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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01828 5020
TOWN REPORT
GC 974.102 H25AR, 1907-1914
HARTFORD
1 9 0 7
Annual Report
OF THE
Municipal Officers
OF THE
TOWN OF HARTFORD
FOR THE
Dear Ending February 18,
1 1907
NORWAY, ME .: ADVERTISER BOOK PRINT 1907
Allen County Public Library
Town Officers. 1906
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor:
J. W. LIBBY H. H. ALLEN GEO. E. CORLISS
Clerk and Treasurer: T. B. W. STETSON
Superintendent of Schools: W. L. LIBBY
G. W. BROWN
School Committee: T. B. W. STETSON
J. E. IRISH
Collector and Constable: W. P. HAYFORD
Truant Officer: W. P. HAYFORD
Trustees, Minsterial and School Fund:
T. B. W. STETSON O. IRISH
C. E. MENDALL
A. H. ALLEY
J. W. LIBBY
Board of Health: O. IRISH J. W. DUNN
T. B. W. STETSON
Report of Selectmen
The selectmen make the following report for the year ending Feb. 16th, 1907.
VALUATION, APRIL 1, 1906.
Resident real estate
$152,995 00
Non-resident real estate.
50,255 00
Total real estate.
$203,250 00
Resident personal estate. $78,334 00
Non-resident personal estate
25 00
Total personal estate. . $78,359 00
Total amount real and personal estate
$281,609 00
Town farm property taken out
2,368 00
Valuation assessed on
. $279,241 00
APPROPRIATED AND ASSESSED.
Schools $ 900 00
Roads and bridges. 1,500 00
Cutting bushes 100 00
Winter road work 600 00
Poor.
200 00
Town charges
450 00
Repairs of school-houses 200 00
Text books. 60 00
Repair of house on town farm 75 00
Free high school 200 00
Text books, high school 50 00
To pay for derrick 25 00
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
State tax $ 659 99
County tax
489 63
Overlay.
274 34
Total
$5,783 96
With a supplementary tax
10 04
Total tax $5,794 00
No. of polls, 206. Poll tax $3 00. Rate per cent., .0185 on one dollar.
HIGHWAY ACCOUNT.
WINTER ROAD WORK.
Amount appropriated by town
$600 00
Overdrawn 1905 444 40
Amount available $155 60
Orders Drawn.
Frank S. Gammon $ 4 25
J. F. Andrews 4 05
S. F. Henry 3 11
D. A. Fletcher 8 47
M. Shehan
2 55
F. Chamberlain
4 76
Eben Andrews 13 65
C. C. Russell 7 20
8 40
J. F. Davenport
1 35
Ed Thorn.
J. C. F. Doten 6 21
. 00
H. R. Berry 14 00
Aben Robinson 18 00
Moses Young 3 75
L. C. Stetson 13 45
B. F. Glover 7 35
J. B. DeCoster 3 00
G. E. Corliss 3 52
J. W. & W. L. Libby 15 54
D. C. Gurney 10 50
O. E. Turner 5 50
Geo. T. Goding 9 30
A. N. Leavitt 1 08
J. C. Marston 2 80
A. R. Tobin
4 05
W. E. Russell
5
ANNUAL TOWN REPORT.
