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registrars, high- way dept., sewer comissioners, town clerk, tax collector, police dept., board of health, official, specimen and spec- ial ballots and sup- plies, $503 49
$1,783 69
Southbridge Herald, town warrants, town note blanks, town order books, list of jurors, tax warrants, no- tices, letter heads, envelopes, cards, binding valuation lists, supplies, 108 75
Hobbs Title Co., records and ab-
stracts for assessors, 27 60
The Rockwell & Churchill Press, license blanks, 8 40
The Davis Press, license blanks, 4 50
U. M. Srcrepaniak, Polish sum- mons to poll tax payers, 2 60
Wakefield Daily Item, moth no- tices, 2 00
$1,937 54
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $267 27
105
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
PUBLIC BAND CONCERTS
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$200 00
EXPENDITURES.
Southbridge Brass Band, $200 00 .
000 00
RAILING HIGHWAYS
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$400 00 .
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn, Feb. 1, 1909, $1 97
A. Langevin, men, labor, teams, 106 32
A. Girard, labor and supplies,
· 95 00
Alexis Boyer, labor and supplies,
89 25
J. M. & L. D. Clemence, lumber, 80 71
Ide Lumber Co., lumber,
9 11
A. Farland, labor and supplies,
3 90
Geo. S. Stone, labor and sup- plies, 2 25
Theodore St. Onge, sulphur, 1 10
P. H. Carpenter Co., supplies, 60
G. C. Winter, supplies,
28
$390 49
Balance to credit of account, Feb. 1, 1910, $9 51
106
REPORT OF AUDITORS
RIVER AND MILL STREET BRIDGES
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account, Feb.
1,1909, $662 77
Appropriation,
617 77
$1,280 54
EXPENDITURES
Blanchard Bros.
Granite Co.,
paid on account ou bill of Jan. 10, 1909, $1,088 00
American Optical Co., services of engineer, 181 04
Edward Egan, labor and supplies,
19 50
$1,280 54
0,000 00
ROAD COMMITTEE
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$1,000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures, 000 00
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1910, $1,000 00
107
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
SALARIES
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account Feb.
1,1909,
$568 65
Appropriation, 6,000 00
$6,568 65
EXPENDITURES.
Board of Assessors --
Joseph Gagnon, $452 56
Joseph A. Allard, 442 50
W. H. McGilpin, 335 00
P. H. Fitzpatrick, balance
of salary, 1908, 32 50
$1,262 50
Plumbing Inspector -
A. R. Brown, 900 00
Selectmen-
C. Fred Hill,
H. P. Colburn, 650 00
J. G. E. Page,
Tax Collector-
E. D. Desrosier, tax collector 1908, 600 00
Treasurer-
John A. Hall, 500 00
Auditors-
Geo. H. Clemence,
Philias X. Casavant, 450 00
Arthur Cabana.
108
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Overseers of Poor -- Napoleon Giroux, L. W. Curtis, A. L. Desaulniers.
$450 00
Town Counsel-
J. C. F. Wheelock, 400 00
Sewer Commissioners-
James K. Egan,
W. J. Lamoureux, 300 00
H. C. Cady.
Board of Registrars-
Moses Gagnon, $71 20
J. J. O'Shaughnessy, 71 20
S. D. Perry, 71 20
W. W. Buckley, 71 20
284 80
Sealer of Weights and Measures-
E. E. Gabree,
$194 20
D. T. Morrill, (1908) 70 30 264 50
Board of Health- J. Anatole Caron,
J. A. Genereux, M. D., 150 00
George Webster, M. D.,
Cattle Inspector-
J. A. Genereux, M. D., 125 00
Meat Inspector-
John Halpin, 125 00
109
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Care of Town Clock-
George T. Armes, 25 00
$6,486 80
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $81 85
SIDEWALK REPAIRS
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation, $2,500 00
A. Langevin, labor and supplies, 113 29
$2613 29
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909, $618 30
A. Langevin-
Men and labor,
$891 28
Teams,
369 77
Freight charges, 21 45
$1,282 50
G. C. Winter, supplies,
231 04
M. N. Cartier & Sons Co., tar, asphalt, pitch,
214 73
D. Langevin, cement,
79 20
J. M. & L. D. Clemence, lumber, 34 64
Gilbert Theriault,
21 00
$2,481 41
Balance to credit of account, Feb. 1, 1910, $131 88
110
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
SINKING FUND
RECEIPTS
Balance to credit of account Feb.
