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Average cost per pupil, based on average number belonging, $17.30 (in 1898-'99.)
SCHOOLS.
Enroll-
6
5.8
7.6
10.2
30
TOWN CENSUS .- SCHOOL POPULATION.
Children between 5 and 15,
277
Children between 7 and 14, compulsory age,
194
SALARIES.
Grammar schools,
$1,261.00 904.00
Primary, Districts,
1,454.00
$3,619.00
Actual cost of superintendent, $70.21
PUPILS NEITHER ABSENT NOR TARDY FROM BEGIN- NING OF SPRING TERM, 1899, TO FEB. 20, 1900.
School No. 1 : Gladys Kallman.
School No. 4, Advanced : Raymond Gurney, Julius Martin.
NEITHER ABSENT NOR TARDY FOR TWO TERMS.
George Baron,
Hector Lussier,
Esther Bell,
Nina Newhall,
Vera Bell,
Ina Scott,
Ruth Bell,
Ida Vinton,
Ethel Edson,
Flora Vinton,
Goldie Edson,
Frank Wright.
NEITHER ABSENT NOR TARDY FOR ONE TERM.
William Abair,
John Leahy,
Ruth Bates.
Martin Loftus,
Chester Bell,
Walter Meader,
Hazel Bolles,
Ethel Mowry,
Marjorie Bolles,
Harold Mowry,
Chester Bryant,
Lois Newhall,
Fred Bryant,
Fales Newhall,
Edith Calkins,
Harriet Newhall,
Mary Calkins,
Ray Pease,
Edward Carney,
Fred Phaneuf,
Nancy Carney,
May Powers,
Robert Darrah,
Walter Richardson,
Ernest Downer,
Roland Richardson,
Clarence Edson,
Hazel Shearer,
Bertha Farr,
George Stephens,
Albert Farr.
Constance Stephens,
Herbert Farr,
Elsie Stephens. Alice Thompson,
Sanford Fuller,
Fred Fuller, Marjorie Green,
William Thompson,
Effie Wynne, Winifred Wynne,
. Lester Kingsley, George La Broad,
Hazel Vinton.
Town Warrant.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, School Committee and other town officers.
ART. 3. To fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 4. To determine the manner of repairing the highways and bridges for the ensuing year.
ART. 5. To choose a Town Clerk and Treasurer, one Selectman for three years, who shall also be one of the Overseers of the Poor, one Assessor for three years and one for two years to fill vacancy, five Constables, four Fence Viewers, one Auditor, one School Committee for three years and one for one year to fill vacancy, Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year, one Library Trustee for. three years, all on one ballot. Also to choose a Tree Warden for the ensuing year, and all other town officers.
ART. 6. To decide by ballot, which shall be "Yes" or "No," the question, "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
ART. 7. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed neces- sary for defraying the expenses of the town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same, and vote how the same shall be raised.
ART. 8. To see if the town will accept the list of jurors as revised by the Selectmen.
ART. 9. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to borrow such sums of money as may be sanctioned by the Selectmen, the same to be paid from taxes:
ART. 10. To see if the town will provide for the adequate light- ing of the streets in town.
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ART. 11. To see if the town will instruct their selectmen to prosecute any person or persons selling or transporting intoxicating liquors within this town, contrary to the laws of this commonwealth, or take any action in regard to the same.
ART. 12. To see what disposition the town will make of the dog fund of 1899.
ART. 13. To see if the town will grant money for the proper observance of Memorial Day.
ART. 14. To see if the town will appropriate money for the care and winding of the town clock.
ART. 15. To see if the town will provide for special instruction in music, and raise money for the same.
ART. 16. To see if the town will provide for special instruction in drawing, and raise money for the same.
ART. 17. To see if the town will pay for the transportation of its pupils attending Wesleyan Academy, and raise funds for the same.
ART. 18. To see if the town will vote to elect the Tree Warden on the official ballot.
ART. 19. To see if the town of Wilbraham will dispense with services of Mary L. Poland as Superintendent of Schools.
ART. 20. To transact any other business that may legally come before the town.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TREASURER, ASSESSORS, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS AND TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY,
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEB. 25, 1901.
PALMER, MASS. : PRESS OF C. B. FISKE & COMPANY. 1901.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN,
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TREASURER, ASSESSORS, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS AND TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY,
OF THE
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEB. 25, 1901.
