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ANALYSIS OF ABOVE EXPENSE
Bouguist, R. J.
$24 32
Brodmerkle, Richard
7 83
Brown, A. F. and others
36 90
Calkins, H. G.
83 91
Christianson, Carl P.
5 25
Delehanty, Matthew
18 70
Dingley, Freeland
1 40
Harlow, L. H.
6 78
Hautio, Mike
4 40
LaTowne, Della
2 86
LaTowne, Hector
2 86
LaTowne, Ray
1 98
Mattson, Nester
14 96
Maynard, William
6 80
Punkari, John
21 12
Rice, Geo. H.
20 40
Sargent, Walter
3 08
Sergen, W. L.
13 42
Sutton, Frank A.
12 32
Taipale, Nils
9 24
Taipale, Emil
17 32
Temple, Ervin
1 75
Ward, L. U.
41 04
Welch, B. J.
24 28
Welch, Thos. F.
7 48
Wendt, Oscar
24 72
Wellington, Fred
4 37
Willis, G. H.
30 17
Willis, James
4 84
Wheeler, H. Edward
76 90
Wolf, Henry L.
5 28
Viner, Lloyd
3 52
$540 20
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28 SNOW FENCE
Appropriation
$50 00
Expended:
Brown, A. F., superintendent $22 56
Jefferson, Wm. H., lumber
26 40
48 96
Unexpended
$1 04
29 STREET LIGHTS
Appropriation
$1,300 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
7 00
Total available
$1,307 00
Expended :
Gardner Electric Light Co.
$1,156 05
Rutland Worsted Co.
150 00
1,306 05
Unexpended
$0 95
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NORTH RUTLAND HIGHWAY (Special)
Appropriation
$2,053 09
Expended:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2,053 09
31 TRACTOR (Special)
Appropriation
$1,435 00
Expended :
Southbridge Tractor Co. 1,435 00
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PUBLIC CHARITIES
Salaries of Board Appropriation Expended : Cullen, Matthew J.
$60 00
15 00
Unexpended
$45 00
Department Expenses
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Expended (see report, Overseer of Poor)
881 36
Unexpended
$118 64
33 MOTHERS' AID (Resident)
Appropriation
$300 00
Expended (see report, Overseer of Poor)
579 26
Overdrawn
$279 26
34 MOTHERS' AID (Non-resident)
Appropriation
$600 00
Expended (see report, Overseer of Poor)
580 88
Unexpended
$19 12
35 STATE POOR
Appropriation
$450 00
Expended (see report, Overseer of Poor)
356 01
Unexpended $93 99
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36 STATE AID
Appropriation Expended :
$168 00
Temple, W. C., Treas.
102 00
Unexpended
$66 00
37 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Appropriation
$16,000 00
Appropriation, school physician
25 00
Balance, General School Fund 1,422 86
Total available $17,447 86
Expended (see report, School Com-
mittee)
$16,629 95
Two-thirds net expense public buildings 1,712 40 18,342 35
Overdrawn
$894 49
38 TRADE SCHOOL
Appropriation $300 00
Expended :
City of Worcester
271 44
Unexpended
$28 56
39 LIBRARY
Appropriation
$50 00
Unexpended (1921)
39
Dog Fund (1921)
324 85
Total available $375 24
Expended (see report, Library Trustee)
324 30
Unexpended $50 94
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40
MEMORIAL DAY
$125 00
Appropriation Expended:
Denholm, McKay Co., flags
$6 00
Fuller Regalia Co., flags 8 75
Griffin, Nellie I., supplies
4 86
Prescott, W. J., music
65 00
Rutland Garage, livery
15 00
Tomlinson, Rev. Vincent E., speaker
15 00
114 61
Unexpended
$10 39
41 NEW BOSTON CEMETERY
Appropriation
$20 00
Expended :
Wellington, F. D.
