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All of the work done at the school will be book work, these ses- sions coming from 9 to 12 o'clock in the morning. In the after- noon, the same classes will take their shop work from 2 to 5 o'clock. There will be shop work also Saturday mornings. The book work will center largely about the shops, having to do with the economic and industrial conditions of the country, descriptions of the machinery used, etc. The school will not fit boys for fin- ished trade workmen, as they will have to serve apprenticeships in factories after attending the school.
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THE MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF TRADES
A part of the public school system. The school is in operation fifty-two weeks in the year and forty-four hours a week. Day courses are given in pattern making, machinists' and tool making trade, and carpentry and woodworking, and plumbing and gas fitting. The instruction in each trade comes under five heads : (1) shop practice and trade lectures ; (2) mechanical and free hand working drawing ; (3) workshop mathematics ; (4) lectures and illustrated talks on subjects pertaining to the trade ; (5) shop inspection trips. About three-fourths of the students' time is devoted to the actual shop practice. Each boy is a class by him- self and may finish his course in less than the prescribed time.
. The school does not claim to turn out journeymen mechanics. Its aim is to instruct its students thoroughly, in as short a time as possible, in all the fundamental principles and in the practice of the trade in question so that they may on graduation possess ability and confidence and be of more immediate practical value to their employers and receive a fair remuneration at once.
THE CLEVELAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
This school is a public charge and is intended to be a finishing school whose graduates will leave school prepared to enter a vocation. It offers a course of study for boys and a course for girls. The school year is divided into four quarters of twelve weeks each, and may be completed in either three or four years at the option of the pupils. The department for girls has domestic science and domestic and industrial art for its basis. The school numbers 600 pupils. Of this number 500 are pupils who [would not have gone to High School, had not this school been opened to them.
GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ARTS, BOSTON
This school numbers 300 pupils. Its purpose is to give full opportunity for the development of that type of student whose talents lie more in lines of doing and expressing than in lines of acquisition.
The course of study is presented under two general heads,
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academic and industrial. No electives are offered in the academic work except a choice of French or German, but pupils are allowed to choose different lines of vocational training.
The Industrial Department offers at present three courses ;. Dressmaking, Millinery, Household Science. The course in Household Science is offered to girls who desire to make an intel -. ligent study of the home from the standpoints of sanitation, fur -. nishing, decoration and care. The Dressmaking and Millinery courses aim to give ideals, taste and skill which shall have money earning value for the possessor.
The Art Department of this school has been highly developed. Its purpose is the cultivation of taste through a study of the prin- ciples of beauty and their application to the problems of dress- and the home.
Costume design and its many phases with special reference to the individual, and household decoration and furnishing are impor -- tant features of the course.
PETERSHAM (MASS. ) AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL
This school is a new departure in secondary agricultural educa- tion in New England. Four courses are offered, a college pre- paratory course ; a course in agriculture ; a course in manual. training, and a course in domestic science.
The course in agriculture includes instruction in
1. The wild flowers, birds, animals, and their habits.
2. How to care for domestic animals, poultry, bees.
3. The noxious representatives of the insect world, harmful fungi and the methods of destroying them.
4. How to manage the dairy and culinary departments.
5. The rocks, their chemical composition, and the process by which the "earth has been changed from a molten mass to a fit home for man.
· The kinds of soil, their physical and chemical properties, the crops best suited to each, and the proper methods of improv -- ing, cultivating and fertilizing them.
7. How to raise the best hay crop and the culture of each of" ten standard crops grown on a farm.
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8. How to raise, care for, and market both the large and small fruits.
9. How to conduct a market garden business both in the open and under glass.
10. The principles of forestry and landscape gardening.
11. How to use the saw, plane, chisel and keep tools in good ·order.
12. The cost, description and practicability of the most mod- ern machinery for each kind of farm work.
13. The principles of rural architecture, road making and village improvement.
The instruction in agriculture is based on the sciences and cor- related with them where it is practicable. The pupils' time is not consumed in manual labor. His compulsory part in field and garden work is intended merely to supplement the discussions and experiments of the class room. While crops and fruit are not grown for the pecuniary return, they are in all cases managed so that the pupil may draw correct conclusions as to the practica- bility of those pursuits from a business standpoint.
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SCHOOL STATISTICS
February
1905
1906
190
1908
1909
1910
Number graduated .
