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COR. BANK AND SUMMER STS. NORTH ADAMS
EUGENE H. BABCOCK
General Repairing at Short Notice. Lock and Gun Smith Umbrellas Repaired and Recovered
Eagle Street, North Adams, Mass. Next to Baptist Church Up Stairs.
Best Work. Reasonable Prices.
. . L. De PACE . .. Custom Tailoring
Also Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing, Dyeing and Sponging Goods, For Ladies and Gentlemen.
14 Eagle Street,
North Adams, Mass.
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KEITH'S
KONQUEROR
Trade-mark
25 Main Street.
J. T. MULCARE
FINE SHOES.
North Adams, Mass.
J. J. LILLY DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF COAL AND WOOD
Grading, Filling and General Jobbing Promptly Attended to.
37 Main Street, North Adams.
HARRY M. FARNUM
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
Lime, also First Quality Building Stone in any Quantity. Works 924 State St. North Adams, Mass.
J. F. BOWES
REAL ESTATE
45 Main St.
No. Adams, Mass.
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State Normal School
Faculty
FRANK F. MURDOCK, Principal Psychology, Pedagogy.
· Rowland W. Guss
Natural Science-
Lyman R. Allen History, Geography
A. E. Dodd
Manual Training.
Mary A. Pearson
Drawing, Painting.
Annie C. Skeele Physiology, Physicial Culture-
Rose E. Searle
Mathematics, Music.
Mary L. Baright English, Elocution.
Training School See Mark Hopkins School.
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Candidates for admission to any of the Normal Schools must have attained the age of seventeen years complete, if young men, and sixteen years if young women, and must be free from disease or infirmity which would unfit them for the office of teacher. Their fitness for admission will be determined :- 1, by their standing in a physical examination ; 2 by their moral character; 3, by their high school record ; 4, by a written examination ; 5, by an oral examina_ tion .
Written examinations .- The examinations will embrace papers on the following groups of subjects :
1. Language-(a) English, with its grammar and literature, (b) either Latin or French.
2. Mathematics-(a) the elements of algebra, and (b) the elements of plane geometry.
3. United States History-The history and civil government of Massachusetts and the United States, with related geography and so much of English history as is directly contributory to a know- ledge of United States history .
4. Science-(a) Physiology and hygiene and (b and c) any two of the following : Physics, chemistry, physicial geography, and botany, provided one of the two selected is either physics or chem- stry.
5. Drawing and Music-(a) Elementary mechanical and free hand drawing, with any one of the topics .- form, color and arrangements, and (b) music.
Oral Examination .- Each candidate shall be required to read aloud in the presence of the examiners. He shall also be questioned orally either upon some of the foregoing subjects or upon other matters within his experience, in order that the examiners may gain some impression about his personal characteristics and his use of language, as well as given him an opportunity to furnish any evidence of qualification that might not otherwise become known to them.
Records of Scholarship .- The importance of a good record in the high school cannot be overestimated. Reasonable allowance in equivalents will be made in case a candidate, for satisfactory reasons has not taken a study named for examination. Successful exper- ience in teaching is allowed to be taken into account in the determinations of equivalents in the entrance examinations.
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Times of Examination .- Entrance examinations for candidates wishing to enter in September will be held : - The first examination on Thursday and Friday, June 28 and 29; the second examination on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 1 and 2. Preliminary ex- aminations are allowed in June. Candidates are advised to present themselves at the first examination.
General Two Years' Course .- This course is designed primarily for those who aim to teach in public schools below the high school grade.
Three Years' Course .- This course includes the subjects of the two years' course and additional electivs studies from the mathe- matics, science, language, art and psychology. This course will fit graduates for highest grammar grades and departmental teaching.
Kindergarten Primary Course .- This course extends through a minimum of two years and includes such studies of the two years' course as immediately pertain to kindergarten work, instruction in the history and theory of kindergartens, and practice in teaching.
