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HomeMy Public PortalAboutAnnual Reports 1917 (2)ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE Town Officers AND Committees OF THE TOWN of ORLEANS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1917 BELISLE PTG.. & PUB. CO., WORCESTER. MASS, 191$ z TOWN OFFICERS, Il9Il7 SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR Arthur F. Smith, Chairman, Term expires February, 1919 William H. Howes, Term. expires February, 1918 Charles F. Poor, Term. expires February, 1920 BOARD OF HEALTH William H. Howes, Chairman, Term expires February, 1918 Arthur F. Smith, Term expires February, 1919 Charles F. Poor, Term expires February, 1920 TOWN CLERK, TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES Joseph H. Cummings, Term expires February, 1918 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Thomas Downs, Chairman, Orville W. Crosby, Clerk, Elwin C. Nickerson, Term expires February, 1918 Term expires February, 1919 Terre expires February, 1920 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Loring G. Williams TRUSTEES SNOW LIBRARY Joshua Kilburn, Chairman, Term expires February, 1911' Arthur T. Parker, Treasurer, Term expires February, 1918 George P. Hodgdon, Term expires February, 1920 A Sparrow Higgins, Warren G. Smith, C4eorge H. Davenport, James Boland, George H. Fiske, Everett W. Perry, 4 AUDITORS Term expires February 1918 Term expires February, 1918 SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS Abbott C.Nickerson, William B. Chairman, Sherman, expires February, 1918 Samuel E. Sparrow, Term expires February 1920 Term expires February, 1919 CONSTABLES Term expires February, 1918 Term expires February, 1918 TREE WARDEN Term expires SHELL Frank Fl. Snow, Everett W. Perry, Weston L. Taylor, Term expires February, 1918 REGISTRARS OF VOTERS FISH CONSTABLES Term expires Term expires Term expires February, 1918 February, 1918 February, 1918 February, 1918 APPOINTED OFFICERS Sealer of Weights of ghts and Measures —Orville W. Crosby. Lloyd WF. Coal, Ilajr and Grain —Gideon Snow ggnns, Harry H. Snow Gideon L. Smith, Elmer G. Chan ' William H. Snow, Clinton Nickerson, Samuel . Chandler, Joshua F. Hi d. Field Drivers Ireland, Mary F. Higgins, Oscar 'C. Jacob W. and Pound Keepers —Frank K. Freeman, Mayo, George R. Marquit, Isaac E. Chase. 5 Fence Viewers—Elnathan E. Eldredge, Maynard A. Parker, Solonois Childs. Inspector of Animals —Weston L. Taylor. Inspector of Slaughtering —Weston L. Taylor. Chief of Fire Department —John B. Crowell. Superintendent of Moth Work —Albert A. Smith. Weigher of Beef, Grain and Hay, Measurer off Wood and Bark —Orville W. Crosby. Forest and Fire Warden —James Boland. Deputy Forest and Fire Wardens —William M. Higgins, Henry A. Perry, Daniel B. Gould, Roland L. Mayo, Abbott C. Nickerson, George Cummings, Herbert G. Fuller, Char- les F. Nichols, George C. Dyer, Irving Howland. 7 . SSES5ORS' REPORT VALUATION OF 111.111 TOWN Real 'estate, April, 1916, $932,035.00; April, 1917, $981,955 00 Tangible personal estate, April, 1917, . 415,510 00 Increase in valuation 1917 real estate, Increase in personal property cannot be given as all intanggible personal property in 1917 was assessed by the State. Amount of assessed tax April 1st., including overlay and moth tax, Amount of assessed tax December 1st, Received from State for intangible personal property for 1917, Received from State Treasurer, corporation tax Received from State Treasurer, balance 1916 bank tax, Received from State Treasurer, bank tax 'for 1917, $1,397,505 00. $49,960 00 7,854 84 17 73 15,500 99 3,296 36 9 18 17,848 89 Total due from taxes, 1917, $44,527 99 Rate of taxation 1917, $5.00 on $1,000. Population census of 1915, Number of polls, , Number of acres of land ass 404 essed, Number of houses, 6,037 2-3 505 Number of cows, Number of horses, Number of neat cattle other than cows, Number of fowl, Number of swine, ABATEMENT OF TAXES Abatements made in 1917, Appropriation, Exceeded, Respectfully submitted, 131 120 32 7,350 8 $265 79 $125 00 140 79 $265 79 ARTHUR F. SMITH, WILLIAM H. HOWES, CHARLES F. POOR, Assessors of Orleans. SELECTMEN'S REPORT APPROPRIATION FOR- 1917 Town officers salaries, Support of Poor, Support of Schools, Transportation of pupils, Books and supplies for schools, Fuel for schools, Repairs and incidentals for school building and grounds, Repairs on highways, sidewalks and bridges, Snow Library and grounds, Interest on tax notes Miscellaneous, voted February 5th, 1917, Miscellaneous, voted special meeting June 26th, 1917, Board of Health, Board of Assessors, Election Officers and Registrars of voters, Abatement of taxes, Moths and caterpillars, Inspection of buildings and animals, Inspection of slaughtering Fires Care Soldiers' Monument and graves, Care Town Cemetery and tomb, Street lighting, Tree Warden, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Supplies for Sealer of Weights and Measures, Department, Stationery and supplies for town officers, $1,700 00 800 00 7,100 00 2,000 00 650 00 500 00 300 00 2,000 00 450 00 400 00 1,100 00 600 00 100 00 350 00 225 00 125 00 400 00 50 00 75 00 75 00 25 00 25 00 450 00 25 00 25 00 25 00 .150 00 • 9 Expenses of town officers, Care of town dumping ground, Care of Town Hall, and repairs, Second District Court, Suppression of crime, Care of fire engine, and repairs, Soldiers' aid, Town playground, Spraying town shade trees, Legal expenses, Herring brook, War emergency fund, Moderator, 300 00 75 00 375 00 1.50 00 75 00 35 00 340 00 75 00 75 00 G00 00 100 00 500 00 10 00 TOWN OFFICERS' SALARIES Arthur F. Smith, salary as Chairman of Selectmen and Overseer of Poor, William H. Howes, salary as Selectman and Over- seer of Poor, Charles P. Poor, salary as Selectman and Overseer of Poor, Joseph H. Cummings, salary as Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector, Sparrow Higgins, Auditor, Warren G. Smith, Auditor, James Boland, Constable, George H. Fiske, Constable, Joseph L. Rogers, Moderator, Appropriation, $1,700.00. Unexpended, $22,435 00 $250 00 200 00 200 00 700 00 5 00 5 00 50 00 50 00 10 00 . $1,47000 230 00 $1,700 00 10 EXPENSES OF TOWN OFFICERS Arthur F. Smith, expenses in Boston on State guard business, Arthur F. Smith, mileage book, $0 75 Arthur F. Smith, one day in Boston on Assessors' hooks, William H. Howes 3 75 'expenses attending 2 hearings. in Boston, William H. Howes ex 7 50 expenses attending hearing in New Bedford, Y. M. C. A. Charles P. Poor meeting, 'expenses attending 2 hearings in Boston, Charles F. Poor, expenses to Bridgewater, State 7 50 Farm, Joseph H. Cummra' (declarii. gs' expenses to Provincetown g Representativie)' American Surety Co., bonds for Treasurer and Col- lector, New York, New Haven & Hartford R. 102 10 age books, Ralph T. Rogers, auto for town officers, Appropriation, $800,00. Unexpended, ASSESSORS, EXPENSES P. Arthur 50, Smith, 341/2 days' work Arthur P.Smith, i as Assessor at William gSH `�e use of auto 1 da $2.50, s, 333/2 days' work as Assessor at 24 30 3 87 4 50 2 43 45 Q0 1 50 $203 20 96 80 $300 00 4S6 25 300 83 76 11 Charles F. Poor, 341/_, days' work as Assessor at $2.50, John A. Holway, abstracts, Deval Printing House, Assessors' notices and blanks, Unexpended, Appropriated, $350.00. BOARD OF HEALTH 86 25 20 60 9 65 $289 50 60 50 William H. Howes, putting up contagious cards, William H. Howes, milk permits, express, and post- age, Joseph F. Williams, burying blackfish, James E. Richardson, burying blackfish, Charles R. Richardson, burying blackfish, T. Frank Ellis, burying blackfish, Auto hire for 1916 and 1917, R. J. Marvel, M. D., disinfectants, Lewis V. Collins, printing, Unexpended, Appropriation, $100.00. $350 00 $5 00 4 62 10 00 10 00 10 00 6 00 12 00 4 00 2 70 $64 32 35 68 $100. 00 ELECTION OFFICERS AND REGISTRARS OF VOTERS Abbott C. Nickerson, 15 meetings as Voters at $2.00, William B. Sherman, 15 meetings Voters at $2.00, Samuel E. Sparrow, 13 meetings as Registrars of Voters at $2.00, Registrars of as Registrars of $30 00 30 00 26 00 13 - • 12 Joseph H. Cum • trars at wings, 14 meetings Clerk of Regis - $2.00, 117aynard A. Parker as hall& clerk ' 1 day as election officer, 4 days Arthur F, at $3.00, Smith, 4 days election officer at $3.00, William H. Howes, 4 days election officer at $3.00, J k,Cohn es P. PO ' 4 days election officer at $3.00, Edward B. daY election officer, Elmer C. Smith Crosby, 4 days ballot clerk at $3.00, O. Higgins, 4 days ballot clerk at Solont 4 days ballot clerkat $3.00,. A. Smith, 1 day ballot clerk at $ 0, Arthur L. Sparrow $3.00, Joseph H. Cummings, 1 clay ballot clerk, Chester ummings, 1 day ballot P. B. I. Crosby, 1 day ballot clerk, and F. P. Goss, to clerk, town meeting printing, Appropriation, Exceeded, $235 00 8 75 28 00 15 00 12 00 12 00 12 00 3 00 12 00 12 00 12 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 17 75 $233 75 $233 75 STATIONERY AND P. B & F P i1 SUPPLIES FOR TOWN OFFICERS Wright & P Goss b -Nichols & Eldredge, PrintingaCo and voting lists, Library dredge, tax bills ' valuation book, Bureau, Hobbs & Warren, physicians forms and blank books, tax registration A. W. Brownell, pees, t lists, blank Carters' Ink blank forms Aloriso W. C0 inky Mrs. Mary postal stamped envelopes Y A. Penn, typewriting and postage, warrants, $19 28 2 50 3 75 50 16 10 4 50 75 43 20 3 37 1 25 Adams Express Co., express, Southboro Printing Shop, moth notices, Unexpended, Appropriation, $150.00. 2 44 1 55 $99 19 50 81 $150 00 GYPSY, BROWN TAIL MOTH AND CATERPILLARS 25 hours, 2 men and horse, at $0.70, 8 hours, 2 men, at $0.60, Oil and express, Samuel Cobot, 4 gallons creosote, at $0.40, Writing names, 8 hours, one man and horse • at $0.45, 246 hours, 2 men and horse, at $0.85 —less credit Snow & Chase, 'spraying at South Orleans, Appropriation, $400.00. State Aid in 1917, Appropriated, Exceeded, Unexpended, • STATE, AID $340 00 32 00 $372 00 $17 50 4 80 4 58 1 60 1 50 3 60 $2.00, 207 10 97 83 $338 51 61 49 $400 00 $372 00 14 SUPPORT OF POOR Paid for support of poor, Unexpended, Appropriated, Received from State B $800 00 Charity, oard of 41 06 $841 06 . FIRE DEPARTMENT F. A. Besse, 25 lbs., sal am W. H. Snow & Son ammoniac, 'staples and hooks, John B. Crowell care of fire engine, Unexpended, Appropriated, $35.00. INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS AN Weston L. Taylor D CATTLE We tle and b ston , inspecting L. Taylor, expense on inspectionarns, , Appropriation, $50.00. Unexpended, $702 35 138 71 $341 06 $4 50 13 25 00 $29 63 5 37 35 00 440 00 3 05 $43 05 6 95 $50 00 15 INSPECTION OF SLAUGHTERING Weston L. Taylor, attending meetings at Boston and Hyannis and expenses, Weston L. Taylor, inspection of slaughtering, Wm. H. Howes, inspecting slaughtering and permit, Unexpended, $8 70 55 80 1 25 $65 75 9 25 $75 00 Appropriated, $75.00. TOWN HALL EXPENSES AND REPAIRS Cyril W. Downs, janitor, $269 90 Nickerson Lumber & Supply Co., coal, 41 50 W. H. Snow & Son, coal and wood, and supplies, 29 38 I. W. Pinkham, supplies for lighting plant and repairs, 29 58 Union Carbide Sales Co., 1 ton of carbide, • Isaac H. Small, 351/2 hours work on grounds at $0.30, Isaac H. Small, repairing lawn mower, Hard & Smith, supplies, Adams Express Co., express, Warren G. Smith, insurance, New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co., freight, Charles H. Rain, tuning piano, William B. Sherman, labor and material, Alton L. Smith, carting carbide, Frank H. Snow, labor and material repairs voting booth, H. K. Cummings & Co., gas lighters, Arthur F. Smith, 2 cans stove enamel, on 67 00 10 65 1 00 17 89 1 20 9 38. 