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Central Mass. Electric Co., lighting,
25.94
F. C. Newton, rent room at Wilbraham, 42.00
F. A. Bodurtha, repairs, .87
$789.88
Balance on hand Dec. 31, 1919,
32.47
$822.35
Besides the foregoing, the Librarian has received from fines and cards during the year $14.64, which added to the
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amount on hand at the beginning of the year, $1.40, makes a total of $16.04 which is accounted for as follows :
Ruth Calkins, care of books at Glendale,
$ 5.00
Magazine subscriptions, 4.50
Mail and express on Polish books, .52
3.25
Cleaning Library,
Materials for book mending and small supplies, 2.54
15.81
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1920, .23
$16.04
The legacy from the Estate of Henry Cutler is de- posited as follows :
$500 in Springfield Five Cent Savings Bank, Book No. 55481 $500 in Springfield Institution for Savings, Book No. 145815
Abner E. Bell Fund
$40 deposited in Springfield Institution for Savings, Book No. 15881.
Morton L. Day Fund
$500 is deposited in Hampden Savings Bank, Springfield, Book No. 59155.
The Trustees gratefully acknowledge gifts of books, etc. from various sources.
Respectfully submitted, F. A. GURNEY, A. L. DAMON, H. W. CUTLER, Trustees.
Memorial Committee's Report
The Committee appointed at the Spring Town Meeting 1919 to recommend a memorial for those who were called to the service of the country during the Great War make the following report :
The Committee held two meetings and gave careful consideration to the matter, the result being that there were two opinions expressed.
The majority of the Committee voted that if a boulder with a bronze tablet giving the names of those who were called to service was erected in town, it would be a suitable permanent record and it was suggested that this boulder be erected on the triangle at North Wilbraham lying be- tween the Bay Road, Boston Road and Wilbraham Road if the owners of this piece of land would donate the same to the town.
It was the opinion of the minority that a building erected for the use of the Junior High School, bearing a bronze tablet would be a better memorial.
Respectfully submitted, EVANORE O. BEEBE, RACHEL M. CUTLER, MARY R. GREEN, F. A. GURNEY,
JAS. M. PEASE,
J. M. PERRY, ESTELLE P. WHITE,
Committee.
School Committee's Report.
The School Committee of Wilbraham respectfully sub- mits the following report for the year of 1919. The sources of revenue for the year are as follows :-
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Appropriations
General school purposes,
$8,000.00
Repairs,
600.00
Music,
300.00
Drawing,
300.00
Medical Inspection,
150.00
High school instruction,
2,500.00
Evening school,
1,000.00
$12,850.00
Special Appropriations
School 'building at "The Pines,"
$2,500.00
General school expenses, 1,000.00
$3,500.00.
Other Revenues
Massachusetts State school fund,
$1,037.06
Reimbursement of Superintendent's salary, 300.00
High school transportation,
1,449.02
High school tuition,
2.011.50
Tuition common school,
117.75
Dog Fund,
260.54
Industrial School,
48.25
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Rebate on teachers salaries,
145.00
Sale of car tickets,
71.10
Tuition, town of Monson,
18.00
Cash for books,
.25
$5,458.71
$21,808.77
Resources
Transportation from State,
$1,346.38
High school tuition,
2,299.00
Superintendent's salary,
338.10
Refund on teacher's salaries,
₹80.00
Tuition of Stanley Getchell,
