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I believe that if the town could arrange to have courtrooms built in connection with a station that this would give a considerable income without in any way imparing our accomodations.
Yours respectfully,
NAPOLEON GIROUX. Chief.
These Articles Will Appear in Town Warrant March 2, 1914
Article 1. 'To choose a moderator to preside over said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose by ballot all necessary town officers for the ensuing year, viz :- Clerk, Treasurer. Three Selectmen, Three Overseers of the Poor, Collec- tor of Taxes, One Assessor, for three years, one mem- ber of the Board of health for three years, two members of the School Committee for three years, three Audit- ors, three members of the Library Committee for three years, one member of the Library Committee for two years (to fill vacancy), one 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?"
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 raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to pay town debts and charges for the ensuing year, or act thereon.
Art. 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to
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borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the cur- rent financial year or act anything thereon.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will petition the Dir- ector of the Bureau of Statistics to cause such an audit to be made of the town accounts as may be necessary to install an accounting system, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910 and amendments thereto.
Art. 8. To see if the town will authorize and direct the Selectmen to appoint a town accountant, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 624 of the Acts of 1910.
Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to pay the enginemen, or act anything thereon.
Art. 10. To see if the town will vote to fix com- pensation of town officers, laborers and teams, or act anything thereon.
Art. 11. To see if the town will vote an appro- priation for the observance of Memorial Day, or act thereon.
Art. 12. To see if the town will vote an appro- priation to Camp Ponce for the observance of Memo- rial Day, or act thereon.
Art. 13. To see if the town will vote to give the tax collector the same power to collect taxes that the town treasurer has when appointed collector, or act thereon.
Art. 14. 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 anything thereon.
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Art. 15. To see if the town will vote to transfer to unappropriated funds from Cross street sidewalk $0.86, from Charlton street sidewalk $0.01, from Me- chanic street sidewalk $0.29, from Walcott and Plimp- ton street sidewalk $0.59, from Cliff street wall $2,18, from Chapin and Dresser street catch basins $6.47, from West and School street culverts $0.97, from Everett street culvert $39.99, from Goddard court ex- tension $6.40, from Dupaul street $2.24, from Main street macadam $6.96, from Street Signs $0.24, from District court fees $1,000, from Worcester street side- walk $221.34, from Walcott street land taking $9.04, from West Dudley road repairs $0.57, from Worcester street macadam $0.41 or act thereon.
Art. 16. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $250.00 to be expended for public band concerts, or act thereon.
Art. 17. To hear the report of the sewer com- missioners regarding the transfer of accounts, or act anything thereon.
Art. 18. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to select a site and prepare plans for a police station and court room, to report at a future town meeting, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
Art. 19. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a cement concrete sidewalk on the northerly side of River street, from Mill to Pleasant street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
Art. 20. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a cement concrete sidewalk on the northerly side
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of School street, from High to Collier street, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 21. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a cement concrete sidewalk on the easterly side of Mechanic street, from North street extension to Charlton street, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a cement concrete sidewalk on the northerly side of Charlton street, from Worcester to Mechanic street, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 23. To see if the town will vote, in accord- ance with Section 33 of Chapter 102 of the Revised Laws of the Commonwealth, to adopt the following by-law: "The selectmen may license suitable persons to carry on the business of pawnbrokers in the town of Southbridge, Mass., subject to the provisions of sec- tions one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and eighty-nine of Chapter 102 of the Revised Laws, and may revoke such licenses at pleasure," or act anything thereon.
Art. 24. To hear and act upon the report of the Water Supply committee.
Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to install three (3) luminous arc lights on Hamilton street be- tween Main and Hook streets, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to buy a certain parcel of land situated at the junction of Union (or Cross), Crane and River streets, raise and appro- priate money therefor, or act thereon.
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Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 to continue the maca- dam road on South street, or act thereon.
Art. 28. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000 to continue the repair of Eastroad road, or act thereon.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2.000 to continue the maca- dam road on Crane street, or act thereon.
