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Acton
Emma Johnson
Maynard
27
Nov. 4
Concord 1
Annie Dennieheigh
Acton
28
Nov. 25
N. Acton
Hattie Belle Harris
N. Acton
29
Nov. 28
Ole Granberg
S. Acton
Acton
Matilda Anderson
S. Acton
30
Dec. 2
Allen Brooks Parker
W. Acton
Chambersb'g, Pa
Nora Elizabeth Spayd
Chambersb'g, Pa
31
Dec. 5
Concord
Tilda Petersen
Lowell
32
Dec. 23
George Lucian Noyes
Acton
Acton
Jennie Ethel Miles
Acton
Maynard
Mary L. LaFlamme William J. Clark
S. Acton
S. Acton
Peter C. Jensen
Concord
Charles Julian Tuttle
Acton
Edward Anderson
S. Acton
19
TOWN OF ACTON.
Deaths Registered in 1903.
AGES
NO.
DATE
NAME
YR. MO. DS.
1
January
8
Charles Henry Clark
16
3
7
2
January
12
Sidney S. Shattuck
22
7
29
3
January
18
Thaddeus Liscomb Barker
76
7
1
4
January
23
Will Murray Charlton
34
5
25
5
January
24
Nettie Francena (Cummings ) Forbush
60
6
28
6
January
24
Eliza Jane ( Ackerman) McLaughlin
77
7
February
3
Susan Augusta (Davis ) Conant
65
1
10
8
February
7
Joel Hayward Whitcomb
77
3
7
9
February
26
Mary (Davis ) Richardson
84
2
9
10
March
11
Alonzo Lincoln Tuttle
73
3
29
11
March
11
Howard Emerson Faulkner
66
10
18
12
March
15
Solomon Stillinan Flagg
73
10
15
13
May
9
Rebecca ( Robbins) Allen
77
10
23
14
May
9
Frank Henry Whitcomb
65
4
2
15
May
22
Mary Ann ( Hyde ) Houghton
75
11
2
16
May
28
Mary Jane ( Dean ) Murphy
25
18
17
June
9
Gertrude Southwick Heath
1
2
2
18
June
11
Maud Ethel Clark
14
7
12
19
June
22
Louisa Jane ( Richardson) Burroughs
92
9
18
20
July
4
Elizabeth F. (Dodge ) Burleigh
72
3
8
21
July
17
Lewis Vinal Clough
57
9
20
22
July
18
Gertrude M. (Fuller ) Hutchinson
27
1
16
23
July
22
Charles Hubbard
41
24
July
28
Hanson A. Littlefield
54
11
28
25
August
11
Herbert Harvey Ramsdell
24
4
18
26
August
17
Russell Fifield Buckley
2
14
27
August
18
Benjamin Warren Read
58
0
12
28
September
14
Gertrude E. Peet
26
2
2
29
September
22
Harriet Proctor ( Handley ) Tuttle
81
10
26
30
September
24
James Edwin Norcross
74
1
13
31
October
13
Adeline ( Walker ) Haynes
81
2
2
32
October 27
Eliza T. (Donahue ) Gould
35
3
23
33
October
26
Charles Edward Brown
23
7
10
34
October
29
George Thomas Knowlton
51
S
8
35
November
16
Annie ( McNeil ) McNeil
60
36
December
17
Eben Frank Wood
66
6
8
37
December
25
Hiram Nickerson
70
8
1
38
December
28
Sarah Ann ( Atherton ) Carleton
95
8
28
20
ANNUAL REPORTS
Non-Resident Burials in 1903.
AGES
DATE OF
NO.
DEATH 1903
NAME OF PERSON.
RESIDENCE
YR. MO.
DS
1
March 6
Augusta Conant Parker
Stoneham
2
2 March
9
Henry F. Hosmer
Lancaster
66
2 9
3
March
11 Ernest R. Smith
Carlisle
3
4
March
15
Amanda M. Barnard
Fitchburg
78
2
10
5 March
22
John H. Clark
Concord
56
9
16
6
March
24
Samuel T. Brown
Nashua, N. H.
60
7
April
25
Helen A. Rowell
Westfield
74
8
April
30
Lydia Law
Medford
64
3
25
9
May 3
Charles H. Tuttle
Chelsea
61
7
16
10
June
6
Eva May Allsop
Boston
28
6
19
11
Sept.
6
Emma F. Billings
Worcester Clinton
59
1
20
12
Sept.
17
Helen E. Whitcomb
4
2
13
Oct.
