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F. A. Smith & Son, Insurance Rebate. .
14 51
Check Cancelled, Returned to Account 04
G. H. Willis, Sale Scraper Parts
10 00
Victor Boquist, Sale Tool Shed 10 00
Earl C. Griffin, Glass. 2 50
Earl C. Griffin, Table Paper
1 60
Earl C. Griffin, Use of Telephone . .
10
Travelers' Insurance Co., Traffic Light Damage 63 00
946 72
Total Receipts
$152342 00
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1929. .
3589 57
$155931 57
EXPENDITURES
Selectmen's Orders
$142773 18
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Comm. of Mass. Auditing Accounts .. . 119 81
Comm. of Mass. State Tax .. 1870 00
Comm. of Mass. State Highway Repairs 918 90
Comm. of Mass. Snow Removal ... . ... 457 92
Comm. of Mass. Penalty, Poor Dept ... 1 00
County Tax
2189 00
Total Expenditures
$148329 81
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1929.
7601 76
$155931 57
TRUST FUNDS HELD BY TREASURER
Horace King Fund, Rutland Public Library .... . $305 00
David Putnam Fund, Rutland Public Library .... $100 00
Rufus Houghton Fund, Rural Cemetery Corp ..... $100 00
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK J. BROOKS, Treasurer.
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Report of the Tax Collector
1926 TAXES
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1929
$411 60
Paid Treasurer
411 60
1927 TAXES
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1929
$9020 91
Cash on hand .
0 10
Interest Collected
916 86
$9937 87
Paid Treasurer
$9079 40
Abatements
270 14
Tax Title
58 71
Cash on hand
529 62
$9937 87
1928 TAXES
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1929
$20,065 74
Cash on hand
. 471 94
Interest Collected
426 68
--- $20,964 36
Paid Treasurer $12,052 88
Abatements
7 62
Cash on hand
72 45
Tax Title
49 48
Uncollected
8781 93
$20,964 36
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WATER ACCOUNT
1926
Amount uncollected, Jan. 1, 1929
$61 70
Collected 00 00
Uncollected $61 70
1927
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1929
$420 38
Interest collected 37 19
$457 57
Paid Treasurer
$306 19
Cash on hand
70 20
Uncollected
81 18°
$457 57
1928
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1929
$2095 72
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1929
95 60
Interest collected 48 31
$2239 63
Paid Treasurer
$1219 37.
Abated
75 08
Cash on hand
632 88
Uncollected
312 30
$2239 63
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES J. CAMPBELL,
Collector.
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1929 TAXES
Total Commitment $39,661 36
Overpayment
28 16
$39,689 52
Paid Treasurer $24,755 25
Uncollected
14,934 27
$39,689 52
1929 Excise Tax
Total Commitment
$9075 23
Payments made before abatement
49 34
$9124 57
Overpayment
246 53
$9371 10
Paid Treasurer
$5102 61
Abatements
503 15
Uncollected
3765 34
$9371 10
1929 INTEREST
Paid to Treasurer
$58 81
Collected
38 16
Overpayment
$20 65
1929 WATER
Water Commitment
$3851 74
Interest collected
1 21
$3852 95
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Paid to Treasurer
$643 75
Balance on hand
211 13
Abated
7 44
Outstanding
2990 63
$3852 95.
Respectfully submitted
CLARENCE L. OLIVER,
Collector.
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Report of the Librarian
On hand Jan. 1, 1929
$6 90
Received from fines and cards
33 38
Received for magazines
33 00
$73 28
Circulation
6,262
Books added
135
Books bought
10€
Books given
35
Books have been given by the Division of Public. Librari ies, Miss Sarah Bartlett, Mrs. Mary Converse and Mrs. Warren P. Bates.
Magazines have been given by the Division of Public Libraries and the American Humane Society.
Money for magazines was given by the Home Relief Society, the Fire Department, the Eastern Star, the Woman's Union and the Grange.
