Report of the city of Somerville 1904, Part 9

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 496


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2 30


Oscar W. Short, services .


18 00


James H. Chase, services .


15 00


W. H. P. Faunce, address .


50 00


Edward Cummings, address


25 00


Harriet E. Bean, address .


25 00


Hadley's Orchestra, music


260 00


Remington Typewriter Co., typewriters .


224 00


Smith-Premier Typewriter Co., type-


writers


293 35


New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service


166 95


Amount carried forward


$26,221 55


.


.


.


122


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward . $26,221 55


American Express Co., expressing .


14 28


Gilman Express Co., expressing 2 70


London's Express Co., expressing .


12 15


Glines & Co., expressing .


43 12


E. R. Perham, expressing


3 65


Charles R. Taylor, expressing .


11 50


Thorpe's Express, expressing


2 30


$26,311 25


School Teachers' Salaries.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904 .


.


$249,500 00


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred


1,080 68


$250,580 68


DEBIT.


(Expenditures.)


Cash, paid salaries as per pay-rolls


$250,580 68


Sealer of Weights and Measures.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904 . .


$1,100 00


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred


37 59


$1,062 41


Receipts :-


Cash, received of John H. Dusseault, fees . 410 04


$1,472 45


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid John H. Dusseault, salary sealer of weights and measures disbursements


as


$1,000 00


414 30


W. L. Clough & Son, printing .


6 75


W. A. Greenough & Co., directory


3 50


Somerville Journal Co., advertising .


7 00


A. C. Libbey & Sons, stationery


10 00


The Fairbanks Co., lead


1 20


R. Woodman Mfg. & Supply Co., lead seals .


15 45


Herman Strater & Sons, sealers, etc.


14 25


$1,472 45


Sewer Assessments.


CREDIT.


Receipts :-


Cash, received of sundry persons . .


$3,742 77


Balance to debit of account, 1905 . .


6,271 17


$10,013 94


123


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


DEBIT.


Balance from 1903


. .


$4,839 77


Sewers Construction levied


account, assessments


5,174 17


$10,013 94


Sewers, Construction,


CREDIT.


Balance from 1903 ·


$1,374 58


Appropriations, from Funded Debt, 1904 .


25,000 00


Sewer Assessments account, assessments levied


5,174 17


Reduced by the following transfers :- Highways, Construction account .


$5,000 00


Fire Department, Combination Ladder


2,500 00


Public Buildings Construction, L. V. Bell School Fire Escapes account


1,500 00


9,000 00


$22,548 75


Balance of account unused, carried to 1905 .


6,747 08


$15,801 67


Stock and labor billed other departments :-


Sewers Maintenance account .


$91 52


Sidewalks Construction account


71 12


Public Grounds account .


8 88


Water Maintenance account


·


Bow and


10 00


274 52


$16,076 19


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid laborers .


$3,058 47


Charles A. Kelley, constructing sewer :-


Beacon street


172 76


Powder-House boulevard


479 99


North street and boulevard


681 86


William J. McCarthy, constructing


sewer :-


Packard avenue and Teele street .


87 55


Patrick Burke, constructing sewer :-


Ossipee road .


28 69


Ware street


·


188 06


Timothy F. Crimmings,


constructing


sewer :-


Middlesex avenue


.


Boston avenue


566 46


Line street


260 55


Richard Falvey, constructing sewer :- Lexington avenue


40 60


Amount carried forward


$6,296 05


.


.


93 00


Highways, Paving Broadway,


Summer Streets account


.


731 06


.


.


$31,548 75


Truck and Chemical Engine account


124


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward


$6,296 05


Webster avenue and Washington


street


453 62


Beacon street


314 02


Cameron avenue


391 44


Highland road


366 41


Pearson avenue


310 35


Bartholomew Burke, constructing


sewer :-


· Porter street 237 91


Russell road


320 62


Daniel A. Dorey, constructing sewer :-


Leland street and Dane avenue 805 00


New England Brick Co., bricks 112 00


M. A. Simpson, sand 18 00


Boston Elevated Railway Co., labor on catch basin 8 19


Somerville Iron Foundry, castings


733 96


Osgood & Witherly, castings 69 90


Barbour-Stockwell Co., traps


40 00


Thomas Groom & Co., books


13 75


A. E. Locke, receiver, bricks


478 40


Davenport-Brown Co., centres .


