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Lydia Robbins
104.00
John R. Kimball
72.00
Nancy Tucker
36.00
Albanus D. Claflin
34.00
John Nelson 4.00
Margaret Hawkins 16.00
Richmond Holly 24.00
Mortimer Guild II.00
Coal, Hiram Danforth
4.05
Coal, Louisa Safford.
8.25
Board of Michael Murry, Town
Farm, ten weeks 31.50
Hiram Danforth 104.00
Ephraim Harrington 104.00
Unexpended balance
866.37
$3,261.17
Medical Attendance.
Dr. Joshua W. Clarke. $17,19
Dr. George B. Maxwell 47.63
Dr. F. V. Murphy. 14.36
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Dr. G. E. McPherson 2.03
Dr. Augusta Solomon 58.87
Dr. J. W. Battershall. 12.38
Dr. W. O. Hewitt
1.50
Dr. R. P. Kent.
7.69
Dr. G. K. Roberts II.8I
Dr. J. A. Reese
9.37
$182.83
$3,444.00 Deborah Starkey Fund.
Paid Elizabeth Stewart. $55.00
$55.00
SOLDIERS' BURIAL.
Cr
Due from State. $37.00
Dr. $37.00
Burial expenses William Slater $35.00
George A. Sweeney, expenses. 2.00
STATE AID. $37.00
To be paid by State under Chapter 301, Acts of 1894: Ellen M. Andrews $48.00
Ellen Appleton 28.00
James Barnes
9.00
Nancy Bradford
48.00
Cynthia Belcher
48.00
Anna Brown
48.00
Peter Boulet
25.00
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George Balcom 72.00
Mary S. Crosby. 48.00
William H. Cargill 72.00
Sarah M. Caswell 48.00
William H. Caswell. 72.00
Albert F. Claflin
48.00
Sarah Chipman
48.00
Thomas F. Clark 72.00
Elijah Caswell
60.00
Hiram Danforth
60.00
Charles B. Des Jardins
72.00
Edward Ducette
40.00
Henry F. Eldredge.
70.00
Elizabeth Fleet
48.00
Cyrus Getchell
72.00
Mary Griffin
48.00
Mortimer Guild
54.00
Emma F. Gay.
48.00
Margaret Hawkins
48.00
Phebe A. Hathaway
Isaac N. Johnson 48.00
72.00
John Keough 72.00
Ralph Kay 72.00
Mary Kingman 48.00
John H. Kimball. 72.00
Dexter P. Moulton 72.00
James Monkhouse 72.00
Margaret McKee 48.00
Susan McNally
48.00
Julia Miller
48.00
Charles H. Pond. 72.00
Emma N. Randall 48.00
Ida S. Richards. 48.00
Henrietta Snell 48.00
Charles Seagraves 54.00
Charlotte Stratton
20.00
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Dora B. Savery
48.00
John J. Thayer
24.00
John S. Upton 72.00
Josephine White 48.00
Emily Wilson 48.00
Thomas Wood
72.00
Emma Whalley 48.00
Elizabeth Hathaway
44.00
Thomas Lynch
72.00
Frank A. Sandland.
30.00
Martin Berry 42.00
Frederick Whitney 54.00
John R. Nelson.
12.00
Michael J. Murry
18.00
Maria Hamlin 4.00
Emma Nelson
20.00
John T. Small.
24.00
Ellen F. Kimball
12.00
$3,014.00
MILITARY AID.
Dr.
Appropriation
$90.00
Reimbursement from State
90.00
Cr.
$180.00
Paid to Daniel K. Franklin.
$180.00
$180.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Dr.
Appropriation $17,550.00 H. R. Packard, sale of pung. 15.00
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H. R. Packard, sale of old heater and hose 13.00
Interstate Street Railway, damage to hose of fire department. . . Individual telephones, fire department 18.40
60.00
$17,656.40
Cr.
