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22 95
$628 62
Material
F. R. Conant, lumber
$1,233 26
C. S. Thurlow, labor and brick 51 01
G. L. Wadlin, hardware, etc. 13 21
C. F. Oldham, supplies
11 70
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Ezra Keene, shingles 1 75 H. B. Phillips, cement, nails, paint, etc. 175 30
G. W. Brown, hauling lumb. and grav. 26 00
H. E. Parsons, freight on lumber 11 47
Maine Central R.R. Co., freight 31 22
George Rose, insurance 29 80
$1,584 72
Total $2,213 34
Overdrawn
$1,613 34
SHEEP DAMAGED BY DOGS
Paid
Mrs. F. B. Park
$35 00
Due from C. T. Bonney
17 50
Due from C. B. Ludden 17 50
$35 00
TOWN CHARGES
Amount raised by Town
$800 00
Paid
Oscar E. Turner, selectman $175 00
Harold E. Parsons, selectman 100 00
Joseph F. Palmer, selectman 60 00
W. L. Libby, treasurer 100 00
W. L. Libby, school committee 9 00
Wilma M. Irish, school committee 9 00
H. W. Bonney, sealer of wt. and meas. 2 50
J. C. Marston, fire inspector
15 75
F. W. Sanborn, printing town reports and order blanks 80 28
Loring, Short & Harmon, town books 19 65
Lydia J. Corliss, int. on "Betsy
Brown Fund" 4 00
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J. R .. Dyer, ballot clerk 6 00
A. H. Alley, ballot clerk 6 00
State of Maine, board and care of children of Chas. N. DeCoster 113 25
R. W. Bicknell, M. D., birth and death certificates 1 75
H. B. Phillips, clerk, 1921-22 15 00
H. B. Phillips, recording and reporting vital statistics 5 25
Oscar E. Hardy, health officer 5 66
Selectmen's cash expense 27 00
Treasurer's cash expense 6 50
W. J. Gammon, fire inspector 10 00
W. J. Gammon, collector 1920 149 00
$920 59
Oscar E. Turner, attending court two days and conveying witnesses $10 00
George W. Brown, conveying witnesses one day 5 00
Harold E. Parsons, attending court two days 6 00
G. H. Proctor, witness 3 00
George Keene, witness
3 00
James Turple, witness 3 00
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Gammon, witnesses 6 00
D. E. Chamberlain, witness 3 00
Emily Young, witness and conveyance 5 00
$44 00
Total
$964 59
Overdrawn
$164 59
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ABATEMENTS 1922
Mrs. Rose Libby $49 14
WATERING TUB ACCOUNT
Arthur W. Jordan
$5 00
W. J. Gammon
5 00
Sina Jones
5 00
$15 00
Total abatements $64 14
UNPAID TAXES 1916
Frank E. Andrews
$10 90
Gammon Mfg. Co.
47 00
J. H. Blanchard
7 00
$64 90
1918
Mrs. Sina Jones
$1.95
1919
Arthur L. Bennett
$14.70
F. R. Davenport
9 29
Ben Irish
1 70
Mrs. W. S. Robinson
8 50
W. S. Robinson
2 20
Freewill Baptist Society
1 02
$37 41
1920
Mrs. E. C. Irish $25 53 E. C. Irish 3 00
Charles N. DeCoster
15 05
1
$43 58
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1921
N. R. Albert
$4 90
Joseph Bossé
3 00
Harry Bragg
9 31
Fred B. Cash
3 00
D. J. Chamberlain
14 40
Frank Davenport
21 10
C. N. DeCoster
18 24
Claude Ferrin
3 00
P. C. Gammon
36 52
O. E. Hardy
109 44
Mrs. E. C. Irish
26 60
Felix Lemieux
15 20
L. T. Philbrook
4 90
Elias Philbrick
3 00
Stanley Sawyer
3 96
George S. Tucker
11 55
TAX STATEMENT 1921
Total commitment
$13,898 64
Collected 1921
$12,945 98
Abated 1921
29 56
Collected 1922
634 98
Uncollected
288 12.
