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Town Clerk's Report of Marriages Recorded in the Town of Harwich for the Year 1918
DATE
NAME OF PARTIES
AGE
RESIDENCE
1918
James Herbert Kerien
42
Harwich
Lena Grozier Howland
36
Pleasant Lake
Jan.
25
Everett H. McMillan
23
Cambridge
Mildred B. Horsman
22
Somerville
Jan.
26
John De Grace
23
North Harwich
Annette M. Lopes
22
Harwich
Feb.
9
Egnazio G. Thacher
20
Harwich
Louise Pena
20
Harwichport
Mch.
30
Joshua P. Mckinley
45
West Harwich
Avis A. Grant
19
West Harwich
Mch.
31
John De Mello
24
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East Falmouth
Eleanor K. Williams
21
Harwich
Apr.
3
John Stetson Clapp
33
Newtonville
Emma Louise Nickerson
24
Harwichport
Apr.
13
Manuel Viera
27
Pleasant Lake
Maggie Gomes
16
Pleasant Lake
June
26
Ethan Bearse
23
West Harwich
Aug.
10
David Clifton Ginn
30
West Harwich
Aug.
10
Don L. Cooper
28
Chatham
Reliance S. Wixon
18
West Harwich
Aug.
20
Robert Willis Beale
41
Providence, R. I.
Harriet Olivia Paine
36
Harwich
Sept.
1
Warren Sears Nickerson
37
Harwich
Sept.
2
Patrick Walsh
44
South Boston
Oct.
19
Joseph L. Small
50
West Dennis
Flora P. Ellis
40
West Dennis
Nov.
6
Manton C. Eldredge
21
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Harwichport
Nov.
14
Ernest Sheldon Nickerson
24
East Harwich
21
Wellfleet
Nov.
19
Elwin R. Cahoon
47
Chatham
Harriet J. Lawton
45
Chatham
Dec.
4
Herbert Bassett
58
Harwich
Harriet Brown Dean
44
Taunton
Effie Mae Grant
18
West Harwich
Hilda Merchant
23
Gloucester
Donna M. Corliss
25
Wolfboro, N. H.
Mary Manning
29
Harwichport
Annie N. Nickerson
Mary Elizabeth Campbell
23
Harwich
Jan. 15
Town Clerk's Report of Deaths Recorded in the Town of Harwich in the Year 1918
DATE
NAME OF DECEASED
YMD
CAUSE OF DEATH
1918
Jan.
1
Deborah Ann Bassett
55 3
5 |Tuberculosis of the lungs
Jan.
13
Nathaniel A. Cahoon
74|10 15 Arterio sclerosis
Jan.
19
Alphonso L. Weeks
57 3 16 Chronic interstitial nephritis
Jan.
28
Dora Louise Moody Amos O. Eldredge -
65
1 15 Acute capillary bronchitis Endocarditis
Feb. Feb.
1
Eliza A. Harding
88|11
20 Apoplexy
Feb.
27
Lydia Ella Nickerson Mercy F. Harriman
71
5
Chronic interstitial nephritis Acute lagrippe ,
Mch. Mch.
7
Joseph Allen Baker
85
1
25 Carcinoma of prostate gland Chronic nephritis uraemia
20
Erastus Snow
65
5 Chronic interstitial nephritis
2 Royden K. Hamer
42
1 25 Tuberculosis (pulmonary)
13
Loira B. Ellis
81
4
Arterio sclerosis
19
8 Reliance Paulena Ellis Infant (De Mello) William H. Doane
77 84
7
22 Arterio sclerosis
2
15 Pneumonia lobar
8
9 Lobar pneumonia
67
11 8
13 Carcinoma of uterus Chronic myocarditis
55
9
2|Diabetis melitus
4
24 |Prostatic hypertrophy
8
Mildred L. Perry
11
2
8 Accidental drowning
8 7 19
Ralph H. Kelley
40
6
29 Fractured skull, automobile accident
22
Alvin E. Snow
64 49
1
16 Angina pectoris 29 Angina pectoris Pulmonary tuberculosis
Oct.
18 2
Manuel Roderick
23
John Charles Lombard
2 10
22 Broncho pneumonia
Oct.
