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25.00
$28,652.50
175
Janitors
Thomas Metcalf James Morton
$800.00
800.00
$1,600.00
Transportation
James Ferguson
$3,078.80
Alexander Sauer
1,178.40
Earle G. Parsons
1,292.40
Frank J. Bigwood
364.50
J. Fred Wheeler
366.00
Middlesex & Boston St. Railway Co.
75.00
$6,355.10
Supplies
The Macmillan Company
$93.67
The Office Appliance Company
23.31
Ginn & Company
278.28
Ethelyn Morrill
6.80
Underwood Typewriter Company
8.25
South-Western Publishing Company
23.64
Arthur P. Schmidt
8.20
Iroquois Publishing Company, Inc.
10.69
Edward E. Babb & Company
349.30
Hall & McCreary Company
55.46
Milton Bradley Company
120.22
Houghton Mifflin Company
44.94
D. C. Heath & Company
87.01
Kardex Rand Company
2.25
Oliver Ditson Company
16.83
Cambridge Botanical Company
62.33
J. L. Hammett Company
129.22
Dowling Supply Company
40.00
American Book Company
35.24
Benj. H. Sanborn and Company
68.12
C. C. Birchard and Company
11.22
Lyons & Carnahan
4.86
Literary Digest
5.40
Allyn & Bacon
26.59
Silver, Burdett & Company
59.52
$1,571.35
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Fuel, Light, Power
George V. Evans
$50.00
Boston & Maine Railroad
50.28
Castner, Curran & Bullitt
272.36
William A. Jepson Corporation, Inc.
270.36
212.37
A. W. Atwood The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston
199.28
$1,054.65
Repairs
North Eastern Metal Company
$570.00
Natick Heating and Plumbing Co.
90.77
C. Warren
1.75
Herman Van Der Wyck
12.00
Remington Typewriter Co.
5.85
Underwood Typewriter Co.
7.15
Smith-Patterson Co.
17.00
Abel S. Colpitts
115.50
D. W. Richardson
1.00
A. W. Atwood
2.00
F. J. Barnard Co.
40.20
S. A. Barry and Co.
6.26
W. M. Todd Co.
13.81
C. A. Lockhart
.60
Hub Wire Cloth and Wire Work Co.
7.25
The Fiske Corporation
1.10
Burditt and Williams Co.
186.00
James Linnehan
186.25
$1,264.49
New Equipment
Heywood Wakefield Co.
Furnishings New Room Cochituate School
$510.15
E. and M. Electric Co.
Lighting at Wayland Building
605.00
Arthur V. Deane
Extension of Bell System to New
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Part Cochituate School
39.50
1,154.65
Total
$2,419.14
Incidentals
N. E. Telegraph & Telephone Co.
$24.65
Hercules Kalon Co.
6.25
Llewellyn Mills, Jr.
15.00
John Yeager
15.00
The Wayland Water Board
15.00
John A. Cousens
25.00
Howe & Co.
4.50
Andrew's Paper Co.
81.10
Gibbs Express Co.
8.95
Thomas Groom & Co.
4.00
A. W. Atwood
54.50
L. M. Glover Co.
5.45
The Fiske Corporation
51.79
James Morton
8.16
The Natick Bulletin
18.00
Fairbanks & Son
2.75
Edward E. Babb & Co.
36.00
Thomas Metcalf
17.75
Martin Diploma Co.
29.60
Boston & Maine Railroad
1.49
The Suburban Press
13.25
Natick Printing Co.
11.25
Agnes F. Boland
20.00
C. A. Benson & Co.
1.70
The Mystic Products Co.
1.86
C. W. Fairbanks
13.50
F. H. Benedict
167.54
$654.04
Income
Town Grant
$42,000.00
Dog Money
339.45
Income-Donation Fund
8.00
Refund
.58
$42,348.03
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Expenditures
Salaries-Teachers
$28,652.50
Salaries-Janitors
1,600.00
Transportation 6,355.10
Supplies and Books
1,571.35
Fuel, Light, Power
1,054.65
Repairs, Replacements, Alterations 2,419.14
Incidentals 654.04
$42,306.78
Balance
$41.25
School Physician
Income-Town Grant
$150.00
Expenditures-Ernest E. Sparks, M. D.
