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$500.00
Veterans' Agent Salary
$800.00
Joseph C. Hohman
$800.00
$800.00
$800.00
School Salaries Refund
$123,740.00
15.00
Superintendent
$4,579.04
$375.00
$500.00
190
Expenditure Appropriation
Sec. to Superintendent
1,866.55
Sec. to Principal
1,346.50
Truant Officer
95.00
School Census
241.30
Teachers-High
51,051.00
Teachers-Elementary
50,401.39
Vocational
615.00
Nurse
1,935.00
Janitors-High
4,905.58
Janitors-Elementary
3,926.15
$120,962.51
To 1949
2,792.49
$123,755.00
$123,755.00
School Salaries
$5,328.00
Special Appropriation to be Expended in 1949
$5,328.00
$5,328.00
$5,328.00
School Expenses
Transferred from E. & D.
2,500.00
Association Dues
$161.25
Convention
55.90
Printing, Stationery, Postage
230.65
Telephone
413.76
Travel
415.40
Books, Supplies
6,869.76
Tuition
1,843.12
Transportation
2,901.00
Fuel-High
3,295.29
Fuel-Elementary
3,878.01
Repairs
5,624.24
Diplomas
78.60
Graduation
15.00
Insurance
1,771.14
Gas-High
155.62
Light and Power-High
1,427.68
Water-High
217.47
Gas-Elementary
62.89
Light and Power-Elementary
1,563.82
Water-Elementary
88.55
$28,649.53
191
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Expenditure
Appropriation
Carting
71.00
$31.140.15
To Revenue
9.38
$31.149.53
$31.149.53
Practical Arts Classes Balance Jan. 1. 1948
$6.20
Fees Collected
95.75
Supplies To Revenue
$96.95
5.00
$101.95
$101.95
George-Deen Fund-Schools
Balance Jan. 1. 1948
$510.00
Federal Grants Salaries
$510.00
To 1949
424.17
$934.17
$934.17
School Salaries :
High School:
Howard F. Mason
$2.854.10
Gilbert D. Bristol
1.724.94
Charles M. Frolio
3.645.00
John W. Bolduc
910.00
Geraldine D. Carsley
2.647.50
Annie Chadbourne
2.647.50
Robert W. Dennis
2.505.00
Lillian P. Dunbar
805.00
Carolyn H. Ferguson
2.362.50
Harry D. Gafney
3.321.32
John A. Gianoulis
724.50
Helene Gleason
2.030.00
Hilma F. Goodue
1.866.55
Florence M. Goodspeed
2.390.00
Alice M. Gorman
2.410.00
192
424.17
Expenditure Appropriation
Bernice M. Gove
2,302.50
Bessie B. Hart
2,600.00
Bernice M. Hill
2,557.37
Richard F. Morey
2,998.96
Bessie Nash
1,346.50
Jean Nummi
630.00
Dante S. Pepe
840.00
Helen G. Resca
770.00
William L. Rinehart
525.00
John S. Sampson
2,350.59
Charles G. Taylor
2,001.59
Toiva E. Tyni
2,790.00
Dorothy D. Wallace
2.505.00
North School :
Charles F. Frahar
$2,755.00
Eleanor C. Corcoran
1,952.95
Bessie B. Eldridge
2,030.00
Elinor A. Gervais
2,113.50
Christine E. Higgins
2,280.00
Rose R. Kells
2,172.50
Rachel L. Lydon
2,267.50
Theo. L. Nielsen
2,030.00
Louise M. Smith
2,172.50
Ilene A. Sweeney
2,172.50
Jessie M. Tyler
2,267.50
Blanche E. Wheeler
2,220.00
Charles E. Whitman
1,963.09
Center School :
Clare Crowley
$2,505.00
Arleen W. Edlund
2,030.00
Eleanor T. Field
774.96
Fred H. Deady
1,892.26
Alice M. Mercer
2,030.00
Celeste O'Connell
768.01
Ann O. Palmer
1,840.00
Dominick P. Pileggi
1,740.25
Frances N. Pratt
2,172.50
Bernice Robertson
661.05
Hazel A. Spratt
2,014.82
Mary Varros
1,610.75
Ruth H. Wilkes
2,267.50
193
Expenditure
Appropriation
Library Salaries
$3,146.00
Alice H. Arnold
$871.20
Thelma Stone Amy Glidden Waitstill Freeman
943.80
701.79
629.21
$3,146.00
$3,146.00
Library Expense
Dog Fund
398.66
Refund
7.30
Petty Cash
$60.00
Janitors
64.23
Books
1,511.32
Periodicals
195.25
Light
81.38
Repairs
14.55
Rent-Center
1,500.00
Rent-North
720.00
Telephone
76.48
Box Rent
6.00
Extra Labor
30.75
$4,259.96
$4,259.96
Library Insurance
$141.95
Expended
$126.69