BOOKS ADDED DURING 1929
David Strange
White
May Dust
Hauck
Grey Mask
Wentworth
Sentinel of the Desert
Gregory
My Dear
Edington
The Dimmest Dream
1 Culver
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Joy Ride The Crippled Lady of Perilonka Early Days in Ohio Mambas Daughters Chrysalis
The Village Doctor
Miss Nobody from Nowhere
The Flight of the Southern Cross Country Auction
Around the world
Wings of Destiny
A Maid and her money
A Challenge of the Bush
Mystery of the Spanish Hacienda
Help yourself to happiness
Red Silence
Mystery Reef
White oaks of Jalna
Roper's Row
Splendor of God
The Happy Parrott
Flower Songs
Fool Errant
Rodeo
The Shores of Adventure
Flame of the Desert
Accident
The Buffer
The Secret of Sea Dream House
The Treasure house of Martin Hews A lantern in her hand
Romances of Matilda Jim the Conqueror
The Ladder of folly Cradle of the deep Blair's Attic
Ruck Curwood Emerson Heyward Humphrey Smith Jordon Kingford & Smith Rawson Weston Weston Fletcher
Cooper Gregory Adams Norris Bindloss De La Roche Deeping Morrow Chambers Willis Wentworth Bower McNeil Ames Bennett Rice Terhune Oppenheim Aldrich Beal Kyne Hine Lowell Lincoln
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The Listening Post Young Mrs. Greeley Fish preferred Gramma Godden Ginger & Speed
Left in trust
Storm House
The Frontiersman
Salad Days
Sleeping Dogs
The Tapestry Room Murder
The Seven Dials Mystery The Swallowforks Bulls
Anyone can bake.
Silver ribbons
The Black Camel
Dynasty
Parmenter Biggers Kelland
Vital records of Taunton, vol. II.
Plymouth Colony
The Beloved Prodigal
Joan Kennedy
Tune in the tree
Brigham Dorrance Channon White
Duskin
Hill
America Triumphant
Gold Star Record
The Raider
The Fifth Latchkey
Wings of Healing
The Tiger of Cullum River
This Strange Adventure
The Devil and Deep Sea
Dark Hester
Once Again
Gold and the Mounted
Maree-Maria
With Malice toward none
Richmond Rath Wodehouse Smith Hueston Tompkins Norris Bindloss Benson Wells Wells Christie Bower
Cheatham Putnam Seltzer Lincoln Martin Hood Rinehart Jordan Sedgwick Rath Hendryx Kerr Morrow
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The Philippine Islands, vol I The Philippine Islands, vol. II
The Dagger
The Secret of Mohawk Pond
Redwood and Gold
The Crouching Beast
The Masked Rider
The Skys the Limit
Kangaroo Land
From Bangkok to Bombay
Vital records of Brookline.
Vital records of Georgetown.
Vital records of Taunton, vol. I
Rhinestones
Galatea
The Woman who couldn't die
Texas Man
Partners in Crime
The Bladed Barrier
The Mating of Doris Dinsmore
Sky High
The Wagon and the star
The Singing Gold
A Wild Bird
The Fourth Finger
Young Blood
Wynne Lincoln Gregory Williams Birney Rath Harris
Carpenter
Widdemer Larimine Stringer Raine Christie Ames Bennett Hodgin Larrimore Cottrell Diver Wynne Lynde
JUVENILE BOOKS
The Farm Twins
The Search for the lost Mail Plane
Game Legs
Strangeland bird life
American boy adventure stories
The Pancake Brownies
The Magic House
Forbes
Forbes
Perkins Theiss Bartlett Snell
Ellis Byington Buttler
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Doll Land stories
Meredith's Ann
The Flag of our Hearts
Byinton Gray Major Shinn
Easy drawing primer
Busy little birds
Denton
The Party Twins
Smith
King of the Golden River
Ruskin
Real Nature Stories
Denton
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll
Inspiring lives of sixty famous men
Ahlers
Siberian Gold
The Strange Inventor
Harper Hyde Lustig
Roses of the Winds
Playtime around the world
Funk
A Girl of the Forest
Hardy
The jolly little clown
Pease
Story Manor
Eliot
Marty Lu
Donahey
The Wonderful Locomotive
Meigs
Three boy scouts in Africa
Patri
Noisy Nora
Lofting
Hunt holds the centre
Barbour
The Icicle melts
Waite
Dorothy Dainty's Holiday
Brooks
Dorothy Dainty
Brooks
Drake's Lad
Holland
The Luck of Glenlom
Price
The Rigor of the Game
Pier
Bob Bartlett, Master Mariner
Green
The Crooked Appletree
Meigs
The Boy's Book of Coast Guards
Crump
John Martin's Big Book
Martin
In the Swiss Mountains
Spyri
A Yankee Girl at Wilderness
Curtis
Marise
Hauck
Little Maid of New Hampshire
Curtis
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Prince of the Pale Mountains
The Lively Adventures of Johnny Ping Wing Myself when young a boy in Persia Mr. Hermit Crab Rhys Siebe
Kasperle's Adventures
My Whirligig Fair Book
Kyle Phillips Mirza
Stores from the bible De La Mare Morgan
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Report of the Water Commissioners
We have made twelve new house connections during the past year, also renewed five, making a total of 173 con- nections.
