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Great Artists, No. 4, Keyson. Educational Publishing Company
Great Artists, No. 5, Keyson. Educational Publishing Company
Geographical Readers, Carpenter American Book Company
North America
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Australia
How the World Is Clothed How the World Is Fed
Geographical Readers, Book I., Carroll. Silver, Burdett & Co.
Geographical Readers, Book II., Carroll. Silver, Burdett & Co.
Geographical Readers, Book III., Carroll. Silver, Burdett & Co.
Geographical Readers, Book IV., Carroll. Silver, Burdett & Co.
Grimm's Fairy Tales Houghton Mifflin Company
Heroic Ballads, Montgomery. . Ginn & Co. History Reader for Elementary Schools, Wilson. .. Macmillan Company Lights to Literature, No. 1, Lane. Rand, McNally & Co.
Lights to Literature, No. 2, Lane. Rand, McNally & Co.
Lights to Literature, No. 3, Lane. Rand, McNally & Co.
Lights to Literature, No. 4, Lane. Rand, McNally & Co.
Lights to Literature, No. 5, Lane. Rand, McNally & Co.
Lights to Literature, No. 6, Lane Rand, McNally & Co.
Lights to Literature, No. 7, Lane Rand, McNally & Co.
Lights to Literature, No. 8, Lane Rand, McNally & Co.
Little Betty Marigold. C. M. Clark Publishing Company
Little Daffydowndilly, Hawthorne. Houghton Mifflin Company Masterpieces of American Literature. Houghton Mifflin Company Noble Deeds of Our Fathers, Watson,
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company New Education Reader, Book I., Demarest and Van Sickle, American Book Company New Education Reader, Book II., Demarest and Van Sickle, American Book Company New Education Reader, Book III., Demarest and Van Sickle, American Book Company
Seven Little Sisters, Andrews. . Ginn & Co. Stepping Stones to Literature, No. 1, Arnold and Gilbert,
Silver, Burdett & Co.
Stepping Stones to Literature, No. 2, Arnold and Gilbert,
Stepping Stones to Literature, No. 3, Arnold and Gilbert, Silver, Burdett & Co.
Silver, Burdett & Co.
Stepping Stones to Literature, No. 4, Arnold and Gilbert, Silver, Burdett & Co. Stepping Stones to Literature, No. 5, Arnold and Gilbert, Silver, Burdett & Co.
Stepping Stones to Literature, No. 6, Arnold and Gilbert, Silver, Burdett & Co. Stepping Stones to Literature, No. 7, Arnold and Gilbert, Silver, Burdett & Co. Stepping Stones to Literature, No, 8, Arnold and Gilbert, Silver, Burdett & Co.
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Stories of American Life and Adventure, Eggleston,
American Book Company
Stories of Great Americans, Eggleston ...... . American Book Company
Stories from New England History, Hawthorne,
Houghton Mifflin Company
Stories of the English, Guerber American Book Company
Stickney's First Reader. Ginn & Co.
Stickney's Second Reader . Ginn & Co.
Stickney's Third Reader Ginn & Co. Stickney's Fourth Reader Ginn & Co.
Stickney's Alternate Fourth Reader. Ginn & Co.
Stickney's Fifth Reader. Ginn & Co.
Sunbonnet Babies' Primer, Grover. Rand, McNally & Co.
Sunshine Primer, Noyes and Guild. Ginn & Co.
The World and Its People Series, Dunton. Silver, Burdett & Co. Book I., First Lessons
Book II., Glimpses of the World
Book III., Our Own Country
Book IV., Our American Neighbors
Book V., Modern Europe
Book VI., Life in Asia
Book VII., Views in Africa
Book VIII., Australia and the Islands of the Sea
Book IX., Hawaii and Its People
Book X., South American Republics Book XI., Story of the Philippines
Wonder Book, Hawthorne .. American Book Company Five-Cent Classics
Ten-Cent Classics
AUTHORIZED BOOKS FOR EVENING SCHOOLS.
