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When we speak of a playground, it is desirable to keep in mind that this term covers a great deal more than is told by a literal translation of the phrase. A modern playground, properly equipped and adminis- tered, is a social center-a place for recreation and physical education and a true gathering point for neighborhood activities. In it boys and girls should learn early by actual experience, principles of right living. In it big brothers and sisters should cultivate a healthy social relationship. In it fathers and mothers should become better neighbors and more worthy citi- zens of town, state and country. In it children should do a great deal more than play, important as play is on its own account.
A playground is, of course, for the benefit of chil- dren. A playground supported by the Town should be made valuable for all the people, at least for all the people in the neighborhood in which it is located. A public playground should be for all who want to use
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it, as should be a public school house or a public park. A playground, then, must start with the available land located where it will serve the most people who will need it. During the past year the Committee acted in accordance with these ideas as far as possible. Yet there are several objections to the movement as con- ducted by us which should be remedied. Such as :- The separation of sexes, the night use of grounds with- out lights, lack of proper supervision and instructors.
Of the things needed, I would have the Committee in charge of the work thoroughly interested from a social and educational basis with time to devote to the work. Then with their powers and duties thoroughly defined, this movement can result only in good for the community. A supervisor should be selected to serve. not for one season only, but for a number of years, The policy of securing a different supervisor each sea- son must be avoided if the playground is to be any- thing more than an experiment or a passing fad. Where playgrounds are operated for a period of two months or so in summer one supervisor should be se- cured for a term of three or five years. Thus he will be able to give consecutive thought to the local prob- lems, become thoroughly acquainted with the needs of the community and better able to demonstrate the possibilities of playgrounds.
There should be a separation of sexes. One space for boys above ten years, and a second space for girls of all ages and children of both sexes under ten years.
We should have a full sized ball field containing one or more diamonds and free to any club in town.
More settees should be provided for the mothers and younger children.
Proper instructors should direct the movements of the children in recreation, whether it be games, manual
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training for boys, sewing for girls or folklore songs and dances. They should be good leaders of strong per- sonality, fearless of public opinion and conscious of doing right.
Under an interested committee and with proper instruction I feel sure the town will in the near future derive great benefit from the establishment of play- grounds.
The financial report is published by the auditors.
For the playground Committee,
JOHN A. WHITTAKER, Secretary.
Appraisal of Town Property.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen of Southbridge,
GENTLEMEN :-
The undersigned committee appointed by you to make an appraisal of all property owned by the Town including personal and real property have completed their duties and beg leave to submit the following report :-
Town hall-
§ building,
$68,000 00
Land,
10,000 00 2,000 00
Furniture,
High School-
¿ building, $34,000 00
Engine House, No. 1-
Building,
$20,000 00
Land,
8,000 00
Engine House, No. 2-
Building,
$11,500 00
Land,
500 00
Fire department equipment, including furniture of both houses and fire alarm system, 26,500 00'
Police Station-
$3,300 00
Building, Land,
2,250 00
Furniture and signal light,
150 00
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Armory- Building, Land,
$8,000 00 1,800 00
Sewer Department-
Sewer beds and pipe,
$258,000 00
Tools and equipment,
477 60
Highway Department-
Tools and equipment, including steam roller, stone crusher, etc., $5,995 00
Buildings on Goddard Court, 1,000 00
Land, 1,000 00
Library Department-
Books, paintings, furniture, etc.,
$24,000 00
Town Farm, Poor Department-
Buildings,
$14,200 00
Land,
3,000 00
Stock, tools, furniture, etc.
