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Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the fol- lowing by-law or take any other action in relation thereto:
"No person shall remove any soil, loam, sand, or gravel from any land in the town not in public use unless such removal is authorized by a permit issued by the Board of Selectmen, except in conjunction with the construction of a building on the parcel and except for the continued operation on the same parcel of an existing sand and gravel pit. No such permit shall be issued until an application therefor is filed with said board. Said Board shall hold a public hearing on the application and notice of the filing of such application, and the date and time of the public hearing thereon shall be advertised in a paper published in the County seven days at least before the public hearing."
Article 27. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $1,400. for the purchase of a half-ton pick-up truck, the whole to be taken from the Road Machinery Fund, or take any action in relation to same.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 207, of the Acts of 1946 which permits the Selectmen to grant licenses for the operation of bowling alleys on the Lord's Day.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $500. for a drainage system on Hartford
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Ave., West to alleviate the situation now existing whereby the drainage from the road is washing away the land on the property owned by James A. and Lucy A. Mathewson, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $1,700. for Civilian Defense in order to purchase and install in a fire truck a two-way radio; and to pur- chase a 5000 watt generator, or take any action in relation thereto.
POLLS WILL CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up an attested copy thereof at the Post Office in said Mendon and causing a copy to be published once in the Milford Daily News, a newspaper published in Milford, Mass., both said posting and publication to be at least seven days before the time of the meet- ing hereby ordered to be held.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said town before the time of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Mendon, this Twenty-fifth day of January A.D. 1954.
ERNEST P. WOOD HAROLD METCALF JOHN L. LUNDVALL
A true copy, attest :
Selectmen of Mendon
HAROLD C. BARROWS
Constable of Mendon
REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE
Article 4.
1953 Appropriations
Transfers
Expenditures
1954 Recom- mendations
Moderator's Salary
$25 00
$25 00
$25 00 ₺
Selectmen's Salaries
700 00
700 00
700 00 r
Selectmen's Expense
150 00
50 00
186 89
200 00 -
Treasurer's Salary
700 00
700 00
700 00 ₽
Treasurer's Expense
200 00
186 99
200 00 1
Town Accountant's Salary
400 00
400 00
400 00 ₩
Town Accountant's Expense
75 00
36 35
50 00 /
Town Clerk's Salary
250 00
250 00
250 00 v
Town Clerk's Expense
500 00
431 58
450 00 ৳
Tax Collector's Salary
925 00
925 00
925 00 v
Tax Collector's Expense
225 00
1 41
226 41
250 00 r
Assessors' Salaries
700 00
700 00
700 00 ×
Assessors' Expense
300 00
299 48
300 00 ₾
Elections and Registrations
600 00
534 25
600 00 -
Town Counsel's Salary
100 00
100 00
100 00 ,~
Town Counsel's Expense
75 00
75 00
75 00 r
Clerical Hire for Town Officers
300 00
299 70
300 00 v
Town Officers' Bonds
265 00
244 00
240 00 ,
120
Town Hall Maintenance
900 00
793 70
900 00 V
Record Room Maintenance
350 00
16 20
366 20
375 00 v
Heat and Lights-Town Buildings
3,000 00
2,652 82
3,000 00 %
Constable's Salary
25 00
25 00
25 00 ₺
Police Department
3,000 00
27 38
3,027 38
3,500 00 v
Fire Department
2,000 00
56 15
2,056 15
2,000 00 v
Forest Fire Department
500 00
499 10
500 00 -
Dog Officer
100 00
36 00
136 00
100 00 v
Sealer of Weights and Measures
50 00
50 00
50 00 v
Board of Health
1,700 00
1,070 65
1,500 00 /
Tree Warden
750 00
202 25
952 25
1,300 00 v
