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Thirteenth - To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise to defray town charges for the ensuing year.
Fourteenth - To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise for the support of a free High school for the ensuing year.
Fifteenth - To choose one member of cemetery committee.
Sixteenth - To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise for cemetery purposes.
Seventeenth - To see if the town will vote to appropriate and raise one hundred dollars ($100.00) for electric lights to light the streets at Belgrade Depot for the coming year.
Eighteenth - To see if the town will vote to appropriate and raise one hundred dollars ($100.00) for electric lights to light the streets. at Belgrade Lakes for the coming year.
Nineteenth - To see if the town will vote to appropriate and raise one hundred dollars ($100.00) for electric lights to light the street at North Belgrade from Anderson's theatre to E. E. Rollins' store.
Twentieth - To see if the town will vote to pay the school committee for their services for the ensuing year.
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Twenty-first - To see if the town will vote to grant and raise the sum of six hundred dollars ($600.00) to sand the road beginning at the end of State road in front of E. E. Rollins' store and running to Mill bridge.
Twenty-second - To see if the town will vote to grant and raise five hundred dollars ($500.00) to be used by the Lakeside Campmeeting Association toward building a private way from North Belgrade station to their Camp Ground, said private way to be laid out by the County Commissioners and kept in repair by said Lakeside Campmeeting Association without any further cost to the town of Belgrade.
Twenty-third - To see if the town will vote to grant and raise the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to be given to Mrs. Cora E. Yeaton for injuries received by stepping in a hole in the road on West road last winter.
Twenty-fourth - To see if the town will vote to accept two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) from Aubrey B. Butler for the perpetual care of the lot of Annie Rachel Ricker, No. 17 in Range 2 of the Pine Grove cemetery No. 2.
Twenty-fifth - To see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen and treasurer to hire money for the use of the town, if necessary.
The selectmen give notice that they will be in session for the purpose of revising and correcting the list of voters, at Grange Hall, at nine o'clock in the forenoon on the day of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Belgrade this nineteenth day of Feb- ruary, A. D. 1918.
L. A. BARTLETT, E. L. FOSTER, A. P. WATSON,
Selectmen of Belgrade.
Annual Report
1918-19
TOWN OF BELGRADE
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF BELGRADE
FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR
1918-1919
WALLACE S. LADD PRESS AUGUSTA
Officers of the Town of Belgrade
Moderator H. H. ADAMS
Town Clerk E. H. MOSHER
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Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor F. L. PRAY B. C. BICKFORD A. E. PAGE
Treasurer E. H. MOSHER
Collector C. E. TILLSON
W. T. LARKIN
School Committee C. R. SAWYER R. N. GUPTILL
Superintendent of Schools RALPH G. OAKES
Road Commissioners
R. B. RANDLETT HERBERT ALEXANDER
Constable ROY A. YEATON
Sexton C. B. STUART
Cemetery Committee GEO. A. P. BUCKNAM ROY A. YEATON C. R. SAWYER
Sealer of Weights and Measures F. C. FOSTER
Fire Warden E. C. LORD
Selectmen's Report
To the Citizens of the Town of Belgrade:
We herewith submit our annual report for the year ending Feb. 14, 1919.
Resident Real Estate
Land Value $138,375 00
Building
201,535 00
$339,910 00
Non-Resident Real Estate
Land Value
. ......
$ 63,400 00
Building 112,560 00
$175,960 00
Personal Estate Resident
$116,701 00
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Non-Resident
20,895 00
$137,596 00
Total Valuation
$653,466 00
Amount tax on above $16,336 65
281 Polls at $3.00 843 00
$ 17,179 65
Rate .025.
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Appropriation for the Year 1918
State tax $ 3,954 06
County tax
1,066 85
Town charges
1,000 00
Support of Common schools
1,500 00
Snow bills
2,000 00
Roads and bridges.
2,500 00
Support of High School
1,050 00
Cemetery purposes
250 00
Electric Lights ...
300 00
Road at Lake Side
500 00
Graveling road from E. Rollins to Mill.
600 00
State Aid Highway
533 00
Maintenance State Aid road
550 00
Repairs of school houses
350 00
Purchase of school books.
450 00
Cora Yeaton for damage received on highway
25 00
Overlay
550 74
$17,179 65
Supplementary tax
233 75
Total commitment.
