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Cash in treasury,
5,140 03
$21,450 39
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE T. DILL,
Treasurer.
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
I, the undersigned Auditor of the town of Eastham, have this day examined the accounts and vouchers of the Select- men, Treasurer and School Committee, together with the foregoing statements, and find them correct.
GEORGE E. GILL, Auditor
Jan. 22, 1916
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RECOMMENDATIONS
We would recommend the following appropriations for the ensuing year :
Miscellaneous,
$1,500 00
Schools,
2,500 00
Roads, sand,
100 00
Bridges,
50 00
Deficiency in Miscellaneous and Poor accounts,
500 00
Snow,
100 00
Poor,
400 00
Moths,
100 00
Surety on bonds,
30 00
Library,
25 00
Town Hall note,
200 00
Oil road notes,
580 00
Repairs of oil roads,
300 00
Interest,
200 00
Abatements,
100 00
Reserve fund,
200 00
Cattle inspection and inspection of slaughtering,
100 00
$6,985 00
N. P. CLARK,
HERBERT M. SULLIVAN,
LESTER G. HORTON,
Selectmen of Eastham
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
BIRTHS RECORDED 1915
Date of Birth
Name of Child Name of Parents
Jan. 8 Mary Melissa Wilcox, Christopher S. and Ber- tha M.
12 Philip Sylvester Lin- Frank B. and Florence coln, B.
28 - Rich, Albion F. and Ruth B.
Feb. 23 Dorothy Pearl El- William W. and Florence dredge, D.
Apr. 11 Emma Francis At- Charles F. and Edna M. wood,
May 6 Luella Parker Hatch, Frank E. and Lizzie A.
June 6 Illegitimate
12 Edith Ethel Rample Harry C. and Alice H.
15 Herbert Douglas Ful- Obed A. and Lottie M. cher,
July
7 Wilton E. Knowles, Abbott S. and Flora M.
30 Christine Eads Crosby, John F. and Jennie E.
Nov. 27 Cyrus Herbert Camp- Charles N. and Marion bell, L.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED
1915
Date of Marriage Name
Residence
Eastham
Harwich
Eastham
Eastham
Brookline Eastham
New Bedford Eastham
Eastham
Eastham
Chatham
Eastham
Orleans
Eastham
DEATHS RECORDED
1915
Date of Death Name
Jan. 15 Wilbur G. Smith, Carcinoma of
27 Susan W. Dill,
28 Ruth E. Rich,
Cause of Death
Age
liver, 72y 2m 15d
Carcinoma of stomach, 57y 6m 16d
Acute anemia and shock due to hemorrhage preceding child-birth, 41y 10m 15d
Aug. 14
Fred Prescott Turner,
Alice May Nickerson,
14 Harry Winthrop Collins, Eleanor Brewer Gill,
Oct. 12 Isaac Paine, Alice A. Paine,
16 Raymond Howland Chase, Ruth Florence Dill,
Nov.
4 Edwin Weston Horton, Beatrice Hannah Rogers,
Dec. 16 James Albert Kendrick, Caroline Penniman,
28 Chester W. Ellis, Olive K. Walker,
DEATHS
CONT'D 1915
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Date of Death
Name
Age
Jan. 29
Rich,
Cause of Death Acute anemia,
10h
Feb. 25
Francisco Mc- Valvular dis- Guire, ease of heart, 65y
Mar. 14 Betsey Freeman Organic heart Lincoln,
disease, 83y 1m 15d
22 Benjamin C. Free- Chronic par-
man,
- enchyneatom nephritis, 72y 4m 15d
Apr. 23 William F. Mayo, Bronchitis and
senile debility, 86y
26d
11 Frank O. Daniels, Myocardial weakness, 47y
July
14 Catherine R. Organic heart Doane,
disease, 72y
3m 5d
21 William H. Nick- Arterio sclerosis erson,
and senile debility, 74y
10d
Nov. 27 Maria H. Cobb,
Chronic endo- carditis, 76y
21d
30 Harriet Atwood Cerebral Knowles, hemorrhage, 75y 2m 27d
DOG LICENSES
Number of dogs licensed, Male, Female,
28
26
2
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QUAHAUG PERMITS ISSUED (BAY) For 1914
