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A drawing of the "First Meeting House" built in 1668, made and presented to the Mendon Historical Society by Miss Clara W. Pond, has been hung on the walls and adds to the appearance of the room.
The trustees, for the citizens, wish to thank those who have so kindly donated books the past year. Two copies of the Annals of Mendon have been sold.
We bespeak a careful reading of the librarian's and treas- urer's report which accompany this report and would recom-
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mend that two hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated for the coming year.
Respectfully submitted, . ERWIN A. SNOW, GEO. M. TAFT, FRANK H. WOOD, HORACE C. ADAMS, HERBERT F. TAYLOR,
Trustees of the Taft Public Library.
Mendon, February 8, 1905.
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE TAFT PUBLIC LIBRARY :
The library was re-opened February 13, 1904, for the dis- tribution of books.
The total number of books taken out during the year was 4839. The largest delivery any Saturday was 116; the smallest 57 ; average 93.
The delivery by divisions was as follows: Agriculture, 4; biography, 83; fiction, 3920; history, 134; poetry, 135; mis- cellaneous, 142 ; periodicals, 305; religion, 10 ;- science, 25 ; travel, 85.
The total number of books in the library is 4856, 134 having been added the past year. Of these 134 volumes 101 have been purchased by the Town and 33 contributed. 19 were given by the Secretary of the Commonwealth; 8 unbound volumes of magazines, 4 of Harper's and 4 of Outing, by J. A. George, 4 of which have since been bound; I by Mrs. A. N. Darling ; I by James H. Bridge and 4 unbound volumes by H. C. Adams which have been bound.
Respectfully submitted, ANNIE E. BARNES,
Librarian.
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TREASURER'S REPORT.
Report of the Treasurer of the Trustees of the Taft Public Library for the year ending Feb. 4, 1905.
DR.
Balance from old account. $9 07
Cash received on three town orders
~35 00
Annie E. Barnes 4 68
$248 75
CR.
Cash paid G. C. Coffin, fuel and expressage. $7 00
.6
Hopedale Stable Co., for coal
2 50
H. O. Whiting, for labor I 81
66
L. B. Brown,
2 25
N. B. Greaton,
2 75
66
Amos Gallant, 66
3 60
66
A. C. Eldredge,
and material
29 II
66 H. C. Adams,
66
8 20
C. H. Allen, 66
3 50
C. Ellis & Sons, for mdse
I 45
66 Avery & Woodbury, for window shades
4 12
66 Norris, Staples & Gould, for repairs on stove and pipe.
1 76
60
L. T. Gaskill, for laths
82
66 J. B. Townley, for binding magazines.
4 80
W. B. Clarke Co., for books
84 96
66
G. E. Stimpson & Co., for bookcases
22 50
66 Annie E. Barnes, for salary
50 00
Cash on hand
17 62
. $248 75
Respectfully submitted, HORACE C. ADAMS,
Mendon, Feb. 7, 1905.
Treasurer.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the accounts of all the Town Officers who have received or disbursed funds belonging to the town for the municipal year ending March 6, 1905, and find them correctly kept and with proper vouchers.
NATHAN R. GEORGE, Auditor.
Mendon, February 8, 1905.
NORTH AVENUE SCHOOL BUILDING.
The following bills have been paid since the last report : Paid Cenedella Bros., extra work in basement, etc., .. $ 7 39
66 Clark Ellis & Sons, hardware 102 65
" E. F. Lynch's Assignees, on contract. 435 76
H. F. Taylor, freight. 6 39
" Norris, Staples & Gould, heating plant and new furnace grates 341 56
Rob't Allen Cook, plans and superintendence of work 303 00
$1196 75
We shall without doubt be able to make a final report at the adjourned meeting.
FRANK H. WOOD, CHARLES H. ALLEN, HORACE C. ADAMS, LEONARD E. TAFT,
Building Committee
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF MENDON,
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1904-05.
MILFORD, MASS .: COOK & SONS, PRINTERS, JOURNAL OFFICE, 1905.
ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1904-1905.
LEONARD T. GASKILL, Secretary, FRANK H. WOOD, Chairman, GEORGE SCRIVEN,
Term expires 1907
66
1906
66
1905
SUPERINTENDENT,
HERBERT F. TAYLOR,
Term began Sept., 1902
TRUANT OFFICERS,
EDWARD C. KINSLEY, LYMAN COOK,
HERBERT F. TAYLOR.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORT.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF MENDON :-
Herewith the financial report of your School Committee for the year ending February 1, 1905, is respectfully submitted.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from last year $ 420 72
Appropriation.