$17,413 40
List of Personal Property
AV. VAL. TOTAL VAL.
264
$104 97
$28,085 00
10 colts, 3 to 4 years old
130 00
1,300 00
21 colts, 2 to 3 years old
72 62
1,525 00
7 colts, under 2 years ..
60 71
425 00
620 cows
34 48
21,383 00
25 oxen
72 40
1,810 00
170, 3-year olds
41 37
7,033 00
183, 2-year olds
29 07
5,320 00
30 sheep.
5 00
150 00
$67,031 00
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All Other Kinds of Personal Property
Stock in trade $12,250 00
Launches and Boats 21,970 00
Logs and lumber 1,900 00
Automobiles, 81
18,440 00
Musical instruments, 55 4,875 00
Furniture
4,650 00
Machinery not taxed as Real Est.
6,480 00
$ 70,565 00
$137,596 00
List of Untaxable Live Stock
AV. VAL.
TOTAL VAL.
353 1-year olds
$12 77 $4,510 00
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.
490 sheep to the no. of 35. 5 00
2,450 00
154 swine 17 82 2.755 00
$9,715 00 1
Paid Bills Accrued Prior to Feb. 14, 1918
Printing moth notices $ 5 50
Burial expenses of Geo. Towle .. 87 55
W. T. Larkin, school committee, 8 80
Care of Jane Mignault 50 00
E. H. Mosher, town clerk 15 00
L. A. Bartlett, selectman 100 00
E. L. Foster, selectman 78 00
A. P. Watson, selectman 66 00
Printing reports
44 00
Leslie Bickford, constable 3 00
$ 457 85
.
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Abatements for Year 1918
E. A. Bean, boat out of town
$5 00
W. W. Berry, paid in Waterville 2 50
Will Withers, over valuation 5 00
A. F. Drummond, paid in Waterville, boat 2 50 F. A. Hammond, paid in Waterville, boat 2 50
H. Higgins, boat not in town 5 00
Walter Hight's auto, paid in Skowhegan. . 25 00
Charles F. Johnson, boat paid Waterville, 7 50
D. Francis, boat destroyed 2 50
E. W. Davidson, taxed by mistake 3 75
Samuel Lot, boat sold before April 1 5 00
H. W. Mitchell, paid in Waterville 5 00
Alice Manter 2 50
Geo. W. Reynolds, paid in Waterville. 2 50
Lute Riggs, paid in Rome 2 50
Clara Spaulding, boat out of town. 1 00
Allen H. Wood, boat out of town 5 00
Clarence Ward, one boat instead of two 2 50
Roy Cook, poll tax 3 00
Ashman Ladd, paid in Rome 6 50
George McIntire, paid in Oakland. 3 00
Ray Towle, paid in Mt. Vernon 5 50
J. M. Towle. 3 00
Ralph Brann, soldier
3 00
Mellen Adams, soldier 3 00
Frank Chandler, soldier 3 00
Delmont French, soldier 3.00
Lauren Kelley, soldier . 3 00
Everett Johnson, soldier 3 00
Wilber Judkins, soldier 3 00
Lawrence Hill, soldier 3 00
Hiram Patten, soldier 3 00
A. M. Wadleigh, Jr., soldier 3 00
Preston Willey, soldier
3 00
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Ernest Yeaton, soldier 3 00
Raymond Yeaton, soldier 3 00
Nelson Harnden, soldier 3 00 - $149 25
Paid for Support of Poor, 1918-19
On account of Jane Mignault
$262 46
$262 46
Paid for Support of Poor of Other Towns
On account of Eugene Winslow.
$24 30
On account of Napoleon B. Gould 58 00
$82 30
Due from town of Poland, on account of Eugene Winslow $24 30
Due from town of New Portland, on ac- count of Napoleon B. Gould. 58 00
$82 30
On account of Frank Newell.
