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The finding of the dead body of a suicide in the woods, and the stupid blundering of newsmongers and reporters, were events more exciting than enlivening to the town, and added something to our labors, without solving the mystery of the event, or resulting in any good to any one, except showing what reliance can be placed on newspaper statements.
A detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the town for the year ending February 1st, 1879, is herewith respect- fully submitted.
WILLIAM F. WHEELER, Selectmen SAMUEL HARTWELL, of
AMOS P. SHERMAN, Lincoln.
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Taxes assessed in 1878, Deduct County Tax,
$11,022 21 339 51
Amount to be paid Town Treasurer,
10,682 70
66 received,
7,414 06
Uncollected taxes of 1878,
3,268 64
" 1877,
1,532 48
" 1875, 553 87
Amount of uncollected taxes,
$5,354 99
VALUATION OF THE TOWN, MAY 1ST, 1878.
Personal Estate,
$215,302 00
Real Estate,
563,074 00
Total valuation,
$778,376 00
DEBT OF THE TOWN.
Lincoln Water Bonds, due Dec. 1st, 1894, interest
6 per cent. semi-annually, $30,000 00
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The receipts into and payments from the Treasury from Feb. 1, 1878, to Feb. 1, 1879, have been as follows :-
Balance in the Treasury, Feb. 1, 1878.
$2,872 93
Paid Selectmen's orders.
$8,094 59
Received of Samuel Farrar, Constable ...
6 80
66 State Tax ...
470 00
of County Treasurer, Dog Tax refunded,
139 50
Geo. G. Tarbell's note. .
1,000 00
. of State Treasurer, Corporation Tax of 1877 ....
7 14
William O. Benjamin's note ..
2,000 00
of State Treasurer, Corporation Tax of 1878. .
330 36
802 29
66
of State Treasurer, National Bank Tax, of
income of Mass.
216 81
Interest of the Grammar School Fund .. Periodical Fund ..
6 00
State Aid Reimbursements ..
48 00
of M. Flannery, redemption of land sold for taxes.
9 25
of D. and C. H. Flagg, for land sold ...
27 43
of C. S. Wheeler, for lands sold ..
25 00
Rent of Sandy Pond ..
40 00
for use of Town Hall.
5 75
for School Books sold ..
129 56
of Edwin Bemis, for service pipes laid ..
39 50
of Town of Eastham, for support of Francis J. Dill's children ...
74 56
of J. D. Sherman, balance of Tax of 1874,
15 16
66 " 1876,
1,144 94
66
interest on Tax of 1876,
118 52
66
66 on account of Tax of
1877 ..
1,135 92
66
of Francis Smith, on account of Tax of 1878.
7,414 06
E. and O. E.
$14,675 02
2
$14,675 02
Balance in the Treasury ...
$12,564 59 2,110 43
Charles J. R. Ray's note.
1,000 00
School Fund.
65 54
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WILLIAM F. WHEELER, Treasurer.
EXPENDITURES.
FOR SCHOOLS.
RECEIPTS.
Town Grant, $2,000 00
Income Mass. School Fund,
216 81
Grammar School Fund,
65 54
Received for school books sold, 129 56
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$2,411 91
PAYMENTS. CENTRE SCHOOL.
Mabel F. Wheaton, teaching High School,
$363 00
R. P. Williams, 66 198 00
Keziah Howes, teaching Primary School, 297 50
J. R. Hartwell, for coal,
39 00
Kate Delhanthy, cleaning school-house,
4 00
J. L. Chapin, care of school-house, sundries for High School and
45 00
express, 9 87
$956 37
SOUTH SCHOOL.
Sarah S. Baker, for teaching 36 weeks, .6 66 care of school-house,
$432 00
H. S. Hutchins,
2 91
E. B. Rice, 66 66
12 00
Geo. M. Baker. for wood,
11 37
66
" three chairs,
3 00
66
66 " two mats,
2 10
N. F. Cousins, for repairs,
25 12
A. A. Cook & Co., crayons, ink, broom, &c., 2 07
Mrs. Kenna, cleaning school-room,
1 00
NORTH SCHOOL.
