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Young, Julia M., 135 Prospect
1.29
Zeuli, Alexander, 96 So. Elm
5.60
Zerorckis, Stanislaw and Mary
2.88
Zionowicz, Joseph, 625 East
31.10
Report of Selectmen.
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The following permanent roads have been constructed : 2,719 feet on Walnut Street, $6,432.18 having been ex- pended; 2,385 feet on East Street by the expenditure of $5,396.91.
The sum of $998.09 was expended on the construction of the sidewalk on North Main Street and the sidewalk on North Elm Street was completed.
We recommend that East Street be completed and that a permanent road be constructed on Walnut Street with the agreed assistance of the State and County.
The Town should again accept Chapter 81, "The Small Town Act," thereby receiving the amount of $3,900 from the State by the appropriation of $5,850.
Some definite plan of road construction and repair must be maintained so that the town may receive the full bene- fit of its appropriations for road work. The insertion of articles for special road work disrupts this plan and the effect in general is to deprive citizens in outlying districts of road work that should be done.
Adequate offices should be furnished the town officials. As conditions exist, no department has the degree of privacy it should have, either in its interviews with citizens or in keeping of its records.
Report of the Town Director.
The Plymouth County Extension Service cooperated with citizens in every town in the county this year in bring- ing to them information about agriculture and home- making. Local and county-wide meetings were held for this purpose. Through the meetings and by means of cor- respondence, press notices, and by individual service, thousands of men, women, boys and girls, were instructed in the better performance of farm operations and home duties.
West Bridgewater farmers were always well repre- sented at the Extension Service meetings. Personal service was given to many of them at their own farms by the county agent. To 71 farmers the Extension Service sent, frequently, letters and circulars bearing agricultural in- formation.
During the last year the county home demonstration program has stressed nutrition and clothing projects and has also devoted time to problems of Child Development, Home Management, and Home Ground Improvement. West Bridgewater has participated fully in the county program, especially stressing child feeding and child development projects.
Sixty-three West Bridgewater boys and girls enrolled in lunch box, canning, poultry, garden and handicraft clubs. Because of outstanding work done by one of the girls she
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has been chosen as the county champion in canning. She will receive a trip to the State 4-H camp in 1930 for one week.
The 1930 clubs are organized and holding their meet- ings regularly.
That the Extension Service needs our support is clear, for it has proved its worth.
I am glad to present the above report which has been submitted to me.
CORELLI C. ALGER,
Town Director.
Fiftieth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library.
TRUSTEES
Ada M. Wood
Rev. L. B. Codding
Martha B. Mason
Term expires 1931
Louis P. Hayden
Term expires 1931
Edith F. Howard
Term expires 1932
Term expires 1932
ORGANIZATION
Chairman Secretary
Daniel G. Lothrop
Treasurer
Edith F. Howard Martha B. Mason
BOOK COMMITTEE
Edith F. Howard
Martha B. Mason
Ada M. Wood Daniel J. Lothrop
EXECUTIVE OFFICER Daniel J. Lothrop
GROWTH AND CIRCULATION
We have the honor to submit the report for the fiftieth year of the West Bridgewater Public Library.
The Library was organized Oct. 4, 1879 and after five
Daniel J. Lothrop
Term expires 1930
Term expires 1930
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years we find that the annual circulation was 6,479 and the weekly circulation about 125 volumes. During the past year the circulation totaled 22,360, an increase of 2,460 over any previous year and a gain of 15,880 over that of 1884. At present the weekly circulation averages 450 vol- umes, being larger than this in the winter and smaller dur- ing the summer.
The chief increase last year was in the classes of adult and juvenile fiction (1,167 increase in the adult fiction and 971 in juvenile fiction) but there is a gain in each class.
To the Library were added 340 bound volumes during 1929. Of these approximately 200 books were adult and 140 juvenile.
It is still as true as it was in 1884 that "the books in all departments have been selected with much care and they constitute a comprehensive and valuable library for a small town."
IMPROVEMENTS AND NEEDS
New sectional book shelves relieve the congestion in the Children's Corner; a movable steel rack helps in the display of new fiction; we need even more sectional book shelves to house our ever-growing collection of books- about 10,000 volumes.
A magazine rack would also greatly relieve congestion in the small reference room.