There is an ever increasing number of the older con- nections to be renewed each year.
In accordance with a vote of the town a new stand- pipe has been constructed, doubling the storage capacity. A six-inch pipe has been laid in the west part of the town to the top of Barrack Hill with three hydrants. Also an extension on Phillips Road.
Financial report of the Department for the year end- ing December 31, is as follows :
Bills rendered State Sanatorium $3890 36
Bills rendered Veterans' Hospital 2678 75
Bills rendered Collector, June, 1929. 1849 81
Bills rendered Collector, Dec., 1929 ..
2001 93
$10420 85
EXPENDITURES
Frank E. Mathews, Supt.
$355 32
Frank E. Mathews, labor
21 00
Frank E. Mathews, gasoline
17 00
Frank E. Mathews, postage
1 00
Frank Carroll, Supt.
1243 74
Frank Carroll, postage and telephone ..
3 55
Gardner Electric Light Co.
2824 00
George Caldwell, supplies
94 68
76
Nellie I. Griffin, supplies 69 43
J. E. Cutter, lumber
12 11
M. Nihin
102 85
E. D. Marsh, coal
60 20
Tripp Press
6 00
T. Doyle
1 50
Central Machine Co.
6 55
Builders Iron Foundry
34 82
Coughlin Electric Co.
3 66
Warren & Bigelow Co. 8 75
Central Supply Co.
21 95
B. & M., freight
1 81
B. & M., pipe privilege
5 00
R. H. White Co.
95 05
Neptune Meter Co.
92 43
H. J. Stone, tapping main
86 16
R. D. Wood Co.
76 00
Eddy Valve Co.
20 88
Duncan Goodell Co.
2 70
Rutland Garage
7 50
Lincoln's Express
M. Mattson 18 00
Ludlow Valve Co.
6 52
Washburn Garfield Co.
107 75
J. Hubbard. labor
3 50
Union Water Meter Co.
86 91
Interest on Water Loans
670 00
$6181 02
SPECIAL STAND PIPE AND MEMORIAL STREET EXTENSION
Pittsburg Des Moines Steel Co. $6950 00
R. H. White Co.
4724 33
R. D. Wood Co. 2441 66
Eddy Valve Co. 336 35
12 20
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Builders Iron Foundry 87 66
Lincoln's Express
1 25
Finan's Express
9 30
D. Frank Harrington
5 00
B. & M. R. R., freight
128 00
Washburn Garfield Co.
24 19
Union Water Meter Co.
26 89
E. D. Marsh, telephone
4 60
Rutland Garage
16 00
Elwood Adams
42 25
Thayer, Smith & Gaskell
15 00
$14812 48
PHILLIPS ROAD EXTENSION
M. Nihin, labor
$20 00
W. Winslow, labor 2 00
F. Smith, labor 20 00
M. Lloyd, labor
20 00
J. Hubbard, labor
12 00
M. Mattson, labor
2 00
A. Willis, labor
2 00
Rutland Garage, trucking
6 00
E. Marsh, trucking
6 00
E. C. Viner, sand
1 60
Eddy Valve Co.
