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5,475.53
Water Extension-Kenwood Drive 743.58 Auxiliary Equipment-Pumping Station 3,000.00
Net Funded or Fixed Debts
TRUST AND INVESTMENT FUNDS
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Report of the Town Treasurer FOR THE YEAR 1944
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Balance January 1, 1944
$36,923.96
Receipts
125,611.67
$162,535.63
Payments per warrants
$114,994.84
Balance December 31, 1944
47,540.79
.
$162,535.63
OUTSTANDING DEBT
Public Building Improvement Loan
$ 4,000.00
Public Buildings Construction Loan
24,000.00
Highway Equipment Loan
1,200.00
$ 29,200.00
1945 MATURING DEBT
No.
Due
Amount $2,000.00
Interest
206 Public Building Improvement
July 1
$ 80.00
221)
222 ( Public Buildings Construction
Sept. 1
2,000.00
540.00
262
Highway Equipment
Dec. 10
1,200.00
15.00
$5,200.00
$635.00
TRUST FUNDS Balance
Balance
Monroe School Fund
Jan. 1, '44 $6,394.43
$ 42.31
$ 6,436.74
Horace H. King Library Fund
504.13
12.68
516.81
David N. Putnam Library Fund
168.25
4.23
172.48
Rufus Houghton Rural
Cemetery Fund
200.00
200.00
Frederick Hunt Rural
100.00
*
100.00
Sarah E. Bartlett
Library Fund
$4,402.36
104.06
4,506.42
$7,366.81
$4,402.36
$163.28
$11,932.45
*Permanent Dividends to Rural Cemetery Corporation.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT J. THOMAS,
Treasurer.
Bequest
Interest Dec. 31, '44
Cemetery Fund
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Report of the Tax Collector
January 8, 1945.
To the Board of Selectmen: Rutland, Massachusetts.
I hereby submit my report as Collector for the year 1944: REAL ESTATE, PERSONAL AND POLLS 1940 TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1943
$ 35.93
Cash to Treasurer
$ 7.46
Abatements
28.47
$ 35.93
1941 TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1943
$ 221.42
Cash to Treasurer
$ 164.91
Abatements
9.50
Tax Title
19.61
$ 194.02
Outstanding December 31, 1944
$ 27.40
1942 TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1943
$ 2,304.96
Cash to Treasurer
$ 1,970.13
Abatements
18.74
Tax Titles
36.61
$ 2,045.48
Outstanding December 31, 1944
$ 259.48
1943 TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1943
$ 8,014.36
Cash to Treasurer
$ 6,149.13
Abatements
63.18
Tax Titles
36.61
$ 6,248.92
Outstanding December 31, 1944
$ 1,765.44
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1944 TAX
Commitments Cash to Treasurer Abatements Tax Titles
$40,833.32
$32,400.43
381.42
517.27
$33,299.12
Outstanding December 31, 1944
$ 7,534.20
1941 EXCISE TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1943
$ 26.69
Cash to Treasurer
$ 12.42
Abatements
14.27
$ 26.69
1942 EXCISE TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1943
$ 46.03
Cash to Treasurer
$ 19.85
Abatements
26.18
$ 46.03
1943 EXCISE TAX
Outstanding December 31, 1943
$ 107.03
Cash to Treasurer
$ 95.58
Abatements
11 .. 45
$ 107.03
1944 EXCISE TAX
Commitments
$ 1,934.02
Commitment January 6th, 1945 for 1944
24.00
$ 1,958.02
Cash to Treasurer
$ 1,889.19
Abatements
33.30
$ 1,922.49
Outstanding December 31, 1944
$ 35.53
WATER REPORT
Outstanding December 31, 1944
$ 5,682.72
Commitments June and December 31, 1944
3,504.79
$ 9,187.51
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Cash to Treasurer Water Lien
$ 4,290.38 676.59
$ 4,966.97
Outstanding December 31, 1944
$ 4,220.54
CASH AND INTEREST ACCOUNT
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1940 Tax
$ .12
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1941 Tax
15.68
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1942 Tax
125.20
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1943 Tax
136.37
Cash to Treasurer for interest on 1944 Tax
2.97
Cash to Treasurer for interest on Water
9.77
Total interest
$ 290.11
Poll Tax demands 73 @ .35
$ 25.55
Cash to Treasurer
$ 25.55
Respectfully submitted,
G. EDGAR FAY,
Collector.
