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25
10 7 Broncho-Pneumonia
27
Mary Dalina VictoriaGabrey Nelson Thomas
81
7.22
Diabetes Mellitus
2
Eleanor Maria Thomas (Tillson)
66
27
Ovarian Cyst
50
4 1 17
Asphyxia, Congestion of Lungs
(Thompson)
81
DEATHS-Continued.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Cause of Death.
Mar. 7
Mary A. Follansbee (Mc- Grath)
71
5 18
Carcinoma of Intestines
April 5
Phoebe F. Lucas
52 5
5
Acute Indigestion
5
James S. Blinkensop
75 10 24
Old Age
9
Harold Lukeforth
1
7 16
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis
10
Earl G. Besse
45
19 -
Diabetic Gangrene
10
Albert J. Moulton
57
4 Locomotor Ataxia
17
Edwin O. Drew
74
16 Exhaustion
19
Mary Donovan
82
Acute Indigestion
22
Sanford B. Cornell
52 10 3
Tuberculosis
22
Lillian F. Shurtleff (Lovell)
34
2 27
Cancer
24
Charles Stephen Thomas
6
Spontaneous Hemorrage
30
Mary L. April
21 9 |27
Consumption
5
Wendall Harris White
54 7 28 Pneumonia
6
Dominick Delvecchio
1
6
Pneumonia
9
Barbara Mary Milligan
1
Defective heart
9
Samuel Henry Coombs
63 9 17
Cancer
14
Arthur Clifton Marchant
25
9
Tubercular Laryngitis
16
George Lyman Anderson
20
8
8
Fracture of Skull
25
Harold Green Estabrook
25
4 16
Cardiac Asthena
12
Frederic W. Hausding
26
1 15
Convulsions
15
George A. Earl
66
9 25
Arterial Sclerosis
16
Daniel Higginsbottom
34
2,16
Drowning
18
Marvin Rathbone
49
|16
Nephritis
Manuel DeRose
44
4 26
Unknown
2
Adelph Hubbard
3 29
Cholera Infantum
6
Albert Edward Kelly
8
3 13
Drowning
6 13
Kenneth Coleman Sturtevant Joseph Roy
5
11 5
Drowning
13
Gertrude Bacon Randall (Smith)
65 11 29
Senility
17
Catherine Hayes
64
Dilation of Heart
19
Charles William Clark
60
5 21
Senile Dementure
24
Manuel Medeiros
4 18
Cholera Infantum
27
Mary W. Higgins(Weston)
72
2 27
Apoplexy
Mary E. Carter (Warren)
|82 10 8
Arterial Sclerosis
John Edward Howe
48 5 15
Cerebral Hemorrhage
4 5
John Baptist Bernier
57
9|25
Cerebral Hemorrage
6
George Brightman Thomas
67
9|27
Leucaemia
7 11
Charles Wright Bradford
84
6
Valvular Heart Disease
Peter Joseph Murry
12
Inanition
17
Thomas O'Neil
-
7|10
Cholera Infantum
May
5
Joseph Wilfred Boutine
4
9
Inanition
June
Aug.
30 1 3
Hewett Chandler Manuel Mello
75 7 17
Apoplexy
Valvular Heart Trouble
2
Endocarditis.
65
-
28 July
YMD
82
DEATHS-Continued.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Cause of Death.
Aug.
20
Irene Eva Murray
3|26
Cholera Infantum
22
Thos. Gammons Peckham Thrasher
83
7
Probably Apoplexy
24
William J. Robinson
50
4 18
Poisoning
24
Howard W. Newcomb
24
Meningitis
29
BenjaminHoddie (Eastwood)
34 78
Drowning
Sept.
2
Celia S. Macomber(White)
Valvular Heart Disease
7
Sarah A. White (Drake)
82
10 11
Senile Decay
8
Henry Albert Guerin
4 12
Colitis
11
Charles A. Clark
62
3
9
Tuberculosis
13
Hattie Williams King
41
4
3 Valvular Heart Disease
13
William Darling
84 10 28
Cancer
14
Samuel G. Travassor
11
5
Colitis
16
Charles H. Packard
69
1
8
Arterial Sclerosis
22
Albion T. Stevens
83
6
Unknown
21
Mrytle Estelle Pittsley
13
1 12 Rheumatic Endicarditis
22
Sullivan
2
Asphyxia
26
Juliette H. Bump (Morse) Casey
68
5 22
Apoplexy
Oct.
