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36.38
A. L. A. Publishing Board,
1.00
10
Robert Brooks, books, 13.41
H. E. Tupper, exchanging books,
5.00
F. W. Green, exchanging books,
10.00
F. A. Fuller, supplies,
.68
J. W. Baldwin, coal,
3.50
$206.05
FOREST WARDEN.
Henry I. Edson,
$20.02
B. B. Green,
4.50
B. B. Green,
2.25
H. W. Burbank,
5.24
Edgar C. Clark,
16.62
W. F. Morgan,
6.00
W. H. McGuire,
5.75
Robert Welch,
3.26
F. A. Warren,
3.50
$ 67.14
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
C. B. Hitchcock, labor,
$273.32
J. F. Bannister, repairing scraper,
7.50
R. J. Pease, labor,
65.15
A. A. Phelps,
363.59
W. H. McGuire,
394.09
Theodore Gebo, repairing tools,
8.35
L. G. Stacy, labor,
402.87
B. B. Green, labor,
198.03
L. L. Farr, labör,
104.65
J. H. Farr, labor,
75.21
Edgar C. Clark, damages,
6.00
Lyon & Bartlett, plank,
26.40
New England Metal Culvert Co., culvert,
33.60
William H. Morehouse, damage, 30.00
D. L. Bodfish, labor,
3.94
Leon G. Bartlett, gravel,
9.30
Flavel D. Benton, gravel,
14.30
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F. A. Gurney, supplies,
$13.10
F. A. Fuller, supplies, 2.05
$2,031.45
FIRE PROTECTION SCHOOLS.
B. S. Walker, dry powder extinguishers,
$ 24.00
Badger Fire Extinguisher Co., 39.00
$ 63.00
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR FOREST WARDEN. Badger Fire Extinguishers, $233.62
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR ROAD DRAGS. New England Culvert Co., one road drag, $ 24.75 J. L. Smith, one road drag, 22.00
$ 46.75
TREE WARDEN.
H. M. Green,
$44.75
H. W. Burbank,
4.28
L. L. Farr,
3.85
$ 52.88
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION PAINTING HEARSE. Walter A.Gebo, $ 50.00
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION WILBRAHAM ROAD.
D. L. Bodfish, labor,
$116.48
Duteau Brothers, labor,
20.00
W. H. McGuire, labor,
129.53
Collins Mfg. Co., gravel,
16.30
$282.31
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SPECIAL APPROPRIATION, GLENDALE ROAD. L. G. Stacy, labor, $158.25
J. H. Farr, labor, 155.66
$313.91
CARE OF CEMETERIES.
L. L. Farr, Glendale, $ 7.00
B. B. Green, East Wilbraham,
10.00
A. J. Bryant, Adams, 16.00
$ 33.00
IRA G. POTTER LOT.
B. B. Green, care,
$
1.50
CHLOE BLISS STEBBINS LOT.
A. J. Bryant, care,
$
2.00
HIRAM DANKS LOT.
A. J. Bryant, care,
$
1.50
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR ENLARGING CEMETERY AT EAST WILBRAHAM.
B. B. Green, land,
$50.00
B. B. Green, labor and material,
36.38
Whitcomb & Faulkner, fencing,
13.00
$99. 8
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION, TINKHAM ROAD. A. A. Phelps, $492.28
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR TOE PATH. A. A. Phelps, $110.55
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MEMORIAL DAY.
James Morgan, C. E. Peck,
$ 25.00 50.00
$ 75.00
STATE AID.
State aid,
$300.00
SUMMARY.
Paupers,
$1,369.74
Contagious diseases,
263.60
Contingent,
771.69
Town officers,
1,085.92
Street lights,
847.10
Schools,
10,674.98
Library,
206.05
Forest Warden,
67.14
Highways and bridges,
2,031.45
Fire protection for Schools,
63.00
Fire extinguishers for Forest Warden,
233.62
Road drags,
46.75
Tree Warden,
52.88
Painting Hearse,
50.00
Gravel for Wilbraham road,
282.31
Gravel for Glendale road,
313.91
Care of cemeteries,
33.00
Ira G. Potter lot,
1.50
Chloe Bliss Stebbins lot,
2.00
Hiram Danks lot,
1.50
Enlarging East Wilbraham Cemetery,
99.38
Gravel for Tinkham Road,
492.28
Gravel for Toe Path,
110.55
Memorial Day,
75.00
State Aid,
300.00
- $19,475.35
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LIABILITIES.
