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American Express Company
1.23
Wm. H. Welch & Co., supplies
4.60
John L. Morrison, storing sprayer
105.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
10.80
W. M. Farwell, arsenate of lead
89.40
S. T. Shattuck, labor and storage of sprayers 289.33
Anderson & Bowman, labor
4.30
Freeman Abbott, hauling sprayer
273.60
Samuel Cabot, supplies
13.86
City of Malden, lead
180.85
W. I. Morse, supplies
53.19
American La France Engine Co., repairs
3.50
C. A. Hill & Co., supplies
1.45
Fitzhenry Guptil Co., lead and sulphur
22.50
Buchan & McNally, supplies
.40
John H. Playdon, superintendent
150.00
Dow Chemical Co., arsenate of lead
1332.00
Sherman Williams Co., supplies
36.12
Martin Doherty, storage
60.00
W. H. Coleman, gasoline
103.72
Total expenditure
5222.89
Balance
177.26
$5700.15
$5700. 15
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TREE WARDEN
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$500.00
Payrolls
$372.73
Lawrence Lumber Co.
4.50
Follansbee Nursery Co., trees
37.50
\V. I. Morse, supplies
1.82
Fire Department
4.50
Gray & Kendall, filing saws, etc.
6.65
Total expenditure
427.70
Balance
72.30
$500.00
$500.00
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SPRING GROVE CEMETERY
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$2500.00
Sale of lots
787.50
Care of lots
553.50
Interments
376.26
Foundations
122.71
Sundries
129.06
Payrolls
$3538.16
E. Lundgren, acting superintendent
100.00
C. L. Wilson, self and team
7.50
People's Ice Co., ice
39.00
F. A. Gould, self and teams
53.67
F. L. Dodge, mason work
13.30
A. J. Kushin Co., stump puller
109.75
O. P. Chase, sundries
.20
A. S. Manning, fertilizer
54.25
Anderson & Bowman, repairs
2.80
W. I. Morse, supplies
263.04
Edith Sellars, clerical work ·
100.00
Buchan & McNally, supplies
2.95
John W. Bell, sundries
2.00
A. M. Colby, notices
1.75
Joseph C. Terry, printing
4.25
John L. Morrison, repairs
13.00
Board Public Works, water
8.77
J. H. Playdon, shrubs
33.10
W. L. Johnson
16.50
Total expenditure
4363.99
Balance
105.04
$4469.03
$4469.03
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INSURANCE
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$2000.00
Appropriation, Workmen's Compensation
1600.00
Dividends
39.64
Smart & Flagg, agents, insurance
$2013.62
Smart & Flagg, Workmen's Compensation
2154.27
Total expenditure
4167.89
Transferred from Miscellaneous
528.25
$4167.89
$4167.89
HAY SCALES
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$125.00
John W. Richardson, repairs
$3.73
William C. Brown, weigher
100.00
Total expenditure
103.73
Balance
21.27
$125.00
$125.00
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STREET LIGHTING
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 Lawrence Gas Co. Balance
$6500.00
$6262.39
237.61
$6500.00
$6500.00
MEMORIAL DAY
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$350.00
June 3, Moses L. Farnham, Quartermaster
$350.00
Total expenditure
$350. 00
$350.00
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MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 F. S. Boutwell, treasurer Memorial Hall Library
$1800.00
$1800.00
Total expenditure $1800.00
$1800.00
POST 99, G. A. R.
