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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01882 3804
GC 974.202 F88AR, 1911-1915
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF FREMONT
19II
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ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE TOWN OF
FREMONT, N. H.
OF THE
SELECTMEN, TREASURER, HIGHWAY AGENTS, AUDITOR, TOWN CLERK, LIBRARIAN AND
BOARD OF EDUCATION
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 15
1911
CONCORD, N. H. THE RUMFORD PRESS 1911
TOWN OFFICERS.
Moderator. ALDEN F. SANBORN. Town Clerk. HENRY A. COOK. Selectmen.
EUGENE D. SANBORN, JOHN H. ELLIS, STEPHEN G. SLEEPER.
Treasurer. WILLIAM H. GIBSON.
Auditor.
STEPHEN A. FROST.
Highway Agents
GEORGE F. WILLEY, JOSEPH P. BASSETT.
Collector of Taxes.
JOSEPH B. WILBUR.
Library Trustees.
ALDEN F. SANBORN, HENRY A. COOK, WILCOMB H. BENFIELD.
Board of Education. ALDEN F. SANBORN, JAMES B. MARTIN, ERNEST W. LOWE.
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Supervisors.
JOSEPH B. SANBORN, GEORGE W. EMERSON, GEORGE H. FRENCH. Board of Health.
JOSEPH B. SANBORN, HARRISON B. ELLIS, ERNEST W. LOWE, M. D.
Representative to General Court. JOHN H. ELLIS.
Librarian. CORA B. FROST.
Dog Officer. PETER GAGNON. Constable.
GEORGE W. BALL.
Committee to Build Town Hall.
STEPHEN A. FROST, ERNEST W. LOWE, ALDEN F. SANBORN.
TOWN WARRANT.
[L. S.] STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Fremont, in the County of Rockingham, in Said State, Qualified to Vote in Town Affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet at the town house, in said town, on Tuesday, the 14th day of March next, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, to act upon the following subjects :
1. To choose a town clerk.
2. To choose three selectmen, treasurer, auditor, one or more highway agents, and one library trustee.
3. To choose all other necessary officers.
4. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the following purposes: To defray town charges; for repairs of highways and bridges; and for Memo- rial Day.
5. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the care of cemeteries in town.
6. To see what action the town will take in regard to paying the notes held by the Manchester Savings Bank (as authorized by said town at a special town meeting August 6, 1910), and raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be thought necessary for said purpose.
7. To see what action the town will take in regard to holding all meetings of said town in the new town hall.
8. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Given under our hands and seal this 20th day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eleven.
EUGENE D. SANBORN, JOHN H. ELLIS, STEPHEN G. SLEEPER, Selectmen of Fremont.
A true copy of Warrant. Attest: EUGENE D. SANBORN,
JOHN H. ELLIS,
STEPHEN G. SLEEPER,
Selectmen of Fremont.
SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
VALUATIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS.
Valuations.
Polls, 154,
$15,400.00
Land and buildings,
217,011.00
Horses, 109,
9,205.00
Mules, 3,
450.00
Oxen, 6,
405.00
Cows, 120,
3,460.00
Neat stock, 29,
662.00
Sheep, 26,
103.00
Automobiles, 5,
2,950.00
Stock in trade,
25,550.00
Stock in public funds,
2,000.00
Mills, machinery, etc.,
12,450.00
$289,646.00
Appropriations.
State tax,
$666.00
County tax,
766.52
Highways,
1,200.00
Bridges,
200.00
Town charges,
300.00
Memorial day,
50.00
Schools,
832.50
Books and supplies,
150.00
Salaries of school board and truant officer,
95.00
Public library,
33.30
Universalist fund,
60.00
Care cemeteries,
40.00
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Band concerts, Overlay,
$100.00
25.13
$4,518.45
Rate of taxation, $1.56 on $100.
Expenditures.
Miscellaneous,
$381.26
Highways,
1,404.64
Bridges,
23.20
Schools,
1,433.84
Sanborn Seminary,
280.00
Robinson Seminary,
27.00
Town officers,
291.75
Board of health,
17.00
County poor,
57.50
Public library,
37.30
Removing moths' nests,
145.22
Care cemeteries,
28.00
Discounts,
88.88
Abatements,
4.68
Town hall,
6,000.00
$10,220.27
EXPENDITURES IN DETAIL.