Fred Steele Walter F. Nickerson Charles Chase
John F. Crosby Henry Hinckley Ommund Howes
Elsias H. Chase Nehemiah P. Hopkins Charles C. Daniels
For 1915 John C. Lamb
Edwin W. Horton Emil Baikanan
Arthur Benner
Raymond V. Brackett John Koski Richard F. Smith John F. Crosby
Nathan Darling
Edmond L. Knowles
William B. Steele
Elmer C. Smith
Charles W. Daniels
Otto Penttinen
Simon F. Lee Mattie Koski
Frank Ryder, Jr. Harry E. Hopkins
Henry B. Hinckley
Martin L. Murphy Henry O. Daniels Charles Lee
George W. Smith Ebenezer Cummings
Henry Allby
George C. Thompson
Fred Steele
George A. Nickerson
Everett Hurd
QUAHAUG PERMITS ISSUED (FLATS)
Clarence E. Chase Clifton Hopkins Walter F. Nickerson
Albert Watson M. Sisson William O. Gross
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Maurice Moore
Frank E. Hatch
Joseph A. Cobb Arthur A. Clark
Raymond Mayo Nehemiah P. Hopkins Earl K. Horton
Truman Brewer
Arthur Brown
Charles C. Chase
Leslie E. Chase
S. F. Doane
Ralph A. Chase
Arthur Wadsworth
William Bradley Steele
Roger Cole
Charles Brown
Austin E. Cole
Frank Ellison
Henry Clark Charles N. Campbell
Overy P. Mayo
Samuel A. Nickerson
Fred F. Dill
Charles F. Atwood Horace Moore A. H. Nickerson George W. Moore Philip M. Smith Maynard Dill Harry Hopkins Lloyd A. Mayo A. L. Nickerson Ommund Howes James P. Brewer Harry P. Mayo Joseph M. Dill
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Copy of the principal votes passed at the annual town meeting held Feb. 1, 1915 :
Moderator, Almond L. Nickerson.
Charles C. Daniels and George Thompson were appointed Tellers.
Voted, To accept the report of the Selectmen, and all other reports as printed.
Voted, To pay 2 per cent. for collection of taxes.
Elected, Lester G. Horton, Selectman, Assessor, Overseer of Poor, and Board of Health for three years.
Elected, George T. Dill, Town Clerk and Treasurer.
Elected, Harry Collins, Road Surveyor, District, No. 1. Elected, John G. Fulcher, Road Surveyor, District, No. 2.
Elected, Daniel W. Sparrow, Road Surveyor, District, No. 3.
Elected, Adin L. Gill, Road Surveyor, District, No. 4. Elected, Elsias H. Chase, Road Surveyor, District, No. 5
Elected, John H. Smart, Trustee Public Library, three years.
Elected, George Gill, Auditor.
Elected, Walter F. Nickerson, Constable.
Elected, Herbert M. Sullivan, Tree Warden.
Elected, A. May Knowles, School Committee for three years.
Elected, Leslie E. Chase, Tax Collector.
Elected, H. Moore and W. B. Higgins, Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Elected, J. A. Cobb and J. P. Knowles, Fence Viewers.
Elected, D. W. Sparrow, Pound Keeper.
Elected, J. A. Cobb, A. L. Gill, J. Souza, Field Drivers.
Elected, E. L. Knowles, W. H. Nickerson, W. B. Steele, Fish Wardens.
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Voted, 42 No, 14 Yes, on the question, shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town.
Voted, To appropriate $25 for the Public Library.
Voted, To adopt the recommendations of the Selectmen in regard to appropriations, and are as follows :
Miscellaneous
$1,400 00
Schools
2,500 00
Roads
100 00
Bridges
50 00
Snow
100 00
Poor
400 00
Moths
100 00
Surety on Bonds
30 00
Notes, Miscellaneous and Poor accounts
500 00
Notes, Town Hall
200 00
Notes, Oil Roads
580 00
Repairs on Oil Roads
,200 00
Interest
350 00
Abatements
200 00
Reserve Fund
200 00
Cattle Inspection
100 00
$7,010 00
Voted, To appropriate the refunded dog tax to the schools.