Special Course for Teachers-Teachers of several years of suc- cessful experience in teaching, who give evidence of maturity, good scholarship, and of aptness to teach, may with the consent of the principal and of the board of visitors. select a course, including the course in psychology and pedagogy, and when such course is suc- cessfully completed they shall receive certificates for the same.
Tuition .- Tuition is free to all residents of Massachusetts. For others the tuition is fifty dollars a year. Text books and supplies are free as in the public schools. State aid to a limited extent may be granted to deserving persons, citizens of Massachusetts, after they have been in attendance for at least one term, provided they do not live in towns where normal schools are situated.
The Dormitory .- The dormitory provides accommodation for sixty students. Two students occupy one room. The rooms are furnished with the exception of bedding and towels. The price of board is $160 for the school year, payable in advance, in four pay- ments, one every ten weeks, beginning with the opening of school in September.
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North Adams Streets and Avenues
ADAMS street, from 5 Hathaway west to Harris. ARMSTRONG avenue, east from 7 Brooklyn to N. Holden. ARNOLD place, east of 108 Church.
ASHLAND street, south from 120 Main, Opp Eagle BALLOU street, from Veazie east to Houghton.
BANK street, from 7& Main south to Summer. BARTH street, from 394 Eagle east to Marietta.
BEACH street, north from East ave to Franklin.
BEACON street, from 102 Prospect east to Summit.
BEAVER street, from 379 Union northeast to city limits. BETHEL street, from 30 Franklin south. BINGHAM avenue, from Brown east. BLACKINTON street, from 350 Church west to Ashland. BLISS street, from Glen avenue to Summit street.
BOND street, from 346 Ashland east to Cornith.
BRACEWELL avenue, from 167 Eagle west to Houghton.
BRADFORD street, runs south from Bradley. BRADLEY place, north from 53 Center.
BROOKLYN street, from Houghton northeast to city limits. BROOKLYN terrace, from Hughton east to Chase ave. BROWN street, from 185 West Main north to River. BRAYTONVILLE,located one mile west of Phoenix bridge. BRIGGS street, east from 420 Eagle to Marietta. BRADLEY street, from 432 Church east to Kemp ave. BRYANT street, from 363 Houghton west to Veazie. BURDICKVILLE, hill northwest of Johnson Mfg. Co.'s works BURNHAM street, from Crest road to Walker. CADY street, north from School to North.
CANAL street, from corner River and Eagle to Union. CARD stret, from Cemetery west parallel with W. Main. CENTER street, from 51 Eagle west to Phoenix. CENTRAL avenue, from 55 Franklin north. CHARLES street, parallel 380 W. Main, east to Cemetery. C'HASE avenue, from 151 River to N. Holden. CHERRY street, from 180. Pleasant east to Meadow. CHEESBRO avenue, from 17 North north. CHESTNUT street, from 18 Spring west. CHURCH place, from Main to Summer next Congregational ch.
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CHURCH street, from corner Eagle and Center south to city limits.
CLARK street, from Harrison street to Greylock ave.
CLEVELAND avenue, from Gallup to Kemp.
CLIFF street, from Union at Print works north to Glen ave. CORINTH street, from 20 Lawrence ave. south to Davenport. CREST road, from Walker to Beaver.
CROSSEY place, from River north.
CROWLEY avenue, west from 83 Ashland.
DAVENPORT street, from 364 Ashland north to Church.
DEAN street, west from 510 State.
DENNIS street, now Veazie.
DEPOT street, from depot to West Main, Greylock.
DOVER street, 70 Cherry south to Richview.
DOWLIN place, off Pleasant west.
DUNBAR avenue, from Brown west.
DUGGAN street, west to Hathaway.
EAGLE street, from 119 Main north to city limits.
EAST avenue, east from Glen avenue to John street.
EAST BROOKLYN street, now Brooklyn.
EAST CLIFF street, now Front.
EAST HIGH street, from Summit ave to Kemp ave.
