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Sept. 15-Still alarm of Chestnut Street. Camp owned by Robert Robinson.
Sept. 30-Box 25. Lowell Street. House owned by Samuel Kipsonis, Chelsea, Mass. Value of house $450. Value of contents $150.
Oct. 30-Still alarm. Lowell-West Streets. Burning tree caused by live electric wire.
Nov. 4-Out of town call South Street, Tewksbury, Mass.
Nov. 4-Still alarm. Ballardvale Street. Auto owned by F. Stack of Somervillle, Mass. Value of auto $500. Insurance $300.
Nov. 9-Box 36. Marion Street. House owned by Patrick Cannon. Value of house $150. Value of contents $25.
Nov. 12-Still. South Street. House owned by Mrs. Cook. No damage.
Nov. 14-Still alarm. House, F. W. Dayton. Chimney fire. No damage.
Dec. 4-Still alarm. Lowell Street, near Reading line. Auto owned by Lewis Bellona, 100 No. Main Street, Concord, N. H. Value of auto $1085. Cause, back fire.
· Dec. 20-Still alarm. Main Street. House owned by Sarah Blanchard. Chimney fire. No damage.
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Dec. 17-Box 34. Main Street-Cook Avenue. House owned by Donald Humphrey. Value of house $200. Damage $25.
Dec. 27-Box 43. Auto owned by Benjamin Venta, 353 Hanover Street, Boston. Auto valued at $1500. Insurance $900.
Value of buildings totally destroyed by fire $2,815
Value of buildings damaged by fire
14,615
Damage to buildings
960
Value of contents
11,125
Damage to same
3,200
Value of autos and trucks
6,385
Damage to same
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ROLL OF DEPARTMENT
E. L. DAY, Chief
Combination No. I
D. A. Gray, Capt. F. A. Cady W. W. Rice
J. F. Muse, Asst. Capt.
E. M. Haskall Frank Dame
L. F. Call, Clerk H. R. Pratt W. A. Hill
C. T. Horton
H. M. Horton Paul Dayton
Rudolph Porter
C. A. Horton Jerome O'Leary
Lewis Waterman
George Fieller Norman Perry
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Engine No. 2
Harry Miller, Capt. Walter Ellsworth
Albert Spaulding, Asst. Capt.
G. Palmer
Claude Thompson, Treas.
Leon Southmayd
Peter Neilson, Clerk
Robert Gordon
George Adenaum · Elmore Howe
Richard Johns
Christian Neilson
Hose laid, number of feet 4150
Chemical used, gallons .
1265
Permits given out .
.
362
Gasoline permits
22
We have received aid from Woburn and Reading once the past year.
I hope that the voters of the town will not forget that we are still looking for a new chemical truck this year, it is needed very badly to complete our department.
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REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my report of the work of Sealer of Weights and Measures.
The work this year has been very satisfactory with very few violators.
I would suggest that the citizens of the town would notify me at once of any cases of short weights or measures so I can handle them immediately.
Work of department as follows:
Number of platform scales over 5000 lbs. 2
Number of platform scales under 5000 lbs.
10
Number of counter scales 17
Number of beam scales under 100 lbs.
5
Number of spring balance over 100 lbs.
3
Number of spring balance under 100 Ibs.
31
Number of computing scales under 100 lbs.
8
Number of personal weighing scales
2
Number of weights avoirdupois
88
Number of liquid measures .
51
Number of oil measuring pumps .
15
Number gasoline measuring pumps
19
Number yard measures
0
Number scales condemned .
5
Number of liquid measures condemned
4
Number of gasoline pumps condemned
2
Fees collected and turned over to the Town Treasurer
$33.47
Total expense of the Department
$191.60
Respectfully submitted, ERNEST R. CURRIER, Sealer
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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my report as Building Inspector for the year ending Dec. 31, 1923.
Permits granted .
152:
Dwellings .
.
