Annual report of the municipal officers of the town of Belgrade, Maine, 1916-1919, Part 5

Author: Belgrade (Me.)
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Belgrade, Me. : The Town
Number of Pages: 162


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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


-


* 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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