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Wescott, Frank M. Dabney Todd W27.30
Whitman, Stephen. Children of Hope W35.40
Wilkinson, Andrews. Boy Holidays in the Louisiana Wilds W40.40
Willsie, Honore. Lydia of the Pines W42.1
Wodehouse, P. J. Piccadilly Jim W52.10
Wolf, Emma. Fulfillment
W52.20
Young, Hall. The Klondike Clan
Y7.10
Zerbe, J. S. Trench Mates in France
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
John Martin's Annual
Stokes' Wonder Book of Fairy Tales
Jappy Jingles
Boys and Girls at Home
Pat-a-Cake
Peter Poodle
Mother Goose Rhymes
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Mother's Story Hour
Stories from Fairyland
Young Folk's Annual
Great Grandmother's Book
REPLACED
Finley, Martha. Elsie Dinsmore F25.1
Finley, Martha. Elsie's Holidays F25.2
Finley Martha. Elsie's Girlhood F25.3
Finley, Martha. Elsie's Womanhood F25.4
PHILOSOPHY
Ethics
Lodge, Sir Oliver. Raymond or Life and Death 133.9L
Beck, James M., L. L. D. The War and Humanity 170.B12
Religion
Rihbany, Abraham M. The Syrian Christ 276.R
Sociology
Ellis, O. O.
Garey. E. B. The Plattsburg Manual 355.E
Boardman, Mabel T. Under the Red Cross Flag 361.B
Osborn, Thomas Mott. Society and Prisons 365.0
Education
Sadler, Wm. S.
Sadler, Lena K. The Mother and Her Child 372.S4
Physics Aeronautics
Cavanaugh, George A. Model Aeroplanes and Their Motors 533.6C
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Happy Children
USEFUL ARTS Medicine and Hygiene
Fisher and Fisk. How to Live 613.F
Rose, Mary Swartz. Feeding the Family 613.2R
Cabot, Richard C. A Layman's Handbook of Medicine 614.2C
Domestic Economy
Bitting, A. W. Canning and How to Use Canned Fruits 641.B1
Bitting, K. G.
Green, Mary. Better Meals for Less Money 64.1.G
Art-Sculpture
Rodin, Auguste. Art
730.R1
Painting
The Art of Looking at Pictures 750.T
LITERATURE
* Doubleday Page & Co. Address of the President of the United · States (Woodrow Wilson)
804. W
Poetry (American)
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. Poems of Sentiment 811.W6
American Essays
Crothers, Samuel McChord. The Pleasures of an Absentee Land- lord and Other Essays 814.C5
Wyatt, Edith Franklin. Great Companions 814. W10
Aldrich, Mildred. On the Edge of th War Zone 816.A3
Waddington, Mary King. My War Diary 816.W1
American Humor
Leacock, Stephen. Further Foolishness 817.L3
1 TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
Frank, Harry A. Tramping Through Mexico, Gautemala and Honduras 917.2F
BIOGRAPHY
Paine, Albert Bigelow. The Boy's Life of Mark Twain 920.C8
Parkman, Mary R. Heroes of Today 920.P4
Livingstone, W. P. Mary Slessor of Calabar 920.S15
Livingstone, W. P. White Queen of Okoyong 920.S16
Chalmers, Stephen. Penny Piper of Saranac 923. S21
Scott, Emmett
Stowe, Lyman Beecher Booker T. Washington 923.W20
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HISTORY (EUROPE)
Boyd, Wm. With the Field Ambulance at Ypres 940.9B
Butterfield Pub. Co. Madamoiselle Miss 940.9B2
Bullard, Arthur. Mobilizing America 940.9B3
Cholmondely, Alice. Christine 940.9C1
Doroshevitch, V. The Way to the Cross 940.9D1
Empey, Arthur Guy. Over the Top 940.9E2
Grant, Robert. Their Spirit 940.9G
Gerard, James W. My Four Years in Germany
940.9G
Hunt, Edward Eyre. War Bread
940.9H
Kev. Ellen. War, Peace and the Future 940.9K1
Jordan, David Stair. Alsace and Lorraine
Ke" Ellen. War, Peace and the Future 940.9]
940.9K1
Lauriat, Charles E. The Lusitania's Last Voyage 940.9L
Morlae, Edward. A Soldier of the Legion 940.9M
Nobbs, Capt. Gilbert, L. R. B. On the Right of the British Line 940.9N
Ohlinger, Gustavus. Our National Problems, Their Truth, Faith and Allegience 940.90
Powell, E. Alexander. Brothers in Arms 940.9P
Rinehart, Mary R. The Altar of Freedom 940.9R1
Sheahan, Henry. A Volunteer Poilu 940.9S1
Swope, Herbert Bayard. Inside the German Empire (1916) 940.9S2
Verhaeren, Emilie Belgium's Agony 940.9V
Whitridge, Frederick W. One American's Opinion of the War 940.9W1
LIST OF DONATIONS
Our Dumb Animals. Year's subscription.