The selectmen have given orders on the treasurer for the payment of the following bills:
MISCELLANEOUS.
1910.
Mar. 9. Paid Rumford Printing Co., printing reports, $35.10
April 15. E. C. Eastman, collector's book, order and receipt books, 2.58
June 1. Lincoln H. Small, setting and repair- ing guide board and post, .50
4. Samuel J. Willey, memorial fund, 50.00
11. John H. Ellis and 17 others, watching the fire on night of May 25, at $2, 36.00
July 18. Henry A. Cook, Universalist fund,
60.00
Sept. 24. Fremont Band, money appropriated for band concerts,
100.00
Oct. 8. Minnie D. French, land damage, 3.00 Peter J. Gagnon, land damage, 2.00
George E. Sanborn, land damage, 1.00
Nov. 8. John B. Varick Co., 2 road scrapers, 13.00
Dec. 5. Joseph B. Sanborn, 12 check-lists,
2.28
E. D. Sanborn, envelopes (stamped), to send non-residents inventory blanks, 1.25
Envelopes (stamped), to send moth notices, 1.42
Express on moth notice blanks,
.25
Cash paid John Green, recording deed . of town hall lot, .70
Cash paid for warrants for state election, .30
Writing moth notices, 2.00
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1911.
Feb. 15. A. W. Mitchell, M. D., returning births and deaths, $1.00
Joseph B. Wilbur, expenses to Bos- ton on account of N. E. Brick Co., 2.50
Joseph B. Wilbur, tax bills, 1.00
E. W. Lowe, M. D., returning births and deaths, 4.50
George W. Ball, six trips with hearse,
12.00
George W. Ball, expenses on account of John Lockhart, 5.00
Henry A. Cook, recording births, deaths and marriages, 4.20
Stephen G. Sleeper, use of horse, 8.00
George H. Floyd, wood and care of town house, 5.00
John H. Ellis, use of horse,
3.90
E. D. Sanborn, use of horse, 15.25
Postage and stationery, 1.50
Expenses to Manchester twice on account of money for town hall, 2.50
Expenses to Concord to settle with state treasurer, 2.50
Cash paid for six blank deeds for cemetery lots, .20
American Express Co., express on town reports, .45
B. & M. R. R., freight on road scrapers, .38
$381.26
HIGHWAYS.
Amount appropriated by town, $1,200.00
Required under section 3 of chapter 35, Laws of 1905, to set apart and expend for permanent improvements, 438.00
Amount for agents, $762.00
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Paid George F. Willey, agent, George F. Willey, overwork, George F. Willey, breaking roads,
$381.00
14:20
13.15
$408.35
Paid Joseph P. Bassett, agent,
$315.36
STATE HIGHWAY.
Permanent improvement fund:
Town contribution,
$438.00
State contribution,
262.80
Total joint fund,
$700.80
Town disbursement,
$680.93
State disbursement,
31.07
Paid by state to town,
$231.73
Paid Joseph P. Bassett in charge of work, 1910:
October 27,
$200.00
November 8,
200.00
November 25,
200.00
December 30,
80.93
F
$680.93
Amount expended on highways,
$1,404.64
BRIDGES.
1910.
April 4. Paid Spaulding & Frost Co., plank for Clough bridge, $7.40
Aug. 29. John H. Ellis, labor on Clough bridge, 3.30
Harrison B. Ellis, labor on Clough bridge, 8.00
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Aug. 29. Paid Arthur S. Moore, labor on Clough bridge, $3.00 E. D. Sanborn, labor on Clough bridge, 1.50
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$23.20
SCHOOLS.
1910.
Dec. 5. Paid William H. Gibson, school treas- urer, money required by law, Dog license money due April 1, 1910, 120.41
$832.50
Literary fund, 1909,
82.46
State fund, 1909,
142.20
Books and supplies,
150.00
Salaries of school board and truant officer,
95.00
1911.
Feb. 15. Portion of state fund for 1910,
11.27
$1,433.84
SANBORN SEMINARY.
1910.
May 21. Paid Clarence M. Collins, treasurer,
eleven tuitions at $10, $110.00
Dec. 5.