$48 00
Rec'd from New Sharon on acct. Frank Newell
$48 00
Sheep Account
Paid Frank Kelley, for sheep killed by dogs $36 00
Paid Mary Tillson, for sheep killed by dogs. . ... 24 00
Paid J. W. Penney, for turkeys killed by foxes. . 15 00
$75 00
Received from State as above 75 00
Amount appropriated for road at Lakeside $500 00
Amount paid for road at Lakeside. 500 00
Amount appropriated for Cora Yeaton. $25 00
Amount paid to Cora Yeaton 25 00
State aid to dependents of soldiers $422 22
Due from State
422 22
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Miscellaneous Expenses
Leslie Bickford, ballot clerk. $4 00
Bert Kelley, ballot clerk 4 00
Ross Guptill, election clerk 4 00
Ernest Bachelder, election clerk 4 00
Oakland Fire Department, fire at Fish Hatchery 27 00
Dr. Reynolds, vaccination
27 85
E. H. Mosher, express
34
Roy Yeaton, constable
25 00
E. C. Lord, fire warden 25 00
Expenses of School Superintendent 29 32
Flags for Schools 11 25
F. C. Foster, sealer of Weights and
Measures 8 00
F. C. Foster, service on Board of Health, 5 00
C. R. Sawyer, service on School Com. 17 50
B. F. Maher, legal advice 2 00
E. H. Mosher, books and stationery 23 33
Care of tramps. 5 57
Belgrade Grange, rent of hall 25 00
E. F. Yeaton, service on Board of Health, 3 00
F. L. Pray, stamps, expenses and cash paid .. 20 25
B. C. Bickford, stamps, expenses and cash paid. 8 65
A. E. Page, expenses.
E. H. Mosher, postage. 5 83
4 25
L. E. Reynolds, reporting births and deaths 4 25
C. E. Tillson, Collector 335 00
W. F. Larkin, service on School Com. 14 08
Superintendent of School, salary. 167 08
E. H. Mosher, recording births and deaths 13 00
James Lombard, rent of tramp house ... 2 00
Ross Guptill, service on School Com .. 9 00
$834 55
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Electric Lights
Appropriation
$300 00
Paid for Electric Lights
234 90
$65 10)
Recapitulation
Paid bills accrued prior to Feb. 14, '18, $457 85
Abatements for 1918 149 25
Support of Poor 344 76
Miscellaneous expenses 834 55
$1,786241
Highway Orders Drawn
James Watson, winter 1917-18. $1,641 34
R. B. Randlett, summer, 1918. . 1,734 41
Herbert Alexander, summer, 1918 ... 1,456 08
Herbert Alexander, State Aid road ... 1,210 71
State, on account patrol work 650 00
Repairs on tractor
56 13
Herbert Alexander, winter 1918-19 ... 65 43
Herbert Alexander, special appropria-
tion 568 80
Total Highway orders drawn $7,382 90
Total Town orders drawn . 3,332 92
Total School orders drawn ..... 6,683 90
Highway Appropriation
Summer, 1918 $2,500 00
Winter 2,000 00
Special appropriation. 600 00
State Aid Highway by town 533 00
State Aid Highway by State
708 89
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Maintenance by town 550 00
$6,891 89
Total highway orders drawn, 7,382 90
Overdrawn
$491 01
Outstanding road orders $9 90
()utstanding road commissioners 20 16
Outstanding town orders 20 00
Resources
Cash in treasury $145 26
Due from Augusta on acct. of Mamie
Gordon 34 00
Due from New Portland on account of Napoleon B. Gould 58 00
Due from Poland on account of Eu- gene Winslow. 24.30
Due from State on account of depen- dent soldiers. 422 22
Due from Mt. Vernon on account common schools, est 100 00
Due from Rome on account common schools, est 90 00
Due from Rome on. account high
schools, est. 48 00
Due from Sidney on account high schools, est. 24 00
Due from State, dog tax refunded ... 75 00
Due on tax deeds 195 12
$1,215 90
Liabilities
Due F. L. Pray, services as select- man . $100 00
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Due B. C. Bickford, services as select- man .
80 00
Due A. E. Page, services as select- man . 70 00
Due E. H. Mosher, services as town clerk 15 00
Outstanding treasury notes 3,300 00
Printing town reports, est. 40 00
$3,605 00
Liabilities above resources ...
$2,389 10
Respectfully submitted,
F. L. PRAY, Selectmen B. C. BICKFORD, of
A. E. PAGE, Belgrade
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Report of Cemetery Committee.
Appropriation 1918 $150 00
Paid Geo. A. P. Bucknam for general spring cleaning, raking leaves, sticks, &c. 21 00
Repairs on pump
12 00
Turning on and off water 6 00
Pumping water.