4 40 3 00 2 75 1 50 1 25 15 30 16 Thomas A. Smith, kerosene and matches, John Kenrick, insurance, Unexpended, Appropriation, Received for use of hall, $375 00 284 75 $659 75 EXTINGUISHING FIRES James Boland and 7 others, extinguishing fire on N. Y., N. II. &H. R. R. Co. land' Jan. 9, 1917, James Boland and 10 land of Mrs. others extinguishing fire on Boland caused by railroad engine, Jan. 16,of 1917, James Boland and 5 k others, extinguishing fire on land of Franan FrCeman, April 1st, 1917, James Boland fire on lava of others, extinguishing railroad 1917, Mrs Carrie Nelson, April 4th, James Boland and of T. 8 others extinguishing fire on hatlandes Boland W. Eldredge, April 30th, 1917, fire on land and 8 others extinguishing railroad of P. Hurd, May 26, 1917, James Boland and 6 others extinguishing railroad fire on land of S. Childs, Aug. 2nd, 1917, Unexpended, 1 60 • 25 00 $517 43 142 32 $659 75 $4 20 6 20 5 90 20 6 50 5 90 3 90 $35 80 52 80 $88 60 17 Appropriation, Received from railroad fires 1916, $75 00 13 60 $88 6(, TOWN DUMPING GROUND H. G. Fuller, 551/2 hours labor at $0.30, Walter E. Young, 40 hours labor at $0.30, Appropriated, $75.00. Unexpended, TOWN PLAY GROUND $16 65 12 00 $28 65 46 35 Everett W. Perry, mowing, Everett W. Perry, 201/2 hours labor at $0.30, Nickerson Lumber & Supply Co., lumber for toilet, E. C. Nickerson, building toilet, George H. Fiske, 6 loads of dressing, carting and spreading, Appropriated, $75.00. Unexpended, $75 00 $8 60 6 15 9 48 4 50 6 00 $34 73 40 27 $75 00 2 18 STREET LIGHTING Joshua L. Northu lamps, p, for lighting and care of street George E. Rogers, for lighting and care Charles R. Smith, of street Arthur S for oil, matches su with, for oil, matches and supplies, supplies, Appropriation, $450.00. $326 54 19 60 67 83 36 03 $450 00 SCHOOL AND TRANSPORTATION OF Payments (for PUPILS report), see details Appropriation, Boston tuition, Easthalu tuition, Dog tax, School Committee 's $12,247 38 39 46 Unexpended, $10,550 00 108 00 xceceive 1,387 75 Rebate on lunch d from school phone 200 34 Discount ' 3 65 on bill, . 35 00 2 10 $12,286 84 SNOW LIBRARY Isaac HA'. Small 10 ho Isaac 71.3 Small, brush, work at $0.30, $12,286 g4 $37 60 75 19 E. W. Perry,. work on light plant, Mary S. Cummings, salary as Librarian, American Surety Co., bond of Treasurer, James F. Eldredge, coal, William H. Snow & Son, coal, R. & J. Farquhar & Co., plants, Warren G. Smith, insurance, T. F. Smith, mending plastering, F. A. Collins, 4 doz. pansys, Hard & Smith, supplies, Joshua Kilburn, stock and repair on ceiling, Carbide from Town Hall, 300 lbs., Nickerson Lumber & Supply Co., wood, Fred W. Fulcher, dressing, Appropriation, $450.00. Unexpended, 5 50 200 00 12 50 28 50 31 50 9 99 8 25 2 50 1 00 13 05 3 50 13 00 3 50 11 25 $382 39 67 61 SECOND DISTRICT COURT Jan. 31st, paid E. H. B'earse, court order, No. 3,010, Jan. 31st, paid G. H. Fiske, court order No. 3,012, June 25, paid J. Boland, court order No. 3,078, Aug. 13, paid J. Eldredge, court order No. 3,010, Nov. 24, paid J. Boland, court order No. 3,166, Appropriation, Received from Court, Unexpended, $150 00 15 00 $165 00 $450 00 $13 42 9 04 7 00 2 70 8 15 $40 31 124 69 $165 00 21 20 CARE SOLDIERS, MONUMENT AND GRAVES Chester I. Crosby, care of Charles 11. g Darling, soldiers monument, $19 85 , work on soldiers lots, 3 00 Unexpended, Appropriation, $25.00. PERPETUAL C Samuel Hurd, care ARE CEMETERY Chester Ben'. LOTS I. Crosby, careJSa Sparrow's lot, Chester I. Crosby, Samuel I. Co Chester I. Cr •care Geo. A. Vose lot C. E. Crosby, care Hen �' Darling, care Mark C Nickerson lot, Snow lot, Received from perpetual care fund, $18.30. Paid board ofprisoners SUPPRESSION Or E. prison CRIME E. W. Perry, 18 hour of at House of at $0.3Correction, J. B. Young, 14 polio duty, E. L. Crowell, 12 hours opoliars ceoli u duty, $at $0.35, H. G Puller, 8 hours duty, at $0.5, BY1'G. F. Holmes, hours police duty, at $0.35, Geo. Byron P. Holm s, 4 hours police y'duty, at 5' ti s police duty, $0.. at $0,35, Appropriated, $75.00, Unexpended, $22 85 2 15 $25 00 $3 00 4 20 4 00 3 85 3 25 $18 30 $7 00 6 30 4 90 4 20 2 80 ]. 40 1 40 1 40 $29 40 45 60 $75 p0 • TREE WARDEN E. W. Perry, 561/2 hours work as Tree Warden, at $0.30, Chase & Snow, spraying town shade trees, Appropriation for Tree Warden, Appropriation for spraying trees, Unexpended, $25 00 75 00 $100 00 $16 95 70 00 $86 95 13 05 MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., F. B. & F. P. Goss, printing town report, R. L. Mayo, work double team, 32 hours, South Orleans school house lot, Chester Long, 22 hours labor on South Orleans • school house lot, at $0.30, A, F. Long, 14 hours labor an South Orleans school house lot, at $0.30, E. A. Bassett, 22 hours labor on South Orleans school house lot, at $0.30, W. H. Snow, seed for South Orleans school house lot, Traffic Sign Signal Co., traffic sign and fixtures, Hard & Smith, miscellaneous supplies, Arthur F. Smith, miscellaneous supplies, Matthew Bender & Co., book on Massachusetts Municipal Law, $100 00 $14 28 122 20 25 60 6 60 4 20 6 60 3 50 8 20 13 75 2 61. 10 50 i II . 22 Clifford L. Harris, expenses to Boston, account State Guard in April, Warren G. Smith, insurance on road machinery and buildings, Warren G. Smith, extra au ' Sparrow Higgins, extra auditor'ss work on taxes, Charles W. Snow ork on taxes, 'flag staff and gilt ball, Charles W. Hopkins, $opkins, setting flag staff, as per Orville W. Crosby p rrge g , return of 17 deaths in 1916, Fiske,G . killing unlicensed dog, Snow bills pay roll, No. 90, Snow bills pay roll, No. Snow bill pay roll, 111° Snow bill pay roll, No. 128, Snow bill pay roll, No 128, Snow bill pay roll, No. 129, Joseph H. Cummings, No. 208, oseph umings, recording, express and Charles hmas FA. S Poor, incidental s postage, Orvilleh a W. Smith, supplies, expenses, R. J. Crosby, returns Marvel, M. of deaths, D, returns of births, Unexpended, Appropriation Feb. 5, 17 $1,100 00 June Appropriation 19 ed from 26, 1917, 600 C. G. Osterman, 6 00 $1,706 00 filar LEGAL EXPENSES Herman A. William A a ding, legal opinion 1916 and legal servicesinHopkins p s case, 23 William A. Morse, legal services, John T. L. Jeffries case, 1916, 7 10 William A. Morse, legal services, Herring Brook case, 1916 and 1917, 60 00 7. 20 3 00 90 00 25 00 4 25 2 00 286 44 S9 25 71 80 320 74 25 95 2 40 41 27 1.25 3 25 3 25 2 75 1,909 54 496 46, $1,706 00 *50 00 :327 SO Support of poor, Salaries and administration purposes for schools, Books and supplies for schools Transportation of pupils School building and grounds Fuel for school Repairs on highways, moval of snow, Snow Library, recommended by Trustees, Interest on notes, Miscellaneous, Board of Health, Assessors, Election Officers and Registrars, Abatement of taxes, Gypsy and brown tail moth, and caterpillars, Inspection of animals and barns, Inspection of slaughtering, Fires, Care of town cemetery and tomb, Care of Soldiers' Monument and graves, As recommended by School Committee, plus income sidewalks, bridges and re - Appropriation, $600.00. Unexpended, 50 00 35 00 $462 80 137 20 $600 00 APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED FOR 191S Town officers (not including School Committee), $1,500 00 800 00 7,230 00 600 00 2,700 00 300 00 550 00 3,000 00 500 00 400 00 1,000 00 100 00 350 00 250 00 100 00 400 00 50 00 75 00 75 00 25 00 25 00 24 Street lighting, plus income from fund, Tree Warden, Stationary and supplies for to Expenses of to town officers, Care of town town ofcers, dumping ground, Care of Town n Hall and repairs, plus d District Court, Suppression of crime, Care of fire engine Soldiers' Aid, g ne and repairs, Play ground Spraying town sha war entergen de trees, Be cy fund g brook, , New roads, Legal advice, Sealer of fie, eights and Measures, Contribution to Surgical Dressing Unit of Orlean, income, Nie WAR E 'URGENCY FUND Lerson Lumber & Supply Co., transportation parr dose Clifford L. transportation Co. 52, Ag gun Rogers, stock and l es in Boston, racks, and labor building racks, hewn, stock and labor marmorer an' 103 2 finishing gun Wm' . B. Sherman hours at $0.30, as guns, ' materials used in cleaning 450 00 25 00 150 00 250 00 75 00 375 00 100 00 75 00 S5 00 500 00 • 50 00 75 00 500 00 50 00 2,500 00 25 00 .100 00 100 00 $25,465 00 $7.50 2 00 3 75 98 g2 29 95 31 10 25' F. H. Gooch, American flag, Harding Uniform & Regalia Co., 2 uniforms for State Guard, Appropriated, $500.00. Unexpended, H N;RRING BROOK 31 00 27 00 $232 77 267 23 Arthur L.Sparrow, surveying and expenses, Miss Rebecca E. Sparrow, deed Herring brook land, Edgar Snorw, deed Herring brook land, • Albert E. Snow, deed Herring brook land, Appropriation, $100.00. Unexpended GUIDE BOARDS (OLD) Are maintained near the following locations: Mrs. E. May Crosby. Luther F. Bee. Hugh Osborne ,(deceased). Snow Library Soldiers' Monument. Frank Gould, South Orleans. Eli Rogers, South Orleans. $500 00 $28 00 25 00. 15 00 25 00 $93 00 . 7 00 $100 00 26 NEW GUIDE BOARDS, 1915 2 near Odd Fellows' Hall. 1 at late Elijah Knowles' corner. 2 at Cummings' block, corner 1 at west line of to Main St. and State 1 at east line of town,�"' next Brewster. 1 at earth next Eastham. 2 at David L of town, next Brewster. Youngs corner. 1 at Methodist -church. 1 at Snow Library, 1 at Tonset road, Jose 2 at. Junction of Barleyph B. Higgins -corner. 1 at late Mrs. Neck and Beach roads Emeline Snow's corner. Highway. The Board in Closing this report feels that is a fitting and itizens who recognize and publish a list of the names of the country have been calls , and feel confident called into active war service of our credit y,to ale dent that their service will redound 1i'lth n►, and honor to their families and this town. LIST OF ENLISTED MEN lst to enlist, Geor Harre 2nd to enlist g Samuel Sherman 3rd to enlist, gaY.i, y Horton Sugg 4th y Howar to t Allen Adelbert Snow en Childs LIST Op DRAFTED MEN George Everett Crowell William Frederick Joseph Galla I;stlin Alvers gher Benson Gould Byron Francis Holmes 27 George John Liacomarkos Samuel Malehman George Elwin Nickerson Leroy Abbott Nickerson William Rand Payne Alton Lesley Smith Carlton Wesley Smith Richard Sparrow Snow Herbert Benjamin Taylor Stacy Parker Taylor Western Ellsworth Taylor STATE BOYS IN THE SERVICE FROM ORLEANS Ronald Conley Joseph Cowan Albert McPherson Harold L. Schofield And the Board would also add that thanks should be ex- tended to the Public Safety Committee for unselfish and untir- ing zeal with which they have performed the many duties and made possible the large sale of Liberty Bonds, the Library Fund and also the excellent showing of the Red Cross Fund. Also should be recognized the vast amount of work done by the women of this town in the surgical dressing and Red Cross units, as it is the women of America —the mothers, wives, sis- ters and sweethearts —of those at the front who are making real war sacrifices. It is their everlasting love, undying deter- mination, their God-given patriotism which carries the spirit of success to every man in our Army and Navy. The forming of the 52nd Company of. the State Guard in the town tells its own story of the spirit and patriotism of its mem- bers, their fine appearance at Barnstable while acting as escort to His Excellency, the Governor of the State, at Hyannis, where in competition with other companies in drilling, they were just- ly awarded the first prize, a magnificent silver cup, and later, II 28 at Falmouth, when this Board were the Company, the fine soldiery a invited guests of the applause of the many spectatorsrance�tivon them the unstinted spection by an officer Also at the very recent in- sion, when he stated that it was the for that occa- from the sion, commissioned one to the lowest bon-comm nst on -commissioned, o ed and the best set-up and drilled company that he had had the pleas- terest of all its g' speaks volumes of the untiring and deep - members, ARTHUR F. SMITH, WILLIAM H. HOWES, CHARLES F. POOR, Selectmen of 'Orleans. REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES To the Honorable Board of Selectmen of the Town of Orleans : Gentlemen : I beg to submit the following report as Sealer of Weights and Measures, for the fiscal year, Dec. 31, 1916 to Dec. 31, 1917. No.