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Kellogg, Frank C.
Kirmes, William L.
Knights, Charles F. Knox, W. Russell.
Snow, Marion. Stewart, Robert L. Thatcher, Mary L. Thomas, Annie M. Tucker, Edwin W. Twitchell, Walter K. Waitt, Florence E. Warren, Fannie L. Westgate, Louise C. Whittier, William J. Woodward, Ada A. Worth, Laura. Worthen, James C. Wells, Winfield S.
FLAG DAYS.
The days named below were designated in the last report as Flag Days, and it is hereby ordered that each janitor shall display the national flag from the school buildings under his care from sunrise to sunset. Also that all teachers shall have an exercise or reading of the history relating to the event named, said reading or exercise not to occupy more 1 than fifteen minutes, immediately after the opening of the morning session of school on such days. When the day comes on Saturday or Sunday, or during a vacation, such commemoration shall take place on the Friday preceding.
January I, Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.
8, Battle of New Orleans, 1815.
" 15, Capture of Fort Fisher, 1865.
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February 6, Victory at Fort Henry, Tenn., 1862.
8, Capture of Roanoke Island, 1862.
66 12, Birth of Abraham Lincoln, 1809.
16, Capture of Fort Donaldson, 1862.
18, Capture Charleston, S. C., 1865.
March 4, Inauguration of president, once in four years.
5, Victory at Pea Ridge, Ark., 1862.
9, Battle of the iron clads Monitor and Merrimac, 1862. April 2, Capture of Petersburg, 1865,
" 3, Capture of Richmond, 1865.
" 6-7, Victory at Shiloh, Tenn., 1862.
" 9, Surrender of General Lee, 1865.
" 12, Attack on Fort Sumpter, 1861.
" 19, Fight at Concord and Lexington, 1775.
" 25, Capture of New Orleans, 1862.
" 27, Birth of General Grant, 1822.
May 3, Town of Melrose incorporated, 1850. " 5-6, Battle of the Wilderness, 1864.
" 30, Capture of Corinth, 1862. Memorial day, (half mast.).
" 31, Victory at Fair Oaks.
June 14, Adoption of Stars and Stripes as national emblem, 1776.
" 17, Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.
" 19, Battle between Kearsarge and Alabama, 1864. July 1-4, Battle of Gettysburg, 1863.
" 4, Declaration of Independence, 1776. September, First day school year.
17, Victory at Antietam, 1862.
October 12, Columbus discovered America, 1492.
19, Battle of Cedar Creek, 1864. Surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. November 7, Capture of Port Royal, S. C., 1861.
24, Battle of Lookout Mountain, 1863. December 15, Victory at Nashville, 1864.
21, Capture of Savannah, 1864.
22, Landing of the Pilgrims, 1620.
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SCHOOL LAWS.
At the last session of the legislature the laws regarding school attendance, and fining of parents and guardians who refuse or neglect to send their children to school, were amended and considerably changed, and the substance of the new law is as follows :-
EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC STATUTES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
CHAPTER 498.
AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ATTENDANCE OF CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOLS.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION I. Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and in every city and town where opportunity is furnished, in connection with the regular work of the public schools, for gratuitous instruction in the use of tools or in manual training, or for industrial education in any form, a child between the ages of eight and fifteen years, shall annually cause such child to attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides, and such attendance shall continue for at least thirty weeks of the school year, if the schools are kept open for that length of time, with an allowance of two weeks' time for absences not excused by the superintendent of schools or the school committee. Such period of attendance shall begin within the first month of the fall term of school, and for each five days' absence of any such child thereafter, in excess of the above allowance, before the completion of the
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required annual attendance of thirty weeks, the person hav- ing such child under his control shall, upon the complaint of the school committee or any truant officer, forfeit to the use of the public schools of such city or town a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, but if such child has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the school committee of such city or town, or if such child has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or has already acquired the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable, such penal- ties shall not be incurred.
SEC. 2. For the purposes of the preceding section school committees shall approve a private school only when the teaching in all the studies required by law is in the English language, and when they are satisfied that such teaching equals in thoroughness and efficiency the teaching in the public schools in the same locality, and that equal progress is made by the pupils therein, in the studies required by law, with that made during the same time in the public schools; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teaching therein.