PALMER, MASS. : PRESS OF C. B. FISKE & COMPANY. 1901.
List of Jurors.
AS REVISED BY THE SELECTMEN.
James K. Butler,
Ethelbert Bliss,
Charles S. Merrick,
Albert A. Phelps,
James F. Phelps,
W. M. Green,
L. J. Potter,
John W. Baldwin,
Marshall C. Wade,
Frank R. Rindge,
Clarence E. Pease,
William H. Day,
Jesse L. Rice,
James H. Farr, Jerome Pease, James Stephens. Charles W. Vinton,
D. W. Mowry, Walter M. Bliss, Edgar H. Keith,
William H. Kellogg.
Report of the Selectmen and Over- seers of the Poor.
CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
C. G. Robbins, posting town warrants, $ 6.00
C. G. Robbins, services at polls, 2.00
A. H. Bartlett, stationery, 2.75
Town of Ludlow, snowing and lighting bridge, 20.60
H. G. Webber, returning births, .75
3.00
J. S. Morgan, services at polls,
C. W. Vinton, 66
3.00
C. B. Fiske & Co., 450 town reports,
32.00
C. B. Fiske & Co., 500 ballots, 6.50
C. G. Robbins, notifying town officers, 6.90
D. H. Eaton, services at polls, 2.00
H. M. Delbeare, assessors' book, 2.40
C. B. Fiske & Co., 1000 blank orders on treasu- rer, 4.00
T. W. R. Emery, preserving town record, 15.00
P. B. Murphy, printing dog blanks, 2.75
W. J. Eldred, binding town record, 3.25
F. W. Green, repairing oil stove,
.45
" . express, .85
66 66 telephone, .15
Henry R. Johnson, field book,
2.75
66 66 tax book, 1.50
A. H. Bartlett, printing 100 postal cards. 2.20
F. W. Green, express on assessors' book, 66 telephone, .25
.40
Cecil T. Bagnall, 200 tax schedules,
3.75
4
5
G. E. Knowlton, shingling hearse and ladder houses, $ 7.13
F. F. Marcy, shingles and saddle boards, 20.23
J. W. Baldwin, 100 stamps, 2.00
J. W. Baldwin, 100 stamped envelopes (1c), 1.12
Charles L. Long, attorney, 5.00
The Springfield Union, advertising legal notice, 5.02
A. H. Bartlett, 1000 tax bills, 2.00
W. M. Green, refund account overpaid tax, 1899, 1.34
C. G. Robbins, posting town warrants, 6.00
C. G. Robbins, services at polls, 2.00
J. W. Baldwin, 6.00
C. W. Vinton, ،، 3.00
Jas. Egan,
66
3.00
George W. Taylor, opening town safe, 5.75
D. H. Eaton, services at polls, 2.00
John W. Baldwin, 500 stamped envelopes,
10.60
F. D. Benton, repairing Selectmen's room,
1.10
F. A. Fuller, express and supplies, 1.75
2.42
Albert Briggs, work in Selectmen's room,
B. & A. R.R., freight on safe, 24.25
The Mosler Safe Co., new safe, 225.75
Henry M. Green, moving safe, 8.95
William Lincoln & Co., insurance on Library, 12.00
Wesleyan Academy, rent music hall, 40.00
G. A. Russell, care and winding town clock, 25.00
F. A. Fuller, preparing tally sheets, 6.00
66
care weights and measures, 5.00
6. meeting town clerks, Springfield, 2.00
.. . 6 recording deaths, 5.60 66 births, 13.50
66 marriages, 1.95
W. L. Collins Estate, services as undertaker,
66.00
office rent,
36.00
F. A. Fuller, supplies and express, 3.85
A. L. Damon, returning births, 3.75
H. C. Burr, water tank, 5.00
C. G. Robbins, rent of land for tramp house, 1.00
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£ W. L. Collins, extra for digging grave for Sarah E. Pease, $ 2.00
J. M. Perry, interest on town loan, 78.50
H. G. Webber, vaccinating, 1.00
returning births, .75
F. W. Green, express, telephone and telegraph, 1.95
$782.46
TOWN OFFICERS.
TOWN CLERK AND TREASURER.
F. A. Fuller, $60.00
TAX COLLECTOR.
