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Also it will be seen from our receipts for 1918 that Acton has once more entered the list of those towns to be benefitted by. the income from Massachusetts School Funds. This item amounted to $1,029.64, and was not included in our estimate of the receipts for 1918, so it will be seen that several items in our budget have fallen considerably below the estimated, and in only two items have we exceeded the amount asked for.
Two of our school buildings are in need of outside paint, but owing to the prevailing high cost of material and labor, we thought best not to attempt the work in 1918. We hope, however, to do this necessary work during the present year.
A glance at the list of teachers employed during the year will serve to show that, like most other towns and cities, we have had our teacher troubles. Before the fall term opened, we had one teacher out on account of illness and four resigna- tions. Miss Barrett's place in the Center has been filled by
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Miss Anna D. Taylor. Miss Harrington's place in the West School has been filled by' Miss Hazel M. Stone. Miss Brennan, as supervisor of music, has been replaced by Miss Irma M. Durkee, and in the South School, Miss Halliday had had sev- eral successors, but fortunately, we now have Miss A. Eugenia LeMoine in charge of that room. Miss Elizabeth A. Hinckley was given a year's leave of absence on account of illness, and Miss Gladys Farnsworth has been teaching in her room.
Death, too, has broken our ranks, and from the West school has passed one of our oldest and best loved teachers. With less than a year to teach before being retired, Mrs. Har- riet H. Gardner was taken ill last October. She recovered, however, sufficiently to be about, and was looking forward to returning to her desk when she was again stricken, and died suddenly on December first. For nearly thirty years she had presided over the room where begins the child's public instruc- tion, and it is no mean eulogy to say that many a boy and girl now grown to manhood and womanhood looks back with love and gratitude to her whose thoughtful care and patience helped wonderfully to start them in the path of wisdom and rectitude.
She was firm in discipline, yet gentle withal, a good teacher, a wise counsellor. Possessed of a naturally sunny disposition, her presence in any gathering was almost a guar- antee of optimism and good fellowship. Her place in our school and in our midst will be hard to fill. Her memory will live always. Mrs. Evelyn K. Reed is now teaching in Mrs. Gard- ner's room.
The following is a detail of the expected expenses for 1919, and the receipts and disbursements for 1918.
ESTIMATES FOR THE SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1919
For general expenses : Salaries and other expenses of the committee $100.00
Salaries and other expenses of the superintendent and truant offi- cers 700.00
For expenses of instruction :
Tuition of pupils attending out of town schools 7,900.00
Salaries of elementary school teachers 6,500.00
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For textbooks :
For elementary schools it is antici- pated that the amount to be re- ceived from dog tax will cover this item 300.00
For stationery and supplies : Elementary schools 275.00
For expenses of operating school plants : Wages of janitors, fuel and miscel- laneous expenses
2,686.00
Maintenance and repairs
500.00
For auxiliary agencies : Health 75.00
For transportation :
High school scholars
1,800.00
Elementary scholars
2,496.00
Total $23,332.00
Less estimated income from outside
sources
2,500.00
$20,832.00
RECEIPTS ON ACCOUNT OF SCHOOLS FOR THE YEAR 1918
Appropriation at town meeting $21,000.00
Received from Commonwealth of Massachusetts :
Account Income Mass. School fund $1,029.64
Account Industrial Schools 602.79
Account superintendent - 343.75
Miscellaneous tuition
9.75
1,985.93
County dog tax
317.49
Received for tuition of out-of-town pupils :
R. Webb $190.20
E. Sadler
28.50
C. Sadler
28.50
Town of Stow
57.00
.
