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ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE

OFFICERS OF THE

Tow n of Bethel FOR T H E

YEAR ENDING DEC. 3 1

1946

1947 T h e Oxford County Citizen Bethel, Maine

TOW N OFFICERS

Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of Poor

ERNEST F. B i SBEE CARROLL E. ABBOTT J. CLEVELAN D B A R TLE TT Clerk

Deputy Clerk

ALICE J. BROOKS

D. GROVER BROOKS Tax Collector W A L T E R E. B A R TLE TT

Treasurer

JOHN M. HARRINGTON Road Commissioner

Superintendent of Schools

EUBERTO P. BROWN

CARRIE M. W IG H T (Resigned July 1, 19461 DONALD M. CH RISTIE

Superintending School Committee

ELM ER E. BENNETT E A R L A. D A V IS M ARGUERITE C. B A R T L E T T Truant Officer

H A R R Y T. SAW IN School Physician and Health Officer

W ID D B. TW AD D LE, M. D. Sealer of Weights and Measures

ELM ER E. BENNETT Dog Constable

ALBERT S. GROVER

Weigher, Town Scales RUEL S. CHAPM AN (Resigned) ALB E R T BUCK Moderator GERRY L. BROOKS

Fire Ward LLOYD E. LUXTON Constables

W A L T E R E. B A R T L E T T A LB E R T S. GROVER . RODERICK McMILLIN

LESLIE E. D A V IS GEORGE H. HAMMOND ROBERT S. YO R K

Surveyors of Wood and Lumber

FRED L. ED W ARD S LESLTE E. D A V IS D U RW ARD IT. MASON GUY P R A T T HUGH D. THURSTON

ANNUAL REPORT STATEM EN T OF ASSESSORS

Valuation of Property and number of Polls as taken April 1st, 1946 : Valuation of Real Estate Resident Owners Non-Resident Owners

$945,210 00 175,570 00

Total Value of Real Estate Valuation of Personal Estate Resident Owners Non-Resident Owners '

$1,120,780 00 $211,415 00 32,400 00 7

Total Value of Personal Estate

$243,815 00

Grand Total of Real and Personal Estate Total Value of Land Total Value of Buildings Increase in Valuation over 1945 Rate of Taxation Poll Tax Rate Number of Polls Taxed Number of Polls Not Taxed Percentage Paid Collector Collecting Excise Tax

$1,364,595 00

$477,980 00 642,800.00 29,290.00 .048 $3.00 580 100 -ON/i .15

ASSESSM ENTS FOR 1946

For State Tax County Tax Miscellaneous Account Town O fficers’ Bills Treasurer’s Bond Collector’s Bond Abatements

1946 $9,580 36 2,998 12 1,200 00 4,700 00 35 00 20 00 52 08

1945 $9,580 36 2,998 12 1,200 00 4,000 00 35 00 20 00 318 69

ANNUAL REPORTS

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Fire Department Public Health Work Sewers Roads and Bridges Winter Roads State and State Aid Maintenance Third Class Maintenance Tarvia for Roads and Streets State Aid Construction Sidewalks, Main Street Sidewalk and Surface Drain Snow Removal, Sidewalks and Streets Support of Poor Common Schools Secondary Schools School Supplies Text Books School Repairs School Insurance Superintendent’s Salary School Physician Old Cemeteries Bethel Public Library Memorial Day Observance Motor Vehicle Insurance Interest on Loans State of Maine Publicity Bureau Overlay

500 100 500 4,000 3,000 1,614 925 2,500 999 500 500

00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00

500 00 100 00 500 00 3,000 00 3,000 00 1,286 10 925 00 2,000 00 none none none

400 2,000 16,300 9,500 824 500 700 198 700 100 75 600 50 150 200 100

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 75 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

none 2,500 00 13,000 00 9,000 00 824 00 500 00 600 00 182 50 650 00 100 00 75 00 600 00 50 00 150 00 200 00 none

$66,121 51 1,119 05 $67,240 56

Taxes Assessed as Follows $1,364,595.00 Valuation @ .048 580 Polls (a ) $3.00

$65,500 56 1,740 00 $67,240 56

Excise Tax Collected Supplementary Tax 1944 Supplementary Tax 1945 Supplementary Tax 1946

$2,650 3 36 109

63 00 00 80 $2,799 43 /

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E X T R A C T FROM ASSESSORS’ REPORT Live Stock Taxed

