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ART. 44. To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 423, Acts of 1909, relative to sale of ice cream, confectionery, soda water and fruit on the Lord's day, or act thereon.
ART. 45. To see if the town will vote to establish one incandescent electric light on Main street about half way between Union and Cross streets, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by publishing an attested copy thereof twice in the South- bridge Press and Southbridge Herald, the first publi- cation being not less than nine days next preceding the day of the meeting,-or by posting up such attest- ed copies in four conspicuous public places within the Town at least nine days, including Sundays-before the day of holding said meeting. The polls will be open at 6 o'clock, A. M., and close at 4 o'clock, P. M.
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TOWN WARRANT.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this War- rant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place hereinbefore named.
Given under our hands this 10th day of March A. D., 1910.
C. FRED HILL,
Selectmen
HARRY P. COLBURN, of
J. G. E. PAGE, Southbridge.
A true copy attest :
GEORGE A. GRAVELINE, Constable.
APPENDIX
(TO TOWN TREASURER'S ACCOUNT)
In the preceding report there is shown to be due the town the following amounts :
Cash on hand and in bank, $15,796 87
Cash held by Southbridge Savings bank, 781 46
Notes held by town treasurer,
400 00
J. A. Hall, balancing account, 877 13
Due from Olney, 1904 taxes,
2,674 99
Due from E. D. Derosier, 1909 taxes,
11,920 14
$32,450 59
To these amounts should be added:
Due for sidewalk assessments,- 1,650 12
Due for sewer assessments, 10,481 00
$44,581 71
The detail of amounts due the town for assess- ments on sewers and sidewalks is shown in the report on sewers.
INDEX.
Auditors' Report :-
Abatement Taxes 64
Almshouse water supply 36
Bacon district repairs 65
Bridges 65
Camp Ponce 65
Caron street grading 66
Cemetery fund 31
Cemetery improvements 31
Clark street. 66
Contingent 66
Common schools. 55
Contingent schools 57
Cross street gutter 78
Culverts 78
District court fees 78
Dresser street sidewalk 82
Electrician
83
Enforcement liquor law 83
Engine men 84
Evening schools 61
Fire department 84
Foster street sidewalk. 89
Goddard court 89
Hamilton street paving 90)
Hamilton street sidewalk. 90
Highways 90)
High school 62
Insurance
93
Interest 94
Main street bridge 95
Main street sidewalk 95
Marcy street sidewalk 96
Memorial day
97
Military aid 97
Militia 98
Morris street culvert 98
Mynott fund 33
Outside poor 39
Pine street sidewalk 99
Pleasant street sidewalk 99
Police department 99
Police station. 102
Printing 103
Public band concerts. 105
Railing highways 105
Repairs farm buildings 36
River & Mill street bridges. 106
Road committee 106
Salaries 107
School apparatus. 63
Sidewalk repairs 109
Sinking fund. 110
Soldiers' relief 110
State aid 112
Street lights 113
Support poor 37
Table of accounts. 134
Thomas street. 114
Town hall contingent 114
Unappropriated funds 116
Water supply 117
Sewers :-
Sewer contingent 119
66 Brochu street 120
66
Chapin street 121
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Dean street
121
66 Elm street 122
Filtration area 122
6. Hamilton street 123
66 High & Mill streets 123
Lovely street 124
Main & Maple streets .. 125
66 Main & Cross streets 125
66 Main & Sayles streets .. 126
6 . Marcy street. 126
66 Mechanics street. 126
66 North street. 127
North & Foster streets. 128
6. Outlet pipe 128
66 Sayles street 129
66 Snow street 130
66
South street,
131
66 West & Collier streets .. 132
Board of health 225
Bridge committee. 259
Cemetery committee 230
Fire engineers. 146
Good roads committee 255
Highway surveyor 245
Library committee. 193
Obligations to be provided for. 24
Overseers of poor 233
Playground committee 261
Police department 152
Plumbing Inspector 228
Sealer weights 238
School commiitee 145
Sewer committee 250
Selectmen 137
Tax collector 241
Tree warden 248
Town clerk 223
Town treasurer 11
Town officers 3
Town warrant 264
ANNUAL REPORTS OF TOWN OFFICERS
AND
Financial Statement
OF THE
Town of Southbridge
FOR THE
Year Ending February Ist, 1911.