English for Foreigners, O'Brien. Houghton Mifflin Company First Book for Non-English-Speaking People, Cunningham, D. C. 'Heath & Co. Second Book for Non-English-Speaking People, Harrington and Moore .. .. D. C. Heath & Co. Reading and Language Lessons for Evening Schools, Chancellor, American Book Company The New American Citizen, Mintz. Macmillan Company
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
TABLE D. - COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF THE TRUANCY DEPARTMENT.
1910.
1911.
Change.
Number of cases investigated
1,600
1,953
+353
Number of cases found to be truancy or absenteeism
296
402
+136
Number of different pupils who were tru- ants or habitual absentees
219
318
+99
Number who were truants for the first time .
142
252
+110
Number who were truants for the second time .
35
96
+61
. Number who were truants for three or more times ·
118
54
-64
Number of girls who were truants or absen- tees . .
19
69
++50
Number of truants from the high school .
5
20
+ 15
Number of truants or absentees from the public schools
115
329
+214
Number of truants or absentees from the parochial schools ·
104
73
-- 31
Number of complaints to the court for tru- ancy . ·
11
12
+1
Number placed on probation by the court .
9
4
-5
. Number committed to the County Training school
3
8
++5
Number of complaints made to the court for illegally keeping children out of school Number of convictions secured for illegally keeping children out of school
1
4
+3
Number of visits to the schools
617
771
+154 +249
Number of cases of parental neglect of children found and reported to chari- table institutions
15
13
-2
Number of visits to mercantile or manufac- . turing establishments
26
49
+23
Number of minors found to be working with- out age and schooling certificates . . Number of age and schooling certificates is- sued to boys .
28
51
+23
277
264
-13
· Number of age and schooling certificates is- sued to girls .
204
255
+51
Number of certificates of literacy issued to minors over 16 years of age .
124
374
+250
+83
Number of transfer cards investigated
975
1,315
+340
Number of truants in the County Training school at the close of the year
13
15
+2
Amount paid for board of truants .
$618.28
Salaries of the Truant ( Benjamin R. Jones Officers - Jairus Mann .
1,250.00 50.00
548.72 1,300.00 50.00
-69.56 +50.00
·
·
.
.
·
5
3
-2
Number of cases of removal of children from the custody of parents by order of the court
1
4
+3
Number of visits to the homes
1,561
1,810
1
Number of newspaper licenses issued to boys 11 to 14 years of age for school year 1910 and 1911 .
117
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Table of Truancies and Absenteeism by Ages and Grades.
BY AGES.
GRADE.
Totals.
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Over
I.
.3
3
5
3
1
. .
. .
. .
·
.
II.
9
3
12
12
10
1
. .
. .
. .
2
11
17
13
11
9
4
. .
2
9
14
26
6
6
. .
·
63
VI.
8
9
22
12
2
53
VII.
3
6
29
12
10
60
VIII.
6
X.
.
.
·
. .
2
2
3
7
XII.
. .
·
.
. .
. .
6
13
2
21
Ungraded .
. .
. .
. .
.
. .
. .
. .
2
5
3
12
23
28
38
41
52
85
66
46
8
402
Truants and Absentees by Schools.
School.
20
High
31
Prescott
4
Hanscom
33
Bennett
6
Baxter
18
Knapp
5
Perry
15
Pope
9
Bell
2.
Cummings
11
Edgerly
6
Glines
12
Forster
19
Bingham
45
Carr
12
Morse
6
Durell
6
Burns
8
Brown
3
Highland
20
Hodgkins
1
Lowe
21
Industrial School for Boys.
5
Highland Evening
73
Parochial
Total
402
. .
. .
. .
1
3
2
.
12
XI.
. .
.
. .
. .
1
. .
1
Industrial
. .
. .
1
5
6
. .
7
. .
33
IX.
·
1
2
. .
2
3
1
21
III.
36
IV.
67
V.
.
.
·
.
·
·
·
.
Proctor
Lincoln
5
·
No. of Truants.
14
12
1
2
17
16 or
1
2
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS.
Trustees.
THOMAS M. DURELL, M. D.
FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, D. D.
J. FRANK WELLINGTON.
*WILLIAM H. BURGESS.
FREDERICK W. PARKER.
CHARLES M. AMBROSE.
