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The changes we contemplate involve alterations in the stair- ways, so as to secure independent and direct entrances for each school, a rearrangement of the dressing rooms, making them distinct from entries, the construction of a new roof story to
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contain new recitation rooms and a laboratory, and the intro- duction of new heating apparatus, and a new and better system of ventilation. We recommend for this purpose an appropria- tion of $4500.
ATTENDANCE.
Attention is asked to the Roll of Honor contained in the Appendix, which presents the names of those who have been neither absent nor tardy during the year, and the schools to which they belong. Comparisons between this roll and those presented in previous years disclose the fact that the number of such pupils is gradually growing less. We ask the hearty co-operation of the parents in an effort to bring about a change in this respect during the coming year.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, we recommend that the town raise and appro- priate the sum of $9000 for the maintenance of schools, and the further sum of $1,825 for incidental school expenses during the current year.
The terms of Carroll D. Wright and Horace G. Wadlin expire, leaving two vacancies to be filled by the town at the ensuing town meeting.
Attention is called to the statistics, and to the report of receipts and expenditures contained in the Appendix.
Respectfully submitted.
HORACE G. WADLIN, CARROLL D. WRIGHT, EDWARD F. PARKER, JAMES A. BANCROFT, GILMAN L. PARKER, CYRUS M. BARROWS,
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School Committee of Reading.
ADOPTED IN SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
March 18, 1887.
TABLE SHOWING SALARIES, ATTENDANCE, AND NUMBER OF VISITORS.
NAMESJ OF SCHOOLS.
No. of Visitors.
TEACHERS NOW EMPLOYED.
SALARIES NOW PAID.
1st Term.
2d Term.
3d Term.
1st Term.
2d Term.
3d Term.
Pupils during year
over 15 years.
Pupils during year under 5 years.
High School.
76
Miss Mary L. Stinehfield, Ist Assistant ...
10 00
91
105
92
88
99
86
76
First Grammar ..
92
Miss Lilla H. Morrell.
12 00
33
28
27
32
27
26
3
Second Grammar.
95
Miss Alice Barrows. .
12 00
30
24
23
27
22
21
Third Grammar.
87
Miss Ella F. Wakefield ...
10 00
35
36
23
33
33
..
Union St. Upper Medinm.
114
Mrs. Alice W. Emerson.
10 00
24
23
30
23
22
..
. .
Union St. Lower Medinm.
109
Miss Carrie L. Mason.
10 00
47
54
53
42
50
46
. .
. .
Union St. Upper Primary.
141
Miss Mary W. Howard ..
10 00
60
52
48
44
39
2
Chestnut Hill Grammar ..
44
Miss Sarah M. Pearson.
7 00
66
40
36
32
34
32
27
..
..
·
. .
Woburn St. Primary ...
49
Miss Addie M. Bancroft ..
7 00
32
38
33
30
31
28
Lowell St. Mixed ...
52
Miss Kate L. Beard ...
9 00
40
32
32
36
28
29
. .
..
Main St. Mixed.
20
Miss Elnora A. Emerson ..
6 00
8
10
10
6
9
7
..
..
Haverhill St. Mixed ..
50
Miss Hattie F. Damon.
6 00
20
20
2:2
18
19
19
..
566
577
550
522
522
490
93
..
.
.
.
.
10 00
33
32
34
30
29
Chestnut Hill Primary.
52
Miss Annie P. Reid ..
10 00
20
28
28
18
26
25
Woburn St. Grammar ...
53
Miss M. Fannie Wilson.
.....
......
.
1318
Average Average Membership Attendance.
( Mr. John B. Gifford, Principal.
$1200 00 per year.
15 00 per week.
( Miss Annie C. Lawrence, 2d Assistant ....
13 00
.
19
52
55
16
49
53
10
. .
Union St. Lower Primary.
284
Miss Ruth L. Pratt.
. .
...
. . ... . ..
25
34
58
37
.
·
.
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APPENDIX.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
Population of Reading. 3,539
Number of children between 5 and 15 years of Age, May, 1886. 592
Number of children between 8 and 14 years of Age, May, 1886 384
Amount appropriated for instruction, fuel, and care of rooms . $8,300 00
Amount appropriated for incidentals. 1,400 00
Amount received from insurance, High School Building. . 885 00
Amount drawn from State School Fund. 342 05
Amount received from other sources 24 39
Total receipts $10,951 44
Expended for instruction, fuel, and care of rooms. $8,642 05
Expended for free text books 726 49
Expended for incidentals. 1,047 97
Total Expenditures.
