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Adams
Seven Miles to Arden;
Sawyer Gray McFarlane
Rebecca Mary,
Donnell
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow,
Green
Green Fancy,
MeCutcheou
The Witness,
Lutz
The Village Pest,
Montgomery Rice
Great Possessions,
Grayson
Anne's House of Dreams.
Montgomery
The Indian Drum,
MacHarg and Balmer
Our Garden Flowers,
Keeler
Principles of Fruit Growing.
Bailey
Manual of Gardening,
Bailey
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The Rainbow Trail,
Behind the Bolted Door.
Calvary Alley.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Every Man His Own Mechanic, Fireless Cook Book, Feeding the Family,
Better Meals for Less Money,
Pure Food Cook Book,
The Jonathan Papers, 2 vols.,
Blind Soldiers and Sailors' Gift Book
A Student in Arms,
A Hostage in Germany,
Hankey Desson
Belgium, History of the World,
Enson
Uncivilized Races,
Larned Wood
Electric Magazine
Library of Travel,
Taylor
Washington and His Generals,
Headley
The Englishman in America,
Gil Blas, Smollet
Twain Barnard Mitchell Rose Green Maddocks Woodbridge
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK E. DAVIS. Librarian.
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FOBES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
RECEIPTS
Town appropriation, $300 00
Dog fund, 181 05
$481 05
EXPENSES
William C. Avers, janitor, $120 00
H. R. Huntington, books, 39 38
American Gas Machine Co ..
1 62
G. S. Butler.
2 42
G. T. Butterfield. teaming.
17 47
Edmund Cody. coal,
77 33
W. A. Woodis, wood. 8 00
Insurance. 52 50
C. H. Trowbridge,
70
W. R. Dean, repair on furnace,
14 75
F. E. Davis, Librarian,
80 53
G. N. Briggs, carrying books,
25 00
Magazines and subscriptions.
12 00
Miscellaneous.
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$455 17 The Library has been well patronized for the year.
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Mrs. C. E. Fobes of Worcester, who has done so much for the Town, has added one thousand dollars to the Li- brary Fund, also presented to the Library a "Beautiful Flag."
Prof. H. P. Wright and wife, our "life long" friends, have also given to the Town five hundred dollars to be known as the "Alfred Parks Wright Memorial Fund," the income to be used in the purchase of literature useful especially to the schools of the Town.
Respectfully submitted, JESSE ALLEN, SARA BUTLER, FLORENCE E. BOTHWELL. Library Trustees.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
RECEIPTS
Town-Support of Schools,
$1,800 00
Town-School Superintendent, 60 00
Town-Medical Inspection, 20 00
State return-School Fund,
1,120 95
State return-High School tuition,
890 00
State return-School Superintendent,
187 50
State return-Education State children,
120 75
City of Boston return-Education Boston children, 75 75
Town-School Transportation,
1,000 00
$5,274 95
EXPENSES
School Committee
Paid Jesse Allen, services. 578 75
Jesse Allen, school census. 5 00
J. Nelson Ball, services, 6 00
Mrs. Minnie M. Day, services,
11 00
$80 75
School Superintendents
Paid Robert I. Bramhall, $192 50 James R. Childs, 90 00
$282 50
Teachers
Paid Miss F. E. Bothwell,
$416 00
Miss E. M. Braman,
382 00
Mrs. E. T. Swindell,
348 00
Miss R. E. Butterfield,
440 00
Miss H. Rutherford,
328 00
Miss E. Shaw,
110 00
Mrs. R. B. Dwelly,
144 00
$2,168 00
School Supplies
Pair for supplies, $113 28
Care and Cleaning
Paid W. W. Russell,
$52 35
Frank Parkman,
14 00
Joana Winsky,
6 15
J. Nelson Ball,
21 00
Miss H. Rutherford,
9 50
Mrs. D. Hallowell, 5 10
Mrs. Minnie Parkman,
