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inability of the Committee to secure, as a general thing, the better and more experienced teachers and, if secured, to retain them. School "keeping " has in far too many instances taken the place of School "teaching," and, as a consequence, " stuffing" and " show " have been the order for "examination day" instead of actual acquirements. The action of the town, at the last meeting, in making a larger appropriation for the Schools-certainly as wise as it was timely - enabled the Committee to pay better wages and, therefore, to demand better work. Our corps of teachers proved to be an exceptionally good one, and seconded with ready co-operation the suggestions of the Committee, while, in many instances, using the results of practical experience. We think the result has been a manifest improvement both in the government and gen- eral order of our Schools, and believe that the improve- ment in intellect has kept pace with the improvement in manners.
Touching the Schools in particular, it is quite difficult to tell which one has made the greatest actual progress. During the Summer and Fall terms. - these are the only completed terms of which we can speak. - the School in District No. 2 was certainly the best ordered. But that School, one of our best. was in full better condition at the beginning of the year than any other in the town, and whether it made any more actual progress during the time than some of the others may be doubted. No. 1 was very disorderly indeed. - it had. apparently, been
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running wild for some time, - but the skill and persever- ance of the teacher has made a great change in the appearance of the School, and a vast improvement in every respect. No. 3 seemed to work similarly until about the middle of the second term, when, for various reasons, - doubtless, both teacher and parents were in fault, -there was a decline in excellence. Near the close of the term the teacher was obliged to leave on account of sickness in her family, and the change of teachers made a marked change for the better in the character of the School. We believe that Nos. 4, 5, and 7 have been highly successful throughout the year, and that the changes made in the instruction and manage- ment have been beneficial in the extreme. The School in District No. 6 was reported a failure last year, and had to commence as a failure at the beginning of this year. From some indications it would seem that a part of the pupils, - not to say parents, - were perfectly willing it should remain a failure. But, notwithstanding this lamentable fact, the School has actually made good prog- ress, and is worthy of all praise for what has been accom- plished under difficulties that have proved insurmountable in many instances.
On the whole, then, we think ourselves justified in say- ing that our Schools have been successful, in a good degree, throughout the year, and are now in a promising condition. At the same time, while regretting the neces- sity, we must say they have not been nearly as successful
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as they might have been, had the parents taken the interest they are in duty bound to take in the education of their children. It is one of the strangest things in the world that parents expect the teachers and the School Committee to do everything that needs to be done to make the Schools of abiding interest and value. The teachers may do all they can, and the Committee add their efforts, but both will lose the best part of their toil while the parents remain careless and indifferent to the real progress and acquirements of their children. The
parents train their children for years ; the teachers train them for hours. If the former do nothing more than to grumble when called upon to procure new books, quiz the children for School-news, find fault and make remarks derogatory to the character or ability of the teacher, what benefit will the children derive from the best School in the world ? Why is it that so many people take such delight in circulating any bad reports, frequently none of their business, that may chance to come to them from the School-room ? They are never half so prompt to praise even those most worthy of praise. True, our Schools are public institutions, and our School-houses are common property, but the number of those who visit the one and look into the other for strictly School-purposes is very small indeed. Our Registers show the visitors to be those who take no interest in the Schools, as a general thing, but go rather from curiosity or out of regard for the teacher. Even the Prudential Committees are fre-
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quently very dilatory in attending to their duties, of which fact our School-houses far too often give vexatious evidence. But why are the interests of our Common Schools permitted to be the last things considered, and their actual needs the last wants to be supplied ? We have no institution or interest that is so essential to the living success of the town as are our Schools. Town halls, bridges, roads, even the draining of marshes and " the railroad," - all sink into insignificance when com- pared with our Common Schools. But do we appreciate this fact and act acordingly ? How many parents in the town, if asked what books their children study, and how far and how well they have got along in those books, can answer the questions correctly ? At the same time, many declare themselves "very much interested " in the success of the Schools and of their children's education. But of what value are such declarations ? A moment's heed given to these matters daily by those who ought to be interested would give the children an incentive to strive for success and proficiency, such as can be derived from no other source. The germs of the children's con- duct in and around the School-house are planted at home, and the observing teacher can generally form an accurate idea of the standard of the parents by noticing the ruling motive of the child. Nine-tenths of the "difficulties " that occur in school are the direct out-growth of home influence and suggestion-perhaps not always nor often intentional -and in the vast majority of cases wherein the scholars
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make themselves liable to punishment, the real culprit is beyond the reach of any one having authority in the case, unless the town appoint a special committee whose duty it shall be to punish the parents when they forget the demands of reason and common sense.
