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We desire to bring to the attention of the townspeople as a whole the following change which is to be made in the entering age of children. Heretofore, the rule has been that children entering the first grade must be five years old on October 1 of the year of entrance. After seriously considering the situation and consulting with Mr. Williams, our superintendent, the Committee have decided to raise the age for the school year beginning September, 1922. For that year and until some further change is made it will be necessary in order to enter children in the fist grade that they be five years old on or before April 1 preceding their entrance, so that when they enter in September they must be at least five years and five months. It should be noted that this does not take effect next September but in September, 1922. It is mentioned here in order that all may have ample notice.
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As is set forth at quite a length in the superintendent's report, there has been some criticism with reference to children entering Peabody high school from the South School. The matter was taken up at a meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association and we under- stand is now fully understood. The Committee have, accordingly, adopted the rule that children from the South School upon being graduated will be entered in the sub-freshman class of the Peabody high school, with the right, as pointed out in the superintendent's re- port, to take the examinations for admission to the freshman class. This will bring the South School in line with the Peabody elementary schools.
Transportation of children to our town schools is becoming more and more of a problem each year as well as an increased ex- pense. The Committee are seriously considering discontinuing this transportation. There are but few children in the town whom the town is obliged to transport under the law as it has recently been amended. Before making such a radical change, however, we would appreciate serious consideration by the parents themselves and an expression of their views.
Last summer, we were troubled somewhat at the South School by carelessness in the use of apparatus and arrangements in the yard. This undoubtedly arose more from lack of thought than a de- liberate attempt to destroy property. Such actions, of course, cannot be permitted and the Committee hope that they will not be repeated. If so, it will be necessary to adopt measures to insure their discontin- uance.
At the Center School we have noted an inclination to use the school grounds as a public highway. Here, again, we believe the acts were more the result of lack of thought than any deliberate at- tempt to injure the school grounds. Everyone will recognize that each team or automobile that drives across the ground makes it easier for others to follow and more difficult for the Committee to prevent. It is the Committee's desire to keep these grounds for the purposes for which they were intended. The town has gone to con- siderable expense in grading it and, while, of course, we have no ob- jections to persons on foot crossing the grounds, we must insist that automobiles and teams use the regular town highways.
· In closing, the Committee state again what was said last year that we are ready at any time to discuss school matters with any of our townspeople and if we are unable fully to explain matters to them we will be perfectly willing to use our best efforts in obtaining the information elsewhere. This does not mean, however, that we
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should be used as intermediaries between parents and teachers as we believe that questions directly involving school affairs of any par- ticular child can best be looked after between the parent and the teacher in charge.
Respectfully submitted,
NELSON B. TODD, Chairman, MARTHA D. MANSFIELD, EDWARD A. RUSSELL.
Report of Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee:
Madam and Gentlemen:
I have the honor to present herewith my ninth annual report of progress and condition of the Lynnfield schools.
TEACHERS
Since the last report there have been but two changes in the teaching force. Miss Wilbur and Miss Winston resigned at the end of the school year in June to be married. Miss Dorothy Hulburt of Lexington was secured for the grammar grades at the Center and Miss Angelyn Chase of Danvers for the primary room at the South.
During most of last year we were without a drawing teacher but were fortunate in the choice of Miss Dorothy Durham of Roslindale, a graduate of the Normal Art School, for the work beginning in Sep- tember.
For a reasonable increase in salaries, we were able to retain the services of the other teachers for the present year. As changes in teachers always cause more or less loss to the children while new teachers are getting started, we were very fortunate in being able to retain so many in the school for another year, and especially so on account of the excellent work they are doing. On the whole it would be difficult to find in a small school system as efficient a group of teachers as we now have in Lynnfield.
ATTENDANCE
In the last report I made some statements in relation to the ir- regular attendance in these schools, and I wish to repeat those state- ments in this report. The faithful, conscientious work of the teach- ers cannot produce the best results when children are irregular in their attendance at the school. Following is the quotation from the last report :
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"There are a few people who are disposed to place the school as a secondary consideration in their plans for their children. They seem to think, or, at least, they appear to think that a day or a half- day lost occasionally does not matter much, when, as a matter of fact, it is a serious question. Every lesson lost is not only a loss to the absentee but it lowers the standing of the entire class unless the lost work is made up outside the class, and this is quite impossible with- out placing too much of a burden upon the teachers. These few par- ents should realize that they have no right to lower the standard of the classes by unnecessarily keeping their children away from school. Another important fact should be considered by these peo- ple. "School days" is the time when habits of regularity and punc- tuality should be formed by the children. 'At school regularly and on time' should become the habit of every child; not only because it is due the school, but because of the value of such habits to the child himself. Illness of the children or other unavoidable circumstances are always sufficient excuse for absence and such reasons are ac- cepted without question. But absence for trivial reasons is not only an offence against the school but it has a very harmful effect upon the children."
