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Number of residents assessed 261
Number of non-residents assessed
65
Number of persons assessed
431
Number of polls assessed
311
Number of horses assessed
222
Number of cows assessed
234
Number of sheep assessed
12
Number of neat cattle assessed
70
Number of swine assessed.
102
Number of houses assessed
238
Number of acres of land assessed.
8293
Number of fowls assessed
536
Term expires 1921
HAROLD C. POMEROY,
Term expires 1922
GEORGE A. CHILDS,
Term expires 1920
GEORGE C. HUBBARD,
Assessors of Sunderland.
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Treasurer's Report
RECEIPTS
Balance in treasury, Jan. 1, 1919. $ 5161 27
Received from R. B. Brown, 1918 taxes. .
1867 86
Received from R. B. Brown, 1919 taxes. .
23006 69
Received from state treasurer on account of schools:
Income from Mass. school fund ....
$1187 06
On account of superintendent's salary
250 00
Tuition of children 103 40
High school tuition
1342 50
High school transportation
586 89
$3469 85
Received from State Treasurer:
Income tax, 1917 $ 76 00
Income tax, 1918
133 00
Income tax, 1919
197 78
Corporation tax, public service 243 80
National Bank tax
169 09
1-2 Compensation of inspector of animals
16 25
Aiding mothers with dependent children 505 19
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$1341 11
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Received from County of Franklin, dog money $ 21 30
Received from Produce National Bank, temporary loans 16460 13
Received from county of Franklin on bridge account 653 35
Received from town of Whately on bridge account 59 39
Received from town of Deerfield on bridge account 337 74
R. A. Warner, sealer of weights and meas- ures 29 13
For use of lights in the town hall.
38 32
District Court of Franklin, fines
15 00
Sale of town histories
25 10
C. H. Beaman, tax 11 60
Entertainments at the town hall (war tax) 13 36
W. L. Hubbard for plank 4 00
T. L. Warner for sale of bicycle 8 00
Bazyl Klaugh for hay
20 00
Two slaughtering licenses
2 00
$52545 20
PAYMENTS
Paid Selectmen's orders $ 9221 85
School Committee's orders
12954 92
State tax
1870 00
Special state tax
112 20
Soldiers' exemption
8 48
Repair of state highways
198 55
County tax 1773 22
Postage
6 87
Norman Eddy, court expenses
26 65
R. W. Graves, court expenses
11 92
Collector of internal revenue, tax on
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entertainments
$ 13 36
Stone road notes
3200 00
Bridge notes
1200 00
School house notes
500 00
Interest 696 13
Bureau of statistics
8 00
Express on state standard weights. .
4 84
Produce National Bank, temporary loans 14977 09
Library appropriation, 1918
100 00
Library appropriation, 1919
100 00
M. H. Williams, balance due on piano
27 50
Memorial day appropriation
10 00
Treasurer of Library, dog money
21 30
Balance in treasury
$47042 88 $5502 32
$52545 20
I have made examination of the above accounts of the Treasurer and believe them to be correct.
SYLVESTER P. ROBERTSON, Auditor.
Sunderland, Mass., January 10, 1920.
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Collector's Report
Town tax
$18936 21
State tax
1870 00
County tax
1773 22
State highway
198 55
Special tax for soldiers
112 20
Overlayings
99 51
Interest
68 54
$23058 23
Paid Town treasurer
$3014 57
Abated
243 66
$23058 23
Respectfully submitted,
R. B. BROWN, Collector.
January 10, 1920.
I have examined the warrant issued by the Assessors to the Collector and his account of his collections and payments to the Treasurer and have compared them with the books of the Treasurer and believe the above statement to be correct. SYLVESTER P. ROBERTSON, Auditor. January 10, 1920.
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Town Clerk's Report
BIRTHS IN 1919
Number of births reported, 62.
Number of males, 29. Number of females, 33.
Jan. 3 Sophy, to Paul and Stella Mogilnicki.
5 Albert, to Chester and Nellie Teyacoski.
7 Phyllis Irene, to Albert and Lena Lantz.
17 Myrtle Elizabeth, to Merrill and Edith Warner.
26 Eva, to John and Mary Bisakerski.
Feb.
