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ANNUAL
T o w n R e p o r t
1926 1927 ANNUAL REPORT
OF t h e
Municipal Officers
OF THE
TOWN OF HEBRON
i
FOR THE
Year Ending February 9 1927
Advertiser Print, Norway, Maine
1927 Town Officers
Clerk E. E. JOHNSON
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor H. H. MERRILL E. L. GURNEY L. L. SNELL
Treasurer E. E. JOHNSON
Superintending School Committee MRS. W. E. ROWE MRS. SADIE CUMMINGS E. L. GORDON
Superintendent of Schools ELMER C. VINING
Collector and Constable E. E. JOHNSON
Town Constable C. W. CUMMINGS
Health Officer DR. LESTER ADAMS
Sealer of Weights and Measures A. M. FOGG
Fire Ward E. E. JOHNSON
Trustees of Moody Public Library D. P. CUSHMAN R, A. PIERCE EMILY CONANT
Librarian ' MRS. SADIE CUMMINGS
Truant Officer CHARLES F. SAWYER Selectmen’s Report
To the inhabitants of the Town of Hebron:
Kevised Statutes, Chapter 4, Section 41
Persons charged with the expenditures of the money of a Town shall, on or before the morning of each annual meeting, make a full detailed written or printed report of all their financial transactions in behalf of the Town during the municipal year, immediately preced ing, with a full account of the receipts and disbursements during that period, and to whom and for what purpose each item of the same was paid, with a statement in detail of the indebtedness and resources of the Town. Assessors’ Report
Real estate, resident...... $195,920 00 Real estate, non-resident...... 48,780 00
$244,700 00 Personal estate, resident ...... $69,556 00 Personal estate, non-resident...... 3,630 00
i $73,186 00
Grand to t a l...... $317,886 00 Total value of land...... $144,540 00 Total value of buildings...... 100,160 00
$244,700 00
Number of taxable polls, 181. Number of non-taxable polls, 19. Poll tax, $3.00. Rate of taxation, .045. Commission for collecting, .01.
TOWN RAISED AT ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 1, 1926
Summer work on roads, bridges and patrol. . . . $2,800 00 Repair No. 4 H ill...... 300 00 Gravel road near Ralph Pierce’s ...... 200 00 Straightening curve near W. H. Packard’s . . . . 150 00 State a i d ...... 500 00 Winter w ork ...... 1,200 00 Cutting bushes ...... 300 00 Overdraft on snow roller...... 65 00 Town officers’ b ills ...... 800 00 Miscellaneous account ...... 500 00 A. A. Dwinal P o s t ...... 10 00 Free High School ...... 500 00 Superintendent’s Salary ...... 245 00 Common schools ...... 2,650 00 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT’ 5
Text Books Repairs ...... Advertising Maine .. Dependent children Moody Library ...... Interest ...... Fire patrol......
State tax . County tax Overlay
Commitment...... Supplementary taxes
Total commitment
LIVE STOCK TAXED
139 Horses ...... 1 Colt, under two years. 327 Cows ...... 3 Oxen ...... 84 Three year o l d s ...... 74 Two year o l d s ...... 369 Hens 13 Swine ......
Total
EXEMPT LIVE STOCK
92 One year olds 72 Sheep ...... 57 Swine ...... 2,397 H e n s ......
Total . . .
PERSONAL ESTATE AND REAL, OF SOLDIERS
Exempt by law 6 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY
Machinery not taxed as real estate...... $ 750 00 Stock in tr a d e ...... 6,500 00 IT small b o a ts ...... 240 00 Logs ...... 90 00 Lumber ...... 400 00 35 carriages ...... 1,000 00 110 autos ...... 20,850 00 56 musical instruments and radios...... 4,725 00 6 1-2 tractors...... 1,400 00 10 gas engines ...... 500 00 21 trucks ...... ! : . 3,220 00
Total $39,675 00
ORDERS DRAWN FOR STATE AND COUNTY TAX
State tax ...... $2,253 81 County tax ...... 675 64 State Treasurer, dog tax ...... • 121 00
COMMON SCHOOL RESOURCES
Unexpended, 1926 .... $ 768 11 Raised by town ...... 2,650 00 Received from State .. 1,225 03 Tuition from Buekfield 121 60 Tuition from Turner . 2 00 Tuition due from Minot 141 46
Total ...... $4,908 20 •
ORDERS DRAWN FOR SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Teachers’ wages ...... $3,369 00 Fuel ...... 233 25 Tuition, M in o t...... 251 77 Conveyance ...... ' 243 00 Janitor ...... 124 90
Total $4,221 92
. Unexpended $ 686 28 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 7
TEXT BOOK ACCOUNT
Overdraft, .1926 ...... Expended ......
Total ...... Raised by town, 1926
O verdraft......
REPAIR ACCOUNT
Expended ...... Unexpended in 1926 ...... Rebate, Waterman Waterbury Co.. Raised by town,......
Total ......
Overdraft ......
HIGH SCHOOL TUITION
Unexpended, 1926 .. Raised by town Received from State
Expended ......
Unexpended
SUPERINTENDENT’S SALARY
Raised by town ...... Expended ......
SCHOOL COMMITTEE OFFICE EXPENSE
Unexpended, 1926 ...... $ 29 16 Expended ...... 11 42
Unexpended ...... 8 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
PIERCE ROAD
Donald Ramsdell F. C. Ramsdell; G. W. Cummings A. H. Parker ... A). R Eastman ... Francis Sawyer G. H-; Austin ...... J. C. Conant Francis Sawyer
Total Raised by town
Unexpended . . .
ORDERS DRAWN FOR SUMMER. WORK ON ROADS
W. G. Conant ...... Nelson Perry ...... Ralph Glover ...... *R. E. Keene ...... L. G. Packard ...... L. G. Packard...... G. I. Conant...... A. R: E astm an...... A. H. Parker ...... F; I. Sturtevant...... L. J. Saunders ...... J. Carlton Conant H. E. Verrill ...... H H Merrill-...... A. Hi Parker ...... Donald Ramsdell A. R. Eastman ...... Donald Ramsdell . . . F. C. Ramsdell 1...... A. R. Eastman ...... A. H. Parker-...... Dpn^ldi Ramsdell......