Art. 30. To see if the town will vote to build a macadam road on Charlton street, from Worcester to to Mechanic street, raise and appropriate money there- for, or act thereon.
Art. 31. To see if the town will vote to build a macadam road on North street from Mechanic street northerly, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 32. To see if the town will vote to maca- damize Chapin street, from Main to Dresser street, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of selectmen as to the re-location of Mill street, from point of re-location by Southern New England Railroad Corporation to Fiske street.
Art. 34. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the selectmen as to the re-location of Elm street, from Richard's Mfg. Co's land to southerly boundry of land of J. M. & L. D. Clemence.
Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of selectmen as to the re-location of the North Woodstock road, from East Main street (Fort
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Sumpter) to the old Sandersdale road.
Art. 36. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the selectmen as to the re-location of Eastford road, from Elm street to road at D. Henry Durfee.
Art. 37. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of selectmen laying out as a public way a certain way leading from Marcy street to Franklin street, over land of Mrs. Ellen J. Bartholomew and George F. Maxwell, known as Curtis street, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 38. To see if the town will vote to discon- tinue or close for travel as a public way, a certain way known as Plimpton street extension or act anything thereon.
Art. 39. 'To see if the town will vote to repair Plimpton street extension, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
Art. 40. To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of the Revised Laws of the Common- wealth, Chapter 102, Sections 125-123-124-125-126, and amendents thereto, relating to the Smoke Nuisance, or act anything thereon.
Art. 41. To see if the town will vote to establish an Engineering department, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Art. 42. To tee if the town will vote to establish one (1) incandescent light on Water street, near the corner of Pierre Benoit's and Narcisse Boucher's land, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
Art. 43. To see if the town will vote to establish
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incandescent lights on the Clemence hill road, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Art. 44. The see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate money for building a culvert and drain on Marcy street extension, at a point 200 feet southerly from Dresser street and to fill in a distance of 400 feet on said street from Dresser street southerly to the pro- perty of J. B. Lippe, or act anything thereon.
Art. 45. To see if the town will vote to repair the gravel sidewalk on the northerly side of South street from the corner of South and West streets to the works of Litchfield Shuttle Co., and to construct a cinder or gravel walk from thence to the Westville bridge raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Art. 46. 'To see if the town will vote to construct a cement concrete sidewalk on the easterly side of Pine street, from Main street to Edwards street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act thereon.
Art. 47. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200 for the purpose of dedi- cating the Soldiers'monument or act anything thereon.
Art. 48. To see if the town will vote to maca- damize or otherwise repair the road leading to North Woodstock, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Art. 49. To see if the town will vote to establish (15) fifteen incandescent lights on the road leading to North Woodstock, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Art. 50. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the selectmen as to the laying out as a public way a certain way leading from Marcy street to
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Orchard street, over land of Mrs. Ellen J. Barthol- omew, known as Dresser street extension, raise and appropriate money, or act thereon.
Art. 51. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the selectmen as to the laying out as a public way a certain way leading from Worcester street about 440 feet westerly, over land of Henry A. Morse, known as Henry street, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 52. To see if the town will vote to build a sewer on Fiske street from the northerly end of said street to the railroad bridge, thence along Southern New England Railroad Corporation's right-a-way to connect with manhole in sewer on Cliff street near the residence of Adolphe Collectte, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 53. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of selectmen as to the laying out as a public 1 way a certain way leading from Moon street (so called) westerly about 140 feet, over land formerly owned by Sylvester Dresser, known as Snow street (so called), raise and appropriate money therefor, or act thereon.
Art. 54. To see if the town will vote to create, in accordance with Chapter 494 of the Acts of 1913, a board to be known as "The Planning Board," consist- ing of five (5) members to be elected annually at the annual town meeting, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act anything thereon.
Art. 55. To see if the town will vote to maca- damize Mechanic street from North to Charlton street, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act anything thereon.
INDEX
Auditors' Report :-
Abatement Taxes 55
Auditors Certificate. 138
Auto Fire Truck 55
Board of Health
56
Bridges.
