Town annual report of Chelmsford 1908, Part 6

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GRADE V


Reading .- See Course in Reading.


Language .- Continue the work outlined for the fourth grade. Metcalf's Elementary English to page 102.


Arithmetic .- Numbers to billions. Multiplication and division with three-figure multipliers and divisors, common business fractions, areas of floors and plots of land, tables of long measure and cubic measure completed, rapid oral drills. Smith's Primary, Chapter IV.


Geography .- Land, water, the earth and its surface, heat, wind, rain, people. North America, the United States. Frye's Elements.


122


History .- Montgomery's Beginners read carefully and dis- cussed.


GRADE VI


Reading .- See Course in Reading.


Language .- Continue the work outlined for the fourth grade. Metcalf's Elementary English completed.


Grammar .- Teach the pupils to recognize the parts of speech.


Arithmetic. - Common and decimal fractions, denominate numbers, business transactions, percentage, measurements. Smith's Intermediate, Chapter I.


Geography .- South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Aus- tralasia. Plants and animals. United States by groups of states. Foreign countries. Frye's Elements. .


History .- Guerber's First Thirteen Colonies read carefully and discussed. .


GRADE VII


Reading .- See Course in Reading.


Language .- Business letters, friendship letters, formal social notes, telegrams, advertisements for articles lost or found.


Grammar .- The sentence. Kinds of sentences. Phrases and clauses. Analysis of simple sentences. Metcalf's Gram- mar, Part I.


Arithmetic .- Percentage and its applications, simple in- terest, measurements, ratio and proportion. Smith's Inter- mediate, Chapter II.


Geography .- The earth's form and size, directions, land, water, surface of continents, climate, races of men, zones of plant and animal life, minerals, commerce. People, surface, climate, and products of the United States. Special study of the New England, Middle Atlantic and Southern States. Frye's Grammar School.


History .- From the early discoveries to Washington's ad- ministration.


123


GRADE VIII


Reading .- See Course in Reading.


Language .- Continue the work outlined for the seventh grade.


Grammar. - Kinds, forms and uses of all the parts of speech. Rules of syntax. Analysis of sentences. Metcalf's Grammar, Part II.


Arithmetic .- General review, measures, percentage, pro- portion, business applications. Smith's Advanced.


Geography .- Central and Western States. Possessions of the United States. Other countries of North America. South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia. Frye's Grammar School.


History .- From Washington's administration to the pre- sent time.


GRADE IX


Reading .- See Course in Reading.


Language .- Frequent composition exercises based upon history, geography, or nature study. Review the work out- lined for the seventh grade.


Grammar .- Continue the work outlined for the eighth grade. Metcalf's Grammar, Part III.


Arithmetic .- Business applications, mensuration, the metric system, and review work. Complete Smith's Ad- vanced.


Algebra .- Addition, subtraction, multiplication. division, factoring, simple equations. Second half of the year.


Geography .- Review topically. First half of the year.


History .- Topics for review : Territorial growth, eight weeks; wars, three weeks; slavery, eight weeks; inventions, four weeks; recent history, three weeks; civil government, twelve weeks.


ROLL OF HONOR


Pupils who were neither absent nor tardy for one or more terms during the year ending in June, 1907:


CENTRE SCHOOL


Number of Terms


HIGH


Bernice M. Knowlton 3


C. Estella Feindel


1


Walter S. Fletcher


1


Ernest Roy Kittredge.


1


Carrie B. Knowlton. 1


Mark W. Reed


1


Edward B. Russell


1


GRADE IX


Frank P. Blakely


1


Eugene F. Bullock . 1


Howard W. Bullock.


1


Olive F. Carll.


1


Arthur C. Robbins


1


Edwin M. Todd


1


GRADE VIII


Ruth Emerson 3


Ella A. Rose 3


Lila A. Corr


2


Albert R. Blakely


1


Arthur N. Carll


1


Estella M. Carll 1


Reuberta S Parkhurst


1


Paul E. Pratt.


1


Gertrude L. Scoble


1


Number of Terms


GRADE VII


Ruth E. Whittemore


2


Blanche E. Ford


1


Catherine M. Green.


1


Earl Lovely


1


Mabel L. Olsen


1


GRADE VI


Frank E. Bachelder


2


Miriam E. Warren


2


Bessie M. Adams .


1


Lucy J. Comber


1


Elmer R. Hill.


1


Blanche Spaulding


1


Ellis L. Todd


1


GRADE V


Emily C. Merrill


3


Bertha Merrill.


2


Leonard T. Perry


2


Geraldine Barbour


1


Bertha Crandall.


1


Fred McKinley


1


John Sheehan


1


Edith Tingley


1


125


Number of Terms


GRADE IV


Etta M. Donahue


2


Herbert F. Rose


2


Charles H. F. Winship


2


George S. Chapman


1


Josephine H. Higgins


1


Harry F. Parkhurst.


1


GRADE III


Charles A. Ellis


2


Francis L. DeKalb


1


Harry L. Russell


1


GRADE II


Faye A. Wilson. 2


Donald F. Adams


1


Vivian L. Barbour


1


Zadel L. Newman


1


Margaret McQuarrie


1


GRADE I


Marguerite Donahue


1


Earl R. Newman


.


