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Population of Reading 3,539
Number of children between 5 and 15 years of age, May,
1887. 593
Number of children between 8 and 14 years of age, May, 1887 359
Amount appropriated for instruction, fuel, and care of rooms $9,000 00
Amount appropriated for incidentals 1,825 00
Amount drawn from State School Fund 190 09
Amount from books and supplies sold 21 27
Total receipts
$11,036 36
Expended for instruction, fuel, and care of
rooms $9,270 68
Expended for text books and supplies 717 75
Expended for incidentals 1,124 53
Total expenditures.
$11,112 96
Overdrawn 76 60
$11,112 97
PUPILS.
Number of different pupils enrolled during the year. ..
700
Average membership of all the schools . 568
Average attendance in all the schools during the year . . 514
Percentage of attendance, based on average membership 90 Number attending within the year between 8 and 14 years of age (compulsory age) . 383
Number of pupils admitted to the High School
47
Age of youngest pupil admitted, 11 years, 11 months. Age of oldest pupil admitted, 16 years, 8 months.
Average age of pupils admitted, 14 years, 2 months.
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TEACHERS.
Number of male teachers employed 1
Number of female teachers employed. 17
Average wages per month of female teachers $39 00
Number of teachers who have attended Normal schools. 10
Number of teachers who have graduated from Normal schools. 8
NAMES OF PUPILS GRADUATED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL, JUNE, 1887.
Edith Marion Barker
Alice Augusta Barrows,
Grace Winchester Berry,
Winnifred Emerson,
William Horace Killam,
Lizzie Augusta Parker,
Charlotte Lyon Parker,
Alice Hewes Peabody,
Otis Bishop Ruggles, Arthur Fisher Thomas,
Annie Marguerite Vermille,
Mary Etta Vermille,
Nellie Leighton Weston, Harry Eugene White.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Giving names of those who have been neither absent nor tardy since March, 1887, and the schools to which they belong.
HIGH SCHOOL. *Grace D. Sweetser.
EIGHTH CLASS GRAMMAR.
Grace Fox,
Beatrice A. Gilson.
SEVENTH CLASS GRAMMAR.
Alverde H. Parker,
Herbert Hill.
SIXTH CLASS GRAMMAR.
Lulu Taylor, ¡Kirk Parker.
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FOURTH CLASS GRAMMAR.
+David Whelton,
Emma Burgess.
SECOND CLASS PRIMARY.
Edith M. Sweetser.
FIRST CLASS PRIMARY. Enos J. Muse.
LOWELL STREET SCHOOL. Ralph Parker.
* Neither absent nor tardy for four years.
+ Neither absent nor tardy for two years.
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FINANCIAL REPORT.
PROSPECT STREET SCHOOL HOUSE.
Appropriation. $5000 00
Expended,
Solon Bancroft, land $ 886 00
Registering Deed . 85
Albert J. Bancroft, contract 3,806 00
H. G. Wadlin, architect. 140 00
Smith & Anthony Stove Co., for furnaces .. 166 40
$4,999 25
Unexpended .
75
$5,000 00
HIGH SCHOOL REPAIRS.
Appropriation .
$6,534 93
Expended,
David C. Temple, contractor $3,613 67
Albert B. Franklin, steam heating. 1,615 00
H. G. Wadlin, architect. 210 00
H. M. Wiswall, blackboards. 150 00
S. D. Hicks & Co., ventilators.
80 00
L. Descalzo & Co., gas fitting
28 50
Forest Hooper, plumbing .
146 91
Moses E. Nichols, painting.
74 49
Michael Forbes, labor
28 55
John Blunt, iron work. . 4 49
Burter & Stenburg, decorating.
343 00
Wm. M. Titus, labor and material
73 11
R. L. Beers, labor.
1 00
Emily Ruggles, supplies 2 66
Amount carried forward, $6371 38
81
Amount brought forward, $6371 38
S. M. Hall, mason work.
60 79
Estate of Wm. M. Moulton, labor 11 80
Morss & Whyte.
8 29
Isaac Hatch. 7 50
Wendell Bancroft, lumber 42 25
S. B. Tobey, mats
12 00
Daniel C. Sanborn, labor 9 00
Cummings' Express 2 75
$6,525 76
Unexpended
9 17
$6,534 93
EXPENDED FOR TEACHING.
High School $2,184 34
Eighth Class Grammar
494 00
Seventh
66
456 00
Sixth
430 00
Fifth 66 66
392 00
Fourth 66
366 00
Third Primary
216 00
Second 66
66
418 00
First 66 66
444 00
Chestnut Hill Grammar
328 00
66 Primary
304 00
Woburn St. Grammar 66
266 00
Lowell St. mixed.