5,100 00
Cemetery Department-
Hearse house
$1,200 00
Tools,
14 00
Value of lots,
10,000 00
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Elm Street School-
Building,
$1,800 00
Land,
2,000 00
Main Street School-
Building,
$8,500 00
Land, 1,500 00
Mechanics Street School-
Building, Land,
$17,000 00 5,000 00
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Main and Morris Streets School-
Building, Land, 2,000 00
$1,800 00
Marcy Street School-
$50,000 00
Building, Land, 5,500 00
School Street School --
Building,
$7,000 00
Land,
2,500 00
River Street School-
Building,
$4,300 00
Land, 1,500 00
Oliver and Union streets school lot,
1,200 00
Bacon district school house and lot,
1,000 00
Lebanon hill school house and land,
500 00
Dennison district school house and land, 500 00
3,000 00
Sandersdale school house and land, Furniture, books and equipment,
8,389 00
In concluding our report we desire to state that the property owned by the Town is in very good con- dition with one or two exceptions, and in our opinion is even more valuable than shown by this report, the cost of building having increased very materially within the past few years. We wish to thank the different Town officers for information furnished.
Respectfully submitted,
ALEXIS BOYER, M. P. O'SHAUGHNESSY.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF. THE
TAX COLLECTOR
UNPAID POLL TAXES
Alfani, Marcano Belanger, Olivier
Bertrand, George E. Blain, Albert
Blain, Josephat
Bouthillette, Joseph, gone
Burke, Charles F., gone Corey, Harold
Crawford. Wm. J. S.
Czryk, Alexsander
Delehanty, Patrick F.
Decordis, Costantine
Decordis, Costantino
Deloge, Jean B. Dragon, Herminigilde
Dupuis, Omer Erickson, Bernard Felice, Antonio Geer, Frank H., gone
off Main st Vinton st 192} Main st Brookline, Mass Allston, Mass.
Palmer 75 Main st 57 E. Main st Webster Elm st Central st Paige hill 70 Mill st 64 Everett st Ammidown dist Morris st
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Holden, James, out of town
Lachapelle, Narcisse Lavallee, Louis
Lavigne, Wilfred
Lulli, Augusta Martel, Edgar
Morris, Andrew J.
Morrissey, Lawrence T.
Nolan, Thomas
Nourichi, Wladislaw
Peloquin, Pierre
Perron, Camille Pinsonnault, Armand
Pinsonnault, Joseph
Polagenti, Francesco
Renaud Hormisdas Renaud, Francois
Rossi, Saverio Russell, Wm. B. Santi, Adonio
Scussi, Giovanni
Shepard, Frank A.
St. George, Felix
Tozza, Nicola Valenty, Zafac
Ward, Thomas F. Wardle, Robert C.
Fiskdale Westville Elm st 77 Mechanics st Mill st 17 Canal st South st Sandersdale
Worcester st Worcester st off Main st Hamilton st Mill st off Main st Plimpton st Morris st Worcester st Pleasant st 52 Mechanics st off Main st Ammidown dist Mill st High st
TOWN WARRANT
WORCESTER, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Southbridge, in the County of Worcester.
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, you are hereby requested to notify the inhabit- ants of the Town of Southbridge, aforesaid qualified to vote in Town Affairs to meet in the Town Hall in said Southbridge, on Monday, the Third (3) day of Aprill 1911, at 5.45 o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the fol- lowing articles :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose by ballot all necessary town officers for the ensuing year, viz: Clerk, Treasurer, Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, Collector of Taxes, One member of the Board of Health for three years, One assessor for three years, Two members of the School Committee for three years, Auditors of Ac- counts, Two members of the Cemetery Committee for three years, Three members of the Library Committee for three years, Sinking Fund Commissioner for three years. Tree Warden, Highway Surveyor, and seven ·constables.
ART. 3. To vote by ballot "Yes " or "No", in answer to the question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
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ART. 4. To hear the reports of the Auditors of Accounts, Treasurer, Clerk, Selectmen, Library Com- mittee, School Committee, etc., and act thereon.
ART. 5. To see if the town will accept the report as printed and distributed of the committee appointed to investigate the accounts of the town for 1908 and other years, or act thereon.
ART. 6. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to pay town debts and charges for the ensuing year or act anything thereon.