A. D. Howard $ 7 21
A. J. Oldham 8 02
A. F. Carter S 15
J. W. Dunn 2 62
J. F. Tyler 7 15
E. W. Turner. 5 40
J. H. Dearborn 5 40
J. V. Thurlow 7 90
E. E. Piper . 1 93
Edmond Bryant 9 05
H. S. Howard. 2 40
F. J. Bridgham 1 05
W. E. Poland 9 30
C. C. Russell .
2 00
W. F. Mitchell
5 40
Ezra Keene 6 65
J. E. Irish
90
T. E. Ryerson 1 20
Geo. W. Ricker 1 57
L. T. Monk 5 25
C. E. Mendall 5 50
P. C. Gammon 19 35
H. A. Thompson 13 20
J. Elmer Thompson 3 00
J. F. Child 5 00
J. M. Canwell
2 70
Sina Jones 1 50
H. M. Sampson 3 45
C. A. Merrill 7 00
P. C. Barker 3 00
H. B. Jacobs 3 97
L. A. DeCoster 2 70
G. W. Brown .. 7 90
B. S. Littlefield 3 50
G. A. Holmes
1 05
Charles H. Berry 2 75
E. P. Gilman ..
7 88
David Chamberlain
6 30
A. R. Bosworth. 19 95
F. L. Warren, 1904 and 1905. 5 00
Geo. V. Wood 10 50
H. B. Bartlett.
3 67
W. P. Hayford 3 00
T. B. W. Stetson 6 87
N. B. Burgess
4 50
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
E. L. Bragg . $ 9 40
C. W. Thompson 2 50
J. H. Billings, 1903 and 1904 13 60
Prescott . Bosworth 7 20
D. G. Tinkham 7 27
Pat Shehan 2 70
Walter Colby 1 00
Total expended $483 30
Overdrawn $327 70
BUSHI ACCOUNT.
Amount appropriated $100 00
Unexpended, 1905 41 64
Total bush money $141 64
Orders drawn:
L. A. Jones $4 95
F. W. Bryant 3 00
A. W. Jordan 6 00
A. D. Howard 5 85
E. W. Libby
3 00
F. M. Bisbee
6 00
H. A. Thompson
1 50
J. F. Child .
2 00
H. A. Bicknell
5 00
J. M. Canwell
60
E. W. Turner
3 00
C. F. Reed
5 23
L. A. DeCoster 1 50
G. A. Holmes 2 00
E. Thor 1 00
Felix Tibodua 4 28
L. W. Thompson 6 90
Town farm 1 50
C. T. Hobbs 2 00
J. C. F. Doten 1 20
Total expended $66 51
Unexpended $75 13
ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
TOWN FARM ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Cream checks
$456 66
Corn
15 48
Apple
48 00
Pork sold.
161 66
Cow 66
30 00
Veal
55 19
Land rent
15 00
Digging grave
3 00
Cutting bushes
1 50
Eggs
sold
9 99
Dinners
40
Land
45 00
Hauling wood.
42 67
Balance unexpended, 1905
) 38
Total.
$1,064 03
EXPENDITURES.
O. Irish, groceries, etc., to June 11, 1906 $107 29
Cream tartar, soda and spices S 02
Canned goods, onions, etc 5 53
Rye meal, peas and beans 2 05
Umbrella
1 00
Cheese and raisins
3 71
Vinegar and kerosene oil.
6 79
Liniment, salve and Paris green
3 00
Brooms and stationery
75
Meat and fish
18 48
Freight and express
1 00
Cloth, clothing and footwear
38 9S
Salt, crackers and rice
11 00
Hardwear.
34 04
Sugar, molasses and syrup
28 27
Rolled oats and starch
3 S3
Lard.
6 95
Teas and coffee
6 98
Cutting ice
5 86
Ice bought.
70
Soap and matches
: 53
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Pins, needles, tooth picks and comb 53
Medicines and lemons . 5 68
Grass seed and Hungarian 23 70
Flour 29 25
Use of bull. 10 00
Grain and feed bill 352 77
Pigs and shoats
78 50
Blacksmithing and repairs
30 38
Wagon wheels 21 00
Ralph Dunn, labor 3 25
H. McIntire, doctoring cow
1 00
A. Eastman, 66
2 00
T. E. Ryerson, haying
8 90
Two cows
00
Apple barrels and supplies
12 56
B. H. Bisbee, saw bill.
4 50
J. C. Marston, phosphate
48 80
J. E. Irish 66
27 00
Cloutier & Irish, lumber
9 54
A. B. Briggs, planting corn
5 00
B. Corey, saw filing and mending rope. 1 85
G. O. Leavitt, overseer's salary 84 86.
J. C. Hodge,
275 00
Total $1,396 83
Overdrawn
$331 90
INMATES OF ALMHOUSE.
