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good to the greatest number of the inhabitants of said Town. "
The twentieth clause of said will and testament will ul- timately bring a trust fund income to the town of East- ham, which will substantially augment the income derived from clause thirty-three; and the twenty-eighth clause may- open the way for residents of Eastham to enter the Rox- bury Grammar School on favorable terms. .
TREASURER'S REPORT
RECEIPTS
Jan. 1, 1919. Cash in treasury
$1,688 89
State Treasurer
Income tax, 1917
$44 00
Income tax, 1918
77 00
Income tax, 1919
1,203 22
Corporation tax, public service
65 29
Corporation tax, business
- 15 32
National Bank
৳56 98
Mass. School Fund
1,387 07
Industrial School Fund
135 00
Supt. Small Town schools
125 00
Income tax school fund 220 00
High school, tuition
1,950 00
Transportation, High school
741 00
Compensation, Inspector of Animals
12 25
Mothers' Aid
186 67
State Aid
306 00
Soldiers' Exemptions
3 13
6,527 95
County Treasurer
Dog tax refunded
$58 85
Mammal nuisance
85 25
144 10
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Rentals
Oyster Leases : Cape Cod Oyster Farms Corp., 1918 $750 00
Cape Cod Oyster Farms Corp., 1919 750 00
Geo. V. Williams Co., 1918 120 00
Geo. V. Williams Co., 1919
120 00
Wellfleet Oyster Co., 1918 360 00
R. R. Higgins Co., 1919
157 33
$2,257 33
Town Hall :
Eastham Grange, No. 308, 1918 $50 00
Eastham Grange, No. 308, 1919 50 00
C. F. Atwood 20 00
First Universalist Church Society 3 00
123 00
Herring Brook :
W. J. Knowles, 1917
$2 00
W. J. Knowles, 1918
2 00
4 00
City of Brockton 1
Mothers' Aid 316 68
F. II. Gooch
Mammal Nuisance 25 00
Interest
Cape Cod National Bank :
On March balance $2 66
On April balance 2 78
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On May balance 1 25
On June balance
87
On July balance
67
On August balance
, 2 22
On September balance
1 53
On October balance
3 83
On November balance
6 13
On December balance
10 07
$32 01
On Taxes Collected :
1916 Assessment $1 04
1917 Assessment 13 42
1918 Assessment
25 57
1919 Assessment
9 59
49 62
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co.
Income Timothy Smith Legacy $345 74
Town Hall Trust Fund 61 09
406 83
Wellfleet Savings Bank
Tax Loan $3,000 00
Zara Higgins Cemetery Legacy, care of lot 1 00
Frank O. Daniels Cemetery Legacy, care of lot 2 00
3,003 00
City of Boston
Tuition 242 49
31 Order of Court
Weekly payment $7.00, Sept. 26-Dec. 31, 1919 98 00
Harriet B. Knowles
Sale of School Organ
4 00
John HI. Smart
Overpay, Assessors' rate $3.50 per day
14 00
Chap. 135, Acts 1919
Taxes
1916 to balance
$58 60
1917 on assessment
202 33
1918 on assessment
1,144 65
1919 on assessment
6,394 14
Ellen Wolfson (tax)
65
7,800 37
Licenses
Gasolene :
L. E. Chase, renewal, 1918 $1 00
L. E. Chase, renewal, 1919 1 00
S. F. Brackett, renewal, 1918 1 00
S. F. Brackett, renewal, 1919 1 00
Frank King, renewal, 1919 1 00
F. C. Hatch (Initial license), 1919 2 00
H. E. Mahoney (Initial license), 1919 2 00
9 00
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Slaughterers'
Walter A. Horton
$1 00
Harry E. Young
1 00
$2 00
Harry W. Collins $1.00 (carried to 1920 account)
Permits
Bay, 18
$85 50
Flats, 41
41 00
126 50
Eel :
James Hurd
1 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Fees 13 50
$22,889 25
EXPENDITURES
Wellfleet Savings Bank
Mar. 5, Interest on serial note
$11 25 '
June 28, Serial note 200 00
June 28, Interest on same 8 00 .
Sept. 6, Oil road note 500 00 .
Sept. 6, Interest on same 11 25
Dec. 29, Tax note 3,000 00
Dec. 29, Interest on same 62 50 .
