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Prin. Walter L. Mason, who had been headmaster for the past two years, Miss Jennie L. Bond and Miss Lela E. Osgerby of the high school teaching force, all declined their re-elections and we were confronted by a task of considerable size in filling these vacancies.
For head-master no less than sixty applications were filed, but upon following up the references very
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few of the applicants appeared to be of the caliber re- quired for this important position. At the request of the school board the superintendent visited the confer- ence at Castine, Me., where he had an opportunity to meet a number of candidates who had written. None of these met our expectations, but while there I was presented to a young man who had met with notable success during the past three years. He had not applied and was not a candidate for the position, but finally decided to accept the place.
Mr. E. B. Marriner, who succeeds Mr. Mason, is a graduate of Colby and has had three years' experience as a high school principal, the last two years at Range- ley, Maine. During the half year that he has been in charge of the high school he has shown himself to be a thorough teacher, an able executive and a citizen who would command respect in any community.
Mr. James P. Carroll succeds Miss Bond as teach- er of French and Latin, and Miss Williams succeeds Miss Osgerby as teacher of English. Both of these teachers are well trained and have been doing good work.
In the grades and rural schools eight out of twelve teachers are new. Out of the eight teachers leaving their positions. last June all but one were normal or training school graduates. It was impossible to secure teachers of equal training to fill their places although we were able to secure some with successful experience.
The sixth grade seems to have the greatest diffi- culty in securing and retaining a suitable teacher. The first teacher disregarded her contract after six weeks of teaching and left without notice. After using a sub- stitute for two weeks we were fortunate in securing Miss Florence M. Murphy for the position which she held until January when she was transferred to the B divi- sions of grades V-VI and VII, a position that was not opened during the first term although both the sixth and seventh grades were overcrowded, because we could not find a teacher adapted to the individual work required in these divisions.
We have had two excellent substitutes sent from the Normal School at Keene, and I believe that in spite of the changes necessitated in this grade better work is
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being done than would have been the case had the first teacher remained throughout the year.
In the rural school No. 4 Miss Belcher is serving her second year. While this school is small and con- fined to the first six grades the individual interest shown in the pupils has made this school helpful and attrac- tive and a genuine community center has been developed.
In district No. 9 Miss Alice Lehtinen, a graduate of Conant High School who has had experience as a substi- tute and who attended the summer session at Boston University in 1921, has been placed in charge.
The work done in this school has shown a great improvement over last year.
Miss Hiller has continued her effective work as school nurse. A tabulation of her work in the several rooms is submitted with this report.
Thanksgiving week it was voted by the school board to close the schools for two weeks on account of several cases of Scarlet Fever. The rooms were fumigated and upon reopening Drs. Hatch and Sweeney as well as Miss Hiller gave careful examinations of the pupils and sent out all suspicious cases. Since that time other cases have appeared but, fortunately,all cases have been light.
Miss Grimes of Peterboro has continued her work as supervisor of music for the third year. Those who have seen the schools try to do without a supervisor of music must be convinced that the small amount re- quired for special instruction in music is well spent.
Transportation continues to be a growing problem in this district.
Last spring one small' route was opened on the Rindge road, and during the summer vacation the par- ents of District No. 4 requested the school board to trans- port the pupils above the sixth grade from that section to the Conant building, grades seven and eight.
This request was granted in spite of the fact that there is no chance for reimbursement from the State since there is a school open in that section. Despite the claims of certain individuals and organizations that sometime and somewhere rural schools could fit pupils
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for the high school as well as the village grades, no one realizes better than the residents of our rural sections that the cost of equipment and teachers to do this work would be prohibitive even if the classes were not too small for effective work. The work of the first six grades can be carried on very well in these smaller schools, but those who care to have their children receive a high school education desire them to have the same school advantages as the pupils living in the village and thus prefer to have them attend our seventh and eighth grades.