3400 00
From state, account superintendent
416 67
66 60
school fund
1052 92
County Treas., Dog Tax
205 90
66
Treasurer Mendon Grange for cup- board.
5 00
W. N. Thompson, tuition
15 00
D. H. Barnes, stove ..
10 00
$5526 21
DISBURSEMENTS.
Teachers' salaries
$3144 00
Superintendent
616 70
Janitors
311 00
Fuel
431 81
Transportation
481 50
Text books and supplies.
182 39
Incidentals
334 76
$5502 16
Balance on hand February 1, 1905
$24 05
Teachers :-
Edward F. Blood
$850 00
20
Rachel Spaulding
200 00
Clara H. Frederick
200 00
Elizabeth Ham
432 00
L. Mabel Forbush
115 50
762
4
Mrs. Harry Flagg $ 73 50
Mary E. Dudley
189 00
Margaret A. Spalton
360 00
Marion S. Howe.
324 00
Stella A. Belcher
144 00
Theo. Crane
72 00
Lillian Freeman
72 00
Frank H. Lowell
112 00
$3,144 00
Superintendent
$616 70
Received from state for year. 416 67
Net cost for superintending for year ..
200 03
200 03
Fuel :-
Harold M. Curtiss, 3 tons coal.
21 75
66 66 21 tons coal
152 25
George Scriven, 3 feet oak wood.
2 62
Edward H. Taft, 3 cords wood
16 00
Phillip S. Coffin, wood and kindling
8 00
William Johnston & Co., coal
231 19
Transportation :-
A. I. Barrows
301 50
George L. Taft
60 00
George Davenport
60 00
Milford & Uxbridge St. Ry. Co.
60 00
-
481 50
Care of rooms :-
Wilfred T. Claflin
125 00
George H. Whiting
150 00
Marion S. Howe
18 00
Stella A. Belcher
9 00
Theo Crane
4 50
Lillian Freeman
4 50
Text Books and Supplies :-
D. Appleton & Co.
$ 9 00
Ginn & Co.
57 34
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
9 48
D. C. Heath & Co.
20 21
L. A. Lamson & Son
3 60
Milton Bradley & Co.
16 II
Edward E. Babb & Co.
38 09
American Book Co.
17 60
431 81
311 00
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5
Herbert F. Taylor
$3 69
Thompson, Brown & Co. 2 50
F. W. Draper & Co.
42
Benj. H. Sanborn
I 67
Rand, McNally & Co.
2 68
$182 39
Incidentals :-
Mrs. Amos Gallant :- Cleaning schoolrooms
$14 55
Harry C. Cook :-
Cleaning schoolrooms
7 05
Mrs. R. Hogarth :- Cleaning Albeeville schoolroom 4 50
26 10
Herbert F. Taylor :-
Telephone, freight, cartage, ex-
press, etc. 24 4I
George Scriven :-
Moving from North school
2 00
Services district committee
25
Repairing fence, North school
75
4 00
J. W. Esty :-
Use of well 3 00
D. H. Barnes :-
Soap, ammonia, etc. $3 09
Boraxine, pails, lumber, carting
2 80
Lantern, nails, snow shovel and oil I 14
7 03
Kenney Bros. :-
Chairs 17 00
Henry L. Patrick :-
Towels and cheese cloth
2 00
O. A. Williams :-
Labor and lumber, ash box
8 75
Norris, Staples & Gould :-
Wheelbarrow, coal scoop and snow shovel 4 20
E. E. Babb & Co. :-
Liquid slating
2 75
H. H. Lent :-
Lumber, labor and shellac. .....
7 41
Clark Ellis & Sons :- Lawn mower
8 00
Grass seed
5 66
13 66
6
William Daley :- Labor at school yard $7 00
Willam H. Bennett :-
1 65
Labor on blackboards at Albeeville Dennis Kelly :- Labor at school yard .....