$13,898 64
1922
Arthur L. Bennett
$33 60
Henry Bennett
5 10
Prescott Bosworth
14 72
Joseph Bossé
3 00
Roy Burgess
4 90
D. E. Chamberlain
12 18
Lewis Childs
8 46
Frank R. Davenport
42 06
Charles N. DeCoster
44 86
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Roland Benson
11 40
Joe Daigle
3 00
Arthur Ferrand
2 39
Gammon Mfg. Co.
294 00
F. S. Gammon
10 26
P. C. Gammon
101 70
D. A. Goding
36 48
O. E. Hardy
121 12
E. C. Irish
3 00
Mrs. E. C. Irish
49 56
Ben Irish
5 04
C. B. Ludden
16 33
Felix Lemieux
3 00
J. H. Mahoney
27 72
Mrs. F. B. Park
9 30
L. T. Philbrook
5 10
Arthur Porter
26 99
Arthur Richards
67 05
Mrs. W S. Robinson's estate
10 50
\V. M. Robinson
53 76
Mrs. L. J. Severy
15 96
G. S. Tucker
13 81
Frank R. York
52 98
Leroy Youland
5 94
David Ziskind
63 00
$1,178 27
TAX STATEMENT
Amount committed for coll. 1922 $14,320 38
Supplementary tax 12 60
$14,332 98
Paid treasurer
$12,822 88
Unpaid taxes
1,178 27
Deficiency
331 83
$14,332 98
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ORDERS DRAWN ON TAX DEEDS AND COST .
W. L. Libby; tax deeds $423 70
W. L. Libby, cost on tax deeds 32 27
$455 97
OFFICERS' BILLS DUE
Oscar E. Turner, selectman
$170 00
Harold E. Parsons, selectman
100 00
Harry S. Virgin, selectman 35 00
W. L. Libby, treasurer
100 00
W. L. Libby, school committee
12 50
Wilma M. Irish, school committee
10 00
Cleora D. Adams, school committee
9 00
W. J. Gammon, collector 150 00
W. L. Libby, collector 1921
50 00
F. R. Sargent, collector, 1919
52 11
C. S. Thurlow, collector, 1915-16
41 00
H. W. Bonney, s. of wghts and meas. 2 50
$732 11
STANDING OF THE TOWN Resources
Cash in treasury
$835 30
Due from C. S. Thurlow, 1915-16
64 90
F. R. Sargent, 1918-19
52 51
W. J. Gammon, 1920
43 58
W. L. Libby, 1921
288 12
W. J. Gammon, 1922
1,510 10
C. T. Bonney
17 50
C. B. Ludden,
17 50
Buckfield
309 09
Tax deeds
1,788 27
$4,926 87
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Liabilities
Outstanding bills, estimated, $ 25 00
Town officers' bills due 732 11
Outstanding orders 65 30
Deposit from Betsy Brown's estate 100 00
Rumford Falls Trust Co., loan 3,500 00
Oscar E. Turner, loan, 1922,
1,500 00
Balance against the Town
$5,922 41 $995 54
Respectfully submitted, OSCAR E. TURNER HAROLD E. PARSONS Selectmen of Hartford
SCHOOL AND MINISTERIAL
Deposited in Rumford Falls Trust Co. Dixfield Branch, Total deposit $1,017 17
A. H. ALLEY, Treasurer. J. E. IRISH, M L. LUCE, A. H. ALLEY, School and Ministerial Fund Trustees.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
Receipts
Cash in treasury at last report $1,204 37
State aid for dependent mothers 48 00
Grass sold on school yard 2 00
Dog licenses from clerk
153 00
School fund from State
1,798 72
Railroad and Tel. Tax
2 69
Damage to domestic animals
39 00
State aid road 406 86
Third class road
1,184 24
O. E. Turner, loan
1,500 00
Rumford Falls Trust Co., loan
3,000 00
Mrs. J. E. Irish, lumber sold
3 92
Tax on bank, stock 6 60
O. E. Turner, income fr. Town farm 1,459 38
WV. L. Libby, collector 1921
634 98
W. J. Gammon, collector 1922
12,822 88
Mr. McGibbon, auctioneer's license 5 00
W. J. Gammon
159 99
$24,431 63
Cr.
