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REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN OF FAIRHAVEN,
ON THE
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE TOWN,
AND OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
MARCH 31st, 1858.
NEW-BEDFORD : TANDARD PRESS -E. ANTHONY, PRINTER. 1858.
REPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN OF FAIRHAVEN,
ON THE
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE TOWN,
For the Year ending March 31st, 1858.
NEW-BEDFORD : STANDARD PRESS - E. ANTHONY, PRINTER. 1858.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
THE SELECTMEN have examined the accounts of Eb- enezer Akin, Jr., Collector of Taxes, to the year 1855, and Tucker Damon, Jr., to 1858, and find them correct.
Amount of Tax Bills in the hands of Ebenezer Akin, Jr., at the commencement of the past year, as per Selectmen's Report, 1857, $872.81
Amount of Tax Bills in the hands of Tucker Damon, Jr., for the years 1856-7, $2,916.81
Amount of Tax Bills placed in the hands of Tucker Damon, Jr., for the years 1857-8, 29,553.51
32,470.32
$33,343.13
Their accounts show as follows :
Amount collected by E. Akin, Jr., and paid to Town Treasurer,
369.74
Commissions to E. Akin, Jr.,
7.55
Uncollected Taxes in the hands of E. Akin, Jr., March, 30, 1858, 495.52
872.81
Amount collected by Tucker Damon, Jr., and paid to State Treasurer,
4,752.00
66 County Treasurer,
4,136.87
66 Town Treasurer,
17,138.14
Collector's commissions, T. Damon, Jr.,
531.16
Abatements for prompt pay,
1,356.24
Taxes remitted by Assessors,
433.58
Uncollected Taxes 1855-6,
137.69
Uncollected Taxes 1856-7, 791.60
Uncollected Taxes 1857-8,
in the hands of T. Damon, Jr., 3,193.04
4,122.33
32.470.32
$33,343.13
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The accounts of Tucker Damon, Jr., Treasurer of the Town, have been examined and are correct, as follows :
The Town is credited with :
Balance in the Treasury, April 1st, 1857,
$271.40
Dividends from Bank Stock,
175.00
Loan of Fairhaven Institution for Savings,
2,600.00
Loan of Merchants Bank,
1,800.00
Cash of State Treasurer, School Fund,
220.05
Cash of Town of Yarmouth,
21.00
Cash of Town of Nantucket,
9.43
Cash of W. D. Swan,
5.00
Cash of B. Austin,
8.70
Cash of Fairhaven Branch Railroad for hose,
18.10
Cash of G. Atwood,
2.25
Cash of N. S. Spooner,
14.11
Cash of E. Akin, Jr., Collector,
369.74
Cash of W. A. Spooner, Superintendent,
144.82
Cash of T. Nye,
6.88
Cash from sale of Town Maps,
8.11
Cash of T. Damon, Jr., Collector,
17,138.14
$22,812.73
And indebted with :
Orders drawn on the Treasurer and paid,
19,936.59
Loan of Fairhaven Institution for Savings, paid,
500.00
Interest on Loans,
1,026.25
Treasurer's commissions,
213.57
Cash balance in Treasurer's hands,
1,136.32
$22,812.73
There remains unpaid of the expenses of the Town on the 30th of March :
Amount due Schools,
978.19
Outstanding orders for Support of Poor,
1,022.24
Outstanding orders for Incidental Expenses,
659.27
For School Books,
453.41
For Interest due,
300.00
$3,413.11
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To pay the aforesaid :
Uncollected Taxes,
$4,617.85
School Books sold,
565.81
School Books in hands of the Committee,
453.41
Due from F. Keith, on his note,
94.31
Due from J. E. Morse,
125.95
Due from Town of Rochester,
35.00
Due from Town of Berkley,
7.00
Due from Town of Sandwich,
25.08
Due from Town of Chilmark,
9.81
Due from City of Fall River,
27.54
Cash in Treasurer's hands,
1,136.31
$7,098.08
TOWN DEBT.