- of platform scales sealed over 5000 lbs. capacity, .No. of platform scales sealed under 5000 lbs. capacity, No. of computing scales sealed, No. of spring scales sealed, No. of beam scales sealed, No. of counter scales sealed, No. of weights sealed, No. of dry measures sealed, No. of liquid measures sealed, No. of automatic pumps sealed, No. of linear measures sealed, No. of articles sealed, Total amount of fees received for sealing, Total amount received for adjusting, Total amount paid Town Treasurer, 2 16 6 6 2 23 131 2 54 14 7 Fees $1.00 8.00 1.12 .18 .06 .69 3.93 .06 1.62 .93 .21 263 $18.80 .18 $18.98 . 30 SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Hobbs & Warren, Orville W. Crosby, ssa aryl' Appropriated for Appropriate salary, d for supplies Received Weights and Measurefrom Sealer 9,, of Unexpended, $25 00 25 00 $18 98 $68 98 Respectfully submitted, ORVILLE W. CROSBY-', Sealer of Weights and Measures $6 66 2500 $31 37 32 REPORT OF SURVEYOR OF f GII WP Y Labor, repairing roads, Sand used repairing roads, Oil used repairing roads,. • Nickerson Lumber & Supply Co., for guard fence, Nickerson Lumber & Supply Co., road tile, . Nickerson Lumber & Supply Co., coal for heating oil, C. E. Rogers, 1 cord wood, for heating oil, E. C. Nickerson, labor on guard fence, • Buffalo,. Springfield Roller Co., parts for steam roller, Good Roads Machine Co., oil heater stack, E. D. Fulcher, care of roller and boiler, James Boland, repairs on road machinery, Frank H. Snow, repairs on guide board, Arthur F. Smith, paint and oil for guard fence,. W. H. Snow & Son, road supplies, Hurd & Smith, road supplies, Arthur L. Sparrow, surveying, Perry B. Bragdon, inspecting two boilers, Appropriation, $2,000. Unexpended, 1,362 98 25 20 244 50 45 45 8 87 22 10 7 00 15 78 9 30 17 02 9 00 1 50 2 10 7 20 15 71 4 25 46 50 10 00 $1,854 46 145 50 $2,000 00 32 AMOUNT RECEIVED BY MEN LABOR ON HIGHWAY IN 1917AMS FOR George H. Davenport, men and teams, Fred W. Fulcher, self and team, Roland L. Mayo, self and team, Michael Boland, labor, Albert 0.' Higgs, labor, E. D. Fulcher, labor, (engineer), Charles Eldredge, labor, Win. H. Howe, labor, Henry A. Perry, labor, 972 15 140 60 13 80 176 10 27 00 29 73 90 30 2 40 $1,362 98 TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 1917 RECEIPTS Cash in Treasury and on deposit Jan. 1st, 1917; Received from : County Treasurer for dog tax of 1916, C. W. Downs, rent of Town Hall, Camp Fire Girls, use of Town Hall, James B. Steele, Exec. estate Mrs. Esther G. Newcomb, interest on Street Light Club Legacy, License 2 fish traps, License 1 fish weir, 2 slaughterers' license, 1 permit, 5 gasoline licenses, J. F. Eldredge, for second-hand key safe, State Treasurer, balance Bank and Corporation tax, 1916, Albert Zerbone, moving picture license, Second District Court, 1 quarter, Executors will of Henry C. Nickerson, perpetual care cemetery lot, Postmaster, for overcharge on bill of envelopes, 2 pool table licenses at $2.00, Department of Weights and Measures for 3 ped- lers' licenses, H. D. Stewart, for use of school phone, C. G. Osterman, damage to traffic sign, License for circus, $5,037 00 200 34 284 75 2 00 214 00 2 00 1 00 2 00 1 00 5 00 10 00 9 18 5 00 15 00 100 00 36 4 00 18 00 3 65 6 00 5 00 3 11 34 New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co., for fires, 1916, Use of town phone, City of Boston, tuition, Town of Eastham, tuition .at Orleans High School, Town of Harwich use of sweeper 1 day, Town of Eastham, use of heater and sweeper 11 days, Coleman Bros., use of steam roller, Norman C. Haines Co., discount on school bill, State Board of Charity, for aid furnished, Aid rendered, Sarah P. Freeman lin Freeman lot, forpe etual care Frank_ Sale of blank book, Rebate on school lunch, International Trust Co., 4 notes a International Trust t $terest State Treasurer Co., rebate of interest, State 74�e�asttrer, Corporation tax ' National Bank tax � State aid for 1916, State Treasurer, Treasurer, ,intangible personal Town property of 'Weights and Measures, Collector, tax for 1916, Collector, moth tax, Collector, interest 1916 Collector, abate tax, menu Collector, tax for 1916 tax Collector, r 191? ' mothtax 1917, Collector, interest 1917 tax Collector, abatement Perpetual car 1917 tax e fund, ' 13 60 1 20 108 00 1,387 75 5 00 55 00 55 00 2 10 41 06 52 70 50 00 10 35 00 20,000 00 69 44 3,296 36 17,848 89 316 00 15,500 99 18 98 1,723 21 14 35 52 09 57 30 $6,446 41 46 90 4 78 208 49 18 30 $73,354 28 35 DISBURSEMENTS Paid: Selectmen's orders,, Second District Court orders, Interest on tax notes, and certification, International Trust Co., notes Nos. 23, 24, 25, 26, of $5,000 each, State tax, State highway tax, County tax, Soldiers' exemption, Cash in treasury and on deposit, TAX NOTES 1917 $22,089 13 40 31 342 45 20 000 00 17,380 00 470 00 10 417 58 64 60 2,550 21 $73,354, 28 Note No. 23 dated April 24, 1917, due Nov. 23,. $5,000 00 Note No. 24 dated June 30, 1917, due Nov. 30, 5,000 00 Note No. 25 dated Aug. 28, 1917, due Dec. 28, 5,000 00 Note No. 26 dated Sept. 29, 1917, due Jan. 29, 1918, 5,000 00 TAX -NOTES PAID 1917 Note No. 23 dated April 24 paid Nov. 19, 1917, Note No. 24 dated June 30 paid Nov. 19, 1917, Note No. 25 dated Aug. 28 paid Nov. 19, 1917, Note No. 26 dated Sept. 29 paid Nov. 19, 1917, $20,000 00 $5,000 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 $20,000 00 36 INTEREST ACCOUNT Paid, interest on note No. 23 for $5,000 at 4%, 214 days, Paid, interest on note No. 24 for $5,000 at 4%, 153 days, Paid, interest on Note No. 25 for $5,000 at 4%, 122 days, ' Paid, interest on Note No. 26 for $5 000 days, at 4%, 113 Paid, Bureau of Statistics, certification of 4 notes at $2.00, Appropriation, Rebate interest, • Unexpended, *400 00 6944 $469 44 TOWN ASSETS Due from State, soldiers' Due from taxes aid for 1917, Due from taxes, 1916, Due xes, 1917, from State Board of Charity, Cash in treasury, On deposit in December 31st 1917 ber 31, 1917 ape Cod National Bank, Decem- $118 89 85 00 67 78 62 78 8 00 $342 45 126 99 $469 44 $372 00 4 68 1,170 77 77 69 952 80 1,597 41 $4,175 35 37 TOWN LIABILITIES Balance of interest due Street Light Club, $190 02 CLEMENT GOULD AND WIFE TRUST FUND Deposited in Weymouth Savings Bank, Deposited in Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank,' Deposited in Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, January 10th, 1917, Balance of interest from 1916, Interest due -from Weymouth Savings January 7, 1918, Interest due from Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank to October 1917, Less orders drawn on interest, Bank to $4,000 00 755 00 245 00 318 63 182 02 38 18 $5,538 83 280 00 $5,258 83 NOTE. The amount deposited to the above fund January 10, 1917, was done by advice of the Bureau of Statistics, and was taken from the balance .of interest of 1916. The original bequest was for $5,000, but the State of New York was paid $245.00 from ,the fund as "inheritance tax" —the above deg posit makes the fund the amount of the original bequest. PERPETUAL CARE CEMETERY TRUST FUND Deposited in Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, $500 00 Deposited Oct. 6, 1917, in Cape Cod Five Cents Sav- ings Bank, 150 00 li 40 SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS Receipts of the Towrl of Orleans from Jan. 1, De- cember 31: 1917, to Cash in treasury and on deposit Jan. 1st, County Treasurer, do 1917, Received from: g Janitor for rent of Towntax of 1916 refunded, "CB. Steele, ExeFire c. us of Townl Hall, J on Street Light te Mrslegacy, Esther G. Newcomb, in- terestLicenses and permits, Club Department of Weights an r . of We for and Measures Second District second hand 3 pedlers licenses, Executors will Court, key safe cemeterytors of Henry C. Nickerson, for Sarah P. lot, perpetual care lot, Freeman, for perpetual care , Postmaster for overcharge fphers cemetery H. D. Stewart for use ofschool l phone, envelopes, Use of Town phone andsale of s H. D. Stewart, rebate on school lunch, book, C. G. Osterman, damage to traffic sign,' New York, N1916, ew y of Boston, New Haven & Hartford . R. Co., for Town of Eastham, fires, Town of Harwich' tuition, Townof Eastham use oo f street r and , Coleman & Bro., uses of sweeper and heater, B& Co., discount steam roller, StateAid rendered, International Chariton school bill,r y> for aid furnished, International Trust Co., • rnational Trust rebate 4 notes State Treasurer, bal. Co., of inter'est0, each, State. Treasurer, Corporation an State Treasurer, Bak ration tax for and tax, 1916, State Treasurer, State Aidff1917, 917, State Treasurer, IncomT en tax for 1916, Collector, taxes Weights and Me Collector, of 1916, d Meas�x' Perpetual care of 1917, interest and nterest e nts abatements: $5,037 00 200 34 284 75 2 00 214 00 25 00 18 00 10 00 15 00 100 00 50 00 36 3 65 1 30 35 00 6 00 13 60 108 00 1;387 75 5 00 55 00 55 00 2 10 41 06 52 70 20,000 00 69 44 9 18 3,296 36 17,848 89 316 00 14,868 99 632 00 18 98 1,846 95 44,706 58 18 30 $73,354 28 41 SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES _Disbursements of the Town of Orleans from Jan. 1, 1917, to Dec. 31: Paid: Teachers' salaries, Transportation of pupils, Janitor school building, Fuel for school building, Superintendent of schools, salary, School Committee's salary, Truant officers, School supplies, incidentals, school building and grounds, Board of Health, Assessors, Election officers and Registrars of Voters, Stationery and supplies for town officers, Moth bills, State Aid, Support of poor, Fire Department and fires, Inspection of animals, and slaughtering, Care of cemetery and soldiers' lots, Town Hall expenses and janitor, Snow Library, Miscellaneous expenses, Interest on tax notes and certification of notes, Second District Court, orders, Highways, sidewalks and bridges, Town officers' salaries, not including School Committee, Expenses of Town officers, Abatement of taxes, Public playground, Town dump, Street lighting, Tree Warden, and spraying town trees, Tax notes, Nos. 23, 24, 25 and 26, of $5,000 each, Sealer of Weights and Measures, and supplies, Suppression of crime, Legal expenses, Town cemetery lots, perpetual care, Herring brook, County tax, 1917, State tax, 1917, State highway tax, 1917, Soldiers' exemption, Emergency war fund, Exec. of Henry C. Nickerson perpetual care cemetery lots, deposited C. C. Five Cents Savings Bank, Franklin Freeman's perpetual care cemetery lots, de- posited C. C. Five Cents Savings Bank, Street Light Club, for expenses, Cash in treasury and on deposit Dec. 31st, 1917, $5,436 18 `2,156 00 787 50 436 50 477 81 200 00 15 00 2,738 39 64 32 289 50 233 75 99 338 372 702 65 108 22 517 382 1,209 342 40 1,854 1,470 203 265 34 28 450 86 20,000 31 29 462 18 93 10,417 17,380 470 64 232 19. 