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the more backward divisions of the Second Grade children. The scheme has broadened out in its actual operation and the First Grade teachers have been able to not only drill the children of the Second Grade in the free hours of the after- noon but squads have been formed in Grade II and even in Grade IV of pupils who show obvious weaknesses in any one department (such as special subjects in arithmetic, language reading, etc.) and have been sent down to the free teachers for special and more intensive drill than they could obtain from their regular teachers. They have been kept to this program until such deficiences were supplied and they caught up, in ability, with their classes. It has allowed a measure of elasticity, so much to be desired and so difficult to obtain in the graded schools, which has proved wonder- fully efficient in closing up those gaps which continually open up along the pupil's path from grade to grade and can- not be closed for lack of time.
TRUANCY
It is a pleasure to be able to report that the short but exceedingly vigorous campaign against truancy begun over a year ago has accomplished permanent results. As recorded in the report of last year one boy was sentenced to the truant school and several more placed on probation. This had the desired effect, and a comparison of the truant officer's report of last year with that of this year will show a reduction in the number of cases reported, from 65 to 18 for the year. I must again render tribute to the rigorous but kindly co- operation of Probation Officer Walsh and Judge Johnson of the Fourth District Court of Woburn who have taken as direct and personal interest in this work as if they had been Reading officers. The boy sentenced to the truant school last year was released on parole upon my recommendation for good behavior and is now in steady employment and earning good wages. One sign of the wholesome respect which these boys have imbibed for the truant laws is the
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fact that though some of them have been in court for other offences they have been above reproach in their school attendance.
NO-SCHOOL SIGNALS
The no-school signal has been sounded eight times in the past school year, four times for all the schools in the forenoon and four times for the grades in the afternoon. A total of four days lost for stormy weather in ten months. As a considerable change in the weather can occur between 7.30 when the signal must be sounded, and 9 o'clock when the schools begin, strange and wierd situations are possible. Any merely finite being who dallies with New England weather is assuming a perilous prerogative, but surely if the expert officially in charge errs so often, as newspaper prophecies will show, it is not strange if the layman some- times stumbles. The signal is 2-2 repeated three times at 7.30 for all schools for the morning session; the same signal at 12.30 for the grades in the afternoon.
STAMP SAVINGS
It may be of interest to glance at the report for the past year of this important feature of the school work. This department has been most ably administered by Principal Alice Barrows of the Highland School, and an idea of its scope and results may be gathered from the following state- ment:
"The children have saved this year through the stamp system $677.77. Of this amount they have deposited in our local bank $304.40."
HIGH SCHOOL
The year at the High School has been one of progress. It is a fact noted by those outside the Town but perhaps not so well recognized by our own people, that Reading is unique amongst towns of its size in the matter of the ratio of High School enrollment to population. The total enroll-
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ment in the High School during the past year has been 335. From figures compiled last year by one of the neighboring Superintendents it was found that out of a large number of towns and smaller cities in Massachusetts Wakefield stood second in this respect, with 28 students to every thousand of population, "being surpassed only by Melrose with the phenomenal number of 37." Reading High School, after subtracting the number of students from outside the Town, shows an attendance of 52 to the thousand. Figuring the whole enrollment the result shows 57. The number in the graduating class is 57, just 60 per cent. of the 95 who entered the High School as Freshmen, and 47 1-2 PER CENT. OF THE 120 THAT ENTERED THE FIRST GRADE IN 1899. The administra- tion of a large High School in a small town is really a most exacting task. Not only must the school furnish the towns- people with various courses, general, business and others such as will furnish adequate opportunities to the larger percentage of its students, ie. those who do not care for or cannot obtain further education, but it must also see to it that the very small percentage who are preparing for college shall secure an adequate preparation. Its work is compared for criticism, on the one hand with that of the commercial school which makes an exclusive specialty of business in- struction, and on the other with that of the strictly Classical High School and the private prepaparatory school which have a picked membership and nothing to plan for except to fit for college. Whether or not the school is doing its part by the former class of students, its graduates who are engaged in various lines of business can testify. A fair estimate of the school's success in the latter direction may be obtained from the simple statement that the school has prepared in the past eight years 57 students for the regular colleges, not counting those who entered normal schools, and out of that number only five have failed to make good after entering. The others have either graduated creditably, some of them with honors, or are now in attendance in good stand-
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ing. Amongst these recent graduates is one student who graduated with highest honors from Harvard and is now an instructor in Philips Exeter Academy, three who graduated with credit from Mt. Holyoke and are now High School teachers, one who attained a high honor at Dartmouth, one a graduate of and now an instructor in Technology, one who attained highest honors at Vassar, two others who gained the same credit at Wellesley, and another who won deserved honors at Amherst Agricultural College. The division of colleges and the number attending is seen below :
Mt. Holyoke
9
Amherst
1
Dartmouth
9 Vassar
2
Harvard
2 Wellesley
4
Tufts .
