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B Strong instructor. Has confidence of commu- nity, and maximumenrollment of pupils approv- able for one teacher.
O Much advisory work of Farm Bureau nature, but not much cooperation with Middlesex County Farm Bureau. Latter not yet well de- veloped in county.
D Permanence indicated for at least two years of standard course. Conditions semi-suburban.
Yours respectfully,
R. O. SMALL, Deputy Commissioner.
READING HIGH SCHOOL
Graduation Exercises
CLASS OF . . 1918 . .
HIGH SCHOOL HALL
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE TWENTY - SIXTH EIGHT O'CLOCK
142
PROGRAM
Prayer by Rev. Warren J. Philips
Overture
Queen Topaz HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS
1 Messages from Revolutions With Salutatory * JAMES WARREN KILLAM, JR.
2 Benefits of the War
¡ MILDRED LOUISE CURTIS
National Song Grieg Song of Deliverance . S. Coleridge-Taylor HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS
3 Class History + MILDRED COOK PARTELOW
4 Carry On # FRANCIS BATCHELDER SHEPARDSON
5 Karl Maria von Weber
# FRANCES E. SYMONDS
6 Her Part Toward Victory . With Valedictory ·
RACHEL HUTCHINSON
Conferring of Diplomas, WALTER S. PARKER, Chairman of School Board Benediction by Rev. James J. Cogan Class Song, Words and Music by Francis B. Shepardson
Accompanist .
ALBION E. METCALF
*Scholarship Honors t Faculty Honors # Class Honors
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OLASS 1918
COMMERCIAL COURSE
Arley Augustus Ambler
¡Marion A. Mullett
Doris Helen Burditt
Luthera E. Parker
Mildred Elizabeth Cooper
Marion Mae Quinlan
*Mildred Louise Curtis
#Walter Anthony Scanlon Ellen Agnes Spillane
Helen Ruth Fowler
Helen Mae Goodridge
Mary Green
Marion Louise Stevens Clifton Harry Stokes
Gladys A. Surette
*Rachel Hutchinson Ernest Sydney Johnson
Alice Matilda Kelso
#Thomas Joseph Thornton Beatrice Katharine Turner
GENERAL COURSE
Gerald Worthley Bangs #Frances E. Synonds
Kathryn Davis Cooper
#Frederick Arthur Trevor
William Ernest Gullum
Louise Edna Turner
Thelma Judkins #Louise Franklin Upton
Walter Leander Rowell
Roma Hazel Weymouth
COLLEGE COURSE
*James Warren Killam, Jr. Albert Oliver Parmelee
Allan Donald MacKillop İMildred Cook Partelow #Francis Batchelder Shepardson
NORMAL COURSE
Hazel Mabel Fitts Eva Isadora Kelch
Marion Alberta Stevens
AGRICULTURAL COURSE John Edward Denehy, Jr.
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PUPILS GRADUATING FROM HIGHLAND SCHOOL JUNE, 1918
GIRLS
GIRLS
Bailey, Ruth
Marshall, Elizabeth C.
Brown, Marion
Meuse, Frances G.
Butters, Mary
Nichols, Miriam A.
Conti, Norma D.
Nickerson, Eileen M.
Crosby, Lillian M.
Parker, Marjorie F.
Deferrari, Louise
Parker, Thelma L.
Emerson, Mildred H.
Pierpont, Helen S.
Esner, Rachel L.
Provanzana, Phillippa M.
Fowler, Laila M.
Quinlan, H. Helen
Frotten, Mabel C.
Riessle, Lorena M.
Frotten, A. Mildred
Robinson, Ruth
Gauthier, M. Louise
Roxbee, Alice M.
Gory, Dorothy H.
Rudolph, Florence E.
Greene, Esther M.
Surette, Alice
Hoyt, Evelyn O.
Sullivan, Edna M.
Hutchins, Susan A.
Tasney, Katheryn E.
Johnson, Martha L.
Townsend, Jane A.
Little, Jessie L.
Upton, Eleanor
MacDonald, Lucy H.
Watters, Elizabeth
Marchetti, Rena E.
BOYS
BOYS
Bolton, Henry
Meuse, Paul E.
