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ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE
SELECTMEN, TOWN TREASURER
TOWN CLERK AND
SCHOOL BOARD
OF THE TOWN OF
HAMPTON FALLS
NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR THE
Year Ending January 31
1926
HAMPTON, N. H. Rockingham Printing Co. 1926
ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE
SELECTMEN, TOWN TREASURER TOWN CLERK AND SCHOOL BOARD
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OF THE TOWN OF
HAMPTON FALLS
NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR THE
Year Ending January 31 1926
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HAMPTON, N. H. Rockingham Printing Co. 1926
TOWN OFFICERS-1925-26
OFFICERS CHOSEN MARCH ELECTION, 1925 TOWN CLERK JAMES H. BROWN SELECTMEN
LOUIS B. JANVRIN
WALTER B. FARMER
ARTHUR J. SEWALL
TOWN TREASURER
WILLIAM H. McDEVITT
COLLECTOR OF TAXES ARCHIBALD £ LANTZ SCHOOL BOARD
MRS. WILLIAM CRAM
MRS. ARTHUR CHASE
ROSCOE
SWAIN
SCHOOL TREASURER
FORREST
B. CREIGHTON
(Elected November 1924) MODERATOR WALTER. B. FARMER
SUPERVISORS OF THE CHECKLIST WALTER A. LADD ARTHUR W. CHASE FORREST B. CREIGHTON
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TOWN WARRANT
(L. S.) STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To the inhabitants of the Town of Hampton Falls, N. . H., the County of Rockingham in said State, quali- fied to vote in Town affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet at the Town hall in said Hampton Falls on Tuesday, the Ninth day of . March next, at Ten of the clock in the forenoon to act upon the following subjects :
1. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing.
2. To raise such sums of money as may be necess- ary to defray town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriation for same.
3. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the following sums to pay Armas Guyon $327.94; H. Porter Brown $135.18; Joseph Bragg $10.75; Elwin Pevear $11.34, for labor contracted in 1924.
4. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $75 to reimburse the subscribers for the Boulder Fund that made it possible for the town to furnish a boulder at Hampton Memorial Park.
5. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate an additional sum sufficient to purchase a tractor and snow plow.
6. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate $500 to construct a gravel sidewalk starting at Akerman's corner on the Lafayette road going towards the Hampton line, providing the abutters on both sides of
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the road will proportionally pay one-third of the $500 in addition.
7. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate $400 to continue the work of suppression of the "Pine Blister Rust."
8. To see what action the town will take towards recovering $878.43, one-half the cost of the Exeter Road Bridge.
9. To transact any other business that may legally come before this meeting.
Given under our hands and seal this Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hun- dred and twenty-six.
LOUIS B. JANVRIN, WALTER B. FARMER, ARTHUR J. SEWALL, Selectmen of Hampton Falls.
A true copy of Warrant-Attest :
LOUIS B. JANVRIN,
WALTER B. FARMER, ARTHUR J. SEWALL,
Selectmen of Hampton Falls.
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BUDGET OF THE
Estimates of revenue and expenditures for the ensuing year, Janu and expenditures of the previous year
SOURCES OF REVENUE
From State
Insurance tax
$ 140.82
$ 140.82
Railroad tax
175.20
175.20
Savings bank tax
323.64
323.64
Highways: State aid main ..
2,000.00
Highways: Trunk line main.
64.94
800.00
Interest and Dividend tax . .
1,854.75
1,500.00
Refund on monument
100.00
Forestry
2.65
From Local Sources Except Taxes All licenses and permits ex- cept dog licenses
1,402.61
1,400.00
Rent of Town hall
6.31
Interest received on taxes
and deposits
62.15
50.00
Check not cashed
7.00
From Poll Taxes
Other taxes except property taxes
714.00
476.00
From State: New Construction
For State aid highway cons.
305.20
305.20
Amount Raised by Issue of Bonds Or Notes
Temporary loans
6,000.00
Revenue For Other Governmental Divisions
Dog tax
73.60
Total, except property taxes . ... $11,232.87 Amount raised by property taxes 17,061.82
$ 7,170.86
11,517.62
Cash on hand, Jan. 31, 1925 426.96
Total Revenues
$28,721.65
$18,688.48
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TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS, N. H.
ary 31, 1926 to January 31, 1927, compared with actual revenue January 31, 1925 to January 31, 1926
PURPOSES OF EXPENDITURES
General Government
Town officers' salaries. $ 811.15
$ 750.00
Town officers' expenses .
250.14
250.00
Election, registration exp .. .
25.00
Care and supplies Town hall
69.20
75.00
Protection Persons and Property Police department
252.00
200.00
Fire department
14.00
Health
Health department.
14.70
20.00
Highway and Bridges
State aid: State's contrib .. .
2,000.00
State aid : Town's contrib ..
1,356.31
1,000.00
Trunk line: State's contrib. .
800.00
Trunk line : Town's contrib ..
