Town of Norwell annual report 1900-1909, Part 24

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Eva S. Burns, Dist. No. 6, mixed 268 00


Maria W. Tolman, Dist. No. 7, primary 268 00


A. Gertrude Jones, drawing teacher 90 00


$3,098 00


CARE OF ROOMS.


A. B. Lewis, High school $48 00


L. F. Hammond, High school 80 00


Ralph G. Lambert, Dist. No. I


10 00


Nelson P. Tisdale, Dist. No. I


10 00


E. W. French, Dist. No. 5 Frank L. Thomas, Dist. No. 6


28 00


31 50


Wm. C. Tolman, Dist. No. 7


15 00


$222 50


FUEL AND FITTING.


Benj. Loring, wood, (as per contract) $25 00


F. E. Henderson, wood, (as per contract) 30 50


Jesse Reed, wood, (as per contract) 13 50


C. A. Brett, coal, 42 00


W. D. Turner, wood and measuring wood 4 50


W. H. Briggs, labor on wood II 50


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Geo. C. Turner, cash paid for sawing and housing wood $4 00


John Whalen, wood, moving, sawing and housing 12 00


W. W. Loring, work on wood 10 00


F. L. Temple, sawing wood 5 00


Ralph G. Lambert, work on wood


75


$158 75


SUPERINTENDENT.


Received from State


$250 00


Town appropriation 250 00


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$500 00


Paid C. A. Harris


370 00


$130 00


TRANSPORTATION.


Mrs. E. L. Loring


$504 00


John F. Osborne


448 00


L. F. Hammond 448 00


J. L. Litchfield


392 00


George S. Hatch 6 50


D. R. Ewell, transportation of sick chil- dren 4 00


$1,802 50


CLEANING SCHOOL HOUSES.


Mrs. E. C. Jones, Dist. No. I $12 00


Mrs. M. A. Osborne, Dist. No. 5 10 00


99


Mrs. H. E. Randall, Dist. No. 6 $6 co


Mrs. E. L. Winslow, Bist. No. 7 6 00


$34 00


HIGH SCHOOL FUND.


Unexpended balance from last year $37 05


Received from State 500 00


$537 05


L. E. Knott Apparatus Co,


$98 07


Silver, Burdett & Co.


2 70


American Book Co.


44 78


Ginn & Co.


108 20


E. E. Babb & Co.


38 32


$292 07


$244 98


BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.


A. H. Osborne & Co.


$2 40


Samuel Ward Co.


4 00


Wadsworth, Howland Co.


31 85


Oliver Ditson Co.


3 03


W. E. Bonney


3 60


Houghton. Mifflin Co.


3 98


A. Gertrude Jones


2 07


J. L. Hammett Co.


4 50


The Douglas-Crawford Co.


7 87


Silver, Burdette & Co.


59 19


American Book Co.


17 03


Ginn & Co.


36 37


E. E. Babb & Co.


I35 55


$311 44


100


SUPPLIES AND INCIDENTALS.


J. B. Whitman, tuning piano $2 50


A. B. Lewis, cash paid for expressing 85


C. A. Harris, postage, telephoning, car- fare, etc. 31 52


Randall's Exp. (1906 and 1907) Ex- pressing 20 69


Myrtle A. Ball, expenses 2 14


Maria W. Tolman, key for No. 7 40


Mary E. Curtis, postage and telephoning 7 66


J. Frank Turner, stock and labor II 25


Harry S. Merritt, stock and labor at


Nos. 5, 6 and High school 38 83


Carrie M. Ford, printing 12 75


Benj. Loring, supplies and cleaning funnel 3 50 W. H. Spencer, stoves, materials and labor 92 17 W. T. Osborn, truant officer £ 50


Geo. F. Welch, Lumber etc.