Report of the Water Department
EXPENDITURES
Frank Carroll, Supt.
$1,600.00
Frank Carroll, Past. & Tele.
10.69
Interest
50.00
Gardner Electric Light Co.
3,108.00
E. D. Marsh
61.86
H. G. Calkins
3.75
Finan's Express
5.98
N. E. Meter Repair Co.
12.47
Brewer & Co.
22.28
Washburn Garfield
33.49
H. R. Prescott & Sons
17.06
N. I. Griffin
32.60
Boston & Maine RR.
5.00
Crosby Steam Gauge
2.47
Harold Fales
3.00
Freeland Dingley
22.20
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Charles Bashaw Dino Martelli
34.80
1.80
Builders-Providence, Inc.
10.18
Total Expenses
$5,037.63
WATER CHARGES-1944
Town-June 1st
$1,771.70
Town-December 1st
1,733.09
State Sanatorium
2,949.97
U. S. Veterans' Hospital
3,422.62
SALARY OF WATER COMMISSIONERS
Approp. $80.00
John Collins, Chairman
$30.00
Lloyd H. Campbell
25.00
Carl E. Boquist
25.00
$80.00
Report of the Trustees of the Public Library
To the Town of Rutland:
The Trustees of the Public Library have held three meetings in the past year. At the first meeting held in February to organize, Mrs. Margaret E. Thomas was elected Chairman. A meeting was held in March and another in November for the purpose of selecting and pur- chasing new books and magazines for the Library.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Receipts :
Appropriation
$150.00
Dog Tax Refund-County
423.49
Donations
22.00
$595.49
Expenses :
Linda A. Hanff, salary
$300.00
National Geographic, subscription
3.50
Gaylord Brothers, Inc., supplies
6.40
Crossett & William, book
.94
John J. Linnane, books
137.92
John J. Linnane, magazines
24.88
H. W. Wilson Co., book
4.00
J. S. Wesby & Sons, binding
29.90
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Quarrie Corporation, binder Denholm & McKay, books Linda A. Hanff, supplies
2.50 56.68
1.80
Unexpended
568.52
$26.97
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. MARGARET E. THOMAS,
MRS. FRANCES P. HANFF,
MISS BERNICE F. PUTNAM,
MRS. HATTIE GRIFFIN,
MRS. M. HELEN CAMPBELL,
EDMUND D. KELSEY,
Trustees.
Report of the Librarian OF THE RUTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
Received from fines and cards
$14.01
Donations for magazines
22.00
$36.01
Circulation
7,697
Books added
142
Books donated
21
New books bought
121
Old books rebound
21
Two years of the National Geographic and one of the Playmate magazines have been bound in book form.
Books have been presented to the library by Charles E. Carroll, Mrs. Franklin T. Wood, Military Division, Automotive Council for War Production, Proctor and Gamble and Yale University,
Magazines were received from the American Humane Society, American Legion and Mrs. Franklin T. Wood.
Money to be used towards the purchase of magazines for the reading table was given by the Women's Union, Eastern Star, Monday Night Club, Rutland Grange and the Home Relief Society
Following is the list of books added this year.
