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which such instruction is furnished has been approved by the board of education."
With an average of four grades to each teacher, improve- ment in your schools must manifestly come from a closer correl- ation in the subjects taught. This correlation will come not from a re-arrrangement of the course of study, but from a bet- ter interpretation of the one now in use.
It is my purpose to re-arrange the reading material in a definite sequence, which shall furnish the children an outline for future reading, even though they go no farther than the grammar school. The teaching of what to read is fully as important as the teaching how to read.
The study of Music has been replaced in the curriculum and Mr. Frank Lowell secured to supervise. The work has been taken up with enthusiasm by teachers and children and under the skillful guidance of the supervisor good work has been done.
The subject of drawing has been continued and a small sum expended for water colors. It is hoped that more attention may be given this important branch next year.
A perusal of the table on the next page shows the following facts.
Average membership. 139
Average attendance I33
Per cent. of attendance 95+
Number of tardy marks 290
A comparison with last year's figures shows that the atten- dance has increased 2 per cent, which is most gratifying. The tardy marks have decreased 71, which is also gratifying, as the habits of punctuality and regularity are essential not only in school affairs, but in all the affairs of life.
In closing, I desire to express my thanks to committee and townspeople for aid in the work of the schools, and to especially thank the teachers for their loyal and hearty co-operation.
Respectfully submitted, HERBERT F. TAYLOR,
Superintendent of Schools.
SCHOOL REGISTER STATISTICS, SEPT., 1901 TO JUNE, 1902.
SCHOOLS.
Average member- ship.
Average Attend- ance.
Per Cent. of Attend- ance.
Total
Enrol-
ment.
Tardy.
Dis-
missed.
Truant.
Corporal Punish- ment.
Visits by Superin- tendent.
Visits by others.
High
20
19.02
95
22
17
21
0
0
29
13
Grammar
27.29
27.25
94.24
33
43
51
1
14
37
87
Primary
42.41
40.41
95.28
56
71
73
0
0
28
40
North
13.35
12.76
95.48
14
27
17
0
0
20
35
East
22.12
20.94
94.61
27
24
10
0
2
19
64
Albeeville
14.28
13.00
90.81
23
108
38
0
0
16
10
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Summary
139.45
133.38
95.64
175
290
210
1
16
149
249
Boys.
Girls
Total.
Number between five and fifteen,
79
68
147
Number between seven and fourteen,
61
46
107
Number over fifteen,
6
6
12
.
School Census Statistics, Sept., 1902.
Number of children in town between five and fifteen,
81
73
154
Number of children in town between seven and fourteen,
66
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115
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TEACHERS, DECEMBER, 1902.
SCHOOL.
TEACHER.
WHERE FITTED.
High,
Edward F. Blood,
Dartmouth College.
Grammar, Grades 5, 6, 7, 8,
Mary A. Peffers,
Bridgewater Normal.
Primary, Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, North.
Mary E. Dudley,
Mendon High.
Grades 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, Edith F. Rockwell, East, Grades 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, Lillian F. Porter, Albeeville, Grades 1, 3, 4, 6,7,8, Constance Freethy,
Salem Normal.
Newburyp't Training School.
Boston University.
SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1902-1903.
FALL TERM. 14 Weeks.
WINTER TERM. 12 Weeks.
SPRING TERM. 10 Weeks.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
Lower Schools, High School, 40 weeks,
Sept. 8, 1902. Sept. 2, 1902.
Dec. 12, , 1902. Dec. 19, 1902.
Dec. 29, 1902. Dec. 29, 1902.
Mar. 20, 1903. Mar. 27, 1903.
April 6, 1903. April 6, 1903.
June 12, 1903. June 19, 1903.
HOLIDAYS :- Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Friday following.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1903-1904.
FALL TERM. 14 Weeks.
WINTER TERM. 12 Weeks.
SPRING TERM. 10 Weeks.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
Lower
Schools, High School, 40 weeks,
Sept. 14, 1903. Sept. 8, 1903.
