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66
3 50
B. M. Warner,
66
10 50
James Mullin,
66
66
3 50
Alfred Breor,
60
66
7 00
John McHugh,
66
66
3 50
Theo. Baggs' est.,
66
66
3 50
James Ryan, 66
66
3 50
W. H. Dickinson & Son, team and labor,
7 00
J. J. Ryan, labor,
6 75
Dennis Daley, 66
3 75
Joseph Smith, jr. “
4 50
14
F. C. Dugal, labor,
$4 50
F. H. Sweatland, «
75
F. Jubinville,
2 25
Thomas McGrath
4 50
John Winzell,
3 75
George Winzell, 66
3 75
Joseph Smith, 66
3 00
G. Vollinger, jr 66
2 25
James McGrath 66
1 50
D. P. McGrath,
1 50
Mich. Sperber
66
1 50
$205 83
HARDENING CHESTNUT STREET.
Horace Shumway, team and labor,
$24 50
W. E. Boyle,
66
10 50
George Vollinger,
10 50
Henry Vollinger,
7 00
James Mullins,
66
17 50
John Vollinger, 66
10 50
Paul Balise,
66
20 00
Peter Saffer, 66
7 50
John Stengline,
12 25
J. S. Newman,
66
66
15 00
T. J. Ryan,
66
7 00
Lawrence Doppman "
66
3 50
John Sheehan,
66
66
7 00
Michael Boyle Est.
7 00
Edm. Powers Est
7 00
J. J. Ryan, labor,
6 00
Dennis Daley,
1 50
Robert McGrath,
66
4 50
James McGrath,
6.75
Richard McGrath
75
Geo. Vollinger, jr "
3 75
Thos. McGrath,
3 75
Geo. Stengline,
4 50
.
15
John May, labor, Joseph Smith, jr. « F. C. Dugal, 66
$3 75
3 00
3 00
$208 00
HARDENING PLAIN ROAD.
Willis Holden, team and labor,
$53 07
L. S. Crafts, 66
40 45
Daniel Garvey,
66
25 70
Hor. Shumway " 66
42 00
Phil Jubinville 66
66
18 41
C. W.Walfrom
60
5 00
Rufus Swift, 66
66
4 00
G. Donaldson 66
66
9 45
J. B. Ryan, 66
66
20 75
Hen Vollinger 66
66
2 75
John Slattery, 66
66
1 00
W. H. Dickinson & Son, team and labor,
10 00
John McHugh,
66
4 50
J. S. Newman,
66
66
13 45
J. T. Fitzgibbons,
22 75
Walter Langdon,
7 00
M. J. Proulx,
66
66
5 25
James Ryan,
66
66
8 75
Fred Carl,
3 50
Cornelius Murphy,
66
6 74
J. J. Ryan,
10 50
John Kairn,
8 70
John Kairn, Jr.,
66
8 70
George Plank,
66
4 20
Chas. Caston,
1 20
Chas. Potter, loam,
20 00
357 82
HARDENING MAIN STREET, FROM C. S. SHAT- TUCK'S TO J. H. HOWARD'S.
W. H. Dickinson & Son, team and labor, $17 50
Horace Shumway, 66 66 14 88
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John McHugh,
team and labor,
$13 50
M. J. Proulx,
66
8 75
C. S. Shattuck,
66
66
7.00
Henry Vollinger,
66
66
7 00
E. B. Dickinson,
66
10 25
David Billings,
66
66
7 00
M. F. Sampson,
66
7 00
D. W. Wells,
66
66
3 50
James Ryan,
66
7 00
J. J. Ryan,
66
6 00
Chas McHugh,
66
3 00
Fred Sohepp,
66
3 00
Richard McGrath,
66
3 00
George Saffer,
66
1 50
$119 88
HARDENING ROAD IN WEST HATFIELD.