2 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 9
F. C. Ramsdell...... Frank Bean ...... F. H. Woodward ...... A. II. Parker ...... A. B. Eastman ...... Donald Ramsdell ...... J. C. Conant...... Donald Ramsdell ...... B. R. B e a ls ...... J. C: C on ant...... C. W. Libby ...... A. II. Parker ...... Donald Ramsdell ...... F. H. W oodw ard...... II. E. George ...... L. E. P e r r y ...... A. W. Skillings ...... J. Carlton Conant ...... C. H. A u stin ...... George W. Packard ...... F. I. Sturtevant...... II. J. Bacon . ; ...... A. R. Eastman ...... A. II. P a rk er...... Francis Sawyer ...... C. F. Sawyer ...... Alton Conant ...... II. E. V eri-ill...... J. Carlton Conant O. A. Trundy ...... Frank D. Sturtevant .... John Wallingford ...... Ralph P. G lo v e r...... F. H-. Marshall ...... G. W. Cummings...... F. I. Sturtevant...... W. G. Conant...... Francis Sawyer ...... J. C. Conant ...... C. F. Sawyer ...... C. F. Sawyer ...... J. L. Bumpus ...... GoodVoads Machine Co. .. . 10 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
J. Carlton Conant John Wallingford . F. H. M arshall...... II. H. Merrill ...... Kalle Kyllonen ...... F. D. Sturtevant F. L. Hay ...... F. II. Marshall . . . Henry Kyllonen Ralph Pierce ...... II. W. B e a rce ...... F. I. Sturtevant W. G. Conant...... Harold Thorpe ...... J. L. Bum pus...... W. J. Merrill , ___ F. I. Sturtevant E. L. Gurney ...... A lmon Decoster F. S. P ik e ...... C. H. A u stin ...... G. I. Conant...... Kalle Kyllonen ...... 0. C. B u ck ...... H. K. Stearns ...... II. E. G eorge...... II. E. George ...... W. G. Conant...... F. D. Sturtevant . . . F. I. Sturtevant .'... E. E. Cushman...... W. II. Packard ___ D. B. P e r r y ...... F. II. Woodward . . .
Treasurer of State, p a tro l...... Treasurer of State, 50-50 labor . Overdraft, 1925 ......
$2,227 39 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 11
Resources
Raised by town...... Treasurer of State, 50-50
$2,850 00
Unexpended
50-50 PATROL ROAD
•T. C. Conant .... F. C. Ramsdell .. A. H. Parker . .. A. R. Eastman .. J. Carlton Conant F. H. Marshall . Alton Conant . . . Francis Sawyer . F. I. Sturtevant . Howard Glover . A. H. Parker ...
From State ...... Used from summer work .
$102 53
ORDERS DRAWN FOR LABOR AND MATERIAL WINTER WORK
D. B. Perry ...... W. L. Washburn L. G. P ack ard ...... H. E. v errill ...... F. II. Marshall...... G. W. Packard ...... G. W. Packard ...... W. L. Washburn ... N. D. D ix o n ...... F. I. Sturtevant . .. .1. C. Con a n t ...... L. J. Saunders ...... 1-2 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Mrs. J. M. Farris H. H. M errill...... J. L. Bumpus F. I. Sturtevant . W. G. Conant .... h . 'E. George •H. J. Bacon ...... Lloyd Bessey A. Hibbs ...... Percy Monk ...... L. E. Perry ...... PI. L. Dimock O. A. Trundy .... A. R. Eastman . . . W. G. Conant . . . L. G. Packard E. C. M o n k ...... D. W. Ramsdell F. C. Ramsdell .. A. R. Eastman . . . S. E. Brown Fred M a x im ...... S. O. Terrill ___ G. H, Allen ...... O. A. Trundy .... Hamlet Dimock W. J. Smith ...... Harry “Staples Lester Packard R. E. K een e...... F. H. Woodward . A. B. Sturtevant S. E. Brown ...... S. O. Terrill _____ D. W. Ramsdell .. E. L. Gurney .... F. C. Ramsdell . . . E. C. Monk ...... R. E. Keene ...... A. H. Parker .... PI. T. Glover & Son L. E. Doughty . . . C. F. Sawyer...... ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 13
L. E. Perkins ...... H. J. Bacon ...... W. 6. Conant ...... H. C. Austin ...... E. C. Monk ...... R. P. Glover ...... G. W. Packard ...... Frank King ...... L. G. Packard ...... F. H. Marshall ...... O. C. Buck ...... H. E. George ...... W. F. Brown ...... W. L. Washburn ...... L. H. Marshall ...... N. D. Dixon ...... W. H. Packard ...... D. B. P e r r y ...... L. E. Perry ...... F. H. Woodward ...... H. E. Verrill ...... G. I. and J. C. Conant II. G. Bowman ...... Walter W. Bessey ...... C. II. A u s tin ...... W. G. Conant ...... c leve M. Gurney ...... James Gurney...... F. E. Gurney Frances Gurney...... S. O. Terrill ...... George W. Packard F. I. Sturtevant...... Alton Conant ...... S. 0. Terrill ...... Lizzie Marshall ...... H. G. Bowmaai ...... H. E'. Verrill ...... Leslie E. Perry ...... F. II. M arshall...... F. H. Marshall ...... F. D. Sturtevant ...... Leon Whitman ...... 14 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
H. W. B e a rce ...... Ira Crooker ...... G. W. P a ck ard ...... W. H. Packard ...... W. G. Conant ...... C. F. Sawyer ...... C. H. Austin F. H. Marshall . . . Walter A. Bessey G. I. Conant ...... F. I. Sturtevant...... H. J. Glover & Son..
