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31, Francis Edgar Timberlake, Melvin R. and Augusta. Chauncy Burdett Davis, Stillman C. and Eva Z.
Aug. 5,
26, Ernest Francis Tinker, Charles F. O. and Annie E. John Kerrisey, John and Julia Ann.
Sept. 27,
28, Alphonso Alfred Galagher, Frank P. and Margaret Herbert Granville Dean, Henry W. and Sarah H.
Oct. 6, John Murphy, James and Johanna.
Oct. 21,
16, John Andrew Welch, Patrick and Catherine. John Francis Lane, Enos and Mary J.
24, George Harry O'Brien, George A. and Bridget A.
24, Thomas Patrick Donahue, Thomas and Mary A.
Nov. 10, Martin Lyden, Martin and Bridget.
18, George Israel Bailey, Charles and Mary E.
DAUGHTERS.
Feb. 3, Bernice Ethel Holmes, James F. and Mary M.
Apr. 9, Maud Bromley, Rev. Edwin and Sarah E.
May 24, Grace May Shackley, Charles H. and Sarah Jane.
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June 15,
Margaret Feeney, Daniel and Margaret.
15, Bernice Maud Guild, John W. and Annie M.
29, Katie Bendel, Joseph and Catherine.
Aug. 2, Catherine Nugent, John and Mary.
16, Ruth Mitchell. Stanford and Emma Francis.
27, Sarah Lucy Fisher, James A. and Sarah A.
30, Lois Mitchell Shattuck, Edmund J. and Emma L.
Louise Morrill Shattuck, S
Sept. 3, Alice Mabel Turner, Francis W. and Effie A.
15, Mary Ellen Fahy, Patrick and Bridget.
15, Bertha Henrietta Ellis, Warren and Clara E.
Oct. 1, Ellen Bayer, Jacob and Catherine E.
Oct. 1,
Annie Ellis Davis, James A. and Martha.
Nov. 11, Gracie Lillian Folsom, Edwin J. and Lottie E.
21, Mabel Fawn Hayford, Harvey L. and Ida M.
24, Mary Frances Leonard, Michael and Bridget.
25, Maud Alice Woods, Charles H. and Sarah M.
Dec. 1, Carrie Ethel Howard, Milton H. and Ella A.
25, Mary Frances Draper, Frank D. and Sarah K.
MARRIAGES.
Jan. 2, By Rev. F. P. Hamblett, Isaac Colburn of Nor- wood, and Louisa Clapp of Walpole.
23, By Rev. Theron Brown, Francis W. Preston and Emma A. Dimock, both of Stafford, Conn.
20, By Rev. George Hill, Charles H. Woods and Sarah M. Day, both of Norwood.
Feb. 20, By Rev. R. B. Van, Alexis B. Marcel of Norwood, and Sarah J. Bryant of Hyde Park.
Mar. 7, By Rev. J. P. Bixby, Francis Doane of Cambridge, and Mrs. Henrietta A. Morrill of Norwood. Apr. 21, By Rev. D. J. O'Donovan, Morgan Curran and Bridget Curran, both of Norwood.
May 5, By Rev. D. J. O'Donovan, Martin Curran and Margaret Leonard, both of Norwood.
May 7, By Rev. D. J. O'Donovan, James C. Murphy and Catherine Tobin.
Aug. 15, By Rev. I. II. Gilbert, James F. Boyden and Helen A. Shattuck, both of Norwood. 1
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May 7, By Rev. D. J. O'Donovan, John Donovan of Boston, and Honora Hayes of Norwood.
9, By Rev. I. H. Gilbert, George H. Morrill, Jr. and May E. V. Gilbert, both of Norwood.
July 5, By Francis Tinker, Daniel C. Fairbanks and Alice J. Dean, both of Norwood.
9, By Rev. S. C. Beals, Charles E. Webb of Norwood, and Nellie C. Carroll of Dedham.
Aug. 14, By Rev. George Hill, Bernard F. Colburn and Maria E. Hartshorne, both of Norwood.
Oct. 20, By Rev. Mr. Crowningshield, Walter C. Gould and Annie J. Pratt, both of Norwood.
25, By Rev. J. P. Bixby, Isaac Miller and Annie J. Lipsett, both of Norwood.
Nov. 2, By Rev. J. P. Bixby, Charles J. Ellis and H. T. Johnson, both of Norwood.
14, By Rev. George Hill, Daniel J. Hersey of Boston, and Caroline E. Shapleigh of Norwood.
28, By Rev. L. E. Smith, William A. Williamson and Harriet E. Wallace, both of Norwood.
Dec. 10, By Rev. C. F. Dole, Frank T. Morrill of Norwood, and Annie R. French of Jamaica Plain.
20, By Rev. George Hill, Edgar L. Bigelow and Abbie A. White, both of Norwood.
