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The new building for the use of the Village and Grammar
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Schools which was built last year on the village lot, was opened at the beginning of the spring term and has been found very satisfactory. The furnace and water supply there requires the services of a janitor, and Mr. George F. Wadsworth was elected to that position.
The Truant Officers for the present year are Wm. J. Turner, Thaddeus W. Chandler, George E. Belknap, Warren E. Peter- son and the Superintendent.
The joint board of the School Committees of Scituate, Marshfield and Duxbury held its annual meeting in Duxbury, April 25th, for the purpose of electing a Superintendent of the three towns. Mr. Edgar L. Willard was unanimously re- elected.
The readjustment of the relations of the High School and Partridge Academy required some change in the methods of financing the High School, and for the present it has been arranged by the School Committee electing the same teachers employed by the Trustees of the Academy and paying them a sum rather less than would be required if we were maintain- ing a separate school. In addition to this a fixed sum has been paid for rent of the High School building, which included janitor service and fuel.
The special appropriation for music and drawing has been made use of by the election of a special teacher for each branch, who will give a special lesson in her subject to each school in town once in two weeks. Mrs. Lillian C. Stoddard was chosen to the position of special teacher of music, and Miss Harriet J. Ford, who has already served us in the Gram- mar and High Schools for several years, was selected to give special instruction in drawing. Both are doing excellent work in their separate departments and we feel sure their efforts will result in a distinct advantage to the pupils.
The committee feel confident of the wisdom of having this work done by special teachers and trust the Town will con- tinue the appropriation to make this possible.
As there was a balance of several hundred dollars from the appropriation of support of schools and a small one from the . appropriation for incidentals and repairs, the committee will advise asking this year for a less appropriation than would generally be needed. The committee would make the following estimates for the ensuing year :-
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Support of schools,
$4,500 00
School incidentals and repairs of schoolhouses, 700 00
Salary of Superintendent,
250 00
(Signed) WILLIAM J. ALDEN, JR., NATHANIEL K. NOYES, NATHAN T. SOULE, School Committee.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.
To the School Committee :-
The ninth annual report of the Superintendent of Schools, together with statistics relating to attendance during the last year, is hereby submitted for your consideration; also for the perusal of those citizens whose interest in the public welfare leads them to ponder carefully the facts relating to the public schools. This class alone realizes that the public schools and the general welfare are so closely allied that to sacrifice one is to seriously endanger the other.
It is particularly gratifying to be able to report an increase in the per cent. of attendance for this year.
One year ago eighty-eight per cent. was reported. This year the record is made better by one and one-half per cent., or eighty-nine and one-half. This difference is partially shown in the increase of six-tenths of one per cent. in the average attend- ance, and again in the smaller number of absences. The rest of the difference is explained by the fact that there is an increase in the average attendance, while at the same time there is a decrease of nearly four in the average membership.
So far as these figures show a better attendance, more regu- larity and promptness on the part of the pupils and therefore a better school spirit among parents, they are gratifying. But when they, at the same time, point to the slow, but sure, decline of our shore towns, they are not so pleasant to contemplate.
The total membership, as shown on the last page of the sta- tistics for the last three years, has been three hundred and six, two hundred and ninety-nine and two hundred and ninety- eight. For the same periods, the average membership has been
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two hundred and forty-six, two hundred and forty-three, and two hundred and forty. These latter figures are the true indi- cators of the decline referred to above.
The teachers during the year have striven hard to raise the standard of excellence along all the lines of school work. Their efforts have been seconded in a greater degree than ever by the parents. There is still room for improvement, however, in the manner in which many parents further the interests of the schools.
It is very hard for a teacher, when work has been laid out for a class, to have a portion of the class (and that portion those who need to work hardest) irregular in their attendance. It means one of two things-either a total loss to those pupils for the time out of school, or if lessons are made up, much extra work for the tetacher, who under the best conditions as they exist in the schools of the town, are overcrowded with work. Even if the attempt is put forth, to make up for time lost out of school, it is seldom more than an attempt, and never equal in quality to work done in its prop- er season. For these reasons parents are urged to make a special effort during the present year to see that their children are in school promptly and regularly.