Dec. 18, 1903. Dec. 24, 1903.
Jan. 4, 1904. Jan. 4, 1904.
Mar. 25, 1904. April 1, 1904.
April 11, 1904. April 11, 1904.
June 17, 1904. June 24, 1904.
HOLIDAYS :- Thanksgiving Day and Friday following, Washington's Birthday, Patriots' Day and Memorial Day.
BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM EDUCATIONAL LAWS.
I. All children between 7 and 14, unless sick, feeble- minded, at an approved private school, or otherwise instructed in branches, required by law, to the satisfaction of the School Committee, must attend the public school during the entire time of each school year. Penalty to parent or guardian for failure in attendance for five days' sessions within any period of six months, $20.
2. No child under 14 shall be employed "in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment."" "No such child shall be employed in any work performed for wages or other com- pensation" during the hours when the public school is in session nor before six o'clock in the morning nor after seven in the evening.
3. No child under 16 shall be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment without a certificate from the Superintendent of Schools. He must present an employ- ment ticket from the person who wishes to employ him, on ap- plying for a certificate. The father, if living and a resident, must sign the certificate of age; if not, the mother ; if neither, the guardian.
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4. Children between 14 and 16 must either attend school or be regularly employed.
5. Children must be vaccinated before attending school, but a certificate from a regular physician, saying a child is an unfit subject for vaccination, allows attendance.
No child can attend school from a household in which there is a case of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or measles, or from a household exposed to a contagion from a household as aforesaid. Two weeks after the death, removal or recovery of the patient in a case of the first three mentioned, or three days after in a case of measles, the child may return on presentation of a certificate from the attending physician or from the board of health.
6. The last regular session prior to Memorial Day, or a portion thereof, shall be devoted to exercises of a patriotic na- ture."
7. A United States flag not less than four feet in length shall be displayed on the schoolhouse grounds or building every school day, when the weather will permit, and on the inside of the schoolhouse on other school days.
8. A written excuse stating cause of absence, and signed by parent or guardian, must be presented by the pupil on his re- turn to school.
9. "Every habitual school offender, that is, every child under fourteen years of age who persistently violates the reason- able regulations of the school which he attends, or otherwise persistently misbehaves therein, so as to render himself a fit sub- ject for exclusion therefrom, upon complaint.by a truant officer, and conviction thereof, may be committed, if a boy at the dis- cretion of the court, to a county truant school for a period not exceeding two years, or to the Lyman school for boys, and, if a girl, to the state industrial school for girls."
ROLL OF HONOR.
The following pupils have been neither absent or tardy for the consecutive terms specified. The record ends June, 1902.
EIGHT YEARS-TWO TERMS. Mabel D. Snow-High.
SIX YEARS-TWO TERMS.
Rose E. Snow-High.
ONE YEAR-TWO TERMS.
Homer Darling-North.
ONE YEAR-ONE TERM.
Lois A. Congdon, Gladys Hoagland. A. Sumner Cole- man-Primary.
ONE YEAR.
A. Everett Eldredge, Louise Curliss-High.
Lewis Holbrook, Roy A. Barrows-Grammar.
Beatrice Taft-Primary.
WINTER AND SPRING TERMS.
John Driscoll, Mabel Cromb-High.
George M. Barrows, Harold C. Barrows, Moses Coleman -Primary.
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FALL TERM.
Lulu Taft, Caroline S. Wood, Charles B. Congdon, Har- old Eldredge-High.
Hazel Brackett, Mabel M. Taft, Rose Arsenault, John J. Arsenault, Herbert S. Wood-Grammar.
Leonard G. Burr, Eva Daley, Arthur C. Pierson, Mary B. Arsenault, Raymond L. Daley, Bertha E. Pierson, Carl M. Taft, Henry J. Wood-Primary.
Florence Aldrich, Walter Beal, Abbie M. Darling, Bertha Beal, Raymond Goss, Nina Taft, Grace Taft-North.