17
Summer cottages
69
Alterations
32
Garages
17
Dwelling and store
1
Filling Station
1
Store
1
Lunch and Waiting Room
1
Other buildings
13
152
Respectfullly submitted,
WINFRED W. RICE,
Building Inspector
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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
To the Honorable Board of Trustees:
I herewith submit my annual report as Librarian : Public documents received, 15 volumes. Number of new books purchased during the year, 135 volumes. Number of old books replaced, 6 volumes. Number of books in library, 6,375 volumes. Number of persons taking out books, 716. Number of books taken out during the year, 10,030 volumes.
Books presented as follows :- Mrs. Mary W. Tileston, 2 volumes; Mr. William Slater, 69 volumes; Mr. Waldo Dean, 9 volumes; Mr. Wilmer Atkinson's family, 1 volume; Woman's Education Association, 28 volumes; a friend, 2 volumes, and a box of books in memory of Miss Elizabeth Hall.
The Reading Table has been supplied from the town appropriation with the following magazines: Popular Science, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, Atlantic Monthly, American, National Geo- graphic, Nature Magazine (6 months), Radio News, National Sportsman, Youths' Companion and St. Nicholas.
Friends have contributed The Pathfinder (Jan .- April), Dearborn Independent, Country Gentleman (6 months), National Grange Monthly, New Near East, and Our Dumb Animals.
A complimentary subscription to the Bell Telephone Quarterly beginning with July has been presented by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Six books have been received and sent to the Merchant Marine.
Respectfully submitted,
ANNA TOLMAN SHELDON, Librarian
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LIST OF BOOKS
Purchased for the Library During the Year 1923
Fiction
AT35B-Black Oxen
B115S-Soul of Abe Lincoln
B124K-Keeping up with Lizzie B124SC-Scudders
B157D-Dim Lantern
B295G-Granite and Clay
B354F-Flowing Gold B4334M-Mr. Prohack
B514BU-Bush-Rancher
B514H-Harding of Allenwood
B514P-Prescott of Saskatchewan
B675T-Trail of the White Mule B675V-Voice of Johnnywater B942J-Jungle Tales of Tarzan
B942TA-Tarzan the Terrible
B942TB-Tarzan the Untamed C164BR-Brimming Cup C164R-Rough-Hewn
C283A-Alexander's Bridge C2830-One of Ours C633J-J. Poindexter, Colored
C947A-Alaskan
CQ47B-Barre, Son of Kazan
EL44EN-Enchanted April
Gertrude Atherton Bernice Babcock Irving Bacheller Irving Bacheller Temple Bailey Sara W. Bassett Rex Beach Arnold Bennett Harold Bindloss Harold Bindloss Harold Bindloss
B. M. Bower B. M. Bower Edgar R. Burroughs Edgar R. Burroughs Edgar R. Burroughs Dorothy Canfield Dorothy Canfield Willa Cather Willa Cather Irvin S. Cobb James O. Curwood James O. Curwood
Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden
EV17T-Tumbleweeds Hal G. Evarts F635C-Charing Cross Mystery J. S. Fletcher J. S. Fletcher
F635L-Lost Mr. Linthwaite
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F635M-Markenmore Mystery F756H-Horses Nine F9580-One World at a Time F984Q-Quare Women G134FA-Faint Perfume G195G-Globe Hollow Mystery G358M-Middle of the Road G653GA-Gaspards of Pine Croft G864WA-Wanderer of the Wasteland H189G-Growth of the Soul H2237P-Pair of Blue Eyes H241D-Daughter of Adam H323P-"Pip"-A Romance of Youth H387N-North H812N-North of 36 H8716M-Merry O H972T-This Freedom
J644A-Asa Holmes
K264B-Bells of St. Stephens
K995CA-Cappy Ricks Retires L587B-Babbitt L636DO-Dr. Nye L636F-Fair Harbor
L638ME-Meredith Mystery
L974BI-Big Blue Soldier : L974G-Girl from Montana L974TO-Tomorrow About this Time
M351W-Whelps of the Wolf M3535I-Isle of Retribution M3535SK-Sky Line of Spruce M825W-Where the Blue Begins OP54E-Evil Shepherd OP54MY-Mystery Road OP54SE-Seven Conundrums OR14T-Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernal
J. S. Fletcher Sewell Ford Margaret Fuller Lucy Furman Zona Gale Hannah Gartland Philip Gibbs Charles Gordon Zane Grey Knut Hamsun Thomas Hardy Corra Harris Ian Hay James B. Hendryx Emerson Hough Ethel Hueston A. S. M. Hutchinson A. F. Johnston Marion Keith Peter B. Kyne Sinclair Lewis Joseph C. Lincoln Joseph C. Lincoln Natalie S. Lincoln Grace L. H. Lutz Grace L. H. Lutz Grace L. H. Lutz George Marsh Edison Marshall Edison Marshall Christopher Morliey E. P. Oppenheim E. P. Oppenheim E. P. Oppenheim
E. P. Oppenheim Frank L. Packard
P123F-Four Stragglers
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P345V-Vision of Desire P945ST-Stella Dallas R133F-Fighting Edge R133I-Ironheart R335L-Lost Discovery R415RU-Rufus
R544W-Wisdom of the Wilderness
R634S- Step on the Stair
R794R-Return of Frank Clamart
SA11SE-Sea-Hawk
SA12R-Rose of Santa Fe SCO865CO-Cordelia the Magnificent SM695J-Joanna Godden
ST435J-Jam Girl
ST435R-Rebecca's Promise
T174FA-Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories
T174GE-Gentleman from Indiana T272FU-Further Adventures of Lad T272L-Lochinvar Luck T272P-Pest
T335S-Sinister Mark
T674P-Pelham Affair
T682H-His Children's Children
T682T-Tutt and Mr. Tutt
W152CL-Clue of the New Pin W163C-Cathedral W462A-Affair at Flower Acres W462FE-Feathers Left Around W464ME-Men Like Gods W5850-On Tiptoe W685EX-Evil of the Lariat W814M-Mostly Sally W931M-Mine with the Iron Door
Margaret Pedler Olive H. Prouty H. M. Raine H. M. Raine Mrs. Baillie Reynolds Grace S. Richmond O. D. G. Roberts Anna H. G. Rohlfs H. C. Rowland Rafael Sabatini Edward L. Sabin Leroy Scott S. J. Smith Frances R. Sterrett Frances R. Sterrett
Booth Tarkington Booth Tarkington A. P. Turhune A. P. Turhune A. P. Turhune Lee Thayer Louis Tracy Arthur Train Arthur Train Edgar Wallace Hugh Walpole Carolyn Wells Carolyn Wells H. G. Wells Stewart E. White Honore Willsie P. G. Wodehouse Harold B. Wright.
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Juvenile Fiction
jB154F-Friendly Tales jB295WA-Walter and the Wireless jB8125SI-Silver Bear jC247BO-Bob Hanson Frist Class Scout jC347A-Adventures on the High Trail jC347S-Sitka, the Snow Baby jG923J-Johnny Mouse and the Wishing Stick
Carolyn S. Bailey Sara W. Bassett E. A. Brown R. G. Carter Allen Chaffee Allen Chaffee
jH313W-Way of the Wild jJ644L-Little Colonel's House Party jJ644LI-Little Colonel at Boarding School jL563B-Boy Scouts on Special Service jM765E-Emily of New Moon
jP415SW-Swiss Twins jP994P-Pepper and Salt jSE87B-Black Beauty
jS95M-Mazli jST435W-William and Williamina jW5867M-Mary Cinderella Brown
Johnny Iruelle Clarence Hawkes A. F. Johnston A. F. Johnston Charles H. Lerrigo L. M. Montgomery Lucy F. Perkins Howard Pyle Anna Sewell Johanna Spyri Frances R. Sterrett Dorothy Whitehill
Miscellaneous
jB-B643W-Daniel Boone B-C948B-Man from Maine B-L856M-America of Yesterday-Diary of John D. Long Edited by L. S. Mayo B-P145H-Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 2 vols. Burton J. Hendrick
Stewart E. White Edward W. Bok
232-P19-Life of Christ Giovanni Papini
372-D51-How to Teach Manners to School Children
J. M. Dewey
j580-B91-Burgess Flower Book for Children
Thornton W. Burgess
634-P12-School Book of Forestry C. L. Pack
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C. L. Pack
715-P12-Trees as Good Citizens 814-G79A-Adventures in Friendship David Grayson David Grayson 814-G79F-Friendly Road 821-ST4-Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson 822-G13-Loyalties John Galsworthy Channing Pollock
822-P76-The Fool 825-AM3-One Hundred Master Speeches
W. H. Ames and P. A. Miller
917-J35-Call of the Mountains LeRoy Jeffers Wallace Nutting
917.4-N97-Massachusetts Beautiful 919.8-W14-Down the Mackenzie Through the Great Lone Land. 920-K82-From McKinley to Harding H. H. Kohlsaat 940-T38-My Experiences at Scotland Yard