5 40
Mrs. John Harris,
5 00
J. Nelson Ball,
2 00
$121 00
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Fuel
Paid F. H. Parmenter, $2 00
Mr. Milton Bullard,
21 00
Mr. H. W. Stone,
9 00
Mr. W. W. Russell,
54 94
Mr. W. R. Dean,
30 00
Mr. Frank Winslow,
24 00
Mr. Mason Dean,
81 00
Mr. J. N. Ball,
8 25
$230 19
Repairs
Paid Mr. B. S. Reed, $3 00
Mr. R. F. Parker,
3 07
Mr. Fullum, 2 40
Mr. J. P. Day,
9 40
Mr. W. R. Dean,
3 00
Mr. E. Swindell, 2 00
Mr. C. H. Trowbridge,
3 00
$25 87
Promotion of Health
Paid Dr. C. W. Stickney, $20 00
Grade Transportation
Paid Mrs. Bessie Labonte,
$331 00
Mr. Ernest W. Mann, 11 30
$342 30
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High School Transportation
Paid Mr. Edward Cody,
$95 00
Mr. James Woodis,
16 50
Mr. Mason Dean,
12 00
Mr. William Gaffney,
120 00
Mr. E. Swindell,
42 .00
Mr. Clifford Rutherford,
68 10
Mr. Patrick Moran,
51 00
Mr. Harry Parker,
36 00
Mr. Walter Bruce,
62 00
Mr. Frank Winslow,
19 50
Mr. Patrick O'Donnell,
57 00
Mr. Mason Dean,
24 00
Mr. James Fairbank,
64 50
Mr. Clayton Adams,
60 00
Rev. Albert Plum,
60 00
Mr. George Morse,
79 50
Mr. Geo. S. Butler,
64 50
Mr. Walter Dean,
60 00
Mr. Orrin Carpenter,
14 85
Mr. J. W. Knight,
18 00
$1,054 45
High School Tuition
Paid Town of Barre.
$432 00
Town of Hardwick,
268 75
Town of Holden,
50 00
Town of North Brookfield,
80 00
$830 75
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Insurance
Paid F. A. Smith, $25 90
Truant Officer
Paid F. H. Parmenter, $3.50
Miscellaneous
Paid Barre Gazette,
$5 11
Mr. R. I. Bramhall,
2 05
Express, 1 00
Postage and express,
7 00
Postage and telephone,
3 72
$18 88
Total,
$5,317 37
Receipts,
$5,274 95
Expenditures,
5,317 37
Respectfully submitted, JESSE ALLEN, J. NELSON BALL, MINNIE M. DAY, School Committee.
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
Holden, Mass., Jan. 1, 1918.
To the School Committee,
Town of Oakham :
My first report as superintendent of schools, the 18th in the series since the formation of the present union, ex- tends over the period from September, 1917.
We have been fortunate in having no changes in teach- ers during the year. The record made by our graduates in other schools is convincing evidence of the benefits de- rived from retaining the services of successful teachers from year to year. We should meet the increased cost of living by increases in salary, for while our teachers are ready and glad to meet the unusual conditions of the present time by unusual service and sacrifice, it is a seri- ous fact that living expenses are from 60 per cent to 100 per cent greater than they were a few years ago, and sal- aries practically unchanged.
In visiting the schools I have noted carefully the ma- terial equipment and on needs as well as school work. The equipment is better than that usually found in rural schools, but a few matters call for attention. New ont- honses should be built at the South School and these com- bined with a shed as at the West. The walls and ceilings in the school rooms at the Center should be retinted and new floors laid. There should be a teacher's desk and a low table and chairs in the Primary room, and I would
recommend that the heating plant be carefully over- hauled.
I feel that the attitude of both teachers and pupils is serious and earnest and that excellent work is being ac- complished. We have carried out some of the recommen- dations touching text books, as made by my predecessor, and our present needs are for language, civics and hy- giene, and supplementary reading books.
