Town of Reading Massachusetts annual report 1906, Part 10

Author: Reading (Mass.)
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 280


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I believe we would secure equally good results if French were used as the language, with the added benefit that it would contrib- ute more to the pupil's advantage in his study of French in High School and to his equipment for later years. With proper facilities for instruction I believe the best results in French could be secured by beginning in Eighth Grade and continuing it throughout the High School course with three periods a week. This would give 600 hours or a full three years course of five periods a week with the gain of beginning at an earlier age, when new means of express- ing thought are naturally attractive.


PHYSIOLOGY


The work in physiology and hygiene is carried on in the Primary Grades by oral work, in morning talks and special lessons as occasions arise.


In the grades beyond these a text book is given the pupils and the work grows more definite as the plan of the Committee of Twelve is followed.


MANUAL TRAINING


Manual training still holds its well earned place in our work as the little ones with scissors find profitable employ in cutting paper and cardboard or in weaving with splints or colored paper.


Beginning with the Fourth Grade more careful work in card- board construction is done while in the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth


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the boys are given sloyd work and the girls at the same time receive instruction in sewing.


I feel that I am entirely within bounds when I state that from no like amount of expenditure per year, about $500, do the schools of Reading derive, on the whole, so great a benefit as from that spent on manual training.


MUSIC


This subject has been efficiently taught in our schools for many years and the results are very apparent in the upper Grammar and High School Grades.


In the Primary Grades rote singing has lately come under the direction of the Supervisor, with the result that a great gain is noticeable in the quality of the music memorized.


In these grades, too, more attention is given to individual work, so that each pupil becomes accustomed to rising and singing alone with as little hesitation as he feels on rising to read or spell, and this carried on in higher grades, as part singing is taken up, develops an independence that is very commendable.


All grades gain from drill in writing exercises in music to show that they have really mastered the simple matters of musical notation.


This certainty in each individual case has a marked effect for good on the chorus work of the older classes.


In the High School, opportunity is given pupils to study harmony and musical composition.


DRAWING


The exercises in drawing are grouped in all the grades in four main subjects, Nature, Construction, Representation and Design. Nature drawing is studied from flowers, sprays of leaves, fruit and vegetables both in the spring and fall. In the Primary Grades pencils and crayons are used, and in the higher grades brush work with ink and water colors is added.


Mechanical drill and constructive work are given in each grade, beginning with the use of the ruler and measuring by inches, half


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and quarter inches through the Fourth Grade, followed by simple working drawings to scale, some of which are afterwards worked out in the manual training room. Simple objects, quickly made, which are useful in play or for Christmas gifts, or to illustrate other lessons are constructed of paper or cardboard. These give valuable training in neatness, accuracy and dexterity.


Representation or pictorial drawing is made interesting by the study of useful or beautiful objects from school or home. Different mediums of expression are employed, as crayons, water colors and charcoal, the variety continuing the interest from year to year. Some fine landscape drawing in charcoal and water colors has been executed by one of the classes in the High School and has attracted a great deal of attention when posted in the drawing room.


The subject of design is one which interests most pupils as the element of color appeals so strongly to the childish taste. Designs have been made for handkerchief and rug borders, for bowls, pitchers and vases, surface patterns for textiles, book covers and book rack ends. We have not been able to apply many of the designs in arts or crafts but hope it may be possible in the near future.


The beautiful room planned and furnished for drawing in the new High School has been a joy and delight, its convenience, light and beauty being all that could be desired. The quality of work has been much improved by such surroundings and the former confusion and loss in collecting and storing materials have been completely eliminated.


A valuable gift of artistic Japanese pottery has been received for use in this room, and has added much to its attractiveness and to its working facilities.


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READING HIGH SCHOOL


GENERAL COURSE


COLLEGE GROUP SCIENTIFIC GROUP FRESHMAN YEAR


English


5 English


5


English


5


English 5


Latin


5


Latin


5


Latin


5 Latin


5


Algebra


5 Algebra


5 Algebra


5 Algebra


5


Biology


5


History


3


Biology


5


Biology


5


History


3


History


3


Drawing


1


Bus. Arith.


