Town annual report of Berkley 1910-1919, Part 15

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26.46


26.46


Chapman, Mrs. George F.


11.89


11.89


Pierce, James P., Stetson, Exec.


48.14


48.14


Murphy, Mrs. Jeremiah


.87


.87


Murphy, George B.


16.67


16.67


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Macomber, Helen A.


10.51


10.51


Meach, George W.


1.45


1.45


Wells, George N.


11.96


11.96


Pierce, Judith N. and others


.22


.22


MISCELLANEOUS.


Andrews, Charles C.


$15.44 $ .40


$15.84


Burt, Charles D. and others


.51


.51


Burt, Stephen A.


1.45


1.45


Babbitt, Artemus


6.52


6.52


Dunn, George W.


.73


.73


Crane, A. B.


21.90


21.90


Crane, Sarah A.


2.54


2.54


Caswell, George, Benj. and others


1.81


1.81


Drew, P. A.


11.96


11.96


Dilbeck, Felix


10.51


10.51


Delebair, Dorathea


15.29


15.29


Edwards, Anna


14.14


14.14


Grant, Sarah F.


.36


.36


Grinnell, Frank O.


7.47


7.47


Gaboriault, Mary


13.77


13.77


Marble, Robert B.


. 58


. 58


Neilson, Louisa


2.75


2.75


Paull, A. R.


1.02


1.02


Nicholes, Emma C.


7.97


7.97


Pierce, Ella Mary and others


6.16


6.16


La Bua, Luilian B.


15.15


15.15


Reed, Otis E.


4.35


4.35


Edlin, Abraham


30.16


30.16


Strange, Charles


13.41


13.41


Wilson, Frederick


6.89


6.89


Wade, Charles M.


2.17


2.17


Lindsey, Nellie N.


23.99


23.99


Renches, Emma B.


11.24


11.24


N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co.


3.94


3.94


Western Union Telegraph Co.


13.23


13.23


French Cable & Telegraph Co.


11.60


11.60


N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.


47.85


47.85


Bay State St. Railway Co.


252.40


252.40


Hathaway, J. Ambrose, heirs


2.90


2.90


Elliott, Cabot F.


43.50


43.50


Paduani, Philipee and Alice Deele


12.32


12.32


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Fyans, Edna


18.48


18.48


Macomber, Charles and others


24.65


24.65


Harrington, Quinlon


34.15


1.84


35.99


Hamlin, Frederick


.20


.20


Janetti, Cleto and Lista


9.06


9.06


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ANNUAL


SCHOOL REPORT


OF THE


TOWN OF BERKLEY


FOR THE


Year Ending Dec. 31, 1915


School Calendar.


Winter term, 11 weeks, Monday, Jan. 3, 1916, to Friday, March 17, 1916.


Spring term, 10 weeks, Monday, March 27, 1916, to Friday, June 2, 1916.


Fall term, 16 weeks, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1916, to Friday, Dec. 22, 1916.


Winter term, 11 weeks, Monday, Jan. 8, 1917, to Friday, March 23, 1917.


Spring term, 9 weeks, Monday, April 2, 1917, to Friday, June 1, 1917.


Holidays.


Washington's Birthday, Patriots' Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day following.


School Committee.


Edwin H. Allen, chairman, Berkley, Mass. Term expires 1918 Julia H. Burt, Secretary, Berkley, Mass. Term expires 1916 Noah H. Strange, Taunton, Mass., R. F. D. Term expires 1917


Superintendent of Schools.


Mortimer H. Bowman, Dighton, Mass.


Attendance Officer.


Charles Corey, Berkley, Mass.


School Physician.


Dr. L. E. Butler, Dighton, Mass.


FINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1915.


Receipts.


Appropriation for Schools and Sup- plies, $2,300.00


Appropriation for Superintendent, 250.00


Appropriation for Car fares, 600.00


Received from Mass. School Fund, 1,071.62


State Supervision,


250.00


State for High School Tuition, 1,050.00


State for Tuition of


State Wards, 174.00


State for Tuition of


Lyman School Wards, 58.00


State for Carfares,


454.50


$6,208.12


Expenditures.