There are several records of attendance this year so good that the names of those making them are published on a sub- sequent page. Five have not been absent during the entire year. Seven have not been absent for two terms, and twenty- three for one term. How much these lists will be enlarged the present year is almost wholly in the hands of the parents. The teacher's business is to govern and teach : the parents', to see that their children are in school. If the parents would perform their duties relating to the schools as faithfully and persistently as do tle teachers, the excellent results would very soon appear in the quality and quantity of work done.
Your superintendent has spent an equal amount of time on the work of each of the three towns during the year. I have made four hundred and eighty-eight visits, as follows : Out- side the district, four; Duxbury, one hundred thirty-nine ; Marshfield, one hundred forty-seven; Scituate, one hundred ninety-eight.
The consolidated schools in Scituate make it possible for me in the alloted time to get to most of the schools every other week, while the average number of visits per school in Dux- bury and Marshfield is fourteen for the year.
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The one crying need of the schools is better grading. Better grading cannot be had until the voters are ready to relinquish some of the conservatism that has characterized their votes in the past. Within the last vear more than ten thousand dollars has been applied to good roads in the town. This sum would place the schools from Millbrook, South Duxbury Point and Village upon just the basis on which they should be. To ask that sum of money for schools-by far the most important con- sideration in any town-would be looked upon by the majority as out of the question, out of all reason. However, that is what should be done. Where there are five teachers now- four could do the work. Where four of the five teachers now have five grades each, they would each have but two. This would take the grammar class, or eighth grade, out of the Academy, as it should be, and allow that institution to do , its own proper work, without the distraction of attending to elementary work. Many voters have admitted to me since the opening of the new building that it was a great mistake that instead of building a four room house, one of two rooms was constructed. The grammar room should accommodate at least ten more than it does. At present there are thirty seats
in the room. That means there can be but thirty pupils ac- commodated at one time. This fact makes promotion easy. It even becomes mechanical, and must of necessity be the thirty pupils who in their scholarship rank the highest. Quite often there are pupils in the schools at Island Creek, Tarkiln, Ash- dod and North Duxbury, who wish to attend the grammar school, and are able to attain a higher rank than many in the so-called village district (districts 1, 2, 7 and 8). What is the result ?
Many must be held back in the fifth grade until they become so old or so large that they are ashamed to remain longer in school, and therefore drop out. The fifth grade, unless my judgment and information are at fault, is the largest grade in town, and solely for this reason : Held back because there was not room for them to go ahead. These pupils ought to go ahead and get what they can of the studies in each grade be- fore their ambition is lost as a result of remaining too long in a single grade.
At the time of writing, the resignation of Mr. Soule as a teacher has been offered.
It is with great regret that we must accept the feeling that
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for his sake, it was better. Professionally, in him, there was an able seconder of every effort to raise the schools to a high- er degree of excellence. A firm believer in the old Latin mot- to "labor omnia vincit" he never ceased, early and late, to labor that those under his charge might become better men and nobler women. His presence on the teaching force will be much missed by all, but particularly by one whose custom it was to be governed much by his wise counsel and friendly sup- port In closing this report, I wish to call your attention to the reports of Mrs. Stoddard and Miss Ford on the following pages, also to thank the committee and teachers for their sup- port during the last year.
Respectfully submitted, EDGAR L. WILLARD, A. M. Supt. of Schools.
January 1, 1904.
REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING.
To the Superintendent of Schools-
With the opening of the fall term of the schools this year I began my work as Supervisor of Drawing.
For four years I have been teaching drawing at the Academy, and the last two years at the Grammar school also, so the more advanced students have had the advantage of industrial draw- ing for some time. Now that all the school children are to have training in drawing, they will enter the advanced schools with equal elementary training.
The Academy pupils are divided into two classes, each class having two lessons a week. In my teaching there I am very ablv assisted by Miss Eldridge, who has a special aptitude for, and interest in this work.
The children in the district schools are very much interested, and take hold of the work with a great deal of enthusiasm.
