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Blanks for the return of all Vital records can be obtained from the Town Clerk.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT S. COLEMAN,
Town Clerk.
Mendon, January 1, 1931.
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REPORT OF FIRE ENGINEERS.
Appropriation
Paid for supplies :-
Chester C. Shattuck $31 46
Niro & Niro Co., batteries 2 25
Clark & Shaughnessy, fuel
48 25
Worcester Brush & Scraper Co.,
broom fillers 12 74
Fyr-Fyter Sales & Service, instant charges
5 75
Henry K. Barnes Co., chimney fire fuses 3 17
Harold F. Lowell, cross chains and tool
7 05
H. S. Chadbourne Co., rope 40
$111 07
Toll calls, Harold F. Lowell
1 65
Repairs on truck body, Wm. A. Barry Janitor, Albert W. Sears
10 00
40 00
Blowing test alarm, Joseph H. Dudley
36 40
Salary, Harold F. Lowell, chief
100 00
Electric power for whistle, Worces- ter Suburban Electric Co. 72 00
New Equipment :-
Henry K. Barnes Co., hose and parts $123 06
Acme Rubber Mfg. Co., hose and parts 93 25
Augustus C. Gillis, windshield 45 00
$800 00
$261 31
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Pay Rolls :-
No. 1. Felix Lajoie fire $15 00
No. 2. John Kelly fire 14 00
No. 3. False alarm, Albeeville 12 00
No. 4. John Powers fire 8 00
No. 5. Carl Stowers fire 16 50
No. 6. A. Burns fire
6 00
No. 7. H. J. George, auto fire
6 00
No. 8. Murry fire
26 00
No. 9. Geo. Thayer fire
10 00
No. 10. L. Tetrault fire
12 00
No. 11. Sabatinelli fire 14 00
$139 50
$771 93
Unexpended
28 07
$800 00
Respectfully submitted,
HAROLD F. LOWELL, RAYMOND L. DAILEY, ROY A. BARROWS,
Engineers.
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REPORT OF THE FOREST FIRE WARDEN.
Appropriation
$300 00
Appropriation, special meeting
300 00
Transferred Emergency Fund
500 00
Received from Town of Northbridge. ...
59 00
Received from Wm. Grant
3 00
Received from Joseph Goosopart
5 50
Received from State Forest Warden
50 00
$1,217 50
Paid Milford Daily News
$ 40
D. B. Smith & Co., pump cans.
24 04
Niro & Niro, shovels
7 00
Town of Sutton, assistance at Long Meadow fire
12 00
Acme Rubber Co., hose
90 00
Pay Roll No. 1, Blackstone fire
15 00
Pay Roll No. 2, Mendon Hill fire
7 50
Pay Roll No. 3, Levesque fire
56 00
Pay Roll No. 4, Murry fire
13 90
Pay Roll No.
5, Gustafson fire
15 00
Pay Roll No.
6, Wigwam Hill fire
117 50
Pay Roll No.
7, False alarm 6 50
Pay Roll No.
8, Uxbridge fire 34 00
Pay Roll No. 9, Northbridge fire
55 00
Pay Roll No. 10, Jacobs Street fire
27 50
Pay Roll No. 11, Supplementry to No. 6 and 7 5 00
Pay Roll No. 12, Wm. Grant fire
3 00
Pay Roll No. 13, False alarm 8 50
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Pay Roll No. 14, Long Meadow fire .... 182 50
Pay Roll No. 15, Albeeville fire 63 50
Pay Roll No. 16, Bellingham fire 186 50
Pay Roll No. 17, Pond Hill fire 211 75
Pay Roll No. 18, Albeeville fire 12 50
Pay Roll No. 19, Northbridge fire 4 00
Pay Roll No. 20, Goosopart fire
5 50
Pay Roll No. 21, Supplementry to No. 14 14 50
Pay Roll No. 22, Supplementry to No.
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11 50
$1,190 09
Unexpended
27 41
$1,217 50
Respectfully submitted,
HAROLD F. LOWELL,
Forest Warden.
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REPORT OF THE TREE WARDEN.