32.00
$4,795.48
Expenditures
Supervisor of Music
Bertha Hebert,
$ 318.56
Supervisor of Drawing
Ethel Benz,
$105.00
Adhalie Hobell,
88.00
193.00
Teachers Salaries
Fannie Rae Pease,
$130.85
Ruth Hart,
253.38
Ruth Mason,
207.19
Evelyn Beecher,
340.00
Louise Cummings,
230.75
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Mildred Griffin,
260.00
Lucy Mosher,
233.75
Grace Baker,
297.50
Nathalie Gilbert,
263.00
Catherine Lee,
470.00
Sara Rowley,
3.00
Agatha O'Connell,
354.20
Ellen Burroughs,
658.00
Erva Kennedy,
327.00
Mary Eldredge,
383.00
Ellen Tabor,
327.00
Edith Feustel,
746.25
Ella Stetson,
630.00
Mabel Welch,
652.65
Ebba Fredrickson,
330.00
Marjorie Pixley,
165.00
$7,261.44
Superintendent of Schools
L. E. Taft, salary,
$261.90
L. E. Taft, expenses, 14.72
F. A. Wheeler, salary, 320.38
F. A. Wheeler, expenses,
19.70
Longmeadow, expense securing new su- perintendent,
5.66
Rachael Gould, clerk, 9.50
$634.76
Janitor Service
Frank Brodeur, $203.55
Wilbraham Academy,
2.50
Mrs. Dumais,
6.00
John Ventura,
16.00
Mrs. J. H. Farr,
61.50
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C. W. Vinton,
18.00
Ralph Tupper,
39.50
Martin O'Connor,
10.00
Cyrille Brodeur,
25.00
J. P. Buckingham,
21.65
Mrs. Sweatland,
215.00
Mrs. Thomas,
61.50
Elsie Perry,
13.50
A. J. Bryant,
10.00
Mrs. Mary Tupper,
24.00
John Tupper,
2.00
Robert McClellan,
255.00
Florence Henderson,
1.50
$976.20
Miscellaneous
Census
Fannie Rae Pease,
$34.54
Labor Tickets
Fannie R. Pease,
$6.45
Alice Warren, F. A. Warren,
11.45
4.20
22.10
Attendance Officer
Ed. McDowell,
83.50
Electric Lights
Central Mass. Co., 9.90
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Medical Inspection
H. G. Webber, M. D.,
Bill for 1918,
25.00
Bill for 1919,
89.25
Springfield Library,
114.25 2.50
Fuel
W. H. McGuire,
$438.47
J. W. Baldwin,
45.00
C. F. Tupper,
40.50
WVissett Farms,
254.00
777.91
Repairs
William Whitney,
$56.61
George F. Perry,
59.20
Albert Farr.
2.50
Marcy Lumber Co.,
12.56
John Anderson,
1.25
Bert Howard,
105.00
F. A. Bodurtha,
14.46
C. W. Vinton,
22.45
A. J. Bryant,
2.50
Morrissey Brothers,
19.25
George Herter,
4.50
Alphonse Boylan,
4.00
John Vermette,
3.05
Edgar Clark,
4.25
$311.88
Supplies
Alexander Gardner, desks, $15.00
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Ginn and Co.,
76.01
Newson and Co.,
74.56
Milton Bradley an ! Co.,
152.09
D. C. Heath and Co.,
30.39
City of Springfield,
10.50
Scott Foresman and Co.,
88.88
F. C. Newton,
9.94
Wright and Potter,
2.06
American Book Co.,
27.20
Haywood Bros. and Wakefield Co,
.44
L. B. Lippincott,
2.02
Forbes and Wallace,
8.46
A. H. Bosworth,
6.20
Cutler Company,
1.25
Springfield Wall Paper and Paint Co.,
74.77
T. M. Walker,
1.80
Town of Monson,
.38
F. A. Bassette Co.,
8.50
Edward E. Babb,
7.08
Johnson's Bookstore,
23.25
Rees W. Davis,
1.50
Springeld Contractors' Co.,
4.03
Ellen Burroughs,
.80
F. W. Case,
15.00
A. M. Palmer Co.,
46.30
George Robbins,
10.58
Palmer Register,
4.50
A. S. Barnes,
1.52
E. O. Beebe,
4.45
Walter Bliss,
23.91
Purchase, care and distribution of supplies, $1,530.29
Transportation
Alfred Bosworth, $ 216.30
Springfield Street Railway Company, 1,473.24
Leon J. Bennett,
55.30
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W. E. Beebe,
11.60
Hattie Day,
5.80
L. L. Farr,
11.05
Frederick Phelps,
69.51
Gardner Files,
204.00
A. M. Seaver,
15.07
Mrs. Mary Tupper,
42.07
D. C. Ellinwood,
85.62
Ethel Eaton,
42.69
Charles Hardy,
167.29
C. E. Pease,
540.00
Bertha Rice,
6.25
Ward Allyn.