$11,265 00 Horses 111 Steers, Oxen, Bulls and Beef Cattle, over 18 months 32 2,330 00 Milk Cows, including heifers 432 35,700 00 that have freshened Heifers over 2 years not yet freshened 50 3,225 00 Heifers 18 months to 2 55 years old 2,790 00 Goats 12 60 00 Domestic Fowl (over 50 in no. 1980 1,980 00 $57,350 00 Live Stock Not Taxed

Cattle 18 months and young­ 158 er 1 Draft Colts under 3 yrs old 27 Sheep (to 35 in no.) 69 Swine (to 10 in no.) Domestic Fowl (to 50 in no.) S1924

$5,530 50 270 1,035

00 00 00 00

2,924 00 $9,809 00

All Other Personal Property

Stock in Trade ' Unmanufactured Material in Mills 1 Portable Mills· Logs Bolts in Mill Lumber Boats 15 Gasoline Pumps and Attach­ ments 48 Musical Instruments 119 Rad ios 427 Furniture Tractors 54

$37,050 10,000 1,500 4,275 2,500 39,375 465

00 00 00 00 00 00 00

3,800 6,505 6,765 28,300 10,160

00 00 00 00 00'

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Machinery and Equipment Other Property

22,175 00 13,595 00 $186,465 00

Grand Total of Personal Property

$243,815 00

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ABATEM EN TS, 1939 Rolfe, Nelson, paid in Waterford

$3 00

$3 00

ABATEM EN TS, 1940 Hatfield, Roland S., unable to collect McMillin, Bernard, unable to collect Raimey, Perry, unable to collect Sweatt, Vernon C., unable to collect

$3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00

$12 00 ABATEM EN T, 1941 Hatfield, Roland S., unable to collect Parker, Eugene, unable to collect vVilkins, Philip, unable to collect

$3 00 3 00 3 00 $9 00

ABATEM ENTS, 1942 Hatfield, Herbert II., unable to collect

$3 00

$3 00

ABATEM ENTS, 1943 Hatfield, Roland S., unable to collect Rich, Victor P., unable to collect

$3 00 3 00

$6 00 ABATEM EN TS, 1944 Bean, Bert H., Paid in N. H. Plant, Clyde A., left town Tyler, Leonard A., Error in valuation Winslow, Lyman E., left town

$3 00 3 00 44 3 00 $9 44

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ABATEM ENTS, 1945

Mills, Leland, Over age 70 Vail, T. Fitzmaurice, Paid in Boston

$3 00 3 00 $6 00

ABATEM ENTS, 1946

Baker, Wilfred J., receiving Gov’t Compensation $3 00 Bane, Clayton C., paid in Paris 3 00 Brown, Robert 1, receiving Gov’t Compensation 3 00 Carter, Grace, error in valuation 2 40 Casey, Edward L., receiving Gov’t Compensation 3 00 Chapman, Charles, paid in Farmington 3 00 Chapman, Robert V., paid in Greenwood 3 00 Chivers, Howard P., paid in N. H. 3 00 Cross, Alton E., receiving Gov’t Compensation 3 00 Day, Ralph E., Spanish War Veteran 3 00 Hastings, Norma, error in valuation 48 00 Robertson, F. O ’Neil, in U. S. Service 3 00 Robertson, Henry, receiving G ov’t Compensation 3 00 Thurston, Elizabeth, error in valuation 1 20 Westleigh, W . Henry, receiving G ov’t Compensation 3 00 $ 87 60 $136 04

REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR W. E. Bartlett, Collector of Taxes, in account with, the Town of Bethel. Dr.

To State, County and Town Taxes, committed for collection June 19th, 1946 $67,240 56 To Supplementary Taxes 109 80 $67,350 38 Cr.

By amount paid Town Treasurer $65,088 89 By errors in valuation and abatements 87 60 By uncollected taxes 2,173 87 $67,350 36 1937-1939-1940-1941-1942-1943-1944-1945 Tax Account •

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W . E. Bartlett, Collector Dr.

fo total unpaid taxes Jan. 1st, 1946 $3,246 77 fo supplementary taxes, 1944 3 00 Γο supplementary taxes, 1945 36 00 $3,285 77 Cr.

