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Selectmen of North Hampton.
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Appropriations for 1917
State and county taxes $5,000.00
Roads and bridges 5,000.00
Officials . 500.00
Lights
1200.00
Library
300.00
Miscellaneous 500.00
$12,500.00
OTIS S. BROWN, ARTHUR E. SEAVEY, GEORGE G. CARTER,
Committee on Appropriations.
Selectmen's Report
INVENTORY
Resident land and buildings
$699,235.00
Non-resident land and buildings
522,955.00
Polls, 211
422.00
Horses, 198
25,850.00
Mules, 1
100.00
Oxen, 16
1,925.00
Cows, 556
39,160.00
Neats, 44
2,595.00
Sheep, 4
25.00
Hogs, 152.
4,135.00
Fowls, 3,425
1,025.00
Vehicles, 39
17,310.00
Portable mills, 6
2,600.00
Wood and lumber
29,575.00
Stock in banks and other corporations in this state
3,820.00
Money on hand
25,500.00
Stock in trade
14,000.00
Mills and machinery
3,600.00
$1,393,832.00
Resident taxes
$11,319.64
Non-resident taxes
7,481.57
Amount committed to collector
19,223.21
Uncollected, January 31, 1918
122.99
State, County, Town, School, and Highway taxes, $1.35 on $100
Little Boar's Head Village District rate, $.15 on $100 tax. .
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TOWN OF NORTH HAMPTON
BALANCE
ASSETS
Cash in hands of Treasurer
$2,447.61
Accounts due to the Town: From State:
State Aid Construction
383.83
State Aid Maintenance 218.24
Other bills due Town:
Spraying, 1916. 8.00
Rockingham Light and Power Co.
1.00
Taxes not collected: (a) Levy of 1917
122.99
Total assets $3,181.67
Grand total
$3,181.67
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SHEET
JAN. 31, 1918
LIABILITIES
State and Town Joint Highway Accounts:
Unexpended balances in State Treasury $602.07
Unexpended balances in Town Treasury . 1,670.55
Total liabilities $2,272.62
Excess of assets over liabilities (surplus) 909.05
Grand Total $3,181.67
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TOWN OF NORTH HAMPTON RECEIPTS AND
RECEIPTS
CURRENT REVENUE
From Local Taxes:
Amount committed to collector .. $19,223.21
Less discounts and abatements. .. 807.79
Less uncollected . 122.99
1. Property and poll taxes, current year, actually collected $18,292.43
From State:
Uncollected taxes of previous year $147.35
2. Property and poll taxes, previous years, actually collected . 147.35
3. State Aid construction 297.64.
4. Insurance tax 60.00
5. Railroad tax 148.80
1,304.62
6. Savings bank tax
7. Literary fund . 90.00
8. State aid for education 157.00
From Local Sources Except Taxes:
9. Dog licenses 101.00
10. Rent of town hall 34.50
11. Interest received on deposits. 94.34
12. Income from departments . 69.00
13 Discount on taxes 807.79
Total Current Revenue Receipts $21,604.47 Receipts Other Than Current Revenue: 14. Temporary loans in anticipation of taxes during year . 2,500.00 Total Receipts other than Current Revenue $2,500.00
Total Receipts from All Sources $24,104.47
Cash on hand at beginning of year 303.52
Grand total. $24,407.99
PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JAN. 31, 1918 PAYMENTS
CURRENT MAINTENANCE EXPENSES
General Government:
1. Town officers salaries $515.00
2. Town officers expenses . 60.85
3. Election and registration expenses . 44.00
4. Expenses town hall and buildings . 193.98
Protection of Persons and Property:
5. Police department, including care of tramps 69.00
6. Fire department, including forest fires 181.03
Health: 7. Vital statistics . 2.00
Highways and Bridges:
8. State Aid maintenance 1,856.03
9. Town maintenance. 1,663.50
10. Street lighting and sprinkling 1,094.04
11. General expenses of highway department, including watering troughs 1,394.01
Education:
12. Libraries . 389.84
Patriotic Purposes:
25.00 1
13. Aid to G. A. R. and Memorial Day exercises Recreation:
14. Parks and playgrounds, including band con- certs . 64.90
Public Service Enterprises:
15. Cemeteries, including hearse hire 2.50
Unclassified:
16. Discount on taxes 807.79
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Total Current Maintenance Expenses $8,363.47
Interest:
17. Paid on temporary loans in anticipation of taxes $31.88 Outlay for New Construction and Permanent Improvements:
18. Highways and bridges, State Aid construction 1,578.31 Indebtedness:
19. Payments on temporary loans in anticipa- tion of taxes . 2,500.00 1 Payments to Other Governmental Divisions:
20. Taxes paid to State . 2,516.00
21. Taxes paid to County 2,625.22
22. Payments to School Districts 4,345.50
Total Payments to Other Governmental Divisions $9,486.72
Total Payments for All Purposes $21,960.38
Cash on hand at end of year 2,447.61
Grand total $24,407.99
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SCHEDULE OF TOWN PROPERTY
Town Hall, lands and buildings $3,000.00
Town Hall, furniture and equipment 200.00
Libraries, lands and buildings
5,000.00
Library, furniture and equipment. 1,000.00
Police department, equipment. 15.00
Fire Department, equipment. 1500.00
Highway Department, equipment
2,000.00
Total
$12,715.00
Treasurer's Report
Dr.