EAST JOHNSON street, east from 479 Union.
EAST MAIN street, now Main.
EAST QUINCY stret, from 128 Pleasant east to Kep ave.
EAST UNION street, now Union.
ELM street, from Grant north to Sperry ave.
ELMWOOD avenue east from Willow to Dover.
ESTES street, from 299 Eagle west to Hospital.
FAIRFIELD avenue, west from 111 Holden. FAIRGROUND avenue, north from 381 W. Main. FEIGE street, west from 363 Houghton to Brooklyn.
FERN street, from Summit ave to Glen ave.
FIRST street, west from West End terrace to Notch road. FLEMING street, from Park ave east to Kemp ave.
FOLSOM street, north from Cleveland ave to Gallup. FOREST street, south from Richmond ave to Knox.
FOURTH street, west from West End terrace to Notch road. FRANCIS street, from 109 State west and south to Walnut.
FRANKLIN street, from Eagle and Liberty northeast to city limits.
FREDERICK street, from 313 Houghton west.
FREEMAN avenue, from 27 River north to Bracewell ave .. . FRONT street, northeast from Cliff to Glen ave.
FULLER street, from 366 Hougton west. FURNACE street, from Main street bridge south to Witt ave. GALLUP street, from 380 Main to Union.
GLEASON street, from Hougton east to Eagle, Clarksburg. GLEN avenue, from 300 Franklin south to Front.
GOODRICH street, north from 475 W. Main to Walden. GRACE street, from Richmond ave south. GRANITE street, from Rock south.
GRANT street, from 33 Lincoln west to Elm.
GREYLOCK avenue, from new Greylock road north to Fitchubrg railroad.
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GREYLOCK street, from State south and west to city line. GROVE street, from 56 Bracewell ave north to Hall. GROVER street, north from Cleveland ave.
HALL street, west from 201 Eagle to 61 N. Holden. HARRIS street, north from River ex. to North.
HARRISON street, from West Main street to new Greylock road. HARRISON avenue, south from 157 E. Quincy. HATHAWAY street, from North south to River. HIGH street, from 29 W. Main south.
HIGHLAND avenue, from Lawrence to Davenport.
HODGE'S crossing, from south end of State to east road to Adams.
HOLBROOK street, from 34 Wall east to Meadow.
HOLDEN street, from 61 Main north to River. HOOKER street, from 173 State west to Francis. HOOSAC court, entrance 95 1-2 Main. HOOSAC street, from Church west to 248 Ashland.
HOUGHTON street, from River north to city limits.
HOWLAND Farms, formerly Zylonite, south end of State.
HUDSON street, from 204 Eagle east to Prospect.
IRVING avenue, from Whitman west to Witt street.
ISLAND avenue, from new Greylock road south.
JACKSON street, from 170 Eagle, Larkin corner, east to Prospect. JAMES street, west from River ex. JOHN street, north from Front to Maple. JOHNSON street, northeast from 479 Union.
LAMOUREUX place, from High west.
LARKIN corner, cor 170 Eagle and Jackson.
LAUREL avenue, from Liberty north to Freeman school.
LAWRENCE avenue, from 279 Ashland east.
LEONARD terrace, off Montana.
LEWIS place, off High.
LIBERTY stret, north from 219 Hougton east to 231 Eagle.
LINCOLN street, from 25 Center north to River. LLOYD street, from 167 State west.
LOFTUS street, north from 299 River to North. LUTHER street, from 97 Eagle west and north.
MAGNOLIA terrace, rear River. west of Veazie. MAIN street, from Five Points west to Phoenix bridge.
MAPLE street, east from Beach to John. MARIETTA street, from 26 Franklin north.
MARION avenue, south through West End Park from W. Main to Fourth.
MARSHALL street, from 19 Main north to River. MEADOW street, from 101 E. Quincy south to Bradley. MILL Row, southwest from W. Main to Braytonville mill. MILLARD avenue, from Eagle east in Clarksburg. MILLARD street, from Hudson south. MILLER'S Lane, from 35 Union north.
