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i 1 961.07
1,961.07
1,961.07
State Tax and Assessments
i 3.764.40
3,764.40
3.758.66
5.74
Anticipation of Revenue Loans
j 25,000.00
25,000.00
25,000.00
Refunds
h 165.31
165.31
165.31
$84,146.00
$1,999.12
$55.608.00
$141,813.18
$137.572.55°
$2,241.51
a. Balance from 1939
g. Dox Tax $386.72, Donations $22.00
b. State allotment
b. From receipts and balances
c. Balance from previous years
i. From Revenue
d. From State $1,500.00, from County $1,500.00
v. Federal Grants, receipts and balances
f. Refunds
₾ 503.43
From
TOWN OF RUTLAND BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 31, 1940
GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Cash
$13,331.73
Sale of Land Fund
$55.00
Accounts Receivable :
Highway Revenue Loan
7,000.00
Tax Levy-1936
8.79
Loan Authorized, Not Issued
6,000.00
Tax Levy-1937
205.69
Tailings Account
24.29
Tax Levy-1938
397.28
Road Machinery Fund
2,127.82 8%
Tax Levy-1939
4,533.10
Overlay Surplus
201.04
Tax Levy-1940
10,415.65
Overlay for Levy of 1936
8.79
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes :
Overlay for Levy of 1937
205.69
Levy of 1937
11.54
Overlay for Levy of 1938
397.28
Levy of 1938
12.32
Overlay for Levy of 1939
371.52
Levy of 1939
31.29
Overlay for Levy of 1940
292.15
Levy of 1940
129.07
Motor Vehicle Excise Revenue
184.22
Tax Titles
1,130.89
Tax Title Revenue
2,025.33
Tax Title Possessions
894.44
Departmental Revenue
3,738.19
Health Department
943.50
Water Revenue
8,668.47
Aid to Dependent Children
52.00
Excess and Deficiency
18,930.82
Welfare Department
1,188.03
Power Grader and Plow 1,100.00
Old Age Assistance
1,554.66
Aid to Dependent Children, Grant 19.65
Water Liens Added to Taxes
147.40
Aid to Dep. Children, Administration 8.58
Water Rates
7,716.25
Old Age Assistance, Grant 406.64
State Sanatorium Water
562.36
Old Age Assistance, Administration
308.05
Veterans Hospital Water
242.46
State Aid to Highways, Chapter 81
598.86
County Aid to Highways, Chapter 90
573.83
Loans Authorized
6,000.00
Revenue
1,392.39
$52,073.53
$52,073.53
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DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$51,500.00
Water Loan
$4,000.00
Public Buildings Loans :
Heating Plant Loan of 1937
12,000.00
Construction Loan of 1938
32,000.00
Improvements Loan of 1939 2,000.00
Equipment Loan of 1939
1,500.00
$51,500.00
$51,500.00 65
Trust Funds
TRUST ACCOUNTS
$6,748.01 Horace H. King Library Fund $467.98
David Putnam Library Fund 156.16
Rufus Houghton Rural Cemetery Fund 100.00 Charles T. Monroe School Fund 6,023.87
$6,748.01
$6,748.01
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Report of the Town Treasurer
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Balance January 1, 1940
$18,241.31
Receipts
132,662.97
$150,904.28
Payments per warrants
$137,572.55
Balance December 31, 1940
13,331.73
$150,904.28
OUTSTANDING DEBT
Water Loan $4,000.00
Public Buildings Improvement Loan 14,000.00
Public Buildings Construction Loan 32,000.00
Public Buildings Equipment Loan 1,500.00
Highway Department Equipment Loan
6,000.00
$57,500.00
Anticipation of Highway Reimbursement Loan
$7,000.00
1941 MATURING DEBT
No.
247 Public Building Equipment
Apr. 15
Amount $500.00
Interest $18.75
202 Public Building Improve- ment 252 Public Building Improve- ment
July 1
2,000.00
240.00
July 15
500.00
30.00
213
214 Public Building Construc- tion
Due
Sept. 1 2,000.00 720.00
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167 Water
Oct. 15
1,000.00
200.00
258 Highway Equipment
Dec. 10
1,200.00
90.00
$7,200.00
$1,298.75
257 Anticipation of Highway Reimbursement Feb. 5 $7,000.00
$11.67
TRUST FUNDS
1-1-40
1940 Income
Bal.