Refund on railroad tickets
304.20
18.00
$23,625.62
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DISBURSEMENTS
General Expenses
School Committee
Salaries : B. E. Hall, salary 1918 $75.00
Other expenses : Wright & Potter Printing Co., printing blanks $1.05
B. E. Hall, telephone and postage
2.81
B. E. Hall, telephone and postage · 2.93
E. A. Phalen, traveling
5.00
$11.79
Superintendent of Schools and Enforcement of Law : Salaries :
Frank H. Hill, superintendent $632.50
Carl Pickens 3.50
Walter M. French 3.50
Thomas Scanlon 4.00
Asaph Parlin
3.50
$647.00
Other expenses :
Frank H. Hill, telephone and postage .. $16.40
Frank H. Hill, expense of procuring teachers
23.10
Elizabeth W. Hill, assistant to superin- tendent
24.44
$63.94
Expenses of Instruction
Town of Concord, High $6,395.00
Town of Concord, Agricultural 414.19
Town of Maynard, High 30.00
City of Lowell, Industrial
40.00
Elementary Schools
Harriet H. Gardner
$452.10
E. Sophia Taylor
564.00
Ruth L. Harrington
308.00
Ella L. Miller
594.00
$6,879.19
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Martha F. Smith
556.00
Marion H. Barrett
308.00
Emma M. Halliday 330.00
Julia L. McCarthy
556.00
Jennie E. Stowell
572.00
Helen A. Westwood
252.00
Marion C. Taylor
244.00
Mildred Brennan
115.83
Myrtle F. Houghton
25.20
Hazel M. Stone
248.00
Anna D. Taylor
248.00
Emily B. Campbell
155.00
Gladys Farnsworth
232.00
Irma M. Durkee
84.24
Muriel K. Fairchild
24.80
Evelyn K. Reed
101.50
Madeline H. Howe
6.20
Lottie L. D. Blodgett
31.00
A. Eugenia LeMoine
· 46.50
$6,054.37
Text Books, Elementary
Houghton, Mifflin & Company
24.03
Longmans, Greene & Co.
9.14
Benj. H. Sanborn Co.
7.85
Edward E. Babb & Co.
201.72
The A. S. Barnes Co.
.75
American Book Co.
3.77
J. Q. Adams & Co.
56.25
Silver, Burdett & Co.
9.12
D. Appleton & Co.
5.68
$318.31
Stationery and Supplies
The Waterbury Brass Goods Corp.
$1.29
Edward E. Babb & Co.
159.10
Finney & Hoit
4.70
F. Z. Taylor
2.40
H. W. Lewis
. 25
Theron F. Newton
. .50
.
$168.24
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Expenses of Operating School Plants Wages of Janitors
Asaph Parlin
$76.00
Thomas Scanlon
282.00
Theron F. Newton
367.00
Carl Pickens
216.00
James Fitzgerald
48.00
Mrs. Isabelle Kennedy
2.95
$991.95
Fuel
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co.
$898.42
George H. P.eed
428.10
Whitney Coal & Grain Co.
57.16
William H. Kingsley
30.00
Thomas E. Downie
12.00
Charles Edwards, teaming coal
8.00
T. F. Newton, handling wood
.50
Overseers of the Poor, Acton
155.00
$1,589.18
Miscellaneous
West and South Water Supply District of Acton
$36.00
E. T. Rice
8.60
H. W. Lewis
4.30
Henry C. Doughty
37.00
T. F. Newton
19.18
R. W. Carter
2.50
Hopkinson & Holden
3.25
Wilmot B. Cleaves
2.00
$112.83
Maintenance Repairs
John S. Hoar
$4.00
E. T. Rice
14.32
E. Z. Stanley
51.40
F. Z. Taylor
.30
South Acton Coal & Lumber Company ·
1.10
E. A. Phalen
25.00
L. T. Fullonton
6.35
Auxiliary Agencies Health
$49.50
George B. Robbins Disinfectant Company F. W. Green
7.00
$102.47
$56.50
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Transportation
High School :
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
$1,271.44
N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad Company · 119.25
Ida Fields
4.80
Ormel Laffin
1.08
Hannah Monson
11.60
W. J. Benere
3.36
H. W. Bursaw
22.50
Lester N. Fletcher
15.40
A. Christofferson
4.80
$1,454.23
Lowell Industrial :
Boston & Maine Railroad Company . $41.00
N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad Company 79.65
$120.65
Elementary :
Charles Edwards
$630.00
J. D. Smith
575.00
W. M. French
350.00
A. Christofferson
405.00
$1,960.00
$20,605.65
Total receipts
$23,625.62
Total disbursements
20,605.65
Unexpended balance
$3,019.97
Respectfully submitted,
EDWIN A. PHALEN,
HARRY N. BROWN,
BERTRAM E. HALL.
