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ART. 3. To choose Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, and Pound Keeper.
ART. 4. To see if the town will accept the reports of the several town officers for the past year.
ART. 5. To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To see what action the town will take in relation to hiring money for any purpose.
ART. 7. To determine in what manner the taxes shall be collected for the ensuing year, also determine what percentage shall be allowed the Collector for the ensuing year.
ART. 8. To see if the town will authorize the Collector to use all such
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means in the collection of taxes as the Treasurer might if elected to that office.
ART. 9. To see if the town will accept the list of jurors as prepared by the Selectmen, and posted according to law.
ART. IO. To see what compensation the town will allow the members of the Fire Department for the ensuing year.
ART. II. To see how much per hour the town will allow for work on the highways for the ensuing year, or do or act anything relating thereto.
ART. 12. To see if the town will employ a night watchman for the en- suing year, grant and appropriate money for the same, or do or act any- thing relating thereto.
ART. 13. To see if the town will provide one additional electric light on South Street or do or act anything relating thereto.
ART. 14. To see if the town will provide electric lights on High Street, or do or act anything relating thereto.
ART. 15. To see if the town will appropriate money for the mainte- nance of existing street lights for the ensuing year and for such sums of money as may be necessary to provide any additional lights.
ART. 16. To see if the town will put in a better system of heating the almshouse, grant and appropriate money therefor, or do or act anything relating thereto.
ART. 17. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer to take from the funds now in the treasury the sum of five hundred dollars, said sum to be deposited in some institution of savings, approved by the Selectmen to the credit of the Cemetery Trust Fund, or do or act anything relating thereto. .
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting warrants in said Medfield, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this sixteenth day of February, A.D. nineteen hundred and six.
EDWARD M. BENT, Selectmen NATHAN F. HARDING, of
ROBERT W. BAKER, Medfield.
10
257th ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS OF MEDFIELD For the Year ending January 31, 1908.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS
2
TREASURER'S REPORT
4
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
19
ANNUAL MEETING
26
SPECIAL MEETING
3I
NOVEMBER ELECTION
32
REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR
36
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR
40
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS
45
REPORT OF ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
5I
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
52
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
54
REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
55
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
56
FINANCIAL REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
57
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
64
SCHOOL STATISTICS .
68
REPORT OF MOTH SUPERINTENDENT
70
REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE
72
STATEMENT OF THE MEDFIELD WATER COMPANY
74
WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING
75
LIST OF JURORS .
78
BOSTON GEO. H. ELLIS CO., 272 CONGRESS STREET 1908
REPORT OF SELECTMEN
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1907.
Moderator. J. HERBERT BAKER. Town Clerk. STILLMAN J. SPEAR. Selectmen.
ROBERT W. BAKER. EDWARD M. BENT. GEORGE L. L. ALLEN.
WILLIAM F. ABELL.
FRANCIS D. HAMANT. ALLAN A. KINGSBURY.
Treasurer. STILLMAN J. SPEAR.
Collector. WILLIAM F. ABELL.
School Committee.
C. H. WILLIAMS
Term expires 1908
WALDO A. FITTS .
1909
LEWIS K. CONANT
1910
Overseers of the Poor.
GEORGE W. KINGSBURY. MICHAEL E. GRIFFIN. JONATHAN G. WIGHT.
Trustees of Public Library.
STILLMAN J. SPEAR
Term expires 1909
WILLIAM H. BAILEY .
1910
HERBERT L. MITCHELL .
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J, HERBERT BAKER . GEORGE WASHBURN .
66
1908
ISAAC B. CODDING
66
1909
Board of Health.
Term expires 1910
EDWIN B. SNOW .
66
1909
RICHARD C. LINCOLN
1908
Constables.
DAVID MEANY. ALBION C. GILBERT. GEORGE H. MURRAY. CHARLES C. WRIGHT. ELMER WILSON.
Cemetery Commissioners.
ALONZO B. PARKER
Term expires 1908
ISAAC B. CODDING
1909
EDWIN V. MITCHELL
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66
1908
F. H. CLOUGH
Assessors.
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Sexton. ALONZO B. PARKER. Auditor. THOMAS E. SCHOOLS. Pound Keeper. FRANK L. TRAVERS. Tree Warden. GEORGE W. KINGSBURY. Field Drivers.
