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Total number inmates, 27 ; died, 2; removed to Tewksbury, 5 ; discharged, 5; remaining, 15.
Total days' board furnished, 7,007, or 1,001 weeks.
Average weekly number, 193.
Miss Lois Brown continues to act as nurse for her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Demond of Rutland. Nahum S. Newton, a soldier and pensioner of the war of the Rebellion, continues to make his home in this institution, Holden receiving compensa- tion for his support. By the provisions of Sec. 2, Chapter 425, Acts of 1898, the support of seven of our wards was transferred to the state. Five of them, as above stated, have been removed to the State Alinshouse at Tewksbury ; the others, Eunice Walker
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and Lavina B. Field of Oakham, remain with us by the prefer- ence of friends who have paid their board since Nov. 18.
The receipts and expenditures are as follows :
RECEIPTS.
Milk,
$1,248 14
Calves,
23 75
Stock,
145 00
Pork,
34 29
Eggs,
43 95
Work off farm,
22 89
Board and sundries,
34 36
$1,552 38
EXPENDITURES.
Paid warden's and matron's salaries,
$595 86
Inside labor,
156 62
Outside labor,
102 24
Grain,
612 04
Meat,
188 72
Flour,
86 72
Groceries,
394 51
Bread and pastry,
71 56
Fish,
54 07
Dry goods,
73 42
Stock,
298 00
Tools and seeds,
85 51
Boots and shoes,
32 45
Medical attendance and medicine,
65 98
Hardware,
20 02
Furniture,
14 35
Blacksmithing,
26 02
Ice,
16 66
Tobacco and snuff,
16 53
Fertilizer,
51 00
Miscellaneous,
106 81
Rent,
325 00
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Paid Interest, Wood,
$120 99
1
40 00
Total,
$3,554 76
Deducting receipts,
1,552 38
Balance net expense,
$2,002 38
Cost per week for each inmate, $2+ -.
The net expense to each town is as follows :
Holden,
$551 24
Hubbardston,
399 50
Oakham,
208 64
Paxton,
104 32
Phillipston,
138 30
Rutland,
315 20
Westminster,
285 18
The following table gives annual condition sinee the associa- tion was organized :
No. INMATES.
WEEKLY AVERAGE.
TOTAL
COST
No. WEEKS. PER WEEK.
First year,
12
7,7%
3775
$2.875
Second year.
16
11,7%
586
2.243
Third year,
26
2138
1142
1.959
*Fourth year,
30
22.37
967
2.232
Fifth year,
30
18.89
9823
2.545
Sixth year,
36
1843
984
2.30
Seventh year,
30
1913
1032
2.138
Eighth year,
30
193
10229
1.829
Ninth year,
27
19}
1001
2.+
€
2306
The inmates have generally enjoyed good health during the past year, two only being removed by death. The reduction of the number of inmates eaused by the new law above referred to may make it desirable to add other towns to the association, as
*Ten months.
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the cost per capita is reduced by keeping the number up to the maximum which can be properly cared for. The income is the largest since our organization; $84.80 each from a herd of fifteen cows, besides home consumption, is certainly a creditable record. Those interested in the well-being of the inmates and the success of the institution will be pleased to learn that the present warden and matron have been secured for another year.
The above report is respectfully submitted by
HOBART RAYMOND, President, Westminster, JESSE ALLEN, Secretary, Oakham, F. T. HOLT, Treasurer, Holden, JOHN ADAMS, Hubbardston,
H. H. PIKE, Paxton,
D. WEBSTER BAKER, Phillipston,
· H. A. KENNEN, Rutland,
Board of Management.
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FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT. DR.
Balance on hand,
$24 18
Annual appropriation,
75 00
Fines and sale of catalogues, 1 62
$100 80
CR.
Paid for care of library,
$25 00
Exchange of books with Coldbrook,
20 00
For new books,
27 17
Express and postage,
30
By balance on hand,
28 33
$100 80
Present number of volumes in library,
954
Added during year,
69
Number taken out during year,
$1,821
Largest number taken out in one day, 48
Number persons taking out books, 125
Valuable gifts of books have been received from Miss E. P. Sohier of Beverly, Daniel H. Dean of Cambridge, and Hon. C. E. Parker of Holden. So that, with the books from the " Trav- eling Libraries," we are well equipped for another year. MRS. M. L. WOODIS, FRANK E. DAVIS, JESSE ALLEN,
Trustees.
REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE.
DR.
To appropriation of 1897, $30 00 Appropriation of 1898, 27 00
Income of Rev. G. H. Gould fund, 7 13
$64 13
CR.
By amount paid for bronze markers to honor the graves of Revolution- ary soldiers (19 markers at $3 each), $57 00
Paid for care of "Gould lot," West
Cemetery, 75
Cash on hand (in Gould fund), 6 38
$64 13
The graves of the following Revolutionary patriots, whose service has been verified by the State Records, have been found and honored with markers : Alexander Crawford, Capt. John Crawford, Capt. Wm. Crawford, Capt. Isaac Stone, John Rob- inson, Stephen Lincoln, Jesse Allen, Capt. Silas Bullard, Joseph Dwelly, Nehemiah Packard, Francis Maynard, Capt. James Conant, James Bell, James Bell, Jr., Capt. Nehemiah Allen, Dr Spencer Field, William Henderson, Lieut. Ebenezer Foster, Lieut. Asa French. Many others will doubtless be added to this list in coming years.
Respectfully submitted,
D. R. DEAN, WM. S. CRAWFORD, JESSE ALLEN, Cemetery Committee.
SCHOOL REPORT.
Excellent health has been enjoyed by our scholars throughout the year, and good work accomplished. No child of school age has died in town for more than seven years.
We present the following report :
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
DR.
To amount of appropriation, including transportation,
$1,200 00
Received from state school fund,
559 24
66 " dog tax refunded, 214 09
" town of Rutland (tuition), 7 70
66
66 state high school tuition refunded, 184 62
66 " cash from school sup- plies, 3 88
$2,169 53
CR.
By expenses of the several schools as follows :
CENTRE SCHOOL-Grammar.
Amount paid Miss Florence Bothwell, spring term, $90 00
Miss Florence Bothwell, fall term, 110 00
winter term, 110 00
$310 00
CENTRE SCHOOL-Primary.
Amount paid Miss A. L. Fuller, spring term, $70 00
Miss A. F. Fuller, fall term, 88 00
Miss A. L. Fuller, winter term, 88 00
$246 00
For fuel,
-
34 00
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Care of furnace and school-rooms, $32 10
66 10
Total expenses of Centre schools,
$662 10
COLDBROOK SCHOOL.
Amount paid Miss Cornelia Ward, spring term, $90 00
Miss Cornelia Ward, fall term, 90 00
Miss Minnie Mellen, winter term,
108 00
Fuel,
19 50
Care of house,
10 25
$317 75
WEST SCHOOL.
Amount paid Miss Flossie Paquin, spring term,
$65 00
Miss Flossie Paquin, fall term, 65 00
Miss Flossie Paquin, winter term,
S4 00
Fuel,
19 13
Care of house,
8 50
$241 63
SOUTH SCHOOL.
Amount paid Mrs. Minnie G. Woodis, spring term,
$70 00
Mrs. Minnie G. Woodis, fall term, 70 00
Mrs. Minnie G. Woodis, winter term,
84 00
Fuel, 6 00
Care of house,
8 50
$238 50
Paid town of Barre, high school tuition, $45 00
Town of Rutland, high school tuition, 57 50
City of Boston, high school tuition, 41 06
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Paid for transportation of scholars, For repairs on school-houses,
$88 80
9 40
For school supplies, -
140 31
Supervision, Jesse Allen,
$45 50
Supervision, Minnie L. Woodis, 9 00
Supervision, H. W. Lincoln, 32 25
86 75
$468 82
Total expense of schools,
$1,888 80
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
Value on hand March 1, 1899, $155 32
Value on hand March 1, 1898, 160 64
The attendance in the several schools has been as follows :
CENTRE SCHOOL-Grammar.
Spring term, whole number, 22 Average attendance, 21
Fall 66
22
66
30
Winter
26 23 66
CENTRE SCHOOL-Primary.
.
. Spring term, whole number, 21 Average attendance, 19
Fall
66 33
31
Winter 66 32 29
COLDBROOK SCHOOLS.
Spring term, whole number, 23
Average attendance, 21
Fall 66 66 22
66
19
Winter
16 16 14
WEST SCHOOLS.
