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$22.07
1914 STATE AID ROAD
Appropriation
$200.00
Received from the State
87.90
$287.90
Jeddie Brown, labor
10.50
Martin Corson, labor
8.75
Geo. Wyman, labor
3.50
Cecil Keene, labor
42,12
F. A. Wentworth, labor
28.88
Less Perkins, labor
10.50
Norman Hight, labor
28.00
Dennis Knights, labor
12.25
Henry Brown, labor
12.25
Alden Corson, labor
10.50
Ed Whitney, labor
18.38
Clyde Williams, labor
3.00
E. H. Tibbetts, labor
3.00
Lee Foss, labor
32.00
Herbert Wentworth, labor
8.75
O. L. Bush, drain pipe
1.05
John Curtis, labor
8.00
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Hight & Ayer, material
5.50 T. C Fox, labor
2.50
Ora Judkins, powder
5.85
Geo. F Ayer, labor
32.62
$287.90
1913 STATE AID ROAD
Amount expended in 1913
$692.47
Amount expended in 1914
46.78
$739.25
Appropriated by town
$200.00
Received from State
200.00
$400.00
$339.25
BUSHES
Appropriation
$50.00
Frank Fox
4.50
W. R. Tibbetts
4.50
Elmer Staples
5,25
Beckwith & Taylor
6.12
L. Ham
1.50
Cecil Keene
3.00
Chester Berry
1.75
Osgood York
2.63
T. A. Noyes
2.00
$31.25
Balance unexpended
$18.75
PAID FOR SHEEP KILLED BY DOGS
Amos Chapman
$4.00
Peter Willey
3.50
Leslie Turner
6.00
$13.50
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ABATEMENTS
Arthur Bush, paid in Auburn $2.00
Geo. Taylor, paid in' Cornville 3.85
David Thompson, paid in Wellington
2.00
Mrs. Austin Baker, taxed twice
4.61
Perley Hall, left town
3.23
$15.69
ROADS AND BRIDGES
Winter
Summer
1914-15
T. C. Fox, labor
$427.78
Frank Boynton, labor
50.05
6.00
H. P. Bush, supplies
1.50
H. S. Elliott, water tubs
3.00
H. C. Batcher, labor
4.16
Chas. Weston, labor
10.38
Maurace Small, labor
7.10
O. M. Nason, labor
4.30
4.38
H. O. Nason, labor
4.30
10.00
Frank Allen, labor
2.00
7.88
Ralph Taylor, labor
3.80
.80
Ira Poland, labor
18.35
Frank Joaquin, labor water tub
4.43
1.50
P. S. Poland, labor
4.22
Edwin Nelson, labor
3.50
Per Nelson, labor
2.60
Sumner Whitman, labor
1.60
Frank Fox, labor and lumber
2.00
57.23
Manley Campbell, labor
18.80
Geo. Fox, labor
2.41
3.25
L. C. Williams, water tub
3.00
H. D. Eaton, labor
2.50
M. G. Greene, plank
.84
Byron Hurd, labor
2.67
Chas. Taylor, labor and lumber
1.08
10.98
Osgood York, labor
6.00
6.13
W. R. Tibbetts, labor and water tub
3.64
3.42
Will Huff, labor and water tub
4.00
1.50
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· Shelden Huff, labor
2.88
4.00
Cyrus York, labor
1.60
Ed Davis, labor
36.07
C. S. Brayton, labor
1.40
Ed Ward, labor
.75
Chas. Chapman, labor
6.20
W. S. Chapman, labor and lumber
12.80
8.60
P. Hoyt, labor
5.72
Amos Rines, labor and lumber
9.71
8.86
H. L. Wyman, plank
5.31
V. Mathes & Son, plank
47.04
Auren Buzzell, labor
4.28
5.25
C. D. Sinclair, labor
13.00
David Thompson, labor
14.53
Williard Drew, labor
16.25
1.00
Geo. Noyes, labor
20.00
E. L. Noyes, labor
15.20
Cassius Merrill, labor
1.20
3.50
W. A. Foss, water tub
1.50
Cecil Chapman, labor
4.80
James E. Chapman, labor
1.05
Ray Jones, labor
4.00
F. M. Bangs, labor
1.75