Loan of Fairhaven Institution for Savings,
12,100.00
Loan of New-Bedford Institution for Savings,
5,000.00
Loan of Merchants' Bank,
1,800.00
Loan of individuals,
4,000.00
$22,900.00
The Town has :
28 Shares Fairhaven Bank Stock, par value,
2,800.00
Liquor Agency, stock and cash on hand,
470.10
$3,270.10
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Balance of Appropriation for 1856-7,
754.44
Appropriation for 1857-8,
7,500.00
Received of State Treasurer,
220.05
$8,474.49
Orders drawn for High School,
923.05
Orders drawn for Common Schools,
6,573.25
Balance not drawn :
761.95
Common Schools,
216.24
987.19
REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS.
Appropriation for 1857-8,
2,000.00
Amount overdrawn to Dr. Incidental account,
42,66
$2,042.66
Orders drawn and paid,
$2,024.66
High School,
7,496.30
$8,474.49
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FARM, ALMS HOUSE AND POOR.
Appropriation for 1857-8,
2,500.00
Cash received from Town of Yarmouth,
21.00
Cash received from Town of Nantucket,
9.43
Cash received from Beriah Austin,
8.70
Cash received from G. Atwood,
2.25
Cash received from T. Nye,
6.88
Cash received from W. A. Spooner, labor from farm,
85 19
Cash received from W. A. Spooner,
59.63
Overdrawn 1855-6,
90.57
Overdrawn 1856-7,
1,113.63
Overdrawn 1857-8,
971.63
2,175.83
$4,868.91
Orders drawn :
For Support of Poor in and out of Alms House, 1856-7, 346,69
For Support of Poor in and out of Alms House, 1857-8, 2,303.65
2,650.34
For purchase of Stock,
241.00
For bills of repairs on house,
20.75
For J. B. Bisbee's bill,
12.04
For Isaac Terry, blacksmithing,
24.64
For R. M. Simmons, repairing,
5.25
For bills of fuel,
125.51
For C. Maxfield, furniture,
6.00
For hired labor for House and Farm,
185.41
For Physicians' bills,
93.75
For Wm. A. Spooner, keeper of Alms House,
300.00
$3,664.69
For amount overdrawn to 1857,
1,204.22
4,868.91
Due from F. Keith, on his note,
94.21
Due from J. B. Morse,
125.95
Due from Town of Rochester,
35.00
Due from Town of Berkley,
7.00
Due from Town of Sandwich,
25.08
Due from Town of Chilmark,
9 81
Due from City of Fall River,
27 54
$324.69
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INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
Balance of Appropriation 1856-7,
3,059.88
Appropriation for 1857-8,
5,500.00
Special Appropriation for Engine,
2,000.00
Dividends from Bank Stock,
175.00
Loans from Fairhaven Institution for Savings,
2,600.00
Loan from Merchants Bank,
1,800.00
Cash from W. D. Swan,
5.00
Cash from N. S. Spooner,
14.11
Cash from Fairhaven Branch Railroad,
18.10
Cash from E. Akin, Jr.,
369.74
Sale of Town Maps,
8.11
Overlay on Taxes,
756.88
Taxes assessed in November,
7.50
Amount assessed for School Books,
400.26
$16,714.58
Orders drawn :
For Fire Engine,
1,700.00
For Hose Cart,
150.00
For Hose,
752.21
For oiling Hose,
12.75
For freight of Engine,
9.00
For painting, repairs, fixtures, &c., for En- gine Houses,
430.90
For Flag Staff,
61.39
For bills, repairs of Engines and Hose, coal, &c., 174.21
For Reservoirs and Pump,
23.94
For Engine Men,
312.00
3,626.40
For High School House,
226.65
For School Books,
750.80
For Printing, Stationery,
157.50
For sundry bills for labor,
84.25
For Street Signs,
17.38
For " Fishery" expenses,
200.00
For " Quaker Lane" Road,
350.00
For Wall, Long Plain Road,
6.00
For Wall, Head River Road,
40.00
For Bridge, Head of the River,
30.00
For repairs of Streets and Drains in Village,
82.17
508.17
For Land damages,
29.97
$5,601.12
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Amount brought forward, $5,601.12
For Assessors,
320.50
For School Committee,
277.25
For Overseers of the Poor,
100.00
For Selectmen,
350.00
For Constables, Street Committee and Police, 132.60
For Auditors,
6.00
For M. Howard, Registry of Children, For Town Clerk, Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths,
41.60
For rent of Rooms for Town,
56.25
For Interest on Loans,
1,026,25
For Loan of Fairhaven Institution for Savings, paid,
500.00
For sundry bills,
74.74
For Taxes remitted by Assessors,
433.58
For Abatements for prompt payment of Taxes,
1,356.24
For Treasurer and Collector's commissions,
752.28
For balance overdrawn for Highways,
42.66
Balance unexpended,
5,625.51
$16,714.58
JOHN A. HAWES, E. G. MORTON, Selectmen.
