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Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years
The Room with Iron Shutters Sergeant York Johnny Reb Giving the Bride Away Green Apple Harvest The Painted Minx
Moore's Poems
Personal Recollections
The World Historical Men of Achievement Explorers Statesmen Theodore Roosevelt
Speakers complete program From Log Cabin to White House Wasted Salt The Great Meadow Horse Ketchum Passion Flower Bubbles
Ruek West Wright Hill Pedler Wilder Hinkle Rugg Ostenso Bindloss Jay Rinehart Freeman Grey Brown Wynne Skeyhill Oemeler Neville Kaye Smith Chambers Moore Miles Gilbert Stoddard Greeley Brooks Mowbray Spurgeon Thayer Ogden, Roberts Coolidge Norris Foster
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Hans Frost
Rosaleen
The Million Pound Deposit
Burning Beauty
Life isn't bad
Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
The Arctic Rescue
Best Short Stories
The Incredible Year
Storm Bird
Panter Downes
Heirs
Cannon Colver
Hilltop House
Among those present
Roche
Just Folks
The Waters under the earth
For Ginger's Sake
Toni of Grand Isle
Bridal Pond
Guest Ostenso Hueston White Gale
All the King's Horses
Girl of the Golden West
Widdermer Belasco Christie
Tattere'd Loving
Bortome
The Ghosts High Noon
Wills
A Roving Commission
Green Timber
No. 44
The Young and Secret
JUVENILE BOOKS
Six Little Bunkers at Captain Ben's Adventure of Tom Sawyer Adventures of Old Mr. Toad Adventures of Buster Bear
Hope
Twain
Burgess
Burgess
Adventures of Old Man Coyote
Burgess
Walpole Hamk Oppenheim Bailey Edington Coolidge Lundborg O'Brien Baldwin
Churchill Curwood Rath
The Murder at the Vicarage
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Adventures of Peter Cottontail Adventures of Sammy Jay Adventures of Prickley Porky Adventure of Unc Billy Possum Adventures of Jerry Muskrat Adventures of Reddy Fox
Burgess
Burgess
Burgess
Burgess
Burgess
Adventures of Mr. Mocker
Burgess
Adventures of Chatterer Red Squirrel
Burgess
Adventures of Grandmother Frog
Burgess
Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
Burgess
Adventures of Johnny Chuck
Burgess
Alice in Wonderland
Carroll
Mother West Wind Neighbors
Burgess MacArthur La Rue
Jimmy Sharswood
Helton
Trailing the Air Mail Bandit
Theiss
Singing Feathers
The Golden Table
Harper Paine Repplier Pier
The Captain
Wiese
Prau of Albania
Miller Wells
Cocoa the Goat
Jordan
Tuckaway Twins
Jordan
Skip-come-a Lou
Darby
Dorna
Butler
Susanna and Tristram
Price
The Rabbit Windmill
My Life with Animals
Paddle Wheels and Pistols
Dellingham Morse Anthony Curtis
A Frontier Girl of Massachusetts
Blowing Clear
Judy, A Story of Divine Corner
Lincoln Baldwin
Little Mother
Little Indians
Pere Marquette
The Chinese Ink Stick
Tuckaway House
Burgess
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The Cheer Leader
Beggarman
Adventures of Pinnochio
Silver Pennies
Little Wooden Farmer
Six Little Bunkers at Indian John
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jacks
Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Ted's Peter Menikoff
Non-Stop Stowaway
The Book of Courage
Holiday Meadow
Tea Time Tales
Bunny Rabbit's Story
Campfire Girls in the Maine Woods
Sophia
The House at Pooh Corner
At the Sign of the Wild Horse
Carol of Crawford High
New Found Tales
Burgess Seashore Book
Lad of Sunnybank
Little Girl Blue
Rusty Pete
Legend of the Seven Seas
Animals in Black and White, Vol. I Roseen
Animals in Black and White, Vol. II Holiday Pond
Father Takes Us to Boston
Made in America
The Chief ot the Herd
Pier Abbott Patri Melne Daglish Hope Hope Hope Yankoff Knight Hagedom Patch Tyleman Prentice
Frey Segur Milne
Hasbrouck Silvers Egan Burgess Terhune Retner Nicol-Fogler Price Daglish Cassarley Daglish Patch Humphrey Smith Murkji
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Report of the Water Commissioners
The Water Department has had rather a busy year. Owing to the continued dropping of the level of the water in the lake we were obliged to lower our intake last winter, which cost $213.05. This was lowered about four feet which is below the rated capacity of the pumps. This fall with the level of the water in the lake still dropping we were obliged to make an- other move. In accordance with a vote of the town we have installed a centrifugal pump in a pit 12 feet below the floor of the pumping station with a new suction line which is about eight feet below the present level of the water. This job with a pit large enough to install another pump if necessary, cost $4021.87.
