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Aug.
L 21 Mrs Geo Perkins, keeping James Brown 25 00
6 22 CH Farr, shingles 6 75
8 23 H P Nason, cash paid out for J Shatroski 52 25
15 24 Lucius Fuller, care of Cyrus Fersons 6 00
Sept.
1 25 H P Nason, cash paid out for J Shatroski 51 94
1 26 Mrs Geo Perkins, keeping James Brown 20 00 3 27 Mrs Carrie McGowan, keeping S Taylor 12 50
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3 28 Mrs H Manning. keeping Fanny Spencer 20 00 3 29 H P Nason, cash paid out for Wm Smith 30 00
12 30 Mrs H Manning, keeping Fanny Spencer 7 00
24 31 Mrs Geo Grace, keeping J Shatroski 20 00
Đct. 1 32 Mrs H Manning, keeping Fanny Spencer 30 00
1 33 Mrs Geo Perkins, keeping James Brown 20 00
1
34 Mrs Carrie McGowan, keeping S Taylor 10 00
4 35 H P Nason, cash paid Dr. Gifford 100 00
1 36 H P Nason, cash pd out for Cyrus Fersons 63 90
15 37 R S Sherman, for Gilchris boy 8 50
15 38 W M McCray, trip to Brandon 7 00
20 39 Mrs Geo Grace, keeping JJ Shatroski 20 00
23 40 H P Nason, cash pd town of Brandon 13 50
2 75
23 41 Mrs Bessie Bailey, potatoes
29 42 Mis Effie Rider, keeping Jenney children 8 00
26 43 Chas Marsh acc, allowed by auditors 15 66
26 44 Mrs Carrie McGowan, keeping S Taylor 10 00
29 45
Clara Parmenter, keeping Messer children 15 00
31 46 Mrs Geo Perkins, keeping James Brown 20 00
31 47 Mrs H Manning, keeping Fanny Spencer
24 00
Nov. 2
48 Mrs Effie Rider, keeping Jenney children 8 00
8 49 Mrs Effle Rider, keeping Jenney children 6 50
X 50 H P Nason, cash pd out for Henry Frazer 37 75
10 51 B A Billings, potatoes 2 70
16 52 Mrs Effie Rider, keeping Jenny children × 00
19
53 Mrs Geo Grace, keeping JJ Shatroski 20 00
20
54 Mrs Clara Parmenter, keeping Messer chlidren 22 50
20 55
Oliver Kerr, keeping Josie Taylor 10 00
23 (55)
John Lagoy for Mrs Rider 3 50
23 56 Mrs Carrie McGowan, keeping S Taylor 10 00
Dec.
3
57 Mrs Geo Perkins, James Brown 25 00
3 58 Mrs H Manning, keeping Fanny Spencer 30 00
11 59 Mrs Blanche Hubbard, keeping Jenney children 40 00
17 60
Mrs Geo Grace, keeping JJ Shatroski 20 00
19 61
PC Tinkham, getting Jenney children 2 50
20) 62 Mrs Jerome Fuller, keeping Abe Curtis 7 .50
48
21 63
Mrs Clara Parmenter, keeping Messer children 30 00
22
64
Oliver Kerr, keeping Josie Taylor 10 00
24
65
Mrs Carrie McGowan, keeping S Taylor 10 00
1918
Jan. 1
66 Mrs Geo Perkins, keeping James Brown 20 00
1
67 Mrs H Manning, keeping Fanny Spencer 20 00
7
68
Mrs Blanche Hubbard, keeping Jenney children 40 00
8
69
E W Chase, trip to Bethel 7 40
8
70 H P Nason, cash pd to T V Hooker 4 50
9
71
Mrs Clara Parmenter, keeping Messer children 22 50
14
72 Mrs Geo Grace, keeping J Shatroski 20 00
21
73 Merriam & Huntington, bill 141 00
21
74 Mrs Carrie McGowan, keeping S Taylor 10 00
26
75 Mrs Blanche Hubbard, keeping Jenney children 30 00
28
76 John Barnes, getting wood 4 00
28 77
Geo H Trask, mdse
37 34
28 78 Campbell Greeley & Co. mdse 82 91
28
79 Henry Brothers Inc. mdse
19 88
Jan.
