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Expenses to meetings (3) 37 12
D. V. Smith, use of car 10 00
$56 12
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INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS.
Moses U. Gaskill, salary ..... $150 00
$150 00
INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING.
Frank R. Phillips, salary .... $22 00
$22 00
BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
Assoc. of Mass. Assessors, dues
$12 00
Hobbs & Warren, Inc., forms 32 81
Worcester County Abstract Co., ab- stracts 34 14
Stoneham Independent, tax cards 1 00
Carl Taft, use of car
20 00
Postage and Keys
8 00
Cahill's News Agency
1 40
Expenses to meetings
20 00
$129 05
TAX COLLECTOR.
Barre Gazette, supplies
$34 38
Hobbs & Warren, Inc., supplies
16 06
Milford Daily News, tax parcels 9 70
Postage
54 00
Arthur P. Dalton, use of car
10 00
Arthur P. Dalton, overpayment of
1941 taxes 3 32
$127 46
TOWN TREASURER.
Home National Bank, bank charges .... $17 50
Robinson Seal Co., supplies 1 18
Hobbs & Warren, Inc., supplies 1 86
Charlescraft Press, supplies
10 05
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Postage 40 85
M. U. Gaskill, use of car 25 00
M. U. Gaskill, making Schedule A 12 00
$108 44
TOWN COUNSEL.
Shelley D. Vincent, salary
$100 00
Tax matters
25 00
$125 00
DOG OFFICER.
Harold C. Barrows, salary
$10 00
Harold C. Barrows, killing 8 dogs 32 00
$42 00
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Walter Taylor, salary ....... $40 00
$40 00
PUBLIC WEIGHER.
Richard Gaskill, salary
$2 30
$2 30
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
Clarke Printing Co., voting lists $130 75
Henry P. Clough, stencils and supplies 3 00
Vestella Daniels, typing 1 50
C. L. Goss, repairing old library roof 181 75
Ruhan Signs, lettering honor roll 5 00 ..... Elgar Bartlett, delivering town reports 10 00
L. N. Jaques & Sons, supplies 1 22
Lyman Hazard, trucking 4 00
Fiske Lumber Co., lumber, hay scales 14 94
Charlescraft Press, town reports 210 10
Charlescraft Press, Ration Board sup-
plies 2 25
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Jane Coleman, paint for honor roll (no labor) 84
Napoleon Thiebault, labor for scales ... 11 20
Milford Daily News, advertising 109 43
$685 98
SUMMARY.
Appropriated
$2,750 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
184 38
$2,934 38
Expended
$2,934 38
THAYER CEMETERY FUND.
Cash on hand in bank $15 57
SALARIES OF TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriation
$1,800 00
Expended :
Arthur P. Dalton, tax collector
$446 15
William A. Barry, auditor
25 00
Harold C. Barrows, constable
25 00
Edward T. Whiting, assessor
100 00
Carl M. Taft, assessor 100 00
Charles F. Leonard, clerk of assessors
250 00
Albert S. Coleman, town clerk
125 00
Moses U. Gaskill, town treasurer
250 00
Silas H. Dudley, selectman and chair- man Public Welfare 170 00
Roy A. Barrows, selectman and mem- ber Public Welfare 81 00
D. Victor Smith, chairman of selectmen, member Public Welfare 156 00
$1,728 15
Unexpended
71 85
$1,800 00
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SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' GRAVES.
Appropriation
$20 00 Expended :
Swandale Cemetery Association $20 00
$20 00
STREET LIGHTS.
Appropriation
$627 00
Expended :
Worcester Suburban Elec. Co. $627 00
$627 00
SOLDIERS' RELIEF.
Appropriation
$400 00
Expended :
One family in own home
$12 00
One family in own home
82 44
One family in own home
123 50
One family in own home
105 00
One family in own home
25 00
$347 94
Unexpended ...
52 06
$400 00
PARK DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation
$150 00
Expended :
Walter Yanski
$50 00
Reuben Dalrymple
13 64
Carl Taft
11 00
Payroll No. 1
48 88
$123 52
Unexpended
26 48
$150 00
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WORCESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Appropriation
$1,615 31
Expended $1,615 31
$1,615 31
AUSTIN WOOD RELIEF FUND.