328 00
Main St.
228 00
Haverhill St. «
266 00
Music Teacher
400 00
$7,900 34
EXPENDED FOR JANITORS.
Centre school buildings.
$337 00
Woburn St. School Buildings 95 00
380 00
Primary
Amount carried forward, $432 00
6
82
Amount brought forward,
$432 00
Chestnut Hill 66
57 00
Lowell St. 66
36 00
Main St. 66
28 50
Haverhill St.
38 00
$591 50
EXPENDED FOR FUEL.
John C. Gleason, for coal
$157 73
Wendell Bancroft, 492 00
Justin L. Parker, for wood
11 50
S. Maria Parker 66
55 87
Milton D. Parker 66
9 00
W. Wallace Davis 66
16 50
Edwin C. Farwell 66
5 00
$747 60
Horace W. Blanchard, labor on wood $7 06
Nelson W. McIntire,
7 50
C. F. Bessom, 66
8 00
Howard W. Batchelder
6 00
Albin K. Parker, 66
68
29 24
Total for schools
$9,268 68
Appropriation . ·$9,000 00
Drawn from School Fund. 190 09
9,190 09
Overdrawn
$78 59
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Appropriations . . .$1825 00
Books and supplies sold
21 27
$1846 27
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PAID FOR BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Boston School Supply Co $ 3 28
Wm. Ware & Co 87 09
J. L. Hammett. 162 39
Leach, Sherwell & Sanborn
10 75
George F. King & Merrill
34 35
F. M. Ambrose
11 10
Carroll W. Clark
2 40
Carl Shoenhof
22 50
Interstate Publishing Co
25 00
D. C. Heath & Co
24 33
Ginn & Co.
88 82
A. C. Stockin 69 46
Geo. Frost 15 00
Warren P. Adams
7 09
Geo. S. Perry
5 35
John C. Haynes & Co
70
Clark & Maynard
10 20
Harrison Hume
68 40
Adams & Ingram
1 75
Houghton & Mifflin
10 63
Charles H. Whiting
23 58
John B. Alden
8 78
Cowperwaith & Co
4 20
Lee & Shepard.
7 75
D. Appleton & Co
4 50
Harper Brothers .
6 00
Carter, Rice & Co
2 35
$ 717 75
MISCELLANEOUS.
David C. Temple, labor and material $138 32
G. S. Tukey, repairs on pumps
2 75
Citizens' Gas Light Co 5 95
George Ballard, labor
1 25
Amount carried forward, $148 27
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Amount brought forward, $148 27
N. W. Broad, labor and material 91 03
C. M. Barrows & Co., printing. 43 25
Patrick Connely, labor
21 75
M. E. Nichols, painting
8 53
Page & Coffin, duster
1 25
Charles J. Taber, labor.
1 75
Edwin Basset, use of church 18 00
W. H. Twombly & Sons, printing 6 75
C. B. Taber, labor and material. 8 48
A. Howard Pearson, moving settees 1 00
Traders and Mechanics Ins. Co., for builders' Risk. 3 00
F. W. Danforth, lining blackboards 1 50
R. J. Hill, repairs on books
4 00
B. & M. R. R., freight.
3 12
Lewis M. Bancroft, Insurance
16 27
John B. Gifford, supplies
2 60
Cummings' Express
3 25
S. D. Hicks & Co, ventilators
21 00
Albin K. Parker, labor 68
Highland Foundry Co., repairs
36 13
Joseph Hibbarts, labor.
70
Ardenne Parker, supplies.
4 30
Copeland & Bowser, hooks 75
N. W. Turner Co.,. 17 50
Edw. F. Parker, labor
7 50
Thomas Hall, supplies
2 56
Carter, Carter & Killam, chemicals
30 90
H. L. Cummings, teaming
9 50
Wm. M. Titus, labor and material
8 92
Lang's Express. 9 25
Wm. H. Bancroft, setting glass
40
T. Littlefield, labor and supplies 9 50
M. A. Stone, supplies. 18 95
Amount carried forward, $562 34
85
Amount brought forward, $562 34
Edw. F. Parker, Agt. book and supplies . 75 00
S. N. Hall, mason work. 98 74
Butler & Sternburg, decorating.
73 00
A. J. Bancroft, labor and supplies
5 96
Estate of Geo. O. Bachelder, rent of land 5 00
H. M. Wiswall, blackboard work 63 00
Matthew Hanley, chairs 1 25
Henry F. Miller & Sons, use of piano 8 00
Daniel Pratt's Son, clock 5 00
Ivory Sanborn, labor. 1 75
Wendell Bancroft, labor and material
68 29
R. L. Beers, labor and material
19 10
Daniel C. Sanborn, labor.