Horace King Library Fund
$456.50
$11.48
$467.98
David N. Putnam Library Fund
152.33
3.83
156.16
Munroe School Fund
5,876.06
147.81
6,023.87
Houghton Cemetery Fund
100.00
**
100.00
$6,584.89
$163.12
$6,748.01
12-31-40
Bal.
** Permanent Div. to Rural Cemetery Corporation
Respectfully submitted, EDITH M. BROOKS,
Treasurer.
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Report of the Tax Collector
To The Board of Selectmen :
I hereby submit my report as Collector for the years 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1940.
1937 TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1939
$470.62
$460.05
Cash to Treasurer Abatements
10.57
470.62
Outstanding December 31, 1940 0.00
1938 TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1939
$4,365.69
Cash to Treasurer
$3,880.28
Abatements Tax Titles
34.33
3,988.61
Outstanding December 31, 1940
$377.08
1939 TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1939
$13,614.82
Cash to Treasurer
$8,793.25
Abatements
30.89
Tax Titles
427.74
9,251.88
Outstanding December 31, 1940 $4,462.94
74.00
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1940 TAX
$34,880.60
Commitments Cash to Treasurer Abatements Tax Titles
$23,815.11 340.67 208.33
24,364.11
Outstanding December 31, 1940
$10,516.49
1937 EXCISE TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1939
$80.92
Cash to Treasurer
$66.61
Abatements
0.00
66.61
Outstanding December 31, 1940
$14.31
1938 EXCISE TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1939
$112.54
Cash to Treasurer
$47.66
Abatements
52.56
100.22
Outstanding December 31, 1940 $12.32
1939 EXCISE TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1939
$220.04
Cash to Treasurer
$163.58
Abatements
27.17
190.75
Outstanding December 31, 1940 $29.29
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1940 EXCISE TAX
$5,101.61
Commitments Cash to Treasurer
$4,947.28
Abatements
44.06
4,991.34
Outstanding December 31, 1940 $110.27
WATER REPORT FOR 1940
Outstanding December 31, 1939
$6,866.31
Commitments for 1940
3,905.44
$10,771.75
Cash to Treasurer
$2,985.21
Liens on Real Estate
1,994.75
4,979.96
Outstanding December 31, 1940
$5,791.79
COST AND INTEREST ACCOUNT
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1937 Taxes
$41.05
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1938 Taxes
271.45
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1939 Taxes
203.60
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1940 Taxes
4.62
Cash to Treasurer for interest on Water
43.65
Total interest
$564.37
Poll Tax Demands, 59 @ 35c
$20.65
Cash to Treasurer
20.65
0.00
Respectfully submitted, G. EDGAR FAY,
Collecter.
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Report of the Trustees of the Public Library
To the Town of Rutland :
At a meeting of the trustees held in March 1940 Bernice Putnam was elected chairman, and regular business was transacted. In April Miss Wheeler resigned as Librarian, her resignation to be effective on or before June first. A meeting was held May 7th for the purpose of electing a new librarian, and one application for the position was received. Miss Linda Hanff was unanimously elected by ballot.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Receipts :
Appropriation
$150.00
Dog Tax Refund-County
386.72
Donations
22.00
$558.72
Expenses :
L. Edna Wheeler-Salary
93.73
Linda A. Hanff-Salary
156.27
National Geographic-Subscription
3.00
John Linnane-magazines
34.00
John Linnane-supplies
.28
Gaylord Bros .- supplies
8.40
John Linnane-books
165.76
J. S. Wesby & Sons-binding
56.18
Quarrie Corp .- books
10.50
A. N. Marquis Co .- books
9.00
W. H. Siebert Co .- books
1.43
72
L. A. Hanff-postage 1.17
539.72
Unexpended
$19.00
Respectfully submitted,
BERNICE F. PUTNAM
MRS. CHARLOTTE FRENCH
MRS. FRANCES P. HANFF
MRS. HATTIE GRIFFIN
MRS. HELEN CAMPBELL
EDMUND KELSEY
Trustees
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Report of the Librarian
Received from fines and cards
$23.52
Received for magazines
22.00
$45.52
Circulation
10,746
Books added
106
Books bought
86
Books given
20
Money was received for magazines from the Women's Union, Firemen, Home Relief Society, Eastern Star and the Grange.
