Official reports of the town of Wayland 1933-1935, Part 18

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1933
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 658


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1,281.00


Ethelyn Morrill


1,301.57


Sulo A. Kempainen


1,150.00


Elizabeth Smith


1,305.00


Gertrude Macdonald


1,305.00


Julia B. Smith


585.00


Dorothy C. Sleeper


280.00


Doris Litchfield


729.50


Alice Ashley


801.50


Ernest W. Schleicher


360.00


Marguerite E. Peaslee


630.00


Mabel S. Draper


1,088.92


Dorothy Gallagher


24.00


Mabel M. Hammond


170.00


Elizabeth Partridge


24.00


Dorothy Sleeper


8.00


Edward Weiss


212.00


Frank H. Benedict


1,575.00


David J. Allen


2,700.00


A. Marion Simpson


1,530.00


Maude E. Merrithew


1,530.00


Mildred A. Henderson


1,522.00


Francis R. Gladu


1,800.00


Margaret C. Robbins


1,260.00


163


Janie C. Foster


1,485.00


Evelyn Martin


2.00


Mary McNeil


540.00


Thomas Metcalf


855.00


James Morton


855.00


Holland Gage


34.00


S. J. McDonnell


5.00


Mary E. McNeil


54.00


$33,609.59


Transportation


Blue Ribbon Garage


$5,600.03


George N. Sherman


1,182.00


Frank J. Bigwood


216.00


Everett Bigwood


126.00


Helen Carter Wheeler


380.00


William S. Lovell


61.20


Alfred L. LaCroix


12.00


Alfred L. LaCroix


65.00


George N. Sherman


50.00


7,692.23


Books


Wilcox & Follett Company


$ 2.26


D. C. Heath & Company


74.64


The Gregg Publishing Company


4.61


Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.


11.39


Ginn and Company


230.32


Hall & McCreary Company


17.59


Silver, Burdett and Company


42.89


Edward E. Babb and Company, Inc.


55.61


Benj. H. Sanborn and Company


31.38


Scott Foresman and Company


6.36


Henry Holt and Company


8.34


Houghton Mifflin and Company


16.36


Charles Scribner's Sons


24.32


The Arlo Publishing Company


2.76


American Book Company


49.90


Iroquois Publishing Company


11.66


Allyn and Bacon


39.00


The Macmillan Company


27.90


The John C. Winston Company


19.01


Charles M. Lamprey


20.25


696.55


164


Supplies


Boston Music Company


$21.93


J. N. Kimball


8.01


F. S. Webster Company


2.55


Windsor Pad and Paper Company


9.56


Wilbur D. Gilpatrick


27.47


The Follett Publishing Company


14.73


Gledhill Bros., Inc.


355.35


The A. B. Dick Company


36.68


The Horace K. Partridge Company


4.56


Ena Tillson


3.35


Harcourt, Brace and Company


10.02


J. L. Hammett Company


71.00


The Papercrafters, Inc.


4.10


Ginn and Company


45.33


Chicago Apparatus Company


30.71


Edward E. Babb and Company, Inc.


196.28


Benton Review Shop


9.60


Remington Rand, Inc.


3.80


John S. Cheever Company


22.58


World Book Company


25.13


Natick Printing Company


5.00


D. C. Heath and Company


4.20


Milton Bradley Company


3.80


The John C. Winston Company


16.08


931.82


Miscellaneous of Operation


The Edison Electric Illuminating


Company of Boston


$240.37


Boston Consolidated Gas Company


27.50


Philgas Company 15.00


New England Tel. & Tel. Company


51.82


Andrews Paper Company


59.90


J. L. Hammett Company


51.20


Repairs-Replacement-Upkeep


John C. Wright


$13.05


Remington Rand, Inc.


2.00


Burroughs Adding Machine Company


15.45


A. W. Ames


24.38


Boston Supply, Inc.


7.11


Natick Plumbing & Heating Company


44.44


445.79


165


J. C. Massie


40.25


Charles H. Smith


23.98


Underwood Elliott Fisher Company


3.61


Gledhill Bros., Inc.