About
- $500.00
RESOURCES.
Due from State Aid, $325.00
Town of Ludlow, paupers, 93.00
State Account Contagious Disease, 48.00
Uncollected Taxes,
14.70
Cash in Treasury, 4,381.77
$4,861.47
The selectmen recommend the following appropriations :
Highways and bridges,
$2,200.00
Paupers,
1,200.00
Contagious diseases,
200.00
Contingent and town officers,
2,000.00
Street lights,
1,000.00
Care of cemeteries,
50.00
Library,
25.00
F. W. GREEN,
ALBERT A. PHELPS,
ALLYN M. SEAVER,
Selectmen of Wilbraham.
Report of the Board of Assessors. FOR YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 21, 1912.
Appropriations. . Highways and bridges, $2,000.00
Paupers to be taken from resources of town,
1,200.00
Contagious diseases,
200.00
For contingent and town officers to be taken from the resources of the town,
2,000.00
Street lights,
905.00
For care of cemeteries,
50.00
For public library,
25.00
For school purposes,
4,800.00
Repairs on school buildings,
400.00
High school tuition,
1,000.00
Music in schools,
200.00
Drawing,
200.00
Medical inspection,
100.00
Evening schools,
20.00
Memorial Day,
75.00
Winding tower clock,
25.00
Fire extinguishers,
250.00
Cemetery in East Wilbraham,
225.00
Repairing town house,
50.00
Road scrapers,
75.00
Gravel, Tinkham road,
500.00
Gravel, Glendale road,
300.00
Redress road between Gurney's store
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and Hampden line, Public library,
$100.00
100.00
Gravel for road from North Wilbra-
ham to Hollow near Murphy's house,
300.00
$15,100.00
State tax,
$1,815.00
County tax,
1,236.31
State highway tax,
241.00
$3,292.31
$18,392.31
TABLE OF AGGREGATES.
Number of polls at $2.00 each,
548 $1,096.00
Value of real estate,
$830,428.00
Value of personal estate,
306,231.00
Total valuation,
$1,136,659.00
Tax on assessed real estate,
$6,643.42
Tax on assessed personal estate,
2,449.84
Total raised,
$9,093.26
Excise tax,
$1,469.07
Rate per cent total tax, $8.03 per $1000.
Cows assessed,
398
Neat cattle other than cows,
221
Horses assessed,
274
Swine assessed,
133
Fowls assessed,
2278
Acres of land assessed,
13,1774
Houses assessed,
345
J. S. MORGAN, -
of Wilbraham.
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Assessors F. A. BODURTHA, W. A. MOWRY,
Treasurer's Report.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 23, 1912.
Balance Feb. 22, 1911, $4697.11
Received from State Treasurer,
Corporation tax, public service, 348.57
Corporation tax, National Bank tax, 177.25
Corporation tax, business, 3,397.77
State aid, 280.00
Support sick paupers,
23.40
Burial of paupers,
15.00
Burial indigent soldiers,
54.34
Street R. R. tax,
3,046.51
High school,
387.50
Tuition of children,
243.50
Inspection of animals,
31.50
Superintendent of schools,
454.54
Contagious diseases, Mass. school fund,
1,159.47
County Treasurer, dog money,
236.29
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 3 mos. note, 1,000.00
Town of Ludlow, pauper account,
10.00
James Pickens, slaughter license, 2.00
Max Elpert, slaughter license,
1.00
H. Elpert, slaughter license,
1.00
C. W. Parish, refund,
1.50
John Puduski, refund,
30.00
H. A. Northrop, steam boat license,
1.00
Fire extinguishers,
96.50
116.00
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Sale of burial lots,
$26.00
State Forester, 136.31
W. S. Rodgers, sale old No. 4 schoolhouse,
400.00
Alden Bros., sale street lamps,
1.00
City of Holyoke, pauper account, 20.80
Excise tax, 1,469.07
District court fines,
75.88
Sale of school books, etc.,
5.45
Town of Hampden joint district,
6.42
Town of East Longmeadow joint district,
10.70
Town of Longmeadow joint district,
5.35
J. M. Perry, interest town loan,
78.50
Library cards and fines,
16.21
Interest on deposits,
57.53
Interest on Bell fund,
1.60
Interest on Chloe Bliss Stebbins fund,
24.72
Interest on Ira G. Potter, fund,
1.50
Interest on Hiram Danks, fund,
1.50
J. S. Morgan, collector 1911,
10,133.56
C. W. Vinton, sealer,
21.23
Dog licenses,
265.20
Hunters' licenses,
110.20
A. A. Phelps, shovel,
1.00
$28,681.48
· EXPENDITURES.