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BOOKS DONATED
Paris Underground
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
Connecticut Yankee
Cross Kossak Linn Smith
Elementary Chemistry
First Course in Chemistry
Right Food
McPherson & Henderson Froude
Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
Sherman
Recipes and Menus for Fifty
Smith
Quantity Cookery
Richards and Treat
Table Setting and Service
Lutes Rosi
Food Values
Locke
What We Eat and What Happens To It
Hawk
The Way We Wash Our Clothes
Ahern
20 Years Progress in Commercial Motor Vehicles
Denham
Official Story of the Commandos
Hotel Berlin
Baum
Practical Spanish Course
Monsante and Languellin
BOOKS PURCHASED
ADULT
Also the Hills
Keyes
O Distant Star
Doner
Johnny Tremain
Forbes
Lassie Come Home
Knight
The Bradshaws of Harniss
Lincoln
Student Nurse
Hancock
The Silver Crescent
Heath
Girl Intern
Seifert
Four Jills in a Jeep
Landis
Dragonwyck
The Steep Ascent
Seton Lindbergh Gregory Hill Kelland
Aces Wild at Golden Eagle
More than Conqueror
Heart on Her Sleeve
Dunnybrook
A Tower of Steel
Crazy Weather
Taps for Private Tussy
Liberty Street O River Remember
Surgeon in Uniform
He Married a Doctor
Limit of Darkness
Carroll Lawrence McNichols Stuart Morris Ostenso Blocklinder Baldwin Hunt
Everyday Foods in Wartime
Shiber Lawson
Blessed are the Meek Jane Addams
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Winter Wheat The D. A. Calls a Turn They Shall Come Again Towards Zero Majesty's Rancho
Pastoral
Haunted Lady
Ten Years in Japan The Master of Jalna
The Building of Jalna
Bride in the Solomons
I Never Left Home
The Dreams Beneath Design
We Live in Alaska
At Home With Children
Garrison & Sheehy
Thunderhead
O'Hara Miller
Decoratively Speaking
Bedford Village
None But a Mule
Riding the Rainbow
Nancy Naylor, Flight Nurse
Allen Woolcott Taylor Lansing Johnson
Ann Bartlett in the Pacific
There's Always To-Morrow
Eby & Fleming
How To Be An Aviator
Claudia and David
Country Neighborhood
April Gold
The Bolinvars
Bridge to Brooklyn
Corner of Heaven
Cluny Brown
Change of Heart
Earth and High Heaven
The Moving Finger
Westward to Chungking
Two in the Wilderness
Community Nurse
But Gently Day
The Case of the Smoking Chimney
Peggy Covers the Clipper
Bugles in Her Heart
They Dare Not Go A-Hunting
Young Un
Death Comes as the End
Evil Under the Sun
Trail Boss
Ride With Me
Walker Gardner Mitchell Christie Grey Shute Rinehart Grew De La Roche De La Roche Johnson Hope McGown Helmericks
Merrill & Davis Franken Coatsworth Hill Bayliss Idell Norris Sharpe Baldwin Graham Christie Kuo Gregory Hancock
Nathan Gardner Bugbee Larrimore Cornwell Best Christie Christie Dawson Taylor
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They Dream of Home Frost in April Immortal Wife
JUVENILE
Santa Claus in Santa Land All American
Keystone Kids P. T. Boat
The Four Story Mistake
Star Spangled Banner
Time to Laugh
The City Mrs. Winkle Built
Our Little Friends of the Netherlands
Out Little Friends of Norway
Country Stop
Pogo's Sky Ride
Primrose Day
Johnny Jump Up
Disappearing Island
The Little History of the United States
The Little Geography of the United States
The Story of the Christmas Tree
Bomber Pilot
B is for Betsy
A House of Her Own
Bob Thorpe, Sky Fighter in Italy
Penrod Jashber
Jonny
Rex of the Coast Patrol
Debby
The Young Aunts
The Devon Treasure Mystery
Big Miss Liberty
The Family from One End Street
Timothy Turtle
Back to Treasure Island
The Sword is Drawn
Pecos Bill
Bambi
The Boy Jones
The Bobbsy Twins in the Great West
Mother West Wind "Where" Stories Blacky, the Crow
Old Granny Fox
Mrs. Peter Rabbitt
A Yankee Flyer in North Africa Penny
Busch Dern Stone
Trott Tunis Tunis Lent Enright Key Kenner Orton Carpenter Carpenter Bailey Norling Haywood Hooper Kyle Pyne
Pyne Pauli Harkins Haywood Allee Bishop Tarkington Lattimore Johnson Johnson Dalgliesh Wilson Rogers Garnett Davis Calahan Norton Bowman Salten Gordon Hope Burgess Burgess Burgess Burgess Avery Torrey
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The Big Green Umbrella The First Christmas Crib The Silver Pencil The Mystery of Yogo Creek Basic History of the United States
Coatsworth Milhous Milhous
Barnett
Beard
Respectfully submitted,
LINDA A. HANFF,
Librarian.