Boudreau, Clarence
Mussells, Gerry S.
Bruorton, Earle
Nelson, Fred W.
Chase, Charles N.
O'Brien, Philip H.
Clarkson, Arnold
('Brien, Raymond E. Patrick, Richard
Cleveland, Norman
Crosby, Robert W.
Pierce, Sumner K.
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Boys
BOYS
Curtis, Hazen, Jr.
Richardson, Russell B.
Doucette, Louis A.
Ruggles, Carter K.
Fellows, Paul W.
Shepard, Donald W.
Finnerty, John J.
Stacey, Clyde B.
Goodridge, Roy
Stockwell, Paul F.
Ham, Robert E.
Thorburn, Robert H.
Hinds, Charles M.
Thorburn, Willard T.
Harrison, John W.
Turner, A. Roderick
McCloud, Donald G.
Viall, Milton B.
Mellen, Paul F.
Weeden, Edward R.
Merritt, Wylder F.
TEACHERS IN SERVICE, DEC. 31, 1918, WHERE EDUCATED, YEAR APPOINTED ALSO ENROLLMENT FOR FOUR MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1918
SCHOOL
GRADE
TEACHERS
WHERE EDUCATED
Year
Salary
Total
Enrollment
Average
Membership
Attendance
Per cent. of
Attendance
High .
IX-XII
A. L. Safford, Principal and Supt ..
Bates College.
1913
$3000
303
290
266.3
89.5
Mt. Holyoke College
1915
1200
Salem Normal ....
1916
950
Wellesley College.
1913
1200
Salem Normal.
1917
900
E. Frances Greenhalgh
Bay Path Institute.
1914
1200
Anna Harris
Boston University .
1918
950
Lillian Jefts .
St. Lawrence University
1918
1000
Abigail H. Mingo
Boston University
1918
1000
Josephine M. Minihan
Radcliffe College. ..
1913
1200
M. Grace Pinkham
Bates College . ..
1918
1000
..
Marian T. Pratt ..
Wellesley College .
1918
900
Radcliffe College .
1918
800
..
Mabel A. Spring.
Bryant & Stratton .
1918
1000
Rudolf Sussmann
Conn. and Mass. Agri. Colleges .. 1917
2220
Beulah E. Withee.
Colby College
1917
900
Highland . ..
Jun. High
Alice Barrows, Principal .
Bridgewater Normal
1880
1300
41
34.3
36.2
92
..
Helen A. Eldridge.
Boston University.
1916
750
44
40.6
36.3
89.4
..
Lyman E. Fancy .
Mass. Normal Art. .
1918
1200
. .
..
Helen A. Lengyel
Sargent School.
1918
850
Worcester Normal
1918
750
47
42.67
39.08
90.7
N. H. State Normal.
1916
850
47
43.98
39.74
93.63
School Domestic Science ..
1916
800
.
..
VI
Ethel M. Reed .
Farmington, Me., Normal.
1913
750
49
47.2
45.4
87.9
VI
Marjorie O. Symmes
Boston Normal ..
1913
750
49
46.1
41.9
90
V ..
Dorothy M. Carlisle
Concord Training School
1911
750
42
40.7
36.4
88.9
V .
Ruth L. Stratton .
Bridgewater Normal
1918
650
40
38.8
35.3
90.7
Centre
III .
M. Grace Wakefield. Principal .
Salem Normal.
1890
850
43
41.9
39
93
Vera Buckle
Boston University
1915
700
44
42.9
39.4
91.7
Alda L. Parker.
Westfield Normal.
1914
750
29
27.35
26.63
87.39
Caryl M. Porter
Rust Kindergarten
1911
750
37
30.9
30
90.6
Helen G Quinlan
Salem Normal
1915
700
23
22.9
19.7
86.7
Helen G. Quinlan
Salem Normal.
1915
700
14
13.3
11.6
85.2
. .
IV.
Emily Searway
Washington, Me., Normal.
1913
750
42
39.4
35.2
83
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IV . ..
III . ..
.
.
Alice E. Hood .
Concord Training School
1902
850
41
40.4
37.4
89.4
..
..
