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ASSESSORS' OFFICE
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
EXPENSES
OF THE
TOWN OF SAUGUS,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1864.
LYNN: H. S. COX, PRINTER, - REPORTER OFFICE, NO. 22 EXCHANGE STREET. 1864. .
REPORT.
SELECTMEN'S DEPARTMENT.
SCHOOLS.
WARD ONE.
Paid Frances H. Munroe, for teaching thirty-
eight weeks, at $5.50 per week. $209 00
Incidentals, 87 49
Total for Ward One,
$296 49
WARD TWO.
Paid Susan W. Porter, for teaching thirty- nine weeks, at $7.00 per week, $273 00 E. A. Patch, for teaching thirty-nine weeks, at $5.50 per week, 214 50
Esther A. Parker, for teaching thirty-nine weeks, at $5.00 per week,. 195 00
Incidentals,
168 73
Total for Ward Two,
$851 23
WARD THREE.
Paid R. S. Richardson, for teaching thirty- nine weeks, at $6.00 per week,. $234 00
M. C. Burton, for teaching thirty-nine weeks, at $5.00 per week, 195 00
Incidentals, 101 67
Total for Ward Three, $530 67 Amount carried forward, $1,678 39
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Amount brought forward,
$1,678 39
WARD FOUR.
Paid M. B. Johnson, for teaching thirty-nine weeks, at $7.00 per week,. $273 00 E. A. Mansfield, for teaching thirty-nine weeks, at $5.50 per week, 214 50
Incidentals, 150 79
Total for Ward Four, $638 29
WARD FIVE.
Paid Clara E. Prescott, for teaching twenty- eight weeks, at $5.50 per week, -. $154 00
E. W. Boardman, for teaching eleven weeks, at $5.50 per week, 60 50
Total for Ward Five, $214 50
Whole amount paid for Schools, $2,531 18
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Paid John Cooke, for labor on highways, -. - $100 50
James Oliver, for labor on highways, -. 47 00
Benjamin Parker, for labor on highways,. 109 25
Charles Raddin, for labor on highways, -. 39 50
Artemas Edmunds, for labor on highways, -- 58 25
Joseph Gilman, for labor on bridge,- 19 50
Albert H. Parker, for labor on bridge at East Saugus, 28 25
William Follett, for grading Pleasant street, 94 75
. Whole amount paid for Highways,
$497 00
ABATEMENTS.
Paid Richard Mansfield, abatements on 1862 tax list, $56 17
Richard Mansfield, abatements on 1863 tax list,- 150 94
Whole amount of Abatements, $207 11
Amount carried forward,
$3,235 29
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Amount brought forward,
$3,235 29
SALARIES.
Paid Town Clerk, $15 00
Selectmen and Assessors, 115 00
Treasurer, 25 00
Constable,
15 00
Prudential Committee, 20 00
Superintending Committee,
32 25
Whole amount paid for Salaries,
$222 25
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
Paid Auditing Committee for 1862, $6 00
Appraising Committee for 1862, 6 00
Lawrence & Whitehead, for keeping school- books in 1862, 6.00
Wilbur F. Newhall, for services as school committee in 1862, 27 41
H. G. Herrick, for services as school commit- tee in 1862, 27 16
Levi Brigham, for services as school commit- tee in 1862, 35 97
H. S. Cox, for printing,-
50 25
Libbey & Johnson, for paper for Hitchings place,.
3 00
Crosby & Nichols, for school books.
