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E. A. Pattee, salary as Supt. of Schools
75.65
A. E. Locke, use of hall
7.50
B. A. Hight, ballot clerk 4.00
Edgar J. Fox, ballot clerk 4.00
L. C. Williams, expenses and telephones 2.59
F. W. Bucknam, books for record 8.05
Wm. Morgan Post, expenses of Memorial day 25.00
Arthur Woodman, salary as School Com. .. 5.00
J. F. Holman, stationary, postage and out of town business 18.85
G. E. Flanders, out of town business
3.00
E. H. Tibbitts, salary os School Com. 5.00
H. N. Flanders, recording vital statistics ..
5.70
L. N. Ellingwood, certificates of births and deaths 4.50
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M. A. Menges, medical services in 1915 8.50
H. S. Elliott, posting warrants 3.00
H. S. Elliott, collecting taxes 259.03
Total $1,420.10
Appropriation 1,000.00
Overdrawn $420.10 Paid to dependent families of soldiers in the service of the United States :
To Axie Corson, wife of Manley Corson $95.43
Received from the State
87.43
Balance due from the State
$8.00
To Rosebud Corson wife and child of Ben-
jamin J. Corson $131.20
Rceeived from the State 120.20
Due from the State
$11.00
To Mamie E. Ellis, wife of Alton H. Ellis . $107.43
Received from the State
87.43
Balance
$20.00
Due Mamie E. Ellis
9.14
Due from the State
$29.14
To Eva M. Rode, wife and child of Henry C.
Rode
$143.78
Received from the State
110.78
Balance
$33.00
Due Eva M. Rode
5.50
Due from the State
$38.50
COMMON SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Paid teachers' wages
$3,122.67
Paid for janitor's services
89.03
Paid tuition
18.00
Paid for wood
224.38
Paid for conveyance of pupils
445.40
Total expenditures for common schools
$3,899.48
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Appropriations, unexpended in 1917 $234.26
Voted by town
2,200.00
State School Fund and Mill Tax 781.44
Common School Fund 658.56
Interest on town school fund
88.31
Tuition received of Hartland
49.00
Tuition received of Cornville
53.60
Total resources for common schools $4,065.17
Balance Unexpended $165.69
SCHOOL BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
Paid Lyons and Carnahan, books $5.09
Edward E. Babb & Co., books and sup-
plies
46.03
Ginn & Co., books
72.39
Boylston Pub. Co. 4.78
Herbert L. Palmer, paper
9.60
D. H. Knowlton & Co., certificates 1.05
B. P. Littlefield, supplies 2.00
Whitcomb & Barrows, books 3.82
D. C. Heath & Co., books
67.30
Benjamin H. Sanborn, books
24.68
Silver Burdette & Co., supplies
73.31
Newell White, supplies
2.00
Town of Harmony, drawing paper
4.08
R. E. Gould, supplies
.50
Carl T. Rhodes, expenses on books
.99
Hight & Ayer, supplies
.20
Ruby Wills, supplies
1.40
Total
$319.22
Appropriation
$350.00
Balance Unexpended $30.78
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FLAGS AND APPLIANCES FOR SCHOOLHOUSES
Paid E. E. Babb & Co., for flags
$22.32
R. E. Gould, for rope .30
Hight & Ayer, for rope, etc. .44
Total $23.06
Appropriation
$25.00
Balance unexpended
$1.94
REPAIR OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Paid John T. Hight, labor
$6.75
Norman Hight, labor
42.50
Ruffe Brown, labor
7.50
John Hayden, labor
30.00
A. W. Smith, labor
2.00
O. L. Bush, repair of stove
1.50
Alden Bucknam, labor
6.00
A. L. Trim, labor
1.00
E. H. Tibbetts, labor
24.00
John Hayden, labor
3.00
Earl Fowler, labor
.50
Total
$124.75
Appropriation
$200.00
Balance unexpended $75.25
STATE ROAD ACCOUNT
Paid Elmer Campbell, labor self and team $57.00
Berger Mfg. Co., metal culverts 85.87
W. S. Hussey, stone wall 10.00
Geo. F. Corson, gravel
3.00
Ora Judkins, straw
3.00
E. B. Davis, labor, self and team 191.25