ART. 7. To authorize the town treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen and auditors or a majority thereof, to borrow during the municipal year, begin- ning February 1, 1911, in anticipation of the collection of the taxes of said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for said year, giving the notes of the town therefor, to be paid within one year from the dates thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote to be paid from the taxes of the municipal year.
ART. 8. To see if the town will vote to pay the enginemen or act thereon.
ART. 9. To see if the town will vote to fix com- pensation of town officers, laborers and teams, or act thereon.
ART. 10. To see if the town vill vote an appro- priation for the observance of Memorial Day, or act thereon.
ART. 11. To see if the town will vote an appro- priation to Camp Ponce for the observance of Mem- morial Day, or act thereon.
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ART. 12. To see if the town will give the Tax Collector the same power to collect taxes that the Town Treasurer has when appointed Collector, or act thereon.
ART. 13. To see if the town will vote to allow a discount on taxes paid within a certain period, or charge interest on taxes unpaid after a certain date, or act thereon.
ART. 14. To see if the town will vote to engage an expert accountant to audit the accounts of the town officials at an indefinite time once a year, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
ART. 15. To see if the town will vote to transfer to unappropriated funds from Coombs street sidewalk $1.91, from East Main street ledge $1.19, from Main and West street catch basin $0.10, from Sayles street side- walk $21.71, from District Court fees $1500.00, from Foster street sidewalk $10.00 and from Engine house stalls $600.00.
ART. 16. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to be expended for pub- lic band concerts or act thereon.
ART. 17. To hear the report of the Sewer Com- missioners regarding the transfer of accounts, and to act thereon.
ART. 18. To see if the town will vote to lay out a town way known as Goddard court extension, com- mencing at the southerly end of Goddard court and extending over land of Mrs. Carrie M. Wells to Dresser street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 19. To see if the town will vote to] widen
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the travelled way on Oakes avenue from Main street to the residence of Henry J. Jackson, raise and appro- priate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to build a concrete sidewalk on the westerly side of Union street from Main street to Hamilton street, raise and appro- priate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 21. To see if the town will vote to build a crosswalk on Main street opposite the residence of Jos- eph F. Houde, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 22. To see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen to petition the Superior Court for the abolition, discontinuance or alteration of the crossings at grade of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company at Hook, Central and Foster streets, or act anything thereon.
ART. 23. To see if the town will vote to allow the Southern New England Railroad Corporation the right to use jointly with the town, for the laying of its tracks of the proposed railroad, the land situated be- tween the Armory and the Canal and extending from Central street in a westerly direction to land of Mary C. Edwards, or act anything thereon.
ART. 24. To see if the town will vote to abandon to the Central Mills Company a strip of land at the cor- ner of Foster and North streets, and to authorize the Selectmen to sign the necessary papers for the transfer of the same, or act anything thereon.
ART. 25. To see if the town will vote to change the Town By-Laws as follows:
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SECTION 1. The annual meeting of the town shall be held on the first Monday of March.
SECTION 2. The fiscal year of the town shall close on the first day of January and all accounts shall be made up to that date each year.