337 12
Edward Hitchings, for recruiting in 1862,
10 00
Lewis Josselyn, for printing,
4 50
Stevenson & Nichols, for printing,
32 00
State Reform School, for board of J. H. Smith,
12 64
Allen & Edmands, for lumber for school- house in Ward One, 11 21
Allen & Edmands, for lumber for school- house in Ward Two, 15 37
Allen & Edmands, for lumber for school- house in Ward Four, 17 75
Allen & Edmands, for lumber for Almshouse, 4 71
8 67
W. H. Newhall, for military record-book, __ Recruiting expenses,
219 91
Darius Mugridge, for labor on fence in Ward Four, 7 79
Allen & Edmands, for lumber for hall floor,_ 104 03
Amount carried forward,
$947 49
$3,457 54
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Amount brought forward, $947 49 $3,457 54
Allen & Edmands, for lumber for bridge at East Saugus, and labor on same, -. 178 65
Allen & Edmands, for lumber for Almshouse, 2 74
Horace Brown, for stoves for Ward One, ___ 31 49
Horace Brown, for stoves for Ward Three,_ 28 40
Horace Brown, for stoves for Ward Four, __ 6 00
Gilbert Waldron, for labor on Town Hall, __ 35 37
G. C. Poole, for extra services as constable, 3 00 J. D. Lawrence, for revenue stamps, &c., __ 5 01 Selectmen, for extra services and expenses out of town, 144 73
Selectmen, for perambulating town lines, 9 00
For cleaning and care of engine, -. 5 50
Sam'l Parker, for labor in cemetery,
6 50
Sam'l Parker, for returning number of deaths, 5 20
M. B. Johnson, for teaching school in Ward Four in 1862, 78 96
E. A. Mansfield, for teaching school in Ward Four in 1862, 60 00
Town Clerk, for recording births, marriages and deaths, . 15 10
Town Clerk, for extra services, stationery, postage and express, 10 97
Richard Mansfield, for taking census of school children,
4 00
Isaac Collins, for lighting bridge at East Saugus, .
3 01
Richard Mansfield, for collecting taxes on 1862 tax list,.
31 40
Richard Mansfield, for collecting taxes on 1863 list, 262 50
Whole amount for Incidentals, $1,874 02 State aid has been distributed to eighty-four . families of volunteers, to the amount of 6,037 81 Drawn for recruiting, unexpended, 1,500 00
Whole amount of Selectmen's Department,- $12,869 37
Cr. By amount of orders drawn, $12,869 37
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OVERSEERS' DEPARTMENT.
Paid J. Starr & Co., for groceries for Lucre- tia Baker,. $57 00
Wm. M. Newhall, for coal for same, 22 88
Wm. Follett, for wood for same, 5 25
Sewall Boardman, for board of Betsy Board- man, 42 00
Dr. A. Gould, for medical services, 15 00
William M. Newhall, for coal to Mrs. George Brown,. 32 20
William Follett, wood to same,.
13 00
Benj. Parker, for coal to Miss Mary Newhall,
18 98
Lawrence & Whitehead, for groceries to Mrs. A. J. Tuttle, 138 00
Benj. Parker, for coal to same,
25 80
Dr. J. M. Nye, for medical attendance of Jos. Burrill,
1 25
Lawrence & Whitehead, for groceries to same, 8 77
William Follett, for wood to same,_
7 00
Wm. M. Newhall, for coal to W. C. Rhodes,
4 50
Wm. Follett, for wood to same,
5 00
Thomas S. Beckford, for board of Jane Rhodes, 21 75
State Lunatic Hospital, for board of Joseph Eames 158 41
Clothing for same, 27 95
State Lunatic Hospital, for board of W. K. Newhall, 55 58
R. Mansfield, for medicine to Eliza Brown,_ 4 02 Theodore Ramsdell, for groceries to same, __ 5 56
City of Charlestown, for wood and coal to A. Grover, 10 75
Richard Mansfield, for supplies to same,
10 00
J. Starr & Co., for groceries to William Nor- wood. 5 50
Wm. M. Newhall, for fuel to same,
3 80
Lawrence & Whitehead, for groceries to F. Carlton, 12 00
J. Starr & Co., for groceries to A. Hanson,- 55 00
William Follett, for wood to same, .. 36 38
Libbey & Johnson, for groceries to A. E. Moulton, 53 00
Amount carried forward,
$856 33
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Amount brought forward,
$856 33
Lawrence & Whitehead, for groceries to C.
A. Hobbs, *12 50
Benj. Parker, for coal to same, 36 14
Theodore Ramsdell, for groceries to Susan Brown, 21 06
Libbey & Johnson, for groceries to same, -. 16 00
Gilbert Grover, for board of same,. 9 00
Bedding for Barrows family, 6 63
William Follett, for wood to same, - 8 37
Lawrence & Whitehead, for groceries to same, 39 00
V. E. Flye, for meat to same,-
3 00
City of Boston, for support of Sarah Coats,
6 75
Lawrence & Whitehead, for groceries to A. Richardson,
15 00
William Follett, for carting wood to L. A. Cheever, 3 50
Gilbert Waldron, for transporting C. Carsley, 5 00
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Stationery, postage and expenses out of town, William Follett, for supplies,
898 50
Cash paid Treasurer, -
374 06
William Follett, salary,
252 00
Overseers, salary, 35 00
$2,621 84
Cr.