Jedde Brown, labor 63.00
Maurice Small, labor
51.00
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Forest Cleaves, labor 6.00
J. J. Bunker, labor
10.50
E. H. Tibbetts, labor 12.00
Isaac Corson, labor 13.50
Alden Corson, labor
25.50
Preston Small, labor
73.50
Chester Donohue, labor 17.50
Leslie Perkins, labor
13.50
C. D. Sinclair, labor
63.00
Ruffe Brown, labor
12.00
Isaac Salley, labor
15.00
Reuel York, labor
9.00
Blunt Hardware Co., for cement 7.60
Jasper Leavitt, labor and team
31.50
Bert Fish, labor and team 96.00
Selden Poland, labor and team 42.00
M. M. Luce, labor and team 31.50
J. F. Holman, labor 25.50
Leroy Campbell, labor and team
73.50
$1,042.72
Joint Fund for two years :
Amount raised by town
$400.00
Amount received from State
343.66
$743.66
Overdrawn
$299.06
Now due from State
$100.00
ROAD ACCOUNT
Summer
Snow
Paid F. 'A. Wentworth, labor
$8.80
F. L. Boynton, labor
$6.16
6.00
L. J. Tibbetts, labor
15.60
George Wyman, labor
7.40
George Gardner, labor
2.00
3.50
John Wing, labor
16.00
4.50
Wm. Lancaster, labor
20.00
2.10
Bert Gilman, labor
33.25
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Beckwith & Taylor, labor
22.70
Howard E. Chapman, labor
11.00
Tyler S. Austin, labor
86.50
12.50
John McLean, labor
1.40
Edwin B. Davis, labor
6.00
5.50
Wilbur Taylor, labor
12.00
Eugene L. Noyes, labor
2.50
12.30
Sidney Corson, labor
16.00
John Loberg, labor
15.45
John Corson, labor
6.50
David Corson, labor
11.50
Alden R. Corson, labor
11.00
W. R. Magoon, labor
2.93
Harold Batcher, labor
6.30
Clifton Flanders, labor
3.00
3.10
Geo. E. Flanders, labor
25.40
4.50
Ruffe Brown, labor
48.75
Jedde Brown, labor
104.50
Willie Nelson, labor
21.80
M. L. Tuttle, labor
15.00
10.50
George E. Noyes, labor
3.75
12.80
Fred Wyman, labor
15.00
Jasper Leavitt, labor
10.50
4.25
Phineas S. Poland, labor and material
40.50
20.05
Fred L. Flanders, labor
6.75
Dell Brown, labor
6.00
Clifton Hight, labor
8.88
Leamon Ellis, labor
84.00
A. W. Smith, labor and material
7.82
C. M. Conant Co., material
37.40
Clyde Scribner, labor
Carl Taylor, labor
8.10
William Ellis, labor
21.00
Mason M. Luce, labor
236.15
Wm. H. Brown, labor
3.50
Wesley Corson, labor
2.50
Andrew Knight, labor
7.50
Preble & Robinson, team and man
424.22
Laura Drew, boarding men
20.80
Isaac Corson, labor
17.50
J. J. Bunker, labor
19.60
13.00
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W. E. Pinkham, labor
29.30
Geo. McKenney, labor
8.40
Chas. F. Dunton, labor
3.25
Elmer E. Dore, handling road machine
122.00
Sanders & Flanders, feed for horses
123.66
Gustave Nelson, labor
13.50
9.50
James B. Corson, labor
6.00
15.50
Earl R. Ward, labor and boarding
18.50
James N. Poland, labor
2.50
Norman Hight, labor
12.00
E. F. Downs, labor
9.47
Edna Ham, labor of boy
5.00
Ernest Linkletter, labor
15.00
12.95
Selden H. Poland, labor
.75
11.43
Chas. S. Weston, labor
9.00
11.50
Geo. Tibbetts, labor
7.75
George A. Corson, labor
5.00
Joseph Kardos, labor
1.40
Martha A. Menges, board of men and teams
24.05
Horace Salley, labor
6.00
Bert Fish, watering tub
1.50
Edward Goodrich, labor
10.10
Sidney York, labor
5.50
Ora Judkins, labor
2.00
A. A. Hall, labor
22.00
W. R. Tibbetts, plank
15.00
Chas. Taylor, labor
1.50
Philander Hoyt, labor and plank
17.91
W. M. Drew, labor
3.00
14.70
John C. York, labor
4.25
J. C. Kincaid, labor
8.07
Pearl Crockett, plank
112.00
Steward & Marston, tiling
36.19
Sherburn Whittier, labor
8.25
7.55
Fred Tuttle, labor and material
18.65
I. N. Hayden, labor
3.90
Osgood S. York, labor and material
19.75
10.00
L. C. Williams, watering tub
3.00
Hight & Ayer, material
5.44
Geo. L. Bennett, labor and boarding ..