The question of the rights of the towns, Holden and Rut- land, has been argued more or less throughout the year and is still pending although we have had several conferences in Worcester and Boston.
We have installed 3 new house connections, 1 garage con- nection and 1 connection for the clorinating plant of the Metropolitan Water Commission on Millbrook Street, making a total of 178 service connections.
The financial report of the department for the year ending December 31, is as follows :
Bills rendered to the Veterans Hospital $3,043.98 Bills rendered to the State Sanatorium. 3,572.41
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Bills rendered to the Collector, June,
1930 1,925.95
Bills rendered to the Collector, Dec. 1930
1,874.74
$10,417.08
EXPENDITURES
Nellie I. Griffin
$39.72
E. D. Marsh
38.03
John Collins
20.00
Frank E. Carroll
1,599.96
Frank E. Carroll, postage and telephone
4.32
Washburn Garfield Co.
58.11
M. Nihin
18.00
Wickwire Spencer Co.
44.55
Warren & Bigelow Electric Co.
14.55
Duncan Goodale Co.
3.11
Finan's Express
3.60
Union Water Meter Co.
97.09
Builders Iron Foundry
19.48
Gardner Electric Light Co.
2,611.52
Lincoln's Express
13.32
Central Machine Works
27.75
Edison Packing & Sales Co.
47.26
Edward Viner
2.00
H. Gordon Calkins
5.00
Chaffin's Garage
14.00
Mueller & Co.
22.22
Matti Mattson
5.00
J. E. O'Connor
24.00
Warren Belting Co.
11.15
Crane Co.
13.02
Railway Express Co.
24.90
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Boston & Maine Railroad
11.37
Tucker & Rice .13 86
Frances Smith
91.00
General Electric Co.
10.95
James Bell
40.00
J. S. Hubbard
2.25
John Salo
2.00
Louis Shultz
2.50
Maurice E. Smith
3.00
George Booth.
21.00
George Gordon
12.00
Walter Wood
7.00
Griffin's Garage
4.25
Henry Robinson
10.00
Ralph H. White
118.50
Haynes Pump & Machinery Co.
375.55
Giant Mfg. Co.
73.50
Charles Melinick
2.00
Central Supply Co.
4.98
Carl Boquist
8.00
Harold Fales
13.50
Interest on Water Loans
1,295.00
$4,021.87
We have expended for the new pump and the installation as follows:
Cheney Grain Co.
$5.60
H. Gordon Calkins 325.37
Eddy Valve Co. 27.50
Central Supply Co.
7.41
Boston & Maine Railroad
22.61
J. C. Cutter Lumber Co. 4.88
Goulds Pumps Inc.
1,240.00
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Ralph H. White 2,388.50
$4,021.87
We have also expended in finishing up the new standpipe which was started last year as follows :
Tucker & Rice
$10.10
City of Worcester
128.23
Pittsburgh-DesMoines Steel Co.
54.00
This makes the total cost of the standpipe and the Me- morial Street Extension $15,004.81.
Respectfully submitted,
E. DEXTER MARSH, JOHN COLLINS, EDWARD VINER,
Water Commissioners.
N.
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Report of the Park Commissioners
During the past year the Park Commissioners have ex- pended $135.38 for cutting brush, pruning trees on the Common and mowing lawns on the Hotel Bartlett property.
Because of a decrease in the appropriation allowed, mowing lawns and pruning trees which were broken down by ice, it was impossible to complete the drive-way through the Rufus Putnam Memorial Grove as had been planned.
R. M. LOUGHAM, MARK A. PUTNAM, FRANKLIN T. WOOD,
Park Commissioners.
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Report of Work Done on Rutland Roads, 1930
Chapter 90
EAST COUNTY ROAD
3375 ft. of stone fill 18 ft. wide 10 in. deep, 7 in. gravel top 4 in. gravel bottom, 950 yds. of earth removed with steam shovel, to straighten road.