SEC. 3. The truant officers and the school committee of the several cities and towns shall vigilantly inquire into all cases of neglect of the duty prescribed in section one, and ascertain the reasons, if any, therefor; and such truant officers or any of them, shall, when so directed by the school committee, prosecute in the name of the city or town any person liable to the penalty provided for in said section. Police, district and municipal courts, trial justices and judges of the probate court, shall have jurisdiction within their respective counties of the offences described in section one.
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SEC. 4. All children within the Commonwealth may attend the public schools in the place in which they have their legal residence, subject to the regulations prescribed by law.
SEC. 5. The school committee shall determine the num- ber and qualifications of the scholars to be admitted to the high school.
SEC. 6. Children living remote from any public school in the town in which they reside may be allowed to attend the public schools in an adjoining town under such regulations and on such terms as the school committee of the said towns agree upon and prescribe; and the school committee of the town in which such children reside shall pay the sum agreed upon out of the appropriations of money raised in said towns for the support of schools.
SEC. 7. Any minor under guardianship, whose father has died, may attend the public schools of the city or town of which his guardian is an inhabitant.
SEC. 8. Children may, with the consent of the school committee first obtained, attend schools in cities and towns other than those in which their parents or guardians reside; but when a child resides in a city or town different from that of the residence of the parent or guardian, for the sole purpose of attending school there, the parent or guardian of such child shall be liable to pay such city or town for tuition, a sum equal to the average expense per scholar for the period during which the child so attends.
SEC. 9. The school committee shall not allow a child who has not been duly vaccinated to be admitted to or con- nected with the public schools.
SEC. 10. The school committees shall not allow any pupil to attend the public schools while any member of the household to which such pupil belongs is sick of smallpox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, or during a period of two weeks
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after the death, recovery or removal of such sick person; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to present to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend, a certificate from the attending physician or board of health, of the facts necessary to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regulation.
SEC. II. No person shall be excluded from a public school on account of the race, color, or religious opinions of the applicant or scholar.
SEC. 12. Every member of school committee under whose direction a child is excluded from a public school, and every teacher of such school from which a child is excluded, shall, on application by the parent or guardian of such child, state in writing the grounds and reason of the exclusion.
SEC. 13. A child unlawfully excluded from a public school may recover damages therefor in an action of tort, to be brought in the name of such child by his guardian or next friend, against the city or town by which such school is supported.
SEC. 14. The plaintiff in such action may, by filing inter- rogatories for discovery, examine any member of the school committee, or any other officer of the defendant city or town, as if he were a party to the suit.
SEC. 15. Whenever a truant school has been established for any county it shall be the place of confinement, disci - pline and instruction for all truants within the cities or towns of said county, unless said cities or towns have made other provision therefor; and police, district or municipal courts, trial justices and probate courts, shall have jurisdiction within their respective counties of the offences described in sections nineteen and twenty-one of this act ; and may com- mit truants to such truant school or union truant school as may be established for their respective counties under the provisions of this act.
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SEC. 16. If three or more towns in any county so require, the county commissioners shall establish at the expense of the county, at a convenient place therein, other than the jail or house of correction, a truant school for the confinement, discipline and instruction of minor children convicted under the provisions of sections nineteen and twenty-one of this act and all acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto; and shall make suitable provisions for the govern- ment and control, and for the appointment of proper teachers and officers thereof. But the county commissioners of two, three or four contiguous counties may, and if three or more cities or towns in each of such counties require, shall, at the expense of said counties, establish for said counties at a convenient place therein a union truant school, to be organized and controlled by the chairman of the county commissioners of said counties, in the manner pro- vided for the government and control of county truant schools by county commissioners; and any county so unit- ing with another county or counties in the support of a union truant school shall not be required to support a truant school of its own.
SEC. 17. A town may assign any such truant school, or, with the assent of the state board of lunacy and charity, the state primary school, as the place of confinement, discipline and instruction of children so convicted; and shall pay for their support therein such sum, not exeeeding two dollars a week for each child, as the county commissioners or trustees of the state primary and reform schools respectively shall determine.
SEC. 18. Children so committed may, upon satisfactory proof of amendment or other sufficient cause, be discharged from the state primary school by said state board, and from other places of confinement by the judge or justice who committed them.
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SEC. 19. Each town shall make all needful provisions and arrangement concerning habitual truants, and children between seven and fifteen years of age who may be found wandering about in the streets or public places therein, hav- ing no lawful occupation or business, not attending school and growing up in ignorance, and such children as persist- ently violate the reasonable rules and regulations of the pub- lic schools ; and shall make such by-laws as shall be most conducive to the welfare of such children and to the good order of such town; and shall provide suitable places for the confinement, discipline and instruction of such children.