18.50
4.80
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A. L. Trim, labor
6.25
Chas. Chapman, labor
1.00
John H. Curtis, labor
5.10
Chester Wentworth, labor
1.90
Arthur S. Woodman, labor
7.45
Ira Poland, labor
9.50
Auren C. Buzzell, labor
11.30
Benjamin F. Misener, labor
25.85
E. H. Cook, labor
2.00
A. E. Rines, labor
6.00
3.50
Ray Jones, labor
4.40
W. F. Huff, watering tub and labor
1.50
4.40
C. F. Chapman, labor
2.75
Edward C. Taylor, labor and lumber
40.53
J. F. Holman, labor and team
84.16
C. G. Keene, labor
29.10
Lyman Buzzell, labor
6.10
Chas. H. Buzzell, labor
3.25
Cyrus York, labor
21.37
Daniel Reed, lumber
2.50
Fowler & Bush, labor
3.20
Estate of M. G. Greene, plank
43.88
Frank Fox, labor
14.55
Harold Poland, labor
1.20
George Scribner, labor
2.50
E. H. Tibbetts, labor
4.25
7.30
H. K. Greenlaw, labor
7.00
Manly Campbell, labor
6.60
Per Nelson, labor
14.80
Cassius Merrill, labor
7.50
F. C. Allen, labor
2.87
Hollis W. Brown, labor
.50
Ralph Taylor, labor
6.40
H. N. Flanders, watering tub
1.50
Fox & Thompson, labor and plank . .
62.14
C. E. Corson, labor
5.00
2.50
Frank Butler, labor
4.00
Mainstream Lumber Co., plank
76.62
L. N. Ellingwood, labor, man and team
8.00
L. W. Foss, labor
6.00
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W. Lancaster, labor
20.00
Bennie Corson labor
6.25
H. S. Elliott, 2 watering tubs
3.00
$2,341.93 $715.27
Appropriation for summer road
$2,500.00
Balance unexpended
$158.07
Appropriation for snow roads
$1,500.00
Balance unexpended
$784.73
STATE PATROL ROAD
Appropriation
Paid State Treasurer, patrolmen's wages $342.61
STATE AID ROAD PATROL
Paid Preble & Robinson, work of men and
horses
$37.50
Leaman Ellis, labor
9.00
John Corson, labor
6.00
Isaac Corson, labor
6.00
Frank L. Boynton, labor
7.50
David Corson, labor
4.50
John Corson, labor
4.50
Alden Corson, labor
12.00
Jasper Leavitt, labor and team
5.00
Martha Menges, board of men and
team
10.50
$102.50
Amount voted by town
Amount received from State $50.00
Balance against the town
$52.50
STATE IMPROVED ROAD
Received from the State
$106.33
Expended
$106.33
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PAUPER ACCOUNT
Paid Bert Wing and family $73.30
Andrew Knights and family 7.03
Martin Corson and family 37.00
Llewellyn Turner and family
15.30
Leonard Tuttle and family 17.75
Charles Littlefield and family
12.00
Leander Ireland
80.00
Thomas L. Chapman
284.00
Ella M. Littlefield
22.20
Henry Tuttle and famliy
132.53
Total.
$611.11
Amount raised by town
$500.00
Overdrawn
$111.11
STATE PAUPER ACCOUNT
Paid Nathan Berry and wife $78.61
Henry Marshall and family 3.64
William H. Cole
45.76
Total
$128.01
Peceived from State
3.64
Balance due from State $124.37
PAUPERS OF OTHER TOWNS
Paid Mittie C. Avery, Fairfield $59.47
Dennis Knights and family, Bingham 15.00
Due from other towns $74.47
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SHEEP KILLED BY DOGS
Paid W. S. Hussey, $10.00
Auren C. Buzzell
15.00
Phineas Poland
9.75
Chas. Chapman
20.00
Amos Chapman
16.00
$70.75
Received from State
$70.75
ABATEMENTS
Merton C. Foss, taxed by mistake $4.80
Pearl Crockett, over valuation 9.60
Frank Whittier, veteran
2.00
Peter B. Willey, old age
2.00
C. F. Dore, old age
2.00
Freeman Moses, old age
2.00
Clifford Deering, paid in Mass.