Dora G. Martin·
H. Shirlie Page.
N. H. State Normal.
1905
850
38
36
32.5
89.6
Emma S. Page, Assistant
N. H. State Normal
1899
900
. . .
.
..
..
.
Helen R. Abbott ..
Elizabeth A. Batchelder ..
Marion Corliss . .
Alberta F. Drury.
Ione D. Proctor.
146
.
111 . .
IV.
Ida C. Lucas .
Fannie C. Whittemore.
Average
SCHOOL
GRADE
TEACHERS
WHERE EDUCATED
Year
Salary
Total
Enrollment
Average
Average
Attendance
Per cent. of
Attendance
Union St. ..
I. . .
Anna P. Reid, Principal.
Reading High.
1884
$850
42
39.3 36.57
33.26
90.75
Bridgewater Normal.
1904
750
47
42.6
36.26
85.02
I.
Mabel A. Porter
Rust Kindergarten
1911
750
44 .
41.8
35.5
84.6
Lowell Normal
1909
850
28
26.6
24.7
89.1
Lowell Normal.
1909
850
17
15.9
14.5
83.5
Salem Normal
1915
750
30
28
26.81
84.18
Salem Normal.
1915
750
20
19.81
17.78
93.04
Wheelock Training
1918
600
33
31
26.86
85.26
Wheelock Training .
1918
600
13
12.69
11.53
90.76
Wheelock Training
1916
750
19
18.7
16.5
91
..
..
IV .
Olive S. Perry ..
Wheelock Training .
1916
750
23
21.9
19.3
87.4
Castine Normal
1914
825
19
18.3
16.5
89.7
Castine Normal .
1914
825
27
26.3
22.7
86.8
Hannah B. Sargent ..
Salem Normal
1916
650
17
16.6
14.4
86.6
Salem Normal
1916
650
18
17.3
16.3
92
Wheelock Training . ..
1917
700
27
25.7
22.3
85
Wheelock Training.
1917
700
25
24
21.3
88
Elizabeth S. Stembridge.
Dean Academy.
1911
800
8
8
5.9
78.6
Dean Academy . ..
1911
800
5
5.5
5
91.1
A. Isabelle Parker.
Dean Academy
1911
800
6
4.6
4.1
92.8
A. Isabelle Parker.
Salem Normal
1916
650
11
9.3
8.5
91.4
Margaret Whittier.
Salem Normal ..
1916
650
7
6.87
6.76
96
.
VI .
Margaret Whittier
Salem Normal.
1916
650
6
5.2
4.8
91.8
Mass. Normal Art.
1916
850
Supervisors
Drawing .. Music . . .
Arthur H. Tozer
1910
800
.
..
VI . .
..
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..
II . .
..
III .
Lowell St ..
III .
IV . .
V ..
.
.
..
..
III
.... ..
...
·
...
..
..
V . .
Margaret Whittier.
Mary U. Yaffee.
Connecticut State Normal
1911
750
39
II .
Ethel J. Bent ...
.6
..
Marion H. Morgan
Prospect St ..
II ..
Ada E. Dow, Principal.
III . .
Ada E. Dow .
V ..
Eleanor F. Emerson
Eleanor F. Emerson
III . .
Marion A. Perry .
Marion A. Perry .
.
Olive S. Perry . .
Annie W. Quillen .
VI ..
Annie W. Quillen
I ...
Elizabeth S. Stembridge .
II ,
Chestnut Hill ..
I ..
A. Isabelle Parker, Principal.
II .
IV .
Hannah B. Sargent, Principal. ..
147
Membership
34.1
90.3
148
LIST OF JANITORS WITH THEIR SALARIES, DECEMBER 31, 1918
(Per week)
High - Clement Gleason
$20.00
$1,040.00
Center
David W. Pigueron
15.00
780.00
Union St.