3


Drawing


1


Drawing


1


SOPHOMORE YEAR


English


5 English


5 English


5


English 5


Latin


5


Latin


5 Latin


5 Latin


5


Greek


5 Greek


5 Geometry


5 Geometry


5


Geometry


5


Geometry


5 Physics


5


Physics


5


History


3


Physics


5


History


3


Drawing


1


Physics


5


History


3


Drawing


1


Bookkeeping


5


Drawing


1


JUNIOR YEAR


English


5


English


5 English


5 English 5


Latin


5


Latin


5 Latin


5 Latin


5


Greek


5


Greek


5


French


5 French


5


French


5 French


5 German


5 German


5


German


5


German


5 Mathematics


5 Mathematics


5


Chemistry


5


Chemistry


5 History


3 History


3


Phys. Geog.


3


History


3 Drawing


1 Drawing


1


History


3


Bookkeeping 5


Stenography


3


Typewriting


2


Drawing


1


SENIOR YEAR


English


5


English


5 English


5 English 5


Latin


5


Latin


5


Latin


5 Latin


5


Greek


5 Greek


5 French


5 French


5


French


5 French


5 German


5 German


5


German


5 German


5 Mathematics


5 Physiology


3


Mathematics


5 Mathematics 5 Physics


Physics


4 Physics


4 Chemistry


4 Drawing


1


Chemistry


4


Chemistry 4 History


4


Physiology


3


History


4 Drawing


1


History


4


Stenography


3


Typewriting Drawing


2


1


Music is elective for all students each year.


The figures at the right indicate the number of periods per week the subject occurs, and also the number of diploma points granted for a successful year's work in each subject.


3


Mathematics


5


Mathematics 5 Chemistry


5 Phys. Geog.


4 History


4


NORMAL GROUP


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The general course as outlined above includes all the subjects offered during the several years. From these the student may elect studies aggregating at least nineteen points, five of which must be English, and one of which may be music. A total of seventy-six points must be successfully passed off before the diploma of the school will be granted. Owing to the varied requirements of the different colleges and scientific schools for admission, and the latitude of choice allowed even in the same college, it is impossible to lay down a fixed course for preparation for higher institutions. In the college, scientific, and normal groups, are presented the studies which are required for entrance into the various institutions for which our students prepare. From these groups may be elected the individual courses necessary to prepare for any college, scientific school or normal school in the country, and from these courses students can be, and are, prepared to enter without condition Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Massachu- setts Inst. of Tech. or any of the smaller colleges or normal schools. The so-called "commercial" subjects are fitting many students for office work, and it is possible for any bright student to fill a situation of fairly arduous requirements as stenographer immediately upon graduating from this department. A course in harmony, comprising one hour a week for one year is also offered, open to all classes, and for this, one point is allowed.


HOME GARDENS


A good number of our pupils were interested to carry on the work in gardens at home, and give a description of their exper- iences on the opening of schools.


Garden Day, which was held near the last of September, showed keen interest in the work and a marked success in raising flowers and vegetables.


Prizes were awarded to a large number of children by the president of the Woman's Club, and several were awarded by the Horticultural Society of Boston for excellent work done here at home, one receiving first prize.


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We are under great obligation to the Woman's Club to whom is due the honor of the inauguration of this work, and to Miss Olive Prescott who has given much thought and personal super- vision to it. The work merits the hearty support of all, for by it all children who undertake it derive a benefit that comes from doing something calling for patient work according to the laws of vegetable life, and patient waiting for the fruitage.


By continued cooperation of home, school, and interested organizations we shall continue to derive still greater good from this branch of educational work.


HUMANE EDUCATION


This story may seem one that is hardly entitled to space in another school report, but inasmuch as this has as much to do with the proper training of the future citizen as the instruction given in Latin or Algebra, I venture to report that we are still fostering this work and are finding fertile soil into which we cast the seed that is even now, in school days, yielding the fruits of kindness to the lower orders of animals and respect and kindly deportment towards their elders. If exceptions to this rule can be instanced, please consider how many fail to become expert workers in mathe- matics, in science, or in other purely intellectual work. Perhaps we shall find that fully as great results are secured in this line of teaching as in the strictly scholastic work.