2.50


C. Warren


6.25


Lockhart Hardware Company


16.90


Union Lumber Company


.91


D. W. Richardson


7.75


The Neighborly Craftsmen


5.00


Commonwealth of Massachusetts


11.10


Harold A. Wright


42.00


Royal Typewriter Company


30.00


Dura Binding Company


211.75


The Fiske Corporation


26.94


Wayland Lumber Company


1.94


L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriter Company


32.50


James Linnehan


44.25


H. L. MacDonald


22.26


Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc.


1.35


Commonwealth Lock Company


1.50


Arthur Marston


10.50


649.67


Miscellaneous


Hercules Kalon Company


$10.00


Wayland Water Board


30.00


The Victor Press


10.00


Andrews Paper Company


30.10


William M. Horner


2.00


C. W. Fairbank


7.00


Howe and Company


3.35


Masury-Young Company


7.85


Payson Miller


10.00


Natick Printing Company


4.50


Dallmand Company


18.00


The Fiske Corporation


1.75


Edwin P. Kershaw


5.50


140.05


Fuel


City Fuel Company


814.42


New Equipment


Remington Rand, Inc.


3.90


166


Library


The Gregg Publishing Company


$1.15


Harvard University Press


2.00


Dura Binding Company


13.50


The John C. Winston Company


3.60


20.25


Administration


Frank H. Benedict


$121.16


David J. Allen


12.32


Wright and Potter Printing Company


4.18


Fairbanks and Son


.75


John S. Cheever Company


3.60


142.01


Health


Benj. W. Johnson, Jr.


3.40


Physical Education


Athletic Trainer's Supply Company


$ 6.91


Wayland Lumber Company


11.01


Lee & Febiger


2.25


Ena Tillson


5.38


Harold Fisher


18.00


Sports Specialty Company


24.19


Robinson and Jones Company


.60


68.34


New Buildings-Grounds


The Gow Company, Inc.


$85.00


J. R. Worcester and Company


35.00


Frank L. McEnroy


15.00


135.00


Grand Total


$45,353.02


Income


Town Grant


$45,000.00


Dog Fund


341.19


Refund-Dorothea Gallagher


4.00


Income of Donation Fund


8.00


$45,353.19


167


Expenditures


Salaries


$33,609.59


Transportation


7,692.23


Books


696.55


Supplies


931.82


Miscellaneous of Operation


445.79


Repairs-Replacements-Upkeep


649.67


Miscellaneous


140.05


Fuel


814.42


New Equipment


3.90


Library


20.25


Administration


142.01


Health


3.40


Physical Education


68.34


· New Buildings-Grounds


135.00


45,353.02


Balance


$ .17


Bills reported as unpaid $118.81


Credit-Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc. 6.60


Special Appropriation


Income


Expenditures


Town Grant


$135.00


School Physician Ernest E. Sparks $135.00


Income on Account of the School Department Credited to Estimated Receipts


State-General School Fund, Part I $4,290.00


Tuition of State Wards and Transportation 396.50


Telephone-Toll Collections 1.95


Breakage-Glass


.14


$4,688.59


168


REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


To the Wayland School Committee :


The thirty-eighth annual report of the Union Superin- tendent of Schools is presented. It is my twenty-fifth. Your attention is directed to the statistics, financial statement, and the reports of the High School Principal, School Nurse, School Physician, and Supervisor of Attendance.


In all small towns, or in towns with a widely distributed population and consolidated schools, the transporting of children to and from school is a very large item in the yearly cost of education. The constant request for extension of mileage covered and an increase in school population call for increases in conveyance expenditures. School Departments are often placed in an embarrassing position trying to meet the varied transportation needs of children and the desires of parents while endeavoring necessarily to keep transportation expenses as low as can be done with consistency, guarding, in the meantime, as a first care, the safety of the children on roads travelled by many automobiles, operating often times at high speed.


Bus owners are required by law and by regulations of the Registry of Motor Vehicles under the law to meet many require- ments designed for greater safety to the children not heretofore imposed. Bus owners must carry an insurance of $50,000 yearly. Busses must be inspected and approved by State Inspectors bi- monthly during the 10 months of the school year. School Com- mittees may not contract with a person to convey children unless the bus employed for the service meets all legal requirements.


A comparison of transportation costs in Wayland with several other towns near our population and similarly situated geographically indicates that our cost per pupil is normal. There is a probability that Wayland is transporting children more gen- erously than is done in some towns. The limits within which children must walk to school and those outside the walking distance should be determined from a careful study of roads, sidewalks, traffic, and hazards to children rather than by mileage standards.