15 20


F. C. Ayer, lumber


34 31


Portland Stone Ware Co., pipe


893 70


Waldo Brothers, pipe


3,217 20


James Tevlin, use of teams


543 75


Boston & Maine Railroad Co., freight


60 00


Hemeon Brothers, building gate


4 90


New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., rails


73 60


Somerville Journal Co., advertising


12 00


Webcowit Press, printing .


32 33


Edwin O. Childs, registrar, recording


7 95


$15,864 56


Highways Maintenance account, repairing


street


118 13


Water Maintenance account, pipe, etc. .


93 50


$16,076 19


Sewers, Maintenance.


CREDIT.


Water Works Income, amount appropriated


$11,800 00


City Engineer account, amount transferred . 180 95


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred 189 67


$12,170 62


Receipts :-


Cash, received of M. W. Carr & Co., bricks, etc.


$34 38


I. B. Walker, hose


30 00


Somerville Iron Foundry, old iron .


7 55


71 93


Stock and labor billed other departments :-


City Engineer account $35 88


Highways, Paving Broadway, Bow and


Summer Streets account


125 47


Amounts carried forward


$161 35


$12,242 55


.


.


125


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


Amounts brought forward .


$161 35


$12,242 55


Public Grounds account . 4 52


Support of Poor, City Home account .


19 68


Water Maintenance account .


.


220 31


$12,462 86. .


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid laborers


$7,348 32


Charles E. Berry, labor


4 30


Davenport-Brown Co., lumber


45


F. C. Ayer, lumber


24 24


Boston Coupling Co., hose


135 00


The Cornelius Callahan Co., hose


6 25


Boston Belting Co., disc


4 80


T. F. Crimmings, cement


10 50


M. A. Simpson, sand .


10 00


Waldo Brothers, lime and cement


51 89


W. F. Bennett, gravel


2 25


Eastern Salt Co., salt .


6 80


F. O'Brion, salt


1 70


A. Goldstein, rubber boots and repairing,


10 70


Breen Brothers, boots


25 38


David H. Hyde, rubber boots


25 50


Pinkham's Shoe Store, rubber boots


4 75


Riverside Trunk Co., oil suits


$72 26


36 13


36 13


Thomas Groom & Co., books


13 50


Suburban Coal Co., coal


27 10


Highland Coal Co., pipe


2 36


New England Brick Co., bricks


45 60


A. E. Locke, receiver, bricks


164 80


George L. Reed, agent, rent of course


300 00


Hemeon Brothers, building boat


5 25


Somerville Iron Foundry, castings


.


105 36


Osgood & Witherly, castings


41 70


William S. Howe, bolts


12


James Tevlin, teaming


3,195 76


S. H. Thompson, lunch


5 00


Mrs. A. H. Wood, repairing flag


1 00


I. B. Walker, tools and repairing


14 90


T. J. Walsh, repairing


5 00


Whitney & Snow, hardware


123 13


E. S. Sparrow & Co., hardware


1 75


Underhill Hardware Co., hardware .


6 00


H. Wood, repairing


2 95


C. L. Underhill, repairing tools


33 30


J. E. Gallagher, sharpening tools


2 40


Martin & Hughes, sharpening saw .


1 30


William G. Martin, keys and repairing


70


A. R. Hyde, repairing


2 10


F. W. Farrar, repairing clock .


2 00


Simpson Brothers Corporation, repair- ing sidewalk


27 60


Jere. Donovan, repairing sewer


10 00


M. Buttimer, repairing drain


113 14


Amount carried forward


$11,962 78


water


.


.


34 76


126


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward


Alvah C. Stone, paint .


$11,962 78 6 00


Michael W. Hefferan, settlement of suit,


300 00


Perrin, Seamans & Co., couplings and pipe .


21 78


Herbert I. Laighton, disbursements ·


4 00


E. W. Danforth, disbursements


16 40


Howard Lowell & Son, carriage hire


8 00


New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service


21 48


Glines & Co., expressing


15


E. R. Perham, expressing .


15


Gilman Express, expressing


60


$12,341 34


Highways, Maintenance account, repairing sidewalk


30 00


Sewers Construction account, pipe


91 52


$12,462 86


Sidewalk Assessments.


