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Your Fire Engineers met and organized as follows:
Clarence T. Oliver, Chief ; Frank Carroll, Assistant Chief, and E. D. Marsh, Clerk.
We have had three calls during the past year for building fires. The first one being the Congregational Church, which was a total loss, we having assistance from Holden, Paxton, U. S. V. Hospital, and Worcester.
The next call was for a fire at formerly the De Long house which was unoccupied, but was saved by the Depart- ment and neighbors after a long, cold fight.
The next call being for a chimney fire at the Boy Scout Camp property, near the Paxton Line, which was quickly put out.
The expense of the Department for the year is as follows :
American Express Co., express $3 32
Boston Coupling Co., repairs 3 00
Brewer & Co., supplies, soda, acid, etc. 17 25
Brierly, Lombard Co., extinguisher nozzles 10 00
D. Lincoln, express 2 55
E. D. Marsh, testing extinguishers about town, and use of truck 24 CO
E. D. Marsh, telephone expense 1 25
E. D. Marsh, coal. Hose House 99 00
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Gardner Electric Light Company 13 83
Nellie I. Griffin, supplies
2 80
Perkins, Butler Company, supplies
75
Rutland Garage, chassis, and supplies
182 09
New England Tel. & Tel. Company 28 73
Frank Brooks, repairs 1 00
H. E. Wheeler, wood, and supplies 23 30
H. E. Wheeler, testing extinguishers 9 60
H. E. Wheeler, testing hydrants 4 00
Clarence T. Oliver, janitor . 96 00
Recharging extinguishers, season of 1926 9 50
$531 97
Respectfully submitted,
CLARENCE T. OLIVER, Chieí FRANK CARROL, Asst. Chief E. D. MARSH, Clerk
L. M. HANFF
H. E. WHEELER
P. D. MURPHY
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Report of Work Done on Rutland Roads in 1926
December 27, 1926
Board of Selectmen,
Rutland, Mass.
Gentlemen :- Report of work done on Rutland roads dur- ing the year 1926-under Chapter 81.
Work began January 8, 1926.
1. East County Road :
Scraped and dragged twice. Laid (1) 18 in. corrugated pipe culvert 26 ft. long. Oiled 12 miles, 16 ft. wide, 4 yds. of tar patching and 4000 gals. of oil being used.
2. Pomagusšett Road :
Scraped and dragged twice. Brush cut. Laid (1) 12 in. corrugated pipe culvert 24 ft. long. Gravelled five sections-1405 ft., 310 ft., 200 ft., 240 ft., and 200 ft. long. All sections 15 ft. wide and 4 in. deep. Oiled 0.3 miles, 16 ft. wide. 5676 gals. of oil being used.
3. Wachusett Street :
Scraped and dragged. Laid (1) 24 in. corrugated pipe culvert 24 ft. long. Gravelled two sections, 160 ft. and 75 ft. long. Both sections 15 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
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4. Maple Avenue :
Scraped and dragged twice. Gravelled a strip 310 ft. long, 20 ft. wide and 4 in. deep, and a strip 125 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 4 in. deep. Oiled 1.1 miles, 16 ft. wide, using 2000 gals. of oil and 11 yds. of tar patching.
5. Muschopauge Road :
Scraped. dragged and brush cut. Gravelled two sec- tions. 225 ft. long. 18 ft. wide and + in. deep.
6. Central Tree Road :
Scraped. Laid 600 ft. of stone base 18 ft. wide and & in. deep covered with 6 in. of gravel 20 ft. wide. Oiled 0.1 mile. 18 ft. wide. 1000 gals. of oil being used.
7. Brintnal Drive :
Scraped and dragged. Laid (1) 12 in. corrugated pipe culvert 20 ft. long.
8. Glenwood Road :
Scraped and dragged twice. Laid (1) 18 in. corrugated pipe culvert 24 ft. long. Gravelled two sections 1135 ft. and 200 ft. long. Both sections 15 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
'9. Campbell Street:
Scraped and dragged.
10. Bushy Lane :
Scraped and brush cut.
11. Halfrey Road :
Scraped.
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12. Sassawanna Road :
Scraped, dragged and brush cut. Four yds. of gravel used for patching.
