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health and happiness, there is no subject so practical and so useful for the girls as this.
ATTENDANCE.
Last year our enrollment was 126 pupils, this year 154; last year's average membership was 107, while this year it was 138; the average attendance increased from 96 to 128; and the per cent. of attendance increased from 89.3 to 92.6. The great majority of our children attend regu- larly, most of the absent marks being from a few pupils who lose much by remaining out of school and sometimes fail of promotion.
CONCERNING THE HEALTH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
In September, 1906, the act, requiring medical inspec- tion of the public schools by a physician and the testing of the eyes and ears of pupils by the teachers, went into . effect. The teachers at once did their part. After the appropriation for the school physician was made in March, 1907, a physician was appointed. He has each year carefully examined the pupils, made a report to the school committee, notified parents of defects, examined special individual pupils frequently and in a few cases treated the children. Each year some reported defects have been cured, and recently the physician reported that he found a marked improvement in the physical condition of many pupils. As a result of this medical inspection, and the careful, persistent instruction by the teachers, the pupils are becoming more cleanly in both body and cloth- ing, and are taking better care of their teeth, while some parents have secured glasses for their children, and others have attended to defective throats and ears and other troubles. In this way several children have been greatly benefitted. There are other cases still in crying need of medical aid, and we would urge parents to immediately
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look after the physical welfare of their children. In many cases the removal of these defects brightens the mind, and renders school work more effective.
Since we have had a School Physician some twenty pupils have had enlarged tonsils, and adenoids removed, and about forty have had their teeth filled. In referring to the teeth, Dr. Wood writes, "The examination shows a marked improvement over last year."
The New Lincoln School building has been in use a year, and we find it adequate, sunny, sanitary and com- fortable. This beautiful building with its ample play grounds, not only conserves the health of the children, but gives them an environment that is uplifting and beneficial in many ways. One teacher told me that the manners and behavior of a certain boy had improved to a marked degree since moving into this building. This was only one of several such cases.
In closing I wish to commend the teachers for their faithful and efficient work, and to thank the committee and people for their support and encouragement.
Respectfully submitted.
C. S. LYMAN, Superintendent of Schools.
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ROLL OF HONOR.
The following pupils have been neither absent nor tardy for the time designated :-
FOR ONE YEAR.
Louise B. Chapin. Louis E. Cook. Elizabeth Connors.
George W. Brooks. Carl E. Nelson.
FOR TWO TERMS.
Viranus Cobb.
Isabelle T. Peirce. Elsie Davis.
Jesse Fay Baker.
Ashley Cousins.
Holgar Jensen.
Edna Wetherbee.
E. Pearle Moulton.
Alice Robus.
FOR ONE TERM.
Ellen Connors.
Robert Farquhar.
Otto A. Jensen.
Dorothy A. Burgess.
Irving Flemming.
Arthur Sheehan.
George Cobb.
Gertrude Morrison.
Hubert Hutton.
John Kenna.
Katie Connors.
Fred Rocks.
Alice Crowley.
Warren Sherman.
Harry Courtney.
William Bowles.
Gladys Hamilton.
Emily Robus.
Evelyn Cousins.
Redman Hartwell.
Marion Rocks.
Willis Cousins.
Harriet Peirce.
Albert Brooks.
Edith L. Baniforth.
Robert Donaldson.
Hazel Brooks.
Elizabeth Connors.
Lillian Rocks.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR.
Winter term begins January 3, 1910, ends March 25; twelve weeks.
Spring term begins April 4, ends June 17; eleven weeks.
Fall term begins September 6, ends December 16; fifteen weeks.
Winter term begins January 2, 1911, ends March 24; twelve Teeks.
Spring term begins April 3, ends June 16; eleven weeks.
Recess from the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to the Monday following.
Holidays: Washington's Birthday, Patriot's Day, Memo- rial Day.
Length of school year, 38 weeks.
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STATISTICS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1908-09.
