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Some provision for lighting at the North High School.
The installation of bubbling fountains in all schools not now supplied.
That floors not oiled be treated.
That something be done to improve the heating arrange- ments at the West School.
The erection of a flag pole at the East School.
A change in language and grammar texts.
The revision of the elementary school course of study, with provision for some industrial training.
That the North High School be made a manual training and technical school.
The employment of a school nurse, or school visitor.
CONCLUSION
In concluding I wish to urge upon the parents a hearty, wholesome interest in all phases of the school work. The labor may be ours, but the vital interest is yours. We invite close inspection of our work and are always ready to listen to fair criticism. Liberal support, with the moral backing of the people will accomplish much for our schools.
I wish to thank the teachers for their ready co-operation, and to commend them for their interest in the work.
I take this opportunity to express to the members of the Committee my pleasure in working with them, and to thank them for their considerate treatment and hearty support.
At the close of my report I quote "The School Teacher's Creed," by Edwin Osgood Grover. Its sentiments are worthy of adoption by all who are interested in school work. It well expresses my sentiments.
Respectfully submitted,
BENJ. E. MARTIN.
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THE SCHOOL TEACHER'S CREED BY EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER
" I believe in boys and girls, the men and women of a great tomorrow; that whatsoever the boy soweth the man shall reap. I believe in the curse of ignorance; in the efficacy of schools; in the dignity of teaching; and in the joy of serving others. I believe in wisdom as revealed in human lives as well as in the pages of the printed book; in lessons taught, not so much by precept as by example; in ability to work with the hands as well as to think with the head; in everything that makes life large and lovely. I believe in beauty in the school room, in the home, in daily life and out of doors. I believe in laughter; in love; in faith; in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. I believe that every hour of every day we receive a just reward for all we are and all we do. I believe in the present and its opportunities; in the future and its promises ; and in the divine joy of living. Amen."
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FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
TEACHING
Superintendent
A. P. Briggs
$533 33
B. J. Martin . 746 67
Centre
Flora W. Campbell, 38 weeks 494 00
Marion E. Chase, 16 weeks.
224 00
Ruth G. Butters, 24 weeks. 336 00
Cora E. Crawford, 23 weeks
276 00
Florence Flewelling, 15 4-5 weeks
205 40
Eva M. Godfrey, 38 weeks
486 50
Emma M. Graham, 23 weeks
276 00
Ida M. Gardner, 24 weeks 336 00
Elmer E. Harris, 40 weeks.
1,060 00
Grace Litchfield, 15 weeks 210 00
Susan S. McFarlin, 37 weeks 529 50
Eva G. Macnutt, 15 weeks
195 00
4,628 40
North
Irene M. Crawford, 40 weeks 512 00
Mary W. Cross, 40 weeks. 600 00
Margaret C. Gookin, 38 weeks. 486 50
Ella A. Hutchinson, 38 weeks 543 50
Frank E. Holt, 24 weeks 600 00
Gertrude A. Jones, 38 weeks 532 00
Julia E. King, 22 weeks 264 00
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Catherine E. McDermott, 36 weeks. 497 50
Grace M. McCue, 38 weeks 350 00
Walter B. Pierce, 16 weeks. 400 00
Mary K. Prince, 38 weeks. 438 80
Katherine M. Quinn, 38 weeks. 475 00
Martha G. Roark, 22 4-5 weeks. 250 80
Katherine T. Shea, 15 weeks 161 00
Mary D. Sleeper, 38 weeks 513 00
6,624 10
West
Henrietta Drake, 2 weeks 20 00
Frances Donovan, 13 weeks. 143 00
Catherine Dunn, 23 weeks ..
230 00
Julia E. Fernald, 35 4-5 weeks
358 00
Bertha H. Long, 38 weeks
524 50
Ruth Crowell, 1 1-15 week 12 00
1,287 50
East
Laura B. Desmaris, 38 weeks.
467 50
Hannah H. Sleeper, 38 weeks 429 50
897 00
South
Maybelle C. Dame, 15 weeks.
165 00
Emma M. Graham, 15 weeks.