Acton, January 11, 1919.
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
Gentlemen of the Committee :
Following is my ninth annual report as superintendent of schools of Acton, the twenty-seventh in the series of such reports.
More and more each year the superintendent's work keeps him from that close personal touch with the schoolroom which used to engage his best efforts and wherein his professional training had the chief opportunity to show itself. The de- mands of the several departments of the state and national government for statistics and information are increasingly heavy. To the associations and societies engaged in social wel- fare work and war propaganda and drives the school superin- tendent appears to be the natural clearing-house for all their activities touching the schools. A few months in the winter after the school reports are in and before the demands of the closing weeks of the school year begin, are alone somewhat free for professional investigation and helpfulness. This year es- pecially his time has been occupied with providing the schools with teachers. The towns having the fewest changes have suf- fered most, so far as his services are concerned, in that his time has been withdrawn to the towns affected most. In addition to the changes enumerated in your report for Acton, there have been twenty other changes in the other towns of the district since the closing of the schools in June. Section 2 of Chapter 444, Acts of 1911, provides : "The superintendent of schools shall recommend teachers to the school committee , This act seems to fix his responsibility in the important matter of the selection of teachers, and in the face of so many changes it has not been an easy task to fill every position satisfactorily, though no effort has been spared to do so.
In my search for teachers I found that many had with- drawn from the profession to enter the services of their coun- try in one department or another; that these withdrawals were in greater numbers from the high schools and grammar grades ; that teachers were putting a price upon their services in excess of prevailing prices at the close of the school year in June, and that they were selecting the kind of school positions they would accept to a much greater degree than formerly. The legisla- ture of 1918 made the minimum salary of elementary teachers in towns exceeding $1,000,000 valuation, $550 per year. Our maximum for principals was $627 per year, and for other teachers $589. Under all these circumstances to engage an ex- perienced teacher with a good record and equipped by training for the position-especially if that position were in the gram-
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mar school-was found to be quite impossible. I have done the best I could, and it has been a source of comfort to me that you have recognized the difficulties and supported and approved my efforts. I hope and believe that the situation will be easier next year, but to make it permanently so the recommendation in last year's report, that principals be paid $675 per year and other teachers $650, must be repeated. The good of the Acton schools seems to demand that action. The superintendent must be able to go out into the market with the money to enable him to go to other counters than the cheapest for his teacher- material. In no way is this intended as a reflection upon our present corps of teachers, many of whom are worth far more in the open market than they are being paid today. For good and sufficient reasons they are not in the market, home ties and proximity to home towns proving a stronger force than greater compensation.
I have limited my search for teachers to those not in ser- vice. This is in strict accord with the ethics of the profession --- which, unfortunately, all do not observe. When a teacher resigns from a position for a good and sufficient reason I con- sider her a logical candidate. I do not feel that I have any right to induce her to resign a position in order to accept mine. This has delayed the process of securing the right teacher, and has added to the expense, but I believe from the standpoint of the employer it is the ethically correct process.
The influenza epidemic, causing the schools to close for a period of three weeks, was an unavoidable misfortune. I made fairly representative inquiries of superintendents in other sec- tions of the state and found that the policy of paying the teach - ers during the closed period was practically universal. I am glad to note that the town of Acton was equally liberal in its treatment of the teachers. Further inquiry disclosed that there was a difference of opinion as to whether the time lost should be made up, and if so, how. In a communication addressed to the teachers previously to this inquiry I called attention to the difference between time lost and work lost, suggesting that the work might be made up even if the time were not, and how it could be done. Some towns planned to make up the time ac- tually lost by extending the school year, or shortening the win- ter vacation, or increasing the length of the school day by an hour or half-hour. Other towns were to try out the method of intensive work, which would involve longer lessons and more home work. Still other towns reported that nothing had been planned to make up either the time or the work. In Acton we have shortened the winter vacation by one week. Probably the plan of intensive work will be followed to make up essen- tial subjects, and if this is not sufficient a week at the close of the school year would perhaps suffice. In whatever way the
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results are accomplished I hope the parents will appreciate the unusual situation, and feel, with me, that it is the pupil's right to have the chance to do all the work necessary for promotion into another grade, as it is work we promote on and not time spent in the schoolroom. I have myself never noted a case where I felt that a child's school work had caused a breakdown in health. Either the child was constitutionally sickly, or home duties or home environment or music lessons or other outside interests so added to the school requirements as to make it a physical impossibility to keep up the work and keep well. I hope the attitude of the parents will be such that the child may be minded to cheerfully meet all the re- quirements of the school, and that no extra burdens will be placed upon him during this trying period.