The attendance at the evening school has been about the same as last year. In addition to the certificates out- standing a year ago requiring illiterates between the age of 16 and 21 to attend evening school seven new certi- ficates requiring such attendance have been issued. Four holding such certificates have, since October 1st, passed their examination in reading and are no longer required to attend.
A number who have completed the work in the grades have taken advantage of the opportunities offered for work in the commercial department.
In the matter of finances Jaffrey was one of the towns heavily cut by the legislation of 1921. During the school year 1920-21 the state aid amounted to $8,117.45. The amendment to the law of 1919 limited the amount that any town might receive to $6,000 and it was hoped that we might receive this amount. Had we been able to retain our elementary teachers of last year or to have secured others of the same training this amount would have been awarded, but only a few normal teachers were available, so we were obliged to secure teachers with partial normal courses or summer school courses with some experience. As a result our financial rating is low- er than last year and our award is but $4,565.37 for the present year.
The normal schools will graduate this year a con- siderably larger number than last year and the year be- fore, and as vacancies occur I feel that we should insist, as far as possible, on securing full normal graduates, and that we should require teachers with only a partial course and little experience to attend summer sessions
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until their rating is satisfactory to the State Board of Education.
During 1921 the State Board of Education recom- mended a program of studies for the elementary schools. This program was devised especially for the school dis- tricts maintaining organized junior high schools. The program plainly states that for each district the local course of study is determined by the local school board and superintendent.
A number of cities and towns in the state are follow- ing the organized junior high school plan but a far larger number of districts are not yet ready to follow this pro- gram in detail. No attempt has been made to organize the schools of this district on the full junior high school plan. Our seventh and eighth grades offer French, ele- mentary science, Domestis Arts and English in accor- dance with this plan, but it has not been considered ad- visable to ask for an appropriation necessary to install manual training in those grades.
We also feel that a large majority of our pupils should continue work in geography, arithmetic and gram- mar through the seventh and eighth grades, and for this reason a program somewhat between the old program and the 1921 program is being followed.
In order that interested parents and citizens may have the opportunity of becoming acquainted with our course of study I suggest that a printed course of study be prepared so that copies may be available for all who are interested. This has been done recently in Fitzwil- liam where an organized junior high school is carried on, but where local conditions make a slight departure from the State program advisable.
As above suggested, the awarding of only $4,500 by the State in the matter of state aid, and the opening of the transportation route from District No. 4, as well as the necessity of putting on a larger conveyance on the Sirois route makes it necessary to ask for about $2,500 as a deficiency appropriation to carry through the work of the year. The appropriations for the next school year must be made on the estimate that the state aid will not vary materially from that granted the present year, since the awards to the districts qualifying in group A are to be the same next year as this year.
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I believe that the present outlook is encouraging. While it has been something of a task for so many new teachers to adjust themselves to the work under new conditions, I find that the teachers, almost without ex- ception, have welcomed suggestions and have faithfully endeavored to carry on their work for the best interest of the school. It is in many ways fortunate that these many changes came about this year instead of last year and two years ago, since the work has been so well organized and developed that it has not been difficult to take up the work where it has been left.
Thanking citizens, teachers, pupils and members of the school board for the cordial support given me in my work, I am
Very truly yours, LEWIS S. RECORD, Superintendent of Schools.
East Jaffrey, N. H., January 31, 1922.