SEC. 20. The school committee of each town shall ap- point and fix the compensation of two or more suitable per- sons, to be designated truant officers, who shall, under the direction of said committee, inquire into all cases arising under such by-laws, and shall alone be authorized, in case of violation thereof, to make complaint and carry into execu- tion the judgment thereon ; and who may serve all legal processes issued by the courts in pursuance of such by-laws, or of sections fifteen to twenty-four inclusive of this act, but who shall not be entitled to receive any fees for such service.
SEC. 21. Any minor convicted under a by-law made un- der section nineteen of this act of being an habitual truant, or of wandering about in the streets and public places of a city or town, having no lawful employment or business, not attending school and growing up in ignorance, or if persist- ently violating the rules and regulations of the public schools, shall be committed to any institution of instruction or suitable situation provided for the purpose, under the authority of said section or by-law, for a term not exceeding two years.
SEC. 22. Whoever, after notice from a truant officer to refrain from so doing, offers a reward for services to any
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child, in consequence of which reward such child is induced unlawfully to absent himself from school, or whoever, after notice as aforesaid, in any manner entices or induces any child to truancy, or whoever knowingly employs or harbors any truant or unlawful absentee from school, shall forfeit not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars to the use of the public schools of the city or town in which said of- fence occurs, to be recovered by complaint.
SEC. 23. Truant officers in cities and towns are hereby authorized, under the direction of the school committees of their respective cities and towns, to apprehend and take to school without warrant all truants found wandering about the streets or public places.
SEC. 24. The school committee of any city or town in any county or counties where a union or county truant school has been or shall hereafter be established may with the ap- proval of the court making the original commitment and with the consent of the county commissioners of the county in which such truant school is established, cause all persons confined in the truant or farm school in such city or town, when such farm school is a truant school, to be removed to such union or county truant school to complete the term for which they were originally committed, subject however to the provisions of law as to release before the expiration of such term.
SEC. 25. The school committees of the several towns shall annually report to the secretary of the board of educa- tion whether their respective towns have made the provis- ions required by law relating to truants and absentees from school.
SEC. 26. Each town may, and every town containing five thousand or more inhabitants shall, make all needful provisions and arrangements concerning children under six- teen years of age who by reason of orphanage or of the
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neglect, crime, drunkenness or other vice of parents are suffered to grow up without salutary parental control and education, or in circumstances exposing them to lead idle and dissolute lives; and may also make all such by-laws re- specting such children as shall be deemed most conducive, to their welfare and to the good order of the town.
SEC. 27. The selectmen of towns containing five thousand or more inhabitants, and of other towns, accepting the pro- visions of sections twenty-five to twenty-eight, inclusive, of this act, shall appoint suitable persons to make complaints of violations of by-laws adopted under the preceding section; and the person so appointed, and the officers and duly ap- pointed agents of the Massachusetts Society for the Pre- vention or Cruelty to Children, shall alone be authorized to make such complaints and to carry into execution the judg- ments thereon; and the persons so appointed shall alone be authorized to make complaints under the following section.
SEC. 28. A judge of the superior court, or of a police, district or municipal court, or a trial justice, upon proof that any child under sixteen years of age, by reason of orphanage or of the neglect, crime, drunkenness or other vice of par- ents, is growing up without salutary parental control and education, or in circumstances exposing such child to lead an idle and dissolute life, may order such child to such in- stitution of instruction or other place assigned for the purpose as may be provided under section nineteen of this act by the town in which such child resides, to be there kept, educated and cared for for a term not extending beyond the age of twenty-one years for boys, or eighteen years for girls.
SEC. 29. When the parents of a child committed under the preceding section have reformed and are leading orderly
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and industrious lives, and are in a condition to exercise sal- utary parental control over such child, and to provide him with proper education and employment, or when, said par- ents being dead, any person offers to make such suitable provision for the care, nurture and education of such child as will conduce to the public welfare, and will give security for the performance of the same satisfactory to the directors, trustees, overseers, or other board having charge of the insti- tution to which such child is committed, they may discharge him to the parents or to such other person.
