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As the number of pupils at the Lakes had decreased sharply and as we were limited for funds it seemed necessary to your Superintending School Committee to combine the two schools at the Lakes with the opening of the fall term. The resulting school is about the same in size as the one at the Depot.
Beside the usual minor repairs that always need attention the following improvements have been made. Jacketed stoves have been installed in the "Franklin" and ' Washington" schools and in the recitation room at the High School building ( with the former stove arrange- ment it would have been impossible to seat all the pupils, who are now comfortably accommodated in the Franklin School house). The windows have been changed in the Washington school house to comply with Standard light- ing requirements of the State Department, and an out-
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house, connected with this schoolroom by the required ventilated passageway, has been erected. Through the courtesy of Mr. Merrow we were allowed to move the fence back to make room for a good driveway.
Belgrade is to be congratulated on the way in which the School Committee has been directing the repair work. For two years now they have been working in a syste- matic way with the results that we have two school build- ings (Franklin and Washington) in town which practically meet the State standard requirements. A bill is before the present Legislature and when this matter becomes compulsory this town will not be caught napping.
Appropriations
Your School Committee has considered the situation care-
fully and recommends the following appropriaticns for next year:
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 reference Library 50 00
Medical Inspection . 25 00
At the beginning of this year, in the Common School account the total of the balance; the transferred Lakes Room account and balance; and the appropriation amount- ed to $2,207.38. This year the amount recommended is $2,500.00. We must remember that we have already cne week of school to make up in the spring, that our present balance is only $42.01 and that at the present time the number of pupils from Rome attending the Union School is much smaller than it was last year which of course will bring in less tuition from that source. Stated in figures
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the situation is as follows: Our present weekly expense for teachers, janitors and conveyance is $125.00, and will not be less the coming year.
Estimates for the coming year, allowing for no in- creases and allowing for more tuition than we received this year:
Assets
Liabilities
Town . $2,500 00
33 weeks of school, $4,125 00
State 1,913 44
Fuel 450 00
Tuition . 161 56
$4,575 00
$4,575 00
For two years now we have been short of money in the High School Account. The lack of funds has been our most serious handicap during the present year. There will be a large class to enter the coming year and the appropriation will determine the kind of school we shall be able to provide for them. Regardless of the appropriation we shall hire our teachers as economically as possible but for the interests of the school we should be able to secure the right kind. Deducting the over- draft from the amount recommended will leave available for next year $1,500. Adding the State Aid to this will make only $100.00 more than the present running expense of the school. The work of the colleges has been so irregular this year and the call in other fields of work is so strong that it would be folly to imagine that the short- age of high school teachers will be overcome in one year.
With the Textbooks and Supplies appropriation must be purchased all books and all supplies for both the High School and Common Schools. We have curtailed our expenses to keep within the stated amount and can probably do the same this coming year with the same appropriation recommended.
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The same amount is recommended for High School Reference Library as last year. This is $25.00 less than has been raised in years past but with a careful selection of books it does very nicely.
The repairs account is overdrawn about $32.00 and the same appropriation as last year will be needed to allow the regular work of improvement to go on.
For Medical Inspection, no increase in appropria- tion is requested although for a town as large as Belgrade it is a very trivial sum, being less than nine cents per pupil. Allow the amount is small the benefits derived therefrom are not to be lightly passed over. Besides the advantage of having a school physician at the service of the teacher in case of symptoms of a contagious disease the inspection for physical defects which may be hinder- ing a child's progress in school, and affecting his whole future cannot be sufficiently estimated. A part of the schools have been inspected and as soon as traveling per- mits it is purposed to inspect the others.
In conclusion I wish to express appreciation to the citizens of Belgrade for the generous co-operation I have received in my work in the schools.
Respectfully submitted,
R. G. OAKES, Superintendent of Schools.
Report of the School Physician
Owing to the influenza epidemic of the fall and winter, and the consequent interruption of school work, only a beginning was made in the medical examination of school children. It is planned, during the coming year, to extend this work to all the schools in town and to ex- amine each pupil for any disease or unhealthy condition which might interfere with his or her capacity for study. The fact is well known that, in many cases, the corrections of diseased tonsils, decayed teeth, obstruction of the nose
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from adenoids or other causes, will prevent many attacks of acute sickness and will improve the child mentally and physically. The work of school physician will also in- clude the sanitary inspection of school houses and grounds.
Medical examination of each pupil was carried out in the High and Franklin schools and when any unhealthy conditions were found, the parents were notified. It was thought best to inoculate the pupils of the High and Franklin schools with influenza vaccine, owing to the fact that in the vicinity of these schools the disease was very prevalent. This was done with apparently good results. It is hoped to make the work of medical inspection bene- ficial to all the schools in town, and the cordial support and co-operation of all parents and citizens is asked in order that it may be successful.
