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6 34
Griffin, Mrs. C. W., supplies
11 62
Hanff, Louis M., metal ceiling
7 78
Jefferson, W. H., shingles
118 40
Marsh, E. D., cartage
3 00
Johnson, C. J., roofing
75 00
Miles, George H., heating changes
156 90
Smith, Geo. E., roofing
5 70
Wellington, F. D., labor and lead
73 13
609 02
Overdrawn
$9 02
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PUBLIC CHARITIES
Appropriation
$1,400 00
Charlton Poor Farm Asso.
26 78
Amount available
$1,426 78
Expended (see report Overseer of the Poor)
929 27
Unexpended 497 51
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SALARIES TOWN OFFICERS
Appropriation
$1,700 00 31 75
Amount available
$1,731 75
Expended (as analyzed below)
1,450 80
- Unexpended
$280 95
ANALYSIS OF ABOVE EXPENSE
Assessors:
Brown, A. F.
$15 75
Cullen, M. J.
54 25
Marsh, E. D.
61 25
Smith, G. E.
87 50
$218 75
Auditor:
Ela, Frederick
47 10
47 10
Board of Health:
Chamberlain, W. E., M. D.
25 00
Hanff, L. M.
20 00
45 00
Constable:
Hanff, L. M.
22 50
Oliver, C. T.
4 00
26 50
Amount carried forward $337 35
Reimbursement, cattle inspector
39
Amount brought forward
$337 35
Cattle Inspector: Upham, W. R.
$98 50
Collector of Taxes: Griffin, Miles
75 00
75 00
Dog Officer:
Kehoe, F. A. Smith, G. E.
5 00
20 00
Election Officers:
Cullen, M. J.
14 00
Hatstatt, F. W.
5 00
Miles, G. H.
7 00
Upham, W. R.
3 50
Welch, J. J.
15 50
45 00
Forest Warden:
Wheeler, H. E.
50 00
50 00
Meat Inspector:
Holbrook, Anthony
208 45
208 45
Overseer of Poor:
Hanff, L. M.
35 00
Ware, J. E.
10 00
45 00
Amount carried forward $879 30
98 50
15 00
40
Amount brought forward
$879 30
Sealer of Weights and Measures: Hanff, L. M. $20 00
20 00
Selectmen:
Campbell, C. J.
80 00
Carroll, C. E.
75 00
Fitzgerald, D. J.
75 00
230 00
Special Police :
Murphy, P. D.
4 00
-
4 00
Registrars:
Campbell, C. J.
10 00
Carroll, C. E.
10 00
Fitzgerald, D. J.
10 00
Hanff, L. M.
22 25
52 25
Town Clerk:
Hanff, L. M.
70 25
Treasurer :
Temple, W. C.
175 00
Water Commissioners:
Marsh, E. D.
10 00
Miles, G. H.
10 00
70 25
175 00
20 00
$1,450 80
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Appropriation
$11,500 00
Appropriation, school physician 25 00
Balance General School Fund 70 48
Total available
$11,595 48
Expended (see report School Committee) 11,300 24
Two-thirds net expense public buildings 1,591 30
12,891 54
Overdrawn
$1,296 06
20
SIDEWALK REPAIRS
Appropriation
$100 00
Expended
000 00
Unexpended
$100 00
21
SNOW REMOVAL
Appropriation $1,000 00
Appropiation, special meeting, April 27 5,000 00
Amount available $6,000 00
Amount carried forward $6,000 00
44
Amount brought forward
$1,624 99
Hadlock, Ralph B.
11 00
Harris, Henry M.
21 00
Harris, Henry M., Jr.
12 50
Hatstatt, F. G.
2 87
Hatstatt, F. W.
12 75
Handy, Fred L.
5 00
Hautio, M.
19 50
Hayden, Walter
5 25
Herrick, Leander
23 00
Herrick, VanBuren, Jr.
23 00
Hoyt, Manley R.
36 25
Hoyt, Ruland, G.
10 50
Hunt, F. S.
3 50
Hunt, Walter C.
65 25
Hunt, W. E.
20 20
Hunt, W. J.
33 50
Johnson, A. H.
67 00
Josephson, Arthur
23 45
Josephson, Edwin
14 25
Josephson, William
46 50
Kehoe, Fred
89 80
Kitchen, L. E.