5 Dorothy E. Abbott
Methuen
6
11
14
Oct.
17 Nathan H. Wheeler
West Newton
79
3
5
15
Nov. 8 Mary A. Call
Springfield
72
21
TOWN OF ACTON.
Persons Having Dogs Licensed in 1903.
Wm. F. Stevens,
$2 00
John Temple,
$2 00
C. H. Morris,
2 00
Wm. F. Merrill, 2 00
E. C. Shapley,
2 00
Solon A. Robbins, 2 00
J. Sterling Moore,
2 00
Herbert Hale,
2 00
Henry J. Stoos,
2 00
George E. Humphrey,
2 00
Albert H. Perkins, (2)
4 00
Charles Wheeler,
2 00
Frank Williams,
5 00
Jack E. Durkee,
2 00
Moses Taylor,
2 00
Charles T. Calder, 2 00
Moses E. Taylor,
2 00
J. Linwood Richardson,
5 00
Mrs. J. Williams,
2 00
Luther Conant,
2 00
Everett Spinney,
5 00
Alfred Weeks, (2)
7 00
Luke Tuttle,
2 00
Michael O'Connell,
2 00
George F. Simonds,
2 00
A. L. Lawrence, 2 00
Herbert Kingman,
2 00
Carlton C. Taylor,
5 00
John Downey,
2 00
Tuttle & Newton, 2 00
Cyrus G. Dole, (2)
4 00
Margaret Coughlin,
2 00
Roy L. Duren,
5 00
Amasa E. Lincoln,
2 00
Lester N. Fletcher, (2)
4 00
John M. Brown,
2 00
Daniel C. Lincoln,
2 00
Chester H. Harris, 2 00
Harry E. Holt,
2 00
Edmund Dow,
2 00
Wm. B. Holt,
2 00
B. T. Maxim,
4 00
W. F. Kelley,
2 00
N. J. Cole, (3)
9 00
I. W. Perkins,
2 00
Timothy A. Thompson,
2 00
F. J. Barker,
5 00
Hugh Waters,
5 00
Joseph Reynolds,
2 00
Daniel H. Farrar,
2 00
H. A. Gould,
2 00
Arthur S. Lanone,
2 00
W. C. Taft,
2 00
W. W. Hern,
2 00
Francis S. Davis,
5 00
Elnathan Jones,
2 00
David C. Harris,
2 00
L. H. Pinkham,
2 00
Eugene L. White,
2 00
Charles S. Moulton,
2 00
Robert L. Randall,
2 00
Henry M. Smith, 2 00
Arthur Tuttle,
2 00
John H. Watkins, (2)
7 00
John M. Stevenson,
5 00
William F. Watkins,
2 00
Catherine Green,
2 00
George Weaver,
2 00
Frank W. Bulette,
2 00
Fred A. Hallowell, 2 00
Chas. L. Ford, (2)
10 00
Frank A. Pratt,
2 00
2.2
ANNUAL REPORTS
Chauncey B. Robbins, $2 00
Hiram E. Gates, $2 00
James A. Grimes,
2 00
C. M. Kimball, (2) 4 00
Ernest Smith,
2 00
Moses Thompson, 2 00
Elizabeth Taylor,
2 00
Augustine Risso, 2 00
Ellery Wright,
2 00
O. A. Knowlton, 2 00
J. M. Kelly,
2 00
Robert G. Reed, 2 00
L. C. Carberg,
2 00
John Kennedy,
2 00
Patrick O'Neil,
2 00
Madeline M. Ineson,
2 00
James Cole,
2 00
Edward Willis,
2 00
Alfred J. Morse,
2 00
George Brooks,
2 00
Frank Pratt,
2 00
John Maines,
2 00
C. A. Sawyer,
2 00
William S. Warren,
2 00
Edwin T. Swift,
5 00
Frank E. Harris,
2 00
John Buckley,
5 00
George A. Barker,
2 00
George W. Worster,
2 00
W. P. Hooper,
2 00
George F. Lawrie,
5 00
George A. De Lord,
2 00
Michael Hayes,
2 00
Daniel Mahoney,
2 00
F. H. Holden,
2 00
Michael Eneguess,
2 00
W. H. Hill,
2 00
Warren Jones,
2 00
W. C. Robbins,
2 00
Wilbur Fisk,
2 00
W. C. Coughlin,
2 00
O. W. Penniman, 2 00
Willard Rudolph,
2 00
George T. Knowlton,
2 00
J. L. Adams,
2 00
Wm. J. Moore, (2)
4 00
Harry Wilkins,
2 00
T. C. Lothrop, (2)
7 00
Constance O'Neil,
2 00
Benj. Pope. (4)
14 00
Whole number licensed, 137.