Walter Lucas, age 57; Hannah Leighton, age, 83; Mercy A. Ellis, age 69.
STOCK, PROVISIONS, ETC. ON TOWN FARM.
1 horse, 12 cows, 6 hogs, 35 hens, 12 tons ensilage, 25 tons hay, 1 one-horse wagon, 1 dump cart, 1 wagon, 1 pung, 1 mowing machine, 1 horse rake, 2 harrows, 1 wheelbarrow, 1 double harness, 1 single harness, 2 plows, 3 ox yokes, 75 bushels potatoes, 175 pounds pork, 34 barrel flour,
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
PAUPER ACCOUNT OFF THE FARM.
Appropriated by town $200 00
. Unexpended, 1905
29 02
Total.
$229 02
For Support of Gladys Ford $ 75 50
Support of E E. Bragg
124 81
Casket for Mrs Reed .. 30 50
Support of E. Chamberlain. 7 50
Support of Mrs. C. D. Fogg
1 41
Support of Philix Collett .. 40 75
Support of Edward Thresh
62 50
Total $405 97
Overdrawn.
. $176 95
DECORATING SOLDIERS' GRAVES.
Amount unexpended, 1905 $7 00
Remaining unexpended 7 00
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
BILLS OF 1903.
Edward Thresh, dead . .... $3 00
BILLS OF 1904.
V. E. Leavitt, paid in Turner $3 00
C. F. Reed, unable to pay . 4 46
Shubol Baker estate, 49
illegal
Francis D. Haggett estate, 66 1 27
Josiah Hodsdon estate,
2 44
G. T. Piper heirs 78
C. B. Ryerson, out of town 3 00
$15 44
BILLS OF 1905.
C. F. Reed, unable to pay $4 55
S. M. Higgins, poor. 3 00
Shubol Baker estate,
illegal 49
Francis D. Haggett, 1 24
Nelson Fordman, left town
3 00
John Miller,
3 00
Josiah Hodsdon estate, illegal. . 2 37
10
ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Adolphas Richards, in N. $4 16
G. T. Piper heirs, illegal 76
E. E. Bragg, insane 47
Frank Cbule, dead 3 00
$26 04
BILLS OF 1906.
Shubol Baker, estate illegal $ 19
Francis D. Haggett,
28
G. T. Piper, heirs, 66
74
Cobbett & Stetson, taxed to W. & E. York
4 85
H. A. Carver, paid in Andover
3 00
John Arnold, left town. 3 00
Will Farrington, paid in New Hampshire
3 00
$15 06
$59 54
Discount on taxes:
Unexpended . $79 80
Derrick Account:
Appropriated . $25 00
Expended
$25 00
Repairs on town farm buildings:
Appropriated
$75 00
Unexpended
$75 00
TOWN CHARGES.
Appropriated
$450 00
Unexpended 1905 65 88
Total $515 88 -
T. B. W. Stetson, clerk
$ 7 20
66 treasurer 40 50
J. W. Libby, selectman, etc 74 00
W. H. Allen,
6 6
38 25
Geo. E. Corliss, 66
49 50
W. L. Libby, superintendent 68 00
Loring. Short & Harmon, books and blanks 7 45
J. F. Child, care of hearse. 10 00
O. M. Richardson, insuring two school houses
27 00
L. A. Jones,
watering tub
3 00
G. A. Holmes,
3 00
D. A. Corliss, 66 3 00
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
O. E. Turner, ballot clerk $ 1 50
I. W. Thompson,
1 50
J. C. F. Doten, repairs on town hall
3 00
Dr. F. W. Morse, reporting births and deaths 2 00
J. C. Hodge, use of telephone
1 50
Dr. W. E. Gould, reporting births and deaths. 1 25
J. W. Libby, cash expenses in Ford case, 1905-6 .. 21 10 J. W. Libby, material for repairs on town hall .... 3 48 W. H. Eastman going to Hartford to take deposition 2 25 M. T. Monk, lodging George Rand. 50