Appropriation
$400 00
Paid E. Sabatinelli & Son, truck
$9 50
I. Bartlett, labor 34 00
C. Moore, labor 159 00
Ernest Barrows, labor 150 00
Harold F. Lowell, auto and labor
42 00
Herbert S. Wood, labor
5 00
$399 50
Unexpended
50
$400 00
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT S. WOOD,
Tree Warden.
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REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Platform Scale over 5000 lbs. 1
Platform Scale 100 to 5000 lbs. 1
Counter Scale 100 to 5000 lbs. 1
Counter Scale under 100 lbs. 2
. Spring Scale 100 to 5000 lbs. 2
Spring Scale under 100 lbs. 3
Liquid Measures 33
Gasolene Pumps
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I have collected fees and turned over to the Town of Mendon, $13.29.
Meat Peddlers' licenses 1
Fish Peddlers' licenses 2
Respectfully submitted,
HAROLD C. BARROWS,
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
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FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE TAFT PUBLIC LIBRARY.
As we pass the half century mark it is fitting that we take a backward look and consider the growth of our library since its inception. Starting with a fund of one thousand dollars presented to the town in 1881 by Susan E. Huston in memory of her brother, Putnam W. Taft, a native of Men- don, organized by such men as Homer W. Darling, Horace C. Adams, Gustavus B. Williams, Samuel H. Taft, and George F. Clark, as the first Board of Trustees, the library was placed at once on a high basis.
A perusal of the records of the past fifty years shows clearly that succeeding trustees have endeavored to uphold the high standard set by the founders so that today Mendon has a library that is serving the people, an auxiliary of the public school system, an educational center of which we can justly be proud.
Housed in a commodious building, with an approved catalog system, we are able to look well to the interests of our townspeople.
During the past year we have had another register placed near the librarian's desk which has proved of great benefit to all concerned.
The ceiling in the lower room is in bad condition which will necessitate repairs immediately.
We have made some changes in the magazines for the ensuing year, removing some that we considered were not up
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to standard and replacing them with others of higher esti- mated value, which we trust will be enjoyed by all.
CARROLL H. DROWN, Chairman,
EDWARD F. BLOOD, Secretary, LENA W. GEORGE, GEORGE H. PICKARD, WILLIAM A. BARRY,
Trustees of the Taft Public Library.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
OF THE
TAFT PUBLIC LIRBARY.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation
$500 00
Fines 23 30
$523 30
EXPENDITURES.
The Personal Book Shop, books $84 43
Cahill's News Agency, books 4 05
Gaylord Bros, supplies
24 45
H. C. Forbes, supplies
2 00
H. R. Huntting, supplies
3 84
Wood
50 00
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E. T. Powers, heating 22 00
Dura Binding Co., binding 14 35
Cahill's News Agency, magazines
35 50
Verena R. Daley, salary
225 00
Joseph Dudley, services and supplies
57 00
Unexpended cash 68
$523 30
FLETCHER FUND. EXPENDITURES.
American Library Association, books $4 25
Desmond Publishing Co., books 72 00
Dodd Mead Co., books
7 00
The Personal Book Shop, books
111 47
The H. T. Wilson Co., books
7 00
$201 72
GEORGE H. PICKARD,
Finance Committee.
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE TAFT PUBLIC LIBRARY :-
The circulation for the year (101 days) was 8859 vol- umes. The largest given out in one day was 153, the small- est, 29; the average, 87. The circulation by classes was as follows: Fiction, 6646; Magazines, 1331; Bound Magazines, 32; Biography, 232; Travel, 83; History, 76; Literature, 154; Useful and Fine Arts, 151; Science, 87; all others, 67.
There are 7030 volumes in the library. 189 volumes have been added the past year and 18 were taken out as they were worn out. 67 were bought by the town, 122 were given as follows :
Fletcher Fund, 63; Massachusetts Library Commission, 31; By binding, 8; Secretary of the Commonwealth, 5; Gov. Allen, 1; E. Smith, 1; Anonymous, 8.
The library subscribes for the American, Boy's Life, Century, Child Life, Cosmopolitan, Country Gentleman, Delineator, Field and Stream, Harper's Monthly, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, Literary Digest, National Geographic, Radio News, Saturday Evening Post, Scribner's, St. Nicholas, Pictorial Review.