949.13
800.00
Town maintenance
1,465.74
2,000.00
Highway Dept,, snow
161.32
1,000.00
Education
Libraries
150.00
150.00
Patriotic Purposes
Mem. Day ; other celebrations Interest
21.39
25.00
On temporary loans
170.84
100.00
On long term notes
175.00
150.00
New Construction; Improvements Town construction
1,823.65
Abatements
315.54
Payment on Principal of Debt
Bonds : temporary loans .
6,000.00
Long term notes
2,500.00
1,000.00
To Other Governmental Divisions
Excess polls
510.00
State taxes
1,275.00
1,275.00
County taxes
1,082.84
923.48
Payments to school districts
7,435.30
6,145.00
Balance in treasury
1,918.40
Total expenditures
$28,721.65
$18,688.48
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INVENTORY
Land and buildings
$625,333.00
115 horses
10,810.00
1 mule
50.00
2 oxen
100.00
43 neat stock
1,195.00
313 cows
15,450.00
4 hogs
55.00
34 sheep
238.00
2,703 fowl
2,703.00
6 gasoline tanks
1,500.00
8 portable mills
850.00
Wood and lumber
54,125.00
Stock in trade
23,900.00
Refrigerating machine
800.00
4 aqueducts
250.00
Total, (exclusive of Soldiers' exempt) $737,359.00
Poll taxes
$
756.00
Amt. taxes committed to col., in-
cluding poll taxes
18,083.98
Amount exempted to soldiers
3,070.00
Average rate per cent of taxation
for all purposes $2.35 per $100.
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APPROPRIATIONS
Town charges
$1,000.00
Roads and bridges
2,000.00
Trunk line maintenance
1,000.00
State aid maintenance
1,000.00
Town debt
1,000.00
Emergency note
1,200.00
Electric road
500.00
Town library
150.00
Memorial Day
50.00
Snow plow
2,000.00
Gravel on South road
400.00
$10,300.00
Schools
6,300.00
County tax
1,082.84
$17,682.84
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TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS BALANCE
ASSETS
Cash in N. H. Nat'l Bank $1,918.40
Uncollected taxes, 1925 1,357.20
Due from State contingent fund 915.60
Due from State, trunk line main. 474.56
Due from State, State aid main.
184.87
.
$4,850.63
Deficit
1,722.97
$6,573.60
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SHEET
JANUARY 31, 1926
LIABILITIES
Dog tax
$ 73.60
Balance due schools
1,000.00
Tractor appro. not expended
2,000.00
E. H. & A. St. R. R.
500.00
Town notes, long term
3,000.00
$6,573.60
Town liability
$1,722.97
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TREASURER'S REPORT
DR.
To Balance, Jan. 31, 1925 $ 426.96
Check No. 848, not cashed
7.00
Taxes collected, 1924
1,049.04
Taxes collected, 1925.
16,726.78
Interest on taxes .
46.30
State Insurance tax
140.82
railroad tax
175.20
savings bank tax
323.64
forestry refund
2.65
refund on intangibles
1,811.26
interest on intangibles
43.49
refund on monument
100.00
aid construction 305.20
trunk line main., 1924. .
64.94
Automobile permits, 1925
1,387.61
Dog tax
73.60
Interest on deposits .
15.85
Pool table license
15.00
N. H. Nat'l Bank temp. loans
6,000.00
Town hall
6.31
$28,721.65
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CR.
By Town officers' salaries .
$
811.15
Town officers' exp., books, ptg. 250.14
Health department 14.70
Police department
252.00
Patriotic purposes
21.39
Library
150.00
Town hall .
69.20
Town maintenance
1,465.74
Permanent improvement 1,390.40
Trunk line maintenance 949.13
State aid maintenance 1,356.31
Great Hill special
433.25
Snow paths .
161.32
Fire prevention
14.00
State tax.
1,275.00
County tax
1,082.84
Tax (State) excess poll, 1924
510.00
Notes, State aid
1,000.00
Notes, temp., special appro.
1,500.00
Notes, temporary, 1925
6,000.00
Int. on long term notes
175.00
Int. on temporary notes
170.84
Schools
7,435.30
Abatements and discount
315.54
Cash in treas., Jan. 31, 1926
1,918.40
$28,721.65
WILLIAM H. McDEVITT, Treasurer
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Hampton Falls, N. H., Feb. 6, 1926.
We, the undersigned auditors, have this day exam- ·
ined the foregoing accounts of the Town Treasurer, and find them well vouched and correctly cast, and a bal- ance of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen Dol- lars, Forty Cents ($1,918.40) in the hand of the Treas- urer.