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$100.00 April 29, Paid Moses L. Farnham Quar- termaster $100.00
Total expenditure $100.00
$100.00
. SEWER SINKING FUND
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$1000.00
Thos. E. Rhodes, Treas. Sinking Fund $1000.00
Total expenditure
$1000.00
$1000.00
WATER SINKING FUND
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$750.00
Thos. E. Rhodes, Treas. Sinking Fund $750.00
Total expenditure
$750.00
$750.00
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STATE TAX AND HIGHWAY TAX
Andover's proportion of State Tax Andover's proportion of Highway Tax Charles L. Burrill, Treas. and Receiver General
$22000.00 4629.50
$26629.50
Total expenditure
$26629. 50 $26629.50
COUNTY TAX
Andover's proportion of County Tax David I. Robinson, County Treasurer
$15597.70
$15597.70
Total expenditure
$15597.70 $15597.70
DOG TAX
Received from County Treasurer Paid F. S. Boutwell, Treasurer Memorial Hall $621.13
$621.13
Total expenditure $621.13
$621.13
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NOTES GIVEN
Mar. 16, Andover National Bank, Note No. 44, due Nov. 18, Rate 5.44 $20000.00
Mar. 16, Andover National Bank, Note No. 45, due Nov. 22, Rate 5.44 10000.00
Mar. 16, Andover National Bank, Note No. 46, due Nov. 22, Rate 5.44 10000.00
Mar. 16, Andover National Bank, Note No. 47, due Nov. 29, Rate 5.44 15000. 00
Mar. 16, Andover National Bank, Note No. 48, due Dec. 6, Rate 5.44 15000.00
Mar. 16, Andover National Bank, Note No. 49, due Dec. 13, Rate 5.44 5000.00
Mar. 16, Andover National Bank, Note No. 50, due Dec. 13, Rate 5.44 5000.00
Aug. 5, Andover National Bank, Note No. 51, due Dec. 10, Rate 4.25 20000.00
Total Notes issued $100000.00
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NOTES PAID
Nov .. 18, Andover National Bank, Note No. 44 $20000.00
Andover National Bank, Note No. 45 10000.00 Andover National Bank, Note No. 46 10000.00 Andover National Bank, Note No. 47 15000.00
Andover National Bank, Note No. 48 15000.00
Andover National Bank, Note No. 49 5000.00
Andover National Bank, Note No. 50 5000.00
Andover National Bank, Note No. 51 20000.00
Total Notes paid
$100000.00
INTEREST
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 Interest on deposits
$17000.00 775.41
Paid 229 Water Bonds Coupons at $20.00
$4580.00
Paid 91 Water Bonds Coupons at $17.50
1592.50
Paid 203 Sewer Bonds Coupons at $20.00
4060.00
Paid 210 High School Bonds Coupons at $20.00
4200.00
Paid 30 Andover Loan Act Bonds Cou- pons at $20.00
600.00
Interest on Notes 44 to 56 inclusive
3339.56
Total expenditure
18372.06
Transferred from Miscellaneous
596.65
$18372.06 $18372.06
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REDEMPTION OF BONDS
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
Water
$13000.00
Punchard School
6000.00
Andover Loan Act
5000.00
Abbott Village Sewer Assessment
5000.00
Mar. 28, Old Colony Trust Co., Water Bond $1000.00
Apr. 13, Geo. A. Higgins, Treas., paid Water Bond No. 216
1000.00
Apr. 27, Old Colony Trust Co., Water Bond No. 334 1000.00
June 4, Geo. A. Higgins, Treas., paid 2 Water Bonds No. 240, 250
2000.00
June 28, Old Colony Trust Co., 5 Sewer Bonds, No. 151 to 155
5000.00
June 28 Old Colony Trust Co., 2 Water Bonds
2000.00
June 28, Old Colony Trust Co., 1 High School Bond, No. 101
1000.00
Aug. 28, Old Colony Trust Co., 1 Water Bond, No. 317 1000.00
Sept. 27, Old Colony Trust Co., 5 High School Bonds, No. 6 to 10 5000.00
Oct. 26, Old Colony Trust Co., 5 Ando- ver Loan 5000.00
Nov. 13, Geo. A. Higgins, Treas., paid 5 Water Bonds, 141 to 145 5000.00
Total
$29000.00 $29000.00
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RETIREMENT OF VETERANS
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 James Saunders
$300.00
$300.00
Total expenditure
$300.00
$300.00
PUBLIC DUMP
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 Olof Benson
$75.00
$75.00
Total expenditure
$75.00
$75.00
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MISCELLANEOUS
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$3000.00
New England Tel. and Tel. Co.