Nine tuitions at $10, 90.00
1911.
Jan. 28. Eight tuitions at $10, 80.00
$280.00
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ROBINSON SEMINARY.
1910.
Dec. 5. Paid Albert Dow, treasurer, one tuition, $14.00
1911.
Jan. 28. One tuition, 13.00
$27.00
TOWN OFFICERS.
1910.
June 29. Paid Alden F. Sanborn, moderator, March, 1910, $3.00
1911. Feb. 15. Joseph B. Wilbur, collector of taxes, 40.00
George W. Emerson, supervisor, 10.00
Peter J. Gagnon, dog officer, 10.00
Peter J. Gagnon, services at guard rail at primary and . state election, 4.00
Joseph B. Sanborn, supervisor,
10.00
George H. French, supervisor, 10.00
William H. Gibson, town treas- urer, 20.00
William H. Gibson, school treas- urer, 5.00
George W. Ball, constable and police, 5.00
Harry S. True, ballot clerk at
primary and state election, 4.00
Lena E. True, school clerk, 2.00
Henry A. Cook, town clerk,
20.00
Stephen G. Sleeper, selectman,
20.00
Stephen G. Sleeper, ballot clerk at primary and state election, 4.00 Cora B. Frost, librarian, 26.00
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Feb. 15. Paid C. Berton French, ballot clerk at primary and state election, $4.00 John H. Ellis, selectman, 22.75
Alden F. Sanborn, moderator at special, primary and state elections, 7.00
E. D. Sanborn, selectman,
59.00
Frank D. Rowe, ballot clerk at primary and state election,
4.00
Stephen A. Frost, auditor, . 2.00
$291.75
BOARD OF HEALTH.
1911.
Feb. 15. Paid Ernest W. Lowe, M. D.,
$10.00
Joseph B. Sanborn, 5.00
Harrison B. Ellis, .
2.00
$17.00
SUPPORT OF POOR.
County aid furnished to soldiers and their families. (See chapter 2, Laws 1909). 1910.
April 14. Paid Fred Sanborn, wood,
$2.00
June 29. Alden F. Sanborn, wood, 1.50
July 2. E. D. Sanborn, wood and supplies, 6.00
C. B. Hill, groceries,
12.00
$21.50
County aid furnished Charles F. Burley from February 15 until October 25, 36 weeks at $1.00,
36.00
$57.50
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
1911.
Jan. 24. Paid A. F. Sanborn, treasurer, appro- priation,
$33.30
Feb. 15. A. F. Sanborn, extra, 4.00
$37.30
REMOVING BROWN-TAIL MOTH NESTS.
1910.
April 4. Paid Howard Woodard, labor,
$10.67
15. Howard French, labor, 4.80
Ralph Rogers, labor,
5.25
Arthur True, labor,
9.00
Arthur Moore, labor,
39.00
John H. Ellis, labor,
73.50
July 18.
Stephen G. Sleeper, labor,
3.00
$145.22
CARE OF CEMETERIES.
1910. July 18. Paid Stephen G. Sleeper, labor,
$5.00
Joseph L. Small, labor, 1.50
Aug. 29. Nov. 1. Perley R. Clement, labor, 6.00
Charles Meader, labor,
6.00
Ralph Rogers, labor,
3.00
H. B. Ellis, labor,
2.00
John H. Ellis, labor,
4.50
$28.00
DISCOUNTS.
1911. Feb. 15. Paid Joseph B. Wilbur, collector of taxes, 3 per cent. discount on taxes paid before July 1, $88.88
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ABATEMENTS.
Joseph B. Wilbur's collection, 1910:
Alonzo B. Bishop, left town,
$1.56
Allen A. Bishop, left town,
1.56
Clifford M. Anderson, left town,
1.56
$4.68
NEW TOWN HALL.
1910.
Aug. 29. Paid Stephen A. Frost, treasurer, building committee, $400.00
Oct. 24.
Stephen A. Frost, treasurer,
building committee, 2,600.00
Dec. 6. Stephen A. Frost, treasurer,
building committee, 3,000.00
$6,000.00
EUGENE D. SANBORN, JOHN H. ELLIS, STEPHEN G. SLEEPER,
Selectmen of Fremont.
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TOWN TREASURER'S REPORT.