Report of the Superintendent of Streets
CHAPTER 90 MAINTENANCE
MAPLE AVENUE
Waterways and culverts cleaned.
Brush cut.
6,000 ft. Roadway treated with tar and asphalt.
3,000 ft. shoulder treated with tar.
2,800 sq. yds. of roadway honed.
4,800 gals. tar used.
EAST COUNTY ROAD
Waterway and culvert cleaned. Brush cut.
8,500 sq. yds. of roadway honed
6,000 gals. asphalt used.
8.000 ft. roadway treated full width.
6,200 ft. shoulder treated with tar.
Several large dead trees removed.
1 stone paved gutter built.
PLEASANTDALE ROAD
Waterways and culverts cleaned.
Brush cut.
1,850 sq. yds. honed.
3,300 ft. of roadway treated with tar and asphalt.
800 gals. tar used.
1,000 gals. asphalt used.
65 yds. sand used.
POMMOGUSSETT ROAD
Waterways and culverts cleaned. Brush cut.
2,000 ft. roadway treated with asphalt.
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1,800 ft. of shoulder excavated.
3 highway markers reset.
5 station markers set.
LAKE AVENUE
Waterways and culverts cleaned.
1,700 ft. of roadway treated with M. C. 3 asphalt. 1,600 sy. ft. honed.
CHAPTER 90 SPECIAL MAINTENANCE POMMOGUSSETT ROAD
3,200 cu. yds. of excavation.
400 cu. yds. of ledge and boulders removed.
140 ft. of 15" concrete laid.
2,000 yds. gravel placed, graded and rolled.
CHAPTER 81 MAINTENANCE
POMMOGUSSETT ROAD
Dragged Twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Waterways and culverts cleaned.
WACHUSETT STREET
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Culverts and waterways cleaned.
1 section graveled 2,200' x 20" x 5'.
5,600 gals. asphalt and tar used.
MUSCHOPAUGE ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Waterways and culvert cleaned.
OVERLOOK STREET
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Waterways and culverts cleaned.
RIDGE ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Waterways and culvert cleaned. .
3 large boulders removed.
PRESCOTT STREET
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culvert cleaned. 20 yds. gravel used for patching.
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HILLSIDE ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Waterways and culvert cleaned.
25 yds. gravel used for patching.
1 culvert relayed.
MILES STREET
1 section 700' x 18' x 5" graveled, tarred, and mixed in place. Waterways and culverts cleaned.
Brush cut.
1,600 gals. tar and asphalt used.
CLOVERDALE ROAD
Dragged once, scraped twice.
Brush cut.
Waterways and culvert cleaned.
2 large boulders removed.
CHARNOCK HILL ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut.
Culverts and waterways cleaned.
MUNICIPAL DRIVE
Patched.
CENTRAL TREE ROAD
Scraped twice.
Brush cut.
Waterway and culverts cleaned.
1 section 1,500 ft. scarified and reshaped.
250 cu. yds. gravel used.
2,000 gals. tar t. 6 used.
1,200 gals. R. C. 2 asphalt used.
1 section 400' scarified and reshaped.
BRITNAL DRIVE
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Culverts and waterways cleaned.
GLENWOOD ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culverts cleaned. 5,280' treated with asphalt M. C. 2 and covered with sand.
CAMPBELL STREET
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culverts cleaned. 2 large boulders removed. 30 yds. gravel used.
BUSHY LANE
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterway and culvert cleaned. 2 large boulders removed.
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HALFEY ROAD
Scraped and brush cut.
SASSAWANNA ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culvert cleaned.
RIVER STREET Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culvert cleaned.
INTERVALE ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culverts cleaned. 2 boulders removed. 3 dead trees removed.
LONKMEADOW ROAD
Dragged. Brush cut.
WHITEHALL ROAD
Dragged. Brush cut. Patched.