Insect Pest Control (Moth Suppression)
200 00
200 00
652 87 ₺
Dutch Elm Disease Control
500 00
500 00
326 44 v
Inspector of Animals
150 00
150 00
150 00 v
Inspector of Slaughtering
25 00
25 00
25 00 /
Wiring Inspector
80 00
10 00
90 00
80 00 v
General Repairs
2,000 00
1,997 80
2,100 00 ₺
Snow Removal
6,000 00
4,239 73
6,000 00 v
Street Lighting
744 00
643 95
819 00 v
Public Welfare Salaries
45 00
45 00
45 00 +
Public Welfare, Temporary Aid
6,000 00
5,071 19
6,000 00 +
Aid to Dependent Children
2,000 00
2,000 00
2,187 42
1,500 00
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Old Age Assistance
16,000 00
15,979 83
16,000 00 v
O.A.A. Administration
750 00
750 00
935 00 /
Veterans' Benefits
500 00
624 36
1,124 36
2,000 00 ~
Administration of Veterans' Benefits
100 00
100 00
100 00 r
School Department
60,449 16
495 84
60,929 63
64,433 61 ~
Taft Public Library
810 00
60 00
870 00
1,050 00 V
Vocational Education
1,000 00
755 20
1,500 00 ₺
Water Dept. Maintenance
750 00
663 45
1,000 00 /
Soldiers' and Sailors' Graves
30 00
30 00
30 00 v
Park Department
200 00
200 00
361 20
350 00 M
Memorial Day Celebration
225 00
212 70
225 00 ₽
Insurance on Town Buildings
1,700 00
1,644 83
1,800 ,00 /
Town Reports
620 00
620 00
616.00-
Reserve Fund
2,000 00
1,283 75
2,000 00€
Maturing Debt
4,000 00
9,000 00
13,000 00
2,000 00 r
Interest on Maturing Debt
733 75
733 75
438 75 Y
Interest on Temporary Loans
200 00
200 00 r
Tax Title Foreclosure
50 00
29 70
36 00 v
Worcester County Ret. Expense Fund
839 00
839 00
1,233 48 ¢
122
1:30 PAL
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1954 RECOMMENDATIONS
Article 6. $3,700 00 Chapter 81
Article 7. $3,200 00 Road Machinery repairs
Article 8. $1,200 00 Chapter 90 Maintenance
Article 9. $2,500 00 Chapter 90 Construction
Article 12. Approved
Article 13.
Approved
Article 16.
No action
Article 17. Approved
Article 18.
Approved
Article 19.
Approved
Article 20.
Approved
Article 21. Approved
Article 23. Approved
Article 27. Not approved
Article 29. Approved
Article 30. No action
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INDEX
Assessors Annual Report
59
Balance Sheet
44
Collector's Annual Report
54
Dog Officer's Report
77
Finance Committee Report
120
Financial Reports :
Aid to Dependent Children
28
Assessors
10
Board of Health
17
Board of Public Welfare
26
Board of Selectmen
6
Civil Defense
16
Debt and Interest
36
Dog Officer
16
Elections and Registrations
10
Fire Department
15
Heat and Lights-Town Buildings
13
Highway Department
20
Memorial Day
34
Old Age Assistance
28
Park Department
32
Police Department
14
Public Library
34
Record Room Maintenance
12
Reserve Fund
35
School Department
31
Sealer of Weights and Measures
17
Tax Collector
9
Town Accountant
8
Town Clerk
8
Town Counsel
11
Town Hall Maintenance
12
Treasurer
7
125
INDEX - Continued
Tree Warden 19
Veterans' Benefits
30
Vocational Education 31
Water Department 33
Fire Chief's Report
72
Graduation Exercises
112
Highway Surveyor's Report
70
Jurors
48
Librarian's Report
80
Library Trustees' Report
79
Police Chief's Report
74
Prize Speaking Contest
111
School Art Supervisor's Report
109
School Committee Report
91
School Music Supervisor's Report
108
School Nurse's Report
105
School Physician's Report
104
School Principal's Report
102
School Superintendent's Report
96
Sealer of Weights and Measures
73
Selectmen's Report
47
Town Accountant's Report
37
Town Clerk's Report
62
Births
64
Marriages
65
Deaths
66
Town Officers and Committees
3
Town Warrant
114
Treasurer's Report
49
Trust Funds 50
Water Commissioners' Report 78
ANNUAL REPORTS
of the
TOWN OFFICERS
of the
TOWN OF MENDON
including the report of the
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
for the
MUNICIPAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1954
288TH ANNUAL REPORT
TAFT PRINTING CO. Uxbridge, Mass. 1955
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TOWN OF MENDON
Town of Mendon Incorporated May 15, 1667.