Total ...... r aised by town ...... Unexpended, 1925 ..
$1,662 59
Overdraft ......
CUTTING BUSHES
A. H. Parker ...:. Everard Monk .... Donald Ramsdell 0. H. A u stin ...... R. A. G u rn ey...... Eugene Bryant ... L. J. Saunders James G urney...... Sturtevant . F. II. Woodward . .
Raised by town .. Unexpended ......
$302 62
Unexpended $233 86 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 15
STATE AID
F. C. r a m sd ell...... C. W. Cook ...... F. H. Woodward ... F. H. Woodward D. W. r amsdell F. L Spiller ...... C. E. Conant ...... W. H. Packard ... C. H. Austin ...... E. B. Bryant ...... F. D. Sturtevant 0. A. Trundy ...... Francis Sawyer Boy Skillings ...... J. C. C on an t...... Berger Mfg. Co. G. W. Meserve ...... C. J. Parker ...... F. C. r amsdell ...... D. W. r am sdell...... C. E. Conant ...... W. II. Packard .... C. W. C o o k ...... C. H. A u stin ...... E. B. B ry a n t...... F. I. Sturtevant .... H. J. Bacon ...... F. D. Sturtevant . .. O. A. Trundy ...... Francis Sawyer . Boy Skillings ...... J. C. C on an t...... (t. I. Conant ...... F. H. Woodward Roy Skillings ... Francis Sawyer . O. A. Trundy ... F. D. Sturtevant . H. E. George ... Walter Bessey . E. B. Bryant . C. H. Austin ... ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
C. W. C o o k ...... W. H. Packard .. C. E. Conant ...... D. W. Ramsdell .. F. C. r amsdell H. W. Bearce S. J. Whittemore H. P. Record ...... H. B. George ...... Agnes Bearce ..., Arthur Bernier II. J. Bacon J. L. Bumpus H. E. G eorge......
Received from State Raised by town ....
$1,421 67
Overdrawn
RESOLVE ROAD
H. E. Verrill . J. A. Willard ...... J. G. c onant . , ...... S. J. Whittemore .. Kalle h eikkinen . . . A. R. Eastman ...... Donald Ramsdel l A. II. Parker G. W. Cummings . . Kalle h eikkinen . A. II. Parker J. C. Conant A. R. Eastman . . . .. Francis Sawyer J. C. Conant .. Francis Sawyer C. E. Conant Francis Sawyer
4 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 17
F. I. Sturtevant W. H. Packard . Ray Keene .... Roy Skillings . . . Roy Skillings . .. F II. Marshall . Donald Ramsdell
Received from State
Overdrawn
PACKARD ROAD
A. H. Parker . ... A. R. Eastman .. A. II. Parker .. A. R. Eastman .. H. E. Verrill . . . C. E. Conant F. I. Sturtevant . W. II. Packard .. W. Washburn . . . F. PI. Woodward W. H. Packard ..
Amount raised by t o w n ......
Unexpended balance ..
NUMBER FOUR HILL ROAD
H. E. Verrill .T. A. Willard W. G. Conant C. II. Austin . Henry Bacon . Fred Spiller . 18 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Fred Spiller ...... 16 25 H. E. Veri-ill ...... 70 00 W. G. Conant ...... 100 88
$287 63 Amount raised by town ...... '...... 300 00
Unexpended balance ...... $ 12 37
THIRD CLASS HIGHWAY
LABOR AND MATERIAL
W. G. Conant ...... C. E. Conant ...... 19 50 C. E. Conant ...... 3 25 J. Conant ...... *...... 30 00 F. H. Woodward ...... 28 00 G. W. Packard ...... 20 00 A. W. Skillings ...... 18 00 0. A. Trundy ...... 21 00 W. H. Packard ...... 19 50 F. L. Spiller ...... 16 -25 R. A. Pierce ...... F. II. Marshall ...... 42 00 H. E. Staples ...... 19 50 Roy Skillings ...... 60 00 W. L. Washburn ...... 26 00 C. H. Austin ...... 24 38 F. C. Ramsdell1...... 63 00 Donald Ramsdell ...... 26 00 F. H. Woodward ...... 29 2b W. G. Conant ...... 49 00 Clarence Conant ...... 21 13 C. H. A u stin ...... 19 50 W. L. Washburn...... 29 25 Ralph Pierce ...... 42 00 F. II. Marshall ; ...... - ...... 14 00 W. H. Packard ...... 29 25 F. I. Sturtevant , ...... 32 00 W. G. Conant ...... 7 00 Ralph P ie r c e ...... 31 50 F. C. Ramsdell ...... 7 00 Donald Ramsdell ...... 24 38 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 19
W. H. Packard ...... W. L. Washburn...... F. H. Woodward O. E. Conant...... C. H. Austin ...... F. I. Sturtevant...... F. H. Marshall ...... Lester Packard ...... Roy Skillings ...... J. C. Conant ...... Francis Sawyer ...... A. W. Skillings ...... Lester Packard ...... H. E. Staples ...... George Packard C. W. Cook ...... P. R. Monk ...... George Packard F. I. Sturtevant...... P. R. M o n k ...... Francis Sawyer...... J. C. Conant...... G. I. Conant...... D. W. Ramsdell .... F. C. Ramsdell ...... C. W. Cook ...... C. H. A u stin ......
Received from State ..
Unexpended ..
Overdraft on snow roller, 1925...... Raised by town, 1926 ......
TOOL HOUSE ACCOUNT 7 Unexpended, 1925 . . . Order drawn, 1926. . .
