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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAnnual Report 19172 TOWN OFFICERS Town Clerk, Treasurer and Tax ` Collector J. ARTHUR WHEELER Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor �RRISON A. MORSE, WILLIAM P. MCDERMOTT ERNEST L. WHITE Assessors [ARLES E. WALKER Term Expires 1918 ANK L. SHERMAN " " 1919 kLTER W. LEONARD " " .1920 - School Committee INTON C. SCHEFFY ° Term Expires ' 1918 .RRY R. FISHER 1919 BERT S SCHOONMAKER ". 1920 Auditors k C. GRAY WALTER I. SHERMAN HARRY B. SARGENT 3 Trustees of Public Library oCHARLES R. COMEY Term Expires 1918 _FRANK L. McCOOL 1918 WILLIAM A. C OPELAND 1919 -WILLIAM C. FULLER -1919 WILLIAM L. ROBINSON 1920 =FRANK L. CADY 1920 Constables ..JAMES W. KENNEDY L. LESLIE JONES = Chief of Police THOMAS H. NELSON Board of Health :DAVID SMILEY Term Expires 1918 "WILLIAM H. ALLEN " 1919 _BENONI M. 'LATHAM 1920 Sinking Fund Commissioners -DOLIVER S. SPAULDING Term Expires 1818 CHARLES N CRANE " 1 q1 g � HERBERT E. KING 1919 -WILLIAM B. HODGES 1919 _ALBERT A. GROVER 1920 `THOMAS J. FOX 1920 Superintendent of Streets GEORGE A. WILBUR 4 5 Electric Light Commissioners V, ILLIAM H. LYONS Term Exf res 1918' 'RANK W. BARNARD " 191x' VILLIA.M . H.ALLEN TOWN CLERK'S REPORT Tree ,Warden and Moth Inspector E. JASPER FISHER" C1NOj Ir�r Town Physician. S•• •''•. ASA ALFRED M. BIGELOW •........H . `i4 . Sealer of Weights and Measures.-, TOWN WARRANT HENRY F. BESSOM COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS BRISTOL, SS. Inspector of Animals -To either of the Constables of the To-wn of Mansfield,in said countf,' Greeting® WALTER W, LEONARD. In the name of ;the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Inspector of Meats To n of Mansfield,, qualified to vote in elections and i l torn affairs, meet in the 'own Hall' in- said. Mans - PRINCE A.. DREW e . field on Monday, the fifth day of Larch next, at five - forty -five o'clock in the .fog encon, then and there to apt on the following < articles, the polls to, be kept open for election of Town Officers and the "Yes" or "No" vote of the question of granting license for the sale :of intoxicating liquors until two-thicty o'clock P. M., and the other business of the meeting to be taken up ac - :cording to the By-laws of the Town of Mansfield as follows: I f 6 ARTICLE 1. Section 1: The annual town meeting shall be held' on the first. Monday of March. All business of the an-- nual meeting, except the election of such officers and'_ the determination of such matters as by law are re- quired to be elected or determined by ballot, shall bei considered at an adjournment thereof, which adjourn-- ment shall be made to the second Monday of March, at half past seven o'clock P. M. If the business of the! meeting shall not be completed at half -past ten o'clock the meeting shall then be adjourned to the following - Monday at half -past seven o'clock p. M. Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said ine-eting. , . Article 2. To choose a Town Clerk, Town Treas- urer, three Selectmenfor one year, one Assessor for, three years, three Overseers of the Poor for one year,, one member of the School Committee for three years, Collector of Taxes, three Auditors for one year, two Trustees of the Public Library for three years, two, Constables for one year, one member for the hoard of Health for three years, Tree warden for one year, two, Sinking Fund Commissioners for three years, one Elec tric Light Commissioner for three years,' one .Electric Light Commissioner for one year, and also on the same, ballot to vote on the questions: Shall license be grant -- ed for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town?, Shall the provisions of Acts of 1909, Chapter 423, be ing an act entitled "An act relative to the sale of ice- cream, confectionery, soda water and fruit on the Loral's day," be accepted? 7 .Article 4. To choose all Town Officers not required to be chosen by ballot. Article 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the town expenses for the year en- suing and make appropriations for the same. Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Collector (if he is not the Town Treasurer) to use all the means for collecting the taxes which a Town Treas- urer, when appointed collector, may use. Article 7. To see what compensation the Town will allow for the collection of taxes. Article 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of revenue of the municipal year beginning January, 1, 1917, to an amount not exceeding . in the aggregate $80,000, and to issue a note or notes thereof, payable within one year, any debt or debts` incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said municipal year. Article 9. To 'see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500,` providing the state will appropriate the same amount, to continue` the macad- am road on East street, built in 1916, going toward the Easton line. [By petition.] Article 10. To see if the Town\ will vote to raise andappropriate any sum of 'money for the enforce- ment of the laws against the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200, or any other sum, toward S 9 the salary of the nurse employed by the Mansfield Vis- Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to, grade iting Nurse Association, nand macadamize Shields Street, from Oakland Street Article1v2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and in an easterly direction, .for a distance of about 600 . feet, and raise and ,appropriate the sum of 200, appropriate the necessary money or any other gum, to be placed at the > disposal of the Board of Selectmen, to -therefor. ' [By request.] ,employ nursing service. Article19. To see if the Town will vote to borrow Article 13. To see what action the Town will take money, and to issue its bonds or notes under authority .as regards the transportation of school children in of Chapter 290, of the Acts of 1909 as amended by rural districts, or anything pertaining to same. proposed act now pending before the Legislature for [By petition.] `the purpose of constructing, laying out, maintaining Article 14. To see if the Town will authorize the � and operating, a system of sewers and other work of -sewerage disposal. as provided for by said Acts, and Selectmen and Electric Light Commissioners jointly to take any action whatsoever which may be necessary to install streetlights, wherever needed to ` take care of the growing demands of the Town, not exceeding carry into eiiect' the purposes and objects of said Acts. sights in one locality. [By petition.] Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to pay rent Article 15. To see if the Town will reimburse Mrs. for the office of the Town Clerk and 'treasurer, and E. O'. George for damage to her land on Rumford ave- `raise and appropriate $144 or any other sum therefor. nue, by reason of a change of grade, or tale any action .relative to same. [By petition.] article 21. To see if the Town will ' authorize the _Electric Light Commissioners and Selectmen to give a Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept,' lease to the N. E. Drawn Steel. Co. of a narrow strip of through its Board of Selectmen, a deed of that parcel land about five by thirty feet, on property of Mansfield of land on the corner of North Main and Chaancy :Municipal Electric Light Plant, the sane to be used for Streets, known as "Lowney bark" and donated to the a spur track. Town by Walter M. Lowney, for the use of the public as a park. Article 22. To see if the Town will authorize the 'Selectmen to construct a fireproof vault in. the Town Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to extend Hall and raise and appropriate any sura of ` money the macadam and grading of Oakland Street for a dis- therefor. Lance of about 2,300 feet, or any other distance, and gunning in an easterly direction from the point where Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to accept said _Street is now graded acid macadamized, and to Hope Street as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, and wise and appropriate the necessary money therefor. -raise and appropriate any sum of money to build the [By` petition..] ;same. 10 Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to accept - Branch Streetas laid out by the Board of Selectmen and raise and appropriate any sum of money therefor._ Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to accept - Summit Avenue as laid out by the Board of Selectmen,. and raise and appropriate any sum of money therefor.. Article 26. To see -if the Town will vote to acce James Street as laid out by the Board of Selectmt.. and raise and a en ppropriate any sum of money therefor.. Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to acc Kingman Avenue as laid out by the Board of Sele tt nen and raise and appropriate any sum of money therefor. Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept: Samoset Avenue and Brook Street as laid out by -the, .Board of Selectmen and raise and appropriate an su Of money therefor. y m_ Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept,- Carpenter Avenue and Bliss Avenue as laid out by the. Board of Selectmen, and raise and appro riat sura of money therefor. p e any Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to build a 2oncrete bridge on High Street and raise any appro- �riate any sum of money therefor. Article 31. To see if the Town will authorize the >electmen to sell the No. 4 Schoolhouse Lot, socalled, o the Mansfield Fire .District or take any action there - n. I� I I I I 11' Article 32.. To hear the report of any Committee,.. to choose any Committee' and raise and appropriate - any sum of money for the use of any Committee, or- take any action rleative thereto. And you are directed to serve this Warrant by post ing attested copies thereof at each of the public meet- ing houses and postofiices in said town eight days at least before the time of holding said t' _ mee in g. Hereof fail not, and make due return of said War- rant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid. Given under our hands this fifteenth day of Febru-- ary, in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen. HARRISON A. MORSE, WM: P. McDERMOTT, ERNEST L. WHITE, Selectmen of Mansfield.. A true copy attest: MARY A. WHEELER, Ass't Town Clerk.. Mansfield, Mass., Feb. 24, 1917. By virtue of this Warrant I have this day posted on} each of the public meeting houses and post offices on the Town of Mansfield, a true and attested copy of this, Warrant. L. LESLIE JONES, Attest: Constable of Mansfield MARY A. WHEELER, Assistant Town Clerk 12 13 Mansfield, Mass., March 5th, 1917. The ballot -box registered 637, two ballots were put`. in wrong and had to be put in over again, consequently, - In conformity with the foregoing Warrant a meet- they registered twice: "ing of the legal voters of the town was held on the ,,above date in the Lower town :Mall, and persons were The voting lists checked 619 names on the male list ,.elected to office and votes passed as below recorded. and 1 on. the female list. The tellers reported having~ counted 619 regular ballots and sixteen for school ;co.m= . Article 1. Chose William A. Copeland, Moderator. mittee only. Article 2. The meeting was called to order at five The Ballots were sorted counted and declaration -i _forty-five o'clock A. M. and it was voted to dispense made thereof in open meeting as follows-,:, with reading the Warrant. TM. Town Clerk, one year: William I. Mowry and Guilford A. George were ap- l J. Arthur Wheeler four hundred eighty-nine 489 pointed ballot clerks; Carroll S. Cobb, Daniel Welch, � Blanks, one hundred thirty 130 Fred W. Day and Eugene B. Wilson, tellers; A. Ver- -non Wilson, William B. Murray and Charles F. Gallup 619 checked the voting lists. All together with .the Moder- . ator were sworn by the Town Clerk before performing Town Treasurer, one year: ., y an duties. J. Arthur. Wheeler had four hundre.dr eighty- . The Ballot Box was publicly opened and shown to one 481 Blanks, one hundred thirty-eight- 138. be empty and the key delivered to Henry F. Bessom, officer in charge. 61.9 At ten o'clock A. M. there were 240 male and 10 Three .Selectmen for one year -female ballots removed from the box for counting, at Francis D. Greany had one hundred ,seven _ 107 ,twelve -thirty P. M. there wey90 221_male and three fe- William P. McDermott had three hundred -male ballots removed, at two o'clock five minutes P. M. eighty-four Y- 384'- 84'--there -therewere, 151 male and three female ballots removed, Harrison A. Morse four hundred"tirty-seven 437 ". at two o'clock and thirty minutes P. M. at the tirne of William R. Prosc.ott .fifty-nine 5g closing the polls seven male ballots were Y.emoved,Ernest L. white four hundred thirty-four 434 making a total of 619 male ballots and 16 female bal- William L. Winter .two hundredAtrenty-on.e 221'_ lots. The provisions of Chapter 11, Section 287, para - Blanks, two hundred fifteen 2`15 graph 4 of the revised laws were observed in removing these . ballots. 14 'Three Overseers of the Poor for one year: Francis D. Greany one hundred nine 109 William_ P. McDermott three hundred eighty- three 383 Harrison A. Morse four hundred twenty-four 424 William R. Prescott fifty seven 57 Ernest L. White four hundred twenty-three 423 William L. Winter had two hundredfourteen 214 Blanks, two hundred forty-seven 247. 1,857 _Assessor for three years: Walter W. Leonard, four hundred ninety-five 495 Blanks, one hundred twenty-four 124 619 ,.;School Committee for three years: Annie A. Horton, two hundred_ seventy-seven 277 Robert S. Schoonmaker, three hundred toren- ty-eight 328 Blanks, thirty ' 30 635 "Trustees of Public Library, two for three years Frank L. Cady, four hundred eighty-three 483 ,William L. Robinson, four hundred seventy- six Blanks. two hundred seventy-nine 476 279 1,238 s 15 - 'Collector of Taxes for one year: J. Arthur' Wheeler, four hundred eighty-three 483 Blanks, one hundred thirty-six.136 619 :Board of Health, one for three years Benoni M. Latham, four hundred seventy-six 476 Blanks, one hundred forty-three 143 619 `Tree Warden, for one year: E..Jasper Fisher, four hundred; eighty-one 481 Blanks, one hundred thirty-eight 138 619 finking Fund Commissioners, two for three years: Thomas J. Fox, four hundred eighty-five, 485 Albert A. Grover, four hundred seventy-three 473 Blanks, two hundred eighty -280 1,238 Electric Light Commissioner, for one year: William H. Lyons had three hundred eighteen 318 William E. Rider had two hundred fifty. -nine. 259 Blanks, 'forty-two 42 619 17 16 _ and Fruit on the Lord's day be accepted.`? Electric Light Commissioner, one for three y ears: E � as. three hundred twenty-one. 321 ' m H. Allen, three hundred seventy-six 3760 180" No, one hundred sixty-nine 169 William Wallis, one hundred eighty 163 Blanks, one hundred twenty-nine 129 y Gilbert Gilbert one hundred sixty-three 619 619 Voted to adjourn the meeting until March -12, 1917, at seven: -thirty o'clock P. M. This vote was taken at Auditors, three for. one year: four o'clock ten, minutes P. M. Ira C. Gray, four hundred seventy-six foui: hundred sixty 476 460 � Attest MARY A WI-IFEL E, - Harry B. Sargent, four hundred sixty-five . 465ti , Ass't Town' Clerk. Walter I. Sherman, 456:1' hundred fifty Blanks, four -six 1,857," Mansfield, Mass., March:12, 1917. In accordance with the By -Laws of the town an ad- journed town meeting was held on the above date- at Constables, two for one year: ninety-six 496`-, seven -thirty o'clock. P. M. in the Town mall and. votes L. Leslie Jones, four hundred hundred six 506", passed as hereafter recorded. James W. Kennedy,:five two hund thirty-six 236 : Article 3. Noted that the r, ort of the Town offi- Blared nks, cars be accepted as painted after making the following .1,238- correction on page 93 of the p �' printed report: The amount of $2.15 for building inspection and the for the sale of intoxicating amount of $363.34 for tax collector should be deficien- ranted Shall License be granted in this town? cies instead' of balances. .. Liquors 156 "Yes;" one hundred fifty-six 406. Article 4. Voted that' the ` same Surveyors of wood "No,"' four hundred six 57- and lumber be elected to serve this year as last after Blanks, fifty,seven _ _ adding the name of Joseph F. Packard.