2.00
S. S. Huff, paid in Skowhegan
2.00
Sidie Corson, non-resident
2.00
Freeman Corson, paid in Madison
2.00
Cecil Corson, minor 2.00
Alfred Corson, paid in Dexter
2.00
George A. Corson, non-resident
2.00
William Ellis, in army
2.00
Parker Linkletter, paid in Wellington
2.00
B. G. & L. E. McIntire place taxed to B. & W.
16.00
Nathan Berry, inability
6.40
J. C. Beckwith, old age
2.00
Ernest Bailey, not found
2.00
Amos Brown not found
2.00
Allie Pierce, not found
2.00
Total abatements $70.80
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TOWN OFFICERS BILLS UNPAID
J. F. Holman, services as selectman, 1918 .. $125.00
A. E. Rines, services as selectman, 1918 75.00
G. E. Flanders, services as selectman 1918 . 75.00
M. J. Hight, services as treasurer, 1918 .. 50.00
H. W. C. Batcher, services as auditor, 1918 . 5.00
$230.00
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Financial Standing of the Town Feb. 20, 1919
ASSETS
Cash in Treasury
$610.25
Due from town of Fairfield
59.47
Due from City of Lewiston 32.13
Due from town of Bingham
15.00
Due from town of Hartland
10.00
Due from State, pauper account, Nathan
Berry and wife
121.46
Due from Wm. H. Cole,
45.76
Due from State dog tax estimated
20.00
Due from State dependent families of sol- diers
86.64
Value of town property
125.00
Due from State, State road account
100.00
$1,225.71
LIABILITIES
Town officers bills unpaid
$230.00
Funds in trust
100.00
Due soldiers' families
14.64
Outstanding orders on interest
2,500.00
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Total liabilities
$2,844.64
Liabilities above assets
$1,618.93
Respectfully submitted, J. F. HOLMAN G. E. FLANDERS
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, 1919.
1918:
Feb. 20 To cash on hand $719.26
Mar. 19 Rec'd from Fairfield, pauper ac'ct 180.82
23 Rec'd from Bingham, pauper ac'ct 41.00
23 Rec'd from Cambridge, pauper ac'ct 21.25
Apr. 1 Interest on bank account
.83
4 Rec'd from W. R. Tibbetts, for old hearse 36.00
6 Rec'd from Hebron, pauper ac'ct .
8.50
11 Rec'd from State, burial of soldiers
35.00
17 Rec'd from Mrs C. S. Brayton, book
.30
May 7 Selectmen's order for temporary
loan, First National Bank,
Skowhegan, Maine
1,500.00
8 Rec'd from J. F. Holman, for pota- toes sold to Jerry Brown 5.00
July 1 Interest on bank account
1.33
Sept. 27 Rec'd from State, for State pen- sions
102,00
Oct. 16 Rec'd from H. N. Flanders, for dog tax
46.00
25 Rec'd from State Highway Dept. .
106.33
Nov. 19 Rec'd from Hartland, for School account
49.00
28 Rec'd from State Highway Dept. .
50.00
Dec. 17 Rec'd from State, for State Road Improvement 343.66
17 Rec'd from State, dog licenses, re- fund 6.28
17 Rec'd from State, School and Mill Funds 781.44
17 Rec'd from State, Common School Fund 658.56
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17 Rec'd from State, Railroad and Telegraph tax 1.20
28 Rec'd from State, Free High School 500.00
31 Rec'd from Skowhegan, refund, Henry Tuttle account 1.00
1919:
Jan. 2
Rec'd from State, damage to do- mestic animals 70.75
15 Rec'd from Skowhegan, Gus Boul- etts account 25.50
22 Rec'd from Cornville, tuition, com- mon schools 28.00
29 Rec'd from State, State pensions . 168.00
Feb. 4 Rec'd from Cornville, tuition, com- mon schools 25.60
6 Rec'd from State Aid for families of soldiers and sailors 405.84
12 Rec'd from State, support of pau- pers 3.64
20 Rec'd from H. S. Elliott, collector tax 12,951.82
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Rec'd Gould Academy, book rental
25.00
$18,898.91
CREDIT
1918:
Oct. 16 By receipt for dog tax, 1918 $46.00
Nov. 16 By paid State, maintenance patrol- ed highways 342.61
Dec. 17 By paid State tax 2,020.33
26 By paid county tax 450.60
31 By paid State pensions 270.00
1919:
Feb. 20 By paid on selectmen's orders 15,159.22
20 By cash in treasury 610.15
$18,898.91
Respectfully submitted, M. J. HIGHT
Treasurer of Town of Athens,
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Auditor's Report
I have examined the books and accounts of the town for the year ending February 20, 1919, and find the payments properly vouched for and the books accurately balanced.
HAROLD C. W. BATCHER Auditor of Town of Athens.
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School Report
To the citizens of Athens :-
The school superintendent being called to army service just as schools were opening in the fall, left us without a sup- erintendent at the time when superintendence was most needed and when it would have accomplished the most. It was a month before Mr. Pattee was elected to the position and he was there- fore at a disadvantage but did, we believe, as well as could be ex- pected under the curcumstances. Under the conditions it is difficult to make any satisfactory report regarding the work of teachers or the progress made by pupils. The prevailing sick- ness has interfered somewhat, though not as seriously with our schools as in many places.
The cost of maintaining schools has increased as has every- thing else. However, the appropriations were such that we have kept well within the resources for all school accounts. The Washington Schools and the Lincoln School at West Athens have two weeks more to keep in order to make their thirty weeks for the year. If this had been completed the unexpended balance in the Common School Account would have been reduced to about $20.
A good substantial wall has been put under the village school building. That is all the repairing that has been done outside of incidental repairs at various places. We had planned to do some painting but the price of material and difficulty of obtaining labor at any price prevented that.
We believe that expenses for maintaining common schools will be about the same for the ensuing year as for the past year and therefore recommend that $2,200.00 be appropriated for com- mon school purposes, the same amount as was appropriated last year.
We recommend that $150.00 be raised for repairs of school buildings, $50.00 less than last year.
We recommend that $300.00 be appropriated for the purchase of text books and supplies.
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We ask that the unexpended balance in the flag account be carried over for another year.
The usual contract with Somerset Academy should be ar- ranged.
COMMON SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Resources
Balance unexpended (1917-1918)
$234.26
Appropriation
2,200.00
State School and Mill fund
781.44
State common school fund
658.56
Interest on school fund note
88.31
Town of Cornville for tuition
53.60
Town of Hartland for tuition
49.00
$4,065.17
Expenditures
Paid teacher's wages:
Beatrice Rines
$66.00
Belva Hutchinson
363.00
Edith Rogers
180.00
Alice York
126.00
Alice Barker
108.00
Alice Leighton
298.00
Vera Leighton
306.00
Gara Bosworth
130.00
Vera Huff
110.00
Ruby Willis
376.00
Calla Scribner
288.00
Gertrude Weeks
253.00
Fannie Butler
121.00
Ida Thompson
171.00
Viola Taylor
13.00
Lottie B. Reed
209.00
$3,118.00
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Paid for fuel:
Harold Nason
$10.50
Norace Chase
8.50
Arthur Ward
4.00
E. B. Davis
21.00
Gustave Nelson
12.00
P. S. Poland
22.00
E. H. Tibbetts
52.88
A. H. Hall
2.00
Harold Sinclair
1.50
Earle Fowler
.15
E. C. Taylor
60.00
Oliver Case
9.00
W. A. Nelson
21.00
$224.53
Paid for janitor's services :-
Ted Leavitt
$.50
William Leighton
4.00
Ivan Tuttle
5.00
Melvin Corson
3.00
Ariel Lord
14.00
Gara Bosworth
2.50
Emma Jones
6.00
Leslie Nason
4.40
Marian Taylor
3.00
Gertrude Weeks
7.67
Earle Fowler
9.15
Calla Scribner
6.00
Ida Thompson
4.67
Alice Leighton
6.33
Vera Leighton
6.00
Lottie Reed
6.33
Frank Turner
5.00
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$93.55
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Paid for conveyance:
Edgar Perkins
$127.40
Brighton Plantation
44.00
L. J. Tibbetts
60.00
John Hayden
150.00
Pare Nelson
32.00
M. L. Dennis
32.00
Paid for tuition :
Brighton Plantation
$18.00
Total expenditures for common schools . .