12 02


C. E. Simmons, labor at No. 7


75


H. S. Turner & Co., mdse.


2 00


Curtis & Bates, mdse


3 86


Patrick McNicol, cleaning vaults 8 00


D. W. Ross, labor at school houses I 25


W. W. Wade, tuning piano 2 00


Hall & Torrey, mdse. and labor 20 15


The Douglas Printing Co., printing I 58


Levi N. Osborne, stock and labor 9 00


W. C. Soule, painting 4º 93


Geo. C. Turner, telephoning and car fare 1 93


Harry Tucker, labor at Dist. No. 5 1 00


Alexander Black, labor at Dist. No. 6 3 00


A. B. Lewis, work on electric bells 1 00.


F. E. Henderson, cleaning vaults 2 00


C. W. Tilden, repairs at No. 5 I 50


S. W. Baker, repairing clock 1 00


IOI


A. J. Litchfield & Son, mdse. 10 43


J. H. Lehan, supplies and setting glass 8 00


F. L. Thomas, carting water 1 00


W. C. Tolman, repairs at No. 7 45


$358 61


AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR PRESENT YEAR.


Town appropriation $6,225 00


Dog tax 346 76


Town of Rockland, tuition 76 00


State Board of Charity


218 00


State school fund


1,227 50


Received from state on account of teach- ers' salaries 166 66


Amount expended


$8,259 92 5,985 80


$2,274 12


Expenses to April (estimated)


2,100 00


-


$174 12


AUDITOR'S REPORT.


I have examined the accounts of the School Committee and find vouchers for all amounts paid.


FRANK W. JONES, Auditor.


Norwell, Mass., Jan. 18, .1908.


ABSTRACT FROM REGISTERS.


WINTER TERM 1907


SPRING TERM 1907


FALL TERM 197


Number Enrolled


Average Membership


Average Attendance


Per Cent. of Attendance


Number of Tardy Marks


Number of Visitors


No. I Primary


48


45.69


38.58


.84


26


16


54


45.05


36.45


.80


20


14


49


46.44


43.85


.94


1


13


No. 1 Grammar


18


17.


15.46


.89


9


18


15.46


12 36


.79


11


24


23.6


22.04


.93


12


14


No. 5 Primary


36


30.84


25.63


.83


11


16


40


33.21


28.85


.86


19


34


33.38


31.09


.93


4


30


No. 5 Grammar


44


40.66


33.33


.82


16


43


37.


82.


.86


10


38


36.83


33.89


.92


23


No,. 6 Mixed


27


26.66


19.5


.73


12


28


26.4


21.7


.82


2


15


24


23.5


21.07 .


.89


4


47


No. 7 Primary


18


17.92


14.97


.83


3


12


17


14.48


12.4


85


U


19


16.72


15.46


.92


11


11


High School


52


49.3


41.6


.90


11


47


47.


41.73


.88


4


62


59.5


57.4


8


..


Average Membership


Average Attendance


Per Cent. of Attendance


Number of Tardy Marks


Number of Visitors


Number Enrolled


Average Membership


Average Attendance


Per Cent. of Attendance


Number of Tardy Marks


Number of Visitors


-


.


.


.


Number Enrolled


SCHOOLS


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Norwell Public Schools.


PUPILS NOT ABSENT FOR ONE YEAR.


Mildred Mott


Emily Burns


NOT ABSENT FOR TWO TERMS.


Ethel M. Soule S. Josephine Farrar Elmer Leavitt


Winnifred Hunt


Lucy S. Williams Harriet Leach


NOT ABSENT FOR ONE TERM.


Lawrence Soule


Edna W. Farrar


Alma E. Litchfield


Howard Cobbett


Elizabeth W. Corthell


Edwin C. Damon


Evelyn E. Ford Harry Tucker Lillian F. Ford


Lucile Jones Lawrence Osborne Joseph Scharks Francis H. Damon Hazel D. Damon Sherwood Ainslie Howard Robinson


Annie Tucker Fred Olson Sadie Black


Herbert A. Lincoln Annie I. Olson


Dorothy M. Turner


Mabel A. Whalen Mildred C. Litchfield


Pearl Schultz Floyd Osborne Etta Roberts Francis Leslie


Harold Kendrick Ruth Tolman


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Minerva F. Temple Gertrude Leslie Annie Phair Stewart Bowker Bertha M. Campbell Laura F. Hatch Lena Leslie Ella Osborne


Jennie Parry Lawrence G. Turner


Clarence Winslow


Frederick Lee Fred Joseph Carrie E. Barrell Gertrude E. Brooks Xoa Damon Nettie E. Jacobs


Dorothy Litchfield Alice Parry Maud Schultz


Samuel Turner Helen Farrar


Superintendent's Report.


TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND CITIZENS OF NORWELL


I herewith submit for your consideration my third annual report.


SCHOOL LIBRARIES.


In addition to the regular reading lessons at school, pupils should read at home interesting, instructive and profitable books suggested by the teachers. At school the teacher should strive to secure good oral reading to be sure, but this does not involve a training in elocution. Elocutionary read- ing is an accomplishment, perhaps, but what persons need most is an extensive reading course that will have a broaden- ing effect. Elocutionary reading may be very superficial and shallow in its scope, whereas well-directed extensive reading is unquestionably broadening. To read well and to acquire the habit of reading are by no means identical, and the latter is by far to be prized.


At home this reading for the most part is silent reading, and this being the kind in which almost all persons exclu- sively participate, should be encouraged to the utmost. In order to stimulate this reading books for supplementary reading at home might at intervals be purchased. The moral value of reading books that arouse the sympathies and result in right action is inestimable.


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TEACHERS' MEETING.


One teachers' meeting was held in each town during the fall term. Subjects of the following nature were treated : Health of the pupil ; care of school property ; tidiness of room ; pupils' failings ; facts about the school register ; teachers' mistakes ; suggestions for the the teacher's profes- sional growth ; morals and manners; pedagogy, including five formal steps, methods of testing knowledge, methods of calling on pupils, methods of instruction ; numerous miscel- laneous suggestions. An opportunity was given for discus- sion.


SIGHT AND HEARING TESTS.


The sight and hearing tests have been made by the teachers with the following results :


Number of pupils enrolled 245


Number defective in eyesight 37


Number defective in hearing 12


Number of parents or guardians notified 46


FAULTY CURRICULA.


Courses of studies in many rural towns need revision. Much that is taught does not interest the pupil nor meet the demand of the times. We are devoting too much time to some subjects, and neglecting others that are of as much, if not more, value. For example, let us speak of two subjects that need, like an unruly boy, a judicious shaking up. It is almost farcical to spend our time on certain parts of arith- metic that are purely technical and conventional, add equally absurd to squander time on grammar as a purely technical subject. They both lack interest, and can be supplanted by something more utilitarian. By this I mean that to be well grounded in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division,


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fractions, tables of money, weights and measures, percent- age and simple interest suffices for the majority ; and to spend much time on involution, evolution, metric system, partial payments, ratio and proportion, and intricate and complicated puzzles in other parts of arithmetic is to deprive the boy or girl from acquiring something else of more inter- est and value.


Again, the value of grammar that requires the daily pars- ing of every word in the sentence, and the daily use of dia- grams is much overestimated.


A popular delusion is, however, that if the course is to be enriched it must come within the scope of the High school.


To be sure we do need more modern ideas infused into our High school curricula of to-day. We must grant that pu- pils are pursuing the traditional trend, regardless of interest or commercial value of the subjects prescribed. If is much easier to go along the line of least resistance than otherwise. Pupils of High school age should have the opportunity to pursue courses that are of practical and vocational value as well as disciplinary and cultural. Discipline and power can be acquired, however, without the study of some of our tra- ditional subjects, e. g., Greek and Latin. Greek should be forever relegated to the college, and Latin elected by only the few that can profit thereby. Too many almost waste their time by attempting to acquire a knowledge of these dead languages with no particular end in view. It is not that they have not gained anything by the study of the sub- ject, but that they could have acquired considerably more had they spent their time on something else of more interest. A few pupils might profitably pursue the study of the classics, but I am speaking of the majority.


The schools are for all. To meet the needs of the major- ity does not suffice, and since we shall have pupils anxious to receive a classical training, we cannot wholly and perman- ently eradicate it from the course. We don't want to if there is a demand for it.


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On the other hand, if the schools are for all, then we must have courses for those who do not care for some of the branches prescribed. I am hinting at the courses in man- ual training, vocational and industrial work. That these be placed in the curricula of today is a popular demand. Those parents whose boys and girls wish to pursue the above-men- tioned courses have as much claim upon the townspeople for the maintenance of such courses as the others have for a course that is prescribed. They pay taxes which support in part the course that is given. As I have said the schools to meet the needs of the times are for all. Therefore a de- mand to meet the requirements of those desiring a business course or any other reasonable course is just.