$5 60
Wheeler, H. Edward
5 60
11 20
Unexpended
$8 80
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MISCELLANEOUS
Appropriation
$550 00
Expended :
Adams, John J., clock repairs $41 40
Boston & Maine R. R. Co., freight 62
Bryant, Geo. A., clock repairs 69 00
Campbell, Chas. J., telephone 2 60
Carter Ink Co., ink 2 75
Com. of Mass., Reg. of tractor
10 00
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Commonwealth Press, printing Town
Report 230 00
Davis & Banister, office supplies 1 70
Gammon, A. F., office supplies 6 55
Hunt, W. H., repairing soldiers' monu-
ment 14 00
New England Tel. & Tel. Co., tel.
13 19
Oliver, C. T., care of clock
12 00
Tripp, E. H., printing
12 50
Tripp, E. H., printing, valuation book
140 00
Marsh, E. Dexter, overpayment
1 98
558 29
Overdrawn
$8 29
43 RESERVE FUND
Appropriation
$500 00
Transferred to:
1. Selectmen's expense appro. $12 00
2. Auditor's salary appro. 50 00
2. Auditor's expense appro.
1 50
3. Treasurer's expense appro. 2 50
4. Collector's expense appro.
48 00
5. Assessor's expense appro.
25 00
7. Election and registration ex- pense appro. 35 00
8. Legal department appro. 100 00
10. Public building repairs appro. 50 00
14. Fires and Forest fires
150 00
15. Forest Warden appro.
2 00
29. Street light appro.
7 00
46. Water Commissioner's salary appro. 17 00
$500 00
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TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
Appropriation
$100 00
Expended :
Rutland Historical and Improv. Society
100 00
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WATER COMMISSIONER'S SALARY
Appropriation
$35 00
Transferred from Reserve Fund
17 00
Total available
$52 00
Expended :
Hunt, W. E.
$15 60
Marsh, E. Dexter
18 00
Miles, Geo. H.
18 00
51 60
Unexpended
$0 40
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NOTES AND INTEREST
Appropriation
$4,500 00
Temporary loan
29,000 00
Interest on Water Loan
203 76
Interest on taxes
583 37
Total available
$34,287 13
Expended :
Commonwealth of Mass., Water Loan $1,000 00
Worcester Bank & Trust Co., Im-
. proved Road Loans 1,500 00
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Worcester Bank & Trust Co., Truck Loan 1,200 00
Worcester Bank & Trust Co., tem-
porary loan
29,000 00
Total notes
32,700 00
Interest
2,146 85
34,846 85
Overdrawn
$559 72
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ORDERS PREVIOUS YEARS
Appropriation
$1,650 00
Expended :
Allen & Jesse Co., auto, livery $2 00
Boston & Maine R. R. Co., freight 1 93
Brodmerkle, W. J., snow removal 5 50
Brodmerkle, Richard, snow removal
5 55
Chamberlain, W. E., M. D., Board of Health 25 00
Douglas, Dr. E. S., birth return
50
Delehanty, Matthew, snow removal, etc. 16 94
Flaherty, E. R., snow removal
17 60
Field, Kenneth A.
25 00
Fritze, Ernest, moth work
13 14
Griffin, Miles, salary
150 00
Griffin, Nellie I., supplies
35 90
Hanff, L. M., salaries and expenses 261 80
Holbrook, Anthony, Meat Inspector
50 50
Hunt, W. E., Water Commissioner
6 00
Kitchen, Lewis E., snow, etc.
22 26
Leavitt, E. M., dog officer
25 00
Lucke, Fred R., livery 2 00
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Marsh, E. D., election officer 3 50
Mattson, Nestor, snow removal 2 20
Miles, George H., public building
30 10
Mussio, Matthew, snow removal 12 32
Nowskowski, S. A. 25
O'Toole, Robert F., setting tablet 42 25
Prescott Leslie, Water Department 2 00
Rutland Garage, auto livery, etc.
41 26
Rutland Worsted Co., electric lights
37 50
Segar, W. L., snow removal 7 48
Stewart, C. & Son, retubing boiler
489 50
Smith, Geo. E., Assessor
7 20
Tripp, E. H., printing
7 75
Wendt, Oscar, snow removal
10 59
Ward, L. V., snow removal
40 00
Wheeler H. Edward, and others, fires and moth
39 00
Worcester, City of, Trade School
82 11
1,521 63
Unexpended
$128 37
Respectfully submitted, CHARLES J. CAMPBELL, CHARLES E. CARROLL, H. EDWARD WHEELER, Selectmen of Rutland.