Basil Thomson
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AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
REPORT OF DEMONSTRATION WORK IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
Carried on by the Middlesex County Extension Service in the Town of Wilmington during the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1923
An appropriation of $200 was made at the Annual Town Meeting for demonstration work under the direction of the Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economics, now known as the Middlesex County Extension Service. Following is a report of the work done by this organization in Wilmington.
Agents of the Extension Service made seventy-two farm and home visits during the year. The Agricultural Agent conducted an Extension School. two cost accounting demon- strations in poultry and a demonstrational garden. He also conducted an automobile poultry tour and a fruit survey which were of direct benefit to the farmers in the town.
The Home Agents cooperated in the Extension School with a class for women, carried on two clothing construction groups for the women, elementary and advance, and conducted four millinery classes each of which were attended by twenty- five to thirty women. A leader was trained in clothing.
The total enrollment in boys and girls' club work was fifty-four, there being clubs in clothing, food, canning, garment and poultry. Thirty-two meetings were held with these groups during the year and members were visited frequently during the summer.
These young people were part of the great County Achieve- ment Organization, containing nearly 3,000 boys and girls, who produced during the year 1923, $129,000 worth of products. All of these were under the leadership of Agents of the County Extension Service nad two hundred volunteer local leaders.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES F. PERRY, Director
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
To the Citizens of Wilmington:
The Board of Health herewith submit its annual report. The number of contagious diseases reported to this Board in the past year is as follows:
Diphtheria 2
Measles . .
4
Scarlet Fever . .
2
Tuberculosis
2
Whooping Cough
3
In accordance with the vote at the last Annual Town Meeting $1,000.00 was expended for Public Health Service Work, under the directions and supervision of the Board of Health and its agent.
The work of the Public Health Nurse is as follows:
Nursing visits
914
Infant Welfare visits
137
Prenatal visits
41
Tuberculosis visits
25
Child Welfare visits
16
Social Service visits
50
Attendance at Clinics
9
Other visits
46
Hospital visits
20
Total 1258
Respectfully submitted, CARL S. PETTENGILL, Chairman
ARTHUR W. EAMES CHARLES F. PERRY D. T. BUZZELL, M.D. Agent
Board of Health of Wilmington
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Together with the Reports of the
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING SCHOOL NURSE
For the year ending December 31, 1923
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School Committee
Helen H. Buck Howard M. Horton
Ellen S. Perry
Term expires 1926
Term expires 1925
Term expires 1924
Superintendent of Schools RALPH R. BARR
Attendance Officer CHARLES F. PERRY
School Physician DANIEL T. BUZZELL, M.D.
School Nurse ESTHER C. NICHOLS, R.N.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Wilmington :
The annual report of the School Committee, together with those of the Superintendent, the Principal, and the Supervisors is herewith submitted.
Ten regular meetings and ten special have been held.
The Committee has endeavored to expend to the best advantage the appropriation granted by the Town. Many necessary repairs on school buildings have been made.
