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June 26. 588 Wood and incidentals furnished, 15 00
$225 00
1902.
Dec. 19. 490 To Treasurer Fourth School District, 133 88 Teacher's wages Fall term, 16 weeks, $128 00
11/2 cord wood, 5 SS
1903.
Mar. 31. 530 1044 00
Teacher's wages Winter term, 13 weeks, $104 ( 0
May 26. 561 Teacher's wages in part, Spring term, 13 33
May 29. 565 Balance of appropriation, S 79
$290 00
1902.
Nov. 25. 468 To Treasurer Fifth School District, 66 00
Teacher's wages Fall term, 12 weeks, $66 00
1903.
Feb. 28. 516 72 00
Teacher's wages Winter term, 12 weeks, $72 00
April 10. 535 16 15
312 cords wood, $13 00
Enumerating scholars, 1 CO
Incidentals, 2 15
70 00
June S. 572
Teacher's wages Spring term, 12 weeks, $70 00
$224 15
1902.
Dec. 18. 480 To Treasurer Sixth School District, 84 00
Teacher's wages Fall term, 14 weeks, $81 00
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1903. Order No.
April 8. 534
Amount Amount Items. Order. $84 00
Teacher's wages Winter term, 14 weeks, $84 00
June 26. 587 57 00
Teacher's wages Spring term, 8 weeks, $45 00
Enumerating scholars, 1 00
3 cords wood, 10 00
Ineidentals, 1 00
$225 00
1902.
Nov. 28. 469 To Treasurer Eighth School District, 69 60
Teacher's wages 12 weeks, at $5 80.
1903.
Mar. 20. 521 81 20
Teachers' wages Winter term, 14 weeks at $5.80, 81 20
1903.
June 15. 577 74 20
Teachers' wages Spring term, 10 weeks, 58 85 Wood for year, 12 00
Cleaning school house, 1 00
Building fires, 1 50
Incidentals, 85
$225 00
1902.
Nov. 18. 457 To Treasurer Ninth School Distriet, 60 00
Teacher's wages Fall term, 10 weeks, 60 00
1903.
Mar. 30. 527 106 00 Teachers' wages Winter term, 16 weeks, 96 00 Wood and incidentals, 10 00
June 26. 586 Teacher's wages in part, 59 00
$225 00
1902.
Nov. 21. 461 To Treasurer Tenth School District, 72 00
Teacher's wages Fall term, 12 weeks, 72 00
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Order
Amount Amount Items. Order.
1903. No. Jan. 28. 507
$ 4 45
Moving and cleaning outbuilding, $ 1 50
Washing school house, 1 50
45
3 erasers and box crayon, Enumerating scholars,
1 00
Feb. 24. 513 52 00
Teacher's wages part of Winter term, 8 weeks, 52 00
Mar. 30. 529 62 56
Teacher's wages part of Winter term, S weeks, 52 00
3 cords wood, 10 00
1 water pail,
40
4 window glass,
16
June 2. 568 48 35
Teacher's wages Spring term, 8 weeks, 48 00
1 broom, 35
$239 36
Dec. 4. 473 To Treasurer Eleventh School District, Teacher's wages Fall term, 12 weeks, 72 00
80 75
21% cords wood, 8 75
April 18. 540 72 00
Teacher's wages Winter term, 12 weeks, 72 00
July 2. 591 72 00
Teacher's wages Spring term, 12 weeks, 72 00
$224 75
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
1902.