1
1 Premature birth
3
Thomas J. Lovell
71 9 18 Gangrene
6
William Francis Purtell
3 14
Neorasmus
8
Wallace C. Collins
6
6
Chronic Nephritis
13
Sarah F. Mansfield(Foley)
74
3
Bronchitis
16
Patrick Murray
65
Cerebral Hemmorrhage
20
Garaphelia A. Bishop(Sears)
57 4|13
Disease of Heart
29
Joseph Brooks Simmons
58
7 26
Septic Infection
30
George W. Tinkham
63
Chronic Heart Disease
23
Albert Russell Tupper
64
Arterio Sclerosis
Aug.
3
Emeline S. Hewes
71|11
5
Chronic Myocarditis
Nov.
1
Jennie S. Tinkham
47 10 21
Coma
5
Elizabeth Savery(Shurtleff)
83
7
1
Heart Disease
5
James M. Alden
84 11|26
Septic Poisoning
6
Mary E. Pratt(Wheeler)
38
4|21
Heart Failure
7
William D. Cornish
63
Organic Heart Disease
13
A. Helen Chamberlain
11
6
1
Cerebral Thrombosis
15
Arthur Thomas Preece
48
9
1 Typhoid Fever
16
Clarence W. Riggs
8
9 20
Sarcoma of Jaw
16
Louis Fontaine Jr.
5 5
Chronic Bronchitis
19
Leonarde Dominique Lemmo
1
14
Premature Birth
25
Etta P. White (Gammons)
31
1 10 Peritonitis
26
Theodora D. Soule(Leonard)
66
3
4 Cerebral Thrombus
26
Lydia G. H. Carter
72
4
9 Heart Failure
27
Zilpha B. Thomas(Shurtleff)
85 2 10 Paralysis-Senility
29
Charles E. Morse
53
29
Poisoning
YM D
-
Hemorrage
21
Mildred Elaine Drake
38
83
DEATHS-Concluded.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Cause of Death.
Nov. 30
George W. Hammond
57
6
2
Chronic Nephritis
Dec.
9
Rossana W. Merrihew (Magilton)
51
6
9
Chronic Nephritis
73
7
9
Chronic Neurasthenia
13
George B. Tinkham
74
1 10
Paralysis Agitans
16
Louisa LaRue (Chasse)
68
2 19
Senile Decay
17
Frederick M. Doucette
19
29
General Tuberculosis
18
Luther Bradford Murdock
75
7 16
Senile Paralysis
28
Cornelius Dorigan
65
Heart Failure
31
George Frederic Eaton
71
9
Cerebral Hemorrage
5
Morris Guerin
78
Senile Dementia
14
Benjamin Dunham
54
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Y
MID
10
11
Frances A. Parker (Eddy) Ansel Fuller
76
2/18
Arterial Sclerosis
-
84
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO DURING THE YEAR 1908.
Date.
Name of Bride and Groom.
Residence.
Jan. 1
Lester W. Bradley
Hattie C. Stickney
1
William Albert Merrihew
Eunice Jennie McNeill
14
Joseph Ignatius Roberts
6
15 Herbert Lelland Hathaway Phebe Ellen Loring (Hatch)
66
66
25 Frederick Millard Doel
Lakeville 66
Mary Winsor Holloway
Brockton Middleboro· 66
Feb.
5
Daniel Francis McCarthy Margaret Ella McCarthy William Oliver Casey Sarah Agnes Hanley
66
6
Whitman Middleboro
5
Albert Winfred Riggs Maude Agnes Reed
.
