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by law required. .The requests for these blanks should be made to the teacher prior to June first of each year, and accepted candidates will be notified by mail. Under this plan three applications were received and the pupils duly entered in the fall. Our High School is in excellent condi- tion and is doing good work. Its numbers are increasing, and its value to the community, I trust, increases also. This is the people's college, where all may attend without cost ; it should aim in the broadest possible way to meet the actual needs of the people. It is gratifying to see how large a proportion of our High School pupils are preparing for higher institutions. It shows high ambitions ; it shows that there is among our people such a degree of prosperity that many parents think they see a fair prospect of being able to carry their sons and daughters through the course of a liberal education, and it augurs well for the future prosperity and high standing of our community. Owing to the addition of a year to the course of study no new class was prepared to graduate in June. Four of the class of 1900, however, completed the requirements of the new course, and in Sep- tember were admitted to the senior class in the Northampton High School.
There is urgent need of a suitable playground for the Center schools. Sufficient land in the rear of the school building should be secured, that our children may not lack the surroundings that make for comfort and contentment. It does not seem that the cramped school grounds and the unimproved condition of them is due to a lack of appreciation of the elements of beauty, for our homes are surrounded with shade trees, grass and flowers. Neither is it due to indif- ference in educational affairs, for few communities are more cordial in their support of the public schools. The cause seems to lie rather in the failure to see the importance of comfort and beauty in education and to realize the interest of the American youth in the natural world around him. Some err so far as to mistrust the willingness of boys and girls to allow trees and shrubs to grow unmolested on the
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school ground. This is a flagrant misinterpretation of the spirit of childhood. With a better understanding of youthful nature, one sees an easily awakened regard for the beautiful and a disposition to respect and help all well-directed activi- ties for the improvement of school life. The neglected condition of the school ground has not remained without notice or without some effort toward improvement. Either tree planting, flower beds, or even a green lawn is out of the question under existing conditions. The sentiment in favor of school-ground comfort and adornment has gradually increased for the last thirty years, and has been greatly aided by the establishment of an annual Arbor Day for tree planting. Arbor Day was proposed by. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, and was first observed in Nebraska, where it was officially recognized in 1872. All the states have followed the example of Nebraska in estab- lishing Arbor Day, and the governor of this state annually appoints a day for its observance at the proper season for tree planting. The day is celebrated in the schools by public exercises appropriate to tree planting, with essays, songs and recitations by the pupils, and addre-ses by visitors. In connection with the exercises there is ordinarily more or less tree planting. Great care is taken to make the planting ceremonies impressive by letting the children take part, and by planting trees commemorative of noted persons or events. There is a side to the educational value of tree planting which is of first importance. It is money well spent to make the schoolhouse and everything about it attractive and beautiful. Here is one of the centers of the life of the com- munity, the one in which is gathered its most impressionable
element. The school is supported at public expense in order to make good American citizens. It aims at securing the highest possible development of mind and character. Every element of order, neatness and beauty, every broadening influence, every appeal to the finer nature of the child means better men and women and a more thrifty, prosperous and attractive community. Americans are justly proud of their
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school system, and should be willing to support the schools not only with money, but with time and labor. Jacob Riis advocates playgrounds as moral reformers. Is it not better to urge them as moral formers rather than reformers? Society is or should be concerned in preventive or formative influences, as well as reformative agencies. Many desirable things are being done for children in the public libraries and elsewhere. Too much cannot be done, provided it is wisely done and not overdone. Let them alone sometimes. Do not destroy their originality. Guard against the fatigue point. Don't pile so many books on the child's brain that he cannot move it. The multiplication of playgrounds, however, seems safe. The younger children should have a chance at part of them as well as the older and stronger. The increase of skating places in winter and of swimming places in summer belong to the same list of good things.
