five each-10
Tuberculosis
six- 6
Stillborn
eight- 8
Heart disease
.
eleven-11
-
Total 79
1
23|
Tuberculosis
.
-
Sept.
11 Rose Quinn
87
Old age
·
26
28
Typhoid fever
Andover
11
Sarah M. Bump
69
6 21
20 10
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Randolph
10
Rose A. Boyle .
75
3
3
Gangrene
.
Taunton
27
·
Ireland.
35
.
Gagetown, N.B.
.
Jay, Me.
29
Y. M D
·
. one each-14
.
203
INTERMENTS
AT RANDOLPH OF PERSONS DYING ELSEWHERE IN 1904.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Place of Death.
Jan
1
Carberry Francis McKaig
291
Braintree
5
John D. Regan
.
10
3
Boston
12
William Henry Thayer
75 11 23
Hyde Park
18
Jane B. Humphrey .
60
Boston
21
John J. Crawford
47 11 27
Boston
30
Catharine Finnegan
.
Feb.
3
John Walsh
76
Somerville
21
Catharine Cain
65
5
9
Brockton
22
Christopher Lunsman
72
26
Brockton
Mar.
2
Thomas E. Dunn
27
Boston
2
Lizzie Estella Bradley
26
8
3
Boston
15
Clara Jennie Spera .
9
South Braintree
19
Margaret O'Brien
70
Chicago, Illinois
21
Margaret Russell
28
Holbrook
22
Daniel Dillon .
6
1
Boston
23
Harold William Murphy
1
Braintree
28
Parker R. Dexter
10
7
21
Boston
31
Lyder M. D. Bartlett
51
11 -
Plaistow, N. H.
31
Catherine J. Reardon
28
3 16
Holbrook
Apr.
1
Mary Virginia Tongere
22
Boston
3
Michael Crowley
94
Boston
4
William Taylor
53
4 5
Boston
12
Eliza S. Willis
61|
8 16
Cambridge
17
Edward McCue
1
Brockton
24
Lottie Sullivan
26
Braintree
May
16
Catharine Smith
58
Holbrook
25
Dorothy E. Hollis James Danahy
Newport, R. I.
June
3
Elizabeth Sheehan
56
Boston
4
Adelaide Guernsey
78
Westboro
6
Julia Leary
70
Holbrook
22
Stillborn .
South Braintree
July
11
Sara Hinckley Thayer
68
11
4
West Medford
17
John Kiley
76
Providence, R. I.
22
Elizabeth Kelleher
49
Holbrook
Aug.
12
Julia Lafand
1
6
South Braintree
12
Terence Murphy
79
Weymouth
17
David Otis
2 4
Braintree
Sept.
7
Edward Sumner Thayer .
.
20
11 24
Baltimore, Md.
10 John S. Lynch
26
5 9
Winnipeg
10
Ella Frances Hirsch
.
50
+ 13
Brockton
.
60
Holbrook
5
Elizabeth Curran
46
Boston
.
.
.
.
.
-
11 21
Boston
30
79
- -
.
.
.
59 11 10
Somerville
19
Lorenzo B. Kimball
.
·
Y. M. D.
.
7 -
.
.
.
.
.
204
Date.
Name.
Age.
Place of Death.
Y. M. | D.
Sept.
13
Arthur G. Levangie
4 23
Braintree
Oct.
4
Jane Devine
65
Revere
9
Elizabeth Helen Clark
72
9
7
Boston
27
Charles Howard Thayer .
59
Braintree
29
John Crowley .
75
Holbrook
31
Mary A. Graham
42
Boston
Nov.
1
Josephine Meader
64
6 25
Providence, R.I.
12
John Francis Dignan
3 9 11
Braintree
13
John S. Abbott
75 10 16:
Canton
14
Eliza Ann Howard
70
2
3
Brockton
19
Carlton A. Burrell :
16
6:29
Braintree
19
Patrick H. Daly
25
.7 26
Holbrook
22
William G. McMahon
-
11 19
East Braintree
Dec.
6
Mary Nolan
64
Cambridge
20
Caleb Henry Hayden
65
22
Boston
22
Mabel O'Connell
8
Quincy
28
Thomas P. Toomey
52
10 17
Stoughton
31
Mary A. McGaughey
·
48
Holbrook
Should any person discover an error in the preceding records, he will confer a favor by notifying the Town Clerk, that correction may be made.