Dec. 29, Interest on serial noto 4 00
$3,797 00
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Orders of Court
James Boland (Runnel's case)
$59 54
Charles F. Atwood
10 00
69 54
County Treasurer
County Tax 1,104 86
State Treasurer
State Tax
$990 00
Highway Tax
323 00
Special State Tax, Soldiers
59 40
1,372 40
Bureau of Statistics
Certification of one note 2 00
Income Timothy Smith Legacy
Deposited in Wellfleet Savings Bank pending ae- ceptance of Legacy by the Town 345 74
The income from this legacy cannot be in- cluded in public moneys.
Orders of Town Officers
School Committee Selectmen 3,964 92
$8,304 62
.As shown in their report.
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' '2,269 54
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Appropriation
Library
$25 00
Abatements
On taxes, assessment of 1916 $ 44 22
$19,030 30
Cash in treasury
3,858 95
$22,889 25
Included in above cash balance :
Unexpended appropriation, T. (. Fife road $50 00
Unexpended balance appropriation,
Chap. 2, Acts of 1917 60 50
$111 50
Respectfully submitted,
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Treasurer
AUDITOR'S REPORT
The accounts of the Town of Eastham have been examined by me and found correct.
GEORGE E. GILL,
Auditor .
Eastham, Mass., January 14, 1920.
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
BIRTHS 1919
Aug. 5. Arthur Joseph Mur- Martin L. and Mabel John phy Son
Sept. 17. Arthur Connors Wright E. and Bertha E.
Oct. 8. Catherine Ruth King Frank E. and Mary Lena
Oct. 18. Whitman
Howard Ommund H. and Edna F.
Howes
Nov. 21. Beryl Madeline Henry E. and Angie Green- Knowles ough
Dec. 30
Leslie
Emerson
Leslie E. and Mabel W.
Chase, Jr.
MARRIAGES
1919
Apr. 6. Charles Wesley Myrick Myrtilla Ellen Jordan
Eastham Truro
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Apr. 6. Ralph William Cashen Gladys Burton Daniels
Harwich Eastham
May 3. Loring. Thorte Poole Boothbay, Me. Eva Lawrence Collins Eastham
May 30. Frank T. Lapham Chatham
Beatrice Ellen Moody Eastham
Sept. 14. Freeman Clark Hatch
Eastham
Bertha Madeleine Marvel Orleans
Oct. 5. Everett Cahoon Eastham Laura Augusta Rogers Brewster
Oct. 19. William Traverse Louise Handy Lockwood
Ashland
Orleans
Oct. 20. Irving Augustus. Higgins
Orleans
Grace Lillian Crowell Franklin
Dec. 10. Edwin Francis Eldridge Chatham
Emily Warner Daniels Eastham
DEATIIS
1919
-Age-
Date Name
Cause Y MD
Jan. 1. Alice II. Ramph
Embolism from
Phlebitis of
Femoral Vein
25
11
21
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DEATHS CONT'd 1919
-Age --
Date
Name
Cause
YMD
Jan. 3. John C. Lamb
Carcinoma of
Liver
68
5
2
Jan. 28. Maynard W. Dill
Intestinal obstruc-
tion, Adhesions
from previous at-
tack of appendi-
citis
22
11
6
Feb. 21. Henry Harding
Pulmonary Tuber-
culosis
70
3 18
Mar. 2. Freeman A. Collins Angina Pectoris
67
2
2
July 24. Thomas K. Paine
Myocarditis
Seniality
85
9
13
Aug. 28. Rosalind N. Spar- Intestial Nephritis
row
Myocarditis
33
4
27
1
Sept. 9. Lucy H. Freeman
Atheromata
(General)
82
Sept. 19. Eldad Higgins
Myocarditis
81
6
15
Dec. 12. Almond L. Nick- Nephritis
Chronic
erson
(Intestial)
50
0
15
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QUAHAUG PERMITS ISSUED (Bay)
Nehemiah P. Hopkins $5 00
Charles L. Richardson $5 00
Charles C. Daniels 5 00
Henry B. Hinckley 5 00
Elsias HI. Chase 5 00 S. Frank Lee 5 00
Chester E. Pierce 5 00 Emile Poikenon 5 00
Fred Turner 5 00
John Hopkins 4 00
Archie 'R. Ryder
5 00 Geo. A. Nickerson 4 00
Overy P. Mayo
5 00 Richard F. Smith 2 50
Bennett B. Niekerson 5 00 Martin L. Murphy 5 00
Ebenezer Cummings 5 00
Charles E. Lee 5 00
(Flats)
Joseph M. Dill $1 00 Nathan E. Clark $1 00