It is a sad waste of time and breath for people to say they "never make any trouble in school," while at the same time they take particular pains to find fault with every decisive act of the teacher that does not coincide with their own personal views, and circulate far and wide the intelligence that their child or children have been par- ticularly misused. The largest amouut of fault finding about schools is done by those who are in ignorance of the real facts of which they speak, or, at best, possess but half knowledge. The justice of our courts would be more "one sided " than it is now if all evidence were "ruled out ", save that introduced by the plaintiff. And yet this is the principle, as a general rule, whereby the value and efficiency of schools are judged.
These are not pleasant things to consider, they are not pleasant things to write, but they are evils that can be remedied, and facts that must be looked in the face. The greater success and usefulness of our schools demand not only that these evils be considered, but also that they be exterminated. Too long have they been allowed to color, if not control, all primary ideas of education to the appa- rent detriment of all concerned. There is need of a thorough revolution-a new order of things. And, to
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make the change beneficial, there is another evil, one of our most serious difficulties, that must not be passed by- unnecessary absenteeism. Our Registers are sadly de- faced by long lines of absence marks, perhaps most fre- quently following the names of those who have the great- est need of school instruction. Doubtless in many in- stances scholars are positively obliged to be absent by causes beyond their control, but in the vast majority of cases no good reason is ever given for the non-attendance -and this fact of itself is a positive intimation that no such reason exists. The most trifling things are often allowed to become insurmountable obstacles when they stand between the scholar and the school-room. Some- times even the children's " don't want to go to school " is sufficient to keep them at home. For some reason par- ents and guardians seem strangely averse to " using authority" to induce children to attend school; and the fact that authority is lacking, where it should be employed, ac- counts in some measure for the very disagreeable fact that so many of the children of our great State, and greater Nation, are growing up in willing ignorance. It ishardly to be supposed that children "between the ages of five and fifteen " are entirely fitted to judge of what they will need, in the way of education, through the years of life ; but certainly we have a right to expect the parents to possess some intelligent idea of the demands of the day and the age, and that they will try to place the blessings of, at least, our Common Schools within the reach of
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their children. But the scholars who attend irregularly know nothing of the blessings of School. They can have no interest in their lessons, and, on the whole, are a hin- drance to those who are striving to advance. They get behind their classes. The teacher, to avoid the formation of new classes, tries to keep them together by urging on the one and holding back the other ; and the consequence is a state of things very far from satisfactory. The injury wrought to our Schools by this one difficulty is enormous, and calls loudly for a better understanding and a higher appreciation of the evils of irregular attendance. Not only do we need to look at the subject carefully in this town, as shown in the Tabular Statement, but the same evil exists in all parts of our country, and is fast hasten- ing the advent of the next great question that will engage the attention of this Nation, - Compulsory Education.
While rejoicing in the measure of prosperity attending their efforts for the advancement of the Schools, the Com- mittee regret that all such efforts are partially paralyzed for the lack of a better system of grading. Our School- houses are too full-not of scholars, but of classes. Under existing circumstances it is utterly impossible for our teachers to give that attention, either to the older or younger pupils, that they actually require. The question of a higher grade of instruction gains in importance with each succeeding year. The greatest development and efficiency of our Common Schools depends upon the establishment and support of one or more High Schools.
NORWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1639 00069 1509
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
ON THE
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
OF THE
Town of South Scituate,
For the Year ending Feb. 1, 1874, INCLUDING
REPORTS OF THE ASSESSORS, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TOWN TREASURER AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
With a List of Marriages, Births, and Deaths
FROM STATISTICS FURNISHED BY THE TOWN CLERK.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TOWN.
PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN, STEAM BOOK & JOB PRINTERS, CORNER OF COURT AND NORTH STREETS. 1874.
TRANSCRIPT
Of the articles in the Warrant issued for the Annual Meeting of March 2d, 1874.