B. T. JANVRIN, CHARLES N. DODGE, HELEN F. BATCHELDER, Auditors
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT ON EXPEN- DITURES
SALARIES OF TOWN OFFICERS
Paid Louis A. Janvrin, selectman . . . $169.75
Walter B. Farmer, selectman .. 181.00
Arthur J. Sewall, selectman ... 158.00 William H. McDevitt, treas ... 100.00 James H. Brown, town clerk. . 32.65
Archibald Lantz, tax collector. 100.00
Helen F. Batchelder, auditor .. 12.00
James H. Brown, auditor . 6.00
George A. Merrill, selectman, 1924 8.00
Frank H. Lord, town clerk, 1924
23.75
Chas. I. Akerman, care of clock 20.00
$811.15
OFFICERS' EXPENSES, BOOKS AND PRINTING
Paid C. F. Adams, ptg. town reports. $ 70.00 C. F. Adams, ptg. inventories . . 33.25 Edson C. Eastman, books and blanks 26.24
W. P. Farmer, treas. assessors' association 2.00
Geo. F. Merrill, stamped envel. 11.51
Jackman & Land, bonds for officers 20.00
75.00
F. A. Batchelder, town counsel W. H. McDevitt, postage, tele- phone, and stationery . 6.34
Geo. A. Merrill, assessing 2.00
Walter A. Ladd, assessing. 1.80
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Arthur G. Wadleigh, assessing . 1.50
Dr. A. M. Fernald, returns .50
$250.14
HEALTH DEPARTMENT Paid Arthur W. Chase, health officer $14.70
$14.70
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Paid Arthur W. Chase, officer
$108.00
Perley E. Ladd, officer
74.00
Fred M. Batchelder, uniforms. .
70.00
$252.00
PATRIOTIC PURPOSES
Paid Charles N. Dodge, flags
$ 6.39
W. H. Lang, plants .
12.00
Walter A. Ladd, decor. graves
3.00
$21.39
LIBRARY
Paid Helen Batchelder, library appr. $75.00
James H. Brown, insurance.
75.00
$150.00
TOWN MAINTENANCE
Paid Mitchell O'Brien, supervisor . . . $348.75 Walter A. Ladd, supervisor .... 543.36 Albert W. Elkins, supervisor .. 408.45 Arthur J. Sewall . 8.00
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B. T. Janvrin.
30.72
George A. Janvrin, gravel
4.00
B. T. Janvrin, tile for Depot rd.
2.80
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Chas. N. Dodge, gravel 8.75
Francis C. Dennett, sign boards 68.75
J. Templeton, road closing signs .50 Chas. Harrison, repairs to tools 16.65
George C. Healey, lantern . 1.60
George F. Merrill lanterns, oil and globes . 3.84
Penn Culvert Co., metal culverts
19.57
$1,465.74
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT
Paid Albert W. Elkins $1,161.50
B. T. Janvrin 18.58
Chas. N. Dodge, gravel 85.75
W. A. Young, tile . 69.42
Irving W. Brown, catch basins
55.15
$1,390.40
TRUNK LINE MAINTENANCE
Paid Albert W. Elkins
$642.55
Charles N. Dodge, gravel 42.25
George A. Janvrin, gravel 8.00
B. T. Janvrin .
12.00
Irving W. Brown, tile work ... 111.31
Penn Metal Culvert Co., culverts 80.00
Standard Oil Co., patching oil. 53.02
$949.13
TOWN HALL
Paid James H. Brown, insurance. .. . $44.00 Exeter & Hampton Elec. Co., light bills 25.20
$69.20
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STATE AID MAINTENANCE
Paid Albert W. Elkins $544.50
Mitchell O'Brien 539.59
Standard Oil Co., patching oil
173.28
George A. Janvrin, gravel
46.20
B. T. Janvrin
52.74
$1,356.31 GREAT HILL SPECIAL APPROPRIATION Paid Walter A. Ladd. $433.25
$433.25
SNOW PATHS
Paid Albert W. Elkins
$80.25
Mitchell O'Brien
31.40
Walter A. Ladd
8.07
Town of Exeter, breaking Exeter
road
30.00
B. T. Janvrin, breaking trunk line 11.60
$161.32
FIRE PREVENTION Paid Town of Exeter, fire at J. E. San- born's $10.00
Archibald Lantz, fire at Young's
2.00
Clar. E. Michaels, fire at Young's 2.00
$14.00
STATE TAX Paid Henry E. Chamberlin, State
treasurer
$635.34
State Credits
639.66
Henry E. Chamberlin,
excess
poll tax, 1924
510.00
$1,785.00
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COUNTY TAX Paid Earl R. Stockbridge, county treasurer $1,082.84