The Library Commission sends American Boy, Good Housekeeping, Popular Mechanics, World's Work. The Farmer's Wife, Dumb Animals, National Republic, Elk's, Columbia, Rotary, New England Poultryman, are given.
There were 12 pupils who received the State Reading Certificates the past year.
$23.30 was received in fines during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
VERENA R. DALEY,
Librarian.
Mendon, January 1, 1931.
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BOOKS ADDED IN 1930.
FICTION :-
All our yesterdays.
Arrows of desire.
Around the world. Arundel.
All quiet on the western front.
Blowing clear.
Blue Rajah murder.
Candle in the wilderness.
Cora. Cimarron. Chances.
Coronet.
Charlie Chan carries on.
Castle gay.
Drums.
Dancing silhouette.
Early candlelight. Exile.
Field of honor.
Fires of youth.
Foreigner in the family.
Fortitude.
Fish preferred.
Freckles comes home.
Go-between. Great meadow.
Gold and the mounted.
Golden dawn. High fences. Hue and cry.
Hunchback of Notre Dame. Ivanhoe.
It's a great war.
H. M. Tomlinson.
J. Clark. G. Weston. K. Roberts.
E. M. Remarque. J. C. Lincoln. H. MacGrath.
I. Bacheller. R. Suckow.
E. Ferber.
A. H. Gibbs. M. Komroff.
E. D. Biggers.
J. Buchan. J. Boyd.
N. S. Lincoln.
M. H. Lovelace.
W. Deeping.
D. Byrne. M. Pedler.
W. Benson.
H. Walpole.
P. G. Wodehouse.
G. S. Porter. T. Benson. E. M. Roberts.
J. B. Hendryx.
P. B. Kyne.
G. S. Richmond. P. Wentworth.
V. Hugo. Sir Walter Scott.
Mary Lee.
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Jimmie Dale and the blue envelope murder.
Listening post.
Last of the plainsmen.
Laughing boy.
Lord Jim.
Lion and the lamb.
Lightnin' Colbert.
Lighted windows.
Mirthful haven.
Murder of Cecily Thane.
Merivales.
Married money.
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island. H. G. Wells.
Mystery of the barren lands.
October's child.
Pine Gold.
Pilgrim's progress.
Pines of Jaalam.
Party of baccarat.
Rogue Herries.
Shaughai passage.
Stars for sale.
Saunders of the river.
The guarded halo.
The pathway.
The door.
The dimmest dream.
The missionary.
The Selbys.
The Matriach.
The shepard of Guadaloupe.
Trail to Paradise.
Ticker tape murder. Typhoon.
They stoop to folly.
F. Packard.
G. S. Richmond. Z. Grey.
O. La Farge.
J. Conrad.
E. P. Oppenheim. W. B. M. Ferguson. Mrs. E. B. Loring.
B. Tarkington.
H. Ashbrook.
G. B. Mccutcheon. H. Powel, Jr.
R. Cullum.
D. Joseph.
O. E. Rolvaag. J. Bunyan. Daniel Chase.
D. Byrne.
H. Walpole.
H. Pease.
R. Wright.
E. Wallace. M. Pedler.
H. Williamson.
M. R. Rinehart.
A. R. Colver. E. Marshall.
Anne Green. G. B. Stern. Z. Grey.
J. Gregory. M. M. Propper. J. Conrad. E. Glasgow.
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Treasure island.
Wild wind.
Woman of Andros.
When I grow rich.
Wanderer's end.
Window.
A. G. Rosman.
J. M. Saunders.
A. G. Rosman.
M. A. Barnes.
NON-FICTION :-
All in the family.
An hour with American music.
Art of thinking.
Adams family.
Birds of Massachusetts.
Builders of the Bay Colony.
Best plays of 1929.
Carpenter, F. G. World travel books.
Come Christmas.
Children's stories and how to tell them.
Dartmouth; vital records. Vol. I and II.
Financing American industry.
Flying the Arctic.
Grandeur and misery of victory.
Grandmother Brown's one hundred years.