. 2 28
Albert Albee :-
Labor at Albeeville school house ..... 7 60
Wilfred T. Claflin :-
Labor at school yard ............ A. C. Bolte :
3 00
Labor at school yard
2 28
F. H. Wood :-
Services, district committee
I 25
Cash paid W. T. Claflin I 00
2 25
S. W. Wood :-
Labor at school yard
I 75
George P. Walcott & Co. :-
Cheese cloth 3 55
H. C. Forbes :-
Lettering diplomas 1 00
G. M. Billings :- Printing programs 4 00
Eldredge & Son :-
Floor dressing and glass
6 60
Jacob R. Brown :- Labor, stock and material, varnish- nishing desks, etc. 89 38
Repairing chair.
I 50
90 88
A. C. Eldredge :-
Climbing pole and putting up flag rope 4 00
F. W. Draper :-
Spiral oval toilet paper 6 00
Miss Ellen C. Barry :- Labor on seat and bolts, etc. ......
45
Joseph Dudley :-
Services at graduation exercises
1 00
Winchester Tar Disinfecting Co. :- 5 gallons disinfectant 5 00
Jacket can 75
5 75
7
L. T. Gaskill :-
Services, secretary school commit-
tee
$10 00
Services with district committee I 25
taking school census 7 00
Cash for postage stamps ..
I 16
-
19 41
George E. Thayer :-
Use of well 4 00
Chamberlain Metal Weather Strip Co.
Weather strips and labor on win- dows, high school room 40 Q0
$334 76
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK H. WOOD, GEORGE SCRIVEN, LEONARD T. GASKILL, School Committee.
Your Secretary of the School Committee last year reported that the sum of seven and 90-100 dollars had been deposited in bank, to be used for adorning rooms in the New School Build- ing. This amount, with interest, amounting to eight and 2-100 dollars, has been applied for that purpose.
LEONARD T. GASKILL,
Secretary School Committee.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF MENDON.
Gentlemen : I herewith submit my third report and the eleventh report of the superintendent of schools.
The year which has just passed has been one of marked progress in many directions. My report of last year mentioned the great benefit that must accrue to the children who were to have so much more of the teacher's time. The improvement in the work of the grades below the high school has been most marked. This is especially true of the reading and language work. The credit for this improvement is due to the teachers, who have tried not only to do the daily tasks faithfully, but to constantly improve on their work of yesterday.
As was promised in the report of last year, there has been prepared and put into operation a course of study for the high school, which is appended to this report. It provides two courses of four years each, one the Latin and the other the English. The prime object of the Latin course is to afford those who desire to go to higher institutions a chance to take the subjects required for admission. The English course was planned for those whose school education ends with the high school. It therefore embraces those subjects which enter most nearly into the life of the average person.
It is but natural that with an enlarged curriculum and two teachers to do the work formerly done by one, that the pupils who have progressed thus far on their course under the old con- ditions should feel that the added work was over burdensome and should feel that they were overworked. This criticism will, I am sure, cease as the pupils become accustomed to the new conditions and as they come to the high school better fitted to do the work.
In this connection allow me to call the attention of the townspeople to the fact that I am at the new school building every Monday from 3.30 to 4.30 P. M., where I shall be glad to see any who may wish to consult me concerning school work. The fact that not one person has called during the last calendar year should indicate that the people had no complaints to make.
I am glad to report but few changes in the teaching force.
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Miss Dudley returned after a year's leave of absence, and is doing the same careful, conscientious work which has left its imprint on the children of Mendon in former years. Miss Rachel Spaulding has supplanted Miss Frederick as assistant in the high school, Miss Frederick going to Wakefield. Miss Spaulding is a graduate of Tufts and is doing excellent work. Miss Lillian Freeman is teaching at Albeeville, Miss Belcher being elected at Ashland at the end of the spring term.
The work in music has very materially improved under Mr. Lowell this year particularly, the technical training. Aside from the painstaking efforts of the instructors, the music at the high school has been greatly aided by a gift of a fine piano pur- chased with money obtained by public subscription.
Our thanks for this, as well as the beautiful works of art with which the rooms are adorned are due the public-spirited citizens who contributed so generously.
In closing I wish to thank you sincerely for your support and co-operation and to express my appreciation of the efforts of the teachers.
Respectfully submitted, HERBERT F. TAYLOR.
Course of Study, Mendon High School.
Latin.
General.
FIRST YEAR.
Hours Per Week.
Hours Per Week.
