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Article 2. To choose by ballot all necessary town officers for the ensuing year; viz: Clerk, Treasurer, three Selectmen, three Overseers of the Poor, Collector of Taxes, one Assessor for three years, one member of Board of Hea th for three years, two members of the School Committee for three years, one Park Commis- sioner for three years, one Sinking Fund Commissioner for three years, one Sewer Commissioner for three years, two Cemetery Commissioners tor three years,
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Tree Warden, Highway Surveyor, three Constables and all others provided for by law.
Article 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?"
Article 4. To hear the reports of the Town Ac- countant, Treasurer, Clerk, Selectmen, Library Com- mittee, etc., and to act thereon.
Article 5. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to pay town debts and charges for the current financial year or act anything thereon.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, or act anything thereon.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Selectmen to cause an audit to be made of the town's accounts for 1917, or act anything thereon.
Article 8. To see if the town will vote to pay the Enginemen, or act anything thereon.
Article 9. 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 anything thereon.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to fix the compensation of town officers, laborers and teams, or act anything thereon.
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Article 11. 'To see if the town will vote to pay the Assessors an annual salary of Twenty-one Hundred Dollars ($2,100) for three Assessors, raise and appro- priate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 12. The see if the town will vote to pay the uniformed patrolmen $3.00 per day, raise and ap- propriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to pay the Collector of Taxes an annual salary of. $1,000.00, raise and appropriate money therefor, or act anything thereon.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to pay the Chief of the Fire Department an annual salary of $500.00, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to pay the Sewer Commissioners an annual salary of $450.00, for three commissioners, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the appointment of a Town Almoner, fix the salary, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to install three (3) street lights on Dresser Street, between the residence of Mr. Bruno St. Onge and Marcy Street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
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Article 18. To see if the town will vote to install two (2) street lights on Maple Street, raise and appro- priate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to install four (4) street lights on Litchfield Avenue, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to ma- cadamize Charlton Street, from Mechanic Street to the Cemetery, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to pave or macadamize Mechanic Street, from the bridge northerly to the junction of Mechanic and Worcester Streets, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to continue the macadam road on the North Woodstock Road, or act anything thereon.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to con- tinue the repair of the Eastford Road, raise and appro- priate money therefor, or act anything thereon.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,500.00 to continue the macadam road on East Main Street, or act anything thereon.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to con- tinue the macadam road on South Street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
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Article 26. To see if the town will vote to pur- chase a Motor Fire Pump, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to pay to Mrs. Ellen J. Bartholomew the sum of $125.05 in order to re-imburse her for the taxes of 1915 assessed on the property on Marcy and Dresser Streets pur- chased from her by the town to be used for school and playground purposes, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to pay a part of the expense of putting in a new girder rail on line of The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Company, on Hamilton Street from Main Street to Pine Street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a cement concrete sidewalk on the southerly side of Hartwell Street from the junction of Hartwell Street and Eastford Road westerly to land of Octavie Lange- vin, raise and appropriate money therefor or act any- thing thereon.
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a cement concrete sidewalk on the southerly side of Henry Street, from Worcester Street, westerly about 462 feet, said walk to be five (5) feet wide, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to con- struct a cement concrete sidewalk on both sides of
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Maple Street, from Main Street to the end of the street, as per plan submitted by the Southbridge De- velopment Company, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 32. To see if the town will vote to re- grade and re-build the sidewalk on the southerly side of Main Street, from the Southbridge Savings Bank Building to Everett Street, as shown on plan submit- ted to the United States Government, by Thomas McGovern, Civil Engineer. raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 33. To see if the town will vote to build a gravel, crushed stone or cinder sidewalk, said side- walk to be five (5) feet wide, on Gulf Road, Fairlawn Avenue, Harrington and Jerome Streets, raise and ap- propriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to im- prove Marcy Street for a distance of about 400 feet southerly from Dresser Street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Town Accountant to transfer the sum of $3,235.68 from the Excess and Deficiency Account to to the Police Department Account, to balance the overdraft of that account, caused by the expenses in- curred at the time of the strike in November 1916, or act anything thereon.
Article 36. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Town Accountant to transfer the sum of $62.48
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the balance in the Mechanic Street Sidewalk Account of 1914; the sum of $12.58 the balance in the Mechanic Street Sidewalk Account of 1915; and the sum of $32.73 the balance in the Chapin Street Sidewalk Ac- count of 1915, to the account of other sidewalks to be constructed in the future, or act anything thereon.
Article 37. To see if the town will approve and vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen, or some other board or committee, to execute on behalf of the town, an indenture with the Southern New England Railroad Corporation, dated July 17, 1916, relative to exchange and transfer of land and rights and relocation of sewer in land formerly of Mary C. Edwards and of the Central Mill Company, taken by the town for a sewer location, a little northerly from the Armory Building.
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to grade Pleasant Street its entire width as laid out by the town in the year 1874, from Walcott Street to the estate of Catherine Moriarty on said street, raise and appropri- ate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 39. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee appointed to confer with the South- bridge Water Supply Company in relation to extend- ing their pipes to Sandersdale.
Article 40. To see if the town will vote to install street lights on the North Woodstock Road from the present light to the State Line, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
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Article 41. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the Selectmen as to the laying out as a public way, of a certain way leading from Chestnut Street to Morris Street, over land of Herman S. Cheney, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 42. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the Selectmen as to the laying out as a public way, of a certain way leading from Coombs Street to Chestnut Street, over land of Herman S. Cheney and others, raise and appropriate money there- for or act anything thereon.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote to accept, as made by the Selectmen, the laying out as a public way of a certain way leading from Mechanic Street, easterly, over land of Morris Green, known as Rose Street, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
Article 44. To see if the town will vote to accept, as made by the Selectmen, the laying out as a public way of a certain way leading from Rose Street, so- called, northerly to Liberty Street, so-called, over land of Morris Green, raise and appropriate money therefor or act anything thereon.
And you are directed 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,-before the day of holding said meeting.
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Hereof fail not, and make due return of this War- rant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place herein before named.
Given under our hands this 12th day of Febru- ary, A. D., 1917.
WILFRID J. LAMOUREUX, ALEXANDRE L. DESAULNIERS, ALEXIS BOYER, Jr.,
Selectmen of Southbridge.
ANDREW M. HIGGINS, Constable of Southbridge.
INDEX
Accountant's Report 9
Appropriations 46
Balance Sheet 43
Commercial Revenue 10
Charities 21
General Revenue
9
Health and Sanitation
21
Outlay
37
Payments, General Government
14
Protection, Persons and Property
10-17
Unclassified
33
Appropriations for 1917 147
Assessors' Report 81
Board of Health 99
Cemetery Committee 137
Fire Engineers 121
Highway Surveyor 85
Library Report
107
Milk Inspector 105
Overseers of Poor 131
Police Department 125
Plumbing Inspector 102
Playground Committee 141
Report of State Audit
63
Selectmen's Report
57
Sealer's Report
77
Sewer Commissioners
91
Sinking Fund Commissioners
115
Treasurer's Report
51
Town Clerk's Report
117
Tax Collector 137
Town Warrant 149
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