By cash of Town of Weston, 73 57
66 66
" Town of Lynnfield,
3 90
" Town of North Andover, 75 00 I
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66 " City of Newburyport,
5 40
66 66
City of Lynn,
53 00
66
City of Salem,
46 06
66
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City of Boston,
91 38
E. P. Robinson, guardian of Jo- seph Eames, 25 75
37 50
" wood from Farm,
" amount of orders drawn,- 2,210 28
$2,621 84
Gilbert Waldron, repairs,.
23 25
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ALMSHOUSE ACCOUNT.
TOWN OF SAUGUS, in account with WILLIAM FOLLETT.
Dr.
Paid for labor,
$516 35
" tools,
57 70
66
" flour,
127 19
66 " grain, 76 41 1 1
66
" bedding and clothing,
118 41
66 " butter and cheese,
79 26
66 " meat,_
214 04
66
" blacksmith's bills,
57 21
66
" oxen and bull,
183 50
66
" salt grass,
84 00
66
" furniture,
34 02
66
" tobacco,.
22 71
66
" grass and garden seeds,
12 64
66
" pigs,
19 60
" grinding corn,
6 00
66
" butchering hogs,.
3 75
66
" tolls and traveling expenses,
4 65
66
" fish,
32 87
" soap,
10 48
66
" bread,
4 87
66
" use of scow,-
9 50
60
" stationery,
52
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66
" manure,.
7 00
" ice,
14 00
66
' poultry,
7 05
" cranberries, I 1
3 25
Cr.
Received for hay,
$275 88
oxen,
150 00
" labor
425 32
" potatoes
25 50
" beans,
3 25
66
" milk,
116 68
" wood,
7 58
66
pasturing,
14 00
" use of bull,
6 50
66
" calves,
15 00
" of Overseers for supplies,
898 50
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" groceries,
213 87
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RICHARD MANSFIELD in account with TOWN OF SAUGUS.
Dr.
To tax list committed in 1863, $16,991 68
" balance on list of 1861, 111 32
" balance on list of 1862, 1,329 62
$18,432 62
Cr.
By paid Treasurer on list of 1863, $13,762 97
" paid Treasurer on list of 1862,
1,238 68
66 66 66 " list of 1861, 111 32
66 " County Treasurer, 1,357 97
" due on list of 1863, 1,870 74
6 " " 1862, 90 94
-$18,432 62
J. D. LAWRENCE, Treasurer, in account with TOWN OF SAUGUS.
Dr.
To cash on hand,. $2,446 47
" cash of Pickmore Jackson,- 5,000 00
" cash of W. F. Newhall, books, 70 75
" cash of W. D. Boardman, use of Town Hall, 43 12
" cash of J. B. Westerman, .
2,146 33
" cash of Roswell Hitchings, rent, 75 00
" cash of Richard Mansfield,
15,112 97
" cash school fund,
91 84
" cash reimbursement on bounties,
7,500 00
" cash reimbursement on account of State aid, 3,698 04
" cash of Town of Weston,. 24 93
" cash of Town of North Andover,
18 00
" cash of Town of Lynnfield,
3 90
" cash of City of Lynn,
20 00
" cash of City of Newburyport, 5 40
" cash of Samuel Parker, cemetery lots,
50 00
" cash for hay scales,. 16 06
" cash for school books,.
84 30
" cash of W. H. Newhall, dogs,.
63 00
" cash of Selectmen, for Halliday's State aid, uncalled for, 17 14
" cash of W. H. Newhall, for lumber sold, 5 30
" cash of Overseers of Poor, 301 83
-- $36,794 38
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By paid J. B. Westerman, $2,146 33
" paid Boston Five Cents Savings Bank,
5,000 00
" paid Roswell Hitchings,
800 00
" paid City Bank of Lynn, -
2,000 00
" paid State tax,.
3,264 00
" paid reimbursement of bounty tax,. 4,649 35
" paid J. Starr outstanding order,
50 00
paid interest on town notes,
1,613 05
" paid Selectmen's orders, 12,817 32
" paid Overseers' orders, 2,173 20
" cash on hand,
2,281 13
-$36,794 38
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CONDITION AND LIABILITIES OF THE TOWN.