` The foblowing 619 :1 is a list of persons elected:- Frank I. Sherman Lewis S. Packard the Acts 'of 1909, chapter 4239 David Fisher Samuel HI. Ring Benjamin Flint Emory E. Brown ons of Shall.. the; provisi ative tot e "An Act rel an Act entitled being Soda Water - Confectionery, Joseph F. Packard 'sale of Ice Creaiii, Article 5. Voted that the various approprldLluj'a be taken- up in the order presented by the Finance 'ttee Comml Committee on appropriations made a written The , article involving anxpndi- commendation' on each re the By -Laws. as required of them by Lure of money The following were the amounts raised and appro- priated for 1917 expenditures': `,Suppression of Insects 500.00 $3,560.0 0 Interest due in 1917 4,000.00 Bonds due in 1917 17400.00 Interest on temporary loans fees, dog fund and 38,000.00 Schools; tuition 3,000.00 Water Supply District, 1,500.00 PublicLibrary 1,500:00 Town Farm 3,500:00 ,Outside Poor 500.00 Soldiers' Relief 1,500.00 Health :and Sanitation 200.00 inspection of Cattle 1,500.00 ' Town Hall and Commons of Dust and Highways and Bridges, Laying 12,000.00 Sidewalks Selectmen's ayouts 400.00 Board of Survey and National* Bank Tax; amount assessed 300.:00 State Tax, amount assessed amount assessed State Highway`Tax, 355.00< State Aid.; -receipts 2,000.00 Police Department 1,000.00 Court Fees 400.00 Tree Warden 3,000.00 19 `,Suppression of Insects 500.00 Inspection of Buildings 300:00 Sealing of Weights and Measures 150:00 Eire Protection outside district 250.00 Election and Registration 500.' -00 - 'Street Lighting 8,283.,00 ;Selectmen, Chairman $400;, other members $300 each 1,000.00 .Assessors, Chairman $400; other members $300 each 1,000:00 -Expense` of Selectmen's department 500:00 'Expense of Assessors' department 150.00 'Town Clerk and Treasurer raise and appro- priate 5.00.00 .Appropriate 300.:00 Expense of' Town c'lerk's and Treasurer's office 355.00< $Collector of Taxes 800.00 Bond for Tax Collector 125.00 Auditors 150:00. Emergency Fund 3,000.00 Decoration of Soldiers' (Graves 150.00 Care of Town Burial Grounds 175.00 'Vital Statistics 75.00 Article 6. Voted that the Town authorize the Col'- ol''lector 'lector(if. he is not the Town Treasurer.:) to use all the means for collecting' the taxes which a Town Treasur- ,,er, when appointed collector, may use. Voted that.the Tax Collector be allowed eight mills on each dollar col= lected for collecting the taxes. Article 8. It was voted unanimously that the town* .authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval., of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in 20 anticipation of the revenue of the municipal year-be�- ginning January 1, 1917, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate eighty thousand dollars ($80,000), and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said municipal year. Article 9.- Voted that the Town raise and appropri�- ate the sum of $2;500, providing the State will ap- propriate the same amount, to continue the macadam - road on East Street, built in 1916, going toward the. Easton line. Article 10,Voted that we appropriate $100e from the Emergency fund for the enforcement of the laws against the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors.. Article 11. Voted that the town raise and` appro priate the sum of $200 toward the salary of the nurse, employed by the Mansfield Visiting Nurse Association - Article 12. Voted that the town raise and appro- pr ate the sure of $200 to be placed at the disposal of the Board of Selectmen, to employ nursing service. Article 13. Voted that it is the sentiment of the. meeting that the two small Lamoureux children be ear riet. to -the John H. Berry school in view of the edict of the Judge of the Attleboro Court, until such time as the, edict is removed. Article 14. Voted that the town authorize the Selectmen to install street lights wherever needed 't(>, take ease of the growing demands of the -'town, not to. exceed five lights in one locality - 21 At ten -thirty o'clock it/vas voted to adjourn the -1-fleeting L. ntil Monday evenit4g, March 19, 1917, at .seven -thirty o'clock. Attest: MARY A. WHEELER, Ass't Town Clerk. Mansfield; Mass., March 19, 1917. In accordance with the vote at the meeting held -March 12, 1017, an adjourned tovm meeting was held on the above date in the Tov,,n Hallandthe following • votes were passed on articles in the warrant not al- -ready acted upon. Article 15. A motion to' rei4burse Mrs. E. ®® George for damage done to her land on Rumford Ave- nue, by reason of a change of grade was lost. Article 16. Voted that the town authorize the :Selectmen to accept in behalf of the town the deed ex- ecuted by Walter M. Lovmey, conveying to the town -the title to "Lowney Park at the corner of North Dain and Chauncy Streets, and upon acceptance, direct the Selectmen to cause to. be recorded such deed with Bristol County Deeds at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was further voted that the Town cause an appropriate vote of_ than' to be engrossed by the Town Clerk of -the Town a'-.nd delivered to the donor of said: park. , Article 17. ` Voted that the to-;vn extend the ma- cadam and 'grading of Oakland Street for a distance of about 2,300 feet running easterly from the point where said street is now graded and macadamized; and raise _and appropriate $1,000' therefor. ,J 22 Article 18. Voted that the Town grade and ma-- cadam Shields Street, from Oakland Street in an eas terly direction, for a distance. of, about 600 feet, and raise and appropriate $800 necessary therefor. Article 19. Voted that we give Mr. Barbour the floor to explain the plans for a system of sewerage. At motion to see if the town would borrow $175,000, to. install a system of sewers was lost, 111 voting- against otingagainst the sameand 155 for it a two thirds vote be-- ing necessary. Voted that a sewer 'committee of seven be appointed- by ppointedby. the Moderator, to consist of the Board of Health,,the Board of Selectmen and Mr. W. C. Fuller, the presi- dent of the Board of 'Trade to continue agitation for a sewerage system and to take any action necessary for the. same. It was also voted that when the filter beds are locat -ed. they should be located to the east of South` Main street, according to the ;plans submitted. Article 20. Voted that the town raise` and appro;- priate, the sum of $144.00 to pay for the rent, light and heat of the Town Treasurer's and Town Clerk's office. Article 21. Voted that town authorize the Electric Light Commissioners and Selectmen to give a lease to the New England Brawn Steel Company, of a narrow strip of land about five by thirty feet, on property of the Mansfield Municipal Electric Light Plant, the same to be used for a spur track. Article 22. Voted that the Town authorize` the Selectmen to construct a fire proof vault in the4Town Hall and raise and appropriate $1,000.00 for that pur- pose. Article 23. Voted that the town accept Hope Street as laid out by the .Board of Selectmen and raise and appropriate $3,000.00 to pay land damages and build the road. Article 24. Voted that the Town accept Branch street as laid out by the Board of Selectmen. It was voted to reconsider this vote and then it was voted to indefinitely postpone accepting Branch Street. It was voted to raise and appropriate $200 to build sidewalks on Branch Street. Article 25. Voted that the . Town accept Summit Avenue as laid out by the Board of Selectmen,' and raise -and appropriate $100 for the street. Article 26. A motion to accept James street was lost. Article 27. Voted to-ide'finitely postpone action un- der this article. Article' 28. Voted that the Town accept Samoset Avenue and Brook Street as laid out by the Board of Selectmen and raise and appropriate $200 to build the street. Article 29. Voted that the Town accept Carpenter Avenue and: Bliss Avenue as laid out by the Board of Selectmen andaise and appropriate $100 to'build the 24 Article 30. ,Voted that vvTe indefinitely postpone ac- tion under this article. Article 31. Voted to indefinitely postpone any ac- tion under- this article. Article 32. The Committee appointed at the meet- ing held May 27, 1916, to consider plans for remodel- ing the Central School Building made a report and the Town voted to raise and appropriate the sum, of $1,500 to be placed in the hands of the School Committee to he used for constructing Fire Escapes leading from the first floor and make repairs in the roof and heating ap- • paratus. Voted that thechair appoint a Committee of three to get estimates for Assessors' Maps. Mr. Copeland, the Moderator, appointed the Chairman of the Select- men, The Chairman of the Assessors and Mr. Daniel G. Joy. It was voted that all balances, excepting those of Electric Lighting Plant, Schools, sock Street, Street Signs, Valuation Lists and Sealer of Weights and Meas- ures eas-ures be returned to the Treasury after deducting the deficiencies shown in the tabulated statement on pages 93 and 94 of the Annual Report for 1916. The Moderator appointed the following to serve on the Committee of Appropriations for the year 1917 Dunbar, Frank H. Lowney, Walter M. Gray, Ira C. Conrod, John W. ,Shepard, Hayden Woods, Frank E. Cobb, Frank M Richardson, Daniel C. Leonard, Gustave E. Rathbun ,John W. . Kichardson, .Uharles A., Joy, Daniel G. Fox, Thomas J. Howard, Charles F. Dr. William H. Allen At ten o'clock forty -live minutes P. M. it was voted -to dissolve the meeting. Attest: M'= A. WHEELER, Asst `Down Clem. RECEIPTS Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1917 $16,499.85 $16,499.85 TAXES Received from J. Arthur Wheeler, Collector, as fol- lows: For 1915 taxes $11,693.32 For 1915 tax and interest 2.24 For 1916 taxes 17,825.00 For 1917 taxes 67,750.00 $97,270.56 NOTES Received from Notes in antici- pation of 1917 revenue $80,000.00 $80,000.00 SCHOOLS .,County Treasurer for Dog Fund $664.58 27 'Tuition f e -es 27.50 Tuition of State Children 111.75 $803.83 ALMSHOUSE Sale of Farm Products $981.99 .Work done for street depart- ment 421.50 Rent for cottage 45.00 Sale of gravel from, pit 63.80 Plowing 1.00 $1,513.29 STREETS Sale of Gutter Scrapings $ 55.00 Work for Gas Light Co. 123.50 Plowing 3.65 Pay Rolls uncalled for 6.25, $188.40 BOARD OF HEALTH Reimbursed for aid rendered persons from other. towns $257.72 CHA..41TIES From Town of Medfield $293.25 Town of Easton 67.00 City of Boston 9.00 $257.72 29 MUNICIPAL LIGHTING PLANT Sale of Light and Power during 28 year LICENSES. J bbing'-sa1_es during year Junk Dealers $540.00 Moving Picture Show 25.00 Opening Sundays 40.00 Pool Room 50.00 Embalmer's 1.00 Animal Inspection 1.00 Registration of Doctors 2.00 Pedler's 22.00 License as Masseur 1.00 • .Auctioneers' 4.00 . License to distribute circulars 1.00 Milk 7.50 -Victuallers' 9.00 Garage 8.00 Licenses to sell Oleomargarine 2.00` Butcher's 1.00 licenses to carry concealed est paid weapons 5.50 $720.0.0 STATE Hunting licenses ,Corporation Business Tax �12,947.74 Corporation Tax Public Service 1,225.80` Income Tax 49887.56 _National Bank Tax 103.55 State Aid 1,874.00 �!Cl iers' Exemption 132.57 Paid State Aid $21,171.22 29 MUNICIPAL LIGHTING PLANT Sale of Light and Power during year $38,195.69 J bbing'-sa1_es during year 11,183.80 C h Sales during year 2,658.65 $52,038A4 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS Sale of School -house $266.00 Unused check 71.50 Tree Warden, work -for indi- vuals 44.00 Police duty 3.00 Interest on deposits in bank 425.98 Jail Fines 206.00 Court Fines 423.22 Town Mall 173.10 Sealing Weights & Measures 98.60 Reimbursed for Mothers' Aid rendered 318.00 E. L. Plant for bonds and inter- est paid 5,480.00 Town Clerk for following m Marriage licenses 87.00 Hunting licenses 33.90 Dog licenses 60.80 Recording fees 33.86 $7,724.96 Total rec'pts :for the year 1917 $278,557.22 PAYMENTS PaidNotes and interest $94,982.69 Paid State Aid 1,807.00 30 Paid Schools. 40,177.39 Paid Electric Light Plant oper- ation 54,619.93 Paid Electric Light Plant, con- struction 8,565,32 , Paid Electric Light Plant, de- preciation 250.00 Paid Selectmen's warrants 74,306.01 Cash in Treasury Dec. 31, 1917 3,848.88 $278,557.22 31 REPORT OF TREASURER OF SINKING FUNDS J. Arthur Wheeler, Treasurer IMPROVEMENT LOAN SINKING FUND Dr. Mortgages and cash on hand Jan. 1, 1917 36,008.37 Interest received in 1917 1,890.84 $37,899.21 Cr. By mortgages on real estate' $36,910.00 Cash on hand December 31st, 1917 989.21 $37,899.21 ELECTRIC LIGHT LOANS SINKING FUND Dr: Mortgages_ and cash on hand Jan. 1, 1917 $17,182.38 Contribution from Plant for 1917 1,00.00 Interest receivect in 1917 922.20 $19,104.58 Cr. By mortgaes on real estate $17,865.00 By deman1note 500.00 Cash on hand D cember 31st, .1917 739.58 $19,104.51-1 WV 191, Jan. 1 Cash on hand $2,798.47 Sala of light and power 33,195;69 Jobbing Account 11,183.80 Cash Sales 2,658.65 From Construction fund 86.36 From Depreciation fund 49.49 Appropriation for street lighting 8,283.00 $63,255.46. Cr. Bills paid as per $250.00 orders $54,619.93 Transferred to depre- 8,276.35 ciation account 7,582.80 Dec. 31 Cash on =hand 1,052.73 63,255.46. Construction Account Dr. First Nat. Bank of'' Boston, 1917 anticipation of revenue notes; $80,000.00 Jan. Cash on hand $450.25 From Depreciation fund 8,276.35 High School -house bonds $8-,726.60) FromOperation account 7,581�.60 $11,575.84 Cr. Pills paid as per orders $250.00 Paid' Construction Ac- count 8,276.35 Paid` Operation account 49.49 Dec, 31 Cash on hand 3,000.00 $11,575.84 Notes Paid First Nat. Bank of'' Boston, anticipation of revenue notes; $80,000.00 J. H. Berm, Sc?to.ol bonds 1,000.00 Paine Scho 1 -house bonds 1,000.00 High School -house bonds 2,000.00 Electric Light Lo -bonds 2,000.00 $86,000.00 r 34 35 hued June 1st, 1905. Interest due June Ist and 'De - Interest Paid cember Ist each year at 4 per cent.per annum. Pay- . Interest on anticipation of rev, .able to Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Principal enue loans$1,942.69 Light due 1935. Interest on Electric Lht Loans ` 3,480.00 $30,000.00 Mansfield Municipal Light Loan issue of' Interest on Improvement Loan 1906, issued April 2, 1906. Interest due April Ist and bonds 1,600.00 October Ist each year at 4 per cent per annum. Reg - Interest on High School Loan :istered bonds. Principal of $1,000 due each year. bonds 1,200 -$11,000.00 already . y paid. Interest on Paine School bonds 200.00 Interest on Berry School bonds 560.00 $40,000.00 High School Btizilcng Loan issue July= $8,962.69 OUTSTANDING INDEBTEDNESS $40,000.00 Mansfied Improvement Loan, issued June 1, 1892.` Interest payable June 1st and Decem- ber 1st, each year at 4 per per annum. Principal and interest payable at International Trust Company, Boston, Mass, , Principal due 1922. $40,000.00 ` IW4nsfield Municipal Light Loan No. 1, issued, October 1st, 1903. Interest payable October 1st, and April 1st, each year at 4 per cent per annum. Principal and interest payable at First.. Nat .Bank, Mansfield, Mass. Principal due 1933. $3,000.00 'Mansfield Municipal Light Loan No. 2, is- sued April 1st, 1904. Interest due, April Ist, each year, at 4 per cent per annum, payable at Central Savings Bank, Lowell, Mass. Principal payable at Frst Na- tional Bank,` Mansfield, Mass. Principal due 1934. $7,000.00 Mansfield Municipal Light Loan No. 3, is - :1st, 1911. Interest due July Ist and January 1st each :year at 4 per cent per annum. Principal °'and' interest payable at First National Bank, Boston, Mass. 000.00 due each year. $121000.000 already paid. $10,000.00 Paine School House Loan, issued, Sep- tember 1st, 1911.Interest due September Ist and March 1st each year at 4 per cent per annum. Prin- cipal and interest payable at First National Bank,..Bos- ton, Mass.. $1,000.00 .due eachyear. $6,000.00 al- ready paid: $22,500.00 Mansfield Municipal Light Loan issued ,September 1st, 1911. Interest ,due September Ist and :March 1st each year at 4 per cent per annum. Prin-, cipal and interest -payable at l''irst National. Bankof :Boston, Mass. $1,000.00 due each year and $504:00 due Sept. 1st, 1934. $61-000.00 already paid. $15,000.00 Mansfiel�` School Loan (J. H, Bury `School) issued July 1 t 1915, Interest due July -1st and January Ist each year at 4 per cent per annum. :Principal and interest payable at C. D. Parker; Inc., Boston, Mass. $1,000. due each year, $2,000.00 .already paid. STATEMENT OF OUTSTANDING DEBT Cr. 5.20 Improvement Loan No. 1 " '$40,000.00 Electric Light Plant Loans 85,500.00 High School Building Loan 28,000.00 Paine School -house Loan ` 4,0'00.00 J. H. Berry School Loan 13,000.00 Anticipation of Revenue Loan 20,000.00 Martha B. Austin 133.28 Dr. 4.50 Improvement LoanSinkingFund $87,899).21 Electric Light Loans Sinking Fund 19,104.59 Actual Debt D-ecember 31st,. G. F. & G. M. Austin 107.14 1917 133,49G.21 107.46 X19,0=;500.00) 37 BURIAL LOT FUNDS 'Town of Mans"eld in Account with the Same for 1917 Jan.1.st Interest Care Balance Naive of Fund in Band rec'd. ' of lot Dec. 31. Baylies B. King $138.35 $5.58 $4.00 $139.93` C. T. Borden 129.40 5.20 3.00 1311.60 Geo. W. Thomas _ 136.64 5.50 4.00 138.14` Albert W. Williams 115.53 4.64 4.00 116.11 Martha B. Austin 133.28 5.86 4.50 134.14 Pratt 108.15 4.36 3.50 109.01 G. F. & G. M. Austin 107.14 4.32 4.00` 107.46 David F. Holmes 123.90 4.98 4.50 124.38 .Edward Francis 114.17 4.60 5.5`0 119.77 Ethan E. Cobb 106.84 4.28 4.00 107.12 .Elijah Allen, 109.06 4.00 109.46 James Beeden 104.08 4.20 4.00 14.28 Scholes 103.52 4.16 4.00' 103:68 Hartwell 105.80' 4.24 4.00 106.04 Horace V. 'Hunt 102.16 4.12 4.00 ` 2.28 .Andrew Wilson 80.19 3.22 3.00 8 .41 John M. Holmes 102.22 4.12 4.50 101.84 William Graves 102.08 4.12 4.00 102:20 .Martin Shea 101.08 4.08 4.00 101.16, Chas. W. Rathbun 204.16 8.24 8.00 204.46 Albert Fuller 107.18 X054 none 113.72 Franklin A. Raleom 100.54 4.04 4.50 100.08 ,John W. Cobb 104.12'' 4,20 4.00 104:32 .Hannah E. Alien 307.06 12.40 5.00 314.46 Andrew D. _Ding 101.02 4.08 4.00 101.10 -Fred L. Prentigs 51.00 2.06 2.00 51.06 George; E. Geddes 102.00 4.12 4.00 102.12 Peter Huber 101.00 4.08 4.00 101.08 H,arve.y .