Latin
5
Commercial Law and Book- keeping,
3
English,
4
English,
4
Algebra,
5
Algebra,
5
Ancient History,
3 Ancient History, 3
Botany,
3
17
Civil Government, j
-
18
SECOND YEAR.
Latin,
Hours Per Week. 4
Hours Per Week.
English,
4
English,
4
Geometry,
4
Geometry,
4
French,
4
French, 4
Elect s History,
Physics or Chemistry.
4
Physics and Chemistry
19
20
THIRD YEAR.
Hours Per Week.
Hours Per Week.
Latin,
4
English History,
3
English,
3
English,
3
French,
4
French,
4
German,
4
German,
4
Elect ( English History
3
Physics or
4
Chemistry, S
Physics or Chemistry 4
18
18 or 19
1 4
Modern and Mediævial His- tory, 3
II
FOURTH YEAR.
Hours Per Week. 4
Hours Per Week.
Latin,
American History, -
3
English, French,
3
Political Economy
4
French, 4
German,
4 German,
4
Reviews,
3
English,
3
¡Physical Geography, Į 3
18 +Geology,
17
Sixteen hours required. Sixty-four fully completed for graduation.
+Reviews this year.
SCHOOL REGISTER STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER, 1903, TO JUNE, 1904.
SCHOOLS.
Average Member- ship.
Average Attend- ance.
Per Cent. of Attend- ance.
Total Enroll- ment.
Dis- Total Days of Tardy miss'd Absence.
Corporal Truant Punish- ment.
Visits by Superin- tendent.
Visits by Others.
High,
29.16
27.86
95.53
32
272.5
67
31
0
0
51
13
Grammar,
28.96
26.02
93.30
37
275.5
30
27
0
0
47
44
Primary,
29.26
25.91
88.58
53
593.5
23
31
0
0
44
50
13.05
12.20
93.02
17
107.5
30
8
0
0
10
11
*North, East,
22.00
20.83
94.68
24
190.5
101
33
0
0
20
39
* Albeeville,
12.09
10.69
88.46
15
150.5
91
20
0
0
12
25
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Summary,
134.52
123.51
91.81
178
1590.0
342
150
0
0
205+
182
*Two terms only.
121 visits to Intermediate at New School.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
Number between five and fifteen,
78
71
149
Number between seven and fourteen,
60
50
110
Number over fifteen,
7
13
20
School Census Statistics, September, 1904.
Number of children in town between five and fifteen, ·
73
68
141
Number of children in town between seven and fourteen,
.
59
49
108
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TEACHERS, DECEMBER, 1904.
SCHOOL.
TEACHERS.
WHERE FITTED.
High,
Edward F. Blood, Principal. Rachel J. Spaulding, Assistant.
Dartmouth College.
Tuft's College.
Grammar, Grades 6, 7, 8, Intermediate, Grades 3, 4 5,
Elizabeth I. Ham,
Edward Little High School.
Salem Normal.
Primary, Grades 1, 2,
Margaret J. Spalton, Mary A. Dudley, Marion S. Howe,
Mendon High School.
Framingham Normal.
Lillian Freeman,
Mendon High School.
SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1904-1905.
FALL TERM, 14 Weeks.
WINTER TERM. 12 Weeks.
SPRING TERM. 10 Weeks.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
Lower Schools, HighSchool, 40 weeks,
Sept.12, 1904. Sept. 6, 1904.
Dec. 16, 1904. Dec. 23, 1904.
Jan. 2, 1905, Jan. 2, 1905.
Mar. 24, 1905. Mar. 31, 1905.
April 10, 1905. April 10, 1905.
June. 16, 1905. June 23, 1905.
East, Grades 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, Albeeville, Grades 1, 2, 5, 6,
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SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1905-1906.
FALL TERM, 14 Weeks.
WINTER TERM, 12 Weeks.
SPRING TERM, 10 Weeks.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
OPENS.
CLOSES.
Lower Schools, High School, 40 Weeks,
Sept. 11, 1905. Sept. 5, 1905.
Dec. 15, 1905. Dec. 22, 1905.
Jan. 1, 1906. Jan. 1, 1906.
Mar. 23, 1906. Mar. 30, 1906.
April 9, 1906. April 9, 1906.
June 15 1906. June 22, 1906.
BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM EDUCATIONAL LAWS.