Number of children in Town, September, 1909,
between 5 and 15 years: boys, 84; girls, 74; total, ·
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Number of children in Town September, 1908
1.56
Number of children in Town September, 1909, between 7 and 14 years: boys, 57; girls, 56; total 113
Enrollment for the year, ending June, 1909 150
Number between 5 and 15 years of age 146
Number over 15 years of age
4
Number between 7 and 14 years of age . 112
Number attending Concord High School 17
Number attending Lexington and Weston High Schools . 2 .
Number of regular teachers employed
5
Number of special teachers employed
3
Number of teachers who have graduated from normal schools 4
From Training School
1
Illiterate minors in Town over 14 years of age 0
Total number registered in Lincoln schools during the year ending June, 1909 154
Number of pupils sent to High School from Lincoln 19
Total number receiving instruction at Town expense 173
ATTENDANCE TABLE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1909.
SCHOOLS
GRADES
TEACHERS
Enrollment for
State Report
Enrollment
Boys
Girls
Membership Average
Attendance Average
Attendance Per cent. of
Pupils between
Pupils between
7 and 14 y's of age
Pupils over
15 years of age
Tardiness
Visitors, includ-
ing Supt's visits
Lincoln School
·
.
VII-VIII
Carrie B. Chapin
30
16
14
26.8
25.3
94.4
26
20
4
42
79
Lena Cushing
56
32
24
40.6
37.8
93.1
56
56
0
38
94
Annie C. Buck ·
f1
1
0
28.2
25.7
91.1
1
1
0
28
74
€6
66
·
·
Hattie B. Heath .
37
16
21
20.9
19.8
94.8
37
20
0
14
90
South Primary
.
.
·
·
26
14
12
22.1
19.7
89.1
26
15
0
87
71
Total
·
·
*150
79
71
138.6
128.3
v92.6
146
112
4
209
408
.
*In addition to this number 4 pupils were enrolled, who came from other towns in the State, making a total of 154 pupils in the Lincoln schools.
t In January 1909 this school was formed from pupils taken from Miss Cushing's and Miss Heath's rooms.
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.
III-IV
.
·
V.VI
.
·
I-II
I-III
Ida E. Cobb
.
·
5 and 15 y's of age
Enrollment
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WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS. To James T. Laird, or any other Constable of the Town of Lincoln, in said County :
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabit- ants of the Town of Lincoln, duly qualified to vote in Town affairs, to assemble in Bemis Hall, on Monday, March seventh, at 1 o'clock P. M., to act on the following articles, viz .:
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator.
ART. 2. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners, and Trustees.
ART. 3. To choose all necessary Town Officers, Com- mittees, Commissioners and Trustees for the ensuing year.
. ART. 4. To appropriate money for necessary and expedient purposes of the Town, and enact anything in re- lation to the same.
ART. 5. To give in their votes by ballot in answer to the question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of in- toxicating liquors in this Town?" The check list shall be used as provided by Section 5, Chapter 100 of the Public Statutes.
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ART. 6. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 7. To determine the compensation of the Col- lector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year, beginning February first, 1910, in anticipation of the collection of taxes of said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current ex- penses of the Town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for the said year, giving the notes of the Town in payment thereof, payable in one year from the dates thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote shall be paid from taxes of the present municipal year.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will choose a Committee on Claims under the provisions of Section 3 of Article 9 of the By-Laws.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to prosecute persons for selling intoxicating liquors in the Town, and appropriate money for the same.
· ART. 11. · To see if the Town will take such action as may be necessary to introduce electric lights into the Town, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 12. To see what action the Town will take with reference to repairs on the Town Hall.
ART. 13. To see what action the Town will take with reference to the old schoolhouse in the center of the Town.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will continue the Special Committee appointed at the Special Town Meeting of
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September, 1908, to act in an advisory capacity to the Tree Warden, or take any other action in the matter.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will build a culvert under the depot road opposite the so-called Lewis Street.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will provide some other way of escape for the flow of water that comes off the so- called "Pierce's Hill," opposite the stable of Mrs. A. E. Cousins.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will pay for damages done by mad dogs.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will give a deed to owners of cemetery lots.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will take any action with reference to the annexation of part of the Town of Wayland to the Town of Lincoln.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in each of the Post Offices and one of the churches or some other public place, seven days at least before the day appointed for such meeting, and to make seasonable return thereof with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk.