The annual May institute was held last spring at the Whately Town Hall. The exhibit of school work elicited hearty commendation from the townspeople who contributed by their interest to the success of the several sessions. The educators from abroad invited special attention to the superior quality of some of the work shown. Mr. Frank F. Murdock, Principal of the North Adams Normal School ; Miss Mary I. Lovejoy of Malden, a successful institute worker; and Agents Fletcher and MacDonald of the State Board of Educa- tion, gave valuable instruction to the teachers. The evening session, addressed by Miss Lovejoy and Mr. Fletcher, was unusually full of interest and the attendance large. The school committee of Whately kindly provided a musical program and assisted in other ways. The Hampshire County Teachers' Association, of which your superintendent is the honored president, held the annual meeting at Northampton on Friday, November 1. The day was a profitable one to the teache.s. A good percentage of the teachers of this town have attended the Saturday lectures given by professors of Amherst College at Amherst and at Holyoke, though at considerable personal inconvenience. Owing to the severe
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tax upon time and effort, interest in the local association had waned to such an extent that it was hardly more than a magazine club when, in January of the present year, it was voted to disband. At this meeting also Mr. Fletcher gave us helpful suggestions upon the teaching of geography.
In order to determine intelligently what instruction shall be given to all the children at public expense, it is necessary to consider the purpose of the public schools and the reason for their existence. Schools for the children of all the people are necessary for the welfare, if not for the continued existence of government by the people, and it is for this reason that they are supported at public expense. It is for the protection of the state that compulsory attendance laws are enacted. The schools are state institutions. The state com- mands that they be supported. It requires the town authorities to provide them with competent teachers, and the teachers with suitable means of teaching ; and it also requires all children of school age to go regularly to school. All. the children must attend, under compulsion if necessary, for a sufficient time to acquire the rudiments of good citizenship, and the subjects and methods of instruction must be such as to guarantee more successes than failures in the process. We must prepare the children of to-day for citizenship ; not by casting aside the traditions of our public schools, but rather by fostering all that is good in them and by the extension to all the schools of the best to be found in the most effective schools, as the teachers are prepared to assume the added responsibilities. In order to prepare our youth for citizen- ship they must be taught not less arithmetic, but more, and it must be better taught. Our young men and women must be better penmen and must read more intelligently. But the work of the schools must not stop here. It must be so broadened as to include moral and physical development as well as the higher intellectual discipline that has been conferred formerly in none but the best schools. The true test of teaching is the desire and power manifested in the pupil. Our teachers are conscientiously applying themselves
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to the practical application in daily instruction of some of the highest ideals of the best teachers. Our schools can only succeed, and can only justify themselves before an intelligent public, through the measurable success of these earnest efforts.
When we consider the inexperience and lack of training of many of our teachers, and how difficult a task it neces- sarily must be to manage and keep in proper condition for successful study and school work children of such various dispositions and habits, many of them but little accustomed to wholesome discipline at home, it is truly surprising that so little friction has occurred in the discipline of the schools. This department of school work requires rare tact and great wisdom, and fortunate are they who possess the qualities of mind and heart that adapt them to so important a trust. The teacher who is a poor disciplinarian cannot be a first- class instructor, for that happy relation which exists between teacher and pupi!, in a well-managed school, is most favor- able for the teacher to impart, and for the pupil to receive, profitable instruction. Those teachers succeed best in disci- pline whose bearing before their pupils is quiet and self- possessed ; who set a good example of earnest industry, cheerfulness and well-tempered enthusiasm ; who are reason- able in their requirements, prudently commending well doing, and cautiously reproving when needed, and who have a sympathy with all the conditions of childhood. Just in so far as the town is able to secure permanency in the teaching force the benefits derived from the work of the superin- tendent will be continuous. The zeal with which your teachers, in general, have sought to apply the advice and suggestions given them, has rendered his work pleasant.
We have all tried to make the year productive of good to the children, through the school as one of the agents in their education. We who teach accept all the responsibility which belongs to our office, craving not indulgence but co-operation by the home and all the forces that are educating the children. We hope that what we are doing merits the approval of the community. We know that we have made
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honest, earnest effort in the year that has passed ; we are all pledged to no less in the year to come.
Respectfully submitted,
LOUIS A. PRATT,
Superintendent of Schools.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Not absent, tardy or dismissed during the year.