3
Anna E. Hamer
70| 7 9 |Cancer of rectum
Mch Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. May May June June June June July July July
17 Letitia D. Lothrop
73
71 1
4 |Arteriosclerosis Stillborn
21 5 Betsy S. Higgins 22 Louisa P. Roderick 5 Lucy N. Crowell 16 Effie B. Nickerson 20 Margaret O'Brien 22 Mary E. Beauprie 4 8 Sylvanus A. Hayward Phebe W. Pierce
74 65 11
6 Chronic parenchymatous nephritis
10
9 10 [Accidental drowning
Emily E. Cahoon Henry Beecher Snow
62 2
11 Cerebral hemorrhage
July Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept.
28
Frederick William Swyser
64 5
Feb.
28
25 Asa L. Jones
77 9
6 121 Bronchitis chronic
23 Cerebral hemorrhage
56
80
59
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DEATHS-Continued
DATE
NAME OF PARTIES
Y
M D
CAUSE OF DEATH
Oct.
6
Rosie S. Lombard
27
7 5 |Influenza
Oct.
21
Rollo A. Eldredge
29
10 20 Spanish influenza
Nov.
18
Thomas Frederick Noyes
85
6 1 |Arterio sclerosis
Nov.
22
Curtis Holmes Chase
1
1 24 Spinal meningitis
Nov.
26
Asemith A. Jerauld
47
5
1 Chronic interstitial nephritis Chronic myocarditis
Dec.
7
Ruth S. Cook
60
3
23 Valvular heart disease
Dec.
16
Judah W. Berry
31
2
12 Spanish influenza
Dec.
17
Seth W. Eldredge
71
2
23 Cerebral hemorrhage
Dec.
18
Joshua E. Buck
56
1
3 Bronchial pneumonia
Dec.
22
Moses N. Chase
76 11 3 |Chronic valvular heart disease
Dec.
26
Patrick Buckley
55 Cardiac vascular disease
Dec.
27
Caroline F. Eldredge
75
6 10 Chronic nephritis
.Nov.
15
Emma Deakin
60
83
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DOG ACCOUNT.
12 females at $5.00
$60.00
60 males at $2.00,
120.00
$180.00
Fees 72 dogs at 20 cents,
14.40
Sent to County Treasurer,
$165.60
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Town Meeting Warrant, 1919
Barnstable, s. s.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Harwich, in said County,
Greeting :-
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Harwich, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at Exchange Hall, in said town, on Monday, February 3, 1919, at 8.30 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles :-
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to act in said meeting.
Article 2. To determine the rate per cent. to be paid the Tax Collector for the collection of the warrant of 1919.
Article 3. To choose on one ballot the following Town Officers and Committees :- Town Clerk and Treasurer for one year, one Selectman and Overseer of Poor for three years, three Herring Committee for one year, one Tax Col- lector for one year, two Auditors for one year, three Con- stables for one year, one Assessor for three years, one School
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Committee for three years, one Road Commissioner for three years, one Trustee of Brooks Library for three years, one Park Commissioner for three years. Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors? Vote Yes or No.
Article 4. To choose all other necessary Town Officers and Committees.
Article 5. To hear the report of all Town Officers and Committees for the year 1918, and act fully thereon.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, and act fully thereon.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town expenses for the ensuing year, and act fully thereon.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to instruct its Selectmen to control, regulate and prohibit the taking of eels, clams, quahaugs and scallops, within the town limits, as provided in Chapter 91, Section 85, and Acts in amend- ments thereto of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts and to make any regulations in regard to such fisheries as they may deem expedient, and act fully thereon.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to properly observe
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the home-coming of the Harwich boys in the U. S. Service, erect a suitable memorial, appoint a committee to arrange all details and act fully thereon.
Article 10. So see what sum of money will be appro. priated for a town memorial forest in honor of the town's roll of honor in the recent world war.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to maintain electric street lights and act fully thereon.
Article 12. To see what action the town will take in relation to the leasing or disposal of the Herring Fishery in said town, for a term of years, or otherwise, and act fully thereon.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to sell the Town's interest in the Ziba Hunt prop- erty, so called, give a deed therefor, and act fully thereon. 1
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars for the purchase of two spray machines, and act fully thereon.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for, and to elect a director for the Cape Cod Farm Bureau, as authorized by Sections one and five, Chapter 273, Acts of the Massachusetts Legislature of 1918.
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Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to remove the old hearse house from its present location and reconstruct the same on the vacant lot in the rear of the Exchange.Building in Harwich Centre; and to properly heat the same for the . purpose of making a permanent house, or building, for the housing of the Town fire apparatus and for the removal of the said fire apparatus to said building when the same is completed, and act fully thereon.