L. E. REYNOLDS, M. D., School Physician.
Belgrade School Statistics
SCHOOL
TEACHER
TERM
Enrollment
Av. Attendance
No. of Weeks
Supt's Visits
Wages
J. C. Haggerty
Spring
32 29.6 11
4 $105.55
Helen Russell
15.00
F. H. Sanborn
Fall
29 24.6 12 5 1,100.00
Helen Russell
630.00
F. H. Sanborn
Winter
29
-
2 1,100.00
Helen Russell
630.00
New Century *
Una B. Shattuck, Grammar Nora M. Chandler, Primary Gladys Burgess Gladys Burgess
Spring
12 10.6 9
1 12.00
Spring
21 18.4 9
1 11.00
Fall
32 30 12
4 15.00
Winter
30
1
15.00
Viola Roscoe
Spring
24 21 12
Franklin*
Viola Roscoe
Fall
31 26
10
6 15.00
Mrs. Guy Yeaton
Winter
32
-
4
15.00
Mildred P. Yeaton
Spring
18 14
12
1 9.00
Whittier *.
Mildred P. Yeaton
Fall
12 10
12
3
10.00
Mildred P. Yeaton
Winter
12
1
2 10.00
Ethel C. Foster
Spring
10 8
12
1 10.00
Lowell
Ethel C. Foster
Fall
9.8++
12
3 11.00
Ethel C. Foster
Winter
8 7
9
2
11.00
Florence A. White
Spring
11 9+
12
1 9.00
Florence A. White
Fall
11 7.9
10
3 10.00
Florence A. White
Winter
7 6.8 9
3 10.00
Frances Spaulding
Spring
19 16.6 12
1 9.00
Evelyn Sawyer
Fall
17 13
10
3
9,00
Evelyn Sawyer
Winter
13
-
2
9.00
Angie O. Bartlett
Spring-
8 6.76 12
1 9.00
Lincoln*
Angie O. Bartlett
Fall
14 13
12
10.00
Angie O. Bartlett
Winter 16
10.00
Leona G. Smith
Spring
15 12.5 12
Anna Pratt
Fall
18 13
12
4
11.50
Anna Pratt
Winter
13 10
7:
3
11.50
Rachel Sturtevant
Spring
17 13
12
1 12.00
Washington
Izetta Royal Izetta Royal
Fall
16|12.7 12
4 12.50
Winter
15 12
7
2 12.50
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* Schools are still in session.
-
4
1 10.50
Lakeside .
Adams
Mckinley*
2 13.50
High*
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School
Financial Report for Belgrade, 1918. COMMON SCHOOLS RESOURCES
Balance last year. $ 240 61
Balance from Lakes Room account as
per vote of town March, 1918 466 67
Town appropriated 1,500 00
Received from State
1,913 44
Mt. Vernon tuition
61 37
Rome
59 94
$4,242 03
Transferred to acct. of Medical Inspec-
tion by vote of town Mar. 4, 1918.
25 00
-- $4,217 03
EXPENSES
Teachers . $3,084 00
Conveyance 510 50
Janitor 115 10
Fuel.
448 42
Paid bal. due on Lakes schoolroom acct.
17 00
-$4,175 02
Balance
.$
42 01
Liabilities
Due teachers $120 00
Janitors. 26 00
Conveyance
20 00
Assets
$ 166 00
Due from Mt. Vernon, estimated.
110 00
Due from Rome 90 00
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Teachers' Wages
Una B. Shattuck $108 00
Nora M. Chandler 99 00
Frances Spaulding 108 00
Leona G. Smith 126 00
Rachel Sturtevant 144 00
Ethel Foster ... 329 00
Mildred P. Yeaton 268 00
Florence White.
298 00
Angie O. Bartlett. 268 00
Viola Roscoe. 312 00
Gladys Burgess 285 00
Evelyn Sawyer 144 00
Anna Pratt.
222 50
Izetta Royal ..
237 50
Mrs. Guy Yeaton.
135 00 - $3,084 00
Conveyance
W. T. Larkin
$145 00
Mrs. L. A. Cook
155 00
J. W. Fowler
136 00
E. L. Bachelder
72 50
A. M. Johnson
:00
-$ 510 50
Janitors
Richard Pray $ 8 50
Guy French 6 00
Reginald Emmons
6 00
Leona G. Smith 1 50
Evelyn Stratton
1 05
Ivan R. Sprague 3 40
Mrs. Calvin Brooks
7 75
Ralph Bickford
6 00
Lubert Roberts
9 10
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Maynard Furbush 5 00
Lorenzo Richardson
4 80
Luvita Bickford
10 20
W. O. Willey
2 00
B. H. Roberts
2 00
Mrs. James Tracy
5 25
Mrs. Fred Patten
3 00
Elmer Morrill
3 00
Dora Bickford .
