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SUB-COMMITTEES.
High School,
W. S. PARKER.
Eighth Class Grammar, H. G. WADLIN.
Seventh Class Grammar, G. L. PARKER.
Sixth Class Grammar, G. L. PARKER. Fifth Class Grammar, E. F. PARKER.
Fourth Class Grammar, G. L. PARKER.
Third Class Primary, H. G. WADLIN.
Second Class Primary, W. S. PARKER. First Class Primary, H. G. WALDIN. Chestnut Hill Grammar, C. M. BARROWS. Primary, C. M. BARROWS.
Prospect St. Grammar, W. E. EATON. " Primary, W. E. EATON. Lowell St. School, E. F. PARKER. Main St. School, E. F. PARKER. Haverhill St. School, C. M. BARROWS.
Prudential Committee and $ E. F. PARKER. Committee on Supplies, C. M. BARROWS.
W. S. PARKER,
Commitee on Text Books, G. L. PARKER, C. M. BARROWS.
Committee on Music, G. L. PARKER. W. S. PARKER.
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REPORT.
In conformity to the requirements of the Public Statutes, the Com- mittee herewith present the following report of the condition of the schools of the town for the year 1890-91.
VACANCIES.
The Committee was obliged early in the year to fill vacancies caused by the resignation of Miss Edith Holden of the Fourth Gram- mar School and Miss A. Olive Pearson of the Lowell street school, who accepted positions at higher salaries in Waltham.
The Fourth Grammar School was filled by the transfer of Miss Winifred Emerson from the Haverhill street school. Miss M. Grace Wakefield, a graduate of the Salem Normal School and formerly a teacher of Middleton, was elected to the Haverhill street school. Miss Jennie R. Sanborn, a graduate of high standing from our High School, was elected to the Main street school. Miss Mary S. Cutler, a teacher from Lexington, and formerly of North Reading, was en- gaged for the Lowetl street school. The vacancy in the seventh grade grammar was filled by Miss Ella F. Wilkes, a teacher from Abington of long and successful service in that place.
Mr. F. E. Chapman, the instructor in music, resigned at the be- ginning of the fall term. The Committee was well pleased with his work in music, but he declined a re-election, unless at an increased salary. It was not an easy task to fill the vacancy acceptably with the amount of money at our command. We also needed more help in the High School. It was thought best to make an effort to get a teacher who could teach the music, and also teach two or three branches in the High School, thus for nearly the same money as we formerly paid for the teaching of music, we should now get in ad- dition, two or three days' work in the high school. Miss Slack came to us with the highest testimonials of scholarship and teaching ability.
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She worked but a short time when she was taken sick and obliged to suspend her labors, and finally resigned. We were very fortunate in finding a teacher in our midst who was eminently able to take up her work at the High School and carry it along successfully. Mrs. Clara Whittemore has consented to remain a short time longer. We can- not expect to retain her services with our present appropriations. Mr. A. E. Bradford, now teaching in Hingham and Ipswich, has con- sented to continue the work in music for a time, although not willing to make a permanent engagement.
As our report is going to press, we regret to announce the resigna- tion of Miss Ruth L. Pratt, who has had a long and successful term of service, beginning in 1867 in the High School. Most of her ser- vice has been in the first grade primary. She has shown a wonderful power and skill in teaching the little ones to make their first steps on the ladder of literary attainments.
How different the labor and skill expected in a primary teacher now and that of thirty years ago ! In many places the highest sala- ries are paid to those teaching the first years' work. The old A. B. C. method has become nearly obsolete. No educator of respectable prominence in Europe or America would think of upholding or de- fending the alphabet method in comparison with either the word or sentence methods, although which of the two latter is preferable is still a question of dispute.
Miss Pratt seemed to realize the importance of the sentiment ex- pressed by the poet in the well-known lines,
" O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule And sun thee in the light of happy faces ;
Love, Hope and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart first keep school."
" May God bless her," will be the prayer of hundreds who have enjoyed the privilege of instruction under her genial sway.