Cash on hand from last year .
$303.52
Amount received, town notes . 2,500.00
George L. Seavey, Col-
lector of taxes 19,247.57
rent of Town Hall 34.50
lost check of 1916
21.00
sale of old pamphlets .
20.00
state highway depart-
ment . 297.64
Garden Club
10.00
dog licenses
101.00
hearse rental
12.00
spraying
6.00
insurance tax
60.00
railroad tax. 148.80
savings bank tax
1,304.62
literary fund.
90.00
proportion school fund
157.00
interest on deposit ....
94.34
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$24,407.99
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Cr.
Amount paid, state tax
$2,516.00
county tax
2,625.22
town notes.
2,500.00
Selectmen's orders
14,319.16
Cash on hand
2,447.61
$24,407.99
North Hampton, N. H., February 13, 1918.
OTIS S. BROWN, Treasurer.
. AUDITORS' REPORT
NORTH HAMPTON, N. H., February 16. 1918.
We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing accounts of the Selectmen and the Treasurer and certify them to be correctly cast and properly vouched.
EDWARD C. MARSTON, ARTHUR E. SEAVEY,
Auditors.
Payments
TOWN OFFICERS AND EXPENSES
Fred L. Cotton, Selectman, salary $150.00
George G. Carter, Selectman, salary 75.00
George G. Carter, expenses 16.10
Irving W. Marston, Selectman, salary 75.00
Otis S. Brown, Treasurer, salary 40.00
James F. Leavitt, Clerk, salary 25.00
James F. Leavitt, Clerk, expenses. 5.20
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George L. Seavey, Collector, salary . $150.00
George L. Seavey, Collector, expenses 11.00
E. C. Eastman, Collector's book . 3.05
J. H. Hobbs, Insurance Agency, bonds 11.50
A. E. Locke, bonds .
12.00
Roy E. Fogg, team hire 2.00
$575.85
ELECTION AND REGISTRATION
Emmons T. Brown, Supervisor $32.00
Frank A. Marston, Inspector 3.00
W. H. Philbrook, Inspector 3.00
George L. Seavey, Inspector 6.00
$44.00
POLICE
Arthur A. Brown, services.