ARTICLE 1 .- To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2 .- To choose a Town Clerk.
ART. 3 .- To hear and act on the report of Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
ART. 4 .- To hear and act on the report of the Treasurer.
ART. 5 .- To choose all such Town Officers as the laws of the State, and by-laws of the Town require.
ART. 6 .- What sum of money will the Town raise for the support of the Poor, the Schools, and to defray the incidental expenses ?
ART. 7 .- What sum of money will the town raise for the repair of Highways, and direct when, and where, and in what' manner the same shall be expended ?
ART. S .- In what manner and time shall the taxes be collected the ensning year ?
ART. 9 .- Will the Town authorize the Treasurer to hire money in an- ticipation of taxes ?
ART. 10 .- Will the Town appoint special agents to have charge of the School-honses ?
ART. 11 .- Will the Town accept the list of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen ?
ART. 12 .- What compensation will the Town make for removing snow.
ART. 13 .- Will the Town cause a statement of their financial affairs to be printed in the month of February next ?
ART. 14 .- To hear and act on the report of any committee heretofore chosen.
ART. 15 .- What sum of money will the Town raise for the purpose of paying state aid to the disabled soldiers, and to the families of the slain ?
ART. 16 .- To elect a committee to settle with the Treasurer.
ART. 17 .- To make allowance to Town creditors.
ART. 18 .- To act on the report of the Selectmen on Guide Boards.
ART. 19 .- Will the Town repair the road, or private way, leading from "River Street," near the house of James H. Williams, to "Circuit street ?" ART. 20 .- Will the Town build the road as per order of the County Commissioners, under petition of J. H. Curtis and others ?
ART. 21 .- Will the Town allow the free use of the Town Hall the en- suing year to Post 112 for its regular meetings ?
ART. 22 .- Will the Town appropriate a sum of money to defray the expenses of Post 112 on Memorial Day ?
ART. 23 .- Will the Town appropriate a sum of money for the com- pletion of the Soldiers' Monument, and for a fence around the same ?
ART. 24 .- Will the Town sell their meadow land to I. Nash ?
ART. 25 .- Will the Town repair Jourdan Lane, "so called ?"
ART. 26 .- Will the Town expunge the vote passed March, 1872, in aid of the Plymouth County Rail Road ?
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN
ON THE
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
OF THE
Town of South Scituate,
For the Year ending Feb. 1, 1874,
INCLUDING
REPORTS OF THE ASSESSORS, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TOWN TREASURER AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
With a List of Marriages, Births, and Deaths
FROM STATISTICS FURNISHED BY THE TOWN CLERK.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TOWN.
PLYMOUTH : AVERY & DOTEN, STEAM BOOK & JOB PRINTERS, CORNER OF COURT AND NORTH STREETS. 1874.
Report of the Selectmen.
The Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor sub- mit for consideration their Report of the financial standing of the Town, together with the receipts and expenditures for the year ending February 1st, 1874.
REPAIRS ON ROADS.
BOWKER STREET.
The following named persons have received the sums set against their names for labor and material :
R. P. Briggs, for labor,
$36 00 Loring Jacobs, for labor, $5 25
W. S. Briggs,
20 00
J. S. Clapp,
14 00
B. Barrell, 66
18 00
M. Gammon, 16 00
J. Bowker, 66
12 00 E. Gammon,
8 75
F. Damon, 66
3 00
H. Stoddard,
7 00
R. Winslow,
1 50
Piam Jacobs, 66
36 00
Bela Jacobs,
4 00
Benjamin Jacobs, 66
13 50
$195 00
PARKER STREET.
Robert V. C. Turner, for labor, $23 00 | John Freeman, for labor,
$11 37
W. H. Merritt, 4 37
E. L. Brown, 22 65
$61 39
The above bills are for extra repairs authorized by the town.