W. M. Green,
$90.00
AUDITOR.
F. E. Clark,
$5.00
MODERATOR.
F. E. Clark,
$5.00
SELECTMEN.
Jason Butler,
$59.50
Henry Clark,
50.25
F. W. Green,
68.25
$178.00
ASSESSORS.
J. L. Rice,
$73.80
G. L. Rindge,
32.00
C. P. Bolles,
26.00
$131.80
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
H. G. Webber,
$67.00
Ethelbert Bliss,
30.00
$97.00
CATTLE INSPECTOR.
J. L. Rice,
$51.00
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TRUANT OFFICERS.
Hiram Danks, C. G. Robbins,
$1.50
6.00
$7.50
ELECTION OFFICER.
F. A. Fuller,
$5.00
REGISTRARS.
James Egan,
$12.00
F. A. Fuller,
12.00
J. S. Morgan,
12.00
W. H. Day,
12.00
$48.00
PAUPER ACCOUNT.
LOUISA WEBSTER.
Abigal Upham, care,
$98.46
Mrs. C. Conner, "
10.00
J. M. Foster, medical attendance,
7.00
Mrs. Robert Darrah, care,
20.00
Mrs. E. M. Putnam, “
11.00
John F. Chamberlain, "
80.00
$226.46
MARY B. CLARK.
Northampton Insane Hospital, care,
$61.75
Orcutt & O'Donnell, undertakers,
20.00
$81.75
J. ROBERT COOTE.
Northampton Insane Hospital, care,
$135.56
THOMAS ALLEN, STATE PAUPER.
F. W. Green, car fare,
$2.00
JOHN R. DEVINE.
City of Springfield, aid, $3.77
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MRS. CATHERINE BEARDSLEY.
Aid,
$56.00
M. A. Maynard, coal.
6.75
City of Springfield, aid,
22.32
M. A. Maynard, coal and wood,
8.75
$93.82
SARAH AMO.
Roodstrand & Lewis, casket and services for child, $10.00
JOSEPH STONE.
John H. Clune, coffin for child,
$6.00
E. J. Gendreau, supplies,
6.50
John Collins, hack for funeral,
6.00
F. L. Burr & Co., wood,
1.00
$19.50
CHARLES HALLINGSWORTH.
Mercy Hospital, treatment,
$28.00
Refunded by his mother, $9.00.
TRAMPS.
C. G. Robbins, lodging 4 tramps,
$2.00
MARY LINNEHAN.
Bryan Fallon, care, $9.65
JOSEPH BOSHORE CHILDREN.
Dr. O. C. Gelineau, medical attendance, $12.50
F. A. Fuller, supplies, 1.55
$14.05
JOSEPH ROCK.
O. J. Brunelle, supplies, $5.50
THOMAS WHITE.
The Springfield Hospital, care, $7.00
Jason Butler, time and expense, 2.49
$9.49
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JERRY CONNERS.
Michael Wallace, care, $ 9.00
D. W. Mowry, care and supplies, 11.10
W. L. Collins estate, care and supplies, 8.50
Thos. Marshall, Jr., shaving, 3.00
A. L. Damon, medical attendance, 12.00
$43.60
SCHOOLS.
Repairs,
$ 35.48
Tuition at Wesleyan Academy,
839.00
Teachers' wages,
3,673.40
Care school houses,
173.95
Supplies,
812.78
Superintendent of Schools,
372.15
$5,906.76
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
H. H. Burbank, labor,
$ 21.74
Henry M. Green, labor,
207.10
M. A. Lane, labor,
111.25
E. M. Butterfield, labor,
144.97
A. A. Phelps, labor,
132.00
W. H. McGuire, labor,
102.47
J. H. Farr, labor,
168.93
E. C. Clark, labor,
22.10
G. E. Calkins, material for scraper,
1.25
Henry Clark, gravel,
6.54
labor,
164.06
M. A. Maynard, tile pipe,
38.89
G. L. Rindge, labor,
2.80
W. F. Morgan, labor,
114.31
J. F. Phelps, labor,
143.51
C. E. Peck, repairing scraper,
12.00
Frank R. Rindge, drawing stone to Red Bridge,
86.75
W. F. Fillmore, 66 66
58.90
10
W. N. Flynt, repairing wall at Red Bridge,
$498.23
Jason Butler, labor and material, 10.30
1.32
C. C. Day, gravel, " lighting bridge,
1.00
Alden Brothers, plank,
11.78
R. S. Wilcox,
6.66
Thomas Powers, work on bridges,
34.65
Alvin Chilson, labor,
80.36
Boston & Albany R. R., freight on tile pipe,
1.60
Thomas A. Marshall, labor,
16.80
Leroy Lord, labor,
1.50
E. H. Waide, lighting bridge,
4.20
F. A. Fuller, supplies,
4.86
H. C. Burr, lighting road,
2.00
$2,214.83
LIBRARY ACCOUNT.