AUDITOR'S REPORT
I have examined the accounts of the Selectmen, Treasurer, and Tax Collector of the Town of Rutland for the year 1922 and found them correct.
FRANCIS X. POWERS,
Auditor.
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REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEERS
The fire engineers organized with E. D. Marsh chief engineer and clerk and C. T. Oliver assistant engineer.
We have had very few calls for house fires during the last year, only one of which caused heavy loss, which was the house of Mikko Hautio on June 13. We have distributed six more fire extinguishers in the outlying district, which makes sixty distri- buted. These were all inspected during the fall, and with one or two exceptions they were found in good working condition.
The expenses of the fire department the past year have been as follows:
Gardner Electric Light $9 48
N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co. 31 35
R. W. Temple, gas 2 74
E. D. Marsh, coal 99 28
E. D. Marsh, use of automobile and testing extinguishers
10 20
H. E. Wheeler, testing extinguishers and hydrants 9 20
Robert Many, extinguisher repairs 16 85
Fire service, record book 10 00
H. E. Wheeler, extinguishers
75 00
Brewer and Co., chemicals and supplies
26 50
Sunnyside Garage, truck repairs
30 45
Motor Car Equipment Co., tubes and rims 12 01
Nellie I. Griffin, gas and supplies
4 00
R. M. Loughman, gas
1 96
S. L. Colby, gas
2 50
C. T. Oliver, janitor
60 00
C. T. Oliver, express and freight
8 70
American Express Co. 44
W. E. Hunt, janitor
6 00
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Badger Fire Extinguisher Co., repairs 11 25 1 48
H. E. Wheeler, express
Total
$429 39
We would recommend an appropriation of $600, of which $450 will be for the maintenance of the department and $150 for the purchase of new hose to take the place of some now in use which is in poor condition.
H. E. WHEELER, C. T. OLIVER, PATRICK D. MURPHY, L. M. HANFF, E. D. MARSH,
Fire Engineers.
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REPORT OF THE FOREST WARDEN
An appropriation of $150.00 was made at the last annual town meeting for fires and forest fires. It became necessary before the close of the year to draw an additional $150.00 from the Reserve Fund, which made a total amount available for the above purpose of $300.00. From this amount there was drawn for the expense of forest fires $267.11. The town has been reimbursed from various sources on this account to the amount of $147.80, making a net expense to the town because of forest fires of $119.31.
Eighty-three permits for building fires have been issued.
Four fires were lighted without permits, and all damages caused by these fires have been paid.
Twelve alarms were answered, six of which were calls from Mount Wachusett.
The department also responded to one call from Barre and one from Oakham.
Respectfully submitted, H. EDWARD WHEELER, Forest Warden.
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REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR For the Year Ending December 31, 1922
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Fully Supported .
No. 1. Charlton Poor Farm Association $214 70
No. 2. Charlton Poor Farm Association 132 41
No. 3. Mrs. S. C. Johnson 188 15
Partially Supported
No. 1. City Hospital, Boston 11 43
Charlton Poor Farm Association Assessment 29 97
Two-thirds Mothers' Aid, Rutland case 386 18
$962 54
Mothers' Aid, Rutland case
$579 26
Aid to Cases Having Settlements in Other Places
No. 1. Mothers' Aid
$580 88
No. 2. Temporary Aid, State case 356 01
No. 3. Mrs. Geo. H. Rice, child's board 280 00
No. 4.
Kenneth Field, child's board
50 00
$1,266 89
Due from State and Other Places
State One-third, Rutland case
$193 08
State One-third, Cambridge case 193 63
State Temporary aid case 356 01
City of Cambridge, two-thirds
387 25
City of Woburn, child's board
280 00
City of Haverhill, child's board
50 00
$1,459 97
Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH E. WARE, MATTHEW J. CULLEN, LOUIS M. HANFF, Overseers of the Poor.