F. R. Dyer, professional services in Fogg case 12 14
Mrs. D. A. Corliss, interest on Brown fund 5 00
J. O. Widbur, work on voting booths 2 00
. Arthur W. Jordan, watering tub 3 00
J. F. Davenport, 3 00
James E. York, " 1906-7 6 00
Wm. L. Richardson, sheep killed by dogs 10 00 Geo. A. Holmes, 6 00
J. W. Libby, use of team and expense Fogg case .. 8 00
W. H. Allen, cash expense in Fogg case. 4 .85
Dr. E. J. Marston, returning births and deaths ... 1 50
. T. B. W. Stetson, recording births and deaths
4 05
T. B. W. Stetsou, record book
1 75
Selectmen's cash expenses
7 58
T. B. W. Stetson, interest.
21 94
T. B. W. Stetson, cash expenses
2 25
Total $468 04
Unexpended $47 84
TOWN OFFICERS' BILLS.
J. W. Libby, selectman, etc. $78 25
W. H. Allen, . 55 90
Geo. E. Corliss, 66 44 00
T. B. W. Stetson, clerk 6 00
T. B. W. Stetson, treasurer 44 50
W. L. Libby, Supt. of schools 71 20
W. P. Hayford, collector 87 00
G. W. Brown, school board 3 00
T. B. W. Stetson,
66
1 50
J. E. Irish, 66 3 00
$394 35
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
STANDING OF THE TOWN.
RESOURCES.
Cash in treasury $ 44 19
Due from W. P. Hayford, collector, 1904. 50 00
W. P. Hayford,
1905 100 00
W. P. Hayford, 1906 1,983 77
City of Auburn, for support of E. E. Bragg. 124 81
State of Maine, for support of Philix
Collett. 40 75
Oxford or unknown, for support of E. Thresh.
62 50
Buckfield for tuition
29 67
Turner
11 08
Sumner 66
19 80
Total
$2,466 57
LIABILITIES.
Outstanding orders bearing interest. $656 61
Outstanding orders not bearing interest. 896 36
Interest due, estimated . 25 00
Outstanding bills, estimated 50 00
Deposit from Betsey Brown est 100 00
Town officers, bills
394 35
Total
$2,122 32
Balance in favor of town $344 25
J. W. LIBBY, W. H. ALLEN, of >
Selectmen
GEO. E. CORLISS, Hartford.
Treasurer's Report
T. B. W. Stetson, treasurer, in account with the town of Hartford for the year ending Feb. 20th, 1907.
DR ..
To Cash in treasury last report 3 08
Balance due from C. W. Thompson, collector 1903 89 20
Balance due from W. P. Hayford, collector 1904 50 00 Balance due from W. P. Hayford, collector 1905 2,594 02 Commitment 1906, W. P. Hayford, collector 5,784 25 Cream checks from town farm 486 66
- Land rent from town farm 65 00
Land sold from town farm 45 00
Pork sold from town farm
161 66
Apples sold from town farm
48 00
Veal sold from town farm
55 19
Cow sold from town farm. 30 00
School fund and mill tax from State 544 98
Cash for dog licenses. 93 00
Dog licenses refunded by State. 73 52
From State, damage to sheep by dogs. 9 00
From State, on account free high school 100 50
Town school fund. 20 50
Cash from Hebron, support of Jennie L. Benson
42 40
Cash from H. B. Bartlett for brick 1 22
Corn check from town farm 15 48
Supplementary tax. 10 04
$10,322 70
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
CR.
By Town orders paid $6,902 12
State tax paid 659 99
County tax paid.
489 63
Dog licenses paid State treasurer.
93 00
Balance due from W. P. Hayford, collector, 1904
50 00
66
1905. 100 00
66
66
66
1906
1,983 77
Cash in treasury
44 19
$10,322 70
Respectfully submitted,
T. B. W. STETSON, Treasurer.
Road Commissioners' Report
SUMMER ROAD WORK, M. B. PACKARD, COMMISSIONER.
Appropriated
$1,500 00
Overdrawn 1905 S3 06
Amount available. $1,416 94
Orders drawn:
M. B. Packard. $410 98
28 13
D. R. Stewart
Dan. Stewart.