57
57
35
58
53
*66
Average age at graduation
18.4 12
18.5 12
186 12
18.2% 12
18-6 12
181
Senior class, Feb., 1910.
59
58
36
61
58
66
Senior class, when entered
115
95
75
112
121
124
Junior class, Feb., 1910
65
42
65
66
76
69
Junior class, when entered .
95
75
112
121
124
127
Second year class, Feb., 1910 ..
55
90
76
91
88
101
·Second year class, when entered
75
112
121
124
127
142
First year class, Feb., 1910 ..
105
113
113
114
131
115
First year class, when entered . .
112
121
124
127
142
125
*Estimated.
The dark faced figures of the table indicate the membership of the present senior class throughout the course.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Graduates of the school are to be found in the following col -. leges and higher institutions :- Harvard University, Yale Univer -. sity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Worcester Polytech- nic Institute, Tufts College, Dartmouth College, Brown Univer- sity, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Cornell University, University of Maine, Boston University, Boston College, Massa -- chusetts Agricultural College, Wellesley College, Radcliffe Col- lege, U. S. Naval Academy, University of Rochester, Sargent. School of Gymnastics, Normal Art School, Framingham Normal School, Salem Normal School, University of Illinois, Norwich University.
The following graduates of the school are continuing their- studies as follows :-
Lucia Bailey, Wellesley College.
Robert D. Bonney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alice F. Griffiths, Smith College.
Ernest W. Jackson, Harvard University.
Ruth Preston, Boston University.
Ruth Shepard, Tufts College.
Jennie E. Taggart, Sargent School of Gymnastics. Harry F. Ambrose, University of Illinois.
Wm. W. Anthony, Tufts Dental School.
Wm. D. Donovan, Tufts Dental School.
David P. Guillow, Norwich University.
F. Manning Hartshorne, Yale University. Arthur E. Howlett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Maude W. Nelson, Salem Normal School.
Hazel M. Chamberlain, Boston University.
Allen F. Sederquest, University of Maine.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. HOWE.
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GRADUATION EXERCISES, WAKFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF 1909
Town Hall, Thursday, June 24, 8 o'clock.
PROGRAMME
Overture
Chorus-When the Roses Bloom Again
Adams
(Arr. by G. F. Wilson)
Declamation-Education and the Self-made Man
Grover Cleveland
HUGH MOCUSH KELSO
Essay (Salutatory rank)-"Look here, upon this picture, and on this" RUTH PRESTON
Chorus-Song of the Armorer Nevins
Recitation-The Ride for Life Ralph Connor
BESSIE MARTHA O'CONNELL
Semi-Chorus-Over the Water Hosmer
The Hawthorn Tree Wooler
Oration-The Call of the East
ERNEST WEBSTER JACKSON
Recitation (Honor rank)-From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Wiggin
MAUDE WELLINGTON NELSON
Chorus-The Gallant Troubadour Watson
Recitation-The Soul of the Violin Merrill
RUBY MELISSA BUTLER
Chorus-Massa Dear Johnson
Oration (Valedictory rank)-The Promised Land ROBERT IRVING MAYER
Presentation of Diplomas-Dr. Charles E. Montague
Chairman School Committee
Class Song Benediction-Rev. Warren S. Perkins, D.D.
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Motto :- Honor, Not Honors
CLASS SONG
MAUDE WELLINGTON NELSON
"Now the time has come of parting !" This to us the wee bird sings, Soaring forth from leafy bowers, Forth to try our youthful wings ; Gently reared and kindly guarded From the winter's chilling blight ;. But the crowded nest is whisp'ring, "It is time for taking flight."
Dim before us lies the future, Filled with perils, joys, and pain ; Some may climb to heights of glory, Others tread the beaten plain. Restless wait we for the morrow, Anxious our frail strength to try, Stretching wide our untried pinions, Forth into the world we fly.
Here we nobly struggle onward In the broad wide fields of chance ; To the plough our weak hand turneth And we scorn the backward glance .. Firm our hearts, our eyes uplifting To the golden prize above, With true purpose, never drifting, Trusting in the God of Love.
