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Now, as we approach mid-years, after we all have worked together to overcome the difficulties and to solve the problems of each pupil, I feel confident that the percentage of non-promotion will be less than one per cent from grades 2-6, and that those promoted next June will have more than covered the minimum essentials and will enter the next grade with a strong foundation for the year's work.
In the first year of school we realize that a great many factors enter into the power of the 5, 6 and 7 year old child, to help him to become a member of the social group and to help him progress as rapidly as he is able when he is sure of himself in the foundation work of the school
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and of his little society. No child has been called to my attention, by any teacher neither have I observed any child who was not properly graded last year in our first grades. Each first grade teacher feels that, the non-promoted pupil of her grade is developing more rapidly this year with the rest of her group of little folks and that he is the gainer and not the loser for two years of first grade work.
This year between September and December, approximately 65 boys and girls were enrolled from outside schools in our schools. Our grade standards, in most cases, are higher than in the towns from which they come. In order to help our "stranger to town," to go on in the same grade, we adjust the work to suit his individual case in order that he may not lose a year out of his school life.
The Opportunity Room with Miss Alda Parker as teacher supplies a great need of our school system. Her room provides for fifteen pupils, at any one time. At different times during the year, keeping the total enrollment at fifteen all the time, twenty-five pupils were registered in her room. Twenty-one of these were adjusted to the regular grades and have done commendable work this year. Eleven, of the fifteen pupils registered this year, promise the ability for coping with the next higher grade in September.
Our achievement tests demonstrate for each pupil, by his own cor- rection of them with me in the classroom, just where he stands and how by follow-up work he can best show improvement. They are a valuable means of self-measurement to the pupil, show group and comparative results to the teacher, and are most helpful to "check up failure" by quickly diagnosing difficulties. It is my intention to repeat tests given at mid-year before school closes in June. Last year we made gains of from 20% to 40% in arithmetic, spelling, penmanship. The Silent Read- ing Test will be given this year and problem tests in Arithmetic in the upper grades.
The report just given sums itself up to show that we in our school year of ten months are doing what some towns are doing by having five or six weeks of summer schools. I believe this work in our schools creates a "morale" which is healthy and wholesome for the future life of the individual. These summer schools try to secure promotion for those non-promoted, and for those who wish more rapid advancement, by a double promotion, and provides individual help for the backward. "Our responsibility, therefore, is a double one :- we must not waste the Town's money, nor must we waste the school lives of the Town's children."
John James Tigert, United States Commissioner of Education, in an address for "Community Interest and Citizenship" states :- "It is my contention that since the ultimate aim of education is to prepare the child for discovery, the pupil should be given every opportunity to practice democracy in the civic life of the schoool. * * * When educators fully realize the importance of giving the pupils every opportunity of
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learning citizenship by practicing it in several situations of the school they will have solved the fundamental principles in the democratic control of the future citizens of our country."
Your careful supervision and direction of my work, the zealous efforts of the principals and teachers in the interests of their pupils, and the co-operation of parents have made the first objectives of my work realized in our every day public school-life-our Junior republic.
Respectfully submitted, FANNIE C. WHITTEMORE,
December 31, 1921.