SOUTHBRIDGE : PRESS BOOK PRINT. 1911.
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1910-11
TREASURER
Solomon E. Blanchard.
CLERK William W. Buckley.
SELECTMEN
Alexis Boyer, Jr., J. A. Caron, ·
Jos. G. F. Page
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
Napoleon Giroux, Gedeon Pinsonneault, Jr., Alex. L. Desaulniers
ASSESSORS
Joseph A. Allard, W. H. McGilpin, Antoine Farland,
- Term expires 1911 Term expires 1912
- Term expires 1913
AUDITORS
Arthur Cabana, Philias X. Casavant,
Joseph Metras
-
George Webster. J. Anatole Caron, J. A. Genereux,
BOARD OF HEALTH
- Term expires 1911
- Term expires 1912 Term eõpires 1913
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR Alfred Mckinstry.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
'S. E. Blanchard, J. A. Whittaker, Joseph A. Genereux,
H. S. Cheney, P. H. Hebert, - F. A. Wald,
Term expires 1911 Term expires 1911 Term expires 1912 Term expires 1912
Term expires 1913 Term expires 1913
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Daniel T. Morrill,
Cary C. Bradford,
Joseph Metras,
F. E. Corbin, -
Geo. M. Cheney,
Origene J. Paquette,
J. A. Whittaker,
- Term expires 1913 Term expires 1913
Wm. C. Flood,
Henry J. Tetrault,
- Term expires 1913
CEMETERY COMMITTEE
L. Wesley Curtis,
Term expires 1911
S. Williams,
· Term expires 1911 Term expires 1912
Clarence F. Morse,
T. Jerome Harrington,
- Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913
M. D. Morrill,
S. K. Edwards, -
- Term expires 1913
CONSTARLES
Peter Caplette, Patrick Donnelly, A. R. Brown, P. H. Laughnane,
Andrew M. Higgius Marcus L. Dillaber, Louis Lamonthe, Joseph Paquin.
TAX COLLECTOR
F. X. Tetrault.
- Term expires 1911 Term expires 1911 - Term expires 1911 Term expires 1912 - Term expires 1912 Term expires 1912
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TOWN OFFICERS.
SEWER COMMISSIONERS
Henry C. Cady, W. J. Lamoureux, H. U. Bail,
Term expires 1911
- Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS
F. J. Adams, - Isidore Leblanc, -
Hector Leclair,
Term expires 1911 Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913
TREE WARDEN
Pierre Benoit.
APPOINTIVE OFFICERS
TOWN COUNSEL L. O. Rieutord.
-
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Fred E. Corbin.
CARE OF TOWN CLOCK
George T. Armes.
POUND KEEPER Honore Dorval.
Jesse F. Coombs.
KEEPER OF LOCKUP Assistant, Calvin A. Wesson, Louis Peloquin, (pro tem.)
JANITOR OF TOWN HALL BUILDING Pierre Caplette.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
CATTLE INSPECTOR Dr. W. T. Pugh.
SEALER OF WEIGHTŠ AND MEASURES
Eugene Gabree.
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
erry, Moses Gagnon, J. J. O'Shanghnessy Wm. W. Buckley, Clerk.
FIRE ENGINEERS
P. F. Flynn, Charles Proulx,
Basile Proulx, Chief. Thomas McGrath, Joseph LeClair,
J. N. A. Langevin, Superintendent of Fire Alarm.
FIRE WARDENS
Aime Langevin, Chief.
Charles Blackmer, James H. Mason, F. Brissette. Silas B. Morse,
Thomas Hughes, George H. Clemence, John Gagnon, H. C. Wadleigh.