8 40
A. G. Whitcomb, school furniture
124 45
A. W. Carr, supplies.
85
John N. Nichols, setting glass
40
Estate of Wm. M. Moulton, cleaning cistern .. . 4 00
$1842 28
Unexpended. $3 99 Books and supplies in hands of agent. $105 81
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 second day of April, A. D., 1888, 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, Collector, School Committee, Engineer of the Fire Department, Trustees of the Public Library, Trustees of the Cemetery, and Auditors.
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
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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 license be granted for the sale of intoxicat- ing liquor in this town."
ART. 6. 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, State and military aid, printing, abatement of taxes, town office, maintenance of the police, cemetery, public library, soldiers' graves, interest on the town debt, reduction of the town debt, and miscellaneous expenses.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to hire money in antici- pation of taxes.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will employ a night watch the ensuing year, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 9. 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- tors pay one-half the expenses of laying the same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 10. To see what instructions the Town will give their Assessors and Collector.
ART. 11. To determine the compensation of the Collector.
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ART. 12. 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. 13. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate to keep the Old South M. E. Clock running the ensuing year.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars for the payment of the notes of the town, due one of three thousand dollars due September 14th, 1888. One of five hundred dollars due July 9th, 1888. One of one thousand dollars due March 1st, 1889, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will rescind the vote passed October 12, 1887, concerning the location of the new Receiving Tomb, or take any other action with reference to its location.
ART. 16. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the improvement of the Common, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will accept in trust the sum of five hundred dollars as by the will of the late Thomas T. Green- wood. The interest of which sum is to be expended yearly for the purpose of keeping in proper repair and condition, "my burial lot and monument, and wall and appurtenances upon and around the same, situate in the cemetery of said town and now belonging to said town. And if any surplus of said money remains after so doing, to apply the same as they think proper to improvement of the avenue on which lot is situate.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will accept the provisions of section 74, 75, 76 and 77 of Chapter 27 of the Public Statutes, and choose a Board of Road Commissioners in accordance therewith.
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ART. 19. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to cause a survey to be made, in order to secure better drain- age for the part of the town near the junction of Ash and Washington and Main and Washington streets, and make a report at the next Town Meeting as to its necessity, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 20. To hear and act upon the report of the Commit- tee appointed by the town to consider the subject of a public water supply. And to see if the town will adopt the recom- mendation contained in said report, namely, to appoint a Com- mittee with power to negotiate for the purchase by the town of the charter of the Reading Water Company, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to repair and concrete the sidewalk on the northerly side of High street, between Chute street and Mt. Vernon Street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART 22. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of twelve dollars to reimburse William Mears, and sixteen dollars to reimburse John B. Weston for damage caused by raising the grade of the sidewalk on Haven street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifty dollars to put a pump in the cistern on Haven street opposite the house of William Mears, and to furnish a watering trough for public use, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will build a sidewalk on the north side of Lowell Street from Bancroft avenue to a point opposite to the east line of Linden street, and how much money they will raise and appropriate therefor, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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ART. 25. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of seven hundred fifty dollars for the purpose of repairing the Walnut street school-house, and for a new furnace for the same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 26. To see if the town will reimburse the Congrega- tional Society the cost of repairing damage done to their bell by an alleged servant of the town, and how much money they will raise and appropriate for the same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will put in a bridge at the junction of Parker and Elliott streets, and appropriate two hundred dollars for the same.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of twelve hundred dollars for the purpose of completing its system of Fire Alarm throughout the town, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will connect the Hancock Engine House bell with the Electric alarm, and how much money they will raise and appropriate for the same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Engineers to sell the Eagle Engine, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to purchase a new truck and ladders for the use of the Fire Department, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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ART. 33. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to grade the old school-house lot on Woburn street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 34. 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 rela- tion thereto.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will widen Highland street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a street light on Highland street, between Lowell and Federal streets, and one at the corner of Locust and Highland streets. Also on Lowell street, at or near the entrance to the Metropol- itan Rubber Works, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 37. 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. 38. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a street light on Woburn street opposite Nathan Craft's near Samuel Elliott's dwelling.
ART. 39. 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. 40. To see if the Town will erect and maintain two street lights on Prescott street, one on the south side about opposite the house of Mrs. M. B. Garfield, now occupied by Daniel Kendall ; and one at the corner lot of land owned and occupied by Harry P. Bosson.
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ART. 41. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a street light at the southeast corner of Prospect and King streets.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a street light at the corner of Mt. Vernon and High streets and one between Mt. Vernon street and Woburn street, on the northerly side of High street.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to appoint a Town Forester, to serve without pay, whose duty shall be to supervise the planting, and to have the care of all the trees and bushes on the highways, and to see if the Town will authorize the expenditure under the supervision of said Forester, of that part of the appropriation for roads that is usually spent for the trimming of and caring for trees and bushes in the streets, said amount not to exceed one-twentieth of the whole appropriation.