37 13
E. W. Libby
87 25
A. R. Bosworth 24 00
L. Berry 35 38
G. A. Holmes 3 45
B: S. Littlefield 51 69
F. W. Bryant 1 50
William Farrington
19 25
H. B. Keene
15 00
H. A. Thompson
16 12
O. E. Hardy
228 00
C. M. Gurney
58 75
A. Packard
6 75
W. C. Bisbee
10 50
H. B. Jacobs 8 00
L. A. Jones, 1905 2 40
E. E. Piper 75
Ezra Keene 16 75
F. J. Bridgbam 1 20
A. T. Barrell 31 25
F. S. Gammon 50 50
Will Robinson 26 63
B. Spaulding & Sons, supplies 10 07
B. Brooks. 3 75
G. W. Tibbetts, supplies 12 00
Geo. E. Corliss, repairs 3 50
W. H. Allen, labor. 15 25
J. W. Libby, logs for culvert 1 00
H. R. Berry, labor 2 00
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
E. L. Andrews, bridge plank. $ 6 50
E. F. Bryant, logs for culvert 3 27
J. G. Fogg, labor 3 00
A. W. Jordan, labor 1 75
$1,233 45
ABEN ROBINSON, COMMISSIONER.
Arthur Jacobs $ 3 50
Alton Jacobs 3 00
H. B. Jacobs 10 50
Isaac Farnham 30 00
Ed McEarchean 2 62
Fred Farnham
1 50
Lewis Michand. 1 50
Levique & St. Heliere 3 00
H. Simpson 75
J. Carey 1 50
K. Woodman 1 50
C. O. Bartlett. 37 50
Phil Cloudman 16 50
Wesley Poland
6 00
Walter Poland
6 00
C. C. Russell
3 00
C. S. Mitchell 104 75
Arthur Allen 52 00
J. H. Billings
2 25
B. Spaulding & Sons, dynamite and supplies. 26 97
E C. Irish.
3 20
E. S. Brown & Co., bridge plank.
39 07
David Andrews,
13 19
J. F. Davenport. 12 00
W. H. Allen
6 72
L. A. Keene. 3 00
Geo. E. Corliss, labor and repairs. 16 50
J. Elmer Thompson 1 00
Aben Robinson 349 19
Sampson & Brown, labor 4 00
T. B. W. Stetson, labor and plank 8 20
$770 41
Total expended. $2.003 86 Overdrawn $586 92
School IReport
COMMON SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated by town $900 00
Received from State 544 98
Due for tuition from Buckfield 29 67
66 Turner 11 08
66 66 660 Sumner 19 81
Received from school fund
20 50
Total receipts . $1,526 04
ORDERS DRAWN ON COMMON SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
J. O. Widbur,
2 cords wood $10 00
J. C. Marston,
66 9 00
W. L. Libby, 3 66 13 50
Grace Ladd,
teaching 48 00
Ethel Stetson,
48 00
Dora Williams,
48. 00
Bessie Luce,
52 00
Ina Russell,
52 00
Lucie Morse,
66
54 00
Mabel DeShon,
66
48 00
H. M. Sampson, Chas. Gurney,
66 16 00
H. M. Sampson,
8 25
Grace Ladd,
teaching 58 50
.6
Bessie Luce, 58 50
58 50
Emma Littlefield,
56 25
Ina Russell,
63 00
Virgie Knox,
66
60 75
Lucie Morse,
60 75
Chas. Gurney,
conveying pupils 16 00
H, M. Sampson,
13 50
Dora Williams,
conveying pupils 1905-6 10 00
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Lucie Morse, teaching $42 00
Ina Russell,
63 00
Harold DeCoster,
building fires 2 00
2 00
Elmer Libby,
2 00
Harold Bragg,
60
2 00
Leon Poland,
2 00
James Reed, 66 66
1 35
Clara Bragg,
teaching
3 50
Emma Littlefield,
58 50
Leora Berry,
60 75
Wilma Irish,
66 63 00
J. F. Henry,
conveying pupils, 1905 12 75
J. F. Davenport,
11 25
George Records,
66
20 90
Ezra Keene, wood 4 00
Town of Sumner, tuition 50 40
Due Union school, now in progress 60 50
T. B. W. Stetson, wood. 16 00
J. F. Henry, conveying pupils
12 50
Total
$1,407 90
Unexpended
.$118 14
.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated by town $900 00
Received From state 544 98
For tuition
60 56
From school fund
20 50
Total receipts
.$1,526 04
EXPENDITURES.