Henry R. Johnson, books,
$203.04
Henry S. Howe, Mass. Settlement Laws,
2.00
F. W. Green, express on books,
1.25
A. H. Bartlett, catalogues, .
20.75
H. W. Cutler, books,
5.85
John Wanamaker, books,
57.00
Minnie Morgan, librarian,
24.00
F. W. Green, exchanging books,
10.50
$324.39
STREET LIGHTS.
C. F. Fuller, care, $ 60.00
James Stephens, care, repairs and supplies,
120.28
T. W. Hamilton, repairs,
3.65
Globe Gas Light Co., one street light,
4.25
F. W. Green, express on street light,
.40 .
F. A. Fuller, supplies, .
29.19
$217.77
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CEMETERY ACCOUNT.
C. C. Day, Glendale, $ 7.00
C. W. Vinton, painting fence,
13.20
C. A. Hammer, old yard,
10.00
C. W. Vinton, East Wilbraham,
10.00
$40.20
MEMORIAL DAY.
J. S. Morgan,
$25.00
C. E. Peck,
50.00
$75.00
STATE AID, CHAPTER, 374, ACTS OF 1899.
William Butler,
$48.00
Francis M. Davis,
48.00
James C. Moody,
60.00
Cordelia Sheldon,
48.00
Wm. S. Tiffany,
48.00
Almira M. Crockett,
48.00
$300.00
SUMMARY.
Contingent,
$ 782.46
Town officers,
678.30
Paupers,
685.15
Schools,
5,906.76
Highways and bridges,
2,214.83
Library account,
324.39
Street lights,
217.77
Care cemeteries,
40.20
Memorial Day,
75.00
State aid,
300.00
$11,224.86
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RESOURCES.
Due from state of Massachusetts, state aid, $ 300.00
66
paupers, 41.05
town of Amherst, paupers, 9.49
Uncollected taxes, 1,033.43
$1,083.97
LIABILITIES.
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, $500.00
Outstanding bills, estimated, 25.00
$525.00
The Selectmen recommend the following appropriations :
Highways and bridges,
$2,000.00
Schools,
3,400.00
Repairs,
200.00
Paupers,
800.00
Contingent expenses and town officers,
1,500.00
Street lights,
200.00
Care and repairs cemeteries,
150.00
Library,
25.00
Tuition,
600.00
Tree warden,
50.00
Chloe Bliss Stebbins Fund.
ESTABLISHED 1897.
This a contribution of three hundred dollars, made by Solomon Bliss Stebbins, of Boston, from money given to him by Chloe Bliss Stebbins of Wilbraham, said sum to be held by the town as a memorial of her regard for its association with her long life dwelt therein, and in which she died Feb. 20, 1897. The income of the fund is to be paid annually, one-third to the overseers of the poor for the relief of the poor of the town ; one-third to the managers of the town library to aid in its support, and one-third to secure perpetual good care of the graves in the town burial ground of Eber and Elizabeth Bliss Stebbins, and their children, buried in the same range.
JASON BUTLER, Selectmen HENRY CLARK, of
F. W. GREEN, Wilbraham.
Treasurer's Report of the Town of Wilbraham.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEB. 25, 1901.
RECEIPTS.