The fall term was devoted chiefly to nature study, in flow- ers and fruits, using some of these studies later as motives for design and decoration of our Thanksgiving and Christmas work.
Mechanical drawing, including working drawings and me-
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chanical designs, and later the study of color, will make up our work for the winter term. Nature study and design will be taken up again in the spring. The mediums used are colored crayons, pencils, ink and water colors.
The teachers have carried out my plans very satisfactorily. They are interested and anxious to get the best results.
I hope to be able to correllate the drawing with the written and number work, making each paper a harmonious and well balanced whole. "Beauty is its own excuse for being." The more beautiful we can make our work, the more valuable. Respectfully submitted,
HARRIET J. FORD, Supervisor of Drawing.
REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
To the Superintendent of Schools :-
It is a pleasure to speak of the music in the schools of Duxbury and its progress.
The enthusiasm of the children is contagious and leads one to sincerely hope that their ambitions, although great, will be realized. The willingness with which the schools have worked upon the tedious exercises of the beginning of the work is to be commended ; and their successes have been greatly enjoyed by their teachers, as well as by themselves.
This work, which is new to the schools, has led to many revelations. There is one instance of a child who has been led to believe that he could not sing, and that it would be ridiculous for him to try, that none of his family sings and he would never be able to learn ; but when music was introduced he tried almost under his breath and one day when a catchy exercise was given out, he was the only one who sang it cor- rectly. Upon being commended by the special teacher his triumph was complete and his delight boundless. It is an actual fact that the child shows ability to learn and marked richness of voice. This incident is brought forward so that it may not be unconsciously duplicated.
It is to be hoped that the parents will avoid adverse criticism and develop ambitions, as it is impossible to tell just at first
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where talent lies; and even some who have remained mono- tones for some years will finally sing correctly.
There is one monotone who never loses an opportunity to sing; he is never invited to sing at exhibitions and that is as it should be ; but this monotone is learning and has lately sung some exercises absolutely correctly and on the pitch, and if he meets with no discouragements will soon sing creditably in chorus work and possibly in individual work.
There is a fact that is not generally realized, and that is that the greatest help for a child in learning to sing is to constantly hear music of some kind in the home life, even if it is nothing more than humming in a most indifferent voice.
The work in the schools may seem to be slow, but the chil- dren are learning to sing any tone or group of tones given them, readily and correctly, and from their books are learning to sing notes and their proper values.
The main difficulty now lies in teaching them to keep on the pitch ; at present, when singing a series of exercises or songs, each one grows lower in pitch until they reach the limits of their voices. The only remedy for this is for each teacher to have a pitch-pipe and keep each exercise up to a given pitch. It goes without saving that this requires the most patience of any part of the work.
At Partridge Academy the pupils are doing excellent chorus work, under the direction of able teachers. They have taken notes upon the general knowledge of music and the elements of harmony, which will prepare them for a test later on. Their chorus work, besides being very entertaining, is a definite step toward choir work, which in some places is very remunerative. These possibilities should always be considered, as it is impos- sible to tell what the future has in store for us.
The training in reading music in the Grammar School, and the two-part music, is designed to prepare the outgoing class for the work at the Academy. The progress in the Grammar grades will soon bring the pupils into three-part music, which will increase the interest as well as the difficulties for teacher and pupils.
I wish to speak most especially of the work done by the teachers. They have devoted themselves to the work in such a conscientious manner and have carried out the suggestions of the special teacher so accurately that the work has pro- gressed steadily and equally. Whatever success a critic may
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think the schools have achieved, let him remember that the daily teacher is the one to whom congratulations are due.
Respectfully submitted,
LILLIE C. STODDARD.
Dec. 31, 1903.
BEST RECORDS OF ATTENDANCE.
Not absent for entire year :-
Bernice Arnold,
Hope F. Briggs,
M. Abbie Baker, Mary A. Randall,
Cora G. Soule.
Not absent for two terms :-
Benjamin. Alden, E. Nelson Briggs, Ruby V. Holmes,
Olive Arnold, Mary P. Campbell, Carleton Jones,
Harold Jones.
