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AUDITOR'S REPORT
As of Dec. 31, 1926
I have checked the Trust funds and find there are balances deposited in Savings Banks as follows :
As per table $7,507.34
In Library Trustees' report 680.40
$8,187.74
J. M. PERRY
Town Auditor
Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library
Number of Volumes in Library Jan. 1, 1926.
4817
Number of Volumes added by purchase
229
Number of Volumes donated
11
5057
Number of Volumes lost and discarded
112
Number of Volumes in Library Jan. 1, 1927.
4945
Circulation
Borrowers
North Wilbraham
7827
460
Stony Hill
479
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8306
493
Rural School Deposits
9-1-25-7-1-26
1939
10245
Receipts
Cutler Co., refund
$ 1.00
Appropriation by the Town
500.00
Rent of Town Offices
144.00
Dog Fund
553.98
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Interest Henry Cutler Legacy 45.50
Interest Chloe Bliss Stebbins Fund 4.55
Interest Abner E. Bell
1.80
Fines 1.11
Books sold
17.64
$1269.58
Balance in treasury January 1, 1926
134.27
$1403.85
Expenditures
J. O. Young, ladder $ 4.20
Cutler Co .. sundry repairs
5.42
J. T. Abbott, repairs 13.37
R. E. Faulkner, repairs heater
7.50
National Library Bindery, rebinding books
63.75
Gaylord Brothers, binders
3.70
George West, painting, etc.
12.25
Library Book House, books
274.05
H. R. Huntting Co., books
19.62
M. L. Edgerton, magazines
28.30
John Ventura, care of yard
43.25
James Jaffrey, care of heater
63.00
The Cutler Co., coal
490.57
Central Mass. Elec. Co., current
30.87
The Cutler Co., water rental
18.00
The Cutler Co., fertilizer 4.50
Mrs. J. T. Abbott, services librarian 100.00
Mrs. Chas. Hitchcock, Stony Hill Branch 5.00
$1187.35
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Used less than appropriation $216.50
Besides the foregoing, the Librarian has received from fines during the year $20.86, which was paid out as follows :
Wall paper and paint
$ 7.61
Cleaning and repairs 8.25
Express and postage
1.39
Sundry supplies
2.50
Paid into general Library Treasury
1.11
$20.86
The Trustees acknowledge with thanks gifts of books and magazines from Miss L. M. Hodgkins, Wilbraham Study Club, H. W. Cutler, J. M. Perry, Mrs. W. H. Joy, Mrs. A. L. Bell, R. W. Ellis, and Charles Backus.
Morton L. Day Trust Fund
On hand Jan. 1, 1926
$660.36
Interest credited since
30.04
$690.40
Paid out for Christian Herald
10.00
On hand Jan. 1, 1927
$680.40
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See Auditor's Report for Statement of HENRY CUTLER LEGACY ABNER BELL FUND
Respectfully submitted,
A. L. DAMON
ESTELLE P. WHITE H. W. CUTLER
Trustees
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Fire Engineers' Report
TOWN OF WILBRAHAM 1926
Appropriated 1,500.00
New England Tel. & Tel.
$7.65
H. and J. Brewer, Co. Acid and Soda 11.48
Central Mass. Elec. Co. 2.30
W. F. Berry, Tires Gas oil etc.
142.55
Express
2.34
R. K. Bennett, Gas
1.44
American Fire Equipment Co.
2117
Gebo's Garage
3.00
The Cutler Co. Coal
30.00
J. M. Hardy 2 dozen Chimney Sweeps
16.00
Costello Garage
8.65
James Jaffreys Care of Heater
69.00
Lung Motor Corp.
7.14
Drivers License (Special)
6.00
George Ezekiel, Insurance
62.00
B. B. Green, wood
6.00
J. W. Baldwin, Coal
45.04
W. F. Logan, Insurance
3.40
Ludlow Fire Dept, Services
202.30
Thomas Brindley, Repairing Heater
3.50
Pay Roll
695.90
$1,422.06
Balance
$77.94
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CREDITS
From George Ezekiel, Insurance 62.00
From New England Tel. & Tel. Co. May 17, 1926 1.95
From New England Tel. & Tel. Co. Sept 21, 1926 .30
$64.25
Total Balance $142.19
Respectfully submitted,
W. F. BERRY
JAMES B. LOGAN J. J. BALDWIN
Assessors' Report
Appropriations made at the Annual Town Meeting 1926.