SEC. 30. Chapter forty-seven and sections eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nine- teen, twenty and twenty-one of chapter forty-eight of the Public Statutes; chapter two hundred and forty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three ; chapters seventy-one and one hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five; chap- ters two hundred and forty-nine, four hundred and twenty-two and four hundred and sixty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; chapters three hundred and nine and three hundred and eighty-four of the acts of the year eighteen-hundred and ninety; chapters three hundred and sixty-one and four hundred and twenty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and chapter sixty- two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and chapter one hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. [Approved June 21, 1894.
CHAPTER 203.
CONCERNING INJURY TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
SECTION 78. Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wan-
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tonly and without cause destroys, defaces, mars, or injures a schoolhouse, church, or other building erected or used for purposes of education or religious instruction, or for the gen- eral diffusion of knowledge, or an out-building, fence, well, or appurtenance of such schoolhouse, church, or other build- ing, or furniture, apparatus or other property belonging to or connected with such schoolhouse, church or other build- ing, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year.
CHAPTER 332. [ACTS OF 1885.]
AN ACT REQUIRING PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE TO BE TAUGHT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SECTION I. Physiology and Hygiene, which, in both divsions of the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on the human system, shall be taught as a regular branch of study to all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money, except special schools maintained solely for instruction in particular branches, such as draw- ing, mechanics, art, and like studies. All acts or parts of acts relating to the qualifications of teachers in the public schools shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in this act.
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SALARIES OF TEACHERS AND SUPERINTENDENT.
NAMES. SCHOOLS. SALARIES.
Alonzo G. Whitman, High, Principal,
$2,000
F. H. Small, Sub-master, 1,000
Howard D. Barrows, Assistant, 700
A. A. Ballou,
800
Harriet C. Fairbanks,
1,000
Hattie G. Ricker,
650
Mary J. George,
650
Clara B, Mowry,
600
Lydia Mendum, Warren st., Prin., 8th Gr.,
700
Belle Mitchell,
7th
550
Alma J. Guptill,
6th
550
Harriet Dowes, 5th 450
Esther M. Davis, Franklin st., Prin. 4th Gr.,
550
Mary E. Tupper,
3d & 2d “
475
Hattie M. Field,
66
Ist & 2d "
500
Minnie F. C. Snow, Green st., Ist, 2d, 3d & 4th Gr., 475
Effie C. Sweetser, M. A. Livermore, Principal, 8th Gr.,
700
Lucy W. Bisbee,
7th “
600
Lillie J. Davis,
6th 550
Eva M. Crane,
5th 550
Susan D. Melcher, Centre, Princ., 4th Grade,
550
Isabelle L. Atwood, 3rd
550
Gertrude Stewart,
2nd
66
400
Isabelle Chapin, Ist
550
Mary I. Coggeshall, Upham Hill, Princ., 6th & 7th Gr.,
550
Annie Chadbourne, "
4th & 5th " 550
Bertha M. Lawrence, 66
2nd & 3rd " 450
Cecelia Coyle,
Ist 500
Alice M. Swett, Grove st., Princ., and 8th Gr.,
800
Helen J. Barrett,
66
7th
600
Janet Young,
6th
550
A. Louise McCormick,
5th
550
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NAMES.
SCHOOLS.
SALARIES.
Della H. Crosby,
Grove st., 4th Gr., $550
Nellie Dempsey,
3rd 525
Florence Ellis, 2d 550
A. E. Tucker, 60
Ist 66
500
Annie G. Smith, D. W. Gooch school, Princ., 7th Gr.,
650
Alice H. Long, 66
66
6th
525
Etta J. Call, 66
5th
550
Mrs. Mary R. Clarke, 66
500
Lucy F. Dermot,
66
3rd
550
Amelia Trowbridge, 66
،،
2nd 66
525
Annie H. Long, 66
66
Ist 66 400
Arline Merrill,
66
Ist 66
400
Emma A. Weeks, Converse, Principal, 3rd & 4th
525
Mary E. Nye,
2nd & Ist 66 525
Louise Frost, Ripley, Ist, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Gr., 525
Clara Bishop, Lynde street, Ist Gr., 500
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Grant Drake,
Music, 800
Willis S. Carter,
Drawing, 600
Clara E. Sheppard, Physical Culture, 350
B. F. Robinson, Superintendent,
2,000
JANITORS.