State Treasurer, state tax,
$1,815.00
Repairs state highways, 241.00
County Treasurer, county tax,
1,236.31
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., note,
1,000.00
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co., interest on note, 11.25
Bureau of Statistics, certifying town note,
3.00
State aid,
300.00
State Fish and Game Commissioners,
110.20
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County Treasurer, dogs,
$ 265.20
Selectmen's orders,
19,175.35
Assessors' abatements,
142.40
Balance,
4,381.77
$28,681.48
Of the cash in the treasury $28.36 is due the Free Public Library.
W. H. McGUIRE JR., Treasurer.
North Wilbraham, Mass., Feb. 24, 1912.
I have examined the books of the Town of Wilbraham and find them correct.
JAMES B. LOGAN, Auditor.
Trust Funds.
ABNER E. BELL FUND.
WILBRAHAM, MASS., Dec. 3, 1901.
Received from Town of Wilbraham the sum of forty dollars, the same being in full for land damage awarded by the County Commissioners, June 25, 1901, by reason of relocation of high- way North Wilbraham in their decree dated April 3, 1901. The amount to be deposited in some savings bank in trust for the Town of Wilbraham and Abner E. Bell, the interest to be paid annually to said Abner E. Bell during his life by reason of his life tenancy in the portion of the late Henry Cutler's estate. At his decease the principal. to revert to the Town of Wilbraham for the use of the Public Library, according to the terms of the will of the late Henry Cutler.
W. H. McGUIRE, JR., Trustee of the Town of Wilbraham and Abner E. Bell.
The sum of forty dollars is deposited in the Springfield In- stitution for Savings in the City of Springfield, Book No. 158,877. W. H. McGUIRE JR.
CHLOE BLISS STEBBINS FUND-ESTABLISHED 1897.
This is 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. 27, 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,
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and one-third to secure perpetual good care of the graves in the town burial ground of Eben and Elizabeth Bliss Stebbins, and their children, buried in the same range.
THE HIRAM DANKS CEMETERY LOT FUND. ESTABLISHED 1903.
This is a fund of one hundred dollars, left by the will of Hiram Danks, the income only of which to be paid to the treasurer of the Town of Wilbraham for the perpetual care of the Hiram Danks burial lot in the Wilbraham cemetery.
Balance in Bank, $111.10.
Deposited in the Springfield Institution for Savings, Book No. 1,665,002.
THE IRA G. POTTER CEMETERY LOT FUND- ESTABLISHED 1910.
This is a fund of one hundred dollars, left by the will of Ira G. Potter, the income only to be used for the perpetual care of the burial lot of Ira G. Potter in the East Wilbraham cemetery.
Deposited in the Springfield Institution for Savings, Book No. 219,514.
Balance in Bank, $102.54.
Report of Forest Warden.
This town has been very fortunate in regard to fires the past year.
Several fires would have been serious but for prompt work. Getting there quickly means success, and it is our policy to have each section organized so there will be no lost time and no friction. The selectmen have purchased twenty-three extin- guishers which have been placed with responsible persons in all sections of the town.
One warden reports the extinguishers disappointing, but others agree that they are very efficient. We very much need galvanized cans for carrying water for recharging.