Voted, That the care of the poor be left in the hands of the Overseers of Poor.
Voted, That the care of the roads be left in the hands of the Road Surveyors.
Voted, To give the Collector of Taxes the same power which the Treasurer has when made Collector of Taxes.
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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 the revenue of the financial year, beginning Jan. 1st, 1915, an amount not to exceed four thousand dollars, ($4000), and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to make ar- rangements to build any oil road which any party will pay the entire expense of building if the Selectmen ap- prove.
Voted, That the close season on soft-shelled clams be the same as last year.
Voted, That the town appoint a committee to relocate and mark its town landings, and appropriate $25 therefor.
Voted, That the chair appoint the Selectmen and Mr. A. L. Nickerson as committee.
Voted, To authorize the Selectmen to transfer the Hosea Dill property to Mrs. Rebecca Lee, as recommended, if they find it legal to do so.
Voted, To drive a well in the basement of the Town Hall, and appropriate $50 for the same.
Voted, To authorize the Selectmen to fit up the vaults and Selectmen's room with fire-proof shelving, and appro- priate $110 therefor.
Voted, To purchase a check protector for the Town Treasurer, and appropriate: $35 for the same.
Voted, To authorize the correction of the course as re- corded on the road between the house of Samuel F. Brackett and Simon F. Lee.
Voted, a vote of thanks to Capt. Clarington Smith, re- tiring Selectman, for his services to the town.
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Voted, To pay the Moderator $5 for his services. Voted, To adjourn, sine die.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE T. DILL,
Town Clerk.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Trustees of the Public Library respectfully submit. their annual report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1915 :
July 1, our Librarian, Mrs. Clark, resigned, after serving the town for twenty-eight (28) consecutive years. Mrs. Clark has seen the library grow from a small collection of books, dependent on the generosity of one of our citizens for a library room, to its present fine building, and over four thousand (4000) volumes. To her as much as to anyone, the splendid record of the Public Library is due, and she leaves a record which for length of service and efficiency will stand for a long time.
The town is to be congratulated on acquiring so capable a successor to fill the vacancy.
FINANCIAL
The Trustees have set aside for the year 1916, the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225) to be ex- pended on the building under the direction of Mr. Smart.
SUB-STATIONS
The Sub-Station at North Eastham has for some time been in an unsatisfactory condition. The Trustees have made arrangements with Mr. Harding, which will, we hope, remedy this to some extent. The transportation of books by Mr. Brackett was discontinued last spring, as the ser- vice was not used enough to justify the expense. Some substitute will be installed as soon as a suitable one can be decided on.
The Trustees are open to suggestions on this point.
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INSURANCE
The Trustees considering that the library building would cost more than two thousand dollars ($2000) to replace, and contains over four thousand volumes, some of which are very valuable, have increased the insurance from two to three thousand dollars.
The Trustees wish to extend their thanks to all donors to the reading room and library for the year 1915.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
RECEIPTS
Cash in Treasury, January, 1915, $209 97
Dividend from New England Trust Co., Feb. 20, 245 00
Dividend from New England Trust Co., Aug. 2, 262 50
Town's appropriation, 25 00
$742 47
EXPENDITURES
Paid salary of Librarian and Janitor,
$157 00
Fuel and incidentals,
70 75
Insurance,
6 50
Disbursements,
5 90
Expenses of Library stations and transport- ing books,
57 40
Books,
166 43
Magazines,
6 00
Library of Congress cards,
10 00
Work on lawn, supplies and fertilizer,
36 55
Care of flagstaff,
2 00
Cash to balance,
223 94
$742 47
A. L. NICKERSON, Chairman, JOHN H. SMART, Secretary FRED F. DILL.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
IN TRUST
Robert C. Billings fund,
$14,000 00
Income to be used for the support of the Public Library.
RECEIPTS
Jan. 1 Cash in treasury,
$209 97
Feb. 17 New England Trust Co., dividend, 245 00
Aug. 2 New England Trust Co., dividend, 262 50
Dec.