The backward glance over the past fifty years shows steady progress-may the next fifty show even greater de- velopment and may this-our golden anniversary year- be one of increasing usefulness to our community. Please help us make this Tercentenary year of 1930 the best one of all !
CHARLOTTE L. WILLIAMS,
Librarian.
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CIRCULATION DATA
Adult Fiction
10,547
Adult Non-Fiction
1,205
Juvenile Fitcion
7,566
Juvenile Non-Fiction
1,058
Bound Magazines
19
Monthly Magazines
1,965
Total Circulation for 1929
22,360
Total Circulation for 1928
19,900
Gain in Circulation
2,460
SCHOOL CIRCULATION
Elementary Schools :
Fiction
1,398
Non-Fiction
288
Magazines
11
1,697
Secondary Schools :
Fiction
400
Non-Fiction
222
Magazines
11
633
1,697
Total School Circulation
2,330
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List of Books Added During 1929
ADULT FICTION
Bladed Barrier Expiation
Rich Young Man
Burning Beauty
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Incredible Year
Susy Falls Off
Laughing Queen
Godfather
Queen Dick
Son of the Gods
Five Flamboys
Bennett
Black Camel
Biggers
Frontiersman
Bindloss
Larry of Lonesome Lake
Bindloss
Rodeo
Bower
Swallowfork Bulls
Bower
Murder at the Inn
Brock
Field of Honor
Happy Parrot
Byrne Chambers Chase Cher Christie
Up at the Villa
Partners in Crime
Christie
Spring
Cleugh Cobb
This Man's World
Murder in the Brownstone House
Collison
Dimmest Dream
Colver
Case With Nine Solutions
Connington
Ames Arnim Attenborough Bailey Baldwin Barr Barrington Bartley Bartley Beach Beeding
Old Wives Tales
Pines of Jalaam
Seven Dials Mystery
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Singing Gold Skippy Crippled Lady of Peribonka
Swift Lightning Set of 10 volumes Whirlwind Roper's Row First Love Rome Haul
Galaxy Shadow and Other Stories Another Day
Martyr to the Queen
Mysterious Cavalier
Diamond Murders
Old Latimer's Legacy
Secret of Secrets
Wanderer
Eyes of Osiris
Joseph and His Brethren
Silent Witness
Her Son
Mystery at Spanish Hacienda
Fighting Caravans
Crown for Carlotta
Man of the North
Masqueraders
Ginger and Speed
People of This Town
Uncertain Trumpet
Sand
Devil and the Deep Sea
Dynasty Jim the Conquerer Parson of Panamint
Cottrell Crosby Curwood Curwood
Davis Davis Deeping Delafield Edmonds Ertz Farnol Farnol Feval Feval Fletcher Fletcher Fletcher Fournier Freeman Freeman Freeman
Fuller Gregory Grey Henderson Hendryx Heyer Hueston Hueston Hutchinson James Jordan Kelland
Kyne Kyne
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Dodsworth Blair's Attic Ancestor Jerico Early Candlelight Duckin Prodigal Girl Merivales
By Soochow Waters
Magic for Marigold
Me and Shorty
Cock o' the North
Mother and Son
Red Silence
Storm House
Norris
Best Short Stories of 1929
O'Brien
Johnny Reb
Oemler Oldfield
Alchemy Murder
Mr. Bellingham, the Marquis and Madelon
Treasure House of Martin Hews
Young May Moon
Wits End Guarded Halo
Oppenheim Oppenheim Ostenso Paradise Pedler Porter Raine
Freckles Comes Home
Fighting Tenderfoot
Six Mrs. Greenes
All Quiet on the Western Front Listening Post
Romantics
Rinehart Rinehart
This Strange Adventure
White Oaks of Jalna
Peder Victorious
Visitors to Hugo Joy Ride
Romantic Prince
Dark Hester
Lewis Lincoln Locke Lovelace Lutz Lutz Mccutcheon Miln Montgomery Mulford Mundy Norris Norris
Rea Remarque Richmond
Roche Rölvaag Rosman Ruck Sabatini Sedgwick
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Grey Maiden Pollyanna's Western Adventure Village Doctor Slower Judas Immortal Lover
Penrod Jashber
Lad of Sunnybank
Secret of Sea-Dream House
Night Falls on Siva's Hill
Axe
In the Wilderness
Kristin Lavransdatter
Snake Pit
Benson Murder Case
Bishop Murder Case Double
Flying Squad
Kidnapped by Air
Wallace
Three Just Men
Twister
Murder at the Keyhole
Everlasting Harpers
Sealed Trunk
Tapestry Room Murder
Triple Murder
Fool Errant
Grey Mask
Hudson River Bracketed
Robbery at Rudwig House
Rhinestones
Wallace Wallace Walling Wasson Webster Wells Wells Wentworth Wentworth Wharton Whitechurch Widdemer Williams Williams
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Death on Scurvy Street Good Gestes
Wren
Soldiers of Misfortune
Wren
Total new adult fiction :- 133
Smith Smith Kaye-Smith Stern Stewart
Tarkington Terhune Terhune Thompson Undset Undset Undset Undset Van Dine Van Dine Wallace Wallace
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ADULT NON-FICTION
Marshal Foch
Aston
Plays
Barrie
Beneath Tropic Skys
Beebe
Conversation with an Angel
Belloc
Joan of Ark
Belloc
On Nothing
Belloc
What Is Right With Marriage ?