2 Cornell
1
Technology
3 Smith
2
Boston University
6 Brown
1
Amherst Ag. College
3
Bowdoin
4
Radcliffe
1
University of Maine
5
Simmons
.
2
In the case of the five who failed to remain in college, only a fair-minded critic who knows all the circumstances can say how much of their failure may be charged to their preparation and how much to their own lack of purpose and industry. The knowledge of all the facts is the only fair basis upon which to determine whether or not the school is doing its work as well as ought to be expected with the material resources at its command.
ATHLETICS
The athletic interests of the school have been sanely conducted under the wise and firm management of the two sub-masters, Messrs. Raymond and Carroll, who have suc- cessively had them in charge during the year. The teams have been well uniformed, well coached and well disciplined at all times and have been without reproach in their conduct
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at home, on other fields and in their journeys to and fro. The frequent newspaper accounts of student rebellions, rowdyism and unsportsmanlike tactics in connection with athletics in many other places makes one rejoice that Read- ing High School has always been free from all such ten- dencies. This spirit is recognized by other and larger schools and applications for games are received from Malden, Everett, Newton and other large places which usually do not include such a small school on their schedules. Rigid en- forcement of the scholarship standard is a fact and not a pretense in the school and the requirement of good standing in scholarship and conduct for participation in athletics is insisted upon. During the winters of 1910-11 and 1911-12 the gymnasium has furnished a rallying place for the boys of the school during the afternoon. Nearly a hundred boys have participated in the class basket ball league and other games and a large number of the girls have made use of the gymnasium two afternoons a week under the supervision of one of the teachers. Basket ball games have been scheduled on Saturday nights on the home court throughout the win- ter, tending to centralize the interest of a large proportion of the students around their school and keeping them off
the streets. An attempt has been made to partially supply the loss of the athletic advantages of the local Y. M. C. A. by throwing open the High School gymnasium to boys of the Grammar School on Saturday mornings and a part of one afternoon a week, and also allowing the older boys, those who have recently graduated, an evening a week for prac- tice. All this has been done without interfering with the regular work of the school, in fact, it has stimulated the boys to maintain a creditable standing both in scholarship and conduct.
In closing, I must record publicly my praise of the high ideals, intense loyalty and devotion to their work of the Reading teachers. No request, however exacting, has been met with anything other than a spirit of cordial responsive-
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ness on their part. Without the enthusiastic, intelligent and self-sacrificing spirit which they have shown only a small part of any good which the schools may have done could have been accomplished. The support and encourage- ment of the School Committee have been constant; the courtesy and charitable co-operation of the parents with whom I have come in contact have been uniform. May we attain to higher degrees of wisdom and greater measure of efficiency in the administration of the schools in the year to come.
Respectfully submitted,
H. T. WATKINS,
Superintendent of Schools.
Reading, January 18, 1912.
REPORT OF TRUANT OFFICER
1911 to 1912
Number of absences reported to me
94
Number found to be truancy
18
Number reported by parents as ill
36
Number reported insufficiently clad
·
4
Number kept out by parents to work or otherwise . 36
Put on probation 4 .
Sent to Truant School
0
.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM KIDDER, Truant Officer.
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READING HIGH SCHOOL
Graduation Exercises
CLASS OF . . 1911 . .