STATISTICAL TABLE. School Year 1920-21
SCHOOL
TEACHERS
Monthly
Salary
Number
of Weeks
Total En-
rollment
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Number
Tardinesses
Visits by
Supt. Schools
Conant High
Walter L. Mason
$233 33
36
68
64.03
61.8
57
131
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Ellyn E. Bassett
133 33
Margaret G. Sheldrick
133 33
Jennie L. Bond
133 33
Grade VIII
*Laura A. Smith
120 00
36
41
36.16
33.79
194
37
Grade VII
*Lela E. Osgerby
133 33
36
50
47.67
43
277
43
Grade VI (a)
Margaret M. McGregor
100 00
36
46
38.32
$34.5
95
40
Grade VI-V (b)
Doris G. Norton
100 00
36
26
14.5
11.6
44
34
Grade V (a)
Mabel F. Johnson
100 00
36
34
31.63
29.6
53
34
Grade IV (a)
Annie C Costello
101 00
36
37
33.16
31.55
47
47
Grade III (a)
Ethel J. Proctor
100 00
36
34
32.64
30.86
30
33
Grade IV-III (b)
Sarah L. Jennings
100 00
32
** 30
28.9
25.9
33
46
Grade II (a)
Esther G. Close
100 00
36
41
30.69
29.5
16
34
Grade I (a )
Mabel E. Enslin
100 00
36
55
37.36
33
44
34
Grade II-I (b)
Naomi O. Weeks
100 0)
36
*** 30
29.1
25.7
12
44
Dist No. 4
Alice E. Belcher
80 00
36
7
14
10.67
9.89
72
27
Dist. No. 9
Ivilla M. Corliss
84 00
36
12
9.95
8.77
67
20
Music
Ethel C. Grimes
52 00
$2.006 65
36
518
444.78
ยท 409.46
1041
604
-
38
480
Miss Smith taught Domestic Arts in Grades VII-VIII and IX. * Miss Osgerby taught English in Grades VII-VII and the Senior High School.
** 30 pupils previously registered in Grades III and IV (a). *** 8 pupils previously registered in Grade I (a). Salaries for teachers in Districts Nos. 4 and 9 include payment for janitor services.
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FALL TERM, 1921
SCHOOL
TEACHERS
Monthly
Salary
Number
of Weeks
Total En-
rollment
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Number
Tardinesses
Visits by
Supt. Schools
Conant High
E. B. Marriner
$233 33
Ellyn E. Bassette
136 00
Margaret G. Sheldrick
136 00
12
76
75.39
71.6
38
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Grade VIII
+Myfanwy Williams Laura A. Smith
124 00
12
38
36.66
32.68
62
12
Grade VII
* James P. Carroll
155 55
12
52
46.04
44.47
1 8
15
Grade VI
** Florence M. Murphy
100 00
12
43
41
37.67
23
16
Grade V
Mildred E. Sturtevant
104 00
12
41
39.51
36.33
35
15
Grade IV (a)
Annie C. Costello
111 11
12
36
35.31
31.43
12
18
Grade III (a)
Sarah L. Jennings
104
00
12
30
29.49
26.76
2
17
Grade IV-III (b)
Beatrice T. Martin
96 00
12
30
30.
26.31
83
19
Grade II (a)
* ** Helen M. O'Hara
96
00
12
37
35.76
31.88
34
21
Grade I (a)
Adelaide E. Taylor
96 00
12
49
46.53
39.97
26
18
Grade II-I (b)
Harriette M. Rowe
96 00
12
31
29.33
26.33
65
19
Dist No. 4
Alice E. Belcher
88 00
12
10
10
9.06
19
9
56
133 33
Dist. No. 9 Music
Alice E. E. Lehtinen Ethel C. Grimes
84 00
12
7
7
6.1
21
8
52 00
$1,945 32 12
480
462.02
420.59
438
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Miss Williams teaches English in Grades VII and VII and English and History in the Senior High School. *Mr. Carroll teaches French in Grades VII and VIII and French and Latin in the Senior High School.