7 Joseph, to Joseph and Mary Mieczkowski.
9 Amelia, to Alec and Josie Orbacz.
10 Stephen to Ben and Fannie Aleski.
March
12 Clara Isabell, to Albert and Ida Clark.
16 Helen, to Michael and Katherine Sobelowski.
18 Edith, to Perry and Beatrice Goodyear.
28 Joseph, to John and Mary Visnacavitz.
April
15 Yamria, to Stephen and Gustruia Adamski.
18 Paul, to Mike and Annie Kiczar.
21 Nellie Louise, to Herbert and Helen Bixby.
May
6 Helen, to Karl and Annie Embowitz.
7 Peter, to Stanley and Stella Sadowski.
9 Frank, to Frank and Daisy Chickering.
10 Edna, to Joseph and Bessie Savitska.
16 Josephine, to Dominick and Mary Jenness.
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23 Mike, to John and Ethel Hassay.
29 Geneva, to Andrew and Mary D. Jewis.
31 - to Rebecca Moore.
June
5 Hazel Bessie, to James and Harriet Warner.
19 John, to Lewis and Julia Wysk.
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Ignas, to John and Mary. Tolinker.
24 Jennie, to John and Helen Posh.
27 Annie, to William and Katherena Butynski.
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Frederick, to Frederick and Lillian Sullivan.
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Robert, to Carl and Mary Cowan.
27 Jennie, to John and Rosa Goscenski.
Aug.
5 Ceslawa, to Frank and Victoria Bylnowski. .
5 Harry Robert, to Robert and Elsie Mae Goodyear.
25 William Lloyd, to Clifford and Gwendolena Hubbard.
Sept.
26 Edith Ilene, to Leroy and Florence Russell.
30 Daughter, to Antony and Tekla Janusz.
31 Carlton Francis, to Fred and Minnie Wells.
2 Marilyn Alma, to Ola and Susie Doolittle.
4 Phyllis Marion, to Raymond and Esther Warner ..
7 Parker Dole, to George and Florence Hubbard.
8 Ward Clark, to Lester and Mary Miller.
9 Nellie, to Stanley and Victoria Skibiscki.
12 Annie Elizabeth, to Frederick and Teckla Snicker.
Oct.
13 John, to Joseph and Millie Bogdonis.
15 Antony, to Antony and Annie Bagdonis.
27 Jessie, to Nicholas and Rosie Sobolski.
Nov.
1 Aleck, to Aleck and Rosie Andrenition.
3 Annie, to Constanty and Annie Savitski.
3 Stanley, to Mike and Blanche Moleski.
6 Charles, to Stanley and Lenora Bartos.
10 Frances Beals, to Frank and Grace Darling.
12 Mike, to John and Mary Korpeter.
14 Charles, to Antoni and Annie Utiaveck.
17 Stefanna, to Alec amd Mary Kulessa.
July
18 Joseph, to Bronislaw and Cornelia Totoloski.
30 Irene, to Aleck and Minnie Karpinski.
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Dec.
19 Allen, to William and Katie Radowitz.
2 Mary, to John and Mamie Storozak.
5 Edward, to Frank and Mary Dewiskibor.
11 Annie, to Mike and Rosie Dolric.
14 Catherine, to Charles and Bessie Eher.
28 Clara Rosa, to John and Rosie Morozek.
NAMES OF PERSONS MARRIED
Date and place Names of marriage
By whom married
January 9, 1919 Andrew Ansel Foster
Brattleboro, Vt. Laura Clark Holsman
Clark T. Brownell Clergyman
March 11
Royalton, Vt.
Archie P. Whitney
Evelyn Louise Clark
Levi Wild
Clergyman 26
March 20 Sunderland Sara C. Pease Day
Charles M. Wright
Rev. Byron F. Gustin
Clergyman
Joseph Lekston
Priest
May 24 Springfield
Basely Masurak Paraska Mykuliak
Rev. Michael Chervinsky Clergyman,
May 5
Peter Percak
South Deerfield Annie Rokoshak
May 28 Sunderland
Charles W. Morrill Loraine J. Nye Clark
May 31 Howard Anthony Hoxie East Northfield Dora Mable Lamorie
June 19
Sunderland
Ralph Wheaton Whipple
Marjorie Davis
October 9 Walter Roberts Williams
Springfield Ruth Louise Clark
October 20 Mitchel Ruła
South Deerfield Helen Tarapota Posh
October 28 Paul Gorezakowski South Deerfield Julia Chudz
November 27 Stanley Uukabajtis South Deerfield Bessie Grouski Saviski
November 29 Guy Andrew Montgomery Mable Angie Burt
Sylvester P. Robertson Minister
Francis Wayland Patterson Minister
Irving F. Wood
Clergyman
Newton M. Hall
Clergyman 27
Joseph Lekston
Priest
Joseph Lekston
Priest
Joseph Lekston
Priest
Sunderland
Sylvester P. Robertson Minister
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DEATHS IN 1919
Date
Name
Age Yrs.