Magazines were donated by Rev. Robert M. French, American Humane Society, American Legion and Mrs. Frank- lin T. Wood.
Books were given by Chester Hatstat, Ruth Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Chetwood Smith, State Board of Health, Women's Union, Mrs. Franklin T. Wood and Standard Oil Company.
Thirty-three books that were too worn out to be rebound, were replaced by new copies.
BOOKS ADDED DURING 1940
The Fascinating Oil Business
Ball
Juliet Inc.
Houck
The Star Gazer
Tabor
Death at the Bar
Marsh
The Loon Feather
Fuller
Four Part Setting
Bridge
Phelps Autobiography, with Letters
Solitaire Corte
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Finland
How Green Was My Valley
The Car Belongs to Mother
Head of the House
No More Gas
Uncle Snowball
Other Gods
But You Are Young
Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal
Lady with Jade
The Criminal C-O-D
Windless Cabins
Country Lawyer
Inside Europe
Curtain Going Up
Riders of Buck River
The Convent
The Old China Book
Portrait of Jennie
White Oak Heritage
Out of the Fog
This Way, Please
Murder Draws a Line
Mrs. Miniver
On the Bottom
I Married Adventure
Death in the Virgins
Trial by Wilderness
Arrogant History of Ben White
Charley Manning
The Trees
Of Human Kindness
Wild Geese Calling
Enough to Live On
Guns of the Frontier
Dark Lightning
Trees of Heaven
No Silver Bells
Roswall Llewelyn Wright Hill
Hall Frost Buck Lawrence
Douglass McKay Taylor VanDoren Partridge Gunther
Kerr Raine Simpson Moore Nathan DeLaRoche Lincoln
Boykin
Barber-Schablitz Struther Ellsberg Johnson Barbour Longstreet Lane Corbett Richter Mitchell White Banning Raine Miller Stuart Hambledon
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North Side Nurse
Story of His Life's Adventure
The Wave of the Future Ethan Allen
New England Comes Back
News Is My Job
Underground Railroad in Massachusetts
Country Editor
The Happy Highway
Julia Newberry's Diary
Ordeal The Golden Lady
The Wave
Triumph Over Pain
River of Earth
The Great Meadow
The Grossleyes Mystery
My Life in a Man Made Jungle
South Moon Under
The Nazarene
JUVENILE
Beautiful Joe
Pollyanna Grows Up
Little Mossback Amelia
Clematis
A Little Princess
Rusty Pete
Sanboa
The Eskimo Twins
Pee Wee Harris Fixer
What Shall the Children Read
The Alphabet That Was Good to Eat Little Grey Goose
Patches Sally Does It
Timmy Rides the China Clipper
Hancock Halliburton Lindburgh Holbrook Dame Booker Siebert
Hough Young Newberry Shute Gardiner Scott Firlop-Miller Still Roberts Oppenheim Benchley Rawlins Asch
Saunders Porter Fox Cobb Burnett Fogler Cannon Perkins Fitzhugh Richards Bell Hunt Stolper Baruch-Montgomery Nay
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Bobbsey Twins on an Airplane Trip
Treasure Hunting
Voices From the Grass Call It Courage
Hope Hope Kenly Sperry
Boy Scouts Book of Wild Animal Stories Gaily the Troubadour
Matthews
An Ear for Uncle Emil
Ginterman Gazian
Nothing Ever Happens and How It Does
Fisher-Cleghorn Coatsworth
The Littlest House
The Voyage of the Anna Smith Mulliken
Respectfully submitted,
LINDA A. HANFF,
Librarian.
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Report of Road Work 1940
CHAPTER 90 MAINTENANCE
EAST COUNTY ROAD
Brush cut.
6,000 ft. treated with (T-6) and honed.
2,500 ft. treated with M.C. 2 and honed.
28 ft. of 15" reinforced concrete pipe installed.
200 ft. 3 x 3 Stone filled. Side drain installed.
440 ft. 3 x 3 Stone filled. Side drain installed, with 6" per- foration in bottom.
8,100 ft. traffic lines painted.
2 large trees removed.
1 2x4 Drop inlet built.
260 cu. yds. selected gravel cover used.
250 ft. Cable guard rail erected.
MAPLE AVENUE
Brush cut.
3,500 ft. treated with tar (T-6) and honed.
6,800 ft. of shoulders treated with tar (T-4) 4 highway markers set.
Drainage structures cleaned.