25 00
La Towne, Della
83 50
La Towne, Hector
71 50
La Towne, Ralph
14 18
La Towne, Roy
10 00
Leavitt, E. M.
32 50
Liimataine, John
76 50
Liimataine, W.
37 50
Liimataine, V.
15 00
Locke, Freddie
17 00
Locke, Fred R.
20 50
Locke, W. L.
13 50
Loff, Carl
3 75
Amount carried forward
$2,591 49
45
Amount brought forward
$2,591 49
Loker, W. M.
24 50
Loverin, Guy
8 50
Mann, Nelson
5 40
Manning, S. J.
23 00
Marsh, Cornelius
32 75
Marsh, E. D.
15 00
Martin, John J.
1 00
Mattson, Matti
39 75
Mattson, N.
78 50
Maynard, Ervin L.
9 25
Maynard, W. H.
80 00
Miles, George H.
2 00
Miles, Joseph
7 00
Moore, Leslie S.
17 00
Morasky, William
49 75
Myers, Leo
22 50
Myers, P. J.
7 00
Mundy, W. H.
32 00
Newcomb, John P.
44 50
Niham, M.
37 00
O'Connor, J. E.
9 00
Oliver, Chester T.
11 75
Paris, Wm.
3 50
Pettegrew, M. H.
34 75
Plouff, John E.
31 50
Powe, Thos. J.
43 50
Prescott, W. H.
18 00
Prigodo, John
29 50
Prison Camp and Hospital
582 81
Putnam, Mark B.
2 50
Putnam, Walter C.
18 00
Punkari, John
7 50
Roper Lumber & Bx. Co.
6 00
Rice, George H.
78 75
Amount carried forward $4,004 95
46
Amount brought forward
$4,004 95
Sargent, Walter
22 75
Sargent, Newton I.
32 25
Seaver, W. G.
5 00
Segar, W. L.
100 62
Shea, Dennis
54 50
Smith, Edgar
44 50
Smith, George E.
69 00
Smith, Horace E.
64 50
Strong, Benjamin, Jr.
9 00
Sutton, Frank A.
94 50
Taiple, E.
63 60
Taiple, N.
46 50
Taylor, C. E.
45 50
Taylor, G. M.
68 00
Temple, Ervin F.
60 75
Temple, Ralph W.
36 50
Temple, W. C.
3 75
Towne, Roscoe C.
14 00
Upham, W. R.
36 25
Viner, Edward
23 10
Viner, Lloyd
25 50
Wales, Albert F.
83 00
Ward, L. U.
198 00
Welch, B. J.
193 50
Welch, J. J.
46 00
Welch, T. F.
58 25
Wheeler, H. E.
62 50
Wheeler, Merrill
16 00
Willis, George H.
255 50
$5,837 77
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SNOW FENCE
Appropriation
$200 00
Expenditure:
Brown, A. F., labor
$38 50
George, Howard, labor
2 00
George, Joseph, labor
2 00
Griffin, Mrs. C. W., supplies
1 67
Jaques, George L., lumber
100 00
Marsh, E. D., cartage
6 00
Munroe, John W., labor
1 00
151 17
Unexpended
$48 83
23 STREET LIGHTS
Appropriation :
For Town of Rutland
$900 00
For Rutland Worsted Co.
150 00
$1,050 00
Expended :
Gardner Electric Light Co., lights
879 60
Rutland Worsted Co., lights
150 00
1,029 60
Unexpended
$20 40
24 SURETY ON BONDS
Appropriation
$50 00
Expended :
Hanff, Louis M., tax collector bond $30 00
Hanff, Louis M., treasurer bond
20 00
50 00
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25
TRADE SCHOOL TUITION
Appropriation
Com. of Mass., reimbursement
Expended :
City of Worcester, tuition
290 65
Overdrawn
$24 76
26 TREE WARDEN
Appropriation
$25 00
Expended :
Wheeler, H. Edward, labor
35 37
Overdrawn
$10 37
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IMPROVED ROAD (Barre, Paxton Road) (Special)
Appropriation :
Town of Rutland
$1,000 00
Worcester County
2,000 00
Amount available $3,000 00
Expended :
Bianchi, Carlo, Co.