Unexpended .. •20 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
ORDERS DRAWN FOR SUPPORT OF POOR
Unexpended, 1925...... $543 30 II. H. Merrill helping tramp...... $2 00 S. E. Brown keeping tramp...... 1 50 E. L. Gurney, 1925 helping tramp...... 3 00 C. W. L ib b y ...... 8 60
$ 15 10
Unexpended ...... $528 00
DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Raised by town...... :$125 00 Overdraft ...... $52 83 C. W. Cummings, care of. Harry Keene...... 11 77
Total ...... •...... ;$64 60
Unexpended ...... $60 40
ORDERS DRAWN FOR MEMORIAL DAY
A. A. Dwinal Ppst ...... $ 10 00 Raised by to w n ...... $ 10 00
ORDERS DRAWN FOR CEMETERIES
Available fund ...... $383 95 H. H. Merrill, mowing cemeteries ...... $ 9 75 • E. L. Gurney, mowing cemeteries...... 5 75
Total ...... $ 15 50
Unexpended ...... $368 45 V
MAINE DEVELOPMENT
Raised by town ...... $ 30 00 Orders drawn ...... '...... $ 30 00 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 21
FIRE PATROL
Raised by town ...... $200 00 Overdraft ...... $136 63 Oliver Cummings 3 00
$139 63
Unexpended $ 60 37
MOTHERS’ AID
Unexpended ...... $169 00
ORDERS DRAWN FOR INTEREST
Unexpended ...... $132 87 Raised by town ...... 50 00 Interest on cheeking account...... 61 21
$244 08 Interest, Paris Trust Co. notes...... _...... 108 33 i
Unexpended ...... $135 75
ORDERS DRAWN FOR HIRED MONEY
Paris Trust Co...... •••'•...... $2,000 00 Paris Trust Co...... 2,000 00 Paris Trust Co...... 2,000 00
Paid in f u l l ...... $6,000 00
ORDERS DRAWN FOR TOWN OFFICERS
A. E. Kingsley, moderator...... $ 4 00 M. W. Bessey, ballot clerk ...... 5 25 E. E. Johnson, services at primary election___ _ 5 25 II. W. Bearee, ballot c le r k ...... 5 25 E. E. Johnson, treasurer’s salary to Sept. 1, ’26 75 00 M. W. Bessey, ballot clerk...... 5 25 II. W. Bearee, ballot clerk...... 5 25 E. E. Johnson, part pay, tax collector...... 100 00 22 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
H. H. Merrill, part pay, selectman...... 100 00 H. W. Bearce, ballot clerk ...... 3 50 M. W. Bessey, ballot clerk...... 3 50 M. W. Bessey, ballot clerk...... 3 50 H. W. Bessey, bdllot clerk...... 3 50 E. E. Johnson, services at elections...... 12 25 L, L. Snell, balance as selectman, 1925...... 32 50 H. H. Merrill, balance as selectman, 1925...... 50 00 E. E. Johnson, treasurer, salary, Recording, ’25 16 75 L. E. "Whitman, cost and charges, tax deeds 1924 and 1925...... 66 14 L. L. Snell, part pay as selectman, 1926...... 118 00 E. L. Gurney, part pay as selectman, 1926. 56 00 E. L. Gurney, balance as selectman, 1925...... 35 00 E. L. Gurney, part pay as selectman, 1926.... 35 00 Etta Rowe, services on school board...... 21 00 Mrs. C. W. Cummings, services on school board.. 21 00 E. L. Gordon, services on school board...... *.. 16 00 E. E. Johnson, treasurer’s salary to February.. 62 50 L. E. Whitman, tax; collector, 1925...... 1 09 E. E. Johnson, tax collector, 1926...... 45 10 L. E. Whitman, tax collector, 1925...... 1 23 1
$908 31 Raised, by town ...... $800 00 Unexpended...... 265 85
$1,065 85
Unexpended ...... $157 54
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNT
W. H. Hardy, stationery ...... $ 2 50 W. H. Jenne, recording tax deeds...... 3 75 " Merrill & Denning, office supplies...... 21 33 Newell White, license blanks...... : . . 1 75 Loring, Short & Harmon, dog license book...... 1 65 E. E. Jolinson, enforcing dog law ...... ‘ 5 00 EL E. Johnson, postage...... 8 80 E. E. Johnson, recording town businessand oaths 16 85 E. E. Johnson, recording vital statistics...... 13 50 Elmer Perkins, Sheep killed by dogs...... 70 00
/ ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 23
Hebron Grange Hall, rent, 1926...... M. W. Bessey, water tub ...... Walter L. Gray, legal advice, 1925...... F. W. Sanborn, printing town reports, 1925... fi. H. Merrill, postage, 1925 ...... W. B. Beals, fumigating Alder sch o o l h o u s e E. E. Johnson, recording vital statistics and town business ...... E. E. Johnson, posting warrants...... E. E. Johnson, postage and express on ballots.. Overdraft, 1926 ......
Raised by town...... Received from State on sheep....
Unexpended
ORDERS DRAWN FOR ABATEMENTS, 1926
Percy Stevens, deceased...... Paul Purvis, paid in Lewiston...... Victor Pulkinen, account o f fire...... A. D Kilbreth, paid in Maryland...... Everett Irish, paid in. M inot...... George Jackson, paid in Poland...... Lester Foss, paid in Mass...... Oxford Bears F. G. Ass ’n., paid in Buekfield. Oxford Bears F. G. Ass ’n., 1925, paid in Buekfield 12 00
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DELINQUENT S, 1926
Andrew Alholm Eugene Bryant Harold Gay . .. Karl Gurschick William Harris 24 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Edward Hiltinen...... R. 0. H arris...... O. M. J o n e s ...... A. L. K ilbreth ...... John King .•...... Severi Moilanen Pat Myer...... Joseph Pelky ...... Albert R. Russell ...... Henry Whitman ...... Harry Staples...... Harry Staples, 1923.... Harry Staples, 1924 .... Harry Staples, 1925 .... Gerald Saunders, 1924 .. Gerald Saunders, 1925 ..
RESOURCES OF TOWN
Cash in treasury...... Due, taxes, 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926. . Tax deeds prior to 1926 ...... Tax deeds of 1926 ...... Cemetery f u n d ...... ‘ ‘ Moody ’ ’ Library F u n d ......