ART. 26. To see if the town will vote to build a concrete sidewalk on Edwards street from Pine street to residence of J. A. Rice, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 27. To see if the town will vote to build a concrete sidewalk on the easterly side of Chapin street opposite the residence of Charles A. Chapman, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 28. To see if the town will vote to change and reduce the excessive grade in the road running northerly from the house of Arsene Girard by the Clemence Brothers' farm, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 29. To see if the town will vote to accept the report to extend Plimpton street to the so called Sturbridge road, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
ART. 30. To see if the town will vote to buy a new town clock, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 31. To hear and act on report of Selectmen to lay out as public ways certain ways leading from Dresser street over land of George F. Maxwell known as Franklin Terrace and Franklin street, raise and ap- propriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
ART. 32. To see if the town will vote to install
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fifteen (electric) incandescent lights on Lebanon hill road, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 33. To see if the town will vote to appropri- ate one hundred dollars to remove a gravel bank to widen the road on the west side of Lebanon hill road, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 34. To see if the town will vote to rebuild the sidewalk on the south side of River street from Oliver street to Cliff street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 35. To see what action the town will take regarding payment of assessments for sewers levied on town property, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 36. To see if the town will vote to install a fire alarm box on Eastford road south of Cohasse brook bridge, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 37. To see if the town will vote to macadam or pave Hamilton and Main streets from Pine street to the state highway, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
ART. 38. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee of not more than seven of the citizens of the town, to examine into the valuation and assess- ment of the taxable property in the town, (the said Committee to have access to the Assessors' books) and report to the annual town meeting, in writing, their recommendations as to the same, raise and appropri- ate money therefor or act anything thereon.
ART. 39. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to contract with the Southbridge Water
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Supply Company for hydrants at Sandersdale, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
ART. 40. To see if the town will vote to re-lay the curb and widen the sidewalk on the northerly side of East Main street, from a point opposite Morris street easterly to the entrance of the Lensdale factory of the American Optical Company, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
And you are dircted to serve this Warrant by publishing an attested copy thereof twice in the South- bridge Press and Herald, the first publication being not less than nine days next preceding the day of the meeting-or by posting up such attested copies in four conspicuous public places within the town, at least nine days, including Sundays, -before the day of hold- ing of said meeting. The polls will be open at 5.45 A. M., and close at 4 o'clock P. M.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place hereinbefore named.
Given under our hands this 13th day of March A. D. 1911.
ALEXIS BOYER, JR, - Selectmen of
J. A. CARON,
J. G. E. PAGE. Southbridge.
A true copy attest :
A. M. HIGGINS, Constable.
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INDEX
Auditors' Report :-
Abatement Taxes 50
Bridges
50
Camp Ponce.
51
Cemetery fund.
25
Cemetery improvements
25
Contingent
52
Common schools.
41
Contingent schools.
42
Coombs street sidewalk
.64
District court fees
65
Dresser street sidewalk
65
East Main street hill
67
Electrician.
68
Engine men.
68
Evening schools.
46
Fire department.
.69
Foster street sidewalk.
72
H irs of Helen M. Hartwell.
.75
Highways
73
High school
47
Insurance
76
Interest
77
Main street bridge 78
Main and West sts. catch basin 79
Marcy street sidewalk 80
Memorial day
80
Military aid.
80
Mynott fund
37
New hose
81
Outside poor
84
Playgrounds
81
Police department.
83
Police station
84
Printing
.86
Public band concerts 87
Public library 27
Railing highways. 87
Repairs farm buildings
31
Road committee
88
Salaries
89
Sayles street sidewalk 91
School apparatus 48
Sidewalk repairs 92
Sinking fund.
93
Soldiers' relief
94
Stalls, engine house. 95
State aid
95
Street lights
96
Support poor 32
Table of accounts
119
Town hall contingent
97
Town pound.
99
Unappropriated funds
100
Water supply
101
Sewers :-
Sewer contingent.
102
Chapin street.
.103
Chapin & Goddard Ct .. 104
Elm street.
105
Filtration area
114
66
Hamilton street.
115
High & Mill street.
105
Lovely street
106
Main street
106
66
Main & Maple streets ... 108
Main & Cross streets .... 108
66
Main & Sayles streets .. 109
Main & Sandersdale rd. 109 Marcy street. 110
Mechanics street. 115
Outlet pipe .. 110
66
Pleasant & Canal Sts ...
111
River & Pleasant Sts.
112
Sayles street.
113
South Street.
116
West & Collier streets .. 114
Appraisal committee
258
Board of health
227
Bridge committee
252
Cemetery committee
224
Fire Engineers
165
Good roads committee
247
Highway surveyor
243
Library committee 177
Obligations to be provided for ... 20
Overseers of poor
209
Playground committee.