J. S. Newman, team and labor,
$20 00
Willis Holden, “
66
31 25
John Vollinger, team and labor,
14 00
W. E. Boyle, 66 66
12 25
John Stengline,
66
14 00
Fred Kleasner, 66 66
14 00
Henry Vollinger, "
66
14 00
Geo. Vollinger, 66
66
7 00
Edmund Powers Estate, team and labor,
17 25
James Mullin,
3 50
Lawrence Doppman,
66
66
3 50
Paul Balise,
66
66
3 50
Peter Saffer,
66
66
4 50
J. J. Ryan,
66
6 00
Lawrence Vollinger, Jr.,
66
4 50
John May,
66
3 00
Peter Denlein,
66
6 00
John Batzold,
66
4 50
George Vollinger, Jr.,
66
1 50
Frank Batzold,
66
1 50 ^
George Steele,
60
1 50
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George Bitner, labor,
$1 50
James McGrath,
1 50
George Stengline,
6 00
$196 .25
GRADING AND HARDENING HILL ROAD.
A. H. Graves, team and labor,
$15 75
B. M. Warner,
10 50
Horace Shumway, "
19 25
C. L. Graves,
14 25
C. E. Rhoades,
6 75
Henry S. Hubbard,"
5 25
Lewis Raboin,
5 25
Alfred Breor,
5 25
Moses E. Warner,
6
3.50
Joseph Raboin,
2 25
J. J. Ryan,
3 00
Richard Fitzgerald,
C.C
1.50
John Ryan,
3 00
James Orman,
1 50
$97 00
GRADING AND HARDENING FROM THE DEPOT TO NORTHAMPTON ROAD.
Charles W. Wade, team and labor,
$ 6 12
J. S. Newman,
8 25
Horace Shumway,
66
12 25
A. L. Strong,
1.75
J. S. Carl,
1 75
M. P. Bradford,
1 75
J. M. Strong,
. 66.
1 75
Henry Vollinger,
66
1 75
B. M. Warner,
66
1 75
J. J. Ryan,
3 00
James McGrath,
3 00
John B. Smith,
3 00
John Ryan,
2 25
J, E. Stoddard,
66
1 50
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$49 87
2
1
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HARDENING DEPOT ROAD
John Vollinger,
team and labor,
$7 00
J. S. Newman,
10 00
James Mullins,
7 00
George Vollinger,
7.00
William E. Boyle,
7 00
Henry Vollinger, .
7 00
Lawrence Doppman, «
7 00
John Stengline,
7 00
Fred Kleasner,
5 25
A. L. Strong,
5 25
Paul Balise,
7 00
J. M. Strong,
7 00
H. Shumway,
14 00
M. P. Bradford,
7 .00
J. S. Carl,
7 00
J. J. Ryan,
4 50
Frank Batzold,
2 25
James McGrath,
3 00
Peter Denlein,
3 00
George Steele,
3 00
George Vollinger, Jr.,
66
3 00
George Bitner,
3 00
George Stengline,
3 00
Edmund Powers, Est.,
3 00
$146 25
REBUILDING CULVERT IN WEST BROOK.
Willis Holden, team and labor,
$19 50
George M. Donaldson,
1 50
James Mullin,
5 00
George Anderson,
3 00
Cornelius Murphy,
3 00
Henry R. Graves, loam and stone,
3 00
$35 00
1
1
7 00
Charles W. Wade,
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GRADING AND HARDENING PROSPECT STREET.
John Sheehan,
team and labor,
$12.00
Michael Boyle, Est,
8 50
Horace Shumway,
7 00
Paul Balise,
5 25
George Vollinger,
5 25
John Vollinger,
5 25
John Stengline,
5 25
Henry Vollinger,
3 50
James Ryan,
3 50
James Mullin,
3 50
J. S. Newman,
5 00
John McHugh,
3 50
Thomas J. Ryan,
66
66
3 50
J. J. Ryan,
3 00
Dennis P. MoGrath,
3 00
John Winzel,
3 00
James McGrath,
3 00
Michael Sperber,
1 50
$84 50
TOWN OFFICERS.