By State Tax $2,165 48
County tax
631 10
Maintenance patrol road 563 30
. Dog licenses to State
153 00
Dog licence deficiency 1921
3 00
Rumford Falls Trust Co., Int.
136 95
Selectmen's orders 1922
17,943 50
Rumford Falls Trust Co., loans 2,000 00
Cash on hand 835 30
$24,431 63
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
To the School Board and Citizens of the town of Hartford.
I herewith submit my first annual report of the schools of this town for the municipal year ending February 1, 1923.
In securing our corps of teachers for the new school year we were fortunate in having return to us three members of last year's teaching force. These three teachers, of whom two live in town, had previously done very efficient work in our schools and their work this year has been of such a high grade that our expectations have been fully realized. At the Union school Miss Foster has done very creditable work. She is a teacher of wide experience and holds a life certificate of elemen-
tary grade. Our three remaining teachers are young high school graduates without previous teaching experience. Two of these have done remarkably good work in their schools. It is a singular fact of teaching experience that ofttimes a begin- ner will show a high type of work such as one would expect only of a teacher of full maturity and experience. On the whole our schools have prospered this year.
A beginning has been made this year of putting our school buildings into proper condition for school work. The Line building and the building at Hartford Center have been re- modeled and a new type of toilet constructed. The lighting arrangement has been changed to conform to views of experts on that subject. As this work is required by state law to be completed in all school buildings on or before Sept. 1, 1924, it will have to be continued next year.
The financial statement shows an overdraft of approxi- mately $600. At first sight this may seem strange; but when you take into consideration the fact that bills for teachers' wages and board to the amount of $489 incurred in last year's expenses were paid this year included in this year's financial statement, this overdraft does not seem strange. An attempt
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has been made this year to bring all bills strictly up to date and sho .. a true standing of school finances.
'In a majority of our schools the work of the pupils has been good and will compare favorably with the school work done in rural communities in Maine. I have given no stand- ardization tests as I wished to make previously a thorough study of school conditions so as to know what to expect when such tests are given. Towards the latter part of the spring term I intend to give some type of standard tests in Reading and Arithmetic to measure the work of the pupils by standards obtained elsewhere. These tests will be given with the under- standing that these standards are obtained from localities where school conditions are as nearly ideal as the science of pedagogy can make them. The results of these examinations will be open to teachers and pupils but they are not intended for publication.
The following statistics are taken from the registers and the monthly reports of the teachers.
Registration, spring term, 1922.
80
Average attendance, spring term, 1922,
70 68
Percentage attendance, spring term, 1922,
86
Registration, fall term, 1922,
76
Average attendance, fall term, 1922,
64 87
Percentage attendance, fall term, 1922,
85
Grouping these statistics by school we have the following for the fall term, 1922.
School
Registration
Average attendance
Percentage attendance
Whiting
9
7.91
88
Line
14
11.24
80
Town Farm
7
6.42
92
Center
13
10.50
81
Tyler Corner
13
10.8
83
Union
12
10.50
88
Glover
8
7.50
94
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It will be seen from this table that the attendance in three of our schools is poor; in two schools it is excellent; in the other three it may be considered fair. Various reasons were given for non-attendance. The most common excuses were sickness, working at home, living at a long distance from school. 7C per centum of the excuses were probably reasonable, the re- maintaining 30 per cent. were doubtless pure truancy.
'The financial statement that follows covers a school period of approximately 29 weeks. For this period the statement may be considered as including practically all the running ex- penses of our schools. A few small bills are not yet in at this date of writing. These are janitor bills and are not of suf- ficient amount to materially change this statement.