10 00
Haying, hand mowing and raking. .
78 00
Rosco Randlett for machine mowing and raking 12 00
E. H. Mosher for supplies
3 05
$142 05
Unexpended
$8 05
Repairs on Chapel
Appropriation, 1918 $100 00
Paid E. G. Childs for painting.
13 82
Geo. A. P. Bucknam for painting and
shingling
18 66
E. H. Mosher for supplies
67 52
100 00
Interest Received from Bequests
J. C. Mosher
$4 00
Fannie Rockwood 12 00
Sadie Clough 8 00
J. C. Crooker
8 00
L. W. Batchelder
20 00
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J. S. Dudley
12 00
A. W. Rollins 48 00
R. K. Stuart 4 00
Samuel Greeley 4 00
J. M. Chandler
6 90
David Austin
20 00
Theresa M. Libby
56 00
Jessie M. Knox
4 00
C. M. Weston
4 00
Charles E. Morrill
8 00
Parker Hutchins
3 00
Knowlton and Taylor Penny 4 00
Reuben Wentworth
4 00
David Blaisdell
4 00
Simon Guptill
4 00
H. W. Golder 4 00
Sarah A. Smith 8 00
W. S. Hersom
8 00
Cora A. Hammond
4 00
$261 90
Amount Expended on Bequests
J. C. Mosher
$4 00
Fannie Rockwood 12 00
Sadie Clough 8 00
J. C. Crooker
8 00
. L. W. Batchelder
20 00
J. S. Dudley
12 00
A. W. Rollins
8 00
Acct. of A. W. Rollins (father) grading,
resetting curbing and cleaning monti- ment . 40 00
R. K. Stuart. 4 00
Samuel Greely
4 00
J. M. Chandler
6 90
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David Austin 12 00
Acct. of Nahum Austin lot. 8 00
Theresa M. Libby. 15 00
Improvements in Pine Grove Cemetery,
resetting monuments, tablets, and fill- ing in depressions 41 00
Jessie Knox 4 00
C. M. Weston. 4 00
Charles E. Morrill. 8 00
Parker Hutchins
3 00
Knowlton and Taylor Penny
4 00
Reuben Wentworth
4 00
David Blaisdell
4 00
Simon Guptill
4 00
H. W. Golder
4 00
Sarah A. Smith
8 00
W. S. Hersom
8 00
Cora A. Hammond
4 00
$261 90
ROY A. YEATON,
Cemetery CARROLL R. SAWYER,
GEO. A. P. BUCKNAM,
Committee.
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Report of Treasurer
Town of Belgrade in Account with E. H. Mosher, Treasurer for the Year 1918
Dr.
. To paid Treasury notes $5,500 00
Interest 305 56
Town orders
3,312 92
School orders
6,683 90
Road orders
7,373 00
State tax. 3,954 06
County tax
1,066 85
State treasurer, dog tax
136 00
State pensions .
42 00
Treasurer's commission
75 00
Cash in treasury. 145 26
$28,594 55
Cr.
Cash on hand March 4, 1918 $270 66
Rec'd from C. E. Tillson, collector, 1918. 17,413 40
State Treasurer, school fund and mill tax 1,913 44
State Treasurer, R. R. and Tel. tax 26 00
66 State Treasurer, account State pen- sions .. 42 00
State Treasurer, acct. High school, 500 00
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Rec'd for improvement State roads 662 17
Cash and gave treasury notes 6,800 00
from town of Rome on account schools .. 375 07
town of Mt. Vernon, acct. schools, town of New Sharon, acct. Frank Newell 48 00
147 50
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town of New Sharon, acct. James Chapman. 19 94
Acme Amusement Co. for license. . 20 00
C. J. Anderson, for license 10 00
State Treasu'r, acct, animals killed
75 00
Augusta, acct. Sanford fund
90 00
16 57
State Treasurer, dog tax refunded. ·E. H. Mosher, town clerk, dog tax 1918.
136 00
B. P. Stuart, license 2 00
Old tax deeds 26 80
$28,594 55
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Road Commissioner's Report
I. Nelson $13 50
Walter Knowles
51 00
William White 9 00
Page Pulsifer
Fred Bickford 31 50
24 00
Earnest Yeaton 10 50
S. Blaisdell, for lumber and labor on bridge 80 62
R. H. Varney
19 50
Frank Tibbetts. 99 00
Frank Pray, for iron and labor on bridge.