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE TWENTY-FIRST
High School Hall
258 PROGRAM
PRAYER BY REV. M. FRANKLIN HAM Christian Union Church
"Out on the Deep when the Sun is Low " Cowan
1 Our Southern Neighbor .
(Salutatory)
BERTHA REID
2 Two Lives *KARL ADOLPH MACKENZIE
. . .
" Forget-Me-Not " Giese
3 Old Reading in the New Building AGILE DAVIES
4 The Aims of Forestry TROBERT LEWIS WHITAKER
" The Fisherman " McLaughlin
5 The Source *EVA MURIEL WOODWORTH
6 A Voice from the Void . (Valedictory) SHAROLD EATON WHITE
" Good Night, Farewell " . Garrett
Conferring of Diplomas
HOWARD W. POOR
of the School Committee
BENEDICTION - REV. J. E. WATERHOUSE Old South Church
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC ARTHUR HAROLD TOZER
ACCOMPANIST ETHEL M. WHITE, 19:0
*Faculty honor tClass honor § Wireless apparatus kindly loaned by Clapp, Eastham Co., Cambridge
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MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1911
COLLEGE COURSE
Davies, Gile
Richardson, Gordon Dana
Eisenhaure, Hildred Lucretia Turner, Carrie Pearl
Flint, Abby Anna
Jenkins, Louise Brownelle
Loring, Kimball Atherton
Upton, Helen Elizabeth Webber, Winifred
SCIENTIFIC COURSE
Baldwin, Arthur George
Mackenzie, Karl Adolph
Whitaker, Robert Lewis White, Harold Eaton
Webb, William Pearcy
NORMAL COURSE
Jacobs, Alice Lillian
Leavis, Ruth Orcutt
Reid, Bertha Whitehouse, Almira Eunice
GENERAL COURSE
Abbott, Henry Kingman Black, Helene Amelia
Brown, Luther Milford Bruorton, John Robert
Connelly, Gertrude Maria Danforth, Hazel Burnham Day, James Edward
McDavitt, Lucy Madelyne Nichols, Clara Hilda
O'Connell, Grace Elizabeth Parker, Elmer Warren Patrick, Hazel Ione
Sawyer, Frank Adelbert Stembridge, Stanley Routh
Fairbanks, Forrester Addison Strout, Mabel Madelyne Tuttle, Arthur Norman Wadsworth, Geo. Farnum, Jr.
Flint, Clarence Edward Gage, Elizabeth Verna Horton, Gladys. Bearse Leach, Edwin Lewis Leavitt, Ernest Ray Manning, Ruth Sylvester Martin, Helen Shirlie
Welch, Frank William Whitton, Edward Francis Willis, Gladys Esther Woodworth, Eva Muriel
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PUPILS GRADUATING FROM HIGHLAND SCHOOL JUNE 22, 1911
GIRLS
BOYS
Aitkenhead, Mary
Allen, Gordon H.
Atkinson, Grace M.
Benton, Albion M.
Bailey, Helen L.
Berry, Frank T.
Bixby, Elouise G.
Cowles, Henry A.
Clark, Madeleine B.
Crowhurst, Charles
Currell, Dorothy M.
Damon, Philip A.
Doucette, Francis
Davis, Mlacolm O.
Doucette, Veronica M.
Dennison, Ralph H.
Emeno, Madalyn
Gadbois, Albert
Fay, Mary A.
Galvin, Gerald J.
Fowler, Ethel B.
Goodridge, Carl
Frotten, Lucretia
Granfield, John
Hall, Irene C.
Halloran, Martin
Halloran, Margaret
Harrison, Charles N.
Harrop, Maude M.
Herbolzheimer, Harry W.
Henderson, Helen
Judkins, Perley O.
Heselton, Edith H.
Long, J. Henry
Hutchinson, Edith L.
Lougee, Ralph S.
Kennedy, Mary
Lumsden, R. Bruce
Kinsman, Gladys M.
McKenna, George H.
Lang, Viola A.
McNeil, Daniel
Marchetti, Lena O.
Mellen, Ernest E.
Marshall, Sybil R.
Murray, Thomas
McIntire, Mabel G.
Newell, Wendell B.