I do not say that we can have a multitude of courses given at our High schools. We can't. But we are just as much under the obligation to those tax payers whose children wish other courses.


My point is this : If it is not advisable and expedient to install additional courses in our High school, the alternative is to pay the tuition of all those who wish to profit by a course more suitable and desirable in other schools where such instruction is given, provided such schools are ap- proved by the school committee. Anything else, it seems to me is unjust.


Although I have voiced my opinion in favor of other courses for girls and boys of High school age, yet I believe that to place this work in the High school and neglect need- ed manuel instruction throughout the lower grades is abso- lutely wrong and unfair. Should this be done, we would be depriving many who cannot go to the High school from the very training they need-even more than those who be- come High school graduates.


Pupils are obliged by law to attend school until they at- tain the age of 14. Up to that point, then, is the very time that we should train them in a very elementary way at first, but nevertheless train them in some manual or vocational


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work, preferably the former. If we consider this work proper only as a culmination of High school work, it is, as it were, shingling the house before laying the foundation.


The work then ought to be placed in your grades below the High school. If we can afford to place it in all the schools, it is well. If, however, this cannot be done, the place to begin is at the bottom of the educational ladder.


I have unbounded confidence in and sympathy for the boy or girl who cannot enjoy High school privileges. He is the one to be helped first. The others from the very fact that they have had several more years more schooling should be all the more capable and prepared to shift for themselves if circumstances compel.


In the primary and grammar schools we should have paper-folding, card board construction, elementary and ad- vanced knife work, weaving sewing, elementary woodwork, courses in elementary agriculture, etc.


The drift and gist of my argument is briefly this: Our courses need revision by the elimination of some subjects and the substitution of others. A business course in the High school is all right, but if the town can't afford to give corre- sponding courses in the lower grades at the same time, the place to begin is in the lower grades in order to ensure the instruction of all before attaining the age of fourteen.


SUGGESTION.


At the Ridge Hill primary school we have an enrolment of 47, far too many for one teacher. In fact this number is too large for even a school of the upper grades, therefore, much more so for a school made up of children of the first four grades. Something should be done at once in order to get the desired results. This school ought to be divided by giving the first two grades to one teacher and grades three and four to another. This arrangement would not only be admirable, but effective. Better work would necessarily be the resultant.


IIŐ


Since there isn't the requisite room in the building unless the upper room be also used for a primary school, the build- ing at Ridge Hill should be devoted exclusively to the first four grades, with the first two down stairs, and the third and fourth up stairs.


The question that naturally follows is-Where are we going to put the pupils of the grammar school? To this I reply that since the conveyance of the pupils is the policy of the town, why not carry it one step further and thereby make an almost ideal condition.


The grammar school pupils, who now occupy the upper room of the Ridge Hill building may be transported, to No. 2. now closed, and at the same time transport the grammar school pupils at No. 5 to No. 2, putting grades five and six on one floor and seven and eight on the other. The result would be that each teacher will have two grades instead of four, and again material advance will be made. Somewhat more inconvenient to some, perhaps, but the pupils will be the gainers. By the adoption of this plan so much more work could be done by both grammar teachers and pupils; then pupils could enter the High school directly from the eighth year, thereby doing away with the ninth grade, and thus affording an opportunity to enlarge the scope of the High school.


The next question that arises is: Are we going to leave No. 5 upper room vacant? By no means. The whole build- ing will then be used for the primary scholars, grades one and two on one floor, and grades three and four on the other. Each school will be rather small to be sure, but No. 6 may be permanently closed, and the pupils here who are members of the first four grades may be properly distributed at No. 5.


What have we gained by these steps. Much. We have all the schools mentioned made up of only two grades, an excel- lent and great improvement. Before this we had four grades .


per teacher. Each pupil would then get twice as much time from the teacher as under the present arrangement.


III


Your schools ought to be equal to any in the state by that classification. Isn't it worth considering ? We are not try- ing to lessen the work of the teacher merely, but are trying to make conditions such that the pupils will be the gainers.


The number of teachers would remain the same, one building opened, another closed.


In conclusion I wish to extend to the teachers and com- mittee my profound appreciation for their suggestions, loyalty and support, and to the citizens for their co-operation in every phase of school work.


Respectfully submitted,


CHARLES A. HARRIS.