$10,416 51
Unexpended.
534 93
$10,951 44
PUPILS.
Number of different pupils enrolled during the year · 674
Average membership of all the schools .. 564
Average attendance in all the schools during year. . . . . 513
Percentage of attendance, based on average membership. 91
Number attending within the year between 8 and 14 years of age (compulsory age) 405
Number of pupils admitted to the High School
49
Age of youngest pupil admitted, 12 years, 5 months. Age of oldest pupil admitted, 16 years, 8 months. Average age of pupils admitted, 14 years, 4 months.
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TEACHERS.
Number of male teachers employed. 1
Number of female teachers employed. . 16
Average wages, per month, of female teachers. $39 25 Number of teachers who have attended normal schools. . 11
Number of teachers who have graduated from normal schools . 9
NAMES OF PUPILS GRADUATED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL, JUNE, 1886.
FOUR YEARS' COURSE.
Percy Niles Carter, Richard Fenwood Loring, Nathaniel Gilman Hill.
THREE YEARS' COURSE.
Clara Rose Alien,
Edith Bancroft,
Emma Frances Berry,
Lizzie Maybelle Brown,
Nettie Abbie Killam,
Sophie Frederica Krook,
Ida Manning,
Helen Mabel Parker,
Mary Grace Wakefield,
Mabel Gertrude Willis,
Helen Wilson,
Harry Howard Atkinson,
Weldon Ashley Duley,
Charles Clyde Wakefield,
George Andrew Walker.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Giving names of those who have been neither absent nor tardy since March, 1886, and the schools to which they belong.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Edith M. Barker, Winifred Emerson, | Mary E. Vermille, Delia Converse, Edith B. Parker,
Herbert C. Barrows, *Kirke P. Sanborn, Chester K. Wakefield, +Grace D. Sweetser, Louis G. Hill,
Fred W. Walker.
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FIRST GRAMMAR.
*Bessie M. Briggs,
Bertha C. Roberts, Carrie E. Hill. SECOND GRAMMAR. J. William Austin. UPPER MEDIUM.
Kirk Parker,
Hannah Whelton. LOWER MEDIUM. Josephine A Sweetser. UNION STREET UPPER PRIMARY. David Whelton. LOWELL ST. SCHOOL. Ella M. Hunt.
*Neither absent nor tardy for two years. ¡Neither absent nor tardy for three years. ||Neither absent nor tardy for four years.
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FINANCIAL REPORT.
UNION STREET SCHOOL HOUSE.
Appropriation . $7,500 00
From old building sold. 350 00 - -$7,850 00
Expended,
Wm. A. Smith, for moving old building. ... $ 85 00
Wm. M. Phillips, contract and extra work ... 6,034 36
H. G. Wadlin, architect 225 00
Albert B. Franklin, heating apparatus 1,090 00
. Wm. E. Moulton, labor. 15 00
R. M. Gibson, painting exterior
62 00
Lewis M. Bancroft, insurance 34 00
G. S. Tukey, pump and pipe
37 51
S. M. Hall, mason work. 23 80
Philip II. Butler & Co., marble slabs.
14 00
Henry M. Wiswall, blackboards. 100 00
Fulton Iron Foundry, for casting
2 25
Joseph Modlich, decorating. 122 00
M. C. Estes, iron work.
1 50
Burditt & Williams, hardware
70
O. Lappen, step ladder 2 80
Unexpended . 08
$7,850 00
EXPENSES OF SCHOOLS. INSTRUCTION.
Paid for teaching High School. $2,138 00
66
First Grammar School 479 00
Second . 6 456 00
66 66
Third · . . 456 00
Upper Medium
. . .... 380 00
66 60 Lower
. . .... 362 00
Amount carried forward,
$4,271 00
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Amount brought forward, $4,271 00
Paid for teaching Upper Primary School. .. 380 00
66
Lower 66 . 6
380 00
66
Chestnut Hill Grammar School
326 00
66
" Primary 66
259 00
Woburn St. Grammar
380 00
" Primary
302 00
66
Lowell .. Mixed
380 00
Main 66
228 00
66
66 Haverhill
66
228 00
66
66 Music Teacher
400 00
-- $7,534 00
JANITORS.