MINER street, east from cor Main and Pleasant to Union. MONTANA street, from 70 Porter south to Lawrence ave.
JONES Hill, in Clarksburg, north Hougtonville.
KEMP avenue, south from 462 Main to Bradley.
KEMP street, north from 457 Main to Union.
KNOX street, from High west to Forest.
LAKE street, runs south, east side of Park.
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MONTGOMERY street, from 80 Prospect east to Cliff. MORRIS street, from 34 Summer south to Quincy. MORTON Hill, west from Walnut street. MOWBRAY street, west from Whitman to Witt street. MOWBRAY avenue, west from Whitman to Witt street. NELSON street, off. 106 Veazie.
NEW GREYLOCK Road, west from 568 W. Main to Greylock. NORMAL terrace, Church opp. Normal school.
NORTH street, from 245 Houghton west to Tyler. NORTH CHURCH street, now Church.
NORTH HOLDEN street, from 97 River north to Hospital.
NORTHERN LIGHTS avenue, from 139 Franklin north.
NOTCH road from 568 W. Main south.
O'BRIEN lane. off. 25 Eagle.
OLDS street, from Harrison street to Greylock ave.
ORCHARD terrace, from 51 Liberty north.
PALMER avenue, west from Hathaway to Tyler.
PARK avenue, south from 434 Main.
PATTISON avenue, west from Walnut.
PATTISON street, west from Notch road to city limits.
PEARL street, from 18 Main south.
PEBBLE street, from Robinson south.
PERRY avenue, from Washington ave south to Elmwood ave. PHILLIPS street, now N. Holden. PHOENIX street, north from 15 Main.
PITTS street, from 9 North street north.
PLEASANT street, from 244 Main to 191 Church.
PORTER street, from 251 Church west to 179 Ashland.
POTTER place, from 109 Eagle west.
PROSPECT street, from 150 Eagle east thence north to Franklin. PROTECTION avenue, Greylock. QUINCY street, from 99 Church west to Morris.
RAND'S lane, east from 84 Ashland.
RAND street, from Miner school park to 23 Reed.
RAY street, from 36 Franklin south to Wesleyan.
RAYMOND court, east from Brooklyn. REED street, north from Main to Union.
RESERVOIR road, from 63 Furnace southwest to Notch.
RESERVOIR road, continuation of Furnace southwest. RICHMOND avenue, west from High. RICHVIEW avenue, southwest from 450 W. Main.
RICHVIEW street, east from 50 Dover to Meadow.
RIVER street, from 141 Eagle west to Tyler.
RIVER street extension, from River west to Burdickville.
ROCK street, from Pebble west to Granite. ROBINSON street, from 59 Furnace west to Pebble. ROYAL avenue, south from 32 Washington ave to Porter. RYAN'S lane, from 53 Center north. SANFORD'S lane, from 40 Washington avenue south.
SECOND street, west from West End terrace to Notch road. SCHOOL street, west from 41 Veazie. SOUTH street, from 40 Spring to Washington ave.
SPRING street, from 130 Church southwest to 22 Washington ave
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SPERRY avenue, east from 116 Holden STATE street, from 47 Main south to city limits. ST. JOHN'S court, north from 45 Summer.
SUMMER street, from 73 Church west to State. SUMMIT avenue, from 398 Main south (Kempville). SUMMIT street, from Beacon north to Clarksburg.
TANNERY yard, south from Union above first bridge.
TEMPLE street, off River Opp. Brown
THIRD street, west from West End terrace to Marion ave.
TREMONT street, from Beason north to Franklin.
TYLER street. north from River north.
UNION street, from 72 Eagle east.
VADNER lane, south from 56 Center
VALENCIA street, south from W. Main, Greylock.
VEAZIE street, north from 267 River.
VINCENT avenue, from 460 Main south to E. Quincy.