Number of males, 117, at $2.00 each,
$234 00
Number of females, 20, at $5 each, 100 00
$334 01)
Deduct fees, 137 licenses at 20 cents each,
27 40
Amount paid to County Treasurer,
$306.60
HORACE F. TUTTLE,
Town Clerk.
23
TOWN OF ACTON.
Selectmen's Report.
South School.
Paid Eudora W. Gould,
Primary,
$120 00
Inez G. Kilton,
260 00
Jennie A. Willey,
Intermediate,
120 00
Martha Fagerstrom,
260 00
Bertha Bridges,
Grammar,
120 00
Virginia Rowell,
80 00
Sarah Kelley,
88 00
Mary A. Walker,
20 00
Martha Hosmer,
66
15 00
Emma J. Foster,
66
15 00
Katherine B. Feeley,
66
40 00
Geo. C. Turner, Janitor Grammar,
47 50
cleaning Grammar, 12 05
fuel and extra labor, Gram-
mar,
10 63
66
Janitor South,
100 00
66
66
cleaning
16 25
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co., coal, «
87 77
Tuttle & Newton, incidentals,
2 28
66
66
Grammar,
35
E. Jones,
66
1 05
66 £
South,
4 47
J. L. Hammett & Co. "
4 39
Poor Farm Dept., wood,
12 00
-
$1,444 49
66 fuel and extra labor, South,
7 75
24
ANNUAL REPORTS
Center School.
Paid Ella L. Miller, Intermediate,
$418 00
Sadie A. Collier,
Grammar,
120 00
Nancy Bucknam,
260 00
Martha F. Smith,
Primary,
406 00
Asaph Parlin, Janitor,
145 99
So. Acton Coal & Lumber Co., coal,
11 09
D. J. Wetherbee, 39,550 lbs.
111 65
Luther Davis, wood,
12 50
Poor Farm Dept., wood,
12 00
J. L. Hammet & Co., incidentals,
4 39
E. Jones,
7 90
M. E. Taylor & Co.,
66
4 60
-
$1,514 12
West School.
Paid Lena E. Sewell,
Intermediate,
$118 00
Gertrude E. Peet,
66
20 00
Agnes C. Develin,
66
236 00
Harriet H. Gardner, Primary,
456 00
Blanche E. Clough, Grammar,
80 00
Marion W. Flagg,
30 00
Jennie V. Sargent,
260 00
Thomas Scanlon, Janitor,
132 98
cleaning,
20 00
66
incidentals and carrying
E. Jones, incidentals,
14 80
Poor Farm Dept., 4 cords wood,
24 00
E. C. Parker & Co., coal,
155 31
$1,558 09
High School.
Paid A. L. Faxon, Principal,
$1,067 50
Helen B. Waterman, Assistant,
162 50
Ruby M. Atwood,
337 50
Tuttle & Newton, incidentals,
1 08
E. Jones, 25
water,
11 00
25
TOWN OF ACTON.
Paid G. C. Turner, Janitor,
$100 00
cleaning,
16 25
fuel and extra labor, 7 75
E. Jones, incidentals,
4 48
Tuttle & Newton,
2 28
So. Acton Coal and Lumber Co., coal,
87 78
Poor Farm Dept., wood,
12 00
Appropriated, $1,800 00
School Supplies.
Paid J. L. Hammett & Co.,
$215 13
D. C. Heath & Co.,
38 53
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
44 92
E. E. Babb & Co.,
36 13
Ginn & Co.,
35 01
Silver Burdett & Co.,
35 27
American Book Co.,
15 00
Educational Publishing Co.,
41 17
University Publishing Co.,
8 20
De Wolf, Fiske & Co.,
2 00
Maynard, Merrill & Co.,
1 00
Wm. G. Poore,
34 00
H. E. Richardson,
5 50
J. Rufus Wales,
2 00
Allyn & Bacon,
6 67
$520 53
A. W. Raynor, express on supplies,
10 53
T. Scanlon,
30
A. I .. Noyes, transporting supplies,
10 65
21 48
542 01
Apparatus for High School.
Paid D. C. Heath,
$10 00
A. W. Hall Scientific Co.,
6 00
DeWolf, Fiske & Co.,
31 28
47 28
Appropriated,
50 00
$1,799 37
26
ANNUAL REPORTS
Musical Instructions in Schools.