Guide to best historical novels.
Henry the eighth.
Index to short stories.
Liberty. Lincoln library of essential information.
T. Roosevelt.
P. Rosenfeld.
E. Dinmet.
J. T. Adams.
S. E. Morison. B. Mantle. 20 vol. L. Frost.
W. A. Bone.
E. H. Simmons.
G. H. Wilkins. G. Clemenceau.
H. C. Brown. J. Nield.
F. Hackett. I. T. E. Firkins.
E. D. Martin.
Wings.
Young and secret.
Years of grace.
R. L. Stevenson.
T. Bailey. T. Wilder.
E. Sidgwick.
D. Cleugh.
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Lone cowboy. Lowell; vital records. Vol. I and II. March of life.
Will James.
E. H. Dewart.
Massachusetts on the sea.
Mendon Town Reports. 1909-1927.
Milford, Massachusetts. 1880-1930.
Mrs. Eddy.
Memories of a sculptor's wife.
Modern American poetry.
My own story.
National Geographic. vol. 56 and 57.
New worlds to conquer.
New encyclopedia year book. 1929
O'Shea, M. W. World book.
Pathways of the Puritans.
Poems.
Poems of American history.
Rise of American civilization.
Romance and rise of the American tropics.
S. Crowther.
Roosevelt, the story of a friendship. Owen Wister.
Rules of order.
Skyways. Story of a pioneer.
Tragic era.
Uncle Sam's attic, Alaska.
United States in the World War. 1914-1920. J. B. McMaster.
Vagabond journey around the world. H. A. Franck. What wins. Winged horse.
E. F. Dakin. Mrs. D. C. French. L. Untermeyer. E. Pankhurst.
R. Halliburton.
13 vol.
Mrs. N. S. Bell.
R. W. Emerson. B. E. Stevenson. C. A. and M. R. Beard.
H. M. Robert. Gen. Wm. Mitchell.
A. H. Shaw.
C. G. Bowers. M. L. Davis.
W. Filkin. Auslander and Hill.
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JUVENILE :-
Abe Lincoln grows up.
Best animal stories I know.
Coco, the goat.
Cowboys, north and south.
Father takes us to Boston.
40 good morning tales.
Holiday meadow.
Legends of the seven seas.
Mr. Hermit Crab.
Mother's away.
Nanette of the wooden shoes.
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo.
Pinocchio in America.
Pran of Albania.
St. Nicholas, vol. 56 and 57.
Seashore book for children.
Skip-come-a-Lou.
Wings of flame.
C. Sandburg. J. C. Minot. R. Wells. W. James.
G. Humphrey.
R. Fyleman. E. M. Patch. M. E. Price. M. Rhys.
M. Ashmun.
E. Brann. J. Bennett. A. Patri. E. C. Miller.
T. W. Burgess. A. C. Darby. J. B. Egan.
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Mendon, Mass., January 20, 1931.
This is to certify that I have examined the accounts of the Town Officers, who have received or disbursed funds belonging to the Town of Mendon for the year ending Dec. 31, 1930, and find they correspond.
Respectfully submitted,
RALPH W. COFFIN,
Auditor.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF MENDON
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1930
SCHOOL DIRECTORY, 1930-1931. SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
George H. Pickard, Chairman
Term Expires 1931
Frank J. Leonard
Term Expires 1932
Ina Irons, Secretary Term Expires 1933
Regular meetings held at the Center School building on the first Monday of each month at 7 P. M.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS-CARROLL H. DROWN. Office-High School Building, Hopedale. Telephone, Milford, 1630.
Office open 8-12 A. M. and 1-5.30 P. M. on school days and during summer vacation. Employment and 66
educational certificates granted at any time during office hours.
TEACHERS.
Name.
Subject or Grade. Preparation.
Years of Service in Town.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Henry P. Clough, Principal
Mathematics and Science Dartmouth College and
New Hampshire University Third Worcester Normal, 4 years First
Marion Remmert
English and History
Ida M. Grover
Latin and French
Boston University
First
CENTER SCHOOL.
