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Finance Committee recommended that the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year begin- ning January 1, 1933, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year and to renew such note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1933.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be adopted.
Article 9. To determine in what manner the taxes shall be collected for the ensuing year, also determine what percentage shall be allowed the Collector for the ensuing year.
Finance Committee recommended that taxes shall be paid not later than the fifteenth day of October of each year and on all taxes remaining unpaid after the first day of November interest shall be paid at the rate of six per cent per annum from the fifteenth day of October until such taxes are paid and that the Collector receive 9/10 of 1% for the 1933 taxes.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted.
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Article 10. To see what compensation the town will allow members of the Fire Department for the ensuing year.
Finance Committee recommended that the members of the Fire Department be paid the sum of Nineteen dollars and fifty cents ($19.50) per year and one dollar per hour while working at fires.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be adopted.
Article 11. To see if the town will authorize the Collector to use all means in the collection of taxes as the Treasurer might if elected to that office.
Finance Committee recommended that the Collector be instructed to use all means and processes provided by law for the collection of all taxes remaining unpaid after the first day of December, 1933.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted.
Article 12. To see how much per hour the town will allow for work on the highways for the ensuing year.
Finance Committee recommended that the price of labor per hour on the highways be left to the discretion of the Selectmen.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to accept the sum of $100.00 as perpetual Trust Fund for the care of the George Steere lot in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care.
Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee pass.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint one of its members as Inspector of Animals, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
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Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee pass.
Article 15. To see what compensation the town will allow the Inspector of Animals for the ensuing year.
Finance Committee recommended $150.00.
Voted, that the sum of $150.00 be appropriated and granted.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to appoint one of its members as Water Registrar, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted.
Article 17. To see what compensation the town will allow the Water Registrar for the ensuing year.
Finance Committee recommended $50.00.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,860 and transfer the sum of $140 from the "Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund" for the maintenance of Vine Lake Cemetery, or do or act any- thing in relation thereto.
Finance Committee recommended that $1,860 be raised and appropriated and $140 transferred from Sale of Lots Fund.
Voted, that the sum of $1,800 be raised and appro- priated to include the $140 transferred from Sale of Lots Fund.
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Welfare to accept bequests for Public Welfare and distribute said bequests according to the terms accompanying them, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
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*Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to lease the room now occupied by the Legion to the Beckwith Post No. 110 for a term of five years for the sum of $1.00 per year, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Finance Committee recommended should pass for a one year term.
Voted, that the article be dismissed.
Article 21. To see if the town will grant and appro- priate the sum of $3,600 for Fire Insurance, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, that the sum of $3,600 be granted and appro- priated for Fire Insurance.
Article 22. To see if the town will grant and appro- priate the sum of $779 for Boiler Insurance, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, that the sum of $779 be granted and appro- priated for Boiler Insurance.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,185.40 to pay 1932 bills for water furnished the Town of Medfield by the Medfield State Hospital or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, that the sum of $1,185.40 be raised and appro- priated to pay 1932 bills for water furnished the Town of Medfield by the Medfield State Hospital.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to accept from I the employees of the School Department any contribu- tions they may make and appropriate same for the use of said Department, or do or act anything in relation i thereto.
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Finance Committee recommended to pass.
Voted, should pass as recommended by the Finance Committee.
Voted, that the report of the Water Committee be accepted with thanks.
Voted, that the meeting be dissolved.
Attest:
WILLIAM H. EVERETT, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING May 8, 1933
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, duly warned and notified in the manner prescribed by law, met at the Town Hall in said Medfield on the eighth day of May, 1933, at 7.30 p. m. and the following action was taken on the articles in the Warrant.
Article 1. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $891.17, the balance remaining from money ap- propriated for Fire Insurance at the Annual Meeting, March 13, 1933, to the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Voted, that the sum of $891.17 be transferred.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for maintenance work on roads "laid out" under Chapter 90, providing the State and County contribute $1,000 each for the same purpose.
Voted, that the sum of $1,000 be raised and appro- priated for maintenance work on roads "laid out" under Chapter 90, providing the State and County contribute $1,000 each for the same purpose, and work be given to the unemployed.