POLICE OFFICERS
John E. Hefner, William Farquhar,
George Hebert,
Thomas Troye, H. S. Freeman, George H. Chaffin,
Thomas Comberbach,
Richard McQuirk, Henry Cursi, Waldo Heck, Roy Sanders, Thomas Walsh,
Jules Blain, Alfred Langevin, Joseph LeClair, J. Wilcox,
D. A. Kenny,
George Lamoureux, Joseph Stott, John Farquhar, George O. Severy,
Napoleon Garceau, Napoleon Boiteau, Patrick Sheridan.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
PUBLIC WEIGHERS
F. E. Randall, E. C. Ellis, E. I. Knowles, Joseph Degrenier, Mederic Duhamel, George A. Berry.
Geooge E. Morse, A. D. Cornell, Thomas Hughes C. Russell Morse, F. B. Vinton,
FENCE VIEWERS
George H. Clemence O. M. Morse
Walter Leonard, Philias X. Casavant, George Webster, Arthur E. Conner.
FIELD DRIVERS
Morris A. Feyler, Arthur J. Lacroix, John G. Curran,
TRUANT OFFICERS
Pierre Caplette, Thomas Walsh Herbert S. Freeman
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
Charles Hyde, E. C. Ellis, Thomas Hughes, A. D. Cornell, E. M. Morse,
Eugene D. Ide,
George H. Clemence, Mederic Duhamel.
P. N. LeClair, J. E. Clemence, George Simpson, V. W. Lamoureux,
John Ryan, J. R. Harris,
E. W. Ide,
UNIFORM POLICE FORCE
A. M. Higgins, Oliver Paul, Jr., Pierre Cormier, Honore St. Martin, Substitute.
Jesse F. Coombes, Chief. James Coughlin, Patrick Donnelly, Joseph Paquin.
Henry A. Morse,
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN TREASURER
THE ACCOUNT
OF THE
TOWN TREASURER
SOLOMON E. BLANCHARD in account with the Town OF SOUTHBRIDGE, Feb. 1, 1910 to Jan. 31, 1911.
TAX BILL FOR 1910.
State tax,
$9,955 00
Highway tax,
68 00
County tax,
6,430 00
Overlayings,
22 72
Non-resident Bank tax,
1,088 64
Town appropriations,
124,663 10
-$142,227 46
Excise tax,
866 80
Additional taxes,
274 19
$143,368 45
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS.
Voted at meeting April 11, 1910 :-
Bridges,
$1,500 00
Camp Ponce,
50 00
Cemetery improvements,
750 00
Contingent,
7,500 00
Engine men,
3,920 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Electrician,
$200 00
Evening schools,
700 00
Fire department,
4,000 00
Highways,
8,000 00
High school,
5,100 00
Insurance,
1,500 00
Interest,
8,940 00
Memorial Day,
150 00
Military aid,
600 00
Outside poor,
6,000 00
Police department,
5,500 00
Police station,
600 00
Printing,
2,400 00
Public library,
2,000 00
Railing highways,
400 00
Repairs of farm buildings,
100 00
Salaries,
7,200 00
School apparatus,
250 00
Sewer contingent,
1,000 00
Filtration area,
6,625 37
Sidewalk repairs,
2,000 00
Sinking fund,
750 00
Soldiers' relief,
1,500 00
Street lights,
10,000 00
Support of poor, 3,000 00
Town hall contingent (and rents), 2,200 00
Water supply, 3,600 00
Obligations to be provided for in tax levy of 1910, 11,500 00
Stalls in engine house,
600 00
New hose for fire department, 400 00
Police department,
1,000 00
Band concerts, 200 00
Eastford road gravel walk (added
to highway), 175 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Playgrounds ($100 donated), $1,000 00
Main street sewer (note $837) 1,000 00
River, Plimpton and Walcott streets sewer, $3,800 00
Heirs of Helen Hartwell, 34 96
Cutting Main street ledge, 1,800 00
Appropriation voted Sept. 28, 1909, tax levy 1910, 5,117 77
-$124,663 10
Transfer from unappropriated funds-
To common schools, $19,500 00
To contingent schools, 4,500 00
MEETING AUGUST 10, 1910.