51 00 35 43 80' 85 43 39 54 45 31 46 00 20 79 73 65 00 95 00 66 40 80 30 00 58 00 00 60 77 100 00 50 23 2,550 00 98 21 $73,354 28 TOWN CLERK'S REPORT AUDITORS. REPORT We have this clay examined Selectmen and com thealso pared them. accounts accounts of the Collector ofWith the Taxes accounts, and fuyd them all correct. Orleans, January 5; 1918 and vouchers of the Treasurer's books, and Trust Fund SPARROW HIG T , CI\S WARREN.G. SMITH, Auditor :s_ BIRTHS RECORD IN THE TOWN OF ORLEANS FOR THE YEAR 1917 January 4. Thomas Chamblin, son to Fred Crabe and Mary Young. April 20. David Lawrence, son to Ralph W. Snow and liable F. Spofford. April 23. Dorothy Frances, daughter to George D. Knowles and Eliza Jane Higgins. May 5. Addison Gordon, son to Addison Mathews and Ruth E7nesta Natino. May 23. Robert, son to Reuben J. Marvel and Anna Beau - regard. May 26. Howard Ellsworth, son to Roy S. Rogers and Geor- geanna C. Bent. June 7. George Morton, son to Cyrus C. Young and Etta May Lewis. July 3. Anna Renee Marie, daughter toa Leonce Arnaud and Paule Solomon. July 10. Denise Esther Marie, daughter to Ralph J. Des- champs and Bertha Vandenbrouck. 44 August 22. Raymond Herbert, son to Herbert P and Laura M. Hill. F. Ellis August 25.. Infant not named —son Lucy E. Chase. September 28. Stillborn.. October 14. (Unable t me), son to James Macfarland October 16. Edward Burns, son to Thomas Effie P. Clarke, onras B. R. Crowell and November 16. Edith Raymond, Nick- erson Marion P. ldr daughter to Raymond E. Nick and r Eldredge. and Agnes Sterling get name), g Finley. December 25. Harriette ' and Kathleen Melvin Isabel], �hdau„' to ter Roland L. May° to George W. Ryder and February 1 Louis Lucinda Beat • Winslow Eldredge, a February Ford (Snell), ae' age J6, of Orleans, to 8. �1), age 50, of Orleans. Mildred Cleorawliaua Davis Cahoon Eldredge February 19 ' age 22 ,age 23, of Orleans, to Solo ' of Chatham, Mass. Julia Augustan Oh (Bassett), Bas Higgins, e ) sa age •73, of Orleans, to age 71, of Orleans. Orleans. MARRIAGES RECORDED FOR TH N THE TOWN OF ORLEANS January 22. L YEAR 1917 Vesta Iv David Peterson Delano ane, age 19, of , age 22, , of Orleans, to a ns. 45 March 22. Raymond Edward Nickerson, age 23, of Orleans, to Marion Franklin Eldredge, age 23, of Orleans. April 23. Harvey. Joseph Gardner, age 28, of Orleans, to Ger- trude May Peters, age 17, of Orleans. May 19. Harold Francis- Nickerson,' age 22, of Orleans, to Gladys Russell Holmes, age 20, of Barnstable, Mass. June 25. Eldredge Fullerton Shaw, age 19, of Chatham, Mass,. to Isabiella Freeman, age 18, of Orleans. June 25. Frederick John Thompson, Jr., age 29, of Red Bluff, Cal., to Margaret Elisabeth Williams, age 19, of Provincetown, Mass. June 30. Ambrose Eldredge Young, age 34, of Orleans, to Hazelle Alice Danforth, age 26, of Waltham, Mass. August 4. George Alfred Whittman,, age 21, of Orleans, to Gladys Jennette Cahoon, age 18, West Dennis, Mass. August 10. John Greenough Rogers, age 71,- of Orleans, to Betsey Rogers (Hopkins), age 65, of Wellfleet, Mass. August 26. George Reed Whittier, age 21, of Philadelphia, Pa., to Anna Warren Jenkins, age 21, of Wilmington, Del. August 29. Elnathan Edwin. Eldredge, Jr., age 20, of Or, leans; to Bertha Morse Wilson, age 27, of Orleans. November 22. Leon Francis Stevens, age 24, of Orleans, to Catharine Josephine Murray, age 27, Beverly, Mass. November 25. Willis Stanley Gould, age 26, of Orleans, to • Mary Foster Weeks Bard, age 20, of Orleans. 47 46 November 29. Roscoe Joshua Nickerson a to Lizzie Freeman Charles age re 21,of Orleans, 19, of Orleans. December 23.' Ste phen Savory Gammons, age 21, of Carver, Mass., to Alice May Bassett, age 20, of Orleans. DEATHS RECORDED IN THE TOWN- OF ORLEANS FOB THE YEAR 1917 January 13. Elizabeth M. Townsend, 54 years. Epilepsy. January. 29. Isaac H. Chase, .69 years Pneumonia lobar. , 6 months, 10 daS"s February 7. Seraphim H. Smith, 69 Carcinoma of stomach, February 21. Tabitha Bronchitis, C Iclowles, 93 acute. March 20. Dorcas noma of Smith 72 years, 4 StOmacll. • April 1. T1 bar Sherman, 82 years, monia 11 months, 20 days. Pne• - Aprih8 Sarah A. Atkins, 83 years, 7 months, 22 day C bl' s• Years, 1 month, 23 days. Years, 6 months, 29 days' months, 11 clays. Carci- ere al April 10. Nanc Lobar Y Marie Edwards 57 Pneumonia Years, 4 months, 16 days. June 17. williatn Wei from L' S A Springl e ld rifle unknown. Gun nd caliber shot won 30, model 19G3. June 18. Clifford L. Harris, age 2 months, 15 days. Acute miliary tuberculosis. July 3. Earl Clifford Rogers, age 18 years, 3 months, 2 days. Peritonitis tubercular. August 15. Harriet H. Hurd, age 59 years, 7 months, 6 days. Valvular heart disease and cirrhosis of liver. August 25. Flora Maud Knowles, age 35 years, 8 months, 26 days. Nephritis chronic parenchymatous. August 31. Infant, age 6 days. of bileduct. Icterus, due to malformation September 10. Adeline R. Reeves Fuller, age 81 years, 10 months, 12 days. Hemorrhage cerebral. September .27. Herbert H. C. Sewall, age 45 years, 4 months, 6 days. Carcinoma of liver. September 28. Infant. Stillborn. October 14. Arthur F. Peterson, age 60 years, — months, — days. Paralysis agitaus. • November 20. Margaret E. Whitton, age 78 years, 2 months, 7 days. Cerebral .hemor'rha.ge. December 3. Emma G. Nickerson, age 39 years, 2 months, 20 days. Valvular heart disease. 48 DOGS LICENSED Number of male dogs 74, at $2.00 Number of female dogs 20, at $5.00, Less Town Clerk's fees, Paid Coutty Treasurer, $148 00 100 00 $248 00 18 80 $229 20 JOSEPH II. CUMMINGS, Town Clerk. SNOW LIBRARY LIBRARIAN'S REPORT Number volumes bought, 197 Number volumes replaced, 3 Number volumes presented, 2 Number volumes catalogued, 6,472 Number volumes taken out, 7,325 Number magazines taken out, 1,271 Number borrowers, 850 MARY S. CUMMINGS, Librarian. TRUSTEES' REPORT The Snow Library fund of $4,000 and legacy of Jonathan Young, $500, are deposited with the Cape Cod Five Cents Sav- ings Bank and the Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Boston. RECEIPTS FOR TNT; YEAR Balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1918, Interest from funds, Received from fines, $340 65 179 25 35 34 $555 24 4 ostr-i 50 DISBURSEMENTS De Wolfe, Fiske Co., books, Matthew Bender Gaylord Bros. supplies,& Co. book, Magazines, 1917, Magazines, 1918, Express, postage, etc., Balance in treasury Dec 31, 1917, $225 66 10 50 1 50 2 00 2 00 5 46 308 12 $555.24 JOs$UA ICILBLTRN, GEORGE P. }IODGDON, ARTITUR T. PARKER Orleans, Mass., Dec. 31, 1917. Trustees. • TOWN ?MEETINGS ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT 1917 Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. Art. 2. To elect all necessary towns officers for the ensuing year to be voted for o one ballot. A shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicatingn liquors in this towno ? One Selectman for three years. One Overseer of Poor for three years. One Assessor for three years. One member of the Board of Health for three years. One Town Clerk for one year. One Town Treasurer for one year. One Collector of Taxes for one year. One School Committee for three years. One Trustee of the Snow Library for three years. Two Auditors for one year. Two Constables for one year. One Tree Warden for one year. Three Shellfish Constables for one year. Art. 3. Tso act on the annual report of the Selectmen and other town officers. Art. 4. To see what sums of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate to defray the town's expenses for the ensuing year. Art. 5.. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue, and make the same payable from the revenue of the present municipal year. Art. 6. By request, To see if the town will vote to pay 30 cents per hour for labor and 25 cents per hour for horse for work on town roads. Art. 7. By request, To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money sufficient to build an oil road from the corner near the house of 52 Thomas VV. Hi Francis Ho s,gins, thence easterly to the pkinslength of road 3,900 feet. Toad near the house of Art. 8. By priate a sum of quest, To see if the town will vote at the State highway sufficient to harden to raise and appro- tinuin ghway near the n with oil the goad beginning g easterly by the estate reside landing of the late Wilton of John Kendrick, and con - Art at Namequoit salt water Wilton Lockwood to the tows► 9. By request, To see if pond. priate the the town ginning sum of one thousand dollars to w111 vote to raise and appro" near the Universalist Church harden with oil the road be - direction to the river. Art. 10. and continuing in a southeasterly priate By request, To see if the residence um of hundred dollar six town will vote to raise and appr0" route 1 t Bence the residence oary Twiss f a southerly dis to rection oil road from near th i 11. To see if the T. L. 'Knowles. to the end of the mai money sufficient town will Measures to purchase vote to raise and of as asked for supplies for the appropriate a sum Art. 12. To see by the 'State Sealer.' Sealer of Weights and he town vote edsugers f 13x oshundred dollars ($600.00) 11 to raise and a the peA s of fish, fruiee t tithend town wi voteefray legal ice to ee pe amended as too see if the tovegetables for license. Art. a price to be paid by ant Ba allow the dredging will vote request that the law be so Y g for p ate 15. By request flounders in the waters of pi` -- ant sum of , To see if the town will vote eri athes residence r s to harden to raise and apPbe, direction by Eldo with oil the road priate 16. By request, of Isaac Hopkins and running in a west. the ' T° see if the mall• residence sum °f est, To to °f Eunice to harden will vote to raise and apPrO� priate the s By request To wain to the Easthain h line.il he road from near the beachn�ng near the resium of dence ohardensee if the ty' oil tvote to raise and apPr°^ Art. 18. By re f Clifford L. Ha r s and extending toan East the beginpriate the quest T of Rock Harbor a600.00 to harde if a town will vote rasean r°� Art.eet. 19. d and Brieedge Stre�th oil the road from the cornet priate a sum By request, T to the Eastham line, distance residence of A flicient ° s elf the town , about 1,000 feet. Free the ar n with oil the will vote to raise and appr°- t man to the endoftheca wmiiencing near road, distance 53 Art. 20. By request, To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to harden with oil the road near the residence of Charles F. Mayo to the State road near the residence of Frank Gould. Art. 21. By request, To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money sufficient to harden with oil the town road in South Orleans, leading from the State highway, near the residence of the late Zenus Rogers, and continuing westerly by the residence of Albert F. Long to the Brewster road. Art. 22. By request, To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sufficient sum of money to grade and surface with oil the road beginning at William Quinn's corner and extending in an easterly di- rection to the oil road at the railroad crossing. Art. 23. By request, To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of eight hundred dollars to harden with oil the road in Skaket, beginning near the residence of T. Frank Ellis and continuing to the shore. Art. 24. By request, To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of two thousand dollars to harden with oil the road in East Orleans commencing near the house of Lewis H. Farlow and con- tinuing easterly towards the residence of Asa F. Mayo. Art. 25. To se if the town will vote to appoint a Committee of four citizens to consider in conjunction with the School Committee the needs of the town for better school accommodations, and report their findings at the next town meeting. Art. 26. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to sell a lot of land containing about seven thousand feet (7,000) on Nauset Road near the residence of Charles C. Seaver. Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to establish a herring fishery at the Dean Sparrow pond "so-called," and instruct the Selectmen to take necessary steps in order to establish it, by opening the drain and sluiceway connecting the Dean Sparrow pond with the pond near the estate of Alonzo Chase. Art. 28. To act on any other business that may legally come before the meeting. ANNUAL TOWN MEETING February 5, 1917 Article 1. Joseph L. Rogers elected Moderator and sworn. Art. 2. Voted the polls may be kept open until 2.30 P. M., later extended by vote to 3 P. M. Also voted that after the 55 54 counting of ballots cers and declaration of the vote for tool ofti, this meeting adjourn to Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1917, at 1.�0 o'clock P. M. Polls opened town s opened n all t 9.15 o'clock A. M. and proceeded to vote f,o'. P011s closed at o11 0110 ballot. The vote for . 3 o'clock P. M. male ballots town Officers vas as follows whole nun1�cr of P01. Select fit' 238; female, 44. men d of $calth, each for , Assessor, Boll , . 3 , Overseer of Poor anclCh 11`5 r P7 0aCh ror23, and was declared George C. Dyer hacl 109, a 1 TOW Clerk ed elected. fo' • One, Joseph $ 'Treasurer :nydeaCrosl, lector of Tales, cast o 11001 Co 1neungs hd 222. ote 270, Eln 1nlnittee for 143, and was athan E Eldred whole nunibe��1°c�,ei.so�� cleelared eleeteclbe had 127, Ervin C 'yo• had 1, Geprtee for Sno e Yoa Two .A.-„,.ge P. �Od Llbraly for 3 years, David L' G. mith 18°aufor t 1 Year, Sparilow Hi einsthacl 191, lV�'ii� G OrP �t Davr of ere elected. gg aY 1 110 Tro0 °nPort -1128' 'aYs for 1 year, Rolane d L. 1l perry 12g warden f and was elected. ctt �Q Two Co anal enPs el r 1 Year, Frank H. Snow g8, Bvci larval nstables ected. ud an lots hl o6'Shell f h0yfwere Year, George H. Fiske 151, J 1cS cast, 17 sh Constables °£ 10 FSaak Tl. snojv tables for 1 year, whole liumber vo , scatt0ri hacl 14 L• T y t0s each ng 23 4, Everett W. Perry 6, �Vest0i d �'cr No 0 dote on A• 11d the thr one except the three above 11a At 5 30 11�e11s0 : ee above named were elected 1EAn'-1013. 6°190ek p 5; no, 150. 1�11c�1,,�, alle to TO Tat 130, meeting adjourned t° . M. J17 a °laerlby thing adjourneo clock P from February J'ar3 e Moderator at 1.30 P. 111 rebid j3o. DoP fli Art. 3. Laid on the table. Art. 4. Voted, the town accept the gross amount recom- mended by the Selectmen, and to add $100.00 to the Miscella- neous Appropriation. Also the amount for schools be changed in detail as requested by the School Committee, but -not to exceed the total amount for schools recommended by the Selectmen: Amounts as in detail below. Town Officers salaries, Support of poor, Support of schools, Transportation of pupils, Books and supplies for schools, Fuel for schools, Repairs and incidentals for school buildings grounds, Repairs on highways, sidewalks and bridges, Snow Library and grounds, Interest on tax notes, Miscellaneous, Board of Health, Assessors, Election Officers and Registrars of Voters, Abatement of taxes, Brown tail moth and caterpillars, Inspection of animals and buildings, Inspection of slaughtering, Fires, Care of town cemtery and tomb, Care of soldiers' monument and graves, Street lighting, Tree Warden, Sealer of Weights, Stationery and supplies for town officers, Expenses of town officers, Care town dumping ground, and $1,700 00 800 00 7,100 00 2,000 00 650 00 500 00 300 00 2,000 00 450 00 400 00 1,100 00 100 00 350 00 225 00 125 00 400 00 50 00 75 00 75 00 25 00 25 00 450 00 25 00 25 00 150 00 300 00 75 00 59 58 Received from town of Orleans, appro- priation, Received from Camp Ruanset Girls , mittee appointed by the town, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to carry into effect such additions, alterations and repairs, and to adopt any and all measures $50 00 for the execution of the same, and act fully thereon. 23 00 73 ittee• Art. 28. Vote continue to ,the South Orleans School House COlnn�ltt services serve, Voted, the Moderator be paidX10.0 11I1ZRy Off, APPROPRIATION S Appropriation Appropriations antler Art n. Appl•opriati0 der .Art. 12 Appropriations tluC er Art. 27, under Art. 28,, Total appropriations, Voted to adjourn, • E. E. ELDREDGE, Chairman of Conan 1i JOSEPH H. COWINGCle►'�' Tom SPECIAL TOWN MEETING T ErTING WARR� illg rticle I ° T June 26, 1917 fee ell June a Moderator to preside at said Art 2 acldit . I3y rec fls proposecllberationst'auo see if the town will v°'te tuilal�¢ �' plan: anal5rec firs upon the see by the CoG` cations accept $20,6� Art. 3. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of five hundred dollars as a war emergency fund to be expended as needed under the direction of the Selectmen and Public Safety Committee. Art.4. To see if the town will vote to accept the provi- sions of Chapter 128 of the Acts of 1915 relative to the plan- ing and cultivating of clams and ,quahaugs in the County of Barnstable. Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to establish a reser- 60 � voir in Depot Square for fire protection and appropriate money for same. Art. 6. To see if the town will vote to motorize the fire engine, and appropriate money for the same. Art. 7. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate six hundred dollars for miscellaneous purposes to make up the deficiency caused by snow bells being paid from that fund. Art. 8. • To see if the town will vote to assume the land clam - ages caused by the State widening the road leading by the resi- dence of Charles F. Poor at South Orleans. SPECIAL TOWN MEETING June 26, 1917 Article 1. Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.45 P. M. Warrant read. Harry H. Snow appointed teller, 60 and sworn. Joseph L. Rogers was elected Moderator, and sworn. Art. 2. Report of the Town Meetin Committee appointed, at the Annual town for g Feb. 5, 1917, to consider better school accommodations, the needs of the and to report at the next town meetin g, given. below: TO THE CITIZENS OP ORLEANS Your Committee a conditions of the ppointed .by the town ing forward toe school c budding, equipment to investigate the the pupils, have requirements and quarters, 1001;- following report: of the State, and the needs of port: to their duty and wish to submit the At the first meeting fully inspected,, of the Committee cation considered,the requir6ments o f ' the building was carc- school system the needs and the State Board of olers discussedstem to keep pace with the present day demands of a It was the other school systems were thin unanimous ingly it the way of eli ci of the Committee that some. was vote improved quarter, meet the Co s must be made. Accord - This was Committee at a subsequent oy architects to quent and invite them Architects ofOne' and Mr. Gore nieetin present plans Boston, met with of the firm of Hurd & Core, your inspection, specifications h the Committee and the orations n' have been the e which are, in the hail for with the advice result In our consider °f the Committee's delib' decisions ations of the architects. (1.) Z .e have arrived at the fo11oFN`ij1$ That to Righ School bar out from our (2.) That pupils would be High School the Eastha� here, make the existing plans decidedthe d loss to the towel• only and s present need addition specifications exhibited ds °f th aii--1 alterations, as will meet e se ool children 61 (3.). That the proposed alterations and additions are more economical of space and expense, than any of the plans con- templating new building, separated from the old building, to be used for a manual training, lunch and laboratory build- ing, or for a fourth grade building. (4.) That the financial condition of the town may be better this year than within the next few years. After very careful consideration of all matters before mentioned, the Committee voted to present the matter before you and ask for an appropriation of $8,000, to carry into execution the proposed plans. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS DOWNS, Chairman, SYLVANUS L. ELDREDGE, ORVILLE W. CROSBY, CLIFFORD U. HARRIS, ABBOTT C. NICIKERSON, ELWIN C. NICKERSON. A minority report of the same Committee is as follows: Mr. Moderator, and Citizens of the Town of Orleans, Gentlemen: While I endorse all that is contained in the report of your Committee which was appointed to consider the matter of school accommodations, and have signed my name to that re- port as one of the aforesaid Committee, yet I feel that to make my position clear, I should add supplementary report, if you choose to call it such. As stated above, I endorse all that is contained in above mentioned report; but the statement "That we may .be better situated financially this year than in the future" —may have a different significance according to the judgement of the 63 62 individual. Possibly our financial condition may be more fa- vorable for increased appropriation Taking into account s next year. even. Ube town unt unprecedented conditions •confronting and the at this time on account w of new tax legislation, all over greats land , and other economic conditions existing rate vhis , and the necessary trebbling of our tax year on account of raised, I cannot appropriations all ready voted raise rin the tax conscientiously advocate a still greater I rate of nine or ten the dollars per thousand. 