William C. Dickinson, treasurer,
$100 00
E. S. Warner, services as selectman,
50 00
C. A. Jones,
"
50 00
M. J. Ryan,
125 00
M. J. Ryan, services highway commissioner,
100 00
W. D. Billings, town clerk,
150 00
L. H. Kingsley, assessor,
61 00
HI. R. Graves,
60 00
W. D. Billings
60 00
R. R. Finn, tax collector,
100 00
W. D. Billings, serving dog warrant,
5 00
David Billings, school committee,
10 00
D. P. McGrath, constable,
2 00
M. J. Proulx, constable,
9 00
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George Belden, ballot clerk,
$2 00
M. P. Bradford,
2 00
Thomas O'Dea, 66 66
2 00
B. M. Warner,
2 00
C. K. Morton, elector,
10 00
- $900 00
CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
Wade & Daniels, printing reports, $29 20
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Dana Kingsley, cleaning school house, 3 50
John McGrath, cleaning at town hall, 2 00
Silas S. Dwight, coal for M. building,
40 75
C. D. Bardwell, services as janitor town hall, 49 50
Mrs M. Hade, cleaning memorial building, 1 75
Mrs Mitchel Proulx, cleaning memorial building 1 75 Mrs F. C. Dugal, 1 00
Wade & Daniels, printing tax bills, 1 75
Martin Coly, sawing wood town hall, 5 00
William D. Billings, janitor memorial building, 85 00 E. P. Lyman, repairs at town hall, 16 00
J. H. Sanderson, work at memorial building, 3 80
E. S. Warner, inspecting cattle, 70 00
Sidney E. Bridgman & Co., collector's book and stationery, 9 35
Gazette Printing Co., program memorial day, 6 50
L. S. Crafts, care watering tank, 10 00
M. J. Ryan, brooms, dusters, etc., mem. bldg, 2 10 lamps memorial building, 7 25
cash paid for hook, mem building,
80
can and oil memorial building,
62
cash paid for lawn mower,
4 00
cash paid for grass seed,
2 00
for lamp for library,
4 50
M. R. Warren, collector's cash book,
1 75
Avon C. Matthews, window screen and doors for memorial building, 61 25
Henry M. Meek, election law posters, 1 06
R. R. Finn, cash paid cleaning school house, 6 00
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C. M. Barton, cash paid cleaning school house, $3 90 Mrs M. Hade, cleaning school house, 4 25
Emory C. and Eugene E. Davis, surveying the proposed water route, 125 80
Dana Kingsley, cleaning school house, 6 00
W. D. Billings, cash paid dog license blanks. 1 25
1 30
cash paid keys mem. building, cash paid win. lifter m. bld'g, 1 50 2 00
William M. Olin, Secretary for standard ink,
J. H. Sanderson, moving book case, 2 00
M. Fitzgibbon, care of watering tank, 2 50
E. N. Pike, services as engineer,
10 00
A. M. Peck, recording deaths, 5 75
Luther A. Taber, repairing clocks at schools, 5 50
Pierce & Rolfe, window glass for schools, 2 25
Wade & Daniels, printing notices, 1 50
Avon C. Matthews, storm door and transom for memorial building, 26 50
Mrs. John Smith, cleaning school house, 6 00
L. H. Kingsley, team for water inspector, 1 00
M. J. Ryan, kerosene oil for library, 1 81
M. J. Ryan, axe, spikes, etc.,
6 52
Samuel P. Billings, Justice of Peace,
3 00
S. W. Kingsley, repairs on road machine and school houses, 7 20
H. Shumway, exp. to Town Clerk and library, 11 60 Committee on Water supply, expenses to Boston, 13 00
C. M. Barton, stationery and postage, 1 35
J. H. Howard, kerosene oil for town hall, library, and brooms, etc., for schools, 7 79
C. K. Morton, car fare as Memorial Committee, 4 00
$693 45
M. J. RYAN,
C. L. GRAVES,
C. A. JONES,
Selectmen of Hatfield.
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I have this day examined the Books and Accounts of the Se_ lectmen and find them correct. 44
C. S. SHATTUCK, Auditor. HATFIELD, MASS., March 4, 1895.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF ORDERS DRAWN TO MARCH 1, 1895.
Old Bills,
$236 91
Poor,
1,645 81
State Aid,
24 00
Library,
254 29
Memorial Day Appropriation,
100 00
Cemetery,
50 00
Schools,
2,576 26
Music in Schools,
150 00
School Books and Supplies,
255 15
School House Repairs,
121 45
Repairs on Union Hall,
193 66
Memorial Building,
1,641 08
Grading and Seeding Memorial Grounds,
25 95
High ways and Bridges,
2,360 57
Sidewalks,
286 93
Town Officers,
900 00
Contingents,
693 45
- $11,515 51
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APPROPRIATIONS.
For the year ending March 1, 1895.