Paid Marion W. Brown,
$114 00
SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION.
High School Scholars.
Paid B. W. Reed, 1901, $5 00
B. W. Reed, 1902, 5 00
S. B. Insen, 1902, 5 00
John Maines, 1902,
5 00
F. A. Pratt, 1902,
5 00
$25 00
Public School Scholars.
Paid Wm. S. Jones, $237 50
George E. Greenough,
544 00
Jens Mikkleson,
532 00
$1,313 50
Appropriated,
$1,360 00
Soldiers Relief and Burial of Indigent Soldiers.
Paid Tuttle & Newton, aid Mrs. Whalen, $ 7 08
Jas. L. Adams,
16 00
E. Jones,
5 00
Chas. B. Heath, board, « 66
5 00
M. E. Taylor & Co., aid " 66
26 03
Mary A. Whalen,
5 00
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co., Coal, aid Mrs. Whalen, 8 15
Mrs. Wm. Gordon, care Phebe Wood, 13 months, 364 00
Elsworth Houghton, transporting Phebe Wood to Maynard, 1 00
Dr. Goodnow, disinfectant for Phebe Wood's House, 1 00
E. A. Phalen, expenses, Phebe Wood, 4 35
27
TOWN OF ACTON.
Paid Mrs. L. A. Hesselton, clothing, Phebe Wood, $4 45
City of Marlboro, aid for Wm. F. B. Whitney,
85 28
$532 34
Received from City of Newburyport,
71 25
Due
26 00
Received from Pension and State Aid, account Phebe Wood,
240 00
Due from Pension and State Aid, account Phebe Wood,
State and Military Aid.
Paid Emma F. Blood,
12 months,
$48 00
John Clark,
12
66
60 00
Aaron S. Fletcher,
12
66
48 00
Ephraim B. Forbush,
1.2
48 00
Lydia Handley,
12
48 00
Hulda Moulton,
12
48 00
Mary A. Parlin,
12
66
48 00
Mary Smith,
12
66
48 00
Addison B. Wheeler,
12
66
48 00
Mary A. Whalen,
12
48 00
Eben F. Wood,
8
50 00
Bridget Mawn,
9
66
36 00
Susan A. Clough,
16 00
Amount to be returned by Commonwealth, $594 00
Support of Poor on Farm.
Paid L. C. Taylor, carrying milk,
$3 84
Moses Thompson, salary,
350 04
C. G. Durkee, 4,770 lbs. hay,
33 39
F. J. Hastings & Co., 1,284 lbs. hay,
8 99
F. J. Livingston, soap, 1902,
2 00
E. C. Parker & Co., grain,
288 52
Hobbs & Warren, blanks,
1 11
28
ANNUAL REPORTS
Paid C. E. Broudier, repairs, $10 77
J. S. Moore, meat and provisions, 85 77
M. E. Taylor & Co., groceries and sup- plies, 423 95
S. S. Searles, blacksmithing, 11 55
Fred W. Gray, painting, 17 76
Fred S. Whitcomb, mowing machine, 39 00
H. T. Clark, 1 wagon, 50 00
66 1 rack, 7 50
S. A. Guilford, ironing wagon, 58 00
blacksmithing, 8 45
A. D. Holt, labor and stock, "repairs," 46 02
So. Acton Coal and Lumber Co., coal and lumber, 6 73
W. E. Whitcomb, meat and provisions, 16 69
H. L. Whitcomb, wall paper, 6 99
E. B. Harlow, meat,
1 44
J. E. Rice, repairs,
2 85
C. B. Robbins, 2 pigs, 6 00
Luther Conant, 6,100 lbs. feed, 68 63
I. W. Flagg, 1 pair traces, 3 00
A. H. Perkins, 1 cow, 57 50
F. J. Livingston, soap, 3 00
E. Jones, 1 pair pants, 1 25
C. H. Mead & Co., supplies, 60 14
A. H. Perkins, pasturing cattle, 17 50
J. E. Durkee, use of bull, 10 00
H. T. Clark, 1 sled, 13 89
Extra help, 121 87
A. Risso, use of bull, 1 00
Moses Reed, seed potatoes, 1 60
M. Thompson, repairing wringer and ex- press, 1 30
M. Thompson, 1 ladder and supplies, 2 80
Tuttle & Newton, groceries, 2 96
S. S. Searles, ironing sled, 26 00
Jas. Grimes, cutting 32 cords wood, 32 00
$1,911 80
29
TOWN OF ACTON.
