Official reports of the town of Wayland 1912-1914, Part 24

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 776


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18.76


16.75


5.74


1.50


95


REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH


General Administration:


Dec. 1. A. A. Norris, inspection


$3.24


C. A. Roak, inspection 1.12


Quarantine and Contagious Diseases:


Dec. 1. G. F. Marston, supplies


8.13


E. E. Sparks, medical services


18.00


E. E. Sparks, medical services


7.50


N. C. Griffin, rent


14.00


Tuberculosis :


Sept. 1. W. C. Neal, guarding patient


3.00


W. F. Evans, guarding patient


3.00


Philip S. Ide, medical services 9.00


Other Expenses:


May 1. C. A. Roak, fumigating


13.25


June 1. C. A. Roak, spraying


12.82


July 1. George Evans, cans


2.25


Sept. 1. C. A. Roak, spraying


4.97


F. J. Bigwood and Son, team hire


4.00


Dec. 1. W. S. Bigwood, fumigating


10.12


A. A. Norris, fumigating


3.00


C. B. Doldge Co., disinfectants


6.25


F. G. Bigwood and Son, team hire


4.00


Dec. 30.


C. A. Roak, burial of dead animals


1.00


6.00


C. A. Roak, fumigating Dr. Frank Bigwood, inspection of slaughtering


18.00


F. J. Bigwood and Son, team hire


1.00


$218.64


WALTER S. BIGWOOD, Clerk. Wayland Board of Health.


96


TOWN OF WAYLAND


Inspector of Animals


To the Board of Selectmen:


Gentlemen :- I submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1914.


One cow affected with tuberculosis was quarantined, killed and carcass disposed of by rendering.


One cow affected with mange was quarantined and dis- posed of.


There have been no cases of foot and mouth disease reported as yet.


Resectfully submitted,


FRANK BIGWOOD, M. D. C.


Inspector.