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READING HIGH SCHOOL IVY DAY EXERCISES CLASS OF 1921
High School Hall Monday Afternoon, June Twenty-seven, at Three O'clock
Class Officers
LAWRENCE FAIRMAN SOUTHWICK
President
MARION RUTH STARKE
ELEANOR LOUISE ADAMS
WALTER ROGER MEAGHER
Vice-President Secretary Treasurer
Class Day Committee
RICHARD PRESBURY CROMWELL, Chairman
BRAMAN B. PLATTS HAROLD AUGUST RADER KATHERINE WILLSON
GERTRUDE QUIMBY
Class Motto "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER"
PROGRAM
1. Address of Welcome and Presentation of Class Gift
Leonard Clifton Whittredge
2. Class History
Helen Symonds
3. Announcement of Class Elections
Margaret Alice Richardson
1. Prettiest Girl
15. Neatest Girl
2. Handsomest Boy
16. Neatest Boy
3. Class Shark
17. Most Original Girl
4. Class Flirt
18. Most Original Boy
5. Cutest Girl
19. Class Wit
6. Most Athletic Girl
20 Faculty Pet
7. Most Athletic Boy
21 Most Bashful Boy
22. Most Likely to Succeed
23. Class Chatterbox
10. Most Popular Girl
11. Most Popular Boy
12. Most Conscientious
13. Junior Girl
14. Junior .Boy
24. Most Business-like
25 Class Dude
26. Most Fashionable Girl
27. Most Fashionable Boy
8. Class Dreamer
9. Class Actress
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4. Quartet (Selected)
5. Class Prophecy
Harold Sherburne Stevens and Walter Roger Meagher
6. Class Will Harold August Rader
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7. Class Song
The audience will please adjourn to the grounds at the front of the building for the
PLANTING OF THE IVY
8. Ivy Oration
Lawrence Fairman Southwick, President, Class of 1921
Acceptance of the Spade
Robert Edmond Ham, President, Class of 1922
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READING HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES CLASS OF 1921
High School Hall Tuesday Evening, June Twenty-eight, at Eight O'clock
PROGRAM
Prayer
1. Feathered Friends (with Salutatory)
2. The Gallant Troubadour (Watson)
3. Peace with Japan Thomas Edward Brogan
4. Living Backwards Eleanor Louise Adams
5. Solo (Selected)
6. Unseen Forces
Gertrude Quimby Richard Presbury Cromwell
7. Fashion Eleanor Hedges High School Chorus
8. The Miller's Wooing (Fanning)
9. The Greatest Common Factor (with Valedictory) Marion Ruth Starke Walter S. Parker
Conferring of Diplomas
Chairman of School Committee
Benediction Rev. Wellington C. Pixler
Director of Music-J. Albert Wilson Accompanist-Evelyn Hoyt
CLASS OF 1921 College Course
Eleanor Louise Adams
Edith Minnie Ricker
Phyllis Lucretia Blood
Marion Ruth Starke
Myrtle Temple Cook
Helen Symonds
Muriel Estelle Fearebay
Evelyn Wellman
Eleanor Hedges
Margaret Alice Richardson
Scientific Preparatory Course
J. Arthur Bond
Braman B. Platts
Paul Alfred Carroll
Norman Lamson Reed
Richard Presbury Cromwell
Ernest Record Sias
Clifford Evans
Lawrence Fairman Southwick
Isaac Gleason
Elbridge Hall Springford
Kenneth Allan Lucas
Duncan Mooar Staniford
Walter Roger Meagher
Harold Sherburne Stevens
Grant Brickett Mills
Rev. D. Augustine Newtor Edith Minnie Ricker High School Chorus
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Commercial Course
Charles Stanley Andrews Muriel Bolton
Gladys Viola Borthwick
Thomas Edward Brogan
Charles Ephraim Bruce
Viola Bertha Cail
Eva Marie Rafuse
Arthur H. Stock
Herbert Claud Towle
Leonard Clifton Whittredge
Frances Margaret Wilson
Normal Course
Agnes Winnifred Macdonald Elizabeth Solomon Ruth Abbott Upton Katherine Willson
General Course
Melvin Seth Crosby
Madeleine Libby
Miriam Loring
Gertrude Quimby
Agricultural Course
James Denehy
Lloyd Livingstone Hook
George Kelso Everett William Macleod