165 00
Elizabeth Cushing, 15 weeks
180 00
Mary L. Martin, 23 weeks
230 00
Edwina P. Quincy, 8 weeks
88 00
828 00
North Row
Eliza Spaulding, 38 weeks
384 00
384 00
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Golden Gove
Gertrude B. McQuade, 38 weeks. 429 50
429 50
South Row
Ivy Key, 36 weeks
371 50
Frances Donovan, 2 weeks
20 00
391 50
Substitute Teachers
Regina B. Frappier, 2 weeks 20 00
Bessie Norris 1 75
Laura Bartlett. 3 50
Ruth Adams. .
5 25
Angelia Tewksbury 1 75
Emma G. Holt. 10 00
42 25
Drawing
Bertha G. Bartlett, 40 weeks
464 00
464 00
Music
Mary B. Raynes, 38 weeks
494 00
494 00
MEDICAL INSPECTION
Dr. F. E. Varney
150 00
Dr. A. G. Scoboria 150 00
300 00
APPARATUS
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.
43 88
43 88
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TRANSPORTATION
Boston & Northern St. R. R.
330 00
Lowell & Fitchburg St. R. R.
150 00
Mary B. Raynes
38 00
Bertha G. Bartlett
40 00
J. C. Sheehan .
298 75
Mrs. Fred Merrill.
110 75
John J. Sullivan
141 00
E. Paignon, Jr
336 00
Hartson Nickles
192 00
M. C. Wilson .
18 00
Gertrude A. Jones
9 85
1,664 35
CARE OF SCHOOLHOUSES
Aubrey Chadbourne 15 00
Fred Chandler
250 00
A. H. Coombs 170 00
James Byam .
250 00
Howard Bullock
23 00
Charles H. House.
95 00
Edgar R. Parker
30 00
Mrs Henry Pearson
15 00
Mrs. Kemp.
18 75
Owen Scollan
547 00
Thomas Smith
190 00
A. F. Whidden
112 50
A. G. Quist
180 00
Edward Fallon
36 00
Rufus Wood .
10 00
1,942 25
FUEL
H. L. Parkhurst.
130 33
John P. Quinn. .
785 63
Clarence G. Nickles
166 18
166
William P. Proctor
6 00
James P. Dunigan
417 39
1,505 53
TEXT BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
S. W. Parkhurst 8 58
Eben Files
2 50
Thomas Murphy
6 43
Adams & Co.
1 65
Ginn & Co
143 87
Milton Bradley Co
169 19
Allyn & Bacon .
30 01
American Book Co
212 20
Silver, Burdett & Co.
143 35
E. E. Babb & Co. 400 29
Parkhurst Press. 36 30
Charles Scribner's Sons
5 60
Little, Brown & Co
4 80
J. L. Hammett & Co.
44 30
Adams Hardware Co.
2 35
Rand, McNally & Co
8 00
Oliver Ditson Co
4 98
Mary B. Raynes
1 97
D. C. Heath & Co
127 69
E. R. Marshall .
1 25
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
45 76
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins
140 50
Wright & Potter Printing Co
2 50
C. C. Buchard & Co.
1 85
Atkinson, Mutzer & Grover
1 67
White, Smith & Co 1 94
G. C. Prince & Son
68 40
- $1,617 93
FURNITURE AND REPAIRS
Napoleon Lemay. ..
30 00
Kerney Bros. and Wolkins
202 00
167
A. H. Coombs. 5 00
Chas. T. Melvin.
68 92
W. T. S. Bartlett
50
Chelmsford Foundry Co
3 70
Adams & Co
10 75
Bartlett & Dow.
40
Masury Young Co.
62 75
Parkhurst Press.
15 04
Miner & O'Neil. 246 33
M. Steinert & Sons Co
6 50
Fred E. Fallon
1 75
Adams Hard. Co. 7 90
Arthur Mason,
3 75
Geo. W. Whidden.
8 49
James Mooney
10 49
F. G. Pratt
165 00
Fred Chandler
3 80
Falls & Burkinshaw
60
C. B. Coburn Co
7 45
James Kiberd
146 72
Boston & Maine R. R
2 84
Owen P. Fallon .
7 50
Mary Hafey
4 13
Mark H. McGrath
2 80
Geo. Brennon
4 60
Alfred Reno
4 00
Geo. McClure
1 00
Martin Robbins & Son
57 89
Thos. H. Murphy
58 37
Wm. McLarney & Co
72 79
Isaac Knight
22 50
Wm. P. Proctor
55
J. C. Osterhout .
7 25
Edwards & Monahan
21 60
Pratt & Forrest
13 20
Welch Bros
11 26
W. A. Mack
13 50
168
E. R. Marshall.
2 70
Wm. C. Edwards. 102 56
$1,418 97 -
INCIDENTALS
A. P. Briggs .. 16 81
Boston & Maine R. R.