24, By Rev. J. P. Bixby, Albert W. Metcalf and Mary N. Morse, both of Norwood.
25, By Rev. George Hill, Francis E. Everett and M. Agnes Pratt, both of Norwood.
DEATHS.
Jan. 3, Mr. Cram, instant death, railroad accident.
15, Mrs. Catherine S. Dean, 67 years, 10 months, 7 days, Enterilis Chronic.
23, Mrs. Emma Storm, 29 years, 10 montlis, Disease of Heart.
Feb. 17, Mr. Joel Talbot, 86 years, 5 months, Old Age. Mar. 8, Mr. Patrick Hallissey, 33 years, Consumption.
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Mar. 30, Mr. Job Worthington, 62 years, 9 months, 6 days, Diabetes.
Apr. 18, Mrs. Emeline Turner, 80 years, 8 months, 12 days. Gangrene.
May 19, Louis Edward Warner, 2 months, 21 days.
21, Joel M. Baker, 69 years, 8 months, 12 days.
24, Alton Morton Alden, 2 months, 10 days, Whooping Cough.
June 5, Mrs. Sarah Whitney, 81 years, 2 months, 14 days, Old Age.
July 19, Albert C. Johnson, 2 years, 5 months, 14 days, Dysentery.
Aug. 4,
29, Charles Kuld, 5 years, 9 months, Congestion of Brain Samuel E. Morrill, 1 year, 3 months, 8 days, Cholera Infantum.
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6, Jeremiah Scannell. 18 years, 3 months, 23 days, Hannah Nevil, 1 year, 4 days, Congestion of Brain.
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22, Mrs. Isabella L. Roby, 29 years, 1 month, Consump. Mrs. Margaret Collins, 68 years, Consumption.
Dea. Samuel Morrill, 74 years, 4 months, 21 days, Dysentery.
25, 30,
Mrs. Julia Horgan, 46 years, 9 months, Consumption. Mr. George Dickerson, 77 years, Disease of Heart.
Sept. 13, 11, Mr. John Friery, 54 years, Pneumonia.
Aug. 26,
James J. Friery, 1 year, 15 days, Congestion of Brain.
Oct. 2, Mr. Jeremiah Collins, 28 years, Consumption.
. 13, Willard N. Ellis, 31 years, 8 months, 12 days, Con- gestion of Lungs.
19, Walter Hewes, 40 years, Apoplexy.
20, Fanny E. Baker, 19 years, 9 months, 21 days, Con- sumption.
26, Laura E. Howland, 2 years, 2 months, 11 days, Scar- latina.
Nov. 25. Patrick J. Tobin, 5 years, 5 months, 22 days, Scar- latina and croup.
Dec. 15, Mr. Richard D. Hartshorn, 67 years, 11 days, Bright's Disease.
Dec. 22, Edward P. Brennan, 1 year, 2 months, 1 day, Burned.
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SIXTH REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF NORWOOD,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1878.
INTRODUCTION.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
The Committee was organized for the year by the choice of Rev. J. P. Bixby, Chairman, and C. Willis Morse, Secretary. On the resignation of Rev. I. H. Gilbert, the Selectmen and School Committee elected Rev. Theron Brown to fill the vacancy, and on the resignation of Mr. Morse, Stillman C. Davis was elected, and appointed secretary.
OBJECTS SOUGHT IN THE SCHOOLS.
During the past three years the School Committee have sought to improve the schools by introducing the beginnings of a superintendency. The Committee-man is usually a critic, approving or disapproving what he witnesses, and removing the teacher if results do not come up to his standard. A Superin- tendent, while he is a critic, is also a helper; he gathers the teachers for mutual instruction ; he teaches them what results can and ought to be realized, and points out the best methods of securing them. The amount of this kind of work done in Norwood has not been large, but it is in the right direction, and has done something to improve our schools. Effort also has been made in detail to improve the reading, writing, and arith- metic in the lower grades, and with some degree of success. The establishment of a high school, too, has been the aim of the Committee.
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TEACHERS.
The corps of teachers has not been changed during the year. Most of these are Norwood's own daughters, and the writer is glad to say, after quite a large observation, that probably no town in the county has a better corps of teachers than Norwood ; and when they have as good facilities as others, none will do better work. In fine, it is believed that the papers from the Norwood pupils, in the late County examination, will compare favorably with any town not having had superior opportunities. That there is diversity of gifts among these teachers,-that some are more enthusiastic than others, that some make more effort to improve themselves than others, and that some are better circumstanced than others, is true. But this may be said, all are doing well, and many are doing uncommonly well.
SUPERINTENDENCE.