31 Town appropriation,
25 00
$742 47
EXPENDITURES
Paid order of Trustees, $518 53
Jan. 1, 1916, cash in treasury,
223 94
$742 47
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE T. DILL,
Treasurer.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
Number of books in Library,
4,090
Added during year, adult, by purchase, 132
Added during year, adult, by gift, 17
Added during year, juvenile, by purchase, 32
Added during year, juvenile, by gift, 34
Total,
215
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Circulation :
Adult fiction,
3,604
"_ non-fiction,
137
magazines,
931
Juvenile fiction,
2,397
non-fiction,
787
magazines,
211
Total,
8,067
Largest number at any one time,
140
Average,
80 3-5
Reading room attendance,
1,211
Cash Jan. 1, 1915,
$4 30
Received from fines,
15 55
$19 85
Paid for kerosene,
$4 48
Express,
2 35
Ladies' World,
1 00
Mantles and wicks,
1 50
Chimneys,
50
For moving town books,
60
Blank books,
50
Brushes,
10
Stamps and pads,
25
Ink,
25
Paste,
50
Postage,
43
12 46
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1916,
$7 39
MRS. ROSE B. NICKERSON,
Librarian.
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ACCESSIONS TO LIBRARY Adult
Angela's Business
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
Adventures of Detective Barney Alladore
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
Anvil of Chance
An Army Boy In Alaska
Around Old Chester
Bachelor Bluff
Betty-All-Alone
Beltone the Smith
Brown Mouse
Bent Twig
Beyond the Frontier
Bachelors
Boomerang
Chained Lightning
Consuelo G
Clarion
Double Squeeze
Dear Enemy
Dual Alliance
Death of Ilyitch
Eltham House
Emma McChesney & Co.
End Of Her Honeymoon
Europe At War 'S
Fighting In Flanders S
First Violin G
Felix O'Day
Fur Trail Adventures
Foolish Virgin
Fortunes Of Garin
Fur Trail Adventures
Golden Slipper
Glorious Rascal
Gray Dawn
G Gift S State
Harrison Maniates Higgins Newboldt
Chittenden Kilbourne Deland Bunce Villars Farnol Quick Canfield Parrish Orcutt Osborne Taber Sand Adams Needham Webster Cooke Tolstoy Ward Fubes Loundes
Powell Fethergill Smith Wallace Dixon Johnston Wallace Green McCarthy White
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Green Half Moon
Germany and the Next War S
Gramercy Park Guimo Girl of Blue Ridge
How To Know the Ferns G
Heart of Uncle Terry
Hepsey Burke Homeberg Memories
Heart of the Sunset Heart's Content
Hope. of the Family
Hal O' the Ironside
Harding of Allenwood
High Priestess Happy Days
Horse Sense
I Accuse
Island of Surprise
Jean of the Lazy A.
Jack Straws K.
Kitchner Chaps
Lone Star Ranger
Lost Sheep
Little Sir Gallahad
Little Mother Who Sits At Home
Life of Mary Baker Eddy G
Loveable Meddler
Little Iliad Law Breakers
Lot & Company Long Lane
Log of the Ark
Lost Ditch Money Master Massacre of the Innocents Man From Bitter Root Mr. Bingle
Dwyer
Wood Elwood Erskine Parsons Munn Westcott Fitch Beach Barbour Castle Crockett Bindloss Grant Milne Mason By a German Brady Bower Crump Rinehart Lyon's Grey Shortt Gray Borcynsca Wilber Dalrymple Hewletts Cullum Comfort Harland Noah Elderdice Parker Maeterlinck Lockhart Mccutcheon
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Making Money Michael O'Halloran Minnie's Bishop Me Mrs. Beauchamp Brown
Mr. Isaacs
Mr. Potter of Texas
Man From Home
My Heart's Right There
Mrs. Red Pepper
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Mad Cap
Nations At War S
Nobody
Official Chaperon
Of Sandy Hook
On the Heights
Pollyanna
Pollyanna Grows Up
Princess Cecilia
Penecost of Calamity
£ S
Wister
Pirate of the Sky
Penelope's Postscript
Peg Along
Pegeen
Peggy Mary
Police
Prudence of the Parsonage
Romola G
Red Pepper Burns
Riders of Purple Sage
River
Rim of the Desert
Return of Tarzan
Rainbow Trail
Real Man
Rags
Rogue by Compulsion
Research Magnificent
Johnson Porter Birmingham Anonymous
Crawford Gunter Wilson Barclay Richmond Oppenheim Gibbs Abbott Vance Lincoln Dehon Anerbach Porter Porter Davies
Gaillad Wiggins Walton Branerd Straham Chambers Hueston Eliot Richmond Grey Aiken Anderson Burroughs Grey Lynde Delano Bridges Wells
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Story of Julia Page Something
Story Behind the Verdict
Star Rover
Straight Down the Crooked Lane
Somewhere In France
Second Wife G
Story of Untold Love G
Signers of the Declaration of American Independence
Sheep's Clothing
Sword of Youth
Still Jim
Sundown Slim
Silent Witness
Seven Darlings
Ten Degrees Backward
Twisted Skein
Thirty
These Twain
Testing Janice Day
Turmoil
Thankful's Inheritance
Up the Road With Sally
Valley of Fear
Venetian Life G
White Tiger
Way of These Women
Why Thodora!