GEORGE S. CHENEY. ISAAC PEDERSON. PATRICK HEGARTY.
Fence Viewers.
GEORGE W. KINGSBURY. FRANCIS D. HAMANT. ISAAC B. CODDING.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE SELECTMEN.
Engineers of Fire Department.
WALDO E. KINGSBURY. J. ALLEN COLE.
FRED LAVERTY.
Registrars of Voters.
WILLIAM CRANE .
Term expires 1909
ALANSON H. CLARK .
66 1908
JOSEPH M. JOHNSON
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STILLMAN J. SPEAR, Clerk, ex officio.
Superintendent of Streets. GEORGE W. KINGSBURY.
Inspector of Animals. GEORGE S. CHENEY. Burial Agent. N. FRANK HARDING.
Night Watch and Keeper of Lockup. ALBION C. GILBERT. Sealer of Weights and Measures and Measurer of Wood and Bark. JOHN H. PEMBER. Public Weighers.
THOMAS E. SCHOOLS. WILLIAM F. WEIKER.
Superintendent of Moth Work. GEORGE L. L. ALLEN. Forest Fire Warden. WALDO E. KINGSBURY.
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STILLMAN J. SPEAR, Treasurer, IN ACCOUNT WITH THE
DR.
To cash in Treasury Feb. 1, 1907 .
$10,509.38
William F. Abell, on taxes of 1904
$63.68
William F. Abell, on taxes of 1905
362.89
William F. Abell, on taxes of 1906
1,522.92
William F. Abell, on taxes of 1907
18,078.80
William F. Abell, on sewer tax
35.00
20,063.29
State Treasurer, for corporation tax
$2,961.97
State Treasurer, for National Bank tax
595.96
State Treasurer, for Superintendent of Schools
500.00
State Treasurer, on account of high school
500.00
State Treasurer, tuition of scholars
63.50
State Treasurer, inspection of animals
50.00
State Treasurer, State Aid
304.00
State Treasurer, burial of soldier
35.00
State Treasurer, contagious diseases
IOO.OI
State Treasurer, income of Massachusetts State School Fund .
1,079.99
State Treasurer, on account of Main Street .
I,040.00
7,230.43
City of Boston, on account of schools
$38.00
Town of Dover, tuition of scholars
54.00
County Treasurer, on account of dog licenses
257.19
Clerk of Courts, fines in criminal cases .
195.00
N. Y., N. H, & H. R.R. Co., for grading near depot .
50.00
Fireworks licenses
1.00
Billiard licenses .
2.00
Butchers' licenses
3,00
Express licenses .
2.00
Overseers, for sales from Town Farm
1, 709.50
2,311.69
Dedham Savings Bank, interest on trust funds
$35.94
Town of Dover, for assistance at fire
56.50
Estate of Mary C. Johnson, for care of lot in Cemetery
100.00
A. Mitchell, for changes in driveway
3.39
School Committee, for sale of old junk .
1.00
Moth Commission, for sale of old burlap
.25
Sale of old junk from Town House
.40
197.48
Rent of Post-office
$264.00 .
Rent of Town Hall
131.00
Boys' Club, for broken glass in Town House
3.75
Interest on Chickering note
7.00
Interest on bank deposits
I30.53
Cemetery Commissioners, for sale of lots
I13.00
Cemetery Commissioners, for cash received for care of lots
I14.00
Cemetery Commissioners, unexpended balance
2.62
765.90
$41,078.17
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TOWN OF MEDFIELD, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JAN. 31, 1908.
CR.
Paid for teaching
$4,912.86
Out-of-town tuition
69.00
Superintendent of Schools
626.00
Supplies and repairs .
2,256.01
Transportation of scholars
266.50
$8,130.37
Support of poor in Almshouse .
$3,001.52
Support of poor out of Almshouse
384.75
3.386.27
Town House
$415.37
Library
555.05
Fire Department
1,318.02
Town officers
1,692.77
General expenses
657.04
Cemetery
843-53
Night watch
782.13
6,263.91
Highways
$2,5II.II
Bridges .
61.34
Sidewalks
496.59
Removing snow
237.23
Tree Warden
16.80
Street lights .
2,321.18
Sewers
35,65
5,679.90
State tax
$2,000.00
County tax .