30 80
H H Cushman
75 15
30 80 Pierce, Robinson Co
3 46
31 81 Mrs H Manning
20 00
31 82 Oliver Kerr
12 50
31 83 Mrs Geo Perkins
20 00
31 84 Mrs Clara Parmenter
22 50
Feb.
2
85 H C Stoughton
1 25
2 86 Mrs W Wetmore
10 00
2067 23
Outstanding Orders H. P. Nason, Overseer of the Poor
1918
Jan. 28 78 Cambell, Greeley & Co 82 91
31 81 Mrs H Manning 20 00
28 82 Oliver Kerr 12 50
31 83 Mrs Geo Perkins 20 00
49
31 84 Mrs Chas Parmenter
22 50
Feb. ·2 85 H C Stoughton
1 25
159 16
Report of Condition of Town of Rochester, February 1, 1918
Assets :
Due of Cary note
70 00
Due on tax bill 1901
17'
Due on tax bill 1902
5 05
Due on tax bill 1903
47
1904
45
66
1906
51
66
1907
69
66
1908
66
66
1909
2 00
6.
66 1910
70
66
1911
5 30
66
1912
17 80
..
.. 1913
10 60
66 1914
110 64
66
.. 1915
113 08
66
1916 (Real and personal)
71 17
..
..
1916 (Polls)
153 40
Due personal property Town farm
Due from land rents
139 41
Due from rent town farm
125 00
Due rent Graded School District, G A R Hall
41 67
Due rent Graded School District, Town Hall
64 32
Due from Andrew Nesbit
25 00
Cash in hands of Treasurer
623 77
2838 38
Town indebtedness
13031 76
15870 14
.6
1905
51
1917
484 60
771 41
50
Liabilities
Due E H Edgerton, 1st Selectman
24 40
Due W H Severy, 2nd Selectman 39 05
Due A E Goodno, 3rd Selectman
22 50
Due W H Huntington, Health officer
222 35
Due S F Hubbard, 1st Lister
51 00
Due H P Nason, 2nd Lister
50 30
Due Jerome Fuller, 3rd Lister
65 45
Due Geo Trask, Treasurer
138 41
Due H P Nason, Overseer of Poor
60 76
Due E H Edgerton' Town Clerk
27 80
Due G A Lyon, Road Commissioner
72 02
Due Outstanding orders, Road Commissioner
251 51
Due Outstanding orders, Selectmen
4452 33
Due Outstanding orders' Overseer of Poor
159 16
Due Outstanding Railroad orders
10000 00
Due Ministerial Fund
107 00
Due School Fund
39 50
Due School District
6 50
Estimated interest
50 00
Due W H Campbell, Auditor
8 10
Due F E Vail, Auditor
8 00
Due H C Stoughton
8 00
Due Typewriting and stationery
6 00
15870 14
We have examined the accounts of the town officers and find them correct and have audited the same and therefrom we recom- mend raising on the Grand List of 1918 the following rates of taxes :
5 cents State Highway Tax
10 cents State School Tax
5 cents Permanent Highway Tax
20 cents State Tax
25 cents Highway Tax
95 cents Current Expenses and indebtedness
$1.60 Total Tax
W. H. CAMPBELL F. E. VAIL Auditors H. C. STOUGHTON
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WARNING
The legal voters of the Town of Rochester are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Town Hall in Rochester, Vermont. Tuesday March 5, 1918 at 10 o'clock A. M. to act upon the fol- lowing matters :
ARTICLE 1-To elect a moderator for the year ensuing.
ARTICLE 2-To elect a Town Clerk for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE 3-To hear the reports of the Town Officers and act upon the same.
ARTICLE 4-"To see if the town will vote to approve and adopt an act of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, entitled 'An Act to Authorize the Employment of General Town or Municipal Managers' ".
ARTICLE 5-To see how many road commissioners the town will have.