Poor,
$1,500 00
Library,
250 00
Memorial Day,
100 00
Cemeteries,
50 00
Schools,
2,000 00
Music in schools,
150 00
School house repairs,
200 00
School books and supplies,
250 00
Repairs on Union hall,
200 00
Memorial building,
1,500 00
Highway and bridges,
2,500 00
Sidewalks,
300 00
Interest,
150 00
Town officers,
900 00
Contingent,
500 00
$10,550 00
LIST OF JURORS,
Reported March 1, 1895.
W. H. Belden,
S. P. Billings,
M. H. Burke,
Fred Carl,
Charles W. Wade,
C. H. Crafts,
Wm. C. Dickinson,
James Porter,
J. H. Howard, W. B. Langdon, John McHugh, Jr.,
D. P. McGrath, Charles Wells, John Vollinger,
John H. O'Dea, A. H. Graves, George Belden, George Billings, J. M. Strong, L. L. Pease,
Roswell Hubbard.
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TREASURER'S REPORT.
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WM. C. DICKINSON, TREASURER, IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF HATFIELD.
DR.
To cash received from R. R. Finn, Collector, '$831 06
D. P. McGrath, “ 9,692 69
National Bank Tax, 1,575 35
Income of School Fund 345 09
CorporationTax,
281 83
City Northampton, tui. 191 25 A. D. & L. E. Bzrt- lett, support of S. D. Bartlett,
132 78
Dog Fund refunded,
103 21
State Aid,
48 00
Rent of Town Hall,
37 00
Memorial Day App'n,
15 25
Trans. State Paupers, 6 00
Sale of Chair,
4 00
-$13,263 51
TO CASH RECEIVED FROM TEMPORARY LOANS.
Hampshire Savings Bank,
$1,000 00
1,000 00
1,000 00
1,000 00
66
1,000 00
5,000 00
Balance due the Treasurer,
1,268 77
$19,532 28
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25
CR.
By balance due Treasurer from old account, $ 264 35 Cash paid Selectmen's orders, 11,515 51
County Tax,
1,648 99
State Tax,
920 00
Interest on notes,
183 43
$14,532 28
BY CASH PAID ON TEMPORARY LOANS.
Hampshire Savings Bank,
$1,000 00
1,000 00
66
66
1,000 00
1,000 00
66
66 6€
1,000 00
5,000 0 0
$19,532 28
IN ACCOUNT WITH R. R. FINN, COLLECTOR.
DR.
To cash received, $831 06
Orders of abatement,
26 00
$857 06
CR.
By balance uncollected taxes 1893-94, $857 06 IN ACCOUNT WITH D. P. MCGRATH, COLLECTOR. =
DR.
To cash received,
$9,692 69
Balance uncollected taxes,
1,229 91
-- $10,922 60
CR.
By assessors warrant 1894-95, $10,922 60
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SUMMARY.
Uncollected taxes,
$1,229 91
Due from state aid,
103 84
Due from C. D. Bardwell,
48 60
$1,382 35
Due the treasurer,
1,268 77
Balance in favor of the town,
$113 58
I have this day examined the books, vouchers and accounts of the Treasurer and find the same correct.
C. S. SHATTUCK, Auditor. HATFIELD, Mass., March 6, 1895.
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
The vital statistics of the town of Hatfield for the year 1894, are as follows :
BIRTHS BY MONTHS.
NO.
MALES.
FEMALES.
January,
2
0
2
February,
1
0
1
March,
3
1
2
May,
3
1
2
June,
5
2
3
July,
1
0
1
August,
3
2
1
September,
5
2
3
October,
1
0
1
November,
2
1
1
December,
3
1
2
-
-
-
-
Total,
29
10
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BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS.
Father,
Mother
Born in United States,
14
18
Canada,
4
2
Poland,
4
4
Germany,
3
4
Ireland,
2
1
England,
1
0
Sweden,
1
0
I
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29
29 1TO
27
28
Birth rate for five preceding years :
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
26
23
24
33
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MARRIAGES BY MONTHS.
1
January,
1
March,
1
April,
1
May,
3
July,
1
September,
2
October,
2
November,
4
December,
1
Total,
16
First marriage of both parties,
14
Second marriage of both parties,
1
Second of groom, first of bride,
1
Age of oldest bride,
49 years
Age of youngest bride,
19 years
Age of oldest groom,
53 years
Age of youngest groom,
21 years
Average age of brides,
25 years
Average age of grooms,
27 years
BIRTHPLACE OF PERSONS MARRIED.