Art. 2 Appropriation for repairs of farm buildings, to be transferred from un- appropriated funds, $640 00
Art. 3 Appropriation for stone crusher, (notes), 2,000 00
Art. 7 Appropriation for cement sidewalk on Coombs street, to be paid from tax levy note 1911, 2,500 00
Art. 9 Appropriation for gravel walk on Sayles street, (note), 150 00
MEETING NOVEMBER 8, 1910.
Art. 2 Appropriation for outside poor to be paid from tax levy of 1911, $1,500 00
Art. 4 Appropriation for a catch basin on Main and West streets, to be paid from unappropriated funds, 200 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
SOLOMON E. BLANCHARD, Treasurer, in account with TOWN OF SOUTHBRIDGE, DR.
RECEIPTS.
February 1, 1910, balance, $16,978 33
Taxes-1904, W. R. Olney, 2,674 99
1909, E. D. Desrosiers, 8,491 08
1910, F. X. Tetrault, 132,395 14
Notes payable :-
Anticipation of taxes, 60,000 00
Stone crusher,
2,000 00
Coombs street walk,
2,500 00
Sayles street walk,
150 00
Assessments for sewers,
7,524 02
Assessments for sidewalks,
420 50
School tuition, 312 00
Liquor licenses,
18,600 00
Sundry licenses,
651 50
Rent of town hall,
999 00
Supplies sold,
2 00
Supplies sold, school,
51 85
Corporation tax,
76
Corporation tax,
672 42
Corporation tax,
9,066 33
Bank tax,
330 51
Military aid,
237 50
State aid,
1,214 00
State board of charity,
3 60
Burying soldiers,
74 00
Cemetery lots sold,
775 00
Abatements,
676 52
Interest on notes,
17 50
On sewer assessments,
93
On Augusta bonds,
640 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
On cemetery fund,
$687 90
Dog licenses,
807 03
District Court fees,
805 10
Damage, highways,
13 34
Damage, engine house,
99 53
Use of pump,
45 00
Library fines,
139 57
J. A. Hall, balancing account,
14 80
Fire alarm,
5 00
Gravel, highway,
2 00
Sand, sewer,
1 50
Supplies,
2 00
Main street bridge,
650 00
Old Globe bridge,
40 00
Wood sold, bridge,
$25 00
Planks sold, bridge,
2 80
Town Farm produce,
1,044 00
Supplies sold, Fire department,
1 50
Outside poor :-
Refunds,
$89 25
State,
73 43
Worcester,
9 50
Charlton,
110 50
Spinola,
12 00
Refund,
1 25
Charlton,
154 00
Milford,
57 50
Sturbridge,
84 00
Upton,
2 00
East Douglas,
3 00
Webster,
8 00
State,
83 97
Boylston,
24 00
712 40
Police station,
205 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Police station rent, overpaid order, $1 02 Donation for playground, 100 00
-$272,863 97
CR. BY EXPENDITURES.