The great majority of the people, however, manifest a strong in- terest in the schools and are to be commended for their hearty co- operation.
SOME SUGGESTIONS
While our teachers are faithful and conscientious in their work in the schools they are liable to make mistakes now and then. They are human just like other people, but I believe they intend to be fair and just with all the children. However, there will occasionally arise little differences between the schools and the homes, and the first thing to be done in such cases, is for the parents to have a confer- ence with the teacher and determine the facts in the case. In the great majority of cases the result of such a conference will be a much better understanding between the home and the school to the great advantage of the children and of the schools as a whole. May I suggest further that these conferences should never be held during the regular sessions of the school, but either before or after school hours.
The teachers are responsible for the work of all the children while the schools are in session but should always be ready to confer at any other time that may suit the convenience of parents.
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With the above plan of procedure in effect, there should only oc- casionally be need of referring matters to the superintendent and finally to the School Committee. However, we stand ready at any time to try to adjust any cases that cannot be satisfactorily settled between the parents and teachers and to correct any faults and de- fects that may unconsciously or otherwise get started in the school system. Fortunately, however, we are rarely called upon to do this for the reason that most parents in Lynnfield do follow the plan out- lined above and do heartily co-operate with the teachers, the super- intendent and the School Committee. It is for the benefit of a very small minority that I have ventured to make these suggestions.
SOUTH DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS
On account of a very general misunderstanding about the rela- tion of the South School to the Peabody High School, I went over the whole situation very carefully with Principal Woodman. I found that while a majority of the Lynnfield pupils were maintaining a fair to good standing, it is the opinion of Mr. Woodman that these pupils are more or less handicapped by entering the Freshman rather than the Sub-Freshman class, because of the lack of such training as they can get only in the Sub-Freshman class in that school; name- ly, the adjustment to the new environment of the larger school and the very necessary foundation material needed for the later work. It is not possible to give this work in the South School even with an additional teacher, because the pupils would still lack the adjustment to the new environment as well as the Peabody School plan of doing the work.
It is not, however, necessary for all pupils entering the Sub- Freshman class in Peabody High to take five years to do the work and graduate. They may, if they are capable, do the work in four years or even three.
Therefore, it is the opinion of Mr. Woodman, your Superintend- ent and Committee, and an increasing number of parents that the pu- pils who successfully complete the eight grades in the South School should go into the Sub-Freshman class in Peabody and get started right.
In Peabody pupils desiring to enter the Freshman class must pass an examination and the same will be required of Lynnfield pu- pils in the future.
IN CONCLUSION
In closing this report I wish to say a word of appreciation for what the Parent-Teacher Association has done for the children of the
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South School by providing playground apparatus. Nothing could have been done, I believe, that would have been of greater value to the children. In many other ways this Association has shown a very active interest in the schools.
At the Center there is a very much larger playground, but it would be equally as valuable to these children to have some appar- atus on the playground for physical development.
I wish also to express my highest appreciation for the hearty co-operation of all the teachers, the advice and cordial attitude of the School Committee and the general interest of all the people.
Respectfully submitted,
HARVEY R. WILLIAMS, Superintendent of Schools.
January 14, 1921.
CALENDAR 1921-1922
1921
March 3
Third term begins
Patriots' Day, holiday April 19
April 29 Schools close for one week vacation
May 9 Schools re-open
May 27 Memorial exercises in the schools
May 30
Memorial Day, holiday
June 17 Bunker Hill Day observed
Schools close for summer vacation June 24
SUMMER VACATION
September 7 Fall term begins
October 12
Columbus Day, holiday
November 23 Schools close for Thanksgiving recess
November 28
Schools re-open December 23
Schools close for Christmas vacation
1922
January 2 Schools re-open for second term
Washington's Birthday observed in schools February 21
February 22 Washington's Birthday, holiday February 24 Schools close for one week vacation
March 6
Schools re-open for third term
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REGISTRATION BY SCHOOLS AND GRADES AS OF DECEMBER, 1920
Grades
I
II III IV
V
VI
VII
VIII Ttls
Center School
8
12
7
12
6
11
10
10
76
South School
19
13
18
11
10
11
10
8
100
Totals
27
25
25
23
16
22
20
18
176
RESULTS OF EYE AND EAR TESTS, SEPTEMBER, 1920
Number examined
172
Number found defective in eyesight
9
Number found defective in hearing
2
· Number of parents or guardians notified
11
CENSUS, AS OF APRIL, 1920
N'umber between five and seven years of age
Center South
Total
Boys
7
11
18
Girls ·
8
11
19
Number between seven and fourteen years of age
Boys
44
29
73
Girls
31
37
68
Number between fourteen and sixteen years of age
Boys
13
5
18
Girls
4
16
20
Totals
107
109
216
AGE OF ADMISSION
No child will be admitted to the first grade in September who will not be five years of age on or before the first day of October. Pupils are admitted to this grade only during the first two weeks of the term unless they have attended school in some other town.