Treasurer's Report for the year 1910 ending February 15, 1911:
February 15, 1910. Cash in hands of treasurer, $940.11
Received, J. B. Wilbur, collector, 4,521.70
Manchester Savings Bank, 6,000.00
S. A. Carter, state treasurer, railroad tax, 313.27
S. A. Carter, state treasurer, savings bank tax, 526.03
S. A. Carter, state treasurer, school fund, 153.00
S. A. Carter, state treasurer, literary fund, 74.34
S. A. Carter, state treasurer, state highway,
231.73
John K. Bates, county treasurer,
57.05
H. A. Cook, town clerk, dog licenses,
94.20
H. A. Cook, town clerk, pool table licenses,
20.00
H. A. Cook, town clerk, election candidates,
6.00
Sanborn Seminary, books sold,
7.19
Selectmen, lot in cemetery,
15.00
Selectmen, lot in cemetery,
15.00
Selectmen, lot in cemetery,
5.00
George W. Ball, use of hearse,
1.00
$12,980.62
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid Selectmen's orders,
$10,220.27
County tax,
766.52
State tax,
666.00
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$11,652.79
Cash in hands of treasurer,
$1,327.83
RESOURCES.
Due from County of Rockingham,
16.00
$1,343.83
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LIABILITIES.
Due School District balance of state fund of 1910,
$141.73
School District, literary fund,
74.34
Manchester Savings Bank,
6,000.00
$6,216.07
1,343.83
Balance against town,
$4,872.24
WILLIAM H. GIBSON,
Treasurer.
REPORTS OF HIGHWAY AGENTS.
GEORGE F. WILLEY, HIGHWAY AGENT. Receipts.
Received of town treasurer,
$381.00
For overwork,
14.20
For breaking roads,
13.15
Total,
$408.35
Expenditures.
Expenditures in detail :
Paid Charles Heselton,
$52.00
John H. Ellis,
24.00
Wesley Gowing,
47.25
E. F. Woodman,
48.00
J. A. Davis,
18.00
S. P. Willey,
26.45
Charles Willey,
25.75
David Marden,
3.75
George W. Burley,
17.25
H. W. Leavitt,
2.50
S. G. Sleeper,
5.00
Elmer Willey,
4.50
George F. Willey,
120.75
$395.20
Breaking Roads.
Paid George F. Willey,
$8.25
S. P. Willey,
1.00
S. G. Sleeper,
2.40
W. S. Gowing,
.75
G. W. Burley,
.75
$13.15
$408.35
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REPORT OF J. P. BASSETT, HIGHWAY AGENT.
Receipts.
1910.
April 15. Received of town treasurer, $200.00
July 11. Received of town treasurer, 50.00
Sept. 10. Received of town treasurer, 50.00
Dec. 15. Received of town treasurer, 15.36
$315.36
Expenditures.
Blacksmith work,
$4.55
Posts, railing, spikes, paint,
6.25
Picking rocks,
8.50
R. H. Fellows' estate, bridge plank,
15.36
Spaulding & Frost Co., plank,
2.10
Highway labor,
266.60
Breaking roads,
12.00
$315.36
Highway Labor.
Paid Frank York,
$39.00
John McIntire,
15.00
Clifton Jackson,
2.25
Edward Smith,
8.25
E. D. Sanborn,
21.50
Austin F. Clement,
19.50
Horace Stagpole,
7.50
Ephraim Howard,
10.50
Sylvester McLane,
6.60
Hurbert Fuller,
6.00
Howard French,
3.00
Charles Sargent,
3.00
J. P. Bassett,
124.50
$266.60
STATE HIGHWAY FUND.
J. P. BASSETT'S ACCOUNT.
Receipts.
1910.
Oct. 27.
Received of town treasurer, $200.00
Nov. 8.
Received of town treasurer,
200.00
25. Received of town treasurer, 200.00
Dec. 15. Received of town treasurer, 80.93
$680.93
Expenditures.