WINTER TERM.
Charles B. Congdon, George W. Cromb, Harold Eldredge, Lulu Taft, Caroline S. Wood-High.
Charles Driscoll, Herbert S. Wood, Ralph Gaskill, Davis Hill, Mabel Taft, Helen Hoagland-Grammar.
Frank S. Brown, Carl M. Taft, Henry J. Wood-Primary.
Nina Taft-North.
Annie Phillips, Marion Lewis-East.
Lizzie F. Smith, Mary A. Hogarth-Albeeville.
SPRING TERM.
Louise Congdon-High.
Charles Driscoll-Grammar.
Pearl M. Cromb Mary B. Arsenault, Leonard G. Burr, Agnes M. Harrington, Arthur C. Pierson, Vera Wilson, Helen A. Dexter, Charles E. Ferris, Philip Harrington, William Cur- liss, Louis Montani, John R. Thompson-Primary.
Abbie M. Darling, Rufus E. Taft, Bertha M. Beal-North.
Charles Phillips, Bertha Phillips, Chester Rowe, Grace Thayer-East.
Everett D. Robinson-Albeeville.
TOWN WARRANT.
Worcester, ss .- To the Constable of the Town of Mendon, in the County of Worcester, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Mendon qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Mendon, on Monday, the second day of March, next, punctually at 9 o'clock, A. M., to act on the fol- lowing articles, viz :
ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ARTICLE 2. To hear the reports of the several town offi- cers and committees and act thereon.
· ARTICLE 3. To choose all necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
ARTICLE 4. To raise such sums of money as are necessary to defray town charges, and make appropriations of the same.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the town will vote to accept the list of jurors reported by the Selectmen, or make any alteration in the same.
ARTICLE 6. To see what measures, if any, the town will adopt to secure the speedy collection of taxes.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the town will authorize the Treas- urer to hire money to pay current expenses for the municipal year commencing March 2d, 1903, in anticipation of the collec- tion of the taxes.
ARTICLE 8. To bring in their ballots, "Yes" or "No" in answer to the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
ARTICLE 9. To see if the town will continue communica- tion by telephone with Milford, as security against destruction by fire, or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE IO. To see if the town will raise and appropri-
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ate any sum of money for Memorial Day services and appoint a committee to expend the same.
ARTICLE II. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum of money for the proposed Worcester County Soldiers' Monument or act in any manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the town will vote to purchase or take, a piece of land at Mendon Centre, as a site for a school building, or act in any manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the town will vote to build a school building at Mendon Centre, determine the size and form of the same, or act in any manner in relation to such a building.
ARTICLE 14. To see what measures the town will take to provide the fund necessary to carry out the votes passed under articles 12 and 13, or either of them.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the town will vote to abolish its high school and send its pupils to the high school of some other town, or act in any manner in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the town will raise and appropri- ate any sum of money for binding by the Emery process, the early records of births, marriage intentions, marriages, deaths, and miscellaneous matter, or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the town will raise and appropriate any sum of money for the observance of "Old Home Week," and choose a committee to expend the same.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the town will determine when its financial year shall close.
ARTICLE 19. To see if she town will vote that a copy of its annual report be mailed to each voter of the town not later than Feb. 20th of each year, or act in any manner in re- lation thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars for the suppression of illegal liquor selling, gambling and vice. .
ARTICLE 21. To see if the town will vote to appropriate money for marking historic spots, within its limits, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the town will vote to repay to Al- pha Tancrelle the sum of fifteen and fifty one-hundredths dol-
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ars collected by the Collector of Taxes for 1900, through a mis- take of the Assessors.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the town will act in any way toward establishing its claim to land adjoining Cook's cove, so called, at Nipmuck Pond.
The polls may by vote be closed at I P. M.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant, by post- ing up attested copies thereof at each of the following places in said town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting, viz :- At the post-office, and on the guide board near the school-house in Albeeville, and at the post-office in South Milford.