Rutland, January 1, 1923.
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REPORT OF THE CHARLTON POOR FARM ASSOCIATION For the Year Ending December 31, 1922
RECEIPTS
Milk
$2707 68
Eggs
52 14
Stock
603 00
Inmates board
5,102 66
Boarders
1,327 04
Miscellaneous
131 15
Annual assessment
756 05
Interest on deposit
7 66
Balance, 1921
6 75
$10,694 13
EXPENDITURES
C. M. Wheeler and wife
$1,200 00
Outside labor
635 67
Inside labor
365 00
Miscellaneous
184 40
Groceries
1,165 52
Meat
633 92
Grain and feed
1,124 23
Oil and gasoline
163 15
Tobacco
168 26
Supplies
991 37
Clothing
424 65
Drugs and medical attendance
90 41
Electricity, etc.
77 89
Blacksmithing
59 09
Telephone
42 13
Coal
315 91
Rent and interest
674 04
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Seed
40 90
Stock
168 00
Hardware
47 05
Machinery
40 65
Lime and fertilizer
309 12
Veterinary
11 00
N. E. M. P. A. dues
13 00
$8,945 36
Received and Due for Inmates
Ashburnham
$234 63
Auburn
61 70
Boylston
469 26
Brookfield
469 26
Charlton
351 62
East Brookfield
109 27
Leicester
371 62
Millbury
1,191 77
Oakham
3 20
Princeton
514 91
Rutland
386 97
Sterling
469 26
Westminster
469 26
$5,102 66
Balance in favor Association $1,748 77
Total number of weeks for inmates, 1,136 5/7. For boarders, 251 4/7 weeks. No inmates from Holland, Holden, Hardwick, Hubbardston and Paxton.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM H. PARKMAN, President.
LOUIS M. HANFF, Secretary and Treasurer.
Charlton, January 1, 1923.
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FINANCIAL REPORT WATER DEPARTMENT
DR.
Gardner Electric Light Co., power
$1,445 76
Edward Viner, labor 573 60
Smith and Green, supplies
1 50
Neptune Meter Co., supplies
102 55
Horace E. Smith, labor
27 00
E. D. Marsh, coal and labor
57 25
George Gordon, labor
47 75
Alfred Brown, repairs
16 62
Central Supply Co., supplies
72 07
Michael Nihen, labor
85 55
George M. Davis, labor
85 60
Joseph Power, labor
4 00
Nellie Griffin, supplies
1 39
Fierce, Butler, Pierce Corp., supplies
34 14
National Meter Co., repairs
95
Jack Martin, labor
20 00
American Powder Co., supplies
14 00
Worthing Pump Co., supplies
8 25
Leon Portrais, labor
26 00
Chester Oliver, labor
2 00
George Miles, labor and supplies
300 55
Boston & Maine R. R., freight
2 00
C. E. Carroll, labor
18 00
L. H. Harlow, labor
1 50
W. H. Maynard
16 50
American Express Co.
1 72
Interest on loan
203 76
$3,170 01
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CR.
Bills rendered Rutland State Sanatorium to December 31, 1922 $2,157 16
Bills rendered Town Collector to Decem- ber 31, 1922
2,385 25
Appropriation for public building
20 00
Appropriation for watering tubs
10 00
$4,572 41
Balance in favor of town
$1,402 40
GEORGE H. MILES, Superintendent.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Librarian's Report :
On hand Jan. 1, 1922
$3 54
Received from fines and cards
44 49
Received for magazines
30 00
$78 03
Paid for magazines
$26 50
For books
25 50
For incidentals
22 93
Total
$74 93
Balance on hand
3 10
Circulation
8,735
Books given
50
Books purchased
120
Books have been given by Miss Upham, David Putnam, Mrs. Parks, Mrs. Morris, and the Division of Public Libraries.
Magazines have been given by David Putnam, American Humane Society, Rev. Stanley C. Sherman, The National Geographic Society, the Division of Public Libraries, and the Dearborn Publishing Co.