Chapter 81 EAST COUNTY ROAD
Scraped twice, dragged and brush cut. Patched with 72 yds. gravel.
POMMAGUSETT ROAD
Scraped twice, dragged twice, brush cut. Section of road treated with one-third gal. Retreaded Tar per sq. yd., and bladed. At Hams Pond, road widened, for 300 ft. with gravel, 40 ft. of earth guard bank, and 250 ft. of stone guard fence created.
Gravel sections 300 ft. x 18 ft. x 5 in. and 400 ft. x 10 ft. x 5 in. Installed one culvert, with 28 lin. ft. of 12 in. corr. iron pine, 300 lin. ft. rustic guard rail.
WACHUSETTS ROAD
Scraped twice, dragged and brush cut. Patched with gravel. First section 150 ft. x 10 ft. wide x 5 in.
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MAPLE AVENUE
Scraped twice, dragged and brush cut. Gravel road 425 ft. x 10 ft. wide and 5 in. deep. Resurfaced by scarifing and bituminous application for 65 miles.
Oil, 18 ft. wide. one-third gal. per sq. yd. and tarred 18 ft. wide at one-fourth gal. per sq. vd. 1 Town line sign set.
MUSCHOPAUAGE ROAD
Scraped twice and road dragged. Constructed 500 lin. ft. of roadway 14 ft. wide with 6 in. gravel, over 6 in. stone filling.
CENTRAL TREE ROAD
Scraped twice and road dragged. Constructed 425 lin. ft. of road 15 ft. wide with 5 in. gravel over 8 in. stone fill foun- dation.
Installed culvert with 125 ft. x 14 in. Corr. iron pipe. Re- surfaced 15 mile with application of one-fourth gal. tar per sq. yd.
BRINTNAL DRIVE
Scraped, dragged and brush cut. Gravel 2 section 125 ft. x 9 ft. x 6 in. wide each.
GLENWOOD ROAD
Scraped, dragged twice, and brush cut. Gravel 1 section 400 ft. x 9 ft. wide and 6 in. deep. 3 section 100 ft. x 9 ft. wide and 5 in. deep each.
CAMPBELL STREET
Scraped, dragged and brush cut. Patched with 54 cub. yd. of gravel.
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BUSHEY LANE
Scraped, dragged, and ledge blasted. Gravel 125 ft. x 8 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
HALFREY ROAD
Scraped.
SASSAWANA ROAD
Scraped, dragged, and ledge blasted. Gravel 300 ft. x 9 ft. wide and 6 in. deep. 20 ft. rustic guard rail erected.
RIVER STREET
Scraped, and road dragged.
INTERVALE ROAD
Seraped, dragged twice, ledge removed and roadway grav- eled 750 ft. x 10 ft. wide and 6 in. deep.
OVER-LOOK ROAD
Scraped, road dragged.
RIDGE ROAD
Scraped, dragged, and brush cut. 6 yds. gravel to patch.
PRESCOTT STREET
Scraped, dragged, and brush cut. Gravel 500 ft. x 10 ft. wide and 5 in. deep. 150 ft. x 10 ft. wide and 5 in. deep.
HILLSIDE ROAD
Scraped, gravel, 275 ft. x 10 ft. wide and 5 in. deep. 2 sec- tions 200 ft. x 10 ft. x 5 in. deep.
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MILES ROAD
Brush cut and surface treated with tar at the rate of one- fourth gal. per sq. yd.
CLOVERDALE ROAD
Scraped, dragged, patched with 40 cub. vd. gravel.
CHARNOCK HILL
Scraped, dragged and brush cut. Gravel 125 ft. x 11 ft. x 6 in. deep and a new bridge.
MUNICIPAL DRIVE
Treated with one-fifth gal. light oil per sq. yd. and sanded.
LONGMEADOW
Scraped, dragged, and brush cut and 4 boulders removed. Patched with 50 cub. yds. gravel.
WHITE HALL ROAD
Scraped, dragged, gravel 12 ft. x 10 ft. wide and 6 in. deep. 100 ft x 8 ft. x 5 in. deep. Erected 120 lin. ft. rustic guard rails.
