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Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to surface and harden the road in West Harwich known as Shore Road and make an appropriation therefor
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and act fully thereon. The length of this road is 1,700 feet.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($2,000.00) two thou- sand dollars to be used in connection with the one thousand dollars carried from the appropriation of previous years, for the purpose of extending the Jetty and dredging of Herring River providing the State Department of Public Works, private individu- als or both, will furnish the balance of the money to carry out this work, under Chapter 91 of the Gen- eral Laws and amendments thereto and act fully thereon.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, to reimburse, in part, George H. Bailey for work done on the beach at West Harwich, for the protection of the beach. By request.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($300.00) three hundred dollars for the purpose of maintaining bound stones on our town roads and act fully thereon.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate ($200.00) two hundred dollars for the planting of trees in the grove at Brook's Park, and a committee of three be appoint- by the Moderator to act with the Park Commission- ers in supervising the work, and act fully thereon.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($50.00) fifty dollars for the benefit of the Harwich Port Library and act fully thereon.
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Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to install and maintain five street lights, beginning at Social Hall, and extending north to the residence of Mrs. A. H. Matson.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to maintain street lights, on the road known as Kelley Lane, beginning at the railroad bridge and extend- ing six lights westerly, toward North Harwich.
Article 30. To see if the Town will accept the road in Harwich Port, known as Hiawatha Road as laid out by the Selectmen and act fully thereon.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($600.00)) six hundred dollars to be used in connection with the department of Public Works for the extension of the riprapping of the beach each of Allen's Harbor and act fully thereon.
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($1,000.00) one thousand dollars to improve the sidewalks in Harwich Port, beginning at the post office and work- ing east and west as far as the said appropriation will go. That a committee of two in addition of the Supt. of Streets, be appointed by the chair to confer with the Dept. of Public Works and act fully thereon.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to maintain nine electric lights on Miles St., Harwich Port, from Bank St. west and act fully thereon.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate ($300.00) three hundred
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dollars to continue improving the sidewalks on Main Street, Harwich Center, from the Congregational Chapel-west as far as the money will permit. By request.
Article 35. That the sum of ($500.00) five hundred dollars be appropriated for the purpose of the observance of Memorial and Armistice Days. This to be expended under the jurisdiction of the Harwich Post 292, American Legion, by J. Fred Gagnon, Commander.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provision of Chap. 41 Sect. 97 of the Gen- eral Laws and Acts in amendments thereto-provid- ing a Police Department shall be established under the direction of the Selectmen and raise and appro- priate the sum of ($1500.00) fifteen hundred dollars therefor.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provision of Chapter 48, Sect. 42 to 44 in- clusive, of the General Laws of Massachusets and acts in amendments thereto, providing for the es- tablishment of a fire department in said town.
Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($260) two hundred and sixty dollars to pay a relief man for relieving the regular man on duty at the fire house one day each week for the year 1929.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($500.00) five hundred dollars to put a booster pump on the chem- ical truck in place of the two chemical tanks-also a one hundred and fifty gallon tank for booster pump and for repainting truck.
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Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to raise a sufficient sum of money to finish the resur- facing the Lower County Road to the Dennis line. This work to come under Chapter 90 of the General Laws-whereby the State pays one-half-the County one-quarter and the Town one-quarter of the total expense of this work and act fully thereon.
Article 41. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $ (50.00) fifty dollars for the support of the Chase Library, West Harwich.
Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money not to exceed ($1,000.00) one thousand dollars under the provi- sion of Sub Section 21 of Section 1 of Chapter 371 of the Acts of 1921 and any and all amendments thereof and additions thereto for the employing of a nurse through the Harwich Visiting Nurse Asso- ciation, Inc.
Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($2,000.00) two thousand dollars for the collection and disposal of the garbage and refuse in the congested section of the Town of Harwich and act fully thereon.