PUPILS GRADUATED FROM JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, JUNE, 1921
Girls
Girls
Zelda Ainsworth
Florence Doucette
Evelyn Anderson
Gladys M. Doucette
Dorothy Baker
Simonne Drolet
Natalie W. Berle
Mildred M. Dulong
Christine Black
Helen Fenwick
Ella D. Brown
Elizabeth Fowler
Natalie Burnham
Evelyn A. Gray
Almira E. Clancy
Pauline C. Gray
Grace Colby Alice M. Coles Mary H. Daniel
Elizabeth A. Hayes
Margaret Hickman
Frances M. Deming
H. Elizabeth Howard
Margaret Desmond
Naomi Humphrey Grace Kelso
Marion K. Dewey Bernice Doucette
Ernest Edward Gallant
Gordon Archibald Gullam
Margaret Hunt
Elmer Roscoe Jones
Doris Smith Parker
Dorothy Adeline Christiansen
H. Ernest Cloudman
Doris Josephine Cutcliff
Florence Frances Davis
Elizabeth Frances Desmond
Marvia Luranca Bruce Ruth Goodridge
Leola Isabelle Goodwin
Frances Irene Harris
Harold August Rader
Marion Hilton Smith Arthur John Squires
E. Louise Graupner
Elinor Lane
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Girls
Marion R. Lassell
Frances Leuchtman Elizabeth MacLellan Frances McIntire
Helen Merriam
Mabel E. Merritt Margaret Meuse Mildred E. Meuse
Alice Murphy
Anona Stafford
M. Gertrude Stratton
Gertrude Surette
Josephine Turner
Josephine E. White
Esther Whitehouse
Louise Woodman
Boys
Earle Latham
Gordon Libby
Ralph T. Lloyd
Allen R. Maxwell
Francis McFadden
James McHugh
Robert M. Merritt
Samuel Brainard
F. Lee Cail
Lucian Nelson
Benjamin Nichols
Edward Nichols
Niles Pierpont
Harry W. Porter
Francis E. Rees
Thomas Richards
Nicholas J. Roberts
Joseph Doherty
Gordon Dulong
Daniel Ellis
Lloyd Field
Albert Simpson
Roy C. Skidmore
Gordon Sprague
Arnold H. Stock
Wardwell C. Thaxter
George W. Tetler Walter J. White
Harold C. Whiteman
Loris J. Wilson Franklin Zwicker
Girls
Novira Rogers
Josephine Reichardt
Margaret Richardson
Phyllis Robinson
Doris M. Runge
Alice Shaw Doris Skinner
Annie Spillane
Dorothy Nichols Elizabeth Nutter
Eleanor C. Ormsby
Dorothy Patterson
Gertrude Porter Margaret Quane
Boys
Herbert Anderson
John H. Andrews
Anslem Arsenault
Mason Bruce
Allen D. Bronson E. Carl Burke Frank Butters
Weston Clark
Wilfred C. Cottle Eugene Cox
Samuel A. Crosby
Hobart H. Crowell
Lawrence Crowe
Bruce Cummings
Raymond Rollins
Wilbur Sanders Ralph G. Sias
Francis V. Geary
Nalıshon Gleason
Clarence A. Godfrey Joseph Greene Dennis J. Hickey
Ernest S. Hickman Lawrence C. Hill Everett Horne Gordon Kimball
Walter Meuse
TEACHERS IN SERVICE, DEC. 31, 1921, WHERE EDUCATED, YEAR APPOINTED
ALSO ENROLLMENT FOR FOUR MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1921
SCHOOL
GRADES OR SUB- JECTS
NAME OF TEACHER
WHERE EDUCATED
Year
Appointed
Salary
Total
Enrollment
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Per cent. of
Attendance
High School.
IX-XII Principal English, Head of Department . .. S. Mast'r.Science Sten. and Type ..
A. L. Safford, A. B., A. M .. .. Helen R. Abbott. A. B. ..
Bates College
1913
$3600
Mt. Holyoke College
1915
1900
Edw. V. Atwood, S. B., A. M. Edith M. Baldwin ..
Boston Univ., U. S. Tech. School Burdett, Simmons, B. U. Sec. College . ..
1921
2500
English .
Elizabeth A. Batchelder.
1916
1700
Carl Belmore, A. B ..
1921
1600
Warren E. Benson, A. B ....
Boston University .
1920
1900
Tufts College, Harv. Summer ....
1914
1900
Louise A. Berthold, A. B ..... Alfred Boehm.
1920
1800
Alberta F. Drury . ...
Salem, B. U. Sec. & Bus. Adm .. Posse
1917
1600
E. Frances Greenhalgh
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Willimantic Normal, Bay Path Inst., B. U. Sec. College
1914
1800
Lillian Jefts, A. B ..
St. Lawrence University.
1918
1800
French, Math ...
Helen G. Kershaw, A. B ..
1919
1600
Drawing. ..