By total amount paid Town Treasurer $3,052 49 By 1945 Tax Liens filed with Town Treasurer 92 00 By abatements 48 44 By uncollected taxes 92 84 $3,285 77 *

ANNUAL REPORTS

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E X C IS E T A X E S ON MOTOR VEH ICLES W. E. Bartlett, Collector Dr. To total amount

collected

$2,762 01

$2,762 01

Cr. By amount paid Town Treasurer, 1946 taxes $2,274 44 By amount paid Town Treasurer, 1947 taxes 376 19 By amount paid County Treas. 1946 taxes 96 18 By amount paid County Treas. 1947 taxes 7.55 By issuing 51 receipts to persons in Unorganized Townships $7 65 $2,762 01

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UNPAID T A X E S , 1946 Bean, Elmer I. Bennett, Raymond Iv. Brown, George H. Buckman, Clifford Cote, Joseph E. Cox, Fred Downs, Herbert Emery, Walter G. Harthorne, Roderick Houle, Richard Hutchinson, Jennie M. Hutchinson, H. Gilman Jodrey, Norman Kennagh, Augustus Kimball, Harlan Mason, Alfred MeKlusky, George Merrill, Freeman W . Merrill, Joel F. Merrill, Walter & Freeman Patten, Leroy Stevens, Frank, heirs of Stevens, Freeman Stimans, Harold A. ■* ·

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$3 10 3 3 3 3 3 49 6 50 33 17 3 3 15 14 4 66 29 14 3 103 3 3

00 28 00 88 00 00 00 48 88 04 60 88 00 00 00 88 20 48 28 40 00 20 00 48

ANNUAL REPORTS

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Walker, Gerald Westleigh, Reginald G. Wheeler, Roger W.

3 48 27 96· 2 40 Non-Resident

Auburn Vending Co. Gonya, Theodore Grover, S. O., Heirs of Jackson, Clifton Kilgore, Wallace W . Kimball, Ceylon, Heirs of McKenzie, Jack A.

7 9 2 28 21 96 7

20 60 40 80 60 00 20

Total Jan. 1, 1947 Amount collected from Jan. 1, 1947 to time this report printed

$2,173 87 $1,517 27

Balance unpaid

$656 60

UNPAID T A X E S , 1945

Durgin, Enfield P. Harding , Roland L. Merrill, Freeman W. Vashaw, Harry Chapman, Mrs. Marion Braddish G’ over, S. O., Heirs of Kilgore, Wallace W. «

$4 3 13 3 3 2 20

61 69 80 00 68 30 70

Total Jan. 1, 1947

$51 78

UNPAID T A X E S , 1944

V ash aw, Harry Chapman, Mrs Marion Braddish

$3 00 3 52

Grover, S. O., Heirs of

2 20

Total Jan. 1, 1947 Collected since Jan 1,

$21 62 $12 90

Balance Unpaid

$8 72

UNPAID T A X E S , 1940

Bates, Leslie S. Hanseom, Lee Total Jan. 1, 1947.

$3 00 3 00

$6 00

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UNPAID T A X E S ,

1939

Baker, Joseph C. Jr., Bates, Leslie S.

$3 69 3 00

Total Jan. 1, 1947

$6 69

UNPAID T A X E S , 1937 »

Baker, Joseph C. Jr., ■ii

$6 75

$6 75

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UNPAID T A X E S P

L. E. Davis, Collector, 1933 $8 Walter Balentine 6 Harold Bartlett 7 Ralph Berry 3 Clayton Blake 15 H. 0 . Blake Oeo. H. Brown, G. Hill 3 3 Walter B rown Harry Brown, G. Hill 3 3 Leo Bubier 8 Shirley Chase 10 Edgar Coolidge 7 Robert Clough Roger Clough 3 9 Edgar Cross 3 Archie Cole 12 Moses Davis Wm. Day 3 Lester Enman 3 3 Lewis Etheridge 3 Clarence Enman I. Farrar 3 5 Chas. Frost Clyde Hall 19 Hollis Grind le 3 Earl Williamson 3 C. Waterhouse 3 8 Sherman Haselton Raymond Harthorne 3

3 13 Roderick Harthorne 3 69 Richard Lawrence 91 10 E. P. Lyon 3 00 Hollis Hutchinson 3 58 Archie Love joy 00 A lfred Mason 3 3 00 Glen Mason 3 00 Wm. Mason 3 00 Earl Morgan 3 74 Chas Melville 5 89 Harry Newell 10 10 Ola Olson 16 00 Chas. Reed 5 56 G. N. Stearns 3 00 Hedley Wheeler 20 84 E. J. Stearns 22 00 Russell Swan 9 00 Joseph Stevens 3 00 Merle Swan 3 00 Bernard Swan 8 00 Vinton C. Tibbetts 3 05 Oscar Tibbetts 3 20 Geo. Tibbetts 14 00 '

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Dec. 4, Tn Portland, Maine, Alice King Littlehale, age 52 yrs., 5 mos., 26 days. Dec. 12, Tn Rumford, Maine, Ida Clark Burke, age 88 yrs., 7 mos., 9 days. Dec. 14, In Rumford, Maine, Baby Enman, age 3 days. Dec. 15, In Bethel, Maine, Mildred Whittier Lyon, age 57 yrs., 10 mos., 15 days. Respectfully submitted ALICE J. BROOKS Town Clerk

WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING To Carl L. Brown, a Citizen of the town of Bethel in the County of Oxford. GREETINGS— In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Bethel, qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to assemble at Odeon Hall, in said Town of Bethel, on Mon· day, the third of March, A .D. 1947, at half past nine o ’clock in the forenoon to act on the following articles, to wit: The Polls will he open for balloting on elective officers upon order of the Moderator and will be closed at five o ’clock in the afternoon. Art. 1.