Article 44. To see if the Town will accept as a town road, the road running parallel with the Main Street, West Harwich from the corner of Rachel P. Johnston's estate to Brook's Park road. This has been a wood road for more than ninety years but is being closed by private parties to the detriment of the property owners.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($50.00) fifty
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dollars to clean up and post the land now used as a dump on Forest Street, north of the Golf links.
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to maintain one electric light on Division Street, on the pole in front of Ocean Hall, West Harwich, and act fully thereon.
ยท Article 47. To see if the Town will vote to erect a curb of concrete or other substance on the south side of Main Street, Harwich Center, from the parsonage corner, easterly, to the Drug store driveway and maintain a sidewalk the length of the said curb and act fully thereon and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to pay for the same.
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to maintain three (3) electeric lights at the upper end of Forest Street, the location of said lights to begin below the junction of said street and Sisson Road, to raise money for the same and act fully thereon.
Article 49. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of ($1,000.00) one thousand dollars to be expended for base ball under the di- rection of the recreation committee.
Article 50. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ($100.00) one hundred dollars to be used for the observance of Memorial and Armistice Days. This money to be used under the direction of the Harwich Post No. 292, American Legion.
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to take any action to dispose of some of the unexpected appropriation carried from previous years' overlays of free cash to be used to reduce the tax levy of the year 1929.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND THE
SUPERINTENDENT of SCHOOLS
TOWN OF HARWICH MASSACHUSETTS
For the Year 1928
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
HENRY M. SMALL, Chairman Term expires 1931 RALPH W. DOANE, Secretary Term expires 1929 CHARLES D. HOLMES, Treasurer Term expires 1930
Union Superintendent-WILLIAM F. SIMS
Attendance Officer LABAN SNOW, Harwichport, Tel. 92-4
School Physicians H. D. HANDY, M. D. J. P. NICKERSON, M. D.
School Nurse IDA H. BREIDENBACH, R. N.
CALENDAR FOR 1929
Winter Term 7 Weeks-January 2, 1929 to February 15, 1929
Spring Term 7 Weeks-February 25, 1929 to April 12, 1929 Summer Term 9 Weeks-April 22, 1929 to June 21,1929
Spelling Match
June 3, 1929, In Exchange Theatre, at 8 P. M.
Graduation June 20, 1929, at 8 P. M.
Fall Term
16 Weeks-Wednesday, September 1, 1929 to December 20, 1929
Winter Term 7 Weeks -- Monday, December 30, 1929 to February 14, 1930
ANNUAL REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The past year has brought several changes in. our teaching force. We have lost some good teachers but they have been replaced by others of experience who are doing commendable work.
There has been no epidemic to cause the closing of any school.
The transportation has been conducted in a satisfactory manner.
The heating and ventilation systems installed in our grade schools last year are a great improvement.
New hard wood floors were laid in West Har- wich Schoolhouse, and new pupils' desks and seats were installed last year. Next year the same will be done at North Harwich Schoolhouse. The school buildings are in good condition.
The consolidation of High Schools in a group of neighboring towns is being considered and adopt- ed in some places. Your committee has given some thought to a plan of this kind and finds a large High School has many advantages at a smaller cost per pupil than can be had in a small school. This is a subject of public interest that should be publicly in- vestigated.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY M. SMALL, RALPH W. DOANE, CHARLES D. HOLMES,
School Committee,
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Harwich School Committee-Expenditures for the Fiscal Year, January 1, 1928 to December 31, 1928.