LIABILITIES OF TOWN
Cemetery F u n d ...... ‘ ‘ Moody ’ ’ Library Fund . Town officers, estimated
i
Leaving a balance ii\ favor of the town $6,662 37 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
RECOMMENDATIONS
We recommend raising the following sums:
Roads and bridges, summer work, including state patrol. Snow b ills ...... Cutting bushes ...... Sign boards...... Support of p o o r ...... White Pine B lis te r ...... State Aid .! ...... Miscellaneous ...... Town O fficers...... *...... Mothers’ Aid ...... V.
Respectfully submitted,
H. H. MERRILL, E. L. GURNEY, L. L. SNELL,
Selectmen of Hebron. 26 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
MOODY LIBRARY
Moody Library Fund ...... $1,533 58 Interest ...... 61 94 Raised by town ...... 50 00 Received from State ...... 4 68
$1,650 20
Sadie Cummings, librarian...... $ 6 00 B. Peek Co., books ...... 46 47 SaiYie Cummngs, librarian...... 6 00 B. Peck Co., books...... 11 96 . Sadie Cummings, b o o k s ...... 30 00
$100 43
$1,549 77
DWIGHT CUSHMAN, RALPH A. PIERCE, EM ILY B. CONANT,
Committee. Treasurer’s Report
E. E. JOHNSON, Treasurer, in account with the Town of Hebron
* from Feb. 5, 1926 to Feb. 9, 1927
Dr.
To Cash from last report...... Cemetery Funds ...... Moody Library F u n d ...... Tax deeds, 1926 ...... Tax deeds prior to 1926...... Town Clerk, dog licenses...... Town of Minot, tuition, common schools...... Town of Buckfield, tuition', common schools...... E. C. Vining, tuition, common schools...... Waterman Waterbury Co., cash discount on furnaces. Taxes, 1925 ...... Taxes, 1926 ...... State Treas., State highway...... Third Class ...... Special Resolve ...... State A i d ...... R. R. and Tel. tax...... School Fund ...... Damage to sheeep...... Free Public Library ...... Dog Licenses refunded i ...... From Moody Library Fund...... 1...... Cemetery Funds ...... \...... Tax Deeds, interest and costs...... Paris Trust Co., interest on checking account...... Paris Trust Co., hired m oney......
$33,756 Ql 2 8 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Cr.
Selectmen’s orders ...... $25,313 59 Moody Library Fund ...... 1,549 77 Cemetery Funds ...... 383 95, Tax Deeds ...... 845 41 Cash in Treasury...... 5,663 89
$33,756 61
Respectfully submitted,
E. E. JOHNSON, Treasurer of Hebron.
We have examined the books of E. E. Johnson, treasurer, and find them correct, as above set forth.
H. H. MERRILL, E. L. GURNEY, L. L. SNELL,
Selectmen of Hebron. • Vital Statistics
MARRIAGES
1926 Aug. 12, Lestev Adams and Violet L. Mills. Aug. 25, Frank Purington Morse and Beulah Maria Hutchinson. Oct. 12, Donald E. Kiltyreth and Mrs. Georgia A. Jackson. Nov. 18, George G. Glover and Virginia S. Con ant.
BIRTHS
1926 Feb. 3, John Henry G.urschick, son of Karl W. and Johanna Gurs- chick. Mar. 26, Delma Linwood Foss, son of Delmn. L. and Alice Johnson Foss. Sept. 30, Raymond Whitney Skillings, son of Earl F. and Dorothy Harris Skillings. Oct. 10, Harold Lester Staples, son of Harry and Ethel Staples. Oc-t. 14, Robert Pearl Perry, son of Nelson and Marguerite Perry.
DEATHS
1926 Feb. 27, Margaret Hinckley, aged, 16 years, 3 months, 2 days. Feb. 1, Yvonne Morrisette, aged 19 years, 6 months, 29 days. Feb. 18, Annie W. Glover, aged 77 years, 7 months, 15 days. Mar. 12, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, aged 34 years, 11 months, 11 days. Mar. 17, Evelyn Meissner, aged 31 years, 3 months, 24 days. Apr. 27, Alice Sprague, aged 19 years,'2 months, 22 days. Apr. 28, Naomi Lash, aged 20 years, |2 months, 4 days. May 5, Jenny Byron, aged 38 years, 9 months, 23 days. May 13, Patrick Brennan, aged 78 years, 12* days. May 18, Matthew McGee, aged 64 years, 4 months, 13 days. May 26, William H. Berry, aged 77 years, 5 months, 16 days. June 26, Hee Goon, aged 55 years, 6 months, 4 days. June 29, Orlando H. Stevens, 72 years, 10 months, 19 days. 30 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
July 10, Charles McGuire, aged 55 years, 3 months, 20 days. July 26, Fred B. Keene, aged 48 years, 1 month, 7 days. Aug. 4, Angelique Robitaille, aged 63 years, 4 months, 26 days. Oct. 5, Gladys Severance, aged 30 years, 5 months, 6 days. .' Oct. 21, Trygue Sorcuson, aged 21 years, 11 months, 29 days. Oct. 23, Morris Michaelson, aged 16 years, 4 months, 19 days. Oct. 31, Harriet F. Dobson, aged 67 years, 4 months, 21 days. Nov. 28, Marcia M. Swift, aged 31 years, 10 months, 4 days. Dec. 24, Hazel E. Jordan, aged 31 years, 2 months, 4 days. Dec. 29, Peter Arsenault, aged 32 years, 2 months, 5 days. 1927 Jan. 1, Bert Cisek, aged 43 years, 4 months, 13 days. Jan. .10, Violet Cleaves, aged 24 years, 8 months, 3 days. Jan. 20, Joseph Morin, aged 36 years, 6 months, 29 days. Jan. 28, Rosanna Houle, aged 23 years, 11 months, 30 days. Feb. 2, John Doran, aged 22 years, 11 months, 3 days.