Expended :
One person
$25 00
One person
$75 00
BONDS OF TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriation
Expended :
Maryland Casualty Co.
$5 00
Karl Bright
89 25
$94 25
Unexpended
21 25
$115 50
RESERVE FUND.
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Expended :
Transferred to Tree Warden account $128 60
Transferred to Moth Suppression
200 00
Transferred to Incidentals
184 38
Transferred to Chapter 81
82 03
Transferred to Chapter 90 M
1 00
Transferred to Board of Health
34 38
Transferred to Police Dept.
42 56
$672 95
Unexpended
327 05
$1,000 00
50 00
$115 50
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TOWN HALL.
Appropriation
$1,300 00
Expended :
Harvey E. Trask, labor and material
$54 63
John Lundvall
5 00
C. B. Dolge Co.
31 40
L. N. Jaques & Sons, supplies
75 33
N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R.
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Raymond Barrows
10 50
Stone Furniture Co., labor and materi- als 147 25
A. W. Mckinley Co., painting 745 00
W. G. Fiske Lumber Co., lumber 7 50
M. M. Goodnow Co., repairs
64 69
Commonwealth of Mass., chairs
149 50
$1,293 41
Unexpended
6 59
$1,300 00
REAL ESTATE TAX REFUND.
Expended :
1944
$8 70
MOTOR VEHICLE TAX REFUND.
Expended :
1944
$7 37
PERSONAL TAX REFUND.
Expended :
1944
$29 00
WATER SURVEY.
Appropriation
$250 00
Expended :
Frank A. Barbour
$250 00
$250 00
Glidden Co., paint 2 04
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INSURANCE ON TOWN BUILDINGS.
Appropriation
$727 00
Expended :
Donald B. Lowell
$723 60
$723 60
Unexpended :
3 40
$727 00
MEMORIAL DAY.
Appropriation
$85 00
Expended :
C. C. Shattuck, supplies
$23 00
Milford Victory Band 40 00
Lake Side Flower Shop, wreath
5 00
Charles F. Leonard, wreath
5 00
Clayton Parkinson Greenhouses, wreath
5 00
Gen. Wm. F. Draper Camp, S. of U. V., flags
5 00
Jean's Flower Shop
1 00
$84 00
Unexpended
1 00
$85 00
MOTH SUPPRESSION.
Appropriation
$200 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
200 00
$400 00
Expended :
William R. Bowen, salary
$10 00
William R. Bowen, labor
242 20
James Cram, labor
25 00
Willard N. Seibert, labor
66 50
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Alva Lightfoot, labor 56 00
$399 70
Unexpended
30
$400 00
ASSETS.
Uncollected Taxes :
1944 Excise Taxes
$32 91
1944 Property Taxes
3,983 14
$4,016 05
Due from the State of Massachusetts on Highways:
Chapter 81
$1,444 50
Chapter 90M
94 33
$1,538 83
Due from the County of Worcester, on Highways:
Chapter 90M
$94 33
$94 33
Public Welfare:
Due from State of Massachusetts,
Temporary Aid $585 53
$585 53
Old Age Assistance :
Due from State of Massachusetts $1,650 04
Due from U. S. Government 1,225 60
Due from Town of Holliston 10 00
$2,885 64
Aid to Dependent Children:
Due from State of Massachusetts .... $42 00
Due from U. S. Government 63 00
$105 00
Tax Titles $956 77
$956 77
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Board of Health :
Due from State of Massachusetts $261 43
Due from County of Worcester 18 24
$279 67
Cash in hands of Treasurer, December 31, 1944
$23,309 96
Total Assets
$33,771 78
LIABILITIES.
Due County of Worcester for Con-
struction and Equipment of Wor- cester County Hospital
$2,750 00
Bonds on School House Addition
18,000 00
Total Liabilities
-$20,750 00
LIST OF JURORS.
Donald B. Lowell
Dairyman
North Avenue
Harry L. Wilbur John J. Driscoll
Machinist
Providence Street
William R. Bowen Gordon R. Good
Poultryman
Bates Street
Machinist
North Avenue
Ernest E. Souls
Pattern Maker Bates Street
Henry Twitchell
Machinist
Maple Street
George G. Davenport Dairyman
North Avenue
Robert Chase
Collector
Hastings Street
Roy A. Barrows
Dairyman Musician
Blackstone Street Main Street
William F. Irons, Jr.