Abatements, 1
$1,268 32
Band concerts,
200 00
Bank tax,
1,234 09
Bridges,
1,905 96
Bridge, Main street,
9,452 00
Camp Ponce,
50 00
Cemetery improvements,
1,193 43
Contingent,
8,322 55
County tax,
6,430 00
Deposits in bank :-
Peoples', Worcester,
$780 30
Fitchburg,
640 00
Leominster,
750 00
Leominster,
225 00
Natick Five Cents,
500 00
Salem Five Cents,
750 00
Leicester, 640 00
4,285 30
District Court fees,
348 65
East Main street cut,
1,798 81
Electrician,
200 00
Engine men,
3,917 00
Estate of E. M. Hartwell,
34 96
Fire department,
3,401 56
John A. Hall, balancing account,
18 00
Highways,
7,951 18
Highway railings,
317 15
Highway road committee,
1,000 00
Hose,
400 00
Insurance,
1,462 92
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Interest,
$9,181 18
Public library,
2,946 67
Lighting streets,
9,435 61
Memorial Day,
150 00
Military aid,
470 00
Mynott fund,
4 40
Notes payable :-
Main street bridge, $1,000 00
Hamilton street walk, 1,000 00
Anticipation of taxes, 5,000 00
66 66 20,000 00
66 66 20,000 00
66 66 10,000 00
66 66 $10,000 00
Filter beds,
2,500 00
Mechanics street
sewer, 1,000 00
Mechanics street
school, 2,000 00
River and Mill street
bridge,
1,000 00
Sewer, 2,095 00
Outlet pipe,
1,000 00
Hamilton street pave-
ment, 1,000 00
Central street bridge, 1,000 00
- 78,595 00
Outside poor,
8,282 38
Playgrounds,
973 12
Police department,
7,023 14
Police station,
648 20
Printing,
2,660 01
Repairs on farm buildings,
768 11
Salaries,
7,233 09
Schools :-
Apparatus, 2.40 70
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Common,
$19,303 99
Contingent,
4,590 90
657 78
Evening, High,
5,587 35
Sewers :- -
Brochu.
1 44
Chapin,
870 29
Contingent,
628 48
Lovely,
78 75
Main,
1,862 74
Marcy,
53 97
Outlet pipe,
9 00
Plimpton,
3,088 24
River,
249 57
Sayles,
66 90
Snow,
2 80
West,
65 92
Sidewalks :
Repairs,
2,161 78
Coombs street,
2,498 09
Eastford road,
90 00
Main street,
63
Sayles street,
128 29
Soldiers' relief,
1,401 70
State aid,
1,052 00
State tax,
9,955 00
State highway tax,
68 00
State proportion of liquor licenses, 4,401 25 Stone crusher, 2,000 00
Support of poor,
4,264 32
Town hall contingent,
2,983 88
Water supply,
3,243 75
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
West and Main streets catch basin, $199 90
$255,370 20
Cash balance January 31, 1911, 17,493 77
$272,863 97.
Cash balance. $17,493 77
Due the Town from uncollected taxes 1910, 9,884 67
$27,378 44 .
NOTES
OUTSTANDING JAN. 31, 1910
PAID 1N 1910
Central street bridge,
$3,000 00
$1,000 00
Hamilton street paving,
11,000 00
1,000 00
Mechanics street school,
5,000 00
2,000 00
Mill and River streets, bridges, 14,000 00
1,000 00
Sewers :-
Oct. 1, 1910-12,
2,740 00
1,095 00
Demand,
2,000 00
Demand,
1,000 00
1,000 00
July 1, 1929,
30,000 00
May 1, 1930,
20,000 00
Filter beds, July 1, 1910-27, 27,000 00
1,500 00
Filter beds, July 1, 1910-17, 8,000 00
1,000 00
Outlet pipe, July 1, 1910-17, 8,000 00
1,000 00
Mechanics street, July 1, 1910-15,
6,000 00
1,000 00
Main street bridge, Jan. 1, 1911-17,
7,000 00
1,000 00
Anticipation taxes, July 26,
5,000 00
5,000 00
Hamilton street walk, July 1, 1910-11,
2,000 00
1,000 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
ISSUED IN 1810
Stone crusher, 4} per cent.,
Sept. 1, 1911-14,
$2,000 00
Coombs street walk, 4} per cent, Sept. 1, 1911, 2,500 00
'Sayles street walk, 42 per cent, Sept. 1, 1911,
150 00
Anticipation of taxes,
10,000 00 66 66
10,000 00
20,000 00 20,000 00
66 66
20,000 00
20,000 00
66 66
10,000 00
10,000 00
$216,390 00
$78,595 00
Paid in 1910,
78,595 00
Outstanding Jan. 31, 1910, 137,795 00
Obligations to be Provided for in the Tax Levy of 1911
NOTE8
Central street bridge,
$1,000 00
Hamilton street paving,
1,000 00
Mechanics street school,
1,000 00
Mill and River streets, bridges,
1,000 00
Sewers :-
Oct. 1, 1911,
1,095 00
Filter beds,
1,500 00
Filter beds,
1,000 00
Outlet pipe,
1,000 00
Mechanics street,
1,000 00
Main street bridge,
1,000 00
Hamilton street walk,
1,000 00
Stone crusher, 500 00
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Coombs street walk, $2,500 00
Sayles street walk, 150 00
$14,745 00
Appropriations for outside poor, meeting November 8, 1910, 1,500 00
$16,245 00
Invested Funds of the Town are Deposited as Follows.