$8.01
American Express Co.
1.41
Andover National Bank, safe deposit box
5.00
Dr. E. C. Conroy, return of births
.50
Dr. C. E. Abbott, return of births
2.25
Dr. J. J. Daly, return of births
3.25
Dr. E. D. Lane, return of births
4.50
Dr. W. D. Walker, return of births
10.75
Dr. P. J. Look, return of births
8.75
C. F. Keefe, return of deaths
1.25
Conlin & Ryan, return of deaths
1.25
M. J. Mahoney, return of deaths
5.00
E. M. Lundgren, return of deaths
21.00
George C. Dunnells
3.00
S. T. Shattuck
. 50
W. L. Frye, constable
5.00
C. W. Flanders, lunch for counters
7.25
George A. Leck, photo of Essex Street
7.50
Patrick J. Barrett
3.00
Lilla D. Stott, probate and registry returns
41.45
Ira B. Hill
4.00
W. & L. E. Gurley, supplies for sealer
2.98
Madeleine Hewes, clerical work
63.25
J. E. Pitman, work on old Ballardvale schoolhouse
68.81
City of Lawrence, settlement of claim
573.85
H. M. Meserve & Co.
7.93
Amount carried forward $861.44
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$3000.00
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 Amount brought forward
$861.44
John Franklin, plan of Essex Street 6.00
T. F. Daly, constable 5.00
Myerscough & Buchan, auto hire for registrars
6.00
T. F. Morrissey & Son, auto hire 33.00
Dr. E. D. Lane, medical services
9.00
W. F. Gledhill, fish warden
10.00
Bureau of Statistics
16.00
B. & M. R. R., tickets
51.35
Review of Record Co.
5.00
Land Commissioners
3.00
Todd Protectograph Co., check protector
39.20
Expenses incurred by selectmen
12.75
Farley Awning Co., decorating Town Hall J. H. Playdon
10.00
Geo. A. Higgins, sundry expenses
30.25
J. A. Riley, attendance on registrars
15.85
Total expenditure
1185.74
Transferred to Interest
596.65
Transferred to Fire Department
519.88
Transferred to Insurance
528.25
Balance
169.48
$3000.00
$3000.00
71.90
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OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
The Overseers of the Poor submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1918 :-
Since 1908 the Town of Andover has been most fortunate in having as superintendent and matron at the Town Farm, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Swanton, and it was with regret that we received their resignation, for during the ten years that they have had charge of our almshouse, they not only have performed their duties in a manner most satisfactory to your Overseers, but by their ever kind and painstaking treatment had endeared them- selves to those committed to their care. Especially is this true of Mrs. Swanton, who possessed peculiar ability for the successful discharge of the complicated and oftentimes difficult duties of her position as matron.
We appointed Mr. and Mrs. William Hooten to take charge of the almshouse. They had been employed in a similar institution in Methuen and came highly recommended.
The business affairs of the almshouse and farm have as hereto- fore been well conducted; the house continues to be a model of neatness and good order throughout.
The expenses of the past year as shown in the accounts are about the same as in 1917. "Poverty they say is cheap," but it costs our generous town a large sum of money every year, and the calls for aid will doubtless be as great, if not more, for the next year, judging from the present business outlook, and the greater number who will need employment.
At the time our almshouse was built, it was not termed alms- house, but workhouse, and the inmates were young, middle- aged, old and mildly insane, and during the years these condi- tions prevailed it was a model building for this purpose, and was so deemed by the State officials as shown in their reports; but with the change in State laws, the personnel of our inmates has changed: "no children, no insane"; principally those who are
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advanced in years, with no one to care for them and it would seem that the present building, containing some sixty rooms of various kinds, is larger than is needed, and that some plan could be devised whereby without reducing the efficiency, the expense of this department could be reduced; and we would suggest that a committee of three be appointed to consider the matter and report at the next annual town meeting.