1, 1909,
$18,079 86
Appropriation, 750 00
Interest of City of Augusta bonds, 640 00
Interest on deposit, 30 30
$1,9500 16
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures, 000 00
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1910, $19,500 16
SOLDIERS' RELIEF
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, $1,800 00
Overpaid order to E. C. Ellis, 7 50
State treasurer, 74 00
$1,881 50
EXPENDITURES
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909, $295 55
Cash orders to
Fabien Lescarbeau, $96 00
Agnes Murphy, 96 00
Edward Egan, 90 00
Mrs. Cain, 76 00
111
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Mrs. Lamontagne,
$72 00
Ellen Gallaway,
60 00
Mary J. Sayles,
48 00
Julius Trembley
48 00
Charles Horton,
30 00
Samuel Young,
15 00
Mary J. Holmes,
10 00
Laura E. Reynolds,
10 00
$651 00
J. R. Harris & Son, goods to
Mrs. Mary J. Wells, $129 91
Mrs. Abby Stone, 111 71
241 62
Jos. E. Williams, goods to Charles Horton, 120 00
E. C. Ellis, goods to
Samuel Young, $45 50
Mrs. M. J. Holmes 30 00
Charles Horton, 15 00
C. A. Wesson, 15 00
C. L. Newhall, 5 00
C. L. Newhall, rent, 4 00
114 50
A. D. Cornell, goods to
Harriet Armes, $46 00
Mary J. Holmes, 38 25
C. A. Wesson, 15 00
Samuel Young, 14 50
113 75
Johnson, Colburn Co., goods to
T. C. Merritt, $15 50
Julius Trembley, 15 00
Mrs. F. Wilden, 10 00
112
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
C. L. Newhall, $5 00
Mrs. Annie Kind, 3 35
$48 85
Wm. P. Plimpton, burial of M. Reynolds, 37 00
A. L. Hyde, rent to C. L. Newhall, 22 00
Thos. Hughes, goods to T. C. Merritt, 15 00
A. J. McCrea, M. D., medical aid to
Mrs. A. Stone, 7 00
--
$1,666 27
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1910, $215 23
STATE AID
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account Feb.
1,1909,
$153 03
State Treasurer,
1,124 00
$1,277 03
EXPENDITURES.
Edward Egan,
$72 00
Edward Hamilton,
72 00
Israel Leduc,
72 00
T. C. Merritt,
72 00
C. L. Newhall,
72 00
113
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Albert Sanders,
$72 00
Samuel Young,
72 00
Harriet Armes,
48 00
Sarah W. Bacon,
48 00
Sarah S. Dillaber,
48 00
Ellen Hamilton,
48 00
Daniel Hancock,
48 00
Lucy Rumrill,
48 00
Sarah Ryan,
48 00
Abby Stone,
48 00
Thomas Welch,
48 00
Mary J. Wells,
48 00
Margaret Williams,
48 00
Mary A. Williamson,
48 00
Mary J. Holmes,
44 00
Annie A. Kind,
36 00
Geo. Eccleston burial of
37 00
Mary J. Holmes burial of
37 00
Laura E. Reynolds,
32 00
Monroe Reynolds,
4 00
$1,270 00
Balance to credit of account, Feb. 1, 1910, $7 03
STREET LIGHTS
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Cliff street light,
$8,500 00 45 00
$8,545 00
114
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
EXPENDITURES
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909, $5 56
Webster & Southbridge Gas and
Electric Co., 7,772 04
$7,777 60
Balance to credit of account,
Feb. 1, 1910, $767 40
THOMAS STREET
RECEIPTS
Balance to credit of account, Feb.