$1,082.84
NEW HAMPSHIRE NATIONAL BANK
Faid Serial road note
$1,000.00
Tem. loan, 1924, spec. appro. 1,500.00
Temporary loans for 1925
6,000.00
Int. on long term notes
175.00
Int. on temporary loans
170.84
$8,845.84
SCHOOLS
Paid Forrest B. Creighton, school
treasurer
$7,435.30
$7,435.30
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ABATEMENTS 1924
Paid Wallace D. C. Dodge
$25.00
Frank Kennedy, soldier 10.00
Maurice French, poll 5.00
William Price, poll
5.00
D. L. Whittemore.
6.00
Gladys L. Merrill, refund on auto
permit
13.26
$64.26
1925
Paid Archibald Lantz, discount
on
taxes $53.95
Myron Brown, soldier 3.00
David Irving, soldier 3.00
George Mahar, soldier 3.00
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Harry G. Sturgis, soldier 3.00
Dr. Arthur M. Dodge, soldier 3.00
George Crediford, soldier 3.00
Ira Gove, soldier 3.00
Eben Pevear, soldier 3.00
Everett Janvrin, soldier 3.00
Alfred Lingham, soldier 4.18
Walter R. Trafton, soldier 3.00
Walter Sturgis, non-resident 3.00
Minnie Sturgis, non-resident. 3.00
William H. Cochrane, poll 3.00
Warren J. Prescott, rebated by tax commission
7.05
Ellen F. Lord
16.45
Helen Birtwell
7.05
John Brown .
4.70
Walter W. Combs
16.92
Alice Creighton
4.70
James D. L. Janvrin
7.05
Mrs. Lamprey and Crane 4.70
Mrs. Nahum Swain 9.40
Carslile and Lord 10.34
Fred Riley 4.11
George J. Curtis. 23.50
L. Fred Wesson
2.93
Elvin J. Prescott. 9.40
Grant B. Sanborn 11.75
F. D. Corson
9.40
George Felker 4.70
$251.28
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT
The Selectmen, in submitting their report for 1925, wish to call the tax payers' attention to several unusual expenditures, which in their opinion were necessary.
If the voters will appropriate only such sums as are necessary to meet the current expenses for 1926 the tax rate can be reduced materially.
Owing to the confused condition of the Town Books for 1924, several bills for labor will be presented to the voters for their approval and a special appropriation asked in order that the parties owed may receive the amount justly due them.
At the beginning of the fiscal year of 1925 there was on hand $426.96. There was received up to Town Meet- ing $881.26, making a total of $1,308.22. From this sum there had to be immediately deducted $510.00 on account of excess poll taxes of 1924. This sum should have been paid in 1924, with the labor bills, by including them in the special appropriation to meet the deficit of 1924. The item of $881.22, which was handled as an asset in the re- port of 1924 as due from the State on account of the building of the Exeter road bridge, was found to be un- collectable as the requirements specified by the State were not complied with. The total of these sum has made a difference of $1,391.00 in the finances for 1925.
Owing to the re-valuation of the Town by the State Tax Commission there was created an unforseen expense of about $300.00.
The Police Department received $252.00 for which no appropriation was made. Owing to a law suit brought against the Town for unpaid labor it was neces- sary to employ council, to whom has been paid to date $75.00.
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ROADS
State Aid, Exeter Road. An excess expenditure of $356.31 was created, of which $184.84 will be refunded by the State Highway Department, leaving an actual ex- cess expenditure of $171.44. This expenditure was caused by lack of care of the road bed at the time breaks occurred in the surface.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT
An excess expenditure of $881.40 was made on Pleasant Street in front of B. T. Janvrin's property. On complaint that the water from the gutters and road was undermining the foundations of his buildings, it was found that the tile, laid from the gutter across the road, did not extend through but ended within a foot of the front wall. The drain or tile was also crushed. The sidewalk bridge that covered the drain from Elkin's meadow had caved. The Selectmen decided that Mr. Janvrin's' complaint was justified and to avoid complica- tions the road was rebuilt in a permanent manner with proper catch basins and larger tile.
GREAT HILL SPECIAL APPROPRIATION
An excess expenditure of $33.00 occurred. This was justified to complete a very excellent job.
TRACTOR
The $2,000.00 appropriated for a Fordson Tractor and Scraper was not used, as the Selectmen decided, aft- er investigation, that the outfit was not practical. The ideas of handling snow and the design of tractors and plows are changing so rapidly that it seemed wise to await the success or failure of the apparatus of different sizes and makes being used in the surrounding towns be-
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fore plunging the Town into an expenditure that might be a total loss.
To avoid tie-ups, the State furnished an army truck and arrangements were made with Hampton and uxeter for the use of their tractors and plows at a nominal cost.
STREET RAILWAY
The Selectmen considered that the payment of $500 .- 00 to The Exeter, Hampton and Amesbury Railway Co., was not justified under the vote passed by the Town in 1922.
LOUIS B. JANVRIIN, WALTER B. FARMER, ARTHUR J. SEWALL, Selectmen of Hampton Falls.
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TRUST FUNDS
Received from W. C. Walton, executor of the will of Mary Pickering Harris, two hundred dollars ($200.00). To be held in trust by the Town of Hampton Falls. Pro- ceeds of this fund to be used for the care of the cemetery lot of Samuel Langdon, D. D. Deposited in the Ports- mouth Trust and Guarantee Savings Bank, order of trustees of trust funds, Mary Pickering Harris Fund. WILLIAM H. McDEVITT, Trustee.
