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2. The Board of Engineers organize two companies, to be known as Company One and Company Two Each Company to consist of 15 men, and each man to receive a salary of $15 per year as members of the Fire Department ; fractional parts of a year in proportion.
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3. Each company shall hold monthly meetings for the purpose of inspecting apparatus, drilling, and the transaction of such business as may be necessary.
4. Each member of the said companies shall be subject to a fine of $1.00 for not attending a building fire, or for not answering to his name at roll call after said fire.
5. Each member of said companies shall be subject to a fine of $.50 for not attending a regular monthly meeting of his company.
6. The clerk of each company shall render to the Board of Engineers a copy of each and every roll call each month, on proper blank forms furnished for such purpose.
7. The Board of Engineers shall keep a record of each and every roll call at their office. A record of all building fires and such other records as may be necessary to the proper conducting of the Fire Depart- ment, and such records shall be open for inspection to the Board of Selectmen at all times.
The Board of Engineers shall render to the Board of Selectmen on or before Dec. 30 of each year a list of the members of the Department together with the amount of their respective salary and the amount to be deducted for their fines.
8. The Board of Engineers shall appoint two men to be janitors, one for each company. Said men to act in the above capacity and to be under the direction of the captain of their respective companies. Said janitors to receive $50 each per year for the additional labor required of them,
9. The Board of Engineers shall hold the captain of each company responsible for the proper condition of his respective house and apparatus, and the Board of Engineers must at least once a month make a personal inspection of each house and apparatus therein.
10. The Board of Engineers shall have the right to discharge from the Department at any time any member thereof for good and sufficient reasons, and shall have the right to fill vacancies.
Il. The members of each company may elect their own officers, and with the approval of the Board of Engineers formulate their own By-Laws, in so far as they do not conflict with these rules and regulations.
12. The Board of Engineers may from time to time add to these regulations as they see fit, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen.
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Also we would recommend that :
I. The Town direct the Board of Selectmen to sheathe the apparatus rooms and put them in a respectable condition, and make .all other necessary repairs on the two houses.
2. A committee be appointed to look into the matter of exchange of the present two hand fire engines for two automobile file engines, and report at a future meeting.
3, The Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to pay $75 to the present Company One for their furnishings, and $40 to Company Two for their furnishings.
4. The Town direct the Selectmen to procure suitable badges for the Fire Department.
5. The Town direct the Board of Engineers to adopt the 12 stipula- tions in the first part of our report as the regulations of the Fire Department.
CALEB S. HARRIMAN, Chairman. GEORGE C. HILL.
Motion made to accept the report of the Committee; 25 voted Yes, 5 voted No; motion carried. Motion made that the first 12 articles of the report be adopted; amendment made to take up each article separately and act thereon. Vote on the amendment was in the affirmative. The vote on the motion as amended was then taken, and it was voted in the affirmative. The 12 articles were read separately by the Moderator and a vote on each taken; the vote on each was in the affirmative, and the first twelve articles were adopted.
A motion was made that the Town adopt the second part of the Committee's report, making directions and authoriza- tions therein suggested; amendment made by Mr. Littlefield that the words "any suitable fire apparatus" be added at the end of Article 2 of the recommendations. On a vote being taken the amendment was adopted. A vote being then taken on the original motion it was declared carried. Moderator
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appointed the following committee on exchange of engines Edgar C. Folkins, John W. Hathaway and George C. Hill.
Art. 5. On motion it was voted to raise and appropriate $300 for suppression of Forest Fires, the same to be expended under the direction of the Forest Fire Warden.
Art. 6. Voted to pass the article.
Art. 7. On motion it was voted to raise and appropriate $100, to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
Art. 8. Voted to pass the article.
Art. 9. On motion it was voted to authorize the Asses- sors and Collector of Taxes to examine into the tax title to all lots of land now standing in the name of the Town, and that the Selectmen be instructed in the words of the article to sell said lots, and that the expense incurred under the article be paid from the proceeds of any sale made by the Collector of Taxes or the Selectmen during the year 1909.