Walter Taylor
Factory Worker Blackstone Street
Eugene H. Chapman
Mechanic
Kinsley Lane
Vernon A. Barrows Grinder
Blackstone Street
Respectfully Submitted, D. VICTOR SMITH, Chairman, ROY A. BARROWS, SILAS H. DUDLEY,
Board of Selectmen.
Machinist Hastings Street
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REPORT OF THE POST-WAR PLANNING COMMITTEE.
One of the most difficult tasks to be performed is that of planning for post-war conditions. It is generally conceded by business men and government officials alike that from the end of the war with Germany to six months after Japan goes down to defeat, there will be a period of readjustment and re- conversion during which between 30% and 40% of war workers will be without jobs. Then there are the optimists who believe that there will be no slackening of work.
Anticipating the worst, the Post-War Planning Commit- tee has made plans to cushion the shock with projects that will have a lasting benefit to the Town as well as temporary benefit to those who find themselves out of work. Foremost in point of need is the town water project, dealt with to a greater degree elsewhere in these pages.
It is a known fact that some of the town facilities are wholly inadequate as to the needs of a progressive town like Mendon. The old blacksmith's shop is a disgrace to the Town, as well as impracticable to housing the road machinery and tools within its leaky confines. The shed housing the fire apparatus is totally inadequate. Common sense calls for a garage warm enough to ensure the apparatus' quick departure for a fire without the danger of losing a bearing in a cold motor, or the delay from a spitting and coughing carburetor. Then too, the present heating arrangements of the Town Hall are inadequate, as well as in dire need of replacement. Those of you who have been in the lower hall when an easterly wind is blowing, or when it is freezing outside, know the need for installing modern flush toilets in the building. Vital records are scattered about in the houses of town officials, where fire
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may at any time irretrievably destroy them. ' So the second major project in view is the construction of a modern colonial building for the fire and highway departments, with some town offices on the second floor; with an automatic oil heat- ing system that will obviate wasteful janitor service; with an oil storage tank large enough to warrant the wholesale cost; and a boiler large enough to supply steam through thermo- statically controlled valves to the Town Hall and possibly the Library. Thus will be eliminated the high costs of janitor stoking the fires, removing the ashes, and either too little or too much heat.
These first two projects can presumably be consummated with considerable help through federal grants.
The State is making plans to reconstruct route 16 throughout its length in Mendon. The County and State have plans to rebuild North Avenue from the Upton line, widen Washington Street from the power line to Northbridge Road, and reconstruct Blackstone Street to the Blackstone line. Plans for other through streets are on the drafting tables.
The widening of Maple Street opposite the post office with room for diagonal parking is proposed. Completion of the sidewalk on North Avenue from the School to Hastings Street and on one side of Hastings Street, is one of the projects.
Drainage projects, compilation of the Town's By-Laws, and a survey of the Town roads are also possible projects.
Some of the Committee feel that much can be saved in janitor time spent in stoking the Center School boiler and re- moving ashes, as well as eliminating the cause of no-school sessions due to the breakdowns that have occurred frequently in the past, by having automatic oil heat installed. Few people realize that the school janitor has to fill the hopper of the stoker late at night and in the wee hours of the morning, as well as four times daily during cold weather.
Some of these projects are more for the long-term net saving of tax payers' money. But most of them utilize suffi-
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cient man-hours of labor to keep our welfare rolls at a mini- mum, and insure something worthwhile as the results of our spending. We hope for the best. But we should prepare for the worst. The citizens of Mendon should prepare the town government financially to such a degree that if we do have a post-war slump, we should not be caught in a financial condi- tion such as recalls the famous phrase "too little, and too late."
POST WAR PLANNING COMMITTEE,
D. VICTOR SMITH, Chairman ROY A. BARROWS SILAS H. DUDLEY ARTHUR A. SABATINELLI HAROLD F. LOWELL HERBERT S. WOOD GEORGE F. LEE NORRY J. DAIGE.
SUMMARY.