Article 17. To see what action the Town will take to organize a volunteer fire department, properly equip and re- munerate it; raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for said purposes, and act fully thereon.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to widen, harden and repair with oil that portion of the Brewster road, so called, known as the Patrick F. Cahoon hill, and approaches between the residences of Joseph B. Atkins on the north, and Alvin N. Bassett on the south, in order that the same may be made safer and more passable, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to meet the ex- penses, and to act fully thereon.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to repair with oil the road known as the Sisson road, beginning at the junction of the State Highway and extending to Main Street, Harwich Centre, and act fully thereon.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to harden and improve with oil the road beginning in Harwich Centre, near
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the residence of William F. Crapo, and terminating at South Harwich, near the M. E. Church, and determine in what man- ner the money shall be raised and payments thereof met, and act fully thereon.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to harden and improve the road at Ocean Grove Camp Ground, leading easterly, by the residence of Mrs. Frank H. Freeman, and act fully thereon.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred Dollars to harden and improve the road leading from the State Highway, near the residence of Martin L. Chase, in West Harwich, and terminating at the oil road, near the lower bridge, and act fully thereon.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to harden and im- prove the road in West Harwich, known as Division Street, leading north from the Main Street, near the residence of Edwin M. Robbins to the Depot Road, and act fully thereon.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to harden with oil the unfinished portion of the North Harwich Road from a point near the North Harwich school house to the junction with the Main Street near the residence of Valentine Bassett, a distance of about one mile, and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor, and to determine how the same shall be raised, and act fully thereon.
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Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise a sufficient sum of money to oil or macadamize the road lead- ing from near the residence' of Mrs. Emily F. Allen, in a westerly direction, to the four corners, near the residence of Elijah Doane, and determine in what manner it shall be paid, and act fully thereon.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to top coat with cinders the road beginning at the Depot-Port Road, near the residence of the late David P. Ryder and extending to the State Road at the foot of Kildee Hill, and appropriate Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars for the same.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to harden and improve with oil the road known as the Shell Road, begin- ning at a point near the residence of William F. Crapo and extending easterly over said road a distance of one and one- half miles, and to determine in what manner the money shall be raised and payments thereof met, and act fully thereon.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars to harden with cinders the road beginning at the end of the oil road known as the late Nathan Nickerson Corner, and extending north- west, and act fully thereon.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one in each Post Office in said Town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
The polls will be opened a 9 o'clock A. M., on Monday, February 3, 1919, and may be closed at 2 o'clock P. M.
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Hereof, fail not, and make due returns of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of January, 1919.
EPHRAIM H. DOANE, J. FREEMAN RYDER, THOMAS H. NICKERSON, Selectmen of Harwich.
Correct, attest :
LABAN SNOW, Constable.
TOWN
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee and the Superintendent of Schools OF THE
TOWN OF HARWICH
1918
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ORGANIZATION FOR YEAR 1918
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
HARRIE D. HANDY, M. D., Chairman, Term Expires 1919,
JOHN H. PAINE, Esq., Secretary, Term Expires 1920.
JOSEPH B. ATKINS, Treasurer. Term Expires 1921.
District Superintendent-LORING G. WILLIAMS.
Advisory Board Agricultural Department. JOSEPH K. ROBBINS, Chairman, MRS. LYLE E. HANDY, ARTHUR F. CAHOON, ELISHA H. BEARSE, PRINCE A. ATKINS, PROF. A. A. JULIEN.
FRANK L. DAVIS, Instructor Clerk (resigned). J. CARROLL HAWKES, Instructor Clerk.
Attendance Officer-WILLIAM H. BASSETT.
School Physician-HARRIE D. HANDY, M. D.
Report of School Committee
To the Citizens of the Town of Harwich :-
Your committee have this year just passed endeavored to perform their duties and administer the school affairs in an impartial and economical manner. Because of the high prices of materials for school purposes, as well as for the other things of life, it has been hard to keep within the appropriation, but in spite of all this we are turning back into the Town Treasury a balance unexpended.
Paper and books have, in several cases, been purchased long before they were needed, and in each instance a saving of a sum of money has resulted because of a rise in price. It may be well now that the war is won to try the hand-to- mouth method, buying only when actually needed, so that any drop in prices may not find us with a stock on hand.