The Committee has sent to Miss Pratt, the following letter :-
" The members of the School Committee, in accepting your res- ignation as a teacher in the schools of Reading, desire to formally acknowledge their appreciation of the fidelity and efficiency which you have manifested during your extended term of service. None of
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our present teachers and very few in the past have served so long as you, or have had the opportunity to exert so wide an influence upon the pupils of our public schools, and the service you have rendered to those who during these years received their first instruction from you, and whose subsequent success was based upon the foundation which you laid, has been only slightly recompensed by the financial compensation you have received. Such service is always quite out of proportion to the money reward it brings, but the Committee, for ourselves, and also in behalf of your former pupils, their parents, and the town, whose opinions we believe we reflect, may hope that your work has not been without that higher reward which every earnest effort brings to the worker, and may assure you that you have our sincere thanks for the past and our best wishes for the future."
COURSE OF STUDY.
The course of study in the High School provides for three different courses, viz : English, English-Latin and Classical.
There should be provided however, an additional year, either before or after entering the High School, for those who are endeavoring to fit for college, if those pupils are expected to compete with graduates from such preparatory schools as Phillips Academy or the Boston Latin School. We have in our primary and grammar grades but eight years while most cities and towns have nine years. We have been having but thirty-eight weeks in the school year, while most towns have had forty and forty-two weeks. If any comparison is to be instituted between our graduates and those of other places, the fact that our course requires one year less in time and that our school year is several weeks shorter than in many towns, should enter into the comparison.
DRAWING.
There has been for the past few years considerable interest mani- fested in the subject of drawing and moulding, as introductory to manual training. The claim has been made that in teaching the pupil to read, write and cipher, we train the eye to see, the tongue to speak, the mind to reason, and we need to add something of manual training like moulding and drawing to complete the education and train the hand to do the bidding of the mind.
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It is, after all, not so much what our pupils learn, but the habits they form and the noble purposes awakened, that gives to our schools their greatest value.
Drawing, carried on properly, is one of the most practical branches of instruction. It has been said, " That is the broadest, truest edu- cation, that trains the hand, the eye, and the mind, for while it is the mind that plans, and the eye that guides and directs in the industrial world, it is always the hand that executes. Our aim should be, 'The cultured mind, the skilful hand.'"*
We have commenced in some of the lower classes a more rational mode of form study, and hope to continue it in the upper grades in the form of model and object drawing.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
The school buildings are generally in a very good condition. The High School building and the Chestnut Hill school-house were shingled during the summer vacation. Additional windows were put into the latter house at the same time, in compliance with the request of the State Board of Education. At the High School building we need better sanitary accommodations, and we respectfully call your attention to the recommendation made for an appropriation for a larger and more suitable building, one better adapted to the needs of all the schools in the building. Concrete has been laid about the new build- Ang on Union street, and we trust that something will be done soon to the John street building, and the grading about it improved.
The Legislature of 1888 enacted a law entitled, " An act to cause proper sanitary provisions and proper ventilation in public buildings and school houses." Section 2 of this act requires that " every pub- lic building and every school-house shall be ventilated in such a proper manner that the air shall not become so exhausted as to be injurious to the health of the persons present therein."
Section 3 is as follows :-
SECTION 3. " Whenever it shall appear to an inspector of factor- ies and public buildings that further or different sanitary provisions or means of ventilation are required in any public building or school- house in order to conform to the requirements of this act, and that the same can be provided without incurring unreasonable expense,
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such inspector may issue a written order to the proper person or authority, directing such sanitary provisions or means of ventilation to be provided, and they shall thereupon be provided in accordance with such order by the public authority, corporation or person having charge of, owning or leasing such public building or school-house."
" The State Inspectors of school buildings, acting under the law mentioned above, have visited some of our buildings and have directed that certain changes be made for the purpose of improving the ven- tilation of the building on the corner of Union and John streets. Their requirements must be complied with, under penalty. This will involve the erection of a new chimney of large size and the purchase of new heating apparatus, together with certain other improvements. As the law is mandatory, the requisite appropriation, as asked for by the Committee should be made by the town. It does not follow that the expenditure of this entire sum will be needed, as in view of the fact that the building is an old one and the growth of the town will, before long, require it to be enlarged or a new building provided, may lead the inspectors to modify their demands. The Committee should, however, have an appropriation that will enable them to deal with the matter as the best interests of the town may require.