M. L. ELDRIDGE,
We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing accounts, and believe them to be correct.
JOB C. TRIPP, FREDERIC TABER,
Committee on
WILLIAM BROWNELL, Accounts.
1,186.35
18.00
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
OF THE
TOWN OF FAIRHAVEN,
FOR THE YEAR 1857-8.
NEW-BEDFORD : STANDARD PRESS - E. ANTHONY, PRINTER. 1858.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
GENTLEMEN :
THE Annual Report of your School Committee is hereby respectfully submitted. The state of the various Schools during the year will first claim your attention :
HIGH SCHOOL.
At the opening of the first term no change in the corps of Teachers from that of the previous year was deemed expedient. Accordingly the discipline and instruction of the School was committed to the fol- lowing persons. Mr. GEORGE E. THACHER, Principal, and Misses KING, DEXTER and LISCOMB, Assistants. During the latter part of the term, however, upon the resignation of Miss King, her place was supplied by Miss Mary E. Greene.
At the close of the first term, after mature delibera- tion, your Committee fully approved and adopted a plan of reorganization, whereby the different grades of advancement in the School should be comprised in four instead of eight classes as previously. By this change in classification many important advantages were secured in the management of the School, and also a diminution in the requisite number of Teachers. At this time also, the Principal was induced to accept an appointment to a Professorship of Chemistry in a Collegiate Institution of one of the Southern States.
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The second term commenced with the following in- structors : Mr. Chas. P. Rugg, Principal, Miss Phebe W. Cook and Miss Caroline Dexter, Assistants.
The course of study for the year was arranged by your Committee in concurrence with the Teachers, with a view to securing as far as possible the great end of study, the furnishment of the mind and the best exer- cise of all its powers. And as we recognize this two- fold object to be gained by study, we cannot but depre- cate the attempt, which is sometimes made to reduce the standard of school instruction to the low level of such branches as are either suited to the taste of the scholar or immediately applicable to the business affairs of every day life. It often happens that the exercise, which a given mind most needs, to secure a proportion and balance among its faculties, can be found only in the pursuit of studies which are least attractive and even repugnant to the taste. The fact that a scholar is averse to mathematical studies affords in itself no proof that a thorough course of instruction in mathe- matical science is not most indispensable for symmetry in his mental development.
Your Committee have not thought it prudent as yet to elevate the standard of admission to the High School, but have chosen rather to give their efforts to securing on the part of candidates something like reasonable approximation to the present moderate standard. To this end they have adopted a plan of examination which seems eminently fitted to insure thoroughness and im- partiality and at the same time to relieve the embar- rassment of diffidence to which many are always liable. In a word, to throw every applicant entirely upon his own resources and prevent even the possibility of acci- dental admissions.
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The number of admissions during the year has been small. At the examination in April, twenty presented themselves for admission. After careful deliberation your Committee decided that none of this number gave evidence of possessing both the qualifications of age and scholarship requisite for entering with profit upon the course of study prescribed for the High School. At the examination in November, twenty-two candi- dates for admission were present. Of these only seven were approved. There has been only one public gradu- ation during the year. On this occasion the custom- ary testimonial of approbation on the part of the Prin- cipal and the Committee was conferred upon six pupils, who had completed the prescribed course of study with commendable fidelity. Their names are as follows : A. Hayden Lambert, Charles H. Morton, Almira V. Bracy, Mary D. Chace, Emilia A. Liscomb, Lucy A. Reynard. A number of past-graduates upon applica- tion have been permitted, during the year, under cer- tain restrictions, to return and enjoy still further the privileges of the School.