Population 1619, 1950 Census.
Registered Voters in 1954, 966
Annual Election : First Monday in March.
Annual Meeting :
First Friday Evening after the first Monday in March.
County Commissioners :
Francis E. Cassidy, Chairman Webster
Edward P. Bird Fitchburg
Joseph A. Aspero Worcester
Fourteenth Congressional District :
Congressman, Joseph William Martin, Jr.
North Attleboro
Fourth Senatorial District :
Senator, Alfred B. Cenedella, Jr. Milford
Eighth Worcester Representative District :
Representatives General Court : Charles Mullaly, Jr. Millville
Charles E. Luke Driscoll Northbridge
Sheriff for Worcester County :
William A. Bennett
Worcester
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TOWN OFFICERS
Moderator Roy A. Barrows
Selectmen
Harold Metcalf Term expires 1955
John L. Lundvall
Term expires 1956
Ernest P. Wood Term expires 1957
Board of Public Welfare, Board of Health and Fence Viewers
Harold Metcalf John L. Lundvall Ernest P. Wood
Town Clerk
Albert S. Coleman
Town Treasurer Charles F. Leonard
Tax Collector
Arthur P. Dalton Term expires 1955
Assessors
Donald B. Lowell Term expires 1955
Carl M. Taft, Clerk Term expires 1956
D. Kinsley Barnes Term expires 1957
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School Committee
*Herbert F. Bowen Term expires 1955
Harry C. York Term expires 1956
Gordon R. Good Term expires 1957
*Resigned June 1954 - Chester F. FitzGerald appointed to fill va- cancy until March 1955.
Superintendent of Schools Percy L. Rowe
Trustees of Taft Public Library
Henry P. Clough, Secretary Term expires 1955
Vestella M. Daniels Term expires 1956
Harold Metcalf Percy L. Rowe Herbert F. Bowen
Water Commissioners
Donato F. Leone Term expires 1955
Franklin E. Goodnow Term expires 1956
*Everett G. Watson Term expires 1957
* Died May 1954 - Clarence E. Varney appointed to fill vacancy until March 1955.
Park Commissioners
Norry J. Daige Term expires 1955
Fred R. Phipps Term expires 1956
George A. Johnson Term expires 1957
Constable Harold C. Barrows
Tree Warden and Moth Superintendent William E. Nuttall
Highway Surveyor
William R. Bowen
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Officers Appointed by the Selectmen
Chief of Police Harold C. Barrows Town Counsel Shelley D. Vincent
*Dog Officer Raymond A. Miller
Wiring Inspector Walter J. Channing
*Sealer of Weights and Measures Raymond A. Miller Fire Chief and Forest Warden Harold F. Lowell Superintendent of Streets William R. Bowen
Burial Agent Norry J. Daige
Custodian of
Soldiers' and Sailors' Graves .. Richard F. Harding Inspector of Slaughtering Willard N. Seibert
* Died April 1954 - William D. Rondeau appointed to fill vacancies until March 1955.