General Class
Specific Class
Amount
Total
Needed for 1929
General Control
Committee
$450.00
Superintendent
1,400.16
Taking Census
15.00
Atendance Officer
50.00
Office Supplies
19.65
Clerical services
120.25
Printing
56.41
Miscellaneous
158.29
$2,269.76|$2,434.76
Expense of Instruction
Teachers' salaries Books Supplies
21,201.73 428.27 1,271.35
22,901.35|25,000.00
Operation of School Plant
Janitors' Wages Fuel Miscellaneous
1.982.20
1,677.75 251.18
3,911.13
4,000.00
Maintenance
Repairs & Upkeep
1,218.56
1,218.56
1,200.00
Auxiliary Agencies
Health
Transportation Miscellaneous
694.26 4,066.00 110.69
4,870.95|
4,870.95
Outlay
New Equipment
2,382.20
2,382.20
2,000.00
Total
37,553.95
37,553.95 39,595.71
Appropriation Expenditures
$37,562.70 37,553.95
Unexpended balance
$ 8.75
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
TEACHERS' SALARIES
High School
Edmund C. Eastwood,
Principal
$1,440.00
Paul A. Morris, Principal
920.00
J. Murray Baker
1,400.00
Martha Farnsworth
1,152.00
Mabel M. Ott
900.00
Mary Ingraham
717.00
Lottie S. Page
480.00
Evelyn H. Puffer
480.00
Mrs. Ada Lovering, substitute
41.25
$5,170.25
Center Elementary Schools
Hillary M. LeClaire,
Grades 7 & 8
$1,740.00
Allie C. Crowell, Grades 5 & 6 $1,228.75
Alberta T. Wicks,
Grades 3 & 4
1,061.50
Ethalene B. Nickerson
Grades 1 & 2 1,212.76
Esther Flinkman, assistant
337.50
Mrs. Ada Lovering, substitute 153.75
Rebecca Knowles, substitute 15.00
Mrs. Paul A. Morris, substitute
15.00
$5,764.26
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Harwichport
Flossie H. Boscheinen,
Grades 4, 5, & 6
$675.63
Ruth Newman, Grades 4, 5, & 6 70.00
Embretta Kelley
Grades 4, 5, & 6 252.00
Ethel H. Myshrall
Grades 1, 2, & 3
1,100.00
Mrs. Benjamin Smith, substitute 7.50
Mrs. Ada Lovering, substitute 18.75
Mrs. Boscheinen, substitute 149.50
$2,273.88
West Harwich
Cora D. Chase, Grammar
$1,100.00
Virginia D. Small, Primary 660.00
Ruth Taylor, Primary 400.00
$2,160.00
North Harwich
Mary A. Sylvia
$1,150.00
Marjorie R. Hammond, Primary 660.00
Elsie Cahoon, Primary 400.00
$2,210.00
Supervision of Music
Mabelle B. Dumont
$432.00
Ruth Edmands 248.00
$680.00
Supervision of Drawing
Esther H. Curry
$348.00
Lois Gebhard 203.00
$551.00
Total for Teachers $21,201.73
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Superintendent's Salary William F. Sims $1,400.16
Health
Ida H. Breidenbach
School Nurse $350.00
J. P. Nickerson, School Physician 150.00
H. D. Handy, School Physician 150.00
Scales
44.26
$694.26
Janitors
John J. Erickson, Center $652.00
Willis C. Newcomb, Port 262.00
Arthur C. Thivierge, West 319.45
Holland G. Rogers, North 287.50
William P. Nichols, High
461.25
$1,982.20
FUEL
Harwich Center
Holmes, Bros., coal
$748.23
Charles D. Hall, coal
312.50
Henry Small, wood 12.00
W. P. Nichols, wood 5.00
Alonzo Nickerson, wood
36.00
S. B. Moody, wood 27.00
L. W. Bradbury, carting wood
8.50
.