To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting

Art. 2. To hear and act on the report of Selectmen, Assesors and Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Collector, Super­ intendent of Schools, Road Commissioner, Clerk and other town officers. Art. 3. To see what compensation the town will vote to pay the various town officers for the ensuing year. Art. 4. To establish the price to be paid taxes for the ensuing year. Art. 5.

for

collecting

To choose all other necessary Town Officers.

Art. 6. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of Common Schools. Art. 7. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Secondary School Tuition. Art. 8. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Textbooks and Library. Art. 9. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appi’opriate for School Supplies. Art. 10. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for repairs on school buildings.

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Art. 11. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for insurance on school buildings. Art. 12. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for sendees of a School Physician. Art. 13. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for salary of Superintendent of Schools and office expense for the ensuing year. Art. 14. To see what action the town will take in selling the Middle Intervale school building. (Voted at 1946 regular town meeting to have bids for this property brought in to the selectmen and referred to voters at next town meeting.) Art. 15. To see if the town will vote to build an addition on the Primary School building. Art. 16. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of building an addi­ tion on the Primary School building, and to see how the same shall be raised. Art. 17. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Superintendenting School Committee to arrange for the build­ ing of an addition on the Primary School building. Art. 18. To see if the town will vote to buy a piece of land adjacent to the yard of the Primary School. Art. 19. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of buying a piece of land adjacent to the yard of the Primary School. Art. 20. To see if the town will vote to buy or build a suitable residence for the use of the Superintendent of Schools. Art. 21. Tò see if the town will vote to instruct the Se­ lectmen and Treasurer to borrow an amount needed to buy or build a suitable residence for the use of the Superinten­ dent of Schools. Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Sup­ erintending School Committee to arrange for the buying or building or a suitable residence for the Superintendent of Schools. Art. 23. To see if the town will raise and appropriate .00 for public health nursing in Bethel. Said sum to be expended by the State Bureaxi of Health, for local service.

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Art. 24. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise anci appropriate tor repairing Roads and Bridges for the ensuing year. Art. 25. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Winter Maintenance of Roads. Art. 26. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to improve the road on the North side of railroad from the Albert Kimball property to the West Bethel railroad crossing opposite the West Bethel cem­ etery, a distance of about one mile. Art. 27. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Bituminous Surfacing of Roads and Streets. Art. 28. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for State Aid road construction (in addition to the amounts regularly raised for the care of ways, highways and bridges) under the provisions of Sections 25 and 29, Chap. 2U, R. S. 1944, as amended. Art. 29. To see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of state and state aid high­ ways under the provisons of Sections 46 and 50, Chapter 20, Revised Statutes of 1944, as amended. Art. 30. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for maintaining the improved sections on third class highways designated to recive third class ap­ portionments under the provisions of Section 52, Chapter 20, Revised Statutes of 1944. Art. 31. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to remove the snow from business and other congested sections both from streets and sidewalks. Art. 32. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to reimburse the treasury for snow plowing equipment authorized under Article 2 at Special Town Meeting held Nov. 30, 1946. Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to discontinue that part of the road known as the Howe Hill Road beginning at the Greenwood town line and ending at the intersection with the Rabbit Road. Art. 34. To see if the town will vote to discontinue that part of the Kimball Hill road lying above the farm owned by George Haines.

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Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to install street lights in Skiilingston Village, so called. Art. 36. To see if the town will vote, to authorize the se­ lectmen to purchase a suitable lot, for a town garage or building, for storage of town road equipment. Art. 37. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to pay for the lot if authorized under Article 36. Art. 38. To see if the town will vote to build a suitable building or buildings for the storage of road equipment. Art. 39. To see -what sum, if any, the town will appropri­ ate for the building or buildings under Article 38 and see how the same shall be raised. Art. 40. To see if the town will vote to raise and approate the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225) to be paid to the Bethel Chamber of Commerce to be used for advertising and publicity. Art. 41. To see whether or not the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) to be paid to the State of Maine Publicity Bureau to be expended and used for advertising the natural re­ sources, advantages and attractions of the State of Maine in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80, Section 95, of the Revised Statutes of Maine. Art. 42. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for maintenance of sewers. Art. 43. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for relief of the poor. Art. 44. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Town Officers’ bills. Art. 45. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to take care of abatements as made by the Assessors. Art. 46. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to procure from the Bethel Library Association the free use of books during the coming year for all inhabitants of the town under such restrictions and regulations as shall insure the safety and good use of the books.