254
Police department
214
Plumbing inspector
231
Sealer weights
233
School committee 129
Sewer committe
235
Selectmen
122
Tax collector 261
Tree warden
127
Town clerk 174
Town treasurer 9
Town officers
3
Town warrant.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Of the Town Officers and Finan- cial Statement of the Town of South- bridge for the Year Ending January 1, 1912
O. J. Paquette & Co., Printers Southbridge, Mass.
Town Officers For 1911-12
TREASURER Solomon E. Blanchard.
CLERK William W. Buckley.
Alexis Boyer, Jr.,
SELECTMEN Charles Proulx, James F. Earls.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
Napoleon Giroux, Gedeon Pinsonneault, Jr., Daniel T. Morrill.
-
ASSESSORS
W. H. McGilpin, Antoine Farland,
John F. Clemence,
.
Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914
AUDITORS
Arthur Cabana, Joseph Metras, Philias X. Casavant.
BOARD OF HEALTH
J. A. Caron, J. A. Genereux, George Webster,
Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR Alfred Mckinstry.
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TOWN OFFICERS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Joseph A. Genereux,
H. S. Cheney, P. H. Hebert, F. A. Wald,
Albert J. Thibault, J. A. Whittaker,
Term expires 1912 Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1913
Term expires 1914 Term expires 1914
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
F. E. Corbin,
Geo. M. Cheney,
Origene J. Paquette,
J. A. Whittaker,
Wm. C. Flood,
Term expires 1912 Term expires 1912 Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913 Term expires 1913
Henry J. Tetrault,
Term expires 1913
Theophile Houle, Isidore Leblanc,
Term expires 1914 Term expires 1914 Term expires 1914
CEMETERY COMMITTEE
Clarence F. Morse,
T. Jerome Harrington,
M. D. Morrill,
S. K. Edwards, Term expires 1913 Term expires 1914
Morris H. Marcy,
Adolphe Peloquin,
. Term expires 1914
CONSTABLES
Pierre Caplette, Patrick Donnelly, A. R. Brown, P. H. Laughnane,
Andrew M. Higgins, Marcus L. Dillaber, Louis Lamothe, Joseph Paquin.
TAX COLLECTOR
F. X. Tetrault.
.
J. J. Delehanty,
Term expires 1912 Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913
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TOWN OFFICERS
SEWER COMMISSIONERS
W. J. Lamoureux,
Term expires 1912
H. U. Bail,
Term expires 1913
James Pendergast,
Term expires 1914
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS
Isidore Leblanc, Hector Leclair,
Term expires 1912 Term expires 1913
Joseph Lafleche,
Term expires 1914
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.
KEEPER OF LOCKUP
Jesse F. Coombs,
Assistant, Louis Peloquin.
JANITOR OF TOWN HALL BUILDING Pierre Caplette.
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TOWN OFFICERS
CATTLE INSPECTOR J. A. Genereux.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Eugene Gabree.
S. D. Perry,
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS Moses Gagnon, J. J. O'Shaughnessy . Wm. W. Buckley, Clerk.
FIRE ENGINEERS Basile Proulx, Chief.
Jos. Duchesneau, G. N. Laughnane, Louis Lamothe, J. J. Hogan, 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, H. C. Wadleigh.
POLICE OFFICERS
John E. Hefner, George Hebert,
Thomas Troye,
H. S. Freeman, George H. Chaffin, Waldo Heck, Roy Sanders,
Thomas Walsh, Daniel Blute,
Patrick Sheridan,
Jules Blain, Alfred Langevin, J. Wilcox, D. A. Kenny,
George Lamoureux, John Farquhar, George O. Severy, Napoleon Garceau, Napoleon Boiteau, I. R. Apte.