** Miss Murphy succeeded Miss Yeaton in November.
*** Miss O'Hara succeeded Miss Higginbotham in October.
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FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
School Year Ending June 30, 1921
Receipts
From State (state aid) $8,117 45
From the Selectmen Raised by Taxation
(A) For the support of elementary schools 10,427 85
(B) For the support of high school 7,200 00
(C) Deficiency appropriation, elementary (1921 meeting) 6,271 53
(D) Deficiency approriation, high school (1921 meeting) 1,000 00
(K) Salaries of district officers 120 00
(N) District debt 2,000 00
(O) Interest on district debt 500 00
(P) Repairs and remodeling 500 00
(R) Per capita tax 1,028 00
From Sources Other than Taxation
(A) Dog licenses (from Selectmen) 282 62
(D) Income from local trust funds (Conant High School Fund) 155 80
(H) Gifts and contributions 50 73
(I) Sale of property 162 08
All other receipts (Union Hall) 779 94
Total cash on hand Sept, 1, 1920 61 09
Grand total
$38,657 09
Payments
Administration
1. Salaries of district officers $107 00
2. Supt.'s excess salary 107 50
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3. Truant officer and school census 166 50
4. Expense of administration 163 34
$544 34
Instruction
5a. Principals' and teachers salaries (day schools) $17,901 58
5b. Teachers' salaries (evening schools) 358 00
6. Text books 1,033 46
7. Scholars' supplies 1,251 00
8. Flags and appurtenances 22 12
9. Other expense of instruction 184 27
$20,750 43
Operation and maintenance of school plant
10. Janitor service $1,651 15
11. Fuel 1,347 86
12. Water, light and janitor supplies 284 73
13. Minor repairs and expenses 1,092 85
$4,376 59
Auxiliary Agencies and Special Activities
14. Medical inspection $ 19 00
15. Transportation of pupils 3,981 00
$4,000 00
Fixed Charges
19. Insurance $113 60
20. Other fixed charges
311 03
$449 63
Outlay for Construction and Equipment
22. Alteration of old buildings $1,930 79
23. New Equipment 1,504 17
$3,434 96
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Debt, Interest and Other Charges
24. Payment of principal of debt $2,590 00
25. Payment of interest on debt 825 00
26. Tax for state-wide supervision ($2 per capita) 1,028 00
$4,443 00
Total payments for all purposes $37,989 95
Total cash on hand June 30, 1921 658 14
Grand total
$38,657 09
F. O. DILLINGHAM E. C. BOYNTON JOSEPH FOLEY
School Board
LEWIS S. RECORD Superintendent
June 30, 1921
This is to certify that we have examined the accounts of the school district of Jaffrey, of which the within is a summary and find them correctly cast and properly vouched.
FRANK H. BALDWIN EDWARD L. FAY Auditors
Supplementary Report of School District Treasurer
Feb. 1 to June 30, 1921
Received from state $8,117 45
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Town
11,830 00
Union Hall
335 85
Payments on school house sold
50 00
Supplies sold Overpayment
33 44
Domestic Arts Class
63 55
School Lunch
50 73
$20,487 55
Paid Overdraft
$2,931 43
Orders
15,376 92
$18,308 35
Balance on hand
$2,179 20
From July 1, 1921 to Jan. 31, 1922
Cash on hand July 1
$2,179 20
Received from town
17,990 00
Trustees Conant High School fund, support Conant High
230 00
Union hall
279 50
Payments on school house sold
70 00
$20,749 50
Paid orders
$20,310 27
Cash in Treasury Less Outstanding orders
439 23
164 00
Balance available $275 23
JOHN G. TOWNSEND, School District Treasurer
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE
To the Superintendent of Schools:
I submit herewith a tabulated report of the time spent in the examination of school children.
Approximate time spent in the schools: Examination of children for tabulation for State 165 hrs. Inspection and follow up work at time of
Scarlet Fever 172 hrs.
Additional time in grade school 25 hrs. 1 Additional time in high school 10 hrs.
Total 372 hrs.
Respectfully submitted,
MARIE L. HILLER, School Nurse.