Isaac C. Weeks,
High and Mary A. Livermore, 720
George W. Boutwell,
Grove st. and D. W. Gooch, 900
C. H. Fuller,
Franklin and Green street, 300
John Hitchins,
Centre and Lynde street, 260
Eri Upham,
Upham Hill, 200
Frank Bemis,
Warren street and Old Franklin, 350
Thomas Ray,
Converse, 100
Edward Molyneux, Ripley, 60
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SCHOOL STATISTICS.
SCHOOLS.
|Maximum Number,
Jan. I to July 1, 1894.
Average Attendance
Jan. I to July 1, 1894.
Maximum Number,
Sept. I, to Dec. 31, 1894.
Average Attendance,
Sept. I, to Dec. 31, 1894.
No. of Pupils
Jan. 1, 1895.
Per Cent. of Att'dance.
Average Age,
¿Dec. 31, 1894.
¡ Mos.
High School, First Class.
37
35
42
40
41 24
96
I7
5
60
Third Class.
55
52
77
76
75
94
I6
Fourth Class
103
91
85
82
84
95
15
6
TOTALS
230
208
231
221
224
94.5
Eighth Grade, Mary A. Livermore.
49
41.7
52
46.3
49
95.2
14
4
Eighth Grade, Grove Street
43
38.8
51
43.9
48
95
14
2
Eighth Grade, Warren Street.
51
45.5
30
26.5
28
93.4
14
I
Seventh Grade, Mary A. Livermore
44
39-5
34
33-4
34
96
I3
Seventh Grade, Grove Street ..
47
37.8
35
28.3
32
86.1
I2
Seventh Grade, Warren Street.
34
31.3
34
94-3
I3
Seventh Grade, D. W. Gooch School.
39
33.3
35
94.3
I3
7
Seventh and Sixth Grades, Upham Hill.
30
25.9
34
29.7
`32
97.4
12
9
Sixth Grade, Mary A. Livermore
41
34
44
42
43
96.6
II IO
Sixth Grade, Grove Streeet
45
39.8
46
42.2
42
93-9
I3
3
Sixth Grade, Warren Street ..
39
32.8
40
35.9
38
93.2
I2
6
Sixth Grade, D. W. Gooch School
42
37.4
45
39.2
41
92.7
I2
8
Fifth Grade, Mary A. Livermore Fifth Grade, Grove Street
52
46
50
45
49
89
II
7
Fifth Grade, Warren Street
49
40
30
21.9
30
94-4
5
Fifth Grade, D. W. Gooch.
40
36.5
53
47-7
48
93.6
II
4
Fifth and Fourth Grades, Upham Hill
40
49
46.1
48
95-4 IO
9
Fourth Grade, Grove Street
42
43
35.5
42
93.5
IO
9
Fourth Grade, D. W. Gooch.
44
38.3
50
45-3
46
94
IO
3
Fourth Grade, Centre .
38
31.6
31
27.I
29
93.3
10
3
Fourth and Third Grades, Converse.
3
26.9
25
23.6
'26
93.8
10
Third Grade, Grove Street.
28.8
48
35.3
42
89.3
9
Third Grade, D. W. Gooch
43.7
50
48
50
90
9
Third Grade, Centre ...
29
22.4
45
41.9
42
95.2
5
Third and Second Grades, Franklin Street.
27
24
49
45.3
48
94.9
9
2
Third and Second Grades, Upham Hill.
60
49.8
51
49.2
50
95.6
8
9
Third Second and First Grades, Old Franklin St .. Second Grade, Grove Street
47
35-7
42
35.9
38
90.5
5
Second Grade, D. W. Gooch.
50
43-5
51
46
51
91.1 7
Second Grade, Centre. ..
43
36.3
42
35.1
40
95
6
8
Second and First Grades, Franklin Street.
74
57
52.2
57
90-7
7
Second and First Grades, D. W. Gooch.
43
28
48
38
44
86.1
7
0
Second and First Grades, Converse
31
21.9
38
34.4
38
92.3
7
3
First Grade, Grove Street
57
38.7
46
36.6
42
90.5 7
2
First Grade, D. W. Gooch
43
33.I
46
37.8
42
89.4
6
4
First Grade, Centre .
52
31
51
43
47
93
6
2
First Grade, Upham Hill
65
48.8
74
65
.70
88.3
6
8
First Grade, Lynde Street
38
27.3
41
32.3
39
92
6 10
Green Street School
39
34.1
44
40.8
44
90
6 10
Ripley School.
28
20.5
35
26.8
35
89.7
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