E. E. JOHNSON, Town Cleric. Report of the Superintendent of Schools
To the School Board and Citizens of the Town of Hebron:
I herewith submit my fifth annual report of the schools of this town for the municipal school year ending February, 1, 1927. ,There has beeu only one change in the personnel of our teaching staff during the thirty-six weeks of this current year. This is a sign of progress, a sign that ayc are bringing our school system down to that basis where the-successful teacher can feel that her tenure is reasona bly permanent and where she can measure the results of each year’s labor with her different classes and can draw therefrom the necessary data to check the success or failure of any particular method of teach ing she may have used. This is a condition the board of education lias constantly worked for and the time seems to have come when this desideratum is about to be realized. The greatest evil that our schools luwo suffered in the past is the constant changes in our teaching staff. We have ahvays maintained that a reasonably permanent teaching force makes for progress in auy educational system. The tenure of a successful teacher, one Avho really and truly teaches, and one who keeps up with the progress made in her profession year by year, should last throughout the period of her working life. We have introduced into our schools this year one new feature, that of the helping teacher. Years ago it Avas supposed that a superintendent could take a staff of untrained, inexperienced teachers and in a short time work them over into air efficient teaching force. There may have been a time when lie could have done this but that time no longer exists. The superintendent is no superman. His Avorking capacity is hedged about with the same limitations as that of the ordinary worker. Yet his labors are multitudinous and diversified. He is a statistician for his state department of education, a bookkeeper for his toAvns. He performs the functions of a drayman in carting books and supplies to his schools. He must visit his schools every two weeks when traveling conditions are possible. He must engage conveyance for those of his pupils that live in out-of-the-way places. He must warn truants that they must not absent themselves from school. He must match his wits 32 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT with the shrewd farmer and merchant in purchasing fuel for his schools. He must purchase books and all school supplies. He must enroll his teachers in his state teacher’s association and collect the stipulated dues. He must keep an eye out for communicable diseases that, are sure to visit his schools in their season. These arc some, and there are many others, of his regular duties. How much time can a superintendent, whose time is thus occupied, devote to the training of his teachers?- The present state commissioner of education, realizing the amount of administrative labor that devolves upon the superintend ent of schools, devised the helping teacher plan, which is, we believe, one o f the wisest measures ever taken for the schools of Maine. This teacher, devoting one day each week to her co-workers, can do a consid erable amount of technical work among them where this work is needed. She has the time for this kind of work, time that the superintendent does not have. Herein is her work necessary and valuable and it is be ing appreciated more and more as the towns take advantage of it. It is a pleasure to write of the werfk that is being done in our schools this year. It- is not the purpose of this pa per to extol the work of any individual teacher where the work of all is so uniformly good. The professional spirit, the desire for improve ment, the attention paid to the care of books and school property, dis cipline in and around school buildings show that the teachers are alive to the importance of their work. It is the purpose of the board of education to make the schools of each succeeding year a little better than those of the past. We resort to many devices in order to bring this about, but one of the surest ways is to employ normal trained teachers. There is no question but what the time will come when none but normal trained teachers will be employed in our schools. The superiority of the work of such a teach er is a sufficient guarantee for such a statement. One of our present teachers is a normal graduate, another has had more than a year of normal work, and,still another has had three summer terms. This training helps wonderfully in the routine work of the school room. One of the most helpful signs for future progress in the schools is the at titude of tlve people towards them. The people are demanding better and better schools. It would seem that as living conditions become more complicated and difficult, the people are demanding better edu cational advantages for their children, fully realizing the importance that education will play in the life of the future man and woman. This is why we believet that the time is close at hand when none but normal trained teachers will be employed in the schools of Maine. It surely is upon the fully trained teacher that, the hope of continual progress in our schools is based. ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 33
.Hebron has twenty-one students registered in high schools and academies in various parts of the state: seven at ,Buckfield High, ten at Hebron Academy, one at Gould Academy, one at Edward Lit tle High, one at. Winthrop High, one, Mechanic Palls High. While I s have no opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted with the work they are doing in some of these schools, I am very closely acquainted with the work of those Who are attending Buekfield High. One of these last named students has won an almost unbelievable reputation as an interscholastic debater.' The daily work of all is creditable. In no department of school affairs can the attitude of the people be better gauged than in the up-keep of school buildings. In this de partment the people of Hebron take great pride. The toilets of the majority of the buildings were up. to standard before it ever became a state law to make them so. Although there is no compulsory stand ard of heating, lighting, and ventilation in regard to present build ings, the school officials have begun already to recondition our build ings in order to bring them up to standards required of new buildings iii process of construction. The'building at. No. 8 was already up to these standards. The Alders building was remodeled this year. A new heating plant was installed with a complete ventilating system and the scheme of lighting was changed. This is now an Up-to-date building, a building that will conserve the health and comfort of the children. It is the purpose of the school board bo remodel the Acade my building next year. A new heating plant was installed at the Nel son school building this year. The board of education have decided to ask the town at its next annual meeting to vote a sum of money to enable them to have medi cal inspection of all children attending, school next year. Occasionally communicable diseases break out in the schools and cause their closure. Two of the schools have been closed because o f such diseases this win ter; the Alders for one week, and the Nelson for three weeks. The Nelson school is still closed at this date of writing. Such a closing of the schools interrupts the work and causes considerable annoyance to teachers and (pupils. It is to forestall such occurrences that we aslc the town to provide a small,sum of,.'money for medical inspection. The following attendance statistics, are taken from,teachers’ regis ters and from, records of. my regular visits to. the .schools: ' Registration, spring term, 1926 ...... 1 ...... 82. Average Attendance, spring. term, 1926/...... 74.79 Percentage Attendance, spring term, 1926...... 91. Registration,:fall term, 19.26...... ,81. Average Attendance, fall term, 1926...... 72.78 Percentage Attendance,. fa ll. term, 1926...... 90. 34 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Grouping these statistics by schools, we obtain the following attend ance table for the fall terra, 1926. School Registration Av. Att. Per. Att. Sodom ...... 8 7.81 98 Academy ...... 25 23.71 94 N elson ...... 11 9.66 88 Brighton Hill...... 15 10.8 72 Alders ...... '...... 22 20.8 95
In connection with this attendance table, it may be well to explain to teachers, school officials, and parents, the sources of the money we receive from the state for the support of schools under the new dispen sation. For every child enrolled in the school census, the town receives $3 from the state; for every teacher employed, $100; for every day of attendance of each pupil, the approximate sum of $.0276. This varies with, each year, but it falls between two and three cents. This means that every day that a pupil stays out of school the town loses between two and three cents. Where eighty or more pupils are in at tendance, this might be a considerable loss. This forms one reason why it is essential for every pupil to attend school. This report will close with a financial statement setting forth the expenditures of the various departments of school affairs.