Overdrawn last year $ 8 85
Paid teachers
1,170 50
Tuition
50 40
Janitors
13 35
Conveying pupils
121 15
Fuel
52 50
Total
.$1,416 75
Unexpended
$109 29
Howard Irish,
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
TEXT BOOK ACCOUNT.
Appropriated
EXPENDITURES.
Overdrawn last year $ 5 14
American Book Co. 5 00
Ginn & Co. 41 43
D. C. Heath & Co. 4 50
A. M. Chase 2 75
Smith & Sale
1 24
J. R. Spaulding . 1 50
American Express Co. 4 10
Total $65 66
Unexpended $44 34
REPAIR OF SCHOOLHOUSES.
Appropriated
$200 00
EXPENDITURES.
Over-expended last year
$128 95
I. W. Shaw, paint .. 14 15
C. C. Young, painting Glover house 6 00
W. L. Libby, .6 5 00
J. E. Irish, repairs and cleaning Line house. 5 84
Mrs. A. Carter, cleaning two houses
4 00
J. O. Widbur, repairing Center house
6 23
O. Irish, supplies
1 80
I. W. Shaw, supplies. 2 10
B. Spaulding & Sons, supplies. 2 25
Chas. Hobbs, cleaning Mountain house 2 00
L. T. Monk, cleaning Whiting house 2 00
Mrs. Austin, cleaning Union house 2 00
Total. $197 13
Unexpended.
$2 87
HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
Appropriated $200 00
Due from State.
120 00
Total receipts.
$320 00
EXPENDITURES.
C. H. Grant, teaching .
$240 00
Unexpended
$80 00
00
G. W. Brown, repairing, cleaning Center house .. 14 81
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
Vermont School Seat Co., desks $60 40 G. W. Brown, express, freight, labor and 1 cd. wood 30 81
J. O. Widbur, labor on desks 4 75
W. L. Libby, cleaning and repairing 2 25
G. W. Brown, 2 cds. wood, paper and papering 16 89
J. W. Libby, curtains and labor 4 40
Total
$119 50
TABULAR SCHOOL STATEMENT.
Name of School.
Name of Teachers.
No. of weeks.
Average attendance for year.
SUMMER TERM
Center.
Lucie Morse
Tyler's Corner ..
Ina Russell.
Union ,
Bessie Luce
8
Mountain
Grace Ladd.
8
Whiting
Mabel DeShone
8
Line.
Ethel Stetson .
8
Glover
Dora Williams
8
FALL TERM
Center
Lucie Morse
9
Tyler's Corner ..
Ina Russell.
9
Union.
Dora Williams
9
Mountain
Bessie Luce.
9
Whiting
Emma Littlefield
9
Line.
Virgie Knox
9
Glover
Grace Ladd.
9
WINTER TERM
Center.
Lucie Morse.
6
11
Tyler's Corner ..
Ina Russell.
9
19
Union.
Dora Williams *.
Mountain
Emma Littlefield.
9
9
Whiting.
Løora Berry
9
10
Line
Wilma Irish
9
9
Glover
Clara Bragg.
9
8
* Unfinished.
Ministerial and School Fund
SCHOOL FUND.
Notes and securities
.$350 00
....
MINISTERIAL FUND.
Notes and securities
$647. 46
Received interest on school fund.