COMMON SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
Unexpended last year,
$179 42
Raised by town,
1,700 00
Due from the town of Buckfield
for support of Whiting school,
148 65
From State of Maine,
1,350 39
Total resources,
$3,378 46
EXPENDITURES
Teachers' wages and board,
$3,446 00
Fuel,
195 23
Janitors,
44 10
Tuition,
180 00
Conveyance,
· 114 75
Total expenditures,
$3,980 08
Overdraft this year,
$601 62
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SALARIES OF TEACHERS PER WEEK.
Spring term:
School
Teachers Len. of term
Sal.
Amount
Whiting Mary Weld
8
$15 00
$120. 00
Line
Pauline Brown 10
16. 00
160 00
Town Farm
A. Mclaughlin 10
13. 00
130 00
Center
Ruth Chesley
10
15 ,00
, 150 00
Tyler Corner
Ruth Gammon
10
15 00
150 00
Union
Linwood Bonney
10
16 00
160 00
Glover
Mary Gammon
10
15 00
150 .00
Total
$1,020 00
Fall term: Where a star follows a weekly wage it indicates that the teacher received a flat rate and her board was paid. School Teachers Len. of term Sal.
Whiting
Mary Weld
16
Amount $15 00 $240 00
Line
Vaughan Ketchum11
11 00 * 121 00
Town Farm
Ethel Gordon
16
10 00 * 160 00
Union
Rachel Foster
12
10 00 * 120 00
Tyler Corner Ruth Gammon 12
16 00
192 00
Glover
Mary Gammon 7
15 00
105 00
Center
Dorris Beck
15
10
136 00
Total
$1,149 00
Winter term:
School
Teachers Len. of term
Sal.
Amount
Town Farm
Ethel Gordon 3
$10 00* $30 00
Line
Vaughan Ketchum 7
11 00* 77 00
Union
Rachel Foster 6
10 00*
60 00
Tyler Corner
Ruth Gammon 7
16 00
112 00
Center
Bernard Burgess 3 3/5
10 00* 36 00
Glover
Mary Gammon 7
15 00
105 00
Total
$420 00
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Wages of winter term, 1921, paid during during spring term, 1922, $489 00
Total teachers' wages paid.
$3,078 00
Teachers' Board:
Mrs. Edward Bryant,
$90 00
Mrs. H. M. Hodge,
90 00
Mrs. H. F. Ford,
95 00
Mrs. E. J. Gurney,
93 00
Total teachers' board paid, $368 00
Total teachers' wages and board,
$3,446 00
FUEL ACCOUNT.
Ruth Gammon,
$ 70
Katheryn Tucker,
1 00
H. A. Spaulding,
1 20
J E. Irish,
18 00
Katheryn Tucker,
30
M. F. Ford,
25 00
J. E. Irish,
2 25
Geo. W. Brown,
50 00
W. L. Libby,
1 00
A. R. Porter,
40 00
C. P. Trask,
3 50
A. V. Brown,
34 75
Willard Gammon,
2 63
Mary Gammon,
13 00
Ruth Gammon,
1 90
Total,
$195 23
JANITOR ACCOUNT.
Ruth Gammon,
$9 00
Mary Gammon,
10 00
Katheryn Tucker,
8 75
Mary Weld,
5 60
1
1
1
31
Linwood Bonney, Reginald Ford, Harry Allen, H. A. Spaulding,
5 00
1 75
1 00
3 00
Total,
$44 10
CONVEYANCE ACC'T.
P. A. Davenport,
$21.00
Leroy Youland,
93 75
Total,
$114 75
COMMON SCHOOL TUITION ACC'T.
Town of Canton, $180 00
Total Common School Expenditures,
$3,978 83
HIGH SCHOOL TUITION.
Raised by town,
$350 00
Received from state,
448 33
Unexpended last year,
189 31
Total,
$987 64
EXPENDITURES.