Voted, that the meeting be dissolved. Attest :
WILLIAM H. EVERETT, Town Clerk.
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SPECIAL MEETING June 13, 1933
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, duly warned and notified in the manner prescribed by law, met at the Town Hall in said Medfield on the thirteenth day of June, 1933 at 6.00 a. m., and the following action was taken on the articles in the Warrant.
Article 1. ELECTION of DELEGATES to a CONSTI- TUTIONAL CONVENTION called to Ratify or Reject the Following Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by Joint Resolution of Congress.
Text of the Proposed Amendment
"Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
"Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in viola- tion of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
"Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Consti- tution by conventions in several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."
Article 2. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale therein of wines and malt beverages ?
Voted, under Article 1. For Delegates Opposed to Ratification
J. Frederick Barden of 8 Kilton St., Taunton 69
William A. Bartlett of 28 Ash St., No. Attleboro 70
Mary W. Hart of 193 Winter St., Fall River 68
For Delegates Favoring Ratification Spencer Borden of Interlachen, Fall River 259
Robert M. Leach of 44 Harrison St., Taunton 258 John B. Morin of 9 School St., Attleboro 259
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Voted, under Article 2.
Yes
269
No 81
There being no objection the polls were closed at 3.00 P. M. The total number of ballots cast 362.
Attest :
WILLIAM H. EVERETT,
Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING August 14, 1933
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, duly warned and notified in the manner prescribed by law, met at the Town Hall in said Medfield on the fourteenth day of August, 1933 at 7:30 p. m., and the following action was taken on the article in the Warrant:
Article 1. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate an additional sum of $2,800 for Public Welfare.
The Finance Committee recommended the sum of $2,800 be raised and appropriated.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted.
Voted, that the meeting be dissolved. Attest:
WILLIAM H. EVERETT, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING October 24, 1933
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, duly warned and
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notified in the manner prescribed by law, met at the Town Hall in said Medfield on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1933, at 7:30 P. M. and the following action was taken on the article in the Warrant:
Article 1. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to refund Five thousand dollars, the revenue note issued in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1932, in accordance with the provisions of section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws, any debt so incurred to be paid from the revenue of the year 1932.
The Finance Committee recommend this article be passed.
Voted, that the recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee be accepted. - Voted, that the meeting be dissolved. Attest :
WILLIAM H. EVERETT, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING December 6, 1933
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk, ss.
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the town of Medfield duly warned and notified in the manner prescribed by law, met at the Town Hall in said Medfield on the sixth day of December, 1933, at 7:00 P. M. and the following action was taken on the articles in the Warrant:
Article 1. To see if the town will vote to accept the following named sums as perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz.
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1
Eliakim Morse
$100.00
Helen V. Mugridge
100.00
Josephine M. Spear
200.00
Conrad Weiker
100.00
Voted that Article 1 be amended to conform with the wording of the will of the late Josephine M. Spear, to see if the Town of Medfield will vote to accept the bequest of the late Josephine M. Spear of ($200.00) two hundred dollars in trust for the perpetual care of the lot formerly known as the "Obed Hartshorn" lot in Vine Lake Ceme- tery in said town, the income thereof or of such as may be necessary to be expended for said purpose; and any portion of said income not so expended shall be held for unusual or extraordinary repairs which may from time to time become necessary.
Voted, to accept this bequest.
Voted, to accept Article 1 in the usual form.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $542 from Overlay Reserve to be used in conjunc- tion with funds to be allotted by the Civic Works Admin- istration for purchase of materials for the construction of sewer beds adjacent to existing beds.
Voted, that the sum of $542.00 be transfered.
Article 3. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $54.49 from overlay reserve to the interest account.
Voted, that the sum of $54.49 be transferred.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to accept the bequest of the late Josephine M. Spear to the Medfield Public Library the sum of ($1,000.00) one thousand dollars, to be known as the "Stillman J. Spear Fund" the interest therefrom to be used annually for the purchase of new books; also my husband's large framed picture, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Voted to accept this bequest.
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Article 5. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Fire Engineers to purchase a Ford Chassis and equipment for the Fire Department, to be paid for out of the regular appropriation, or do or act anything in rela- tion thereto. Fire Engineers.