18
William Ives Jeffers
23
Mary Louisa Callahan Levi L. Rounseville Octavia E. N. Adams Frederick Almed Courteau
Malden Wareham 66
25
Evelyn Mary Perkins
Mar. 10
George Piche Maude Lillian Hall Ernest Leighton Maxim Alice Broadley Le Baron Harry L. Messinger Beatrice Starratt
66
April
8
Brockton Middleboro
7 Harold Robinson Ashley
Frances Cleveland Douglas
11 Herbert W. Leach
Brockton 66
18
George Gardner Merrill Winifred Ellsworth Page
Middleboro
29 George Arthur Keith Vera Rich Leonard Irving Thomas Gurney Lily Vivian Hamilton
Boston Middleboro
29
29
Rowland Theodore Hazard Margaret May Keough William Nelson Cole Mildred Lillian West
Augusta, Me. Wickfield, R. I. Middleboro 60
May
2
Middleboro Revere Middleboro 6
66
30
66
28
27 George Percy Hunt Inez Valeria Lovelace Frank Sidney Thomas Mary Frances Harvey
66
Annie Madeline Anderson
Thornton, N. H. Compton, N. H. Middleboro Middleboro 66
Martha Belcher(Stetson)
85
MARRIAGES-Continued.
Date.
Name of Bride and Groom.
Residence.
May
5
Alphonse Joseph Burque
Middleboro
Rosanna Landry
66
7
Thomas Locke
66
23
Samuel Alpert
Minnie Firstian(Friedman)
29
John Gunnar Burgh
Beverly
Ida Carlsson
Middleboro
June
3
Earl Dean
Middleboro
3
Fred William Capel
Bridgewater
Annie Ida Kupke
Bridgewater
10
George Washington Merrill
Augusta, Me.
Eunice Bangs Merrill
Augusta, Me.
17
Wilfred Herbert
Middleboro
Phoebe Duffany
66
17
Alton Gerard Pratt
Marian Kingman Tillson
20
William Crossman West
Central Falls, R. I. Central Falls, R. I.
22
Florence Eldrige Cowperthwaite Alphonse Goneau Georgianna Roy
Cambridge Middleboro 60
24
Daniel Henry Harrington
Mary Catherine Hoor
66
24
Ichabod Bradford Thomas Jr.
66
25
Edward Wellington MacNeill Amy Estella Swift
27
Joseph Alfred Miner Almy Irene Danforth
66
29
Ernest Thayer Damon Lillian Standish
Brockton 6
30
Middleboro 66
July
2
George Philip Ennsminger Alice May Casey Frank Wesley Cates Vera Melvina Cummings
Middleboro Boston
3 Edward Boardman
Middleboro 66
Abbie Helen Wilbur
4
Guistino Matrusciano Anna Festa
66
Providence, R. I. Middleboro 66
18
Lillian Charlotte Anderson
66
66
20
Aaron Lederman Bessie Katsman
Boston
Nellie Teresa Casey
66
66
Bertha Myra Ryder
North Easton
Lucia Augusta Thomas
66
8 Joseph Franklin Phillips Jennie Maria Gammons George Edwin Budd
86
MARRIAGES-Continued.
Date.
Name of Bride and Groom.
Residence.
Aug. 10
Eugene Francis Page
Olean, N. Y. Middleboro
19
Barclay Allen Kinsman
66
23
Charles Eldridge Tripp
66
Sept. 5
Henry Place Messer
66
8
George Weaver Bump
Oct.
8
Albert Gray Tinkham Hulda Charlotte Erickson Charles Omer Denham Eustatia K. Sherman(Scholtz) Alfred Franklin Ames
18
Bourne
Bourne Middleboro
19
Ella M. Kipp (Westgate) Edward James Sheehan Nellie L. Linanne
Taunton
Middleboro
20 Theodore Stephen Davis Abbie Nelson Lucas 21 Frederick Rudolph Roeder Lottie Viola Cobb
Plympton Middleboro
21
Arthur Gray Cummings Grace Evelyn Wood James E. Burpee Lillian May Grinnell Ambrose P. Colwill
25 26
Rena A. Lacassa
West Boylston Middleboro Taunton 66 Carver Middleboro
66
28
Walter Clifford Haskins
66
28
Nov. 2
Lincoln, R. I.
Lincoln, R. I.
16
Middleboro
New Bedford
Laconia N. H.
25
18 Elmer Elsworth Harrington Leah Evelene Auger George Brinton Gammons Annie McLeod
Middleboro 66
66
Middleboro
25 Joseph Bernard Boehme Cordelia Thomas Staples 25 Austin Mendall Howard Luella Coleman Taylor 26 Milton T. B. Sherrard Mary Celia Morrison
66
.