Teachers' Salaries,


$2,882.40


Janitors,


276.75


Fuel,


210.65


High School Tuition,


1,239.00


Books, Supplies,


154.51


Repairs of School Buildings,


247.34


School Supervision,


339.96


School Committee,


85.95


High School Carfares,


540.00


Sawing and Housing Wood,


48.69


Miscellaneous,


144.70


$6,169.95


Balance, $38.17


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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


To the School Committee of Berkley:


I have the pleasure of presenting through you to the town and state my fifth annual report. It signifies that another school year has past, successfully, in ways not always definable. The work has been continued along the same general lines as in the past. We think it is effective, from the rank that our children are taking in other schools that they attend. We realize that we are handicapped in several ways; the training of those who speak a foreign tongue at home, the crowded condition of one of our school rooms and the few pupils in some other schools, the low wage paid and because of this the compelling necessity of employing those teachers who are without experience and professional training. Since consolidation of schools has never strongly appealed to the citizens of the town, one road to success, only, is open; namely the strengthening of each individual school. One way is to establish a minimum and maximum standard of salary. If the minimum were made ten dollars per week and the maximum at the end of two years twelve dollars per week, some very desirable teachers might be retained for several years. This also would command the attention of trained and experienced teachers. Since the town has no expensive departments to maintain apart from its roads, the slight increase in appropriation for schools ought to meet with a ready response. There is yet another reason for increasing the efficiency of our schools. At present there is no central graded school that the pupils may attend for a year or two prior to en- tering the city high school. To have pupils enter such a school, whose only training has been in a rural school


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demands excellent teaching. Furthermore it is a sort of a survival of the fittest, inasmuch as some pupils that now fail would enter the high school if they could have more thorough preparation.


As was anticipated, the demands of the Teachers' Retirement Board has led to a slight increase of salary. However, there seems to be more reluctance to raise the wage of the teacher than of the domestic, although thirteen years is the minimum training of the former and frequently absolute ignorance the possession of the latter.


At times the desirability of making rather radical changes in the management of the schools is presented to the superintendent. He always welcomes these sug- gestions with pleasure, because they come from those who are thinking of the welfare of the child. The parent who keeps in close touch with the future of his child is worthy of consideration. Among the suggestions pre- sented are those relating to the different systems of reading, the desirability of admitting children to grade one at both opening of the school in the fall and also at mid- year, the semi-annual promotion that would follow such admission, change of text books of various subjects, whether there should be eight or nine grades, the adop- tion of different vocational subjects, vacation schools, playgrounds and others. Some of these are permissible where schools are closely graded and many pupils are under one roof. But when schools are chiefly or entirely rural and the homes furnish instruction in some of the common duties and these same homes, in their environ- ment and aspirations, are far removed from others that send their children to graded schools, then the problem becomes complex. Under such conditions wisdom appar- ently points to the road that is progressive and yet con- servative. In connection with this whole scheme it must be remembered that we all are creatures of habit and that the school has the child for less than six hours a day for


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one hundred eighty days per year, while the home and the world has him for the remaining time. Furthermore in a large number of the homes a foreign language is spoken and even that not in its purity. Can the public wonder that in many an instance a child of fourteen years scarcely qualifies for an employment certificate? I fear the gravity of this problem is not fully comprehended by those to whom it should appeal with force. At this very hour the nation is made to realize very keenly that it is one thing to give a foreigner a set of naturalization papers and quite another affair to make him an American citizen in truth. The chief work of our schools is to make real American men and women in respect to education and morals. To accomplish this the educational plant must be thoroughly equipped with up-to-date machinery.


Attention is called to the appended reports of the School Physician and Attendance Officer. The cordial sympathy and co-operation of teachers and all school officials have greatly aided us in securing whatever success we may have attained.


Respectfully submitted,


MORTIMER H. BOWMAN,


Superintendent of Schools.


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TABLE A


Attendance Statistics Etc. for the Year 1915


SCHOOLS.


TEACHERS.


No. of Boys.


No. of Girls.


Total.


Enrollment


Under 5 Years.


Enrollment be-


Enrollment be-


tween 7 and 14 Yrs.


Enrollment be- tween 14 and 16 Yrs.


Enrollment Over


Membership.


Membership.


Attendance.