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Art. 47. To see what sum, if any, the town will raise and appropriate for decorating the graves of and sailors and lor Memorial Day exercises. Art. 48. To see what sum, if any, the town will laise and appropriale ίυ pu^ xor measurer s Bond. Art. 49. To see what sum, if any, the town will raise and appropriate to pay lor Collector’s Bond.

vote to soldiers vote to vote to

Art. 50. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for maintenance of Dire Department. Art. 51. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to be expended for care of old ceme­ teries. Art. 52. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous town charges. Art. 53. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to pay interest on notes and temporary loans. Art. 54. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate to purchase Public Liability and Prop­ erty Damage Insurance on any or all of the motor driven vehicles owned by the Town of Bethel. Art. 55. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for maintenance and construction of sidewalks and install suitable surface drains when necessary. Art. 56. To see what sum, if any, the town will vote to raise and appropriate for street lighting. Art. 57. To hear and act on the report of the committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to investigate the necessary requirements and estimate the cost of constructing a sewer at West Bethel. Art. 58. To see if the town will vote to sell the Town Farm and if so voted to instruct the Selectmen to sell same and authorize the Selectmen and Treasurer to execute a W ar­ ranty Deed for the property. Art. 59. To see if the town will vote to authorize its Treasurer to obtain money by loan to pay the debts of the town and to take up outstanding notes against the town or to renew the same with new notes, and to execute and deliver the notes of the town therefor signed by its Treasurer and countersigned by the Selectmen.

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Art. 60. To see if the town, for the purpose of procuring a temporary loan to, and for the use of the Town of Bethel, fo pay indebtedness of said town due and to become due dur­ ing the present municipal year, the same to be paid out of money raised by taxation during the present municipal year, will vote to authorize and direct its Treasurer to borrow from time to time a sum or sums of money, not exceeding $50,000.00 and to execute and deliver the note or notes of the town there­ for signed by its Treasurer and countersigned by the Select­ men. Art. 61. To see if the town will vote to authorize the town Treasurer, upon approval of the Selectmen, to sell and assign unmatured tax mortgage liens for not less than the amount nnpaid and interest and costs. Art. 62. To see if the lown will vote to authorize the Selectmen and Treasurer to sell and convev real estate owned by the town under tax deeds or under tax liens to such per­ sons for such prices and upon such terms as said Selectmen and Treasurer in their judgment and discretion may deterτη ine for the best interests of the town and to execute in be­ half of the inhabitants of said town such deeds or other instrumenta of conveyance as may be required to complete such sales and conveyances. 4

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Art. 63. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Mo­ derator to appoint a committee of 12 to be known as the Budg­ et Committee. Art. 64. To choose any committee, hear any report of any and act thereon. Art. 65. To choose by ballot the following Town officers for the ensuing year, to wit : Town Clerk, Three Selectmen, Three Assessors, Three Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, one member of the School Committee- for three years, Tax Collec­ tor, and Road Commissioner. The Selectmen here by give notice that they will be in session in the Selectmen’s Office on Monday, March 3rd, 1947 for the purpose of correcting the list of voters from 9 o ’clock in the forenoon until time for the polls to close.

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Given under our hands this 20th day of February, A . D.

1947. ERNEST F. B ISB E E CARROLL E. ABBOTT JAM ES C. B A R T L E T T Selectmen of Bethel

1946 BUDGET COM M ITTEE μ

Guy Bartlett, D. Grover Brooks, Carl L. Brown, Philip H. Chadbourne, Freeland W. Clark, R. James Croteau, Richard L. Davis, Robert D. Hastings, Harry N. Head, Burton L. Newton, Cheslie F. Saunders, Hugh D. Thurston. ·

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TA B L E OF CONTENTS

Town Officers Statement of Assessors Assessments Abatements Report of Tax Collector Report of Overseers of Poor Town Relief Cases Report of Road Commissioner Report of Selectmen Public Health Nurse Fire Department Miscellaneous Account Financial Standing Balance Sheet Report of Treasurer Report of Auditor, 1945 Report of Superintendent of Schools Recommendations Vital Statistics Warrant for Town Meeting

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