Binkley
Genuine Antique Furniture
de Bles Bolton
Mad Anthony Wayne
Boyd
As God Made Them
Bradford Brooks
There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
Brooks
Grandmother Brown's 100 Years
Brown
Charlotte Corday
Cher
Aviation and All About It
Collins Cook Coolidge
Oxford Book of English Verse
Quiller-Couch
Romance and Rise of Am. Tropics
Crothers
Twelve Royal Ladies
Dark
Art of Thinking
Dimnet
Hows and Whys of Human Behavior
Dorsey
Music at Midnight
Draper
Mansions of Philosophy
Durant
Benjamin Franklin
Fay Foster
Combing the Caribees
Fringe of the Modern World
Franck
Bab Ballads
Gilbert
Albert, King of the Belgians
Graham
Myths of Greece and Rome
Guerber
Poems
Henry the 8th
Guest Hackett
Real Founders of New England
Hints to Pilgrims
Am. Institutions and Their Preservation
Autobiography
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History of Woman Suffrage Outline of Period Furniture Midstream Flying With Lindbergh Poems
Essays
Cradle of the Deep
Practical Art Lettering
Knights of the Air
Best Plays 1928-'29
Lindbergh : His Story in Pictures
Dover Road
Mr. Pim Passes By
Milne
Those Were the Days
Milne
Myron T. Herrick
Victor and Victim
Golden Treasury
Standard English Poems
Poems
Little Book of Modern Verse
All in the Family
Abraham Lincoln (Prairie Years)
Poetical Works
Rittenhouse Roosevelt Sandberg Service Smith Starchey Wilkinson
Elizabeth and Essex
Contemporary Poetry
Great Horn Spoon
Wright Wright
Long Ago Told
New adult non-fiction added :- 61
Harper Kahle Keller
Keyhoe Kilmer Leacock Lowell Lutz Maitland Mantle Miller Milne
Mott Oliver Palgrave Pancoast Raymond
John Jacob Astor
State Auditor's Report, 1928.
Feb. 21, 1929.
To the Board of Selectmen,
Mr. James A. Hemenway, Chairman, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen:
I submit herewith my report of an audit of the ac- counts of the Town of West Bridgewater for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1928 made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the general laws. This report is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Edward H. Fenton, Chief Accountant of this Division.
Very truly yours,
THEODORE N. WADDELL, Director of Accounts.
REPORT
Mr. Theodore N. Waddell, Director of Accounts, Department of Corporations and Taxation, State House, Boston, Mass.
Sir :
As directed by you, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of West Bridgewater for the
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year ending December 31, 1928, and report thereon as fol- lows :
The financial transactions of the town, as reported on the books of the several departments collecting money for the town, were checked and reconciled with the account- ant's books.
The books and accounts of the town treasurer were checked with the records in the several departments col- lecting money for the town and with the other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury. The recorded payments were checked with the warrants author- izing the treasurer to disburse town funds. The cash on hand January 26, 1929, was verified by actual count, and the bank account was reconciled with a statement furnished by the bank.