Art. 10. After the reading of a report by Mr. Purbeck, of the Board of Selectmen, relative to the amount offered in settlement of claims for said land damage aggregating $145, a motion was made that the Selectmen be instructed to pay the sum of $145 In settlement of said claims; amendment made that the matter be left in the hands of the Selectmen, which was so voted. As amended the motion was declared carried.
On motion it was voted to dissolve the meeting.
A true copy; attest:
JAMES E. KELLEY, Town Clerk.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
OCTOBER 16, 1909
TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX SS.
TO WILLIAM E. SWAIN, CONSTABLE OF THE TOWN OF WIL- MINGTON,
GREETING :-
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in the manner provided in Section 2, Article 1, of the By- Laws, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wilmington qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town Hall on Saturday, the sixteenth day of October, 1909, at eight o'clock P. M., to act upon the following articles, namely :
Art. 1. To elect by ballot a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
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Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote to move the hn:1,1 ing recently built for the Moth Department, or do anything in relation to the same.
Art. 3. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate to move the building described in Art. 2.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands and the seal of the Town this seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and nine.
GTO
" INC
THE
WHITEFIELD ELM
1730 .* 'SS
EDWARD N. EAMES, ARTHUR W. EAMES,
DUDLEY B. PURBECK, Selectmen of Wilmington.
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RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING OCTOBER 16, 1909
Art. 1. Edward N. Eames was elected Moderator, the vote being taken by ballot and the check list being used.
Art. 2. Motion made to move the building back on the same lot. On being put to a vote it was declared in the negative.
Voted to adjourn.
A true copy; attest:
JAMES E. KELLEY,
Town Clerk.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON FOR THE YEAR 1909
No.
¡Date of Birth
NAME OF CHILD
NAMES OF PARENTS
1
Jan. 5
Robert Byron Cameron
2
Jan. 26
Harry Joshua Cutter.
3
Jan. 26
Allce Louise White.
4
Feb. 2
Clara Margaret Robinson.
5
Feb. 11
Kenneth R. Cady.
6
Feb. 15
Irene Susan McMahon ..
7
Feb. 17
George Herbert Chapman, Jr.
8
Feb. 20
William Arthur Hooper.
9
Feb. 27
Esther Collins Comer.
10
Mar. 14
Eunice Virginia Dewel .
11
April 2
Clarence Dudley Clatur.
12
April 2
Helen Jane Garraughty ....
13
April 5
Theodore Amos Doucette
14
April 8
Mary Adelaide Sullivan.
15
16 17
April 30
Lawrence David Hollis.
May 17
Charles Napoleon Crispo.
18
Evelyn Estelle Wills ...
19
May 17 May 29 June 4 June 8
Oliver Francis McGrane.
21
Charles Kenneth Wilson ..
23
9 13
Alice Mildred Glover ..
William M. Glover. Mildred A. Bishop S. Arthur Loring, Ruth R. Cole
23
June 14
Jeanette Adella Loring ....
25
- Reagan ..
Albert Simon Richards. Jr.
27 28 29 30
July 26 Aug. 6
Ada Ethel Goodridge.
Aug. 21
Willard Winthrop Shattuck.
Margaret Helen Dailey .
32 33
Elizabeth Agnes Murphy .
34
Eben Thomas Frotton ..
35 36
Edna May Miller ..
37 38
Nov. 2
Harold Draper Fuller. ·
Nov. 23 Virginia Louise Kidder
39 Nov. 24
Eleaner Coffin.
Dec. 6 Elwood Franklin Colgate.
40 41 42 Dec. 13
Wayne Wesley Wyman.
43 Dec. 29 Dec. 29
Marion Elizabeth Twomey ..
44
Wilbur Southmayed.