Support Outside Poor.
Paid Westboro Insane Hospital, care F. H. Harris, $128 60
Westboro Insane Hospital, care Hattie K. Warren, 37 14
Worcester Insane Hospital, care Anna H. Parlin, 169 46
Worcester Insane Hospital, care James A. McLane,
169 46
Worcester Insane Asylum, care of Clara Wheeler, 169 46
Abbie Fiske, care Susan Fiske, 75 00
Dr. F. J. Barker, attendance Susan Fiske, 50 75
Massachusetts General Hospital, care E. P.
Hunt,
11 00
Dr. F. E. Tasker, attendance George T. Knowlton, 197 80
Dr. F. E. Tasker, attendance James Lynch, 5 00
F. L. Whitcomb, care 4 77 66
Dr. F. J. Barker, attendance E. P. Hunt, 4 00
J. E. Richardson, care Hattie K. Warren, 6 00
City of Boston, care Clara Whitney, 21 00
$1,049 44
Repairs Town Buildings and Grounds.
Paid Geo. W. Daniels, repairing Town Hall heater, 75
N. H. Tenney, repairing Town Hall heater, 4 50
E. A. Phalen, 7 25
Thomas Scanlon, repairs West School house and grounds, 23 43
Asaph Parlin, repairs Center School house and grounds, 37 98
G. C. Turner, repairs South School house and grounds, 14 75
J. E. Rice, repairs Town Hall,
2 94
W. S. Kelley, painting Center School house, 267 00
30
ANNUAL REPORTS
Paid E. A. Phalen, lumber and labor, Center School house, $82 60
E. A. Phalen, lock Town Hall cellar, 2 30
E. A. Phalen, repairing Center School house, 5 36
66 West 2 50
Keith Plumbing Co., repairs Center School furnace, 113 23
Keith Plumbing Co., repairs Center School furnace, 22 50
Keith Plumbing Co., repairs South School furnace, 2 50
Keith Plumbing Co., repairs West School furnace, 9 60
Keith Plumbing Co., repairs Memorial Li- brary furnace, 40 75
Keith Plumbing Co., repairs Memorial Li- brary furnace, 32 30
Chandler Desk Works, new desks and re- pairing, 60 00
Wadsworth & Howland, paint stock, 66 11
Thomas Mccarthy, stone water spouts, Town Hall, 10 40
Fred W. Gray, painting Town Hall, 128 00
Tuttle & Newton, paint stock, Town Hall, 71 35
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co., lumber Center school house, 22 19
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co., storm
windows, Center School house, 28 25
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co., storm windows, West School house, 13 50
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co., 37 ft.
boards, South Grammar School house, 1 15
South Acton Coal and Lumber Co., lum- ber, South School house, 4 30
C. J. Williams, repairs school furniture, 25
Wm. Kinsley, labor on West School house grounds, 81 08
F. E. Harris, repairs on West School house, 14 55
31
TOWN OF ACTON.
Paid Sam Jones, repairs on South School house, $4 20 S. H. Taylor, labor on common and monu- ment grounds, 14 80
S. H. Taylor, labor on lawn and cellar, Li- brary grounds, 7 50
M. A. Reed, teaming sand and cleaning vault, 2 75
M. E. Taylor & Co., repairs Center School, 5 95
N. H. Tenney, repairs Town Hall, 23 75
J. L. Hammett & Co., repairs West Acton School desks, 2 00
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$1,234 32
Cemetery Expenses.
Paid S. Hammond Taylor, labor, Woodlawn, $11 28
N. G. Brown,
66 75
Julian Tuttle, 66 66 85 37
66 plants, 66
4 12
Asaph Parlin, labor,
38 83
Keith Plumbing Co., labor and stock, Wood-
lawn, 5 35
Fred W. Green, labor, Mt. Hope, 30 00
A. H. Perkins,
31 77
H. T. Clark,
54 04
Shady Hill Nursery, plants, etc., Mt. Hope, 102 00
Albert Batley, plants, Mt. Hope,
8 54
N. G. Brown, labor, North, 1 00
Julian Tuttle, «
1 00
Asaph Parlin,
1 50
H. F. Tuttle, care lots,
124 17
H. T. Clark, “
24 35
$590 07
Appropriated, Interest on Cemetery funds,
$500 00
83 90
$583 90 -
32
ANNUAL REPORTS
Street Lighting.