COMMON SCHOOL ACCOUNT
Resources Raised by town ...... $2,650 00 Received from State...... 1,225 03 Unexpended, 1926 ...... 768 11 Tuition from Buckfield...... 121 60 Tuition from Turner ...... 2 00 Tuition from Minot ...... 141 46
Total ...... $4,908 20 Expenditures Teachers’ wages ...... $3,369 00 Janitors ...... 124 90 Conveyance ...... 243 00 Fuel ...... 233 25 Tuition to M in o t...... 251 77 Unexpended, 1927 ...... 686 28
Total ...... ‘...... $4,908 20 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 35
Spring term': School Teacher Weeks Wk. Wage Amt. Brighton Hill Alice Ramsdell. 12 $16 00 $192 00 Alders Iva Eastman...... 1 2 20 00 240 00 Sodom Helen Maxim...... ___ 12 14 00 168 00 Academy Gertrude Conant .10 21 50 215 00 Nelson Mary Drake...... ___ 12 15 00 180 00 No. 8 Virginia Conant . 12 17 00 204 00
Total spring term wages. .$1,199 00
Fall term: School Teacher Weeks Wk. Wage Amt. Brighton Hill Alice Ramsdell. 14 $16 00 $224 00 Alders Iva Eastman...... 15 20 00 300 00 Sodom Helen Maxim...... 1 4 14 00 196 00 Academy Lorine Rogers. 14 25 00 350 00 Nelson Mary Drake...... 17 00 238 00
Total fall term wages......
Winter term: (In session) Paid on winter term wages...... Paid on winter term wages, 1926 .
Total teachers’ wages paid...... $3,369 00
FUEL ACCOUNT
Sevri Moilanen . . . H. T. G lov er...... Victor Pulkkinen . . Oliver Buck ...... Lester Packard Fred Maxim ...... J. F. M o o d y ...... Fred Gurney...... W. B. Ramsdcll Victor Pulkkinen . Merton E. Rowe . .. H. H. Merrill ......
•- Total ...... $233 25 36 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
JANITOR ACCOUNT
Edna Pulkki n e n J. F. Moody ...... Everard Monk ...... Jambs E. Gurney . Helen K yllonen...... A. B. E astm an...... Helen Maxim ...... Helen Kyllonen J. F. M o o d y ...... Edna Pulkkinen Janies E. Gurney Mary Drake ...... - Raymond Gurney Helen Maxim ...... Helen Kyllonen Reino Piippo ...... Lorine Rogers...... Anna Gurschlic'k
Total
CONVEYANCE ACCOUNT
Fred Gurney...... Mrs. J. Alton Hibbs ......
Total ...... Paid tuition to town of M in o t......
Total common school expenditures.
HIGH SCHOOL TUITION ACCOUNT
Resources
Unexpended, 1*926 Raised by town .., Received from state
fotal ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 37
Expenditures Town of Buckfield...... Lee Academy ...... Bridgton Academy Gould A cadem y...... Mechanic Falls High. Town of Winthrop...... Kent’s Hill Seminary City of Auburn'...... Hebron Academy...... Unexpended, 1927......
Total ......
TEXT BOOK ACCOUNT Raised by town ...... Overdraft, 1927 ......
Total ...... Expenditures Ginn & Co...... Benj. H. Sanborn Co...... American Book. Co...... World Book ...... Silver, Burdett & Co...... The Hillsborough Co...... Longman, Green & Co...... Charles E. Morrill Co The Arlo Pub. Co...... The Macmillan'C6...... Overdraft, 1926 ......
Total ...... $236 96 f • i REPAIRS ACCOUNT Resourced Unexpended! 1926 ...... \ ...... Rebate, Waterman-Waterbury Co...... \ ...... Raised by town>...... Overdraft, 192T ......
Total $962 51 38 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Expenditures M. E. R o w e ...... $ 80 J. F. Moody ...... 1 85 J. L. Hammett Co...... 6 07 L. W. Keene ...... 2 73 Mrs. Essie Bessey ...... 10 00 Herbert R ecord ...... 5 85 E. E. Johnson ...... 1 50 Henry Kyllonen ...... 5 00 Alma Packard ...... 5 00 A. B. Sturtevant ...... 101 60 Lester Packard ...... 2 00 A. R. Eastman ...... 1 50 M. ,E. Rowe ...... 34 52 Mrs. Bennie Sturtevant...... 5 00 Cleve M. Gurney ...... 61 75 F. E. G urney...... 50 26 F. E. Gurney ...... : ...... 110 00 H. E. George ...... 56 00 James Gurney ...... 6 00 F. R. Conant Co...... 76 40 Atherton Furniture Co...... 8 00 A. J. Weston Co...... 51 07 George W. Cummings ...... 20 30 Waterman-Waterbury Go...... 280 00 J. L. Hammett Co...... \ 7 56 Justin DeCoster ...... 1 00 Geo. W. Cummings ...... 10 00 E. L. Gordon ...... 6 85 Hebron Trading Co...... 85 N. Dayton Bolster Co...... 4 50 H. E. George ...... 20 25 H. E. G eorge...... 8 30
Total $962 51
OFFICE EXPENSE ACCOUNT Unexpended, 1926 ...... $ 29 16 Expenditures Elmer C. Vining ...... $ 11 42 Unexpended, 1927 ...... 17 74
Total $ 29 16 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 39
SUPERINTENDENCE ACCOUNT
Raised by town ...... $245 00
Expenditures
Elmer C. V in in g ...... $245 00
The school board voted to recommend the following appropriations for the support of schools for the year 1927-’28.