97


REPORT OF SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS


Report of the Surveyor of Highways


General Highway


Appropriation


$3,500.00


Expenditures


3,446.63


Balance


$53.37


Pay Roll


Men


Horses


Days


Hours


Days


Hours


C. W. Fairbank


42


12


148


21


$338.51


A. S. Lyon


13


3}


30.23


T. Bowles


21


1}


47.69


N. Tetreault


25


4


63.35


E. Newton


24


1


54.28


C. Gay


20


61


46.84


W. Smith


22


3


50.34


M. Desmond


17


3


39.09


F. Hannon


23


3


52.59


L. Dunham


31


4


70.87


P. Shea


7


15.75


H. Wyatt


18


3


36


6


96.48


F. Latour


22


3


50.34


D. D. Griffan


22


4


45


118.13


W. Lawrence


27


3


54


6


143.72


I. Damon


19


38


99.75


W. Bemis


10


5


23.91


C. Spear


2


1


5.34


M. Temple


32


31


5


119.58


J. Perodeau


8


18.00


J. Barrett


5


7


13.22


J. McDonald


22


42


50.78


E. Grover


32


4


72.88


N. Bouret


10


22.50


J. Donahoe


10


22.50


98


TOWN OF WAYLAND


Men


Horses


Days


Hours


Days


Hours


J. Ploss


4


2}


$9.71


R. Moulton


1


2.25


L. Fraiel


3


6


1.97


W. C. Rich


49


6


89


4


262.33


R. Yetton


37


4


84.37


J. F. Malloy


29


63.00


E. Eagan


21


47.25


J. Eagan


18


4


37


97.12


E. G. Lee


22


4


45


118.12


W. White


32


4


73.12


H. Lee


28


4


64.12


A. Tetreault


30


67.50


M. Damon


3


6.75


C. Smith


29


4


66.37


F. Moore


19


4


43.87


W. S. Lovell


8


16


42.00


Mrs. Baldwin


20


40


104.87


T. Clark


2


4.50


P. Jennings


11


24.75


H. K. Ranney


6


13.50


R. Carroll


7


4


16.87


P. Maguire


11


24.75


O. Porter


1


2.25


M. W. Hynes


10


17


47.99


W. Sullivan


1


2.25


E. Newton


2


4.50


G. E. Sanderson


3


4


7.88


Schedule of Bills


B. and M. R. R., freight


$.25


J. Breck and Sons, supplies


21.81


Lovells Grocery, supplies


4.90


Surburban Press, printing


2.35


F. J. Bigwood and Son, team


2.00


H. C. Haynes, lumber and labor


33.74


99


REPORT OF SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS


A. S. Morse, gravel


76.50


G. G. Jennison, signs


2.00


Union Lumber Co., lumber


2.01


W. F. Evans, posts


1.75


H. C. Haynes, lumber and labor


5.75


F. Haynes, signs


2.20


I. A. Lupien, supplies


4.14


P. Garvey, labor


12.42


A. S. Morse, gravel


35.95


R. Farwell, tending lanterns


3.80


J. F. Cummings, tending lanterns


3.50


A. W. Attwood, fuel


3.60


I. A. Lupien, auto service


1.50


I. A. Lupien, lantern


1.00


Union Lumber Co., lumber


25.03


H. C. Haynes, lumber and labor


19.80


Framingham Construction Co., Culvert


150.00


L. H. McManus, labor


2.25


H. C. Haynes, lumber and labor


10.93


J. C. McKay, repairs


2.40


Miss A. P. Loring, gravel


6.30


G. Richardson, gravel


9.60


H. C. Haynes, lumber and labor


3.00


Town of Weston, roller


10.00


Concord Road


Balance Feb. 28, 1914


$47.02


Appropriation


3,000.00


County Treasurer


1,786.33


Notes


2,500.00


$7,333.35


Expenditures


7,33.80


Balance Dec. 31, 1914


2.55


100


TOWN OF WAYLAND


Pay Roll


Men


Horses


Days


Hours


Days


Hours


W. C. Rich


158


7


295


5


$844.13


M. W. Hynes


138


177


1


604.87


M. Temple


10


42


21


1


55.45


H. Lee


33


41


75.52


A. Tetreault


11


24.75


E. Eagan


45


89.40


C. Smith


148


7


336.23


J. H. Carroll


51


21


115.46


P. Maguire


22


42


50.77


W. White


31


41


71.02


E. Newton


136


7


308.97


P. Jennings


150


1


$337.78


J. F. Malloy


110


1


247.7 9


R. Carroll


99


3


223.61


C. McElroy


12


27.00


H. K. Ranney


1


2.25


W. Cormier


30


30.06


R. Yetton


19


1


42.90


M. Murphy


3


42


8.01


G. Harrington


48


4


109.13


F. Davidson


54


4


109


286.13


M. Damon


69


155.39


J. Sayers


7


3


16.59


E. G. Lee


50


2


200


4


263.83


W. H. Dusseault


120


270.70


Flagg


1


2.25


Ring


12


4


28.12


C. Dusseault


23


4


52.87


J. Donahoe


109


62


247.08


W. Sanderson


36


81.00


\V. S. Lovell


64


128


336.32


J. Eagan


34


4