& Lincoln 1014010 4.08 4.00 101.08 39. Mansfield, Mass, January 22, 191.$. W. the auditors chosen at the last annual town meeting,have examined the books of the Town Treas urer and found them correct, with proper vouchers for ` All payments. of cash made- by him and a balance -of cash on hand of $3,84-8.88. IRA C. GRAY, WALTER L SHERMAN HARRY B. SARGENT, x Auditors. �a J Ferdinand Winslow 100.00 4.04 4.010, 100.04 Oliver W Gushee 190.00 4.04 4.00 100.04 Melvin T. Estey L00.00 2.00 "2.00 100.00 Henry A. Roberts 100.00 2.00 2.00 100.00 Henjamin Treen 100.00 2.00 2.00 100.00 GeorgeH. Bragg 2175.00 none none 275.00 Miamas W. George 95.00 none none 95.00 -Henry A. Cobb 100.00 none none 100.00 James Green 100`.00 none none 100.00 J. ARTHUR WHEELER, Town Treasurer • • REPORT OF, WIIyLIAMS SCHOOL FUND Dr. 1917 Jana 1 Amount in fund $1,228.16 Interest in Savings Bank 29.10 Coupons on bond 20.00 $1,277.26 fi Cr, r Dec. 31 Amount in fund $1,277.26 , REPORT OF JACOB WILLIAMS FUND Dr. Jan. I. Amount in fund $21250.31 July 1 Interest 90.90 $2,341.21 Cr. Pec. 31 Amount in fund $2,341.21 39. Mansfield, Mass, January 22, 191.$. W. the auditors chosen at the last annual town meeting,have examined the books of the Town Treas urer and found them correct, with proper vouchers for ` All payments. of cash made- by him and a balance -of cash on hand of $3,84-8.88. IRA C. GRAY, WALTER L SHERMAN HARRY B. SARGENT, x Auditors. . 41 40 COLLECTOR'S REPORT Taxes for 1917 TAX WHEELER, TAX COLLECTOR Dr; -RTHUR J. A e 'Collector' of the Town' of Mansfield respect- 'Taxes assessed $92,469.24 Tax The T for the year 1917:` Street Railway Excise Tax 169.35 fully submits the report .Interest collected in 1917 48.60° Additional poll taxes 32.00 Taxes for 1915 $92,719.19 Dr. • Cr. $10,696.74 'To taxes uncollected 1,105.48 By cash paid Treasurer $67,750.00 Interest collected in 1917 $11,802.22 `— Abatements in 1917 122.32 Balance uncollected 24,846.87` $92,719.19 Cr. By cash paid Treasurer $11,69.3.32 108.90 Abatements in 1917 $11,802.22 APPROPRIATIONS Taxes f or 1916 Dr. For 1917 Expenditures i To taxes uncollected $26,192.99 Inter est due in 1917 $3,560`.00 in 1917 619.20 bonds due in 1917 4,000.00 Interest collected Additional taxes in 1917 6.00 Interest on temporary loans '1,400.00 $26,818.19` Schools; tuition fees, dog fund and 38,000.00 Water Supply, District 3,000.00 Cr. _ Public Library 1,500.00 t 825.00 $17'366.70 Town Farm 1,500.00 By cash paid Town Treasurer Charities 3,500.00 j Abatements in 1917 8,626.49 Soldiers' Relief 500.00 Balance uncollected $26,818-19 Health and Sanitation 1,500.00 k i i Building Samoset avenue and Brook streets 200.00 'Building Carpenter and Bliss avenues a 42 1,500.00 Inspection of Cattle 200.0.0 Town Hall and Commons 11500.00. Highways, including bridges, dust laying and 1200. 00 sidewalks 100.00 Board of Survey and Selectmen for Street 5.64 plans 400.00 Police Department 2,000.00 Court Fees 1,000.0 Tree Warden 400.00 -Suppression of Insects 500.00 Inspection of Buildings 300.000 Sealing of Weights and Measures 150.00 Fire Protection outside fire district . 250.00 Flection and Registration 500.00 Street Lighting 8,283.00 Selectmen - 1,000.00 Assessors 11000.00 500.00 Town Clerk and Treasurer (Also appropriate $300.00) Expense for Selectmen and Overs ears of Poor 500.00 Expense of Assessors ' 150.00 Expense of Town Clerk and Treasurer 355.00 Bond for Tax Collector 125.00 Auditors 150.00 Emergency Fund 3,000.00 Decoration of Soldiers' Graves 150.00 Care of Town Burial 'Grounds 175.00 Vital Statistics 75.00 Macadam on East street 2,500.00 District Nursing Association' 200.00 Macadamizing and Grading Shields street 800.00 Macadamizing and Grading Oakland street 1,000.00 Rent of Town Clerk's'office 144.00 Vault for Assessors 1,000.00 Sidewalks on Branch street 200.00 Building Samoset avenue and Brook streets 200.00 'Building Carpenter and Bliss avenues 100.00 Repairs in Central School Building 1,500.00 Collector of Taxes 800.00 ;Selectmen, for Nursing Service 200.00 Building Hope street and land damage 3,000.00 Repairing Summit avenue 100.00 National Bank Tax 5.64 State Tax ' 11,990.00 County Tax 6,355.18 State Highway -Tax 287.89 a ,Total appropriations $123,505.71 The difference between this amount* and the amount levied by the Assessors was the amount estimated by them that would be received in 1917. e 45 No. Name of Child Name of Parents '' Date- 35 Clara Lillian Sherman Walter I. and Minnie W. 44 1. 36 Still Born 2 37 BIRTHS Tunis W. and Madeleine Recorded in the Town of Mansfield for the year 1917 "William Henry Greenwood- :No. Name- of Child Name of. Parents ; Date L Vencina Squadrelli Guiseppe and Theresa Frank and'` Consetta Jan. 2 294 3 Antoinette Ross Rosa Laudisio Gennera and Maria T. fC 4 5 J 4 America Vincenza Di Pilio Lorenzo- and Anna LL 5 5 Grace Edith Thurber George H. and Minnie Joseph E. and Mary 44 9 G 7 Connor Francesco Gennaro Bruno ; Salvatore and -Mary George A. and Mary E. << it 9 16 8 9 Iva May Brown Reginald Albert Rhyno Reginald and Ida 44 " 22 24 10 Clarence Earle Macomber Clarence and Ethel Herbert and Alice E. 25 11 Eleanor Roberta Peterson Augusto and Anna M. << 25 12 13 Gina Amici Virginia 'Ann Briggs George H. and Mary H. << CC 25 27 14 Euro Esule Peratt Moretti Umberto and Leonilda " 27 15 16 Alfred ZaXino Kenneth Edgar Conrod Gino and Anna Theodore and Gladys -Feb. << 2 3 17 James Arthur Wheeler$ 2d James R. and -Alice R. it 51 18 Libera Salacchi Florence Etta Engler Luigi and Theresa John; J. and Annie 46 GC 6 19 -20 Silvio Santucci Angelo and Clementine Granville H. and Eva E. « 9 21 Dorothy Arline Bryant Antonio `and Carmelia 21 1€ 11 23 Henry Moresco Pearl Mitton Charles P. and Elva << 2C 2c 24 James W. Hoare Charles George Morse Fred H. and Alice Charles G. and Nellie [( 2E .25 26 Simpson Harry and Leah. Council W. and Ruth M. Mar. E 94 27 Doris Mary Turner Frederick Edward Wood Albert and Mary it 1E .28 .29 Cortland Lewis Bessom h Carroll L. and Ethel A. Jahn M. and Lynda 1WE « 2( 30 31 Arthur Mason Peterson Mildred Edith Hodges Arthur and Ella E. {L 21 21 .32 lli Amelia Leonelli Olaro and Esterena d Wilfred and Louise " 21 33 �34 Mabel Alice Esther Lindell Partington Everett and Blanche cc1&, 3� 45 No. Name of Child Name of Parents '' Date- 35 Clara Lillian Sherman Walter I. and Minnie W. April 1. 36 Still Born 2 37 Hazezl Newton Hill Tunis W. and Madeleine 5 38 "William Henry Greenwood- William H. and Alice 8 39 Walter Edward Corbett Walter H. and Katherine 40 Ralph Chauncy Forrester James A. and Emma 12 41 Frank Davenport James A. and Sarah, 13 42 Carl Oscar Friedlund Oscar and Mary 14 43 Charles Henry Falotico Rocky and Isabella 16; 44 Frank Lincoln Charles L. and Ida A. 9916 45 Weldon John Vincent Irving F. and Miriam J. 9.23 46 Amando 'Cesere :Blandori Sante and Maria " 24 47 Robert` Clinton LaRoe Alfred and Marion " 26 48 Beverly Louise Lunn Nathaniel L. and Winona 27" 49 St;ll Born _ 28`; 50 Maria Polmonari Dante and Agnes 29� 51 - Fenton Arthur J. and Alio T. May 7 52 Ruth Louise Rider William H. and Harriett " 19 53 Iole Gina Copperini Paulo and Ida 21 54 Edward Sumner Chase Walter H. and Edna it23 55 Guido Luigi Scappolini Nazzarni and Matilda 26 56 Rina Iolanda Pellegrino Alessandro and Francesca June '' '8'; 57 Angelo Fratoni Antonio and Celia 9.90 58 Linda Carnovale Domenick and Antonia 10" b 59 Edith > Norman Chevers Harold F. and Katherne 10) ° 60 June Lillian Walker David P. and Lillian R. 12 61 Janice Helen Vickery Louis A. and Lillian cc1&, 62 Mary Ruth Bonner George; D. and Bridget it19; 63 Irene June; Richards Herbert L. and M.,,Angelina 23 64 Mary Theresa Rando- h Horace and Susan 23 65 Cedulia Thompson William and Lodia. it29' 66 Raymond King Jesse and Eva July 7 67 Ruth Arlene Willis Ralph B. and Jessie S. it8, 68 Helen Barron Briggs William P. and'Anna E. cc16 69 Evangeline Iona -Young Leslie W. and Annie L 16 70 Rocky Besanti James and Angelina 17 71 ''Phillip Elbridge :Sherman Kenneth C. and Frances 26 72 Robert Victor Freed HiIding A..and Hulda A. Aug. 6 73 Felwyn Codding; Young Francillo H. and Grace 9 74 Ralph Edgar Bonney Joseph and Marjorie it14 75 Cardinuto Charles and Agnes,., 16- 76 Inez Velma Kreimendahl Julius R. and Effie;, " 16' 77 Theresa Moro Nino B. and Sylvia " 20 r " " 78 ' John Vicino Guiseppe and Maris 20--) I' 79 Nello Fiorelli Giovanni and Lidia " 21 ►' 80---. Burdick. Franklin P. and Eleanor,-' 21 81 Marie .Frances Currivan John.J. and Mary L. _ " 26: ,�' 82 Dorothy Marguerite Ball Leon and Florence G. 29°+ 46 47 No. Name of Child Name of Parents Date Q, Name of Child Name of Parents Date 83 Illigitimate Sept., 4 1916 84 Holda Guerino Vincent and Nina 11: 129 Margaret Ellen Creeden Henry A. and Mary J. Jan. 3 85 Arthur Warren Alden, Jr, Arthur W. and Evelyn M. " 13' 130 Jesse Louise Morrill Harry B and Lydia Mar. 2 86 Ralph Alvin Keyes Leroy W. and Effie M. " 15 -131 Perry Manuel and Rose July 22 87 Marion Ruth Johnson William D. and Hattie L.. It 15 132 Ruth, Emma Banks Charles A .and Dorothea it 31 88 Jeanette Sadie Hamilton Leon and Elsie " 1T 133 Margaret -Theresa Dalton Richard J. and Mary E. Sept. 5 89 Bernice Winifred Beale Fred I. and Lillian 23 134 Louise Rose McAuliffe William F. and 'Sarah " 10 90 Illi g itimate ` ` eC 25 135 Pauline Elizabeth Quinn John E. and Marie J. 11 � 91 Attillio ,Baldelli Luigi and Cornelia " 27r 136 Herbert James Goodson James E. and Annie Oct. 19 92 Rita AnnGallipeau John I. and Julia'_ B. " 27137 LeRoy Cotton Dow Russell A. and Hilda " 12 93 Katherine 'Gertrude 'McKay John D. and Sarah L. 27 94 Harry Melfi Domenick and Isabella 04ct. 1: 95 Alice Dorothy Ritchie Bruce and Luella ` 1` 96 George Henry' Slater " George and Mary E. • " 311, 97 Irving Milton Parker Roy M. and Mildred P. " 3 98 Feruccio Melchiorri Pietro and Matilda 6- 99 Frank Feriaella Carmelo and Albernice it6 100 Marion Elizabeth O'Connor Cornelius F. and Alice " 6 101 Henry Paul Cardin (twins) Adelard and Felonise 7f 102' George Robert Cardin 7 103 Josephine Cepsale Carmine and Julia " 8 104 Conzilla Filomina Tartufolo Angelo and Maria 8 105 Mary Frances' Welton Frederick J. and Elizabeth 1Z 106 Adele Mattei Pietro and Anna " 15F 107 Charles Walker Shields Charles W. and Bertha R. Nov. 1, 108 Andonetta' Signorello Pellegrino and Josephine 6 109 Nazzareno Cacioli Luigi` "and Angela . 9` 110 David Edward Westhaver, Jr. David E. and- Ara 16 111 John 'Lannon John A. and Esther J. 22 112 Mildred Glenna Padelford ` Everett' J. and Josephine 26 113 Venezia Scatalini Luciano and Anna 30 114 Corizia A. F. E. DeLuis Pietro and Francesca 30 115 Edward Hamilton Calhoun Thomas and Alice Dec. l 116 Louise May McKay William C. and Ellen E. - l :117 Marion Louise Glines Waldo L. and Marion A. 2 118 Wilfred- Liberatore Felice and Anna. it 4- 119 Fannie Barbara Wheldon William` and 'Fannie 499 9- 120 Earl Harold White Joseph W. and Rhoda 121 Nora Karen Christensen Victor -V. and Mary it 17 122 Jaetano Gentili Joseph' and Enrica 18 123 Madelyn Virginia Brown: Herbert E. and Edwina " 2t3 124 Arturo Egisto Tarenzi Pietro and Albena 23 125 Gladys Eloise Madden James J. and Elizabeth M. 2 126 Linze Wallis Gilbert and Blanche 25 127 Abraham Julius Syat Ezra and Goldie - " 31 128 Elena'' Julia``Nazzareno ` Guiseppe and Anita„_ 6` 31 49 22 Vance, E. Carver Mansfield. y Gladys A. Hodges Y gas Mansfielcl. b 21 Raholr E. Booth Mansfield ® Doris L. Lawson Mansfield Mar. 4 John D. McKay Mansfield Sarah Shaw Mansfield 48 Wallace J. Gordon Mansfield l,illi'an M. Sampson Foxborough April 12 Leslie E: Woods MARRIAGES Lunette S. Fuller Recorded in the Town of Mansfield for the year 1917" 18 Date Names Rebidence Mansfield " Jan. 11 John Francis Beatty, Jr.Mansfield' Foxborough Anna M. Wlliams Mansfield 21 17 William A. Reed Woonsocket, R. I.- Mansfield Vianna A. Cobb Mansfield (Walden) 25 : 20 Russell A. Ballou Mansfield Clara E. Sweet Mansfield Catherine. B. Havey No Attleboro Revere 27 Francisco Pestana Mansfield 11 Herbert E. Robinson Augusta Jardin Mansfield Irene Briggs Feb. 2 Arthur W. Alden Foxborough Evelyn Purdy Mansfield 5' Frank B. Mason Taunton Annie L. Connor Mansfield 7 Tunis W. Hill Mansfield Madeline M. Hibbert Mansfield 49 22 Vance, E. Carver Mansfield. y Gladys A. Hodges Y gas Mansfielcl. b 21 Raholr E. Booth Mansfield ® Doris L. Lawson Mansfield Mar. 4 John D. McKay Mansfield Sarah Shaw Mansfield 31 Wallace J. Gordon Mansfield l,illi'an M. Sampson Foxborough April 12 Leslie E: Woods Mansfield Lunette S. Fuller Mansfield 18 Henry Stanley TamblynSharon Clara Ellen McCool Mansfield " 1S i Clarence A. Smith Foxborough Amelia C. Ulm Mansfield 21 William T. Berry Mansfield Florence H. Snow Mansfield (clines) 25 : Robert Paulson Mansfield Clara E. Sweet Mansfield May 5 . Raymond W. Wood Revere Mina E. Treen Mansfield 11 Herbert E. Robinson Mansfield Irene Briggs Foxborough 20 Clifford A. F. RathburnMansfield Mary_ A. Currivan 50 25 12 Stanley A. Simpson Mansfield Helen E. Myers Nellie B. Wile Mansfield Charles H. Hadley, Jr. State College, Pa. 20 Angelo Cascioli Mansfield Ernest M. Cahoon. Leonilde Ginesi Mansfield Florence M. Chase Mansfield 28 21 Andrew P. Melcher Mansfield Helen L. Wellington Laura Bell Mansfield 22 George S. Gilpatric Foxborough Nathaniel D. Barrows Fzrne M. C. Knowles Foxborough 30 Horatio M. Nelson Mansfield Mansfield Cornejia P. J. Verb eek Mansfield. 31 . Albert E. Pitman Mansfield Raymond C. Hodges ' Frances E. Tyrrell Mansfield June 4 James. Petrillo Mansfield Frederick E.B. SierwertsMansfield Luigi Ciampa East Boston 4 John P. Murray Mansfield Anna T. Macdonagh Wakefield 4 Henry Russell Swift Mansfield. Mary Arthur Wheeler Mansfield 5 John V. Creeden Mansfield Julia O'Leary Walpole 9 Raymond W. Everett Mansfield Gladys S. Davol Mansfield 12 Newell B. Vickery Mansfield Elizabeth J. Brown Mansfield 20 Clifford A. F. RathburnMansfield Mary_ A. Currivan Mansfield 25 William J. Callen Mansfield Helen E. Myers Foxborough 26 Charles H. Hadley, Jr. State College, Pa. Genevieve Burt Mansfield 28 Ernest M. Cahoon. Mansfield Florence M. Chase Mansfield 28 Asa Smith Trayes Mansfield Helen L. Wellington Mansfield (Dixon) 29 Nathaniel D. Barrows Taunton Harriet W. Stratton Mansfield 29 Joseph. Linford Mansfield Eva G., Carpenter Mansfield ..July 2 Raymond C. Hodges ' Mansfield Jeanette N. Higgins Mansfield 8 Frederick E.B. SierwertsMansfield Alice R. Kittredge Mansfield 52 53 12 Frank S. Geddes Mansfield 8 Francis J. McCaffrey Mansfield Albina F. Sisson Bridgewater Rosella Gainor Mansfield 18 Elwin H. Rartlet' Sunapee, N. H.- Sept: 2 Joseph A. Cataloni Mansfield May M. Morse Mansfield Mar Ca ' Mary ppeillo Boston Aug. 1 Russell Giles Cate Mansfield I5 Chester P. Goff Mansfield Anna L. Harrington Mansfield Susan C. Howland Taunton 1 John W. Wile Mansfield - 8 Howard D. Pierce Newport, R. L Edith M. Hanscom Foxborough Mabel F. Stone Mansfield 4 Per John T. Seger'orandAttleboro . 22 Charles B. Rumsey Foxborough Anna Helene Steen Mansfield Flora E. Mann (Usher) Foxborough 4 Arthur H. Burdick Woonsocket, R. E. 29 Ernest C. Boynton Mansfield Laura Bachand Woonsocket, R. L_ Thelma O. Knowles Mansfield 6 Frank M. Kingaley Foxborough 29 Thomas Prescott Exeter, N. H. Elizabeth M. Cullen Mansfield Aurelie Delmore Telluride, Col, (Prarie) 10 Edward A. Richmond Mansfield Gertrude E. Lowes Mansfield 27 -Romeo Pianosi Mansfield 14 George A. Fisher Mansfield Salvatrice Guerra Mansfield (Lodico) Margaret Drurn Taunton 18 Michele Garafalo Mansfield= 29 James B. Powers Mansfield Guilia Frongillo Boston Agnes B. Kirkton Wrentham ` 25 Frederic Healey Boston 29 Robert P. Hewett Mansfield Caroline L. Cady Mansfield. Mary A. Norton Foxborough s: 26 Frank E. Wilbur Mansfield'- Oct. 1 Russell Wheaton Mabel B. Belyea Mans ilel&. Wheeler Mansfield (Baird) Mabel Winifred LeavittMansfield 55 54 19 Francis H. McKay New York City 7 Aristodemo Albertini Mansfield Isabella M. Shields Mansfield Angelina Lodico Mansfield - 26 Manuel. J. Elkas Pawtucket, R. I. 10 Cleon L. Burt Mansfield Flora D. Valquett Mansfield Ruth E. Geddes Mansfield 26 George Henry BraniganMansfield 16 Clarence S. Lord Mansfield Sylvia A. Leonard Mansfield Esther F. Matthe,,vs Mansfield . 23 Thomas F. Hannon Mansfield Margaret Roma Brighton 21 Eugene Sa Baker Mansfield Sophie. IJallstrol Mansfield 23 Walter A. Griswold Mansfield Idella F. Reed Mansfield 29 Daniel Te Sullivan Mansfield Helen M. Leonard Brockton 23 Harry C. Kieso Foxbor'ough Alice ' G. Peavey Foxborough- 31. George E. McCoy Mansfield Henrietta E. - erman Mansfield Dec. 1 Nazzareno Paniche Mansfield (Ruggles) Amelia Adanti Mansfield 31 Harrison Id. Newcomb Forton 1 Johan Rego TVlansfield Laving W. Blare Mansfield Muriel Lord Boston Nov. 3 Baldil?i Baldino Mansfield 6 Ernest L. White Mansfield Jennie Bertord Mansfield Irene S. Crockett Lynn Sept. 25 J. A able Dumont Mansfield 15 Herbert 'S. Turner Norwell Mary A..