Voted to accept this article as recommended by the Finance Committee.
Voted the meeting be dissolved.
Attest:
WILLIAM H. EVERETT,
Town Clerk.
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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
and the
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS of the
TOWN OF MEDFIELD
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1933
ANNUAL REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Town of Medfield for the Year Ending December 31, 1933
School Committee
FRANK H. CLOUGH, M. D., Chairman, Term expires 1935 MRS. EVELYN BYNG, Secretary, Term expires 1934 HAROLD F. STEVENS Term expires 1936
Regular meetings last Monday of each month at 2.45 p. m. High School.
Superintendent of Schools
Lyman R. Allen, 19 Beech St., Framingham Tel. Fram. 3735 Stated visits Tuesday after 1st and 3rd Mondays; alternate weeks and other visits unannounced or by appointment.
High School Principal
Alton H. Hartford North St.
School Physician
H. L. Park, M. D. Miller St.
School Nurse
Mrs. Martha E. Blood, R. N. Park St.
Janitors
Martin Sweeney John Dyer
School Calendar
Opening days: 1934-January 2, February 26, April 23, Sep-
tember 5. 1935-January 2, February 25, April 22. Closing days: 1934-February 16, April 13, -June 22, De- cember 21. 1935-February 15, April 12, June 21. School holidays: January 1; February 22; Good Friday; April 19; May 30; October 12; November 11; Thanksgiving and the day following.
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A REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Medfield:
The committee submits the following report for the year 1933:
Last spring for some unknown reason the basement of the High School was flooded. The drains did not take care of the surplus water and it was necessary for a time that the Fire Department pump out said room until we could install a pump for that purpose, which was done at an expense of $68.50. This is an automatic pump and it has taken care of the water since.
At the beginning of the fall term the school sessions in the Ralph Wheelock School advanced fifteen minutes and closed fifteen minutes earlier obviating the necessity of the scholars who came by bus waiting too long for school to open. At this time by rearranging the bus schedule, we were able to carry the children for eleven dollars ($11) a day, and for the months of January, February, and March, eleven dollars and twenty cents ($11.20) per day because of some small children in the extreme end of the town.
In December, at the Ralph Wheelock School, there was in- stalled on the steam boiler an Automatic Vacu-Draft which enables us to use a small sized coal at a saving of two dollars and seventy cents ($2.70) a ton. We expect that less coal will be used. The cost of the Vacu-Draft was two hundred and sixty-five dollars ($265.).
At the High School in the rooms and toilets, wherever the outside or skim coat of the plastering was broken, it was but a very short time before it became much larger and needed to be repaired frequently. To overcome this the com- mittee put out bids for the sheathing of the above. The toi- lets were sheathed six feet high and the rooms four feet, us- ing ply wood for the class rooms and sheathing for toilets. The carpenter work cost two hundred and ninety-eight dollars ($298). The staining and varnishing was done by the janitor,
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Mr. Sweeney, saving the school considerable cost.
There were several new text books purchased and about 375 old ones cleaned, repaired, and rebound.
Book covers were procured to preserve the new and re- bound books. New maps and a globe were also purchased.
As the appropriation was reduced the superintendent, teachers, nurse, doctor, and supervisor of drawing contributed 10% of their wages, which the town voted to the school de- partment for its use.
No School Signal
At eight o'clock three blasts, repeated four times, will be sounded on such mornings as it is deemed inadvisable to open school.
The committee recommends that the various reports be thoroughly read.
The school committee asks for the sum of $30,000 as last year.
Respectfully submitted, FRANK H. CLOUGH, EVELYN BYNG, HAROLD STEVENS.