LAKE AVENUE
Scraped twice, patched with gravel. 12 ft. wide 6 in. deep and 200 ft. long.
PINE PLAIN
Scraped.
ELM AVENUE
. Scraped and dragged and patched with 29 cub. yd. gravel.
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BIGELOW COURT
Scraped. 10 yds gravel.
OVER LOOK COURT
No work reported.
PRINCETON ROAD
Scraped and dragged.
GLENWOOD PLACE
Brush cut, and road patched with 11 cub. yd. gravel.
MILL BROOK
Scraped.
CORP. FARM PLACE
No work reported.
MOULTIN MILL ROAD
Scraped and brush cut. Patched with 11 cub. yds. gravel.
POMMAGUSETT COURT
No work reported.
CAMPBELL COURT
No work reported.
KENWOOD DRIVE
Scraped, dragged, brush cut, 4 boulders removed. Patched with 42 cub. yds. gravel.
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WALNUT STREET
Scraped, dragged, and brush cut. 76 cub. yds. gravel spread.
EMERALD ROAD
Scraped, dragged, brush cut. 1 culvert installed with 22 ft. of 12 lin. Corr. iron pipe. Patched with 27 cub. yds. gravel.
IRISH LANE
Scraped, and 16 ft. of 16 in. corr. iron pipe laid.
KENWOOD DRIVE
Scraped.
WARE ROAD
Scraped, dragged and brush cut.
TURKEY HILL
Scraped and dragged. Installed 1 culvert with 24 lin. ft. of 12 in. corr. iron pipe. Patch road with 29 cub. yd. gravel.
DRAY LANE
Scraped, gravel 250 lin. ft. of road 9 ft wide and 4 in. deep.
PROSPECT STREET
Scraped, dragged, patched with 39 cub. yds. gravel.
BARROCK HILL
Scraped twice, and dragged once.
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PLEASANTDALE NO 1.
Scraped twice, and dragged once, two boulders removed and 73 cub. yds. gravel spread, and brush cut.
PLEASANTDALE NO 2.
Scraped, dragged, brush cut. Gravel 1 section 175 ft. x 10 ft. x 6 in. deep. 100 ft. x 10 ft. x 6 in. deep.
CRAWFORD STREET
Scraped twice, and 24 lin. ft. of 12 in. corr. iron pipe laid.
CAUSEWAY STREET
No work reported.
EAST HILL
Scraped and dragged.
OAK HILL AVENUE
Scraped, dragged and brush cut.
REUBEN WALKER
Scraped and dragged.
OLD WOOD ROAD
No work reported.
BRIGHAM ROAD
Scraped.
EDSON AVENUE
19 yds. gravel to patch.
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DAVIS STREET
Scraped. 18 yds. gravel.
HARRIS LANE
No work reported.
MORRIS WATTS
Scraped twice, and dragged.
TOOLS ON HAND IN TOWN OF RUTLAND
December 31, 1930.
Name
Number
Axes, grub
5
Brooms, push
1
Bars
4
Forks
5
Hammers, car stone
9
Handles, pick
14
Hoes, street
1
Lanterns
8
Russell Road Plow No. 2
1
Picks
10
Syracuse Rooter Plow
1
Rakes, iron
6
Chap. 81 Drag
2
Champion Iron Drag
1
New Eng. Road Machine
1
Road Machine, Austin Grinder
1
Screens, sand
2
Scythes, brush
2
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Snathes
6
Shovels, Short Rd.
16
Pruners No. 2
1
Shovels, L. H.
1
Compressor Drills
24
Striking Hammer
1
Pitch Forks
1
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE R. WILLIS, Street Supt.
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Report of the Board of Public Welfare FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1930.
APPROPRIATIONS
Public Welfare
$2300 00
Mothers' Aid 3000 00
$5300 00
EXPENDITURES
Rutland Cases :
Charlton Home Farm Association
$631 82
State Infirmary 273 00
Walter B. Ware Board
156 47
Town of Holden
22 00
Town of Athol
93 43
Miscellaneous 6 95
$1188 67
Cases Chargeable to Others Places : State Case Temporary Aid Groceries .