1,167.74
Walpole tax .
2.54
Millis tax
6.44
3,176.72
Notes
$866.66
Interest
166.65
Insurance
357.42
1,390.73
State Aid
$412.00
Memorial Day
100.00
Board of Health
26.35
Military Aid
78.00
Cemetery Funds deposited in Dedham Savings Bank
500.00
Suppression of crime .
13.65
Stone for "Pilgrim " monument
40.00
Heater for Almshouse
511.00
On account of gypsy moth
158.71
On account of Main Street
2,315.87
4,155.58
Cash in treasury Jan. 31, 1908
$3,894.69
Billings Trust Fund .
5,000.00
8,894.69
$41,078.17
$32,183.48
Examined and found correct.
T. E. SCHOOLS, Auditor.
SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
SCHOOLS.
Paid teachers and Superintendents of Schools, $5,538.86
Out-of-town tuition 69.00
Transportation 266.50
Repairs and supplies
2,256.01
$8,130.37
Received appropriation for schools
$6,000.00
Appropriation for repairs 300.00
State Treasurer for Superintendent of Schools 500.00
State Treasurer for high school .
500.00
State Treasurer for tuition
63.50
Income Massachusetts State School Fund
1,079.99
Interest on Town School Fund .
141.60
Town of Dover, for tuition of chil-
dren 54.00
City of Boston, for tuition of chil- dren
38.00
Interest on Chickering note
7.00
Sale of old material .
I.00
Balance unexpended last year
168.87
8,853.96
Balance unexpended .
$723.59
LIBRARY.
Paid sundries, as per Trustees' Report
$555.05
Received, dog tax
$257.19
Interest on Library Funds
211.00
468.19
Balance due town from Library Fund last report
14.12
Balance due from Library Fund
$100.98
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CEMETERY.
Paid Cemetery Commissioners as per their
report
$843.53
Received, appropriation
$600.00
Interest on Trust Funds .
78.94
Balance on hand last report
2.62
Care of lots
I14.00
795.56
Exceeded .
$47.97
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Paid members of Engine Company $688.50
Members of Hook and Ladder Company 357.25
W. S. Blake, care of engine and room 25.75
J. R. Miller, care of hook-and-ladder truck and room 39.00
W. Harwood, team to fires
90.00
W. J. Cox, team to fires
35.00
F. Weiker, team to fire
5.00
R. E. Sherman, team to fire 5.00
E. M. Bent, coal and wood 12.05
W. E. Kingsbury, supplies . 7.00
Henry E. Wright, supplies 16.25
D. L. Stain, supplies
3.00
H. Kimball, repairs on engine
1.50
E. F. Rhodes, supplies I.00
Samuel Morse, supplies
6.50
Badger Company, supplies
2.40
R. W. Baker, supplies
2.00
E. J. Keyou, supplies
10.20
Boston Branch, supplies
7.37
W. A. Fitts, supplies
3.25
$1,318.02
Appropriation for Fire Department
$1,200.00
Received from town of Dover .
56.50
1,256.50
Exceeded
$61.52
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TOWN HOUSE.
Paid George G. Babcock, repairs $15.85
Medfield Water Company, water for Post-office 10.00
J. C. Jenot, repairing roof 12.00
H. Kimball, repairs .
1.25
A. E. Read, repairs .
1.60
J. A. Simmons, labor on walk and drain 4.10
T. F. Donlan, labor and supplies walk and drain, 41.13
T. E. Schools, supplies 13.57
N. F. Harding & Co., repairs 5.72
E. M. Bent, coal and wood 42.83
George E. Pettis, services as janitor 150.00
George E. Pettis, cleaning vaults 1.00
Electric lighting II6.32
$415.37
Received, rent of Post-office $264.00
Rent of Town Hall
131.00
Broken glass . 3.75
Old junk
.40
$399.15
TOWN OFFICERS.