Respecting the advancement of the School during the year, your Committee are disposed to speak favora- bly. Notwithstanding the unusually frequent changes that have occurred among the teachers, happy indica- tions of progress have been apparent. The former Principal suddenly left us in the very brightest day of his entire connection with the school. The last few weeks of his instruction among us afforded unprece- dented satisfaction to his own mind as well as to the minds of the Committee, both in respect to the im- proved deportment and the scholarship of his pupils. Nor have the literary advantages of the school or the opportunities which it affords for thorough instruction
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suffered the least abatement under its new administra- tion. It is the opinion of your Committee that the school never afforded greater facilities for acquiring useful knowledge and mental discipline than at pres- ent. The government of the school appears to exhibit many prime features of excellence, not the least of which is universal kindness, tempered by available severity. Privilege ever prominent, yet secure against abuse by a stern background of law. These are essen- tial characteristics of all good government.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
82
76.26
5 months,
Winter,
78
74.10
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Wages of Teachers. $164. 150.
DISTRICT No. 1.
The past year has been a favored one with this school, in point of instruction. The winter term espec- ially has given great satisfaction to your Committee. The cheerful aspect of the school, the general studi- ousness, the excellent order, the remarkable thorough- ness and precision with which instruction was impart- ed even to minute differences in pronunciation, the timely hints thrown out by way of inculcating good manners, and withal the manifest indications that, from the youth verging toward manhood, down to the baby-boy who was perched upon a bench to say his little lesson, not one of all the school was neglected. These considerations led your Committee to conclude that few if any schools among us during the winter have done so important a work for their districts.
The teacher for the summer term was Miss E. E. Wilson. Winter, Mr. Geo. W. Francis.
Scholars,
24
Av. att. 18.1
Length of Schools.
Summer,
Winter,
33
25.87
4.5 month, 3.75
Wages of Teachers. $90.
146.25
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DISTRICT No. 2.
The summer term of this school was well conducted by Miss Lucy A. Manter. The winter term was en- trusted to the care and instruction of Mr. George T. Russell, Jr. Your Committee had no reason to doubt his ability as a scholar, or his faithfulness to the duties of a teacher, but questioned the wisdom of committing so large and so difficult a school to one so young and wholly without the experience of a teacher.
Scholars.
Av. att. 22
Length of Schools.
Summer,
32
Winter,
41
6 months, 4 66
Wages of Teachers. $120.
112.
DISTRICT No. 3.
The school in this District is the smallest in the town. If the circumstances which have caused so great a reduction of the number of scholars in this school were of a permanent character, economy would doubtless demand an apportionment of it to other neighboring districts. But it is evident, that with the revival of manufacturing operations in this neighbor- hood and the natural influx of population, this school would become as large as the average of our country schools. We think, therefore, that the district should be retained.
This school has been taught the past year by Miss P. C. Wilson, under whose instruction the school has made very pleasing progress.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
11
9.6
5 months,
Wages of Teachers. $100.
Winter,
14
9.5
3.25
65.
DISTRICT No. 4.
This school has been acceptably conducted during the past year. At the several visits of the Committee
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the exercises have been, for the greater part, very satis- factory. The summer term was taught by Miss Cor- nelia Rounseville. The winter by Mr. Jones Robinson.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
29
24
Winter,
39
34.68
5 months, 3.5 66
Wages of Teacher. $110.
140.
DISTRICT No. 5.
Miss Sarah W. Macomber had charge of this school during the summer term. A pleasing interest in the various studies of the school, and a healthy mental activity on the part of the scholars, was always appar- ent under her instruction. The winter term was con- ducted by Mr. Walter A. Davis, a member of your Committee.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
33
22.5
5 months,
Winter,
29
20.
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Wages of Teacher. $100. 139.50
DISTRICT No. 6.