57
Camp Ponce
59
Cemetery Improvements.
29
Cemetery fund.
29
Chapin street sidewalk
121
Chapin and Dresser street culvert .. 60
Charlton, Mechanic and Thomas
street culverts .. 60
Charlton street sidewalk.
121
Cliff street wall.
61
Contingent.
61
Common schools.
45
Contingent schools.
46
Coombs street sidewalk
104
Crane street repair
73
Cross and Union street sidewalk.
122
Crystal street sidewalk.
123
District Court fees. 74
Dupaul street.
76
Eastford road.
77
Electrician
77
Engine men. 78
Evening Schools 51
Everett street culvert. 78
Fire alarm.
79
Fire department
79
Goddard court
82
Hamilton street improvements.
82
Highways 83
High school. 52
High school lot. 83
Hook street cross walk. 87
Insurance
87
Interest. 89
Lebanon hill 89
Main street macadam 89
Main street Paving 90
Main and Mill street wall 92
Marcy street drain.
91
Mechanic street sidewalk.
124
Memorial day 91
Military aid. 91
Mynott fund.
31
Nuisance brook culvert.
92
Outside poor .39 Playgrounds. .92
Plimpton street extension. 95
Police department.
95
Police station
97
Printing
100
Public band concerts
101
Public library
31
Railing highways.
102
Repairs of farm buidings.
35
Reimbursement of taxes to Felix Gatineau. 102
River and Oliver streets culvert. 103
Salaries.
103
School apparatus .53
Sidewalk repairs .:
125
Sinking fund.
106
Soldiers' relief
106
Soldiers' monument 106
State aid.
109
Street lights.
109
Street signs.
109
Suppoort Poor
.35
Table of accounts
139
Town hall contingent.
110
Town pound.
113
Tree sprayer.
113
Unappropriated funds
114
Union street sidewalk.
107
Water Supply.
116
Water supply committee 117
Walcott street land taking
116
Water street repairs.
117
Watering trough
117
Water and School street culverts .. 118
West Dudley road repairs
119
Walcott and Plimpton
street
sidewalk.
127
Worcester street sidewalk.
128
Worcester street macadam.
119
Woodstock road.
118
Sewers :-
Sewer assessments 129
66
Cliff street.
131
Chapin street. 131
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Charlton street
131
Contingent
129
Dresser street ..
132
Hamilton street 133
Mill street. 133
Morris and Cisco street.
133
66 Pleasant street. 133
School and Winter street.
134
66
South street
135
Board of Health.
267
Cemetery Committee
157
Fire engineers ..
277
Highway Surveyor
237
Library Committee.
203
Obligation to be provided for.
23
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Overseer of Poor. 261
Sewer Commissioners 149
Playground Committee 293
Selectmen
143
Police Department. 299
Tax Collector 287
Plumbing Inspector
275
Town Clerk.
155
Road Committee.
249
Town Treasurer
.9
Sealer of Weights.
257
Town Officers.
3
School Committee
163
Town Warrant. 303
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Of the Town Officers and Financial Statement of the Town of Southbridge.
For the year ending December 31, 1914.
COMMERCIAL PRESS, INC. Formerly O. J. Paquette & Co., Inc. Southbridge, Mass.
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Town Officers for 1914-15
TREASURER Solomon E. Blanchard.
CLERK William W. Buckley.