Samuel A. Nickerson
1 00 Henry E. Clark 1 (9)
William B. Steele
1 00 Arthur A. Clark
Malcolm Steele
1 00 Charles F. Atwood 1 00
Wilton Hopkins 1 00
Roger D. Cole 1 00
John A. Knowles
1 00
Daniel W. Sparrow 1 00
Prince Hurd
1 00
Geo. W. Moore 1 00
John E. Ryder 1 00
James Greenhalgh 1 00
John D. Nickerson 1 00
A. Henry Nickerson
1 00
Eugene R. Cobb 1 00
J. Bernard Crosby
1 00
Henry J. McCone 1 00
James P. Brewer
1 00
Charles W. Chase 1 00
Ernest M. Moore
1 00
(Orleans)
Harvey T. Moore 1 00
John Hopkins 1 00
Arthur Benner 1 00
Raymond V. Brackett 1 00
Clarence E. Chase 1 00
Harlan P. Lombard 1 00
Freeman E. Knowles 1 00
Ralph A. Chase 1 00
James P. Knowles
1 00
Benj. M. Ruff 1 00
John W. Sparrow 1 00
Lillian M. Ruff
1 00
Warren K. Wheelock 1 00
Joseph A. Cobb 1 00 Nathan A. Nickerson 1 00
Charles W. Chase
1 00
Leslie E. Chase 1 00
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DOGS
31
Licensed
Male Female
29
5
1
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Copy of principal votes cast at the Annual Town Meet- ing February 3, 1919 :
Elected, Almond L. Niekerson, Moderator.
Voted, To accept the report of the Town Officers.
Elected the following Town Officers :
John H. Smart, Selectman, Assessor, Overseer of the Poor for 2 years.
Arthur W. Parnell, Selectman, Assessor, Overseer of the Poor for 3 years.
Leslie E. Chase, Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector of Taxes.
George II. Walker, John G. Fulcher, William H. Forrest, Elsias H. Chase, Adin L. Gill, Road Surveyors.
Almond L. Nickerson, Trustee of Public Library for ? years.
Geo. E. Gill, Auditor.
Charles F. Atwood, Constable.
II. T. Moore and W. B. Higgins, Surveyors of Lumber, Wood and Bark.
IIerbert C. Clark, Weigher of Coal.
Jos. A. Cobb and James P. Knowles, Fence Viewers.
Daniel W. Sparrow, Pound Keeper.
John E. Ryder, Adin L. Gill, Obed A. Fulcher, Field Drivers.
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Charles A. Rogers, Tree Warden.
Mrs. Fred F. Dill, Mrs. Wm. F. Knowles, Albion F. Ric !! , School Committee.
Voted the following appropriations :
Town Hall Note
$200 09
Miscellaneous
1,500 00
Schools
3,500 09
Bridges
50 00
Roads, Oil and Sand
400 00
Snow
100 00
Poor
400 00
Oil Road Notes
500 00
Abatements
150 00
Inspection of Animals and Slaughtering
100 00
Chap. 264, Acts of 1917
250 00
Moths 100 00
Walter Hatch Road, West Shore
300 00
T. C. Fife Road (Long Pond Road)
50 00
Cape Cod Farm Bureau 50 00
Public Library
25 00
Voted, The refunded dog tax be given to the schools.
Voted, The care of the poor be left in the hands of the Overseers of the Poor.
Voted, The repairs of the roads and bridges be left in the hands of the Selectmen.
Voted, That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of taxes of the municipal year beginning Jan. 1st, 1919 to an amount not exceeding
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in the aggregate $4,000.00 and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, any debt or debts in- curred under this vote to be paid from the taxes of said municipal year.
Voted, To grade and surface with oil the road beginning at the oil road near the house of Walter M. Hatch and then as the road runs to the west shore and that the Town appro- priate $1,800.00, that $300.00 be paid from the taxes of 1919. and that the Town issue serial notes as follows :
(1920 $300 00) $300 00)
(1922
(1923 $300 00) (1924 $300 00) (1921 $300 00)
Voted, That the herring brook be left open to the Town's people to take what herring they want. That the Selectmen specify the days of each week and hours of each day when herring may be taken.