HEREOF FAIL NOT.
· Dated at Lincoln, this twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and ten.
CHARLES S. SMITH, C. L. TODD,
R. D. DONALDSON,
Selectmen of Lincoln.
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By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
At the Superior Court, within and for the County of Middlesex, Anno Domini, 1897,
The following By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln, in said County, are presented to this Court for approval, to wit :-
"ARTICLE I.
TOWN MEETINGS,
Section 1. The annual town meeting shall be held on the first Monday of March in each year.
Sect. 2. Notice of every town meeting shall be given by posting copies of the warrant calling the same, attested by the officer making service thereof, in each of the post-offices within the town, and in one of the churches, or one other public place, within the town, not less than seven days be- fore the day appointed for such meeting. But when, in the judgment of the selectmen, the interests of the town require a meeting to be held without giving so long a notice, a meeting may be called by posting attested copies of the warrant in the places above mentioned, and by leaving a printed copy thereof at each dwelling-house within the town, at least three days before the time appointed for the meeting; provided that in such cases the selectmen shall certify that, in their opinion, the interests of the town re- quire that a town meeting be called upon a notice of less than seven days, which certificate shall be made upon, or at- tached to, the original warrant, and shall be served as a part thereof.
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ARTICLE II.
FINANCES.
Section 1. The financial year shall commence with the first day of February and end with the thirty-first day of January annually.
Sect. 2. The town treasurer shall have the custody of all funds belonging to the town except sinking funds, trust funds and funds for which other provision is made by law; and he shall pay no money from the treasury except upon a draft signed by a majority of the selectmen, stating the ac- count to which the same is chargeable. Such draft shall be sufficient authority to the treasurer to pay the same, and the payment thereof shall discharge him from all liability on account of the money so paid.
Sect. 3. The water commissioners and all other boards, committees and officers shall, on the first day of each month, pay to the town treasurer all sums collected by them th month previous to the custody of which the treasurer is entitled.
Sect. 4. A majority of the water commissioners, school committee, or of any board, or committee, and any officer having charge of the expenditure of an appropriation, shall approve in writing all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls properly chargeable to such appropriation, and shall trans- mit the same with his or their approval to the selectmen. All other accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls shall be ex- amined by the selectmen and, if proper, shall be approved by them. The selectmen shall label all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls which have been approved either by themselves or by the other officers before mentioned, and shall keep a record thereof in a book kept for the purpose, stating the persons to whom payable, the amounts and dates thereof, and the funds, or appropriations, from which the same are payable.
Sect. 5. Drafts signed by a majority of the selectmen, stating the accounts to which the same are chargeable,
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shall be drawn upon the treasurer for the payment of all sums by law payable from the treasury to the common- wealth or county, final judgments of courts, bonds, notes. and scrip of the town and interest thereon and money pay- able to the commissioners of the sinking fund and to the trustees of the public library; and also for the payment of all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls which have been approved in the manner provided in the previous section Such drafts shall not be negotiated, but shall be trans mitted by the selectmen directly to the treasurer accom- panied by the approved bills or other documents for the settlement of which the drafts are drawn.
Sect. 6. The treasurer shall file and safely keep all ap- proved and receipted accounts, claims, bills, and pay-rolls, and all vouchers, cancelled bonds, notes scrip, and other , evidences of indebtedness of the town which have been paid from the treasury.
Sect. 7. No draft shall be drawn by the selectmen un- less there is sufficient appropriation to pay the same, except for sums by law payable to the commonwealth or county, final judgments of courts, bonds, notes and scrip of the town and interest thereon, and money payable to the com missioners of the sinking fund.
Sect. 8. The selectmen and treasurer respectively shal' make a record, in a book kept for the purpose, of each ap propriation, with a list of the drafts drawn against such appropriation, and shall make a record of all bonds, notes, scrip or other evidence of indebtedness of the town, signed countersigned by them.