Mos.
Dys.
Jan.
2 Infant daughter W. Shermetta
13
Margaret E. O'Brien
48
3
24
March
9 Eliza Sarah Clark
65
1
20
May
1 Frances Rokoshak
1
6
23
6 Helen Embowitz
1
9 Silas Victor Ball
73
9
1
18 John Posh
28
June
10
Elisha M. Hubbard
48
9
11
July
28
Mike Kicza
39
5
16
Aug.
30
Infant Janusz
Sept.
23
Frances Posh
3
27
Catherine Morrissey Lyons
70
7
29
Nov.
16 Caroline W. Dermondy
66
9
5
Dec. 13 Carrie Ann Harper
47
4
16
24 Henry Martin Clark
84
4
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BAXTER N. FISH, Town Clerk.
BAXTER N. FISH, Town Clerk in account with Dog Taxes:
Dr. To cash received for 54 dogs
$117 00
Cr. By Clerk's fees
$ 10 80
Paid County treasurer 106 20
$117 00
Sunderland, Mass., Dec. 31, 1919.
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Riverside Cemetery Association
TREASURER'S REPORT.
RECEIPTS
Balance in treasury, January, 1919
$ 28 56
Interest on invested funds 293 47
Sale of lots
59 50
Annual care of lots
27 00
Mortgage of $600 paid April 28
600 00
Bounds for lot No. 44.
2 00
From J. R. Graves, for perpetual care of the T. Graves lot, No. 10. 100 00
From D. Maynard, for care of one-half of the Lyman Wilder lot. 75 00
From H. B. Edwards estate, for care of Nathaniel Smith lot. 100 00
$1285 53
PAYMENTS
C. A. Hubbard, wheelbarrow $ 5 50
Old account, seed
2 33
B. N. Fish, edger
6 00
C. A. Hubbard, seed
1 60
C. A. Hubbard, mower and repairs 16 80
Liberty loans
800 00
G. W. Howe, cleaning stones 39 00
George A. Childs, labor 205 85
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A. C. Howard & Son, plants. $ 2 75 W. F. Campbell, trimming and cutting trees. 38 00
W. F. Campbell, stationery and car fare 6 00
Interstate Mortgage Trust Co 100 00
Cash on hand 61 70
$1285 53
RESOURCES
Liberty loans. $800 00
Interstate Mortgage Trust Co. 4300 00
Franklin Savings Institute.
800 23
Greenfield Savings Bank
69 29
$5969 52 Total
WILLIAM F. CAMPBELL, Treasurer.
January 12, 1920.
I have examined the accounts, evidences of disbursement, and securities held by the Treasurer of the Cemetery Associa- tion and believe the foregoing to be a correct statement of the financial condition of the Association.
SYLVESTER P. ROBERTSON, Auditor.
Sunderland, Mass., January 12, 1920.
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School Report
JANUARY 1, 1919, to JANUARY 1, 1920.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Andrew C. Warner, Chairman
George P. Smith, secretary
Albert M. Darling,
Term expires 1921 Term expires 1920 Term expires 1922
SUPERINTENDENT
Andrew S. Thomson, South Deerfield, Telephone 209-3
JANITOR AND ATTENDANCE OFFICER
C. W. Robinson
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SCHOOL CALENDAR
January 5, 1920, Schools open for Winter Term. March 19, Schools close Winter Term. March 29, Schools open for Spring Term. June 11, Schools close for Summer Vacation. September 7, Schools open for Fall Term.
November 24, Schools close for Thanksgiving. December 24, Schools close for Christmas. January 3, 1921, Schools open.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
RESOURCES
General appropriation
$6500 00
Superintendent's salary
200 00
Music
150 00
Cooking
175 00
Drawing
100 00
Books and supplies
500 00
Repairs
300 00
Medical inspection
25 00
New furniture
100 00
$8050 00
RECEIVED FROM STATE
Massachusetts school fund ..