Voted, To pay the Selectmen $4.00 per day for their ser- vices, the chairman to receive $25.00 additional for his services.
Elected, Fred F. Dill Town Director of the Cape Cod Farm Bureau.
Voted, A vote of thanks to the retiring Town officers for their services, George T. Dill, Abelino E. Doane, and Rus. sell D. Wiley.
Voted, To pay the Moderator $5.00 for his services.
Respectfully submitted,
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Clerk
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REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Collected
$7,849 99
Assessment of 1916 to balance
$58 60
1916 interest
1 04
1917 of principal
202 33
1917 interest
13 42
1918 of principal
1,144 65
1918 interest
25 57
1919 of principal
6,394 14
1919 interest
9 59
Omitted tax received
65
Due
$758 15
Assessment of 1917
$43 17
1918
62 09
1919
653 19
Cost of Stationery and Stamps $34 17
Respectfully submitted,
LESLIE E. CHASE,
January 1, 1920.
Collector
REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Scaled :
Platform Scales over 5,000 pounds
1 15
Platform Scales under 5,000 pounds
Counter
5
Beam
3
Spring Balance
9
Weights, Avoirdupois
59
Liquid Measures
62
Yard Measures
1
Oil Measuring Pumps
3
Adjusted : Oil Measuring Pumps
10
Receipts 1
Fees Collected $13 50
Expenditures
Supplies and Repairs $16 68
Compensation, Sealer 36 96
$53 64
Net Expense, Maintenance of Department $40 14
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Sealer of Weights and Measures
PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Trustees of the Public Library submit their annual report including Treasurer's and Librarian's report.
The wooden floor in the basement last spring was found to be unsafe.
The Trustees considered it unwise to continue replacing every few years with wood and contracted with Mr. Nick- erson to make a cement floor.
While the old floor was being removed it was found that the back stairs were entirely rotted away and were replaced with cement at a cost of $15.00.
As the Trustees failed to have the books purchased dur- ing 1918 listed in the Town report, a .catalogue was printed and distributed; anyone who has not received a copy can obtain one from the Library or Mr. Parnell.
The Trustees regret to be compelled to note on Dec. 19 the death of their chairman, Mr. Almond L. Nickerson, for 13 years a member of the board.
The Town owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Nickerson for years of unselfish labor. To him more than anyone else the growth and improvement at the Library were due.
The Town is unfortunate in losing such a conscientious public spirited official.
FRED F. DILL A. W. PARNELL, Secretary
Trustees
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TREASURER'S REPORT
In Trust
Robert C. Billings Fund
$14,000 00 Income to be used for maintenance of Public Library. Receipts
Jan. 1, 1919, Cash in Treasury $291 23
Feb. 19, New England Company, Div. 280 00
July 14, New England Company, Div. 297 50
Dec. 31, Town appropriation 25 00
$893 73
Expenditures
Orders of Trustees $569 33
Jan. 1, 1920, Cash in treasury
324 40
$893 73
LESLIE E. CHIASE,
Treasurer
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Dr. Cr.