HARRY M. EAMES WALTER S. DONALD CHARLES BOWMAN
Overseers of the Poor
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ALMSHOUSE EXPENSES
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$4500.00
Receipts from Town Farm
1355.43
$5855.43
J. H. Campion & Co., groceries
$48.98
S. K. Ames, supplies 17.53
Lindsay & Young, provisions
372.82
Lawrence Gas Co.
187.71
T. A. Holt Co., groceries
631.94
H. Bruckman, grain
261.12
A. B. Sutherland Co., dry goods
71.37
A. S. Manning, groceries
268.69
Rockport Fish Market, fish
83.33
Andover Coal Co.
410.87
John D. Blackshaw, supplies
1.00
Thiras Brothers, supplies
1.25
T. F. Morrissey & Son, straw
7.60
Frank L. Holt, labor
89.75
Percy J. Look, medical service
5.00
John Curtin, provisions
47.34
A. M. Colby, supplies
6.40
C. A. Hill & Co., electric ironer
133.24
John L. Morrison, blacksmith work
2.25
New England Tel. and Tel. Co.
3.58
Buchan & Francis, supplies
38.16
O. P. Chase, supplies
17.54
Andover Board of Public Works, water
70.03
Andrew Basso, supplies
26.68
Andover Press, supplies
6.50
Amount carried forward $2810. 68
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Appropriation and Receipts
$5855.43
Amount brought forward $2810. 68
George A. Brown, shoes and repairing
30.50
Hiller & Co., supplies 35.01
Peter Henderson & Co., seeds
14.20
Anderson & Bowman, blacksmith work
28.95
Theo Muise, supplies
1.50
Chester D. Abbott, supplies
18.00
Charles Robinovitz, shoes
13.25
Buchan & McNally, supplies
29.80
Walter I. Morse, hardware
19.56
F. Orris Rea, supplies
20.75
Frank E. Whiting, supplies
2.00
Beach Soap Co., supplies
28.49
Robert Hutcheson, fish
2.45
H. F. Chase, supplies
2.00
Frank L. Cole, clothing
12.10
Providence Churning Co., supplies
59.85
Armour & Co., supplies
4.50
F. C. Small & Co., groceries
107.99
J. E. Pitman, supplies
4.50
Reid & Hughes, dry goods
84.99
Albert W. Lowe, drugs
43.50
D. F. Chase, provisions
44.69
Family Shoe Store, shoes
6.70
T. H. Lane & Son, clothing
15.80
Charles Stone, supplies
1.50
A. B. Loomer, provisions
89.76
Charles Melamed, pasturing heifers
28.00
Annie W. Swanton, labor
83.33
Crowley & Co., drugs
48.25
Walter C. Boyce, pasturing heifers
21.25
Charles F. Emerson, labor
1.38
Lawrence Lumber Co., supplies
7.95
Herbert Lewis, labor
40.74
Lawrence Telegram, advertising
1.05
Amount carried forward $3764.97
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$5855.43
Appropriation and Receipts Amount brought forward
$3764.97
People's Ice Co., ice
65.00
J. P. Wakefield, provisions
14.17
G. A. Yunggebauer, provisions
6.57
Fred A. Swanton, superintendent
666.67
William Hooton, superintendent
133.33
Mrs. Lulu Whitman, labor
33.14
Isabella Sinclair, labor
337.86
Bertha Johnson, labor
278.00
Jeremiah Doucette, labor
3.15
Mrs. McEwan, labor
6.63
G. E. Gillespie, labor
7.70
Daniel J. Sharp, labor
10.00
Lewis J. Kibbee, labor
6.00
Alice J. Kimball, labor
55.00
Mary Myers, labor
23.75
Total expenditure
5411.94
Balance
443.49
$5855.43
$5855.43
ALMSHOUSE REPAIRS
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$300.00
Walter I. Morse, hardware
$16.15
C. A. Hill & Co., supplies
1.05
W. T. Locke, labor
26.50
Frank E. Dodge, labor and supplies
29.15
Lawrence Lumber Co., labor
7.50
Buchan & McNally, labor and supplies
32.79
J. E. Pitman, supplies
16.62
Merrimack Boiler Co., supplies
18.35
Total expenditure
148.11
Balance
151.89
$300.00
$300.00
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SOLDIERS' RELIEF
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 Total expenditure Balance
$1100.00
$1025.77
74.23
$1100.00
$1100.00
STATE AID
$2500.00