When My Ship Comes In
Why Not? Wood and Stone
With the Allies S
Wisdom of Father Brown
Chesterton
Young Man's Year
Yellow Dove
Hope Gibbs
Juvenile
Abraham Lincoln S American Government S Animals S
Boy Scouts of Snow Shoe Lodge
Baldwin
Haskin Wood Hollam
S State
Norris Grenville Danby London Runkle Davis Marlitt Ford Lossing Vance Allen Willsie Knibbs
Freeman Morris Fowler Pane O'Brien Bennett Beecher
Booth Lincoln Sterritt Doyle Howells Rideout Oppenheim McConnell Maurice Widdemer Powys Davis
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Boy's Parkham S Boys of Edison S Boy Scouts S
Boris In Russia S Children's Reading S
Christmas S
Cherry Tree Children S
Dorothy Dale's School Rivals
Dorothy Dale in the City
Dame Curtsey's Book of Games S
Dave Porter In the Gold Fields
Four American Poets S
Fritz In Germany S
Florence Nightingale S
Harper's Hand Book for Girls
Harper's Beginning Electricity S
Hand Book of Economics S
Hans Brinker S Heroes of Chivalry S
High School Pitcher
High School Left End
High School Captain of the Team
In Morgan's Wake
In Camp On Bass Island
Indian Scout Talks S
Jimmie Kirkland
Little Captive Lad S
Fullerton Dix Poulsson
Lisbeth Long Frock S
Little Plays From American History S
Walker Adams
Little Miss Grouch
Little Miss Muffett Abroad
Lost Prince
Burnett
Miscellaneous Adventures of Three Good Boys S
Shute
Motor Rangers Lost Mines
West
Motor Rangers Through the Sierras
West
Motor Rangers On Blue Water
West
Motor Rangers Cloud Cruisers
West
Motor Rangers Wireless Station West
Motor Rangers Touring for the Trophy
West
Hasbrouck Meadcroft Davis McDonald Olcott Schauffler Blaisdell Penrose Penrose Glover Stratemeyer Cody McDonald Richard Paret Shafer Flagg
Dodge Greene Hancock Hancock Hancock Verrill Tomlinson
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Nowaday Girls In the Adirondacks Outdoor Primer S
Pretty Polly Flanders S
Patriotic Plays and Pageants S
Stories of Useful Inventions S
Song of Roland Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties S
Submarine Boys On Duty
Beard Durham
Submarine Boys Trial Trip
Durham
Submarine Boys and the Middies
Durham
Submarine Boys and the Spies
Durham
Submarine Boys Lightning Cruise
Durham
Submarine Boys for the Flag
Durham
Submarine Boys and the Smugglers
Durham
Smugglers' Island
Kneeland
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
Appleton
True Story of Christopher Columbus S Washington's Birthday S
Brooks
Schauffler
Hall Grover Blaisdell Mackay Forman Cox
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF EASTHAM
FOR THE YEAR
1915
OF EAS
TOWN
INCO
NAUSET 1620
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1651.