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FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Town Appropriation
From Town Treasurer, Interest on Funds
$30,000.00 22.50
$30,022.50
Expense of General Control
Amount
Contribution
Net
Transcript Press
$13.75
$13.75
Isabel Chisholm, Clerical
50.00
50.00
Martha Blood, Attendance
12.00
12.00
Lyman Allen, Salary
875.00
$30.00
845.00
Lyman Allen, Expenses
112.47
112.47
$1,063.22 $30.00 $1,033.22 $1,033.22 $1,033.22
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Expense of Instruction
Teachers
Salary Contribution Net Paid
Evelyn Judd
$800.00
$52.00
$748.00
Nettie Hamant
224.00
14.40
209.60
Alton Hartford
2,500.00
162.50
2,337.50
Vincent Kenefick
1,250.00
81.25
1,168.75
Isabel Chisholm
1,250.00
81.25
1,168.75
George Cosgrove
781.25
46.77
734.48
Roger Hardy
431.25
31.73
399.52
Loretta Clarke
1,200.00
78.00
1,122.00
Esther Forbes
600.00
600.00
Helen Barksdale
480.00
36.00
444.00
Elaine Benedict
1,400.00
91.00
1,309.00
Estelle Harlow
1,300.00
84.00
1,216.00
Dorothy Brown
1,400.00
91.00
1,309.00
Evelyn Oliver
1,150.00
74.75
1,075.25
Elizabeth Buck
1,300.00
78.00
1,122.00
Elizabeth Crombie
900.00
900.00
Katherine Drogue
1,150.00
74.75
1,075.25
Anna Daddario
1,150.00
74.75
1,075.25
Grace Sullivan
780.00
45.00
735.00
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Mildred Kingsbury
19.00
19.00
Mrs. John Conroy
5.00
5.00
$19,970.50
$1,197.14 $18,773.35 $18,773.35
Text Books
Elem.
Jr. High
High
D. C. Heath
$7.46
$13.36
Ginn & Company
68.92
23.76
15.84
E. E. Babb
2.13
6.51
17.20
B. H. Sanborn
15.86
Scott Foresman
42.02
24.67
Allyn & Bacon
56.90
17.84
MacMillan Co.
16.57
15.69
Houghton Mifflin
28.49
Lyons & Carnahan
20.71
Silver Burdett
9.04
J. L. Hammett
9.75
American Book
18.75
33.33
Div. of Univ. Ext.
6.00
Dura Binding Co.
85.34
28.81
19.20
Southwestern Pub.
2.40
College Entrance
60
170
College Entrance Bk. Co. C. Scribner
2.56
94
283.20
161.16
166.29
610.65
Supplies
E. E. Babb
$136.76
$85.13
$56.62
Southwestern Pub.
2.10
Wright & Potter
4.17
Allyn & Bacon
9.66
Nettie Hamant
6.88
3.26
Gregg Pub. Co.
3.13
Royal Typewriter Co.
30.00
Waldo A. Fitts
8.26
Standard Elec. Time
3.39
2.40
School Form Publishing
2.10
Houghton Mifflin
12.92
Reformatory for Women
3.10
1.86
1.24
Phillips Ribbon & Carbon
7.40
Underwood Elliott Fisher
112.60
A. B. Dick
17.46
Millis Press
2.25
171
S. Ruby, Inc.
7.90
The Baker Press
1.24
$172.27
$93.64
$255.92
$521.83 $19,905.83
Expense of Operation
Janitors
Martin Sweeney
$1,326.00
John Dyer
1,326.00
$2,652.00
$2,652.00
Fuel
R. Nowell
$360.00
N. Duhamel
791.82
$260.89
$173.93
$1,586.64
Other Operating Exenses
Edison Elec. Ill. Co.
$93.75
$133.66
$89.09
New Eng. Tel. & Tel.
52.60
31.20
20.80
B. Devine
12.00
8.00
Frank Kennedy
1.95
1.30
Arthur Wills
4.65
Alfred Schmaltz
2.61
1.74
A. Newell
37.50
172
W. A. Gilbert 1.31
Charles Tapley
1.00
E. E. Babb
3.10
R. Lee
10.50
7.00
L. M. Glover
21.30
12.42
8.28
Park St. Garage
3.15
2.10
Water Dept.
165.67
67.69
44.45
$380.88
$275.18
$182.76
$838.82 $5,077.46
Expense of Maintenance
Repairs, Etc.