Highland - Jesse N. Hutchinson
20.00
1,040.00
High - Mrs. Ara Pratt
10.00
520.00
(Per month)
Lowell St. - Sylvanus L. Thompson
$20.00
$240.00
Prospect St. - George Hutchinson
25.00
300.00
Chestnut Hill -Joseph Farpelha
20.00
200.00
Grouard House - Chas. H. Stinchfield
6.25
75.00
OTHER SALARIES
C. R. Henderson, M.D., Medical Inspector $200.00
Edwin L. Hutchinson, Attendance Officer and Census Enumerator
250.00
SCHOOL COMMITTEE EXPENDITURES, CLASSIFIED
Appropriation requested for 1919
Expended, 1918
Expended, 1917
Expended, 1916
GENERAL ACCOUNT :
$48,500 00
1 Teachers' and Supt.'s salaries
.
$42,759 16
$39,232 95
$35,584 81
4,350 00
2 Janitors' salaries
4,056 75
3,478 00
3,603 00
3 Other salaries
Attendance Officer
250 00
120 00
102 00
Medical Inspection
150 00
200 00
200 00
550 00
$400 00
$320 00
$302 00
1,750 00
4 Transportation of pupils
1,034 00
1,394 40
883 44
100 00
5 School tuition ·
104 00
135 16
78 00
1,500 00
6 Books
.
.
.
1,460 17
2,057 08
1,695 67
3,000 00
Supplies for pupils
·
2,799 91
3,681 83
2,812 06
500 00
S Apparatus for teaching
529 83
855 90
193 96
9 General expense :
a Printing and advertising
3 39
130. 15
191 43
b Office supplies, etc.
186 64
67 63
22 39
c Telephones
253 01
313 14
256 11
d Graduation, miscellaneous
84 05
22 00
26 82
e Supt.'s expenses
.
f Lectures, public meetings
g Insurance
245 10
.
550 00
$772 19
$532 92
$514 15
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17 50
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE EXPENDITURES (Continued)
Expended, 1918 Expended, 1917
Expended, 1916
10 Fuel
$6,160 17
$4,213 23
$3,666 09
11 Building Maintenance :
a Gas and electricity
408 12
508 35
292 22
b Water
437 30
342 41
315 94
c Trucking
225 79
180 54
118 95
d Janitors' supplies
511 51
795 90
500 45
1,800 00
$1,582 72
$1,827 20
$1,227 56
12 Repairs :
a Buildings
$2,500 55
$2,052 98
$1,363 83
b Furniture ·
356 94
749 85
155 37
c Grounds ·
145 57
198 28
168 83
3,000 00
$3,003 06
$2,722 11
$1,688 03
$71,600 00(estimated)
Total
$64,661 96
$60,450 78
$52,248 77
2,500 00(estimated)
Receipts not from tax levy
2,531 30
1,161 00
2,139 45
$69,100 00(estimated)
Net cost
$62,130 66
$59,299 78
$50,109 32
AGRICULTURAL ACCOUNT :
3,370 00
1 Teachers' and Supt.'s salaries
$3,056 33
$3,058 63
$3,015 00
550 00
2 Janitors, light, fuel, and repairs
622 33
445 03
476 28
480 00
3 Books, apparatus and supplies ·
723 74
895 07
739 89
$4,400 00(estimated)
Total ·
·
.
$4,402 46
$4,398 73
$4,231 17
2,500 00(estimated)
Receipts not from tax levy
2,421 85
2,638 58
2,731 17
$1,900 00(estimated)
Net cost
$1,980 61
$1,760 15
$1,500 00
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·
Appropriation requested for 1919 $6,000 00
4
INDUSTRIAL TUITION ACCOUNT :
$350 00
Tuition paid Reimbursement from State
·
$205 34
$195 65
$337 46
102 67
97 81
168 73
235 25
$247 33
Net cost
$107 53
$26 90
$102 21
.
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DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES, 1918 - GENERAL SCHOOL ACCOUNT
TRANSPORTATION :
Bay State Street Railway . $732 00
R. M. Wilkins
302 00
$1,034 00
TUITION :
Middlesex County
$104 00
BOOKS :
Allyn & Bacon .
$102 73
American Book Co.
51 37
American Express Co.
16 62
Atkinson, Mentzer & Co.
3 17
Edwin E. Babb & Co.
279 31
F. J. Barnard & Co.
43 40
The Century Co.
4 68
Colesworthy's Book Store
8 50
Oliver Ditson Co.