1, 1909, $0 11
EXPENDITURES
Transferred to unappropriated funds, $0 11
$0 00
TOWN HALL CONTINGENT
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation, $1,500 00 High school transfer, 600 00 Rents, 380 20
$2,480 20
115
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
EXPENDITURES
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909,
$316 82
P. Caplette, janitor, $720 00
Labor, 48 86
768 86
Webster & Southbridge Gas & Electric Co., lights, 335 66
E. C. Ellis, coal, 223 25
Southbridge Water Supply Co., water, 80 00
J. M. & L. D. Clemence, tables, 25 45
G. C. Winter, labor and supplies, 17 44
Southbridge Roofing Co., labor and supplies 16 51
Oldham .& Ranahan Co., labor and supplies, 14 05
Initial Clean Towel Co., towel supply, 12 00
Gedeon Pinsonneault, Jr., wood, 9 00
Robert Wardle, labor and supplies, 8 25
W. E. Draper, labor and supplies, 7 85
M. Egan, labor and supplies,
6 50
Louis Hetu,
4 35
W. J. Lamoureux, supplies, 3 68
Southbridge Electrical Contract-
ing Co., labor and supplies, 3 05
The Blake Bank Lock Inspectlon
Co., repairing lock on vault, 2 00
N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co., tolls, 1 15
Aime Langevin, labor, 88
116
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Geo. S. Stone Co., labor and sup- plies, 50
$1,857 25
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $622 95
TOWN POUND
RECEIPTS
Balance to credit of account Feb.
1, 1909, $50 00
EXPENDITURES
Expenditures, 00 00
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1910, $50 00
i
UNAPPROPRIATED FUNDS
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account Feb.
1 1909,
$3,962 54
Liquor licenses,
16,500 00
Corporation tax,
11,490 25
Sidewalk assessments,
1,264 51
Additional taxes, 1,067 60
Licenses, 834 05
Transferred from militia account, 513 73
Sealer of weights and measures, 122 47
117
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Rent of engine house,
$45 00
Stone from engine house,
25 00
Hose reel,
15 00
Transferred from Caron street account,
1 59
Transferred from Thomas street account,
11
Police record clocks.
197 95
$36,039 80
EXPENDITURES.
Transferred to
Common schools,
$19,000 00
High school,
5,100 00
State Treasurer, ¿ liquor li-
censes,
4,126 50
Fire department,
1,200 00
Contingent,
1,000 00
Pine street sidewalk,
733 82
Pleasant street sidewalk,
555 43
Culverts,
111 35
Hamilton street sidewalk,
39 16
Clark street,
34 19
Bacon district,
26 57
Cross street gutter.
13 51
$31,940 53
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1910, $4,099 27
WATER SUPPLY
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$3,200 00
1
118
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909, $84 55 Southbridge Water Supply Co., Hydrants, 2,897 87 200 00
Fountains,
$3,182 42
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $17 58
SEWERS
' SEWER CONTINGENT
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account,
Feb. 1, 1909, $41 60
Snow street sewer pipes, 28 00
Brochu street sewer pipes, 19 20
Appropriation, 1,000 00
$1,088 80
EXPENDITURES.
Nap. Berthiaume, care of filter beds, $600 00
Chas. H. Sibley, admr. of C. A.
Dresser estate, land damages, 100 00
Harold L. Bond Co., supplies, 61 90
Southbridge Sewer Com- missioners, labor,
men and teams,
48 45
W. J. Lamoureux, sup-
plies, $41 55
Stamps and stationery, 5 00
46 55
Southbridge Fire Depart- ment, 100 feet hose, 25 00
J. A. Whittaker, labor and supplies, 22 10
120
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Ide Lumber Co., two tool
boxes,
$11 85
Lumber, 25
12 10
B. J. Proulx, labor and. supplies,
10 82
Weld & Beck, supplies,
9 53
Oldham & Ranahan, supplies, 3 60
J. M. & L. D. Clemence, lumber, 2 00
$942 05
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $146 75
Orders outstanding Feb. 1, 1910, 9 53
BROCHU STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Transferred from Sayles street
sewer, $209 29
EXPENDITURES.