No very prominent impression either of excellence or of demerit in the management and instruction of this school, was made upon the minds of the Commit- tee in their visits during the summer term, which was taught by Miss Lydia A. Morse. The winter term was commenced by Mr. Martin L. Eldridge, a member of your Committee, whose necessary resignation before its close involved the disadvantage of a change of teachers at a time most unfavorable to the interests of a school. The term was closed by Mr. Fish.
Scholars.
Av. att. 22.19
Length of Schools.
Summer,
35
4.5 month,
Winter,
44
32.71
4.25
Wages of Teacher. $90. 150.
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DISTRICT No. 7.
This school was subject to the same disadvantage as that of No. 6, namely, too many teachers, yet if we mistake not, has enjoyed good instruction and good discipline. The average attendance in this school, as in some others, has not been as great as could be de- sired. It is plain to see, that the habitual absence of a few scholars will so affect the general average as to place in a false light those parents and scholars who fully appreciate the value of our public schools, (as is the case with a great majority in this district,) and thus affix a demerit to a particular school which it ill de- serves. We hope that all parents will endeavor to remedy the evil of which we here complain. The summer term was commenced by Miss Fannie E. Marsh, and closed by Miss Charlotte E. Mendell. The winter term was taught by Mr. P. S. Doty.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
28
22.5
4.75 months,
Wages of Teacher. $104
Winter,
37
29.5
4.13
148.50
DISTRICT No. 8.
Both terms of this school have been under good in- struction. The first was taught by Miss Elizabeth G. Kempton, whose lack of previous experience was abundantly supplied by an unusual degree of tact in teaching, especially young children. The second term was conducted by Mr. Jabez Wood, and your Commit- tee have been gratified to learn the interest that has been taken in moulding the manners and morals, as well as in developing the mental powers of those under his charge.
Scholars.
Av. att. 24.91
Length of Schools.
Summer,
34
5 months,
Winter,
42
27.35
4
Wages of Teachers. $90. 140.
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DISTRICT No. 9.
Your Committee can speak favorably of the instruc- tion which this school has enjoyed during the year. The summer term was committed to Miss Eliza J. Pur- rington. The winter term to Mr. Augustine W. Bis- bee. His ready powers of analysis and happy facility in imparting knowledge, together with the interest with which he seemed to invest every study to the mind of the pupil, cannot fail to have made their mark upon the school. More effort, however, to maintain a salu- tary restraint upon his pupils would have secured still happier results.
Scholars.
Av. att,
Length of Schools.
Summer,
24
15.81
6 months,
Wages of Teachers. $96
Winter,
26
15.
4
120
DISTRICT No. 10.
Neither term of this school has given even approxi- mate satisfaction to the Committee. It has seemed too manifest that the reins of government and the goads to application were poorly handled. There has been a lack of efficient control over the school, and also of . genuine enthusiasm in the business of instruction. It is but just, however, too add in this connection, that there is only one other school in the town, in which so large a number of scholars have been committed to the tuition of a single teacher.
The teacher for the summer term was Miss Mary A. Tinkham. For the winter term, Mr. Jediah Shaw.
Scholars.
Summer,
50
Av. att. 37.5
Length of Schools.
5 months,
Winter,
56
42.86
3.85 6
Wages of Teachers. $90. 142.55
DISTRICT No. 11.
The Grammar School of the district has been during the entire year under the care of Miss Lois Dean. A
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hard work and a good one has been done in this school. Your Committee have been highly gratified to witness the remarkable promptness and enthusiasm of the pu- pils under examination, and their uncommon profi- ciency in the various branches of study which they have pursued. Happy progress on the part of every pupil is unquestionable.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
31
20
5 months,
Wages of Teachers. $100.
Winter,
26
22
3.5 66
70.
The Primary and Intermedial School of this District has made good improvement during the year. The first term, and part of the second was taught by Miss K. H. Brady. The second term was closed by Miss Sarah W. Macomber.
Scholars
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
32
24.5
5 months.
Winter,
27
22.6
3.5
63.
DISTRICT No. 12 and 13.