WILLIAM L. BARBER. GEORGE WHITING.
CHARLES L. NOYES, D. D.
+WILLIAM H. DOLBEN.
Officers.
THOMAS M. DURELL, M. D. DREW B. HALL.
President
Secretary
Committees.
Administration-Wellington, Parker, and Noyes.
Books and Catalogues-Noyes, Barber, Wellington, Hamilton, and Ambrose.
Buildings and Grounds-Burgess, Whiting, Ambrose, and Dolben. Finance-Barber, Parker, Burgess, and Dolben.
*Resigned June, 1911.
¡Qualified October 10, 1911, for unexpired term of Mr. Burgess.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES.
To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :-
Gentlemen,-The thirty-ninth annual report of the trustees of the public library is herewith respectfully submitted.
· The year has been marked by the loss from his place of our librarian, Sam Walter Foss, of beloved memory. The library grew, under his charge, to great usefulness and power, and served this community both in study and in recreation. As his successor, Drew B. Hall has been chosen librarian.
Our public library must meet the needs of a great and in- creasing population, having in its proportion of readers and library users few equals in the country. For the first time the gross yearly circulation has exceeded half a million. To meet this demand all our resources have, by every possible device, been strained to the utmost. The accommodations of the cen- tral building have been in many ways readjusted better to serve readers and students and home users of books. Facility of dis- tribution has been promoted by permitting the drawing of any reasonable number of books of non-fiction, by methods of re- newing books by mail, telephone, or in person, and of reserving desired volumes. A selected and annotated list of 2,000 of the most used novels has been issued; and a very full and careful seventy-page catalogue listing the music scores and works about music both in the central and branch collections. The library staff and its work have been reorganized with a notable increase of competence and efficiency. A well-considered scheme for a graded service has been adopted, seeking to at- tract and develop a corps of assistants which shall be ap- pointed, promoted, and retained for educational and technical qualifications and efficiency.
But after all is done, the library is fairly strangled, its work impaired, and its growth arrested by lack of sufficient and suitable accommodations at the central building. Years ago the trustees called attention to the increased difficulty of doing the library's business in its outgrown quarters. The growth since then, both of population and readers, has exceeded all ex- pectation, so that relief from crowded conditions is immediately necessary. Though book stacks and shelves will hold but few more volumes, the worst crowding is in the accommodations offered the users of the building. The reading room seats but twenty-four (24) persons; the reference room is so isolated that few persons realize there is such a department ; the art and Americana rooms, containing large and very valuable collec-
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tions on these special subjects, were visited by but eighty-six and sixty-seven persons respectively during the twelve months of 1911. The increase in circulation has kept pace, during the last twenty-five years, with the increase of books, so that it is now seven times as great, but the use of the reference col- lection, for serious study, has not increased, for the accommo- dations in this department have not been enlarged or in any- wise made more attractive.
The working space for the staff is entirely inadequate to the very large amount of detail necessary to the cataloguing of 8,000 volumes a year, the use, repair, and accounting for a col- lection of 100,000 volumes, from which a circulation of 530,000 volumes is rolled up in a twelve-month. There are but eight desks and two places at the loan counter for the eighteen per- sons who do desk work; neither are there any lockers for per- sonal effects, and only hooks in a dark semi-public hall-way 3x8 feet for the wraps of eighteen (18) assistants.
A small boy once asked a librarian for a book that would tell "how to get educated and how to stay so." This is exactly the function of a public library ; not only to educate people, but to keep them educated by giving them constantly the very best. It should be not so much a storehouse of knowledge as a distributing center of knowledge, treating all persons and all questions alike. To do this we must have proper facilities.
The attention of the city government and the interest of the citizens is called to the duty of providing such material en- largement as shall enable the library to continue its great work and hold its leading place among American libraries.
Our thanks are due to the members of the staff for their splendid co-operation in one of the most successful years of the library's existence.
Respectfully submitted, (Signed) THOMAS M. DURELL, President.
Adopted by the board of trustees January 30, 1912.
Attest :
DREW B. HALL, Secretary.
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Central Building, Highland Avenue.