ARTICLE 6-To see if the town will vote to empower the selectmen to appoint the road commissioner or commissioners according to the vote of the town on the preceding article.
ARTICLE 7-To elect all other legal officers for the year en- suing.
ARTICLE 8-To see if the Town will vote to take advantage of Act No. 48 of laws of 1915, entitled, "An act to facilitate the assessment and collection of poll taxes".
ARTICLE 9-To see if the town will vote to raise a sum of money in addition to the amount now required by law, to take advan- tage of the State Aid Law, and if so, how much.
ARTICLE 10-To see if the town will vote to have the state take care of the selected highways.
ARTICLE 11-To see what sum, if any, the town will vote for the Town Library.
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ARTICLE 12-To see what sum, if any, the town will vote for the proper observance of the next Memorial Day.
ARTICLE 13-To see if the town will vote to have printed town reports.
ARTICLE 14-To see if the town will vote to pay for the bond- ing of town officers.
ARTICLE 15-To see what sum, if any, the town will appro- priate for the benefit of the band.
ARTICLE 16-To see if the town will vote a sum of money, and if so, how much, for the County Agricultural Extension Work.
ARTICLE 17-To vote upon the following : "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor ? Shall license of the fifth class be granted in this town."
ARTICLE 18 -- To see if the town will vote to accept a deed of the land near the railroad station which is now deeded to Geo. L. Greeley, Trustee, to be used and kept for athletic purposes.
ARTICLE 19-To raise money to defray the expenses of the town and to pay the State, State School, State Highway and County Taxes, to meet the appropriations of this meeting and also to pay the indebtedness of the town.
ARTICLE 20-To do any other necessary business.
Rochester, Vermont, February 19, 1918.
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Annual Report
of the
School Board
of the
Town of Rochester Vermont
for the year ending
February 1st, 1918
Rochester Town School District in account with B. A. Billings, Director
1917
Dr.
Feb. 8 Trip to Granville
$1 50
April 20 Postage
1 50
June 6 Meeting with Board 1 00
Aug. 8 1 day on transportation
2 00
15 Taking school census
5 32
Sept.
22 Wood for Maple Hill
25 00
24
Self and team to Little Hollow
2 50
Oct.
3
Trip to West Hill Corners
1 50
8 Putting in seat at Corners
1 25
10
Work on Maple Hill School house
6 75
Nov.
16 Postage and stationery
2 00
Dec.
10 Taking teacher to Little Hollow and back and expense
5 00
Feb.
Services as Clerk
15 00
$70 32
Cr.
1917
June 8 By order No. 47
$18 00
Aug. 17
71
5 32
Oct. 11
89
25 00
Nov
.16 66 108
18 00
$66 32
Bal. due
$4 00
Rochester Town School District in account with W. H. Wing, Director
1917
Feb. 8 Self and team ¿ day to Granville to see C E Lawrence $1 50
Mar. 22 £ Self and team 4 hrs looking after wood for South Hollow school 1 20
1
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22 Paid Will Hubbard for 1 cord dry wood 3 00
April 20 Self and team 3 hrs. looking after wood for South Hollow School 90
20 Telephone to Ed Akey and Geo Curtis 20
May 26 4 cords dry wood for Branch school 11 00
31 Paid Alec La Port for cleaning South hollow school house 2 00
June
6 } day attending directors' meeting 1 00
Aug. 8 Self and auto 1 day letting transportation contracts in West Hill, Jeruselem, North Hollow and seeing to repairs in Little Hol. 6 00
Oct. 27 Self & day at Branch School house putting in glass and repairing fence 1 00
Nov. 3 Self and team { day at Branch School house grading around and cleaning toilet 2 00
Dec. 26 8 cords dry wood for Branch school @ $3.25 per cord 26 00
Self and team & day letting transportation con- tract to Bruno Green 1 50
$57 30
Rochester Town School District in account with C. E. Harvey, Director
1917
June 6 ¿ day attending Board Meeting $1 00
Sept. 22 Paid F L Stone cleaning toilet North Hollow School house 1 00
22 Self and team & day to Little Hollow School 2 00
24 ¿ day to Little Hollow School 1 00
Dec. 17 Paid Campbell Greeley Co. for repairs to North Hollow School house 1 20
19 Work on North Hollow School house 00
1918
Jan. 21 Paid Harold Hubbard building fires North Hollow School 1 50
21 Wood for North Hollow School 2 00
$ 10 70
56
.