Groom.
Bride
Born in United States,
12
11
*
Germany,
2
3
Ireland,
1
1
Poland,
1
)
1
-
16
16
Number of certificates of marriage issued from this office, 16.
Marriages for five previous years :
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
10
1 8
11
13 10
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DEATHS BY MONTHS.
NO.
MALES.
FEMALES.
January,
6
5
1
March,
1
1
0
May,
2
1
1
June,
1
1
0
July.
2
2
0
August,
2
1
1
September,
6
2
4
October,
1
0
1
November,
1
0
1
December,
1
1
0
Total,
23
14
9
NO.
MALES.
FEMALES.
Under one year of age,
6
3
3
Between 1 and 5 years, 5 and 10,
1
1
0
0
0
0
10 and 20,
0
0
0
20 and 30,
2
1
1
30 and 40,
0
0
0
40 and 50,
0
0
0.
50 and 60,
2
2
0
60 and 70,
2
1
1
70 and 80,
9
4
5
80 and 90,
1
1
0
Total,
23
13
10
Average age of persons deceased, 45 years.
Age of oldest person deceased, 80 years.
BIRTHPLACE OF PERSONS DECEASED.
NO.
MALES.
FEMALES
Born in United States,
18
10
8
Ireland,
3
2
1
Germany,
1
0
1
Canada,
1
1
0
-
-
23
13
10
- -
-
30
Death rate for five previous years :
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
22
22
23
40
18
Causes of death classified according to the nomenclature adopted by the State Board of Registration.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
La Grippe,
1
Dysentery,
1
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Phthisis (Consumption of lungs),
2
Cancer of liver,
2
LOCAL DISEASES.
Apoplexy,
1
Paralysis,
3
Pneumonia,
3
Convulsions,
1
Asthma,
2
DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES.
4
Premature birth,
Cyanosis,
1
VIOLENT DEATHS.
Drowning,
1
Casualty (Run over by loaded wagon)
1
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NAMES OF PERSONS DECEASED.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coville,
Theodore Baggs,
Alfred Gowash,
Austin S. Jones,
George W. Smith,
Ezra A. Howard,
Edmund Powers,
Mrs. Alvira Daugherty,
Moses W. Kingsley,
Mrs. Mariette Houghton,
Michael Boyle,
Arthur Favreault,
Joseph Douyard, Jr.,
Miss Mary E. Cutter,
Charles E. Kingsley,
Anna Gotz,
Mrs. Philura T. Hubbard,
Annie Wenzle,
Mrs. Mary McHugh,
Child of Alfred Jubinville,
Three children of Joseph Douyard (triplets).
DOGS.
The number of dogs licensed during the year ending November 30th, 1894, with the receipts and settlement of the account with the County Treasurer, is as follows :
RECEIPTS.
77 Male dogs at $2.00 each,
$154 00
3 Female dogs at $5.00 each,
15 00
$169 00
Less fees 80 dogs at 20 cents,
16 00
$153 00
Paid Lewis Warner County Treasurer,
$153 00
Amount paid the County Treasurer on this account for the five previous years.
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
$120 00
$135 00
$150 60
$144 00
$145 80
Respectfully submitted,
WM. D. BILLINGS, Town Clerk.
Report of the Library Committee.
The fruits of Mr. Dickinson's generosity in giving the town the Memorial Building appear in the history of the library during the past year. Forty-five hundred books were issued in ten months of 1894. Three hundred and fifty new books were bought. Particular attention has been giv- en to securing books for juvenile readers. Consequently the library is more and more patronized by the boys and girls, and by the teachers and pupils of the schools and academy. The demand is also turning from fiction to other departments of literature.
But increased patronage makes increase in the work of administration. For one thing there are so many calls for books when the library opens, that the librarian needs an assistant. Therefore your committee ask an advance in the library appropriation from $250 to $300.
The hope meantime is cherished that some friend of the town will make the town a gift of money which can consti- tute a permanent fund for the benefit of the library. In such a case, the proceeds of the fund could be employed in the purchase of books and the town appropriation be devoted simply to the cost of administration. The library then could be opened oftener and generally made more accessible, as well as be enlarged each year more extensively with new and attractive publications.