Inspector of Animals
Roy A. Barrows
Town Accountant - Helen F. Irons Term expires 1956 Surveyor of Wood and Bark Arthur V. Pond
Veterans' Agent Ernest J. A. Bouchard
Registrars of Voters
Fred L. Kempton Term expires 1955 Asa B. Vear Term expires 1956
Joseph W. McEwen Term expires 1957
Albert S. Coleman, Clerk
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Finance Committee
Franklin E. Goodnow
Term expires 1955
Roy A. Barrows
Term expires 1956
Lee P. McFarland
Term expires 1957
Forest Committee
Charles F. Leonard
Term expires 1955
Harold F. Lowell
Term expires 1956
Norry J. Daige
Term expires 1957
Field Drivers
Alex Woleck W. Arthur Robinson
Edward Goss
Caucus Committee
Robert P. Congdon Philip W. Harding
George P. Hutchinson
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FINANCIAL REPORTS
MODERATOR-SALARY
Appropriation $25.00
Expended :
Roy A. Barrows
$25.00
SELECTMEN-SALARIES
Appropriation $700.00
Expended :
Harold Metcalf
$283.33
John L. Lundvall 200.00
Ernest P. Wood
216.67
Total expended $700.00
SELECTMEN-EXPENSES
Appropriation
$200.00
Expended :
Printing and postage $16.17
Lock Box 5.50
Cahill's News Agency 9.40
Milford Daily News 74.00
Dues-State and
County Association 21.00
Refund on license 15.00
Licenses and permits 4.42
Town maps 9.00
Railway Express Agency 2.24
Total expended
$156.73
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Unexpended 43.27
$200.00
TREASURER-SALARY
Appropriation $700.00
Expended :
Charles F. Leonard
$700.00
TREASURER-EXPENSES
Appropriation $200.00
Expended :
Postage, stationery .. $30.52
Hobbs & Warren, Inc. 5.61
State dues
2.00
Check books
28.80
Expenses to State
Meetings 17.50
Forbes Press
12.50
Preparing
Schedule A
15.00
Cahill's News Agcy.
44.10
Certification of
Note 2.00
Use of car
26.00
Miscellaneous
12.00
expenses
$196.03
Unexpended
$200.00
TAX TITLE FORECLOSURE
Appropriation
$36.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund
52.60
Total expended
3.97
Total $88.60
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Expended :
Shelley D. Vincent :
Services & expenses $45.00
Recording Fees
43.60
$88.60
TOWN ACCOUNTANT-SALARY
Appropriation $400.00
Expended :
Helen F. Irons $400.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT-EXPENSES
Appropriation
$50.00
Expended :
Mass. Division of Accounts
$48.90
Unexpended
1.10
$50.00
TOWN CLERK-SALARY
Appropriation $250.00
Expended :
Albert S. Coleman
$250.00
TOWN CLERK-EXPENSES
Appropriation $450.00
Expended :
Drummond Press $1.68
E. Jane Coleman
1.25
Cahill's News Agy. 1.00
Clarke Printing Co
52.00
Recording fees
84.00
Henry Twitchell
19.20
Dues & expenses, Town
Clerks' Meetings 103.50
10
Palley Office Supply 1.83
Karl Bright, insurance 10.00
Miscellaneous expenses 74.14
Total expended
$348.60
Unexpended
101.40
$450.00
TAX COLLECTOR-SALARY
Appropriation $925.00
Expended :
Arthur P. Dalton
$925.00
TAX COLLECTOR-EXPENSE
$250.00
Appropriation
Expended :
Barre Gazette,
supplies $66.48
Use of car
10.00
Forbes Press
8.50
Postage
85.00
Deputy Collector's
Bond
5.00
State Asso. Dues
2.00
Expenses to State
Meetings
25.00
Cahill's News Agency
4.60
Milford Daily News
6.40
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
16.47
Total Expended
$229.45
Unexpended 20.55
$250.00
ASSESSORS-SALARIES
Appropriation $700.00
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Expended :
Donald B. Lowell $200.00
D. Kinsley Barnes 200.00
Carl M. Taft, Clerk 300.00
Total Expended $700.00
ASSESSORS-EXPENSES
Appropriation $300.00
Expended :
Tax Tables
$1.00
Deed Abstracts 135.27
Hobbs & Warren Inc. 28.50
State & County
Assn. dues 9.00
D. Kinsley Barnes,
use of car
10.00
Carl M. Taft
10.00
Total Expended
$193.77
Unexpended
106.23
$300.00
ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS
Appropriation
$600.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund
542.93
Total $1,142.93
Expended :
Town Election Payroll $130.00
State Primary
Payroll 67.50
State Election
Payroll
184.38
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Street Listing
187.50
Cahill's News Agy.