E. R. Kerr
$20.77
$2.52
$1.68
H. Ryan, Less 10% Contri.
.60
.30
Boyd Roberts, Less 10%
13.20
6.60
Norfolk Paint
2.37
1.58
F. A. Smith
30.34
Allen & Brooks
1.50
Beauregard
265.00
A. Wills
8.46
5.64
R. E. Johnson
178.80
119.20
$317.61
$205.95
$135.00
$658.56 $658.56
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Auxiliary
Library
-
W. F. Guarrie
$22.50 $15.00
$37.50
Health
Salary
Contribution
Net
Martha Blood
$500.00
$32.50
$467.50
H. L. Park
300.00
27.00
273.00
Clement Drug Co.
1.73
$742.23
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Transportation
Johnson Bus
$65.00
A. Newell
2,401.00
$2,466.00
Miscellaneous
Martin Diploma
$7.36
A. H. Hartford, Ribbon
2.00
Fred Dyer, Trucking
1.00
Victor Press, Programs
10.00
20.36
$3,266.09
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New Outlays $68.50
E. R. Kerr
$68.50 $68.50
$30,009.66
Summary
Expense of General Control
$1,033.22
Expense of Instruction
19,905.83
Expense of Operation
5,077.46
Expense of Maintenance
658.56
Auxiliary Expense
3,266.09
New ยท Outlays
68.50
$30,009.66
Total Receipts
$30,022.50
Total Expenses
30,009.66
Unexpended Balance
$12.84
Return for Telephone
9.80
Total Unexpended
$22.64
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Medfield.
The past year has been one of deep meaning to education everywhere. The effects of the depression have been felt more seriously by the schools of the United States than in most other countries. It has been estimated that expenditures for public schools were 600 million dollars less in 1933 than in 1930. Nearly 2000 rural schools in twenty-four States failed to open last fall; and by April 1 next perhaps one mil- lion pupils who did start then will be denied further schooling, due to exhausted budgets.
Massachusetts has been far less seriously affected than most sections. Yet even here towns and cities have cut school expenditures in two years by 10 millions, or 13%; there are 1.6% more pupils and 1.4% fewer teachers in 1933 than in the previous year. Opportunities are reduced for music, art, home-making, shopwork, health, and physical education. The State has averaged only 98 cents per pupil for a year's books and $2.10 for paper and supplies.
Medfield in turn has curtailed activities and costs, although (as I anticipated in my report last year) it was not possible to cut in as large proportion because we had never taken on varied activities and kinds of work which others had. Our Special Help class was discontinued as an economy measure and its pupils were distributed among the several grades. Mrs. Brown is taking some time from administration to work alternately with groups of pupils from various grades who need special help. This is distinctly a backward step for both the individual pupils and the classes but is the best we can do. Miss Drogue was transferred to the second grade; and Miss Daddario took charge of the first grade in place of Mrs. Sullivan when her resignation became ef- fective. As Miss Grace Whelan she had given several years of very efficient service.
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In the High School there have been two changes in per- sonnel. Miss Helen E. Barksdale replaced Miss Esther J. Forbes in the English department. She had had several years of successful experience in the high schools of Portsmouth, N. H., and New Britain, Conn., and these are of great value to our school. In September we were disappointed to have the sudden resignation of George W. Cosgrove, who received a merited promotion to the city of Lynn. He was not only well trained and efficient as a teacher but had fitted unusually well into the life of the school; with the other men he had been especially successful in development of enthusiasm and active support of athletic sports among the boys, evidenced by their success in the field. The Town was already respond- ing and the school is particularly grateful to the local Legion for their personal efforts and resulting financial aid last Fall. In his place Roger A. Hardy has entered upon the work with energy and we much hope that our progress in school spirit and town interest will continue to increase. It is a serious disappointment that no place can be found in town for our boys and girls to play basketball. An interruption between football and baseball appears inevitable.
Instruction in vocal music and chorus singing are being continued in all classes and groups by the same teachers and with the same emphasis as last year but without the weekly supervision of Miss Nettie F. Hamant. Miss Hamant has served long in our schools and has given attention to instru- mental as well as vocal music. A new line of effort now being undertaken with some promise of success and with strong appeal to some pupils who are not enthusiastic over other forms of music is the starting of school bands; this is without expense or responsibility to the Town or the School Committee.
The year has been one of loyal endeavor to accomplish as much work and to lose as little ground as possible. The teachers have worked in excellent spirit. All have been particularly watchful of expenses. In my report last year, when the depression looked so hopeless and every dollar
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