The books and accounts of the town accountant were examined and checked. The recorded receipts were checked with the records of the treasurer, and the disbursements were checked with the treasury warrants. The ledger was analyzed, and a balance sheet was prepared showing the financial condition of the town as of December 31, 1928.
The securities and saving bank books representing the investments of the several trust funds in the custody of the town treasurer, were examined, and the income and disbursements were verified.
The books and accounts of the tax collector were ex- amined and checked in detail. The commitment list for the levy of 1928 was analyzed and checked with the assessors' warrants. The collections, as entered on the cash books, were checked to the commitment books, the recorded col- lections were checked with the payments to the treasurer as shown by the treasurer's cashbook, the abatements were checked with the assessors' record of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were listed and reconciled with the ledger accounts.
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The outstanding accounts were further verified by mailing notices to a number of persons whose names ap- peared on the books as owing money to the town, the re- plies received thereto indicating that the accounts, as listed, were correct.
In checking the selectmen's records of licenses granted, it was found that the records were incomplete, several li- censes having been issued with no record thereof. To ob- tain an accurate check on the receipts as shown by the treasurer, it is recommended that the selectmen keep a complete record of licenses and permits granted.
The books and accounts of the water department were examined and checked in detail. The quarterly commit- ments were proved, the abatements were checked with the abatement slips issued by the water commissioners, the re- corded collections were checked with the treasurer's cash book, and the outstanding accounts were proved and listed. Considerable checking of cash postings was necessary in order to determine the correct list of outstanding accounts. It is recommended that any reduction in the detail com- mitted be made in the form of an authorized abatement, and that additions to the commitment list be treated as ad- ditional commitments.
The town clerk's record of dog and of sporting licenses were examined and checked in detail. The recorded receipts were checked with the payments to the state and county treasurers as shown by the receipts on file.
The town clerk's record of appropriations voted at the town meetings was checked with the amounts as entered on the ledger.
The books of the sealer of weights and measures and of the library department were examined, and the recorded receipts were checked with the treasurer's cash book.
Appended to this report are tables showing a recon- ciliation of the treasurer's cash, summary tables of the
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several tax levies, water commitments and trust fund transactions, as well as a balance sheet showing the finan- cial condition of the town December 31, 1928.
For the co-operation of the several town officials dur- ing the progress of the audit, I wish, on behalf of my as- sistants and for myself, to express appreciation.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD H. FENTON, Chief Accountant.
The figures and tables referred to by the Chief exam- iner are a repetition of those contained in the town account- ant's and town collector's report of 1928.
Report of Collector of Taxes
TAXES OF 1926
Outstanding January 1, 1929 $991.41
Payments to Treasurer
$948.24
Abatements
43.17
$991.41
TAXES OF 1927
Due from Collector January 1, 1929
$1.00
Outstanding January 1, 1929 10,180.33
$10,181.33
Payments to Treasurer
$6,714.23
Abatements
6.90
Outstanding December 31, 1929
3,460.20
$10,181.33
TAXES OF 1928
Outstanding January 1, 1929
$32,754.25
Audit Adjustments :
Duplicate Abatement $17.14
Taxes 1929 reported as
taxes 1928 2.00
19.14
$32,773.39
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Payments to Treasurer $22,454.21 Abatement 34.38
Audit Adjustments :
Taxes 1928 reported as taxes 1929
25.00
Outstanding December 31, 1929
10,259.80
$32,773.39
TAXES OF 1929
Commitment per warrant $91,113.09
Additional Commitment
107.60
$91,220.69
Audit Adjustments :
Taxes 1928 reported as
taxes 1929
$25.00
Motor Vehicle Excise
Tax 1929 reported
as taxes 1929
4.32
29.32
$91,250.01
Payments to Treasurer
Abatements ·
$55,039.83
290.54
Audit Adjustments :
Taxes 1929 reported as
taxes 1928
$2.00
Warrant in excess of
commitment
2.00
4.00
Outstanding December
31, 1929
$34,514.61
Cash on hand December
31, 1929 (verified)
1,401.03
35,915.64 - $91,250.01
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MOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAXES-1929
Commitment per warrants $8,058.47
Abatements after payments (refunded) 43.96
$8,102.43
Payments to Treasurer
Abatements
$4,728.80
766.10
Audit Adjustments : Motor Vehicle Excise
Tax reported as
taxes 1929
$4.32
Warrant in excess of com-
mitment list
.09
4.41
Outstanding December 31, 1929
2,603.12
$8,102.43
CATHERINE M. HOWARD,
Collector.