CREDIT.


Balance of account carried to 1905 .


$6,009 18


Receipts :-


Cash, received of sundry persons


11,277 43


$17,286 61


DEBIT.


Balance from 1903


$4,508 32


Sidewalks Construction


account, assess-


ments levied ·


12,778 29


$17,286 61


Sidewalks, Construction.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Funded Debt, 1904


$10,000 00


Balance of account carried to 1905 .


2,825 45


$12,825 45


Sidewalk Assessments account, assessments levied 12,778 29


Receipts :-


Cash, received of Charles Evans, bricks $26 50


Katie M. Grimmons, sidewalk . 29 07


D. P. Page, sidewalk . 35 92


Christopher T. McGrath, sidewalk


31 25


George S. Smith, sidewalk


28 00


Harvey D. McGray, granolithic


28 58


Herbert I. Laighton, edgestones


4 84


Stock and labor billed other departments :- Highways Maintenance account .


184 16


4 25


$25,792 15


.


.


.


$25,603 74


.


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


127


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid laborers


$7,858 28


Ham & Carter Co., bricks


2,374 13


S. & R. J. Lombard, edgestones


13,113 07


Portland Stone Ware Co., tiles


14 30


William J. McCarthy, dust


12 83


T. Allen, granolithic


131 50


City of Medford, bricks


19 20


Robert E. Whittle, allowance on grano- lithic walk


10 10


$23,533 41


Highways Maintenance account, city teams,


2,169 95


Highways, Paved Gutters and Crossings ac- count, bricks ·


17 67


Sewers Construction account, edgestones


71 12


$25,792 15


Sidewalks, Maintenance.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904 . ·


$6,000 00


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred


416 32


$6,416 32


Receipts :-


Cash, received of Emma T. Whitney, repairing


8 00


Stock and labor billed other departments :-


Highways Maintenance account .


$32 80


Highways, Paved Gutters and Crossings ac- count


164 25


Highways, Paving Broadway,


Bow and


.


213 30


$6,637 62


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid laborers


$4,991 30


William J. McCarthy, crushed stone


6 73


Thomas Groom & Co., books


17 00


W. L. Waugh, stakes .


17 38


A. E. Locke, receiver New England Brick Co., bricks


43 75


Estate Thomas Casey, bricks


·


84 00


Ham & Carter Co., bricks


485 64


J. H. Fannon, repairing concrete


3 80


$5,649 60


Highways Maintenance account, use of city teams


988 02


$6,637 62.


Summer Streets account


16 25


.


128


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Soldiers' Burials.


CREDIT.


Receipts :-


Commonwealth of Massachusetts, soldiers' burials $490 00


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid John Bryant's Sons, services as undertakers


$35 00


F. M. Wilson, services as undertaker 140 00


A. E. Mann, services as undertaker . 70 00


Mrs. Samuel G. Smith & Co., services as undertakers 35 00


W. A. Frink, services as undertaker


70 00


John B. Burke, services as undertaker


35 00


David Fudge & Son, services as under- takers


35 00


John E. Kauler, services as undertaker


35 00


William A. Flaherty & Son, services as undertakers


35 00


$490 00


Soldiers' Relief.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904 .


$20,000 00


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred .


903 10


$20,903 10


Receipts :-


Cash, received of Hannah Kenney, board $36 00


Town of Athol, board


. 108 00


144 00


$21,047 10


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid sundry persons as per pay-rolls . $20,780 50


Worcester Insane Hospital, board .


121 42


Mass. Homoeopathic Hospital, board


32 25


Somerville Hospital, board


22 86


Webcowit Press, printing cards


9 00


Somerville Journal Co., blanks


3 00


Wellington-Wild Coal Co., coal


7 15


City of Woburn, supplies


24 92


Margaret Coffin, nursing


6 00


Mary Hunt. watching


5 00


William C. Newton, M. D., attendance


32 00


$21,047 10


Somerville Hospital.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904 . .


$5,000 00


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid for support of sick poor


$5,000 00


129


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


State Aid.


CREDIT. (Receipts.)