Jan. 1, 1919 Cash in
Expenditures
$569 23
Treasury $291 23
Jan. 15, 1919
N. E. Trust.
Co., Div. 280 00
July 15, 1919
N. E. Trust
Co., Div. 297 50
Town appropriation 25 00
$893 73
$893 73
Expenditures
W. G. Smith, Insurance $7 10
('larington Smith, Transportation of Books for eight months 23 3:
Henry Harding, No. Eastham Sub-Station 10 00
Geo. T. Dill, Disbursement on $396.97, at one per cent. 3 97
Fred F. Dill, Expressage on Books 1 65
W. G. Smith, Insurance
7 90
Rose B. Nickerson, Librarian
34 50
J. W. Nickerson, Cement Floor and Stairs 110 00
. Arthur H. Knowles, Labor on Grounds 7 75
Julia F. Smith, So. Eastham Sub-Station 5 00)
Rose B. Nickerson, Librarian 39 09
Arthur H. Knowles, Labor 6 60
W. G. Smith, Rope for HIalyards
1 39
Mrs. H. D. Nickerson, So. Eastham Sub-Station 5 00
F. B. & F. P. Goss, Catalogues 13 83
Arthur H. Knowles, Labor 3 50
Arthur H. Knowles, Labor
1 05
Rose B. Nickerson, Librarian
40 50
DeWolff & Fiske Co., Books 126 50
Library of Congress, Cards 10 00
Cash in Treasury Jan. 1, 1920 324 10
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Emma M. Garrison, Magazine Subscriptions
65 50
Higgins & Horton, Supplies 2 65
W. G. Smith, Insurance
5 99
W. H. Snow & Son, Coal and Wood
33 95
Fred F. Dill, Expressage on Books
1 21
Fred F. Dill, Book
1 60
$569 33
FRED F. DILL A. W. PARNELL, Secretary
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
Number of books in Library
4,802
Added during year :
Adult by purchase
13i
Adult by gift
1
Juvenile by purchase
12
Juvenile by gift
40
Total
187
Circulation :
Adult fiction
3,212
Adult non-fiction
164
Adult magazines
1,108
Juvenile fiction
1,159
Juvenile non-fiction
301
Juvenile magazines
110
Total
6,054
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1919
$0 5.1
Received from fines
12 56
$13 10
Paid for kerosene
$3 60
Chimneys
2 40
Mantles
1 70
Pens (box)
1 00
Pencils and blotters
2 00
Miscellaneous
1 00
$11 70
Cash on hand Jan. 1. 1920
$1 40
ROSE B. NICKERSON,
Librarian
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ACCESSIONS TO LIBRARY
Square Peggy
Station X
Judy Rogues Harbor
All the Kings' Horses
Man That Never Grew Up
Ladies in Waiting
Chamberlain Lathrop Wiggins Norris Porter
Tangled Threads
Tie That Binds
Porter
Across the Years
Porter
Rivers End
Pogan of the Hills
Drowned Gold
Strong Hours
Bartlet Mystery
Making of Joe
Tracey Sweet Glass
Potash and Perlmutter
Tom of Scoots
Wallace
Rider of the King Dog
Hunkins
Sherry
The Fifth Wheel
In Secret
Joan & Company
Day Blythe Mccutcheon Prouty Chambers Bartlet Hinkle
Doctor Rabbit and Tom Wild Cat
Doctor Rabbit and Ki Yi Coyote
Hinkle Hinkle
Doctor Rabbit and Brush Tail the Fox
Doctor Rabbit and Grumpy Bear
Hinkle Stringer
Whiteman
Chamberlain
The Years Between
Kipling
Lamp in the Desert
Dell
Mufti
The Gay Dombeys
War Lord of Mars
Exploits of Bilge and Ma
Isabel Carleton in the West
Mother Goose Rhymes
Sapper Johnston Burroughs Macfarlane Ashmun Carolyn Wells
The Man Who Couldn't Sleep
Curwood Buck Norton Davis
Sisters
Bacon W'insor
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King Arthur and His Knights
Fields of the Fatherless
Mary Oliver Just Jemina
Yellow Men Sleep
The New Spirit in Industry
Mr. Standfast
Deep Water
When the World Shook
Rim of the World
Box With the Broken Seal
Valley of Visions
Ma Pettingill
Sky Pilot in No Mans Land®
Young Visitors
Blooming Angel
Partners of the Out Trail
Secret of the Tower
Shorty McCabe Get the Hail
Cursed
Making A Will and Other Necessary Evils
Same Old Bill, Eh, Mabel
Wicked Marquis
Dangerous Days
Iron City
Cavalier Maid
Breakheart House
Forbidden Trail
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Spanish Doubloons
More
The Ivory Trail
Moon and Sixpence
Intervention in Mexico
Story of the Rainbow Division
Paid Out
Carringtons of High Hill
Trail of the Beast Branding Iron
Owner of the Lazy D
Warren Jean Roy Sinclair Bill Lane Johnson Buchan
Jacobs Hagard Blower
Oppenheim Sarah Comstock Wilson (Carver Ashford Irwin Bindloss Hope Ford England Duley Streeter Oppenheim Rhinehart Hedges Knipe Shaw Wilkie
Marley and Haley Kenyon Means Mundy Mangham Inman Tompkins Bessell Harland Abdullah Newlin White
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DePaul After Thirty Burned Bridges Their Mutual Child Rainbow Valley
Chinese Puzzle Bolshevism in U. S.