Dr.
Roswell Hitchings' note,. $500 00
Lynn Savings Bank, note, 10,000 00
Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank, five notes,- 13,000 00
Sweetser Brothers, two notes,
2,000 00
Pickmore Jackson, five notes,
5,000 00
Juliette B. Westerman, two notes,
2,146 33
Interest accrued to March 1. 652 75
$33,299 08
Cr.
By cash in Treasury,
$2,281 13
Due from City of Lynn on account of bridge repairs,.
104 95
School books on hand,
231 06
Due from Libbey & Johnson, for school books,
101 59
Due for school books,
5 00
Due from the State, in reimbursement of State aid,'
7,032 81
Due from Richard Mansfield, on tax lists of 1862 and 1863,
1,961 68
In hands of the Selectmen,
1,500 00
Deficiency,
20,080 86
$33,299 08
JOHN B. HITCHINGS, HARMON HALL, Auditors.
GEO. H. SWEETSER,
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TOWN FARM in account with TOWN OF SAUGUS.
Dr.
To decrease in value of real estate,. $69 00
" rent of house and out-buildings, valued at $1,250, at 8 per cent.,. 100 00
" rent of barn, valued at $730, at 7 per cent., 51 10
"" rent of forty acres of tillage land, val- ued at $2000, at 6 per cent., -. 120 00
" rent of pasture land, valued at $500, at 6 per cent.,- 30 00
" tax allowed,
60 00
" Dr. Dearborn's salary,
15 00
" Keeper's salary,
252 00
" wood used, 30 00
" Overseers' orders for supplies, 898 50
$1,625 60
Cr.
By increase in personal property, 248 91
" supporting an average of thirteen and and a half paupers, at $1,96-|- per week,. 1,376 69
$1,625 60
O. M. HITCHINGS, S. SNOW, Appraising Committee.
LOTT EDMANDS,
Annual Report
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF SAUGUS,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY, 1865.
LYNN: STEVENSON & NICHOLS, PRINTERS, 22 & 24 HEALEY'S ARCADE, 1865.
REPORT.
IN presenting to our fellow-citizens of Saugus the Annual School Report for the year ending February, 1865, we cheerfully comply with the requirements of the laws of our ancient Commonwealth.
Our board has not been so fortunate in experi- enced members as perhaps in some former years. Our chairman, Mr. Wilbur F. Newhall, was obliged to resign on account of continued ill health, conse- quently we have lost his valuable aid during most of the year.
THE CONDITION OF THE SCHOOLS.
We are happy to say that the schools, from the commencement of the school year, have been in a prosperous condition without an exception. Any comparison of the schools in town, one with the other, when all have endeavored to do so well, would be out of place, but we venture the remark that in point of improvement in discipline and scholarship, the present year will compare favorably with any pre- vious year ; still there is room for improvement- we say it encouragingly. This is a field of effort in
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which all can labor, and with profit, too. We do not expect perfection, yet would have all aim high.
The scholar, the parents, the teacher and the com- mittee men have responsible duties to perform, in or- der that the schools may be the very best, and each one must perform that duty for himself, and not for another, faithfully, according to the best of his abil- ity. The responsibility is, we had almost said, fear- ful, but the reward will be glorious.
An united, comprehensive and continuous effort, on the part of all, is solemnly required at our hands. A high tone of morality must be encouraged, and severe discipline must be maintained in order to se- cure the best good of each individual scholar. And parents, teachers and scholars will remember that se- vere discipline in good morals, and habits of industry and punctuality at home and at school, are for the good of all, indeed, for the case and comfort of all.
THE OBJECT OF EDUCATION.
No system of education is perfect which has not for its object the training of all the faculties, moral and physical, as well as the intellectual. The mus- cles should be developed by healthful exercise, while the body is subjected to the mind, and the mind to the moral nature, yet all in harmony, in order to re- alize the highest type of manhood. A sound mind in a sound body, controlled by an enlightened con- science.
THOROUGHNESS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED.
While the process of education may be said to be
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commensurate with our earthly existence, it is not always, if ever, conducted in the best possible man- ner. Men are always being educated, but too often in a manner so heedless as to be of little real advan- tage to themselves or any one else. .
A fact thoroughly learned is alone fruitful of good results. There is a great difference between task learning, or the indolent reception of knowledge without labor, or with just so much labor as will en- able one to recite a lesson passably well, and that , effort of the mind, which is always necessary in or- der to secure an important truth and make it fully our own, which we call study.