15 96
F. A. Pray
10 10
M. C. R. R. Co., for freight on tractor parts and lumber
6 46
Am. Ex. Co., for tractor parts .
85
Berger Mfg. Co., for culverts
60 60
J. R. Tibbetts
6 00
Ray Watson 3 00
Clyde Tilson, for lumber and labor on bridge
78 35
A. B. Bates, for lumber 32 32
F. C. Hawkins 12 00
Willis Childs 106 71
Ilko Knowles
54 00
S. C. Goodwin
75
L. Castle
3 50
Lawrence Minot
7 50
E. C. Wadleigh Jr.
1 50
Ralph Brown
2 50
A. P. Buker 36 00
W. E. Farnham .
3 00
Joe Ashland
27 00
Albert Ashland
13 50
S. Berry, for gravel .
15 15
20
Adams & Albee, for lumber
51 90
Wesley Knowles 2 33
R. B. Randlett & Son
708 40
E. H. Mosher
27 41
Total
$1,725 41
F. E. Bunker, watering tub.
6 00
E. W. Rogers,
6 00
$1,737 41
R. B. RANDLETT,
Road Commissioner.
Road Commissioner's Report Summer 1918
A. M. Alexander
100 00
Joseph W. Alexander
8 63
Herbert Alexander, labor, men and team com.
179 50
Berger Mfg. Co.
18 90
C. W. Moody
6 34
Will Ellis
15 00
C. J. Anderson
1 10
Anson Quimby
12 00
C. P. Cook
12 00
C. S. Castle
4 50
A. M. Alexander 25 00
P. E. Alexander 5 00
Perlie Alexander.
18 00
Herbert Alexander, labor, men and team com.
50 00
Ed. Carter. 15 00
Herbert Alexander, labor, men and team com. 17 00
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George Tibbetts 7 50
Herbert Alexander, labor, men and team com. 16 85
Anson Quimby 27 00
Abbie Willey, gravel
4 00
Ed. Meader
4 50
Herbert Alexander, labor, team and men, service com. 17 55
H. E. Patten
4 50
Joseph Alexander
15 28
Joseph Alexander
28 04
Anson Quimby
21 67
A. M. Alexander
100 00
E. S. Willey
17 50
Albert Bedin
. .
6 00
Philip Chandler
25 50
Will Ellis
67 00
Albert Brann
22 50
C. H. Chandler
23 00
H. L. Alexander
39 00
H. A. Bickford
21 00
A. M. Alexander 7 50
Herbert Alexander, labor, men and team, service road com.
50 00
Edward Carter .
64 50
Herbert Alexander
20 55
Ed. Willy, blasting
5 00
Herbert Alexander
16 50
Oscar Stevens 39 00
Alfred Emery 3 00
A. B. Bates & Co., lumber
7 16
Herbert Alexander 179 50 .
Wallace Bickford. 13 75
Howard Bickford.
6 25
C. F. Woddard
3 75
Willis Stevens
3 75
Charles Willey
13 75
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Joseph W. Alexander 8 63
Charles Ellis
2 50
H. A. Bickford 5 50
Harry Branch
6 25
A. Furbish
3 75
Charles Rowe 4 50
W. P. Sawtelle 7 00
P. O. Willey .
3 75
C. H. Chandler
5 25
Philip Chandler
4 46
Anson Quimby
5 33
Harry Bickford
6 00
M. M. Larkin
3 75
W. T. Larkin
1 25
Dennis Cook
2 50
B. G. Damren
5 00
C. W. Moody
2 50
C. H. Wyman
4 00
$1476.24
HERBERT ALEXANDER,
Road Commissioner.
State Road 1918
E. H. Mosher, cement $ 16 00
Berger Mfg. Co., culverts. 100 45
L. A. Bartlett, nails and lumber. 5 32
Herbert Alexander, labor of men and teams service com. 229 00
Walter Buker
46 50
Ed. Burgess
45 00
Ralph Brown 42 00
Roscoe Ranlet .
57 00
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Oland Treadwell 25 50
Kenneth Pray
64 50
F. W. Pray
60 70
Oland Nelson
7 50
Albert Brann
13 50
Fred Scribner, gravel.