38.10
J. W. Dunsmore,
41.40
Elsie North,
15.89
Mildred Lyman,
16.50
$3,057.68
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE PINES DISTRICT
Appropriation,
$2,500.00
Expenditures
Thayer Portable House Company,
$2,018.45
F. A. Brodeur,
5.00
Edgar Clark,
4.25
Walter M. Bliss,
35.00
Forbes & Wallace,
24.25
Crane Company,
3.67
F. A. Bodurtha,
9.00
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins,
205.50
Milton Bradley Company,
30.00
F. W. Case,
1.50
Flint & Brickett Co.,
17.00
Geo. W. Robbins & Sons Co.,
12.26
Metropolitan Furniture Co.,
12.00
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Alex Gardner, E. C. & C. G. Gardner,
15.00
25.00
$2,411.88 .
Balance,
$ 82.12
EVENING AND HIGH SCHOOL TUITION
Springfield Junior High,
$ 788.00
Springfield Technical, 1,071.00
Springfield Commerce,
876.00
Springfield Central,
420.00
Ludlow bill for 1918,
463.14
Ludlow bill for 1919,
1,012.50
Ludlow evening bill for 1918,
241.15
Palmer High,
37.50
Wilbraham Academy,
420.00
$5,329.29 Fifty per cent of High School tuition is refunded by the State.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Springfield School of Commerce
Marion Cormack
Kathryn Keefe
Ralph Bennett
Charles Hardy
Teresa Boylan
Bertha Cormack
Eunice Bell
Kathryn Garvey
Isabella Young
Technical High School
Charles Kittredge Mildred Lyman
Margaret Flannagan
Clifford Greene
Franklin Murphy Mary Normoyle
Edmund Garvey
Luella Brodeur
Clarence Keefe
Wilfred Brodeur
Albert Lyman
Cecile Murphy
Edmund Garvey
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Central High School
Roderick Macauley
Gladys Piper
Stuart Merrick
Martha Epps
John Hardy Louise Piper William Howland
Vocational School
Roland Bennett
Junior High School
Dorothy Rayen
Eva May Day
Gladys Piper
Helen Phipps
Edith Kittredge
James Stewart
Lawrence Beebe
Roderick Macauley
Edna Calkins
Francis Moran
Marion Hardy
Wilfred La Chance
Rodney Ware
Freda Bennett
May Patnaude
Ludlow High
Edward Landry
Frederick Rice
Charles Kittredge
Helena Driscoll
Roland Bennett
Warren Files
Ida Sherwin
Marion Phelps
Ethel Eaton
Myrtle Files
Dorothy Ellinwood
Virginia Allen
Doris Ellinwood
Eunice Rice
Gladys Phelphs
Mary Tupper
Rose McDonald
Wilfred La Chance
Arthur Files
Rial Smith
Elsie North
Harold Murphy
Evanore Beebe
Alonzo Gilbert
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Wilbraham Academy
Edwin North
Charles Merrick
Albert Lyman Ellery Gebo
Richard Merrick
Stuart Merrick James Stuart William Eaton Wesley North
Palmer High School
Leonard Farr
We recommend that the appropriations for the coming year be based upon the budget as submitted by Supt. F. A. Wheeler in his report as published herewith.
Respectfully submitted by the School Committee,
E. O. BEEBE, E. L. MORGAN, W. M. BLISS.
School Medical Inspector
Wilbraham, Mass., Dec. 31, 1919.
As Medical Inspector, 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 favorable at those inspections that no reinspection has been necessary.
The calls of the teachers for special inspections have been but few.
Under the amendment, Acts of 1910, I have examined all applicants for employment tickets, and have given health or age certificates to such children as I have found in sufficiently sound health and physically able to perform the work they intend to do.
H. G. WEBBER, M. D.,
Medical Inspector.
School Superintendent's Report.
To the School Committee of Wilbraham :
During the short period that I have been employed in your town several matters of much importance to the schools have come up for consideration.
General School Fund Law.