Hereof, fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, or Town Clerk, before the time of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Mendon, this sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.
LIBERTY FREEMAN, GEORGE M. TAFT, EDWARD C. KINSLEY. Selectmen of Mendon.
A true copy attest.
CHARLES I. BARNES,
CONSTABLE OF MENDON.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE VARIOUS
BOARDS OF TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF MENDON,
INCLUDING REPORT OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
FOR THE
Municipal Year Ending March 7, 1904.
[237TH ANNUAL REPORT. 1
MILFORD, MASS .: COOK & SONS, PRINTERS, JOURNAL OFFICE. 1904.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The undersigned, Treasurer of the Town of Mendon for the municipal year ending March 7, 1904, respectfully submits an account of his doings.
The Treasurer debits himself with receiving the following items, viz :-
To cash received of the Treasurer for the year ending March 2, 1903 $ 998 78
To cash borrowed on three Town notes 3,000 00
66
received for use of telephone 68 17
66 of E. C. Kinsley, janitor 90 25
66 of E. C. Kinsley, old hose sold. I 00
To cash received of State Treasurer, bal- ance corporation tax 46 11
To cash received of Geo. B. Cromb, bal- ance Highway Surveyor, 1902-3.
I 44
To cash, Milford & Uxbridge St. Ry. Co., grove license 10 00
To cash received, Town of Blackstone
24 00
66 Memorial Day committee
22
66 'Town of Northbridge .....
3 50
66 State Treasurer, inspect- ing animals 17 50
To cash received, Wm. G. Pond, clerk Third District Court 20 00
To cash received, School Committee, net proceeds sale of South schoolhouse .. 94 00 To cash received, Albert Southwick, butcher's license I 00
To cash received, State Treasurer, Cor- poration tax 69 62
To cash received, State Treasurer, Na- tional Bank tax 439 49
To cash received, State Treasurer, State Aid 488 00
To cash received, State Treasurer, indi- gent soldiers 35 00
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To cash received, State Treasurer, Street Railway tax $780 99
To cash received, S. Warren Cook, auc- tioneer's license 2 00
To cash received, Fred Kohl, butcher's license / 1 00
To cash received, Milford & Uxbridge St. Ry. Co. Excise tax 252 72
To cash received, Milford, Attleboro & Woonsocket St. Ry. Co. Excise tax ..
27 82
To cash received, Town of Uxbridge
12 00
٠، 66 66 Hopedale
158 10
66 66 66
90 50
66 County Treasurer, dog fund
172 79
To cash received, State Treasurer, income school fund. 929 86
To cash received, J. B. Driscoll, one-half fees hay scales 15 52
To cash received, W. N. Thompson for tuition. 30 00
To cash received, Chas. P. Fleming, dis- infecting 3 00
To cash received, Horace C. Adams, two copies Annals 5 50
To cash received, Horace C. Adams, two copies Prop. Records. 6 00
To cash received, Milford & Uxbridge St. Ry. Co., account Howe 2 50
To cash received, Geo. M. Taft, Collector taxes, 1900 29 08
To cash received, Geo. M. Taft, Collector taxes, 1901 232 68
To cash received, Geo. M. Taft, Collector taxes, 1902 695 24
To cash received, Leonard T. Gaskill, Collector, 1903
6,480 06
To cash received from Milford Savings Bank on 20 Town notes $500 each .... 10,000 00 To cash received, interest on above notes 129 32 Milford Savings Bank on 20 town notes $150 each 3,000 00
$28,464 76
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The Treasurer credits himself with paying the following sums, viz :-
By paying 153 Town orders $20,837 31
3 Town notes.
2,500 00
interest on same 94 61
66 Austin A. Taft, one note 500 00
66 Austin A. Taft, interest on same 21 45
66 Interest on 20 notes to Nov. I
to Milford Savings Bank 187 59
By paying County tax 655 00
State tax 475 00
School Committee
1,132 65
By cash on hand to balance
2,061 15
-$28,464 76
By cash on hand, Treas. of School Com.