Christian Science Journal. Year's subscription.
Christian Science Sentinel. Year's subscription.
Ford Times. Year's subscription.
Railroad Red Book. Year's subscription.
Mexican Review. Year's subscription.
The Other Side of Prohibition. Year's subscription.
Official Bulletin. Year's subscription.
Temperance Cause. Year's subscription.
Acts and Resolves of Mass.
Geologic Atlases. 7.
Contributions from the U. S. National Museum. 5 bulletins.
United States Geologic Survey. 9 bulletins.
United States National Herbarium. 2 bulletins.
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
The Liberty Loan Address by Hon. W. G. McAdoo.
Some Comments on War Taxation. Otto H. Kahn.
What the Railroads are Doing to Help Win the War.
Report of Crop Conditions. May 26, 1917.
Vital Records, Salem Vol. 1, Uxbridge, Newbury Vols. 1 and 2, Gloucester Vol. 1, East Bridgewater, Chelsea, Granville, Greenfield. World Peace Foundations.
Germany Terror in Belgium by A. R. Toynbee.
Columbia University. Bulletin of Information, 1917-1918.
National Association of Corporation Schools. 2 pamphlets. Direct Government in California. An address.
American Forestry. Magazine.
The Three Partners.
National Service Handbook.
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Executive Proclamation and War Legislation. June, 1917. Journal of the House of Representatives, 1917. Journal of the Senate, 1917.
First Regiment of Heavy Artillery. Mass. Vol. 1861-1865. Food Administration. Pamphlets.
Bulletin of the Mass. Audubon Society.
Proceedings of the Encampment, Dept. of Mass. U. S. W. V., 1917.
Journal of the Fifty-first Annual Encampment, Dept. of Mass. G. A. R. The War Cripple. Pamphlet Series 1 Vol. 17.
International Conciliation. No. 117.
American School .. April, 1916.
Alpha Aids. Alpha Portland Cement Co.
Military Map of U. S. A.
Wilson Bulletin.
International Conciliation.
Columbia War Papers. 8.
M. A. C. Bulletin. Jan., 1917.
Bulletin of the Board of Education. Mar., 1917.
Manual for the General Court. 1917.
Annual Report of the Secretary of War. Books.
The Jews in the Eastern War Zone.
The Basis of Durable Peace.
A Brief History of the Constitution of Mass. Biographical Review Middlesex County.
ABBIE M. BLAISDELL, Librarian.
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WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING
MIDDLESEX SS :
To either of the Constables of the Town of Tewksbury in said County.
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town Hall in said Tewksbury, on Monday, the 4th day of February, 1918, at nine o'clock a. m., to act on the following articles :
ARTICLE 1.
To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ARTICLE 2.