Michelini, Rena J.
Nichols, Clifton S.
Milbury, Gladys E.
O'Brien, Frank S.
Nelson, Gladys
Perkins, H. Ross
Nichols, Ruby L.
Quinlan, Edward G.
Parker, Maybelle E.
Richardson, Elmer H.
Parks, E. Catherine
Robinson, John C.
Pheney, Catherine
Roberts, Carl
Prentiss, Dorothy L.
Shepardson, Rowland R.
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Riley, Delia Roberts, Ruth C. Squires, Ethel J. Strout, Mildred J. Townsend, Mermet V.
Trenholm, Lulu C. Turner, Elnora White, Hazel M. Wichland, Agnes M.
Smith, Frederick
Stevens, Chester D. Stevens, Harry
Symonds, Milton
Thayer, Charles
Thomas, Percy
Walsh, Richard G.
White, Louis
Wiechmann, Carl
Williams, Harold
Wylie, Kenneth G.
Zanni, Domenick
3
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STATISTICS Taken from Report of the State Board in April, 1911, and Other Items of Interest
NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN TOWN BETWEEN 5 AND 15 YEARS
September, 1899
832
1900
853
1901
890
1902
915
1903
967
1904
938
. 6
1905
972
66
1906
1022
66
1907
997
1908
1005
66
1909
1029
6
1910
1030
NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN TOWN BETWEEN 7 AND 14 YEARS
September, 1899
648
1900
648
1901
680
6 4
1902
636
66
1903
682
66
1904
758
66
1905
698
66
1906
759
66
1907
723
66
1908
695
66
1909
737
66
1910
708
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Length of school year, 1910-1911
10 months Number of days lost from stormy days, etc. 9 1-2 days
Actual length of school year . 8 mos. 13 days Number of different pupils enrolled for the year ending June, 1911
1269
AVERAGE NUMBER IN EACH OF THE TWELVE GRADES FOR THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR
YEAR
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
x
XI XII
SP
TOTAL
1899
120
103
102
87
108
75
93
68
56
46
17
23
5 903
1900
127
136
66
107
89
98
66
82
49
37
36
14
0
907
1901
177
102
108
77
105
87
97
64
61
42
28
25
5
978
1902
142
126
90
86
117
98
100
70
56
64
34
21
4 1008
1903
127
114
103
104
86
109
97
93
63
61
53
31
9
1050
1904
129
131
116
116
95
91
109
86
79
61
53
54
4
1123
1905
129
118
130
124
105
104
88
100
85
76
45
48
4 1156
1906
118
129
109
127
120
100
93
100
88
72
63
42
5 1166
1907
120
110
150
114
123
109
96
110
78
82
58
50
6
1212
1908
123
111
120
128
97
138
97
118
92
75
75
47
5 1226
1909
133
113
118
124
119
93
116
108
110
79
68
62
7 1250
· 1910
119
116
105
121
120
109
88
108
116
98
75
53
9 1237
1911
112
113
114
103
127
97
125
100
99
78
69
58
6
1201
TEACHERS IN SERVICE, WHERE EDUCATED, YEAR WHEN APPOINTED
ALSO ENROLLMENT FOR FOUR MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 22, 1911
School
Grade
Teachers
Where Educated
Year First
Appointed
Salary
Total
Enrollment
Average
Average
Attendance
Per cent. of
Attendance
Cases of
Tardiness
Cases of
Dismissal
High .
IX-XII
H. T. Watkins, M. A., Master.
Colby College. .
1903
$2200
316
307.2
294.9
95.8
128
61
J. O. Carroll .
Trinity College.
1911
1000
Henrietta Sperry ..
Smith College
1910
600
Dorothy Dey
Wellesley College
1910
600
Alice M. Lombard
Bay Path Institute.
1907
850
Maud H. Ingalls . .
Mt. Holyoke College.
1911
550
. .
.
Myrtle E. Jensen . . E. Marjorie Shand:
Radcliffe College .
1911
550
Ruth E. Low ..
Wellesley College.
1911
550
Agnes M. Gilmore.
Boston University .
1909
650
.