3,000 00
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES J. CAMPBELL, CHARLES E. CARROLL, DANIEL J. FITZGERALD, Selectmen of Rutland.
$200 00 65 89
$265 89
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REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEERS
The fire engineers met and organized with the same officers as last year. We have answered four alarms for house fires in the past year, two of which did slight damage. A chimney fire at the home of Mrs. O'Herron set fire to the shingles and burned a hole in the roof, causing a loss of $300. Here is a case where the value of one extinguisher was demonstrated, as it is the opinion of both Mr. O'Herron and the engineers that, if that extinguisher had not been on hand ready for business, the loss would have been in the thousands instead of the hundreds. We also had a fire under the fireplace at the home of W. R. Upham, causing a damage of $100.
We have placed eight more of these extinguishers this year, making a total of forty-two that have been placed by the engineers. They are placed one each as follows: Michael J. Cullen, John J. Welch, Elizabeth Doyle, George H. Rice, Henry R. Robinson, Frank E. Allen, George M. Taylor, John Plouff, Matthew Delehanty, Estate of Dennis O'Herron, W. J. Brodmerkle, George M. Davis, G. H. Willis, Waino Ketonen, Homer B. Loverin, W. R. Upham, W. L. Seger, Mattie E. Smith, Lewis R. Bigelow, Albert F. Wales, Werner Limiataine, John Limiataine, Nelson Calkins, Nestor Mattson, Emil Tapaile, William Moraskey, Patrick J. Myers, Carl Adamson, Walter M. Loker, John Punkari, W. G. Seaver, Ervin L. Maynard, Della Latown, John C. Fiske, F. W. Hatstat, A. J. Pouppeville, Clar- ence L. Bonker, A. S. Charter, J. C. Speirs, E. H. Crosby, Mikka Hautio, Oscar Wendt.
In addition to this there are thirty-four extinguishers owned privately, as follows: Moulton Mfg. Co., 15; B. W. Potter, 3; E. L. Newcomb, 2; Town Hall, 2; Lewis Drury, 1; L. M. Hanff, 1; N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co., at L. M. Hanff's, 1; C. W. Putnam, 1;
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Masonic Hall, 2; Rufus Putnam Memorial, 2; Newton I. Sargent, 1; C. J. Campbell, 1; P. D. Murphy, 1.
We would appreciate it if any others who own extinguishers would report it to us, as when we are inspecting and recharging the town extinguishers we would be glad to include all those owned privately, free of charge. All the extinguishers which we have placed out were inspected and recharged in October, and with five exceptions all were found in good working order; of these five, one was found to be entirely empty, two had been accidentally tipped over, and two had been frozen enough to break the bottle. Any of these would have been absolutely use- less in case of fire, until they had been recharged. We would warn all custodians of extinguishers to watch out for these things, as the first minute when a fire starts is the most valuable and it is the wish of the engineers that the townspeople get the greatest possible good out of these extinguishers.
We might also state that these extinguishers that have been placed are the property of the town and are for use anywhere they are needed. We hope to place out at least another dozen extinguishers next year. We would recommend an appropria- tion of three hundred dollars next year and would call your attention to the need, in the near future, of a motor-driven ap- paratus for the ladders and hose to replace the large hose reel and the ladder truck now in use.
The expenses of the Fire Department for the past year have been as follows:
$69 00
C. T. Oliver, filling extinguishers
2 00
Gardner Electric Light Co., lights
7 20
R. W. Temple, denatured alcohol
1 10
Star Auto Radiator Co., repairing radiator
7 50
E. D. Marsh, coal
61 89
E. D. Marsh, express, cartage and supplies
7 03
E. F. Dahill & Co., extinguishers
80 00
Com. of Mass, wire brooms
6 25
Amount carried forward
$241 97
C. T. Oliver, janitor
51
Amount brought forward $241 97
J. E. O'Connor, gas and oil
6 75
W. E. Hunt, lamps 1 10
Brewer & Co., acid and soda
17 70
R. M. Loughman, auto repairs
5 00
Badger Fire Ext. Co., supplies
2 11
American LaFrance Fire Engine Co., lanterns and hose jacket 18 71
H. E. Wheeler, express, postage and supplies 11 14
$304 48
Respectfully submitted,
H. E. WHEELER,
C. T. OLIVER,
PATRICK D. MURPHY,
LOUIS M. HANFF, E. D. MARSH,
Fire Engineers.