1 paved gutter built 30" x 4' x 10"
Intersection graveled and tarred.
POMMAGUSSETT ROAD
Brush cut. 2,100 ft. treated with M.C. 2 oiled and honed. 1,350 ft. shoulder treated and honed with M.C. 2.
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2 approaches graveled and tarred.
1 guard post set.
PLEASANT DALE ROAD
Brush cut.
1,300 treated with tar (T.6) and honed.
1,000 ft. of traffic lines painted.
6 highway markers set.
LAKE AVENUE
Brush cut.
500 ft. treated with tar (T.6) and honed.
Gutters patched.
Guard rail repaired.
4 highway marker posts set.
800 ft. traffic lines painted.
POMMAGUSSETT ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped six times. Brush cut.
1 section graveled 150' x 18' x 5".
WACHUSETT STREET
Dragged twice. Scraped four times.
Brush cut.
1 section graveled 1600' long, 18 ft. wide, 6 inches deep. Treated with 1 gallon tar (T-6) per sq. yd.
1 section graveled 300 x 18' x 6".
1 section graveled 250 x 18' x 6".
1 section graveled 200 x 16' x 6".
1 culvert installed 28' x 15".
1 culvert installed 26' x 12".
1 culvert installed 26' x 15".
1 culvert installed 24' x 18":
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MUSCHOPAUGE ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped three times.
Brush cut.
CENTRAL TREE ROAD
Dragged once. Scraped twice.
Brush cut. Patched.
1 section 2,900 long tarred and honed.
1 section 450 long tarred.
BRITNEL DRIVE
Dragged twice. Seraped three times. Brush cut.
35 yds. gravel used in patching.
GLENWOOD ROAD
Dragged three times. Scraped four times. Brush cut.
1 corrugated iron culvert installed 26' x 15".
1 section gravelled 2,000' x 17' x 6".
This section mixed with 2/3 gal. per sq. yd. S.A. 4 and sealed with 1/3 gal. M.C. 2.
1 section graveled 500 x 18 x 6".
1 section graveled 800 x 18 x 6".
These to be tarred in 1941.
CAMPBELL STREET
Dragged twice. Scraped three times.
Brush cut, 40 yds. gravel used patching.
BUSHY LANE
Dragged twice. Scraped twice. Brush cut.
2 Boulders removed.
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HALFRY ROAD
Scraped once. Brush cut. .
SASSAWANNA ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped three times. Brush cut.
2 Large boulders removed.
RIVER STREET
Dragged twice. Scraped three times. Brush cut.
1 section graveled 200 x 14 x 6'.
1 section graveled 150 x 14 x 6'.
INTERVALE ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped four times. Brush cut.
1 corrugated iron culvert installed 26 x 18" to replace old stone culvert.
OVERLOOK STREET
Dragged twice. Scraped twice. Brush cut.
1 section graveled 200' x 12' x 5".
RIDGE ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped three times. Brush cut.
1 corrugated iron culvert relaid.
60 feet ditching done.
PRESCOTT STREET
Dragged twice. Scraped three times. Brush cut.
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1. section graveled 175' x 15' x 5".
1 section graveled 150' x 15' x 5".
1,900 feet treated with oil and honed.
HILLSIDE ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped three times. Brush cut.
MILES STREET
3,200 ft. treated with tar and covered.
CLOVERDALE ROAD
Dragged once. Scraped twice. Brush cut.
CHARNOCK HILL ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped four times. Brush cut.
1 section graveled 1,600 x 17 x 6" and mixed with 2/3 gal. S.A. 4 and sealed with 1/3 gal. M.C. 3 per sq. yd.
1 section 2,100 reshaped and treated with tar T.6.
MUNICIPAL DRIVE
Patched.
LONGMEADOW ROAD including PRISON CAMP ROAD
Dragged three times. Seraped four times. Brush cut.
30 yds. gravel used in patching.
WHITEHALL ROAD
Dragged twice. Scraped three times. Brush cut.
1 corrugated iron culvert installed 24' x 12".
1 corrugated iron culvert installed 44' x 60".
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In washout caused by 1938 flood, pipe cut on one to one sloop 30 cubic yards Rip Rap laid.
300 yards of filling used.
28-6" square concrete post set.
280 lineal feet guard rail put up.
200 feet of ditching.
2,700 feet treated with tar (T-6).