CEMETERY FUNDS
BOOK NO. NAME OF BANK
47299,
Worcester Mechanics,
$1,000 00
54964,
Worcester Five Cents,
1,000 00
55266,
Peoples, Worcester, 1,000 00
11619, Webster Five Cents, 1,014 25
32073,
Natick Five Cents,
1,000 00
24902,
Dedham Institute for Savings,
1,000 00
6862,
Amherst,
1,000 00
40500,
North Adams,
1,000 00
22841,
Leominster,
975 00
79028,
Worcester County institute for Savings,
1,000 00
14744,
Gardner Savings Bank,
992 50
8465.
Southbridge,
1,388 28
9849,
Millbury,
945 00
1498,
Salem Five Cents,
1,000 00
153048,
Springfield Institute for Savings, 1,000 00
3791,
Ware,
1,000 00
3481,
Leicester,
1,000 00
The interest on above to date has been collected and credited to Cemetery improvements-amonnt, $687 90.
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
SINKING FUND
BOOK NO.
NAME OF BANK
50139, Peoples, Worcester,
$811 50
21209, Southbridge,
1,241 14
51856,
Fitchburg, 659 32
34032,
Clinton,
765 00
29970,
Salem Five Cents,
750 00
4443,
Leicester,
640 00
City of Augusta Water Bonds,
16,000 00
MYNOTT FUND
9529, Southbridge, $933 34
Accrued interest has been added on the deposits shown above on Sinking Fund.
The several deposits shown in Southbridge Savings Bank appear above less the deduction of 15 per cent and plus the dividend of 2 per cent.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
AUDITORS.
-
CEMETERY
CEMETERY FUND
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account Feb.
1,1910,
$16,801 75
Received from S. Williams, sale
of lots and perpetual care,
775 00
-- $17,576 75
EXPENDITURES.
Sonthbridge
Savings
Bank
amount scaled down 15 per
cent., $211 72
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1911, $17,365 03
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation, Interest on Cemetery fund, 687 90
$750 00
$1,437 90
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
EXPENDITURES.
Account overdrawn Feb. 1, 1910, $161 95
S. Williams men and
teams,
$910 78
Salary, 200 00
$1,110 78
T. J. Harrington, plants,
27 00
Southbridge Water Supply Co.,
20 00
E. C. Ellis, supplies,
5 00
E. L. Gay, labor and supplies,
4 15
Oldham & Ranahan, supplies,
3 05
P. H. Carpenter Co., supplies,
2 50
George S. Stone Co., supplies,
95
$1,335 38
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1911, $102 52
LIBRARY
MYNOTT FUND
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account Feb.
1, 1910,
$1,003 32
Interest,
53 40
- $1,056 72
EXPENDITURES.
Southbridge
Savings
Bank
amount scaled down 15 per cent.,
$156 06
E. F. Dakin, books,
4 40
$160 46
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1911, $896 26
PUBLIC LIBRARY
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1910, $389 86 Appropriation, 2,000 00
Dog fund, 827 09
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REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Fines,
$139 57
$3,356 52
EXPENDITURES.