13. Upper Intervale Road :
Scraped and dragged. Laid (1) 12 in. corrugated pipe culvert 20 ft. long. Gravelled two sections, 300 ft. and 145 ft. long. Both sections 12 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
14. Middle Intervale Road :
Scraped and dragged twice. Laid (3) 12 in. corru- gated pipe culverts, (2) 20 ft. long and (1) 32 ft. long. Gravelled three sections, 600 ft., 675 ft., and 450 ft. long. All sections 12 ft. wide and 4 in. deep. 16 yds. of gravel used for patching.
15. Overlook Street :
Scraped. Laid (1) 18 in. pipe culvert 24 ft. long. Gravelled a strip 75 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 4 in. deep. 5 yds. of gravel used for patching.
16. Ridge Road :
Scraped and dragged.
17. Prescott Road :
Scraped and dragged. 6 yds. of gravel used for patch- ing.
18. Hillside Road :
Scraped and dragged.
19. Miles Street :
Scraped and dragged twice. Gravelled a strip 780 ft.
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long, 18 ft. wide and 4 in. deep. Oiled 0.2 miles, 16 ft. wide. 1175 gals. of oils being used.
20. Cloverdale Road :
Scraped :
21. Charnock Road :
Scraped and dragged twice. Gravelled a strip 350 ft long, 12 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
22. Old Stage Road. Now State Road :
23. Longmeadow Road :
Scraped, dragged and brush cut.
24. White Hall Road :
Scraped and dragged.
25. Lake Avenue :
Scraped. Gravelled a strip 200 ft. long, 15 ft. wide and 8 in. deep. Oiled 0.5 miles, 16 ft. wide. 2000 gals. Di oil being used.
26. Pine Plains :
No work done.
27. Lower Intervale Road :
Scraped and dragged.
28. Bigelow Street :
Scraped. 15 yds. of gravel used for patching.
29. Overlook Court :
No work done.
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30. Princeton Road :
Scraped.
31. Glenwood Place :
Four yds. of gravel used for patching.
32. Millbrook Road :
Scraped.
33. Corporation Farm Place : No work done.
34. Moulton Mill Road :
Scraped and dragged. Laid (1) 30 in. corrugated pipe culvert 30 ft. long and extended (1) 30 in. pipe culvert 12 ft. Gravelled a strip 170 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
35. Pomagussett Court :
No work done.
36. Campbell Court :
Scraped and dragged
37. Harris Lane :
No work done.
38. Kenwood Drive :
Scraped and dragged twice. Gravelled two strips 10 ft. wide and 4 in, deep, 325 ft. and 300 ft. long.
39. Walnut Street :
Scraped, dragged and brush cut. Gravelled a strip
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80 ft. long. 15 ft. wide and 6 in. deep. Laid a stone base 500 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 8 in. deep.
40. Emerald Road :
Scraped.
41. Irish Lane :
Scraped. 20 yds. of gravel used for patching.
42. Kenwood Place :
No work done.
43. Ware:
Scraped :
44. Turkey Hill :
Scraped. Gravelled a strip 100 ft. long, 15 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
45. Drury Lane :
Scraped. 6 yds. of gravel used for patching.
46. Prospect Street :
Scraped. Gravelled a strip 300 ft. long. 12 ft. wide and 3 in. deep. Laid a stone base 150 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 8 in. deep, covered with 6 in. of gravel.
47. Barrack Hill :
Scraped and dragged. Gravelled a strip 70 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
48. Morris Watts :
Scraped.
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49. Pleasant Dale, No. 1 :
Scraped and dragged twice. Gravelled two strips 540 ft. and 350 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 4 in deep. 5 yds. of gravel used for patching.
50. Pleasant Dale, No. 2 :
Scraped, dragged and brush cut. Gravelled three strips 250 ft, 200 ft. and 180 ft. long. Each strip 18 ft. wide and 6 in. deep. Laid a stone base 250 ft. long, 15 ft. wide and 8 in. deep, covered with 6 in. of gravel.
51. Crawford Street :
Scraped and dragged. 5 yds. of gravel used for patch . ing.
52. Causeway Street.
No work done.