90 60
Frank Lord, labor with team
87 00
Elmore Farnham, labor of men and team
141 00
Foster Brothers, labor with team 42 00
Lester Yeaton, labor with team
54 00
Frank Clement
9 00
Clyde Tillson, gasoline and oil
25 57
Wilson Clement, gas, kerosene and oil
2 13
Frank Clement.
35 00
Getchell & Wing
2 48
E. H. Mosher, spades, picks
6 76
J. E. McCommick
2 20
$1,210 71
HERBERT ALEXANDER, Road Commissioner.
Highway from Ed. Rollins to Mill Bridge
Herbert Alexander
$100 00
Herbert Alexander. 75 00
A. M. Alexander, labor of man and team. 12 00
Mrs. Roy Cook, labor of man and team. 54 00
A. M. Alexander, labor of man and team
44 00
Mrs. Minnie Cook, gravel ..
51 30
Howard Bickford, labor with team 18 00
Will H. Ellis. 30 00
Walter Gleason, labor with team.
30 00
H. L. Alexander, labor with team
69 00
Will Withers, labor with team
51 00
Dennis Cook 31 50
Herbert Bickford. 3 00
$568 80
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Road Commissioner's Report
Winter
James Watson.
$ 92 50
Arthur Mosher
12 50
Frank Tibbetts
30 00
B. L. Kelly
1 62
Willis Stevens
10 75
O. W. Nelson
2 50
Forest Stevens
6 25
J. W. Penney
7 20
W. P .. Sawtell
57 91
Percy Chute
2 50
Clarence Kelly
2 60
Ernest Yeaton
9 58
C. R. Sawyer
12 00
Percy Yeaton
4 75
Carleton Cook
21 25
E. A. Mills & Sons
7 50
Mellen K. Stevens
12 60
O. W. Richards
11 13
Philip Chandler
43 05
Charles Rowe
26 75
C. L. Spenser
17 50
Clinton Bickford
1 00
W. G. Childs
7 00
Dennis A. Cook
61 88
John Stanley
16 25
C. P. Chase
55 50
W. T. Larkin
20 00
M. M. Larkin
23 25
Albert Ashland
9 30
Mrs. G. G. Bartlett.
21 50
J. W. Fowler
6 00
25
Arthur Piper 21 50
Joseph Ashland 24 20
Sam Tibbetts 4 00
Charles F. Watson
11 87
W. E. Farnham
5 50
H. L. Alexander .
45 75
Charles F. Woodard
9 64
Alias T. Stevens
47 75
W. O. Willey
23 75
P. O. Willey
17 36
Earl Grant
4 73
F. W. Pray & Sons
41 50
Clarence Kinney
66
Bernard Farnham
3 00
Lloyd Alexandia
2 50
Floyd Yeaton
5 00
Jay H. Merrill
7 06
Albert Furbush
7 90
C. W. Moody
18 26
W. F. Stratton
7 50
Othello Clark
2 75
F. L. Pray
37 65
H. O. Pray
11 75
R. M. Sprague
15 00
Herbert Bickford
48 35
Orman Stevens
20 83
James Stevens
13 33
Oscar Stevens
20 00
Leroy Cook
12 25
Chas. Stuart
18 00
Albert Damren 3 00
Howard Bickford
20 50
Harry Bickford
26 25
E. A. Wallace
20 00
W. N. Judkins
2 13
S. C. Goodwin
14 25
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26
Fred Tibbetts 10 00
S. L. Castle
2 50
G. W. Castle 6 00
A. C. Dudley
11 60
John Chandler
2 50
Joseph Strickland
20 75
O. H. Gowel
30 07
J. R. Tibbetts
21 50
R. N. Guptill
31 39
H. H. Bryant
31 39
E. E. Dunn
26 50
H. C. Mills
7 00
C. H. Wyman
50 00
C. E. McDermott
12 00
R. B. Randlett
12 94
Leslie Bickford
37 17
Archie Bickford
1. 25
Charlie Chandler
6 00
Page Pulsifer
3 75
Irving F. Kelley
6 90
Harry C. Mills
4 00
Eli Wadleigh
26 25
Wesley H. Knowles
5 00
F. H. Chandler
3 61
Elmer Chandler
2 36
Sam Tibbetts
2 50
Foster Bros
39 00
E. C. Lord .
17 92
$1,641 34
JAMES WATSON, Road Commissioner.