1. pro advocate tithe proposed condition appropriations for the school inf asked for that not more than $2,000 of the amountol be raised by taxation during the present year. ' Respectfully submitted, ORVILLE W. CROSBY• After examination and don of discussion on o vanes f the plans, and the. explanation by the sum L. Eldredge, subs on the subject, eight thousand ittecl in writing, on motion of Sy the purpose of dollars raised it was voted, that the school making it raised and a for building ancing such additions appropriate in condition °f surroundings and such changes in our or allotments our school dings as of °l life. That will relieve the crowded Live years two thousand the amount be raised in sinU Voted feet be , a Building sum total eo dais a year for four eonsecu_ appointed g Committee to raised and that Co carry R appropriated' n Committee they the Moderator. y the above vote into ef" the Selectmen and Abbott e later appointed, $bat of School Committee Chai m °f Art. 3. Voted, C. Nickerson. appropriated t. 3. tea, $500 (F the dire as a war Llnive hundre State direction o£ d dollars) be raised and guards and the e� ge1Cy Fund men, the , to be expended -alder e Chairman of the public Safety-ain of 2nd Compant e Comm • Art. 4. On motion of Charles F. Poor that the provisions of Art. 4 be accepted, it *as voted in the negative. Art. 5. Indefinitely postponed. Art. 6. Indefinitely postponed. Art. 7. On motion of Edgar II. Upham voted, six hundred dollars be raised and appropriated for miscellaneous purposes, to make up the deficiency in that fund caused by snow bills be- ing paid from it. Art. 8. Voted, the land damages in this article be paid by the town, the amount to be determined by a Committee of three, one to be named by the owner of the land, one by the Selectmen, and that the two committee so named elect the third member. Voted, the Moderator receive ten dollars for his services, but he declined to receive any remuneration. Voted to adjourn. JOSEPH H. CUMMINGS, Town Clerk. SPECIAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT July, 1917 Art. 1. To elect a Moderator to preside at said meeting. Art. 2. To see if the town will vote to rescind the vote Passed under Article 2 in the Warrant for a special town meet- ing held June 26, 1917, whereby the totem voted that the sum of eight thousand dollars be raised and appropriated for the pur- Pose of making such additions and such changes in our school 64 building and surroundings as will relieve the crowded condi tions of our school life, that the amount be raised in sums o allotments of two thousand dollars a year for four co nsecutiv years until the sum total be raised and appropriated. Art. 3. To see if to the school the town will vote to construct additions ootheed bus ildand sng pecifications accepted.by the Conumit- teeficieno sum the town, and of money to carry to raise and rt a adopt any and all measures for Y the same into effect, to and act •full Y thereon. the carrying out of the same' SPECIAL TOWN ME STING July 20, 1917 Warrant read. Meeting called to order Geor at 2 P.M. by the Town Clerk - pointed Tellers ge C. Dyer and S and sworn. Sparrow Ffiggv n elected Moderator and sworn Article 1. By u vote, Joseph L. Rogers Art. 2. On motion of passed under meeting held Article 2 in the Downs, Voted that the Thomas Do vat the "sum of ei 1 June 26, 1917, warrant for a special tom ted -eight thousand p for usand dollars the town voted that changes the purpose of liars be raised. ria, the n our school ma1cing such and approp crowds building and additions and sucl�' lieve raised d condition surroundings as will re`' Year for our sums or of our school uric' b an consecutive life, that the amo d appropriated", consecutive years. of two thou and dollars a ' be rescinded. until the sum total be raise' was 65 Art. 3. Moved by Sylvanus L. Eldredge, "That the town construct additions to the school building, increasing the floor space thereof, as proposed by the plans and specifications ac- cepted by the Committee appointed by the town, and that the sum of eleven thousand dollars- be raised and appropriated for the purpose of constructing such additions, the said amount to be raised as follows: Two thousand to be raised and appro- priated from the taxes of the year 1917, and the Town Treas- urer is hereby authorized to borrow, with the approval of the Selectmen, the balance of nine thousand dollars, and to issue the town's notes therefor, one note for $2,250 payable from the taxes of 1918, one note for $2,250 payable from the taxes of 1919, one note for $2,250 payable from. the taxes of 1920, one note for $2,250 payable from the taxes of 1921." This motion was lost by a written Yes and No ballot, the check list being used. Whole number of ballots cast 80, Yes 22, No 58. Under this article a motion was made to pay the architects a sum of money for the plans and specifications that had been accepted by the Committee. This motion was declared "out of order" by the Moderator. Motion was made to pay the Moderator the su of five dol- lars fbr his services; but he declined to receive anym remunera- tion. Voted to adjourn. JOSEPH H. CUM1VIINGS, Town Clerk. s I ANNUAL REPORT OF THE School Committee AND Superintendent of Schools OF THE TOwX of ORLEANS FOR THE YEAR 191 BELISLE PTG. & PCB. CO., WORCESTER, ilIj SS. 1918 CALENDAR, Il 918 Winter Term All schools openn eaknuary 2 and close March 2 Vacation. ---One • •All schools o &� h school open. 2 Spring' Term mentar es June 21-12 weeks. Y schools close June 7-10 weeks. gksh school op Fall Term, 20 X12 20,14 1l, weeks, y`'uools o Dec Vacatio pen September 16, close npne weal;. A11 schools op Winter Term. 1919 pen Atonday December. 30, 1918, a Very Sat $oli0a�s Dig Term Time 30th, ,uraa kha i1 sgi1 epte heanuary 1st, February 22nd Ab day ng b�Y and tcI,. (Labor 'following. ORGANIZATION SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1917 THOMAS DOWNS, Chairman, ORVILLE W. CROSBY, Sec'y, ELWIN C. NICKERSON, Term expires 1918 Term e res 1919 Term expires xpi 1920 DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT LORING G. WILLIAMS CORPS OF TEACHERS December, 1917 HERBERT D. STEWART, RACHEL E. FELCH, F. DOROTHA HATCH, THOMAS PETERS, MATILDA J. GAMBLE, A. LILLIAN PARKER, DORIS E. PIPER, CHARLOTTE ELLIOT, i\ usic Principal of High School Assistant of High School Assistant of High School Grammar School 2nd Grammar Intermediate Primary and Drawing Supervisor Fi _' ens September ,,. ce nber 70 SCHOOL PHYSICIANS J. pEL, At D JAMES McG-"' GLO • Janitor GEORGE G. HOPTCTNS Attendance Officers • gOpNs SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT Orleans, Mass., January 8, 1918. To the Citizens of the Town of Orleans. custom, the Committee here - In accordance with prevailing of the administration of your with submits its annual report schools for your consideration. received has considerable The transportation of pupils town, both considerable igh thought. The children iio� a sections the being conveyed, and Elementary, outside automobile buses. overdrawn, in every instance, by been slightly for same has forg corning year.w The appropriation will be necessary and a greater amount entire satisfaction. The, plan seems to be giving time the flush toilets were in - The cesspools put to be inadequate, and they have beenua staled were found e sized cesspool has been p t menaceto A nemv larg in at considerablehealth. expense. an article to be inserted A year ago the Committee crud Committee was appointed in the Town Warrant -whereby school quarters. That Com- bY the town to c town forrger an appropation to enlarge the mittee asked the l�iow the results. They felt present building• All well paid for its efforts.this long felt The they ow d a futl to the town, in bringing that owed a duty de- voters- rests layed matter before the The responsibility no longer The town took action. the town• upon the Committee, but upon 72 The 00,,_, e�, in an eitb ini� n ad t 1t t° earnestly belive in larger .qua ,rte .... -1 School assis 1ng n'eand will the building or in a new high. 11 Possiule to me any move and give tQ, T° relieve .,. that end. e °sable aa�ushe °r0 decl condition of the bu'iding'ro `'��� two m°re re able desks three lete' The main t° have been placed in oolp cation aucia1 scat be equiped to make the change a clflselit year, area red b ement� made up according t0 th rese Year, na the y the State the estimates for the '' 0,` the pr;,, the Superyr0°°moo of the Superintendent, jgh o Nl'1 your attenti bool -Music and Drawing i°" 10 Reapect ,lly gubmitted 011 RONIAS DOWNS,rfh air ORVILLE W. CROSS E. C. NICKERSON $7,100 00 2,000 00 650 00 500 00 300 00 1,387 75 108 00 200 34 35 00 3 65 2 10 $12,28.6 84 $200 00 54 50 477 81 159 93 15 00 1,355 00 1,400 00 FINANCIAL STATEMENT AVAILABLE FUNDS Support of schools, Transportation, Books and supplies, Fuel, Repairs and incidentals, :nigh school tuition from Eastham, Tuition from city of Boston, Dog tax, Rebate on kitchen supplies, Rebate on telephone, toll calls, bill, Discount on Norman C. SaYn er ExpENPITURES Salaries of School Committee, Legal Other expenses of Committee meeting advice, travel to annual etc., telephones drawing•contracts, Salary of Superintendent, Music and salary of Supervisor of Drawing, census, Attendance Officers and salary High School Principal, Salaries High school teachers, 75 Salaries Bop es Elementary teachers, and supplies, Janitor's ruel Wages, AZiseellaneo pairs us expenses of o and incidentals, School operation, Transportation, health Sundries, , un�es, insurance, n , Lune suu nce, athletics, NNew h room ew equipment, supplies, xpenses oand f cesspool, Expemsesin�', Ur. Stewart to State tion ecurill telephonrY ed e ppliesg htele office tc., for year, ams Total expenditures Total available expendituresnds, Balance' 74 sta- and 2,521 25 389 17 787 50 436 50 448 69 222 70• 50 00 2,156 00 316 26 35 00 874 52 268 59 10 00 6S 96 $12,247 33 $12,286 84 12,247 38 $9463 The t° STx. X11 be $ta ado kATBS FOR 1918 Salaries Ugh' clistri�ecassary for sehoois for all ph °fice wti., Cell teazle an lThlies a°aher 4411111 a llle�'rarnsstage, tele- �e ee a securing e • eOgee Superin e dent ofPanses School Attend - g00 00 pur- r Teachers' salaries, Janitors' wages, Fuel, Janitors' supplies and miscellaneo penses of operation, Repairs and insidentals, Realth, Transportation, 3 auto busses yearly, Books and supplies, New equipment, Homes and desks, AvBostonailable fro outside sources: Eastham tuition, estimated, tuition, atgestimated, Dog tax, estimin d, us ex - at $900 Arts equipment Amount to be raised by taxation Appropriations to be voted as follows: For salaries and administration poses, Fuel, Repairs, Transportation, Books and supplies, 6,380 00 800 00 550 00 • 450 00 300 00 50 00 2,700 00 600 00 350 00 $13,080 00 x $1,400 00 100 00 200 00 1,700 00 $11,3S0 00 7,230 00 550 00 300 00. 2,700 00 600 00 - $11,380 00 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT To the School Committee, Gentlemen :—I herewith submit for approval my tenth annual re your consideration and The tables and data which Port. census ; actuallyfollow show at a glance the school ensus;the of number attending school our employeesoftheCommittee regularly engaged ' ine the workre of endingeducationalsystem; the enrollmentduring h of in June, 1917, and the attendance the school year time. data for the same SCHOOL CENSUS APRIL 1, 1917 Number persons in town years, Number persons in town years, Number persons in town years, between 5 and 7 BOys Girls Totals between 7 and 14 between 14 and 16 Totals, Number 7 persons attending 11 42 12 . 65 school Dec., 84 6 17 59 101 18 30 83 148 105 189 DATA FOR SCHOOL Persons employed in the Superintendent, Drawing, Supervisor Music and Principal High School, Assistants High. School, Elementary teachers, Janitor, ortation, Auto busses for transP Attendance officers,School physicians, JUNE, 1917 ATTENDANCE DATA N b enrolled from other toffs' er state and city wards, / Huber resident pupils enrolled Total enrollment, ed by all 28,910 At :gate' at nee (total days attend i12 tench 151. Aver uPils), ssion, AVe age number days schools Were se Nt'age membership, leehtage of attendance, 77 �E 1917 YEAR ENDING JU ' operation of the schools :- 1 1 1 2 4 1 3 2 2 23 173 203 93.3 or O.