PINE PLAIN ROAD
Scraped once, brush cut.
ELM STREET
Dragged once, seraped twice.
Brush cut.
BIGELOW ROAD
Dragged once, scraped twice.
Brush cut.
WALNUT STREET
Dragged twice, scraped three times. Brush cut.
EMERALD ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice.
Brush cut.
IRISH LANE
Scraped twice, brush cut.
Several large boulders blasted and removed. 1 section 1,000 ft. treated with (T.6) and honed.
KENWOOD PLACE
Dragged once, scraped twice.
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WARE ROAD
Dragged once, scraped twice.
Brush cut.
TURKEY HILL ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice.
Brush cut. 1 section graveled 750' x 15' x 6".
DRURY LANE
Scraped twice.
PROSPECT STREET
Dragged once, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Road widened entire length.
1 section graveled 750 x 14' x 5".
1 section treated with tar and honed.
BARRACK HILL ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
MORRIS SWARTZ ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice.
150 feet rustic guard rail erected.
PLEASANT DALE ROAD NO. 1
Dragged twice, scraped four times. Brush cut. 1 pipe relaid. 450' ditching done.
PLEASANT DALE ROAD NO. 2
Dragged twice, scraped four times.
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Brush cut.
CRAWFORD STREET
Dragged once, scraped twice.
Brush cut.
1 section 2,000 ft. long treated with hot tar and covered with pea gravel.
CAUSEWAY STREET
Scraped twice, brush cut.
EAST HILL ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice.
Brush cut.
OAK HILL ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
PRINCETON STREET
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Graveled.
GLENWOOD PLACE
Scraped twice. Brush cut.
MILLBROOK STREET
Scraped once, brush cut.
CORP. FARM PLACE
No work done.
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MOULTON MILL ROAD
Dragged once, scraped once.
Brush cut.
POMMAGUSSETT COURT
No work done.
CAMPBELL COURT
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
HAM'S LANE
6 yards of gravel used to patch.
KENWOOD DRIVE
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
1 section graveled.
1 section oiled 1,800 ft. long treated with M.C. 2
RUBEN WALKER ROAD
Scraped once, brush cut.
OLD WOOD ROAD
Scraped once, brush cut. 20 yards of gravel used in patching.
BRIGHAM ROAD
Scraped once, brush cut. 10 yards of gravel used in patching.
EDSON AVENUE
Patched.
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DAVIS STREET
Dragged twice, scraped twice.
Brush cut.
SANDY BEACH ROAD
Scraped three times.
LIST OF TOOLS ON HAND DECEMBER 31, 1940
TOOLS ON HAND
Axes
3
Bars
9
Forks
6
Coke forks
2
Stone hammers
6
Hammer handles
0
Pick handles
30
Torches
12
Lanterns
1
Mattocks
7
Pouring Pots
1
Pails
2
Picks
15
Bull points
2
Rakes, iron
8
Rakes, wood
12
Chap. 81 drags
1
Scraper blades
3
Little Western Grader
1
Austin Western 99
1
Sand screens
2
Bush scythes
15
Snaths
12
Bush hooks
2
Shovels, short round
20
87
Shovels, short square
12
Shovels, long handle
4
Pruners
1
Pitch forks
3
Tool boxes
2
Compresser drills
24
Striking hammers
1
Rooter plows
1
Landslide plow
1
Concrete mixer
1
Stone forks
8
Grass scythes
0
Spoon shovels
4
Push brooms
9
Snow shovels
6
Sand spreader
1
Stone boat
1
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE R. WILLIS,
Superintendent of Streets.
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Report of Board of Public Welfare
FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1940
SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTS PUBLIC WELFARE EXPENSE
Appropriation
$6,000.00
Expenditures
$5,181.42
Transferred to O.A.A.
500.00
5,681.42
Unexpended
$318.58
Town cases
$990.92
Charlton Home Farm Assoc.
313.80
State Temporary Aid
2,824.25
City of Waltham
205.01
City of Boston
41.42
City of Worcester
426.89
Town of Oxford
281.94
Town of Charlton
20.25
Miscellaneous Printing, Supplies
7.60
Surplus Commodities Division
26.84
Administrative
30.50
Travel
12.00
Transferred to O.A.A.