Beckwith & Taylor, labor and lumber
4.00
3.66
Bert Gilman, labor
20.70
Edgar Perkins, labor
.50
Chas. Goodwin, labor
2.00
E. C. Taylor, labor and lumber
3.60
.36
E. C. Huff, labor
5.80
_L. Ham, labor
3.00
1.50
Hight & Ayer, supplies
14.26
A. A. Hall, labor and lumber
12.40
13.70
Emil Nelson, labor
.70
Geo. F. Ayer, labor
101.25
Gus Nelson, labor
11.92
17.13
Herbert Lincoln, labor
3.00
James Foshay, labor
12.17
1.92
Clyde Williams, labor
9.00
Isaac Corson, labor
8.75
John Corson, labor
3.00
Henry Brown, labor
7.00
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Ernest Linkletter, labor
7.00
Perley Hall, labor
4.02
Wilfred Hurd, labor and lumber
5.48
Wm. Rowell, labor 2.50
4.38
Geo. Tibbetts, labor
1.40
11.25
Martin Corson, labor
5.25
Geo. Wyman, labor
3.50
Cecil Keene, labor
16.25
Daniel Reede, plank
2.00
Donald McLean, labor
20.87
Wm. Lancaster, labor
5.25
Norman Hight, labor
2.87
8.38
A. L. Noyes, labor
12.12
C. T. Jewett, plank
14.71
E. C. Trafton, labor
7.80
The Berger Mfg. Co., culvert
30.00
E. H. Tibbetts, labor
10.59
C. M. Conant, repairs
12.30
Albert Peverell, labor
8.38
Frank Moody, labor
3.50
Nellie York, labor
5.15
Leighton Bros, labor and plank
2.97
25.90
Wayland Magoon, labor
16.93
E. F. Downs, labor
6.61
A. J. Ward, labor and plank
6.30
Chester Berry, labor
1.75
Sherb Whittier, labor
2.20
Sanders & Flanders, supplies
3.88
M. L. Tuttle, labor
3.20
11.26
Bert Fish, labor and lumber, material.
3.50
James Corson, labor
18.25
3.70
B. A. Webb, labor
3.20
Ed. Goodrich, labor
7.10
2.61
H. N. Flanders, water tub
1.50
A. W. Smith. repairs
1.00
Leslie Turner, labor
2.00
Amos Chapman, labor
3.50
Geo. McKenney, labor 5.42
Frank Lancaster, labor
1.92
4.73
Geo. Gardner, labor
1.92
Guy Downs, labor
12
Clif Deering, labor
.88
Geo. Taylor, labor
.88
Peter Vicnier, labor
2.10
Joseph Vicnier, labor
2.10
Frank Alton, labor
2.10
F. A. Wentworth, labor
140.49
John Wing, labor
8.47
Elwood Corson, labor
27.00
Freddie Wentworth
35.45
Chas. Robinson, labor
23.20
Ed Whitney, labor
28.89
Frank Turner, labor
35.25
T. A. Noyes, labor
1.75
Jeddie Brown, labor 1913 State road.
1.75
Martin Corson, labor 1913 State road
.88
Cecil Keene, labor 1913 State road.
8.63
F. A. Wentworth, labor 1913 State road
5.00
Less Perkins, labor 1913 State road
2.63
Norman Hight, labor 1913 State road
6.00
Dennis Knights, labor 1913 State road
2.63
Henry Brown, labor 1913 State road
2.63
Ed Whitney, labor 1913 State road
3.50
Lee Foss, labor 1913 State road
6.00
Herbert Wentworth, labor 1913 State road ..
2.63
Geo. F. Ayer, labor 1913 State road
4.50
$475.18 $1,459.11
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Expended
1,934.29
Balance unexpended
$65.71
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Financial Standing Feb. 20, 1915
ASSETS
Cash in treasury $2,914.23
Due from Town of Bingham, pauper account 244.50
Due from Town of Fairfield, pauper account 88.16
Due from State on dog tax, estimated. 40.00
Due from State for sheep killed by dogs. . . 13.50
Due from Town of Cornville for tuition ..