$25 62
City of Boston case, Cash Paid 1040 00
Town of Holden case, Cash Paid 36 00
Town of Sherburn case, Cash Paid
40 00
$1141 62
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Mothers' Aid : Three Rutland cases
$2747 00
Due from Commonwealth one-third Mothers' Aid
915 67
Due from Commonwealth Temporary Aid
25 62
Due from City of Boston
1040 00
Due from Town of Holden
36 00
Due from Town of Sherburn
40 00
Respectfully submitted,
MATTHEW J. CULLEN LAWRENCE E. SMITH LOUIS M. HANFF
Rutland, Jan. 1, 1931
Board of Public Welfare.
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Report of the Fire Engineers
During the past year the Fire Department was called for four building and one auto truck fires.
We bought five hundred feet of hose, making a total of fourteen hundred feet of serviceable double jacket hose on hand at present.
The department is badly in need of ladders and it is hoped that some means of acquiring the necessary equipment can be worked out soon.
EXPENDITURES
Appropriation
$1000 00
E. D. Marsh, Coal
$150 90
Wm. White, Janitor
98 00
New Eng. Tel & Tel Co., Telephone
32 40
Gardner Electric Light Co ..
15 90
L. M. Hanff, Insurance on Bldg. 30 25
Henry K. Barnes Co., Hose & Sup. . ..
510 83
Brewer and Co., Soda & Acid
14 88
Rutland Gar. Gas, Oil & Supplies
35 61
Nellie I. Griffin, Supplies
3 69
Victor Hedlund Co., Steel Box
12 00
C. T. Sherer Co., Curtains
5 55
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R. D. Putnam, Painting 36 50
Lincolns Express
2 50
$949 01
Unexpen:led $50 99
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK E. MATTHEWS, Chief MARK L. READ, Asst. Chief FRANK J. BROOKS, Clerk
FRANK E. CARROL
PATRICK D. MURPHY
LOUIS M. HANFF
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Report of the Sealer of Weights and Measures
I have tested and sealed the following equipment in 1930:
Gasoline Pumps
28
Kerosene Pumps
2
Oil Jars 45
Liquid Measures
1
Stops on Pumps
156
SCALES.
Platform over 5000 pounds
1
Platform under 5000 pounds
8
Counter 2
Beam
1
Spring
2
Computing
2
Fees and adjusting charges of $25.58 were collected and paid over to the Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK J. BROOKS, Sealer.
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Report of the Tree Warden.
The trees on Pommaganssett, Main and Prescott Street were trimmed. The trees on Glenwood and Central Elm Road are in very bad shape and should be trimmed the coming year. I would recommend an appropriation of $100.00 for the en- suing year.
H. E. WHEELER,
Tree Warden.
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Report of the Charlton Home Farm Association FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1930
RECEIPTS
Received and due for board,
$10,471 38
Milk
2,019 87
Produce etc.
117 60
Stock
219 00
Interest
13 96
Balance, Jan. 1, 1930
1,128 60
$13,970 41
EXPENDITURES.
H. D. Sargent and wife
$1,800 00
Help, Inside and out
1,274 29
Miscellaneous
980 38
Groceries
1,110 30
Meat etc.
1,504 30
Grain
1,943 90
Coal
560 37
Gasoline and Oil
166 95
Supplies
691 15
Tobacco
212 37
Repairs
302 99
Electricity
128 61
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Telephone
37 45
Fertilizer and Seed
343 15
Insurance
82 24
Medical Attendance
58 00
$11,196 45
Balance in favor of the Association $2,773 96
There were inmates from the following towns :
Auburn, Ashburnham, Brookfield, Charlton, East Brook- field, Hardwick, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Oakham, Pax- ton, Rutiand, Warren, Westminster, West Boylston, and West Brookfield.
No inmates from Berlin, Boylston, Dana, Holland, Hub- bardston, New Braintree, Princeton and Sterling.
The Association is fortunate in being able to retain the services of Mr. and Mrs. Howard D. Sargent as Warden and Matron.
The inventory of the personal property, taken Jan. 1, 1930, shows a slight increase over last year. Feb. 1930, Mr. Edward A. Lamb resigned as Vice President and Auditor, and at the Quarterly Meeting, April 1, 1930, Mr. John G. Hammond of Charlton, was chosen Vice President and Mr. Carl F. Davis, West Brookfield, Auditor.
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT N. SHEPARD, President,
LOUIS M. HANFF, Secretary and Treasurer.
Charlton, Mass., Jan. 1, 1931.