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TOWN OFFICERS
PUBLIC WEIGHERS
F. E. Randall.
E. C. Ellis,
E. I. Knowles,
Joseph Degrenier,
C. Russell Morse,
F. B. Vinton, S. K. Edwards.
FENCE VIEWERS George H. Clemence, C. M. Morse.
FIELD DRIVERS
Morris A. Feyler, Arthur J. Lacroix, John G. Curran.
Pierre Caplette,
TRUANT OFFICERS Thomas Walsh, Herbert S. Freeman.
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
Charles Hyde, E. C. Ellis,
J. E. Clemence, George Simpson,
Thomas Hughes,
V. W. Lamoureux, John Ryan,
A. D. Cornell, E. M. Morse,
J. R. Harris,
Eugene D. Ide,
E. W. Ide,
George H. Clemence,
H. H. Clemence.
A.M. Higgins, Oliver Paul, Jr, Pierre Cormier,
George E. Morse, A. D. Cornell, Thomas Hughes.
Mederic Duhamel, George A. Berry,
Wardwell M. Edwards.
Henry A. Morse.
Walter Leonard, Philias X. Casavant. George Webster. Arthur E. Conner.
UNIFORM POLICE FORCE Jesse F. Coombs, Chief. James Coughlin, Patrick Donnelly, Joseph Paquin, Daniel Blute, Substitute.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
TOWN TREASURER
The Account of the Town Treasurer
SOLOMON E. BLANCHARD in account with the Town of Southbridge. Feb. 1. 1911. to Dec. 31. 1911.
TAX BILL. FOR THE YEAR 1912.
State tax.
$9.955 00
Highway tax.
68 00
County tax.
6.430 00
Town appropriations. 113.417 88
Overlayings.
1.750 24
Non-resident bank tax, 2.565 67
-- $134.186 79
Excise tax. 1.327 00
Additional taxes.
939 50
$136.453 29
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS.
Voted at meeting April 10. 1911- Contingent. $7.500 00
Engine men.
5.495 00
Fire department.
3.500 00
Highways.
8.000 00
High school.
5.200 00
Interest.
7.000 00
Memorial day.
150 00
Outside poor.
7.000 00
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Play grounds.
$1.000 00
Police department.
6,000 00
Police station,
750 00
Printing. 1,800 00
Public band concerts, 200 00
Public library, (and dog fund) 1,900 00
Railing highways,
500 00
Repairs on farm buildings,
300 00
Road committee,
45 00
Salaries,
7,500 00
School apparatus,
250 00
Sewer contingent,
550 00
Sidewalk repairs.
2,000 00
Sinking fund,
750 00
Soldier's relief,
1,375 00
Street lights,
9,100 00
Support of poor,
3,000 00
Town hall contingent, (and rents) 2,100 00 Obligations to be provided for in tax levy of 1911, 16,245 00
Widening Oakes avenue, 700 00
Union street sidewalk, 2,627 75
Clemence hill grade cut,
1,000 00
Plimpton street extension,
3,250 00
Town clock, 500 00
River street Sidewalk,
955 13
Fire alarm box, Eastford road,
100 00
Repairs, East Main street, side- walk, 875 00
$113,417 88
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Transfer from unappropriated funds-
To Abatement of taxes. $1,500 00
Bridges,
1,500 00
Camp Ponce,
50 00
Cemetery improvements,
750 00
Common schools.
18,300 00
Contingent schools,
4,000 00
Insurance,
1.500 00
Evening schools,
700 00
Electrician, 200 00
$28,500 00
Meeting July 24, 1911-
Art. 2 Hamilton street paving (notes, $1,000.00 payable yearly commencing Aug. 1, 1912) $8,000 00
Art. 4 Widening Main street, (tax levy 1912) 450 00
Art. 6 Brochu street sidewalk. (tax levy 1912) 800 00
$9,250 00
Art. 5 Fire alarm box, cor. Gulf and Charlton streets. transfer from unappro- priated funds, 225 00
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