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NORWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1639 00054 9343


FIFTY-NINTH


ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN OFFICERS


OF THE


TOWN OF NORWELL


FOR THE


YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31,


1908


ROCKLAND : THE ROCKLAND STANDARD PUB. CO. PRINT 1909


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NORWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY


Donated by


David Browne


FIFTY-NINTH


ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TOWN OFFICERS


OF THE


TOWN OF NORWELL


FOR THE


YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1908


Norwell Public Library


ROCKLAND : THE ROCKLAND STANDARD PUB. CO. PRINT 1909


INDEX


Appropriations Recommended for 1909


81


Abatement of Taxes


41


Aid, State


35


Assessors' Report


54


Articles in the Warrant


85


Auditor's Report


83


Cemetery .


56


Financial Statement .


Fire Extinguishers


82 59 43


Highways


48


Incidentals


45


Jurors, List of


55


Poor, Report of Overseers


26


Recapitulation


82


Report of School Committee


89


Abstract from Registers


102


Auditor's Report


101


Available School Funds for Present Year


100


Expenditures


94


High School Funds


98


Report of Superintendent of Schools


106


Report of Town Clerk


5


Report of Forest Warden


70


Report of Town Treasurer


65


Snow Account .


38


Soldiers' Relief, Expended for


37


Tax Collector's Report


61


Town Hall


57


Town Officers, Payment of


33


Trust Funds


72


Gypsy Moths


Report of the Town Clerk


ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, 1908.


At the annual meeting and election of officers held March 2, 1908, the following action was taken on the articles con- tained in the warrant :


Article 1. To choose a moderator.


Chose Alpheus Thomas moderator by ballot, and he was duly sworn by the clerk.


Article 2. The Town Clerk then delivered the ballots and everything pertaining to the election to the Moderator and Clifton S. Deane, Charles Scully, Amos H. Tilden, Walter C. Barnard, Jeremiah H. Lehan and Charles W. Thomas, having been appointed election officers by the Selectmen, were sworn as such by the Town Clerk. The ballot box was examined and found to be empty and the register set at o. The polls were declared open at 7.12 a. m. and were closed at 11.17 a. m. The number of names checked on the voting list and the number of ballots cast was 191, one of these being a partial ballot for school com- mittee. The ballot box registered 191. On being canvassed and counted in open meeting the ballots were found to be for the following persons .


TOWN CLERK For One Year


Joseph F. Merritt 176


Blanks I.4


6


SELECTMAN For Three Years


143


Alpheus Thomas L. Frank Hammond I


Blanks


46


SELECTMAN For Two Years


Ezra E. Stetson 148


Blanks


42


SELECTMAN For One Year


Elliott W. Crowell


23


William D. Turner


83


John Whalen Blanks


13


ASSESSOR For Three Years


Alpheus Thomas


140


Blanks


50


ASSESSOR For Two Years


Ezra E. Stetson


141


Blanks


49


ASSESSOR For One Year


Elliott W. Crowell


2I


William D. Turner


81


John Whalen


66


Blanks 22


71


7


OVERSEER OF THE POOR For Three Years


Alpheus Thomas 139


Blanks 5I


OVERSEER OF THE POOR For Two Years


Ezra E. Stetson 144


Blanks


46


OVERSEER OF THE POOR For One Year


Elliott W. Crowell 2I


William D. Turner


81


John Whalen Blanks 22


66


TOWN TREASURER For One Year


Horace T. Fogg


16I


Blanks


29


AUDITOR For One Year


Frank W. Jones


160


Blanks


30


COLLECTOR OF TAXES For One Year


Andrew J. Litchfield


I74


Blanks I6


SCHOOL COMMITTEE For Three Years


Mary E. Curtis 140


Blanks 51


8


BOARD OF HEALTH For Three Years


Frederick H. Kidder 131 Blanks 59


SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS For One Year


Joseph Briggs


I28


Francis E. Henderson


IOI


Edward A, Jacobs


87


Emanuel P. Joseph


I44


George A. Jackman


I


CONSTABLES For One Year


Atwood Ainslie


93


Joshua Warren Foster


I54


L. Frank Hammond I33


George A. Jackman


17


Walter T. Osborn


I04


Frank M. Vining


I18


Jesse M. Winslow


109


Archie E. Fish


I


Edward Winslow


I


TREE WARDEN For One Year


John H. Sparrell


149


Blanks 4I


Shall Licenses be granted for the Sale of In- toxicating Liquors in this town ?