Paid for care of Center School Buildings.
$306 00
66
66
" Chestnut Hill " ..
57 00
66
66
" Lowell St. 66
. 6
. ...
36 00
66
66 " Main St. 66
. .. .
28 50
66
66
" Haverhill St." 66
. . . .
$541 50
FUEL.
Paid Edward F. Parker for wood
$ 30 00
Milton P. Parker
38 25
Wendell Bancroft " coal. 38 50
66 John C. Gleason 66
442 02
66 Horace W. Blanchard for labor on wood. .
5 13
66 Thomas A. Evans
1 25
66 J. Dexter Jones . . . 6 66
. . 4 65
66 Charles F. Bessom 66
4 00
66 Charles L. McIntire 66 66 66
. .
2 75
$566 55
$8,642 05
Appropriation
$8,300 00
Drawn from School Fund.
342 05
-$8,642 05
..
" Woburn St. " 66
. ...
76 00
. ...
38 00
66 66
. .
. .
66
66
.
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INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
FOR BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Paid George F. King & Merrill $ 20 50
Knight, Adams & Co. 2 62
Cowperthwait & Co
61 69
Harrison Hume 65 48
S. R. Winchell
25 46
Ginn & Co.
130 16
William Ware & Co
88 82
J. L. Hammett. 115 15
Charles H. Whiting
73 70
Boston School Supply Co
25 45
George Frost
6 00
Lee & Shepard.
7 75
W. P. Adams
13 13
Maynard & Noyes 7 50
John C. Haynes. 15
D. Appleton & Co
7 13
Thompson, Brown & Co 6 45
Clark & Maynard. 16 10
Leach, Sherwell & Sanborn
6 00
B. A. Fowler. 35 00
F. M. Ambrose 5 50
Peters & Jones 6 75
$726 49
Robert J. Hill, rebinding books $ 1 00
Citizens Gas-Light Co., gas
4 55
H. M. Parker, tuning piano.
2 00
N. W. Broad, labor and materi Is
159 19
Charles L. McIntire, glazing
70
F. J. Bancroft, use of piano.
6 00
C. M. Barrows & Co., printing
13 00
G. S. Tukey, repairs on pumps
75
G. W. Atkinson, supplies.
3 00
Wm. E. Moulton, grading.
15 80
Amount carried forward, $205 99
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Amount brought forward. $205 99
Paid Joseph Stokes, clearing vaults.
2 00
Edward F. Parker, supplies 1 03
S. M. Hall, mason work
21 06
Patrick Conley, labor.
4 12
J. A. Swasey, blackboards and erasers
108 50
D. Doucette, labor.
2 00
John B. Gifford, supplies.
7 79
Wm. II. Twombly, printing.
6 00
Daniel Pratt's Son, clock.
4 50
M. E. Nichols, painting
59 40
Parker & Stone, supplies.
5 40
Walter B. Ellis, concreting 5 49
George S. Perry, supplies 3 69
Everett Parker, labor. 16 25
H. E. Cox, repairs on pump 50
B. Foley, whitening ceiling. 6 00
Wendell Bancroft, labor and material
108 77
Cummings' Express.
1 90
H. G. Wadlin, keys.
80
George C. Batchelder, rent of land 5 00
John H. Bancroft, labor
50
Lewis M. Bancroft, insurance
50 00
Frank E. Richardson, labor
5 20
George Dean, care of fires 8 00
Maggie Reed, labor 1 65
Thomas Hall, supplies. 4 70
Wm. O. Dockendorff, teaming
1 50
Henry Stock, care of furnace.
14 00
Michigan Furniture Co., new furniture.
222 80
H. L. Cummings, teaming 18 85
D. P. Babb 1 25 66
T. Littlefield, labor and material 11 85
C. F. Bessom 66 75
Wm. M. Titus 66 18 55
Amount carried forward, $935 79
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Amount brought forward, $935 79 50
Paid Arthur J. Davis "
Lang's Express. 7 80
Old South Parish, use of church
17 00
R. M. Pulsifer & Co., printing
3 00
Patrick Barrett, labor ..
4 38
Edward F. Parker, expenses.
3 00
J. C. Cook, glazing.
1 50
Edward F. Parker, agent for books and supplies.