53. East Hill :
Scraped. Gravelled two strips 160 ft. and 180 ft. long. Both strips 10 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
54. Oak Hill Avenue :
Scraped. Gravelled a strip 190 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
55. Ruben Walker:
Scraped and dragged. 12 yds. of gravel used for patching.
56. Old Wood :
No work done.
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57. Brigham :
No work done.
58. Edson :
Twelve yds. of gravel used for patching.
59. Davis Street :
Scraped twice.
60. Town Hall Drive :
Gravelled 120 ft. long, 16 ft. wide and 4 in. deep.
SUMMARY
No. of miles of road scraped 62.8
No. of miles of road dragged 48.5
No. of miles of road oiled 34,
No. of gals of oil used 15,851
160 ft. of 12 in. corr. pipe culvert laid
74 ft. of 18 in. corr. pipe culvert laid
24 ft. of 24 in. corr. pipe culvert lad
42 ft. of 30 in. corr. pipe culvert laid
2349 cu. yds. of gravel hauled, culverts, waterways and drains cleaned.
REMARKS
Work done this year has been satisfactory. An effort to abolish as many mud holes as possible and some gravelling was done. Most of the gravel had to be hauled from North or West Rutland, making the cost rather high.
On Maple Avenue the money raised under Chapter 90 should be used in relaying some of the stone fill near Carroll's Store and a tar macadam surface constructed from the State
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Road to the entrance to the Veteran's Hospital, a total dis- tance of about 3300 feet. This work should be let by contract as the town does not have the equipment for this kind of work.
On the East County Road the usual amount of work should be done the coming year.
Respectfully submitted, R. A. VESPER Chapter 81 Assistant.
TOOLS ON HAND IN TOWN OF RUTLAND
2 Grub axes
1 Push broom
2 Paint brushes
4 Bars
3 Forks
4 Stone hammers
14 Pick handles
3 Street hoes
12 Lanterns
12 Picks
2 Brush hooks
1 Russell No. 2 road plow
1 Syracuse rooter plow
1 Iron rake
2 Chapter 81 drags
1 Champion iron drag
1 Western road lit.
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1 Austin grader
2 Sand screens
6 Brush scythes
1 Grass scythe
6 Snathes
14 Short rd. shovels
2 Short sq. shovels
2 Long handle . shovels
2 Pitch forks
2 No. 2 pruners
Respectfully submitted,
R. A. VESPER Chapter 81 Assistant.
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Report of the Trustees of the Public Library
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Appropriation
$50 00
Dog Fund
396 64
Unexpended balance
38 87
$485 51
Paid Edna Wheeler, librarian
$222 00
Wesby Bindery
37 10
Denholm & McKay, books
190 10
Frontier Press
18 50
$467 70
Balance unexpended $17 81
The Library is open to the public on Tuesdays and Satur- days from 2:00 to 5:00 p. m., also during hte school year, on Thursday afternons.
We have added the "Lincoln Library" to our books of reference.
HATTIE S. GRIFFIN MARY E. MILES FRANCES P. HANFF
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Librarian's Report
On hand Jan. 1, 1926
$5 86
Recd. from fines and cards 34 56
Recd. for magazines 38 00
$78 42
Paid for magazines $33 85
Paid for books 22 60
Paid for incidentals
13 85
$70 30
On hand
$8 12
Circulation 7511
Books given 86
Books purchased
94
Books have been given by the Division of Public Libraries, Mrs. Ethel Scott, Mrs. Vesta Stafford and Miss Margaret Miles.
Magazines have been given by the Division of Public Li- braries, the American Humane Society and the Dearborn Pub- lishing Co.
Money for magazines was given by the Home Relief Society, the Firemen, the Eastern Star, the Woman's Union and the Grange.
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BOOKS ADDED DURING 1926
The World Almanac
A Man Under Authority Food Supply
Lyman Dell Gilbert
Makers of America
When the Devil Was Sick
The Bronze Hand
Monadnock Records
In His Service
Bucky O'Connor
Vicky Van
The Blue Window
The Apple Tree Girl
Parrot and Company
Lost Road
The Gold Bag
The Green Dolphin
Coming Through the Rye
Harvey Garrard's Crime
Broken Trail
The Pearl Thief
The Desert Thoroughbred
Antiques Little Pardner
Anne of Green Gables, cop. II
Too Many Crooks
Help Yourself Lessons, book I, II
Lincoln Library, 2 vol.