10.50
Swan Printers 49.24
Clark Printing Co 257.25
Hobbs & Warren Inc.
29.46
Milford Daily News
79.85
Registrars' Salaries
140.00
Miscellaneous expense
7.25
Total Expended $1,142.93
TOWN COUNSEL-SALARY
Appropriation
$100.00
Expended :
Shelley D. Vincent
$100.00
TOWN COUNSEL-EXPENSE
Appropriation
$75.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund 63.15
$138.15
Expended :
Shelley D. Vincent $138.15
CLERICAL HIRE FOR TOWN OFFICERS
Appropriation 300.00
Expended :
Helen F. Irons
$294.08
Unexpended
5.92
$300.00
TOWN OFFICERS' BONDS
Appropriation $240.00
Expended :
Karl A. Bright
$210.09
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Unexpended 29.91
$240.00
TOWN HALL MAINTENANCE
Appropriation $900.00
Expended :
J. L. Hammett Co.,
Equipment
$92.40
M. M. Goodnow,
repairs
5.50
C. L. Goss,
repairs 44.10
Jesse White,
batteries 49.00
E. T. Powers, repairs
57.24
Raymond Dudley, janitor 480.00
Janitor's supplies 115.50
Lester Hill, repairs 16.82
Bottled gas
25.22
Total expended
$885.78
Unexpended
14.22
$900.00
RECORD ROOM MAINTENANCE
Appropriation
$375.00
Expended :
Carrie Marlow, janitor $50.00
Clark-Shaughnessy, fuel 87.35
Sub. Propane Gas
Corp., 80.86
Worc. Co. Elec. Co. 9.30
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N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 118.00
Cleaning typewriter 12.10
C. C. Shattuck,
supplies 1.25
Cahill's News Agcy. 2.37
Total expended
$361.23
Unexpended
13.77
$375.00
RECORD ROOM-GAS HEATER
Appropriation $236.00
Expended :
Merrimack Appliance Co. $232.70
Unexpended
3.30
$236.00
TOWN HALL WELL
Balance unexpended January 1, 1954 $56.32
Expended :
M. M. Goodnow Co. $56.32
HEAT AND LIGHTS, TOWN HALL,
FIRE STATION AND HIGHWAY BARN
Appropriation $3,000.00
Expended :
E. T. Powers, repairs $99.44
Worc. Co. Elec. Co. 187.64
H. J. Shaughnessy, fuel 2,042.10
Boiler inspection
10.00
Total expended $2,339.18
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Transferred to Veterans'
Benefits
537.00
Unexpended
123.82
$3,000.00
LOWER TOWN HALL REMOVAL OF PARTITION
Appropriation $2,000.00
Expended :
C. L. Goss
$1,940.20
Lester Hill 59.80
Total expended $2,000.00
CONSTABLE-SALARY
Appropriation
$25 00
Expended :
Harold C. Barrows
$25.00
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Appropriation
$3,500.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund 777.43
Total
$4,277.43
Expended :
C. C. Shattuck,
supplies $36.67
Wm. Casey Store Inc. 12.16
P. O. Furniture Co. 13.44
L. N. Jaques & Sons 4.50
Miro-Flex Co. 11.54
T. E. Morse Co. 1.70
Bradbury-Locke Co. 37.50
Officers' Payrolls 2,749.18
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Mileage
1,023.90
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
246.65
Milford Glass &
Mirror Co. 13.80
Nick J. Toches
13.00
Printing & postage
60.71
Harold Metcalf,
expenses 35.15
Mass. Police Chief's
Assn.