Commonwealth of Massachusetts, state aid paid in 1904 . $14,327 00


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid monthly pay-rolls $14,361 50 34 50


$14,327 00


Street Lights.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904 .


$65,000 00


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred


114 96


$64,885 04


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid the Edison Electric Illuminating · Co. of Boston, arc lighting


$50,971 79


incandescent lighting


13,737 25


moving lamps


6 00


Welsbach Street Lighting


Co. of


America, lighting


144 00


Jairus Mann, disbursements


10 00


J. H. Thompson, carriage hire


16 00


$64,885 04


Sundry Persons.


CREDIT.


Balance from 1903 .


$474 21


Receipts :-


Cash, received of Dennis C. Mahoney, amount not called for


50 00


$524 21


DEBIT.


Balance to credit of account, 1905 .


$524 21


Support of Poor, City Home.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904


$4,000 00


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred 1,186 63


$2,813 37


Receipts :-


Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aid .


25 00


Cash, received of Charlotte Wahlquist, board


$185 00


Amounts carried forward


$185 00


$2,838 37


130


ANNUAL REPORTS.


$2,838 37


Amounts brought forward


$185 00


Mary F. Solis, et al., board


10 50


Town of Sandwich, board .


67 50


Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation, produce


103 17


Schlegel & Fottler Co., produce


83 00


W. W. Rawson & Co., produce


70 40


John Wolff, Jr., & Co., produce


150 22


J. Foster Colquhoun, produce .


2,910 57


Stock and labor billed other departments :- Support of Poor, Miscellaneous account 144 38


$6,563 11


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid J. Foster Colquhoun, salary as warden


$700 00


disbursements


291 27


Mrs. Catherine Colquhoun, matron


250 00


Sundry persons, services


1,529 56


I. L. Roberts, horseshoeing


31 00


J. B. Rufer, horseshoeing .


21 15


I. B. Walker, wagon repairs


51 44


The Hale & Mayhew Co., wagon repairs,


24 15


Henry A. Wheeler & Co., wagon cover .


11 88


J. S. Bradeen & Co., hay and grain . teaming


11 00


Joseph A. Pearson, harness work


1 95


D. J. Bennett, harness work


18 60


D. M. Osborne & Co., repairing harrows,


75


Joseph Breck & Sons, farm supplies


35 59


Rice Brothers, farm supplies


6 15


W. W. Rawson & Co., farm supplies H. S. Pond, swill


11 75


D. J. Green & Co., baskets


1 75


George P. Page & Co., shooks


63 70


M. J. Gallagher & Co., long boxes .


4 50


A. H. Hews & Co., flower pots


3 00


Allen-Thompson-Whitney Co., furniture,


21 75


Jackson Caldwell & Co., furniture


20


Jordan, Marsh Co., kitchen goods


15 97


Andrew Dutton, window shades


14 95


Magee Furnace Co., range repairing


1 50


George H. Thayer, boots and shoes


26 05


Alonzo Keene, clothing


10 60


Mass. State Prison, boots and clothing


48 00


Parke Snow, dry goods


78 58


Reuben Ring & Co., medicine .


5 25


Percy A. Hall, medicine


18 78


John E. Kauler, burial


85


C. W. Lerned & Co., disinfectant


2 50


J. L. Glover & Son, groceries


294 94


Russell & Co., groceries


63 28


S. M. Laurence, groceries .


50 76


J. W. Roberts & Co., groceries


369 35


Henry F. Sander Co., groceries


140 85


Amount carried forward


$5,211 78


·


3 51


Schlegel & Fottler, farm supplies


196 75


tomato box


579 02


·


3,580 36


131


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


Amount brought forward .


$5,211 78


Fowle, Hibbard & Co., groceries National Biscuit Co., groceries


45 06


F. J. Hopkins, groceries


74 85


Sperber & Co., groceries .


