Town annual report of Rutland 1924-32, Part 11

Author: Rutland, Mass.
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 1234


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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


84


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


88


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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