Not absent for one term :-
Marion Arnold,
Alice C. Bates,
Esther Churchill,
Harold Delano,
Bert F. Glass,
Wendell Glass,
Florence R. Hastings,
George Holmes, Roy Holmes,
Merton Lane,
Harold Mann,
Edwin M. Noyes George Paulding, Bernice Randall Ralph Ryan, Annie M. Sherman, Lucy Simmons, Arthur Studley, Abby L. Taylor, Benjamin Taylor, Willard Taylor, Marion Tower.
Eliza McGilvey.
NOTE .- These lists do not include pupils from Partridge Academy.
IN MEMORIAM.
In the passing away of Miss Hannah D. Symmes, the schools of Duxbury have lost a teacher whose memory will be · cherished as long as any of her pupils remain.
She labored long and faithfully. Early and late she toiled for the uplifting of those who came under her care. £ Hun- dreds of her pupils have lived to bless her for the influence she has shed on their lives. The hearts of other hundreds will now mourn that they will see her no more in her accustomed place. Friends, pupils, teachers, all realize the great loss the community and the schools have sustained.
"And if the ear
Of the freed spirit heedeth aught beneath The brightness of its new inheritance, It may be joyful to the departed one, To feel that earth remembers her in love."
STATISTICS OF ATTENDANCE.
PATRIDGE' ACADEMY-Herbert E Walker, Principal, Millbrook; Gertrude C. Ellis, 1st Assistant, Duxbury ; Eva W. Eldredge, 2nd Assistant, South Duxbury.
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
a
9
10
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
42
41
42
41
41
41
41
41
41 39.8
44 40.9
Average membership
41.1
41 39.6
41.4 39.7
41 35.2
41 38.3 107 93.5
41 36.7 154 89.6
41 40.7 33.4 282 80.8
41 34.9 242 85.2
41 38.6 98 94.1
36.3
37.3
Number of absences
38
49
67
211 85.7
30
30
30
29
30
30
31
Cases of tardiness
20
22
10
36
14
19
7
12
11
23
174
Dismissals
8
5
8
4
5
1
1
1
4
12
49
Number of visitors
2
4
3
6
3
1
2
3
2
3
29
Days of school
20
18
19
18
20
1.8
19
20
20
20
192
1
1
GRAMMAR SCHOOL-Elizabeth A. Haskins, Principal, Duxbury.
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
20
21
22
22
22
22
22
23
23
23
Average membership
19.7
21
21.2
22
22
22
22
23
22.2
21.7
Average attendance
18.6
20.5
19.5
20.1
20.9
21
20.9
21.9
20.8
20.5
Number of absences
45
15
68
76
80
70
42
44
68
508
Per cent. of Attendance
94.4
97.6
92
91.3
95
95.5
95
95.2
93.7
94.5
2
2
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
Pupils over 15 years Cases of tardiness
1
2
4
2
5
3
5
9
33
Dismissals
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
18
27
Days of School
20
18
19
20
19
17
19
20
24
176
142 91.1
1390
Per cent. of attendance
97.7
96.7
95.8
91.2
Pupils over 15 years
30
30
30
30
1
2
4
1
8
Number of Visitors
40.2
Average attendance
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SOUTH DUXBURY SCHOOL -Ellen W. Downey, Teacher, Kingston.
.
MONTH ...
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole numbered registered
24
24
25
28
29
27
29
28
27
29
Average membership
22.4
24
25
26.7
28.5
27
27
27.5
26.2
26
Average attendance
21.8
22.5
22.1
23.1
23.3
22.8
24.1
23.7
23.4
23
Number of absences
24
53
135
146
181
170
11
121
1060
Per cent. of attendance
97.3
93.9
88.3
86.3
81.8
84.3
89.2
86.2
114 89
88.5
Cases of truancy
8
1
22
13
23
37
18
2
14
138
Cases of tardiness Dismissals
4
5
3
6
2
7
4
3
2
36
Cases of corporal punishment
10
3
19
3
1
6
2
7
18
69
Number of visitors
20
18
23
20
17.5
20
20
16
20
174.5
1
9
17
2
146
Cases of tardiness
16
22
19
25
16
2
1
2
5
1
22
Dismissals
5
1
1
1
1
4
3
11
7
34
Number of visitors
20
18
14
20
17
25
20
20
10
164
Days of school
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
25
26
26
25
26
26
31
31
28
31
Average membership
24
26
26
24
25.7
26
29.4
29.2
28
26.5
22.6
24.5
21 4
22 2
22.4
23 9
28
27.3
25.3
24.2
Average attendance
58
61
129|
115
112!