SELECTMEN
Alexis Boyer, Jr., Wilfrid J. Lamoureux, Alexandre L. Desaulniers
Eugene Matte,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR Gedeon Pinsonneault, Jr., Daniel T. Morrill
ASSESSORS
W. H. McGilpin,
Antoine Farland, -
Joseph Gagnon,
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916 Term expires 1917
AUDITORS
Joseph Tremblay, George Dumas, Joseph Lafleche, 2nd
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BOARD OF HEALTH
J. A. Caron, -
Jos. E. Donais, - - Wm. S. Conway, M. D.,
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Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916
- Term expires 1917
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR Aimee Langevin.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Charles A. Tetrault,
Term expires 1915
Term expires 1915
Albert B. Wells, P. H. Hebert,
F. A. Wald,
Albert J. Thibault,
Term expires 1917
George L. Tully,
Term expires 1917
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
William F. Hefner,
Origene J. Paquette,
F. E. Corbin,
John E. Seagrave,
Wm. C. Flood,
Hector M. Leclair,
Alfred M. Blanchard,
John J. Delehanty,
Hector L. Peloquin,
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916 Term expires 1916 Term expires 1916 Term expires 1917 Term expires 1917 Term expires 1917
CEMETERY COMMITTEE
Clarence F. Morse,
Joseph Desrosiers, M. D. Morrill, Wardwell M. Edwards,
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916 Term expires 1916
Morris H. Marcy, . Adolphe Peloquin,
Term expires 1917
Term expires 1917
CONSTABLES
Pierre Caplette, Patrick Donnelly, P. H. Laughnane, Louis Langevin, A. R. Brown,
Andrew M. Higgins, Marcus L. Dillaber, Louis Lamothe, Joseph Paquin
TAX COLLECTOR
Eugene E. Gabree.
Term expires 1916 / Term expires 1916
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1915
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SEWER COMMISSIONERS
W. J. Lamoureux, G. E. Fred Lamoureux, James Pendergast,
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916 Term expires 1917
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONER
Isidore Leblanc, Ephrem Chicoine, Louis Dupuis,
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916 Term expires 1917
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 Joseph Payant.
KEEPER OF LOCKUP
Napoleon Giroux, Assistant, Joseph D. Proulx
JANITOR OF TOWN HALL BUILDING Pierre Caplette.
TOWN ACCOUNTANT Joseph Lafleche, 2nd.
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CATTLE INSPECTOR Wm. T. Pugh, V. S.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Felix Gatineau.
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
S. D. Perry,
Moses Gagnon, J. J. O'Shaughnessy,
Wm. W. Buckley, Clerk.
FIRE ENGINEERS Joseph E. Duchesneau, Chief.
Louis Lamothe, Geo. W. Langhnane,
John J. Hogan, J. Willard Claflin,
Thomas Heffernan, Superintendent of Fire Alarm. .
FIRE WARDENS
Aimee Langevin, Louis Pontbriand, Alfred Giroux, Frank Brissette, George Clemence, Alex. L'Heureux.
W. J. Wadleigh, Chas. Blackmer, John Keenan, Adelard Bouchard, Jos. Payant.
POLICE OFFICERS
John S. Hefner, Thomas Troy, Geo. H. Chaffin, Patrick Sheridan, Jules Theriault, Joseph Bachand, Louis Meunier, Prosper Proulx, George Hebert, H. S. Freeman, Dennis Dooley, Jos. Berthiaume,
Roy Sanders, Origene Lacasse, Louis Peloquin, Jules Blain. D. A. Kenney, Joseph Payant, Thomas Nichols, Joseph D. Proulx, John Fitzpatrick, Joseph Roy, Napoleon Boiteau, J. H. Montigny.
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PUBLIC WEIGHERS
Frank E. Randall, E. C. Ellis, Mederic Duhamel, Alfred Mckinstry, Thomas Hughes, Frank B. Vinton,
Clarence Morse, Dennis Langevin, Wardwell M. Edwards, E. I. Knowles, Joseph Degrenier, John Adams,
Henry A. Morse,
FENCE VIEWERS George H. Clemence,
C. M. Morse.
Walter Leonard, Philias X. Casavant, George Webster, Arthur E. Conner,
Morris A. Feyler .. Arthur J. Lacroix, John G. Curran.
Pierre Caplette,
TRUANT OFFICERS Miss Margaret Butler, Jules Theriault.
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
E. C. Ellis, A. D. Cornell, Mederic Duhamel, James R. Harris, H. H. Clemence,
Thomas Hughes, Everett M. Morse, George H. Clemence, George Simpson, A. J. Harwood.