��4che° Attleboro Clara W. Holt Mansfield Nov. 7 John L. Fox Mansfield 20 Vittorio Lombardi Mansfield ' Grace E. Swanson Foxborough Margaret H. \A o o d Pittsburg, Pa. 25 Russell Dean Lunn Mansfield 15 Harold G. Li�ilE � Mansfield Clara L. Farrar Framingham Mima L. Staples Somerset 57 ' DEATHS Recorded in the Town of. Mansfield for- the year 1917 Cause of Death No. Date Name Age Jan. Y.M.D 1 13 Patrick Hart 70 9 27 Carcinoma of Stomach 2 20 Alvin L. Keyes 67 3 16 Myocarditis 3 23 Hery G. Danforth 73 11 17 Cirrhosis of Liver 41 25 George T. Calhoun 1' 10 Influenza; broncho pneumonia 5 8 Alexan'r F. McLean 60 4 25 Cardiac Dolatation b 6 9 Connor 6 hrs. Premature birth Feb. 7 4 Fannie D. Atwood 74 11 8 Pernicious Anaemia; chronic Diarrhoea 8 9 Mary A. Mees 80 8 5 Chronic Parenchymatitis Nephritis 9 9 John A. Rutherford 50 7 Suicide 10 10 Carrie F. Henshaw 67 15 Disseminated cerebral Sclerosis 11 13 Henry Falotico ' 10 14 Acute Articular Rheumatis.n 12 15 Nancy B. Buck 84 18 Lobar Pneumonia 13 23 James W. Hoare 15 hrs. Prematurity. 14 26 William H. Ames 42 8 12 Pernicious Anaemia 15 28 Jane E. Fisher 86 3 4 LaGrippe; old age Mar. 16 5 Phillip` Ceccarelli 3 10 11 Broncho Pneumonia; otitis media 17 1 Sarah E. White 71 7 8 Chronic Bronchitis; chronic tubercular peritonitis 18 6 John A. Kennedy 65 8 24 Cerebral Apoplexy 19 9 George H. Bragg 63 1 9 Cardiac Asthma; Arterio Sclerosis 20 10 Sarah A. Leonard 73 3 10 Diabetes Mellitus 37 2 Amanda Winslow 83 4 18 58 No. Date Nage Age 38 Cause of Death Sophia A Harrington 75 Mitral Insufficiency; chronic Y. M. D Cause of Death 21 11 Mary L. White 67 •9 10 Cancer of Stomach 22 11 Ruby E. Forsythe 21 3 8 Bulbar Apoplexy 23 24 14 14 Helen B. Rogerson Edw. T. McDermott 66 8 8 10 22 5 La Grippe Pericarditis; acute chorea:011 41 14 Caroline E Coeyman 86' 7 25 Uraemia; arterio sclerosis; rheumatic fever 25 29 Etta F. Engler 42 1 23 Carebro Menigiiis 26 21 Cordelia P. Hallett 81 11 1 Fall; fractured hip 27 30 Roscoe C. Lake 23 10' 6 Ulcer of stomach; anaemia 6 Apr. 45 13 Catherine Farnham 80 7 3 w 28 2 Still Born 2 11 Cancer off Uterus and Adne 47 21 29 2 Hiram B. Reed 78 7 11 Acute Bright's Disease 30 5 Ellen Blaisdell 71 4 21 Fatty Degeneration of heart' July Acute dilatation of right heart 50 3 arterio sclerosis 31 13 Ellita S. Battles 21 11 10 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 32 13 Charles T. Skinner 55 7 5 Railroad Accident 39 28 Still Born 34 23 Joseph Beard 60 8 13 Railroad Accident 35 13 Margaret Buchanan 58 7 6. Organic heart lesions; demen 66 May Elizabeth A. Powers 58 7 6 Chronic Mitral Insufficiency ; tia praecox 36 1 Marigen H. Hallett 75 9 18 Mitral Stenosis 37 2 Amanda Winslow 83 4 18 Chronic nutria insufficiency arter-io sclerosis 38 16 Sophia A Harrington 75 Mitral Insufficiency; chronic Cause of Death glomeruli nephritis 39 22 Ann McGinness65 about Cerebral Apoplexy Y.M.D Apr. 54 40 6 Thomas Kinney 61, 3 12 Pulmonary Tuberculosis Carcinoma of Rectum May 18 Alfred M. Brown 77 41 14 Caroline E Coeyman 86' 7 25 Uraemia; arterio sclerosis; terstitial nephritis 42 17 HolmaT Chamberlain 70 3 Obstruction prostrate; bronc Sun stroke June Aug. pneumonia 43 2 Sarah A. Leonard 68 6 28 Carcinoma of stomach 44 10 _ Virginia E. Brown 6 6 Tubercular Meningitis 45 13 Catherine Farnham 80 7 3 Lobar pneumonia 46 17 Eliza J. Stearns 78 2 11 Cancer off Uterus and Adne 47 21 GiAcoma Guerrini_ . 1 7 9 Burned to death 48 23 Helen M. -Henry 56 9 19 Acute Nephritis 49 30 Wilfred W. `'Skinner 38 3 24 Sarcoma of Intetines 1 July Acute dilatation of right heart 50 3 George T:. Tucker 34 10 23 Automobile Accident 51 12 Mary A. Morton 60 3 14 Valvular heart disease 52 22 Charles P. McCart 23 10 22 Epiplepsy 53 27 Hannah L. Fiske 63 11 5 Mitral insufficiency; arterio s erosis interstitial nephritis 59 No. Date Cause of Death NaIlne Age Y.M.D 54 31 Abram Tattrie 70 11 11 Carcinoma of Rectum 55 18 Alfred M. Brown 77 4 21 Acute spetic cellulitis; arterio° sclerosis 56 31 Unknown Male 35 about Sun stroke Aug. 57 17 George A. Bourne 32 5 10 Arterio sclerosis; prostatitis 58 21 John G. Reed 67 10 6 Mitral Stenosis; heart dilatation - ilatation.5C, 5 C,,) 21 Moro 1 Cerebral Hemorrhage 60 23 Avery A. Fullerton 46 5 11 Acute Gastro Enteritis 61 29 Adani. Keltie 45.. 1 23 Acute dilatation of right heart sero fibrious' pleurisy 62 26 Marie F.` Cufrivan .' 6 hrs. Exhaustion 63 30 Charles G. Williams 14 3 27 Struck by light_zing Sept. 64 4 Manuel Theoto'ria ' 1 13 Cholera Infantum 65 8 Sarah E. Kountze 58 7 6. Cerebral Apoplexy 66 10 Elizabeth A. Powers 58 7 6 Chronic Mitral Insufficiency ; Diabetes Mellitus 67 13 Ansel A. Richards 94 11 29 General Decline, no disease 68 7 Philomene Garriepy 77 24 Chronic parenchymetous . neph- ritis 69 10 George F. Crockett 80 5 Cardio-rena d:sease 70 23 William Johnson 20 2 3 Railroad Accident 71 25 Maggie Campagna 2 14 Unknown 2 28 Maria Agrella 7 Acute Enteritis with Diarrhoea. Oct. 3 12 Henry P. Cardin 5 Premature Birth i 14 20 Ellen Gaffney 57 9 24 Cancer of stomach and Pancreas 75 27 Marie F. Gomis 73 Cerebral Apoplexy 76 6 Joanna M. Walsh 71 6 20 Acute Dilatation of heart; Nov. Myocarditis ' 77 13 Mary E Martin 47 9 20 Carcinoma of Uterus; Auto Toxaemia 78 20 Agnes Allen 67 11 Chronic Hepatitis Dec. 79 9 Minnie Keefe 56 Cancer 'of Uterus 80 10 Manuel Elkas 19 1 •12 Railroad Acc_dent 81 13 Amelia Delorey 1 5 9 Broncho -pneumonia 82 14 Lena A. Freeman 44 3 14 Suicide 83 15 Arnold Hamquist 3 10 Pneumonia 84 23 Catherine G. McKay '° 2 26 Acute Nephritis 85 24 Brid't E McDermott 39 2 2 Mitral Insufficiency; Pericar— ditis 86 23 Antonio E. Faria 60 6 4 Broncho pneu_nnonia; Cardia_ degeneration at 60 SELECTMEN'S REPORT The. Selectmen of -the Town of Mansfield respect- fully submit the following report, show: ngg"tl e teceipts and expenditures for the year ending Dec. 31, 1917: STREET DEPARTMENT George A. Wilber, Superintendent Appropriation $12,000.00 Receipts 188.40 Total $12,188.40 Paid G. A. Wilber, Supt. $1,069.25 Labor, pay rolls 7,044.98 Freight and express 187.27 Tools 134.31 Snow bills 700.75 Gasoline and oil - 2,606.77 Lumber and cement 809.99 Sand and gravel 128.36 Stone 45.31 Pipe 211.54 Miscellaneous accounts 236.15 Total expenditures $13,174.68 ROCK STREET Appropriation $500.00 Paid ?abor and supplies 500.00. 61 SAMOSET AVENUE UE AND BROOK STREET' Appropriation .$200.00 Paid labor and supplies 400.00 CARPENTER AND LISS AVENUES Appropriation $10.0.00 Paid labor 100.0.0 SHIELDS STREET Appropriaton Paid labor $538:50 Oil and gasoline 235.80 Total OAKLAND STREET Appropriation Paid labor $911.50 Oil and gasoline 79.78 Total HOPE STREET Appropriation` Paid land damage $200.00 Labor and supplies 2,300.87 Total EAST STREET Appropriation Paid labor and supplies SUMMIT AVENUE $800.00;, $774.301, $1,000.004, $991.28 $3,000.00 $2,500.87- $2,500-00- 3,870.92" Appropriation X100 00 Paid labor and material 100.00, TOWN HALL Appropriation 62 $416.00 M. M. Light Plant 342.54 TOWN HALL Appropriation Paid H. F. Besson, janitor $416.00 M. M. Light Plant 342.54 N. E. Tel. & Tela Co. 53.84 Taunton Gas Light Co. 257.53 Fuel 211.42 Insurance 311.50 Repairs 87.35 Supplies 86.21 Care of Commons 184.05 Total expenditures 25.00 LIBRARY 300.00 Appropriation Paid W. C. Fuller, Treasurer $1,000.00 H. F. Besson, Janitor 187.00 M. M. Light Plant 179.00 Fuel 100.21 Repairs 69.26 Total expenditures TREE WARDEN Appropriation $400.00'' Paid labor and supplies 396.13 SUPPRESSION OF INSECTS Appropriation $500.00 Paid labor and supplies 412.04 INSPECTION OF CATTLE Appropriation $200.00 Paid salary Inspector 200.00 $1,500.00 $1,950,44 $1,500.00 $1,535.47 El 63 SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR Appropriation, salaries $1,000.00 Appropriation, Expenses Select- men and Oversees of .Poor 500.00 Total $1,50.0.00 Paid H. A. Morse, salary $400.00 H. A. Morse, cash expenses, 54.00 W. P. McDermott, salary 300.00 W. P. McDermott, cash ex- penses 25.00 E. L. White, salary 300.00 E. L. White, cash expenses 40.00 Printing 19.57 Team and auto hire 33.00 Stamps 12.00 Police service .50 Total expenditures $1,184.07 ASSESSORS Appropriation, salaries $1,0{00.00 .Appropriation, expenses Assessors 150.00' Total $1,150.00 Paid C. E. Walker, salary $400.00 C. E. Walker, cash expenses 4.00 F. I. Sherman, salary 300.00 F. I. Sherman, cash expenses 3.78 W. W. Leonard, salary 300.00 W. W. `Leonard, .cash,., expense _ ,_1s12_'1 ­.:; Printing and. copying 58.66 Team hire 24.00` Interpreter 8.33 Transfer Records ' 40.00 Lists for Assessors 32.50 Supplies 7.50 Total expenditures $1,179.89 78 RECEIPTS TO BE USED FOR PAYMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS Public Service Tax, received from Corr $11,225.89 monwealth Corporation Tax, received from Com - r 12,947.74 monwealth .Bank Tax, received from Common - 10S.0 -5 wealth Mothers' Aid, received from ommcn 318.00 wealth ;Soldiers' Exempton, received from Com- 132.57 monwealth Tax on Intangible Property, received 4 887.56 from Commonwealth ' Amount of local taxes assessed and taxes $135,354.77 assessed by and returned by Common- $112,287.81 wealth Deduct non-resident bank tax, paid to 5.59 Commonwealth ------------- Total income of town from taxation $ 112,282.22 for 1917 Miscellaneous Receipts $124,401.31 • Interest on Bank Deposits $425.98 Court Fines received 423.22 Jail Fines received 206.00 $10,863.46 Town Hall receipts 173.10 1,271 .School house, received from 266.00 11,364 sale of 720.00 License receipts 302 Collecting non-resident bank tax •05 322 `Town Clerk, License and Record - 79 ing Fees_ 215.56 Sealing Weights and Measures Fees 98.60 $2,528.51 Amount of 1915 taxes and interest in Treasury after paying all appropri ations' of that year I 111,695.56 Amount available from receipts of 1917 . for the expense of the year 1917 $126,506.29 Appropriations of 1916 not used and transferred for use in 1917, after de- duction of deficiencies of 1916 2,282.71 Unexpended balance off 1916 as shown by assessors' report of that year, after` deducting abatements . 6,688.09 Total amount available for 19:7 ex- penses $135,354.77 Appropriations for the year 1917 $123,519.39 Overlay 1,094.24 Total Town Tax $124,613.63 Abatements 122.32 Net appropriations $124,401.31 .Balance in treasury and in pro- cess of collection from above` sources $10,863.46 Number of Dwellings 1,271 Number of Acres of Land 11,364 Number of Horses 302 Number of Cows 322 CHARLES E. WALKER, FRANK I. SHERE NY NARD, WALTER W Board of Assessors - POLICE DEPARTMENT Thomas H.1V'elson, Chie The membership of the department is practically the same as that of lastyear. Increased duties,, incident to preparation for war conditions and the ,changing character of our people, have been cheerfully, as- sumed and well cared for. Wise management has re- moved many undesirable persons from our town. Con Stant effort is made to prevent repetition of serious, offenses and to remove tendencies, leading to criminal acts. Our environment is clean and wholesome. One hundred and fifty-four males and fourteen fe- males have beer-takenin charge by thd"officers. Caces are classified as follows Adultery 2 Assault 4 Assault with dangerous weapon 1 Collecting Junk without a License 1 Contempt of Court Cruelty to Animals 4 Breaking 4nd Entering 2 Carrying Concealed Weapon Delinquency 82 19 Disturbing the Peace 81 f Drunkenness 1 Escaped from Prison 4 Evading Carf are 2 . Foricatiou 1 Insanity 5 Larceny 2 .Lewdness Law Violation 2 9 Liquor Neglect to Provide -1 Neglect of Stolen Children len Property 2 2. Receiving Statutory Offense 4, Tramps 3 1 Tresp -Unlicensed Dog'' 1 Unatura^-Act ; 2 V�olatiion: �to'Law 1 Violation of Sunday Law Tracks 4 Walking on Railroad 1 Deserter not Classified 9 Other = Offenses Fourth District Court Thfines levied in, the amounted to 950.00 - cases from 31ansfield Expenditures: $'1,053,50 Night., Patrol. 273.00 Lockup Keefer 75,00 Dog Officer Supplies and Repairs 74.20 5.00 Team and Auto Hire 20,00 Legal Aid 44:60 Meals for Prisoners 67.67 Telephone 21.00 Matron's Fees s 84 , REPORT'OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Report of the. Trustees of the Public Library for fhe` year ending Dec. 31, 1917: To the Citizens of Mansfield: At the Town Meeting in March Mr. Frank L. Cady . and Mr. William L. Robinson were re-elected Trustees for the term of three years. At the ain ual meeting of the Board in April, Mr. W. L. Robinson 4s re-elected President, Mr. W. C. Fuller �bw was re-elected Treasurer and Mr. C. R. Commey was re- elected secretary. The Library has the public the past. year in much the same manner as in previous years, and lit - tie of importance has transpired to call forth an ex- tended report. Better service has been secured by the employment of an assistant to the Librarian, so that now the Library is open every week day, except Wednesdays and Ho li- days from 2 to 9 o'clock, for the distribution of books- and the enj,oyment of those who wish to --make use of the Reading Brooms. The total erculation was 29,192 and. 319 new bor-- '95 � -rowers were enrolled. This is an increase over any 1previous year. 262 new books were added. Two vacancies occurred in the Board of Trustees. H . Frank L. McCool is in the war service and Mr. -Chas. R. Coney resigned t to take a business position in -the West. Miss Jennie Copeland was elected by the Trustees to fill the vacancy made by the departure of Mr. Comey. At this time we wish to express out appreciation olf, -the valuable work rendered .. the Trustees by Mr. Carley. He has for' several yearsbeen Secretary of the Board and' has also selected and p- a-archased most of the books. Isis" great ' interest in the Library and .his energy and willingness to do his full share of the �vork, made him a most valuable and eff-icient member, .and we sincerely regret his departure. The Treasurer's report, follows and -,recommend -the same appropriation as last year. WILLIAM L. ROBINSON,, FRANK L., CADY , WILLIAM A. CCT EILAND, WILLIAM C. FULLER, FRANK L. McCOOL, MISS JENNIE' COPELAND, i . Boa-, I of Trustees. ER'S REpORT TREAatUH% W 00 ao +.?¢, 96 ER'S REpORT TREAatUH% W 00 ao +.?¢, Dr. Jan. 1, 1917 Balance on hand $289.28 IUIay 26, 1917 Recda Town Ap- 1,000.00 ao � Cq propriation Dec. 311 1917 Recd. from Ida F. 28.00 1 -lodges, Fines Recd. Interest on de- posit 1.55 Cr. P Ida F. Hodges, salary X530.00 30.00 a--istant Lida T. Day, a Ethel- A Bessom_, type � rhino 10.72 Imperial Brush ,Co., supP lies 1.09 W. ST, W. Lo' Robinson, express, 32.08 etc -Library Bureau, supplies 3.54 56.97 Barnard & Co.; bind 41.00 William 'White, Printing books 275.65 Old Corner Book Store, 5.8 C. R. Comey, books. -printing 5.00 Mansfield Press, _2.20 P4 Gaylord Bros., sugplies Hallett, subscripti s 62.90 L. A. Dec,., 261.87 Balance on haild $1,318.8v $1,318.8 W. C: FULLER, 'Treasurer, An 87 o on eo di N 00 00 0 o �v 04. 00 LM � 9 O00TT 0 0 VI c re- O ''' W oar: 18 L° ca ►r� o0 0 °' C 0()*-+ "C tod+ c 0 r, r000i0cocgc-w!t d4 t- oo00000cto- +' roQQrWa�wr-o0 o0No6 06 164�qto.-1-oOoL— L_ ooNc»o� OCVCG o w L-=N.WM.M cr--MW14 01 10 o��� 1_ � -I r-4 60- m W. o00000cvoo`o0Q00 oa00000�000c;00000 ooc�o00o0 X000000 coc►r�d,b a� oo`000c-oo -ts ?' 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The demand for power has increased so rapidly that we have greatly exceededthe generating capacity of the operating plant and have therefore purchased most of the current necessary to supply the demand; also largeadditional demands are constantly being made for more current. We have at the present time two high tension lines forming a base of supply. These should be ample to provide all the current required during the ensuing year. In view of the above condition we have had an ar- ticle inserted. in the annual warrant to see if the ToWil will authorize the Municipal Light Board to dispose of euch unused units as may not be required to operate the plant. r� n r 92 Street lights have been installed by order. of the ;Selectmen as follows: 3 Lights Carpenter Avenue CC Henry Street 2 1 CC Chilson Avenue 1 Creedon Lane The business of the Main St. office has increased from $7,760.00 to $10,353.00, description of which will :be found in the jobbing account data. The financial report is app.Qn,,d,e,& and is recommend.', 4ed for your careful inspectimn • We wish at-thiseir- time,, to thank .the c1'Glyens for tl�the -he support during the past year, also to thank manager and other employees of the plan for their conscientious efforts that have made the plant; so'. sue cossful b'oth� from a point :df service and financially. Respectfully yours,' W. H. LYONS, W H. ALLEN, F.: W. BARNARD, Commissioners. GEO. W. WOOD,' Manager. OPERATING ACCOUNT Creditor 13y Income from metered light $20,620.13 Income from contract light ' 24.00 .Income from municipal light 899.20 Income from power 15,761.42 Income from str'eet'lights. 8,283.00 Income from other ``sources 247.41 763.59 1116Ome from heat $46,598.75 PROFIT AND LOSS Creditor By Balance of Dec. 31, 1916 $2.8,974.89 9,3 Debtor To Fu'el Oil Oil and Waste 86.54: Water 43.93 Wages at Station 3;686.91. Repairs, Real Estate 8.01: Repairs, Engine Plant 48.03 Station Tools, etc. 427.56-, Electricity Purchased 15,639.68 Wages, care of Lights 485.00 Wages, `care of ,Keters 1,164.21 Repairs of Lines' 3,004.70 Repairs of Street Lights 36.45 Repairs of Meters 3.37 - Repairs -of Transformers 19.65 Incandescent Lamps, Corn. 581.96 Incandescent Lamps, Street; 248.03. Distribution Tools, etc., 56.13 General Salaries 2,535.60 Salaries,' Municipal Light Board 450.00 Auditor's . Fees ,' .: :> 52.19 Office' Expense 732.66 Insurance (liability, fire; -etc.) 1,388.72 Stable and Garage 1,26;4.84 Office Rent 336,®0 $33,25.2:01 Balance to Profit and Loss 13,346 74 PROFIT AND LOSS Creditor By Balance of Dec. 31, 1916 $2.8,974.89 04 i c . 