109
57|
76
551
772
Number of absences
94
90|
82|
88
88
91 20
95
93
90|
91.3
Per cent. of attendance
10
1
2
1
-
-
.
-
1
1
1
3
1
Days of school
VILLAGE SCHOOL-Florence A. Chaffin, Teacher, Duxbury.
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TARKILN SCHOOL-Mrs. Ida M. Raymond, Teacher, Kingston.
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
23
23
17
27
27
27
26 25.2
29
29
34
A verage membership
18.5
23
17
25
27
27
29
29
24.5
A verage attendance
16.7
21.7
14 6
22
22
24.5
22
27
27
22
Number of absences
72
48
108
88
176
102
126
85
80
885
Per cent. of attendance
90
94
86
88
81
90.5
88
93.5
93.6
89.8
Cases of tardiness
4
3
-
13
28
Dismissals
1
3
1
1
6
2
3
3
1
21
Days of School
20
18
23
20
18
20
20
20
20
179
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
25
25
23
23
23
22
23
25
29
Average membership
23.1
25
21.4 17.5
19.9 18.9
23 20.4 95 88.6
22 21.3 16.3 202 77.4
17.3
19.1
19
18.9
Number of absences
151
119
196
42
Per cent. of attendance
83.6
88
82
94.7
15
18
16
16
20
' 14
151
Dismissals
3
5
4
4
3
1
6
27
Cases of corporal punishment
1
1
-
-
-
2
1
5
Number of visitors
9
2
6
2
3
1
5
12
2
42
Days of school
20
20
24
20
18
20
18
20
20
180
21.5
22.3
21.8
22.1
Average attendance
19.3
22
127
113
1198
153 80.5
85.8
87.1
85.5
Cases of tardiness
20
11
21
-
1
1
-
-
2
Number of visitors
3
5
-
.
ISLAND CREEK SCHOOL-Nellie F. Randall, Teacher, Kingston.
MONTH ....
ASHDOD SCHOOL-Margaret McDermott, Teacher, West Duxbury.
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
11
13
13
13
12
12
13
14
14
16 .
Average membership
9.3
12.5
12.8
12.2
11
12
12.5
14
14
12.2
Average attendance
9
12
11.1
11.6
8.8
10.9
11
13
12
11.1
Number of absences
14
22
65
67
90
43
60
44
176
521
Per cent. of attendance
96.2
95.6
86
94.4
79.5
91
88
92.5
85.7
91
Cases of tardiness
2
8
20
26
9
4
9
9
18
105
Dismissals
4
4
3
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
3
2
4
4
4
1
3
26
Days of school
20
18
18
20
18
19
19
20
25
177
NORTH DUXBURY SCHOOL-Grace M. Peterson, Teacher, Millbrook.
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
22
21
21
21
17
18
18 15.5
15
15
27
Average membership
15.4
19.5
19.8
19.4
15.8
16.7 14.6
13.1
13.7
13.3
14.5 1
Number of absences
62
99
190
126
114
98
115
56 94.6
69 88.7
91.8
Per cent. of attendance
90.2
83
82
82
79.1
87.4
84.5
Cases of tardiness
12
7
2
6
4
9
9
13
13
75
Dismissals
1
4
2
3
3.
1
2
2
18
Cases of corporal punishment
Number of visitors
1
2
1
2
2
1
4
4
3
20
Days of school
20
18
24
19
18
19.5
20
20
20
178.5
3
1
16
Case of corporal punishment
1
1
Number of visitors
4
13.9
16.2
16.4
16.1
12.6
Average attendance
15
15
15.8
2 4
-
1
1
929
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MILLBROOK SCHOOL-Grace M. Hastings, Teacher, Duxbury.