Sewer Commissioners, men and
labor, $129 27
Sewer contingent, pipes,
19 20
J. A. Whittaker, lines and grades,
14 50
G. C. Winter, supplies,
12 83
Lovely street sewer, pipes, 10 20
M. Igan & Son, 1000 bricks,
10 00
P. Benoit, labor, self and man,
5 10
Napoleon Berthiaume, labor, 2 80
W. P. Richardson, labor,
2 20
121
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Marble's Express, sand,
$1 75
Joseph Lippe, supplies,
1 44
$209 29
000 00
CHAPIN STREET AND GODDARD COURT SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Receipts,
000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909,
$2,195 44
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1910,
$2,195 44
DEAN STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Transferred from Sayles street sewer, $108 58
EXPENDITURES
Sewer commissioners, men and labor,
$44 01
Lovely street sewer pipes, 19 44
M. Egan & Son, 1250 bricks, 12 50
J. A. Whittaker, lines and grades,
12 50
G. C. Winter, supplies,
9 78
Pierre Benoit, labor self and man, 5 95
122
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
W. P. Richardson, labor and supplies, $1 95 Marble's Express, sand, 1 75
Nap. Berthiaume, trucking, 70
$108 58
000 00
ELM STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS. 1
Balance to credit of account,
Feb 1, 1909, $93 20
Assessments collected, 1909, 413 28
$506 48
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures, 000 00
Balance to credit of account, Feb. 1, 1910, $506 48
FILTRATION AREA
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by notes 1903, $37,500 00
Less credits 1908, 1,500 00
$36,000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures, Feb. 1, 1909,
$44,048 27
123
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
H. B. Montague, professional ser- vices,
77 10
$44,125 37
Account overdrawn, Feb. 1, 1910, $8,125 37
HAMILTON STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS. T
Receipts,
$000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn, Feb. 1, 1909, $630 16
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1910, $630 16
HIGH AND MILL STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Balance to eredit of account Feb.
1,1909, $42 97
Assessments collected, 1909, 35 00
$77 97
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures, 00 00
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $77 97
124
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
LOVELY STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation, $3,053 00
Brochu street sewer pipes, 10 20
Dean street sewer pipes, 19 44
North street sewer pipes, 20 16
$3,102 80
EXPENDITURES.
Transferred to West and Collier
street sewer, Sept. 28, 1909, $1,100 00 Sewer commissioners, payroll men and labor, 1,023 01
G. C. Winter, labor, pipes, twine, stoppers, cement, supplies, 290 35
M. P. O'Shaughnessy, insurance on liabilities in sewer con- struction, 135 00
J. A. Whittaker, staking lines and grades, inspection, as- sessments. records and deeds, 85 75
M. Egan & Son, bricks, $67 00 Team hire. 2 00
69 00
Session Foundry Co., frames and covers, 53 79
F. E. Northup, team hire, 35 50
Marble's Express, gravel, sand and freight, and cartage, 35 26
Pierre Benoit, men and labor, 30 30
B. J. Proulx & Son, labor and supplies, 26 00
125
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Harold L. Bond Co., dynamite and exploders, $12 23
W. C. Lewis, supplies, 5 62
The Ide Lumber Co., lumber, 4 80
Annie M. Ethier, logs for cover- ing blasts, 3 00
W. J. Lamoureux, supplies, 2 90
Southbridge Press, pay envelopes, 1 00
$2,913 51
Balance to credit of acconnt,
Feb. 1, 1910, $189 29
MAIN AND MAPLE STREETS SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account, Feb. 1, 1909, $7 83 .
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures,
$0 00
Balance to credit of account, Feb. 1, 1910, $7 83
MAIN AND CROSS STREETS SEWER
RECEIPTS.
$000 00
Appropriation,
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures,
$299 45
Account overdrawn, Feb. 1, 1910, $299 45
126
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
MAIN AND SAYLES STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account, Feb.
1, 1909, $173 15
Assessments collected, 1909, 395 21
$568 36
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures, $000 00
Balance to credit of account,
Feb. 1, 1910, $568 36
MARCY STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Assessments collected 1909,
$107 30
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn Feb 1, 1909, $392 72
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1910, $285 42
MECHANICS STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Assessments collected, 1909, $944 53 --
127
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909, $8,103 79 C. E. Trumbull, reserve on contract, $500 00
Less Langevin's re- pairs, 104 24
395 76
A. Langevin, repairs of tar walk,
92 13
Denis Langevin, repairs of cnlvert, 12 11
J. A. Whittaker, measurements and calculations for sewer assessments,
39 50
$8,643 29
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1910,
$7,698 76
NORTH STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Transferred from Sayles street
sewer, Sept. 28, 1909, $167 93
EXPENDITURES.