95 922.20` Income from Sinking Fund 473.34 P rofit from jobbing tin Account Ope g 13,346.74 Bala nce from 1,552.72 Repairs of Lines Repairs of Street Lights $43,7171 17 Repairs of Meters 20.29 11.13 Debtor 831.97 � Incandescent Lamps, Street $2,533.34 To Interest paid but not due 923.33 Interest accrued of Engine Plan 2,50Q.00 Depreciation « " Electric Plan 1,000.00 Jobbing Account 500.00 Lines 60.00 « « Meters' " Street Lights 22.80 Cash in. Construction Fund $7,539.4.7 Balance of Dec. 31, 1917 36,177.70 Cash in Operation Fund $43,717.1'j BALANCE SHEET . Assets $148,523.10 Liabilities $2,000.0 Land 8,631.6 Buildings 38,608.6 Engine plant 14,805.E Electric plant 25,223. Lines '7,398.1 Transf ormers 9,486.€ Meters 3,023.1 Street Lights Bills receivable, light and power 1,349., 2,374. Bills receivable, jobbing 120. Inventory, Fuel Oil 145, Oil and Waste i c . 95 i Repairs, Engine Plant 639.05 21.37 r ° Repairs, Electric Plant' 635.74 Station Tools, etc. 1,552.72 Repairs of Lines Repairs of Street Lights 110.20 � Repairs of Meters 20.29 11.13 Repairs of Transformers Incandescent Lamps, Com. 831.97 � Incandescent Lamps, Street 307.58 Distribution Tools, etc. 475.47 Office Expense 1,52585 1,010.34 Stable and Garage 4,979.37 Jobbing Account 0,00 Cash in. Bond Fund" 0.00 Cash in Interest Fund 74.92 Cash in. Construction Fund 3,000.-00 Cash in Depreciation Fund 1,052.73 Cash in Operation Fund 19_,104.58 Sinking- Fund $148,523.10 Liabilities Appropriations for Construction X38 8,738 .82 .75 6,500.00 Appropriations for Bond Payments Sinking Fund 8,85,500.00 Appropriations for Bonds outstanding 923.33 Interest accrued' but not due Purchased for p 1,963:58 Unpaid bills electricity Unpaid bills for incandescent lamps, com. 252.92 $112,345.40 3`6,177.70 � Surplus t $148,523.10 dditions to Buildings Lines Transformers Meters Street Lights ice of Dec. 31, 1917 DEPRECIATION FUND Debtor %lance of Dec: _31, 1916 $47.51. 6,005.27 660.15 1,516.71- 422.04 74.92 --$8,726.60 $8,993.04-- 96 97 We present below a transcript from our Jobbing, Ac -- !count: K. W. of other transformers 100 JOBBING ACCOUNT 1025 Debtor, 432 To ;Inventory' of Dec. 31, 1916:_ $3,012.89,,-, I1Ierchandis`e purchased 11,846,71 40 C.P. Street Lights 416 $14,859.60 Creditor 40' C.P. Traffic Signs 2 By Inventory to Dec.. 31, 1917 $4,979.87 -Vlerchandise sold, $9,879.73, Profit added 473,.34 ' Bills rendered $10,353.07 From this, it will be seen that we sold electrical, ap- pliances amounting LO $10,353.07. These app liances cost us $9,879.73 so we made a profit on them of 5473.34 or 5.25e PHYSICAL DATA V. W. H. generated 563,570 Brick building, one story, 74x42 feet. 138,320,,, Office extension, 16x20 feet. 324,240 Engine capacity, 680 B—H—P� APPENDIX Generator capacity, 500 kilowatts, .2 -phase,, 60 -cycle. Sub -station service, 250 kilowatts. Dec. Dec., e c. 31 31 31 1915 1916 1917 Consumers 621 672 743 885 Meters installed 716 805 of our transformers 461 537 590 dditions to Buildings Lines Transformers Meters Street Lights ice of Dec. 31, 1917 DEPRECIATION FUND Debtor %lance of Dec: _31, 1916 $47.51. 6,005.27 660.15 1,516.71- 422.04 74.92 --$8,726.60 $8,993.04-- 97 K. W. of other transformers 100 100 1025 FI.P. of motors installed 377 432 1,684 300 C.P. Street Lights 31 77 77 40 C.P. Street Lights 416 472 479-,- 79,40 40' C.P. Traffic Signs 2 2 2 ,ine Poles Owned 673 671 863. V1i1es of Street Lines 87 96 104 -Tallons fuel oil used 67,790 67,860 17,030, ,kverage price per gal. 3.69c 5.25e 5.95c V. W. H. generated 563,570 639,100 138,320,,, H W.. purchased 11-9 690 324,240 1,063,881 APPENDIX CONSTRUCTION FUND Debtor Co Balance of Dec. 31, 1916 $450.25, Transfer from Depreciation Fund :8,276.35 $8,726.60 Creditor dditions to Buildings Lines Transformers Meters Street Lights ice of Dec. 31, 1917 DEPRECIATION FUND Debtor %lance of Dec: _31, 1916 $47.51. 6,005.27 660.15 1,516.71- 422.04 74.92 --$8,726.60 $8,993.04-- 7,582-80, Transters IEVIII $11,575.84 Creditor Transfer to Construction Fund $8,276.301 By Tral i f Street Lights 299.49 Renewals 0 3,000-00 Balance of Dec. 31, 1917 $11,575.84. $17,182.908 1,000.00 922.20 ----------- $19,104-59 $iqjO4.58- $40,000-00 13,000.00 7,000-00 20,000-00 17,500-00 $877500-00 99 Debtor `To Payment on 4th issue $1,000.00 Payment on 5th issue 11,000.0() Balance of Dec. 31, 1.917 85,500.00 i 103 :., .. A Letter from the MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF EDUCATION., STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, January 2, 1918. ro'the Members of the School Committee; With the approach of the annual town ;meetings, vhen the question of appropriations is to be taken up, >ur people should give thoughtful attention to the un- zsual conditions confronting the schools. Increased ;osts in every, direction bring the towns and cities face o face with the necessity of increasing school appro- )riations for the coming year. The schools have never'. >efore required more thoughtful attention to their seeds, and it will not be safe to handicap them with a . >olicy of retrenchment. It is worthy the attention of the American people hat, in spite of enormous expenditures for war pur- $oses, France is giving unprecedented attention to her mblic schools; and England, for the current year, in ,teased he,., expenditures for public education 30 per ;ent over that for any preceding year. . . . In ,iew of the present situation, Massachusetts cannot afford to relax in any degree her efforts to carry on ser schools at highest efficiency. Education is a long-time investment. Its purpose is o protect democracy _through the right training of the ^outh. Even temporary interference with this pur- ►ose, through inadequate financial support, may seri- �usly impair the quality of our future citizenship. In he present 'crisis it is imperative that towns and cities jve careful consideration to the needs of the schools. Sincerely yours, PAYSON _SMITH, Commissioner of Education. 1V4 0RGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT School Committee ,C. C. SC EFFY, Chairman L R S' IS ER ROBERT '.S. SCHOONI AKER Regular School Committee Meeting First Tuesday of. Each Month School Committee Room Central School Building Superintendent RALPH W. W ESTCOT Off:ce Hours: 4 to 5 Monday and Thursday; 6:30 to 7:30 Tuesday Central School Phone 83-W_ Truant Officer WALTER. 1VTAIWEN, 41 Warren Avenue Phone 178-W or 45-W School Physician Dr. JOHN W. COOK, 150 North Main. Phone 143 SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1918 Begins Closes ter Term January 7 March 20 ng° germ April 3 June 21 Term September 4 ' December 20 .achers, are to be at the schools Tuesday A. - M. 3, 1918: SCHOOL HOLIDAYS hin ton's Birthday Patriots' Day orial Day Columbus Day -iksgiving Day, including the preceding afternoon session and the day following, kCHERS' VISITING DA Y S AND CONVENTION ►urth' Wednesday of the Winter and Spring 'berms ' siting; one day for Convention in the Pall Term. NO SCHOOL SIGNALS all cases two blasts followed by two blasts. 5 No morning session, all schools. 5 No morning session, first four grades. 0 One session, all grades. 5 No afternoon session, all grades. 0 No afternoon session, first four grades. REPORT OF THE SCHOOL CO1VgMITTEE To the Citizens of Mansfield : resents ib Your committee herewith respectfully p annual report for the year ending December 31 i91'l The financial statement is enclosed in the report of th cause he is now an executive off Superintendent, be of the committee, in accordance with the suggestion the. State Board of Education. The' Superintendent's survey of the condition.of the. needs of the schools, las been read and app by the committee; and the committee believes that th citizens of the Town will do themselves a far-reachin benefit if they join in accepting the recommendation of the Superintendent! Respectfully submitted, HARRY R. 'FISHER, CLINTON C. SCHEFFY, ROBERT S. SCHOOIv MAKER, School Committee. 1.07 REPORT OF THE, SUPERINTENDENT ie School Committee of Mansfield, Massachusetts. ntlemen : The following report of the public )Is is respectfully 'submitted for your considera- The' discussion will be confined to two main sub - First, a- history of t -.;-.e ' year; second, needs and emendations. Introduc ton—The War e great war impresses forcibly upon us that we A "do business as usual in our schools. The State National governments are continually striving to e those who support and control the schools with .etermination that bigger and better service must iven. Education is at a high premium. In the, ag year the nation's demand for better educated'. ers will be louder and louder. We must stand. rd the Liberty Loans and the Red Cross. To no, Legree must we insist that :our °schools are morally- financially orallyfinancially supported as the most certain insur-- Qf the future welfare and prosperity of our coup- A History of the Year 'hysical. Conditions. A The Town. B.` Organization of the School Department. C. Records. D. Buildings. E. Equipment and Supplies. F. Finances. A. The Growth of the Town The industries of Mansfield have been growing rad p idly, es ecially in the last year or two, Several of o most important factories have double dand tr pile .size in that time. The year marks th r® ise o of a number of new.industrie s which shove p- adding much to the growth of the town. Mansfield _increasing importance as a railroad center tying t the f our biggest cities south of the ChaTli gethe Fall River and New & River, Roston, Providence, fca ord is the main cause of this development. 1 an, sideration of this growth is of paramount import to the ea schools, especially when building costs deli tI enough to warrant of dwelling houses.. connection it is worthy of note that we have sevei cars bi of commuters from. Foxboro and other neihe1 ii�g towns and cities. The factory additions now b facie mean continued gain in valuation and p oPofu tion. "The f ollowing graph indicates the grovft ii duriri the years f7. It is evident ti tour the valt� anon has in the much rrio'e rapidly t -thc population. MANSFIELD'S GROWTH ion )00 Population 7,200 - T -I ,4tph sem" f 3,600 Lyon '05 110 .15 Ye G rs m left to right for the years 1895 to 1917 ince, case- * growth in valuation or popula- log':,Sd lhio, indicates population; and the full ion, OW OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS ORGANIZED People Committee Supt. ' Clerk Supervisors Principals Doctor initors Nurse Att. Officer Teachers ! ; Pupils Parents ie dotted lines along the sides" of rectangles for and nurse indicate that these offices are only ally organized. .ere are several important relationships to be con- ed-: The Board is responsible to the town for the c control of the schools. The Superintendent is responsible to the Board xpert management of the schools. The principals are responsible to the superin- ,,nt for buildings, teachers, `pupils, and janitors. Teachers and janitors are responsible to the 0 r 114 keep ahead °f cols must upothe sc n our 11 this means that education an inferior iihis growth or force ,children. „Summary : wing in population and Valu g o 1, Mansfield is tion.estion. Our schools must avoid tong 2, tion of the School Department B. Orcganiza mad last June when - , in`organization .was' nt for full time A changee-intende the committee elect of y of the committee, thud made sec head. This He was also work under one book' the executive onsible f or the bo C erintendent resp records, ane -makes the sup correspondence, administration am beeping, purchasing, as well as, A neW set of Commit clerical Ynatters, other tion. supervision of the in the relations of th fixed_moxe _ our organization `may. b tee Rules has , of the system• � 1 P 4 se; - other p arts pictured as follows OW OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS ORGANIZED People Committee Supt. ' Clerk Supervisors Principals Doctor initors Nurse Att. Officer Teachers ! ; Pupils Parents ie dotted lines along the sides" of rectangles for and nurse indicate that these offices are only ally organized. .ere are several important relationships to be con- ed-: The Board is responsible to the town for the c control of the schools. The Superintendent is responsible to the Board xpert management of the schools. The principals are responsible to the superin- ,,nt for buildings, teachers, `pupils, and janitors. Teachers and janitors are responsible to the 0 : i f _u_w 4 112 .Superintendent and Principal,. Summary 1. We have the outline of an ideal organization. C. Record The centering of all the executive work of the schools in the office of the superintendent necessitated a complete and central system of records. Under the two -headed system of, secretary of the committee The The - superintendent of schools "'this was impossible. following kinds of records were` brought together in the central .office when this change was made 1. Financial books. 2 Purchase orders. 3. Supplementary readers.' 4. Correspondence of the School Comm, ittee. 5. Minutes of the Committee Meetings. Those records were obviously incomplete. Since the change of organisation the following 'types of rec- ords have been added or completed 1. Warrant System. 2. pupil Record. 3. Teacher Application and Record. 4. PhysicalExamination Card." 5. Principals' and Janitors' Semi -Annual Requis ition Sheet. 6. Continuous supply and text book inventory. and distribution card. 7. Correspondence of Superintendent. vaccination &. Truancy, discipline, scholarship, v and other blanks. 1.' Warrant System. Before last summer each bill was app and roved " signedseparatel.y�by,the School Committee and again by th,e' Selectmen. ' After payment by the Town Treas- urer, they were kept on file in his office. There was no, II r 113 check except the memory on whether the goods had been already` received or paid :dor. The school depart- ment, to be efficient, must have constant access' to A. - file file of paid bills to provide this permanent check and a reference ' to previous prices, etc. Since July first all` bills for approval at a given committee meeting have been included in a single warrant. ` Signature up- on the warrant alone will approve each individual bill listed upon it, a saving of time and a check against aN � lost bill. After the approval by the Selectmen and II payment by the Treasurer, the bills are filed in the11 office of the Superintendent in a duplicate warrant. Through the order b©ok a complete check against pay- ment for goods not received or already paid for has been devised. The carbon of the original order is stamped "received" and the date the goods arrived, and in the same Yvay, at the appropriate time stamped. "paid." Then no bills are "O: K.'d" fo7: pa;rn-gent Lill-. less the order is ' stamped "received" and not stamped "paid." 2. Pupil Record. A. record of pupils was a great need -,,i,,hich w -as met shortly after the opening of schools this fall. There had been no central or "follow-up" asystem for the 110a pupils. Now we have in the Superintendent's, office for every pupil a card which contains necessary infor- mation about age, address, parent's name and occupa- tion, grade, school, scholarship, att"enda`nce, etc. This is an invaluable "up-to-the-minute" record which traces the child from the first ;grade through the high school. A duplicate is in the teachers hand and fol- lows the pupil from r'ooin, -to room. 3. Teacher's Application and. Record.' Before this year no record of application was made or system of grading teachers was followed. Now we 114 -have a single card which answers both purposes. It is sent to an applicant for necessary o pA,, to be placed upon one side, -Lip the other is , - � it outline of, a teacher's qualities , which should be ccxsidered in an estimate of her ability. This is invaluable in questions of salary advancement, etc. 4. Physical Examination Carc Heretofore the School Physician has made quite complete records of pupils' physicaleach year. All results for a given class o :moils were upon one sheet of paper. There was a grepat disadvantage in the difficulty of following a child -,h- J dgrh his sc The ol life and comparing his health from ye �to year. committee has voted to adopt a per-ri lle- .t card record of those physical examinations. Each p-cipil has a curd, good for his twelve years in school. -This a bind of$ record that increases in value each yea- ,�'. Parents are welcome to any information we may have about their children and we urge them to ask for it . Serious cases are, of course, brought im.mediatel', to `heir attention. 