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At this point I wish to bear testimony to the loyalty, devotion and energy with which the teachers have this year taken up and carried on their work. It is pleasing to report that the results on the whole have been gratifying to a remarkable degree and that conditions give promise of still greater improvement in the future.
THE SCHOOL YEAR.
In taking up the duties of supervision, the financial provisions for the support of schools as well as their needs was carefully con- sidered and it early appeared that there was no necessity of restrict- ing you to a school calendar of twenty-eight or thirty weeks. Arrangements were accordingly made to maintain, on the funds provided, a school year of thirty-six weeks. This certainly ought to be a minimum requirement in a community with the advantages and prosperity of Harrison.
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On the funds provided at your last annual meeting there will, on the 18th of March, 1910, have been maintained thirty-six weeks of school with a comfortable unexpended balance of $230.75.
Relative to the necessary appropriation for the maintenance of your common schools for the ensuing year, it is a pleasure to report that owing to changes made by the last legislature in the law con- trolling the distribution of State aid for schools, it will not be neces- sary for you to raise for this purpose as large an amount as has been your custom in recent years. Your committee have had the matter under consideration and their recommendation in this matter will be found under its proper heading in the report of the S. S. Com. on page 46. I have no doubt that you will give due weight to the advice of these men whom you have asked to give their time and best judg- ment to the interests of your schools.
In connection with your appropriation for common schools I would call your attention to Chapter 108, Public Laws of 1909, which pro- vides for a special State aid to any town raising four mills or more on its valuation for the support of common schools. I sincerely hope both towns of this district will take measures to secure this bonus which in the case of Harrison will amount to about $180.
Some question has been raised as to the advisability of maintaining a school year of 36 weeks. This is first and last a question for the citizens of Harrison to decide. It concerns no one but you and will af- fect directly no one but your children. No member of the S. S. Com. with one exception, nor the Superintendent has any children to be educated in the public schools of Harrison, therefore, any recommen- dation from the school department in this matter may at least be considered as uninfluenced by selfish motives. Here are the facts bearing on the question :-
Many towns in Maine both rural and urban are giving their child- ren 36 or more weeks of school per year.
The average length of the common school year for the whole state of Massachusetts, is 36 weeks and 2 days.
For a rural town your tax rate is very low and your resources are much above rural towns in general.
Your children are to go out into the world, there to compete with those from the best and most ambitious towns of Maine, Massachu- setts and other states. Those children are receiving six weeks more school equipment per year than yours have hitherto had, or a 20 per cent. advantage.
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. This is equivalent to starting a horse 64 rods back of the wire on a mile track. If your boys and girls can do in thirty weeks what other boys and girls can do in thirty-six weeks, or, in other words, if they are 20 per cent. smarter than the average American child, then they can overcome the handicap if you place it upon them, which I am certain you will not conclude to do. The members of the school department are your servants to use the means provided for the best interests of child life in this town and every dollar will be made to go to its limit toward this end. It should, however, be un- derstood that 100 per cent. results can not be accomplished in 80 per cent. time.
FREE HIGH SCHOOL.
Harrison is highly favored by the proximity of Bridgton academy and it behooves the citizens to encourage its maintenance and de- velopment in every possible way. £ This institution gets a large share of the patronage of your town. It should receive the whole and it is a mistake to scatter tuition among schools that are no bet- ter and are farther away. Relative to your expenditure for high school tuition you will be agreeably surprised to find by the finan- cial statement appended to this report, that there is an unexpended balance of your Free High School funds af $143.66 and that an ap- propriation of $50 this year, instead of $275, will be sufficient to meet all demands in this line.
At the time of sending copy for the Selectmen's report to the printer the standing of this account was not known, therefore an estimate was made.
With a reduction of current appropriations for common schools of $200 and for free high school tuition of $225, or $425 in all, it would seem that this might be an opportune time for entering vigorously on a campaign of repairs.
Supt. O. J. Kern of Illinois in his address before the Maine State Teachers' Association last fall laid down this principle :- "The schoolbouse should be made as good for its purposes as the best dairy barn in the neighborhood is for its purposes."
Harrison produces fruits of various kinds that are noted for their excellence over a wide territory. She raises stock which will com-
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pare favorably with that of any other community. Her farm crops and forest products are magnificent, but the best crop of all is her boys and girls.
Has anyone reckoned the rate of interest returned on money and effort invested in developing manly boys and intelligent girls?
In closing I wish to extend my hearty thanks to the S. S. Com- mittee and Selectmen for their uniform courtesy and assistance, to the teachers for their loyal support and conscientious efforts in the performance of their trying duties, and to the citizens for their "cordial co-operation and interest in the welfare of the schools.