WALNUT STREET
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culverts cleaned. 800' shoulder treated with asphalt.
EMERALD ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culverts. cleaned. Intersection scarified and reshaped, treated with tar.
IRISH LANE
Dragged. Brush cut. Patched. 45 yds. gravel used.
KENWOOD PLACE
Dragged once, scraped once. Brush cut.
WARE ROAD
Dragged and scraped. Brush Cut. Waterways cleaned.
TURKEY HILL ROAD
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culverts cleaned. 3 large boulders removed. 30 yds. gravel used patching. 4 dead trees removed.
DRURY LANE Scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterway cleaned.
PROSPECT STREET
Dragged once, scraped once. Brush cut. Waterway cleaned.
BARRACK HILL ROAD
Dragged once. scraped. Brush cut. Waterway cleaned.
MORRIS SWARTZ ROAD Dragged once, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterway cleaned.
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PLEASANTDALE NO. 2
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterway and culverts cleaned.
CRAWFORD STREET
Scraped. Brush cut. Waterway and culvert cleaned. 20 yds. gravel
used. CAUSEWAY STREET
Scraped and brush cut.
LAKE AVENUE
Waterways and culvert cleaned. Brush cut. 800' treated with tar.
PINE PLAIN
Dragged and waterway cleaned. ELM AVENUE
Scraped once. Waterway cleaned. BIGELOW ROAD
Scraped once. Brush cut. Waterways cleaned. OVERLOOK COURT
Dragged once, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterway cleaned. PRINCETON STREET
Dragged twice, scraped once. Brush cut. Waterway and culvert cleaned. 2 large boulders removed.
GLENWOOD PLACE
Dragged once and brush cut.
MILLBROOK STREET
Scraped once. Brush cut. Waterways cleaned.
MOULTON MILL ROAD
Scraped once. Brush cut. Waterway cleaned.
POMMOGUSSETT COURT
No work reported.
CAMPBELL COURT
Dragged once, scraped once. Brush cut. Waterway cleaned.
KENWOOD DRIVE
Dragged twice, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterway and culverts cleaned. 1 section graveled 800' x 18' x 9". 1 section graveled 700' x 18' x 5"
EAST HILL ROAD
Dragged once, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterway and culvert cleaned. 35 yds. gravel used patching. OAK HILL ROAD
Dragged once. Waterway cleaned.
RUBEN WALKER ROAD
Dragged once.
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OLD WOOD ROAD
Dragged once.
BRIGHAM ROAD
Dragged. Waterways cleaned.
EDSON AVENUE
Patched. Brush cut.
DAVIS STREET
Dragged once, scraped twice. Brush cut. Waterways and culvert cleaned. DOYLE AVENUE
Scraped and brush cut. Waterways and culverts cleaned. 2,100 ft. graveled and tarred.
LIST OF TOOLS ON HAND DECEMBER 31, 1944.
Axes
4
Bars
7
Forks
4
Coke Forks
2
Stone Hammers
3
Hammer Handles
12
Pick Handles
20
Torches
10
Lanterns
1
Mattocks
6
Pouring Pot
1
Picks
12
Bull Points
3
Rakes, Iron
5
Rakes, wood
8
Scraper Blades
3
Little Western Scraper
1
Sand Screen
1
Bush Scythes
2
Spoon Shovels
3
Scythe Snaths
10
Shovels, short round
12
Shovels, short square
8
Shovels, long handled
3
Tool Boxes
1
Rooter Plow
1
Sandside Plow
1
Concrete Mixer
1
Brooms
6
Sand Spreaders
2
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE R. WILLIS, Superintendent of Streets.