AUDITORS' REPORT
Hampton Falls, February 6, 1926. We, the auditors of the town, certify that the above sum has been deposited in the Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee Savings Bank in the name of Trustees of Trust Funds. Town Hampton Falls, N. H., Mary Picker- ing Harris Fund.
BERTRAM T. JANVRIN, CHARLES N. DODGE, HELEN F. BATCHELDER, Auditors
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JANITOR OF TOWN HALL
1925
DR.
Mar.
6
Ladies' Circle
$ 3.00
Apr. 17 Woman's Club and 10 rehr. 10.00
June 4 W. C. T. U. 2.00
Aug.
5
Batchelder reunion
2.00
Nov. 13
Woman's Club 2.00
Dec. 11
Woman's Club
2.00
Dec. 11
School entertainment
3.00
1926
Jan. 11 Received from grange 46.00
Jan. 22 Woman's Club and rehearsal 3.50
$73.50
1925
CR.
Jan. 14 Milk meeting $ .50
Jan. 26 School .50
2 light plugs .15
Feb. 24 Town .50
Mar. 9 Caucus
1.00
Apr. 14
F. B. Shallertun, tuning
piano 3.00
Apr. 15 2 light bulbs
.54
Dec. 19 D. F. Batchelder, 1 cord pine wood 9.00
1926
Jan. D. F. Batchelder, wood 16.00
Opening 17 times for enter- tainments 13.00
Opening 23 times for grange 23.00
Paid into treasury, cash on hand
$67.19
6.31
$73.50
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LIBRARY REPORT
REPORT OF LIBRARY TREASURER DR.
1925 To cash on hand
$13.44
Town appropriation
75.00
$88.44
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1925
CR.
Aug. 8 Cash paid, rebinding books. $ 8.10 Librarian, serv. 31.20 For books 48.72 Balance on hand .42
$88.44
AUDITORS' REPORT
Hampton Falls, February 6, 1926.
We, the undersigned auditors, have examined the foregoing accounts and find them well vouched and cor- rectly cast and a balance of Forty-two Cents in the treasury.
B. T. JANVRIN, CHARLES N. DODGE, Auditors.
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BOOKS ADDED TO THE LIBRARY
Abbott, Jane Aprilly
Larkspur Abbott, Jane
Bachiler
Glorious Apollo
Barrington
Shanghaied Out of 'Frisco
Bailey
Phantom Herd
Bower
Old Judge Priest
Cobb
If Dreams Come True
Colver
Spy, The
Cooper
Flower of the North
Curwood
Vanishing Point
Dawson, C
Hans Brinker
Farnol
Loring Mystery
Franck
Roving Through China
Gibbs, H.
Girl at the Halfway House
Hough
Story of the Outlaw
Hough
Cappy Kicks
Kyne
Captain Scraggs
Lutz
Exit Betty
Lutz
Witness, The
Mccutcheon
Oliver October
Melville
White Jacket
Montgomery
Two Shall Be Born
Oemler
Wild Geese
Ostenso
Comrades of Peril
Parrish
Hermit of the Far End
Pedler
Keeper of the Bees
Powell, A.
Map Half Unrolled
Powell, D.
Whither
Quick
Pirate of Panama Raine
Rhodes
Bransford of Rainbow Range
Richmond
Rufus
Dodge
Soundings
Kyne
Emily of New Moon
Porter, Gene S.
Hawkeye
Days of Poor Richard
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Rinehart
Window at White Cat
Robertson
Masters of Men
Sabatini
Carolinian, The
Spearman
Selwood of Sleepy Cat
Stringer
Gun Runner
Springer
Fire Mountain
Tarkington
Turmoil, The
Tarkington
Two Van Revels
Weyman
Queen's Folly
Whitlock
J. Hardin and Son
Willsie
Exile of Lariat
Wilson, H. L.
Somewhere in Red Gap
Wright
Son of His Father
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AUDITORS' GENERAL REPORT
We, the undersigned, as auditors for the town of Hampton Falls have audited the following accounts and find them all well vouched and correctly cast: Town Clerk, Tax Collector, Town Treasurer, Town Hall, Li- brary, Trust Funds and School Treasurer.
B. T. JANVRIN, C. N. DODGE, HELEN F. BATCHELDER,
February 6, 1926.
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SCHOOL REPORT
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DETAILED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES FINANCIAL REPORT OF TREASURER June 30, 1924 to June 30, 1925
Administration
Chairman of school board .... $ 20.00
Other two members of board. . 20.00
Treasurer to June 30, 1925. .. 15.00
Superintendent's excess salary
150.56
Expenses of administration . . .
8.83
Clerk hire for Supt.
31.05
Instruction
Teaching at East school $ 900.00
Teaching at South school
700.00
Teaching at North school 700.00
Music instruction
126.00
Text books
8.33
Scholars' supplies
112.60
$2,546.93
Operation and Maintenance of School Plants
Janitor service at East school . $ 113.88
Janitor service at South school 41.00
Janitor service at North school 27.00
Wood and sawing wood 166.00
Repairs and painting 235.02
Paint and merchandise
17.11
$245.44
$600.01
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Auxiliary Agencies and Special Activities
Transportation of pupils. $ 179.55
Tuition to Newburyport High 300.00
Exeter
250.00
Rob. Fem. Sem.