Department
Resources
Expended
Unexpended
Overdraft
Incidentals
$2,750.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
184.38
$2,934.38
$2,934.38
Salaries of Town Officers
1,800.00
1,728.15
$71.85
Reserve Fund
1,000.00
672.95
327.05
Worcester County Hospital
1,615.31
1,615.31
Moth Suppression
$200.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
200.00
$400.00
399.70
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Bonds of Town Officers
115.50
94.25
21.25
Soldiers' Relief
400.00
347.94
52.06
Board of Health
$800.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
34.38
$834.38
834.38
Police Department
$700.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
42.56
$742.56
742.56
Interest on Loans
100.00
100.00
Memorial Day
85.00
84.00
1.00
Park Department
150.00
123.52
26.48
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SUMMARY-Continued.
Department
Resources
Expended
Unexpended
Overdraft
Soldiers' and Sailors' Graves
Street Lights
20.00 627.00 3,000.00
20.00 627.00
Board of Public Welfare
$1,000.00
Aid to Dependent Children Received from Federal Grant
150.00
$1,150.00
376.00
774.00
Bureau of Old Age Assistance Received from U. S. Grant
$10,500.00
7,994.80
-$18,494.80
17,116.44
1,378.36
Administration Account for Old Age Assistance Received from U. S. Grant
361.70
273.36
88.34
General Repairs
1,000.00
884.07
115.93
Chapter 81 Transferred from Reserve Fund Town Appropriation State Allocation
$82.03 3,000.00
4,500.00
$7,582.03
7,582.03
1,870.09
1,129.91
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SUMMARY-Continued.
Department
Resources
Expended
Unexpended
Overdraft
Chapter 90 Maintenance
Transferred from Reserve Fund
$1.00
Town Appropriation
1,500.00
County Allocation
1,500.00
State Allocation
1,500.00
$4,501.00
4,501.00
Snow Removal
$1,500.00 216.40
1,232.91
267.09
Road Machinery Account
Tree Warden
$200.00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
128.60
$328.60
328.60
Taft Public Library
525.00
524.66
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Town Hall
1,300.00
1,293.41
6.59
Forest Fires
500.00
485.24
14.76
Fire Department
700.00
661.74
38.26
Insurance on Town Buildings
727.00
723.60
3.40
Thayer Cemetery Fund
15.57
15.57
212.29
4.11
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SUMMARY-Continued.
Department
Resources
Expended
Unexpended
Overdraft
Schools Dog License Refund
$22,367.76 452.24
$22,820.00 250.00
22,184.82
635.18
Town Water Survey
250.00
Totals
$75,796.23
$70,724.40
$5,071.83
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Respectfully submitted, D. VICTOR SMITH, ROY A. BARROWS, SILAS H. DUDLEY, Selectmen of Mendon.
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REPORT OF THE HIGHWAY SURVEYOR.
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TO THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN
GENTLEMEN :
I submit the following annual report on the roads for the year just past.
The lifting of some restrictions on tar made it possible to apply more tar than during the previous year, and practically every road has had some applied.
Due to the labor shortage, we were unable to take care of the brush on most of the roadsides in the proper manner.
The Hartford Ave. West project is completed with the exception of guard rails which cannot be obtained for the duration of the war. On this same road a new drainage sys- tem of 150 feet of pipe was put in, replacing the old stone paved gutter.
It would be well at this time to explain how the Road Machinery Fund works, since many questions have been asked concerning the same. When town-owned equipment is used on Chapter 81 work, the State pays 60% of the charges to the town, which is credited to the Road Machinery Fund. When the town-owned machinery is used on Chapter 90 work, two- thirds of the charges are paid to the Fund by the State and County. In this manner, if the town owned a truck, based on last year's work, there would be approximately $1,500.00 paid by the State and County for its use. Some towns have had trucks pay for themselves in this manner three or four times over in a period of five years. In fact, some towns have paid for the town barns out of the Road Machinery fund. It's just a case of who gets the profit, the town or the individual trucker.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR A. SABATINELLI,
Highway Surveyor.
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SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
Chapter 81
$7,582 03
Chapter 90
4,501 00
Snow Removal
1,232 91
General Repairs
884 07
Road Machinery Account
212 29
Total
$14,412 30
CHAPTER 81.