3 00
Mrs. M. M. Cook .
3 00
Frances Pray
4 20
William P. Mills
4 20
Mildred Yeaton 4 20
Evelyn Sawyer 3 50
Celia A. Trask
5 00
Roland Mills
2 45
-$ 115 10
Fuel
Joseph Ashland
$ 43 50
Guy French .
1 00
Reginald Emmons
1 00
C. E. Tillson
114 00
A. L. Cottle . 80 00
C. R. Sawyer
4 00
E. A. Mills
30 00
Ernest J. White 5 85
R. N. Guptill
31 87
A. M. Johnson
32 00
Mrs. Calvin Brooks
2 00
Ralph Bickford 75
Lorenzo Richardson
75
Richard Pray
50
Clifford Tukey
50
Frances Pray
1 80
William P. Mills 1 80
40
R. N. Guptill 3 00
S. Blaisdell . 13 00
H. L. Alexander
40 00
Asa Stevens
28 00
Luvita Bickford
1 80
W. L. Withers
9 00
Richard Mills
2 30
- -$ 448 42
3 Repairs
Town appropriation
$350 00
Overdraft last year
58 25
Available for this year
. $ 291 75
EXPENSES
T. W. McQuaide $ 2 26
Fred Patten . 7 00
Florence White
1 75
Chas. Wilder
12 00
Frank Bunker
2 00
T. N. Easton
26 90
W. T. Larkin
59 92
E. C. Leighton
43 31
N. D. Gordon Co.
50 62
A. B. Bates Co.
6 19
Webster Bickford
3 50
R. G. Oakes
2 46
M. M. Larkin
45 25
A. R. Damren .
3 00
Pray Bros. 17 50
S. Blaisdell 2 74
C. J. Anderson
2 76
Lillian G. Lambert 11 00
David E. French 22 54
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W. E. Farnham
6 00
Avery Merrow
3 00
D. M. Marshall Co.
2 15
-$
323 85
Overdraft
$
.
32 10
Text-books and Supplies
RESOURCES
Town appropriation
$425 00
Balance from last year 2 24
Bal. from H. S. Library Acct. .
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-$427 51
$427 51
EXPENSES
High School including Reference Library :
J. C. Haggerty
$ 3 32
American Book Company
14 14
Silver, Burdett & Co ..
25 12
Chas. Scribner & Sons.
4 87
Manifold Manufacturing Co
1 75
Ginn & Co . 24 30
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co
15 81
E. E. Babb & Co
2 84
D. C. Heath & Co
11 33
Howard & Brown
6 37
Atchinson, Mentzer & Co
1 40
The Riverside Press
8 60
The MacMillan Co
87
R. G. Oakes 3 40
T. B. Davis Co
5 60
Maine Library Commission
2 50
Funk, Wagnalls Co
4 32
E. H. Mosher
7 33
Wood & Bishop
1 80
Houghton, Mifflin Co
7 40
-$153 07
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Common Schools:
T. W. McQuaide . 12 90
Dowling School Supply Co 5 00
American Book Co
57 09
D. C. Heath Co
14 96
Silver, Burdett Co.
18 56
Ginn & Co.
22 96
Franklin Journal
2 90
Durkin Rures Co
6 98
R. G. Oakes
8 62
L. W. Gerish
2 50
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co .
34 43
Scott, Foresman & Co.
22 40
Kansas State Normal School
2 60
N. A. Clough
3 00
E. E. Babb & Co
30 94
E. H. Mosher
24 00
-$269 84
$423 11
Balance
3 60
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HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNT
RESOURCES
Town appropriation
$1,050 00
Received from State 500 00
Tuition, Rome .
48 00
Tuition, Sidney
36 00
$1,634 00
Overdraft 1917
62 42
Available
$1,571 58
EXPENSES
J. C. Haggarty
$ 474 98
F. H. Sanborn
508 88
Helen E. Russell
573 00
Roy A. Yeaton, fuel
80 00
S. Blaisdell, fuel
11 25
Harry Damren
12 50
R. N. Guptill .
31 50
H. Elmer Trask
6 00
Kenneth Bartlett 7 00
9 00
Mrs. Harry Mills
7 00
Overdraft
148 53
Superintendent's Salary
RESOURCES
Balance last year
$ 18 00
Paid T. W. McQuaide
18 00
Washington School Playground
Balance from last year
$ 100 00
Medical Inspection
Town appropriation
$ 25 00
L. E. Reynolds services
25 00
.