The Forest Warden is now aided and advised by a State Fire Warden and deputies.
The chestnut bark disease is far beyond control unless some climatic condition aids us. Nearly every chestnut lot in this section is already infected.
We responded to Monson's call for help in a fire near the line with eighteen men. Nearly 700 acres were burned over, much of it valuable wood land.
We would ask that all plan to burn their brush before March 1st, if possible.
HENRY I. EDSON, Forest Warden.
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FIRE RECORD.
DATE. PLACE.
CAUSE.
KIND.
DAMAGE. AREA.
COST.
Apr. 3
Plains east of
Railroad.
Grass.
$ .50
Apr. 3 N.J. Merrill land.
Careless Smoker.
Grass.
.75
Apr. 11
Plains, Mr. Rose's land.
Railroad.
Grass and
$50
Fruit trees.
Forest. $45
3a
$5.37
Apr. 30
Mt. Chapin east of Mt. road.
Smoking.
Pasture and
$10
5a
Forest.
May 10
No. Wilbraham, south of R. R.
Railroad.
Grass.
5a
R. R.
May 10
E. Wilbraham, Vinton's land.
Smoking.
Grass and Brush.
$2.25
May 14
Ludlow Associates.
Unknown.
Forest and
$25
8a )
Grass.
$3.25
James Welch.
Unknown.
Grass.
3-4a )
May 18
South of R. R. on Baldwin.
Railroad.
Pasture and Forest.
la
.75
Nov. 12
Glendale, west of J. H. Farr's,
Unknown.
Forest
$10
1 1-2 a
$3.95
Moran's.
B. & A. R. R.
Apr. 14 On Brewer's from Bobard's land.
Burning with- out permit.
Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library.
Number of volumes in library, last report, 2634
Number of volumes added, 30
Number of volumes in library, February, 1912, 2664
Number of books loaned from library during past year, 3784
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by the town,
$125.00
Chloe Bliss Stebbins fund,
8.24
Fines and cards,
16.21
Balance on hand, Feb. 22, 1911,
84.96
$234.41
EXPENDITURES.
Mrs. Leila E. Atchinson, rent and care of library,
$136.08
H. R. Johnson, books,
36.38
F. W. Green, transportation of books,
10.00
H. E. Tupper, transportation of books,
5.00
J. W. Baldwin, coal,
3.50
F. A. Fuller, supplies,
.68
A. L. A. booklist,
1.00
Robert Brooks, rebinding books,
13.41
$206.05
Balance on hand, Feb. 22, 1912,
28.36
$234.41
The legacy from the Estate of Henry Cutler is deposited as follows :
$500 in Springfield Five Cent Savings Bank, Book No. 55,481 $500 in Springfield Institution for Savings, Book No. 145,815.
FRANK A. GURNEY, 1 Trustees
Wilbraham Free
A. L. DAMON, H. W. CUTLER, Public Library.
Report of the School Committee.
The School Committee respectfully submit their annual report.
The revenues of the current year have been as follows : APPROPRIATIONS.
General School purposes,
$4,800.00
Repairs,
400.00
High School Tuition,
1,000.00
Music,
200.00
Drawing,
200.00
Medical Inspection,
100.00
Evening School,
20.00
OTHER REVENUES.
Dog Fund, 1910,
$252.68
Interest on town loan,
78.50
High school tuition refunded by State,
387.50
State school fund received, January, 1912, 1,159.47
Tuition State Wards,
243.50
On account of Superintendent,
454.54
Sale of books, 5.45
RESOURCES.
Tuition due from David Griswold,
$ 36.00
Tuition due from Monson,
19.00
Due from State on account of superintendent,
303.00
Due from State on account of high school tuition, 881.50
Special appropriation for heat and light for evening school,
$ 20.00
Expenses,
18.50
$ 1.50
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EXPENDITURES. TEACHERS' WAGES. District 1.
Miss Harriet Cushman, Miss Julia Ford,
$274.00
148.80
District 2.
Miss Jennie Hurwitz,
$398.00
Miss Emma Smith,
448.00
District 3.
Miss Laura Rice,
$140.00
Miss Elizabeth Pease,
240.00
District 4.