Thomas O'Neill, Mary C. Warner,
Maud E. Damon,
Fanny M. Chapin,
Charles M. Damon,
Florence L. Chapin,
Mabel K. Damon, Marion E. Chapin,
F. Arthur Graves,
James A. O'Neill.
Honorable mention should be made of the following, who have been perfect in attendance for two years, except as specified below :
Orrin Chapin, tardy once.
Marjorie Miller, absent seven days on account of scarlet fever.
STATISTICS .- School Year 1900-1901.
SCHOOLS
Weeks
Boys Enrolled
Girls Enrolled
Average
Average
Attendance
Per Cent. of
Attendance
Tardy Marks.
Dismissals.
Visits of Parent
or Guardian.
Perfect
Attendance
Rank from
Last Report
High,
38
I 5
22
31.59
29.50
92.95
87
25
O
2
4
IO
Intermediate,
36
I5
IO
24.08
21.84
90.70
I53
IO2
3
O
II
4
Primary,
36
16
15
28,66
26.72
93.23
IOI
25
5
O
3
2
Searsville,
36
5
IO
12.68
11.79
92.92
125
II
5
C
5
5
North Street,
36
7
5
9.19
8.35
90.86
74
4
8
O
IO
8
Nash Street,
36
14
8
19.45
18.41
94.65
39
14
15
4
I
I
Skinnerville,
36
9
5
14.06
13.II
89.30
IO3
53
O
O
I 3
II
Mountain Street,
36
7
7
13.54
12.46
92.02
34
12
7
I
6
13
Haydenville.
High,
40
20
22
38.82
36.27
93.43
I30
76
9
I
2
7
Grammar,
36
29
22
45.51
40.92
89.91
207
308
O
I
I2
9
Intermediate,
36
19
16
34.43
31.57
91.40
332
I27
6
O
7
14
Second Primary,
36
9
18
26.48
24.06
91.02
16I
64
I
O
8
12
Maple Street Primary,
36
I3
II
21.92
19.98
90.79
I90
7
I
I
9
6
Purrington Primary,
36
20
24
38.81
33.49
85.44
234
23
3
O
14
I 5
For the Town
198
195 |359.22 |328.47 91.44 |1970 851
63
IO
Membership
Rank
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Williamsburg High School Course of Study .- GRADE IX.
Classical Course. English. Algebra. ( U. S. History, I term. Civil Govt., 2 terms. Latin.
Latin-Scientific Course. English. Algebra. f U. S. Hist., I term. Civil Govt., 2 terms. Latin.
English Course.
English. Algebra. ( U. S. History, I term. Civil Govt., 2 terms. ( Rev. of Adv. Arith. Commercial Arith.
Literary Course. English. Algebra. ( U. S. History, I term. Civil Govt., 2 terms. Latin.
GRADE X.
English. Algebra. One Elective. Latin.
English. Algebra. English History. Latin.
English. Algebra. ( Bookkeeping. Commercial Law. One Mod. Language.
English. Algebra. Latin. One Mod. Language
GRADE XI.
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English. Geometry.
Latin. Greek.
English. Geometry. Latin. I Zoology 12 year. ( Botany 12 year.
English. Geometry. ( Zoology 12 year. Botany 12 year. One Mod. Language.
English. Geometry, Latin. One Mod. Language.
GRADE XII.
English. ( Greek Hist. 12 year. ( Roman Hist. 12 year. Latin. Greek. Algebra Rev'd.
English. ( Greek Hist. 12 year. Roman Hist. 122 year. Latin. Physics.
Engiish. ( Greek Hist. 12 year, ¿ Roman Hist. 12 year. One Mod. Language. Two Electives.
English. ( Greek Hist. 12 year. Roman Hist. 12 year. Latin. One Mod. Language. Algebra Rev'd.
One Elective. GRADE XIII.
Taken in Northampton High School at present.
Spelling, Drawing and Music are required throughout the course. A pupil preparing for college or Normal school must elect either the classical or the literary course. All alternatives and electives for the following year should be chosen in June of each year.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR.