500.00
$5,681.42
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Salaries : Appropriation Expended
$100.00 100.00
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE-1940
Appropriation
$6,322.50
Federal Grant Balance 1939
20.36
Federal Grants-1940
4,407.62
Transferred from other Appropriations
500.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
14.71
Reimbursement Town of Holden
90.00
Payments for Old Age Assistance
$11,355.19 10,948.55
Unexpended
$406.64
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION
Federal Grant Balance 1939
227.13
Federal Grant 1940
146.84
$373.97
Expended :
Clerical
$49.50
Supplies
16.42
65.92
Unexpended Balance
$308.05
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Appropriation Balance 1939
$125.00
6.57
Federal Grant 1940
73.66
$205.23
90
Payments for Aid to Dependent Children 156.00
Transferred to Administration 8.58
164.58
Unexpended Balance
$40.65
Respectfully submitted,
MATTHEW J. CULLEN,
CLARENCE L. BIGELOW,
GEORGE M. CAMPBELL,
Board of Public Welfare.
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Report of Charlton Home Farm Association
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1940
Land and Buildings
$18,000.00
Personal Property
9,143.00
Deposit Savings Banks
10,224.69
Accounts Receivable from Towns
584.90
Cash in Warden Accounts
200.00
Cash on hand Checking Account
3,706.61
$41,859.20
RECEIPTS
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1940
3,302.13
Farm products sold
1,370.53
Received from Towns and Boarders
12,706.62
$17,379.28
EXPENDITURES
Bills Paid
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1941
$13,672.67
3,706.61
$17,379.28
Number of Towns having Inmates 14
Number of Inmates Jan. 1, 1941 38
Number of Boarders 3
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I have examined the books of the Treasurer and the above Statement and find them correct.
CARL F. DAVIS, Auditor.
ROBERT F. TUCKER, President.
LESTER P. GATES, Secretary and Treasurer.
93
Report of the Sealer of Weights and Measures
The following equipment was tested and sealed in 1940.
Gasoline Pumps 3
Gasoline Meters 14
Kerosene Pumps
5
SCALES
Platform, over 5,000
1
Platform, 100 to 5,000
4
Counter, under 100
6
Beam, 100 or over
1
Spring, under 100
5
Computing, 100 or over
1
Computing, under 100
3
Avoirdupois weights 29
Total Fees $15.85
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT M. PROUTY.
Sealer.
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Report of the Police Department
Male
Crimes Against the Person
0
Female 0
Against Property :
Breaking, Entering and Larceny
4
Larceny under $100.00
2
Using Motor Vehicle Without Authority
5
1
Against Public Order :
Driving to Endanger
2
Driving Drunk
3
Drunk
5
Lewdness
1
Motor Vehicle Law Violated
4
Neglect of Children
2
3
Total Arrests
28
4
Automobile Fatalities
1
Missing Persons Located
2
Automobile Accidents
19
Summoned for other Police Depts.
7
Complaints Investigated
45
Stolen Cars Recovered
2
Automobile Transfers
37
Automobile Licenses Suspended
12
Automobile Licenses Revoked
5
1
JOHN COLLINS,
Chief of Police.
.
95
Report of the Fire Engineers
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
William White
$96.00
Gardner Electric Light Co.
74.46
Pay Roll, Labor at Fires
65.60
Fisk Tire Co.
34.18
Belmont Supply Co.
31.36
N. I. Griffin
9.74
E. D. Marsh
163.56
Rutland Garage
76.79
Christie & Thompson
103.20
D. J. Fitzgerald
1.44
D. B. Smith
25.00
George F. Blake
2.10
James A. Coffin
3.50
Justin McCarty
4.02
A. J. Thomas, Insurance
33.21
Frank Mathews
4.20
Fred Mueller
16.50
(). Darrah
3.50
A. Weller
3.00
C. E. Boquist
12.00
Russell Erickson
10.00
A. Smith
4.00
Holden Lumber Co.
2.49
Quaker City Rubber Co.
225.40
Thomas J. Powers
37.50
Buffalo Fire Appliance
44.59
New England Telephone
.60
96
H. G. Calkins
7.99
Total
$1,095.93
MAURICE GORDON, Chief RUSSELL ERICKSON, Deputy Chief JOHN COLLINS, Clerk G. EDGAR FAY CARL E. BOQUIST
Board of Fire Engineers.
97.
Report of the Board of Health
The Rutland Board of Health herewith submits its annual report of the department for year ending December 31, 1940.