ART. 44. To hear the report of the Selectmen on the sur- vey of Pleasant street extension, and act thereon.
ART. 45. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars to drain Green street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 46. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen on laying out and rounding the corner of lot of George F. Buck's at the junction of Woburn and High streets, also, the rounding the corner of lot of Oscar Foote's at junc- tion of Hancock and Woodbine streets.
ART. 47. To see if the Town will revise and accept the list of names for Jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
ART. 48. To hear and act upon the report of the Select- men in relation to guide-posts.
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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. 1888.
R. DEXTER TEMPLE, Selectmen HORACE L. CUMMINGS, of
STILLMAN M. PRATT. Reading.
A true copy-Attest :
EPHRAIM WIGHT, Constable.
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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, Geo. H.
Nichols, Moses E.
Austin, Henry K.
Nichols, William H.
Bancroft, Lewis M.
Parker, Clarkson
Barrows, Cyrus M.
Parker, Galan A.
Bartley, Francis
Parker, Geo. H.
Bassett, Edwin
Parker, Gilman L.
Batchelder, Howard W.
Parker, Milton D.
Beasley, Geo. W.
Pearson, S. G. Bradley
Brooks, Edward F.
Perkins, Walter H.
Broad, Nathaniel W.
Pratt, Frank W. B.
Brown, Henry M.
Pratt, Harland P.
Cook, Walter F.
Putnam, Geo. L.
Damon, Arthur A.
Roberts, John G.
Eames, Charles B.
Ruggles, Edwin O.
Emerson, Arthur G.
Runnels, Joseph F.
Foss, Horace W.
Richardson, David G.
Foster, Arthur J.
Rogers, Charles G.
Johnson, Alden S.
Sawyer, Addison A.
Knight, Erastus
Stoodley, Nathan D.
La Clair, Henry S.
Temple, Arthur W.
Manning, Warren H.
Temple, Warren K.
McCall, Patrick
Twombly, Willie E.
Mckay, James
Weston, Charles A.
Meader, Geo. C.
Whelton, David
Moulton, Frank W.
Wightman, William H.
Nichols, D. Marshall
Young, Samuel C.
R. DEXTER TEMPLE, HORACE L. CUMMINGS, STILLMAN M. PRATT,
Selectmen of Reading.
READING, March 19, 1888.
INDEX.
Page.
Town Officers, 1887-'88.
.. 3
Town Clerk's Report, Births Registered ..
.6
66 Marriages Registered .8
66 66 66 Deaths Registered.
10
6: 66 Dogs Licensed. 11
Report of the Overseers of the Poor
12
Overseers' Account. .
13
Assessor's Report, Valuation
18
Selectmen's Account, Concrete Sidewalks.
66
Gas Light at Town Pump
.20
Wilson Street
66
Old South Clock.
20
66
66
Green Street Grade
.21
66
Hancock and Woodbine Streets
22
66
66
Printing
22
66
Enforcement of Liquor Law
.22
66
66
Removing Ice and Snow .
23
66
Steam Heating for Almshouse
23
66
Cemetery
24
66
Committee on Water Supply ..
24
66
Street Lights .
25
66
Cross Walks at Linden and Sanborn streets
25
66
66
State Aid ..
.26
66
66
Night Watchman.
26
66
66
New Tomb
27
66
66
Concrete Gutters
27
66
66
Edgestone around Common
27
66
New Hearse.
27
66
66
Soldiers' Graves Decoration
28
66
66
Salaries of Town Officers
28
66
66
Cistern corner of Pierce and Salem streets
.29
66
Highways and Bridges. 30
32
John Street
32
66
66
Haven Street Walk 33
.33
66
66
Miscellaneous Account 35
66
66
Deficiencies Account .36
36
66
66 Table of Appropriations
38
Collector's Report
40
Auditor's Report .
41
Report of Board of Engineers
44
Police Report
46
Report of the Cemetery Committee
47
Library Report
.49
Report of the Committee on Water Supply .
Report of School Committee. .
65
66
Organization of Committee. 66
66
New School Buildings and Repairs
.67
Table of Salaries 76
Appendix, General Statistics 77
80
Town Warrant
.87
List of Jurors
95
66
Town Office . .
29
66
Police .. . . .
66
66
66
Fire Department
66
66 Abatement of Taxes. .
37
Treasurer's Report
66
Interest on Town Debt. 25
20
Main Street Widening
. 21
19
66
51
66
66 Financial Report.
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