66
66
Harriet Page (Chamberlin)
66
18
66
S. Royalston, Vt.
22
Anthony Bassett Alexina Michaud
Lucy Peirce Sherman(Haven)
66
Franklin Nichols Woodward Ida Florence Atwood Frederick Wright Wilbur Fannie Hope Harris James Percival Leahy Margaret Terisa Kane
Annie E. Kinder
Agnes Blanche Cameron Dudley
Anna Smith
Estelle Farwell Chapman
87
MARRIAGES-Concluded.
Date.
Name of Bride and Groom.
· Residence.
Dec. 19
Harry Elmer Braley
Middleboro
Laura Chase Coombs (King)
23
William Fisher
Rubina Pollitt
24
Everett Whitfield Blair
66
Catherine Mary McLeod
30
Theophile Bernier Albertine Bergeron
Bridgewater Middleboro
30
Cecil Zotque Bissonette
Cecilia Myrtle Bradford
30
Robert H. Moore
Wareham Wareham
Oct.
21
Walter Carpenter Grigor Mabel Frances Fletcher
Providence
Louise H. Briggs
Middleboro
88
SUMMARY.
From the Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths recorded during the year 1908.
Number of Marriages recorded
77
Number of Marriage Licenses granted
62
Oldest groom
77
Oldest bride
40
Youngest groom
20
Youngest bride
16
First marriage of
131
Second marriage of
22
Third marriage of
1
BIRTHS.
Number recorded
182
Number of males
102
Number of females
80
DEATHS.
Number recorded
139
Number occurring in town
112
Number of males
87
Number of females
52
Under one year
24
Between 1 and 10
6
10 66
20
4
20
66 30
6
30
66 40
10
66
40
66 50
10
66
50
60
18
66
60
66
70
22
70
66 80
24
66
80
66 90
12
90
100
2
DOGS.
Number licensed
791
Males
676
Females
115
89
REPORT OF THE COLLECTOR OF TAXES. For the year ending December 31, 1908.
1904 TAX.
Due by the last report
$576 18
Collected
$327 18
Remitted
21 40
Uncollected
227 60
$576 18
1905 TAX.
Due by last report
$1,941 22
Collected
$1,489 21
Remitted
103 00
Uncollected
349 61
$1,941 82
1906 TAX.
Due by last report
$6,050 06
Collected
$4,865 32
Remitted
134 11
Uncollected
1,030 63
$ 6,050 06
1907 TAX.
Due by last report
$16,117 48
Collected
$9,067 40
Remitted
834 69
Uncollected
6,215 39
-$16,117 48
1908 TAX.
Amount committed
$88,222 34
Taxes added
2,605 81
St. Rwy. Excise Tax
1,599 01
Gypsy Moth Tax, Committed Dec. 18
226 10
$92,653 26
Collected
$73,458 47
Remitted
648 98
Uncollected
18,545 81
-$92,653 26
90
STREET SPRINKLING TAX. 1904 TAX.
$30 63
Collected
$14 58
Remitted
2 76
Uncollected
13 29
$30 63
1905 TAX.
Due by last Report
$27 82
Collected
$14 16
Remitted
4 20
Uncollected
9 46
$27 82
1906 TAX.
Due by last Report
$87 72
Collected
$41 52
Remitted
12 64
Uncollected
33 39
$87 72
1907 TAX.
Due by last Report.
$137 06
Collected
$58 94
Uncollected
70 16
Error in last Report
7 90
$137 06
1908 TAX.
Tax Committed
$745 13
Collected
$608 44
Uncollected
134 65
Remitted
2 04
$745 13
Due by last Report
91
COLLECTOR'S CASH ACCOUNT.
Balance from last year
$2 52
Interest collected
980 52
Street Sprinkling tax collected
737 64
Street Rwy. tax collected, (Excise)
1,599 01
Town taxes
87,608 57
$90,928 26
Paid Treasurer
$90,160 00
On hand
768 26
$90,928 26
The above statement represents the collections at the close of the fiscal year December 31, 1908. Since that time all the taxes for the years before 1907 have been collected or arrange- ments have been made whereby they will be in the hands of the Collector before another tax is assessed, viz. May 1, 1909.
92
TREASURER'S REPORT.
CASH ACCOUNT.