Paid Fred W. Green, care of lamps,
$192 00
W. H. Kingman, «
26 70
Ralph L. Hastings, care of lamps,
53 40
H. V. Simonds,
53 40
Karl Jones,
26 70
Harold L. Phalen, 66
80 00
M. G. Hayes,
65 00
Globe Gas Light Co., supplies,
30 35
Tuttle & Newton,
143 08
Est. H. A. Littlefield,
46 20
M. E. Taylor & Co.,
Centre,
35 30
66 66
East, 32 94
Harold Phalen, repairs,
1 25
W. H. Kingman,
1 20
Fred Green,
1 90
D. C. Harris, maintaining 1 Lamp,
4 00
John D. Moulton, “
4 00
Sidney L. Richardson,
66
4 00
S. A. Christie,
66
4 00
Abel Farrar,
4 00
Lyman C. Taylor,
4 00
Chas. Wheeler, 66
4 00
H. W. B. Proctor,
4 00
I. F. Durear,
66
4 00
M. Tobin,
4 00
Appropriated, $800 00
Fire Department.
Paid Geo. E. Greenough, use of horses, 1902, $2 00
C. W. Leach, care of South house and en- gine, 22 26
Tuttle & Newton, supplies, 13 88
C. Callihan & Co., 1 nozzle and supplies, 8 25
Fellows & Co., 1 extension and 3 small lad- ders, 59 35
$829 42
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CHEMICAL
HOSE 1.
HOSE Z. H. L.T.
HOLTON D
FIRE DEPARTMENT BUILDING, WEST ACTON Built in 1903
-
TOWN OF ACTON. 33
Paid F. W. Green, labor at Redfern, barn for
chemical, $1 50
E. Jones, lamp and duster, 4 25
Jas. Devane, repairing and painting chemi- cal, 9 50
W. E. Hayward, straps for ladders, 1 00
S. A. Neil, soda for chemicals, 2 24
So. Acton Woolen Co., acid for chemicals, 3 44
J. P. Brown, repairs, 1 65
D. N. Hall, chemical supplies, 3 60
E. C. Parker & Co., 1,760 lbs. coal, 6 33
E. F. Conant, 1 cord wood, 4 50
West Acton Co., allowance of $2.25 per week to March 12, 31 50
South Acton Co., allowance of $2.25 per week to March 12, 32 63
Fred W. Green, attending fires and team- ing, 2 25
$210 13
Fire Department Special Appropriation.
Paid Wm. H. Kinsley, foundation for West Acton house, 52 08
E. B. Hastings, 4 copies specifications West house, 1 00
John S. Hoar, changing specifications West house, 1 00
John S. Hoar, West Acton house per con- tract, 1,313 00
John S. Hoar, Frost proof room for chemi- cal, 61 41
John S. Hoar, extra for shed, closet, etc., 88 63
Wm. H. Kinsley, moving old West house to No. Acton, 33 00
So. Acton Coal & Lumber Co., for West house, 9 40
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Paid D. H. Hall, allowance for furnishing West house, $ 50 25
Wm. Kinsley, grading,
38 90
$1,648 67
Appropriated, $1,200 00
Unexpended balance, 405 80
$1,605 80
Roads and Bridges.
Paid Good Roads Machine Co., supplies, labor and repairs, 81 70
F. J. Hastings & Co., supplies, 19 45
T. F. Parker, supplies, 13 00
So. Acton Coal & Lumber Co., supplies, 38 23
Tuttle & Newton, gasoline and supplies, 155 68
W. A. Haynes Co., 1 scraper, 7 25
J. P. Brown, blacksmith work, 20 23
S. S. Searles,
66
6 50
S. A. Guilford, 66
5 25
Thomas Mccarthy, stone for highway,
22 70
N. H. Tenney, labor and stock, "crusher 1902," 6 27
F. W. Hoit, telephones, 1 00
Francis Jones, labor and glass,
3 50
Town of Concord, use of watering cart, 10 00
American Powder Mills, powder, dynamite, etc., 25 60
4 50
Wm. Kinsley, road commissioner, 1,433 66
Anson C. Piper,
1,606 53
Albert H. Perkins,
1,576 51
$5,037 56
Received from Good Roads Machine Co.,
for expense of getting Maynard sprinkler, $ 5 00 Road Commissioners, crushed rock, etc., 77 15
Appropriation, regular, 4,000 00
66 River St. repairs, 500 00
Hennessey road, 300 00
$4,882 15
D. C. Harris, stone,
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Watering Cart.