$20 50
66 " ministerial fund. 73 12
Total interest received $93 62
Paid T. B. W. Stetson, town treasurer, int. on
school fund . $20 50
Paid the several societies their proportional part of interest of the ministerial fund:
Universalist society 25 30
Methodist 16 82
Congregational 5 23
Free Baptist 11 55
Baptist. 9 77
Advent
4 45
-- $93 62
J. W. LIBBY, Treasurer of Ministerial and School Fund.
Vital Statistics.
MARRIAGES.
1906.
Feb. 22, Israel F. Gammon and Mary E. Crockett, both of Hartford. Mar. 7, William L. Roberts of Canton and Edith M. Parsons of Hartford.
Mar. 19, Leon M. Berry of Hartford and Leora DeShon of Canton. Mar. 19, Charles H. Berry, Jr., and Crystal C. Bonney both of Hart- ford.
Mar. 21, Naaman B. Burgess of Hartford and Agnes May Hazelton of Sumner.
April 16, Melzar E. Beard, Jr., and Jennie E. Morse, both of Hart- ford.
May 5, Joseph F. King and Lizzie M. Coffren, both of Hartford.
June 6, Abner D. Howard of Hartford and Valray G. Jordan of Buckfield.
July 18, Edwin W. Libby of Hartford and May Palmer of Liver- more.
Oct. 22, Frank Wilbur Briggs and Emma West, both of Hartford.
Dec. 9, Donald R. Stewart and Georgie E. Stewart, both of Hart- ford.
BIRTHS.
1906.
Jan. 3, To Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Merrill, a son.
31, To Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chamberlain, a daughter.
March 6, To Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Bryant, a daughter.
28, To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lemieux, a son.
April 2, To Mr. and Mrs. John O. Widbur, a daughter.
June 6, To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gurney, a daughter.
12, To Mr. and Mrs. Leland J. Andrews, a son.
Oct. 30, To Mr. and Mrs. Leon M. Berry, a son.
Dec. 18, To Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Lucas, a son.
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DEATHS.
1906.
Jan. 3, Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Merrill.
13, Mary Alice Warren, age 14 years.
Feb. 1, Mary Russell, age 81 years, 10 months.
Mar. 18, Frank Chule, age 27 years.
29, Mary J. Reed, age 87 years.
31 Mary M. Keene, age 76 years, 4 months, 26 days.
Apr. 2, Sylvanus E. Bryant, age 57 years, 19 days.
June 1, Elizabeth A. Merrill, age 91 years, 1 month, 11 days.
6, Martha A. Marston, age 55 years, 8 months.
9, Infant child of Mr. and Mrs Charles Gurney.
Aug. 5, Susie A. McPherson, age 18 years, 2 months.
Sept. 4, Harriet M. Whitman, age 85 years, 11 months, 2 days.
Oct. 10. James H. W. Billings, age 8 years, 3 months, 29 days.
12, Florida Girividin, age 8 months, 28 days.
21, Christopher C. Fletcher, age 62 years, 4 months, 5 days.
Nov. 14, Lydia J. Mitchell, age 60 years, 4 months, 4 days.
1907.
Jan. 9, Edward Thresh, age 46 years, 7 months, 5 days.
Warrant for Town Meeting
State of Maine.
Oxford ss.
To W. P. Hayford, Constable of the town of Hartford, County of Oxford, Greeting:
In the name of the state of Maine you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town of Hartford qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at the town hall in said town on Monday, the 4th day of March A. D. 1907 at 10 o'clock in the fore. noon, to act on the following articles, to wit:
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the several town officers.
Art. 3. To choose all necessary town officers for the ensuing year.
Art. 4. To see if the town will grant and raise such sums of money as may be necessary for the maintenance and support of schools, the poor, repairs of roads and bridges and to defray all other town charges for the ensuing year.
Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to maintain a school in the Line schoolhouse for the ensuing year.
Art. 6 To see if the town will vote to authorize the school com- mittee to unite with any of the adjoining towns in the election of Superintendent of Schools, and to raise money for the same.
Art. 7. To see what the town will do about preparing to fight the brown-tail moths ..
Art. 8. To see what action the town will take in relation to lay- ing out a town road from the corner near A. N. Merrill's to the L. W. Thompson house as asked for in Petition of A. N. Merrill and others.