Charities
$4,000.00
Highways and Bridges
8,000.00
Highways and Miscellaneous
1,000.00
Contingent Account
2,200.00
Contagious Diseases
300.00
Vocational Schools
900.00
Gipsy Moth
350.00
Town Officers
3,000.00
Street Lights
3,980.00
Tree Warden
200.00
Forest Warden
200.00
Cemeteries
250.00
Fire Department
1,250.00
Library.
500.00
Interest on School House Bonds
1,800.00
Schoolhouse Bonds due 1926
2,855.88
Premium on Insurance
400.00
Schools
51,275.00
Tractor Grader
1,550.00
Adding Machine
165.00
County Aid to Agriculture
100.00
Permanent Highway
3.000.00
Emergency Sewer
500.00
Cement Sidewalks
1,500.00
American Legion, Memorial Day
300.00
Additional for Firemen
250.00
$89,825.88
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Appropriated May 7, 1926
Ladn damage, J. W. Baldwin
900.00
Land damage, Calkins Estate
350.00
Total amount appropriated by the Town
$91,075.88
State Tax $6,240.00
State Highway Tax
1,038.80
County Tax
4,996.94
12,275.79
Overlayings
2,543.10
14,818.89
$105,894.77
Estimated Receipts
Income Tax
$9,318.73
Corporation Tax
4,494.00
Bank Tax
35.00
Licenses
85.00
Schools
5,826.53
Interest on deposits
235.00
$19,994.26
Net amount raised by taxation No. of Polls 704 at $2.00 each
$85,900.51
1,408.00
Amount raised on property
$84,429.51
Value of personal estate
$569,344.00
Tax on personal estate
16,510.97
Value of land
767,375.00
Value of buildings
1,574,816.00
Value of real estate
2,344,191.00
Tax on real estate
$67,981.54
Totals
$2,913,535.00 $84,492.51
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Rate of taxation $29.00 per $1,000.00
Number of dwellings assessed
506
Number of horses assessed 147
Number of cows assessed 448
Number of neat cattle assessed
113
Number of swine
175
Number of fowls assessed
7,247
Number of acres of land assessed
13,244.41
FRANK W. GREEN
FRED DOBBS
HENRY I. EDSON
Assessors of Wilbraham
Cemetery Commissioners' Report
Appropriation
$250.00
EXPENDITURES
Adams Cemetery
A. J. Bryant 28.00
John Anderson
50.00
East Wilbraham
B. B. Green 20.00
Glendale
Charles M. Calkins
21.00
Woodland Dell
A. J. Bryant 31.00
$150.00
Received From Trust Funds
Adams, G. Frank
16.91
Brewer, Edw. H.
5.25
Bruuer, Laura
105.00
Butler, P. M. and A. R.
6.00
Butler, William
4.50
Clark, Henry
3.50
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Danks, Hiram
10.50
Fuller, F. A. and C. F. and M. A. Lane
10.50
Jones, Eliza M. 6.00
Knowlton, Abraham 4.54
Potter, Ira G. 6.00
Potter, P. P.
3.50
Stebbins, Chloe Bliss
3.75
Stebbins, L. and M.
5.25
$191.20
USED FROM TRUST FUNDS
Adams Cemetery
For'care of lots 59.16
From Laura Bruner fund used in
repairing and painting fence 105.00
East Wilbraham
For care of lots 27.04
$191.20
B. B. GREEN
L. W. RICE
HENRY I. EDSON
Cemetery Commissioners
Treasurer's Report
Receipts For 1926
Collector of Taxes :---
W. V. H. Barhydt, for 1921, 4.16
W. V. H. Barhydt, for 1922, 137.91
W. V. H. Barhydt, for 1923, 370.49
W. V. H. Barhydt, for 1924,
880.02
C. W. Greene, for 1923
107.10
C. W. Vinton, for 1925,
12,473.12
C. W. Vinton, for 1926
69,563.17
$83,535.97
Treasurer of the Commonwealth :-
Highways
$3,071.99
Mothers' Aid,
2,426.06
Vocational Education,
759.10
Income Tax of 1923,
70.50
Income Tax of 1924
89.30
Income Tax of 1925,
260.00
Income Tax of 1926,
11,578.18
Corporation Tax, Business,
4,455.00
Corporation Tax, Public Service,
843.03
National Bank Tax,
78.70
Trust Company Tax,
19.72
Reimbursement Loss of Taxes,
61.37
Mass. Training School,
61.12
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Tuition of Children,
240.64
School Supt.