It will be noticed by the report that the Main street school has but nine pupils. The question has been raised whether it would not be better for the pupils to attend the schools at the center, if provision were made for good comfortable transportation. The plan has been successfully tried in several places, viz. : Concord, Northboro, Cohasset, and found to be feasible. The Committee have no desire to press the matter against the wishes of the parents and residents interested, but believe the welfare of the pupils and economy of money expended call for consideration of the subject by the town. Many things can be said in favor of and against the project. We make no recommendation at this time, wishing rather to give all an opportunity of thinking carefully upon the subject in all its relations to not only the Main street school, but other districts.
We earnestly solicit your careful attention to the report of ex- penditures for salaries, books, apparatus, etc., believing that such examination will convince you that the money has been carefully and judiciously expended.
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APPROPRIATIONS.
The Committee recommend that the town raise and appropriate the sum of $11,000 for regular school expenses, which includes teachers' salaries, fuel, and care of buildings.
They also recommend that $2,000 be raised and appropriated for incidental school expenses, including the purchase of text-book supplies, and that $500 be raised and appropriated for an out-building at the High School, and also $500 for improving the ventilation and heating of the John Street School House.
Two vacancies in the Committee are to be filled at the ensuing town meeting. The terms of Gilman L. Parker and Warren E. Eaton expire.
Adopted in School Committee, March 20, 1890.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER S. PARKER, Chairman, )
HORACE G. WADLIN,
EDWARD F. PARKER, CYRUS M. BARROWS, of Reading.
School
Committee
WARREN E. EATON,
GILMAN L. PARKER, Secretary,
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APPENDIX.
ROLL OF TEACHERS, MARCH 1ST, 1891.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
SALARIES.
High
Wilson R. Butler, Principal.
$1700 00
Olive A. Prescott, 1st Ass't ..
600 00
Carrie E. Berry, 2nd Ass't ... 500 00
66
Clara Whittemore, 3rd Ass't.
234 00
Eighth Class Grammar
Alice Barrows
500 00
Seventh Class Grammar
Ella F. Wilkes
450 00
Sixth Class Grammar
Annie F. Merriam 456 00
Fifth Class Grammar
Kate L. Beard
100 00
Fourth Class Grammar
Winifred Emerson 350 00
Third Class Primary.
Mary W. Howard.
418 00
Second Class Primary.
Elnora Emerson 400 00
First Class Primary
Ruth L. Pratt 457 00
Chestnut Hill Grammar
Ida M. Gordon
400 00
Chestnut Hill Primary
Annie P. Reid
375 00
Prospect Street Grammar.
M. Fannie Wilson.
425 00
Prospect Street Primary
Addie M. Bancroft
.350 00
Lowell Street Mixed
Mary S. Cutler.
350 00
Main Street Mixed.
Jennie R. Sanborn .
$7 00 per week.
Haverhill Street Mixed
M. Grace Wakefield.
7 00 per week.
Instructor in Music Albert E. Bradford
300 00
Number of male teachers employed . 2
Number of female teachers employed . 18
Average wages per month of female teachers. $41 08
Number of teachers who have attended Normal schools. 10
Number of teachers who have graduated from Normal schools . . 10
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TABLE SHOWING ENROLLMENT, ATTENDANCE AND NUMBER OF VISITORS.
Average Membership.
Average Attendance.
SCHOOLS.
Enrollment.
Ist Term.
2nd Term.
3rd Term.
Ist Term.
2nd Term.
3rd Term.
Pupils during year
over 15 years.
Pupils during year
under 5 years.
No. of Visitors.
Iligh .
79
75
88
82
74
86
77
61
71
Eighth ( lass Grammar ....
49
40
54
45
38
51
41
7
100
Seventh Class Grammar.
47
45
48
46
42
46
42
1
52
Sixth Class Grammar.
35
31
32
34
30
30
31
49
Fifth Class Grammar.
34
33
39
36
31
37
34
74
Fourth Class Grammar
50
38
42
41
36
40
38
74
Third Class Primary ..
52
42
41
42
39
38
38
57
Second Class Primary .
39
40
40
42
38
36
37
48
First Class Primary ..
115
58
57
56
52
48
43
2
214
Chestnut Hill Grammar ..