During the autumn and early winter our schools have been closed on account of the epidemic of influenza, and we have, consequently, lost seven weeks of school. To make up a part of this it has been thought wise to lengthen the daily sessions of school by one half-hour. If this method works out well, it will help to carry the pupils forward to nearer the amount of work that they are expected to do in an ordinary year.
The committee thank you for your loyal support.
Respectfully submitted,
H. D. HANDY, JOHN H. PAINE, JOSEPH B. ATKINS.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
TEACHERS' SALARIES.
High School.
Ralph B. Farnum,
.
$690.00
George H. Daniels,
540.00
Donna M. Corliss,
330.00
M. Mildred Atwell,
280.00
Ethel V. Thorburn,
300.00
Hazel V. Merrifield,
240.00
$2,380.00
Center Schools.
Flossie Hulse Chase,
$523.00
Augusta R. Ames,
275.60
Lillian V. Lincoln,
308.00
Ethel Sawin,
198.64
Edith L. Smith,
186.44
Mrs. Fred S. Garland, substitute,
12.20
Mrs. B. D. Smith, substitute,
15.00
1,518.88
Harwichport.
Elva Staples, Grammar,
$362.40
Ruth Haskard, Grammar,
122.24
Dorothy Rice, Primary,
469.36
954.00
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East Harwich.
Elizabeth Campbell, Elsie L. Jenks, Alice Freeman,
$286.00
198.64
264.00
$748.64
West Harwich.
Annie E. Carlton,
$330.00
Beatrice E. Eldredge,
208.00
538.00
North Harwich.
Mary T. Cleary, Grammar,
$538.00
Katherine A. Moriarty,
531.60
Mrs. George H. Daniels, substitute,
6.40
1,076.00
Total for teaching, $7,215.52
Music and Drawing.
Charlotte T. Elliot,
$213.36
Harriet Howard,
120.00
$333.36
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Superintendent's Salary.
Loring G. Williams, salary,
$960.03
State pays,
500.00
Cost to Town,
$460.03
Janitors.
Alfred M. Davidson, Center,
$140.00
John P. Eldredge, Center,
342.00
Benjamin D. Smith, Port,
87.50
Geo. E. Nickerson, East,
87.50
Charles E. Lothrop, West,
73.75
Holland Rogers, North,
87.50
$818.25
FUEL.
Harwich Center.
N. B. Walker, wood,
$12.00
Harwich Coal & Lumber Co., coal,
34.50
S. R. Kelley, coal,
89.81
C. S. Burgess, wood,
11.00
R. W. McGran, wood,
3.50
$150.81
Harwich Port.
S. R. Kelley, coal,
$42.37
C. H. Taylor, wood,
23.43
65.80
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West Harwich.
Harwich Coal & Lumber Co.,
$11.50
East Harwich.
No bills.
North Harwich. 1
Harwich Coal & Lumber Co., $23.00
S. R. Kelley, coal, 21.00
J. F. Ryder, wood,
7.50
51.50
Total for fuel, $279.61
REPAIRS AND INCIDENTALS.
North Harwich.
Alpheus Howes, stove, shades, etc., $18.92
H. G. Rogers, labor, 20.50
$39.42
West Harwich.
Thos. E. Larkin, labor and materials,
$3.93
Alpheus Howes, supplies,
1.75
C. E. Lothrop, cleaning,
12.75
18.43
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Harwichport.
B. D. Smith, labor,
$26.12
Ben Ellis, carting,
2.50
J. O. Hulse, supplies,
.65
W. B. Eldredge, supplies,
1.98
W. L. Kelley, labor,
2.80
F. A. Small, supplies,
4.65
$38.70
East Harwich.
E. C. Nickerson, labor,
$18.15
M. E. Small, labor, 12.50
George E. Nickerson, labor and material, 51.33
81.98
Harwich Center.
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J. F. Tobey & Son, supplies,
$18.60
Alpheus Howes, supplies,
11.33
P. L. Nickerson, supplies,
1.90
A. M. Davidson, supplies,
1.28
Thomas E. Larkin, labor,
4.15
J. O. Hulse, Jr., rope,
1.44
Jasper S. Small, labor,
1.00
E. F. Bassett, sharpening mower,
4.00
J. P. Eldredge, supplies,
1.30
B. C. Bassett, labor and material,
ยท 20.00
65.00
Total for repairs and incidentals, $243.53
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TRANSPORTATION.
High School.