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GRADUATES
CLASSICAL
Lucia Bailey
Margaret Grayson Bartley
Robert Daland Bonney
Perie Marion Brett
Alice Frances Griffiths
Ernest Webster Jackson
Mary Agnes Mullen
Ruth Preston
Ruth Shepard Jennie Eudora Taggart
Clara Louise Henry
GENERAL
Harry Fulton Ambrose William Walton Anthony William Dacey Donovan David Perkins Guillow
William Wallace Grace Edwin Melvin Hall
Frederic Manning Hartshorne Marjorie Deane Hawkes Arthur Enoch Howlett
Hugh McCush Kelso
Maude Wellington Nelson John Milton Brooks Ryder
Helen May Smith
COMMERCIAL
Elsie Amalia Anderson Agnes Julia Bowman Ruby Melissa Butler Frances Susan Buxton William Henry ( allan Eleanor Meta Dean Catherine Christene Dinan Elizabeth Mary Evans Winnifred Farrell Bessie Rita Fay Arlon Johnson Flannigan Estelle Blanchard Flockton Mabel Marie Florell Walter Leonard Jones
Emily Littlehale Robert Irving Mayer Edna Louise Meloney Frank Edward Morrison John Cleveland Morse Albert Stanley North Bessie Martha O'Connell Catherine Estelle Oliver Harold Irving Orne Annie Elizabeth Parker Marion Edna Richardson Olive Perkins Roberts Grace Emily Ryan Marion Anna Sweetser
Alberta Frances Waterhouse
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Appendix A
STATISTICS
Population, census of 1900 9,260
Population, census of 1904
10,000
Present census estimate .
12,500
According to school census, the number of children in town between five and fifteen, on September, 1909 September, 1908
1,895
Decrease from last year
27
Number between seven and fourteen, September, 1909 Number between seven and fourteen, September, 1908 Average membership, 1900
1,357
66
66
1901
1,909.3
66
1902
2,047.7
66
66
1903
2,053.8
1904
2,087.6
66
66
1905
2,115.6
66
1906
2,126.4
66
66
1907
2,169.8
66
66
1908
2,205.2
66
66
1909
2,201.6
Decrease from last year .
4.6
Total membership, 1908 .
2,428
Total membership, 1909 .
2,451
Average attendance
2,069.3
Decrease
.
·
58.1
Length of school year-Sept., 1908 to June, 1909 -39 weeks
1,922
1,323
1,790.3
209
Days lost, stormy weather, holidays, etc. .
11}
Actual length of school year, 36 weeks, 4 days.
Number of regular teachers employed
67
Increase
0
Number of special teachers
. ·
5
Total teachers employed . . . . . 72
APPENDIX B
Grade
Teacher
Average Average Member- Member- Attend- ship ance
Per ct. of Pupils under 5 Attend- ance
Pupils over 15
| Pupils betw'nl 7 and 14
¿ Days Ab- sence
Cases of Truan- cy
Cases of Tardi- ness
Cases of Dismis- sal
High, Lincoln, IX,
Charles H. Howe,
373
346.4
335.8
96.9
0
281
35
1,996
1
382
359
Mrs. M. E. Wentworth,
47
42.7
40.8
95.6
0
6
32
₹673
1
26
35
Fannie E. Carter,
47
40.8
35.6
94.8
0
22
. 795
2
24
21
Clara E. Emerson,
57
44.3
41.9
94 6
0
1
14
[862
2
62
50
Eunice W. Fobes,
32
28 7
27.0
94.1
0
0
24
605
0
24
21
Inez V. Decker,
17
41.0
38.8
94.6
0
1
40
795
1
11
19
VI,
Clara E. Davidson,
51
43.8
41.4
94.5
0
0
45
860
2
54
15
V,
Isabel M. Elliot,
47
42.1
41.0
97.4
0
0
47
400
0
17
11
IV, V,
|Bernice E. Hendrickson
47
35.2
33.4
94.9
0
0
37
670
0
87
26
IV,
L. Josephine Mansfield,
39
31.3
30.1
96.2
0
0
31
435
0
83
14
III,
Mary I. Hawkins,
25
29.6
28.7
97.0
0
0
28
337
1
25
8
II,
Agnes Anderson,
78
63.7
58.8
92.3
6
0
8
1764
0
176
12
Edith R. Marshall,
31
29.7
28.7
96.6
0
8
12
328
0
30
11
Warren, IX,
Mary Kalaher
41
38.0
37.0
97.4
0
1
33
346
0
65
26
Bessie E. David,
36
35.9
34.1
96.0
0
1
26
528
6
67
15
66
VII,
49
4.8.7
45.0
92.4
0
0
49
716
6
86
15
66
VI,
40
34.9
33.4
95.7
0
0
33
541
6
132
30
V,
Mary E. C. Geagan,
48
44.5
42.4
95.2
0
0
41
756
0
112
42
III, IV,
Alice J. Kernan,
41
35.6
32.6
92.5
0
0
11
963
0
69
14
I, II,
Elizabetlı Gardner,
54
41.0
39.1
95.6
0
0
54
661
2
67
91
IV, V,
Mary E. Kelly,
48
37.2
38.6
96.6
0
0
36
492
0
25
14
Dorothy Packer,
42
40.2
38.6
96.0
1
0
0
578
0
59
1
Elvah M. Hayes,
51
44.3
38.