Salary, Chief Engineer. $ 500.00
Salaries, Assistant Engineers 400.00
Salary, Clerk 25.00
Salary, Hose I.
I,II5.00
Salary, Hose 2.
1,115.00
Salary, Hose 3. 300.00
Salary, Hose 4.
282.25
Salary, Hose 5.
300.00
Salary, Hose 6.
I20.00
Salary, Hose 7. I20.00
Salary, Hook and Ladder No. I .... 1,190.00
Salary, Hook and Ladder No. 2 .... 300.00
Salary, Janitor Hose 3. 39.00
Salary, Janitor Hose 4.
13.00
Salary, Janitor Hose 5.
52.00
Salaries, permanent men
6,187.50
Chemical supplies
48.23
Oil, washing powder, incidental sup- plies, etc.
97.19
Gas
69.29
Plumbing
55.03
Coal
417.67
Wood 6.00
Tools, hardware, supplies, etc. 158.94
Repairs to wagons 82.49
Grain 1,188.38
Harness supplies and repairs III.25
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Shoeing 194.82
Telephones 163.65
Electric lights 171.46
Lumber and labor 72.10
Incidental repairs
15.26
Electrical supplies 16.60
Horse hire 65.50
Brooms
10.00
Sponges
6.25
Express, incidentals, etc.
47.37
Fire police
25.50
Veterinary services and medicine.
19.92
Hose stop
3.00
Large size nozzles
35.00
Nozzles
20.00
Nozzle tips
3.00
Annual reports
7.20
Fire permit blanks
5.00
Repairs underground alarm
10.36
Garden hose
5.62
Polish
3.75
Beds, mattresses, springs, etc
44.70
Posts
3.00
Ladder
22.00
Rubber landing pad.
15.00
Curtains and chairs. 15.70
Reward for setting fire conviction
25.00
Repairs to Union street house
226.81
Drilling manholes
13.20
Gravel roofing
32.90
Repairs Hebronville house.
18.72
Repairs South Attleboro house 5.51
E. O. Dexter, repairs chimney, Union street house 23.23
Cesspool, Hebronville house. 36.57
Rubber coats 45.50
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Chemical hose
20.00
Wire grips
3.00
Fire extinguishers
20.00
Platform at Pumping Station
18.97
Painting
9.73
Plumbing, Hebronville house
69.70
Painting House No. 3.
64.00
Copy of Fire Laws
1.50
Disinfectants
24.15
Painting Hebronville house
41.50
Repairing voltmeter
5.68
Bay horse, Union street house
325.00
Clock
5.50
Pole and sockets
4.02
Coil
8.36
Electric power, Rhode Island Com-
pany
42.50
Supplies, South Attleboro house. 5.70
Six-inch gong
20.00
Special draught springs
10.00
Pole snaps
9.00
Acid jars and tanks
45.60
Telegraph poles
20.00
Lanterns
IO.IO
Billheads
6.00
Unexpended balance
1,143.97
$17,656.40
New Fire Alarm Boxes.
(Including Washington Street Extension.)
Dr.
Appropriation
$675.00
$675.00
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Cr.
New boxes
$300.00
Lightning arresters
18.00
Volt meter
28.03
Wire
271.3I
Unexpended balance
57.66
$675.00
South Attleboro Fire House.
Dr.
Appropriation
$700.00
Sale of horse
200.00
Overdraft
21.95
$921.95
Cr.
Horse
$285.00
Veterinary services
38.00
Repairs to house
298.95
Hose and supply wagon
300.00
Hydrant, Union Street House. $921.95
Appropriation
$250.00
$250.00
Cr.
Water Department, laying pipes,
hydrant, etc.
$224.33
Unexpended balance
25.67
$250.00
Dr.
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South Main Street Fire House.
Dr.