WALDEN street, west from Fairground ave to Goodrich.
WALL street, from E. Quincy south to Cherry.
WALKER street, from Five Roads north to Clarksburg and Stamford.
WALNUT street, west and south from 199 State.
WASHINGTON avenue, from 211 Church west to Ashland.
WARREN street, from Richmond ave south.
WAVERLY place, west from Holden.
WEBSTER avenue, from 109 Holden.
WELLS avenue, from cor Franklin and Summit to city limits. WESLEYAN extension, from 168 Prospect to Summit. WESLEYAN street, from 230 Eagle to Prospect.
WEST END PAK, bounded by W. Main and Notch road. WEST END TERRACE, south through West End Park.
WHEELER avenue, head of Houghton street, Clarksburg.
WHITMAN street, from Richmond ave south.
WILLOW Dell, from 45 Union southeast to Miner.
WILLOW street, from Washington avenue south to Porter.
WILLIAM street, north from School to North. WINTER street, east 28 Elmwood ave to Yale. WITT avenue, south from Furnace.
WITT street, from Richmond ave south to Mowbray. WYNDHAM Terrace, from 28 Dover west to Church. YALE street, from Holbrook south to Winter.
Parochial Schools
St. Joseph Parochial school, 68 Eagle Notre Dame Parochial school, 228 Main
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CITY CHARTER
1906.
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North Adams City Charter
AN ACT TO Incorporate the City of North Adams
See an Act to Abolish the Board of Public Works of the City of North Adams and for Other Purposes on Page Following Charter. Be it enacted, etc., as follows.
TITLE I. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
Section 1. The inhabitants of the town of North Adams, shall, in case of the acceptance of this act by the voters of the said town as hereinafter provided, continue to be a body politic and · corporate, under the name of the city of North Adams; and as such shall have, exercise and enjoy all rights, immunities, powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obliga- , tions, now pertaining to and incumbent upon the said town as a municipal corporation.
Section 2. The administration of all the fiscal, prudential and mu- nicipal affairs of said city, with the government thercol, sho .. ...- cept the affairs of public schools, be vested in an executive de- partment, which shall consist of one officer, to be called the may !. and in a legislative department which shall consist of a single body, to be called the city council, the members whereof shall be called councilmen. The executive department shall never ex- ereise any legislative power, except as herein otherwis provided.
Section 3. The territory of said city shall first be divided into seven wards, as hereinafter provided, but said number, upon any subsequent division of said city into new wards, may be increased
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by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the city council, passed previous to and in the year of such division.
TITLE 2. ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS.
Section 4. The municipal election shall take place annually on the third Tuesday of December, and the municipal year shall be- gin of the first Monday of January following. All meetings of the citizens for municipal purposes shall be called by warrants issued by order of the city council, which shall be in such form and be served and returned in such manner and at such tmes, as the city council may by ordinance direct.
Section 5. At such municipal election the qualified voters shall give in their votes by ballot in the several wards for mayor and councilmen. and for the members of the board of assessors, board of trustees of the public library, and of the school committee then to be elected, and the person receiving the highest number of votes for any office sha be deemed and declared to be elected to such office: and whenever two or more persons are to be elected to the same office the several persons, up to the number required to be chosen, receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed ana declared to be elected. If it shall appear that there is no choice of mayor, or if the person elected mayor shall refuse to accept the office, er shall die before qualifying, or if vacancy in said office shall occur subsequently and more than three months previous to the expiration of the municipal year, the city council shall forth- with cause warrants to be issued for a new election, and the same proceedings shall be had in all respects as hereinbefore provided for the election of mayor and shall be repeated until the election of mayor is completed. If the full number of members of the city council has not been elected, or if a vacancy in the office of coun- cilman shall occur subsequently and more than six months pre- vious to the expiration of the municipal year, the council may forthwith elect some person or persons to fill the vacancy or va- cancies until the next annual municipal election. The board of assessors shall consist of three persons, who shall be elected in a manner provided in section forty-one for the election of trustees of the public library.