$150.00
Vocational Tuition
Income-Town Grant
$400.00
Expenditures-City of Boston
$264.92
Balance
$135.08
Estimated Income
State Reimbursement on account of employ-
ment of Teachers-General School Fund, Part I $3,376.80
State Wards 241.33
Mrs. Carrie F. Bent-Tuition and Transportation 138.00
F. H. Benedict-Sales, Bus Tickets and Sup- plies, Damages 25.37
State Reimbursement, Vocational Tuition
125.30
Total $3,906.80
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Wayland :
Following is my seventeenth report as Superinten- dent of the Wayland School System. It is the thirtieth in the series presented by Union Superintendents. Your attention is especially directed to the reports of Principal Allen, Dr. Sparks, and Mrs. McNeil.
No cases of nonattendance have been reported to the Attendance Officer during the year. Consequently there is no report on nonattendance and no expense. This is indeed a most happy condition. The Nurse has looked up a great many cases of absence and found the cause illness. I presume that her work has helped to reduce the demands upon the Attendance Offier but a zero rec- ord is exceptional, I am sure, even so.
It is quite possible that the unused room in the Cochituate school may have to be opened in the Fall. If so, there will be an expense of about $1,200 for furnish- ings and for teacher and janitor service.
The transportation of school children is costly in Wayland, if the lump sum is considered. I have made many inquiries as to cost in other places. It appears that for the service rendered Wayland is not overcharged by those who transport them. We cannot expect to lessen the cost unless mileage is reduced or High School pupils not transported. An increase in mileage is often re- quested, better busses called for, and we have a much larger High School in prospect the next three years. Increased facilities for the transportation of High School pupils from Cochituate to Wayland High School in the near future, possibly another Fall, will present an una- voidable additional expenditure. A third bus or a third trip may be a necessity.
The work of the schools has been vigorous. Our stu-
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dents in higher institutions of learning and in business are giving good account of themselves.
We are getting notices quite often as to new requirements for admission to normal school and college, new methods of selection, limitations as to numbers who may be admitted to this or that institution. These changes make it more and more difficult for boys and girls to qualify for entering college or normal school; and just as increasingly difficult is the competition for places in business for our Commercial graduates. Every parent of High School students who is planning to send his child to college or normal school should consult with the teachers often in regard to the work of his child and should earnestly study, that light may be given as to the wisdom of entering the child upon an expensive and difficult course of study that will occupy four or more years beyond High School. Immaturity is often a hindrance to High School work. Grammar School teachers should be consulted on this account while a child is in the grades. Students not of college type should be given other educational advantages.
From a letter "To Superintendents of Schools, De- partment of Education, State House, December 13, 1926":
"In view of the fact that the number of applicants for admission to State Normal Schools is, in some schools, in excess of the capacity, it is found necessary to modify somewhat the plan of selecting students to the respective schools for the year beginning September, 1927."
"When the selective process is found necessary, an evaluation of the scholarship and personality records of students, as received from the High Schools, will be made on the following basis.
"(a) Scholarship will be allowed 75 points for 15 units of work.
"(b) Personality will be allowed 25 points.
"As a basis for computing the total score from schol- arship record, a mark of 'A' will be allowed 5 points; 'B,' 4 points ; 'C," 3 points; 'D,' 2 points.""
"As a basis of computing the personality record, which includes ten characteristics, exclusive of health, a mark of 'Excellent' will be allowed two and a half
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points ; 'Good,' two points ; 'Fair,' one and a half points ; 'Poor,' one point."
Each applicant must pass a satisfactory physical examination before final admission can be gained."
From a notification recently received from a college: "The enrollment has been limited by vote of the Trustees."