1 68
American Exp. C.
3 38
Wm. McClure
8 00
Chelmsford Foundry Co
30
Wm. C. Edwards.
40
Lowell Gas Light Co
6 12
Lowell Electric Light Co.
13 66
Nashua River Paper Co 11 20
Philip Donohue.
3 05
North Chelmsford Fire Dist.
37 65
Mrs. Pierson .
2 00
Harold B. Stewart.
25 00
George Hutchings
8 75
Lactance Gaudette
14 50
Milton Bradley Co
1 25
Bartlett & Dow
6 30
Bertha Piggott
25 00
C. B. Coburn Co
2 91
Benj E. Martin.
30 65
Parkhurst Press
6 75
Chas. H. House.
5 00
Thomas Smith. 6 22
Geo. Wilson
2 00
J. P. Emerson
2 60
H. M. Weigel
2 25
A. G. Quist.
7 27
E. E. Smith & Co
4 95
E. R. Marshall
1 25
A. H. Coombs
1 60
Jamas F. McManomin
1 10
D. C. Heath & Co 95
169
S. W. Parkhurst
15 33
G. C. Prince & Son
5 50
Howard Bullock.
2 10
Owen Scollan
20 00
John Marinel, Jr
1 50
John Leahey
11 50
D. F. Small.
1 50
Owen Fallon
1 00
E. T. Adams
17 70
Patrick Cummings.
1 00
Owen Scollan
3 00
$340 68
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
ACCOUNTS
Appropriations and Receipts
Expenditures
Surplus
Deficit
Teaching, Care and Fuel .
$19,900 00
$19,918 03
$ 18 03
Superintendent
1,280 00
1,280 00
Tuition of State Children .
166 50
$166 50
Tuition of Harold Hunter
7 00
7 00
Tuition of Cora Koford ....
10 00
10 00
Dog Licenses . .
557 76
557 76
Sale of Books . . . . . .
20 52
20 52
Reimbursed on account Transportation
16 75
16 75
Incidentals . .
300 00
340 68
40 68
170
Apparatus .
50 00
43 88
6 12
Furniture and Repairs .
1,500 00
1,418 97
81 03
Text Books and Supplies
1,500 00
1,617 93
117 93
Medical Inspection ยท
300 00
300 00
$26,908 53
$26,583 84
$865 68
$540 99
Net. Surplus
324 69
324 69
$26,908 53
$26,908 53
$865 68
$865 68
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1,300 00
1,664 35
364 35
Transportation
... .
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Annual Report
of the
Trustees of the Adams Library
and the
North Chelmsford Library Corporation
of the
TOWN OF CHELMSFORD
for the
Year Ending February 28th, 1911
Report of the Trustees of the Adams Library
The Trustees of the Adams Library submit the following report :-
At the first meeting of the Board after Town Meeting the officers elected were Albert H. Davis, chairman; Edwin R. Clark, secretary; Rev. Wilson Waters, treasurer. The usual committees were chosen to care for the Library grounds, the reading-room, and other departments of the work. The Treasurer's report is submitted with that of the Trustees.
At the December meeting of the Trustees it was voted to allow the Librarian to begin a pay fiction circulation and to have full charge of the same. The charge is 2c per day. We can hardly adopt the rule of waiting a year to determine what fiction is of permanent value, and this allows patrons of the Library to have access to new books which in the ac- customed method of purchasing for the Library might not be available for months. This plan has worked successfully in numerous small libraries where the appropriation will not allow duplicate copies to be bought.
The free public Library belongs to the people, who pay for its support. The farmer, who wants to learn about the latest insect pest which is damaging his crops, should be able to go to the town Library and get a book which would give him the desired information. The same should be true no matter in what department of husbandry, theoretical or practical information is sought. If a boy wants a book which will tell him about the latest electrical inventions, or about the progress of aviation, he should expect to find it in the town Library. If the blacksmith has the artistic instinct and. desires to know something of the world's best examples of ornamental iron-work, he should be able to find in the Library
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a good book on the subject, practical and containing good illustrations. Women should find there practical books on house-wifery as well as the latest novel.