27
26
23
23
22
21
20
54
Chestnut Hill Primary . ..
39
33
28
24
28
2-4
20
38
Prospect Street Grammar ..
36
34
32
28
33
30
23
66
Prospect Street Primary . . .
12
35
42
43
32
38
35
1
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Main Street Mixed ...
17
14
12
9
13
8
7
1
27
Haverhill Street Mixed ..
23
16
13
12
15
11
9
1
49
739
601
632
594
561
579
518
69
6 1,134
Number of different pupils enrolled during the year 739
Average membership of all the schools. 609
Average attendance in all the schools during the year . 553
Percentage of attendance, based on average membership 90.8
Number attending within the year between S and 14 years of age (com- pulsory age) 391
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Number of pupils admitted to the High School.
Age of youngest pupil admitted 13 years.
Age of oldest pupil admitted . 16 years 6 mos.
Average age of pupils admitted 14 years 5 mos.
..
41
41
31
38
35
23
1
67
Lowell Street Mixed.
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FORTITER.
FIDELITER. FELICITER.
READING HIGH SCHOOL. Class of '90. GRADUATION EXERCISES, OLD SOUTH CHURCH, Wednesday Evening, June 18, 1890, 7.45 O'clock.
HADLEY'S ORCHESTRA OF SOMERVILLE, S. H. HADLEY, LEADER.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
March and Overture .- Orchestra.
Prayer.
Choral .- Praise Ye the Lord of Light, Cruger
- H. K. Barrows Salutatory and Oration .- Incentives to Labor,
Essay .- Worth of Classical Study, - Marion E. Parker Chorus .- "List ! The Trumpet's Thrilling Sound," - Meyerbeer
Oration .- The Character of Marcus Brutus, - E. W. Bancroft Reminiscences of the Class of '90, - Misses Wakefield and Jeffrey Selection by the Orchestra. Essay .- Myths, - Grace D. Sweetser - - Recitation .- The Witch's Daughter, Whittier, - Grace S. Twombly Chorus .- May Song, Gounod -
ʹ - Essay .- Contentment Hinders Progress, - Blanche E. Robinson Joseph Harrington Mr. Hadley - Edith R. Hill
Oration .- Peculiarities of our Government, Cornet Solo .- Selected,
Class Prophecy, - Essay and Valedictory .- Motives to Study, - Jennie R. Sanborn
Pilgrims' Chorus from "Lombardi," -
- Verdi
AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS.
Mr. Walter S. Parker, Chairman of School Committee. Parting Hymn, Bellini, - - Graduating Class Benediction.
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GRADUATING CLASS.
Edith Rebecca Hill,
Alice Kittredge,
Blanche Edwina Robinson,
Grace Delia Sweetser,
Grace Simonton Twombly,
Harold Kilbreth Barrows,
Edward Winthrop Bancroft,
Jennie Rebecca Sanborn.
Joseph Harrington, Edith Wakefield.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Giving names of those who have been neither absent nor tardy since March, 1890, and the schools to which they belong.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Elmer H. Robinson, Charles S. Beaudry, ¡ Marion T. Pratt,
Herbert L. Hill, Kirk A. Parker, ¡ John J. Wakefield.
EIGHTH CLASS GRAMMAR.
Josie A. Sweetser,
Charles F. Totten,
Fred. C. Scott.
SEVENTH CLASS GRAMMAR.
¡Charles N. Goldthwait,
*Charles F. Perry,
Addie E. Parker, Frank W. Pratt,
Scott Parker.
SIXTH CLASS GRAMMAR. *Roy E. Parker. FIFTII CLASS GRAMMAR.
¿William S. Badger, Ethel Berry,
*Quincy Brown, Grace Skillen,
Edith Sweetser.
FOURTH CLASS GRAMMAR.
Florence Allen, Isabelle Buxton,
Edna Bancroft, Carleton H. Prescott,
Emma B. Sheldon.
THIRD CLASS PRIMARY. ¡Alma N. Damon.
Elsie Josephine Jeffrey, Marion Edna Parker,
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FIRST CLASS PRIMARY. Florence E. Buxton.
CHESTNUT HILL GRAMMAR. *Robert B. Weston.
CHESTNUT HILL PRIMARY. Eva F. Hodson.