Oct. 11. Telephone, stationery and postage, $ 27
11. Looking after State road, bridges and tools, 2 00
13. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
14. Writing and posting notices, 2 00
14. Man and oxen on State road, 3 00
3 00
16. 66
3 00
17. Meeting with Board to make Electors,
2 00
18. To Willimantic on Town business,
2 00
18. Paid express on tax lists,
40
20. On State road,
1 50
21. 4 4 1 50
21. Postage,
08
22. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
23. Paid Geo. Hardy cash, 5 00
23. Self on State road, 1 50
24. Meeting with Board to make electors, 2 00
25. On State road,
1 50
25. Paid express on tools,
40
27. On State road,
1 50
28. 12 day on road 75c, postage 9c,
84
1 05
30. On State road,
31. " 1 50
Nov. 1. To Middletown ou account State road,
2 00
1. Expenses, 1 60
3. On State road, 1 50
4. 4 " 1 50
4. Postage,
0G
5. On State road and with contractor,
2 00
5. Telephone, 25
1 50
6. On State road,
7. On State road, 1 50
8. On State road, $1.50, telephone, 25c, 1 75
10. On State road, and oxen, 5 hours, 2 25
15. Self .. 66 66
29. 7 hours on road, 1 50
27
Nov. 11. Self and oxen on State road, $ 3 00
11. Express on Abstract Book 25c, telephone 5c, postage 3c, 33
12. To Gilead, account roads, 1 00
12. Paid express on exploders, 40
13. Paid freight on steel, 25
11. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from H. A. Spafard, loan, 1,000 00
11. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from Town of Andover, account schools, 18 00
13. On State road, 1 50
14. On state road, 1 50
15. On State road, 1 50
17. On State road, and oxen, 9 hours, 2 70
18. On State road, and oxen, 9 hours, 2 70
19. Self, man and oxen on State road,! 4 05
19. Paid freight on tile $3.02, postage 2c, 3 04
19. Paid express on exploders, 25
20. Self and oxen on State road, 2 70
21. Self and oxen on State road, 2 85
22. Self and oxen on State road, 2 85
24. Self and oxen on State road, 2 85
25. Self and oxen on State road, 2 70
26. Self 1/2 day on State road, 75
27. Self 3 hours on State road, 2 75
28. Self and oxen on State road $2.70, postage 5c,
2 70
Dec 1. Self and oxen on State road, 1 35
Paid Dennis Keefe, work on State road, 5 00
1 00
1. Load wood for Mrs. Holbrook, Fuel furnished steam drill,
3 50
2. On State road,
1 35
4. On State road,
1 35
5. On State road,
75
6. On State road, and oxen, 4 hours,
1 20
8. On State road,
1 20
9. Paid Fred Smith, account State road,
11 65
11. Self on State road, 8 hours, 1 20
12. Self and oxen on State road, 4 hours, 1 20
13. Self on State road, 2 hours, 25
45
29. Self and oxen on State road,
28
Dec. 16. Self on State road, 2 hours, $ 25
17. Self on State road, 4 hours, 60
18. To Hartford to see Commissioner, Expenses, 1 00
2 00
20. 12 day, account bridges and poor,
20. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from N. E. Lord, loan, 500 00
22. 7 hours on road,
1 00
23. 4 hours on road,
60
23. Boy and oxen to Gilead after scraper,
50
Jan. 5. Postage,
10
10. 4 hours fixing washout,
60
27. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from G. Burnham, loan, 250 00
1 00
27. Enrolling militia, 15
4 00
Feb.
2. Stationery and postage,
3. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from Town of Glastou- bury, account of A. Strickland,
6 75
9. Repairing washout,
30
13. Paid for rubber blanket for Mrs. Bliss, 1 25
2. Repairing washout, 60
4. Paid for counsel, 1 00
4. Paid Fred Swagirt, 2 burial returns, 1 00
9. Repairing bridge and washout, 7 hours, 1 00
9. Postage,
08
11. Paid for spikes, 35
13. Repairing bridge and washout, 1 00
23. Paid C. B. Banning, 2 days on State road, 3 00
25. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
26. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
3 00
27. Paid telephone,
25
27. Paid getting tramp out of town,
50
27. Paid Wm. Swan, for work on road,
1 17
30. Posting dog notices, 2 00
30. Postage 6c, express on battery 50c, 56
30. 1 pair oxen, on State road, 1 50
28. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
31. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
1 37
23. 12 day looking after poor,
Mar.