The large demand for fiction (more than 67 per cent) makes impossible any great outlay for books of more per- manent value, while the annual appropriation from the town is as small as it now is. But, the Library belongs to the people. It is their own money they are spending for the books, and the character of the books purchased must be determined by the popular demand. The point we wish to emphasize is that the citizens of the town as a whole have not yet learned the practical value of such a Library as we have in Chelmsford, and have hardly begun to make it serve them as it should. All will agree that if the Library were to be removed from the town tomorrow, a great void would be felt. The Adams Library and the Social Library which was merged into it, have for one hundred and seventeen years performed an important function in the life of the town, even if we consider only the wholesome fiction which by them has been placed within reach of the reading portion of the citizens. But if a demand were made on the part of our farmers and wage earners for books of a practical or scientific nature, bearing for instance on arboriculture or the production of milk according to the latest and most improved methods, fence-and road-building, etc., the Library might be of much greater practical use to the town. A person engaged in any kind of industry or handicraft has a right to request the purchase of a book or books bearing upon his line of work, and to expect that the best book of the kind will be purchased. Some who read fiction might find it more profitable some times to call for translations of the best European novels, many of which are of great merit and practically unknown to our readers. The practice of encouraging the young people to read good books is of great value to them. It has been ascertained that those children who read (within proper limits) the most and the best books are those who most easily make their grades in school. It is of great practical value in their studies for the children to be able to gain clear and
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intelligent ideas from the printed page, instead of merely reading the words, as some do in the early grades. The reading of good and interesting books help them in this.
A Library, to be efficient in these and in other ways must be properly supported by the town both by money and by personal acquaintance with and demand upon the Library. The more it is used and the more it is depended upon to furnish what is wanted, the greater will be the benefit to every kind of industrial, professional and mechanical interest. as well as educational, domestic and private. The Library is, or might be, the nourisher and promoter of every good interest in the town.
In order that they may make the Library a better servant of the people, the Trustees ask this year for an increased appropriation.
The Trustees record with sorrow the death of Mr. Amos F. Adams, who gave the Adams Library to the Town. A beautiful and appropriate floral wreath was sent to the funeral from the Trustees in the name of the Town, and Mr. Adams' portrait in the Reading Room was properly decorated.
Mr. Adams was born in 1842 and died at his home in Newton, Jan. 4, 1911, and the funeral was on the following Saturday.
The circulation for the year has been 12,108.
The character of circulation has been as follows :
Fiction
67.6
General Literature. 15.4
History
3.6
Travel and Description.
2.8
Literature .
1.6
Natural Science
2
Biography
1.7
Fine Arts
.8
Useful Arts 1.5
Religion and Philosophy
1.4
Sociology
1.6
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The Library has been open to the public 197 sessions. Attendance in reading room has averaged about 15.
Number of volumes purchased 193 Number of volumes purchased to replace worn books 15
Number of magazines bound, included above.
29
DONATIONS
All Saints' Church. 50 volumes
Mrs. A. H. Park 3
McClure Publishing Co. 1
State of Massachusetts. 18
United States . 6
66
Rev. Wilson Waters 43 fac similes of old newspapers, running back to the year 1665 Number of volumes in Library .9413
No money has been drawn from the "Joseph Warren Fund" which amounts to $878.35; or from the "Adams- Emerson Fund" which amounts to $110.76.
ALBERT H. DAVIS, WILSON WATERS, FRANCES CLARK, A. HEADY PARK, EDWIN R. CLARK, OTIS P. WHEELER,
Trustees of the Adams Library.
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ADAMS LIBRARY TREASURER'S ACCOUNT
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand .
$ 49 12
Received from the Town.
800 00
Received from fines 11 00
$860 12
EXPENDITURES
Salary of Librarian. $ 240 00
Books purchased.
158 64
H. L. Parkhurst, fuel. . 104 50
Periodicals.
97 35
Gas. 75 03
Farquhar, binding.
59 92
Felch, work on grounds.
26 90
Geo. Parkhurst, printing
21 10
Barnard, binding.
19 50
J. R. Parkhurst, work on grounds .
14 05
A. H. Park, transporting books
13 00
N. Lovely, work
8 40
Welch Bros., sundries.