. .
12.00
$3,312.39
LIABILITIES
Town officers' bills for 1914
$200.00
Appropriation to repair road through
Knight's woods
250.00
The Jacob Foss fund in trust
100.00
Estimated bills to arise
50.00
$600.00
Assets above liabilities
$2,712.39
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. F. AYER,
FRANK FOX,
W. R. TIBBETTS,
Selectmen of Athens.
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Treasurer's Report
M. J. Hight, treasurer in account with the Town of Athens for the year ending February 20, 1915.
1914:
Feb. 20, To cash on hand $2,130.84
Mar. 5, Rec'd from State, sheep killed by dogs 32.50
Mar. 9, Rec'd from Fairfield poor account
70.54
Mar. 1, Interest on bank account. 2.54
Apr. 15, Refunded dog tax 34.49
May 12, Chas. Cleveland
.75
July 1, Interest on bank account
11.96
July 18, Fred Hinton, tuition
9.45
Aug. 1, Tuition, common school, from
Cornville
7.35
State Pensions
138.00
Oct. 5, H. N. Flanders, dog tax.
Nov. 20, Rec'd from State equalization fund
125.00
Dec. 22, Rec'd Town Hebron on account
of Ernest Bumpers 25.00
Dec. 26, Rec'd from State railroad and tel., apportioned in 1914 1.05
1915:
Jan. 5, Rec'd State common school fund 597.49
Rec'd school and mill fund. 816.30
Jan. 6, Rec'd State improvement State roads 87.90
Jan. 11, Rec'd Town of Cornville, weights and measures 68.03
Jan. 28, Rec'd State highway dept.
16.00
Feb. 1, Rec'd State pensions 144.00
Feb. 1, Rec'd State free high school 500.00
47.00
Nov. 25, Rec'd from H. W. Wood
1.65
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Feb. 3, Rec'd State Imp. State roads 200.00 Rec'd Town Hebron, E. Bumpus. . 8.50
Feb. 4, Rec'd city of Hallowell on acct. Mr. Day 10.00
Feb. 20, Rec'd Somerset Acad. for books . . 14.00
Tax committed to E. H. Cook, col. 7,685.52
$12,785.86
CREDIT
1915:
Jan. 5, By paid State pensions $282.00
Jan. 5, By paid County tax 508.65
Jan. 5, Receipt for dog tax, 1914 47.00
Jan. 5, By paid State tax
1,433.16
Jan. 28, By State treasurer on acct State
highway commission 8.00
Paid on selectmens' orders 7,592.82
Cash in treasury Feb. 20, 1915. . 2,914.23
$12,785.86
Respectfully submitted,
M. J. HIGHT, Treasurer of Athens.
Auditor's Report
I hereby certify that I have examined the books and accounts of the Selectmen and Town Treasurer of the Town of Athens for the year ending February 20, 1915, and find them kept in good order and proper vouchers on file for the orders drawn, and money of the town all accounted for.
J. F. HOLMAN, Auditor.
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School Report
To the Superintending School Committee, Athens, Maine. Gentlemen :-
As principal of your boys and girls of high school age, I submit to you the following statements based on school year 1914-1915.
Athens has this year 23 students in Somerset Academy or 70 per cent of the total enrollment. Those students have thus far maintained an average attendance of 21.6 or 94 per cent. In support of the school in which you have your boys and girls you will by taxation, state high school aid, and provision of text books, pay about 50 per cent of the total expense for the year, by taxation alone 17 per cent; yet you have 70 per cent of the total enrollment. In an interview with State superintendent Payson Smith on February 8, he said, "I have found it true that the public interest in, and results obtained from our schools in any town, is directly proportional to the financial backing of them."
I regret that your knowledge of our school will have to be based on report. I regret your absence in our school rooms. There have been a good number of visitors but the list shows no names of school board or parents. So permit me to speak a word of hearty commendation for the work of my assistant, Miss Whipple; and your superintendent, Mr. Wood, have found himn a real man under whom it is a pleasure to work.