STAMP SAVINGS


So far we find no instance of the development of the sordid, miserly spirit from the experience of our work in this department, but on the other hand there are many cases in which the accumula- tion resulting by Christmas time or a little earlier has proved suffi- cient to purchase the new shoes needed, or the mittens for a brother or sister, possibly the product of both influences, humane education and stamp savings.


It will be interesting to learn that during the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1906, the amount laid by for a longer or a shorter period was $589.54.


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I am sure many learn to understand the meaning of saving the small sums of money by this plan of investing the pennies in stamps instead of spending them for trifles.


In the planning of this work and in directing the same I am greatly indebted to the cordial support of the committee and to the harmonious cooperation of my teachers, for which I wish here to express my hearty thanks.


Respectfully submitted,


MELVILLE A. STONE, Superintendent of Schools.


REPORT OF THE TRUANT OFFICER


FROM JAN. 1, 1906, TO JAN. 1, 1907


To the Superintendent :


Number of absences reported to me


56


Number found to be truancy


19


Number claimed to be illness


9


Number insufficiently clad


9


Number over 14 years of age


3


Number who had left town


1


Number kept to work or otherwise


11


Number returned to school


52


Number sent elsewhere


.


2


Respectfully submitted, A. A. SMITH, Truant Officer.


.. Graduation ..


1906


READING HIGH SCHOOL JUNE TWENTIETH


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PROGRAM Prayer REV. F. S. HUNNEWELL


1 Uncle Sam's New Little Ones (Salutatory )


MARION BELLE TURNER


2 The Red Man's Last Roll Call CHESTER ALBERT JENKINS


3 The Land of Memory HELEN RAYMOND ABBOTT


Music-"The Lord is Great" Mendelssohn


HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS


4 The Crusade We are Awaiting EDWARD HARRISON TURNER


5 A Type of the True American STANLEY PRESCOTT HUNNEWELL


Music-"O Star of Truth" Gounod


HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS


6 Our Debt to the Arab


JOSEPHINE HENRIETTA LEACH


7 Diplomats that Count


DEAN PEABODY


Music-"The Bridal Chorus" Cowen


From "The Rose Maiden" HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS


8 The New Note in Education (Valedictory )


BERTHA ELSIE BARTLETT Conferring of Diplomas by Walter S. Parker Chairman of the School Committee Benediction REV. W. H. PARKER


Musical Director LEON R. MAXWELL


Accompanist GENEVIEVE L. FORBES, '06


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GRADUATES


COLLEGE COURSE


Helen Raymond Abbott


Bertha Elsie Bartlett


Josephine Henrietta Leach Edith M. Livingston


Marion Belle Turner


SCIENTIFIC COURSE


Charles Lowell Hanson Chester Albert Jenkins


Albert George Heselton


Harrison Bradbury Parker


Stanley Prescott Hunnewell Dean Peabody, Jr.


Edward Harrison Turner


NORMAL COURSE


Elizabeth Annie Batchelder Annie Beryl Bruorton


GENERAL COURSE


Maude Payne Badger


Abbie Marie McGarry


Bertha Lillian Parker


Catherine Helen Parkins


George Bancroft Perry Annie Susan Poock Clarence George Power


Esther Frances Emerson


Endie Findley Ramsay


Adelaide Louise Robertson


Genevieve Louise Forbes Sydney Chandler Gould Sara Augusta Haley Mabel Louise Hall Elsie Marion Killam


Roland Rounds


Edna Mae Runkle Olive Smart Carl Harry Swanson


George Timothy Lord


Caroline Julia Thayer


Ernest Waldo Manning


Wilbur Francis Turner, Jr.


Winnie Isabelle Mansfield


Isabel Gertrude White


Sybil Marion White


Oscar William Batchelder Frances Whitefield Capen Mildred Goward Chandler Beulah Snow Chisholm Edith Frances Doucette


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GRADUATING CLASS OF THE HIGHLAND SCHOOL, JUNE, 1906


Abrams, Anna R.


Greene, Myra F.


Atkinson, Edward P.


Griffiths, H. Eleazer


Babcock, Harold J.


Griffiths, Margaret B.


Barbrick, Marjorie G.