MEASURER OF LEATHER Felix Gatineau.
UNIFORM POLICE FORCE Napoleon Giroux, Chief.
Andrew M. Higgins, Oliver Paul, Jr., James Coughlin, Pierre Cormier,
Joseph Paquin, Patrick Donnelly, Daniel Blute, Honore St. Martin.
Geo. E. Berry, Geo. E. Morse, C. Russell Morse, Herbert E. Carpenter. John St. Martin, A. D. Cornell, Leon Harwood, Aimee Langevin, George A. Clemence, Elliot Clemence, A. M. Badger.
FIELD DRIVERS
Annual Report of the TOWN TREASURER
SOLOMON E. BLANCHARD in account with the Town of Southbridge, Jan. 1, 1914 to Jan. 1, 1915.
TAX BILL FOR THE YEAR 1914
State tax,
$16,100 00
State highway tax,
88 22
County tax.
7,413 00
Town appropriations,
145,470 00
Overlayings,
1,567 87
Non-resident bank tax,
1.982 40
$172,621 49
Excise tax,
1,423 80
Additional taxes,
1,639 42
$175,684 71
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS.
Voted at meeting March 11, 1914. Board of Health,
$ 2,000 00
Bridges,
2,000 00
Camp Ponce,
50 00
Cemetery improvements,
800 00
Contingent, 7,500 00
Electrician, 200 00
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Enginemen,
5,495 00
Fire department,
3,800 00
High school,
6,000 00
Highways,
9,500 00
Insurance,
2,000 00
Interest,
8,500 00
Memorial Day,
150 00
Military aid,
250 00
Outside poor,
7,000 00
Police department,
9,250 00
Police station,
1,300 00
Printing,
2,000 00
Public band concerts,
250 00
Public library and dog fund,
2,000 00
Railing highways,
400 00
Repairing farm buildings,
200 00
Salaries,
7,500 00
School apparatus,
300 00
Sewers-contingent,
1,000 00
Sidewalk repairs,
2,000 00
Sinking fund,
750 00
Soldiers' relief,
1,800 00
Street lights,
13,500 00
Support of poor, 3,000 00
Town hall contingent and rents, 2,400 00
Water supply, 4,200 00
Obligations to be provided for in tax levy of 1914, 21,600 00
Art. 19. River street sidewalk, 765 00
Art. 22. Charlton street side- walk, 1,760 00
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Art. 26. Land purchase, corner Crane and River streets, 900 00 Art. 27. South street maca- dam, 3,000 00
Art. 28. Eastford road im-
provements, 3,000 00
Art. 32. Chapin street maca- dam, 1,000 00
Art. 33. Mill street relocation, 600 00
Art. 37. Curtis street grading, 500 00
Art. 39. Plimpton street exten-
sion, 1,000 00
Art. 47. Dedication soldiers' monument, 1,200 00
Art. 48. North Woodstock road repairs, 3,000 00
$145,420 00
Fransfer of Accounts from Unappropriated Funds :-
To Contingent schools, $ 4,700 00
Common schools, 22,500 00
Evening schools, 1,000 00
Playgrounds, 1,800 00
$30,000 00
Transfers to Unappropriated Funds :-
From Cross street sidewalk, $ 86
Charlton street sidewalk, 01
Mechanic street sidewalk, 29
Walcott and Plimpton street sidewalk, 59
Cliff street wall, 2 18
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Chapin and Dresser streets catch basin, 6 47
West and School streets culverts, 97
Everett street culverts, 39 99
Goddard Court extension, 6 40
Dupaul street, 2 24
Main street macadam, 6 96
Street signs, 24
District court fees, 1,000 00
Worcester street sidewalk, 221 34
Walcott street land tak- ing. 9 04
West Dudley road repairs, 57
Worcester street macadam, 41
$ 1,298 56
Art. 17. Transfer from Sewer Assessments :-
To South street sewer, $1,574 71
Pleasant street sewer, 793 71
Mill street sewer, 45 85
Charlton street sewer, 60 30
Morris and Cisco streets sewer, 7 00
Hamilton street sewer, 6 00
Dresser street sewer,
766 31
School and Winter streets
sewer, 1,275 41
Chapin street sewer, 6 00
$ 4,535 29
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Meeting May 11, 1914 :-
Art. 2.