27. Self and oxen on State road,
29
April 1. Self and oxen on State road, $ 3 00
2. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
3. 2 day to Willimantic after dynamite, 1 00
3. Paid Jordan Bros. for dynamite, 5 36
8. " = " for exploders, 2 00
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4. Paid G. F. Mitchell fixing safe handle, Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from F. Prentice, con- servator, account A. W. Bramble, 13 43
6. Self and oxen on State road, 2 40
9. Self and oxen on State road,
3 00
10. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
11. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
13, Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
13. Paid C. B. Banning account State road, 6 00
14. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
16. Paid C. B. Banning account State road, 2 00
17. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
18. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
20. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
21. Self and oxen on State road 172 hours,
45
27. To East Lyme and Middletown on account of poor and to see contractor, 2 00
Expenses, 3 52
28. 312 hours work on road, 53
30. 21% hours on road, 37
May 4. 5 hours work on road, 75
5. Self and oxen on road scraper, 3 50
6. Self and oxen on road scraper, 3 50
7. Self and oxen on road scraper, 3 50
8. Self and oxen on road scraper, 2 00
9. Self and oxen on road scraper 5 hours, 1 00
11. Self 10 hours, oxen 5 hours, 2 25
26. Self 5 hours, horses 5 hours, account bridge, 1 25
26. Paid for spikes, 12
31. Inspecting roads 1/2 day, 1 00
31. Carting plank to Gilead and work on bridge 1/2 day, 1 50
June 1. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
2. Self and oxen on State road, 3 00
2. Paid C. B. Banning for 2 days work, 3 00
30
June 3. Paid E. L. Winter for dynamite, etc., $ 2 40
3. Paid for glass, D. Holbrook honse, 80
4. Carting plank and work on bridge 5 hours, 1 25
5. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
6. Self and oxen on road, 1 50
8. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
9. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
10. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
11. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
12. Carting plank and work on bridge, Gilead, 1 50
16. Self and oxen on road scraper, 3 50
17. Self and oxen on road scraper, 3 50
50
18. Work on scraper,
19. Holding scraper 1 day, Turnerville, 2 00
20. Holding scraper 34 day, Turnerville, 1 50
22. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
22. Paid C. B. Banning 1 days work, 1 50
23. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
24. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
25. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
26. Self and oxen on road 1/2 day, 1 50
30. Self and oxen on road scraper, 3 25
July 4. Looking after bridge 2 hours, 30
13. Looking after dogs, 1 00
Paid W. S. ! Hewitt, Treas., from Fred Prentice, Conservator, for A. W. Bramble, to bal. acct, 43 03
13. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from J. N. Hewitt, grass on park, 2 00
13. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas., from Dr. Goldie, rent of Town lot 2 weeks, 4 00
13. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas , for 4 lanterns sold, 2 00
Aug. 10. Posting notices and looking up dogs, 2 00
17. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
Sept. 2. Self and oxen on road 4 hours, 1 20
3. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
4. Self and oxen on road, 2 85
10. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
11. Self 2 hours, oxen 10 hours, on road, 1 80
14. Paid Elias Thompson cutting brush, 2 00
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Sept. 19. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treas , from Treas. of Tenth School District,
$ 14 36
19. To Willimantic on Town business, 1 00
Expenses, 50
$2,189 07
CONTRA.
1902.
Nov. 11. By cash from H. A. Spafard, for order No. 450, $1,000 00
Dec. 20. By cash from N. E. Lord, for order No. 492, 500 00
1903.
Jan, 27. By cash from G. Burnham, for order No. 506, 250 00
Feb. 3. By cash from Glastonbury, account poor, 6 75
By cash from Andover, for tuition, 18 00
July 13. By cash from J. N. Hewitt, for grass on Park, 2 00
13. By cash from Dr. Goldie, rent of lot, 4 00
13. By cash for four lanterns, 2 00
April 4. By cash from Fred Prentice, conservator, account A. W. Bramble, 13 43
July 13. By cash from Fred Prentice, conservator, account A. W. Bramble, 43 03
Sept. 18. By cash from Treas. Tenth School District, error,
14 36
Nov. 19. By Town Order No. 459, 25 00
Mar. 4. By Town Order No. 519,
118 23
July 3. By Town Order No. 592, 172 56
Sept. 19. By Town Order No. 617, 19 71
$2,189 07
Amount of orders drawn during the year, $8,255 48
HEDRON, CONN., September 22 and 23, 1903.
Personally appeared, Arthur R. Gillette and Frank R. Post, Selectmen of the Town of Hebron, Conn., and certified under oath that the foregoing report is true and correct according to the best of their knowledge and belief.
DANIEL, W. WHITE. Town Clerk.
This certifies that we have examined the accounts of the Treasurer and Selectmen of the Town of Hebron for the year ending September 22, 1903, and find them correct.