Life Can Never Be the Same The Starling
Leave It To Doris
Passionate Pilgrim The Eagle's Eye Romsey Milhold
Ethel Hope Street Sinclair Wodehouse Montgomery 'Bower Russell Maxwell Tompkins Ethel Houston Merwin Flynn Tarkington
JUVENILE
Brownies and Prince Florimel S
Fox
Betty Bide At Home S Boys' Life of Napoleon S
Dix
Blue Heron Cove S
Book of Holidays S
Complete Poems S
English Leadership S
English History Story Book S
English for Coming Citizens S
Four Great Americans S
Fox Mckinney McSpadden Field Linnel Blaisdell Goldberger Baldwin
Farm Life Reader S Grit A Plenty S
Wallace
Girls of Old Glory S
Tappan
Home and Country Readers S
In Santa Claus House S
Irish Twins S
Lest We Forget S
Little Cuba Libre S
Little Tailor of the Winding Way
Magic Slipper S
Lazell Irwin Perkins Thompson Duggan Cornfield Blodgett Klickman Mix
Mistress of the Little House S
Mighty Animals S
Melissa Across the Street S My Country's Part S
Seaman Symon
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Nature Myths of Many Lands S
Nature Stories to Tell Children S
Our Country S Outdoor Primer S
Old Time Hawaiians S Over the Seas for Uncle Sam S
Soldiers of the Seas S Standard Bearers S
Mayo Usher
Stories of the Pilgrims
Tom Slade on the Transport S
Uncle Remus Returns S
Way to the House of Santa Claus S
Way of the Six Footed S
Youth Plupy S
Farmer Sears Gordy Grover Lawrence Sterne Abbott
Fitshugh Harris Burnett Comstock Shute
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF EASTHAM
FOR THE YEAR
1919
OF EA
N
TOW
AUSET 162.0.
1651.
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HYANNIS, MASS. F. B. & F. P. GOSS, PUBLISHERS and PRINTERS The "Patriot" Press 1920
SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
School Committee
ALBION F. RICH, Chairman MRS. F. F. DILL, Secretary MRS. W. F. KNOWLES
Term expires 1922 Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921
District Superintendent
LORING G. WILLIAMS
Janitor
FRANK ELLISON
Attendance Officer
LESLIE E. CHASE
School Physician R. J. MARVEL, M.D.
Pupils Attending Orleans High School
December, 1919
Seniors
John B. Crosby Clayton D. Horton
Ina M. Nickerson
Emma Fulcher Maurice A. Moore Doris A. Penniman
Juniors
Cynthia Ellis Nathan A. Nickerson Virginia F. Niekerson
Sophomores
Sadie Chase
Emily Daniels (left sch.)
Abbott Knowles
Lewis Collins Minnie Gill Evelyn Mayo
Freshmen
Samuel Brackett
Carl Gross
Carroll Gross
Ruth Habash
Della Knowles
Walter Morrison
Gertrude Ryder
Malcolm Steele
High School Graduates, 1919
Charles M. Knowles
Raymond Mayo
Lucille Mayo Abbie F. Nickerson Vesta Gross
Attending Harwich Agricultural Department Edward Gill
SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1920
Winter Term
Schools open January 5th. Schools close March 19th-Eleven weeks. Vacation two weeks
Spring Term
Schools open April 5th. Schools close June 4th-Nine weeks.
Graduation Friday evening, June 4th.
Fall Term
Schools open September 7th. Schools elose December 17th-15 weeks. Vacation two weeks
Winter Term, 1921
Schools open January 3rd. Schools close regular holidays.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Financial Report of School Committee for year ending December 31, 1919 :
AVAILABLE FUNDS
Refunded Dog Tax
$58 85
General Town Appropriation
3,500 00
Mass. School Fund
1,387 07
City Boston, Tuitions
242 49
Rebate on Superintendent's Salary
125 00
Sale of Organs
4 00
Rebate on High School Tuition
1,950 00
Rebate on High School Transportation
741 00
Rebate on Agriculture
135 00
$8,143 41
Over Draft
161 21
$8,304 62
The town received from the state because of teachers' salaries, November 15, $220.00.