5.00
L. R. Berger
12.53
Total expended
$4,277.43
POLICE ROOM CONSTRUCTION
Balance unexpended January 1, 1954 $120.42
Expended :
Linwood Lumber Co. $8.15
Wm. Guertin 3.96
Milford Hardware Co. 6.35
Chester Stefanick
54.82
C. C. Shattuck
40.53
Bradbury-Locke Co.
6.61
Total expended $120.42
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund 21.81
Total
$2,021.81
Expended :
Payrolls 568.00
Sudbury Laboratory 24.50
Salaries
278.50
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Carrie Marlow,
test blowing 50.00
Lakeside Garage,
repairs 42.94
Worc. Co. Elec. Co.
33.00
Gasoline, oil, etc.
77.39
Nat. Fire Protection Assn.
8.00
Bigelow Waste Co.
24.64
Farrar Co., supplies
305.10
Niro & Niro Co.
142.50
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
248.20
Bouchard Radio
Service
16.15
E. L. Sabatinelli
& Son
200.00
Miscellaneous supplies 2.89
Total expended $2,021.81
FOREST FIRE DEPARTMENT
Appropriation
$500.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund 21.93
Total
$521.93
Expended :
Farrar Co., $170.00
H. F. Lowell, Warden 25.00
Pay rolls 311.00
Leonard N. Jaques
& Sons
15.93
Total expended $521.93
FIRE HOSE
Appropriation $500.00
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Expended :
Farrar Co. $500.00
DOG OFFICER
Appropriation $100.00
Expended :
William D. Rondeau,
board and dispos-
ing of 18 dogs
$77.00
William D. Rondeau,
salary and use
of car
15.00
Total expended $92.00
Unexpended 8.00
$100.00
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
Balance on hand January 1, 1954
$180.03
Expended :
Bouchard Radio Service $4.10
Balance on hand
December 31, 1954 175.93
$180.03
SEALER OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Appropriation
$50.00
Transfer from Reserve Fund 2.50
Total $52.50
Expended :
William D. Rondeau, salary and use of car $50.00
Miscellaneous expenses 2.50
$52.50
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WIRE INSPECTOR
Appropriation $80.00
Expended :
Walter J. Channing, salary
$80.00
BOARD OF HEALTH
Appropriation $1,500.00
Expended :
Ingham's General
Store $3.00
District Nursing Assn. 100.00
A. Woleck,
rent of dump
150.00
Labor and main- tenance of dump 745.00
E. F. Smith, M.D.,
Anti-rabic treatment $25.00
Milford Hospital 9.50
Keuffel & Esser Co. £ 166.75
Worc. Co. Treasurer,
sanatorium care 30.00
Pondville Hospital 70.00
M. M. Goodnow,
repairs-Town
Pump 11.25
Comm. of Mass.,
license 10.00
Total expended
$1,320.50
Unexpended
179.50
$1,500.00
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
Appropriation $150.00
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Expended :
Roy A. Barrows $150.00
INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
Appropriation $25.00
Expended :
Willard Seibert $25.00
DUTCH ELM DISEASE CONTROL
Appropriation $326.44
Expended :
P. A. Millis,
spraying $285.00
Wm. Nuttall,
salary & labor 41.25
Total expended $326.25
Unexpended .19
$326.44
INSECT PEST CONTROL
Appropriation
$652.87
Expended :
Wm. Nuttall, Salary
and use of car $15.75
P. A. Millis, spraying 637.00
Total expended $652.75
Unexpended .12
$652.87
TREE WARDEN
Appropriation
$1,300.00
Expended :
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William Nuttall,
salary
$12.00
Labor :
William Nuttall 354.00
George Blanchard 144.00
George Hutchinson
84.00
Harold Metcalf 200.00
Willard Mathewson
30.00
Linwood Mathewson
10.00
Clifford Mathewson
10.00
Earl Arnold,
power saw
110.00
Milford Daily News
5.82
Price-Fletcher Tree
Service
265.00
Total expended
$1,224.82
Unexpended
75.18
$1,300.00
HURRICANE DAMAGE-"CAROL"
Expenditures :
Labor
$3,115.75
Town Equipment
160.00
Hired Equipment
22.00
Power Saw
399.60
Total expended
$3,697.35
State reimbursement
2,980.05
Balance due Town
$717.30
HURRICANE DAMAGE-"EDNA"
Expenditures :
Labor
$341.60
Hired equipment
112.00
22
Material :
Rosenfeld Sand &
Gravel Co.