Report of the Collector of Water Rates
WATER RATES-1926
Outstanding January 1, 1929
$50.85
Payments to Treasurer .
$26.35
Abatements
24.50
$50.85
WATER RATES-1927
Outstanding January 1, 1929
$695.97
Audit Adjustments : Water Rates 1928 reported as 1927
5.25
$701.22
Payments to Treasurer
$409.79
Abatements
52.75
Outstanding December 31, 1929
238.68
$701.22
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WATER RATES-1928
Outstanding January 1, 1929
$4,911.18
Payments to Treasurer
$3,974.10 -
Abatements
66.50
Audit Adjustments : Water Rates 1928 re-
ported as 1927
$5.25
Water Rates 1928 re-
.ported as 1929
24.40
29.65
Outstanding December 31, 1929
840.93
$4,911.18
WATER RATES-1929
Commitment per warrants
$20,270.19
Audit Adjustments :
Water Rates 1928 re-
ported as 1929
$24.40
Errors in reporting
abatements
4.55
28.95
$20,299.14
Payments to Treasurer
Abatements
$15,617.15
200.68
Audit Adjustments :
Warrant in excess of commit-
ment lists
9.07
Outstanding December 31, 1929
4,472.24
-
$20,299.14
CATHERINE M. HOWARD,
Collector.
Report of Treasurer.
Cash Balance January 1, 1929
$18,351.65
Receipts 1929
233,236.85
$251,588.50
Payments 1929
$221,233.19
Cash Balance Dec. 31, 1929
30,355.31
$251,588.50
For details of receipts and expenditures see Town Ac- countant's report.
CATHERINE M. HOWARD,
Treasurer.
Purpose of Loan
Sold To
Date of Issue
Date of Maturity
Rate of Interest
Amount of Loan Jan. 1, 1930
Bonds and Notes Maturing 1930
Interest due 1930
$120.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Sept.
1, 1910 Sept.
1939
4%
$3,000.00
$300.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
1, 1914 Apr.
1944
4%
7,500.00
500.00
290.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Dec.
1, 1914 Dec.
1939
4%
1,000.00
100.00
40.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
1, 1915 Apr.
1940
4%
4,400.00
400.00
160.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Aug.
1, 1915 Aug
1940
4%
6,000.00
600.00
264.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Jan.
1,
1916 Jan.
1940
4%
4,400.00
400.00
160.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
1,
1916 Apr.
1941
4%
4,800.00
400.00
184.00
Water Loans
Home Savings Bank
June
1,
1916 June
1941
4%
9,120.00
760.00
349.60
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
July
1923 July
1933
41/4 %
2,000.00
500.00
85.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
1, 1925 Apr.
1930
41/4 %
600.00
600.00
12.75
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
1,
1925 Apr.
1940
41/4 %
1,460.00
135.00
59.32
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
1, 1926 Apr.
1930
41/4%
400.00
400.00
8.50
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
Apr.
1,
1926 Apr.
1940
41/4 %
2,200.00
200.00
89.25
School Loan
Cape Ann Savings Bank July . 1, 1925 July
1930
4%
2,000.00
2,000.00
80.00
$55,120.00
$7,775.00
$2,022.42
1,
1917 Apr.
1942
4%
6,240.00
480.00
120.00
Water Loans
People's Savings Bank
1,
CATHERINE M. HOWARD, Treasurer.
Report of Water Commissioners.
The Water Commissioners met regularly at the town office on Monday afternoons from 2 to 5 during the past year. Eighteen Tax Payers appeared personally at these meetings.
The report of the Town Auditor shows a decrease of $149.31 in expenditures over the preceding year. No hope is felt. that a continued decrease will be shown in future years as the expenses for clerical administration is particu- larly small for the volume of business handled and the amount of detail involved. Additional future expense will be incurred shortly by the replacing of several miles of 2" pipe which is already causing trouble in some parts of the town.
The report of the Tax Collector shows water rates committed for the year amounting to $20,270.19, of which amount $1,411.64 was committed for excess water. After deducting abatements which amount to $200.68, water rates for the year were $3,695.59 above all expenses of the water department, including bonds and interest.