$1187 06
High School tuition, reimbursement 1342 50
High school transportation, reimburse- ment
586 89
Tuition State wards
103 40
Superintendent's salary reimbursement. 250 00
$3469 85
Total
$11519 85
EXPENDITURES
I. GENERAL EXPENSES
School Committee:
Supervision and law enforcement:
Andrew S. Thomson, salary $370 01
Andrew S. Thomson, expenses. 33 72
C. W. Robinson, attendance officer. 6 00
Lillian Dill, census 16 30
$426 03
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II. EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION
Supervision :
Belle Bullis, music
$120 00
Bessie Ranlett, drawing
38 50
M. C. Buir, physical
35 00
$193 50
Teaching:
Lillian Dill, grades 7 and 8.
$678 00
Mary L. Crocker, grade 3
645 00
Emma F. Smith, grade 2
333 50
Ethel Garland, grade 4
560 50
E. Evelyn Nugent, grades 2 and 6 560 50
Florence Jeffers, grade 6.
310 50
Lyle B. Chandler, grade 1
256 50
Katherine H. Fairchild
182 50
Laura Dixon
260 00
Margaret Depping
260 00
Vera Andrews, grade 1
260 00
Josephine Kerr, grade 1
260 00
Carrie Ponteus, cooking
100 00
Elsie Crocker, cooking
60 00
Mary Hepburn
9 50
Clark
2 50
Pomeroy
5 00
$4744 00
Text Books:
Ginn & Co.
$53 61
MacMillan Co.
36 87
C. E. Merrill Co.
20 12
Silver, Burdett & Co.
4 93
Houghton Mifflin Co
4 90
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D. C. Heath & Co. $ 9 23
Lyon & Carnahan
18 06
American Book Co. 4 37
Ben. Sanborn Co.
17 13
Rand McNally Co.
73
A. S. Barnes & Co. 5 12
$175 01
Supplies :
B. N. Fish
$18 80
Japanese Tissue Mills
9 57
Kinney Bros. & Wilkins
8 45
Palmer Co.
4 15
E. E. Babb & Co. Trott
19 68
3 21
Bessie Ranlett
5 50
J. C. Murray Co.
8 50
Lillian Dill
4 94
J. L. Hammett Co.
106 30
G. N. Morse
11 10
Carpenter & Moorehouse
9 90
Carrie Pontens
2 00
Isabel McNervey
3 00
Mutual Plumbing
1 35
A. C. Warner & Sons
2 18
$218 63
Total II
$5331 14
III. EXPENSE OF OPERATION
Janitor:
Silas V. Ball
$ 51 00
H. C. Russ 238 00
C. W. Robinson
553 46
$842 46
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Fuel:
C. A. Hubbard $430 48
Miscellaneous :
1
H. C. Russ $ 55
C. W. Robinson 4 86
Water rate
25 00
J. E. Starkey
3 00
A. C. Warner & Sons
1 75
$35 16
Total III
$1308 10
IV. MAINTENANCE
Repairs :
Mutual Plumbing
$ 33 75
A. C. Warner & Sons 2 00
E. D. Marsh, estate
23 00
N. G. Eddy
4 50
C. W. Robinson
2 45
G. A. Allen,
16 50
George Starbuck & Sons.
109 11
W. F. Campbell
7 75
Total IV
$199 60
V. AUXILIARY AGENCIES
Transportation :
Elementary :
George Childs
$1720 00
S. V. Doolittle
745 00
Holyoke St. R. R.
811 19
$3276 19
High school :
(To be reimbursed by state)
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To whom paid:
Nellie I. Abbey $28 16
G. P. Bullis 26 62
F. L. Clark 57 86
W. E. Clark
38 47
Carl Embowitz 20 54
F. H. Graves
23 34
Alice Grybko
25 06
C. E. Hubbard
28 02
Adam Hudjick
24 48
Mary Hull
12 90
C. W. Robinson
29 38
Leon Rose
27 54
Fred Welsh
48 08
Jesse White
24 90
David Hepburn
3 08
Frank Grybko
2 24
Carl Feedman
3 50
Ludwig Bazyelo
27 10
Roger Warner
9 96
C. G. Clark
63 98
Bubt Kreshi
25 84
Jacob Molitories
23 38
W. R. Ahearn
4 06
John Trelinko
8 40
$586 89
Health :
Dr. Charles Moline
$ 25 00
$3888 08
Total V
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VI. MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES
Tuition :
(To be reimbursed by state)
Amherst high school
$1736 25
Greenfield high school
6 25
Total VI
$1742 50
New Furniture :
VII. OUTLAY
Haywood Bros. and Wakefield
$36 00
William Gass
24 00
Total VII
$60 00
Resources :
SUMMARY
I From the town
$8050 00
II From the state 3469 85
$11519 85
EXPENDITURES
I General expenditures
$ 426 03
II Expense of instruction
5331 14
III Expense of operation 1308 10
IV Maintenance
199 06
V Auxiliary agencies
3888 08
VI Miscellaneous
1742 50
VII Outlay
60 00
$ 2954 91 Total
I have made examination of the above accounts of the School Committee and believe them to be correct within one cent.