Permission to enter school under other conditions than those named above should be obtained from the superintendent of schools.
VACCINATION
Children who have not been vaccinated will not be admitted to school in September unless they present a certificate from a regular practicing physician stating that they are not fit subjects for vac- cination. Parents are requested to attend to this matter during the summer vacation as certificates of vaccination or of exemption must be presented at the opening of school to entitle children to admission.
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ATTENDANCE STATISTICS Year Ending in June, 1920
SCHOOLS
Length of
Year
Number
Enrolled
Boys
Enrolled
Girls
Enrolled
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Aggregate
Attendance
Number Under 5
Number Between
Number Between
7 and 14
Number Between
14 and 16
Number Over 16
Mos. Ds.
South Grammar
8-15
24
7
17
18.2
16.2
2848
0
0
19
5
0
South Low. Gram.
8-15
20
7
13
18.8
16.7
2952
0
0
19
1
C
South Intermediate
8-15
33
18
15
25.1
20.6
3732
0
19
19
9
0
South Primary
8-13
28
16
12
24.9
24.0
4598
0
0
.
33
0
0
Center Grammar
8-6
27
16
11
27.2
25.4
4195
0
0
21
5
1
Center Intermediate
8-7
24
18
6
22.2
20.7
3452
0
0
23
1
0
Center Primary
8-6
39
16
23
34.9
31.4
5207
0
11
28
0
0
Totals
195
98
97
171.3
155.0
26984
0
30
162
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TEACHERS' DIRECTORY, JANUARY 1921
NAMES
SCHOOL
GRADES
SALARY
APPOINTED .
EDUCATION
Ethel O'Donnell
South
VII-VIII
$1250
1918
Salem Normal School
Eliza B. Marsh
South
V-VI
1100
1919
Salem Normal School
Mabelle. P. Bagley
South
III-IV
1200
1917
Lesley Normal, Cambridge
Angelyn R. Chase
South
I-II
850
1920
Salem Normal School
Dorothy A. Hulbert
Center
VI-VIII
1100
1920
Wheaton College
Not a graduate
Margaret V. Lamb
Center
III-V
1100
1918
Salem Normal School
Avice G. Riggs
Center
I-II
1200
1917
Salem Normal School
Alice M. Genther
All
Music
225*
1917
N. E. Conservatory
Dorothy Durham
All
Drawing
175*
1920
Normal Art School
One day in two weeks.
GRADUATES, JUNE 1920
CENTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Rose Duffy Ralph Flannigan
Katherine Gersinovitch
Joseph LaFleur Clara Looke Alice Ward
Walter Wilkinson, Jr.
SOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Elizabeth Deans
Elory Dewing
Alice Elliott Alice Gilbo Sherman Harding
Marjorie Ingraham
Viola LaPierre
Irene Preston
Marie Stokes
Richard Stokes
Avis Hayward
PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Cecilia Lynch
WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
Lena Hayward Gertrude Hutchinson
Adelaide Sweetser Dorothy Taylor
Walter Pearson
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Financial Report of the School Committee
RECEIPTS
Balance December 31, 1919
$ 1,302.97
Appropriation, Mch. 8, 1920
14,500.00
Appropriation, Apr. 12, 1920
1,050.00
Balance grading appropriation (Center)
90.67
Balance heating appropriation (South)
52.72
Refund transportation
4.40
Sale bus tickets
5.45
Educational fund
1.53
Overpaid High School Transportation
5.66
Commonwealth Tuition
407.50
Commonwealth Salary Superintendent
187.50
Sale old desks (South)
11.10
Commonw'Ith High School Transportation
1,029.41
City of Lynn Tuition
200.00
Commonwealth Income Tax
1,320.00
Refund Melrose Tuition
15.00
Refund Rowell Coal
50.00
$20,233.91
SUMMARY OF DISBURSEMENTS
General Administration
$ 872.17
Center School
9,417.84
South School
9,531.43
$19,821.44
Unexpended balance
$ 412.47
DISBURSEMENTS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
SALARIES :
General
Total
Nelson B. Todd
$ 8.34
Edward A. Russell
8.33
Martha D. Mansfield
8.33
$ 25.00
OTHER EXPENSES :
Wakefield Daily Item
$ 25.75
Martha D. Mansfield
31.00
$ 57.05
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SUPERINTENDENT SALARY :
Harvey R. Williams $ 450.00
OTHER EXPENSES : Harvey R. Williams
42.12
$ 492.12
EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION
SUPERVISORS' SALARIES :
Alice Genthner
$ 210.00
Dorothy Durham
60.00
270.00
TEACHERS' SALARIES :
Center School
South School
Total
Alice E. Wilbur
$ 775.00
Dorothy Hurlbert
440.00
Avice G. Riggs
1,125.00
Margaret V. Lamb
1,025.00
Ethel O'Donnell
$1,190.00
Mabelle Bagley
1,140.00
Eliza Marsh·
1,040.00
Angelyn Chase
340.00
Elizabeth Winston
630.00
Marion Keys
6.00
Madeline Bagley
3.00
Lillian Coughlin
6.00
Hattie F. Russell
13.50
Gertrude Emery
1.50
Ethel Eaton
3.00
Mrs. Wallis Corbin
9.00
3,380.00
4,367.00
$7,747.00
TEXT BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
J. L. Hammett Co.
142.17
82.50
Library Bureau
.96
Silver, Burdett Co.
8.83
C. C. Burchard Co.
3.69
2.23
Edward E. Babb & Co.
11.57
154.69
97.26
251.95
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EXPENSES OF OPERATING SCHOOL PLANT JANITORS' WAGES : Louis Southworth
985.67
William Griffin
758.68
$1,744.35
FUEL :
L. E. Bennett
350.32
439.62
Andrew Mansfield
27.00
Thomas Hickey
394.57
528.70
John Ward
10.00
754.89
995.32
1,750.21
MISCELLANEOUS
Reading Mun. Light Plant .
31.60
Peabody Electric Light Plant
6.12
George M. Roundy
18.24
Nelson B. Todd
47.94
Perkins & Bancroft
7.50
W. Henry Hutchinson
6.35
J. L. Hammett Co.
17.85
W. E. Roundy
3.50
57.34
81.76
139.10
MAINTENANCE
REPAIRS :
Perkins & Bancroft
7.25
46.20
Arthur T. Locke
9.63
Otto Johnson
12.10
Edward A. Russell
5.00
Nelson B. Todd
22.54
Thomas Hickey
23.04
Lunt, Moss & Co.
1.28
Martha D. Mansfield
7.95
H. S. Sorenson
2.00
Reformatory for Women
5.09
H. E. Todd
18.85
Dana Dudley
· ..
2.35
85.19
78.09
163.28
AUXILIARY AGENCIES
HEALTH :
Franklin W. Freeman, M.D.
(General)
$
28.00
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TRANSPORTATION :
Charles McCarthy
(Grammar)
850.00
(High)
233.40
Lynnfield Community, Inc.
(Grammar)
209.25
(High)
793.62
Reimbursement to Parents .
284.78
127.32
1,368.18
1,130.19
2,498.37
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES
TUITION :
City of Peabody
1,143.30
City of Melrose
75.00
Town of Wakefield
1,057.50
135.00
James Stokes (Lynn)
30.00
Walter Deans .(Lynn)
30.00
1,132.50
1,338.30
2,470.80 .
SUNDRIES :
Mary J. Henfield
92.00
W. E. Roundy
4.00
J. L. Hammett Co.
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1.74
Martha D. Mansfield
18.60
Hattie F. Russell
12.00
· F. C. Johnson
2.04
2.04
Commiss'r of Public Safety
2.00
2.00
Nelson B. Todd
10.92
Edward Nye
3.20
115.76
35.30
151.06:
OUTLAY
NEW GROUNDS :
Herbert E. Todd
31.20
38.30
Ralph E. Cox
3.20
Percy Sweetser
24.00
Andrew Mansfield
4.00
54.40
42.30
100.70
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NEW EQUIPMENT :
Andrew Dutton
67.72
American Seating Co.