Ella E. Miersch, salary, $698 30
Ella E. Miersch, sundry expenses, 45 19
$743 49
M. W. Plimpton, salary,
396 00
E. F. Dakin, papers and maga- zines, 316 87
E. B. Frost, salary as assistant librarian, $212 47
E. B. Frost, sundry ex- penses, 38 25
250 72
Chas. E. Lauriat, books,
231 60
Michelson Bros., book binding, 173 76
Webster & Southbridge Gas & Electric Co., lights, 169 43
E. C. Ellis, coal, 120 95
H. P. Oldham, agent, rent,
112 50
John Coggans, janitor,
108 37
E. R. Terquem, French books, 72 83
H. R. Hunting Co., books, 65 97
Chivers Book Binding Co., bind- ing books, 47 17
The Southbringe Press, printing, 45 25
H. W. Wilson Co., books, 31 30
Geo. H. Chaffin, labor,
27 00
Oldham & Ranahan, supplies,
26 40
Southbridge Electrical Construc-
tion Co., labor and supplies, 20 93
Gaylord Bros., supplies, 20 11
29
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
G. C. Winter, supplies, $18 00
American Correspondence school,
books, 16 57
Southbridge Water Supply Co., 15 00
Henry Malkin, books, 11 05
R. A. Beckwith, stamped envelopes,
10 62
A. Allard, electric lamps,
10 13
Library Bureau, supplies,
9 90
The Baker Taylor Co., books,
9 86
Susan Sayles, labor, 9 77
E. P. Dutton & Co., books, 9 15
De Wolf & Fiske Co., books, 9 00
D. Van Nostrand Co., books, 6 28
C. A. Nichols, books, 6 00
Library Art Club, assessment, 6 00
R. R. Nircerson, dust down,
6 00
Alexis Boyer, labor,
5 87
May Delahanty, services,
5 70
The Ready Binder Co., binding books, 5 52
The Bookman, binding books, 5 50
H. U. Bail, labor and supplies,
5 08
Baily Banks & Biddle Co., books, 5 00
Doubleday, Page Co., books,
4 75
Caroline L. Himebaug, books,
4 29
M. Egan & Son, labor and supplies,
4 15
Chas. A. Reed, books,
4 11
Popular Educator Co., supplies,
3 75
Quinabaug Historical Society,
leaflets, 3 30
Scientific American, books, 3 20
The Shoenof Book Co., books, 2 25
H. J. Graham, books, 2 00
J. M. & L. D. Clemence, lumber, 1 99
Macmillan Co., books, 1 95
30
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Belisle Publishing Co., la grande semaine, $1 25
A. L, A. Publishing Board, supplies 1 20
Richard G. Badger, books, 1 00
1 00
John H. Williams, books, 1
$3,206 84
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1911, $149 68
ACCOUNT OF POOR
REPAIRS OF FARM BUILDINGS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account, Feb.
1, 1910,
$46 92
Appropriation, 100 00
Transferred from unappropriated funds,
640 00
$786 92
EXPENDITURES.
J. M. & L. D. Clemence, lumber, $287 73 Frank X. Laliberty, self and men, labor, 259 51
A. Girard, labor and supplies,
114 00
Louis Hetue, labor and supplies,
73 95
G. C. Winter, supplies,
27 92
Ide Lumber Co., blinds,
5 00
$768 11
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1, 1911, $18 81
32
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
SUPPORT OF POOR
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account Feb.
Feb. 1, 1910, $684 61
Appropriation,
3,000 00
Sale of produce,
1,019 00
Cow sold,
25 00
$4,728 61
EXPENDITURES.