Sect. 9. When the bills contracted or approved by any board, committee, or officer have exhausted the entire ap- propriation for such board, committee or officer, they shall incur no further expenditure, except in cases where such expenditure may be required by law; and it shall be the duty of each board, committee or officer before the close of the financial year to approve all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls chargeable to their appropriation. During the in-
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terval between the thirty-first day of January in each year and the time of making the next annual appropriations, the selectmen, school committee and water commissioners, in order to meet the liabilities of their several dpartments, incurred in the carrying on of the work entrusted to them, shall have authority to make expenditures and payments from the treasury from any available funds therein, and the same shall be charged against the next annual appropria- tion. Such expenditure and liability incurred for any pur- pose shall not exceed one-fourth the entire amount appro. priated for that purpose in the previous year.
Sect. 10. Unless the town shall expressly otherwise vote, no extension of water pipes shall be made unless be- fore the work of construction is begun one or more of the persons whom it is proposed to supply with water by means of such extension, shall file with the town clerk a bond with sureties satisfactory to the water commissioners, condi- tioned to pay to the town for five years next following the completion of such extension and the letting of water into the same, a sum sufficient, together with the net annual in- come from such extension, to amount annually to five per centum of the total cost thereof.
ARTICLE III.
TOWN SEAL.
Section 1. The design of the town seal shall be: a circle. in the border the words "Lincoln. Incorporated in 1746 as a precinct: in 1754 as a Town;" in the center, a shield, in the chief or upper part of which on a cross, gules, a fleur- de-lis, gold, from the old seal of Lincoln, England, and in the base of the shield a view of the present town hall; crest, the old chestnut tree standing upon the common in Lincoln : in saltire two shepherd's crooks; the device thereof being as follows:
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Sect. 2. All deeds and other legal documents made, given or entered into by the town requiring a seal shall be sealed with the town seal, and signed in behalf of the town by a majority of the selectmen.
Sect. 3. The town clerk shall have the custody of the town seal.
ARTICLE IV.
RECORDS.
Section 1. The town clerk shall record in full in a bool kept for the purpose all written contracts, deeds and other instruments to which the town is a party except such in- struments as may by law be recorded in the Registry of Deeds; and it shall be the duty of any board or officer exe- cuting or receiving such written contract, or other instru- ment, to deliver the same forthwith to the town clerk for the purpose of record. It shall be the duty of the town clerk to see that all conveyances of real estate to the town are properly recorded in the Registry of Deeds.
Sect. 2. The town clerk shall keep a file of a" town re- ports, reports of all committees chosen by the tow ", and all original documents relating to the affairs of the tow. which may come into his possession.
ARTICLE V.
BOOKS.
Section 1. Books, records and laws received by the town from the commonwealth shall be deposited in the public library building.
Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the town officer by whom any book mentioned in the preceding section is received, to cause the same to be at once deposited in the public library building.
Sect. 3. Such books may be used by the inhabitants of the town within such building, and may be taken therefrom upon written receipt to the librarian for a period not ex- ceeding one day at any one time for use in any town meet- ing, or by or before any committee or official of the town.
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ARTICLE VI.
SUITS AND CONTROVERSIES.
Section 1. The selectmen may compromise claims and suits to which the town is a party, provided that they shall act upon the advice of counsel when the amount claimed by or against the town exceeds $200.00.
Sect. 2. The selectmen shall have, unless it is otherwise voted by the town, full authority as agents of the town to institute and prosecute suits or other proceedings in the name of the town before any tribunal, to appear and repre- sent or defend the town before any tribunal in all suits and other proceedings against the town or in which the town has an interest, to employ counsel for the purpose aforesaid and for other purposes when it may be expedient to do so, and to take all necessary and proper measures for the pro- tection of the interests and rights of the town.
Sect. 3. If the town shall, at any meeting called for the purpose, choose, a committee on claims, such committee shall have and exercise exclusively all the powers and duties conferred upon the selectmen by the two preceding sections.
ARTICLE VII.
REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS BY THE TOWN.
Section 1. The annual reports of the town officers, boards and committees shall be prepared in form suitable for printing on or before the tenth day of February in each year. The selectmen shall cause such reports to be printed and distributed to the legal voters of the town seven days at least before the annual meeting.