Per Cent of


Attendance.


Visitors.


No. 1


Addie M. Blood. .


14


7


21


2


18


0


21 44


19.4 41.5


18.4 37.6


94.8 90.6


41


No. 2.


Mildred M. Fiske. ..


21


23


44


4


38


0


No. 3


Inez E. Smith


11


7


18


0


4


13


1


0 0


18 15


15


12.8 11


85.3 95.6


64


No. 4.


Grace S. Whittaker.


6


9


15


0


2


10


3


Addie M. Blood.


No. 5.


Esther F. Bond


6


1


7


0


1


4


2


0


7


7 25.8


6.7


95.7


23


No. 6


Maud E. Hopkins


18


9


27


0


18


2


0


27


24.2


93.8


46


No. 7, Grammar. . ..


Elsie N. Snow.


13


15


28


0


0


25


3


0


28


26.9


25.6


95.2


53


No. 7, Primary .


Ruth E. Howland .


13


9


22


0


5


16


1


0


22


20.1


18.6


92.5


49


16 Years.


Total


Average


Average


Mary L. Westman


50


0 0


1 2


Lorena K. Campbell.


45


11.5


tween 5 and 7 Yrs.


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TABLE B


Showing Age and Assignment of Pupils by Grades.


Schools,


I


II


III 9.3 7 8.6 10.9 IV


VI


V 10.8 12.2 11.3


VII VIII IX 12.5


No. 1,


5.7


8.1


8.6


9.1 10.6


9.7


11


13 13


12 14


No. 4,


7


No. 5,


7


No. 6,


6.3 7.3


9 9.6 12.3 12.6


11.4


No. 7, Grammar,


9.4 11.3 11.8 13.2 13.6


14.2


No. 7, Primary, 8.3


TABLE C


Showing Age and Assignment of Pupils by Grades.


Schools.


I


II


III


IV


VI


VIII IX


No. 1,


1


5


3


4


1


3


No. 2,


7


7


7


8


3


2


1


No. 3,


5


1


1


3


2


1


No. 4,


3


1


1


No. 5,


2


No. 6,


4 5


4 7


3 4 5


4


No. 7, Grammar,


No. 7. Primary, 10 4


CHANGES OF TEACHERS


Resignations and Transfers.


School.


No. 1


Lorena K. Campbell,


No. 3


Ruth Haskins,


No. 4


Grace S. Whittaker.


Addie M. Blood,


No. 5


Esther F. Bond.


2 4 1 2 1 5 VII


2


1 1


2 4


1


7


8


9


12


12 14


No. 2,


6.5


No. 3,


6


13 14


13 14 14


9 10 10.6


8


Appointment. Addie M. Blood. Inez E. Smith.


Mary L. Westman,


7 2 2 4 5 V


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REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN.


Mr. M. H. Bowman, -


Superintendent of Schools:


Dear Sir:


The following is a report of the number of cases found in my annual inspection :


18 Cases of Head Lice. 15 Cases Enlarged Tonsils. 7 Cases Adenoids.


Nearly all of the head lice are in one school and seems too bad that the parents cannot be cleaned up, so that when the children are sent home they can be kept clean.


L. E. BUTLER, M. D.


ANNUAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


OF THE


TOWN OF BERKLEY


TOGETHER WITH A


Valuation and Tax List


FOR THE


Year Ending Dec. 31, 1916


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LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1916


Moderator for 1 Year.


Edwin H. Allen.


Selectman for 3 Years.


James McCall.


Town Treasurer for 1 Year.


Edwin M. Allen.


Assessor for 3 Years.


Edwin H. Allen.


School Committee for 3 Years.


Julia R. Burt.


Trustee of Public Library for 3 Years.


Maria A. Haines.


Burial Ground Commissioner for 3 Years.


Edwin H. Allen.


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Highway Surveyors.


Dist. No. 1 Edward L. Smith.


2 Ervine A. Chace. 3 Edward E. Whittaker.


4 Howard Haines.


5 Adelbert A. Briggs.


6 Arthur W. Davis. 7 John T. Staples.


Constables.


Edwin H. Allen, Arthur L. Hathaway,


Enoch V. Boyce,


Allen A. Haskell, Gideon H. Babbitt, Adelbert A. Briggs.