Appropriation for High School,
$600.00
Paid E. Harold Ellis, West, North to High,
$259.00
George E. Nickerson, High,
19.00
Sears L. Moore, East to High,
180.00
B. C. Bassett, East to High,
120.00
578.00
Balance,
$22.00
Elementary.
E. L. Ellis, P. Lake to Center,
$313.50
Almond G. Ryder, P. Lake to Center,
133.64
Seabury Taylor, South to Port,
220.00
B. C. Bassett, South to Port,
100.00
$767.14
Books and Supplies.
Silver, Burdett & Co., song books,
$54.92
E. E. Babb & Co.,
177.08
Charles E. Merrill & Co.,
47.52
Milton Bradley Co.,
129.34
Benjamin Sanborn Co.,
2.35
J. L. Hammett Co.,
2.92
Ginn & Co.,
50.94
Allyn & Bacon,
15.21
D. C. Heath & Co.,
17.68
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., freight,
5.35
$503.31
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Norman C. Hayner Co., floor oil, $70.65
J. W. Raymond, tickets for trainers, 6.45
J. H. Paine, expense securing teachers and expenses for district meeting, 18.34
Wm. H. Bassett, attendance officer and taking census, 45.00
Mildred I. Morse, car tickets, 2.80
Mary F. Jacobs, car tickets, 3.20
Vera L. McDermott, car tickets,
5.44
Gertrude Rogers, car tickets,
11.57
Otto E. Nickerson, car tickets, 9.77
H. D. Handy, M. D., school physician and securing teachers, 46.50
Loretta Sullivan, car tickets, 6.45
Lillian Rogers, car tickets,
5.85
Abbott S. Knowles, tuning piano, 5.00
Henry Nickerson, carting, 3.17
J. B. Atkins, securing teachers,
11.00
A. P. Goss, printing, graduation, etc.,
28.00
C. S. Hunt, supplies,
1.25
Harriet Howard, expenses,
3.54
L. G. Williams, travel securing teachers, phone, telegrams, office supplies, post- age, etc., 67.83
$351.81
PERMANENT REPAIRS.
Appropriation, $400.00
Paid Harwich Coal & Lumber Co., $90.91
Jasper S. Small, labor, . 34.12
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American Seating Co., desks and freight, J. M. & S. B. Moody, shingles, etc., 93.05
378.80
John A. Lothrop, labor, 52.12
$649.00
Overdrawn,
$249.00
AGRICULTURE.
Available Funds.
Town appropriation,
$600.00
State rebate on agriculture,
37.67
Tuitions from Chatham,
100.00
Tuitions from Brewster,
30.00
Tuitions from Eastham,
270.00
Tuitions from Wellfleet,
100.00
$1,476.67
Expenditures.
Frank L. Davis, salary,
$541.65
J. Carroll Hawkes,
691.70
Rent to July 1st,
15.00
City of Worcester, practice sheets,
3.50
Tablet Ticket Co., letters,
.37
Orange Judd Co., books,
6.65
G. P. Putnam's Sons, books,
3.23
MacMillan Co., books,
17.18
J. B. Lippincott Co., books,
14.46
$1,293.74
Unexpended balance,
$182.93
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RECAPITULATION.
Available.
Schools and superintendent,
$9,800.00
Agriculture,
600.00
Transportation High,
600.00
Repairs on school buildings,
400.00
Massachusetts School Fund,
865.98
City of Boston, tuitions,
155.25
State Board of Charity, tuition,
153.00
Rebate on superintendent's salary,
500.00
State rebate on agriculture,
376.67
Dog fund, estimated,
90.00
, Agricultural tuitions, Chatham,
100.00
Agricultural tuitions, Brewster,
30.00
Agricultural tuitions, Eastham,
270.00
Agricultural tuitions, Wellfleet,
100.00
$14,040.90
There has been received recently from the Federal Gov- ernment under the Smith-Hughes account, $118.05. This cannot be included in other public moneys.
Expenditures.
Teachers' salaries,
$7,215.52
Music and Drawing,
333.36
Superintendent's salary,
960.03
Janitors' wages,
818.25
Fuel,
279.61
Repairs and incidentals,
243.53
Transportation, High,
578.00
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Transportation, Elementary,
767.14
Books and supplies,
503.31
Miscellaneous,
351.81
Permanent repairs,
649.00
Agriculture,
1,293.74
$13,993.30
Balance unexpended, $47.60
We, the undersigned Auditors of the Town of Harwich, have this day examined book and vouchers of the School Committee, and find the same correct.