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. S. WALKER, Superintendent of Schools.
Harrison, Me., Feb. 15, 1910.
ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
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SCHOOL STATISTICS-FINANCIAL
Name of Teacher
No. of weeks
Salary per week
Total paid
Teachers
Cost of fuel
Janitor
Total Cost
Cost per pupil
Vill. Gram.
Bessie R. Lamb
10
$9.00 $ 90.00 $
$2.50 $
12
9.00
108.00
12.51
3.00
14
9.00
126.00
3.50
Vill.
Ethel E. Thomes
10
7.50
75.00
2.50
Inter.
Rena L. Buck
12
7.50
90:00
12.51
2.75
291.26 16.64
14
7.50
105.00
3.50
Vill. Prim.
Emma L. Proctor
10
8.50
85.00
12.50
3.00
340.00
14.78
Bra'k't
Etta M. Lamb.
lo
7.00
70.00
2.50
12
7.00
84 00
15.75
3.00
276.75
27.67
14
7.00
98.00
3.50
10
7.00
70.00
2.50
Mills Gram.
Mildred L. Ingersoll . .. 12
9.00
108.00
11.00
2.50
323.50 28.13
Mills
Josephine Mains
10
3.50
35.00
2.50
Prim.
Nellie M. Pitts.
12
6.50
78.00
11.00
2.50
223.50 24.83
W
14
6.50
91.00
3 50
Maple Ridge
F
Wymene Brown
12
7.00
87.00
14.50
2.75
289.75 16.46
W
Bertha N. Torrey
14
8.00
112.00
3.50
South
S
Rena L. Buck.
10
7.00
70.00
2.50
12
7.50
90.00
12.00
3.00
279.00
19.24
Annie L. Dudley
14
7.00
98.00
3.50
Lewis
Nellie M. Pitts
10
6.00
60.00
2.50
232.00 25.77
Center
Annie B. Robinson
10
7.00
70.00
Mildred Hall.
12
7.00
84.00
11.25
3.00
269.75 21.57
§ Mildred Hall
Helen Knight
14
7.00
98.00
3.50
₹
12
9.00
108.00
14
9.00
126.00
3.50
14
9.00
126.00
3.50
S
Josephine P. Shedd
10
7.00
70.00
10.00
Mary E. Hutchins
12
6.00
72.00
84.00
3.50
14
6.00
2668.00 123.02 80.00 2871 .02
Average cost per pupil.
. $21.54
This table shows the cost of the schools to the end of the winter term March 18, 1910.
School
Term
$ 345.51 20.32
2.00
Minnie A. Wardsworth
Iola A. Walker
Bertha Parker.
.
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SCHOOL STATISTICS-ATTENDANCE, ETC.
School
Term
Name of Teacher
Pupils registered
Average
Attendance
No. not absent
one-half day
Cases Tardiness
No. of daily
recitations
Visits by Citizens
Village
Spring
Bessie R. Lamb
19
17
4
21
21
4
Grammar
Fall
Bessie R. Lamb
19
17
3
29
20
3
Village
5 Spring
Ethel E. Thomas
19
17
10
20
0
Intermediate
1 Fall
Rena L. Buck ..
19
18
6
17
22
2
Village
Spring Emma L. Proctor ..
28
24
8
10
10
Primary
Fall
Emma L. Proctor. .
24
22
6
6
12
Brackett
Fall
Mrs. Etta M. Lamb.
12
11
2
4
26
2
Mills
Spring Minnie A. Wadsworth.
14
11
5
33 20
5
Grammar
Fall
Mildred L. Ingersoll. ..
13
12
6
42
16
30
Mills
Spring
Josephine T. Mains. ..
9
7
1
12
14
6
Primary
Fall
Nellie M. Pitts
12
11
0
19
18
33
Maple
Spring
Josephine P. Shedd
18
15
4
8
30
Ridge
Fall
Wymene Browi
20
19
3
28
21
14
South
Iola A. Walker
16
13
1
21
32
5
Spring
Nellie M. Pitts
10
9
1
8
30
8
Lewis
Fall
Mary E. Hutchins
11
9
9
16
30
2
Center
1
Fall
Mildred Hall.
15
12
2
30
20
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SUMMARY OF SCHOOL STATISTICS.
Number of scholars in town
.238
Spring
Fall
Total registration
160
160
Average attendance
138
144
Number entering Academy Sept. '09
7
Whole number in Academy .
17
Number graduated in Academy, '09
Cases of tardiness in common schools
335
Visita by citizens 159
17
16
6
6
33
6
Spring Fall
Spring
Mrs. Annie B. Robinson
16
13
1
0
27
12
Spring Mrs. Etta M. Lamb
10
9
3
15
34
2
.