King of Wilderness Allen
Under the Tonto Rim
Grey Simon
The Week End Mystery
Binyon
The Golden Treasury of Nine Modern Lyrics Jolly Fellowship
Stockton
The Magnificient Ambersons
Out of the East
Nutting Jenks Raine Wells Bailey Weston MacGrath Davis Wells Bassett Hill Oppenheim Bindloss Ruck Gregory Lockwood Portor Montgomery Rath Talbot
Tarkington Hearn
Dana Rath Wells
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The Lady, Or the Tiger Wurthering Heights The Eighteen Fifties The Left Lady Tobey's First Case The Black Cabinet
The Understanding Heart
The Gallant Lady
Wondering Moon Who's Who in America
The Red Haired Girl
That Mainwaring Affair
The Daughter of Anderson Crow
David Harum
Mr. Pratt
Elope If You Must
Up to the Minute Monologues
Comics Bran New Monologues
Costume Monologues
The Big Mogul
The Cutters
From Immigrant to Inventor
Walden ,
How to Live on Twenty-four a day
The Golden Age Black Thunder
The Arrant Rover
Best Short Stories of 1925
The Great Valley
From Red Sea to Blue Nile
Gentleman from Indiana
Padlocked The Blue Castle
Her Son's Wife
Stockton Bronte Kyle Turnbull Burnham Wentworth Kyne Widdemer Weston Marquiss Wells Barbour Barr Wescott Lincoln Rath Williams Hare Hare Hare Lincoln Aldrich Pupin Thoreau Bennett Grahame Bower Ruck O'Brien Johnston Forbes Seltzer Beach Montgomery Canfield
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Dante's Divine Comedy Tomorrow's Tangle The Black Hunter Woman
The Awakening of Helen Ritchie
The Slim Princess
Child of the Wild
Sungazers Shepherds Wild Geese
Marshall Knibbs Oemler Ostenso
The Moreton Mystery
Dejeans Gibbs
The Love of Mademoiselle
Longarm of the Mounted
I'll Never Move Again
Toilers of the Trails
Madame Judas
Flapper Anne
Downey of the Mounted
Bobbie Vanity Case
The Coming of Cosgrove
With or Without
Instruments of Darkness
Bonanza
Kneel to the Prettiest
Singing Waters
Ruck Payne MacGowan Seltzer
The Blue Car Mystery
Lincoln
An American Battery in France
Branch
Vagabonding Down the Andes
Franck
Roaming Through the West Indes
Franck
Twenty-five Years, vol. I, II
Follodon
Porto Rico
Mixer
Motor Camping on Western Trails
Fergus
Kuhus Pedler Curwood Tarkington Deland Ade
Dorrance Green Marsh Turnbull Harris Hendry Alexander Wells Erskine Lea Miller Raine
The Seventh Passenger
The Valley of the Stars
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Our Polar Flight
Less Than Kin
The Matrimonial Bureau
The House of Seven Gabblers
The Gay Cockade
Starr of the Desert
Sporting Chance
Flight to the Hills
Shanty Sled
Miss Blake's Husband
A New Name
The Little Nugget
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek
Hounds of Spring
Clara Baron
The Vanishing American
Kindling and Ashes
Amunsden Miller Taber
Duryea Bailey Bower Cameron Buck Footner Jordan Hill Wodehouse Ogden Thompson O'Higgins Grey Mccutcheon
JUVENILE BOOKS
Mr. Chick
Dr. Doolittle's Zoo
Martha the Seventh
Tyke-Y
Brownies and Other Tales
Treasure Island
About Animals
Famous Legends
Wigwam Stories
The Weaver's Children
Eskimo Legends
Old Times in the Colonies
The Rabbit Lantern
Jungle Roads
Sinopah
Last of the Chiefs
Perkins Lofting Abbott Whitney Ewing Stevenson St. Nicholas Crommelin Judd Wilkins Snell Coffin Rowe Henderson Schultz Altsheler
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Minute Boys of Yorktown
Minute Boys of Mohawk Valley
Minute Boys of Philadelphia
Otis Otis Otis
The Grizzly King
Curwook
Along the Mohawk Trail
The Hound from the North
Fitzhugh Cullum
Patty's Fortune
Wells