Appropriation
$38,000.00
Cr. $38,000.00
Paid Malcom Currie, contractor. $13,080.00
Paid O. M. Higgins, architect. 1,250.00
W. B. Ross, heating 500.00
Plumbing 101.73
Moving old house 340.00
Surveying 35.00
Concreting and cutting curb 7.30
Lumber
13.50
Unexpended balance
22,672.47
$38,000.00
Express Wagon, Fire Department.
Appropriation
Dr. $125.00
Cr. $125.00
John W. Perry, express wagon.
$90.00
Unexpended balance 35.00
Hose, Fire Department. $125.00
Appropriation
Dr. $275.00
$275.00
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Cr.
500 feet of hose $275.00
$275.00
Horses and Harnesses.
Dr.
Appropriation $800.00
Cr. $800.00
Unexpended balance
$800.00
$800.00
Hook and Ladder Truck.
Dr.
Appropriation $2,250.00
$2,250.00
Cr.
Unexpended balance
$2,250.00
$2,250.00
Street Lighting.
Dr.
Appropriation
$14,500.00
$14,500.00
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Cr.
Paid the Attleboro Steam and Electric Company :
January
$1,154.81
February 1,154.77
March
1, 154.77
April
1,169.83
May
1,180.35
June
1,180.35
July
1,180.35
August
1,187.85
October
1,219.40
September
1,219.40
November
1,219.40
December
1,219.40
Unexpended balance
259.32
$14.500.00
Repairs to Pest House.
(Town Farm.)
Dr.
Appropriation $200.00
$200.00
Cr.
Repairs, carpenter work, cleaning,
etc. $115.00
Tinexpended balance
85.00
$200.00
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Suppression Illegal Sale of Intoxicating Liquors.
Dr.
Appropriation
$250.00
Cr. $250.00
Unexpended balance
$250.00
$250.00
Land for Sewer Beds.
Dr.
Appropriation
$5,000.00
Cr. $5,000.00
Land purchased from Read heirs for
sewer beds $4,500.00
Unexpended balance
500.00
Sewerage Disposal. $5,000.00
(To be assessed with General Sewerage Account.)
Dr.
Overdraft
$370.10
Cr.
$370.10
Travel and expenses, Sewer Com-
mittee $ 17.55
Engineering work
352.55
$370.10
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Memorial Day Observance.
Dr.
Appropriation
$300.00
Cr. $300.00
William A. Streeter Post, G. A. R ... $300.00
$300.00
Rent of G. A. R. Hall.
Dr.
Appropriation
$348.00
Cr. $348.00
William A. Streeter Post, G. A. R .. $348.00
$348.00
Office Equipment. Dr.
Appropriation $1,500.00
Sale of fireplace, Town Clerk's office 5.00
Sale of desk to H. C. Swift 12.00
J. H. Nerney, chair. 1.00
Sale of desk, Assessors' office
5.00
Cr.
Typewriter and stand, Assessors and Selectmen
$115.00
Light and fixtures 24.35
Painting 10.53
Adding machine
375.00
Special cards for Assessors
44.67
$1,523.00
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Work on cards, George M. Worrall. 175.00
Work on cards, Walter J. Newman. . 175.00 Steel case and index drawers for card system 200.00
Tables, Assessors' office 16.00
Safe, Assessors' office.
91.25
Moving safe, cartage and freight .... 15.62
Typewriter stand, Town Clerk's office
15.00
Grill work, Town Clerk's office. 186.13
Unexpended balance 79.45
$1,523.00
Johnson Law Case.
Dr.
Overdraft
$530.00
Cr. $530.00
Judgment in Superior Court for land taken for Briggs Corner school lot, payable to John Johnson. .
$450.25
William H. Fox, legal services.
50.00
Engineering work 8.25
Witness fees, travel, etc
21.80
$530.00
Tuberculosis Exhibit.
Dr.
Appropriation
$200.00
Overdraft 41.27
$241.27
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Cr.