4
Pitch forks
12
Bush Hooks
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Report of Board of Public Welfare FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1944
SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTS
PUBLIC WELFARE EXPENSE
Appropriation
Expenditures
$2,000.00 1,340.33
Unexpended
$659.67
Town Cases
$635.03
Charlton Home Farm Association
313.80
State Temporary Aid
156.00
City of Worcester
207.50
Boston Council of Social Agencies
8.00
Clerical
20.00
$1,340.33
Salaries :
Appropriation
$100.00
Expended
100.00
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Appropriation
$1,500.00
Balance 1943
46.30
Federal Grants 1944
468.00
Payments for Aid to Dependent Children
1,682.75
Unexpended Balance
$2,014.30
$331.55
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN ADMINISTRATION
Balance 1943
$9.04
No Expenditures
Unexpended Balance
$9.04
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OLD AGE ASSISTANCE 1944
Appropriation Refunds
$8,000.00 16.50 381.54
Federal Grant Balance 1943
Federal Grant 1944
5,655.70
Payments for Old Age Assistance
12,778.94
Unexpended Balance
$1,274.80
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION
Federal Grant Balance 1943
$396.09
Federal Grants 1944
188.44
$584.53
Expended : Clerical Supplies
$177.00
10.88
$187.88
Unexpended Balance $396.65
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE M. CAMPBELL, CLARENCE L. BIGELOW, DAVID M. DARRAH,
Board of Public Welfare
$14,053.74
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Report of Charlton Home Farm Association
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1944
Land and Buildings
$14,000.00
Deposit, Savings Banks,
11,046.87
Personal Property
11,842.00
U-S Bonds, 3 one thousand bonds
2,220.00
Accounts Receivable from Towns
1,128.26
Cash in Warden's hands
200.00
Cash on hand, checking account
1,534.67
$41,971.80
RECEIPTS
Cash on hand, January 1, 1944
$3,116.10
Farm Products sold
1,044.56
Received from Towns and Boarders
14,328.47
$18,489.13
EXPENDITURES
Bills Paid
$16,954.46
Cash on hand, January 1, 1945
1,534.67
$18,489.13
Number of Towns having Inmates
22
Number of Inmates 50
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.
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Report of the Board of Health
FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1944
FINANCIAL
Appropriation, Salaries Expenditures :
$75.00
Edmund D. Kelsey
$25.00
Charles E. Carroll
25.00
Mark A. Putnam
25.00
$75.00
Appropriation for Department: Reserve Fund
$800.00
110.95
$910.95
Expenditures :
Administration
$ 4.34
Hospital cases
792.00
Board of Health Physician
26.00
Burial permits
82.25
Inspector slaughtering
6.36
$910.95
Expenditures 1944
$910.95
Subsidy reimbursements
260.71
Net expense
$650.24
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1945 APPROPRIATIONS
Appropriation, Salaries
$75.00
Appropriation for Department
1,200.00
$1,275.00
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NOTE-Increased appropriation made necessary because of addi- tional Sanatorium cases.
LICENSES AND PERMITS
Collections have been made as follows:
Licenses
$ 2.00
Permits
12.50
$14.50
APPOINTMENTS FOR 1944
Mrs. Frances P. Hanff,
Board of Health Agent
John H. Warner, M.D. (Barre)
Board of Health Physician
Joseph A. Carroll
Inspector Slaughtering
Charles M. Fiske
Inspector Slaughtering
HEALTH
If the health of our community is to be judged by its record of reportable diseases, then we have had a very satisfactory year. Very few cases of communicable diseases have been reported.
Respectfully submitted,
EDMUND D. KELSEY,
CHARLES E. CARROLL,
MARK A. PUTNAM, Rutland Board of Health.
Report of the Park Commissioners 1944
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
$100.00
Appropriation Expenditures :
Herbert K. Bigelow
54 yds. Gravel
$54.00
Nellie I. Griffin Grass Seed
.50
Unexpended
$54.50 $45.50
MARK A. PUTNAM, Chairman
MARK L. READ, HAROLD I. JUDKINS, JR. Clerk
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Report of the Fire Engineers
The Fire Department answered four calls for building fires and six calls for chimney fires during the year 1944.
There were also seventeen calls for grass and brush fires.
EXPENSES OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
William White
$ 96.00
E. D. Marsh
86.21
N. I. Griffin
4.57
Rutland Garage
116.07
Acme Co.
8.57
Gardner Electric Light Co.
38.00
American Telephone Co.
20.24
Finan's Express
1.20
Labor at Fires
52.80
American La France Co.