394.83
Herbert E. Todd
5.20
32.40
72.92
427.23
500.15
OTHER PAYMENTS : INTEREST :
First National
180.00
Wakefield Trust Co.
675.00
George Hatch
509.80
George Bancroft
67.50
1,252.30
180.00
1,432.30
Grand Total Disbursements
$19,821.44
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Financial Statement OF
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Showing Receipts and Expenditures of the Town for the Year Ending December 31, 1920 ALSO Report of Trust Funds Taxes Outstanding Cash in Hand, etc.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
CREDIT
Appropriation March 8, 1920
$3,500.00
Excise Tax for year of 1918
678.95
Rent of Halls
183.00
Licenses
53.00
Interest on Taxes
392.95
Miscellaneous
4.00
Refund for Tax Property Sold
23.12
Interest on daily bank balance
99.35
DEBIT SELECTMEN
SALARY :
Chas. J. Bolton, 2 mos. $ 9.72
Carl H. Russell, 10 mos.
48.61
Albert P. Mansfield, one year 58.34
Frank Newhall, one year
58.33
$
175.00
PERAMBULATION TOWN BOUNDS:
Lynn, Saugus and Peabody
Albert P. Mansfield, 10 hrs. and auto $ 20.00
Frank C. Newhall, 10 hrs. 10.00
Carl H. Russell, 10 hrs.
10.00
$ 40.00
SELECTMEN'S EXPENSE :
Albert P. Mansfield, petition to Com. $ 3.00
Hobbs and Warren, supplies .75
Geo. W. Abbott, letter, note hds. 18.25 .. Geo. W. Abbott, 500 moth notices .. 3.75
Albert P. Mansfield, tel. tolls for '20 15.05
Frank C. Newhall, tel. tolls for 1920 16.15
C. J. Bolton, tel. toll for 1920 2.30
$ 59.25
ACCOUNTANT'S EXPENSE:
O. E. Phillips, salary 1920
$
200.00
Office expense
$ 9.73
Item printing 600 reports
197.20
Annie Blanchard, typing 10.00
Walter E. Wilkinson, deliv. reports 7.00
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TREASURER
F. W. Freeman, salary 1920 $ 150.00
TREASURER'S EXPENSE :
Thomas Groom & Co., supplies $ 5.75
F. W. Freeman, tel. tolls 1920 3.50
E. A. Russell, stamps and envelopes 19.86
Wakefield Trust Co., safety box rent 6.00
$ 35.11
COLLECTOR
F. W. Freeman, salary for 1920 .. $ 150.00
COLLECTOR'S EXPENSE:
Geo. W. Abbott, tax bills $ 10.75
E. A. Russell, stamps and envelopes 17.76
Geo. W. Abbott, 500 demands 4.25
Geo. W. Abbott, tax bills
10.75
F. W. Freeman, tel. tolls 1920 2.50
F. W. Freeman, tax sale
14.85
$ 60.86
ASSESSORS
Henry W. Hodgdon, lab. 164 hrs, 50c $ 82.00 Geo. H. Bancroft, lab. 220 hrs, 50c 110.00
Eldridge H. Gerry, lab. 239 hrs,, 50c 119.59
$ 311.50
ASSESSORS' EXPENSE :
Henry W. Hodgdon, tel. tolls 1920 .. $ 2.90
Geo. H. Bancroft, tel. tolls 1920 .. 1.50
Eldridge H. Gerry, tel. tolls 1920 .. 1.60
Wright & Potter, 200 tax blanks .. 6.14
Wakefield Item Press, notices and tax books
4.50
Hobbs & Warren, supplies
4.10
Lilla D. Stott, abstracts of records 19.67 F. M. Barry Beal & Co., index cards 5.79 Wakefield Item Press, letter heads and envelopes 14.90
Walter E. Wilkinson, transportation
20.00
$ 81.10
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TOWN CLERK
Oscar E. Phillips, salary for 1920 .. TOWN CLERK'S EXPENSES:
$ 200.00 ,
Recording births, marriages and
deaths $ 49.00
Wakefield Item Press, 200 letter
1.50
heads
13.46
Office expense
0. E. Phillips, repairing typewriter
2.50
$
66.46
BOARD OF REGISTRARS
Sidney M. Eaton, service 1920 $ 15.00
Everett E. Harvey, service 1920 ... 15.00
Everett B. Richards, service 1920 . 15.00
$ 45.00
REGISTRARS' EXPENSE:
Hobbs & Warren, Reg. books $ 7.14
Hobbs & Warren, rubber stamp 1.65
Geo. W. Abbott, Reg. notices 3.75
$ 12.54
ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES :
Geo. W. Abbott, annual ballots $ 34.00 . Wakefield Item Press, 25 annual warrants 4.25
Pay roll 4 men at annual Town
20.00
Geo. W. Abbott, printing pres. prim. sheets
4.00
Pay roll 9 men pres. primaries
22.50
Frank C. Newhall, trans. of ballots
2.00
1.00
John F. Currier, returning ballots Albert G. Tedford, posting annual, special and pres. primaries
15.00
Albert G. Tedford, service at pres. primaries
2.50
Wakefield Item Press, 25 state pri- mary warrants
4.00
Geo. W. Abbott, print. 23 state pri- mary tally sheets 5.75
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meeting at $5.00
Geo. W. Abbott, print. 25 Pres. Elec. Warrants 4.75
Geo. W. Abbot, State Elec. Tally sheets 8.00
E. A. Russell, transp. Town Clerk Lynn 3.00
12.00
Ella D. Roundy, lunch for Elec. Of. Albert G. Tedford, post. State Prim. and election warrants
18.00
Pay roll Elec. Of. 8 men at $10.00
80.00
John F. Currier, trans. of ballots .. 2.00
F. W. Freeman, trans. of ballots .. 1.00
A. P. Mansfield, trans. of ballots . 1.00
A. P. Mansfield, warrants for Spec. Meeting
3.75
Geo. M. Roundy, one doz. pencils ...
.90
Geo. W. Abbott, Pres. Prim. War- rants 5.75
$ 255.15
LEGAL EXPENSE
Clifton Colburn, damage to auto .. $ 50.00
Henry F. Sheehan, Magee case court settlement 10.00
Rutherford E. Smith, Town Counsel
for 1920 153.43
$ 213.43
TOWN HALL
JANITOR :
L. F. Southworth, care of hall, March 7-8
$ 3.60
David A. Fullerton, January, Feb., March, and April 101.93
Edward L. Phillips, 9 mos .- Dec. 31, 1920 122.25
$ 227.28
FUEL AND LIGHT :
Reading Light Board, year's account $ 40.17
Wm. E. Roundy, 1-2 cord wood . .
7.50
J. L. Morris, 1 cord wood 12.00
L. E. Bennett, 10,920 lbs. coal 81.90
$ 141.57
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OTHER EXPENSE :
Perkins & Bancroft, lab. on pump $ 22.58 Lewis F. Pope, thawing pipes ..... 3.00 Geo. M. Roundy, supplies 3.98
Total for Town Hall $398.91 $ 29.56
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HALL IN PRECINCT 2
JANITOR :
Geo. Williams, 1920 account .. FUEL AND LIGHT :
$
103.50
Peabody Light Plant, year account $ 18.52
Curley Bros., 14,990 lbs. coal 104.05
Andrew Mansfield, 1-2 cord wood .. 6.50
Andrew Mansfield, teaming coal .. 2.25 -
$ 131.32
OTHER EXPENSE :
1 Kallenberg & Twiss, removing snow $ 1.40
Lester Preston, fixing lights 1.50
Griffin and Merrow, repairs 7.13
E. Q. Moulton, repairs to voting
: booth
2.00
Harvey, groceries
9.32
1
Robert S. Sisson & Son, Ins. on Prec. 2 Hall, 3 yrs. to Sept. 3, 1923 on $1,500.00 23.55
$ 44.90
Total payment for Hall 2, .. $279.72
OTHER GEN. GOV. EXPENSE:
Lewis of Lynn, lettering War Tablet $ 5.00
Edgerly & Bessom, return of deaths 2.25
Registration of notes 14.00
Discount on note No. 7
206.60
Interest on notes Salem St. 8 mos. 233.75
Interest on Tax loans
· 530.21
$ 991.81
Total payment to Gen. Gov.
$3,949.77
Transferred to Memorial Day
7.82
Unexpended balance
976.78
$4,934.37
$4,934.37
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PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Police, Sealer, and Inspector of Animals
CREDIT
Appropriation March 8, 1920
$ 250.00
Unexpended balance of 1919 194.05
Sealer's Fees
11.28
State Refund Inspection of Animals, salary .. 25.00
DEBIT
Board of Health
Chas. J. Bolton, service 2 mos. $ 1.67
Carl H. Russell, service 10 mos. ..
4.17
A. P. Mansfield, service 1 yr. 9.16
Frank C. Newhall
5.00
F. W. Freeman, fumigating and
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