91.8
0
12
27
1305
6
103
22
Greenwood, VIII, IX,
66
VII,
Lilla P. McCormick,
30
29.6
27.8
93.8
0
0
31
655
0)
26
. 24
Cynthia M. Prentice,
48
45.2
42.8
94.7
0
0
43
906
3
25
25
66
V,
Vienna L. Hill,
,1
46.9
44.3
91.5
0
0
13
939
3
28
21
Maude E. Claff,
35
30.1
29.1
96.7
0
33
731
0
37
19
Susie E. Long,
41
37.8
34.6
91.5
0
0)
16
1266
0
32
7
Mercie M. Whittemore,
36
33.7
30.9
91.9
3
3
1049
0
2
50
Eleanor F. Emerson,
42
36.6
35.7
97.5
0
2
32
358
39
29
Eva E. Howlett,
42
35.1
34.0
96.9
0
0
36
441
1
78
26
45
36.3
35.1
96.7
0)
34
403
0
47
9
III, IV,
Anastasia E. Donovan,
31
-9.5
28.7
93.9
0
0
30
300
0
9
37
Hamilton, VI, VII,
II, III,
I, II,
Sarah E. Wilkins,
40
38.7
37.4
96.6
0
4
35
592
1
42
22
VI,
IV.
III,
11,
I,
Mary Crane.
Hurd, VII, VIII,
V, VI.
"
IX, VIII,
44
38.5
36.1
93.8
0
0
44
1 874
1
52
50
VII.
VI, VII,
II, III,
38
29.1
27.2
93.5
0
0
17
704
1
. 42
8
L,
I.
M. A. Warren,
VIII,
Irene F. Norton,
Lillian A. Shaffer,
1
.
·
Jessie S. Dyer,
210
Total
ship
Hurd, I, II, Franklin, VIII,
Katherine G. Smith, {
45
36.8
34.8
94.6
1
0
9
783
0
91
22
) Marion L. Whitelaw, § T. Frank Shea.
VII,
Margaret A. Ryan,
43
38.6
36.4
194.2
0
1
40
837
1
77
40
Marion DeC. Ellis,
38
36.1
35.
96.
0
0
38
418
0
27
6
Selena B. Conway,
49
43.3
40.7
94.1
0
0
47
965
0
181
23
/ Marion Poole,
Maude L. Arnold,
32
28.4
27.2
95.7
0
0
28
456
1
91
8
Margaret E. Foss,
36
29.3
27.9
95.1
0
0
29
493
5
61
9
Katherine L. Kelly,
32
27.3
26.3
96.2
0
0
12
342
0
42
9
Hannah J. Ardill,
55
47.0
43.7
93.4
2
0
6
1130
0
137
13
Sarah B. Titcomb,
19
17.7
16.6
94.
0
0
18
385
2
20
16
Mary C. Donovan,
28
26.6
25.3
94.7
3
0
10
472
0
21
2
Elizabeth Law,
28
22.2
21.0
94.
0
0
23
366
2
37
9
Montrose, V, VI, VII,
37
36.9
35.3
95.5
0
0
21
614
0
64
ĮM. A. Kernan,
29
20.3
25.2
97.4
0
0
29
250
2
60
9
Prospect St., III, IV, "I, II,
Addie K. Crosman,
43
40.8
38.4
94.0
1
0
43
892
2
125
10
Total,
2,451
2,201.6
2,069.3
94.98
17
327
1,484
35,539
73
-
3,363
1,402
211
The above statistics are for the school year, September, 1908, to June, 1909.