Sewer Commissioners, payroll, men and labor, $102 14
Lovely street sewer, pipes, 20 16
G. C. Winter, supplies, 13 37
M. Egan & Son, bricks,
12 50
J. A. Whittaker, line and grades, 10 50
P. Benoit, labor; self and man, 3 40
128
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Sidewalk Repair Account, repair-
ing crosswalk on North street, 3 06
Marble's Express, sand,
1 75
Nap. Berthiaume, trucking, 1 05
$167 93
$000 00
NORTH AND FOSTER STREETS SEWER
Appropriation,
000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn, Feb. 1, 1909, $1,358 50
Account overdrawn, Feb. 1, 1910, $1,358 50
OUTLET SEWER PIPE
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by notes 1908, $9,000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Expenditures Feb. 1, 1909, $7,853 40 G. M. Bryne, to balance due as reserve fund on outlet pipe contract, 500 00
129
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Board of selectmen, paid on ac- count for land taken from Southbridge Printing Co., 200 00
A. E. Vinton, land damages, 100 00
J. A. Whittaker, self and man, labor, plans, surveys, 75 25
$8,728 65
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $271 35
SAYLES STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$3,400 00
Snow street sewer, 15 00
$3,415 0-
EXPENDITURES.
Transferred to, (Vote of town meeting Sept. 28, 1903) Brochu street sewer, $209 29
Dean street sewer, 108 58
North street sewer,
167 93
Snow street sewer, 406 43
West and Collier
street sewer,
300 00
$1,192 23
Sewer commissioners, payroll men and labor, 1,418 77
M. P O'Shaugnessy, insurance on liabilities in sewer construc- tion, 135 00
Oldham & Ranahan, pipes and
130
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
stoppers, $115 17
J. A. Whittaker, lines and grades, 69 25
M. Egan & Son, bricks, 50 00
B. J. Proulx & Son labor and supplies, 46 98
Harold L. Bond Co., dynamite and exploders, 46 49
Session Foundry Co., frames and covers, 40 00
G. C. Winter, cement and sup- plies, 38 86
F. E. Northup, team hire, 26 00
Pierre Benoit, labor, 16 80
Peter Giroux, labor,
12 25
Marble's Express, sand,
8 75
Ide Lumber Co., lumber,
3 45
Annie M. Ethier, logs for cover- ing blasts, 3 00
A. Lavallee, house rent for storing, 2 00
W. C. Lewis, supplies, 1 20
Southbridge Press, pay envelopes,
1 00
- - $3,227 20
Balance to credit of account, Feb. 1, 1910, $187 80
SNOW STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Transferred Sayles street sew- er, Sept. 28, 1909, $406 43
131
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
EXPENDITURES.
Sewer Commissioners, payroll, men and labor, $229 34
J. A. Whittaker, lines, grades, assessments, plan and deeds,
34 00
Sewer Contingent, pipes, 28 00
M. Egan & Son, bricks,
25 00
Napoleon Berthiaume, labor, self and team, 20 65
G. C. Winter, supplies,
18 13
Session Foundry Co., supplies,
15 63
Sayles Street Sewer, pipes,
15 00
Pierre Benoit, labor, self and man,
6 58
W. P. Richardson, labor,
6 55
Aimee Langevin, supplies,
2 80
Harold L. Bond, dynamite and exploders,
2 75
Marble's express, cartage,
2 00
$406 43
000 00
SOUTH STREET SEWER
RECEIPTS.
Assessments collected 1909,
$462 72
EXPENDITURES
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1909, $904 37
John Butler, repair of house, 23 18
$927 55
Account overdrawn, Feb. 1 1910,
$464 83
132
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
WEST AND COLLIER STREET SEWER
1
RECEIPTS.
Transferred from
Lovely street sewer Sept., 28, 1909, $1,100 00
Sayles street sewer Sept. 28, 1909, 300 00
$1,400 00
EXPENDITURES.