To Revenue
15.26
$141.95
$141.95
Recreation and Unclassified
Reserve Fund
Transferred from Overlay Reserve
$5,000.00
Special Registration
$50.00
Town Clerk Expense
36.00
Street Lights
25.00
Health Expense
986.00
Superintendent Highways Expense 25.00
Election Expense
318.59
Tree Warden
500.00
Highways
300.00
$3,854.00
· 194
Expenditure Appropriation
Selectmen's Expense General Relief Town Counsel
10.50
473.23
101.00
$2,825.32
To Overlay Reserve
2,174.68
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
Unpaid Bills 1946-1947
$162.18
Tree Warden 1946
$40.58
General Relief Administration 1947
1.60
General Relief 1947
15.00
Health Expense 1947
105.00
$162.18
$162.18
Park
$1,308.00
Labor
$1,201.00
Repairs
70.36
Water
18.00
Insurance
11.67
Seed
6.97
$1,308.00
$1,308.00
Memorial Property and Insurance
Balance January 1, 1948
$160.00
Appropriation Refund
.30
Repairs
$561.42
Materials
158.42
Fuel-Light
275.09
Custodian
280.00
Water
4.50
Insurance
480.87
$1,760.30
$1,760.30
Memorial Building-Painting Material
$1,000.00
$804.19
Labor
167.50
1,600.00
195
Expenditure
Appropriation
Bids
2.25
$973.94
To Revenue
26.06
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
Memorial Building Fence Dubl-Test Supply Co.
$99.75
To Revenue
.25
$100.00
$100.00
Memorial Project-Labor Labor
$393.62
To 1949
456.38
$850.00
$850.00
Memorial Project
Transferred from E. & D. Trees and Shrubbery
$2,749.91
To Revenue
250.09
$3,000.00
$3,000.00
Memorial Day
Wreaths-Flags
$219.30
Bands
170.00
Lunches
17.54
Printing
10.75
Care of Lot-Mt. Vernon Cemetery 53.38
$470.97
To Revenue
79.03
$550.00
$550.00
Printing and Distribution of Town Reports Franklin Print
$1,155.00
$1,100.00
Walter S. Dunbar, Distributor
55.00
$1.155.00
$1.155.00
$100.00
$850.00
$3,000.00
$550.00
196
Expenditure Appropriation
Finance Committee Clerk's Salary Allen Hoyt $55.00
$55.00
$55.00
$55.00
Finance Committee Report Franklin Print
$145.00
To Revenue
37.50
$182.50
$182.50
Finance Committee Expense Stationery-Postage
$18.57
To Revenue
1.43
$20.00
$20.00
Finance Committee Expense 1948 Special Appropriation
$87.50
To 1949
$87.50
$87.50
$87.50
Dog Officer Salary Tracy Shurtleff
、$200.00
$200.00
$200.00
Tracy Shurtleff
$100.00
$100.00
$100.00 $2,650.00
Athletic Field
Labor
$1,523.00
Trucks
189.00
Loam
354.00
Seed-Fertilizer
339.00
Roller
59.50
Mower
154.00
Materials
29.95
$2,648.45
To Revenue
1.55
$2,650.00
$2,650.00
$200.00
Dog Officer Expense
$100.00
197
$182.50
$20.00
Expenditure
Appropriation
Athletic Field-Supervisor and Equipment To Revenue $350.00
$350.00
$350.00
$350.00
Poll Books
$600.00
Sanderson Brothers
$600.00
$600.00
$600.00
Maintenance and Repairs-Filter Beds Balance January 1, 1948
$42.95
Appropriation Labor
$224.60
To 1949
18.35
$242.95
$242.95
Temporary Honor Roll, World War II Balance January 1, 1948 To 1949
$203.05
$203.05
$203.05
$203.05
Welcome Home Celebration Transferred to Veterans' Benefits
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
V. F. W. Post 5737-Quarters Balance January 1, 1948 Rent
$662.00
Supplies
23.04
$685.04
To 1949
376.13
$1,061.17
$1,061.17
198
$1,061.17
200.00
Expenditure Appropriation
Legion Building Heating System Balance January 1, 1948
$3,877.82
Heater
$3,560.00
To 1949
20.00
To Revenue
297.82
$3,877.82
$3,877.82
Planning Board
$100.00
Printing, Stationery, Postage
$50.85
Filing Cabinet
40.00
$90.85
To Revenue
9.15
$100.00
$100.00
Debt and Interest
$19,120.00
Relief Loan
$4,000.00
Interest, Relief Loan