Gertrude B. Soper ..
Mt. Holyoke ..
1911
650
S. Eleanor Byorkman
Tufts College.
1910
600
Highland
VIII
.
N. H. State Normal ..
1899
650
34
33.8
33.1
97 8
2
4
VIII
Fannie C. Whittemore
N. H. State Normal, Hyannis
1905
600
32.4
31.2
96.1
14
10
VIII
Alice E. Hood .
Concord Training School.
1902
33
31.6.
30.1
94.3
37
7
..
VII .
Lowell Normal
1907
600
43
42.3
39.9
93.9
32
13
Mabel P. Williams.
Lowell Normal
1911
550
45
43 9
41.2
93.6
36
18
Eleanor Bateman ..
1911
500
49
48.3
45
92.5
50
37
Pearl M. Pillsbury ..
Salem Normal.
1908
550
49
47.7
46.2
94.7
27
29
Elsa R. Anderson
Lowell Normal
1908
550
43
41.9
39.7
94.2
9
14
Dorothy M. Carlisle
Concord Training School
1911
450
44
43.4
40.5
92.9
29
24
Centre. .
III .
M. Grace Wakefield, Principal
1890
600
38
37.7
36
95.2
25
7
Edee D. Gammon
University of Maine.
1911
550
35
34.3
32.3
94.4
26
4
Louise M. Durkee
1911
500
39
38.9
39.7
95.4
17
15
May H. Foley .
Lowell Normal .
1910
550
37
36.4
33.3
92.2
9
.
.
.
II . ..
Alberta R. Doyle .
1911
450
38
37.3
34.7
92 4
16
3
Marion H. Morgan
Bridgewater Normal.
1904
500
34
32.6
29.9
91.9
23
2
Mabel A. Porter
Rugg Kindergarten
1911
450
32
30.9
28.7
92.6
12
1
Prospect St.
I-II .
Ada E. Dow, Principal.
Lowell Normal .
1909
550
42
41.5
39.5
94.3
5
9
Conn. State Normal.
1911
500
32
31.6
29.5
94
35
36
III-IV
Julia M. Noyes, Principal.
1909
550
30
30
29.6
93.7
25
9
Caryl M. Porter ...
Rugg Kindergarten
1911
450
28
27.1
24.6
87.9
31
8
Chestnut Hill ....
A Isabelle Parker .
1911
450
19
19
17.9
93.3
20
8
Annie B. Parker, Drawing.
1892
450
Eunice N. Bancroft, Sewing
1908
300
Arthur H. Tozer, Music.
1910
500
Wm. Firth Eastwood, Manual Training.
1906
640
Myrtle D. Wells, Clerk ...
1910
200
.
. .
...
North Western University. .
1911
550
... ..
. .
.
.
.
..
. .
Alice Barrows, Principal .
Bridgewater Normal.
1880
1100
Vil .
Grace E. Putnam
Hyannis Normal
1910
38
36.3
35.1
96.3
30
5
..
VI
#
.
V ..
IV
V .
IV
Joyce L. Fielder
Salem Normal.
1908
500
35
34
32.8
96.2
16
3
Anna P. Reid, Principal.
Reading High School.
1884
600
39
38.4
36
93.8
25
20
Union St. .
I . . .
...
III-IV
Ethel J. Bent
Lowell St.
I-II .
I-III .
Dean Academy, Franklin
600
550
Lavinia C. Carnes .
VII
Fitchburg Normal
VI
V ..
Salem Normal.
Salem Normal ..
20
..
III .
Salem Normal .
Salem Normal .. ..
.
. .
Emma S. Page, Assistant Principal
35
Membership
265
FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Appropriation .
$30,000 00
RECEIVED
From tuition, North Reading
1,973 75
City of Boston
52 00
Commonwealth of Massachu- setts
168 00
Salary returned
6 00
$32,199 75
EXPENDED
Administrative Salaries :
H. T. Watkins, Superintendent . $799 92
Other General Salaries :
Truant Officer
$100 00
Teachers . ·
24,382 00
Janitors' Services
3,003 77
$28,285 69
Transportation
598 00
Fuel .
