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Repairs
59 65
THETFORD HILL, No. 10
Mildred Wilmot, teaching 30 weeks $300 00 Janitor service . 8 50
Mrs. Chas. Vaughan, janitor service 1912- 1913 7 50
Cleaning
7 00
389 65
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Wood 42 00
Repairs 2 00
$367 00
JUDD, No. 11
Eunice Moulton, teaching 30 weeks $270 00
Janitor service 6 00
Wood. 22 00
298 00
UNION VILLAGE, No. 15
Mrs. Grace Bond, teaching 30 weeks $300 00
Janitor service 5 00
Cleaning 3 50
Wood
15 00
Repairs
147 61
471 11
Summary of Expenses
Post Mills . $513 92
North Thetford 359 50
Stevens 313 00
Rice's Mills.
351 00
Potato Hill ..
159 20
Swanee Bean.
690 86
Thetford Center
398 00
East Thetford
389 65
Thetford Hill
367 00
Judd.
298 00
Union Village
471 11
Supplies .
206 93
Transportation
263 00
Thetford Academy
682 00
Chas. P McKnight
467 64
Directors . .
60 00
Truant Officer 12 50
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ANNUAL REPORT
Town of Fairlee, taition 9 00
Sanitary work. 11 52
Insurance . 2 90
$6,026 73
INCOME
Taxes
$4,106 67
State: In excess of 50%
520 16
In excess of 70% 12 64
Advanced instruction
202 00
Transportation
107 25
Employment of trained teachers. . 38 00
Legal schools maintained .
248 90
Union supervision
357 63
Town: Norwich tuitions. 60 00
Norwich, 1/2 repairs and land .. 85 78
$5,739 03
Total expense .
$6,026 73
Amount owing June 30, 1914
313 68
Total amount owing
$6,340 41
Total income 5,739 03
Amount owing June 30, 1915
$601 38
SCHOOL DIRECTORS' REPORT FOR SEVEN MONTHS TO COMPLY WITH LAW-FROM JULY 1, 1915, TO FEB. 1, 1916.
POST MILS, No. 1
Applied on teachers' salary $176 00
Janitor . 2 50
Wood
27 75
Sanitary work .
1 50
$207 75
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NORTH THETFORD, No. 2
Applied on teachers' salary $200 00
- Janitor
2 50
Wood 18 00
Repairs
86 75
$307 25
STEVENS, No. 3
Applied on teachers' salary $120 00
Janitor 2 50
Cleaning 3 00
Repairs
383 28
508 78
RICE'S MILLS, NO. 4
Applied on teachers' salary $144 00
Janitor 2 00
Cleaning 2 00
Repairs .
96 67
244 67
POTATO HILL, No. 5
Applied on teachers' salary $ 96 00
Janitor
4 25
Wood
12 75
Repairs
1 00
114 00
SWANEE BEAN, No. 7
Applied on teachers' salary $153 00
Janitor
2 50
Wood
8 00
Repairs
52 65
216 15
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THETFORD CENTER, No. 8
Applied on teachers' salary $144 00
Janitor 3 50
Cleaning 5 00
Wood .
25 00
$177 50
EAST THETFORD, No. 9
Applied on teachers' salary $160 00
Janitor . 2 50
Repairs
7 07
Cleaning
75
170 32
THETFORD HILL, No. 10
Applied on teachers' salary $120 00
Janitor . 2 50
Cleaning and kindling 5 61
Wood
24 00
Repairs
58 48
$210 59
JUDD, No. 11
Applied on teachers' salary $136 00
Janitor 2 50
10 00
Wood.
Cleaning
3 00
$151 50
UNION VILLAGE, No. 15
Applied on teachers' salary $209 00
Janitor. 3 50
Repairs
52 04
$264 54
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Summary of Expenses
Post Mills .
$207 75
North Thetford
307 25
Stevens . .
508 78
Rice's Mills
244 67
Potato Hill .