Leon Alvin Cameron. Amy Constantine Harry Huse Cutter, Lettie May Purington Charles H. White. Evalena Babine Albert Edwin Robinson, Hattie Frances Robbins Carl Augustus Cady, Alice Gertrude Lindley Peter F. McMahon, Annie M. McEnroe George Herbert Chapman, Abbie R. Dickey Charles Clendennen Hooper, Clara Bell Barry John Joseph Comer, Esther Anastasia Lyons Oscar C. Dewel, Verga McClellan George W. Clatur. Cora R. Caswell Frank J. Garraughty, Delia Reddy Frank E. Doucette, Margaret Frotton Patrick David Sullivan, Mary Brabant
George Edward Hollis, Mabel May Dunn Joseph H. Crispo. Antonine Blanchette Russell Gardner Wills. Edna May Carter Walter F. Howland, Minnie L. Wallace P. Francis McGrane, Sarah A. Howlett Charles Henry Wilson, Eleanor Mary Richards
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Patrick J. Nee. Florence Marjorie Keef James L. Reagan, Catherine Sullivan Albert Simon Richards, Bertha Alice Brabant
Willie E. Taylor. Elsie M. Clark Walter Vernon Goodridge. Hattie Ada May Snelling Luther Howe Shattuck, Nellie Brown John W. Dailey, Margaret Griffin Walter L. Hale, Ada F. Carter
31 Aug. 26 Sept. 2 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 26 Oct. 27
Grace Etta Hale .
Altherea Paulina Lewis.
James Stephen Murphy, Elizabeth Frances White John O. Frotton. Mary Maria Surrette Edward S. Lewis. Mary Kernon Louis M. Miller, Helen V. Davidson
George F. Fuller, Amy G. Parrott Harlan H. Kidder, Emily May Kidder John W. Coffin. Jr .. Keren Mackinnon Walter E. Colgate. Charlotte Snelling
Frederick U. Wyman, Flora Kennedy Colgate John J. Twomey, Mary E. Boyce Leon F. Southmayed, Ethel Maud Parker
24 June 28 June 29 26 July 3
Dorothy M. Howland.
20
Helen Ruth Nee ..
Dorothy S. Taylor ..
MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON FOR THE YEAR 1909
No.
Date
Names of Groom and Bride Age
Residence
Occupation
Place of Birth
Names of Parents
1
Feb. 25 Ernest Royden Carter Sarah Harriet Taylor
29 32
Wilmington Everett, Mass,
Trav. Salesman Wilmington Trained Nurse
Reading, Mass.
2
Mar. 7 Harold Swain Beulah Elizabeth Eames
22
Wilmington
Fireman At Home
Salem, Mass. Wilmington
William E. Swain. Lillian Louise Taylor Warren Eames. Elizabeth Ann Carter
3 April 28 Frank Jaquith Eldora Elizabeth Frost
32 39
Wilmington Wilmington
Gravel Co.Mgr. At Home
Lawrence, Mass. Wilmington
William H. Jaquith. Addie Kelley William A. Frost, Phebe E. Downs
4 May 12 Charles Raymond Harris Bertha Laura Bisbee
21 25 Wilmington Wilmington
Painter At Home
Berwick, Maine Wilmington
George W. Harris. Anna M, Leach Henry H. Bisbee, Josephine H. Gowing
5
June 16 Arthur K. Pitman Jennie O. (Gleason) Berry
27
29 Wilmington Wilmington
Provision D'l'r Housekeeper
Putnam, Conn. Gt.Barrington, Mass.
Eben Pitman, Emma F. Pratt Milow Gleason, Frances A. Colbert
6
June 23 William J. Graham Jean M. Hill
22
Rockford, IIl. Wilmington
Contractor At Home
Stillman Valley, Ill. Boston, Mass.
James Graham. Adelaide Revell IJoseph M. Hill, Sophia H. Gilman
7 Sept. 2 Levi A. Gilson Julia L. Howard
23 20
Wilmington [Woburn. Mass.
Steam Fitter At Home .
Wilmington Woburn. Mass.