One fact fixed in the mind is worth ten thousand facts loosly floating over it. The one strengthens while the other weakens and confuses the mind. A mere smattering of science picked up a little here, a little there, a little more no one knows where, in any man's field, as a pigeon picks up peas, may make one pedantic, but will never make one learned or wise. The exhaustive system is of all others to be preferred. A thing worth learning is worth learning well. The first aim of a teacher should be to fix in the mind of a scholar the importance of thorough self-dis- cipline, the habit of deep, patient, systematic re- search of thinking and reasoning accurately, and of concentrating thought, of applying and suspending thought at will : thus to strengthen the mind and en- able one to think a subject through and through.
The first step in this direction should be taken as early as possible ; and the motto of every scholar should be, not how far, but how well. Thus alone
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can the past be made secure, and more knowledge acquired from day to day than is forgotten.
DRILL.
There has been introduced into our schools during the past year, for the first time, we think, a system of weekly comprehensive reviews, and with excellent results, thereby keeping constantly before the mind of the scholar, the frame work, or fundamental prin- ciples of the science being taught. We have thought that in this way, better than any other, what we have . called fragments, might be gathered up and nothing lost.
BOOKS.
We have introduced no change in text-books dur- ing the year, for the reason that we have found, on careful examination and comparison of the old with the new, that those now in use are equal to the best, and, in some respects, superior to any others, in the market.
The Readers in point of mechanical execution might be improved. The type is small, and the pa- per poor, but we could not recommend the banish- ment of old friends with familiar faces, for a mere fault in dress.
TEACHERS.
All of our schools, nine in number, have been taught by eleven different female teachers ; and while our country is engaged in a war of such magnitude, demanding the strength of muscle and brain of every male citizen, either in the industrial or military ser- vice, and while we can secure the labors of such com-
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petent female teachers, we ought not to think of employing male teachers. Indeed, it would be diffi- cult to find an equal number of better teachers, either male or female, for our small village schools. One star is said to differ from another in glory, yet all seem to shine with a pure and steady light, adorning not only the intellectual but also the moral and social walks of life.
Their wages have been liberal, but we are satisfied that each has endeavored to earn her share of the generous appropriation of the town for school pur- poses, and to have been actuated by higher motives than the consideration of pecuniary reward.
We give a decided preference to the employment of female teachers in our small schools in times like these, but we trust the time is not far distant when the good people of Saugus will deem it necessary to establish, if not a High school, at least a higher grade of Grammar school in which should be employed a male teacher of liberal education.
HOME INFLUENCE.
We cannot over estimate the importance of well directed home influence upon the success of our schools. The subtle, strong tie of sympathy which links the hearts of parents and children like an elec- tric cord, affords a ready means by which the slightest prejudice may be communicated, and no effort on the part of the teacher can be successful without their hearty co-operation. We may look in vain for im- provement in the youth who does not receive the sympathy and encouragement of the home circle -
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those " words of wisdom fitly spoken which are like apples of gold in pictures of silver." Especially the influence of mothers should not be neglected or for- gotten, for on them more than any other depends the well-doing and happiness, or the error and grief, not only of childhood alone, but of the far more danger- ous period of youth. Many men whose names are written in letters of living light have owed their suc- cess in life to this influence.
The Spartan matron taught the world the truth, " That martial spirits must be made in youth ; Hence, when her sons marched to the tented field ; Bring back or be borne back upon your shield, Was the last farewell, the soul nerve-steeling speech, That last of all their cars were wont to reach. Our country owed to her our Washington, Who bore, and bred, and martialed such a son."
ABSENTEEISM AND TARDINESS.
Parents are apt to feel that when they have pro- vided splendid school-houses - cool in summer and warm in winter - good teachers, a good committee, to look after the interests of the school, and voted to tax themselves liberally for books and wages of teach- ers, sent their children to school such a part of the time as is perfectly convenient, that they have per- formed their whole duty. We say that when they have done all this, and more, their duty has just com- menced. A parent who stops here is as injudicious as he who gives his child of tender years a sum of money and directs him therewith to educate himself. Childhood knows not how to value rightly the good before it, and is slow to learn either the value of time
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or money. Children should be daily led and taught to drink deeply and to love to linger around the foun- tains of learning.