Orrilla F. Park
6, 7, 8
Martha E. Ryder 3, 4, 5
Caroline W. Blackwood 1 and 2
Castleton, Vermont, Normal Sixth Hyannis and North Adams Normals Third Woonsocket High School Sixth
Normal Training Students Assistants in Intermediate Room
ALBEEVILLE.
Edith Davenport 1-7
Framingham Normal First
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EAST MENDON.
Mary M. Ross 1-7 Framingham Normal First
MUSIC SUPERVISOR.
Evelyn Mayer
New England Conservatory of Music First
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN.
K. A. Campbell, M. D.
Telephone, Milford, 102
SCHOOL NURSES.
Helen C. Grady, R. N. Milford District Nursing Association, Telephone, 862 Mildred Salmond, R. N., Assistant
JANITORS.
Harold Parkinson, Center School Mrs. Alfred Auty, Albeeville Mrs George Thayer, East Mendon
Telephone, Milford, 919-R
BARGE DRIVER. Harold C. Barrows
TRUANT OFFICER.
Harold C. Barrows 68
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SCHOOL CALENDAR. 1931.
ELEMENTARY GRADES.
WINTER TERM.
Opens January 5, Closes March 20 (Eleven Weeks) Vacation Two Weeks
SPRING TERM.
Opens April 6, Closes June 5 (Nine Weeks) Summer Vacation
FALL TERM.
Opens September 8, Closes December 18 (Fifteen Weeks) Vacation Two Weeks
WINTER TERM.
Opens January 4, 1932.
HIGH SCHOOL.
WINTER TERM.
Opens December 29, 1930, Closes March 27 (Thirteen Weeks) Vacation One Week
SPRING TERM.
Opens April 6, Closes June 19 (Eleven Weeks) Summer Vacation.
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FALL TERM.
Opens September 8, Closes December 24 (Sixteen Weeks) Vacation One Week
WINTER TERM. Opens January 4, 1932.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
Labor Day; Columbus Day, October 12; Armistice Day, November 11; Thanksgiving Day; Christmas Day, December 25; New Year's Day, January 1; Washington's Birthday, February 22; Patriots' Day, April 19; and Memorial Day, May 30. When a holiday comes on Sunday the following Monday becomes a holiday. There will be no session of schools on the Friday following Thanksgiving Day.
NO SCHOOL SIGNAL.
Siren blast 2-2 sounded at 7.15 closes all schools for the day. It is important for parents to note the time and man- ner of this signal.
The closing of all schools always involves considerable misunderstanding and difficulty because it is impossible for a no-school signal to be heard over the entire territory of the town.
Schools are maintained and teachers paid for the benefit of all children of the town. It seems wise that school should be in session at all times except in most extreme weather, thus giving an opportunity to those children and parents who
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want the advantages of school. Keeping schools open even in somewhat stormy weather works no hardship upon any, for when parents feel that on account of weather conditions it is unwise for their children to go to school, they are at liberty to keep them at home.
ATTENDANCE LAWS.
The state laws governing school attendance require that:
Every child from seven to fourteen years of age unless he is physically or mentally unfit, and until he is sixteen years of age if he has not completed the sixth grade, shall attend school all the time it is in session. Every child from fourteen to sixteen years of age shall attend school unless such child has received an employment certificate and is regu- larly employed according to law for at least six hours per day. All minors under sixteen working in towns or cities which maintain continuation schools must attend the continu- ation school as prescribed by law.
If a child fails to attend school according to law for seven day sessions or fourteen half-day sessions, the child shall be considered an habitual truant and may be sent to a truant school.
If a parent or guardian fails to cause the child under his charge to attend school according to law, he shall be fined not over twenty dollars for each offense.
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SCHOOL FINANCIAL REPORT.
RECEIPTS.
For Current Expenses
$16,409 20
General Appropriation, 1930 $15,700 00
Appropriation for School Physician 50 00
Appropriation for School Nurse ..
250 00
Appropriation for Transportation 100 00
Dog Tax 309 20
For Heating System $5,592 29
Special Appropriation $4,600 00
Appropriation, District No. 1 Fund 992 29
Grand Total Receipts
$22,001 49
EXPENDITURES.