Carrie B. Chapin, teaching 35 weeks, J. R. Hartwell, for wood,
30 00
John Dee, care of school-house,
15 00
J. L. Chapin, sundries,
1 65
Charles A. Cripps, repairs,
3 50
$347 65
$496 57
$297 50
5 00
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EAST SCHOOL.
Emma A. Farnsworth, teaching 36 weeks,
$306 00
Mary Dempsey, care of school-house,
10 00
F. C. Brown, for wood,
18 50
" repairs,
2 25
Mrs. Dougherty, for cleaning house,
1 00
Cleaning clock,
75
Numeral frame,
1 25
J. L. Chapin, ink, crayons,
1 90
$341 65
GENERAL SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
J. L. Hammett, for school books,
$42 81
66 " globe and inkwell, 4 10
Knight, Adams & Co., books,
129 45
Eldridge & Brother,
12 60
$188 96
$2,331 20
Unexpended balance,
$80 71
LIBRARY.
RECEIPTS.
Dog tax,
$139 50
Interest of periodical fund,
6 00
$145 50
PAYMENT.
Library Committee,
$145 50
SUPPORT OF THE POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation, $1,250 00
Received of the town of Eastham,
74 56
$1,324 56
PAYMENTS.
D. H. Sherman, for the support of the Poor from January 1, 1878, to January 1, 1879, $1,000 00 Worcester Lunatic Hospital, support of Patrick Kenna, one year, 190 30
Estate of Josiah Bartlett, for visits to Patrick Kenna, and two certificates of insanity, 7 00
Amount carried forward, $1,197 30
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Amount brought, forward, $1,197 30
Leonard Wheeler, for visits and examina- tion of Patrick Kenna, 3 00
City of Boston, for aid to Washington Coombs in February, 1878, 3 38
Betsy Sherman, for support of three children of Francis J. Dill from June 15th to Sep- tember 12th, 1878, 74 56
Unexpended balance,
$46 32
CEMETERY.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$50 00
PAYMENT.
William Harding, trimming cemetery,
$6 00
Unexpended balance,
$44 00
STATE AID.
RECEIPTS.
Received of the State,
PAYMENT.
$48 00
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$1,600 00
PAYMENTS.
Albert S. Brooks, breaking roads, Dist. No. 1, 1878, $8 25
Albert S. Brooks, breaking roads, Dist. No. 1, 1879, 96
Albert S. Brooks, highway work, Dist. No. 1, 1878, 102 03
Edward McHugh, breaking roads, Dist. No. 2, 1878, 2 25
Albert S. Brooks, highway work, Dist. No. 2, 1878, 95 94
Amount carried forward, $209 43
$48 00
Alithea Parker,
$1,278 24
13
Amouni brought forward, $209 43
Albert S. Brooks, breaking roads, Dist. No. 2, 1879, 2 16
Albert S. Brooks, breaking roads, Dist. No. 2, 1878, 1 87
G. H. Bean, breaking roads, Dist. No. 3, 1878, 16 45
Geo. Flint, highway work, 66 66 66
44 30
66
posts for railing,
66
66
66
5 80
J. R. Hartwell, poles for " 66 66 5 00
A. P. Sherman, highway work, " 66 66 putting up railing, " 66 6 22
66
45 00
N. F. Cousins, breaking roads, Dist. No. 4, 1878, 6 00
J. L. Chapin, highway work, Dist. No. 4, 1878, 122 55 66
70
S. H. Martin, breaking roads, Dist. No. 5, 1878, 12 75 J. L. Wellington, highway work, Dist. No. 5, 1878,
117 50
F. C. Brown, highway work, Dist. No. 5, 1878, 3 60
66 breaking roads, 66 1879, 3 74
P. Conway, 66 66 No. 6, 1878, 66 2 44
M. Doherty, highway work, 66
66 66
4 00
P. Conway, highway work, 66
No. 7, 124 44
1879,
10 14
A. G. Jones, 66 highway work, 66
66 1878, 108 54
James E. Baker, breaking roads, Dist. No. 8, 1878,
34 85
James E. Baker, highway work, Dist. No. 8, 1878, 121 80
N. F. Cousins, blasting rocks, Dist. No. 8, 1878, 3 00 Samuel Farrar, breaking roads, Dist. No. 10, 1878, 20 60
Samuel Farrar, railing roads, Dist. No. 10, 1878, 2 70 C. P. Farnsworth, highway work, Dist. No. 10, 1878, 144 94
N. F. Cousins, repairs Lee's bridge, Dist. No. 10, 1878, 21 24
Francis Smith, breaking roads, Dist. No. 4, 1878, 3 00
Thomas Ham, sharpening picks, 45
$1,322 39
Unexpended balance,
$277 61
.