This law, which is divided into Part I and Part II became operative in October. By the provisions of Part I approximately $4,000,000 is to be taken annually from the proceeds of the State income tax for distribution among the cities and towns of the Commonwealth as reimburse- ment for salaries paid public school teachers. The amount of reimbursement is $100 for each teacher paid at least $650 per year, $150 for each teacher paid at least $750 per year and having certain minimum professional qualifications, $200 for each teacher having the maximum professional qualifications which the law recognizes and receiving a salary of at least $850 per year. The immediate effect of these provisions has been to increase teachers' salaries throughout the State. and to sharpen the demand for quali- fied teachers who can bring back the maximum reimburse-
The law was retroactive in that a distribution based on the salaries paid during 1918-19 was made on November 15, 1919. But because teachers' wages in Wilbraham last year were generally below the minimum prescribed, only $145 was received as reimbursement by the town.
Part II of the law provides for the distribution of the income of the Massachusetts School Fund among towns of low valuation in the Commonwealth, this distribution to be made on March tenth of each year. In this part of the law the State attempts to provide that each town shall have, without a burdensome local tax, an assured minimum
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of $1100 for every school which it maintains,-$850 for teacher's salary and $250 to defray the expenses of opera- tion and of various other items in connection with the sup- port of the school. In the case of the town of Wilbraham it means that the State will pay "one-half the amount by which the assured minimum exceeds the amount that would have accrued from a tax af five dollars per thousand dollars of valuation."
Teachers' Salaries.
Considerable advances over the wages paid last year have been made as an act of justice, a matter of necessity, and in order to take advantage of the provisions of the new law. It may be pointed out that, so far as the increases al- ready voted are concerned, because of the reimbursements to be received from the State, the town will be in, rather than out, of pocket. The additions made to the salaries of teachers engaged prior to September 1st total $850, while the additional reimbursement to be received because of these will amount to $900.
Further increases in teachers' salaries must inevitably be made by the town another year or it will find itself either without teachers or with inexperienced and unprepared girls in charge of some of its schools.
The Pines School.
When school opened in September, the number of pu- pils reporting for admission at The Pines was much in ex- cess of the number that could be cared for. The increase was chiefly in the first grade, where 27 non-English speak- ing children applied for admission. There was a convic- tion that these children should not be turned away. So a special town meeting was requested, an appropriation asked for and given, a portable schoolhouse purchased, and an extra school opened for the first grade.
The table below, showing 34 more pupils in grade one on December 1st, 1919, than on April 1st, 1919, tells the story of The Pines.
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ENROLMENT BY GRADES
Total increase,
31
No. of Grade,
1
2 3 4
5 36
8
April 1 1919,
46
32
43 39
December 1, 1919,
80
34
29
37
37
24 20
Increase,
34
2 -14
-2
3-4 3 6 1
It is difficult to foretell the needs of The Pines dis- trict. A school census taken in October makes possible the following interesting comparison between it and the rest of the town :
Number of children of school age in :-
The Pines District,
293
Stony Hill,
36
Mile Tree,
27
Wilbraham Street,
25
Glendale,
25
Mountain,
28
East Wilbraham,
24
North Wilbraham,
89
Total for town, exclusive of The Pines,
254
The Pines school population exceeds that of the rest of the town by 39
A majority of the children in The Pines district attend the Polish parochial school. If this school should cease to care for these children and they should seek admission to the public schools, at least an eight-room building would be required for them.
High School Attendance and Transportation.
The practice of the town at present is to allow its high school pupils to attend at Ludlow, Palmer, Springfield, or Wilbraham Academy, as they choose ; and to pay their nec- essary transportation expenses up to the amount of $1.50 per pupil per week, as the law requires. The present ar-
7 1 6 28 21 19
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rangement does not please everyone. In fact the whole matter is troublesome. Many parents feel that the town should meet the whole cost of transportation, while the committee feel that unnecessary expense is incurred by at- tendance at Springfield high schools.
The high schools of Springfield offer a wide choice of courses, but attendance there means a longer day away from home, more distractions, greater transportation charges, and higher tuition rates than does attendance at the Ludlow high school. The increases apparently about to be made for tuition at Springfield will make the rates there in the Junior High at least thirty-three and one-third per cent higher, and in the Senior High schools at least 100 per cent higher than they are now in Ludlow. It seems to me that the committee would be taking a reasonable po- sition if it approved the Ludlow high school for Wilbraham pupils, and then allowed those attending elsewhere only the amount it would cost the town to send them to Ludlow.