1


NORTH SCHOOL


HIGH AND IX


Jessie Agnew 3


Isabelle McNaughton


2


Jessie S. Butterfield.


1


Lena M. Gumb


1


Adele E. Smith


1


GRADE VIII


Grace L. Jordan


1


GRADE VII


Helen Hayward 1


Annie N. Morning. 1


Gladys E. Prince


1


Clarence A. Trubey


1


Number of Terms


GRADE VI


Marshall Blakeslee


2


Mary Murphy


George A. Davis


1


Flora Durant


1


James McNally .


1


Walter O'Neill


1


Bertha Wright


1


GRADES V AND IV


Della P. Bacon


3


Raymond F. Ballinger


1


Grace M. Demers


1


Al Wells


1


GRADES IV AND III


John Murphy .


3


Clarence Bacon


2


Helen Ripley


2


Harold Vasselin


2


Harry Forrest


1


Leroy Lakin.


1


Regina McEnally


1


Walter Polley


1


Joseph Tansey


1


Arthur Walsh


1


Otis Wright


1


GRADES III AND II


Charles LeClerc


3


Joseph Donovan


2


John Dunigan


2


Stephen Holland


2


Edward Cook


1


Bernard Pope


1


Leo Pope.


1


Weldon Stevens


1


126


Number of Terms


GRADES II AND I


Albert E. Spaulding 3


Frank Hoyle


1


John J. McMahon


1


Fannie I. Reno


1


Gerald J. Ryan


1


Mildred I. Stevens


1


John P. Tansey .


1


GRADE I


Edna G. Dixon. 2


Ethel M. Dixon


2


Morton M. Wright


2


William B. Adams


1


Alexander Allard


1


Jennie I. Durant 1


Herbert Moore


1


Joseph N. Sleeper


1


Ellen Walsh


1


WEST GRAMMAR


Bernice Brown


1


John C. Monahan


1


Clarence Spaulding.


1


WEST INTERMEDIATE


Emil Anderson 3


George J. Jordan 3


Bertha A. Miller


3


Ralph Haberman


2


Albert Burne


1


Clara A. Miller 1 Walter Monahan 1


Lelia Olsson.


1


Ellen Nelsson


1


Lena Westberg


1


Number of Terms


WEST PRIMARY


Emma Miller 2


Annabel Carlson


1


Ella Haberman


1


Hilma Hansson


1


Arthur Nystrom


1


EAST GRAMMAR


Arthur Burgess. 1


Emelie S. Gustafson


1


Roy A. Merrill


1


Madeline McGillian.


1


Anna A. Ohlson


1


EAST PRIMARY


Walter Dyer


3


Thelma Borg


2


George Mitry


2


Leo Dyer.


1


Thomas McGrath.


1


John McKennedy


1


Cy Merrill.


1


Roger Wendall


1


SOUTH GRAMMAR


Elizabeth Coombs


1


Gertrude Lapham


1


SOUTH PRIMARY


William G. Atherton


1


Gerald M. Kennedy


1


Ellen E. Paignon.


1


Glendon A. Scoboria


1


GOLDEN COVE


Chester Eastman


1


Grace W. Scoble


1


127


Number of Terms


SOUTH ROW


Earl Hesseltine.


1


Marion Hesseltine


1


Arthur Kelly


1


Alice Manseau


1


NORTH ROW


Wilford Staveley


2


Joseph Woodhead


2


Number of Terms


Andrew Blaisdell


1


Fannie Blaisdell


1


Helen Blaisdell


1


Byron I. Bullock


1


Alice Staveley 1


Norris Staveley 1


Daniel Woodhead


1


Mary Woodhead.


1


STATISTICS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDING IN JUNE, 1907.


SCHOOLS


TEACHERS


GRADES


Enrollment


Average


Average


Per Cent. of


Pupils Under


Pupils Between


Five and


Pupils Over


Pupils Between


Seven and


Centre


..


H. H. Rice, Principal . . . .


Helen F. Plaisted, 18 weeks


High


39


33.1


30.4


91.9


0


5


34


3


Alice J. Potter, 22 weeks. ..


High, IX


29


26 5


24.4


92.1


0


28


1


21


Susan S. McFarlin .


VIII ..


24


22.2


20.5


92.5


0


21


3


14


Ella C. Dodge, 7 weeks ....


Edith G. Preston, 3 weeks ..


VI, VII .


52


41.0


36.1


89.3


0


50


2


47


128


V


42


34.0


31.0


91.2


0


41


40


III, IV.


46


40 9


35.3


86.3


0


46


0


46


Grace C. Litchfield


I, II ..


53


42.2


36 2


85.8


1


52


0


22


North . .


Elmer J. Royce, Principal ¿


High, IX .. .


31


29.5


27.8


94.2


0


15


16


14


Lena R. Edmands. .


VII, VIII ..


41


35.3


29.7


84.1


0


38


3


32


Katherine F. Farley .


VI


..


42


33.6


31.5


93.8.


0


40


2


39


Ella A Hutchinson . .


5


Ella A. Hutchinson


V, IV A ....