Honore Dorval, salary, $600 00
Transportation of a
pauper to Tewks- bury, 6 50
$606 50
W. P. Gendreau, supplies,
562 81
A. L. Desaulniers, supplies,
533 87
Joseph Demick, labor,
300 00
Weld & Beck, supplies,
292 39
Joseph Blais, gasoline engine, $250 00
Repairing shoes, 4 80
254 80
P. Renaud, supplies,
235 78
Morse Bros., supplies,
223 07
Southbridge Coal Co., coal,
146 30
Gedeon Pinsonneault, supplies,
135 95
Dora Dorval, labor,
104 00
Jennie Demick, labor,
104 00
Frank Brissette, ensilage cutter,
85 00
J. F. Lariviere, supplies,
84 90
J. R. Harris & Son, supplies, 74 16
Frank M Marble, supplies,
41 74
33
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
G. C. Winter, supplies, $40 91
Jos. A. Allard, labor and supplies,
38 18
Joseph Lippe, supplies, 37 98
Henry A. Morse, fertilizer,
34 50
Johnson, Colburn Co., supplies,
31 86
Peter Grant & Co., supplies,
26 83
W. C. Callahan, burial of a pauper,
25 00
P. H. Carpenter Co., supplies,
18 55
O. L. Desaulnier, labor and supplies,
18 35
W. J. Lamoureux & Co., supplies, 18 15
J. W. Wells, rent pasture land, 15 00
Ide Lumber Co , lumber, 14 58
H. Lammelin, shoeing horses, 13 45
The Stephen Richard Co., supplies, 13 08
E. L. Gay, repairing engine and supplies, 12 95
Overseers paid appraisers,
1909, - $6 00
1910, 6 00
12 00
J. D. Blanchard & Co., supplies, 11 95
Joseph Renaud, labor, 11 50
Eusebe Laliberty, labor and supplies, 10 80 Catheline Morse, labor, 10 00
H. L. Bedard, supplies, 8 25
Ernest Collette, labor and supplies, 7 40
S. J. Benoit, M. D., medicines, 7 00
Wm. T. Pugh, veterinary services, 6 50
V. E. Pelliter, supplies, 6 50
The Southbridge Press, printing orders, 5 00
George H. Hartwell, supplies, 4 40
Oldham & Ranahan, supplies, 4 38
Collette & Lamourex, labor and supplies, 3 75
34
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Henry Courtemanche, repairing shoes 3 45 - $4,257 52
Balance to credit of account Feb. 1911. $471 09
OUTSIDE POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
Feb. 1, 1910, $280 88
Appropriation, 6,000 00
Transferred from Unappro- priated funds, 1,500 00
Town of Charlton, account of outside poor,
264 50
State Treasurer,
157 40
Town of Sturbridge account
of outside poor, 84 00
Town of Milford, account of outside poor, 57 50
J. T. Richardson, aid (1909),
56 65
Town of Boylston, account of outside poor,
24 00
J. Lamothe, aid (1909),
18 00
J. R. Harris & Son, over paid order,
14 60
N. Spinola, for burial of child, 12 00
City of Worcester, account of outside poor, 9 50
Town of Webster, acconnt of outside poor, 8 00
Transportation of paupers, 3 60
35
REPORT OF AUDITORS.
Town of East Douglas, ac- count of outside poor, $3 00
Town of Upton, account of outside poor, 2 00
J. A. Genereux, M. D., over paid order, 1 25
$8,496 88
EXPENDITURES.
A. L. Desaulniers, goods
to outside poor, $903 96
Sundry expenses, 4 00
$907 96.
Joseph Lippe, goods to outside poor, 491 00
Lavigne & Benoit, goods to out- side poor, 475 50
W. J. Fitzpatrick, goods to out- side poor, 462 00
Peter Grant & Co., goods to out- side poor, 422 00
St. Vincent Hospital Corporation, board and care of town patients, 357 20
City of Worcester, aid to outside poor, 351 44
E. C. Ellis, goods to outside poor, Gedeon Pinsonneault,
331 00
goods to outside poor, $302 55
Cash paid for trans- portation of pau- pers, 24 28
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