With our growing school population it seems to the Committee that a school building to accommodate the West and Silver Lake districts should be considered by the voters as one of the first needs of the town. The School Board, more- over, trusts that the committee appointed a year ago to consider the advisability of a new building will have a favorable report to make at the town meeting.
The School Board would also recommend that some dispo- sition be made of the North, East and West abandoned school- houses. To keep insurance and repairs on these buildings is a reedless expense.
The Committee wishes to thank the citizens for their loyal support during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
HOWARD M. HORTON HELEN H. BUCK ELLEN S. PERRY
School Committee
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Wilmington, Mass. Jan. 15, 1924 Mesdames and Sir:
I have the honor to submit herewith my third annual report of the Wilmington schools.
During the past year, significant changes have occurred in the distribution of pupils in the schools of the town. A comparison of the tables showing the distribution for 1921-22 and for 1922-23 reveals a marked decrease in the high school membership and an equally marked increase in the grades. The decrease in high school membership was not altogether unexpected and may be accounted for by adding the loss by graduation to the unusually large number of pupils who have left school to take commercial and industrial positions. The high school membership is still above the average for the past few years and should show a steady increase.
During the months preceding the opening of school in September, there was considerable correspondence with the State Department of Education in regard to the transportation of high school students. The Commissioner finally ruled that the School Department must furnish such transportation. With the appropriation available, it was impossible to contract for this extra bus service at the regular high school hours. In order to comply with this demand and still carry on the school work within the appropriation, it was found necessary to place the high school on the same time schedule as the grades. As a result, the high school has a slightly longer day and an adequate period has been added for the instruction of students doing unsatisfactory work.
The increase in the membership of the lower grades has already developed a perplexing situation. The first grade
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room at the Whitefield with thirty-seven pupils, is now the only single grade primary room in the town. A teacher having one grade only can handle a fairly large number of pu- pils efficiently but with two or more grades and the membership beyond the ordinary seating capacity, the pupils are sure to suffer neglect and the standard of the school work declines steadily. We have such a condition of over-crowding of pupils at the Walker and Center schools, that already there are many obvious signs of lowered efficiency all demanding a prompt remedy.
Such a remedy might be found by consolidating the Walker and Whitefield sixth grades, making room for this new grade at the Center by shifting the seventh to the high school. Such a remedy could prove only a temporary remedy and would be open to at least four just criticisms; first, consolidation is unnecessary for the Whitefield because there is no overcrowd- ing; second, consolidation would be largely at the expense of the high school because it would be at the sacrifice of room that might be spared, but which is already usefully employed; third, consolidation would break up a well organized system established for many years, and would require the transfer of teachers who are necessary for the successful operation of their schools; fourth, consolidation would compel an extension of our transportation system.
The first three criticisms may be dismissed without further explanations, but our transportation policy has such an important bearing on the future of our schools that it must be considered most carefully.
There exists in this community a widespread and perhaps well founded prejudice against the transportation of school children. The feeling has developed in many ways. Many recall their own childhood experiences and the long trips through rain and snow to the little ungraded school. Some are convinced that transportation deprives the child of the bene- ficial exercise of walking to school. Others fear for the safety of children conveyed in overcrowded and perhaps unsafe: vehicles driven by careless and irresponsible drivers.
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It must be admitted that there is oftentimes a large element of truth in all these objections. But some consideration must be given to changing times and conditions.
The development of the motor driven vehicle has rendered the highways unsafe for young children. The development of our present school system has necessitated consolidations in the upper grades. The state law requires that all pupils including high school, living two miles or more from the school which they are entitled to attend, shall be transported at the expense of the town. With these facts in mind, it becomes obvious that considerable transportation involving nearly the whole area of the town is unavoidable but it should be the settled policy of the department to perfect rather than extend, through further consolidation, our transportation system. Our busses should be clean, completely equipped to insure the absolute safety of the pupils and there should be ample room for all pupils entitled to transportation. It should be within the power and the privilege of the committee to gen- erously provide for certain obvious individual differences with regard to age, grade and health for which the state law in fixing rigidly the limit at two miles takes no account. This year in the face of a threatened deficit there was justification for doing only that which was absolutely required by law but with a more liberal appropriation it would seem possible to avoid what might otherwise seem to be a gross disregard for the rights of the younger and weaker children.