42


39.3


35.4


90.1


0


42


0


42


May D. Sleeper . . . Edla M. Winship.


IV B, III A


41


39.3


36.0


91.6


0


41


0


41


Katherine M. Quinn.


III B, II A


42


39 6


35.6


90.2


0


42


0


42


Harriet M. Hall .


II B, I A ..


49


39 9


36.6


91.7


0


49


0


20


Laura J. Hoyt, 4 months. . . 1


65


50.0


42.7


84.4


2


63


0


8


1


. .


. .


.


.


I


C. E. McDermott, 51/2 months .. .


Fourteen


Membership


Attendance


Attendance


Five


Fifteen


Fifteen


Marion E. Chase .


Julia A. McLaren, 6 weeks. J. Irena Gurney, 22 weeks .. Esther B. Douglas.


Lena E. Bliss.


Gertrude A. Jones ...


West ...


Bertha H. Long ..


VII-IX


20


16.6


15.6


94 0


0 0


18 34


1


34


C. E. McDermott, 4 months . . .. ·


I-III ..


35


30.3


28.5


94.3


1


34


0


18


Daisy E. Vose. .


V-VIII ...


35


29.0


26.5


91.3


0


35


0


29


I-IV.


40


27.8


25.1


91.1


1


39


0


26


South


Ethel M. Wright


V-VIII


21


18.6


16.0


86.5


0


21


0


19


Grace S. Parkhurst.


I-IV ..


25


21.8


18.0


86 3


0


25


0


11


Golden Cove ...


Ellen R. Breen . .


I-III


22


16.8


15.0


89.3


1


21


0


13


South Row ....


Alice L. Clarke.


I-V .


25


17.7


14.8


83.8


1


24


0


19


Ena J. Macnutt, 4 months ..


I-IV.


21


19.6


18.6


94.8


1


20


0


15


Totals for 1906-1907 ..


917


775.2


696.4


89.8


8


844


65


629


Totals for 1905-1906 ..


882


750.9


685.3


91.3


7


811


64


626


Totals for 1904-1905 ..


865


718.4


642.5


89.4


7


800


58


594


Totals for 1903-1904.


830


690.6


622.1


90.1


6


759


65


573


Totals for 1902-1903.


862


702.0


627.9


89.4


6


782


74


563


Totals for 1901-1902.


850


671.0


600.2


89.4


17


767


62


532


Totals for 1900-1901.


828


677.7


605.2


89.7


6


749


73


538


Totals for 1899-1900


772


631.4


556.0


88.1


10


702


60


527


·


35


30.6


29.1


95.1


Ena G. Macnutt, 512 months ... .


East. . .


Sara M. Devine. .


·


.


.


.


. .


North Row ....


Margaret C. Gookin, 51/2 months


129


2


14


Agnes Naylor.


IV-VI ...


TEACHERS-February 29, 1908


CENTRE


Grades


Teachers


Where Educated Boston University,


Appointed Sept., 1903


High *H. H. Rice, A. B.,


*Alice J. Potter, A. B., Middlebury College, Vt., Jan., 1907


High & IX


VII


VI


V III - IV


I - II


*Grace C. Litchfield,


Thetford Academy, Vt., April, 1901 Randolph Normal, Vt., Sept., 1907 Froebel Normal Kinder-


garten, Providence, R. I., Sept. 1896


NORTH


High *E. G. Royce, A. B., Allegheny College, Pa., Sept., 1904 Sept, 1907


& *GeorgianaM.Clark,AB, Tufts College,


IX *IrenaM.Crawford,A.B., Tufts College, Sept., 1907


VII


*Gertrude A. Jones, Salem Normal, April, 1899


VI & VIII +*Emma G. Holt, V *Ella A. Hutchinson, IV +*May D. Sleeper,


Lowell Normal,


Sept., 1907


Framingham Normal, Sept , 1905


North Chelmsford High, Mar , 1907


III II *Margaret C. Gookin,


Lowell Normal, · Jan, 1907


II & I


*Mark K. Prince,


Gorham Normal, Me.,


Sept., 1907


I


*Catherine E. McDer- mott,


Lowell Normal, Sept., 1905


WEST


VII - IX *Bertha H. Long,


IV - VI *Agnes Naylor,


I - III +*Ena G. Macnutt,


Lowell Normal, Sept., 1906


EAST


V - VIII Daisy E. Vose,


I- IV +Sara M. Devine,


Lowell Normal,


Framingham Normal, Sept., 1903 Sept., 1901


Salem Normal,


April, 1896


North Chelmsford High, April, 1880


*Katherine M. Quinn,


Lowell Normal, Sept., 1905


*Susan S. McFarlin, *J. Irena Gurney, Esther B. Douglas, *Alice M. Douglas,


Framingham Normal, Adams High School, Jan, 1907


Sept., 1905 April, 1879


*Marion E. Chase, A. B., Radcliffe College,


131


SOUTH


Grades V - VIII


Teachers


Where Educated


*Irene F. Norton,


I - IV


*Emma M. Graham,


Hyannis Normal, Lowell Normal,


Appointed Sept., 1907 Sept., 1907


GOLDEN COVE


I - IV *Gertrude B. McQuade, Lowell Normal,


Sept., 1907


SOUTH ROW


I - V *Katherine L. Shea, Lowell Normal, Sept., 1907


NORTH ROW


I - IV *Mary H. Ort, Lowell Normal, Sept., 1907


SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC


Mary B. Raynes, School of Methods, Sept., 1902


SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING


*Bertha G. Bartlett, Normal Art School, Sept., 1907


SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


*F. L. Kendall, A. M., Carleton College, Minn., · Harvard College, Aug., 1899


* Graduates.