3 90
E. R. Marshall, sundries.
2 20
Bartlett & Dow, sundries
1 36
Burdette & W. Co., sundries
70
Postage
65
Balance 12 92
$860 12
STEWART MACKAY,
Treasurer.
Report of the Directors of the North Chelmsford Library Corporation
BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF CHELMSFORD,
Gentlemen :
At the annual meeting of the North Chelmsford Library Corporation held March 1, 1911, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year :
Directors : A. H. Sheedon, president ; H. Ellen Sargent, R. S. Ripley; vice-president, P. L. Piggott ; secretary, Otis P. Wheeler; treasurer, Stewart Mckay.
OTIS P. WHEELER,
Secretary.
The Library has been open 151 sessions.
There are 71 new borrowers, making 381 borrowers in all. The circulation is 8,050.
257 new books have been added during the year, including one book from Otis P. Wheeler, six volumes of Munsey's Magazine from C. Frank Butterfield and two volumes of McClure's Magazine from Mrs. H. Ellen Sargent.
There are now 6,073 books available on the shelves and 82 books to be sent to the bindery.
ARTHUR H. SHELDON, FRED E. VARNEY, H. ELLEN SARGENT,
Directors.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
North Chelmsford Library Corporation, 1910-1911
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand March 2, 1910. $ 11 50
Town appropriation for books, expenses.
600 00
Sale of wood. 2 50
Balance from sale of catalogues, fines, etc 50
$614 50
PAYMENTS
Librarian
160 00
Assistant Librarian and Janitor.
20 00
Books.
298 38
Bindery
29 50
Transportation of books to and from West Chelmsford.
9 20
Light
15 53
Fuel.
11 50
Printing
22 65
Cleaning
5 08
Supplies .
13 01
Expressage
4 17
589 02
Balance on hand March 1st, 1911.
25 48
$614 50
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
At Town Hall, Chelmsford Centre
Monday, March 27, 1911
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Chelmsford, in said County, GREETING.
In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, you are here- by required to notify the legal voters of said Chelmsford to meet in the Town Hall at Chelmsford Centre, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of March, current, being the fourth Mon- day 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 following 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 Com- missioner, one Park Commissioner, all for three years ; five Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, three Audit- ors, seven Constables 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 cur- rent 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 judgment, the action of such agent, and to employ counsel there- for.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) for the purpose of grading the grounds at the schools at North Chelmsford, the expenditure of this money to be in charge of the School Committee, or act in rela- tion thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate 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 10. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00) for the purpose of observing Memorial Day, and ap-
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point a committee to assist the Veteran Association in making the necessary arrangements for such observ- ances, or act in relation thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for sewerage at schoolhouses and Town Hall at North Chelmsford, or act in relation thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to have the Town reports printed and distributed among the voters of said Town eight days at least before the caucus, or act in relation thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the completion of draining Mt. Pleasant street at North Chelmsford, or act in relation thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) to prepare and make records of interments made in the several cem- eteries prior to 1910, or act in relation thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to provide better protection against fire in that part of the Town known as Chelmsford Centre, or act in relation thereto.
Article 16 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3.000.00) for the purpose of constructing a macadam road in some section of the Town, the section of the location and entire charge of the work to be left in hands of a committee of three, who shall be authorized to carry out the provisions of this article, or act in relation thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to prescribe by-law regulations for the materials, construction, alteration
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and inspection of all pipes, tanks, faucets, valves and other fixtures by and through which waste water or sewerage is used and carried ; to provide that such pipes, tanks, faucets, valves or other fixtures shall not be placed in any building in Chelmsford except in accord- ance with plans approved by the Board of Health; and further provide that no plumbing shall be done, except to repair leaks, without a permit first being issued therefor, upon such terms and conditions as the Town shall prescribe, or.act in relation thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of five hundred fifty dollars ($550.00) for the purpose of purchasing a power sprayer for the moth work department, or act in relation thereto.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of three hundred twenty-five dollars ($325.00) for the purpose of fencing the schoolhouse lot in East Chelmsford, said sum to be expended un- der the direction of the School Committee, or act in relation thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to provide telephone service for the use of constables in the Centre and North villages, or act in relation thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the By-Laws as prepared by the Selectmen, or act in relation thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120.00) for the service of a janitor at the North and Centre fire houses, or act in relation thereto.
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Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the purpose of rapairing the Canal Road, so called, at East Chelmsford, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen, or act in relation thereto.