Fish Wardens.


Howard Haines.


Gideon H. Babbitt, Linneus C. Whittaker,


Tree Warden.


Linneus C. Whittaker.


Auditor:


Thomas P. Paull.


Collector of Taxes for 1 Year.


George H. Swift.


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LIST OF.OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN OF BERKLEY FOR 1916.


Fence Viewers and Field Drivers. Edward E. Whittaker, John F. Staples,


Edward L. Smith.


Measurers of Wood and Lumber.


ohn F. Staples, Benjamin O. Jones, Levi P. Churchill,


Sumner N. Staples,


Gideon H. Babbitt.


Animal Inspector. Allen A. Haskell.


Burial Commissioner. Edwin H. Allen.


Inspector of Slaughtering. Albert B. Cummings.


Milk Inspector. Allen A. Haskell. .


Sealer of Weights and Measures Sumner N. Staples. -


Moth Inspector. Adelbert A. Briggs.


Forest Warden. Gideon H. Babbitt.


By the resignation of Thos. P. Paull as Auditor, Francis M. Chase was appointed Auditor by the Selectmen.


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TOWN WARRANT For March 5, 1917


Article 1. To see if the town will appropriate any part of the dog fund to the Public Library and make what other appropriation that is necessary.


Article 2. To act on report of town officers.


Article 3. To fix compensation for collector and treasurer for ensuing year.


Article 4. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the cur- rent financial year.


Article 5. To choose all necessary town officers (one selectman for three years, one assessor for three years, one school committee for three years, trustee of Library for three years, two burial commissioners, one for two years, and one for three years, and to vote on the ques- tion : "Shall license be granted to sell intoxicating liquors? Yes of No."


Article 6. To raise and appropriate a sum of money for repairs of ways and bridges.


Article 7. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for care of shade trees.


Article 8. To raise and appropriate a sum of money for schools, including supplies, high school tuition, salary of superintendent, transportation of scholars and repairs on public buildings.


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Article 9. To raise and appropriate a sum of money for support of poor, salaries of town officers, state aid and incidental expenses.


Article 10. To choose a memorial committee and appropriate a sum of money for same.


Article 11. To see if the town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money to be used for the purpose of exter- minating the Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths.


Article 12. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used in the cemetery and care of graves of soldiers and sailors of the Civil and Spanish Wars.


Article 13. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 to improve Myricks street, providing the State will make an allotment of an equal amount.


To act on any other business that may come before the meeting.


Caucus Thursday night, March 1, 8 P. M.


Town meeting, March 5, at 10 o'clock A. M.


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ANNUAL REPORT


SELECTMEN'S REPORT.


To the citizens of Berkley:


Three years ago the town started road improvements under the Small Town Act; since then over four miles of bituminous gravel road has been built. It has cost $12,000.00; of this amount the town contributed $4,500.00, the State $6,000.00, and the County $1,500.00.


The valuation of the town a year ago was $571,277.00, now it is $595,797.00, showing an increase of $24,520.00. We present these facts for your consideration, as to how much of this increase in valuation is due to road improve- ment and as to whether it has been a good proposition for the town.


Your Board called the attention of the County Com- missioners to the poor condition of Berkley and Dighton bridge and also filed a petition and bill in the legislature for a new one. The county employed an expert to examine the bridge and his report condemns same. The bridge has been closed to vehicles with a gross weight, loaded, of more than a ton and all vehicles restricted in speed to not more than five miles an hour while crossing same, temporary repairs will have to be made to make it safe pending the building of a new bridge.


The contract for the lease of our oyster grounds expires in 1918; if the State Board of Health enforce their order to take the sewage out of the river, there is a possibility that the grounds may become valuable again.


As Overseers of the Poor we report that the town brought suit and will probably recover $624.00 the amount expended on one case this year, the court has decided in the town's favor.


CHARLES H. MACOMBER, JAMES McCALL, BENJ. O. JONES,


Selectmen.


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ASSESSORS' REPORT FOR 1916.