583.16
Soldiers' Exemption,
19.88
$24,617.75
Money borrowed on Notes :-- Bank, 10,000.00
Feb. 20, No. 38 Palmer National
Feb. 20, No. 37 Palmer National Bank,
10,000.00
Feb. 20, No. 39 Palmer National Bank, 5,000.00
July 12, No. 40 Chicopee National Bank 25,000.00
$50,000.00
Water Loan Bonds
Old Colony Trust Co.,
100,000.00
Premium on Bonds,
1,053.56
$101,053.56
Treasurer of Hampden County :-
Highways,
3,000.00
Dog Fund 1925,
553.98
Treasurer of City of Springfield :- Refund on Tuition, 21.00
Town of Sunderland, Charities
478.00
Town of West Springfield, Charities,
113.34
Ludlow Mfg. Associates,
300.00
District Court of Eastern Hampden,
326.83
Rebate on Highway bill,
1.00
Rent of Town Offices,
144.00
Library Books sold,
17.64
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Library Fines, 1.11
Rebate on Library Bill
1.00
Rebate on Fire Dept. Insurance,
62.00
Use of Telephone,
4.40
Town Histories sold,
6.00
Deposits on Water Installation
175.00
C. W. Vinton, Sealer of Weights and Measures, 46.45
Trust Funds Received,
200.00
Interest on Trust Funds,
302.53
Licenses,
198.00
Pupils Car Tickets,
249.21
School Supplies sold,
12.29
Sale of Toilet,
5.00
Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co :-
Interest on Daily Balances, 117.81
Palmer National Bank :-
Interest on Daily Balances 135.73
Old Colony Trust Co :-
Interest on Daily Balances,
92.86
Total Receipts,
$6,565.18 $265,772.46
Cash on hand January 1, 1926
6,720.49
$272.492.95
Payments
By Selectmen's Orders :- $262,929.98
Trust Funds Deposited, 200.00
Discounts on Notes, 1,144.09
$264,214.07
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Cash on hand, December 31, 1926
8,218.88
$272,492.95
Due the Water Department on Note, $20,000.00
GEORGE MILO GREEN,
Town Treasurer
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Auditor's Report
As of Dec. 31, 1926
This is to certify that the amount of cash on hand and in bank, is as follows.
In Treasurer's hands but deposited 1927 $1,548.47
Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Co. 6,591.15
Old Colony Trust Co. 79.26
Total amount cash and in bank $8,218.88
There are outstanding, the following amounts due the Town for taxes :
On 1923 and 1924 lists
$35.82
Assessors 1925 list
$70,904.79
December Assessment 52.52
$70,957.31
Taxes collected but not committed 10.04
Interest collected 364.07
$71,331.42
Deduct abatements
312.51
$71,018.91
Paid in to Treasurer
70,773.12
Balance 1925 taxes due
$245.79
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Assessors 1926 list
$85,900.51
December Assessment
34.80
Interest collected
29.06
$85,964.37
Deduct abatements
250.05
$85,714.32
Paid in to Treasurer
69,563.17
Balance 1926 taxes due
$16,151.15
J. M. PERRY
Town Auditor
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Report
I have tested and sealed :
4 Platform over 5000 1bs. (Scales)
19 Platform under 5000 1bs.
4 Beam 100 1bs. or over 4 Beam under 100 1bs.
7 Spring
10 Computing
75 Weights
32 Liquid measures
34 Gas Pumps
5 Kerosene pumps
6 Oil Pumps
2 Molasses Pumps
209 Quantity measures on Pumps
Condemned two Oil Pumps
Condemned one scale
Received for fees $46.45
Respectfully submitted,
C. W. VINTON, Sealer
Water Committee
At the Annual Town Meeting held February 1, 1926. it was "Unanimously voted to authorize and direct the Committee on Water Supply for the Town of Wilbraham to petition the General Court for permission and authority to issue water bonds not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of furnishing and installing a water system for the Town of Wilbraham."