Current Expenses $16,334 79
Heating System
5,505 20
Grand Total Expenditures
$21,839 99
Balance on hand :
From General Appropriation
$74 41
From Special Appropriation
87 09
Total Balance
$161 50
REIMBURSEMENTS.
General School Fund, Part I $1,490 00
General School Fund, Part II
1,584 69
Superintendent's Salary 386 66
Tuition from State
659 56
High School Grant
750 00
Total
$4,870 91
TAXATION COST OF SCHOOLS.
Total Expenditures $21,839 99
Reimbursements 4,870 91
Net Cost of Schools by Taxation $16,969 08
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SUMMARY OF EXPENSES.
Total Expenses
$21,839 99
Teachers
$10,619 16
Transportation
1,380 40
Care of buildings
1,044 05
Fuel
853 11
Superintendent
800 00
Text Books
459 20
Supplies
310 08
Repairs and New Equipment
276 70
Health
257 90
Clerk
173 13
Tuition
117 20
Miscellaneous
23 86
School Committee Expense
20 00
Heating System
5,505 20
ACCOUNTS ITEMIZED.
Text Books
$459 20
Allyn & Bacon $3 11
American Book Company 10 93
Arlo Publishing Company 14 70
E. E. Babb & Company
98 87
Beckley-Cardy Company
12 84
Bobbs-Merrill Company
3 86
Campbell & Leunig
16 21
Dura Binding Company
1 75
Ginn & Company 5 34
D. C. Heath & Company 46 00
Houghton Mifflin Company 2 31
Iroquois Publishing Company
29 47
Longmans Green Company 18 86
Lyons & Carnahan
4 38
The Macmillan Company
22 63
Charles E. Merrill Company
5 84
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Newson & Company 6 52
Rand McNally & Company 55 87
Benj. H. Sanborn & Company 15 91
Scott Foresman & Company
6 89
Silver Burdett & Company
40 07
World Book Company
36 84
Supplies
$310 08
E. E. Babb & Company
$12 00
Cambridge Botanical
Supply Co.
23 84
H. S. Chadbourne 3 24
Charlescraft Press
2 00
Charles E. Cooney
1 00
Chemical Rubber Company
3 21
Denoyer-Geppert Company
28 62
Oliver Ditson Company 6 76
Dowling School Supply Company ....
45 31
C. H. Drown, express, etc. 13 19
Elizabeth Dwight, posture models
3 00
H. C. Forbes
10 55
Wilbur D. Gilpatric, paper
3 23
J. L. Hammett Company
111 36
Charles W. Homeyer Company, music
12 87
Laidlaw Brothers
2 86
Frank Leonard, graduation material
3 00
Herbert J. Mann, diplomas
1 75
Martin Diploma Company
4 50
Mass. Bay Tercentenary, Inc.
1 45
A. P. Schmidt, music
7 66
William J. Seaver, express
50
Irving L. White, paper
3 89
World Book Company, tests
4 29
Repairs and New Equipment $276 70
F. M. Aldrich $57 15
H. S. Chadbourne
2 25
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Henry Cyr, painting building
100 00
E. T. Powers
7 42
Hugh Ray, cleaning vaults 25 00
Mrs. George Rollins, sewing machine 10 88
George Sanderson, refinishing desks
74 00
Transportation
$1,380 40
Harold Barrows
$742 00
Lester Hodgkins 131 60
Town of Hopedale, bus tickets
18 00
M. F. & U. Coach Company
483 50
Maybelle Morrill, practice teacher
5 30
Tuition
$117 20
Town of Uxbridge $117 20
Fuel
$853 11
H. M. Curtiss Coal Company
$799 86
George Hogarth
12 00
William F. Irons
12 00
Joseph W. McEwen
11 25
Francis Morrison
6 00
Carl M. Taft
12 00
Care of buildings, including janitors'
supplies $1,044 05
Mrs. Alfred Auty
$48 50
Jacob R. Brown
227 50
Substitute janitors per H. P. Clough
210 00
Joseph Dudley
2 00
Fuller & Wilson, express on janitors' supplies 2 00
L. M. Glover Company, brushes 12 22
6 00
William L. Holbrook, mowing lawn Massachusetts State Prison, brushes 9 23
Masury-Young Company 51 59
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Harold Parkinson 315 00
Henry Patrick Company, coal hods 1 50
Augusta Peterson 50 00
Chester Shattuck, janitors' supplies
3 33
Robert Taft, mowing lawn
1 50
George Thayer, water
3 00
Mrs. George Thayer
90 00
Worcester Suburban Electric Co. ..