Town Appropriation
$3,000 00
State Allotment 4,500 00
$7,500 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund ... ...
82 03
$7,582 03
EXPENDITURES.
PAY ROLLS.
Labor
$2,311 10
Equipment
1,663 80
$3,974 90
MATERIALS.
H. A. Daniels Co., insurance $101 95
The Barrett Div., tarvia
2,546 86
Rosenfeld Sand & Stone Co., sand and patch 952 32
E. L. Sabatinelli & Son, cement
6 00
$3,607 13
Total Expenditures
$7,582 03
CHAPTER 90, MAINTENANCE.
Town Appropriation
$1,500 00
County Allotment
1,500 00
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State Allotment 1,500 00
$4,500 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
1 00
$4,501 00
EXPENDITURES. PAY ROLLS.
Labor
$1,443 30
Equipment 1,447 25
$2,890 55
MATERIALS.
Rosenfeld Sand & Stone Co., sand and stone $257 53
H. A. Daniels Co., insurance 123 76
Corbett Concrete Pipe Co., pipe
184 00
H. M. Curtiss Coal Co., cement
4 97
Barrett Div., tarvia
878 19
State Prison Colony
92 50
Guido Sabatinelli, dynamite and ex- ploders
17 50
Earl Gaskill, bank gravel
40 00
E. L. Sabatinelli, comp. bits
12 00
$1,610 45
Total Expended
$4,501 00
SNOW REMOVAL.
Appropriation
$1,500 00
PAY ROLLS.
Labor
$442 10
Equipment
716 90
$1,159 00
SUPPLIES.
Consolidated Steel, snow plow runners $64 16
E. O. Rose & Son, repairs 1 25
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Rosenfeld Sand & Stone Co., sand 8 50
$73 91
Total Expended
$1,232 91
Unexpended Balance
267 09
$1,500 00
GENERAL REPAIRS.
Appropriation
$1,000 00
EXPENDITURES.
PAY ROLLS.
Labor
$366 80
Equipment
109 80
$476 60
MATERIALS.
E. O. Rose & Son, repair on V snow plow $5 50
Rosenfeld Sand & Stone Co., sand 151 50
Perkins Eaton Machinery Co., parts
3 99
Eddie's Service Station, gas and oil
16 97
L. N. Jaques & Sons, hardware
24 89
Eddie's Texaco Station, gas and oil
7 89
Fisk Alden Co., parts
2 26
William Barry
75
Linwood Lumber Co., reinforcing steel
15 65
H. A. Daniels Co., insurance
140 19
Varney Bros., sand 12 25
Milford Hardware Co., supplies
5 98
Socony Vacuum Co., anti-freeze
4 65
Guido Sabatinelli Construction Co.,
cement blocks
15 00
$407 47
Total Expended
$884 07
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Unexpended Balance 115 93
$1,000 00
ROAD MACHINERY ACCOUNT.
Appropriation
$216 40
EXPENDITURES.
Seaver's Express, Inc.
62
Main Street Garage, Mendon, repairs on roller
$73 80
Lakeside Garage, repairs on grader
5 60
Eddie's Service Station, gas and oil ...
74 75
W. Munsell, labor
11 20
C. Woodfall, labor
11 20
Perkins Eaton Co., parts
15 52
Dyar Sales Co., snow plow paint
14 00
Costello's, hot shot battery
2 19
L. N. Jaques & Sons, hardware 1 41
Corbeille Bros., service station, gas
2 00
$212 29
Total Expended
$212 29
Unexpended Balance
4 11
$216 40
ROAD MACHINERY FUND. PAID TO TOWN TREASURER.
E. L. Sabatinelli & Son, use of grader $25 00
Clayton Parkinson, use of concrete mixer 3 00
Chapter 81, use of grader
107 50
Chapter 90, use of grader
80 00
Chapter 81, use of sand spreader
38 00
Chapter 90, use of gas roller
10 00
$263 50
SCHEDULE OF WAGES PAID EMPLOYEES OF ALL HIGHWAY WORK IN 1944.