Paid R. W. Baker, services as Selectman $100.00
E. M. Bent, services as Selectman 100.00
G. L. L. Allen, services as Selectman 100.00
W. F. Abell, services as Assessor 100.00
F. D. Hamant, services as Assessor . 100.00
A. A. Kingsbury, services as Assessor 100.00
S. J. Spear, services as Town Clerk 150.00
S. J. Spear, services as Treasurer and Bond 140.00
G. W. Kingsbury, services as Overseer of Poor 50.00
M. E. Griffin, services as Overseer of Poor 50.00
J. G. Wight, services as Overseer of Poor
25.00
J. H. Baker, services as Moderator 25.00
T. E. Schools, services as Auditor 25.00
W. E. Kingsbury, services as Engineer 25.00
J. A. Cole, services as Engineer 25.00
R. E. Conrick, services as Engineer 25.00
Carried forward
$1,140.00
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Brought forward . $1,140.00
Paid S. J. Spear, services as Registrar 6.00
William Crane, services as Registrar 6.00
A. H. Clark, services as Registrar 6.00
J. M. Johnson, services as Registrar 6.00
C. H. Williams, services as School Committee 35.00
W. A. Fitts, services as School Committee 35.00
L. K. Conant, services as School Committee . 35.00
George S. Cheney, services as Inspector of Animals, 100.00
J. H. Pember, services as Ballot Clerk 4.00
I. B. Codding, services as Ballot Clerk 4.00
J. W. Coltman, services as Ballot Clerk . 4.00
A. E. Cutler, services as Ballot Clerk 2.00
J. M. Richardson, services as Ballot Clerk 2.00
E. H. Abell, services as Teller 4.00
R. L. Mann, services as Teller 4.00
George G. Babcock, services as Teller 4.00
J. M. Johnson, services as Teller . 4.00
F. E. Wilson, services as Special Police 4.00
C. C. Wright, services as Special Police 4.00
Alex. McLean, services as Special Police 4.00
H. S. Pember, services as Special Police 4.00
John R. Miller, services as Special Police 4.00
F. H. Weiker, services as Special Police 4.00
J. A. Cole, services as Constable and expenses 1.80
C. Brooks, services as Truant Officer . 1.50
I. B. Codding, services as Fence Viewer 2.00
Services Fence Viewers at Town Farm 4.00
D. Meany, services as Night Watch 15.00
D. Meany, services as Constable and Police I2.00
G. H. Murray, services as Constable and Police 20.00
W. F. Abell, on taxes collected to Jan. 31, 1908 210.47
$1,692.77
Appropriation 1,755.00
Unexpended $62.23
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GENERAL EXPENSES.
Paid James Ord, supplies for lockup $0.40
Library Bureau Index cases for Town Clerk 4.00
Geo. H. Ellis Co., printing Town Reports I73.34
George E. Pettis, cleaning lockup 2.00
Geo. H. Ellis Co., Order Books for Selectmen 13.12
W. F. Abell, supplies for Assessors 3.50
A. A. Kingsbury, supplies for Assessors
T. R. Bailey, maintaining water-trough 3.80
5.00
E. C. Crocker, blankets for lockup 3.00
G. W. Kingsbury, cash paid for snow-plough 57.68
C. F. Read, express for Town Officers 4.55
J. H. Pember, sealing and testing measures 36.85
W. F. Abell, care of town clock and repairs 25.85
A. B. Parker, returning 84 deaths 21.00
W. F. Abell, ringing bell for fires 1.75
H. Kimball, repairing pump 4.15
J. A. Cole, court fees 13.72
A. C. Gilbert, court fees . 23.20
Charles Brooks, court fees 10.55
G. H. Murray, court fees 33.85
David Meany, court fees 33.40
Charles Wright, court fees 12.98
W. E. Rhodes, court fees 6.00
E. M. Bent, coal and carting ashes 5.75
W. A. Fitts, supplies for lockup 3.65
Postage and supplies for Selectmen I6.20
Boston Branch, teams for Selectmen and Constables,
S. J. Spear, printing for Town Officers 13.00
S. J. Spear, printing for Annual Meeting 14.75
30.00
S. J. Spear, services as Justice of the Peace 4.25
S. J. Spear, recording vital statistics 35.70
S. J. Spear, returning deaths to other towns 17.75
S. J. Spear, postage, travel, stationery, and expense, 14.30
E. F. Rhodes, dinners for Election Officers 12.00
$657.00
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MOTH WORK.
Paid postage $5.00
Sundries as per Report of Superintendent of Moth Work
I53.7I
$158.71
$815.75
Appropriation for General Expenses includ-
ing Moth Work
1,300.00
Balance unexpended
$484.25
HIGHWAYS.