1902
M. T. W. T. F.
1903
M. T. W. T. F.
April
7
8
9
10
11 18
January 5
6
7
8
9
14
15 22
16 23
24
25
19
20
21
22
23
28
29
30
26
27
28
29
30
February 2
3
4
5
6
5
6
7
9
9
10
11
12
13
12
13
14
15
16
16
17
18
19
20
19
20
21
22
23
23
24
25
26
27
26
27
28
29
March
2
3
4
5
6
June
2
3
4
5
6
9
10
11
12
13
9
10
11
12
13
16
17
18
19
20
16
17
18
19
20
23
24
25
26
27
25 3
VACATION.
September
2
4
5
April
6
7
8
9
10
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
30
October
1
2
3
May
1
6
7
8
9
10
4
5
6
7
8
13
14
15
16
17
11
12
13
14
15
20
21
22
23
24
18
19
20
21
22
27
28
29
30
31
25
26
27
28
29
November 3
4
5
6
7
June
1
2
3
4
5
10
11
12
13
14
8
9
10
11
12
17
18
19
20
21
15
16
17
18
19
24
25
26
22
23
24
25
26
December
1
2
3
4
8
9
10
11
15
16
17
18
Holiday Recess
17
12
13
14
15
16
21
May
1 8
2
23
24
26
27
5 Figures indicate school days. 12 Bold-faced type for the High 19 Schools only.
Vocal Music Report.
Instruction in vocal music-singing, sight reading and lessons in composition-has now been given for three years to the pupils of the three rooms at Williamsburg and the six rooms at Haydenville.
The "Weaver" method has been followed with most excellent results, and the pupils have shown an active interest in the study, with an increasing willingness and ability to sing correctly at sight with good harmony.
Half-hour lessons are given weekly by your special music teacher, and much of the success has been due to the diligent assistance and co-operation of the regular teachers. All of the schools have done good work, and some of them sing very well indeed. If the instruction be continued the town cannot fail to produce fine singers in the future as it has so often in the past. .
The study of music and the learning to sing with melody may or may not make it easier to get a living, but it surely adds to the pleasure of life and cultivates that which is best and sweetest in human nature.
All the people, and especially the parents, are invited to visit the schools and listen to the work from week to week.
Respectfully,
JESSIE M. PURRINGTON.
Haydenville, Mass., Feb. 15th, 1902.
Truant Officers' Report.
To the Honorable School Committee of Williamsburg:
I herewith submit my annual report as Truant Officer for the year ending February 1, 1902.
Number Truants reported by Teachers, 22
taken to school, 3
sent to school, 15
families visited, 19
HENRY A. BISBEE.
To the Honorable School Committee:
Number Scholars reported by Teacher, 8
Parents visited, 5
Children taken to School, 10
Respectfully submitted,
H. W. SAMPSON.
Haydenville, Feb. 15, 1902.
Treasurer's Report.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY IST, 1902.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from prior account, $ 26 08
Town appropriation for Schools,
4,200 00
Text Books,
350 00
Superintendent,
380 00
Repairs,
250 00
Special Repairs,
350 00
Tuition,
180 00
Income of Collins School Fund,
636 63
State School Fund,
917 44
State Superintendency,
229 62
Dog Tax,
141 02
Education: of State Children,
165 50
Education of Boston Children,
258 50
Tuition for High School,
41 25
Supplies sold,
1 84
Rebate on Tuition,
15 00
$8,142 88
EXPENDITURES.
Paid for Teachers,
$4,933 53
Janitors, 439 70
1
Cleaning,
23 00
Fuel, 327 64
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Paid for Labor and Repairs, 806 70
Books and Supplies,
497 61
Transportation,
443 50
Tuition,
135 00
Superintendent,
357 00
Sundries,
142 10
Balance,
37 10
$8,142 88
TEACHERS.