A study of the school census returns shows the Silver Lake district to have the largest group of children of school age living more than a mile from any school. Every indication points to a continued development of this portion of this town and it seems logical to suggest that if an elementary school were built on a site located in convenient walking distance from the lake and the western section of the town, the problem of over-crowding at the Walker and Center sould be settled for many years to come.
In the superintendent's report for 1921, there occurs this statement: . "A, much more grave aspect of this problem
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(health) is that the pupils at the Walker, Whitefield and South Schools are compelled to remain through the greater part of the day with only the most crude and primitive sanitary facilities. It would appear that our first duty to these pupils would be to supply a modern water supply system, providing pure drinking water together with proper lavatories, giving hot and cold water. With such provision for the prime essen- tials of cleanliness, the health work in our schools might be carried beyond mere compliances with the letter of the State law to a program of efficient service to the pupils and the community." In spite of the efforts of the school committee and the hard work of the special committee appointed to study this problem, the conditions reported three years ago continue without any improvement.
Difficult and disagreeable conditions have not lessened the enthusiasm of the school nurse but in many ways have rendered her success all the more remarkable. Her report indicates some of the tasks and problems that have fallen to her lot, but it should be noted that she is paid for only one day each week although more often than not she has worked two and more. The growth of the schools has made it next to impossible for the nurse and for the music and drawing supervisors as well to complete their work efficiently in the one day a week that has been alloted to them.
It is gratifying to report that there were but five resigna- tions during the summer. These vacancies were filled satis- factorily and the schools opened in September appreciably strengthened, more than one third of the entire group of teachers having attended summer school or enrolled in pro- fessional courses during the year. Fortunately, there have been no resignations since June and the first half year has witnessed a rather remarkable improvement in attendance, in punctuality and in the general activities of the schools.
The schools require by far the largest expenditure of money raised by taxation, consequently they should be of interest to every citizen. The observance of education week brought a greater response than ever before, more than two hundred
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persons having visited the schools during that week. It is to be hoped that this is indication of a broader and more helpful interest. The community cannot afford to be indifferent to the aims and needs in schools.
In concluding this report, it is a pleasure to testify to the loyal support and efficient cooperation of the teachers and supervisors and of the school nurse and school physician of whose work and service the town may well be proud. I wish to express to the Committee my gratitude for their help and cooperation.
Respectfully submitted,
RALPH R. BARR, Superintendent of Schools
The following table shows the increase in school population during the past six years :
1918-1919-507 1919-1920-534 1920-1921-614 1921-1922-621 1922-1923-686 1923-1924-704
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Appropriation
$39,500.00
General Expenses
School Committee:
Salaries .
200.00
Other expenses
52.19
Superintendence of Schools and Enforcement of Law:
Salaries
1,730.00
Other expenses
417.98
Expenses of Instruction
Supervisors:
Salaries . 731.00
Salaries-Principals :
High
1,864.30
Salaries-Teachers:
High
5,940.50
Elementary
14,517.00
Text Books:
High
272.50
Elementary
600.64
Stationery, Supplies and Miscellaneous:
High
.
.
369.35
Elementary . .
527.08
.
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Expenses of Operating School Plants
Wages of Janitors, etc .:
High
1,200.00
Elementary
1,356.00
Fuel:
High
1,695.25
Elementary
2,285.09
Miscellaneous and Sundries :
High
255.93
Elementary
229.58
.
Maintenance
Repairs, etc .:
High
46.52
Elementary
529.29
Auxiliary Agencies
Health:
High and Elementary
307.83
Transportation
3,683.00
Tuition
492.77
Outlays
New Equipment
.
196.20
$39,500.00
American Express Company
$5.43
Allyn, Bacon
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