+ Graduates of a Chelmsford high school.


GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE CHELMS- FORD HIGH SCHOOL


THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1907


Motto : " In limine "


PROGRAM


Selection.


CHELMSFORD ORCHESTRA.


Invocation.


REV. A. F. EARNSHAW.


Salutatory Essay-" A Singer of Songs." JESSIE R. CHAMBERLAIN.


Songs-a " June " b " The Clang of the Forge." SCHOOL CHORUS.


Schnecker


Veazie


Essay-"London in the Time of Queen Anne." HELEN M. KNOWLTON.


Selection. CHELMSFORD ORCHESTRA.


Essay-" Evolution of the English Stage and Drama." MONA K. GOVE.


Song-" Old Folks at Home." SCHOOL CHORUS.


Foster


Valedictory& Essay-" Henry Van Dyke's Theory of Life." ZORA L. FEINDEL.


Presentation of Diplomas. SUPT. FREDERICK L. KENDALL.


Benediction.


REV. C. H. ELLIS.


133


GRADUATES


FOUR YEARS' COURSE


Jessie Rose Chamberlain


Helen May Knowlton Zora Luella Feindel


THREE YEARS' COURSE


Mona Kate Gove


-


CLASS OFFICERS


President .


Jessie R. Chamberlain


Secretary and Treasurer


Helen M. Knowlton


GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL And Closing Exercises of the Public Schools


FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1907


PROGRAM


Selection.


ORCHESTRA.


Prayer.


REV. D. A. HUDSON.


Address.


REV. C. H. ELLIS, Chairman of the School Committee.


Exercise-" Sunbonnet Babies and Overall Boys." PUPILS FROM MISS MCDERMOTT'S ROOM.


Chorus.


PUPILS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADES VI-IX. Exercise.


PUPILS FROM MISS HALL'S ROOM.


Selection.


ORCHESTRA. Reading-" The Whistling Regiment." VERONICA G. LOWE.


Chorus.


GRADES IV AND V.


Exercise-" The Pied Piper of Hamelin." PUPILS FROM MISS QUINN'S ROOM. Solo-Selected. FLORENCE A. BEARCE. Essay-" Training the Blind."


AMELIA B. MARINEL.


135


Presentation of Diplomas.


SUPT. FREDERICK L. KENDALL.


Selection.


ORCHESTRA.


Benediction.


REV. GEORGE E. EVERETT.


GRADUATES


FOUR YEARS' COURSE


Amelia Beatrice Marinel


THREE YEARS' COURSE


Florence Ardella Bearce


FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE


TEACHING


CENTRE


Herbert H. Rice, 40 weeks $1,030 00


Marion E. Chase, 40 weeks, 476 00


Alice J. Potter, 40 weeks 476 00


Susan S. McFarlin, 38 weeks. 509 50


Esther B. Douglas, 38 weeks 467 50


Irena J. Gurney, 38 weeks 433 50


Grace C. Litchfield, 38 weeks


509 50


Alice M. Douglass, 23 weeks 276 00


Lena E. Bliss, 15 weeks


180 00


$4,358 00


NORTH


Elmer G. Royce, 40 weeks $980 00


Georgiana M. Clark, 24 weeks 360 00


Irena M. Crawford, 24 weeks.


240 00


Gertrude A. Jones, 38 weeks. 467 50


Ella A. Hutchinson, 38 weeks. 452 50


May D. Sleeper, 35 4-5 weeks 408 60


Katherine M. Quinn, 38 weeks 376 50


Margaret C. Gookin, 23 weeks 230 00


Mary K. Prince, 23 weeks. 241 50


Catherine E. McDermott, 38 weeks 395 50


Lena R. Edmands, 16 weeks . 200 00


Edla M. Winship, 15 weeks


165 00


137


Harriet M. Hall, 15 weeks. $157 50


Catherine F. Farley, 1 week 11 50


Esther M. Owens, 2-5 week. 4 00


Miss Driscoll, 1 1-5 weeks ..


10 40


Gertrude M. Farmer, 1 week 9 00


Emma G. Holt, 23 weeks. 276 00


$4,985 50


WEST


· Agnes Naylor, 35 weeks


467 50


Bertha H. Long, 38 weeks 460 00


Ena G. Macnutt, 38 weeks


365 00


Ida M. Bennett, 4-5 week.


8 00


Grace E. Frye, 1 1-5 weeks


12 00


1,312 50


EAST


Daisy E. Vose, 38 weeks. 441 00


Sara M. Devine, 38 weeks 441 00


882 00


SOUTH


Irene F. Norton, 23 weeks 241 50


Emma M. Graham, 23 weeks 230 00


Grace S. Parkhurst, 15 weeks


157 50


Ethel M. Wright, 15 weeks


135 00


764 00


SOUTH ROW


Katherine L. Shea, 23 weeks.