114 00
Swanee Bean
216 15
Thetford Center
177 50
East Thetford
170 32
Thetford Hill
210 59
Judd
151 50
Union Village
264 54
Supplies
215 57
Transportation
114 00
Incidental expenses
11 18
Higher education
469 00
$3,382 80
INCOME
Town tax 70c.
$4,455 88
State school fund .
363 45
State superintendent of education 362 74
School land rent
47 23
$5,229 30
Total bilis paid to Feb. 1, 1916
$3,382 80
Indebtedness July 1, 1915 601 38
3,984 18
Balance $1,245 12 GEORGE W. COOK, C. S. WILMOT, J. G. FRENCH, School Directors.
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ANNUAL REPORT
Report of School Directors for Year Ending June 30, 1915
The School Board begs leave to submit that, according to instructions at the annual Town Meeting in March, they at- tempted to make arrangements to take over the control of the institution by making a contract with the trustees of Thetford Academy.
The contract proposed by the School Board was as follows:
Proposition of School Board of Thetford to the Trustees of Thet- ford Academy:
First-The institution shall be known as Thetford Acad- emy and Town High School.
Second-The agreement entered into by the town and trustees of Thetford Academy shall be for a period of five years, unless the town votes to discontinue the high school, or a majority of the Board of Trustees vote to again take over the control of the Academy. In case the town votes to discon- tinue the high school, it shall be surrendered to the trustees without recompense for money expended in repairs and altera- tions.
If the trustees by a majority vote of their entire number decide to take over the school, they shall give at least two years' notice to the School Directors and shall recompense the town for two-thirds the amount expended in repairs and alterations.
No transfer of authority shall be made except at the end of the school year in June.
At the end of five years the arrangement shall continue as both parties can agree.
Third-The income from the funds of Thetford Academy shall be turned over to the Town Treasurer as soon as received and a list of the investments, with the amount and character of each, the amount of income derived from each, and the time it becomes available, shall be filed with the Town Treasurer.
Fourth-The School Board shall maintain the institution as directed by the voters in town meeting and subject to the re-
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quirements of the State Board of Education to constitute a high school.
Fifth-Any repairs or alterations made by the School Board shall be with the approval of a majority of a committee of three trustees chosen from among their number, otherwise the institution to be managed by the School Board as they see fit and according to the vote of the town as before mentioned.
Sixth-This agreement to take effect July 1, 1915.
We were to learn the decision of the Trustees by June 15, 1915.
We have never received any official communication from the Trustees, but from an article in a local newspaper we as- sume that the proposal was rejected and that the institution will be controlled under the same management as in the past.
GEO. W. COOK, C. S. WILMOT, School Board of Thetford, Vt.
Dog Account
N. H. PORTER, Town Clerk DR.
By licensing 110 dogs at $1.00
$110 00
By licensing three dogs at $6.00 18 00
By licensing 10 dogs at $3.00. 30 00
$158 00
CR.
To license fees, 123 dogs at 15c $18 45
To license book. 1 85
B. J. Randall, damage 40 00
Asa Cummings, damage 6 00
C. C. Emerson, adjustment. 4 20
F. N. Burr, adjustment. 1 00
W. E. Tucker, adjustment 1 00
Transfer to town fund
85 50
$158 00
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ANNUAL REPORT
Inventory of Town Property
PERSONAL PROPERTY OWNED BY TOWN OF THETFORD JANUARY 21, 1916
At the Poor Farm:
Two road machines $100 00
One dump cart. 40 00
One set forward wheels 35 00
One pair trucks with tongue and body 15 00
Two plows 25 00
Sixteen drills . 3 00
Two striking hammers
50
One sledge hammer
50
Four iron bars.
3 00
Two long handled six-tined forks
1 00
One wheel scraper
25 00
One common scraper
6 00
Two snow rollers
200 00
Four pin tags for picking stone
2 00
Two brush scythes and snaths 2 00
40 00
Two-thirds box of dynamite
5 00
Six shovels, worn rather badly .