31 39
H. J. Stone
25 43
Lincoln's Express
4 00
A. F. Wales, team
3 75
Washburn Garfield Co.
76 81
$232 98
Respectfuly submitted,
E. D. MARSH. E. C. VINER. JOHN COLLINS.
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Report of the Park Commissioners TOWN OF RUTLAND, MASS. FOR THE YEAR OF 1929
During the year there has been expended thirty-five dollars for the erection of a sign at the entrance to the park, and forty- four dollars, sixty-three cents for cutting under-brush.
If sufficient funds are available it is proposed, during the coming year, to extend the road through the park.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANKLIN T. WOOD, R. M. LOUGHMAN, MARK A. PUTNAM, Park Commissioners.
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Report of the Work Done on Rutland Roads Work Began January 1, 1929
1. East County Road :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut, gravel patched and oiled. 173 yds. of gravel and 3000 gals. of oil used. The con- struction work under Chapter 90 was continued this year, 3275 lin. ft. stone fill being built.
2. Pomagussett Road :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut, gravel patched and oiled, 316 yds. of gravel and 800 gals. of oil used.
3. Wachusett Road :
Scraped and dragged. Laid 370 ft. stone fill, 18 ft. wide and 8 in. deep, covered with 3 in. gravel. 61 yds. of gravel used.
4. Maple Avenue :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut and oiled. Graveled a strip of road 370 ft. long, 15 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth. 71 yds. of gravel and 2500 gals. of oil used.
5. Muschapauge Road :
Scraped and dragged.
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6. Central Tree Road :
Scraped, graveled, patched and oiled. 14 yds. of gravel and 1500 gals. of oil used.
7. Brintnal Drive :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut and gravel patched. 14 yds. of gravel used.
8. Glenwood Road :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut and oiled. Graveled a strip of road 630 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth. 93 yds. of gravel and 500 gals. of oil used.
9. Campbell Street :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut and gravel patched. 44 yds. of gravel used.
10. Busby Lane :
Scraped.
11. Halfrey Road :
Scraped.
12 Sassawana Road:
Scraped, dragged, brush cut and gravel patched. 43 vds. of gravel used.
13. Upper Intervale Road :
Scraped, dragged and gravel patched. 52 yds. of gravel used.
14. Middle Intervale Road :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut and gravel patched. 71 vds. gravel used.
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15. Overlook Street :
Scraped and gravel patched. Laid 1-12 in. Corr. iron pipe 24 ft. long and 1-14 in. Corr. iron pipe 26 ft. long. 30 yds. of gravel used.
16. Ridge Road :
Scraped and dragged.
17. Prescott Road :
Scraped, dragged, brush cut and gravel patched. 33 yds. of gravel used.
18. Hillside Road :
Scraped and brush cut. Laid 1-12 in. Corr. iron pipe 14 ft. long and 1-14 in. Corr. iron pipe 14 ft. long. Graveled 3 sections of road, one 315 ft. long, one 269 ft. long, and one 264 ft. long. Each section 10 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth. 153 yds. of gravel used.
19. Miles Street :
Scraped, gravel patched and oiled. 700 gals. of oil used.
20. Cloverdale Road :
Scraped.
21. Charnock Road:
Scraped, dragged and brush cut. Graveled a strip of road 630 ft. long, 12 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth. 170 yds. of gravel used.
22. Municipal Road :
Gravel patched and oiled. 11 yds. of gravel and 1000 gals. of oil used.
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23. Long Meadow Road :
Dragged and brush cut.
24. White Hall Road :
Scraped and brush cut. Extended 1-24 in. Corr. Iron pipe 10 ft. long.
25. Lake Avenue :
Scraped.
26. Pine Plain Road :
Scraped.
27. Lower Intervale Road :
Scraped, dragged and brush cut.
28. Bigelow Road :
Scraped and brush cut.
29. Overlook Court :
Scraped.
30. Princeton Road :
Scraped and brush cut.
31. Glenwood Place : Scraped.
32. Millbrook Road :
Scraped and gravel patched. 3 yds. of gravel used.