Speakers and expenses $50.80
Freight and teaming. 44.00
Printing signs, circulars, etc. 27.60
Labor and incidentals 12.74
Rent of exhibit. 58.00
Caretaker and expenditures
17.50
Rent of Opera House.
15.00
Postage, telephoning, electric equip- ment, etc. 4.38
Programs
II.25
Equipment for Police Officers.
Dr.
Appropriation $200.00
$200.00
Cr.
Revolvers, handcuffs, holsters and
cartridges $ 99.33
Unexpended balance
100.67
$200.00
Endowed Bed at Attleboro Sanatarium. Dr.
Appropriation
$700.00
Cr. $700.00
Paid Attleboro Sanatarium Company for endowed bed for one year. . . $700.00
$700.00
$241.27
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Insurance, Town Buildings.
Dr.
Appropriation $1,200.00
Rebate on policy, George J. Kelley. . 13.16
Rebate on policy. 41.65
$1,254.81
Cr.
Bliss school, $34,000.00 $357.75
Sanford street schools, $10,000.00. . . I 50.00
Hebronville school, $3,000.00. 45.00 . .
South Attleboro school, $2,000.00. . . 30.00
Carpenter street school, $3,000.00. . . 45.00
South Main street school, $3,000.00. 30.00
Unexpended balance 597.06
$1,254.81
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Dr.
Appropriation . $15,000.00
Balance from 1908. 275.64
Excise tax from Interstate Street Railway Co. 1,959.02 Excise tax, Norton & Taunton Street Railway Co. 94.59
Excise tax, Bristol County Street
Railway Co.
202.68
Street Railway tax. 2,239.08
Providence Telephone Co., use of streets for conduits. 25.00
Attleboro Gas Light Co., repairs of street 14.00
Sewer entrances
287.50
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Frank Dickinson, use of sewer cart. 5.00
Moody Land Co., use of road roller. 25.00
Claude L. Bowen, use of horse ..... 2.00
Water Department, work done by Highway Department 85.75
Interstate Consolidated St. Ry. Co.,
for change of line of Pine street
35.00
Sale of stone
495.63
Sale of dirt and loam
I33.68
Sale of junk.
7.41
Individual telephone bills
6.26
Work done by Highway Department on :
Sidewalks, curbing 232.00
Sidewalks, concrete 250.00
Jackson street 300.00
Franklin street
100.00
Elizabeth street
100.00
Holman street
74.45
Street sprinkling
85.00
$22,034.69
Cr.
North Division, pay roll. $7,240.33
South Division, pay roll. 1,538.30
Southwest Division, pay roll 1,563.38
Street cleaning, pay roll.
2,552.46
Superintendent of Streets, salary ... 1,000.00
Use of team. 200.00
Stone
2,030.13
Surveying, H. F. Conant.
169.85
Surveying, C. F. Robinson
99.40
Gravel
553.20
Supplies, roller and crusher.
685.46
Snow
12.32
Shoeing
104.00
Tools and repairs
531.54
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Hay and grain 978.88
Lights in barn. 36.80
Lumber for bridges, fences, etc 534.99
Work on town barn 400.00
Water Department, connection at
Forest street 63.23
Moving Manchester house, J. I.
Sweeney 145.00
Plumbing 79.58
Water pipe and laying 20.19
Building cellar
193.54
Replanking Holden street bridge,
labor
34.25
Drag plank
7.00
Inspector of boilers
10.00
Repairs on carts
325.03
Paving
60.00
Paving stones
32.14
Work on catch basins
91.76
Cleaning catch basins
90.00
Miscellaneous labor
253.98
Veterinary services
4.00
Mason work
10.20
Pipe
31.37
Team hire
61.82
Cement and brick
32.98
Cement curbing
II.20
Boots
15.30
Harness supplies and repairs
95.42
Telephone
36.16
Advertising
4.71
Posts
18.75
Ashes
36.35
Weighing .80
Incidentals, paint, oil, varnish, tele-
gram, etc. 20.18
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Unexpended balance
18.8I
$22,034.69
Street Sprinkling.