Paid John H. Ellis,
$124.80
George Fuller,
46.80
Frank York,
43.80
Howard French,
35.25
George Jackson,
39.30
Sylvester McLane,
24.30
J. P. Bassett,
259.50
Frank Hall,
1.50
John McIntire,
22.50
William Comway,
9.00
Charles Sargent,
6.00
E. D. Sanborn,
8.00
Powder and dynamite,
7.80
F. W. Parker, for posts,
4.00
R. H. Fellows' estate, for railing,
23.18
North Eastern Metal Culvert Co.,
25.20
$680.93
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
DOG LICENSES.
For the year 1910 I have licensed dogs as follows:
Forty-seven (47) male dogs, at $2,
$94.00
Two (2) female dogs, at $5, 10.00
$104.00
Reserved for fees, 49 at 20 cents each,
9.80
May 21, 1910, paid to treasurer,
$94.20
HENRY A. COOK, Town Clerk.
POOL TABLES.
By order of the selectmen I have licensed pool tables as follows:
May 1, 1910, I issued two (2) pool table licenses to Eli Gagnon from the first day of May, 1910, to the first day of May, 1911. Received for license fees, $20.00
February 15, 1911, paid to treasurer,
20.00
. HENRY A. COOK,
Town Clerk.
LIBRARY REPORT.
Receipts.
Received of town treasurer,
$37.30
Received of librarian, 3.03
$40.33
Expenditures.
1911.
Jan.
1.
Paid W. P. Goodman, for
books,
$33.53
Feb. Cora B. Frost, work on books, 2.00
1910.
Feb. W. H. Benfield, wood, 1.00
1911.
Jan. A. F. Sanborn, wood, 2.00
Sargent Brothers, printing, 2.00
Feb.
$40.53
$0.20
'Due trustees,
A. F. SANBORN, H. A. COOK, W. H. BENFIELD, Trustees.
February 15, 1911.
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN.
vols.
Whole number of books in library,
1,579
New books added during the year, 43
Presented by A. F. Sanborn,
1
Presented by Mrs. Minnie D. French,
1
Presented by Edith Nichols, 1
22
Whole number of cards issued,
548
Issued during year,
27
Circulation during year,
1,312
Running expenses,
$1.07
Received for fines,
3.10
Received of Mrs. A. French for use of books,
1.00
Cash on hand,
13.03
Gave the same to the treasurer.
CORA B. FROST, Librarian.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the accounts of the selectmen, treasurer, highway agents, town clerk, library trustees and board of education, and am satisfied that they are correctly cast and supported by the proper vouchers.
S. A. FROST, Auditor.
For the year ending February 15, 1911.
SCHOOL WARRANT.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
To the Inhabitants of the School District in the Town of Fremont Qualified to Vote in District Affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet at the old town house in said district on the eighteenth day of March, 1911, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon to act upon the following subjects :
1. To choose a moderator for the ensuing year.
2. To choose a clerk for the ensuing year.
3. To choose a member of the school board for the en- suing three years.
4. To choose a treasurer for the ensuing year.
5. To hear the reports of agents, auditors, committees, or officers heretofore chosen, and pass any vote relating thereto.
6. To see how much money the district will raise and appropriate for the support of schools and for school sup- plies, books, etc.
Given under our hands at said Fremont this twenty-fifth day of February, 1911.
ALDEN F. SANBORN, ERNEST M. LOWE, JAMES B. MARTIN, School Board.
A true copy of warrant. Attest:
ALDEN F. SANBORN,
ERNEST W. LOWE,
JAMES B. MARTIN,
School Board.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
To the School Board and Citizens of the Town of Fremont:
The statistics for the school year ending July 15, 1910, are of general interest and may be studied with profit by every citizen.
Whole number different scholars registered in all the schools in the town:
Girls, 63.
Boys, 55.
Number of scholars under five years of age, 11. Number between five and eight, 49.
Number between eight and fourteen, 48.
Number registered who have previously attended in some other town in the state during the current year, 10.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Perfect Attendnace, District No. I.
First Term .- Gladys A. Clement, Bernice W. Metevier, Earl Marcott.
Perfect Attendance, District No. 2.
Intermediate School.
First Term .- Carrie H. Carson, Gladys M. Carson, Dorothy C. True, Simeon Gardner.
Second Term .- Elvira L. Benfield, Gladys M. Carson, Carrie H. Carson, Mildred A. Emerson.
Third Term .- Gladys M. Carson, Carrie H. Carson, Mildred A. Emerson, Lillian M. Gardner, Dorothy C. True, Simeon Gardner.