Patty's Romance
Wells
Patty Blossom
Wells Wells
In Hostile Red
Altheler Optic
Boy Allies of Jutland
Drake Whitney Wells
Patty's Social Season
Wells Wells
Patty's Suitors
American Twins of 1812
Perkins Youmans
Skitter Cat
True Story of Christopher Columbus
Brooks
Boy Holidays
Wilkinson
Chance Signals
Barbour Barbour
Stover at Yale
Johnston
The Mountain Divide
Sube Can
Juliet is Twenty
Phunology
Washington's Young Scouts
Cuore
Peeps at Many Lands
Heroic Life of Ulysses Grant
Stories of American Discoverers
Lucia
Elementary History of Our Country
Pinocchio of Marionette
Tappan Patri
Patty Bride
Boat Club
Four American Indians
Patty's Butterfly Days
Spearman Partridge Abbott Harbin Tomlinson Amicis Finnemore Brown
Danforth Plays the Game
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I Am An American
Story of Three Great Artists Earth and Sky, vol. I, II, III English for New Americans Pinocchio's Adventure of Marionette David Goes Voyaging
In Animal Land
Patty's Motor Car
Patty and Azalea
Sailing Alone Around the World
Mopsa the Fairy
Under the Story True
Lad a Dog
Silent Scot
The Little Duke
Alice in Orchestralia
Boyhood in Norway
Story of Sunny Sahib
Abbie Ann
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest,
Aesop's Fables
Joan of Arc
Bryant Cyr Stickney Field Cyr Putnam LaRue Wells Wells Slocum Ingelow LaRue Terhune Skinner Yonge LaParade Boyesen Cotes Martin Yonge Jacobs Mowel
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Financial Report of the Rutland Water Department
RECEIPTS
Bills rendered June 1, 1926 to collector ..
$1178 33
Bills rendered Dec. 1, 1926 to collector ..
1282 15
Bills rendered Veterans' Hospital one year 3336 38
Bills rendered State Sanatorium, one year 2956 57
Water for watering tubs
10 00
Water for public buildings
20 00
Bills rendered for new meters and repairs
85 30
$8868 73
BILLS PAID
Interest on Water Loan
$1066 25
Gardner Electric Light Co.
2279 00
Edward Viner
833 11
Michael Nihen
139 00
E. D. Marsh
32 37
W. S. Darley Co.
122 25
Nellie I. Griffin
28 26
W. C. Brown
225 50
M. B. Main Co.
1090 00
Gilbert Allen
10 00
James Martin
4 00
W. E. Hunt
465 47
A. B. Celle
2 50
Neptune Meter Co.
77 64
George Gordon
11 10
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Mueller Co.
59
George H. Miles
30
City of Worcester
56 40
Central Supply Co.
110 89
Sumner E. Taylor
6 63
American Express Co.
5 97
R. M. Loughman
2 05
Eddy Valve Co.
30 50
A. Burlingame
5 70
H. M. Waite Co.
6 51
Donald Lincoln
6 28
B. & M.
5 00
Alfred F. Brown, Asso.
18 59
Tripp Press 18 00
Pratt Iron Works
2 49
J. E. O'Connor
14 50
Red Hed Mfg. Co.
49 43
$6726 28
W. E. HUNT Chairman
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Report of the Overseers of the Poor FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1926
Fully supported :
No. 1. Paid Charlton Home Farm Asso- ciation
$170 02
Due Charlton Home Farm Association 84 33
$254 35
Partially supported :
No. 1. Town of Holden (Re-emburse- ment) hospital case
$318 00
Walter E. Griffin Livery
$2 00
Expense to Boston
4 50
Postage
2 00
$8 50
Mothers Aid cases :
No. 1
$700 38
No. 2
798 10
No. 3
672 00
$2170 48
Due from Commonwealth
723 49
Net cost Mothers Aid $1446 99
Total expense for Public Charities $2027 84
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Paid Charlton Home Farm Association for share in the farm at Charlton, Personal Property and expense of organization $256 00
Respectfully submitted,
MATTHEW J. CULLEN HAROLD I. JUDKINS, JR. LOUIS M. HANFF Overseers of the Poor.