M. Adeline Lahaise .
Mass. Normal Art School
1919
1400
Sewing .
Rita Lahaise ...
Eliot School, Man. Training
1920
1400
Laura W Lewis, A. B
Tufts College
1920
1500
Abigail H. Mingo. A. B
Boston University
1918
1800
Josephine M. Minihan. A. B.
Radcliffe College 1913
1800
Wellesley College ....
1919
1600
Latin .
Radcliffe College .
1919
1600
Agriculture
1917
2880
Music
Rudolf Sussman, B. S .. .. J. Albert Wilson . .
Conn. & Mass. Agr. Colleges. .... Harvard.
1920
1400
.
.
Biol., Gym., Hyg. Office, Bus. Prac. Science, Head Department . ..
French ·
Marian T. Pratt, A. B .. Mildred B. Sussmann, A. B.
..
Salem, Simmons, B. U. Bus. Adm. Bates College ....
1920
1400
..
History, Eng .... Eng., Hyg., Gym. Civics, Coach .. German, Algebra Man. Training. .. Bookkeeping ....
Sten. and Type, Head Dept. .. . . Spanish
Radcliffe College.
SCHOOL
GRADES OR SUB- JECTS
TEACHER
WHERE EDUCATED
Year
Appointed
Salary
Total
Enrollment
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Per cent. of
Attendance
Gen. Supervisor, Stand. & Guid.
Fannie C. Whittemore
Hyannis Normal, Harvard ...
1905
1600
Super. Drawing in Grades . . . .
M. Adeline Lahaise ..
Super. Sewing in Grades .
Rita Lahaise.
Super. Music in Grades ·
J. Albert Wilson ..
Highlandand Junior High .. .
Principal
Alice Barrows.
Bridgewater Normal School.
1880
2100
N. H. State Normal ..
1899
1600
36
34.75 32.59 46.52
31.84 30.39 43.50
93.22 93.49
Manual Training English
Mass. Nor. Art School, Col. Univ.
1918
1800
Alice E. Hood.
Concord Training School.
1902
1500
49
47.40
43.78
92.30
Louise B. Jenkins.
Bridgewater, N. E. Conservatory
1920
1400
46
44.69
41.82
93.68
Una M. Kimball
1920
1400
35
34.70
33.30
95.92
Ida C. Lucas.
Worcester Normal, Harvard.
1918
1500
43
40.36
37.24
92.42
Sargent School .
1918
1500
Radcliffe College.
1921
1400
Grace E. Clapp . ..
University of Maine .
1921
1400
Highland
Grade VI ...
A. Louise Fogg
Colby College .
1920
1300
44 46
42.36 43.89
40.57 40.59
92.59
Rachel Perley
Keene, N. H., Normal School ... 1920
1300
43
41.97
39.73
94.70
Matilda J. Gamble
University of Chicago
1920
1300
45
44.19
41.60
94.14
Salem Normal
1890
1500
44
42.60
40.70
95.50
Westfield Nor., Harvard Summer 1914
1500
14
13.90
13.10
94.30
Caryl M. Porter
Rust Kindergarten
1911
1400
46
44.70
41.10
91.70
Helen G Quinlan .
Salem Normal
1915
1400
43
41.10
39.10
95.30
Vera Buckle, A. B .
Boston University.
1915
1400
45
44.30
41.80
93.70
..
IV.
Margaret Whittier. .
Salem Normal.
1916
1400
43
42.90
39.80
93.40
.
.
Prin. & Grade III
Opportu'ty Class
Alda L. Parker ..
Grade II. .
.
III .. .
IV ..... .
Emma S. Page.
Salem Normal ...
1915
1500
33
Lestina M. Goddard .
Gorham (Me.) Normal School ..
1920
1400
48
Lyman E. Fancy .
Geog., Music .... Arith., Pen'ship
Science . ..
Phys. Director ..
Helen A. Lengyel .
Anna Reck.
Caroline C. Grace .
No. Adams Normal
1919
1300
VI .
V . ..
V.
M. Grace Wakefield
Centre
.
Eng., Geom., Pen. Dom. Science ....