1,078 66
Freight and teaming
1,117 75
$31,030 10
Transferred to Incidentals
$1,119 65
INCIDENTALS
Appropriation
$5,000 00
RECEIVED
From sundry sources .
19 93
266
TRANSFERRED
From School Department, General 1,119 65
$6,139 58
EXPENDED
Text Books and Supplies :
Books
. $1,029 58
Supplies
1,495 75
Furniture and Furnishings :
Shades .
99 14
Clock
10 00
Building and Grounds-Maintenance :
Painting
339 86
Repairs
1,614 20
Labor on grounds
74 75
.Water .
246 35
Lighting
120 46
Repairs and incidentals :
Expressing
65 58
Repairs
77 84
Printing
161 23
Telephone
129 49
Inspection
200 00
Removing ashes
59 25
Board of Truant
70 71
Incidentals .
203 20
Expense, H. T. Watkins
56 84
Binding
83 20
$6,137 43
Unexpended to 1912
$2 15
267
LOWELL STREET SCHOOL BUILDING
Balance from 1910 .
$4,253 09
EXPENDED
Stewart & Robertson $2,691 50
Francis Brothers 945 76
Adden & Parker 46 00
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co. 50 00
Clapp & Leach
65 00
Electrical Sales Co., furniture 319 00
Badger Co., furniture
68 00
Fuel 67 50
$4,252 76
Balance to 1912 $ 33
SANITARY TOILETS - PROSPECT STREET SCHOOL Appropriation $1,100 00
EXPENDED
E. C. Hanscom, cesspool . $126 00
$126 00
Unexpended to 1912 $974 00
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TWENTY-SECOND Annual Report OF THE
Water Commissioners
For the Year Ending December 31 1911
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OFFICERS OF THE WATER DEPARTMENT
Commissioners
HENRY R. JOHNSON, Chairman Term expires 1913
EDGAR N. HUNT
Term expires 1912
ARCHER R. PRENTISS
Term expires 1914
Superintendent and Registrar LEWIS M. BANCROFT
Superintendent of Pumping Station FRANK F. STROUT
Fireman WILBUR S. SIAS
OFFICE OF THE WATER BOARD Room 2, Masonic Block
OFFICE HOURS 8.30 to 11 A. M., 2.30 to 4 p. M., except Saturday. Saturday, 8.30 A. M. to 12 M., 7.30 to 9 p. Mi.
REPORT OF WATER COMMISSIONERS
To the Citizens of Reading :-
The Board of Water Commissioners herewith submit their twenty-second annual report.
MAINTENANCE
Received rent $76 00
Fines and summons
2 00
Paid pay roll
. $1,610 54
Wm. Platner, detector . 15 00
N. E. Tel. &. Tel. Co. 64 21
Reading Municipal Light Board 16 44
Reading Masonic Temple Corp., rent . 162 00
W. E. & J. F. Twombly, printing 33 00
C. W. Abbott, P. M. 46 94
The Time Saver Co., cards
3 75
Geo. H. Atkinson Co.
65
F. W. Sheppard Publishing Co.
6 00
Engineering News
5 00
Engineering Record
3 00
Hobbs, Warren Co., stationery
8 25
Gem Ventilator Co.
4 50
John Wiley & Sons, books
7 70
Francis Bros. .
8 19
The Bristol Co., gauge dials
3 32
Bank & Office Equipment Co., steel case
45 00
Union Safe Deposit Vaults . 10 00 ·
Water Commissioners' salaries . 225 00
272
273
Paid Reading Custom Laundry
$10 10
Liability insurance
50 50
American Express
1 18
Car fares
26 19
F. W. Barry, Beal & Co.
3 90
Burglary Insurance
9 00
Addressograph Co., rubber type .
2 80
Weston & Emery .
5 00
S. M. Spencer Mfg. Co.
1 00
Lamp batteries
1 25
Balance
2,311 41
$2,389 41 $2,389 41
MAINTENANCE OF PUMPING STATION
Received rent of house .