Haag, Marion L.


Barr, Mabel C.


Haag, Gertrude


Brooks, Mary G.


Horton, Clyde K.


Buckle, Vera P.


Jenkins, Florence L.


Carnes, Caroline D.


Kershaw, Warren J.


Charles, Melva S.


Kelley, Norman


Clark, Helen L.


Knowles, Harriette A.


Clark, Maud E.


Logan, Jennie E.


Cooper, H. Clifford


MacMonagle, Ruth E.


Cotton, Carlos


Maguire, John F.


Coulter, Florence I.


McIntire, Lee W.


Cowles, George N.


Meserve, Marion D.


Crowther, Elsie M.


Meuse, Mary F.


Cullinane, Sadie F.


Michelini, Arthur C.


Curtis, Edgar H.


Michelini, Domenick D.


Ellison, Guy W.


Milbury, Grace H.


Field, Charles H.


Murray, Catherine C.


Flint, Russell A.


Murphy, Elizabeth A.


Forbes, Frank


Nichols, J. Raymond


Foster, Ralph W.


Oxley, Frances F.


Freedman, Marion


Parker, Helen B.


Freeman, Laura L.


Parker, Henry B. Parks, Harry F.


Friend, Margaret A.


Galvin, Frank


Parsons, Ruby B.


Gear, Frances L.


Pease, Christine J.


Granfield, Christine E.


Pruden, Mildred W.


Greeley, Ethel E.


Putnam, Georgia A.


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Quinlan, Mary E. Richards, Evelyn C.


Riley, Annie C.


Riley, Margaret M.


Robinson, Chester T.


White, Josephine M.


Robinson, Mildred G.


Whitehouse, Daniel A.


Shepardson, Douglass A. Smith, Carl M.


Whittier, Irving M.


Wickens, David


Symmes, Marjorie O. Trask, Carrie L.


Turner, Anna R.


Turner, Theresa M.


Webb, Frances L.


Whitchurch, M. Blanche White, Ethel M.


Wilkinson, Blanche I. Willis, Margery


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STATISTICS TAKEN FROM REPORT TO THE STATE BOARD IN APRIL, 1906, AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST


NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN TOWN BETWEEN 5 AND 15 YEARS Sept. 1899


832


1900


. 853


66 1901


890


66


1902


915


1903


967


66


1904


938


66


1905


972


1906


1022


NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN TOWN BETWEEN 7 AND 14 YEARS Sept. 1899


648


1900


648


1901


680


66


1902


636


1903


682


66 1904


758


66


1905


698


1906


759


Length of school year, 1905-1906


. 40 wks.


Number of days lost from stormy days, etc. 18.3


Actual length of school year


9 mos. 1.7 dys. Number of different pupils enrolled for the year ending June 23, 1905


1168 Average number in each of the twelve grades for first four months of school year :


YEAR I 120


IV 87


VIII


XII Spc. Tot'l 903


1899


1900


II III VI VII XI 103 89 IX 127 136 66 107 93 102 68 V 108 75 1901 108 98 82 64 70 86 109 97 93 86 X 56 49 66 97 61 56 28 25 5 978 1902 34 21 4 1008 53 31 9 1050 1903 63 17 23 5 36 14 0 907 46 37 177 102 77 105 87 117 98 100 86 42 142 126 90 64 127 114 103 104 1904 129 131 116 116 61 95 91 109 60 53 54 4 1123 76 72 129 118 79 129 45 48 4 1156 1905 118 63 42 5 1166 1906


130 124 105 104 88 100 109 127 120 100 93 100


85 88


.


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4


DRAWING ROOM


TEACHERS IN SERVICE, WHERE EDUCATED, YEAR WHEN FIRST APPOINTED


ALSO ENROLLMENT FOR FOUR MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 21, 1906


School


Grade


Teachers


Where Educated


Year First


Appointed


Salary


Total


Enrollment


Average


Average


Attendance


Per cent. of


Attendance


Cases of


Cases of


Dismissal


Neither Absent nor Tardy


High


XII


Harry T. Watkins, M. A., Master


Colby University


1903


$2,000


280


266


256.8


96.9


238


144


79


XI


Ervin N. Babcock, Sub-Master


Drury College


1905


1,050


X


Jennie E. Wier


Boston University


1901


750


IX


Edith R. Clapp, M. A.