It was also "Voted that the unexpended balance of the appropriation of the Water Supply Committee, $176.45 be placed to the credit of said committee."
That authority was carried forth by the committee and on April 30 a bill was signed by His Excellency the Governor, known as Chapter 295 of the Acts and Resolves of the General Court for 1926.
On July 12, a special town meeting was called for the purpose of presenting this bill to the town for acceptance. Action was deferred until further details on matters of installation could be worked out by our engineers, Durkee, White & Towne, and an appropriation of $500 was voted for that purpose.
Also, at this meeting, it was "voted to raise and ap- propriate $850. for the purpose of installing a ten-inch water main under the old underpass at No. Wilbraham. This work was completed and reported at the adjourned town meeting held August 9.
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At the adjourned meeting held August 9, the Legis- lative Act in its entirety was accepted and at this time there was presented actual bids on a surveyed plan of the work to be covered.
Special appropriation for surveying and laying out proposed water system and obtaining contractors bids on same :- $500.00. Paid Durkee, White & Towne, 500.00
Appropriation for pipe at Underpass,
$850.00
Durkee, White & Towne, engineers, $ 50.00
E. B. & G. R. Vaughn, contractors, 335.00
City of Springfield, material, 220.78
$605.78
Remainder of 1925 appropriation,
$176.45
Springfield Union,
4.18
George Milo Green,
35.00
J. H. Whipple, telephone
4.30
Durkee, White & Towne,
50.00
Conference with engineers
3.00
Public Stenographer,
5.00
Johnson's Bookstore,
9.75
Palmer Register,
65.22
$176.45
Report of Water Commissioners
At the adjourned town meeting held August 9, 1926 a board of Water Commissioners was elected by the town as follows: George Milo Green, for three years; John F. Baldwin, for two years; and Julius H. Whipple, for one year; and the authority given them, by the town's accep- tance of the legislative act, for the installation of the water system.
The Commissioners met August 18, and Julius H. Whipple was elected chairman of the Board.
The contracts were awarded to P. J. Kennedy & Co., of Holyoke, Mass., who have unceasingly worked ever since, and at the time this report goes to press, nine-tenths of the outlined work has been completed and water has been turned into the mains for testing.
This work embodies approximately nine miles of actual construction and it is the hope of the commissioners to furnish water during the winter to those who are gener- ously applying for same.
The engineers, Durkee, White & Towne have been very careful and painstaking in all matters connected with their work and it is the belief of the commissioners that when the system is fully completed it will be one of the modern and up-to-date water departments in Western Massachusetts in efficiency of handling and operation.
Appropriation,
$100,000.00
Premium on Bonds,
1,053.56
Interest on Deposits,
92.86
Deposits on House Installation,
175.00
$101,321.42
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Stationery and Printing
$ 66.31
Durkee, White & Town
1,390.27
Old Colony Trust Co.,
300.00
P. J. Kennedy & Co.,
79,301.02
J. H. Whipple,
51.50
Chapman Valve Co.,
20.10
E. E. Hobson,
75.00
George Milo Green,
64.00
Loaned to Town on Note,
20,000.00
Balance,
$101,268.20 53.22
There is also due from town on Note $20,000.00
Appropriations Needed For 1927
Payment of Bonds,
$1,000.00
Interest on Bonds,
4,000.00
Maintenance of system,
2,000.00
City of Springfield, minimum charge for water
1,000.00
Respectfully submitted, J. H. WHIPPLE, JOHN F. BALDWIN, G. M. GREEN.