The committee wish that the library might be opened for a reading room several evenings in the week, and furnish-
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ed with some of the leading newspapers and magazines on file. Then the library would become, in some sense as never before, what a town library should be. Lives of men that have done the world service teach how such lives in their beginnings are associated with a relish for reading. It pays therefore for a town to give its young people every facility for reading, even if few avail themselves of such advantages.
ROBT. M. WOODS, ERASTUS F. BILLINGS, - Committee. CHAS. L. GRAVES,
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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SUPERVISOR'S REPORT.
I think the average of school work in town has been equal to that of previous years. The opportunities of the schools are as nearly equal as they can be made, and he points where best work is done shift from school to scho: 1, almost exactly as we are able to secure more talented teach. ers for longer periods of time here or there.
I have given considerable attention to the heating of rooms the past winter. Windows and doors have not been opened for cooling or ventilating in the three buildings in the south part of the town, which are supplied with an abundance of air otherwise, unless in direct violation of or- ders. I think it has not been done. The temperature of the school-rooms has been recorded each half hour during sessions. All the heaters have been in perfect order except that the West Hatfield chimney held an undiscovered ob. struction for some weeks. I am convinced that the capacity
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of the heaters is sufficient in each room, and with few ex_ ceptions the fires when well regulated have been sufficient to keep the rooms warm. That rooms have sometimes been too cool or too warm, is hardly less than can be said of the best regulated dwelling houses. I think there has been con- scientious effort on the part of teachers to secure a comforta- ble and uniform heating of the rooms, and with reasonable success.
Several matters of importance claim the attention of voters. Should the efforts succeed which are being made to again unite Deerfield with other towns, to form a superin- tendent district, Hatfield may have an opportunity to form part of the district. I think we should not inconsiderately let such an opportunity go by. The law permitting such districts, and offering state aid, has had the trial of six years, a large number of towns are availing themselves of its pro- visions, and there seems little doubt that soon all towns will be required to do so. On the supposition that we unite with Deerfield, alone, deducting from our share of the $750 to be raised by the towns uniting, our share of the $500 giv- en by the State to the schools of the District, and there re- mains about $80, as the sum the town would be actually out on account of supervision.
The new law requiring towns to furnish their children with the advantages of a high school within the town, or pay their tuitions in out-of-town high schools, which they may attend, comes only indirectly within the province of this report; and yet if Smith Academy is to be made the equivalent of a high school, something must be done by the town to enable pupils from the lower schools to fit for a school of that grade.
The entrance requirements of the Academy now are much too low to admit of its giving its pupils a full high school course, even in the five years which is occupied. Most of them get in in seven years, and not a few in six, while the large cities require nine years to reach the high
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school ; and besides their years are four weeks longer than ours, so that nine years of their work counts for as much time as ten of ours. The Academy is still further hampered in its attempt to maintain the standing of a high school by the immature age of those who enter, which unfits them to as- sume the manners and profit by the kind of mental discipline which belongs to so high a grade of school.
By consolidating and grading the public schools we might add greatly to their efficiency, and with the academy standard of admission raised so as to keep pupils in the lower schools the full eight years I think we might fit them to finish creditably a high school course in five years. This consolidation perhaps had best not extend to the primary schools, but might readily be effected in the three upper grade schools,-the Center, Hill and West Hatfield Gram mar, making of them two schools, an Intermediate and a Grammar. The necessary conveyance for this purpose could be effected by running a team from West Hatfield by the Hill to the Center and returning by the same road, morning and afternoon, and the expense of this would be met by the money saved by having two schools in place of three. Some increase of pay over present rates, however, would be required for the teachers in these higher grades, and for this the town would have to provide. West Brook and the Farms, by consolidating their Primary and Interme. diate pupils into one school, and conveying their pupils of grammar school attainments to the grammar school in the south part of the town, might have the advantages of this school to fit them for the Academy without cost to the town.