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- During the year there has been no change of teachers in this school, which has been conducted by Mr. Aaron Porter, Principal, and Miss Sarah E. Millett, Assistant. Much profit to the scholars has attended the indefatigable efforts of the principal, and much could be said in commendation of marked features of excellence, both in the government and instruction of the school. But the conviction could not escape your Committee that weighty inter- ests were often embarrassed by excessive attention on the part of the principal to the merest punctilios of school management. There has been improvement in the attendance of the scholars during the year.
Scholars.
Summer,
80
Av. att. 60.79
Length of Schools.
Winter,
96
81.9
5 months, 3.75 “
Wages of Teachers. $90.
Wages of Teachers. $435. 326.25
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THE CENTRE MEDIUM .- This is the largest school in Town under the direction of a single teacher. The recitations of the scholars in this department have always given indications to the Committee of com- mendable industry on the part of scholars, and faith- fulness on the part of their teacher, Mrs. M. A. Fair- field.
There is one style of architecture appropriate to a penitentiary, and another to to a school house. Your Committee upon entering the room occupied by the Centre Medium School, have often felt that these dif- ferent orders were there sadly reversed.
Scholars.
Summer,
56
Av. att. Length of Schools. 45 5 months, 46 3.5 "
Wages of Teachers. $110. 77.
THE CENTRE PRIMARY .- This large school of little ones is still under the management of Miss Adeline L. Grinnell, assisted by Miss Jane Grinnell. We can heartily commend this school in nearly every impor- tant particular pertaining to the instruction and de- portment of those who comprise it. It is doing well the work of a Primary School.
Summer,
Winter,
Scholars. 101 82
Av. att. 79 62
Length of Schools. 5 months, 3.5
Wages of Teachers. $170. 136.
THE NORTH PRIMARY AND INTERMEDIAL. - This school, under the direction of Miss H. N. Hathaway, has been during the year in a highly prosperous con- dition. The classes have always, upon examination, showed the good results of a happy method of instruc- tion. Owing to the size of the school the past year, Miss Kate Hitch has been associated with Miss Hath- away as assistant.
Scholars.
Summer,
76
Av. att. 58.5
Winter,
54
40.
Length of Schools. 5 months, 3.5
Wages of Teachers. $160. 112.
Winter, 51
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THE SOUTH MEDIUM .- Widely different impressions have been made upon the minds of your Committee at different visits to this school. At times it has appeared a model of studiousness and orderly conduct. Pro- gress has been apparent during the year, though there are many in the school who are behind their years in point of scholarship. The school has been taught the past year by Miss Susan Hitch.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
38
30
5 months,
Wages of Teachers. $90.
Winter,
41
31
3.5
73.
THE SOUTH PRIMARY .- Miss Amanda Clark has con- ducted this school the past year, and a good work has been accomplished in her department. We like that persistency in a teacher that will have the lesson out of the idle or sullen boy, even though it detain both him and her beyond the prescribed hours of school.
Scholars.
Av. att. 34.42
Length of Schools.
Summer,
43
Winter,
.36
24.26
5 months, 3.5
Wages of Teachers. $90. 63.
DISTRICT No. 14.
The school in this district has been under excellent instruction during the year. At the close of the Sum- mer term, Miss Eliza Moore resigned her situation to enter upon another engagement. The Winter term has been conducted by Miss Anna Webb, whose long experience in teaching and facility in communicating, not only knowledge from the class-book, but also col- lateral information from the resources of her own mind, have well served the educational interests of this district. The worst feature in the management of this school, and one for which parents are mainly respon-
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sible, is the great irregularity in the attendance of the pupils.
Scholars.
Av. att.
Length of Schools.
Summer,
27
17.52
4 months,
Wages of Teachers. $72.
Winter,
40
25.8
5.25 “
131.25
DISTRICT No. 15.
The Summer term was taught by Miss Sarah C. Aikin. The Winter term was taught by Mr. Samuel Tyler Read, a faithful and able teacher. His faithful- ness seemed to extend to every part of a teacher's duty. The behavior of his scholars, as well as their mental culture, was an object of his careful supervis- ion. An interesting method of teaching, together with good attendance on the part of the scholars has produced valuable results. The condition of the school, at present, compares most favorably with that of one year since.
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