Cash in Treasury Feb. 24, 1900,
$
333.07
from W. M. Green, collector, 1899, 900.17
Town of Monson, tuition refunded, 70.00
State Treasurer, account education of children, lunacy and charity, 337.50
State Treasurer, superintendent of schools, 274.01
State Treasurer, corporation and bank tax, state aid, contagious disease and inspection of animals, less $450.00 state tax taken out by State Treasurer, 1,097.45
State Treasurer, Massachusetts school fund, 504.78
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 4 months note, 1,000.00
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 4 months note, 1,000.00
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 4 months note, 1,000.00
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 6 months note, 500.00
C. A. Hammer, grass in cemetery, 10.00
A. A. Phelps, grass in Webster place, 20.00
Mrs. Hollingsworth, account Chas. Hollingsworth, hospital bill, 9.00
B. F. Green, old plank, .50
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Cash from C. W. Vinton, ¿ burial lot No. 60 for Freitag, 4.50
H. M. Bliss, auctioneer's license, 2.00
M. Wells Bridge, dog fund, 170.04
Mrs. Frances Bliss, burial lot No. 55, E. Wilbraham, 9.00
Interest Chloe Bliss Stebbins Fund, 10.59
Town Library, fines, etc., 8.00
Dora M. Merrick, book, 1.25
Interest on deposits, Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 15.93
J. M. Perry, interest town loan, 78.50
W. M. Green, collector, 1900, 8,281.94
$15,638.23
EXPENDITURES.
Cash paid, Selectmen's orders, $10,924.86
State aid, 300.00
Assessors' abatements, 1899,
48.96
County tax, M. Wells Bridge, treasurer, 860.26
Note, Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 1,000.00
66 66 1,000.00
66
1,000.00
Discount Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 12.67
Discount Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 15.50
Discount Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 18.94
Renewal Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 15.50
Renewal Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 11.63
Renewal Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note, 7.88
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Cash paid Renewal Safe Deposit and Trust
Co., note, 11.25
Cash in treasury Feb. 25th, 1901, 410.78
$15,638.23
The amount of Chloe Bliss Stebbins fund is $300, deposited in Springfield Institution for Savings, book No. 136,333.
F. A. FULLER, Treasurer.
Wilbraham, Mass., February 25, 1901.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the order books and accounts of the Selectmen of the Town of Wilbraham for the year ending Feb. 25, 1901, and find them correct and properly balanced. The money transactions for the year aggregate $15,638.23. Against this sum the following items are charged, viz. :
Payment of loans to Springfield Safe Deposit
and Trust Co., $3,000.00
Interest on loans,
93.37
County tax,
860.26
Abatements,
48.96
Cash on hand,
410.78
$4,413.37
Leaving, as current expenses,
$11,224.86
A sufficient voucher was found for every payment.
I have also examined the accounts and check books of the Town Treasurer and find them correctly cast, with every payment author- ized by orders from the Selectmen or by approved bills. The record of receipts and disbursements agrees with that of the Selectmen, and shows a balance to the credit of the town of :
Deposits in Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., $282.03
Checks in Hand,
128.75
$410.78 GEO. A. RUSSELL, Auditor.
Wilbraham, Mass., Feb. 25, 1901.
Report of the Board of Assessors.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1901.
APPROPRIATIONS MADE AT THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, 1900.
For Schools,
$3,400.00
Repairs on schoolhouses,
200.00
Highways and bridges,
2,000.00
Support of paupers,
800.00
Street lights,
200.00
Care of cemeteries,
100.00
Town library,
25.00
Tuition at Wesleyan Academy,
600.00
Care and winding town clock,
25.00
Memorial Day,
75.00
Permanent improvement of highway,
500.00
$7,925.00
State tax for 1900,
$450.00
County tax for 1900,
860.26
Overlayings,
80.11
1,390.37
Total tax,
$9,315.37
Besides the above amuont there was appropriated from the money in the Treasury, at the beginning of the fiscal year :
For Contingent expenses and town officers, $1,500.00
Raised by taxation 1900, 9,315.37
Appropriated from treasury 1900,
1,500.00
Total raised and appropriated by town, 1900, --- $10,815.37
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TABLE OF AGGREGATES, 1900.
Number of polls at $2 each, 374. Tax on polls,
$ 748.00
Value of assessed personal estate,
$167,637.00
Tax on assessed personal estate,
1,844.00
Value of assessed real estate,
611,215.00
Tax on assessed real estate,
6,723.37
Total tax, town, county and state,
$9,315.37
Total property assessed,
$778,852.00
Rate per cent total tax, $11 per $1,000.
Number of Dwelling houses,
276
Horses,
308
Cows,
585
Acres land,
12,935
Sheep,
8
Neat cattle other than cows,
254
Swine,
30
Fowls,
2,125
Dogs, male, female, 6
81
In taking list, real estate to the amount of $1550 was omitted. Tax on same was $17.05, which has since been added, making total tax, town, county and state, $9,332.42.