$3,899.48
Unexpended
$165.69
FREE HIGH SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Receipts
Town appropriation
$500.00
State
500.00
$1,000.00
Expenditures
Paid Somerset Academy
$1,000.00
TEXT BOOK AND SUPPLIES ACCOUNT
Receipts
Appropriation
$350.00
Expenditures
Ruby Willis
$1.40
Ginn & Co. 72.39
Edward E. Babb & Co. 46.03
H. L. Palmer
9.60
Boylston Publishing Co.
4.78
Lyons & Carnahan
5.09
D. H. Knowlton
1.05
B. P. Littlefield
2.00
$445.40
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Newell White
2.00
Silver Burdette & Co.
73.31
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co. 24.68
Whitcomb & Barrows
3.82
D. C. Heath & Co.
67.30
Town of Harmony
4.08
C. T. Rhoades
.99
R. E. Gould
.50
Hight & Ayer
.20
$319.22
Unexpended
$30.78
REPAIRS ACCOUNT
Appropriation
$200.00
Expenditures
J. T. Hight
$6.75
N. W. Hight
42.50
John Hayden
33.00
Rufus Brown, Jr ..
7.50
Alden Bucknam
6.00
A. W. Smith
2.00
O. L. Bush
1.50
E. H. Tibbetts
24.00
Earle Fowler
.50
A. L. Trim
1.00
$124.75
Unexpended
$75.25
FLAGS AND APPLIANCES ACCOUNT Receipts
Appropriation $25.00
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Expenditures
Paid Edward E. Babb & Co.
$22.32
R. E. Gould
.30
Hight & Ayer
.44
$23.06
Unexpended $1.94
Respectfully submitted, A. S. WOODMAN H. N. FLANDERS
E. H. TIBBETTS
Superintending School Committee.
CARL T. RHOADES,
Supt. of Schools.
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Town Clerk's Report
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JAN. 1, 1919
Number of marriages recorded from Jan. 1, 1918 to Jan. 1, 1919, nine.
Number of births recorded from Jan. 1, 1918, to Jan. 1, 1919, sixteen.
Number of deaths recorded from Jan. 1, 1918, to Jan. 1, 1919, twelve.
Amount of money received for dog licenses for the year 1918, $46.00.
MARRIAGES
1918
Jan. 14-By William L. Bradeen, Minister of the Gospel, William E. Pinkham and Birdena M. Salley, both of Athens.
Jan. 20-By Fred Tuttle, Justice of the Peace, David Cor- son and Ella E. Corson, both of Athens.
Feb. 13-By Thomas B. Hatt, Minister of the Gospel, Ernald G. Rowe of Moscow, and Edith L. Wilkinson of Athens.
Feb. 23-By Fred Tuttle, Justice of the Peace, Sidney Cor- son and Rosie May Corson, both of Athens.
Mar. 30-By Fred Tuttle, Justice of the Peace, William M. Avery and Laura Corson, both of Athens.
Apr. 29-By George Merriam, Minister of the Gospel, Aaron W. Cederfeldt, and Emily F. P. Larson, both of Athens.
Aug. 28-By Irving D. Mower, Minister of the Gospel, Fred- erick T. Baird of Evansville Ind., and Ruth Mae Hight of Athens. Sept. 25-By Fred Tuttle, Justice of the Peace, Cleber Corson and Edith B. Whitman, both of Athens.
Oct. 20-By W. J. Layton, Minister of the Gospel, Forrest B. Cleaves and Ruth M. Huff, both of Athens.
BIRTHS
1917
Sept. 12-To Hiram F. and Elvira Tuttle, a son.
1918
Mar. 7-To Erwin and Emma Huff, a son.
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Mar. 23-To Edd. and Bertha York, a daughter.