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REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF POOR For the Year Ending December 31, 1920
Fully Supported
No. 1. Charlton Poor Farm Association $235 27
No. 2. Mrs. S. C. Johnson 186 38
Partially Supported
No. 1. City of Worcester, City Hospital 18 90
Charlton Poor Farm Association assessment 34 44
Louis M. Hanff, postage, fares to Boston 12 25
Aid furnished state case
369 73
MOTHERS' AID
Rutland Cases
No. 1
$598 40
No. 2
66 00
State Cases
No. 1
$628 11
No. 2
682 95
$2,831 53
Town Appropriation
$1,400 00
Due from state poor case
369 73
Due from state Mothers' Aid cases
1,311 06
Due from state, one-third town Mothers' Aid 221 47
$3,302 26
Total expended
2,831 53
Unexpended
$470 73
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH E. WARE, MATTHEW J. CULLEN, LOUIS M. HANFF,
Rutland, January 1, 1921.
Overseers of Poor.
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REPORT OF THE CHARLTON POOR FARM ASSOCIATION For the Year Ending December 31, 1920
RECEIPTS
Milk
$3,006 15
Eggs
81 45
Miscellaneous
76 45
Stock
421 04
Inmates' board
5,619 46
Boarders
869 70
Animal assessment
828 35
$10,902 60
EXPENDITURES
Carl M. Wheeler and wife
$1,100 01
Labor, inside and outside
950 98
Groceries
1,584 94
Meats and provisions
1,159 65
Grain
1,200 88
Oil and gasoline
148 30
Blacksmithing
29 75
Drugs
41 70
Tobacco
205 37
Medical attendance
74 50
Supplies
508 10
Miscellaneous
658 77
Stock
208 00
Coal
538 47
Fertilizer
168 63
Repairs
19 95
Rent and interest
663 31
Telephone
39 77
Amount carried forward
$9,301 08
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Amount brought forward
$9,301 08
Clothing, etc.
283 44
Hardware
34 41
Seed
87 50
Lime
137 50
Horse hire
24 00
Pasturage
50 00
Paid on auto truck
750 00
$10,667 93
Balance in favor of Association
$235 67
Received and due from towns of the Association for board of
inmates:
Ashburnham
$235 27
Boylston
550 88
Brookfield
586 23
Charlton
460 26
Holden
313 05
Hardwick
77 78
Hubbardston
7 06
Leicester
116 99
Millbury
1,302 97
Princeton
329 78
Rutland
235 27
Sterling
698 11
Westminster
705 81
$5,619 46 Total number of weeks for inmates, 1,251. For boarders, 160. No inmates from Auburn, Holland, Oakham and Paxton.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM H. PARKMAN, President.
LOUIS M. HANFF,
Charlton, January 1, 1921.
Secretary and Treasurer.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT WATER DEPARTMENT
DR.
Gardner Electric Co., power
$1,557 48
Edward Viner, pumping and repairs
605 13
Michael Nihen, labor
9 00
E. H. Tripp, printing
8 50
Central Supply Co., supplies
2 90
C. W. Griffin Estate, supplies
3 21
National Meter Co., repairs
3 62
Graton & Knight, repairs on belts
2 87
Worthington Pump & Machine Co., supplies
6 89
Crosby Steam Gage Co., repairs
3 95
Neptune Meter Co., repairs for meters
6 81
E. D. Marsh, coal
19 38
H. E. Smith, labor
15 00
George H. Miles, supt. services
50 00
George H. Miles, reading meters, etc.
75 00
George H. Miles, labor, telephone and supplies 53 22
Boston & Maine R. R., freight
42
Interest on water loan 288 44
$2,711 82
CR.