At that point where the superintendent's personal atten- tion cannot be immediately given to a matter affecting the morale of a school, there the work of the principal, or teacher in charge of the room, or other recognized agency for carry- ing out the purposes of the school department, must begin. The matter of handling truancy is an illustration at hand. Attending to truancy cases is a side issue with a truant officer in small towns where there is no adequate salary to induce him to go to the schools daily for a list of absentees. He might go daily for weeks and find not a single case. The superin- tendent of four towns cannot be in each town each day, much less in each school in the several towns. Just here is the teacher's point of contact with the question. She is the first to know of the absence. By inquiry she may easily discover if sickness is the cause. When she is satisfied that there is no good cause for absence she should at once communicate with the truant officer. Always someone is in a position to know first what is going wrong in the school, and an attempt should be made to correct it before it becomes anybody's business. The duty may be the janitor's, the barge driver's, the teacher's, the principal's, the superintendent's, the committee's. It should be recognized by the right party when it reaches him and be attended to at once.
On several occasions during the year the question has arisen as to the exact meaning of a parent's signature on the report card as it comes home at regular intervals. It does not signify approval of the rank shown on the card. It does signi- fy that the parent has received the card and noted the stand- ing of the child. If the parent is not satisfied she should go to the teacher with an open mind to inquire into the difficulties and to cooperate with the teacher to the end that the child's work may be improved. To immediately place all the blame upon the teacher is unreasonable and does not take into con- sideration any of the child's limitations in the schoolroom
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either in the way of discipline or mental capacity or lazy ap- plication. The average teacher desires above all other things to make a good showing in the matter of promotions, and to pass a deserving child along to make room for others coming up. In all fairness to the parents of this town I have to say that I believe the mothers of our school children are exceed- ingly reasonable in this respect, though enough are not so to warrant this paragraph.
The usual special reports and tables of statistics and in- formation follow. I trust they will be carefully read as all are of value.
In concluding my report I thank the committee for their support during the especially trying period of the past few months, to ask their indulgence in any omissions on my part, and to assure them that I shall give as fully of my time and interest to the Acton schools as my equally imperative atten- tion to my other three towns will permit.
Respectfully submitted, FRANK H. HILL, Superintendent of Schools.
Acton, January 16, 1919.
REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING
Mr. F. H. Hill, Superintendent of Schools :
Dear Sir :- I herewith submit my seventh report of the work in drawing in the Acton schools. In the first three grades the work has been the same as the previous year. Chil- dren are taught to draw images they have already formed in their minds and they are extended to more definite and con- crete forms. Most children will produce best that which has appealed to them strongest. The following subjects are merely to suggest the sources from which we draw our material.
Subjects for drawing :
Draw a house or a barn.
Draw a chicken coop, dog house, playthings.
Draw objects in the home and school.
Draw garden tools, objects seen in the street during the day.
Action drawing has been attempted, but not with much success in the first two grades. The third grade appear to grasp the idea of proportion of the figures, but the other two grades do not understand it yet. Much time is spent on paper
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cutting or construction work, which teaches the little children shapes of objects as well as drawing them with pencils.
There is not very much I can say about the work in the upper grades that is any different from that of last year, only at West Acton a course of bookbinding has been introduced and some excellent results were obtained this past year. I only wish the course could be introduced in the two other vil- lages for it is a vocational subject that appeals to so many children that cannot draw very well. They really know they are getting good results when they make a book but some pupils cannot judge their drawing papers. It would be a sav- ing for the town to have this course introduced in the whole district so all school books could be repaired here in the schools.