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EXPENDITURES
Center School Transportation $1,139 50
High School Transportation
1,210 00
Teachers' Salaries
2,206 30
Supervisor Music and Drawing
95 01
Superintendent's Salary
340 02
Superintendent's Expenses
19 22
Janitor's Salary
333 00
Janitor's Extra Labor
46 20
Books and Supplies
215 10
Domestic Science Equipment and Supplies
55 192
Manual Training Equipment and Supplies
14 62
Fuel
146 93
Insurance
48 50
Committee's Salary
100 00
Committee's Expenses
11 81
Miscellaneous
83 50
Attendance Officer
10 00
Repairs
111 59
High School Tuition
1,950 09
Health
25 00
Labor on Grounds
42 40
Agricultural Instruction
100 00
$8,304 62
ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR 1920
Committee's Salary $100 00
Committee's Expenses 25 00
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Attendance Officer
10 00
Superintendent's Salary
360 09
Superintendent's Expenses
25 00
Supervisor Music and Drawing
120 00
Books and Supplies
250 00
Domestic Arts
50 09
Manual Training
25 00
Janitor's Wages
324 00
Extra Labor of Janitor
55 00
Fuel
150 00
Repairs
150 00
Grading of Grounds
50 00
Health
25 00
Transportation, Elementary
1,080 00
Transportation, High
1,360 00
Tuition, High School
1,950 00
Tuition, Agriculture
100 00
Insurance
40 00
Miscellaneous
60 00
Teachers' Salaries
2,900 00
$9,209 00
ESTIMATED OUTSIDE INCOME, 1920
Refunded Dog Tax
$60 00
Mass. School Fund
1,400 00
City Boston, Tuition
300 00
Rebate on Superintendent's Salary
125 00
Rebate on High School Tuition
1,950 00
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Rebate on High School Transportation 1,020 00 Rebate on Agriculture 50 00
Will receive Nov., 1920, General School Fund 520 00
$5,425 00
Net Amount of Town Appropriation $3,784 00
Total Amount recommended for Support of Schools, 1920 $9,209 00
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the School Committee :
I herewith submit my twelfth annual report:
In the administration of the schools during this year of great emergencies in salary conditions and scarcity of teachers and the high cost of everything used by the schools, I am not unmindful of the responsibilities placed upon you.
It has been your duty to conserve the appropriation and at the same time that which takes precedence to administer the schools to the best advantage of the children. I am glad to report that this has been done. The appropriations have been very judiciously handled and the year is ending with only a small overdraft. At the same time the chil- dren's interests have been uppermost in your minds.
The budget of 1919, altho it seemed large when voted, has in reality been too small, and the budget of 1920 must be a considerable increase of that of 1919.
The General School Fund Act passed at about the close of the last session of the General Court is a law establishing minimum salaries for teachers in the various classifications.
Teachers under the provisions of the law are placed in three classifications, namely A, B and C. A Class A teacher is defined as one having College or Normal diploma and with at least two years of experience, and the town re- ceives reimbursement of $200 annually from. every such teacher employed, provided she receive a salary of at least
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$350. A Class B teacher is one having one year's training an at least three years of experience or an equivalent or Nor- mal or College graduate with one year of experience, and the town is reimbursed $150 provided she receives a salary of at least $750. Class C teachers are all others not previ- ously mentioned, and the town is reimbursed $100 for every such teacher provided she receive at least $650.
These are minimum amounts or salaries as provided by law. Eastham teachers have been classified and salaries have been raised accordingly.
Eastham has no stated maximum salary. The higher amounts are reached as formerly, that is by merit, supply and demand of teachers, and the ability of the Committee through the appropriations to meet the demands of higher salaries.
These as I have just said are minimum salaries estab- lished by law, but teachers of several years' experience will not remain at the minimum, nor will it be expected of them.
The salary pendulum has taken a sharp swing upward and must continue upward until the best young men and women of strong personality and the finest ability are drawn into the profession and this will eventually be from one hundred to one hundred fifty per cent. inerease. The greatest econ- omy a town or city can effect is the generous support of good teachers in its schools. Education is the means by which the world is to be saved. The teacher is the chief educational agency. Nothing is so cheap as a good teacher. however great the pay, nothing so costly as a poor teacher, however little the pay. It is our great duty to keep good teachers.
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