Bills rendered State Sanatorium, 1920 $3,346 14
Bills rendered Town Collector from
December to June 883 96
Amount carried forward
$4,230 10
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Amount brought forward $4,230 10
Bills rendered Town Collector from June to December 947 09 Bills rendered Town Collector for extras 24 00
Public building Watering tubs
20 00
10 00
Total receipts
$5,231 19
Total expenses
2,711 82
Balance in favor of town
$2,519 37
GEORGE H. MILES, Superintendent.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Appropriation
$50 00
Appropriation, Dog Fund
256 49
Balance from last year
49 70
Total
$356 19
Paid Edna Wheeler, librarian
$150 00
J. S. Wesby & Son, binding
29 60
Denholm & McKay Co., books
132 92
$312 52
Balance unexpended
$43 67
Librarian's Report :
On hand January 1, 1920
$4 10
From fines and cards
31 26
For magazines
33 00
$68 36
Paid for magazines
$31 10
Books
20 00
Incidentals
11 87
Total
$62 97
Balance on hand
$5 39
Circulation
6,430
Books given
48
Books purchased
99
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Books have been given by Miss Upham, Miss Lillian Dunton, John V. Jewett, Miss Idella Bigelow, and the Division of Public Libraries.
Magazines have been given by David F. Putnam, Rev. Stanley C. Sherman, the Christian Endeavor, Mrs. Sarah K. Woodis, the Division of Public Libraries, the American Humane Education Society, the National Geographic Society, and the Christian Science Publishing Society.
Money for magazines was given by the Eastern Star, the Fire Department, the Woman's Union, the Grange, and the Home Relief Society.
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When George C. Marshall Post G. A. R. was given up, the Adjutant General directed that all records in the possession of the last Commander, Mr. L. Q. Spaulding, be placed in the Public Library for safe keeping. This has accordingly been done.
The increased patronage of the Reading Room, and circulation of books, and excellent work of the Librarian, assure us that the past year has been successful.
FRANCES P. HANFF, MARY E. MILES, HATTIE S. GRIFFIN, Library Trustees.
BOOKS ADDED TO THE LIBRARY LAST YEAR
Air Service Medical Manual
World Almanac Way of an Eagle
A Man for the Ages Public Saftey
House of Baltazar
Man with Three Names Unbroken Lines
History of Clinton
War Department Pulitzer Dell Bacheller Lyman Locke MacGrath Comstock Ford ..
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Lynch Lawyers Harbor Road Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children Rim o' the World His Official Fiancee
Free Air
Man That Never Grew Up
Bars of Iron
Sweethearts Unmet
Shadow of Sheltering Pines
Peter Jameson
Eating in 2 or 3 Languages
Garden of Allah
Test of Scarlett
Cross Pull
Barbara of Baltimore
Man Who Couldn't Sleep
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
Cardinal Mercier's Own Story
A Labrador Doctor
Wilderness Mine
Miss Million's Maid
Eve to the Rescue
Top of the World
Nancy Goes to Town
Harriet and the Piper
Mary Marie Red and Black
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenby The Portygee
Raspberry Jam
Happily Married
Gold Girl
Middle Temple Murder
Tempering
Line's Busy
Land Girl's Love Story
White Bassett Bishop Bower Ruck Lewis Lathrop Dell Ruck White Frankau Cobb Hichens Dawsen Evarts Taylor Stringer Gregory Mercier
Bindloss Ruck Hueston Dell Sterrett Norris Porter Richmond Tracy Lincoln Wells Harris Hendryx Fletcher Buck Ulman Ruck
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Anderson Crow Detective Skinner Makes It Fashionable Not All the King's Horses Youth of James Whitcomb Riley Rivers End Sherry Man Four Square The Undefeated
Ladies in Waiting Miracle Man
The Search
Walls of Partition
Man from Tall Timbers
Her Rescue from the Turks
The 55th Artillery
With Fighting Battery C
Man of the Forest
Mary Minds Her Business
The Rambling Kid
The Making o' Joe
The Shepherd of the Sea
Tobias o' the Light
Bab, A Sub-Deb
Up the Road with Sallie
Exit Betty New Geography
The Iron Furrow
Kindred of the Dust Abington Abbey
The Thread of Flame
Jimmy the Sixth
No Defence
Children of Storm
Agatha's Aunt Lucinda
Egan
Turn about Tales
Mccutcheon Dodge Chamberlain Dickey Curwood Mccutcheon Raine Snaith Wiggin Packard Lutz Barclay Holmes Rathborne Cutler Sirois and McGinnis Grey Weston Bowman Sweet Leverage Cooper Rinehart Sterrett Lutz Atwood Shedd Kyne Marshall King Sterrett Parker Wylie Smith Hope Hall Rice
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When Love Flies Out o' the Window A Poor Wise Man Further Chronicles of Avonlea The Wall Between The Trumpeter Swan
Purple Heights
Prairie Mother
Storm Country Polly
Mary-Girl Returned Empty
The Touch of Abner
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame
Merrick Rinehart Montgomery Bassett Bailey Oemiler Stringer White Merrick Barclay Cody Hanshew
JUVENILE BOOKS
Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
Burgess
Adventures of Old Man Coyote
Burgess
Adventures of Prickley Porky
Burgess
Bowser the Hound
Burgess
Rick and Ruddy
Babs
Garis Colver Otis Peatte
Mary of Plymouth
Sarah Brewster's Relatives
Happy Acres
Turpin
Marjorie's Quest
A Cavalier Maid
Slipper Point Mystery
When She Came from College
Little Jean
Genevieve
Captain Kituk
Cinderella
What Bird Is That?