344.00
Hampton
1,475.00
Amesbury
75.00
Per capita tax
$2,623.55 $146.00
ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS June 30, 1925 to February 1, 1926 RECEIPTS
1925
June 30 Balance on hand $ 5.31
Sept. 8 Town treasurer 500.00
Nov. 2 Town treasurer
1,000.00
Dec. 7 Town treasurer 800.00
1926
Jan. 4 Town treasurer 1,400.00
Jan. 25 Dearborn Academy fund 25.00
Jan. 30 Town treasurer 1,000.00
Balance due from town. 1,000.00
$5,730.31
PAYMENTS
Administration $ 4.07
Teachers' salaries 1,105.00
Text books and supplies . 48.53
Janitor service 73.00
Fuel and sawing
136.15
Repairs, material, paint-
ing and cleaning . 45.22
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Tuition
1,197.36
Medical inspection
25.00
Nurse hire
5.00
Farewell gift to H. L. Moore
10.00
Supt. excess salary
114.06
Per capita tax
174.00
Balance, Feb. 1, 1926
2,792.92
$5,730.31
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SCHOOL DISTRICT
BALANCE
ASSETS
Total receipts from all sources ... $6,160.30 Total cash on hand, June 30, 1924 6.94
Grand total $6,167.24
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SHEET
JUNE 30, 1925
LIABILITIES
Total payments for all purposes . . . $6,161.93
Total cash on hand, June 30, 1925 . 5.31
Grand total $6,167.24 FORREST B. CREIGHTON, School Treasurer.
AUDITORS' REPORT
Hampton Falls, N. H., February 6, 1926. We, the undersigned auditors, have this day exami ined the foregoing accounts and find them well vouched and correctly cast and a balance of Five Dollars, Thirty One Cents ($5.31) in the hands of the Treasurer.
B. T. JANVRIN, CHARLES N. DODGE, HELEN F. BATCHELDER,
Auditors.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL BOARD
To the citizens of Hampton Falls
We hereby submit the annual financial report of the school district of Hampton Falls, including the receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year 1924-1925, also the budget of estimated revenue needed for the year 1925- 1926.
RECEIPTS
Fiscal year from July 1, 1924 to June 30, 1925 From Selectmen $6,081.95
Other sources than taxation .
78.35
For dog licenses $78.35
Total receipts from all sources . $6,160.30
Cash on hand at beginning of
year, July 1, 1924. 6.94
Grand Total $6,167.24
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PAYMENTS
Administration $253.03
Salaries of district officers $ 55.00
Excess salary 150.56
Expenses of administration 47.47
Instruction $2,535.86
Principals' and teachers' sal .. . $2,426.00
Text books
23.33
Flags and appurtenances 7.15
Scholars' supplies 79.38
Operation and Maintenance of School Plant $599.77
Janitor service
$186.95
Fuel
167.00
Water, light, janitors' supplies. .
4.58
Minor repairs and expenses
241.24
Auxiliary Agencies and Special Activities $2,623.55
Transportation of pupils.
.Ș
179.55
High School and Academy tui-
tion
899.00
Elementary school tuition
1,545.00
Outlay for Construction and Equipment
$3.72
New equipment.
$3.72
Debt, Interest and Other Charges
$146.00
Tax for State wide supervision. . $146.00
Total payments for all purposes $6,161.93
Total cash on hand at end of year (June 30, 1925) 5.31
Grand Total
$6,167.24
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BUDGET
Estimated Revenue Needed for Fiscal Year July 1, 1926 to June 30, 1927
Salaries of district officers $ 55.00
Excess salary
125.00
Expenses of administration and
clerk hire
40.00
Salaries
2,400.00
Supplies
50.00
Books
50.00
Flags
10.00
Janitor service
150.00
Fuel
250.00
Minor repairs
100.00
Health
30.00
Tuition
2,500.00
New equipment
25.00
Per capita tax .
160.00
Painting exterior of East School
200.00
$6,145.00
Respectfully submitted,
ROSCOE SWAIN, MRS. WILLIAM CRAM, MRS. ARTHUR CHASE.
January 30, 1926.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
HAMPTON FALLS, January 30, 1926.
To the School Board of Hampton Falls :
I herewith submit to you my first annual report as superintendent of the schools of Hampton Falls.
Having assumed my duties in this Union on October 1, 1925, I have now served four months. This has been sufficient time only to become acquainted with your town, its schools and its people and to take a few steps toward increased efficiency in the schools.
I find Hampton Falls divided into three school dis- tricts, each with a one-room schoolhouse and one teacher. These houses are so situated that every pupil is within walking distance of a schoolhouse. In each of these schools we find grades one to six, except that in the North School there are two seventh grade pupils.