69


181.13


W. Sullivan


46


2


104.08


W. F. Maynard


5


11.25


101


REPORT OF SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS


Men


Horses


Days


Hovrs


Days


Hours


S. Guibord


50


2


$113.07


A. Eagan


35


78.75


P. Shea


56


6


127.69


E. Corcoran


49


110.24


J. LaFrance


3


6.75


T. Hynes


5


11.25


E. W. Small Metcalf


5


4


11.38


J. Brown


34


76.50


E. Porter


20


4


46.13


B. Perry


20


4


46.13


Peter


5


4


12.38


F. Hannon


32


72.01


T. Magorty


16


4


37.13


George


4


1.13


A. W. Atwood


19


4


39


102.38


O. Porter


15


4


34.88


Schedule of Bills


Lovells Grocery, supplies


$9.63


Warren Foundry and Mch., Co., drain pipe


39.00


M. Parmenter, gravel


20.90


M. W. Hynes, gravel


39.00


M. W. Hynes, gravel


12.40


J. Parmenter, gravel


17.20


G. A. Foote, cement


2.25


J. Parmenter, gravel


18.00


Town of Weston, roller


90.00


J. M. Curtin, teaming


4.50


I. A. Lupien, supplies


6.81


Lovells Grocery, supplies


4.68


W. Stearns, repairs


11.60


A. W. Atwood, fuel


21.00


M. W. Hynes, gravel


4.80


J. Parmenter, gravel


15.50


W. C. Rich, expenses


4.65


2


4.50


102


TOWN OF WAYLAND


T. S. Sherman, gravel


$26.40


Lovells Grocery, supplies


16.25


H. C. Haynes, lumber and labor


25.35


F. J. Bigwood and Son, team


$2.00


T. S. Sherman, gravel


75.60


N. Foley, cutting trees


8.00


T. S. Sherman, gravel


67.05


Lovells Grocery, supplies


15.90


C. H. Spring Co., drain pipe


30.40


H. F. Parmenter. digging ditch


15.00


L. H. McManus, supplies


1.25


F. J. Bigwood and Son, team


1.00


F. J. Bigwood and Son, team


2.50


P. Garvey, labor


106.19


F. A. Houdlette znd Son, drain pipe


39.00


W. Stearns, repairs


11.95


G. A. Foote, pipe and supplies


9.65


L. H. McManus, labor and supplies


1.00


A. W. Atwood, teaming


2.00


J. C. Alward, gravel


7.50


School Street


Receipts Notes


$3,500.00


Expenditures


3,399.94


Balance, Dec. 31, 1914


$100.06


Pay Roll


Horses


Days


Men Hours


Days


Hours


C. W. Fairbank


77


5


183


4


$485.28


L S. Dunham


69


4


156.38


J. Perodeau


69


12


155.67


J. LaFrance


54


4


122.63


E. Grover


73


4


165.38


H. Derrick


74


62


168.33


L. Celorier


56


126.00


J. H. Carroll


66


62


150.33


103


REPORT OF SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS


Horses


Days


Men Hours


Days


Hours


F. Latour


72


21


$162.70


J. McDonald


25


1


56.08


M. Loker


23


3


52.59


C. McEnroy


59


5μΈ΅


134.30


D. D. Griffin


51


6


103


4


271.69


J. Barrett


60


41


126.44


T. Bowles


8


18.14


IV. Webster


44


6


100.69


N. Tetreault


21


32


48.22


W. Lawrence


46


4


93


244.11


J. Ploss


8


2


18.56


I. Damon


8


16


42.00


P. Maguire


4


9.00


C. Gay


20


6


46.69


C. Spear


2


4


5.63


R. Moulton


1


6


3.94


J. Lynn


2


4.50


Wilbur


3


6.75


N. Gladu


9


5


21.66


A. S. Lyon


11


1


25.03


H. Wyatt


3


21


6


5


17.39


Schedule of Bills


Robinson & Jones, drain pipe


$25.65


Robinson & Jones, drain pipe


5.13


Robinson & Jones, cement


3.80


N. Perodeau, supplies


13.41


Wright & Son, tool box


14.53


G. G. Jennison, signs


3.00


Fiske & Co., dynamite


1.35


Union Lumber Co., lumber


39.91


Fiske & Co., dynamite


5.55


N. Perodeau, supplies


16.34


M. J. Maloney, supplies


1.10


C. S. Williams, supplies


1.00


2


104


TOWN OF WAYLAND


W. E. Wilson, gravel


$44.55


M. J. Maloney, supplies


.55


Wright & Son, labor


20.82


W. E. Wilson, gravel


34.95


Fiske & Co., dynamite


4.50


W. E. Wilson, gravel


20.55


J. C. McKay, repairs


14.95


P. Garvey, labor


21.19


W. E. Wilson, land damage


20.00


E. C. Grover, land damage 50.00


D. D. Griffin, land damage


36.00


G. L. Loker, land damage


35.00


R. Porter, land damage


20.00


Main Street


Balance, March 1, 1914


$81.99


Expenditures


60.91


Balance, Dec. 31, 1914


21.08


Schedule of Bills


E. G. Lee, teaming


$7.89


Std. Oil Co., supplies


19.72


B. & M. R. R., freighr


1.64


A. W. Atwood, team


50.