CHARLES T. CHASE, GEORGE W. BANSPACH,
Auditors.
Harwich, Jan. 7th, 1919. 1
ESTIMATES FOR 1919.
Schools and superintendent,
$10,325.00
Transportation High,
600.00
Transportation Elementary,
900.00
Agriculture,
600.00
Permanent repairs,
475.00
Superintendent's Report
To the School Committee :
Gentlemen :
I herewith respectfully submit my eleventh annual re- port for the year 1918:
SCHOOL CENSUS, APRIL, 1918.
Girls Totals
Persons in town between 5 and 7 years
Boys 35
34
69.
Persons in town between 7 and 14 years
118
125
243
Persons in town between 14 and 16 years
23
25
48
Illiterate minors 16-21 years, none reported.
Totals,
176
184
360
ATTENDANCE DATA FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1918.
Number attending from other towns,
9
Number state and city wards,
16
Number resident pupils,
341
Total, 366
Aggregate attendance,
49,400
Average daily attendance,
296
Average membership,
329
Percentage of attendance,
90
Average number days schools were in session,
167
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THE YEAR'S WORK.
Financial.
The financial report shows the available funds and the expenditures, and a small balance. The appropriations for the year 1919 must. be increased over last year. The lowest salary that can be paid a teacher under the recent law is $550 per year. Teachers of one, two or more years' experi- ence who have been successful must be considered for in- creases even above the required salary if we recognize value of experience and successful work.
The following table will show what these demands have done during the past year in the matter of increasing salaries :
Name of School.
Salary Jan. 1, 1918
Salary Jan. 1, 1919
Increase
Principal High,
$1,200
$1,350
$150
Assistant High,
550
700
150
Assistant High,
500
600
100
Agriculture,
1,300
1,350
50
Center Grammar,
510
550
40
Center Intermediate,
442
550
108
Center Primary,
476
576
100
East Mixed,
442
550
108
Port Grammar,
442
550
108
Port Primary,
442
576
134
West,
510
576
66
North Grammar,
510
576
66
North Primary,
510
576
66
Music and Drawing,
800
*900
100
* For district.
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Another factor which has entered in to make a small increase, and effective only in the case of those teachers who are receiving more than $550 per year, is that of a two weeks' increase in the length of the school year-now 36 weeks.
It is self-evident that appropriations must increase in accordance with the increase in salaries established by law and the increases in all lines of expenditures.
Teachers.
Resignations and elections of teachers during the year are :
Name and School-Resignations.
Ralph B. Farnum, Principal High.
Donna M. Corliss, Assistant High.
Ethel V. Thorburn, Assistant High.
Frank L. Davis, Agriculture.
Flossie Hulse Chase, Center Grammar.
Augusta R. Ames, Intermediate.
Lillian V. Lincoln, Primary.
Elva Staples, Port Grammar.
Dorothy Rice, Port Primary.
Annie E. Carlton, West.
Elizabeth Campbell, East Grammar.
Alice Freeman, East Primary.
Charlotte T. Elliott, Music and Drawing.
Elections.
George H. Daniels, Principal High. M. Mildred Atwell, Assistant High.
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Hazel V. Merrifield, Assistant High.
J. Carroll Hawkes, Agricultural Instructor. Ethel Sawin, Center Grammar. Edith L. Smith, Intermediate. Flossie H. Chase, Port Primary. Ruth Haskard, Port Grammar. Olive W. Thacher, Port Primary. Beatrice E. Eldredge, West. Elsie Jenks (East Mixed, one school only). Harriet Howard, Music and Drawing.
This shows that out of a corps of fifteen teachers only three are now on the staff who were here one year ago. This means a loss of eighty percent within the year.
We have been able to fill the vacancies and feel that they are well filled and the schools are in good hands generally.
Attendance.
The percentage of attendance for year ending June 1918 is 90 percent. The attendance of this past fall term has been rather poor. The influence of the influenza epi- demic has done this. Seven weeks of schooling have been lost for the same cause giving continuous unsettled condi- tions in the schools. Our hope is not wholly crushed, how- ever, for we expect by July 1st to retrieve a part of our loss and make the year's work pass as one year so that pupils will get their promotions. It may be necessary to arrange to do more than a year's work next year by first making up some part of this year before starting the regular work of next year.
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