The Reference Room and the Circulating Department: Week days (excepting holidays), 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. The Reading Room: Week days (excepting holidays), 9 A. M. to 9 P. M .; Sundays, 2 to 6 P. M.
The Children's Room: Week days for reading and circulation, 9 A. M. to 8 P. M .; Sundays (for reading only), 2 to 6 P. M.
WEST SOMERVILLE BRANCH. College Avenue. All departments: Week days, 1 to 9 P. M .; and on Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. in addition.
East Somerville Agency, corner Franklin and Pearl Streets. Union Square Agency, 26 Union Square.
South Somerville Agency, 518 Somerville Avenue.
Librarian.
*SAM WALTER FOSS. *DREW B. HALL. -
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Assistant Librarian. NELLIE M. WHIPPLE.
Library Assistants.
Mabel E. Bunker, Reference and Art Librarian.
Bessie S. Cobb, West Somerville Branch.
Bessie L. Duddy, Stenographer.
Ruth S. Fales, West Somerville Branch.
Edith B. Hayes, Assistant Cataloguer.
Esther M. Mayhew, Cataloguer.
A. Myrtle Merrill, Binding and Circulating Departments.
Zoe E. Nelson, Circulating Department.
Myrtle Nicholson, Circulating and Cataloguing Departments. -
Ethel M. Nute, West Somerville Branch.
A. Lisette Parker, Circulating Department.
Alice W. Sears, Librarian, West Somerville Branch.
Helen Spear, Circulating Department.
Anna L. Stone, Children's Librarian.
Ruby G. White, Agencies, and Circulating Department.
Mary S. Woodman, School Librarian.
Charles A. Southwick, Janitor, Central. Thomas O'Day, Janitor, West Somerville Branch. William Mullanny, Messenger.
Substitutes and Pages, on Special and Part Time.
Annie M. Currie. Edgar L. Kaula. Oscar Cederlund. Dudley Holden.
Mary L. Foss. Richard Barlow. Thomas A. West. Ronald Moore.
*Deceased, February 26, 1911. +Qualified, May 5, 1911.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
To the Trustees of the Somerville Public Library :-
I herewith submit the thirty-ninth annual report of the librarian for the calendar year 1911 :-
Growth.
To Central 6,917 volumes were added, to West Somer- ville 1,763, a total of 8,680, of which 4,430 were new to the li- brary and 4,250 were duplicates or replacements. During the last half of the year figures were kept showing the number of volumes added to each of the various classes, as has never been done before. While the results do not account for every volume added, they indicate that about forty per cent. of the purchases, or 3,500 volumes in round numbers, were fiction; of the 930 volumes added in October 366 were fiction. So great is the wear and tear of our circulation that 2,538 volumes were worn out and rejected from Central and 440 from West Somer- ville, a total of 2,978, which, subtracted from the additions as above, brings the net increase down to 5,702; which, added to the 98,164 in the library on January 1, 1911, make the gross total January 1, 1912, for the first time exceed the one hun- dred thousand mark in the sum of 103,866 volumes.
The processes incident to the invoicing, classifying, cata- loguing, and preparing for circulation of so many thousands of additions, and the equally time-consuming processes of with- drawing worn-outs have required more painstaking and detail work than ever from the cataloguing force. Besides these regular duties, the special ones of preparing the catalogues of select fiction and of music have fallen to this department. The accommodations afforded by the catalogue room are totally inadequate to the yearly increasing requirements, which are accomplished only with grave risk of error and at the ex- penditure of an undue amount of labor and time.
Registration.
The number of readers' personal cards issued on the present registration during the last four years numbers just short of 30,000. Many of these cards, of course, are no longer in use ; some of them are in the hands of other persons than those to whom they were issued ; and the presence of thou- sands of unused readers' cards and records in the library's files add considerably to their bulk and to the difficulty of working them quickly and carefully. For these and certain minor rea- sons, it would be well during the coming year to begin re- registration on some plan by which cards would automatically
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expire at the end of some chosen period, such as three years, and then be renewed.
During this year 3,917 new readers' cards were issued, 2,576 from Central and 1,341 from West Somerville, not in- cluding 415 special "vacation" cards.
Use of Books.