Williamsburg High, A. O. Caswell, $637 53
Florence Shepardson, 378 00
Grammar,
Josephine Cahill, 342 00
Primary,
Jennie M. Holmes,
112 00
Grace Martyn,
160 00
Haydenville High,
M. W. Smith,
237 00
Fred N. Hanchett, 45 00
James Connor, 206 00
Grammar,
Hattie Lawrence,
140 00
Fannie L. Bennett,
180 00
Intermediate,
Nellie G. Ryan,
216 00
Ethel Curry,
20 80
Margaret G. Riley,
35 00
Primary,
Fannie Bennett,
112 00
Louisa J. Dakin,
140 00
Nora G. Hickey,
264 00
Lizzie Purrington,
340 00
Skinnerville,
Lura Gloyd,
81 60
Mary Butler,
204 00
Mountain St.,
Louisa J. Dakin,
110 50
Ida A. Andrews,
131 00
Nash St.,
Flora Merrifield,
13 00
Cora Howlett,
246 00
Ruth Porter,
21 00
Searsville,
Isabel P. Avery,
240 00
North District,
Jennie Goodell, 26 00
Edith Damon,
120.00
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Substitute, Music,
Mrs. M. W. Smith, 9 10
Jessie M. Purrington, 166 00
$4,933 53
JANITORS.
Williamsburg,
Three Rooms,
$134 38
Haydenville,
Six Rooms,
269 67
Out Districts,
35 65
$439 70
Cleaning School Houses,
$ 23 00
FUEL.
J. S. Graves,
$ 13 00
E. P. Hemenway,
5 00
J. H. Loud,
5 25
John Phinney,
225 95
W. H. Warner,
9 50
Ellen Nash,
10 00
Horatio Bisbee,
7 38
C. L. Hyde,
15 12
J. W. Nash,
15 70
G. M. Bradford,
4 50
C. R. Damon,
16 24
$327 64
LABOR AND REPAIRS.
Nelson Damon
$ 9 07
F. M. Holmes,
18 94
M. Dolan,
7 10
G. H. Ames,
2 35
A. G. Cone,
18 80
John Pierpont,
17 82
M. C. Howard,
60 37
J. C. Brown,
12 15
George Ledbetter,
11 75
H. W. Sampson,
13 94
C. W. Warner,
179 74
Penn. Metal Ceiling Co.,
96 87
O. D. Case & Co.,
142 59
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J. A. Sullivan,
10 20
C. N. Fitts,
27 00
Merrick Lumber Co.,
138 10
G. M. Bradford,
41 91
J. Lucas,
3 22
Byron Loomis,
1 50
W. H. Riley & Co.,
2 60
Nonotuck Silk Co.,
7 68
$806 70
TRANSPORTATION.
Robert Damon,
$195 00
P. J. Kelly,
57 00
Northampton Street Railway Co.,
99 00
Thomas Culver,
92 50
$443 50
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
A. O. Caswell,
$ 3 00
James Spear,
4 00
F. H. Brown & Co.,
7 00
Ginn & Co.,
79 13
C. B. Beach & Co.,
17 00
E. E. Babb & Co.,
245 82
D. C. Heath & Co.,
9 06
Bryant Print Co.,
16 00
Florence Shepardson,
3 50
L. A. Pratt,
12 61
Rand, McNally & Co.,
34 53
Larkin Bros.,
10 79
A. McCallum,
3 45
Hinds & Noble,
7 93
O. Ditson & Co.,
2 97
Silver, Burdette & Co.,
6 82
C. N. Fitts,
21 00
S. E. Bridgman,
13 00
$497 61
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SUPERINTENDENT.
L. A. Pratt, Ten months,
$357 00
TUITION.
Northampton High School, $135.00
SUNDRIES.
H. W. Sampson, Truant Officer,
$ 15 00
H. A. Bisbee, 66
5 00
Hattie Chapman, Use of Piano,
1 00
Larkin Bros.,
6 59
Freight and Express,
29 09
J. Pierpont,
13 05
Ethel Curry, Census,
5 00
L. A. Pratt,
Postage and Stationary, 11. 64
E. T. Barrus,
5 21
G. H. Ames,
6 35
Smith & Fay, 2 67
J. H. Banister,
Truant School, 33 00
3 50
R. E. Edwards,
W. M. Purrington, Postage,
5 00
$142 10
W. M. PURRINGTON,
Treasurer. :
WILLIAMSBURG, MASS., Feb. 12th, 1902.