Paid to order of G. W. Kingsbury
$2,5II.II
Appropriation . 2,500.00
Exceeded
$II.II
MAIN STREET.
Paid freight on grates $I.OI
Barbour, Stockwell & Co. for grates
42.00
J. A. Gaffey, amount of contract 2,147.58
J. A. Gaffey, labor on railroad yard and highway, E. M. Bent, cement
3.00
N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., broken stone 36.94
J. E. Lonergan & Co., hauling stone 14.00
Advertising for bids . 7.98
$2,315.87
Appropriation . $1,500.00
Received, from State .
1,040.00
N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R.
50.00
Dr. A. Mitchell, on driveway 3.39
2,593.39
Balance unexpended
$277.52
BRIDGES.
Paid to order of G. W. Kingsbury
$61.34
Appropriation . 200.00
Balance unexpended
$138.66
63.36
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SIDEWALKS AND CROSSWALKS.
Paid J. A. Moore, repairing concrete
$302.85
G. W. Kingsbury 193.74
$496.59
Appropriation .
500.00
Balance unexpended
$3.4I
REMOVING SNOW.
Paid to order of G. W. Kingsbury
$237.23
Appropriation . 400.00
Balance unexpended
$162.77
SEWERS.
Paid to order of G. W. Kingsbury
$35.65
Appropriation .
50.00
Balance unexpended
$14.35
TREE WARDEN.
Paid G. W. Kingsbury
$16.80
Appropriation .
100.00
Balance unexpended
$83.20
STREET LIGHTS.
Paid Edison Electric Illuminating Company $2,321.18
Appropriation . 2,500.00
Balance unexpended
$178.82
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS.
Kavanaugh Brothers Company, appropriation for stone for Pilgrim Monument $40.00
Moses Ellis Post No. 117 G. A. R., appropriation for Memorial Day 100.00
Cemetery Trust Funds deposited in Dedham Institution for Savings 500.00
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SUPPORT OF POOR.
Paid for Almshouse sundries, as per Overseers' Report $3,001.52
For outside poor 384.75
F. A. Taylor, for heater for Almshouse 511.00
$3,897.27
NOTES.
Paid E. V. Mitchell, North and Cottage Street loan $200.00
Harwood Brothers, town vault loan 300.00
Harwood Brothers, Pleasant Street sewer loan 200.00
Medway Savings Bank, Brook Street loan I66.66
$866.66
Appropriation .
900.00
Balance unexpended $33.34
INTEREST.
Paid Harwood Brothers
$96.00
E. V. Mitchell
44.00
Medway Savings Bank
26.65
$166.65
Appropriation .
200.00
Balance unexpended
$33.35
INSURANCE.
Paid R. L. Mann, on road-scraper, etc. $8.26
R. L. Mann, on Centre School-house 244.13
R. L. Mann, on North School-house 26.40
A. H. Bartlett, on weights and measures
12.03
A. H. Bartlett, on Centre School 66.60
$357.42
Appropriation .
450.00
Balance unexpended
$92.58
TAXES.
Paid State tax
$2,000.00
County tax
1,167.74
Millis tax
6.44
Walpole tax
2.54
$3,176.72
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STATE AID.
Amount paid for State Aid . $412.00
SOLDIERS' RELIEF.
Paid town of Westminster, for Mrs. E. B. Snow
$78.00
NIGHT WATCH.
Paid Albion C. Gilbert . $782.13
Appropriation .
780.00
Exceeded .
$2.13
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Paid E. J. Keyou, supplies
$15.25
Labor .
9.00
Express
2.10
$26.35
Appropriation .
100.00
Balance unexpended
$73.65
SUPPRESSION OF CRIME.
Paid expense on liquor case
$2.25
G. H. Murray, services on liquor case 3.40
G. P. Holbrook, legal services
8.00
$13.65
Appropriation .
200.00
Balance unexpended .
$186.35
TRUST FUNDS.
LOANED TO THE TOWN.
Town School Fund
$3,540.00
Individual Funds :-
Robert Charles Billings, for Library $5,000.00
George Cummings, for Library
1,000.00
George M. Smith, for Library
500.00
6,500.00
Nancy H. Curtis, for Cemetery
$50.00
Mary M. Phelps, for Cemetery
50.00
Eliza E. Williams, for Cemetery
475.00
575.00
Carried forward
$10,615.00
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Brought forward .