The law provides that the town may pay more than $1.50 per pupil per week for high school transportation, but that no amounts so expended shall be reimbursed by the State. Paying the full cost would increase expenditures for high school transportation probably 200 per cent. If the town wishes to bear the whole expense of high school transportation an appropriation of $8000 should be made for the purpose.
The School Budget.
It has been customary at the annual town meeting to appropriate for schools only a part of the amount needed for the year, relying on money coming from the Common- wealth to supply the rest. Formerly much of the money received from the State because of the schools was specif- ically set aside by law for the use of the schools. Owing to changes in the law made last year this is no longer the case. Accordingly, the school committee should ask the town to appropriate a sufficient amount to run the schools the entire year. As the amounts coming from the State
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will have been received or will be accurately known before the tax rate for the year is determined, the assessors can take these amounts into consideration in fixing the rate.
·A sufficiently itimized budget statement should be in- cluded in the annual report to give the voters reasonably full knowledge of the needs of the schools, but it is advan- tageous to have the appropriation made in a lump sum. If the committee has the power to transfer balances, it can estimate more closely, and ask the town for a total some- what less than would answer without this power. I sub- mit the following budget for your consideration, using the classification required in making returns to the State Board of Education.
School Appropriations Needed, January 1-December 31, 1920.
General Expenses :
School Committee,
$ 150.00
School Superintendence, 875.00
Expenses of Instruction :
Supervisors' Salaries,
700.00
Teachers' Salaries,
10,500.00
Textbooks,
600.00
Supplies,
600.00
Operating Expenses :
Janitors' Wages,
1,200.00
Fuel,
1,000.00
Miscellaneous,
100.00
Repairs,
500.00
School Physician,
150.00
Transportation,
3,700.00
High School tuition,
8,340.00
Evening School tuition,
500.00
Total,
$28,915.00
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Discussion of the Budget.
The estimate for School Committee is intended to cover the salaries and expenses of members of the commit- tee, and also the cost of the school census. While the first two items, as I understand it, have hitherto been met out of an appropriation for town officers, they are required to be included in the statement of school expenditures made to the State Board of Education.
The estimate for School Superintendence is intended to cover the salary of the Superintendent, expenses for stationery, postage, telephone, securing teachers, the issu- ing of employment and educational certificates, and the attendance officers' charges.
The amount needed for teachers for the year at the salaries now being paid would be $9,150. The estimate makes provision for increases to be granted during the year totaling $:50. The committee may think it advisa- ble to ask for more than this.
In the report of expenditures for 1919 the amount used for textbooks is included under Supplies. Certain other items are also included which are classified under other headings in the report to the State Board. I estimate the amount needed for textbooks at $600, and for supplies to be used in connection with the instruction given in the schools as the same.
The increase in the estimates for fuel and janitors' wages is partly explained by the fact that the town is maintaining three more schools than last year.
Under Miscellaneous Operating Expenses should be classified expenditures for brooms, sweeping compounds, paper towels, soap, lights, water, and so forth.
The estimate for High School Tuition is based on the number of pupils now attending high schools and the tui- tion rates now being charged, except that for those going to Springfield allowance has been made for the increases which the school department of Springfield will doubtless
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put into effect at midyears. In estimating I have assumed the minimum rather than the maximum increases proposed. Allowance has been made for :
29 pupils in Springfield Senior High at $150, $4,350.00
18 pupils in Springfield Junior High at $100, 1,800.00
21 pupils in Ludlow High at $15, 1,515.00
1 pupil in Palmer High at $15, 15.00
9 pupils in Wilbraham Academy at $60, 540.00
Total, $8,340.00
The new rates in Springfield will doubtless be definite- ly announced before the annual town meeting is held at Wilbraham, and the appropriation can be made in consider- ation of them.
The rate per pupil for High School transportation varies, but estimates based on the enrolment shown above give :
+" pupils at $1.50 per week, or $60 per year, $2.820.00
22 pupils at $1.00 per week, or $40 per year, 880.00
$3,700.00
State Reimbursements.