152.50
High School Construction Loan
5,000.00
Interest, High School Construction Loan
892.50
Grade Schools Construction Loan 7,000.00 Interest, Grade Schools Construction Loan
1,575.00
Interest, Anticipation Revenue Loan
133.00
$18,753.00
To Revenue
367.00
$19,120.00
$19,120.00
Sale of Town Real Estate
Balance January 1, 1948 To 1949
$4,209.56
$4,209.56
$4,209.56
Free Library Association Trust Funds Books-Periodicals
$79.43
Withdrawn
$79.43
$79.43
$79.43
$4,209.56
199
Expenditure Appropriation
$50,000.00
$50,000.00
$50,000.00
$50,000.00
Cemetery Trust Funds Cash Received Funds Established
$400.00
$400.00
$400.00
Park Trust Funds
Labor
$428.95
Repairs
156.96
Withdrawals
$585.91
$585.91
$585.91
Cemetery Trust Funds
Rev. P. J. Conlon
$65.71
Hillside Cemetery Association
18.50
Mt. Vernon Cemetery Corp.
57.64
Withdrawals
$141.85
$141.85
$141.85
Proceeds-Dog Licenses Balance January 1, 1948
$12.20
Licenses
528.00
Paid Treasurer Plymouth County $422.40
Due Treasurer Plymouth County 117.80
$540.20
$540.20
Income U. S. Government Bonds
Balance January 1, 1948
$285.91
Interest Received
62.50
Balance December 31, 1948
$348.41
$348.41
$348.41
200
Anticipation of Revenue Loan Day Trust Co.
$400.00
Expenditure Appropriation
Water Commissioners' Salaries
$625.00
Harrisson C. Witherall
$225.00
Frank L. Merrill
200.00
Winslow A. Robbins
200.00
$625.00
$625.00
Water-Salaries and Wages
$14,569.80
Charles F. Whitman, Supt.
$3,094.00
Jos. C. Hohman, Registrar
2,506.40
General Maintenance-Labor
4,372.26
Service Connections-Labor
4,597.14
$14,569.80
$14,569.80
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Water Maintenance
$17,177.27
Rent
$240.00
Postage
160.73
Printing
85.25
Telephone
71.64
Office Supplies
41.10
Office Equipment
479.39
Liens
24.15
Insurance
25.25
Electric Power
33.04
Legal Expenses
15.00
No. Abington Collector
50.00
$1,225.55
General Maintenance
Trucks
$908.63
Pipe and Fittings
568.65
Meters
880.84
Blasting-Compressor
305.11
Carting
41.76
General Equipment
517.46
Tools and Repairs
136.73
Garage
155.46
Standpipe and Lot
6.50
All Other
60.50
Supplies
46.07
3.627.71
Service Connections Pipes and Fittings 2,487.84
Pumping Station-Joint Works
201
Expenditure Appropriation
Engineers' Salaries $4,189.00
Other Salaries-Labor 688.76
Oil, Waste, Packing 77.38 Coal 110.72
Building Repairs
21.14
Telephone
149.63
Electric Power
3,782.99
Equipment
69.40
Carting
21.54
Supplies
48.33
Joint Services
136.60
Joint Mains
24.75
Chemicals
379.07
All Other
92.60
Gasoline
44.00
9,835.91
$17,177.01
To Water Reserve
.26
$17,177.27
$17,177.27
Water-Debt and Interest Water Debt
$2,240.28
$2,240.28
$2,240.28
$2,240.28
Joint Works-Special Appropriation Balance January 1, 1948
$1,500.00
Transfer from Water Reserve
2,000.00
Legal Expense
$500.00
Pumping Equipment
301.18
Joint Mains
102.00
Chemicals
432.16
Fuel
164.66
$1,500.00
To 1949
2,000.00
$3,500.00
$3,500.00
202
Expenditure Appropriation
Rockland Street-Water Labor
$320.84
Pipe and Fittings All Other
175.36
3.80
$500.00
$500.00
Water Extensions
Balance January 1, 1948
$2,594.94
Appropriation
5,000.00
Labor
$3,007.76
Pipe and Fittings
3,793.98
Power Equipment
545.63
$7,347.37
To 1949
247.57
$7,594.94
$7,594.94
Interest Accrued-Water Bonds
Balance
$9.72
Debt and Interest
$9.72
$9.72
$9.72
Water Pump-Great Sandy Pond
$2,388.73
Pump
$2,388.73
$2,388.73
$2,388.73
Water-Purchase of Land and Easements Great Sandy Pond
Balance January 1, 1948 To 1949