1909
Cash on hand as by report of 1907
$286 79
Received from A. B. Chapin, Treasurer
Corporation Tax
5,799 67
National Bank Tax
1,400 84
State Aid
6,775 00
Military Aid
396 00
State Highway
5,019 25
Soldiers' relief
105 00
Cemetery Funds
$1,211 65
Charles Morton $45 00
Hannah S. Drew 100 00
Nathan Washburn
100 00
M. H. Cushing
400 00
Eunice T. Foye
100 00
Middleboro Savings Bank
466 65
Collector of Taxes
$90,160 00
Fourth District Court, C. E. Ryder, Clerk
885 46
Herring Ac'ct
503 60
Towns down the river
$190 00
W. D. Blair
35 00
J. Nagle &. Co.
226 00
N. B. &. O. St. Rwy. Co.
52 60
Highway Account
$11,690 66
A. B. Chapin, Treasurer
$1,004 46
John C. Chace, Supt.
1,716 49
Geo. E. Wood, Estate
132 62
F. L. Barrows .
123 03
S. N. Shiverick
22 70
Henry Clapp
8 00
G. E. Tillson, Treasurer
9 70
Peirce Trustees
6,778 96
J. A. Burgess
2 00
N. B. & O. St. Rwy.
15 20
93
Town of Lakeville
$3 00
St. Rwy. Tax
1,304 08
H. L. Thatcher
7 50
Repairs State Highway
446 10
A. Thompson
116 82
Pine Street, The County Treasurer
$400 00
68 50
Taunton Street, Geo. R. Sampson Incidentals
463 31
Geo. E. Keith Co.
$2 87
Telephones
460 44
Interest
$71 87
Interest Enoch Pratt Fund
48 00
Library
1,632 99
Board of Health
39 00
Municipal Light Plant, Geo. A. Philbrook, Mgr.
19,200 00
Support of Poor
2,608 56
New Bedford
$34 50
Plymouth
332 61
Raynham
202 00
A. B. Chapin, St. Treas. .
92 25
S. L. Nickerson
246 36
Taunton
107 00
C. H. Boulter Est.
70 00
David Pushee
1,147 08
C. M. Thatcher
31 00
Carver
129 75
Brockton
38 01
Tisbury
178 00
Schools
$1,637 25
C. H. Bates
$170 25
A. B. Chapin, St. Treas.
498 50
Boston
215 00
Lakeville
621 50
Plympton
55 00
Rochester
77 00
Sewers
$125 00
S. S. Lovell
25 00
F. J. Dame
25 00
Wm. Egger
25 00
94
Paul Silva Geo. E. Gove
$25 00
25 00
Soldiers' Relief
$68 25
Plymouth
60 00
Wareham
8 25
Temporary Loan
$51,000 00
Town Hall Rents
1,277 00
Town History
16 50
$203,087 85
CASH PAID.
A. B. Chapin, St. Treasurer
National Bank Tax
$226 37
State Tax 7,480 00
Albert Davis, Co. Treasurer, County Tax
6,196 44
Orders of Board of Health
993 80
Orders of Selectmen, Cem. Trust Funds
466 65
Orders of Com. on imp, LT. Plant
234 85
Orders of Com. on Selling Plant
190 35
Orders of Mun. Lt. Board,
Depreciation
5,868 16
Municipal Lt.
17,520 14
Municipal Lt. Loan
2,000 00
Municipal Lt. Interest
3,028 00
Orders Fourth Dist. Court
742 34
General Imp. Loan
1,000 00
Orders of Selectmen
Grove Street
315 76
Gypsy Moths
1,753 88
Herrings
312 02
Highways
11,590 26
Pine Street
502 53
State Highway
5,018 96
Taunton Street
110 00
Incidentals
3,617 49
Interest
5,268 73
Military Aid
936 00
Night Watch
767 00
Police
463 66
95
Salaries
$3,525 56
Sewers
1 25
Sidewalks
1,442 49
Soldiers' Relief
2,424 36
State Aid
6,421 00
Suppression of Crime
900 00
Town Hall
2,582 81
Tree Warden
500 00
Water Supply
2,250 00
Post 8 G. A. R.