$180 00
Grass 5 00
Telephone 4 10
Paid Pay Roll
$1,451 86
Eagle Oil & Supply Co., oil and packing . 88 39
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
64 25
Reading Municipal Light Board 28 61
E. C. Metcalf
3 07
Howard W. Batchelder, sand 1 75
Knowles Steam Pump Works, re- pairs 2 52
Hobbs, Warren & Co.
1 60
Boston & Maine R. R., freight
169 73
Francis Bros.
11 70
John Stock, teaming
28 25
E. E. Nichols, teaming
108 79
Eastern Clay Goods Co., fire brick 18 03
E. W. Hatch, pump repairs 13 30
The Bader Coal Co., coal 367 24
274
Paid N. E. Coal & Coke Co., coal $500 25
Harold L. Bond Co., tools 3 20
O. A. Claflin & Co., oil pump 15 00
The Hodge Boiler Works, grate bars 16 35
The Hohmann & Maurer Co., ther- mometer 4 00 .
Geo. H. Atkinson Co.
8 17
Walworth Manufacturing Co.
22 87
F. Wallace
2 00
Cummings Express 1 50
Boiler & Liability Insurance 142 50
P. N. Sweetser
46 49
Wendell Bancroft & Co.
26 19
H. W. Johns Manville Co., pack- ing . 39 66 .
Morss & Whyte Co., screen . 11 20
Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Co.,
pump repairs . 6 16
M. H. O'Brien, boiler repairs
11 50
U. G. Bisbee, teaming
54 61
Killorin Contracting Co.
10 50
Asa Parker, teaming
24 00
Town of North Reading, taxes
1 50
Woburn Machine Co.
1 00
F. L. Fuller, engineer
30 00
A. B. Day, painting
7 75
O. O. Ordway, fire tools
2 30
Elliott Company, steam trap
15 38
American Express
1 65
Spencer Damper Regulator
1 25
Car fares
5 55
Balance .
3,202 52
$3,391 62
$3,391 62
275
MAINTENANCE OF FILTERS
Paid pay roll . . $1,009 95
Francis Bros. 1 20
Waldo Bros., lime
154 44
Reading Mun. Light Board, power
460 40
Boston & Maine R. R., freight
98 25
T. C. Fife
1 38
Cummings Express
18 65
Eimer & Amend, chemicals .
2 05
General Chemical Co., alumina
88 17
Morss & Whyte Co., screen .
1 32
Robert Spurr Weston, tests .
13 25
Eagle Oil & Supply Co., belting .
34 01
Merrimac Chemical Co., alumina .
35 48
Harrison Bros. & Co., alumina
490 79
U. G. Bisbee, team
1 50
Frank E. Fitts Mfg. & Supply Co., baskets 1 70
Grant Gear Works, gear
4 50
Pettingell, Andrews Co., fuses 3 13
Walworth Mfg. Co.
1 17
P. N. Sweetser, lime and teaming .
33 15
Eastern Clay Goods Co., lime
45 77
Wendell Bancroft Co. .
4 40
Lawrence Machine Co., repairs
17 08
Chandler & Farquar
30
American Express
20
- $2,522 24
MAINTENANCE OF METERS
Paid Pay Roll $570 50
Lamps and batteries 4 80
American Express 1 55
Geo. H. Atkinson Co. . 50
Boston & Maine R. R., freight . 1 75
276
Paid Meter Record Co. $8 00
Reading Municipal Light Board 45
Francis Bros. 1 25
Cummings Express 4 00
Hersey Manufacturing Co., repairs 23 44
Union Water Meter Co., repairs . 10 80
Thompson Meter Co., repairs ·
7 50
National Meter Co., repairs .
54 96
$689 50
MAINTENANCE OF SERVICE PIPES
Paid Pay Roll .
$15 50
H. Mueller Mfg. Co.
8 58
Chapman Valve Mfg. Co. 3 13
$27 21
MAINTENANCE OF MAIN PIPES
Paid Pay Roll · . $23 50
Chapman Valve Mfg. Co. 52 80
$76 30
INTEREST
Received interest on deposits $66 29
Hydrant rent
5,550 00
Water for drinking fountains
300 00
Water for street sprinkling From receipts for water
500 00
1,208 71
Paid interest on note $325 00
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