Miss Mary Mack,
$483.44
Mr. Harold Ford,
72.00
Miss Nita Davison,
6.25
Miss Mary E. Jenney,
14.00
Miss Grace Pease,
24.20
Miss Alice Morse,
407.00
District 5.
Miss Mary Gibbons,
$140.00
Miss Catherine Curran,
240.00
District 6.
Miss Mary Marsh,
$442.00
Miss Florence Moore,
$329.20
District 8.
Miss Effie Morgan,
$520.24
Miss Irene Horrigan,
442.00
Miss Edith Plummer,
154.00
Miss Alice Hall,
264.00
SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
Miss Phoebe Hooper,
$210.90
Miss Phoebe Hooper, horse hire, 20.00
SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING.
Miss Marjorie Fletcher, $210.90
$5,628.93
District 7.
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H. G. Webber, M. D., Medical inspector, $100.00
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Miss Mary Poland, salary, $600.00
Miss Mary Poland, teachers, telephone and postage, 25.79
$625.79
EXPENSES OF JOINT DISTRICT.
Bowen and Son, examination papers,
$21.95
Record Book,
1.00
Stamped envelopes,
10.62
Postage, express, carfare,
.64
Paper for reports,
.75
$ 34.96
Received from Longmeadow,
66
E. Longmeadow,
$ 22.24
66
Hampden,
Balance,
$12.72
SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION.
Paine Bros.,
$165.00
CARE OF SCHOOLS.
District 1.
Harriet Cushman,
$27.00
C. B. Hitchcock, mowing,
2.00
District 2.
Cyrille Brodeur, janitor,
$90.60
Cyrille Brodeur, cleaning closets,
4.70
District 3.
L. Q. Stone,
$ 3.00
L. E. Bosworth,
11.75
Howard Calkins,
21.00
A. J. Bryant, vaults,
1.00
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District 4.
L. E. Taft,
$ 93.00
Frank Swetland,
128.58
A. J. Bryant, vaults,
1.00
Whitcomb & Faulkner,
3.60
District 5.
Earl Tupper,
$22.00
Harriet Day,
5.00
District 6.
John Bourbeau,
$17.25
District 7.
Elsie Farr,
$29.00
District 8.
George D. Keith,
$210.00
W. A. Mowry, mowing,
2.00
A. F. Smith,
.25
Whitcomb & Faulkner, furnace repairs,
26.38
$699.11
GENERAL SUPPLIES.
Longman & Green,
$ .80
Silver, Burdette Co.,
10.00
E. E. Babb & Co.,
1.80
Johnson's Bookstore,
33.10
D. C. Heath & Co.,
2.83
G. A. Downey,
11.64
Hampden Lumber Co.,
2.75
A. H. Bartlett,
2.25
Old Corner Bookstore,
5.20
H. Rude & Co.,
4.08
Wesleyan Academy,
14.30
F. W. Green,
1.00
C. P. Bolles,
3.85
Masury Young Co.,
7.50
Milton Bradley Co.,
11.03
J. L. Hammett,
120.38
City of Springfield,
4.80
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C. W. Chapin,
$11.34
Marcy Lumber Co.,
33.06
Annable Lumber Co., 7.50
C. P. Bolles, supplies,
7.11
C. P. Bolles, care and distribution of supplies, 20.50
F. H. Brown,
3.00
E. O. Beebe,
6.67
F. A. Fuller,
9.59
C. F. Tupper,
85.00
W. H. McGuire,
293.91
H. M. Green,
3.50
A. M. Seaver,
3.00
A. A. Phelps,
34.50
J. A. Bennett,
15.00
E. C. Clark,
2.25
$773.24
SCHOOL REPAIRS.
Morrissey Bros.,
$ 28.29
H. M. Green,
8.02
W. R. Munsell,
8.01
E. S. Keyes,
148.31
F. Swetland,
30.57
J. C. Cooley,
65.35
F. A. Gurney,
3.30
$291.85
HIGH SCHOOL TUITION.