We talk of forty weeks' schooling in Saugus : why, when tardiness and absentecism is properly consid- ered, and their influence truly estimated, we have never had more than twenty-five or thirty weeks' as an average for all.
Eighty to eighty-five scholars in town, on an aver- age, have been absent from school during the last three years. If we expend twenty-five hundred dol- lars, more or less, for schools, why not have our money's worth in this as in everything else. But mis- spent money and time are trifles compared to other evils. If our children are not found in our excellent schools, they are apt to be found at rival institutions where habits of idleness and vice are taught with too much success.
THE ROLL OF HONOR.
SCHOLARS NOT ABSENT FOR THE YEAR.
WARD ONE-MISS MUNROE. .
Clara A. Armor,
Annette S. Dager,*
Luella F. Richardson,
Angie M. Richardson,*
S. Helen Wilson,*
Lilla F. Wilson,*
Jennie Kidder,*
Rebecca T. Hawkes .*
WARD TWO- MISS PRESCOTT.
Carrie Wilson, Sarah Davis,* Annie Newhall .*
Evelyn Walton .*
Robert Thomas,*
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MISS TROW.
Ella E. Wilson, Willie H. Thomas,
Barbara H. Bruce,*
Annie Parker,* Carrie Parker,* Charles McCotten .*
MISS PARKER.
Louisa Greenleaf,
Charles E. Wyman,
E. Chester Parker,
Ralph S. Whitehead,*
Eugene S. Boardman,* Margaret Wightman,* Emma Stocker .*
WARD THREE - MISS DANFORTH.
Maria S. Raddin,* Arthur W. Sweetser,*
Alvan L. Trull .*
WARD FOUR - MISS LANE.
Harmon Hall, Amos Stocker,
Charles L. Smith .*
MISS MANSFIELD.
Susie M. ITall,
Flora C. Waldron,
Maria C. Fisk,
Helen A. Fisk,
Wallace Rhodes, Edwin Rhodes, Albert Rhodes, Levi Florence.
WARD FIVE- MRS. BOARDMAN.
Charles Bosworth,
Annie Rhodes, James B. Boardman, Winslow B. Boardman.
Solon Edmands,*
Eugene Rowe,*
Walter Mansfield,*
* Absent on account of sickness.
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CONDITION OF THE SCHOOLS.
WARD ONE-NORTH SAUGUS.
MIXED SCHOOL.
FRANCES MUNROE, Teacher.
This school, by the faithful and thorough labors of Miss Munroe, has become one of the best schools in our town. In point of discipline and good order it is second to none. The teacher has done all the Com- mittee could hope or expect, and the scholars have succeeded nobly in their studies
WARD TWO -SAUGUS CENTRE.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
CLARA E. PRESCOTT, Teacher.
This school was taught by Miss Fairbanks through the spring term, after which Miss Prescott took charge of it through the fall and winter terms. During the year some of the best scholars left the school, some moving out of town, others to attend private schools. Notwithstanding all this (and even the panic just at the close of the school) the examination passed off finely, though the numbers of the school dwindled from forty to about twenty scholars. The teacher, not being discouraged, displayed great generalship in rallying her scattered forces, and for three hours, with about twenty-three scholars, succeeded in holding the attention of the parents and visitors.
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INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
MARY E. TROW, Teacher.
This is one of the prettiest schools in town, the scholars all being so near of an age and size. Com- ing from the Primary school, instructed in the first principles, they are prepared to enter more fully those studies which fit them for the Grammar school. Miss Trow seems just fitted for this school, as a cord of love seems to bind the hearts of the scholars to the teacher and teacher to the scholars. At the examina- tion the exercises were excellent and singing very fine.
PRIMARY SCHOOL.
ESTHER A. PARKER, Teacher.
This school is the largest in town, and the teacher has taken great pains with it and has been very faith- ful in the discharge of her duties. To take young children when they first enter school and keep them comfortable while in school, and instruct them in the first principles of education, requires no little pa- tience and love for the work. Great credit is due Miss Parker for the success which has attended her labors in this school.
WARD THREE - CLIFTONDALE.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
REBECCA RICHARDSON, Teacher for spring and sum- mer term, succeeded by MARY DANFORTH for the win- ter term.
This school is not large, but in most of its studies the scholars appear very well. It suffered some- what from change of teachers. Miss Richardson,
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