$420 72
66 Excise tax 923 78
LEONARD T. GASKILL, Treasurer.
AUSTIN WOOD RELIEF FUND.
DR.
To cash received of Geo. M. Taft, Treas-
urer 1902-1903, deposited in Milford Savings Bank
$1,020 83
To cash deposited in Worcester County Institution for Savings 456 20
To cash received as interest of Worcester County Institution for Savings, Jan. 1, 1904. 18 24
To cash received as interest of Milford Savings Bank to Oct. 11, 1903 35 49
To cash deposited in Milford Savings Bank 25 00
$1,555 76
CR.
By cash paid, 4 Town orders .. $87 50 . " deposited in Milford Savings Bank 993 82
Worcester County In-
stitution for Savings 474 44
$1,555 76
LEONARD T. GASKILL, Treasurer. Mendon, Feb. 1, 1904.
SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
The Selectmen respectfully submit the following report of the expenditures of the Town for the municipal year ending March 7, 1904 :-
INCIDENTALS.
Daniel H. Barnes, telephone 13 months. $65 00
Albert W. Gaskill, inspecting animals 35 00
L. T. Gaskill, Memorial services 50 00
Geo. M. Taft, cash paid for work at monument
1 00
H. S. Coleman, services as teller
1 50
E. L. Smith, drawing lumber
2 00
Arthur V. Pond, services as teller, 2 times.
2 00
William Smith, work at tub 3 10
P. B. Murphy, assessors' blanks
- 4 80
Geo. M. Taft, cash paid, work at P. O. Square
1 00
Clarence A. Taft, services as teller, 2 times
2 00
Emery Record Preserving Co.
180 00
Alpha Tancrelle
15 50
E. L. Smith, work at Town well
I 50
Geo. M. Taft, work in old cemetery.
8 00
Worcester County Abstract Co., examining titles
5 80
Amos Gallant, curbing Town well
3 53
H. C. Snell, services
7 52
Geo. Hines, injury to horse
10 00
Jeremiah B. Driscoll, services in criminal cases
1 00
E. L. Smith, work on engine
3 00
E. L. Smith, work on engine 4 00
Geo. M. Taft, box for water works. 3 60
J. B. Driscoll, watching, nights of July 3 and 4, etc.
3 50
E. W. Howe, damage to wagon
2 50
E. C. Kinsley, cash paid for fighting fire Nov. 2
2 50
J. F. Damon, testing fire engine
6 00
Cenedella Bros., work on sidewalk.
72 39
Cenedella Bros., work at schoolhouse 21 75
Cenedella Bros., laying pipe on Main street
5 86
Geo. M. Taft, mowing brush I 05
8 49
E. C. Kinsley, work on engine
6
H. C. Adams, insurance $240 99
A. V. Pond, services as teller
2 00
C. A. Fletcher, services as teller 2 00
Cenedella Bros., pipe, sidewalk
II 68
Dr. Campbell, services
2 00
Wm. Smith, work at tub
I 50
H. W. Gaskill, surveying sidewalk
4 00
Clark Ellis & Sons, pipe and sundries on Main St.
49 19
H. M. Curtiss, coal for fire department 7 25
G. M. Taft, for use of room and care of fire
16 00
E. L. Smith, for work at P. O. Square.
I 25
Ellen C. Barry, work at tub and on stove
2 00
E. B. Taft, for meat
79
J. M. French, fumigating .. 18 00
8 96
M. M. Aldrich, work at monument
5 75
Geo. W. Wood, returning two deaths
50
Emery & Wood, returning 13 deaths
3 25
E. L. Smith, carting extinguisher
2 00
$914 00
AUSTIN WOOD RELIEF FUND.
.
Cash paid, 4 orders.
$87 50
Cash returned to bank 25 00
Amount expended.