Appropriation, March 4, 1918 Total expenditure Balance
$1949.00
551.00
$2500.00
$2500.00
AIDING MOTHERS WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
$500. 00
Town cases
$266.00
On account other cities
739.00
On account of State
430.00
Total expenditure
1435.00
Due from cities
$510.66
Due from State
540.67
1051.33
Net expenditure
383.67
Balance
116.33
$500.00
$500.00
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RELIEF OUT OF ALMSHOUSE
$4300.00
Appropriation, March 4, 1918
Paid out of almshouse
$3290.39
Paid other cities and towns
57.34
Paid State
148.00
Paid on account State
270.83
Total expenditure
$3766.56
Due town from State
232.83
Net expenditure
3533.73
Balance
766.27
$4300.00
$4300.00
PERSONAL PROPERTY AT ALMSHOUSE
House furniture
$1375.00
Clothing
300.00
Farm stock
720.00
Farm tools
350.00
Farm produce .
440.00
Fuel
490.00
Provisions
125.00
$3800.00
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FARM CASH REPORT
FROM JANUARY 1, 1918, TO NOVEMBER 1, 1918
Received for
Cows
$570.00
Milk
32.64
Calves
· 13.50
Pigs
258.00
Fowl
32.10
Eggs
51.10
Hay
31.19
Lumber
89.92
Board of inmates
248.42
Paid Town Treasurer to balance
1326.87
$1326.87
$1326.87
FRED A. SWANTON,
Superintendent
FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1918 TO DECEMBER 31, 1918
Received for
Milk
$7.56
Calf
5.00
Board
16.00
Paid Town Treasurer to balance
28.56
$28.56
$28.56
WILLIAM HOOTON, Superintendent
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ASSESSORS' REPORT
We herewith submit our annual report.
Number of male polls assessed
2025
Personal estate
$1738275.00
Real estate
6279425.00
$8017700.00
Poll tax
$4050.00
Tax on personal property
38679.27
Tax on real estate
139721.83
$182451.10
Rate of taxation per $1000, $22.25.
Number of
Horses assessed
532
Cows assessed
1037
Cattle other than cows assessed
304
Sheep assessed
22
Swine assessed
257
Fowl assessed
10492
Dwellings assessed
1673
Acres of land assessed
17851
HARRY M. EAMES WALTER S. DONALD CHARLES BOWMAN
Assessors of Andover
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
To the Board of Selectmen.
GENTLEMEN :- In compliance with the regulations of the Fire Department I submit the following report from January 1, 1918, to January 1, 1919. During this time 82 bell alarms, 9 still alarms, and 2 out-of-town calls were answered. Apparatus at Central Station answered 75 bell, 11 still, and 2 out-of-town calls.
Combination No. 1 traveled 373 miles; Combination No. 2 traveled 131 miles; Ladder No. 1, 41 miles. We have laid 16,500 feet of 21/2-inch hose, 1600 feet of 34-inch hose, raised 571 feet of ladders, and used 1090 gallons of chemicals.
In answering grass and brush fires the apparatus traveled 346 miles, laid 4950 feet of 21/2-inch hose, 750 feet of 34-inch hose, and used 624 gallons of chemicals.
Value of buildings and contents where fires occurred, $639,974.82; loss on buildings and contents, $22,368.14; insurance on buildings and contents, $550,749.00.
During the past year there were 14 fires reported that the department was not called.on, with a loss of $391.00 and in- surance $35,820.00. /
The working force of the department consists of three en- gineers, four permanent men, and sixteen call men at Central Station; one permanent man and eight call men at Hose No. 2, Ballardvale. The apparatus in working order consists of one Auto Combination Chemical Truck, one Combination Pumping and Chemical Truck, one Fourth Class Amoskeag Fire Engine, one two-horse Ladder Truck, one two-horse Hose Wagon, one spare two-horse Wagon, and one two-horse Pung.