$3,258.72
$3,258.72
$3,258.72
$3,258.72
$500.00
203
TOWN OF ABINGTON
BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 31, 1948
General Accounts
ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Cash:
Uncollected Checks $140.24
In Banks and on Hand
$148,769.78
Proceeds of Dog Licenses: Due County of Plymouth 117.80
Taxes-Levy of 1947:
Federal Grants Unexpended: Aid to Dependent Children $3,199.51
Personal
148.20
Taxes-Levy of 1948:
Aid to Dependent Children, Administration 55.73
Poll
$32.00
Personal
979.01
Old Age Assistance
2,566.78
Real Estate
22,401.37
Excise
528.25
Old Age Assistance, Administration George-Deen Fund-School
584.86
Tax Titles
$1,828.11
6,831.05
Tax Possessions
165.55
1,993.66
$100.00
Departmental Revenue: General Relief
$98.25
120.00
Aid to Dependent Children
2,271.58
Unexpended Appropriations : Selectmen's Expense-1946 Accountant's Salary-1948 Special Appropriation Tax Sale
101.03
23,940.63
424.17
Accounts Receivable :
204
· Old Age Assistance Veterans' Aid
10,500.57 6,894.44
Water Department:
Rates
$439.31
Services
177.30
Police Station Repairs
376.14
Liens
57.40
Highways-Chapter 90
Maintenance 2.61
Underestimates:
Highways-Chapter 90
State Parks
$63.91
Construction
13.97
County Tax
2,438.45
Colonel Hunt Drive
34.12
County Hospital
414.88
Hancock St. Land Damage 392.61
Rockland St. Land Damage 4.00
Groveland St.
1,825.00
Water Department:
Wales St.
115.60
Petty Cash Advance
25.00
Highland Rd.
976.17
Revenue 1949:
School Salaries
2,792.49
School Salaries-Special
Appropriation 5,328.00
Memorial Project -- Labor 456.38
Filter Beds 18.35
Temporary Honor Roll 203.05
Finance Committee Expense 87.50
V. F. W. Post 5737 376.13
Legion Building-Heater 20.00
Water Extensions 247.57
Water Dept. Land Purchase 3,258.72
Town Clerk's Salary-1948 Special Appropriation 120.00
19,764.84
Tax Title Foreclosures 51.58
Sale Tax Title Property 71.06
Retirement Act 1,000.00
674.01
2,917.24
Water Reserve
1,887.63
Appropriated in 1948 to be
Expended in 1949
5,655.50
205
Water Dept. Joint Works 2,000.00
20,092.08 11,900.30
Overlay Reserve Overlay Reserved for Abatement of Taxes:
Levy of 1947 $148.20
Levy of 1948 3,020.06
3,168.26
To be Abated:
Levy of 1946: Poll Tax 2.00
Revenue Reserved until Collected:
Motor Vehicle
$528.25
Water
674.01
Departmental
19,764.84
Tax Title 1,993.66
22,960.76
Sale of Town Real Estate
4,209.56
Due U. S. Government-Withholding Tax
985.51
Due County of Plymouth: Retirement Deductions
340.60
Reserve for Petty Cash Advance: Water Department
25.00
Post War Fund
10,000.00
Post War Fund Interest
348.41
Excess and Deficiency
124,654.92
$205,776.49
$205,776.49
206
207
Unpaid Bills :
. Tree Warden-1947-1948
$226.65
School Department-1947
79.90
Welfare
352.86
$659.41
Debt Accounts
Net Funded Debt
$114,000.00
High School Construction
$29,000.00
Grade School Construction
63,000.00
Municipal Relief Water Extensions
4,000.00
18,000.00
$114,000.00
$114,000.00
Trust and Investment Funds
Blanche Sylvester Fund
$1,000.95
Unitarian Fund
1,504.22
Gertrude M. Gleason Fund
508.50
Addie L. Conger Fund
5,347.26
Elizabeth K. Nash Fund
3,033.97
Emily Poole Fund
3,576.99
Martha Arnold Fund
5,552.71
Free Library Association Fund
3,188.16
Perpetual Care Funds
6,344.18
$30,056.94
$30,056.94
Trust and Investment Funds: Cash and Securities :
In Custody of Library Trustees In Custody of Town Treasurer
$8,360.93
21,696.01
INDEX
Assessors' Report Births
13
Board of Health
73