The Town Clerk hereby gives notice in compliance with Section 16, Chapter 29 of the Revised Laws, that he is prepared to furnish to parents, householders, physicians and midwives applying therefor, blanks for returns as required by law.
JOSEPH T. LEAHY,
Toun Clerk.
-
15
Richard O'Connell .
69
Quincy
-
.
.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TOWN OF RANDOLPH, MASS.
In Norfolk County.
On Taunton Division, Old Colony System, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
Fifteen miles south of Boston, Mass.
Originally part of Braintree.
Incorporated March 9, 1793.
Certain estates in Braintree re-annexed June 22, 1811.
Bounds between Randolph and Abington established March 21, 1861.
Portion of Randolph established as Holbrook February 29, 1872.
Portion of Randolph annexed to Avon April 16, 1889.
Population, census of 1900, 3,993.
Registered voters, 1,016.
No license.
Principal industry, manufacture of shoes.
Valuation, $1,690,000.
Tax rate, $19.80.
Debt limit, $50,700.
Floating debt, $37,847.
Available before reaching debt limit, $12,853.
Water system, act approved May 8, 1885.
Water first turned into mains from pumps January 9, 1888.
Total cost, $158,000.
Present net water debt, $80,920.02.
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Became self-supporting in 1901.
Last payment to be made in 1926. Turner Library presented to town March 31, 1875. Stetson Hall building erected 1842. Year of greatest town debt, 1869, $88,718.50. Least town debt (since 1861), 1888, $3,487.73. Electric street railways :
Old Colony Street Railway. Trackage in Randolph, 7.455 miles. Rate of excise tax, 2 per cent. Bristol and Norfolk Street Railway. Trackage in Randolph, 2.435 miles. Rate of excise tax, 1 per cent. Street lights installed 1893. Number of miles of streets, 30}.
207
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Randolph :
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Randolph, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Stetson Hall, in said town, on Monday, the sixth day of March next, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose all such town officers as are required by law to be chosen by ballot; also on the same ballot to vote " Yes " or "No" in answer to the question, "Shall license for the sale of intoxicating liquors be granted in this town ?"
Art. 3. To choose all such town officers are not required by law to be chosen by ballot.
Art. 4. To hear the reports of the town officers, and act thereon.
Art. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for the support of schools, including the convey- ance of pupils, and appropriate the same.
Art. 6. To see what action the town will take in relation to erecting a high school building and purchasing land for the same, and raising and appropriating money therefor, in such a manner as shall be deemed expedient, as recom- mended by the school committee.
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Art. 7. To raise money to defray the general town ex- penses for the current year, and appropriate the same.
Art. 8. To raise money for the repairs of highways and determine the manner of expending the same.
Art. 9. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate for lighting the streets by electricity.
Art. 10. To see if the town will vote to pay the insurance on the Town Treasurer's bond for the year 1905-1906, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Art. 11. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money tem- porarily in anticipation of taxes of the present municipal year, and fix the amount he is authorized to borrow ..
Art. 12. To see what compensation the town will allow for the collection of taxes.
Art. 13. To see what action the town will take in relation to medical attendance on the poor, and raise and appropri- ate money therefor.
Art. 14. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to appoint special officers to enforce the laws, and raise and appropriate money for the payment of such officers.
Art. 15. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money to pay for the insurance on the Turner Free Library and building.
Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will raise and contribute to the sinking fund as required by law to meet the payments of the Randelph Water Loan.
Art. 17. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate for water for hydrants, street service, pub- lic buildings, drinking fountains and cemeteries.
Art. 18. To see what action the town will take in relation to the Fire Department, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Art. 19. To see if the town will make appropriation for
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the decoration of soldiers' graves under the direction of Capt. Horace Niles Post 110, G. A. R.
Art. 20. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to issue notes of the town to replace those now outstanding, the same to be re- funded upon such terms as they deem most favorable to the town.
Art. 21. To see if the town will authorize the erection of billboards in various parts of the town and raise and appro- priate money therefor.
Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to place additional lights on Allen street, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 23. To see if the town will authorize the Collector of Taxes to charge interest at the rate of six per cent per annum on all taxes remaining unpaid on and after October 10, 1905.
Art. 24. To see if the town will authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means which a town treasurer may use when acting as collector.
Art. 25. To see if the town will accept the list of jurors as prepared by the Selectmen and published in the town report as required by law.
Art. 26. To see if the town will authorize and appoint the Selectmen to be the agents and attorneys for the town, to prosecute, defend, compromise and settle any and all suits and proceedings in which the town may be in any manner interested as a party or otherwise, for the ensuing year, ex- cept so far as the same relates in any way to the water supply.