Value of assessed personal estate,


$113,480.00


Buildings, excluding land, $255,885.00


Land, excluding buildings, 226,432.00


$482,317.00


Total value of assessed real estate,


$595,797.00


Number of horses assessed,


188


Number of cows assessed,


255


Neat cattle other than cows assessed,


91


Number of swine assessed,


37


Nuber of fowls assessed 4128, value,


$2,477


Number of dwelling houses assessed,


275


Number of acres of land assessed,


10,090


Number of sheep assessed,


2


Number of polls assessed,


269


Rate per $1,000,


$16.50


GEORGE H. SWIFT,


Chairman.


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TREASURER'S REPORT.


Receipts.


Cash in Treasury Jan. 1, 1916,


$660.40


Mass. Moth Fund,


52.27


Mass. School Fund,


1,053.29


Bristol County Dog Fund,


161.93


Fish privilege,


15.00


Oyster note,


250.00


State Inspector of Animals,


17.50


State Tuition of Children,


241.50


City of Boston, Harry and E. Gale,


13.50


State aid,


207.00


State Corporation Tax,


94.07


State National Bank Tax,


479.16


State High School Tuition,


1,492.50


State High School Transportation,


746.25


State, on account of School Supt.,


250.00


Sealer of Weights,


4.12


State Highway Commission,


2,550.00


Court fines,


20.00


Auctioneer's Icense,


2.00


State Soldiers' Exemption,


57.87


City of Taunton, tuition of children,


22.50


Money lent Library fund,


150.00


Taunton Savings Bank fund,


315.96


Fall River Savings Bank fund,


1,223.22


Old stove pipe, .50


Machinists' National Bank,


8,000.00


H. A. Perry, taxes 1910,


.85


H. Perry, taxes 1914,


459.67


H. Perry, taxes 1914,


8.95


H.A. Perry, taxes 1915,


1,316.95


T. P. Paull, taxes 1916,


9,534.40


$29,401.36


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Expenditures.


Highway and Bridges,


$1,255.86


Public Library,


166.36


Memorial Day,


32.00


Enforcing Laws,


40.33


Forest fires,


57.60


Schools,


3,929.05


High School,


1,565.00


High School transportation,


773.50


Soldiers' Relief,


36.00


Outside Poor,


1,169.27


State aid,


188.00


Town Officers,


683.44


Supt. of Schools,


339.96


Machinists' National Bank,


9,000.00


Interest on notes,


138.37


Snow Bills,


220.20


State Tax,


1,120.00


State Highway Tax,


63.00


Miscellaneous,


1,141.60


Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths,


186.71


County Tax, 812.17


Cemetery Account, 14.00


J. L. Canedy, labor No. 3 and 4 Dis.,


300.00


J. L. Canedy, oiling road, 616.00


J. L. Canedy, State and Town


Highway, 4,050.00


Edwin F. Tirrell,


75.00


John H. Hahn, brick for Library, 228.00


Grading of Library grounds,


25.60


Cash on hand,


1,174.34


$29,401.36


Treasurer.


EDWIN H. ALLEN, 1


$28,227.02



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Town Officers.


M. H. Bowman, Supt. of Schools, $339.96


Charles H. Macomber, Selectman, 72.00


James McCall, Selectman, 42.00


Benjamin O. Jones, Selectman, 42.00


Edwin H. Allen, Treasurer, 100.00


George H. Swift, Assessor, 19 days, 72.50


W. F. Westgate, Assessor, 2 days, 5.00


Edwin H. Allen, Assessor, 26 days, 89.50


Edwin H. Allen, horse, 9 days, 13.50


Thomas P. Paull, Auditor, 13 days, 27.00


L. C. Whittaker, Tree Warden, 5.00


Charles F. Paull, Assessor, 6 days,


15.00


Ervine A. Chase, Town Clerk,


25.00


Ervine A. Chace, Town and Register, meetings, 15.00


Ervine A. Chace, recording births,


deaths and marriages, 13.80


T.P. Paull, collector, 3 months, 37.50


Edwin H. Allen, moderator, 10.00


Noah H. Strange, school committee, 24.00


Noah H. Strange, attendant officer, 10.00


Noah H. Strange, supply agent, 5.00


Julia R. Burt, school committee,


21.00


Edwin H. Allen, school committee,


25.00


· Edwin H. Allen, extra work for the State, 4.64


Edwin H. Allen, making out State,


Town and High School certificates, 9.00


$1,023.40


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Miscellaneous Town Bills.