$62 50
TAFT PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Two orders
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS, SCHOOL BOOKS AND INCIDENTALS.
$2,800 00
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR.
Paid Geo. B. Cromb, repairs of roads $1,556 38
Old snow bill 59 78
Snow bills 107 75
$1,723 91
Paid School Committee
$165 00
D. H. Barnes, groceries
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STATE ROAD.
Paid Geo. B. Cromb, labor and cash paid
$419 59
Mary E. Dudley, gravel
32 24
H. W. Gaskill, gravel
2 00
M. & U. St. Ry. Co., gravel
273 00
$726 83
TOWN OFFICERS.
Nathan R. George, Auditor ..
$6 00
L. Freeman, Lockup Keeper
5 00
Edw. C. Kinsley, Assessor
46 25
Charles H. Allen, Assessor
52 50
Charles A. Fletcher, Assessor
55 75
Geo. M. Taft, Collector of Taxes, 1900
65 00
Geo. M. Taft, Selectman and Registrar
35 00
Liberty Freeman, Selectman and cash paid
47 86
Edw. C. Kinsley, Selectman and Registrar.
30 00
Liberty Freeman, Board of Health
3 00
L. T. Gaskill, Treasurer, 1903-4, cash paid
54 73
C. I. Barnes, Constable
15 00
H. C. Adams, Town Clerk and cash paid
40 41
$456 50
PRINTING.
Cook & Sons, Town reports
$62 00
66 posters
2 00
66
66 slips for Assessors
I 25
66
envelopes
I 50
Cecil T. Bagnall, 1,000 tax bills
I 55
H. M. Dolbeare, Assessors' blanks
5 35
G. M. Billings, tally sheets
1 00
$74 65
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STATE AID TO PENSIONERS, UNDER CHAP. 374, ACTS OF 1899.
Joanna Curley
$48 00
Melinda W. Cummings.
48 00
Rufus Hazard. 48 00
Waterman Taft
48 00
Annette L. Weatherhead
48 00
Stephen H. Scisco
24 00
Eliza A. Munsell
48 00
John S. McDonald
48 00
Sylvester Moores
48 00
Nathaniel Sweet
8 00
Lowell C. Cook
40 00
Sarah Holbrook
24 00
Susan H. Taft
24 00
Albert V. French
48 00
$552 00
SOLDIERS' RELIEF, CHAP. 447, ACTS OF 1890.
Malinda W. Cummings (To Uxbridge) ..
$12 00
SUPPORT OF POOR.
Paid Overseers of Poor
$1,215 00
NEW SCHOOLHOUSE.
Paid Building Committee
$12,036 57
CARE AND SUPPLIES OF TOWN HALL.
Paid Edw. C. Kinsley, care and cash paid .. $93 95
H. M. Curtiss, coal. 53 25
Clark Ellis & Sons, supplies 3 85
Mrs. M. Gallant, cleaning. 6 30
C. A. Fletcher, 1-2 cord wood, sawed and split .. 3 50
$160 85
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RECAPITULATION.
Incidentals
$ 914 00
Town Officers
456 50
Roads and bridges
1,556 38
Snow bill
IO7 75
Old snow bill
59 78
State road
726 83
Printing
74 65
Taft Public Library
165 00
Schools, etc.
2,800 00
Schoolhouse, etc. 12,036 57
Support of Poor
1,215 00
Chap. 447, Acts of 1890, M. W. Cummings
12 00
Chap. 374, Acts 1899
552 00
Town Hall
160 85
$20,837 31
The selectmen report that the available assets of the town are as follows :-
Due from collector of taxes, 1901 $27 52
66 1902
290 45
66
66
1903
1,058 17
state for cash paid on state road 636 00
state aid to soldiers to Jan. 1, 1904.