169


A quotation from the Statutes relative to transportation is given herewith in the hope that it may be read by all in town and a comparison made between Wayland transportation service and that required by law.


Acts of 1934-Chapter 97


"Be it enacted, etc., as follows :


"Section 1. Chapter seventy-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section sixty-eight, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition thereof, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 68. Every town shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of schoolhouses, properly fur- nished and conveniently situated for the accommodation of all children therein entitled to attend the public schools. If the distance between a child's residence and the school he is entitled to attend exceeds two miles, and the nearest school bus stop is more than one mile from such residence, and the school com- mittee declines to furnish transportation, the department, upon appeal of the parent or guardian of the child, may require the town to furnish the same for a part or for all of the distance between such residence and the school." . . "No school com- mittee shall be compelled to furnish transportation on a private way."


This year we celebrate the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the first public high school in the United States, established in our own beloved Commonwealth. We are planning to make use of this anniversary as the central theme for our High School Graduation Exercises.


As a parent I am grateful for the high school: grateful for the pleasant atmosphere in which youth may pass four years of the growing period; grateful for the life long influence that books and teachers will have upon my children; grateful for the education that comes from association with other students, contending with them, dreaming with them, learning to live with them in the social atmosphere of a small but real republic. I am grateful to our forebears for the gift of the high school because the life therein gives an opportunity to start in the mastery of self, the mastery of Science, Language, Mathematics, and our great social and economic fabric. The high school is one of the stepping stones that helps a boy to find himself and then to make sure of himself. Therefore it is more as a parent than as a School Superintendent that I find great pleasure in recording in these annals my gratitude to our forefathers for the gift of the high school through these three hundred years.


170


The State Department of Education with many workers in the field is making a very careful study of courses of study in the smaller high schools of the State in the hope that a reorgan- ization of high school offerings to students may be so modified and enriched and modernized, that the four years of high school life due in these times, as a matter of occupation if nothing more to all our youth may be more satisfactory to a larger number of students than at present. Colleges are demanding less Latin for entrance than heretofore, some none. A commercial course of vocational magnitude is not considered well for small high schools but one that is preparatory and explorative instead. So the study and criticism progresses. We are keeping in close touch with this Statewide intensive investigation.


We may view with satisfaction certain conditions and hap- penings in connection with our schools. Enumerated in the main they are : The prospect of better housing conditions in the near future for the High School and Center Elementary School; we have been able to carry on without the two platoon system, thus saving an expense of approximately $4,000 for the school year ; we have had a very successful high school football team; the victorious football squad has been honored by a banquet for which all are most grateful to the Girls' Cheering Squad and Mothers, the Sandy Burr Golf Club, and all who assisted in making the occasion one to be long remembered; the schools have not been interrupted by illness; a large percentage of the children have been immunized against diphtheria and the work goes on year by year under direction of the Board of Health; neighboring towns have begun to immunize against scarlet fever thus helping us and paving the way for this next step in the control of diseases from which children suffer most commonly in childhood.


Through Government Aid and direction for a second year, a Teacher-Nursery School is being maintained at the residence of Miss Emma M. Jones. Sixteen children are enrolled. This number is the limit permitted unless another teacher be employed. Our allotment of government funds is not sufficient for an ex- tension of this service to the children and aid to another unem- ployed teacher.


Respectfully submitted, FRANK H. BENEDICT, Superintendent of Schools.


171


REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL


Superintendent Frank H. Benedict,


Cochituate, Massachusetts.


Dear Mr. Benedict :


I herewith submit to you my seventeenth annual report as Principal of the Wayland High School.


The maximum enrollment of the school to date is 129 students. Of these 65 are boys and 64 are girls.


The enrollment January 2, 1935 is 118 students. Of these 56 are boys and 62 are girls.


The following tabulation shows the enrollment by classes :


Boys


Girls


Total


Freshman


21


18


39


Sophomore


17


17


34


Junior


10


14


24


Senior


8


10


18


Post graduate


3


3


Total


56


62


118


I find that the situation in the high school is just about what it was last year. The same teachers are with us this year ; the enrollment is very much the same and about the same num- ber of 8th grade students have to be taken care of on the second floor of the building. It has been fortunate that the enrollment of the high school remained as low as last year's figure for at that, the crowding has been very great.