Floyd Yeaton
$1,721 11
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Warrant
To Roy A. Yeaton, Constable of the town of Belgrade. Greeting:
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In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the said town of Belgrade, qualified by law to vote in town af- fairs, to assemble at Belgrade Grange Hall in said town on Monday, the third day of March, A. D. 1919, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, to wit :
First-To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Second-To choose all necessary town officers for the ensuing year.
Third-To see if the town will vote to have one or more Road Commissioners.
Fourth-To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise for the support of schools for the ensuing year.
Fifth-To see if the town will vote "yes" or "no" on the question of appropriating and raising money necessary to entitle the town to State Aid as provided in section 19 of chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes of 1916.
Sixth-To see if the town will appropriate and raise the sum of five hundred and thirty-three dollars ($533.00) for the improvement of the section of State Aid road as outlined in the report of the State Highway Commission in addition to the amounts regularly raised
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for the care of ways, highways and bridges, the above amount being the maximum which the town is allowed to raise under the provisions of section 18, chapter 25, of the Revised Statutes of 1916.
Seventh-To see whether the town will vote to raise money and what sum for the maintenance of State and State Aid highways during the ensuing year within the limits of the town, under the provision of sections 9 and 18 of chapter 130 of the Public Laws of 1913, or under the provisions of section 21, chapter 25, of the Revised Statutes of 1916.
Eighth-To see if the town will appropriate and raise extra money for State Aid Highway in order to take advantage of section 21, chapter 25, of the Revised Statutes of 1916 as amended by section 5, chapter 258, Public Laws of 1917, which provides for towns making additional appropriations and receiving additional aid and a bonus, and if so, what sum.
Ninth-To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise for snow bills of the winter 1918-19.
Tenth-To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the support of roads and bridges for the ensuing year.
Eleventh-To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise for the repair of schoolhouses.
Twelfth-To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise for the purchase of school books for the ensuing year.
Thirteenth-To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise to defray town charges for the ensuing year.
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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 ap- propriate and raise one hundred dollars ($100.00) for electric lights to light the street at Belgrade depot for the coming year.
Eighteenth-To see if the town will vote to appro- priate and raise one hundred dollars ($100.00) for elec- tric lights to light the street at Belgrade Lakes for the coming year.
Nineteenth-To see if the town will vote to appro- priate and raise one hundred dollars ($100.00) for elec- tric 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.
Twenty-first-To see if the town will vote to take some action about collecting the tax deeds of 1917.
Twenty-second-To see if the town will vote to purchase a snow roller for the back road and Bickford hill.
Twenty-third-To see if the town will vote to have electric lights at Taylor's Corner and at North Belgrade Station, and raise money for the same.
Twenty-fourth-To see if the town will appropriate and expend the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for repairs of sidewalks at Belgrade Lakes.
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Twenty-fifth-To see if the town will vote to ap- propriate and raise the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) to repair the road from the highway leading to Oakland to the tomb at Belgrade cemetery.
Twenty-sixth-To see if the town will appropriate and expend the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to repair the road from H. H. Adams' house to the Frank Page house.
Twenty-seventh-To see if the town will appro- priate and expend two hundred dollars ($200.00) on the road to Camp Abena from the stage road, so called.
Twenty-eighth-To see what salary or compensa- tion shall be paid to the selectmen of the town.
Twenty-ninth-To see if the town will vote to ac- cept one hundred dollars ($100.00) from John Worcester to be held in trust, the income to be expended annually on his lot.
Thirtieth-To see if the town will vote to accept one hundred dollars ($100.00) from Rosa Williams, Mabel Colbath, Cora Grant and Isabel Winkelman, for the care of the lot of their father, Charles Richardson.
Thirty-first-To see if the town will vote to accept one hundred dollars ($100.00) from the heirs of the late Amanda J. Cummings, to be held in trust, the income to be expended annually on the family lot of Joseph S. Cummings.
Thirty-second-To see if the town will vote to ac- cept one hundred dollars ($100.00) from the heirs of the late Amanda J. Cummings, to be held in trust, the income to be expended annually on the lot of John and Lydia Hersom Tilson in Woodside cemetery.
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Thirty-third-To see if the town will authorize the Superintending School Committee to maintain schools as recommended by them.
Thirty-fourth-To see if the town will authorize the Superintending School Committee to insure the schoolhouses in town, and what sum of money it will appropriate fer that purpose.
Thirty-fifth, To see if the town will vote to author- ize the selectmen and treasurer to hire money for the use of the town, if necessary.
The selectmen give notice that they will be in ses- sion for the purpose of revising and correcting the list of voters, at Grange Hall, at nine o'clock in the fore- noon on the day of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Belgrade this eighteenth day of February, A. D. 1919.
F. L. PRAY, Selectmen B. C. BICKFORD, of
A. E. PAGE, Belgrade.
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