School Committee's Report
To the Citizens of Wilbraham :-
Your School Committee respectfully submits the fol- lowing report for the year 1926.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 1926
Appropriation for School Support
$51,275.00
Interest, Warriner Fund 29.18
Interest, School Lot Fund
30.30
Total available for School Support
$51,334.48
Total expenditures, itemized state- ment follows
$49,067.45
Less-
Car Tickets Sold
$249.21
Tuitions Refunded
21.00
Supplies Sold
17.29
287.50
Net Expenditures $48,779.95
Less than total available
$ 2,554.53
COSTS OF SCHOOLS TO THE TOWN IN 1926
FOR SUPPORT
Net Expenditures Above $48,779.95
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Credits
Continuation School $ 348.72
General School Fund Law, Part I 4,596.05
Superintendent's Salary 583.16
Tuition of State Wards
240.64
Tuition of Lyman School Boys
61.12
Interest, Warriner Fund
29.18
Interest, School Lot Fund
30.30
$5,889.17
Amount paid from local taxation for School Support $42,890.78
ITEMIZED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
School Committee
Evanore O. Beebe $ 50.00
Thomas S. Bower 50.00
H. W. Cutler 50.00
$
150.00
School Committee's Expenses
Evanore O. Beebe, postage & telephone 2.15
2.15
Superintendence of Schools and Enforcement of Law
F. A. Wheeler, salary
1,095.00
F. A. Wheeler, travelling allowance
and incidentals
252.09
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Mrs. Jennie T. Abbott, care of tickets and labor certificates 38.50
John Ashe, Jr., attendance officer 11.50
The F. A. Bassette Co., letterheads 4.50
Emily O. Cormier, superintendent's clerk 341.25
Department of Superintendence year books 5.11
Frank Patnaude, attendance officer 44.00
Mrs. Fannie R. Pease, labor certificates 8.10
Sackett's Typewriter Exch., multi- graphing 1.35
A. B. Sanderson, taking school census 35.00
Mrs. Alice H. Warren, labor Certificates 4.00
Wright & Potter Printing Co., account blanks 6.11
$1,846.51
Supervisors' Salaries
Mrs. Ethel C. Morse
416.00
Mrs. Helen B. Tower 475.48
891.48 $
Teachers' Salaries
Mrs. Bertha H. Amo
1,170.00
ยท Mildred E. Connelly
1,150.00
Elizabeth F. Cronin
1,220.00
Anne M. Dewey
600.00
Edith S. Feustel
1,150.00
Katherine A. Hart
970.00
Mrs. Nellie J. Hinchcliffe
1,120.00
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Marrion L. Holland
1,150.00
Phyllis B. Irwin
600.00
Mrs. Mary G. Logan
1,120.00
Susie R. McCorrison
1,150.00
Loretta K. McDonald
1,070.00
Ruth M. Mason
460.00
Mrs. Eleanor B. Parsons
1,220.00
Mrs. Fannie R. Pease
1,200.00
Mrs. Minnie M. Sanderson
1,200.00
Eleanor D. Shea
690.00
Mrs. Martina M. Squire
1,070.00
Helen B. Stacy
420.00
Pearl C. Supernaw
400.00
Mrs. Mabel E. Welch
1,150.00
$20,280.00
Textbooks
American Book Company
94.39
Edward E. Babb & Co.
7.42
C. C. Birchard & Co.
24.98
Ginn and Company
10.47
Houghton-Mifflin Co.
6.48
Newson and Company
216.48
The A. N. Palmer Co.
15.67
Rand, McNally Co.
19.62
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
19.31
Scott, Forsman & Co.
7.61
Silver, Burdett & Co.
101.09
The John C. Winston Co.
56.27
$ 579.79
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Supplies
Mrs. Bertha H. Amo, certificates, postage
4.60
Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies 66.12
Milton Bradley Co., supplies 439.87
Charles E. Burt, Inc., report cards, etc 10.35
C. & C .Express, delivering supplies .85
Colmbuia Carbon & Ribbon Mfg. Co.,
material for Opalograph 9.37
Elizabeth F. Cronin, postage 2.50
Edith S. Feustel, postage
2.59
Forbes & Wallace, burlap and ribbon 3.96
A. L. Fredette, cards 4.00
C. A. Gregory, Director, reading scales 4.84
J. L. Hammett Co., supplies 92.52
Katherine A. Hart, postage .24
Holden Patent Book Cover Co., book covers 14.76
Johnson's Bookstore, waste baskets and hektograph 7.85
W. A. Lieson Company, promotion lists 8.47
Newson and Company, seat work 3.15
The A. N. Palmer Co., overseers 2.27
Mrs. Eleanor B. Parsons, postage and certificates 8.60