I am hoping that with new and better quarters in the new building better arrangements can be made for classes than have been possible in the present building.


Sincerely yours,


DAVID J. ALLEN, Principal.


Wayland, Mass., January 2, 1935.


172


REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN


Mr. Frank H. Benedict,


Superintendent of Wayland Schools,


Cochituate, Massachusetts.


Dear Mr. Benedict :


I herewith have the honor of submitting to you my tenth report as Physician of the Wayland Schools.


My examination of the students in the grades disclosed the following defects :


Carious, stained and dirty teeth


172


Defective tonsils


170


Adenoids


68


Cervical glands


32


Poor posture


66


Skin disease


3


Heart murmur


1


In the High School :


Teeth


52


Tonsils


29


Adenoids


11


Glands


6


Poor posture


37


By order of the Board of Health a Toxin-antitoxin Clinic was held during May and June. The Schick Test was given December 10. Only one who had had the three regular toxin- antitoxin immunization treatments remained positive.


The general appearance of the school children as to dress, cleanliness and nutrition for which their home life is responsible is the best this year of any since I have been doing this work.


The discontinuance of the dental clinic is a sad blow to the care of the teeth.


May I once more extend my thanks to all who lent their cooperation in this work.


Respectfully submitted, ERNEST E. SPARKS.


173


REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE


Mr. Frank H. Benedict, Superintendent of Schools,


Wayland, Mass.


Dear Sir :


I hereby submit my fourteenth annual report for the year ending December 31, 1934.


As during the preceding years, I visited both buildings daily unless outside work prevented my doing so. Classroom inspec- tions were made at regular intervals. Sight and hearing tests were given. Children were weighed and measured every three months. The school physician was assisted in making the annual physical examination of pupils, and notices of defects signed by Dr. Sparks were sent to the parents.


In May the school physician was assisted in giving the Toxin Anti-Toxin treatment to pupils and to a small group of pre-school children. These same children were given the Schick test in December.


The majority of the children, who entered school in September, were examined in June at our pre-school conference, which was conducted during the year by a physician, nursing consultant, dietitian and dental hygienist from the State Depart- ment of Public Health.


The doctor and psychologists from the Worcester State Hospital were assisted in examining the three-year retarded group.


During the summer months a group of children needing tonsil and adenoid operations were cared for at the Framingham Hospital Clinic. This Clinic was sponsored by the District Nursing Association.


Several cases of infection among the children during the year were referred to Dr. Sparks.


Home visits to school children 264


Children accompanied home because of illness 15


Children excluded because of infection 47


First aid 21


Respectfully submitted,


MARY E. McNEIL.


174


REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF ATTENDANCE


Mr. Frank H. Benedict,


Superintendent of Schools,


Wayland, Mass.


Dear Sir :


During the past year I have had nineteen cases of absence reported to me.


Number having no excuse 19


Truants accompanied to school 3


Court Cases (finding made in favor of School Department ) 1


For my report of the School Census, I refer to the figures on the following page, prepared for the annual state returns.


Respectfully submitted,


MARY E. McNEIL.


175


CENSUS RETURNS October 1, 1934


Number of boys five years of age and under seven 62


Number of girls five years of age and under seven 65


Total 127


Number of boys seven years of age and under fourteen 226


Number of girls seven years of age and under fourteen 181


Total


407


Number of boys fourteen years of age and under sixteen 55


Number of girls fourteen years of age and under sixteen 34


Total 89


Number of Children Not Attending School Five years old and under seven years of age :


Boys 19


Girls 19


38


Number of Children Attending Local Private Schools or At Home


Five years old and under seven :


Boys


2


Girls


3


- 5


Seven years old and under fourteen :


Boys 0


Girls 2


2


Number Attending the Nursery School


Five years old and under seven :


Boys Girls 5


1


6


176


Number of Children Attending Private or Out of Town Public Schools


Five years old and under seven :


Boys Girls


1


1


2


Seven years old and under fourteen :


Boys


11


Girls


5


16


Fourteen years old and under sixteen :