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The several sums have been paid to the following named persons for labor :
R. P. Briggs,
for labor,
$64 00
Frank Damon,
for labor,
$12 00
W. S. Briggs,
66
187 50
J. S. Clapp,
44 62
B. Barrell,
64 00
Loring Jacobs,
66
35 43
David Bailey,
66
1 00
E. Gammon,
66
7 00
Morris Gammon,
64 00
Luther Bailey,
66
14 50
T. Jones,
66
28 81
Bela Jacobs,
18 50
Piam Jacobs, 66
11 00
Benjamin Jacobs,
9 00
Walter Simmons,
25 00
I. Burrell,
John Clapp,
19 00
E. Damon,
1 00
J. H. Curtis,
66
11 50
Drain pipe,
9 00
J. Bowker,
65
36 00
R. P. BRIGGS, Surveyor.
The following named persons have received the sums set against their names for labor :
R. V. C. Turner, for labor,
$182 50 | Henry Stoddard, for labor,
$8 75
Piam Jacobs,
66
99 75 W. S. Hatch,
66
20 00
C. Brown,
66
1 50 Edwin Merritt,
16 00
I. Packard,
66
40 10
A. C. Randall,
4 23
Antoine Joseph,
66
12 25
E. L. Brown, 66
73 50
John Freeman,
68 67
David Stockbridge, “
10 50
C. Granderson,
21 25
Liba Litchfield, 66
21 25
W. H. Merritt,
6.
77 87
H. H. Jenkins,
8 72
$666 66
R. V. C. TURNER, Surveyor.
The following named persons have received the sums set against their names for labor :
Abner Stetson, for labor,
$405 00) Seth Thomas, for labor, $28 62
Sylvanus Clapp,
24 00
Jack Enols, 97 12
H. B. Turner, 66
45 50
Henry Barstow, " 20 62
L. Meade,
52 50
Coleman Ford, 66
14 00
A. Totman,
66
5 25
John McCurdy, 66
67 37
Peter Hartt, 66
36 74
Alfred Freeman, 66 3 00
David Stoddard,
26 25
Tolman,
2 62
Albert Freeman, 66
10 50
John Kehoe,
21 87
E. Barstow,
66
20 00
Daniel McCarty, “
55 12
W. C. Tolman,
2 25
Josiah Stoddard,
32 00
$970 33 ABNER STETSON, Surveyor.
4 37
$667 23
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At the Town Meeting in April last, the town appropriated $100.00 for extra repairs on "River Street," which amount is included in the above bill; and as there seems to have been a misunderstanding with the Surveyors in regard to the division of the money appropriated by the town for repairs of high- ways, there has been expended the sum of $2,204.23, or $204.23 more than the appropriation.
The following sums have been paid for gravel :
R. V. C. Turner, for cash paid $26 86
Abner Stetson, for cash paid. 34 58
R. P. Briggs, for cash paid. 22 92
D. Torrey, Jr., for gravel 9 72
L. C. Waterman, for gravel from 1868 to 1873 35 46
$19 542
EXPENDITURES OF THE SEVERAL SCHOOLS.
DISTRICT No. 1.
Alpheus Thomas, for wood and fitting, 1872. $23 08
Rebecca C. Brooks, for teaching 37 weeks, at $10.00 per week. 370 00
John H. Prouty, for wood, fitting, and making fires.
24 88
$417 96
DISTRICT No. 2.
Sophia R. Simmons, for cash paid for making fires,
and care of house, 1872 .. $5 00
Richmond Farrar, for wood and fitting, 1872. 10 75
Amount carried forword. $15 75
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Amount brought forward. $15 75
Maria Jacobs, for teaching 37 weeks, at $10.00 per week, 370 00
Elwin M. Brown, for wood and fitting 20 50
$406 25
DISTRICT No. 3.
Hattie R. Gardner, for teaching 13 weeks, at $10.00
per week. $130 00
Jesse Reed, for making fires. 3 00
Anna Tolman, for teaching 24 weeks, at $9.25 per week 222 00
A. B. Litchfield, wood and fitting 26 00
$381 00
DISTRICT NO. 4.
Abbie M. Vinal, for teaching 13 weeks, at $10.00 per
week 130 00
F. M. Curtis, for making fires 3 00
Jennie M. Currell, for teaching 12 weeks, at $9.00 per week 108 00
Annie E. Williamson, for teaching 12 weeks, at $9.00 per week. 108 00
C. A. Litchfield, for wood and fitting
21 75
$370 75
DISTRICT No. 5.