200 00
Re-imbursement Green and Luippold 200 00
Re-imbursement H.T. Carver 120 00
Joseph E. Beals, Treas. Library
2,029 99
Middleboro Sav. Bank Cem. Trust Funds 745 00
Orders of Overseers of Poor
10,450 22
Orders of School Committee,
Schools
30,450 38
School Repairs
1,068 07
School Transportation
1,912 45
Middleboro Savings Bank, School House Loan
1,900 00
Middleboro National Bank,
Sewer Loan
5,000 00
Middleboro Savings Bank,
Sewer Loan
1,000 00
Orders Mun. Lt. Board Suburban Lighting
527 30
Temporary Loan
35,000 00
Balance on hand
8,630 48
-$203,087 85
REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE
ENOCH PRATT FUND.
1909
Jan. 1. Notes of the Town of Middle- $10,000 00 boro
Interest from Municipal Light Loan 48 00
Interest from Town treasurer
352 00
$10,400 00
96
Cr.
Notes of the Town of Middle- boro $10,000 00 Paid Jos. E. Beals, Treas. of
Library 400 00
-$10,400 00 AMOS H. EATON, Treasurer of Enoch Pratt Fund.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE MUNICIPAL LIGHT LOAN SINKING FUND.
Received from Town Treas. $2,000 00 Cr. Paid Estabrook & Co. For bonds $2,000 00 AMOS H. EATON,
Treasurer Municipal Light Loan Sinking Fund.
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS.
The Treasurer has on deposit in the Middleboro Savings Bank "to be held in trust, the interest only to be expended," the following sums as shown by the bank books in his posses- sion.
The books show the amounts as they stand after the October dividend has been credited and all bills paid which have been presented.
Central Cemetery :
Lot Owner.
Endowment.
Balance.
Sarah E. Bartlett
$100 00
$104 31
T. H. & H. A. Besse
100 00
102 58
Andrew J. Bisbee
100 00
105 69
S. S. Bourne
100 00
107 81
Rufus J. Brett
100 00
103 68
Robert V. Cole
82 14
88 88
Richard Cox
25 00
25 06
Lydia B. Cushing
50 00
55 32
M. H. Cushing
200 00
200 00
Jas. Dowsing
51 61
52 74
97
Wm. L. Dean
$100 00
$110 91
Mary E. Drake
100 00
106 38
Hannah S. Drew
100 00
101 00
Norton N. Fenno
100 00
106 53
S. B. Gibbs
100 00
104 06
P. B. Holmes
100 00
119 45
B. F. Jones
100 00
103 86
Sarah P. Jones
100 00
105 80
Jacob Johnson
75 00
77 96
Clara S. Kelley
100 00
103 34
Eliza H. Kelley
100 00
103 62
William A. King
100 00
106 50
Calvin D. Kingman
100 00
104 15
Robert W. Lashures
100 00
104 61
Otis Leach
100 00
100 00
James Allen Leonard
150 00
152 36
John N. Main
100 00
104 79
J. P. McCully
100 00
104 24
Alden Miller
100 00
105 57
S. B. Osborne
100 00
106 35
Alvin Pease
100 00
102 36
Jos. L. Pease
100 00
105 09
David D. Perkins
75 00
75 52
Alfred Randall
100 00
102 02
Aaron Raymond
100 00
104 49
Everett Robinson
200 00
217 36
William Shiverick
150 00
174 22
Reuben Taylor
100 00
105 74
Tinkham Lot No. 6
60 00
61 75
B. F. Tripp
100 00
102 84
Azel Washburn
100 00
111 67
William Washburn
50 00
51 12
Ward Lot, No. 110
100 00
104 34
Chauncy D. White
100 00
108 23
Sarah D. White
500 00
531 81
Nemasket Hill Cemetery :
Joshua M. Eddy
100 00
100 00
Austin Ford
50 00
50 00
Henry F. Pope
100 00
100 00
Sophronia L. Reed
50 00
50 00
Rhoda J. Savery
100 00
100 00
Charles Soule
100 00
100 00
Edmund Thompson
50 00
50 00
98
Oliver H. Thompson
$100 00
$100 00
Benj. C. Tinkham
50 00
50 00
Lydia B. Vaughan
50 00
51 53
Warren Lot
50 00
50 00
Thomas Weston
150 00
150 00
B. P. Wood
100 00
100 00
C. B. Wood
150 00
150 00
Mrs. Ellen T. Wood
31 48
31 48
Priscilla Wood
50 00
50 00
Thomas Wood
100 00
100 00
Rock Cemetery :
C. N. Atwood
100 00
114 34
Deborah Carver
100 00
116 32
Julia S. Cobb
100 00
117 23
Dr. Samuel Cobb
45 00
