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<br /> The plan of paying our own bills and keeping our own ac-
<br /> counts was begun last year, only a half dozen bills being, by. HOWARD SCHOOL.
<br /> accident, paid by the selectmen, and on settlement with that Instruction 350.00
<br /> board, not the slightest error in accounts or arrangement was Fuel and care of rooms 70.17
<br /> found, so that, without criticising the propriety of the long essay Repairs, &c. 101.91
<br /> on the subject in the last auditor's report, we cannot refrain from WARREN SCHOOL.
<br /> saying we fail to see the force of his censure or suggestions. Instruction 350.00
<br /> The statement of the auditor in the same connection in regard Fuel and care of rooms 36.40
<br /> to the call for an appropriation for grading the High School lot Repairs, &c. 34.07'
<br /> is a mistake, and is unjust to the committee. The fact is, the
<br /> proposition was made by the board of selectmen, the appropria- Instruction in'Xusid 472.08
<br /> tion urged by them, and it was distinctly stated that it was not Not specified 103.97
<br /> asked f'or by the committee, had never been discussed by them,
<br /> and that, as a board, they knew nothing about it. Total expense for the year68,086.60
<br /> n the Adams School house we have fitted u the room for-
<br /> We have expended, for instruction, fuel,. and care of I
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<br /> rooms $6,838.59 merly used by the Reading Club for a primary school, and have
<br /> For repairs and incidentals 1,248.01 also constructed ventilating flues on the outside of the building
<br /> extending to each room.
<br /> as follows: — In the Hancock School house we have also furnished the
<br /> ADAMS scaooL. ' primary school-room with single desks, and have constructed a
<br /> Instruction $1,497.25
<br /> 4 single flue.for ventilation. The appropriation was made in part
<br /> Repairs, &c. 87.74
<br /> Fuel and care of rooms 87. for these purposes, and, as will be seen, very little was left for
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<br /> use elsewhere.
<br /> BOwDITCH SCHOOL. We have, however, painted the Howard and Bowditch
<br /> Instruction 342.00 School houses, and all the school-rooms have been made more
<br /> Fuel and care of rooms 63.67 cheerful by careful whitening. We have labored hard to make
<br /> Repairs, &c. 56.17 a little money cover much ground, often carrying our own tools
<br /> and making small repairs ourselves to save the expense of send-
<br /> FrtAxi�r.ix scxooL. ing a mechanic. We suspect this policy of economizing in re-
<br /> Instruction 288.75 pairs has been followed too long,for notwithstanding our constant
<br /> Fuel and care of rooms 41.50 care a thousand things need immediate attention and there is
<br /> Repairs, &c. 29.94 � r g
<br /> no denying the fact that the school buildings and furniture are
<br /> HANCOCK SCHOOL. not in good condition, and we deem it ruinous ,to pursue this
<br /> Instruction 1,277.50 policy further.
<br /> Fuel and care of rooms 139.29 To specify: nearly every school-house in town needs skiing-
<br /> Repairs, &c. , ` 362.49' ling, and the High and Hancock School houses must be shingled
<br /> before another winter. Possibly we may risk the other build-
<br /> ings until another year.
<br /> Instruction . 1,610.00 With. the.exception of the new fence at the High School
<br /> Fuel and care of rooms 167.48 Zn
<br /> house and the partial fences around the Franklin and Adams
<br /> Repairs, &c. 71.72 '
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