171.68
Upton Fuel Co. 261.50
Total expended $886.78
STREET LIGHTING
Appropriation $819.00
Expended :
Worcester Co. Elec. Co.
$819.00
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT GENERAL REPAIRS
$2,100.00
Appropriation
Expended :
Labor $1,192.76
Town Equipment 136.00
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 165.90
Rosenfeld Sand &
Stone Co.
13.05
Upton Fuel &
Const. Co.
30.25
Leonard Jaques & Son
29.36
C. C. Shattuck 9.11
Varney Bros. Sand
& Gravel Co. 54.00
Dues, State & County
Sup. Assn. 7.00
Earl Arnold, lumber 22.00
Smith Hwy. Equip. Co. 14.80
Clark-Shaughnessy Co. 35.63
E. T. Powers 16.98
Wm. H. Casey Store 25.97
Charles Norman
1.75
23
Mendon Auto Salvage 12.00
Guido Sabatinelli 20.00
William Bowen 3.98
Harold Barrows, Jr.
81.30
Files Equip. Co. 77.85
Walnut Farm Inc. 14.00
Allan Marker Co. 100.84
Ingham's Gen. Store 6.00
W. G. Fiske Co.
.48
Bradbury-Locke Co.
5.70
Corbett Concrete
Pipe Co.
11.26
Total expended
$2,087.97
Unexpended 12.03
$2,100.00
SNOW REMOVAL
Appropriation
$6,000.00
Expended :
Labor $1,698.05
Town Equipment
1,309.80
Hired Equipment 1,472.75
Rosenfeld Sand &
Stone Co. 526.70
The Chemical Corp. 939.50
Upton Fuel &
Const. Co. 37.20
Mendon Auto Salvage 16.00
Total expended
$6,000.00
NEW PICK-UP TRUCK
Appropriation from Road Machinery Fund $1,400.00
Expended :
Blackstone Garage $1,374.40
24
Milford Daily News 3.75
Ingham's Gen. Store 15.00
Total expended $1,393.15
Unexpended
6.85
$1,400.00
CHAPTER 81
Town Appropriation
$3,700.00
State Allotment
10,175.00
Total $13,875.00
Expended :
Labor
$5,955.85
Town Equipment
2,210.10
Hired Equipment
782.70
H. A. Daniels Co.,
Insurance
452.84
Rosenfeld Sand &
Stone Co.
818.38
Trimount Bituminous
Products
2,334.03
Corbett Concrete
Pipe Co. 61.20
Upton Fuel &
Const. Co.
1,252.68
Roland Temple,
blasting
7.18
Total expended
$13,874.96
Unexpended
.04
$13,875.00
CHAPTER 90 MAINTENANCE
Town Appropriation
$1,200.00
25
State Allotment
1,200.00
County Allotment 1,200.00
$3,600.00
Expended :
Labor
$347.75
Town Equipment
287.45
Trimount Bituminous
Products
2,516.03
Rosenfeld Sand &
Stone Co.
448.77
Total Expended
$3,600.00
CHAPTER 90 CONSTRUCTION
- 1953
Unexpended Balance January 1, 1954
$974.57
Expended :
Labor $396.20
Town Equipment
195.00
Hired Equipment
360.00
H. A. Daniels Co.,
Insurance
22.98
Total expended
$974.18
Unexpended
.39
$974.57
CHAPTER 90 CONSTRUCTION - 1954
Town Appropriation
$2,500.00
State Allotment 5,000.00
County Allotment
2,500.00
Total $10,000.00
Expended :
Labor $2,172.10
Town Equipment
792.00
26
Hired Equipment
2,079.75
Upton Fuel &
Const. Co. 3,420.60
Roland Temple,
blasting
23.66
N. E. Metal Culvert
Company
462.89
Corbett Concrete
Pipe Co.