34 45
Doubleday, Page & Co.
3 60
E. P. Dutton & Co.
1 48
Encyclopedia Americana Corp.
7 50
J. W. Gilman & Co. 4 75
Ginn .& Co
302 26
Gregg Publishing Co.
12 05
C. S. Hammond & Co.
15 90
D. O. Heath & Co.
22 13
Hinds, Hayden & Eldridge, Inc.
1 20
Houghton, Mifflin Co.
22 13
Iroquois Publishing Co.
6 56
Little, Brown & Co.
20 87
Lyons & Carnahan
30 01
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
2 13
The MacMillan Co.
27 06
Massachusetts Bible Society
52 68
Charles E. Merrill Co.
15 95
N. Y. Ass'n for Improving the Con- dition of the Poor 2 50
Old Corner Book Store
.
7 48
153
The A. N. Palmer Oo.
.
$11 25
The Palmer Co.
8 15
The Pilgrim Press
4 45
The Riverdale Press
42 50
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
111 39
Scott, Foresman & Co.
11 69
Chas. Scribner's Sons
2 50
Silver, Burdett & Co.
89 91
University of Chicago Press
6 50
Whitcomb & Barrows
1 86
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1 20
The H. W. Wilson Co.
9 00
Warick & York, Inc.
3 18
World Book Co.
20 51
$1,460 17
SUPPLIES FOR PUPILS :
Adams Co.
$4 82
American Chemical Mfg. Co.
90
American Express Co.
10 19
Ames Plow Co.
4 35
Andrews Paper Co.
10 00
G. H. Atkinson Co.
119 48
Edwin E. Babb & Co.
237 05
Wendell Bancroft & Co.
17 92
Bay State Paper Oo.
41 40
D. W. Berry
4 00
Boston & Maine R. R.
1 54 -
Chandler & Barber Co.
13 85
M. F. Charles
19 20
R. D. Clapp
20 92
Columbia Graphaphone Co.
8 75
Cummings Express
26 28
A. W. Danforth
2 25
Oliver Ditson Co.
21 90
Francis Brothers
7 98
Ginn & Co.
45 26
J. L. Hammett Co.
864 04
C. S. Hammond & Co.
16 00
Hodson Brothers
15 71
154
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins
$221 50
W. E. King
12 50
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co. 69 17
H. B. Mc Ardle
74 40
McLellan & Brigham Co.
8 00
Manifold Mfg. Co.
40 00
H. M. Meserve & Co.
8 25
Milton, Bradley & Co.
196 36
N. E. Oil, Paint and Varnish Co.
1 50
J. Clarence Oxley
11 93
Palmer & Parker Co.
299 15
Remington Typewriter Co.
1 20
Rockport Fish Market 2 02
A. G. Spalding & Bros. 2 20
A. T. Thompson & Co.
2 33
Wadsworth, Howland & Co.
25 64
F. Wallace
190 34
Whitall, Tatum Co.
57 42
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
5 47
W. H. Willis
10 75
John M. Woods & Co.
45 99
$2,799 91
APPARATUS FOR TEACHING :
American Express Co. $1 58
James W. Brine & Co. 38 15
Central Scientific Co. 5 11
Chandler & Barber Co.
21 35
Denoyer-Geppert Co.
15 69
Francis Bros.
17 99
M. Abbott Frazer Co.
8 59
Jones, McDuffee & Strat- ton . 35 36
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co. 13 43
Mckinley Pub. Co. 2 94
Pettengill-Andrews
23 25
The Photo Shop
31 40
Prescott & Co. .
4 00
Rand, McNally & Co.
26 05
155
Remington Typewriter Oo. $90 22
Robey-French Co. 4 50
Rockport Fish Market
56
Royal Typewriter Co.
88 95
Silver, Burdett & Co.
5 91
The Song Shop .
2 50
A. G. Spalding & Bros.
35 26
A. T. Thompson & Co. 36 47
A. J. Wilkinson & Co. 20 57
$529 83
GENERAL EXPENSE :
Printing and Advertising :
F. J. Barnard & Co. $3 39
Office Supplies, Etc. :
Bromley & Co. $3 00
Brown, Howland & Co.