218 50


Alice L. Clark, 15 weeks 135 00


353 50


GOLDEN COVE


Gertrude B. McQuade, 23 weeks.


218 50


Ellen R. Breen, 15 weeks. 142 50


361 00


138


NORTH ROW


Mary H. Ort, 23 weeks. $230 00


Margaret C. Gookin, 15 weeks


135 00


$365 00


MUSIC


Mary B. Raynes, 38 weeks. 479 00


479 00


DRAWING


Bertha G. Bartlett, 24 weeks ..


240 00


240 00


SUPERINTENDENT


Frederick L. Kendall


1,125 00


1,125 00


CARE OF SCHOOLHOUSES


Fred Chandler


$500 00


Owen Scollan


500 00


Aubrey E. Chadbourne


38 00


P. T. Coombs


4 90


Marion G Bickford


4 10


Emma M. Graham


2 00


Chas. H. House


94 07


R. E. Osterhout


43 00


Minnie B. Penniman


6 00


Chas. Rose.


7 50


A. H. Sherman 200 00


Esther Simpson. 8 00


Marion Simpson.


8 00


Michael Scollan


1 00


A. F. Whidden.


313 00


Alfred Simpson. 3 00


1,732 57


139


FUEL


James P. Dunigan.


$663 65


G. A. Penniman


4 25


Henry Cox . . .


7 70


Clarence G. Nickles


247 25


Lowell Gas Light Co


4 32


Daniel Lane.


5 50


Wm. C. Edwards.


167 94


Harry L. Parkhurst


624 12


John Marinel, Jr


80 00


Daniel P. Byam.


23 33


Warren Berry


5 25


$1,833 31


INCIDENTALS


Fred Chandler. 88


Geo. B. Wright 1 60


A. H. Sherman 4 50


R. W. Polley .


5 50


Napoleon Lemay


7 50


J. C. Osterhout


1 50


E. T. Adams.


18 65


Chelmsford Foundry Co


3 80


S. W. Parkhurst


17 07


Courier-Citizen


2 40


Am. Express Co.


3 53


E. E. Stoughton


5 00


Emerson & Co


5 08


Lowell Sun


1 40


Lowell Daily Mail


3 50


Geo. A. Penniman.


2 00


W. T. S. Bartlett.


1 00


North Chelmsford Fire District. 9 00


Frederick A. Fisher


25 65


H. E. Knowlton


11 85


Geo. F. White.


2 47


Collins, florist


5 00


140


Adams Hardware & Paint Co $


25


L. Gaudette.


11 00


B. & M. R. R 3 67


F. L. Kendall.


12 01


Lowell Gas Light Co


5 31


E. R. Marshall.


1 25


A. F. Whidden 6 33


J. P. Carlson.


3 00


C. H. House


1 25


Saml. Kershaw.


7 90


C. H. Hanson & Co.


1 35


J. Frank Norman.


2 50


Bartlett & Dow.


40


C. B. Coburn & Co.


4 10


Smith & Lawrence.


11 25


Atwood's Orchestra


12 00


Butterfield Printing Co


2 50


Ralph P. Adams


90


Mary B. Raynes


4 00


G. F. Parkhurst


16 10


$245 95


TRANSPORTATION


Boston & Northern St. Ry. Co


315 00


Mrs. C. A. Merrill


86 35


Mary B. Raynes


43 00


J. O. Sheehan


292 50


Benj. Bogdonoff.


213 00


F. L. Kendall (L. & F. R. R. Co.)


10 00


G. H. Wilson


5 00


APPARATUS


Derby & Morse 5 15


L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.


28 87


Falls & Burkinshaw. 5 44


964 75


39 46


141


FURNITURE AND REPAIRS


I. H. Knight. $15 75


J. W. Stevens. 173 49


Masury Young & Co. 26 00


D. F. Small 6 25


F. G. Pratt


81 88


Miner & O'Neil


12 45


Fred Chandler


2 69


Adams & Co ..


84 80


Elias F. DeLaHaye


9 15


Kenney Bros. & Wolkins


226 38


Charles F. Fellows


2 00


North Chelmsford Fire District 12 62


Fuller Warren & Co. 6 75


Chelmsford Foundry Co.


13 10


W. McLarney & Co.


26 87


Smith & Lawrence.


9 82


W. C. Edwards 2 93


F. M. Hodson.


1 90


Leonard Spalding 9 00


S. W. Parkhurst. 4 37


Adams Hardware & Paint Co 1 40


Ole Linstad 75 00


Geo. F. White


2 61


A. H. Sherman


23 79


Philip Donahoe


2 20


R. T. Mower


2 00


J. F. Mooney


29 25


T. H. Murphy & Co


74 11


W. A. Mack .


9 85


U. S. Gypsum Co.


11 06


Geo. H. Smith


22 13


E. A. Lynde.


63 50


Spencer & Co. 1 00


$1,046 10


TEXT BOOKS AND SUPPLIES


12 82


Dodd Mead & Co


E. E. Babb & Co. 432 90


142


G. E. Hutchins 3 00


Allyn & Bacon. 5 34


D. C. Heath & Co. 64 31


F. J. Barnard & Co 25 98


Boston & Maine R. R.