"Kindly indicate which of the following adjectives describe the applicant in your opinion: Determined, in- different, energetic, lazy, immature, versatile. Does the candidate manifest any marked peculiarities, either men- tal or physical ?"
"Following are seven qualities. Please indicate your estimate (4 for excellent, 3 for good, 2 for poor, and 1 for deficient) :
"Studious habits Health
Perseverance Sociability Self Reliance"
Leadership
Personal Conduct
These two examples of the changing studies that are being made by college authorities and other authori- ties as to admission to their institutions are sufficient to indicate that the task of a teacher is a difficult one; that a boy or girl has to meet a high rating not only as to scholarship but also as to those characteristics that taken together make up the outstanding features of his or her character.
I commend with pleasure the excellent type of work of your teachers and of the students as a whole in our schools.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK H. BENEDICT.
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REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Supt. Frank H. Benedict,
Cochituate, Mass.
Dear Mr. Benedict:
I herewith submit to you my ninth annual report as Principal of the Wayland High School.
Maximum enrollment of the school to date, boys 37, girls 47, total 84.
Present enrollment, boys 32, girls 45, total 77.
Present enrollment by classes :
Boys
Girls
Total
Freshman
16
14
30
Sophomore
7
13
20
Junior
6
13
19
Senior
3
5
8
The general trend of the enrollment is gradually upward, even though the enrollment this year is a little below that of last year, and, within a few years, more students will be attending Wayland High School than the present rooms will accommodate. With the present enrollment every room in the building is in use, and the only way in which a larger number can be taken care of is to distribute them over classes that at present are below the seating capacity of rooms used. It is regular that the enrollment by classes decreases year by year from freshman to senior year. With the relation for these classes that has existed for some years the maxi- mum enrollment that the present rooms will accommo- date is about 120 students.
For two years the laboratory has been used for gen- eral class work and study. It is a poor room, even for a laboratory, and should not be used for general class work. Our present schedule calls for chemistry and physics on alternate years, with senior and juniors in
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the classes. Year by year it is becoming harder to ar- range the schedule for these classes because of conflicts in work. Soon both chemistry and physics will have to be offered each year. This will require more rooms for classes.
The school is of such size now that a room is needed each period to serve as a study room for students not in class. The old arrangement of having these study peo- ple in a room with a class is not good, since a teacher must divide attention between the two groups of stu- dents, the class work cannot be as good as it would be if the class had a room by itself. This is especially true when both class and study section are large and require the teacher to be in charge of about forty students at a time. There are many students who cannot get work done without supervision and help. These students offer quite a problem to the teacher in charge of the study hall and a class at the same time. In order to have a room for study, free from class work, more rooms will have to be provided.
There are 36 students in the 8th grade and 59 in the 7th grade this year. The High School enrollment next year will be about 105, and the following year about 130. It is true that some students may drop out, and that these estimates may not be correct, but there is little doubt but that within a few years, the present rooms will not be enough for the school.
Better facilities should be provided for athletic work for both boys and girls. Lockers should be pro- vided so that a student can put away his things so that another student cannot get them to wear. Hot and cold water should be arranged for, so that a shower of proper temperature can be had after exercise. Also there should be dressing rooms and a large room for indoor games. With such a room provided, regular gymnasium work would be possible for both boys and girls.
Some years ago courses in domestic science were started, and at present this work is being offered to girls in the first and second years. It would be a good thing to extend this work another year, making three years of such work offered to girls. There is a great need for vo- cational work for boys. Every entering class has boys who are not able to do the work offered in the college and
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commercial courses. If the school could offer these boys some vocational work, they could be kept in school for a longer period. As it is they soon become discontented and drop out of school. At present it is a great problem as to what to do with boys of vocational mind. These boys have been passed on to the High school from the grades and the High School should be able to offer them work that they can do. In order to offer the necessary courses, there must be rooms, equipment and teachers.
It is needless for me to do more than to call your attention to the fact the lunch room will need better quarters by the time the High School has reached an enrollment of 120-130 students.