Money for magazines was given by the Eastern Star, Woman's Union, Grange, and the Fire Department.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Appropriation
$50 00
Appropriation, Dog Fund 324 85
Balance from last year
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$375 24
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Paid Edna Wheeler, librarian Denholm & McKay, books
$180 00 144 30
$324 30
Balance unexpended $50 94 MARY E. MILES, HATTIE S. GRIFFIN, FRANCES P. HANFF, Library Trustees.
BOOKS ADDED LAST YEAR
Day of Faith To the Last Man
Roche Grey
Regulations for Military Camp
Joyous Trouble Maker
If Winter Comes
Gregory Hutchinson
Historic Events of Worcester
Resources and Industries of United States
Fisher Hill
Community Life and Civic Problems
Marriage of Patricia Pepperday
Hidden Places
Vandermark's Folly
Marie Chapdelaine
Ragged Edges
Head of the House of Coombe
Cloudy Jewel
Kendall's Sister
Shepherd of the Wilds
House of Mohun
Hermit of Far End
Shelia of Big Wreck Cove Robin
Vanishing of Betty Varian Snowdrift
White Sinclair Quick Hemon MacGrath Burnett Hill Swasey Marshall Gibbs Pedler
Cooper Burnett Wells Hendryx
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Settling of the Sage Rider of Golden Bar Wrong Mr. Right Six Feet Four Moon out of Reach Girl From Montana Return of Alfred
Q Vanishing Point Oh Susanna
Famous Mystery Stories Man Proposes
Steele of the Royal Mounted
Spinster of this Parish Years for Rachael
God's Country and the Woman Babbitt Lonesome Town Woman Haters
Breaking Point
Flaming Jewel
Northwest
Shoe-Bar Stratton
Valley of the Giants
Sky Line of Spruce
On Tiptoe All That Matters
Maid of Mirabelle
Zeppelin's Passenger
The Huntress Subconscious Courtship
World Book, Vol. I to X Sheriff of Silver Bow Amazing Inheritance
Wooing of Rosamond Fayre Foursquare
Granite and Clay
Evarts White Ruck Gregory Pedler Lutz ? Burt Dawson Minnegerode McSpadden Robinson Curwood Maxwell
Ruck Curwood Lewis Dorrance Lincoln Rinehart Chambers Bindloss Ames Kyne Marshall White Guest Robinson Oppenheim Footner
Ruck O'Shea Braley Sterrett
Ruck Richmond Bassett
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Dust Flower Two Shall be Born Postmaster Partners of the Tide Tales of Lonely Trails
Get Your Man
Country Beyond
Shorn Lamb
Sampson Kelland
Conflict
Fighting Edge
Raine Beach
Flowing Gold
Homestead Ranch
Gentle Julia
Little Leavan
Grey Squier Cooper
White Desert
Everlasting Whisper
Mystery Girl
Gregory Wells Robinson Bindloss
Man from the Wilds
Big Laurel
Bartlett
Literature of the World
Charles Rex
Richardson Dell Gregory Marquis
Joyous Trouble Maker
Who's Who in America
Dear Old "K"
Duane
Modern Verse
Forbes
Forging the Sword
Lady of the North Star
Tragedy at the Beach Club
Autobiography of Atkinson
Making of Our Country
Best Man Man Size
Lutz Raine
Dancers in the Dark
Speare
Glory Rides the Range
Dorrance MacMahon
Orphans of the Storm
King Oemler Lincoln Lincoln Grey Dorrance Curwood
Robinson Binns Johnston Atkinson Burnham
Smiles
Young Tarkington
Wild Heart
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At the Crossroads Moon Rock Early American Craftsman City of Fire Million Dollar Suitcase Bells of San Juan Man to Man
Covered Wagon
Voice of the Pack
Evil Shepherd Minister of Grace
Night Horseman Life of Clara Barton, Vol. I-II
JUVENILE
Boy's Life of Edison
Man without a country
Legends every child should know
Herves
Princess and Curdle
Mr. Thimble Finger
Little Miss Phoebe Gay
Perfect Tribute
Child's Own Book of Verse, I, II, III Wireless Man
Midsummer
Polly of the Hospital Staff
Polly and the Princess
Polly of Lady Gay Cottage
When Polly was eighteen
Aprilly
When Lighthouses are dark
Rainbow String
Songs and Games for little ones Swiss Twins
Dan's To-morrow
What shall we do now?