Waltham Trap Rock Co., stone


8.53


P. Malloy & Son, teaming


21.88


A. W. Atwood, bill


.75


CHARLES W. FAIRBANK,


Surveyor of Highways


105


REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR


Overseers of the Poor


The Overseers of the Poor during the past year visited their charges as required by law, both at Worcester and out- side and submit the following report:


Receipts


Appropriation


$1,200.00


Salaries


125.00


Reimbursements


185.62


$1,510.62


Expenditures


$1454.68


Balance $55.94


At Franciscan Home, Worcester, Mass. board, medical attendance and


clothing


426.85


Mrs. Wilfred Celorier


Board of Children 160.00


Having settlement in Wayland and residing there 452.11


Having settlement in Wayland and residing elsewhere 124.70


Residing in Wayland with settlement elsewhere 33.38


Dr. P. S. Ide, services


16.10


Dr. E. E. Sparks, services


12.00


106


TOWN OF WAYLAND


Framingham Hospital


32.00


Mass. General Hospital


21.25


General Administration and Salaries


148.18


Miscellaneous Expenses


17.11


Total expenses


$1,454.68


Respectfully submitted


STEPHEN C. CORMIER, Chairman. HOWARD C. HAYNES, Clerk, THOMAS W. FROST,


Overseers of the Poor


1914-1915 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE


School Committee and the Superintendent of Schools


OF THE


POR


TED


LAND


EAST SUDBURY 1780


n


$1835


TOWN OF WAYLAND


FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1914


MAUGUS PRINTING COMPANY WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS 1915


109


SCHOOL OFFICERS


School Officers


1914-1915


COMMITTEE


Arthur B. Nichols, Chairman, Wayland ( term expires 1915)


Frank C. Remick,, Cochituate (term expires 1916)


Philip S. Ide, Secretary, Wayland


( term expires 1917


SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


Frank H. Benedict, Cochituate.


TRUANT OFFICERS AND JANITORS


J. Charles Vincent, Wayland.


Henry G. Dudley, Cochituate.


SCHOOL PHYSICIAN


O. A. Dudley, M. D., Saxonville.


111


REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE


Financial Statement


March 1-December 31, 1914 Salaries of Teachers


W. Herbert Moore


$1,085.00


Elizabeth G. Hodge


572.50


Katherine E. Barrett


591.25


Inez E. Bowler


330.00


M. Gladys Ferguson


262.50


Russell E. Tupper


692.65


Mabel C. Whitten


445.00


Abbie M. MacNiff


102.75


M. Beatrice Shea


187.50


Effie Moore


236.25


Julia F. Hastings


225.00


Ethel M. Hamilton


465.00


Marie L. Leach


426.25


Lucy E. Reynolds


263.42


Grace C. Loker


220.00


M. Elizabeth Burke


200.45


Sarah H. Caldwell


217.00


Lea J. Benjamin


187.50


Sylvia E. Prescott


426.25


Agnes E. Boland


155.00


William B. Hazelton


542.50


Substitutes


Margaret A. Fiske


$96.00


Grace F. Barker


10.00


M. Elizabeth Burke


12.00


Grace C. Bond


101.29


112


TOWN OF WAYLAND


Eleanor L. Phelps


$12.50


Jane Noel


16.00


Janet McNamara


54.00


Mary C. Fullick


5.80


$8,141.36


Salaries of Janitors


Henry G. Dudley


$416.60


J. Charles Vincent


416.60


$833.20


Salary of Superintendent


Frank H. Benedict


$666.60


$666.60


Transportation


Everett G. Lee


$196.00


Alexander Sauer


300.00


Thomas Hynes


580.00


E. J. Gazard


217.50


Alexander Holmes


270.00


Frank J. Bigwood & Son


172.50


Middlesex & Boston St. Ry. Co.