HYANNIS, MASS. : F. B. & F. P. GOSS, PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS The "Patriot " Press 1916
SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
RUSSELL D. WILEY, Chairman, Term expires 1917
MISS A. MAY KNOWLES, Secretary, 1918
J. BRADLEY STEELE, 1916
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT (Harwich, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham) LORING G. WILLIAMS
CORPS OF TEACHERS
December, 1915
ELIZA M. SMITH, North Adams Normal,
Grammar School
JENNIE B. SMITH, Hyannis Normal, Intermediate School FLORENCE W. KEITH, Bridgewater Normal, Primary School
JANITOR
FRANK ELLISON
ATTENDANCE OFFICER
WALTER F. NICKERSON
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN R. J. MARVEL, M. D.
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Pupils Attending Orleans High School December, 1915
Aimee Horton,
Nathan Kelley,
Leonora Sparrow,
Rebecca Knowles,
John Fulcher,
George Runnells,
Clifton Hopkins,
Gladys Daniels, Thomas D. Ellis, Grace Rich, Abbie Nickerson,
Vesta Gross,
Lucille Mayo,
Livingston McPherson,
Raymond Mayo, Charles Knowles.
High School Graduate June, 1915 Arthur G. Wadsworth
Attending Harwich Agricultural School
Arthur Clark, Trueman Brewer.
School Calendar, 1916
FALL TERM, 1915 : September 7 to December 17,
Fifteen weeks
WINTER TERM, 1916 : January 3 to March 17, Eleven weeks
SPRING TERM, 1916 : April 3 to June 9, Ten weeks
Vacations : Two weeks Christmas, two weeks Easter, Thanksgiving Day and day following, every legal holiday and every Saturday.
FALL TERM, 1916 : September 5 to December 15,
Fifteen weeks
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Report of School Committee for year ending December 31, 1915 :
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Received from Massachusetts School fund, 1915, $1,117 30
Town's appropriation for schools, 1915, 2,500 00
From City of Boston for tuition, 502 00
Rebate for teachers' and Supt. salary,
129 31
Rebate for High School tuition,
562 50
Refunded dog tax,
53 89
On account of Industrial Schools,
87 50
Deficit 201 80
$5,154 30
EXPENDITURES
Paid for teachers' salaries,
$1,620 00
Transportation,
1,801 00
Vocational school tuition,
160 00
High School tuition,
562 50
Supervisor Music and Drawing, Janitor's salary,
78 57
216 00
Superintendent's salary,
283 71
Labor and repairs,
61 77
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Textbooks and supplies,
$183 06
Fuel,
116 26
Incidentals,
46 43
Medical examinations,
25 00
$5,154 30
Appropriations recommended for the coming year :
For schools, For tuition for vocational pupils,
$2,500 00
200 00
$2,700 00
RUSSELL D. WILEY, Chairman A. MAY KNOWLES, Secretary J. BRADLEY STEELE.
STATISTICS OF ATTENDANCE FOR SCHOOL YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1915
TEACHER
WHERE EDUCATED
NAME OF SCHOOL
Total Enrolment
Pupils under 5 years
Between 5 and
7 years
Over 16
Between 7 and 14 years
Between 14 and 16
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Percentage of Attend-
Half Day Absences
Tardiness
Dismissals
Music and Drawing Visits by Supervisor
Visits by School
Officials
Visits by Others
Eliza M. Smith
No. Adams Normal. ..
37
0
0
28
9 33.60
93.35
774
46
8
20
15
35
Jennie B. Smith
Hyannis Normal .. ..
41
0
C
39
0
18
0
0
32.80
91.80
1,021
52
9
19
14
117
Totals for year .. . 117
0
18
o
90
co
106.40
99.21
93.60
2,515
118
36
59
43
221
12
20
14
69
Florence W. Keith .. ..
Bridgewater Normal ..
Grammar ... Grades 6, 7, 8, 9 Intermediate Grades 4 and 5 Primary .. Grades 1, 2, 3
0 0
41 21
0 37.10 35.70
31.36 35.05
94.50
720
20
ance
of age
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ROLL OF HONOR
Pupils Neither Absent nor Tardy
FIRST HALF YEAR
Grammar - Clayton Horton, Anna Habash, Charles Knowles, Livingston McPherson, Pauline Sparrow, Albert Watson.
Intermediate-Gordon Braendle, Ruth Habash, Mildred Horton, Evelyn Mayo, Ernest Moore, Lewis Shultz, Geo. Thompson, Malcolm Steele.