Rochester Town School District in account with Geo. H. Trask, Treasurer
1918
Feb. 1 By fees of 1% of $2823. 64
$28 23
By 60 names @ 5 cents
3 00
$31 23
Orders Drawn by Board of Directors Rochester Town School District
1917
Feb.
1
1 Evelyn Eaton
$44 00
1
2 Blanche Manning
40 00
1
3 Blanche Manning
2 50
5
4 Roscoe Manning
13 82
9
5 Mildred Marsh
50 00
9
6
Mrs. Shampeny
36 00
9 7
B A Billings
5 33
10 8 Chas Durfee
4 00
15
9 Town Treasurer Pittsfield
78 06
19
9 Mrs M Carter
10 00
23
10 Susan Billings
40 00
Mar.
3 11 Mrs Pember
96 00
8
12 Alice Smith
70 00
8
13 Lillian Smith
2 50
8
14 Etta Whittier
8 00
9
15 Harold Ayers
4 00
12
16 Henry Martell
17 50
14
17 Mrs Jerome Fuller
22 00
15
18 Evelyn Eaton
66 00
16
19 Geo Trask
32 91
17 20
Gordon Billings
2 50
17
21 Charles Hanks
3 00
17
22 Susan Billings
20 00
17
23 Mildred Marsh
50 00
27
24 Mrs Shampeny
84 00
27
25 Etta Whittier
80 00
29
26 Albert Wilber
2 50
57
30
27
Blanche Manning
2 50
30
28
Blanche Manning
60 00
30
29 B J Sanborn Co
3 39
Apr.
10 30
P C Tinkham
3 00
25
31
Alice Smith
20 00
May
8
32
Mrs Pember
48 00
8
33 H L Farr
12 00
8
34 Sidney Smith
5 50
16
35 Mildred Marsh
40 00
16
36
G W Curtis
7 50
22
37
Susan Billings
40 00
22
38
Mrs Shampeny
36 00
22
39 Susan Billings
20 00
28
40
Alice Smith
20 00
28
41
Jennie Pember
48 00
28
42
Charles Hanks
1 45
28
43 Fred Cahee
10 00
28
44
Werdner Jones
5 00
* June
7
45 Etta Whittier
34 00
8
46
Mrs Shampeny
24 00
8
47 B A Billings
18 00
9
48 Blanche Manning
40 00
14
49 Alice Smith
20 00
16
50
Susan Billings
40 00
22
51 Blanche Manning
60 00
22
52
Geo Campbell, Treas
420 00
22
53 Evelyn Eaton
110 00
25
54 Mrs J Fuller
9 00
26
55
Mildred Marsh
60 00
26
56
National White River Bank
25 00
26
57
National White River Bank
500 00
27
58 Mrs Shampeny
36 00
28
59
F F Kezer
8 25
28
60 Alice Smith
40 00
28
61 Mrs. Pember
48 00
28
62 Mrs. M Carter
21 00
28
63 Albert Wilbur
1 50
30
64 Hester Dunham
5 00
58
30
65
Etta Whittier
51 00
30
66
E H Edgerton
19 50
30
67 Henry Martell
9 80
30
68 W H Wing
20 80
July
14
69 Geo. W Curtis
62 50
Aug. 14
70 Wesley Smith
1 50
17
71 B A Billings
5 32
18
72 L F Edgerton
4 00
30 73
E H Edgerton
16 65
Sept, 7
74 W S Howard
25 00
15
75
Mrs. Wilbur
1 25
15
76 Alice Smith
33 00
22
77 Alice Smith
17 00
22
78 Emily Stockwell
22 00
22
79
Mrs. Arthur Brooks
4 00
24
80 Roscoe Manning
2 50
28
81
Winifred Leahey
22 00
29
82 Arthur Brooks
11 81
29
83
Susan Billings
40 00
Oct.