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Paid for Repairs and Labor on Tractor
C. E. Tillson
$21 00
Getchell & Wing, spickets
18 00
Belgrade Auto Garage, storage and oil .. 17 13
$56 13
Road Commissioner's Report
Winter 1918-19
Howard Bickford
$ 9 00
E. S. York
3 23
Charles Ellis
3 00
Ed. Carter 4 50
A. M. Alexander 8 00
Herbert Alexander, labor of team service com.
12 00
S. Blaisdell, lumber for snow roller 13 00
E. H. Mosher, bolts, spikes for snow roller .. 12 70
$65 43
HERBERT ALEXANDER,
Road Commissioner.
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Report of Superintending School Committee
We recommend the following appropriations for nex- year, viz:
Common Schools $2,500 00
High School 1,650 00
Text books and supplies for both common and High Schools 375 00
Repairs
350 00
High School Library 50 00
Medical inspection
25 00
We recommend that the town leave the establishment of schools in the "Lowell" and "Adams" houses in the hands of the Committee.
W. T. LARKIN, Superintending C. R. SAWYER, School Committee
R. N. GUPTILL,
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
To the Superintending School Committee of Belgrade :
In accordance with the provisions of the school law, I herewith submit to you, and to the citizens of Belgrade, my first annual report for the town year 1918-19.
The school census of April 1, 1918, showed 281 per- sons between the ages of 5 and 21 years, a decrease of 17 persons over the previous year. There were enrolled in the schools during the year 220 pupils, 180 in the Com- mon Schools and 40 in the High School. As I have only been with you since the first of June, this report will naturally concern principally the fall and winter terms with which I am more familiar.
High School
The graduating class last June numbered seven, two of whom entered college and have gone on with their school education. Another is teaching and the others are engaged in various lines of work. The Ninth grade, to take the examination was smaller than usual and when fall came only six appeared to take the places of the Seniors who left us in the spring.
The work in both the High School and the Common Schools has been marked with many trials and tribula- tions and the lack of adequate funds, especially for the High School has been quite a handicap. We have been able thus far to retain our Assistant, but when summer came we found ourselves without a Principal. The sel-
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ective draft and the high wages paid in the ship yards had swept the board. After a stack of correspondence, a trip to Portland and a thorough canvass of the teachers' agencies, a promising man was engaged. Within a week he had resigned to accept a better paying position in another state. Another search and this to Portland followed and the present principal was secured.
The fall term was barely well under way when the influenza epidemic broke out. School has been closed on two different occasions, but by shortening our vacations and holding school on Saturdays for a part of the time we shall be able to get in the required number of weeks and finish the required work by the middle of June. A few students who lost so much time by sickness that it was practically impossible for them to make up the work, have dropped out but we hope to see them back in the fall.
In spite of these discouragements the future looks bright. War activities have clearly demonstrated the need and the practical value of a high school education; we have a large class to take the examination for entrance to High School this spring; the urgency to stay out and work will gradually grow less as our soldiers return and another fall should see us progressing with renewed vigor.
Common School®
We planned early in the fall to finish out a school year of the usual length, of thirty-two weeks. Later to avoid an overdraft this time was cut short one week but should . be made up in the spring as we are already below the average for the state. The "Franklin", "New Century" "Whittier," "Mckinley," and "Lincoln" schools are still in session. There are only two schools in town that have not been interrupted by the epidemic and the attend- ance in nearly all of them has been considerably shattered. By doing away with the long winter vacation we hope to overcome the misfortunes we have already suffered and
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at the close of the spring term leave every class up to grade.
Teachers have been as scarce as the proverbial hens teeth. At times experienced teachers were not to be found anywhere in the state. Four of our schools have had the same teachers for the whole year and all but one have had the same teacher for the fall and winter terms. With one exception our teachers have all had previous experience.
Special emphasis and attention has been given in all the schools in "Reading." The Monroe's Standardized Silent Reading tests were given early in the year as a means of finding individual defects and of comparing our grades with the "Standards." Later in the year another will be given to check results. In several schools the Studebaker Economy Drill Cards in Arithmetic were in- troduced with very gratifying results. These cards pro- vide daily individual drill in the four fundamental pro- cesses and show the teacher the special difficulties of each child in that subject.
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