A. W. HUTCHINSON, Auditors. LEWIS W. PHELPS,
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Recapitulation of Selectmen's Accounts.
Sept. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer, $1,853 57
Paid for births, deaths and burials, 10 75
Damage by dogs, 42 83
Repairs of highways and bridges previous to Sept. 19tlı, 1902, 295 45
Repairs of highways and bridges from Sept. 19th, 1902, to Sept. 19th, 1903, 609 81
For State road, 1,332 17
Support and medical attendance of poor of this Town, 589 28
Of other Towns, 10 25
Support of schools, 2,388 89
Hebron Library Association,
50 00
Cutting brush, 54 95
Bridge plank, 48 69
Miscellaneous expenses,
455 34
OFFICERS.
Assessors $40.00, Board of Relief $32.00, 72 00
Auditors $6.00, Town Clerk $59.70, 65 70
Selectmen $100.00, Collector $53.00, 153 00
Registrars, 81 50
Town Health Officer $27.12, Treasurer $35.00, 62 12
School Visitors $55.00, Secretary School Board $9.75, 64 75
$8,241 05
CR.
By orders drawn during the year, $8,255 48
By cash received from other towns for support of poor, 6 75
By cash pension of A. W. Bramble, 56 46
By cash for grass on Park, 2 00
By cash for rent of Town lot,
4 00
By cash for four lanterns, .
2 00
By cash from Tenth School District,
14 86
$8,241 05
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The Indebtedness of the Town and Estimat- ed Expenses for the Year Ending, viz:
Town orders drawn previous to Sept. 20th, 1903,
unpaid,
$6,086 04
Interest on $2,800 bonds, 980 00
Interest due on loans $9,600 at 4 per cent ,
384 00
Interest due on other orders, 243 65
Interest due on School Fund,
26 32
Abatement on rate bills,
50 00
Bridges $100, roads $1,000, 1,100 00
Required for support of poor,
500 00
Due and to become dne for work on road,
150 00
Required for State road,
250 00
Required for support of schools,
2,365 00
County tax,
308 18
Collector $45, Treasurer $35,
80 00
Registrar of Voters,
90 00
Reporting births, deaths and burials,
15 00
Assessors $40, Board of Relief $32,
72 00
Selectmen $100, Town Clerk $60,
160 00
Making Electors $24, Anditors $6,
30 00
School Visitors,
70 00
Miscellaneous expenses,
100 00
$13,060 19
From the above deduct the following:
Cash in Treasury September 22, 1903, $ 1,189 37
Tax as due and unpaid,
4,109 00
State appropriation for schools, 480 00
Interest due on P. W. Turner's note from Dec. 1, 1000, to June 1, 1904, less $98.25 paid, 463 19
Due from Town of Salem for support of poor, 4 00
Due from B. S. Bliss for support of Mrs. Dwight Bliss, 218 15
Dne from State for tax on bank stock, 110 00
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Due from State for work on State road,
264 75
Leaves to be raised by taxation,
6,221 73
$13,060 19 A. R. GILLETTE, I Seleetmen. F. R. POST,
STATE ROAD.
Godfry Hill appropriation, $ 900 00
Cost of building :
Dynamite,
$ 101 96
Tile, 31 54
Land taken to straighten road per order Com-
missioner, 5 00
Labor and teams, 1,193 67
$1,332 17
Acting School Visitor's Report
To the Board of School Visitors of the Town of Hebron, Conn .:
Again it is my privilege as one of the Acting Visitors to respect- fully submit my annual report for the school year ending June, 1903.
I have visited the schools in the Southern part of the Town, the First District, Mrs. Fitch Jones teacher; the Second, Miss Bessie Clark teacher; the Fourth, Miss Helena Hoar teacher; the Fifthi, Miss Cora Austin teacher; the Sixth, Miss Adelle White teacher.
In each of these districts a school of thirty-six weeks has been maintained, and each school has been visited as the law requires.
I believe the teachers of these schools have done conscientious work. I commend them all.