95.78
Junior High. .... Asst. Prin .. Math Eng. and Draw. Hist., Bus. Pr ...
91.62
Eleanor F. Emerson.
TEACHERS IN SERVICE, DEC. 31, 1921, WHERE EDUCATED, YEAR APPOINTED ALSO ENROLLMENT FOR FOUR MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1921-(CONTINUED)
Union St. .. ..
Prin., Grade I ..
Anna P. Reid.
Reading High ..
1884 1904
$1500 1400 1300 1400
40 43 37 40
37.82 41.88 35.57 39.01
34.77 38.81 32.27 37.02
90.07 93.99
Lowell St .. ...
Prin .. Grade III.
VI.
V.
Annie W. Quiilen
Salem Normal.
1916
1400
31
30.70
29.27
94.50
..
II.
Barbara Winship.
Wheelock Training ... ..
1920
1100
22
21.50
17.90
93.30
..
..
III.
14.00
13.50
96.70
..
..
I.
Winifred Cochrane.
Plymouth (N. H.) Normal
1920
1300
33
31.75
29.39
92.46
Prospect St ..
Prin .. Grade II .
Ada E. Dow.
Lowell Normal.
1908
1500
28
26.85
25.37
97.38
.
V.
Glenna Dow.
Hyannis Normal
1920
1300
21
21.00
20.06
95.55
..
..
..
I.
Marion A. Perry
1918
1400
38
35.30
32.83
96.63
..
..
IV.
Olive S. Perry
1916
1400
17
16.75
15.57
92.95
V.
28
28.00
26.23
93.67
Chestnut Hill ....
Prin., Grade I .
II.
Isabelle P. Kissock. .. ..
Dean Academy
1911
1500
15
15.00 10.23
14.03
93.50
III .
..
IV.
Genevieve W. Quiplan
Salem Normal
1921
1000
5
4.25
4.08
96.00
4
3.30
3.12
94.55
..
..
VI.
11
10.70
10.15
94.86
..
..
..
..
..
II ..
Ethel J. Bent ..
.. Farmington (Me.) Normal New Haven (Ct.) Normal School
1911
Danvers High ...
1920
1400
15
14.17
13.53
95.33
25
24.01
22.90
94.81
VI.
III.
14.83
13.45
90.74
VI.
24
23.97
23.66
94.98
Wheelock Training. Hyannis .... Wheelock Training. Hyannis ....
11
10.04
98,00
10
10.00
9.63
96.30
..
V.
....
I ..
Marion H. Morgan
Bridgewater Normal.
91.93 92.69
..
Faye M. Taylor
I ..
1921
16
15.50
15.10
97.50
14
15
....
Nellie B. Beaton .
BUDGET SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, TOWN OF READING, 1922
1922 Estimated Appropriation
GENERAL ACCOUNT:
Expended 1921 $88,250.82 5,811.88
Expended 1920 $70,132.95 5,730.51
Expended 1919 $47,609.71 4,359.75
$ 94,000.00
1. Salaries-Teachers', Supt.
6,550.00
2. Janitors '
2,250.00
3. Other Salaries
Attendance Officer
350.00
300.00
350.00
Medical Inspector
400.00
350.00
100.00
School Nurse
600.00
Total Salaries
$95,412.70
$76,513.46
$ 52,419.46
3,000.00
4. Transportation of Pupils
2,255.75
2,334.75
1,834.75
100.00
5. School Tuition
43.85
2,700.00
6. Books
2,574.93
2,578.96
2,259.64
3,000.00
7. Supplies for Pupils
4,174.30
2,734.78
2,877.83
1,000.00
8. Apparatus for Teaching
835.26
1,363.16
630.01
1,000.00
9. General Expense
Printing and Advertising
124.98
201.18
60.54
Office Supplies
228.30
155.06
217.06
Telephones
402.68
414.50
325.28
Graduation, Miscellaneous
147.55
175.99
311.44
Supt. 's Expense .
5.00
Lectures, Public Meetings
22.00
3.00
Insurance
19.72
$945.23
$954.82
$914.32
.
.
.
.. .. .