The circulation, or home use, from Central was 219,679, actual count ; at West Somerville 127,160; at the East Somer- ville agency 12,403; at the Union-square agency 8,631, a total of actually counted use of 367,873. There were in school- rooms, Sunday schools, fire stations, and other places of de- posit from 1,300 to 9,000 volumes at any one time according to the season of the year. The use of these estimated on the "old" basis, of one circulation per volume every fortnight, amounted to 162,133 for the year. The total, therefore, of the actually-counted circulation plus this estimate was 530,006. On the same basis in 1910 the total was 489,363, with actually- counted circulation 352,272, and an estimate 137,091. I do not look for a large increase over the circulation of last year ex- cept at the new reading rooms in East Somerville and Union square. For these neighborhoods, which have hardly been reached heretofore, will doubtless develop a large "new busi- ness."
The reference work, on the other hand, has not shown the increase it ought to; in fact, there has been a steady decrease during the last dozen years. The accommodations for read- ers in the building have not during that time been increased, and are lamentably small for a population and circulation the size of Somerville's. The reference room is, by common con- sent, badly placed and arranged, and there seems to be no doubt that its service to the public would be much greater if it were situated on the ground floor, so that it would be more often noticed and more easily reached.
Methods of renewing books by mail, telephone, or in per- son when the first period of loan has expired have been intro- duced ; also of reserving a volume which is desired, but seems always "out." Facility of distribution has also been promoted by permitting the drawing of any reasonable number of books of non-fiction, so that now a reader may draw on one card one novel, two unbound periodicals, and any number of non-fiction. Many readers avail themselves of these efforts to "get the right book to the right person," and gratefully express their appreciation.
Publications and Exhibitions.
Sixteen collections of photographs, or engravings, have been shown during the year. They exhibited, among other subjects: The Rise of Architecture in Italy, Transportation
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without Steam or Electricity, Eighteenth Century Color Prints, James McNeill Whistler, The Yosemite Valley, Japanese Color Prints, Mount Shasta, American warships. Attention is again called to the deplorable lack of wall space suitable for these exhibitions. Very few visitors now see them in the small passageway on the second floor, where they must be hung.
The regular bulletin was issued monthly as heretofore.
A select and annotated list of 2,000 of the most used and worthy novels was issued in the fall, and there is now just ready a very carefully prepared seventy-page catalogue of music scores and books about music in both the central and branch collections. These contain several thousand scores of the greatest permanent and popular interest. During the compilation of the catalogue upwards of 800 volumes and scores recommended in the American Library Association's special list for library purchase were added to round out cer- tain departments.
The local newspapers have been of great assistance in calling attention to the library in frequent notices of its aims and doings.
The Staff.
A well-considered "Scheme of Service," grading the vari- ous employees, has been adopted. It provides that the staff of the library "shall be appointed, promoted, and retained for educational and technical qualifications and efficiency," as de- termined by examinations suitable to the position in question, and by carefully kept experience ratings covering the work already done by the candidate. The salary of the lowest grade has been increased from $200 to $360, and the schedule made 40.5 hours per week. This time is regularly "divided into eleven periods, nine day and two evening, not exceeding two periods being required in one day," and is now so arranged that twenty-four hours, from noon of one day to noon of the next, are free during the less busy days in the middle of the week.
To his co-workers on the staff the librarian wishes to render most sincere thanks for their ready and loyal support in the beginnings of new undertakings.
To the trustees he is particularly grateful for their per- sonal confidence, as well as for their official assistance and support in the accomplishments of the past six months, and in various projects under consideration, but not yet brought to the stage of completion.
Very respectfully, DREW B. HALL, Librarian,
December 30, 1911.
ACCESSIONS.
In Central January 1, 1911, including Agencies and De- posits .
· 88,921
Added, new titles
3,401
Added, duplicates
3,516
Total additions .
6,917
Worn out .
2,538
Net gain
4,379
In Central January 1, 1912
93,300
In West Somerville Branch January 1, 1911
9,243
Added, new titles
1,029
Added, duplicates
734
Total additions .