Rutland, Mass., January 1, 1927.
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Report of Charlton Home Farm Association
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1926
RECEIPTS
Milk
$1272 82
Eggs, etc.
182 47
Cash from Dairy System
54 00
Interest on Deposit
40 18
Inmates' Board
7387 34
Boarders
342 63
Organization Fund
588 00
$9987 44
EXPENDITURES
Deficit 1925
$1110 04
Frank Walker and wife
1300 00
Inside Labor
610 00
Outside Labor
839 78
Miscellaneous
466 64
Groceries
1459 40
Meat
1024 83
Grain
805 46
Coal
596 35
Oil and Gasoline
95 05
Supplies
470 53
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Tobacco
251 26
Medical Attendance and Drugs
95 64
Electricity
69 67
Fruit Trees
42 47
Fertilizer and Lime
489 98
Freight
114 32
Truck
400 00
Furniture
122 50
Repairs
274 81
Blacksmithing
45 00
Seed
129 23
Interest
63 00
Insurance
265 79
Stock
65 00
$11260 01
Deficit
$1272 57
RECEIVED AND DUE FOR INMATES' BOARD
Charlton
$521 50
Westminster
689 37
Rutland
254 35
Millbury
709 45
Brookfield
387 94
Ashburnham
508 69
Leicester
537 13
Oakham
262 45
Holden
254 35
Warren
1352 88
Hardwick
501 58
Boylston
19 93
West Boylston
248 57
West Brookfield
918 86
Auburn
39 00
East Brookfield
4 29
89
Berlin
247 00
$7387 34
Total number of weeks for inmates 1268 3-7 Boarders 57 1-7 weeks
There were no inmates from Hubbardston, Paxton, Dana. Princeton, New Braintree, Sterling and Holland.
Since the last annual meeting of the new Charlton Home Farm Association was formed, by-laws adopted and a deed of the real estate recorded in the name of the 24 towns in the Association. The property is divided into 85000 shares of one dollar each as follows:
· Asburnham
308 Oakham 80
Auburn
711 Princeton 221
Berlin
157 Paxton 158
Boylston
124 Rutland 239
Brookfield
253 Sterling
261
East Brookfield
184 Warren 966
Hardwick
860 West Boylston 251
Holden
497 Westminster 223
Leicester
778 Dana
131
Millbury
1129 Hubbardston
201
Holland
11 West Brookfield 245
New Braintree
123 Charlton 359
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM H. PARKMAN, Pres. LOUIS M. HANFF, Sec .- Treas.
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Report of Tax Collector
1926 TAXES
Total committment
$44184 49
Interest collected
13 71
$44198 20
Paid Treasurer
$26092 97
Abatements
70 95
Uncollected
18034 28
$44198 20
WATER ACCOUNT, 1926
Total committments, June 1st and Dec-
ember 1st.
$2460 48
Extras
85 30
Interest collected
1 87
$2547 65
Paid Treasurer
$1257 99
Uncollected
1289 66
$2547 65
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES J. CAMPBELL, Collector.
I have audited the books of the Tax Collector, Charles J. Campbell, for the year 1926 and to my best knowledge and belief the foregoing statement is correct.
ROGER L. CULVERS, Auditor. January 24, 1927.
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Forest Warden's Report
At the last Annual Town Meeting, an appropriation of $150.00 was made for fires, and forest fires.
Owing to the extremely dry season the Forest Warden was called upon many times to extinguish brush fires.
The appropriation has been overdrawn by $83 15, owing to an extensive fire on the F. B. Stearns, and Joseph E. Ware property, West Rutland, thirty cords of wood, and the home of Mr. Ware being saved after a hard fight.
There was but one chimney fire which was attended by the Chief only, incurring no expense.