Wayland High School has a four year college course. For students of good ability this has been long enough. Colleges are having students apply for admis- sion in such numbers that they are taking only the best students. This makes the task of preparing students for college harder year by year. The time is not far off when many students will need five years in high school to prepare for college. Large high schools have been doing this for years.
I feel that there are many students doing low grade work, who would do better work if there were a better understanding between the school and home. The Par- ent Teacher Association ought to furnish this contact, but it does not. It is rare that the teachers meet the parents they need to meet, Report cards are sent out every seven weeks and noticesof poor work are sent out three weeks before the report card. Very few par- ents come for additional information or suggestions as to what they can do to get better results. I feel that if the parents would get acquainted with the teachers and consult with them from time to time about the work of their children, they could bring about a condition of study at home that would prevent many failures in work.
Sincerely yours,
DAVID J. ALLEN
January 7, 1927.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
Mr. Frank H. Benedict,
Superintendent of Wayland Schools, Cochituate, Mass.
Dear Mr. Benedict :
I herewith have the pleasure of submitting to you my second annual report as physician of Wayland schools.
Diseased tonsils 119, adenoids 5, cervical glands 27, heart defects 11, carious teeth 60, carious and dirty teeth 25, poor posture 5, internal strabismus 3, granular lids 1, enlarged thyroids 3, spinal curvature 1, asthma 1, dirty skin 1, post infantile paralysis 3.
In some ways this report of necessity must be a repetition of last year's. Of the 119 tonsils reported some are exceptionally large but are not doing the child any particular harm, while others not nearly as large are diseased and should be taken care of. Only the ones whom the School Nurse visits at their homes, it seems to me, need especial attention.
The five Adenoids mentioned are probably alto- gether too few as many more would be found under ether examination. Cervical glands should be referred to the family physician for further advice but if they are associated with diseased tonsils the removal of the latter would take care of the former in many instances.
Of the heart defects several of them are probably functional and will disappear as the child matures but this does not imply that they should be neglected at this time. Children with carious teeth should see their dentist as soon as possible. I know that many teeth that have a colored streak next to the gum cannot be made to look clean without a dentist's help, but for the real neglected ones there is no excuse and parents should see to it that
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the children use the tooth brush.
Poor posture has been recently discussed in the daily papers and one orthopedic surgeon stated that to make the back of your neck touch your collar twenty times a day would straighten up many who are now bowed over. This is a simple remedy and easy to try.
Internal strabismus should be referred to an eye specialist. Do not trust this to an optician as it might need some eye surgery. Granular lids need the advice of an eye specialist. Enlarged thyroid is a somewhat serious condition sometimes and ought to be looked after at least twice a year whether there is any apparent reason for it or not.
Spinal curvature needs an orthopedic physician. With asthma there are so many remedies that it goes to show that none of them can be depended upon. Dirty skin speaks for itself. The deformities and weaknesses in certain cases following infantile paralysis receive some benefit from special exercises and medical appli- ances which are always worth a trial.
I have enjoyed this work very much this year, more especially, I believe, because some of the defects re- corded last year have been taken care of since. If we could make people look at this as a preventative medi- cine scheme I believe they would become more interested.
I hope I shall be able to see a time in the not far distant future when every child before entering school will be obliged to submit to toxin-antitoxin treatment. I believe if this was done diphtheria would be as uncom- mon a disease as smallpox and tetanus.
Now I wish to thank you for your co-operation in this work, the teachers for their interest in the same and Mrs. McNeil for her assistance which helped to make the work both easy and systematic.
Respectfully submitted,
ERNEST E. SPARKS, School Physician
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REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE
To the Superintendent of Schools:
I hereby submit my sixth annual report for the year ending December 31, 1926.
The morning hours were spent in the Wayland and Cochituate buildings unless some outside emergency pre- vented. The absentee report was carefully followed up. Each child was weighed and measured three times dur- ing the school year as requested. In October the High School pupils were weighed and measured, the 10 per cent underweights are to be re-weighed every six weeks and those of average weight three times during the school year. Children under seven years of age were accompa- nied one day a week during the month of January and part of February to the Forsyth Infirmary for dental treatment.