Dr.
Appropriation
$4,000.00
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., for
Dustoline
45.00
Cr.
$4,045.00
Fred Read, sprinkling. $200.25
Robert Sharkey, sprinkling.
214.25
Frank Parmenter, sprinkling 594.24
T. E. Perrin, sprinkling 468.00
R. D. Manchester, sprinkling 581.25
Nelson Japson, sprinkling
259.00
F. I. Jillson, sprinkling.
399.00
John S. Lamson, Dustoline. 776.28
Repairing stand pipes. 59.93
Repairs on carts.
398.12
Work done by Highway Department 85.00
Unexpended balance
9.68
Sidewalks. Dr.
Appropriation $3,000.00
Curbing, laying and changing curb-
ing, paving and gutter covers .. 561.78
Amount due from betterment tax ... 1,579.00
Amount overdrawn II.81
$4,045.00
$5,152.59
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Cr.
Curbing
$3,090.30
Labor
168.97
Gravel
291.17
Surveying 109.96
Stone
38.91
Setting curbing
839.92
Cutting curbing
10.25
Gutter crossings
140.2I
Paving
226.80
Oil
4.10
Work done by Highway Department
232.00
$5,152.59
Concrete Sidewalks.
Dr.
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Amount due for betterment tax.
738.86
Cr. $3,738.86
R. H. Jones, concrete.
$3,486.39
Work done by Highway Department 250.00
Unexpended balance 2.47
$3,738.86
Lamb Street.
Appropriation $6,000.00
Sale of loam 22.00
Carting loam
6.00
Amount overdrawn
18.78
$6,046.78
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Cr.
Pay rolls $2,711.39
Surveying, H. F. Conant.
76.50
Bridge
1,258.00
Mason work 1,941.76
Tools
19.77
Pipe
15.36
Posts
22.50
Advertising
1.50
$6,046.78
Street Oiling.
Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
$500.00
Cr.
John S. Lamson, dustoline.
$500.00
$500.00
Hodges Street.
Appropriation
$600.00
Amount overdrawn 15.08
$615.08
Cr.
Surveying, H. F. Conant. $ 4.00
Mason work 205.48
Lumber and carpenter work 405.60
$615.08
D
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Forest Street.
(Buildings and land.)
Dr.
Appropriation $ 900.00
State of Massachusetts, for lot on
Union street 5,000.00
Sale of boiler, stone crusher 50.00
Sale of old barn
100.00
Amount overdrawn
92.10
$6,142.10
Cr.
Land
$1,500.00
Lumber
1,544.13
Mason work
1,349.69
Carpenter work
I,II0.48
Surveying, H. F. Conant.
48.50
Stone
19.4I
Electric lights
48.18
Boiler
500.15
Labor
21.56
$6,142.10
Pond Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$300.00
Balance from 1908
297.50
Amount overdrawn
1.87
$599.37
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Cr.
Land $230.10
Pay rolls
331.35
Pipe
20.80
Tools
14.00
Lumber
3.12
County Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
$500.00
Cr.
Surveying, H. F. Conant
$ 42.40
Pay rolls
457.46
Unexpended balance
.14
$500.00
Holman Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$600.00
$600.00
Cr.
Land
$300.00
Surveying
11.15
Pay rolls
214.00
Work done by Highway Department
74.45
$600.00
--
$599.37
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Highland Avenue.
Dr.
Appropriation
$500.00
Amount overdrawn
3.25
$503.25
Cr.
Pay rolls $503.25
$503.25
Thacher Brook Drain.
Dr.
Appropriation
$200.00
$200.00
Mason work
$186.44
Cleaning
13.56
$200.00
Franklin Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$100.00
Cr. $100.00
Work done by Highway Department $100.00
$100.00
Elizabeth Street
Dr.