This is needed throughout the State, and of course in Nor- wood. What has been gained during the past, will naturally be saved, and much greater improvement will be made if the schools of the town come under an intelligent, faithful, wise, and laborious Superintendent. The demand for better super- vision is sounding loudly at present in the ears of our legislators. Whether or not supervision by Superintendents is made imper- ative by the present legislature, those municipalities will have the best schools that have the best supervision. The general examination now going on in Norfolk County, is proving by the results put upon paper, that graded schools, and those under good Superintendents, are yielding by far the best returns for the money expended upon them.
The statute of the Commonwealth at present, allows towns to unite and employ a Superintendent under the direction of the School Committee. If Canton and Norwood, for instance, would unite in such a superintendency, and Mr. Aldrich, now Superintendent in Canton, should labor in both towns, it would no doubt result most favorably to the schools of Norwood.
. CHANGES. IN SCHOOLS.
In July last, the Committee feeling the need of a High School, caused another room to be finished off in the Everett School-
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house, with the design of gathering in it the nucleus of such a school. But the room occupied by the Railroad Avenue School was so unsuitable for school purposes, that they concluded to have that school occupy quarters in the Everett School-house.
The wisdom of that decision is seen in the better grading of that and other schools. The need of a High School continues and sometime, no doubt, one will be established. The thing to be regretted is, that so many generations of scholars must go out into life without its advantages.
MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.
The tendency of population has been from the country to the large towns and cities ; and this has existed because better ad- vantages, especially educational advantages, could there be en- joyed. So strong has been this tidal wave toward the larger municipalities, that an educational expert estimates that more than half of all the pupils in Massachusetts are to-day being educated in nineteen of her cities. If this tide is to be stayed, and if a town would catch some of the return wave now flow- ing from the cities, it must have, first, cheap house lots, and second, the best social, religious, and educational facilities. Norwood has an opportunity.
CONCLUSION.
The Committee, especially the Chairman, would render thanks to the teachers for attentiveness, patience, and laborious effort for the good of the schools ; to parents and citizens for support and sympathy ; and to the pupils for uniform courtesy. Especially are thanks due from us all to the Eternal and Supreme, for the means and opportunity of moulding immortal minds to the things that are high and holy. May the sons and daughters of Norwood in all time be pure and polished, culti- vated and Christian,-the joy of the present and the hope of the future.
(Signed)
REV. J. P. BIXBY, Chairman. STILLMAN C. DAVIS, Secretary. REV. THERON BROWN.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE
NORWOOD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Norwood Public Library in account with the Town of Norwood.
DR.
Feb 1, 1878, balance of appropriation,
$75 43
CR.
March 1, paid Librarian,
$62 50
T. O. Metcalf & Co., printing,
8 00
Balance of appropriation,
4 93
$75 43
DR.
Balance of appropriation of 1877,
4 93
Appropriation March, 1878,
300 00
Appropriation, dog money,
150 18
$455 11
CR.
For rent of room,
75 00
rebinding books,
32 73
cash for books,
153 84
" salary Librarian,
93 75
Balance of appropriation,
99 79
$455 11
Balance of appropriation unexpended, 99 79
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A little over 100 volumes have been added to the library by purchase during the year, besides some valuable statistical works received from our Representative in Congress, Hon. William Claflin, and from the National Bureau of Education at Washington, making the whole number of books belonging to the library, 2,600. 522 persons have drawn 12,952 volumes from the library, an average of 135 books for every library day during the year.
Some $40 are required annually for the rebinding and repairing of books ; and one of the best precepts that can be instilled into the mind of the young is a sacred regard to right in the use of the property of others ; that the wanton defacing of books with ink or pencil, marks darker and deeper lines upon their own character than those which they have made upon their sheets ; and that it is a wrong to others, and a greater wrong to themselves even, to leave upon the pages of a book the im- pression of unwashed hands. "It is the little foxes that spoil the vines."
The trustees would repeat the suggestion of former years, that Parents and Teachers strive to impress upon the minds of the young the importance of reading such books as will benefit them in after life. What youth would not like to walk and converse with Washington, Franklin, Sumner, and other great men of our country? Their best and richest thoughts are in our library, and they can take them to their homes and make them their daily companions. It is said that "a man is known by the company he keeps ;" and with equal truth it may be said, he is also known by the books he reads. Would the perusal of hunting and fishing stories have prepared Henry Wilson, a poor boy, for the Vice-Presidency of the United States? The history of his country was the text-book which he studied, and it opened for him the path to usefulness and honor. It is a duty which every youth owes to himself and others, to become familiar with the history of his country, its institutions and laws. Ample means are furnished by the town, and let it not be said that they are neglected or misimproved.
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"In ancient Rome, every boy was required to learn the twelve tables," and can we ask less of our youth, who are soon to be- come law-makers and rulers, to acquaint themselves with the workings and principles of our government, and so be prepared to meet the duties and responsibilities of life, that those who may come after them "shall rise up and call them blessed."
Respectfully submitted for the trustees,
FRANCIS TINKER.
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