David Torrey, for wood, 1872 $5 00
Martha W. Brooks, for teaching 37 weeks, at $10.00 per week. 370 00
E. T. Fogg, Jr., for making fires 3 00
Bella Nye, assistant teacher 12 00
N. B. Sylvester, for wood and fitting 28 00
$418 00
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DISTRICT No. 6.
Julia A. Sylvester, for teaching 13 weeks, at $9.00 per week $117 00
George B. Totman, for making fires . 3 00
Mary L. Ells, for teaching 24 weeks, at $10.00 per week, 240 00
David W. Turner, for wood and fitting 25 00
$385 00
DISTRICT No. 7.
J. M. Hatch, for teaching 11 weeks, at $10.00 per week, $110 00 G. T. Tolman, for making fires. 5 00
Mary L. Ells, for teaching 14 weeks, at $10.00 per week, 140 00
M. A. McCurdy, assistant teacher 4 00
A. L. Thomas, for teaching 13 weeks, at $10.00 per week, 130 00
Peter Hartt, for wood and fitting 41 10
$430 10
Total amount paid for schools for the three terms ending in November last, $2,809.06.
By deducting amount paid for winter terms ending in March last, there has been paid out of this year's appropriation $1,825.23 ; and the amount required to pay the teachers, making fires, &c., for the terms ending in March next, will be $925.00, making a total of $2,750.23 for the year. Allowing the school fund from the State and County to be $294.79, the same as last year, there will be left of the town appropriation, $1,544.56.
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EXPENDITURES FOR THE SEVERAL SCHOOL HOUSES.
DISTRICT No. 1.
A. B. Loring, for well rope. $1 20
J. H. Prouty, for cleaning house and repairs. 33 84
Alpheus Thomas, for repairs. 1 67
$36 71
DISTRICT No. 2.
Richmond Farrar, for repairs and cleaning up yard. .. $3 25
DISTRICT No. 3.
Snow Bryant, setting glass. $1 50
Liba Litchfield, for repairs, 1872 1 30
A. B. Litchfield, for cleaning house and repairs S 80
$11 60
DISTRICT No. 4.
C. A. Litchfield, for cleaning house and repairs
$5 45
DISTRICT No. 5.
S. & D. W. Turner, for repairs $3 75
Levi Osborne, for masoning 7 00
N. B. Sylvester, for cleaning house and repairs 9 00
F. A. Davis, for ventilator, stove pipe, and labor 16 52
Eleazer Hatch, for carpenter work .. 6 00
$42 27
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DISTRICT NO. 6.
David W. Turner, for cleaning house and repairs. $7 25
D. Pratt's Sons, for clock. 5 00
$12 25
E. T. Fogg, for supplies to the several school houses,.
$13 73
DISTRICT No. 7.
Peter Hartt, for cleaning house and repairs. $9 34
F. A. Davis, for labor and material 5 25
Peter Hartt, for furniture 3 00
$17 59
Total amount for repairs, furniture, &c., $142.85.
REPAIRS ON ALMSHOUSE.
Eleazer Hatch, for labor. $9 25
Joseph Merritt, 2d, smith work. 18 59
S. & D. W. Turner, for carpenter work 143 83
F. Damon, for lumber and hardware 191 69
E. T. Fogg, for paint, stock, &c., 38 88
Cutter & Parker, for windows
41 35
T. R. Lawrence, for painting
48 05
S. Foster, for glass. 6 00
L. Osborne, for mason work 11 50
$509 14
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· DISTRIBUTION OF STATE AID
Elisha Coleman,
$30 00
) George B. Hayden,
$54 00
Benjamin Jacobs,
52 00
Mary Spencer,
48 00
Thomas Mee,
96 00
John Lewis, 54 00
Charles D. Barnard,
72 00
Betsey B. Sylvester,
48 00
James Thompson,
168 00
Hannah Dover,
48 00
Ruth B. Foster,
20 00
David Stoddard,
36 00
Matilda B. Stoddard,
64 00
Joseph E. Stoddard,
13 50
George Studley,
26 00
Christiana Benson,
20 00
C. H. Totman, " Guardian,"
48 00
Lydia J. Wilder,
72 00
E. T. Fogg, " Guardian,"
48 00
Sarah L. Prouty, "Guardian,"
48 00
$1,065 50
TOWN HALL ACCOUNT.