1,763
Worn out and withdrawn
440
Net gain
1,323
In West Somerville Branch January 1, 1912
10,566
Total volumes in Public Library
103,866 .
DEPOSITS. Volumes on Deposit from Three Months to a Year.
In 191 School Rooms 7,432
In Sunday Schools, Clubs, etc. .
1,606
Total out on deposit .
9,038
Circulation, estimated on "old" basis that each volume is used
once during each fortnight it is out on deposit
.
162,133
CIRCULATION.
Central
219,679
West Somerville Branch
127,160
East Somerville Agency
12,403
Union Square Agency
8,631
Actual counted circulation
367,873
Estimated circulation of Deposits as above
162,133
Total Volumes circulated for home use .
530,006
FINANCIAL STATEMENT. CENTRAL. Including Agencies, Deposits, and Cataloguing, etc., for Branches. RECEIPTS.
City Appropriation .
$17,000 00
Dog Tax .
3,949 82
Books lost and paid for .
7 05
Fines
895 15
Total
$21,852 02
EXPENDITURES.
Books
$6,216 49
Music
726 68
Periodicals
668 37
Binding
2,786 73
Printing
729 20
Stationery and Supplies
329 95
Fittings
409 87
Salaries
9,281 41
Agencies
352 68
Express
203 95
Postage and Telephone
97 23
Sundries
49 46
$21,852 02
WEST SOMERVILLE BRANCH.
RECEIPTS.
City Appropriation .
$5,000 00
Fines
501 53
Total
$5,501 53
EXPENDITURES.
Books
$2,091 44
Music
214 74
Periodicals
334 43
Binding
683 38
Printing
6 00
Stationery and Supplies
89 43
Fittings
5 63
Salaries
2,008 26
Express
35 37
Postage and Telephone
26 82
Sundries
6 03
5,501 53
EAST SOMERVILLE READING ROOM.
RECEIPTS.
City Appropriation .
.
$195 35
EXPENDITURES.
Books
.
.
.
$90 65
Periodicals
.
·
.
104 70
195 35
Amount carried forward
$27,548 90
ACCESSIONS.
In Central January 1, 1911, including Agencies and De- posits ·
88,921
Added, new titles
3,401
Added, duplicates
3,516
Total additions .
6,917
Worn out
.
2,538
Net gain
4,379
In Central January 1, 1912
93,300
In West Somerville Branch January 1, 1911
9,243
Added, new titles
1,029
Added, duplicates
734
Total additions .
1,763
Worn out and withdrawn
440
Net gain
1,323
In West Somerville Branch January 1, 1912
10,566
Total volumes in Public Library
103,866
DEPOSITS. Volumes on Deposit from Three Months to a Year.
In 191 School Rooms 7,432
In Sunday Schools, Clubs, etc. .
1,606
Total out on deposit .
9,038
Circulation, estimated on "old" basis that each volume is used
once during each fortnight it is out on deposit
.
162,133
·
CIRCULATION.
Central
219,679
West Somerville Branch
127,160
East Somerville Agency
12,403
Union Square Agency
8,631
Actual counted circulation
367,873
Estimated circulation of Deposits as above
162,133
Total Volumes circulated for home use .
530,006
FINANCIAL STATEMENT. CENTRAL. Including Agencies, Deposits, and Cataloguing, etc., for Branches. RECEIPTS.
City Appropriation .
$17,000 00
Dog Tax
3,949 82
Books lost and paid for .
7 05
Fines
895 15
Total
$21,852 02
EXPENDITURES.
Books
$6,216 49
Music
726 68
Periodicals
668 37
Binding
2,786 73
Printing
729 20
Stationery and Supplies
329 95
Fittings
409 87
Salaries
9,281 41
Agencies
352 68
Express
203 95
Postage and Telephone
97 23
Sundries
49 46
$21,852 02
WEST SOMERVILLE BRANCH.
RECEIPTS.
City Appropriation .
$5,000 00
Fines
501 53
Total
$5,501 53
EXPENDITURES.
Books
$2,091 44
Music
214 74
Periodicals
334 43
Binding
683 38
Printing
6 00
Stationery and Supplies
89 43
Fittings
5 63
Salaries
2,008 26
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