75 00$1,047 97
$1,774 46
Appropriation $1,400 00
From Insurance.
885 00
Books and supplies sold. 24 14
For glass broken
25
$2,309 39
Unexpended. 534 93
$2,309 39
Books and supplies in hands of agent
$114 21
TOWN WARRANT,
1887.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS
TO EITHER OF THE CONSTABLES OF THE TOWN OF READING,
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhab- itants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote in elec- tions and town affairs, to meet in Lyceum Hall in said Reading, on Monday, the fourth day of April, A. D. 1887, at seven o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz .:-
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen. Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Collectors, School Committee, Engineers of the Fire Department, Trustees of the Public Library, Trustees of the Cemetery, and Auditors.
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ART. 3. To see if the Town will bring in their votes on one ballot for Town Clerk, Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer. Collector of Taxes, Constables, Highway Surveyors, also, on separate ballot, two members of the School Committee for three years. Also, on separate ballot, "shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town :" each ballot to be received at the same time in separate boxes.
ART. 4. To choose a Town Clerk, Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, two members of the School Committee for three years, Surveyors of Highways, and all other necessary town officers.
ART. 5. .. Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxica- ting liquors in this town."
ART. 6. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars for the purpose of laying concrete sidewalks and edgestones the ensuing year, provided the abut- ters pay one-half the expense of laying the same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will employ a night watch the ensuing year. or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 8. To determine how much money the Town will raise for schools, incidental school expenses, repairs of high- ways and bridges, removing snow and ice, fire department, support of the poor, street lights, salaries of town officers, military aid, printing, abatement of taxes, town office, main- tenance of the police, cemetery, public library, soldiers' graves, interest on the town debt, reduction of the town debt, deficiencies, and miscellaneous expenses.
ART. 9. To see if the town will authorize their Treasurer under direction of the Selectmen, to hire money in anticipation of taxes.
.
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ART. 10. To see what instructions the Town will give their Assessors and Collector.
ART. 11. To determine the compensation of the Collector.
ART. 12. To see if the town will build a receiving tomb, and how much money they will raise and appropriate for the same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will exchange their Hearse for a new one, and how much money they will raise and appro- priate to pay for the exchange, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of forty-five hundred dollars for the payment of a note due August 9, 1887, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars for the payment of a note due March 1, 1888, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will authorize the repairs and alterations of the High School building, in accordance with the recommendation of the School Committee, and how much money they will raise and appropriate therefor, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will authorize the purchase of a lot, and the erection of a new building for the Woburn street schools in accordance with the recommendation of the School Committee, and how much money they will raise and appropriate therefor, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-eight dollars to pay Totten, Garfield & Brown for labor and material on account of raising grade of sidewalk on Haven street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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ART. 19. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a stone crusher, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will build a cistern at, or near the corner of Pierce and Salem streets, and how much money they will raise and appropriate for the same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 21. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate to lay a concrete sidewalk and edgestones from Ira W. Ruggles' land on Haven street to the land of Abbie S. Nichols on Ash street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 22. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate to lay a concrete cross walk and gutter across Sanborn street, at the junction of said street and Haven street. Also across Linden street at the junction of said street and Haven street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 23. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the enforcement of the liquor law, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 24. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate to keep the Old South M. E. Clock running the ensuing year.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a gas light at the Town pumps on the common.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to raise the grade of Green street between High and Ash streets.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will widen the road bed on Lowell street, from Bancroft Avenue to a point near the Fire- works, and how much money they will raise and appropriate for the purpose, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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ART. 28. To see if the Town will purchase a pump and watering trough to be placed at the corner of Woburn and West streets.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will take any measures for procuring a supply of water for the extinguishment of fires and for domestic and other uses, or what they will do in rela- tion thereto.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars to complete the widening of Main street near George W. Putnam's, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will place a street light at the junction of Summer avenue and Oak street.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will erect and support a lamp on or near the corner of Pleasant and Middle streets in this town, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will pay the expense of a lamp-post erected on Sanborn street, about midway between Lowell and Woburn streets, in front of the residence of James Wight, and will maintain a street light at that point, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will erect and maintain five new street lights on Main street, between Summer avenue and the first street light north on Main street.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to survey for an extension of Pleasant street through from Manning to Salem street, and make a report at the next Town Meeting as to its necessity, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen on laying out a town way from Salem street to Pleasant street.