8 00
Elbe File & Binder Co.
4 56
Thos. Groom & Co. .
18 52
H. B. McArdle . .
.
9 45
Macey-Morris Co.
6 00
W. E. & J. F. Twombly
126 06
Wright & Potter Printing Oo. 1 05
$186 64
Telephones :
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 253 01
Graduation and Miscel- laneous :
L. A. Berthold $11 10
Edgerley & Bessom 5 00
Jewell & Andrews
37 50
A. J. Seaman
75
Smith & Cushman
12 00
J. B. VanBuskirk
5 20
Woburn Carpet Cleaning Works
2 50
Mary U. Yaffee
10 00
$84 05
156
Insurance :
Prentiss & Viall
$254 10
$772 19
Fuel :
Wendell Bancroft Co.
$199 59
Boston & Maine R. R.
755 22
Burton-Furber Coal Co.
55 83
George H. Clough
138 34
Cummings & Chute
191 45
J. A. Dunnell
7 00
Francis Brothers
25 96
Clement Gleason
9 07
Municipal Light Board
1,967 62
Russell Coal Co.
1,614 31
P. N. Sweetser
1,159 58
Charles Wakefield
30 00
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
6 20
$6,160 17
BUILDING MAINTENANCE :
Electricity :
M. & M. Gas Light Co.
$62 40
Municipal Light Board 345 72
$408 12
Water :
Reading Water Works
$437 30
Trucking Ashes, etc. :
D. W. Berry
$9 25
William Burke
11 56
Cummings Express
159 49
E. C. Hanscom .
44 00
Angelo Zanni
1 50
$225 79
JANITORS' SUPPLIES :
Adams Co.
$1 65
Allen Shade Holder Co. 9 00
G. H. Atkinson Co. . 3 51
Badger Fire Ext. Oo.
9 60
Boston & Maine R. R.
45
A. & E. Burton Co. .
21 00
157
Cummings Express
$6 67
H. I. Dallman Co.
69 68
O. B. Dodge Co.
13 50
Hodson Bros.
10 82
Hub Wire Cloth & Wire
Work Co.
4 25
Frank J. Jameson
40 00
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins .
11 35
Knox & Morse Co.
26 90
Masury-Young Co.
108 04
Massachusetts State Prison
15 00
Prescott & Co.
16 00
Reformatory for Women
75 95
Stone & Forsyth Co.
25 50
F. Wallace
90
G. H. Worcester & Co.
41 74
$511 51
$1,582 72
REPAIRS :
Buildings :
Wendell Bancroft Co.
$2 25
R. D. Clapp
75 71
Clapp & Leach
162 46
T. C. Fife .
1,092 34
Francis Brothers
246 41
Hodge Boiler Works
32 68
Hodson Brothers
76 52
H. R. Johnson
1 88
Alex LeFave
8 25
18 00
Municipal Light Board O. O. Ordway
1 00
Stewart & Robertson
767 25
Theodore Surrette
4 55
Tenney, Morse & Co.
3 56
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
7 66
$2,500 55
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FURNITURE :
Allen Shade & Holder Co. $37 56
Badger Fire Extinguisher
Oo. . 36 75
D. W. Berry
2 50
Billings-Chapin Oo. 19 60
Brooks, Gill & Co.
32 00
R. D. Olapp
10 21
H. I. Dallman Co.
14 07
J. S. Hammett Co. 1 57
Heywood Bros. & Wake- field Co. 110 00
H. F. Miller & Sons Piano Co. 3 62
J. A. Murphy
1 50
Edward B. Nye .
3 00
O. O. Ordway
1 25
Pettengill-Andrews Co.
40 15
Royal Typewriter Co.
2 85
Sears-Cook Corporation
14 40
O. F. Stevens
2 00
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
19 91
Woburn Carpet Cleaning Works .
4 00
$356 94
GROUNDS :
R. D. Olapp 1 70
Matthew Devaney
54 37
J. A. Dunnell 23 50
E. O. Hanscom .
57 00
G. W. Marshall 1 00
Reading Public Safety Com 8 00
$145 57 3,003 06
Total
$64,661 96
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AGRICULTURAL ACCOUNT
BOOKS :
American Book Co.