To choose all necessary Town Officers, to choose by ballot a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, three Overseers of Poor, three members of the Board of Health, a Town Treasurer, an Auditor, a Collector of Taxes, a Tree Warden, and Constables-all to serve one year ; one Assessor, one Highway Commissioner, one School Committee, two Trustees of the Public Library and one Park Commissioner, all to serve three years ; also one Trustee of Public Library to serve one year. The polls for the election of Town Officers to be opened at ten o'clock a. m., and close at three o'clock p. m.
ARTICLE 3.
To hear reports of Town Officers and Committees and act thereon.
ARTICLE 4.
To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation to defray necessary expenses for the current year, and make appropriations for the same.
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ARTICLE 5.
To see what action the Town will take on the following question : Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town? The vote to be yes or no, as provided by Revised Laws, Chapter 100, Section 10.
ARTICLE 6.
To see if the Town will vote the money arising from licensing dogs, for the ensuing year, to aid in support of the Public Library.
ARTICLE 7.
To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Voted : That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1918, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
ARTICLE 8.
To see what compensation the Town will vote for the col- lection of taxes, and at what rate and from what date interest shall be charged on taxes of 1918 unpaid after November 1, 1918, or to take any other action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 9.
To see if the Town will vote to borrow, if necessary, a sum not exceeding one twenty-fifth of one per cent. of the current year's valuation, such sum of money to be used in the suppression of the Gipsy and Brown Tail moths, and not to be expended be- fore December 1st next, and to be raised in the tax levy of the year 1919.
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ARTICLE 10.
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $150.00, for the proper observance of Memorial Day, and appoint a committee to expend the money.
ARTICLE 11.
To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to institute suits on behalf of the Town or defend any suits that are, or may be brought against the Town.
ARTICLE 12.
To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate for the application of tar, oil or other binder to its highways.
·ARTICLE. 13.
To see if the Town will appropriate $150.00 to help pay for new lookout tower on Robin's hill in Chelmsford, Mass.
ARTICLE 14.
' To see if the Town will accept Caledonia Road, so-called, in South Tewksbury District, and appropriate $100.00 for work on same.
ARTICLE 15.
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for sidewalk from Wilmington line to Foster's Corner, Tewksbury.
ARTICLE 16.
To see if the Town will vote to install ten electric lights on North Street, commencing near residence of Charles Battles, and extending toward Almont Station.
ARTICLE 17.
To see if the Town will vote to install ten electric lights on Whipple Road, commencing near the West schoolhouse and ex- tending to the residence of Mrs. David Rogers.
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ARTICLE 18.
To see if the Town will vote to lay a gas main through James Street during the year 1918.
ARTICLE 19.
To see if the Town will vote to install one gas light on Robinson Avenue, midway between Main Street and Helvetia Street.
ARTICLE 20.
To see what action the town will take, if any, in regard to installing two gas lights and extending main on Lee Street, from where they now terminate to the junction of Lee and Chandler Streets.
ARTICLE 21.
To see what action the Town will take, if any, in regard to appointing a permanent man to drive and care for the fire truck, and make appropriation for the same. .
ARTICLE 22.
To see of the Town will vote to instruct the School Board to pay the teachers and janitors their salary weekly.
ARTICLE 23.
To see if the Town will vote to have the Selectmen grant licenses to the several stores in town to keep open Sundays, he- tween the hours of 6 a. m. and 10 a. m. only, for the sale of such merchandise as their trade may desire.
ARTICLE 24.
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1000.00, said sum to be expended by the School Committee for interior improvements at the Foster School.
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And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, one at each of the Public Meeting Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices, and leave one hundred copies for the use of the citizens at the Post Offices in said Town, 14 days at least, and over two Sundays, before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
IRVING F. FRENCH JOHN J. YOUNG HARRY L. SHEDD)
Selectmen of Tewksbury.