Art. 27. To see if the town will authorize and appoint the Water Commissioners to be the agents and attorneys for the town, to prosecute, defend, compromise and settle any and all suits and proceedings in which the town may be inter- ested as a party or otherwise, so far as the same in any man-
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ner relates to the taking of the waters of Great Pond, or in the construction of the water works, either jointly or sepa- rately, as authorized under Chapter 217 of the Acts of 1885, and to employ counsel if necessary.
Art. 28. To see what action the town will take in relation to the pay of laborers employed by the town.
Art. 29. To see what action the town will take in relation to the care of clocks in the spires of the Congregational and First Baptist Churches, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 30. To see if the town will vote to accept the by- laws as reported by the special committee appointed for that purpose.
Art. 31. To hear and act on the report of any committee, and choose any committee the town may think proper.
The polls will be opened at 6 o'clock A. M., and remain open four hours and such longer time as the voters may determine.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies hereof at five or more public places in said town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting, and by publishing the same in the "Randolph Register and Holbrook News", a newspaper published at said Randolph.
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, before the time of holding said meeting.
Given under our hands at Randolph this fifteenth day of February A. D. one thousand nine hundred and five.
WINTHROP B. ATHERTON, CHARLES H. THAYER, JOHN E. McDONALD, Selectmen of Randolph.
INDEX.
l'age
Abatement of Taxes
34
Addition to North Grammar School
31
Almshouse
39
Appropriations
5
Auditors' Reports .
50, 76, 134, 145, 148, 156
30
Births
Board of Health
Burial of Indigent Soldiers
33
Care of Clocks 29
36
Conveying Pupils .
30
County Tax
27
Decoration of Soldiers' Graves
33
Deaths .
201,202 53
Estimate, Value of Property
6
Fire Department, Report of
119-126 10
Insurance on Turner Library
33
Interest on Town Debt
34
Items of Interest in Highway Matters
51
Items of Interest, Town of Randolph .
205
List of Town Officers
'2
List of Jurors
Lockup .
196-198
Marriages
36
Miscellaneous Expenses
29
Overseers of the Poor, Report of
38-50
Pay of Physicians .
48
Persons Supported in Almshouse, 1904
41
Poor Out of Almshouse.
46
Poor of Other Towns
48
Almshouse Account
40
Bank Tax for Stetson High School
199, 200 31
Cash Received by the Selectmen for 1904
32
Court Fees and Return of Births, Marriages and Deathis
Estimates of Expenses for 1905
Highways
54
28
Military Aid
21
New Fire Alarm Box
2
Records of Town Meetings in 1904
Page 157-204 30
Reduction of Town Debt
Repairs on Almshouse .
41
Report of Selectmen and Assessors
3
Soldiers' Relief
35
Soldiers' Relief, Military Settlement in Randolph and Holbrook,
35
Schools
30
School Committee, Report of
65-73 28
Special Police
Stetson School Fund, Report of Trustees
74-78
State Aid
36
State Highway Tax
33
State Tax
32
Street Lighting
31
Superintendent of Schools, Report of .
79-119
Summary of Expenses for 1904
8
Town Officers, Pay of
25
Treasurer's Bond .
33
Treasurer, Report of
144-157
Tree Warden .
33
Turner Free Library, Trustees' Report
56-63
Turner Free Library, Report of Treasurer
63, 64
Town Clerk's Report
157-204
Town Meeting Warrant
207
Valuation
5
Water Commissioners
127-144
Water Department
145
Water Loan Sinking Fund
.
146-148
Water Works
34
.
Randolph
Town Report
1905.
SEVENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Superintending School Committee, Engineers of the Fire Department, Superintendent of Streets, Board of Health, Town Clerk and Treasurer
OF THE
TOWN, OF RANDOLPH
TOGETHER WITH
The Reports of the Trustees of the Stetson School Fund, the 1 Trustees of the Turner Free Library, and of the Water Commissioners,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1905.
RANDOLPH, MASS. PRINTED FOR TOWN OF RANDOLPH
1906
MAR 1 5 1963
TOWN OFFICERS FOR YEAR
1904-1905.
SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS AND OVERSEERS OF . POOR. WINTHROP B. ATHERTON, CHARLES H. THAYER, JOHN E. MCDONALD.