Appropriation
$100.00
$100.00
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Cr.
Work done by Highway Department $100.00
$100.00
Jackson Street.
Dr.
Appropriation
$300.00
Cr. $300.00
Work done by Highway Department 300.00
$300.00
SUMMARY OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES AND APPROPRIATIONS OVERDRAWN.
Overdrawn
Unexpended
Current and incidental
$921.52
Tuberculosis exhibit
41.27
South Attleboro fire house
21.95
Hodges street
15.08
Highland avenue 3.25
Curbing sidewalks
II.8I
Pond street 1.87
. Capron Park
20.32
Moving Turner street school.
307.95
Washington street school 147.88
Bliss school
7.69
Grading lot, Bliss school.
42.01
Forest street lot, stone crusher
92.10
Lamb street
18.78
Johnson law case
530.30
Police Department
$1,095.52
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Equipment for police officers
Overdrawn Unexpended 100.67
Fire Department
1,143.97
New fire alarm boxes. .
57.66
Express wagon, Fire Department ... 35.00
Widening County street.
.14
Street sprinkling
9.68
Concreting sidewalks
2.47
Street lighting
259.32
Soldiers' Relief
866.37
Suppression illegal sale of liquor
250.00
Public Library
4.91
Pauper Department
693.69
School Department 53-40
597.06
Hydrant, Union street fire house ...
25.67
Repairing pest house, Town Farm ..
85.00
$2,183.78 $5,280.53
2,183.78
Total unexpended balance $3,096.75
Amount expended for sewerage, to be assessed with general sewer- age account
$370.10
The following balances carried forward :
Equipment of town offices ..... $ 79.45
Highways and bridges. 18.8I
Land for sewerage system. 500.00
Hook and ladder truck, Fire Depart- ment 2,250.00
Horses and harnesses, Fire Depart- ment 800.00
South Main street engine house 22,672.47
$26,320.73
Insurance, town buildings.
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RECOMMENDATIONS.
The following recommendations are made by the officers of the various departments :
Selectmen's Departments.
Current and Incidental, with re- ceipts $13,000.00
Highways and bridges, with receipts 18,000.00
Curbing sidewalks, under betterment act 3,000.00
Concreting sidewalks, under better- ment act
3,000.00
County street bridge.
1,500.00
Street lighting 15,000.00
Police Department, with court fines 6,000.00
Laying dust on public streets 5,000.00
Soldiers' Relief 2,800.00
Observance of Memorial Day 300.00
Military Aid 100.00
Insurance of town buildings 700.00
Portable stonecrusher
2,500.00
$70,900.00
Recommended by Engineer of Fire Department for current and inci- dental expenses $17,500.00
Recommended by Overseers of the Poor:
For support of paupers. . $9,000.00
For medical attendance ..
500.00
$9,500.00
Recommended by the School Com- mittee for support of schools, and dog fund .$77,500.00
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Recommended by Water Commissioners :
For Sinking Fund. . . . . . . $4,000.00 For retiring serial bonds 2,000.00
$6,000.00
Recommended by Board of Health. $2,500.00 Recommended by the Library Trus- tees for support of Public
Library 7,000.00
Amounts to Be Raised to Meet Former Votes.
Capron Park $2,000.00
Dodgeville school, final .. 1,000.00
Street from South Main
to County, final ..... 2,800.00
New street, Thacher to West, and Soldiers'
Monument
5,000.00
Washington street school 3,000.00
South Main street engine house 3,800.00
Bliss school 5,000.00
Endowed bed, Attleboro
Sanatarium
700.00
$23,300.0%)
Appropriations made since Aug. 1, 1909:
Wall along Thacher brook drain at stonecrusher lot
$900.00
Pond street extension, St.