Brown University


1904


750


Natalie A. Smith


Wellesley College


1905


600


Helen P. Abbott


Vassar College


1905


600


Mary P. Gordon


Mt. Holyoke College


1905


700


Flora M. Cotton, 3 1-2 mos.


Brown University


1906


700


Wellesley College


1906


525


Radcliffe College


1906


600


Mary Lerner


Tufts College


1906


500


Highland


Alice Barrows, Principal


Bridgewater Normal


1880


1,000


40


38.1 37.1


34.8


91.3


42


5


7


VIII


N. H. State Normal


1899


650


39


34.7


93.5


45


6


5


VIII


Alice E. Hood


Gorham Normal


1901


550


44


37.7


36.5


96.8


34


8


12


VIII-VII


Edith A. Estes


Gorham Normal


1906


450


41


39


36.3


93.1


43


16


7


VII


Leonora W. Goodsoe


Tufts College


1906


500


36


33.5


31.5


94


20


12


5


VII


Annie L. Dolloff


Lewiston Training


1904


450


52


48.5


45.3


93.4


16


17


7


VI


Delia M. Holman


Westfield Normal


1906


450


53


50.4


45.5


90.3


68


17


6


VI


Mary L. Reid


Fitchburg Normal


1906


400


50


48.9


45


92.3


78


11


2


V


Agnes S. Ordung


1905


425


50


47.1


44


93.5


70


15


0


V


Harriet M. Foster


Framingham Normal


1905


425


52


48.3


43.1


89.3


66


28


3


Centre


III


Edith A. Wright, Principal


Hyannis Summer School


1904


450


36


34.1


30.7


90


19


2


1


III


M. Grace Wakefield


Salem Normal


1890


475


36


35.8


32.5


90.8


34


3


3


IV


Ethel M. Flanders


Salem Normal


1905


400


46


40.7


37.5


92.1


12


8


3


IV


Nellie S. Batchelder


Hyannis Normal


1906


400


40


38.9


35.3


90.7


23


19


4


II


Florence E. Babcock


Westfield Normal


1905


500


46


40.3


35.2


87.1


27


7


II


Anna P. Reid


Reading High School


1904


475


42


35.7


30.4


85.1


25


0


0


I


Marion G. Morgan


Reading High School


1898


450


43


38.8


29


74.8


13


6


0


Prospect St.


IV-III


Margaret C. Duncan


Worcester Normal


1903


475


42


38.9


36.5


91.3


19


15


1


II-I


Clara B. Wright


Lowell Normal


1902


450


46


43.5


41.3


92.6


54


91


III-II-I


Bessie M. Parker


Salem Normal


1905


400


35


34.5


31.2


90.5


41


14


6


IV-III-II-I


Helen R. Flett


Hyannis Normal


1906


400


25


24


21.4


89.2


13


6


0


Drawing


Annie B. Parker


Prang's Normal


1892


425


Music


Leon R. Maxwell


Tufts College


1905


500


Sewing


Kate Farlin


Brookline Training


1906


125


Manual Training


W. Firth Eastwood


1906


480


40.9


35.2


86.1


34


5


0


Bridgewater Normal


I


Myra K. Parker


3


Lowell St. Chestnut Hill


Special Teachers


V-IV


Fannie C. Whittemore


Plymouth, N. H., Hyannis S. S.


1902


600


Concord, N. H., Training


Alice M. Grover, 2 weeks


Isabel H. Coombs


Emma S. Page, Ass't Principal


1


Union


425


42


Membership


Tardiness


202


FINANCIAL STATEMENT


Appropriations :


General for Superintendent, teachers,


janitors and fuel . $27,000 00


Contingent, for incidentals, books, sup- plies and High School insurance 5,500 00


Received from rent 25 00


Received from refund from Municipal Light Board 2 68


Received for tuition


1,427 73


Received fines on damaged books 2 39


Received for materials sold


18 04


$33,975 84


EXPENDITURES


Paid for teachers, janitors and fuel . $24,769 70


Paid incidental expenses 4,292 80 ·


Paid for books and supplies


2,945 90 ·


Paid Superintendent of Schools


1,100 00


Transportation


710 00


Truant Officer


40 00


Total expenses


$33,858 40


Balance


$117 44


General appropriation


$27,000 00


Paid Superintendent


. $ 1,100 00


Paid teachers


. 20,441 95


Paid janitors


2,403 50 .