1
84
Howard Powers
19 00
1
85
Edith Bailey
44 00
3
86
Mildred Marsh
44 00
5
87 Alice Smith
34 00
11
88
Winifred Leahey
22 00
11
89 B A Billings
25 00
13
90 Alice Smith
19 00
13
91 Geo Green
4 00
13
92
Henry Holt
12 00
15
93 Mrs B A Billings
2 00
17
94 Evelyn Eaton
44 00
20 95 Geo Green
5 00
25
96 Werdner Jones
10 00
26
97 Winifred Leahey
22 00
26
98 Geo Green
5 00
29
99 Susan Billings
50 00
30
100 Mildred Marsh
44 00
31
101 Fred Cahee
10 00
Nov.
1
102 Howard Powers
21 00
59
1 103
Edith Bailey
44 00
1
104 Alice Smith
51 00
9
105 Winifred Leahey 22 00
10
106 Geo Green
5 00
16
107 Alice Smith
34 80
16
108
B A Billings
18 00
22
109
Edw A Babb & Co.
3 96
22
110
S H Erskine
87
22
111
J L Hammett Co.
14 65
23
112
Susan Billings
30 00
23
113
Edith Bailey
44 00
23
114
Evelyn Eaton
77 00
24
115
Mildred Marsh
44 00
28
116
Winifred Leahey
33 00
28
117
Alice Smith
34 60
Dec.
5 118
Howard Powers
20 00
5 119
Mary Carter
7 50
12
120 Joseph Young
20 00
12
121 Roscoe Manning
55 00
12
122
Merrett Clark
55 00
14
122
Winifred Leahey
22 00
18
123
Geo Green
7 00
18 124
Edith Bailey
33 00
18
125
Mildred Marsh
35 25
18
126 Evelyn Eaton
44 00
19
127 Mrs J Fuller
14 10
19
128
Alice Smith
32 00
20 129
Susan Billings
30 00
20 130 Gordon Billings
2 25
21
131 Roscoe Manning
49 00
21
132
Roscoe Manning
51 00
29
133
Howard Powers
9 00
1918
Jan. 3 134
Oliver Kerr
12 00
5 135
WH Wing
36 50
10
136 A N Palmer Co.
2 49
10
137 National White River Bank
37 50
10
138 Arthur Brooks
16 88
60
139 Winifred Leahey
22 00
140 Alice Smith
12 00
15
141 The Tuttle Co.
3 84
17
142 Alice Smith
12 00
-24
143
Bruno Green
28 00
25
144 Winifred Leahey
22 00
25
145 Allce Smith
12 00
26
146 Mildred Marsh
44 00
26
147 Edith Bailey
44 00
31
148
Campbell Greeley Co.
15 30
31
149 C E Harvey
10 70
31 150
National White River Bank
4 17
31
151
Susan Billings
40 00
31
152
Edith Bailey
11 00
31
153
Mildred Marsh
11 00
31
154
Winifred Leahey
11 00
31 155
Alice Smith
12 00
31
156
Evelyn Eaton
55 00
31 15 Henry Holt, Treas.
12 00
31
158 Howard Powers
19 00
$5041 70
Outstanding School Directors' Orders
1917
June 26
57 National White River Bank
$500 00
.Jan. 31 148 Campbell Greeley & Co.
15 30
31 149 C E Harvey
10 70
31 151 Susan Billings
40 00
31 152 Edith Bailey
11 00
31 153 Mildred Marsh
11 00
31 154 Winifred Leahey
11 00
31 155 Alice Smith
12 00
31 156 Evelyn Eaton
55 00
31 157 Henry Holt
12 00
31
158 Howard Powers
19 00
$697 00
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Summary of Expenditures, Rochester Town School District 1917-1918
Teachers, Salaries
$2887 00
School Directors
64 37
Text books
5 88
Supplies
38 62
Repairs
87 40
Water, fuel and lights
265 36
Janitors' services
51 95
Transportation
480 80
Tuitions
522 06
Insurance and miscellaneous
139 93
Truancy
3 00
Indebtedness paid
1000 00
Outstanding orders paid
117 27
85663 6
Report of Condition of Rochester Town School District Feb. 1, 1918
Assets
Delinquent taxes 1911.