Solomon S. Gilson. Elizabeth L. Boynton John Howard, Bridget Jordan
8
Sept. ? Theodore .1 Surrette Mary A. Doucette
19
35 Wilmington Wilmington
Carpenter At Home
Nova Scotia Nova Scotia
Samuel Surrette, Julia Surrette Frank E Doucette, Marguerite Frotton
9 Oct. 24 Edward Haskell
57 44
Wilmington Portland, Oregon
Cross' Tender Fall River, Mass. Ladies' Maid
Josiah Haskell. Susan Pittsley Jerry Price, Annie Richardson
10
Oct. 25 Ethan D. Gilson Jessie F. Gowing
21 20
Wilmington Wilmingtonl
Signalman At Home
Wilmington Wilmington
Solomon S. Gilson, Elizabeth L. Boynton Daniel H. Gowing, Mary Ivester
11
Nov. 18 A. Chandler Manning Roseanna T. Kelley
34 34
Wilmington Wilmington
Lands'pe Arc't Reading, Mass. Stenographer Boston. Mass.
Jacob W. Manning. Lydia B. Chandler Jolin Kelley, Catherine A. Higgins
12
Nov. 24 John C. Saunders Lula J. Canada
32 . Boston
25
ĮBoston
Teamster Domestic
Cumberland, Md. Plummersville, Ark.
Mercer Saunders. Nancy Watkins Anthony Canada, Rose Robinson
13 Dec.
4 Harry M. Briggs Nellie G. Haskell
21
¡Wilmington
Taunton, Mass.
Albert S Briggs. Josephine M. Chandler Edward Haskell Evelyn Lovell
24 Tewksbury, Mass. Supt. Moth D'pt Tewksbury, Mass. | At Home
New York
Estella (Carmon) Kendall
23
William Warren Carter. Henrietta V. Doe S. Warren Taylor, Laura J. Young
23 Wilmington
DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON FOR THE YEAR 1909
No.
Date off Death
Name of Deceased
Sex
Cd'n
Y
D
Gastritis
Wilmington
1 Jan. 23
2
Feb. 1
F
M
161
2
21 Cancer
3
Feb. 24
Gilman Harnden
M
M
74
17 Valvular disease of heart
4 Mar. 2
Alice J. N. Murray
F
M
65
6
16 Sclerosis Carcin'a, breast
5
Mar.
Kenneth R. Cady
M
S
24 Broncho Pneumonia
6 7 8 9 10
April 20 April 25
Fannie Melanson Adeline D. Clark
F F
M
35
Tuberculosis Pneumonia
Wilmington Wilmington Wilmington
Nova Scotia Dartmouth, Ms. Concord, Mass. England
Alexander White, Roseanna White Otis Manchester. Elizabeth Fish Jesse Warner, Lillle B. Handspiker George Malpas, Barbara Horn William Bedell, Susan Gerry Elbridge Kidder. Susan Kendall Joel Flagg,
15 16
July
3
Reagan
S
4 Malformation of Heart
Wilmington Wilmington
17 July 10
Joseph W. Kellom
M
S
28
7
24 Acute Pneumonic Phthisis Wilmington
18 19 Aug.
Abigail Furbush John J. Hillman
F
W
85
9
3 Acute Yellow At'hy, Liver 21 Paralysis
Green. Me. England
Isaac Larabee,
20 Aug. 16 21 Aug. 20
Howard B. Morse
M
M
36
11
10 Tuberculosis
22 Sept. 14
Gracie M. Young
S
8
,Cholera Infantum
23
Sept. 15
Franklin W. Perry
M
82
4
1 Paralysis
Cornelius Leary, Mary Murphy
24
Nov. 2
Daniel E. Leary
S
20
Railroad Accident
Samuel B. Nichols. Phebe M. Carter
Nov. 16
James B. Nichols
M
S
57
3
12 Railroad Accident
25 26 27
Dec. 27
28
Dec. 28
Anthony M. Canada George M. Milligan
M M
M
6
23 Cirrhosis of Liver 1
The following named persons were buried in Wilmington, but died elsewhere, during the year 1909 :
Jan. 18 Elsie G. Hatch, at Somerville, aged 12 yrs. 9 mos 18 days Jan. 31 John Henry Carter, at Somerville, aged 70 yrs . 8 mos. 7 days Apr. 27 Ralph Heber Frazee, at Dedham aged 1 yr. 6 mos. 27 days
Apr. 30 Clarence Harnden, at Worcester, aged 52 vears.