Jean Plat
300.00
$1,200.00
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Amounts required by law to be raised by taxation :
State tax, approximated. .$18,000.00
County tax, approximated 17,000.00
Sinking Fund 2,500.00
Interest on notes. 4,000.00
Interest on bonds
2,650.00
Grade crossing account and interest 13,500.00
$57,650.00
ยท Recapitulation.
Selectmen's Departments $70,900.00
Fire Department 17,500.00
Overseers of the Poor 9,500.00
School Department
77,500.00
Water Department
6,000.00
Public Library
7,000.00
Appropriations made since Aug. I ..
1,200.00
Requirements of the law and in- terest
57,650.00
To meet former votes of the town. 23.300.00
Board of Health expenses. 2,500.00
$273.050.00
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE M. WORRALL. MILLARD F. ASHLEY, GEORGE A. SWEENEY. Selectmen of Attleborough.
Examined, February 3, 1910, and found correct.
BENJAMIN F. LINDSEY. IV. L. ELLIOT, FREDERICK L. LeBARON,
Auditors.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN TREASURER
GENERAL TREASURER RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand. $ 45,478.09
S. M. Holman, Collector $282,000.00
Licenses.
Two auctioneers' licenses $ 4.00
Two druggists' licenses
2.00
Fireworks licenses
10.00
Bowling alley, pool and billiard
table licenses
360.00
133 milk licenses
66.50
14 peddlers' licenses
235.00
Licenses for wrestling bouts.
2.00
Talaquega Park license
25.00
Broker's license 50.00
Junk licenses and badges 450.00
Dance licenses 5.00
Theatre and moving picture licenses
100.00
Intelligence office license
2.00
License to loan money. 5.00
Plumbers' licenses 25.50
Slaughter house license.
2.00
Garbage licenses
12.00
Circus licenses
40.00
Licenses to sell explosives
21.00
$1,417.00
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Notes.
1909.
Received of
April 14, Estabrook & Co., on note dated April 14, 1909, for six months at 3%. $20,000.00
April 30, City Trust Co., on note dated April 30, 1909, and due Nov. 1, 1909, at 2.75%. 25,000.00
May 6, Parkinson & Burr, on 6 notes of $5,000 each, dated May 1, 1909, and due $5,000 in 1914-1919, at 4% 30,000.00
May 27, Graham, Moore & Co., on 26 notes of $1,000 each, dated Aug. 1, 1908, and due $6,000 in 1909 and $5,000 in 1910-1913, at 4% 26,000.00
Aug. 6, Commissioners of Sinking Fund, on note on demand, dated Aug. 6, 1909, at 4% 10,000.00
Aug. 12, First National Bank of At- tleboro, on note dated Aug. 12. 1909, for 2 months at 4% .. . ... 10,000.00 Aug. 30, First National Bank of At- tleboro, on note dated Aug. 30, 1909, for 2 months at 4%. . .. 10,000.00 Sept. 8, Jose, Parker & Co., on note dated Sept. 8, 1909, for 2 months at 4% 25,000.00
Interest. $156,000.00
1909. Received of May 6. Parkinson & Burr, accrued in- terest from May I to May 6,
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1909, on notes amounting to $30,000, dated May 1, 1909, at 4% $ 16.67
May 27, Graham, Moore & Co., ac- crued interest from Feb. 1, 1909, to May 26, 1909, on notes amounting to $26,000, dated Aug. 1, 1908, at 4% . 335.II
First National Bank of Attleboro, in- terest on daily balances in bank from Jan. 1, 1909, to Jan. 1, 1910 580.12
$931.90
Premiums. April 14, Estabrook & Co., premium on note of $20,000, dated April 14, 1909, at 3% .50
May 6, Parkinson & Burr, premium on notes amounting to $30,000, dated May 1, 1909, at 104.30. ... 1,290.00
May 27, Graham, Moore & Co., pre- mium on notes amounting to $26,000, dated Aug. 1, 1908, at IOI.152 299.52
$1,590.02
1909.