Boys


5


Girls


2


7


Number of illiterate minors


0


-


177


MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE OCTOBER 1, 1934


BOYS


Age


Grade 5 6 7 8 9


10 11


12 13 14


15 16


17 18 Total


1


8 21


2


31


2


15 21 6


1


43


3


9 23


6


3


1


42


4


5 17


5


27


5


2


5


4 2


1


14


6


6


6 8 10


6


5


4


33


8


1 13


8


22


9


4


7


7


6


1


25


10


8


7


4


1


1


21


11


7


2


1


10


12


3


2


3


8


Subnormal


1


1


1


1


1


5


Total


8


36


32


34


26


20


19


17


26


29


19


21


6


5


298


10


11


12


13


14


15 16


17


18 Total


1


9 17


2


28


2


12


15


3


30


3


8


18


5


31


4


8


16


9


33


5


6


9


15


6


3


2


5


7


7


12


3


22


8


8


10


5


2


25


9


2


2


11


2


1


18


10


1


5


8


2


1


17


11


1


6


5


3


15


12


2


8


1


11


13


1


2


3


Total


9


29 25


35


30


19


22


16


7


19


16


11


14


1


253


3


2


17


7


-


GIRLS


Age


Grade


5 6 7 8 9


178


CURRENT REGISTRATION


School


Room


Grade in Grade in Room


Total


Cochituate


1


I


27


42


II


15


2


II


33


42


III


9


3


III


41


41


4


IV


37


37


5


V


37


37


6


VI


37


37


7


VII


37


37


8


VIII


33


33


306


Center


1


I


33


62


II


29


2


III


26


50


3


V


30


41


4


VI


11


33


VII


22


Principal's Office


VIII


16


16


202


Six students transferred from Wayland.


Total in Elementary Schools


508


High School Freshmen


44


Sophomores


38


Juniors


25


Seniors


19


Post Graduates


3


130


Total Registration


638


IV


24


VI


11


179


ROLL OF STUDENTS PERFECT IN ATTENDANCE 1933-1934


Barbara Bagster


Paul Benedict


Mary Elizabeth Bond


Ruth Davieau


Rita Ploss


Dorothea Dooley


Barbara H. Reid


Charles D. Reid


Florence Reid


Maurice Robinson Ervin Schleicher


** Bernard Gallagher Mary Ann Gallagher Vincent Gallagher *Lester Gerald


*Robert Scotland Benjamin Sleeper *** Jean Sleeper Charles Smith


Richard Groton


Kathleen Hammond


Marie Hammond William Hardy ** E. Louise Hutchings * *Dorothy Kneeland *Joseph McEnroy Rita McGee


*Mary Steele Muriel Taylor


*Robert Tillson Helen Tufts John Warner William Wesneska George Wheeler


*Perfect in attendance for two years


** Perfect in attendance for three years


** Perfect in attendance for four years * *Perfect in attendance for five years


*** Perfect in attendance for six years


180


*


Lawrence Neale Bernice Palmer Eunice Peck


** Florence Dunham Lilla Dunham *Edith Forbes


GRADUATES 1934-HIGH SCHOOL


College Course


Dorothy Mary Decatur Orlaine Heald Mary Jane MacMeeken


Edward Francis McGee, Jr. Rita Celeste Ploss Zelia O. Wright


Commercial Course


Gladys Mabel Davieau Dorothea Elizabeth Dooley Catherine Leona Reimer General Course Daphne C. Bergin Dorothy Marianne Cameron


ELEMENTARY CLASS ROLL


Frances Elizabeth Adams


George Stewart Adams


Roy Ernest Ames


William Alfred Bagster


Paul Lincoln Benedict


Dorothy Alice Bergin Mary Elizabeth Bond Peter Cain


Charles Campbell


George Angus Campbell


Mildred Louise Carter


Emma Cline Alice Eisan


Edith Elizabeth Forbes Anne Gladu


Norma Jean Gladu


Stanley Field Goodwin, Jr. Marie Hammond


Irene Elizabeth Harris


William Russell Hartin


Annie Barbara Hersey


Dorothy Ada Hiltz Gertrude Isabella Hunt Lucille LaFrance Ralph Robert LeMay George Litchfield Julia Natalie Moran William Roscoe Moran Kenneth Ellsworth Morrell, Jr. Thomas O'Day Dorothy Ethel Palmer Benjamin Joseph Perry Charles Reid Marion Sheffield Warren Sherman Harry Franklin Smith William Brasley Thomas, Jr. Norman Walker John Russell Warner Ralph Irving Wilbur Howard Wilmot


181


182


ORGANIZATION OF TEACHING STAFF, JANUARY 3, 1935


Names


School


Department


Elected


Education


David J. Allen, Prin.