Let me now, from my experience and observation in visiting tliese schools, state briefly some favorable conditions for the doing, by teacher and pupil, successful school work. I begin with the school buildings. They must always be kept up in repair. Then the school rooms, clean, neat, well warmed and ventilated, are in favorable condition for the doing truly successful work. In such condition is the school building of the First District, the room having been thoroughly cleansed and other improvements made. So also have been done some necessary things for the building in the Fourth District. But as yet nothing has been done in the Second, Fiftlı, or Sixth, though in these districts the school buildings are shockingly out of repair.
Another favorable condition for the doing of successful school work is the regular attendance of the pupils. What, for instance, can the very best teacher do for pupils irregular in their attendance? Consider only this matter of interest in school. How essential it is for the pupils to have an interest in their school and in their books. It is difficult to teach pupils uninterested in their books. Am I told it is for the teacher to awaken this interest and sustain it through the school year ? Yes, and it is done by teachers wise and apt to teaclı. But I care not how apt the teacher, how self-sacrificing, or how hard working, this interest in school and books cannot be awakened and sustained in pupils irregular in their attendance. I am perfectly aware of the many excuses for this irregularity in attendance. Only one is of any account, and that is the excuse for real sickness. In this connection, a word to parents. I am sure
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they could help create this favorable condition for successful school work. To this end, they should remember the school year belongs to the children, and not to the parents, permitting them to take the children out of school to do what others can do and ought to do. It does seem to me, if parents had at heart the welfare of their children's future, they would see to it that nothing but severe sickness should keep their children from school. Think, too, of the loss to the children thus irregular in their attendance. Loss not only in educa- tion, but loss in character and loss in the true appreciation for the right. Take the select school for example. I was never disappointed on the occasion of my visits. I always found the pupils regular in their attendance. I doubt not but the parents help to bring this about. Perhaps they wanted the worth of their money. Why should not the parents of children attending the Public Schools be as con- cerned about the worth of the money ? Are they not in honor bound to be as careful in the use of the State money for schools as tlie use of their own money ? And in order to get the worth of the State money for schools, ought they not to send their children to school every day ? Permit me to name one other favorable condition for the doing of successful school work in Hebron, the graded school. When the State money, without in the least increasing Town taxes, made it possible to have a graded school in Hebron, we at once established it. Others did the same thing. As this writer implies, "the addi- tional moncy given by the State cannot wisely be divided among thie District Schools, many of which have less than ten pupils, but should be used for graded schools in the center of population." Besides it is no small advantage to the town as well as to the homes, to have the children educated in the town. And think of the oppor- tunity offered by the Hebron Graded Schools to the boys and girls of the Town duly qualified to enter it ! This school, with the District Schools preparatory, makes possible to every one desiring it, a good education so needful to mect the responsibilities and duties of country life. It remains then for pupils duly qualified to avail them- selves of this school, added to our school system, as a favorable con- dition to successful school work. We all want good schools in Hebron, noted for successful school work. Are we willing to meet the conditions ? School buildings in fine repair, pupils regular in their attendance, a Graded School maintained in the Centre ?
JOHN HI. FITZGERALD, Acting School Visitor.
Hebron, Conn., Sept. 21, 1903. Read and accepted,
CYRUS HI. PENDLETON, Secretary.
Acting School Visitor's Report.
To the Board of School Visitors of the Town of Hebron, Conn .:
As one of the Acting Visitors, I would respectfully report as to the condition of the Public Schools of the Town during the past school year, as follows, viz : A school of thirty-six weeks was maintained in each of the ten school districts and taught by teachers duly examined, if not already in possession of State certificates, and approved. The following were the teachers in the several districts, viz : First District, Miss M. Esther Cobb; Second, Miss Bessie A. Clark; Third, Miss Jennie E. Loomis; Fourth, Miss Helen A. Hoar; Fifth, Miss Corah H. Austin; Sixth, Miss Adelle White; Eighth, Miss Daisy White; Ninth, Miss Eva R. Jones during the fall, Miss Flora E. Faucher during the winter, and Miss Flora E. Lord during the summer; Tenth, Miss Jessie A. Joncs during the fall, part of the winter and during the summer, a part of the winter term being taught by Miss Bertha C. Wood as a substitute, and in the Eleventh, Miss Julia Shca during the fall and Miss Florence E. Bishop during the remainder of the year. Of these Miss Cobb, Miss Shea and Miss Wood were new teachers. The only Normal School graduates among the number were Miss Hoar and Miss Daisy White.