336.00
Rosenfeld Sand &
Stone Co.
46.96
Trimount Bituminous
Products 541.73
A. Ferrucci
5.00
H. A. Daniels Co., Insurance 118.81
Total expended
$9,999.50
Unexpended .50
$10,000.00
DRAINAGE-HARTFORD AVENUE, WEST
Appropriation
$500.00
Expended :
Labor
$164.00
Town Equipment 42.00
Hired Equipment 39.00
Corbett Concrete
Pipe Co. 239.94
Medway Block Co.
14.40
Total expended
$499.34
Unexpended .66
$500.00
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TAFT AVENUE-CONSTRUCTION
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Expended :
Labor $490.80
Town Equipment 190.80
Hired Equipment 598.50
Upton Fuel &
Const. Co.
494.12
Corbett Concrete
Pipe Co. 64.90
Trimount Bituminous
Products 160.88
Total expended
$2,000.00
Unexpended 1,000.00
$3,000.00
ROAD MACHINERY-MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS
Transferred from Road Machinery Fund $3,200.00
Expended :
Lakeside Garage $412.61
Perkins-Milton Co. 9.89
Mendon Gulf Station 886.52
H. A. Daniels Co.,
Insurance 121.11
Donald B. Lowell,
Insurance 42.60
Karl Bright Ins. Agy. 138.83
Home Nat'l. Bank,
note and interest 1,012.50
Bowker-Hamblin-
Malmquist 274.17
Upton Fuel &
Const. Co. 9.75
Henley-Kimball Co. 3.70
28
Kelly Farm Equip. Co. 89.37
Vater's Garage 3.00
O'Grady Service
Station
68.75
Blackstone Garage
2.00
Milford Glass &
Mirror Co. 6.75
Turnpike Auto Parts
10.00
Jesse White 10.75
Mendon Auto Salvage
71.28
Total expended
$3,173.58
Unexpended 26.42
$3,200.00
ROAD MACHINERY FUND
Balance January 1, 1954
$4,936.95
Transferred to :
Road Machinery -
Maintenance and
Repairs
$3,200.00
New Pick-up Truck
Account
1,400.00
Total transfers
4,600.00
Balance
$336.95
Paid to Town Treasurer for use of equipment :
Hurricane "Carol"' ..
$160.00
Chapter 81
2,210.10
Chapter 90 Const.
987.00
Chapter 90 Maint.
287.45
General Repairs
136.00
Snow Removal
1,309.80
Board of Health
Hartford Ave. W.,
48.00
29
Drainage 42.00
Taft Avenue Const. 190.80
Miscellaneous Rentals 65.00
Total receipts
$5,436.15
Unexpended balances
33.27
$5,469.42
Balance December 31, 1954
$5,806.37
BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE-SALARIES
Appropriation $45.00
Expended :
Harold Metcalf $15.00
John L. Lundvall 15.00
Ernest P. Wood 15.00
Total expended $45.00
PUBLIC WELFARE-TEMPORARY AID
Appropriation
$6,000.00
Expended :
(Mendon Settlement)
Three persons in
own homes $912.58
One person in Rest Home 1,483.02
One person in other
Town 124.00
One family in other
Town 15.00
$2,534.60
(Settlement Other Towns)
One person boarding $28.00 Five families in own
30
homes 2,107.50
2,135.50
(No Settlement-Chargeable to State) Two persons in own
homes
554.85
(Disability Assistance)
Two persons in own
homes
512.90
(Administration)
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
$12.45
United Community
Services
10.00
Hobbs & Warren Inc.
5.06
27.51
Total expended
$5,765.36
Unexpended
234.64
$6,000,00
Proportionate share of above expenses :
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