High


Mathematics, Science Commercial


1918


Maude E. Merrithew


High


1921


A. Marion Simpson


High Latin, French


1924


Mildred A. Henderson


High English, History 1925


High Mathematics, Law, Busi- ness Training, Athletics, Mathematics-Grade VIII 1928


+Tufts College


Margaret C. Robbins


High Commercial, French, English 1929


Boston University


Mary Kerr, Prin.


Cochituate


Grade VIII


1920


State College, Framingham


Eleanor C. Partridge


Cochituate


Grade VII


1923


Robinson Seminary


Ena Tillson


Cochituate Grade VI


1934


¡Boston University


Doris Currier


Cochituate


Grade V


1934


State College, Framingham


*Janet M. MacNamara


Cochituate


Grade IV


1913


State College, North Adams


Edith Lindsay


Cochituate


Grade IV


1934


State College, Framingham


Marjorie M. Lareau


Cochituate


Grade III


1933


State College, Framingham


+Brown University State College, Salem Columbia University ¿Boston University ¿Boston University ¿Columbia University State College, Worcester +Boston University +Clark University


Francis R. Gladu


Jane Noel Campbell Ethel Morrill


Cochituate Grades III-II 1916


Cochituate Grades II-1 1920


Alice Ashley


Center-High Grade VIII, English 1933


Sulo A. Kempainen


Center Grades VII-VI 1930


State College, Fitchburg


Mabel S. Draper


Center


Grades VI-V


1921


State College, Framingham


Elizabeth Smith


Center


Grades IV-III


1926


State College, Lowell


Gertrude Macdonald


Center


Grades II-I


1926


Lesley Normal School


*Julia B. Smith


Center


Assistant, Grades IV-III 1928


State College, Lowell


Dorothy C. Sleeper


Center Assistant, Grades IV-III


1934


State College, Framingham


Doris E. Litchfield


Center


Assistant, Grades II-I 1933


State College, Framingham


Marguerite E. Peaslee


Supervisor


Drawing


1926


Portland Art, State College, Hyannis, Keene Normal


Ernest W. Schleicher


Supervisor


Music 1929


Private Study


Janie C. Foster


High-Center


Household Arts, Luncheon, Teachers' Lodge


1929


State College, Framingham


+ Institutions that have granted degrees.


* Teachers who are on leave of absence.


183


State College, Framingham Farmington Normal School +Radcliffe College


REPORT OF THE LIBRARY TRUSTEES


The annual report of the Librarian to the Trustees, here- with presented, shows the continued large use of their library made by the people of the town. It is natural that the chief service should be in supplying fiction, but the steady demand for books of non-fiction character is always gratifying.


The policy of the Trustees is to practice the strictest economy which allows a proper service to the public, and which maintains the property under their care in suitable condition. This past year no repairs have been needed on the building of the Main Library, but this is an economy which should not continue for the proper upkeep of such a structure. Either the appropriation must allow for repairs, or other services rendered by the library must be reduced.


The Branch Library at Cochituate is out-growing its quarters-shelving must soon be installed which will require space which is needed for other purposes; the location in a store building means a fire risk which is not good; the Branch Library has no reading room which is attractive to adults; the constant payment of rent is a drain on funds which should be used for buying books. The Trustees recognize the need of a proper small building to house the branch, but they know that the present is not the time for this project. They look into the future when improved conditions will permit such an undertaking.


AMOS I. HADLEY, Chairman, ALFRED W. CUTTING, J. SIDNEY STONE, NELLIE RICE FISKE, JOHN H. KNAPP, JAMES R. MARTIN, Secretary.


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Treasurer's Report


Total appropriation


One-half Dog Licenses


$3,000.00 341.18


$3,341.18


Expenditures from Appropriation


Main Library


$2,086.76


Cochituate Branch


1,242.30


$3,329.06


Balance of Appropriation Unexpended


12.12


$3,341.18


Statement of Expenses for Main Library


Salaries :


Margaret E. Wheeler, Librarian


$1,080.00


Thomas Metcalf


378.00


Helen C. Wheeler


37.00


$1,495.00


Fuel and Light :


A. W. Atwood, coal and wood




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