10 68
Health
$257 90
District Nursing Association $250 00
J. J. Gibbs, medical supplies 1 90
A. H. Sweet Company, tongue blades 6 00
Miscellaneous
$23 86
C. H. Drown, postage and telephone tolls
$23 86
Teachers
$10,619 16
Superintendent
800 00
Clerk
173 13
Committee Expense
20 00
Total Current Expenses $16,334 79
HEATING SYSTEM ACCOUNT.
Appropriation
$5,592 29
Expenditures
5,505 20
E. T. Powers, as per contract $5,238 00
H. C. Robinson, engineer 259 95
Committee Public Safety 5 00
H. S. Chadbourne, supplies
2 25
Balance
$87 09
Grand Total of School Expenses
$21,839 99
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND CITIZENS OF MENDON :-
This is the thirty-seventh annual report of the superin- tendent of schools.
The report of the schools for the past year may be given briefly by stating that the procedure has been along simi- lar lines as in the past few years. The number of school rooms remains the same as for many years past, and the number of teachers the same as in the past three years.
The schools in the Center building are large, and the High School and eighth grade room is crowded. For the past four years Normal training students have assisted in the large intermediate room. The plan has worked out very well.
There have been no changes in organization or in gen- eral methods made this past year. There has been an attempt for general improvement in all lines of instruction and or- ganization. It is a fair statement to say that the schools have never reached a higher attainment in these lines than at present.
The school reports of past years show that the people of Mendon have taken a vital interest in their schools. They have made slow but real progress, and the schools have de- veloped year by year to a commendable standard.
The following table of figures taken from Mendon school reports at intervals of five years from 1900 to 1925 and the extracts taken from former reports should be of interest.
COMPARATIVE COSTS OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS.
Year
Average Membership
Total cost of Schools
Cost per pupil
Salary H. S. Prin.
Salary Grade Teachers
Supt's Salary
No. School Rooms
Per cent. Attendance
1900
134
$4,136.62
$30.87
$500.00
$288.00-$432.00
$1,680.00
6
91
1905
149
5,987.59
40.18
900.00
288.00- 432.00
1,850.00
6
921/2
1910
153
6,036.33
39.45
850.00
342.00- 432.00
1,750.00
6
92
1915
167
6,401.87
38.33
922.50
342.00- 420.00
2,200.00
6
94
1920
173
11,021.90
63.71
1,400.00
640.00- 812.00
2,500.00
6
88
1925
168
14,651.38
87.21
2,000.00
925.00-1250.00
3,000.00
6
92
Per cent. increase in 25 years
23 %
254%
183 %
300%
189 %
78 %
78
-
79
EXTRACTS FROM FORMER REPORTS.
1900. Superintendent's report advocated great need of a new school building at the Center.
1901. New school building at East Mendon finished and first used January 3.
1902. Report recommended high school being abolished and children sent to schools in neighboring towns. Com- mittee report advocated new school building and clos- ing of Albeeville and North End schools.
1903. New building at Center completed.
1904. Course of study for Mendon High School prepared and printed.
1905. High school provided with two teachers.
1906. Superintendent's report said "The entering class of the high school of Mendon invariably has more boys than girls, and the graduating class is generally com- posed of girls only."
1907. "The time has come when it is desirable to lengthen the period of instruction in the elementary grades by the introduction of a ninth grade." Much confusion and difficulty caused by the application of the new law compelling medical inspection of school children.
1908. "Spencer said, "The man who can build a bridge that will carry its prescribed load is not inferior to the man who can write a poem.' Roosevelt truly says, 'We are educating boys away from the farm and the shop.' It might as truly be said that we are educat- ing girls away from the home and into offices, stores, and mills. This is exceedingly unfortunate. The dignity of manual labor must be inculcated."
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