According to the enumeration of October, 1902, the number in the several districts between four and sixteen years of age, was in the First, 48; Second, 11; Third, 16; Fourth, 40; Fifth, 21; Sixth, 10; Eiglith, 22; Ninth, 23; Tenth, 15, and in the Eleventh, 9. The number of pupils enrolled was in the school in the First District, 35; Second, 6; Third, 14; Fourth, 29; Fifth, 17; Sixth, 13; Eighth, 14; Ninth, 25; Tenth, 14; and in the Eleventhi, 10. Of those enumerated in October, 1902, the names of sixty-one do not appear on the registers as pupils, or at least, not for a sufficient length of time for them to be taken into account. Of these sixty-one, seven- teen were in a private school maintained in Hebron Village or in school in other towns. Among those enrolled seven attended from adjoining towns, and a few others of the enrolled were here attending school only a short time. The number of different pupils enrolled was 175. The average daily attendance was in the First District, 23.58; Second, 5.38; Third, 11.11; Fourth, 19.41; Fifth, 9.97; Sixth, 5.87; Eighth, 9.94; Ninth, 13.15; Tenth, 11.71, and in the Eleventh, 5.05, and for the whole Town, 114.24.
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The cost of each school per pupil in average attendance was in the First District, $12.81; Second, $42.65; Third, $20.52; Fourth, $15.59; Fifth, $22.48; Sixth, $38.33; Eighth, $24.35; Ninth, $17.11; Tenth, $20.46, and in the Eleventh, $44.58. The total cost of all the Public Schools, including teachers' wages, fucl and incidentals, was $2,423.62. The amount drawn from the Town Treasury for support of Schools was $2,397.93, deducting from which the amount received from the State, $481.50, and the amount of interest, which the Town is naturally responsible for, of the Town Deposit Fund (all now in Town orders) $242.39, leaves $1,674.04, as the amount raised by the Town for school purposes by taxation. Taking the schools in the aggregate the whole cost per scholar in average attendance was $21.21, and per scholar in Town taxation $14.65.
The schools under my more immediate supervision during the past year were in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, Tentli and Eleventh Districts.
The teacher in the Third District, of several years' previous experience, gave, I think, general satisfaction, and I have nothing to criticize either in her methods or the result of her work.
The teacher in the Eighth was a graduate of the Normal School at Willimantic, had had quite a long previous experience in teaching, conducted the school with commendable success, and gave, I think, universal satisfaction; and it was a disappointment to many in the District, as I understand, that her services could not be secured for another year.
The teacher during the Fall term in the Ninth District endeavored to keep a good school and maintain pretty strict discipline-morc strict, perhaps, than the pupils had been accustomed to-and her success as a teacher in the school would have been assured had it not been for the insubordination of certain of the larger boys whom she had not the physical strength to deal with. This insubordination, of course, marred her success. The Winter and Summer terms were taught by older teachers and of larger experience, with the result of whose work I have nothing to criticise.
The teacher who was engaged for the year in the T'enth District was taken sick during the first half of the Winter term and the term had to be completed by a substitute, an occurrence ordinarily nnde- sirable. Both this teacher and her substitute maintained good discipline and the pupils seemed to make good progress.
The School in the Eleventh District was taught during the Fall by a teacher rather young and without previous experience, and during the Winter and Summer by a teacher older and of previous experience, and by both teachers with as much success as under the circumstances could be expected. The average attendance, as men- tioned above, was only a fraction in excess of five. The house has the primative method of seating, but which perhaps has its advantages as well as its disadvantages, and the school is destitute of all reference
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books except a dictionary, the gift of a former teacher, and of all apparatus except a rather small blackboard.
In thic matter of irregularity in attendance I notice no special change from previous years. For the improvement of schools I would recommend, as in previous reports, less irregularity in attend- ance, a more liberal supply at least in quite a number of schools of reference books and school apparatus, and the employment, as far as practicable, of teachers with a Normal School training.
In this connection I would suggest, as a matter worthy of consideration, whether a better class of teachers would not be secured if the town should place the employment of teachers in the hands of the School Visitors,
Respectfully submitted, CYRUS H. PENDLETON, Acting School Visitor.
Hebron, Conn., Sept. 21, 1903.
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