66 sharpening tools, " 66 66
66 94 98
W. Foster, for gravel, 66
breaking roads, 66
No. 8,
66
22 20
14
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$2,100 00
PAYMENTS.
Interest on Water Bonds,
$1,800 00
William O. Benjamin,
207 67
Charles J. R. Ray,
90 83
George G. Tarbell,
47 50
$2,146 00
Expenditure above appropriation, $46 00
PAYMENT OF TOWN DEBTS.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$2,000 00
PAYMENTS.
George G. Tarbell,
$1,000 00
Charles J. R. Ray,
1,000 00
William O. Benjamin,
2,000 00
$4,000 00
Payment above receipts,
$2,000 00
MISCELLANEOUS.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$1,000 00
PAYMENTS.
Tolman & White, printing town reports, $37 97
cards for tramps, 75
66
posters, 1 50
Concord Freeman, advertising sales of real estate, 6 00
105 21
A. Gregory, painting school house, 66 town house entry, 13 63
J. L. Chapin, mineral paint, 5 88
J. S. Murray, replastering town house entry, 8 50
1 25
E. B. Barnes, returning deaths, 1877, 66 1878,
5 75
H. F. Warren, Photographs,
5 00
H. E. Barnes, journey to Waltham,
1 00
H. B. & W. O. Chamberlain, for chemicals and chemical apparatus, 60 00
Amount carried forward, $252 44
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Amount brought forward, $252 44
H. E. Davidson, metrical measures,
2 88
J. D. Sherman, abatement of taxes, 66 66 collecting taxes, 1876, 139 22
58 84
66 66 abatement of taxes,
13 92
F. C. Brown, services as constable, 1 00
Geo. Flint, for expressage,
William F. Wheeler, services as selectman,
25 00
66
66 assessor, 40 00
66
66
overseer of poor,20 00
66 66 car fares and expenses
in cases of Patrick Kenna and Francis J. Dill, 18 20 William F. Wheeler, six days' time for same, 15 00
66 services as treasurer, 40 00
cash paid for collector's book, 1 50
66
66 expressage, postage and
stationery,
4 38
Samuel Hartwell, services as selectman,
25 00
66
assessor,
30 00
66 66
overseer of poor, 10 00
Amos P. Sherman, services as selectman,
20 00
66
66
assessor, 25 00
66
66
overseer of poor, 5 00
J. L. Chapin, services as town clerk, 32 75
66 66 moving safe and books,
1 00
66 66 printing dog licenses,
1 00
66 66 care of town hall,
7 00
66 66 oil and wicks,
94
66
66 cash for record books,
11 50
66
66 express and postage, 2 69
William Mackintosh, services as constable, 1876, 2 00 66
watching after fire, 2 00
Edwin Bemis, water rates repaid, 6 00
$817 26
Unexpended balance,
$182 74
RECAPITULATION.
For schools,
$2,331 20
library,
145 50
66 support of poor, 1,278 24
66 cemetery,
6 00
66 highways and bridges,
1,322 39
interest on town debts,
2,146 00
66 miscellaneous expenses,
817 26
state aid, 48 00
$8,094 59
3 00
REPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMITTEE,
FOR 1878.
During the latter part of the year, nearly a complete set of the Christian Examiner, twenty-six bound volumes and fifty-seven numbers unbound, was presented to the Library by Edward Jarvis, M. D. The amount in the Treasury was so small at that time, the Committee thought best to defer having them bound and placed upon the shelves until another year.
Of the ninety-one volumes added during the year, a portion are Reports, and some few were given.
STATISTICS OF LINCOLN PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1878.