Respectfully submitted,
J. L. RICE, Assessors of
C. P. BOLLES,
G. L. RINDGE,
Wilbraham.
Wilbraham, Mass., February 27, 1901.
Report of the Trustees of the Free c Library.
Number of volumes in library, last report,
1,463
Number of volumes added, 118
Number of volumes in library Feb. 27, 1901, 1,581
Number of books loaned from library during
past year,
2,754
Last year's report, showing 5,380 books loaned, was in error, as it covered two years instead of one year.
RESOURCES.
Appropriation by town,
$ 25.00
Dog fund,
165.14
Income Chloe Bliss Stebbins Fund,
3.53
Fines and cards,
8.00
Balance on hand Feb. 27, 1900,
22.48
$224.14
EXPENDITURES.
A. H. Bartlett, printing catalogues,
$20.75
Express on books,
1.25
Miss Morgan, librarian,
24.00
F. W. Green, transportation of books,
10.50
H. R. Johnson, paid for books,
76.94
Henry Shaw, paid for books,
2.00
H. W. Cutler, paid for books,
5.85
John Wanamaker, paid for books,
57.00
Balance on hand Feb. 27, 1901,
25.86
$224.15
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The legacy from the estate of Henry Cutler is deposited as follows : $425 in Springfield Five Cents Savings Bank, book No. 55,481. $500 in Springfield Institution for Savings, book No. 145,815.
MRS. W. L. COLLINS, - Trustees H. W. CUTLER, Free Public FRANK A. GURNEY, - Library.
Truant Officer's Report.
As truant officer I have been called upon eight times in the past. year. They have all been made in District No. 18. There seems to be a lack of interest with the parents in this district. C. G. ROBBINS, Truant Officer.
Report of School Committee.
The School Committee respectfully submit their annual report.
The revenues of the current year have been as follows : Appropriation for school purposes, $3,400.00
Appropriation for repairs,
200.00
Appropriation for tuition, high school,
600.00
From State school fund, 504.78
From State on account of Superintendent of schools, 274.01
From State for state children,
337.50
Interest on town loan, 78.50
Tuition from town of Monson,
70.00
Tuition due from town of Monson to March 1,
73.32
Due from State, account Superintendent of schools, 270.00
$5,808.11
EXPENDITURES. TEACHERS' WAGES.
M. E. Howard, teaching music,
$ 50.00
Alice Ferguson,
90.00
Florence Underhill,
180.00
Ida Blair,
306.00
Alice Howard,
102.00
Grace Nichols,
192.00
Winifred Miller,
112.00
E. Gertrude Ward,
152.00
Elsie Martin,
40.00
Dora M. Merrick,
304.00
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Minnie Otis,
$120.00
Bertha Twitchell,
240.00
Stella Greene,
252.00
Lizzie Calkins,
89.50
Georgie Woodward,
180.00
Leonora Howe,
190.40
Martha Bowdish,
97.50
Mary F. Pomeroy,
400.00
Lula Tiffany,
270.00
Maria E. Bliss,
306.00
$3,673.40
Salary Superintendent of Schools,
$372.15
Tuition Wesleyan Academy,
839.00
1,211.15
SCHOOLHOUSE REPAIRS.
H. G. Webber,
$ 2.50
C. A. Brown & Co.,
2.25
C. E. Peck,
3.25
Albert Briggs,
1.75
F. D. Benton,
.50
C. W. Vinton,
1.05
Hiram Danks,
6.18
Elias S. Keyes,
16.00
M. A. Seaver,
2.00
35.48
CARE OF SCHOOLS.