Sewer commissioners, payroll
men and labor, $746 26
G. C. Winter, cement, sewer pipes, supplies, 271 13
J. A. Whittaker, lines, grades,
elevations, inspections, records,
71 00
M. Egan & Son, brick, 50 00
Session Foundry Co., supplies,
49 27
Oldham & Ranahan Co., supplies,
26 75
Napoleon Berthiaume, labor,
trucking,
$22 35
Marble's Express, gravel, $13 50 Cartage, 4 95
B. J. Proulx, labor and supplies, 17 25
Pierre Benoit, labor, 17 25
Harold L. Bond, dynamite and exploders, 9 41
Edmond Richard, labor, 6 70
The Ide Lumber Co., lumber, 3 71
Albert Lavalle, oil and trucking,
2 78
John Moriarty, sand, 1 50
$1,313 81
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $86 19
Outstanding orders Feb. 1, 1910, 49 35
AUDITORS' CERTIFICATE.
The undersigned, Auditors of the Town of South- bridge, hereby certify that we have examined the books, accounts and vouchers of the Treasurer, and of each of the several Boards of the town officers author- ized to draw orders upon the Town Treasury, as re- quired by the By-Laws of the Town, and find that the several items contained in each of the accounts pre- sented in each of the foregoing reports of receipts and expenditures are correct and properly vouched for.
GEORGE H. CLEMENCE, PHILIAS X. CASAVANT, ARTHUR CABANA.
TABLE OF ACCOUNTS.
ACCOUNTS.
Appropria- tions and receipts
Expendi- tures
Unex- pended.
Over- drawn
Appropria- ticas
Abatement Taxes
$3,431 81
$1,107 65
$1,964 16
$1,000 00
Bridges .
1,600 00
1,194 05
405 95
1,000 00
Bacon District Road
26 57
26 57
Camp Ponce.
50 00
50 00
50 00
Caron Street Grading.
1 59
1 59
Cemetery Fund.
16,801 75
16,801 75
161 95
750 00
Clark Street.
34 19
34 19
Contingent
6,275 10
5,667 04
608 06
6,500 00
Contingent Schools
4,227 97
4,132 46
95 51
4,500 00
Common Schools.
20,267 16
17,905 62
2,361 54
19,500 00
Cross Street Gutter
13 51
13 51
Culverts.
17 55
17 55
District Court Fees
2,108 94 400 00
389 17
10 83
Enforcement Liquor Law
1,799 09
1,799 09
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25 21
3,920 00
Electrician
200 00
200 00
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Evening Schools.
700 00
663 90
36 10
700 00
Fire Department,
4.751 95
4,631 63
120 32
4,000 00
Foster Street Sidewalk.
465 00
451 01
10 99
Goddard Court Land Damages
200 00
200 00
Hamilton Street Paving
2,908 01
2,908 01
Hamilton Street Sidewalk
39 16
39 16
Highways
10,469 89
10,143 86
326 03
8,000 00
High School.
5,724 93
5,026 83
698 10
5,100 00
Insurance.
2,800 00
2,797 48
2 52
1,500 00
Interest
8,276 20
6,826 80
1,449 40|
6,000 00
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812 01
1,296 93
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Engine Men
3,944 21
3,919 00
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Cemetery Improvements
1,365 00
1,526 95
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Almshouse Water Supply
41 75
41 75
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Dresser Street Sidewalk.
200 00
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Main Street Bridge
9,500 00
9,500 00
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Main Street Sidewalk ..
1,600 00
1,599 23
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Marcy Street Sidewalk
2,061 9
2,056 03
5 96
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150 00
150 00
150 00
Military Aid
795 29
599 57
600 00
Militia ...
513 73
513
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Morris Street Culvert.
80
93 80
Mynott Fund.
1,042 02
38 70
1,003 32
Outside Poor ..
6,687 05
6,406 1
280 88
6,000 00
Pine Street Sidewalk
733 82
733 82
Pleasant Street Sidewalk
555 43
555 43
Police Department.
6,705 08
5,855 51
849 57
5,500 00
Police Station
720 00
570 73
149 27
600 00
Printing.