4
84
20
33
26.6
25.1
94.4
0
2
19
512
VI,
V,
IV,
III,
II,
66
I.
Woodville, III, IV,
I, II.
I' II, III, IV,
Grace Orpin,
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APPENDIX C. SCHOOL ORGANIZATION. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. Jacob H. Carfrey, 1905, Syracuse University, $2000 .* SUPERINTENDENT'S CLERK. Lucy A. Noyes, $312.
LIST OF REGULAR TEACHERS TO DATE.
Name.
Grade.
Date of first elect'n.
Where Educated.
Salary.
HIGH SCHOOL COMMON STREET
C. H. Howe
Principal First Ass't Assistant
1895
Dartmouth College
$2000
Helen W. Poor
1890
Radcliffe
60
850
Lester S. Hart
1901
Tufts
66
850
Elizabeth F. Ingram
1881
Smith
750
Florence W. Lowell
66
1903
Radcliffe
6.
750
S. Ed. McConnell
66
1909
Mt. Union
66
1100
Clara H. Frederick
66
1904
Vassar
66
750
Sarahı W. Kelley
66
1905
Wellesley
66
750
Ralph C. Bean
66
1906
Colby Coll., Harv. Univ.
800
Marion Cousens
1909
Radcliffe
550
Fannie M. Clement
1908
Tufts College
600
Olive P. Roberts
66
1909
66
200
LINCOLN SCHOOL CRESCENT STREET Mrs. M. E. Wentworth
Principal
1871
Berwick Academy
1000
Ass't
IX
1908
Farmington Normal
600
Fannie E. Carter
IX
1886
Millbury High
600
Sarah E. Wilkins
VIII
1883
Salem Normal
600
Eunice W. Forbes
VII
1904
Farmington Normal 66
500
Clara E. Davidson
VI
1907
.Jessie S. Dyer
V
1900
Quincy Training School
550
Bernice M.Hendrickson
IV
1908
Salem Normal
450
L. Josephine Mansfield
III
1875
Wakefield High
550
Mary I. Hawkins
II
1896
Southboro High
550
Agnes Anderson
I
1900
Wakefield High 66 66
550
Edith R. Marshall
I
1894
Fannie S. Knight
Ass't
1909
Miss Wheelock's K. T. S.
280
H. M. WARREN SCHOOL
CONVERSE STREET
Principal
1871
Wakefield Higlı
Mary Kalaher
VIII
1888
Salem Normal
Bessie E. David
VII, VIII
1907
Bridgewater Normal
475
Irene F. Norton
VI
1908
Hyannis Normal 66
475
Lillian A. Shaffer
V
1908
1700
Mary E. C. Geagan
III, IV
1906
Lowell :6
550
Alice J. Kernan
I, II
1890
Wakefield High
HAMILTON SCHOOL
ALBION STREET Elizabeth Gardner
Principal
1898
Calais, Me., High
Mary E. Kelly
IV, V
1884
Wakefield High
525
Dorothy Packer
II, III
1906
Salem Normal
475
Mary C. Donovan
I, II
1904
Symonds K. T. S.
* One-tenth of this salary is paid by Lynnfield.
-
Inez V. Decker
VI, VII
1908
Truro Provincial Normal
500
550
Isabel M. Elliot
IV, V
1900
Wakefield High
650
M. Alice Ryan
1902
Wakefield High
750
M. Hannalı Wait
1908
Bates
66
----
800
M. A. Warren
GOD
66
550
Mineola Clough
550
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LIST OF REGULAR TEACHERS TO DATE-Continued.
Name.
Grade.
Date of| first elect'n.
Where Educated.
Salary.
GREENWOOD SCHOOL MAIN STREET
Ross Vardon
Principal VIII, IX
1910
Bridgewater Normal
$1000
Annie A. Moulton
VII
1891
Wheaton Seminary
550
Cynthia M. Prentice
VI
1906
Salem Normal
500
Vienna L. Hill
V
1900
Dover High
550
Maude E. Claff
IV
1907
Denver Normal
500.
Susie E. Long
III
1907
Castine Normal
500
Mercie M. Whittemore
II
1900
Miss Wheelock's K. T. S.
525
Mary M. Crane
I
1906
Salem Normal
450
F. P. HURD SCHOOL CORDIS STREET
Principal
1887
Salem Normal
675
Eva E. Howlett
V, VI
1880
66
66
550
Anastasia E. Donovan
III, IV
1908
450
Louise U. Ekman
I, II
1909
Woburn T. S.