SYLVESTER P. ROBERTSON, Auditor.
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ENSUING YEAR
General appropriation
$8000 00
Superintendent's salary
300 00
Music
120 00
Cooking
175 00
. Drawing
125 00
Physical education
75 00
Books and supplies
550 00
Repairs
100 00
Medical inspection
25 00
New furniture
150 00
$9620 00
A. C. WARNER, GEORGE P. SMITH, A. M. DARLING,
School Committee.
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
Gentlemen :
It gives me pleasure to submit to you, and through you to the townspeople, this, my second annual report as superintendent of the schools of Sunderland. In making a report at this time, practically in the middle of the school year, we get half our data from the previous school year, since the time of our last report.
Attendance
Since the cessation of the severe attact of influenza the attendance in our schools has been good. Both parents and children of Sunderland should be commended for the regularity in attendance. The schools of Sunderland never fail to stand at the top of the list in the monthly attendance report for the district. The effort of our teachers and the town's system of transportation materially assist this high record.
Accommodations
When the school census returns were made in the spring it was apparent that the incoming class would be too large to
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be accommodated in one room. At a special town meeting in August the town was asked to provide another school room. Permission to use the town hall was granted. Tables and small chairs were secured and thirty young children were comfortably - seated around tables in one corner of the town hall. This ar- rangement was very satisfactory until cold weather made it nec- essary to move down stairs into the cooking room. This is not a proper place for a school, but it is a preferable place to sending them home and making them lose their chance for school advantages.
There is no discernable prospect for any smaller entering class next fall. The necessity for two rooms for the first grade will continue.
At present the seventh and eighth grades are in the small room on the second floor in the front of the town hall. At this time with twenty-six pupils, the room is packed to the limit. Next year the same grades will number between forty and forty- six making a larger room an absolute necessity. There is no room in the building large enough to seat forty; children in the seventh and eighth grades. This means that we are two rooms short of the number required to properly meet the needs of our schools.
It is greatly to be regretted that the town cannot see its way clear to build an up-to-date building sufficiently large to house all the grades under one roof. I believe this would prove the most economical and satisfactory in the end. Lack of a popular site for the school house is not a sufficient reason for postponing the erection of a building. If the expense of con- struction of a brick building is so abnormal at present, that a temporary structure is resorted to it should not be voted until all the gains and losses were well considered.
Will it be profitable to continue in the present insufficient, poorly ventilated and unsatisfactory school rooms, to save the difference in the cost of building now and the cost of building five years from now? The case should be most conscientiously considered for physical, mental and moral well being of the chil- dren as well as for the financial status of the town.
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Physical Education
Last spring a physical supervisor was secured to give new incentive to the organized play and the general physical upbuild- ing of the children. This is constructive health building; pre- vention of ill health, rather than its cure. More attention still should be given to forming proper physical habits and develop- ment of the pupils.
Cooking and Sewing
This very practical and utilitarian department is progressing (looking up). Sewing is now being taught, so that the young girls are beginning to make their own clothing. Certain projects, such as making so many garments in the home, or so many loaves of bread, will be undertaken. Our object is to incorporate home requirements into this course, so that the girls will actually prepare food for home meals or school lunches, rather than de- pend on the bake shop; and really make their own garments, depending less and less upon the more expensive and less durable shop made clothing.
School Lunches
Many children bring to school insufficient lunches with resultant undernourishment leading to mental stagnation or irritability. Mrs. Elsie Crocker, the cooking teacher, is making an effort to serve hot cocoa at cost to all pupils who wish it. There is certainly more nourishment in a cup of cocoa made with milk, than in two or three cents worth of cookies. This many times is actually the only luncheon the children have. No lun- cheon is provided from home but the pennies are given them to go to the store for cookies.
Legislation
The legislature at its last session enacted several very pro- gressive school laws. The most important one is that providing
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for the withdrawal of $4,000,000 from the state income tax to reimburse towns which pay their teachers certain stipulated salaries.