TOWN CLERK AND TREASURER. JOSEPH T. LEAHY.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
ROYAL T. MANN Term expires 1906
REDMOND P. BARRETT
Term expires 1907
EDWARD LONG .
. Term expires 1908
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, JOHN E. BRADLEY, D. D.
TRUSTEES OF STETSON HIGH SCHOOL.
ROYAL T. MANN Term expires 1906
REDMOND P. BARRETT
Term expires 1907
EDWARD LONG .
Term expires 1908
WATER COMMISSIONERS.
A. HOWARD HOLBROOK
Term expires 1906
D. B. WHITE .
· Term expires 1907
JAMES B. MCDONALD .
. Term expires 1908
AUDITORS.
MICHAEL F. CUNNINGHAM, JOHN B. WREN, WILLIAM H. LEAVITT.
CONSTABLES.
THOMAS FARRELL, EDWIN FOREST KNIGHT, JOSEPH H. FOSTER,
FRANK W. HARRIS, MICHAEL F. SULLIVAN, FRANK J. DONAHOE.
JOHN HANEY,
TAX COLLECTOR. ARTHUR W. ALDEN.
FENCE VIEWERS. CHARLES H. COLE, JOHN LYONS, EDWIN M. MANN.
JAMES FARDY,
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS. HERBERT W. PRATT, JOSEPH T. LEAHY.
OTIS L. SOULE,
ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. CHARLES A. WALES, Chief. WILLIAM A. CROAK, Clerk.
JAMES E. BLANCHE, DANIEL J. BRENNAN, JAMES W. FARRELL.
SUPERINTENDENT OF ALMSHOUSE. TIMOTHY M. O'LEARY.
KEEPER OF LOCKUP. ARTHUR W. ALDEN.
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT. FRED W. WHITCOMB of Holbrook.
Report of the Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor.
To the Inhabitants of Randolph :
In presenting this report we wish to call attention to sev- eral matters which have affected the town the past year. There was an increase of $1095 in the State tax, an increase of $697.42 in the County tax, while the street railway tax which is applied to the highway department fell off $489.53. These matters were absolutely beyond our control.
It was a hard blow to a town of this size, but the tax rate advanced but 60 cents, while that of some of our sister towns went up with a bound.
Another matter which has an important bearing to the town expenses for the year is the item of abatements. We gave the information in the report of last year that there were portions of five years' abatements yet to come, but we did not realize that the amount would be so large for they reach to $938.31, $179.60 being for the year of 1900, $22.70 for 1901, and $736.01 for 1902, and every dollar of this over the overlay is a debt which this board has had to assume, and counts as an expense in 1905. There are still other abatements that have not yet been turned in. The Mis- cellaneous account makes a very bad showing, but it is largely accounted for by the matter of insurance, which amounts to nearly $450, and for which no provision was made. A number of policies expire once in three years and
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really should be provided for. These matters summed up are as follows :
Increase in State tax
$1095 00
Increase in County tax
697 42
Loss from Street Railroad tax
489 53
Total
$2281 95
A big handicap for a town of this size.' Still our tax rate advanced but 60 cents, and with the large abatements and insurance our overdraft is but $402.09. .
The outside poor account makes a good showing, dropping off $410.25 from last year.
We have followed the same business policies adopted last year and while we can now see where improvements might have been made they did not show themselves at the time. Harmony and unanimous action has continued throughout the year.
WINTHROP B. ATHERTON. CHARLES H. THAYER. JOHN E. McDONALD.
Selectmen. Assessors and Overseers of the Poor.
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VALUATION.
Real estate
1904. $1,690,000 1904. $305,250
1905. $1,710,175 1905.
Gain. $20,175 Loss.
Personal estate
$302,300
$2,950
1904.
1905.
Gain.
$1.995,250
$2,012.475
$17,225
Value of buildings excluding land
$1.140,375 00
Value of land excluding buildings
569.800 00
Appropriations at annual town meeting
$43.367 25
State tax
2,920 00
State highway tax
6 57
County tax
2,351 88
Overlay, appropriated for abatement of taxes
260 79
Total amount to be raised in 1905
$50,340 95
Estimated corporation tax
$3,871 00
Estimated bank tax
1.595 00
Poll taxes, 1193 at $2 each
2.386 00
$7,852 00
Amount to be raised on property
$41.054 49
Tax rate, $20.40 on $1.000.
Tax on real estate
$34,887 57
Tax on personal estate
6,166 92
Poll taxes
2,386 00
Warrant committed to Tax Collector
$43.440 49
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Excise tax : On Old Colony Street Railway Co.