$10,615.00
DEPOSITED IN DEDHAM SAVINGS BANK.
George H. Shumway, for Cemetery
$200.00
Martha M. Mason, for Cemetery 100.00
Jeremiah B. Hale, for Cemetery 100.00
Walter Janes, for Cemetery
50.00
James Griffin, for Cemetery
50.00
Grant Newell lot in Cemetery
100.00
Langley lot in Cemetery 200.00
George F. Miller lot in Cemetery 50.00
George M. Smith lot in Cemetery 100.00
Mary T. Derby lot in Cemetery 100.00
Mary F. Ellis lot in Cemetery 100.00
Moses Ellis lot in Cemetery 200.00
Breck lot in Cemetery
100.00
George C. Davis lot in Cemetery
100.00
1,550.00
$12,165.00
LIABILITIES.
Harwood Brothers, construction of town vault, I note . $300.00
Harwood Brothers, Pleasant Street sewer, 7 notes of $200 each
1,400.00
900.00
E. V. Mitchell, North and Cottage Streets sewer, 5 notes, Medway Savings Bank, Brook Street loan, 3 notes of $166.66 each
499.98
$3,099.98
RESOURCES.
Cash in Treasury $3,894.69
Uncollected taxes of 1905
169.36
Uncollected taxes of 1906 576.29
Uncollected taxes of 1907
3,093.71
Due from Overseers of Poor, forsales from Town Farm, 82.33
State Treasurer, for State Aid
412.00
State Treasurer, for inspection of cattle
50.00
Interest on Chickering note to March 5, 1908 . 23.00
Due from W. H. Garfield, for board of Lizzie Garfield . 390.00
$8,691.38
Resources exceed liabilities
$5,591.40
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INSURANCE POLICIES.
On Town House.
Hartford Fire Insurance Co. .
July 13, 1909, $10,000.00
Aug. 14, 1909, 1,250.00
Aug. 14, 1909, 3,750.00
1,500.00
4, 1909, 2,500.00
4, 1909, 1,000.00
$20,000.00
On Centre School-house. Expires.
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co.
Apr. 18, 1908, $5,000.00
Westchester Fire Insurance Co.
Oct. 21, 1909, 1,500.00
Sept. 1, 1910, 1,300.00
Sept. 18, 1910,
1,500.00
Sept. 18, 1910, 1,500.00
Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance Co. .
Sept. 21, 1910,
1,000.00
Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. .
Sept. 21, 1910,
1,000.00
Home Fire Insurance Co.
Aug. 25, 1912,
2,500.00
Phoenix Fire Insurance Co.
Oct. 25, 1912,
1,500.00
Phoenix Fire Insurance Co.
Dec. 7, 1912, 2,500.00
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
Dec. 7, 1912,
2,500.00
$21,800.00
On North School-house. Expires.
Merchants' and Farmers' Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.
Oct. 1, 1910, $1,000.00
Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Oct. 1, 1910, 1,000.00
$2,000.00
On South School-house.
Expires.
Western Insurance Co.
Feb. 6, 1908, $1,400.00
Pawtucket Mutual Fire Insurance Co., The Buffalo German Insurance Co., Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Co. . Oct. 4, 1909, Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Oct.
Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Co .. Oct.
Expires.
Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Co. . Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Traders' and Mechanics' Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
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On Almshouse and Out-buildings. Expires.
Home Insurance Co.
June 13, 1909, $1,300.00
Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,
June 13, 1909, 1,300.00
$2,600.00
On Furniture and Farm Stock. Expires.
Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Nov. 1, 1909,
$737.50
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. . .
Dec. 12, 1909, 750.00
$1,497.50
On Weights and Measures. Expires.
Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance
Co.
Sept. 7, 1910,
$400.00
On Public Library.
Expires.
Lowell Mutual Fire Insurance Co. . Apr. 26, 1908, $1,200.00
Holyoke Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Mar. 15, 1910, 1,000.00
$2,200.00
On Hearse and Road-scraper.
Expires.
Home Insurance Co.
Mar. 24, 1908,
$650.00
APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED.