The law:
Section 3. For each person employed for full-time ser- vice for the entire school year as teacher, supervisor, principal, assistant superintendent, or superintendent of schools, the city or town shall be reimbursed as follows :-
(1). Two hundred dollars for every such person who has received as salary not lesst han eight hundred and fifty dollars and is a graduate of an approved normal school or college and has had at least two years' teaching experience or who possesses preparation and teaching experience accepted in lieu thereof.
(2) One hundred and fifty dollars for every such person, not included in the foregoing classification, who has received as salary not less than seven hundred and fifty dollars and (a) who has satisfactorily completed one year of professional training in an approved normal school or teachers' training school, and has had at least three years of teaching experience; or (b) is a grad- uate of an approved normal school or college and has had at least one year of teaching experience; or (c) who possesses pre- paration and teaching experience accepted in lieu of either of the foregoing requirements in this paragraph.
(3) One hundred dollars for every such person, not included in either paragraphs (1) or (2), who has received as salary not less than six hundred and fifty dollars.
Section 4. For each teacher, supervisor, principal, assis- tant superintendent, or superintendent of schools, employed for less than full-time service for the school year, the city or town shall be reimbursed such a fractional part of the corresponding reimbursement for full-time service provided for in section three of this act as that service bore to full-time service: provided however, that the person for whom the reimbursement is claimed shall have met the corresponding requirements of cer- tification, if any, specified in section three, and shall have re- ceived as salary an amount not less than that fraction of the corresponding salary for full-time service specified in section
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three. No town in a superintendency union shall, under the provisions of this act, receive reimbursement for the part-time employment of a superintendent of schools if the town is entitled to reimbursement for such employment in accordance with laws relating to superintendency unions.
Section 5. Every city or town in which the valuation of its real and personal property, including omitted assessments, for the city or town fiscal year next proceeding the date of dis- tribution, when divided by the net average membership of its public day schools, as defined in section six of this act, for the year ending on the thirtieth day of June next preceding the date of distribution, yields a quotient less than forty-five hundred dollars, shall receive supplementary reimbursements determin- ed as follows :-
For each person for whom the city or town received reim- bursements for full-time service, in accordance with section three, the supplementary reimbursement shall be as follows :-
(1) Three hundred dollars if said valuation per pupil is less than two thousand dollars.
(2) Two hundred and fifty dollars if said valuation per pupil is less than twenty-five hundred dollars but not less than two thousand dollars.
(3) Two hundred dollars if said valuation per pupil is less than three thousand dollars but not less than twenty-five hundred dollars.
(4) One hundred and fifty dollars if said valuation per pupil is less than thirty-five hundred dollars but not less than three thousand dollars.
(5) One hundred dollars if said valuation per pupil is less than four thousand dollars but not less than thirty-five hundred dollars.
(6) Fifty dollars if said valuation per pupil is less than forty-five hundred dollars but not less than four thousand dollars.
For each person for whom the city or town received reim- bursement for part-time service, in accordance with section four the supplementary reimbursement shall be such a fractional
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part of the corresponding supplementary reimbursement pro- vided for full-time service as that service bore to full-time service.
This law makes it possible for towns of small valuation to pay the teachers sufficient salaries to hold their services for a longer time. Wealthy towns will find it more difficult to attract the good teacher when she really prefers serving the rural community. The necessity of paying teachers higher salaries may best be realized by the shortage of teachers and the falling off in attendance at the normal schools. Salaries sufficient to induce those of best training and strongest personalities to enter school teaching must be found.
Expenses
The expenses of running the schools have advanced with all lines of business. Fuel, books, supplies of all kinds have advanced materially.
It has been necessary to increase the salaries of teachers more than was anticipated. A part of the increase will be refunded to the town by the state, under the new law.
Changes in Teachers
At the close of last school year Miss Jeffers resigned to take a more lucrative position elsewhere. This position was filled by Miss Laura Dixon, a graduate of Westfield normal school. Mrs. Emma F. Smith, who has served the town faithfully and ably for years, retired, and Miss Nugent was transferred from the sixth to the second grade. Miss Depping, a Westfield normal graduate was secured for the sixth grade. Lyle Chandler re- signed her position in the first grade, for which Miss Vera Andews a North Adams normal school graduate was secured. Miss Josephine Kerr was engaged for the extra school in the town hall. The town is fortunate in having an able body of teachers.
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Special Reports
The reports of the Music and Drawing supervisors, and Medical inspector are published at the end of this report to which your attention is called.
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