Name
Chapter 81
Chapter 90 Maintenance
Snow Removal $188.00
General Repairs
TOTALS
A. Sabatinelli
$872.00
$487.00
$182.00
$1,729.00
E. Bartlett
19.60
13.30
32.90
W. Butler, Jr.
2.80
2.80
A. Cardasso
18.00
54.00
72.00
R. Fagan
65.10
65.10
R. Gaskill
2.80
21.00
23.80
G. Hackinson
2.80
2.80
W. Hutchinson
10.50
10.50
W. Irons
128.80
128.80
J. Lamothe
31.50
31.50
W. Munsell
522.90
267.40
92.40
95.20
977.90
S. Nuttall
181.30
61.60
15.40
2.80
261.10
L. Rasciot
89.60
89.60
G. Sabatinelli
21.00
21.00
W. Sherrick
2.10
2.10
A. Tetreault
43.40
5.60
49.00
N. Thebeault
528.60
296.10
70.00
86.80
981.50
C. Woodfall
76.30
5.60
81.90
TOTALS
$2,311.10
$1,443.30
$442.10
$366.80
$4,563.30
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SCHEDULE OF WAGES PAID EMPLOYEES-(Continued). RENTED EQUIPMENT-TRUCKS.
Name
Chapter 81
Chapter 90 Maintenance
Snow Removal
General Repairs
TOTALS
D. K. Barnes
$520.60
$220.35
$210.60
$951.55
R. Gaskill
.... ..
6.40
6.40
E. Goss
8.00
8.00
L. Hazard
72.15
107.30
7.40
194.25
C. Taft
373.00
193.25
90.00
51.20
707.45
L. Tetreault
499.15
279.35
232.50
51.20
1,062.20
E. L. Sabatinelli
162.00
162.00
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ROLLER
Rosenfeld Sand & Stone Co.
....
.. $32.40
$32.40
E. L. Sabatinelli
COMPRESSOR WORK
$21.00
$237.00
$258.00
H. Porrier
POWER SHOVEL. $320.00
$320.00
SCHEDULE OF WAGES PAID EMPLOYEES-(Continued). TOWN EQUIPMENT.
Name
Chapter 81
Chapter 90 Maintenance
Snow Removal
General
Repairs
TOTALS
Grader
$107.50
$80.00
187.50
Spreader
38.00
38.00
Town Roller
10.00
10.00
TOTALS
$1,663.80
$1,447.25
$716.90
$109.80
$3,937.75
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Resources :
Appropriation
$800 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
34 38
$834 38
Expended :
Worcester County Sanatarium, care of one patient
$549 00
Milford, Hopedale, Mendon District
Nursing Association 50 00
K. A. Campbell, M. D., Diptheria toxoid inoculation 50 00
K. A. Campbell, M. D., giving Rabies vaccine inoculation
16 00
Hasting Drug Co., Rabie vaccine
2 24
Mass. Dept. of Public Health, permit fee 10 00
Frank P. Phillips, Inspector of Slaugh- tering 83 50
The Charlescraft Press, printing cards 3 04
Alex Wolecks, town dump
50 00
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
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Pondville Hospital, care of one patient
20 00
$834 38
Proportionate share of above expense:
State of Massachusetts $261 43
Worcester County
18 24
Mendon's Share
554 71
$834 38
Respectfully submitted, SILAS H. DUDLEY, Chairman, D. VICTOR SMITH, ROY A. BARROWS,
Board of Health.
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REPORT OF THE TREE WARDEN.
Appropriation
$200 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund 128 60
$328 60
EXPENDED.
William Nuttall, salary
$12 00
Pay Rolls :
William Nuttall
116 00
William Munsell
87 00
Jack Armstrong
108 00
Stanley Nuttall
5 60
$328 60
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM E. NUTTALL,
Tree Warden.
51
REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES FOR 1944.
Platform scales under 5000 lbs.
2
$1 00
Spring scales under 100 lbs.
2
20
Computing scales under 100 lbs.
1
10
Counter scales under 100 lbs.
1
10
Beam scales over 100 lbs.
1
50
Gasoline pumps, meter system
3
1 50
Kerosene pumps, hand system
1
50
11
$3 90
I have collected $3.90 for fees and have turned the amount over to the Town Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted, WALTER TAYLOR,
Mendon, December 30, 1944.