Schools and repairs $6,300.00
Highways and finishing Main Street
2,750.00
Bridges
200.00
Removing snow
400.00
Fire Department
1,500.00
General expenses
800.00
Board of Health 100.00
Support of poor at Almshouse
1,000.00
Support of poor out of Almshouse
400.00
Notes due
900.00
Interest on notes
I50.00
Interest on Trust Funds
400.00
Library, dog tax
Carried forward
$14,900.00
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Brought forward .
$14,900.00
Cemetery
600.00
Sewers .
50.00
Insurance
150.00
Sidewalks and crosswalks 500.00
Tree Warden 50.00
Town Officers
1,700.00
Moth work
300.00
$18,250.00
Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT W. BAKER,
Selectmen
EDWARD M. BENT,
GEORGE L. L. ALLEN, Medfield.
S of
Examined and found correct.
T. E. SCHOOLS, Auditor.
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
BIRTHS RECORDED IN MEDFIELD DURING THE YEAR 1907.
DATE OF BIRTH.
CHILD'S NAME.
PARENTS.
Jan. 3
Earl Maynard Chamberlain.
Henry and Mattie (Dunham).
Jan. 14
Alice May Frenier.
Frank and Katherine (Dunphy).
Jan. 15
Evelyn Maud Doucette.
Thomas J. and Maude F. (Chute).
Jan. 24
Philip Warren Kenworthy.
Thomas H. and Ruth J. (MacGregory).
Jan. 24
Beatrice Alberta Wills.
John N. and Annie B. (Munroe).
Jan. 30
Muriel Woodbine Conway.
Harry E. and Alice (Woodbine).
Mar. 2
Fred Malcom Spear.
Robert and Edna (Newman).
Mar. 2
Carolyn Dailey Hamant.
Daniels and Bessie H. (Laverty).
April 4
Josephine Banks.
Angus T. and Elvie (Russell).
April 24
Clyde Victor White.
Edwin B. and Beatrice (Campbell).
May 2
§ Charles Milton Newell
Twins.
Willard A. and Amie G. (Tupper).
May 3
Rollin Lewis Babcock.
George W. and Edith M. (Sager).
June 7
Arthur Alexander Hill.
Forest M. and Grace (Ogilvie).
June
9
Marjorie Bent.
Edward M. and Emma L. (Richards).
June 17
Catherine Agnes Kennedy.
John T. and Katherine A. (Davitt).
June 2I
Alice Carey Murray.
George H. and Aurie L. (Brown).
July 18
Alfred Perry Taylor.
Frederick A. and Hattie L. (Chickering).
July 26
George William Hinkley.
George W. and Katherine (Farley).
Aug. 25
John McIsaac.
Sept. 15
Edith Alice Hansen.
Arthur and Anna S. (Carlson).
Oct. 29
William Whiting Smith.
Bertram H. and Myrtie (Whiting).
Nov. 18
Everett Hopkins Simpson.
Thomas P. and Edith M. (Holmes).
Males, 13.
Females, 9. Total, 22.
EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 29, REV. STATUTES of 1902.
SECTION 3. Physicians and midwives shall on or before the fifth day of each month report to the clerk of each town or city a correct list of all children born during the month next preceding. . ..
SECT. 6. Parents shall within forty days after the birth of a child give notice thereof or cause such notice to be given to the clerk of the city or town in which such child is born.
Blanks can be obtained on application to the Town Clerk.
1 Gordon Everett Newell S
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN MEDFIELD DURING THE YEAR 1907.
DATE.
NAMES.
RESIDENCE.
WHERE AND BY WHOM MARRIED.
Jan. I9.
Madeleine M. Harwell,
Boston, Mass.
Feb. I.
Ellen Broad,
Medfield,
Feb. 26.
Cassie Belle Munroe,
Medfield,
Edric Augustus Coleman, Medfield,
Mar. 9.
Amy Gertrude Griffin, Medfield,
Mar. 17.
Clara Frances Pierson,
Medfield,
Mar. 20.5
Benjamin Johnstone El- kington, Elizabeth Pember New- ell, Archie L. Kingsbury, Mabelle F. Gilman, § William H. Johnston,
Cambridge, Mass.
Medfield,
Medfield,
Apr. I8.
Medfield,
Apr. 19. ) Sadie G. Currier,
Medfield,
June 12.
William James Metcalf, Washington, D.C. Jane Chase Clark, Medfield,
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