536 00
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state aid to March 1, 1904, 2 months 100 00
Cash in hands of treasurer
2,061 15
$4,709 29
The liabilities of the town so far as known, are as follows :
Outstanding bills, estimated. $75 00
66 new schoolhouse. 963 43
Due town officers 200 00
Milford Savings Bank, 2 notes.
2,000 00
66 40 notes 13,000 00
$16,238 43
4,709 29
Net indebtedness of the town
$11,529 14
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LIST OF JURORS.
Malcolm D. Scott,
Edward L. Smith, 1
George R. Ford,
Edward C. Kinsley,
Charles H. Allen,
John M. Towne,
Moses U. Gaskill,
Edward A. Whiting,
Clarence A. Taft,
Thomas F. Kelley,
Leonard T. Gaskill,
Luther W. Holbrook,
Charles A. Fletcher,
Liberty Freeman.
Receipts and expenditures of monies of Street Railway Companies, to be expended on highways :
Received of State Treasurer
$780 99
66 " M. & U. Street Railway Co.,
excise tax
252 72
Received of M., A. & W. Street Railway Co., excise tax
27 82
$1,061 53
Paid snow bills
107 75
repairs
30 00
$137 75
Balance
$923 78
Respectfully submitted,
LIBERTY FREEMAN, GEO. M. TAFT, EDWARD C. KINSLEY, Selectmen of Mendon.
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HIGHWAY SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
The Highway Surveyor submits the following report for the year ending March 7, 1904 :--
By cash on hand.
$ I 44
He debits himself with cash on 20 orders 1,723 91
$1,725 35
He credits himself by paying the following bills :-
Cash paid the Town Treasurer I 44
$
Geo. B. Cromb, for team labor. 205 20
C. B. Williams, for labor with teams 247 50
C. A. Fletcher, for labor with team 20 00
Dennis Kelley
148 41
Willie Kelley
103 00
Thomas Peirce
47 25
John Taft
85 05
Charles Kingman
81 55
Harry Cook
12 25
John Towne
II 20
A. I. Barrows
23 75
Alderman Cook
5 30
Jason Smith
I 75
Geo. M. Taft
22
Andre Southwick
3 00
Geo. B. Cromb, as highway surveyor
231 37
M. & U. St. R. R. Co., for gravel
195 00
A. I. Barrows, 66 66
5 52
Elsie Gaskill,
66
6 00
Frank Pond,
60 66
9 60
Andre Southwick, 66
66
I 50
Liberty Freeman,
66
4 00
Will Irons,
3 20
Gilbert Gaskill,
66
66
2 40
Frank H. Wood,
66
2 00
Henry Horton, 66
1 00
J. Bassett
2 00
I2
Henry Gaskill,
for gravel
$1 00
A W. Gaskill,
60
66
6 16
Mr. Lyons, 66 66
3 20
A. D. Davenport, 60
80
Geo. M. Taft, 66 66
56
Geo. B. Cromb, bridge plank
20 00,
C. A. Fletcher,
66
IO 04
George B. Cromb, supplies
12.90
Z. C. Field, 66
7 45
Clark Ellis & Sons, 66
3 19
Annie Lawless, 66
I 50
Norris, Staple's & Gould, supplies
19 46
E. C. Barry, for repairs
II IO
$1,557 82
SNOW BILLS.
March 7, 1903.
Geo. B. Cromb, team, labor on snow
$7 63
66 66 66 labor on snow
9 25
Dennis Kelley, 66 66
7 70
Willie Kelley,
66
66
8 30
Edward Taft,
66 66
I 60
Archie Fresn,
7 40
Frank H. Wood,
66
60
2 00
W. C. Robinson,
66
7 40
Henry Gaskill,
66 66
3 50
Glenville Coffin,
66 66
2 00
Malcolm Scott,
66
66
3 00
Jan. 15, 1904.
Geo. B. Cromb, team, labor on snow
66 66 66 labor on snow
Dennis Kelley,
60
11 00
A. V. French,
66
10 70
Geo. W. Cromb,
66 66
I 20
Herbert Whiting,
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