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33. Corp. Farm Place : Scraped.
34 Moulton Mill Road : Scraped. Brush cut.
35. Pomagussett Court : Scraped.
36. Campbell Court : Scraped.
37. Harris Lane :
Scraped.
38. Kenwood Drive :
Scraped and dragged. Laid 792 ft. stone fill, 16 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth covered with 4 in. gravel. 162 yds. of gravel used.
39. Walnut Street :
Scraped and dragged. Laid 528 ft. stone fill 14 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth, covered with 4 in. gravel. 137 yds. of gravel used.
40. Emerald Road :
Scraped, dragged and brush cut.
41. Irish Lane :
Scraped.
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42. Kenwood Place :
Scraped.
43. Ware Road :
Scraped. Graveled a strip of road 315 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth. 35 yds. of gravel used.
44. Turkey Hill Road :
Scraped, dragged and gravel patched. 21 yds. of gravel used.
45. Drury Lane :
Scraped.
46. Prospect Street :
Scraped and dragged. Laid 630 ft. of stone fill 16 ft. wide and 6 in. in depth, covered with 2 in. of gravel. 37 yds. of gravel used.
47. Barrack Hill Road :
Scraped. Laid 1-12 in. Corr. Iron pipe 26 ft. long.
48. Morris Watts Road :
Scraped.
49. Pleasant Dale Rd. No. 1: Scraped, dragged, brush cut and gravel patched. Laid 1-16-in. corr. iron pipe 241in. long. 62 yards of gravel used.
50. Pleasant Dale Rd. No. 2: Scraped and dragged. Gravelled two sections of road each 264 feet long, 12 feet wide and 6 inches in depth. 222 yds. of grovel used.
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51. Crawford Road: Scraped.
52. Causeway Road : Scraped.
53. East Hill Road : Scraped and dragged.
54. Oak Hill Avenue : Scraped and dragged.
55 Ruben Walker Road: Scraped and dragged.
56. Old Wood Road : Scraped.
57. Brigham Road: Scraped.
58. Edson Road: Scraped and gravel patched. 15 yards of gravel used.
59. Davis Street : Scraped.
SUMMARY
2005 yds. of gravel used. 10000 gals. of oil used.
64 ft. of 12-inch Corr. pipe laid.
40 ft. of 14-inch Corr. pipe laid.
24 ft. of 16-inch Corr. pipe laid.
10 ft. of 24-inch Corr. pipe laid.
2 Town Line Signs and posts set. Culverts, drains and waterways cleaned.
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TOOLS ON HAND IN TOWN OF RUTLAND December 1, 1929
Name
No.
Axes, Grub
5
Brooms, Push
1
Bars 1
Forks
5
Hammers, Car Stone
9
Handles, Pick
14
Hoes, Street
1
Lanterns
8
Russell Road Plow No. 2
1
Picks
10
Syracuse Rooter Plow
1
Rakes, Iron
6
Chap. 81 Drag
2
Champion Iron Drag
1
New Eng. Road Machine
1
Road Machines, Lit. Western
1
Road Machines, Austin Grader
1
Screens, Sand
2
Scythes, Brush
10
Snathes
6
Shovels, Short Rd.
16
Pruners No. 2
1
Shovels, L. H.
1
Compressor Drills
24
Striking Hammer
1
Pitch Forks
1
Respectfully submitted,
R. A. VESPER, Senior Civil Engineer, Chapter 81 Assistant.
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Report of the Board of Public Welfare For the Year Ending December 31, 1929.
APPROPRIATION
Public Welfare
$1500 00
Mothers' Aid
2650 00
$4150 00
EXPENDITURES
Charlton Home Farm Association.
$331 80
State Infirmary 365 00
Boston City Hospital
39 22
Medical Attendance
12 00
Walter Ware, board
169 76
Transportation of Inmate at Farm . 11 00
Miscellaneous 9 70
$938 48
State Case, Temporary Aid, Groceries
$155 00 $155 00
City of Boston Case, cash paid.