Frank Patnaude, trucking
2.00
Raymond Patnaude, trucking 1.50
Sackett's Typewriter Exch., multi- graphing 21.78
Shaw-Walker, cards 4.08
The R. H. Smith Mfg. Co,. sign marker, sorts and ink 1.08
R. L. Studor, lettering certificates 6.50
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Mrs. Helen B. Tower, paper, saws,
paints, etc. 6.96
University Publishing Co., arithmetic tests 2.52
Vining & Borner, enameloid
4.86
The Webster Publishing Co., English exercises 2.48
F. A. Wheeler, expressage on supplies 3.25
$ 743.92
Janitors
J. P. Buckingham 10.00
Myron Hitchcock
76.00
Mrs. Robert McClelland
358.00
Edward E. Mallette
60.00
Frank Patnaude
1,300.00
Mrs. Minnie M. Sanderson
80.00
Gilbert Stacy
2.00
Mrs. Louis G. Stacy
87.00
Mrs. Harriet Swetland
336.00
H. F. Swetland
2.00
C. W. Vinton
85.00
$2,396.00
Fuel
J. W. Baldwin, coal 40.66
William S. Brown, wood
60.00
G. F. Comstock, preparing kindling for furnace 7.80
Cutler Grain & Coal Co., coal
470.25
B. B. Green, wood 372.00
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W. H. McGuire, coal
551.68
Maynard Coal Company, coal
360.00
Richard O. Merrick, wood
236.00
Mrs. Louis G. Stacy, kindling, oil, matches
3.20
$2,101.59
Miscellaneous Operating Expenses
Edward E. Babb & Co., chemical
8.30
Alfred H. Bosworth, drawing away
ashes 11.00
Carlisle Hardware Co., Dustbane, bulbs, etc.
44.12
H. W. Carter Paper Co., paper towels
70.50
Central Mass. Electric Co., lighting and power 121.05
Collins Manufacturing Co., 25 lbs. wool 1.75
James B. Logan, soap, sani flush, etc. 15.57
Frank Patnaude, window cleaner .35
Mrs. Fannie R. Pease, coat hangers .60
City of Springfield, water 43.04
Wadsworth, Howland Co., Savogran
4.75
$ 321.03.
Repairs
Edward E. Babb & Co., fountain 26.31
W. F. Berry, padlock, board, switch 2.65
F. A. Bodurtha, labor 166.83
Boston and Albany Railroad, freight on shingles 56.74
Alfred H. Bosworth, setting glass, etc. 20.15
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T. A. Brindley, repair on electric switch, etc. 5.75
Carlisle Hardware Co., keys, fence posts 11.00
Commissioner of Public Safety boiler inspection 2.00
John R. Fairbairn, Master, mats
6.30
Forbes & Wallace, shades and cord
13.18
J. Raymond Ford Co., bulbs
3.84
Myron Hitchcock, repairing stove 1.25
Interstate Paint and Supplies Co., shingles 294.84
Kenney Brothers & Wolkins, desks and chairs 60.57
Fred C. McClean, repairing valves
12.00
J. H. Miller Co., repairing and re- finishing furniture 551.55
Morrissey Brothers Co., glass, putty, latch 5.43
Frank Patnaude, labor
2.00
Reformatory for Women, wool flags
7.77
Geo. W. Robbins & Sons Co., material
109.68
A. B. Sanderson, repairs 5.00
C. E. Seymour, repairs and material
24.20
Charles S. Stacy, repairing plumbing H. F. Swetland, labor and material
74.22
Horace F. Thomas, material 8.96
310.00
United Electric Service Co. repairs at No. 8 4.50
C. W. Vinton, painting and repairs 5.35
Wadsworth, Howland & Co., paint 1.29
T. M. Walker Co., paint, glass, putty etc. 16.53
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Wyckoff & Lloyd Co., repairing leak in freeze-ups 29.13
$1,839.02
Health
Mrs. Geo. A. Clark, Schick test work 7.00
A. L. Damon, M. D., school physician
378.00
Jameson's Pharmacy, iodine, gauze bandage
5.68
Signe L. Polson, school nurse
817.53
Sweet Drug Co., supplies
13.37
$1,221.58
Elementary School Transportation
Santi Belli, protecting children at
The Plains
49.50
Gideon Dickinson, transporting
children
370.00
419.50 $
High and Vocational School Transportation
Josephine Allyn
65.20
Mary Boden
20.80
Louis Cloutier
22.40
Gideon Dickinson
1,954.80
Curtis Farr
67.42
Homer Goodrich
11.80
Homer Howard
10.80
Town of Monson
32.00
Annie Nietupski
60.42
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Anthony Nietupski
35.10
Burt Nietupski
28.18
Kasimer Nietupski
78.48
Alton Nordin
29.34
John Nordin
18.20
Clement Smith
80.57
Springfield Street Railway Co.