BUDGET SCHOOL DEPARTMENT (Continued)
6,000.00
10. Fuel
6,572.17
5,265.54
6,575.53
2,700.00 11. Building Maintenance
Gas and Electricity
758.67
811.03
495.92
Water
482.05
487.64
371.15
Trucking, etc.
363.52
425.00
475.07
Janitors' Supplies
1,218.87
1,122.76
487.95
9,000.00 12. Repairs
$2,823.11
$2,846.43
$1,830.09
Buildings
4,106.18
4,658.41
2,398.70
Furniture
1,520.11
1,027.46
631.35
Grounds
330.95
335.51
297.90
$5,957.24
$6,021.38
$3,327.95
TOTAL FOR MAINTENANCE
$26.137.09
$131,300.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES-GENERAL.
$121,549.79
$100,613.27
$72,713.43
Receipts not from tax levy
12,170.52
2,427.43
$109,379.27
Due, but not paid
1,154.00
NET COST
$108,225,27
$70,286.00
AGRICULTURAL ACCOUNT:
4,000.00
1. Teachers', Supt. 's and Janitors' salaries.
$4,373.24
$4,242.26
$3,460.00
400.00
2. Light, Fuel, Repairs
470.39
264.82
602.50
500.00
3. Books, Apparatus, Supplies
469.91
723 31
$ 4,900.00
$5,313.54
$4,507.08
$4,785.81
Receipts not from tax levy
3,145.64
2,648.96
$2,167.90
Due, but not paid
479.40
NET COST
$1,688.50
$2,136.85
INDUSTRIAL TUITION
$300.00
Tuition paid
$269.35
$118.00
$80.25
134.67
Reimbursement from State
59.00
$165.67
NET COST
$210.35
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DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES OF SCHOOL DEPARTMENT FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1921
Transportation :
Eastern Mass. Street Railway Co. ..
$1,400.00
George F. Wood
168.75
J. F. Lovell
132.00
George H. Adams
555.00
$2,255.75
Books:
American Book Co.
$81.01
American Railway Express Co.
17.21
D. Appleton & Co.
9.75
Arlo Publishing Co.
16.25
Atlantic Monthly Press Co.
38.97
Athletic Trainers' Supply Co.
1.50
Edward E. Babb & Co.
315.63
Richard G. Badger (Gorham Press) ..
2.72
F. J. Barnard & Co.
98.05
Milton Bradley Co.
161.97
A. S. Barnes Co.
.70
Bruce Publishing Co.
.78
Cummings' Express
47.89
De Wolfe & Fiske Co.
8.75
Dodd, Mead & Co.
159.60
E. P. Dutton Co.
12.41
Forbes & Co.
12.05
Ginn & Co.
405.56
Gregg Publishing Co.
96.49
J. L. Hammett Co.
14.25
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
6.23
D. C. Heath & Co.
74.67
Houghton, Mifflin Co.
95.39
Jordan, Marsh Co.
2.00
Charles E. Lauriat Co.
120.10
J. B. Lippincott Co.
14.33
Little, Brown & Co.
10.60
Lyons & Carnahan 51.16
The MacMillan Co. 202.53
Massachusetts Bible Society
15.00
Millinery Trade Review Publishing Co.
12.00
National School Digest
3.00
Old Corner Book Store
71.84
The Palmer Company
2.69
J. W. Pepper & Son
1.00
Public School Publishing Company
4.92
Rand, McNally Co.
.89
273
Benjamin H. Sanborn
85.27
Charles Scribner's Sons
1.75
Silver, Burdett & Co.
75.16
The Survey
6.00
F. H. Thomas & Co.
8.40
John Wiley & Sons
.80
Williams Book Store
12.65
The John C. Winston Co.
84.65
The World 1.90
World Book Co.
94.63
Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing Co .. . 1.00
$2,574.93
Supplies for Pupils :
Adams Company
$8.57
Allen, Doane & Co.
11.75
The American Multigraph Sales Co. . . 2.70
.57
Amigraph Company
4.60
G. H. Atkinson Co.
5.31
Wendell Bancroft & Co.
67.95
Beckley-Cardy Co.
9.13
Berry & Withington Co.