Young Folk's Cyclopedia
Little Mother Goose
Pilot of the Mayflower
Master Simon's Garden
Gould Knipe Seaman Hurd and Wilson Brown Porter Snell Henderson Chapman Champlain Smith Butterworth Meigs
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The Cock, the Mouse and the Little Red Hen Nancy Rutledge Little Gateway of Science
Bobby and the Big Road With the Little Folks
Stories of Royal Children
Old Ryerson Handy Pandy
Bowser the Hound
American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles
Betty Blue
Elephant Stories
Paul and the Printing Press New Boy
Steam-Shovel Man
Mercier
Three Little Pigs and the Foolish Pig
Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
That Year at Lincoln High
The Likable Chap
Horsemen of the Plains
Camerons of the Highboro
Polly Trotter, Patriot
The Plant Baby and Its Friends
Colonial Stories
Retold from St. Nicholas
Young People's History of the Pilgrims
Griffis Curtis
A Little Old Maid of Massachusetts Colony Soldier Rigdale
Little Maid of Provincetown
Argonauts of Faith
Dix Curtis Mathiews Tunicliff Perkins
Story of Pilgrim Fathers
Scotch Twins
Pilgrim Maid
Taggart
When I Was a Girl in Mexico
Godoy Burgess
Adventures of Buster Bear
Lefevere Pyle Patch Lindsay Wright Retold from St. Nicholas Camp Wright Burgess Beard Wright
Retold from St. Nicholas Bassett Pier Paine Kellog
Wright Burgess Gollomb Davenport Altsheler Gilchrist Knipe Brown
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
For the Year Ending December 31, 1920
For the attendance by schools and terms, see statistical table in the Superintendent's report.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Town appropriation
$11,500 00
Promotion of health 25 00
Balance of state funds
70 48
$11,595 48
Overdrawn
1,296 06
$12,891 54
TOTAL EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE SCHOOLS
Salaries of teachers
$7,267 88
Transportation
2,391 90
Supervision
895 28
Books and supplies 456 25
Janitors and fuel, North and West Rutland
172 69
Center schools, janitor and fuel
1,591 30
Sundries
91 24
Promotion of Health
25 00
$12,891 54
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SALARIES OF TEACHERS
John V. Jewett, High School Principal $1,000 80 Channing H. Greene, High School Prin- cipal 600 00
Miss Ethel F. Putnam, Assistant, High School 460 00
Mrs. Vera A. Drury, Assistant, High School 375 00
Miss Lucy E. Donahue, Center Schools 865 33
Miss Bernice L. Prouty, Center Schools 394 20
Miss Mary Tilly, Center Schools 416 10
Miss Elizabeth Savage, Center Schools 153 30
Miss Doris L. Prescott, Center Schools 737 80
Miss Catherine Sherry, Center Schools
375 00
Miss Anastasia Brown, Center Schools
375 00
Miss Anastasia Brown, North Rutland
145 31
Miss Edith T. Miles, North Rutland
635 59
Miss Alice C. Grey, West Rutland
200 25
Miss Flora A. Jean, West Rutland
615 20
Miss Ethel Willard, Substitute, West Rutland
16 00
Miss Hazel Allen, Substitute, West Rutland 3 00
$7,267 88
TRANSPORTATION
Matthew J. Cullen
$356 00
Merrill H. Wheeler
474 60
Weston R. Upham
372 50
Mrs. H. M. Harris
372 00
Nils Taipole
276 00
Charles J. Campbell
174 00
Oscar Wendt
175 00
Deller Latowne
191 80
$2,391 90
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BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
Edward E. Babb & Co.