450
FRANKLIN SCHOOL NAHANT STREET
Principal
1902
Westfield Normal
1000
Margaret A. Ryan
VII
1905
Boston University
475
Marion DeC. Ellis
VI
1908
Emerson Coll. of Oratory
475
Selena B. Conway
V
1909
Gloucester High
450
Mande L. Arnold
IV
1899
Salem Normal
550
Katherine L. Kelly
III
1894
550
Hazel I. Oliver
II
1909
400
Hannah J. Ardill
I
1892
550
WOODVILLE SCHOOL FARM STREET
Principal
1906
Salem Normal
475
Marion R. Brooks
I, II
1908
Miss Wheelock's K. T. S.
400
MONTROSE SCHOOL SALEM STREET
Principal
1909
Castine Normal
450
Grace Orpin
I, II, III, IV
1906
Hyannis Normal
475
PROSPECT ST. SCHOOL PROSPECT STREET
Mabel A. Kernan
Principal
1899
550
Addie R. Crosman
I, II
1899
Wakefield high Wellesley College
550
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Name.
Position.
Date of first elect'n.
Where Educated.
Salary.
George F. Wilson
Sup'v'r Music
1877
Boston Conservatory
$800
Maude E. Black
Drawing
1906
Boston Normal Art
600
Bertha A. Chapman
T'ch'r Sewing 66 Sloyd
1908
Simmons College
650
Harlan B. Peabody
Salem Nor. & Sloyd Tr.
800
John H. McMahon
Mili'y Inst'r
1909
A Co., 6th Inf., M. V. M.
100
1909
Boston University
475
Lila P. McCormick
Eleanor F. Emerson
T. Frank Shea
66
66
6
Sarah B. Titcomb
Maude H. Phelps
66
1908
214
JANITORS.
Name.
School.
Residence.
Salary.
Nathaniel Hines
High
Pine Street, Greenwood
$750
Charles E. Newman
Lincoln
18 Yale Avenue
850
Edward E. Eaton
Warren and Hamilton
13 Gould Street
650
Josiah H. Ringer
Greenwood
Greenwood Av., Greenw'd
475
W. W. Shedd
F. P. Hurd
25 Cordis Street
225
Thomas Thrush
Franklin
32 Franklin Street
450
Charles E Classen
Woodville
Nahant Street
110
Maurice F. Hurley
Montrose
289 Lowell Street
85
Edwin C. Swain
West Ward
31 Fairmount Avenue
85
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A ssessors 'Report
Assessed value of personal prop-
erty, excluding resident bank
stock .
$1,450,293 00
Resident bank stock . 103,250 00
$1,553,543 00
Assessed value of real estate :
Buildings .
$4,428,890 00
Land
.
3,106,665 00
$7,535,555 00
Total valuation .
$9,089,098 00
Number of residents assessed on
property :
Individuals
1,605
All others
.
239
Total
1,844
Number of non-residents assessed
on property :
Individuals
539
All others
93
Total
632
Number of persons assessed :
On property
2,476
For poll tax only
2,067
Total
4,543
Number of poll tax payers
2,997
Number of dwellings assessed
1,987
Number of acres of land assessed
3,897
Number of horses assessed
·
361
Number of cows assessed .
274
Rate of taxation per thousand .
$19 00
.
216
TAX LEVY
State tax
$11,295 00
County tax
9,677 54
Metropolitan sewer tax
8,125 52
Metropolitan park tax
. 4,282 09
$33,380 15
Bond retirements :
Warren School
2,000 00
Greenwood School .
1,000 00
Junction School
1,500 00
North School .
500 00
Greenwood School .
1,000 00
Junction School
500 00
High School repairs
1,000 00
Sewerage, 1st issue
·
2,000 00
Sewerage, 2nd issue
1,000 00
Municipal Light Plant, extensions
2,500 00
Insurance premiums
500 00
Cooper Street bridge
500 00
Metropolitan park .
500 00
Fire station
1,000 00
Park, local ·
500 00
Town Hall seats
500 00
$16,500 00
APPROPRIATIONS
November meeting :
Moth work
$3,347 02
Repairs, Town Hall
50 70
Police department .