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
I have audited all bills of the Association for the year ending Dec. 31, 1930, including money received and expended, and have found them correct; also all checks which were signed by the President and Treasurer.
CLARK F. DAVIS, Auditor
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Report of the Tercentenary Committee
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE RUTLAND TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE
Received from the Town
$294 27
Contributions 624 56
Concessions
229 92
Dance Committee
251 95
Advertising
80 00
Sale of Lumber
5 48
Sale of Canvas
5 00
$1,491 18
Expended :
Tercentenary conference of city and towns Inc. $25 00
Nellie I. Griffin, Prizes 45 00
Guest N. Emerson, signs 25 00
A. C. Wheeler, Tenrcentenary band ..
157 00
H. G. Calkins, electrical work
59 50
H. G. Calkins, rental wire and material
25 00
Hayden Costume Co., costumes 50 00
Harrigan Press, printing posters
38 25
H. I. Judkins, police duty 10 00
Mark L. Putnam, printing and postage 4 25
H. E. Wheeler, expense on signs 1 70
Garderner Electric Co., lamps and power 13 80
110
H. L. White. decorations 45 00
Ford Awning Co., banner 17 00
Bruice Costume Co., costumes parade 23 70
Fuller Regalia Co .. parade 10 12
Fuller Regalia Co., parade
26 50
Mr. Z. Combs. speaker
10 00
W. H. Sawyer Lumber Co., markers ..
70
Womens Union, dinners bands and police 60 00
Fred A. Ela. express 4 10
City of Worcester. police 24 00
Louis M. Hanff. postage and telephone
3 05
David M. Hanff, dinners
8 25
Prouty Printing Co., printing 5M booklets 259 80
Lincolns Express. express
2 80
First Naval Reserve Band
102 00
J. C. Cuter, lumber 15 59
H. L. White. decorations 25 25
F. D. Wellington. labor 4 80
C. E. Prescott. parade 37 00
George Wolf. carting horses parade ..
15 00
Samuel L. Clapp.
Car. Leicester and Rochdale . Worcester Riding School.
8 00
use of horses 15 00
Gardner Drum Corps, 3 men in parade 15 00
Nellie I. Griffin, rope 4 92
E. M. Levitt, police 6 00
Mark L. Read, police 6 00
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Barre Gazette dance order's posters .. 17 25
H. L. White, decorations dance 10 00
Central N. E. Sanatorium Radio fund 25 00 J. F. O'Herron, stamps and stationary 3 75
Permanent Records of Celebration 50 00
Permanent Markers
183 10
$1,491 18
J. F. O'HERRON, Treasurer.
Rutland's Observance of the Tercentenary of Massachusetts Bay
No event ever held in Rutland has been more successfully carried out than that of 1930. Everybody in Rutland and many outside who were interested in the town heartily. co- operated with the various committees and all determined to do their part to make the event successful. When the work was completed and the bills paid, with a balance on hand, the com- mittee felt that a report of the events should be put in such form that it could be handed down to future generations for reference. So a sum was set aside to defray the expense of pub- lishing this report, also money to designate historical spots with permanent markers.
In the latter part of 1929, some of the Town Officials and other citizens discussed the duty of the Town of Rutland in assisting the Commonwealth in celebrating Tercentenary Year and it was decided that as Rutland was one of the old towns of the State, with an interesting background historically, it should celebrate in some way.
An article was inserted in the Warrant of the Annual Town Meeting, Feb. 3, 1930, calling for an appropriation to assist in defraying expenses.
It was unanimously voted to appropriate $300.00 and the Committee chosen to arrange the celebration was Selectmen Charles J. Campbell, George H. Miles, and Charles E. Taylor, Rev. Robert M. French, Charles E. Carroll, H. Edward Wheeler, James F. O'Herron and Louis M. Hanff.
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This committee met Feb. 6th, 1930, and organized by choos- ing Charles J. Campbell, Chairman, and Louis M. Hanff, Secre- tary. At a later meeting, the several institutions and organiza- tions in the town were invited to choose two representatives to co-operate with the general committee. And when funds began to be available James F. O'Herron was chosen Treasurer.