Somerset Academy is located in an agricultural community, and the course of study should be more directly in sympathy with the school environment to educate to the county instead of away from it. At present the school can prepare students for college and normal, but a greater per cent of your boys and girls will go to neither, and I must confess that full possibilities are not being grasped to prepare that greater per cent for life. Under present financial backing the academy can only offer a minimum course of study which has to be, by state requirements, that to fit for college and normal school. With its environment your high school should assume the position of a community social center and take an active interest in these things vital to your homes and your community welfare, You will see I am
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not giving you a puffing report so let me add that the standard of scholarship and equipment is not on par, but those are no insurmountable reasons why these things should be so.
The principal extends to the school board, parents, and any one interested a hearty invitation to visit school, to talk over facts and possibilities and to make use of him in any way for the good of the community he is hired to serve.
I am sure the trustees will heartily acknowledge all the above.
Respectfully submitted, GUY F. WILLIAMS, Principal of Somerset Academy.
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Superintendent's Report
To Elmer H. Tibbetts, Cecil Jewett and Charles S. Brayton, Superintending School Committee of the Town of Athens. Gentlemen:
I hereby submit to you the following report of the condition of the schools in your town since they came under my supervision, July 1, 1914, together with a statement of ex- penditures for the maintenance of the same for the fiscal year 1914-1915.
The work of the schools has been excellent considering the conditions under which they are operated. You have had a corps of teachers who are enthusiastically interested in school work and who are generally making good use of everything at their command for the interests of the pupils under their in- struction. A class for professional improvement has been held quite regularly throughout the winter with meetings weekly under the general direction of Principal G. F. Williams. A general meeting for all teachers in this superintendence unit was held during the early winter at Somerset Academy. The meeting was well attended by teachers who co-operated in a program which was pronounced helpful.
The repairs needed at the Franklin school and reported to you last year have not yet been made and the same disreput- able condition remains. In some ways an even worse condition exists at the Mckinley school and the Foss building is almost hopelessly antiquated.
No class is to leave the Grammar school this spring and I suggest that no class be graduated from this school for two years. However, with the crowded condition at this building it is impossible to care for additional pupils under present con- ditions.
The town has again supported nine schools besides the one at Coston's Corner which means that we are maintaining the least efficient and considering value received, the most expensive system known.
Allow me to call your attention to certain facts in connec- tion with the relative cost per pupil (reckoned on the basis of average attendance). On this basis the average cost per pu- pil for the year is as follows:
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At the village school (Gram. and Prim.) $15.00
At the Eaton school 39.73
At the Foss school 28.57
At the Mckinley school 24.86
At the Franklin school
28.25
Taking these four small schools together the average cost per pupil is twice that of the pupils in the village school. You may draw your own conclusion. Nevertheless these figures tell only one side of the story. You will note that despite the small attendance there are, at the Mckinley school, under one teacher, six grades, and at the Garfield a much larger school, are found' eight grades. At this school I found a daily schedule
This means nothing less than inefficiency, of forty recitations.
emphasized. No teacher can do her best work for eight grades. In every other line of work, consolidation and division of labor are keystones in the development of efficiency and it is beyond my ability to understand why our public school system should continue to follow the old ruts especially in rural communities. We must conclude that we either do not know or that we do not care. If the town will follow a line of gradual progress we can double the efficiency of our schools in six years without assuming a heavy burden of taxation.
The first step is the erection of a new building for the grades, three rooms, three grades in a room and the building to be centrally located. This building is immediately demanded by conditions at our village schools, it is demanded by the com- parative inefficiency and the high cost of support of our small rural schools and is made further advisable at this time by the necessity for immediate and extended repairs on several school buildings. £ To restrict so far as possible the number of daily. recitations I suggest that we make and strictly adhere to a rul- ing that children be allowed to enter the first grade only at the beginning of the fall term.
In several schools I have found more than one class in the same subject in the same grade, the result of children entering the grade at different times during the year.
