Excerpt from Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Deering, for the Fiscal Year Ending February 15, 1903: Together With the Reports of Overseer of Poor and School Board, Also Vital Statistics for the Year Ending Dec; 31, 1902 In presenting this, our annual report, we are gratified to report that the standard won In previous years has been maintained. We have been very fortunate to procure the same' teachers through the year. The conveyance question is the hardest'one to deal with and to do justice to all par ties concerned. AS in former years, we have had to fur nish facilities for carrying scholars, but the amount expend ed is considerably less than last year. The percent. Of at tendance for -the most part is good and we hope all con cerned will try to increase the per cent. The coming year, as the amount of money we receive from the State is based upon the per Cent. Of attendance. The past year we have had twenty-four weeks of school, which is more than we have had for many years, and we trust the district will ap propriate enough for the Support of Schools so that the number of weeks yearly, instead of diminishing, will in crease. All that we can do in any way to help our children to procure a good education is time and money well Spent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.