Sect. 2. The selectmen shall cause to be printed and bound each year with the annual reports of the town officers, boards and committees, a copy of the records of the town meetings during the preceding year; a statement of all devises, bequests and donations to the town during the
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preceding year; a list of all laws of the commonwealth ac- cepted by the town during the year; all by-laws adopted by the town since the preceding annual report; copies of the laying out, alteration, locating anew or discontinuance of any highway or townway within the limits of the town dur- ing the preceding year; and a statement of all outstanding bonds, notes and obligations of the town for the payment of money.
Sect. 3. The selectmen shall from time to time cause to be printed a sufficient number of copies of the by-laws of the town and shall incorporate therewith a list of the laws of the commonwealth which have been accepted by the town.
ARTICLE VIII.
TRUANTS.
Section 1. Any minor being an habitual truant, and any child between the ages of seven and fifteen years found wandering about the streets or public places within the town having no lawful occupation or business, not attend- ing school, and growing up in ignorance, and such children as persistently violate the reasonable rules and regulations of the public schools, may upon conviction thereof be com- mitted to the Middlesex County Truant School at Chelms- ford, Mass., or to any other place provided by the town within its limits, for confinement, instruction, and disci- pline.
ARTICLE IX.
PUBLIC REGULATIONS.
Section 1. No person shall coast upon any public street or part thereof after the selectmen have posted a notice prohibiting coasting upon such street or part thereof.
Sect. 2. No person, unless authorized by law, shall break or dig up any part of any street without a written permit therefor from the selectmen. Every person who
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after obtaining such permit shall obstruct or render unsafe any public street, shall guard the same by a proper fence or railing, and by lights during the night time, subject to the approval of the selectmen. Such permit may be revoked at any time.
Sect. 3. No person shall be or remain in any doorway, or upon any stairs, doorstep, portico or other projection from any house or building, or upon or against any wall or fence on or near any street or public place, after having been requested by the owner or any occupant of the premises or by any constable or police officer to remove therefrom.
Sect. 4. No person shall make, write, print, paint, cut or post any indecent or obscene marks, words, figures or signs upon any fence, building, post, tree or other object exposed to public view.
Sect. 5. No person shall wilfully injure, mar, deface or destroy any fence, signboard, guideboard, lamp-post, lamp or lantern in any street or public place, nor extinguish any street light, nor extinguish or remove any light placed to denote an obstruction or a defect in any public street or way, without proper authority to do so.
Sect. 6. Any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this article shall forfeit and pay, for each offense, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars."
Which said By-Laws being seen and understood by the Court, are on this nineteenth day of June, A. D. 1897, ap- proved.
In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy of record. I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1897.
RALPH M. SMITH, Ass't Clerk.
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INDEX
PAGE
Town Officers, 1909-1910
3-5
Proceedings of Town Meetings, 1909-1910
6-26
Town Clerk's Report
27-29
Recommendations for Appropriations
30-31
Selectmen's Report
30-39 45
Expenditures for the year
46-61
Report of Assessors
75-89
Report of Town Treasurer
62
Report of Commissioner of Sinking Fund
63
Report of Treasurer Commissioners Trust Funds
64-69
Report of Treasurer Geo. F. Bemis Lecture Fund
70-71
Report of Treasurer Cemetery Commissioners
72
Report of Water Commissioners
98-103
Report of Tree Warden
104-114
Report of School Building Committee
115-116
Report of Board of Health
73-74
Report of Supt. of Streets .
43-44
Report of Committee on Claims
90-97
Report of Inspector of Animals .
40-41
Report of Fire Engineers
42
Report of Trustees of Lincoln Public Library
117-119
Library Statistics .
121
Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library
120
Report of Librarian
122
List of Accessions to Library
123-132
School Reports
133-147
Report of School Committee
135-137
Summary of School Expenses
138
School Calendar and Statistics
145-146
Roll of Honor
144
Tabular Statement
147
Warrant, 1910
148-150 ·
By-Laws of the Town
151-158
Auditor's Report
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