I. All children between 7 and 14, unless sick, feeble- minded, at an approved private school, or otherwise instructed in branches, required by law, to the satisfaction of the School Committee, must attend the public school during the entire term of each school year. Penalty to parent or guardian for failure in attendance for five days' sessions within any period of six months, $20.
2. No child under 14 shall be employed "in any factory, workshop, or mercantile establishment." "No such child shall be employed in any work performed for wages or other com- pensation" during the hours when the public school is in session nor before six o'clock in the morning nor after seven in the evening.
3. No child under 16 shall be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment without a certificate from the Superintendent of Schools. He must present an employ- ment ticket from the person who wishes to employ him, on ap- plying for a certificate. The father, if living and a resident,
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must sign the certificate of age, if not, the mother; if neither, the guardian.
4. Children between 14 and 16 must either attend school or be regularly employed.
5. Children must be vaccinated before attending school, but a certificate from a regular physician, saying a child is an unfit subject for vaccination, allows attendance.
No child can attend school from a household in which there is a case of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or measles, or from a household exposed to a contagion from a household as aforesaid. Two weeks after the death, removal or recovery of the patient, in a case of the first three mentioned, or three days after in a case of measles, the child may return on presentation of a certificate from the attending physician or from the board of health.
6. The last regular session prior to Memorial Day, or a portion thereof, shall be devoted to exercises of a patriotic nature.
7. A United States flag not less than four feet in length shall be displayed on the schoolhouse grounds or building every school day, when the weather will permit, and on the inside of the schoolhouse on other school days.
8. A written excuse, stating cause of absence, and signed by parent or guardian, must be presented by the pupil on his re- turn to school.
9. "Every habitual school offender, that is, every child under fourteen years of age who persistently violates the reason- able regulations of the school which he attends, or otherwise persistently misbehaves therein, so as to render himself a fit sub- ject for exclusion therefrom, upon complaint by a truant officer, and conviction thereof, may be committed, if a boy, at the dis- cretion of the court, to a county truant school for a period not exceeding two years, or to the Lyman school for boys, and, if a girl, to the state industrial school for girls."
Graduation Exercises of the Mendon High School
AT THE
Unitarian Church, Monday Evening, June 27, 1904.
PROGRAM.
March.
MR. F. H. LOWELL.
Prayer.
REV. S. JAMES CANN.
Song, "Hail, smiling morn." ·
SCHOOL. Essay, "The benefits derived from the study of literature." CHARLES B. CONGDON.
Essay, "The elements of success."
BERTE L. MOORES.
Song, "He that hath a pleasant face." SCHOOL.
Address. .
MR. HENRY WHITTEMORE. Principal of the Framingham State Normal School. Class History and Prophecy.
JOHN J. DRISCOLL.
Song, "Oh, my love's like a red, red rose." . SCHOOL.
Presentation of Diplomas. SUPT. HERBERT F. TAYLOR.
Song, "Evening chorus."
SCHOOL.
GRADUATES. Charles Bowen Congdon, John Joseph Driscoll, Berte Leroy Moores.
Motto-Palma non sine pulvere. Colors-Light green and white.
ROLL OF HONOR.
The following pupils have been neither absent nor tardy for the consecutive terms specified. The record ends June, 1904 :
TEN YEARS-TWO TERMS.
Mabel D. Snow-High.
THREE YEARS-ONE TERM. Lois A. Congdon-Grammar.
TWO YEARS.
Grace Thayer-East.
ONE YEAR-ONE TERM.
Caroline S. Wood-High.
Agnes M. Harrington-Intermediate.
ONE YEAR.
Roy Barrows, Leavitt Brown, Nina M. Burr, Katherine Harrington-High.
WINTER AND SPRING TERMS.
Louisa Congdon, A. Everett Eldredge-High.
George Barrows, Sumner Coleman, Charles Ferris-Inter- mediate.
Grace Ferris-Primary.
Dorris Thayer-East.
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FALL TERM.
Walter Beal, Charles Congdon, Harold Eldredge, Albert Scriven, Florence Aldrich, Millie Sweet, Mabel Taft-High.
Ralph Gaskill, Herbert Sweet, Carl Taft, Henry Wood, Philip Harrington-Grammar.
Margaret Harrington, Edith Kinsley, Moses Coleman, Thomas Flooks, Clement Holbrook, Edward Kinsley, Ernest Parkinson-Primary.