May 12 Albert H. Richardson, at Woburn, aged 65 yrs, 8 mos. 25 days
May 13 Mary L. Childs, at Melrose, aged 72 years
July 4 Roxanna W . Freeman, at Reading, aged 75 yrs. 7 mos. 13 days
Aug. 19 Dorothy L. Hallett, at Somerville, aged 25 days
Sept 10 - - Gilson, at Woburn, aged 1 day
Sept.22 J. Herbert Folkins, at ( helsea, aged 41 yrs. 8 mos. 29 days
Dec. 6 Jessie G. Trull, at Chelsea, aged 26 yrs . 8 mos. 6 days
Dec. 29 Susan M. Beguley, at Boston, aged 77 yrs. 10 mos. 16 days
11
May 31
Frank S. Bedell Elbridge Kidder Mary C. Kidder Mary A. Sulliven
M
M
76
6
25 Angina Pectoris 26 Senile Dementia
Wilmington
12
June 20 June 25
F
W
78
8
18 Senile Gangrene
Wilmington
13 14 June 28
F F
M
63 3
2
24 Diphtheria
Wilmington Wilmington
John Dougherty, Annie Mclaughlin Patrick D. Sullivan, Mary Brabant James L. Reagan, Catherine Sullivan J. Warren Kellom, Esther E. Buck
July 3
Anastasia Sullivan
S
F
M
35
1
8 Paralysis
Wilmington
May 15
Jane A. Cole
F
M
6
7 Chronic Nephritis
May 6
Rodney Warner
M
S
7
6
69
11
Wilmington Wilmington Wilmington Wilmington
Wilmington Wilmington
James Brennan Helen E. Morris
M
S
79
Age M
Disease or Cause of Deatlı
Residence
Place of Birth
Names of Parents
Patrick Brennan, Mary Brennan Edwin Cutting, Esther Beard Samuel Harnden, Nancy Tweed John S. Perry. Martha G. Snow Carl A. Cady, Alice Lindley
Wilmington
Wilmington
Springvale. Me, Tewksbury, Ms. Lincoln, Mass. Eastport, Me. Wilmington
|Dilitation of Heart
Wilmington
John Hillman, Margaret Herald Samuel M. Morse, Eliza Cochran Charies Young, Mary Shay Job Perry,
F M
M
77
5
Wilmington Wilmington Wilmington Wilmington Wilmington Newb'yp't, Ms. Wilmington
Plymouth. N. H Woburn, Mass. Norway, Me. Newb'yport, Ms, Wilmington
Halifax, Va. Ambrose Chapin, Canada Plymouth, N. H. William Milligan, Sarah Moses
M
54 68
Uremic Poisoning
Wilmington Wilmington
M
M
W
M
Wilmington
Ireland
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RECAPITULATION
Births registered in 1909
44
Males
·
21
Females
23
Marriages registered in 1909
13
Deaths in 1909
28
Males · ·
17
Females
. ·
11
Dog License Account:
Number of Licenses issued, 169
By cash paid County Treasurer, $355.20
Account of printed Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths :
Number on hand Jan. 1, 1909
243
Sold during the year ·
6
Number on hand January 1, 1910 . 237
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES E. KELLEY, Town Clerk.
The Town Clerk will furnish to parents, householders, physicians and midwives, applying therefor, blanks for returns of births as required by law.