As the schools closed for three weeks this fall the work has been somewhat delayed but we will gradually make up the work so that the pupils will be as well fitted as they were last year.
Much credit must be given the teachers and superintend- ent for their cooperation in this work.
Respectfully submitted, MARION CELESTE TAYLOR, Supervisor of Drawing.
December 31, 1918.
REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC
Mr. Frank H. Hill, Superintendent of Schools:
Dear Sir :- I herewith submit my first report of music in the Acton schools.
There is little to report at this time, as the school year has been so broken into because of the epidemic.
The teachers and pupils join in an effort to carry out the work and their interest and co-operation are excellent.
We are working in tone-quality and part-singing in the eighth, seventh, sixth and fifth grades. Note-reading, tone- quality and self-independence is the work in the lower grades.
I thank all the teachers and the superintendent most heartily for their help and interest.
Respectfully submitted, IRMA M. DURKEE, Supervisor of Music.
West Acton, Mass., Dec. 26, 1918.
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ROLL OF HONOR
Not Absent or Tardy for One Year
Dora O. Livermore, Acton Center.
Louis A. Livermore, Acton Center.
Norman Livermore, Acton Center. Roland C. Flagg, Acton Center.
REPORT OF SIGHT AND HEARING TEST
School examined
87 Number ~Enrolled
Defective
NEyesight
Defective
0 0 ·· · Hearing
Parents
ANNotified
West
Center
83
South
110
10
10
Total
280
17
0
16
SCHOOL SAVINGS
Number Depositors
Amount Collected
West Acton
44
$66.09
Acton Center
21
32.25
South Acton
63
132.99
Total
128
$231.33
WAR SAVINGS AND THRIFT STAMPS
Number Holding
Aggregate Amount
West Acton
38
$334.00
Acton Center
62
331.00
South Acton
67
602.00
Total
167
$1,267.00
REGISTRATION OF MINORS (Ages as of April 1, 1918)
Males
Females
Total 36
Persons 5 to 7 years of age
18
18
Persons 7 to 14 years of age
133
121
254
Persons 14 to 16 years of age
36
27
63
Total
187
166
353
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MEMBERSHIP IN PUBLIC DAY SCHOOLS
(By Grades, April 1, 1918)
Grade 1
37
Grade 2
35
Grade 3
31
Grade 4
40
Grade 5
48
Grade 6
32
Grade 7
30
Grade 8
30
283
Acton Pupils in Concord High School
Class of Class of Class of Class of
Course
1919
1920
1921
1922
Total
Commercial
4
6
5
11
26
College
2
2
9
10
23
General
1
1
0
0
3
Scientific
0
0
0
0
0
Domestic Arts
1
4
4
0
9
Mechanic Arts
1
2
2
4
9
Agricultural
0
1
0
0
1
Total
9
16
20
25
71
Number Graduated from Grammar School, 1918
Boys
Girls
Total
South Acton
4
6
10
West Acton
2
4
6
Acton Center
3
4
7
Total
9
14
23
Acton Pupils in Other Schools
Lowell Vocational School
7 0 7
STATISTICS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1917-1918
School
Grades
No. different pupils
enrolled
Average
membership
Average daily
attendance
Aggregate
attendance
Number between
Number between
7 and 14
Number
under 5
Number between
14 and 16
BGBGBGBG
Center .. |1-2-3
26
26
20.24 18.25|
3296.00
9 8
4
5
4-5-6
30
27
27.79|
24.86
4499.50
17
9
0! 1
7-8
30
27
24.50
22.35
4042.50
12
9
6
0
West
. . . 1-2-3
42
39
32.27
27.96 5055.50
5
6
14
14
4-5-6
26
25
22.40
20.59
3732.00
12
12
1
0
7-8
31
28
26.38
23.55
4257.00
12
13
21
1
South
1-2
39
37
33.31
27.93
4922.00
10
10
7
5
3
2
3-4
40
33
32.90|
28.90
5196.50
16
17
5-6
40
38
35.73
32.85
5925.50
19
17
1
1
7-8
32
31
30.70
27.70
5004.50
11
10
6
4
Total
336
311
286.22|254.94 45931.00
24|
24 124|111
3| 2 16
7
19
. .