203 88


J. S. Newcomb & Co., groceries H. F. Sander, groceries


71 63


122 38


Charles A. Holmes, groceries


4 00


Ar-Showe & Co., groceries


19 40


L. C. Fisher & Co., groceries


32 85


North Packing & Provision Co.,


groceries


7 58


Clark Brothers Co., groceries


36 60


Boston Dairy Co., groceries


4 69


John Wolff, Jr., & Co., groceries


6 25


L. M. Dyer & Co., groceries


127 66


A. P. Downs & Co., groceries .


4 58


Howe, French Corporation, hardware


2 00


E. S. Sparrow & Co., hardware


27 95


W. E. Plumer & Co., hardware


46 46


Highland Coal Co., lime


7 30


E. Horne, mason work


36 00


J. C. H. Snow, lumber and carpentering,


42 46


Robert McDonald, lumber


28 27


E. D. Sawyer Lumber Co., lumber .


74 18


H. Wood, sharpening saws


2 50


C. D. Burlingame, painting fence


50 00


David W. Lewis Co., tile


19 56


C. F. Merrill, lawn mower


1 25


Somerville Journal Co., printing


8 00


Thomas Groom & Co., books and sta- tionery


3 75


New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service .


51 93


Devlin Brothers, greenhouse


125 00


Cambridge Ice Co., ice


14 40


$6,521 17


Sewers Maintenance account, tide gate


19 68


Water Maintenance account, water pipes


22 26


$6,563 11


Support of Poor, Miscellaneous.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, from Taxes, 1904 .


$14,000 00


Excess and Deficiency account, balance transferred .


2,101 92


$16,101 92


Receipts :-


Commonwealth .of Massachusetts, support of state


paupers


Commonwealth of Massachusetts, temporary state paupers


support of


203 32


Commonwealth of Massachusetts, burial of state paupers . Cash, received for support of paupers :-


City of Boston


$827 31


City of Cambridge


717 17


City of Chelsea


85 00


Amounts carried forward


$1,629 48


$17,387 56


.


.


.


1,045 32


.


37 00


6 97


132


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward .


$1,629 48 $17,387 56


City of Everett


122 17


City of Fall River


228 15


City of Gloucester


66 03


City of Haverhill


11.00


City of Lowell


38 05


City of Lynn


11 00


City of Malden


28 45


City of Marlboro


6 00


City of Medford .


37 00


City of Newton


108 00


City of Salem


10 25


City of Springfield


21 25


City of Woburn


72 00


City of Worcester


39 30


Town of Belmont


10 00


Town of Canton .


140 50


Town of Framingham


19 40


Town of Harwich


2 00


Town of Wakefield


10 00


Town of Winchester


3 20


Charles I. Davis, aid furnished .


36 80


Frederick A. P. Fiske, guardian, aid fur- nished


85 42


Augustus W. Hopkins, aid furnished


73 60


Mary Brady, aid furnished


36 80


Mary E. Taylor, aid furnished


15 18


Mrs. Herbert K. Woodman, aid fur-


nished


110 96


Lewis H. Shepheard, guardian, aid fur- nished


42 71


Ellen I. Holmes, aid furnished .


8 00


Francis Dolan, administrator, aid fur- nished


15 00


John Toomey, aid furnished


50 14


3,087 84


$20,475 40


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid for support of paupers :-


Commonwealth of Massachusetts


$420 10


Worcester Insane Hospital


1,546 12


Worcester Insane Asylum .


128 14


Medfield Insane Asylum


812 80


Westboro Insane Hospital


535 76


Danvers Insane Hospital


314 78


Taunton Insane Hospital


175 96


Boston Insane Hospital


42 71


Massachusetts School for Feeble-Minded.


793 42


Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates


521 52


Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics


828 42


Massachusetts State Sanatorium


50 47


Massachusetts General Hospital


15 00


Boston Observation Hospital


20 71


Somerville Hospital, support and treat- ment of sick poor


1.290 00


City of Boston


1,261 79


Amount carried forward


$8,757 70


133


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


Amount brought forward


$8,757 70


City of Cambridge


39 71


City of Everett


21 75


City of Malden


20 00


City of Medford


1 75


City of Melrose


38 05


City of New Bedford


1 71


City of Woburn


15 00


City of Worcester


6 00


Town of Attleboro


71 65


Town of Dedham


19 00


Town of Revere .


64 84


Town of West Newbury


221 37


Town of Winchester .


10 40


Ellen Mahoney, cash allowance


84 00


Bridget Condon, board


156 90


Susie J. Palmer, board


65. 16


Maria S. Higgins, board


44 59


Clara Roberts, board .