We hereby certify that we have this day examined the accounts of the School Committee, and find them correct as stated above to the best of our knowledge and belief.
BYRON LOOMIS,
JOHN W. HILL, Auditors.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
For the Year Ending February 1st, 1902.
To the Citizens of Williamsburg:
We herewith submit our annual report for the year ending February 1st, 1902. It includes the report of the Superintendent, Music Teacher and Truant Officers.
The Haydenville High School, which includes the eighth and ninth grades, has been in session forty weeks, the Williamsburg High School thirty-eight having lost two on account of scarlet fever ; all others thirty-six weeks.
The work done in each grade will compare very favor- ably with that of other towns of our size in the state, and we appreciate the faithful work of our teachers.
South Street School has remained closed during the year.
Three of our pupils graduated at Northampton High School in 1901 and four are now in attendance there.
A class of ten from Haydenville is attending the High School at Williamsburg. This arrangement not only relieves the room at Haydenville, but enables us to have larger classes in the higher grades, which is an advantage.
A bill is now pending before the General Court by which, if it becomes a law, this town will be reimbursed for High School tuition in the future.
The Williamsburg High School has several pupils from other towns, and we are receiving tuition for them at the rate of twenty-six dollars per annum.
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REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
The Williamsburg Center building has been much improved, especially in the High School rooms, and we invite your inspection of the work.
The coming year the Grammar School room at Hayden- ville should have a new floor, and there are some general repairs needed upon the other buildings.
We desire to continue the same number of weeks' schooling for the coming year, and accordingly recommend the following appropriations in addition to the amount received from the State and the City of Boston for the school- ing of their wards :
For Schools, 1
$4,200 00
Superintendent,
380 00
Textbooks,
350 00
Repairs,
250 00
Tuition,
180 00
W. M. PURRINGTON, T. P. LARKIN, JOHN PIERPONT,
Committee.
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REPORT
. . . . OF THE ....
Selectmen, Treasurer,
Overseers of the Poor .
and School Committee
. . . OF THE . . .
Town of Williamsburg
FOR THE .
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1903
1902
Northampton, Mass., C. A. Pierce & Co., Print 1903
REPORT
.. . OF THE
Selectmen, Treasurer,
Overseers of the Poor and School Committee
. . . OF THE .
Town of Williamsburg
. FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1903
Northampton, Mass .. C. A. Pierce & Co., Print
1903
Articles in Warrant for Annual Town Meeting.
FIRST .- To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
SECOND .- To elect three Selectmen, one Town Clerk, one Treasurer, one Elector under the Will of the late Oliver Smith, Esq., two Constables, one Tax Collector, all for one year. Also one School Committee for three years, one Lib- rary Trustee for three years, one Tree Warden for one year, and to vote on the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" Yes or No, all on one ballot.
THIRD .- To choose all necessary minor town officers for the ensuing year.
FOURTH .- To revise and accept a list of jurors nominated by the Selectmen.
FIFTH .- To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the current expenses of the town.
SIXTH .- To provide for the current expenses of the town in anticipation of taxes.
SEVENTH .- To hear the report of the Selectmen, Treasurer, School and other Committees, and act thereon.
EIGHTH. To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for Memorial Day, and choose a committee to expend the same. .
NINTH .- To choose a committee to expend the income of the Whiting Street Fund.
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TENTH .- To see if the town will raise and appropriate a /1 23 sum of money for maintaining of street lights.
ELEVENTH .- To fix the amount of the salary for Tax Collector.
TWELFTH .- To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to contract for the building or finishing of a section of State Highway the coming season.
THIRTEENTH .- To fix the amount of the salary for the School Committee.
FOURTEENTH .- To see if the town will take any action with regard to discontinuing any portion of the Goshen road that passes the premises of C. E. Tileston.
FIFTEENTH .- To hear the report of the committee on water supply.
SIXTEENTH .- To see if the town will vote to discontinue the town road leading from the Chesterfield road near the residence of F. L. Guilford, to the Petticoat Hill road, near the school house.
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