The South or Great Hill school contains eight pupils and four grades, the first, third, fifth and sixth.
The town is fortunate in securing local teachers of long and successful experience to place in charge of two of its schools. This insures that is these two schools ex- cellent work will be done. The greatest drawback to the schools of Hampton Falls is the small number of pupils in the several grades and the consequent lack of compe- tition and healthy rivalry and emulation.
In the three schools there are five grades with only one pupil in each, three with two pupils in each, four with three, one with four, two with five, and two with six.
At least four pupils are desirable and in the case of many children absolutely essential that these pupils may do their best work, yet of seventeen classes only five còn- tain this number or more.
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What is the solution of this problem ?
Undoubtedly, if conditions make it feasible, the bringing of all pupils to a central school. . Leaving the seventh grade out of consideration at the present time . each of the six grades would then contain from four to twelve pupils, with no grade too small and none too large for effective work. This would make a school large enough to make possible many activities which create in- terests, develop desirable traits of character and train the pupils along lines which are impossible under the present organization.
A central schoolhouse would entail some additional expense in the way of transportation but as an invest- ment, would in my opinion, be well worth the price, both of the initial cost of a new building and the additional running expense.
The change in organization whereby the pupils of the seventh and eighth grades were permitted to attend the Hampton Junior High School and their tuition paid by the town was put into effect in September, 1924, and was a step in the right direction. But this method is not feasible to carry to any grade lower than the seventh, and in my judgment the central building offers the only feasible solution.
The enrollment in the first six grades this year shows a total of forty-seven against a total last year of forty-one.
The attendance of eighteen Hampton Falls pupils in Senior High Schools and of nineteen in Junior High School shows conclusively that the people of Hampton Falls believe in education.
My efforts during the four months of my work have : been to become acquainted with the problem of what is best for the schools and meanwhile to see that the
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schoolrooms are clean, comfortable, sanitary, well-light- ed, well-heated, and attractive, that the teachers and pu- pils are supplied with the best books, appliances and equipment obtainable under the budget and that the teachers use the most efficient methods of discipline and instruction. To this end an intelligence examination was given to all pupils of the seventh and eighth grades in the Union and all pupils of the fifth, sixth and seventh grades were given an arithmetic test which was given the same day to all pupils of those grades in Massachu- setts. The first of these examinations shows the native mental ability of the pupils and the latter gives a chance to compare their skill in, and knowledge of, arithmetic with that of other pupils.
A special effort has been made to increase the per- centage of attendance and punctuality by issuing each week a schedule showing the comparative rank in these two regards of the thirty-two schools and the seven dis- tricts in the Union.
Above all I have tried to help the teachers in all ways possible for in the last analysis it is the teachers who are doing the actual work for the pupils.
I trust the good people of Hampton Falls stand ready to cooperate, to contribute their means, and if nec- essary actually to sacrifice that their children may have the best possible opportunity for an education. I call your attention to the tables of statistics which follow.
Assuring you of my interest in your schools and an earnest desire to be of assistance to every pupil, I submit this report.
CHARLES N. PERKINS, Superintendent.
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SCHOOL STATISTICS, 1924-1925 Attendance
Av. No.
Mem. Tardy
% of Attend. Attend. R. of H.
School Grade Teacher
East 1-6 M. Alice True
18
56
94
0
North 1-6 Mabelle McDevitt
16
64
93
0
South 1-8 Edna M. Hardy
11
2
94 3
Total or Average
45
122
94
3
Promotions, June, 1925
Grade
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 8 Total
Promoted 4
14
2
10
7
6
1
1 45
Not prom.
3
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
4
Av. ages
6.7 7.5 7.11 9.2 9.8 11.2 11.8 13.6
Enrollment Fall Term, 1925
Teacher
School
Grade 1 2 3
4 5
6
7 Total
M. Alice True East
6 3
6
2
5
1 23
Mabelle McDevitt North 1
1
4
3
1
5
2 17
Edna M. Hardy South
3 0 2 0
3
1
9
10 4 12 5 9 7 2
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ATTENDANCE ROLL OF HONOR
Pupils Not Absent or Tardy During the Year
Alice Currier Pauline Thurlow
Georgie Currier Pupils Not Absent or Tardy During Two Terms John Cram
Pupils Not Absent or Tardy During One Term
Lincoln Akerman
Dorothy Thurlow
Elinor Brown Harold Brown
Janet Sewell
Leo French
William Pevear
Stanley French
Martha Thurlow
Edward O'Brien
Dorothy Swain
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HAMPTON FALLS PUPILS
Attending the Following High Schools for a Part or All of This Year
Hampton-Marion Poole, Grace Cadwell, Sybil Carpen- ter, Eleanor Corthell, Mary Hadley, Frances Cad- well, Robert Scales.
Exeter-Olive Akerman, Joseph Cram, Philip Moulton. Robinson Seminary-Lois Brown, Annie Lee, Stella Smith, Pearl Swain, Bernice O'Brien.