Apr. 5-To Arra B. and Kate M. Hall, a daughter. Apr. 30-To Henry C. and Eva M. Rode, a daughter. May 4-To Martin and Lucy M. Corson, twin sons. May 4-To Calvin D. and Lelia J. Sinclair, a son. May 11-To Perley C. and Alice M. Turner, a daughter. June 16-To David and Ella Corson, a daughter. June 25-To Leon H. and Cora E. Richardson, a son. July 11-To Benj. J. and Rosebud Corson, a son. July 12 To Leon R. and Caro M. Brasier, a son. July 22-To Leon C. and Clara A. Lancaster, a son. Aug. 7-To Amos and Beatrice Rines, a son.
Oct. 2-To Charles H. and Lizzie L. Brown, a son.
Oct. 29-To William H. and Elizabeth M. Woodard, a daugh- ter.
DEATHS
1917
Aug. 7-Pearl Wentworth, age 1 hour, cause lack of vitality. 1918
Jan. 9-Pearl Small, age 7 months, cause Pernicious Anemia. Jan. 10-Amaziah F. Marble, age 78 years, 6 months, 25 days, cause Organic Heart Disease.
Jan. 28-George F. Ayer, age 58 years, 2 months, 28 days, cause Cerebral Appoplexy.
Mar. 18-Carrie Judkins, age 65 years, cause Chronic Bright's Disease.
Apr. 24-Walter J. Raymond, age 38 years, 5 months, 24 days, cause Acute Catarrhal Estitis.
June 17-Minnie A. Corson, age 61 years, 1 month, 26 days, cause Cerebral Appoplexy.
July 19-Merrill .G. Greene, age 58 years, 10 months, 25 days, cause Suicide.
July 30-Elizabeth Littlefield, age 76 years, cause Nephritis.
Oct. 10-Aaron W. Drake, age 82 years, 2 months, 7 days, cause Appoplexy.
Oct. 22-Cora E. Richardson, aged 25 years, cause Pneumonia Oct. 22-Annie M. Linkletter, aged 50 years, 10 months, 2 days, cause Pneumonia.
H. N. FLANDERS, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF SOMERSET, SS.
To Horace S. Elliott, Constable of the Town of Athens.
Greeting:
In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby notified and 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 Town of Athens, on Monday, the Tenth day of March A. D. 1919, at Ten of the Clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, to wit :-
Art 1-To choose a Moderator to preside in 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 see if the Town will vote to choose the same Person Treasurer and Collector of Taxes.
Art. 5-To choose a Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.
Art. 6-To choose a Collector of Taxes and fix the compen- sation of the Treasurer and Collector and fix the time when the Taxes shall become due and collectable.
Art. 7-To choose an Auditor of Accounts.
Art. 8-To choose a Member of the Superintending School Committee.
Art. 9-To choose a Truant Officer.
Art. 10-To choose a Fire Ward and fix his compensation.
Art. 11-To choose a Road Commissioner for one or more years.
Art 12-To choose Constables and all other Town Officers which Towns are required by law to choose at their annual March Meeting.
Art. 13-To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to assist Wesserunsett Valley Fair, and fix the amount.
Art. 14-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to pay on the outstanding indebtedness of the Town.
Art. 15-To see if the Town will vote to raise $88.31 to pay the interest on the School Fund note.
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Art. 16-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise for the support of Common Schools the ensuing year.
Art. 17-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to Repair School Buildings.
Art. 18-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to purchase School Books and supplies.
Art. 19-To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Sup- erintending School Committee to maintain any school with an average attendance of less than eight scholars.
Art. 20-To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Sup- erintending School Committee to make a contract with Somerset Academy to send all free high school scholars in Town to Som- erset Academy during the year and if so, to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to pay the tuition of said scholars.
Art. 21-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to build and repair roads and bridges the ensuing year.
Art. 22-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise for winter or snow roads.
Art. 23-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise for the support of the Poor the ensuing year.
Art. 24-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to pay the incidental expenses of the Town.
Art. 25-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to pay the expenses of Memorial Day.
Art. 26-To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise to cut and clear the bushes from the highways in Town.
Art. 27-To see if the Town will vote to maintain, with the Town of Hartland, a Union School at Coston's Corner School House, so-called, in the Town of Athens, in accordance with Section 21, Chapter 16 of the Public Laws of Maine.
Art. 28-To see if the Town will vote to raise a sum of money to be expended in repairing the road leading from the Bunker Hill road, so-called, to the dwelling house of Elmer Campbell.
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