Building Code Committee Report
97
Deaths
18
Dog Officer's Report
63
Equipment Consolidation Committee Report
112
Fire Department's Report 65
Forest Fire Warden's Report
68
High School and Memorial Field Committee Report
95
Inspector of Animal's Report
75
Inspector of Milk
111
Jury List
46
Library Trustees' Report
80
Marriages
8
Memorial Trustees' Report
90
Moth Superintendent's Report
72
Park Commissioners' Report
96
Planning Board Report
94
Police Department Report
61
Public Welfare and Old Age Assistance Report
86
Records of Town Meeting
21
Report of the Veterans' Service Officer
92
School Building Planning Committee Report
119
School Committee's Report
125
School Superintendent's Report
130
Sealer of Weights and Measures Report Selectmen's Report
48
State Auditor's Report
38
Street Superintendent's Report
115
Tax Collector's Report
60
Town Accountant
166
Town Clerk's Report
8
Town Officers for 1948
3
Town Treasurer's Report
52
Tree Warden's Report
70
Visiting Nurse Association
76
Water Commissioners' Report
101
Water Department :
Report of Joint Superintendent
108
Water Registrar
107
110
208
54
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ABINGTON FIRE ALARM
12 Bedford Street, corner of Chapel Street
13 Corner Washington and Orange Streets
14 Corner Brockton Avenue and Rockland Street
114 Corner Brockton Avenue and Mill Street
15 Corner Hancock and Rockland Streets
115 Corner Linwood and Groveland Streets
16 Corner Washington and Niles Streets
17 Washington and Ashland Streets
21 Corner Cottage Street and Centre Avenue
23 Corner Thaxter and Dunbar Streets
123 Walnut Street at School Building
24 Lake Street, opposite Cliff Street
25 Corner Center and Park Avenues
27 Corner Plymouth and Summer Streets
29 Opposite 942 Plymouth Street
31 Washington Street, opposite High School
Washington Street, opposite Washington Terrace
32
34 Corner Plymouth and Central Streets
143 Corner Brockton Avenue and High Street
41 Corner North Avenue and Birch Street 42 Corner Plain and Spruce Streets
442 Corner Wales and Railroad Streets
43
Corner North Avenue and Brighton Street
45
Corner Adams and Jefferson Streets
46 Corner Plymouth and Monroe Streets
47 Adams Street, opposite No. 580
48 Plymouth and Birch Streets at School Building
51 Corner Bedford and Randolph Streets
52 Corner Railroad and Birch Streets
53 Corner Washington and Adams Streets
54 Corner Lincoln and Warren Streets
56 Randolph Street, opposite No. 178
57 Randolph Street, opposite No. 500
61 Corner Randolph and Thicket Streets
62 Corner Hancock and Chestnut Streets
63 Hancock and Lincoln Streets
213 Corner Colonel Hunt Drive and Washington Street
441 North Avenue, opposite Spruce Street
542 Wales Street, North Abington, at Abington Textile
551 Corner Clark and Hamilton Streets
553 Bedford Street, opposite Vineyard Road
PHANTOM BOXES
712 Corner Hamilton and Clark Streets
713 Corner Bedford and Oak Streets
718 Corner Bedford Street and Vineyard Road
724 North Quincy Street
SPECIAL ALARMS
Second alarm 5 blows - - followed by box number.
Out of town call 4 blows 3 times:
No-school signals, 8 A. M. and 12:30 P. M. One blow followed by two blows repeated for Centre School; two blows followed by two blows repeated for North School.
All out signal, two blows: - -.
Forest Fire Alarm shall consist of three blows three times:
Box Test Monday, 6:55 P. M. Daily Test two blows - - at 12:15 P. M.
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