6.07
Total $429.73
RUSSELL ERICKSON, Chief MAURICE GORDON, Deputy Chief JOHN COLLINS, Clerk G. EDGAR FAY FRED MULLER
Report of the Police Department
CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON
Male 1
Female
Assault and Battery
CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
Breaking and Entering and Larceny in Night Time 1
Using a Motor Vehicle Without Authority 1
CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
Drunkenness
6
Motor Vehicle Violations
2
Insane
2
1
Delinquency
13
1
63
Automobile Accidents
Fatal Automobile Accidents
Automobile Transfers
34
Automobiles Stolen in Rutland
2
3
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JOHN COLLINS,
Chief of Police.
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures
6-Gasoline Pumps
4-Kerosene Pumps
12-Liquid Measures
14-Scales
36 Sealed - 3 Adjusted
WILLIAM H. GRIFFIN, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Report of Veterans' Rehabilitation and Re-Employment Committee
On request of Governor Saltonstall, the Rutland Board of Selectmen appointed early in the year a Veteran's Rehabilitation and Re-employ- ment Committee, the purpose of which was "the return of World War No. 2 veterans as self-supporting and independent citizens."
Governor Saltonstall indicated that "No one knows the veteran better than his own townsmen, and in the majority of cases the veteran has most confidence in the advice given him by members of his own commu- nity." He advised that "Each community should establish an office under the supervision of the Local Advisory Committee that would be open dur- ing every day in the week, and perhaps one or two nights, where the vet- eran can present his problems and be referred to the proper person or organization to get the assistance or advice that he or she may need, also endeavor to be of service to dependents of men on active duty."
The committee formed by the Board of Selectmen included: The late Charles J. Campbell, Frank J. Brooks, Charles E. Taylor of Board of Selectmen, Carl R. Griffin, Commander, Rutland Post, American Legion, Harding L. White, Chairman, Rutland Branch Worcester Chapter Ameri- can Red Cross, and Charles E. Carroll, Re-employment Committeeman,
Male
Female
6
1
Automobile Recovered
Complaints Investigated
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Local Board No. 139, Selective Service. On September 5, 1944, on re- quest of the Government, William McCarthy, Manager of U. S. Employ- ment Service, Worcester, was also voted a member.
This committee organized with Frank J. Brooks, chairman, and Charles E. Carroll, secretary and established headquarters at the office of Charles E. Carroll on Maple Avenue. These headquarters are open to Veterans every day in the week at practically all hours.
Meetings of the committee are held the first Tuesday of each month at Community Hall. Eleven have been held, several of which have been conferences held respectively with, Miss Gertrude L. Mackesy, Home Service Secretary, Worcester Chapter, American Red Cross; William A. McCarthy, Manager, U. S. Employment Service, Worcester; Dr. Paul C. Bruce, Clinical Director, U. S. Veteran's Hospital, Rutland Heights and Frank Honer of the United States Employment Service.
With a few exceptions, every veteran's family in Rutland have been contacted and a complete record of Rutland soldiers in the Second World War will eventually be on file at our headquarters.
"This program is so big that there is need for all of us in this work. We can and must co-operate to the fullest extent and give our full support to the service of helping our returned veterans."
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK J. BROOKS, Chairman
CHARLES E. CARROLL, Secretary CARL R. GRIFFIN, HARDING L. WHITE,
CHARLES E. TAYLOR,
Rutland Rehabilitation and Re-employment Committee.
Report of State Audit, 1944
To the Board of Selectmen Rutland, Massachusetts
September 5, 1944
Gentlemen :
I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Rutland for the period from June 20, 1943 to May 29, 1944, made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Herman B. Dine, Assistant Director of Accounts.
Very truly yours, THEODORE N. WADDELL, Director of Accounts.
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Mr. Theodore N. Waddell Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston
Sir :
As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the Town of Rutland for the period from June 20, 1943, the date of the previous audit, to May 29, 1944, and submit the following report thereon :
The financial transactions, as recorded on the books of the the several departments receiving or disbursing money for the town or committing bills for collection, were examined and checked.
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