23 50
1912
54 91
66 1913
43 15
.. 1914
142 41
66 1915
147 77
1916
53 90
poll taxes
X6 80
..
taxes 1917
259 10
Cash in hands of Treasurer
1389 36
Cash Que from C ELawrence
77 61
82278 51
Liabilities
Outstanding Order No. 57 N W R Bank
500 00
Other outstanding orders
197 00
697 00
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Balance in favor of District
1581 51
$2278 51
Report of Geo. H. Trask, Treasurer Rochester Town School District
1917
Dr-
Feb.
1 Cash on hand
1458 02
10
Cash received from C E Lawrence
425 00
Mar. 24
66
C H Farr
2 48
24
C H Fa.ır
15 29
28
66
C H Farr
9 20
28
C H Farr
25 86
28
C H Farr
7 44
April
3
66
C H Farr
2 48
3
C H Farr
18 22
C H Farr
2 00
May
1
66
F B Wright
30 48
June
2
66
Ira H Eddy
12 60
26
66
National W R Bank
500 00 .
July
2
Geo. H Trask, Treas. 56 44
3
66
F B Wright
12 40
3
66
F B Wright
8 36
14
Town of Stockbridge
45 00
Oct.
4
F B Wright
16 88
4
66
F B Wright
2 48
Nov.
1
School tax bill
2823 64
27
State School funds
1340 25
27
F B Wright
4 96
27
66
F B Wright
5 75
1918
Jan.
26
66
G A Clough
3 60
Feb.
2
G A Clough
12 25
6
66
G A Clough
10 25
66
$6851 33
63
3917
Feb.
1: Orders paid outstanding Feb. 1, 1916 Orders paid current Cash on hand
$1117 27
4344 70
1389 36
$6851 33.
We have examined the accounts of the officers of the Town School District and find them correct, and have andited the same and therefrom we recommend raising on the Grand List of 1918, a tax rate of 750
W. H. CAMPBELL
F. E. VAIL Auditors
H. C. STOUGHTON
Report of the Directors of Rochester Town School District
To the Auditors :
Gentlemen ;- In conformity to the requirements of law, the following brief report is presented for your consideration.
Thus far this year, only six schools have been maintained in the Town district, the schools at West Hill and at Little Hollow having been temporarily discontinued. At the opening of the fall term there were only four pupils on West Hill, and it was thought best to transport these to the Corner school. After several weeks six more pupils moved into that neighborhood, for a short time, but they were also transported to the Corner school, as it was difli- cult to secure a teacher and the expense of transportation was considerably less than that of running another school. It is ex- pected that other families are to move onto West Hill in the near future, and, if so, a school may be maintained there next spring.
For good and sufficient reasons it has been found impossible to run a school at Little Hollow. Four teachers have been engag- ed for that school with the net result, a half day session. Three decided that they did not care to undertake the task and the fourth
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taught the one half day. It is practically impossible to find a boarding place within a reasonable distance of the school, and other inducements are not sufficiently tempting to a teacher. The seven pupils in the Hollow are being transported, six to Bethel Gilead, and one to a Braintree school. The expense somewhat exceeds the normal cost of running the school.
On account of the scarcity of labor and the high cost of ma- terial, no extensive repairs have been attempted. Before it was known that there would be no school at Little Hollow, repairs were begun on that building and these were completed. The build- ing was newly underpinned, a new floor laid in the entry, new win- dows put in, and the inside painted and papered. These were absolutely necessary repairs. The total expense was about eighty dollars.
We believe that the six schools maintained are being ably conducted by their respective teachers and that, everything con- sidered, the unusually severe winter and other abnormal conditions satisfactory results are being obtained and the money well expended
Respectfully submitted The School Directors, by B. A. Billings, chairman.
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