Wesleyan Academy,
$444.00
High School of Commerce,
$ 170.00
Technical High School,
1,067.50
Central High
282.50
Ludlow High .6
175.00
Palmer High
70.00
1,765.00
$2,209.00
Rebate of 50% from the State on $1,765 paid to High Schools.
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COMMON SCHOOL TUITION.
Town of Ludlow, $ 79.50 $ 2.00
J. A. Denison, legal advice,
Total expenditures, $10,609.47
Value of books and supplies on hand Mar. 1, 1911, $ 200.00
Value of books and supplies in schools, 1,500.00
Value of car tickets on hand, 50.00
We recommend for the coming year an appropriation of $4,800 for general School purposes, $400 for repairs, $1,200 for High School tuition, $200 for music, $200 for drawing, $150 for medical inspection, $20 for evening school.
Respectfully submitted,
E. O. BEEBE,
C. P. BOLLES,
School C. W. CHAPIN, Committee.
HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTION.
WILBRAHAM, MARCH 1, 1912.
The Town is required, under the law of the State, to pay tuition for high school instruction for such children as are duly qualified. The following regulations have been adopted :
1. High School instruction at the expense of the Town will be given to such children as pass satisfactory examinations given by the Superintendent.
2. Children recommended by the Superintendent will be admitted to Springfield High School, Ludlow High School or Wesleyan Academy without further examinations.
3. No child shall be recommended by the Superintendent until satisfactorily completing by course or examination the " Course of Study " for the public schools of Wilbraham.
E. O. BEEBE, C. P. BOLLES,
School
C. W. CHAPIN, Committee.
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NAMES OF STUDENTS RECEIVING HIGH SCHOOL TUITION FROM THE TOWN OF WILBRAHAM.
WESLEYAN ACADEMY.
Ruth Calkins
Kathryn Beebe
Elsie Stephens
Ella Gebo
Raymond Bartlett
Wallace Ripley
Graham Chapin
Isabelle Robb
Howard Calkins
Chester Bell
Edward Calkins
George Miller
Rea Webber
Helen Wade
Edward Powers
Charles Baxter
SPRINGFIELD TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Wilbur Gebo
Wallace Ripley
Walter Pease
Earl Tupper
Donald Kallman
Donald Wade
James Boyle
Everett Green
Winthrop Bell
James Keefe
Hazel Lynch
Lawrence Brooks
Margaret Murphy
Howard Calkins
Beatrice Powell
Elizabeth Driscoll
Charles Powers
Milo Green
Raymond Hitchcock
Ernest Roberts
W. A. Pease
HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, SPRINGFIELD. Neil Prest Edward Powers
Olive Green
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, SPRINGFIELD. Mark Wadsworth Kathryn Beebe
Robert Brooks Wilbur Gebo
George Murphy
PALMER HIGH SCHOOL.
Harold Hitchcock
Alice Perry
Ruth Calkins
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LUDLOW HIGH SCHOOL.
May K. Powers Blanche Fitzgerald
Florence Parrish
Lulu Keefe Annie Cormack
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
As Medical Inspector appointed by the School Board, I have visited all the schools three times during the year, that is, each term. At each visit I have separately inspected all pupils in attendance. I found the condition of the children so favor- able at those inspections that no reinspection has been necessary. The calls of teachers for special inspections have been but few.
Under the amendment, Acts of 1910, I have examined at the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates' office and my own, all applicants for employment tickets, and have given health certifi- cates to such children as I have found in sufficiently sound health and physically able to perform the work which they in- tend to do.
H. G. WEBBER, M. D., Medical Inspector.
Report of the Superintendent of Schools.
To the School Committee of Wilbraham.
Madam and Gentlemen : -
At the close of the summer term, June 23, 1911, two pupils were graduated from the ninth grade of No. 4 and 11 from that grade in No. 8. One of the first-mentioned left school to go to work, the other returned to review and fit for recommendation. From the class in North Wilbraham four were recommended to Springfield Technical School, five were admitted on examination, one entered private school and one, who had lost by illness, returned to enter high half a year later. Springfield admits twice in the year-in September and Febru- ary-and we have one at the "Street " and three in North Wilbraham who will be recommended and probably be in at- tendance there before this report is published. We are now paying high school tuition as follows :
Fresh- man.