There are about 4500 feet of hose in good condition.
The fire alarm is in good condition, but during the coming year part of the battery system will have to be replaced at an esti-
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mated cost of $100.00. Also, very soon the old wire on the system will have to be replaced with new. :
The earnings of the horses and drivers, rent of shed, and sale of manure for the past year was about $1487.70.
During the past year the cost of tires and repairs on tires was $616.27, and can be honestly charged up to brush fires, as they were almost new at the beginning of the new year.
We feel that the present apparatus is too heavy and expensive to run to brush fires, and recommend that a chassis be purchased and the body of the spare hose wagon be fitted to it and be equipped for brush-fire work.
We also recommend that some time in the near future the town purchase an auto ladder truck. The upkeep of the horse-drawn apparatus the past year at the Central Station was $458.27, and at Hose No. 2, Ballardvale, was $553.03. The expense of keeping a motor truck would be about $50.00 for gasoline and oil, and this would be a great saving over the horse-drawn apparatus.
Owing to the high cost of everything pertaining to the upkeep of the department, we recommend the appropriation of $10,000 for the ensuing year, together with the earnings.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER I. MORSE
Chief Engineer
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POLICE DEPARTMENT
REPORT OF CHIEF
To the Board of Selectmen.
GENTLEMEN :- I herewith submit the report of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1918.
Whole number of arrests, 120. Males, 116. Females, 4.
OFFENSES FOR WHICH ARRESTS WERE MADE
Non-Support
1
Manslaughter
3
Larceny
20 7
Violating Automobile Law
Drunk
15 3
Common drunk
Assault
5
Delinquency
29 2
Malicious mischief
3
Insane
5 1 3
Peddling without license
Violation of Town ordinance
Trespass
Stubborn child
Out-of-town officers
Having no card of registration
Concealing stolen property
Violation Board of Health rules
2
Failing to file questionnaire
1
Indecent language
1
Unlicensed dog
1
64
1
Vagrancy
1 2 6 2 1 6
Deserters from Army and Navy
DISPOSITION OF CASES
Essex County Training School
1
Returned to Army
2
Continued
8
Committed to House of Correction
5
Committed to insane asylum
5
Discharged
18
Held for Grand Jury
2
Paid fines
25
On probation
18
On file
18
Committed to State Infirmary
3
Defaulted
3
To Lyman School
1
To Shirley School
1
MISCELLANEOUS
Fines paid in lower court
$ 302.00
Burglaries reported
18
Doors found open and secured
71
Dogs killed
44
Value of property stolen
2900.00
Value of property recovered
2000.00
Value of Police equipment
500.00
SUPERIOR COURT FINDINGS
Nol-prossed
2
On probation
2
No bill found
3
Held for trial
1
Cases pending
2
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK M. SMITH Chief of Police
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SPRING GROVE CEMETERY
Your trustees are again called upon to record the loss of one of their valued and esteemed members during the year, John W. Bell, a man who gave much of his time, counsel and assistance to the development of the cemetery.
At the annual meeting last March an appropriation of $1500 was granted to the trustees for the purpose of resuming the work commenced in 1917 on the east side. Fifty-five lots were laid out and considerable construction work on avenues was done this last year. Nearly half of the lots laid out have already been sold and your Board of Trustees ask for an appropriation of $2000 in addition to the regular appropriation of $1000, and the proceeds from the sale of lots and other receipts for work done in the cemetery.