45 45
Sylvester F. Cobb
100 00
119 96
Chas. F Cushman
176 75
197 77
Mary B. Keith
75 00
85 49
A. J. Smith
50 00
54 82
H. N. Thomas and Family
W. O. Barrows and Family
1,000 00
1165 42
Jane A. Wood
18 44
19 88
N. Middleboro Cemetery :
Sumner Keith
100 00
112 96
Jared Pratt
150 00
205 33
Everett Robinson, Alfred Eaton Lot
100 00
108 69
Roswell Waldron & Benj. Barrows
150 00
206 34
Cemetery at the Green :
Ira Bryant
50 00
53 56
Branch Harlow
100 00
100 00
J. B. & I. H. Thompson
100 00
163 67
Lydia R. Thompson
100 00
118 36
Julia Wood & Caroline Robbins
50 00
54 12
Thomastown Cemetery :
Atwood Lot
100 00
139 93
Eleazer Thomas
100 00
128 49
Thomastown Cemetery
198 00
241 74
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S. Middleboro Cemetery :
M. H. Cushing
$200 00
$200 00
W. O. & S. T. LeBaron
50 00
51 00
John & Henry Thomas
50 00
55 94
Sachem St. Cemetery :
Gammons Lot
50 87
56 47
Thomas Smith
50 00
56 91
Richmond Cemetery, Purchade St.
Lysander Richmond
100 00
110 07
Summer St. Cemetery :
Jonathan T. Washburn
200 00
220 22
Wappanucket. Cemetery :
Benjamin Richmond lot and Care of
whole Cemetery,
400 00
520 25
Fall Brook Cemetery :
Atwood & Thomas Lot
200 00
228 22
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the accounts of the Town and on the whole find them in better condition than formerly. I find vouchers or checks for all payments made by the Treasurer.
Our debt limit based on three percent of valuation is $135,827.87. Our indebtedness (outside of Electric Light debt of $73,700.00 and Temporary Loan of $33,500.00) is $86,750.00, being $49,077.87 under the limit established by statute.
I wish to call especial attention to the Temporary Loan amounting to $33,500.00 and to the amount of uncollected taxes $26,369.04. The statute expressly states that the Temporary Loan shall be made payable from the taxes of the municipal year in which such debts are incurred.
The State Department of Municipal Returns recommend that "all financial transactions to which the municipality is a party should pass through the hands of one central official, the city or town treasurer, and should be made a matter of record on his books."
I would again urge the recommendation made by me in regard to the accounts of the Public Library.
I recommend that steps be taken towards the adoption of a . "Uniform System of Accounting" in accordance with sug -. suggestions of Department of Municipal Returns.
I append table of indebtedness.
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INDEBTEDNESS. GENERAL IMPROVEMENT LOAN.
Due Nov. 1, 1915 4 % Enoch Pratt Fund $3,800 00
Due on demand 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank 1,000 00
$4,800 00
PLYMOUTH & MIDDLEBORO RAILROAD.
Due Nov. 1, 1918 4 % Salem Five Cents Savings Bank $5,000 00
Due Nov. 1, 1919 4 % Salem Five Cents Savings Bank $5,000 00
Due Nov. 1, 1920 4 % Salem Five Cents Savings Bank- 5,000 00
Due Nov. 1, 1921 4 % Salem Five Cents Savings Bank 5,000 00
$20,000 00
SEWER LOAN.
Due Nov. 1, 1909 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank $5,000 00
Due Nov. 1, 1910 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank 5,000 00
Due Nov. 1, 1911 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank 5,000 00
Due Nov. 1, 1912 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank 5,000 00
Due Nov. 1, 1913 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank 5,000 00
Due on demand 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank 1,000 00
$26,000 00
SCHOOLHOUSE LOAN.