$2 47
Edward E. Babb & Co.
1 07
W. B. Clarke Co.
4 08
Doubleday, Page & Co.
8 88
Ginn & Co. 63 99
D. O. Heath & Co.
7 61
The MacMillan Co.
1 06
Market Growers' Journal
1 50
Old Corner Book Store
43 47
Orange Judge Co.
2 25
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
5 36
Williams Book Stores Co.
7 50
Hoard's Dairyman
2 00
$151 14
SUPPLIES FOR PUPILS :
G. H. Atkinson Co. .
$1 74
Edward E. Babb & Co.
4 38
Joseph Breck & Sons
70
J. J. Cameron
4 00
Central Scientific Co.
92
Farley, Harvey & Co.
9 92
Fottler, Fiske & Rawson
2 92
Frost & Adams Co.
33 80
Ginn & Co. 36 52
Miles Greenwood
1 50
Ralph Harris & Co.
2 50
Hopkinson & Holden
2 75
L. E. Knott App. Co.
5 26
Jennie Mackie
2 10
Mass. Whip. & Saddlery Co.
17 74
Fred F. Smith
1 10
A. J. Wilkinson Co. .
5 82
P. N. Sweetser .
12 00
$145 67
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APPARATUS FOR TEACHING :
American Express Co.
$2 47
Ames Plow Co. .
14 53
Chandler & Barber Co.
15 28
L. H. Crafts
·
20 00
Cummings Express Co.
30 62
Outter & Wood Supply
21 02
Globe Optical Co.
110 71
Miles Greenwood
12 22
Ralph Harris & Co.
5 39
Narragansett Mach.
27 50
The Photo Shop .
46 80
Robey-French Co.
25 90
Standard Plate Glass Co.
5 03
A. J. Wilkinson & Co ..
53 87
W. H. Willis
24 30
Wright-Ziegler Co.
3 29
GENERAL EXPENSE :
Edward E. Babb & Co.
$6 60
J. J. Cameron
8 00
O. E. Carter
10 00
H. M. Meserve & Co.
7 15
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
52 55
P. N. Sweetser
5 10
FUEL :
Municipal Light Board
$248 95
W. Bancroft & Co.
16 40
$265 35
BUILDING MAINTENANCE :
Clapp & Leach ·
$3 00
Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co.
10 95
Municipal Lt. Bd.
45 33
$59 28
REPAIRS :
R. D. Clapp
$23 59
T. C. Fife
45 05
Macey-Morris Co.
78 00
$146 64
Total
$4,402 24
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS :
City of Somerville, tuition
$67 34
Town of Wakefield, tuition
138 00
$205 34
·
$418.93
$89 40
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL ACCOMPANYING SCHOOL BUDGET FOR 1919
TO THE HONORABLE, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE TOWN OF READING :
GENTLEMEN -- The School Committee presents herewith for your consideration and recommendations their estimates for the school budget for 1919:
For the General Account, the total amount is $71,600; for the Agricultural Account, 84,400; for Tuition to State- Aided Industrial Schools, $350.
Except for salaries and transportation of pupils, the amount requested for the General and Agricultural Accounts is 8285.88 less than was expended for the same purposes in 1918. The 1918 estimates, outside of salaries and fuel, were about $2000 less than was expended in 1917 for the same purposes.
The increased cost of transportation of pupils is due to increased price of tickets on the Bay State Street Railway and of barge service from the Haverhill Street district, and to a larger number of pupils to be transported. At present there are 119 pupils entitled to transportation : 62 to grades one to six; 57 to grades seven and eight. With the suspen- sion of certain lines of the Bay State Street Railway, thirty- four pupils are temporarily deprived of transportation to the Junior High School and seventeen pupils are transported temporarily, by barge service to grades one to six.
The estimates are based on the probable restoration of the discontinued car service about April, 1919. The esti- mate for fuel is slightly less than was expended in 1918. The results of careful inquiries do not seem to warrant any further reduction in this item.