42


American Express Co


3 20


F. L. Kendall.


7 43


Fred Chandler.


3 35


White Smith Music Pub. Co


2 14


C. C. Birchard & Co. 4 67


E. G. Royce


3 38


Hinds Noble & Eldridge 1 70


A. F. Whidden. 1 10


Mary B. Raynes 1 25


H. C. Kittredge 1 00


Derby & Morse.


1 50


Milton Bradley & Co


9 55


American Book Co


117 90


Parkhurst Press.


33 52


Ginn & Co. . 260 89


H. E. Knowlton 8 75


Bartlett & Dow. 21 60


Rand McNally & Co. 12 00


J. L. Hammett & Co. 44 00


Talbot Dyewood & Chemical Co 34 44


Oliver Ditson & Co. 1 72


Adams Hardware & Paint Co.


1 38


The Palmer Co. 75


1 00


Houghton Mifflin & Co.


4 74


1,127 73


GRADING AT WEST CHELMSFORD


H. W. Tarbell.


279 57,


F. L. Fletcher 45 25


324 82


MEDICAL EXAMINATION


Dr. A. G. Scoboria


112 00


Dr. F. E. Varney .


98 00


210 00


Enterprise Printing Co


SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES


Appropriati'ns and Receipts


Expenditure


Surplus


Deficit


Teaching, care and fuel


$16,000 00)


Superintendent


562 50 !


Tuition .


53 00 }


$18,791 38


$1,044 88


Tuition for State Children. ..


193 50 |


From State, account of Supt. and teachers .. Incidentals


937 50 J


200 00


245 95


45 95


Transportation .


1,000 00


964 75


$35 25


Apparatus .


50 00


39 46


10 54


Furniture and Repairs. .


900 00


1,046 10


146 10


Text books and supplies ..


1,100 00


1,127 73


27 73


Grading at West Chelmsford


250 00


324 82


74 82


Medical examination


300 00


210 00


90 00


Dog licenses ..


594 83


594 83


Sale of books


50


50


Rent of schoolroom .


2 00


2 00


$22,143 83


$22,750 19


$733 12


$1,339 48


Net deficit


606 36


606 36


$22,750 19


$22,750 19


$1,339 98


$1,339 48


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a


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


Trustees of the Adams Library


AND Report of the North Chelmsford Library Corporation


OF THE


TOWN OF CHELMSFORD


FOR THE


Year Ending February 29th, 1908


REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ADAMS LIBRARY


The Trustees of the Adams Library submit the following report :-


The Board was organized at the beginning of the year with Mr. J. Adams Bartlett, Chairman; Mr. Albert H. Davis, Sec- retary ; and Rev. Wilson Waters, Treasurer ; and the usual com- mittees were chosen for the various departments of Library work. Appended to this report is the Treasurer's account for the year.


The Public Library, as an educational and refining influence, has taken its place in the community as an ally of the Church and School. Its function is to broaden the public mind; to entertain as well as to instruct; to provide, in the easiest and pleasantest way, food for intellectual development. It cannot take the place of church or school, but as a factor in the life of a country town a well-equipped and well-ordered library may be said to be almost their equal, at least as far as intellectual development goes ; indeed it may have a larger place than either of them. In its unity and comprehensiveness, whatever may be the ideal of church and school, the library has an actual advantage ; but its effect upon the community should be, and no doubt is, to emphasize the import- ance and increase the influence of the other two. The citizens of the town must necessarily entertain a growing appreciation of the placing of such a noble benefaction in their midst ; and this they can do, and are doing, by their increasing interest in, and use of, its privileges, by liberally providing for its proper maintenance, and thus making it a centre and symbol of intellectual enlighten- ment. The Trustees have a real sense of the important trust com- mitted to them, and therefore ask the towns people to further them in its effective administration,


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The circulation for the year has been 11,891 volumes. This is 1,340 more than for the previous year.


The character of the circulation is as follows:


Fiction, 62.3 ; General Works, 20.2; History, 3.7; Travel and Description, 2.5; Literature, 2.5; Natural Science, 2.3; Biog- raphy, 2.1; Fine Arts, 1.2; Religion and Philosophy, 1.2 ; Use- ful Arts, 1; Sociology, 1.


The Library has been open to the public 202 sessions.


The attendance in the reading room has been 3,159, an aver- age of 15.6 each session.


Number of borrowers, 455


Number of volumes purchased and added to library, 237


Number of volumes purchased to replace books worn out, 12 Number of volumes received from state, 23


Number of volumes received from U. S. Government, 15


Number of volumes received from donations, 10


Magazines bound, 31, included in books purchased. Number of volumes in library, 8,167.


No money has been drawn from the "Joseph Warren Fund" which amounts to $780.46, or from the "Adams-Emerson Fund" which amounts to $98.49.


The Library has received from Harold Davis several volumes of magazines.


J. ADAMS BARTLETT,


ALBERT H. DAVIS.