450.00


$2.186.00


Repairs


J. C. Massie


$30.05


Howard C. Haynes


599.39


Fiske and Co.


20.23


D. C. Ryan


44.30


F. C. Remick


14.07


C. S. Williams


7.18


William Smeltz


15.00


T. Weld Frost


455.80


Andrew Dutton Company


20.65


Morris Shain


4.80


American Seating Company


42.20


. $1.253.67


113


REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE


Fuel Light and Power


Samuel McKenna


$5.00


Robinson -Jones Company


525.00


A. W. Atwood


562.50)


William S. Lovell


30.00


The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston


20.45


$1,142.95


Supplies


J. L. Hammett Company


$32.07


Ginn and Company


45.28


Lyons and Carnahan


2.78


American Book Company


88.69


The Browne-Bradford Co. (Inc.


20.00


Chandler and Barber


50.49


Edward E. Babb and Company


479.18


F. L. Goldsmith and Company


92.60


Russell E. Tupper


1.75


William S. Lovell


14.29


C. C. Birchard and Company


5.03


New England Reed Company


4.20


L. E. Knott Apparatus Company


21.34


D. C. Heath Company


6.45


Benjamin H. Sanborn Company


3.36


Silver, Burdett and Company


.25


L. C. Smith and Brothers


12.50


I. A. Lupien


28.48


5908.74


Incidentals


George T. Johnson Co.


$6.00


American Water Supply Company


8.00


E. G. Lee


42.50


L. Frank Gear


16.88


Bigelow and Dowse Co.


4.75


Louisa A. Nicholass


13.88


The Bradford-Browne Co. Inc.


20.00


114


TOWN OF WAYLAND


A. W. Atwood


13.70


E. W. Jennison


5.00


Howe and Company


.70


Russell E. Tupper


1.12


Samuel F. Ward and Company


2.75


Anna F. Brooks


8.95


The Tudor Press


18.75


W. H. Moore


8.85


Frank H. Benedict


31.22


Enterprise Rubber Company


15.00


J. M. Moore, Agent


10.50


Remington Typewriter Co.


2.00


Etta Griffen


1.00


The Suburban Press


1.75


F. J. Bigwood and Son


1.00


Arthur B. Nichols


12.00


Napoleon Perodeau


.40


Henry G. Dudley


10.00


Howard C. Haynes


3.00


$289.70


School Committee Salaries and Expenses.


Arthur B. Nichols


$41.66


Frank C. Remick


41.66


Philip S. Ide, Clerk


50.00


Philip S. Ide


9.20


$142.52


Receipts


Town Grant


$14,500.00


Tuition, State Wards


398.35


Tuition, Natick


19.00


Tuition, Boston


21.50


State Grant-Superintendent


625.00


Chandler and Barber


1.16


$15,565.01


115


REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE


Recapitulation


Salaries of Teachers


$8,141.36


Transportation


2,186.00


Fuel, Light, Power


1,142.95


Salaries of Janitors


833.20


Supplies


908.74


Salary of Superintendent


666.60


Repairs


1,253.67


Incidentals


298.70


Committee Salaries and Expenses


142.52


$15,564.74


Balance


$ .27


116


TOWN OF WAYLAND


Report of Superintendent of Schools


To the Wayland School Committee:


Gentlemen :- The seventeenth annual report of the Super- intendent of Schools is herewith submitted. It is the fifth during my term of service. The reports of the Truant Officers, and High School Principal are presented herewith.


The attendance has been unusually good the current year, about all that can be expected. There has been little tardiness in the grades and less than usual in the high school. Punctu- ality and the keeping of school appointments are acts of in- tegrity and should assist in the building of good business habits and strength of character. Parents and teachers cannot urge too strongly and insistently the keeping of school appointments and the performing of school duties conscientiously.


Thus far the current year there has been less need than usual for sending each month the special deficiency notices to parents. This indicates that a pride of scholarship is develop- ing among the students. The High School deficiencies are almost invariably caused by a lack of home study, inattention to work in school, and finally discouragement. For most of our students one or two hours of home study is absolutely necessary if good high school work is done. Early in the year parents should give especial attention to the special de- ficiency notices.