Hector Lussier,
$24.25
H. G. Webber,
2.00
C. W. Vinton,
13.95
Bertha Farr,
7.84
Mrs. James H. Farr,
4.00
Alice M. Howard,
5.40
Alice Ferguson,
2.00
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Ida Blair,
$17.26
Henry Goodnow,
11.50
Stella M. Greene,
12.90
C. F. Fuller,
2.25
Jeremiah Long,
36.00
Grace Nichols,
11.50
Florence Underhill,
9.10
Ethelbert Bliss,
14.00
173.95
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
Frank Rindge,
$ 50.00
G. L. Rindge,
20.00
Wesleyan Academy,
263.46
F. F. Murdock,
7.15
Thomas R. Shewell & Co.,
36.00
J. L. Hammett & Co.,
62.40
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
22.92
D. C. Heath & Co.,
17.71
Ginn & Co.,
40.21
Jason Butler,
59.21
M. E. Bliss,
.80
W. A. Mowrey,
30.00
National Publishing Co.,
10.00
Ross Brothers,
8.81
H. Rude,
5.35
A. H. Bartlett,
32.44
H. G. Webber,
.50
Public School Publishing Co.,
4.50
American Book Co.,
3.60
Walter Bliss,
7.00
H. M. Bliss,
58.00
H. F. Greene,
1.00
Warren Fuller,
2.25
F. A. Fuller,
4.22
Ethelbert Bliss,
65.25
812.78
Total expenditures,
$5,906.76
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Value of books and supplies on hand, March,
1901, $400.00
Value of books and supplies in schools, estimated, 500.00 $900.00
We recommend the coming year an appropriation of $3,400 for school purposes, $200 for repairs, $600 for tuition high school.
Respectfully submitted,
JASON BUTLER,
ETHELBERT BLISS, School Committee.
H. G. WEBBER,
HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTION.
The town having voted to pay the tuition at the Wesleyan Acad- emy for high school instruction of such children as are duly qualified, the following regulations have been adopted :
1. Examinations shall be given by the Wesleyan Academy to those candidates only who are recommended by the Superintendent of Schools.
2. No candidate shall be recommended by the superintendent for examination unless he has satisfactorily completed in course or by examination the studies of the "Course of Study" for the public schools of Wilbraham.
3. Examinations shall be given by the Wesleyan Academy in Arithmetic, English, Grammar, Geography, United States History, and Spelling.
4. All who shall pass these examinations shall receive from the Superintendent of Schools a certificate which shall entitle the person named therein to tuition at the expense of the Town of Wilbraham, in the Wesleyan Academy in the Academic, Classical, Industrial Science, or Latin Scientific Courses.
5. All students educated at the expense of the Town of Wilbra- ham in the Wesleyan Academy shall be under the rules and regu- lations of that institution.
ETHELBERT BLISS, H. G. WEBBER,
School Committee.
JASON BUTLER,
TABLE OF MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE.
No. of School.
WHOLE NUMBER OF PUPILS.
AVERAGE MEMBERSHIP.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE.
Fall.
Winter.
Spring.
Year.
Fall.
Winter.
Spring.
Year.
Fall.
Winter.
Spring.
Year.
1
15
15
13
18
13.47
12.91
11.99
12.79
12.49
12.24
10.83
11.85
2A
24
21
16
27
21.49
20.21
14.32
18.67
19.54
17.11
11.79
16.14
2P
36
32
28
40
31.70
28.67
25.59
28.32
29.32
22.73
23.74
25.29
3
30
25
23
30
27.60
22.25
21.21
23.68
26.13
19.40
17.51
21.01
4 A
20
22
18
22
19.06
20.64
17.49
19.06
18.39
18.77
16.58
17.91
4P
18
17
17
21
16.74
16.90
15.54
16.39
15.99
15.67
15.
15.55
5
11
11
14
14
11.
10.35
12.26
11.20
10.70
10.04
10.63
10.45
6
16
18
18
20
15.
16.83
16.33
16.08
13.43
14.70
15.80
14.64
17
17
16
21
16.57
14.61
15.30
15.49
14.89
13.20
12.74
13.61
8A
17
16
15
17
15.86
15.24
13.30
14.74
15.15
13.55
12.24
13.64
81
23
22
21
23
21.80
21.10
19.60
20.83
20.37
18.54
16.43
18.48
8P
29
26
25
32
26.03
24.76
21.70
24.16
24.40
22.73
19.63
22.25
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Names of students attending Wesleyan Academy at the expense of the town of Wilbraham.
Everett Baird,
J. F. Baldwin,
Grace Mowry, Ethel Mowry, Alice Munsell,
Alfred Bosworth. T. W. Coote, Walter Green, E. K. Lynch,
Mary Ogilvie, Margorie Perry,
Myra Baird,
Alice Perry, Florence Redington,
Emma Coote,
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