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Several of the older girls have been very good help in the kitchen at recess and during the noon hour and have earned their meals this way.
Without the splendid cooperation of our teachers, Mrs. Hawkes, Mrs. Lane and Miss Rutherford we could not have a successful lunch program. Each teacher collects and keeps her own daily money records for her room, fills out the daily report slip for me, and thus the daily attendance, participation and student receipts are recheckable by me, if necessary. This extra daily chore by the teachers is very much appreciated. The teachers maintain their own discipline in the dining area and I am grateful for this, also.
The P .- T.A. School Lunch Committee has spent over two-hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) at the present time in equipping the kitchen. This money includes donations from the Oakham Grange, The American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Morris donated an electric refrigerator and we have a well set up kitchen for a small school. Mrs. Robert Johnson and
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Orton Butler have given us freezer space, and Mr. Butler has been very helpful in securing provisions and giving discount.
The women who have given many hours of their time and labor helping in the preparation and serving of hot lunches deserve much credit. Their names follow. "Alice Price, Doris Lonergan, Yvonne Barr, Ann Bealand, Mabel Cassault, Molly Arms, Bernice Dermody, Myrtle Dwelly, Ruth LaCount, Dorothy Lupa, Esther Mann, Fran- ces Narrow, Catherine Rutherford, Rose Snay, Bette Spin- ney, Fanny Tucker and Shirley Wareing. I hope I have remembered everyone.
I wish to thank the Leonard Hardy, Srs., the Eldridge LaCounts, the Charles Casaults, the Willard Rutherfords, Mrs. William Mann, Miss Mary Conant and Miss Dorothy Day for food donations; Mrs. Rutherford and Mrs Jack Narrow for table decorations; Mrs. William Wareing Mrs. Everett Mann and Mrs. Verno Tucker for kitchen utensils. These donations and material and labor by Anthony Lupa : are appreciated very much ..
Mr. Boyd, janitor, is always ready to help with small repairs and clean-up and his early morning good humor starts every day right.
SCHOOL LUNCH. PROGRAM APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT
Cash on hand September 1, 1954 $ 300 00
Ethel A. Morse, labor
$ 300 00
$ 300 00 $ 300 00
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM ACCOUNT
Cash on hand Sept. 1, 1954
$ 264 47
(balance of milk fund)
Lunchroom sales 995 00
National School Lunch
Program Claims 276 98 $ 100 00
Ethel A. Morse, labor
Ethel A. Morse, for apples to Brookfield Orchards and Telephone bill
6 61
North Brookfield Fruit Co. 10 41
Butler's Store
184 94
John E. Sexton Co.
431 56
Commonwealth of Mass.
(service charge)
20 50
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John E. Cain Co.
15 60
Finan's Express 16 62
Brookfield Orchards
9 25
Davis & Bannister, Inc.
(record book)
4 85
Pinecroft Dairy
295 69
Worcester Baking Co.
67 22
Megowen-Educator Food Co.
14 22
Roscoe Crawford (garbage collection)
3 75
$ 1,536 40 $ 1,181 22
Balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1954
355 18
$ 1,536 40 $ 1,536 40
The difference in the Treasurers' Account and the School Lunch Program Account is a bill to Robert Quigley for $1.75, which was added to my account erroneously by the School Committee, it already having been paid for by the Parent-Teacher Association. A refund has recently been obtained.
The cooperation of the parents and townspeople has been supreme and I am deeply grateful.
ETHEL A. MORSE, Manager
School Lunch Program
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TOWN WARRANT
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Worcester, ss.
To either of the constables of the Town of Oakham in the County of Worcester.
GREETINGS:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Oakham qualified to vote in elections, and in town affairs to meet in the town hall known as "Memorial Hall" on Monday, the seventh day of March next, at 12 M at which time the polls will be opened and will be closed at 8 P.M.
Business meeting will open at 8 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To hear the annual report of the several town officers and act thereon.
Article 2. To choose one Selectman, one Assessor, one member of the Board of Public Welfare, one member of the School Committee, one Library Trustee, one member of the Cemetery Committee, all for three year terms; a Collector of Taxes, Treasurer, Auditor, Tree Warden, six Constables, three Fence Viewers, and a Moderator, for one year terms, all on one ballot.