January
No. of books taken out, 200
February
66
66
212
March
66 66 66 176
April 66 66 66 66
160
May
66 66
158
June 66 66
66
163
July 66 66 66 66
211
August 66 66 66
66
219
September 66 60 66
06
66 66
113
November 66
66
66
66
66
182
December 66 66 66
66 66
162
Whole number of books taken out,
2,117
No. of volumes in Library,
2,386
No. added, 1878,
91
Registration of borrowers,
310
New names registered,
49
TREASURER'S REPORT.
RECEIPTS.
Town appropriation,
$139 50
Balance from 1877,
13 28
Interest on periodical fund,
6 00
Fines, and sale of cards,
6 17
$164 95
.
66
161
October 66
17
EXPENDITURES.
Estes & Lauriat, for books,
$62 52
Periodicals for 1878,
10 00
Librarian,
60 00
Making fires,
5 00
Steps for Library,
3 50
6 50
J. R. Hartwell, one ton coal, 66 66 wood,
2 50
H. Flagg, splitting wood,
1 25
Mrs. Dougherty, cleaning Library,
1 40
Kerosene, etc.,
1 57
Expressage, postage, sundries,
1 17
$155 41
Total received,
$164 95
Total expended,
155 41
Unexpended balance,
$9 54
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MARIA L. PIERCE, Treasurer.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
.
TOWN OF LINCOLN,
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1878-9.
School Committee's Report.
The laws of the Commonwealth require that the School Committee shall annually make a detailed report of the condition of the public schools, which report shall contain such statements and suggestions in relation to the schools, as the committee shall deem necessary or proper to promote the interests thereof.
NORTH SCHOOL.
MISS CARRIE B. CHAPIN, - Teacher.
Spring Term,-Whole number of scholars, 22; aver- age attendance, 18+; length of term, 10 weeks.
Fall Term, - Whole number, 23; average attend- ance, 17.4; length of term, 12 weeks.
Winter Term, - Whole number, 25; average attend- ance, 8 weeks, 20+.
EAST SCHOOL.
MISS EMMA A. FARNSWORTH, - Teacher.
Spring Term, -Whole number of scholars, 25; aver- age attendance, 17}; length of term, 11 weeks.
Fall Term, - Whole number, 26 ; average attend- ance, 194 ; length of term, 12 weeks.
Winter Term,- Whole number of scholars, 21; average attendance, 8 weeks, 14.
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SOUTH SCHOOL.
MISS SARAH S. BAKER, - Teacher.
Spring Term, - Whole number of scholars, 38; average attendance, 33; length of term, 10 weeks.
Fall Term, - Whole number, 39; average attend- ance, 35.5; length of term, 12 weeks.
Winter Term, - Whole number, 40; average attend- ance, 10 weeks, 34}.
CENTRE SCHOOL.
MISS KEZIAH HOWES, - Teacher.
Spring Term,- Whole number of scholars, 21; average attendance, 18,25 ; length of term, 12 weeks.
Fall Term, - Whole number 28; average attend- ance, 247 ; length of term, 12 weeks.
Winter Term, - Whole number, 27; average attend- ance, 7 weeks, 19g.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Teachers, - MISS MABEL F. Wheaton, Spring Term ; MR. R. P. WILLIAMS, Fall and Winter Terms.
Spring Term,- Whole number of scholars, 20; average attendance, 1513 ; length of term, 9 weeks.
Fall Term, - Whole number, 22; average attend- ance 18+ ; length of term, 12 weeks.
Winter Term, - Whole number, 31 ; average attend- ance, 10 weeks, 2744.
Your Committee entered upon their labors with a feeling that other men had labored, and they had entered into their labors. They found all the schools
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of the town in the charge of faithful and competent teachers, experienced in their calling, acquainted with their pupils, their attainments, capabilities and disposi- tions. Miss Chapin, in the North school, and Miss Farnsworth, in the East, were doing their work in a faithful and satisfactory manner. Maintaining good order with unwearied watchfulness, but without waste of time, or useless show of authority. Careful of the health and comfort of their pupils, and possessed of the faculty of keeping ยท them constantly employed, it was not easy for us to suggest any better methods of disci- pline or instruction, or see how any teacher could do more with the materials they had in hand.