Primary - Frances Runnells, Lucille Horton, Alvah Knowles, Bernard Nickerson, Rowena Moore, Chester Runnells, Louisa Thompson.
SECOND HALF YEAR
Intermediate - Gordon Braendle, Earland Runnells, George Thompson, Dana Connolly, Evelyn Sawyer, Mal- colm Steele.
Primary -Edith Knowles, Lucille Horton, Bernard Nick- erson, Alvah Knowles, Uuno Koski, Lloyd Mayo, Grace Sawyer.
FOR THE YEAR
Gordon Braendle, George Thompson, Malcolm Steele, Lucille Horton, Alvah Knowles, Bernard Nickerson.
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PUPILS CLASSIFIED BY GRADES, DEC. 1915
School
Grade
Boys
Girls
Total
Grammar
VIII
5
8
13
VII
3
4
7
VI
8
11
19
Intermediate
V
10
7
17
IV
5
8
13
Primary
III
7
1
8
II
6
9
15
I
4
4
8
Totals of all grades, Attending Orleans High,
48
52
100
8
8
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STATISTICS
1 Population of town, census 1910,
518
2 Assessed valuation, 1915,
$479,495 00
3 School appropriation for 1915,
2,500 00
4 School census, 1915 :
(a) Number persons between 5 and 7 years, boys 5, girls 11.
(b) Number persons between 7 and 14 years, boys 40, girls 41.
(c) Number persons between 14 and 16 years, boys 9, girls 8.
(d) Number persons over 16 years, il- literate, 0.
5 Total number enrolled December, 1915, Elementary,
100
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6 Total number enrolled December, 1915, High, 16
7 Attending Harwich Agricultural Depart- ment, December, 1915, 2
8 Total number attending school year ending June, 1915, Elementary, 117
9 Average membership, 106.40
10 Average attendance, 99.21
11 Percentage of attendance, 93.60
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GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE CLASS OF 1915
PROGRAM OF GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATION
1 Prayer, ' Rev. Arthur Wadsworth
2 Music-Lovely Night, School 3 Justice, Beatrice Rogers
4 The Boy to the Schoolmaster, Livingston McPherson 5 Our Territorial Possessions, Lucille Mayo 6 Ready, Charles Knowles 7 Music, Miss Sullivan Helen Brown
8 Origin of the Red Cross,
9 Panama Canal,
Raymond Mayo Vesta Gross
10 Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night,
11 Driving Home the Cows,
12 Music,
Trueman Brewer Miss Murray Luther Smith
13 The Wreck of the Birkenhead,
14 Some Modern Appliances of Warfare, Clifton Hopkins
15 Monument Mountain, Grace Rich 16 The Coast Guard, T. Nathan Kelley 17 The Courtin', Abbie Nickerson School
18 Music- Anchored,
19 Presentation of Diplomas,
20 Benediction,
Supt. L. G. Williams Rev. Arthur Wadsworth
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the School Committee of Eastham:
Miss Knowles and Gentlemen,-
I am presenting herewith my eighth annual report for your consideration and approval.
In my last year's report I emphasized two things-the crowded condition of the schools, and the comparatively light financial burden the town is bearing in regard to her schools. The amount expended from actual taxation per child being less than one-half the average for the State.
The crowded condition has been relieved for the present at least. By a vote of the committee, the ninth grade has been abolished, and the age of admission increased.
It was felt that the ninth grade was no longer in demand as an added year by those who do not attend High school, and also that those attending High school would be able to prepare in eight years, if the age of admission was about six years.
Therefore encouragement was offered to the pupils of the eighth grade, and they were promised that, as many as wished, and entered upon the work, they would be con- sidered for graduation in the class of ninth grade pupils, and be given admission to High school.
I am pleased to report that several accepted the terms, and finished the year with credit. They, accordingly, en- tered the High school, and without an exception they are doing good work.
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We are fortunate in retaining the same teachers as were in the schools last year. The all around interests of the children are the first consideration. A trial of serving hot cocoa at lunch time in the Primary school is being made. Excellent results have obtained in other places. It is generally felt that the physical condition of children has very much improved on account of it. It is hoped that parents and children will give their support to the pro- ject.
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