I think it is not generally understood that the appropriation for "Text Books and Supplies" furnishes not only the Common schools but also the high school text books. The demands of the high school course make necessary a considerable annual, outlay for secondary work. Since I became your superinten-
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dent a total of $92.97 has been expended for books. Of this amount only $22.75 has been paid for common school texts. The balance $70.22 has been required for high school books. This fact should be taken into consideration in planning for the annual appropriation.
I call your attention to the fact that the children of Athens have nearly five weeks less schooling than the average for this state and my recommendation for an increased appropriation does not provide for a longer school year. However, arrange- ments should be made for at least 32 weeks of school.
COMMON SCHOOLS
RESOURCES
Appropriation, March, 1914
$1000.00
School and Mill fund from State
816.30
Common School fund from State
597.49
Equalization fund from State
125.00
Interest on school fund note
88.31
Tuition from Cornville
12.00
$2639.10
EXPENDITURES
Paid Teachers :
Mabelle Judkins, 28 weeks
$280.00
Helen Dunton
34.00
Mrs. Eva Moses
42.00
Louise Corson
17.50
Clara Corson, 13 weeks
104.00
Cora York, 22 weeks
176.00
Viola Taylor, 28 weeks
252.00
Opal Boston, 15 weeks
150.00
Lepha Henderson 126.00
Mabel Foss, 27 weeks
229.50
Fannie Butler, 25 weeks
225.00
Winnifred Trueworthy, 15 weeks 120.00
Pearl Harris, 15 weeks
127.50
Gara Bosworth, 15 weeks
135.00
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Ethel Butler, 6 weeks
48.00
Marion Starbird, 13 weeks
130.00
$2196.50
Paid for Tuition:
Brighton Plantation (1913)
$27.30
Town of Hartland (Coston's Corner
School)
121.24
$148.54
Paid for Fuel:
Fred Hight
$10.00
Daniel Poland
1.00
E. F. Wescott 5.90
F. Wentworth
1.25
Geo. Cleveland
1.00
H. W. Wood
1.05
Delmont Bush
.80
Elmer H. Tibbetts
22.75
E. W. Linkletter
35.00
$78.75
Paid for Conveyance:
Geo. Scribner
22.00
Preston Small
196.00
Frank Turner
140.00
Elmer Downs
70.00
$428.00
Paid for Janitor:
Mrs. Henry Brown
$12.00
Mrs. Addie Poland
4.00
Vera Leighton
2.50
Mrs. Bert Gilman
2.50
Mrs. Emma Jones
2.50
Chas. Dore
13.00
Chas. Leighton
1.00
Gara Bosworth
3.00
Mabel Foss
3.00
Fannie Butler
3.00
22
Winnifred Trueworthy
3.00
Viola Taylor
3.00
Ethel Butler
3.00
Pearl Harris
5.00
Ella Bucknam
3.00
$63.50
Total
$2915.29
Overdrawn
$276.19
HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Appropriated, March, 1914
$250.00
State aid 500.00
$750.00
Paid trustees Somerset Academy
$750.00
$750.00
REPAIR ACCOUNT
Appropriation, March, 1914 $250.00
Received from Town of Hartland (1/2cost of
repairs on schoolhouse at "Coston's Corner")
61.39
$311.39
Paid:
Sanders and Flanders
$4.47
Almond Locke
2.00
R. D. Cleveland (Fgt. and trucking) 1.50
7.05
A. H. Andrews & Co. (new desks) .... Dunham-Hanson & Co., wall board, strips, nails, etc., Costons' Corner H. W. Wood, wall board, etc., Cos- tons' Corner 6.03
66.57
L. B. Hoyt et als, labor and material 35.24 Bowman Hdw. Co., stock 6.90
Hight and Ayer, paint, etc. 8.05
Elmer H. Tibbetts
12.67
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Floyd Donahue
.75
Cecil Jewett
35.13
$186.36
Balance $125.03
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES ACCOUNT
Appropriation, March, 1914
$175.00
Paid:
H. L. Palmer $35.19
A. N. Palmer Co. 3.84
G. F. Williams 10.74
D. Appleton Co. 3.13
Loring, Short & Harmon 1.80
Silver Burdett & Co.