Paid fuel


1,924 25


Paid transportation


710 00


Transferred to Incidehtals


303 66


$26,883 36


Unexpended balance


$116 64


203


Appropriations for incidentals, supplies


and High School insurance


.


$5,500 00


Received for tuition


1,427 73


Received refund from Municipal Light


Board


2 68


Received from general fund


303 66


Received fines on damaged books


2 39


Received for materials sold


18 04


Received for rent


25 00


$7,279 50


Paid incidental expenses


. $4,292 80


Paid Truant Officer


40 00


Paid for books and supplies


2,945 90


·


$7,278 70


Unexpended balance


80


SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS


Superintendent of Schools, Melville A.


Stone .


. . $1,100 CO


HIGH SCHOOL


Harry T. Watkins


· $1,991 64


E. N. Babcock


1,095 00


Jennie E. Wier


750 00


Jennie F. Currier


450 00


Alice W. English


420 00


Edith Ray Clapp


652 50


Marion G. Richardson


375 00


Mary P. Gordon


700 00


Natalie A. Smith


540 00


Helen P. Abbott


540 00


Mary Lerner


240 00


Isabel H. Coombs


200 00


Flora M. Cotton


245 00


Alice M. Grover


26 25


Margaret Merrill


47 81


$8,273 20


204


HIGHLAND SCHOOL


Alice Barrows


.


$1,000 00


Emma S. Page


644 37


Alice E. Hood


540 00


Edith A. Estes


550 00


Leonora W. Goodsoe


450 00


Ethel B. Macomber


270 00


Annie L. Dolloff


198 12


Mary F. Osborne


270 00


Mary L. Reid


180 00


Delia M. Holman


434 20


Mary H. Barr


95 00


Agnes S. Ordung


320 00


Harriet M. Foster


425 00


Fannie C. Whittemore


410 00


Ethel L. Kimball


80


- $5,787 49


CENTER SCHOOL


Edith A. Wright


$180 00


M. Grace Wakefield


190 00


Nellie S. Batchelder


160 00


Annie M. Andersen


97 51


Ethel M. Flanders


70 00


$697 51


JOHN STREET


Florence E. Babcock


$135 00


M. Grace Wakefield


285 00


Myra K. Parker


255 00


$675 00


UNION STREET


Laura C. Pollard


$178 75


Edith A. Wright


255 00


Ruth Whitford


110 00


Amount carried forward $543 75


.


205


Amount brought forward


$543 75


Anna P. Reid


170 00


Florence E. Babcock


344 94


Ethel M. Flanders


70 00


Myra K. Parker


180 00


Marion H. Morgan


475 00


Mary Wiley


5 06


$1,788 75


PROSPECT STREET


Margaret C. Duncan


.


$475 00


Clara B. Wright


450 00


$925 00


LOWELL STREET


Bessie M. Parker


$370 00


CHESTNUT HILL


Helen R. Flett .


$160 00


Florence Parker Atwood


85 00


Ethel M. Flanders


.


150 00


$395 00


SPECIAL TEACHERS


Annie B. Parker, drawing


$425 00


Grace E. Barclay, sewing


75 00


Kate Farlin, sewing


50 00


Walter F. Brackett, manual training


288 00


W. Firth Eastwood, manual training


192 00


Leon R. Maxwell, music


500 00


$1,530 00


Total paid in salaries.


.


$20,441 95


.


206


JANITORS


Clement Gleason


$900 00


Robert Powers


600 00


D. Pigueron


317 50


Wm. Killam


200 00


J. H. Thorburn


36 00


Timothy Cummings


120 00


Robert E. Parker


36 00


Oscar Rounds


24 00


Chas. F. Bessom


46 25


R. P. Chase


3 75


Priscilla Gleason


120 00


$2,403 50


FUEL


Adams, R. N.