° 11' 1 lacing T nth ii P Dols. THE W013,T feat Reno f the se. --..do, , It ' . to g° to ant g doll's the evealwill is not necessary for me Orieans touch wi e ErinciP b yore You and the citizens oftty close oft °£ th ve tile. ,vorl ; generally keeps and the rh p is a Pi.olsr si pace tr ngs of the schools, vvo and ehoo eat more in detail the yea'%as. bee orieans s �e shave aendeavo endeavored hmalce the 78 with the times and with schools of the times. We have been obliged to take to our teaching force four new teachers un- tried in Orleans, but with the majority of them, their previous successful experience and work make it possible for them to take up our work with the least possible delay and loss. Our whole corps of teachers is a strong, earnest, efficient, success- ful body of workers. We have been handicapped in many that are accepted everywhere, as beingways in doing the things teach. But with these the things to do and teach. But th firmnessmany handicaps our teachers have gone and determination to make the most of the, opportunity at hand. Their spirit and work is very com- mendable. To make the surroundings healthful and sanitary, new cess- pools have been constructed. To meet the needs of proper seat- ing of pupils the old non. fromng the hret higher adjustable seats have been removed movable adjustable rrooms' and replaced by the Moulthrop making possible the desks. This is a decided advance step, k p siblegathering. using of the school rooms for any com- munityScouts that ey A request has been granted to the Boy school rooms fort heir e given the privilege meetings. g of using onet of the center, and around g The school should be the com- munity interests and the school house should gather all under community direction of organizations. It is should be o course of the public property, pen overtime for educationalpurposes. Committee, and By vote of the Committee another pure°ses. organize and cal teacher is to be employed, direction and serving carry °n sewing classes and assist in the science elect 'and give instruction in cool�- also, the courses. She will teach i probably ea The assistance of the the woodworking an new teach er ing been abandoned d project work to make it possible for with so d during the be carried on after possible., difficulty bee past term. All this will be done but we shall adapt sure of small and girls °ursely o and unsuitable quarters, everything in our P the situat and give the ho.r, believing that Orleans wi li 79 ih the near future do the thing in the way of school building she ought long ago to have done. THE NEW BUILDING The enlarged which? new building? Or the old bui dine best solution of th e prnew six -year High School building that way. ble Probabl-- Man voters are thinking last annual efforts'"of the Committee appointed by the town that the prof°- itioIlleett. g are to be commended. It may be best it' to have the xnaand i0u was defeated. It has been wholesome the town so freely aired. The Committee has brought it to should bedi e definite step eetina• it before the parents and people' fo e the coming aga'u taken to bring the matter before HIGH SC$OOL CENTER s ORLEANS— A H Orleans fed in the toy;'rai branches o1.,411'te it worth while to have loca vl sever d a Ride °f the best schools anywhere? Courses ini s ed, an cultural well 'd �e and normal rai and ractieal—could be fur colleb agricul "eiloollee f or electi e s iven. CourseS fitting cou black- rses zn o and tee g counting, a fo f Or tore s, courses iii business and ac iron jv0rl'in�, tind aches ' courses in woodworking and automobiles household s and e in shit making, repairing wag braining, cours sthe demaooulcl art$ �'g, courses in .physical a courses faculty, a and home making, etc. Thos otiicient center. such DI, for them —a new building�an cational °en ding to"*ns s e Orl as an ed to sul'r0un an upPor l0 eans on the map dive f°�' lit and °l �'°old be exceedingly attra ng t0 You obtain without tuni their Pu ils would be forthu0nuld hope t0 4r to; suett eo hich neither you nor they co `pith a $22 toltation mbination. rester p0; transp en1ellt aito l. giiam is now with Orleans ; e than $I e reimbur five t° 01.1 Rli school per capita cost of rn°e State; state attx'ac �°� tultao probably paid by. at it eg°eedi �vsteru all these things Such an accom 80 plishment now will make the present .senerof of lion and generations to come honor the citizens of Orleans Pro Over the top" successful for a new building. Give the aP priations< fora building The proposition will be carried t° a issue. FINANCIAL The largest amou for nt of the appropriation is expendedased wages and salaries. ere during the Salaries of teachers have been in too small past ten years about 50%. Salaries are still to educ COnsiaering the % ' menace e atiou to cost of everything else. The tiv eouditions: day is the small salaries a d other unattr si ess and even u G-Ivovernment positions municipal positions, teachers reCeiv killed labor arepaying, p 'than teach mar schoolsn and �v0men who are trainedincolleges and n,iP teachi and in the natural course of events should taw vial hold cgs °Sa1 ,... so, beCause, generally, of the future 0 arc to do successful must continue to be increased if vvc osi" Ahoy k en vaeanteachers and if we are to be able t0 creased' lecl Inds o f supplies The price and amount of coal has inr treb, is repairs Aphes for the schools have doubled and tati° e now e and materials have soared also. Transp°rof the three auto d under thr° .. each e. The bussese, T e year contracts at $900 for naafi twice autos in dew limits and regulations have be portini t eacher r west sections are each traaries ol, e o n as in former years. Thes edda a table elsewhere. Six a teacher°�beThis icrts. sed this year and hereafter for a tea divayes sib ore You an the whole e%Pellhe li°s, le to reduce be matter of salaries and ay be e AreGent reduce there the citizens of Orleans: I'll). nniicl r th dial con eonditiong, they but as I see the ous $10 l f educ eratio ey Must increase. I bespeak Geri the ti`' oi1- ality, norm r ono wor;he men and women engager d Pegs es greater responsib 1 tyr chat acte 81 SCHOOL NURSE Ie the advisability of employing present for your consideration a school nurse. This to be done by the District under th the . plan as the Supervisor of Music and Drawing is now employe CONCLUSION ea.ron- contain again c I feel that the town warrant should committee to an article to see if the town will appoint a this building, to the old siaer ac new school building or an addition again consider this that the parents and voters of the town may vital matter. Respectfully submitted, LORING G.. WILLIAMS, Superintendent of Schools. Report of the High School. Principal To the Superintendent of the Orleans schools : I respectfully submit to report. you for consideration a sixth annual • A In it are indicated the principal features and changes that have characterized the work of the past year in Orleans . High School. The great war in which the nation is engaged its effect upon school gabed is not without its and activities. Discussion of the moral, eco- patriotic aspects of the the work in English war is freely encouraged and thssons, both English, and Civics and in History is tingedrugwith has the To instruct g that the great struggle has to would be otherwise than this in these stern. days to rob the children of of thinking soberly and the experience of feeling d valY� able to ben lost. acting kindly_ Ira the first experience too valu- dividual Liberty Loan subscriptions purchased campaign the school through in- Fivi ual s,subscriptions Liberty Bond and. the Callas i this Girls, issue. sacrificing their summer of of the second Thees Tpresent Senior outing,ss a bought two bon contributed Class have taken two bonds and ucon clothing and Camp Fire Girls during the ear hayf have grven generously articles the Christ cull to the Belgian Relief ive , Y to the Halifax Relief Fund and to activities are be remembered of the Boston Post. I believe that such mbered after t while and that the lessons they teach At the close of will for he formal lessons are forgotten. similar reasons vering term. Miss stile During their s severed ther Wilson and Miss N helpful three Years, connections with the school. A ul and constr teaching fiance in fulls active service g they rendered Till nil all with every the school. They were at all Y attempt to enlarge the scope 83 and r rove the quality of the education offered by the school. Their 81. ccessors, Miss Felch and Miss Batch, have brought gnnto their work excellent personal and educational equipment int confident that most satisfactory results will follow from the industr the various activities of the school. y Ytnd zeal they manifest in the work in English and Miss Felch has charge of and Science. Fr such and Miss Hatch of the work in Latin The common sense, tactfitl` and optimistic instruction. results for Elliot in Music and Drawing is obtaining sP hl enjoy their her all her classes. The pupils now thpi0�g previous. Years' work in music —a marked change from sonic P direction of a 1 am glad that thegrammar school is undr fine e : abil- str firmness and ne teachir1g h itY of teacher. The egpnteenaeg0°altering class in the high Peters guar a splendid 0h001 for next year. are giving The new adjustable desks rovaa of all saris movable and adr7 with the instant al'Pa ovided for faction and they have met been P ' itt�hO have seen them. New music books have b and book -keep as o e ate editions. 9. Sanford n s Ie414_an. H. classes. The worn outo d tests have texts have been replaced by up to the English Digest e c-hlobi. n History chart and co pies pitiow eel: o f the LaterarY -allied. Eighteen cop er the phases ° basis for the Il sh excellent material for certain the. source history cl�Per classes in English and pa ° nnecton wltll the tv0cusa°n of current events in lunch depart- --04‘.rk lies left the art of this ThIii e searin prices of all food suPpast dune: nd provision s ut with a deficit of about $40 0he fall term the coming has eit has been overcome dtirib�lflnCe of it beforetheir luncheons 411, been made to make up the Purchase receding e • The f the pupils ivied 131 terial1Y fro 0pkins Yo hoof. The menumajority ohas n° instakuig servi•etinned succeorded for ss of this s The efficient and Pa e coo • a -mat nt an a great measure for the >) is t0 be ae Y feel that anent of the school. 1 vcr0a a hole. the thih.nk that a year othe eus fool system as gh school and for 84 a spirit of co-operation and a unity of purpose for better things educationally pervades the whole system —pupils, teachers and school officials. It is pleasing to work under such conditions. There is still need, as there always will be, of improvement and of improvements. These needs do not tend to decrease with the passing of the years. The schools and I hope that the seeds have ahead must continue to grow no distant date make Orleans the y sown that will at educational center for this section of the Cape. Respectfully submitted, HERBERT D. STEWART. Orleans, Mass., Jan. 9, 1918. Report of Supervisor of Music Mr. Loring G. Williams, Superintendent of Schools. 