3.66
Educational Publishing Co.
2.66
Current Events
1.20
L. E. Knott Apparatus
8.03
Mabelle Judkins
1.10
D. H. Knowlton Co.
.75
Milton Bradley & Co.
2.95
Milton Bradley & Co.
1.37
B. H. Sanborn Co. 2.85
R. E. Dunbar
9.90
H. W. Wood, postage, etc
4.57
Town of Solon, books
3.00
Edward E. Babb & Co., 1913 acct.
32.74
Edward E. Babb & Co.
17.52
Ginn & Co., books
32.26
American Book Co., books
19.83
D. C. Heath & Co.
53.35
Hight & Ayer
8.43
Sanders & Flanders
.33
G. F. Williams
.57
$260.77
Overdrawn
$85.77
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GENERAL STATEMENTS
No. of boys in town Apr. 1, 1913, 5-21 years old 130
No. of girls in town Apr. 1, 1913, 5-21 years old 101
Total 231
No. of different teachers employed since July 1, 1914 No. of experienced teachers employed since July 1, 1914 9
10
No. of weeks in common school year
28
No. of weeks in High School year
36
Average weekly wage of grade teachers
$8.72
Average weekly cost of all Common Schools
$98.81
No. of days schools were maintained for the year
140
No. days state average (1913)
164
No. of days Athens is behind State average
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No. of citizens visits in schools reported by teachers since July 1 42
No. visits in schools made by Supt. reported by teach- ers since July 1 44
ATTENDANCE STATISTICS SINCE JULY 1
Total Enrollment Av. Attendance
Grammar
25
23.9
Primary
23
19
Eaton
9
7.4
McKinley
11
10.7
Franklin
12
9.4
Garfield
17
14.9
Foss
12
9.8
Lincoln
26
20.5
Stetson
33
21.9
Total enrollment for town
168
Total average daily attendance
137.5
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NUMBER OF PUPILS ENROLLED BY GRADES
GRADE
I II III
IV V
VI VII VIII IX
Grammar
4
3
18
Primary
9
4
4
6
Eaton
1
2
3
3
Mckinley
1
1
3
1
3
3
3
1
Garfield
3
2
1
1
3
4
2
1
Foss
7
3
1
1
Lincoln
4
1
4
6
1
5
2
3
Stetson
17
6
5
1
4
- Total in town by Grades
45
17
22
15
14
16 13
22
1
2
Franklin
3
2
I recommend an increase in appropriation in both Common School and High School departments. I recommend that the increase for common schools be not less than $250.00 and I further recommend an appropriation of $200 for the purchase of text books and supplies.
Respectfully submitted,
HERBERT W. WOOD,
Superintendent of Schools.
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Town Clerk's Report
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JAN. 1, 1915
Number of Marriages recorded from Jan. 1, 1914 to Jan. 1, 1915, six.
Number of Births recorded from Jan. 1, 1914 to Jan. 1, 1915, twenty-one.
Number of Deaths recorded from Jan. 1, 1914 to Jan. 1, 1915, thirteen.
Amount of money collected for dog licenses for the year 1914, $47.00.
MARRIAGES
1914
Mar. 28-By Chas. L. Kinney, Minister of the Gospel, Charles E. Whitney of Skowhegan, and Birdena Wentworth of Athens.
April 17-By John H. Trites, Minister of the Gospel, Les- ter A. Woodsum of Norridgewock, and Josephine E. Hight of Athens.
June 3-By Frank H. Hall, Minister of the Gospel, John E. Olivenbaum of Cleveland, Ohio, and Martha T. Whittier of Oel- richs, S. Dakota.
June 30-By B. H. Johnson, Minister of the Gospel, Charles L. Beckwith of Mapleton, and Lephe E. Henderson of Athens.
Aug. 5-By Frank T. Farrin, Justice of the Peace, William J. Duffy of Athens and Louise B. Goodrich of Abbott.
Aug. 8-By Fred Tuttle, Justice of the Peace, Herbert Went- worth and Mary E. Knights both of Athens.