PROSPECT STREET GRAMMAR.
Marion E. Boyd,
Louis F. Gay.
PROSPECT STREET PRIMARY. Bernard E. Cheney.
LOWELL STREET SCHOOL. ¿Blanche P. Washburn.
MAIN STREET SCHOOL. Albert II. Carter.
t Neither absent nor tardy for two years.
* Neither absent nor tardy for three years.
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GENERAL STATISTICS.
Population of Reading, (1890) 4,088
Number of children between 5 and 15 years of age, May,
1890 611
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Number of children between 8 and 14 years of age, May, 1890
. 363
Amount of appropriation for instruction, fuel, and care of rooms .
. $10,300 00
Amount received for tuition
64 00
Amount drawn from Massachusetts School Fund . ·
428 33
$10,792 33
Expended for instruction, fuel, and care of
rooms . $10,792 33
Amount appropriated for text-books, supplies,
and incidental school expenses . ·
$2,025 00
Amount received from books and supplies sold 18 31
$2.043 31
Expended for text-books and supplies
$ 622 98 .
Expended for incidental school expenses 1,375 54
Unexpended 44 79
$2,043 31
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FINANCIAL REPORT.
EXPENDED FOR JANITORS.
Centre School Buildings $426 50
Prospect St. School Building
117 00
Chestnut Hill School Building
72 00
Lowell St. School Building
36 00
Main St. School Building
29 25
Haverhill St. School Building
36 00
$716 75
EXPENDED FOR FUEL.
Paid Wendell Bancroft, for coal
$31 25
Calvin L. Martin
707 16
66 Seth Bessey, for wood
.
6 75
Howard W. Batchelder, for wood .
55 14
66 A. G. Nichols, 66
14 31
F. W. Davis, 66 66
10 25
W. Wallace Davis, 66
4 80
$829 66
EXPENDED FOR LABOR ON FUEL.
Paid Eben G. Beard
$3 63
66 Isaac D. Draper
4 00
" C. F. Bessom
6 00
$13 63
EXPENDED FOR TEACHING.
High School
$2,930 32
Eighth Class Grammar
500 00
Seventh “
480 10
Sixth 66
463 20
Amounts carried forward,
$4,373 62 $1,560 04
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Amounts brought forward,
$4,373 62 $1,560 04
Fifth Class Grammar
$400 00
Fourth
379 13
Third
Primary
436 60
Second " 66
400 00
First 66 66
457 99
Chestnut Hill Grammar
400 00
66 " Primary
358 50
Prospect St. Grammar
429 50
66 " Primary
341 00
Lowell St. Mixed
377 19
Main St. 66
285 00
Haverhill St. "
299 67
Music Teacher
288 09
Military Instructor
6 00
$9,232 29
$10,792 33
Appropriation
$10,300 00
Received for tuition .
64 00
Drawn from Mass. School Fund
428 33
-- $10,792 33
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Paid D. C. Heath & Co. $ 2 72
Boston School Supply Co.
32 19
Educational Publishing Co.
16 60
George F. King & Merrill
41 62
J. L. Hammett
67 98
A. S. Barnes & Co.
3 67
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
13 50
Harper & Brothers
4 61
Thorp, Adams & Co.
2 50
Lee & Shepard
19 79
Wm. Ware & Co.
37 70
Pulsifer, Jordan & Pfaff
24 60
Amount carried forward, $267 48
99
Amount brought forward,
$267 48
Paid Interstate Publishing Co.
6 25
George W. Simmons
1 40
American Humane Education Society
12 00
Ginn & Company
.
158 59
American Book Company
124 22
C. M. Barrows & Co.
10 25
I. W. Chamberlin
1 25
Olive A. Prescott
3 76
Effiingham & Maynard
2 70
George S. Perry
5 80
Thompson, Brown & Co.
50
Mass. Bible Society .
75
Educational Supply Co.
5 45
Prang Educational Co.