6 Orleans, Mass., Jan. 2, 1918. Dear Sir : the The following is mar first report as supervisor of music in public schools. ales with the tech - I aw using rote songs in the Prunar3' more cork nical Work This necessitates 11I presented the the board• the extra work• Y al%hl lie teachers but results a fL fundofsongs for the child's these grades is to provide age in tThe" vocabulary. grades are at that a� The They �vhic Pupils in the intermediate b their school worms Y .read h drill forms an essential part of should sPend much time on technical work that they and meter pret the songs correctly sight singing 7re he do much g se s grammar grades should the pupils end three parts. I hope to inspire though there is eater love for music. good work, forma rigs -ill he high school chorus is doing pot, in time to Seh a chance for improvement. the hearty co °01 orchestra and glee club. to speak °f committee ° I wish to take this opportunity you and. `°t' yolon of the teachers, and to thank or your interest and help• Respectfully submitted' �LJ�10T Co RLOxTB Report ®f 5'Pervis r ©f Drawin g Orleans, Mass. , Jan. 2, 1918. Mr. Loring G. Williams, Superin tendent of Schools. D ea r Sir : In submittin g my first report of schools, I feel that the work in the H ma�drawin g in the public v ery satisfactor. .. oritY, of classes has been y.there is room for a grea t deal of hard work to make drawing take its proper place in the child's edu cation. I am endeavoring to en coura� e in div idu al ideas as confi- dence and self-reliance b are thu s established. _ Upon reaching the grammar grades the Pu pil should ha ve a valu e. feelin g for for m, color and design that will 'be of permanent The work in the high school is the large classes an d the short periods. rog1essing slowly owing to work ea su ccess. Thteachers hwe given their hearty su pport in ma king the Yours respectfully, CHARLOTTE T. ELLIOT. S, DE CE MBER, 1917 CO RPS OF TB Home A ddress Richmond, Me. Cor nish, Me. C" Exeter, N. H. O 0 z CO Wobu rn, Ma ss. C CO co toi cts d 49' O r+; -4 PC1 CO CO C O O • ,-i ,--� . r+ CA "j5 bA 0 U hi) a) sal ti g w o x o o as z 0 0 o 6. 'N I Assist ant High Rachel E. Fetch Assistant High • 04 a <_ �= Hyan nis Normal a oS 0 0 0 2nd Gramm ar Intermediate Lowell Normal a a F. Dorotha H atch Thom as Peters Matilda J. Gamble A. Lillian P arker Doris E. Piper 88 PUPILS CLASSIFIELD BY GRADES, DEC., 1917 High XII • XI 4 6 10 X 7 10 17 5 6 11 Grammar VIII 7 13 20 VII 7 15 22 Second Grammar 6 10 16 VI 9 V 8 17 Intermediate IV 8 7 15 10 10 Primary III 6 20 II 4 6 12 I 11 4 8 10 21 School Grade BOYS Girls Totals 84 105 189 ROLL OF HONOR Pupils Neither Absent nor Tardy For one-half year: Kenneth Rogers, Carlton Winter, Maurice Moore, Erlando Snow Joh Scott, Ernest Cummings, Thelma Nickerson, Mildred N n 1'cher, Helen Helen Ferris, Theodore Nickerson, Joseph Peters, Cora Rogers,s, Viola Snow, Dorothy Moulton, ph Peters, John Hattie Rogers, phoebe Gladys Chase, Bertha Williams, Lorena Costa, Clara Nickeron, Harold es Edward son, Leon Chase, Freeman. For one year: Roger Smith, - Ro Bert Clarke, Frank Smith, Avis Fulcher, Evelyn Scott Lothrop gers, Ethel Moulton, Ella Scott, Melvin Mayo GRADUATING EXERCISES he Class 1917, Orleans $igli c, Grad Thu sday, June 21st,t2 p. , at Town Hall. Music by pool Y, enn s Orchestra. pROGRA31 Overture, King Mydas Orchestra Invocation Class IIistory Kenneth E Rogers Venetian Summer Night Presentation of Gifts Snnngland Waltzes Class Prophecy School Chorus Rvelyn $' young Orchestra `f. Nickerson Rose° 11'e -erie, Farewell to the Fowe °rchextra Ar Eilenburg 11loskewski Rosner 1Tildreth 90 Commencement Address John G. Thompson Principal Fitchburg Normal School The Land of Our Fathers School Chorus Presentation of Diplomas Supt. Loring G. Williams Novellets, Love's Garden Orchestra "The Quest" G. Donizetti Benediction Class Motto.: Out of the Harbor, Out on the Deep Class Colors : Blue and Gold Schwartz Class of 1917: Warren Wilson Baker, Norman Alden Downs, Helen Langren Ferris, Roscoe Joshua Nickerson, Kenneth Earle Rogers, Gladys Allen Smith, Evelyn Hepsabeth Young. Honors in Scholarship for Four Years: Evelyn H. Young, Kenneth E. Rogers. School Organization --School Committee: Thomas Downs, Chairman; Orville W. Crosby, Secretary; Elwin C. Nickerson. Loring G. Williams, Superintendent. Herbert D. Prin- cipal. Helen E. Nute, Assistant. Bertha TvI• Wilson, Ass, C. `Nilson, Assistant. ANNUAL TOWN M11E' ETRNG WAR NT ITR8 BACRNSTABLE, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Orleans, ill the OuntY of Barnstable, GREBTING : In e Commonwealth of Massachusetts YOU Or hereby directed "I name itollnotify the inhabitants of the nno tat. theT qualifiecl to vote in elections and. town own Hall in said Orleans, on Y NEST DAY OF FEBRUARY :I:7A,Y, THE FOURTg then and there to act on the clock in the forenoon, •f°ll0 ug articles, viz. : Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at h1g for the ply town officers Art. also shall license.be 2. To elect all neees n11ot; Year be voted foron liquors in this town for he sale of intoxicating One Selectman for three years. ears. oorfor three Y O1e Overseer of three years. three years. One Assessor for c1 °f yhealth one_ of Boar One Town Clerk for °ne 011e year. One Town Treasurer for one said meet - meet - ensuing granted 92 One Collector of Taxes for one year. One School Committee for three years. One Trustee Snow Library for three years. One Surveyor of Highways for one year. Two Auditors for one year. Two Constables for one year. One Tree Warden for one year. Three Shellfish Constables for one year. Art. 3. To act on the annual report of the Selectmen and other town officers. Art. 4. To see what sums of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate to defray the town's expenses for the ensuing year. Art. 5. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipa- tion of revenue, and make the same payable from the revenue of the present year. Art. 6. To see what action the town will take in regard to accepting Chapter 23, General Acts of 1917, " pro- vide for the licensing of coffee houses, so-called," Act toeffect in any town upon its acceptance by vote of tow-nto take nual town meeting or at any special duly the any annual in any city upon its acceptance called for purpose and approval of the mayor, by the city council With the Art. 7. To see what action the town will take accepting Chapter 254 General Acts of 1917, in regard author- ize cities and towns to pay to their employees an "Act toi service of the United States the difference e weer their mili- tary and their municipal compensation," its acceptance in towns by take effect upon special town meeting, y the voters thereof at any regular or mayor and and in city council upon its acceptance by the 93 Art. 8. To see if the town will vote to take over the care and maintenance of the street lights, and accept all moneys' now held by the Street Light Club, both in the treasury and all Ounts invested to help in maintaining said street lights. Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to extend the town road, crossing the proposed Herring Brook, a distance of 88 feet over lid now owned by Albert E. Snow. Ao 10. To see if the town will vote to pay the bill of Hurd h G"re, architects, for plans of proposed alterations to school house. Art. 11. To see if the town will vote to use the unexpe11ded balance in the town treasury, for paying town expenses for the ensu�g year. Art. 12. To see if the town will vote to raise and inP he Ariate cient to place a steel ceiling Seletemaens,um of moneysulfis room in Town Hall. INDEX � Z it Page 7 Abatement of Taxes , • • • ' ' ' ' Appropriation Recommended 23 1918.. Appropriations for 1917.. • .. . 8 Assessors' Report • 6 Assessors' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Expenses.. • • • • • • • • Assets of Town. ...... 36 Auditors' Rep t • . . .. . . .. . . . . .. .. .. .. . . ... . . . .. . .. . . . .. 42 or Board of Health.• . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . ... . . 11 Births, Report of. ' . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . ... .. .. . . .. .. . . . • . . . . . . . 43 Brown Tail Moth, etc. ' . . . . . . .. . . . . ... . . . .. ... .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . 13 Cemetery and Soldiers' . . . .. . . . . .. . .. ... . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Collector's Report Monument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 39 District Court .. ... . . 19 Dog Licenses •• 46 Drawing Teach 86 Deaths, Reportof Report........ .. . . . . .. .. . . . . .. .• . . . . . . . 46 Dumping Ground . . . . . ... . .. ... .. . . . . . . .. . . • . . . . . . . . . 1r Electio .... . ............................................... ...... .. 11 Enlisted Men Officers and Registrars...1..................—.......................••••••••••• . . . . .. .. .. • • • " 26 Expenses of T•.................. ... 10Fires o Officers........ . 16Fir •. .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . . .. . .1. ......... . ............. ..14eDepartment.. 89GraduatingExercises ............. rGuideBoards .26Inspectio • •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . , . . . .. 14 n of Buildings and Cattle .... . .. • • • • • • ' ' ' • 14 Inspection of Slaughtering.. . . . . • . ' . 36 Interest on Town Notes .. .. 44 Marriages, Report of. , . . . ... .. .. . Miscellaneous 21 Expenses .. ' 85 MNotes Teachers Report . .... ............ ... .... 35 Anticipation of Taxes.. . • • • • • • . • .. . . . 20 Perpetual Care Cemetery Lots........ .. . • . . . . . . . . . . .• .• . . • . 96 Page Play Ground 17 Principal High School Report 82 Roll of Honor 88 Salaries of Town Officers Sealer of Weights and Measures Report 29 Selectmen's Report 8 School Committee's Report 71 School Attendance Statistics 77 Schools and Transportation 18 Snow Library Expenses 18 Snow Library, Report of Trustees 49 State Aid 13 Stationery and Supplies, Town Officers 12 Street Lighting 18 Support of Poor 14 Suppression of Crime 20 Surveyor of Highways 31 Summary of Receipts and Expenditures 40, 41 Superintendent of Schools Report 76 Town Hall Expenses 15 Town Officers, Elective 3 Town Officers, Appointive 4 TownClerk's Report . .. . .... ... . ... ... . ... . ... 43 Town Meeting Feb. 5, 1917 . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ... . .. .. • 53 Town Meeting June 26, 1917........ Town Meeting July 20, 1917, , , , , , , , , 64 Town Warrant 1918..... "• •• 64 Town Warrant, Annual 1917....... 93 Town Warrant, • ' .. .. .. .. • • • • • • .. . . . . . .. . . 53 Special June 26, 1917. Town Warrant, Special " " " "' • • • • ... .. 58 P July 20, 1917., Treasurer's Report " " " ' • • • • • • • • . . 63 TreeWarden . . .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ... .. .. .. .. .. . . . ... . . . . .. .. 33 1 Trust Funds Clement Gould . ... .• . • • • • • • • • ... .. . . . . 37 Trust Funds Per and Wife. , , , 37 Perpetual Care Cemetery Lots. Trust Funds Street Light Club.. 38 Tax Collector's Report.. , , • • • . . . ... .. .. . . . 38 War Emergency Fund............ 39