$35.00
Jesse E. Billings, services . 34.00
$69.00
TOWN HALL
Lighting $29.90
G. T. Whitten, repairs 1.00
Margeson, curtains 12.00
W. F. Simpson, painting 43.55
W. H. Clark, repairs
3.50
S. A. Dow, paint, stock .
46.28
D. J. Lamprey, wood . 10.50
J. W. Barton, wood. 20.00
Grace A. Lamprey, wood 9.00
D. W. Knowles, sawing 3.25
E. J. Smith, sawing . 1.50
W. B. Moulton, repairs 10.50
F. A. Marston, repairs 3.00
$193.98
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
Leon M. Knowles, watching fire $2.50
G. E. Moulton, watching fire 2.50
G. G. Carter, men at fire on land of M. H. Locke 16.60
S. A. Dow, soda 5.81
F. A. Marston, repairs 2.25
C. L. Bachelder, storage of truck 60.00
C. L. Bachelder, repairs and supplies
91.37
$181.03
MISCELLANEOUS
John Templeton, printing . $77.00
Arthur W. Dudley, running town line . 13.00
Hislop Livery and Sales Stables, hearse 30.00
Times Publishing Co., printing notices 1.50
E. Card, labor at Trunk.
7.80
R. P. Marston, water trough. 3.00
R. P. Marston, labor at South Cemetery 2.50
O. B. Fogg, water trough, 2 years 6.00
George E. Frost, water trough, 2 years
6.00
E. D. Moulton, setting town boundary
3.50
Dr. A. M. Fernald, filing statistics 2.00
J. G. Mace, Memorial Day 25.00
Irving W. Brown, labor at Center
64.90
Discount on taxes . 807.79
G. A. Bachelder, abatement 13.50
E. J. Smith
2.50
$1,065.99
TOWN ROADS
L. D. Hill $255.50
A. Atkinson
74.40
C. F. Smith 36.40
A. J. Norton
53.65
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J. W. Philbrick $30.00
F. L. Cotton.
3.00
R. L. Mitchell 128.70
W. Moulton 1.20
G. E. Moulton 3.60
John Lynch 55.60
E. J. Smith 74.20
F. S. Lovett
11.10
J. F. Hobbs, Jr.
2.40
W. Betton
66.65
J. Hammond
68.40
C: L. Fogg
2.40
W. E. Taylor
93.00
A. Spear
29.10
W. F. Simpson
1.80
E. A. Page
23.10
E. H. Evans
2.40
F. C. Leavitt
103.40
C. C. Tuttle 42.30
P. H. Marston
5.00
G. O. Moulton 5.00
E. L. Dalton
67.60
G. L. Garland
31.50
F. O. Brown
16.25
G. E. Frost
2.10
W. Drysdale
8.65
S. Marston 4.00
L. W. Knowles 4.40
L. M. Knowles 2.75
C. Marston 6.25
J. O'Shea 4.00
John Dustin 1.00
G. Harris.
1.13
R. O. Hobbs
6.00
F. H. Leavitt .25
W. J. Chevalier .25
H. Grant .88
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A. Campbell $.88
F. A. Taylor
2.00
E. Philbrick 2.00
E. L. White 1.00
G. Whenal 1.50
H. L. Norton 33.60
D. J. Lamprey
22.40
A. Block . 16.80
C. C. Hendry 9.10
A. C. Dow
1.20
J. E. Drake
14.50
G. Purington
7.20
L. B. Paquin
10.80
G. D. Batchelder 2.10
Material and supplies
198.01
$1,663.50
STATE AID MAINTENANCE
L. D. Hill, Agent $360.70
R. L. Mitchell
136.70
C. F. Smith 121.90
F. C. Leavitt 62.30
W. E. Taylor
268.60
E. J. Smith
43.40
John Lynch
62.10
C. C. Hendry
36.40
A. Atkinson 51.60
J. E. Drake 26.00
J. W. Philbrick
11.40
M. D. Knowles
55.50
E. L. Dalton
49.50
J. Hammond
51.00
W. Betton
68.70
C. C. Tuttle
111.10
W. F. Simpson 6.00
M. Knowles 11.10
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1 G. L. Garland $53.20
E. A. Page 3.60
W. Drysdale 1.80
F. Dame . 9.60
G. Purington 30.00
A. C. Dow 5.10
H. Longland 12.00
A. J. Norton 16.80
H. L. Norton 9.60
Allen Odell, 10 bags of fertilizer 20.00
I. W. Brown, labor at Little Boar's Head . . 146.99
W. B. Moulton, material 5.39
O. J. Moulton, gravel 19.05
Total $1,856.03
STATE AID CONSTRUCTION
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L. D. Hill . $236.70
F. S. Lovett 82.60
E. J. Smith 120.40
F. C. Leavitt 114.80
H. L. Norton 56.00
R. L. Mitchell
68.10
J. Lynch
56.10
A. Atkinson
53.40
C. L. Fogg .
68.10
60.30
W. Betton .
J. Hammond 54.00
R. Hayden 34.20
J. F. Hobbs, Jr.
10.50
J. E. Drake 60.00
C. C. Dalton 94.50
W. Betton, Jr. 42.90
C. F. Smith . 33.30
Walter Drysdale 39.90
A. J. Norton 56.00
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A. Spear $57.40
C. C. Hendry 57.40
G. Purington 19.20
J. A. Janvrin, lumber 82.15
L. D. Hills, nails .36
Total $1,578.31
Trust Funds
REPORT OF TREASURER OF TRUST FUNDS
TRUST FUNDS OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HAMPTON 1894, Donor, John W. F. Hobbs and Town:
Centre Cemetery trust fund, general care of cemetery, invested in Straf- ford Savings Bank, Dover, 3 1/2%. $1,000.00 Centre Cemetery trust fund, gen- eral care of cemetery, invested in Portsmouth Trust & Guarantee Co., 312% 1,000.00