42 71


The Childrens' Mission, board


148 00


Ascenith Sawyer, board


95 12


Charles C. Folsom, salary as agent disbursements


251 54


Alvah B. Dearborn, city physician


1,800 00


Cora F. Lewis, secretary


700 00


Ann McCarvill, board


1 14


25 15


Julia Campbell, board


3 25


Emiline K. Willis, board


10 72


Wellington-Wild Coal Co., fuel


617 63


Frank A. Teele, fuel


40 10


Bristol-Myers Co., medicine


8 25


The Fraser Tablet Co., medicine


3 63


Fenelon's Pharmacy, medicine .


12 75


G. F. Harvey Co., medicine


22 60


Bell & Co., medicine .


8 00


Milton H. Plummer, medicine .


7 25


Surgeons' & Physicians' Supply medicine


Co.,


5 14


WV. P. Blanchard, groceries


129 00


A. F. Carpenter, groceries


180 87


James Bartley, groceries


495 87


F. A. Barlow, groceries


199 50


Charles S. Butters, groceries


206 80


N. R. Barrows, groceries


188 00


F. E. Cheney Co., groceries


224 60


Copithorne Brothers, groceries


54 70


Edward Coliten & Son, groceries


177 12


F. L. Card, groceries .


81 00


James Davis, groceries


377 50


C. F. Crocker, groceries


2 01


Charles F. Giles, groceries


666 85


James Harris, groceries


20 00


M. L. King, groceries


26 00


Medford-street Market, groceries


254 11


James H. Maguire, groceries


201 00


D. A. McKay, groceries


240 00


North Packing & Provision


Co.


30 00


groceries


.


Amount carried forward


$18,796 35


.


.


1,600 00


$26 29


134


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward


$18,796 35


Susan Nangle, groceries


48 00


A. E. Robie, groceries 146 50


R. M. Sturtevant & Co., groceries


679 37


C. L. Stevens, groceries ·


24 00


D. E. Watson, groceries


120 50


F. M. Wilson, burials


25 00


A. E. Mann, burials


85 00


G. F. McKenna, burials


35 00


P. H. Rafferty, burials


10 00


Francis E. Flaherty, burials


52 00


David Fudge & Son, burials


5 00


Joseph J. Kelley & Son, burials


10 00


John E. Kauler, burials


25 00


Howard Lowell & Son, carriage hire


3 00


Charles W. Dailey, ambulance .


14 00


Charles E. Berry, shoe repairing


1 75


F. W. Gilbert, boots and shoes .


65 35


David H. Hyde, boots and shoes


1 50


J. H. Brooks, dry goods


12 60


Belden & Snow, clothing


2 50


J. L. Fairbanks & Co., pauper register


5 50


W. A. Greenough & Co., directory


4 00


Thomas Groom & Co., stationery


11 25


Smith-Premier Typewriter Co., repairs


2 80


M. G. Staples, teaming


1 00


A. M. Prescott, moving furniture


5 00


New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., service


106 85


Somerville Journal Co., printing


29 50


Fresh Pond Ice Co., ice


2 70


Support of Poor, City Home account, fuel


144 38


$20.475 40


Taxes.


CREDIT.


Receipts :-


Cash, received for taxes of 1896


$20 00


66


66


6


6. 1899


243 55


66


310 99


66


66


66


1901


723 54


66 1902


1,546 84


66


66 1903


293,568 34


66


66


66


1904


819,774 07


$1,116,347 33


Overlay and Abatement :-*


Abatements on taxes of


1896


$16 78


66


66


1898


5.056 88


1899


1,994 33


66


66


66


1900


1.076 34


66


66


1901


1,862 78


66


66


66


1902


1,867 72


66


66


6 1903


1,695 48


66


66


66


1904


6,525 53


20,255 54


Amount carried forward


$1,136,602 87


66


66 1897


159 70


66


66


6. 1898


160 00


1900


$20,331 02


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135


Amount brought forward .


$1,136,602 87


Balance to debit of account, 1905 :- Being uncollected taxes of 1900 .


$1,493 08


16 66 1901


2,603 31


" 1902


4,249 56


1903


7,297 06


66


66


1904


234,243 44


249,886 45


$1,386,489 32


DEBIT.