$1040 00 $1040 00
Mothers' Aid, Rutland Cases
$2686 50 $2686 50
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Due from State One-Third Mothers' Aid
$884 00
State Temporary Aid
155 00
$1039 00
City of Boston $1040 00
$1040 00
Respectfully submitted, .
MATTHEW J. CULLEN HAROLD J. JUDKINS LOUIS M. HANFF
Board of Public Welfare.
Rutland, Mass., January 1, 1930.
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Report of the Sealer of Weights and Measures
I have tested and sealed the following equipment dur- ing 1929:
Gasolene Pumps 30
Kerosene Pumps
1
Oil Pumps .. 16
Liquid Measures 3
Glass Graduates
16
SCALES
Platform over 5000 pounds
1
Platform under 5000 pounds.
2
Beam 2
Counter
1
Computing
3
Prescription
1
Spring
2
Personal Weighing
2
The sum of $24.37 for fees and adjusting charges was collected and paid over to the Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK J. BROOKS,
Sealer.
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Report of the Fire Engineers
The Fire Department answered sixteen calls for building fires during the past year, two of which resulted in total losses. These two were the Newton Sargent place and Maple Lodge. At the Sargent fire we had practically no water to use and at the Maple Lodge we had only a small main to draw from until a line could be laid to the Veterans' Hos- pital Pond. This together with the fact that there was a very strong wind blowing embers on surrounding property made it next to impossible to save the Lodge.
We feel that this is a very good record for a Volunteer Fire Department and also that our New Pumper and Siren have demonstrated their value to the Town.
The department is very much in need of a ladder truck of some sort and we hope to be able to acquire one before a serious fire occurs. At the present time we have twelve hundred feet of double-jacketed hose and plan to add a few hundred feet yearly until we can be sure of having a change of dry hose after each fire.
EXPENDITURES
E. D. Marsh, coal $154 03
Gardner Electric Light Co.
16 70
Nellie I. Griffin, supplies 22 25
Rutland Garage, gas, oil and repairs ..
52 25
Earl C. Griffin, janitor 72 35
Fred A. Kehoe, janitor
21 00
Wm. White, janitor
3 00
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New England Tel. & Tel. Co., telephone 33 55
D. M. Lincoln, express
2 30
American Express Co., express
1 46
Cheney Grain Co., cement
80
B. & M. R. R., freight
1 31
F. E. Carroll, labor filling extinguishers
4 50
F. Matthews, labor filling extinguishers
8 00
H. G. Calkins, labor and lighting fixtures 25 46
P. L. Ryder Co., badges
9 00
Geo. F. Blake, Jr., Co., supplies
1 53
Central Supply Co., supplies
13 88
W. S. Darling Co., pump cans
22 35
Robert Dea, pump cans
10 00
Brewer & Co., soda .
4 48
Henry K. Barnes Co., hose
308 00
$788 20
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK E. MATTHEWS, Chief
MARK L. READ, Asst. Chief FRANK J. BROOKS, Clerk
FRANK E. CARROLL
LOUIS M. HANFF
PATRICK D. MURPHY
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Auditor's Report
January 24, 1930.
I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts of the departments contained in this report and have found them to be correct.
ALBERT J. THOMAS,
Auditor.
Worcester, ss.
Sworn to before me this 25th day of January, 1930.
LOUIS M. HANFF, Justice of the Peace.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
OF THE
TOWN OF RUTLAND MASSACHUSETTTS
UNDED FEB. 23, 17/3
F
1713*ST
HOME OF RUFUS PUTNAM . 1781-1788
FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1929
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
George N. Lapham, M. D. Chairman Term Expires 1932 James F. O'Herron, Secretary Term expires 1931 Elizabeth H. Maynard Term expires 1930
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS James R. Childs Tel. Holden 209
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
A. M. Kimberly, M. D. Tel. Park 3400-W
SCHOOL NURSE Mildred Givan, R. N. Tel. Park 4040
ATTENDANCE OFFICER Mark L. Reed
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
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Holden, Mass., Jan. 1, 1930
To the School Committee of Rutland :
It is my privilege to present herewith my twelfth report and the thirtieth in the series since the formation of the present school union.