100.00 '
1913, Donor, Jonathan French, perpetual care of lot; invested in Amoskeag Savings Bank, Manchester, 4% . . 1913, Donor, William F. Preckle, perpetual care of lot; invested in New Hamp- shire Savings Bank, Concord, 4% 100.00 1915, Donor, John E. Leavitt, perpetual care of lot; invested in New Hamp- shire Savings Bank, Concord, 4% 125.00
1916, Donor, George H. Lamprey, perpet- ual care of lot; invested in Amos- keag Savings Bank, Manchester, 4% 300.00
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1917, Donor, S. Oliver Lamprey, perpetual care of lot; invested in Amoskeag Savings Bank, Manchester, 4% . . $100.00 1911, Donor, Individuals and Town, gen- eral care of East Cemetery; invest- ed in Amoskeag Savings Bank, Manchester, 4% 1,000.00
General care of East Cemetery; in- vested in New Hampshire Savings Bank, Concord, 4% 800.00
Total amount of Cemetery Trust Funds, January 31, 1918 $4,525.00
CENTRE CEMETERY
Receipts
Cash on hand from last year $42.67
Received interest on deposit in Portsmouth
Trust & Guarantee Co. 35.30
$77.97
Expenditures
Paid Orrin B. Leavitt, Superintendent, Centre
Cemetery $31.40
Cash on hand $46.57
JONATHAN FRENCH FUND
Cash on hand from last year $5.24
Paid for care of lot 1.00
Cash on hand $4.24
WILLIAM F. PRECKLE FUND
Cash on hand from last year $1.58
Received interest on fund . 8.16
$9.74
Paid for care of lot
2.95
Cash on hand . $6.79
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JOHN E. LEAVITT FUND
Cash on hand from last year
$2.08
Paid for care of lot 1.50
Cash on hand
$0.58
GEORGE H. LAMPREY FUND
Received interest on fund $12.00
Paid for care of lot 7.50
Cash on hand
$4.50
S. OLIVER LAMPREY FUND
Received interest to July 1, 1917 $1.67
Paid for care of lot
3.50
Due for care of lot.
$1.83
EAST CEMETERY
Receipts
Cash on hand from last year $98.62
Received . 1.00
$99.62
Expenditures
Paid Alvin C. Brown, Superintendent of East Ceme- tery . . $50.25
Cash on hand . $49.37
Cash on hand, Centre Cemetery fund
$46.57
Jonathan French fund .
4.24
William F. Preckle fund
6.79
John E. Leavitt fund
.58
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Cash on hand, George H. Lamprey fund $4.50
East Cemetery fund . 49.37
$112.05
Due on S. Oliver Lamprey fund in 1918 1.83
Total cash on hand in the New Hampshire National Bank $110.22
North Hampton, N. H., January 31, 1918.
OTIS S. BROWN, Treasurer.
We, the undersigned, having examined the books and accounts of the Treasurer of the Cemetery Trust Funds, certify them correct with proper vouchers.
EDWARD C. MARSTON,
ARTHUR E. SEAVEY,
Auditors.
Report of Library Trustees
Since the publication of last year's report we have pur- chased 88 new books and two have been presented, making a total addition of 90 volumes, of which 47 are fiction. The number of volumes in the Library is now about 2,350, of which about 1,300 are fiction.
We have continued our subscriptions to the same maga- zines as last year, viz .: Century, Harper's, Scribner's and St. Nicholas.
We have for some time needed a proper and convenient place for the display of new books, and with this end in view a sectional bookcase has been installed near the Librarian's desk, as will appear in the statement of our expenses. In
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addition to our card catalog where all books are double in- dexed, we publish from time to time in the Exeter News-Letter lists of recent accessions to the Library.
On account of the high cost and scarcity of fuel the Trustees have discontinued the Wednesday opening until warmer weather. The Library continues to be open as usual on Saturdays, from 2 to 8 P. M.
Some additional grading should be done in front of our Library Building, and as this would properly be considered as a permanent addition and betterment we have not included it in our estimate of current running expenses.
The Trustees will gladly receive any suggestions looking toward improvements in Library service.
LIBRARY EXPENSES
Librarian's salary
$80.00
New books .
93.99
Magazines
16.50
Bookcase
19.25
Fuel .