Rena L. Buck.
Bertha I. Parker
Report of the
Superintending School Committee
Authorized by a vote of the town at its annual meeting, March 1, 1909, your committee united with the S. S. Committee of the town of Bridgton in the formation of a superintendent's union on the 15th of May, 1909, and on the 20th of the same month Chas. S. Walker was unanimously elected to the office of district superintendent for one year beginning June 1st, '09.
For information regarding the management of the schools for the year now closing and measures for improving them in the future we refer you to the report of the Superintendent of Schools.
The following accounts show the expenditure of money appro- priated for the school department.
COMMON SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
DR.
To Balance 1908 appropriation
$
576 19
1909 appropriation 1,400 00
State school fund.
974 25
Town school fund
42 00
Tuition due from Otisfield.
93 33
60 Bridgton 16 00
$3,101 77
CR.
By Salary of teachers $2,212 00
Salary of janitors
47 00
Cost of fuel
123 02
Unexpended balance
719 75
$3,101 77
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TEXT BOOK AND SUPPLIES ACCOUNT.
DR.
To Appropriation, 1909
$300 00
CR.
By paid A. P. Stanley, cash paid for supplies .. . $18 00
D. Appleton & Co., books 48 15
E. E. Babb & Co., books 33 75
Babbs-Merrill Co., supplies 8 60
H. M. Weigle, supplies. 3 50
Atkins 'n, Mentzer & Grover, supplies. 2 70
H. A. Shorey & Son, supplies 2 40
Wales, Hamblen Co., supplies 2 00
Smith & Sale, supplies 6 00
A. B. Markley, supplies 2 00
C. H. Mackey, supplies 2 85
J. T. Kneeland, supplies 1 65
B. & S. R. R. R., freight on supplies 50
H. H. Caswell, brooms. 4 00
Silver, Burdett & Co., books 34 89
Chas. Scribner's Sons,
5 00
Globe School Book Co.,
3 60
J. L. Hammett & Co., supplies 37 45
Thompson, Brown Co., 66
8 06
Milton Bradley Co., 15 68
Unexpended balance 59 22
$300 00
A few open accounts with publishers when settled will practically exhaust the above balance.
INSURANCE AND APPARATUS ACCOUNT.
DR.
To Balance from 1908
$11 45
Appropriation 1909 50 00
$61 45
CB.
By Cash paid J. P. Blake, insurance
$ 6 88
Unexpended balance 54 57
$61 45
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FREE HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
DR.
To Balance from 1908 $ 9 10
Appropriation 1909
275 00
State aid received
205 83
due (Dec. 1910)
102 00
$591 93
CR.
By cash paid town of Paris, tuition $ 15 00
Hebron Academy
30 00
Bridgton
403 27
Unexpended balance
143 66
$591 93
REPAIRS ACCOUNT.
DR.
To Balance, 1908 ... $ 82 26
Appropriation, 1909
125 00
Cash for old stove
1 00
Balance over expended
31 16
$239 42
CR.
By paid A. P. Stanley, cash paid out $ 45 50
F. W. Cummings
3 25
Horace Whitney
3 75
George Flint
5 35
L. M. Wentworth
19 10
A. J. Brown.
1 25
Wales, Hamblen Co 6 50
W. Dresser 19 05
A. P. Stanley .
1 79
.
Portland Stove Foundry Co
20 64
A. C. Buck 5 00
L. M. Wentworth 18 06
W. W. Walker 2 15
Bridgton M. & L. Co 32 76
Geo. E. Jordan 7 05
C. S. Whitney 4 50
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By paid Thompson, Smith Co $ 8 84
Emma L. Proctor 4 00
B. & S. R. R. R. Co
90
H. H. Caswell.
27 98
A. Haskell
2 00
$239 42
SUPERINTENDENT'S ACCOUNT.
DR.
To Expenditures authorized by town
$100 00
CR.
By Cash paid Vida A. Green
$22 00
66 Chas. S. Walker 58 33
Balance unexpended
19 67
$100 00
In closing our report we would recommend appropriations for the ensuing year as follows: -
Common schools $1,200 00
Text books and supplies 300 00
Insurance and apparatus
50 00
Free High school tuition
50 00
Relative to the matter of repairs, we shall endeavor to present to you at the annual meeting a statement of needed repairs in detail with an estimate of the cost of the same. This will enable you to act understandingly in determining how much, if not all, of these repairs sball be made this year.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO E. TARBOX, S. S Com. A. C. BUCK,
of
A. P. STANLEY,
Harrison.
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