Sopho. Junior. more.
Senior.
Total
Springfield Central High, 2
1
1 4
Springfield Technical High, 10
1
1
2
14
Springfield School of Commerce,
2
2
Ludlow High, 2
2
4
Palmer High, 1
1
2
A recent report from Springfield Technical makes this statement : " Present average weekly salary for boys,-none for girls being just now available,-including that of some who took college preparatory course but not the maximum mechanical work :
Graduates of 1911, $11.06.
Graduates of 1903, 27.39.
Highest weekly salary reported from any graduate,
$40.75."
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The principal of High School of Commerce writes : "The commercial work was organized in 1898 and the first class grad- uated in 1900, so we have no young men who liave been out more than eleven and a half years. We have a good many who are earning from a thousand to twenty-six hundred a year. Young men who graduated last June started on an average of nine dollars a week. The average initial yearly salary for boys has been about four hundred, with an increase of one hundred per year. We can easily place three times as many young men as we graduate every year. Some of the most discriminating business men in the city come to us whenever they have need of young men. Tables of statistics of girl graduates from this school show first-year salaries of about three hundred thirty- seven dollars, with an annual increase of fifty dollars." Statis- tics from the Central High cannot, of course, be tabulated on a pecuniary basis, but the ethical and spiritual values cannot be over-estimated. While it is true that some people make bad use and some no apparent use of their education, it is also true that the world at present demands, and in the future, to a far greater extent will demand, this training and culture. Certainly as a rule, those who have had the advantages of schooling be- yond that of the grades are better fitted for life and more useful to others than are those who, from choice or necessity, have failed to receive this benefit. No sacrifice except of health should be accounted too great a price for such inestimable privilege.
The closing of Wesleyan Academy, in June, 1911, when · nine of the town students were graduated, was a distinct loss to the young people of Wilbraham, cutting off for some their only opportunity for continued school work. Great effort should be made to secure admission at the reopening, for there is no other way by which some living in the southern and eastern sections can receive the benefits attainable by those who are nearer the trolley and steam cars, and there are bright boys and girls there who should not lose their chances for as fair a start in life as those in the northern and western parts.
Except in Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 8 primary, the personnel of our teaching force is as last year. Miss Cushman, of Stony Hill,
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called away by illness in November, is succeeded by Miss Ford, a graduate of North Adams Normal. Miss Rice from the Mile-tree left us to attend Westfield Normal, and Miss Pease, a town's girl and a graduate of the same school, was put in her place. Miss Gibbons of No. 5 and Miss Plummer from North Wilbraham primary both received appointments in Springfield and, entering upon their duties in September, were followed by Misses Curran and Hall, graduates of Westfield and Bridgewa- ter normal schools. Our excellent supervisors of music and drawing were, to our great advantage, both retained and their work has been progressive and satisfactory. We know of no system of teaching music better adapted to our schools than the Weaver method. The children stand and sing alone as readily as they recite in any study and, even in the lowest grades, read at sight in any key. The classes have continued their mechani- cal, illustrative and object drawing and the boys in the upper grades at North Wilbraham have had a lesson in the shop with their carpenter's tools once every two weeks. In two rooms in this building and one in " The pines," the girls have furnished their own materials and have been taught sewing. This should be done in every grade above the fifth and the wood working should be extended to the boys in the upper classes in the No. 4. At present they cannot use their hands nearly as well as do those in North Wilbraham and it is simply because the latter have had this instruction in school. The basement furnishes the same opportunity and a part of the time given to drawing could wisely be devoted to practice with tools. Miss Fletcher gives weekly lessons in Longmeadow and East Longmeadow, and the results show the decided advantage over our fortnightly ones. May we not ask for an appropriation sufficiently large to cover the expense of this practical instruction in No. 4, and to furnish a lesson every week in each of the two grammar rooms of the town? If the boys ever go to technical schools the knowledge thus gained will be valuable to them, if they never go they will certainly need it. There is much repairing in and around the buildings, which they could do. Under the direction of our supervisor they could have made the storm porches, had they known the necessity in season
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