Sewer Connections. Received of
Peter Quinter, connecting property,
rear 7 School street with School street sewer $ 37.50
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., con- necting station on Mill street with Union street sewer 37.50
Connecting with Mill street drain 25.00
Interstate Consolidated St. Ry. Co., connecting property on Park street with Park street sewer ... 37.50
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Attleboro Gas Light Co., connecting property on Dunham street with Dunham street sewer. 37.50
Emily Kean, connecting property on Pine street with Pine street sewer 37.50
Leach & Garner, connecting property on Hazel street with School
street sewer 37.50
L. Z. Carpenter, connecting property on Dean street with Dean street sewer 37.50
$287.50
Miscellaneous.
1909. Received of
George F. Pratt, County Treasurer, dog licenses $2,188.08
Fines for non-payment of dog li- censes I20.00
Edwin F. Thayer, Clerk, court fines
1,923.14
I. Granville Carrier, Keeper of Jail, court fines and expenses. 100.00
Town of Medway, Board of Health 16.00
Town of North Attleboro, Board of Health 50.19
Sale of old furniture, fire place, etc., Town Clerk's office. 23.00
W. J. Newman, Sealer of Weights and Measures, for fees, sealing weights, etc. 87.10
Junk dealers, for signs and badges. . 4.50
H. R. Packard, Chief of Fire Dept., sale of pung . 15.00
Sale of gas heater 13.00
Sale of horse. 200.00
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Ashley & Co., credit on Fire Dept. bill .85
Interstate Consolidated St. Ry. Co.,
for damage to Fire Dept. hose .. 60.00
Park Commissioners, for sale of loam and grass. 4.00
Town of Grafton, for Soldiers' Relief paid to John H. Kimball, for 1908 and 1909 144.00
H. E. Carpenter, rebate on insurance policies 41.65
George J. Kelley, rebate on insurance policies 13.16
Nelson Japson, for drain on Emory street 10.00
F. Dickinson, use of sewer cart .. 5.00
Moody Land Co., use of road roller Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
25.00
for lot of land on Union street, for Armory 5,000.00
Mrs. Wm. J. Ritchie, for change of curbing 7.50
E. A. Briggs, for gutter covers and curbing 48.01
Frank Payson, for gutter covers and curbing 38.66
F. L. Aeschliman, for gutter covers and curbing 38.66
Providence Telephone Co., use of
streets for underground wires .. 25.00
Fred Bodman, for gutter covers .... 35.00
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., for dustolene 45.00
Calvin B. Goff, for change of curbing 7.00
Fannie L. Place, for boiler, Highway department 50.00
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Horton-Angell Co., for work done by
Highway Department on Bank street sidewalk 100.00
Claude L. Bowen, for use of horse, Highway Department 2.00
H. A. Caswell, for sale of Highway barn 100.00
G. H. Sykes, gutter covers and curb- ing 38.95
Water Department, for repairing streets torn up to repair water pipes
85.75
Charles Tappan, for work done by Highway Department on Tappan avenue 100.00
For curbing on Dunham street ...
82.50
A. B. Carpenter, for loam carted from Lamb street by Highway De- partment 6.00
Amos Blackinton, for gutter covers and curbing 65.50
Attleboro Gas Light Co., for repairs on highway caused by laying of gas pipe 14.00
Interstate Consolidated St. Ry. Co., for change of line of Pine street 35.00
Superintendent of Streets, sale of stone 495.63
Sale of dirt and loam 155.68
Sale of junk. 7.41
$11,626.92
School Department, sale of text
books, supplies and incidentals. $ 44.30
Tuition from Town of Rehoboth. . 76.25 Tuition from Town of Seekonk ... 282.25
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Tuition from individuals.
86.50
Interest on school savings. 60.96
$550.26
Overseers of the Poor :
Town of Foxboro. $ 54.50
City of New Bedford I32.05
City of Somerville 92.00
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