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There were some extraordinary expenses in repairs last year, due to freezing of pipes and to increased cost of mate- rial and wages. In 1919 there will be the cost of furniture for the new room at the Lowell Street School, $200; painting and repairs, Lowell Street School, $280; new cesspools, Cen- ter and High Schools, $100; painting and repairs, Highland, $825. In view of these special needs, the same amount as was spent in 1918 is requested.
The main item of increase in the budget is salaries. By vote of the town in 1918, an extra fifty dollars was given to each teacher below the High School. The salary com- mittee of the Teachers' Club has asked that a further in- crease of $50 a year be given each year for several years. The School Committee, considering the matter only in re- spect to 1919, thinks the $50 should be granted, making the maximum salaries for grades one to six, $800, and for the Junior High School, $900.
The High School has suffered severely in the loss of teachers in 1918. Eleven regular teachers resigned during the year. To check the exodus, the School Committee raised the salaries of four women teachers from $1000 to $1200. At least two of these teachers have since received offers of $1400 elsewhere. To secure funds to make these increases, the clerk in the High School office was discon- tinued and the two men teachers replaced by women.
The estimates for teachers' salaries is based on the amounts in force Jan. 1, 1919, to which is added an increase of $50, to take effect Sept. 1, for each teacher in Grades 1-8, and an increase of $100 for each High School teacher receiving less than the maximum. Also the sum of $300 is added for supervision of penmanship, $375 for a school nurse, and $250 for evening classes. Among the towns in this vicinity employing a school nurse are Wakefield, Woburn, Winchester, Melrose, Malden, Everett, Somerville, Arlington.
The evening classes are designed especially for Amer- icanization of foreigners and for pupils obliged to leave school before graduation.
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The estimates for agriculture and tuition to industrial schools are the same as the last three years. The agricul- tural account carries $900 for a portion of the salaries of the High School Principal, the teacher of English and teacher of Science; also approximately one-twelfth of the overhead expense of maintaining the High School Building.
In making up the budget for 1919, the same policy has been pursued as last year, namely, to reduce each item to the lowest point consistent with maintaining the efficiency of the education provided for the children.
The School Committee hopes that your Honorable Board will recommend to the voters of the town the appropriation of the amounts requested.
Respectfully submitted,
By order of the School Committee,
ADELBERT L. SAFFORD, Supt.
Reading, Mass., Jan. 28, 1919.
Annual Report
OF THE
TOWN OF READING
SELECTMEN'S OFFICE, READING, Jan. 1, 1919. TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN :
The undersigned herewith presents the annual state- ment of the receipts and expenditures of the Town of Read- ing for the financial year ending December 31, 1918, together with such other information relating to the fiscal interests of the Town as may be of general interest.
Respectfully submitted. JOHN H. SHELDON
Town Accountant.
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REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT FOR FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1918
RECEIPTS FROM ALL SOURCES DURING THE YEAR
General Accounts $557,500 24 · - Cash on hand beginning of year 15,089 12
$572,589 36
PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR
Payments for the year . $552,914 27
Cash on hand .
19,675 09
$572,589 36
TOWN DEBT ,
Total indebtedness of the Town Jan. 1, 1918
8538,590 00
This has been increased during the year by the issue of bonds and notes as follows :
Water Bonds . $9,000 00
Town Building and Library Furnish- ings and Grading Loan 7,000 00
$16,000 00
$554,590 00
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There has been a decrease by the payments of the following bonds and notes :
Municipal Light Department ·
$14,800 00
Water Bonds
. 14,000 00
High School
4,000 00
Grouard Estate
1,000 00
Current Expense Bonds .
1,200 00
Public Library Building
1,000 00
H. and L. Combination Truck
1,500 00
Auto Chemical Truck
1,500 00
Richardson Estate
500 00
School Extension Loan
1,000 00
Brown Estate
750 00
Sewer Notes
1,000 00
Town Office Building
2,000 00
Grading Loan
1,340 00
.
.
$45,590 00
Totalindebtedness Dec. 31,1918
$509,000 00
SUMMARY OF TOWN DEBT
1917 $538,590 00
1918 $509,000
DECREASE $29,500 00
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The following is a statement of the total debt of the Town, with the rate of interest thereon :
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