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole numbered registered
23
25
25
25
24
23 22.5 19.9
25 24.1
25
24
23.7
Average membership
23
22.6
24.5
24.3
23.8 18.8
20
21.8
19.7
20
Average attendance
49
119
262
198
180
100
141
126
170
1345
Number of absences
94.7
85
76
79.4
79
88.4
82.9
87.2
82
84.4
Per cent. of attendance
9
10
25
221
19
23
8
26
29
171
Cases of tardiness
3
4
3
15
17
20
9
12
11
94
Dismissals
1
5
7
2
1
4
3
15
3
41
Number of visitors
20
18
22.5 x, 19.5
18
19
17
20
20
174
Days of school
POINT SCHOOL-Mary L. Harrub, Teacher, Duxbury.
MONTH ....
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
TOTALS.
Whole number registered
26
26
28
28
27
27
28
27
28
30
Average membership
23.1
26
26.7
28
27
26 3
27.1
27
28
26.6
Average attendance
22.1
25.7
21.5
21.3
22.5
23.2
23.7
24.5
25.4 51 90.5
1143
Number of absences
95
98
80.5
75
83
88
87
90.5
88
Cases of tardiness
21
26
13
23
30
14
13
17
24
181
Dismissals
2
2
1
1
1
3
11
Cases of corporal punishment
3
3
2
2
3
2
2
4
7
28
Number of visitors
Days of school
20
19
23
18
19
19
18
19
19
174
-
7
3
3
4
7
10
3
44
Per cent. of attendance
34
60
240
244
171
122
123
98
23.4
21.8
19.3
18.7
19.3
25
24
25
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Three Years Compared.
SUMMARIES.
1903
1902
1901
Whole number registered
298
299
306
Average membership
240
243.9
246.7
Average attendance
214.9
214.3
224.9
Number of absences
9751
9777
8050
Per cent. of attendance
89.5
88
91.2
Pupils over 15 years of age
35
52
Cases of of tardinesses
1202
969
951
Number of dismissals
316
291
200
Cases of truancy
2
19
Cases of corporal punishments
22
7
50
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town Officers and Committees
OF THE
TOWN OF DUXBURY
FOR THE
Year Ending January I
1 905
MASSA
S
637
MYLES STANDISH
ED
PLYMOUTH THE MEMORIAL PRESS 1905
INDEX.
Aid to Soldiers and Sailors, 19
Repair of Schoolhouses,
8
Appropriations Recommended,
29
Report of Selectmen,
4
Assessors' Report,
30
Road Surveyor,
38
Board of Health,
22
Rural Society,
38
By - Laws,
40
School Committee,
61
Cemetery Report,
36
School Incidentals,
7
Expenses in Almshouse,
32 School Report,
63
Expenses Outside Almshouse,
31
State Aid,
19
Highways and Bridges,
10
Superintendent's Report,
64
Incidental Expenses,
24
Town Clerk's Report,
51
List of Jurors,
28 Town Officers,
3
Memorial day,
21 Town Meetings,
56
Military Aid,
21 Treasurer's Report,
48
Overseers of Poor,
31 Tree Warden,
38
TOWN OFFICERS
Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector-George H. Stearns.
Auditors-William J. Burgess, Sidney C. Soule.
School Committee-N. K. Noyes, William J. Alden, Jr., Albert 'M. Goulding.
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of Poor-Henry H. Lewis, Edmund H. Sears, Wendell Phillips.
Board of Health-Alfred E. Green, Charles W. Marsh, Herbert C. Freeman.
Constables-Thaddeus W. Chandler, Frank T. Holmes, Luther W. Sherman.
Cemetery Trustees-William J. Alden, Jr., Thomas Alden, Elnathan Delano, Elisha Peterson, Albert M. Goulding.
Tree Warden-Eugene S. Freeman.
Fence Viewers-H. H. Lewis, E. H. Sears, Wendell Phil- lips.
Committee on Town Landings-A. E. Green, John H. Glover, C. F. Allen.
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