Due Nov. 1, 1914 4 % Enoch Pratt Fund $5,000 00
Due Dec. 12, 1909 to Dec. 12, 1912 4 % Middleboro Savings Bank 1,000 00
Due Sept. 8, 1913 4 % Jose Parker & Company
250 00
Due Nov. 1, 1909 to Nov. 1, 1926 4 % Jose Parker & Co. 29,700 00
$35,950 00
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ELECTRIC LIGHT LOAN.
Due Nov. 1, 1915 4 % Enoch Pratt Fund $1,200 00
Due Nov. 1, 1909 to Nov. 1, 1923 4 % to bearer
52,500 00
Due Aug. 1, 1924 to Aug. 1, 1927 4 % to Jose Parker & Co. 20,000 00
$73,700 00
TEMPORARY LOAN.
Due Middleboro Savings Bank at 5 %
$12,000 00
Due H. W. Carver at 4 %
2,000 00
Due F. Austin G. Atwood at 4 %
2,500 00
Due Shadrach F. W. Atwood
at 4 %
500 00
Due Peirce Estate
at 5 %
5,000 00
Due Peirce Estate at 6 %
1,500 00
Due Middleboro Savings Bank at 42 %
5,000 00
Due Middleboro Savings Bank
at 4 %
5,000 00
$33,500 00
Other Indebtedness (estimated)
$6,000 00
$199,950 00
PERCY W. KEITH,
Auditor.
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THIRTY - FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE Trustees of the Public Library
For the year 1908.
At the annual Town Meeting held in March, 1908, Messrs. Walter Sampson, W. H. Southworth and Nathan Washburn were chosen to succeed themselves for the three year term ending in 1911. At the annual meeting of the Trustees Miss Alice M. Alden was chosen Librarian. Mrs. Marion K. Pratt and Misses Florence A. Robinson, Mary M. Eddy and Grace A. Bates have very faithfully performed the work of assistants.
The detail report of the work done at the Library is given in the Report of the Librarian. It is very gratifying to note the great increase of the number of books given out for home reading from year to year. The number given (53,353) means more than seven books to every man, woman and child in the town. A list of periodicals on the reading tables and the Report of the Treasurer are presented.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
The thirty-fifth annual report of the Public Library is herewith submitted:
GROWTH.
The total number of books added during the year was 1,218 vols. as compared with 1,055 vols. the previous year; of these 51 were replaced, 1,066 obtained by purchase, 53 by binding of periodicals, and 48 by gift.
The total number of books now in the library is 17,221 vols. Of the new books purchased, 260 vols. were fiction, 806 vols.
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non-fiction. The following is a list of gifts received during the year :
Sanity and temperance. Unitarian Temperance Society.
Premature burial. G. W. Allen.
The best reading. Mr. Geo. Brayton.
On the other side of the latch. Mr. Geo. Brayton
From Capetown to Ladysmith. Mr. Geo. Brayton.
Life of Eliza B. Wheaton. Miss Julia Osgood.
The Aztec God. G. W. Raymond, author.
Ballads. G. W. Raymond.
A life in song. Mr. G. W. Raymond.
The Torch. Misses A. & E. Thomas.
Souvenir of Mass. Legislature of 1908. Mr. J. E. Beals.
The Morman menace. Men of Salt Lake City.
Letters from Labrador. Mrs. W. J. Durgin.
Witnesses of the light. A friend.
Ourselves and the universe. A friend.
Where does the sky begin. A friend.
Report of Life Saving service 1907. Mr. E. T. Jenks.
Vital records of Beverly, Mass. vol. 2. 66 66 66 Dover, Mass.
66
" Dudley, Mass.
Essex, Mass.
66 66 6 Hamilton, Mass.
66 66 Lincoln, Mass.
66
66 Lynnfield, Mass.
66
66 Saugus, Mass.
66
66
66 Westminster, Mass.
The Hills Family in America. From Mrs. L. P. Thatcher.
Several vols. of reports from the Sec'y of State & U. S. Govt.
At the beginning of the year the first copy of the Library bulletin was issued, containing a list of new books added during the last three months of 1907. This was followed by quarterly publications in April, July and October. These have been apparently much appreciated by the public, and serve to keep the library in touch with its readers, and also with other libraries which are working along the same lines. Besides the lists of recent additions two special reading lists have been printed on these bulletins, one on outdoor life, the other on European travel.
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