$955 18
On Norfolk & Bristol Street Railway Co.
36 87
Total tax levy of 1905
$44,432 54
Population, census of 1905
4034
Number of horses
305
Number of cows
281
Neat cattle other than cows
4
Number of swine
525
dwelling houses
876
acres of land
. 5532
fowl
2945
ESTIMATED VALUE OF PROPERTY OWNED BY THE TOWN DECEMBER 31, 1905.
Almshouse property and farm
$12,000 00
Town Hall and land
18,000 00
One steam fire engine and apparatus
5,500 00
One Babcock extinguisher and apparatus
800 00
Three engine houses and lockup
4,200 00
One hearse
50 00
Land and building. Clark estate
2,000 00
Highway plant
5,000 00
Schoolhouse and land District No. 1
2,000 00
Schoolhouse and land District No. 2
6,000 00
Schoolhouse and land District No. 3
1,800 00
Schoolhouse and land District No. 4
5,750 00
Land District No. 5
200 00
Schoolhouse and land District No. 6
1,600 00
Prescott Schoolhouse and land
$15,000 00
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Turner School fund
1,500 00
Stetson School fund
11,900 00
Turner Free Library building and land
40,000 00
Turner Free Library fund
5,000 00
Turner fund
10,000 00
Turner Free Library
10,000 00
Royal W. Turner Free Library fund Water works
20,000 00
162,000 00
$340,300 00
SUMMARY OF EXPENSES FOR 1905.
Appropriation
Credits
Total Available
Payments
Overdrawn
Unexpended
Poor in almshouse
$1,800 00
$769 95
$2,569 95
$2,289 40
$280 55
Outside poor.
2,500 00
45 75
. 2,545 75
2,588 18
$32 43
Poor of other towns.
919 68
919 68
919 68
Soldiers' relief.
350 00
17 75
367 75
446 70
78 95
Soldiers' relief, R. & II.
300 00
105 09
405 09
249 78
155 31
Pay of physicians
300 00
300 00
300 00
Military aid.
200 00
209 34
409 34
314 00
95 34
State aid
3,900 00
3,900 00
3,900 00
Treasurer's bond
120.00
120 00
120 00
Decoration, soldiers' graves ..
150 00
150 00
150 00
Water commissioners.
3,500 00
3,500 00
3,500 00
Special police
700 00
700 00
705 71
5 71
Town officers .
2,100 00
50 00
2,150 00
2,161 22
311 22
Tree warden ..
75 00
75 00
76 67
1 67
Abatement of taxes.
*260 79
260 79
938 31
677 52
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214 20
214 20
214 20
Street lighting.
3,326 90
3,326 90
3,307 22
19 68
Locknp.
200 00
200 00
184 38
15 62
Board of health
200 00
200 00
101 20
98 80
Court fees, etc.
250 00
22 50
272 50
259 01
13 49
Interest
2,200 00
2,185 72
4,385 72
3,173 46
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Reduction of town debt . .
2,480 00
2,480 00
2,480 00
County tax.
2,351 88
2,351 88
2,351 88
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Care of clocks ..
20 00
20 00
20 00
Burial of indigent solliers.
70 00
70 00
70 00
Insurance, Turner free library
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1,212 26
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State tax .
2,920 00
2,920 00
2,920 00
State highway tax
6 57
- 6 57
6 57
+Fire department
3,361 00
3,361 00
3,323 36
37 64
Miscellaneous
1,600 00
1,600 00
2,118 20
518 20
Schools
12,830 00
1,918 17
14,748 17
14,881 07
132 90
Highways, snow.
1,000 00
1,000 00
891 20
108 80
Highways, general repairs
3,000 00
1,781 13
4,781 13
5,851 78
1,053 55
Chestnut street, sidewalk
150 00
150 00
156 50
6 50
Billboards.
75 00
75 00
61 08
3 92
Overdraft of 1904
365 15
365 15
Totals ...
18,645 70
$61.330 76
$2,818 65
$2,416 56
Net amount overdrawn.
402 09
*Overlay.
+Including pay of engineers.
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THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
This department had a hard blow in the great drop in the Street Railway tax which is applied to the highway fund, and there is no way of knowing the amount until after the street work is done for the season. A drop of about $1000 in this item in two years is a serious matter to the town. The winter of 1904-1905 was a severe one, and the roads suffered considerably, which required a great deal of repairing, and new work was consequently delayed. The work has been in charge of Charles H. Cole.
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