In a recent bulletin issued by the State Board of Edu- cation, Commissioner Smith has this to say concerning the function of the public school :
"Education for citizenship has always been an under- lying purpose of the American public school. To promote the qualities of intelligence, responsibility and service in our American democracy has been a chief motive of pub- lic education since the establishment of the first public school. This promotion of the common good is the.prin- cipal justification of a free school system maintained by taxation of all the people. . . . It was doubtless with some such intention that the General Court of Massachu- setts for 1917 amended the law which imposes certain duties upon teachers, by adding that of giving 'training in the duties of citizenship'."
To this training in citizenship there should be added some definite instruction in habits of thrift and in pat- riotism. It may be done in connection with the present work in history and geography. Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps furnish a point of contact in the teaching of thrift and conservation, and patriotism may well be shown to include the ideas of self-control, loyalty and obedience.
It will be well to call the attention of parents to leg- islation relating to school attendance, labor certificates
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and vaccination. The law states that if a child is absent from school without excuse for more than seven days in six months, the parent or guardian is liable to arrest and fine. A child may not leave school until he is sixteen years of age (instead of fourteen as many still think). There are two exceptions to this law. One is that he may leave at fourteen if the superintendent upon inves- tigation finds that he is needed "to engage in profitable employment at home." In this case a "Home Permit" is issued to the child after evidence of the need at home has been produced. The other exception is in case a child is granted an Employment Certificate. To secure this he must present to the superintendent a written promise of employment, a school record, a birth certificate and a physician's health certificate.
The usual statistics relating to teachers, attendance, enrollment and school calendar are appended. I invite your attention to the special reports of the music super- visor, the drawing supervisor and the school physician. Unfortunately Miss Shaw was unable to continue the work in drawing on the same basis as last year, but she has prepared outlines for the teachers and directs the work by correspondence and by an occasional visit.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES R. CHILDS.
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SCHOOL STATISTICS, 1916-1917.
School
Teacher
Educated at
Total
Enrollment
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Per cent of Attendance
Grammar
Florence E. Bothwell
No. Brookfield High
14
13.9
12.9
93
Primary
Ethel M. Braman
Northfield Seminary.
31
24.8
23.3
94
Coldbrook
Ruth E. Butterfield
Worcester Normal
19
18.8
18.2
97
South
Effie T. Swindell
Barre High
11
11
10.3
93
West
Helena K. Rutherford
No. Brookfield High
10
9.1
8.2
90
Music
Ruth B. Dwelly
Northampton
Drawing
G. Eleanor Shaw
Mass. Normal Art
Totals
85
77.6
72.9
93.4
de queeducation, full description "Scrapbooke 1915-1920"from wore Telegram 15. 1917 PROMOTIONS, JUNE, 1917.
Grade I II III IV
VI VII VILI IX
Tot.
Promoted
7
3 10 61
On trial
1 ()
4
17 6 2 5 2
0 0
0) 0
1
0)
13
Repeating 1 1
0
1
5
Totals
6
9 19
13 6
6 2
2
4
11 79
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SCHOOL CENSUS, SEPT. 1, 1917.
Boys 5 to 7 years old,
6
Girls 5 to 7 years old,
10
Boys 7 to 14 years old.
25
Girls 7 to 14 years old,
35
Boys 14 to 16 years old,
11
Girls 14 to 16 years old
9
Total, 96
SCHOOL CALENDAR
Fall term, Sept. 4, 1917, to Dec. 21, 1917. Winter term, Dec. 31, 1917, to Feb. 15, 1918. Spring term, Mar. 25, 1918, to June 14, 1918.
Fall term, Sept. 3, 1918, to Dec. 20, 1918.
Winter term, Dec. 30, 1918, to Feb. 14, 1919. Spring term, Mar. 24, 1919, to June 13, 1919.
. Holidays-Jan. 1, Feb. 22. Apr. 19, May 30, Barre Fair, Oct. 12, Thanksgiving Day and the day following, Christ- mas.