The sight and hearing tests were given last April and again in October. Children needing glasses were accompanied to the office of a Framingham specialist.
Dr. Sparks was assisted in making the yearly physi- cal examination of all the school children. A report of defects was submitted and notice of these, signed by the physician, was sent to the homes. A complete health form is kept for each child.
Home visits to school children 234
Treatments to school children-first aid 11
Children accompanied home 8
Children accompanied to physician's office 1
Cases reported to Board of Health 9
Children accompanied to hospital
6
Children accompanied to eye clinic 9
Children accompanied to optician 18
Children excluded because of infection 3
One school case was reported to the Massachusetts
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and a trip was made out of town on this case.
During the month of June the State Department of Public Health held a free clinic in the Cochituate Build- ing. In order to have this clinic, it was necessary to visit the homes of the pupils to secure physical histo- ries and to get signed statements from the parents. Un- derweight children and those of pre-school age were ex- amined at the request of their parents. In nearly every case the child was accompanied by his parent or guar- dian. Each child was examined by a specialist employed by the State Department of Public Health and the tuber- culin test was given and every case referred to a nutri- tion expert, who was a member of the staff of examin- ers. Three days later the tuberculin test was read by them and some of the children were X-rayed in the school building. A number of underweight cases were due to faulty diet or lack of sufficient rest. Several cases were referred to the family physician. All the parents were informed of the findings a week or two following the clinic and each parent advised.
Number of school children examined 42
Number of pre-school children examined 3
Number of children tuberculin tested 44 Number of children X-rayed 21
Two adults were examined at the request of their family physician.
I am extremely grateful to the people of Cochituate and also the teachers who so willingly co-operated in making this clinic a success.
In submitting this report I would earnestly recom- mend that a dental clinic be established in the schools the coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY E. McNEIL School Nurse
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Registration, December 20, 1926
Room
Grade
No. in Grade
Total
Cochituate
1
I
32
32
2
II
33
33
3
III
19
19
4
IV
26
V
5
31
5
VI
15
35
6
VII
32
32
VII
10
VIII
22
32
Wayland
1
I
II
14
35
2
III
21
9
30
3
V
15
13
28
4
VII
14
26
High School:
Class
Freshman
30
Sophomore
20
Junior
19
Senior
8
77
Total Registration in Grades
333
Registration in All Schools
410
Census Returns
Number of boys five years of age and under seven 47
190
V
20
214
21
.
IV
VI
VIII
12
119
Number of girls five years of age and under seven 31
Total
78
Number of boys seven years of age and under 14 143
Number of girls seven years of age and under 14
134
Total
277
Number of boys 14 years of age and under 16
40
Number of girls 14 years of age and under 16
29
Total
69
Children not attending school
31
Children attending school elsewhere
24
Roll of Students Perfect in Attendance 1925-1926
Dorothy Porter
Carl F. Lindborn, Jr.