$160 10
J. L. Hammett Co.
125 60
Dowling School Supply Co.
21 60
The Macmillan Co.
37 58
Ryan and Baker
15 16
World Book Co.
15 13
Rand, McNally Co.
13 00
Allyn & Bacon
14 09
Milton Bradley Co.
8 31
Lloyd Adams Noble
12 78
Kenney Bros. & Walkins
22 38
J. F. Ryan
10 53
$456 25
SUNDRIES
American Seating Co., desks repairs
$28 80
Skelley Printing Co., printing
18 50
John Dickson, stove casing
19 85
Brewer & Co., supplies
3 40
H. W. Calkins, cartage
75
Boston & Maine Railroad, freight
2 08
James C. Speirs, supplies
13 86
Harold E. Davis, cleaning
3 00
Joseph E. Ware, cleaning stove pipe
1 00
$91 24
JANITORS
Andrew S. Charter, West Rutland
$33 44
George Andrews, West Rutland
6 00
Oscar Nordquist, West Rutland
20 00
Earl Santaman, West Rutland
10 50
Harold E. Davis, North Rutland
16 75
$86 69
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FUEL
Henry W. Calkins, wood
$56 00
George H. Rice, wood
30 00
$86 00
SUPERVISION
James R. Childs, superintendent
$666 68
Louis M. Hanff, School Committee 25 00
William C. Temple, School Committee 20 00
George N. Lapham, School Committee, 3 years 45 00
James R. Childs, office supplies 45 59
James R. Childs, travel expense
52 50
John V. Jewett, school census, etc.
11 76
Louis M. Hanff, postage and expense
4 75
Town of Oakham, tuition
24 00
$895 28
PROMOTION OF HEALTH
Dr. William E. Chamberlain $25 00 $25 00
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM C. TEMPLE, GEORGE N. LAPHAM, LOUIS M. HANFF,
School Committee.
Rutland, January 1, 1921.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Holden, Mass., December 31, 1920.
To the School Committee of Rutland:
My third annual report, the twenty-first in the series since the formation of the present union, is presented herewith for your consideration.
The past year has been characterized by progress and a marked improvement in accomplishment, due to the fact that we have been able to retain a large proportion of our teachers. It is more difficult than it was a year ago to get good teachers, and we have been fortunate in having so few changes. Though there is doubtless a readjustment coming in wages, those who have made a study of the subject are sure that teachers' salaries will have to be increased still further, if we hope to attract men and women of ability into the teaching profession. It is good to note that there is already a tendency toward lower prices for books and supplies. This, together with the additional re- imbursement from the state as provided for by the legislation referred to last year, will enable us to continue the wise policy of increasing salaries in order to secure and hold the best teachers.
There have been other recent educational laws enacted that will be of interest. One provides that pupils three or more years behind the normal grade shall be grouped for special instruction. Another requires the transportation of pupils who live over two miles from the school they are entitled to attend. American History and Civics with special reference to training for the duties of citizenship must be taught in elementary and high school, according to another new law. A new salary scale has been determined for superintendents, and provision for the payment of travel expenses. The state increases the amount
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of reimbursement to two-thirds of salary and expenses for travel. Under the provisions of the law setting aside four million dollars from the income tax for schools, referred to last year, we shall receive about $1,500. Another new law requires that a child must have completed the work in reading, writing and spelling as required for the SIXTH grade, before he may leave school.
Two years ago we dropped one teacher from the High School. I believe that the recommendation made last year that we in- troduce a Household Arts Course and add the third teacher, will do much to build up our high school and make it worth more to the community. I hope this may be given serious consideration. There would be reimbursement from the state to cover nearly half of her salary. This would enable us to add some other subjects and further enrich our program. We should have work in Manual Training for the boys as well as Household Arts for the girls. The present course of study has in mind those who are preparing for other schools rather than those who complete their schooling here. That is, we are educating our boys and girls to go away from home rather than preparing them for living in Rutland.
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