$1,140.73
Harwichport
S. R. Kelley, coal
$207.02
Charles H. Taylor, wood 8.00
$215.02
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West Harwich
Holmes, Bros., coal
$163.00
J. F. Ryder, wood
12.50
Alexander Chase, wood
16.00
$191.50
North Harwich
Charles D. Hall, coal
$122.00
$122.00
Total for fuel
$1,677.75
TRANSPORTATION
E. Harold Ellis 4,066.00
REPAIRS AND INCIDENTALS
Harwich Center
Cape & Vineyard Electric Co. $78.60
Henry Nickerson, carting 4.00
Homer's Dept. Store, repairs 1.75
J. J. Erickson, carting, etc. 5.25
Nichols & Atkins, repairs
1.75
Fred L. Chase, supplies 3.70
Alpheus Howes, supplies
23.73
Arthur M. Ellis, carting
4.00
Edward E. Babb Co., supplies
32.97
J. F. Tobery, supplies
7.58
C. B. Dolge Co., supplies
9.00
Nickerson Drug Co., supplies
1.00
H. N. Wixon, carting .35
Fred Crowell, labor
24.74
Harwich Lumber Co., supplies
76.02
Standard Oil Co., oil
3.00
Watson B. Eldredge, repairs
15.67
Edgar F. Bassett, repairs
2.50
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Fred R. Crabe, repairs
77.16
Clifford Knapp, repairs 1.00
Alston D. MyIntyre, repairs 3.37
W. B. Sylvester, painting
59.30
Albert L. Baker, repairs
34.23
Ralph W. Doane, fence posts 26.39
Frank H. Freemen, labor
34.20
$531.26
Harwichport
Kenealy & Maxwell, repairs $23.35
Charles E. Smith, fence posts
92.20
Wm. A. Eldredge & Son, painting 37.84
Frank H. Freeman, repairs 56.16
Homer's Dept. Store, repairs
8.50
Watson B. Eldredge, repairs
10.01
Heman E. Bassett, repairs
3.50
Willis C. Newcomb, labor
4.00
$235.56
West Harwich
E. I. & E. L. V. Bassett, Bros. $28.55
W. B. Sylvester, painting 83.20
Harwich Lumber Co., repairs 2.90
Lester W. Swift, repairs
497.41
Charles M. Smith, repairs
.55
Standard Oil Co., oil
6.50
Arthur E. Thivierge, supplies
5.60
D. F. Munroe, supplies 30.75
J. L. Hammett, supplies 12.50
H. N. Wixon, carting
.35
$668.31
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North Harwich
Archie Cahoon, repairs 6.40
Harwich Lumber Co., repairs 19.39
Nickerson Drug Co., supplies 1.82
Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies 7.00
$34.61
Total for repairs and incidentals
$1,469.74
OFFICE
Lucy H. Underwood, clerical work $4.80
Earle L. Sims, clerical work 10.50
J. J. Erickson, care committee room 4.00
Wright & Potter Printing Co., school account blanks 16.91
H. M. Small, school reports 17.50
Mabel M. Ott, clerical work 39.20
Laban Snow, taxi 19.75
Harwich Independent, printing 22.00
Marjorie Hammond, scoring tests 14.70
Mary Ingraham, scoring tests 23.80
Clenric Cahoon, counsel 2.00
Wilhelmina Doane, clerical work 1.25
Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies 10.17 Katharine Thompson, clerical work 24.00
William F. Sims, expense account 134.53
Arthur F. Cahoon, supplies 9.48
Attendance Officer 50.00
Taking Census 15.00
$419.60
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BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
John J. Erickson
$15.00
Nichols & Atkins
.60
J. L. Hammett Co.
100.68
Houghton Mifflin Co.
29.57
MacMillan Co.
2.51
Ginn & Co.
155.52
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
3.69
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.
145.87
J. B. Lippincott Co.
69.08
F. A. Owen Publishing Co.
20.54
American Book Co.
118.31
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins
53.59
Wright & Ditson
17.29
Henry Nickerson
3.75
Mabel B. Nicholas
4.40
Pearl E. Belonga
7.50
Harwich Independent
17.35
Quinn & Co.
40.80
World Book Co.
22.38
G. N. Ostby
1.00
J. F. Tobey & Son
1.75
S. A. Cahoon
2.70
Reformatory for Women
23.48
Wilbur D. Gilpatric
12.99
Silver Burdett & Co.
40.72
Paul A. Morris
14.38
C. F. Williams & Co.
2.22
Longmans Green & Co.