5. Principals' and Janitors' Se , i - Annual Requi- sition Sheet: In the past all orders from the teachers and janitors -for supplies and textbooks were made on sinall, plain, blank forms. The kind of samples ,.T as, selected with- out any attempt at uniformity or sten-6,ardization. This meant that a hundred odd requisition s:neets might be received at the same time, as was'the case this summer, with items arranged in every conceivable order and often composed of odd sizes and kinds. Earlyin the -fall, after a study of practices in other schools and in business, an attempt was made to standardize 'supplies and orders. The result was a large sheet for principals .and a smaller one for janitors, on which were printed .-about one hundred standard types of supplies common - 8 115 Y ly used, arranged in, alphabetical, order and numbered -serially. Opposite the items three columns were pro- vided to show the amount on hand; needed and re- ceived: This makes it comparatively easy to combine the requisitions from the 9 principals and 9 janitors, send out bids and order from the lowest bidder. These orders are planned for half the year in advance, thus relieving all of continuous attention to supplies -and making it possible to buy in larger quantities. Con- siderable time and money has been saved already in these ways. G. Continuous Supply and Text Book Inventory and Distribution Card. Until this fall there has been no continuous inventory of supplies or text books with the exception of supple- mentary readers. Neither was any record kept of haw much each school was using: Now by the use of a pi cheap 3"x5' stock card we are able to tell just how much of any given supply we have received, how much distributed to each school, and ho -%NT much we still have ,on hand in the stock room. This makes.it possible to check against extravagant ordering or unusual con sumption. 7.._ Correspondence by Superintendent. All the official correspondence for the schools is no ,v conducted by the superintendent. The school commit- -tee files are; conveniently, at hand in the central office. betters, reports, etc., are all carefully typewritten and a carbon copy filed according to: the usual business _practice. 8. Teachers' Monthly Report. Beginning in September the teachers make complete _monthly reports to the Superintendent upon, forms -especially provided. These include the various figures - -for attendance, tardiness, corporal punishment, visit- 116 117 fire drills, etc. The term. reports; of the teachers'° o"', room work are also lnade as heretof ore.! The heating and sanitation of a number of our class :,.Schools provide very great problems. The three one- -)©thee Blanks. of the school year a' careful outline' froom. buildings with their simple stoves and outhouses, t�the opening forms and blanks in, current use was'„ ,although far from ideal, are equipped as well as pos- of the routine to each teacher, together with definite: Bible under the circumstances of small enrollment and `alternative, made and sent New.,forms_were prepared outlying location.- The further consolida- �- tions in each case. m��st_�zc r cover, an. two instances when. needed. These co . trop of districts, should have very thoughtful consider- in one, or regarding schol- ...ation. The -Central School has toilet arrangements ex- main, notices to parents and officials accrmmation, com�tagron, etc.. ceedingly primitive for our largest and best located arship, discmpliAme, truancy, v school. It is impossible to describe conditions here, Sm nlmnary : have been provided. but any citizen acquainted with actual facts must be 1. Much m?eeded re 1eartil'y ashamed of them. .The heating plants in the D. -BuildingsGreen We, � e and Central Schools are equally antiquated. The e general comp clition of the building is good, arethe One unacquainted with the truth will, laugh., at you. have' three modern brick schools. The other i� During with incredulity ,when you yell hire that the Green of �Tood and of varying physical condrtmon. repairs have been School of i;hree rooms has three furnaces and the: Cen- i minor carpentry and plumbing ural School of ten rooms: has eleven furnaces. In the, year all the buildings. The biggest changes were, present coal crisis comment is unnecessary. The high Ynade The annex last summer at the Central Building. Imre risk is also obvious. Almost half our 'school chil- rad roof ;gas relaid with fire-pro'ol shingles and the main a of' dren are in the Central Building. If the building is roof sof metal sheeting was covered with coating further rusting not worth being placed in foodcondition in respect to fill in holes and prevent to decent toilets and an economical heating plant, then cen^kerlt Two iron fire escapes were built;-'one- from the primary one on the east it should be discarded and a modern one built. 1hesi- room on the west and a corresponding of tate to report that almost a thousand dollars was spent of the building. Th for, relieves the lower corridors more space for , this suminer by the special committee to repair the t��� o rooms of `Smnall children and gives The eleven heat- eleven heaters in the Central School. the upper floor pupils marching-out. p thoroughly overhauled1 Summary: ers in the Central School were and pipes were in­ In general ,our buildings are, in good condition. new fire-pots, g rates; cones needed. - The fire-escapes, roof and fur- �, lilinorrepairs have been made in all buildings:. 'in stalled where tailed financed` by the -,special appropriation of'- and important provemnents in the Central School, were n .ces wviz. �0 after the report of the special committee (a) New Roof. (b) Extensive repairs to fire made Central Scl-col,' although isomething over $1001, theaid heaters. ('c} New escapes. on from t of the special aPPYOpriation_was ,p 3. Careful thought should be given to the fur- in excess funds of. the schools,. they consolidation of outlying schools to provide bet- the current ter quarters .and better teaching. 118 4. The toilet arrangements at the Central School - ought to be renovated. 5. The eleven furnaces at the 'Central and the, three at.the Green School are uneconomical and an un- wise .fire risk. E. Supplies, and Equipment The schools have been well supplied with paper, pencils and other tools essential to good work. Through more careful checking of the individual needs and the% standardizing of supplies and bids, as already indicat- ed in the section on Records, we are expecting to save. money and at the same time suffer no loss of necessary supplies. The text books are -in fairly good condition in the: High School. Several in are antiquated and must be exchanged as we develop our course of study there.. In the grades there is considerable confusion. Several different texts are used in a single subject, varying with the school. Many pupils are not completely 'sup- plied. Sets need to be completed or entirely renewed because of poor condition. A big stride forward ha& been taken during the last twelve months -in purchasing new texts in reading, arithmetic, geography and his -- tory for many of the pupils in some of the schools. The present need is two -fold, first, uniform basic texts for all pupils in all schools; second., supplementary books, readers, hygiene, community civics, etc., to meet the reeds of a progressive course of study. As the next . Finances will show` we have not spent heading on an enough money on text books. The desks are in good - condition in the High School and in some of the grade, rooms. Six or eight rooms are equipped with desks ill -fitted for the good health or careful instruction of' the pupils. Many surfaces are unfit to write upon. The non-adjustable desk is 'a menace to health and"is 119 out of .place its the school of today. I recommend that from 76 to 1 C> '�-)f these desks be exchanged each year until our equipment is normal in this respect. This replacement of texts and desks is a good business prin- ciple; already' followed in respect to our typewriters. The primary rooms should be equipped with mov- able kindergarten chairs. This would make possible more freedom of action for the children and teachers. They could gather in circles for reading or story telling —a highly desirable part of the daily program. It is easy to allow our early grades to become stir and dry for the little tots. This is the time they should learn to love their s, hoof and them teachers. I recommend that enough kindergarten chairs be purchased to sup- ply one half the first grade pupils at one time. Some of the desks should be removed to give an area for the children to gather in these groups. Summar -v: 1. Supplies for teaching have been ,well provided. 2.' We neer more and better 'text' boobs in order that every pc ail may be supplied with books in good physical condl `ion and suited to his educational needs. 3. We must gradually replace our: worn-out or non- adjustable on,' ­s which may be both hygienic and fit ed- ucationally fc.LL our children. 4. We need kindergarten chairs in our primary rooms. Finances The comms L'ee has decided to change the form of financial report this year so that the people may know better how the money is spent. The long, cl.ett iled cash expense account is confusing and unnecessary. Instead we a,�,e using the ledger headings that are re- quired by the Mate in its Annual' Report. We .are also showing better where the money goes by indicating the 120 cost -per pupil in the following financial report and by using elsewhere two diagrams: How ,a School Dollar l� Was &Dent in 1917, and School Expenses of Mansfield Com -,p d! -ed with Twenty --fol r Othe Townof its Size and V aluatioil. Annual Financial Report for the mea: ber 31, 1917 RECEIPTS Balance Town t f forth Attleboro Tuition Dog F7and 6 Appropriation 38,0 Appro',-6ation, Fire Escapes, Repairs to Roof and Heaters Cen xal School 1,5 State Fi T and Tuition I EXPEI'41 IIT rJI'yES Geneiral Expenses Sclj,)ol Committee Sa��,ries �250.� Other Expenses 25.' Supel,-J.ntendence of Schools and Enf orcem6nt of Law Salaries 1,418. other Expenses, Postage,, Carfare, clerical assist= nce, office supplies 153, ading ;Decem- a6 0 58 00 00 7 - $40,306.79 Annual Cost per pupil in average membership Oct 1917. .23 .02 1.29 .14 121 -Expenses of Instruction Supervisors' Salarieg 738.00 .67 Salaries Principals High 1,600.00 7.54 Elementary (Central) 1,320.00 2.70 Salaries, Teachers Nigh 6,126.50 28.90 Elementary 13,646.00 15.40 .Text Books High 453.31 2.14 Elementary 526.30 .59 'Stationery, Supplies, Maps, etc. High 672.50 3.17 Elementary . 1,227.30 1.38 Expenses of Operating School Plant r Wages of Janitors High 815.04. 3.84 Elementary 11,618.98 1.83 Fuel High 919.81 4.33 Elementary 2,217.69 2.50 .Janitors' Supplies, Telephone, Light, Carting, etc. High 200.43 .95 Elementary 586.26 .66 Maintenance, Repairs, etc. High 174.13 82 Elementary 2,238.57 2.52 Auxiliary Agencies Health, SchoolPhysician 468.40 .43 Transportation 1,991.40 1.81 Miscellaneous Expenses Insurance, diplomas, etc. 494.94 .45 ;Outlays 126 1 _probab y fuel. 4. Mansfield, spent less money on its schools from. .July 11 1916—July 1, 1916, than the average Massa . chusetts town of its size and valuation. Summary of the Physical Condition of Our Schools*. ; A. Mansfield is growing rapidly and we must not .allow our schools to become overcrowded. B. We have the outlines of an ideal school organ.-. ization. ; tial records have C. During the year many essen been added or completed. D. The general condition of buildings is good. Fire escapes have been built, heating plant overhauled and .roof reshingled at the Central School. The heating ar- rangement at the Central and Green Schools is a fire. risk and uneconomical. The toilet facilities at the Central School should be renovated. E. The schools have been well 'furnished with the general supplies of instruction and unsatisfactorily provided with suitable text books in many cases. Many . --old desks should be replaced. Kindergarten chairs .:.:are needed in the primary rooms. F. our total expense per pupil for .1917 was $36.80. On the whole we have not been. spending as much on our schools as other towns of our size and val- uation. Our expenses are too love in salaries, text books and libraries, and high; in promotion ° of health, ,supplies. and fuel., (This may be to our credit ' in the ease of promotion of health and supplies.) _:II. Educational Progress. A. Teachers. B. Course of Study. C Scientific Measurement. D Teachers' Meetings. E. Size of Classes. 1. 127 F. Deports of School ®ffficials. _A. Teachers Following is a list of teachers by schools and grades. "Those starred are new in Mansfield since July 1, 1917. 'j Supervisors - Major Danforth, Military training. Helen M. Allen, Drawing. it *A delbert A. Morse, Music. High School Fred A. Hadlock, Principal. Everett W. Robinson, History. Winifred C, Lyman, English'. j urilla M. Shepard, French and German. Ruth A. Walker, Latin. Carrie T. Foulkes, English and Mathematics. May L. Fillmore, Typewriting and Stenography. 'll a`Bessie R. Wood, Bookkeeping and Penmanship. a- ' Gertrude M. Duxbury, Science. Derry School '1 Vary W. Reed, IV., V., VI., Acting Principal.i� Florence C. Carr, VII., VIII. Clara M. Robinson, I., IL, III. II�� Central School '`Edward R. Fowler, Principal. Lillian A. Davidson, Mathematics, VII., VIII. I� E. Emily Grover, Art, VIL, VIII. jI Lizzie J. Blake, 11istory, VII., VIII. Florence I. Hamblett, English, VII., VIiL Mita F. Briggs, VI.' *Anna J. Byrne, V. � *Charlotte Bassett, V., VI. 4 I Catherine Putnam,; IV. .Rachel Ellis, IV. - I' Agnes E. Blake, III. Florence I. Nichols, III. Marguerite Halloran, II. ,*Corinne aPrsons, T. Green School Marion G. Janes, VI., Principal. '`Esther H. Dorton, Y. :"Emily A. Landry, III., IV. Mary J. Corbett, I., II., Hall School *,Mabel Worcester, I. to V. Hartwell School - Ddinnie Milke, I. to VI. Paine School Susan L. 1ennett, III'., IV., Principal. Christine Thompson, I., II. Spaulding School Edith F. Guild, II., Principal. Mildred S. Fisher, I. *Margaret Chamberlain, I. Whiteville 'Scho'ol -' Emma P. Hall"I. to VI. We have forty-two teachers including, the superin-- g tendent, and sixteen have begun work in Mansfield within the last six months. All of these teachers have had a good education in normal school or college, and`". eleven of them have had successful teaching experi- ence elsewhere. Five have been added because of the overcrowded conditions which have been developing in the last few years. Of our former teachers, Mr. Nye has enlisted in the Medical Carps, Mr.' Fitts, Miss Wat- 129 ITt son, Mr. Craig, Mr. Morgrage, Miss Thompson, Miss, Josephine Fokes, Miss Sawyer, Miss Farrar, Miss, France and Mr. Rogers have`gone into other positions. ,With the rapidly increasing 'cost of living and the tempting positions elsewhere, not only in teaching, but in a host of war -developed industries, we must ex pect more rather than fewer losses.. We have been fortunate in retaining many of our best teachers this year, but often more by chance than by any virtue of our salary schedule. Steps have been taken, however, in the right. direction. Last June fifty dollar increases in the annual salaries were generally made., Later a ruling was made allowing half pay for not more than five clays' absence a year because of ill- ness. Heretofore salary was deducted for absences for - whatever cause. At its last meeting of 1917 the Com- mittee voted a general increase of ten per cent to all teachers betae of the high'; cost of living, on condi- tion that the wn Meeting approve the appropriation to cover this item. Plans are under way for a definite salary schedule so that in June, hereafter, salary in- creases may be made upon a professional merit basis. If we want good teachers' or in fact any teacher, worthy of the name, we must give them at least living salaries.