Article 3. To choose all necessary town officers and committees for the ensuing year not required to be elected by ballot.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to fix the salaries and compensation of all elective officers of the town as provided by Section 108 of Chapter 41, General Laws, as amended: 1. Town Clerk, 3 Selectmen, 3 Assessors, 3 Board of Public Welfare members, 3 School Committee members, 1 Moderator, 1 Tax Collector, 1 Treasurer, 1 Auditor, and raise and appropriate a sum of money there- for.
Article 5. To see what compensation the town will allow for men and trucks in repairing highways and open- ing roads for the ensuing year.
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Article 6. To see if the town will raise and appropri- ate a sum of money to bond their Treasurer, Collector, and Town Clerk.
Article 7. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to pay town charges for the ensuing year as follows: SCHOOLS; PUBLIC WELFARE; GENERAL RELIEF; OLD AGE ASSISTANCE; AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN: DISABILITY ASSISTANCE; ADMINISTRATION: TOWN OFFICERS' SUPPLIES: STREET LIGHTS; BOARD OF HEALTH; ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATIONS: INSPECTION OF ANIMALS; IN- SPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING; POLICE; PRINTING; MEMORIAL DAY; DOG OFFICER; SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; MISCELLANEOUS; LIBRARY: CEME- TERIES: FIRE DEPARTMENT: VETERANS' BENEFITS AND ADMINISTRATION; MOTH SUPPRESSION; DUTCH ELM DISEASE CONTROL: EMPLOYEE'S COMPENSA- TION INSURANCE: SNOW REMOVAL AND SANDING; MEMORIAL HALL MAINTENANCE: TREE WARDEN: INSPECTION OF WIRES: EXPENSE OF WORCESTER COUNTY RETIREMENT SYSTEM: CARE OF TOWN COMMON; 4-H CLUBS; FIRE INSURANCE.
Article 8. To see if the town will authorize the treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the current fiscal year, in anticipation of the revenue of said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the town, giving the note or notes of the town therefor, these notes to be paid from the revenues of said financial year.
Article 9. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $2500 dollars from the Highway Machinery Fund to the Highway Machinery Account, not over $1500 of this amount to be used for the purchase of a sand body and spreader, and the balance to be used for ordinary mainten- ance expenses.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to accept any trust funds that may be left for the care of the cemeteries or other purposes.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highway Maintenance or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 12. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance or take any action relative thereto.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury a sum of money for the improvement of Spencer and South Road, under Chapter 90 Construction or take any action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from their surplus revenue the sum of $5000 to be used by the assessors in figuring the 1955 tax rate, same to help reduce the amount of the tax rate in 1955.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money for the Oakham Civilian Defense Organization or take any action relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used to pay the notes of the town coming due during the fiscal year, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used to pay the accrued interest due in the fiscal year on its outstanding Funded and Fixed Debt, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1200 to improve and oil a section of Scott Road or take any action relative thereto.
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the director of accounts for the installation of an accounting system in accordance with the provisions of Section 35, Chapter 44 of the Gene- ral Laws, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money to be used to make necessary repairs to the Fobes Memorial Library building, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $1000 from the Overlay Surplus to the Select- men's Reserve Fund or take any action relative thereto.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting
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attested copies in public places in said town seven days at least before time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hand this eighth day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty five.
JOHN P. O'DONNELL ROGER H. LONERGAN WALTER W. NELSON
Board of Selectmen
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INDEX
Balance Sheet
38
Board of Health
56
Board of Selectmen
15 49
Cemetery Committee
Charlton Home Farm Association
48
Fire Department
50
Fobes Memorial Library
52
Highway Department
Librarian
Memorial Hall Basement Committee
Moth Superintendent
Public Welfare
School Committee
45 77 35
State Audit - Balance Sheet
School Lunch Committee
70 80
School Lunch Manager
73
Tax Collector
42
Town Auditor
44
Town Clerk
6 4
Town Officers
Town Treasurer 32
Warrant 83
Wire Inspector
57
58 54 69 51
Superintendent of Schools
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