Sealer.
52
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC WEIGHER.
I have collected $4.20 for twenty-one weighings and have turned the money over to the Town Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted,
RICHARD GASKILL, Public Weigher.
53
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING.
To the Honorable Board of Health:
The following animals have been slaughtered in my pres- ence and inspected by me :
Calves
Cows
Pigs
January
February
1
March
April
May
June
1
July
2
2
August
1
4
September
1
6
October
1
7
November
1
5
13
December
2
11
9
Totals
.....
8
36
23
-
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK R. PHILLIPS,
Inspector of Slaughtering.
54
REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
-
Appropriation
$700 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund 42 56
$742 56
Expenditures :
Forbes Press, printing
$9 00
Meals for prisoners 6 00
Court fees
32 50
Toll calls
65 31
Police Duty, May 30 and June 1 32 25
Police Duty, July 3, 4, and 5
43 70
Police Duty, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 33 40
Police Duty, patrolling the Center 76 00
Investigating accidents 56 00
Investigating complaints
258 81
Police Duty on highways
103 00
Postage 59
Stolen autos
26 00
$742 56
During the year the following arrests were made :
Breaking and entering
15
Drunkenness
4
Non-support
9
Assault and battery
3
Summons served
23
Commitments to State Hospital
2
Boys returned to Lyman School
4
55
Complaints and calls
347
Investigations of dog cases 16
Runaway children returned to homes
4
Drowning case
1
Stolen autos returned
4
Respectfully submitted,
HAROLD C. BARROWS, Chief Police Dep't.
56
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
The Assessors' Recapitulation Sheet of Aggregates is given below:
RECAPITULATION SHEET.
Town appropriations :
Annual Town Meeting, March,
1944
$58,336 61
Debt and Interest
2,450 00
State Tax, 1944
2,904 00
State Parks and Reservation Tax
56 19
County Tax
2,492 74
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment
1,615 31
Overlay for 1944
1,466 58
$69,464 69
$69,464 69
Estimated Receipts
$26,745 86
Available Funds
670 36
$27,416 22 $27,416 22
Net amount raised on polls and
property
$42,048 47
457 Poll Taxes at $2.00
914 00
Total Valuation
$1,418,430 00
Tax Rate
$29 00
Personal Property
$147,480 00
Real Estate
$1,270,950 00
57
Number of Assessments on Real
Estate
552
Number of Assessments on Personal Estate 89
641
641
Number of Male Polls assessed
457
Value of assessed stock-in-trade
6,100 00
Value of assessed live stock
69,630 00
Value of assessed machinery
70,750 00
Value of all other assessed per- sonal estate
1,000 00
Value of assessed personal prop-
erty
$147,480 00 $147,480 00
Value of assessed buildings, ex- cluding land
938,770 00
Value assessed land, exclud-
ing buildings 332,180 00
Total value of real estate $1,270,950 00$1,270,950 00
Total value of assessed property
$1,418,430 00
Tax on personal estate
$4,276 92
Tax on real estate
36,857 55
Tax on polls
914 00
$42,048 47 $42,048 47
Rate of tax per $1,000
$29 00
Number of horses assesed
51
Number of cows assessed
588
Number of neat cattle other than cows assessed
69
Number of swine assessed
45
Number of dwelling houses assessed
444
Number of acres of land assessed
10,762
Number of fowl assessed
6,414
58
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAXES COMMITTED TO COLLECTOR IN 1944.
Vehicles registered in 1944 ...
$1,848 10
MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAXES ABATED
1943 Taxes in 1944
$11 27
1944 Taxes
16 21
$27 48
$27 48
OVERLAY ACCOUNT
1943.
Balance in 1943 Overlay Account
$279 13
1943 Abatements in 1944 28 41
1943 Overlay Balance
$250 72
$250 72
OVERLAY ACCOUNT
1944.
1944 Overlay
$1,466 58
1944 Abatements
827 22
1944 Overlay Balance
$639 36
$639 36
Respectfully submitted, CARL M. TAFT, EDWARD T. WHITING, CHARLES F. LEONARD,
Mendon Board of Assessors.
59
REPORT OF FIRE ENGINEERS.
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN :-
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