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Perfect Attendance, District No. 2.
Primary.
First Term .- Richard G. Ball, Leaman Copp, Helen Shillinglaw, Winifred S. Leclair, Elsie M. St. John, Eva J. Proctor, Frances A. Benfield.
Second Term .- Harold G. Ball, Richard G. Ball, Leaman P. Copp, George N. Gardner, Harry G. Marcott, Albine C. Marcott, Walter R. Shillinglaw, Harry E. St. John, Myrtle Clement, Barbara M. Gardner, Daisy P. Hall, Winifred S. Leclair, Hazel F. Taylor, Vivian W. Taylor, Marion E. Towle, Helen B. Shillinghast.
Third Term .- Harold G. Ball, Richard G. Ball, George N. Gardner, Harry G. Marcott, Albine C. Marcott, Harry E. St. John, Nelson W. Beede, Frances A. Benfield, Daisy P. Hall, Winifred S. Leclair, Elsie St. John, Marion E. Towle.
Perfect attendance, District No. 3.
First Term .- Gladys E. Willey, Alma Hart, Beatrice Lyford, J. Sidney Lyford.
Second Term .- Alma Hart.
Perfect Attendance, District No. 4.
First Term .- Harold R. Copp, Willie M. Howard, Edith L. Knight, Mabel K. Knight.
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DETAILED STATISTICAL TABLE OF SCHOOLS.
Terms.
Teachers.
Weeks.
Pupils.
Average attendance.
Not absent.
Visitors.
Reading.
Spelling.
Penmanship.
Arithmetic.
Geography.
Grammar.
Composition.
Physiology.
Wages per month.
Spring Fall ... Winter.
Etta R. Currier.
14
18
14 +
3 19 18 18
14'
12 11
11 10 10 10
$34
Clara A. Willey.
11
22
14
0 19 22 22 15 14 12 12 9 10 11
34
Clars A. Willey ..
6
22
13
0 15 22 22 15 14 12
12
9 10 11
34
District No. 2 .- Int.
§ WMary Sewall.
7
34
Spring
/ WEmma Sleeper
6
32
29 + 22+
4 16 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32
36
Fall.
Ella P. Brown. .
11
25
44
Winter.
Ella P. Brown ..
6
25
18+
4 9 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 6 18 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25
44
District No. 2 .- Prim.
Pauline B. Ellis
14
30
25 +
7 37 30 30 24 27 15 16 17 28 28 25 24 14
0 10
34
Winter.
Pauline B. Ellis.
6
23
20 +
12 20 23 23 20 20 14
0 10
34
District No. 3.
Spring
Ella P. Brown.
14
23
18+
4 9 23
23 20 20 16 15 12 12 12
34
Fall ..
Laura A. Welch,
11
34
Winter.
Laura A. Welch.
6
28
16 +
1
8 28 28 20 19 15 15 14 11 10
34
District No. 4.
Spring
Sarah J. Webster.
14
8
6++
0 21
8
8
6
8
6
6
6
4
6
30
Fall.
Sarah J. Webster.
11
8
6 +
Winter.
Sarah J. Webster.
6
7
5+
3
7
5
7
5
5
5
3
5
30
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Spring Fall ..
Pauline B. Ellis.
11
28
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6
6
6
6
4
6
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GENERAL REMARKS.
Our schools for the most part have been taught by teachers too well known to the people of the town for me to take any of the space allotted me in this report to par- ticularize on their services separately. With one or two exceptions every term has been taught and conducted successfully. Visits by parents have not been as numerous as they ought, but a fairly good number. The registers report 216 visitors, a falling off from last year. Number of tardy marks, 178; per cent. of attendance, 86.91+ less owing in part to sickness, and changing of families.
As it is much easier to censure than to approve, so it is the tendency often to look for better results in our schools than we ought, and especially is this true of those who seldom or never visit and, therefore, know but little about them.
History.
District No. 1.
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Parents and school officers need to be considerate and careful in every point touching on the great question of education. Let us take more time. Better give your child's training a few hours' attention than leave a rich legacy. Our schools in this country are the most impor- tant factor in our civilization, and the corner stone of our form of government.