FINANCIAL
The financial report is as follows :
Appropriation for salaries $75.00
Expenditures :
Dr. Allan P. Skoog
$25.00
Charles E. Carroll
25.00
Mark A. Putnam
25.00
$75.00
Appropriation for Department
$1,100.00
Expended :
Administration
$9.35
Sanatorium and Hospital cases
818.86
Board of Health physician
174.50
Patient transfer
5.00
Burial permits
69.00
$1,076.71
Unexpended
$23.29
Deducting from the foregoing expense of
$1,076.71
Reimbursements due
289.29
Net expense for 1940 $787.42
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RECOMMENDATION for 1941 Appropriations
Appropriation for salaries
$75.00
Appropriation for Department Expense
800.00
Total
$875.00
The foregoing estimate provides for the department only as the needs were indicated December 31, 1940.
The possibility of future hospital cases or epidemics have not been considered.
LICENSES AND PERMITS
The following amounts have been collected for various licenses and permits :
Licenses for pasteurization of Milk $10.00
Permits for sale of Milk and Cream
12.50
Anti freeze permits
3.00
$25.50
APPOINTMENTS
Appointments for 1940 included :
Mrs. Frances P. Hanff, Board of Health Agent.
Dr. Allan P. Skoog, Board of Health Physician.
Dr. Paul Dufault, Inspector of Slaughtering, Rutland State Sanatorium.
John B. Coffin, Inspector of Slaughtering, Town of Rutland.
HEALTH
With the exception of a violent epidemic of measles, reportable diseases have been very few.
Measles : Up to December 31, cases reported 108
99
Since December 31, cases reported 11
Total cases to Jan. 15, '41 119
Total cost to town, to date $179.00
It is unfortunate that the earliest case was not reported to the Board. Proper attention at that time would have avoided considerable discomfort and expense.
CLOSING
We appreciate the consideration which has been accorded us on all occasions.
Respectfully submitted, DR. ALLAN P. SKOOG CHARLES E. CARROLL MARK A. PUTNAM
100
Report of the Park Commissioners
Much of the work and appropriation was spent in Rufus Putnam Park.
On account of a bad leak in the dam which drew the water down considerably during July, it was necessary to drain it off and repoint the face of the dam. It filled very slowly again due to lack of rain which resulted in the loss of the pool for swimming purposes most of the summer. We hope for better swimming facilities next summer.
Much cutting of brush has been done and other work in order to make the Park available for picnics.
Next year, we would like to use part of our appropria- tion on the Common where some trees should be replaced.
Appropriation
$150.00
Mark A. Putnam, payroll, labor
$63.50
Cheney Grain Co., Cement and supplies
10.75
Kessler and Morris, paint
4.00
H. K. Bigelow, sand and gravel
7.00
Howard Osgood, labor
21,50
Mark A. Putnam, labor
25.50
Walter C. Putnam, labor
15.25
Nellie I. Griffin, supplies
1.52
$149.02
Unexpended
.98
$150.00
MARK A. PUTNAM, Chairman HAROLD I. JUDKINS JR. MARK L. READ
Park Commissioners.
.
101
Report of the Water Department
FINANCIAL REPORT
Frank Carroll, Supt.
$1,600.00
Frank Carroll, Postage and Telephone
10.36
Gardner Electric Light Co.
3,081.80
Interest
250.00
E. L. LaBarron
7.94
F. L. Thayer
42.00
Finans Express
7.67
Rutland Garage
9.89
Eddy Valve Co.
175.57
Mechanic Rubber Co.
4.85
Brewer & Co.
33.42
N. E. Meter Repair
1.00
N. I. Griffin
125.24
Wallace & Tiernan Co.
128.43
Railway Express
1.66
Frank Mathews
5.00
H. R. Prescott & Sons
91.08
Builders Iron Foundry
10.16
Prouty Printing Co.
14.50
Holden Trap Rock
15.50
B. & M. Railroad
5.00
Prescott, Bus Lines Inc.
2.50
Charles E. Edlin
2.85
R. W. Chesterton
15.76
-Johns-Manville
4.53
Ludlow Valve Co.
4.06
Washburn-Garfield
31.32
Equipment Co.
1.11
R. H. White Co.
82.57
C. E. Boquist
15.50
A. Smith
4.50
102
H. Fales
6.00
T. Spears
108.00
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