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ROLL OF HONOR
Three Years Alexina Labonte
One Year
1915-1916
1916-1917
Gladys Stone
Enola Clifford
Harold Stone (T3)
Dorothy Day
Joseph Bruce
Joseph Bruce Doris Bruce
Archie Dunstan (T1)
Russell Chase
Kenneth Pierce
Rose Ivison
Lena Knight
George Ferguson (19)
Tico Terms
Ruth Morse
John Day
Dorothy Day (T1)
Raymond Crawford
Walter Pierce
Arline Prevost
Arthur Messier
Milton Parker
Milton Parker
Katherine Mullen
Kenneth Wilkins
Frederick Greenlaw (T2)
Oliver Wilkins Alla Carpenter
Bernice Carpenter
Doris Carpenter Lena Knight Heury Wilson
Ivah Cody
Esther Greenlaw John Briggs
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One Term
Orton Butler
Roscoe Crawford
Esther Briggs
Franklin Briggs
Herbert Howe
Joseph Greenlaw
George Ferguson
Sophie Lupa
Blanche Knight
Eleanor Knight
Eleanor Knight
Russell Chase
Arline Prevost
Walter Pierce
Hazel Briggs
Oliver Wilkins
Albert Eggleston
Doris Carpenter
Franklin Cheever
Annie Winsky
Bernard Carpenter
Frank Parkman (T1)
Kenneth Pierce
Laura Snay
Zella Carpenter
Joseph Greenlaw (T1)
Flora Messier
Irene Messier
REPORT OF DRAWING INSTRUCTOR
To the Superintendent of Schools:
The work in drawing is being continued along the same - lines as in previous years. This is made possible through the interest and loyal support of the teachers.
Outlines are supplied and these are supplemented by an occasional visit from the supervisor.
Respectfully submitted, G. ELEANOR SHAW. December 21, 1917.
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REPORT OF DRAWING SUPERVISOR
Mr. J. R. Childs, Supt. of Schools,
Dear Sir :- The work in music has been conducted along the same lines as formerly, the time devoted to the work unchanged.
Music in the public schools is a valuable factor in the mental, physical and emotional development of the child, and is as important in character molding as any other subject in the school curriculum. The teaching of music in schools lays a foundation for the culture of later life. At the present day no education can be called finished which does not embrace some knowledge of music.
The four essentials of this subject are conceptions of good music, voice training, sight singing and musical in- terpretation. Musical couceptions are unconsciously ac- quired by the use of simple songs, voice drills, and exer- eise melodies in which there are the essentials of good melody.
With the small number of pupils in each school this vear, constant attention is given to individual work, which is desirable as an aid in training the pupil to de- pend upon himself, and to help him become an independent thinker and doer. As he discovers that his standing de- pends upon his class work the pupil becomes a more val- uable member of the school community.
Respectfully submitted. RUTH B. DWELLY, Supervisor of Schools.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
Holden, Mass., Dec. 10, 1917.
Mr. J. R. Childs, Supt. of Schools,
. Dear Sir :- I have visited the schools of the town of Oakham twice during the current year and made the usual individual inspection of the pupils. The fall inspection showed two cases of ringworm, five cases of skin trouble of undetermined character, some of them possibly ring- worm, seven cases of hypertrophied tonsils-operation ad- vised, unvaccinated, fourteen-nearly twenty per cent of those inspected. Probably three-fourths of the pupils need the attention of the dentist. A few absences were re- ported, but I did not learn of any cases of severe or com- municable illness.
Yours very truly, CLIFFORD W. STICKNEY, School Physician of Oakham.
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CONTENTS
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Auditor
26
Alden Memorial Fund
3
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. 34
Cemetery Committee
37
Fobes Memorial Library
41 32
Jurors, List of .
38
Overseers of the Poor
33
Road Commissioner
29
School Statistics
51
School Committee
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17
Tax Collector
27
Town Officers
3
Treasurer's Report
13
Warrant
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7
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Superintendent of Schools
Selectmen's Report
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25
Births, Marriages and Deaths
11
Charlton Poor Farm
Librarian's Report
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