30.94
Wright & Potter
6.81
Looseleaf Education
8.05
Edward E. Babb & Co.
726.15
$1,699.62
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NEW EQUIPMENT
C. E. Greenwood, hood vent $5.20
E. B. Sampson, wiring 36.01
Harwich Lumber Co., material and lumber 117.53
Charles D. Holmes, chairs
88.00
Albert L. Baker, drinking fountain 140.00
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co. 69.19
Central Scientific Co., hydrometer 1.71
Hinman Asbestos Corp., insulation 346.00
J. L. Hammett, Co., Blackboards 349.21 Frank H. Freeman, copper con- ductors 27.20
H. M. Faust, filing cabinet 28.75
Fred Crowell, cesspool
23.90
Harwich Lumber Co., cesspool
13.60
R. W. Doane, fence rails 78.65
Frank H. Freeman, labor 75.25
Heman E. Bassett, flagpole 50.00
J. L. Hammett, desks and chairs 783.00
Arthur H. Chase, footstools 5.00
Charles D. Holmes, desks, heater 144.00
$2,382.20
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
When, for one reason or another, we lose the services of competent local teachers, we are made to realize that higher salaries must be paid if we desire to have the same degree of efficient service. Continuity of service which means better and more efficient work in the classroom in general means an adequate salary standard. Too often in the past have we failed to retain the services of competent teachers on account of low salaries. We do not advocate paying the highest salaries in the Common- wealth, but we do consider it a civic duty to pay at least the average salary when our financial condition warrants such an expenditure. Our financial ability to support our schools is far above the average town of the Commonwealth.
OUR REMOTE SITUATION
Our remoteness from large centers makes it difficult to retain the best teachers even though the salaries we offer may be somewhat higher than those in communities nearer to the large centers. With us desirable entertainment and opportunities for professional growth are conspicuous for their absence. Low salaries and an isolated situation com- bined make it very difficult to secure and retain the services of the best teachers.
PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT
A salary increment coupled with a mandatory regulation of the school committee would be a strong incentive for our teachers to make a more pronounc-
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ed effort at professional improvement. No teacher would fail to respond to such an incentive without some very satisfactory explanation to the School Committee. It is neither expensive nor difficult to make such an incentive operative. So often have I observed teachers putting into practice in the class- room some devices, plans, and methods acquired by taking special courses that I am ready to make it obligatory for the teacher to pursue some profes- sional course having a specific relation to her partic- ular classroom work. Professional courses for tea- chers have developed very rapidly in recent years. Particularly is this true of summer schools. Yet when we think of the great body of teachers the hundreds found in summer schools are relatively few. As a means of improving our schools stimulated prfoessional growth should not be overlooked.
MORE CLASS ROOM NEEDED
Since /the membership of the First Primary school at the Center is more than fifty pupils we are required by statute law to furnish an assistant for this room. The assistant uses a small room that is wholly inadequate. It is too small and is improperly heated and ventilated. It is a waste of funds to em- ploy assistant teachers under conditions like these. Another room for the elementary schools is a neces- sity that should not be postponed too long.
STANDARDIZED TESTS
Last June by means of standardized tests we ascertained the mental capacity of all the pupils above the sixth grade. We also found the grade of work that was being done. Some of the "brightest" pupils in some subjects were doing a very poor grade
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of work. Some were doing average work and some were doing excellent work. We need to do more of this kind of testing and make known to both teachers and pupils what they are really accomplish- ing. More often than not both teachers and pupils have the delusion that they have attained a very satisfactory achievement. Without some standard- ized testing the real facts can not be known.
COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
We had fewer pupils than last year taking the examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board. The results were more satisfactory. We can successfully prepare pupils to pass these examina- tions. But it requires a greater concentration of effort on the part of both teachers and pupils than has been manifested heretofore. We have found by the intelligence tests that we have given that the mental ability of our pupils, contrary to a too oft expressed opinion, compares very well with that of most communities. There are a few cases of low mentality, many of average mentality, and some of a high degree. The mental ability is here. It needs to be trained, and given an incentive. Otherwise our schools must be given a rather low classification.