Paid Good Roads Machine Co., cart
$334 65
J. P. Brown, labor on cart,
2 85
,
$337 50
$150 00
Appropriated, and unexpended balance,
254 56
$404 56
Enforcement Liquor Laws.
Paid L. E. Reed, special work,
$10 00
10 00
Appropriated,
$500 00
Received from Court fines,
98 51
$598 51
Snow Bills or Breaking Out Roads.
Paid Thos. McCarthy, 1902,
$10 17
Wm. Kinsley,
40 80
A. H. Perkins,
167 50
Lester Fletcher,
29 77
A. C. Piper,
76 08
A. Christefferson,
45 85
Chas. Edwards,
30 60
WV. A. Flint,
29 40
$430 17
Rents.
Paid Boston & Maine R. R., rent of land, West
Acton,
$ 1 00
A. L. Noyes, storing school supplies, 10 00
Mrs. Ella Hosmer, use Central Hall, 5 00
66 for
school, 125 00
Universalist Society, use of Vestry, for elec- tion, 3 00
$144 00
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Loans and Interest.
Paid Elnathan Jones, interest on note for $2,000.00 to May 17th, 1903, $80 00 F. C. Hayward, interest on $500.00 ceme- tery fund, 17 50
J. K. W. Wetherbee, money borrowed in anticipation of taxes, 1,500 00
J. K. W. Wetherbee, interest for 5 mos., 25 00
$1,622 50
Board of Health.
Paid Julian Tuttle, agent, $ 3 75
Wm. Kinsley, labor on public dump, 6 00
Moses A. Reed, agent,
132 64
F. H. Willard, supplies,
2 80
Est. F. H. Whitcomb, inspector meats, 5 00
Moses A. Reed,
5 70
$155 89
Peace Celebration, April 20th.
Paid Acton Cadet Band, $50 00
A. L. Noyes, dinners for guests and band, 30 50
G. W. Worcester, carriages, . 9 00
F. W. Hoit, expense of badges and flags, 6 15
A. Hosmer, programmes and tickets,
2 50
$98 15
Appropriated,
$100 00
Memorial Library Books.
Paid W. B. Clark & Co., $448 28
W. A. Wilde Co.,
8 34
National subscription agency,
39 35
Wm. D. Tuttle, periodicals,
5 99
$501 96
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TOWN OF ACTON.
Memorial Library Expenses.
Paid D. J. Wetherbee, insurance, $85 00
66 8,050 lbs. coal, 28 96
D. O. D. Wood, janitor, 41 50
So. Acton Coal & Lumber Co., coal,
31 45
Massachusetts Reformatory, cards, 4 00
300 catalogues, 40 00
Arthur F. Davis, librarian, 102 00
extra cataloguing, etc., 10 00
Chas. S. Twitchell, carrying books, 52 00
Library Bureau, Index cards, 2 00
S. H. Taylor, janitor, 50 00
express,
25
G. H. Brooks, wood, 3 50
Page and Baker, 1 table,
3 00
J. R. Wales, binding,
52 40
A. Hosmer, printing, 1 55
$507 61
Printing.
Paid E. F. Worcester Press, 25 Town warrants, $ 2 75
" 750 Town reports,
" 50 School " 108 90
J. L. Hammett & Co., 26 School certificates,
6 00
Enterprise Pub. Co., pub. petition for over- head bridge hearing,
7 88
A. Hosmer, printing for Town Clerk, 3 90
Notices and Folders, 3 25
66 Printing for School Committee, 1 75
66 66 Town orders,
2 50
66 Printing envelopes,
75
66
66 for Overseers Poor, 2 15
H. S. Turner, Notices for street lamps, 66 Printing, School Committee, 1 50
1 25
News Pub. Co., Bicycle notices, 3 00
66 Board of Health notices, 2 50
E. F. Worcester Press, 25 Town warrants, 2 75
66 25 Poll tax lists, 11 50
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Paid News Pub. Co., 600 copies Electric Road
Franchises, $10 00
News Pub. Co., 25 cloth signs, 2 50
$174 83
Salaries Town Officers.