Miss Baker, in the South school, younger in expe- rience, and in a larger and more difficult school, was laboring with zeal and energy, and accomplishing a large amount of satisfactory work, and your Committee fully indorse the statement of their predecessors, that " her management has been judicious and firm, and her efforts unremitting to secure faithful attention by all the classes to their duties."
Long years of faithful and appreciated service have endeared Miss Howes to the people of the village, and one would almost as soon think of disparaging his mother as of dethroning her. Years ago we wrote,- " the task is often as difficult to preserve order and discipline, as to establish them -to keep alive an interest in study and in school, as to awaken it. Miss Howes succeeded in both, preserving at the same time the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, discharging her duties as quietly and unostentatiously as the grass grows and the flowers blossom." Years have come and gone, and Miss Howes still pursues the even tenor of
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her way; order and discipline have been constantly maintained, interest in school and study have never flagged, nor the Winter of our discontent ever been upon us- the grass still grows green in her path, and the flowers of life bloom all around her.
The High school, under the management of Miss Wheaton, had gradually recovered from the disorders and demoralizations of former years, and was doing a fair amount of satisfactory work. Possessing a natu- rally strong intellect, well trained and cultivated by education, with a disposition to know and do her work, patient and persevering through evil and through good report, meeting and surmounting obstacles which would have dismayed others, with the manners of a lady and the conscientiousness of a Christian, your Committee could find no fault in her, but felt somehow in her school a suspicion of danger, and thought that the tick of its movement was not so strong, so steady, or so assured as it should be; but she kept on with happier results than we anticipated.
About the middle of the term she received the offer of a more eligible situation in the schools of Nashua, and asked the Committee to accept her resignation at once. We told her that we exercised only delegated powers, and felt we had no right to discharge her with- out the consent of the parents. Upon her urging her request, we told her the question was remanded to her own decision,-if she thought it was right for her to leave, she could go; no obstacle would be interposed, and no part of her wages withheld. She said it was right, on the ground that other teachers did so. "Leave that ground, and decide the question as if there were no other teachers." She frankly confessed that it
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did not seem to be right, and cheerfully continued her labors. The right of a teacher to abandon a school in the midst of a term can hardly be conceded. At the close of the Spring term she declined a reappointment, and the Committee looked around for a teacher.
Four young ladies and an equal number of gentle- men applied for the succession, and after inquiry and consideration your Committee engaged the services of Mr. Clary, a graduate of Harvard, who came to us with high testimonials of character and literary qualifications. But, four days before the time for opening the school, he obtained a more eligible situation, and we received another gentleman in his place, Mr. R. P. Williams, a graduate of Dartmouth College. Mr. Williams brought to the duties of his position high literary attainments, a successful experience, an untiring industry, and better than all, -a consecration to his work we have seldom seen surpassed. His efforts to improve and elevate the school have received the co-operation of the parents and been appreciated by his pupils; and all those results - whether they appertain to order, discipline, instruction, or the acquisition of knowledge - which could reasonably have been expected, have been attained in a highly satisfactory degree.
And we may say of all our schools, that they have gone on and prospered. The little ripples of disorder which appeared in the High and East schools, served only to draw stricter attention to the individuals who caused them, without impeding the steady current of usefulness and progress. The only drawback to their success has been the prevalence of a large amount of sickness amongst the pupils, which necessitated the closing of one of the schools for three weeks. The
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death of a promising and scholarly youth in the South school, and the fearful sickness of a bright little boy in the Centre, have called forth the deepest sympathy for the bereaved parents, and awakened the tenderest solicitude for those little ones, whose lives are dearer to us than our own.
The Committee regret that the necessity of closing this report before the examination of the schools, pre- vents our speaking as understandingly of the results of the Winter's work, as we otherwise might.