Comstock Rees Dyer Lutz MacGowan Gregory Gregory Hough Marshall Oppenheim Widdemer Brand Barton
Meadowcroft Hale Mabie Kinglsey MacDonald Harris Brown Andrews Skinner Collins Adams Dowd Dowd
Dowd Dowd Abbott Brill Tassin Jenks Perkins Heyliger Canfield
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Further Adventures of Lad
Dorothy Dainty's Treasure Chest Adele Doring in Camp Red Robin
Little Maid of Philadelphia A Yankee Girl at Bull Run
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Don Strong American
First Down Kentucky
Ned Beals, Freshman
Girls of Central High
Puritan Twins
Bryne Girls Babs at College
Babs at Birchwood
Around the Campfire with older boys
Eggleston
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Connie Morgan in the Fur Country
Kidnapping Clarence
Black Arrow
Happy Jack
Lost in the Jungle
Oregon Trail
Nights with Uncle Remus
Doctor Doolittle
More than conquerors
Wonderful adventures of Nils
Polly Oliver's Problem
Burgess Chaillu Parkman Harris Lofting Gilbert Lagerlof Wiggin Barbour
Half Back
Red True Story Book
Lang Brown
Book of Nature Myths
Terhune Brooks North Abbott Curtis Curtis Erskine Heyliger Paine Silvers Morrisson Perkins Maule Colver Colver
Hendryx Pendleton Stevenson
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE For the Year Ending December 31, 1922
For the attendance by schools and terms, see statistical table in the Superintendent's report.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Town appropriation
$16,000 00
Promotion of health
25 00
Balance, General School Fund
1,422 86
Overdrawn
$17,447 86 894 49
$18,342 35
TOTAL EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE SCHOOL
Health
$25 00
Salaries of teachers
10,238 57
Transportation
4,543 70
Supervision
820 28
Books and supplies
664 90
Sundries
95 44
Janitors and fuel, North and West Rutland
242 06
Center schools, janitor, fuel, etc.
1,712 40
$18,342 35
TRANSPORTATION
Charles J. Campbell
$232 50
Nils Tapole
728 00
Mrs. H. M. Harris
885 00
W. R. Upham
458 00
Merrill Wheeler
1113 00
75
J. F. Allen
434 50
Della Latowne
291 20
Leslie Moore
169 50
Oscar Wendt
222 00
Mathew Delehanty
10 00
$4,543 70
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
Edward E. Babb Co.
$313 49
J. R. Childs
71 05
John C. Winston Co.
52 34
Ginn & Co.
1 75
Dowling School Supply Co.
12 70
Barnes & Noble
12 77
Geo. H. Hastings
2 70
J. L. Hammett & Co.
148 83
W. M. Welch Mfg. Co.
7 79
Brewer & Co.
8 43
E. Dexter Marsh
1 50
Kenny Bro. & Walkins
31 55
$664 90
SUNDRIES.
Henry C. Doughty, floor oil and soap
$52 80
E. D. Marsh
1 50
John M Dickson, labor
8 50
Chester Oliver, census
5 00
Lucy Donahue
10 00
B. M. White, mending victrola
2 75
George Miles, labor
1 00
B. & M., express
1 39
Fred Wellington
10 50
C. T. Oliver, moving desks
2 00
$95 44
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JANITORS
Florence Ramsey, West Rutland
$130 00
Albert I. Davis
17 06
Ford Harris, North Rutland
2 50
$149 56
FUEL
Henry Calkins, wood
$12 00
George Rice, wood
40 00
George Davis, wood
22 50
John C. Fiske, wood
18 00
$92 50
SUPERVISION
J. R. Childs, Superintendent $618 75
J. R. Childs, travel, office supplies, etc. 126 78
School Committee, services
40 00
School Committee, supplies
7 75
$793 28
HEALTH
Doctor W. E. Chamberlain $25 00
$25 00
Town of Oakham, tuition
$26 00
$27 00 No School Signal-North Rutland Mill whistle at 7.30; West Rutland Mill whistle at 7.30; State Sanatorium whistle at 7.30; Congregational Church bell at 7.30.