15.08
Joseph Breck & Sons
7.50
M. F. Charles
20.55
Cummings' Express
38.58
A. W. Danforth
1.10
Oliver Ditson Co.
15.99
Francis Brothers 34.77
Ginn & Co. 114.78
9.10
J. L. Hammett Co.
835.25
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
15.82
Hodson Brothers
5.22
Howe & French
131.03
Frank J. Jameson
81.25
The Jordan, Marsh Company
26.42
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins 109.10
W. E. King
12.50
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.
121.29
Rita Lahaise
2.81
B. L. Makepeace
4.42
A. P. Marchant Co.
28.00
George W. Marshall
7.20
H. M. Meserve & Co.
143.08
American Railway Express Co.
192.04
Milton, Bradley Co.
George B. Graff Co.
274
Mass. Tuberculosis League 33.60
J. Clarence Oxley
30.48
Palmer & Parker Co.
215.42
Horace Partridge Co.
10.30
Peerless Supply Co.
193.00
Popular Science Monthly
2.40
Reading Garage & Service Co.
1.75
H. M. Rowe Co.
1.73
Royal Typewriter Co.
17.16
Russell Sage Foundation
9.69
Joseph F. Ryan
66.81
Ryan & Buker
257.97
Scott Foresman & Co.
.65
School Arts Publishing Co.
3.60
Silver Burdett Co.
19.85
F. F. Smith
1.40
Song Shop
.60
A. T. Stearns Lumber Co.
195.75
Wadsworth, Howland & Co.
14.60
F. Wallace
680.03
Ward's
19.20
R. W. Westcott
23.25
R. H. White Co.
4.10
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
1.47
W. H. Willis
80.67
World Book Co.
78.70
Wright & Ditson
6.66
$4,174.30
Apparatus for Teaching :
Atlantic Radio Co. $281.10
Beattie & McGuire
55.82
Cambridge Botanical Supply Co. 32.05
Milton, Bradley Company
8.66
M. J. Chase
8.18
Clement Gleason 4.25
C. H. Goldthwaite & Co.
17.86
J. Wallace Grace Co.
31.00
J. L. Hammett Co. 17.60
Kenney Brothers & Wolkins
3.37
J. B. Lippincott Co.
16.04
Narragansett Machine Co.
50.00
Remington Typewriter Co.
130.00
J. White's Sons
10.37
R. H. White Co.
159.36
275
World Book Co.
.60
Universal Fixture Co.
5.00
J. Albert Wilson
4.00
$835.26
General Expense:
Printing and Advertising :
W. E. & J. F. Twombly
$124.98
$124.98
Office Supplies and Stationery :
Edward E. Babb & Co.
4.89
Clinton W. Crafts
26.15
H. B. McArdle
106.60
H. M. Meserve & Co.
.70
Standard Office Machine Co.
8.55
W. E. & J. F. Twombly
76.15
Wales Adding Machine Co.
1.47
Wright & Potter Printing Co.
2.40
Yawman, Erbe Manufacturing Co.
1.39
$228.30
Telephones :
New England Tel. & Tel. Co.
402.68
$402.68
Graduation and Miscellaneous:
Adams Co.
1.80
College Entrance Board
1.70
M. A. Lahaise
25.60
H. B. McArdle
23.75
Masury-Young Co.
50.40
University of Chicago Bookstore
9.03
F. Wallace
2.27
John N. Weston
9.00
F. C. Whittemore
24.00
Lectures, Public Meetings, etc .:
Edgerley & Bessom
22.00
$22.00
Insurance :
Prentiss & Parker
19.72
$19.72
$945.23
Fuel :
W. E. Florence
16.00
New England Coal Co.
326.14
Boston & Maine Railroad (U. S. Rail- road Adm.)
1,322.98
Municipal Light Board
1,115.95
P. N. Sweetser
3,780.10
O. P. Symonds & Sons
11.00
$6,572.17
$147.55
276
Building Maintenance
Gas, Electricity :
Malden & Melrose G. L. Co.
104.95
Municipal Light Board
653.72
$758.67
Water:
Reading Water Works
482.05
$482.05
Trucking Ashes, etc .:
Charles M. Cullinane
10.00
Cummings Express
38.86
P. N. Sweetser
164.50
Town of Reading, Highway Dept.