Forrest Lowell-Albeeville.
WINTER TERM.
Harold Eldredge, Mabel Cromb-High.
Carrie Cromb, Louis Holbrook-Grammar.
George Aldrich-Primary.
Edmund Rowe-East.
SPRING TERM.
Florence Aldrich, Rose Snow-High.
Albert Cromb, Charles Driscoll, Herbert Wood, William Curliss, Henry Wood-Grammar.
Eva Daley, Vera Wilson, Corinne Wood, Willie Beechey, Robert Ferris, Gideon Halsing-Intermediate.
Mary Goss, Edith Hoberg, Leo Gallant, Ernest Wood- Primary.
Lora Lussier, Forrest Lowell-Albeeville.
Esther Turnbull, Frank Phillips-East.
TOWN WARRANT.
Worcester, ss .- To the Constable of the Town of Mendon. in the County of Worcester, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Mendon. qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Mendon, on Monday, the sixth day of March next, punctually at 9 o'clock, A. M., to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ARTICLE 2. To hear the reports of the several town offi- cers and committees and act thereon.
ARTICLE 3. To bring in their votes for the following offi- cers-A Town Clerk for one year; three Selectmen for one year; three Assessors for one year; three Overseers of the Poor for one year; a Town Treasurer for one year; a Collector of Taxes for one year; an Auditor for one year ; one Highway Sur- veyor for one year; one Constable for one year; three Fence Viewers for one year; one Trustee of the Taft Public Library for two years; one School Committee for three years; also to bring in their votes, "Yes" or "No" in answer to the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ;" all on one ballot, designating the office intended for each person voted for.
ARTICLE 4. To choose all other necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
ARTICLE 5. To raise such sums of money as are necessary to defray town charges and make appropriations for the same.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the town will vote to accept the list of jurors as reported by the Selectmen, or make any alteration in the same.
ARTICLE 7. To see what measures the town will adopt to secure the speedy collection of taxes.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer to hire money to pay current expenses for the municipal year
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commencing March 6, 1905, in anticipation of the collection of the taxes.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the town will continue communica- tion by telephone with Milford, as security against destruction by fire, or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE IO. To see if the town will raise and appropriate any sum of money for Memorial day services and appoint a committee to expend the same.
ARTICLE II. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Assessors of the ensuing year to print the valuation list of said year, or take any action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the town will vote to convey and transport the school children residing on the Milford Road, to and from school during the winter term, and other children, who attend the centre school, or take any action in relation to the transportation of scholars.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate any sum of money to repair the Quissett Road, or take any action in relation to the same.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the town will choose and authorize any committee or agent to represent the town in the matter of the claim of Henry W. Gaskill, or any other person or persons, relative to certain land on the northerly shore of Nipmuck Pond and easterly of the Uxbridge road, and to prosecute and defend any suit or suits that have been or may be commenced relative thereto, or take any other action in relation to said land or said suit or suits.
The polls may be closed at I P. M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof at each of the following places in said town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting, viz :- At the post-office, and on the guideboard near the school- house in Albeeville, and at the post-office in South Milford.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen or Town Clerk, before the time of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Mendon, this eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.
GEORGE M. TAFT, EDWARD C. KINSLEY, LEONARD T. GASKILL, Selectmen of Mendon.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE VARIOUS
BOARDS OF TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF MENDON,
INCLUDING REPORT OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
FOR THE
Municipal Year Ending March 5, 1906.
[239TH ANNUAL REPORT.]
MILFORD, MASS .: COOK & SONS, PRINTERS, JOURNAL OFFICE. 1906.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The undersigned, Treasurer of the Town of Mendon for the fiscal year ending February 5, 1906, respectfully submits an account of his doings.
The Treasurer debits himself with receiving the following sums, viz :-
To cash received of the Treasurer for the year ending February 5, 1905 $ 498 44
To cash borrowed on four Town notes 4000 00
To cash received of Clair W. Freeman, ac- count of Uxbridge pauper. 20 00
To cash received, D. H. Barnes, tele- phone 74 38
To cash received, E. C. Kinsley, janitor 58 75
To cash received, Town of Uxbridge, on account M. A. Cummings 10 00
To cash received, A. E. Southwick, butcher's license. 1 00
To cash received, J. S. Daniels, back taxes 9 51
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