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TABLE OF ESTIMATES FOR 1918
Schools $15,520.19
Highways 4,500.00
Incidentals (Corporation and Bank Tax and Tax on State Land) 2,500.00
Street Lighting 3,000.00
Town Farm 600.00
Library (Dog Tax) 500.00
Police (Unexpended Balance) 700.00
Board of Health (Unexpended Balance)
200.00
Stationery and Printing (Unexpended Balance)
600.00
Salaries (Unexpended Balance)
2,500.00
Park Commission (Unexpended Balance) 75.00
Tree Warden (Unexpended Balance )
Insane and Poor (Unexpended Balance)
1,200.00
Fire Department (Unexpended Balance ) 800.00
Oiling Roads (Unexpended Balance) 1,200.00
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF TEWKSBURY
TOGETHER WITH THE REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1917
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Officers HERBERT L. TRULL, Telephone 2749-R
FRANKLIN F. SPAULDING, Telephone 4235-M
Chairman
Secretary
Members
HERBERT L. TRULL
Term expires 1920
MRS. MAY L. LARRABEE
Term expires 1919
FRANKLIN F. SPAULDING
Term expires 1918
Superintendent of Schools CHARLES L. RANDALL 97 Eighteenth Street, Lowell. Telephone 4746.
Attendance Officers T. H. PAINTER GEORGE GARLAND FRANK H. FARMER
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Present unsettled conditions have been felt during the past year in the management of the Tewksbury public schools. Your committee has endeavored to keep all buildings in good condition and the machinery of school work, in general, in good running order. The high cost of living has not omitted to call on all members of the school working force. The obtaining of school supplies has been attended not only with greatly increased cost but also in some cases with great difficulty of delivery. However, your committee feels that the Tewksbury schools have fared well and only asks for a continuance of the town's generous financial support and for its serious consideration of larger accommoda- tions which are a necessity in view of the number of children attending our schools today.
Several changes have occurred in the teaching force. They are as follows :-
Miss Ethel Hadley has taken the place of Miss Wray at the Shawsheen school
Miss Arnold has been transferred from the Library school to the Foster school where she is Assistant to the Principal for the 7th and 8th grades.
Miss Elizabeth Dowler has taken Miss Arnold's place at the Library school.
On the resignation of Miss Evelyn Waite, Miss Ruth Nourse was elected by the District to the position of singing teacher.
Miss Churchill resigned from her position at the Foster school at the end of the fall term. Miss Hazel Weinbeck of Lowell will fill this vacancy for the present.
Janitors. Home ties called Mr. Warren Lincoln from his work as janitor at the Foster and Library schools. He will be remembered as a most conscientious worker. Your committee were fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Geo. Garland to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Garland is giving great satisfaction in this position.
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At the beginning of the fall term Mr. Thos. Sawyer assumed the work of janitor of the Shawsheen school, it being the belief of your committee that the jobs of janitor and bargeman could in this case be successfully combined ; the contrary was proved, however, and Mr. T. H. Painter is now taking care of the school building as before.
Fuel. Your committee counts itself fortunate in having a good supply of coal on hand in all the school buildings for the winter term. Some other towns have endeavored to obtain coal with less success.
Repairs. The Library and West schools are in good con- dition. Electricity has been installed in the latter for lighting purposes.
At the Shawsheen school a concrete foundation has been laid under the pumping engine; new furnace pipes installed and two storm doors constructed on the northern exposed side of the building.
At the North school extensive sanitary improvements have been made, full details of which will be found in the report for this special appropriation.
Among other things it was found necessary to install a new chimney flue in the Foster school. The old flue has never given satisfactory draft for the boiler. Last winter, however, this fact became so noticeable as to necessitate definite and prompt im- provement. On investigation, the old flue was found to have a draft area much too small considering the area of the boiler tubes and besides being full of soot, it was badly cracked in many places. A new flue has been installed which is of heavier ma- terial and of nearly twice the draft area. A marked improve- ment has been noticed in the running of the boiler fires and in the heating of the building. This will no doubt result also in saving of fuel.