INSTRUMENTAL CLASSES
Before the close of the present school year class- es will be organized and instruction given upon vari- ous musical instruments. There is a demand for this work and since there is no opportunity here for our young people to get this instruction the school is justified in creating the opportunity. The instruc- tion may be free or the pupil may be charged a nominal fee of twenty-five cents per lesson. The
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experience of those who have been connected with this work is that better results have been secured where a nominal charge was made to each pupil for the instruction. While there are some problems to be solved in establishing this work we have no doubt that a satisfactory solution to all these pro- blems will be found. In one of our high schools no regular classes are omitted for special work. On the day of the special work the periods are shortened so as to give time for the special work. In the same way this special work can be provided for. For a long time some school systems have been doing this work. At the present time it is rapidly being estab- lished in many communities.
LOAN FUND
Our teachers are raising a loan fund for the purpose of assisting those pupils who may not be able to otherwise secure their instruments. A com- mendable start has been made and no pupil who really desires to learn to play some musical instru- ment need be denied the opportunity.
"THE R. C. A. EDUCATIONAL HOUR"
On Friday mornings from eleven to twelve o'clock Mr. Walter Damrosch of New York with a symphony orchestra broadcasts a very instructive program of classical music for the benefit of the pupils in our schools. An opportunity is thus pro- vided for our pupils to learn to appreciate classical music. The explanations of the instruments by Mr. Damrosch and his analyses of the various selections played are both interesting and instructive. A list of questions prepared by Mr. Damrosch is given to the pupils. After the broadcasts the pupils turn in their answers.
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Through the courtesy of some of the radio deal- ers we are able to give the pupils the benefit of this R. C. A. Educational Hour. Probably no such op- portunity has ever before in the history of the world been presented to school children. The benefit to be obtained is ample justification for the purchase of a radio for the schools. We are getting this broad- cast in all the schools where we have electric lights.
HIGH SCHOOL SPELLING CONTEST
The fourth annual high school spelling contest was held in Orleans on the evening of the first Mon- day in last June. A program of the contest is printed elsewhere in this report. The contest was won by Susie Estelle Eldredge of the Class of 1928 of the Chatham High School. The Chatham High School now has permanent possession of the spelling trophy that was donated by the Educational Department of the Orleans Woman's Club.
The Chatham Woman's Club has donated an- other trophy to be competed for in the future by the High Schools of Chatham, Harwich, and Orleans.
At the contest held last June gold keys donated by the Women's Clubs of Chatham, Harwich, and Orleans were won by Susie Estelle Eldredge, C. H. S. '28, Grace E. Gill, O. H. S. '29, and Wilhelmina Doane, H. H. S. '28.
An innovation was made at the last contest of having each contestant spell all the words given out until he missed a word, whereupon he dropped out of the contest. This method proved highly success- ful as the winner of the contest was the one who had spelled all the words given out. We shall continue this method at the next contest which will be held on the first Monday evening in June, 1929, at the Ex- change Hall in Harwich.
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The following words were missed in the contest last June; vying, achievement, description, feasible, exonerate, antedate, eccentric.
NEW METHOD OF AWARD
In the past that school has been deemed the winner whose pupils remained longest in the con- test. Hence with one very good speller a school could easily win the contest. To make the contest less individual and more of a school contest the award will be made on the basis of points won by each school. There are nine contestants. The first one who drops out of the contest will score one point for his school. The second, two points. The ninth and last, nine points. If two or more pupils leave the contest on mispelling the same word the number of points to be scored will be divided equally be- tween them. For example, if the sixth word to be misspelled is missed by three pupils each of the pupils so missing will score seven points for his school. If two pupils missed the seventh word to be misspelled each would score seven and one half points for his school. The total number of points to be scored is forty-five. The school having the largest number of these will be the winner of the contest.
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