ANNUAL REPORT
-OF THE -
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
--- OF THE -
TOWN OF WILMINGTON,
MASSACHUSETTS
1909
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
ROBERT H. GOWING, Chairman
Term expires March, 1911
ALDEN N. EAMES, Secretary
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CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD, Auditor
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1910
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS WILLIAM N. CRAGIN
TRUANT OFFICER WILLIAM E. SWAIN
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
TO THE CITIZENS OF WILMINGTON:
Our schools during the past year have been particularly prosperous, and the substantial progress made in all directions is especially gratifying. The High School is now approved by the State Board, and our graduates from the Normal course are admitted to the Normal Schools of the State on certificate. It is probable that very soon the school will be approved by the New England College Entrance Certificate Board, thus insuring admission to nearly all the New England Colleges of graduates from our College course.
This is due largely to the untiring efforts of the princi- pal, Mr. Loring, who during his administration of the school has accomplished much in raising the standard of its work. It was with regret that we received his resignation at the end of the Fall term. We feel, however, that in the selection of Mr. H. W. Files as principal, that the efforts to improve the school will be put forth as vigorously as heretofore.
Our Superintendent calls attention in his report to the increase in tardiness at the High School. Perhaps, as he suggests, our sessions begin too early in the morning, and it would be a good plan to have two sessions at that school and begin the morning session at nine o'clock.
The High School principal and Superintendent both call attention in their reports to the necessity of home study, and
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we hope parents and pupils will appreciate the importance of improving those defects.
The conditions in the Grades are fairly satisfactory.
While we are training and cultivating the minds of the children of our Town we should not lose sight of their physical welfare. A sound body gives promise of a sound mind, and where children are clean and healthy we have a guarantee of good morals. As the children are under the care of the School Department a large portion of each day should we not do something to promote their physical culture? Can we not devise a plan that will enable us to do a little for the children on these lines that will not take too much time or entail much expense? This is a matter which should certainly receive consideration.
We have, for the first time in several years, overdrawn our appropriation; and it appears now that we should have asked the Town at the annual meeting in March, 1909, for an increase in the school appropriation, but we hoped to get through the year's work without any material increase in expenditure. We have overdrawn our appropriation $377.14, and have outstanding bills amounting to $214.53 belonging to the financial year of 1909. This has been occasioned by the extra cost of the teaching force, extra fuel and school supplies. In some instances this year salaries have been slightly increased. For the whole year, however, we have had the extra expense of three additional teachers-one each in the High, Whitefield and West Schools, and the cost of heating the West School and the extra room in the Whitefield School. In our last financial year we had this extra cost for the Fall term only.
We wish to make additional improvements in the High School laboratory and commercial room, and add some
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reference books to all the schools, particularly in the High School where the need of such books is especially felt.
We would also like a special appropriation of $200 for new desks and seats in the High School building.
We would suggest to the Town that when the appropria- tion is made for the repairs on public buildings, a certain portion of it should be set aside for the repairs of the school buildings.
For the support of the schools for the coming year, in- cluding teachers' and janitors' salaries, fuel, superintendent, books and supplies, etc., we recommend an appropriation of $9,000.
ROBERT H. GOWING CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD ALDEN N. EAMES
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RESOURCES
Town appropriation
$8,000 00
Massachusetts School Fund
1,108 40
Dog tax
288 88
Massachusetts High School account
500 00
Massachusetts Superintendent account
625 00
$10,522 28
EXPENDITURES
Salaries
$8,338 76
Fuel
957 07
Books and Supplies
500 56
Superintendent
900 00
Miscellaneous
203 03
$10,899 42
Overdrawn
377 14
EXPENDITURES ITEMIZED
TEACHERS
Seth A. Loring
$1,100 00
Abbie H. Keith
500 00
M. I. Cutler
330 00
E. G. Hodge
270 00
Herbert Wing, Jr.