Town of Canton,
$186 25
City of Auburn,
160 00
Town of Buckfield,
226 64
Town of Kingfield,
35 00
Total
$607 89
Unexpended balance,
379 75
TEXT BOOK ACC'T.
Raised by town, $75 00
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EXPENDITURES.
Overdraft last year,
$12 13
Paid for text books,
76 48
Total,
$88 61
Overdraft this year,
$13 61
REPAIRS ACC'T.
Line School House:
C. S. Thurlow, Labor,
$51 62
Z. C. Holmes, brick,
4 00
Harold B. Keene, labor,
2 50
Buckfield Farmers Union,
56 66
Chalmers Lumber Co., lumber,
131 87
Chalmers Lumber Co.,
4 80
Chalmers Lumber Co.,
27 00
Chalmers Lumber Co.,
10 90
Will Bryant, labor,
70 20 .
H. N. Hodge, Painting,
8 02
J. E. Irish, labor,
25 50
J. E. Irish, lumber,
32 05
C. E. Foster Estate, shingles,
7 88
Chas. Jordan, labor,
4 00
Total,
$442 99
Cr. by Clapboards sold,
3 91
Due from Buckfield,
160 44
Total expense
$278 64
Center school house:
C. S. Thurlow, labor and material,
$67 31
M. F. Ford, labor and material,
28 70
Norman Ford, labor,
5 00
Frank Staples, labor,
51 50
M. L. Ellingwood, window frames, etc.,
20 14
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A. S. Barrows, material, 23 31
Harry B. Phillips, material,
31 06
Erlon Ryerson, labor, 6 00
W. L. Libby, labor and bills paid, 40 98
F. L. Ryerson, labor and material furnished, 79 29 G. S. Tucker, brick, 3 50
C. F. Oldham, lumber,
14 60
Chalmers Lumber Co.,
15 00
C. E. Foster est. shingle
10 50
Morrill & Cloutier, lumber 50 99
Total,
$447 88
General repairs:
Mr. Phillips,
$ 1 25
J. E. Irish,
4 00
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins,
5 10
Ruth Gammon,
6 40
Mrs. M. Ford, cleaning
3 00
M. F. Ford,
6 50
E. N. Ford,
7 50
B. H. Bisbee,
22 50
C. P. Trask.
1 00
Katheryn Tucker.
5 00
Harry Phillips,
2 61
Mary Gammon,
3 70
Total, $959 44
REPAIR RESOURCES.
Raised by town,
$600 00
Unexpended last year,
37 03
Total,
$637 03
Overdraft this year,
$322 41
SUPERINTENDENCE ACCOUNT.
Raised by town, $175 00
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EXPENDITURES.
Overdraft last year,
$17 50
L. E. Cash,
102 08
E. C. Vining,
142 92
Total,
$262 50
Overdraft this year,
$87 50
OFFICE EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
Unexpended last year,
$6 56
Raised by town,
15 00
Total, $21 56
EXPENDITURES.
L. E. Cash,
$2 84
Unexpended this year,
$18 72
The school board advises the town to make the following
appropriations:
For Common Schools, $2,000 00
High School Tuition, 450 00
Repairs,
850 00
Supt. of Schools,
250 00
Text books, 75 00
Respectfully submitted, ELMER C. VINING, Supt. of Schools.
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VITAL STATISTICS
BIRTHS
1922
Feb. 2, Mr and Mrs. Colin Cadman, a son
April 1, Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Stetson, a daughter.
April 2, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Spaulding, a son. Mar. 20, Mr. and Mrs. Roy K. Merrow, a son May 8, Mr. and Mrs. Percy C. Gammon, a son. May 24, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gurney, a daughter. May 22, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Foote, a son. June 29, Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. De Coster, a son. Aug. 8, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Sampson, a daughter. Sept. 8, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Bryant, a son.
Oct. 3, Mr. and Mrs. Percy A. Davenport, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
1922
July 17, Canton Maine, Robert W. Henry of Canton and Grace I. Campbell of Hartford.