48.00
Lighting
13.60
Painting and labor
95.04
Cleaning
9.36
Miscellaneous
18.17
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$393.91
Received from book fines
4.07
$389.84
We estimate the ordinary running expenses for the coming year as follows:
Salary of Librarian
$80.00
Fuel and lighting
65.00
New books.
125.00
Magazines and periodicals . 15.00
Miscellaneous 15.00
$300.00
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We, therefore, recommend that the above sum of $300.00 be raised for the running expenses of the Library.
EDWARD M. SMITH, FRED L. DOW,
Trustees of Library.
Little Boar's Head Village District Account
Receipts
1917
Feb. 20, Cash on hand . $108.66
Sept. 5, Received from George L. Seavey, collector 85.03
Received from John B. Keyes, con- tribution for cable 71.05
1918
Jan. 24, Received of George L. Seavey, Collector 525.72
Feb. 4, Received of George L. Seavey, Collector . 58.87
18, Received of Albert
Bachelder,
borrowed money .
220.00
$1,069.33
Expenditures
1917
July 1, Paid Rockingham Light and Pow- er Co., for cable . $145.95
11, Paid Rockingham Light and Pow- er Co. 100.00
June 30, Paid Hampton Water Co.,
for
hydrant service.
175.00
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Oct. 21, Paid Rockingham Light and Pow- er Co. $71.12
Dec. 22, Paid Irving W. Brown, on account 200.00 30, Paid Hampton Water Co., for hy- drant service 175.00
1918
Feb. 18, Paid Irving W. Brown, balance on bill for walk . 96.12
19, Paid James L. Bachelder, for men and teams for sand, gravel and foundation for walk 67.89
Paid Albert Bachelder, repairs on walk and care of dump 31.20
20, To balance account . 7.05
$1,069.33
Due for uncollected taxes for 1917 $236.55
Due from state. 31.01
Appropriation for 1917 800.00
JAMES L. BACHELDER, Treasurer.
I have examined the foregoing account and find it correctly cast and properly vouched.
GEORGE A. BOYNTON, Auditor.
ALBERT BACHELDER, EMMONS O. BROWN, D. A. EVANS,
Commissioners of Little Boar's Head Village District.
School Report
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To the Citizens of North Hampton:
Another year has passed, and the time has arrived to sub- mit our annual report. In our school work the past year we have probably made some mistakes, but there are some things wherein the results are very satisfactory.
The room at the East school was remodeled; windows on the south side were closed up, and more put in on the north side. This gives extra good light on the left side of desk, and the pupils' eyes are not blinded by bright rays from the sun. The heating arrangement has been changed by enclosing the stove with a galvanized steel covering; the result is now an even heat in all parts of the room. The matter of ventila- tion has been given attention, this being one of the most im- portant things to consider. The East School Building is now in a very satisfactory condition, and is approved by State Board of Instruction.
The building at the Center is not satisfactory in many ways. Competent men have been called on for advice, but no one has been found who could give a satisfactory and practical plan of making changes that would meet the approval of the State Board.
Probably it will not be many years before the state authori- ties will demand a Central Building. For this reason the School Board has not deemed it wise to make any extended and expensive changes.
The legislature of 1915 recognized that there were many unsuitable school buildings in the state. A bill was passed empowering the State Board of Health to make changes when necessary. The Department of Public Instruction is working with the State Board of Health, and has secured improve- ments in a large number of buildings. The department in carrying on this campaign for better school buildings advise that School Boards should ascertain the needs of their school,
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and secure appropriations to make needed changes and re- pairs. It is recommended that the appropriations must be sufficient to provide for decent school conditions in all school buildings. In addition, they recommend that the district should designate one building each year for complete renova- tion. It is better to make one building complete each year than to make a few minor repairs and never have one in the condition it should be.
Some of the requirements of the State are:
Sufficient light from curtained windows from the left, or left and rear only.
Sufficient heat and ventilation.
Floors of hard wood.
Adjustable chairs and desks, or those of varied sizes.
Slate or composition boards.
Provision for manual training and domestic science.
Decent toilets with lattice connections to the school rooms.
Separate cloak rooms.
Individual water supply.
Suitable flag and appurtenances.
We feel that the town was extremely fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Carl Cotton as our Superintendent. Under his supervision great progress has been made. He has a most excellent system in his work, and now, as the schools are better organized than ever before, under his direction the best of results may be expected the coming year.
We have been fortunate in our teachers the past year. Miss Doris Lee McNeal has charge of the Center Grammar, where she has done most excellent work.
Miss Lila Moulton has been very successful in the Center Primary. She has been handicapped to some extent by the crowded condition of the school; her work has been highly commended.