CR.
Received for Antiquarian Supper
$4 00
from Knox and Leon
8 00
First Parish
4 00
Abington Club
12 50
Willard Torrey
2 00
E. Sands ..
2 50
Tilden Brothers
16 00
J. W. Brown
4 00
Ladies' Sewing Society
8 00
Marshfield Club
3 50
Webster Club
8 00
Dramatic Club
4 00
Post 112
6 00
J. C. Nash & Co
8 00
Steadfast Lodge
29 76
$120 26
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DR.
S. Foster, for wax, &c. $6 42
E. Hatch, for carpenter's work. 8 00
George K. Cushing, for wood 9 00
S. Benson, for commissions. 5 50
Paid for oil, $7.72 ; brooms, $1.63 9 35
Chimneys, $3 95; wicks, .54. 4 49
A. J. Litchfield, for letting hall. 1 00
$43 76
Balance in favor of Hall . $76 50
REPORT ON GUIDE BOARDS.
We would recommend that one be erected near the corner of Main and River streets, to replace the one lately blown down.
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.
Avery & Doten, for printing town reports $82 00
S. F. Tower, for repairs on hearse. 54 00
Quincy Mutual Ins. Company, for assessment 25 20
Little, Brown & Co., for law book. 3 00
Society for prevention of cruelty to animals, vote of town. 20 00
Thomas Sables, for cementing and painting pump on Main street 7 00
Post 112, for decoration day, vote of town 50 00
Amount carried forward. $241 20
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Amount brought forward. $241 20 Chas. A. Litchfield, for material, and cash paid for la- bor at town landing 32 65
Treasurer of Marshfield, for repairs at Union bridge. . 74 12
Joseph Easterbrook, advertising Assessors' notices ... 3 00
William Prouty, for land to widen Oak street
85 00
Harris & Tucker, for professional services to date .. 100 00
Elisha Jacobs, for examination of Treasurer's books. .
2 00
Foster's Express, for expressage, printing, &c 28 58
J. F. Farmer, for printing town orders. 5 00
Perez Simmons, for professional services to May 1st. . 28 16
Brewer & Tileston, for school books, 1872 61 10
J. B. Tabor, for school books. 25 50
W. G. Shattuck, for school furniture, 1872. 14 06
Duxbury & Cohasset R. R., for freight. 1 30
Thompson, Brown & Co., for school books, 1872, 23 69
Richmond Farrar, services as committee on roads. 7 50
Willard Torrey, services as committee on roads 7 50
William Hatch, services as committee on roads 7 50
Thompson, Brown & Co., for school books, 103 48
A. C. Stockin, for school books 2 40
J. B. Tabor, for maps for use of schools. 10 50
Joseph Merritt, 2d, for repairs on gate at cemetery ... 1 25
J. Torrey, for soap, 1872. 9 95
E. T. Fogg, for postage and stationery. 8 27
Edward Stowell, for expenses and cash paid for Jas. Thompson 25 00
$908 71
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REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
ALMSHOUSE EXPENSES.
Paid-
Corn, meal and oats, 176 bushels. $143 30
Flour, 10 bbls., $118 45 ; spices, $2 20. 120 65
Garden seeds, $2 19; crockery, $3 18; meat, $15 34. . 20 71
Tripe, $1 64; fish and clams, $14 16; furniture, $20 75 36 55
Apples, $3 53; salt, $3 85 ; lard, $1 56; stove, $6 00. 14 94
Rice, .89 ; hod, .90; bedding, $5 00; farming tools, .56. 7 35
Boots and shoes, $3 85 ; repairs on same, $1 00. 4 85
Matches, $2 88; coffee, $3 09; raisins, $2 62 .. 8 59
Snuff and tobacco, $10 39; extracts, $1 44 ; hay rack, $5 25. 17 08
Soda, starch, rosin, medicines, and paint 10 20
Vegetables, $7 37; oil, $13 98 ; straw, $12 31. 33 66 Cheese, $3 96 ; crackers, $5 89 ; filing saws, $1 15 ... 11 00 Repairs on harness, $1 05; use of cider mill, $1 25 .. . 2 30 Dry goods, $20 27; chimneys, $3 90; swine, $26 70. 50 87
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