Considerable criticism has been made at times on ac- count of the large amount of uncollected overdue water rates. In hope of remedying this situation which is as un- satisfactory to the departments involved as to the tax pay- ers, the Tax Collector, Finance Committee, By-laws Com- mittee and Water Commissioners have drawn up new by- laws which the town will be asked to support at its annual meeting.
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Adequate facilities for the administration of the water department should have the consideration of the town at the earliest opportunity.
During the year there have been installed 12 new ser- vices and 52 new meters. Three 4" hydrants have been moved, 20 curb boxes and four 4" gate boxes raised for road construction.
STOCK USED
15 Corporation cocks
7 leaks in services
16 new lead connections
4 old services renewed
15 curb cocks
3 2" gate
16 curb boxes
800 ft. 2" pipe
840 ft. 1" pipe
200 ft. 1" pipe
4 new hydrant valves
7 new 4" gate boxes
6 2" slip fittings
15 leaks in Mains and Gates
8 1" slip fittings
31 meters repaired
The Commissioners express their thanks to the various town departments, the Finance Committee and By-laws Committee for their co-operation and assistance during the past year.
HERVEY DUNHAM, WARREN P. LAUGHTON, F. C. PERKINS,
Water Commissioners.
20 1" stop waste
30 hydrants repacked
6 ram's horns
Report of Inspector of Animals.
There have been inspected during the past year 85 stables and 751 cattle. Of these cattle two were quaran- tined and killed and found tubercular. There were 35 hogs and seven sheep inspected.
Animals slaughtered :
Calves
483
Hogs
515
Beef
1
Total
999
Animals condemned :
Hogs
2
Calves
4
Total
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DAVID DAILEY,
Inspector.
Report of Highway Department.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit the annual report of the Superin- tendent of Streets of West Bridgewater.
The regular routine of scraping and dragging our roads has been carried on during the past year.
We have done a great amount of gravel patching on most all of the streets in town. We have regravelled the various streets as follows: Howard Street 900 ft .; Prospect Street 400 ft .; River Street 400 ft .; South Elm Street 400 ft .; Pleasant Street 800 ft .; Crescent Street 950 ft .; Pro- gressive Avenue 400 ft .; Brooks Place 600 ft .; Matfield Street 950 ft .; East Street 825 ft .; West Street 700 ft .; Ash Street 1,000 ft .; and South Street 4,200 ft.
325 feet of 12 and 14 inch iron and concrete pipe has been placed under various streets for drainage.
32 tons of 1/2 inch Crushed Stone and 300 gallons of Tarvia was used in patching our permanent roads. West Center Street was given a coat of Tarvia and sand from Central square, west, for one and one-quarter miles.
The appropriation for cinders on Maolis Avenue was used and the work was finished on this street. A Concrete sidewalk was built from West Center Street to Howard Street, on North Main Street. South Elm Street was given a coat of Tarvia and sand from Lincoln Street to Pleasant Street, a distance of twenty-one hundred feet.
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Thirty-two tons of Calcium Chloride was distributed for dust laying and gravel preservation. Much work was done in replacing street signs and posts, and painting. A great deal of work was done repairing bridges and cul- verts. Also putting new railings on bridges and culverts and painting both, the old and the new.
The Highway Department equipment consists of: one power Concrete Mixer; one heavy Mack Truck, 1929 model; one Ford Dump Truck, 1926 model; one New England Tractor Road Machine, 1929 model; one Tar Kettle; one Baker Snow Plow; one New England Snow Plow and vari- ous tools and implements essential in building and main- taining roads.
I wish to thank the Selectmen and other Officers, the Assistant District Engineer, and all others for their assist- ance.
Respectfully submitted, DANIEL A. PENPRAESE, Superintendent of Streets.
Report of Town Accountant.
RECEIPTS
GENERAL REVENUE
Current year :
Property and Polls
$44,469.43
Previous years
30,116.68
Excise tax
4,728.80
From State:
Income tax
10,504.92
Income tax, Schools
7,007.50
Corporations
2,290.19
National Bank
128.74
Street Railway
652.04
Veterans' Exemption
37.61
Trust Co. tax
11.37
$99,947.28
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