ROLL OF PERFECT ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL YEAR 1920-21
Three Terms
Margaret Enslin
Marion Mack
Ethel Mack
Olive Lynch
Marguerite Bibeau Ralph Newton
Lester Hammond
Alphonse Levesque Hattie Record
Bertha Wright Henry Rivard Gerad Bibeau Eddie Guillaume Vernon Bean Esther Hyrk Amy Sullivan
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Graziele Laplant Eevelyn Letourneau Marian Fenerty Henry Letourneau William Rabidaux Francilia Mason
Delphis Bruno Emma La Freniere Mary Murphy Alice Sullivan Daniel Shattuck Camille Trembly
Two Terms
Richard Shattuck
Gerald Cournoyer Florena Lambert
Sula Brooks
Nelson Bourgoyne John Devlin
Levida Pelletier
Charles George
Blanche Jalbert
Henry Beletete Agnes Record
Wesley Proctor
Helena Brown
Arthur Christian
Ralph Ollis Marjorie Record Clara Ingraham Charles Ouellette
Alberto Pomponio Silvio Charlonne Archie Coll Evonne Cloutier Dorothy Enslin Mildred Hurd Charlotte Sawyer Leonor Cuishine Madeline Jaquith Ernest Cournoyer Dorothy Record Stephen Record Alfred Cloutier Wilfred Parent Bernadette Ouellet Denaris Christian Hazel Hunt John Dillon
Charles Hart
One Term
Ernest Robichaud
Damon Hatch
Ruth Friend
Alice Gobiel
Arthur Ojala
Elinor Rice
Irma Jaquith Ellener Birch William Mei
Elizabeth Christian
Odina Cloutier Ino Hakala Rose Jalbert
Ruth Turner Olive Cournoyer Arthur Gelinas Viola Hoffman Mary Brown Alfred Hamill
K Clarence Beauvais Orin Letourneau Blanche Ryder Theresa McIntyre Roderick Duval Emily George Eva Pelletier
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Daisy Jaquith
Reney Christian Louise Guilbert
Evonne Christian
Pearl Ingraham
William Belletete Arthur Trembly
Bessie Dorr
Carl Ingraham
Lozo Charlonne
Aldia Leclair
Doris Paradise
Margherita Vanni
Ernest La Fleur
Leonis Williams
Forest Wellington Edward Oman Jeanne Christian Jaffrey La Plante Aldora Trembly Agnes Nutting Joseph Wilson
Marie Seppa
Toiva Wiljanen ,
Emile Jalbert
Irene Croteau
Edward Fay
Marie Belletete Arthur McIntyre Dorothy Sweeney Clara Santerre
Hermin Cloutier
George Fish Alice Blair Paul Chouinard
Joseph Lavalle
Clarice Burrington
Paolo Mei
Wilfred La Fleur
George Hart
Elizabeth Cloutier
Nancy Fish
Fuller Brooks
Eva Blair
Evelyn Evans . Sidney Sweeney Raymond Standard Charles Letourneau Lena Guillaume . Arthur Johnson Wilfred Cournoyer
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SELECTMEN'S ESTIMATE
State Tax
$8,800 00
County Tax
4,724 14
Highways and Bridges
6,500 00
Breaking roads
1,000 00
Town Charges
3,500 00
Police Department
1,600 00
Fire Department
1,200 00
Support of Poor
1,500 00
Library
350 00
Care and fuel for library
750 00
Street Lights
1,800 00
Hydrants and tubs
1,747 50
Interest on borrowed money
4,500 00
Memorial Day
150 00
Health Officer
400 00
Municipal Court
220 00
Bridge Bond
1,000 00
White Pine Blister
400 00
Deficiency and Road Bond
2,000 00
For Carey crossing
500 00
State per capita scholar tax
1,042 00
School supplies and flags
1,220 00
$44,903 64
Less Savings Bank Tax
2,500 00
$42,403 64
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Jaffrey, in the County of Cheshire, Qualified to Vote in Town Affairs.
You are hereby notified to meet at Union hall in said town on the fourteenth day of March next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following subjects:
1. To choose a Town Clerk, one Selectman for three years and all other necessary Town Officers.
2. To hear all reports and act thereon.
3. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary for the support of the poor, building and repairing of highways and bridges, library, fire department, Memor- ial Day, street lights, and other town charges.
4. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Select- men to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.
5. To see if the town will vote to pay the firemen at the same rate as last year, or act in any way relating thereto.
6. To see if the town will vote to install a fire signal, raise and appropriate money for the same, or act in any way relating thereto.