Article 24. At the request of George B. Wright and others, to see what action the Town will take in regard to naming the square formed by the junction of Westford and Worthen streets, given by the heirs of the late David Perham, or act in relation thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for free band concerts the present season in the several villages of the Town, or act in relation thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to accept a deed from Mrs. James McNally of the street shown in plan of McNally land, North Chelmsford, for a public ease- ment of land of said street, or act in relation thereto.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at Post Offices in the Centre of the Town, South Chelmsford, North Chelmsford, West Chelms. ford, 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.
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Given under our hands this fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eleven.
EBEN T. ADAMS, D. FRANK SMALL, JOHN J. DUNN, WILBER E. LAPHAM, CHARLES F. DEVINE, 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, Receipt and Expenditures. 114 Annual Town Meeting, 1910. 10
Appraisers' Report-
Centre Fire Department. 92
Highway Property Appraisal 86
Property Appraisal at Town Farm 89
Property Appraisal of No. Chelmaford Fire Dept 92 Moth Department . 93
Weights and Measures Department .. 92
Widening West Chelmsford Road. 91
Collector's Report on Tax of North Chelmsford Fire Dist. .. 41
Dogs Licensed for 1910. 9
Financial Report of School Committee-
Care of School Houses
165
Fuel.
165
Furniture and Repairs
Incidentals . 166
168
Summary of Receipts and Expenditures
170
Teaching.
162
Text Books and Supplies
166
Transportation 165
List of Jurors, 1910 111
Marriages Recorded in 1910 49
Report of Assessors 51
Report of Auditors 94 Report of Board of Health 108
Report of the Chairman of Board of Health. 110
Report of Inspector of Animals. 107 Report of Cemetery Commissioners 98
Report of Inspector of Meats and Provisions 106
Report of Forest Warden. 103
Report of Park Cammission 101
188
Report of Tax Collector. 39
Report of Town Treasurer 43
Report of Tree Warden. 85
Report of the Town Clerk-
Births Recorded in Chelmsford in 1910 29
Deaths Recorded in 1910 33
State Election 36
173
Report of Trustees of Adams Library
Report of Selectmen-
Band Concerts 63
Care and Improvement of Cemeteries 62
Cattle Inspection . 61 Cemetery Trust Funds. 74
Collection and Abatement of Taxes. 64
Draining and Widening Princeton St. 63
Enforcement of Liquor Law 61
Fire Extinguishers and Apparatus 63
Highways.
54
Indigent Soldiers and Sailors
Janitors, North and Centre Fire House
Libraries
Loans and Interest
Meat Inspection
Memorial Day
Military Aid.
Miscellaneous Expenses
Moth Work
New School House, North Chelmsford.
65 69
Officers and Committees
Public Parks.
73
Repairs of Public Buildings
65
Sealer of Weights and Measures. 61
School House Lot, North Chelmsford 61
State Aid 64
Stevens Lot, North Chelmsford
61
Street Lighting 59
Tree Warden 66
64 63 65 64 61 63 64 75 67
189
Village Clock. 64
Report of School Committee 1910-1911-
Appropriations. 122
Buildings and Grounds. 120
School Calendar, 1911-1912. 123.
Superintendent. 119
Teachers 150
Superintendent's Report.
125.
Books
132
Conclusion
160
Conditions at Centre School.
127
Health. .
138.
High School Graduates
127
Home Gardens
148
Number who drink Tea and Coffee.
140
Other Buildings and Grounds
130
School Physicians .
151
Sight and Hearing Tests.
141
Statistics.
126
Statistics for the School Year, Ending in June, 1910
144
Summary of Recommendations
159
Supervisor of Drawing
154
Supervisor of Music
155
Teachers, February 28, 1911. 146.
Teachers and Teaching
148.
The North Chelmsford Situation
129
The Course of Study
133.
Teacher's Creed.
161
Thrift
142
Principals 156.
Special Town Meeting, May 28, 1910. 19
Aug. 5, 1910 22
Aug. 22, 1910 23
66 Sept. 12, 1910. 25
66 Oct. 4,1910 27
190
Support of Poor at Almshouse -
Expense at Almshouse 79
Inmates at Almshouse 83
Outside Poor 82
Receipts at Almshouse 81
Sealer of Weights and Measures 84 Town Officers 3
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1911 181
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