Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-05
NORTH STONINeTON SCHOOL REPORT
Total Expense Town for the Year Was ~ o8oI1In- Shown in Resshation, But Attsndanee Rate is Small.

1 The annual report of the school i ington gives the total cost of the l schools to the town the past year As 1 S4,88S11. The supervisors report shows an increase in registration but only 57 per cent. The report of the town school com | mittee is as follows:
 At tho last annual town meeting 1t was voted to levy a tax of six mills for school purposes, adding two mills to the customary appropriation to pro vide for extensive eepairs urgently needed in many of our schooihcusss. enumeration grant, sSss, interest on town deposit fund and on school fund. $Sss. ss, tuition of Voluntown children ed to the six mills made the whole 64I.22. Repairs have been made as follows: Village school, south side of roof shingled, woodhouse turned round to face the street, repaired. partition be- tween woodroCm and closet removed and new closet built on back side, the other closet repaired and . cement doorstep made at entrance to the pri- mary room.
 Shunoc school, south side of roof shingled, woodhouse and closets. built
  ceived two coats of paint.
 No. 6. new noor, walls ana calling too broken to admit of safisfactory patching were overiaid with plastsfgen with iisht tints and woodwork in ssse green, chimney extended to the Hrou1id to prevent discolora ton Of walls from dampness gathering in the chimney, dows, book cupboard built in end of entry, entry walls finished and painted same as schoolroom, new building for woodhouse and closets.
 Clark's Falls, cracked and blackened walls ard ceiling 4mended and painted in bright colors, woodwork painted, desks defacel with carvings smoothed and finished with cherry stain, window boards for the windows. The wood house, which offered but slight protec- ton for wood, was covered with a sub- Stantial roofing material, closets re- paired and lattice screens placed at each.
 Pendieton Hill. closets partly rebuilt and shingled.
 New Slate Biaetbea..ds.
 Slate blac,xboards have been placed in eight of our nine schoolrooms, at a cost, including freight and labor, of $22S.44; a great improvement, by the way, which might not have been so long delayed If its importance and value had been better understood.
 The whole cost of these repairs, in cluding the slate blackboards, with two small bills yet to be reported. but nos asesan sii for ss.s1s for s t"isisn of som. of our children in an adjoining town is still unpaid for lack of full under standing as to what the amount should be. We have reserved enough of eur resources to cover this bill when t:ie right time comes.
 The whole amount expended up to the close of the towns financial year is s4,419.S1. Bills for repairs have since This. with the tuition bill just men tioned. would make our total liabilities for this year $4 888.11, leaving an uh- expended balance of our appropriation of $152.l1. This could not have been done, however, without the money saved bS the consolidation of schools last winter, a net saving in salaries and fuel of $340.
 This suggests a question as to how much the town has saved in the last seven years by consolidation of Nos. l. and g. The cost of these schools would have averaged not less than t130 per year. At that rate the cost of No. 1, five and three -fourths years. and of Nos. and 2. each seven years, would have amounted to $S.122.50. Trans portation from No. 1 cost $1.5o4.56. ] from from, No; ss4.;ss, fron :n1 ,. No. g ss1o.5o the schools now closed should be re- opened, it would cost, at the present | standard, $380 per year and would add l that amount to the annual expenditure thus be saved in transportation ex- l pense.
 Supervisors Report. !
 In part, the report of Supervisor o. ! E. Lowell is as follows:
 For purposes of comparison data ports.
 Table Showing Attsndanos.