* Most of our teachers are getting about $600- a year, less than $12.00 a week. And yet we expect them to have had three or four years of expensive edu-- cation after graduation from high school, to be enthu- siastic Americans, to live decently, and to' keep in touch with the best there is professionally. In this: day w of war there are plenty of clerical,, industrial, and other less nerve racking positions crying for such well-edu- cated workers at double their' salaries. In the last analysis it is an`'economic question of slip - ply and demand. Not only are men being drafted into w l r 131 130 B. The Course of Study vcTon1en leaving the P- Until recently a uniform course of study has been - ,� and men and of trained the army ositions, but the supply Nor- lacking with the possible exception of the High School. for in lucrative position ed at the source stopped -No printed or typewritten copies of suggestions on con - teachers is actually being decreases in their entering -tent, method, or time allotment were available. The orting mal schools are rep Per cent. If the war to forty p a :result was that each teacher did his job the best he classes as high as twenty our best men and women keep :could with varying success. It takes years of building continues and we do not we shall experience incl ease 6 -to develop a `course of study fitted to the individual l� 1�111g Profession, ° in the tele other horrors which Engl each has very definite suggestions for the first six. grades in in juvenile crime, and of the war-drain needs of a town. , This fall we secured printed pam- een facing, because logical b T allowed. hlets from the State Board of Education p tion outlining which, she has unwisely at large, is salaries. the country ` English literature and expression, hygiene, arithmetic, for.. Jda�lsfre�-d, as well as ,e can afford. The higher the salary music, penmanship and nature study. This forms the L s we just as high a the to aches that we can demancl. In addi- . basis of our future course of study. We should develop the better salary adjustment next June, I recom- -this for local needs and extend it for the upper years ta ®®� to be used when neces- 'ori to further fund of $ fol- �of our schools. With the consolidation of the 7th and mend a reserve practice teachers. This .8th grades the supervision of 'teaching and the develop- sar to retain efficient ol systems, where Y school in a number of progressive and -ment of a! definite program of study becomes easier, more effective. The high School has long lowed the law of supply ben forced at times by mar- :and since have they en to bid for then` own teachers in an op .attempted to make specialists of its teachers. dem and Summary: Ret. 1. The State Course of Study has been introduced Summary the whole well to form a basis for one of our own. ort -two teachers, on 1, We, have f Y 2. We should nll this In and extend it as much as ualified,to educate our children. ed since July 1� 1917. possible during the coming year. 2. Sixteen are new to. NLansfi the increas- the face of the high cost of linidnghe diminish- C. Scientific Measurement 3,�� ing demand for `educated workers, a we must in- teachers, The most promising _ development in education in ing sen and women upllY of .m recent years has been a more scientific measurement crease salaries. have been taken. of the ability and class room work of school children ts in the. right direction � Sep salaries last June. to through so-called "Standard., Tests." Educators' in a $50_increases annual to exceed five days' illness. various sections of the country have been trying to for not fib) I-Ialf pay 1918, if Town increase Jan. 1, find out, for example, just how well a fourth grade `ought add, (c) Ten per cent ropriation. pupil to spell, or or read. To take a more - Meeting, makes necessary a to be definite illustration, Leonard P. Ayres ©f the Russell 5. A reserve- fund of X00 is recommended efficient teachers. 'used when necessary to hold IM 132 made a study New York City, has ' Sage Foundation, ers, letters and literature of 368,000 words in newspapers, 2 500 different persons, to find out the t written by a total 1,400,000 spell`. commonest words. Through ings by 70, 000 - children in 84 cities he has been able.. z to rade these 1,400 words according ve11 these -70,000`, to e g Just ho ty. In addition he teals us sp. elled these different sets of words. $y us children words under the same conditionswith we ing the sameare w tell' how our Mansfield children comp $e,_ 'n other parts of the State and Country. Bes and girls iof the res Spelling ts low is pictured the results PUP' from Grades Ill to IX in given to 722 different pup Ma schools. The dotted horizontal lines eight M pupils stood— show p p show where on the averagertone grade below normal, the upper normal, the low 1 irregular line shows where our children higher she ful , The figures indicate the grades II rides have. done in, these points are the better the D spelling., 134 of the ability of our g, a similar study division, �1V e are n�l�ina multiplication, pupils in addition, subtraction, molt test our boys and and readin I yti e are planning to v• I again in the spring t° see what improvement as girls g Through these means we are able to get ' been made• points of .strength very accurate information about our and , losses, and and weakness, to estimate our g thereby to give assistance -where it is needed, Summary: h "Standard Tests" we find our pupils 1• ' Throug law in spelling ability in the 3rd to the 7th grades. of the High School 2 • The 8th grade and 1st year have normal spelling ability. the qual- 3. Through similar tests five arm e saddition, subtrac ity of our boys' and girls' training multiplication, division and reading. tion, Through this definite information we can im- 4• rovement is needed. prove oursystem where imp D. Teachers' Meetings been organizing our meetings on a definite, �VVe have be roup basis. The superintendent now meets some g Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. teachers regularly every Sapecial meetings are called when needed• ever A six schedule is arrang' meeting for all which repeatsl is held the v7eeks.. A general teachers second week, a sectional High School meeting the school meeting * the f ourth week, and an elementary ixth eek. on. the odd weeks the Principals'Council ets around" a table ahedule it is possible the" home of the lest o lnten- cover me dent. Through this scto a general subjects as well as those of interest only limited number The Principals Council has proved 135. to be a very valuable organization both to the schools and to the individual members..' It is composed of the principals and assistant principals of all buildings of more than one room and the Superintendent, a total of nine members. At present we are studying together Bennetts' School Efficiency as a background for dis- cussing Mansfield's particular needs. Members re- port from time to time on special problems which they f. are investigating. Summary 1. We .are trying to improve our school through discussions of our needs in the following kinds of teachers' meetings. (a) General. (b). High. (c) Elementary. (d) Principals' Council. E. Size of Classes' When school opened last fall we had every room oc- cupied and a number seriously crowded. The High School with a September enrollment of 215 was com- fortably quartered, thanks to thirty-two new desks.' If the growth continues we shall need another teacher there. The Berry ,Hartwell, and Whiteville, `'`Schools were also small enough for satisfactory teaching. The Mall School had thirty pupils representing six different grades. The boys and girls there were handicapped in having the teacher's time divided' into so many dif- ferent pants. Beginning in 1918 the "sixth grade pu- pils were transported "by trolley to the Central School, leaving twenty-four in five . different grades at, the Hall School. Similiarly a reduction in the number of different grades per teacher has been made in the Hall, 136 n and Central Schools as follows: -rooms 1''aine, Gree -No. of Reduced _ from 1 6 to 5 grades 2 3 to 2 grades 1 3. to 1 grades 2 to 1 grades situation regarding size of classes The con'1917,January, 1915, in the Central, in September, 1917, and Schools is indicatedbe– Green, Paine and Spaulding low-: No. of Classes Sept, 1917 Jan. 191+5 2 0 Over 55 pupils 1 0 50-54 6 45-49 2 40-44 41 35-39 0 5 G6 30-34 Below 30 — 10 0 Totals, 45 or over 7 22 Under 45 ate', Board of Education is. The opinion of the St shown in the letter below: Massachusetts State Board of Education, Boston, Mass Mass., Oct. 25, 1917. Dear Mr. Westcott: the proper size n reply to your inquiry regarding that there I schools, I tivll say of. classes in elementary fixes the maximum num - s no law which absolutely gowever, Section 17 of ber of Pupils ils per teaches. Chapter 42 provides as foil' w:an average of fifty `In every public school having -.137 pupils; one .or ..more- Iemale assistants shall b e ; employed' unless the town votes otherwise.' From this, it is to be _inf erred. that inthe the judgment of the lawmaking body, fifty, pupils is decidedly too many for one teacher to handle effectively. Many leading educators have come to regard forty pupils as the: maximum number and.thirty as better .thar forty - You will find' enclosed` quotations of various edu- cational authorities bearing on this subject, which may be of interest to you. When there are two grad e .a .room or a considerable number of foreign speaking children, there ought,, in my judgment; to be. even -stronger effort on the part of .the administrative body to reduce the size of ' large classes so that the teacher -Nvill have ample time for giving attention to individual pupils." Yours very truly, (Signed)' BURR F. JONES, �} Agent for Elementary Schools. Since the opening of schools we have brought every 40 ,class in town below or very close to the maximum pupils recommended by the State Board. Only six classes in the grades or High School are over that ma of forty pupils and none now have more than forty- four pupils. All six of the classes of more than forty pupils are single.grades and the teacher` is not forced to divide her .attention among the several grades as in many,' of the smaller classes. All this improvement wasmade possible by the addition of five teachers an the introduction of tII the "double platoon" system in five rooms. Five teachers and their classes come from S to 10:15 A. M. and from 12:30 to 2:15 P. M. The other five teachers and their classes come from 10:15 to 12:30 and from 2:15 to 4:00. Because of the short sessions and long noon hour only five-minute basement 138 :� recesses are given instead of the usual twenty -minute- out -door recesses., In this way very little time is lost as is shown'. by the following table : Total time in A. M. Usual System Platoon System less recess 2 hr. 25 min. 2 hr. 10 min - Total time in P. M. less recess 2 hr. 10 min. 1 hr. 40 min. 4 hr. 35 min. 3'hr. 50 mina Total Difference 45 min. That is we are accommodating twice the number, of T classes with a net loss per room of only three-quarters, of an hour per day. This is far more than made up to� the pupils by the fact that they are able to, get prac icall` twice the individual attention received if this t y were not done': This arrangement, while an improvement on over-- crowded classes, is admittedly a makeshift until more room is provided. It is, of course, an inconvenience, to all concerned, including parents. Evidently should have at least five more rooms this fall. The, solution of this question will be discussed later. Summary , 1, ; We have eliminated the September f situation o ten overcrowded classes by the addition of five teach ers and the introduction of the double platoon system., 2. The present arrangement, while a big impro e ment, is a makshift until we have more room. 139 F. Reports of School Officials REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGHSCHOOL Mansfield, Mass., Jan. 3, 1918. Mr. Ralph W. Westcott, Superintendent of Schools: I hereby submit my first report of the .work of the 1VIansfield High School. During the twelve years in which I have been con- nected with the Mansfield Schools, the number of pu- .►, pils in the High School has grown from 83 to 216, the largest gain being'made during the year just past, where there` was an increase of 44. In fact we are fast approaching the seating and working capacity of our present building and must needs be looking forward to an extension of our plant in the near future. During the past twelve years we have maintained a well equipped college preparatory course,; sending pu- pils to nearly all the New England colleges and normal schools. 33 per cent of our graduates during that time have entered colleges or normal` schools. During the years 1906-11 the per cent. was 43 and from 1912-17 it was 26. This would seem like a decrease, 'while in reality the number entering` college and normal schools has kept pace with the increase in the size of the school. The seeming decrease is due to the large in- crease in the number oaf non -college pupils in our grad- uating classes. Taking the number of pupils entering the second grade as 'a basis for percentages, the classes 1906-9 graduated' 17.7 per cent of their original number. Dur- ing' 1908-9` our, commercial course was improved to a practical working basis and in 1910 we. graduated 27.6. per cent. The classes 1910-17 have averaged 33 1-3 per cent. In other: wards the . improving' of our com= 140 1 course ,practically doubled the eflicienc of mercia len did'` accomplishment, but ,our school. That is. . a" sp it doesn't' "go far enogh. e a goodly number ;of ;,pupils who do not' There ar compelled to, adapt them - wish to, and ought not to be comp mentioned, selves to either of ' the two c`ours e already i op out of school reference` to doing *so they ..and in p re aration. Hence I :and go to work with too lit that well-equipped vOca- _feel justified in predicting 'in courses would result in another increase _tional train g in efficiency which would be well wo�th while. . extra -curriculum activities we ' have had ' � In our extra eaking contests; the team prosperous year.. In the speaking repr'esenting our school secured first p lade in both con- aseball' and basketball we, have made',,corcyl tests. In b throughout a fin. good showing maintaining roud. of which we are ju"stly p for clean sportmanship has started on a er, "The Argonaut, Our high school p p ninth successful year. Our Senior Class.: orarec Pe its nm anies and Sen prize drills of our Cadet comp very successfully conducted and exceed'© the -tion were v y you to express t well attended. I wish through y on of their very gen- -people of Mansfield' our' apprecia Brous support of all of our activities money enough During the past year the school raised mu a , phono- D Chocolates to buy -Uy the sale of Lowney's e have also graph '�and a good supply of records. � It is a p urchased' a fine lantern for our lecturers°wmh micro - combined reflectoscope and stere ico teat' help in scopic attachment. This will proveoa g for this also. ,teaching. The school is raising them Y . ood of the In all our work our aim is the maximum re omme , for sreatest number. With that in vies consideration',the vocational training' co hoof favorable.. unior high s �1�-early mentioned` and also the j which I believe is a step in the right direction. I wish to express my appreciation of the spirit of' + helpfulness ;which you have shown, of the co opera tion of the school, committee and townspeople and of the.. fine spirit of loyalty on the part of the teachers and _ pupils. ' Respectfully submitted, FRED H. HADLOCK, Principal. This report indicates' clearly that our high 'schoo!,T has passed from the stage of acollege preparatory • school and is training in addition for clerical occupa- tions in a creditable mariner. We should, as Mr: Had- lock urges, aim to serve more than a mere one-third of" our ,stockholders by, offering; further types of work-_ which will be of use to the other two-thirds. REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF' T IE CENTRAL SCHOOL To the Superintendent of Schools, Mansfield, Mass. Dear Sir My report as 'Principal of the Central' School li st - necessarily be based on the work of the school since- September, 1917. During these four'rnonths; my `pol- - icy has been to concentrate my attention- on those ,pr`ob- lems most urgently in need of solution:. Crowded School: Immediate relief was necessary for- the crowded condition in the school. By the additfomof three teach-- ers and having six grades use thee rooms, we have reduced the number of pupils per - t'ea-+cher" `from "over 142 imp rovement -fifty to about forty•. While this is a great it is not fif Y Will result in much better classroomwork, p, 'perhaps and The greatest .at all satisf actory. rades- ose parents who have children in g falls upon those that attend school at different times. Departmental Teaching adopt - of teaching was facilitated by grades Improvement plan by which each teacher folk n the subjects �ngap eof all of thew could have charge s ecial ability or pref erence. One for which she has p plan is that pupils come es of this p r Sof the other advantages once of more than one. teacher and g n -under the influ change of surroundings welcome relaxation and -passing from room to room. standardized Tests ' in the the ability of the pupils As an aid to judging I have made use �'s branches of their school vvod test is an exam - various A standar ,,of certain standar d tests.chil- ut in a scientific manner' and standard- ,.,Of worked ° bee g in b given to thousands, of om°are the ized by`hav g its use w ' can compare dren in different cities. By . by our pupils with the standard scores scores attainedgiven tests e different grades.' So Iadi we have are about to for the and re inspelling,' arithmetic, ring the penmanship -be in the use of a scale for meaofwork in scoring the g `of the amount has been Because work. only the work in spelling hundreds of papers, completed* tests show a general de The 'results of the spelling the eventh the grades below the seventh; theThrough care- -and in about normal. ..and eighth grades being spelling, we of teaching p ork ful attention to the method ement in'the'spelling w -hope to show marked improv. "during the coming year: Training in Community Life One of the great obligations resting upon a 'school ,system is the training of pupils in community life. The .secondLiberty Bond drive afforded an opportunity for -the pupils to take an active part in the support of the war. The upper grades formed an Emergency Club which subscribed for a fifty dollar