3 00
Two picks, stone
2 00
Six shovels .
3 00
Two pairs rubber boots .
2 00
One road hone. 2 00
Tools at R. H. Wilson's :
Four square-pointed shovels 2 00
Four round-pointed shovels 2 00
Two picks. 2 00
One iron bar 50
Two stonepicks
2 00
Two gravel screens 8 00
Two garden rakes 1 00
$540 50
Fifty-two feet 12-inch tiling at 75c a foot .. One new road machine blade
8 00
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Plank on hand, about 7,000 feet at $17.00.$119 00
500 feet of railing 2 x 6 8 50
A lot of second plank. 20 00
$ 147 00
Town farm
2,800 00
Sawyer farm
800 00
$3,747 56
Guideboard Report
There have been no repairs on guideboards the past year. They remain the same as last year.
We have guideboards located as follows:
Two at North Thetford, 2 at Leord's Corner, 1 at W. L. Murphy's, 2 at East Thetford, 1 at Mrs. H. M. Sayre's, 1 near schoolhouse district No. 3, 2 at Sam Strong's corner, 2 near H. M. Hartson's, 1 at Knowles' place, 2 at Union Vil- lage, 2 at Buzzell's bridge, 2 near P. T. Clark's, 1 at Rice's Mills corner, 1 at Campbell's corner, 5 at Nathaniel corner, 1 at Cook bridge, 2 near Lucas place, 2 at N. H. Porter's, 1 at John Quimby's corner, 1 at Geo. Chamberlain's corner, 3 at Baker's corner, 1 at Fish Rod Factory, 2 near Post Mills bridge, 2 at Coburn's corner, 1 near Post Mills church, 1 near Lake House, 3' at M. E. Davis' corner, 2 at Thetford Hill and 2 at Slafter place.
F. H. BURR, C. C. EMERSON, W. E. TUCKER, Selectmen of Thetford.
Thetford, Vt., Feb. 1, 1916.
Statement of Town Finances
UNPAID ORDERS AND INTEREST TO FEBRUARY 1, 1916 Selectmen's Old Orders .
E. M. Fullington estate .
$ 337 74
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ANNUAL REPORT
Emily Parker $ 533 08
Ada L. Parker 657 31
Sarah J. Johnson 754 32
H. W. Hewens 632 63
Ellen Rogers.
340 46
Dartmouth National Bank, No. 1 1,000 00
Dartmouth National Bank, No. 16. 1,000 00
Selectmen's New Orders :
Dartmouth National Bank, No. 15. 2,000 00
Dartmouth National Bank, No. 62. 2,000 00
Dartmouth National Bank, No. 119 2,000 00
Interest due on bank orders
86 67
$11,342 21
Assets :
Outstanding bills $ 34 70
Oncollected taxes for 1915 658 01
Cash on hand and in bank
2,467 08
3,159 79
Total town debt. $8,182 42 We have examined the accounts of the several town officers and find them correct.
C. A. ADAMS,
H. H. SOUTHWORTH,
Thetford, Vt., Feb. 1, 1916.
Auditors.
Report of the Thetford Public Library
The $35.00 appropriated by the town is spent as follows: Ten dollars goes for the rent of the Latham Memorial Library, making the books in that library free to all the citizens of the town; $10.00 is paid toward the librarian's salary and $15.00 is used for the purchase of new books. These are labeled as belonging to the Thetford Public Library and do not belong to the Latham Memorial Library.
The point we wish to urge is that the $25.00 given by the
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State each year in new books is given with the understanding that there shall be a liberal and constant use of the libraries by our district schools.
The teachers are therefore urged to make use of the books in every possible way, especially in supplementary reading. The librarian will do everything in her power to aid the teach- ers. The library is open on Tuesday afternoons from 3 to 5 o'clock and on Friday evenings from 6 to 8 o'clock.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM SLADE, President of Trustees.
Feb. 2, 1916.