There may be expected as State reimbursements during 1920 approximately the following amounts : Superintendent's Salary, $ 340.00
Tuition State Wards, 100.00
Reimbursement on Teachers' Salaries, 2,010.00
One-half the expenditure for High School Tuition, 3,341.00) Total amount paid for High School Transportation, 3,565.25 Massachusetts School Fund, allotment, 539.05
Total, $9,896.41
The amount to be raised by local taxation according to the above estimates would be $19,019.59, as compared with approximately $17,200 coming from the same source in 1919. It may be pointed out that in this time of rising
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costs reimbursements lag behind appropriations. Reim- bursements for high school transportation and tuition, on teachers' salaries, and from the income of the Massachu- setts School Fund are determined partly or wholly by the expenditures of 1919. The necessarily heavier expendi- tures of 1920 will bring back larger reimbursements in 1921. Yet, when every factor is taken into consideration, the above will no doubt seem a formidable budget to many. I can only say for it that it is an honest attempt to lay be- fore your board and the citizens of the town a reasonably full statement of the financial needs of the schools for 1920. Respectfully Submitted,
FREDERIC A. WHEELER.
STATISTICAL TABLES
School Census, April 1, 1919.
Boys
Girls
Total
Persons 5 to ? years of age,
62
110
Persons ? to 14 years of age,
159
180
339
Persons 14 to 16 years of age,
32
25
5
Total,
239
261
506
School Registers, 1918-19.
Pupils enrolled :
Boys,
130
Girls, 149
Total,
219
Aggregate Attendance,
37,072
Average Daily Attendance,
225
Average Membership,
249
Per Cent of Attendance,
90
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Enrolment of Schools and Grades, December, 1919.
Number of Grade
Name of School .
1 2 3
4
6
8 Total
Stony Hill,
ɔ̃
· 5
6
6
22
The Pines,
36
11
5
10
13
12
Mile Tree,
4
4
2
2
1
13
Wilbraham Street,
3
4
3
1
4
1
13
Mountain.
3
1
3
1 2
1 2
3
19
North Wilbraham,
20
13
6
11
8
2-
13
7
85
Totals,
80
34
29
37
37
34
24
20
295
Corps of Teachers, January 1, 1920.
. Name of School.
Name of Teacher.
Year of Service. at
Educated
Stony Hill.
Mrs. Lucy E. Mosher.
1st Westfield. Castleton
The Pines.
Mrs. Ellen M. Burroughs, Prin 2nd
1st Westfield.
Ruth M. Hart.
1st
Spfld Normal Training Sch. Spfld. High.
Mile Tree.
Ruth M. Mason.
1st
Castleton.
Nathalie W. Gilbert.
1st Warren High.
Glendale. Catherine L. Lee.
1st
St. Joseph's Normal.
Mountain. Louise M. Cummings.
1st.
No. Ad'ms Nor
North Wilb'ham. Mrs. Mabel E. Welch.
2nd
Framingham and Hyannis Normal.
East Wilbraham. Edith S. Feustel, Prin.
7th
Mt. Holyoke.
Seminary.
Ella M. Stetson.
2nd
Northfield Seminary.
Mildred M. Griffin.
1st
St. Joseph's Normal.
5
11 9
39
Glendale,
3
1
East Wilbraham,
6
4
2
17
Grace F. Baker.
Wilb'ham Street.Evelyn R. Beecher, Prin.
1st
Town Warrant.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hampden, ss.
To D. H. Eaton.
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wilbraham qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in Grange Hall in said Town on Monday, the second day of February next at 10 o'clock a. m., then and there to act on the following articles :
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside in said meeting.
Art. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Select- men, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, School Committee, and other 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 high- ways.and bridges for the ensuing year.
Art. 5. To choose a Town Clerk and Treasurer, one Selectman for three years, who shall be Overseer of the Poor; one Assessor for three years; five Constables, four Fence Viewers, one Auditor, for the ensuing year; one School Committee for three years; Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year; one Library Trustee for three years ; one Tree Warden for the ensuing year ; one Cemetery Commis- sioner for three years, all on one ballot.
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Also all other Town Officers.
Art. 6. To raise such sums of money as may be deemed necessary for defraying the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same and vote how the same shall be raised.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the. Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current finan- cial year.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to prosecute any persons selling or transporting intoxica- ting liquors in this Town contrary to the laws of the Com- monwealth, or take any action in regard to the same.
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