150 00
Gould Street sidewalk
400 00
Highway department
1,300 00
Poor department
2,500 00
Fire alarm
50 00
Municipal Light Plant
5,000 00
Forest Warden
150 00
Fire department
600 00
.
·
.
·
$13,547 72
217
March meeting : School department :
General pay rolls
$44,093 34
Fuel .
4,500 00
Books and supplies
3,000 00
Contingent . 2,800 00
Evening school
900 00
$55,293 34
Interest .
13,795 59
Poor department
7,000 00
Police department
2,680 00
Town Hall
2,000 00
Miscellaneous .
5,500 00
Forest Warden
250 00
Tree Warden .
200 00
Fire department
7,050 00
Park department
800 00
Richardson Light Guard .
1,120 00
State aid
4,000 00
Soldiers' relief
4,000 00
Military aid
500 00.
Town Library
915 00
Reading Room
240 00
Fish Committee
25 00
Street sprinkling
1,800 00
Hydrant rental, 191 at $20
3,820 00.
9 standpipes, 3 fountains, 3 horse . troughs .
1,125 00
Sewer department
·
700 00
Fire alarm, maintenance $100 ¥00
Construction
50 00
150 00
Water dept., maint'nce $13,250 00
Construction . 5,000 00 ·
Interest . ·
. 8,600 00
Bond retirement
4,000 00
30,850 00
Highway department
6,000 00
218
Greenwood Hose House, repairs
225 00
Fire alarm box, Warren Ave. .
. 85 00
Fire department, hats and coats
200 00
Memorial Day
300 00
Moth work
1,300 00
Police protection, West side
·
400 00
Municipal Light Plant :
Bond retirements . $8,550 00
Interest
. 5,309 00
Depreciation
5,405 35
Maintenance
. 47,142 60
Unpaid bills
1,812 73
$68,219 68
Less cash on hand. . 1,219 68
67,000 00
July 4th
300 00
Assessors, clerical service
150 00
Salaries, Water Com'rs . $275 00
Light Commissioners
275 00
Sewer Commissioners
137 50
687 50
Police department .
1,719 04
Salaries, Town officers
6,426 25
Gong, Fire station .
327 50
Storage building
300 00
Increase, Firemen's pay .
958 00
$230,192 22 -
Total levy
$293,620 09
RECEIPTS
Water department .
$33,348 22-
Municipal Light Plant
55,347 29
Moth work
144 00
Malden Court, fines
578 43
John R. Fairbain, fines
5 00
License fees
.
330 00
.
·
.
·
·
219
Interest on deposits
222 08
Sealer weights and measures
69 63
Release tax deeds .
. .
585 61
Refund, Town Hall seats
171 70
State of Mass. :
Moth work
$4,927 83
Corporation tax
13,079 00
Bank tax
1,201 86
Military aid
220 00
State aid
3,861 00
Armory rent
977 50
Burial soldiers .
72 00
24,339 19
Refund, soldiers' relief
4 00
Milk Inspector, receipts
28 50
December assessments
545 46
Unexpended balances
1,126 39
116,845 50
Net levy after deducting receipts
$176,774 59
ABATEMENTS MADE ON 1909 LEVY
Soldiers' exemptions :
Real estate
$1,313 85
Poll tax .
74 00
$1,387 85
Widows' exemptions
425 60
Personal property, sworn off
111 72
Over valuation
189 02
Clerical errors
14 78
$2,128 97
FREDERIC S. HARTSHORNE, SAMUEL T. PARKER, CHARLES A. CHENEY,
Assessors.
.
·
.
.
.
.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Municipal Light Board
AND MANAGER
OF THE
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
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Report of the Municipal Light Board.
The year just past has been, at the Light Plant, one largely of reconstruction, reorganization and repair. So fully were the con- ditions at the Plant set forth in last year's Town Meeting that it remains for your Board to report only what has been done to improve the then existing conditions.
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.
Installation of the new switchboard was completed and the final payment of $800 made thereon. To carry out the plan for unify- ing the station, a second hand 90 K.W. alternating current gen- erator was purchased and installed to replace the old direct cur- rent machine, together with a switchboard panel with instruments for controlling the machines, the cost being $700. The 1000-volt alternating generator was rewound, making it a 2200-volt machine, which is the standard voltage of the station, the expense of this work being $93.50. The small alternating generator burned out its armature during the year, repair of which occasioned an ex- pense of about $85.
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