It is a pleasure to state to you here as has been done verbally heretofore, that the schools are in efficient hands this year. We have had a very large number of changes for a year past. This tends to lessen the efficiency of the school". especially if the new comers are not efficient. In securing teachers to take the vacant desks the past season, we have employed two trained but inexperienced women. It has been some years since this has been done.


REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 117


The townspeople should understand fully that the previ- ous maximum salary of $550 for the Cochituate grades and $600 for the heavier Wayland grades is no longer as high a maximum as in the past. Cities and other towns have in- creased the maximum relatively more the past three years than has Wayland. The first of last July the Teachers' Retirement Act went into effect. This means that every person who enters the service of the Commonwealth in the capacity of a teacher for the first time must pay to the State Retirement Board not less than thirty-five dollars annually. Salaries in places here- tofore paying only a living wage must increase the wages to meet this demand. This will operate eventually to increase the wages all along the line. So then if Wayland is to employ as able and experienced teachers as in the past, the maximum salary must be advanced. This cannot be done without a larger appropriation.


Certain much needed repairs and improvements have been made the past season. The Wayland Building has been re- paired somewhat inside, shingled, and painted outside. The well-being of the property is therefore safe-guarded and the appearance is certainly improved.


The Cochituate School property has been much im- proved in appearance and the grounds in usefulness through the disappearance of the last vestige of the old building. The old cellar has been filled and the grounds well graded. A much needed drain has been put in to care for surface water that threatened the schoolhouse basement. About the build- ing used for playground purposes, several loads of gravel have been used to make the basement entrances fairly dry in wet weather.


The athletic field at Wayland has been greatly improved through the expending of funds raised for that purpose by the Park and Playground Association.


Last year I made a plea for a new heating and ventilating plant at the Wayland building. We started school this year with the old plant.


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The ventilation of some of the Wayland rooms has been a serious problem ever since I have known the school building. We are obliged to stop every hour in the grade rooms, open the windows, and give physical drills in order to keep the air suf- ficiently invigorating for work and comfort. Besides this air- ing, the rooms are thoroughly aired at all recesses. This is not all. Some of the High School rooms in cold weather be- come overheated in order to warm others. Then again, in mild weather, so great a fire has to be maintained in order to have any heat that some rooms are very hot. Whenever the fires in the furnaces are shaken down, ashes in no small measure come into the rooms.


This year, thus far, we have lost a week of time because of the heating plant. The boiler leaked for some time before the Christmas Recess. Although every means was taken to re- pair the leakage without stopping school, the leaking kept on. Early in the week of the Christmas recess, the boiler was taken down and apart. It was hoped that it could be repaired That was found impossible, so that a new one has been put into the service. In so far as the rooms heated by the hot water system are concerned, the plant is satisfactory.


The furnaces heat the major part of the building. They are worn out and should be replaced or thoroughly overhauled. Inasmuch as upwards of seven hundred dollars were ex- pended on them two summers ago with only partial success, it seems inadvisable to pay out more on them. Furnaces, that have been used nearly eighteen seasons and have in the mean- time had to be worked for long periods to their full capacity, cannot last always.


We shall be fortunate indeed if we get through this winter without further losses and further expense due to the much- worn furnaces.


In my last report the fund raised for decorative work in the Cochituate building had not been expended. The sum was then over eighty dollars. This sum, with interest, was spent last March under the direction of the writer and Mr. F. C. Remick. The statuary, pedestal, and brackets cost more than


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was available. Mr. Remick and the writer shared in meet- ing the excess expended.