Marriages Registered in 1915
Feb. 14 Nathan W. Hill and Hazel Palmer.
Mar. 11 Dennis J. Moran and Vera S. Wilson.
Apr. 17 Charles A. Jenkins and Celia M. Copeland.
May 22 Fred E. Aldrich and Clara J. Hosmer.
Jun. 10 Clark Barstow and Etta L. Woodcock.
Sept. 29 Everett T. Aldrich and Cora May Bragg.
Nov. 29 Walter E. Andrews and Arline M. Stetson.
Births in Thetford, 1915
Feb. 13 Clyde Andrew Maxfield. 24. Elspeth Fraser Powell.
Mar. 25 Laura Mary Doble.
27 Frederick Porter Howard.
Apr. 10 Elizabeth Jennie Johnson.
18 Marie Janette Clark.
May 2
- Morris.
24 Gretchen Lucy Pero.
June 8 Grace Elizbeth Stowell.
29 Simeon Vincent Coburn.
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July 2 Kenneth Dorance Mcknight.
10 Higgins.
Aug. 2 Ruth Evelyn Simonds.
8 Asa Cummings.
20 Paul Howard Vaughan.
23 Barbara Mahew Tupper.
Sept. 2 Kathryn Carmen Rogers.
14 Bessie May Robinson.
Oct. 1. Ruth Kinsman.
Nov. 2 Roberts.
5 Morris Edgar Sayre.
12 Frances Alberta Bacon.
Deaths in Thetford, 1915
Years
Months
Days
Jan. 11
George H. Wilmot.
56
1
8
Feb. 8
Solomon Phelps Merrill 73
7
30
Mar. 16
Joshua George Fitts
77
9
8
May 2 Morris
0
0
0
18 Isaac Cutting
82
7
18
July 1
John Paul Hosmer
76
1
12
9
Higgins . 0
0
0
14 Minnie May Squires
23
1
1
23
Eber Monroe Fullington
70
8
17
Aug. 15
Harlan Page Cummings
37
7
9
Oct. 8 Nellie A. Kennedy
51
22
19
Curtis B. Whiting
77
6
21
Nov. 2
Roberts .
0
0
0
16 Arthur Hubert Colton
67
25
Dec. 13
Mary E. Robinson
59
1
20
29
William W. Goulett 65
5 28
WARNING
The legal voters of the Town of Thetford are hereby no- tified and warned to meet at the Town House in said Thetford on Tuesday, March 7th, A. D. 1916, at 10 o'clock A. M. to transact the following business:
1. To elect a Moderator.
2. To elect a Town Clerk.
3. To hear and act upon the reports of the several Town Officers.
4. To see if the town will authorize and empower the Selectmen to appoint a Road Commissioner or elect by ballot and to elect all necessary Town Officers.
5. To raise a tax to pay the indebtedness of the town and to pay current expenses.
6. To raise a highway tax.
7. To raise a school tax.
8. To see if the town will vote any money for the bene- fir of the Grand Army Memorial Day.
9. To see if the town will vote any money to take ad- vantage of the State Aid Law, and if so, how much.
10. Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in town?
11. Shall license of the fifth class be granted in town?
12. Shall an act of the General Assembly, 1915 entitled an act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors become a law May 1, 1916.
13. To elect a Town Library Commissioner for five years.
14. To nominate a Trustee for Thetford Academy.
15 To see if the town will exempt from taxation for the term of five years an Electric Light and Power plant, the gen- erating plant to be located at the power site formerly owned by C. W. Sayre, if said plant is in operation within one year from date.
16. To see if the town will empower the Selectmen to place markers at the head of all soldiers' graves in town, whether Revolutionary of Civil war soldiers, that haven't them; also to put on record a list of the names of said soldiers and where buried.
17. To transact any other business proper to come be- fore said meeting.
F. H. BURR, C. C. EMERSON, W. E. TUCKER, Selectmen of Thetford.
Thetford, Feb. 15th, 1916.
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