Sept. 14, Buckfield, Maine, Harold L. Gammon of Hart- ford and Edith H. De Coster of Buckfield.
Sept. 25, Hartford, Edwood W. Dunn and Ida O. Bryants both of Hartford.
DEATHS.
1922
Feb. 16. Hartford, Maine, Walter A. Cadman, age 2 weeks, born in Hartford.
Feb. 5, Canton, Maine, Celestia J. Dearborn, age 83 years, 11 months, 21 days, born in Buckfield, Maine.
Mar. 15, Hartford, Maine, Lucy B. Farrar, age 71 years, 2 months, 7 days, born in Hartford.
July 15, Hartford, Maine, Emma L. Libby, age 38 years, 3 months, 3 days, born in Hartford.
Aug. 21, Bridgton, Maine, Elizabeth H. Stone, age 82 years, 3 months, 10 days, born in Hartford.
Sept. 17, Hartford, Maine, Phoeby Sampson, age 68 years, 8 months, 17 days, born in Hartford.
Sept. 30, Hartford, Maine, James Irish, age 93 years, 2 months, 27 days, born in Hartford.
Oct. 5, Hartford, Maine, Marjorie E. Davenport age 2 days, born in Hartford.
Oct. 9, East Sumner, Maine, Adrian S. Lucas, age 71 years. 11 months, 22 days, born in Hartford.
Nov. 4, Auburn, Maine, Philander Kidder, age 81 years, 1 month, 25 days, born in Dixfield, Maine.
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WARRANT
Hartford, Me, Feb. 9, 1923.
To W. J. Gammon, a constable of the town of Hartford, Coun- ty of Oxford, GREETING:
In the name of the State of Maine you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the said town of Hart- ford qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at the town hall in said town on Monday, the fifth day of March A. D. 1923, at ten-thirty o'clock in the forenoon to act on the 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 municipal officers for the year ending Feb. 9, 1923.
Art. 3. To chose all necessary 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 have all winter road work turned on taxes.
Art. 6. To see if the town will vote "yes" or "no" on the question of appropriating and raising money to entitle the tovn to state aid, as provided in section 19 of chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes of 1916.
Art. 7. To see if the town will appropriate and raise the sum of $533. for the improvement of the section of state aid road as outlined in the report of the state highway commission, in addition to the amounts regularly raised for the care of the ways, highways and bridges; the above amount being the maxi- mum which the town is allowed to raise under the provisions of section 18, chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes of 1916.
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Art. 8. To see if the town will vote to raise money and what sum to pay the overdraft, on the town hall account.
Art. 9. To see if the town will appropriate and raise the sum of $100 to repair the hill running east of the "Line School," house to the corner of A. A. Keene's orchard.
Art. 10. To see what action the town will take in regard to letting the town hall for dances.
Art. 11. To see if the town will vote to maintain the Whiting school for the ensuing year.
Art. 12. To see if the town will vote to maintain the mountain school for the ensuing year.
Art. 13. To see what action the town will take in regard to joining with Livermore in building a new road. commencing near the corner west of the Amos Leavitt place so called, through to the Livermore road near Emerson Poland's place, and raise money for same.
Art. 14. To see if the town will vote to discontinue the road south of Frank E. Foster's leading to the river road so called no: th of D. O. Bryant's.
Art. 15. To see if the town will vote to discontinue the road from the former residence of Arthur W. Jordan to the- residence of Mre. H. P. Gilman.
Art. 16. To see of the town will vote to discontinue the road from the Joseph Mendall place so called, beginning at the barn and running South to the road that leads by Frank N. Longel's.
Art. 17. To transact any other business that may legally come before said meeting.
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The selectmen will be in session at the Town Hall at 9-30 o'clock in the forenoon of the day of said meeting, for the pur- pose of revising the list of voters.
Given under our hands at Hartford this 9th day of Feb- ruary, A. D., 1923.
OSCAR E. TURNER HAROLD E. PARSONS Selectmen of Hartford.
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