i t Common Schools ...... $2,500 00 High School T u itio n ...... 500 00 Text Books ...... 225 00 Repairs ...... ■...... 900 00 Medical Inspection ...... 50 00 Superintendence ...... 245 00
Respectfully submitted,
ELMER C. VINING,
Superintendent of Schools. Warrant for Town Meeting
State of Maine County of Oxford, ss.
To E. E. Johnson, a constable in the town of Hebron, in said county: l)i the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby required to noti fy and warn the inhabitants of said town of Hebron, qualified by law to vole in town affairs, to assemble at Hebron Grange Hall, in said town on the seventh day of March, 1927, at ten o ’clock in the forenoon to act on the following articles to wit:
Art. 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting. Art. 2. To choose a clerk for the ensuing year. Art. 3. To see if the town will accept the report as printed. Art. 4. To choose a treasurer for the ensuing year and fix his compensation. Art. 5. To choose a. chairman to the board of selectmen. Art. 6. To choose a second selectman. Art. 7. To choose a third selectman. Art. 8. To choose a board of assessors. Art. 9. To choose one member of Board of Overseers of Poor for three years. Art. 10. To choose a road commissioner for the ensuing year and fix his compensation. Art. 11. To choose one member of school board for three years. Art. 12. To choose a collector and fix his compensation. Art. 13. To choose a fire ward and fix his compensation. Art. 14. To choose all other necessary town officers. Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for support of poor. Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will grant, and raise for summer work on roads and bridges and patrol labor. Art. 17. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for winter work. ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 41
Art.. 18. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for cutting bushes. Art. 19. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for town officers ’ bills. Art. 20. To see what sum of money the town will grant, and raise for miscellaneous account. Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for A. A. Dwinal Post for Memorial Day. Art. 22. To see what, sum of money the town will grant and raise for Pree High School according to the School laws of 19011. Art. 28. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for ■common schools. Art. 24. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for superintendent’s salary for 1927.
\ Art. 25. To see what sum o f money the town will grant and raise for school committee, office expense account, textbooks and for repairs.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to authorize the the superintending school committee to maintain for the coming year, any school, the average attendance of whkih, for this school year, is less than eight pupils, if, in the opinion of the committee, such main tenance seems advisable.
Art. 27. To see if the town will grant and raise the sum of $100.00 for blister rust control work.
Art.. 28 To see what action the town will take with regards to sign boards and raise money for same.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote “ yes” or “ no” on the question of appropriating and raising money necessary lo entitle the town to State Aid, as provided in Section 19 of Chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes of 1916.
Art. 30. ' To see what snip-of_money the town will grant and raise for State Aid road work, according I o Section 19 of Chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes of 1916.
Art. 31. To see wliat sum of money the town will vote to raise for Mothers’ Aid. / Art. 32 To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise for medical inspection in the schools for the ensuing year. 42 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
Art. 33. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise for school insurance for the ensuing year. Art. 34. To hear report from librarian committee and act on same. Art. 35'. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise for the ‘ * Moody Public Library. ’ ’ Art. 36. T'o see if the town will vote to instruct its treasurer by the written consent of the selectmen to hire money for the use of the town. Art. 37. To see what sum of money the town will vote and raise for payment of interest for the ensuing year. Art. 39. To see if the town will grant and raise the sum of $200.00 to lengthen culverts and grade unfinished road between W. H. Pack ard ’s and Nicholas Dixon’s. Art. 40. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of $200.00 to repair road beginning at the corner by Lizzie Marshall’s and extend ing toward Daniel Piippo 's as far as money will permit. Art. 41. To see if the town will vote to raise $100.00 for surfacing road beginning at the Minot town line and going towards Charles Saw yer ’s ; also to repair culvert at end of Sawmill road. Art. 42. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum o f $300.00 to cut and make a fill at the Bearce hill, so called, on the road from A g nes Bearee’s to E. E. Hutchinson’s. % Art. 43. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of $150.00 to •rock base and surface with gravel, road from the Turner town line to the foot of the hills near S. E. Brown’s.
Art. 44. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of $300, to ditch, place culvert and surface with gravel, road at the top of hill north of Nelson school house and extending toward’ the E. G. Dudley farm.
Art. 45. To see if the town will vote to change designation of ‘ ‘ third class road ’ ’ from Turner1 town line to Hebron Academy, to a designation reading from Turner town line to the Minot town line via Sanatorium, subject to approval of State Highway Commission.
Art. 46. To see if the town will vote to instruct the selectmen to in form the Highway Commission of the vote of town on article regard ing change in designation of third class road and begin this year where they left off in 1924 and build to the top of the hill, which is known as the Conant hill and then alternate with East Hebron. ANNUAL TOWN REPORT 43
Art. 47. To see if the town will vote to purchase a Ford truck and raise money for same. Art. 48. To see what sum of money the town will vote to grant and raise to bo expended and used for advertising the resources, advan tages and attractions of the State of Maine. Art. 49. To transact any other business that may legally come be fore the meeting.
Hereof fail not and have you this warrant with your doings thereon.
The selectmen hereby give notice that they will be in session for the purpose of revising and correcting the list of voters at the Grange Hall, at nine o ’clock in the forenoon on the day of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Hebron this tenth day of February, A. I). 1927.
H. H. MERRILL, E. L. GURNEY, L. L. SNELL,
Selectmen of Hebron.