WILSON WATERS,


A. HEADY PARK, EMMA J. GAY, FRANCES CLARK.


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TREASURER'S ACCOUNT


RECEIPTS


Balance from last year


$ 44 90


Received from town. 800 00


Sale of gas machine 100 00


$944 90


EXPENDITURES


E. R. Clark, librarian $240 00


Postage. . .. 75


G. T. Parkhurst, printing.


15 25


Lowell Gas Light Co.


76 63


Dodd Mead & Co., books


80 75


The H. W. Wilson Co


3 75


Grumiaux, periodicals


70 65


N. Lovely, labor.


26 70


C. E. Parkhurst, carpentry


8 60


Bartlett & Dow, sundries.


2 00


H. L. Parkhurst, fuel.


108 00


F. J. Barnard & Co., binding.


37 95


DeWolfe & Fiske Co., books


235 03


A. H. Park, carrying books


13 00


Geo. B. Wright, work on grounds


12 00


Balance. 13 84


$944 90


2


REPORT OF THE NORTH CHELMSFORD LIBRARY CORPORATION


The North Chelmsford Library Corporation, in its annual statement to the town, has to report that, at its annual meeting, held March 4, 1908, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year :


Directors : Arthur H. Sheldon, (President), Fred E. Varney, H. Ellen Sargent ; Vice-President, Dorr A. Hudson; Otis P. Wheeler ; Treasurer, Stewart Mackay.


The library has been open 148 sessions during the year, the circulation being 5,200.


Sixty-three new cards have been issued, the whole number of borrowers during the year being 284.


One hundred and fifty-nine volumes have been added during the year. 147 by purchase, town appropriation ; 12 volumes unbound magazines by Miss Gay.


Three volumes are missing, leaving 5,407 now available on the shelves.


Thirty-seven volumes are to be sent to the bindery.


We are again indebted to Mr. F. E. Bickford for the distribu- tion of books that we have sent to West Chelmsford semi-monthly.


ARTHUR H. SHELDON, President. FRED E. VARNEY. H. ELLEN SARGENT.


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TREASURER'S ACCOUNT


RECEIPTS


Balance on hand, March 1, 1907.


$ 21 76


Town appropriation for books, expenses,


etc


400 00


Fines


4 30


Sale of catalogues


1 00


$427 06


EXPENDITURES


Librarian's services.


$100 00


Librarian's assistant


12 00


Janitor . .


8 00


Books, town appropriation.


179 43


Binding and repairing books


21 25


Transportation of books to and from West Chelmsford.


7 20


Lighting


16 62


Fuel.


7 75


Printing


14 32


Repairs


50


Cleaning library.


2 65


Expenses to Boston to purchase books


2 74


Supplies .


11 97


Corporation expenses.


7 80


Balance in treasury, March 1, 1808


34 83


$427 06


WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING At Town Hall. Chelmsford Centre MONDAY, MARCH 23RD, 1908


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


MIDDLESX, SS.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Chelmsford, in said County, GREETING.


In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Chelmsford to meet in the Town Hall at Chelmsford Centre, on Monday, the Twenty-third day of March, current, being the fourth Monday in said month, at eight o'clock in the forenoon. The polls will be opened at 8.15 A. M., and closed at 1.15 P. M .; and they are then and there to act upon the follow- ing articles, viz .:


Article 1. To choose a Moderator.


Article 2. To bring in their votes for one Assessor, one School Committee, two Trustees of the Adams Library, one Cemetery Commissioner, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, and one Road Commissioner, all for three years; one Assessor, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, and one Road Commissioner, all for two years; five Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, one Assessor, Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, seven Constables, one School Com- mittee, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Road Commissioner, and one Tree Warden, all for one year; also to vote on the following question: "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" All on one ballot.


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Article 3. To choose all other town officers necessary to be chosen by hand vote, or act in relation to the same.


Article 4. To hear reports of town officers and committees and act thereon.


Article 5. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray town charges for the cur- rent year.


Article 6. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow, subject to the approval of the Selectmen, such sums of money as may be required for the demands upon him, in anticipation of the taxes of the current year and payable therefrom.


Article 7. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to act as its agent in any suit or suits which may arise during the current year; also in such other matters which may arise requiring, in their judg- ment, the action of such agent, and to employ coun- sel therefor.


Article 8. At the request of the Trustees of the Adams Library, to see if the town will vote to continue the stone curbing begun by Mr. Adams, around the library grounds, raise and appropriate a sum of money to defray the expense of same; the work to be in charge of the Trustees of the Adams Library, or act in relation thereto.


Article 9. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of Ninety Dollars ($90.00) for the purpose of repairing the oldest town records, as ordered by the Commis- sioner of Public Records, or act in relation thereto.


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Article 10. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or borrow, the sum of Twelve Hundred Dol- lars ($1,200.00) for the purchase of fire apparatus for the use of the Chelmsford Centre Fire Depart- ment, or act in relation thereto.


Article 11. To see what action the town will take relative to disposing of the barns on the Salmon lot recently acquired for school purposes, or act in relation thereto.


Article 12. To see what action the town will take in regard to providing more playgrounds in connection with the Centre schools, or act in relation thereto.