2,788.00
Barbara Ward
18.88
$5,322.39
High School Tuition
Town of Ludlow
102.63
Town of Monson
50.00
Town of Palmer
180.58
City of Springfield
9,435.00
$9,768.21
Elementary School Tuition
City of Springfield
24.00
$ 24.00
Continuation School Tuition
Town of Ludlow
800.24
City of Springfield
33.28
$ 833.52
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New Equipment
Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Mfg. Co. Opalograph 22.50
H. W. Cutler, freight on chairs and table
1.90
Raymond Decorie, trucking
3.00
John R. Fairbairn, mats
5.36
Fox & Cushing, weather stripping
64.00
Massachusetts Reformatory, chairs and table 45.00
United Electric Service Co.,
wiring schools 185.00
$
326.76
Total of school orders drawn $49,067.45
APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED FOR 1927
General Expenses :
School Committee, salaries $ 150.00
Expenses 20.00
School Superintendence and Enforcement of Law:
Salary
1,110.00
Other Expenses
800.00
Expenses of Instruction :
Supervisors' Salaries
930.00
Teachers' Salaries
21,300.00
Textbooks
600.00
Supplies
900.00
6.4
Operating Expenses :
Janitors
2,500.00
Fuel
2,200.00
Miscellaneous Operating Expenses
400.00
Repairs
2,300.00
Health
1,400.00
Tuition
15.000.00
Transportation
7,000.00
Miscellaneous Non-Expense Account :
Renewal of Insurance 830.00
Sundries
100.00
$57,540.00
ESTIMATE OF CREDITS ON ACCOUNT OF EDUCATION FOR 1927
General School, Fund Law, Part I $4,305.50
Superintendent's Salary 580.00
Continuation School Tuition Reim- bursement 416.76
Tuition of State Wards 200.00
Tuition of Lyman School Boys
60.00
Vocational School Tuition Reim- bursement 1,020.00
$ 6,582.26
Respectfully submitted, EVANORE O. BEEBE, THOMAS S. BOWER H. W. CUTLER
School Committee of Wilbraham
Report of Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of Wilbraham :
Herewith is submitted my report as superintendent of schools for the year ending December 31, 1926.
Repairs.
During recent years it has been the policy of the school department to do those things that were necessary to keep the school plant in repair, and also each season to carry out one or more projects that might be called per- manent improvements or outlays. In accordance with this policy, during the past season, in addition to many minor matters, the roof of the North Wilbraham school- house has been reshingled, the seats and desks in nine classrooms have been refinished, and the Wilbraham Street schoolhouse has been wired for electricity. The re- finishing of the seats and desks has made a great change in the appearance of the classrooms. Many of the desks have been in use probably thirty years. Some of them were cut with initials of the parents of the children now attending school. It was a question whether these old desks should be discarded and new ones purchased, or should be refinished. I am happy to say that the re- finished desks look surprisingly well. Teachers and pupils appreciate them and are taking pride in keeping them in good condition.
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An Additional Teacher at Wilbraham Street.
For many years but two teachers have been employed for the Wilbraham Street school, the primary teacher having grades 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; the grammar school teacher having grades 6, 7, and 8. Of late the grammar school room has been crowded beyond its capacity. Some years ago, to make room for the additional enrolment, the desks were reset, reducing the width of the aisles so that another row of desks could be put in. Last year the enrolment reached 42, exceeding the seating capacity even with the additional row of desks, and making necessary the blocking of some of the aisles. There were two great objections to this condition. The congested room with the obstructed aisles increased the fire risk, and the number of pupils and grades made a heavier load than one teacher should be expected to carry. During the summer the third room in the building, which had been used as a storeroom for the school supplies of the town, was fitted up as a classroom, and with the opening of school in September a third teacher was employed. Under the present organization one teacher has grades 1, 2, and 3, another, grade 4, 5, and 6, and the third, grade 7 and 8. The arrangement is much more satisfactory and is sure to tell favorably on the quality of work done at that building.
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