bond. With this. as ..a basis, we'took up the work of forming a parliament- -ary organization with its constitution, officers, laws, and so' forth. Though it is too early to pass judgment ,on the success of the club, its possibilities are evident and very much worth while. In their efforts to select from their number the right leaders and officers, in act- _ing upon proposals put before the club, in disciplining themselves, and initiating: activities for the improvment of the school and community; the pupils should receive _invaluable training for participating in the active life -of the community and the service of the nation. Needs of the Central' School As already mentioned, we are greatly handicapped b lack of room and by large classes.' In the Central School` one fourth of the pupils are from one to seven years behind the grades in which they normally belong. There may be two causes of -this serious condition—mental backwardness and de- ficiency or lack of adjustment of school work' to the .needs of the pupil. The `first cause is an important but probably small factor, The second cause is the much more important one and the one that can and should be remedied. The type of boys and girls we find seriously retarded generally have the laudable ambition to "do some- -thing." Yet, if they, are not studiously' absorbed in .their books we are inclined to call them lazy. The edu- i 144 cation of these boys and girls � should be built on and' around "doing something." and that something, useful - The fact that there are in school in the whole town only - The little over half as many fourteen year-old pupils as, -thirteen and but one-fourth as many fifteen. year-old' shows that these pupils ,leave school about as soon as they. can "to do something." Leaving school is macre. more attractive by the fact that they can get what - seems to them, to be good pay for their. work. It is. clear that this problem involves not only the Central`. School but also the first: two years of High School. What we .need to remedy this condition is an intro- duction in the seventh and eighth grades of carpentry mechanical, and possibly garden work for the boys and sewing, knitting, cooking, and house -keeping for the girls. It is difficult to conceive of any practical way in which we can introduce this work with the building- facilities uildingfacilities we now have. We have the departmental or- ganization of teaching which is essential to carry on such work, yet we can use it now with only the regular - school studies. The type of organization that would best meet all of these needs seems to be the junior high school. Here. the children would receive `experience in indust work that would help theial m, with the guidance of their teachers, to make a more intelligent. selection of their e life work and at the samtime' receive training that would give them a better, equipment for. taking up any work that, may be immediately, necessary. Our work would ;appeal to their natural interests, `give them the kind of training they need, eliminate. most of the retar- dation, keep many of the boys, and girls in. school from one. to four years 'longer,, and reduce the number of' occupational misfits. Respectfully submitted, EDW; 6'R: : 6 LER• D 145 As Mr.- Fowler emphasizes, it i, our Lipper grammar anc lower high school grades which need si-aecial at- tention. He and Mr. Hadlock have both urged a junior high school and vocational training. I will continue the sane discussion later under the heading A Junk,:9- High School. REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING Mansfield, Mass., December 20, 1917. To Mr. R. W. Westcott, ,Superintendent of Schools,. Mansfield, Dass. Tne drawing work in the Mansfield school's is ar- langed similar to a course of stud followed last ls yeas including representative drawing, mechanical work and design. Various ways of treating the sLtbjects are planned to enliven the interest of the pupils. As the schools have become more crowded and'the number of grades has increased, m time 9 y ,. fol° Leaching -M tine rooms has been necessarily shortened. II would lake to suggest that better =work would be done if I. could• si1nply supervise in the gr (3es below the fourth or fifth. Theme are four drawing classes in the Nigh School; two in mechanical drawing and two in freehand work. The periods are only thirty-five minutes long and do not allow for Much variety in the. use of mediums and n a, terials. More satisfactory work could be accomplished if , the advanced pupils were allowed two consecutive periods a week. A cabinet or closest for drawing boards and materials is also - very much desired in the Nigh School. 'lie new departmental arrangement in the seventh and eighth ' grades is an advantage, to the drawing course because it enables me to work more.thoro'ughly 171 .�. 156 157 THE RELATION We are now presented with these two needs—a n-ew- building• and a Junior Nigh School. If the new,build-- OF THE 1119 were in a ne-vv district we should want, of course,, �iJi�1I�l HIGH SCHOOL to use it for thepriinar�j grades.e have already - eight primary building3, in only one of which is there,. TO THE more than one class to a grade. In all theothers the: 1 Primary classes are smaller than necessary, because FEST ®E THE,,YSTElVI of the large number of district,, with the result edu- cationally undesirable that in ; s�_ of the eight schools rom two to six of the lowest grades are in the same. 3 Yr. f senior Nigh School room under one teacher. Another Psimnary building would only increase this educational and financial los,.-. o ,' Ob iouslyiveZ�fin eed� now b,oth more room and a,.OCi oe Junior high school organization we will fl- d it a gain naiicially and educationally to 'Plan the building to r� make possible in the best v`ay the develo -_inent of a. junior high school there or in our present buildings. We have already in `c� err rese?, - �_ _ P- � thigh 'sczs�,ol provi- siQi1 fo?� ' cp rimer ci l,' i`: ±entiilc, and foreign language 3 Yr. vVol k v -yell as a gyinnasium which is used fat under, Junior i-figh school capacity. The other lines of Avork which -Te shouldF'cus. hold Arts Academic E3usiness Practical Artsgradually develop in our junior high schools, e; g., F,ny Kiri Any Pupil who Any PUPiI who Any ucY co®l�I.i1°J sewing, rt; can do the work over 12 Yr-. d�vorl�il�1�, assembly, lLt:�2�h ppm, over 12 yrs. can do the wo library, etc., should also be made accessible to our senior high school. It is evident then that if the junior high schoolclasses -�,ve�, e located near enough to the present high school to permit an interchange of teach- err'and eq uipment, there would be a big saving ignan- cially and ; fine bit of cooperation educationally. Logically the building should be an addition to our present high school to make �poss �ibl-e,<a junior-senio,, Elementary school high school under one •oof. The problem of future r Owth: ill e 6 Gram, the Ll Aper g -•tides could then be easily met pupils 6-12 Yrs. at any time by further additions. This-,'c,-buFd relieve the Central School of the four class -e& of pupils., now in . 4 All 158 re of further pressu 8th grades and of any . pre=vocational the 7th and eeded extension .growth or the training n these grades. Summary eat need of a Junior High School 1. We are in gr .organization.chool 2. We .should p rovide for a Junior Hi gh School time that we relieve our crowded bul at the same conditions.aand the J• Thewould be to most economical Flan financllhouse the most beneficial educationallyclition to the preSent High - Junior High School i an ad School. �, � , evening Schco'- • t es of night schoolsfor;1) There are three main Yp �2) Boys and girls speaking foreigners; Non-English sp and deed more of the fund- -who have left school early and arithmetic; (3) .amentals of reading, writing, t who need training fora more useful Youths and adults life in the home or in the vocation - has not,_- become so 1 illiterate problem Our foreign wires 'us to maintain an great yet that the State e. If at any time we have evening school of this type. people under twenty or more foreign sp State Law establish at work, we must by e is also -twenty-one woThe second type an evening school for them. -Pressing need ` at the a valuable but still not u over mrnar schools have present time, because reached almost every minor` in Mansfield for four or five years of their lives at least. is aI growing The third type, vocational training, need.: So important does the State of Massachusett 'that it off ers'to pay one-half of the salaries ,consider it (y JA 159 rof evening vocational teachers. We should in Town Meeting vote to adopt the provisions of the State Law .and authorize the school committee to control this type u ,of education. It would be advisable to start in a small way with sewing, millinery, and cooking classes for she v7omen. The equipment could be purchased to .serve for the junior and senior high schools as well. These classes are really war needs and would be econ- `omy for the town in the end in the saving thereby 1-nade possible in the home. Summary: 1.We should introduce evening vocational classes. • 2. I recommend that the Town Meeting vote to .accept the provisions of the State Law so that we may have the benefit of State money for half the salary ex- pense. 3. Home making classes can be inexpensively in- tr oduce-d and should be provided for by special appro- priation. 4 F - 160 X 18 Budget.,, The Mohey Value of ars Edu-. D. Our Cation. i Sd 01 1 for the St t Massachusetts spent 13 889,838.00 or 508.55 per pupil, o..1 Education. f Tennessee spent S1,62S,313 00 or X1.68 per pupil, ing the same year. on Education dur the Tho+, year 1�,/�assaci-lusetts citizens produced on en� average $144 each snore than did Tennessee cite , or'a total $103,969,824 more than Tennessee. If 11Iassachsetts gives 12 Million Dollars more to Scl-ools and her Better Educated Citizens Produce how much 403 i'aillion Dollars more per, year , Fit does that state make on her Investment in pro Education? i Wn BUT T ING 1"YES'llb ' ,> by Charles W. The figures are from The fig elsdf o 909 show the same Dabney, ind are for 1899. facts. Estimates based on the total productions recorded in the for Massachu 1910 census reports show a per clp� Production d for the United States; setts of $466, for .Tennessee of $ , as. a whole $332. 161 The budget has been divided under two —first, the a main heads appropriation which must be voted to keep the schools at their present standard second amount of money needed in addition, to increase salar- ies and extend the work of the schools in acco with the recommendations of the School rdance and Superintendent. Committee Item Spent in Estimate Salaries of Teachers 1917 1918' and Supt. Janitors' rte $24,690.50 rs Sala � ,310.50... Salaries 282,434.02 General Expense 2,629.02 Transportation 1,031.77 1198.50 Supplies 1,991.40 2,441,40 Text Books 11899-80 2,209.80 .61 Fuel 979 1,579.61 Operating Expense 31137.50 3487.508e.69 Repairs 2,412.70 811.69 New Equipment 1,000.00 Miscellaneous 293.46 300.00 494.94 500.00 Total $40,177.39 $44,468.02 General Expense: School physiciany, attendance cer, committee, school census, clerical assistance postage, carfa k office supplies,, etc, � Operating. EY ease ; p Light, telephone, Janitor. ) Plies, cartage, etc: s sup - Miscellaneous Insurance, dip lornas etc, Note� from this estimate should be subtracted t� 1918 County dog fund of $610. 63 lea he x $43,857.39 to be a ppropriat, ving a total of ed� -- 162 J 163 SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS GRADUATES 1. Salary increases f or teachers and j ani- High School tors (10 per cent Jan. 1, 1918, to meet Raechel Emilie Bacon Vera Mae Hadlock high cost of living; regular profession- $4,398.00 ° � Harriet Grace Bto a g � Leaman Fuller Hallett, al increases in June.) Chesley Leon Bourne Vice Pres. Ext en 'ion of educational work (one ex- Doris Eliza Burt, Treas. Warren Whitney Chap- Everett Alison Horton , Pres. a da for drawing and music super- tr Y and time ° school nurse man I Mildred Olive Humez visors; part 400.00 dentist.) Frank Harold Coldwel 1 Gladys Evelyn Collins Arthur .Roland Kane ent and repairs (Painting 3. Equipment Florence Ethel Eaton Allan Leman Jones Mary Howlett Livermore t Green School; desks and kindergarten 1,600.00 Chester Richard Flint Eliza Alice McCool household economy.) chairs; h Lewis Henry Freeman, an, Lillian Ma' e Morse r se __ 1 5 0.00 4. EveninInstruction that the town author- Sec.: Yg Rufus Francis Gallipeau Edward Alfred Paine Philip Francis Sheehan Recommended ize the School Committee to establish Mary Margaret Garriepy Ellen Loretta Sidney Elmer Shepard � and maintain State -aided vocational Gaynor Madeline Rose Valente education in accordance with the pro - George Frederick Walker vision of Chapter 471, Acts of 1911, de- and acts amendatory thereto, or further authorize Berry School pendent thereon, and, the School Committee to spend a sum Charles Briggs Albert Lamoureux 150.00 for the purpose.. not exceeding $ . Sidney Ballou Alice Lamoureux ro riation to relieve the 5. Some app p Robert Anderson Blanche Collins Irene Lamoureux crowded buildings: Stanley Donlan Beatrice Leavitt Harriet Parmenter Concl-usion Florence Goyea Gladys White In conclusion let me express my sincere app recia- the school c om m i t - Edward Richardson tion of the helpful cooperation of the cordial friendliness tee and of my associates, and of the townspeople. f Respectfully submitted, - a RALPH W. WESTCOTT. 164 Central School Gordon Arthur Aiken Thomas Edward Gaffney Karin Elvire Ahlberg Irene Bernice Green Emma Catherine Annese Mary Frances Halliday' Q Evelyn Doris Berry Catherine Elizabeth Houl- Florence. Elenor Buck Than Dorothy Irene Beale Mildred Louise Hannon` Harold Paul Bradford Hazel Margaret Hanna Editha McAllister Brack- Calvin Foss Hadlock ett Wilbur Hendrick Johnson Mildred Frances Betts Marie Hazel LaMarre Frieda Bliss Emma Marion Lyman Paul Ambrose Barrows Hope Marion Livermore William Horace Bowers Carlton Shepard Mason -George Brick Cora Mary Murray Ruth Nancy Clapp Doris Michaels Grace Ernestine Chapman Dorothy May MacMillen Alice Sarah Clapp Lena Ellis Smith McHugh Dorris Allen .Clarke George McKenna George Albert Collins Michael Melchiors 'Morini George Curtis Dexter Paulena Esther George Frederick Dustin Ruth Salome Martin: Clarence Murray Dacy, Myrtle Bernice Morse Leo Henry Donoghue Lena Ruth Miller Huth Irene Dooley Emmeline Frances Mur - Harry Lester Davison phy Eddie Epstein Percy Eugene Patriquin Helen Evelyn Fisher Bertha Walker Poland Carroll Victor Findley Helen Webster Prescott John Anderson French Madeline Leah Pitman Hiram Dexter Fuller Lester Stanley Peters Mary Angelina Falotico Mildred Elizabeth Pilk- A.rthur Forbes , ington Edythe Wright Gay Lillian Marie Paine >nBernice Staples Wart Louise Staples Ruby Elizabeth Welling - Scott Sheridan ton Katherine Sharpe Charles Gordon William, ,r Gardner Somber- Agnes Weary, Alice Gertrude Wills Alzena May Sharpe Benton Crocker Winsloj,7 rene Sliney Stanley Spooner Winslojv >lanche Strople Albert Joseph Valente n Abbis Strople- Irving Anthony Vallett 167 Table of Contents' A Letter from the`State Board of Education 106 Organizationof the School Department 104 School: Calendar 105 Report of School Committee 106 Report of Superintendent 147 List of Charts and Tables. Introduction —The War. ':..107 k A, History of the Year 107 tfow a School Doilar was Spent in 1917 102 Physical Conditions. Alansfield's Growth _ 109 The Town's Growth 108 H(,w our School System is Organized 114 Organization of the School Department 110 Records 112 Financial Report for the Year Ending Dec. '31, 1917 170 .Buildings 116' The School Expenses of Mansfield Compared with 'Twenty-fopr Equipment and Supplies, 118 Other Towns of its Size and Valuatiot 123 Finances 119 How Mansfield Stands in Spelling 133 Educational Progress. The Comparative Size in Classes September 1917 and JanuaryTeachers 127 19156 136 Course of Study 131 The Four Sessions and the -Usual Plan Compared ISS Scientific Measurement' 161 'dumber in Each Orade and School October 1917 150 Teachers' Meetings ° 134 Distribution' of Pupils by Ages and Grades 1.5 Size of Classes 735 ` :Reports of School Officials. . T ile Relation of the Junior High School to the Pest of the ' Principal of the High Schc►ol 139 ` 156 ° System Principal of the Central School ` ° 141 The Money Value of an Education 160 Supervisor of Drawing . 145 School Physician 146 Attendance Officer 148 Important Needs and Rec mendations. New Building. 150 Junior High School 152 Evening School 158 Our 1918 Budget 160 Dist of Charts and Tables ° 166 INDEX List, of Jurors 72 Police Department 81 Report of Assessors 7 Loard of Health 76 Report of Building Inspector 6.5 Report of Library Trustees 84 Report of the Municipal Lighting Board 91 Report of the Overseers of the Poor 4' Report of the Treasurer of Sinking Funds3 Reportof Town Treasurer 26 School Deport 100 Selectmen's Report 60 Street Department 60 Tabulated Statement 87 Tax Collector's Deport -lo Town Clerk's Report Births , 44 Marriages 48 Deaths 5"e Town Officers 2