7. To see if the town will vote to raise a sum of money to aid in support of a District Nurse.
8. To see if the town will take any action in rela- tion to sprinkling streets, raise and appropriate money to pay for the same.
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9. To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for a series of concerts to be given by the East Jaffrey Cornet Band in the summer of 1922, or act in any way relating thereto.
10. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Se- lectmen to sell a small strip of land between lot of Max- ine Rabichaud and Critia brook, or act in any way relat- ing thereto, as petitioned for by Louis Cournoyer and others.
11. To see if the town will vote to discontinue the highway that is wholly through land of C. Hillsmith, known as the McCormack place, or act in any way relat- ing thereto.
12. To see if the town will vote to accept the exten- sion of the street that leads to the Tack Shop from the Peterboro Road as laid out and shown on a plan filed with the Selectmen, February 9th, 1922, as petitioned for by Louis J. Duval and others.
13. To see if the town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Chapter 117, Laws of 1917, on a section of the Contoocook Valley Road so-called and appropriate, or set aside from the amount raised for highway work the sum of $300.00 for this purpose.
14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $4000.00, for Trunk Line Maintenance, the State to furnish a like sum.
15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $950.00, for State Aid Maintenance, the State to furnish a like sum.
16. To see if the Town will vote to allow a dis- count on taxes paid before any certain date each year, or act in any way relating thereto.
17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $100.00, for side walk at Jaffrey Center.
18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for sidewalks from the Post office at East Jaffrey to the Rail Road station, or act in any way relating thereto.
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19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the improvement of Humiston Field, or act in any way relating thereto, as petitioned for by G. H. Duncan and others.
20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate $2500.00 to pay the Slade road note due in 1922, or act in any way relating thereto.
21. To see if the Town will vote to have more street lights installed, or act in any way relating thereto.
22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate $2000.00 or more, to pay part of the overdrafts of the different departments for the past years, or act in any way relating thereto.
23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to purchase a tractor and snow- plow, or act in any way relating thereto as petitioned for by Oscar J. Dillon and others.
24. To see if the Town will vote to build a bath house at Long pond, raise and appropriate money to pay . for same, or act in any way relating thereto.
25. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Jaffrey Village Improvement Society to repair the old town meeting house and restore it to its original condi- tion, so far as may be consistent with present day uses, raise and appropriate money to assist in paying for the same, or act in any way relating thereto.
Given under our hands and seal this twenty-fifth day of February 1922.
EDWARD C. BOYNTON WILLIAM F. COOLIDGE PETER E. HOGAN Selectmen of Jaffrey
A true copy of Warrant, Attest:
EDWARD C. BOYNTON WILLIAM F. COOLIDGE PETER E. HOGAN Selectmen of Jaffrey
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THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To the Inhabitants of the School District of Jaffrey Qualified to Vote in District Affairs.
You are hereby notified to meet at the Union hall in said district on the thirteenth day of March, 1922, at 7.30 o'clock in the afternoon to act upon the following subjects :
1. To choose a Moderator for the coming year.
2. To choose a Clerk for the ensuing year.
3. To choose a member of the School Board for the ensuing three years.
4. To choose a member of the School Board for the ensuing two years.
5. To choose a Treasurer for the ensuing year.
6. To hear the reports of Agents, Auditors, Com- mittees, or Officers chosen, and pass any vote relating thereto.
7. To choose Agents, Auditors and Committees in relation to any subject embraced in this warrant.
8. To see how much money the District will raise and appropriate for the support of schools.
9. To see how much money the District will raise for salaries of District Officers.
10. To see if the District will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the support of a night school.
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11. To see what action the District will take in re- gard to Union Hall notes, raise and appropriate money for the same.
12. To see if the District will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money to cover the difference between the amount submitted by the School Board to the State department for the present school year, ending June 30, 1922, and the amount approved and paid by the State Board of Education, or act in any way relating thereto. Given under our hands at said Jaffrey this 23rd day of February, 1922.
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