Joseph Babbitt, draw tender, $100.56


Albert Cummings, meat inspector, 83.50


Staples Coal Co., 9.80


George H. Swift, janitor, 19.75


George H. Swift, labor and material Town Hall, 4.60


George H. Swift, ballot clerk and teller, 7.00


A. A. Briggs, labor on guide boards, 1.00


A. A. Briggs, dog warrants, 15.00


C. H. Macomber, fumigating, 4.50


Presbrey Stove Lining Co., Town Hall,


2.20


Taunton Planing Mill, Town Hall,


2.60


Milton H. Farley, 13 deaths returns, 3.25


C. A. Hack & Son, 330 Town reports, 63.36


C. A. Hack & Son, 160 Town warrants, 6.00


C. A. Hack & Son, 200 stamped envelopes, ' 8.38


C. A. Hack & Son, 170 ballots, 5.00


C. A. Hack & Son, 230 burial permits, 5.00


C. A. Hack & Son, Town clerk, 10.12


C. A. Hack & Son, 120 voting lists, 10.00


C. A. Hack & Son, 260 ballots, 14.25


Allen A. Haskell, inspector of animals, 41.45


Allen A. Haskell, milk inspector, 5.50


E. H. Allen, wood to Town Hall, 7.88


E. H. Allen, paid for Oil, Bolts, etc., 9.10


E. H. Allen, distributing Town Reports, 4.00 E. M. Allen, posting six State and Town Warrants, 18.00


A. W. Brownell, 50 Returns, 1.50 1


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Davol Printing House, 200 Ballots, 8.00


Davol Printing House, Ballots, etc,. 5.40


P. B. Murphy, 300 Assessors' blanks, 2.25


L. C. Whitaker, Ballot Clerk and Teller, 9.00


A. E. Shaw, Ballot Clerk and Teller, 9.00


S. E. Westgate, Ballot Clerk, 6.00


WV. A. Cushman, Snow Fence, 5.00


Enos D. Williams, Assessors Transfers, 15.30


Boston Index Card Co., 12.25


American Surety Co., Treas. and Col. bond, 60.00


Good Road Machine Co., 8.00


James McCall, paid Express, 1.02


L. C. Whitaker and others, labor on trees, 38.15


-


L. C. Whitaker, paid for Fertilizer, 5.75


B. O. Jones, Express, .. 25


County Commissioners, 3.00


Leslie Miller, labor Town Hall, .60


F. L. Williams, shingling Town Hall, 63.50


E. H. Allen, labor and seed on Common, 10.18 J. Babbitt, Repairs on Scraper, 1.75


Pierce Hardware Co., Pumps,


2.25


J. B. Vaillancourt, 15 ft. 4 in. pipe. 6.60


Irving Horton, Labor and Material on Well, 39.00


E. H. Allen, Labor and Material on Well, 12.60


Horace B. Bourne, painting Cellar, 18.58


Town of Middleboro, care of Fish for 2 years, 40.00


Hobb & Warren, 3 Tax Books, 3.82


Wm. A. Carney, Labor on Bridges, 12.65


John Oliver, Labor on Bridge, 11.25


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15


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S. N. Staples, Sealer of Weights and Express,


25.60


Hall & Hagerty, Attorney, 79.75


E. A. Chace, paid for Stove Pipe, 3.20


E. H. Allen, paid for Expense in Strange case,


10.47


E. H. Allen, Justice of the Peace, 5.25


E. E. Whitaker, Labor on Fence, 97 hours,


24.25


E. E. Whitaker, paid for Lumber and Spikes,


42.83


F. W. Gardner, 12.00


Clyde Cummings, 18 hours,


3.60


A. F. Bassett, 53 hours,


10.60


. A. F. Bassett, 17 hours, 2.55


Sarah Briggs, 20 Locust Posts, $ 13.00


J. M. Alexander, 47 Locust Posts, 30.55


Enoch Hathaway, making Sign Boards, 3.50


$1,141.60


HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.


District No. 1.