$ 1 80


Bancroft, Wendell & Co.


968 50


Barrows, H. C. .


6 85


Batchelder, H. W.


22 00


Bessom, Chas. F.


6 00


Borth wick Bros.


6 50


Boston & Maine R. R.


81 35


Burton, S. P. & Co.


96 37


Chase & Colby


1 95


Downs, E. T.


611 93


Emerson, W. D.


17 50


Hanscom, E. C.


54 57


Merrill, F. D.


18 00


Ramsdell, Geo. E.


11 00


Shackford, Geo. A.


16 68


Stratton, Chas.


2 20


Underhill, J. W.


1 05


$1,924 25


207


TRANSPORTATION


Borth wick Bros.


$320 00


Boston & Northern St. Ry. Co.


390 00


$710 00


Paid from General Fund .


$26,579 70


Transferred to Contingent Account


303 66


Total taken from General Fund


$26,883 36


Uuexpended balance


.


.


CONTINGENT ACCOUNT


American Express


$ 42 23


American Seating Co.


324 50


Appleton, D. & Co.


1 05


Babb, E. E. & Co.


18 80


Bancroft, Lewis M., insurance


99 40


Bancroft, Wendell & Co., repairs


84 65


Barnard, F. J. & Co.


2 45


Bent, L. G.


8 80


Bessom, Charles F.


26 00


Blunt, John


3 20


Borthwick Bros., carting


7 25


Boston & Maine R. R.


3 13


Bradley, Milton Co.


3 00


Burgess, R. P., repairs


21 75


Carpenter, Morton Co., repairs


31 85


Chandler & Barber


38 35


Chase, R. P., labor


12 83


Clapp, R. D., repairs


59 74


Cook, A. S. & Co.


2 50


Cook, W. F., repairs


164 38


Cummings Express


108 76


Cummings, T. J.


6 25


Amount carried forward


$1,070 87


$116 64


208


Amount brought forward


$1,070 87 75


Damon, Grace H.


Dean, F. H., repairs


14 15


Dimon, H. C.


8 50


Dock Square Hardware Co., repairs


1 65


Eames, Hugh L., repairs


13 00


Eames, L. T., repairs


8 86


Edgerley & Bessom, rent of chairs


10 00


Field, Elmer D., labor


9 00


Fife, T. C., repairs


162 18


Francis Bros., stock and repairs


214 01


Frotton, Mary J., labor


6 91


Gill, Geo. E., repairs


113 32


Gleason, Clement, extra labor


19 00


Gleason, J. W., labor


22 00


Gleason, Priscilla, labor


6 30


Hanscom, E. C., carting


37 00


Hunt, D. W., moving piano


12 00


Johnson, H. R., repairs


372 21


Jordan & Marsh Co., furnishings


18 00


Kempton, W. H., repairs


43 38


Kenney Bros. & Walkins


6 00


Kingman, Chester, labor


4 75


Ladd, Frederick A., labor on pianos


9 00


Library Bureau, book and cabinets


84 96


MacDonald, F. G.


1 32


McKay, Mrs., labor


1 80


Metcalf, E. C.


1 44


Miller, H. F. & Sons Piano Co., piano


8 00


Municipal Light Board


21 19


Murphy, J. H., repairs


18 00


Muse, John, trench


125 50


Nichols, F. G., labor


9 00


O. O. Ordway


1 10


Amount carried forward


$2,455 15


209


Amount brought forward


$2,455 15


New England Tel. & Tel. Co.


44 49


Paine Furniture Co. . 23 75


Park, H. L., repairs at Highland School


23 00


Peabody, Dean, Jr., labor


3 20


People's Gas & Electric Co.


24 25


Pettengill-Andrews, repairs


15 11


Pierce, George E., rent of chairs


8 00


Pigueron, D., labor


27 00


Read, Wm. & Sons, equipment for gym.


6 75


Reading Water Works


119 66


Reilly, Mrs. John, labor


3 70


Reilly, Mary E., labor


1 05


Remington Typewriter Co.


225 00


Smith, A. A., taking census


40 00


Smith, L. C. & Bros. .


420 00


Spencer & Steinmetz




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