Spring term, whole number, 12
Average attendance, 11
Fall ..
66 12
66
11
Winter “
66 12 9
66
30
SOUTH SCHOOLS.
Spring term, whole number, 12
Average attendance, 9
Fall 66
12
10
Winter
12
66 9
ATTENDANCE IN ALL THE SCHOOLS.
Spring term, whole number, 90 Average attendance, 81
Fall 66 101 91
Winter 66 66 98
84
Number of seholars in all our schools, 121.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Names of seholars neither absent nor tardy.
CENTRE SCHOOLS.
Three terms. Aliee Allen, Edith Clifford, Jennie Sheern, James Allen, Ira Bailey, Wayne Marsh.
Two terms. Aliee Dwelly, Flora Gueley, Susie Gleason, Clem- ent Ayres, Walter Clifford, Eva Allen, Mildred Burt, Irna Clifford, Edna Marsh, Nellie Talbot, Florine Lineoln. One term. Ruth Briggs, Ida Crawford, Roger Conant, John Dwelly, Maggie Gilboy, Willie Bullard, Owen Gilboy, Joseph Gilboy.
SOUTH SCHOOL.
Three terms. Nellie Gueley. Two terms. Henry Roper, Luey Roper, Leroy Sanders.
One term. Robert Dwelly, Frankie Woodis, Arthur Sanders.
COLDBROOK SCHOOL.
Three terms. Nattie Butterfield, Iola Bemis, James Bemis. Two terms. Morton Butterfield, Hazel Bemis, Maud Cald well,
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Paul Needham, Fannie Needham, Verlie Parker. One term. Edward Bliss, Winfield Parker, Cressa Warner.
WEST SCHOOL.
Three terms. Minnie Bullard, Mary O'Donnell. Two terms. Alice Bullard, Eddie Bullard.
One term. Milton Bullard, Kittie O'Donnell. Respectfully submitted, JESSE ALLEN, M. L. WOODIS, HORACE W. LINCOLN, School Committee.
This is to certify that I have examined and approved the accounts of the Selectmen, Overseers of Poor, School Committee, Road Commissioner, Tax Collector, Treasurer, Library Trustees, and Cemetery Committee, and have found them to be correct. W. M. ROBINSON, Auditor.
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN OAKHAM IN 1898.
BIRTHS.
Mar. 4. Son (Edward Chapman) to James K. Clark.
Mar. 29. Son (John Patrick) to Patrick O'Donnell.
Apr. 9. Son ( Herman Nelson) to Mason S. Dean.
Aug. 26. Daughter ( Agnes Helena) to James C. Woodis.
Sept. 17. Son (Thomas .Joseph ) to Patrick Moran.
Oct. 7. Son (Earl Clarence) to Harry B. Parker.
Oct. 27. Daughter (Hazel Elizabeth) to Wallace Grimes.
Nov. 19. Daughter to Fay D. Russell.
Dec. 10. Son to Walter M. Robinson.
MARRIAGES.
Apr. 6. Fay D. Russell to Jessie M. Davis.
June 21. Daniel E. Holden to Ethel J. Babcock.
Sept. 21. George H. Morse to Grace L. McFarland.
Nov. 9. James P. Fairbank to Caroline M. Dean.
DEATHS.
YRS. MON. DAYS.
May 13. Louisa L. Sibley,
72
11
27
May 17. Louis Govier,
44
2 25
May 23. Lizzie Mabel Austin,
20
11
18
June 9. Phylina C. Dwelly,
70
5
9
Aug. 12. Charles M. Wood,
63
.....
" 17. Maud C. Dean,
1
3
2
" 20. Mary E. Parmenter,
83
10
...
“ 26. Elbridge Mullett,
43
4
24
Oct. 11. Abigail Burt,
88
2
23
Oct. 27.
Charles N. Monroe,
33
7
6
Oct. 27. Sarah Ann Duffy,
73
.....
..
...
Nov. 7. William C. Crawford,
49
9
27
Nov. 21. Daughter of Fay D. Russell,
.....
.....
2
Dec. 16. Mary P. Stinson,
91
1.
11
Dec. 17. Son of Walter M. Robinson,
8
.....
...
JESSE ALLEN,
Town Clerk.
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