GEORGE D. MILLETT WALTER I. MORSE DANIEL H. POOR WARREN L. JOHNSON JOHN W. STARK FRED E. CHEEVER
Board of Trustees
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SPRING GROVE CEMETERY STATISTICS
Lots sold as per last report
466
Lots sold in 1918
17
Total lots sold
483
Total number of single graves sold
185
Interments as per last report
1326
Interments in 1918
81
Total interments
1407
W. I. MORSE Clerk of Board of Trustees
December 31, 1918
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TREE WARDEN'S REPORT
The trees in the center of the town are in good condition. We have done some trimming, removed dead trees, and planted some that were needed. I would like to call attention to the growth of brush in the outlying districts, which has grown so close to the road that it is impossible for vehicles to pass each other in safety. I have had numerous complaints regarding this, and would ask the town to appropriate the sum of $500 to be used by the Tree Warden to improve these conditions.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD H. BERRY Tree Warden
68
REPORT OF MOTH SUPERINTENDENT
I am pleased to say that the Browntail Moth is now almost extinct and there is also a steady decrease in the Gypsy Moth nests this season in the residential section of the town, as during the spraying season good weather prevailed, with good results in the decrease of nests. Owing to the high cost of material and shortage of labor, we were obliged to curtail on the amount of work to be done in the outlying districts. I am a firm believer in spraying for the suppression of all leaf-eating insects, and I would recommend that that branch of the work be continued, as it is the most economical way to handle this pest, and in order. that the condition of the town shall continue, I would ask that the sum of $3500 (thirty-five hundred dollars) be appropriated for this department.
Respectfully,
J. H. PLAYDON Local Moth Superintendent
69
ANIMAL INSPECTOR'S REPORT
To the Board of Selectmen.
GENTLEMEN :- I hereby submit my report for the year be- ginning November 15, 1917, and ending November 15, 1918.
Number of cattle inspected 1359
Number of stables inspected 156
Number of cows condemned because affected with tuberculosis 16
.Number of stables disinfected 16
Number of interstate cattle identified and released 95
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. NEWTON Inspector of Animals
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CORNELL FUND
RECEIPTS
Amount of Fund
$5000.00
Deposited in Savings Banks
5000.00
Balance from last account
$42.64
Income
237.50
280.14
EXPENDITURES
Paid for coal and wood
$127.28
Balance on hand
152.86
280.14
WV. D. WALKER C. N. MARLAND
J. C. ANGUS
Trustees
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BOARD OF HEALTH
The work of the Board of Health for the year 1918 has not differed materially from the routine work during the past five years, with the exception of the additional duties of co-operative effort during the influenza epidemic.
Many public nuisances have been permanently abated. The Board in several instances has been obliged to take individual cases into court, where property owners either would not, or could not crary out the injunctions of the Board. In the abolish- ment of dwellings unfit for human habitation the Board has endeavored to promote physical well-being as distinguished from conditions which merely secure escape from disease. If our town is to secure that immunity from disease for which it should strive, there are at lease five great routes for the dis- semination of disease germs in which it is concerned, viz: water, food, milk, flies, and contact. The matter of sewage disposal, so far as it is a sanitary consideration, is being well taken care of by the Board of Public Works. In the Frye Village district several problems in sewage disposal have been brought to the attention of your Board, and the problem as a whole should be given immediate attention.
The inspection of milk is each year becoming of increased importance, and your Board particularly desires, the coming year, to add a new Babcock milk tester to its equipment. 1
We present here a table of the contagious diseases occurring in 1918:
Chicken Pox
10
Diphtheria
7
Ophthalmia
1
German Measles
197
Measles
112
Mumps
23
Tuberculosis
6
72
Scarlet Fever
Typhoid Fever Whooping Cough Cerebro Spinal Meningitis Dysentery Lobar Pneumonia Influenza
8
3
13
3
1
14
1503
1901
DEATHS
Tuberculosis
8
Lobar Pneumonia
6
Influenza 25
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It will be noticed that our town has been fortunate in at least two respects during the year. We have escaped an epidemic of con- tagious diseases that are as a rule, considered especially danger- ous to life; and compared with the death-rate throughout the state from influenza, our percentage has been remarkably low .. In the first instance we feel that much credit is due our physicians; for an early diagnosis of the disease, and for prompt isolation. In the second instance we can but feel that the immediate closing of schools, churches and the public library had a marked influence in calling the attention of our townspeople to the danger of making light of what proved to be a dangerous disease.
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