The other duty required of us we approach with reluctance ; it is much pleasanter to commend than to censure-vastly easier to criticise methods, than to propose better. The first suggestion we would make is that less be attempted, that more be accomplished. There are too many studies and classes in school, and the minds of pupils are wearied and distracted by attending to too many things at the same time. It would be better to have fewer studies, and more time devoted to the mastery of them. A very practical suggestion in this direction would be, to have the Winter term of the High school, when the attendance is larger, and composed partly of those whose opportu- nities are limited to that season, devoted to the com- moner branches of education, while the study of languages and sciences, which necessarily require a larger proportion of time, might be pursued in the other terms of the school, where the days and sessions of the school are longer, and the attendance smaller. Another evil in all our schools is, that too much of the time of the teacher is taken up, and the studies of the school are interrupted and hindered by cases of insubordination, and inattention to matters of order and decorum which
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ought not to occupy the time of the school five minutes in the day. Now we cheerfully admit that these evils are not peculiar to our schools. On the contrary, we believe they exist here in a far less degree than almost anywhere else. Still they do exist, here and every- where. They are the bane of every school, the repin- ings of every teacher, and the jeremiades of every com- mittee. Go where you will, ask every teacher you know or meet, and it is the same story. Their pupils and themselves are distracted by the multiplicity of studies-and, like the schoolmaster in Old Mortality they spend their days-themselves "against a host"-in a constant struggle with the unruly spirits of children. Now, brethren, these things ought not to be so-and where is the remedy-not in larger appropriations of money, and more costly apparatus for illustrating the sciences; not in more faithful and devoted teachers ; nor in wiser and better committees than you have had in years past, or ever will have, but in an enlightened public opinion which demands that these evils shall cease to be, and when parents cease to lay the blame of failure at the door of the teachers, and they can see just as many faults in their own children as in their neighbors', then their eyes will be open to the remedy. Any serious outbreak of disorder in school should be deplored as much as the advent of measles or small pox, and the afflicted ones should be treated much in the same way, they should be immediately removed from all danger of communicating the infection to others, and remanded to the quiet seclusion of home,- or the nursery.
Another evil which impairs the usefulness of our schools is, that the children live too much upon excite-
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ment; they want too many holidays, and desert the school-room for the muster field and cattle show, the base ball and rowing matches. It would be far better for them if they were kept away from these excite- ments, and confined to the quieter occupations of the school-room and home. And we think it would puzzle the acutist scientist of modern times to assign any understandable reason why physical health and strength cannot be as well secured and developed by swinging the axe or scythe, or guiding the plow, as by handling the bat or oar, and with far less danger of overstraining
the physical or mental powers. In this connection we remember that some gentlemen, eminent in public life, who have adorned the bar, the bench, the halls of Con- gress, and the Cabinet, were sent here in their boyhood to spend a year in the healthful and invigorating labors of the farm; and we think it is not too much to claim that they are at least as much indebted to those years of labor, both for their fine physical development, and their exalted positions in society, as to any year of their academic course. Parents residing in an agri- cultural district have an immense advantage over the denizens of cities in this respect, and ought to see to it that their children daily perform a reasonable amount of healthful work. And we are happy to record the fact that we have in our High school young men who not only are orderly, quiet and studious there, but when the sessions and days of school are over, cheer- fully don the garments of labor and engage in useful work. Such young men are an honor to any com- munity, and their example ought to do much to counteract the all too prevalent tendency among young men to desert the ancestral acres and homes, and give
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up the sturdy independence and solid compensations of the farmer's life, to lose themselves in the commercial vortexes of the city, where, for every one who attains eminent social position, or even a decent competency, five, if not ten, become bankrupts in character, property and usefulness.
" Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay, Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made, But a bold yeomanry, their country's pride If once destroyed, can never be supplied."
In closing their report the Committee return their grateful acknowledgements to teachers, parents, and their fellow-citizens, for the aid and co-operation they have received, and the kindness and courtesy with which they have been treated in all their official inter- course with them; and in relinquishing the care of the schools to their successors, would commend them to that wise liberality which has ever characterized the action of the town, and invoke the continued favor of that Omniscient Being, without whose illumination all human wisdom is folly, and without whose blessing all human efforts are vain.
WILLIAM F. WHEELER, GEORGE M. BAKER, GEORGE FLINT,
Committee.
LINCOLN, Feb. 17, 1879.
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN,
From February 1, 1879, to February 1, 1880.
ALSO, THE
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
For the School Year 1879-80.
BOSTON : TOLMAN & WHITE, PRINTERS, 383 WASHINGTON STREET. 1880.
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN,
From February 1, 1879, to February 1, 1880.
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