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE N. LAPHAM, LOUIS M. HANFF, SUSAN L. BROWN, School Committee.
Rutland, Massachusetts, January 1, 1923.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Holden, Mass. January 1, 1923.
To the School Committee of Rutland:
My fifth report as superintendent and the twenty-third in the series since the present union was formed, is presented herewith for your consideration.
TEACHERS
During the year covered by this report we have had fewer changes in our teaching force than usual and this has been fortunate, for while the teacher shortage is much less acute in New England we have difficulty in securing the type of teacher we would like for the salaries paid. I believe that our beginning salary is about right but regular increases over a period of years will be necessary in order to hold the kind of teachers we want in Rutland. This is especially true in the high school. We have been very fortunate in retaining the services of Mr. Allen and Miss Green. Mr. Allen came to us last spring, succeeding Mrs. Kirschbaum, and returned in the fall as Principal. To take Mr. Doyle's place we secured Miss Gladys W. Parker and there has been more of continuity in the work of the high school than for some time past. We had but one change in the grades, Mrs. Mary E. Coolidge taking trades VII and VIII, as Miss Donahue resigned to teach in Worcester. The appointment of Mr. Benjamin W. White to teach Music in the schools has already produced excellent results and it has been very gratifying to note the response of teachers and pupils.
THE HIGH SCHOOL
Mr. Allen has prepared a detailed report of this department and I hope it may receive careful consideration. The spirit in the high school has been excellent, and good work is being done
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every day. We should try to retain the same teachers another year. If we are to accomplish anything worth while in sciences we must equip the laboratory and make it possible to use this room for recitations as well as for strictly laboratory work. A special appropriation or a definite amount added to the school budget will be necessary to do this. The small room next to the Selectmen's office has been used part of the time for classes, but if we are to use it regularly it should be equipped with tablet arm chairs, and all the space made available.
THE GRADES
The most important step this year has been the transporting of the upper grades from the North and West schools to the Center. This has made it possible for the teachers in the one- room schools to give more attention to the lower grades, and has given the older pupils the advantages of a school with but two grades in a room. I believe it has too this decided advantage, that it brings all our seventh and eighth grade pupils into the same building with the high school and arouses interest in high school work. Last year there were eight to enter high from the grades and this year we had eleven. There should be more next fall.
We have been able to replace some of the old desks at West Rutland with adjustable ones, and this coming year we should buy enough to make the change complete. There are now about . twenty children in the whole town who sit in the old style non- adjustable seats. Something should be done about lighting the West school. There are a good many days in the year when it is impossible to see to read in this school room after 2.30 P. M. The attendance has increased during the year and the room is over-crowded even with the two upper grades sent to the Center. No better investment could be made by the town than a com- plete remodelling of this building. Without great expense the school room could be enlarged, and the best thought in lighting, heating and sanitation be supplied for the children of this part of town. Looking over the reports of the past five years I find that every suggestion that has been made for the improvement of
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schools has been carried out. I believe the people of Rutland want the best for their children. This work at the West school is in line with that best and would give us a modern school plant in which everyone could take pride.
I want again to call your attention to a sentence in the report of our school physician, in 1920. He says, "We wish Rutland could see the necessity of supplying ample means for a system which will provide for a school nurse and a thorough physical examination of each pupil." We all know that there is almost unlimited opportunity for real service here, but $25 a year will not provide it. Rutland will not be satisfied until enough money is appropriated to cover the services of both physician and nurse in examinations and follow-up work. Towns all about us are finding that money so spent is a real investment. It reduces retardation, lessens the number of repeaters in the grades, im- proves attendance and prevents the spread of contagious disease. Recently I visited a school room and found more than half the children absent, most of them with bad colds. The same thing has happened before. Some of these children will be obliged to repeat the grade. This means needless expense. We have a school physician and a school nurse as required by law, but the Committee can do no more until adequate remuneration is provided by the voters.
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