The committees chosen by the several organizations to meet the Town committee were as follows: American Legion, Ches- ter W. Bordan and Joseph A. Cowan, U. S. Veteran's Hospital, Dr. Henry Ladd Stickney and Dr. Bertell Talbot, St. Patricks Church, James E. O'Connor and Frank J. Brooks, Central New England Sanatorium, Dr. Bayard T. Crane and Roger L. Cul- ver, Rutland Fire Department, Frank Smith and John Fister, Rutland State Sanatorium, Olin C. Blaisdell and John J. O'Con- nell, Disabled War Veterans, George P. Rohan and John Mag- ner, Finnish Society, Arme Maki and Arne Rantamski, Eastern Star, John Collins and Frank Carroll, Rutland Grange, Albert Thomas and Matthew J. Cullen, Congregational Church, E. Dexter Marsh and Mrs. Lucy D. Putnam.
Soon after the list of representatives of the organizations was completed a meeting was held and the plans discussed, the following sub-committees were chosen: Publicity: Charles E. Carroll, Robert L. Scott, Louis M. Hanff, Miss Agnes Martin and Miss Grace L. Smith.
Old Home, H. Edward Wheeler and Mark L. Putnam. Con- cessions Charles E. Carroll, Albert J. Thomas and George Crane. Finance, Dr. Henry Ladd Stickney, Olin C. Blaisdell, Dr. Bayard T. Crane, Willard J. Turner, Mark L. Reed and Joseph Cowan. Parade, James E. O'Connor, John Collins, Dr. Bertell Talbot, Francis McCarthy, Chester W. Borden, Frank J. Brooks and Frank E. Carroll. Village Improvement, Rev. Robert M. French, Mrs. Charlotte French, Dr. George N.
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Lapham and Mrs. Mae E. Smith. Old Folks' Dance, John Fis- ter, Frank Smith, Matthew J. Cullen, Roger L. Culver and John J. O'Connell. Decorations, Mrs. Sidney L. Cole, Mrs. Freda Kelsey, Franklin T. Wood, Mrs. Nellie I. Griffin and Edward N. Prescott.
The Committees began the work at once and encouraging reports came in from time to time as the meetings were held.
The publicity committee issued an historical booklet which was sent about the State and cards were printed to be attached to automobiles fliers and other advertising matter distributed.
The booklets were sent into every state in the Union, copies were sent to many prominent citizens of this state Govornors of the 48 states received a copy, acknowledgments were received from many.
The following was received from Washington :
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON,
June 25, 1930.
My dear Mr. Hanff :
Your kindness in sending the President a copy of the pam- phlet relating to Oid Home Day at Rutland on August 6, is very much appreciated.
Sincerely yours, Lawrence Richey, Secretary to the President.
Mr. Louis M. Hanff,
Rutland, Massacusetts.
From former President. Calvin Coolidge. a personal letter, published with his permission :
CALVIN COOLIDGE Northampton, Massachusetts.
June 26, 1930.
PERSONAL
Louis M. Hanff, Esquire,
Rutland, Massachusetts.
Dear Sir :
Please accept my thanks for the little booklet on your Tercentenary Observance. I have always been interested in your town because the grandfather of my grandmother Coolidge was born there. He was a son of Colonel Samuel Brewer and his name was Eliab Brewer. They lived in your town some and part of the time in Framingham. My grandmother said that when General Rufus Putnam went to Marietta most of the family went with him but her grandfather went to Ludlow, Vermont.
With kindest regards, I am
Very truly yours, CALVIN COOLIDGE.
(Samuel Brewer purchased about 24 acres of land in the "southwardly part of Rutland" from Paul How, Jan. 28, 1745, his son Eliab was born in Rutland, April 6, 1760.)
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REPRODUCTION OF THE FIRST TOWN MEETING
The reproduction of the first town meeting of Rutland, held on the last Monday of July, 1722, was on the night of July 28, 1930. The stage in the Town Hall had been arranged to represent the interior of the first meeting house. Before the beginning of the town meeting, Prof. Zelotes W. Coombs, Vice President of the Tercentenary Conference, gave an address on the Tercentenary of Massachusetts Bay. At the conclusion of the address, the Congregational Church Choir, assisted by C. Arthur Hanson, violin, and Mrs. Mercie E. Wheeler, piano, sang "My Grandfather's Clock", and Roger L. Culver as "Fa- ther Time", and Mrs. Margaret A. Griffin in colonial costume came on the stage and Mrs. Griffin read the foreword.
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