Chapin street maca-
dam,
$750 00
Art. 3.
Hamilton street retain-
ing wall,
400 00
$ 1,150 00
Meeting June 8, 1914 :-
Art. 2. Main street paving, $1,800 00
$1,800 00
Meeting August 10, 1914 :-
Art. 2. Mechanic street walk, $2,800 00
Art. 3. School street sidewalk, 1,900 00
Art. 6. Eastford road sewer, 1,200 00
Art. 7. Hartwell street sewer, 750 00
Art. 2. Mechanic, Crystal and Main streets sidewalk, 1,900 00
Art. 4. Chapin street sidewalk, 850 00
$ 9,400 00
Meeting November 3, 1914: -. Art. 2. Watering trough, $ 250 00
Art. 3. Crane street macadam, 202 00
Art. 4. Police department, 1,000 00
Art. 5. Printing, 200 00
Art. 6. Water supply, 126 77
Art. 7. Transfer to Unappro- priated Funds : -- District court fees, 500 00
Eastford road repairs, 10 1 Chemical auto truck, 41 15
Curtis street grading, 37
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School street sidewalk, 54 88
Chapin street sidewalk, 32 73
Hamilton street wall, 1 48
Dedication soldiers' monument, 177 43
Charlton street side-
walk, 3 21
Mechanic street side- walk, 107 83
Tree sprayer, 7 20
Main street paving, 375 00
Art. 8 Transfer from Unappro- priated Funds to Ham- ilton and Main street cleaning, 1,000 00
Art. 9. Transfer from Uanppro- priated Funds to Con- tingent, 1,000 00
Art. 12. Transfer from Unappro- priated Funds to Out- side Poor, 1,500 00
$ 6,580 15
SOLOMON E. BLANCHARD, in account with the Town of Southbridge, Dr.
RECEIPTS.
Jan. 1, 1914, balance, (cor- rected) $ 33,947 41
Taxes-1911, E. E. Gabree. 10 12 1912, E. E. Gabree 3,238 78
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1913, E. E. Gabree, 17,099 21
1914, E. E. Gabree, 150,802 24
Interest on Taxes, 549 27
Notes payable :-
Anticipation of Taxes, 100,000 00
Chapin street sidewalk, 850 00
Main street paving, 1,800 00
Mechanic street sidewalk,
2,800 00
Mechanic, Crystal and Main streets sidewalk, 1,900 00
School street sidewalk, 1,900 00
Board of Health,
Reimbursement, 8 00
Cemetery Fund :-
Interest on deposits,
754 92
Lots sold,
375 00
Perpetual care,
150 00
Corporation tax, business,
2,771 35
Corporation tax, public service,
445 90
District court fees :- Credits,
771 00
Dog fund,
734 78
Fire department :-
Hose sold,
16 67
Highways :-
Credits,
38 25
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Chapin street macadam, cre- dit, 151 50
High school lot :-
Rents, etc., 435 00
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Interest, Augusta water bonds,
640 00
Liquor licenses, 18,505 00
Military aid, state,
276 50
National bank tax,
565 58
Outside poor, credits,
744 78
Playgrounds, grass sold, 7 00
Police station, credits,
52 50
Public library, fines,
176 30
Repairing farm buildings, in-
surance,
668 66
Schools :-
Common schools, credits, 104 00
Contingent schools, credits, 86 86
High school, credits, 250 00
Sewer assessments,
6,284 69
Sidewalk assessments,
1,313 46
Sidewalks :--
Chapin street, credit, 3 41
River street, credit, 182 59
Charlton street, credit, 61 38
East Main street, credit,
57 65
School street, credit,
67 60
Mechanic street, credit,
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