7 36
Carter, Carter & Killam
1 88
J. B. Plummer & Co.
13 34
$622 98
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Paid Edward F. Parker, for gong
$3 00
Daniel Pratt's Son, for clocks
24 00
Daniel C. Sanborn, for labor
1 25
Mathew Hanley, for chairs
2 00
Sadie M. Swift, for copying
1 00
H. L. Cummings, for teaming
7 50
Wm. G. White's express
9 80
Wm. A. Lang, for labor and material
312 72
H. Pigeon & Sons, for flag poles
98 00
David Pratt, for labor
5 66
Irving Wheeler & Co., for ropes and blocks
15 30
W. R. Butler, for supplies
8 00
W. H. Twombly & Sons
11 50
Jerry Flint, for repairs
9 65
Amounts carried forward,
$509 38
$622 98
.
100
Amounts brought forward,
$622 98
Paid Wendell Bancroft, labor and material
$509 38 $10 00
George W. Atkinson 1 65
Reading Savings Bank. for settee
1 00
Boston & Maine R. R., for freight
17 50
Citizens Gas-Light Co., for gas
7 49
Lawrence Brothers, for shingles
156 50
M. E. Society, for use of church
28 00
L. W. Sherman, for material
1 75
Houghton & Dutton
1 88
J. C. Cook, for painting
71 22
J. L. Hammett, for blackboards
106 20
Charles C. Dike, for concrete
52 09
Horace A. Brooks, for rebinding books
28 35
Patrick Conley, for labor .
3 00
A. G. Whitcomb, for furniture
11 00
Cummings Express .
1 85
Burr & Brown, for picture cord
·
75
Paine Furniture Co., for chairs
3 00
R. L. Beers, for repairs
20 30
Isaac D. Draper, for labor
3 80
Moses E. Nichols, painting
62 75
S. E. Parker, taking school census
15 00
G. S. Tukey, repairs on pumps .
7 00
M. S. Quinlan, repairs
15 04
N. W. Broad, repairs
28 59
James W. Vinal, material
1 00
R. A. White, horse hire
21 00
Lewis M. Bancroft, insurance
5 00
C. M. Barrows & Co., printing
3 00
C. F. Bessom, for duster
75
Francis Brothers, for supplies
32 85
Arthur J. Davis, setting glass
3 00
M. A. Stone, supplies
3 25
T. R. Newhall, edgestone
50 60
Amounts carried forward,
$1,285 54
$622 98
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101
Amounts brought forward, $1,285 54 $622 98
Paid M. Forbes & Son, clearing vaults 8 00
Howard W. Batchelder, rent of land 5 00
Edward F. Parker, agent for books and supplies . Henry M. Parker, tuning piano
75 00
2 00
$1,375 54
$1,998 52
Appropriation .
$2,025 00
Books and supplies sold
18 31
$2,043 31
Unexpended
$44 79
$2,043 31
Books and supplies in hands of agent
$96 81
CONCRETING AROUND CENTRE PRIMARY SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
EXPENDED.
Paid Hiram Litchfield, for labor $ 2 25
N. C. Flanders,
.
4 50
Zeba Lampro, 66 2 63
Patrick Burns, 66 66
2 63
Antonio Enos, 66 66
2 25
Samuel Brown,
4 50
Chas. A. Weston, “
3 40
Charles C. Dike, for concreting
178 72
$200 88
Appropriation
200 00
Overdrawn
$ 88
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TOWN WARRANT.
OF RE
TOWN
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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 inhabi- tants 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 sixth day of April, A. D. 1891, 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 of
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Taxes, School Committee, Road Commissioners, Water Com- missioners. Engineers of the Fire Department, Trustees of the Public Library, Trustees of the Cemetery and Auditors.
ART. 3. To bring in their votes on one ballot for Town Clerk, Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Constables, one Road Commissioner for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years ; also on separate ballot two members of the School Committee for three years, also on separate ballots to bring in their votes in answer to the question, " shall licenses be granted for the sale of in- toxicating liquors in this Town, each ballot to be received at the same time in separate boxes.
ART. 4. To choose all other necessary Town Officers and see what instructions you will give the Town Officers. .
ART. 5. To see if the Town will fix the salaries, not already established, of the various Town Officers, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will appropriate the cash bal- ance in the Treasury towards the payment of the Town debt.
ART. 7. To determine how much money the Town will raise for schools, incidental school expenses, repairs of high- ways and bridges, removing ice and snow, 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, miscellaneous expenses and interest on the water loan.
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