Newburyport-Alden Page, Marjorie Rowe.
Amesbury-Charlotte R. Ackerman.
Hampton Junior High School-Roscoe Berry, Alice Cur- rier, Allison Janvrin, Philip Janvrin, Ardelle Thur- low, Harvey Cadwell, Katherine Cram, Margaret Godfrey, Stanley Gordon, Otis Hadley, Gordon Jan- vrin, Louise Page, Louise Rowe, Caroline Thurlow, Marshall Chase, Natalie Corthell, Pauline Thurlow, William Pevear, Harold Poole.
SCHOOL CENSUS, 1925
Whole No. children 5 to 16 years of age
81
Boys 40
Girls 41
Whole No. children not registered in school and ex- cused
1
SUMMARY, 1924-1925
Total pupils enrolled in public schools .49
Value of buildings and sites $8,000.00
Value of equipment. 800.00
Average salary of teachers 766.66
Visits by School Board. 23
Visits by Superintendent
40
Visits by Citizens . 166
Total No. days of school
1741/2
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SCHOLARSHIP ROLL OF HONOR
Pupils attaining "A" in a majority of their subjects plus "A" in application for the first half of the school year :
Elinor F. Brown Mary Janvrin
Ernest N. Brown
Marguerite O'Brien
Harold A. Brown
Jessie Page
Emma E. Cadwell
Emmons Sanborn
Arthur Carpenter Elmer M. Sewall
Henrietta Chase Dorothy G. Swain
Lucy E. Cram
Kenneth W. Swain
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS, N. H., FOR YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1925.
Date
Name of Child
Male
Female
Living or Stillborn
No. of Children
Name of Father
Maiden Name of Mother
Firthplace of Father
Birthplace of Mother
Color
May 17 | Agnes Leah Oct. 30 | -
[F|L| 5|W| Robert N. Van Horn |Rhoda Ann Fuller M| |L| 1|W| Carlton S. Edgerly Hazel Shaw
Nova Scotia Hampton Falls
Hyde Park, Mass. Hampton Falls
DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS, N. H., FOR YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1925.
Date
Name and Surname of Deceased
Place of Birth
Years
Months
Days
Sin. Mar. or Wid.
Name of Father
Name of Mother
Male
Female
Color
Feb. 2 1925
Grace G. Knight Ida May York
[Hampton Falls
[43| 8| 3 43 10 19
FW|M Enoch T. Hanson
Mar. 17 1925
Frank J. Robie
Dover, N. H. Hampton Falls
55
1 3|M
|WWW| Nathan H. Robie
Ruth Green Lydia A. Austin Sarah E. Noyes
Apr. 1 1925
Lillian A. Prescott
Hampton Falls
62
8|19|
F W|S |Alvah Prescott
Minerva Chase
Nov. 30 1925
Bert Lane
Hampton Falls
53
16|M
ĮW|S |Chas. W. Lane
Martha C. Brown
Nov. 27 1925
Jeanette Sewall
Somerville, Mass.
8
FW|S |Arthur J. Sewall
Gladys Moulton
FW|S |Henry H. Knight
Feb. 10 1925
MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS, N. H., FOR YEAR NEDING DEC. 31, 1925.
Date
Name and Surname of Groom and Bride
Age in Years
Color of Each
I'lace of Birth of Each
Names of Parents
Name, Residence and Official Station of Person by Whom Married
May 16 1925
Albert F. Sanborn S. Helen Gifford
31 21
W Wi
Lynn, Mass. Salem, Mass.
June 27 1925
Ray W. Combs Isabel M. Moore
30 25
W W
Hampton Falls Randolph, Me.
July 30 1925
Alfred Giannini Norma Moralle
26 21
W W
Italy Barre, Vt.
Oct. 10 1925
F. Leroy Junkins Mary A. Chase
27 27
W W
Chester, Vt. Hampton Falls
,
Oct. 171925
Hiram L. Young Ida P. Merrill
21. 18
W W
Seabrook Salisbury, Mass.
Nov. 14 1925
George L. Hadley Grace Rock
21 21
W W
Kensington, N. H. Exeter, N. H.
Isaac F. Sanborn Mary E. Russell Frederick J. Gifford Sarah Staten Charles F. Combs Mary S. Pevear Walter E. Moore Rita Merrill Guerrino Giannini Laura Baldini John Moralle Clementina Locarna Frank L. Junkins Mary E. Chandler Arthur W. Chase Mabel M. Chase William Young Nancy L. Gore Charles A. Merrill Hattie N. Janvrin James W. Hadley Sarah L. Gore Benjamin J. Rock Edith L. Marston
James H. Brown Justice of the Peace Hampton Falls
John Chester Hyde Clergyman Hampton Falls
James H. Brown Justice of the Peace Hampton Falls
James W. Bixler Clergyman Exeter, N. H.
John Chester Hyde Clergyman Hampton Falls
John Chester Hyde Clergyman Hampton Falls
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