Section 6. All meetings for the election of national, state, county and district officers shall be called by order of the city council, in the same manner as meetings for municipal elections are called.
Section 7. The city council may, when no convenient wardroom for holding the meetings of the citizens of any ward can be had
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within the territorial limits of such ward, appoint and direct, in the warrant for calling any meeting of the citizens of such ward that the meeting be held in some convenient place within the limits of any adjacent ward of the city; and for such purpose the place so assigned shall be deemed and taken to be a part of the ward for which the election is held.
Section 8. General meetings of the citizens qualified to vote may from time to titne be held according to the right secured to the people by the constitution of this Commonwealth, and all such meetings may, and upon the request in writing of fifty qualified voters setting forth the purposes thereof, shall be duly called by the city council.
TITLE :. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
Section 9. The members of the city council shall consist of twenty-one councilmen at large, who shall be elected by the inhab- itants of the city as follows: At the first muncipal election held under this act twenty-one members at large of the council shall be elected by the qualified voters of the entire city, seven to serve for the term of three years, seven for the term of two years and seven for the term of one year, beginning with the first Monday in Jan- uary then next ensuing; and thereafter seven members at large of said city council shall be elected in a like manner at each' annual municipal election, to serve for the term of three years beginning with the first Monday in January next ensuing, in place of the members at large whose term then expires. At the first municipal election no voter shall vote for more than five of the councilmen to to be elected for each term, that is to say, not more than fifteen in the aggregate on one ballot, and the seven having the highest num- ber of votes for each term shall be declared elected. At all muni- cipal elections subsequent to the first election no voter shall vote for more than five of the seven councilmen to be elected at an an- nual election on one ballot, and the seven having the highest nun- ber of votes shall be declared elected. The councilmen shall hold office for three years, except as herein otherwise provided, begin- ning with the first Monday in January next succeeding their elec- tion and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In case an election is held to fill a vacancy or vacan- cies in the council a voter may vote for the councilmen necessary to fill such vacancies in addition to the number above provided.
Section 10. The mayor and the councilmen elect shall annually, on the first Monday in January, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
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meet and be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties. The cath shall be administered at their first meeting after the ac- ceptance of this act, by the town clerk, and in subsequent years by the city clerk, or, in his absence, by any justice of the peace, and shall be duly certified on the journal of the city council. In case of the absence of the mayor elect on the first Monday in January, or if a mayor shall not then have been elected, the oath of office may le at any time thereafter be administered to him, and at any time thereafter in like manner, the oath of office may be admin- istered to any member of the council who has been previously ab- sent or has been subsequently elected; and every such oath shall be duly certified as aforesaid.
Section 11. After the oath has been administered to the council- men present they shall be called to order, at their first organiza- tion by the town clerk, and in subsequent years by city clerk, or in case of the absence of the city clerk, by the oldest senior member present. The council shall then proceed to elect one of their own number president of the council by ballot. If no quorum is pres- ent an adjournment shall be taken to a later hour or to the next day, and thereafter the same proceedings shall be had from day to day until a quorum is present. If any person receives the votes of a majority of all the members of the council, such person shall be declared chosen president thereof. If on the first day on which a quorum is present no person receives the votes of such majority, they shall proceed to ballot until some person receives the votes of such majority or an adjournment to the succeeding day is taken, and on each succeeding day a plurality of those voting shall be suf- ficient for an election. No other business shall be in order until a president is chosen. The president shall be sworn by the town or city clerk, as the case may be, or in case of the absence of the clerk, by any justice of the peace. The council shall then proceed to the choice of a city clerk, in the same manner as above pro- vided for the choice of president. The president may be removed from the presidency of the council and the clerk may be removed from office by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the mem- bers of the council, taken by roll call. The president of the council shall have the same right to vote as any other member thereof.
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