138.16
Angelo Zanni
12.00
$363.52
Janitors' Supplies :
American Express Company 4.06
G. H. Atkinson Co.
18.82
Edward E. Babb & Co.
38.58
A. & E. Burton Co.
24.00
Cyclone Brush Co.
44.80
H. I. Dallman
282.91
Dolge Co.
20.63
Fillmore & Slade
45.00
Francis Brothers
1.46
M. Franklin
12.00
J. L. Hammett Co.
30.40
Norman C. Hayner Co.
177.91
Hodson Bros. .
3.75
Mass. State Prison
38.00
Masury-Young Co
128.02
O. O. Ordway
2.25
Fred F. Smith
4.68
S. R. Stembridge
16.80
S. R. Stembridge
198.00
Stone & Forsyth
50.00
F. Wallace
12.52
West Disinfecting Co.
48.50
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
1.58
G. H. Worcester & Co.
14.12
$1,218.87
$2,823 11
277
Repairs-Buildings:
W. A. Bancroft
$8.71
Henry K. Barnes Co.
84.95
H. P. Burgess 25.00
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R. D. Clapp
55.23
Cummings Express Co.
22.71
Clapp & Leach
86.37
Devoe & Reynolds
47.07
T. C. Fife
943.64
Francis Brothers
11.93
E. L. French
13.71
Hodge Boiler Works
412.49
Hodson Brothers
521.53
J. M. Maxwell, Jr. & Son
2.10
P. J. Seaman
3.25
Stewart & Robertson
1,768.87
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
87.12
Woburn Carpet Cleaning Works
2.50
F. O. Wyman
9.00
$4,106.18
Furniture :
Allen Shade Holder Co.
241.20
American Seating Co.
317.72
Peter Becker
7.00
Boston & Maine Railroad Co.
2.97
Brooks, Gill & Co.
55.15
M. F. Charles
2.43
Clapp & Leach
17.25
F. M. Crosby
22.00
J. L. Hammett Co.
24.24
Heywood-Wakefield Co.
145.90
Houghton & Dutton Co.
3.48
Jones, McDuffee & Stratton
88.59
Kenney Brothers & Wolkins
48.60
Wm. Leavens & Co.
9.84
Macey-Morris Co.
6.50
Mason, Davis & Co.
137.00
Harold R. McIntire
1.56
J. A. Murphy
3.00
Remington Typewriter Co.
10.74
Royal Typewriter Co.
12.73
The Song Shop
3.60
Fred D. Sperry
130.85
A. T. Thompson & Co.
3.50
James F. Whitten
1.50
Wrought Iron Range Co.
.
222.76
$1,520.11
278
Grounds :
Matthew Devaney
121.50
A. C. Goodwin
4.00
J. Hickey & Sons
2.00
W. H. Kingman
15.00
E. A. Meekins
15.00
C. W. Nelson
10.00
No. Wilmington Nurseries
6.00
Caleb Rafuse
42.00
Fred F. Smith
1,50
P. N. Sweetser
95.25
A. J. Wilkinson & Co.
18.70
$330.95
$5,957.24
Total for Maintenance
$26,137.09
INDEX
Page
Accountant
115
Assessors
97
Board of Public Works
53
Board of Health
96
Building Inspector
10
Chief of Fire Department
100
Chief of Police
89
Collector
108
Electric Light Commissioners
203
Forest Warden
102
Inspector of Animals
188
Inspector of Milk
107
Inspector of Plumbing
95
Inspector of Wires
92 9
Overseers of the Poor
193 104
Planning Board
195
School Committee
233
Sealer of Weights and Measures
105
Selectmen
50 94
Superintendent of Fire Alarm
Treasurer
110
Tree Warden
187
Town Clerk, Town Meetings
12
Town Clerk, Dogs Licensed
35
Town Clerk, Births Registered
36
Town Clerk, Marriages Registered
41
Town Clerk, Deaths Registered
47
Town Counsel
192
Town Officers
3
Trustees Laurel Hill Cemetery
189
Visitor
194
List of Jurors
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