Art. 9. To transact any other business that may legally come before said meeting.
The Selectmen will be in session for the purpose of revising the list of voters at the town hall at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of the day of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Hartford, this 18th day of February, A. D. 1907.
J. W. LIBBY, W. H. ALLEN,
Selectmen of
GEO. E. CORLISS, Hartford.
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TOWN R EPORT
HARTFORD
- FOR THE YEAR 1908
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Municipal Officers
OF THE
TOWN OF HARTFORD
FOR THE
Year Ending February 14,
1908
NORWAY, ME .: ADVERTISER BOOK PRINT 190S
Town Officers
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor:
B. F. GLOVER EZRA KEENE S. B. WOODMAN
Clerk and Treasurer: T. B. W. STETSON
Superintendent of Schools: JAMES E. IRISH
T. B. W. STETSON
School Committee: J. W. LIBBY ORLANDO IRISH
Collector and Constable: W. P. HAYFORD
Truant Officer: W. P. HAYFORD
Trustees of Ministerial and School Fund:
T. B. W. STETSON O. IRISH C. E. MENDALL
A. H. ALLEY J. W. LIBBY
Board of Health: J. W. DUNN T. B. W. STETSON O. IRISH
:
IReport of Selectmen
The selectmen make the following report for the year ending Feb. 14th, 1908.
VALUATION, APRIL 1, 1907.
Resident real estate.
$158,320 00
Non-resident real estate. 45,445 00
Total real estate $203,765 00
Resident personal estate
$76,894 00
Non-resident personal estate
277 00
Total personal estate
$77,171 00
Total amount real and personal estate
$280,936 00
Town farm property taken out 2,353 00
Valuation assessed on
. $278,583 00
APPROPRIATED AND ASSESSED.
Common schools 900 00
Repairs of roads and bridges 1 500 00
Overdrawn on roads and bridges, 1906.
586 92
Cutting bushes. 30 00
Winter road work
2,000 00
Support of poor
300 00
Town charges.
500 00
Repair of schoolhouses 50 00
Text books 75 00
Free high school.
250 00
Repair of high school building
150 00
State tax.
872 95
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County tax. $ 499 31
To fight brown-tail and gypsy Moths 140 00
Overlay 281 69
Total tax
$8,135 87
No. of polls, 203. Poll tax, $3.00. Rate per cent., .027 on one dollar.
HIGHWAY ACCOUNT.
WINTER ROAD WORK.
Amount appropriated by town $2,000 00
Overdrawn in 1906. 327 70
Amount available $1,672 30
Orders drawn, 1907:
C. H. Berry, 2d $ 8 22
C. H. Berry, 2d, 1906 work 97
C. M. Gurney 1 20
Dexter C. Gurney 22 10
Leon M. Berry . 2 18
Arthur W. Jordan 27 90
John V. Thurlow
19 45
L. A. DeCoster
11 85
C. A. Austin
11 77
B. F. Glover
26 95
E. G. Bisbee 3 60
6 75
F. S. Gammon 6 15
E. W. Turner 24 25
Geo. P. Austin 5 80
Geo. P. Austin, 1906 work. 6 90
R. B. Keene. 3 22
Jobn C. F. Doten 5 78
B. S. Littlefield ..
11 25
Edward F. Bryant
20 20
Percy C. Gammon.
57 87
A. N. Merrill 39 40
W. L. Libby 27 82
H. A. Thompson
Moses Young. 27 90
Charles A. Merrill. 45 00
Lester A. DeCoster 97
Augustus Tobin.
7 35
29 52
J. W. Libby
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ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Horace B. Bartlett $14 17
C. C. Russell 18 75
C. H. Berry, 2nd 1 84
James E. Irish 4 35
D. A. Goding
11 25
J. W. Dunn 7 50
C. E Hutchinson 15 45
D. L. Barker, 1905 work 10 80
Oscar E. Turner 17 55
S. B. Woodman
3 00
Abner D. Howard
14 44
E. L. Andrews 28 05
H. R. Reynolds
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