220 00
M. Merrill
200 00
A. Hodge
11 25
Blan Alexander
532 00
A. R. Goodrich
508 48
S. E. Prescott
456 00
O. H. Norcross
399 95
C. M. Swain
456 00
N. M. Haley
418 00
H. A. Swain
399 95
E. E. Carter
380 00
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G. M. Eames
280 00
N. L. Kincaid
266 00
I. B. Gurney
252 60
J. T. Luce
140 00
A. M. Young
200 00
M. B. Proctor
200 00
Mrs. A. N. Eames
14 53
$7,534 76
JANITORS
J. A. Taylor
$500 00
Mrs. Babine
228 00
1
Mrs. Spaulding
19 00
Mrs. Surrette
19 00
Mrs. Allen
19 00
F. Chapman
12 00 .
G. Foley
7 00
$804 00
SUPERINTENDENT
W. N. Cragin
$900 00
FUEL
Fred A. Eames
$776 95
S. R. McIntosh
180 12
$957 07
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
E. E. Babb & Co.
$309 93
F. O. Cleveland
46 00
Ginn & Co.
42 19
Allyn & Bacon
29 67
J. L. Hammett & Co.
28 49
D. C. Heath & Co.
20 01
J. B. Hunter
8 17
A. J. Wilkinson
6 00
Silver, Burdett & Co.
3 01
O. Ditson & Co.
2 31
50
Royal Typewriter Co.
$1 50
L. E. Knott Ap. Co. 1 45
C. E. Littlefield 1 20
C. C. Birchard 60
$500 56
MISCELLANEOUS
J. A. Taylor, cleaning $31 25
E. Caldwell, furniture
16 00
H. F. Miller & Sons Co., use of piano 15 00
T. Call, expressing 12 10
F. A. Lowell, printing
11 50
Mrs. Babine, cleaning
13 80
C. Blaisdell, cleaning vaults
16 00
Mrs. Spaulding, cleaning
14 00
Cong'l Church, graduation
10 00
E. R. Eames, census
20 00
Buck Bros., sundries
7 53
A. N. Eames, sundries
4 85
H. M. Horton, sundries
3 45
C. E. Littlefield, sundries
1 60
Am. Seating Co., castings
1 00
Mrs. Allen, storing wood and cleaning
7 00
Mrs. Surrette, cleaning
4 00
Smith Premier Typewriter Co., repairs
4 00
J. L. Hammett & Co., diplomas
3 25
Henry Siegel Co., ribbon
3 70
L. E. Knott Ap. Co., repairs
25
A. M. Young, typewriting
2 75
$203 03
OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS
Edward E. Babb & Co.
$116 93
J. L. Hammett & Co.
81 25
L E. Knott Apparatus Co.
16 35
$214 53
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
TO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
Gentlemen :- My tenth annual report as Superin- tendent of Schools is herewith submitted.
The past year has been a good one in point of attendance. A percentage of .93 plus is as good as we have usually been able to secure and perhaps nearly as good as we ought to expect. We should not, however, rest with the attainment of that, or any other percent, but should keep a firm and constant pressure toward the securing of an attendance as nearly perfect as circumstances will permit; and we hope to have, as I believe we usually have had in the past, the active co-operation of the parents of our pupils in our efforts to eliminate unnecessary absence.
In my last report, I spoke of the increasing amount of tardiness, and expressed the hope that we might make a better showing in this respect at the close of another year. On the whole, our record has improved, and most of the schools have raised their standing materially in this respect. In the high school, however, there has been no improvement. In fact last year's record is considerably worse than that of the previous year. Nearly one half of our total tardiness is chargeable to this one school. This is not a creditable
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record; and it must be improved. Most of the pupils of this school are now making their final preparation for the active duties of life; and I know of no occupa- tion in life where punctuality is not at a premium. It is our duty to teach it in the school as much as it is our duty to teach Latin and Algebra, and we should see to it that our pupils acquire prompt and regular habits of attendance. If our session begins too early for the pupils to get there, let us change it to a later hour, or even go back to the old two-session plan, if necessary ; but at all events let us form and keep the habit of being on time.
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