Friday afternoon, May 8, the Washington bust from the Houdon Statue and the Lincoln bust from a statue by Max Bachmann and the Minerva Giustiniani were unveiled. The programme was as follows :-


Music-"Love's Old Sweet Song" Molloy


Eighth and Ninth Grades


The Story of Minerva Adapted from Ovid


Illken Sullivan


Presentation of Minerva Jennie Donahue


Tribute to Lincoln-Unveiling


Warren L. Bishop


Unfurling of Flag


Alton C. Schleicher


Gettysburg Speech


Lauretta Cormier


Lincoln


Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Grade


Music-Star Spangled Banner


The School


Tribute to Washington-Unveiling Ovila Paul


Unfurling of Flag


Lillian Cormier


Declamation-Patriotism


Alice Dunham Curtiss


Singing of America


School and Visitors


Last year, some one unknown to the writer, placed in the Committee's hands the sum of thirty dollars to be offered in the form of prizes to pupils for improvement in work, or for excellence attained. Prizes were offered and awarded as follows :-----


Improvement in Penmanship, Wayland, Grades eight and nine First $4 Arthur Moore Second 3 William Conway Third 2 Tom Drew Fourth 1 Andrew Tower


Excellency-High School, Seniors and Juniors English Cmposition First $5 Marjorie Elms Second 3 Elizabeth Smithson Third 2 Helen Damon Typewriting


First $5 William Ford


Second 3 Gertrude Potvin Third 2 Alfred Bogren


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We acknowledge the school's indebtedness to the donor of the prize funds and extend the gratitude of all concerned to him.


The High School, under the direction of Miss Boland, gave a Minstrel last spring. The proceeds have been placed in the Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, subject to the order of the Committee. This fund is for the purpose of purchasing a piano for the High School Hall. The amount realized is $37. The graduating class of 1914 gave to this fund the sum of $45. The School Bank Account is now $82.


December 17, the children of the Wayland grades gave an entertainment for the purpose of raising money to furnish a rest room for the Wayland School. Forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents was received. The sum of $45.25 is subject to your order for such furnishings as may seem to you most desirable.


There have been no experiments of late in your schools dealing with any of the advance theories and practices relating to the making of the schools of greater practical value to the boys and girls who leave school to go to work during the last years of the grammar school and early years of the high school or for those who do not continue to study beyond the high school. Several years ago a commercial course was established in the High School. Wood-working for the boys during the last four years in the grades and first two years of High School, with sewing for the grade girls began something like seven years ago.


I recommend that the wood-working department be strengthened by the addition of a motor, lathe, and saw, and that sewing machines be provided for the grade girls.


A strong plea may well be made, did space permit, for the establishment of courses in practical arts for the girls of the High School. Our young women need lessons in dressmaking, millinery, cooking, fabric values, purchasing and using of all household commodities, and general household management.


Agricultural courses, pattern making, mechanics, and so on are being offered in some High Schools of regular standing


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while schools specializing along these lines have been established.


We may well consider these modern changes in school work and study more thoroughly in their relation to our own system.


There are those who believe that every High School should offer some line of practical arts for both the young women and men. Others are as firm in the belief that the smaller High Schools should not try to include them, but make the courses strong as given at present, give to each sub- ject a more practical turn or flavor, make the first two years very general, keep hold of all the boys and girls for the first two years. After the first two years' influence, those who show marked scholarship should remain in the home school and pre- pare for the higher institution and influence the others to enter schools offering courses in practical arts as given in the High Schools in the larger centers, the small High School that may be specializing along some line, or else turn them toward the Trade School.


State-aided industrial schools offer good courses at present and the town and state must pay the tuition of those who wish to attend them.


One of the modern administrative subjects that is receiv - ing much attention is known as the Six and Six Plan, or the Junior High School. The last years of the Grammar School are organized on the basis of the High School. Courses are offered for different groups and there is departmental teaching. It is thought that the instruction will thus be strengthened, the organization better suited to the age of the boys and girls, and that thereby the High School and grades will articulate better and thus bridge over a crucial period in the life of the young people when something seemingly ends and a new thing begins. Thus the number leaving school work will be lessened.


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I wish to thank you for your cordial support the past year, the parents for their faith in the schools, the teachers for their unremitting efforts to do all possible for each child, and the town for its generosity in supplying the schools with sufficient working tools.


Respectfully submitted,


FRANK H. BENEDICT, Superintendent of Schools.




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