The people must be intelligently educated if they are to govern themselves. The permanency and high standard of our schools are, therefore, of vast importance-an inter- est in which all should be active. Every citizen should do all he can to build up and strengthen our schools, to make their standard higher, their work better.
The selection of teachers is of the greatest importance to the welfare of our schools, and it should be made with due caution.
Now after good character and efficiency, there is, per- haps, nothing more needful in the schoolroom than perma- nency in the teacher's chair. New teachers, new ways, new acquaintanceships to be made by pupils and teachers promise an amount of friction and ill adjustment in a school which is often prohibitive of good work, and ruinously expensive in time lost both to pupils and community. To this end I would recommend that the school board secure the services of as many of our present corps of teachers as possible. Teachers at six dollars a week are sometimes worth twelve or fifteen, but not very often. Here, as in other forms of work in the world, the lowest paid is the highest compensated. Penuriousness is often as bad as extravagance.
Existing laws require towns to maintain schools thirty weeks in the year in order to receive state aid; so before we vote our extra appropriation for the maintenance of schools let us approximate our expenses.
Respectfully submitted, JAMES B. MARTIN, Superintendent.
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REPORT OF TREASURER OF SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Cash in hands of treasurer February 15, 1910,
$168.89
From town treasurer by law,
832.50
dog licenses, 120.41
literary fund,
82.46
state fund,
142.20
salaries of school board and truant officer,
95.00
school books and supplies,
150.00
American Book Company,
2.92
town treasurer, portion of state fund of 1910,
11.27
$1,605.65
Paid orders from school board,
$1,605.65
WILLIAM H. GIBSON, Treasurer.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
We have given orders on the treasurer for the payment; of the following bills:
Teaching.
School No. 1, Etta R. Currier, 14 weeks
at $8.50, $119.00
School No. 1, Clara A. Willey, 17 weeks at $8.50, 144.50
$263.50
School No. 2 (Primary), Pauline B. Ellis, 31 weeks at $8.50, 263.50
School No. 2 (Grammar), Mary Sewall, 7 weeks at $8.50, $59.50
School No. 2 (Grammar), Emma G.
Sleeper, 6 weeks at $9, 54.00
School No. 2 (Grammar), Ella P. Brown, 17 weeks at $11, 187.00 $300.50
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School No. 3, Ella P. Brown, 14 weeks at $8.50, $119.00
School No. 3, Laura A. Welch, 17 weeks at $8.50, 144.50
$263.50
School No. 4, Sarah J. Webster, 31 weeks at $7.50,
232.50
Etta Porter, cleaning school rooms,
4.00
Theodore Purington, cleaning school rooms,
3.00
Mary M. Sanborn, cleaning two rooms,
8.00
E. C. Eastman, check lists,
.96
Edward E. Babb & Co., supplies,
17.75
D. C. Heath & Co., books,
26.50
American Book Company, books,
33.92
Ginn & Co., books,
14.80
D. N. Knowlton & Co., supplies,
1.00
L. H. Small, cleaning well and fixing pump,
3.80
D. N. Hallinan, wood,
5.00
A. F. Sanborn, wood,
35.50
W. H. Lyford, wood,
8.25
John L. Ladd, rope, etc., for flag pole,
1.05
R. E. Lane, order book and blanks,
1.47
Arthur B. Brown, sweeping and building fires,
3.00
Kenneth Bassett, sweeping and building fires, 1.25
H. B. Ellis, cleaning and cleansing closets,
11.10
G. G. Norcross, lock, glass and setting, etc.,
1.00
J. B. Sanborn, glass and setting,
1.20
J. B. Martin, express, postage and telephone,
4.70
J. B. Martin, salary as superintendent,
50.00
A. F. Sanborn, salary as member of school board,
10.00
E. W. Lowe, salary as member of school board, 10.00
S. J. Willey, salary as truant officer,
25.00
$1,605.65
ALDEN F. SANBORN. ERNEST W. LOWE. JAMES B. MARTIN.
VITAL STATISTICS.
TO THE SELECTMEN OF FREMONT: In compliance with an act of the Legislature passed June session, 1877, requiring "clerks of towns and cities to furnish a transcript of the record of births, marriages and deaths to the municipal officers for publication in the annual reports," I herewith submit the following:
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