Balance from 1903


$325,946 28


Tax Levy, as per assessors'


warrant of


August 10, 1904


1,059,292 56


Supplementary warrants, amounts credited to Overlay and Abatement account


1,250 48


$1,386,489 32


Temporary Loans.


CREDIT.


Balance from 1903


$375,000 00


Cash, borrowed by authority of the Board of Aldermen on notes as follows :-


City Note No. 568, nine months, 4.25 per cent.


$50,000 00


City Note No. 570, six months, 4 per cent.


20,000 00


City Note No. 571, six months, 4 per cent. City Note No. 572, nine months, 4.25 per cent.


10,000 00


City Note No. 573, ten months, 4.05 per cent. discount


25,000 00


City Note No. 574, ten months, 4.05 per cent. discount


25,000 00


City Note No. 575, ten months, 4.05 per cent. discount


25,000 00


. City Note No. 576, ten months, 4.05 per cent. discount City Note No. 577, six months, 3.25 per cent.


25,000 00


City Note No. 578, six months, 3.25 per cent. . City Note No. 579, four months, twenty- four days, 3.03 per cent. . City Note No. 580, four months, twenty- four days, 3.03 per cent. . City Note No. 581, four months, twenty- four days, 3.03 per cent. ·


25,000 00


25,000 00


City Note No. 582, four months, twenty- four days, 3.03 per cent. · City Note No. 583, nine months, 3.75 per cent.


50,000 00


City Note No. 584, ten months, 3.82 per cent. ·


25,000 00


City Note No. 585, ten months, 3.82 per cent.


20,000 00


Amounts carried forward


$575,000 00


$375,000 00


City Note No. 569, nine months, 4.38 per cent. discount


50,000 00


50,000 00


50,000 00


50,000 00


25,000 00


25,000 00


136


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward . . $575,000 00


· City Note No. 586, ten months, 3.82 per cent. 25,000 00 . · City Note No. 587, ten months, 3.82 per . · 30,000 00 cent. . · City Note No. 588, six months, 3.65 per cent. . · 50,000 00


City Note No. 589, six months, 3.65 per cent.


50,000 00


730,000 00


$1,105,000 00


DEBIT. (Expenditures.)


Cash, paid as follows :-


City Note No. 545, nine months, 4.60 per cent.


$85,000 0€


City Note No. 551, seven months, 4.74 per cent. discount


25,000 00


City Note No. 552, seven months, 4.74 per cent. discount


15,000 00


City Note No. 553, seven months, 4.74 per cent. discount .


10,000 00


City Note No. 554, seven months, 41/2 per cent.


15,000 00


City Note No. 562, six months, 4.90 per cent.


100,000 00


City Note No. 563, six months, 4.50 per cent.


10,000 00


City Note No. 564, six months, 4.75 per cent. . City Notes Nos. 565, 566, and 567, seven months, 4.46 per cent. discount City Notes Nos. 570-571, six months, 4 per cent.


30,000 00


City Note No. 568, nine months, 4.25 per cent.


50,000 00


City Note No. 569, nine months, 4.38 per cent. discount .


50,000 00


City Notes Nos. 579-580-581-582. four months, twenty-four days, 3.03 cent .. $25.000 each per City Note No. 572, nine months, 4.25 per cent. City Notes Nos. 577-578, six months, 3.25 per cent.


100,000 00


50,000 00


100,000 00


$755,000 00


Balance to credit of account, 1905 350,000 00


$1.105.000 00


Water Loan Interest.


CREDIT.


Water Works Income, amount appropriated


$4,850 00


DEBIT.


Coupons maturing April 1, 1904 :- $76,000. six months. 4 per cent. $1,520 00


Amount carried forward $1,520 00


$375,000 00


15,000 00


100,000 00


137


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


Amount brought forward


$1,520 00


Coupons maturing July 1, 1904 :-


740 00


$10,000, six months, 51/2 per cent.


275 00


Coupons maturing October 1, 1904 :-


$76,000, six months, 4 per cent. 1,520 00


Coupons maturing January 1, 1905 :-


$26,000, six months, 4 per cent.


520 00


$10,000, six months, 51/2 per cent.


275 00


$4,850 00


Water Maintenance.


CREDIT.


Water Works Income, amount appropriated




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