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ART. 37. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen on widening Pearl street opposite Orange street, also on rounding the corner of Pearl and Orange streets.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen on widening Haven street.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen on laying out a town way from Mineral street north.
ART. 40. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate suf- ficient money to heat the Almshouse with steam, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate suf- ficient money to repair the wall and culvert on John street be- tween Salem and Union streets, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 42. To hear and act upon a list of jurors prepared by the Selectmen.
ART. 43. To hear and act upon the report of the Select- men in relation to guide-posts.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands, this twenty-second day of March, A. D. 1887.
R. DEXTER TEMPLE, Selectmen STILLMAN M. PRATT, of
JAMES A. BANCROFT, Reading.
A true copy-Attest :
HENRY STOCK, Constable.
LIST OF JURORS.
The subscribers, Selectmen of the town of Reading, have prepared the following list of persons who, in their judgment, are qualified to serve as jurors, and respectfully submit the same for the action of the Town.
Atkinson, George H. Austin, Henry K.
Littlefield. Cyrus K.
Manning, Charles
Abbott. George E.
Manning, Ulmar H.
Bancroft, Albert J.
Moulton. William E.
Bancroft, William Hazen
Meader, George C.
Boyce, George A.
Nichols, D. Marshall
Brown, Henry M.
Nichols, J. Brooks
Brown, Samuel
Nichols, William H.
Buxton, Albert W.
Norris, James T.
Carter, Adelbert H.
Parker, Clarkson
Coney, Walter E.
Parker, George II.
Cook, Walter F.
Perkins, Walter H.
Carleton, James H.
Pratt, Harlan P.
Cummings, Horace L.
Putnam, George L.
1
Damon, Arthur A.
Rayner, Walter
Eames. Charles B.
Rich, Alkin
Emerson, Arthur G.
Richardson, Arthur S.
Foster, Arthur J.
Richardson, Loammi G.
Gleason, Rodney H.
Roberts, John G.
Gowing, E. Harley
Roggers, Charles G.
Hall, Josiah H. 2d
Sawyer, Addison A.
Hunter, William A.
Simpson, John H. Stone, J. Henry
Johnson, Alden S.
Jones. Oren N.
Stoodley, Nathan D.
Krook, Lambertus W.
Knight, John H.
Temple. Arthur W. Young, Samuel C.
R. DEXTER TEMPLE, STILLMAN M. PRATT, JAMES A. BANCROFT.
Selectmen of Reading.
READING, March 17, 1887.
INDEX.
Page.
Town Officers. 1886-87.
.3
Town Clerk's Report, Births Registered ..
.6
Marriages Registered
. 8
Deaths Registered .
10
66 6: Dogs Licensed
11
Assessors' Report. Valuation.
18
Selectmen's Account, Street Lights
19
66
Printing
19
Enforcement of Liquor Law
19
Soldiers' Graves.
20
66
State Aid.
.20
Police.
.21
Town Office
21
66
Salaries of Town Officers.
22
6 6
Interest
23
66
Cemetery .
.23
Fire Department.
24
66
Removing Ice and Snow.
.26
،،
Cross Walk. High and Woburn Streets
. 27
66
66
.6 Chute and Haven Streets
. 27
66
Guide Boards and Street Signs
27
6 6
Highways and Bridges
28 30
66
Widening Main Street
Middlesex Avenue and Valley Street 31
Old South Clock. .31
..
Penney Case . .31
..
Pierce Claim .31
31
..
. 6
Mary Brown Case
.31
٤٠
Haven Street Concrete Walk.
.32
Concrete Sidewalks.
.33
66
Town Debt ..
33
..
Abatement of Taxes. .34
.34
Table of Appropriations
.36
Selectmen's Report
Collector of Taxes 40-41
42-43
Report of Board of Engineers
Police Report ....
50
Report of Cemetery Committee.
51
Library Report.
.53
Report of School Committee
56
6.
Table of Salaries, etc.
GG
..
Appendix, General Statistics 67
Expenses, School-house. .70
66
Instruction
Janitors 72
66
Fuel. 72
.72
Town Warrant
.76
List of Jurors
.83
66
..
Roberts Claim
..
..
Miscellaneous.
.38
Treasurer's Report.
48
Incidentals.
7
6:
66
Night Watchman .26
Deficiencies.
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