Article 13. To see if the town will vote to borrow the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) to provide proper sanitary arrangements at the North schools, or act in relation thereto.


Article 14. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($350.00) to build a porch and grade the grounds at the North school, or act in relation thereto.


Article 15. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) to continue the grading at the West school, or act in relation thereto.


Article 16. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) to be expended on the grounds at the South school, or act in relation thereto.


Article 17. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100 00) to be expended on the grounds at the East school, or act in relation thereto.


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Article 18. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the observance of Memorial Day, or act in rela- tion thereto.


Article 19. To see if the town will vote to discontinue as a part of the public way all those portions of the West Chelmsford road, so called, leading from the Westford line in West Chelmsford to the Groton road, that are not included within the limits of said road as relocated by the Selectmen in 1901, and accepted by the town at the March meeting of that year, and shown on the plans of Smith & Brooks, or act in relation thereto.


Article 20. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500 00) to erect a building at North Chelmsford to house the new fire wagon, or act in relation thereto.


Article 21. To see if the town will vote to accept Lincoln street as laid out by the Selectmen, or act in rela- tion thereto.


Article 22. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500 00) to be paid to the North Chelmsford Fire District for hydrant service for the current year, or act in relation thereto.


Article 23. To see if the town will vote to accept Roosevelt street as laid out by the Selectmen, or act in relation thereto.


Article 24. At the request of Frank E. Putnam and others, to see what action the town will take in regard to naming the square formed by the junction of Centre and Park- hurst streets, or act in relation thereto.


Article 25. To see what action the town will take in regard to choosing a committee for the purpose of drafting a set of by-laws for town purposes, or act in relation thereto.


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Article 26. To see what action the town will take in regard to providing telephone service for constables' use in the Centre and North villages, or act in relation thereto. Article 27. To see what action the town will take in regard to purchasing land on Littleton street belonging to Mrs. S. E. Russell, taken by the State for highway pur- pose, or act in relation thereto.


Article 28. To see what action the town will take in regard to reducing the number of constables in the town, or act in relation thereto.


And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at the Post Office in the Centre of the town, South Chelmsford, North Chelmsford, West Chelmsford, and at the school house at East Chelmsford, ten days at least before the time appointed for holding said meeting.


Hereof fail not, and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of holding the meeting aforesaid.


Given under our hands this tenth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eight.


EBEN T. ADAMS, JAMES P. DUNIGAN, W. E. LAPHAM, JOHN J. DUNN, R. WILSON DIX,


Selectmen of Chelmsford.


I have served the foregoing Warrant by posting up true and attested copies of the same at the places above mentioned more than ten days before the day of holding said meeting.


CLARENCE G. NICKLES,


Constable of Chelmsford.


INDEX


Aggregate of Appropriations, Receipts and Expenditures 102


Assessors' Report. . 41


Auditors' Report 44


Board of Health's Report 99


Cemetery Commissioners' Report


96


Collector's Report


39


Firewarden's Report


75


Appraisal of Chelmsford Centre Fire Apparatus List of Jurors 100


84


Moth Superintendent's Report


91


Appraisal of the Property of the Moth Department. 94


Report of Inspector of Animals


98


Report of Inspector of Meat. 98


Report of North Chelmsford Library Corporation 151


Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures 89


Report of Trustees of Adams Library 147


School Committee's Report 107


Course of Study 120


Financial Report. 136


Graduating Exercises Chelmsford High School. 132


Graduating Exercises North High School 134


Roll of Honor. 124


School Statistics 128


School Superintendent's Report. 111


Summary of Receipts and Expenditure 143


Teachers 130


Selectmen's Report-


Care and Improvement of Cemeteries 56


Cattle Inspection. . . 58


Cemetery Trust Funds 57 Collection and Abatement of Taxes 58


Fire Apparatus, North Village 55


Highways . 48


Hydrant Service, North Village. 54


Indigent Soldiers and Sailors 55


159


Libraries 54 55


Loans and Interests


Memorial Day.


Miscellaneous Expenses


54 85 55 63 53 54


Military Aid


Moth Work.


Repairs of Public Buildings


Rifle Range.


Schoolhouse, South Village


53


School Lot, South Village


54 55


State Aid.


Stone for Cape Cod Monument


54 52


Town Officers and Committees


58 55


Tree Warden


Village Clock


54


Weights and Balances


65


West Chelmsford Road. 61


Special Report 90


Support of Poor-


Appraisal of Highway Teams and Tools at Town Farm. 73


Appraisal of the Personal Property at Town Farm 70


Expense at Almshouse 66


Inmates at Almshouse 68


Outside Poor 69


Town Clerk's Report-


Annual Town Meeting, 1907 19


Births Recorded in Chelmsford in 1907 9


Deaths Recorded in Chelmsford in 1907 15


Dogs Licensed for 1907 18


Marriages Recorded in Chelmsford in 1907 12


Special Town Meeting, Nov. 9, 1907 28


Special Town Meeting, Feb. 17, 1908 30


State Election 31


Town Officers . 3


Town Treasurer's Report 35


Tree Warden's Report. 95


Warrant for Annual Town Meeting 153


Street Lighting


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