Paid Chas. J. Williams, School Committee, $84 10
Horace F. Tuttle, 66 66 15 00
H. E. Richardson, School Superintendent, 480 00
E. Faulkner Conant, Assessor, 85 00
C. B. Robbins, Assessor, 55 00
Wm. F. Kelley, 55 00
66 Overseers Poor, 25 00
F. A. Knowlton, 66
50 00
I. W. Flagg, 66 " " 1902 " 20 00
66 20 00
Edwin A. Phalen, Selectman, 100 00
N. A. Littlefield " Estate " Selectman, 25 00
Frank W. Hoit, 75 00
J. R. W. Wetherbee, Treasurer, 100 00
D. J. Wetherbee, Collector Taxes, 1902, 175 00°
66
66
1% on
$16,199.00 161 99
D. J. Wetherbee, taking school census, 15 00
Horace F. Tuttle, Town Clerk, 30 00
66
Registrar
Voters, 15 00
David T. Kinsley, Registrar Voters, 12 00
Samuel A. Guilford, 66
12 00
Jas. McGreen, 66 12 00
H. E. Clough, Sealer Weights & Measures, 6 00
Moses Reed, Inspector Animals, 66 30
Deputy Tree Warden 7 70
66 Truant Officer, 1 75
Geo. C. Turner, " 2 25
L. E. Reed, Constable, 13 50
Wm. Kinsley, Special Police duty, 2 50
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TOWN OF ACTON.
Moses Reed, Special Police duty,
$2 50
Jas. Kinsley, 66 66
2 50
A. S. Bradley, 66 2 50
Nelson J. Cole, Election Officer,
2 50
T. F. Newton, 66 66
2 50
Abram Tuttle,
2 50
H. J. Hapgood, 66
2 50
D. H. Hall,
66
2 50
Wm. F. Kelley, 66
2 50
Jas. Kinsley,
2 50
C. B. Stone, 66
2 50
Lyman C. Taylor,
2 50
N. C. Reed,
66
2 50
Aaron Foster, 66
66
2 50
Horace F. Tuttle, «
66
2 50
-
$1,759 59
Miscellaneous.
Paid A. L. Noyes, entertainment County Com- missioners, $12 00
D. J. Wetherbee, stationery, postage, etc., 1902, 9 22
Geo. W. Worster, teams for County Com- missioners, 2 50
B. T. Maxim, entertainment Bridge Com- missioners, 15 75
C. W. H. Moulton, ladder for Tree Warden, 14 00 Isaac Davis Post, Memorial Day, 100 00
C. J. Williams, postage, telephone, etc., " schools," 9 62
Acton Cadet Band, band concerts, 100 00
H. E. Richardson, car fare, postage, tele- phone, etc., " schools," 22 02
Tuttle & Newton, settees for Common, 19 00
D. C. Harris, boundary posts, per order County Commissioners, 48 00
Wm. Kinsley, setting boundary posts, per
order County Commissioners, 54 52
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Paid Arthur Wayne, janitor Town Hall, care clock, trough, etc., $45 25
E. F. Conant, postage, telephones, etc., 4 26
I. F. Duren, flowers for funeral of H. A. Littlefield, 6 00
C. W. H. Moulton, step ladder, " schools," 4 00
Frank A. Bennett, use of hack for small- pox patients, 1902, 25 00
J. L. Hammett & Co., school furniture, 9 16
J. L. Hammett & Co., sand tables, "schools," 30 00 Robert S. Robson, repairing ballot box, 10 00
George H. Decoster, cleaning clock, 1 25
E. Jones, Assessors' books, 3 75
E. Jones, Collector's books, 2 50
E. Jones, table and chair, " schools," 7 00
Little, Brown & Co., 1 book, 4 00
J. K. W. Wetherbee, carpenters insurance policy on West engine house, 7 56
D. J. Wetherbee, abatement taxes, 1902, 235 08 Thos. Scanlon, care school house for meet- ings, 4 62
D. J. Wetherbee, stationery, postage, etc., 14 51
F. H. Kendall, civil engineer for south grade crossing matter, 100 00
Parker & Bateman, civil engineer for north grade crossing matter, 20 45
O. A. Knowlton, postage, telephones, etc., 9 72
A. H. Perkins, trimming trees on State road, 3 00
Jas. Kinsley, use of Hurley road, 8 00
M. E. Taylor & Co., supplies for Town Hall, 7 90
W. F. Kelley, postage, 25
I. F. Duren, 2 burials, 6 00
I. F. Duren, 25 returns of death, 6 25
Jas. L. Adams, 1 stove for engine house, 8 25
J. E. Rice, funnell and labor, engine house, 9 74 George E. Greenough, 1 cord wood, Town Hall, 3 00
J. K. W. Wetherbee, postage, stationery, etc., 12 52
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