2,205 26
1,937 54
267 72
2,400 00
Public Band Concerts.
200 00
200 00
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390 67
D.F.2000 00
Railing Highways ..
400 CO
390 49
9 51
400 00
Repairs Farm Buildings.
100 00
53 08
46 92
100 00
River and Mill Street Bridges.
1,280 54
1,280 54
Road Committee.
1,000 00
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6,568 65
6,486 80
81 85
1 85
250 00
School Apparatus
257 10
258 95
Sewers :-
Contingent.
1,088 80
942 05
146 75
1,000 00
Brochu Street.
209 29
209 29
Chapin Street and Goddard Court
Dean Street ..
108 58
108 58
Elm Street.
506 48
506 48
Filtration Area ..
36,000 00
44,125 27
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3,102 801
2,913 51
189 29
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High and Mill Streets.
77 97
630 16
630 16
Hamilton Street.
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8,125 37
7,200 00
Salaries
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2,195 44
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Main and Maple Streets
7 83
7 83
Main and Cross Streets.
299 45
299 45
Main and Sayles Street ..
568 36
568 36
Marcy Street
107 30
392 72
285 42
Mechanics Street
944 53
8,643 29
7,698 76
North Street.
167 93
167 93
Outlet Pipe.
9,000 00
8,728 65
271 35
Sayles Street
3,415 00
3,227 20
187 80
Snow Street ..
406 43
406 43
South Street ..
462 72
927 55
West and Collier Streets.
1,400 00
1,313 81
86 19
Sidewalk Repairs
2,613 29
2,481 41
131 88
2,000 00
Sinking Fund.
19,500 16
19,500 16
750 00
Soldiers' Relief
1,881 50
1,666 27
215 23
1,500 00
State Aid.
1,277 03
1,270 00
7 03
Street Lights.
8,545 00
7,777 60
767 40
10,000 00
Support Poor.
5,445 68
4,761 07
684 61
2,000 00
Thomas Street.
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2,480 20
1,857 25
622 95
R. 1,200 00
Town Pound.
50 00
50 00
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36,039 80
31,940 53
4,099 27
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3,182 42
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Water Supply.
3,600 00
Obligations to be provided for in the Tax Levy for 1910
11,500 00
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN
The year 1909 will remain in the annals of Southbridge as a year of exceptional importance. For years back the Town has gone on, its officers following the routine traditions of their predecessors, letting the old machine roll along in a rickety manner over rocks and down into mud-holes. That condition had allowed many irregularities in the municipal government. · Business principles, even those of a most primary nature, seem to have been banished from Town Hall. But there has been an awakening, fellow citizens, and it has been the more painful because the slumber had been so deep.
The Investigating Committee appointed at the Spring town meeting had done a lot of work, it had begun to realize that the condition just mentioned existed and what a tremendous amount of waste had been accumulating for years, but, to be sure of it and impelled forward by what had been discovered so far as it had gone, it needed more power, it needed author- ization to investigate the doings of other years than 1908, to search for the secret springs that
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had kept the machine going. The vote in the Spring had unintentionally limited the investi- gation to 1908 but at a special meeting, in September, a motion was made to extend the powers of the committee to any year that they thought necessary to go into. The stubborn opposition of a few citizens to this motion ought to be well remembered as the last struggle against new blood coming in. We hope, in all sincerity, that those men were honest in their purpose but events have proven that they were wrong.
Overconfidence in one man, or in one group of men, has been disastrous to this community and it is up to the electorate to see that the lesson taught us this year be profitable in the future. Luckily the defalcations of the deposed ex-Treasurer of the Town will not affect us very much, as the expert accountant's report shows an apparent loss of only $877.00. - The disaster to the Savings Bank, by reason of which the depositors lost heavily, was another great calamity to the Town and was a natural sequence of or accompaniment to the slack condition of affairs at Town Hall.
The Bank has brought suit against the Town for $50,000 on the presumption that the Town owes for some notes which were entered as paid in the books of both the town and the bank. Whatever may be the outcome of this suit the town is protected by a bond given by the ex-Treasurer. We, your representatives, have decided to fight this suit, looking, as has been our constant endeavor during our term of office, towards the best interests and progress of
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