There has been issued 178 permits for the burning of refuse in the open during the past season, and with but one exception the law in this respect is closely followed by all.
Respectfully yours,
CLARENCE T. OLIVER, Forest Warden.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
OF THE
TOWN OF RUTLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
DED FEB. 23. 17/3
ETTS.S
HOME OF RUFUS PUTNAM . 1781-1788
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1926
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Report of the School Committee FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1926
For the attendance by schools and terms, see statistical table in the Superintendent's report.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Town appropriation
$22000 00
Physician
50 00
Unexpended
812 37
Available $22862 37
TOTAL EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING SCHOOLS
General control:
Superintendent's salaries and expenses $722 06
$722 06
Instruction :
Teachers' salaries
$12390 47
High School books
154 93
Grade books
436 64
Supplies
296 36
$13278 40
Operation of School Plant : Janitor West and North School $515 00
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Fuel West and North School
572 50
Janitors' supplies 32 02
Janitor and fuel, Center School
2005 10
$3124 62
Maintenance :
Repairs $84 86
$84 86
Auxiliary :
Transportation
$5596 90
Health
592 55
$6189 45
Miscellaneous expenses :
Insurance
$61 00
Incidentals
63 06
$124 06
$23523 45
Overdrawn
$661 0S
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION, GRADING AROUND WEST RUTLAND SCHOOL HOUSE
Appropriation
$350 00
Labor trucks and teams
$334 00
Grass seed 95
$334 95
Unexpended $15 03
The 273 loads gravel for gravel filling was generously donated by Frank Santimaw.
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SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR NEW CLOSETS IN CENTER SCHOOLS
Appropriation
$1000 00
George H. Miles
$900 00
C. W. Putnam, painting
26 00
$926 00
Unexpended $74 00
GEORGE N. LAPHAM JAMES F. O'HERRON DENNIS A. SMITH School Committee.
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
Holden, Mass .. Jan. 1, 1927.
To the School Committee of Rutland :
The ninth annual report of your Superintendent and the twenty-seventh in the series since the formation of the present union, is presented herewith for your consideration. I am giving in full the reports of the special teachers, the School Nurse and the School Physician, in order that the public may know more in detail of their service. The plan adopted a year ago of having a School Nurse and School Doctor for the union has already proven well worth while. As with the teaching of Music and Drawing a uniform procedure is pos- sible in health work and better results obtainable. We are very fortunate to have Mrs. Cunningham continue her work in the union. She has tact and genuine friendliness that win the co-operation of all with whom she comes in contact. Much credit too is due the officers and members of the Par- ent-Teacher Association who have shown every desire to be of service. We are hoping through their efforts to have a Dental Clinic for all Rutland children.
There were four changes in teachers during the summer. Mr. Allen resigned as Principal to accept a position in New York and Mr. Clarence W. Holway of M. A. C. was elected to take his place. Miss Sprague also resigned from the high school faculty and Miss Ruth F. Dodge of Wheaton Was
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chosen as her successor. Mr. Guy W. Meserve of Gorham Normal School was appointed for Grades VII and VIII and Miss Effie M. Ward of Westfield Normal School for Grades III and IV, succeeding Miss Barclay and Miss Donelson re- spectively. At North Rutland Miss Madalyn Sheehan was assigned by Lowell Normal School to follow Miss Ashworth who returned to the Normal School to complete her course. The closing of the mill at West Rutland made it unnecessary to have two teachers there. Miss Paignon resigned to work at home and Miss Bailey was given Grades I to VI inclusive. Grades VII and VIII are transported to the Center. It would be better to send Grade VI to the Center and have five grades only at West Rutland. I want to take this occasion to com- mend the fine spirit that has been shown by all our teachers and sincerely hope we may be able to keep them longer than one year. Our salaries are low when compared with other schools trying to do the same amount of work and maintain the standards of present day teaching. I believe we have never had a stronger force of teachers than at present and they should have the support of the voters when appropria- tions are considered as well as the co-operation of all parents and friends of the schools. I want to recommend that in- creases in salary be based to a greater extent on professional study and self-improvement. To keep abreast of educational progress a teacher should attend summer school at least once in three years, take correspondence courses and do consider- able professional reading.
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