BIRTHS
1914
Jan. 14-To Fred and Abbie Ellis a son.
Jan. 24-to John and Orie Spear a daughter.
Dec. 18, 1913-To Ora M. and Addie M. Braley a son.
Feb. 18-To Albert and Mary T. Wing a daughter.
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March 1-To Vernie and Florice Curtis a son.
March 9-To Leon C. and Clara A. Lancaster a son.
April 8-To Lester H. and Annie Perkins a daughter.
April 12-To Perley C. and Alice M. Turner a son.
April 15-To James and Sarah T. Foshay a daughter. April 28-To Vira Corson a daughter.
May 10-To Edward H. and Isabel Goodrich a son.
Aug. 18-To William A. and Vira E. Nelson a daughter. Aug. 20-To Antoine J. and Alice Vicner a son.
Sept. 12-To Jeddie and Stettiah Brown a daughter. Sept. 19-To Ossie E. and Geneive H. York a daughter. Oct. 5-To Adelbert and Liala M. Butler a daughter. Oct. 14-To Albert and Mary Peverell a daughter. Oct. 20-To Freeman M. and Clara E. Corson a daughter. Oct. 23-To John H. and Helen E. Curtis a daughter. Oct. 26-To Horace and Lucinda F. Hayden a son.
Dec. 3-To Herbert S. and Mary E. Wentworth a daughter.
DEATHS
1914
Jan. 24-Herman E. Goodrich, aged 59 years, 7 months, 15 days, cause Pneumonia.
Jan. 24-Dora E. Brasier, aged 43 years, cause Cancer of Uteris.
Mar. 12-Earl W. Lancaster, aged 3 days, cause Lack of Vitality.
June 4-Joseph Cederfeldt, aged 29 years, 2 months, 27 days, couse Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
June 11-Lizy May Hayden, aged 59 years, 16 days, cause Chronic Intestinal Nephritis.
July 3-Albert F. Cook, aged 84 years, 9 months, 2 days, cause Chronic Intestinal Nephritis.
July 22-Minerva F. Fish, aged 44 years, 6 months, 10 days, cause Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Sept. 24-Meribah F. Poland, aged 74 years 1 month, 7 days, cause Cerebral Apoplexy.
Sept. 24-Elizabeth E. Cooley, aged 77 years, 1 month, 13 days, cause Pneumonia.
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Nov. 19-Albion Small, aged 75 years, cause Cerebral Apop- lexy.
Nov. 20-Althea York, aged 2 months, 1 day, cause Inani- tiation due to Artificial Feeding.
Dec. 2-Horatio N. Longfellow, aged 69 years, 7 months, 9 days, cause Pleuro Pneumonia.
Dec. 23-Mary A. Davis, aged 76 years, 10 months, cause Acortic Obstruction.
H. N. FLANDERS, Town Clerk.
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Warrant for Town Meeting
State of Maine County of Somerset, ss.
To Ernest H. Cook, Constable of the Town of Athens, Greeting:
In the name of the State of Maine you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Athens, qualified by law to vote in town affairs to meet and assemble at Wesserunsett Hall in said Athens, on Monday, the first day of March, A. D. 1915, at ten o'clock in the forenoon then and there to act on the following articles, to wit:
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose a Town Clerk for the ensuing year.
Art. 3. To choose Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor.
Art. 4. To choose a Town Treasurer.
Art. 5. To choose an Auditor of Accounts.
Art. 6. To choose a Town Agent.
Art. 7. To choose a member of the Superintending School Committee to serve for three years.
Art. 8. To choose Truant Officers.
Art. 9. To choose a Collector of Taxes and fix his com- pensation for collecting the same.
Art. 10. To choose Constables and all other Town Offi- cers which towns are required by law to choose at their annual March meetings.
Art. 11. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to assist the Wesserunsett Valley Fair and if so to fix the amount and the purpose for which it shall be used.
Art. 12. To see if the town will vote to raise $88.31 to pay che interest on the school fund note.
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Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise for the support of the common schools the ensuing year.
Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise to repair schoolhouses.
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise to purchase school books and supplies.
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