No pupils enrolled
exclusive of supple-
mentary list
-
5 and 7
INDEX
Assessors' Report
43
Board of Health
46
Cemetery Commissioners
69
Collector's Report
44
Inspector of Animals
47
Jury List
Library Trustee's Report
Librarian's Report
List of Books Added
48 59 60 61 45
Overseers of the Poor
Preparedness Committee
Selectmen's Report
Town Accountant's Report
Town Clerk's Report
Births
Marriages
18
Dog Licenses
21 20
Non-Resident Burials
2
Town Meetings
-
Town Warrant
5
Treasurer's Report
40
Wilde Library Fund
42
Cemetery Funds
42
Tree Warden
47
Trustees Goodnow Fund
45
SECOND SECTION
School Report
2
School Calendar
2
Special Exercises and Holidays
2
School Officers and Teachers'
3
Standing Rules
3
General Report
5
Financial Statement
8
Superintendent's Report
12
Supervisor of Drawing
15
Supervisor of Music
16
Roll of Honor
17
Statistical Tables
18
49 23 24 14 15 16
Deaths
Town Officers
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SEVERAL OFFICIAL BOARDS
OF THE
TOWN OF ACTON
MASSACHUSETTS
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31st,
1919
RATED
ONY
1735
ACTON.
HUDSON, MASS. THE NEWS-ENTERPRISE 1920
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SEVERAL OFFICIAL BOARDS
OF THE
TOWN OF ACTON
MASSACHUSETTS
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31st,
1919
R
TEL
ONI
-1735.
ACTON ..
HUDSON, MASS. THE NEWS-ENTERPRISE
1920
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1919
Selectmen
I
Charles J. Holton Warren H. Jones
William H. Kingsley
Term expires 1921 . Term expires 1920 Term expires 1922
Town Clerk Horace F. Tuttle Town Treasurer Frank W. Hoit Assessors
Albert P. Durkee
Henry L. Haynes
Warren H. Jones
Term expires 1920 . Term expires 1921 Term expires 1922
William H. Kingsley
Overseers of the Poor Warren H. Jones
Charles J. Holton
Collector of Taxes Henry L. Haynes Tree Warden James O'Neil Constables James N. Berry Oliver D. Wood
John T. McNiff
Field Drivers
John T. McNiff
James N. Berry Fence Viewers
Oliver D. Wood
Charles J. Holton
Warren H. Jones
William H. Kingsley
Cemetery Commissioners
Julian Tuttle Term expires 1921 Fred W. Green . Term expires 1920 Horace F. Tuttle Term expires 1922
School Committee
Lilly C. Case
Edwin A. Phalen Term expires 1920
Alice H. Carlisle
Harry N. Brown Term expires 1921
Elsie F. Parsons
Bertram E. Hall Term expires 1922
Trustees Memorial Library
.
J. Sidney White
. Term expires 1920
Lucius A. Hesselton Term expires 1921 Horace F. Tuttle Term expires 1922
Board of Health
Edwin A. Phalen
Term expires 1920
Frank E. Tasker Term expires 1921 Theron F. Newton Term expires 1922
James B. Tuttle Horace F. Tuttle
Finance Committee Edgar H. Hall Asaph Merriam William F. Stevens
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APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN
Superintendent of Streets Albert H. Perkins
Town Accountant Howard L. Jones
Registrars of Voters
James McGreen Term expires 1921 George E. Holton Term expires 1920
Horace F. Tuttle, ex-officio
Election Officers Precinct 1
Warden
James W. Coughlin
Deputy Warden
Edwin A. Phalen
Clerk
Horace F. Tuttle
Deputy Clerk Moses E. Taylor
Inspector
Arthur F. Davis
Deputy Inspector
Willis L. Holden
Inspector
James O'Neil
Deputy Inspector
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