Ethel Adams
Gordon Genthner
Edwin Leroy Adams
Mildred Genthner
John Lee
Leslie Reid
James Nichols
James Morrissey
Harlan Valentine
Clarence Ames
Beatrice C. Carroll
Dorothy Stone
Stanley K. Hewitt
Edith Lindbohm
Rita C. Ploss
William Marston
Robert H. Wright
Roy Ames
Alfred Smith
Arthur Therrien
Albert Dawe
Lillie Smith
Lorraine Young
Graduates 1926-High School
Ethel Mae Adams
Thomas W. Bowles Joseph Arthur Brouillette Marjorie Mabel Connelly Margaret Elizabeth Grant Dorothy Lillian Harrington Charles McMurtry Litchfield Raymond Warren Marchand
Roger Wellington Mills Elizabeth Beatrice Perry Marion Carter Pond Helene Agnes Sarsfield Mildred Simpson
Donald Milton Saloman
Albert George Smith Everett Charles Spear
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Graduates 1926-Grammar School
Russell Bowles Roscoe Dusseault Alton Flanders Paul Morin
Dorothy Flanders
Alma Kenney
Marjorie Lareau
Gertrude Martin Marie Paradise
James Morrissey
James Nichols
Frances Simpson Winifred Treadwell
Harlan Valentine
Walter Woods
Evelyn Ward
George Ensor
Mildred Meehan
William Loring
Clifton Leech
Dickson Smith
Ernest Shamano
John Wentworth Ralph Yetton
Evelyn Dolan
Ramona Gaffey
Louise McNaughton
Amelia Wentworth
Margaret Bond Rena Brouillette Eunice Buck
Julia Boonisar
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Organization of Teaching Staff, January 3, 1927
Name
School
Department Elected Salary
Education
David J. Allen Maude E. Merrithew A. Marion Simpson Mildred A. Henderson
High
Commercial
1921
1,700
High
Latin, French
1924 1,700
High
English, History 1925
1,650
Louis R. McBay
High
English, Science Athletics
1925
1,800
Mary Kerr
Cochituate
Grade VIII
1920
1,650
Margaret B. Fiske
Cochituate
Grade VI
1925
1,400
Framingham Normal
Sylvia E. Prescott
Cochituate
Grades V-IV
1911
1,450
Quincy Training
Grade III
1913
1,450
North Adams Normal
Janet M. MacNamara Cochituate Jane Noel Campbell Cochituate
Grade II
1916
1,450
Framingham Normal
Ethelyn Morrill
Cochituate
Grade I
1920
1,450
Framingham Normal
Arthur C. Faris
Center
Grades VII-VIII
1926
1,500
Harvard College
Mabel S. Draper
Center
Grades VI-V
1921
1,450
Framingham Normal
Elizabeth Smith
Center
Grades IV-III
1925
1,200
Lowell Normal
* Mabel C. Whitten
Center
Grades II-I
1910
1,450
Johnson Normal
Janie Foster
High
Household Arts
1926
1,600
Framingham Normal
Center
Luncheon
Teachers' Lodge
High
Math., Science
1918 $2,700
Brown University Salem Normal
Boston University
Worcester Normal Boston University Colby College
Framingham Normal Robinson Seminary
Eleanor C. Partridge Cochituate
Grades VII-VI
1923
1,450
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Marguerite E. Peaslee Supervisor Agnes E. Boland Supervisor Music
Drawing
1926
646
1904
3,50
Gertrude Macdonald
1926
1,200
N. E. Conservatory of Music
Tesley Normal
* On Leave of Absence + For Miss Whitten
194
INDEX
Annual Town Warrant 8
Appropriations and Expenditures 110
Assessors' Report 117
Balance Sheet
76-107
Board of Health
125
Commissioners of Trust Funds
120
County Extension Service 138
Cemetery Commissioners 165
Cemetery Income Accounts 166
Finance Committee
14-85
Fire Engineers 133
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth 134
Highway Surveyor 132
Jury List
128
Library
Trustees 143
Treasurer 159
Free Library, Wayland 157
Librarian
144
Nursing Association 131
Officers
3
Park Commissioners 123
Police Report 124
Overseers of Poor 127
Planning Board
140
Results of Town Election, March, 1926 39
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Results of State Election 46
Report of State Director of Accounts 50
Report of Town Accountant 90
Selectmen's Report 80
Schools
School Calendar 172
School Officers 172
Committee's Report 173
Financial Statement 175
Superintendent's Report
School Nurse 180
188
High School Principal
School Physician 183
186
Chart I 190
Chart II 191
Chart III 191
Chart IV
193
Organization of Teachers 1927
193
Town Clerk's Report
Births 32
Marriages 34
Deaths 37
Dog Licenses 38
Town Treasurer 114
Tax Collector, 1925
119
Tax Collector, 1923-1924 164
Tree Warden 138
Votes Passed Annual Meeting 1926
12
Vote at State Primary
42
Water Department
Clerk's Report 120
Commissioners 135
Superintendent 136
Weights and Measures 130
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