Yes 55


No


103


Blanks


32


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The officers elected were :


Town Clerk, Joseph F. Merritt.


Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of the Poor for three years, Alpheus Thomas.


Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of the Poor for two years, Ezra E. Stetson.


Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of the Poor for one year. William D. Turner.


Treasurer, Horace T. Fogg.


Auditor, Frank W. Jones.


Collector of Taxes, Andrew J. Litchfield.


School Committee for three years, Mary E. Curtis.


Board of Health for three years, Frederick H. Kidder.


Surveyors of Highways, Joseph Briggs, Francis E. Hen- derson, Emanuel P. Joseph.


Constables, Joshua Warren Foster, L. Frank Hammond, Walter T. Osborn, Frank M. Vining, Jesse M. Winslow.


Tree Warden, John H. Sparrell.


Article 3. To hear and act on the report of the Town Clerk, Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, Auditor, Collector and Treasurer.


Voted to accept the reports of these officers.


It was voted that the appropriations be made all together and that the Moderator appoint a committee of three to re- tire and bring in estimates of the amounts needed. The Moderator appointed Horace T. Fogg, Ezra E. Stetson and John H. Prouty. The committee recommended the follow- ing appropriations :


Support of Poor


$2,000 00


Incidentals 500 00


Support of schools


6.500 00


Removing snow, street railway ex- cise tax and 200 00


Highways 2,500 00


IO


Memorial day


$100 00


State aid


2,000 00


Soldiers' relief


300 00


Town officers


1,300 00


Washington Street Cemetery


50 00


Tree warden


50 00


Board of Health


50 00


School physician


50 00


Town note


1,000 00


Squares and triangles


75 00


Abatement of taxes


150 00


County tax


1,300 00


State tax


1,250 00


It was voted that the report of this committee be accepted and that the above amounts, making a total of $19,375, be appropriated.


Article 4. What amount of money will the town raise for the support of poor and incidentals.


Included in vote on general appropriations.


Article 5. What sum of money will the town raise for the support of schools ?


Included in vote on general appropriations.


Article 6. What sum of money will the town raise for highway repairs ?


Included in vote on general appropriations.


Article 7. What compensation will the town make for re- moving snow and appropriate money for the same ?


Voted that twenty-five cents per hour be paid for removing snow. The appropriation was included in the vote on gen- eral appropriations.


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Article S. In what manner and time shall the taxes be collected the ensuing year ?


Voted that a discount of two per cent. be allowed on taxes paid on or before October Ist; that on all taxes not paid December Ist, interest be charged at the rate of six per cent. ; after April Ist, 1909, the collector shall issue sum- mons and proceed to collect all unpaid taxes, and that the money shall be paid to the treasurer or a deposit made by the collector for all unpaid taxes on or before July 1, 1909.


Voted that the collector have the same powers in the col- lection of taxes that he would have if he were also town treasurer.


Voted that the collector publish in the next annual report the names of all persons, together with the amount of tax, whose taxes of the assessment of 1907 remain unpaid Dec- ember 31, 1908.


Article 9. Will the town accept the list of jurors prepared by the selectmen ?


Voted that the chair appont a committee of three to revise the jury list. The Moderator appointed as this committee Jeremiah H. Lehån, Alfred B. Litchfield and Ernest H. Sparrell. The committee brought in the following list of names and it was voted to accept its report.


LIST OF JURORS


Henry C. Ford Amos H. Tilden


Joseph Briggs Theophilus Appleford


Asa W. Robinson


George H. Tisdale


William O. Prouty


Alpheus Damon Frederick H. Kidder


Robert C. Henderson


Carleton O). Litchfield James L. Litchfield Arnold V. Beach Harrison Wilder Alonzo B. Whiting Fred A. Stoddard


Frank Vining


Frank E. Studley


I2


Charles Tolman


John H. Prouty


Charles D. Barnard


Clarence C. Hook


Alfred B. Litchfield


John Whalen Lebbeus Leach Wilfred L. Chamberlin John H. Sparrell


Article 10. Will the town authorize the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, to hire money in anticipation of taxes ?




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