The same housing situation referred to in last year's report is still before us and no satisfactory solution seems probable until we know the situation as we shall find it after the completion of the Metropolitan Water System project. We are spending too much for transportation in proportion to our other items of the budjet, but we cannot apparently do otherwise under present conditions. There is a serious loss from the standpoint of educational efficiency in having the upper grades located as they are, the high school so crowded for room, and the lower grades and the high school in such close proximity. · We all hope for a great improve- ment in general school conditiions as well as a solution of the financial problem when the tunnel is completeed and we have Rutland children only to consider. Much of what was said in last year's report applies to the situation now.
We have had a few changes in the teaching force. Miss Sintseler left in June and Miss Marian Giles took her place. Miss Eleanor B. Hyde was elected to have charge of the work in Household Arts and to assist in teaching science. Miss
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Emeline Amidon succeeded Mrs. Kelsey in Grade VII. Miss Spofford and Miss Potter returned and have continued the excellent work done last year in Music and Drawing. I am glad to refer you to their reports which follow, as well as to those of the School Nurse and Physician and the High School Principal. We have been very fortunate in keeping so many of our teachers and the work being done in the schools is of high quality.
Graduation exercises for the Grammar School were held in Grange Hall and 21 received certificates. Sixteen en- tered High School in the fall. This is an excellent record and is evidence of real interest on the part of pupils and teachers. There were eight in the graduating class of the High School. Several of the suggestions made last year have been carried out, including the purchase of more lockers, the starting of a Course in Household Arts, grading of the playground. I want to commend the work being done in the High School by Mr. Kelsey and his Assistants and to refer to his report. I believe that some Manual Training for the boys could be added to our present offerings with very little expense. Our greatest need of course, is suitable quarters for the High School. Next to this is the need of another classroom so that Grades V and VI may be divided.
Another Spelling Bee was conducted in May under the direction of the Telegram-Gazette, and the four towns of this union together with Hubbardston,, sent representatives to this contest. Rutland was represented by James and Gerald Connor, Bruce Winot, Lillian Mattson and Anna Morosky.
Extension Clubs were conducted by Mrs. Kelsey at West Rutland, and by Miss Hoyle for the girls and by Mr. French for the boys at the Center.
There was a Teachers' Institute held in Holden under the direction of the State Department of Education and all our
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teachers attended. We hope to have another this spring, it being the general feeling that they are of more value to us than the Convention in Worcester.
In May a Musicale was held in the new High School auditorium in Holden in observance of National Music Week. This was directed by Miss Spofford and we had over two hundred children from all the schools of the union taking part.
Rutland again entered the Interscholastic Prize Speaking Contest held in Holden and was represented by Coral Bird and Milton Lloyd, Carol Bird winning second prize for girls.
In the Poster Contest conducted by the American Humane Society we were well represented. Alfred Krzinowek won the blue medal ribbon or first prize, Rena Alinovi, Ruth Jame- son and Anna Morasky won red ribbon medals, second prizes, and Betty Calkins, Michael Hartman, Owen McGann, Daniel Martelli, Alku Oby and Ruth Santimaw received honorable mention which includes a year's subscription to the official magazine.
Our sincere thanks are extended to the Parent-Teacher Association for their continued interest in school welfare, for their response to our needs, and in particular for carrying on the Dental Clinic. We are trying to emphasize the highest standards of care necessary for the mental and physical wel- fare of our children. We are striving too, for the develop- ment of character, of good manners and disposition, for habits of truthfulness, consideration for others, and loyalty to school, the family, our town of Rutland and our country. If we are to succeed we must have the support of the taxpayers, the real owners of this business of education. It is the most im- portant single business interest conducted by this or any other town. It involves the largest investment and the biggest Payroll. It gives to the community and to the world a
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product of incomparable value. With trained teachers and modern educational processes our schools today are more in- teresting and more valuable than ever before. As good citizens we want every child to have an equal chance with the other children of the nation. Good schools and a fair chance for every child are inseparable. When we consider that in Massachusetts alone we spend six times as much for automo- biles and four times as much for ice cream, candy, tobacco and movies as we spend for public education, we certainly are not spending too much for our schools.
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