Town annual reports of the officers of Southbridge for the year ending 1909-1912, Part 19

Author: Southbridge (Mass.)
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: The Town
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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.


271


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.


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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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