The plan of consolidating and grading thus outlined, does not propose a longer time for pupils in the lower schools, except in so far as the more rigid requirements of the Academy would keep the average pupil there the full eight years, but depends especially upon the greater efficien- cy of the schools when thus arranged. Few persons need to be told that a teacher can do better work with one or two
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classes in each branch taught than with seven, as is often seen in the mixed school or four as we find in the partially graded schools of this town. In these larger and more im- portant schools stronger and more costly teachers would have to be employed. To the pupil the monotony of eight years in the same class would be relieved, and his new asso- ciates and new rivals would · become incentives to better work. Teachers of marked talent and superior acquire- ments, which in the past have left town because we had nothing for them better than the school in which they first happened to get employment, could be retained in these schools, and the advantage of their talents thus secured to all the pupils in town.
RESPECTFULLY,
C. M. BARTON.
TEACHERS AND SALARIES.
NAME.
WHERE FITTED.
SCHOOL.
TIME.
PAY.
Margaret A. Allair,. .. .
Westfield Normal School.
Center Grammar.
The Year.
$259 00
Graee E. Webber,. .
Smith Academy.
Center Primary.
1 Term.
82 50
Edith M. Clark ....
Westfield Normal School.
Center Primary.
2 Terms.
182 50
Mary J. Breor,. .
Smith Academy.
Hill Grammar.
The Year.
276 50
Sarah E. Carlton,. .
Smith Academy.
Hill Primary.
The Year.
276 50
A. Mabel Marsh, .. .
Smith Academy.
W. H. Grammar.
1 Term.
71 50
Elizabeth Rathbun, ..
W. H. Grammar.
2 Terms.
169 00
Mary E. Pelissier, ..
W. H. Primary.
The Year.
282 50
Lizzie E. Ryan, ...
Hopkins Academy. Smith Academy.
West Brook.
The Year.
276 50
Mattie E. Bardwell, ...
Farms.
1 Term.
66 00
Bertha Andrews, ...
.
Farms.
2 Terms.
181 50
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ENROLLMENT, ATTENDANCE, ETC.
Center
Grammar.
Center
Hill
Hill
Primary.
W. H.
Grammar.
W, H.
Primary.
W. Brook.
Farms.
Summary.
No. of persons between 5 and 15 years, . . . . .
212
66
8 and 14
146
pupils
5 and 15 66
39
38
27
31
19
28
39
18
239
39
14
27
9
19
11
32
13
164
39
38
27
32
19
30
41
20
246
Average Membership, ..
28
32
20
31
18
25
31
17
25
Average Attendance,. .
27.5
30
16
27
16
23
28
16
23
Number of Pupils over 15 years,.
2
1
3
Number of Pupils under 5 years, ..
1
. ...
2
1
4
Per cent. of attendance, ....
98.21 93.75 80.
87.09 88.88 92.
90.32 94.11 90.54
Number of weeks of School, ..
36
36
36
36
36
36
36
36
36
40
66
8 and 14
66 66 66 enrolled,. . .
Primary.
Grammar.
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SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Appropriated,
$250 00
Expended,
250 15
MUSIC.
Appropriated,
$150 00
Paid Thomas Charmbury,
150 50
APPROPRIATIONS AND RECEIPTS.
Appropriated by the town,
$2,000.00
Received from State Fund,
345 00
Received from Dog Fund,
103 21
Tuitions from Northampton,
191 25
Balance unexpended last year,
56 97
Total School money,
$2,696 52
EXPENDITURES OF SCHOOL MONEY.
Amount of Teachers Wages,
$2,123 00
Expended for Fuel,
280 31
Expended for care of houses,
167 80
$2,571 11
Balance unexpended,
125 41
$2,696 51
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Estimate of expenses chargeable to school money for the coming year, $2,685 00
Amount anticipated from Dog Fund, School Fund and Tuition, $600 00.
Estimated amount to be raised by taxation, $2,100 00.
Estimate for books and supplies, $250 00.
Estimate for music, $150 00.
DAVID BILLINGS, C. M. BARTON.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF HATFIELD,
HATFIELD
1600
INDUSTRY
PROSPERITY
For the Year Ending February 29, 1896.
NORTHAMPTON, MASS .: WADE & DANIELS, PRINTERS. 1896.
· ARTICLES IN THE WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING MARCH 16, 1896. -
ARTICLE 1 .- To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing.
ART. 2 .- To choose all necessary town officers including one member of the School Committee for one year and one member for three years.
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