The East School is in charge of Miss Anne Lord. She is one of our successful teachers; a visit to the school would convince any one of her ability far better than anything we can say in this report.
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Since our last report was issued, our Supervisor of Music and Drawing, Mr. Carl L. Akeley, passed away. We felt the loss keenly. Mr. Akeley had been our instructor for many years, and the work he did in our schools, the impressions he stamped on our pupils in music and drawing, also their char- acter and temperament, can never be removed. It is cast too deep to be obliterated. Mr. Akeley was a man of rare ability, a beautiful character, and his love for children to see them im- prove and develop was his greatest pleasure.
We were fortunate in securing as Mr. Akeley's successor Miss Helen Johnson, of Newburyport. She came highly recommended, and is doing excellent work in her line.
An amendment to the School Laws was passed at the last session of the General Court, and signed by the Governor April 4, 1917, making the fiscal year of the town and special school districts beginning February 16, 1917, end August 31, 1918; and thereafter the fiscal year and the scholastic year shall end August 31, annually. Appropriations this year will have to be made to maintain the schools until August 31, 1919.
One more important matter that we wish to call your atten- tion to, is the water at the Center school. Drinking water is now obtained from some nearby residence, or any place where we can beg it, and sometimes it has to be carried a long dis- tance. We should supply the school with good pure water, and plenty of it.
The town went to an expense of several hundred dollars for a drilled artesian well. This well proved to be a failure, plenty of water, but white with clay, and cannot be used for any pur- pose. Well men claim that the well can be put in good condi- tion and guaranteed good water for less than two hundred dollars. We believe it would be a good plan to have a compe- tent committee chosen with power to put this well in proper condition.
The School Board would make an urgent appeal to every voter, and to every one having children in the schools, to make an effort to attend the School Meeting.
It is your duty to assist in the management by electing the
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proper persons to serve your town, and vote the proper funds and improvements.
We are using quite a lot of money to run our schools. The out of town tuition at high schools will be more than five hundred dollars the coming year, and will be more in years to come, as rates go higher each year.
Our tax rate for school purposes is one of the lowest in the State. We can afford to do it, and we will make no mistake to make liberal appropriations for our schools, and make them not simply passable, but make them the best that money and experience can procure.
Respectfully submitted,
CLARA N. WENTWORTH BROWN, WILFRED J. . CHEVALIER, ALBERT E. LOCKE.
School Board.
Report of Superintendent
To the North Hampton School Board:
I take pleasure in submitting to you my first annual report as Superintendent of Schools.
During the short period I have been Superintendent I have been moved by two purposes in my supervisory work. My first impulse has been to improve the character of the teach- ing now in force and second to organize the schools upon a basis adequate to the needs of the locality. These two topics will be treated in detail in the following report.
District Supervision .- North Hampton has been fortunate in having been admitted to a supervisory district, which al- ready had passed through the constructive stages of super- vision to a well organized and equipped district. North
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Hampton is in this way benefiting from many of the details which were an accumulation of a number of years and a num- ber of men who were expert in supervision. Some of these details have already been absorbed by your schools such as a system of admission, discharge and promotion in accounting for school children, a perpetual inventory of supplies, a sys- tem of monthly reporting of the subject matter taught and the attendance, together with the returns from the same, a uniform course of study and the teaching aids incidental to it, bulletins directing the teachers relative to their methods and duties, monthly letters to the teachers concerning profes- sional matters and the general welfare of the schools, and circulars to the School Board on those matters which are salient for a business-like administration of the schools.
Frequent tests have been given the subject matter of the schools so as to obtain a quick judgment on the merits of the general work, to test the efficiency of the pupils, individually and collectively, and the teachers, thus securing an adequate basis for supervision. These tests, also, demonstrate to the teacher the varying capacities of the pupils. They enable her to locate the children who need individual attention and to grade the children properly. In classes which are not too large much individual attention may be given each child, so that the pupil of average ability does not receive all of the teacher's time, but so that a proper portion of her time may be devoted to the brighter pupils and to those who are not so rapid in ability.
Teachers' meetings have been held from time to time for the purpose of emphasizing important movements in educa- tion, instructing the force in regard to the best methods and details of instruction and creating initiative and professional spirit on the part of the teaching force.
East School .- This school has been put in first class con- dition with proper heating, ventilating and lighting condi- tions according to the suggestions of former State Superin- tendent Morrison. The improvements have made the west side of the building into a modern school-room.
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