Your committee calls your attention to the fact that this building is continually undergoing repairs and alterations leading to comfort and safety, and in accordance with instructions from the inspector of buildings. A new fire alarm has been installed and repairs and improvements made in the heating and sanitary
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systems, and ceilings and masonry have been re-enforced and re- paired, yet in the opinion of your committee, it will be necessary to ask for a considerable amount of money for further extensive repairs, if the town still expects this building to serve in anything approaching a satisfactory manner.
Some things which should be done are as follows :
All inside walls calcimined, ceilings repaired, building given a general overhauling inside.
These are a few things which should be done at once, but even these improvements will not lessen the need for more room, which is the most essential item of all today. There are about forty-five children in each of the three rooms in this building and sixty-five in the fourth remaining room. It will be a serious proposition how to dispose to best advantage the school children of this town at the opening of the fall term of 1918.
This fall the Committee on Public Safety, Board of Food Administration, encouraged the production of extra large crops of potatoes by the farmers of Massachusetts as a "Win the War" measure. In anticipation of the need of storage room to prevent waste of this extra supply, the committee made general inquiry of the School Board if this room was to be had in school base- ments in case of local emergency. Your committee responded, offering space for the storage of thirty or forty barrels, if nec- essary. However, this has turned out to be merely a precaution- ary measure. The potato crop was not large enough to require this method of preservation in any of the Massachusetts schools, according to the report of December 7th.
In June, it was planned to hold hearings at the Public Ser- vice Commission rooms in Boston on the matter of six cent trol- ley fares and the abolition of workingmen's and school children's half fares. A member from your committee, attended the first of these hearings, at which there was a large number of repre- sentatives from surrounding towns gathered to protest the changes in fares proposed by the Bay State Railway. Apparently considering the outlook inauspicious, the representatives of the Bay State succeeded in having the hearing postponed and the next that was learned in regard to the matter was that a compromise agreement had been reached by the Railway Co. and counsel for cities and towns through which the system runs. This agreement
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resulted in the present six cent fares, but prices for workmen's tickets and also those of school children remained the same.
Your committee asks for a substantial increase in appropria- tions to cover 1918 school expenses. It considers that many of the teachers' salaries must be advanced to allow them to meet the extra living expenses today. It is wise to make such a move for the benefit of teachers and janitors and in appreciation of their untiring efforts and good work for the schools; it would be more difficult to replace any of the school working force today. The supplies of text books, etc., have advanced in price from fifty to one hundred per cent. Fuel is costing today nearly one hundred per cent more than it did a year ago and the upkeep and repairs on school buildings carry a proportionate advance in cost, as the question of labor and material is a very serious one today.
The committee recommend that the following sums of money be appropriated to meet school expenses the coming year :
Teachers
$ 6,303.30
Fuel and janitors 3,134.49
Transportation
2,851.19
Supervision
750.00
School Houses
1,000.00
Books and Supplies
1,000.00
Tuition
3,137.13
Medical Inspection
100.00
Miscellaneous
500.00
Insurance
125.00
$18,901.11
Expected from State
3,380.92
$15,520.19
FINANCIAL REPORT
Following is the financial statement of the committee. Ex- penditures in detail may be found in the Auditor's report.