Edward L. Smith, 77 hours,


$15.40


Edward L. Smith, Horse, 71 hours,


10.65


Walter Smith, 84 hours, 16.80


Staples Coal Co., 3 days,


15.00


Herbert Lamorey, 9 hours,


1.80


Harold Harrison, 44 hours,


8.80


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F. L. Williams, 22 hours, 4.40


Bill Cronan, 26 hours, 5.20


Chester White, 9 hours, 1.80


Albert Bassett, man and 2 horses, 7 hours, 3.85


Albert Bassett, 2 men and 2 horses, 17 hours, 11.90


Edward L. Smith, 3 men, 21 hours, 4.20


J. L. Canedy, 3 two horse team, 3 days, 45.00


J. L. Canedy, 8 men, 3 days, 43.20


J. L. Canedy, 7.00


Geo. H. Swift, 80 loads gravel, 4.80


Jessie Lema, 10 hours,


2.00


B. A. Phillips, 10 hours, 2.00


Forest Staples, 2 two-horse teams and man, 10 hours, 10.00


Forest Staples, 3 two-horse teams and men 6 hours,


10.80


Shovelers, 42 hours,


8.40


John Cushing, 6 hours,


1.20


Charles Shaw, 10 hour


2.00


Charles Shaw, Horse, 7 hours,


1.05


Wm. Carney, 41 loads gravel,


2.46


T. Cunningham, 75 hours, 15.00


Erford Westgate, 25 hours, 5.00


Edward L. Smith, 2 two-horse teams, 10.00


Edward L. Smith, 5 men, 9.00


$278.71


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District No. 2.


Ervine A. Chace, 54 hours,


$10.80


Ervine A. Chace, Horse, 43 hours,


6.45


Ervine A Chace, Gravel,


.15


George A. Harmon, 63 hours,


12.60


Thomas Pole, 791/2 hours,


15.90


Henry Westgate, 5512 hours,


11.10


Chester J. Briggs, 3912 hours,


7.90


John F. Staples, 2 horses and man, 1 day, 4.50


John F. Staples, 4 horses and 2 men, 1 day, 9.00


John Oliver, 35 hours, 7.00


Thomas H. Chace, Labor on Sign,


2.45


Thomas H. Chace, 612 hours,


1.30


A. P. Chace, 61/2 hours,


1.30


$90.45


District No. 3.


E. E. Whitaker, 178 hours,


$35.60


E. E. Whitaker, Post,


.20


L. C. Whitaker, 150 hours,


30.00


L. C. Whitaker, Horse, 105 hours,


15.75


L. C. Whitaker, Rail,


.25


G. H. Babbitt, 32 hours,


6.40


G. H. Babbitt, Horse, 50 hours,


7.50


Joseph Babbitt, Horse, 18 hours,


2.70


Clyde Cummings, 31 hours,


6.20


Albert Cummings, 5 hours,


1.00


A. T. Bassett, 99 hours,


19.80


A. F. Bassett, Horse, 94 hours,


14.00


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Huntley Perry, 42 hours, 8.40


Huntley Perry, Horse, 37 hours, 5.55


Mrs. T. Briggs, 63 loads Gravel, 3.15


156.50


District No. 4.


Howard Haines, 104 hours, $20.80


Howard Haines, 2 horses, 5812 hours, 17.55


Howard Haines, Yoke cattle, 581/2


hours,


17.55


Earl Haines, 91 hours, 18.20


Enoch Boyce, 1312 hours, 2.70


Joseph Pierce, 61 hours,


12.20


Joe Burt, 16 hours, 3.20


Howard Haines, 30 loads Gravel


3.00


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$95.20 .


District No. 5.


A. A. Briggs, 112 hours, $22.40


A. A. Briggs, horse, 87 hours, 13.80


A. A. Briggs, paid for pick handles, etc., .80


M. Slocum, 50 hours,


10.00


M. Slocum, horse, 54 hours,


8.10


N. H. Strange, horse, 64 hours, 9.60


A. J. Webster, 14 hours, 2.80


· Herbert Ashley, 85 hours,


17.00


Charlie Ashley, 22 hours,


4.40


Harold Ashley, 46 hours,


9.20


N. H. Strange, 20 loads gravel,


1.00


Merton Briggs, 25 hours,




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