Receipts
Appropriation
$13,016.20
Reimbursement from State :
Account Mass. School Fund
893.92
Account Vocational School
233.13
Account High School Tuition 1916
1,693.16
Account High School Tuition 1917
1,701.57
Account Tuition of Children
60.00
Account High School Transportation
552.05
Account Supervision
345.83
James Dodge, Tuition
80.00
James Dodge, Car Tickets
3.55
Helen Toothaker, Car Tickets
.36
Public Library 1-6 Coal and Wood
25.93
James Crosby, Tuition
10.00
J. L. Fleming, Insurance Rebate
10.00
Frances Cameron, Material Sold
15.88
E. W. Alger, Material Sold
5.17
F. F. Spaulding, Broken Glass
3.00
Mrs. Larrabee, Rent of Hall
7.00
C. L. Randall, Use of Telephone
34.15
$18,690.90
Expenditures
Teachers
$ 5,835.80
Fuel and Janitors
2,738.49
Mass. Retirement Fund
175.00
Supervision
720.00
Medical Inspection
115.78
Tuition
4,437.94
Transportation
2,597.19
Books and Supplies
715.06
School Houses
866.72
Miscellaneous
488.92
Amount bills on hand unpaid
137.13 $18,690.90 $
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT L. TRULL
MAY L. LARRABEE
FRANKLIN F. SPAULDING
School Committee.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NEW SCHOOL BUILDING
To the Voters of the Town of Tewksbury,
Gentlemen :
Herewith is submitted a report of the committee appointed at the last Annual Town Meeting, to consider the need of further school accommodations at the Centre. The Foster School has been crowded for several years, and cannot today conveniently accommodate the scholars. Your committee have carefully con- sidered all the details of building, have visited other schools, and unanimously agree that a new eight room school building is the best proposition. However, we feel at this time, with the un- certainty of war conditions it would not be wise to expend the large amount necessary for a new school building. Your com- mittee therefore deem it advisable to defer action until some later date.
Respectfully submitted,
BENJAMIN SPAULDING JOHN L. FLEMING CLARENCE FOSTER HERBERT L. TRULL MAY L. LARRABEE
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Report of Committee on Special Appropriation For Up-to-date Sanitation at the North School
Much needed sanitary improvements were made at the North school this summer. In spite of the rapid advance in cost of labor and material, the expenses were kept within the original appropriation of $1,000.00.
In place of the old unsanitary toilets, a new up-to-date sys- tem has been installed. Flush closets and urinal are supplied with water from a pressure tank which in turn is filled by an automatic electric pump.
A pipe has been run out connecting this system to the well in front of the school.
The toilet room is situated on the south side of the building, and is well ventilated, at the same time being supplied with warm air through a register connected to the furnace in main building.
Two tight dry wells take care of the drainage. It was feared that the ledge of rock running beneath the building would inter- fere with the installing of the drain, but this ledge was struck at a depth which just allowed for the correct "fall," and the whole system was in good working order by the beginning of the fall term.
Respectfully submitted,
H. L. TRULL
H. M. LARRABEE
MAY L. LARRABEE
F. F. SPAULDING EDWARD BENNETT
FINANCIAL REPORT
Appropriation
$ 1,000.00
Expenses
James Whittet, carpenter
$ 83.79
Hobson & Lawler, plumbing
308.00
Staples Bros., drain pipe
15.30
Elie Cote, labor, dry wells
68.95
J. E. Carroll & Co., heating
75.00
Geo. A. Hill, electric installation
16.40
Milo D. Clay, painting
38.00
Bennett Bros., tank, pump and motor
306.00
Bennett Bros., labor and piping
38.00
Elie Cote, labor, trench to well
25.00
Jas. Whittet, carpenter
17.92
Ervin E. Smith, supplies
1.25
Balance
6.39
$ 1,000.00
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 1
Lowell, Mass., January 4, 1918.
To the School Committee of Tewksbury,
Mrs. Larrabee and Gentlemen :--
I hereby submit my fifth report which is the twenty-seventh in the series of superintendents' reports. The work of your schools for the past year has been successful, you have a capable corp of teachers who are getting good results from their pupils.
Teachers. There have been but few changes among the teachers this year. Miss Grace Wray who was at the Shawsheen primary last year is now teaching in Fitchburg. Miss Ethel Hadley, a graduate of Plymouth Normal School with several years' experience, was selected by Principal Mahoney for the position at Shawsheen, she has made an excellent beginning in her work.
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